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Am s,s eeze
t be feby alex bell
SeniorStaffWriter
Though the University an-
nounced approimately 60 sta
layos about two weeks ago, the
reeze on aculty and sta salaries
will be lited next year in order
to keep Brown competitive with
its peers.
Net scal years budget, ap-
proved by the Corporation at its
February meeting, includes a 4
percent increase in the pool o
unds or aculty salaries and a 3percent increase in the pool or
continuing sta salaries. Each
individuals salary increase may
be more or less than these per-
centages because compensation
is determined based on merit.
The increases are necessary
to address recent loss o ground
in aculty salaries and a some-
what lesser rate o loss o com-
petitive ground or non-aculty
salaries, according to President
Ruth Simmons e-mail to the
Brown community ollowing the
C by nicole Friedman
neWS editor
The maximum probationary period
beore a aculty member is either
promoted with tenure or dismissed
should be increased to eight years,
according to recommendations
in a report released March 25 by
the ad hoc Committee to Review
Tenure and Faculty Development
Policies.
The committees recommen-
dations also included standard-
izing the tenure review process
across departments, strengthen-
ing mentoring and eedback or
junior aculty and restructuring
: S by ana alvarez
SeniorStaffWriter
President Ruth Simmons approval
rating has not signicantly changed
since last semester, despite recent
publicity about her past tenure on
the Board o Directors o Goldman
Sachs, according to a Herald poll con-
ducted last month. O the students
polled, 77.5 percent said they approve
o the way Simmons is handling her
job, while only 6.2 percent said they
disapprove.
Simmons announcement in Feb-
ruary that she was stepping down
rom Goldmans board made national
headlines. She told The Herald be-
ore the decision that she did not
believe criticism about the rms
compensation practices would aect
the Universitys reputation, though
it could unnel to her.
The Herald poll was conducted
on March 22 and 23 and has a 3.5
percent margin o error with 95 per-
cent condence. A total o 714 Brown
undergraduates completed the poll,
which The Herald administered as a
written questionnaire to students in
the lobby o J. Walter Wilson during
the day and in the Sciences Library
at night.
More than two-thirds o students,
68.8 percent, said they eel condent
about their or their amilies ability
to pay or their Brown education,
almost 10 percent more than in last
semesters poll. But more than 10
percent o students responded thatthey were very worried, similar to
last semesters results. The poll
ound that signicantly more men,
at 43.8 percent, eel very condent
about the ability to pay than women,
at 28.4 percent.
Support or the Undergraduate
Council o Students remained stable
rom past semesters, with 48.6 per-
cent approving. Only 8.0 percent said
they disapprove o the council, but
43.3 percent o those polled said they
did not know or had no answer.
Slightly more students, 52.4 per-
cent to 43.5 percent, approved the
elimination o dining hall tableslips in
avor o centralized announcements,
a recent proposal by UCS. Upper-
classmen responded signicantly
more avorably to the removal, with
58.9 percent approving. Only 47.1
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Little damage to
campus buildings
by heeyoung min
SeniorStaffWriter
Record fooding hit Rhode Island last
week ater heavy rains, but it caused
only minor damage to University
buildings.
The Department o Facilities Man-
agement received nearly 200 servicecalls last week during Rhode Islands
worst fooding in 200 years, but there
were no severe damages to Univer-
sity acilities, said Director o Custodial
Services Donna Butler.
Butler, who began preparing to
clean up ater the storm several days
beore it hit, described the rain as the
biggest test she has encountered
during the 10 years she has worked
or Custodial Services.
The food was also the best test
o her oces equipment, resources
and emergency response, she said. I
theres another food, now we know
were ready, she said.
President Barack Obama issued an
emergency declaration or the food-
damaged state, which authorized the
Federal Emergency Management
Agency to coordinate all relie eorts.
The ederal government will be pick-
ing up 75 percent o the clean-up tab,
according to a March 30 White House
press release.
The record rainall is another set-
back or the economically struggling
state, whose 12.7 percent unemploy-
ment rate is the third highest in the
country, trailing Michigan and Ne-
vada, according to a March 26 report
.3 204by miriam Furst
StaffWriter
At 5 p.m. Thursday evening, Brown
released decisions online or thou-
sands o anxious high school students
across the globe bringing the num-
ber o admitted students to 2,804, or
9.3 percent o the record-breaking
30,136 students who applied, accord-
ing to a University press release.
The prospective members o the
class o 2014 include students rom
all 50 states and 81 countries, accord-
ing to the press release. University
administrators expect to enroll about
1,485 in the incoming rst-year class
in the all, ater a highly competitive
admissions cycle that saw a 21 per-
cent increase in applicants compared
to last year.
We were deeply impressed and
at times awed by the candidates we
were privileged to review over these
many months, and we are grateul
or the opportunity to get to know
so many inspirational and promis-
ing students rom across this nation
and around the world, said Dean
o Admission Jim Miller 73 in the
press release.
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herad
Prospective students fooded the admission office with 31,136 appications for the cass of 2014.
IN THE NE T
Jonathan Bateman / Herad
The Bears batted Dartmouths Big Green on Saturda afternoon, eventua osing 9-7.
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Chance Craig, an admitted student
and senior at Marvell High School in
Marvell, Ark., has not visited Brown
yet, but said he is ecited to attend A
Day on College Hill in April.
I applied to nine schools, and
thats a lot or where Im rom because
nobody has ever gone to an Ivy League
school, he said. Its a big thing that
I got in. Its crazy.
Another admitted student, John
King rom North Haven High School
in North Haven, Conn., also applied
to nine colleges but in his school,
many seniors are admitted to selective
universities, he said.
By the end o sophomore year,
through junior year, people got re-
ally competitive about colleges, King
said.
Throughout the school day Thurs-
day, seniors were anxious about their
impending admissions decisions, King
said. My riends and I kept looking
at the clock in school, and a lot o my
riends were just on the computer
right away when they got home, even
though the decisions werent going tobe up or a while, he added.
While both Craig and King are ex-
cited about their acceptances, they
said they are not entirely sure whether
they will choose Brown.
Sohum Chatterjee 14, an early
decision admit rom Calcutta, India,
couldnt visit schools in the U.S. but
said he was initially attracted to the
opportunities or interdisciplinary
study at Brown.
I really wanted a blend o the
humanities and the natural sciences,
which my countrys system simply
doesnt oer, Chatterjee said.
Chatterjee also attributed his in-
terest in Brown to interacting with a
Brown alum who graduated rom his
high school and told him about the
unique campus culture.
Michelle Migliori 14 took a less
conventional route to College Hill. An
applicant or the class o 2013, she was
waitlisted and later oered a spot in
this years incoming class. Migliori is
a Providence resident and said budget
cuts in Providence public schools oten
prevented her rom ully pursuing her
interests in music, theater and art.
For the majority o my education, I
couldnt even study the things I loved,
Migliori said. So or me, Brown was
a place where I could go and actually
have the fexibility to study all that,
and I know Id be getting an amazing
education or it.
Migliori, who has been involved
with Providences Trinity Repertory
Company or the past ew years, hopes
to pursue a graduate degree in theater
through the Brown/Trinity Reper-
tory Consortium ater completing her
undergraduate studies.
Will Peterson, a regular decision
admit who hails rom Orange Coun-
ty, Cali., said his interest in Brown
stemmed rom talking to graduates ohis high school who had matriculated
as well as the New Curriculum, which
he called a big deciding actor.
Peterson is deciding between
Brown and Stanord, though he is
currently leaning towards Brown.
I think I could see mysel more
in the Brown student body, Peterson
said.
Je Handler 14, an early deci-
sion admit rom Newton North High
School in Newton, Mass., looks or-
ward eagerly to arriving on College
Hill in the all.
I spent a week visiting all these
schools, but when I got to Brown, I
knew it was the right place. I could go
down the list o reasons, including the
academic reedom Brown provides.
But overall, it was really just the eel
more than anything else, he said.It was raining when I visited and I
still liked it, he added. And i you like
a school in the rain, you know its the
right place or you. Im thrilled about
the net our years.
With additional reporting by
Claire Peracchio
1. Do you approve or disapprove o
the way Ruth Simmons is handling
her job as president of Brown?
Strongly approve: 37.7%
Somewhat approve: 39.8%
Somewhat disapprove: 4.5%
Strongly disapprove: 1.7%
Dont know / No answer: 16.4%
2. Do you approve or disapprove o
the way the Undergraduate Coun-
cil o Students (UCS) is handling
its job?
Strongly approve: 9.8%
Somewhat approve: 38.8%Somewhat disapprove: 6.4%
Strongly disapprove: 1.6%
Dont know / No answer: 43.3%
3. Would you approve or disap-
prove o eliminating dining hall
tableslips in avor o centralized
announcements, either elsewhere
on campus or on the Internet?
Strongly approve: 27.3%
Somewhat approve: 25.1%
Somewhat disapprove: 25.6%
Strongly disapprove: 17.9%Dont know / No answer: 4.1%
4. How oten this semester have
you used resources or services
including drop-in hours and
events provided by the Career
Development Center either online
or in person?
0 times: 41.9%
1-2 times: 38.0%
3-4 times: 12.5%
5-6 times: 4.2%
7 or more times: 2.2%
Dont know / No answer: 1.3%
5. What is your current relation-
ship status?
Single: 59.4%
In an exclusive relationship:
33.6%
In a non-exclusive relationship:
3.4%
Engaged or married: 0.4%
Other: 1.5%
Dont know / No answer: 1.7%
6. On average, how many hours
per week have you worked for pay
this semester?
0 hours: 42.3%
More than 0, less than or equal
to 3 hours: 7.4%
More than 3, less than or equal
to 6 hours: 11.9%
More than 6, less than or
equal to 9 hours: 12.6%
More than 9, less than or equal
to 12 hours: 9.9%
More than 12, less than or equal
to 15 hours: 4.8%
More than 15 hours: 9.5%
Dont know / No answer: 1.5%
7. How confdent or worried are
you about your or your amilys
ability to fnance your Brown edu-
cation?
Very confdent: 36.4%
Somewhat condent: 32.4%
Somewhat worried: 18.8%
Very worried: 10.2%
Dont know / No answer: 2.2%
8. Compared to your peers at
Brown, how physically attractive
or unattractive do you consider
yourself?
Very attractive: 15.1%
Somewhat attractive: 57.1%
Somewhat unattractive: 8.8%
Very unattractive: 1.5%
Dont know / No answer: 17.4%
9. Do you approve or disapprove
o Brown Concert Agencys choices
to play at Spring Weekend: Snoop
Dogg, MGMT, Major Lazer, the
Black Keys and Wale?
Strongly approve: 42.4%Somewhat approve: 37.3%
Somewhat disapprove: 9.7%
Strongly disapprove: 2.7%
Dont know / No answer: 8.0%
10. How important or unimport-
ant is religion in your life?
Very impor tant: 18.1%
Somewhat important: 26.2%
Somewhat unimportant: 17.2%
Very unimportant: 33.5%
Dont know / No answer: 5.0%
sudoku
George Miller, President
Claire Kiely, Vice President
Katie Koh, Treasurer
Chaz Kelsh, Secretary
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MONDAy, APRIl 5, 2010THE BROWN DAIly HERAlDPAGE 2
CS wS We were deep impressed and at times awed. Jim Mier 73, dean of admission
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Early Decision 2,360 2,848
Total Applicants 24,988 30,136
Admit Rate 10.8% 9.3%Top 10% o Class 96% 96%
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percent o reshmen and sophomores
said they approved.The poll also ound that a large ma-
jority o students, 79.7 percent, approve
o Brown Concert Agencys choices
to play at this years Spring Weekend.
Though men and women approved o
the selection o musical acts in about
equal numbers, a signicantly higher
percentage o men responded that
they strongly approve than women.
While 49.0 percent o men said they
strongly approve o this years per-
ormers, which include Snoop Dogg
and MGMT, only 35.6 percent o
women said the same.
According to the poll results, 56.1
percent o students have workedor pay this semester. O those, the
plurality 12.6 percent o the total
sample have done so or an aver-
age o more than si and less than or
equal to nine hours per week. Among
non-reshmen, 62.8 percent reported
working or pay this semester, while
only 37.0 percent o reshmen polled
said the same.
The majority o students, 56.9 per-
cent, have utilized the Career Develop-
ment Center this past semester. Most
: 0 k
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by heeyoung min
SeniorStaffWriter
The Rhode Island School o Designmay become the third school in the
city to grant ocers arresting pow-
ers but some RISD students, who
ear that ocers could use their new
powers to arrest underage drinkers,
do not want to see that happen.
Brown and Rhode Island Col-
lege are the only two universities
in Providence employing campus
ocers with the power to arr est.
A bill under consideration by the
Rhode Island General Assembly
would recognize RISD ocers aspeace ocers, RISD spokesperson
Jamie Marland said. Peace ocer
status would give campus ocers,
who are presently not state-sanc-
tioned, the power to search, detain
and arrest individuals suspected o
illegal activity.
s
Several RISD students expressed
concern that campus ocers would
use their arresting powers inappro-
priately, especially to discipline un-
derage partygoers.
RISD police ocers gaining
the power o arrest is slightly dis-
concerting to me, said Elizabeth
Soucy 13, a Brown-RISD dual de-
gree candidate.
Soucy said student sentiment
toward the campus public saety
department at RISD is dierent
rom the attitude at Brown, mostly
due to the design schools stricter
enorcement o underage drinking
policies. As a result, Soucy said, she
thought RISD police ocers could
be more likely to arrest students
than Brown ocers.
Browns Department o Pub-
lic Saetys reputation o leniency
promotes the ultimate saety o the
students, Soucy said, making themeel more comortable calling the
police when in trouble especially
i the situation involves underage
drinking.
Ayo Ouditt, a RISD reshman,
agreed that granting RISD ocers
arresting powers is ecessive, and
may only lead to unnecessary ar-
rests o students who are drinking
underage.
In extreme cases o alcohol
abuse where intervention is nec-
essary, the administration already
has a disciplinary system in place,
Ouditt said. Those students ace, or
instance, suspension or epulsion,
which are more appropriate penal-
ties than arrest, he said.
Though there have been cases
o epulsion due to alcohol abuse,
excessive drinking isnt a problem
here, said Brenden Cicoria, a RISD
reshman. He added that RISD stu-
dents oten go to Brown to drink
because Brown is known or its mild
enorcement o drinking policies.
Brown police ocers made no
arrests or liquor law or weapons
violations and only one arrest or
drug violations in 2008, according
to the Department o Public Saetys
crime report. No such arrests were
made in 2007 or 2006, the report
said.
But in 2008, ocers issued a
total o 65 disciplinary reerrals or
potential weapons, drug and alcohol
violations on campus: 8 or weapons
violations, 29 or drug violations and
28 or alcohol violations, according
to the report. The number o reer-
rals or alcohol violations was 64
in 2007 and 80 in 2006, the report
said.
Students who receive a disci-
plinary reerral involving alcohol
are required to undergo appropri-
ate alcohol education, evaluation,
and/or treatment as determined
by appropriate ocials, according
to the Universitys Judicial Aairs
Web site.
Sarah Harrison 12, a Brown-
RISD student, hypothesized that
the design school might be stricter
in enorcing alcohol policies to cre-
ate the atmosphere o a serious
school.
Ive always suspected that
RISDs extreme sel-consciousness
in terms o its image has trickled
into its enorcement o rules but
RISDs desire to be taken seriously
as an institution doesnt really need
to make itsel present in the rela-
tionship between Public Saety and
the students, Harrison wrote in an
e-mail to The Herald.
RISD ocers might act more
like their Brown counterparts i they
gain arresting powers or they
might go on a power trip, according
to Harrison.
Its kind o complicated. I dont
know whether RISD tells Public
Saety to be strict in their enorce-
ment o school rules, or whether
they enjoy enorcing rules, or both,
Harrison wrote. I they had more
power, would they eel less the need
to assert it whenever opportunity
CS wSMONDAy, APRIl 5, 2010 THE BROWN DAIly HERAlD PAGE 3
RISD poice officers gaining the power of arrest is sightdisconcerting. Eizabeth Souc 13
ISD b
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herad
Browns officers are one of on two campus poice forces in Providencewith the power to arrest.
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higher ed
o those students, 38.0 percent in total,
have used the CDC only once or twice
this semester.
In this semesters poll, nearly 60
percent o students said they were
single and about one-third said they
were in an exclusive relationship.
Freshmen, at 72.3 percent, are sig-
nicantly more likely to be single than
non-reshmen, o whom 54.9 percent
are single.
The poll ound that a slight ma-
jority o students said religion was
unimportant in their lives. But 44.3
percent o students responded thatreligion was important in their lives.
The 18.1 percent o people who said
religion was very important in their
lives alls below the national average
o 57 percent, according to the Pew
Research Center.
About seven out o eight students
who gave an opinion said they were
attractive compared to their peers at
Brown. O all respondents, 15.1 per-
cent said they were very attractive,
while 57.1 percent said they were
somewhat attractive.
m
Written questionnaires were ad-
ministered to 714 undergraduates inthe lobby o J. Walter Wilson and in the
Sciences Library on March 22 and 23.To ensure random sampling, pollsters
approached every third person and
asked each one to complete a poll. The
poll has a 3.5 percent margin o error
with 95 percent condence.
The sample polled was demo-
graphically similar to the Brown under-
graduate population as a whole. The
sample was 51.1 percent male, 48.7
percent emale and 0.1 percent other.
First-years made up 25.8 percent o
the sample, 29.3 percent were sopho-
mores, 20.4 percent were juniors and
24.5 percent were seniors. O those
polled, 65.7 percent o respondents
identied themselves as white, 18.9percent as Asian, 10.9 percent as His-
panic, 6.6 percent as black, 1.0 percent
as American Indian or Alaska Native
and 0.8 percent as Native Hawaiian
or Pacic Islander. Also, 4.1 percent
identied with a racial group or ethnic-
ity not listed and 1.1 percent chose not
to answer. The sum o the percentages
is greater than 100 percent due to re-
spondents who identied with multiple
ethnic or racial groups.
Senior Sta Writers Ana Alvarez
13, Ale Bell 13 and Talia Kagan 12
and Arts & Culture Editor Suzannah
Weiss 12 coordinated the poll. Herald
section editors, senior sta writers
and other sta members conducted
the poll.
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MONDAy, APRIl 5, 2010THE BROWN DAIly HERAlDPAGE 4
CS wS Peope sa Providence is dangerous, but I woud seep onthe street here. Ao Ouditt, RISD freshman
struck or become more overzeal-
ous in their enjoyment o enorcingRISDs rules?
Ultimately Harrison, who was
written up by a RISD ocer last
year, wrote that she would eel
less sae i the peace ocer bill is
passed.
When Harrison lived in a RISD
residence hall located above the
Public Saety oce last year, there
was an atmosphere o stress due to
the possibility o being approached
by an ocer, she wrote. Living at
Brown has been much less stressul
in this respect because I worry less
about getting into trouble, despite
the act that Brown ocers do havethe power to arrest.
Though Harrison enjoys the
relatively lax enorcement o laws
at Brown, she nds it somewhat
unsettling. O course, the act that
Brown eels like kind o a legal play-
ground in the middle o a troubled
city is disturbing in its own right,
she wrote.
Ouditt said he would have sup-
ported the bill i Providence were
unsae, which he eels is not the
case.
I I thought crime was a prob-
lem at RISD, it would be a dier-
ent story, but its not, Ouditt said.
People say Providence is danger-ous, but I would sleep on the street
here.
Crime, including incidents like
the massacre at Virginia Tech, is
always a possibility, but those events
are extreme outliers, Cicoria
said.
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Though students at Brown said
there were benets to having state-
sanctioned police on campus, some
said it was not necessary or their
sense o security on campus.
It is mostly their presence that
counts, not that they have the powerto arrest, said Jerey Blum 12.
Ben Jones 13 said he has walked
alone at night on campus and has
never elt unsae but not because
o the presence o DPS ocers.
Ive walked alone in the dark
and Ive never ound mysel think-
ing, Im glad there are police o-
cers around, Jones said.
That said, he continued, Ive
read the crime reports, and I know
bad things do happen. In that re-
spect, its good that Brown can take
care o these things internally.
Chie o Police and Director o
Public Saety Mark Porter did notrespond to requests or comment.
dff
Campus ocers are not taken se-
riously, said Elizabeth Hernendez, a
senior at Johnson and Wales Univer-
sity. They look very young some
o them are college students so
no one takes them seriously.
Some o the ocers actually
are students at JWU, said Sarah
Bardwell, who graduated last year.
We have a criminal justice depart-
ment here that oers credit to stu-
dents or being public saety ocers.
They do it as an internship.
Campus ocers at JWU have
no power whatsoever to enorce
laws or university rules, Hernendez
said. I eel bad or them sometimes,
especially when they try to (tame)
drunken parties. Students are
constantly mouthing o to them.
Theyre treated like a joke around
here.
Herndenez said she was on the
ence about the necessity o a real
police presence on her campus. I
campus ocers had the power o ar-
rest, they would certainly get more
respect than they do now. But with
Providence police nearby, Im not
sure i we need real police ocerson campus.
Students at the University o
Rhode Island whose ocers
are state-sanctioned and thus can
arrest argue that campus ocers
can do their job better with arrest-
ing powers.
Problems on campus are not
always about drinking, said Renee
Lemieux, a URI reshman. There is
occasionally domestic violence that
goes on too, which is one example o
a case in which the ocers should
have the power to arrest.
Other URI students said the
integration o their campus withthe general community calls or
increased security.
Our quad is basically a park or
anyone to visit, said Sheena Mur-
ray, a reshman at URI. I eel like it
might make a dierence i a campus
is closed, since you might not have
as much o that outside orce com-
ing in to threaten the security o
the school.
URI ocers have the responsi-
bility to ensure the saety o students
on a campus that lacks ences to
keep other Rhode Islanders o
university grounds, Eli Roth, a
URI junior, wrote in an e-mail to
The Herald.Depriving our enorcement o-
cials their chie tool o enorcement
would be a mistake, Roth wrote. I
we want police ocers to do their
job, it is only natural to arm them
with the tools o their trade. This
comes with the essential caveat that
it would be wrong and indeed,
unconstitutional to see students
arrested or breaking university
rules, as opposed to state or ed-
eral law.
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Corporations February meeting.
The increased pools, which ol-
low a year o salary reezes, will
also be used to provide merit-based
salary increases and promotional
adjustments, according to the Feb.
27 e-mail.
I think people understood why
we had to (reeze salaries) given the
endowment, said Provost David
Kertzer 69 P95 P98, adding that he
believes people expected some in-
crease or the coming year. We need
to be sure we stay competitive with
other institutions. Browns endow-ment lost $740 million, or more than
25 percent, in scal year 2009.
Over the past eight years or so,
Kertzer said, Brown has made a air
amount o progress in achieving
more competitive aculty salaries,
but has slid a little bit in the past
ew years in comparison with its
peers.
Eecutive Vice President or Fi-
nance and Administration Beppie
Huidekoper said the discrepancy
between Browns sta salaries and
those o its competitors was less
pronounced than that o aculty
salaries.
Though the salaries o continuing
sta will be higher next year, Hu-
idekoper said the total amount paid
to sta will be signicantly smaller.
The overall decrease in the budget
or sta salaries will be achieved
through organizational restructur-
ing, including this years 60 layos,
139 early retirements and numer-
ous positions eliminated through
attrition.
The increase in aculty salaries
is certainly preerable to the cur-
rent years reeze, but still less thanwhats been done historically, said
Chung-I Tan, proessor o physics
and chair o the Faculty Eecutive
Committee. The University has
made some inroads toward becom-
ing more competitive, he said, but
Browns salaries are still lower than
its peers.
I dont think you can catch up in
one year, he said. But were mak-
ing sure were not losing ground.
One proessor, who spoke on con-
dition o anonymity, said she was
surprised that there was any raise
at all given the state o the economy,
and would have been willing to re-duce or orgo her raise completely
i it meant saving jobs.
Given the economy, this looks to
me pretty generous, she said.
Tan said it was hard to judge the
acultys general reaction to the sal-
ary increase in light o the layos.
Our main mission is providing
a rst-rate education or students
and maintaining the strengths o
the University in terms o rst-rate
teaching and research programs,
Tan said. I dont think anybody
disagrees with that.
No aculty layos have been an-
nounced, and Tan said he does not
epect any.We dont want to cut any aca-
demic programs, he said. In terms
o aculty, thats not being contem-
plated.
Kertzer also acknowledged the
trade-o between eliminating po-
sitions and increasing salaries to
remain competitive.
We have to balance the attempts
to minimize layos with the desire
not to have another reeze in sala-
ries, he said.
the Tenure, Promotion and Appoint-
ments Committee.
The ad hoc committee com-
prised o three administrators and
nine tenured aculty members
agreed that our system was in some
respects not in keeping with the
common approaches that we nd in
our peer institutions, said Provost
David Kertzer 69 P95 P98, who
chaired the committee.
The report addresses the seri-
ous faws and weaknesses o the
current system and its recommen-
dations represent what we thought
might be the best way o strength-
ening the system with appreciation
or Brown traditions and culture,
he said.
The committee was ormed
this all in response to criticisms
rom a New England Association o
Schools and Colleges review team
that Brown tenures a higher per-
centage o its junior aculty than do
peer institutions.
Browns cohort tenure rate
the percentage o junior tenure-
track proessors who eventually
receive tenure at Brown has
been above 70 percent since 1991,
according to the report. A 2006
study o 10 research universities
revealed an average cohort tenure
rate o 53 percent, according to the
report. Browns relatively high co-
hort tenure rate may eventually
degrade academic excellence as
the percentage o tenured proes-
sors continues to rise in proportion
to untenured aculty members, ac-
cording to the report.
Browns high proportion o ten-
ured aculty members imposes
constraints on hiring and restricts
opportunities, limits the ability to ex-
pand into new and important areas
o scholarship, (and) reduces the
turnover that is vital to intellectual
renewal, according to the report.
Junior aculty members are cur-
rently hired as assistant proessors
or an initial three-year contract,
then either dismissed or oered
a second three-year contract. The
tenure review processes can then
begin during their th year, so they
can either receive tenure ater their
second three-year contract is up or
search or alternate employment
during their sixth year i they are
not granted tenure.
Under the recommended time-
line, junior proessors would receive
an initial our-year contract, which
could then be renewed or another
our-year contract or two consecu-
tive two-year contracts.
While aculty members could
choose to be reviewed or tenure
sooner than in their seventh year,
the extra time would be intended
to allow researchers to build up a
stronger portolio o work beore ac-
ing departmental review. Reviewing
proessors or tenure ater only ve
ull years may in some cases be too
brie to allow even talented junior
aculty the opportunity to provide
evidence o their accomplishments,
according to the report.
These concerns are perhaps
especially acute in laboratory-based
sciences because o the time it
takes to set up laboratories and
obtain unding, according to the
report.
The report also ound that the
Universitys tenure review process
is highly unusual, perhaps even
unique in that departments are
ree to set their own standards or
tenure and candidates play an e-
ceptionally active role in their own
reviews.
In order to standardize the re-
view process across departments
and ensure condentiality, the com-
mittee recommended that candi-
dates or tenure not be allowed to
see the nal list o external review-
ers and that the required number
o outside reviewers be increased
to 10.
Were providing or, I think, a
more complete review and a more
deliberate review than the current
system permits, Kertzer said.
Though the committee did not
set any particular rate o junior
aculty members that should receive
tenure, the changes could have
the eect o putting us more into
the range o most o our peers, he
said.
The Tenure, Promotions and Ad-
vancement Committee reviews all
candidates or tenure ater they pass
departmental review. Pending the
approval o the reports recommen-
dations, the committees member-
ship would be increased by two and
divided into two subcommittees,
each o which would review hal
the cases. One subcommittee will
review cases in the humanities and
social sciences, and the other will
review candidates in the lie and
physical sciences.
It is always an eort to get ac-
ulty to serve on committees be-
cause o the extra time commitment,
Kertzer said, but the net eect o
the changes will be to make it much
more desirable to serve on TPAC
rom a aculty point o view because
its members will ocus more on re-
viewing candidates in their elds o
study and epertise, he said.
The tenure committee will meet
with untenured aculty members
Monday to receive eedback on itsrecommendations. The commit-
tee will also answer questions and
hear eedback at a general aculty
orum April 13 and in meetings with
the Faculty Executive Committee
and department chairs later this
month.
While some o the reports
recommendations can be imple-
mented administratively, others
require changing the aculty rules
and regulations. The aculty will
vote on these changes at its May
meeting, and i approved, they will
be put to a nal vote at the May
Corporation meeting.
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CS wS Peope sa Providence is dangerous, but I woud seep onthe street here. Ao Ouditt, RISD freshman- , b
by the Bureau o Labor Statistics.
The rain was heavier and lasted
longer than Butler had anticipated, but
University acilities saw only minor
damages due to rock-solid construc-
tion and the Universitys elevated
location on College Hill, she said. We
were very ortunate, she said.
The University o Rhode Islands
campus saw signicant damage due
to erosion and fooding, Jerry Sidio,
URIs director o acilities services,
told the Good Five Cent Cigar, the
schools newspaper.
Classes on the Kingston campus
were cancelled or two days due to
the storm.
While Brown students were scat-tered across the country during
spring break, University custodial
employees worked long shits and
overtime amounting to 10 to 12
hours straight to keep water at bay
in the basements o the John Carter
Brown Library, 37 Manning St. and
the John Hay Library, which houses
rare books and manuscripts, Butler
said.
Custodial workers continually
vacuumed aected basement foors
as water seeped in. The aster you
respond, the less travelling there is.
Fortunately our sta got there very
quickly. There was a great response
rom our employees, she said.Once you ll those (wet-vacuum)
machines with water, it can be ex-
tremely heavy, but our employees did
a great job. Everyone had a positive
attitude, she said.
c
The food put 4,000 Rhode Island-
ers temporarily out o work and cost
hundreds o millions o dollars in dam-
age, the Associated Press reported
April 2.
But or most students who re-
mained on campus during spring
break, the rain was only a nuisance.
Hadizza Mohammed 10, a Chi-
cago native, planned to explore RhodeIsland with her riends during her
last spring break beore graduation,
but the rain put a damper on their
plans.
We couldnt really travel because
o the rain. We ended up staying in,
sleeping and eating a lot, watching
movies, and playing a lot o Cranium.
We ended up having un, she said.
Mohammed said she rst realized
the severity o the fooding when she
took the Rhode Island Public Trans-
portation Authority trolley rom cam-
pus to Federal Hill on one o the heavy
days o rain.
The trolley dropped her o threeblocks rom her destination, and the
walk was unpleasant and wet, she
said.
That was when I knew the food-
ing was serious. I a shopping center
i businesses couldnt cope with
the fooding, I knew that neighbor-
hoods must have been hit pretty
hard, she said.
Hector Ramirez 12, who was in his
New Pembroke 1 dorm throughout
the three-day storm, called Facilities
Management to report two small
leaks by his windowsill, and a big-
ger one in his closet. The leaks have
been around or a while, but they were
never this bad, he said.Despite a quick response rom Fa-
cilities, they didnt do a whole lot,
Ramirez said.
I was ortunate that I was around
to take care o the leaks, Ramirez
said, who placed an Arizona gallon
jug under the leak in the closet, and
is still using Diie cups to catch the
smaller leaks by his windowsill.
None o his belongings were dam-
aged, but Ramirez said that the situa-
tion could have been worse i he had
gone home to Los Angeles instead
o staying on campus to get some
homework done and save money
in airare.
All in all, Im glad I stayed be-
hind, he said.
F f
Colby Jenkins 12, a native Rhode
Islander, lives just minutes east o
Browns campus in Rumord, R.I.
While the Universitys acilities
survived the storm virtually una-
ected, Jenkins recently renovated
basement was almost unrecognizable
ater the storm.
Rumord is near Browns campus,
but separated by a river so Im not
surprised that the two areas were a-
ected so dierently, he wrote in an
e-mail to The Herald.Jenkins went to Home Depot at
7 a.m. Tuesday, the rst day o the
storm, to purchase a vacuum and a
pump. He scored the last pump in
stock, but was less lucky in his search
or a vacuum.
They were already sold out o
vacuums, and every other store in the
area was out o pumps, orcing a large
number o people to just hope that the
damage wouldnt be too severe, he
wrote. People are already compar-
ing (the fooding) to our generations
Blizzard o 78.
As water poured into his base-
ment, Jenkins wrote he was more
disappointed than worried. The
disappointment stemmed rom losing
the hard work that my ather and I
put into renovating the nished area
o the basement, as were now back
to square one. The basements laminate foor,
which Jenkins and his ather nished
last year, had to be completely torn
up. The fooding gave a whole new
meaning to the phrase foating foor,
he wrote.
The Jenkins amily salvaged any-
thing drastically important by mov-
ing those items upstairs, but suered
damages to many storage boes and
heavier items, including a treadmill
and some eercise bikes.
Based on the speed at which wa-
ter was entering the house, I knew
that there was no way we could pre-
vent damage rom happening. All wecould do was cut our losses and save
what we could, he wrote.
The amily may receive ederal aid
or repairs, depending on FEMAs as-
sessment o the damage, Jenkins said,
describing the process as a waiting
game.
t ff
Amtrak train service to Rhode
Island has been suspended since
Wednesday, causing delay to some
students return to campus.
The water was about 15 inches
above the rails early Friday morning.
Amtraks Acela Express trains cannot
run with more than our inches o
water, and the slower regional trains
cannot run with more than six inches,
Amtrak spokesman Cli Cole told the
Providence Journal.
Marina Irgon 11 planned on re-
turning to campus on Friday or a
Frisbee tournament at the University
o Rhode Island, but missed the rst
day o the two-day competition be-
cause her train was cancelled.
Irgon, who travelled rom her
home in New Jersey, said that a parent
had to drive her to campus the net
day. The change o plan was a very
minor inconvenience compared to
the plight o other Rhode Islanders,
she said.
The eight-lane Interstate 95, Rhode
Islands main highway, was closed or
two days.
A trip that normally took 20 min-utes took close to 2 hours when trying
to nd detours or just simply ght the
trac, Jenkins wrote.
When traveling over bridges that
normally had water 1520 eet below,
the water was now up to the level o
the bridge, threatening to food and
block o another street, he wrote.
Since April 1, about 200 people
have volunteered to work with Serve
Rhode Island, the states volunteer
center, to help with disaster relie e-
orts, Bernie Beaudreau, executive
director o the organization, told The
Herald Saturday aternoon.
Among the volunteers are plen-
ty o Brown students, Beaudreau
said.
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MONDAy, APRIl 5, 2010 | PAGE 6
w Kk? b Cby suzannah weiss
artS & Culture editor
Phil Hay 92 and Matt Manredi 93,
creative collaborators and riends
ever since they met at IMPROVi-
dence auditions 20 years ago, are
now the prolic screenwriters be-
hind last weekends bo-oce hit
Clash o the Titans.
The duo has worked on other
major lms, such as Crazy/Beauti-
ul, which starred Kirsten Dunst,
and Bug, an independent comedy
that won multiple estival awards.
Clash o the Titans arrived in
2-D and 3-D theaters Friday, and
as o Sunday evening, made $61.4
million in ticket sales throughoutNorth America, according to the
New York Times.
Its really eciting, Manredi
told The Herald on Thursday, the
morning ater the lms premiere
which he compared to a am-
ily reunion. When you work on a
movie or so long, you become like
a little amily, he said.
The movie is a remake o a 1981
lm by the same name, based on
the story o the Greek mythical
hero Perseus. Hay said he grew up
watching the original, and his goal
or the script was to get a sense
o movies we loved as kids. He
hopes audiences take in the child-like exuberance on the screen,
he added.
Manredi and Hay had known
director Louis Leterrier or a long
time when he called and asked i
they wanted to write the script.
From that point, we just kind o
locked ourselves in a room with
Louis Leterrier, Hay said.
We worked very closely with
Sam Worthington, the actor in
the lead role o Perseus, he added.
It was really interesting trying
to take in his perspective on the
character.
Manredis avorite part o the
process was seeing the script come
to lie on the rst day o lming in
London, he said.
For Hay, the highlight o work-
ing on Clash o the Titans was
seeing Liam Neeson, who played
Zeus, yell release the Kraken or
the rst time. The line reers to a
villainous sea monster.
The eternal Dungeons andDragonsplaying geek in me was
ecited, Hay said.
Manredi said he and Hay ar-
gued over who got to type this
line into the script, adding that
to watch (Neeson) say it during
that rehearsal was pretty thrilling
to us.
They may have made it to Hol-
lywood, but Manredi and Hay still
identiy with their alma mater.
We met at Brown University,
which you may have heard o, in
Providence, Rhode Island. Its a
liberal arts college, Hay said a-
cetiously.
I remember getting my dormassignment mailed to me, Man-
redi said. I just couldnt ind
Perkins.
The advantage to Manredis
reshman dorm assignment,
though, was the opportunity to
orm riendships that he still main-
tains. You gotta stick together out
there. Its cold, he said.
And though he did not mar-
ry someone rom Perkins as
Brunonian olklore goes, Man-
redi vividly remembers meeting
his wie outside Rites and Reason
Theatre.
Our close group o riends is
really rom our days at Brown,
Hay said.
Browns philosophy has helped
Manredi oster his way o thinking
and his approach to his career, he
said. Youre just kind o thrown
in here. Youre orced to kind o
nd a passion and what interests
you, he said. We are so ortunate,
as Im sure you g uys are now. Theproessors at Brown are amazing.
Theyre so interested in your well-
being.
Manredi, an American civili-
zation concentrator, said he also
made some spectacularly bad
art.
Thats not true, Matt! Hay
interrupted, citing a rock with a
gol club protruding rom it on the
Main Green as a countereample.
Conceptually, it was amazing.
Hay said he dabbled in a lot
o stu, such as cognitive science,
linguistics and modern culture and
media, but ultimately concentrated
in English literature.For both o us, our experience
at Brown was so much about doing
improv, doing plays, going to plays,
doing weird art projects, Hay said.
You put up a play and 50 people
by Fei cai
StaffWriter
Musically-inclined students nd
diverse creative outlets around
campus alone, in a group, elec-
tronically, acoustically creating
a scene in which students can build
o one anothers talents.
In act, some musicians may be
surprised by the number o stu-
dent artists currently perorming
or even working on albums.
I eel like there are a lot o
musicians on campus, but theyhave a hard time connecting, said
Stephen Poletto 12, who mixes
music on his computer and pro-
duces mash-up work.
r
For Benjamin Nicholson 11,
Heidi Jiang 11 and Rhode Island
School o Design junior Dylan
Ladds, releasing an album did
not mean stressing over signing
with a record label. On March 19,
their band, Leaky People, privately
produced its rst CD, Rats Eat-
ing Rats.
The band, which started a little
over a year ago, has been playingat small venues like Ben & Jerr ys
on Meeting Street. Guitarist and
singer Nicholson said he rst met
bassist Jiang during their resh-
man year, when they started play-
ing cover songs.
All through high school,
I played music in a bunch o
bands, and we recorded albums.
It was something I really enjoyed
doing, and coming to Brown, I
ound there was more access to
equipment without having to pay
the hourly studio ee, Nicholson
said.
The band, which Jiang de-
scribed as kind o olky, wrote
most songs with just an acoustic
guitar and vocals. Aterward, more
instruments were added, such as
bass, electric guitar and drum
patterns rom a computer. Jiangdescribed the production process,
including recording and editing,
as very long.
s
Other Brown musicians, such
as Addie Thompson 12, go solo.
Thompson, an acoustic singer
and songwriter, has been playing
the guitar since sixth grade. I
bought a chord book and taught
mysel to play, she said. I was
motivated mainly because I had
a lot o songs in my head and I
wanted to hear them.
She added that she sometimesmakes up stories in her songs.
About hal o my songs are like
that. The other hal are very per-
sonal and are very much about me.
I usually dont tell people which
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The band leak Peope, whose members are Brown and RISD students, just reeased an abum.
by jessica liss
Contributing Writer
Over 500 individuals responses to the
question How are you? coupled with
dialogue and interviewers explana-
tions, radiate rom speakers within
wooden poles in the audio collage A
Thousand Voices.
First ormulated in September
2009, the idea or A Thousand Voices
developed over several months with
the help o a Creative Arts Council
grant, said Iona Juncan 11, president
and artistic director o Listening
LabOratory, a student group ocused
on creating audio perormance andradio theater. The project was installed
in two sites on campus, initially in the
upstairs space at Production Work-
shop Feb. 2627 and then in the Ly-
man Hall breezeway March 721.
We wanted to give voice to a thou-
sand people in the community and
beyond, Juncan said.
The simple question How are
you? is a mode o engaging with
people and approaching people, rather
than saying, what is your state o mind
at this time? which might be a bit
o-putting, Juncan said.
People walk into a space such as
the breezeway and do not expect to
become immersed in something o
this sort, she added.
According to Juncan, the project
had three primary goals: to provide
people with the opportunity to express
themselves during the dicult nan-
cial crisis, to restore meaning to an
overused and meaningless question
and, lastly, to create an animated, in-
teractive living space a concept
inspired by artists o the Russian revo-
lution, who converted public spaces
into perormance sites.
Listening LabOratory members
interviewed individuals in a variety o
settings. They sought out subjects on
campus and in places such as Provi-dence senior homes, airports and
students hometowns during breaks,
also incorporating oreign languages,
Juncan said. And whenever interview-
ers asked the question, they insisted
on a tr uthul answer, she added.
There have been eight peror-
mance events organized around the
installation the nal one as part o
the interdisciplinary Arts in the One
World Festival March 20.
Each perormance sought to
transorm spectators into active lis-
teners and to give them a chance to
participate in the community o voic-
es, wrote Quyen Ngo 12, the groups
coordinator o communications, in an
e-mail to The Herald.
I dont usually know whats go-
ing on, but it is really interesting. Ive
never experienced anything like this,
said Johnson and Wales University
reshman Gincy Jacobs ater being
guided through the installation at the
March 20 event.
Juncan said she and her collabora-
tors believe the installation is raising
awareness that we overemphasize
visual universe over the oral universe,
which is even richer, and the conse-quence o that is not listening actively
to people and communication.
In the uture, Listening LabOra-
tory hopes to reach new types o audi-
ences, such as the visually impaired,
Juncan said.
A Thousand Voices also will ap-
pear at the Megapolis Audio Festival
in Baltimore, May 1416.
The estivals goal is to bring
people rom dierent disciplines
who use audio really as the primary
component o their work, said Justin
Grotelueschen, the estivals manag-
ing director.
Alongside the work o over 60artists rom across the world, this
particular installation, I think, will be
one o the more challenging installa-
tions, he said, adding that one o its
best eatures is its ability to engage
the audience.
But Listening LabOratorys work
on the installation is not complete.
The group plans to increase the num-
ber o perspectives represented in
the piece and to keep adding to the
community o voices through more
interviews, Juncan said.
ones are which.
Thompson said when she writes
songs, she usually starts with a
melody or an idea. I then marry
the two when I sit down and play
the guitar, she added.
At Brown, Thompson has per-
ormed as both a solo artist and
part o a band called One Night
Band. She has given per ormances
at the Underground, talent shows
and coee shops. She said she
likes to gauge peoples reactions
when she plays.
It is nice to sort o see and get
eedback rom people, what songs
they liked, what songs they didnt,
she said.
t
But or others, music does not
always involve instruments. I usu-
ally set up really loud speakers, my
laptop, some strobe lights and do
live improv work or 45 minutes,said Poletto, whose artist name is
Spoletto.
Poletto, who began working
on his music a year ago, said he
was infuenced by Girl Talk and
hopes to perorm live in the near
uture. Ive DJed a ew parties,
but I want to get out o that and do
more concert-style shows.
Poletto said he took a ew elec-
tronic music courses that taught
him the basics o what he does.
He spends a lot o time collecting
samples online then laying down
tracks and layering drum beats
on top.
Poletto said he is currently tak-
ing MUSC 1200: Seminar in Elec-
tronic Music: Recording Studio as
Compositional Tool.
Im building up a lot o knowl-
edge about what these sotware
packages can produce, he said.
F
Though these students quickly
broke into Browns music scene,
many campus musicians may won-
der how to become part o the Uni-
versitys music community.
The rst thing you should do
is play with your riends, Jiang
said.
Nicholson agreed. He encour-
aged any musicians looking to play
with others to go to any type o
open mic.
People play in their rooms, and
they dont always start a band, but
you get to meet people and see
what music other people are inter-
ested in playing, he added.
Poletto and Sam Roseneld 12
plan to organize a Web site where
musicians can work together. The
idea would be to have a musician
upload a piece o music so that
other musicians will have access
to it.
A drummer can come, up-
load his track and a guitarist can
come and see it. He can lay it over
his own music and re-upload it.
Then a singer can come and lay
his own music over that track,
Poletto said.
There is an evolution, creation
and recreation o content. Musi-
cians would be building o o the
work o each other and ueling
each other, he said.
are going to show up or sure, he
added. Once you get out o college,
you realize thats not necessarily
the case.
Their lmmaking career, accord-
ing to Hay, is an extension o the
projects they have been doing since
college. We almost approached it
like another un thing we could do
as a team because we liked working
together so much, he said.
At this point, our voices on
the page have become eactly the
same. Thats not only creepy but
great, Hay said.
That is creepy, though, Man-
redi added. We spend so much
time together.
Asked which Clash character
he would preer to be in real lie i
he could, Manredi chose Apollo.
He was the center o a lot o the
myths I read as a kid, he said, add-
ing that i he were the sun god, Id
just hang out on Olympus or a little
bit.
Im going to go with a small
character named Ias, Hay said,
to which Manredi responded,
Then Im going to smite you rom
Olympus.
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SportS editor
Sean Morey 99 signed a multi-year
deal with the Seattle Seahawks on
March 29, according to a Seahawks
press release.
The ormer Brown wide receiver
has made an NFL career as a spe-
cial teams standout. Morey earned
a spot on the NFC Pro Bowl team
as a special team player two years
ago. This past season, he was an
alternate to the Pro Bowl.
Morey heads to Seattle ater
three seasons with the Arizona Car-
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aSSiStantSportS editor
The No. 16 mens lacrosse team
dropped a pair o close games totop-10 opponents last week, alling
at No. 7 Duke (9-3), 11-10, on Tues-
day beore suering a 9-7 loss to
No. 5 Princeton (7-1, 3-0) at the New
England Lacrosse Classic at Gillette
Stadium Saturday. The Bears re-
cord ell to 3-4 overall and 1-1 in Ivy
League play.
Despite the act that our oppo-
nents were both in the top 10 and
both outstanding lacrosse teams
its still a disappointment in having
come so close, because close isnt
good enough or us, said Head
Coach Lars Tiany 90. The group
o men I coach, they want more, so
we wont be happy with coming upjust short against great teams.
Coupled with an 11-10 loss to No.
9 Massachusetts (7-2) on March 23,
Brown has lost three straight games
to top-10 opponents in which the
game was tied midway through the
ourth quarter.
Three games in a row, the oppo-
nent scored the net goal, and then
were the ones chasing to the end o
regulation, Tiany said. Weve got
to nd a way to make that net play
when its the middle o the ourth
quarter, tied. Weve got to take the
lead.
Ater the game against Princeton
in the home o the NFLs New Eng-
land Patriots, the Bears held a teammeeting in the locker room that
normally houses the New England
Revolution soccer ranchise to ask
themselves how they could improve.
But the answers will come on the
eld.
d 11, b 10
On the strength o a 17-1 rst-
quarter advantage in shots, Duke
raced out to a 5-0 lead just 17:26 into
the game in what Ti any called the
worst start in a lacrosse game that
Ive been a part o in my our years
at Brown. Yet the Bears battled back
with goals by Rob Schlesinger 12,
Andrew Feinberg 11 and two romquad-captain Thomas Muldoon 10
beore the Blue Devils scored once
more to take just a 6-4 lead into hal-
time.
Tiany said the coaching sta
made no signicant adjustments.
There was nothing special we
said. It was really the men them-
selves, ater the second time out I
called, getting on each other and
pushing each other.
Ater two goals by Feinberg and
one apiece rom Muldoon, quad-
captain Reade Seligmann 10 and
Parker Brown 12, the game was tied
at nine with 9:03 let in the ourth
quarter. Tiany said the Bears were
able to survive Dukes advantageso 46-27 in shots, 34-22 in ground
balls and 16-8 in aceos because
o Matt Chriss (11) making great
save ater great save, the deense,
ater the poor start, settling down
and playing very tough, tenacious
man-to-man deense against one o
the best attack units in the country
and opportunistic oense.
Muldoon scored his ourth goal
o the game to put Brown in ront,
but Duke answered with two goals,
the second coming 10 seconds ater
the rst, to take an 11-10 lead with
6:41 let.
Neither side would score again.
Though Chriss made two o his 15
saves in the waning minutes to keep
the Blue Devils o the board, the
Bears could not beat Duke goalie
Dan Wigrizer despite two late extra-
man oppor tunities.
p 9, b 7
On Saturday, the Bears never
took the lead against Princeton, but
they repeatedly answered the Tigers
rallies.
Thats the character o this group
o men: Never give in, never say die,
Ti any said. We constantly matched
what they were doing.
Ater a quiet rst hal in which
Brown trailed, 3-2, getting goals rom
David Hawley 11 and Feinberg, theBears recovered to take 36 shots in
the second hal, but they were re-
quently stymied by Princeton goalie
Tyler Fiorito, who notched eight o
his 17 saves in the ourth quarter.
Ive never coached a Brown team
thats taken 36 shots in a hal, Ti-
any said. We generated 36 shots
against a good deense. To only score
ve goals on those 36 shots is a tre-
mendous credit to Tyler Fiorito.
Ater Brown tied the game at ve
on goals by Feinberg, Schlesinger
and Hawley, Princeton took the lead
with 10:23 let in the ourth quarter.
The Bears answered ve seconds
later when Willie Fi 12 keyed theast break and ed Muldoon or the
game-tying goal.
Its tough to score in ve sec-
onds, Tiany said.
Ater a ive-minute scoreless
stretch, Princeton scored twice to
take an 8-6 lead with 4:07 let, with
the second goal coming on a strong
shot by Paul Barnes.
It was a 13-, maybe 14-yard laser
that hit the absolute corner, Tiany
said. It hit the net and the corner
and bounced out. It was a perect
shot.
Ater the Tigers added an insur-
ance goal, Seligmann added a man-
up goal with 53 seconds let, but
Fiorito made two saves in the nal30 seconds to seal the victory. Chriss
nished with nine saves.
The Bears adapted to the experi-
ence o playing in Gillette Stadium,
the home o the Patriots, ater Tiany
urged his players not to be awed by
the venue.
Try to enjoy the atmosphere,
then bring it back to Earth, but I have
to admit, it really was a thrill to play
in an NFL stadium, Tiany said.
What an exciting opportunity or
us and our men.
While the Bears ponder how to
conquer their late-game struggles
against top-10 opponents, they will
turn their immediate attention to in-state rival Bryant (6-3). The Bears
will take on the Bulldogs Tuesday
at 7 p.m. on Stevenson Field.
Bryant is a good lacrosse pro-
gram, by no means a pushover, Ti-
any said. Combine that with the
local state rivalry it always eels
good to beat your neighbors. Im
sure Bryant is going to come over
here red up and loaded, ready to
play. Were going to have to match
their intensity and take it one step
urther.
scores
Bran Powen 10,discus throw
Jordan Maddocks 11,high jump
Womens team atHoosier Invitationa
Mens team at UConnInvitationa
w. lacrosse
b 11
Harvard 10
b 18St. Mars (Caif.) 4
Brown 7
d 9
m. golF
Brown 1
a s 4
15th out of 19 at
Indiana Invitationa
track winnersDaniee Grunoh 10, shotput and discus throw
Brnn Smith 11, hammerthrow
Gabriea Baiter 11, tripejump
Susan Scavone 12, 100-meter hurdes
Fencing
21st at NCAAChampionships
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SSD It wasnt the prettiest win, but we sti came out with the win. Kate Strobe 12, first basemanB b by ashley mcdonnell
SportS StaffWriter
Over spring break, the sotball team
(12-9, 1-3 Ivy) started o strong, de-
eating Bryant (3-23). However, the
team went on to lose its rst two Ivy
League games to Penn (9-12, 4-0) and
only managed to win one o two games
against Columbia (6-17, 1-3).
b 5, b 4
Though the Bears won, Bryant
dominated most o the game on March
25. At the end o the ourth inning,
the Bulldogs led the Bears, 3-0, ater
the Bears had the bases loaded but
ailed to score any runs in the top o
the ourth.They just had a lot o hits, said
rst baseman Kate Strobel 12. It was
a matter o them hitting and us not
hitting.
But in the top o the th inning, the
Bears came alive. Ater second base-
man Erika Mueller 13 (also a Herald
sports sta writer) and shortstop Katie
Rothamel 10 walked, third baseman
Stephanie Thompson 13 doubled to
bring home Mueller. With two runners
in scoring position, Strobel stepped up
to the plate and hit a three-run home
run.
I just knew that there were run-
ners on second and third, so I wanted
a single to the right, Strobel said. Ihad two strikes on me quickly, but I
just ended up with the perect pitch,
and it went.
The Bears scored their game-
clinching run in the sixth inning.
Pitcher Kristie Chin 11, ater relieving
Liz DiMascio 13 in the bottom o the
ourth, only allowed the Bulldogs to
score one more run, sealing Browns
5-4 win.
It wasnt the prettiest win, but we
still came out with the win, Strobel
said. We proved that we have re.
p 6, b 2
But the Quakers extinguished the
Bears re in their rst series o Ivy
League games on Friday.
Teams tend to pick it up with Ivy
starts, when we play people in ourown conerence, said Head Coach
DeeDee Enabenter-Omidiji. We ex-
pected as a team to be competitive.
Unortunately, that didnt happen in
our rst series.
Penn scored two runs o a home
run in the rst inning. Though the
Quakers did not score again until the
bottom o the seventh, the Bears spent
the entire game playing catch-up. In the
ourth inning, Strobel hit a home run
and in the top o the seventh, Rothamel
hit a double that brought home Muel-
ler, tying the game, 2-2.
But in the bottom o the seventh,
Penns Brooke Coloma hit a grand
slam, dashing the Bears hopes o go-ing into etra innings.
We started guring things out, but
it was later in the game, Enabenter-
Omidiji said. We didnt start makingadjustments until it was too late.
p 5, b 0
The adjustments the Bears started
making in the rst game did not carry
over into the second game against the
Quakers. Though Penn scored all ve
o its runs by the end o the third in-
ning, Brown only managed to get one
hit against Penn the entire game.
According to Enabenter-Omidiji,
because the team was crushed ater
losing to Penn in the rst game o a
grand slam, the Bears were unable to
bounce back in time or the second
game.Some have the ability to put it in
the past, but we didnt, Enabenter-
Omidiji said. It carried into our play
in the second game. You could see the
devastation in the players aces.
b 3, c 0
The next day against Columbia,
Brown seemed to shake o the losses
to Penn. Though the Bears got o to
a slow start oensively, Chin on the
mound kept the team in the game by
shutting down Columbias oense.
Kristie Chin did a great job keeping
them o balance, Enabenter-Omidiji
said. Whenever you can shut a team
down like she can, you have talent.Thompson kick-started the oense
in the ourth inning with a double to
let eld, ollowed by a single rom
Strobel. Both Thompson and Strobelwere brought home by a single to right
eld rom catcher Amanda Asay 10.
The Bears scored another run in
the top o the th, capitalizing on a
throwing error by the Lions to seal
the victory.
c 10, b 5
But Columbia did not let their loss
to Brown in game one get them down.
The Lions came back and completely
dominated the Bears in the second
game.
At the end o the third inning,
Columbia led the Bears 3-0. The
Bears oense came alive, however,and scored our runs in the top o the
ourth inning. But the Lions would not
let themselves be outdone and scored
ve runs in the bottom o the ourth
inning, making the score 8-4.
They got a lot o cheap hits,
Enabenter-Omidiji said. They hit it
just sot enough to allow them to get
on base. It was one o those Twilight
Zone-type games.
The Bears scored their nal run
in the sith inning, but Columbia an-
swered with two runs o its own, mak-
ing the nal score 10-5.
Oensively, you would think scor-
ing ve runs would be enough to win,
Enabenter-Omidiji said. But not whenyoure giving up 10.
dinals, including one that ended
in a Super Bowl victor y.
Drated in the seventh round
by the New England Patriots in
1999, Morey played on the Pa-
triots practice squad or two
years beore being signed by
the Philadelphia Eagles in 2001,
the press release said. He joined
the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2004
and moved to the Cardinals in
2007.
In 109 games, Morey has 11catches or 168 yards as a re-
ceiver and 151 tackles on special
teams over his career, accord-
ing to the press release. Morey
will reunite in Seattle with Head
Coach Pete Carroll, who was the
Patriots head coach when New
England drated Morey during
his nal semester at Brown.
In college, Morey was a three-
time rst-team All Ivy selection
and won Ivy League Player o
the Year honors in 1997. He still
holds the Ivy League record in
career touchdowns, touchdowns
in a season, career receiving
yards and receiving yards in a
season.
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Brown students were lucky to get away rom school
last week, as Rhode Island was hit with r ecord rain-all and devastating foods. In one 24-hour period,
some areas received an astounding seven inches o
rain, resulting in foods that orced hundreds rom
their homes and let thousands without electricity.
This week, students return to an area or which
President Obama has issued a major disaster dec-
laration. Students cannot ignore their obligation to
help neighbors in need.
According to the Providence Journals Web site,
donations to the local chapter o the Red Cross are
urgently requested. The organization Serve Rhode
Island is coordinating volunteers statewide, and there
is also a great need or people to work in shelters and
assist with damage assessment and cleanup eorts.
Those willing to volunteer can register at www.server-
hodeisland.org. Moreover, students planning to hostevents or parties in the coming weeks should seek
to collect donations or food victims and encourage
guests to give what they can.
While the timing o the foods may have been
ortuitous or Brown students away on spring break,
the natural disaster could not have come at a worse
time or the state. Ocials estimate that 4,000 Rhode
Islanders were temporarily out o work last week
because o the fooding, on top o a statewide unem-
ployment rate over 12 percent. Governor Donald
Carcieri 65 predicted that repairing the damage will
cost hundreds o millions o dollars absolutely
horrible news given the states eisting scal chal-
lenges. The governor described the recent events
as a kick in the teeth. I there was ever a time or
Brown students to go the etra mile in helping thesurrounding community, this is it.
This context should also gure in the ederal
governments decision to apportion disaster relie
unds. The ederal response has thus ar been swit.
President Obamas declaration paves the way or the
Federal Emergency Management Agency to aid in
the recovery, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet
Napolitano visited the state on Friday.
Still, more can be done. Members o Rhode Is-
lands congressional delegation are pushing or the
ederal government to waive the usual requirement
that state and local governments match 25 percent
o ederal relie aid. Considering that the state un-
employment rate is the third highest in the nation
and has remained above the national rate or some
time now, Rhode Island would be a good candidateto benet rom a little etra ederal generosity.
While ederal aid is critical, it must be accom-
panied by an outpouring o support rom the local
community. Browns location atop a hill symbolically
suggests a level o distance and alooness relative to
the surrounding area. The symbolism o Browns
physical elevation comes even more clearly into ocus
in the atermath o a devastating food. Students must
now live up to their responsibilities as residents o a
city and a state. We encourage everyone to make a
much-needed contribution to relie eor ts.
Editorials are written by The Heralds editorial page board.
Send comments to [email protected].
Teaching at Brown worththe long commutet e:
As a aculty member with a
long commute, I read with inter-
est your recent article (From aar,
pros make the commute, March
11) on the subject. In my case, the
round-trip drive rom my home in
Madison, Conn., is approximately
175 miles, which I am able to make
every weekday with the help o an
incredibly supportive amily who
understand how much it means to
me to teach here. I would certainlypreer an aordable and convenient
mass transit commuter option that
ts my schedule (Amtrak doesnt cut
it or ve days a week), but until one
becomes available, I will be content
with National Public Radio, the oc-
casional book on tape and getting
to know my newly acquired hybrid.
Although hypercommuting does
require some sacrices and accom-
modations, I believe that I speak or
others in my situation when I say
that its well worth it to be able to
teach at Brown.
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An article in the March 24 Herald (House passes student loan overhaul) incorrectly stated that tuitionat the Rhode Island School o Design would increase to $49,605 or the 2010-11 school year. In act, thatgure reers to the total price, including tuition, room and board and other ees. Tuition itsel will increaseto $38,000. The Herald regrets the er ror.
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pinionsThe Brown Dai Herad
Starting college is always a signicant transi-
tion. Students are oten or the rst time
experiencing roommates, sharing bath-
rooms with strangers, guring out how to
work laundry machines and spending months
at a time away rom their amilies.
For me, when I star ted my reshman year
at Brown and began living in Rhode Island,
I eperienced another rst: I was suddenly
living in an area with representation in Con-gress.
I was born in Washington, D.C., and, beore
coming to Providence, Id never lived any-
where else. Living in D.C. has advantages. We
get to enjoy ree museums, like the National
Air and Space Museum. We can use a clean,
oten-reliable subway system. Last summer,
we even had the honor o sharing our city with
a new cast o The Real World.
However, D.C. residents are also the only
American citizens who pay ederal taes and
serve in the military without getting to vote
or members o Congress. Taation without
representation was a catchy slogan in the
time o the Revolutionary War, but that un-
democratic status still applies to the r oughly
600,000 people who live in D.C.The United States is the only country with
a representative government that has decided
to disenranchise its capital city. From Paris
to Baghdad, millions o other capital-dwellers
have been trusted to have a voice in their
national legislatures. Voting rights in D.C. have expanded
through history thanks to the 23rd Amend-
ment, ratied in 1961, we have three votes
in the Electoral College, giving us a vote in
presidential elections. Unortunately, we have
yet to attain representation in Congress. El-
eanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., serves as an
elected, non-voting delegate. She is allowed
to vote on bills when they are in House com-
mittees but not when they are considered by
the entire House.
The Founding Fathers were aware o the
capital citys representation problem. Alex-
ander Hamilton proposed tha