Monday, March 19, 2012 D aily Herald tB Since 1891 vol. cxxii, no. 37 tomorrow today news....................2-4 science............. 5 e Oespce e r Eepse BElizaBEth Carr City & State editor Gilbane Development Corpora- tion has proposed the construction oa our-story luxury apartment complex on Tayer Street between Meeting Street and Euclid Avenue. Te building would be modeled aer others built around the coun- try near college campuses, said Robert Gilbane ’71 P’02 P’05, chieutr ad harmathmpay. Te complex would consist o102 urnished apartments, housing a total o277 students in single bedrooms, each with a private bathroom and connected to a living room with a 42-inch plasma screen television, Gilbane said. Residents would have access to yoga studios, tss ubs, grup study rms, audrgrud parkg t, bkstragad atrr urtyard encircled by the building complete wth barbqupts. “We’re developing the next studt husg, ” Gbasaid. He estimated that rent or ths“uury” apartmts wud cost between $1,000 and $1,400 per month. Gilbane said the rate was comparable to rents at other budgs thara, partuarysdrg that thstmats r- t 204 prs ad udhatg, g, trty, aband wireless Internet. “What the students are getting is a higher- quaty apartmt, ” hadd d. Gilbane said he hoped the com- plex would help Tayer Street mer- chants by bringing students closer to their businesses. “A bunch othe New student apartments proposed for Thayer CrtesStepheSls A cmpabills a prpsed apartmet cmplex as lxrstdet hsig. tiug9 BClairE SChlESSingEr Staff Writer Bell Gallery curator Ian Russell was driving along the highwaywth hs grrd Vat’s Day two years ago when he no- ticed a sign or a battleship in Fall Rr, Mass. Ttwstppd tcheck it out, and, captivated bythe sight oa Soviet vessel in the middle oNew England, he brought some visiting colleagues to see the ship again early this year. Aer speaking with Mat- thew Perry, the ship’s curator, it urrd tRussthat wrkg with a treasure like the Hiddensee battleship might appeal to Brown studts trstd hstry. Te battleship, stationed at Battleship Cove, has captured the attention oa group ostudents who are working on various ac- tivities to improve the Hiddensee hbt’s quaty ad dpth. a ese Battleship Cove is home to the largest naval warship collection in thwrd ad aturs shps that datas ar bak as Wrd War II. Te Hiddensee is a Soviet missile corvette built in 1984 during a pe- riod when the Soviet Union made military ships or export, primari- ly to East Asia. Russell said people need top-secret military clearance to visit a battleship othe same model in India, which is still in operation today. Te Hiddensee was a part othe East German navy during the Cold War and was thereore associated with the Soviet Union until the German ay gat tthUtd Stats ar Grmay’s ruat. TUSSR dsgd thshps with the latest technology or mtary pwr ad tmamzprot in sales, Russell said. When the U.S. Navy received the ship in 1991, ocials realized the ship’s Soviet battleship becomes R.I. museum BluCy FEldman NeWS editor Aristides Nakos ’12 stepped out oa party and into a crime scene earlySaturday mrg. At approximately 1:10 a.m., Na- ks saw thrukwmbat and rob a student at the intersection oEuclid Avenue and Brook Street — “two males grabbing at him, the thr puhg hm,” hsad. Te suspects ed west on Euclid and south on Tayer, with Nakos, a ormer member othe men’s rugbytam, hasg sbhd. Cspo“My natural instinct was to chase down the robbers because I thught t wud just bathr crime report that ends with the rbbrs g ths,” hsad. Minutes later, in ront oCitySports on Tayer Street, Nakos was hdg thsuspts, wat- ing or police to arrive. “He was aggressive,” Nakos said. “He was trying to escape, tried to talk me out oit, but I identied him as the person who assaulted (the student) ad hd hm thr.” People on the street encour- agd a physaa trat, Naks sad. WhDpartmt PubAfter Brook St. attack, senior chases down, catches mugger BlEE BErnStEin CoNtributiNg Writer As part oan eort to become more global, the University is planning to open an oice that wsras a -stp shp r international student services. By consolidating services, the Ursty ams trata mrwelcoming and stress-ree envi- ronment or international stu- dents, said Margaret Klawunn, vice president or campus lie and student services. hough the plan is still in an early, exploratoryphase, the University regards it as a top priority, administrators said. hda was rasd at a Jau- ary 2011 retreat with deans othe college, campus lie sta, the director othe Oice oIn- ternational Student and Scholar Srs ad thr trataaculty. At the retreat, an inter- national student panel pointed tthd tbttr rdatservices or international students at, Kawusad. Under the current plan, the trataspaws- date pre-existing services into one house and combine the “inter- national eorts and supporting o(the) community” on campus, Kawusad. “It’s a strange way to be wel- comed to a campus ithe irst U. proposes consolidating internationalservices tiug2 tiug2 tiug7 featurearts & culturetiug5 dbpoe Bju myOung kim StaffWriter With the desks cleared out and chairs pushed aside, Foxboro Auditorium was trans ormed into a miniature con- cert hall Friday night or Brown Opera Productions’ chamber perormance prmr“DPasqua. ” “‘Don Pasquale’ is one o(Gaetano) Dztt’s ast pras ad stads as one ohis greatest comic masterpieces rom his prolic operatic career, ” said Jacob Klapholz ’13, the music director. It s “a hugsptaad a physashow,” said Director Michelle Migliori ’ 4. Tpt ad musar“sy ad u, ” aturg humr, atad ainteresting stage in the style odown- twChag, shaddd. Te chamber perormance onlyprstd thpra’s muswthut thatg r stagg. Tuprr- mance was presented or the rst time last night and will be presented again tonight in Alumnae Hall. Te show opened with a quiet cello solo that soon developed into vibrant orchestral and vocal perormances. Te plot’s drama and comedy were projected through actors’ exaggerated but natu- ral motions and acial expressions that ampad thhagg tad tsty mus. he music o“Don Pasquale” “requires incredible voices rom the ur ad haratrs,” udg DPasqua(JhBrakatss ’ 5), Dr. Malatesta (Zal Shrof ’14), Ernesto (Andrew Brown ’15) and Norina (Kathryn Cohen ’13), as well as rom Sam Kase / Herald Twstdet sigers crt the challegig classic pera “DPasqale. ” Performers infuse classic opera with humor
