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vol. cxliv, no. 45 | Monday, April 6, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891

Students never in danger in trinidadby lauren fedor

and ben scHreckinger

Senior Staff WriterS

No foul play was involved in the disap-pearance of two students who had been missing after failing to return home from a spring break trip to Trinidad, according to a local law enforcement official there.

“They were unharmed,” the official — a representative of the anti-kidnapping unit of the Trinidad and Tobago police — told The Herald.

“They were not abducted. They were not kidnapped,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “They were in fact secured and with a friend, staying at a guest house.”

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. State Department, along with local police in Trinidad, had been investi-gating the whereabouts of Kimberly Hays ’11 and Sophia Roy ’10 after they did not return to campus by March 30, as friends said they had planned. The girls arrived in Trinidad on March 22, according to a friend of the students.

According to the local official, Hays and Roy left Trinidad for the neighbor-ing island of Tobago and “spent some time with a friend.” During that time, they “did not communicate” with their parents, he said.

The students returned to Trinidad “around the first of April,” he said, and were staying at another friend’s home on the island when they were located.

The official said Friday the students were “safe” and “doing well” in the cus-tody of U.S. State Department officials.

Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Margaret Klawunn confirmed in an e-mail to The Herald that the students were not the victims of foul play.

Kimberly Hays’ father, Steven Hays, told The Herald late Thursday that the girls were safe at a hotel in Trinidad, but did not elaborate except to say that “one of them may have been drugged.”

On Friday, he said the information about a possible drugging did not come directly from his daughter, Roy or the FBI, and he referred further questions about the investigation to the FBI’s Bos-ton Field Office.

Both Steven Hays and a friend of both students said the duo were returning to Providence Sunday.

Kimberly Hays, reached Sunday on her cell phone, declined to comment and directed questions to the FBI.

Gail Marcinkiewicz, a representative for public affairs at the FBI’s Boston of-fice, said she could neither confirm nor deny the local police official’s account, citing privacy concerns.

A U.S. State Department official in Trinidad declined to comment Friday, citing “the Privacy Act.”

Across campus, puzzlers get down with Shortz by emmy liss

featureS editor

The room was silent except for the squeak of markers against white-boards. Messy letters filled the boxes, building corners with words intertwined. As white space disap-peared, the crowd held its breath until, suddenly, Aaron Mazel-Gee ’09 took a step back and threw up his hands. He had finished.

On Saturday, the Puzzling Asso-ciation of Brown sponsored its first annual Brown Crossword Puzzle Competition. Hosted by New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz, the contest could barely be contained in MacMillan 117 as students and members of the larg-er community flooded in to hear Shortz speak and try their luck at the student-created puzzles.

The event’s organizers — Dustin Foley ’09, Joey Weissbrot ’11 and Natan Last ’12 — all came to Brown with a passion for puzzles.

Foley, who designs the daily puzzle comic “Enigma Twist” for The Herald, has been making maz-es since elementary school and be-gan delving into crossword puzzles in sixth grade. He constructed the

crossword for his monthly school paper during junior and senior years of high school.

Weissbrot defines himself as more of a doer than a creator — he tackled the Times crossword every day in high school. Then, after finding out through a friend that Shortz takes a summer intern,

Weissbrot spent last summer edit-ing and fact checking puzzles at Shortz’s home.

“Will’s house is sort of the Mec-ca of puzzle making,” Weissbrot said. “Constructors come to his house, hang out and do puzzles.” Weissbrot met — and competed against — some of the Times’ top

puzzle makers.Last has also spent time puz-

zling at Shortz’s house. Until recently, Last held the record as the youngest creator of a Sunday Times crossword puzzle. To date, he has published nine puzzles in

Hang Nguyen / HeraldThe Puzzling Association of Brown held its first Crossword Puzzle Competition, hosted by Will Shortz.

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Drums, dancing at annual Spring Thaw Pow wowby HannaH moser

Senior Staff Writer

The rumbling of drums and jingling of bells filled Pizzitola Sports Center this Saturday and Sunday as the Native Americans at Brown hosted their eighth annual Spring Thaw Pow Wow. Hundreds gathered to take part in the celebration that included food, booths and dancing and

drumming competitions.The event, which was planned

to take place on the Main Green as it was in 2008, was moved in-side due to overcast weather.

Peter Hatch ’11, a member of NAB and the Siletz tribe of Or-egon, said the pow wow attracted 80 to 100 dancers, about a dozen vendors and seven drum groups.

Shristi Pandey / HeraldThe Native Americans at Brown hosted the eighth annual Spring Thaw Pow Pow in the Pizzitola Sports Center.

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Strikes at european schools sidetrack students abroadby anne simons

Senior Staff Writer

Protests and strikes taking place at universities across France have disrupted classes for most Brown students studying abroad there this semester.

Three schools that are host-ing Brown students have held almost no classes this semester, while others have seen some just a few classes affected, wrote Annie Wiart, director of the Brown in France program, in an e-mail to The Herald.

The professor-led strikes op-pose government reforms related to ongoing efforts to standardize higher education policies across the European Union.

At Universite de Paris III, for ex-ample, where Brown students have been the most affected, strikes have been ongoing for about nine weeks during which virtually no classes have been taught, Wiart wrote.

Among the 24 Brown students currently studying in Paris, seven have not been affected at all, while “most” have had one or two of their

five classes “partially or completely cancelled,” she wrote.

Even some professors not on strike have been unable to teach because of locked classrooms and picketing students, Wiart wrote.

A few students study in Lyon, where two of the three universi-ties that host Brown students have been affected and one remains on strike, Wiart wrote.

At least one school, Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Lyon, has resumed and made plans to pro-vide a full semester’s worth of teaching by holding class during spring break and later into June, and there is hope that strikes at two Paris universities, IV and VIII, will end soon, Wiart wrote. But the three hardest-hit schools, Lyon II, Paris I and Paris III, may face “completely forfeiting the semes-ter,” she wrote.

Despite the disruptions, stu-dents should have no concerns about receiving full credit for the semester upon their return to Brown, said Director of the Office of International Programs Kendall

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the Times, which he began submit-ting the summer after his sophomore year in high school.

Because Shortz knew both Last and Weissbrot would be at Brown this year, he suggested they meet up, start a club and organize a com-petition. Having “no idea how to get it off the ground,” the two went to the Student Activities Office, where someone asked if they knew Foley, Last said. The duo e-mailed him and they hit it off immediately.

“Before meeting these guys, I had never met any other puzzle construc-tors,” Foley said.

The competition was a “great way to kick off this association,” Foley said. Though the group has not yet held regular meetings, they are in-terested in doing “puzzlish stuff” and hope to expand, Weissbrot added.

The association’s founders cre-ated three of the four puzzles used at Saturday’s competition. All were edited by Shortz and will appear in the Times within the next two weeks, which will be Foley’s and Weissbrot’s debuts.

“I’m not making any allowance because of the relative youth,” Shortz said. “The quality of their puzzles is the same as any Times puzzles.”

For many of the 300 people

crammed into MacMillan on Satur-day, Shortz was the main attraction. Students clapped and cheered wildly as he took the podium and screams of “I love you, Will!” punctuated the applause.

Shortz spoke about his all-time favorite puzzles, many of which could be recognized from the hit documen-tary “Wordplay.” These included a marriage proposal Shortz orches-trated for an avid puzzler and a puzzle from Election Day 1996, whose clue, “Tomorrow’s Headline,” could be an-swered with either “Clinton Elected” or “Bob Dole Elected.”

“In my family, puzzling is a competitive sport,” said Ariel Hudes ’11. “And you don’t touch a crossword that doesn’t come from the Times.”

Hudes had originally intended to stay only for Shortz’s opening re-marks, but decided to participate in the competition for fun.

Participants could compete in one of three categories — under-graduates, non-undergraduates and pairs. At the start of each round, the constructor introduced his puzzle (except for the third puzzle, an as-yet unpublished creation by Times puzzlemaker Joon Pahk) before con-testants flipped over their papers and began writing frantically.

Though accuracy was the most important factor for winning, tim-ing was crucial as well. As contes-tants finished, they were assigned numbers to mark their spots and at the end of 20 minutes, all puzzles

were collected.During the rounds, competi-

tors were silent — those working as pairs communicated only on the grid. But as soon as time was called, contestants broke into a low roar of conversation centered on the puzzles. The five-minute breaks were spent rehashing the clues and answers.

“I knew that,” one competitor groaned to a friend. “I just couldn’t figure it out.”

After three consecutive rounds, the judges finished scoring all the puzzles while Shortz entertained the audience with interactive word games — a special surprise even for the organizers, Weissbrot said.

Finally, the winners of the three rounds for each category were an-nounced and the three undergradu-ate winners were called forward: Danny Sugar ’11, Jack Gill ’10 and Mazel-Gee.

At the front of the room were three whiteboards with drawn-on crossword grids, a sight many rec-ognized from the documentation of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in “Wordplay.”

The three contestants — and each member of the audience — received the final puzzle, and the finalists filled their boards with letters as a hush fell over the crowd. Sugar filled nearly the entire top half of his board before either of the other two competitors had made a dent. But they quickly caught up and all three were neck-and-neck until the last possible moment.

“It really was unclear who was going to win,” Shortz said, noting how exciting it was for the audience to watch.

“I was a little more nervous than expected,” Mazel-Gee admitted.

Though he does the Times cross-word daily, he had never been in a tournament before and had been aim-ing to be one of the top 10 finalists.

All of the winners in each catego-ry received books of puzzles edited and signed by Shortz. He happily personalized the inscription for many of the winners.

Dan Katz GS, who is in his sixth and final year of studying mathemat-ics at Brown, swept the non-under-graduate category, winning all three rounds. Katz is an avid puzzler and finished 18th this year at the Ameri-can Crossword Puzzle Tournament, which Shortz hosts.

“I’m always in favor of more tour-naments,” Katz said. “The puzzles were great.”

Shortz said he was “really pleased there are so many young people solving and making puzzles.” The turnout was “wonderful” — Brown’s tournament had 200 competitors, as compared to Harvard’s 2008 con-test, which boasted only 100 solvers, Shortz said.

The Puzzling Association had “no idea” what kind of turnout to expect, Weissbrot said, and was “really, really happy that so many people came.”

“Overall, I thought it was great,” he said.

After leaving Providence on Sat-urday, Shortz headed to Harvard to conduct a competition there, and will follow that with a contest at Yale. He has had summer interns from each school and was invited to host all the events. Puzzles from students at the other two schools will be published in the Times as well.

Reflecting on the enthusiasm of college students for puzzling, Shortz said, “It’s good for the future of cross-words.”

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Stephen DeLucia, PresidentMichael Bechek, Vice President

Jonathan Spector, TreasurerAlexander Hughes, Secretary

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CAmPuS newS “In my family, puzzling is a competitive sport.”— Ariel Hudes ’11

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“This semester has been kind of a roller coaster.”— Meredith Weaver ’10

Pow wow in the PitzVendors sold food such as corn cakes and “Indian tacos,” a modern pow wow staple. Other booths offered clothing and traditional crafts.

Each drum group sat around a large common drum and provided the music for the dancers who com-peted in different events over the weekend, including contemporary fancy shawl dances and more tradi-tional dances. A hand drum competi-tion was also held on Sunday.

Elizabeth Hoover GS served as the Head Lady Dancer and it was her responsibility to lead the other women onto the dance floor. She participated in the fancy shawl dance and wore an outfit that she said took her a few years to make. The hum-mingbird beadwork and neon green fabric reflected a more contemporary Native American style developed in the 1950s, Hoover said.

Pow wows have become a sea-sonal tradition for many Native American families. Hoover has been attending pow wows since she was a child and Katherine Cachimuel, a high school student from Boston, said she and her family attend one almost every seasonal weekend as vendors.

The NAB Spring Thaw event is quickly becoming part of many people’s traditions. “People know us because we’ve been here for eight years,” Hatch said.

The cultural event attracted a di-verse crowd, from people who had attended pow wows throughout

their lives to people who had never seen one before. Though the dance competition required registration to participate, “Intertribal” dances were held throughout the weekend and were open to all in attendance.

“Probably the predominant num-ber of people would be from the real local tribes and then a lot of other people have moved to this area or have driven down just for this oc-casion,” said Hoover, who helped NAB organize the first pow wow in 2002. “This is a way to bring the lo-cal people here on campus and have an event for them ... and then at the same time it’s a way of educating the Brown students who are here about contemporary native culture.”

Paasheshau Papoose Driver, a cultural teacher who has been at-tending pow wows her entire life, said pow wows are celebrations of “unity, sovereignty and those things that were attempted to be taken away from our people 500 years ago.” A Narragansett Piquat tribe member, Driver said she was raised to pass on her tribe’s oral culture. “I like (to answer) questions ... there are stereotypical things. I like to cor-rect them.”

Many members of the 500-strong crowd that passed through Pizzitola this weekend were simply curious. Rachel Hunter ’12 and her friends saw an announcement about the pow wow and went by “just to see what it was all about” and ended up staying longer than they had planned. “It was good people-watching,” said Hannah Rose-Mann ’12.

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Students abroad to get credit, despite strikes

Brostuen.Students have been consulting

individually with the leaders of Brown in France to ensure they have enough class hours and as-sessments to receive full credit, he said. Measures such as following an accelerated schedule in the lat-ter part of the semester and taking courses offered by Brown directly should make up for students’ can-celled classes when necessary, he said.

In Paris, Brown in France has hired instructors to teach two cred-it-bearing courses students can take to help make up credits lost to the strikes, Wiart wrote, while students in Lyon have the option of taking two special eight-week classes or-ganized by professors at Institut d’Etudes Politiques for students of some American universities.

“Brown is making sure that students get good quality cours-es, worth full Brown credit,” Wiart wrote.

But students whose host univer-sities have been affected said the strikes have caused uncertainty.

Tanya Bogaty ’10, who is taking classes at Paris III and IV, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that some of the classes she had planned to take did not meet for “weeks in a row.”

Sometimes professors would post that information ahead of time, she wrote, but often students had to attend class to find out if the profes-

sor would show up. Meredith Weaver ’10, studying

at Lyon II and IEP, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that she had one class that did not meet between Jan. 22 and March 3 and another that met five out of the first eight weeks.

All together, there have been seven weeks where at least some classes didn’t meet, she wrote. Be-cause of the strikes, she has had to take different courses than she originally planned, she added.

As a result, students have had to take special steps to ensure they can receive credit.

“Because the situation varies so much from student to student it has been really important to communi-cate with the office about what is happening,” Bogaty wrote.

“We have to keep logs of which of our classes are meeting and for how many hours per week,” wrote Dustin Sposato ’10 in an e-mail to The Herald.

Despite the complications, Wi-art and Brostuen both expressed hope that students are taking in the experience of the protests.

“They’re living French history,” Brostuen said, adding this is a “very interesting time to be in France.”

“We’re encouraging everyone to get a real taste and appreciation of what is happening in France right now,” Wiart wrote.

Students reported mixed feel-ings about the strikes.

“It’s hard to complain about spending spring in Paris without

much in the way of class or home-work,” Sposato ’10 wrote. “But even though it means we may have more free afternoons, everyone I’ve talked to here is anxious for the strikes to end.”

The situation “means we’ve had very limited French university ex-perience,” he wrote.

“It’s been difficult to deal with the uncertainty about whether I will get enough credit and the lack of routine from week to week,” Bogaty wrote. “It’s dis-appointing that instead of being fully immersed in the French university system I am having classes with other Brown students,” she added.

“This semester has been kind of a roller coaster,” Weaver wrote, saying that the uncertainty caused by the strikes is frustrating. “I have seen a side of France that I did not expect.”

“I have been told that the roots of this movement were growing last semester. If this is truly the case, I think Brown should have warned students of the possibility,” Weaver added.

Brostuen said Brown officials saw no reason to expect strikes apart from a general history in France of strikes and protests.

But overall, Weaver’s experi-ence in France so far has made her appreciate Brown more, she wrote.

“Suddenly Banner and the occa-sional class during reading period don’t seem so bad,” she wrote.

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Arts & CultureThe Brown Daily Herald

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travel to ‘The other Shore’by adam lubitz

Contributing Writer

The audience travels along with the cast of Gao Xingjian’s “The Other Shore” through various settings and quirky vignettes. Some characters gamble, others play tug-of-war as the production rides with its audience to the other shore and back.

In Buddhism, the “other shore” signifies the place of enlightenment. At the Leeds Theatre, members of the cast both construct a river with their bodies and cross over it. Audience and actors alike are submerged into a dreamlike world that drifts between different characters and a number of narratives.

Entering the theater, the audience is literally greeted by the perform-ers. The cast runs through warm-ups onstage, and, while stretching and doing light calisthenics, welcome their friends and acquaintances to the theater.

The atmosphere is so relaxed that when a cast member changed the track playing from the boombox, a friendly dispute arose about one song’s merits over the other’s.

This initial interaction, which lacks both script and fourth wall, es-tablishes that the audience is to travel with the players in this production, rather than merely spectate.

Rafael Cebrian Aranda ’11 poi-gnantly announces, “Our play starts with a game.” The ensemble cast proceeds to demonstrate how folks

playing with a simple thing like a rope can be the manifestation of myriad and distinct interpersonal relation-ships. Love (physical and romantic), fighting, excitement and tensions of all kinds are successfully carried forth by a cast that is not timid, to say the least.

Multiple roles are shared, and quite often the performers must become the center of attention and then swiftly return to participating in the ensemble. This feat is carried off professionally by the undergraduate cast and it is a great pleasure to watch a play with actors in such fine tune with each other and the overall tenor of the production.

Of particular note was the dum-my-ventriloquist duo portrayed by Matt Bauman ’10 and Michelle Ilutsik Snyder ’09.5 — as well as Chris Smothers ’10 — whose focus and placid stage presence underscored the meditative elements of the show nicely.

Every performance attested to a cooperative and instructive rehearsal style, most appropriate in a collegiate theatrical setting.

Xingjian’s “The Other Shore” puts the human condition on display. Orig-inally written as an acting exercise, the play invites the audience to learn to use words, anger, suspicion, mob mentality and blame as they witness the performers discover speech.

The play’s avant-garde nature and individualistic focus were deemed threatening by the Chinese govern-

ment. The regime banned the play in 1986, along with several of Xingjian’s other works, motivating him to leave China and begin his life in France as a political refugee.

The show’s director Kym Moore, a visiting assistant professor of The-atre, Speech and Dance, utilizes the individual talents of her performers to great success. Tightrope walking, tap dancing and even a jump from a supine to standing position are all in-corporated, but with the discretion of a seasoned eye for the stage. Moore, who has directed “The Other Shore” in an undergraduate setting before, commented that this incarnation is completely different, no doubt due to the inclusive rehearsal style.

“(The Other Shore) was a phe-nomenal collaboration,” Moore said. She added that whenever she or the cast experienced an inadvertent suc-cess in rehearsal, “I’d pull it out, and we would turn it into something.” The combination of Brunonian creative talent and Moore’s dramatic instincts lent itself very well to the musical writing style and eclectic tone of the piece.

Aided by a flexible set and excel-lent lighting, the cast consistently produces evocative stage pictures for the audience.

“The Other Shore” is under two hours, but it’s unlikely you’ll be check-ing your watch; I know I didn’t.

“The Other Shore” can be seen at Leeds Theatre April 9-12, at 8pm on Thurs-Sat, and 2pm on Sun.

Brown and tufts choruses join forcesby caitlin trujillo

Contributing Writer

Over 100 powerful voices filled Sayles Saturday night as the Brown University Chorus, in tandem with their guests — the Tufts University Concert Choir — put on a memorable and passionate performance.

The show began with the Brown Chorus performing two British folk-songs arranged by John Rutter — “O Waly, Waly” and “Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron.” Though united by the theme of love, the songs dif-fered tonally. The Chorus sang “O Waly, Waly” with a soft sweetness de-void of melodrama, conveying the la-ments of troubled love with a pensive and subtle sadness. “Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron,” conversely, was joyous in its celebration of love and charming in its liveliness.

The Chorus shifted to a more somber tone in the next portion of the show, which featured selections from Ildebrando Pizzetti’s “Requiem.” As the ominous Latin hymns intensi-fied, Sayles filled with thick sound, creating a soothing ambience that was both haunting and uplifting.

The Tufts choir also performed re-ligious music, singing Bach’s “Lobet den Herrn” in spirited and exultant tones. The singers were clearly en-joying themselves, gesturing anima-tedly with their bodies as well as their voices. Their next piece, the world premiere of a Travis Worthley selec-tion called “The Human Secret,” fur-ther emphasized physical movement.

This song, according to the show’s program, is meant to discuss man’s perpetual search for meaning. The choir used stomping throughout the piece to symbolize this daily march of humanity, Andrew Clark, the Tufts conductor, told The Herald.

“The Human Secret” was dark and ominous. Soprano Robyn Goodner, a Tufts sophomore, sang a strong solo, forcefully conveying the vulnerability of the human condition. Near the end, the singers’ voices softened but retained their strength, indicating the song’s resilient hope that though the answers to life may never be certi-fied, the search is worthwhile in and of itself.

The two choirs finally came to-gether for the last piece, selections from Rachmaninoff’s “All-Night Vig-il.” Sung in Russian, the piece started quietly and then built in strength. Again, a multitude of voices resound-ed in Sayles with powerful religious fervor before ultimately receding. The night ended with a jaunty “Praise the Name of the Lord,” a lively chant compared to its fellow hymns.

Clark and Brown’s conductor, Frederick Jodry, senior lecturer in music, began arranging the concert in December, though the two choirs had never performed together until Saturday night. Jodry told The Her-ald that he and Clark discussed the musical details of each choir’s indi-vidual performance as well as the particulars of the final Rachmaninoff piece. The conductors chose to have their choirs collaborate on this piece

because it sounds better with a large group of singers, Jodry said.

They chose Sayles for its acous-tics, Jodry added, and the singers’ voices certainly resonated in the large space. Clark told The Herald Sayles was different than the space his choir is accustomed to, but that they all thought it was beautiful once they had the chance to sing in it.

The proceeds of the collabora-tive show will help fund the Brown Chorus’s trip to Prague and Vienna in May.

On Sunday, Brown returned the favor by performing with the Tufts choir on its campus.

Audience member Ben Bonyhadi ’11 thought the Rachmaninoff pieces that were first performed were stron-ger and should have come last, but he found the concert impressive on the whole.

“I was very pleased,” Bonyhadi said. “It might’ve jumped around a little too much, but overall, it was very enjoyable.”

The directors and singers also enjoyed the experience and were pleased with the two choirs’ first at-tempt at collaboration.

“It was really fun to sing with new people,” said Camile Rodriguez ’11, a member of the Brown Chorus.

According to Jodry, this type of collaborative concert was not the first in which Brown has participated, nor is it likely to be the last.

“It’s fun to hear other groups,” he said. “It’s fun to see what other universities have to offer.”

Production Workshop’s new deal

arts in brief

Production Workshop, Brown’s only completely student-run theater organization, is changing its show selection process.

PW has seven available slots to fill each year with student productions: three slots first semester, three second semes-ter and one during Commencement.

In the past, PW has had a rolling submission process where shows were picked for production one at a time.

The new submission process — which the PW calls the “New Deal” — will now only accept proposals three times per year and will select from each pool of submissions to fill two to three shows at a time, depending on the season.

PW’s Fall Season will consist of two productions during first semester. Winter Season will combine the third slot of the first semester with the first and second slots of second semester, for a total of three slated productions. The Spring Season will comprise two shows: the third slot of second semester and one Commencement slot.

With these changes, the PW Board intends to allow more time for show production and the creative process. Since a few shows are chosen at once, people involved will know ahead of time whether their show will be in production or not.

In an informational meeting last week, Max Posner ’11 said this change will enable directors to “truly dream up their projects.”

Posner also said the PW Board hopes its New Deal will encourage a larger volume of proposals, since it will al-low people to plan their semesters around PW shows with greater ease.

Along with these changes in the submission process, PW will implement a buddy system wherein students planning to submit scripts for consideration will be assigned a PW veteran to help with the proposal process.

April 29 will be this year’s deadline for Fall 2009 propos-als. The Fall season has two slots offered, one the weekend of Sept. 25 and the other the weekend of Oct. 16.

All students are eligible to submit show proposals to the PW Board.

— Alexys Esparza

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Justin Coleman / HeraldThe Slavic community at Brown celebrated their culture Saturday with the Slavic Festival, featuring student performances, dancing and traditional food.

by elisabetH avallone

SportS Staff Writer

With ten minutes remaining in the third quarter, the No. 9 men’s lacrosse team trailed Yale, 9-6. But with seven unanswered goals and strong fourth quarter play, the Bears came from behind for a 13-9 victory this Saturday, their eighth consecutive win. With the win, Brown improved its record to 9-1 overall and 2-0 in the Ivy League.

“Yesterday was a great team effort,” said quad-captain Kyle Hollingsworth ’09. “It was the first game this season that we have re-ally been down, and it was great to see our team overcome that adversity.”

Leading the Bears’ attack was Thomas Muldoon ’10, who led the team with four goals, advancing his point streak to 29 games, the sixth-best active streak in the coun-try. Andrew Feinberg ’11, Brown’s leading scorer of the season, con-tributed three goals and an assist, while Hollingsworth and Brady Williams ’09 each added an addi-tional goal and two assists.

In the net, All-American quad-captain Jordan Burke ’09 anchored Brown’s defense with 15 saves, in-cluding three saves in the fourth quarter, when he held Yale (4-5, 1-3 Ivy) scoreless.

“Yale played a really tough game yesterday, and it took us a while to get it together,” Muldoon said. “But when we play as a team and play our game, I truly believe that we can’t be stopped.”

Midway through the first half, Brown was seemingly controlling the game as two goals by Muldoon and a goal each by Feinberg and Rob Schlesinger ’12 pushed the Bears to a 4-3 lead. A goal by Hol-lingsworth with 7:47 left in the half widened the lead to 5-3, but Yale countered with four unanswered goals in the closing minutes of the half to take a 7-5 lead over Brown.

The Bulldogs’ scoring streak continued, as they secured an 8-5

lead early into the third quarter. Muldoon cut the lead to 8-6 with his third goal of the day, but that was countered with another Yale goal.

But Williams’ goal with 5:55 on the clock would be the first of seven consecutive goals for the Bears, and Brown entered the fourth quarter trailing 9-7.

An unassisted goal by Collins Carey ’10 midway through the fourth made it a one-goal game and with 9:20 left to play, Feinberg tied the game at 9-9. Minutes later, quad-captain Jack Walsh ’09 gave Brown the lead off a feed from Williams, followed by an unas-sisted goal by Reade Seligman ’09. Feinberg’s third goal of the game and Muldoon’s fourth cushioned

Brown’s lead, for the 13-9 win. “I am really proud and im-

pressed with the mental toughness of our team,” said Head Coach Lars Tiffany ’90. “We faced a determined and excited opponent, who gave us everything they had, and we not only withstood them, but also, despite being down three goals in the third quarter, continued to believe in who we are. We contin-ued to play Brown lacrosse and our style of game, to keep fighting the battle.”

The Bears will face off next Saturday against Penn at 1 p.m. on Stevenson Field.

“Every game means the world to us, and we will do everything we can to beat UPenn next weekend,” Muldoon said.

Facing mounting political pressure to jump-start the nation amid a his-toric recession, President Obama announced yesterday his decision

to bet the entire U.S. economy on the University of

North Carolina men’s basketball team winning the NCAA tournament.

The Tar Heel Plan, as it is known, originated from the president’s ob-session with March Madness com-bined with the realization that he had assembled “the best basketball-play-ing cabinet in American history.”

Among its hallowed ranks are Secretary of Education Arne Dun-can, a former co-captain at Harvard who played professionally in Aus-tralia, National Security Advisor James Jones, a 6’4’’ former forward for Georgetown University and the president himself, who struggled to make his high school team de-spite a self-professed “devastating” jump-shot.

The idea for the plan dawned on the president while he was filling out his inaugural bracket during a cabi-net meeting three weeks ago. Some perceive the president’s Tar Heel plan as a hasty departure from his previous strategy of a congressional stimulus package and investment in long-term infrastructure.

Amid allegations that the plan is a risky gamble, especially given

UNC’s early exit from the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament at the hands of middling Florida State University, Federal Reserve Chair-man Ben Bernanke held a confer-ence explaining his support for the President’s proposal.

In the question-and-answer por-tion of the conference, Bernanke was asked specifically why the Fed gave up on pursuing a multi-faceted strategy of using more of the tools at its disposal, such as the discount rate.

But Obama has continued imple-menting his plan. Just last Monday, the president delivered an ultimatum to Detroit automaker giants General Motors, Ford and Chrysler to clean up their acts in preparation for the Final Four and national title game, which the Motor City hosts tonight. In the wake of Obama’s recent ul-timatum, some have come out in greater support of the President’s economic agenda.

Chief economic bracketol-ogy expert Dick Vitale said of the Obama plan, “It’s freaking awesome, baby! UNC’s gonna put Barry O.B. on the map!” before returning to film an endorsement for Hooters’ barbecue wings.

Ben Singer ’09 thinks the Spar-tans will bankrupt the nation.

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The campus was in for a shock last Wednesday evening. Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Margaret Klawunn and Dean Katherine Bergeron sent out an e-mail announcing that two Brown students were miss-ing — they had not returned from spring break, and the University was work-ing with friends, family and law enforcement to locate them. No names were provided, nor any identifying information. The announcement did, however, include detailed contact information for psychological counseling services to deal with potential grief.

This was a dire suggestion. Arriving only four days after the break, it prompted students to worry about friends and acquaintances — were they all okay? And if so, then who was missing? It also set off a flurry of local and national coverage: The message claimed to be preparing students for distress-ing media reports, but the coverage that followed invariably traced back to the message itself. It was a bad miscalculation; even media vultures won’t swoop down on a “co-eds in peril” story unless it has some meat on it, and that’s what the e-mail provided.

Soon enough, the tension was defused. On Thursday evening, another e-mail assured us all that the students had been found. The next day, The Herald reported that the two had been vacationing on the Caribbean island of Trinidad, a country noted by the State Department as a dangerous vacation destination. A missed flight seems to have been the extent of their tribulations.

Naturally, we’re relieved that the students are safe and thankful for the ef-forts of the government officials and Brown staff who helped to locate them. But we’re also conscious of one thing that hasn’t come to light — a single piece of hard evidence justifying Wednesday’s e-mail. Before uncovering anything other than circumstantially troubling evidence, the University made a choice that broadcast the students’ situation to the student body and subjected their personal affairs to unnecessary scrutiny from their peers and the media. When an announcement of this kind can be expected to advance legitimate safety interests, the risk of alarm or embarrassment should not be a deterrent. But in this case, there could not have been a reasonable expectation that such an interest would be advanced. Even if the students’ situation had been desperate, no harm could have come from waiting for actual information before breaking the news to the community at large.

We hope there won’t be a “next time.” But if there is, University officials need to think hard before they speak.

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A lot has changed since I applied to Brown as a biochemistry concentrator. Back then I planned to take four years of Mandarin so that I could have a competitive advantage as a scientific researcher. Back then I thought I would be a neurosurgeon when I grew up.

And not one of those things is true today. I’ve never taken a single class in biochemis-try or Chinese and I can’t think of something I want to do less than study for the MCAT.

But there is one thing I specifically in-tended to do, back when I was working my way toward senioritis, that I have completed: an independent concentration. I’m happy — and honestly a little surprised — to be able to say that I will be the first “Modern Critical Philosophy” concentrator. The College Cur-riculum Committee subcommittee on inde-pendent concentrations tentatively approved my concentration the week before spring break, and after I make a couple of minor changes to my proposal I will be in the clear.

Generally, the independent concentration proposal process was a good experience, even if it felt like I had a fifth class for the first half of this semester. Before proposing, my idea for a concentration felt pretty con-trived, and I wasn’t sure if the only justifica-tion for its independence was my own gim-micky enthusiasm.

But after spending weeks writing and re-vising my proposal, I felt like “Modern Criti-cal Philosophy” was at least as justifiable a concentration as Commerce, Organizations and Entrepreneurship. I then ran the gaunt-

let of advisers, Curricular Resource Center coordinators and Associate Dean of the Col-lege for Upperclass Studies Karen Krahulik. Then, finally, I submitted my proposal to the independent concentration subcommittee.

And that was it. After e-mailing my pro-posal to Dean Krahulik, who was quite help-ful through this whole multi-year process, I had nothing else to do. It was a shock to find out that I would have no opportunity to speak to any of the members of the com-

mittee that would be evaluating whether my academic plans were worthy of the Univer-sity’s sanction.

While the membership of the indepen-dent concentration subcommittee changes annually, it is always composed of a group of faculty members, a student program coordi-nator from the CRC and the dean currently in charge of the program. While these fac-ulty members are surely great researchers and (hopefully) dedicated educators, there is no way of knowing whether their areas of expertise overlap with any of the concentra-tions in question.

By their very nature, independent concen-trations are specific and frequently technical. Indeed, the most important requirement for a potential concentration is that it must re-

flect an existing field of study. Though it will include courses from multiple departments, “the concentration must articulate a coher-ent field of study, with a disciplinary focus and cohesive connection between its various components,” according to the CRC’s inde-pendent concentration guide. Articulating the subtleties of this coherence is the most difficult part of the application.

And through no fault of their own, pro-fessors from starkly different disciplines

may not always be able to appreciate these nuances. My concentration, for example, carefully stakes out a position between tra-ditional Anglo-American analytic philosophy and modern continental critique. I wonder how a committee member who is unfamil-iar with both schools of thought could either independently evaluate my claims about the materials or understand the exact relation of the proposed concentration to existing ones. Because students prepare their proposals with help from faculty advisors in their own fields, it may not be immediately apparent if something in the proposal is unclear.

My biggest concern when submitting my proposal was that there would be a simple misinterpretation of my concentration. And since the committee meets in secret, there is

no opportunity for students to defend their own work in front of the committee and cor-rect any misperceptions about their propos-als. As a result, some unintentional misread-ing of a technical disciplinary argument might metastasize and cause the committee to reject a concentration proposal or demand unnecessarily radical revisions.

Neither of these things happened in my case — I just need to get a letter of support from a professor in the philosophy depart-ment — but it was a big concern. From my conversations with other students in the in-dependent concentration program, I gather that this is a common worry.

I think the whole process would be well served by opening at least some of the com-mittee’s deliberations to the students whose work is being evaluated. Just as other large academic projects — theses and disserta-tions, for example — benefit from an in-per-son defense, the independent concentration program could work much more smoothly and produce much less anxiety for students if there were an opportunity for students to answer questions. This could also save the committee members some time, since they would no longer have to reconsider propos-als rejected due to confusion.

Obviously, applicants shouldn’t be present for the whole meeting since the committee should be able to speak candidly about any proposal it is considering. But it couldn’t be that much of an imposition to allow students an opportunity to answer questions that might otherwise lead the committee to pro-long an already lengthy and difficult process.

Nick Werle ’10 is (officially) a modern critical philosophy and physics concen-trator from Port Washington, New York.

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For 1,700 poor elementary school students in Washington, D.C., the best chance for a quality education ended last week. Despite entreat-ies from Education Secretary Arne Duncan and even President Barack Obama himself, the Senate used the omnibus spending bill to eliminate the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program by the 2009-10 school year.

Implemented by a Democratic D.C. mayor in 2004, this program allows public school students in D.C.’s most troubled schools to apply for scholarships to attend charter and private schools of their choosing. Why would Senate Democrats and teachers’ unions so vehemently oppose a plan that aims to improve education access and outcomes for the poorest students? Because for them, this is a first step towards the mortal sin of school choice.

There is no substantial data on the efficacy of this particular program, but the anecdotal evidence of success, found everywhere from the Cato Institute to the New York Times, indicates that something remarkable has taken place. Students who would otherwise face great barriers to educational success are ex-celling far beyond expectations. Because they are no longer trapped by their geography and socioeconomic status, they finally have the opportunity to access the type of education that many people in the United States take for granted.

Consider this: The average annual income

for families of enrolled children is $22,736. Such families don’t have the option to “vote with their feet” and improve their children’s prospects by moving to an area with better schools. They don’t have the disposable in-come to hire private tutors or enroll their children in expensive after-school activities. What they do have is the opportunity to apply for a scholarship — yes, a school voucher — that gives the poorest children in some of the poorest neighborhoods in the country

an educational lifeline. Eliminating this pro-gram preserves private schools as a privilege available only for the affluent. That seems directly at odds with Democrats’ claims for more universal access to education.

I understand why many liberals are op-posed to school vouchers. Their philosophy dictates that — rather than allow children to opt out of failing schools and enroll in schools that offer a comprehensive, worthwhile edu-cation — the government ought to fix the schools in question. According to them, sound public schools are the most equitable solution to education inequality.

But “fixing” public education, especially in economically depressed areas, isn’t easy; if it were, Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton would have done it. Since Carter created the Department of Education, average per-pupil spending in American public schools has gone from $2,307 to $8,701. We haven’t seen a 377 percent in-crease in education quality. Throwing money at the problem hasn’t solved it.

School choice is no panacea. It doesn’t help attract better teachers to low-income areas. It

doesn’t force parents who are disinterested in their children’s education to take an active role. Teachers will still struggle to find ways to instill a love of reading in children whose families own no books and will still fail at dis-ciplining children who have no rules at home. Schools will still face the specter of violence on one hand and lawsuits on the other.

Allowing some students to escape the inevi-tability of an inferior or nonexistent education doesn’t fix the overarching problems with today’s public education system. All it does is give those children who need it most a chance to do better. But isn’t that a laudable goal?

Senate Democrats have laid their cards on the table: Ideology is more important than the future of D.C.’s poorest children. D.C. School Chancellor Michelle Rhee and Duncan, people on opposite sides of the education-reform spectrum, have both expressed their dismay at the idea that low-income children flourishing under the scholarship program will soon be forced back into failing public schools, a difficult transition with detrimental consequences.

It is hard to switch schools anyway, but to be forced by the federal government to accept a lesser education because of your economic station? What message does that send to these children — you know first-hand what a good education feels like, but because you can’t afford it, you don’t deserve it anymore?

People at Brown spend a lot of time dis-cussing how to convince more minority and low-income students to apply, but education starts earlier than that. If children can’t get a passable education from their neighborhood public school, they shouldn’t be condemned to stay there, languishing, for 12 years. When children have been given equal access to schools where they can thrive, regardless of their parents’ income level, they shouldn’t have that taken away from them to protect the sanctity of a public school ideal.

Obama has said that he plans to fight Con-gress to prevent the program from expiring next year. Let’s hope he does.

Alyssa Ratledge ’11 went to public school, but she can vouch for vouchers.

hey, Senator! Leave them kids alone!

What message does ending the school voucher program send to these children —

you know first-hand what a good education feels like, but because you can’t afford it,

you don’t deserve it anymore?

Since the committee meets in secret, there is no opportunity for students to defend their own work in front of the committee and correct any

misperceptions about their proposal.

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