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Monday, January 30, 2012
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B james RattneR
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ta appats t th Ur-sity decreased slightly rom lastyear, with international applicantsmaking up a record 16 percent th appat p. T 2,67tta appats r th ass 2016 25,744 regular decisionand 2,927 early decision rep-rstd a 7 prt d -lowing a record-setting year inwhich the University received thelargest number o applications in
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only the applications or the class-es o 2015 and 2014, respectively,according to a University state-mt rasd t T Hrad astFriday. In 2011, total applicationsrose by 3 percent, and in 2010,they increased by 20.6 percentcompared to the previous year.
Or th prus yars, thumbr appats grw by a-mst 50 prt.
Weve anticipated this kind oleveling-o in application num-brs r sra yars th wako slight declines in the number ohigh scho ol graduates nationa lly,said Jim Miller 73, dean o admis-sion, in the statement. And thereintroduction o early admissionprgrams at sra pr shsrasd th khd that ap-pats wud b wr.
Harvard, Princeton and the
Ursty Vrga rstatdearly admission programs last all.Tese universities had not oeredearly application options since all2006.
Wh th tta umbr ap-plicants decreased, the number ointernational candidates increasedwith China, Canada, South Ko-rea and India being the largest
trbutrs t th tratap. Last yar, th tp utrs rg r trata app-cants were China, South Korea,India, Pakistan and urkey. TeUniversity received applicationsrom 141 countries, two more
tha t dd ast yar.Weve done about the same
amount o international recruit-ment that weve done in the past,Miller said. I do think the U.S. in
B sona mkRttchian
Senior StaffWriter
Sunday aernoon was bittersweetor members o Occupy Provi-
dence as they packed up their tents
and bid goodbye to Burnside Park,vowing to continue their activism.
Te park was important orus to orm a community, saidprtstr Jab Bra. Whwe rst started, I had no ideawho these people were, andnow theyre some o my closestrds.
Udr a da wth th ty -nalized Jan. 23, the movementended its overnight encampment
in exchange or a day center orthe citys homeless. Te Occupyprotesters spent Saturday celebrat-ing their accomplishments andatpatg utur ats. Pr-
testers created art, gave speeches,organized a march around the cityand ended the day with a danceparty in the park that lasted until3 a.m.
O prtstr, wh dtdhersel as Artemis Moonhawk,said the nal night in the park was
bittersweet. Tere were a lot ohugs and a lot o te ars (Saturday)night, she said. In the past, Occu-piers have given Herald reporters
aliases to conceal their identities.Protesters vowed to leave
Occupiers spend nalnight in Burnside Park
Greg Jordan-Detamore / Herald
B alexa Pugh
StaffWriter
Put away your Muppets lunch boxand say goodbye to Kermit thereis a new kind o puppetry in town.
he Puppet Summit, hostedat the Perry and Marty GranoCenter or the Creative Arts Jan.26-29, showcased our plays thatprd a t mr tha th wso being green namely, the emo-tional responses, or lack thereo, togd.
Puppets have been givena bad rap because theyve beeninantilized and co-opted by do-gooders, but historically puppetryis much more morally ambiguousad apab a dpr rag prsss, sad Erk Eh, hado the graduate playwriting pro-gram and proessor o theatre arts
and perormance studies, whowrt a ur pays. Tr abtyt push th budars mpa-thy, he said, is part o why puppetsare so well-suited to the dicultsubject o genocide addressed inhs ur pays.
Te our segments previewedat th summt ar part a m-memorative cycle o 17 plays by
Paper dolls
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B sam RuBinRoit
aSSiStant SportS editor
he mens basketball team pickedup ts rst r try the season this weekend, deeating
Dartmouth 66-59 Friday nightbeore battling No. 23 Harvard ina hard-ought 68-59 loss Saturday.h mathup wth th ata-
y-rakd Crms brught asellout crowd and a spirited at-msphr th ks whh thPizzitola Center had not yet seenths sas.
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he Bears (7-14, 1-3 Ivy)matchup against the Big Green(4-16, 0-4) pitted two squadsdesperate or a conerence win bth had g wss thpg wks Iy pay.
Bruno j u m p e dout to a4-0 start,only tosee its advantage slip away asDartmouth seized the lead orthe remainder o the openinghal. he Big Green went into thekr rm ahad, 33-2.
Bears ght
close gamewith rankedCrimson
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Occp Providence protestors packed p camp in Brnside Park Snda.
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B jamie BRew
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w Cs ut a par styzdcherries on the bright red back-ground o a business card-sizedshape. Tis is the design o the
CherryCard, and a simple, elegantlogo or a company whose basicphilosophy is just as simple every time money changes hands,sm t shud g t harty.
As a senior in high school,Nah Frad 5 startd Chrry-Card with the goal o encouraging
mpas t dat t harts.Charity can be a big marketingstrategy, Fradin said, but he addedthat companies have to spend ex-tra my ad rt t pubztheir charitableness, which is espe-cially difcult or small companieswth wr marktg budgts.
Wal-Mart gives $3 million ayear to charity, but people dontkw abut that, Frad sad.
CherryCard aims to make
harty mr tg t mpa-nies by making donations more visible. CherryCard retailers o-
er their customers cards loadedwth a sma dat ry tmthey make a purchase. Aer enter-ing the cards unique code thatuks ah dat Chr-ryCards website, users log onthrough Facebook and can choosetheir donations recipient rom acategorized list o charities. Usersearn an extra 25 cents to donate
First-years startup aids charities
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general, and Brown in particular,continues to be perceived overseasas a very valuable experience, andI think or a lot o internationalstudents American higher educa-t s ray a gd stadard.
Miller said the acceptance rateor international students tends tobe slightly below that o the entireclass, in part because Brown is stilly d-awar t trata
appats.Brown is not the only school to
experience a drop in applicationsthis year. Columbia, Harvard andPenn all received ewer applica-tions, though only Columbiasdecline was greater than Browns.
Harvard, which reinstated itsearly action program this year,received 34,285 total applications,a drop o 1.9 percent, accordingto an article published in the Har-ard Crms.
Princeton, which also suspend-ed early applications aer the all2006 rud, has t yt rasd
its numbers or regular decisionapplications. It accepted 726 oits 3,443 early action applicants Dmbr.
Te University o Virginia saw
its applicant pool increase by 17.6prt.
Meanwhile, the number oapplicants increased at Cornell,Dartmouth, Duke University,Stard Ursty ad Ya, a-cording to the New York imes.Tese schools saw their applica-tions increase by 3.53 percent,2.98 percent, 6.13 percent, 6.98percent and 5.05 percent, respec-ty.
Bruce Breimer, director o col-
lege guidance at the CollegiateSchool in New York City rom70 ut 2007, ad ths yarsdrop in applications a deviationrm th rm. I dt s t b-g a trd, h sad.
Breimer cited the drop inPrincetons applicant pool orthe class o 2008 as an exampleo how one year may not meanry muh, as th umbr ap-plicants increased the ollowingyear. Everybody was panicking(about) one year aberrations,Brmr sad.
Breimer emphasized that a de-
th umbr appatsis not inherently bad. You havet d ut what th 7 prtdecline represents. In other words,s t a hghr prtag mar-
ginally qualied people decidednot apply? Tats probably a goodthing, Breimer said. Any IvyLagu sh thats prd7 percent decline can still ll itsclass three times over without di-utg th quaty.
Breimer, like Miller, said de-mographers predicted a drop inthe number o high school gradu-ats arud ths tm.
Te percentage o applicantsseeking nancial aid rose rom
67 percent to 68 percent. Directoro Financial Aid Jim ilton said th past yars a sstttwo-thirds o applicants appliedr ad.
Mr stmatd that appa-ts t th Brw/Rhd IsadSchool o Design Dual DegreeProgram are down rom last year,while applications to the Programin Liberal Medical Education haveincreased. Te University received50 appats r th dua d-gree program and 2,493 or PLME.
Miller said the proportion oaccepted students who will ma-
truat may ras du t thact that high school studentshad th pt appyg aryto Harvard, Princeton and theUrsty Vrga.
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B moRgan johnson
Senior StaffWriter
Mr tha 3,000 studts ths s-mester will use Canvas, Browns new
online course management system,beore its slated replacement o My-Courses in spring 2013. Canvas,ocially selected last spring aerreceiving positive eedback rom
student and aculty surveys andocus groups, had its rst testingphas ast a wh t was usd nine undergraduate courses andby rst- ad sd-yar mdastudents, according to the projectsrty auhd wbst.
All aculty members were in-vited via email to participate in thesecond phase o testing this spring.W rd a ry hathy um-ber o responses, said Dean o theCollege Katherine Bergeron o thissemesters volunteers. Sixty aculty
members elected to adopt Canvas,which will be used in roughly 70
urss, Brgr sad.Another voluntary phase is
planned or next all, beore all ac-ulty members are asked to switch toCaas th wg sprg. My-Courses will still be available orus ut summr 203, ardgt Brws Cmputg ad Ir-mat Srs wbst.
I just thought it was clunky,said William Allen, adjunct lecturerin public policy, o MyCourses. A-ter six years o using MyCoursest tah hs smar, PPAI700V:Nonprot Organizations, Allenswthd t Caas ths smstr.
It was amst tut hw tuse it, Allen said o Canvas aerreceiving basic training in the pro-gram. I did not nd it a radicalhag.
MyCourses has a rigid de-sign structure and a complicatedinterace or aculty, said RobertS, assat prssr hstry.S w us Caas hs turcourse, HIS1755: Te IntimateStat: T Pts Gdr, S,ad Famy th U.S., 73-Prs-t.
Sel, who designed the coursead s tahg t r th rst tmths smstr, ptd t us Caas
while creating the class rather than
hag t swth urs matrasrm MyCurss t a w ursmanagement system next year. De-spite having no experience withCanvas beore making his decision,S dd t rgrt hs h. Itsnot bad soware, he said o My-Curss, but t appars that Ca-as s smpy bttr.
I addt t a ar ayut,
Canvas allows instructors to uploadles aster and organize readingsand materials by date. It deals with
videos and other visual images bet-tr, S sad.
Te new program also supportsa greater variety o content. Youa w u pag arts wthuthaving to go to e-reserves, saidChrs Myha , wh s usgit in HIS1900: American EmpireS 0.
But MyCourses does have someeatures that Canvas lacks. Allen,who has used MyCourses orumeature in past years to print student
blog posts and comments in onecombined report, has not yet oundan equivalent eature on Canvas.Im still working with it, he said. Idont think its that big o an issue.
Tugh A ad S ha ytt utr tha dutswith Canvas, Moynihan said thetransition to Canvas has been kindo a rough experience. In additiont bg tmd ut, Myha hashad trouble uploading PDF lesonto Canvas in the correct ormat.
Students who do not register ora class that uses Canvas will stillhave an opportunity to try the newprogram beore shopping periodends. Instructors can publish a pub-lic, reduced-access course page thataws studts t w upmgassignments and course documentswhile disabling homework submis-s ad grad-wg aturs.
Sel said the switch will likelybe well-received. I dont believethe transition will be long or di-ut, h sad. Im d tsa better platorm or both acultyad studts.
Myha s mr wary thupmg swth t Caas. Iused MyCourses or over a year,he said. Im comortable with it,
ad ts asy t us.
Professors replaceMyCourses with Canvas
Brown community teams, shapes upB aPaRaajit sRiRam
Senior StaffWriter
With the national debate on health
care and rising obesity in the U.S.raging on, Rajiv Kumar 05 MD11has decided to disrupt the healthar systm hs w trms.
In 2006, Kumar started theprogram Shape Up Rhode Islandwth th buus ga t d away t hp my patts ah
thr hath gas, whatr thywere, he said. hen a irst-yearmda studt, Kumar dddto change traditional liestylesatr sg hs patts struggt mpr thr hath.
Since the programs inception,Brown has encouraged employ-ees to participate. But this year,the Universitys participationnumbers are down. While therewr 23 mpys ast yar 62 tams a umbr ssttwith the average since 2006, whenBrown began participating thisyear only 266 people have signed
up, 3 tams.Shape Up R.I. looks to harness
the social power o the Internetto encourage collaboration. Inoticed that most people wereag (at ahg thr hathgoals), but those who werent weredoing so by leveraging their trust-ed social network their riends,their amily and their colleagues.
Kumar udd that th kys t mprd hath wasworking alongside others. Due tothe accountability, motivationand social support that comewith exercising with a buddyr dtg wth a rd, h sadhe believed the best way to gethealthier was to get people work-ing together. So Shape Up R.I.tk shap.
With more speciic goals inmind to help people loseweight, increase their exerciseand stem the obesity epidemicweve been seeing nationwideby using online social media Kumar set to work structuringa statewide program that wouldbst mpmt hs s.
Shape Up R.I. is predominantlysponsored by participating em-ployers, who cover the $20 par-
ticipation ee or their employees.
he majority o participants inthe program come rom com-pas r sttuts, udgBrw, whh r thr s.
he numbers are down
throughout the state. We are try-g t d sm mr pubty tget our numbers back up, saidDrew Murphy, director o beneitsr huma rsurs.
In an eort to boost partici-pation, the Universitys Human
Resources department is en-couraging employees to s et upteams with non-employees. Ipeople just dont eel comortablemptg r sg wght ateam with colleagues, then theycan do it in that more riendlyrmt thr amy adriends, Murphy said. Brown willnot cover the cost o those notmpyd by th Ursty.
eams o at least ive take part a aua mptt t d-termine which teams have lostthe most weight, walked the moststeps and exercised the most min-
utes over a 12-week period everyspring. eams are rewarded basedon their perormance in any or allo the three divisions, depending whh s thy hs.
According to the Shape Up R.I.website, more than 48,500 RhodeIslanders have taken part in theprogram since its inception. In2011, there were 12,892 programpartpats wh st a arago 7.4 pounds, exercised about 6.1hours a week and walked about10,237 steps per day, accordingt th wbst.
Murphy, who has himsel beena team captain and participated inthe program or the last six years,w taks th stars up t hs -ice and walks more everyday.During the 12-week program, hewould send emails to co-workersand teammates to join him onlunchtime walks to WaylandSquar r Wkd Strt.
Kim Almeida, a Brown em-ployee who has been on the sametam as Murphy s 2006, hady pras r th prgram. Itsbeen very eective. Its motivatedm t gt ut ad d sm wak-g th tm yar wh yugenerally wouldnt get out and
walk, she said. You get out o
your oice, take a break, go ora wak, gt sm stps durgthe lunch hour. Its truly moti-
vated me to make a lot o liestylehags.
he social element has alsoelicited results. You dont wantt t yur tam mmbrs dw.You know theyre counting on younot to be the person who dragsthe numbers down or th e team,Almeida said. But she added,
Its t k yu gt kk d the team i youre not walkingenough. Its more o a motivat-g atr.
Past Brown teams have includ-ed Brown Campus Lie, BrownGeology, Brown Financial Aidor Fitness and Brown Bears romth Squar.
Shape Up R.I. also sponsorsitness events and discounts atstores or its participants. Part-nering with gyms and healthds strs, th prgram bastsemails to participants throughoutth yar wth rmat abut
das.Kumar s usd mpr-
ing the program, most impor-taty by tryg t mat thee. Any cost is a barrier, he said.H pas t tu utatgrelationships with sponsors inrdr t hp rdu sts.
Kumar is also developingShape Up For Kids, a programthat will apply the same behav-ior-changing principles provent wrk th adut prgram goal setting, progress tracking,riendly competition and socialrewards to a childrens pro-gram.
Were really excited aboutthis, said Kumar, who will betamg up wth th rst ady Rhode Island, Stephanie ChaeeP14, to co-lead this program,which is slated to launch in 2013.
h yuth prgram w ha gas t ras physaatty, spur hathy atg, -urag radg, str r-mental conservation and promotegd dds amg hdr.
Registration or Shape Up R.I.is open until Feb. 6, though thedeadline may be pushed back aweek to promote more partici-
pat.
Morgan Johnson / Herald
Canvas will replace MCorses b spring 2013.Herald fle photoShape up R.I. aims to fght obesit throgh exercise and edcation abot health liestle choices.
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B katheRine long
SeniorStaffWriter
Caada pp start Lghts Valerie Poxleitner has come along way since her sugary rst LPdropped in 2009. Her high-energyperormance at Te Met Fridayght, may aturg traks rmher sophomore eort, Siberia, wasmr grt tha gry.
Blasts o surprisingly raw dubbacked her keening vocals. Omni-prst strb umatd hr dz-s tatts. At tms, sh smdto go into a trance, bent backwardr hr sythszr.
N ths, thugh, ud sath shw rm rsg ab ru--the-mill. Te dubstep, which eaturesprominently on Siberia courtesy oelectrounk collaborators Holy F ,
is an imaginative touch and a signalthat the genre is making inroads intothe mainstream. But a hal-dozendub ps d t a spta mak.
Halway through, the concerttook a redoubtable turn or theaylor Swit, with a saccharine-sweet solo keyboard rendition othe melodramatic Heavy Rope,sm utsy aa ts ad a baadduet with band member Aaron Fink.Even during this interlude, it wasar that Lghts has maturdbyd th brathy smpr hara-teristic o her debut, Te Listening,which garnered her the Juno Awardr Bst Nw Artst.
Perhaps the most remarkablething about the otherwise ratherunremarkable show was not simply
th drsty th sma rwd butthe intensity o its anship, especiallyr a artst wh rs amst statsd arpay.
Most o the crowd whichranged rom shrieking middle schoolgrs ad thr grudgg parts traternity brothers and middle-agedcouples had discovered Lights2008 EP online and ollowed herever since. A remarkable number oconcertgoers had driven or hoursto attend. One couple had dancedto Drive My Soul at their wedding.
In the (United States), peopledont see you on V or hear yoursongs on the radio. Whether itswrd muth r gg adwathg mus ds ad dgyur sgs thy k thydiscovered you, Lights told Te Her-ald. Teres real investment (amongas) th U.S.
Up-and-coming Brooklyn groupSar Adr pd th shw. Tve-piece outt, while technicallysound, was sonically unconvinc-g: a uadturus ad at tmsgimmicky indie eort borrowingwthut sham rm mr suss-u turs.
But Lghts whs hamatur ads suh hd musa
tropes may be a woman to watch.
Songstresslights upotherwisedark night
B alexanDeR kaPlan
ContributingWriter
As the School o Engineering ex-pands, racial and gender diversitywill be a priority in hiring new aculty,said Lawrence Larson, dean o theschool o engineering. Part o thiseort will involve collaboration withthe Diversity Advisory Board, he said.
O the 51 current aculty mem-bers, around 78 percent are whitead arud 0 prt ar ma, hsaid. Te School o Engineering plansto add 12 new aculty members overthe next decade, Te Herald reportedOt. 3.
We are especially open andwelcoming to recruiting new ac-uty mmbrs rm hstray u-
drrprstd aras s adengineering, Larson said. He saidhe and the Diversity Advisory Boardare pursuing ways to ensure that thediversity o (the) engineering acultymrrrs th drsty sty.
Larson said he will meet with theDiversity Advisory Board in earlyFebruary to discuss issues concerningaculty, graduate student and post-
doctoral student diversity plans. Lastsummer, he met with Jabbar Bennett,assistant dean o recruiting and pro-essional development, to discuss thesam tps.
Larson said he hopes the meetingswith the Diversity Advisory Boardduring this upcoming hiring seasonw sur a strg ad drs st auty addats.
U. seeks diversity in engineering faculty
Herald fle photo
The School of Engineering plans to prioritize diversity when hiring new faculty.
Julia Shube / Herald
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Arts & Culture 5the Brown Daily eraldMonday, January 30, 2012
B casey Bleho
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Walking into the David WintonB Gary, atd th bby
th Lst Art Ctr, strs arimmediately conronted by a bar-rage o brightly colored pop-artpieces, photorealist prints and po-tay rat mtags. Tspieces make up the eatured exhi-bt, Opta Ns: Amraand British Prints/Films rom the60s-70s.
T hbt, whh pdocially Jan. 27 and will be on
display through Feb. 21, was con-ceived and created collaborativelyby Monica Bravo GS, AlexandraCollins GS, Sara Hayat GS, AmyHuag GS, Sarah Rag GS ad
Rba Szatyr GS, a rst- adsd-yar graduat studts th Hstry Art ad Arht-tur dpartmt.
Te exhibition eatures worksrepresentative o the main artmovements, themes and images
that dd th 60s ad 70s.Te works o well-known artistssuch as Andy Warhol, Roy Lich-tenstein, Robert Rauschenbergand Bruce Conner are eatured.
Te overarching commonality be-tw th wrks s t rtd the time period itsel, but rather thr shard ustrat thidea o optical noise, which isthe primary ocus o the exhibi-tion, according to the exhibitionspampht.
ermed by American art criticL Stbrg, pta s r-ers to the manipulation, repro-duction and decontextualization owdy rgzd mags drawrom popular culture, accordingt th pampht.
Tough some o these images
have become so ingrained in con-temporary society as to be per-ceived almost as peripheral whitenoise, a combination o ragmenta-tion, layering and montage rendersthem new by de-amiliarizing andobscuring them, the pamphlet ex-
pas. As suh, th ps hb-ited in Optical Noise come toboth embody and critique popularutur ad ts assbty.
his idea is not something
that pertains exclusively to theart movements o the 1960s and1970s, according to the curators oth hbt. Ty saw th dao optical noise as somethingthat maintains resonance withintodays society. Te art movementsembodied in the exhibit can beprd as th mmts thatinaugurated our modern liestyle,dened by a constant bombard-ment o noise, inormation andmags, Bra sad.
In keeping with the ideas be-hind optical noise, the exhibi-t braks rm tradta pr-
sentation norms. Part o whatmakes the exhibition dierent isits unconventional hanging style,Rag sad, rrrg t th ako painting labels on the walls andthe busy presentation o the vi-sual installation. In organizing the
wrks as suh, th us s padmore on the visual components th art stad th dtas when the work was created andby whm.
Tis capacity to display theworks in a way consistent withthr tt ad purps s o the great strengths o the ex-hbt, sad Assstat Prssro History o Art and Architec-ture Herve Vanel, who oversawthe creation o the exhibit withCatherine Zerner, proessor o thesam dpartmt.
What s grat abut th h-bt s that yu ha bg amsbeing displayed, but it is not aboutthat, Vanel said. Visually, youcreate an inclusion or commonground, where Warhol is no more
r ss mprtat tha artsts kM Rams.
Instead, they all work togetherto create a coherent ensemble thatembodies the quote printed at theentrance Noise hovers on theperiphery o sensory perception.
Exhibit obscures popular cultural images
B liz kelley
ContributingWriter
Te internationally acclaimed Zhe-jag Wq Arts rup hd tsChinese New Year perormanceJa. 2 t brat th Yar thDragon in the Rhode Island School Dsg Audtrum.
Te troupe, which is composed osymphony and keyboard orchestrasas w as a, da, drama ad
traditional Chinese music teams, put a -at prrma, ud-ing a particularly impressive cal-ligraphy demonstration. Te troupeshowcased both contemporary andtradta sgs ad das.
T strg sud prussinstruments pervaded each musicalperormance with complicated, syn-hrzd drum rhythms, ad thdrummers hands moved in unisonat mprss spd ad wth gratr.
T prrmrs stums wrbeguiling. Singers and dancerswr tradta Chs kmsstthd wth trat dsgs ad
dtas brat rs. Ty ar-ried parasols that twirled in timewth th mus. T dars r-dat upd wth th atastcostumes transported the audiencet athr wrd.
I t k I was Cha, sadEmily Simmons 12. Te troupesperormance a Year o Chinat was part ts tur thnortheast and sought to showcaseimportant aspects o Chinese cul-tur.
I am a Chinese American, soit is great to be here, Providencelocal Kimberly Cheng said. I am
glad schools like Brown oster theseutura hags.
Chinesearts troupeimpresses
with 11-actperformance
Ehn entitled Soulographie: OurGenocides, which aims to enlargea meditative space around the per-
petrators and victims o genocideand open a discourse about howthese atrocities have shaped themdr wrd.
Genocide is not an emotionaluproar, he said in a Q&A aerSundays nal perormance. Itsry systmat ad has am purps.
T thss Sugraph sthat w d t mpr ur wt-ness we need to be more presentt ah thr ad t tur away,Eh td T Hrad.
Weve been conditioned tonot care about people killing each
other, said Laurie OBrien, a pro-essional puppeteer involved in
designing and staging the show.Its oen easier to empathize withpuppets than it is with humans, shesaid, which makes puppets an idealmdum r tg mpathy.
I we go with the idea that apuppet is an object with whichwe take great care and to whichwe pay close attention, then thatobject can be anything, Ehn said.
T wd arty puppts atthe summit included dogs madeo compressed newspaper, papier-mache hands, a colorul paperd ad shadws prjtd tshts.
Ehns plays also eature moreconventional puppets, but theybear little resemblance to theuzzy riends o popular childrensshows. Controlled with rods run-
ning through their bodies and at-tached to their arms, the puppets
black marble eyes and sculptedaces are haunting. But artullymanipulated by the puppeteers,they create moments both eerilysstr ad uraby tdr.
Faculty and students had achance to share in the creativeprocess in workshops on Jan. 26and 27, as well as in a previewprrma Ja. 2.
Several Teatre Arts and Per-ormance Studies students present-ed a segment about a Salvadorianurs at a bus stp, wh ts thtrag stry hr by audgt th tas Yrma ad Mda,tw amus trary athrs.Te segment was created to paytribute to the homeless womeninvoluntarily sterilized by the Sal- adra grmt.
Kym Moore, assistant proessoro theater arts and perormance
studies, encouraged her APS stu-dents to participate in the summit.Mr hps t brg Sugra-phie to the Main Stage at Sockand Buskin next all, said Chantel
Whtt 2.I would love to see Brown be-
come a puppet powerhouse, Ehnsaid. Select classes in the APSdepartment, such as the Solo Op-ra ass h w b tahg tall, already include elements opuppetry, but he said he would liket s Brw dp a ar addpdt puppt trak.
I th matm, Eh sad hwas happy t ha th put rmthe workshops, which were instru-mta t th dpmt thnal perormance o Soulogra-phie. It will premiere later this
year at La MaMa ExperimentalTatr Nw Yrk.
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he eeling is all too common
an overwhelming sense o diz-ziness, compounded by an in-abty t pa t rto the other without stumbling.While this experience is typicallydud by hay drkg, stu-dts ud mm th ts high blood alcohol content usingspecial beer gogg les at an eventFriday sponsored by Students ora Sensible Drug Policy, HealthSrs ad th Grk Cu.
On a given day, the 15 to 20members o Browns chapter oSSDP may b ud th MaGreen passing out lyers about the
negative eects o governmentanti-drug eorts, at the RhodeIsland State House protestingdecisions they believe unairlydiscriminate against drug usersor in the basement o the StephenRbrt 62 Campus Ctr du-cating students on the dangers oah abus.
h grup hags ts adr-ship and ocuses on new areaso drug policy each semester.Fridays event marked a turn-ing point or the group, whichut w has amst usyocused on issues surroundingillegal drugs. Now it is moving
to address a legal substance com-
mon on most college campuses ah.
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Emergency Medical Servicesreceived 10 calls about danger-ously inebriated irst-year stu-dents during their orientationlast semester, the highest number as s 2007, ardg ta Sept. 9 article in he Herald.SSDPs workshop last week was rsps t ths gurs, sadOliver orres 13, who was co-prsdt th grup ast a.
Ettd hk Rspsby a play on the phrase drinkresponsibly the event eaturedour activities. Participants couldplay a modiied version o lip
cup, traditionally a drinkinggame, where instead o drinking,payrs wr rqurd t aswrquestions about alcohol abuse.Other activities included learninghow to approximate the volume oa shot o liquor in a Solo cup andcalculating blood alcohol contentbased on weight, gender, number drks ad tm spt drk-ing. Ater completing all o theactivities, participants receivedd ad a t-shrt.
Shannon Whittaker 14 praisedthe events creativity and eec-tss. Brahg ut byd(educating about) drugs is a good
decision, especially considering
the seriousness o drinking toomuh, sh sad.
Jordan Evans 14 said that eventhough he does not drink, he ap-
preciated the experience o wear-g th br gggs.
Browns SSDP chapter alsoasserts that it does not promotedrug use but seeks to reduce harmor individuals who choose to doso. We are irm believers that yu ar gg t sum aysubstance, you need to be saeabut t, rrs sad.
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Fudd ary a dad ag,Browns chapter o SSDP is one omany similar grassroots organiza-ts arud th wrd.
SSDP is a Category III stu-dent group, meaning it receivesa bas amut $200 rmth Ursty. It s as gratdan annual budget determinedby the Undergraduate FinanceBard ad a appy r supp-mentary unding separately. Cur-rt rs dd t dssthis years annual budget, and arepresentative rom UFB wouldnot comment without the groupsprmss.
SSDP rd $2,672 sup-plementary unding last semesterto send members to a conerence,according to UFBs Sept. 15 min-
uts.
he unding is used to pro-mote the groups two-prongedmission reducing harms as-sociated with drug use and the
promotion o reasonable druggsat.
As a trata rgaza-t, SSDP ds t st ay -cial endorsement o speciic drugps.
Browns chapter o SSDP hasseveral dierent goals. he grouphas initiated eorts toward thelegalization and decriminalization marjuaa.
Everyones opinions dier,ad wr just kg r sm-thg ssb, sad Nata VaHut , wh srd as SSDPtrasurr ast smstr.
o account or their dier-ences, members typically proposeprojects they are interested in,ad mmbrs wth smar tr-ests will volunteer to help, VanHut sad.
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Recently, the chapter organizedsilent protests on the Main Green,hd thmd at wks adprdd kts t studts durgSpring Weekend to check thepurty stasy ps. hy asprotested the decision by Gov.Lincoln Chaee 75 P14 to haltplans or medical marijuana com-
passion centers last semester byhanding out lyers and encourag-ing members o the communityto call the State House. Severalmembers o the group believe thattheir activism in the all playeda part Chas rma rm-mendation in November to re-du marjuaa t a Shdu IIsubstance, which would allow thedra grmt t rgzts mda au.
May rmr mmbrs thgroup continue to advocate orSSDPs gas. Jss Stut 06 au-thored legislation to legalize med-
ical marijuana in Rhode Islandand currently serves on the SSDPNata Bard Drtrs.
Despite these eorts, thegroup has been criticized as justa bunch o activists and lazystoners, orres said. he group
s t tak as srusy as at-ists supporting other causes, VanHouten said. I think that people
dont really understand the mag-
nitude o the problem that thedrug war ra y s.
his isnt about just the rightt sum, rrs sad, addgthat the power drug lords acquireunder the current substance pro-hbt aws ad th dsra-chisement o minorities underdrug policies are some o the mainssus SSDPs prtsts.
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Students join the group ora arty rass. W ha alot o very passionate and veryloud members who come rom
all dierent backgrounds, saidJarred Jones 15, current treasurero the group. He said he ound hispassion in drug policy activismthrough his ather, who has a neu-rological disorder. he pain romthe disorder was eased by the useo medical marijuana, but becausehis home state o Kentucky hasnot legalized medical marijuana,hs athr at us t gay.
Its a md that I thk alot o people ignore and have badgs abut, Js sad.
Current president Kaz Wesley14.5 joined the group during hisirst year at Brown because he elt
current drug policies are harmulto society in a lot o ways, anddrug policy was something im-prtat h ud atuay maka dr , h sad.
Laws currently allow state-sanctioned discrimination, whenthe law should be designed to pro-tt pp, Wsy sad. Drugsreally need to be handled as apub hath ssu rathr tha arma ssu.
SSDP seeks to spread aware-ness about drug policy issues andtargets the problems that broadprohibitive measures induce, or-
rs sad.When someone can look at
prohibition and realize theresmuh mr t t tha thy rg-nally thought, he said, I eel likethat in itsel has the possibility tobm th gratst try.
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Scores o techies and sel-declaredgeeks gathered to share ideas andpractice hacking at the ProvidenceHackathon in the Jewelry Districtths past wkd. T t, adDgta Mts Physa: A HardwarHackathon, highlighted the growing
presence o the technology industry Prd.
Te hackathon, hosted by Be-taspring a startup accelerator anda recent arrival in the Jewelry District did not eature hacking in the col-loquial sense o the word. Te hackerswh attdd tk a rguar bjt
and modied it, thereby changingits unction. Matt Gillooly 04, orexample, hacked the childrens gameHungry Hungry Hippos whicheatyres our hippos acing each otherin an arena lled with plastic balls,each trying to swallow as many aspossible by attaching the controlso one hippo to his computer. I wantto be able to hit my spacebar to makea hippo bite, Gillooly explained. Tegam, ad Hugryptamus, wth ts grad prz.
Te event eatured a number ohackers rom outside o Providence,including representatives rom NewYork, Connecticut and Massachu-
stts. J Fahrty, wh dr dwrm Nw Hampshr t attd tht, ausd a partuar ssatwith a previously purchased 3-Dprtr h brught. T prtr ussa spool o plastic rope as ink anda prt aythg Fahrty dsgs hs mputr. Yu ud awaysprint photographs, Flaherty said.Nw yu a prt th ram.
Flaherty is currently printinga heart or his wie or ValentinesDay. She let me buy a $1,000 3-Dprinter so I thought I should give hersmthg bak, h sad. T pr,though it might seem steep, is vastly
hapr tha th $50,000 h wudhave spent on a similar printer a ewyars ag, Fahrty sad. H strssdthat thugh h uss hs mah run, a reduced-price 3-D printeras aws sma bussss t r-ate cheaper prototypes, which aidsastr at.
Hackathons have recently becomemore common throughout the tech-nology community. Tis one wasunique or its combination o thedigital and physical realms. Oenhakaths sst wrtg m-
puter code and creating programs,but at this weekends event every
prjt had a physa mpt.Betaspring wants to promote
physical technology, said MelissaWithers, director o marketing orBetaspring. Considering the majorsuss thgy k th Pd,the general lack o investment in theeld o innovative technology is sur-prsg, sh addd.
Betaspring promotes high-techindustries in Providence. Tey acceptcompanies in their nascent stagesthat only have a basic product or ideaand give them unding and support.Te company has recently expanded,prompting its move to a new location
in the Jewelry District. From theirnew 9,000-square-oot oce, theywill welcome 17 dierent start-ups toPrd rm arud th u-try Fb. 6, ad aga th a.Ts yug mpas w spd12 weeks in Providence improvingtheir product with Betaspring andseeking investors. Aer the programends, Betaspring encourages thecompanies to remain in Providence.
Sra a rgazats part-rd wth Btasprg r th t.Chrs Wakr attdd th t tprmt Ntdu, a p-surelectronics platorm that translates acomputers coded instructions into
physical action. Hackers also workedwith KippKitts, another open-sourceplatorm, which allows users to writecode that can heat, measure andm bjts rmty.
GreenGoose an alum o Be-tasprings development program also helped sponsor the event.GrGs prdus a ssr thatallows a user to see online i an objecthas moved. Te sensor could helppeople remember i they have takenthr ps r mtr th amut exercise household pets are doing,Wthrs sad.
AS220 Labs a subset o a
non-prot organization that workst bstr th prs th arts Providence also opened its labsas addta hakrspas durgth t.
Providence endorsed Betaspring,singling out the investment companyas one that will signicantly revitalizethe city. Tis is tomorrows economy,and we want to encourage these busi-sss ad jbs rght hr, Pr-dence, said James S. Bennett, direc-tor o economic development or thecity o Providence, in a press release.
Hackathon taps intocitys tech talent
to the charity o their choice orsgg up thrugh Fabk.
Donations still move directly
rom the retailer to the charity,but CherryCard retailers can enjoythe added publicity while custom-rs gt drt tr r whhcharities they support. Troughthe link with Facebook, customersa hs t shw thr rdswhere they have shopped and theharts that ha rd thrdats.
Leaderboards on the Cherry-Card wbst kp trak whhusers and companies have do-atd th mst, as w as whhcharities have received the mostthrough the organization, which
turs th pr datginto something like a game, Fradinsad. H rutd a stry twcustomers who were tied at the topo the international CherryCarduser leaderboard and spent severalweeks requenting CherryCardbusinesses, jockeying or position.
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Frad sad th da r Chr-ryCard grw rm hs trst the humanitarian power o boththe Internet and marketing, cit-ing companies like LiveStrong,OMS Shs ad Eths Watr ashs sprat.
While building the CherryCardwbst 200, Frad pstd aprogramming question to Aard-ark, a sa sarh g, adreceived a response rom WillCosgrove, another high schoolsenior and programmer rom ex-as haway arss th utryrom Fradins home in Caliornia.Cosgrove, who now orchestratesth mpays ard-d systm,ad th t ry ra-dm.
With the website inished,Frad st abut tatg mr-chants and charities possibly inter-
ested in participating. He quicklyud supprt, tuay sur-ing participation rom 39 charities.CherryCard customers can chooserom a diverse list o causes, in-udg rmtast grupssuch as GreenPeace and the Na-ture Conservancy and disasterrelie eorts like the AmericanRed Cross and Doctors WithoutBrdrs.
Since its launch in February2011, CherryCard has distributedmr tha 50,000 ards t rta-ers ranging rom large companiesk NBC Ursa ad th M-
wauk Brwrs t muh smarmpas, sm abut as yugas ChrryCard ts.
As o Sunday night,the Mil-waukee Brewers and Share-Aloha,a Hawaii-based bracelet maker,topped the retailer leaderboardwith donation totals o $178.50and $112, respectively. Te re-maining retailers are ar behindwth ttas $0 r ss.
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Providence Coee Roasters,which recently arrived on cam-pus in the orm o a ood truck
that serves coee and pastries,w s j th raks Chr-ryCard retailers. Founded last yearin East Providence, ProvidenceCoee Roasters was originallyconceived as coee-based, butconscious about social justice andar trad, -wr J Chasaid. Aer introducing a mobileut that rqutd Cg Hlast semester, Chan said he startedtalking about CherryCard withFradin, a regular Providence Co- Rastrs ustmr.
CherryCard piqued my inter-est because some o the ethos oour company is about giving back
to the community, Chan said. Itputs the impetus back in the handso the customer. I think its a verytagb way t gt ustmrs -d harty.
Providence Coee Roasters al-ready supports local soup kitchensand homeless shelters and ensuresthat all o its coee ollows airtrade practices, but Chan notedthat rmay ray ssthat.
Starting this week, ProvidenceCoee Roasters will begin handingout CherryCards worth 10 cents toustmrs wh purhas a
at either the mobile unit or thestatary East Prd shp.Cha sad h s t yt sur whatsystem will govern the distribution th ards whthr thy wbe given at some regular inter-a r smpy as radm ats kindness by the barista. But heanticipated the rst shipment o300 ards w b g by th d th wk.
Another CherryCard partner isbased a quarter o the way aroundthe world in Hawaii. Lynn Ha is aco-ounder o Share-Aloha, whichsds ut ChrryCards wrth $
wth ah shpmt.Ha said the companys goal
since it started in 2011 has beento do something where a portiono each purchase went to charity.Share-Aloha chose CherryCardaer a 60 Minutes investigationt thr rga h, authrGreg Mortensons Central AsiaIsttut.
Ha said she and her col-leagues contacted Fradin partlybecause they admired his youngentrepreneurial spirit and partlybecause they liked the fexibilitythat CherryCard aords. Share-
Aloha appreciates the act thatwe dont have to stand behind anypartuar harty, sh sad.
ChrryCard as happd tbe a perect t or Share-Aloha,tray.
Our packaging is alreadyabut th sz a busss ard,s th ChrryCard ts absutyprty, Ha sad.
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Fradins long-term vision orCherryCard involves more thanjust cards. Noting that some 20trillion credit card transactionsoccurred in 2010, he said he imag-
ines a world where all monetarytransactions involve charity. Inline with this plan, Fradin said,a t ur ats mgorward will ocus on makingthings easier or customers andsumrs.
In the meantime, Fradin ismbrag hs as a studt bytaking introductory courses in en-grg ad mputr s.He said he has not yet decided ona trat.
Tugh h sad h razs hsrole as a ull-time student limitsthe amount o time he can devote
to CherryCard, he nds the trade-o to be worth it. Being in collegeis whats best or me right now,h sad.
Besides, Fradin said he believesProvidence is an ideal place orCherryCard to grow. Providenceis a small market where everybodyknows everybody, and Cherry-Card wrks bst wh yu s ta th tm, h sad.
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Drdu Comoogy | Oirad Macmit
Frrniy o evi | Eshan Mitra, Brendan Hainline and Hector Ramirez
th Unicomic | Eva Chen and Dan Sack
C O M I C S
In the second hal, the BigGreen stretched its lead to asmany as eight points, but with
7:33 rmag th gam, thBears roared back with a 20-5 runto secure the seven-point victory.
Ater suering a number oclose losses and going 1-6 overth wtr brak, th Bars wrrd t ay pk up a w agu pay.
Sometimes you live in badluck, sometimes you live in goodluck, said Head Co ach Jesse Agel.We just made one more play(Friday night), made one moresht.
Forward Andrew McCarthy13, who has emerged as one o
Brunos most reliable orces onboth ends o the court, was a ma-jr atr th tr y. MCar-thy scored a game-high 19 points,grabbed 11 rebounds and set anew single-game school recordwth s bkd shts.
Hes got a tremendous naturalabty, Ag sad. I dt thkDrew is a secret. Hes being ac-tive and going out and gettingstu done, and thats the mark sm whs hag a gratyar.
But McCarthy relinquishedmst th rdt r hs prr-mance to point guard Sean McG-
onagill 14. Despite not scoring inthe opening hal, McGonagill, theteams point leader, inished w ith
pts ad 0 asssts ad r-chestrated the key late-game run.
Considering he was the rook- th yar ast yar, tams arreally ocusing in on him, Mc-
Carthy said. Every time I set aball screen, they were hedgingut hm. H was ab t dshth ba, ad I gt t myhads, I just trd t d th bstI ud.
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h Bars kw thy wr or a challenge the ollowing nightacingH a r -v a r d(18-2,4-0). he Crimson came intoth wkd wth a 6-2 rrd,
including wins over Florida State,Utah and Boston College. heprus Saturday, Harard hdDartmouth to only 38 points ina 6-pt try.
Nonetheless, Brown enteredthe game with conidence, buoyedby back-to-back wins and steeledby the knowledge o the teamspast two meetings. Despite losingboth games last year, the Bearsheld double-digit leads at hal-tm bth mathups.
We knew coming in we couldplay with these guys, said MattSullivan 13. Its virtually thesame Harvard team as last year
where we were up (22) at hal-time at their place and (11) atur pa.
he two teams were neck-and-neck in the opening hal Saturdaynight, and the Crimson held asm 3-27 ad at hatm.
But in the second hal, the
Bears were unable to handle Har-ards s. h Crms dby as many as 15 points beoresag a -pt try.
Bruno displayed a balanced
scoring eort, with all ive start-ers inishing in double igures inpoints. McCarthy and StephenAbrht 2.5 d th tam wth3 pts ap, ad MGag- ad Dkry Wakr ahpud dw s rbuds.
O th Bars wakssswas r thrw shtg, as thyinished just 11 o 20 rom theharty strp.
We talked about deendingthe lines, said Harvard HeadCoach ommy Amaker. Wewere lucky they didnt shoot reethrws bttr.
h Bars w k t agtheir loss as they host two coner-ence games this weekend. Brunow squar agast Prt(0-, -) Frday at 7 p.m. adtak P (0-, 2-0) th -wg ght at 6 p.m.
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Egg donor ad may mark new trendto h edior:
Brwsg T Hrad ar th rst day ur s-mstr, I was startd by th sma adrtsmt Courier ont looking or an Asian Egg Donation.Now, I am not personally oended in an emotionalr mra way by ths adrtsmt. I as wud tdsda sm wh taks up th r, spaya happy, intelligent, attractive and healthy womanwth atht abts btw th ags 2 ad 27,because such a population does exist on campus.Forty thousand dollars or a haploid cell is quite a
good deal. I simply want to note that, as always, smalldecisions and shis are agents o change in society. Isths adrtsmt just th rst a rtr? CudT Hrad d a w up rprt rtty adr-tsmts at thr gs? Ar w rady t tr aera where Ivy League students are not only desiredr thr ptta th wrk r but as r thrgt ptta r grats t m?
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E D I TOR I A L CA R TOON by jul ia streul i
I want to be able to hit m spacebar to make a hippobite. Matt Gillool 04sHaCkatHon p 7.
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In his State o the Union address last uesday, President Obamahghghtd th mprta supprtg hghr duat. Days atr,he outlined a series o promising proposals to provide more nancialaid to efcient and innovative schools. We hope the president will makegd hs wrd t prrtz hghr duat ad that stat ad d-ra grmts ak w raz thy ar g rdu addrssgurasab sts hghr duat.
Ar a dad rapdy rasg tut sts that rppd maystudts wth studt a dbt, w appaud Obamas pa t supprtg studts, may whm rshy supprtd hm 200. Ct-g th rdb statst that studt a dbt has atuay surpassdrdt ard dbt, th prsdt sad py hs addrss what has gbeen known: Te current system is unsustainable and damaging, particu-ary th g trm. W whhartdy supprt hs pas t rasdra aa ad rm $ b t $ b ad t tz statursts t dras thr tut rdr t r ths ad.
Tat said, we will not be satised with empty platitudes and grandioseplans until we see real change on the ground. Politicians have oen talkedtough on higher education, yet they have done little to combat the rapidlywrsg dts pub gs ad ursts.
One need not look urther than Rhode Island, which has seen drastictuition increases in the last decade. Te Rhode Island Board o Governorsor Higher Education recommended another tuition hike in Novemberor the states three public colleges most notably a 9.5 percent increaseat th Ursty Rhd Isad. Wh Rhd Isad pub gsha s a amst 30 prt dras stat udg r th asthal-decade, they have increased tuition by up to 47 percent over thesam prd.
Tr st ay partuar t bam. Stats, ad Rhd Isadin particular, have been hit extremely hard by the recession. With risingcosts and shrinking revenue state governments, unlike the ederalgrmt, ha t baa thr budgts may ha b rdt ut bak. But as Rhd Isad abrgats ts rspsbty t supprt
hghr duat, t stks studts wth a gratr shar th b.Students in Rhode Island and around the country are increasingly
saddled with overwhelming debt, many struggling with hundreds othusads dars bs. Ad, urs, as ar ar hardr t payback when graduates do not have jobs a particular problem given thatumpymt Rhd Isad s r prt.
Mrr, baus hghr tut at pub gs ad urstshas bgu t pr ut mr ad mr studts, stats ar duatg asmaller and more homogeneous segment o their population. And aspub ursts tu t dssuad mdd ad wrkg ass -state applicants rom applying, states diminish these citizens possibilityr upward mbty, sttg th stag r a gmy m utur.
Eduat prts suggst that tut rass w tu t bpar or the course until the U.S. economy improves signicantly. Tat is,uss Obama ws thrugh hs pdg by takg urgt ad bdaction, prioritizing student loan orgiveness and increased nancial aid.
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Obama cartoon goes beyond satireto h edior:
As a gtm supprtr ad admrr T BrwDay Hrad, a pubat that I ha rad s I rstarrived at Brown 30 years ago, I am deeply saddenedand disgusted by the cartoon by Andrew Antar that waspublished in Te Herald on Tursday, January 26, 2012.N prsdt s ab satr. Hwr, th prtraya Prsdt Barak Obama usg urba quasmssuh as baby ad bm s sut rathr tha satr.
Te president, who holds two Ivy League degrees, has
aways prssd hms usg th Kgs Egsh addsrs, at th ast, a mr sphstatd ampgthat I am sur th as Iy Lagu-duatd Hrad d-trs ar apab . T h-s-subt sag (rad Bak;rad ghtt) rrs wr asy rgzd ad d-spicable. Te Herald is not, and should not resemble, theDartmuth Rw.
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pinions 11the Brown Daily eraldMonday, January 30, 2012
A w yar s u swg, ad as w th bstry bt Prd wathr,th t ur mths Cg H -upy ur thughts. Wth th start aw smstr, w ar d wth abd tmt ad aty that sbst mpd by shppg prd. It sa tm t prmt ad a tm t takadatag th may rsurs at urdspsa. Shppg prd s tatg,
but t a b rwhmg. Fa-g pry t ths haust s a symptm what s rquty abd th hdayhagr. As w sarh r rwd pur-ps ur asss, th trast rmuh ptat t aadm dst kk quky ugh, ad w d up sttgr asr, sar pts.
Brw has a astudgy g brakthat dwars ths mst ursts.F r s wks at hm away rmprbm sts ad brars s a thra-g thught yu rah md-Dm-br. Ar th ts rst wk am-y bdg, mag wth Chrstmas,th t up wks ar qut atas yu mt up wth rds rm hgh
sh ad ht a yur d, art spts.It s y md-Jauary that a tru -mats stat s rquty rahd as yu
spd mr tm yur w, happypd yur rm athg up a
th ts rg dprd yu . I thast w days, th jy bg rutdwth yur Brw rds aga startst rp , but ar yu hsty rady ttak up may w ttua ad aa-dm pursuts?
I hardy d t rmatz th ad-atags shppg prd. As a Brwstudt, yu udrstad thm. Shppgprd s t y mat t b a tm t
tk yur arus as. It s as a trast bak t th gr d. Wrkadstd t b ghtr, ad t prds a pth-ra uss r ag t mpt aassgmt. T thargy th hdayhagr y gs us mr justatt sak ths rst w days ass-s.
May us ha mayb tw r thr
asss that w ar st takg, but thrar at ast thr r ur ur art prrt ur arra that mpt t mak th -
a ut. Ts maks ss rm a psyh-ga prspt. Wh pr-rgstra-
t prd tay ms arud, w arrght th mdd ur s d phas mdtrms, s sarhg r urss a ba saat ad g us hp. Addg tyur art a b gd as ra pr-dutty ad t substata prrasta-t as t s r m.
Tr s hardy aythg wrg wthspdg hurs Bar, baus thps us rs ur ttua ursty.
But, th prssg ssu hr s hw may ths asss d w d up attdg?I ths wathr, yu bary bam yur-s r skppg a trp t th thr d ampus r a 50 mut tur that hasy a sm ha atuay makg tt yur a shdu. W a makths ratazats a hartbat ad subsusy wh th thargy
ur prgd aat trumphs.Athugh mst us ha a strg da
what trgus us at ths pt, may
us hs Brw r th pts th OpCurruum ards. Our b tts
assssg what w may ar rm aurs a prsst th rst up days sh, but ar th rst wk-d gg ut, w rgrss t takgth trub-r path a urs may gus. W start t g ar th s that ha-g us ss, ad th haat stat md that w dp r brak atayz-s ths azss.
Frsh rsats wth parts,trshps ad ur GPA st pagu urmd, s w sk th asy asss thatw g us mr r tm ad satsy uswth a pat th bak rathr tha abra-pkg. W k r a prssrsstad s wh am t push us ut
ur mrt z, baus ur d rsaty suprsds th ursty that ad-d us at Brw th rst pa.
I am t sayg that takg a ratyght urs s a mstak t b aas uta shdu. What I am tryg t d s r-md yu th rass w ha shp-pg prd th rst pa. T ts th hday hagr ar udrstad-ab wh dst jy mthrs rmsr? W shud rgz ths pt-as br w hs asss that g ussurty r stmuat.
Nikhil Kalanpr 13 is anEnvironmental Stdies concentrator
who wants to see the good in people.He can be reached at
The holiday hangover
I 200, Nwswk ratd Brw th s-d mst drs ursty Amra,sg y t Ursty Psyaa.Ardg t th magaz, Frty-prt Brws studt bdy s wht,wh th rst ar Ara Amra, La-t r Asa. T magaz urthr t-d, T mst drs g ampussar as th mst gay-rdy. W Bru-as may b ab t prd urss a mmuty wth a majrty mr-ty studts, but umbrs ad aadmaasd, d w ray mbra th drsty ur ampus? Ar w ratg r-mts whr w a rs wth thrsrm drt bakgruds?
Dspt th rprtd umbr mr-ty studts, as a studt r I d mys g a bt satd rm thr-wht studts, partuary rm A-ra Amra studts. Outsd thTrd Wrd Ctr-spsrd ts, Istrugg t d assmats ad prs whshar my raa dtty. I th aadmara, I d mys th s bak stu-dt ad amst aways th y bakma studt asss tak utsd th Araa Studs Dpartmt. Ad th armtd dpartmt,drsty s t guaratd.
Out th ght Iy Lagu sttuts,
Brw Ursty hstray has had th
wst admss rat r bak studts.T Jura Baks Hghr Edua-t mpars th rmt trds thIs rm 2 t 2007. Or ths 6-yartm ram, Brws rmt trd r-mad msty wh ry thr Iy
Lagu sttuts umbrs trdd up-wards. Ardg t th Jura, admttdbak studts smpy art rg. I dthk that th bak mmuty ad thrmrty grups dsr mr akw-dgmt.
At th a Qur Aa ts
20, Ra ad Dsrabty th QurCmmuty ad Udr th Pa-QurUmbra, bak studts ad thr stu-dts r mt wth wht studts tdsuss hw ra, suaty, gdr adass trst ad fud th way thatthy tratd wth thr prs. Tughth wrkshps str t rt ssusthat shap ad at tms hdr th d-pmt th qur mmuty at Brw,may th dsusss rad sur-ts sm studts t th tt th
Brw mmuty as a wh. A gra
stmt prssd by studts rhghghtd a sg th ds m-rty grups. Ara Amra, Lat,Asa ad md rad studts padthat ra, ag wth ass, gdr ad s-uaty a pay arg rs thr pr-
as mrty studts, but thy sadthy dt aways that ths prsp-ts ar adatd r wmd -rmts t pty dsgd by adr studts r.
As studts prgd ugh t r- Brws bra duat, w shud
rmmbr t t mt ur arg sm-py t ttbks. W tat ths r-sats, but th dsusss ar ar rmmpt. Studt grups must tut rat patrms whr studts ra mt wth thrs t b udd ad tdsuss th ds thr rspt m-muts. Ts studt grups a wrk jut wth rgazats kth WC ad sp th-basdgrups t mak sur that studts rm abakgruds udrstad that thr part-
pat s ssary ad mprtat. Var-
us studt grups a as r mrrsurs ad pts r aa asss-ta s that mr studts a ard tattd spsrd ts. Furthrmr,studts r must tak th tatt mak thr s hard grups that
d t atr hrty t sp th-ts. By takg t my prs wh ar whtad -wht, I ha dsrd that I amt th y prs wh ts that smgrups ad atts ar t as drs asthy ud ad prhaps shud b.
Grg Mad, a Amra phs-phr ad sgst, prssd, S-ty s uty drsty. My art thgabut Brw s that a suy day thMa Gr, I a utr r 2 d-rt kds pp thr sds.At ts k th Trd Wrd rastPrgram, I am staty amazd by thrprstat drt bakgrudsprst at ur Ursty ad th sdar-ty that grups s drs a stmuat.Mrty grups at sy partak ths brad uty, spay wh wud a ar mr by askg mrqusts, by amg prg ad bytg drt pps t j th -rsat. Tr ar udamtay sg-rgatd spas at th Ursty, ad thrshud t b ay sd s. I thsmar, may Brw studts tu tstr sr raa dsurs.
Helen McDonald 14 is a Literar Artsand Brazilian Stdies concentrator and
can be reached [email protected].
Silent racial discourse
According to the Jornal, admitted black stdents
simpl arent enrolling. I do think that the black
commnit and other minorit grops deserve more
acknowledgement.
As we search or renewed prpose in or classes, the
transition rom coch potato to academic does not kick
in qick enogh, so we end p settling or easier, saer
options.
By HELEN MCDONALDopinions Columnist
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It was a difcult weekend at Mee-ha Audtrum r th wmshockey team, as the squad onlymanaged to score one goal be-tween losses to E astern CollegiateAthletic Conerence oes No. 10Dartmuth ad N. / Harard.Bruno (7-9-7, 4-8-4 ECAC) gotout to an early lead against the
Big Green (14-6-2, 10-4-2) butcould not keep pace with the high-pwrd Dartmuth s. Twg ar, a strg d-ensive display rom the Crimson
(14-6-1, 11-4-1) kept the Bearssrss r th rst tm games. Despite the pair o deeats,Bru st hds a agu payspt wth s gams t pay thsas.
Dr 3, Br 1
Bruno got o to a promisingstart against the Big Green, scoringwithin therst threeminutes oplay. AlenaPska 3 tk a d rm -captain Katelyn Landry 12 andslotted her shot past the goaltender
t put Bru up -0.Weve ound this season that
we can come out slower than wedlike to at the start, said co-captainPaige Pyett 12. I think the biggestthing in the Dartmouth game isthat we came out rom the start rom the rst puck drop andpayd hard. It was t gt th bard rght away.
But the Big Green respondedquky, ttg a quazr
minutes later courtesy o deender
Sasha Nanji. Te junior scored hersecond just our minutes later, andDartmouth commanded a 2-1 leadat th d th rst prd.
Dartmouth continued to pres-sure the Bears deense in the sec-ond, ring twelve shots to Brunos. But thr tam ud danother goal, and the 12 savesrom Katie Jamieson 13 keptBru th hut.
Despite outshooting the BigGreen in the third period, theBears could not nd the tying goalthey needed, even aer pullingJamieson or the six-on-ve ad-
vantage. Te Big Green added onemore on an empty net in the naltwo minutes to hand the Bearsthr rst ss ur gams.
hrrd 3, Br 0
A strong goaltending peror-mance rom Aubree Moore 14 wast ugh t kp a ptt Har-
vard team at bay Saturday. Moorerecorded33 savesi n t h eloss, butth Crmss tw gas wth aminute o each other in the rstperiod put Harvard on the path
t try.Midway through the rst pe-
riod, Crimson orward KaitlinSpurling put home a centeredpass t grab th ad. Just 50 s-ds atr, ddr Sarah Edydubd hr tams ad.
Bruno got o eight shots in theperiod but could not solve Har-ards ga.
he Harvard game was atough one because, unortunately,
we couldnt put the puck in thenet, Pyett said. Its a little try-g mtay gg t th gamthat thyr rakd tp t thcountry, but its nice to see we canplay against teams ranked so high.
Spurling scored her secondgoal o the game midway throughthe second period. A shot rom
the blue line was defected andskipped past Moore into the nett g th Crms a thr-gaadvantage that Bruno could notrr rm.
Bruno travels next weekend toa athr par ECAC pp-nents, Clarkson (16-7-5, 10-4-2)ad St. Lawr (5--, -5-2).
T ast w gams th saswill be crucial or the Bears to stay th pay ptur.
We need to jump on themright away, especially in theirhome building, Moore said. Iw a gt a ga r tw rght th bat, t w st thm bak, adw a ath thm guard.
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Double trouble against ranked teams
B connoR gRealy
SportS StaffWriter
In a weekend where the menshockey team could have made ajump t thrd pa th East-ern Collegiate Athletic Conerencestandings, the team instead slippedto ninth place aer coming awayempty-handed in its pair o awaygams.
I th rst gam Frday, Brw(-0-3, 5-7-2 ECAC) rd aearly and rude awakening. Dart-muth (--2, 6-5-) tad thrgoals in the rst period, promptingHead Coach Brendan Whittet 94 topull Marco De Filippo 14 in goal inar Mk Cmt 2.
W t w wr rady agastDartmuth ad just a up ms-taks th rst prd put us ahole early, said captain Jack Ma-a 2.
Tough Chris Zaires 13 andMaclellan lit the lamp in the sec-ond period, Bruno couldnt closethe gap, only pulling within twogoals. Te game ended 6-2 aerDartmouth tacked on an empty-netga th sg mmts.
We pushed back, and we hadchances, Maclellan said. You cantput yurs that stuat.
Ater the lopsided game onFriday, Brown looked to bouncebak agast Harard (6-6-, 5--6), who was playing strong hockey
coming o a convincing 4-3 winagainst Yale (9-10-2, 6-7-1) theght br.
As has b th trd ths sa-son, the Bears again respondedollowing a loss. Brown came outaggrss Saturday ad mpdan 8-3 shooting advantage in therst prd.
Cmt kpt th gam sr-less through the rst period, in-udg a grat stp a Crmsbrakaway. Bru th struk paydirt in the second period when ashot rom Francis Drolet 13 wasdefected and ell to the stick oJarred Smith 12, who cleaned itup t g Brw a -0 ad.
But Harard td th gam ad
later seized the lead in the thirdperiod and didnt look back.Harard shd wth thr gasin the nal period, the last o whichwas scored aer Clemente had beenpud.
Tings didnt all or us on Sat-urday agast Harard, Maasaid. We were happy how we wereplaying aer two periods. Terewere just a couple mistakes. Youat pt a w wh yu ysr ga.
Maclellan said the deensepayd ry w but as sad thatas a whole, the team needs to behugrr arud th t.
Te weekend perormance hurtsthe Bears playo positioning the
current rankings would orce theteam on the road or the entirety ts pay ru.
W ha t gt as may ptsas w a t sur w gt a hmgame and maybe a bye, Maclellansad. W ha t apprah rygame like its the dierence betweenhm ad bg th rad.
Tis upcoming weekend, Bru- w b payg a par hmgams agast Carks (2--5,6-5-3) ad ast-pa St. Lawr(8-15-3, 4-9-1). In the Bears tripto upstate New York earlier inthe season, Brown grabbed threepoints, tying the Golden Knights2-2 rtm ad datg thSats -.
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Captain Kateln Landr 12 assisted on the Bears onl goal o the weekend in a 3-1 loss to Dartmoth Frida.
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