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to the futureof democracy By elizaBeth carr

Senior Staff Writer

witter was abuzz with the hashtag#bd ths wkd as hudrds studts ad prssas rmaround the country congregated orthe ourth annual A Better Worldby Design conerence, organized by Brown and Rhode Island School o Design students. Te conerence,which was open to the public, o-rd turs, wrkshps ad pr-sentations that brought together

innovators o international renownwith the goal o solving environ-mental and social problems through

dsg.“It’s better and better every year,”

said Mike Eng, a RISD alum and th r’s udrs.

While a variety o problems, in-cluding ossil uels and high schoolarchitecture, were addressed, thisyear’s conerence ocused on designor disaster relie. “It’s denitely rele-

vant,” Eng said, pointing to the mas-

s dstrut th wak recent hurricanes and earthquakes.

Saturday’s keynote panel ea-tured David Perkes, the oundingdirector o the Gul Coast Com-munity Design Studio, as well asDominique oussaint, chairman th bard Mbz r Hat,

and Peter Haas, ounder o the Ap-propriate Inrastructure Develop-mt Grup.

Haas oered a word o advicet ths kg t wrk dsas-

Better World conference

imagines disaster relief

By ashleY McDoNNell

SportS editor

Payg at ght r y th s-d tm r at Brw Stadumad wth th Grr’s Cup the line, the Bears trounced in-stat ra URI, 35-2, rt ,534 Saturday ght.

It was a our-touchdown day or co-captain quarterback KyleNewhall-Caballero ’11.5, who su-ered a season-ending wrist injury

in last season’s Governor’s Cupgame. Te h-year senior led the

oense and threw or 203 yardsand two touchdowns and also ranor a pair o scores on the ground.

“Smbdy askd m hw my

wrist eels today, and I told them,‘It’s a little sore, but it’s not bro-ken’ — that’s a litt le bit better thanlast year,” said Newhall-Caballeroaer the game. “Just to win thisyear eels great.” Last year, aerNewhall-Caballero broke his wrist

on the nal play o regulation, theBars st th gam rtm,2-24.

Tough Bruno (2-1, 0-1 Ivy)ultimately triumphed this year,URI (1-3) scored rst aer a gutsy ourth-down conversion. Facingurth ad thr w -yard line, the Rams decided to gor t. URI bak Rbb Dgad

Bears hoist Governor’sCup under the lights

Rachel Kaplan / Herald

A nutrition service was just one of many ideas at this weekend’s design expo.

Emily Gilbert / Herald

Brwn triumphed ver URI, 35-21, t capture the Gvernr’s Cup Saturday.

football

By phoeBe Nir

artS & Culture Staff Writer

“Gross Indecency: Te Tree rials

Osar Wd,” Sk Busk’s

current production running inLds Tatr, pays a at trk.

Trughut th urs Wd’s5 hargs r sdmy, gain England until 1967, Wilde’s own

letters and literature were seizedby his opposition as damning evi-dence. But now, as the audiencebears witness to recreations o thetras, w bm th jury ad t

is Wilde’s accusers who are oundguty.

he play, directed by KymMoore, assistant proessor o the-ater arts and perormance studies,

ad wrtt by Mss Kauma,weaves together verbatim courtrrds, prss ppgs, prsacorrespondences and excerptsrm Wd’s wrks. T rsut sa pointillist portrait o a man o mythic proportions, the wit o atury br a tury t s.

It s mpssb t kw whatWilde would produce i he werealive today, but I would wagerheavily that he would have a wit-ter — the man was simply unpar-

ad wh t am t th rturn o phrase, and he knew it,t. “I ha r had adrator anybody but mysel,” crowsBrian Cross ’12, who embodiesWilde with every awless, deliber-ate gesture. Watch Cross ick back

th tas hs sr wastat rth twk hs y as h d-ers yet another o Wilde’s crispaxioms. His perormance is genius

and his possession by the spirit th gdary wrtr mpt,especially as his veneer o cocky charisma is worn down by the hu-mats th tras.

Wilde drama puts jury on the stand

Arts & Culture

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Securiy hresurs new gin

Cmputing and Inrmatin

Services launched a new

MyCurses lgin Friday in

respnse t a tip rm a cmputer

science student abut a security

vulnerability.

Prir t the change, anyne

culd capture a lgin ID and

passwrd when a user signed int

MyCurses. Lgin inrmatin

allws access t an individual’s

persnal data thrugh Brwn

websites such as Banner.

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wuld nt knw abut thse

sites, said David Sherry, chie

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CIS.

The University has beengradually transitining t the

new lgin system, Shibbleth,

since 2009. Because the

Shibbleth system carries

users’ credentials acrss Brwn

websites withut requiring

repeated authenticatin, Sherry

recmmended students and

aculty clse internet brwsers

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public cmputers.

CIS annunced the change t

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CIS members mnitred

the new lgin system ver the

weekend, and the change was

“awless,” Sherry said. “We didn’t

expect technical issues, and there

were n technical issues,” he said.

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N E W S I N B R I E F

By Jake coMer

Senior Staff Writer

Former Chilean President RicardoLagos hesitated to have his picture

taken in his small, bright oce inth Wats Isttut r Itra-tional Studies. Wearing slacks and

a white button-down, but withouta coat and tie, he worried he might

t k prsdta ugh.

With his deep, close-lippedsmile and a deliberate cadencein his voice, he did appear in many ways more proessorial than presi-

dential. But Proessor-at-LargeLags ad th Lags wh hpdlead Chile rom despotism to de-mray wr bth aaab rqusts Tursday.

During an hour-long interview,Lags ga a prsa aut his role in restoring democracy toCh. H prssd rsrats

about the C hilean government’sability to meet the demands o thenation’s ongoing student protestmovement and discussed what hesees as a resurgence in individualempowerment in political systems

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Campus ews2 he Brown Daily erald

Monday, ctober 3, 2011

11 a.m.

Campus Saety Resurce Fair,

Wristn Quad

5 p.m.Lecture with Patrick French,

Smith-Bunann, Rm 106

5 p.m.

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5:30 p.m.“Debt, Slavery and Mnasticism,”

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C A L E N D A R

By MaDDie BerG

Contributing Writer

Wth ks, s ad a raf,the popular CAAS Rounds Lecture

srs s skg urthr grwth.Eah Frday rm t ,

the Center or Alcohol and Addic-tion Studies oers a lecture or ac-ulty, sta, students and local publichath prs.

Te lectures vary in topic, butusuay pr th tr’sthr ma aras study: ah,tobacco and marijuana. With thepurpose o educating attendees, theprogram hopes to expose the re-searchers’ latest projects in the eld.

Because this goal relates speci-cally to CAAS, the lectures — givenby speakers chosen by a CAAS

committee — were at rst only advertised within the center. Butdue to growing interest, the presen-tations are now open to all members

o the University, as well as othercommunities including Liespan— a non-prot health system a-atd wth Brw — ad auty rm thr ursts. T ar-age turnout is between 25 and 35people, mainly consisting o CAASauty ad graduat ad pstd-toral students rom other programs.

“I am actually really excitedabout the turnout,” said amaraSequeira, assistant project direc-tor at CAAS. “We are thrilled about

hw w ha grw rm just ths

center, which is 100 or so people,t th sh pub hath adw byd Brw.”

Te series began in summer200 wh CAAS auty ddd

there should be more collaborationwithin the center. “Tere is not a loto cross-talk and communication. It

was just a way t gt pp t tak about things going on,” Sequeirasad.

o make the center more co-hs, th auty hpd t brg arus prssas rm Brwand the public health community together so people could learnabout new research and “eithermak a hag whatr thy’rdoing or create a collaboration they may not have ... been interested in,”Squra sad.

Jessica Bendit ’12, one o theew undergraduates who has at-tdd th turs, sad sh wttw ths summr wh wrkgr th Ctr r Prsr Hathand Human Rights. Tough shesad th targt aud was prb-ably researchers within the eld,she “ound them very accessibleand enjoyed learning somethingnew” that was slightly out o herara study.

T spakrs r a arty topics, including the eects o binge

drinking on animals, the correla-tion between crack-cocaine andHIV and tips on how to get into

graduate school or handle rejec-

tion healthully. But according toSqura, mattr hw thathe topic, the speakers tend to make

the lectures understandable to abradr aud.

o keep the lectures relatable,the speakers are asked to use thebeginning o their presentationst dsuss smthg prsa. “Itud b hw yu gt trstd yur d, a partuar hbby yuhave or pictures o you growing up,”

Squra sad.Even apart rom these inormal

introductions, Bendit said presenta-tions were entertaining. “Te speak-

ers were denitely engaging becausethy wr prstg thr wresearch,” she said. “Tey were very impassioned about what they weretakg abut.”

And i ree dessert and scienticdiscussion are not enough to attract

a varied audience, Sequeira said shehopes a rafe will be the ultimateselling point. As each person enters,

he or she is given a rafe ticket, andthe speaker draws the winner atth d th tur. T przs,which have included a bookstoreg rtat ad r D’s Lm-onade, “are a un way to get peopletrstd,” Squra sad.

As the lectures grow in popular-ity, plans to reach out to undergrad-

uats mght b udrway, prhapsthrough more posters, a website oraumts Mrg Ma,

sh sad.

Addiction center expands lecture series

By aparNa BaNsal

Senior Staff Writer

New York University graduate stu-dents continue to wait or word rom

th Washgt, D.C. thNational Labor Relations Board. Te

board’s New York oce told gradu-at studts Ju thy ud trm a u, but th aguag

that ruling le room or the decisionto be overturned at the ederal level.

Tough the June decision wasbased on the precedent o a 2004NLRB rug that Brw graduatstudents were not employees o theUniversity and could not unionize,the judge reinterpreted that prec-dt, darg that tahg adrsarh assstats ar mpys.

Ebrt m, atg rprs-tative o the NLRB’s regional o-

Nw Yrk, wrt th asreport that the 2004 decision was“premised on a university settingas t std 30 yars ag” ad thatgraduate students at NYU have a“dual relationship” with the university that is both academic andm.

“Te problem is that the national

board hasn’t looked at our case,” said

Daniel Aldana Cohen, a doctoralstudent at NYU and an organizer orthe Graduate Student OrganizingCmmtt. “W’r hpg t gt ads by Dmbr.”

NYU graduate students arehopeul they will receive a posi-t rug as “raty pr-abr”Democrats appointed by PresidentObama currently dominate the ve-

seat NLRB committee, Cohen said.But he said students are worriedthat the NLRB won’t get to the casebeore the appointees’ terms expireat th d th yar.

I thy r a pst rug,the graduate students will then holdelections or a bargaining committeethat w gtat wth NYU.

So ar, the administration hasbeen unhelpul, Cohen said. Tey are“taking advantage o the grid-lock in Washington,” he said. “Teirtr stratgy ths wh tm hasb day, day, day.”

“We undamentally disagree with(the) analysis and conclusion thata graduate-student bargaining unitwud b apprprat th tthat the Brown case is reversed,”sad Jh Bkma, prsdtor public aairs at NYU, in a state-mt Ju. “T rga dr-tor’s analysis ignores the acts o thiscase, most importantly that teaching

assistantships have been eliminatedor NYU graduate students and thatths wh hs t tah d s asadjut auty.” Adjut auty atNYU already have a union with theUtd Aut Wrkrs.

At Brown, the motivation tounionize may not be as strong ast was 2004.

“At the moment, the Browncommunity is not moving towarda drt t uz,” sad Mat-teo Riondato GS, president o theGraduate Student Council. “I be- w ha a ry gd rat-shp wth th graduat sh adth admstrat.”

He added that the council isopen to discussion on the issue andthat a d r a u arss, t“will act accordingly to what themajority o the students and therepresentatives o students in the

GSC w t r.”

Ruling on union under review

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in ousting U.S.-backed dictatorAugusto Pinochet and reinstatingdmray hs utry th

at 0s.Aer eight years o despotism,

a plebiscite was held to determinewhthr Pht wud rma . I a majrty supprtdPinochet, he would stay on as dic-tator. I the majority voted againsthim, a presidential election wouldbe held, and Pinochet would beut.

As the plebiscite approached,ths wh dd t supprt P-ht had t rgstr thr parts— asy task udr a dtatr-ship, Lagos said. Lagos’ socialistat was rbdd t rgstr

as a party. o circumvent the ban,it took the name “Party or De-mray.”

But neither the Party or De-mocracy nor any o the otherdemocratically minded partieswere large enough to challengePinochet’s supporters on theirw, s thy rmd a at.

Beore the plebiscite, Lagosmade a historic appearance onthe Chilean political televisionshow “De Cara al Pais,” which cu l-

matd th psd kw thstry as “Lags’ gr.”

“We are going to be on V,” La-

gos recalled telling his colleagues

ahead o his party’s ocial reg-istration. Lagos’ colleagues wereskeptical about the prospect o opposition politicians being givendirect access to Chileans’ eyes andears, Lagos remembered, but hetold them they would have to ap-pear on television to representthr party pta dbats.

Ad h was rght.At one point during his ap-

pearance on “De Cara al Pais,” heturd t th amra ad, pt-g straght t th s, rdth dtatr.

“General Pinochet has not been

honest with the country,” he said.“I will remind you, General Pino-ht, that th day th 0pbst yu sad that PrsdtPinochet would not be a candidate

in 1989. And now, you promisethe country another eight years trturs, murdrs ad humarights violations. It seems to meinadmissible that a Chilean canha s muh hugr r pwr.”

Te democratic coalition wenton to deeat Pinochet in the plebi-scite. But three days aer the 1988plebiscite precluded Pinochetrm rmag pwr, Lagsannounced to the Chilean peopleh wud t ru r prsdt.

“Lagos’ nger” had angeredthe country’s military leader-ship, and Lagos said he did notwant to jeopardize the democratictransition by placing himsel — apotential target or the military — in oce. Te coalition Lagoshelped orm agreed on a Chris-tian Democrat, Patricio Aylwin,as their candidate. Aylwin wastd Marh 0.

When he did take oice aspresident 10 years later, he estab-lished an independent presidentialmmss t stgat pt-

a prsut udr Pht’s

regime, and 35,000 Chileans made

statmts t th mmss.“wo volumes were published

rom that commission,” Lagossad. “T rst um s k g-ing to the hell o Dante Alighieri.”

py nd

Since the end o Pinochet’sregime, Chile’s GDP has grownabout 5 percent annually. Percapita income has increased rom

$5,000 to $15,000. Te proportion Chas g prty hasshrunk rom nearly 40 percent toabut prt. T umbr students in the Chilean univer-sity system has rocketed rom aquarter o a million to 1.1 million.Seven out o 10 students are therst in their amilies to pursuehghr duat.

But Chile’s economic growthhas trggrd th mrg anew, “class-oriented” social sys-tem, Lagos said. And in this at-mosphere o growth, tuition orhigher education has grown as

w — by mr tha 0 prt th ast 20 yars. Lags attrb-utd th urrt wa studtprotests in the country to theseatrs.

Te protests began in May, andcollege students occupied about100 schools by June. In August,the movement mounted twomarches with protesters number-ing in the hundreds o thousands.Ad th prtsts ard up agaat ast mth.

Te Chilean government o-ers ree primary education andsharshps r sm ursty students. But given the country’scomortable economic climate,Lags sad h ds t thk thgovernment should pay or high-er education. Te government’sgrowing income should go toward

primary education, housing orthe poor and better inrastructurebeore secondary education, hesad. But th studts ar “wrthstg t,” h sad. “Ty hathr rass.”

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Lagos said the protests in hiscountry, as well as those that aredup recently in Spain, Israel and

India, are driven by a desire to see

increasing economic prosperity translated into tangible benetsr wd sgmts sty.

“People eel much more em-pwrd tday,” Lags sad. Adwith this empowerment o theindividual, politics is changing.“Now everybody is able to seewhat is going on everywhere,”Lagos said, and they can comparetheir standard o living with those pp arss th wrd.

It usd t b that wspaprstd th wrds ad ws people o authority and issuedthm t th ppua, Lags -plained. Ten radio and televisionallowed leaders to talk directly tocitizens — but still, the citizensseldom had the opportunity totak bak.

“Suddenly, because o the web,politics is not that anymore. Iprst my brat da, ad less than one second, you send meback a witter, and you say, ‘Whoare you, Mr. Lagos? Going to givesome message to me? I know what

t d. G t h,’” Lags sad.Lagos oresees a return to a

pta dagu mr rms-cent o the public square, wherery has th pprtuty ttalk as well as listen. “Look, weare going back to Athens,” he said.

“Tis is going to be Democracy

2.0,” Lagos said. “Now, everybody mt, ad ry bdy r.”

Campus ews 3he Brown Daily erald


Rachel Kaplan / Herald

Former President Ricardo Lagos helped bring prosperity and political freedomt Chile.

Lagos sees rise of ‘Democracy 2.0’

By claire peracchio

City & State editor

First lady Michelle Obama joined13 wives o military servicemenFriday evening or a roundtablegathering at the Rhode IslandNational Guard headquarters inCranston. Later that night, sheappeared at a undraiser or her

husbad at th East Sd hm Joseph Paolino Jr., a ormer Provi-dence mayor and U.S. ambassadort Mata.

Aer greeting the women withhugs in Cranston, Obama saidthe purpose o the meeting wast draw attt t th pght military amilies. “Te main pieceo this is really making sure Amer-ica knows the unique challengesthat you ace,” she said. Obamaadded that Joining Forces — the

initiative she and Jill Biden, wie V Prsdt J Bd, haspearheaded — ocuses on eortst hr mtary spuss ad hpthe children o servicemen andwomen pursue their educationalgoals, even as the upheaval o mili-

tary rs thm t rquty swth shs.

w mtary ws — th

wie o a member o the Navy andth thr a Mar — thakdObama and highlighted issuesimportant to the spouses o ser- m ad wm. Amy Kg,who currently lives in Middletown,

spoke o the strain repeated movesad hr husbad’s mbat jury ha pad hr amy.

Te press was then asked toleave the acility so that the rstlady could speak privately withth wm.

Ardg t a p rprt, s-sud by th rprtr wh was a-lowed to remain with the rst lady,Obama atr trad t Pa’shome, where guests included Pres-

ident Ruth Simmons, University o Rhode Island President DavidDy ad G. L Cha’75 P’14, as well as Rhode IslandDemocrats Rep. David Cicilline’3 ad S. Jak Rd.

Guests paid at least $1,000or tickets to attend, and dona-

ts wr as hgh as $3,500. Fra $5,000 contribution, donorsud tak a ptur wth Obama.Money raised that night went toth Obama Vtry Fud, a jtundraising committee that ben-ets both President Obama’s 2012reelection bid and the DemocraticNational Committee, which spon-srd th t.

First lady visits withR.I. military wives

Claire Peracchi / Herald

Michelle obama gathered with 13 wives militar y servicemen in Cranstn.

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Sports Monday 4 he Brown Daily erald


By saM wickhaM

SportS Staff Writer

wo early goals were enough tohad th wm’s sr tam tsthird loss o the season in NewYork City Saturday against Co-lumbia. Despite a late goal romKirsten Belinsky ’15, the Bears(6-3-1, 1-1-0 Ivy) could not ndan equalizing tally to pull levelwth th Ls (4-5-0, 2-0-0) adsurd thr rst Iy ss thseason, 2-1. A narrowly missedr-kk rm apta Sarah H-bert-Seropian ’12 and a goal called

bak by a sd a ustratdBruno’s dogged eort to make thembak.

Te Lions ound the back o th t just muts t thgame when Alexa Yow buried ashot past Amber Bledsoe ’14 to put

Cumba up -0. Yw tudto pressure the Bears back line,heading the ball o the post just muts atr. Sh tudto be an aerial threat and doubled

hr tay th th mut ar

ring home a header o a throw-in

to give the Lions an early 2-0 lead.“We knew we had to play

all 90 minutes,” Belinsky said.“Even though they scored early,we weren’t completely out o thegam.”

he Bears tested the Lions’goalkeeper three times in the rstha but wr t ab t start thcomeback beore the haltimewhst bw.

“Obviously we didn’t do sowell in the rst hal, giving uptw quk gas, ad that ga usa blow,” Hebert-Seropian said. “But

I really liked our comeback in thesecond hal, and our team neverga up.”

It was’t ut 2 muts tthe second hal that Bruno nar-rowed the decit. A deep crossrom Marybeth Lesbirel ’12 ellt th t Bsky, wh da shot over the Lions’ keeper tonotch the rst-year’s rst goal in aBears uniorm and bring the scoret 2-.

“(Te ball) came bouncing back

towards me, and I just hit it, tryingt thk ‘D’t ht t r,’” B-sky sad.

Te Bears nearly equalized only

ur muts atr, wh Hbrt-Seropian struck a ree-kick justr th rssbar. Bru thughtit had nally gotten level aerscoring in the 81st minute, butthe goal was called back due toa sd a. A ast-mut r-ner kick was punched away by theLions’ goalie, and the Bears couldnot create another chance to makethr mbak br u tm.

“We deinitely changed oursty pay th sd ha taddrss sm th prbms wwere having,” Hebert-Seropiansaid. “We ought hard, and we hadthg t s.”

Te Bears will use this week toprpar r thr t Iy Lagumath-up agast Prt tSuday at Sts Fd.

“W kw Prt s a ry good team, so we’re going to haveto be ready or that,” Hebert-Sero-

pian said. “It’s going to be a battle.”

Lions hand Bears rst Ivy defeat

By JaMes BlUM

SportS Staff Writer

Despite competition rom 44 teams in

the gold division at last Friday’s PaulShort Invitational, hosted by LehighUrsty, th rss utry tamswr udtrrd. T m shdseventh with 255 points, narrowly edging out Dartmouth. Earning 393points, the women ran to a 12th place

nish, besting the University o NewHampshr by 32 pts.

Da Lwry ’2, wh mptdthe 8-kilometer course in 24 minutes,

sds, d th m. Fshgclosely behind the sixth-place Lowry was tammat Matt Duy ’2, whrssd th sh at 24:4 adard 6th pa.

“Individually, I thought it wasa pretty good perormance,” Duy sad.

As a tam, th m shd b-hind Columbia, but ahead o Cornell,

Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton andYa.

“We beat most o the teams wewr suppsd t bat, ad w hadanother consistent perormance,”Duy said. “We’re two-or-two intrms ssty ad gd pr-

rmas ra.”“Tere was some small kind o

tactical things we could have donebetter,” said im Springeld, headcoach o the men’s cross country tam. “But that’s aways gg t bthe case in a meet with 400 runners.”

Margaret Connelly ’14 was yetaga th tp shr r th Brwwomen, covering the 6-kilometercourse in 21:15 and nishing in 33rdplace. Heidi Caldwell ’14 nished

just our seconds aer Connelly andearned 39th place. Ari Garber ’12nished third or the Bears in 21:47,ollowed by Olivia Mickle ’13 with atm 22:0.

“I thought that the team did apretty good job o being patient,”said Mitchell Baker, head coach o the women’s team. “I think it’s pretty easy to eel the pressure to get outast, so you don’t get buried in a larged k that.”

I addt t th arg d, thwomen aced a muddy course andhad a runner taken out o the racedu t rs hat haust.

“I was pasd wth ur tp urin the sense they ran competitively,”Baker said. “We’re all excited to gure

out how to run them together thewh tm.”

Bth tams w t mpt at

the New England Championships inBst Ot. .

Among large eld,squads nish strong

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ud a h Brw’s ds,gaining ve yards and earning aw st dws.

Aer another ve-yard rush,Rams quarterback Steve Probstooled Bruno’s deense with akeeper on a quarterback optionpay. By th tm th Bars ra-zd wh atuay had th ba, twas too late or anyone to catchPrbst, wh ra yards r thtouchdown, putting the Rams up-0 ary th rst quartr.

But Bruno also had a ew tricksup its sleeve. Unable to convert on

third and six at its own 24 yardline, Brown lined up in a puntormation. But instead o kickingth ba dwd t th wat-

ing arms o the Rams’ returner,the Bears snapped it to upback Stephen Zambetti ’13, who took it 48 yards — good or the rstdw ad mr.

“We decided that … they weregoing to take the bait, and we wentor it,” said Head Coach Phil Estes.

Te ake punt “got us the momen-tum bak .”

Aer marching down the eld,a par pats smd t putth Bars arthr ad arthr uto scoring range. But on sec-ond and 22, Newhall-Caballerotossed the ball to running back Mark Kachmer ’13, who ran up

the right sideline and made anatht ath th d z a 27-yard touchdown. Kachmerwas Nwha-Cabar’s tp tar-get, with 62 yards receiving andone touchdown. Te running back as addd 3 yards rushg.

Brown shot itsel in the ootmultiple times with costly pen-ats. T Rams btd th barom their own 15 back to theBears, who started the drive atthr w 4. Bru dr dwthe eld to URI’s 34, and was pre-

pared to attempt a ourth downconversion, but a alse start penal-

ty against the Bears orced them to

punt. On the night, Bruno had 12pats r a tta 25 yards,

compared to URI’s nine penaltiesr yards.

Te Rams were not undoneby penalties, but by turnovers.On their next possession, they steadily drove down the ielduntil running back ravis Hurdumbled the ball and linebackerMatt O’D ’2 rrd t.On the ensuing drive, Newhall-Caballero ound wide receiverJonah Fay ’12 and wide receiverAlex ounkara-Kone ’11.5 orbig gains. Te drive culminatedwhen ounkara-Kone pulled ina 17-yard touchdown reception

— hs thrd as may gams —t put th Bars up 4- ary the second quarter. As soon asthe Rams got the ball, they gaveit right back to the Bears. URI’sdrive lasted nine seconds whenPrbst trd t thrw a dp passthat was intercepted by corner-bak A.J. Cruz ’3.

Tough the Bears dug them-selves into a ourth-and-36 holeand were orced to punt, the Rams

th ughd up th ba r ththird time that night. With a short

eld, a 16-yard pass to ounkara-Kone and two small rushing gainsby Nwha-Cabar wr a t

tk t put th Bars up 2-.Te Rams had ve turnovers

th ght. Brw had .“T bttm s w turd

the ball over too much, and we un-

derachieved,” Probst said. “Tey ut-utd us.”

Br th d th ha, thkicker Alex Norocea ’14 attempteda 36-yard eld goal that missedwide le. Going into halime, thesr rmad 2- Brw.

On their rst possession o thesd ha, Prbst aga aught

th Bars uawars wth a quar-terback sneak, rushing or 61yards ad th quk tuhdw,uttg th dt t s.

Probst rushed or a career-high

0 yards ad thrw r athr yards ad a tuhdw. Buthe said his achievements on theght wr rdrd mt by hspr ds-makg.

Beore the end o the thirdquarter, the Bears scored again,thaks t wd rr MatthwSudeld ’12 and running back John

Spooney ’14, who both gainedsignicant rushing yardage onthe drive. Going into the ourthquartr, Brw d 2-4.

With just under 10 minutesle in the game, Brown scored itsh and nal touchdown, putting

the game out o reach. Spooney started the drive with a 54-yardscamper down the le sideline,putting Brown at URI’s 26-yardline. Aer another ew short yard-

age gains by Newhall-Caballero,Kachmer ran into the end zone,strthg Brw’s ad, 35-4.

But the stadium went quietwhen tight end Nicholas Faber’2 was jurd tw pays brKachmer’s score. Faber was up-turned in the end zone and landed

awkwardly on his head. He wascarried o on a stretcher andadd t a ambua.

Te Rams scored with just over

two minutes remaining, but it wast tt, t at. I th d, thBears won 35-21 and took theGrr’s Cup.

“Oensively, we were muchmore in-sync” than last week,Ests sad. “Tr wr dty miscues on our part, but I thought

w ram thm a bg way.”Nt wk, th Bars hst th

College o the Holy Cross (2-2) intheir nal non-conerence game o

the season. Kicko is set or 12:30p.m. at Brw Stadum.

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ter relie. “You need to nd yourniche,” he said. “Don’t go in theread just prd th sam srsthat rybdy s s prdg.”

“Be exible,” oussaint said. Re-lie organizations “come into thecountry many times with plans thatare already pre-made” but then have

trouble executing the plan, he said.But Haas mphaszd that a d-

sastr z s t th pa r u-tested ideas — “What bothered mewas seeing experimentation dressed

up as r,” h sad.Disaster relie was also addressed

through the Better World Challenge.

Tis year, the conerence teamed upwith the non-prot Save the Bay andaskd partpats t rat a su-tion or rising sea levels and naturaldisasters caused by climate change.T wrs, Saurabh Gka adBhaa Muttrja Carg M-lon University, proposed a solutionto eradicate beach erosion througha combination o barriers, eco-podsand a boundary wall without dis-ruptg th mmuty.

Te challenge is “probably themost tangible way” that the coner- gags wth th pub, sadJaa Zhag ’3, a spkswmar th r.

Te conerence eatured a se-rs wrkshps t shwas adstmuat dsg thkg. Durgthe “Tink Wrong” workshop, Marc

O’Br Prjt M, a r rga-

nization, challenged participantsto think about the world in uncon- ventional ways to address specicissues. Attendees urther developedthr das durg a “Rapd Prt-typing” workshop and presented

thm at th Bttr Wrd Ep.At the expo, Elizabeth Schaja ’11

and Deshika Wickramasinghe ’11presented VeggieBus, a combination

ood truck and grocery service thatwould serve college students. Tept rgatd thr prjtor ENGN 0090: “Management o Industrial and Nonprot Organiza-tions,” which they took during theirnal semester. “It’s an idea that we’re

puttg ut thr,” Shaja sad.Te conerence also emphasized

the importance o sustainability through locally sourced ood andzr wast.

Tough lectures were airly wellattended, many students did notstay or the ull length o the pre-stats.

One o the most notable speakers

at th r was Jh Fttr-man, mayor o Braddock, Penn. Fet-

terman is currently earning a salary o $150 per month and has beenworking to rejuvenate his city, whichhas lost 90 percent o its popula-tion since the collapse o the steeldustry th 0s.

Both Fetterman and Raaj Parekh

’13 compared the situation inBraddock to that o Central Falls,a Rhode Island city that declared

bakrupty Aug. .

A focus on disasterrelief at Better World

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Cheser Crsn | Tess Carrll

Crerne Vire | Abe Pressman

frerniy Evi | Eshan Mitra, Brendan Hainline and Hectr Ramirez

the Unicic | Eva Chen and Dan Sack

C o M I C S

Cross ’12 captures Wilde’s wit

Lydia Yamaguchi / Herald

Leeds Theater becmes a curt huse r Sck & Buskin’s “Grss Indecency.”

Cross is supported by a uni-ormly excellent cast o nine ac-tors, chameleons outtted in dap-per vests and ties shiing betweencharacters and nuanced accentswith air. It is clear all involved inthe production are having a terrictime and, even more, that they eel

thy ha a stry wrth tg.Osar Wd’s dd trag-

cally. It is awul to watch a manwho believed so passionately inbauty ad art d dsgrad addestitute, his copies o his ownbooks sold to und his legal costs.With each production o this show,and the standing ovation that con-

udd t Frday ght, hs gay

receives a bit o the justice thatwas denied him in the courtroom.

Perhaps Oscar Wilde has madepeace with his ate. Aer all, it washe who said, “Always orgive yourms — thg ays thms muh.”

ute, horn or drum accompany-

ing them. But each piece was per-ormed perectly, complementedby the impeccable acoustics o theaudtrum.

Tree o the members o thegrup payd stadg up, whhallowed them greater expressionin their movements. With eachswell o the music or movemento the bow, they jerked not justtheir arms but their whole bodies.

Many members o the audience,

which included some students butwas mostly comprised o oldermembers o the community, wereswayg t th mus by th d.

T grup taks ts rk-ad-r b a stp urthr “SSteps,” a new work eatured Satur-day. Te piece was a collaborativeeort among the entire group and,since a large portion o it is im-provised, Saturday’s perormancewas in many ways a completely new work, viola player NicholasCard sad.

“Seven Steps,” loosely inspiredby Bth’s mr prm-tal late period, began with violin-ist Colin Jacobsen tapping at hisstrgs wth th wh bw. TEric Jacobsen — Colin’s brother —

started up a jazzy beat on his cellothat sounded more like a tangotha Bth.

“Why shouldn’t a str ing quartet

endeavor to write its own musictogether?” Card asked rhetorically.

But, at, ths s rary d the world o classical music, hesad.

Tere was not such a clear linebetween composer and perormera tury ag, Card sad.

Groups composing their ownmusic “has simply not been part th tradt” th 20th -tury, h sad. “Tr’s a w thata composer is a composer and a

prrmr s a prrmr.” S hs

grup, mg thgs up, s act returning to the style o theth tury.

T sam gs r th mpr- sat thr ps. Tr s a“spirit o improvisation” in a loto composers’ works, especially those o Beethoven, that a lot o people have orgotten, Colin Ja-bs sad.

he members o BrooklynRider have been playing chambermus tgthr r 5 yars — atsh, a umbr sma adlarge groups and as members o the Silk Road Ensemble, an artists’collective organized by Yo-Yo Ma.

Te quartet is in Providencer a -day artsts’ rsdy as

part o FirstWorks’ Fall Festival,which takes place in venues allr th ty.

On Sunday, they led a work-shop with several perormancegroups at Brown and held an“Eduat Yur Ear” prrmatargeted at an audience rangingin age rom two to 90. During thewk, thy w st thr Pr-d pub shs br a-g Tursday.

his is part o a new First-Works initiative starting this year,Pletcher said. “Every artist we’representing, we’re connecting withth aud sm way.”

As a part o t his initiative, Sat-urday’s concert was preceded by a perormance rom local youthdance troupe Jump! Dance Com-pany. Accompanied by DavidBowie’s “I’m Araid o Ameri-as” ad a p by Php Gassrecorded by Brooklyn Rider, thetrup d th Gra Ctr’shallways and landings as the audi- rwdd t wath.

Pletcher called this community outreach “build-out” — it startswth a w prrma ad b-comes a community event. “Tat’swhat makes it a estival, not just a

rt,” sh sad.

Quartet blurs line betweencomposer and performer

Glenn Lutzky / Herald

Colin Jacobsen of Brooklyn Rider said the band brings the “spirit of improvisation”back t classical pieces.

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An apology from the econ departmentt he Edir:

From the economics department, we would like tobegin by apologizing to our students. Te new system

o caps in advanced courses, proposed by the depart-mt ad apprd at ast smstr by th CgCurruum Cu, aught mst ur studts by surprs, whh d t a mssr tha usua shppgperiod (“Econ caps spur black market controversy,”Spt. 2).

Te new system o caps in advanced economicsasss s part a ra prgram t mpr thlearning environment or our undergraduates. Teprjt s t smp, as ur rmts tu tput enormous pressure on the resources that we have.Fr sta, ths smstr w aga ha a a-tmrecord in our overall enrollments with something close

t 2,500 studt rmts a ur udrgradu-at ad graduat asss. I t wth spa grattudthat ths studts I takd t th mdd

shopping period, who were upset because o not being

ab t gt sm th asss thy had pad,had words o support toward the department’s newpas r th udrgraduat urruum.

At ths pt, I am wrtg t gt th wrd ut ad

publicize the changes in preregistration and shopping a ur adad asss. It s ry mprtat thatths rmat rahs a studts tm r pr-rgstrat r th sprg smstr 202. I wudas k t thak th O th Rgstrar, ad particular its head Robert Fitzgerald, who have kindly and patiently assisted us in the design and implemen-tat th w rstrts. Wh th g ruth Rgstrar wud k t m tward a systm whh ths kd targtd rstrt a b put place or the other departments, at this point they haveagreed to do it as a avor to the economics department,given the large numbers o both concentrators andnon-concentrators wishing to take economics courses.

Rer Serrn

Chair the Department Ecnmics

E D I ToR I A L CA R TooN by andrew antar

“We built a rwbat, a stage and a bar. …

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E D I T o R I A L

Last week, the White House and the National Science Founda-t aud a w NSF Carr-L Baa Itat amd at

increasing “the placement, advancement and retention o womenin (the science, technology, engineering and mathematics) elds”thrugh “gdr-utra, amy-rdy ps” that addrss “thbaa ststs’ wrk wth tg dmads ts.”

Te initiative includes measures like allowing one-year postpone-ments o grants or childbirth or adoption, supplementary unding tosupprt pad thas t tu rsarh durg a rsarhrs’leave, prioritizing research into women in SEM elds and work-ing with other institutions to encourage “the extension o the tenurek” ad “dua hrg pprtuts.”

When asked where they see themselves in 10 years, ew women atBrown will answer “at home with my kids.” Yet, in practice, ewer thanha ursty-duatd wm w st b wrkg u tm thr 30s baus thy ar hag hdr. T at that th gratrrspsbty r hdar tds t a wm s t surprsg,though it is certainly concerning and points to a continuing need

r trasrmat th prat ad sa sphrs. But as g aswm ar takg th rspsbty r hd-rarg, t s sstathat thy t b urthr prtd rm prssa adamtbecause o time taken o rom work due to parenting responsibilities.T NSF’s w tat w ma wm SEM ds wh taktm away rm wrk r dpdt-ar w ha wr barrrs tre-entry. Te policies, which are “gender-neutral,” could also promotegratr sharg hd-rarg rspsbts by awg m aswell as women to deer grants or dependent care. Both men andwomen in the sciences report having ewer children than desiredbaus thr h wrk, but th “drp-ut rat” r wmleaving their research elds due to the demands o amily lie is muchhghr tha t s r m.

We are excited about the NSF’s initiative, which seems long overdue,ad ts mmtmt t wrk wth aadm sttuts t supprtwomen. Te retention and advancement o educated women is ar arss mst dustrs, t just th ss, ad th -

icting realities o inexible demands o SEM careers and inexibleptats mthrs rat a srus hag r a grato women who have been raised with the idea that they can have thebest o both worlds. By prioritizing research and support o women inSEM ds, ad atg systmat hags t urag wmt mata thr arrs wh thy ha hdr, th tat ardu wrkpa quaty ad th ss ta t. W hp that thinitiative is just one piece o a larger trend toward a more amily-rdy wrkpa, r bth m ad wm, ad that th dagusurrounding women’s disappearance rom the workorce leads tourther measures supporting our generation in achieving the best bth wrds.

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T dbat abut whthr t rgz thRsr Ors’ rag Crps ampuss dat a mr udamta struggag th mmuty. Hw d w, as mm-brs a trmy bra ursty, -gag wth a wrd that ds t shar urdp mmtmt t bra aus?

O pt s t tak a absut, pr-pd pst ad rus t wrk wthths pp ad sttuts that ha d-rt bs. W ha tak ths apprahwth th U.S. mtary. T army’s prus

sta gay rghts ad ts urrt sta trasgdr rghts ha b at ddswth th prps th Brw mmu-ty, ausg us t dsgag wth th mtary ad ba ROC.

A atrat apprah s ab-ratg wth pp ad sttuts d-rt bs. I th tt ROC, thswud ma awg a mtary prs ampus thugh thr aus ash wthur mmtmt t qua rghts r tras-gdr pp.

Urtuaty, thr apprah ads ta dsrab utm. Our dbrat sa-t rm th mtary maks us appar tb a ut--tuh ad ugratu ampusthat ds t au duty.

T U.S. mtary has a g hstry

ddg ad prmtg Amra r-dm. It s trag that th mmuty -staty dmzs th mtary ad th m

ad wm wh prtt ur brty.Yt w as ha statd mmtmts t

trasgdr quaty. Awg ROC t r-tur wud at a Ursty py ad sd th mssag that w d t uy supprt th trasgdr mmuty.

As sm wh wats t supprt urarmd rs ad smutausy prttth rghts trasgdr studts, I strug-

g t ud hw th Ursty shudtrat wth th mtary. Wh I atprd th sp turs a da r-atshp btw Brw ad th mtary,I a dty ar aw ur urrtapprah.

As mmbrs a t aadm st-tut, w shud am t d sm way tsupprt th armd rs that prtt uraadm ad prsa rdm. Yt whw dsuss ROC, w mmuty mm-brs ar wg t admt that w ha m-pty rkd th t duty.

It s amtab that ur ampus s m-

pty satd rm th mtary. Ts ra-

zat shud prmpt s-rtsm ad -spr us t d rat ways t supprt urarmd rs wthut btrayg ur m-

mtmt t trasgdr quaty. T rststp t dg a baa btw duty ad trasgdr rghts s admttg urshrtmgs rat t ata sr.

A b trasgdr rghts s t thy Brw au that aks mastram a-pta.

May th sa bs that hara-trz th mmuty ar t mm b-

s wth Amra sty r th rst th wrd. O w a Cg H,th Brw wrdw w gr b thrm, thr th dduas w mt rth sttuts w wrk wth.

T dbat abut ROC thrr ras-s bradr qusts abut hw th Brwmmuty shud trat wth ths whhd drt bs. Shud w prrtzur bra aus r ry thr rad rus t gag wth pp r sttu-ts whs aus t wth ur w?

Or shud w mak sars urmmtmts t ths aus ad wrk wth

pp wh d t shar thm?

Tr s asy aswr t ths qust.I w mak adhr t ur aus a pr-rqust r prat, th w w d

urss uab t gag wth th wrd.Adhrg t ths bs suh a ab-

sut mar may b mray uragus,but suh dpy prpd bhar s t at ratg hag.

Yt w ru th rsk sg ut ur a-us w ar t wg t gag wth thwrd. Wh mpty dstag ur-ss rm ss bra sttuts may tampsh aythg, wrkg wth st-tuts wth bs that w d abhrrta, t sm tt, gtmz thr bs.Makg t may sss ad prag-mat sars a dmsh th strgth ur mmtmt t bra aus.

It rqurs a gu strugg t d th

rrt baa btw stayg tru t urprps ad bg p-mdd ad -prat tward ths wth drt b-s. I at prd a smp sutt ths udamta dmma. T as ROC shws that bth pragmat pra-t ad prpd sat ha gatsqus. I a y urg a us t bmr awar th atur ths t b-tw absut adhr t aus ad aabty t gag wth ths wh ha d-rt bs.

oliver Rsenblm ’13 is a histrycncentratr rm Mill Valley, Cali.

He can be cntacted at

[email protected].

The fundamental dilemma behind the ROTC debate

Wh th Rhd Isad Lgsatur atdth 2006 Edward O. Hawks ad TmasC. Satr Mda Marjuaa At — argpart thaks t th wrk Jss Stut ’06 —may bratd th ahmt as a t-ry r patts’ rghts. T at ratd a gapath r pp wh surd rm trm-y dbtatg dts t bta a sthat wud aw thm t grw marjuaapats, r atraty, t st a argr tgrw r thm.

Ts wh supprtd th b kw thatth argr systm — thugh rtay bttr tha thg — wud utmaty bprbmat. Dsputs abut prg, quaty ad ssty a asy sur th partr-shp btw argr ad patt, agth patt thr wthut md r aabus ratshp. I a attmpt t rm-dy ths prbm thr yars ar th rg-a at bam aw, th argr systm wasaugmtd by athr b that prdd rth stabshmt sra marjuaa ds-psars — ad “mpass trs” —that ud gay s marjuaa t sdpatts.

T Cmpass Ctr B was ratd Ju 200 ar a ary uamus t bth huss t rrd th t r-mr grr Dad Carr ’65. Mst ths th Rhd Isad patt mmu-ty sdrd ths th umat ag jury t sur thr rght t gay

ass marjuaa r th tratmt sr-

us sss. But mr tha tw yars arth passag th dspsary b ad amsts yars ar th atmt th rg-a Mda Marjuaa At, thr ar st mpass trs Rhd Isad.

I th a 200, a stat mmssapptd t dstrbut ss r thrmpass trs rjtd a 5 appa-

ts submttd t thm. Amar Bard-swrth, pub rmat r r thRhd Isad Dpartmt Hath, tdT Hrad, th appats “thr d-d th 25-pag mt r th appat was ar-prt tty” (“Ar ad rst rud,stat sks appats r pt trs,” Ot.

26).T rjt a 5 appats was a

stbak r th mda marjuaa mmu-ty, whh had b utg mpasstrs t sur a stady suppy mdr thr padg prgram. But th m-mss rmmd ar th d 200,ad by Fbruary 20, thr wr submt-td appats (“Aums appy t p pttr,” Fb. ). Ar athr rud d-brats Marh, thr trs wr h-s by th mmss ad wr ptd tb up ad rug by Ju ths yar.

Last Tursday, athr haptr ud-d. Yt aga, th patt mmuty hadts hps datd. Tugh th mmss

hs thr mpass trs, G. L-

Cha ’5 P’4 rasd a pub stat-mt sayg h at aw th mpas-s trs t p, tg thrats draprsut (“Cha ’5 w t s pttrs,” Spt. 30). Ardg t th Pr-d Jura, Cha put th prgram “hd” rsps t a ttr drd Apr2 by Utd Stats Attry Ptr Nrha.

T ttr thrats dra prsut th wrs, adrds, ars ad thr“atatrs” th thr prpsd mpas-s trs, tg dra aw whh at-gray prhbts th sa ad dstrbu-t marjuaa — dspt mmts rmPrsdt Obama ad thr as that th

Drug Ermt Admstrat wudt us rsurs t prsut mda marjuaa prgrams byg stat aws. Ad s,th patt mmuty tus t durth bruta sstty th r ag.

Ardg t B Ctt, a mmbr th Rhd Isad Patt Aday Ca-t wh surs rm mutp srss,hgh mstur s th ara ha trb-utd t a umbr rt rp aurs as arsut md, ag hudrds pattswthut md. H sad ths rss udha b add th mpass trswr prata.

I ha mt may mda marjuaa pa-tts prs, ad thy at gt ut

bd wthut th pa r that marjuaa

ards thm. Bsds my prud sympa-thy r ths patts wthut md, I mr bafd by th stuat tha aythg.Hw s t pssb that ur dra ad statgrmt a s bataty dsrspt thpght suh srusy tzs?

I wud k t hp that Cha w grwa sp, hag hs md ad g ahad wth

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Jared Mfat ’13 desn’t d Tea Parties butwill be at the next Cnstitutinal Cnven-

tin. He can be cntacted at

[email protected].

Feds and Chafee ’75 apathetic to the plight of patients

Chaee, yu may nt deserve all the blame, but yu

are the clsest plitician Rhde Islanders can hld

accuntable, and yu will nt survive this rdeal

unscathed.

The case RoTC shws that bth pragmatic

cperatin and principled islatin have negative

cnsequences.

BY JARED MoFFATopinions Columnist

BY oLIVER RoSENBLooMopinions Columnist



D aily H erald B

Arts & Culture Monday, ctober 3, 2011

By Marshall katheDer

artS & Culture Staff Writer

Dark Dark Dark s a am wrthrepeating. Tis Midwestern musicensemble boasts a layered, mourn-ul sound that blends loose jazzbeats with moody chamber olk.Frontwoman Nona Marie Invie pos-ssss a hautg , bstrgeach song with her bone-cold, skull-

grg tr.heir Saturday perormance

at Te Met in Pawtucket made itevident that while Invie’s voiceis the ocal ornament, each songworks as a collective — woven withsoulul sounds rom New Orleans,Eastern Europe and elsewhere. Apad baj twag, rattg sarad swt hum a twst t-gether to stitch a rumpled, melodicbakt.

Songs like “Colored,” rom theirrst album “Snow Magic,” typiy the

band’s oen-jangled sound, whichis laced with instrumental collision.

But such clashes o string-wine andpruss mph rs t tssmth tr rg — I’s hags wth graty.

A noted wordsmith, Invie’s lyrics

ha garrd th attt a-tional media outlets including Na-

tional Public Radio and Pitchork.

Hr sgs rat us mag-

ery that echoes and illuminates herdreamy pitch. Te single “GreatMountains,” o Dark’s second ull-length album, “Wild Go,” includeswinding lines like “Remember me/Oh, I wound around you or miles/I sat down right there and stretched

my bs.”I sad ths trak was part

a dialogue. “My riend Joe (o bandEphat Mah) had wrtt thssong ‘Wild Goose Chase.’ So it wassort o in the tradition o respond-ing to songs. … (It’s about) havinga wadrg sprt ad dg tw t,” sh sad.

But Dark is not conined tomusa mas prss. Tband contributed to the HeartlandEhbt at th Va Abbmus-um, which eatures modern andcontemporary art and is located th Nthrads.

“Art projects are somethingwe’ve been very lucky to be in-

volved in. … We were invited by theVan Abbemuseum to do an instal-lation, and we ended up workingwith this squatted cultural area.We built a rowboat, stage and abar. … It was a gd party spa,”I sad.

Dark Dark Dark is currently

turg th astr Utd Stats.

Soulful soundsdarken Met stage

By eMMa wohl

Contributing Writer

Te Perry and Marty Grano Cen-

ter or the Creative Arts playedhst t a srs rsts Saturday night as string quartet BrooklynRider took to the stage in the Mar-

ts Audtrum.Saturday’s perormance was the

New England premiere o a newwork by the group — which hasgarnered glowing reviews romclassical and alternative music crit-

ics, including Strings magazineand National Public Radio — as

well as the rst perormance by a string quartet in Martinos Au-dtrum.

FirstWorks — an organizationdedicated to bringing “dierent

vantage points” to the arts, accord-

ing to Executive Artistic DirectorKathleen Pletcher P’12.5 — stagedth prrma,

In an October 2010 article inStrings magazine, Greg Cahillcalled Brooklyn Rider “the uture

o chamber music.” NPR recog-nized the group in its semi-annual

st Bst Mus th Yar S Farand called Brooklyn Rider “notyour grandather’s string quartet.”

At some moments on Saturday’sperormance, the group’s soundreminded the audience acutely o what they were hearing — ric-tion and vibrating strings makingth ar m. Othr tms, t washard to imagine there was not a

‘Future of chamber music’ departsfrom norm, but not from tradition

By aBBY kersoN

Staff Writer

Te Shahnameh is so inuentialin Persian culture that its charac-trs ar usd as arhtyps atrpoetry, said Dick Davis, chair o the Near Eastern Languages andCultures Department at Ohio StateUniversity, at a conerence held Sat-

urday in celebration o the epic’s,000th arsary.

Te Shahnameh was written by Ferdowsi in the seventh century anddepicts the mythical and historicalpast Ira. Shahamh — whstitle means “Te Book o Kings” —is credited with preserving Persianlanguage and culture, according toLdsay Gss GS, th r-datrs th r.

Das, th kyt spakr adauthr th mst rt trasa-tion o the Shahnameh, was joinedby Arash Araz, a post-doctoralellow at MI in the McGovernInstitute or Brain Research, andElaheh Kheirandish, a well-knownhistorian o science. Te day endedwth a adaptat a stry rm

the Shahnameh, perormed by Iraj

Anvar, a visiting lecturer in lan-guag studs.

Te conerence explored theShahnameh rom a multidisci-plinary approach. Araz spokeabout the intersection o the mytho-

logical story and documented Per-sian history, Kheirandish ocusedon the science mentioned in thett ad Das spk th wrdsthemselves and their impact onPrsa ptry.

Te Shahnameh “is not actu-ally my area o ocus at all,” saidGoss, a doctoral candidate in theDepartment o Teater Arts andPerormance Studies, which shesad awd hr t pa a r-ence that was accessible to the gen-ra pub.

Te conerence drew peoplerom multiple disciplines. Go-lareh Agha GS said she attendedth r baus sh s Ira-nian-American, and though shehad hard th Shahamh, shhad r rad t.

Goss planned the conerencewith another student rom herPrsa ass, Er Dahbm ’.5.

Dahlbom was awarded a scholar-

ship to go to ajikistan this pastsummer, and as part o his applica-tion, he promised to bring Davis toampus t spak.

Te keynote speech discussedthe elements that set the Shahn-ameh apart rom Persian poetry that ollowed. Te Shahnameh hasorceul and direct language, Davissad. “Tgs ar what thy ar” the Shahnameh, he said, whereaslater poetry is lled with allegory ad mp symbsm.

Te conerence ended with An- var’s adaptation o an episode romthe poem — the story o Rostamand his son Sohrab. Te peror-mance was “antastic,” said Goss,adding that it drew the biggestcrowd. Anvar placed traditionalPersian rugs on the loor andbrought musicians rom New York.

Te conerence was unded by th Graduat Itrata C-quum Fud, a grat g ut by th O Itrata Aars.It was awardd t Gss ad Dah-bom to und a series o events about

Persian literature, culture and arts.Te next event will be a Nov. 29 lm

srg “T Hus s Bak.”

Conference celebrates seminal

Persian text’s 1,000th anniversary

Secre shw unds in ssiiiies

Smething is happening oct. 8, and there are nly tw

peple wh knw what.

Margaret Maurer ’13 and Leandr Zaneti ’12 are puttingn a shw in Prductin Wrkshp’s Upspace. Is it a mdern

interpretatin Shakespeare? Is it a un, upbeat cmedy? or

perhaps a musical? That’s the thing — nbdy knws. This is a

prductin unlike any ther: Brwn’s irst ever secret shw.

“I had a crazy idea, and I was very aware the act that it

was crazy,” Maurer said. “I wanted t d an Upspace prject that

is cmpletely secret.”

“Sme the actrs wrking with us right nw still dn’t

knw what they’re ding,” Zaneti said.

A large prtin the actrs will be members the

audience, which is limited t 10 members per perrmance,

Maurer explained. “It’s ging t be interactive.”

“I am persnally very interested in hw the perrmance

changes depending n wh is in the audience,” she added.

There will be six perrmances oct. 8, and participants will be

chsen thrugh a lttery system dierent rm PW’s typicalticketing. Thse wishing t participate must email secret.

[email protected] bere Tuesday at midnight.

Their secret is “vital r the audience’s experience,” Maurer

said.

“It’s nt just r advertising, thugh that seems t be an

added bnus,” she said. “Peple are intrigued by what they dn’t

knw.”

Bth Zaneti, wh has acted and designed, and Maurer,

wh has acted and directed, say this prject is unlike anything

they have participated in bere. “Because this audience

interactin, it’s a lt less structured in terms prcess, nt

necessarily in prduct,” Zaneti said.

“This is a sae envirnment t ail,” Maurer said. “This prject

is ging t be cmpletely unique t this time and this place. I

dn’t think it culd be dne elsewhere.”

It may be a surprise birthday party, a tiger r a meth lab,

they ered. The nly way t ind ut is t g see r yursel.

one clue Maurer wuld reveal: “It’s nt r the weak heart r

imaginatin.”

— shi s

A R T S I N B R I E F

Glenn Lutzky / Herald

The string quartet Brklyn Rider gave an expressive perrmance at the Granf Center Saturday night.

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