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When Charlie Wood ’10 wants to withdraw his monthly pay-check, he leaves home at 4:30 a.m. and spends five hours traveling through southeastern Africa in the back of a pickup truck along-side 20 to 30 people, produce for

a local market, a few chickens and a goat. Once he makes it to the closest city — Nampula — he stops at the bank, turns around and starts the whole process over again.

The lack of transportation was only one of the difficulties Wood faces as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching physics to eighth and 11th grade students in a rural vil-lage in Mozambique, he wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

“The most challenging aspect of the Peace Corps so far has defi-nitely been getting used to the

way the school is organized — or not organized — to be precise,” Wood wrote. “It wasn’t until the second week that I got my sched-ule and kids started showing up.”

Although Wood said he has to sweep dead insects out of his “really, really nice” home every morning and can expect many of his students to leave school before his classes begin because the teachers of other classes never showed up, he insisted that “(I) can’t imagine anything else I’d rather be doing.”

Part of the allure of the Peace Corps is its promise of complete integration into local culture, since volunteers live in the same conditions as their communi-ty members and see few other Americans, according to the organization’s website. Jeanine Chiu ’10 said the chance to see a developing nation at a “grassroots level” compelled her to sign up as a Peace Corps volunteer in south-

Peace Corps’ challenge lures students abroad

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By CaiTlin TrujilloSenior Staff Writer

The city of Providence has chosen a design for a pedestrian bridge to link the East Side to the Jewelry District, though budget problems leave the timeline for the project in doubt. The bridge would join College Hill to the new home of the Alpert Medical School, which is set to open in 2012.

The design competition winner, Michigan-based Inform Studio, was announced in December after a selection committee presented the top two choices — which

also included a design from lo-cal firm Studio Providence — to then-Mayor David Cicilline ’83 for final selection.

According to Inform Studio’s description, the bridge will in-clude a cafe on the lower deck, a terrace to the south with avail-able seating, water jets near the Dorrance Street entrance and an extension of the proposed western waterfront park that would in-corporate a garden into the deck’s access points.

The selection committee chose the winning design based on its potential to attract residents and

ability to connect the two parks on either side of the Providence River, said Mike McCormick, the Uni-versity’s assistant vice president of planning, design and construc-tion, as well as a member of the bridge’s selection committee.

As part of the selection pro-cess, the city displayed the con-testants’ designs in City Hall, so the public could provide feedback, which the city’s Department of Planning and Development shared with the selection committee, Mc-Cormick said. Each design team’s

Bridge to link East side, Jewelry District

Courtesy of Inform StudioA new bridge designed to connect the East Side with the Jewelry District will feature a cafe and terrace with seating.

By Sahil luThraSenior Staff Writer

After taking steps to streamline ad-ministrative support for research and to secure additional grants, the Uni-versity has seen a 37 percent increase in sponsored research this fiscal year. Some departments still continue to fight for scarce funds, even though others have seen their awards double.

Brown received $179.7 million in research grants for the fiscal year that ended in June, said Clyde Briant, vice president for research. Of these, Brown secured approximately $27 million from funds made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the eco-nomic stimulus package signed into law by President Obama.

Although the one-time boost from stimulus funds contributed to the overall increase, other funding avenues rose 16 percent from levels consistent over the past few years, Briant said.

“It’s a really positive statement about the faculty and their interest in sponsored funding and the good job that they do to attract it,” he added.

StreamliningRecent structural changes to the

Office of the Vice President for Re-search contributed to the growth in funds by encouraging grant propos-als, Briant said. Last February, the Or-ganizational Review Committee — a task force working to cut $14 million from this year’s budget — outlined recommendations to, among other things, facilitate the grant proposal process.

The recommendations included using the Office of Sponsored Proj-ects to help with grant contracts and subcontracts and creating a consoli-dated center that would provide ad-ministrative support in areas such as grant proposals, according to an ORC report released last February.

But the University opted not to provide research support through a consolidated administrative cen-ter and reorganized Briant’s office instead.

As a result, “a number of backlogs in the office have gone away,” Briant said. “For example, we have overseen all of the subcontracts that are asso-ciated with our awards, and we feel that that’s going extremely smoothly now. But in general, I think it’s just the overall processing has flowed out in a very nice sequence.”

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Herald file photoStuart Theater, which most recently housed Kym Moore’s staging of “Pippin,” will feature “As You Like It” in March. See the full theater roundup on page 4.

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By jake ComerSenior Staff Writer

Almost a decade after the University began examining its own historical ties to slavery, President Ruth Sim-mons delivered the keynote speech at “Slavery and the University: His-tories and Legacies,” a conference hosted by Emory University, last night.

At the conference, which runs until Feb. 6, representatives from universities across the country will address the role slavery has played in the developments of their schools and how to come to terms with those aspects of their histories.

It is “somewhat distressing how unnecessary people thought it was for so many decades” to confront the role of slavery in the history of universities in the country, Simmons told The Herald. “It’s all about dem-onstrating how important it is for the university,” she said.

Simmons’ speech is titled “From the Shadows to Plain Sight: Slavery

At Emory, Simmons confrontsslavery

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ern Jordan, teaching English at a girls’ school.

“While at Brown, I took Arabic classes and even studied abroad in Cairo for a year,” she wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “However, even during my study abroad ex-perience, I felt that my knowledge was largely academic and that I had little idea what day-to-day life is really like.”

Chiu was sworn in as a vol-unteer last month, so the real substance of her work has yet to begin, she wrote. But because she lives with a host family and fully participates in their daily rou-tines, she has already begun the challenging yet rewarding transi-tion to a new set of traditions and customs, she wrote.

“Integrating into a new cul-ture and society is never easy,” she wrote. “It takes time and patience and often includes a fair amount of confusion and self-doubt. Am I doing this wrong? Did I just

offend someone? Is this or that culturally appropriate?”

Like Chiu and Wood, 19 other Brown undergraduate alums are currently serving abroad and dealing with their own set of chal-lenges. “Each volunteer brings his own expectations, history, tradition,” said Norm Tremblay, a recruiter and return volunteer.

The 21 Brown alums are serv-ing in Asia, Africa, Europe and South America. Though each vol-unteer has a unique living situ-ation and experience, all work in education, health, business or youth development.

Brown is currently the 25th largest feeder school for the Peace Corps among medium-sized uni-versities and colleges, with 21 vol-unteers in the field.

Partly because of their “self-directed academic philosophy,” Brown students have traditionally been successful applicants to the increasingly selective program, Tremblay said.

Wood offered a similar ex-

planation for Brown’s high rank-ing among Peace Corps feeder schools.

“Some of the core traits that I observed in the Brown communi-ty were resourcefulness, flexibili-ty, independence, a willingness to work hard, social conscientious-ness and a taste for adventure,” he wrote. “These are also some of the most important qualities in successful volunteers, so it’s not surprising that many of the people attracted to Brown are also drawn to the Peace Corps.”

Part of the reason Jason Reeder ’11 decided to apply to volunteer with the Peace Corps in the Mid-dle East or North Africa was his conversation with Chiu, he said. Nearly 600 Brown graduates have completed Peace Corps terms, ac-cording to a recent press release, so there are plenty of alums avail-able to share their experiences with potential applicants.

Reeder also found current Brown students on campus to be quite understanding of his deci-sion to consider working for 27 months in minimal living condi-tions in exchange for only about $6,000 or $7,000.

“I don’t feel like an outlier ap-plying to Peace Corps. I feel very supported,” Reeder said. “They don’t ask why I would want to do something that is difficult and poorly financially compensated.”

Reeder has not yet decided whether he wants to commit to the Peace Corps. But he said he sees it as one of few ways to find a meaningful, long-term experi-ence abroad, even if it does in-volve a lot of personal sacrifice.

“It’s kind of a masochism that makes me want to do it at all,” he said.

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Graduates well-suited to Peace Corpscontinued from page 1

prospectus and blueprints were also posted online to Flickr.

Though the committee did not base its decisions solely on com-munity response, the feedback they received “certainly played a role,” McCormick said.

“It really engaged a lot of peo-ple in the discussion of the bridge,” he said. “That’s exactly what we were hoping for — to generate a lot of excitement.”

A committee charged with working out the next steps in the bridge’s construction — including budget and scaling of the proj-ect — may form in the coming months. The budget for the proj-ect is $4 million. Half of that is money saved from keeping the granite piers from the old I-195 highway that is undergoing relo-cation. An additional $2 million is needed to build the remainder of the bridge, said Lambri Zerva, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation’s project manager for the Iway relocation project.

Each entry in the competi-tion, including Inform Studio’s, exceeded the budget, McCormick said. The winning design is cur-

rently estimated to cost $5 million, said Bonnie Nickerson, the city’s director of long-range planning for the Department of Planning and Development.

Though RIDOT applied for a federal grant to make up the $2 million difference, the state did not receive the funding. Nicker-son said the city is working with RIDOT to finalize ways to raise that revenue, which may include public-private partnerships with other businesses and institutions. The University is one potential fundraising partner, he said.

McCormick said the University has had “no specific discussions” about a possible partnership with the city or state on building the bridge, but added that it “clearly (has) an interest in the area and making sure the bridge is success-ful.”

The funding issue might also affect how and when the bridge is built, Zerva said.

Though Nickerson said the bridge was on track for comple-tion by early 2013, Zerva said the bridge might be complete closer to the middle of 2014. And the bridge might be built in phases, depending on how fundraising for

the bridge progresses, Zerva said. Additionally, the bridge’s con-struction must not detract from the development of the parks, he added.

Inform Studio is also work-ing with the city and RIDOT to scale the bridge design so it fits the budget, said Michael Guthrie, a partner at Inform Studio. The firm had done a cost analysis to find ways to make the construc-tion less expensive, coming “pretty close” to the budget in the process, Guthrie added.

One major consideration is changing the material of the bridge while maintaining the de-sign’s integrity, he said. The pro-posed design suggested an entire timber system, both exposed and concealed, Guthrie said, but a re-vised plan might make the con-cealed structure steel, which is less expensive.

The firm will meet with the city and RIDOT sometime this month to discuss the master plan and any attempts to cut costs.

“We want to make sure that the bridge that is ultimately built is very similar to what was presented to the selection committee and the public,” Nickerson said.

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Campus news 3the Brown Daily heraldFriday, February 4, 2011

alert and activeIn addition to administrative

reorganization, the University has been taking steps to encourage fac-ulty members to write more grant proposals.

“One of the main things I do is to try to be aware of opportunities and then to try to get that information all to faculty,” Briant said. One recent strategy has been to have program officers from the National Institutes of Health talk to Brown faculty about the NIH’s funding areas and what funders might look for in grant pro-posals.

Two years ago, the University also hired Lewis-Burke Associates, a government relations organization, to alert faculty of funding opportuni-ties, Briant said.

Although the amount of fund-ing has increased, the University has not seen a large change in the percentage of funds coming from different agencies, Briant said, add-ing that the NIH provides the largest portion of Brown’s federal funding sources, followed by the National Science Foundation. The University also attracts funding from several pri-vate organizations and foundations, including General Motors, Pfizer, IBM, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, according to the University research profile published last month.

reeling it in?When the economic stimulus

package was signed into law two years ago, researchers were unsure if its effects would last. Some worried the stimulus would give out enough grants to set a higher standard that would be difficult to reach when the

stimulus funding ended, said Mark Bertness, professor of biology and chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

Another concern was that in-creased competition for grants would discourage young researchers and drive them out of the field, according to a March 2008 report, co-sponsored by the University, called “A Broken Pipeline? Flat Funding of the NIH Puts a Generation of Science at Risk.”

Now, Bertness said, researchers across campus have differing opin-ions about the effects of the stimulus, depending on their department.

Bertness added his division, which is largely NSF-funded, has seen its funding nearly triple over the last four years. Faculty in his divi-sion have seen their funding double.

“We’re really pretty optimistic about funding,” Bertness said. “We have lots of students that go on to graduate school and want to be re-searchers, and certainly I’ve never — well, never say never — but I don’t hear students deciding not to go into ecology and evolutionary bi-ology because they’re not going to get funding. You go into it because you love it.”

On the other hand, Barry Con-nors, professor of medical science and chair of the neuroscience de-partment, said “everyone’s getting squeezed” in his field. His depart-ment is largely funded by the NIH, whose budgets “haven’t gone up very much and haven’t tipped with infla-tion,” he said.

Because the increase in funding was largely tied to the stimulus bill, there likely will not be a long-term increase in grant funds, Connors said.

Things have changed greatly since Connors was a student, he said. Now, progressing from a student to an in-

dependent research position is “a long haul” made more difficult by the shortage of funds.

“Not only do you need money to run a laboratory and do science, but you need money to train people,” Connors said. “The graduate pro-grams here at Brown — and really anywhere in the state — are heavily dependent on funds from the federal government.”

juggling jobsFaculty members have had to

spend more time writing grant proposals in recent years, Connors said. The number of awards has gone down, and funding has become in-creasingly competitive. Faculty have started writing more grant proposals, after initial attempts are rejected.

As a result, it’s harder to “actually do some science,” Connors said.

“I think all of us would rather do research than write proposals about doing research,” he said.

Bertness said he has not noticed a difference in time spent writing grant proposals, though he added that the case might be different for different departments.

“There’s certainly a perception by some that it has changed, that this has become an onerous burden for junior faculty members in departments like cell and molecular biology, where almost all of them are NIH-funded,” he said.

But Briant said writing grant ap-plications is really the “first stage of research.”

“You’re looking at the literature, you’re looking at what’s known, you’re sort of mentally testing your hypothesis that you want to propose,” Briant said. “So to say that the pro-posal is somehow completely sepa-rated from the research is not the right way to think about it.”

By kaT ThornTonSenior Staff Writer

Author and journalist Ariel Sabar ’93 spoke last night on “wrestling with meaning” in “Telling Personal Stories: Memoir as More Than Self Journalism,” a lecture hosted by the English Department at Brown-RISD Hillel.

Tracy Breton, visiting professor of English and a former coworker of Sabar’s at the Providence Jour-nal, introduced the author. Sabar worked as a journalist for the ProJo, The Baltimore Sun and The Christian Science Monitor. He has written two books, “My Father’s Paradise” and “Heart of the City” and is a professor of creative writ-ing at George Washington Univer-sity. “My Father’s Paradise” was his first book and memoir, tracing his family’s history back generations from their origins as Kurdish Jews in Iraq to the current generation living in Los Angeles.

“I’ve never been on this side of the podium at Brown,” said Sabar, who was a double concentrator in public policy and modern cul-ture and media at Brown. He also played in the band MuthaFridge, who performed once at Spring Weekend.

Sabar opened by telling the story of how he came to write a memoir, then used this tale as an example — he asked the audience how the story he had just told was different from a journalistic article or an autobiography. The difference between these strictly factual accounts and memoir, he explained, is doubt. “A memoir is not an account of a writer’s past,” Sabar said. “We’re trying to make sense of the past in the present.”

A memoir writer must look through the past, then step back and reflect, Sabar said. “What do you see now that you didn’t see then?” he asked.

The key to writing a great memoir, Sabar said, is to “wrestle on the page with the meaning of your past.”

Sabar said that in his experi-ence as a creative writing teacher, most students hold back infor-mation about themselves out of embarrassment. He said writers should think about their narrative voice as another person to avoid this in a memoir.

But the memoir author must be discerning with an “unsparing critique of your own life,” he said, adding that memoir writers must have the right balance of interest and attachment.

“Memoir is not journalism,” Sabar said. The memoir writer may bend or elaborate on the facts, but “you do have a contract with your readers,” Sabar said.

For his story, Sabar interviewed over 100 people, traveled twice to the Middle East and listened to many oral histories. “I wanted to get the essentials right and infer the rest,” he said. He compared his experience as changing a low definition black and white pic-ture into a high definition color photograph.

“Memoir transcends its writers’ stories.” It was the “lens by which I come to see my own,” Sabar said. “If you didn’t discover something as you wrote your memoir, don’t publish it.”

Audience members ranged from freshmen to older fans of the author, including some of his former coworkers from the ProJo.

Sabar ’93 teaches the art of memoir writing

and Justice at Brown University.”The conference builds on Brown’s

initiative to bring the history of the connection between slavery and U.S. universities to light. In 2003, Brown established the Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice to investigate the role of slavery in Brown’s history. The committee — which included faculty members, administrators and students — published a report documenting Brown’s ties to slavery.

The 106-page report, which re-ceived considerable media attention when it was released in 2006, asks, “How are we, as members of the Brown community, as Rhode Island-ers and as citizens and residents of the United States, to make sense of our complex history?”

This question has recently been

taken up by several other universi-ties. Anne Valk, associate director for programs at the John Nicholas Brown Center, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that schools — such as the University of North Carolina, the University of Alabama and the College of William and Mary — have taken measures in recent years to come to terms with their histori-cal connection to slavery through acts like public apologies and the creation of memorials.

Patrick Jamieson, a senior at Em-ory who will be presenting a paper at the conference, told The Herald that Emory’s research into its past was inspired by the work of Brown’s Steering Committee.

“There are some really important connections between the 18th-cen-tury slave trade and the wealth that came from that and the founding of

Brown University,” he said.He compared Brown’s history

with Emory’s, adding that the board of trustees at Emory issued a state-ment of regret Jan. 13 regarding the school’s connection to slavery.

Upon completion of the Steer-ing Committee’s Report on Slavery and Justice, the committee issued a number of recommendations to help the University come to terms with its past. These included establish-ing a day and creating a memorial in remembrance and recognition of the slaves who were integral to Brown’s history, putting together an institution for researching slavery and justice and doing more to bring black students to Brown.

Jamieson said one of the primary aims of the conference this weekend will be to come up with similar rec-ommendations at Emory.

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Arts & Culture4 the Brown Daily heraldFriday, February 4, 2011

By margareT YiStaff Writer

The Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies’ second annual “Writing is Live” festival — a 10-day event featuring nine fully staged productions, read-ings and workshops in locations all over campus and downtown Providence — begins tonight with “And Joy,” written by Zarina Shea GS and directed by Kristopher Lencowski GS.

The event grew out of the “New Plays” festival, the main medium for graduate student playwrights to showcase their works for the past 30 years, said Vanessa Gilbert, adjunct lecturer in TAPS and artistic director of the festival. The event’s transition to “Writing is Live” also reflects the move of the Masters of Fine Arts in Playwriting from the lit-erary arts program to the TAPS department.

“The festival is expanding into a more rigorous look at what writ-ing can do when it is staged,” Gil-bert added.

Highlights of the festival in-clude plays by second-year play-wrights Theo Goodell GS, Rachel Jendrzejewski GS and Ian Mc-Donald GS, who are all part of the MFA playwriting program.

Goodell’s piece, “The Dark-son Chronicles,” focuses on the adventures of a detective named Dan Darkson. The play is inspired by pulp-noir, with a very 1950s feel, Gilbert said.

Jendrzejewski is presenting “Meronymy,” which incorporates “amazing props,” Gilbert said. The play is based around memory and takes place on three levels of scaf-folding that move through the theatre space, she added. Attached to the scaffolding are 13 slide pro-jectors and a large sculpture of one of the characters.

Adding to this eclectic mix of productions is McDonald’s “The Boy Who Lived Forever (and the Woman Who Didn’t).” He de-scribed his play as “a scary fairy tale of sorts” that was inspired by horror movies and novels, as well as young children. McDonald said he has enjoyed working with adolescents and felt there was a need for more plays with children protagonists.

“There’s not a lot of scary plays out there, and I’m trying to rectify that,” McDonald said.

The story follows two preado-lescent children who find a dead woman in the woods hanging by her neck, McDonald said. As the play progresses, the woman

gradually loses parts of her body, which leads to an encounter with the mysterious entity responsible for this.

“It’s supposed to be funny and silly in parts, but I’m hoping to scare some people,” McDonald said.

While the festival in past years has featured almost exclusively graduate student productions, Rebecca Schneider, chair of the TAPS program, said this year’s festival includes a play by Franny Choi ’11, who is also a Herald cartoonist.

Choi’s piece, titled “Mask Dances,” is based on the 1980 Kwangju incident in South Korea, when pro-democracy students protesting the new government and martial law were brutally sup-pressed, Choi said. “This project is about exposing a very violent event,” she added.

The protagonist is a female stu-dent in her first year at Chonnam National University in Kwangju who is thrown into the world of student activism. “I can feel it resonating strongly with the ac-tors — many of whom have been involved in this kind of work — and I think it will resonate pretty strongly with other students who come to the play,” Choi said.

She added that she incorpo-rates traditional Korean art forms, music and costumes in the play. The title of the play is named af-ter a form of traditional Korean theater.

“The play relies pretty heav-ily on Korean traditions of art and theater arts because it uses those modes to euphemize what can’t be represented realistically on stage,” she said.

Organizing “Writing is Live” has been challenging at times — especially due to the weather — but not any more difficult than putting together a typical play, Gilbert said. Plans for the festi-val were begun almost immedi-ately after last year’s event ended. Along with the playwrights, ac-tors and department staff, the fes-tival also had help from people in the community.

“What’s really important now is that audiences complete that circle of development,” Gilbert said.

For McDonald, who is also directing his own play, the past month has been an endless sched-ule of rehearsals, rewriting and creating props.

But he said he has enjoyed the experience. “It’s like Christ-mas three times a week,” he said. “There’s these constant surprises.”

Theater festival brings student writing to lifeBy aparna BanSal

Senior Staff Writer

What do pandas, feminists and gen-der confusion have in common? They will all be featured as part of Main Stage and Production Workshop’s spring semester line-ups.

Theater groups have started preparing a new season of shows, including an unusual Shakespeare production and a student-directed four-person play to be performed in the newly constructed Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Cre-ative Arts.

First up on Main Stage is “As You Like It,” directed by Nicholas Ridout, visiting professor of theatre arts and performance studies, which premieres March 3 in Stuart Theatre. It’s about a “complicated and hilari-ous love affair,” Ridout said, adding that the show also features “dress and gender confusion” — and a panda. “I’ve enjoyed working with them a lot,” Ridout said of the undergradu-ates in the play. “A lot of them are very experienced now but also have a fun energy.”

Auditions were held this week for “Talk,” written by Visiting Lecturer in Playwriting Carl Hancock Rux and directed by Professor and Head of Playwriting Erik Ehn. “Talk” pre-miers April 7 in Leeds Theatre.

“It’s a phenomenal play — a real Brown play that’s full of ideas and challenges history,” said Kym Moore, visiting assistant professor of theatre, speech and dance. “Carl Hancock

Rux is a well-known playwright and we’re really honored to have him here and doing this play.”

Also upcoming is the “Writing is Live” festival, which begins today and continues through Feb. 13. According to the “Writing is Live” website, the festival features nine student plays.

Production Workshop has also confirmed its first two plays for the season. The first show will be “How I Learned to Drive” written by Paula Vogel and directed by Alexandra Keegan ’12. It will be performed in T.F. Green Hall Feb. 11-14.

“It’s an amazing play by Paula, who used to run a playwriting pro-gram here and even won a Pulitzer Prize,” Sam Alper ’11.5, a PW board member, said. “It’s about a little girl’s relationship with her uncle when she was underage, but not really a child. It’s a weird, complicated play — but beautiful in an odd way.”

“Closer,” written by Patrick Mar-ber and directed by Sean Patrick Mc-Gowan ’12, will run March 11-14. “It’s a 4-person intense drama about infidelity and betrayal,” Alper said.

Another member of the PW board, Max Posner ’11, is writing and directing “The Famished,” which will be the first play to be performed at the new creative arts building and will run March 18-21.

“It’s about people trying to nego-tiate life in an office,” said Alper, an actor in the play. “It’s going to feature a lot of intense scene work.”

“(Posner) is a really talented play-wright,” Abby Colella ’12, PW board

member and production manager for the show, said. “It’s also a new space and I’m excited to see what it will end up being.”

In the Upspace, PW’s smaller venue, there will be scattered read-ings throughout the semester, Alper said. Through Feb. 5, the venue is featuring “Bitches in the Upspace: A Week-Long Festival of Feminist Performance.”

“It’s feminist with a wink. It points out some interesting things,” said Colella, who is starring in the show. “It’s fun and funny and there’s food involved.”

Another upcoming event is “Week in the Space,” which changes every year and showcases perfor-mances that are different from tra-ditional plays, such as mini-musicals, Colella said.

She added that she is also looking forward to “Stand and Unfold Your-self,” directed by Doug Eacho ’11.

“The show is described as being for a one-person audience and you have no idea what it will be or what you’re going into,” she said. It will be performed in the Upspace from Feb 21-27.

“It’s been an exciting year,” Alper said. “It’s really cool that playwrights at Brown are beginning to direct their own work. We’re seeing more student productions with a unified focus.”

With a line-up of promising stu-dent and faculty produced plays, the theatre scene on College Hill is sure to keep the Brown community en-tertained this semester.

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is the last mention my name gets for the award, I think it’s still a huge honor and kind of a testament more to the people I’ve played with and the confidence the coaching staff’s had in me to play me as much as they have.

You’ve just won a really big game. describe your ideal way to celebrate.

Celebrate a big game? Well, we’d probably go hang out at the No Fun Zone — that’s what we call one of the apartments a few of the guys live in. We have a couple of songs that we listen to in the dressing room after a big win and then basically just go out, hang out with the boys, soak it

up. That’s what we like to do.

You’re obviously a talented ath-lete, but do you have any other tal-ents that most people don’t know about?

Probably the only one would be the guitar. I play the guitar, and I’ve played since I was pretty young. That’s definitely a passion of mine — second to hockey.

If you weren’t playing hockey, what would you be doing with all of your spare time?

I really don’t know. It takes up pretty much all my time, and it’s what I like to do, so I honestly don’t know where I’d be without it.

name a few athletes that you admire.

They’re all going to be probably hockey players, but, my favorite play-er is probably Pavel Datsyuk. And Sidney Crosby is the best hockey player in the world right now, and he’s a Canadian and someone I ob-viously look up to right now. Yeah, those are the two guys that stick out in my mind.

You’re in a karaoke bar with those athletes and they’re waiting for you to serenade them. What’s your song of choice?

It would have to be country. I would probably sing maybe “Watch the Wind Blow By” by Tim McGraw.

What would you like to accom-plish after Brown?

To be honest, I just want to see how far I can go with hockey. My goal is to play professional hockey when I’m done here, so that’s my main goal right now — to sign with a team when I’m done after my senior year and hopefully have a long career in professional hockey. And if that doesn’t work out for me, then I’ve got a great degree to start a career in something else. As of right now, I just want to play hockey.

SecondaryOn the one hand, you have

former Heisman Trophy winner Charles Woodson, the best tackler in the game. On the other hand, no one covers more ground and ac-counts for more of the field than Troy Polamalu. Woodson’s corner blitzes are deadly, but bringing down Big Ben is like trying to wrangle a baby killer whale — I don’t think that his blitzes are going to be as effective as usual.

It’s no coincidence that when Polamalu was injured last year, the Steelers missed the playoffs. He is the single most important member of this squad. With the exception of some spotty tackles against the Ravens, he’s been nothing short of superb for the Steelers. With his size, speed and high football IQ, hav-ing Polamalu peering in from the backfield is the asset that pushes this Steelers pass defense to the next level. Oh, and he’s the Associated Press Defensive Player of the Year.

edge: Steelers

hairThough linebackers Clay Mat-

thews and A.J. Hawk have some good-looking freak-flags, Polamalu has science on his side for his long, flowing locks. As he tells us in his overplayed and ridiculous commer-cial, it’s the “Polamolecules, dude!” I file that ad in the category of “funny, but not for the reasons it’s supposed to be.”

edge: Polamolecule

linebackers and pass rushYou’d think this would be a land-

slide, given the sensational play of Clay Matthews and the entire Green Bay blitzing corps. But James Harri-son, a Steeler who lands my nominee for most terrifying man in the world, isn’t someone you can forget about. The hard-hitting Harrison is just as likely to injure someone in a game as I am to underhandedly whine about the Steelers’ thuggery in one of my columns. This one is close, but given the Steelers’ depleted O-line, I gotta go with the Pack Attack.

edge: Anyone not getting hit by Harrison

receivers and Tight endsBoth these teams are going to

have to account for deep threats in this game, with speedsters Mike

Wallace and Greg Jennings on the field. Veterans Donald Driver and Hines Ward both bring experience to the table, but where this matchup gets decided is at the tight end po-sition. With Jermichael Finley on injured reserve since early on in the season, Donald Lee has filled in wonderfully for the Pack’s big man. Talented as Lee is, he can’t hang with the monstrous scoring threat that is Heath Miller. Miller is one of Ben’s favorite targets in the red zone, and given his size and hands, it’s easy to see why. When it’s time for a big third-and-goal, the Pack had bet-ter be accounting for the big ole’ Heath bar.

On a side note, be ready for the guy who figures out that you can make “Pulp Fiction” jokes with Wallace’s name halfway through the game. You’re going to need that preparation to prevent yourself from throttling him when he follows each of Wallace’s catches with, “WHAT DOES MIKE WALLACE LOOK LIKE?”

edge: Steelers

run gameRashard Mendenhall is quick and

powerful and has been putting up

numbers all season with a thin O-line. The key to this game is going to be if the Pack can stop the run, making Mendenhall the most im-portant guy on this side of the ball. Show me stats all day, but Menden-hall is a much better running back than James Starks. The good news, Green Bay fans? You don’t need to run the ball because you have Aaron Rodgers.

edge: Steelers

final ScorePittsburgh likes to make games

ugly slugfests, but the Packers like to run them in a more high-octane fashion. For that reason, we are go-ing to be somewhere in the middle. I predict a 24-21 Packers win, with Rodgers finally banishing the Brett Favre demon. No matter what the outcome, I bid you farewell, NFL season. Here’s to hoping you are around next

Sam Sheehan ’12 just wants another round of good, talking baby e-trade

ads out of this Super Bowl. talk sports with him at

sam_sheehan@brown.edu or follow him on twitter @Sam_Sheehan.

Sheehan ’12 picks Big Ben to fall in big game

Maclellan ’12 nominated for national award

first fifteen minutes of last Tuesday’s game, a decisive advantage they nev-er relinquished despite enterprising offensive play from Brown. Brown’s best opportunity to score came in the first period, when forward Lau-rie Jolin ’13 surged ahead to create a breakaway situation, only to be tripped from behind as she readied her shot. Although Jolin drew a pen-alty on the play, Bruno was unable to capitalize on the power play.

Brown outshot Yale in the game, 32-28, but some spectacular saves by Yale goalie Jackee Snikeris kept Brown scoreless, despite a relentless offensive effort. Yale forward Jackie Raines scored her team’s fourth goal in the final period. She deked around both a defender and Jamieson before slapping the puck into the open goal at point-blank range.

“We know we’re in a little bit of a slump at the moment,” said tri-captain Samantha Stortini ’11 after the game. “We have to stay positive and remember that we’re still a young team trying to pull together.”

Stortini said the team’s uneven performances contributed to the disappointing results.

“It’s consistency,” she said. “There are a couple of mental breakdowns here and there, and offensively, it’s finishing. It’s obviously frustrating when we are creating a bunch of chances and don’t score. We need to be getting goals — we’re working on challenging the other team and make them react to what we’re doing.”

“But our team is really a lot bet-ter than it seems on paper,” Stortini added. “It’s a little frustrating, but we can’t get down on ourselves, and we gotta keep pushing hard.”

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A diamond to the University, for tracking down a priceless Civil War-era sword stolen from the AnnMary Brown Memorial in the 1970s. Even if we don’t let ROTC back on campus, we’ll still be able to defend ourselves if RISD ever invades.

A diamond to Professor of Medical Science Barry Connors, who said “everyone’s getting squeezed” in his field. Your field sounds a lot like a Herald Happy Hour.

A cubic zirconium to the alum who said she and her friends all signed up for an existentialism class Thursdays at 1 p.m. to recap Wednesday nights at the Fish Company. We’re sure there’s something profound to be said about that, but we are way too hung over to figure out what.

Coal to the registrar, who bumped 380 students from POLS 1510: “Great Powers and Empires” after 680 people enrolled. The last time this many students suddenly found themselves with nothing to do on a Wednesday night was — well, when Fish Co. closed.

A diamond to the students studying abroad in Egypt who safely evacuated to the Czech Republic then home to the United States. With so many students still upset over the University’s decision to charge full Brown tuition for foreign programs, maybe every study abroad experi-ence should include a free trip to Prague.

Coal to Private Investigator Pat Brosnan, who explained his em-ployee didn’t intend to intimidate former Assistant Wrestling Coach Mike Burch when she called him from a blocked number by saying she “wanted to convey to him that there was no ulterior motive to the extent that she thought that this would be helpful to him to understand in some way.” That doesn’t help us understand in any way.

A cubic zirconium to the naked donut runner who defended the run by saying, “We’re not handing out drugs — we’re handing out do-nuts.” We just thought of an idea for a new naked run.

Coal to students locking bicycles to handrails rather than bike racks, who caused — according to Director of Disability Support Services Catherine Axe — a blind student to injure herself. We had a feeling the hipster trend of buying vintage fixed-speeds was detrimental to society, but now we know exactly how.

Coal to the Rhode Island General Assembly, for considering man-dating that Halloween fall on a Saturday every year, rather than Oct. 31. You can’t do that.

A caption on a photograph for an article in Thursday’s Herald (“Students safely home from Egypt,” Feb. 3) incorrectly described the image as “A view from the lens of Amanda Labora ’12.” Labora provided the image to The Herald, but Middlebury student Pathik Root took the photograph.

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In recent years, Rhode Island’s fiscal woes have repeatedly made national news. With a deficit of $427 million for fiscal year 2011 and a projected shortfall of $290 million for fiscal year 2012, legislators are hard pressed to en-gineer solutions to the budget crisis. Sin taxes — taxes on alcohol, tobacco and other prod-ucts considered by some to be, well, sinful — are a politically expedient and frequently used tactic to raise revenue.

Indeed, Rhode Island’s cigarette taxes are already the second highest in the coun-try, adding $3.46 to each pack. In light of the Ocean State’s solidly Democratic nature and the fact that sin taxes are generally favored by liberals, this figure seems set to grow.

Despite their popularity, sin taxes are un-just and economically destructive in the long run. They represent a blatant attempt by gov-ernment to regulate personal consumption choices based on an arbitrary set of moral and aesthetic preferences. In addition, sin taxes leave store owners vulnerable to com-petition from black markets, especially near state lines.

Sin tax proponents frequently argue that making unhealthy goods like cigarettes and junk food more expensive will result in a healthier populace. This may be true, but this assertion is based on the erroneous belief that one person’s health is the concern of the whole of society.

Rather, personal health is a matter of per-

sonal responsibility. Most of the negative ex-ternalities that arise from things like smoking and a high-fat diet are already borne by the consumer. Health insurance companies fre-quently charge higher premiums for smokers and biases against the obese are pervasive in modern American culture.

It is true that some health costs of tobac-co use accrue to government-funded health services. However, these expenses can be bet-ter managed by paying less in state benefits in cases of smoking-related illnesses. This way, the external costs associated with smoking

are paid solely by the ones who incur them.Furthermore, the ethical basis for impos-

ing sin taxes is rigid, allowing no variability in incentives and motivations between indi-viduals. Because the tax is applied per unit purchased, all smokers and all overeaters are equally guilty in the eyes of the tax code.

To understand why this is a problem, con-sider Alice. Alice has a terminal genetic dis-ease for which no cure has been discovered. In light of this, she has decided to take up smoking, since it helps her manage the stress of her condition and would be unlikely to al-ter her life expectancy anyway.

However, Alice, who lives in Manhattan,

has encountered difficulty in obtaining her nicotine fix. For every pack of cigarettes that Alice buys in New York City, she pays over $4 to a government that condemns her under-standable desire to “sin” as much as possible while she still can.

In Alice’s case, the justifications most often used by sin tax supporters fall flat. Her lifes-pan is unlikely to be affected by her choice to smoke, and because she has no children, no one is forcibly hurt by secondhand smoke when Alice lights up in the privacy of her own home.

The example of Alice is admittedly hy-perbolic, but in a way, that’s the point. When government policy emphasizes social engi-neering over personal freedom, the interests of outliers — people radically different from most Americans — tend to get trampled. Drug Enforcement Agency raids on medical marijuana dispensaries exemplify this phe-nomenon.

Consumers are far from the only ones adversely affected by sin taxes. Such taxa-tion also threatens the bottom line for store owners that sell tobacco and other frowned-upon goods. Because online distributors are exempt from sin taxes, the government effec-

tively eliminates the ability of local stores to compete on the basis of lower prices.

Even before the advent of online grocery shopping, wide sin tax differentials across state lines had a similar effect. For example, Washington’s tax on cigarettes is the fourth highest in the nation, at roughly $3.03 a pack, while neighboring Idaho’s tax per pack is a mere 57 cents, one of the lowest in the country.

Such gaps deny shops at the edges of high-tax states a vital source of revenue, but they also generate profits for black market opera-tors by letting them buy from a cheap market and sell into a nearby market where prices are artificially inflated. The state is, in effect, tak-ing money from established shopkeepers and handing it to smugglers.

Given popular misconceptions of smok-ers as addicts and obese people as gluttons, it’s easy for voters to see sin taxes as an effort to protect certain groups from themselves. However, is a thin person who buys a candy bar not taxed equally? Is a first-time smoker not taxed equally?

Sin taxes send the message that citizens — all citizens — are so inept at guarding their own welfare that the government needs to nudge them toward what it deems the right choices, which it is specially equipped to identify. Moreover, every sin tax increase rep-resents food taken from the mouths of shop-keepers who often rely on revenue from to-bacco sales. Then again, if the shopkeeper is overweight, sin tax proponents are unlikely to mind.

Hunter Fast ’12 thinks that an ideal world would involve a sin tax on Kesha’s albums.

Just say ‘no’ (to the nanny state)

In a recent Herald column, Chris Norris-LeB-lanc ’13 rightly cautioned students against disregarding the political and historical con-texts that led to the removal of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps from the University (“The ROTC Question,” Jan. 28). As a history concentrator, I applaud his column on prin-ciple. But I think we would be remiss if we did not also examine our current political situa-tion, as well as the way the government is or-ganized today.

In the wake of the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” I had an interesting conversation via e-mail with one of my professors, from which I have largely extracted my argument.

First off, I want Brown students to have the opportunity to attain officer status with-in the military, which is hard to do without an ROTC chapter. I do not think that Brown students who wish to serve their country by joining the military should be limited to en-listing. Not many Brown graduates would like a $17,000 starting salary.

I want the military leadership to have Brown students in it. It is the only way the military will ever see the serious reform the left clamors for. As a liberal institution, Brown should be all for change within the military structure. As much as progressives might attack the military, it is here to stay. I think it would be far better to change how our military thinks, is viewed and acts around the

world than just complain about it.Brown does not have the lightest tuition

burden, and financial aid does not go far enough for some families. ROTC is the only way many students can attend college, and there is no reason to limit our applicant pool and discourage promising students by elimi-nating military financial support.

Most importantly, when polled a full year before the repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” 41.3 percent of Brown students said they would support reinstating ROTC, while only 25 percent listed some degree of disapproval (“Herald Poll: Students more satisfied with

advising,” Nov. 6, 2009). Given that its remov-al in 1971 was mainly student-led, I think it is appropriate that we should listen to students.

Norris-LeBlanc pointed to student orga-nization around the subject — many more anti-ROTC groups than pro-ROTC — but I would posit that this is most likely due to the fierce feelings about anti-discrimination that Brown students tend to have. Only weeks after the repeal, we cannot expect student groups to change their orientation so quickly. Two months ago, being pro-ROTC was the

same as being anti-gay at Brown. Now, that is not true.

My final point is not a practical point but rather a point of contention I have with many ROTC nay-sayers. Many of them point to the historical context in which ROTC was banned from Brown and so many other schools — the Vietnam War. Where they see an anti-military statement, I see that ban as a sign of protest. Protests are meant to be tem-porary. They are not meant to be new poli-cies.

The meaning of that protest vanished in the years after the Vietnam War. When

ROTC was first banned, much of America was still supportive of the war, but that had changed by the mid-1970s. The fact that it was never reinstated meant that when Brown students were outraged about “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” they had nothing they could do as a vehement sign of protest — for example, re-banning ROTC. Instead, we have muddled all these issues together into the ban without positing a viable alternative.

The experiment with not having liberal in-stitutions participate in ROTC and the mil-

itary is over, and I believe it to have been a failed experiment. We see the same stale lead-ership today as we have in decades past, and there is little that points to major reform out-side of the civilian command. We do not elect our leaders in the military, but we sure do get to decide who can qualify. By hamstringing our fellow students, we are just creating our own future headaches.

The only point that gives me pause is one that my professor reminded me of. We pride ourselves as Americans for having a volun-teer army, but most of us know that this is an illusion. The military is a convenient escape from many situations, and often the only es-cape. Those facing poverty often do not have the means to pursue their education without the financial help that the military provides. I can only hope that a new generation of lib-eral, Brown officers in the military will bring some sort of change to this situation.

The repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” is not the end to discrimination in the military. But I would like to think that it might have happened faster, and that all positive change might happen faster, if the military includ-ed more Brown graduates. Reestablishing ROTC on campus is not a white flag of sur-render to issues such as discrimination or re-ducing the size of the military. It is picking up the gauntlet to the challenge of military re-form in the United States, and accepting plu-rality here at Brown.

Susannah Kroeber ‘11 would like to thank Professor Michael Vorenberg, whose e-

mailed inquiries into this subject helped her attain (some) lucidity.

ROTC at Brown: When a statement becomes a policy

Where they see an anti-military statement, I see that ban as a sign of protest. Protests are meant to be temporary.

They are not meant to be new policies.

When government policy emphasizes social engineering over personal freedom, the interests of outliers —

people radically different from the “average American” — tend to get trampled.

HUNTER FASTopinions editor

BY SUSANNAH KRoEBERopinions Columnist

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Sports FridayFriday, February 4, 2011

By SuDarShan SriramanSportS Staff Writer

It was another tough week for the women’s hockey team, as it suffered decisive 4-0 defeats to Harvard and Yale and a lopsided 6-0 defeat to Dartmouth. Although competitive for two of three periods in each game, crucial defensive lapses in one period proved catastrophic for a team still seeking its first win in 2011.

harvard 4, Brown 0 A rampant Harvard (12-7-2,

11-3-2 Ivy) offense was initially blunted by Brown’s defense, led by goaltender Katie Jamieson ’13, last Friday. But Harvard forward Liza Ryabinka found the net 10 minutes into the first period, making full use of a power play. Though the Bears (2-17-3, 1-11-3) created several opportunities, they were unable to convert on any of their ten shots in the first period.

Harvard surged out in the sec-ond period, doubling its lead just over a minute into the frame, when defender Josephine Pucci received a beautiful pass from Jillian Dempsey in the Brown half. With a clear one-on-one opportunity a few feet away from the net, Pucci made no mistake and doubled Harvard’s lead. Critical lapses in defense with five minutes remaining in the middle period re-sulted in two goals within a minute. Crimson defender Marissa Gedman

managed to thread a shot past a crush of skaters to beat a screened Jamieson. Harvard then took full advantage of another power play, scoring its third goal of the period and effectively putting the game out of reach for the Bears.

Though Brown picked up its in-tensity and threatened in the final period, tallying eight shots, Harvard goalie Laura Bellamy kept the puck out of the net. Despite conceding the four goals, Jamieson recorded a massive 50 saves on the game.

Dartmouth 6, Brown 0Brown was playing from behind

from the outset of the following night’s game. Dartmouth (14-8-0, 10-6-0) forward Camille Dumais scored in the first minute of play to give her team an early advantage before Bruno and its fans could blink. Strong defensive play from both teams ensured no change to the score for the next 35 minutes, despite steady pressure exerted by both of-fenses. With five minutes left in the second period, Dartmouth added to its total, as forward Amanda Trunzo converted an opportunity created by a fine Dumais pass.

Dartmouth exploded in the final period, scoring four goals. Dumais

and Trunzo continued to dominate, with Dumais completing her hat trick with two goals, assisted on both by Trunzo. Trunzo scored the final goal of the game to cap a dominating victory for the Big Green.

Yale 4, Brown 0For the second consecutive game,

the Bears’ opposition grabbed the lead early in the first period. A com-bination of brilliant positional play, fine passing and more than a few fortuitous bounces saw Yale (6-14-2, 5-9-1) surge to a 3-0 lead within the

Icers’ season-long losing streak now eight

By Sam SheehanSportS ColumniSt

The other day, I saw an advertise-ment for “The Social Network,” a best picture nominee. In case you missed it, the movie is about this guy named Mark Zuckerberg who made a website that allowed people you’ve never met to look at pictures of you and invite you to slam poetry read-ings. Anyway, this new trailer features the intense Kanye West song “Power” in the background, presumably to highlight Zuckerberg’s hubris and pursuit of money presented in the film. The song has one of those catchy beats you end up singing under your breath until all of your friends want to strangle you.

Even though the TV was show-ing Andrew Garfield smashing a computer and jabbing his finger in Jesse Eisenberg’s face, the only thing I could think was, “Yeah, I’m definitely seeing a montage of big plays with this over the top of it come Sunday.” And why not? There’s a lot of power tied up in this Super Bowl. The Steel-ers are pursuing their third Super Bowl in six years. That would give quarterback Ben Roethlisberger his third title and move him into a tie among active quarterbacks for cham-pionships with Tom Brady.

Excuse me (vomits). Okay, I’m good for now.

Yes, a win this Sunday would al-low Roethlisberger to plop his ample frame in the discussion for best quar-terbacks of this era. Of course, he’ll have to go through a fellow candidate in Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers. It’s a game with some in-triguing matchups, so I think it would be fun for us to run through some of them and analyze which team has the edge.

QuarterbacksHow on Earth do you make a

team — led by a guy who has two championships and has willed his team through the playoffs — the un-derdog when you have never played in a Super Bowl before? You put up a quarterback rating of 109.2 and throw for 790 yards in the playoffs. You go into the No. 1 seed’s house and drop four touchdowns on them. You “put on the championship belt” whenever you have a big play. In short, you be Aaron Rodgers.

Big Ben has been playing well, but no one is playing better than Rodg-ers. Like Ben, he can extend a play with his legs, throw on the run and scramble for yardage when nothing is there. He also has an absolute can-non for an arm, and can thread the ball into tight coverage better than Roethlisberger can. In this quarter-back matchup, I take the real A-Rod.

edge: Packers

Super SundayBy maria aCaBaDo

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Jack Maclellan ’12 still has one year to go at Brown, but he has already earned an impressive number of ac-colades for his efforts on the men’s hockey team. Before Brown, Maclel-lan was named Rookie of the Year during his 2006-2007 season with the Calgary Canucks of the Alberta Junior Hockey League, and he hasn’t slowed down since. During his soph-omore season, Maclellan played in 36 of 37 games and led the Bears in points (34) and goals (15). Most re-cently, Maclellan has been nominated for the Hobey Baker Award, given to the top NCAA men’s hockey player of the season. For his outstanding efforts with the men’s hockey team, The Herald has named Maclellan Athlete of the Week.

Herald: Being from Canada, was

it pretty much a no-brainer that you would dedicate yourself to hockey?

Maclellan: Yeah, up in Canada it’s basically the main sport. Kids kind of get started when they’re young, and it’s definitely the biggest sport up there. I think I was about four years old when I started playing organized hockey.

do you follow any other sports? To be honest, not really. I follow

hockey pretty closely, but that’s about it.

Compared to other sports, how violent do you actually think hockey is?

It’s definitely a physical sport — there’s not a lot of sports where play-ers are colliding with each other at such high speeds. But I don’t see it as being a whole lot more violent like a sport like football. The biggest difference between hockey and al-most any other sport is that in hockey — basically at every level except for college — you can fight, and it’s just a

five-minute penalty. So lots of people don’t agree with that, but it’s kind of just a part of the game.

What made you decide to come

to Brown three years ago? I just had the opportunity to go to

an Ivy League school, and it was an opportunity that I wouldn’t have had without hockey. There’s not a lot of people from where I’m from that get a chance to go to a school like Brown. I was recruited by the coaches my

last year of junior hockey, and I just thought it was a huge opportunity and I didn’t want to let it pass me by.

Can you talk about the dynamic of the team this year and how that affects your personal game?

It’s the best team I’ve been on since I’ve been here. And I think it has a lot to do with both the new players the coaching staff has brought in and kind of the systems they’ve employed since they’ve come in. But the coaches have been great, and they’ve kind of got us playing a different style of hockey. … Our trademark is being an in-your-face kind of team — we play hard and we don’t make it easy for the opposition to get a win. We’re a top team, and we’ve got a lot of offensive upside this year compared to years past, so that’s kinda helped me a lot. … The opportunity to play with some really good players that I’ve played with has been huge for me.

How do you feel about being nominated for the Hobey Baker Award?

It’s obviously a huge honor. I mean, I didn’t expect it to happen. And as a junior, still with a year left, it’s a huge honor just to be mentioned with some of the names of other play-ers in the country that are also up for the award. And I don’t know what the next step with that is, and if this

Maclellan ’12 enters the national spotlight

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Jonathan Bateman / HeraldJack Maclellan ‘12, Brown’s leading scorer, made the short list for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, given to the best men’s college hockey player.

Jonathan Bateman / HeraldEven though she allowed four goals, Katie Jamieson ‘13 had a whopping 50 saves in Friday night’s game against Harvard.

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