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vol. cxliv, no. 40 | Monday, March 30, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891

S F wkby HannaH Moser and setH Motel

SeniorStaffWriterand StaffWriter

More than two-thirds o Brown under-

graduates avor changing the name o

Columbus Day on the University calen-

dar, according to a Herald poll conducted

earlier this month.

Though 27.2 percent o students polled

indicated that they would like the holiday

to remain Columbus Day, 67.2 percent

said they would preer changing the name.

Among the options on the poll taken

rom the alternative names considered

by students in the months beore the poll

Fall Weekend, which was the nameproposed to the Faculty Executive Com-

mittee, garnered the most support.

45.6 percent o respondents supported

keeping the holiday on the second Mon-

day in October while changing its name

to Fall Weekend, 8.4 percent were in

avor o calling the holiday Indigenous

Peoples Day and 5.3 percent suggested

renaming it Tomato Day.

An additional 6.1 percent wanted to

change both the name and the date o the

B k f by Kevin pratt

Contributing Writer

As most Brown students packed

their bags and headed home or

spring break, more than 400 tae-

kwondo competitors rom colleges

across the nation converged on

campus last weekend or the 34th

National Collegiate Championship,

the rst-ever taekwondo tourna-

ment hosted at Brown.The Massachusetts Institute

o Technology took rst place in

overall points at the champion-

ship, which included two-person

sparring and single-person com-

petitions in choreographed orm

sequences called poomsae. Brown

won the division or novices or

color belts (as distinct rom black

belts) and placed second overall.

Sixty-ve athletes rom Brown

competed this year, the most any

school has sent to a national

championship, said Angela Yang

09, a ormer president o Brown

taekwondo.

Planning or the tournament be-

gan last April ater Brown was told

at the 2008 nationals at Stanord

University that it would host this

years championship, said Michelle

Ramadan 10, the clubs current

president.

The Brown-hosted competition

was distinguished rom past years

contests by the extensive use o a

tournament Web site in the weeks

leading up the event. The site wasupdated continuously by Web mas-

ter Paul Jeng 10 with competitor

and volunteer registration inor-

mation, the event schedule and

items competitors should bring,

Ramadan said.

Rex Hateld, President o the

National Collegiate Taekwondo

Association, called the tournament

the rst ully online champion-

ship.

I think the online aspect o it

helped take away a lot o the ace-

to-ace problem-solving weve had

U. BIAP AIP by Caitlin trujillo

Contributing Writer

The Career Development Center saw

a 30 percent increase in the number

o applicants or the Brown Internship

Award Program and the Aided Intern-

ship Award Program this year.

William Bordac, communications

and public relations ocer or the

CDC, said the center received 235

total applications this year. While the

CDC had anticipated an increase as

a result o the troubled economic cli-

mate, the total count was surprising,

Bordac said.

According to Bordac, the CDC ex-

pects to award 50 students through

BIAP this year in order to meet the

increased demand. Last year only 41

BIAP awards, which are sponsored by

third-party donors, were given out.

The number o AIP awards, how-

ever, will remain steady at 25 because

Brown unds them directly. Due to

the budget crisis, the University was

unable to provide or an increase

this year.

Bordac said one o the reasons or

the jump in applications this year was

the increase in unpaid as opposed

to paid internships, resulting in

more students looking or unding

assistance.

Finding and securing internships

this year while working with the BIAP

timeline presented a challenge or

some applicants. Anna Newby 10

chose not to apply or BIAP primarily

because o the mid-March deadline,

which she thought was too early or

many competitive and prestigious

internship response deadlines. Be-

Courtesy of Dan Bailey

Brown hosted the 34th National Colleiate Championship March 21and 22.

Courtesy of Brown

Brown researchers studied bats ability to acrobatically land upside down.

-b-by Kevin pratt

Contributing Writer

Brown researchers have shed light

or the rst time on how bats perorm

the acrobatics necessary to land with

their eet above their heads.

The research, published in the

Journal o Experimental Biology

earlier this month, shows that land-

ing styles varied among species:

Two species studied cart-wheeled

into a soter landing, while a third

back-fipped into a harder impact and

landed on all ours. Daniel Riskin, a

postdoctoral researcher in the De-

partment o Ecology and Evolution-

ary Biology who was the studys lead

author, said the dierences in land-

ing styles may be due to evolutionary

dierences between the bats.

A broad aim o his research was

to shed light on the unction o bats

unique body shape the mammals

have skinny, long legs that are well-

suited to fying and roosting, but

could be at risk o injury during

orceul landings, Riskin told The

Herald.

Associate Proessor o Biology

Sharon Swartz and Proessor o En-

gineering Kenneth Breuer assisted

Riskins study, providing unding,

personnel and access to the animals

or the research. The research team

used bats housed in the basement

o the BioMedical Center and at the

University o Maryland.

High-speed digital cameras

captured the bats landings, and a

scale attached to the labs ceiling

measured the orce o their impacts.

The research took advantage o bats

natural tendency to choose a avorite

roosting spot in a given enclosed

space and keep returning to it, Riskin

said.

The slow-motion videos o the

bats landings, which Riskin has

posted on his personal Web site,

show bats swooping toward their

perches, then depending on their

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Herald poll

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Somewhatconfident

23.5%

Somewhatworried

31.2%

Very worried

14.3%

Dont plan to getjob immediately

15.1%

10.5%

Veryconfident

5.3%

Dont know / No answer

How confident or worried are you about getting thejob you want to have after graduation?

Keep dateand name

27.2%

Keep date and FallWeekend

45.6%

IndigenousPeoples Day 8.4%

5.3%

Tomato Day 6.1%

Change date and name 5.6%

Dont know / No answerRemove nameand no day off

1.8%

The University currently recognizes the secondMonday in October as the Columbus Day holiday.

There has been some discussion about changingthe name or its status as a day off. How should the

University respond?

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Alexander Hughes, Secretary

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MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2009THE BROWN DAILY HERALDPAgE 2

CAPUS wS 44.5 percent of students are somewhat or very worriedabout ettin the job they want after raduation

holiday, and 1.8 percent suppor tedremoving the name Columbus Day

and not observing a holiday.

The FEC has yet to ocially vote

on the Fall Weekend proposal, as

it did not have enough votes or a

quorum at its last meeting.

The Herald poll was conducted

rom March 16 through March 18

and has a 3.6 percent margin o

error with 95 percent condence.

A total o 676 Brown undergradu-

ates completed the poll, which The

Herald administered as a writtenquestionnaire to students in the

University Mail Room at J. Walter

Wilson, outside the Blue Room in

Faunce House and in the Sciences

Library.

In light o the current nancial

crisis, 10.5 percent o students polled

said they were very worried about

their ability to continue nancing

their education. 27.5 percent were

somewhat worried, 29.3 percent

were somewhat condent and 30.9

percent were very condent.Similarly, 10.5 percent o stu-

dents elt very condent that they

would be able to get the job they

wanted ater graduation. 23.5 per-

cent reported being somewhat con-

dent, 31.2 percent were somewhat

worried and 14.3 percent were very

worried. 15.1 percent o respondents

indicated that they did not plan to

get a job immediately ater gradu-

ation.

The Undergraduate Council o

Students enjoyed an improvement

in avorability ratings since October.

51.5 percent o students strongly

or somewhat approved o UCS, ascompared to 38.1 percent o stu-

dents who said the same thing last

semester. Students who strongly

or somewhat disapproved made up

13.0 percent, a statistically insigni-

cant increase rom last semesters

poll. The percentage o students

who responded Dont know/No

answer in regard to UCSs job per-

ormance declined rom 49.3 percent

in Octobers poll to 35.5 percent in

the new poll.

President Ruth Simmons re-

mained consistently popular, with

80.1 percent o those polled report-

ing approval.

Following heavy attention due

in part to protests rom Students or

a Democratic Society the Cor-

porations approval ratings were at

38.7 percent. Last semester 33.7 per-

cent indicated that they strongly or

somewhat approved o the way the

Corporation had been handling its

job, though this dierence is within

the two polls combined margin oerror.

75.9 percent o students polled

reported that President Barack

Obama has so ar met their expec-

tations as president. The 8.6 per-

cent o respondents who said he has

exceeded expectations was similar

in size to the 7.0 percent who said

he has not met expectations. Last

October, 86.1 percent o studentssaid they would support Obamas

candidacy i the election were to

take place then.

Providence Mayor David Cicil-

line 83 received 19.8 percent ap-

proval rom undergraduates, com-

pared to 9.2 percent disapproval.

However, 71.0 percent o students

polled responded Dont know/No

answer in response to how he was

handling his job.

Though 89.8 percent o students

said they have not used prescription

stimulants that were not prescribed

to them during this academic year,

7.9 have used them at least oncethis year. Since the start o last se-

mester, 3.1 percent o respondents

have used prescription stimulants

exactly once, 3.7 reported using

them a ew times and an additional

1.1 percent reported using them

more regularly.

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1. Do you approve or disapprove of

the way Ruth Simmons is handling

her job as president o Brown Uni-

versity?

Strongly approve: 41.3%

Somewhat approve: 38.8%

Somewhat disapprove: 3.6%

Strongly disapprove: 1.2%

Dont know/No answer: 15.2%


the way the Undergraduate Council

o Students (UCS) is handling its

job?




Strongly disapprove: 2.1%Dont know/No answer: 35.5%


the way the Corporation is handlings

its job as Browns highest governing

body?





Dont know/No answer:

36.7%

4. The University currently recognizes

the second Monday in October as the

Columbus Day holiday. There has

been some discussion about chang-

ing the name or its status as a day

o. How should the University re-

spond?

Keep date & name: 27.2%

Keep date & Fall

Weekend: 45.6%

Keep date & Indigenous

Peoples Day: 8.4%

Keep date & Tomato Day:

5.3%

Change date & name: 6.1%

Remove name & no day o:

1.8%


5. Compared to what you expected

when Barack Obama was elected

President, do you think that he has

done better than you expected, about

the same as you expected or worse

than you expected?

Better than expected: 8.6%

About the same as

expected: 75.9%

Worse than expected: 7.0%


6. How confdent or worried are you

about getting the job you want to have

after graduation?

Very condent: 10.5%

Somewhat condent: 23.5%

Somewhat worried: 31.2%

Very worried: 14.3%

Dont plan to get job

immediately: 15.1%


7. How oten this academic year have

you used prescription stimulants

such as Adderall, Dexedrine or Rit-

alin that were not prescribed to

you?

Not at all: 89.8%Once: 3.1%

A ew times: 3.7%

A ew times a month: 0.4%

Once a week: 0.3%

More than once a week: 0.3%

Every day: 0.1%


8. How confdent or worried are you

about your or your amilys

ability to fnance your Brown edu-

cation?

Very confdent: 30.9%

Somewhat condent: 29.3%

Somewhat worried: 27.5%Very worried: 10.5%


9. Do you approve or disapprove o the

way David Cicilline 83 is handling

his job as mayor of Providence?





Dont know/No answer:

71.0%

Methodology

Written questionnaires were

administered to 676 undergradu-ates March 16-18 at the University

Mail Room in J. Walter Wilson and

outside the Blue Room in Faunce

House in the three mornings and

aternoons and at the Sciences Li-

brary on the rst two nights. To

ensure random sampling, pollsters

approached every third person and

asked each one to complete a poll.

The poll has a 3.6 percent margin o

error with 95 percent condence.

The sample polled was demo-

graphically similar to the Brown un-

dergraduate population as a whole.

The sample was 48.5 percent maleand 51.5 percent emale. First-years

made up 29.0 percent o the sample,

30.5 percent were sophomores, 18.5

percent were juniors and 22.0 per-

cent were seniors. 66.6 percent o

respondents identied themselves

as white, 8.1 percent identied as

black or Arican-American, 10.4

percent Hispanic, 21.6 percent

Asian, 1.0 percent American Indian

or Alaska Native, 0.3 percent Na-

tive Hawaiian and Pacic Islander,

1.5 percent identied with a racial

group or ethnicity not listed and

0.9 percent chose not to answer.

The sum o the percentages addsup to more than 100 percent due

to respondents who identied with

multiple ethnic or racial groups.

Senior Sta Writer Hannah

Moser 12 and Copy Desk Chie

Seth Motel 11 coordinated the poll.

Herald section editors, senior sta

writers and other sta members

conducted the poll.

H pr

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Its just a little more waggish that way. Will Litton 09

j f by natalie uduwela

Contributing Writer

The death o print may be loom-

ing, but three seniors dont plan tomourn or very long.

Reacting to what they see as a

powerul stigma acing online-only

literary publications, Will Litton 09,

Will Guzzardi 09 and Sandra Al-

len 09, all members o the improv

comedy troupe Starla and Sons,

have launched an exclusively on-

line literary journal with a distinctly

print favor.

The literary quarterly, Wags

Revue, eatures the work o promi-

nent literary gures o todays Web-

minded generation and published

its rst issue earlier this month.

Released March 21, the debutissue contains work by the Director

o the Literary Arts Program and

Proessor o Literary Arts Brian

Evenson and an essay on the hip-

ster/douchebag dialectic in con-

temporary culture. It also eatures

exclusive interviews with Pulitzer

Prize-nominated author Dave Eg-

gers and with ounding editor o

the literary quarterly n+1 Mark

Grei and writer Wells Tower, who

recently released a book.

The journal, whose URL is wag-

srevue.com, opens with what Litton

calls a hyperbolized scathing mani-

esto declaring the death o print,

in which the three co-oundersemphasize their belie that online

literature doesnt have to exist in

its current state.

With strict editorial controls,

Wags Revues ounders hope to

combat the mediocrity they said

results rom the ability to publish

such large amounts o lackluster

material on the Web.

When theres unlimited space

to print whatever, you can blog ev-

eryday and end up with a crockpot

o really mediocre writing, Litton

said. So much is getting published,

theres no journal with stringenteditorial controls.

The word wag in the journals

title means a mischievous joker,

and the use o the word revue

a collection o theatrical peror-

mances was chosen over re-

view because its just a little more

waggish that way, Litton said in a

press release.

Their goal is to selectively estab-

lish a body o work that maintains a

level o quality equal to print while

changing its orm o output.

For literature, its interesting

because theres this incredibly pow-

erul stigma i youre only published

on the Web theres somethingbastardized about that, Litton

said. A lot o that has to do with

the certain aesthetic to holding a

book in your hand and smelling it

and turning its pages, and also the

way that literature is put up on the

Internet right now looks very plain

and boring.

To ght that stigma, Wags Re-

vues online material looks like that

o a print journal, complete with an

issue cover, table o contents and

page numbers.

We wanted to create a space

online that resembles a physicalpage that has the same sort o

saety and certainty that you can

get with print, Allen said.

The ounders said they hope

or the journal, which is ree, to be

economically sustainable through

its upcoming contest, in which par-

ticipants pay a small entry ee to

submit a piece and have the chance

to win $500 dollars in three dierent

literary elds ction, nonction

and poetry which are the respec-

tive interests o Litton, Allen and

Guzzardi.

Rather than prot, the trios goal

is to create a reputable literary out-

let or upcoming writers o todaysonline generation, which they hope

to maintain or years to come.

They plan to publish Wags Re-

vue quarterly, with release dates

timed to equinoxes and solstices.

Starla is a model or what

happens when we ully commit to

something, Allen said. In a per-

ect universe, this will take o and

be something we do or several

years.

Courtesy of WasRevue.com

Was Revue, a new literary publication founded by three Brownstudents, exists online only to brin print-quality writin to the Web.

SUBU by ellen CusHing

SeniorStaffWriter

In the spring o 2007, a group o stu-

dents ormed the Student Union o

Brown University, intended as a demo-

cratic orum or members to air their

concerns about University policy. The

group grew quickly, attracting 400

members in its rst semester and 150

more the next all.

But just two years later SUBU has

eectively disappeared, with ormer

members citing an overly ambitious

agenda and the inevitably feeting na-

ture o student involvement.

Basically, SUBUs not really doingtoo much these days, said Will Em-

mons 09, one o the non-hierarchical

groups original organizers. The orga-

nization has not held a meeting this

year, he said. Last springs meeting

was canceled because it did not attract

enough students or a sel-imposed

quorum o 1 percent o the student

body, or 59 students.

The group was originally ounded

as a large-scale orum or student

voices and interests, Emmons said.

I think the original impetus be-

hind trying to organize SUBU was

(that) we wanted to nd a way to build

a mechanism that would harness stu-

dent voices, Emmons said. SUBUwas kind o envisioned as a collective

democratic voice or students to im-

pact the university.

Alex Tye 10, another organizer,

explained that the student union was

ounded largely as a response to the

Undergraduate Council o Students.

A lot o us had been kind o disap-

pointed by the job that UCS was doing

in representing students, and up to that

point, UCS had kind o a monopoly

on being the way students had repre-sented themselves, he said.

But Michael Glassman 09, who

was UCS president last year when the

student union was still active, said the

groups position as an alternative to the

bureaucracy o UCS may have contrib-

uted to its own eventual dissolution.

I went to a (SUBU) meeting, and

they spent so much time going over

codes and rules, which is a complaint

people have with UCS, Glassman said.

So when people saw that, I think they

lost interest.

People seemed really excited

about the idea, but its hard to keep

up that momentum. Glassman said.Tye and Emmons also said that

ater such a visible beginning, it was

simply dicult or the group to main-

tain its momentum.

Organizing SUBU was a bold

task, Emmons said.

Tye said the student unions ambi-

tious goals required a level o attention

that may simply have been unsustain-

able.

For the entire time it was around,

SUBU was in the phase where it re-

quired a lot o attention rom people,

he said. It was trying to be a really

large group, which meant that it re-

quired a lot o participation rom a lot

o people.When a core o active members

graduated or let to study abroad, many

o the groups remaining members

began directing their activism energy

to other radical groups on campus,

especially Students or a Democratic

Society, he said.

Ater so many people graduated,

the original organizing crew olded

Lb b Jby aMy CHen

Contributing Writer

In an age where library resources

are increasingly making use o new

technologies, Josiah, the librarys

online catalog, has been retooled with

a series o new eatures that have been

available since earlier this month. The

new eatures include text messag-

ing o book call numbers and access

through Josiah to searchable, digital

volumes on Google Books, along with

other small upgrades.

The codes or both applications

were adapted by Goran Tkalec GS, a

graduate student o religious studies

who also studies computer science.

He collaborated with Bonnie Buzzell

72, senior knowledge systems librar-

ian, to implement the technology.

For texting, the user enters his

or her cell phone number and car-

rier into Josiah. The resulting text

message will include inormation on

the title o the source, its call num-

ber and which o Browns libraries

houses it.

The inormation on Google Books,

in the orm o images and text, can

help (a user) determine i the item is

likely to be o interest beore going to

the stacks or placing a request, ac-

cording to Josiahs Web site. Though

more than a million volumes are avail-

able on Google Books, not all texts or

images are complete, and its scans

may be imperect. Moreover, texts

on Google Books cannot be saved or

exported, according its Web site.

Browns librarians are always

aware o new developments at other

university libraries, said Jean Rain-

water, co-leader o Integrated Tech-

nological Services. The text message

eature adapted similar technology

that was originally created by Adam

Brin 00 or Bryn Mawr College,

where he worked as a librarian, Rain-

water said. The original code or theGoogle Books unction was developed

at Virginia Tech.

The new services have garnered

positive reviews rom requent library

users and librarians.

I appreciate that Brown Library

Services now links Josiah entries to

Google Books, said Heather Lee, a

second-year Ph.D. student in Ameri-

can Civilization who said she uses Jo-

siah or research at least once a day.

Previously, i a book was checked

out o the Brown libraries, I would

have checked Google Books or a

digital copy in the case that I needed

to read it immediately, Lee said.

This new eature saves me trouble

o searching another database.

Rainwater said that, as a librarian,

she particularly likes having direct

links to Google Books. She said it

allows her to consider which books

to replace in the library.

The other, smaller enhancements

to Josiah include an automatic e-mail

notication rom Josiah to the user

when a newly catalogued item match-

es a saved search rom the users ac-

count, Buzzell wrote in an e-mail to

The Herald.

Christine Baumgarthuber GS,

a graduate student in English who

uses Josiah to do her research and to

study or her exams, said the Josiah

layout and navigation was already

airly straightorward. Having recent-

ly led students through the catalog

and database in a section o ENGL

0110: Critical Reading and Writing I:

The Academic Essay class that she

teaches, she ound that her students

eedback was generally positive.

Rainwater also said another new

eature would soon be added to the

catalog. Users will be able to nd call

numbers in Josiah and take them

to a foor map o the library, which

will show the user where to nd the

books, she said.

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CAPUS wS I feel like this is an annual strule for students. Anna Newby 10

species either turning or fipping

upside-down beore clasping onto aplastic grate.

Data rom the videos were used

to generate graphs o the bats move-

ment during landing with specic

measurements o the animals pitch,

yaw and roll Riskin said.

The species that landed signi-

cantly harder than the other two,

and with our points o contact rather

than two, was Cynopterus brachyo-

tis, which typically roosts in trees.

The soter landers were closer evo-

lutionary cousins, Riskin said, that

usually roost in rocky caves.

A species seems to have a way

o landing, he said. You can askwhy some species have that char-

acter, and others have a dierent

character. ... I think the answer to

that is that bats that roost in oliage

can land as hard as they want it

wont hurt.

I they landed as orceully as

their tree-dwelling relatives, cave-

roosters would risk a hazardous col-

lision o their ragile hind legs with

the rock ceiling.

Riskin said he wants to repeat the

landing experiments with more bat

species rom South America, which

is home to a wide variety o bats with

dierent eeding and roosting habits.

This urther study could lead to a

better understanding o how dier-

ences in bat species have evolvedover time, he said, and would test

the idea, suggested by his initial re-

search, that bats roosting in caves

land more sotly.

I certainly have not proven any-

thing yet, Riskin said.

But Riskins interest in bats ex-

tends beyond their acrobatic capa-

bilities.

In museums, you might have

one species o bat in the mammals

section, said Riskin, who has trav-

elled around the world to study the

animals. In truth, one-th o mam-

mals are bats.

I youre interested in diversity,i youre interested in the variation o

animal body plans ... bats are a great

system (to study) because there are

so many dierent kinds, he said.

Riskin enjoys seeking out and

studying species o bats he hasnt en-

countered beore, he added, because

they always present variations on

the theme o typical bat behaviors.

His next research project may lead

him to Madagascar, where a species

o bat only recently ound in signi-

cant numbers uses adhesive pads

to ax itsel to smooth suraces,

even glass.

k b continued frompage 1

cause the BIAP and AIP awards are

non-transerable, applicants mustcommit to one internship without

the fexibility o having unding or

others.

I eel like this is an annual strug-

gle or students, Newby said.

Newby applied or a variety o

Middle Eastern policy internships

including positions with think

tanks, non-prots and policy study

institutes most o which are un-

paid. She said it is unlikely she will be

able to accept an unpaid job without

supplemental nancial support rom

the organization or a reduced-hours

schedule that would allow her to take

a part-time job as well.She said her goal is to attain a

paid internship, though she added

that this might be an unrealistic ex-

pectation.

Ann Craword-Roberts 12 se-

cured her internship over winter

break and ound the application

process straightorward, though she

said she knew others who could not

solidiy their plans in time and were

deterred rom applying.

I knew people who werent se-

cure enough and would nd out too

late, Craword-Roberts said.

Some students also think the

CDC needs to advertise earlier in

order to alert potential applicants

and give them time to pull their plans

together. Paula Kauman 10, who gotan internship with a West Virginia

health clinic, said she was rustrated

with the late publicity.

Putting out notice one or two

months in advance is insucient,

Kauman said. I would presume

there were a lot o people who

wouldve applied had they known

earlier.

Bordac said he hoped the rush to

secure internships by the application

deadline did not prevent people rom

applying, since applicants are allowed

to submit a letter rom their potential

employers stating that they are be-

ing considered or a position, but donot yet have the internship secured.

About one-third o applicants usually

do not have their internships yet, he

said, and this does not actor into the

decision process.

We give leeway, Bordac said.

Were very fexible and like to work

with people.

He said the CDC was looking into

a variety o ways to help students

in the uture, including oering a

workshop or the application process

to aid uture applicants. The CDC

may also encourage students who

complete internships to return to the

oce and share their experiences,

Borac said.

While the BIAP and AIP dead-

lines have lapsed, the CDC is still

working to nd students internshipsand alternate unding sources. Bor-

dac said the CDC is in the process

o gathering inormation on intern-

ship opportunities rom the Swearer

Center and the Watson Institute or

International Studies. Further, he

said the CDC hopes the University

will be able to increase unding or

uture AIP awards, thereby increas-

ing the programs accessibility.

The University is trying to raise

the prole o internships and raise

the prole o their importance, not

just in career pursuits but academic

as well, Bordac said.

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D .I.by anita MatHews

a&C StaffWriter

Home Across Lands, a documen-

tary that ollows the journey o

Eritrean reugees rom Ethiopia

to Rhode Island, will screen this

Thursday, ollowed by a talk with

the lms director, John Lavall. The

event is sponsored by the Brown

Reugee Youth Tutoring and En-

richment program.

With the aid o the International

Institute o Rhode Island, the reu-

gees, part o a distinct Eritrean

community known as the Kunama,

become acclimated to lie in theUnited States. The Kunama are

considered to be some o Eritreas

original inhabitants. Though they

are demographically one o the

smallest groups in the region,

they have sustained a language

and culture distinct rom the rest

o the surrounding countrys. The

Kunama inhabit some o Eritreas

most ertile land and have there-

ore long been persecuted by the

Eritrean government, leading them

to fee across the border to live in

Ethiopian reugees camps.

According to the press r elease,

the documentary illustrates the

ways the International Institutebridges the vast divide rom lie

in a reugee camp to lie in Rhode

Island as they help the Kunama in

making sense o apartment living,

public transportation, employment

and health care, while nurturing

their own community as they adapt

to a larger and very oreign one.

The International Insititutes

mission to assist in reugees ac-

climation process aligns with that

o the BRYTE program. BRYTE

matches Brown students with

reugee amilies throughout

Providence, allowing the students

to serve as tutors and mentors. Through its tutoring program,

BRYTE, like the IIRI, aims to allevi-

ate the diculties o assimilation

experienced by reugees.

Lavall, who also produced the

lm, has won Emmy Awards or his

previous work. He and a produc-

tion team spent a year lming the

Kunaman reugees as they bridged

the nearly 7,000-mile gap between

the Shimelba reugee camp in

Northern Ethiopia and their new

homes in Providence. Lavall and

his production team lmed in both

ISD b by ben HyMan

artS & Culture editor

There is a joyul, kid-in-a-candy-store

quality to Pulled Up, an exhibit at

the Rhode Island School o Design

Museum o Art. The eeling starts

with the rst glimpse o the Farago

Gallerys makeover. Its feshy pink

walls, lined on the bottom by an un-

dulating swath o brick-red paint,

signal that the cheerul show is as

much about the space itsel as the

works within it.

Pulled Up is the ruitul result

o a partnership between the Ameri-

can artist Carl Ostendarp and Judith

Tannenbaum, the Museums curator

o contemporary art. Consciouslyresponding to Raid the Icebox I

a 1969-70 exhibit that eatured

a crazed assortment o works rom

RISDs collection curated by Andy

Warhol Ostendarp explored the

Museums holdings and pulled

up 16 20th-century works by an

odd assortment o artists. Here, the

high modernism o Adolph Gottlieb

and Barnett Newman mingles with

Jean Arps Dadaist gags and the

postmodern exuberance o Warhol,

Ed Ruscha and John Wesley. Its a

reresher course in the history o Kim Perley / HeraldPulled Up, an exhibit at the RISD Museum of Art, features the workof 16 20th-century artists, includin Andy Warhol and Joan Miro. continued onpage 6continued onpage 6

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AS CULU We are the only hope (many refuees) have. A staff worker at the International Institute of Rhode Island

Ethiopia and Providence a risky

venture given that the camp lies

within the 50 kilometer zone be-

tween Ethiopia and Eritrea deemed

unsae or travelers by the U.S.

State Department.

Filming in Ethiopia presented

other challenges to Lavall and his

crew, he wrote in an email to the

Herald. His production team had

to avoid potential land mines on the

roads, and to grapple with very lim-

ited time during which to conduct

interviews with amilies.

Back in Providence, the produc-tion team also encountered several

obstacles. Lavall wrote that the

crew wanted to ensure the most

accurate retelling o the reugees

story as possible. Such in-depth

study, however, presented the crew

with additional challenges.

To tell this story eectively

we needed to immerse ourselves

into the day-to-day workings o the

resettlement oce and into the

lives o these newly (resettled)

amilies, Lavall wrote. Our goal

was capture as much as we could

on lm; their arrival at the airport,in the doctors oce, the rst day

o school, a job inter view.

But Lavall explained that IIRIs

support was critical in allowing

the crew to overcome these chal-

lenges.

We were very ortunate to gain

access and permission at every

turn, he wrote, its a testament

to the strength o IIRI within the

community. Whenever we ex-

plained what we were doing and

whos story we were telling the

mere mention o IIRI was enough

or most people to agree whole-

heartedly.Despite the challenges involved,

the nal product is an inspiring and

inormative documentary that high-

lights the success o reugee out-

reach programs in Providence.

For many reugees, this is it,

says one IIRI sta worker in the

lm. We are the only hope they

have.

Home Across Lands will screen

at 7 p.m. on April 2 in the Hunter

Carmichael Auditorium in the

Hunter Laboratory on Waterman

Street.

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modern art, with Roy Lichtenstein,

Jackson Pollock, Joan Miro, OdilonRedon and Richard Artschwager all

making appearances. Topping it o

are two new paintings by Ostendarp

himsel.

The seasonal group exhibi-

tion has become a Chelsea cliche,

which makes this mishmash even

unnier. Imagine i these guys

and they are, all o them, guys, but

lets get back to that later had

been working together, exhibiting

together, Ostendarp seems to say.

How would they have interacted

with each other? Would they have

gotten along?

As Ostendarp explores thesequestions, the two-tone walls

serve as much more than a back-

drop. They actively contribute to

the exhibit, bringing out themes

and underlining juxtapositions. The

use o organic orms links Miro and

Arp to 1960s and 1970s pieces by

Myron Stout and Nicholas Krush-

enick. Also, many o the works

are connected in their response to

color. They play o the predominant

warm tones o the walls, a dialogue

by turns harmonious and dissonant.

A Jules Olitski print blends in so

perectly with the color scheme

that it almost goes unnoticed,

while, directly next to it, a typical

Jose Albers painting o dark greensquares loses its hallucinatory calm

as it tussles with the vibrant pink

behind it.

For all its sunny buoyancy,

Pulled Up also suggests darker

undertones. Ostendarp acknowl-

edges Warhol by including one o

his unsettling electric chair prints.

Similarly, Redons amous print The

Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts

Toward Innity only becomes more

disquieting, situated in this cheery

context. Ostendarps paintings, too,

capture the sense o dread beneath

the exhibitions cartoon mayhem.

Each o his works takes a cry orage and rustration Yaaah and

Aaarrgh and renders it humor-

ously in blown-up, blocky letters,

using the two incongruously upbeat

colors rom the gallery walls. The

paintings are both un and desper-

ate, and they recall the similarly

laconic, text-based canvases o Rus-

cha, who is represented here by a

wordless print o soap bubbles.

The act that every artist in

Pulled Up is male and, or the

most part, well known is, at rst,

exasperating. For all o the strange-

ness o the exhibits combinations,

each selection on its own holds no

surprises. But instead o being an-

noyed, its probably best to treatthis homogeneity as another kind

o joke, even i its not entirely clear

what the punchline is. Could Osten-

darp have chosen his colors in order

to highlight the hot-and-heavy, tes-

tosterone-ueled competition among

the works? Is it that men are always

the immature class clowns? Perhaps

the joke is actually about high-mind-

ed art world rhetoric that conceals a

persistent boys club and curatorial

avoritism or established artists.

Ostendarp leaves these questions

unanswered.

All in all, the exhibit is a nimble

and exciting demonstration o thepower o context to aect our read-

ings o an individual work o art.

Pulled Up is so captivating that it

takes a while to notice the shows

slyest trick its soundtrack. Art

rock and punk songs including,

o course, Pulled Up by the Talk-

ing Heads, a band that met at RISD

burbles quietly at all times, giving

the viewer permission to let loose

and take things a little bit less seri-

ously. It eels like a painting studio

where the radio is on, the work is

resh and anything is possible.

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k kby elisabetH avalloneSportS StaffWriterThe No. 11 mens lacrosse team proved

resilient against Dartmouth, Vermont

and Delaware this past week, earning

decisive victo-

ries against

all three. The

Bears advanced

to an overall record o 7-1, and 1-0 in

the Ivy League.

In their Ivy League opener on

March 21, the Bears toppled Dart-

mouth 14-8. Andrew Feinberg 11

led Brown with our goals, and quad-captain Kyle Hollingsworth 09 totaled

seven points on two goals and ve

assists. In a non-conerence game

against Vermont three days later,

Hollingsworth tallied a career-high

ve goals and Feinberg added three

in a 16-8 victory. Thomas Muldoon 10

led Brown with our goals in Satur-

days 13-5 win over Delaware, running

Brunos winning streak to six.

We have been playing very strong

as a team, Feinberg said. In the past

ew games we have been well pre-

pared to take on our opponents. Both

the oense and deense have been

executing our coaches game strate-

gies very well.

b 14, dmh 8

On Saturday, March 21 the Bears

took on Dartmouth in the rst Ivy

game o the season in Hanover, N.H.

The Big Green struck rst with 7:41

to go in the rst quarter. But Feinberg

responded eight seconds later, the

rst o our straight goals or Brown.

Feinberg notched his second goal,

and Nic Bell 09 and Hollingsworth

each added one to conclude the rst

quarter with a 4-1 lead.

The Bears built a 6-2 lead midway

through the second quarter, with goals

by Muldoon and Feinberg. Ater Dart-mouth notched a pair o goals, Mul-

doon red his second. Dartmouth an-

swered with a goal, trailing Brown 7-5,

but goals by Bell and Reade Seligmann

09 thwarted Dartmouths comeback

or a 9-5 lead to close the hal.

The Bears added to their lead in

the third quarter, with Feinbergs

ourth and Seligmanns second giv-

ing them a six-goal lead going into

the nal quarter.

Hollingsworth nished the game

with two goals and ve assists. Mul-

doon (two goals, three assists) and

Feinberg (4g, 1a) each nished with

ve points. Bell and Seligmann n-

ished the game with two goals each.Brady Williams 09 and quad-captain

Jack Walsh 09 added a goal each.

Quad-captain Jordan Burke 09

anchored the deense with 10 saves

and seven goals against.

b 16, vm 8

Brown next traveled to Burling-

ton on Tuesday to ace o against the

University o Vermont. Hollingsworth

scored a career-high ve goals, cou-

pled with Feinbergs three to lead the

Bears to a 16-8 victory over the Cata-

mounts their th straight win.

Williams, Feinberg and Muldoon

launched an exciting three-goal lead

ve minutes into the game. But Ver-mont cut the decit to 5-4 at the end

o the rst quarter.

Browns deense shut out Vermont

in the second quarter and the o ense

tallied ve goals or a 10-4 lead at the

hal. Hollingsworth scored two goals.

Feinberg, Williams and Walsh each

had one.

Brown dominated the second hal,

outscoring Vermont 6-4, to cushion

their already substantial irst-hal

lead. Goals by Hollingsworth and

Bell gave the Bears a 12-6 lead ater

third quarter. In the ourth quarter,

Hollingsworth, Feinberg and Jason

. Bby andrew braCa

SportS editor

The mens crew began the spring

season by sweeping three races

rom Yale on Saturday on the

Seekonk River. The Bears looked

strong as they began their deenseo last seasons Ivy League title.

Yales got a really strong pro-

gram, and our guys did a great job

o racing them down the course,

said Head Coach Paul Cooke 89.

On an unusually calm day on

the Seekonk, Brown won all three

races by comortable margins. The

varsity and the reshman boats each

won by more than nine seconds,

while the second varsity boat posted

a ve-second edge.

Matt Wheeler 09 said the strong

perormances across the board

were a testament to the attitude we

have in the boathouse right now. Allthree boats have been racing each

other or months now, as hard as we

can. We just went out there and did

what we knew how to do.

The varsity eight began the

morning by trouncing Yale, clock-

ing in at 5:43.0 while the Bulldogs

trailed 9.9 seconds behind. The

Bears jumped out to a quick lead

that continued to grow to open

water midway through the two-

kilometer race.

Christian Crynes 10 was in the

bow seat, ollowed by Gavin Crynes

10 in the two seat, Wheeler in the

three, Cole Bonner 10 in our, Ben

Duggan 10 in ve, Scott Morgan 10

in six, Nick Ritter 10 in the seven

seat, Sean Medcal 09 at stroke and

coxswain Rob OLeary 09.

OLeary said it was important to

begin the spring on the right oot.

Coming into it were always a

little unsure about where we stand,

so it was good to come out o the

rst race with a win, he said.

The second varsity eight dis-

patched two Yale boats almost as

easily. The Bears nished in 5:46.45,

while the Bulldog boats lagged be-

hind at 5:51.86 and 5:54.11.

The reshmen wrapped up the

morning with a dominant peror-mance in their rst race on Browns

home course. Browns rst nov-

ice boat nished rst with a time

o 5:42.77, ollowed by Yale at

5:51.90 and Brunos second boat

at 6:00.16.

The reshmens strong showing

pleased Cooke.

It was a bit o a surprise, Cooke

said. The reshmen have been do-

ing a nice job lately, but as much

as the varsity is an unknown, the

reshman (eight) is even more so,

so or them to have such a success-

ul race was a real thrill. Its great

or the uture o the program.

The reshmen also impressedthe varsity rowers.

Weve been watching them

train all year, Medcal said. They

came in as sort o a rag-tag bunch.

To see them just handle that race

and really take control, that was

really good.

The Bears will need the mo-

mentum they earned this week-

end when they travel to Caliornia

to ace sti competition at the San

Diego Crew Classic next weekend.

Brown will ace top crews rom

across the country, including Ivy

League oes Harvard, Princeton

and Yale.San Diego is going to be really

tough, Wheeler said. Almost ev-

ery powerhouse in the country is

going to be there.

But OLeary said the Bears will

be ready.

Were going to keep training

and denitely get ready or a big

race next weekend, he said.

Courtesy of Mike Braca

The mens crew team started off the season stron, winnin three races aainst Yale on the Seekonk River.

Brownpc

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Pohanka 10 each added a goal to the

board. Charlie Kenney 10 nishedBrowns scoring with a goal at 3:40

on the clock, in addition to his assist

earlier in the game.

In goal, Burke had 12 saves and six

goals against. Matt Chriss 11 stepped

into the net with ve saves and two

goals against.

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The Bears came home ater a week

on the road to ace the University o

Delaware on Saturday. Brown earned

its sixth straight win by easily out-

scoring the Blue Hens, 13-5. Muldoon

led Bruno with our goals, extending

his scoring streak to 28 consecutivegames.

I think the greatest thing we have

going or us is our chemistry, Mul-

doon said. Everyone on the team

works well together and really cares

about each other. We have a lot o

talent but we dont have to deal with

egos. Everyone wants everyone elseto succeed and our team plays really

well together because o it.

The Bears were untouchable

early into the rst quarter when un-

answered goals by deenseman Jake

Hardy 10, Feinberg and Seligmann

gave the Bears a 3-0 lead.

In the second quarter, Muldoon

had his rst o our o a eed rom Wil-

liams. Ater a scoreless rst quarter or

Delaware, the Blue Hens posted their

rst goal o the game with 9:12 let in

the hal. Bell responded with a goal,

but Delaware posted their second or

a 5-2 score. Feinberg, Muldoon and

Hollingsworth had three consecutivegoals beore Delaware scored to cut

Browns lead to 8-3.

Brown dominated the third quar-

ter as Muldoon scored his third and

ourth o the game, and Williams add-

ed another goal. Ater three quarters,

the Bears led 11-3. Burke secured a

scoreless third quarter with sevensaves in goal.

Walsh and Je Foote 11 opened up

the ourth quarter with the two nal

goals or the Bears, who coasted to a

13-5 victory.

Seligmann and Hollingsworth

nished with three assists and a goal

each, and Feinberg added two goals

and an assist. On deense, Peter Fallon

11 limited Delawares Curtis Dickson

to one goal.

We are starting to play really well

as a team, with each piece coming

along and improving as the season

progresses, said deenseman Jake

Westermann 10.The Bears will ace o against Divi-

sion I newcomer Bryant or the rst

time ever on Tuesday night in North

Smitheld, R.I.

. b Dcontinued frompage 7

ourselves into SDS and other groups,

Emmons said. He added that the un-

damental values and goals o the two

groups were similar.

The vision that inspired people to

join SUBU making student voices

heard has gone on to be really cen-tral to all the work that SDS does on

campus, he said.

Tye said he himsel was less loyal

to the student union as an organization

than he was to groups he had been

involved in earlier.

For me personally, as someone

who was involved less and less with

the organizing aspects o it over time, it

just wasnt in the same category to me

as something like SDS, he said.Despite the groups dissolution,

Emmons and Tye are proud o what

it accomplished in its brie time on

campus.

We did acilitate a good amount o

dialogue on campus, Emmons said.

Glassman also credited the group

or inspiring conversation and ap-

plauded its members or trying to

infuence university lie. Heres this

group o people excited about workingon campus issues, he said. It was

exciting to see.

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to do in the past, he said.

The tournament which wasalso a qualier or the Pan American

Collegiate Taekwondo Champion-

ships Sparring Team took place

on Saturday and Sunday, March 21

and 22. Competitors clad in white

uniorms crowded the foor o Piz-

zitola to practice the staccato tran-

sitions between stances beore the

rst days poomsae contests.

The tournament was divided

between poomsae competition on

the rst day and sparring on the

second.

Spectators, including teammates

and parents o the athletes, watched

the competition rom the stands,which were roped o rom the six

mats in the arena.

David Huie, a senior at Princ-

eton University who attended with

thirteen o his teammates, said the

tournament was running eciently

and on-schedule. Limited seating at

Pizzitola meant that athletes had to

wait outside the arena, in the Olney-

Margolies Athletic Centers holding

area, to be called to their matches,

and some competitors said the view-

ing area was oten crowded.

Ramadan said spectators were

not allowed closer to the rings so

stretchers could get to injured par-

ticipants aster, i necessary. The ex-tra space also allowed or smoother

transitions between matches, she

added.

We worked with what we had,

Yang said o the space limitations

at Pizzitola.

p h

Around eighty-ve volunteers,

mostly members o Brown taekwon-

do, staed the event. Many only

competed in poomsae, then helped

with logistics during the sparring

portion o the tournament.

Volunteers also served as ring-

runners, responsible or er rying

athletes between matches. Vol-

unteer ringside scorers watched

spars, recording points and keep-

ing time with specialized sotware

that displayed match inormation

on computer monitors adjacent toeach ring.

The tournament cost more

than $30,000, according to Rama-

dan, with much o the cost going

toward overnight accommodations

or tournament reerees, use o the

Erickson Athletic Complex, catering

and equipment.

Yang, who was club president

last year when Brown received

its bid to host nationals, said that

Browns status as one o the con-

sistently high-ranking taekwondo

colleges in the country made it a

natural candidate to host the tour-

nament.

We elt it was time, and that ourclub had the energy and manpower

to do it, she said.

Undertaking nationals as its rst

tournament to host was neverthe-

less unusual, Ramadan said. Stan-

ord and MIT both had experiencehosting other tournaments beore

they received bids to plan nationals,

she added.

Much o the preparation or the

tournament involved negotiating

with campus oces and private

businesses or lower prices on tour-

nament supplies, Ramadan said.

Competitors were charged an

entrance ee or the event, which

helped to recoup costs, Ramadan

said. The club received monetary

support rom campus oces, in-

cluding the Oce o the Dean o

the College and the Division o

Campus Lie and Student Services.Two Brown students competed at

the tournament ree o charge with

unding rom the Third World Cen-

ter and the Sarah Doyle Womens

Center.

Yang said the tournament plan-

ners relied heavily on the guidance

o the Brown Taekwondo Instructor

Board Brown black-belts who

coach other club members and

the club Master, Sung Park 96.

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The University just completed another couple o memorandums o

understanding, this time with the Chinese University o Hong Kong. We

hope Brown will capitalize on this opportunity to expand its presence andincrease its oerings in China.

In the current economic climate, the internationalization initiative

aces serious nancial constraints. One recent article (U. aims to spur

knowledge economy in R.I., March 18) reported that some graduate

departments lacking unds have warned international students against

applying, and need-blind nancial aid or international students a goal

under the Plan or Academic Enrichment is unlikely to happen in the

near uture. In light o these limitations, its encouraging to see that the

Universitys priorities are in the right place, at least geographically. China

should be at the oreront o the Universitys internationalization eorts.

We eel that Brown would benet rom orming ties wi th other Chinese

schools in addition to CUHK. Almost two years ago, Brown established a

medical exchange program with Zhejiang University. At the time, Zhejiangs

president Wei Yang PhD85 said there would be more collaboration in

the uture, and last year, the Corporation approved a $1 million donation

to promote exchange between the two schools. The University shouldconsider increasing its involvement with Zhejiang as its next venture into

China.

For now, CUHK has plenty to oer. Under the memoranda o under-

standing, the University hopes to acilitate exchanges o graduate students

and aculty and to create a summer study abroad program that would send

students rom Brown and CUHK to each campus or up to our weeks.

In the long-term, Brown should build on the summer program and

develop ull-fedged immersion courses at the CUHK campus similar to

existing immersion programs in China oered by Middlebury College

and Duke, Harvard and Princeton Universities.

Currently, Brown students studying Mandarin are encouraged to take

summer immersion courses abroad, oten under programs run by other

schools. By hosting an immersion program o its own, Brown could incor-

porate courses abroad into its Mandarin curriculum and ensure uniorm

academic standards. The University would also make immersion programs

more attractive to Brown students who would be able to study abroad

with a group o their classmates. The University stands to benet rom

engagement with Chinese universities, and we hope Browns relationship

with CUHK is the rst step in a much broader project.

Editorials are written by The Heralds editorial page board. Send comments

to [email protected].

Liberal racism is still racismt h e:

As liberal Brown students are normally very much

in tune with the eelings, values and needs o minor-

ity groups in America, I was surprised and shocked

by Jonathan Topazs words (Washingtons cultural

exchange, March 13). In a shameul attempt to criti-

cize the Grand Old Party by claiming unoundedly

that Republicans elected Michael Steele Republican

National Committee Chairman due solely to the color

o his skin, Topaz instead revealed his own ignorance

and bigotry.

To suggest that Steele reached his esteemed po-

sition based on his race alone is a grand insult to

the Arican-American community. Topaz writes that

Republicans made it clear that any black man would

do in choosing their committee chairman. On the

contrary Steele is not any black man, nor any manat all or that matter. His impressive history, prior

to his current occupation, involves growing up in a

working-class amily beore attending such prestigious

schools as John Hopkins University and Georgetown

University, and then eventually becoming Marylands

rst Arican-American lieutenant governor.

I the United States wishes to progress beyond its

racist past, Americans must learn to look beyond skin

pigmentation. There was a rightul outcry against

Geraldine Ferraro when she claimed Obamas suc-

cess as a presidential candidate was due to preeren-

tial treatment toward a black man. Topaz has made

the same insensitive and inaccurate claim and such

segregating comments are not needed when, at this

important moment in U.S. history, the country is

making giant steps toward racial equality.

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On countless hospital shows, viewers enjoy

intense sexual tension between physicians

played out during high-pressure medical

procedures. These shows oten begin with

a rantic doctor calling or our units, stat!

Many viewers wont give this phrase a s econd

thought, but the doctor is calling or our

units o blood, and he or she will generally

get it.

From media to r eality, there is a unda-mental assumption that blood is available

or our use. Even i people dont consciously

acknowledge it, they expect that i they get

sick or get into a car accident, their local

hospital will be able to treat them using

donated blood.

This is not the reality. Blood cannot be

manuactured; it must come rom another

person. Thereore, it is our responsibility to

donate blood i we are eligible. Currently,

according to the Mayo Clinic, only 5 percent

o eligible donors across the nation donate

blood, but the number o transusions na-

tionwide increases by 9 percent every year.

Moreover, over 25 percent o Americans

will need a blood transusion at some point

in their lives.PBS Correspondent Je Yastine reports,

Baby boomers and those older, make

more o a habit o donating blood, whileyounger generations donate blood a lot less

requently. In act, Dr. Richard Benjamin,

Chie Medical Ocer o the American Red

Cross, reports that more hospitals (are)

complaining o (blood supply) shortages

and there are more times when were having

to cut our deliveries to hospitals, because

we simply dont have enough o a reserve

in the blood centers.

In casual conversations about blood do-

nations, many people have told me they

are araid to donate because it hurts or be-

cause they are araid o blood. I you are

honestly terried o the procedure, then

I do not advise you to do it. But i you are

just somewhat nervous, I encourage you to

try to donate. I promise, as a person who

has had bruises on both arms because the

attendant missed my veins, i they mess up

you will get over it.

The sta I have encountered at each blood

center Ive donated at has been cour teous,

gentle and very willing to talk me through

the process. Moreover, the phlebotomistsat every center have worked hard to ensure

that the process is simple or me. Each drive,

including the ones hosted here at Brown,

allows me to schedule an appointment in

advance at a time convenient or me.

One statistic is thrown around all the time

when people talk about donating blood: ev-

ery pint o blood can save three lives. Three

lives. Look around you. Consider exactly

what that phrase means. Remember that, as

a generally healthy demographic, college-

age students are, or the most part, unlikely

to need blood transusions. But one, day you

might. One in our o the people reading this

will likely need a blood transusion at some

point in his or her lie. I people dont donate

blood, i our society does not emphasize

the practice o blood donation, then we, the

uture recipients o blood donations, will be

out o luck.

Even i youre lucky enough never to re-quire a blood transusion, I hazard to guess

that a vast number o you have had direct

contact with a person who has been saved bya blood transusion. Both o my grandmoth-

ers received numerous donations during

their chemotherapy. They were lucky to

have access to blood stores in this country,

because it is not the case or everyone

Ultimately, donating blood satises the

donor in numerous ways. Theres the cycli-

cal aspect i I donate now, maybe I will

be able to receive the blood I need in the

uture. Theres the selfess approach i I

donate I will save a ellow human, which is

something I would like to do. And theres

even the body image approach according

to the Mayo Clinic, you burn around 650

Calories by donating a pint o blood.

Not everyone can donate. Some cannotdonate or unjust reasons: TheAmericanRed Cross policy that men who have had

sexual relations with other men since 1977

cannot donate blood is discriminatory, coun-

terintuitive and imprudent.Yet, or those oyou who can donate, I implore you to do so.

That only ve percent o eligible Americans

donate blood is an unacceptable reality

one I believe our generation must change.

Tory Hartmann 11 is a political sci-

ence concentrator from Hillsborouh,

N.J. She can be reached at

[email protected].

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You wouldnt know it rom reading the sports

headlines, but there are actually two college

basketball tournaments going on right now.

Ater years o decline, and despite a recent

eort to revital ize it, the National Invitational

Tournament, or NIT, cant seem to gain a

oothold in sports culture.

As March Madness sweeps the nation, the

NIT remains shrouded in obscurity. Many

o its games are not televised or paid even

a raction o the attention sports journalists

dedicate to the NCAA tournament.

In perhaps the most telling example o the

NITs insignicance, perennial powerhouse

Kentucky, having allen on hard times and

acing the prospect o missing March Madness

or the rst time since 1992, considered reject-

ing an invite to the NIT. We certainly dont

want to be perceived as arrogant, but we also

dont want to lower the standards o what is

expected at Kentucky, athletic director Mitch

Barnhart said in an interview with ESPN.

Sports ans and the NCAA can only benet

rom a stronger NIT. The tournament has the

potential to increase the excitement surround-

ing college basketball this time o year.

Rebuilding the tournament will require an

increased and sustained eort by the NCAA,

which has ailed to market the NIT with any-

thing approaching the same vigor it reserves

or March Madness. But many o the pieces

necessary or an exciting sports event are

already in place.

It is true that many o the games top play-

ers make it to March Madness, like Okla-

homas Blake Grin. But many others nd

themselves in the NIT in any given year.Georgetowns DaJuan Summers is one o a

ew probable rst-round picks in the next

NBA drat whose team accepted an NIT invite.

Fan-avorite and the sensation o last years

March Madness, Davidsons Stephen Curry,

is also playing in the NIT.

The NIT showcases many top programs

with storied histories and large an bases in-

cluding Penn State, Virginia Tech, Kentucky

and Florida, to name a ew. And by vir tue o

the selection process or March Madness,

most notably the automatic bids that con-

erence winners receive, it is all but certain

that there will consistently be teams in the

NIT better than some playing or the national

championship.

This year, or example, Cornell got a seed

in the NCAA tournament because they were

the Ivy League champions. According to the

Ratings Percentage Index (RPI), a statistical

tool used by the NCAA to seed teams in the

tournament, Cornell was only the 115th best

college basketball team this year. San Diego

State, Creighton, UAB, St. Marys (Cali.), Il-

linois State, and Niagara all nished the seasonwith top 50 RPIs and trips to the NIT.

The talent in the NIT is not as deep as in the

NCAA tournament, but the NIT isnt lacking

in excitement. Virginia Tech and Duquesne

had a thrilling double-overtime game in the

rst round, and the Baylor-Auburn quarter-

nal match-up was one o many games in

this years NIT that came right down to the

nal seconds.

Buzzer-beaters, which have provided many

o the NCAA tournaments most storied memo-

ries, are no stranger to the NIT either. Penn

State star Talor Battle drained an incredible

three-pointer as time expired to send his rst-

round game to overtime, and the highlight

could easily compare with the most exciting

moments rom this years NCAA tourney.

Why then, with all the makings o a un

tournament, does the NIT continue to gener-

ate little or no excitement? When the NCAA

settled an anti-trust lawsuit several years ago

by taking over the NIT, it promised a new ap-

proach that would elevate the tournaments

status. But it doesnt seem like the NCAA is

actually taking this project very seriously.The NITs stigma wont be overcome when

nearly hal the tournaments rst- and second-

round games arent televised. Many others are

relegated to ESPNU. In act, despite having a

huge contract with the NCAA to provide NIT

television coverage, ESPNs online NCAA

basketball page eatures barely any inorma-

tion about the tournament.

Unless the NCAA makes a concerted eort

to market the NIT, broadcast more games, and

get NIT covered on major sports outlets, the

tournament, the tournament will continue to

suer because ans wont have the opportunity

to get into it. For many, March Madness is

an exciting time because there is such high

potential or thrilling plays and tight games.

These ans wont reject exciting NIT action

simply because it is the NIT.

I am condent I am not alone in preerring

to watch the close rst-round NIT game be-

tween Creighton and Bowling Green over the

39-point thumping Louisville recently gave Ari-

zona. But the NIT game wasnt even televised.

Hopeully the NCAA will soon recognize that

a consolation tournament still has something

to oer sports ans.

Dan Davidson 11, a WNBA fanatic,

can be reached at

[email protected].

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Sports fans and the NCAA can only benefit from

a stroner NIT. The tournament has the potential

to increase the excitement surroundin collee

basketball this time of year.

Blood cannot be manufactured; it must comefrom another person. It is our responsibility to

donate blood if we are eliible.

TORY

HARTMANN

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