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vol. cxlv, no. 27 | Monday, March 8, 2010 | Serving the community daily since 1891
w SBy nicole Boucher
StaffWriter
President Ruth Simmons is one o
our people who will be awarded an
honorary degree rom Wesleyan
University May 23, according to an
e-mail sent to the Wesleyan com-
munity.
Wesleyan is an important in-
stitution, widely respected or its
excellence and unique approach to
education, Simmons wrote in an
e-mail to The Herald. I am proud to
receive an honor rom an institution
that I respect so much.
Recipients o honorary degrees
are chosen by a committee, said Da-vid Pesci, director o media relations
at Wesleyan. Students, aculty, sta
and alumni nominate people whom
they consider trailblazers and out-
standing citizens, and then the de-
cisions are made through a closed
committee process, he said.
We try to select people that
we think are representative o the
values we hold here at Wesleyan,
Pesci said.
Simmons is in very good com-
pany, he added. This year, Wes-
leyan will also award commence-
ment speaker Denver Mayor John
Hickenlooper, who was selected as
one o Time magazines top big-
city mayors in 2005. Stanley Cavell,
proessor emeritus o philosophy
at Harvard, and Richard Winslow,
proessor emeritus o music at
B C C bBy goda thangada
SeniorStaffWriter
A world-renowned laboratory,
an institution connected with 53
Nobel laureates, ormalized its
relationship with Brown recently.While the Marine Biological Labo-
ratory o Woods Hole, Mass., has
hosted graduate students in con-
junction with Brown since 2003,
the Corporation ormally created
the Phyllis and Charles M. Rosen-
thal Directorship o the Brown-
MBL Partnership at its meeting
last month.
The directorship is sponsored
by a donation o more than $2
million rom Trustee Emeritus
Charles Rosenthal P88 P91 and
his wie, Phyllis Rosenthal P88
P91. Rosenthal, who has served
on MBLs board since the incep-
tion o the partnership, called the
program the brainchild o adminis-
trators at both institutions.
In addition to the programs
new director, Christopher Neill,
the partnership is adding our
MBL scientists to Browns ac-
ulty as part-time proessors. The
programs rst three graduates
completed their degrees in 2009,ater spending two years at Brown
and the rest o their time at Woods
Hole, according to Rosenthal.
Though his own children
studied art history and the visual
arts at Brown, Rosenthal said he
started to become more interested
in the partnership when he began
talking to scientists, ollowing his
appointment to the board.
I got more and more excited,
he said. Rosenthal, who called
himsel a layman, said he was in-spired by people who dedicated
their lives to discovery and by the
discoveries that have had major
implications or the world.
C , b Y b By alex Bell
SeniorStaffWriter
The city prosecutor has dismissed
disorderly conduct charges against
Chris Young, the mayoral candi-
dates lawyers announced on Fri-
day.
Young was arrested in Novem-
ber at a health-care orum in An-
drews Dining Hall during which he
tossed a pro-lie video at Rep. Pat-
rick Kennedy, D-R.I., and reused
to relinquish the microphone at the
request o the orums moderator
and police ocers.
Im a ree man again, Youngsaid. Its been a hard battle.
Young said he is seriously con-
sidering pursuing civil charges
against the University.
Theyve obviously violatedmy reedom o speech rights and
reedom o religion rights, but also
theyve suppressed speech that is
based on issues that involve race,
he said. That is a constitutional vio-
lation that cant be overlooked.
Young said he is hoping to take
action against the University un-
der a ederal law that allows or the
prosecution o anyone who causes
a citizens constitutional rights to
be violated.
Young said the University has
not yet contacted him about its
December order that he not enter
University property. The order wasissued in a retaliatory manner or
his vocal opposition to the arming o
A , By Kristina Fazzalaro
StaffWriter
The scene in Salomon 101 Sunday
aternoon was a ar cry rom this
mornings lecture in ECON 0110:
Principles o Economics. Instead
o supply-and-demand curves, the
Education through Cultural and
Historical Organization Perorm-
ing Arts Festival presented stories
o childhood, love and amily.
The stories were beautiully
woven together through song and
dance by perormers rom native and
non-native communities o Alaska,
Hawaii, Mississippi, Massachusetts
and Portugal. They came together
to share their societies values and
teach important lessons about re-
spect, jealousy and vanity.
This was Browns second year
welcoming the estival, according
to Geralyn Homan, curator o pro-grams and education at the Haen-
reer Museum o Anthropology,
one o the events sponsors. The
theme o this years perormance
was Celebrate Song, Dance and
Story!, and that is exactly what the
perormers conveyed. Whether
gathering audience members on
stage to partake in a Choctaw Indian
wedding dance or telling the more
somber story o the No Face Girl,
whose refection is stolen because o
her intense narcissism, the perorm-
ers obvious joy and pride in sharing
their traditions showed through.
The organization is a ederally
unded educational and cultural en-
richment organization established as
part o 2001s No Child Let Behind
Act, according to Merry Glosband,
o the Peabody Essex Museum in
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MONdAy, MARCH 8, 2010THE BROWN dAILy HERALdPAgE 2
CAS wS goo eals are oo eals if both parties benefit. Charles Rosenthal P88 P91,trstee emerits
a b b f bThe joint venture, which enrolled
its rst students in 2003, was meant
to strengthen Browns graduate pro-
grams in science as part o President
Ruth Simmons plans or urthering
the sciences at Brown, he said.
MBL had a distinguished his-
tory and pedigree, he said. It
was and is the oldest pr ivate lab in
the U.S. and, I suspect, the world.
Brown, on the cheap, happened into
world-renowned science.
As with any ambitious academic
initiative, the commitment to build-
ing a relationship with another in-
stitution involved the approval oadministrators, aculty and Corpora-
tion members.
Because the process involved
two independent institutions, eorts
needed to be doubled. It takes two,
Rosenthal said.
While other schools, including
Harvard, have ull-fedged indepen-
dent programs in the ecological sci-
ences, Brown was looking to bolster
its own program with the limited
resources at hand. Still, the partner-
ship is not a coup or just Brown.
Good deals are good deals i
both parties benet, Rosenthal
said.
As a sot-money institutionrunning primarily on grants won
by individual scientists, MBL does
not oer tenured appointments.
Through Brown, MBL has access to
additional sources o unding. Also,
MBL is not a degree-granting institu-
tion, and prior to the joint programs
creation, students studied there only
sporadically and through a summer
program.
This all ts together, Rosenthal
said.
The partnership will proceedwith the input o researchers, but
the catalyst or the programs de-
velopment was the administration.
The real impetus came rom the
highest levels at Brown and MBL,
Neill said. But given this top-down
process, the people who are doing
this have stepped up, Neill said,
reerring to the researchers.
n
The partnerships inaugural di-
rector is Neill, an MBL senior sci-
entist studying ecosystems, who
said he was oered the job in late
November. While his new positionis a joint appointment split evenly
between the two institutions, our
MBL scientists will hold part-time
appointments at Brown. Three o the
our will belong to the Department
o Geology, Neill said.
The establishment o the direc-
torship puts the program under one
roo, said Neill, whose own appoint-
ment will be with the Department o
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Though he began traveling to Brown
twice a week in January, Neill said he
expects to settle down and acquire
a permanent oce in the coming
months.
The ultimate shape o the pro-
gram is open-ended, and the pace o
growth depends on those who par-
ticipate in the program, Neill said.
The program is not looking to
grow explosively, but quite steadi-
ly, Neill said.
There is not necessarily a set
research agenda, but the our joint
appointments are intended to oster
interaction between specic proes-
sors at both institutions, he said, add-
ing that scientists will need to take
the initiative to begin collaboratingno matter how much inrastructure
the partnerships administration de-
velops.
Immediate steps include building
the graduate programs curriculum,
especially by creating upper-level
courses in ecosystems and ecol-
ogy.
The newly expanded partnership
will also benet Browns under-
graduates scientists rom MBL
will oer new courses and provide
them with research opportunities,
Neill said.
One o the programs goals, Neill
said, was to develop a broader um-brella or environmental research
by integrating dierent academic
disciplines.
For example, MBL a biological
institute could not draw on work
in geology and the social sciences
beore its partnership with Brown.
Now, MBL is more o a player in
that sort o discussion, Neill said.
It was a partnership that seemed
logical, he said.
a
Though he has advocated or ex-
panding the program, the major im-
petus or the program came rom the
administration, according to Mark
Bertness, proessor o biology and
the chair o the Department o Ecol-
ogy and Evolutionary Biology.
The partnership was kind o
like an arranged marriage, Bert-
ness said.
Its absolutely mutually ben-
ecial, he said. MBLs scientists
rely on grants to und their work,
while at Brown, we dont have the
weird mentality o wondering where
the next dollar is coming rom, he
said.
When the partners rst began to
interact, Bertness said, there were
massive cultural dierences.MBLs unique quality is that it is a
eld laboratory creating a trade-
o, Neill said, between the desire
to educate and the desire to ocus
on research.Among the scientists at MBL,
there are some who are not in-
volved, not interested, he said.
But younger scientists are much
more open to diversiying the work
they do and the way they go about
doing it.
This choice must be an individual
one, Neill said. Each person at MBL
is ree to choose the level o engage-
ment.
We had to spend a ew years
letting the cultures grow together,
Bertness said. Ater a ew years,
things were going well enough thatwe needed to institutionalize.
Hugh Ducklow, who runs MBLs
Ecosystems Center, said that despite
the institutions distinct cultures,
there are lots o other intellectual
reasons or the partnership. For
example, Ducklow said, he appre-
ciates the act that MBL scientists
can advise graduate students. Duck-
low has mentored students in the
joint graduate program and taken a
Brown alum with him on a research
expedition to Antarctica.
There are synergies between
research and education, he said.
Shelby Hayhoe GS, a third-yeardoctoral candidate in ecology and
evolutionary biology, is writing her
thesis under two advisers, Neill and
Assistant Proessor o Biology Ste-
phen Porder.Only in this collaboration can I
do the project Im doing now, said
Hayhoe, who studies the conver-
sion o rainorest to soybean agri-
culture in South America. Though
she primarily works with Neill in
the eld and with Porder while she
is at Brown, Hayhoe said the open
communication between all three
o them made the project work, de-
spite the risk that a student might
get lost in the shufe between two
institutions.
Im psyched about it, Hayhoe
said about the new directorship. Ex-
panding and becoming more orga-nized can only be a good thing.
cm f
The partnership is developing
at a time when other projects in the
sciences are coming to the Univer-
sitys attention and Brown has
considerably ewer resources to
und them all.
In act, investment in the part-
nership was not approved at last
Februarys Corporation meeting,
according to Bertness.
There is massive competition
or resources, he said. Browns em-
phasis on investing in the sciences
is positive, he said, but it should notcome at the expense o the humani-
ties.
You have to pick and choose,
Rosenthal said, noting that the part-
nership is not very expensive.
Instead o draining resources,
Rosenthal said, the program will
likely attract more investment. The
tools are there, he said.
For scientists and students, the
partnership already represents a
productive research collaboration.
Over time they will grow much
closer together, Bertness said.
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or Brown.
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I have ha no e process whatsoever. Chris yon, on bein barre from universit propert
Ab bk S.By sarah Julian
StaffWriter
The start o the 2010 Ambassador
Program has been postponed rom
January to September o this year
because the program requires a
signicant amount o time rom
participants and the eatured de-
partments, according to the Brown
and the Economy Web site.
The Ambassador Program
was created to provide aculty
and sta with the opportunity
to learn more about Brown. It is
application-based, and i accepted,
University employees spend oneday each month learning about
a new acet o lie at Brown. This
might mean spending a day at the
Sharpe Reectory learning about
how ood is prepared, or traveling
to the Admission Oce to get an
up-close view o the application
process.
During this time o change
we eel that it would not be appro-
priate to ask colleagues or this
kind o time commitment, a post
on the Web site said.
The year-long program will now
coincide with the academic year,
rather than the calendar year.
Judith Nabb, a coordinator orthe program, said she and the Cen-
ter or Sta Learning and Proes-
sional Development are takingthe time until the new start date
to evaluate the program.
According to Nabb, the pro-
gram was initially given three years
o unding. Because 2010 marks
its third year, Nabb and her col-
leagues have to make (their) case
in terms o benets, she said. We
think it has a good case.
I think it reenergizes people
and makes them eel connected,
Nabb said. For this reason, she
said, she loves watching olks go
through it and seeing how they
draw inspiration rom it.
Adjunct Lecturer in PublicPolicy Jennier Slattery-Bownds,
a 2008 ambassador and manager
or career and employment devel-
opment , said the program has a
lasting impact on her daily work
activities. Slattery-Bownds said
she understands the challenges
the economy created or the Uni-
versity, but she called the program
a vital part o proessional devel-
opment.
I am more eective in my roles
at Brown because I am an ambas-
sador, she said. In times like this,
it is more important than ever to
keep employee programs that
keep up morale and maintain loy-alty. Browns Ambassador Program
does just that.
F-k By Jonathan chou
ContributingWriter
Last weeks announcement that In-sourced a group o eight resh-
men won the Residential Lie rst
pick contest led to multiple accusa-
tions o illegitimate campaigning and
guideline violations, sparking heated
debate among students.
The winners were accused o
violating campaign guidelines, as
well as making their video longer
than three minutes and 30 seconds,
the maximum length allowed by the
rules. Both accusations are alse,
though, according to members o
the Residential Council. ResCouncil
Chair Ben Lowell 10 and Housing
Lottery Committee Chair JillianRobbins 11 both conrmed there
were no preexisting regulations on
campaigning, and that the actual
ootage o all videos was within the
time limit.
The accusations against In-
sourced stemmed mainly rom the
groups campaign strategy. The
group gave out candy in exchange
or votes, roamed around dining
halls and libraries soliciting votes
and walked around campus in ap-
parel that advertised the video, said
Daniel Lowry 12.
Some irst pick contestants
exchanged e-mails discussing
Insourceds strategies ater thegroups win was announced, said
Anish Sarma 12, another contestant
in the rst pick contest.
All the teams couldve done the
same thing, Sarma said. The bot-
tom line was that they got the most
votes.
Lowry said that he wasnt sur-
prised that Insourced won, since
the competition is no longer about
the best video, it is about who is
most aggressive.
These tactics were not unheard
o in previous years, Robbins said,
adding that to a degree, every group
campaigned, at the very least by cre-
ating a group on Facebook. Robbins
said it is hard to believe contestants
thought making a Facebook group
was sucient.
She added that Insourced had
no way o actually orcing people
to vote, because students had to in-
put their usernames and passwords
beore they could vote. Voting can
be inormed or uninormed, Rob-
bins said.
The rst pick contest is a vot-
ing competition, Lowell said, and
campaigning is expected and al-
lowed. Thus, the debate about the
way Insourced campaigned did not
worry ResCouncil so much as the
general attitude with which contes-
tants approached the competition,
he said.
Over the past ew years, this
year and last, its become less un
and riendly, Lowell said. People
have gotten more serious and acri-
monious.
The purpose o the contest is
to encourage the students to get
excited about the housing lottery
and to generate buzz, Robbins
said. Because students are losing
their ocus on the contests purpose,
there is a possibility that the rst
pick contest may not take place next
year, she said.
The more trouble it gives the
Residential Council, the less theyll
want to continue the contest, Sarma
said.
Nick Sinnott-Armstron / Heral
A rops campain to win this ears first pick contest pset othercontestants.
Brown police and the Universitys
tax-exempt status, Young said.
Their agenda, clearly, is also
tied to my desire to investigate Ruth
Simmons and her role with Gold-
man Sachs as well as her role on the
Council on Foreign Relations and
why these university presidents are
making so much money, he said.
Now that the case is dismissed,
Young said he eels the University
should rescind the notice not to
trespass that has prohibited him
rom entering Browns campus and
any building or property owned or
leased by Brown.
In January, Vice President or
Public Aairs and University Rela-tions Marisa Quinn told The Herald
the restriction would continue until
the Department o Public Saety
deems that the individual is no
longer a threat to the saety and
security o the campus.
The charge against me was
dismissed, Young said, adding
that the University no longer has
grounds to prohibit him rom enter-
ing University property. I have had
no due process whatsoever when
it comes to this order against me.
Clearly, I am not guilty o anything.
I committed no crime, and I am a
political candidate who has the right
to campaign, but theyve restricted
me rom one-third o the city.The no-trespass order remains
in eect, Quinn wrote in an e-mail
to The Herald.
This issue will not disappear
just because we won this case,
Young said. There needs to be an
example set in regards to policies
that stop ree speech in public o-
rums like this and that violate the
ability o a candidate to campaign
in a city.
Young said he will be going
onto the property adjacent to Brown
University later this week to see i
police arrest him, but he declined
to share more details.
Wesleyan, will also be honored, ac-
cording to the Wesleyan community
e-mail.
The our recipients are all distin-
guished in their elds or contribu-
tions to public policy or scholarship,
Pesci said.
Simmons has the respect o just
about anyone in academia or her
leadership, he added.
This is not the rst honorary de-
gree that Simmons has received. She
has been the recipient o honorary
degrees rom over 25 institutions,
including Harvard, Princeton and
Amherst College, according to her
biography on the Brown Web site.
Still, Simmons wrote that she
considers this and any such award
to have meaning because it serves
as recognition o Browns excel-
lence.
Just as Brown oten honors
individuals or the success o the
institutions they lead, so do others,
she wrote.
Dean o the College Katherine
Bergeron wrote in an e-mail that
she was thrilled her undergradu-
ate alma mater was celebrating
Simmons. It seems just right that
Wesleyan should honor a woman
who has stood or the same kind o
ree and reeing liberal education
that Wesleyan itsel has ostered
through many years in its history,
she wrote.
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Salem, Mass., who has helped orga-
nize the national tour.Ten years ago, one o the organiza-
tions members rom Hawaii suggest-
ed storytelling perormance, which
evolved into the estival o today, she
said.
We provide them with a theme
and they bring their own stories,
Glosband said. Cast members rom
around the country spent only two
weeks in Alaska making the script and
then began a nationwide tour.
One o the board members saw
the perormance they did in New
Bedord last year and loved it, Ho-
man said. So we got them to come
to Brown. It was wonderul and weinvited them to come again.
Last years cast included Nitana
Hicks 03, Glosband said. Nitana
said that her rst day as a reshman
at Brown was spent in this auditori-
um, Glosband said. With her amily
and riends here, perorming in the
show in Salomon was like coming
home or her.
The estival had an intimate, amil-
ial eel about it. The perormers had a
warm rapport among them that spilled
over into the small group o Brown
students and Providence amilies that
attended the event.
Jose Manuel Vinagre, a Portu-
guese man rom the shing village
o Buarcos, opened with a powerul
song about his boyhood. The song
set the tone or the entire production.
As a boy, he said, he was mischievous
but loving.
How wonderul it was to be a boy,
how wonderul it was to have a amily
and to have hope in the uture, he
sang. It was like having a sun always
shining on you.
Even though each scene represent-
ed a dierent culture, the perormers
conveyed their stories seamlessly to
audience members. Traditional music
and instruments, such as the Hawai-
ian nose fute which, the audience
learned, is used to send messages
between loved ones created transi-tions rom one speaker to the next.
Answer me, my love. Let there
be no words between us, only breath,
only truth, sang Ani Lokomaikai Lip-
scomb to illustrate how the instru-
ments would work.
The estival was equal parts enter-
tainment and education. The perorm-
ers drew audiences in with their words
and dances and, in doing so, shed
knowledge on communities that are
generally let out o the limelight.
This perormance was represent-
ing a lot o communities that dont get
a lot o representation on campus,
said audience member and Hawai-
ian Kai Morrell 11. It was nice to
see people and culture rom where
Im rom.
The perormance ended with a
rapping recap o the lessons audience
members should have learned. Allison
Warden o the Inupiaq Eskimos, also
known by her rap name AKU-MATU,
summed up the perormance by incor-
porating traditional beats and sounds
with modern rhymes. Ending the es-
tival on a note o continuity, Warden
encouraged audience members not
only to learn about these cultures but
also to experience them in everyday
lie and ensure their continued ap-
preciation.
Arts & CultureThe Brown dail Heral
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S z S D w C kBy sara chiMene-Weiss
Contributing Writer
Terry Gips work hangs in the Smith-
sonian American Art Museum and
the National Museum o Women in
the Arts in Washington, D.C. Now,
some o it resides in a location more
convenient or most Brown students:
the Sarah Doyle Womens Center
Gallery.
The show, Sheep o Many Col-
ors, is part o a larger project, called
The Dolly Project, which Gips has
been working on or about ten years,
she said. The exhibit came about
as the result o her ascination with
sheep, urthered by her interest in
Dolly, the sheep cloned in 1996 at the
Roslin Institute in Scotland. Dolly
captured the worlds attention: She
was on magazine covers and all over
the news, raising questions about the
ethics o cloning and technology.
Gips, at the time a proessor at
the University o Maryland, said she
was struggling with parallel issues
in the art world. Art proessors and
students were dealing with the ques-
tions raised by digital art. In par ticu-
lar, she said she saw the connection
between Dolly and what it means
to be able to duplicate an image a
hundred times with little eort.
The work on display at the cen-
ter represents a range o styles and
mediums. This includes classic, wa-
ter-based monotypes such as Two
Sheep: Observations, as well as
multimedia works such as Sheeps
Clothing, pigmented prints o sheep
stitched into the shape o clothes and
displayed along with ound items
o clothing. Other work displayed
includes small three-dimensional
houses constructed o prints o
sheep.
Some o the other prints on dis-
play are Gips own photography,
taken in Ireland, Scotland, England
and the United States.
The largest piece on display is
called While Shepherds Watched,
which covers almost an entire wall.
The piece is a tapestry o pigmented
prints o sheep, text, yarn, wool and
rope. Gips explained that the text is
a list o known breeds o sheep
some now extinct and the photos
are o sheep rom old British cata-
logues rom the late 19th century.
Gips said this work represents an
indication o what has been.
The show, on display through
March 24, is one o the three proes-
sional artist shows this semester at
the gallery. According to Brooke
Hair 10, a visual arts concentra-
tor and the gallerys coordinator, a
board composed o aculty and
sta rom Brown, Providence Col-
lege and the University o Rhode
Island and a proessional artist
sends out a yearly call or submis-
sions. The group usually receives
6080 submissions a year, and rom
those chooses ve or six to display
throughout the year, Hair said.
Just as the collection is unique,
the Sarah Doyle Womens Center
Gallery is not a typical white-walled
gallery, but a ormer house with a
replace, Hair added. It can be a
challenge, but also a way or artists
to make dierent work.
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Award-winning writer and edu-
cator Naomi Shihab Nye will
present her poetry in the ree
and public event, Everything
Comes Next Daily Rebirth
Through Reading and Writ-
ing, hosted by Moses Brown
School, in the schools Alumni
Hall, March 11 at 7 p.m.
Nye has written and edited
more than 25 volumes and
has been recognized by the
Guggenheim, Library o Con-gress, Academy o American
Poets and Pushcart Prizes.
Naomi has visited our cam-
pus in the past, said Sandi
Seltzer, Moses Browns com-
munications director. This will
be Nyes second visit to the
Moses Brown Annual Spring
Poetry Reading, ater her last
appearance eight years ago, she
added.
Moses Brown has been host-
ing readings rom well-known
poets or over a decade, she
said.
Nye was selected by the stu-
dents or this event. We host apoet every year, Seltzer said.
The students help pick a poet
who is usually o some note.
Previous eatured poets
include Taha Muhammad Ali,
Lucille Cliton, Mark Doty, Toni
Blackman and Billy Collins.
Cultural Connections, an
organization that coordinates
events relating to the arts,
asked Nye to come to Provi-
dence.
But Nyes visit does not just
consist o a poetry reading. On
the day o the reading, she will
spend a day in the classroom
with students and will look at
their poems and work with them
as well, Seltzer said.
Currently, students are in
pairs working on Naomis
brand o poetry, Seltzer said.
As Nye draws rom her Pales-
tinian-American heritage in her
writing, her lesson will ask stu-
dents to draw rom their own
heritage, Seltzer said.
We think shes terriic, she
added. We enjoy the time she
spends with our kids.
Thursday night, the public isinvited to come, enjoy the read-
ing and share in something
that is educational and artistic,
she said.
This event is also part o
Raise Your Voice: Examining
Culture, Clash, Community and
Change, a our-month project
that uses artists, poets and
scholars to spread Martin Lu-
ther King, Jr.s work toward tol-
erance and nonviolent conlict
resolution throughout second-
ary schools and adult education
classes.
Raise Your Voice began
at the University o Rhode Is-
land, Seltzer said, and the proj-
ect is working with a number
o schools throughout Rhode
Island teaching King-ian non-
violence.
Nonviolent conlict resolu-
tion is very important to us,
she added.
The reading is sponsored by
Moses Brown, Cultural Connec-
tions, the International Institute
o Rhode Island, the Rhode Is-
land Council or the Humanities
and the National Endowment
or the Humanities.
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D b k, By tony BaKshi
SportS StaffWriter
This weekend was supposed to be
all about Browns two seniors. But it
was the opposing teams that ended
up celebrating on the Bears home
court both Friday and Saturday
night. The Cornell Big Red (27-4,
13-1 Ivy) clinched its third-straight
Ivy League title with a 95-76 victory,
and the Columbia Lions (11-17, 5-9
Ivy) deeated Brown, 65-56, sending
Matt Mullery 10 and Steve Gruber
10 home without a win on their last
weekend as collegiate players.
c 95, Bw 76
Cornell is ranked rst in the
nation in three-point shooting per-
centage, and the team showed that
against the Bears. In the rst three
minutes, the Big Red jumped out to
a 9-0 lead on threes rom orward
Jon Jaques and guard Chris Wro-
blewski.
But the Bears were not azed
and hung in the game with some
sharpshooting o their own. Gar-
rett Leelmans 11 jumper rom
beyond the arc closed the decit to
ve, 14-9. Another three-pointer by
Peter Sullivan 11, who nished with
a game-high 23 points, gave Bruno
its rst lead o the game midway
through the rst hal.
Cornell responded, continuing
to drain jumpers rom all corners o
the court on its way to a 47-36 leadwith 4:10 remaining. For the hal,
the Big Red shot an astounding 11
o 16 rom three-point range. But
again, Brown stormed back, cut-
ting Cornells haltime lead to our,
51-47. Brown entered the locker
room with an impressive statistic
o its own, shooting 16 o 27 59
percent rom the eld.
It was a sensational rst hal,
said Head Coach Jesse Agel. Our
guys were tremendous.
The game turned around in the
opening minutes o the second hal.
Cornell continued its hot shooting,
and Brown was unable to stay with
the Big Red. A 14-4 run by Cornell
again marked by threes rom
Jaques and Wroblewski ex-
tended the lead to 63-51 with 16:30
remaining.
We have a ton o shooters,
said Je Foote, Cornells center
and reigning Ivy Deensive Player
o the Year. I they all get hot at the
same time, its real tough to stop.
Those shooters carried the
Big Red to a comortable victory
in the second hal. Foote and his
teammates received the Ivy League
trophy ater the nal buzzer, to the
delight o the Big Red ans who had
made the trip to Providence.
cmb 65, Bw 56
On Senior Day, both Mullery
and Gruber made their presence
known on the court. Ater the pre-
game ceremony honoring both
players, Gruber joined Mullery as
a starter and logged ve assists in
28 minutes. Mullery who had
three rows o amily and riends in
the stands wearing red-and-black
Mullery #45 T-shirts scored 19
points, and passed Russ Tyler 71
P00 P02 or 16th on Browns all-
time leading scorer list with 1,134
career points.
But the Bears could not grab the
victory. Both the Bears and the Li-
ons players looked sluggish through-
out the game, with the exception o
Columbia senior orward Niko Scott,
who drained six three-pointers on the
way to a game-high 22 points. Brown
trailed by three, 26-23, at haltime,
and ultimately lost by nine.
Regardless, the Pizzitola crowd
gave Mullery a standing ovation as
he let the court or the nal time
with 6.2 seconds to go, a tting end
or his memorable career spent man-
ning the paint or Brown.
B I, CAC By dan alexander
SportS editor
The stakes couldnt have been any
higher. With Brown leading, 3-2, in
the last moments o the nal contest
in a three-game playo series and
the Rensselaer goaltender pulled
in avor o an extra attacker, Brown
goalie Michael Clemente 12 needed
to deny every shot that came his
way in order or the Bears to extend
their season.
He relished the pressure.
They had our or ve shots at
the end, Clemente said. That was
the best part o the game.
It was especially nice or Clem-ente since no pucks got behind him
and the Bears sealed the 3-2 victory
and the series. Brown won, 3-1, Fri-
day and lost, 4-1, Saturday.
The third game extended
Browns season at least another
week. The Bears will take on No. 6
Yale, the top team in the ECAC, in
a three-game series in New Haven
starting Friday night.
Bw 3, rpi 1
Browns weekend didnt start
as happily as it ended. Trailing 1-0
heading into the third period on
Friday night, the Bears struggled
to solve RPI goalie Allen York, whostopped everything coming his way
in the rst two periods.
But just 1:40 into the nal rame,
Jarred Smith 12 got the Bears on the
board. And only 1:13 ater Smiths
goal, Bobby Farnham 12 also beat
York to give Brown a 2-1 lead.
RPI players and coaches compli-
mented the Bears on their aggres-
sive style in the battle.
They play a ver y meat-and-po-
tatoes style o game, Paul Kerins,
who scored RPIs lone goal on the
night, told the Daily Gazette oSchenectady, N.Y. Theres not a
lot o fash to it.
Tri-captain Aaron Volpatti 10
added an empty-net goal with 1:05
remaining to extend Browns lead
to 3-1.
rpi 4, Bw 1
Browns win on Friday night
meant it was do-or-die or RPI on
Saturday.
I was nervous, RPI Head
Coach Seth Appert told the Daily
Gazette. We talked about havingour backs against the wall. It was
more like having our backs against
the cli.
The Engineers played like their
lives were on the line.
The Engineers got on the score-
board rst, and Volpatti evenedthe score, 1-1, beore the period
ended.
But with the score tied, 1-1, late
in the second period, RPI scored
two goals 1:35 apart. Chase Polacek
the nations leading goal-scorer
netted another in the third period
to give RPI its nal 4-1 lead.
Bw 3, rpi 2
No one in Browns locker room
was happy with the intensity in Sat-
urdays game.
The whole team decided to
come back today with more intensity
and more drive, Clemente said.Volpatti got Brown going with his
third goal o the series 7:05 ater the
puck dropped.
The Bears made it a 2-0 lead mid-
way through the second when Jack
Maclellan 12 scored on a ve-on-
three power play. And Chris Zaires
13 gave the Bears some high-pre-
mium insurance with his goal just 18
seconds into the nal rame, making
the score 3-0, Brown.
But it wasnt over yet. RPI scored
two third-period goals to narrow
the gap to just one goal, but they
couldnt get another one by Clem-
ente and the Bears skated o with
a win.It eels awesome, Maclellan
said. Were enjoying it or now, and
probably enjoying it the rest o the
night, and then ocusing on Yale
tomorrow.
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By tory elMore
ContributingWriter
Eleven months ago, the womens
lacrosse team let Quinnipiac visibly
disappointed by a resounding 11-6
deeat.
But what a dierence a year can
make.
Sunday, the Bears walked o their
home tur with a dierent story written
on their aces. A late run gave them a
13-10 victory over the visiting Bobcats,avenging their loss last season.
The score was close throughout
the game, with Quinnipiac leading at
several points. But Brown reused to
let the game slip away.
Every game is a battle, said Paris
Waterman 11, who scored twice or the
Bears. Our condence in one another
is what pulls us out o tight games.
Just our days earlier, the Bears
let a one-goal lead at haltime versus
Boston University slide, eventually
losing, 9-5.
I think it shows how much we can
grow in just a matter o days, Water-
man said. We let BU go on Wednes-
day, but today we did everything we
could and held on. Im so proud.
Waterman was just one o seven
goal-scorers, including up-and-comer
Lindsay Minges 13 with three goals
and Kaela McGilloway 12 with our
goals and two assists.
Head Coach Keely McDonald 00
was also pleased with her teams per-
ormance.
We needed to stay composed to-
day, and we did. It was the key to our
success, she said.
Indeed, the Bears stayed poised,
even in the nal minutes as their oppo-
nents made several strong runs at goal.
The deense, anchored by tri-captainKiki Manners 10 and standout resh-
man Sidney Jacobs 13, held its own
until the very end, orcing oensive
mistakes and eeding the Bears o-
ense throughout the entire game.
It was close, but in the end, we
panicked and they stayed calm, said
Quinnipiac Head Coach Danie Caro.
Brown deserved to win.
Thats not to say her team didnt put
up a good ght. Marissa Caroleo was
erce on oense, scoring our times or
the Bobcats, while Kaitlyn Kelly also
stood out with seven draw controls,
two o which resulted in goals.
Brown improves to 2-1 on the sea-
son as the team approaches its Ivy
League opener next Saturday versus
Princeton. The Tigers are ranked ninth
nationally, one o three Ivy League
schools, including Penn and Dart-
mouth, in the top 20.
Brown needs to nish in the top
our o the Ivy League to qualiy or
the rst-ever Ivy Womens Lacrosse
tournament.
Princeton is a great team, Mc-
Donald said. But we cant think about
them. I we just ocus on our game,
we can win.
Were going to have lots o close
games, Waterman added. In the end,
we just have to get the job done.
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editorial
Just a ew days ago, a member o the editorial page
board was about to cross the street at Thayer and
Waterman when the light changed. Several students
ignored the fashing red hand and continued to walk,causing an exasperated driver to roll down his window
and yell, You got a 1400 on your SAT? You dont even
know how to cross the street.
Regarding the estimated SAT score, the driver
was a little o. Many o us beat 1400 on the 1600
scale, and i were considering scores on the 2400
scale, then a 1400 isnt exactly Brown material. But
his claim that Brown students seem sometimes not to
know how to cross the street was ar rom erroneous.
Indeed, many o us are oten reckless and impatient
pedestrians.
On weekdays, students food the streets when
classes end. The street in ront o J. Walter Wilson
in particular tends to ll with students, causing an
awkward dance between distracted pedestrians and
hurried drivers.Look around other parts o campus, and youre
likely to see students blatantly disregarding trac
rules and texting or e-mailing while they walk. As
many can attest, the driver we mentioned earlier
certainly isnt the rst to have a ew choice words
(or gestures) or student jaywalkers.
We want to see students to take greater individual
responsibility or their own pedestrian habits. The
rules o the roads and sidewalks are simple, and we
can all do a better job o ollowing them.
O course, even the most careul pedestrians can
still ace dangers. The Brown community continues
to mourn the death o Avi Schaeer 13, who was hit
by a driver subsequently charged with drunk driving.
Our call today or greater student responsibility on the
sidewalks isnt a response to the events that caused
Schaeers death, a tragedy that was the ault o one
unconscionably reckless motorist.
Nonetheless, Schaeers death has brought issues
o pedestrian saety to light and played a large role inprompting the University to create a pedestrian saety
review committee. The Herald reported Thursday that
the new committee will consider xes or dangerous
spots, promote awareness o pedestrian saety issues
and coordinate with local law enorcement.
The creation o this committee is a positive step,
and we want to highlight several problematic spots
or members to consider.
The Hope and Thayer intersection where Schaeer
was killed has long been considered dangerous and
rightly deserves to be among the committees top
priorities.
The Waterman and Brown intersection near Faunce
Arch and J. Walter Wilson could use a stop sign. As we
mentioned earlier, the pedestrian crossing there is ex-tremely busy and the existing yield-to-pedestrian sign
is not enough to ensure an orderly fow o trac.
The Charleseld and Brook intersection lacks a
stop sign and creates a hazard or residents o Barbour
Hall, Young Orchard Apartments and Perkins Hall.
Drivers requently ignore the yield-to-pedestrian
sign on Hope Street in ront o the Olney-Margolies
Athletic Center. This sign needs to be enorced.
With the combination o heightened individual eort
and improved trac rules or a ew specic spots, our
campus can become a saer place to walk and a less
stressul place to drive.
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Send comments to [email protected].
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As chair o the Physics Depart-
ment, my attention was naturally
drawn to Tyler Rosenbaums recent
column (No physicists need apply,
March 3). What activity or organiza-
tion would not welcome physicists
with open arms? Imagine my sur-
prise when I read o Rosenbaums
concern about Phi Beta Kappas pos-
sible discrimination against science
students.
In act, o the 40 juniors (rep-resenting less than 3 percent o the
junior class) selected or member-
ship in Phi Beta Kappa this year,
our (i.e. 10 percent) are physics
concentrators. This remarkable
achievement by our students is tes-
tament not only to their academic
excellence but also to the breadth
o their studies, given the rules o
our Phi Beta Kappa chapter, as out-
lined in Rosenbaums column. This
latter characteristic is shared by the
majority o our concentrators, whom
we encourage rom the start o their
studies at Brown to explore a variety
o disciplines, gain a broad liberal
education and, most importantly,
hone their writing skills.
Unortunately, many non-sci-
ence concentrators do not exhibit
similar breadth in their course choic-
es, taking one or no science classes.
Maybe our Phi Beta Kappa chapter
should institute a minimum require-
ment or science classes. In act, one
might posit that the inclusion o abasic science or math requirement,
similar to the recently established
writing requirement, would serve
to strengthen the liberal education
oered at Brown.
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The minimum wage is dened as the lowest
wage that an employer is legally allowed to
pay. This concept was rst brought to pow-
er by the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938
and has been enorced ever since. Currently,
the minimum wage or Rhode Island is $7.40
per hour and most employers, including the
University, must adhere to it. But why are
private academic institutions in the United
States not exempt rom minimum wage?
Can we ever get rid o the minimum wageentirely?
Brown utilizes a graded approach to em-
ployment, and the associated hourly rate is
based on the level o responsibility and skills
required to perorm the job. Students paid
under employment grade A receive $8.20 to
$9.55 per hour; B, rom $8.45 to $10.05; C,
rom $8.70 to $10.55; D, rom $8.95 to $11.05;
and E, above $9.20. The grade is determined
using a simple, single-page orm that ascer-
tains the level o expertise a job requires with
regard to skill, supervisory requirements,
work fow, decision making, scope o work and
condentiality requirements, etc. Not only is
this orm ambiguous in determining the real
requirements and pressure o the job, but it
is ineective. I we let the ree market withinthe campus determine the jobs pay, it would
not only be highly e ective, but also air.
Most students employed by Brown would
cringe at the idea o no minimum wage, since
this could lead to lower pay and more com-
petition. Their ear o lower pay is only so
reasonable. For jobs that require special skills,such as programming, ewer students will be
willing to devote time to such a job or less
pay. As a result, the salaries will have to rise
to attract potential employees with well-honed
skills. On the other hand, jobs that require
less specialized knowledge will nd many ap-
plicants, and so a ear o lower pay is justiable
in this situation.
A minimum-wage exemption would also
ease unding restrictions that prevent Brown
employers rom hiring more employees. This
could potentially reduce competition by ex-
panding positions, allowing more students
to work. Higher student employment in turn
will lead to more research and giving more
back to the community.
A lowered pay rate also gives students who
have next-to-no experience a chance to apply
to various jobs and discover which careersuits them best. Because new recruits would
get entry-level jobs with inconsequential pay,
their decision to commit or quit may be made
without taking a substantial salary into consid-
eration, leaving the truly important criteria
namely, job satisaction with greater weight
in the decision-making process. Employers arethen let with a dedicated, productive work
sta instead o employees who simply squat
in their position and are paid more than they
deserve because o seniority and raises.
I would also like to mention that removal o
the minimum wage, a orm o price foor, does
not always lead to reduction o pay. In act, it is
purely meritocratic in nature and evolves with
the type o student body. I, or example, in a
certain year students do not wish to work or
Brown Dining Services because it involves a
lot o mental and physical stress, BuDS would
increase the pay rate by a moderate amount to
attract students. I an employer tries to exploit
the employee by paying next-to-nothing wages,
then there would be ewer applicants.
Miles Goldman 11, the Lab Supervisor
or the 3D Shape Perception Laboratory (in
the Department o Cognitive and Linguistic
Sciences) received strong applications rom
30 people who applied or a single Research
Assistant position in the lab. Lets analyze
this situation as the pay rate is $9, only
one student could be employed. The rest
were let wondering why they werent good
enough. Now, i the salary was $4.50 per hour,two assistants could have been hired, which
would lead to a higher distribution o work,
more eciency and competition amongst the
employees or a raise. Furthermore, having
more employees oers a saeguard against
absences, such as those caused by illness and
schoolwork-related commitments.
By having individually assigned raises, em-
ployers can make sure that their employees are
keen and eective. Getting a raise would also
positively aect the morale o the employees
and make sure the job remains merit-based. I
this idea o there being no (or less) minimum
wage works or private academic institutions, I
am sure it will lead to the Fair Labor Standards
Act being repealed altogether and more em-ployment in this recessive, jobless economy
(where the teen unemployment rate is 25.5%,
the highest since 1948). The minimum wage,
ater all, has the worst eects on vulnerable
workers that include teenagers, blacks and
women with limited skills.
Thomas Sowell, an American economist
whose research shows that increasing mini-
mum wages or workers in the sugar industry
o Puerto Rico led to a rise o unemployment
in that particular industry, amously quoted,
The real minimum wage is zero. I believe
he is right.
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Im rereshing my Fireox page again. The
event listing now says 11 conrmed guests
and two maybes.
One more conrmed guest! I cry out
triumphantly to the other people sitting in the
living room. I am answered with enthusiastic
yays rom my companions. The thrill o this
exercise is getting to us all.
I eel that this is something all Brown stu-
dents experience at some point in our busy
extracurricular lives: creating a Facebook
event or a party, lecture or undraiser, and
subsequently spending a considerable amount
o time trying to will as many invitees as pos-
sible to RSVP attend.
It is striking that over just the past our or
ve years, Facebook has not only begun to
acilitate our social lives, but also our emo-
tions. Being poked by a possible romantic
interest, receiving a riend request rom
an elementary school jungle gym buddy or
having a particularly witty status liked is
enough to make a Brown students day just
that much better.
These days, we have even more than just
the regular, old Facebook to keep ourselves
occupied at the expense o schoolwork
theres BrownFML, SpottedatBrown and the
new and incredible BlogDailyHerald. Theyre
catered to students at Brown specically,
helping us devote our Internet time to access-
ing the most up-to-date inormation, directly
relevant to our college lives.
Maybe some members o an older genera-
tion could accuse us o being too reliant ontechnology and being sucked into the addic-
tive and destructive grandeur o the Internet.
We can call it a plague o the 21st century,
with images o zombie-like (zombies: yet an-
other ascination o our generation) young
people stuck to their computers, but I think
its something not quite so malevolent.
Imagine this: a Brown student is stressing
out over an overdue paper at eleven oclock at
night. He or she logs onto a avorite procras-
tination Web site. This Brown student sees a
mention in a recent post on SpottedatBrown
that may be directed towards him or her, and
eels the vain surge o recognition. Though a
little creeped out at the prospect o being
stalked, the typical Brown student will nev-
ertheless be mostly fattered that he or she
had been noticed beyond the daily monotony
o college lie. That little sense o sel-esteem
can go a long way in maintaining a students
sanity during midterms or nals. It can be,
I believe, the make-or-break psychological
motivator towards a good academic attitude
and a bad one.Facebook, or its technical glitches, insen-
sitive weight-loss advertisements and threats
o ees, makes us happy. As we post about our
personal tragedies on BrownFML, we seek
comort rom those ellow students with a ew
extra compassionate words to share. Actually,
the mere evidence o having an FML approved
or publication on the Web site is a sign that
ones lie still has hope. Those who post and
those who reply to console will all ultimately
eel better about themselves as responsible
members o the Brown community i you
really think about it, liking a status or send-
ing a sympathetic comment is equivalent to
some kind o micro-level community service
on the morale ront.
One would willingly say Happy Birthday
to an old acquaintance long orgotten outside
o cyberspace, and the Internet orum allows
us the reedom o extending courtesies with
the utmost ease. Perhaps our social interac-
tions over an Internet orum can be called
supercial, but its arguably much riendlier
to send a Facebook wall post with a simplemessage o greeting than to eel obligated
to stop and chat in person about nothing
in particular. When we are communicating
through the indirect channel o our com-
puters or hand-held devices, there is less o
an urge to let the harsh, rustrated tone o
college student lie take over our messages.
It is also more cost-eective than long- and
short-distance calling.
So maybe our social interactions are chang-
ing, and perhaps it does need to be criticized
that young people nowadays no longer nd it
necessary to engage in the deep, intellectual
person-to-person bonding that our psychology
textbooks tell us we need. But technology
really is, however cliche, bringing us closer
to everyone else. Its ree therapy or col-lege students, by college students mass
companionship in times o need.
I propose that we restrict the use o the
negative term procrastination when we sur
our avorite online orums. Lets break any
stigma against using the Facebook, Brown-
FML, etc., as a means o keeping ourselves
entertained and sensible, and embrace the
psychological benets that the Internet has
to bring.
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today, March 8
6:30 p.M. The History of White
People, by Nell Irvin Painter, Salomon
001
7 p.M. Thinkin Critically About
death Row, Wilson 102
toMorroW, March 9
4:30 p.M. Blue Vinyl Film
Screenin, Smith-Bonnano 106
6 p.M. Escribir dese La
Sombra Lecture on Cuba, McKinney
Conference Room
d cm | Eshan Mitra an Brenan Hainline
cb v | Abe Pressman
F | An Kim
sharpe reFectory
lunch Vean White Bean Casserole,
Flame grille Veie Patties, Krinkle
Ct Fries, Lemon Bars
dinner Jumbo Couscous, grecian
Stle Beef, Contr Wein Sop
verney-Woolley dining hall
lunch Hone Mstar Chicken
Sanwich, Bake Macaroni an
Cheese, Btterscotch Cookies
dinner Tuscan Pork Roast,
Fettcini, Roaste Herb Potatoes
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