www.browndailyherald.com 195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island [email protected]News..... 1-4 Metro........5-6 Sports...7-9 Editorial..10 Opinion...11 Today ........12 CRIMSON CRUMBLE Streaking baseball team takes 6 of 7 from opponents in torrid stretch Sports, 7 SHARK ATTACK Shark Sushi Bar and Grill will open in three weeks, according to its owner Metro, 5 THE BLUE BOOK Tory Hartmann ’11 says those handwritten tests are actually the best Opinions, 11 INSIDE D aily Herald THE BROWN vol. cxliv, no. 55 | Tuesday, April 21, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891 Pre-frosh flock to campus for ADOCH BY SARAH HUSK SENIOR STAFF WRITER At 5:30 p.m. on March 31 — a mere 30 minutes after thousands of stu- dents received their admission de- cisions — 15 students had already registered to confirm a place at A Day on College Hill. Beginning this afternoon, those students and hundreds more will flood campus as Brown plays host to this year’s crop of accepted stu- dents. Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73 said there are about 750 stu- dents registered for ADOCH and the Third World Welcome — a number he said was on par with attendance in recent years. According to Christiana Ste- phenson ’11, ADOCH co-coordi- nator and a Herald sales manager, the experience accepted students have at ADOCH is crucial. “There’s a lot riding on this for a lot of people,” she said, calling her own experience at ADOCH Artists’ dressing room robbed during show BY SYDNEY EMBER SENIOR STAFF WRITER An unidentified suspect broke into the Faunce House dressing room of one of the Spring Weekend art- ists during Friday’s concert and stole two laptops and some cash, according to Brown Concert Agen- cy Administrative Chair Stephen Hazeltine ’09 and the Department of Public Safety. The theft occurred while Sha- ron Jones and the Dap-Kings were performing, but Hazeltine declined to say if the retro-soul group was the victim of the lar- ceny. “It’s an ongoing investigation. We don’t want to step on anybody’s toes,” Hazeltine said, adding that BCA wanted to keep the identity of the artist confidential. In an e-mail to The Herald, Chief of Police and Director of Public Safety Mark Porter wrote that the suspect stole “several personal items,” including the computers and an indeterminate amount of cash. DPS was notified of the inci- dent at about 10 p.m. on Friday, Porter said in an interview Mon- day. DPS detectives are currently investigating the incident, and are trying to ascertain the total worth of the stolen items, Porter said. “We were very upset by the incident,” Hazeltine added in an e-mail, “and immediately worked with our security partners to re- vise the security plan for Satur- day’s shows, which were incident- free.” No suspects have been identi- fied yet, though Porter said the investigation has yielded signifi- cant clues. “We do have a couple of leads, including a description of the sus- pect and possible video evidence of the crime,” Porter said. Hazeltine said a pass was nec- essary to gain backstage access during the concerts — a policy he said BCA clarified before Sat- urday’s concert to remove any confusion regarding who could enter the restricted area. “We had a very in-depth secu- rity plan for this year,” Hazeltine said, adding that Green Horn Management, a private company that manages many of Brown’s events, and DPS handled the situ- ation well. They “did everything right, and we have no complaints about them,” he said. Both Hazeltine and Daniel Ain ’09, BCA’s booking chair, said they will re-evaluate the security plan for next year’s Spring Weekend. BCA has been in touch with all the artists who performed during the Spring Weekend concerts to assure them that appropriate mea- sures are being taken to identify the suspect and close the case, Hazeltine said. Interfaith House falls short in numbers BY SARAH HUSK SENIOR STAFF WRITER After a poor recruitment season, Interfaith House will lose its Type B status as a program house be- ginning in the fall due to a lack of residential members planning to live in the organization’s space in Diman House. Type B status carries with it exclusive access to the desig- nated facilities in the building of residence, and can only be at- tained by an organization that has existed on campus for three years and has adequately fulfilled all of the program housing ex- pectations. Each of the two status types for program houses, Type A and Type B, carries “varying degrees of privilege and responsibility,” according to Residential Coun- cil’s Web site. The 22-member requirement stipulated by ResCouncil and the Office of Residential Life techni- cally applies to program houses of either classification, but, ac- cording to ResCouncil’s Web site, houses with “an exceptional record of positive contributions may deserve flexibility in the ap- plication of these regulations.” Interfaith House, which Presi- dent Monikah Schuschu ’10 de- scribed as a “safe space where people can talk about religion,” has always “been on the small side,” she said. During Interfaith House’s six years as a program house, Schuschu added, membership was always near the 22 required residential members. But this year, she said, “re- cruitment didn’t go well” and by Shower assault thought to be unrelated to March incident BY SYDNEY EMBER SENIOR STAFF WRITER The assault that occurred Friday evening around 6:30 p.m. in a Sears House shower is “not related” to a similar March 12 incident also involving a female student shower- ing, Chief of Police and Director of Public Safety Mark Porter said Monday. According to an e-mail sent to students Friday night by the De- partment of Public Safety, a female student was assaulted by an uniden- tified male holding a knife. The suspect pushed the woman before fleeing the scene, according to the e-mail. The incident in March involved a female student who was photo- graphed by an unidentified man while she showered in a Diman House bathroom. The sorority Kappa Alpha Theta is located in Diman, while Sears House is home to Alpha Chi Omega, Brown’s other sorority. “There is no indication, at this point, that this incident is related to any previous incident on campus,” Porter added in an e-mail. The female student in Friday’s incident was unharmed, Porter said, though the suspect remains at large. “DPS and (Providence Police Department) detectives are fol- lowing up on this incident,” Por- ter wrote. “The investigation is ongoing.” Porter said the victim was able to give the police a detailed description of the suspect, which was included in the campus-wide e-mail. Alex DePaoli / Herald Interfaith House failed to recruit enough people to live in Diman. Hiring freeze may hit athletics hard BY DAN ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER The Department of Athletics expects to lose about 30 coaches and staff this summer, but with a University-wide hiring freeze in place, it is unclear whether the department will be able to get approval to fill vacancies with new hires, Director of Athletics Mi- chael Goldberger said. If the tight hiring standards that have been in place since November last through the summer, the depart- ment may be without a number of as- sistant coaches next year — many of whom are expected to move to other schools, as routinely occurs. While the freeze is in place, any proposed new hires must be submit- ted to a Vacancy Review Committee of top administrators. Departments must submit a form to their umbrella division within the University and explain why filling an empty post is absolutely essential. If the form is approved by the division, the re- view committee can do one of three things — refill the position, bring a temporary worker into the slot or eliminate the position altogether. But in a time when budgets are pressed from all sides, athletic initia- tives may suffer more than academic ones. Academics are “going to be the absolute core priority,” said Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services. “So first, you’ve got that.” The hiring form states at the top, in bold and italicized font, “Only those positions deemed essential to support the highest priorities in the Plan for Academic Enrichment and mission-critical operations are likely to be approved.” continued on page 2 continued on page 2 continued on page 2 Jesse Morgan / Herald The Department of Athetics is worried about being allowed to make new hires to fill about 30 vacancies it expects to arise this summer.
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vol. cxliv, no. 55 | Tuesday, April 21, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891
Pre-frosh flock to campus for ADoChby sArAH HusK
Senior Staff Writer
At 5:30 p.m. on March 31 — a mere 30 minutes after thousands of stu-dents received their admission de-cisions — 15 students had already registered to confirm a place at A Day on College Hill.
Beginning this afternoon, those
students and hundreds more will flood campus as Brown plays host to this year’s crop of accepted stu-dents.
Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73 said there are about 750 stu-dents registered for ADOCH and the Third World Welcome — a number he said was on par with attendance in recent years.
According to Christiana Ste-phenson ’11, ADOCH co-coordi-nator and a Herald sales manager, the experience accepted students have at ADOCH is crucial.
“There’s a lot riding on this for a lot of people,” she said, calling her own experience at ADOCH
Artists’ dressing room robbed during showby sydney ember
Senior Staff Writer
An unidentified suspect broke into the Faunce House dressing room of one of the Spring Weekend art-ists during Friday’s concert and stole two laptops and some cash, according to Brown Concert Agen-cy Administrative Chair Stephen Hazeltine ’09 and the Department of Public Safety.
The theft occurred while Sha-ron Jones and the Dap-Kings were performing, but Hazeltine declined to say if the retro-soul group was the victim of the lar-ceny.
“It’s an ongoing investigation. We don’t want to step on anybody’s toes,” Hazeltine said, adding that BCA wanted to keep the identity of the artist confidential.
In an e-mail to The Herald, Chief of Police and Director of Public Safety Mark Porter wrote that the suspect stole “several personal items,” including the computers and an indeterminate amount of cash.
DPS was notified of the inci-dent at about 10 p.m. on Friday, Porter said in an interview Mon-day. DPS detectives are currently investigating the incident, and are trying to ascertain the total worth of the stolen items, Porter said.
“We were very upset by the incident,” Hazeltine added in an e-mail, “and immediately worked
with our security partners to re-vise the security plan for Satur-day’s shows, which were incident-free.”
No suspects have been identi-fied yet, though Porter said the investigation has yielded signifi-cant clues.
“We do have a couple of leads, including a description of the sus-pect and possible video evidence of the crime,” Porter said.
Hazeltine said a pass was nec-essary to gain backstage access during the concerts — a policy he said BCA clarified before Sat-urday’s concert to remove any confusion regarding who could enter the restricted area.
“We had a very in-depth secu-rity plan for this year,” Hazeltine said, adding that Green Horn Management, a private company that manages many of Brown’s events, and DPS handled the situ-ation well.
They “did everything right, and we have no complaints about them,” he said.
Both Hazeltine and Daniel Ain ’09, BCA’s booking chair, said they will re-evaluate the security plan for next year’s Spring Weekend.
BCA has been in touch with all the artists who performed during the Spring Weekend concerts to assure them that appropriate mea-sures are being taken to identify the suspect and close the case, Hazeltine said.
Interfaith house falls short in numbersby sArAH HusK
Senior Staf f Writer
After a poor recruitment season, Interfaith House will lose its Type B status as a program house be-ginning in the fall due to a lack of residential members planning to live in the organization’s space in Diman House.
Type B status carries with it exclusive access to the desig-nated facilities in the building of residence, and can only be at-tained by an organization that has existed on campus for three years and has adequately fulfilled all of the program housing ex-pectations.
Each of the two status types for program houses, Type A and Type B, carries “varying degrees of privilege and responsibility,” according to Residential Coun-cil’s Web site.
The 22-member requirement stipulated by ResCouncil and the Office of Residential Life techni-cally applies to program houses of either classification, but, ac-cording to ResCouncil’s Web site, houses with “an exceptional record of positive contributions may deserve flexibility in the ap-plication of these regulations.”
Interfaith House, which Presi-dent Monikah Schuschu ’10 de-scribed as a “safe space where people can talk about religion,” has always “been on the small side,” she said.
During Inter faith House’s six years as a program house, Schuschu added, membership was always near the 22 required residential members.
But this year, she said, “re-cruitment didn’t go well” and by
Shower assault thought to be unrelated to March incident by sydney ember
Senior Staff Writer
The assault that occurred Friday evening around 6:30 p.m. in a Sears House shower is “not related” to a similar March 12 incident also involving a female student shower-ing, Chief of Police and Director of Public Safety Mark Porter said Monday.
According to an e-mail sent to students Friday night by the De-partment of Public Safety, a female student was assaulted by an uniden-tified male holding a knife.
The suspect pushed the woman before fleeing the scene, according to the e-mail.
The incident in March involved a female student who was photo-graphed by an unidentified man while she showered in a Diman
House bathroom. The sorority Kappa Alpha Theta is located in Diman, while Sears House is home to Alpha Chi Omega, Brown’s other sorority.
“There is no indication, at this point, that this incident is related to any previous incident on campus,” Porter added in an e-mail.
The female student in Friday’s incident was unharmed, Porter said, though the suspect remains at large.
“DPS and (Providence Police Department) detectives are fol-lowing up on this incident,” Por-ter wrote. “The investigation is ongoing.”
Por ter said the victim was able to give the police a detailed description of the suspect, which was included in the campus-wide e-mail.
Alex DePaoli / HeraldInterfaith House failed to recruit enough people to live in Diman.
hiring freeze may hit athletics hard by dAn AlexAnder
Staff Writer
The Department of Athletics expects to lose about 30 coaches and staff this summer, but with a University-wide hiring freeze in place, it is unclear whether the department will be able to get approval to fill vacancies with new hires, Director of Athletics Mi-chael Goldberger said.
If the tight hiring standards that have been in place since November last through the summer, the depart-ment may be without a number of as-sistant coaches next year — many of whom are expected to move to other schools, as routinely occurs.
While the freeze is in place, any proposed new hires must be submit-ted to a Vacancy Review Committee of top administrators. Departments must submit a form to their umbrella division within the University and explain why filling an empty post is absolutely essential. If the form is approved by the division, the re-view committee can do one of three things — refill the position, bring a
temporary worker into the slot or eliminate the position altogether.
But in a time when budgets are pressed from all sides, athletic initia-tives may suffer more than academic ones.
Academics are “going to be the absolute core priority,” said Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services. “So first,
you’ve got that.”The hiring form states at the top,
in bold and italicized font, “Only those positions deemed essential to support the highest priorities in the Plan for Academic Enrichment and mission-critical operations are likely to be approved.”
continued on page 2
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continued on page 2
Jesse Morgan / HeraldThe Department of Athetics is worried about being allowed to make new hires to fill about 30 vacancies it expects to arise this summer.
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Jonathan Spector, TreasurerAlexander Hughes, Secretary
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CAMPuS newS “Hopefully we don’t get beyond that.”— Director of Athletics Michael Goldberger, on planned budget cutbacks
“incredibly formative.”“I remember what it was like
trying to make a decision about the future,” she said. “And it’s a hard decision.”
The program offers oppor-tunities for accepted students to socialize with one another, experience dorm life first-hand by staying overnight with a cur-rent student and get a taste of the academic and extracurricular of-ferings at Brown through panels, lectures and chances to sit in on courses.
Stephenson, who is coordinat-ing ADOCH with Salsabil Ahmed ’11, also emphasized the impor-tance of the widespread involve-ment of current students, which she said was “really indicative that ADOCH is a campus-wide effort.”
“Brown speaks for itself,” Stephenson said. “We just step back and … watch the Brown community that we love speak for itself.”
For the second year in a row, students who were admitted un-der early decision have not been invited to ADOCH.
In the past, Miller said, there had been complaints that ac-cepted students found ADOCH to be “very overcrowded” and that inviting early decision students “overwhelms our facilities.”
Stephenson also said the Bru-in Club has been hosting tours exclusively for admitted students, including students admitted un-der the early decision program.
These tours dif fer from the standard campus tours and give students a more in-depth look at certain aspects of the University, such as first-year dorms.
While this year’s ADOCH will remain the same in most aspects, some changes have been made, both in terms of the budget and in some of the activities and events offered.
According to Miller, the Uni-versity usually spends about $80,000 on ADOCH, but this year has trimmed the budget down to around $70,000, mostly by cutting costs on food.
One new addition to this year’s ADOCH is a meet-and-greet bar-beque on the Main Green that is scheduled for Tuesday evening, which Stephenson said she hopes will be “a good opportunity” for accepted students to interact with one another and other members of the Brown community.
And while Stephenson said there would be no more empha-sis than usual on financial aid this year, another addition to the ADOCH lineup is 12 to 14 parents of current Brown students who will be present during the parent information session.
These parents, Stephenson said, have “been there, fronted the bill” and will be able to speak to the value of a Brown educa-tion.
Stephenson said there are many programs — from a cap-pella arch sings to a talent show
Super Deadline Day the organiza-tion had confirmation that member-ship was drastically smaller than it had been in the past. According to Schuschu, there will only be eight or nine students living in Interfaith House next year, which will drop the house to Type A status.
Because of the status down-grade, Interfaith will lose exclu-sive access to its kitchen, lounge and library beginning in the fall. It will retain preferred access to these spaces, Associate Director of Residential Life Natalie Basil wrote in an e-mail to The Herald, which means it will be allowed to reserve a space for any event the house sponsors. But other students living independently in Diman will now have access to what was for-
merly Interfaith House’s kitchen, as well as the existing kitchen for independents.
The decreased membership has also translated into more available rooms for independents in Diman. According to Basil, ResLife was able to offer 10 extra rooms in the building in the housing lottery, increasing the number of indepen-dents living in Diman relative to members of Interfaith House and sorority Kappa Alpha Theta, also housed in the building.
Schuschu said the loss of these spaces is “definitely going to hurt us,” adding that members of the house generally do a lot of cooking and that the library has tradition-ally served as a study space. Both the kitchen and the study area help build the community of Interfaith House, she said.
Schuschu added that members of Interfaith House had spoken with ResLife about retaining their exclusive access to the kitchen, but were denied.
But despite Interfaith’s reduced membership, its mission to pro-mote religious thought and dia-logue among members and within the Brown community and its overall contribution to the campus will remain relatively unchanged, Schuschu said.
“Our main focus on discussion activities … will be there,” she said, adding that, for the most part, In-terfaith will continue to hold regu-lar events.
Despite the setbacks of the sta-tus downgrade, Schuschu said of the decision, “it’s not fun, but it’s reasonable.”
“They’re doing what they can to help us,” she said, adding that ResLife will be monitoring In-terfaith closely over the next se-mesters to help the organization increase recruitment and regain Type B status.
According to Basil, ResCouncil and ResLife will team up to “assist Interfaith House in a recruitment plan,” which will mean “meeting with house leadership, setting goals and assisting with visibility of house events,” as well as serving as a support system for the members and leadership of the house.
“We are confident that Inter-faith House will increase its mem-bership in subsequent years and will move back to Type B status,” Basil wrote.
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Interfaith fails to recruit big, loses status
Goldberger said the departures of assistant coaches and others in athletics was not unusual in itself.
“The nature of coaching is that people try to move up,” he said. “A second assistant wants to be the first assistant, and the first assistant wants to be the head coach.”
“It’s just natural that people are going to be looking for those oppor-tunities at other places,” he added.
The hiring pause may not directly affect all Brown teams — just those that lose coaches. Goldberger said that fact could create unfortunate discrepancies between athletes on different teams.
“I don’t think it’s fair to our stu-dent-athletes to say that you’re going to have one type of experience and another group of student-athletes will have a very different type based on the vagaries of who decides to pur-sue another job,” he said. “It’s got to be a more thoughtful approach.”
Nothing is certain yet. The athletics department does not yet know which coaches will leave, or exactly how many. The campus life division does not know how many positions from its 13 departments will be vacant.
When assistant men’s soccer coach Ken Murphy took a position at another school, the athletics depart-ment submitted the form requesting
the ability to refill the position. The request is currently pending in the Vacancy Review Committee.
“If we’re told we can’t fill it, then we’re really going to be in trouble,” Goldberger said.
The review committee does not know which vacancies it will approve, or how many.
“This is not something that any of us have been through at Brown before,” said MaryLou McMillan ’85, senior director for projects and planning. “We just have to see what develops.”
“I can say I’m very optimistic about how we’re going to think about pure coaching positions,” said review committee member Karen Davis, vice president for human resources. “But I think it would do a disservice to the committee process if I said more than that.”
No head coaches have yet an-nounced that they plan to leave Brown, Golberger said. But with 37 teams, “it’s sure it happen,” he added.
According to McMillan and Klawunn, the only sure thing is that not all positions will be filled, and that others will have to pick up the slack.
“It’s not going to be without pain,” Klawunn said.
The athletics department has already begun taking some steps toward reducing its budget. Gold-
berger decided to eliminate the costly All Sports Banquet — which hosted all varsity athletes — and host a less expensive Senior Celebration and Awards Banquet instead. The de-partment also eliminated a position of assistant director for operations, who was responsible for managing events.
“Our job is to obviously take care of all of the inefficiencies that we should be doing better anyway,” Goldberger said. “Then the next would be, all right, what can we do that’s not going to hurt the core mission, but still keep what we’re doing.”
“Hopefully we don’t get beyond that,” he said.
According to Goldberger, the department has not had to fire any coaches or ask them to accept sal-ary reductions. But he said he did not know what steps the department might have to take in the future.
The budget for next year is al-ready in place, but expenses are constantly rising. According to Gold-berger, the athletic department had over $100,000 of unanticipated fuel costs this year. Goldberger said the budget for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1, looks similar to this year’s, but the department will face more uncertainty in the fiscal years 2011 through 2014.
“It’s hard,” he said. “But we’re surviving.”
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“September can’t come fast enough.”— Kshitij lauria, prospective student
Charging a membership fee of $5 for the year, a bike-sharing program operating out of a room in Faunce House was officially launched last week.
Members can use seven brand new bikes, purchased with funding from the Brown Outing Club, according to Carly Sieff ’09, who is in charge of the program called Bikes@Brown.
Though the seven bikes are “not enough for the whole Brown community,” Sieff said, they are good for the purpose of “making bikes accessible to students.” She added that the group is hoping to increase the number of bikes by getting bikes donated by students who are leaving campus for the summer.
Though the program started with less than a month remaining in the semester, it will continue to operate through the summer. A free, student-run bike maintenance service will also be available soon, Sieff said.
Bikes@Brown is currently working out of the old undergraduate Finance Board room in lower Faunce. The program’s members — a few less than a dozen in all — take turns staffing the office on weekdays from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. and from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., when students can come purchase membership or rent bikes.
Renters are asked to return bikes after two days, but the program is flexible about granting requests for longer rentals, Sieff said.
The program has been receiving e-mails from students every day asking questions or expressing interest, Sieff said.
“People seem happy that it’s starting,” she added.The group has chosen a purple-and-gold color scheme to
decorate the bikes because the design “stands out,” Sieff said.Bikes@Brown is trying to connect with other groups that
use bikes, such as the Cycling Club, Sieff said. Though the Brown Outing Club provided money to start the program, members of Bikes@Brown are “hoping to eventually break off and gather (their) own funding,” she said.
Some students interviewed by The Herald seemed optimistic about the new program.
“I think it’s a great idea,” said Pam Zhang ’11, “especially for people like me who live far away and can’t transport their personal bikes to campus, and are too cheap or lazy to get one in Providence.” Zhang said she was considering buying a membership with Bikes@Brown.
“I think this program is based on an implicit social contract, or the integrity of the membership, that is only feasible in an environment such as Brown’s campus,” said Munashe Shumba ’11.
Though he already has his own bike, Shumba said he would participate in the new program.
This way, “I don’t have to repair the bike,” he said, “and it’s so cheap.”
— Alicia Dang
Artistic seniors to be honored tonightby Heeyoung min
Staf f Writer
Thirty-two of Brown’s top grad-uating artists, actors, writers, composers and directors will be honored at the 14th annual Weston Awards ceremony tonight at Stuart Theatre.
Recipients of the William and Alethe Weston Fine Arts Awards are selected by faculty in the ar-eas of Visual Arts, Theater Arts, Dance, Music and Creative Writ-ing, said Eli Halpern ’09, one of the recipients.
Over $250,000 in cash prizes have been given over the last 14 years through the Weston Awards, said Associate Director of Major Gifts Richard Marshall ’71 P’10.
Recipients of this year’s awards were notified of the hon-ors shortly after spring break, said William Litton ’09, another recipient.
Each received a cash prize of
$500, he said — which came as a surprise, since the award’s Web site advertises a $400 prize.
“Receiving this award is a big honor because I really respect the people who read the manu-scripts,” Litton said.
He won in the fiction category for his three short stories, “Phan-tom Vibrations,” “Piccadilly Ro-mance” and “Drunken Hearted Man.”
Halpern, who won the award for the best work in the poetry category with “THEY INHERE,” said the award gave him a sense of encouragement as a creative writer leaving the ivory towers.
The winning entries from both Halpern and Litton came from their honors theses in Literary Arts.
“People always make fun of me for being a Literary Arts concen-trator,” Halpern said. “This kind of award is meaningful because it’s really one of the undergraduate’s first legitimization as a writer.”
The budding poet, who also won $4,000 for the Preston Gur-ney Prize in Literary Criticism of Poetry, plans on using his award money to support himself while writing and traveling in Europe.
“I want to get more writing done, which is what the money should be doing for the recipi-ent — to allow the recipient to write without worrying about the daily grind.”
The Weston Fine Arts Awards are endowed by a donation from William ’43 and Alethe ’41 Weston who were active participants in the performing and visual arts departments at Brown.
“Upon their passing in the early 1990s, the Westons left their entire estate in a trust fund to establish the Weston Awards. The trust is a private entity managed externally by its own trustees and is not part of Brown’s endowment. Nor is the University involved in the management of the holdings,” Marshall said.
Poking around: Class of 2013 ‘meets’ onlineby lAuren Fedor
Senior Staf f Writer
Each year, hundreds of prospec-tive students look forward to A Day on College Hill. They see it as an opportunity to visit classes, attend special programs and per-formances and meet their future classmates for the first time.
But as Facebook reaches near-universality and the idea of social-networking becomes practically cliche, most members of the Class of 2013 have already “met” many of their classmates — online.
Though the Admission Office set up an official Web site for in-coming first-years to communi-cate, many prospective students say they have only used the site to set up their school e-mail ac-counts or to check dates against the University calendar. They prefer instead to “meet” on the “Brown University Class of 2013” Facebook page, which has almost 1,000 members.
Adam Henderson, a senior at Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, Pa., wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that though he looked at the official Web site, he found the information and discus-sions on the Facebook page “a lot more helpful and interesting.”
Travis Bogosian, a senior at Friends Seminary in New York City, said Facebook makes it eas-ier for him to get his questions about next year answered.
“I’ve been clueless up until this point, and any help I can get is welcome,” he wrote in an e-mail.
“I tried to figure out how to
set up an e-mail account on the (Brown) site before going to the class Facebook page and ask-ing for help from someone I met there,” he wrote. “It’s funny how that works.”
But besides having his ques-tions answered, Bogosian has also gotten in touch with future classmates who live nearby.
“I’ve ‘met’ a bunch online,” he wrote, adding that he has since met some of his online “friends” in person — Bogosian recently attended a get-together with other New York-area members of the Class of 2013.
New York is not the only city where students have coordinated impromptu get-togethers months before settling into freshman year. Henderson organized an outing in Philadelphia, and the class Facebook page is teeming with suggestions for meet-ups in the Bay Area, South Florida, Chicago and Los Angeles.
But many prospective fresh-men — especially those who live too far away to meet up with future classmates or to attend ADOCH — simply visit the site to learn more about their poten-tial classmates, roommates and friends.
“It’s interesting to see the other types of people who will hopefully be my classmates,” wrote Marley Pierce, a student at East High School in Denver who will not be making the trip to ADOCH.
Kshitij Lauria, an internation-al student from New Delhi also won’t be attending ADOCH, but
admitted to checking the Face-book page “every half hour or so … during waking hours.”
“Excitement about Brown just oozes out of the discussions, and it’s infectious as hell,” he wrote in an e-mail. “September can’t come fast enough.”
One of the most popular discus-sions on the page — with nearly 300 responses — is a thread en-titled “Ask a Brown Student!” As the name implies, prospective first-years write in with ques-tions about everything ranging from concentrations to cell phone coverage, which are answered by current Brown students.
Other popular discussions are seemingly random, with titles like “What Song Are You Listening to Right Now?” and “Your Life as a Single Quote — from Someone Else.” There are threads where students have posted their opin-ions on veganism, quiz bowl, baking, opera, Judaism and ev-erything in between.
But in the end, though Face-book provides a fun way for future students to get to know one an-other, most prospective first-years agree that the best way to meet their potential classmates is still in person.
“I think that I’ll only truly get to know future classmates when I meet them face-to-face,” Hen-derson wrote.
Bogosian admitted that “oc-casionally the online meeting sys-tem backfires when I meet the classmate in person and realize I know a little bit too much about their favorite movies.”
Bookstore owner, alum donates rare science booksby Andrew siA
Contributing Writer
The John Hay Library has received a gift of 130 rare books and manu-scripts, including the first two editions of Nicolaus Copernicus’ “De Revolu-tionibus Orbium Coelestium,” from Daniel Siegel ’57, the owner of M&S Rare Books, a bookstore in Wayland Square on the East Side.
The donation is the “most signifi-cant single group of books given (to Brown) in a decade,” said Samuel Streit, director of special collections at the Hay.
The titles donated to the library cover a broad range of topics, includ-ing American and European history and philosophical and religious thought. Many are inscribed by their authors or annotated by previous own-ers, according to a press release from the Hay. Some of the donation’s most important books are about the history of science, Streit said.
“De Revolutionibus” established the heliocentric theory of the solar system.
Siegel, who has donated books on a wide range of topics to Brown twice before, said he hopes the gift will strengthen the library’s collec-tion of scientific materials, adding that he likes “giving (to Brown) in that way.”
“Brown is my alma mater and has been in my will since 1964,” said Siegel, who hopes his donation will encourage others to contribute.
The Hay receives at least one donation every two weeks, usually from faculty and alums, Streit said. Siegel’s donation is notable because it contains works in “all of the im-portant fields of human knowledge,” he added.
Siegel donated the materials, which also include a copy of Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address,
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to the library in August, but the col-lection had to be appraised for tax purposes, he said. The process took several months because the titles were very rare and the appraiser found it difficult to ascertain their value, Streit said.
The library waited to publicize the gift until the legal processes had been completed, he added.
Siegel previously donated a manu-script of George Orwell’s “1984” and three other rare books, including a first edition of “The Great Gatsby” inscribed to T.S. Eliot by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Siegel — who said he plans to give other rare titles to Brown in the future — became a book dealer and amassed a large collection in the 1960s, when he said it was easy to acquire rare books and manuscripts for very low prices.
As with all titles in the Hay col-lection, those donated by Siegel will be accessible to the general public, provided they do not leave the library, Streit said.
Though some titles might not currently be accessible because the library has not finished cataloging them, the process should be com-pleted shortly, he added.
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and ice cream social — that will keep accepted students busy on Tuesday night. As always, sub-stance use is strictly prohibited.
“I don’t think that’s the kind of thing that people base their deci-sion on,” Stephenson said.
Just as ADOCH will be ending on Wednesday afternoon, another program, Third World Welcome, will be kicking off.
TWW co-coordinator Chris Belcher ’11 said between 100 and 110 students have registered for
the program, and a majority of those students will be attending both ADOCH and TWW.
The program, which caters to minorities and international students, is about exploring the sense of community among mi-nority students at Brown, Belcher said.
It’s “an opportunity for the stu-dents to come to Brown and see what it has to offer,” he said, add-ing that his own TWW experience allowed him to find a tight-knit community at Brown and “allevi-ated a lot of that stress” of travel-
ing from Hawaii to Providence, where he knew no one.
Natasha Go ’10, also a TWW co-coordinator, along with Dan-ielle Dunlap ’10, said it was “im-portant to show that there’s a re-ally strong community of students of color” and that Brown has a “strong and cohesive” sense of community that “starts from the second you step on campus.”
Stephenson said the coordi-nators look forward to the visits from admitted students “as much as the admitted students do.”
“Probably more,” she added.
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“They are acclimating the shark in the tank as we speak.”— Ray Hugh, owner of Shark Sushi Bar and Grill
Changes in store for Thayer Streetby JoAnnA woHlmutH
Metro editor
The recession has hit Rhode Island hard, and Thayer Street businesses have not been immune to the slump-ing economy.
In the coming weeks and months, as most students leave College Hill for the summer, a number of new players are expected to open shop on the busy strip — even as still more stores close.
shark sushi bar and grill, 275 thayer st.
While progress may have seemed slow for those accustomed to walk-ing by the space formerly occupied by Dunkin’ Donuts and La Femme Boutique, the wait is almost over. Shark Sushi Bar and Grill is slated to open just in time for most students to pack their bags and head home for the summer, according to owner Ray Hugh.
The Japanese restaurant, which will feature hibachi grills and a five-foot shark swimming in an 1,800-gal-lon tank, will open in “about three weeks,” Hugh said.
The restaurant caused some conflict when another local business owner, Grant Dulgarian, appealed the Providence zoning board’s decision to waive parking space requirements for the 131-seat establishment. But those issues have long been resolved, according to Hugh.
“This is the final stage right now,” Hugh said. “They are acclimating the shark in the tank as we speak.”
baja’s, 273 thayer st.If the Ivy Room burrito bar doesn’t
quite satisfy students’ cravings for south-of-the-border cuisine, another option will be available when they re-turn to College Hill in the fall.
Baja’s, a Tex-Mex restaurant, will open in about six to eight weeks, according to Hugh, who also owns neighboring Xtreme Pizza and Wings and Shanghai.
Housed at Spike’s Junkyard Dogs’ former location, the restaurant will
offer Philly cheesesteaks, burgers, salads, fries and burritos, according to Hugh.
Many ingredients will be import-ed “directly from Mexico,” Hughe added.
beadworks, 290 thayer st.Jewelry-making enthusiasts may
have to trek a little farther to get their fix next semester. This summer, Beadworks will be moving from its current location to another space in Providence, said Beadworks employee Alli Coate.
“There’s no parking here, and there are just some other advantages to the new space,” Coate said. She declined to give the address of the new location.
better burger company, 215-217 thayer st.
Veteran burgermonger Andy Mitrelis is set to open Better Burger Company this summer in the space that once belonged to Yang’s and the closing Morrison Office Supply, he said.
In addition to five other burger shops in New England, Mitrelis owns Andreas, Paragon and Spats. The new restaurant will offer sandwiches, pizza and breakfast food in addition to burg-ers.
Though Mitrelis announced his plans to open Better Burger months ago when he secured the Yang’s prop-erty, he acquired the lease to the office supply store about 10 days ago, he said Monday.
Bryan Creighton, who has owned and run the independent stationery and office supply store for the past 20 years, told The Herald in March that business had been struggling for the past year and that he was planning to close the shop.
Without the additional space, the burger joint would have been too small, Mitrelis said. “I got my wish,” he said.
geoff’s, 233 thayer stThe “for rent” sign and three tele-
vision screens that occupied the win-
dows of the storefront that formerly housed the sandwich shop Geoff’s were taken down earlier this month. Kent Stetson ’01, who answered at the number listed on the “for rent” sign, said though he could not comment for privacy reasons on who the new oc-
Liberian refugees get extra year in u.S.by lAuren Fedor
Senior Staff Writer
Liberians in Rhode Island re-joiced last month at news that refugees from the West African country would be granted an ad-ditional 12 months of amnesty in the United States, thanks to an executive order signed by Presi-dent Obama.
Mator Kpangbai, former presi-dent of the Liberian Association of Rhode Island, told the Providence Journal on March 21 that Obama’s decision was “great news,” adding that the order provided another opportunity for many Liberians to renew their case for permanent legal status.
The measure protects 3,600 Liberian-Americans living un-der the temporary status. More than 250,000 Liberians live in the United States, and Rhode Island has the highest concentration of Liberians per capita of any state, with a population estimated be-tween 7,000 and 15,000.
In 1991, the United States granted amnesty, formally known as temporary protected status, to Liberians who were forced to flee the West African nation dur-
ing civil war. Though the conflict ended in 2003, and the period of amnesty officially ended in Oc-tober 2007, President Bush ex-tended the rights of Liberians to remain in the U.S. through the end of last month. Last month, Obama decided to continue the official pardon — a grant of de-ferred enforced departure — for an additional 12 months.
“I have determined that there are compelling foreign policy rea-sons to extend (deferred enforced departure) to those Liberians presently residing in the United States under the existing grant,” Obama said in a press release last month.
Rhode Island Democrats Rep. Patrick Kennedy and Sen. Jack Reed lauded the decision.
“This measure will ensure that the hard-working Liberian-Amer-icans in Rhode Island and across the country will be able to remain in the United States. They have contributed to our society for more than a decade, becoming ac-tive members of our communities and providing for their families,” Kennedy said in a press release. “I
Herald File PhotosThayer Street may have a different face this summer with the openings of new restaurants Shark Sushi Bar and Grill (above left) and Better Burger Company (lower left). Other storefronts may have new looks, with the loss of Spike’s (above center), Beadworks (above right), Roba Dolce (below center) and Geoff’s (below right).
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Metro “They have worked very hard, played by the rules and paid their taxes.”— Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., on liberian refugees living in the state
by sArA sunsHine
Senior Staf f Writer
Though General Growth Proper-ties Inc., the national real estate investment company that owns Providence Place Mall, filed for bankruptcy last Thursday, stu-dents will still be able to shop and catch a movie as usual.
The bankruptcy claim comes a few months after the owner an-nounced its decision to sell the mall to help pay off the company’s massive debt, The Herald report-ed Jan. 27. The company has yet to find a buyer.
“While we have worked tire-lessly in the past several months to address our maturing debts, the collapse of the credit markets has made it impossible for us to refinance maturing debt outside of chapter 11,” said Chief Execu-tive Officer Adam Metz in a state-ment on Thursday.
But the daily operation of all GGP’s properties will continue as usual, Metz said. Any eventual change in ownership will not af-fect the mall’s individual retailers, according to a Jan. 13 Providence Journal article.
GGP representatives did not
respond to multiple requests for comment.
In Februar y, the company reported an overall dip in rev-enue and fourth-quarter funds that were lower than expected, forcing it to cut its workforce by more than 20 percent, according to the Journal.
The petition filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court last week listed
more than $25 billion in debts, ac-cording to an April 16 Providence Business News article.
Much of that debt was ac-quired during a series of property purchases that made GGP the na-tion’s second-largest mall owner, including a reported $8 billion taken out to buy the Rouse Co., a competitor that owned Providence Place and 36 other malls.
Mall owner files for bankruptcy
Herald File PhotoGeneral Growth Properties Inc., the owner of the Providence Place Mall, filed for bankruptcy last week. cupant might be, “you will start seeing
things going on in the near future.”John Zib, the mind behind Open
Art Cafe, the temporary art installa-tion involving the screens, told The Herald in November that he was being allowed to use the space until another business became interested in occupying it.
roba dolce, 178 Angell st.A new tenant may soon move into
the space left vacant after the evic-
tion of Roba Dolce, Nino DeMartino, the store’s owner, said. The landlord “wanted a national chain, to get more money for rent,” he said.
The cause of the eviction, filed on Feb. 16 in Rhode Island’s Sixth District Court, was negligence of four months of rental payments.
“People are saying that the con-cept that’s going there is something that doesn’t really belong on Thayer Street,” DeMartino said, adding that he could not be more specific. “The only thing that we know for sure is that it’s a national company.”
am pleased that the president has acted to preserve their status here, preventing a grave injustice.”
While Reed was supportive of Obama’s decision, he also empha-sized the importance of guiding Liberian immigrants toward Ameri-can citizenship — a cause he has worked toward for more than 10 years.
Reed has reintroduced a bill — The Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 2009 — to grant the Liberians permanent residency.
“Over the last two decades,
those who fled Liberia’s violent civil wars have become important parts of our communities,” he said in a March 20 press release. “They are here legally. They have worked very hard, played by the rules and paid their taxes. They have chil-dren who are U.S. citizens, but the parents, who were brought here to escape a brutal civil war, were never given the opportunity to ap-ply for citizenship,” Reed said.
“This bill will prevent these families from being torn apart and give them the opportunity to live permanently in the place they love and call home,” he added.
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red-hot baseball sweeps harvardby benJy AsHer
SportS editor
Last week, the baseball team played seven games, going 6-1 over the stretch.
Brown started off the week by taking two games from Marist Col-lege in a home doubleheader on Tuesday, before dropping a game, 10-6, to UConn on Wednesday.
The Bears (19-16-1, 12-4 Ivy) then closed out the week with a four-game sweep of Harvard at home. Relief pitcher Matt Kimball ’11 was solid for the Bears all week, picking up a win and three saves in the seven-game span.
brown 3, marist 2In the first game of Tuesday’s
doubleheader, outfielder Daniel Rosoff ’12 hit a two-run homer, the first of his collegiate career, in the bottom of the fifth inning to tie the game, and center fielder Steve Dan-iels ’09 won it for the Bears with a walk-off single.
brown 8, marist 2In Tuesday’s second game,
Brown scored five runs in the sec-ond inning and tacked on another three in the bottom of the third.
The Bears never looked back, as starting pitcher Josh Feit ’11 al-lowed just one run over five innings in the 8-2 victory.
uconn 10, brown 6On Wednesday, the Huskies
jumped out to a 7-1 lead, and though Brown was able to cut the lead to as little as three runs, the comeback bid fell short.
Second-baseman and co-captain Matt Nuzzo ’09 went 3-for-5 in the loss, with two doubles and a home run, while catcher Matt Colanto-nio ’11 and designated hitter Pete Greskoff ’11 each added two hits.
brown 3, Harvard 1
In the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader, Brown scored two runs in the bottom of the second inning, including an RBI double by Daniels, and Nuzzo led off the bot-tom of the third with a solo homer to widen the lead to 3-0.
The Crimson (10-26, 8-8) fi-nally got on the board in the top of the sixth, when an RBI double cut the lead to 3-1, but it was the only run Harvard would score off Mark Gormley ’11, who struck out six batters over 6 1/3 innings of work.
Kimball came on to close out the game with one out and a runner on first in the top of the seventh and final inning. After walking the first batter he faced, Kimball settled down and struck out the next two, recording his first of three saves on the weekend.
“Matt Kimball was outstanding coming out of the bullpen,” said Head Coach Marek Drabinski. “It’s nice to have your starters go deep in the game and know that you can
turn the ball over to Matt.”
brown 8, Harvard 5In the second game, outfielder
Chris Tanabe ’10 reached base on a walk in the bottom of the first, and later came around to score on an error, giving Brown a 1-0 lead. Two batters later, first baseman Rob Papenhause ’09 lined an RBI double to right field, the first of his three hits on the day, to increase the lead to 2-0.
In the top of the second, Har-vard cut the lead to 2-1, and looked poised to take the lead, with run-ners on first and second and no outs. But starting pitcher Rob Wilcox ’10 induced a double-play grounder and got the next batter to ground out as well, keeping Bruno’s lead intact.
In the bottom of the third, Pa-penhause knocked a triple to cen-ter field to score Greskoff, and in the bottom of the fourth, Daniels
Crimson bury softball in three of four gamesby KAtie wood
aSSiStant Spor tS editor
Despite a strong showing on day one of its four-game series with Harvard at home — splitting the first two games while scoring 16 runs — the Bears held the lead for only one inning on the second day, falling 11-0 and 12-2 — both in six innings of play.
“We weren’t able to make the adjustments on Sunday like we were able to on Saturday,” said Kate Strobel ’12.
Harvard 9, brown 6
Har vard (24-24, 10-6 Ivy) opened up the game with a run in the top of the first before Brown (11-21, 5-11) put together a three-run third inning. Jackie Giovan-niello ’12 hit a two-run double to the right field fence, and Kelsey Wilson ’09 advanced home on a Crimson error to put Bruno up, 3-1.
Harvard hit a two-run homer to tie the game in the top of the fourth, but the Bears answered back with two runs of their own. Kristie Chin ’12 sent a single to left to bring in a run. Wilson’s shot to center brought in the second run of the inning for a 5-3 lead.
Jessica Iwasaki ’10 came in to pitch in relief of Michelle Moses ’09 with one out and two runners on base. A double to center field drove in a run for the Crimson, but Iwasaki pitched out of a bases-loaded jam to close the inning with a one-run lead.
But the Bears could not main-tain that lead, as Harvard capital-ized on its offensive opportunities to score four runs in the sixth.
“When the other team gets runners on base, we let it spiral — that’s what happened in that in-ning,” Strobel said. “When one run scores, we don’t have the mentality that we’re going to stop them.”
The Crimson added another run in the seventh to take a 9-5 advantage into the final half-inning of play.
Strobel led off the inning with a solo shot to center, but the next three Bears were retired in order. Despite the six-run effort, Brown fell 9-6.
Iwasaki recorded the loss, giv-ing up five runs on five hits in 2 2/3 innings pitched.
brown 11, Harvard 5 Trish Melvin ’12 started the
game on the mound for the Bears and walked in the first run of the game. But the offense was ready to back her up with three runs in the first.
Strobel’s double down the right field line brought home Wilson, and Andrea Browne ’10 doubled to left field to add another two runs and give the Bears a 3-1 advan-tage.
But the Crimson tallied a run in the second and came out strong in the third with three runs to take a
4-3 lead over Brown.Lindsay Rice ’11 stole home on
a passed ball in the fourth with two outs to tie the game, 4-4, and the Bears’ defense handled the Crimson with ease and sent them back to the field for a rough bottom half of the sixth inning.
The Bears put together a seven-run sixth, all with two outs, to pro-pel the team to an 11-4 win.
“We went single after single,” Strobel said. “Everybody was hit-ting. No one thought, ‘I’m going to hit the game-winner.’”
A single from Chin gave Bruno the initial one-run lead. Another single from Katie Rothamel ’10 loaded the bases for Wilson. Harvard called on a reliever, but couldn’t get out of the two-out jam as Wilson reached first on a walk, scoring another run.
A two-run single down the right field line from Giovanniello increased the lead to 8-4. Then Strobel stepped up to the plate and, for the second time on the day, sent the ball over the center field fence to cap off a seven-run inning.
“When your team has been ral-lying in front of you, it makes you feel more confident — hitting is contagious,” Strobel said.
Strobel led the Bears’ offense, going 3-for-8 with two home runs and five RBI on Saturday, while Wilson contributed a double and two RBI.
Chin recorded the win after one inning of play, allowing one run on three hits.
Harvard 11, brown 0 The game started off evenly for
both squads, as neither team could put together a run until the fourth inning. After a Crimson double and single brought in three runs, Emily Chaddock ’11 walked in the fourth run before being replaced by Moses on the mound.
A solo shot and three Brown errors catapulted the score to a 7-0 Harvard advantage in the fifth inning. A double to right center with the bases loaded in the sixth and a single to center stretched the lead to 11-0.
“The first three innings we weren’t hitting, but our defense was solid,” Strobel said. “And when we made one or two errors, or had some walks, they started to pro-duce runs.”
Chaddock took the loss in 3 2/3 innings pitched, giving up four runs on five hits. The Bears’ offense combined for only two hits in six innings of play, compared with nine hits for the Crimson.
Harvard 12, brown 2 Brown bounced back in the
second game of the day with two runs in the bottom of the first. But Harvard scored 12 unanswered runs to put the Bears away for the third time in four games.
no. 13 m. lacrosse gets two more winsby elisAbetH AvAllone
SportS Staff Writer
The No. 13 men’s lacrosse team finished out the week with two vic-tories, an exciting and integral 8-6 win over Ivy League rival Harvard (6-5, 1-3), and a 10-6 non-league game against cross-town opponent Providence (6-7). Brown advanced to an 11-2 record this season, and 3-1 in the Ivy League.
brown 8, Harvard 6 Following a tough loss against
Penn last week, the Bears took an 8-6 victory Wednesday night at Har-vard, keeping their aspirations of an Ivy League title alive. Andrew Fein-berg ’11, Brown’s leading scorer with 35 goals and 14 assists on the season, had three goals to lead the Bears on attack. Thomas Muldoon ’10, who has 27 goals and 10 assists on the season, added two goals and three assists.
On defense, Head Coach Lars
Tiffany ’90 pointed to Ryan Cassil ’09 for his outstanding effort. Tif-fany described a ground ball play by Cassil as a “prime example of the energy on the field.”
In goal, All-American quad-captain Jordan Burke ’09 had 12 saves. Burke now leads the Ivy League and ranks sixth nationally in save percentage (.626) and saves per game (12.4). In addition, he has been named a finalist for this year’s Tewaarton Award for the best collegiate lacrosse player of the year.
Goals from Feinberg, Muldoon and quad-captain Brady Williams ’09 gave the Bears a 4-3 lead at the end of the first half.
In the third, Feinberg scored his third goal of the evening, once again off of Muldoon’s feed. Sec-onds later, Charlie Kenney ’10 scored a goal off a fast break from the faceoff.
“Charlie Kenney was our MVP of the game after winning 9 of the
13 faceoffs he took, and on top of that, scoring a goal,” Tiffany said. “He had a great deal to do with our team’s success. We win over 50 percent of our faceoffs, and look at what happens.”
“I was really excited to have the opportunity to play in my home town and in such a huge game,” said Kenney. “We all realized how important it was for us to bounce back after the loss to Penn and came ready to play. Everyone took the game extremely seriously and played with such high intensity. We really came together and played as a team.”
Reade Seligmann ’09 netted an unassisted goal shortly afterwards, giving Brown a 7-3 advantage, but Harvard scored with just over a minute left on the clock, lessening Brown’s lead to 7-4 going into the final quarter.
Harvard continued to close the
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Justin Coleman / Herald File PhotoReliever Matt Kimball ’11 picked up three saves during a tear in which the Bears won six of seven games, including four from Harvard.
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SPortStuesday “Harvard was a must-win game for us.” — Men’s lacrosse’s Reade Seligmann ’09
Major League Gaming: The world’s favorite new pastimeIt’s getting to be that time again. We’re already halfway through April, and you can’t turn on your television
without hearing announcers plug the event. Every year it happens; another run in the playoffs, an-other champion. You can barely go anywhere without hearing
somebody talk about it.At least in Seoul. I’m talking about professional
StarCraft. Noun-adjective disagree-ment? Maybe to most in the United States, but not to anyone in South Korea, where the e-sport has been spawning a mega-market fan base since its inception in 2002.
There are stadiums, at least three full-time cable channels exclusively devoted to the games, announcers and championship television ratings rivaling that of the Korea Baseball Organization. Did I mention there are sponsors? Because those are important for paying the six-figure contracts the top players are raking in. Like the three-year, $830,000 deal superstar Lee Yun-Yeol inked with WeMade FOX back in 2007. That’s not exactly Alex Rodriguez money, but it certainly is enough to upgrade over ramen a few nights a week.
South Korea isn’t the only coun-
try where full-time gamers are now earning enough to move out of their parents’ basements. Paralleling the StarCraft phenomenon, Major League Gaming began in the United States in 2002. The tournament-cir-cuit games are heavily dominated by team-oriented first-person shooter titles, headlined by Halo 3.
Despite the current recession hampering the growth and stabil-ity of other American professional gaming leagues, MLG has bloomed from an underground community into a prosperous franchise consist-ing of over 500,000 viewers. From that fan base, MLG has been able to invest $1.75 million in signing the top teams, including $250,000 to MLG superstar Tom “Tsquared” Taylor.
Most of you are probably won-dering where all the viewers come from if there are no live TV chan-nels broadcasting MLG in the United States like there are for StarCraft in South Korea. The online broadcast for MLG garners a rate of viewership among males aged 12-34 that even many traditional cable networks aren’t able to muster. That’s a fairly selective demographic. If you were an advertiser, what better way to market your product than via a Web site that filters your target audience into one dedicated, homogenous group?
In case you had any doubts about the target audience, Dr. Pepper, Old
Spice and the U.S. Army are among the leading sponsors (the Army recruits top gamers to be remote fighter pilots, as many of the same hand-eye reflexes are required for both tasks).
But MLG isn’t content to sit back on its online laurels. Just last year, the league signed a deal with ESPN providing the sports media jugger-naut the rights to broadcast all MLG Pro Circuit Competitions. There’s even a section of the ESPN Web site devoted exclusively to MLG cover-age, including a weekly top 10.
The question remains as to whether the culture of competitive gaming can overcome the stigma of nerdiness and social taboo that have long accompanied these pastimes. On the one hand, there is something odd about watching a group of peo-ple play video/computer games on your TV or computer. But it wasn’t too long ago that poker was just a game played by people in bars and casinos. Now, the World Series of Poker and its qualifying events are staples on ESPN.
How much of a difference is there between sitting around and playing with a bunch of cards and sitting around and playing with a bunch of controllers? For that matter, how much more obscure is either activity from hitting a ball with a block of wood and running in circles?
Ultimately, it comes down to cultural momentum. History plays the biggest factor in determining what gains cultural momentum. Do you think it’s a coincidence that the United States cares so little about professional soccer, when profes-sional baseball has been played here since the 1870s while Major League Soccer was just founded in 1993?
But as the popularity of televised poker illustrates, history is far from the only factor determining cultural momentum. If the early success of MLG is any indicator, maybe the new fads catch on because those who watch them feel like they are more able to be like the pros. It’s slightly easier to feel like you can force a fold in poker or snipe in Halo like a professional than it is to imagine you can windmill dunk like LeBron James.
That being said, maybe the big-gest thing MLG needs right now is superstar recognition. Kobe sells jerseys, Tom Brady makes tabloid headlines, people tune in. Maybe that’s the rationale behind MLG’s move to sign the top players and teams and the reason Dr. Pepper and Gilbert Arenas sponsor team Final Boss.
Whether the U.S. will have multiple 24/7 networks covering gaming like South Korea is open to debate. Regardless of the path professional gaming takes in the United States, one thing is certain: At least there will be fewer players faking injuries.
Ben Singer ’09 wants to see Ed Hochuli referee a professional
StarCraft match.
gap in the second half, bringing the score to 7-6 with 11 minutes to go. But Muldoon’s second goal of the evening, with four minutes remaining, would be the last goal of the game, securing the 8-6 vic-tory for the Bears.
“To this point in the season, Harvard was the most satisfy-ing and rewarding victory for our program,” Tiffany said. “We played well in so many phases of the game, and put forth the best overall team effort all year. The intensity and energy levels were palpable and spurred on by a really supportive Brown crowd.”
“Harvard was a must-win game for us and we came out and played with a lot of emotion,” added Se-ligmann. “We were strong off the faceoff, and both our offense and defense played well together.”
brown 10, Providence 6 The Bears overpowered
Providence 10-6 Saturday night, spearheaded by four goals from Muldoon. Williams and Feinberg added three goals each and Burke had nine saves in goal.
“Providence played a tough game,” Seligmann said. “We had a sluggish start but were able to recover with a great defensive ef-fort, as well as great performances from Thomas Muldoon and Brady Williams on attack.”
Three goals from Muldoon, two from Feinberg and another two
from Williams gave the bears a 7-2 lead at the half.
But Brown’s scoring streak was cut short as Providence outscored Brown 4-1 in the third quarter, cut-ting the Bears lead to 8-6. Muldoon added his fourth goal of the eve-ning off a feed from Seligmann.
The Bears held off the Friars in the fourth quarter as goals by Williams and Feinberg locked up the 10-6 win.
“Saturday night felt very dif-ferent” compared to Harvard, Tiffany said. “It felt more like a great individual effort and less of an overall team effort, yet the results were the same. That we had as much emotion as we did was great, and some individuals really stepped up.”
Tiffany praised Muldoon for his strong play on attack, as well as Seligmann, with two assists, who “was doing a great job feeding the ball and making some really smart decisions.” Tiffany also had praise for Cassil, who again stepped up on defense, containing Providence’s leading scorer, Colin Tigh.
The Bears will match-up against No. 2 Cornell (9-2, 5-0 Ivy), this Saturday, April 25 at 1 p.m. on Ste-venson Field. Cornell is fresh off of a win over then No. 1 Princeton this past Saturday. With only two games remaining in Ivy League play, against two of the top teams in Cornell and No. 5 Princeton (10-2, 3-1) on May 2, the Bears aspire to both the Ivy League title and an NCAA tournament bid.
Men’s lax beats Friars, looks to Big red match
Wilson started of f the first with a hard-shot RBI double to right center to score the game’s opening run. A single up the mid-dle from Strobel gave the Bears a two-run lead they would not hold for long.
The Crimson tied the game in the second inning and added another run in the third on a sacrifice fly.
Brown had a valuable op-portunity to score in the bottom half of the inning when Browne’s bunt single loaded the bases, but Bruno’s offensive struggles con-tinued and the Bears were unable to put a run up on the board.
“We couldn’t execute — just like the first game, our offense wasn’t there,” Strobel said. “You would hope that with the bases loaded we’d be able to manufac-ture one run — it wasn’t clicking for us today.”
Melvin entered the game in relief of Iwasaki with two runners on and no outs. Melvin loaded the bases with a walk and sur-rendered a two-run double over the center fielder’s head to bring in two more runs for the Crim-son.
Before Melvin recorded an out, Chin entered the game to finish out the inning.
A single to left field brought in two more runs, followed by another RBI single, which pad-ded the Harvard lead to 9-2.
A three-run sixth extended the Crimson’s lead to 12-2. De-spite putting runners on second and third, the Bears could not cut into the 10-run deficit.
Iwasaki received the loss on the mound, giving up six runs on eight hits, putting her record at 1-6 on the season.
The Bears finish of f their season with a double-header at Bryant on Thursday and a sea-son-finale series against Yale on Saturday and Sunday.
They travel to New Haven, Conn., for two games on Saturday before returning back to Provi-dence for a double header start-ing at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday.
The team will honor two of its members, Moses and Wilson, who will be playing their final games in a Brown uniform.
“There’s no better way to send off our seniors than with six straight wins – that’s what we’re going to strive for,” Stro-bel said.
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connected on his eighth homer of the year, a three-run shot over the right field fence, giving the Bears a 6-1 cushion.
Harvard struck for four more runs off Wilcox over the next three innings, cutting Bruno’s lead to 7-5. But a solo homer from Papenhause in the seventh inning gave Brown an 8-5 lead, and Andrew Bakowski ’11 and Kimball combined for 2 2/3 shutout innings out of the bullpen.
brown 3, Harvard 1In Sunday’s first game, Brown
once again jumped out to an early lead, scoring three runs in the bot-tom of the second. After left fielder Dan Shapiro ’09 and Papenhause reached base to start off the inning, Rosoff got the Bears on the board with a sacrifice fly, and shortstop Graham Tyler ’12 added a two-run single to give Bruno a 3-0 lead.
“It always helps to get in front early,” Drabinski said. “I think it helps the pitching staff to relax a little bit.”
Sure enough, those three runs
were all the offense Brown would need, as Conor Burke ’11 gave up only one run in 5 1/3 innings, and Kimball recorded the last five outs to preserve the victory.
brown 8, Harvard 1In the final game of the series,
pitcher Will Weidig ’10 was given the start in what seemed to be a risky move. After a strong beginning to the season, Weidig had struggled of late due to mechanical problems and nagging shoulder injuries, and his most recent start had come on April 4, when he was shelled for six runs in 2 2/3 innings of work in an 18-11 win over Penn.
“We were kind of rolling the dice as coaches, hoping he could give us a solid outing,” Drabinski said. “It couldn’t have come at a bigger time for us, and he’s worked so hard.”
On Sunday, Weidig was up to the challenge. The Crimson scored the game’s first run in the top of the first, but over the next four innings, Weidig was nearly perfect, shutting Harvard out while allowing only two batters to reach base, exceeding the coaching staff’s plan, which, ac-
cording to Drabinski, had called for Weidig to pitch only the first three innings.
With RBIs from Tyler, Rosoff, Shapiro, third baseman Ryan Zrenda ’11 and Paupenhause, the Bears were able to take a lead of 8-1 by the seventh inning, and Feit pitched four innings of shutout relief to keep the game out of reach for Harvard.
After the sweep this weekend, Brown is second overall in the Ivy League standings, trailing only Dart-mouth (19-11, 14-2). However, in or-der to earn a spot in the Ivy League championship series, the Bears will have to finish atop the standings of the Rolfe Division, which includes the Big Green, though Brown is far ahead of Princeton and Cornell, who are tied for the Gehrig Division lead, at 8-8 in league play.
“We know we have to leave it all on the field and take it one game at a time,” Drabinski said. “Then we’ve got to get a little bit of help. It’s frus-trating, but our guys are upbeat, and we know we still have a chance until we’re mathematically eliminated, and we’ll play hard regardless.”
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Last Wednesday, Superintendent for Providence Public Schools Tom Brady handed down some good news. In the coming academic year, six schools in his district will abandon the practice known as “bumping,” in which teaching vacancies are filled in order of seniority. The year after that, the entire school district will follow suit. After the old single-criterion system ends, principals will select replacement candidates based on a thorough evaluation of their skills and their compatibility with the empty position.
Providence schoolchildren have demonstrated minimal academic prog-ress in recent years, and bumping is one of many culprits. Currently, when a teaching slot opens up, the teacher with the most years in the system is able to take it, regardless of his talent or experience in teaching that curriculum or grade level. And if a senior teacher’s position is eliminated, he can dislodge one of his junior colleagues, leading to an uneven learning experience for the affected students. Under the coming system, principals will instead choose new members of their staff based on interviews, letters of recommendation and their students’ work. Teachers are dedicated professionals with varying sets of skills that don’t correspond neatly to the number of years they have spent in the profession. They ought to be treated accordingly.
The teachers’ union has long relied upon the rigid rules of seniority to ensure that all its members can make a decent living, and its leaders are understandably worried about arbitrary hiring that might leave dedicated educators out in the cold. But the bottom line isn’t job security, it’s the quality of the instruction that Providence schoolchildren receive. Downgrading the significance of seniority will make teaching in Providence more financially risky, but it will also pressure teachers to be creative and assiduous, and make them more likely to end up in the classrooms where they can do the most good.
Union officials are threatening to sue the district over the new policy. That would be an enormous mistake. Rhode Island teachers are not currently under contract — they are merely abiding by the terms that formally expired two years ago. That means that any lawsuit their union might file would be not only wrongheaded but virtually doomed — a waste of their money and the resources of the schools to which they have dedicated their lives. Instead of suing, the union should work with the district to revise a fair set of standards for teacher hiring. By the fall of 2010, bumping will be history in Providence, and teachers should embrace the new process as a boon to their profession and their students.
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Freedom to let faculty teach their passions was behind ‘Modes’ courses to the editor:
I note with nostalgia the passing of Modes of Thought courses. By way of eulogy, I offer this account of my experience with an MOT course that I took in 1972 during the second semester of my first year.
I can’t remember what the catalogue labeled the course, but it covered topics in American constitutional history and required two extensive research papers. The professor said he saw the MOT program as an opportunity to teach issues in constitutional history, a subject he would not otherwise teach because it was not considered part of a modern political science cur-riculum.
Squeezed out during the behavioral revolution in political science, constitutional history had found no home elsewhere in the undergraduate curriculum.
The MOT program provided a format in which the professor was willing to teach a subject that he thought important, but many others thought applied an out-moded method of analysis to material not deserving coverage in the undergraduate curriculum. By doing so, the program performed a most valuable service.
First, that MOT course sparked my lifelong inter-est in constitutional history and an academic career
that includes scholarship and teaching in the subject. Second, judgments about the methods of analysis and subject matter appropriate for undergraduates can be ephemeral; I had the privilege to teach constitutional history at Brown when I taught in the Center for Law and Liberal Education between 1979 and 1982.
Lastly, rigorous analysis of interesting questions produces an excellent education despite its fit with prevailing views about scholarly priorities.
Although nostalgic, I’m pleased to see that the de-mise of MOT courses may affect the curriculum’s form rather than substance since first-year seminars offer similar opportunities to professors and students. In fact, the seminar program represents an improvement by allowing professors to get teaching credit.
Expecting professors to teach MOT courses without credit was always unrealistic, and my professor never taught the course that had such an impact on me again after I took it. Whatever the program’s name or struc-ture, I hope that Brown always allows its faculty an outlet for teaching whatever they are passionate about and, by that, inspire similar passion in their students.
James Kainen ’75Apr. 15
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An article in Monday’s Herald (“Transfer students embrace life at Brown,” April 20) incorrectly referred to Melea Atkins ’10 as the Head Transfer Student Adviser. In fact, Atkins, Carly Hudelson ’10 and Chelsea Harris ’09 are transfer orientation coordinators.
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As the election period for the Undergraduate Student Council here at Brown drew closer, many students eating at the dining halls were confronted by their peers in UCS who were hunting for signatures.
It was common to see students in the Ratty, with half a noodle dangling from their mouths, be approached by UCS members and solicited for signatures.
“But, does it matter that I don’t even know what your campaign is about?” some students, myself included, would initially protest.
“Not at all,” we would immediately be assuaged. The signatures are only to allow students to participate in the elections. In fact, they have nothing to do with determin-ing which candidate actually wins, because the actual voting would only take place online.
In the end, signing the paper they held out to us seemed like too small a deal to fuss over, so I didn’t protest any further. Be-sides, you would only be helping someone and surely hurting no one if you agreed to sign, and so students generally did.
If I were to protest, however, it would be about how this felt like a useless practice. What does getting the signatures of 250
random students who do not know — and probably do not care — about your cam-paign even prove? It surely does not prove that there are at least 250 people at Brown who desperately want you to compete in the elections. Why, then, was getting 250 ran-dom signatures a benchmark for being able to participate in the upcoming elections when, clearly, anyone could accomplish this task?
But then again, to fuss over something so small would be unreasonable. And per-haps the only requirement is to make the
student body aware of your stance, or sim-ply to make it aware of what UCS is up to, even if said student body does not really care to remember afterwards. I, for one, had stopped asking what changes these candidates would bring into effect should they succeed in the elections.
There are, however, two separate inci-dents that deserve special mention regard-ing the solicitation of these signatures.
The first incident took place two weeks ago in Poland House at a friend’s birthday. It was a regular Keeney event, with stu-
dents running around the hallway in vari-ous stages of intoxication. Indeed, all was going as expected until one person, accom-panied by a friend, turned up at the party with a pen and paper and asked everyone who seemed semi-capable of holding a pen straight to sign for him.
My first reaction to this was obviously to laugh. I’m sure that a majority of the people who signed for him had no idea what they were doing and do not remember having signed anything. Unlike the people who ap-proach students in the dining halls, this per-
son wasn’t even bothering to explain what the sheet of paper was, what his campaign stood for or what position he intended to compete for. Indeed, it seemed useless to do so because no one would understand.
But that’s exactly what was wrong about going to a party and asking for signatures in the first place. Not only was the purpose of making students aware of UCS activities defeated, but the idea of exploiting people’s not-quite-right states of mind for anything is completely wrong. The principle behind that action is not one that I would want a
person of authority and a representative of mine to follow.
The other incident, based on the same desperate quest for signatures, took place about a week before that, when I was hav-ing dinner at the V-Dub with a friend and her sister who was visiting from Santa Fe, N.M. A UCS member approached us and asked us to sign for her, which we did. She then turned to my friend’s sister and asked why she did not sign. When the sister ex-plained the situation and asked if she was even allowed to sign, considering that she did not go to school here, the UCS hope-ful replied, “Well, technically, no. ... But, I wouldn’t actually mind.”
That was definitely the part where she lost my vote. (If I were going to vote in the first place, that is.)
Besides these specific cases when can-didate hopefuls demonstrated qualities that weren’t so admirable, simply the idea of asking people to sign instead of having a system where they sign because they want to isn’t very dignified.
Perhaps it would be a better idea to just have a fewer number of required signatures for every candidate hopeful, as long as these are the signatures of people who care and genuinely want that person to compete.
Fatima Aqeel ’12 is from Karachi, Paki-stan. She can be reached at [email protected].
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Christina Domenico, a regular opinions colum-nist for the Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper at the University of Pennsylvania, recently wrote a column that described the benefits of implementing Securexam, a word processing program that allows students to take in-class exams on their laptops.
The program will shut down if the stu-dent attempts to open any other file or pro-gram on the computer, thereby barring him or her from looking at saved notes or the Internet.
There are some obvious advantages to using a personal computer, one of which is that it would reduce the stresses inherent to a blue book exam. Like Domenico, I am always somewhat fearful of writing in blue books because I do not know whether my TAs will be able to understand my some-what illegible handwriting. Typing exam responses will alleviate this concern.
Domenico also points out that this pro-gram would be helpful because it would give students the chance to clearly organize their thoughts. Rachel Wexler ’11 agreed, saying, “The motion of typing makes my thoughts flow.” In an age of computers, this is unsurprising. After all, students are required to type take-home essays and ex-ams, so it is a skill that they have already developed outside of the classroom.
Despite the program’s apparent bene-
fits, I do not like the idea of using Secur-exam. Call me a Luddite, but I believe that the benefits of hand-writing one’s own re-sponses far outweigh the convenience of a computer.
Although she believes that she is “a much better typist than a writer,” Kathryn Wiseman ’11 also asserts, “There is some-thing to be said for going in with a pen-cil and writing yourself.” I agree. When I write out responses to exam questions, I feel much more connected to my work. The physical distance between my pen and my paper and the feel of my hand forming the letters as opposed to typing them adds
a degree of intimacy that would disappear with Securexam.
Computers are also inherently distract-ing. Even though Securexam shuts down if a user attempts to open another appli-cation, using a computer during an exam will be distracting to many students. I can imagine now the irritating sound of loudly clicking keys. These added sound effects will only heighten the stressful environ-ment of the examination room.
Moreover, I am uncomfortable with this potential development because it assumes that all students have access to a laptop
computer. Some students choose to use a desktop or library computer when writing take-home papers, and that option would not be available to students if we used the Securexam program.
Domenico contends that this program could still be used so long as the school made laptops available to borrow for exam day. The University does provide laptops for borrowing at the Rock, so a decision like this one would not be unprecedented, although ensuring that laptops are avail-able for every student who might need one would surely be costly.
Furthermore, students who get to use
their own computers will be at an advan-tage in an exam administered electroni-cally because they will have had extensive experience using their particular brand and model. Students who have to borrow computers miss out on this familiarity and will probably be less comfortable with the new option.
Any introduction of this program, man-datory or not, will make students feel obli-gated to use it. Since the typed-out exams will be more legible, graders might have an unintentional inclination to favor such exams. Because certain students are more
computer-literate than others, they will have an unfair advantage over students who have not had the same level of expo-sure to computers.
Although one might argue that dispar-ities like this one already manifest them-selves in blue book exams between stu-dents who have different educational back-grounds, the disparity created by Securex-am will be even greater.
Instead of being a great convenience, Securexam will prove to be a hindrance to many students. Perhaps it will decrease some amount of stress in certain instanc-es. But I can picture computers malfunc-tioning on exam day. This type of situation is nearly impossible to imagine happening on a written exam.
Ultimately, the unfortunate circum-stances in which a computer may malfunc-tion or students may not have their own laptops to bring on exam day are not the only things that make me feel that imple-menting this program would be a poor choice.
It is important that we leave certain things in school as they are and that we avoid computerizing everything because being able to write coherently without the aid of a computer is a valuable skill that should not be forgotten.
Tory Hartmann ’11 is a political sci-ence concentrator from Hillsborough,
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