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vol. cxliv, no. 37 | tuesday, March 17, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891

BDS k kBy MaTThew kleBanoff

StaffWriter

BuDS managers have revoked the

ormal warnings issued to work-

ers last month or ailing to sign a

new contract, which introduced a

no-homework-on-the-job policy or

Blue Room cashiers and non-ca-

shier employees across campus.

BuDS supervisor Yanely Espinal

11 said she thinks the repeal o the

ormal warnings came as a result

o the petition she e-mailed to the

management last week. Though

the petition called to revoke the no-

homework rule altogether, Espinal

said it primarily took issue with the

ormal warnings, which workers

received or ailing to sign and hand

in the new contracts on time.

Normally, two ormal warnings

are grounds or termination and

can aect the size o bonuses, Es-

pinal said, so workers take them

seriously.

A bunch o supervisors, mainly

at the Gate, were really disenchant-

ed with the entire policy, and we

wanted to try to get it revised,

Espinal said. We thought that

might be a little ar-etched, so

we just decided to do a petition

against the way the policy was

implemented.

According to Espinal, workers

received revised contracts in their

mailboes last month, which they

were meant to sign and return

to BuDS by a set deadline. But

many workers were not aware o

the orms purpose or the conse-

quences or not handing it in on

D jb B, GP MM By lauren fedor

SeniorStaffWriter

Former Vermont Governor Howard

Dean spoke to a packed MacMillan

117 last night about his 2004 presi-

dential campaign, his our years

as chairman o the Democratic

National Committee and the 2008

presidential election.Students seemed to enjoy

Deans characteristically direct

and oten blunt rhetoric, and

responded with a standing ovation

at the end o the lecture. Speaking

and answering questions or just

over an hour, Deans addressed

a wide variety o topics and criti-

cized, at times pointedly, the Bush

administration, the Republican Par-

ty and conservative pundits Rush

Limbaugh and Ann Coulter.

The Bush presidency was not

normal, he said. The presidentand vice president did not respect

the Constitution.

C bk By alicia chen

Contributing Writer

In these hard times, many people

are trimming costs wherever they

can. But does cutting back mean

cutting hair?

Economists and businessmen

have tied ashion styles to eco-

nomic trends or decades. Econo-

mist George Taylor dreamed up

the hemline index in the 1920s,suggesting that hemlines mirror

the economic climate

alling during reces-

sions and rising during

boom times.

Since the recent decline o

the global economy, The Nikkei,

Japans leading business news-

paper, has proposed a corollary

to Taylors theory. The paper,

which looked at over 20 years o

data rom Japans largest manu-

acturer o consumer products,

suggested that Japanese women

get shorter haircuts during nan-

cial crises.

Holly Matos, a hairstylist at

the Thayer Street Supercuts, said

the economic recession has con-

tributed to changes in the hair

salons customers.

Though Supercuts has tra-

ditionally catered to the urban

man, Matos said, she has noticed

an increase in the amount o e-

male customers in the past ew

months. Matos thinks the shit is

driven in large part by the wors-

ening state o the economy.

Customers are requesting

shorter haircuts because they

will last longer, Matos added.

The recession has helped

Supercuts overall business, she

said, because people dont wantto pay 70 bucks or a haircut.

With a basic cut

starting at $15.95, Su-

percuts oers its ser-

vices at a lower price than most o

the other salons on Thayer.

Hector Ramirez 12, who re-

cently got his hair cut at Super-

cuts, agreed that Supercuts is an

attractive option because o its

low price.

But, Ramirez added, In gen-

eral, $40 or a haircut is pricey

or whatever situation you are

in. The recession didnt really

impact my decision.

While other hairstylists on

College Hill have observed that

more women are getting shorter

haircuts, many disagreed that the

recession is the eplanation.

L b By lauren fedor

SeniorStaffWriter

Its been a long, hard winter or local

businesses.

As the economy continues to un-

ravel, shop owners on the East Side

have been orced to dramatically

alter their business strategies to stay

afoat. With sales signicantly down

rom this time last year and limited

cash available or advertising, long-

time vendors on College Hill have

marked down merchandise, cut back

on hours and introduced creative

promotional schemes.Its no secret that consumer

spending is down the Pew Re-

search Center reported in February

that a vast majority o Americans

have recently made changes in their

shopping habits. Many local store

owners say their single greatest sales

challenge is just getting passers-by

to enter their stores.

Jagdish Sachdev, owner o Spec-

trum India at 252 Thayer St., said

that despite a lack o customers

lately, his store o ers some o the

best prices and deals anywhere. So,

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By sophia lifeatureS editor

The Oice o Financial Aid sent

out our e-mails Monday that inad-

vertently released the names and

e-mail addresses o nearly 1,800

students who had initiated an ap-

plication or inancial assistance

rom the University.

Three o the messages showed

the Brown e-mail addresses in-

cluding irst and last names o

approximately 500 irst-years,

sophomores and juniors who havesubmitted inancial aid documen-

tation, and the ourth contained

nearly 300. In all, The Herald

counted 1,773 names mistakenly

divulged Monday.

The messages, which were sent

around 2:40 p.m. Monday rom Fi-

[email protected], reminded

students which documents they

need to submit and o the appli-

cations deadline. They did not

state that the messages recipients

were students who had begun the

process o applying or inancial

aid, but Director o Financial Aid

James Tilton conirmed that act

Monday night.

Normally, students are sent in-

ormation by blind carbon copy, or

BCC, which does not reveal an

e-mails other recipients, Tilton

said.

We made a mistake, and we

clearly need to make sure it doesnt

happen again, he said.

The Oice o Financial Aid

tracks the names o students who

send in any documentation through

Banner, according to Tilton. The

oice then sends those students

reminders about the process oapplying or inancial aid.

While the e-mail includes a dis-

claimer that the inormation it con-

tains is conidential and/or legally

privileged, Tilton said he does

not consider Mondays mistake

a violation o the conidentiality

agreement.

We didnt include any personal

inormation about individual stu-

dents, Tilton said. Because the e-

mail does not contain any other

identiying inormation, Tilton

said he did not consider the mes-Jesse Morgan / HeraldJagdish Sahdev has ome p with a promotional sheme based onthe days of the week to draw stomers into Spetrm India.

Sshant Wagley / Herald

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presidential nominee and Demo-

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man Howard Dean spoke with The

Herald about the DNC, the Obama

administration and his plans for the

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tant part is having a choice or the

American people so they can have

a choice. I you only conne their

choices to private insurance plans,

then you might as well not do health

care reorm.

Hairstylist Patrick Knerr o Sa-

lon Kroma on Thayer said many

customers are requesting pixie

cuts. But, Knerr added, they say

they avor the shorter style due to

its easy maintenance, not because

o the recession.

Celebrities like Katie Holmes

may have pioneered the trend by

sporting short hairstyles, said

Sergio Veneziano, a hairstylist at

Squires Salon on Euclid Avenue.

While Knerr said the college

students who requent Salon Kroma

tend towards lighter subjects, theeconomic recession is a requent

topic on other customers minds.

The economy is the most com-

mon topic in the chair, said Vene-

ziano, whose clients include many

University administrators.

Many o his customers ask, I

wonder i I can keep aording to

do this? he said.

Despite customers nancial

concerns, many salons in the area

have not yet elt their business con-

tract signicantly.

Many stylists said that custom-

ers are spacing their appointments

arther apart. Still, the volume o

business has remained steady, they

said.

The apparent contradiction

can be explained by an upswing

in new customers, according to

Luz Pray, who owns Hairspray Sa-

lon on Wickenden Street. Pray is

amazed by the increase in new

clients, she said.

According to Pray, the haircut

can be a quick x that allows

customers an aordable way to

reinvent themselves, especially

ater a long winter. In times like

these, people want to eel good

about themselves, he said.

Venezianos observationsechoed Prays. In tough economic

times, people still spend money on

themselves, he said.

The actions that salons have tak-

en to retain and attract customers

are another explanation or their

survival in the tough economic

climate.

When people are cutting back,

you have to give more, Pray

eplained.

At Hairspray, Pray oers a pack-

age deal to her loyal customers. I

they book six appointments and

pay or all si in advance, they re-

ceive 20 percent o their haircuts.

Pray began oering this discount

last May, she said, and credits it

with helping her business continue

to thrive.

Stylists rom Salon Kroma,

Salon Persia and Hairspray have

all implemented weekly student

discount days.

Tuesdays and Wednesdays

were never a draw, Knerr said,

adding that Salon Kroma now gives

a student discount on those days

to attract customers.

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They did what Joe McCarthy

did, Dean said. The presidency

was totally ideologically based.

But Dean said he was condent

President Obama would usher in

an etraordinary time.

You have no idea how extraor-

dinary Barack Obama is, he said,

likening Obama to President Ken-

nedy. Barack Obama is your gen-

erations president. He brings your

generation into politics.Dean discouraged students

rom abandoning the commit-

ment to politics they showed dur-

ing the 2008 campaign now that

Obama is in the White House.

(My generations) biggest mis-

take was that we decided we could

take a vacation rom politics, he

said. I think i we had stayed in

politics, George Bush would have

never become president.

This doesnt stop with Barack

Obama, he said. It starts with

Barack Obama. Now youve got

to do the work.

During the question-and-answer

session ater the approximately

35-minute speech, Dean was asked

about rumors that he had sought

a cabinet appointment in the new

administration.

Obviously I was disappointed,

Dean said, but what really matters

is that they produce what theyre

supposed to produce.There are more important

things than whether I serve in Ba-

rack Obamas cabinet, he said.

Though the talk was titled

The Internet Revolution 2.0: A

New Age o Politics, Dean quickly

dismissed the idea that his use o

the Internet in the 2004 campaign

revolutionized politics.

Dont pay attention to what

people say, he said. The Internet

is a community. Its not just a tool

that you can use to raise money.

What we ound (during the

2004 campaign) was that i you

had something to say and you un-

derstand the Internet, the Internet

will make your campaign, Dean

said.

Dean said the Internet allows

like-minded people to connect

with each other and orm an-

ity groups to support a cer tain

candidate.

The basic notion is that youdevelop anity groups initially

around a candidate and eventu-

ally to each other, he said. When

(people) care about each other,

its almost impossible to pry them

away rom the candidate.

Despite the success o Deans

Internet strategy, the ormer gover-

nor did not receive the Democratic

nomination in 2004. And though

some pundits said his inamous

scream speech ater the Iowa

caucuses cost him the nomination,

Dean said he did not lose the elec-

tion because o that speech.

The scream speech is not why I

didnt win the presidency, he said.

I didnt win the presidency be-

cause I came in third (in the Iowa

caucuses) when I was supposed to

come in rst.

Dean became chairman o the

Democratic National Committee in

February 2005 and shited his o-

cus toward rebuilding the par ty.We didnt have a national

party, he said. We were in 25 or

30 states The Republicans had

everything.

They knew what they were

doing and they knew how to talk

people, he said.

Dean sought to emulate Re-

publicans by building a database

to track voter inormation or the

entire country. The party invested

money, people and resources in

every state which Dean said

aided both Obama and his main

opponent, Secretary o State Hil-

lary Clinton, in their respective

primary campaigns.

The voter prole, Dean said,

reerring to the database, was part

o a larger initiative known as the

50-state plan. Dean explained

the motivation behind that plan

oten mentioned as a actor in

Obamas victory last night.

I dont believe that you can win

with 25 states, he said. I you

want to govern, you have to be the

president o everyone.

I think George Bushs big-

gest mistake, among many large

mistakes, was that he decided to

care about only hal the countr y,

Dean said. That is a short-term

strategy or winning elections. The

long-term strategy is that you ask

everyone to vote or you.

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We want to foster natral hman-robot ollaboration. Matthew Loper GS

b bBy naTalie uduwela

ContributingWriter

A uture ull o obedient robots ol-

lowing our every command may not

be such an unrealistic possibility

ater all even i those commands

go unspoken.

A Brown robotics team has

recently developed a robot that

can ollow gestural commands in

a variety o environments with-

out having to adjust or changes

in lighting, a breakthrough in the

robotic world.

While the majority o robots are

programmed to recognize specic

colors and are constrained to spe-

cic lighting conditions, this new

robot uses an active light-based

system that easily adapts to light-ing variance. This ability allows it

to operate indoors and outdoors

without the need or re-calibration

in dierently lit environments.

Matthew Loper GS, the lead au-

thor o the paper about the project,

which was presented at the Human-

Robot Interaction Conerence inSan Diego, Cali., last weekend,

said the ability to adjust to light al-

lows the robot to unction outside

a laboratory setting. There have

been lots o works that have done

the kinds o things weve done

person ollowing, gesture recogni-

tion, speech recognition, Loper

said. But the important thing is

in making a system that has envi-

ronmental tolerance.

Despite its prevalence in the

robotics world, the other impor-

tant aspect o the robots design is

its ability to respond to nonverbal,

gestural commands.In the shorter term, were try-

ing to take a step away rom remote-

controlled, teleoperation, he said.

We would rather have them inter-

act with people more naturally, able

to understand nonverbal gestures,

understand speech and ollow a

person around.The robot can be programmed

to track multiple people and can

discriminate between whom to re-

spond to and whom to ignore.

But the design is not fawless.

While the tracking distinguishes

between two people, the robot can

sometimes be tricked because it

relies on silhouettes.

We want to oster natural hu-

man-robot collaboration in the long

term and the kind o interactions

that you can get between people,

said Loper, who was responsible

or creating the gesture-recognition

component. That a person couldinteract with a robot in the same

way that a person can interact with

a person.

. b By JereMy JacoB

Contributing Writer

As the patient sat listening to music

on her iPod, an electronic device

protruding rom her head delivered a

series o clicks into her skull, vibrat-

ing the skin around her orehead.

It eels like a woodpecker knock-

ing on your head, the patient said,

who asked to remain anonymous.

The patient was being treated

with the Transcranial Magnetic

Stimulation therapy device, a new

method designed to treat bipolar

depression, said Linda Carpenter,

associate proessor in the Bio-Meddepartment o psychiatry and human

behavior.

Carpenter, who is chie o the

Mood Disorders program, said the

device was rst used to treat patients

on Jan. 15 at Butler Hospital in Provi-

dence, where many Brown medical

students perorm their residencies

and which serves as the Universitys

fagship psychiatric hospital.

TMS therapy uses an appliance

to send short pulses o magnetic

energy to stimulate nerve cells in the

brain, according to the Neurostar

Web site.

The system targets a specic re-

gion o the brain that controls mood the let prerontal cortex by

inducing electrical charges to fow

and stimulate brain cells.

The system is one o only eight

to ten in operation around the coun-

try, Carpenter said, adding that it

is seen as a revolutionary break-

through in the treatment o bipolar

depression.

Its a huge step orward or many

patients that arent getting better

with eisting treatments, she said.Carpenter eplained that due to

Browns reputation or brain stimula-

tion research, Butler Hospital was

able to quickly acquire a TMS device

rom the company and get it running

promptly.

Based on our track record (the

company) knew we had expertise

and knew how to identiy patients or

this sort o treatment, and clearly we

had an interest in making it available

to the Rhode Island community as

quickly as possible, she said.

Beore the device was approved

by the Federal Drug Administration

in Oct. 2008, treating depressioninvolved only a limited number o

options such talk therapy, anti-de-

pressant medication and electrocon-

vulsive therapy, otherwise known as

shock therapy, Carpenter said. O

the 20 million people in the United

States with serious depression, only

one-third got better ater taking anti-

depressant medications.

Even with the introduction o the

new TMS device, electroconvulsive

therapy is considered by psychia-

trists the most e ective treatment

or depression and is still recom-

mended to people with serious cases,

she said.

Each o the eisting treatments,ecept or talk therapy, comes with

considerable risks most notably,

loss o memory and the monetary

cost o shock therapy.

But the TMS therapy machine

has not yet shown any negative side

eects as patients are able to remain

ully conscious during the process,

experience no conusion aterwards

F , By heeyounG Min

StaffWriter

The Graduate School has created

the Dissertation Writing Project to

help doctoral students cross the

nish line o their academic mara-

thon the All But Dissertation,

an inormal designation or a can-

didate who has completed nearly

all requirements except the nal

dissertation.

Though the Writing Center, now

housed in J. Walter Wilson, has long

been available as a general resource,

this pilot program is tailored to ad-

dress the specic concerns o dis-

sertation writing, said Dean o the

Graduate School Sheila Bonde.

The project, which started last

September, allows the Writing Cen-

ter to reach out to more graduate

students, said Douglas Brown, the

centers director.

The Graduate School wanted

graduate students to understand

that this service was available and

that indeed the Writing Center was

up to the task, Brown said. The

Graduate School also recognized

that (Writing Center) sta people

could be designated as special-

ists.

Three Writing Center associ-

ates, who are Ph.D. candidates

themselves, have been specially

trained as dissertation coaches.

They are regularly available or

one- or two-hour sessions weekly

to help at any stage o the writing

process. The project also holds a

dissertation workshop twice dur-

ing the academic year, in October

and January.

Dissertation coaches help

students make the transition into

a new kind o thinking, Brown

said.

The resource has attracted stu-

dents rom a variety o disciplines,

including biomedical students,

Bonde said, adding that its dicult

to gauge which departments have

the greatest number o students

who struggle to complete their

dissertations.

One student who has used the

Writing Center as part o the project

said she ound it very helpul.

(I) dont recall the substance

o the conversation, but I know it

was about seeing the writing pro-

cess as just that, a process, and it

was good to hear rom people at

dierent stages o that process,

said Margaret Stevens, a Ph.D. can-

didate in American Civilization, o

her eperience with a dissertation

coach.

Sometimes its easy to get

tracked into your year so that you

only see the grad eperience rom

your direct cohort, but when you

C S D By MoniQue Vernon

Contributing Writer

Patti Solis Doyle: longtime aide and

campaign manager or now-Secre-

tary o State Hillary Clinton, the

rst Latina to manage a presidential

campaign and one-time campaign

chie o sta or the candidate Barack

Obamas uture vice president. She

may have an impressive resume now,

but Solis Doyles credentials have

been hard-won.

In Salomon 101 last night, Solis

Doyle, a child o Mexican immi-

grants, delivered the opening con-

vocation or Latino History Month,

spearheaded by the Third World

Center. In keeping with this years

theme, Unlocking the Present:

Shaping the Future, Honoring Our

Past, her lecture charted her path

rom a di cult adolescence through

her contributions to the 2008 presi-

dential election.

Solis Doyle began her political

career working in the oces o

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, She

made her way through the ranks

and was soon hired as the sole

aide or would-be rst lady Hillary

Clinton during Bill Clintons 1992

run or president. Solis Doyle said

she established a close relationship

with Hillary Clinton during that rst

campaign and continued to work

with her or many years, through

Clintons bid or president in 2008.

Solis-Doyle resigned rom the

campaign during the 2008 primaries

ater she became the ocus o nega-

tive media attention.

In response to accusations that

she was too aggressive and oul-

mouthed, Solis Doyle shrugged o

the criticisms. Do I always have the

vocabulary o an altar boy? Not so

much. Do I like to win? Yes, she

said last night.

Despite her ultimate resignation,

she said, I am proud o the race

we ran Im proud o the 18 mil-

lion votes she got I am especially

proud o the role Hispanic voters

played.

Solis Doyle later ended up as the

campaign chie o sta or the po-

tential vice president o the Obama

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CMPS wS The state ant afford to lose $95 million in tax revene at this partilar point. Daniel Beardsley, Rhode Island Leage of cities and Towns

and dont generate epensive medi-

cal bills, Carpenter said.

When patients start treatment

they come to the hospital or an hour

a day, ve days a week, or a little

over a month.

So ar there have been six patients

that have gone through TMS therapy

at Butler Hospital. All but one have

shown some level o improvement in

treating their symptoms o depres-

sion, Carpenter said, adding that so

ar two patients have had total remis-

sion o their depression while one

patient noticed a 20 percent decrease

in depression symptoms.Its been really un to see pa-

tients get better with this because

these are people that are not getting

better with medications, she said.

Many o them had done ECT in the

past or their depression, some had

had hospitalizations.

So ar the device has been im-plemented in a limited number o

hospitals. There were roughly 20

hospitals involved in the clinical tri-

als, Carpenter said, adding that each

hospital still has its machine.

The slow pace o implementation

is due to the time needed to train

sta in machine operation, as well

as typical hospital procedure or

implementing new programs, Car-

penter said, adding that she is the

only doctor who currently perorms

the treatments at Butler Hospital

even though three others have been

trained.

Whats really cool about this isthat were probably at the beginning

o an era where we can give better

treatments or psychiatric disorders.

Carpenter said. Its a whole dierent

way to get at the organ that youre

trying to treat.

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talk to people who are writing at moreadvanced stages then it becomes a

more fuid process.

Since it started, the project has

seen, on average, over 25 visits to the

Writing Center per month, according

to statistics kept by the center.

Some students come in or mul-

tiple sessions so there are ewer stu-

dents utilizing the project than the

number o visits, according to Tiara

Silva, administrative assistant or the

Dean o the College.

Students can, and have in the past,

requested special hours to etend

a regular session to as long as ve

hours, Silva said. Students rom alldisciplines come in or help, added

Silva, but we seem to have the most

visits rom people in economics.

Brown said that, by providing peer

support, the project also ameliorates

the loneliness oten associated with

writing a lengthy thesis.

Some people are truly solitarywriters, but most people are not,

he said.

As aculty members oten work

collaboratively, Brown added that

it makes perect sense that gradu-

ate students would share their work

with each other.

Still, some students said they are

not concerned with the prospect

o having an All But Dissertation

status.

We know at some point well n-

ish it, even i it takes a longer time,

said Angelica Duran, a second year

Ph.D. candidate in political science

who saw a Morning Mail notice aboutthe program and plans to utilize the

resource. The most dicult points

are the beginning and the end.

The intermediate stage is the most

bearable.

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time, Espinal said, adding that

nearly 120 students did not turnin the contracts.

Some people were saying they

didnt get (the orms) in their

mailboxes, Espinal said. Oth-

ers didnt know i they didnt hand

it in, it was going to be such a big

deal.

BuDS general manger Alex

Hartley 10, who declined to com-

ment on why the ormal warnings

were revoked, said the warnings

issued to employees who ailed

to return the new contract would

not have aected the number o

allowable inractions ater which

students can be red.The ormals NEVER were tak-

en into account when someones

employment was concerned,

Hartley wrote in an e-mail to The

Herald. And by ormals I meanormals that were written or ail-

ure to return the contract.

Hartley also wrote that BuDS

has begun to encourage workers

to share ideas and input with man-

agement.

We now hold open orums.

We just had our rst two last week

where workers and supervisors

could come and communicate with

management on any issue, Hart-

ley wrote. Ater spring break, I

will be holding oce hours or

students to come and talk to me

personally.

To avoid any repercussionsbeore the ormal warnings were

revoked, many employees worked

an extra 10 hours in addition to

their regular shits, Espinal said,

adding that workers can now usethat time to enhance their bo-

nuses.

Espinal said management has

done an amazing job coming up

with a new tactic to involve work-

ers.

She said she is pleased that

the ormal warnings have been

revoked, but doubts that the

homework policy will undergo

any revisions in the uture.

I think people have gener-

ally started to accept it, because

I think that most people think

that the inner management team

isnt going to change it at all,Espinal said.

f , BDS k continued frompage 1

campaign. Her position involved

securing venues, travel arrange-

ments and speeches or the ve

Democratic vice-presidential hope-

uls.

Though she did not speak much

on her short-lived work with the

Obama campaign, Solis Doyle said

she is proud o his historic run and

her role in it. For me I took pride

in my role as a top Hispanic aide,

she said.

Solis Doyle credited her strong

work ethic to her ather, Santiago

Solis, a Meican immigrant.

Hazte valer value yoursel,

work hard and never do anything

to embarrass yoursel and your

amily. Solis Doyle repeated her

athers creed oten throughout

her talk and said, It is still the best

advice I have ever been given.Solis Doyle described her a-

ther as a determined man, who

was deported twice ater attempts

to immigrate to the United States.

His third attempt at citizenship was

successul, and he and his amily

settled into the Pilsen neighbor-

hood o Chicago.

Though her parents both

worked hard at multiple jobs, So-

lis Doyle estimated that they never

made more than $18,000 a year

combined. Despite the amilys

economic hardship, Solis Doyle

worked hard in school and was

able to obtain a scholarship to

Northwestern University.

To me, school was one world,

home was another, Solis Doyle

said. In some ways it elt as ar

as Mars. Despite her enthusiasm

or her education, the confict be-

tween her home lie and the pres-

sures o school ultimately led Solis

Doyle to lose her scholarship. She

dropped out o school temporarily,

married at the age o 19 and was

divorced by 21. Eventually she re-

turned to Northwestern to nish

her degree.

It was through the infuence

o her brother, Daniel Solis a

Chicago city council alderman that Solis Doyle was able to make

connections and establish hersel

in the political arena. Solis Doyle

said she was inspired to continue

working in politics by the power

o organizing ordinary people to

do etraordinary things.

Students reacted positively to

Solis Doyles talk. I thought she

was very down to earth, Ashtin

Charles 12 said. Her ability to

connect with people, minority

people, was proound so the audi-

ence could really relate.

I thought she was excellent and

wonderully combined personalanecdotes with examples rom her

political activism and proessional

lie in a stirring review and tribute

o past, present and current contri-

butions o the Latino community,

Morgan Ivens 12 said.

Ater Solis Doyles talk, the foor

was opened up or a question and

answer session. Solis Doyle dis-

pensed advice rom her experience

as a political operative. When an

audience member asked why she

thought the Republicans were less

successul than the Democrats in

the past election, Solis Doyle spoke

o the importance o the Hispanic

media team in the campaigns.

Other questions also re-

turned to the importance o Solis

Doyles ethnicity to her political

lie. When asked how she bal-

ances her cultural and proes-

sional roles, she responded, You

cant really hide who you are or

what you are, its a ools errand.


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sages to be in violation o any

state laws or the ederal Family

Educational Rights and Privacy

Act, which prohibits educational

institutions rom releasing con-

idential inormation without

student or parental consent.

Tilton, who was hired to

head the inancial aid oice in

2006, said no similar mistakes

have been made during his

tenure. He does not know o

any such mistakes prior to his

hiring, he said.

In the uture beore mass

e-mails like this go out, Tiltonsaid, well certainly make sure

that theyre created appropriate-

ly and mailed appropriately.

Some student said they were

upset by the inadvertent release

o the names.

I think its a really big mis-

take, said Molly Jacobson 10,

who said she noticed the er-

ror as soon as she received the

e-mail. For a lot o students,

(inancial aid) is a private

thing.

Vivienne Vicera 11, who

also received one o the e-mails,

said she too was bothered by

the mistake.

But other students whose

names were divulged consid-

ered the error minor.

Im not angry, said Corlis

Gross 10. Its not something

that Im ashamed o.

I dont care, really, said

Gabe Heymann 10.5. I eel

like being on inancial aid is not

really something that is looked

down upon or should be looked

down upon at all.

With additional

reporting by Brigitta Greene

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MetroThe Brown Daily Herald

TuESDAY, MARcH 17, 2009 | PAGE 5

We didnt have any problem with (warnings). Lietenant John Ryan, ommander of Providene Polie Dept., Distrit 9

G b k By Joanna wohlMuTh

Metro editor

As Rhode Island aces crippling un-

employment and the largest budget

decit in the states history, Gov.

Donald Carcieris 65 proposed bud-

get has garnered criticism rom all

sides in the week since its release.

The governors budget recom-

mendations or the net scal year

rely on taxes and ederal stimulus

unds to bridge the anticipated $860

million decit over the next two

years and to increase state spend-

ing by 10 percent. Under Carcierisproposal, the state would spend a

total o $7.62 billion in 2010.

But Carcieri whose approval

rating among Rhode Islanders re-

cently hit a low o 34 percent, ac-

cording to a poll by the Taubman

Center or Public Policy will have

to get his budget through the states

Democrat-dominated General As-

sembly.

Though the stimulus money in-

cludes $110 million rom a state

scal stabilization und to be spent

on education and aid to local com-

munities over the next two years, the

governors proposed budget elimi-

nates a revenue-sharing programrom his previous budget that was

to give $31 million in state aid to

cities and towns.

Many political leaders and inter-

est groups have already voiced con-

cerns about the governors proposed

use o stimulus unds and restructur-

ing o the states ta system.

In a letter to U.S. Secretary o

Education Arne Duncan, Providence

Mayor David Cicilline 83 questioned

the governors use o stimulus mon-

ey to replace state education und-

ing. The potential transormative

impact o the (ederal unding) is

undermined by the spending propos-

als in Carcieris budget proposal, Ci-cilline wrote. Rather than seizing an

opportunity or strategic, increased

unding (Carcieri) is instead only

maintaining the status quo.

Though the nal guidelines or

the use o the stimulus unds have

not been completed by the U.S.

Department o Education, the gov-

ernors proposal ollows the intent

and spirit o the recovery bill, said

Amy Kempe, the governors press

secretary. The scal stabilization

unds are ungible, she added.

The governors budget recom-

mendations also alter the states in-

come ta structure, increasing the

By Melissa shuBe

SeniorStaffWriter

Despite the economic struggles o

many o Providences artistic and

cultural organizations, the initiative

to produce a cultural plan or the

city Creative Providence is

soldiering on.

This month, the group, run by

the Department o Art, Culture

and Tourism, has been holding

meetings or artists and commu-

nity members to discuss topics

including inusing the economy

with creativity and increasing

community access to and cultur-

al participation in the arts, said

Lynne McCormack, director o

the department. The meetings, as

well as community orums and a

2,000-person survey completed last

year, will help develop the Cultural

Providence plan, McCormack said,

which would be ready or its steer-

ing committees approval in May.

The program has allowed the

arts community to identiy the

cultural resources o the city, said

Hope Alswang, director o the

Rhode Island School o Design

Museum o Art and member o

the Creative Providences steer-

ing committee. For a small city,

Providence provides a really richdiversity o arts opportunities, she

added.

The city is now branding itsel

as the creative capital, said Um-

berto Crenca, artistic director and

ounder o community arts venue

AS220 and member o Creative

Providences steering committee.

The group ensures that theres

as much substance as there is

hype, within the citys art scene,

he said.

The promotion o art and cul-

ture in Providence comes at a time

C k z By alicia danG

ContributingWriter

With over 35 inches o snow alling

in Fo Point in January, residents

have complained about the non-

enorcement o a city ordinance

that requires property owners to

remove snow rom public walkways,

prompting the city council to pre-

pare a new ordinance to respondto this problem.

There are about our or ve

more complaints this year than last

year, said Lieutenant John Ryan,

commander o Providence Police

District 9, which includes Brown

and much o the East Side, attribut-

ing this increase to higher requency

and volume o snowall.

According to Ryan, there were

10 houses in total that received

complaints, most o which are on

Gano, East Transit and Ives streets.

Two o the houses are unoccupied

and some have student tenants, he

said.Upon receipt o complaints, po-

licemen went to those houses to

give inormal warnings but did not

impose a ne. We didnt have any

problem with them, Ryan said, add-

ing that the tenants and landlords

o the buildings quickly removed

the snow ater being inormed o

the complaints.

We have more snow this year,

said Daisy Schnepel, president o

the Fox Point Neighborhood As-

sociation. We havent received a lot

o ormal complaints, but people do

get upset that the city doesnt take

care o its properties.

A ormer board member o the

neighborhood association brought

the issue to the boards attention

about two months ago and they dis-

cussed it in a meeting, Schenepel

said. The members then reported

the problem to the city council.

On the whole, i theres a prob-

lem, we contact whatever depart-

ment that deals with it, Schnepel

said. I the problem is related to

the mechanisms o the environment,

we tell (the complainants) to contact

the councilmen or the Department

o Public Works.

The city council is taking a two-

pronged approach to tackle this is-

sue, said Ward 1 Councilman Seth

Yurdin. The council is planning to

work with local lieutenants to raise

awareness o the city ordinance

a polite way to remind propertyowners to remove snow rom their

adjacent sidewalks, he added.

Additionally, a new ordinance

that is designed to be more eective

than the current one has been intro-

duced by Ward 4 Councilman Nicho-

las Narducci, Jr., Yurdin said.

The existing city ordinance re-

quires residents to clear a path at

least three eet wide on the sidewalk

in ront o their house within the

rst our hours o daylight ater a

snowall. Violators may be ned

between $25 to $300.

The newly introduced ordinance

proposes to increase the ne to up

to $500 and keep a record o the

properties whose residents violate

the ordinance, Yurdin said, adding

that this will hold landlords, rather

than tenants, responsible or obey-

ing the ordinance.Currently, police provide a copy

o the ordinance to violators, but i

a new ordinance is passed, fyers

will probably be distributed to all

city residents, Ryan said.

Yurdin is supporting the new

ordinance and is currently work-

ing with our other members o the

ordinance committee, the Depart-

ment o Public Works and local

lieutenants to discuss and amend

it, he said.

Once the proposal leaves the

ordinance committee, it will go to

the entire city council or a nal vote,

Yurdin added.Even with a new ordinance,

educating residents about their

responsibilities is still the highest

priority. Once there is more aware-

ness, there is more compliance (and

then) enorcement is less impor-

tant, Yurdin said.

Sometimes they just dont

know, Ryan said. Reminding peo-

ple is time consuming, but not a

problem.

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unshoveled walks in Janary prompted a series of omplaints in East Providene and may yield a new ordinane.

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though he cannot aord to advertise

locally, Sachdev has tried to attract

shoppers by improving his stores

window displays.

The large, brightly colored signs

in the stores windows advertise

some o the stores promotions, in-

cluding a Name Your Price sale.

This year, we are not looking tomake a prot, Sachdev said. We are

looking to stay in business.

Many businesses around Col-

lege Hill have not been so ortunate.

In the last year, amiliar locations

such as Spikes Junkyard Dogs and

Cae Roba Dolce have closed their

doors, unable to keep up with high

Thayer Street rents. The windows

o a ormer Thayer sandwich shop,

Geos, are now papered over, while

the Wickenden Street sex shop Miko

Exoticwear went under last sum-

mer.

Few new businesses have opened

up to replace them and those owners

lucky enough to still be in business

have been orced to think o new

ways to attract customers.

Like Sachdev, local businessman

Michael Sherman, who has owned

the vintage apparel store The 1793

Shoppe or the last three years, has

aimed to make shopping a more

enjoyable experience or his cus-

tomers.

He estimated that December

2008 sales at his Steeple Street

store were down 90 percent rom

the same time in the previous year.

Since then, he has marked down

all o his merchandise in an eort

to appeal to customers.

In February, Sherman teamed up

with the owners o Curiosities a

Wickenden antique shop that used

to be housed on Angell Street

or a Save Our Stores event at his

store. Nearly 70 people paid a $5

cover charge or the rereshments

and entertainment, he said, and the

owners split the prots.

The event was very success-

ul because many o the attendeesbought merchandise, Sherman

added.

Yet Sherman said he has seen

very ew repeat customers since

the event, and with no money or

advertising, he nds it increasingly

dicult to attract customers to his

second-foor store.

Ann Dusseault, who has co-

owned Pie in the Sky at 225 Thayer

St. or 15 years, has also ound it

dicult to make her store appeal

to shoppers lately. A jewelry and git

shop, Pie in the Sky has seen sig-

nicantly ewer customers in recent

months, Dusseault said. To make

matters worse, her regulars are

also spending less.

I especially saw it at Christmas,

she said, adding that the more ex-

pensive items in the store, including

jewelry, are not selling at the rates

they used to.

Its a battle, she said, estimating

that sales are down nearly 50 percent

rom last year.

But Dusseault realizes that she

is not the only one aected by the

economic downturn. Because she is

barely able to make rent payments,

she is no longer ordering any new

merchandise yet vendors are now

requently calling or her business,

complaining that their companies

are suering, too.

Like Sachdev and Sherman, Dus-

seault has oregone most advertis-

ing, simply because any extra money

needs to be put toward paying the

rent.

As or the uture, Dusseault too

has become increasingly creative

in her sales strategies. She recently

joined studentrate.com, a Web sitethat oers students discounts and

promotions at local and national

stores. In addition, she has begun

making her own merchandise, and

has even moved stu around in

an eort to mix up the stores o-

erings.

Sachdev has been equally cre-

ative in his eort to make shopping

at Spectrum India a memorable ex-

perience. This week, he debuted

a series o promotions involving a

dierent discount or each weekday

with a catch. Depending on the

day, customers will have to perorm

a dierent activity or challenge in

order to receive the sale.As part o the Moody Monday

Blues, shoppers can sing a blues

song to receive an etra 10 percent

o CDs and DVDs. On Terrible

Tuesdays customers are encour-

aged to imitate a toddler throwing a

tantrum. I they do, the will receive

an etra 10 percent o toys, books

and games.

Wednesdays promotion invites

shoppers to do a sot shoe dance

or a ootwear discount, and i cus-

tomers tell a deep, dark secret on

Thursdays, they will receive ree

incense with the purchase o candles

or essential oils.

Though the sale might be out

o the ordinary, Sachdev said he

wants customers to have un in

his store despite the dicult eco-

nomic times.

Ive been through six recessions,

and Ive managed to survive, he

said.

With his options limited, Sher-

man said he plans to hold another

gathering similar to the S.O.Sevent most likely a ashion show

in April.

But not all business owners think

they have the energy to compete in

a prolonged recession.

Bryan Creighton, owner o

Morrison Oce Supply, Inc. at 215

Thayer St., said his business went

into survival mode about a year

ago. Since then, Creighton has ad-

justed purchasing, bringing less new

merchandise into his store. While

the strategy has allowed him to pay

this months rent, he said it does not

appear that the business can endure

much longer.

A business like his would neednew, younger management resh

blood to survive, said Creighton,

who has run the store or 20 years.

While he said that the indepen-

dent stationery and oce supply

industry was in decline even then,

nancial concerns have become in-

creasingly severe in recent months.

He said it was very possible that

he would soon sell the storeront to

local restauranteur Andy Mitrelis,

who told The Herald last month that

he plans to open a burger restaurant

where Yangs, a boutique store that

closed last summer, once was.

Sherman said he was concerned

about the number o local business

owners who were being orced to

close their doors.

When you lose small stores, part

o the character o the city dies,

he said.

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At a press conerence Monday,

President Obama emphasized the

importance o small businesses,which he called the heart o the

American economy. Obama cred-

ited small businesses with creating

70 percent o the new jobs in the

past decade, and introduced a variety

o measures intended to increase

lending.

The American Reinvestment and

Recovery Act o 2009, known as the

stimulus bill, has made provisions

to help small business owners, said

Mark Hayward, Rhode Island district

director or the United States Small

Business Administration.

Under the legislation, the SBA,

a ederal agency, will drop both its

borrower and lender ees on smallbusiness loans, and will guarantee

banks up to 90 percent o the value

o the loan.

The agencys main interests, Hay-

ward said, are the needs o small

business owners, providing nancial

assistance and counseling to small

businesses. Hayward said that de-

spite the diculties local businesses

are encountering, the SBA is actu-

ally in a good spot.

Our goal is to encourage and

entice lenders, Hayward said, add-

ing that businesses are in need o

lines o credit or something to get

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1:sk Jukya dog273 Thayer St. After more

than 15 years of serving up

legendary hot dogs and fried

food, the Thayer Street estab-

lishment shut its doors last

September. Owner Gareth

Mundy told The Herald that

high taxes and rising property vales made bsi-

ness on Thayer Street diffilt. Spikes known

for its hot-dog-eating ontests maintains nine

other loations in Rhode Island, connetit and

Massahsetts.

2:Blaz o Thay272 Thayer St. The HopeStreet cookin With Fire restaurant opened a

Thayer offshoot in 2007, but it losed last year. The

seond-floor loation has sine been replaed by

tropial-themed Marleys, while the original Blazeon Hope remains.

3:p t sky225 ThayerSt. co-owner Ann Dusseault

said that sales at her jewelry

and gift shop are down nearly

50 perent from last year. In

reent months, Dusseault has

redued the stores operating

hors and stopped ordering new merhandise in

order to t osts.

4:stm i252 Thayer St. Owner JagdishSahdev said this years eonomi downtrn has

been togher than anything he has seen in his

time on college Hill and Spetrum India has

been on Thayer Street for 42 years. Reently, Sa-

hdev has introdued unusual promotions in

order to generate bsiness, inlding the Name

Yor Prie sale.

5: Goff sulatvsawch235 Thayer St.

The loal sandwih shop shut

down last summer, and its

Thayer Street loation has

remained empty ever sine.

The restaurants flagship site

on Benefit Street remains open.

6:roba dolc 178 Angell St. The Italian paniniand gelato afe on the orner of Angell and Thayer

nexpetedly losed last month. Owner Nino De-

Martino said he was not notified before reeiving

an evition notie on Feb. 16. DeMartino said this

month that the possibility of resuming business inthe 900-sqare-foot spae is very, very small.

7:yg217 Thayer St. Thefabri and gift boutique losed

its doors last smmer. Loal

restaurateur Andy Mitrellis

said he will open Better Burg-

er company a new brger,

sandwih and pizza shop in

the loation sometime this spring.

8:M o s215 Thayer St. OwnerBryan creighton went into survival mode about a

year ago by adjusting purhasing and bringing less

new merhandise into his Thayer Street store. While

he is able to pay the rent this month creighton

dobts the bsiness an last mh longer.

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o great economic turmoil or the

creative community, said Alswang. Alswang and Craig Dreeszen,

cultural planning consultant or

the Creative Providence project,

attribute the nancial struggles

o the artistic community to the

economic downturn and resulting

loss o corporate unding to many

cultural organizations, reduction o

endowments and decreased patron-

age o the arts.

Our arts institutions in this city

have not aced anything like this in

living memory, said Alswang,

Theres a struggle, more so

than Ive witnessed in a while,

Crenca said. A lot o arts orga-nizations ... are just trying to sur-

vive.

The crisis is hurting individual

artists too, according to Crenca,

who added that more artists than

usual have been reaching out to

AS220 sta or help nding work.

Dreeszen said the economic cri-

sis is the elephant in the room or

Creative Providence.

The group has had to adapt to

the economic realities, McCor-mack said.

I think we have been talking

more about sustainability than we

have about creating new things,

said McCormack. There has been

a lot o talk about how do we sustain

the organization, how do we make

sure we dont lose our art scene,

how do we keep spaces cheap and

aordable.

McCormack said the economic

situation has helped the committee

ocus on what is important to the

community.

Dreeszen said Creative Provi-

dence also hopes to stimulate eco-nomic development through arts

and culture by helping cultural

organizations whose unding has

been cut and assisting individual

artists and creative workers.

Were trying to establish a

climate in which these olks can

prosper, he said, noting that this

is more dicult in a tight economy

where art and perormance are

seen by some as discretionary

purchases.Alswang and McCormack said

Creative Providence acilitates re-

lationships and allows artists who

wouldnt normally talk to each each

other to work together.

While Alswang stressed that

theres no quick es here, the

relationships that artists and or-

ganizations are building could

help in the sharing o resources

and potentially in the reduction

o costs.

We could do more marketing

together, we could do more shared

backroom costs, she said.

Crenca said he was impressedwith the citys commitment to

arts and culture at a time when

it doesnt seem like the obvious

thing.

Theres plenty o ecuses not

to plan, he said. Despite the crisis

that were in, were continuing to

look towards the uture.


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earned-income tax credit or low-

income households while raising

taxes or some Rhode Island couples

and individuals making less than

$75,000 annually.

Carcieris proposed budget also

includes a ve-year phase-out o the

corporate income tax. It would raise

the states cigarette tax by $1 per

pack and slash unding or RIteCare,

the states subsidized health insur-

ance.

The state cant aord to lose

$95 million in tax revenue at this

particular point, said Daniel Beard-

sley, executive director o the RhodeIsland League o Cities and Towns.

Cutting taxes or wealthy people

and protable businesses will do

little to improve the economy in the

short run and will hurt it in the long

run.

Beardsley also called ederal

stimulus unding a double-edged

sword, expressing concern about

whether the state would again be

thrown into economic turmoil when

recovery aid is cut o in 2012.

Kempe deended the corporate

income tax cuts, stating that Rhode

Island needs to position itsel to be

competitive with neighboring states,

such as Connecticut and Massachu-

setts, which have much lower cor-porate tax rates. The only way to

grow jobs and grow revenue is to

grow business, she said.

The net key point in the states

budget proposal process will come

at the end o April and beginning o

May with the Revenue Estimating

Conerence, said Russell Dannecker,

scal policy analyst at the Poverty

Institute at Rhode Island College.

More signicant decisions will be

made once current budget projec-

tions are reevaluated, he said.

Whenever we get into these

types o (economic) situations, the

budgets are always dicult, Dan-necker said. This time there was

enough advanced notice o the ed-

eral aid that was coming in but

it does raise issues in the long term

about what to do when the money

disappears.

The state legislature will debate

the governors proposal over the

next ew months beore creating

its own revised budget or his ap-

proval.

Theyve got a long road ahead

o them in many respects, Beard-

sley said. Its going to be a very

dicult road over the next ve or

si months.

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The No. 15 mens lacrosse team

survived another close game on Sat-

urday, when Brown (4-1) jumped

out to an early 5-2 lead and held on

or a 9-8 victory over No. 13 UM-

ass (3-3) in the Bears nal contest

beore beginning Ivy League play.

Quad-captain Jordan Burke 09 had

a season-high 20 saves to anchor the

deense, while Reade Seligmann

09 paced the oense with a team-

high three goals. Quad-captains Jack

Walsh 09 and Kyle Hollingsworth

09 collectively registered a three-

point game or the Bears.

We came out pretty hungry,Seligmann said. We were talking

all week about how UMass is pretty

much our biggest rivalry. Theyre

very similar to us, theyre very

scrappy and we knew we were go-

ing to have to match them with that

type o intensity.

At UMasss Richard F. Garber

Field, aectionately known as The

Zoo, the game remained scoreless

or nearly nine minutes as UMass

goalie Doc Schneider made our

saves beore Walsh nally broke

the tie on an unassisted goal with

6:11 let in the rst quarter.

But the Minutemen went on the

attack, and though Burke made twomore saves, Brown ailed to clear the

ball each time, leading to a goal by

UMasss Art Kell o a ground ball

pickup with 4:58 let in the period.

Thomas Muldoon 10 scored

o a pass rom Walsh to regain the

lead or the Bears heading into the

second quarter, but the Minutemen

came out ring to start the period.

Burke made two saves in the

opening 30 seconds o the second

quarter, but once again, a ground

ball pickup o a clearing attempt led

to a UMass goal, tying the score at

2-2 just 40 seconds in.

They had a pretty good ride onus all game, and we had a little bit

o trouble clearing the ball, Burke

said. We know that UMass really

likes to shoot, so they dont neces-

sarily try to get the best shots, but

they like to re.

The score remained tied or near-

ly eight minutes, but then the Bears

took control. With 6:41 remaining

in the hal, Seligmann notched his

rst goal o the day, assisted by

Hollingsworth, who leads Brown

with nine assists this season. Just 28

seconds later, Rob Schlesinger 12

scored the rst goal o his college

career, the rst o his two goals o

the day, to widen the lead to 4-2. Less

than a minute later, Walsh added

his second goal o the day to make

it a 5-2 game.

It was great to see Jack Walsh,

Reade Seligmann and Rob Schlesing-

er step up and get a couple goals,said Head Coach Lars Tiany 90.

Theres no question, i were going

to be a strong program and contend

or another Ivy League champion-

ship and the NCAA Tournament, we

must have many threats. We have to

be a well-rounded oensive unit, and

that did emerge on Saturday.

The Minutemen got one back

with 4:36 let in the hal, but Brown

went into haltime with a 5-3 lead,

behind two goals rom Walsh and

12 saves rom Burke.

Jordan Burke was in All-Amer-

ican orm, Tiany said. We play

a style o deense that allows the

other team to take a lot o shots, and

we give up shots that a lot o other

teams wouldnt want their goalie to

see. But we welcome those shots

on Jordan, because we believe in

him so much, and he steps up to

the challenge.

M. k YBy dan alexander

SportS StaffWriter

Yales power-play was all it took

to end the mens hockey teams

improbable run in the ECAC tour-

nament.

The Bears (5-23-5, 3-16-4 ECAC

Hockey) jumped out to a 2-0 lead

in Friday nights game, but the

top-seeded Bulldogs (22-7-2, 15-

5-2) scored our straight goals,

including two power-play goals in

the nal rame, to get the rst win

in the best-o-three quarternal

series.

We took a lot o penalties andit killed the fow o the game, said

assistant captain Jordan Pietrus

10.

Two more power-play goals on

Saturday night gave Yale a 2-0 win,

ending Browns season and send-

ing Yale to Albany or the ECAC

Hockey seminals.

Saturdays loss was the th

loss to Yale this season or the

Bears, who ell to the Bulldogs

three times in November.

But the Bears were resh o

a sweep o No. 5 seed Harvard in

the opening round o the ECAC

Tournament and didnt look like

the same team that had droppedthree games to Yale in the begin-

ning o the season.

I think we were a lot more

condent coming o Har vard and

knowing that a lot o our young

guys made a nice step, said Head

Coach Roger Grillo. I just think

we were a much better team than

what Yale had aced earlier in the

season.

y 4, B 2

The Bears carried their mo-

mentum rom Cambridge to New

Haven and gained a 15-4 rst-peri-

od shot advantage on the Bulldogs,who had earned a bye in the rst

round.

We had lots o condence. Wewere amped up. We were ready to

go, Pietrus said. We knew they

had had an etra week o where

they hadnt had a game, so they

could be sluggish, so we really

wanted to try and take advantage

o that.

With seconds let on a Yale

power-play, Pietrus challenged

Bulldog Sean Backman at the

point.

I knew he was going to look

to shoot, so I just tried to get into

the shooting lane, Pietrus said.

He put the puck o my shin pads

and I got lucky and the puck endedup going out o the zone. At that

point, I had a step on him and, you

know, it was just kind o a ootrace

down the ice.

Pietrus won the ootrace and

put a shot o the pipe and into the

back o the net or his th goal o

the year.

The Bears got another when

David Brownschidle 11 scored

his rst o the season just 2:16 into

the middle rame, giving Brown a

2-0 advantage.

But Brown wouldnt score

again or the rest o the weekend,

and the penalty spree started ater

the second goal. The Bears wenton the penalty kill our times in the

second period and killed all our-

man advantages. But ater stopping

100 straight pucks over two and

a hal games, Mike Clemente 12

gave up his rst goal o the play-

os on an even-ice goal midway

through the second period.

Yale made it a 2-2 game beore

the end o the period when Bulldog

Denny Kearney put a one-timer

rom the slot past Clemente with

just three ticks remaining in the

period.

The Bulldogs then scored what

would prove to be the game-win-

Jstin coleman / Herald

Reade Seligmann 09 led No. 18 mens larosse with three goals.

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SPSuesday I apologized to them that their season had to end. Mike clemente 12, mens hokey goalie

UMass cut Browns lead to one

with 11:27 let in the third quarter,and the Minutemen nearly tied the

game with just under 10 minutes

let in the period, but Burke made

back-to-back saves just eight sec-

onds apart, giving Brown posses-

sion, which culminated in Holling-

sworths only goal o the day, o an

assist rom Andrew Feinberg 11.

The Minutemen scored two

straight goals to tie the game at 6-6,

but Seligmann scored his second

goal o the game with si seconds

let in the period, completing the hat

trick just under three minutes into

the ourth quar ter, giving Brown an

8-6 lead. Seligmanns three-goal per-ormance came on a day when the

Bears needed it most, as the UMass

deense shut down Feinberg, who

did not score ater recording a hat

trick in each o the rst our games

o the season.

We have a lot o dierent weap-

ons on oense and we have some

big superstar names out there, Se-

ligmann said. It was one o those

days where more people were get-

ting opportunities and hitting the

cage, rather than holding up on

shots.

Just 10 seconds ater Seligmanns

third goal, the Minutemen scored

o the ace-o to make it a one-goal game again, but Schlesingers

second goal, with 10:11 let to play,

widened the lead to 9-7. Though

the Minutemen brought the game

back to within one just 35 seconds

later, Burke was perect rom that

point on, making our saves in the

remainder o the game, including

three in the nal minute, to secure

the 9-8 win or Brown, the teams

third one-goal win o the season.

Jordan (Burke) wants the

weight o the world on his shoul-

ders, Tiany said. He wants to

be the last man back there when

were relying on him to make the

save to win the game. Weve been

doing that a lot lately, and he keeps

proving himsel.

The win gives Brown its second

straight victory over a nationally

ranked team, ater the Bears earned

a 12-11 victory over No. 19 Denver

on March 8. Both wins could prove

to be key later in the season, when

the team could nd itsel vying or

an at-large bid to the NCAA Tour-

nament.

The NCAA Tournament is

always kind o in the back o our

minds, ater last year, going 11-3

and not getting in, so we know its

really important to get quality out-o-

conerence wins, Burke said.On Saturday, Brown will travel

to Hanover, N.H., to take on Dart-

mouth (1-4) or its Ivy opener.

Going into the Ivy League sea-

son at 4-1 is key, and were play-

ing with a lot o condence right

now, Burke said. But we know

we havent played perect yet, and

theres room or improvement, so

hopeully well have a good week

o practice and be ready or the Ivy

League season.

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Qad-aptain Jordan Brke 09 made three of his 20 saves in the finalminte, sering the No. 18 mens larosses vitory over No. 13 uMass.

ning goal just 3:06 into the nal

rame, on their seventh power-play

o the night, when Yales Broc Little

beat Clemente with a tough-angle

wrist shot rom the bottom o the

right ace-o circle.

Yale tacked on another power-

play goal midway through the

third, and the Bears couldnt re-

cover, despite pulling Clemente in

avor o an etra attacker with 56

seconds remaining in the game.

y 2, B 0

The Bears did not get o to thesame strong start in Game Two as

they had on Friday night. Yale got

out to a 17-2 shot advantage in the

opening period.

I was really surprised at how

we came out in Game Two so fat,

said assistant captain Aaron Vol-

patti 10. We obviously didnt give

up, but its almost like we were

deeated. You kind o got that eel-

ing.

Yale got our power-play op-

portunities, including two ve-on-

three chances, in the rst rame

alone. Browns penalty kill kept

Yale rom taking over the game,

but eventually tired out.With the Bears a man down

12:25 into the rst period, Mark

Arcobello received a eed rom

Kearney, who was positioned at

the goal line, and one-timed the

puck past Clemente to give the

Bulldogs a 1-0 lead.

The penalty kill was awesome,

Clemente said. I mean, we killed

o a couple o ve-on-threes. The

rst goal they scored in the rst

period on Saturday, everyone was

just completely ehausted.The teams headed into the lock-

er room with Yale ahead by just

one goal, but the Bulldogs began

the second period with 1:54 still

remaining on their ourth power-

play o the game.

Six seconds into the middle pe-

riod, another Bear was sent to the

box, giving Yale its third ve-on-

three advantage o the night. Hal

a minute later, Backman scored on

the two-man advantage, putting the

Bulldogs up, 2-0.

The scoreboard didnt change

or the rest o the game. Clemente

turned the puck away 11 times inthe nal period, while Yale goalie

Alec Richards added nine saves to

bring his game total to 19.

The Bears pulled Clemente

with a minute remaining in avor

o an extra attacker, but Brown was

whistled or another penalty with

15 seconds let. Clemente headed

back in goal and made his 34th

save o the night seconds beore

the nal buzzer.

Saturday nights loss was a dis-

appointing end to the careers o

Browns seven seniors, who skated

o the ice or the last time.

I apologized to them that their

season had to end. Theyre justgreat guys, Clemente said. It was

pretty painul.

Grillo said he had mied emo-

tions in the locker room ater the

game.

I was proud o the act that

they battled through a tough sea-

son and gave themselves an op-

portunity to continue to play, he

said. But I was disappointed that

we didnt put our best oot orward,

especially in the second game.


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chie inormation ocer. By outsourcing Browns e-mail, the University

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dresses. In an interview with the board, Pickett said CIS was consider-

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among others. The weight o this opinion cannot be understated: CIS

should choose Gmail, or the good o the University and or the welare

o its students.A previous article on Brown e-mail (U. considers outsourcing stu-

dent e-mail, Sept. 28, 2007) reported that the overwhelming majority

o undergraduates who orward e-mail rom their Brown accounts use

Gmail. In addition to providing students with all the storage space they

could possibly need 7,305 MB as opposed to the current 50 MB limit

Gmail is ar above its competition in providing exciting, useul and

innovative eatures. Recent Google Labs inventions include a tasks bar,

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and a orgotten attachment detector, which lets you know i you have

mentioned an attachment in your e-mail but orgotten to attach it.

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But Mail Goggles isnt perect though some o us writer-types here

at the editorial page board may have trouble passing the test even when

were sober, weve heard o some hard-drinking physics majors who canace the most dicult setting on the rst try, just beore vomiting into

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Watson coverage unnecessarily viciousT t et:

I was dismayed by both the tone and content o yes-

terdays ront-page article (Watson directors unpopular

agenda draws ire, March 16). The story comes across

as a highly charged personal attack. The Watson Insti-

tute or International Studies is certainly going through a

challenging transition, urther amplied by the nancial

crisis. There are important ongoing discussions and

debates within the Watson Institute and across the

University over the uture direction o the Institute, and

this includes reasonable and understandable dierences

o opinion over hiring priorities and research agendas.

In this regard, some Watson aculty, including mysel,

have at times disagreed with the interim director. But

rather than constructively reporting on and contributing

to these deliberations, The Herald has instead added

a dose o venom that is both inappropriate and unhelp-

ul not to mention ultimately counterproductive in

attracting a new director or the Institute.The most inappropriate line in the article reerred

to the interim directors romantic relationship with a

Brown public policy proessor. The ar ticle implied that

there may be something improper about their involve-

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