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B Margaret NickeNS

Senior Staff Writer

Te Universitys highest governingbody approved a $36 increase inthe student activities ee at its Feb.11 meeting, raising the total ee to$214. In October, the Undergradu-ate Council o Students requested a$72 increase that would have raisedth tta t $50.

Mae Cadao 13, the UCS stu-

dent activities chair and ormerHerald business staer, said thecouncil appreciates the increase th , th argst th Crp-rat has apprd th ast 0yars. But sh sad sh thks th

ud ha b rasd mr.Te proposed raise would have

covered at least 90 percent o whatstudent groups need, Cadao said.

President Ruth Simmons alsoddd t raat th sts media services or Category IIIstudent groups to the University,sad Prst Mark Shss P5.Currty, th Udrgraduat F-a Bard, a subsdary UCSresponsible or unding student

grups, must us a $75,000 shar th studt atts ud a-nually to und media equipmentus r Catgry III grups, sad

B SaM ruBiNroit

aSSiStant SportS editor

he mens basketball team endedits home schedule Saturday ona high note, earning a decisive94-78 victory over Columbia onSenior Night. he Bears also en-dured a hard-ought battle against

Cornell Friday night, but theircomeback came too late, and thesquad 6-63.

cn 69, Bwn 63

he Bears (8-21, 2-10 Ivy)struggd ut th gat agastt he B i gRed (11-15, 6-6),going one-or-seven rom three-point ranget a bhd 4-3 at hatm.

W ddt ha a gd startto either hal, and that really hurtus, said Head Coach Jesse Agel.

Bruno muscled its way back inthe second hal, cutting Cornellslead by putting together a 15-5

run. But the comeback ell short.When we came in or hal-

time, Coach told us to leave it

all on the loor, said DockeryWakr 4. hats what w ddin the second, but unortunatelyt just wast ugh.

Walkers perormance was thestry th ght r th Bars.he orward posted 23 pointsad 7 rbuds bth arrhghs ad sht 0 rmth d.

Hs umbrs wr just stag-gering, Agel said. Dockery hada phenomenal game, but hes justscratching the surace o whath a d.

Bwn 94, cmb 78

Saturdays matchup againstColumbia (14-14, 3-9) markedS e n i o rNight orthe Bearslone outgo-

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Sam Rbinroit / HeraldJean Harris 12 was the star o Senior Night in his last game at the Pizzitola Center.

B Mark rayMoND

Senior Staff Writer

Te most recent budget passed byth Crprat, th Urstyshighest governing body, marksth d th Urstys us ederal unding provided by theAmerican Recovery and Reinvest-mt At.

Te act, signed into law Febru-ary 2009 by President Obama, des-ignated billions o ederal dollars torsarh at ursts arss thcountry. Te University received

$42.9 million in research und-g, muh whh was aatdt bgy, md, grgad physa s.

T stmuus had a ra ps-tive impact on research spirit, saidClyde Briant, vice president orresearch. Federal unds hadntbeen growing that much in severalyars, ad hag that ras unding really got people excited.

Te Division o Biology andMedicine received $29.3 million,largely because the National In-stitutes o Health received morersarh uds tha thr draagencies, such as the National Sci-ence Foundation, Briant said. Inaddt t th stmuus udg,BioMed receives up to $80 millionannually rom ederal sources, ac-cording to Ed Wing, dean o medi- ad bga ss.

Stimulusfunds forU. dry up

Emily Gilbert / HeraldThe nascent Polo Clb sees to be a mainstay o Brown athletics and dispelstereotypes abot the sport. s g 7 for fu ory.

B alexa Pugh

Staff Writer

his was it his moment o glory.

It was th sth-grad basktbaturamt, ad Natha Sha-

piro 12 inally had the ball andthe conidence to take his shot.Unortunately, it was on his teamsw baskt.

Shapiro introduced the BrownStorytellers StorySlam Fridayad Saturday ght wth a hart-

breakingly hilarious account oshtg t , t tw butthree times or the wrong team asa arg rwd ad hs amg-mouth reading enthusiast coachyd rm th sds.

But Shapiro was never withoutgood humor toward his humili-ation, and his well-crated tale which garnered both empathy

and plenty o laughter rom thepakd aud st th tr th t.

Most people bring in sto-ries that are somewhat centeredaround laughing at themselves,

said Sarah Weiss 15, who willb hadg th Brw Stryt-rs t yar ag wth E B-sworth 12.5 and Ben Schwartz13.5. It makes you realize that

StorySlam turns humiliation into humor

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B aDaM tooBiN

Senior Staff Writer

An 18-year-old male was shotmultiple times around 2 a.m. Sat-urday outside o Te Celtic Lounge

at Finnegans Wake, a bar and club

dwtw Prd that spopular among Brown students.Te victim was hit twice, in thehand and in the thigh. First re-sponders brought the teenager toRhd Isad Hspta, whr hwas treated or non lie-threaten-ing wounds, reported EyewitnessNws.

hough the shooting oc-curred outside o the club, mul-tiple sources reported that thepp d had t g tFinnegans prior to the incident.Finnegans was not directly in-d.

Te club oen hosts events a-

liated with Brown groups, butno University-related activity waspad r Frday ght.

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Staff Writer

he University will be adding anew position in the echnologyVentures Oice to assist engineer-ing aculty members in identiying

rsarh sutab r patts adthen guide them through the pat-enting process. he position wasaddd as par t th Urstysrecently approved budget or iscal

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tat mmuat btwauty mmbrs wh rat -tellectual property and the Uni-

versity, which owns the patents totheir research, said Clyde Briant, prsdt r rsarh.

he oice also helps aculty

members market their discov-eries to companies that may beinterested in licensing them, Bri-at sad. hat s a t -th-ground work, and we only hadtwo people to serve the wholeuniversity and realized that wasntsut.

his addition will help theUniversity invest more time indpg patts th Sho Engineering, Briant said, add-ing that the school is a hotbedo intellectual property. he newposition will allow the oice towrk mr sy ad b bttraquatd wth th grgauty mmbrs, s thy d toverlook potentially patentablersarh, Brat sad.

his oice plays a crucial rolebecause some aculty members

may t raz what thyr st-tg , Brat sad.

Lawr Lars, da -gineering, also stressed the im-portance o having an interme-diary to guide aculty membersthrugh th pattg prss.

Proessors are motivated byintellectual curiosity and scien-tiic ambition, Larson said, sothinking about the commercialappeal o their ideas is not some-thing they naturally do. Becauseo this, Larson said he believesthe new position will be greatly

beneicial to the School o En-gineering and the University asa whole. Since the engineeringaculty is involved in a vast arrayo scientiic ields, Larson said, itwas important to help their ideasget as much exposure as possible.

Lars spay hghght-ed the areas o biotechnology,nanotechnology, environmentaltechnology and inormationaltechnology as the big our re-search areas the University willmphasz, as thr ar ts ad

ts ts mg ut ths aras.

hough this new positionwill ocus on engineering, the w tu t sr as apattg as wth thr s-ences, Briant said. He added that

Katherine Gordon, the oicesmanaging director, will ocus bthgy, ad AssstatDirector Leonard Katzman willwrk msty wth mputr s-ence and other physical sciences.he new position will enable Gor-don and Katzman to devote moretime to their speciic ields, Briantsad, whh w tur hp thUniversity capture inluential re-sarh ary ad atat thpattg prss.

hugh th atpatsthe general role and impact thew pst w ha, ts mrsp uts ar st bgdpd, Grd sad, addgthat more inormation will beaaab a w mths.

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Michael Perchonok 12. Next year,the University will incorporate thest mda srs r studt

groups into the campus budget,allowing UFB to distribute more othe student activities und directlyt studt grups, Shss sad.

With the increase, Percho-nok said UFB will have around$00,000 mr t aat t stu-dent groups next year, allowingth bard t ud mr rqusts.

It will certainly be tangible,said Sam Gilman 15, the UCScommunications chair. Groupsw raz that a tt bt mr thr rqusts w b udd t ahghr .

Beore the proposal was sub-

mitted to the Corporation, theUniversity Resource Committee,hard by Shss, rwd threquest and decided to recommenda ras $36.

In considering the proposedraise, URC looked at how the stu-dent activities ee would be usedto benet student activities andhow the Universitys student activi-ts mpard t that thrshs, Shss sad.

We thought there was a verygd argumt mad that Brw

dst dat ugh my sthat student clubs can be morejyab, mr grus whatthy d, Shss sad.

But he said URC thought the

proposed $72 ee increase was toogreat and told the council to returnth wg yar thy t a-other increase in the ee would bessary, h sad.

Over time, theres a good pos-sbty that thr u rqust wbe ullled, but thats contingent ona variety o other actors, said BenNoble 13, a student representativeon URC and a ormer Herald stawrtr.

Te cost to student groups oemploying a member o the De-partment o Public Saety or o theDepartment o Facilities Manage-

ment at an event increased thisyar, Cada sad.

Te DPS ees rose aer DPSrag padd t th JwryDistrict. Because this was a one-time cost increase, the council willprobably not request a ee increaser athr w yars, Ca sad.

T tut rs s ususta-able, and we are trying to do whatw a t mak sur that studtactivities dont cause tuition tors, Gma sad.

o prevent a greater increase in

th studt atts , w argoing to put on a pretty big push togt (th studt atts dw-ment) o the ground, Gilman said.Its y ar t studt grups t

give them enough resources thatthey can really thrive and be asprdut as thy a b.

Te student activities endow-ment currently holds $1.8 million,though the council hopes to even-tually raise the endowment to $17m, Cada sad.

Sh sad UCS w rah ut tBrown alumni centers around thecountry to show alums what stu-dent activities looks like and thetypes o things that the undingwud g twards.

Sh sad sh hps th ucan triple the endowment by the

d th yar.he UCS Student Activities

Committee will also be morestringent with the group catego-rization process, so the currentgrups wud r mr ud-ing versus promoting so manynew groups that the raise in undswud b ggb, Cada sad.

T u w b rasg astatement about the student ac-tivities endowment in the upcom-g wks, sad Da Ppk 4,UCS-UFB as.

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Campus ews 3the Brown Daily eraldMonday, February 27, 2012

B MathiaS heller

Senior Staff Writer

On college campuses across thecountry, relationships between

university public saety ocersand the student body can beraught with diculty, especiallywhen issues o race and ethnicityare involved. But ocers at theUniversity are well-positionedto deal with the issue o diversity,said Michelle Nuey, manager ocommunity relations and outreach

bureau or the Department o Pub-

Saty.In the last decade, DPS has

attmptd t ras r u-derstanding o students dierent

backgrounds by implementingtwo programs the Diversity

Awareness De velopment Initia-tive, an annual two-day ocertraining program started in 2004,and the Ocer-Student DialogueProgram, initiated in 2007, whichacilitates discussion betweenocers and students. Nuey saidthe programs expose ocers tocultural issues in order to maketh dpartmt mr t atprttg th studt b dy.

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Ocers undergo training tohelp them become more c ultur-ay sstzd ad awar thrown biases, said Wendy McRae-

Owoeye, director o sta diversity.We have to establish a certain prssasm.

McRae-Owoeye said the train-ing program presented a series gtts t rs abut d-erent situations involving indi-

viduals rom diverse backgrounds,rg thm t rsdr thrpreconceived notions about mi-norities and others. DPS employ-

ees have become the premierprts rgzg drstyissues as a result o the trainingprgram, sh sad.

Our py s aways t bud

trust ad t bud partrshps,Nuey said, citing the need or o-cers to maintain sensitivity whenworking with students o dier-ent races and sexual orientations,as w as ths wth dsabts.Tats something really unique tour dpartmt, sh sad.

Nuy sad th r tragprogram brings in presenters romarus s th Ursty,such as Psychological Services, todiscuss issues o socioeconomicbackground, race, sexual orienta-

t ad prjud.We try to engage not only

with resources here on campus,but also looking to the greaterProvidence community, Nuey

said, adding that the Universityseeks perspectives rom skilledcommunity specialists, such asrprstats rm CrssradsRhode Island, a homeless servicesagy.

St, MRa-Owy sad thwork o bridging the gap betweenth studt bdy ad DPS s -gg.

Its a two-way street. Studentsalso have to provide respect,MRa-Owy sad.

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A lot o people dont really

kw what DPS rs d, sadBecky Bass 13, a minority peercounselor who participated in theocer-student dialogue program th ast yar.

Started with the support o theTird World Center, which solicitsstudts drs raa, thand socioeconomic backgroundsto participate, the dialogues areaimed at creating channels ommuat btw rsand students. Te discussion pro-gram sks t rat a sa spawhere students and ocers canreely air their views on a range oampus saty ssus, sad Nuy,

a lead organizer and moderator th dagus. T umbr participants varies rom meet-ing to meeting, though Nuey saiddialogues always eature an equalratio o students to ocers so thatneither group eels outnumbered.

We encourage ocers andstudents to be very candid butalso very respectul, Nuey said.As a moderator, its importantto distinguish between confictresolution and dialogue. She saidshe aimed to encourage both sidesto come to a mutual understand-ing o the appearances and belies

that lead to misconceptions aboutocers roles or students conduct.

Nuy sad th dagus haled to a g reater sense o inclusionamong ocers who sometimesa k thyr t udd th ampus mmuty. Stu-dents and ocers have discusseda wd rag ssus durg thprogram, rom DPS protocolwhen responding to specic cam-pus saety situations to sensitivityover dealing with members o theLGBQ mmuty, Nuy sad.

It was ray hpu t gt t

know individual ocers and whatthy d r studts, Bass sad.

A students ability to build aconnection with a single ocercan make a real dierence inbridging the gap between the twogroups, said Shane Lloyd, assistantdirector or rst and s econd-yearprgrams at th WC.

Students eel more comort-able with policemen when theykw thy a g t a partuarr wth whm thy d-pd a ratshp, Lyd sad.

Te WC seeks to use the dia-logues to examine myths about

raa prg th tt students assumptions about o-cer behaviors, according to Lloyd.T WC s as rdatg aw utrah rt wth MPCs,wh w dsuss ssus dr-sity with rst-year students thissmstr.

Many participants said thedialogues helped them overcomethr w bass.

Especially in communities ocolor, theres sometimes a percep-tion that DPS ocers arent ap-

proachable, said Emily Gonzalez

13, an MPC and participant inth dagus. I thk I a ap-prah thm mr w.

Coming rom an area in LosAngeles where he said law en-orcement oicials are otenviewed with suspicion, dialogueparticipant Pierre Arreola 13,also an MPC, said he initiallyt ts arud DPS rs.

My own interactions with po-lice ocers were based on ear,Arreola said. I was trying tobreak that boundary or myselad s ths rs as pp.

Arra sad h was surprsd

by the level o honesty in the dia-logues and encouraged other stu-dts t gt d as a w ay better understanding the work oDPS ocers. Tey want to knowmore about how we think, andw shud dty kw mrabut hw thy thk, h sad.

May studts datd thywere not aware o the Universityseorts to acilitate outreach be-tween DPS and the student body.

I had no idea that was hap-pening, said Rachel Bishop 13,

adding that those eorts servea useul purpose or the cam-pus mmuty. Othr studtsexpressed similar views, sayingthey had not heard o the ocer-studt dagus.

Gonzalez said she decided togt d th dagus b-cause she elt they would help herprovide better counseling to rst-years as an MPC. Te discussionsare also a way o honestly commu-nicating concerns students haveabut ampus saty, sh sad.

I we dont tell them what isgoing on on campus that is threat-ening our sae space, they wont

know how to protect us, Gon-zaz sad.

he University is trying tocapitalize on the progress made th dagus by rahg utto student groups involved withdiversity issues, including theUndergraduate Council o Stu-dts, th Qur Aa, GrkCouncil and MPCs, Nuey said,addg that sh hps ths strat-egy o engagement will expandthe discussion o diversity acrossampus.

With training and dialogues, DPS highlights diversity

Paige Gilley / Herald

Together, MPCs and the TWC see to address the anxiety some minority stdents eel in approaching DPS ocers.


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Campus ews4 the Brown Daily eraldMonday, February 27, 2012

O the remainder o the stimu-lus unding, $12.1 million went

toward engineering and physicalscience, and $1.5 million wenttoward projects in other depart-mts.

Many o the projects undedwith NIH stimulus dollars wentthrough the normal research grantprocess, Wing said only thistime applicants chances o receiv-g udg wr rasd.

Its hard to tell whether a proj-

ect was unded because o thestimulus or i it wouldve beenunded anyway, said David Paine,proessor o engineering. I wouldsay ay prjt udd th past

three years had its odds o beingaccepted increased because o thestmuus my.

his means that even withstmuus dars dryg up, smprojects unded by the act couldcontinue to be unded through themptt rwa prss.

Other projects unded by thestimulus were one-time onlygrants, ocused on the purchas-ing o equipment or investment ininrastructure. A $1 million cyberinrastructure expansion was und-ed to better connect Browns maincampus to the Jewelry District andthe Warren Alpert Medical School.

Tis project was very (Recov-

ery Act)-specic, said Ed Haw-rt, prssr mda s.Right now, theyre orecasting thatthy wt b ab t supprt ths

th utur.Stimulus dollars also made pos-

sible the purchase o a $1.2 millionnanoabrication tool, Paine said.More than 50 individuals havebeen trained to use this versa-t t, ad t has usags arssmutp dpartmts, h sad.

Agnes Kane, proessor o medi-cal science, received unding aspart o a collaboration with theUniversity o Rochester to studyth t arb atubs th ugs.

Kane credits the act or provid-ing the unds necessary or this

project and said she will just keepwrtg grats w that stmuusdars ar gr aaab.

Hawrot said he expects NIHunding to remain fat and NSFunding to increase slightly in nextyars budgt.

Even Congress can recognize ada wh thy s t, Pa sad,regarding the return on investmentthat dra rsarh dars pr-d t th my at-arg.

I thk pp wh ha b ths gam r a g tm kwthat unding comes and goes,Paine said. You just have to beprepared to jump when there is

a pprtuty.

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NSFs Academic Research Infrastrctre grant program fnded mechanical pgrades to the universitys greenhose.


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Arts & Culture 5the Brown Daily eraldMonday, February 27, 2012

B Nora McDoNNell

Contributing Writer

I a rt ttd T Last R-sistance Tursday evening, pianistSteven Spooner played pieces com-posed by Mohammed Fairouz thatwere infuenced by issues involvingth Mdd East, udg Amr-can sentiments toward the regionpreceding and ollowing the 9/11attaks.

Te perormance was a con-cert lecture, said Michael Steinberg,proessor o history and music anddirector o the Cogut Center orthe Humanities, in his openingrmarks. that t, Faruz -troduced and explained each piece

t th aud.I think that theres certainly a

message to think critically about theMiddle East to think analyticallyabout this extremely complicatedregion and set o political chal-gs, Stbrg sad.

Te concert included two oFairouzs sonatas, Refections onExile and Te Last Resistance,wrks sprd by th tratur Palestinian-American literary theo-rist Edward Said and English authorJacqueline Rose, respectively. Rosehas wrtt abut th Mdd Eastor the last 15 years, Steinberg said.

Troughout the perormance,th aud whh d a ttmore than hal the auditorium

was utterly silent and met the nalewth a stadg at.

I enjoyed how it was contem-porary, but accessible, said WillPamr 5.

Te concert which took place th Marts Audtrum thPerry and Marty Grano Centeror Creative Arts was the secondinstallment o the Cogut CentersCritical Dialogues in Arts and Hu-manities. Te three-part programwas designed to emphasize themtg gruds btw th hu-manities and the arts and osterdialogues between people who are

doing dierent things, Steinbergsad.

Te program also included alecture by Rose Wednesday anda conversation between Rose andFairouz the day aer the concert,whh Stbrg mdratd.

Te recent redesign o Pem-brk Ha ad strut thGrano Center have created a pre-mium space in which to developnew programs or perormance andexhibition related work, Steinbergsad. T rta dagus ar ainitiative that I hope will move or-wards.

Concert lecture examinesmodern Middle Eastern life

yur a stuat thatmight seem pretty crummy at thetime, theres always a venue tomake that into something good,sh sad.

he storytellers brought thatattitude to the stage. he per-

ormers, including Weiss, Bos-worth, Schwartz, Marc Briz 14,Abe Pressman 12, ormer Heraldgraphs dtr, Shaw Saudrs14 and Jonathan opaz 12, Her-ald editorial page editor, all oundthe humorous side in their ownmbarrassmt r rgrt.

opaz, who ounded the groupin 2010, entertained with the sagao his insomnia a well-deliv-ered comedy that surprised theaudience with several poignantmmts.

Schwartz and Pressman, whotd quay humrus strs

potential loves ound and lost,each ended his tale with an articu-at ad ptmst phras abuta ss ard.

hs abty t wa tgthrhumr ad sght s smthgthe group actively works toward,Weiss said. At the groups openmeetings every week, students

are invited to participate in story-telling exercises, listen to proes-sional stories and practice tellingthr w tas.

Its really an important skillto be able to share a story romstart to inish in a compelling andtrstg way, sh sad.

In the uture, Brown Storytell-ers plans to collaborate with othergroups on campus and expandthr aud ad mmbrshp,Weiss said. hey plan to put onathr shw atr ths smstr a u that a hd a argraud.

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Tom Sllivan / Herald

Spring Awaening, which explores a grop o German adolescents jorney to sexal matrity, rns March 9-11.

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Love triangles abound in Sparrow GrassB BeN kutNer

Senior Staff Writer

Love triangles are a tricky thing ad mr s wh a sdsar wth th sam amy. r-ity Repertorys latest production,Sparrow Grass, measures the tollst taks a amy.

h pay rs arud thrtur hm a (Rh-ard Donelly) ater a long militarytur. h mmbrs hs amyare home together or the irsttime in years, anticipating hisrtur.

he audience learns airlyquickly o a romance between thecolonels wie (Phyllis Kay) and hisson rom another marriage (ylerLansing Weaks). From here, theamily is jettisoned into disarray.

What we have tried to cre-at s a Grk pay r a tm-porary American audience withcontemporary themes, said CurtCumbus, th paywrght.

Columbus serves as artisticdirector or rinity Rep, but hegave this productions directing

responsibilities to Brian McEle-ney, head o the Brown/rinityRp MFA Atg Prgram.

Columbus explained thatSparrow Grass does not pre-td t b a rast prtraya lie but instead acknowledges thatit is a perormance. Charactersaddrss th aud durg thperormance a theatrical ap-proach that has its roots in ancientGrk drama.

Teres incest in the play,Columbus said, adding that the

audience will only eel like pas-sive observers and thereore al-low themselves to watch the play,detached rom the action becausethey are made aware that the dra-ma s t ra.

(Te U.S.) is at an interestingpa ur dmray/mpr,Columbus said. Te similari-ts t assa Gr ar raykd rmarkab ad aaabt ay wh w k.

Te plays dialogue containsseveral reerences to the storyo Odysseus, in which a generalrturs hm t d may m

yg r hs ws hart.Te play is replete with lines

that dr a hautg t rmthe incestuous nature o thept. uhg yur hd s thmost innocent, the most wonder-ul thing in the world, says thecolonels wie in an aside to theaud.

Te shocking plot holds theaudiences attention, but the scriptsometimes detracts rom the grav-ty th subjt. I a w ass,the dialogue seems heavy-handed,

ardg th ast umrus p-portunities or overacting. Butthe all-around strong cast han-dd th srpt w, rmgthe majority o these momentsad drg a g admorally-wrenching perormanceusday ght.

Te play has a very uniqueand specic sense o humor toit, said Alex Krieger 12, who at-tdd usdays prrma.

Comedic moments were oundin many scenes, making the in-cestuous overtones seem all themr surra.

Cortesy o Trinity Repertory Company

Actors in Sparrow Grass brea the orth wall, a directors choice to eep the adience as passive observers.


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Arts & Culture6 the Brown Daily eraldMonday, February 27, 2012

B Ju MyouNg kiM

Staff Writer

Tis is at, too at, says an oldma, ptg at th dad pg awooden table. Te camera moves inon a closer shot o knives, re andpeoples hands hurrying to prepare abg, wdy atpatd ma r thvillage. Soon, the screen ades outto another old man, staring at thecamera and singing in a deep moan.Tese scenes are eatured in video

installations at the Living Rooms Prry ad Marty Gra Ctror the Creative Arts as part o anexhibition entitled Our Homeland,G Just Lk Tat.

Te exhibition, which began Feb.20 and will be on display throughMarch 5, eatures videos, still im-ages, sounds and text that ollowManchurian video artist Na Yingyusutrs wth th Na pp Lijiang, China. Te work exploresthe Naxi culture, land and everyday, whh ar at tms mpatdby political issues such as culturalloss, minority representation in Chi-a ad rasd tursm. Tugh

the work does not contain an explicitpolitical message, politics has tocompete with everything else you seein (the videos and images), said JayBrown, who curated the exhibition.

Te video portion o the workcontains many glimpses into thelives o the Naxi people. Te cam-era ollows them arming, singingand dancing. People oen casu-ally turn and speak to the camera.None o these actions were scriptedor staged, Brown said. Na met thepeople during his residency at a stu-dio in Lijiang, where he also readabut ad rsarhd th pa ad

its history. Recurring gures includeH Xudg, th ag prst, adH Ly, th musa, h addd.

A total o 353 minutes o clipsare divided into 59 chapters o vary-ing length. Currently, the GranoCenter is showing 12 DVDs withdierent selections o the chaptersthat are randomly changed everyday, Brown said. What intrigued me(about curating this exhibition) wasthe building and the way people useit, Brown said. Te Living Roomsat th Gra Ctr rat tr-esting situations or attention, headded. People can either pass byquickly or decide to stay or a longertm, h sad. I a spa k ths, hrmmdd wathg th dsat dierent times in their cycles, andtrying to spend more time watchingthm.

When the exhibition at theGra Ctr ss, t w mt Lat O Nw Yrk Ctyr athr dspay, whh w taka very dierent ormat a rame trstg pps, wth 40 t 50d srs at arus ags adspots along the rame. Brown willalso be on campus to discuss thehbt ts sg day thEnglander Studio at the Grano

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artS & Culture editor

I want to paint the air, said Im-pressionist painter Claude Monet

5. Ad that s thg shrto impossible. He was drawing acontrast between the artists o hisday who only wanted to replicatebjts thy saw ad ths khms wh watd t apturss tagb aspts th aturawrd k ght ad ar.

I th hbt Patg Ar, dspay th Rhd Isad Sh Dsgs Chas Ctr Garsthrugh Juy , th Brky art-st Spr Fh taks Mtschallenge while giving it his ownthrughy mdr sp.

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works Finch either created or re-congured or the show. Te restis made up o pieces he ound inthe RISD Museums enormouscollection much o which hasspent most o its lie hidden romth pub.

Te installation that gives theexhibit its name hangs at the ar endo the gallery space. On the walls th rm ar bks pat, 34 colors loosely borrowed romMts patt, Fh sad. I thmiddle, 100 panes o glass hangrom scaolding, refecting the lightrom a single window, the colors onthe wall and when the room is

occupied the shapes o onlookers.he installation is all about

hag. T ght bamg rma window in the corner changesdpdg th tm day, adtrees leaves lter the light in di-erent ways during dierent sea-ss. E th prs pp,whs rfts ar a surprs th mdst s muh abstrat ghtad r, atr th pr.

Other pieces also refect naturalchanges in the world Sky (OverFranz Joseph Glacier, April 8, 2008,10:40 a.m.) most l iterally. Standing

th mdd a rm, th sup-ture consists o an ice machine, achute and a pool lled with blue inkad watr, md t math th -at shad th sky r th ttuargar, whh Fh bsrd atrp t Nw Zaad.

As the ice melts, it drips into thepool. When the pool overfows, thewater is sucked back into the icemachine and remade into ice. Tus,

th shad bu th p rchanges the result o what Finch

jokingly called an elaborate systemor creating a blue monochromepatg.

Fhs wrks a shw a tr-st th atura wrd, rratgprocesses o change and breakingdw mpatd das t thrsmpst parts. T sam hsat b ud th RISD Mu-seum pieces Finch chose or thehbt.

Sm ps d t hs thm apturg th tagb. O pr-

t th rm dspays wrks tasm, a sty Fh dsrbsas the inverse o Impressionism.Rather than seeking to capture light,these prints, drawings, paintingsand video seek to portray darkness.

Another set o works, ttinglygrupd udr th tt Odds adEds, was hs smpy baus,as sma ad rathr radm psin an enormous collection, thewrks wud rary b put ds-pay by a srus uratr.

Because I am not a curator, I amr t put thgs ut hr bausI like them and not worry about

tting them into some big idea,Fh sad.

Another portion o the collectionearned a spot on the wall just oramusing the artist. When Finch wasgoing through the museums col-t, h ud a wa stry-expressioned portraits includingone stony-aced Pomeranian. Hess strag as th usus

th musum, ad h sad h udnot resist displaying this side o thecollections psyche just as he hadud t.

Te connective tissue betweenFinchs works and the museumscomes, ttingly, rom Monet. Terst piece one sees upon enteringthe gallery is Monets Te Basinat Argtu, a dramy dpto sailboats on a pond. On an adja-cent wall leading to Finchs work is acopy o Monets original that Finchpatd a dar rm a rd while a student at RISD in 1988.

Finchs devil-may-care attitudetwards uratg may aus whp-lash in the transition between hiscareul, cerebral works and thewhimsical way the museum collec-t s dspayd. But t as maksor a pleasant experience both in

viewing pieces that cause museum-goers to think about how they viewthe world and those that might notthrws s th ght day.

Recapturing Monet, with a modern twist

B alexaNDra MacarlaNe

Senior Staff Writer

Amid ashion, photos and favor-ul desserts, Sported@Brown, thewebsite oshoot o Fashion@Brown, made its Internet debutlast Friday night. As a documen-tat Brw strt sty, thwbst aturs mags ad pr-s studts arud ampus,said Eve Blazo 12, a co-creatorand creative director or Sported@Brw.

Te night was about dedica-t t sty ad abrat ash, Baz sad. Mst attd-s wr smbs that drssdup the stark studio in the Perryand Marty Grano Center or theCreative Arts where the event washeld. But each outt was a uniquetak rma attr, dspaygtru mmtmt t th dd-ual in ashion, one o the websitesma gas.

Visuals immediately grabbedth y up trg th party,a lively contrast to the modern

architecture o the studio and the

dreary rain outside. A projectortook up most o one wall, present-ing shapes on a visualizer in sync

with the music. Intermittently,scenes o avant-garde ashionshows took over the wall, andeventually the website itsel be-came the main ocus o the dark-d rm.

Te party was not just musicad fashy suas. I rro the room a stark stage light pro-

vided illumination or photogra-phy. Members o the Sported@Brown team and partygoers alikeposed or photos, both serious andsilly, under the artistic lighting.Te party even eatured deliciousdesserts, made by the Sported@Brw sta.

Sported@Brown is a work inprogress, said Arlando Battle 12,ts rat drtr. As th mas-termind behind the website, Battlesaid he wants the site to refectcampus culture. It is about build-ing community, he said, addingthat h wud t atur thindividual style o Dean o the

Cg Kathr Brgr.

Te website itsel was shownnear the end o the party, eaturingphoto spreads o students aroundampus. As th st grws, t weature mostly images o studentsand their styles, Blazo said. Oncea week one student will be pro-d dpth, wth phtgraphso multiple outts, documenta-tion o the individual in their ownrmt ad a qust adaswr prt abut thr sty.Te prole will capture the quali-ties that make the person unique,Blazo said, adding that those qual-ities are an important component ryday sty.

Blazos own style refects a dis-tt ad dpd ratshpt ash. Hr smb r thparty was emblematic o a design-er who has mastered the simplebut dramatic look. Basic colors black, white and gold set hr y-athg skrt, whhwas foor-length and accented byasymmtray ut pas.

At Brown, people put eortinto their everyday clothes, said

Mia Zachary 13, director o Fash-

ion@Brown. Te site should notbe about designers but about greatashion sense, she added. Zacharysaid bright colors and the ashion hr w parts ar th mstimportant aspects o her personalsty. Pp dt war ughrs, sh sad.

Sported@Brown is the website

component o the new studentgroup Fashion@Brown, whichwas recognized by Undergradu-ate Council o Students in the all.Ad thugh th grup s t -ay td t th ampusashion magazine Unhemmed,Blazo said Fashion@Brown willtry t wrk wth th pubatas muh as pssb.

All ashion is developed to-gether, she said, adding that it

is an important component oth rgazat t wrk twardcreating a culture that celebratesashion at Brown. As a senior,she said she hopes to get youngerpeople involved in the ashion cul-tur ad has ath that darslike Sported@Brown will survive

th utur.

Despite rain, students bust out best outts Friday night

Cortesy o the Rhode Island School o Designs Msem o Art

The installation Painting Air contains works by Spencer Finch and pieces crated from the RISD Msems collection.


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Features 7the Brown Daily eraldMonday, February 27, 2012

B aDaM aSher

Contributing Writer

Te Brown Polo team preparesor practice more elaborately than

most sports teams. Beore playerscan begin practice, they must ready

horses by wrapping their shins,cleaning out their horseshoes andbraiding their tails so that malletswont accidentally get caught inthm. T, as th wd bws rom the bay and their shadowslengthen in the late aernoon sun,they head out to the Newport PoloClub practice elds to get to work.

Te Brown Polo Club is at oncea rigorous team and a group look-ing to push the boundaries o howits sport is perceived. Originally aclub with only three members, its

mmbrshp has w grw t adozen people between the mensand womens teams, with a core

varsity group o seven people. Teclub is seeking more students to

join, both to ensure it does not dieut ad t pr that p s t

just a sport or the very wealthy,sad Margt Py 4, a atr-at t th wms tam ad tswst mmbr.

T ub as hps mr stu-dents will discover the magic othe sport. Simply put, polos anaddiction, said Coach Dan Ke-atg.

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Te club was ounded in 2011,when Brown Polo became a mem-br th Utd Stats P As-sociation and became recognizedas a Catgry III rgazat bythe Undergraduate Council oStudents, allowing it to submita budget to the UndergraduateFa Bard ah smstr rapproval, said President o BrownP Car Hughs .

Eah mmbr th tam hashis or her own reasons or join-ing. For Reyad Williams 11.5,wh grw up a hrs arm

North Carolina, polo was a wayor him to ride horses at Brown,as the equestrian team does notaccept male members. When Wil-liams dismounted aer his rstpolo lesson, you could see himshaking with excitement, Keatingsaid. Williams has been hookedr s.

Sam ianlin Yang 14, who iscurrently training to eventuallycompete as a member o the mensteam, and Diego Ramos Rosas12 share Williams love or thesport. Both rode horses as childrengrowing up in Peru and China,respectively, and encountered rep-resentatives rom Brown Polo atthe Student Activities Fair. HanSheng Chia 14 said he started rid-ing last year largely out o curiositybut has since become comortableenough to compete in intercol-gat maths.

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As the team did warm-up drills,such as penalty shots and drib-bling exercises, Keatings wie Ag-nes explained the origins o thesprt ad th bas rus. P its modern orm was rst inventedby Maharajas in India as a way

o training cavalry soldiers and

was adopted by British troops sta-td thr th th tury.Aer they brought the sport backto England, its popularity spread,and it is now played in more than

0 utrs, sh sad.Tere are two main varieties

o polo eld polo and arenapolo. Field polo is the variety mostpp thk wh th sprt smtd, payd wd grasselds in warm weather. Arenapolo, the variety which BrownPolo participates in, is played inarg rras a mtur drtand sand, and can be played in lessarab dts r drs.

Penney said the horses per-sats ar a arg part whatmaks p s appag. Wththe group o horses at Newport

Polo Club, she explained, thereare riendships and rivalries. Onehorse aptly named Romeo even has a harem o emalehrss.

he irst time Yang playeda polo match, he was not com-pletely clear on all o the gamesrules, he said. He added that hewas pasaty surprsd that hshrs apparty kw what wasgoing on during the match most othe time. I trusted him to take met whr I dd t b, h sad.

Youre on a horse, hitting ba llswith a stick what more couldyu wat? Wams sad.

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Py sad th tams hghstpriorities are currently undraisingand recruiting. Because the club isrelatively new, it does not have thesame undraising base as teams atYale and Harvard, which recently

received a large donation romactor ommy Lee Jones, Hughessad.

Te teams ultimate goal is tojoin the Brown athletics depart-ment, as the polo teams at Yale andHarvard have become members otheir respective athletic depart-

ments, and become a strong com-petitor in the Ivy League, Hughessaid. Te club has not yet beenable to arrange a meeting withrepresentatives rom the depart-mt, sh sad, but th ma-time, it has continued to competewth thr ursty p tams.For the rst time, Browns menspolo team will be competing inthe Northeastern IntercollegiatePreliminary ournament in Ports-muth t mth.

Py rd sm prsp-tive projects or the uture, includ-g a ub trp t as r Frdat rd ry day r a wk the warm weather during the win-ter and volunteering at a nearbytherapeutic riding center to showth ubs hartab sd.

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On the drive back to Provi-dence, Ramos Rosas, Chia andWilliams talk excitedly about thatdays practice, which included ascrimmage with the nationallyranked Newport InterscholasticGrs P am.

hey mostly talk about thehorses and their riding experi-ences Romeo was great today!

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ing colder and darker outside,ad thr s bary rm ugh

r pp ad thr mats,

the atmosphere in the car is oneo warmth and camaraderie. As

Williams drives, he sums up the

experience Ive done a lot oawesome stu in my lie, but polo

s by ar th mst awsm.

Young polo club challenges sports elite stereotypes

Emily Gilbert / Herald

Polo team members say interacting with the horses, who have distinct personalities, is one of the best parts of the sport.


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B caroliNe laNagaN

Senior Staff Writer

When Gavin Myers 06 MPH trd th mastrs pub

health program in 2007, he wassmpy trstd HIV as a r-search topic. But as he workedwith aculty members on research,h razd that h watd t dhands-on community service thatwould have an immediate impact.In 2009, Myers joined orces withKrissy Diamond Rovner 07 MPH11 to create PL-AIDS, a nonprotthat spreads awareness about HIVad AIDS.

Te pair combined Myers pas-sion and Rovners business acu-men to start the organization,which was originally called the

Brown Global HELP Initiative.Te groups mission is to raiseHIV awareness, specically aboutprevention methods, by reach-ing out to at-risk communities Prd ad suthr NwEngland, Myers said. Te groupalso consults with doctors aroundthe world on issues o biomedicalprt.

Research has an impact aswell, but on a longer term, My-rs sad.

One o the groups recentachievements is a post-exposurehotline that will be introducedMarch 1. Te hotline will connect

callers with an HIV specialist,Philip Chan, who will listen to thecallers situation and determinewhthr r t thy ar at rsk HIV and i they should receiveprophylaxis, a morning-aer pillor HIV. Te hotl ine wil l providea mr tmat ad mrtabau r pp wh mght brutat t tak t a dtr a

mrgy rm, Myrs sad.Members o the group have

also visited hospitals to see wheth-r thy r th prphyas pand have spoken with doctors

and proessionals with confict-ing opinions on its use. Te groupams tshw that (th p) s aoption but not an escape or reck-less behavior, said Andy Chang13, a member o the organization.

Te group recently received501(c)3 charity status, allowingpeople who donate to the groupt r a ta ddut. It asallows the group to be tax-exemptand apply or a wide variety ograts.

PL-AIDS ocuses largely onraising awareness through me-dia. Members distribute pam-

phts abut th prphyas pin clubs, bars and schools, and thegrup has rty dpd ainterest in more interactive media,suh as m ad dumtars.Myers ounded the productionmpay, Grauma Fms, a r-prt rprat tty that hpsraise unds or his documentaryprjts, as sm mmakrs abe reluctant to work with non-prt rgazats, h sad.

Te company is currently in

the process o producing twodocumentaries. One documentaryabout post-exposure, which exam-ines issues across the United States

and includes interviews with HIVexperts, has been in productionr abut a yar. Myrs pts a03 ras dat.

T sd dumtary -lows the male sex industry inProvidence and will be releasedlater this year. Weve been receiv-ing a lot o positive press in thecommunity or the lm, Myers

sad.Both Rovner and Myers said

their main diiculty has beena lack o a receptive audienceor their message. Te biggestchallenge has been getting ourorganization known within theBrown community and the publicat large, Myers said. I eel likepart th hag s that thrst a t mmtum r HIVprevention, since a lot o peoplethink that it isnt an issue in theU.S. anymore and ocus on HIV

dpg utrs. A t pp art mtatd t (uson) HIV prevention, since thereare a lot o really good drugs to

trat t.In response, PL-AIDS empha-

sizes that HIV still seriously aectssocially disadvantaged communi-ties whose members oen donthave access to medications, My-rs sad.

Its not just a disease but a so-a prbm, h addd.

hough Rovner and Myers

have both graduated, PL-AIDSstill has an active presence atBrown, with both graduate andudrgraduat studts d

wth th rgazat.Chang, a commerce, organiza-

tions and entrepreneurship andcomputer science concentrator,said it is challenging to balancehis work or the organization withother obligations. But he added,Since Im doing what really in-terests me, Im willing to put inth tm.

Feature8 the Brown Daily eraldMonday, February 27, 2012

Cortesy o Gavin Myers

In 2010, leaders o PL-AIDS and commnity partners organized an AIDS Wal ndraiser at Broolyn Coee Hose.

Student-founded nonprot tackles HIV problems

B MelaNie JohNSoN

blogdailyHerald Staff Writer

Floating around the Internet

recently is the story o a young

entrepreneur, Kellyann Wargo,wh has mad a gtmat bus-ness out o shuttling University o

Mhga at A Arbr studtshome aer successul nights out.A rd sts $5 ad ms wth ar btt watr, $5 a PaB up ad a mpmtaryhigh ve. Wargo had previous-ly oen been sought out in the

w hurs th mrg by hr

riends, as she was one o the onlygrs wth a ar.

Her tagline: Why stride opride when you can get a ride?When she discovered the enor-mus dmad r ary mrgpost-hookup rides home, sheddd t tur hr d at abservice into a business venture.Wargo said there are interest-ing and specic challenges ac-ing her entrepreneurial venture.She sometimes receives meanad rass mmts ad trs tmake sure her admirers get thesame personal treatment as herts, a wh matag hrdmadg prss shdu.

Wargos website or her uniquestartup is launching in March,but curious readers can checkout her umblr where she chatsabout boys in all orms, includ-

ing exes, bros and boyriends.

Her new business is going viral,ad Warg has b trwd may sa mda sts abuther morning-aer services. Herblog also eatures her own per-sa adrtsmts, as hrstartup skills and witty charm aret aurg ugh. Hr aspra-tion, beyond the success o herbusss, s t bm a at ady,sh has sad.

Anyone with a car want to takeup th trh hr? O mght ar-gue that Browns campus is toosmall to have a market or a cross-campus cab service, to which Iwould respond, Perkins. Maybeths a smpy tur t a Sa-Wak-k WakOShamWak complete with fip-fops and anrszd swatshrt.

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Sports Monday 9the Brown Daily eraldMonday, February 27, 2012

Cbrn Voir! | Abe Pressman

Frrniy of evi| Eshan Mitra, Brendan Hainline and Hector Ramirez

C o M I C S

ing player, Jean Harris 12. Harriswas a mmbr th basktbaprogram as a irst-year and orpart o his sophomore year butthen went on a year and a halhiatus beore returning this year.

Even when he wasnt aroundth prgram, h was arud thprogram, Agel said. He did ev-erything to put himsel back intoa position to rejoin the team, andhe persevered and stuck with it.

It was a special night or Har-ris, who started the matchup andconnected on a three pointerr th Bars rst baskt thgam.

We were playing this gameor Jean Harris, said point guardSean McGonagill 14. We ranthe irst play or him, and hekkd dw th rst thr the game, and thats just awesomet s.

Harris inished with 17 pointson the night, one shy o his careerhgh. H was s-- sht-g rm th d ad thr--s rm byd th ar.

his is a big night or me,so I came out with a lot o en-

ergy, Harris said. I was hopingit would translate to the otherplayers, and it did. he team wasreally pumped up, and this is themost energized t hat weve played a wh.

he Bears had little diicultyinding the bottom o the net,

shooting 58 percent rom thed, udg 64 prt rmthree-point range. Six dierentplayers inished in double iguresin scoring. McGonagill led thetam wth pts t g agwith eight rebounds and eightasssts.

Crdt t thm thy shtthe ball incredibly well, said Co-lumbia Head Coach Kyle Smith.It would be hard to shoot thatw just p.

We got in the low o thegame, Matt Sullivan 13 said.he ball started moving aroundreally well, and guys were knock-g dw shts.

he Bears will look to carryth mmtum rm Saturdaysw t t wkd, as thy gon the road or their inal twogames o the season against Penn(17-11, 9-2) Friday and Princeton(16-11, 7-4) the ollowing night.

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Bruno sends offseniors in style

o the club. Both Lucy Fernandez14 and Zal Shro 14 said theywr ss ky t g t th ub

kwg t had b th st ashtg.

Jesse Gumbiner 15 said hewould not worry about return-g t th ub r Brw-ratdevents. But he added, It mightat my dsr t g t wasta Brw t.

Sgma Ch hd a ar-party

or a rush event at Finnegans Sat-urday. Tough president o theratrty Dad Rattr 3 sadhe did not believe the bar con-tatd th ratrty t t thm

about the shooting, the organizerso the event had learned aboutthe incident Saturday prior to theshdud t.

It wasnt ideal or us, butpeople were expecting us to dosmthg that w udt bakout o, Rattner said. It was anurtuat d that w

had to deal with. Te raternitydid not inorm the attendees thatthe bar had been the location o ashtg th prus ght.

Te party eatured additional

security rom the Providence Po-lice Department. At least two po-lice ocers were stationed outsidethe club all night, and the ocerskept their cars lights on or theduration o the party. Brown stu-dents who attended the party saidthe additional security made themeel saer under the circumstances.

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Yore on a horse, hitting balls with a stic whatmore cold yo want?

Reyad Williams 11.5, member o the Brown Polo Team

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Gov. Lincoln Chaee 75 P14 signed a bill July 2 allowing gaycouples in Rhode Island to enter into civil unions. According to art rprt by th Rhd Isad Amra C Lbrts U,y 46 ups ha tak adatag ths gsat s ts -atmt s mths ag. W b th ras r ths w umbrs th Crs amdmt. Addd t th b at th ast mut, thsamdmt aws ay rgus rgazat t t trat as aday u. Cha hms admttd that ths rgus mp-t srats th mprtat rghts that atg a u awwas mat t guarat r sam-s ups th rst pa. Wagree with this statement and believe that the current civil unionaw asss gay ups as sd-ass tzs. Ts s t a a-ptab mprms.

Rhd Isads umbrs trms us ar w mpars t stats wth smar ppuats. I Dawar, 5 union licenses were issued in the rst month aer the legislation

passed, and in Hawaii, 106 civil union licenses were issued in the rstmonth alone. Rhode Island, on the other hand, saw only seven couplesbta u ss Nmbr ad Dmbr mbd.

We see no other reason or this discrepancy other than the Corveseamdmt. T mpats ths amdmt ar umrus Cha td that a prs a u Rhd Isad udbe denied the right to make medical decisions or his or her partner,denied access to health insurance benets, denied property rights inadjg bura pts r dd amy mmbrshps at rgusy-aatd mmuty trs. Ts ar rua rghts that htr-sua ups autmatay r, ad t aw ths rghts t bdd t gay ups r ay ras s ujust. By shug ths aw,th Rhd Isad gay mmuty has shw t w t gtmz adsrmatry ss t tru rst-ass tzshp.

Tough we recognize that Rhode Island at least attempted to takea step in the right direction most other states still do not recognizesam-s marrag ay way th Crs amdmt surs

that gay ratshps th stat ar staty urab t bgrendered null and void. In some cases, as with the right to make medi-cal decisions or ones partner, this can literally be an issue o li e anddeath. Furthermore, this amendment protects individual employees,meaning that even i the administration o a hospital decides to treata gay ma r wma, a ddua urs r dtr at b rdr rusg t prrm thr duts. W b that rgus bsshud t mpt ay rm ga bgats.

Particularly now that Washington recently enacted a gay marriageaw ad Maryads grr s satd t sg suh a b t awthis week and our o the ve other New England states recognizegay marriage, we strongly believe that Rhode Island is behind thetimes and should catch up to its peers. Te states current civil unionlegislation is inadequate, oensive and, or good reason, undesired bythe very citizens it was intended to benet. Te gay couples in RhodeIsland and elsewhere throughout the nation deserve ull access to

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I you were anything like me, you weret th bggst a tradg th batpath. Most o us here at Brown have somekd d r mayb hpstr s mrapprprat ar ad ha r bas bg td what t d. hs d-pendent streak translates to why our openurruum s s aud.

I have written about its emancipatingappeal on numerous occasions, but it isstill a system that takes time and eort. Asreshmen come in, we vouch that they havelittle to ear with the numerous advisingstabilizers at their disposal. We laud acultyadvising and even assure that deans arewg t drp what thy ar dg r astudent in need. Both these can be true,but they tend to be in subjective situations.Inormal or peer advising ends up being themost inluential to Brown students, and its tm w bud up ths udats.

Mst mg studts ar td asthy ar th am thr auty ad-sor prior to their arrival. Building closerelationships with proessors can be one othe most rewarding experiences at college,and it is a eature Brown loves to publicize.hat said, your advisor more oten thannot has interests very dierent rom yours.Most advise voluntarily, and while somecan help cultivate some sense o purpose in

you, most leave you grasping or more. Yet

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- tm wth studts, thr ar wdepartments that are not acing a resource

crunch, which leads to less interaction.International Relations is a perect ex-ample. his department is easily one our mst ppuar trats whatpaat a thr b r hag yone advisor or more than 100 studentsry yar?

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he womens basketball team hada u wkd, drppg alate-game heartbreaker to CornellFriday night but bouncing backthe next night to deeat Columbia75-63.

cn 51, Bwn 50

Atr Cr (-4, 5-6 Iy)orward Clare Fitzpatrick missed

a jumper with ive seconds re-maining in the game, it appearedthe Bears (16-10, 7-5) had nar-rowly es-caped a

deeat tothe BigRd. But Ftzpatrk was ab tcorral her own miss and call atmut.

h 30-sd brak t drawup a a pay prd t b pr-cisely what the Big Red needed.h squad st up Ftzpatrk ranother shot, and this time, t herewas d r a rbud. Hrshot sailed up and in with ourseconds remaining, giving Cor-nell the inal advantage 51-50.Beore Fitzpatricks last secondheroics, co-captain Aileen Daniels ht a jumpr wth sds

remaining to give the Bears a one-pt dg.

he teams were evenlymathd a ght. Bru hd aive-point advantage its biggestad th ght ary , butin the inal 10 minutes o the irsthal, the teams traded baskets andstayd wth tw pts ahother. he squads iled into thekr rms td 5-5.

We werent aggressive enoughin the irst hal, said Head CoachJean Marie Burr. hey orced us

to take outside shots, and withthat deense, you just need to have

a kr stt.Guard Ldsay Nk 3 d

the Bears, putting up 11 o her6 pts th rst 0 mutsand contributing six reboundsthroughout the game. Pointguard Lauren Clarke 14 addednine points and our reboundsr th Bars.

Bwn 75, cmb 63

Ater the heartbreaker inIthaca, Bruno headed to NewYork City to play a st ruggling L i-ons squad (3-22, 1-10). Danielspayd a rua part th w,

exploding or 25 points to leadth Bars s saught th -pt w.

We always know that Aileen iscapable o that every night, Burrsaid. Shewas veryclear onthe actthat she was going to challengethm th sd.

But Cumba ga th Barsa scare at the start o the game.Bru struggd t gt ahad the irst hal, alling behind by, ts y dt th ght,br Nk ht a thr-ptr

midway through the irst hal thatset the tone or the rest o thegam. Nk had a ar prtshooting game, scoring 16 pointson six-or-seven shooting romthe ield, including our-o-iverm byd th ar.

A lot o Aileens points wererom Baker Boards, a termamd r aum Maa Bakr 0,who would get points rom herown rebounds and put themrght bak up, Burr sad. It wasa trbut t a aum, ad sd

rts ar mprtat thy r-ay bstd th tam.

Bruno got the victory with-out major contributions romits leading scorer, Sheila Dixon13. Dixon, who played just 17minutes due to early oul trouble,struggled rom the ield and onlynetted six points. But withoutDixons usual production, oth-

ers Bears stepped up and the teamsnapped out o its spell o coldshooting. he squad shot 44 per-cent rom the ield and 52 percentrom the three-point line over thetwo games, a substantial improve-mt rm ast w kds 30 ad6 prt rspt rts.

Bruno closes out its regularseason this weekend at home,

hosting Penn (11-14, 4-7) andPrinceton (21-4, 11-0), who havewrapped up the Ivy League crownwith an unblemished conerencerecord to this point. When thesquads matched up in New Jerseyearlier this season, the B ears gavethe igers their toughest in-con-erence matchup o the season,ag 57-45.

Bruno keeps winning record alive in Ivy play

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Te womens hockey teams seasonam t a s ths wkd a-tr th Bars wr tw dwdby N. 3 Cr Ithaa thrst rud th ECAC pays.Iy hamp th Bg Rd (-3,20-2) will now move on to thet rud wh Bru (-6-7,5-13-4) heads home. But a pair sss t th tp tamsin the nation ails to put an ac-curate meter on the strides thesquad mad ths yar HadCoach Amy Bourbeaus rst season

at the helm, the Bears made theconerence playos or the rsttm s 006.

Bourbeau was named headcoach in August 2011, taking overor Digit Murphy, who retired a-tr sass as th tams hadcoach. Under Murphy, the teamwon 306 games, six ECAC titlesand reached three national cham-pionship games. But as o late, the

or the worse. In the 2010-2011sas, th tam w y thrgames. Last year, the team onlyw tw.

Tey had kind o lost theirpass t pay, Burbau sad.

But Bourbeau, who had 12years o coaching experience asan assistant coach at Princeton,wasted little time settling in. Ina short time, Bourbeau and thetw w assstat ahs, AdyMcPhee and Lucy Schoedel, wereable to implement a number ochanges to help turn the programback in the right direction. Oneo those changes was ensuring icetm r ry payr.

Last year, not everyoneplayed, Bourbeau said. We triedto nd more roles or players whodidnt play last year. Tis year, ev-ry payd, ad ry hada r.

Bourbeau also said the teamhas changed its philosophy inpractice to one that benets thetam ad th .

practices and give the players abaa btw bg a studtand an athlete, Bourbeau said.Tey kind o had that taken awayrm thm ast yar ad had tmuh thr pat.

Bourbeau said the team em-braced the changes brought by herad hr sta, ad ths was sbon the ice and in the locker room.

Tey have more condencead ray shw thr pass rthe game, Bourbeau said. Teyreexcited when they come to therk. Ty ray wat t b hrand they believe in what weretrying to do. When they play ingames, they have condence inthr abty t w.

Tis new attitude has been evi-dt thrughut th sas. Tteam started o the year with a10-0 blowout o Sacred Heart ascoreline it repeated against thesame team Dec. 7 and romthere continued on to registera season sweep o Ivy rival Yaleand wins over ECAC opponents

Tey also took home the silver-ware aer a Mayors Cup victo-ry over Bourbeaus alma mater,Providence College. Even in losingrts, th tam hug tght wthsome o the nations top teams, in-cluding a 3-1 deeat to then-No. 4Boston College, a 3-1 loss to then-N. 0 Dartmuth ad a 4- ssto Cornell this weekend in the rst th thr-gam pay srs.

Perhaps most impressive is thatthe improved results have comewth a tam whs rstr dd tdrastically change rom last yearstwo-win squad. Captain KatelynLadry d th tam ptswith 19, and goal ie Aubree Moore14 played a huge role in the teamssuccess. Moore, who was named toth A-Iy Frst am ths wk,ranked third in the country in saveprtag ad s a addat rthe ECAC Hockey Goalie o theYar Award.

Im incredibly happy with ourtam, Burbau sad. W w at mr gams tha th past,

improvement with pretty muchth sam tam.

Tugh muh th tam hasspent some previous time on Col-g H, thr wr a umbr rst-years who made a markeddierence on the team, especiallyup rt. Frward Sarah Rbs15 led the team with 10 goals,ad Ja Yag 5 ad BrttayMrhad 5 bth ggd du-b-dgt pts.

he season could very wellprove to be a turning point inBrown womens hockey. IncludingLandry, the team will see only veseniors graduate in May. Moorewill return in net or two moreyears, while the teams six rst-years will come back with a season pr udr thr bts.

It may be the beginning o anew era o success or the pro-gram. Ts sas st a mssagto the rest o the ECAC that theBars ha pkd thr hads utrom their two-year hibernation and next year, they may get the

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