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vol. cxlv, no. 27 | Monday, March 8, 2010 | Serving the community daily since 1891

w SBy nicole Boucher

StaffWriter

President Ruth Simmons is one o

our people who will be awarded an

honorary degree rom Wesleyan

University May 23, according to an

e-mail sent to the Wesleyan com-

munity.

Wesleyan is an important in-

stitution, widely respected or its

excellence and unique approach to

education, Simmons wrote in an

e-mail to The Herald. I am proud to

receive an honor rom an institution

that I respect so much.

Recipients o honorary degrees

are chosen by a committee, said Da-vid Pesci, director o media relations

at Wesleyan. Students, aculty, sta

and alumni nominate people whom

they consider trailblazers and out-

standing citizens, and then the de-

cisions are made through a closed

committee process, he said.

We try to select people that

we think are representative o the

values we hold here at Wesleyan,

Pesci said.

Simmons is in very good com-

pany, he added. This year, Wes-

leyan will also award commence-

ment speaker Denver Mayor John

Hickenlooper, who was selected as

one o Time magazines top big-

city mayors in 2005. Stanley Cavell,

proessor emeritus o philosophy

at Harvard, and Richard Winslow,

proessor emeritus o music at

B C C bBy goda thangada

SeniorStaffWriter

A world-renowned laboratory,

an institution connected with 53

Nobel laureates, ormalized its

relationship with Brown recently.While the Marine Biological Labo-

ratory o Woods Hole, Mass., has

hosted graduate students in con-

junction with Brown since 2003,

the Corporation ormally created

the Phyllis and Charles M. Rosen-

thal Directorship o the Brown-

MBL Partnership at its meeting

last month.

The directorship is sponsored

by a donation o more than $2

million rom Trustee Emeritus

Charles Rosenthal P88 P91 and

his wie, Phyllis Rosenthal P88

P91. Rosenthal, who has served

on MBLs board since the incep-

tion o the partnership, called the

program the brainchild o adminis-

trators at both institutions.

In addition to the programs

new director, Christopher Neill,

the partnership is adding our

MBL scientists to Browns ac-

ulty as part-time proessors. The

programs rst three graduates

completed their degrees in 2009,ater spending two years at Brown

and the rest o their time at Woods

Hole, according to Rosenthal.

Though his own children

studied art history and the visual

arts at Brown, Rosenthal said he

started to become more interested

in the partnership when he began

talking to scientists, ollowing his

appointment to the board.

I got more and more excited,

he said. Rosenthal, who called

himsel a layman, said he was in-spired by people who dedicated

their lives to discovery and by the

discoveries that have had major

implications or the world.

C , b Y b By alex Bell

SeniorStaffWriter

The city prosecutor has dismissed

disorderly conduct charges against

Chris Young, the mayoral candi-

dates lawyers announced on Fri-

day.

Young was arrested in Novem-

ber at a health-care orum in An-

drews Dining Hall during which he

tossed a pro-lie video at Rep. Pat-

rick Kennedy, D-R.I., and reused

to relinquish the microphone at the

request o the orums moderator

and police ocers.

Im a ree man again, Youngsaid. Its been a hard battle.

Young said he is seriously con-

sidering pursuing civil charges

against the University.

Theyve obviously violatedmy reedom o speech rights and

reedom o religion rights, but also

theyve suppressed speech that is

based on issues that involve race,

he said. That is a constitutional vio-

lation that cant be overlooked.

Young said he is hoping to take

action against the University un-

der a ederal law that allows or the

prosecution o anyone who causes

a citizens constitutional rights to

be violated.

Young said the University has

not yet contacted him about its

December order that he not enter

University property. The order wasissued in a retaliatory manner or

his vocal opposition to the arming o

A , By Kristina Fazzalaro

StaffWriter

The scene in Salomon 101 Sunday

aternoon was a ar cry rom this

mornings lecture in ECON 0110:

Principles o Economics. Instead

o supply-and-demand curves, the

Education through Cultural and

Historical Organization Perorm-

ing Arts Festival presented stories

o childhood, love and amily.

The stories were beautiully

woven together through song and

dance by perormers rom native and

non-native communities o Alaska,

Hawaii, Mississippi, Massachusetts

and Portugal. They came together

to share their societies values and

teach important lessons about re-

spect, jealousy and vanity.

This was Browns second year

welcoming the estival, according

to Geralyn Homan, curator o pro-grams and education at the Haen-

reer Museum o Anthropology,

one o the events sponsors. The

theme o this years perormance

was Celebrate Song, Dance and

Story!, and that is exactly what the

perormers conveyed. Whether

gathering audience members on

stage to partake in a Choctaw Indian

wedding dance or telling the more

somber story o the No Face Girl,

whose refection is stolen because o

her intense narcissism, the perorm-

ers obvious joy and pride in sharing

their traditions showed through.

The organization is a ederally

unded educational and cultural en-

richment organization established as

part o 2001s No Child Let Behind

Act, according to Merry Glosband,

o the Peabody Essex Museum in

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a b b f bThe joint venture, which enrolled

its rst students in 2003, was meant

to strengthen Browns graduate pro-

grams in science as part o President

Ruth Simmons plans or urthering

the sciences at Brown, he said.

MBL had a distinguished his-

tory and pedigree, he said. It

was and is the oldest pr ivate lab in

the U.S. and, I suspect, the world.

Brown, on the cheap, happened into

world-renowned science.

As with any ambitious academic

initiative, the commitment to build-

ing a relationship with another in-

stitution involved the approval oadministrators, aculty and Corpora-

tion members.

Because the process involved

two independent institutions, eorts

needed to be doubled. It takes two,

Rosenthal said.

While other schools, including

Harvard, have ull-fedged indepen-

dent programs in the ecological sci-

ences, Brown was looking to bolster

its own program with the limited

resources at hand. Still, the partner-

ship is not a coup or just Brown.

Good deals are good deals i

both parties benet, Rosenthal

said.

As a sot-money institutionrunning primarily on grants won

by individual scientists, MBL does

not oer tenured appointments.

Through Brown, MBL has access to

additional sources o unding. Also,

MBL is not a degree-granting institu-

tion, and prior to the joint programs

creation, students studied there only

sporadically and through a summer

program.

This all ts together, Rosenthal

said.

The partnership will proceedwith the input o researchers, but

the catalyst or the programs de-

velopment was the administration.

The real impetus came rom the

highest levels at Brown and MBL,

Neill said. But given this top-down

process, the people who are doing

this have stepped up, Neill said,

reerring to the researchers.

n

The partnerships inaugural di-

rector is Neill, an MBL senior sci-

entist studying ecosystems, who

said he was oered the job in late

November. While his new positionis a joint appointment split evenly

between the two institutions, our

MBL scientists will hold part-time

appointments at Brown. Three o the

our will belong to the Department

o Geology, Neill said.

The establishment o the direc-

torship puts the program under one

roo, said Neill, whose own appoint-

ment will be with the Department o

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

Though he began traveling to Brown

twice a week in January, Neill said he

expects to settle down and acquire

a permanent oce in the coming

months.

The ultimate shape o the pro-

gram is open-ended, and the pace o

growth depends on those who par-

ticipate in the program, Neill said.

The program is not looking to

grow explosively, but quite steadi-

ly, Neill said.

There is not necessarily a set

research agenda, but the our joint

appointments are intended to oster

interaction between specic proes-

sors at both institutions, he said, add-

ing that scientists will need to take

the initiative to begin collaboratingno matter how much inrastructure

the partnerships administration de-

velops.

Immediate steps include building

the graduate programs curriculum,

especially by creating upper-level

courses in ecosystems and ecol-

ogy.

The newly expanded partnership

will also benet Browns under-

graduates scientists rom MBL

will oer new courses and provide

them with research opportunities,

Neill said.

One o the programs goals, Neill

said, was to develop a broader um-brella or environmental research

by integrating dierent academic

disciplines.

For example, MBL a biological

institute could not draw on work

in geology and the social sciences

beore its partnership with Brown.

Now, MBL is more o a player in

that sort o discussion, Neill said.

It was a partnership that seemed

logical, he said.

a

Though he has advocated or ex-

panding the program, the major im-

petus or the program came rom the

administration, according to Mark

Bertness, proessor o biology and

the chair o the Department o Ecol-

ogy and Evolutionary Biology.

The partnership was kind o

like an arranged marriage, Bert-

ness said.

Its absolutely mutually ben-

ecial, he said. MBLs scientists

rely on grants to und their work,

while at Brown, we dont have the

weird mentality o wondering where

the next dollar is coming rom, he

said.

When the partners rst began to

interact, Bertness said, there were

massive cultural dierences.MBLs unique quality is that it is a

eld laboratory creating a trade-

o, Neill said, between the desire

to educate and the desire to ocus

on research.Among the scientists at MBL,

there are some who are not in-

volved, not interested, he said.

But younger scientists are much

more open to diversiying the work

they do and the way they go about

doing it.

This choice must be an individual

one, Neill said. Each person at MBL

is ree to choose the level o engage-

ment.

We had to spend a ew years

letting the cultures grow together,

Bertness said. Ater a ew years,

things were going well enough thatwe needed to institutionalize.

Hugh Ducklow, who runs MBLs

Ecosystems Center, said that despite

the institutions distinct cultures,

there are lots o other intellectual

reasons or the partnership. For

example, Ducklow said, he appre-

ciates the act that MBL scientists

can advise graduate students. Duck-

low has mentored students in the

joint graduate program and taken a

Brown alum with him on a research

expedition to Antarctica.

There are synergies between

research and education, he said.

Shelby Hayhoe GS, a third-yeardoctoral candidate in ecology and

evolutionary biology, is writing her

thesis under two advisers, Neill and

Assistant Proessor o Biology Ste-

phen Porder.Only in this collaboration can I

do the project Im doing now, said

Hayhoe, who studies the conver-

sion o rainorest to soybean agri-

culture in South America. Though

she primarily works with Neill in

the eld and with Porder while she

is at Brown, Hayhoe said the open

communication between all three

o them made the project work, de-

spite the risk that a student might

get lost in the shufe between two

institutions.

Im psyched about it, Hayhoe

said about the new directorship. Ex-

panding and becoming more orga-nized can only be a good thing.

cm f

The partnership is developing

at a time when other projects in the

sciences are coming to the Univer-

sitys attention and Brown has

considerably ewer resources to

und them all.

In act, investment in the part-

nership was not approved at last

Februarys Corporation meeting,

according to Bertness.

There is massive competition

or resources, he said. Browns em-

phasis on investing in the sciences

is positive, he said, but it should notcome at the expense o the humani-

ties.

You have to pick and choose,

Rosenthal said, noting that the part-

nership is not very expensive.

Instead o draining resources,

Rosenthal said, the program will

likely attract more investment. The

tools are there, he said.

For scientists and students, the

partnership already represents a

productive research collaboration.

Over time they will grow much

closer together, Bertness said.

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Ab bk S.By sarah Julian

StaffWriter

The start o the 2010 Ambassador

Program has been postponed rom

January to September o this year

because the program requires a

signicant amount o time rom

participants and the eatured de-

partments, according to the Brown

and the Economy Web site.

The Ambassador Program

was created to provide aculty

and sta with the opportunity

to learn more about Brown. It is

application-based, and i accepted,

University employees spend oneday each month learning about

a new acet o lie at Brown. This

might mean spending a day at the

Sharpe Reectory learning about

how ood is prepared, or traveling

to the Admission Oce to get an

up-close view o the application

process.

During this time o change

we eel that it would not be appro-

priate to ask colleagues or this

kind o time commitment, a post

on the Web site said.

The year-long program will now

coincide with the academic year,

rather than the calendar year.

Judith Nabb, a coordinator orthe program, said she and the Cen-

ter or Sta Learning and Proes-

sional Development are takingthe time until the new start date

to evaluate the program.

According to Nabb, the pro-

gram was initially given three years

o unding. Because 2010 marks

its third year, Nabb and her col-

leagues have to make (their) case

in terms o benets, she said. We

think it has a good case.

I think it reenergizes people

and makes them eel connected,

Nabb said. For this reason, she

said, she loves watching olks go

through it and seeing how they

draw inspiration rom it.

Adjunct Lecturer in PublicPolicy Jennier Slattery-Bownds,

a 2008 ambassador and manager

or career and employment devel-

opment , said the program has a

lasting impact on her daily work

activities. Slattery-Bownds said

she understands the challenges

the economy created or the Uni-

versity, but she called the program

a vital part o proessional devel-

opment.

I am more eective in my roles

at Brown because I am an ambas-

sador, she said. In times like this,

it is more important than ever to

keep employee programs that

keep up morale and maintain loy-alty. Browns Ambassador Program

does just that.

F-k By Jonathan chou

ContributingWriter

Last weeks announcement that In-sourced a group o eight resh-

men won the Residential Lie rst

pick contest led to multiple accusa-

tions o illegitimate campaigning and

guideline violations, sparking heated

debate among students.

The winners were accused o

violating campaign guidelines, as

well as making their video longer

than three minutes and 30 seconds,

the maximum length allowed by the

rules. Both accusations are alse,

though, according to members o

the Residential Council. ResCouncil

Chair Ben Lowell 10 and Housing

Lottery Committee Chair JillianRobbins 11 both conrmed there

were no preexisting regulations on

campaigning, and that the actual

ootage o all videos was within the

time limit.

The accusations against In-

sourced stemmed mainly rom the

groups campaign strategy. The

group gave out candy in exchange

or votes, roamed around dining

halls and libraries soliciting votes

and walked around campus in ap-

parel that advertised the video, said

Daniel Lowry 12.

Some irst pick contestants

exchanged e-mails discussing

Insourceds strategies ater thegroups win was announced, said

Anish Sarma 12, another contestant

in the rst pick contest.

All the teams couldve done the

same thing, Sarma said. The bot-

tom line was that they got the most

votes.

Lowry said that he wasnt sur-

prised that Insourced won, since

the competition is no longer about

the best video, it is about who is

most aggressive.

These tactics were not unheard

o in previous years, Robbins said,

adding that to a degree, every group

campaigned, at the very least by cre-

ating a group on Facebook. Robbins

said it is hard to believe contestants

thought making a Facebook group

was sucient.

She added that Insourced had

no way o actually orcing people

to vote, because students had to in-

put their usernames and passwords

beore they could vote. Voting can

be inormed or uninormed, Rob-

bins said.

The rst pick contest is a vot-

ing competition, Lowell said, and

campaigning is expected and al-

lowed. Thus, the debate about the

way Insourced campaigned did not

worry ResCouncil so much as the

general attitude with which contes-

tants approached the competition,

he said.

Over the past ew years, this

year and last, its become less un

and riendly, Lowell said. People

have gotten more serious and acri-

monious.

The purpose o the contest is

to encourage the students to get

excited about the housing lottery

and to generate buzz, Robbins

said. Because students are losing

their ocus on the contests purpose,

there is a possibility that the rst

pick contest may not take place next

year, she said.

The more trouble it gives the

Residential Council, the less theyll

want to continue the contest, Sarma

said.

Nick Sinnott-Armstron / Heral

A rops campain to win this ears first pick contest pset othercontestants.

Brown police and the Universitys

tax-exempt status, Young said.

Their agenda, clearly, is also

tied to my desire to investigate Ruth

Simmons and her role with Gold-

man Sachs as well as her role on the

Council on Foreign Relations and

why these university presidents are

making so much money, he said.

Now that the case is dismissed,

Young said he eels the University

should rescind the notice not to

trespass that has prohibited him

rom entering Browns campus and

any building or property owned or

leased by Brown.

In January, Vice President or

Public Aairs and University Rela-tions Marisa Quinn told The Herald

the restriction would continue until

the Department o Public Saety

deems that the individual is no

longer a threat to the saety and

security o the campus.

The charge against me was

dismissed, Young said, adding

that the University no longer has

grounds to prohibit him rom enter-

ing University property. I have had

no due process whatsoever when

it comes to this order against me.

Clearly, I am not guilty o anything.

I committed no crime, and I am a

political candidate who has the right

to campaign, but theyve restricted

me rom one-third o the city.The no-trespass order remains

in eect, Quinn wrote in an e-mail

to The Herald.

This issue will not disappear

just because we won this case,

Young said. There needs to be an

example set in regards to policies

that stop ree speech in public o-

rums like this and that violate the

ability o a candidate to campaign

in a city.

Young said he will be going

onto the property adjacent to Brown

University later this week to see i

police arrest him, but he declined

to share more details.

Wesleyan, will also be honored, ac-

cording to the Wesleyan community

e-mail.

The our recipients are all distin-

guished in their elds or contribu-

tions to public policy or scholarship,

Pesci said.

Simmons has the respect o just

about anyone in academia or her

leadership, he added.

This is not the rst honorary de-

gree that Simmons has received. She

has been the recipient o honorary

degrees rom over 25 institutions,

including Harvard, Princeton and

Amherst College, according to her

biography on the Brown Web site.

Still, Simmons wrote that she

considers this and any such award

to have meaning because it serves

as recognition o Browns excel-

lence.

Just as Brown oten honors

individuals or the success o the

institutions they lead, so do others,

she wrote.

Dean o the College Katherine

Bergeron wrote in an e-mail that

she was thrilled her undergradu-

ate alma mater was celebrating

Simmons. It seems just right that

Wesleyan should honor a woman

who has stood or the same kind o

ree and reeing liberal education

that Wesleyan itsel has ostered

through many years in its history,

she wrote.

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Salem, Mass., who has helped orga-

nize the national tour.Ten years ago, one o the organiza-

tions members rom Hawaii suggest-

ed storytelling perormance, which

evolved into the estival o today, she

said.

We provide them with a theme

and they bring their own stories,

Glosband said. Cast members rom

around the country spent only two

weeks in Alaska making the script and

then began a nationwide tour.

One o the board members saw

the perormance they did in New

Bedord last year and loved it, Ho-

man said. So we got them to come

to Brown. It was wonderul and weinvited them to come again.

Last years cast included Nitana

Hicks 03, Glosband said. Nitana

said that her rst day as a reshman

at Brown was spent in this auditori-

um, Glosband said. With her amily

and riends here, perorming in the

show in Salomon was like coming

home or her.

The estival had an intimate, amil-

ial eel about it. The perormers had a

warm rapport among them that spilled

over into the small group o Brown

students and Providence amilies that

attended the event.

Jose Manuel Vinagre, a Portu-

guese man rom the shing village

o Buarcos, opened with a powerul

song about his boyhood. The song

set the tone or the entire production.

As a boy, he said, he was mischievous

but loving.

How wonderul it was to be a boy,

how wonderul it was to have a amily

and to have hope in the uture, he

sang. It was like having a sun always

shining on you.

Even though each scene represent-

ed a dierent culture, the perormers

conveyed their stories seamlessly to

audience members. Traditional music

and instruments, such as the Hawai-

ian nose fute which, the audience

learned, is used to send messages

between loved ones created transi-tions rom one speaker to the next.

Answer me, my love. Let there

be no words between us, only breath,

only truth, sang Ani Lokomaikai Lip-

scomb to illustrate how the instru-

ments would work.

The estival was equal parts enter-

tainment and education. The perorm-

ers drew audiences in with their words

and dances and, in doing so, shed

knowledge on communities that are

generally let out o the limelight.

This perormance was represent-

ing a lot o communities that dont get

a lot o representation on campus,

said audience member and Hawai-

ian Kai Morrell 11. It was nice to

see people and culture rom where

Im rom.

The perormance ended with a

rapping recap o the lessons audience

members should have learned. Allison

Warden o the Inupiaq Eskimos, also

known by her rap name AKU-MATU,

summed up the perormance by incor-

porating traditional beats and sounds

with modern rhymes. Ending the es-

tival on a note o continuity, Warden

encouraged audience members not

only to learn about these cultures but

also to experience them in everyday

lie and ensure their continued ap-

preciation.

Arts & CultureThe Brown dail Heral

MONdAy, MARCH 8, 2010 | PAgE 4

S z S D w C kBy sara chiMene-Weiss

Contributing Writer

Terry Gips work hangs in the Smith-

sonian American Art Museum and

the National Museum o Women in

the Arts in Washington, D.C. Now,

some o it resides in a location more

convenient or most Brown students:

the Sarah Doyle Womens Center

Gallery.

The show, Sheep o Many Col-

ors, is part o a larger project, called

The Dolly Project, which Gips has

been working on or about ten years,

she said. The exhibit came about

as the result o her ascination with

sheep, urthered by her interest in

Dolly, the sheep cloned in 1996 at the

Roslin Institute in Scotland. Dolly

captured the worlds attention: She

was on magazine covers and all over

the news, raising questions about the

ethics o cloning and technology.

Gips, at the time a proessor at

the University o Maryland, said she

was struggling with parallel issues

in the art world. Art proessors and

students were dealing with the ques-

tions raised by digital art. In par ticu-

lar, she said she saw the connection

between Dolly and what it means

to be able to duplicate an image a

hundred times with little eort.

The work on display at the cen-

ter represents a range o styles and

mediums. This includes classic, wa-

ter-based monotypes such as Two

Sheep: Observations, as well as

multimedia works such as Sheeps

Clothing, pigmented prints o sheep

stitched into the shape o clothes and

displayed along with ound items

o clothing. Other work displayed

includes small three-dimensional

houses constructed o prints o

sheep.

Some o the other prints on dis-

play are Gips own photography,

taken in Ireland, Scotland, England

and the United States.

The largest piece on display is

called While Shepherds Watched,

which covers almost an entire wall.

The piece is a tapestry o pigmented

prints o sheep, text, yarn, wool and

rope. Gips explained that the text is

a list o known breeds o sheep

some now extinct and the photos

are o sheep rom old British cata-

logues rom the late 19th century.

Gips said this work represents an

indication o what has been.

The show, on display through

March 24, is one o the three proes-

sional artist shows this semester at

the gallery. According to Brooke

Hair 10, a visual arts concentra-

tor and the gallerys coordinator, a

board composed o aculty and

sta rom Brown, Providence Col-

lege and the University o Rhode

Island and a proessional artist

sends out a yearly call or submis-

sions. The group usually receives

6080 submissions a year, and rom

those chooses ve or six to display

throughout the year, Hair said.

Just as the collection is unique,

the Sarah Doyle Womens Center

Gallery is not a typical white-walled

gallery, but a ormer house with a

replace, Hair added. It can be a

challenge, but also a way or artists

to make dierent work.

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Award-winning writer and edu-

cator Naomi Shihab Nye will

present her poetry in the ree

and public event, Everything

Comes Next Daily Rebirth

Through Reading and Writ-

ing, hosted by Moses Brown

School, in the schools Alumni

Hall, March 11 at 7 p.m.

Nye has written and edited

more than 25 volumes and

has been recognized by the

Guggenheim, Library o Con-gress, Academy o American

Poets and Pushcart Prizes.

Naomi has visited our cam-

pus in the past, said Sandi

Seltzer, Moses Browns com-

munications director. This will

be Nyes second visit to the

Moses Brown Annual Spring

Poetry Reading, ater her last

appearance eight years ago, she

added.

Moses Brown has been host-

ing readings rom well-known

poets or over a decade, she

said.

Nye was selected by the stu-

dents or this event. We host apoet every year, Seltzer said.

The students help pick a poet

who is usually o some note.

Previous eatured poets

include Taha Muhammad Ali,

Lucille Cliton, Mark Doty, Toni

Blackman and Billy Collins.

Cultural Connections, an

organization that coordinates

events relating to the arts,

asked Nye to come to Provi-

dence.

But Nyes visit does not just

consist o a poetry reading. On

the day o the reading, she will

spend a day in the classroom

with students and will look at

their poems and work with them

as well, Seltzer said.

Currently, students are in

pairs working on Naomis

brand o poetry, Seltzer said.

As Nye draws rom her Pales-

tinian-American heritage in her

writing, her lesson will ask stu-

dents to draw rom their own

heritage, Seltzer said.

We think shes terriic, she

added. We enjoy the time she

spends with our kids.

Thursday night, the public isinvited to come, enjoy the read-

ing and share in something

that is educational and artistic,

she said.

This event is also part o

Raise Your Voice: Examining

Culture, Clash, Community and

Change, a our-month project

that uses artists, poets and

scholars to spread Martin Lu-

ther King, Jr.s work toward tol-

erance and nonviolent conlict

resolution throughout second-

ary schools and adult education

classes.

Raise Your Voice began

at the University o Rhode Is-

land, Seltzer said, and the proj-

ect is working with a number

o schools throughout Rhode

Island teaching King-ian non-

violence.

Nonviolent conlict resolu-

tion is very important to us,

she added.

The reading is sponsored by

Moses Brown, Cultural Connec-

tions, the International Institute

o Rhode Island, the Rhode Is-

land Council or the Humanities

and the National Endowment

or the Humanities.

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D b k, By tony BaKshi

SportS StaffWriter

This weekend was supposed to be

all about Browns two seniors. But it

was the opposing teams that ended

up celebrating on the Bears home

court both Friday and Saturday

night. The Cornell Big Red (27-4,

13-1 Ivy) clinched its third-straight

Ivy League title with a 95-76 victory,

and the Columbia Lions (11-17, 5-9

Ivy) deeated Brown, 65-56, sending

Matt Mullery 10 and Steve Gruber

10 home without a win on their last

weekend as collegiate players.

c 95, Bw 76

Cornell is ranked rst in the

nation in three-point shooting per-

centage, and the team showed that

against the Bears. In the rst three

minutes, the Big Red jumped out to

a 9-0 lead on threes rom orward

Jon Jaques and guard Chris Wro-

blewski.

But the Bears were not azed

and hung in the game with some

sharpshooting o their own. Gar-

rett Leelmans 11 jumper rom

beyond the arc closed the decit to

ve, 14-9. Another three-pointer by

Peter Sullivan 11, who nished with

a game-high 23 points, gave Bruno

its rst lead o the game midway

through the rst hal.

Cornell responded, continuing

to drain jumpers rom all corners o

the court on its way to a 47-36 leadwith 4:10 remaining. For the hal,

the Big Red shot an astounding 11

o 16 rom three-point range. But

again, Brown stormed back, cut-

ting Cornells haltime lead to our,

51-47. Brown entered the locker

room with an impressive statistic

o its own, shooting 16 o 27 59

percent rom the eld.

It was a sensational rst hal,

said Head Coach Jesse Agel. Our

guys were tremendous.

The game turned around in the

opening minutes o the second hal.

Cornell continued its hot shooting,

and Brown was unable to stay with

the Big Red. A 14-4 run by Cornell

again marked by threes rom

Jaques and Wroblewski ex-

tended the lead to 63-51 with 16:30

remaining.

We have a ton o shooters,

said Je Foote, Cornells center

and reigning Ivy Deensive Player

o the Year. I they all get hot at the

same time, its real tough to stop.

Those shooters carried the

Big Red to a comortable victory

in the second hal. Foote and his

teammates received the Ivy League

trophy ater the nal buzzer, to the

delight o the Big Red ans who had

made the trip to Providence.

cmb 65, Bw 56

On Senior Day, both Mullery

and Gruber made their presence

known on the court. Ater the pre-

game ceremony honoring both

players, Gruber joined Mullery as

a starter and logged ve assists in

28 minutes. Mullery who had

three rows o amily and riends in

the stands wearing red-and-black

Mullery #45 T-shirts scored 19

points, and passed Russ Tyler 71

P00 P02 or 16th on Browns all-

time leading scorer list with 1,134

career points.

But the Bears could not grab the

victory. Both the Bears and the Li-

ons players looked sluggish through-

out the game, with the exception o

Columbia senior orward Niko Scott,

who drained six three-pointers on the

way to a game-high 22 points. Brown

trailed by three, 26-23, at haltime,

and ultimately lost by nine.

Regardless, the Pizzitola crowd

gave Mullery a standing ovation as

he let the court or the nal time

with 6.2 seconds to go, a tting end

or his memorable career spent man-

ning the paint or Brown.

B I, CAC By dan alexander

SportS editor

The stakes couldnt have been any

higher. With Brown leading, 3-2, in

the last moments o the nal contest

in a three-game playo series and

the Rensselaer goaltender pulled

in avor o an extra attacker, Brown

goalie Michael Clemente 12 needed

to deny every shot that came his

way in order or the Bears to extend

their season.

He relished the pressure.

They had our or ve shots at

the end, Clemente said. That was

the best part o the game.

It was especially nice or Clem-ente since no pucks got behind him

and the Bears sealed the 3-2 victory

and the series. Brown won, 3-1, Fri-

day and lost, 4-1, Saturday.

The third game extended

Browns season at least another

week. The Bears will take on No. 6

Yale, the top team in the ECAC, in

a three-game series in New Haven

starting Friday night.

Bw 3, rpi 1

Browns weekend didnt start

as happily as it ended. Trailing 1-0

heading into the third period on

Friday night, the Bears struggled

to solve RPI goalie Allen York, whostopped everything coming his way

in the rst two periods.

But just 1:40 into the nal rame,

Jarred Smith 12 got the Bears on the

board. And only 1:13 ater Smiths

goal, Bobby Farnham 12 also beat

York to give Brown a 2-1 lead.

RPI players and coaches compli-

mented the Bears on their aggres-

sive style in the battle.

They play a ver y meat-and-po-

tatoes style o game, Paul Kerins,

who scored RPIs lone goal on the

night, told the Daily Gazette oSchenectady, N.Y. Theres not a

lot o fash to it.

Tri-captain Aaron Volpatti 10

added an empty-net goal with 1:05

remaining to extend Browns lead

to 3-1.

rpi 4, Bw 1

Browns win on Friday night

meant it was do-or-die or RPI on

Saturday.

I was nervous, RPI Head

Coach Seth Appert told the Daily

Gazette. We talked about havingour backs against the wall. It was

more like having our backs against

the cli.

The Engineers played like their

lives were on the line.

The Engineers got on the score-

board rst, and Volpatti evenedthe score, 1-1, beore the period

ended.

But with the score tied, 1-1, late

in the second period, RPI scored

two goals 1:35 apart. Chase Polacek

the nations leading goal-scorer

netted another in the third period

to give RPI its nal 4-1 lead.

Bw 3, rpi 2

No one in Browns locker room

was happy with the intensity in Sat-

urdays game.

The whole team decided to

come back today with more intensity

and more drive, Clemente said.Volpatti got Brown going with his

third goal o the series 7:05 ater the

puck dropped.

The Bears made it a 2-0 lead mid-

way through the second when Jack

Maclellan 12 scored on a ve-on-

three power play. And Chris Zaires

13 gave the Bears some high-pre-

mium insurance with his goal just 18

seconds into the nal rame, making

the score 3-0, Brown.

But it wasnt over yet. RPI scored

two third-period goals to narrow

the gap to just one goal, but they

couldnt get another one by Clem-

ente and the Bears skated o with

a win.It eels awesome, Maclellan

said. Were enjoying it or now, and

probably enjoying it the rest o the

night, and then ocusing on Yale

tomorrow.

B

By tory elMore

ContributingWriter

Eleven months ago, the womens

lacrosse team let Quinnipiac visibly

disappointed by a resounding 11-6

deeat.

But what a dierence a year can

make.

Sunday, the Bears walked o their

home tur with a dierent story written

on their aces. A late run gave them a

13-10 victory over the visiting Bobcats,avenging their loss last season.

The score was close throughout

the game, with Quinnipiac leading at

several points. But Brown reused to

let the game slip away.

Every game is a battle, said Paris

Waterman 11, who scored twice or the

Bears. Our condence in one another

is what pulls us out o tight games.

Just our days earlier, the Bears

let a one-goal lead at haltime versus

Boston University slide, eventually

losing, 9-5.

I think it shows how much we can

grow in just a matter o days, Water-

man said. We let BU go on Wednes-

day, but today we did everything we

could and held on. Im so proud.

Waterman was just one o seven

goal-scorers, including up-and-comer

Lindsay Minges 13 with three goals

and Kaela McGilloway 12 with our

goals and two assists.

Head Coach Keely McDonald 00

was also pleased with her teams per-

ormance.

We needed to stay composed to-

day, and we did. It was the key to our

success, she said.

Indeed, the Bears stayed poised,

even in the nal minutes as their oppo-

nents made several strong runs at goal.

The deense, anchored by tri-captainKiki Manners 10 and standout resh-

man Sidney Jacobs 13, held its own

until the very end, orcing oensive

mistakes and eeding the Bears o-

ense throughout the entire game.

It was close, but in the end, we

panicked and they stayed calm, said

Quinnipiac Head Coach Danie Caro.

Brown deserved to win.

Thats not to say her team didnt put

up a good ght. Marissa Caroleo was

erce on oense, scoring our times or

the Bobcats, while Kaitlyn Kelly also

stood out with seven draw controls,

two o which resulted in goals.

Brown improves to 2-1 on the sea-

son as the team approaches its Ivy

League opener next Saturday versus

Princeton. The Tigers are ranked ninth

nationally, one o three Ivy League

schools, including Penn and Dart-

mouth, in the top 20.

Brown needs to nish in the top

our o the Ivy League to qualiy or

the rst-ever Ivy Womens Lacrosse

tournament.

Princeton is a great team, Mc-

Donald said. But we cant think about

them. I we just ocus on our game,

we can win.

Were going to have lots o close

games, Waterman added. In the end,

we just have to get the job done.

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editorial

Just a ew days ago, a member o the editorial page

board was about to cross the street at Thayer and

Waterman when the light changed. Several students

ignored the fashing red hand and continued to walk,causing an exasperated driver to roll down his window

and yell, You got a 1400 on your SAT? You dont even

know how to cross the street.

Regarding the estimated SAT score, the driver

was a little o. Many o us beat 1400 on the 1600

scale, and i were considering scores on the 2400

scale, then a 1400 isnt exactly Brown material. But

his claim that Brown students seem sometimes not to

know how to cross the street was ar rom erroneous.

Indeed, many o us are oten reckless and impatient

pedestrians.

On weekdays, students food the streets when

classes end. The street in ront o J. Walter Wilson

in particular tends to ll with students, causing an

awkward dance between distracted pedestrians and

hurried drivers.Look around other parts o campus, and youre

likely to see students blatantly disregarding trac

rules and texting or e-mailing while they walk. As

many can attest, the driver we mentioned earlier

certainly isnt the rst to have a ew choice words

(or gestures) or student jaywalkers.

We want to see students to take greater individual

responsibility or their own pedestrian habits. The

rules o the roads and sidewalks are simple, and we

can all do a better job o ollowing them.

O course, even the most careul pedestrians can

still ace dangers. The Brown community continues

to mourn the death o Avi Schaeer 13, who was hit

by a driver subsequently charged with drunk driving.

Our call today or greater student responsibility on the

sidewalks isnt a response to the events that caused

Schaeers death, a tragedy that was the ault o one

unconscionably reckless motorist.

Nonetheless, Schaeers death has brought issues

o pedestrian saety to light and played a large role inprompting the University to create a pedestrian saety

review committee. The Herald reported Thursday that

the new committee will consider xes or dangerous

spots, promote awareness o pedestrian saety issues

and coordinate with local law enorcement.

The creation o this committee is a positive step,

and we want to highlight several problematic spots

or members to consider.

The Hope and Thayer intersection where Schaeer

was killed has long been considered dangerous and

rightly deserves to be among the committees top

priorities.

The Waterman and Brown intersection near Faunce

Arch and J. Walter Wilson could use a stop sign. As we

mentioned earlier, the pedestrian crossing there is ex-tremely busy and the existing yield-to-pedestrian sign

is not enough to ensure an orderly fow o trac.

The Charleseld and Brook intersection lacks a

stop sign and creates a hazard or residents o Barbour

Hall, Young Orchard Apartments and Perkins Hall.

Drivers requently ignore the yield-to-pedestrian

sign on Hope Street in ront o the Olney-Margolies

Athletic Center. This sign needs to be enorced.

With the combination o heightened individual eort

and improved trac rules or a ew specic spots, our

campus can become a saer place to walk and a less

stressul place to drive.

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As chair o the Physics Depart-

ment, my attention was naturally

drawn to Tyler Rosenbaums recent

column (No physicists need apply,

March 3). What activity or organiza-

tion would not welcome physicists

with open arms? Imagine my sur-

prise when I read o Rosenbaums

concern about Phi Beta Kappas pos-

sible discrimination against science

students.

In act, o the 40 juniors (rep-resenting less than 3 percent o the

junior class) selected or member-

ship in Phi Beta Kappa this year,

our (i.e. 10 percent) are physics

concentrators. This remarkable

achievement by our students is tes-

tament not only to their academic

excellence but also to the breadth

o their studies, given the rules o

our Phi Beta Kappa chapter, as out-

lined in Rosenbaums column. This

latter characteristic is shared by the

majority o our concentrators, whom

we encourage rom the start o their

studies at Brown to explore a variety

o disciplines, gain a broad liberal

education and, most importantly,

hone their writing skills.

Unortunately, many non-sci-

ence concentrators do not exhibit

similar breadth in their course choic-

es, taking one or no science classes.

Maybe our Phi Beta Kappa chapter

should institute a minimum require-

ment or science classes. In act, one

might posit that the inclusion o abasic science or math requirement,

similar to the recently established

writing requirement, would serve

to strengthen the liberal education

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The minimum wage is dened as the lowest

wage that an employer is legally allowed to

pay. This concept was rst brought to pow-

er by the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938

and has been enorced ever since. Currently,

the minimum wage or Rhode Island is $7.40

per hour and most employers, including the

University, must adhere to it. But why are

private academic institutions in the United

States not exempt rom minimum wage?

Can we ever get rid o the minimum wageentirely?

Brown utilizes a graded approach to em-

ployment, and the associated hourly rate is

based on the level o responsibility and skills

required to perorm the job. Students paid

under employment grade A receive $8.20 to

$9.55 per hour; B, rom $8.45 to $10.05; C,

rom $8.70 to $10.55; D, rom $8.95 to $11.05;

and E, above $9.20. The grade is determined

using a simple, single-page orm that ascer-

tains the level o expertise a job requires with

regard to skill, supervisory requirements,

work fow, decision making, scope o work and

condentiality requirements, etc. Not only is

this orm ambiguous in determining the real

requirements and pressure o the job, but it

is ineective. I we let the ree market withinthe campus determine the jobs pay, it would

not only be highly e ective, but also air.

Most students employed by Brown would

cringe at the idea o no minimum wage, since

this could lead to lower pay and more com-

petition. Their ear o lower pay is only so

reasonable. For jobs that require special skills,such as programming, ewer students will be

willing to devote time to such a job or less

pay. As a result, the salaries will have to rise

to attract potential employees with well-honed

skills. On the other hand, jobs that require

less specialized knowledge will nd many ap-

plicants, and so a ear o lower pay is justiable

in this situation.

A minimum-wage exemption would also

ease unding restrictions that prevent Brown

employers rom hiring more employees. This

could potentially reduce competition by ex-

panding positions, allowing more students

to work. Higher student employment in turn

will lead to more research and giving more

back to the community.

A lowered pay rate also gives students who

have next-to-no experience a chance to apply

to various jobs and discover which careersuits them best. Because new recruits would

get entry-level jobs with inconsequential pay,

their decision to commit or quit may be made

without taking a substantial salary into consid-

eration, leaving the truly important criteria

namely, job satisaction with greater weight

in the decision-making process. Employers arethen let with a dedicated, productive work

sta instead o employees who simply squat

in their position and are paid more than they

deserve because o seniority and raises.

I would also like to mention that removal o

the minimum wage, a orm o price foor, does

not always lead to reduction o pay. In act, it is

purely meritocratic in nature and evolves with

the type o student body. I, or example, in a

certain year students do not wish to work or

Brown Dining Services because it involves a

lot o mental and physical stress, BuDS would

increase the pay rate by a moderate amount to

attract students. I an employer tries to exploit

the employee by paying next-to-nothing wages,

then there would be ewer applicants.

Miles Goldman 11, the Lab Supervisor

or the 3D Shape Perception Laboratory (in

the Department o Cognitive and Linguistic

Sciences) received strong applications rom

30 people who applied or a single Research

Assistant position in the lab. Lets analyze

this situation as the pay rate is $9, only

one student could be employed. The rest

were let wondering why they werent good

enough. Now, i the salary was $4.50 per hour,two assistants could have been hired, which

would lead to a higher distribution o work,

more eciency and competition amongst the

employees or a raise. Furthermore, having

more employees oers a saeguard against

absences, such as those caused by illness and

schoolwork-related commitments.

By having individually assigned raises, em-

ployers can make sure that their employees are

keen and eective. Getting a raise would also

positively aect the morale o the employees

and make sure the job remains merit-based. I

this idea o there being no (or less) minimum

wage works or private academic institutions, I

am sure it will lead to the Fair Labor Standards

Act being repealed altogether and more em-ployment in this recessive, jobless economy

(where the teen unemployment rate is 25.5%,

the highest since 1948). The minimum wage,

ater all, has the worst eects on vulnerable

workers that include teenagers, blacks and

women with limited skills.

Thomas Sowell, an American economist

whose research shows that increasing mini-

mum wages or workers in the sugar industry

o Puerto Rico led to a rise o unemployment

in that particular industry, amously quoted,

The real minimum wage is zero. I believe

he is right.

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event listing now says 11 conrmed guests

and two maybes.

One more conrmed guest! I cry out

triumphantly to the other people sitting in the

living room. I am answered with enthusiastic

yays rom my companions. The thrill o this

exercise is getting to us all.

I eel that this is something all Brown stu-

dents experience at some point in our busy

extracurricular lives: creating a Facebook

event or a party, lecture or undraiser, and

subsequently spending a considerable amount

o time trying to will as many invitees as pos-

sible to RSVP attend.

It is striking that over just the past our or

ve years, Facebook has not only begun to

acilitate our social lives, but also our emo-

tions. Being poked by a possible romantic

interest, receiving a riend request rom

an elementary school jungle gym buddy or

having a particularly witty status liked is

enough to make a Brown students day just

that much better.

These days, we have even more than just

the regular, old Facebook to keep ourselves

occupied at the expense o schoolwork

theres BrownFML, SpottedatBrown and the

new and incredible BlogDailyHerald. Theyre

catered to students at Brown specically,

helping us devote our Internet time to access-

ing the most up-to-date inormation, directly

relevant to our college lives.

Maybe some members o an older genera-

tion could accuse us o being too reliant ontechnology and being sucked into the addic-

tive and destructive grandeur o the Internet.

We can call it a plague o the 21st century,

with images o zombie-like (zombies: yet an-

other ascination o our generation) young

people stuck to their computers, but I think

its something not quite so malevolent.

Imagine this: a Brown student is stressing

out over an overdue paper at eleven oclock at

night. He or she logs onto a avorite procras-

tination Web site. This Brown student sees a

mention in a recent post on SpottedatBrown

that may be directed towards him or her, and

eels the vain surge o recognition. Though a

little creeped out at the prospect o being

stalked, the typical Brown student will nev-

ertheless be mostly fattered that he or she

had been noticed beyond the daily monotony

o college lie. That little sense o sel-esteem

can go a long way in maintaining a students

sanity during midterms or nals. It can be,

I believe, the make-or-break psychological

motivator towards a good academic attitude

and a bad one.Facebook, or its technical glitches, insen-

sitive weight-loss advertisements and threats

o ees, makes us happy. As we post about our

personal tragedies on BrownFML, we seek

comort rom those ellow students with a ew

extra compassionate words to share. Actually,

the mere evidence o having an FML approved

or publication on the Web site is a sign that

ones lie still has hope. Those who post and

those who reply to console will all ultimately

eel better about themselves as responsible

members o the Brown community i you

really think about it, liking a status or send-

ing a sympathetic comment is equivalent to

some kind o micro-level community service

on the morale ront.

One would willingly say Happy Birthday

to an old acquaintance long orgotten outside

o cyberspace, and the Internet orum allows

us the reedom o extending courtesies with

the utmost ease. Perhaps our social interac-

tions over an Internet orum can be called

supercial, but its arguably much riendlier

to send a Facebook wall post with a simplemessage o greeting than to eel obligated

to stop and chat in person about nothing

in particular. When we are communicating

through the indirect channel o our com-

puters or hand-held devices, there is less o

an urge to let the harsh, rustrated tone o

college student lie take over our messages.

It is also more cost-eective than long- and

short-distance calling.

So maybe our social interactions are chang-

ing, and perhaps it does need to be criticized

that young people nowadays no longer nd it

necessary to engage in the deep, intellectual

person-to-person bonding that our psychology

textbooks tell us we need. But technology

really is, however cliche, bringing us closer

to everyone else. Its ree therapy or col-lege students, by college students mass

companionship in times o need.

I propose that we restrict the use o the

negative term procrastination when we sur

our avorite online orums. Lets break any

stigma against using the Facebook, Brown-

FML, etc., as a means o keeping ourselves

entertained and sensible, and embrace the

psychological benets that the Internet has

to bring.

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