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Plan B now available over-the-counter at Health Services

Spring break in 2006 became stressful rather than re-laxing for one undergrad when she could not easily obtain emergency contraception after she had unpro-tected sex.

Since University Health Services had closed for the break and a prescription was then re-quired for EC, the student, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, took a taxi to the Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island. She left campus around 5 p.m. and waited in the emergen-cy room for two hours before she was able to see a doctor.

“I was pretty panicky,” she said, since she knew that EC’s effectiveness decreased as she waited. “The whole ordeal took about three hours.”

Obtaining emergency contraception, or EC, has

BY TAYLOR BARNESSTAFF WRITER

Cornel West speaks on MLK Jr.’s legacy

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a “wave in an ocean” of so-cial activism, said public intel-lectual and Princeton University professor Cornel West in a lec-ture on King’s legacy last Fri-day.

“There is no Martin Luther King Jr. without ordinary peo-ple,” West told a packed Salo-mon 101.

West, a professor of religion at Princeton, has published 16 books, including the widely ac-claimed “Race Matters” in 1993 and “Democracy Matters” in 2004. West’s captivating speech, “The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.” was the 11th annual lecture named for the civil rights leader.

Darnell Fine ’08, an Africana studies concentrator, introduced West to the audience by saying, “I friended him on Facebook.” Unfortunately for Fine, West did not respond to his friendship re-quest.

After praising the University for its recent report on its ties to slavery and President Ruth Sim-mons for her leadership, West moved on to discuss King. “It’s almost like talking about my mama,” West said of King. “I love him.”

But West avoided turning King into a glorifi ed icon and explored the implications of his legacy. “He frightens me because his standards of great-ness so radically call into ques-tion who I am,” he said.

West cited King’s constant questioning of life and society as distinctively powerful. King wanted people to “engage in self-examination — that’s a So-cratic note,” he said. “You have to come to terms with learning

how to die in order to learn how to live.”

West encouraged the audi-ence to engage in King’s brand of self-examination and do the same for the United States. There is a “dogma of white su-premacy” alongside which de-mocracy cannot survive in the United States, West said.

Midway through his hour-long speech, West talked about the role religion played in King’s life. Speaking as King, West said, “Lord, you promised to be with me always.”

“I had some doubts about you in the seminary after reading Ni-etzsche,” he added, provoking laughter from the audience.

But race informed religion as well. “We can’t even worship God without white supervision,” West said of slaves in the Unit-ed States. Despite this historical white control, he said, religion became part of black identity — for communities and for King himself. “Martin Luther King Jr. was a child of the black church,” West said.

Imagining what King would say about American society and politics today, West said the United States “can never be great” with 21 percent of chil-dren in poverty. “Where’s the moral outrage?” he asked.

West ended the lecture en-couraging the audience to “dig deep to the sources of our own self-formation, of our own Amer-ican society.” He received a standing ovation.

After the lecture, West lin-gered for another half hour to answer questions, including one from Simmons about Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur province. “I think it’s a disaster,” he respond-ed. But he did praise the Amer-

BY RACHEL ARNDTSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Med students auctioned off for asthma prevention

Medical students stripped off their white lab coats and strutted their stuff down the runway in Sayles Hall Fri-day night in an effort to raise money for asthmatic chil-dren.

The charity auction, dubbed “Date a Doctor,” raised $3,641 for the Com-munity Asthma Programs at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, including a top bid of $469 for a date with Stacey Weinstein ’05 MD’09, who co-hosted and organized the event.

“It’s all for the kids,” par-ticipant Cliff Voigt ’05 MD’09 said to the crowd after dem-onstrating his dancing talent.

The event was hosted by Breeze Against Wheeze, a group comprising Brown

med students and under-graduates, and the proceeds went toward the group’s goal of providing the Communi-ty Asthma Programs with a quarter of the money needed to run its summer education-al camp, which teaches low-income children with asthma how to live with the disease.

Since 2001, Breeze Against Wheeze has hosted an annu-al fundraising run and walk to raise money, and most of the money the group raises comes from their annual 5K run, according to coordina-tor Hanae Fujii-Rios ’06, who is now a research assistant in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology.

“We wanted to do some-thing fun to get people excit-

BY KRISTINA KELLEHERSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Super Bowl draws students’ attention but not their passion

Students congregated in dorm rooms and frat houses across cam-pus last night, downing beers and scarfi ng slices of pizza as they watched the Indianapolis Colts defeat the Chicago Bears 29-17 in Super Bowl XLI. Though most students tuned into the game, for many it seemed only an excuse to put off weekend homework for at least a few more hours. And with the New England Patriots watch-ing from home, students seemed mostly disinterested in the game’s outcome.

At the Sharpe Refectory, which had promoted its pre-game festivi-ties for much of the week, students seemed more focused on the new

entrees that were being served to mark the occasion than the coun-try’s most-watched sporting event. The Ratty was fi lled with football-shaped balloons and festivities such as a football toss game, but students and Dining Services staff alike seemed not to notice that at 6:15 p.m. — only minutes before kick-off — the dining room’s televi-sion was still tuned to a local news-cast.

The channel was eventual-ly changed, and when Chicago’s Devin Hester returned the opening kickoff 92 yards for a touchdown, a few cheers chorused through the Ratty. The momentary eruption was soon replaced by the more routine clank of forks and knives.

BY ZACHARY CHAPMANSENIOR STAFF WRITER

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Christopher Bennett / HeraldPrinceton University professor Cornel West spoke to a packed Salomon 101 about “The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.” on Friday.

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Amy Seibel / HeraldStacey Weinstein ‘05 MD’09 and Vivek Shenoy MD’10 participated in the “Date a Doctor” charity auction held in Sayles Hall on Friday night. continued on page 4

When Toby Simon was in college in the 1960s, it was nearly impossible for an unmarried woman like her to get birth control pills. Undaunted, Simon bought a box of Cracker Jacks, put on the fake diamond ring she found inside and told her doctor she was getting

married and wanted to go on the pill. It worked.

Simon, who became the University’s fi rst director of health education at Health Services in the 1980s and is now the director of the Bryant College Women’s Center, was one of the many young women affected by the controversy that surrounded birth control in the 1960s. Concern about the pill cen-tered around fears that it would promote promiscuity among women and lead to a surge in premarital sex and a nationwide decline in moral standards.

BY GABRIELLA DOOB CONTRIBUTING WRITER

In 1965, Brown physician sparked furor over the Pill

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The Faculty Exhibition at the Bell Gallery in the List Art Center gives students the opportunity to glimpsetheir professors’ own skill and cre-ativity.ativity.ativity

Upon entering the building, two enormous paintings are immediately striking: one by Associate Professor of Art Leslie Bostrom, who chairs the visual art department, and another by former visiting painting instructor Kirsten Lamb.

Bostrom’s approximately 7-by-approximately 7-by-approximately9-foot oil painting, “Studies for Bird Disaster #10,” envelops the viewer in a suburban landscape from the per-spective of birds. The piece is simul-taneously simple and complex. The spare but bright color on the canvas, the inscriptions in childish handwrit-ing and the family out on their front lawn in the background exude a hap-py and almost cute tone. But the in-scriptions describing the birds’ dilem-mas and the exaggerated scale of the fi gures speak to the tragic as well.

Lamb’s piece, “A Pile of Cliches and Dead Things,” overwhelms the viewer with a crowded pile of human sculls, slabs of meat, rich desserts and deer heads among other elements on a massive canvas. The work is both beautiful and disgusting, mirroring what seems to be Lamb’s exploration of the food chain and consumption.

In addition to paintings, the exhi-bition features faculty works includ-ing drawings, sculptures, prints, vid-

eo art, photography, computer ani-mation and Web-based projects.

Especially distinctive was Profes-sor of Art Walter Feldman’s “Maya Stele,” a long canvas covered in tradi-tional Mayan designs but in untradi-tional metallic colors. The work gets more intricate with each look as sub-

tle details reveal themselves — even in the black background. Feldman’s piece appeals not only on an aesthetic level but also raises interesting ques-tions about appropriation in art.

Equally thought-provoking were Visiting Lecturer in Visual Arts Jay Stuckey’s series of fi ve drawings of airplanes and missiles. With si-multaneously disturbing and ador-able names such as “What’s a Little Reign?” the aerial battle scenes are displayed as if intended for a child’s bed sheets with bright colors and car-toonish lines.

Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Paul Myoda’s “Rogue Wave” com-bines man and machine in a com-puter-aided, laser-cut and hand-bent sculpture. The striking aluminum fork-like construction eerily creeps down over a doorway from the top of the ceiling and speaks to some sort of industrial monster image.

As a whole, the Faculty Exhibition illustrates the diversity of the visual art professors as artists. The intel-lectual inquisitiveness of the depart-ment shines through in its faculty’s works.

BY CATHERINE GOLDBERGCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Faculty art showcased in Bell Gallery exhibition

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Ship horns bellowed through-out the Orwig Music Building last Friday afternoon as experi-mental composer Alvin Curran ’60 played sound clips during his talk on “Music Outside the Concert Halls.” The lecture was part of the Department of Mu-sic’s ongoing “Music, Culture and Technology” speaker series, and Curran used a bevy of audio samples to depict a life lived in music’s avant-garde.

Curran spoke to a mixed crowd of faculty and student composers about his life and works.

“In the old days, it was easy,”he said of composing. “Every-one wanted to be Beethoven or Bach. Today, that seems sort of ‘old hat.’ ”

Curran is perhaps most fa-mous for his innovative use of ship horns as instruments. His horn concerts, which he dubbed “Maritime Rites,” began in 1979 and have been performed in Chi-cago, Berlin and Kiel, Germany.

Curran has created over 150 separate works. His instal-lations have included “Notes from the Underground,” a Holo-caust memorial he created in a fi eld in Linz, Austria, where he played millions of singing voices through speakers buried under-ground.

He has also orchestrated in-ternational concerts and has participated in countless inno-

vative music festivals. Curran’s thought-provoking pieces have appeared in the Schwetzingen and Donaueschingen Festivals in Germany.

Curran spent much of the lec-ture discussing the path that led him to experimental music.

A Providence native, Curran concentrated in music and played the trombone in the Brown Band as an undergraduate. He ob-tained his graduate degree from the Yale School of Music, where he studied under the renowned composer Elliot Carter.

Upon graduation, Carter in-vited the young Curran to Berlin on an exchange program funded by the Ford Foundation. He said his experiences in Germany pro-foundly infl uenced the course of his professional life.

“It wasn’t a residency where they give you a box lunch and then you go in your cabin and write your symphony,” he said. Instead, Curran said the Ford Foundation encouraged its mu-sicians to explore experimental music in hopes of undermin-ing the Soviet Union’s cultural freeze during the Cold War.

“I was fresh out of Yale, still had tweed suits and the rest of it,” Curran said. “There was a “There was a “feeling of liberation coming out of making music spontaneously.”

Curran went on to found Mu-sica Electronica Viva, a group dedicated to creating free-form electronic music. In its three-year tour of the United States and Europe, the group played

over 200 concerts, providing an apt soundtrack for the growing psychedelic scene of the 1960s.

“There was no leader, no score, no start time, no end time. … It was very consonant with the time and the place,” Curran said. “All kinds of social tenden-cies were converging in a dream of inner freedom.”

After the group disbanded in 1971, Curran decided to re-invent himself with a number of solo projects. In addition to com-posing music for avant-garde theater companies in Rome, he began recording sounds found in nature. With these sound-scapes, he embarked on a long career of using outdoor spaces to create music.

He emphasized that in addi-tion to crafting installation piec-es, he has continued to write tra-ditional piano music. From 1991 to 2006, Curran taught musical composition at Mills College in Oakland, Calif. In between stag-ing his installation pieces, he now teaches privately in Rome.

“I only consider myself a composer, no matter what I do …whether I’m working with a pi-ano or a piece of junk,” he said.

Curran’s next project will in-volve staging another perfor-mance of “Maritime Rites” on the River Thames in London. He plans to use the facade of the Tate Modern museum to am-plify the horn sounds and said he hopes to line the banks of the landmark avenue the Strand with rows of demolished pianos.

BY ALLISSA WICKHAMSTAFF WRITER

Composer Curran ’60 discusses his life in the avant-garde

Meara Sharma / HeraldThe Bell Gallery in the List Art Center hosts the triennial Faculty Exhibition of works by members of the departments of visual art and modern culture and media.

ican government for describ-ing the situation as “genocide” because “that kind of language needs to be used.”

West also talked about his new spoken word album, which features Talib Kweli, Rhymefest and KRS-One. “I’m so excited. … It’s a hell of a CD,” he said, add-ing that even as an “old genera-tion Motown” fan, he was willing to experiment with hip-hop to communicate his message of em-powerment to young people who might not attend the Ivy League universities where he speaks.

Later, a student asked West how she could bridge the gap between emotional reactions to race and the use of racism to give structure to society. West told her institutionalized rac-ism will not end in her lifetime

but it is still important to ask, “How do we attempt to make the world better based on who we are?” Rather than seeking to revolutionize the system as a whole, he said, young people should resist racism individual-ly and collectively.

West ended the evening speaking about black leadership, specifi cally Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and his 2008 bid for the presidency. Calling contempo-rary black leadership in the Unit-ed States “mediocre,” West said he is cautious of Obama because he is “suspicious of leaders who are very much a creation of the white mainstream media.” Still, West said he plans to give Obama time to see how he evolves as a politician.

As members of the audience crowded around West after the speech, students told The Her-

ald they were impressed by the lecture.

“He doesn’t spew out anything that’s trite,” said Nicholas James Dolan Greene ’10. “He doesn’t succumb to wanting to say some-thing fl ashy. He just says what’s true.”

Julianna Alson ’10 said she loved West’s lecture. “It was re-ally moving,” she said.

Benjamin Boas ’06.5, commu-nity outreach coordinator with the Department of Public Safety,said West made an “incredible impression” on him. “(He was) one of the most engaging and impressive speakers I’ve ever seen.”

Allex Fambles ’10 was also enthusiastic. “Cornel West was able to depict the life of an ex-traordinary man while inspiring the audience to question the sta-tus quo.”

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recently become much easier for women on campus. Within fi ve months of this incident, the Food and Drug Administration approved over-the-counter status for EC for persons 18 years of age and old-er. Five places either on College Hill or within walking distance of Brown’s campus carry EC: Health Services, Planned Parenthood Ex-press, East Side Prescription Cen-ter, CVS and Brooks Pharmacy.

Since the implementation of the new policy, a buyer can expect to purchase EC within approximate-ly two minutes of arriving at the counter, according to employees at all locations. The pills are still kept behind the counter since proof of age is necessary for purchase.

Planned Parenthood Express and Health Services each charge approximately $30 for EC, where-as the pharmacies charge up to $45. Health Services offers EC 24 hours a day, since it has a nurse on staff around the clock.

Minors still need a prescription to purchase EC. Planned Parent-hood Express and Health Services offer consultations with a nurse for a minor to obtain this prescription, according to employees at both sites. At Planned Parenthood Ex-press, this consultation consists of taking the girl’s blood pressure and describing the purpose and ef-fects of EC. The nurse also asks when or if she had unprotected sex to determine the time frame over which she should take the pills, ac-cording to Christine Torres, the

receptionist at Planned Parent-hood Express.

Meanwhile, men have a more diffi cult time obtaining EC. Planned Parenthood Express does not allow men to purchase EC, al-though FDA guidelines do not pro-hibit the purchase of EC by men.

“We can’t dispense the medica-tion to someone who won’t actually take the medication themselves,” said Cathy Delfi no, a nurse-mid-wife at Planned Parenthood Ex-press. She said a man has never attempted to buy EC at the Angell Street location.

Since the FDA does not prohib-it men from buying EC, other phar-macies and Health Services will sell the product to a man as long as he is over 17 years of age.

EC is 89 percent effective in preventing pregnancy when tak-en within 72 hours of unprotected sex, according to a handout from the makers of Plan B, the FDA-ap-proved brand of EC.

EC is “basically a high dose of birth control pills,” said Jenni-

fer Cherry, a health educator at Health Services. The medication works primarily by preventing ovulation. It can also keep sperm from uniting with an egg or stop a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterus.

EC is not intended to be used as a substitute for birth control, ac-cording to a Plan B handout. Using EC as birth control would be eco-nomically insensible, according to Jenny Wyron ‘09, a Women Peer Counselor, since a month’s supply of birth control can be obtained at a signifi cantly lower price than a single dosage of EC.

Still, Wyron said the easy avail-ability of EC is a positive step for women’s ability to take charge of their health.

“It is another tool for women, for their partners, for young peo-ple to empower themselves,” she said.

Wyron said the WPC program offered its counselors special train-ing in January on the new policies for obtaining EC.


ed about the race and raise some money,” Weinstein said the day before the event.

The runner-up to Weinstein in the bidding for dates with medi-cal students was Andrea Dean MD’10, who raked in $200. The hosts described Dean as a Gemini from Minnesota who enjoys danc-ing, travel and cats.

Former investment banker Brad Weinberg ’03 MD’09 was described in the event’s program as “not only your Jewish mother’s wet dream, he can also take care of your assets.” The blond-haired, blue-eyed Jewish Capricorn set the minimum asking price at $100.

Most contestants went for about $125 after receiving bids from various individuals and groups. Sayles Hall was packed at the beginning of the event, but the crowd emptied to half-capacity halfway into the show.

Most contestants told The Her-ald that they weren’t nervous be-fore the show. “Worse case scenar-io, I have a great story to tell,” said Eric Palecek MD’10, referring to the possibility of no one bidding on him. “I’ve been looking for a most-embarrassing moment.”

The night’s datable doctors were part of a full package, includ-ing a gift certifi cate for dinner at restaurants like Barnsider’s Mile and a Quarter and Pakarang, a more active date like ice skating at the Bank of America Skating Cen-ter or a trip to the Roger Williams Park Zoo. First choice for the date packages was given to the night’s highest bidder.

Even though the event was advertised on table slips in din-ing halls, “Date a Doctor” did not seem to draw many undergradu-ates. Most of the bids were placed by other med students, and the bidders were generally known to the hosts. Frequently, contestants bid on each other. Marie Audett ’05 MD’09 and Rajeev Chaudhry MD’09 bought dates with each other for over $100 each.

Other contestants auctioned off their “services” instead of a date, including baking cookies, Spanish lessons and a bike tune-up. Attendees could also bid on a violin serenade from Vivek She-noy MD’10 or salsa lessons from Christina Rincon ’05 MD’09. Many contestants credited Wein-stein for convincing them to par-ticipate. “Stacy’s e-mail (request-ing participation) was too compel-ling, it was the funniest e-mail I ever read,” Shenoy said.

The night’s most active bid-der was Zach Aarons ’05 who pur-chased dates with three contes-tants, for over $100 each, and bid on many more. He traveled from New York City for the event be-cause “Weinstein is one of (his) best friends,” he said.

Aarons and Weinstein are both asthmatics themselves, strength-ening their commitment to the cause.

“Let’s give it up for Warren Alpert,” Weinstein said during the event, expressing gratitude to the entrepreneur who donat-ed $100 million last week to the Medical School, which has since been named for him. Weinstein continued, “So now we are the Warren Alpert Medical School. That’s right, now we’re known as WAMS.”

Date a Doctor raises $3,600



The controversy raged espe-cially bitterly at Brown, which made international news on Sept. 28, 1965 when The Herald re-ported that Roswell Johnson, the University’s director of Health Services, had prescribed birth control pills to two engaged but unmarried students at Pembroke College, the University’s women’s college that merged with Brown in 1971.

Though physicians at a hand-ful of other colleges, including the University of Chicago and the Uni-versity of Minnesota, had also pre-scribed birth control pills to stu-dents, Brown was the fi rst to pub-licize the fact, Simon said. News-papers and wire services across the country picked up the story, which broke just a few months after another story involving con-traception made headlines — that June, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Connecticut’s ban on contraceptives in Griswold v. Con-necticut.

Johnson defended his deci-sion, telling reporters then that both women involved were “ma-ture people, already engaged, and they both had been referred to me by clergy” and that prescription of the pills was his own “private ori-entation” and not University poli-

cy. He also said he had thoroughly interviewed the women, who were both over 21, before he wrote the prescriptions. He also told report-ers he would not have prescribed the pills without the consent of the students’ parents and without “a great deal of soul searching.”

“I want to feel I’m contributing to a solid relationship and not con-tributing to unmitigated promiscu-ity,” he added.

Brown students and President Barnaby Keeney also defended Johnson’s choice. “I’m satisfi ed with his performance and judg-ment,” Keeney told the Minneapo-lis Tribune.

M. Charles Bakst ’66, the edi-tor in chief of The Herald at the time, wrote an editorial entitled “A Bitter Pill” that ran the same day as the announcement of the pre-scriptions. The editorial praised Health Services for its “practical and far-sighted” approach. The Pembroke Record, the newspaper at Pembroke College, also sup-ported the move.

But public response to the Uni-versity’s policy was overwhelm-ingly negative. On Oct. 20, the Ar-kansas Democrat published the fi ndings of the latest Gallup poll in which three out of four adults said they disapproved of giving birth control pills to college stu-dents. The Democrat said the pub-

lic’s objection centered on what it considered the “open invitation to immorality” implied by such a policy.

“Our young people have too much freedom now. Why should we foster promiscuity?” one disap-proving citizen told the Democrat.

“It only condones illicit behav-ior. It gives young people an easy way out,” said another.

Similarly, an Oct. 2 editorial in the West Central Tribune, a Min-nesota newspaper, declared: “The fact that this particular college is taking action in this matter is a confession that there is a major moral problem at the school. Per-haps instead of easing the road for indulgence the college should instead as part of its work offer a course for all the students to take about morality, the sanctity of sex and try to clean up this looseness.” Even the Rev. Julius Scott Jr., the University’s chaplain, said he felt Johnson’s action “documents the moral ambiguity of the contempo-rary university campus.”

Bakst said the controversy sur-rounding the birth control issue was part of a larger problem, what he identifi ed in his editorial as a “Victorian concept of standards” that prevailed at Brown and Pem-broke, even in comparison to oth-er Ivy League institutions.

“It was like the Dark Ages

here,” he recently told The Her-ald. While he praised Universi-ty administrators for supporting Johnson’s move in his editorial, he also slammed them for their “double standards,” referring to their rules regulating the curfew and dating policies of Pembroke students.

Looking back at the contro-versy over four decades later, Si-mon praised Johnson, who died in 2000, as a “hero who stood up to the criticism,” and Bakst recalled him as “very open and forthright.” In a pre-Roe v. Wade era, Simon said, Johnson was probably com-pelled to write prescriptions for students to prevent abortions. “He was just a quiet person who went about doing it,” she said.

The controversy surround-ing birth control has signifi cant-ly quieted down since the 1960s. Lynn Dupont, assistant director of Health Services, said she has worked there for 18 years and hasn’t heard any criticism of the University’s policy of prescribing birth control pills to students or of the emergency contraceptive that is now available at Health Services and CVS, among other places.

“It hasn’t always been this way, though,” said Simon. “Some-body had to take a stand on this and, wouldn’t you know, it was Brown.”


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Emergency contraception available in multiple nearby locations

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Three houses failed last semester’s semiannual program house review conducted by Residential Council, while thirteen houses passed and four houses were put on notice — one for an “issue with a snake.”

Last spring, nine houses failed the review, and three were passed “with exceptions.” Delta Phi and Kappa Alpha Theta are repeat of-fenders, failing twice in a row.

This year, “no groups are in very egregious shape,” said Rich-ard Bova, senior associate dean of residential life. “Generally groups comply” with the review process, he added, and this year all of the hous-es were “remarkably cooperative.”

Three houses failed the review — Spanish House, DPhi and Kappa

Alpha Theta. Both DPhi and Kappa Alpha Theta failed because of low membership numbers, and Spanish House failed because they missed two of three Program House Coun-cil meetings.

According to Justin Glavis-Bloom ‘07, chair of ResCouncil, each house is required to have at least 22 mem-bers, a level DPhi and Kappa Alpha Theta failed to achieve. DPhi also failed to “uphold community stan-dards for cleanliness and behavior,” according to the review report. The report suggests that DPhi estab-lishes “a short-term and long-term plan for higher-level performance that takes into account behavior of members, party management and the requirement that they have 22 members.”

Mark Connolly ‘07, president of Greek Council and a member of

DPhi, said his house “failed right away” because of its low mem-bership numbers — there are not enough people actually living in the house because many of the seniors live off-campus and many juniors go abroad, he said. He added that the house hopes to have a “solid rush” to up its membership this spring.

Connolly declined to elaborate on the “cleanliness and behavior” issues noted at the review, empha-sizing that DPhi would have failed no matter what because of its low membership.

An additional four houses were put on notice. Theta Delta Chi was cited for “issues of cleanliness, par-ty management and property dam-age,” according to the report. Both Buxton International House and French House were put on notice for failing to hold regular house

meetings.Phi Kappa Psi was also put on

notice, but for different reasons — according to Bova, the house had a pet snake in its lounge. “They took a little bit of extra time” to get rid of it after being told to remove it, Bova said, “and it resurfaced.”

Glavis-Bloom wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that “a graduated member of Phi Psi had stored his … non-venomous snake temporar-ily in the Phi Psi lounge.”

Unlike during previous reviews, this time houses did not need to ap-pear in person before ResCouncil. Instead, each program house fi led paperwork with ResCouncil.

In the past, ResCouncil would call the houses in and ask them questions, a process Glavis-Bloom called “time consuming and sort of senseless.” For one, it was hard

for ResCouncil to verify the houses’ claims on the spot.

ResCouncil has plans to post its form online for the spring review to further streamline the process. Glavis-Bloom said the new process “improved the means by which in-formation is collected.”

ResCouncil reviews the houses and makes recommendations to the Offi ce of Residential Life, which then comes up with what Bova de-scribed as a “corrective plan.” For instance, a house’s party privileg-es might be temporarily revoked if they had trouble with noise or be-havior issues.

Overall, Bova said he was pleased with the review. “Students on ResCouncil take it very serious-ly,” he said. He added that there are “no foreseeable problems” with re-gards to last semester’s review.

DPhi, Kappa Alpha Theta, Spanish House fail program house reviewBY RACHEL ARNDTSENIOR STAFF WRITER

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded three grants to professors and a project at Brown — Professor of Compara-tive Literature Arnold Weinstein, Professor of Anthropology Ste-phen Houston and the Women Writers Project.

A two-year, $250,000 grant was awarded to the Women Writers Project, headed by Julia Flanders, associate director for textbase de-velopment at Computing and In-formation Services. The grant will fund a series of seminars to help professors and graduate students in the humanities understand the processes used to produce digital texts, the ways in which editing

processes differ in the electronic medium and the resulting implica-tions for teaching such material, Flanders said.

Houston, a scholar of the Ma-yan civilization, received a $40,000 fellowship that will allow him to spend a year working on a new book.

“My goal is to write a biogra-phy of a Maya city,” Houston said. After spending fi ve years on an archeological dig in Piedras Ne-gras, a Maya ruin on the border of Guatemala and Mexico, Houston’s challenge now is to turn the vast quantity of information he has into a compelling narrative while re-maining true to the evidence, he said. The grant will enable him to spend the year focusing on his writing.

Writing will also be a primary focus for Weinstein, whose $24,000 fellowship will allow him to com-plete a book about Scandinavian literature. Weinstein said he has been researching the topic for at least a decade and a half and has already written a manuscript.

“It turns out that most of the book is essentially written,” he said in a phone interview from Stockholm, where he is fi nishing work on the book. The grant from the NEH, he said, will help him complete it.

Weinstein’s book will explore several types of Scandinavian me-dia, including visual art, fi lm, the-ater and fi ction. According to Weinstein, a major challenge will be to balance the book’s public and academic qualities — making the

material exciting to an audience that knows little about it while at the same time producing a work of scholarly worth.

In Sweden, Weinstein is con-sulting museums in the Stockholm area for the book’s visuals. “Above all, there is the task of the crucial fi nal revisions to my manuscript and putting the fi nishing touches on what I’ve written,” he wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “Most of the research has been done, but not all, so there will be ample work on all these fronts to occupy me.”

An independent agency of the United States government, the NEH is the largest sponsor of humanities programs in the nation and provides grants to promote research, educa-tion, preservation and public pro-grams in the humanities.

NEH grants to fund two professors’ work and Women Writers ProjectBY OLIVIA HOFFMAN

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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At other campus venues, inter-est in the game was similarly tepid. Normally raucous Theta Delta Chi seemed oddly subdued. The televi-sion in the Lower Blue Room was turned off, and the Gate, usually a popular hangout for students seek-ing a break from homework, was mostly deserted. In the corner, Simone Landon ’10, was the lone fan watching the game.

“I couldn’t get enough of my friends together. There were defi -nitely a lot fewer people here than I expected,” said Landon, a Bears fan, adding that it was a letdown from how she usually spends the Super Bowl. “My family usually has a big Super Bowl party, so I’m kind of sad to be missing it this year,” she said.

Fraternity houses Phi Kappa Psi and Sigma Chi offered pizza and beer, but there seemed to be little spark among the spectators.

Fans of the victorious Colts were few and far between. Most students rooted against the Colts, who de-feated the Patriots 38-34 in the AFC Championship Game.

Ben Schnapp ’07, who sported a jersey of Tom Brady, the Patriots’ quarterback, cheered when a sec-ond quarter pass by Colts quarter-back Peyton Manning fell incom-

plete. “I want the Colts to lose just

so Peyton will make the Manning face,” Schnapp said.

At the Ratty, Delia Denson ’10 said she was rooting for the Colts, but only because of a bet with her boyfriend, a Bears fan.

“If the Colts win, my boyfriend has to do whatever I say for a day, but if they lose, I have to do whatev-er he wants for a day,” she said.

Megan Brattain ’10 was another rare Colts fan spotted on campus. An Indianapolis native and long-time Colts fan, she stopped at the Campus Market for a cup of coffee at halftime, before returning to her dorm to watch the rest of the game with a group of friends.

Brattain, who said her best friend from home is Manning’s next-door neighbor, said she was excited to see the Colts fi nally make it to the Super Bowl.

“The city has been really behind the Colts all year and I think ev-erything will be really crazy if they win,” she said.

Though much of the rest of the campus remained indifferent about the game, a group of native Chica-goans rooted ardently for a Bears victory in the off-campus apartment of Ben Saper ’07.

Saper is from Evanston, Ill.,

and said he has been following the Bears closely this season. “The last time they won (the Super Bowl) was in 1985, but if you ask an aver-age person from Chicago they can still name all of the players from that team,” Saper said. “People still quote (former Bears coach) Mike Ditka all of the time.”

Saper said watching the game at Brown wasn’t the same as watching it at home with his family, but he pointed out that hosting a gathering of Bears fans made it feel more like home. Cutouts of newspaper stories about the team taped up around his apartment added to the pro-Bears atmosphere.

“The Super Bowl is bigger than just a sporting event, so it’s nice to be able to have some people from

Chicago here,” Saper said. “I like being able to watch the game in a setting where I can feel comfort-able punching the wall if I need to let out some frustration,” he said. “When Devin Hester scored I took my shirt off and ran around the apartment yelling.”

For international students, the Super Bowl was either a novelty or an American phenomenon that was diffi cult to grasp.

Keisuke Okada GS took in his fi rst Super Bowl between bites of dinner at the Ratty. Okada, who is from Japan, said he was excited to see what the Super Bowl was like.

“In Japan, people are not as in-terested in the Super Bowl because there are not a lot of Japanese play-ers in the NFL,” he said. “People in

Japan are much more interested in baseball.”

For a group of fi rst-years on the hockey team, the game was mostly a distraction from the Ratty’s new entrees.

Jeremy Russell ’10, a Canadian who said he didn’t care much about the outcome of the game, said, “The grilled salmon was exception-al though. One of the best meals I have had at the Ratty.”

The hockey players unanimous-ly agreed that the Canadian Foot-ball League’s championship game, the Grey Cup, held each November, is much more exciting.

“I like the CFL a lot more,” Rus-“I like the CFL a lot more,” Rus-“I like the CFLsell said, making sure to mention his favorite team — the Edmonton Eskimos.

Amy Seibel / HeraldStudents in the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity gathered to watch Super Bowl XLI last night. The Indianapolis Colts beat the Chicago Bears 29-17.


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ESFAHAN, Iran — The squat, tan buildings with barred windows can be reached only by driving well out-side the city to a fl at stretch of des-ert on the edge of the hills. The site is surrounded by an array of anti-aircraft artillery emplacements, each with one or two soldiers at the ready, and a large metal fence topped with barbed wire.

Once inside the reception hall, visitors are greeted by a huge post-er that says: “Nuclear Energy Is Our Obvious Right.”

Here, in a city considered the heart of its nuclear development program, is where Iran has been

taking the initial technological steps to turn ordinary uranium into the makings of nuclear fuel.

In a rare invitation to foreign visitors Saturday, Iranian offi cials opened the doors of the normally closed facility. The offi cials report-ed that the fl edgling conversion program, which was in its infancy only three years ago, has manufac-tured 250 tons of uranium hexafl u-oride gas, the feedstock for Iran’s controversial uranium enrichment program.

The group included visitors from all over the world, said Ali As-ghar Soltanieh, Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Ener-gy Agency. “We have decided they would come here to have the op-

portunity to see themselves what is going on,” he said as they walked through the large rooms of tanks, feeder lines, pressure gauges and control panels.

The offi cial delegation of sev-en included representatives of the Non-Aligned Movement, the G-77 group of developing nations and the Arab League, all accredited to the IAEA in Vienna, Austria. Iranian of-fi cials allowed a group of journalists to cover the visit.

“We want to remove these ambi-guities and questions from our Arab brothers and sisters in the region. They have to know that everything is transparent and it is for peaceful

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Iraq accuses Syria of fomenting violence

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (Los Angeles Times) — The Iraqi government on Sun-day accused Syria of harboring insurgents fomenting violence here following a massive suicide bombing the previous day that killed at least 130 people in a Shiite neighborhood of the nation’s capital.

The allegation strained relations with Iraq’s neighbor just weeks after a resumption of diplomatic ties, and led to squabbling among Iraqi politicians during a parliamentary session.

“I confi rm that 50 percent of murders and bombings are by Arab extremists coming from Syria,” said Iraqi government spokesman Ali Dabbagh, at a joint news conference with the top U.S. spokesman in-side the heavily protected Green Zone compound. “They come from Syria, and we have evidence to prove it.”

No such evidence was presented, however, at the session with re-porters.

WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — The budget that President Bush will submit to Congress Monday shows the federal defi cit falling in each of the next four years and would produce a $61 billion surplus in 2012, administration offi cials said. But to get there, Bush is count-ing on strong economic growth, diminishing costs in the Iraq war and tight domestic spending to offset the cost of his tax cuts.

Democrats Sunday criticized the fi ve-year budget plan as overly optimistic and predicted that extending the tax cuts past their 2010 expiration date would dig the nation deeper into debt rather than produce a budget surplus. Republicans countered that the tax cuts are critical to maintaining a healthy economy and that a balanced budget is not possible without them.

Republicans hope to make the tax cuts a central feature of this year’s budget debate, the fi rst in which Bush will present his request to a Democratic Congress. Both the White House and Democrat-ic leaders have vowed to eliminate the federal defi cit by 2012, but Democrats have signaled their intention to do it in part by target-ing tax breaks for corporations and taxpayers earning more than $500,000 a year.

(Los Angeles Times) — The fi ght to stop the spread of AIDS suffered a serious setback last week when researchers shuttered two high-profi le trials of one of the most promising anti-AIDS compounds.

Researchers had hoped that the so-called microbicide, a topical gel designed to block the transmission of the human immunodefi -ciency virus during sexual intercourse, would be particularly effec-tive in stemming the epidemic of AIDS in Africa and Asia.

A successful microbicide could avert nearly 1 million HIV infec-tions a year, according to a recent Rockefeller Foundation report. The foundation estimates that a dose would sell for about $3 and could become a market worth $2 billion to $5 billion a year.

But researchers announced last week that they had shuttered two trials of the compound because preliminary data found that women using it were contracting HIV at a higher rate than those not using it.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (Newsday) — Rudolph Giuliani stepped closer to joining the 2008 presidential race Saturday, saying “there’s a real good chance” that he will run.

But that word came as his campaign reversed its earlier claims to Newsday about why Giuliani’s party affi liation was left off a key fed-eral form — which had touched off questions about whether Giu-liani might turn his back on the Republican Party and run as an in-dependent.

The shift could prove yet another embarrassing misstep for a campaign that already has been buffeted by the loss of a detailed strategy playbook and questions about whether he and his team are up to the rigors of a national election.

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War in Iraq is propelling a massive migration BY SUDARSAN RAGHAVANWASHINGTON POST

AMMAN, Jordan — Inside his cold, crumbling apartment, Saad Ali teeters on the fringes of life. Once a popular singer in his native Baghdad, he is now unemployed. To pay his $45 monthly rent, he borrows from friends. To bathe, he boils water on a tiny heater. He sleeps on a frayed mattress, under a tattered blanket.

Outside, Ali avoids police offi -cers and disguises his Arabic with a Jordanian dialect. He returns

home before 10 p.m. to stay clear of government checkpoints. Like hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees here, he fears being deported. Six months ago, near his home in Baghdad, two men threatened to kill him. Singing ro-mantic songs, they said, was un-Islamic.

So when his pride hits a new low, he remembers that day.

“Despite all the hardships I face here, it is better than going back to Baghdad,” said Ali, long-faced with a sharp chin, who wore a thick red sweat shirt and

rubbed his hands to keep warm. “They will behead me. What else can I do? I have no choice.”

As the fourth year of war nears its end, the Middle East’s largest refugee crisis since the Palestin-ian exodus from Israel in 1948 is unfolding in a climate of fear, per-secution and tragedy.

Nearly 2 million Iraqis — about 8 percent of the prewar population -— have embarked on a desper-ate migration, mostly to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, according to

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purposes, and there is no concern as far as safety is concerned,” Solta-nieh said. “You will notice these fa-cilities are of the highest standard, and a lot of investment has been made in order to prevent any envi-ronmental impact.”

The uranium conversion facility at Esfahan is only a piece of Iran’s nuclear program, which the Islamic republic says it is pursuing in order to develop new sources of electri-cal power and maintain the nation’s high level of oil exports.

The next and most controver-sial step is conducted at an even more secret plant at Natanz to the north, where the feedstock materi-al produced at Esfahan is processed through a series of centrifuges to enrich the uranium for use as fuel for nuclear reactors. Enriching it far more than that, a level beyond Iran’s present capability, most ex-perts believe, would be suffi cient for use in a nuclear weapon.

The U.S. and some other coun-tries believe that might be the ul-timate target of Iran’s power pro-gram, but Iran insists it is opposed to nuclear weapons and simply would withdraw from the Nonpro-liferation Treaty if it wanted to build

one.The U.N. Security Council has

adopted a fi rst tier of sanctions against Iran, which freezes some as-sets and bars companies from sell-ing materials and technology that could contribute to its nuclear pro-gram. The U.S. has warned it will seek to toughen the sanctions soon if Iran does not halt enrichment ac-tivities, and there are growing fears in Iran that the U.S. or Israel could launch military strikes against Ira-nian nuclear targets.

The Arab League’s representa-tive to the IAEA, Mikhail Wehbe of Syria, warned that military ac-tion against Iran’s nuclear program would be a mistake.

“These issues should be dealt with with the utmost standard of di-plomacy. Not with a threat. Because any threat to a nuclear facility, it could be catastrophic,” he said.

Saturday’s tour was mainly a publicity exercise; the delegates admitted they understood little of what they were seeing. But it was clearly part of a strong effort on Iran’s part to demonstrate its will-ingness to open up its nuclear pro-gram to inspection.


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the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. The refugees include large numbers of doctors, aca-demics and other professionals vital for Iraq’s recovery.

Another 1.7 million have been forced to move to safer towns and villages inside Iraq, and as many as 50,000 Iraqis a month fl ee their homes, the U.N. agen-cy said in January.

The rich began trickling out of Iraq as conditions deteriorat-ed under U.N. sanctions in the 1990s, their fl ight growing in the aftermath of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Now, as the violence worsens, increasing numbers of poor Iraqis are on the move, aid offi cials say. To fl ee, Iraqis sell their possessions, raid their savings and borrow money from relatives. They ride buses or walk across terrain riddled with criminals and Sunni insurgents, preferring to risk death over re-maining in Iraq.

The United Nations is strug-gling to fi nd funding to assist Iraqi refugees. Fewer than 500 have been resettled in the United States since the invasion. Aid of-

fi cials and human rights activists say the United States and other Western nations are focused on reconstructing Iraq while ignor-ing the war’s human fallout.

“It’s probably political,’’ said Janvier de Riedmatten, U.N. ref-ugee agency representative for Iraq, referring to the reason why the world hasn’t helped Iraq’s refugees.

“The Iraq story has to be a success story,’’ he said.

For decades, Jordan wel-comed refugees. Roughly a third of its 5.9 million residents are Palestinian refugees. According to the United Nations, 500,000 to 700,000 Iraqi refugees live in Jor-dan, but aid offi cials say the ac-tual number is nearer to 1 million because many Iraqis live under the radar. Jordan’s tolerance has waned, however, since a group of Iraqis bombed three hotels in November 2005, killing 60 peo-ple, according to Iraqis, aid offi -cials and human rights groups. The government fears that Iraq’s mostly Sunni Arab refugees could remain in the country per-manently or become recruits for Iraq’s insurgency.

Now, the exodus is generat-

ing friction and anger across the region, while straining basic ser-vices in already poor countries. Iraqis are blamed for driving up prices and taking away scarce jobs. Iraq’s neighbors worry the new refugees will carry in Iraq’s sectarian strife.

“The Jordan government does not want to encourage Iraqis to stay for a long time,’’ said Gaby Daw, project offi cer for the Cath-olic charity Caritas Internationa-lis, one of the few aid agencies assisting Iraqi refugees.

Into their new havens, Iraqis are bringing their culture and way of life, gradually reshaping the face of the Arab world. But the cost of escape is high. Feed-ing the bitterness of exile is a sense that outside forces creat-ed their plight. Many Iraqis here view the U.S.-led invasion that ousted President Saddam Husse-in as the root of their woes.

“We were promised a kind of heaven on earth,’’ said Rabab Haider, who fl ed Baghdad last year. “But we’ve been given a real hell.’’

Sad Goodbyes

The road out of Iraq begins on Salhiye Street in Baghdad.

On Jan. 13, knots of Iraqis waited to board 14 buses to Syr-ia. Inside a travel agency, Raghed Moyed, 23, sat solemnly with her 12-year-old brother, Amar. It had become too dangerous for her to attend college, so she was head-ing to Damascus to continue her education. As she sat, her head bowed, she recalled the previous night, when she bade farewell to her friends.

`Ìt’s really sad,’’ said Moyed, her voice cracking as tears slid down her face. `Ì cried the whole way from the house to here. I don’t want to leave Iraq, but it is hard to stay.’’

Sameer Humfash, the travel agent, watched her cry. By his es-timate, 50 to 60 families were fl ee-ing each day on the buses lined up outside. Nowadays, Iraqis were heading mostly to Syria, he said.

``They are not letting Iraqis in at the Jordanian border,’’ inter-rupted Ahmed Khudair, one of Humfash’s employees.

Humfash makes all his passen-gers sign waiver forms that read: `Ì am traveling on my own respon-sibility and God is the only one that protects us.’’ On the roads to both Jordan and Syria, Sunni insurgents have dragged Shiites from buses and executed them. Humfash stays in radio contact ev-ery hour with the bus driver, usu-ally a Syrian. He always asks three questions, he said:

``How is the road?’’``Did they take any passen-

gers?’’``Did they hurt any passen-

gers?’’


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Regardless of the drama sur-rounding the game, Penn was the better team from the opening tip-off. They shot the ball better, re-bounded better and played better defense than the Bears.

A part of me wanted to hear a cacophony of epithets rain down from the rafters of a nearly full Piz-zitola Center on Friday. A part of me wanted to see the Bears stick it to their former coach. I’m sure that’s what many people in atten-dance on Friday wanted to see. Unfortunately, none of that came close to transpiring. The Quakers were a better team and that ren-dered any potential drama moot.

Jaaber-walking to the NBA?I discussed this at great length

with Sports Editor Justin Gold-man ’07 on Friday night, but don’t be shocked if Quaker point guard Ibrahim Jaaber gets a look from an NBA team or two. He reminds me a lot of Jason Forte ’05 in terms of what he brings to his team, but with two big differences — he doesn’t need to dominate the ball to assert himself, and he’s a fan-tastic defender. I was convinced he was having a quiet game, until I saw his fi nal stats: 12 points, nine rebounds, seven assists and two steals. It was the quietest near-triple double I’ve ever witnessed. For those basketball pundits who claim Ivy players can’t cut it at the next level, Jaaber put up 21 points, four rebounds, eight assists and three steals earlier this season … against the University of North Carolina.

In case you forgot about him…I am convinced that Penn se-

nior forward Mark Zoller is in his

seventh season with the Quakers. I recall taunting him for his ridic-ulous afro during my freshman year, and earlier this season I told someone that Zoller must have graduated at least two years ago. As it turns out he’s still around and he’s still a thorn in the side of Brown and everyone else in the Ivy League. His 16-point fi rst half put Friday’s game away early, and he’s averaging more than 18 points per game for the year.

Uni-Watch — with apologies to Paul Lukas

Brown decided to wear its road jerseys in Saturday’s triumph over Princeton. I’ve been told that they go with the road browns at home once or twice each season, but the uniform switch seemed to work to the tune of a 15-point victory. See-ing as athletes are a superstitious lot, don’t be surprised if you see the browns in the Pizzitola Center again this season.

Craig Robinson-FreudThe most glowing positive I

took away from this weekend’s action was how hard Head Coach Craig Robinson has his team play. They may be undermanned, but that doesn’t keep the Bears from going after the ball like a fat man after a Christmas ham. Captain Mark McAndrew ’08 compares Robinson to a psychologist who “tries to get in your head and get the best out of you.” Seeing the Bears play in person for the fi rst time this season, it looks as though Robinson is doing just that. If Bruno can continue to play the same glove-tight defense that was on display in the second half of the Princeton game, it could cause Brown’s Ivy rivals some ma-jor problems the rest of the way.

helped make up for it.”The following night, the Bears

hosted a particularly strong Quin-nipiac team. The Bobcats entered the game on a 2-0-1 roll and had defeated the Bears 5-1 on their home ice back in January.

Behind three goals, one in each period, from forward Ryan Garbutt ’09, however, the Bears overcame two early defi cits to knock off the Bobcats. Defense-man Sean Hurley ’08 posted two goals and two assists in the win, and forward Jeff Prough ’08 had three assists in the 6-3 victory.

The Bears played without cap-tain Sean Dersch ’07, assistant captain Roux and forward Matt Vokes ’09, due to injuries. Even without their usual senior leader-ship, the young Brown team rose to the occasion.

“The young guys are really stepping up lately,” said Head Coach Roger Grillo. “They’ve been good all year, but whenev-er we call on them, they’re there

to do what’s needed. They really relish the opportunity to play and make an impact, and this speaks volumes about their work ethic (and) character. The guys just have a great team attitude.”

The teams traded goals in the fi rst two periods of the tilt against Quinnipiac. The Bobcats earned a lead at 9:01 in the fi rst, but Gar-butt answered back, scoring his fi rst goal of the game unassist-ed on a Brown power play. Pick-ing up the puck after a Quinnip-iac turnover, he carried it a few strides and fi red it past the goalie, tying the game 1-1 at 14:37.

Quinnipiac regained its lead early in the second by capitalizing on a power play. Again, however, Garbutt responded to the chal-lenge, picking up another power-play goal at 15:03.

After the break between the second and third periods, Brown came out fi ring on all cylinders. Defenseman Jeremy Russell ’10 converted an odd-man rush with Prough and forward Sean Mc-Monagle ’10.

Two minutes later, Sean Hur-ley ’08 widened the gap to 4-2 on another Brown power play. Only 1:08 later, Garbutt fi nished off his hat-trick.

The Bobcats continued to bat-tle and eventually slipped another puck past Rosen at 13:27 in the third, narrowing Brown’s lead to 5-3. Hurley closed out the scoring with an empty net, short-handed goal with 3:15 left to play.

“I am very happy with the way the guys played,” Grillo said of the weekend. “They overcame adver-sity, losing their two captains and Matty Vokes on Saturday night.”

Next weekend, Brown will travel to upstate New York for league contests against Clarkson University on Friday night and St. Lawrence University on Saturday night.

“This weekend should be huge for us, coming down the stretch,” Poli said. “But these past two games were exciting for us. They got us back in the hunt a little, back in the race. Now it’s up to us to see how things unfold.”

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us,” said guard and co-captain Mark McAndrew ’08. “We just came out with the mentality that we weren’t going to give them anything easy. It’s a matter of time before you be-lieve you’re doing the right stuff and that it’s going to work.”

McAndrew single-handedly bur-ied the Tigers with a torrid 90-sec-ond stretch in the middle of the second half. With 9:02 remaining, McAndrew received a pass from Matt Mullery ’10 and hit a three-pointer from the corner. The next time down the court, McAndrew set up in the same corner and buried another trey. On their next posses-sion, the Bears misfi red, leading to a Princeton fast break. But McAn-drew hurried back on defense and contested a layup attempt leading to a miss. He then snatched the rebound, drove the length of the court and drained his third three-pointer in the stretch.

“I knew our team needed a lift,” McAndrew said. “I got the mindset that the next time I got open I was going to let it fl y.”

McAndrew’s deadly outside shooting gave the Bears a 53-42 lead with 7:28 left. The team iced the game down the stretch with clutch free-throw shooting and timely in-side play. McAndrew fi nished the game with 19 points, and guard Da-mon Huffman ’08 added 17.

“Building a program is about winning these types of games,”

Robinson said. “I was really happy with our team’s execution … I don’t have to worry about how hard they play.”

On Friday, the game against Penn was less successful. In the re-turn of former Brown coach Glen Miller, Brown opened with a 6-2 lead but could not maintain the ad-vantage. Penn went up 16-10 at the 12:18 mark behind eight points from Mark Zoller, the Ivy League’s leading scorer and rebounder. The Quakers closed the half on a 17-6 run and led 41-26 at the break.

The Bears closed the gap to a dozen points several times in the second half but could get no clos-er. Forward Mark MacDonald ’08 said the team “had to play a perfect game to win” against Penn, the two-time defending Ivy League Cham-pions. Brown has now lost fi ve straight to the Quakers.

One of the biggest factors in the loss was Penn’s outside shooting. The Quakers fi nished 12-of-20 from beyond the arc. They also passed effectively, recording assists on 23 of their 29 baskets.

“I thought (Penn) did a really good job of moving the ball, and you can move the ball like that when you’re making shots,” Rob-inson said. “I was just hoping they would shoot (the same percentage) they’ve shot for the season.”

After a split of their home games this weekend, the Bears will travel to New York, where they will face Cornell on Friday and Columbia on


the fi rst 10 minutes of the game, and the Bears couldn’t recover. “We weren’t getting back in tran-sition,” McAfee said. “That’s what fueled a lot of their early points.”

After the Tigers’ outburst, Brown settled down offensively, scoring six straight points to cut the lead to eight. The Bears kept the game close the rest of the fi rst half and went to the locker room down only 27-17.

However, in the second half, the

Bears got a healthy dose of Meg Cowher, who scored her 1,000th career point earlier in the game. Cowher scored 13 of her game-high 23 points in the second half.

“After she scored her 1,000th point, they gained a lot of momen-tum and excitement,” McAfee said.

Cowher’s aggressive play of-fensively fueled the Tigers, help-ing balloon Princeton’s lead to 21 points at one point. Brown cut the defi cit to 14 with four minutes to go, but it proved to be too little, too late.

“She is not a typical post play-er,” King-Bischof said of Cowher. “She is very athletic and uses her elevation to her advantage.”

O’Neal led Brown with 13 points. McAfee had her second solid game of the weekend with 11 points and eight rebounds.

The Bears return home next weekend, but their schedule does not get any easier. On Fri-day night, they face off against league-leading Cornell. On Sat-urday, Bruno will host Columbia. Both games tip off at 7 p.m. at the


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An hour well-spent with Cornel WestWhen a speech is scheduled to take place in Salomon 101, students know a famous person is speaking. Typically, the famous person is either receiving an award or getting paid thousands of dollars to impart words of wisdom to those students with the time to save seats. Like most famous people, the hon-ored guest is accustomed to giving speeches and will most likely regurgitate his or her standard spiel, whether it’s a bad case of verbal diarrhea or two hours of unapologetic self-absorption.

But Cornel West’s appearance on Friday was different.West’s poetic words and striking gestures likely feature in every speech

he gives, and Friday’s Martin Luther King Jr. lecture was clearly not the fi rst time West had discussed King’s legacy. Yet West’s words didn’t simply im-part an academic perspective and the wisdom of a so-called public intellec-tual, they resonated with the audience in a moving and distinctive way.

As a college professor, West is accustomed to addressing large groups of 18 to 22 year olds. But when he bowed to a freshman Friday — thanking the student and his peers for injecting fresh questions into universities — West showed he wasn’t behind a podium to wow the audience. Rather, he was in Salomon 101 to connect with the students, encouraging them to engage in relentless self-examination and emulate the personal dignity and public ser-vice of leaders like King. And by directly confronting issues that are easily ig-nored, West demonstrated that tough questions about race require dialogue, not simply institutional reports.

Lectures from those outside the Brown bubble play a special role in ex-panding our thinking and infusing us with passion — about leadership, social justice, activism, equality. Though there is still value in hearing luminaries speak about their own work, the speakers who really get to us are those who remind us that we have decades ahead of us to make a mark in the world. Whether they remind us why we are so lucky or why our society is so fl awed, they challenge us to think about how we will use the talents that got us here and the education we’re receiving.

So, thank you, Professor West.

We congratulate the Indianapolis Colts on their Super Bowl XLI win, even though student enthusiasm for the game on campus was unusually tepid for the most popular sporting event in the United States. In typical New England elitist fashion, few students had much interest in this year’s game, which featured an entirely Midwest lineup. With so many students hailing from the Northeast, most NFL fans were forced to pack away their green Eagles jer-seys, New York Giants hats and Tom Brady posters early this season. In fact, most New England fans were openly cheering against the Colts, who stopped the Patriots from advancing to the Super Bowl two weeks ago.

In last year’s Super Bowl, most unaffi liated Brunonians could justify root-ing for the Pittsburgh Steelers thanks to the team’s two former Bears, special teams captain Sean Morey ’99 and quarterbacks coach Mark Whipple ’79. And in 2004 and 2005, the game featured teams from Boston and Philadel-phia, so many students had a hometown team to pull for.

This year, though, few students were intrigued by Colts quarterback Pey-ton Manning’s attempt to rewrite his reputation as a player unable to succeed on the brightest stage or Indianapolis’s effort to fi nally win a championship after falling short so often.

But even without a vested interest, at least the Super Bowl gives students reason to enjoy an otherwise cold and dreary Sunday. This year’s unalluring championship game was still worth watching. But here’s hoping Brady’s two-year Super Bowl hiatus ends next season.

In a letter in Wednesday’s Herald (“Med school alums support gift, skeptical of name change,” Jan. 31), Drs. Elizabeth Schoenfeld ’01 MD’05 and Pranay Parikh ’99 MD’03 praise the recent mega-gift to the Brown Medical School but express reservations about re-naming the school after the donor, Warren Alpert.

As the authors of the letter correctly point out, re-naming a building the Warren Alpert Medical School is not like naming it the “Merck Medical School,” or the “Xtra Mart Medical School” after the business from which Mr. Alpert made most of his money. But the good doctors nevertheless say they have “always considered institutions like the Brown Medical School to be above such outright sponsorship.”

I don’t know about the Brown Medical School, but the University as a whole is rife with buildings and fa-cilities named after various individuals, some of whom were distinguished members of the faculty or admin-istration, while others were just rich donors. I do not think that the research and teaching carried out at the Watson Institute, for instance, is in any way com-

promised by its sponsorship by the Watson family. A large (by the standards of the time) donation from prominent Providence native Nicholas Brown in 1804 prompted the entire University to change its name to Brown in honor of the donor.

As far as I know, Mr. Alpert does not have any skel-etons in his closet that might cause the University the sort of grief experienced by revelations of slave-own-ership by the Brown family or the brief kerfuffl e that erupted when it was revealed that the company of an-other prominent donor, Sidney Frank ’42, has been subject to one of the largest sex discrimination suits in U.S. history. For this reason I fi nd it strange that someone would object to this specifi c, latest act of sponsorship.

Peter Allen MA’68, PhD’72 P‘09Professor of Anthropology

Rhode Island CollegeFeb. 1

Renaming the Med School not a concern To the Editor:

As the head men’s tennis coach at Brown, you can imagine how happy I was about Tom Trudeau’s ‘09 discussion of his “excitement” toward the sport of ten-nis (“The most egregious mistakes by sports execs in 2006,” Jan. 31).

I would like Trudeau to experience the world of Brown tennis. It is a world dripping of blue-collar work ethic and old school traditions (we in fact often prac-tice as a team in plain white t-shirts that were actually bought at Wal-Mart this past fall). And it is a world that consists of fi nely tuned athletes who take tremendous pride in the national success that they accomplish.

I would like to invite Trudeau to a tennis match

— possibly Saturday night, Feb. 10 at 6:30 p.m. — and he will see that no one will be popping his collar or eating Grey Poupon. But before he comes to this ten-nis match, Trudeau needs to come and experience the “behind the scenes” work. I would like him to come and experience practice — fi rsthand. I think Trudeau would really enjoy taking part in about an hour of prac-tice. He just might gain a different perspective of why tennis still exists as a sport.

Jay HarrisHead Coach, Men’s Tennis

Jan. 31

Trudeau ’09 misunderstands Brown tennisTo the Editor:

Super Bowl blues

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALDMONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2007 PAGE 11

In his opinion column, “Democrats, Repub-licans and the Jews” (Feb. 1), Benjamin Bright ‘07 posits that Jews ought to fl ock to the Republican side of the aisle in order to ensure unconditional American support for the State of Israel. The Democrats, he claims, are becoming more and more anti-Semitic and are undeserving of the tradi-tional Jewish allegiance.

In fact, liberal support for the Pales-tinian cause is more a function of identifi -cation with and support for the perceived underdog than of any sort of inherent anti-Semitism. Indeed, as Bright points out, at Israel’s creation in 1948, Democrats “em-phasized the spiritual bonds that linked the interests of Israel and the United States,” while the Republicans “were cooler … see-ing Israel as a weak state and a liability dur-ing the Cold War.” Israel’s position in the world has changed greatly since its incep-tion, and its position in world opinion has changed even more radically. Whatever the reality — and I am not even going to touch the Israel-Palestinian confl ict in this column — the State of Israel has in public percep-tion transitioned from a beleaguered haven for an unfathomably persecuted people, to an “oppressor.” Waning Democratic sup-port merely refl ects this.

Bright cites low Democratic levels of

support for this summer’s Israel-Hezbol-lah war as evidence of an anti-Semitic bent. Supporting Israel can — and should — oc-cur independently of blind approval of ev-ery action and policy. It is indeed anti-Se-mitic to deny the Jews a sovereign state, to reject Israel’s right to exist, to hold it to a standard far above and beyond any other country and to single it out alone among the nations of the world for criticism. How-ever, by the same token it is absurd and even damaging to Jews to place Israel on a pedestal, untouchable. Reasoned criticism and informed discourse are perfectly ac-ceptable. Indeed, many opinions which in this country are immediately condemned

by overzealous defenders of Israel are an established part of the political dialogue in Israel.

In contrast to the Democrats, says Bright, “Spurred on by the rise of the Chris-tian right and its 70 million evangelicals, the Republican party has never been more wel-coming to the Jews nor supportive of Is-rael.” It is perhaps worthy of note that for many evangelical Christians, support of Is-rael is largely founded in Biblical prophesy:

a Jewish reign in the Biblical land of Israel is an essential prerequisite for the second coming of Christ and the ensuing battle of Armageddon. In this battle, incidentally, all the Jews will either abandon their religion or die (and writhe in hellfi re for eternity). Forgive me if perhaps I am a bit wary of such support. If I may be permitted a juve-nile retort: Who’s being anti-Semitic now?

Bright continues, “Indeed, many Chris-tian Republicans are more Zionist than their counterparts in the American Jewish com-munity.” I beg to differ. Zionism involves more than blind political support. It entails belief in the State of Israel as a democrat-ic, Jewish nation-state and a profound and

heartfelt concern for its character, its global reputation and the welfare of its citizens. As a liberal American Jew, I do not feel obligat-ed to unquestioningly support every policy Israel makes. But when I open the newspa-per, I turn to the Middle East pages fi rst — because I, presumably unlike most evangel-ical Christian Republicans, actually care.

Finally, an extremely salient point that Bright failed to point out: Jews have histor-ically voted Democrat, not because of the

left’s position on Israel, but because Jewish values have largely coincided with liberal values. Of course, it is ridiculous to make sweeping generalizations about any group, particularly the Jews; as the old joke has it, “Two Jews, three opinions.” But through the years, Jews have politically been over-whelmingly concerned for the needy and proponents of progressivism, education and individual rights. Decades before the existence of the modern state of Israel, Jews were associated with the leftist intel-ligentsia. Even in the 2004 elections, slight-ly less than a quarter of Jewish voters cast their votes for Bush, according to the Na-tional Election Pool exit poll, as well as exit polls performed by CNN and the Associ-ated Press. Israel is not the only consider-ation in Jewish politics.

Does it make me uncomfortable that some of the people marching alongside me in an anti-war protest or a pro-choice rally are shouting, “end the occupation of Palestine?” Distinctly so. Do knee-jerk de-nouncers of Israel on campus, who are all indignant bluster and no fact, who claim that Israel built an “apartheid wall” for the express purpose of humiliating the Pales-tinians, piss me off? Exceedingly. But not enough to make me jump into bed with the Republicans. Israel is an integral part of my Jewish identity, but it is not the sole com-ponent. As an American and as a Jew, I feel honor-bound not to be a one-issue voter.

Karla Bertrand ’09 thinks it’s a shanda for Jews to vote Republican.

Policy towards Israel shouldn’t determine Jewish vote

It is absurd and even damaging to

Jews to place Israel on a pedestal,

untouchable.

BY KARLA BERTRANDGUEST COLUMNISTGUEST COLUMNISTGUEST

“Warming of the climate system is now un-equivocal, as is now evident from observa-tions of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level.”

“The earth will probably sink and drown, but at least it will be the result of general-ly acknowledged political and economic ideas, at least it will be accomplished with the help of science, industry and public opinion, with the application of all human ingenuity. No cosmic catastrophe, noth-ing but state, offi cial, economic and other causes. Nothing can be done to prevent it.”

The fi rst quotation is from the report is-sued on Friday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found that unless we curb greenhouse emissions, the average temperature of the earth may rise by as much as 6.4 degrees Celsius in the next century.

The second passage, pessimistically modern as it sounds, appeared over 70 years ago in the fi nal chapter of Karel Ca-pek’s novel “War with the Newts.” Capek, a Czech philosopher, playwright and novel-ist, had no notion of global warming when he wrote the book. It would take scientists decades to notice the buildup of carbon di-oxide in the atmosphere and still longer to

come to the right conclusion about its ef-fects.

Capek was writing social satire, and his vision of a massive rise in the world’s oceans can hardly be called a prediction, or even a lucky guess. What really is pre-scient, however, is Capek’s account of how humanity allows itself to reach the point at which nothing can be done.

“War with the Newts” begins with the discovery of a race of giant, intelligent, friendly newts living in the South Pacifi c. The Newts soon learn to speak, and they can be taught to do nearly anything, but

they have very little imagination or inde-pendent thought. The result is that a mas-sive slave trade in Newts springs up, along with abolitionist groups, schools for the education of Newts and pro- and anti-Newt political societies. A lengthy newspaper de-bate takes place over the question of wheth-er Newts have souls, with all the celebrities of the day weighing in.

Over the years, humanity becomes in-creasingly dependent on Newt labor, so

that when the inevitable Newt rebellion takes place, people are slow to respond. Coastal countries have used the Newts for construction and to defend their borders, with the result that the Newts are heavily armed with explosives.

The Newts begin to bomb levees and fl ood coastal cities — starting, oddly enough, with New Orleans. Yet they are still so necessary to the world’s economy that no government wants to be the fi rst to stop using them. By the time they an-nounce their plan to drown the coasts of all the continents and make the entire world

habitable for Newts, there is no longer any way to stop them.

In the book’s fi nal chapter, “The Author Talks to Himself,” Capek the bleak vision-ary and Capek the compassionate humanist appear as separate characters, engaged in a kind of tug-of-war for the fate of the human race. “I did what I could,” the fi rst Capek in-sists. “I warned them in time ... they all had a thousand absolutely sound economic and political reasons why it’s impossible.”

It is the second Capek who wins, argu-ing that if humanity can destroy itself there is nothing to stop the Newts from doing the same. Yet there is also something prescient about the means he chooses for their de-struction — a massive cultural war be-tween the technologically advanced West-ern Newts and the ancient, religious Newt civilizations of the East. Their weapons include artifi cially created diseases, with which the entire Newt population eventu-ally wipes itself out.

We are now at a moment when most of Capek’s visions are beginning to seem like accurate predictions. A cultural war of East against West, the widespread use of bio-logical weapons, rising sea levels, coastal fl ooding — all of these have already begun to happen. What is not yet true, at least as regards climate change, is that “nothing can be done to prevent it.”

Like the people of Capek’s novel, we have been warned in time, and while we may have a 1000 sound reasons not to curb our use of fossil fuels, none of them will seem very sound 50 or a 100 years from now. It is clear from the IPCC report that while some of the damage we have done is irreversible, it is not too late to slow the process of cli-mate change. If we do not — if our govern-ment chooses to ignore the warning signs — there will be no compassionate Czech hu-manist to rewrite our story.

Katy Crane ’07 is a compassionate American humanist.

The war against newts

What really is prescient, however,

is Capek’s account of how humanity

allows itself to reach the point at

which nothing can be done.

KATY CRANEOPINIONS COLUMNIST

I recall thinking last week that it was a perfectly legitimate idea to devote extra coverage to Univer-sity of Pennsylvania men’s basket-

ball coach Glen Miller’s return to Brown. Con-sidering the success he had on College Hill and the strange c i r c u m s t a n c -es surround-ing his depar-ture for Penn,

it made for a compelling sports soap opera. What kind of emo-tions would Brown play with? How would the fans react the fi rst time the P.A. announcer called out Mill-er’s name?

The answer to all such prognos-tications was the same: It didn’t matter. By the end of the fi rst half, Penn had a 15-point advantage and never let it slip under double dig-its after that, taking any drama and suspense out of the game. There were no opportunities for the Brown boo birds to get going and no opportunities for those Brown players that Miller recruited to ex-act any measure of revenge.

SPORTS MONDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALDMONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2007 PAGE 12

Miller’s return to Pitz anti-climatic

The weekend was tremendous success for the men’s hockey team. The Bears tied Princeton 1-1 on Friday then beat Quinnipiac University 6-3 on Saturday.

Goaltender Dan Rosen ’10 was integral to the Bears’ 1-1 tie against the Tigers, making 46 saves in the game. The following night, an extraordinary team ef-fort in the third period lifted the team over the No. 18 Bobcats for a 6-3 win. Brown is now 9-9-5 overall, and 5-8-3 in ECACHL fol-lowing the two league matches.

“It was a pretty big weekend for us,” said forward Chris Poli ’08. “Obviously, we prefer to come away with four points, but we’ll take three at home any time — especially after last weekend which didn’t go so well. We were able to rebound and that’s some-times hard for a team to do.”

On Friday night, the Bears came out slowly and were out-shot 10-6 during the fi rst period. Rosen’s solid performance in net, however, turned aside all Prince-ton shots and held the game at 0-0.

Just 28 seconds into the peri-od, Brown’s offense fi nally broke

through. Antonin Roux ’07 fi red the initial shot on the Tigers’ goalie who made the save. The rebound kicked out to Aaron Vol-patti ’10 waiting in the slot. Vol-patti knocked the puck into the lower left corner of the net for a 1-0 Brown lead.

After grabbing the lead, Brown’s intensity seemed to wane. Brown was out-shot 17-5 during the rest of the second pe-riod. Though Rosen was able to stop the majority of pucks fi red his way, he let a shot slip past him at 15:13 of the second peri-od, evening the score at 1-1.

Despite facing a barrage of shots during the third period, Rosen and the rest of the defense held fi rm, sending the teams to an overtime session that end-ed scoreless as well. Rosen’s 46 saves in the contest were one shy of his career-high.

“Even though we tied against a pretty good team, we could have played better,” forward Sean Muncy ’09 said. “We need-ed to take care of the puck more. There were too many turnovers, mostly at our blue line. We have a solid (defense), though. And Dan Rosen is great in net, so that

Third period explosion keys m. hockey to a 6-3 win over No. 18 QuinnipiacSPORTS STAFF WRITER

The trend of sub-par shooting and poor play at the opening of games continued to plauge the women’s basketball team over the weekend. The Bears kept the game close against an improved University of Pennsylvania team, but three-point shooting by the Quakers fueled their 66-57 vic-tory on Friday night. The next night, Princeton’s 18-4 run at the beginning of the game was too much for Brown to overcome, and the Bears fell 69-51 to fi nish with a 3-17 record overall and 1-5 in Ivy play.

Bruno played Penn even un-til midway through the fi rst half. However, Penn’s defense stiff-ened late in the fi rst half, which allowed the Quakers to widen the gap and create breathing room between themselves and the Bears.

After Annesley O’Neal ’08 made a layup to cut the Penn lead to two, 20-18, the Quakers went on a 9-0 run to push their lead to 11. With 2:24 remaining in the fi rst half, Lindsay Walls ’10 made a short jumper to reduce the defi -cit to single digits, at 29-20. But a three-pointer by Penn’s Kelly Scott gave the Quakers a com-fortable 32-20 lead at the break.

Penn continued to keep the Bears at arm’s length through-out the second half. Whenever Brown created some momen-tum, Penn would run its offense and answer with a three-pointer.

“We played a match-up de-fense, and we weren’t able to get out on their shooters,” said co-captain Lena McAfee ’07. “They are one of the best three-point shooting teams in the league, and they moved the ball really well around our defense.”

Brown cut the defi cit to nine midway through the second half after a Walls put-back, but Penn’s Monica Naltner answered with a three-pointer that pushed the lead back to 12.

Though Penn was hitting from the outside, the Bears refused to quit. With the score 54-37 with 7:17 to go, Bruno mustered all of its energy and went on a three-minute, 10-0 spurt to cut the lead to seven.

However, Penn answered. Kelly Scott nailed a trey to put Penn back up 13, halting Brown’s momentum just as she had done at the end of the fi rst half.

“Even though we were down, we didn’t quit,” McAfee said. “We were aggressive offensively, and our point guards did a good job of getting us the ball in good po-sitions to score.”

McAfee and Ashley King-Bischof ’07 led the Bears with 14 points each. Brown had a tough time stopping the duo of Naltner and Joey Rhoades, who fi nished the game with 21 and 23 points, respectively.

Saturday night refl ected the Bears’ season to date. Princeton jumped out to an 18-4 lead over

W. hoops handed two more losses on road tripBY JUSTIN GOLDMANSPORTS EDITOR

BY ELIZA LANE

Chris MahrMahrtian Encounters

Jacob Melrose / HeraldRyan Garbutt ’09 scored three goals to lead the Bears to a 6-3 win over the Quinnipiac University on Saturday. His last goal in the hat-trick was part of a four-goal third period outburst that iced the Bears’ victory.

FRIDAY,DAY,DAY FEB. 2

M. BASKETBALL: Pennsylvania 77, Brown 61W.W.W BASKETBALL: Pennsylvania 66, Brown 57M. HOCKEY: Brown 1, Princeton 1 (OT)W. HOCKEY: Princeton 4, Brown 1SKIING: 4th of 10 teams in Slalom, Brown CarnivalM. SQUASHM. SQUASHM. : Williams 8, Brown 1W. SQUASH: Williams 5, Brown 4WRESTLING: No. 14 Pennsylvania 33, Brown 4; Drexel 22, Brown 14

SATURDAY,ATURDAY,ATURDAY FEB. 3

M. BASKETBALL: Brown 63, Princeton 48W.W.W BASKETBALL: Princeton 69, Brown 51GYMNASTICS: 1st of 3 teams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tri-MeetM. HOCKEY: Brown 6, Quinnipiac 3.

W. W. W HOCKEY: Quinnipiac 7, Brown 5SKIING: 2nd of 10 teams in Giant Slalom, MIT CarnivalEQUESTRIAN: at Trinity and Central ConnecticutM. SWIMMING: Columbia 175, Brown 125W. SWIMMING: Columbia 190, Brown 110WRESTLING: Brown 47, Princeton 0

SUNDAY,DAY,DAY FEB. 4

FENCING: at MIT InvitationalGYMNASTICS: 2nd of 3 teams, Rhode Island College Tri-MeetM. SQUASHM. SQUASHM. : DartmouthW. SQUASH: DartmouthW. TENNIS: vs. Boston College, Varsity Tennis Courts, 10 a.m.

S P O R T S S C O R E B O A R D

With seven minutes remaining in the fi rst half of Saturday’s game against Princeton, the men’s bas-ketball team’s season seemed to hit rock bottom. After being swept by Harvard and Dartmouth last week-end and losing to the University of Pennsylvania 77-61 on Friday, Brown faced a 21-14 defi cit thanks to an early barrage of three-point-ers from the Tigers.

But the Bears went on a 16-2 run, spanning the end of the fi rst and beginning of the second halves to pull out a 63-48 victory. The weekend split improved the Bears’ record to 2-4 in the Ivy League and 7-14 overall.

In Saturday’s game at the Pizzito-la Center, Princeton came out with the hot hand. Of the Tigers’ fi rst 21 points, 18 came on three-pointers from fi ve different players. After a layup extended Princeton’s lead to 23-18, the Bears buckled down. Brown held its opponent without a fi eld goal from 1:49 left in the fi rst half to 13:15 of the second.

“That run was about guys mak-ing adjustments and defending,” said Head Coach Craig Robinson. “We were hoping they wouldn’t start out shooting threes again, so we wanted to make sure we were right on them.”

Brown’s defense ignited its of-fense. The Bears’ pressure de-fense led to several easy layups and helped build a 30-23 lead in the pro-cess.

“We forced them into some real-ly bad shots, and that was huge for

M. hoops rebounds from Penn loss by drubbing PrincetonBY PETER CIPPARONESPORTS EDITOR

Jacob Melrose / HeraldMark McAndrew ’08 scored a game-high 19 points in Brown’s 63-48 win over Princeton. On Saturday McAndrew is sixth in the Ivy League in scoring and tenth in the conference in rebounding.



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