BY BEN LEUBSDORFSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Members of Brown Emergency MedicalServices once found a girl passed out withher head in a toilet. Her face was less thanan inch from the vomit-filled water. If hershoulders had been a little narrower, or thetoilet bowl a little wider, she would havedrowned.

“We’ve had a lot of close calls,” saidRichard Lapierre, manager of EmergencyMedical Services. But to his knowledgethere have been no alcohol-related deathsat Brown.

That wouldn’t be the case without BrownEMS.

Brown EMS was founded in 1978, andprovides advanced life support service anda single ambulance to the Brown commu-nity. It has a paid staff of five supervisors, aswell as 120 student volunteers, workingthree daily shifts in the morning, afternoonand night, according to Lapierre.

That’s a sizable investment for a univer-sity, according to Lapierre, who said mostschools do not invest in a full-time, year-round service with paid staff as well as stu-dents. The University of Rhode Island, forexample, has an entirely student-run, part-time program.

In the 2003-2004 school year, EMSresponded to 770 calls, according toLapierre. Sixty-eight percent of those runswere for undergraduates, 5 percent forgraduate students, 7 percent for faculty andstaff and the remainder for persons eitherotherwise affiliated with Brown or not affil-iated with the University. Eight percentwere for participants in Brown’s summerprograms, a “steadily increasing” number,Lapierre said.

The program depends on its student vol-unteers, said Lapierre, who described themas “a very, very dedicated group of individu-als. … I think they’re very much an unsungresource at Brown University.” He praisedtheir responsibility, nonjudgmental atti-tude and dedication to what “is not themost pleasant job” on campus, working fiveto seven hours a week without pay.

According to Nick Mark ’06, a studentEmergency Medical Technician, about two-thirds of the student volunteers are certifiedEMTs, and a smaller number haveadvanced cardiac certification. There isalways a paid supervisor with cardiac orparamedic certification on duty, as well asat least one student with EMT certification.

Having paid supervisors “is a really greatsystem. … You get to learn a lot (from thesupervisors) and it means the quality ofcare is better,” Mark said.

Mark worked the 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. nightshift with Erin Kelly ’07 last Friday. Both arepre-medical students and EMT-Cardiacs.Their high certifications make them whatMark jokingly called the “A-Team” of EMTs,on duty for an especially difficult shift.

“It’s a good shift. It’s a busy shift,” Kellysaid.

“Generally the end of the week is muchbusier,” Mark said, due to what is probablyBrown EMS’s most visible work: respondingto alcohol-related incidents.

According to Lapierre, alcohol and sub-stance abuse are “the largest single cause ofEMS calls,” making up 23 percent of all callslast year for a total of 180 runs. One hun-dred sixty-eight were alcohol related, two

were related to other substances and 10were caused by the combination of alcoholand drugs.

But “it’s not just babysitting drunks,”Mark said.

“Our bread and butter,” he said, aresports injuries, falls, chronic illnesses, dia-betic emergencies, people feeling sick,major trauma and occasional cardiacemergencies.

“If kegs come back to campus, yeah,we’re going to have a problem,” Lapierresaid of the proposed UndergraduateCouncil of Students initiative to lift the banon kegs.

While statistics by year of graduation arenot kept, based on his 10 years on the job,Lapierre said “a large percentage of youralcohol calls, the majority, are freshmen.”

He added: “I don’t think seniors drinkany less than freshmen. But they learn tohandle it better.”

Mark agreed, noting that very few stu-dents are treated more than once for alco-hol poisoning. “It’s a learning curve thing,”he said.

The weekends of SexPowerGod, Starf*ckand Spring Weekend are the busiest times

of the year for EMS, Lapierre said. Mark saidhe was on duty last Halloween and got 18calls that night. He said that the number ofcalls during Spring Weekend can reach 20per night.

Health Services is aware that those timeswill be busy and plans accordingly, Lapierresaid.

When Brown EMS cannot respond toseveral simultaneous calls, Providenceauthorities pick up the slack, Mark said,though they charge students for the service.The Brown EMS service is free. Mark saidEMS is considering purchasing a secondambulance to help cover busy nights.

“It’s on the wish list,” Kelly said.Lapierre praised the University for its

alcohol education work: “We are moreproactive than any other education institu-tion I am aware of,” he said. “I think theUniversity does as much as it possibly can”to combat binge drinking and other unsafepractices while still respecting students asadults.

He also praised the work of BruceDonovan, the former dean of alcohol

BY LAURA SUPKOFFSTAFF WRITER

The Undergraduate Council of Studentspassed a resolution at its Wednesdaymeeting in support of bringing kegs backto campus, in accordance with favorablestudent response on a WebCT poll.

After much debate, 16 membersvoted in support of the resolution. Threeopposed it, and four abstained fromvoting. The resolution, written by UCSmembers Brian Bidadi ’06, DavidBronfman ’07, Jesse Maddox ’08 andCharley Cummings ’06, details the ben-efits of kegs as compared to cannedbeer.

“I feel like if safety is emphasized andresponsible guidelines are set forth, UCScan work with the administration to

bring kegs on campus in a carefully regu-lated and responsible form,” Bidadi said.

“This is what they (the students) wantdone,” said UCS Treasurer XaykhamKhamsyvoravong ’06. “It is our job to getthat done in the interest of addressingstudent opinion.”

Margaret Klawunn, interim dean forcampus life, sat in on the meeting andgave her input as an administrator afterthe resolution had been passed. She toldUCS members that they were “puttingsomething forward that is going to behard to accept.”

The resolution will be reviewed by theBrown Alcohol Advisory Board, headedby Nancy Barnett, assistant professor of

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Jamaica Kincaidwill read newworks tonightBY SUCHI MATHURCONTRIBUTING WRITER

From the lingering effects of colonial-ism on the Caribbean to gardening,from AIDS to the flora of theHimalayas, Jamaica Kincaid’s writingcovers a breadth of topics unknown tomany contemporary authors.

Tonight at 7:30 in Sayles Hall,Kincaid will read from her newest bookalong with material from currentlyongoing work, according to PagetHenry, professor of Africana studies.

As the first speaker of CaribbeanHeritage Week, Kincaid will set thetone for the week and encourage atten-dance at the remaining six events, saidco-organizer Carey Turnquest ’07.

“I think so many Brown studentsreceive the commercial, industrialaspect of the Caribbean — the balmybeaches, the hot sun and palm trees,”he said. “But in her writing, Ms.Kincaid portrays an unfettered, virginexperience of the Caribbean, one thatan outsider may not experience. Thatperspective can only be seen …through someone who has such anamazing command of language as Ms.Kincaid.”

Kincaid, born on the island ofAntigua as Elaine Potter Richardson,left her family at the age of 17 to workas an au pair in New York City. Afterseveral stints writing for small-scalemagazines, she became a staff writerfor the New Yorker in 1976. Her firstpiece of fiction was published in thesame magazine two years later, andsoon after became part of her firstbook, “At the Bottom of the River,” in1983.

In the following years Kincaid pub-lished prolifically, with works includ-ing “A Small Place” (1988), “Lucy”(1990), and most recently, “AmongFlowers: A Walk in the Himalaya” (2005).She has won many awards for her fictionand non-fiction work, and last year waselected to the American Academy of Artsand Letters.

Kincaid deals with such a variety ofdiverse issues that her writing appeals toa broad range of people, Henry said. “Shedeals with issues of colonialism, racism,gender — she also deals with problemsof identity and psychological develop-ment,” he said. “I think that is why shegets a lot of attention — she deals withthese issues and she deals with themvery well.”

Though Kincaid has spoken at Brownbefore as a special guest of formerPresident Vartan Gregorian, no speakersof her literary standing have participatedin past Caribbean Heritage Weeks,Turnquest said. “This year she is the only(fiction) author, in an effort we made toensure that we have a diverse range ofdisciplines represented,” he said.

Students of Caribbean Ancestry andthe Department of Africana Studiesmade a joint effort to bring Kincaid tocampus. “Since I’m from Antigua andMs. Kincaid is from Antigua, and I’veknown her since she was a little girl, Ifigured I had an in, so I approached her

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Brown EMS Anthony Halperin ’06 answered a routine call while on duty in the basementof the Health Services building.

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UCS takes stand on kegs

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The Shins will headline theThursday Spring WeekendConcert on April 21 in MeehanAuditorium, the Brown ConcertAgency confirmed early Thursdaymorning.

The New Mexico-based guitarpop group will cost BCA $30,000,said BCA Chair Randi Siegel ’05.

BCA has only confirmed thethree announced acts, Siegel said.Talib Kweli will open for The ShinsThursday and Ben Folds will

headline Saturday’s show on theMain Green.

BCA has spent $90,000 of its$105,000 budget on the threebands. Siegel said BCA is stilldeciding how many bands tospend the remaining budget on.

The Shins have achievedrecent popularity after appearingon the “Garden State” soundtrack.They have also been featured ontelevision shows including “TheO.C.,”“Gilmore Girls” and “Scrubs.”

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COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS, ENTANGLE-MENTS, AND TRANSFORMATIONS INTHE ANCIENT WESTERN MEDITER-RANEAN: THE VIEW FROM LATTARA5 p.m. - 7 p.m. (Crystal Room, AlumnaeHall) —Part of the series,“Old Worlds, NewArchaeologies,” sponsored by the newInstitute for Archaeology and theAncient World. Michael Dietler,University of Chicago, will lecture.

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Colby students toast dining hall drinking programBY ARI ROCKLAND-MILLERCONTRIBUTING WRITER

At Friday night dinners, students of legal drinking age atColby College in Waterville, Maine, are now able to saycheers to both friends and professors over a glass of fineAustralian wine and a local Maine microbrew. This does nottake place in a cramped dorm room or fraternity house, butin the safe and controlled setting of their campus dining hall.

Three trial nights of the program in the fall semester wereso well received that this spring it will take place nearly everyFriday night.

Students pay $1 per drink, far below market value. Thedifference is paid by Colby dining services, which has “beenvery eager to help us out,” according to Colby Dean ofStudents Janice Kassman.

The new program was the brainchild of Colby StudentGovernment Association President Cat Welch ’05 and VicePresident Adelin Cai ’05. Last fall, the idea spontaneouslyarose during one of their weekly breakfasts with Kassman.

Kassman liked the idea and sprung into action to pro-mote it. Later that night, Kassman called Welch and Cai andtold them the idea had been cleared. The following Fridaynight, the program’s trial run officially began, Welch said.

Welch stressed the importance of keeping the price ofdrinks low, so students do not abandon the program andreturn to binge drinking lower-quality alcohol off campus orin other unsupervised areas. She said part of the program’smission is to bring the social scene back onto campus in thedining hall and at Colby’s pub, eliminating the risk of drunkdriving or students drinking in unsafe off-campus environ-ments.

Not surprisingly, the program has been extremely popularamong students. Participants, who gather in a smaller roomwith glass doors adjacent to the main dining space, haveenjoyed the social aspect and the educational presentationsthat take place over the course of the evening. The visiblenature of the program “makes an impact, when younger stu-

dents see that those of age in the side room are content withhaving just one or two drinks,” Cai said.

The educational presentations are intended to instill anappreciation for quality beers and wines in the students, andhelp them understand that there is far more to drinking thansimply getting drunk.

On the program’s first night, the owner of a local brewingcompany came in to explain how beer is made, Welch said.Cai said there will be more guests this semester, who will fur-ther discuss with students the importance of respectingalcohol and not misusing it.

The bartender is also knowledgeable about varieties ofbeer and wine and helps students select a drink that willcomplement the tastes of their meal, said Cai, who recentlyput in a request for Asian beers to help diversify the alreadyimpressive selection.

Students are allowed to taste all of the selections eachnight before deciding, to determine which pleases theirpalate most. In accordance with the program’s mission toencourage moderate drinking, each student is entitled toonly two alcoholic beverages each night. This is carefullymonitored by event organizers, who also ensure that all par-ticipants are of legal drinking age by checking their nameson an official list provided by the college.

International students, often accustomed to a morerelaxed attitude around drinking in their home countries,have responded particularly positively to the program. Thesestudents have been “comforted and refreshed” by the newpolicy, Welch said.

According to Welch, Cai and Kassman, the program hasencountered virtually no resistance from parents, adminis-trators or Colby faculty. “Many think it’s a positive step,”Welch said.

According to Kassman, “The program is not being abusedin any way that we can see,” and overall it has been “just very

see COLBY, page 5

BY AIDAN LEVYSTAFF WRITER

Some Dartmouth College alums think they may havefound a viable scapegoat for the Big Green’s failing 1-9football record this past fall.

On Dec. 10, the Valley News, a local newspaperbased near Dartmouth, published excerpts from a2000 letter by Dartmouth Dean of Admissions andFinancial Aid Karl Furstenberg lauding SwarthmoreCollege’s decision to eliminate its football program.

“You are exactly right in asserting that football pro-grams represent a sacrifice to the academic quality anddiversity of entering first-year classes,” Furstenbergwrote to Swarthmore President Alfred Bloom. Headded that football is “antithetical to the mission ofacademic institutions such as ours.”

Shockwaves caused by Furstenburg’s remarks werecontained within the Dartmouth administration untila confidential source leaked the letter to the ValleyNews. According to Donald Mahler, sports editor forthe Valley News, Dartmouth President James Wrightwas aware of the letter when it was originally sent — aDartmouth alum who sat on the Swarthmore boardresponsible for eliminating the football programinformed him.

Mahler told The Herald he justified his decision toprint the letter because it did not seem private. It wasprinted on Furstenburg’s official Dartmouth letter-head and focused on football, Mahler said.

“When that comes in, it’s news,” Mahler said. “I

Dartmouth alumsupset at dean’scriticism of football

see DARTMOUTH, page 7

low-key.”“It is a good model of coopera-

tion between under(graduates)and the administration, and ofcommunity building,” Kassmansaid. “Students appreciate thechance to get to know faculty in avery convivial setting.”

“I see real strengths to a pro-gram like that,” said Nancy Barnett,an assistant professor of psychiatryand human behavior at Brown.Barnett will also be the chair of anew subcommittee of the CampusLife Advisory Board that will focuson alcohol use at Brown.

She cited numerous advantagesto Colby’s program, including thatit combines drinking with eating,which keeps blood alcohol leveldown, the presence of trainedservers and supervisors, the educa-tional component and its contextin the structure of clear policiesabout alcohol use at Colby. Like Caiand Welch, she called the program“a small step closer to how alcoholis consumed in other cultures.”

But Barnett was skeptical aboutsome aspects of Colby’s program.She said the program might simplyprovide another avenue throughwhich students could convenientlypre-party, calling it “another stopin a long night of drinking.”

Barnett was also skeptical of thefact that the program takes placeon Friday nights. “If the goal is toencourage moderate drinking, whycan’t it take place on a Tuesdaynight?” she said. She said that onFriday nights, students have aparty spirit, which might deterthem from bringing a professor tothe table and might encouragethem to continue drinking afterdinner.

“I think it’s an open question asto whether or not something likethat would work at Brown,” Barnettsaid. “Everybody, I’m sure, will belooking to Colby to see how it’sgoing,” she added.

Frances Mantak, director ofhealth education at Brown, alsohad concerns about the program,though she agreed with its empha-sis on moderate drinking.

Mantak, like Barnett, did notthink that drinking moderately atdinner would prevent studentsfrom drinking more heavily lateron Friday night. “There’s potentialfor unintended consequences,”she said.

Barnett said drinking should nothappen in a college dining hall,where over 75 percent of studentsare underage. She called drinkingin the dining halls a “mismatch”which could create “a dichotomy(between students of age and thosenot of age) that is not necessary fora college dining service.”

Brian Bidadi ’06, chair of the

UCS Admission and StudentServices committee, was enthusi-astic about Colby’s program andthe possibility of bringing some-thing similar to Brown.

“We don’t need to have so manyrestrictions on drinking, but weneed to encourage it in public,well-supervised spaces. We need toallow students to make their owndecisions about how they want torun their own lives, so they canenjoy drinking in a responsibleway,” said Bidadi, who has drafteda resolution to allow kegs at regis-tered parties on campus.

“The timing is good to bringsuch a program to Brown, in thatwe are already reviewing our alco-hol policy,” he said. But he saidthere would be a long way to gobefore such a program could cometo Brown.

Dining Services would have toacquire a liquor license, a designat-ed space for the program wouldhave to be created in the SharpeRefectory and the regulationswould have to be strictly enforced,he said.

Bidadi said such a programcould encourage “a new kind ofexperience on campus” and might“make the Ratty a more socialspace, as opposed to just a place topick up dinner.”

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and she graciously agreed tocome,” Henry said.

Henry said Kincaid is anideal figure to represent theCaribbean, its people, its pastand its future. “(Kincaid) is inthe tradition of greatCaribbean writers,” Henrysaid. “There is a great body ofCaribbean writers that startedin the ’50s, and Jamaica is thelast major flower in thistrend.”

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think what’s critical here is if youreplace ‘athlete’ with a minority — awoman, an African-American, areligious group — then how does itread and what would people think?And that’s what makes the letter dif-ficult and indefensible.”

Though the letter appeared to beprivate, an anonymous source inthe administration told theDartmouth Review, an independentstudent publication, that Bloomallegedly intended to use it to but-tress his argument against theSwarthmore football program.

After the letter became public,Dartmouth’s Public Affairs Officebegan working overtime to preventany fallout, issuing several apolo-gies from Furstenberg andDartmouth President James Wright,Mahler said. In a statement,Furstenberg assured the Dartmouthcommunity of his commitment toimplement a just admissions policyand denied any responsibility forthe football team’s almost decade-long torpor.

“That letter was a lapse in profes-sional judgment,” Wright wrote. “Ivery much regret the hurt that thedean’s statements have causedwithin the Dartmouth community.”

While Wright’s response was lim-ited to a public reprimand, othershave called for Furstenburg’s resig-nation. An incensed group ofDartmouth alums led by BillWellstead, Dartmouth Class of 1963,claim that the slump in Dartmouth’sfootball performance since winningthe 1996 Ivy League Championshipis due to more than entropy.

Recruiting is more difficult thanever, Wellstead told The Herald, pri-marily due to a rise in Dartmouth’sminimum Academic Index, a com-posite of a prospective student’sGPA, SAT scores and class rank.Dartmouth’s A.I. hovers slightly

below those of Harvard, Princetonand Yale universities, but the otherfour schools in the Ivy League aresubstantially less demanding,Wellstead said. Combined withFurstenberg’s inflammatoryremarks, he said, Dartmouth maynot be the most attractive footballschool in the league.

“It’s difficult for the coaches,because there are only a select fewwho are good enough to play andsmart enough to get in. Student ath-letes who should be coming toDartmouth are going to otherschools,” he said. “Does the dean ofadmissions have something to dowith it? We think so, but we can’tprove it.”

Rather than dwell onFurstenberg’s letter, however,Wellstead and other alums plan tochannel their ire into constructiveaction, he said. This includes mak-ing donations towards Dartmouth’s$1.3 billion Campaign for theDartmouth Experience, an initiativethat includes improvements to theathletic program, and continuing toadvocate for Dartmouth athleticsthrough an Internet blog run byWellstead.

Despite its recent losses,Dartmouth football still has 17titles, leading the Ivy League. Inhope of reinvigorating the program,Head Coach John Lyons was fired atthe end of November, soon after theclose of the season, according to theReview. Lyons was replaced by for-mer coach Buddy Teevens, who hadrecently been fired by Stanford. Theadministration also committed torefurbishing the college’s athleticfacilities.

Yet, these positive changes seemto be overshadowed byFurstenburg’s remarks, especially inwake of an almost winless season,Wellstead said.

“When the dean is that explicit ina letter to a friend of his and thencomes back to say this doesn’timpact how I do my job, that tendsto beg a question. It tends to test our

naïveté,” Wellstead said. “But onceagain, although many former ath-letes are upset by it, I understandthat the dean is going to remain inhis job and there’s no sense fightingthat issue.”

There are those who have notspurned Furstenberg, citing the tri-umphant 1996 championship foot-ball team that was comprised most-ly of students admitted underFurstenberg’s watch.

“I know Karl (Furstenberg) verywell, and I think that he’s a verygood director of admissions,” saidBrown Director of AdmissionMichael Goldberger. “I tend tobelieve that what he might havesaid in a private letter has little to dowith how he does his job. They’remaking a big deal out of almostnothing.”

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psychiatry and humanbehavior in the Center forAlcohol and AddictionStudies, Klawunn said. Thecommittee, which is made upof student, faculty and staffmembers, is set to meet inabout a month.

Some members of UCSwere hesitant to pass the res-olution because they believedit would be ill received by theadministration. “I am veryleery that many members ofthe administration … are notbehind it,” said Schuyler vonOeyen ’05.

But UCS President JoelPayne ’05 told The Herald hethinks kegs are an issue thatshould be pushed. “Part ofour job as UCS is to beresponsible in how we advo-cate for students,” he said.

“Our job is to persuade theadministration to think theother way,” Payne added.

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Syracuse, the team was preparedto come out strong againstAmerican,” said captain Alex Arlak’05.

“Strong” proved to be anunderstatement, as Brown sweptthe doubles competition beforeheaping on six lopsided singleswins in straight sets. MichellePautler ’07, who did not play lastweek due to injury, turned in theclosest performance, winning 6-1,6-4 in the second singles “due toher consistent and feisty play,”Arlak said.

Old Dominion provided stiffercompetition before falling 4-3 tothe Bears. Brown started out win-ning the doubles point as Pautlerand Amanda Saiontz ’07 took thesecond spot while Ashley Pariser’08 and Kelley Kirkpatrick ’08 tookthe third. Arlak said she was“impressed with how the thirddoubles team of freshmen com-peted under the pressure and gaveBrown the doubles point.”

Saiontz, Pariser and Kirkpatrickposted important singles victoriesfrom the second, fifth and sixthspots, clinching Bruno’s narrowvictory.

After the loss at Syracuse,Brown seems to have solved someof the teamwork issues that hin-dered the squad previously. HeadCoach Paul Wardlaw said afterSyracuse that “overall teamworkneeded to improve.” This week-end, the Bears stepped up withcohesive doubles play and betterindividual performances.

The women’s team will playFeb. 27 at Boston University andthe men will next compete athome March 4 against OldDominion.

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awareness, for helping studentsdeal with alcohol issues. “IfBruce Donovan didn’t get to you,you weren’t going to be gottento,” he said.

But while alcohol-related

incidents have a high profile oncollege campuses, they make upless than a quarter of BrownEMS’s calls.

Mark and Kelly both said theyhave found volunteering forBrown EMS a positive experi-ence.

“I’ve had a great time … it’sincredibly rewarding and reallyfun,” Mark said.

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Chris Swon ’05, juking aClarkson defender in his wayand then firing an inside-outslap shot high to the far sidefor the 4-1 lead.

Haggett’s spectacular goalended a decisive 10-minuterun for Bruno. Each teamwould add a goal in the third,ending the evening with a 5-2Brown win.

The Brown captain’s threepoints on the night left himone shy of 100 for his career.

“It’s nice when they go yourway,” Haggett said. He alsolauded the efforts of his team-mates, singling out Bauer andSantini.

Haggett’s ire had beensparked by Bruno’s perform-ance the previous night, inwhich St. Lawrence blankedthe Bears in a fast and scrappygame before a sparse crowd atMeehan. Brown started slow,then turned up the tempo onlyto run out of gas at the end.

“That was very disappoint-ing,” Haggett said. “This timeof year, you can’t give the otherteam 20 minutes. We came outflat.”

St. Lawrence capitalized

first, when center T.J. Trevelyan— the Saints’ top scorer, andleader of the ECACHL’s third-best offense — put the Saintsin front at 7:21. The Bearsroused themselves in the sec-ond period, but Sean Dersch’05 could not convert in closeat 9:00. Cory Caouette ’06churned through Saint defend-ers to create a power play — anadvantage that was neutralizedseconds later when Brown wascaught for having too manymen on the ice. The line ofDersch and Brian McNary ’08blazed back against the swiftSaints, but faced with anotherbackhander to deposit, Derschmissed again.

Frustration mounted as onedrive after another wasrebuffed by St. Lawrence goalieMike McKenna. In the thirdperiod, Trevelyan struck againto all but nail the game down.

The uncharacteristic blank-ing was Brown’s first shutoutloss in a year.

“We just didn’t createenough scoring chances,”Grillo said. “It was ugly — notvery good hockey.”

This weekend the Bearshave one last chance to buildmomentum when they travelto the University of Vermontand Dartmouth to close outthe regular season.

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Bears won by taking a combina-tion of second, third, fourth andfifth places. But in the Easterns,the rosters are limited to 18,which should curb the advantageother teams have had over theBears in dual meets.

“It helps in the sense that theextra depth of the larger pro-grams is missing, so some oppor-tunities are available, ” said HeadCoach Peter Brown.

But Brown also noted that thisopportunity does not mean aneasy ride for the Bears.

“It might (help us),” he said.“But only if we take advantage ofit.”

The favorites going into theevent are perennial powerhousesHarvard (8-0, 8-0 Ivy) andPrinceton (9-1, 6-1 Ivy), but givenhow close the regular seasonmeets were, every other teamshould be in close competitionfor the final places.

“Outside of the top two teams,Harvard and Princeton, Easternsis becoming very wide open,”Goracy said. “We are mainlyfocusing on improving our placefrom last year and hopefullyavenging our close losses.”

Brian Sharkey ’06 thinks theBears have a good chance ofdoing just that.

“We match up pretty well,” hesaid. “We just need solid all-around swims from everybody. …We put in a lot of hard work in theseason and we feel it’s going topay off.”

The women are coming off amuch more successful regularseason, finishing third in the IvyLeague to Harvard (10-0, 7-0 Ivy)and Princeton (7-3, 5-1 Ivy) andhave won their last five meets.The last victory, a 169-131 victoryover Yale, gave the Bears thirdplace over the Bulldogs.

Brown said he thinks thestrong finish will give the Bearsmomentum going into the Ivies.

“It … helps build team confi-dence and momentum,” he said,“and gives you a good sense ofwhat our team is capable of wheneveryone is doing her part andsupportive of her teammates.”

While defeating Harvard mightbe impossible, Wallace is opti-mistic about the chances of over-coming Princeton.

“I think anything can happenat Ivies, and beating Princeton isnot out of the question,” she said.“They lost a lot of seniors lastyear, too. They can be beaten ifeveryone on our team swims outof their minds.”

Meredith Cocco ’07 echoed

her teammate’s confidence.“We will all need to continue

to step up like we have beendoing all year,” she said. “We havea lot of talented girls on the teamand definitely have an opportu-nity to do very well. … We all havea lot of built-up energy, and it’sgoing to come out in the pool at

Princeton come Thursday.”Preparing both of his teams for

the championships, CoachBrown has given them the sameadvice.

“Relax, be focused at each stepalong the way, come to compete,do your best and let the chips fallwhere they may,” he said.

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Marley-Mauzy ’07, who finished13th in the giant slalom.

O’Hear and Swaffield fin-ished the season fifth and sixthrespectively in the MacConnellDivision, statistically the mostdifficult division on the EastCoast. Marley-Mauzy finished15th and Elgort 20th overall.Nina Dibona ’07 and co-captain

Stephanie Breakstone ’06, whoare out for the season withinjuries and have not competedfor the last few weeks, still fin-ished the season 18th and 23rdrespectively.

This week the Bears head toback to New Hampshire to com-pete against 14 other squads inthe ECSC RegionalChampionships.

“If the girls can keep ittogether, they should do reallywell at the Regionals,” Leblancsaid.

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To the Editor:

Matt Lawrence’s approval of President Bush’srefusal to fund creation of any stem-cell linesbeyond those already extant (“Beyond the stem-cell debate,” Feb. 18) was very troubling.Lawrence’s “perfect compromise” is actually a thin-ly veiled and unacceptable attempt to renderstem-cell research virtually nonexistent.

The erroneous “fact” that existing stem-celllines satisfy current research needs is critical to hisargument. However, Johns Hopkins MedicalProfessors Ruth Faden and John Gearhart wrote inthe Washington Post last year that the 21 stem-celllines Bush approved “are clearly inadequate toadvance stem cell science.” Not only are thereproblems because these lines were all drawn frommouse cells, but we simply lack sufficient lines forthe research necessary to advance our understand-ing of and ability to use stem cells.

Stem-cell research has immense potential med-ical benefits, possibly including treatments forsuch devastating diseases as juvenile diabetes andParkinson’s. The embryos required for suchresearch are merely cells in Petri dishes either cre-ated specifically for science or taken from fertilityclinics where they would be destroyed. To trulyvalue life would be to support research that maysave countless lives and alleviate tremendous suf-fering, not to obstinately insist on protecting themicroscopic embryos that do not and will not oth-erwise have any of the physical or psychologicalcharacteristics that make humans special.President Bush’s policy not only sacrifices sciencefor absolutist religious dogma, but runs contrary tohis duty to protect the health and safety of theAmerican people.

Isaac Belfer ’08Feb. 22

To the Editor:

I was struck by the insensitivity of a letter(“Military Recruiters aren’t the Problem,” Feb. 23)by Meghan Gourley ’05, which goes so far as tosuggest that our school system bears little or noresponsibility in the molding of our children.Gourley claims that “it is the parents’ responsibilityto instill the high value of education in their chil-dren and high dropout rates are an indicator thatthis is not happening.” I wonder whether people ofGourley’s opinion would also suggest that thewrath of poverty strikes only those who are notmotivated to succeed.

The fact is that the absence of opportunity, notthe absence of ability or motivation, prevents indi-viduals from escaping the clutches of poverty inmost cases. Public education must provide theseopportunities and nourish the self-determinationand individual motivation at the root of the“American character.” How can we expect impov-erished parents to educate their children if they

work three jobs and have a fourth-grade readinglevel because they were provided an inferior edu-cation by the same system that presently deprivestheir children of the necessary skills to succeed?

Our nation preaches equality to the rest of theworld even as our public education system privi-leges those in wealthier communities. I am dis-gusted to live in a country where people are indif-ferent to the profound inequalities of opportunitythat are so pervasive today. Honestly, is it simply acoincidence that so many urban black communi-ties have been unable to escape poverty over thelast half-century? I think not. In a rich country, agood education is not a privilege — it is a right.Before blaming millions of parents for the strug-gles of their children, it is important to considerthe bias, inaccuracy and insensitivity at the core ofsuch a comment.

Josh Fintel ’08Feb. 23

Lawrence gets stem cells wrong

Don’t blame parents for high drop-out rates

Not a full caseAfter a week of classes, meetings, homework, reading, jobs andthe like, it’s only natural for students to want to relax on theweekend. Brown is far from being considered a party school, butthat doesn’t mean the campus is dead quiet every weekend.What, then, explains why the University has not had any alco-hol-related deaths in recent memory?

Luck certainly plays a role, as Emergency MedicalTechnicians’ harrowing stories illustrate. Brown EmergencyMedical Services and its policies can be credited with manysaves. EMS is free to students, even if the call is a result ofunderage drinking. And a call to EMS will not result in a discipli-nary hearing, allowing students to avoid compromising theirsafety for fear of punishment. The student volunteers who keepEMS running also help keep the program free, a luxury manytake for granted.

These things, along with alcohol education for first-years dur-ing orientation and the role of peer counselors as confidants,rather than cops, allow for a drinking culture on campus inwhich students know when and how to get help if someoneneeds it. Brown’s alcohol policy might seem lax compared toother schools, but it keeps students from wandering off into thecity looking for their fun. On campus, it’s much easier to gethelp to students who need it than it is off campus, where stu-dents can get lost in the crowd. Keeping students on campusalso cuts down on drunk driving.

There is no denying that excessive drinking is already presenton campus. Thus, the Undergraduate Council of Students, withthe passage of Wednesday’s resolution to bring kegs back tocampus, has a difficult task ahead. Why would Brown change apolicy that has, so far, kept students safe? As much as theUniversity attempts to hold student groups responsible for thesafety of their guests, should a serious accident occur, it is theUniversity’s policymakers, not UCS, who would be heldaccountable. If the return of kegs to campus would lead toincreased binge drinking, as representatives of EMS and HealthEducation suspect, UCS needs to think about ways to mitigatethe kegs’ impact.

UCS can talk all it wants about how kegs have not been aproblem off campus. But the University will need concreteassurance that bringing kegs back to campus will not lead toalcohol-related health issues. With key Campus Life administra-tors skeptical of the plan, UCS will need more than a resolutionto win this battle.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2005 · PAGE 11

Between two familiesI am a Jew; however, I am not, nor have

I ever been, supremely dedicated to myfaith. I go to temple on occasion, got theBat Mitzvah — and, more importantly, thehot party — and went to Sunday schoolonly until I had to. I know the prayers forthe big holidays but am only reminded oftheir existence when I get an e-mail tellingme I have to come home. I’m pretty lowkey about religion in general. Much to mymother’s chagrin, I was the only girl in ourtemple in Huntington who didn’t dateJewish boys, a feat considering the odds ofrunning into one when you live on LongIsland.

This piece stemmed from a little con-versation I had two days ago with mygrandparents. They began with a longspeech about how much they loved meand how important family was to them. Iwas already feeling bad, though I didn’tknow the exact reason they called. Theybegan their spiel about how they aren’tgetting any younger and then closed, in abrilliant maneuver, by asking me the art-fully crafted question: “You are coming toAtlanta with the rest of the family forPassover, right?” I of course said yes, as it isalways a foregone conclusion that I willmake the trek to Georgia to fulfill my

grand-daughterly duties. And then, some-thing clicked as I hung up the phone.

Spring Weekend was the same time asPassover.

For me, Spring Weekend holds a highpriority over celebrating Moses’ trek out ofbondage and into the wilderness.However, I was slightly perturbed.Passover, for many Jews, is about the senseof family that stemsfrom gatheringtogether — our own“Jewish thanksgiving,”if you will. I havealways spent Passoverwith the extendedfamily.

So when I called mymother to tell her thatI could not make it thisyear because I had prior engagements, sheasked me the logical follow-up: “OK, whatare they?”

How does one respond to that question?“I’m drinking with my friends” wasn’t a

real good answer, and I didn’t think shewould appreciate the fact that some killerbands were coming to town. I tried to playthe “I’m a senior and it’s my last SpringWeekend” card. “Do whatever makes you

happy, Samantha, but your grandparentsaren’t getting any younger,” she said, andthen hung up. I felt a wave of the all-power-ful “Jewish guilt” setting in. The image of anempty chair at a table filled with my rela-tives sprang into my head. The image of mymom, all alone without her only daughterwhile the other aunts and uncles talkedabout the accomplishments of my cousins,

made me feel terrible.The scheduling

snafu is forcing stu-dents to decidebetween partaking inthe biggest event atBrown or seeing theirfamilies on a veryimportant holiday.For very observantJews and for those

whose families do not practice at all, thisdecision should be simple: Forget aboutSpring Weekend or embrace it in all itsdrunken revelry. Yet, for me, and I’m surefor a lot the Jewish community here atBrown, Passover represents a time to fulfillour familial duty. Partying all weekend isn’treally a justification for going AWOL on thegrandparents.

At the same time, Spring Weekend is not

just a large frat party, but also a time-hon-ored tradition. I have fond memories ofthe lobster roasting at Sigma Chi, the lawnchairs spread out on Wriston, the drunkenfirst-years passed out on the Main Green.And this will be one of the last times I canspend with my friends before they scatterto their various important jobs and adultresponsibilities.

The University, apologetic over thescheduling conflict, has proposed aschool-funded Seder for the Brown com-munity. But for many people, going totemple isn’t really the issue at hand. Wewant to be with our families on Passover,but the Brown community is also, as cornyas this sounds, a family as well. SpringWeekend is, in some strange way, a familyholiday too; Bacardi is no Manischewitz,but we do drink at least four cups of it dur-ing the course of our campus celebration.Even first-years can participate guilt-freein our annual weekend of debauchery andlibations. But for me, Spring Weekend willbe tainted in some small way as I thinkabout the empty chair at my other family’stable.

Samantha Plesser ’05 loves lobster andManischewitz.

Support KurdistanDismissing the anti-BrownLast Friday I went looking for the anti-

Brown. The coach I was traveling in flewpast Yale on I-95. It crawled pastColumbia in the rush hour traffic. Finallyit turned west, crossed the Hudson andentered New Jersey.

Princeton University, located in thenorthwest corner of the Garden State, isthe anti-Brown, or so Ihad always thought.During orientationfour years ago, a Brown professor — ormaybe it was a dean — told the gatheredfirst-years, “If you don’t have that funkyedge to your soul, go to Princeton.” It wasofficial and it made sense — Princetonwas the anti-Brown and Brown the anti-Princeton. Pink Polo-wearing collar-pop-pers went to Princeton; Carrhart-wearingcannabis smokers went to Brown. Theyhad their eating clubs; we had our co-ops.Their parents divided corporate bonusesbetween yachts and trust funds; our par-ents scrimped and saved for Toyotahybrids and donations to NPR.

I arrived at Princeton with grand expec-tations. I imagined troops of wanna-beTucker Carlsons — white males in bowties taking themselves too seriously. Iimagined rows of Beemers and Mercedes,cuff links and caviar. I was not completelydisappointed. The first Princetonian I metwas the organizer of the conference I wasattending. He was dressed for the part:orange slacks and a black cable knitsweater. Tiger colors, rah! It was the lameschool spirit and tasteless fashion that Ihad hoped for, more suitable for an“Animal House” or “PCU” villain than forreal life.

But apart from their dress, thePrinceton villains weren’t as imagined oradvertised. School Colors Boy had theright outfit, but couldn’t play the part. Hehad no charisma, no presence, no ego. Iexpected self-assurance on the level of aBrown protester but with the oppositepolitics. I’ve always been drawn to thepassion and purpose of the Faunce P.O.activists — I can never check my mailwithout donating all of my change. This

Princetonian inspired no such feelings.He didn’t have the requisite brash arro-gance.

That night I paid a visit to Princeton’s(in)famous eating clubs. Like Mr. SchoolSpirit, the clubs looked the part. Oakenfloors, spiral staircases and pool halls fullof portraits greeted me. I was there to

drink on daddy’smoney and continuemy anthropological

fieldwork. Where were the anti-Brunonians? Where were the unabashedfree-marketers and the hawkish conserva-tives?

They might have been there, dolled upin green Polo sweaters and J. Crew khakis,but I couldn’t tell. Brown students livetheir politics. Our environmentalists feeland breathe their issues. Their passion istangible, their commitment palpable. Youknow they care deeply about their cause.

Princeton students are lame. Not lamefor their identity, but lame because theyshy away from it. They’re not anti-Brunonians because they don’t put theirhearts into it like the Brown students Iknow. Maybe I’m wrong; maybe I missedthe passionate Princetonians, irritatingand intelligent like the Karl Roves theyaspire to be. Maybe, in another eatingclub that night, young men and women,destined for the Heritage Foundation,gathered to discuss the annihilation ofSocial Security, endangered species andHillary Clinton.

I doubt it. Princeton is no anti-Brown.We’re different, not only for our politicalstanding but also for the conviction andcommitment we bring. So what is theanti-Brown? Is it Harvard, Yale or maybeDartmouth? What about Duke, Columbiaor maybe Cornell? Is there an anti-Brown?Should there be? Need we move to com-posites? Maybe the anti-Brown is a com-bination of two or three schools? Howabout half Citadel, half Penn, with asplash of BYU?

Neale Mahoney ’05 is starting a competi-tive eating club.

MICHAL ZAPENDOWSKINEALE MAHONEY

SAMANTHA PLESSER

Tiger colors, rah!

For me, SpringWeekend holds ahigh priority overMoses’ trek out of

bondage.

In 1991, U.S. and U.N. forces sat on theKuwaiti border while Saddam’s regimemassacred 100,000 civilians to stay inpower. More than a decade later, anotherRepublican Bush administration ischoosing the status quo. The questionthis time is Kurdish independence.

The administration has given neigh-boring Turkey absolute assurances thatIraq’s Kurds will not create an independ-ent state, and yet promised Iraqis that itwould not use its 135,000 soldiers in Iraqto determine the new nation’s democrat-ic affairs.

Someone ought to be asking whetherwe’ll regret this decision a decade-and-a-half down the road. The White House hasgiven many reasons to justify its anti-Kurdistan policy: Of course there’sTurkey, a “valuable NATO ally” afraid ofits own Kurdish population’s demandsfor independence. The secession ofKurdistan from Iraq in the wake of a U.S.invasion could be seen as a humiliationby the country’s Arab majority and mightundermine the experiment in democrati-zation. It could also exacerbate other eth-nic tensions in the nation, causing politi-cal disintegration attended by the spectreof mass violence.

Against these arguments stands justone thing: the Kurdish people. Theresults from Iraq’s recent election suggestover 80 percent turnout in the Kurdishregion of the country, with 95 percent infavor of independence. Let’s not indulgein any sophistry: If Kurdistan remains apart of Iraq, it will be against the will of itspeople.

When weighed against this fact, thearguments for maintaining Iraqi unityare no more realistic than Tito’s doctrineof a united Yugoslavia. There are plenty ofethnic groups surrounding the Kurds —Turks, Iranians and Iraqi Arabs — whowant to keep them from gaining inde-pendence, but should we be listening tothem? Examples of multi-ethnic statesthat have failed are about as common asmulti-ethnic states that have existed. Allthe Great Empires have fallen apart, and

in some cases even the smaller states thatsucceeded those Empires (Yugoslavia,Czechoslovakia) disintegrated due toethnic tensions.

Almost every case of genocide, includ-ing in Rwanda, has been the result of twoor more ethnic groups forced to coexistin the same state. In Yugoslavia, genocideultimately happened not because thenation disintegrated, but because theSerb Army was trying to keep it from dis-integrating.

On the other hand, some argue that ifthe Kurds are given complete freedomwithin Iraq, they will cease their clamor-ing for independence. What then ofBasque terrorism in Spain, the Quebecoisin Canada and the failure of post-SovietCzechoslovakia?

Kurdish leaders in Iraq might be pres-sured into some sort of compromise, buttheir people — or their grandchildren —will reject it.

What options does that leave the U.S.occupation? Redrawing Middle Easternborders through military force is a recipefor disaster, but should Kurdish leadersmake a declaration, or the Kurdish popu-lation revolt for independence, U.S.forces should remain ostensibly neutral,while restraining any attempt to repressthe Kurds in the name of preventing vio-lence. Such a stance is bound to win sup-port from the international community.Washington should state openly that itwill support whatever decision is madeby the Kurdish people, and leverage, withsome allied help, Turkey’s bid for mem-bership in the European Union torestrain any Turkish response.

Historical experience teaches that thedesire for self-determination will neitherdisappear nor compromise. EitherKurdistan achieves its independence inthe wake of Saddam’s downfall, orOperation Iraqi Freedom will prove nomore than a temporary solution to the“Iraqi Question.”

Michal Zapendowski ’07 writes the songsthat the whole world sings.

BY JUSTIN AMOAHSTAFF WRITER

With four racers placing in the top 15,women's skiing finished first in the giantslalom for the second week in a row at theColby-Sawyer Carnival in New Hampshireon Friday. The Bears also competed at theSt. Anselm Carnival on Saturday.

The Bears are now gearing up for theEastern Regional Championships afterending the regular season atop theMacConnell Division in the EasternCollegiate Ski Conference by a large mar-gin.

The Bears finished third in the slalom atthe St. Anselm Carnival, with Kelly O’Hear’07 finishing first in the slalom for the firsttime this season, with a total time of1:33.92. O'Hear placed fourth in the giantslalom on Friday.

“She smoked the slalom. In both eventsshe’s coming into her own and has pickeda good point in the year to peak,” saidHead Coach Michael Leblanc.

“I really wanted to do well and I had alot of confidence going into it,” O’Hearsaid. “I wish our team could have done alot better in the slalom, but we all havehigher expectations for Regionals.”

Co-captain Hilary Swaffield ’06 put up afew impressive runs for the second week ina row, finishing third in the giant slalom onFriday and 10th in the slalom on Saturday.

“Hillary is really focused and intense,and she’s right on top of her game,”Leblanc said.

Other top competitors for the Bears onFriday were Sophie Elgort ’08, who fin-ished eighth in the giant slalom, and Janet

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FEBRUARY 24, 2005 · PAGE 12

BY MATT LIEBERSPORTS STAFF WRITER

The Bears were shut out twice in threegames this weekend, falling 3-0 at No. 11Harvard on Tuesday and 3-0 at homeagainst St. Lawrence on Friday. The lonebright spot of the weekend was Bruno’s 5-2 win over Clarkson College on Saturday’sSenior Night. The Bears finished the week-end at 14-10-3 overall, but more impor-tantly they remain stuck in sixth place inthe ECACHL with a record of 9-9-2.

“It was average hockey (on our part),”Head Coach Roger Grillo said after theHarvard loss. “We weren’t skating well.”

The loss to Harvard ended any chanceof a fourth-place finish, and it served as astinging reminder of who’s been on toplately between the two clubs.

“They’re an excellent team, and they’vebeen on a roll,” Grillo said of the hotCrimson. “We gave them some easy goals.We could be better.”

Harvard has now won nine straight con-ference games, and is chasing ECACHLleader Cornell. Brown, meanwhile, hascontinued a season-long pattern ofmatching each step forward with anotherback.

While Brown no longer has the chanceto claim one of the ECACHL’s four first-round byes, the Bears’ win Saturday guar-anteed they will enjoy home ice for thefirst round of the playoffs.

The Bears came into Saturday night’sgame against Clarkson looking to make upfor a sub-par effort the night beforeagainst St. Lawrence.

“That effort was unacceptable,” saidcaptain Les Haggett ’05 of the team’s playagainst the Saints. “(Against Clarkson)we’re going to come out flying in the firstperiod.”

Brown had an additional motivation:Saturday’s was the last regular seasongame at Meehan Auditorium for Bruno’sseniors.

The Bears put sustained pressure onClarkson from the start. Joe Bauer ’06 putBrown up 1-0 at 4:57, scoring off therebound of a Rugo Santini ’06 shot.

Known for its grit, the Clarkson sidequickly responded to the Bear blitz. Twominutes later, the Golden Knights beatgoalie Adam D’Alba ’08 on a rebound to tiethe score at 1-1.

Haggett immediately responded for theBears, freeing the puck up for winger JeffPrough ’08 in the slot, who converted hiseighth goal of the season to recover thelead for Brown, 2-1. Twenty-five secondslater, Haggett dug the puck from the cor-ner and sent it to his other wing, BrianIhnacak ’07, who lifted an elegant wristshot high into the net for a 3-1 lead. After afew minutes’ rest, Haggett was back formore, initiating a give-and-go play with

BY CHARLIE VALLELYSPORTS STAFF WRITER

With the dual-meet season in the books,the men's and women's swimming anddiving teams are preparing for the onlyevents left on their respective schedules:the Eastern Interscholastic SwimmingLeague Championship for the men, andthe Ivy League Championships for thewomen. The two teams posted markedlydifferent records during the regular sea-son: The men went 3-7 overall (2-5 EISL),while the women were 6-3 overall (5-2Ivy). Yet, they seem to be in similar situa-tions, as they are both resting, or tapering,looking forward to the championships,confident in their abilities.

“It’s great training with all of the guyson the team because everyone is verypositive right now,” said Matt Goracy ’06.“Taper is by far the best time of the year.”

Tapering is a resting regimen the Bearsonly carry out to prepare for the Ivies, inwhich they swim fewer yards at practice,weight-lift less, make sure to eat right andget plenty of sleep. It usually has a notice-able effect on race times.

“It is not nearly as intensive as the mid-season, which is why every swimmerloves taper,” said Ashley Wallace ’07.

Both teams are enjoying the breakfrom the rigors of regular season training,but they are also excited about thedemanding three-day event that will endtheir rest. The women’s Ivy LeagueChampionships will be held in Princeton,N.J., starting today and ending Saturday.The men will compete a week later in

Cambridge, Mass., March 3-5.“The team is feeling good and rested,”

said Peter Volosin ’08. “Everyone is excit-ed, and we want to show the league whatwe can do. … It’s going to be a great show-ing for the Bears.”

This will be Volosin’s first trip to theEISL Championship, or the Easterns.Goracy will be making his third, and islooking forward to the intensity of theseason’s finale.

“Easterns is one of the fastest meets Ihave ever swum in,” he said. “Every swim-mer comes to the meet ready to swimtheir best. Many people come to watchthe meet as well, so the environment isvery intense. The meet gets very loud dur-ing the finals.”

The men’s team has been hindered theentire season by a lack of depth. Everyopposing team has had more swimmers,and opponents have sometimes beenable to take more points in events that the

BY MATT NICHOLSONCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The men’s and women’s tennis teamswere both busy this weekend, with eachteam boasting a pair of wins on theirroad trips through the South. The menare now 7-2 this spring, while thewomen are 3-1.

The men played three matches, earn-ing an easy 7-0 win over the U.S. NavalAcademy on Saturday, then dropping aclose 5-2 match to Wake ForestUniversity on Sunday before redeemingthemselves 5-2 against VirginiaTechnical Institute and State Universityon Tuesday.

Brown completed its rout of Navywithout losing a single set to the opposi-tion. Despite Bruno’s superior lineup,captain Adil Shamasdin ’05 attributedthe victory to the fact that the Bears “justoutworked, outplayed and wanted towin more” than Navy.

Head Coach Jay Harris said the Bearsnot only displayed “a higher level oftoughness, they also played really well,and that resulted in a match that onlylasted a little over two hours.”

The men carried that momentum toWinston-Salem, N.C., winning secondand third doubles to secure the point.Harris said the Bears “had learned great-ly from the mistakes they made mentallyin the (North Carolina State University)loss” Feb. 6, in which Brown dropped itsfirst doubles point in two years.

Wake Forest’s squad retaliated quicklyin singles, however, posting victories inall spots except No. 2, in whichShamasdin put together a scrappy 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7) victory against Wake sopho-more Todd Paul, who is ranked 74th

among collegiate players.Harris called Shamasdin Brown’s

“assassin.” Harris “puts him up againstthe opponent’s hottest guy,” he said.

Three other three-set matches werenot so hot, as Eric Thomas ’07, NickGoldberg ’05 and Mike Scherer ’08 lostheartbreakers in the first, third and sixthsingles matches.

“That is just three moments we need-ed to go our way to get the ‘W,’” Harrissaid.

“It was a disappointing loss, but agood learning experience,” Shamasdinsaid.

The Bears seemed to take somethingaway from the Wake Forest match, asthey headed to Virginia Tech and earneda 5-2 victory. Brown won first and sec-ond doubles to secure the point beforegoing on to post singles wins in the first,third, fourth and sixth spots. Shamasdinpraised Richard Moss ’06 and PhillipCharm ’06, who filled out “the bottom ofthe lineup, winning two tight three-setmatches (7-5, 1-6, 6-1 and 7-6, 2-6, 6-3,respectively) against solid opponents.”

The two wins Brown posted thisweekend came on the heels of its loss toNC State two weeks ago.

“The loss to NC State helped us, inthat after that match our practices gottougher and everybody wanted to workharder,” Shamasdin said.

The women’s team swept the compe-tition this weekend, pouring it on in a 7-0 win at American University on Sundayand then logging a close 4-3 victoryagainst Old Dominion University.

“(Rebounding) from a bad loss at

M. icers shut out twice,but win on senior night

Both swimming teams gettingready for championship meets

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Captain Les Haggett ’05 scored threepoints in his last home game. He now has99 career points.

M. and w. tennis each pick uptwo victories in Southern trip

Men’s ICE HOCKEY

Team ECACHL Pts. Overall

1. Cornell 16-2-2 34 20-4-3

2. Harvard 15-4-1 31 18-7-2

3. Colgate 14-4-2 30 20-8-2

4. Vermont 12-6-2 26 16-11-3

5. Dartmouth 12-8-0 26 15-10-3

6. Brown 9-9-2 20 14-10-3

7. St. Lawrence 8-11-1 17 13-15-2

8. Clarkson 7-12-1 15 11-17-2

9. Union 7-13-0 14 11-18-1

10. Princeton 5-14-1 11 7-18-2

10. RPI 5-14-1 11 13-17-2

12. Yale 3-16-1 7 4-21-2

Women’s ICE HOCKEY

Team ECACHL Pts. Overall

1. Dartmouth 16-2-0 32 23-3-0

1. Harvard 15-1-2 32 18-6-3

3. St. Lawrence 13-3-2 28 23-4-3

4. Yale 11-7-1 23 13-14-1

5. Princeton 8-6-3 19 14-7-5

5. Brown 9-8-1 19 12-13-2

5. Colgate 8-7-3 19 13-13-3

8. Clarkson 6-11-1 13 11-13-6

9. Cornell 3-14-1 7 3-19-3

10. Vermont 3-15-0 6 5-22-3

11. Union 0-18-0 0 5-23-1

ECACHL STANDINGS

Skiers end regular season atopMacConnell Division of ECSC

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23

Women’s SWIMMING: Ivy League Championship atPrinceton, N.J.

AWARDSNFHCA Division I National Academic Squad: KatieAuriemma ’08, Tess Belmont ’06, Lindsay Boris ’06,Jenica Cimino ’07, Libby Fritz ’06, KristenHodavance ’08, Laura Kavazanjian ’06, JuliaKelderman ’05, Kristen Leary ’06, Andrea Posa’08,Hope Stockman ’07, Kristen Vincent ’06

FIELD HOCKEY: received the 2004 NFHCAAcademic Team Award

SPORTS SCOREBOARD

see TENNIS, page 8

see M. HOCKEY, page 8

see SWIM, page 9

see SKIING, page 9