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SPORTS, 6 OPiNiONS, 11
Mixed results Rodi for RhodyNew gaming lounge gets its game on in campus center
Women’s soccer team tallies two wins, one loss
Terrence George ’13 on the State Rep. race
U. continues negotiations with library worker unionContract set to expire todayBy AlEx BEll
Senior Staff Writer
After months of negotiations, the Uni-versity may come to an agreement with the libraries union today.
The contract, originally set to expire Sept. 30, is now set to expire today. After the original expiration date passed, a federal mediator was brought in, according to Karen McAninch ’74, the business agent for the union that represents 65 em-ployees who work for the University library system.
She said negotiators will begin discussions today at 9 a.m., break for a rally on the steps of the Rockefeller
Library at 12 p.m., then resume at 1 p.m.
Among the primary points of con-tention is the structure of health care benefits, McAninch said.
Under the current contract, li-brary workers must pay 6 percent of premiums, but McAninch said the University had been looking to increase that figure to 12 percent next year, 14 percent the year after and 16 percent in three years. She said the University softened its position Tuesday to 11, 13 and 15 percent, respectively.
Still, McAninch said the increases are too high given that pay increased by only 1 percent. She said Brown’s other unions — such as Dining Ser-vices — have received either smaller
Behind the balance sheet: an inside look at BDSBy ANNE SiMONS
Staff Writer
While all undergraduates depend on it at some point during their time here, Brown Dining Services is little understood by the student body. BDS is always a topic of conversation — stu-dents can be overheard raving about a new muffin flavor at the Blue Room, comparing menus at the Sharpe Refec-
tory and the Verney-Wooley Dining Hall or complaining about how much certain items cost in BDS’s eateries. But students are less sure about how BDS does business.
Many students interviewed at the V-Dub said they were unsure about how BDS’s business operates. “I don’t know how they make money,” Adelle Molina ’12 said. Julia Carr ’14 said she
would guess BDS breaks even. Tia Su ’14 said BDS is “probably making profits.” Orlen Shiba ’13 said he would guess BDS is “going on a loss.”
The lack of agreement on BDS’s profitability attests to the mystery of how its practices lead to the cost of meal plans, the values of meal cred-its, the menus and the cost of various items.
Meal plan madnessThe number of students signed
up for meal plans has been steady for about the last five years, said Gretchen Willis, director of Dining Services. In the late 1990s, there were only about 3,600 students on meal plan, which was lower than BDS wanted, she said, so they began a department initiative to raise the number to 3,800 students. Now the number of students on a meal plan is about 4,650, she said.
Emma Wohl / HeraldJohnny Prah ’12 signs a petition in support of Brown library workers, who are currently in contract negotiations with the University.
David Chung / HeraldMeal plan costs are set each February based on recommendations of the University Resources Committee. This year, they increased 2.5 percent.
w. golf wins classic, sets record scoreBy SAM RUBiNROiT
SportS Staff Writer
Bolstered by the individual perfor-mance of Carly Arison ’12, the wom-en’s golf team set a school record for one-day score and clinched the team title at the 26th Annual North-ern Illinois Huskie Golf Classic last Sunday and Monday. The team shot a record 296 on Monday, overcom-ing a 19-stroke deficit and earning a three-stroke victory over second
place Northern Illinois.The Bears shot a team score of
315 during the first round on Sunday at the par-72 Whisper Creek Golf Club. But the team rallied the next
day to clinch its first victory of the season.
“Our putts really didn’t go in on Sunday, but the girls didn’t get dis-couraged,” said Head Coach Dani-
elle Griffiths. “Their short game was really good on Monday, so it was fun to watch all the putts go in. I was re-ally proud of how they hung in there and made a comeback.”
Arison, a Herald senior sales as-sociate, shot back-to-back rounds of 75 for a six-over-par score of 150 to capture the tournament’s individual title. She birdied the final hole of the tournament to clinch a one-stroke
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SPORTSBy NiCOlE BOUChER
Senior Staff Writer
The Undergraduate Council of Students heard reports of stu-dent input to the Corporation on housing improvements at the council’s general body meeting Wednesday night.
Student representatives from many areas of campus life came together during Cor-poration weekend to voice their concerns about housing, said Jessica Liss ’13, the council’s liaison to the Corporation.
Twenty-five athletes, Resi-dential Peer Leaders and rep-resentatives from the UCS executive board and the Resi-dential Council met Oct. 1 with the Campus Life and Facilities and Design committees of the Corporation to discuss potential improvements to the system, Liss said.
Among alternatives dis-cussed, students brought up converting Perkins Hall to up-perclassman housing and at-tempting to provide “more of a cohesive experience” to first-years, said Liss, a former Her-ald staff writer. Other discus-sions included improvements to sophomore housing.
At its meeting, the Corpo-
UCS hears housing concerns
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SPOTliGhT
Alum settles with SEC
news in brief
Corporation fellow Steven Rattner ’74 P’10 P’13 has settled a corruption case with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
The investigation focused on his role in kickbacks paid by Quadrangle Group, an investment firm that he co-founded, to win deals with New York’s pension fund.
Rattner, a financier and the Obama administration’s former “car czar,” will incur a fine of over $5 million and be banned from the securities industry for several years, according to the article.
Quadrangle settled with the SEC in the spring, but the settlement excluded Rattner, a former Herald editor-in-chief. The firm then cooperated with the government in its investigation of Rattner’s role in the kickbacks.
Rattner is negotiating another settlement with the New York Office of the Attorney General, according to the article.
Neither Rattner nor his attorney could be reached for comment Wednesday evening.
— Alexandra Ulmer
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George Miller, PresidentClaire Kiely, Vice President
Katie Koh, TreasurerChaz Kelsh, Secretary
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2010THE BROWN DAILY HERALDPAGE 2
CampUS newS “It’s kind of like forensics.”— Jeffrey Salacup GS, about his research into environmental history
new game room replaces student arcadeBy JUliAN EzENWA
Contributing Writer
The Young Arcade that was located in the lower level of Faunce House has been replaced by a revamped game lounge in the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center.
Senior Director for Student Engagement Ricky Gresh, who chaired the campus center’s plan-ning committee, said that use of the old game room had declined. The old game room “was a space that was relatively underutilized,” he said.
The new game lounge current-ly consists of two pool tables and
several desks with popular board games printed on them, including chess and a Brown-themed version of Monopoly.
The Young Arcade space — which once featured pinball and Dance Dance Revolution machines — has been re-purposed to house vending machines and photocopi-ers. A card value center machine will also be installed to allow stu-dents to add money to their Brown ID cards, Gresh said.
The old room’s small size and poor airflow meant that it could not accommodate larger groups of stu-dents, Gresh said. “The space that was eliminated was unattractive,”
he said.With the Faunce renovation,
“the campus wanted more of the building to be available for their use,” he said.
“There aren’t really many games,” said Caroline Kelley ’13. “I don’t really think of it as a game room.”
Gresh also noted that there is an-other game room on campus at the Bear’s Lair. The room has pingpong tables, pool tables, Foosball and Virtua Cop, among other games.
Gresh added that if there were games that students were interested in, the University would be willing to look into purchasing them.
epa funds GS research on narragansett BayBy KAThERiNE lONG
Contributing Writer
“It’s kind of like forensics,” third-year graduate student Jeffrey Sala-cup GS said of his research into the environmental history of Narragan-sett Bay. An archetypal geologist — with a full beard, hiking boots and requisite fleece jacket — Sa-lacup won a three-year, $111,000 fellowship from the Environmental Protection Agency last April.
Salacup’s research focuses on surface temperature and changes in land use around the bay since the year 500. He analyzes sediment core samples for changes in chemi-cal composition, which give clues about the temperature and nutri-ent cycles as well as the types of organic and inorganic matter that have run off into the bay.
Taking a sediment core sample is relatively straightforward, ac-cording to Salacup.
“Go out into the bay on a boat, take a tube, push it into the mud and you have a sediment core sample,” he said.
Salacup’s project, which aims to create the longest timeline of the bay’s history, is unique in that the chemical signatures he examines have never before been worked with outside an open-ocean setting.
His research is part of a broad-er effort spearheaded by Profes-sor of Geological Sciences Warren Prell and Timothy Herbert, profes-sor and chair of the Department of Geological Sciences, to recon-struct how the bay has responded to climate and social changes over the past centuries. Prell has been
studying the bay for decades, and Herbert, who is also Salacup’s primary research adviser, has ex-tensive background in open-ocean sediment core sample analyses, according to Salacup.
“These sediment core samples are the basis for a wide variety of graduate and undergraduate re-search,” Prell said.
Prell himself is using the core samples to form a history of the productivity of the bay over the last 500 years and was the recent recipient of the Rhode Island Sea Grant. Both the Sea Grant and the EPA fellowship provide the funds necessary to collect the core sam-ples, measure their different layers and perform chemical analyses.
Despite the innovative nature of Salacup’s research, he has al-ready seen success. After only a year and a half of work, he has been able to reconstruct the bay’s environmental history up to the point immediately before the ar-rival of Europeans.
Salacup said he looks forward to addressing his own misconcep-tions about the effect Europeans had on the bay. He also hopes that by describing the bay’s charac-teristics at warm periods in the past, his research will be able to inform speculation about how the bay might look in 50 years and help bay-dependent industries plan for the future.
“How did the Native Americans really treat the bay, in comparison to how Europeans treated it?” Sala-cup asked. “This work is essential in order to place today’s bay into the framework of history.”
employee contributions or larger pay increases in recent contract negotia-tions.
“They’re giving with one hand and taking it away with the other,” McAninch said.
Brown’s Director of Labor and Employee Relations Joe Sarno said the University tends not to comment on ongoing negotiations.
“Brown values its employees, and our goals in this process are consis-tent with remaining an employer of choice: to offer competitive and equitable salaries and benefits for all employees, and a positive and de-sirable work environment,” Sarno wrote in an e-mail to The Herald on Wednesday.
Another issue for the union is the University’s ability to change work-ers’ schedules. McAninch said the union can currently call a six-month moratorium to investigate Brown’s requests to alter workers’ shifts.
“Now, they want to create a scenario in which they can change schedules just by giving 45 days’ no-tice,” McAninch said.
She said the union’s ability to halt shift changes was written into the contract several years ago to avoid a lengthy conversation about establish-ing criteria for when the University should be allowed to change work-ers’ shifts.
If the University does not budge in upholding the moratorium for the next contract, McAninch said, nego-tiations could drag on much longer.
McAninch said the University has eliminated several unionized door guard positions in the Rockefeller and Sciences Libraries by sub-contracting library security to non-union workers.
She said the last two remaining union door guards were moved from the Rock to the SciLi this year. Last year’s restructuring also brought the elimination of 12 positions in the libraries’ bargaining unit, though no library staff were laid off.
McAninch said the libraries union is especially concerned over what its position will be as Brown expands its libraries and paper resources become obsolete. For example, the Alpert Medical School’s new library may not include union positions, McAninch said.
The Student Labor Alliance will host a rally on the steps of the Rock today at 12 p.m. to support library workers.
SLA member Becca Rast ’13 said speakers will include local politicians, Professor of English William Keach, library workers, union organizers and students.
Rast said about 175 participants showed up to a similar rally against the layoffs last spring in the same location.
Depending on where this after-noon’s negotiations take place, Rast said participants may march together to the negotiations to deliver a peti-tion at the start of the 1 p.m. nego-tiations.
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Study abroad numbers go up after lowBy KAThERiNE SOlA
Contributing Writer
Early indications show the number of students choosing to study abroad has increased this semester, after reaching its lowest point in a decade last year.
This fall, students are studying abroad for a total of 268 semesters, an increase from last year’s number of 254, Kendall Brostuen, director of international programs and associ-ate dean of the College, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. Although figures for spring 2011 are not yet available, the number of open ap-plications has increased 7 percent from this time last year, he wrote.
During the last academic year, 439 students studied abroad, down from 555 two years before, accord-ing to data from the Office of Insti-tutional Research.
Brostuen attributed the dip to the world economic downturn , and cited figures from the 2009 Forum on Education Abroad survey, which showed a decline in study abroad participation in 60 percent of the colleges and universities surveyed.
He wrote that he does not be-lieve the decline at Brown was due to the change in tuition policy that obliges students to pay a full semes-ter of Brown tuition when studying abroad. The policy, which was ap-proved in 2005, took effect in spring 2009. Previously, students paid the tuition of the programs in which they were enrolled, which are generally less expensive than Brown’s tuition.
Brown students currently study-ing abroad in Bologna, Italy, echoed Brostuen’s view. Natalia Fadul ’12 wrote in an e-mail that the policy did not impact her decision.
Natalia Medina ’12 wrote that she has “no idea what the tuition policy is.”
Both indicated that they chose the Brown-affiliated program for reasons unrelated to tuition. Me-dina mentioned that Dante and Mozart studied in Bologna, while Fadul wrote that Bologna is a “very welcoming” city.
Anna Baran ’12, who is study-ing in Paris, wrote that she wanted to study abroad before starting at Brown and that she was encouraged to study abroad because she is an international relations concentrator.
meal plan price based on expected consumption
BDS has made many changes to the program in recent years, includ-ing extending dining hall hours — the Ratty and V-Dub used to close for the day at 5:45 p.m. — continuous service at the Ratty, and a take-out program. These changes came from looking for ways to meet student needs while also maintaining a residential dining system, Willis said.
BDS researches student opinion in a number of ways. It conducts small surveys, liaises with the Under-graduate Council of Students, collects comment cards, hears critiques from customers and sometimes receives e-mails, Willis and BDS Director of Ad-ministration Ann Hoffman told The Herald in a joint interview. Keeping track of what students choose from the daily offerings gives BDS a form of nonverbal feedback, Willis said.
Credit crunchThe value of a meal credit is deter-
mined by the price of the 20-meal-per-week meal plan. This year, the value increased from $6.00 to $6.15, which represents a 2.5 percent change.
Often, students do not understand
the value a credit has in retail eater-ies, Willis said. Using a meal credit at a retail eatery does not necessarily mean getting a full meal, she said.
Molina said she finds it a struggle to make her purchases at the Gate equal $6.15, saying that if a student buys a panini, there is nothing else at the Gate the person can add without going over the value of a credit.
The concept of making meal credits equivalent to a dollar value in retail eateries started in the early 1980s, Willis said. The idea was that students were supposed to have three meals a day, but due to classes or other constraints on time, they might only have time for two, she said. The third credit could then be used as a late-night snack.
Students often complain that the Blue Room does not take meal credits during the day. Willis said this policy is necessary because the space is too small to accommodate the crowds that would probably go there for lunch if meal credits were an option. Faculty and staff opinion was also a consideration because their access would be severely diminished if students could spend meal credits during the day, she added.
Business acumenBDS operates on a “break-even
budget,” Willis said. Revenue comes from two sources, meal plans and catering, with the greatest percent-age of revenue coming from meal plans, she said.
But it is the University Resources Committee, not Dining Services, that sets the cost of meal plans, Willis said. At its February meeting, the Corporation, Brown’s highest gov-erning body, sets the budget for the year ahead and the prices for all fees, including meal plan, based on the committee’s recommendations.
The difference in the costs of meal plans is based on the number of meal credits and points each pro-vides, Willis said. Everyone must pay for labor and overhead, meaning there is a certain minimum buy-in to be on a meal plan.
The cost of food from each meal plan is based on estimates of how much students eat, rather than how much they can eat, Willis said. BDS tracks how many meal credits stu-dents use out of how many they are allotted, and there are usually unused credits, particularly on weekly meal
plans, she said. This is the “missed meal factor.”
Therefore, students on the 20-meal-a-week plan are not actually paying for 20 meals — they are pay-ing for the average amount of meals people with that plan eat, she said. By contrast, students on Flex meal plans tend to use almost all of their points and credits by the end of the academic year, she added.
Vulnerability to the marketEnterprises like BDS can be hit
hard by national trends in food and gas prices.
Two years ago, rising food prices forced BDS to find a way to man-age the increased supply cost, Willis said. Eliminating certain menu items was one way BDS compensated for higher food costs, she added.
BDS operates with a computer-ized menu system, Willis said. The software facilitates substituting one dish for another, she said, so BDS could temporarily phase out recipes that require more expensive ingre-dients.
The software also helps BDS
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SpotliGht “(Students) just jump on board with anything.”— Gretchen Willis, director of Dining Services
know which dishes are most popu-lar with students, and if students do not take much of a dish, it may be eliminated to make room for a more popular item, Willis said. But the tabu-lation is also affected by the food that students take but do not eat, so waste could skew the results, she said.
High gas prices hurt BDS, too. Many of Brown’s food suppliers tried to add fuel charges to their delivery fees to compensate for their higher gas costs, Willis said, but BDS was generally able to use its buying power to get around those charges. Such charges also encouraged BDS to use as many local products as possible, which need less gas to transport, she added.
Responsibility costs BDS is mostly protected from
unexpected spikes in its labor costs thanks to its union system, but it comes at a cost.
Willis said BDS is a closed union shop, meaning that everyone who works for it must belong to the same union — in this case, the Service Em-ployees International Union Local 615. The union negotiates a new contract with Brown every three years, she said. This gives BDS stable labor costs for three-year spans and allows it to budget for future increases.
The fact that all hourly staff are
part of a union has led to higher wages and better benefits than others might provide. BDS is “committed to paying certain wages and benefits,” Hoffman said. That “comes at a cost, which we have to pass on to our customers.”
BDS also operates with the help of a student management program, in which it hires students to manage student workers, Willis said. The students work alongside the union-ized hourly workers. It becomes a familial relationship, Hoffman said. Workers “form close bonds when (they’re) chopping carrots next to each other.”
BDS also employs some students from Johnson and Wales, particularly in its catering program, Willis said.
Accounting for the environmentVarious environmental initiatives
have impacted BDS’s budget.The elimination of bottled water
from retail eateries would have had a huge financial impact on BDS if it had been done all at once, Willis said. Bottled water has a large profit margin, but it was phased out slowly over three years, and now students spend their points on other things, she said, adding that BDS has heard little negative feedback on the issue.
The move toward eliminating trays from dining halls has had less of an im-pact financially. Trays were completely eliminated from the V-Dub two years ago, while a pilot program began this
semester at the Ratty. Other schools that eliminated trays saved money on food because students wasted less, but Brown did not follow that trend, Willis said. Transitioning to a com-pletely trayless system will be harder at the Ratty than it was at the V-Dub, because the trays are the method of transporting dirty dishes to the lower level where they will be washed, she said, though the pilot program has gotten good feedback.
Students “just jump on board with anything,” Willis said.
Profits and lossesDespite the goal of breaking even
each year, some years see losses for BDS, while others see profits.
There have been losses in previous years, but not in the past four to five, Willis said. Those cases can be pre-dicted before the end of the year, she said. Because most of BDS’s revenue comes from meal plan subscriptions, BDS can predict if it will fall short if fewer students than expected signed up for a meal plan, she said.
BDS does not usually make a profit once all the fees have been paid, but it has happened. Typically it is a result of saved labor costs, Willis said.
“If there’s anything left over, we put that back into the program,” Willis said, citing an example from last fall when a small budget surplus allowed the Ratty’s back alcove to be upgraded with a plasma television and couches.
In the future, BDS will be looking to replace the furniture in the Gate, she said.
Peer programsMany universities run their own
dining programs, but many also out-source them to companies.
Of private colleges and universities in Rhode Island, Providence College’s and Bryant University’s programs are outsourced, and the Rhode Island School of Design’s used to be, Wil-lis said.
In the Ivy League, Willis said the University of Pennsylvania is the only school that has brought in an outside company to handle dining.
Penn began to outsource its dining operations in 1999, after a decision based on “the goal of enhancing the student experience in quality, variety and preparation of the food relative to the costs of those enhancements,” wrote Barbara Lea-Kruger, director of communications and external re-lations in Penn’s Business Services Division, in an e-mail to The Herald.
According to Penn’s dining ser-vices website, students on meal plan can use their Dining Dollars — Penn’s version of Flex Points — to buy items from eateries such as Chick-fil-A, Sub-way, Au Bon Pain and Starbucks.
Outside companies look to make a profit from their operations on cam-pus, Willis said, and the decision to outsource dining is related to the
culture on campus.
Competing with Stop and ShopItems in the Gate “feel overpriced,”
Shiba said. He said he sometimes buys things there with his Flex Points be-cause they don’t “feel like real money,” but that he can get many of the items cheaper elsewhere.
Jeff Martin ’10.5 said he thinks students perceive BDS eateries to be overpriced. He said he would point to the amount of food stolen by students from dining facilities as an attempt to get their money’s worth. While students may spend “a bit more” at a retail eatery like the Blue Room, he said, they are more able to get the items they want than they would at a dining hall.
Some students compare BDS with major retailers like Stop and Shop, Willis said. But the comparison is un-fair, she added, because BDS is provid-ing a completely different product. It does not have the buying power that a national grocery chain has and also has to account for large labor costs, she said, so prices will be higher.
If BDS can find a cheaper way to provide a product, it would pass those savings on to the customer, Willis said. On some high-volume items, BDS can afford to decrease its margin, she said, adding that if an item is not selling at the price BDS needs to charge to achieve its margin, it might be elimi-nated from the offerings.
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BDS aims to break even, prices food and meals accordingly
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ration approved a measure that will add 66 on-campus beds by renovating a University-owned building at 315 Thayer St., but future changes are still up for discussion.
The council also discussed progress on ongoing projects intended to address student con-cerns this academic year.
Improving advising continues to be a priority. Building on work from last year, the Academic and Administrative Affairs Committee is working with Carol Cohen ’83, associate dean of the College for first-year and sophomore stud-ies, to build an advisory booklet for freshmen designed to orient them to advising and to give problem-solving techniques for when advising issues arise.
The committee will prepare a report to reveal departments deficient in concentration advis-ing, said Frank Rinaldi ’12, the committee’s chair.
The council further plans to recommend improvements to international student advising as part of a more comprehensive look at the international student experience, said Academic and
Student Services Chair Chris Collins ’11. The committee is examining international stu-dent transition to Brown and has been coordinating with the International Mentoring Program to assess the advising situation. Improvements must also be made to career advising and network-ing for these students beyond Brown, Collins said.
The council also addressed the declining use of the Critical Review course evaluation site as professors distribute depart-ment-wide online evaluations instead of the long-running stu-dent group’s evaluation system. While departments may prefer their own course evaluations, students prefer the usability and external access to the Critical Review, many UCS members said.
The best solution would be to encourage professors to con-tinue distributing the surveys, said Jeffrey Handler ’14, a Critical Review writer, UCS member and Herald contributing writer.
The UCS annual agenda will likely be released to the student body by next Friday, said Molly Lao ’13, the council’s communica-tions chair.
UCS talks improvements to international advising
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Fire alarm, DpS call lead to pot bustsThe following summary includes a selection of major incidents reported to the Department of Public Safety between Aug. 26 and Oct. 6. It does not include general service and alarm calls. The Providence Police Depart-ment also responds to incidents oc-curring of f campus. DPS does not divulge information on cases that are currently under investigation by the department, PPD or the Office of Student Life. DPS maintains a daily log of all shift activity and general service calls, which can be viewed dur-ing business hours at its headquarters, located at 75 Charlesfield St.
Aug. 318:25 p.m. Reporting party stated
that while exercising, someone en-tered his locked locker and stole his car keys. His keys were found on the ground next to his car’s pas-senger door. The glove compart-ment of the vehicle was ransacked, but nothing was taken. A briefcase containing personal papers, credit cards, a checkbook, a DVD and a CD were taken from the reporting party’s trunk.
Sept. 18:13 p.m. While on patrol, a police
officer observed, in plain view, what appeared to be an underage male exit a liquor store carrying a bottle of whiskey. He then approached the male and asked if he was 21 years
old, to which he replied “yes.” He then handed the officer a California driver’s license, which the officer determined was not his. The 19-year-old student admitted that his friend gave him the license to use in order to obtain alcohol. He was escorted back into the liquor store and re-turned the whiskey.
Sept. 1112:36 a.m. Providence Police re-
quested Brown police be dispatched to 347 Angell St. due to a house party involving Brown students. There were approximately 300 people at the party and music was being played loudly. Five students were issued a summons for a noise viola-tion.
Sept. 191:49 a.m. A student was riding his
bike on George Street when, turning onto Thayer Street, his bike collided with a car. The student stated that he fell on the hood and the driver then reversed, which sent him to the ground. The vehicle acceler-ated and fled the scene. Brown and Providence Police tried to locate the vehicle but a registration plate was not observed. The student refused medical attention and Providence Police took a report.
Oct. 15:13 p.m. After responding to a
call for a suspicious person inside Barbour Hall, an officer noticed a room door left wide open. In plain view, he observed a glass bong and a green leafy substance in a glass jar. The officer questioned the student who handed over an-other glass jar containing a small amount of suspected marijuana. The student was cooperative dur-ing the investigation and the matter was turned over to the Office of Student Life.
10:47 p.m. Brown officers re-sponded to a fire alarm in Graduate Center A and assisted Providence Fire in locating the source of the smoke. Officers were instructed to open a suite due to a strong marijua-na smell. Officers observed three bags of suspected marijuana sitting in plain view on a desk in one room. A police officer also observed two bags of a green leafy substance that appeared to be marijuana in another room in plain view. Three boxes of plastic baggies were also found under the marijuana. PFD cleared the alarm and the students were allowed to return to their rooms. The students were identified and the case has been turned over to the Office of Student Life. It is also under investigation by Brown Uni-versity Police.
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The Brown Daily Herald
Squad shuts out holy Cross and Uri, but loses to princetonBy MADElEiNE WENSTRUP
SportS Staff Writer
After dropping a conference match at Princeton on Saturday, 1-0, the women’s soccer team returned to Stevenson Field and shutout in-trastate rival University of Rhode Island 3-0 on Wednesday afternoon. Earlier last week, the Bears de-
feated Holy Cross 2-0.
Brown 2, holy Cross 0Stevenson Field was cold, rainy
and dirty last Wednesday after-noon, but the Bears (6-4-3, 0-2-1 Ivy League) never looked cleaner. The weather delayed the start of the game by 20 minutes, but one could feel the buzz of anticipation
from the stands. Bruno went out on a mission, playing fearlessly and coming away with a 2-0 victory against Holy Cross (3-7-2).
After a week of frustrating ties, Brown was ready to do something different.
“Our games have really just been battles,” said Eliza Marshall ’13 before the Holy Cross game. “We’ve been working hard and play-ing well but just aren’t quite getting the ball into the back of the net.”
Their frustration was trans-formed into hard work and aggres-sive play on Wednesday afternoon.
It took the better part of the first half to get used to the rainy conditions, but the Bears didn’t shy away from the weather. They went after every ball and were re-warded for their hustle. They took 14 shots to the Crusaders’ four, becoming more and more danger-ous every minute of the half. With nine minutes remaining in the first half, midfielder Maddie Wiener ’14 took three consecutive corner kicks, putting the Holy Cross de-fense on high alert. The Bears kept the pressure on,and three minutes later, Wiener received a pass from back Allison Kagawa ’12 and scored her first career goal on a high shot from 35 yards out.
The energy the Bears had at kickoff never wavered, as they en-tered the second half with the same intensity and quickly doubled their lead. Wiener only needed three minutes of the second half to get a second career goal under her belt. She scored on a pass from for-
ward Louisa Pitney ’14 to increase Bruno’s margin over the Crusaders and secure the win.
Princeton 1, Brown 0The Bears traveled to Princeton
on Saturday afternoon to face the Tigers (8-4-0, 3-0-0). The teams were evenly matched, and the
game came down to a single goal by Princeton defender Kacie Ker-gides late in the first half. Kergides’ goal came from a corner kick, of which each team earned only two throughout the game. The shot count favored the Tigers, 10-6, and the Bears struggled to get anything going offensively. Princeton goal-keeper Kristin Watson made five saves on the day, and Bruno goalie MC Barrett ’14 made two saves in her half of work.
Brown 3, University of Rhode island 0
On a much more pleasant Wednesday afternoon, the Bears exploded for three second-half goals against URI (1-11-1). Both squads started out slowly, with the Bears registering five shots to the Rams’ two in the first half.
But the second 45 minutes were a dif ferent story. Three minutes in, Wiener, the newly named Ivy League rookie of the week, con-verted a free kick from 18 yards out to break the scoreless tie. Less than a minute later, Wiener notched an assist, as she passed to midfielder Gina Walker ’11, who one-timed it past goalkeeper Brooke Messier. Bruno kept up the pressure and built up a 9-1 shot advantage in the second half. In the 69th minute, the Bears converted another free kick, when midfielder-forward Mika Sie-gelman ’14 curled her shot into the left corner of the net to widen the advantage.
Bruno’s next contest comes against Harvard on Saturday at 2 p.m. The team will look for its first conference victory of the season.
Emily Gilbert / HeraldMidfielder-forward Mika Siegelman ’14 scored her fourth goal of the season in a 3-0 victory of the University of Rhode Island Wednesday.
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The field hockey team (2-9, 1-2 Ivy League) endured a tough weekend of play against out-of-conference opponents, dropping a 3-1 decision to Maine (9-4), a 5-2 game against Davidson (10-2) and a 4-2 loss to Quinnipiac (4-6).
Pacing the Bears’ scoring was forward Leslie Springmeyer ’12, who notched a goal in each of the games. Midfielder-forward Abigail Taft ’12, tri-captain forward Tacy Zysk ’11 and back Elara Mosquera ’13 also found the back of the net for Bruno in the games.
But the Bears wound up on the wrong end of the scoreboard at the end of the day, falling 4-2 against Quinnipiac, with Zysk and Springmeyer providing the offense for Bruno.
“My goal was perfectly set up by Tacy and Gail,” Springmeyer said. “It was just a really pretty play.”
Taft also assisted on Zysk’s strike in the first half, which put Bruno on the board.
The team managed to draw nine penalty corners in the game, im-proving on a facet on which they had been working. Attackers aim to induce corners, which are awarded
when the ball strikes a defender’s foot inside the circle, by luring defenders out of position.
Springmeyer credited back Laura Iacovetti ’12 with being one of the best at this tactic.
“Whenever she has the ball in the circle, she always either gets a shot or a corner,” Springmeyer said.
Springmeyer had some shots of her own in the two weekend home games, tapping home a cross from Taft in the Bears’ loss to Davidson. She also scored on a counterat-tack breakaway orchestrated by defender Kelsey Grossman ’14 in Sunday’s game against Maine. Mosquera scored in the game against Davidson, as she pound-ed home a ball from tri-captain midfielder Katie Hyland ’11. Zysk found Taft with a pass in that same game, giving Taft her seventh goal of the season.
The Bears now look ahead to a tough test at No. 4 Princeton (9-2) this Saturday. Springmeyer said the players feel confident heading into the game that they have the talent and determination to pull off the road win.
“We’re really pumped to play them,” she said. “We’re looking to surprise some people and hopefully take them on their own turf.”
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SportSthUrSDay “We’re looking to surprise some people.”— Leslie Springmeyer ’12, field hockey forward
road-weary Bears return home after two tourneysBy SAM RUBiNROiT
SportS Staff Writer
The men’s golf team had a busy weekend as it traveled to two states to play two tournaments over four days.
Bruno first journeyed to Phila-delphia on Saturday and Sunday for the Big 5 Golf Invitational held at the 6,570-yard Plymouth Country Club. The team finished with a two-day score of 616 (310, 306), earning 16th place in the 21-team field. Fur-man University captured the team title by eight strokes, shooting a two-day 574.
Ryan Hoskins ’13, in his first event, and JD Ardell ’13 shared top-finisher honors for the Bears as they both shot 151, ranking them 49th individually. Michael Amato ’11 finished the tournament at 156 (79, 77) while Peter Callas ’14 came in at 158 (80, 78). Jack Mylott ’13 carded a two-round score of 170 (86, 84).
The Bears had no time to rest before returning to action as they traveled to Ellington, Conn., for the Connecticut Cup held Monday and Tuesday. Bruno finished 10th out of 13 squads, turning in a three-round score of 930 (312, 310, 308). Iona
took home the title with a combined score of 895.
Head Coach Michael Hughes knows the toll that the travel took on his team, and he said he is not inclined to repeat the experience.
“I really doubt we’ll do that again,” he said. “Back to back, it was a lot of planes, trains, and auto-mobiles traveling all over the East-ern Seaboard. The guys were great. They sucked it up, and I think it’s a testament to the fact that we have some great guys this year.”
Though tired from the travel, the Bears had little drop-off as the days went on, as seen through the performance of Callas, Bruno’s top finisher. The freshman golfer im-proved his score each round and earned 21st place individually with a three round score of 230 (79, 77, 74).
“We could have done better, but we showed signs of improvement,” Ardell said. “It was a tough week-end playing four straight days and five rounds, but the way we showed up, especially the last day, I feel like we have something to build on.”
The Bears will play their final match of the fall schedule at the Northeast Invitational this weekend at the Shelter Harbor Golf Club.
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SportSthUrSDay “The Yankees are a little dicey for me.”— Equestrian’s Alison Dungey ’13, on her team preferences
Dungey ’13: r.i. native saddles upBy GARRET JOhNSON
SportS Staff Writer
The equestrian team has gotten of f to a great start this season, winning its first two shows. At Bruno’s home show last week, Al-lison Dungey ’13 helped the squad capture first place by winning the third class. For her outstanding performance at the Brown Show, the Herald has named her Athlete of the Week.
Herald: How is the equestrian team doing this season?
Dungey: We’re now leading the region by about 18 points, so re-ally well.
So what made you start riding horses, and when did you start?
Well, I wanted to start riding when I was younger, probably first grade when my friend had a birthday party and there was a pony ride, so of course I fell in love with horses then. I wanted riding lessons and my mother thought it was just a phase, like most girls will go through. Then, years later, when I still wanted to, she kind of caved and got me riding lessons, and I’ve been riding ever since ... .That was probably about eight years ago.
What was the name of the first horse that you rode?
The first horse that I rode — if you want to look back to that pony — that pony’s name was Chestnut. The first actual horse that I rode, its name was Sublime. It was ac-tually funny because after I rode him, my mom decided to get on and he actually bucked her of f, which didn’t really help for her love of horses.
Sell the equestrian team to our readers. Why should we come and support you, or if we can’t come, why should we learn more about you?
The equestrian team is phenom-enal. I have a lot of good friends just from the team. As any team, we get to be pretty close-knit. I mean, we’re pretty special because you don’t need to be the best rider around or need to have ridden for years and years to join the team. You can really be a dead-end begin-ner who’s never been on a horse and be on the team because we need people at every single level, and there’s a great mutual respect between the athletes on the team for those people who have been riding less versus those who’ve been riding more.
Are you a big sports fan outside of the equestrian team? What sports teams do you root for?
Well, I root for baseball and football teams, being the Yankees and the Patriots.
The Yankees and the Patriots? Isn’t that an odd combination?
I know. The Yankees are a little dicey for me because I’ve grown up in Rhode Island, but my parents are from New York and that’s how I justify it. I’ve been born and bred a Yankees fan and brought up that way, so it would be weird if I was a Red Sox fan.
OK, so you are from Rhode Island. What are two must-do things in your state for Brown students that they haven’t heard before?
I would definitely say go and hang out in Newport, but that’s probably a big thing. So I’m just going to say you have to go hang out in historic Wickford because that’s where I’m from and every-one should do that — Wickford Village. And I’m going to make a push for my favorite coffee place — that’s Jitters Cafe. Everyone who knows me knows that I’m obsessed with it.
What are you studying?Right now, I’m bouncing be-
tween political science and Eng-lish, probably with the thought of going on to law school when I graduate. But I’m not sure what I’m going to declare at the end of the year.
Did equestrian have any ef fect on choosing a college?
I definitely knew that when I went to school, it had to have an equestrian team. That was a major part of it for me. And then I loved Brown and the team was excellent here, so that was a big plus. But I was pretty much going to be happy anywhere that had a team. I was fortunate enough that Brown did, and I loved Brown the most, so I lucked out.
And you wanted to get as far away from home as possible?
Oh, definitely (laughs). For me, I didn’t grow up in Providence or go there a lot, so I may as well be across the country, it’s so different. But it’s convenient to be close to home, too.
victory over second-place finisher Michelle Caporusso of Northern Illinois.
“I just wasn’t expecting it,” Ari-son said. “I had spent the whole round trying to control my emo-tions, so when I finally found out, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh.’ It was a good feeling. It was especially cool because we won as a team.”
All five Bears shot between 73 and 77 in the second round. Sarah Guarascio ’11 placed in the top 10 as her two-day 153 (80, 73) earned her sixth overall. Susan Restrepo ’11 ranked 13th overall after shoot-ing a one-over 73 in the final round for an overall score of 155. Heather Arison ’12, a Herald senior sales associate, joined Restrepo in 13th place with a two-day score of 155
(80, 75) and Megan Tuohy ’12 completed the tournament with a two-round 157 (80,77).
After weeks of practice and tough tournaments, the squad was proud to bring home a win.
“I think we were excited to see our work has paid off,” Carly Ari-son said. “This is our first win as a team, and we’ve all been practicing hard.”
While the win is meaningful, the Bears know that they cannot lose focus. They travel next to Bolton, Mass., for the Harvard Invitational, where they will face a difficult field.
“The tournament at Harvard is going to be the toughest competi-tion we have faced yet,” Griffiths said. “We’re going to face all the Ivies, so going in with the win is really a confidence booster.”
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Thursday night, Brown will host a debate between the four candidates to succeed term-limited Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65. The candidates — Democrat Frank Caprio, independent Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14, Republican John Robitaille and Moderate Ken Block — will debate in Salomon 101 at 7 p.m. The two can-didates for mayor of Providence will debate at the same time and place on Thursday, Oct. 21.
We applaud the Taubman Center for Public Policy for bringing these important debates to campus. The outcome of these elections will have a tremen-dous impact on our state and city over the next four years. We are excited to have a front row seat to the democratic process and to hear from our prospective leaders. Here are just a few of the issues we hope are discussed this evening.
First, we would like to know how the candidates will balance Rhode Island’s budget. Despite two years of spending cuts, the state is still facing a serious shortfall. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reports that despite closing a $395 million deficit this year, Rhode Island is on track to run a $330 million deficit next year, or 11.6 percent of the total budget.
Given the national political conditions, it is highly unlikely that the federal government will come to the rescue as it has in the last two years. The deficit cannot be ignored, and we’re sure that even in Rhode Island, eliminating waste won’t be enough. Chafee has already gone on record supporting tax increases and has faced sharp criticism as a result. All the can-didates should be honest and tell us exactly how they would go about closing the gap. If tax hikes are off the table, what gets the axe? We hope the debate’s moderator, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Marion Orr, presses the candidates for specific
answers to this question. Despite the need for some cutbacks, state govern-
ment must play a role in spurring job creation and getting the economy back on track. In September, state and local government employment nationwide decreased by 83,000, more than offsetting job gains in the private sector. Moreover, many economists project that job losses at the state and local level will be a major drag on growth in 2011. Given the tension between the needs for austerity and stimulus, what kind of government job creation initiatives provide the most bang for the buck?
We would also like to hear the candidates’ plans to curb corruption and cronyism at the state and local levels. A September New York Times article highlighted one investigation into city councilmen in North Providence who allegedly solicited bribes. The councilmen have all resigned and await trial, but more work clearly needs to be done. Rhode Island’s prospective leadership should explain what they would do to curb improprieties.
There are many other important questions we’d like to see answered so that voters go to the polls fully informed. For example, what are the candidates’ positions on pension reform? What do they see as the future of organized labor in the state? Would they sign a bill establishing civil unions or same-sex marriage?
We are very glad the candidates agreed to come to Brown, and we look forward to hearing them answer these and other questions. Next week, we’ll have questions for the mayoral candidates.
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In most of the Asian education systems, stu-dents have to take entrance examinations for admission to engineering, business or medical colleges. Depending on a student’s performance on just one test, the student is given a rank. In India, a university might have 3,000 spots to fill (after a 50 percent lower-caste reservation), and one incorrect answer can bump you down 50 ranks. It is highly competitive because of the vast num-ber of qualified students who take this test, and if one does not make the cut, one must take a gap year.
So what happens to the lucky few who woke up on the right side of the bed that morning? Do they truly get to choose their concentration? Not really: the number of students concentrating in a particular field is capped. Therefore, the first few hundred students by rank may get the concentra-tion of their choice, but the rest are forced to make the best of the options available to them, even if their only choice is textile en-gineering.
Does this lack of choices scare you?Let me take you back to your high school
days. In your senior year, did you find that your Brown application was magically com-pleted one day and mailed the next? Prob-ably not. You consciously answered all the questions on Brown’s application, wrote the essays and submitted your grades knowing that you were the right fit for Brown. Some
of you might even have visited this Univer-sity and knew exactly what Brown stood for — a multidisciplinary education where you craft your own path to a future. I am sure you could not write one critical remark about Brown in your application essays, let alone mention that Brown is an evil corporation. Everyone talked about how Brown is the perfect fit for their mentality and Brown’s admission office agreed. And here you are.
If I’m to believe that students apply or transfer to Brown just because it is “less cor-poratized” than other universities, I would
have been born yesterday. It’s actually funny how we find ourselves in the company of col-leagues who are saviors to an organization that has been providing a high standard of education since 1764. If you believe in sur-vival of the fittest, then Brown is a perfect example of an organization that has survived and prospered with the same educational freedoms upon which it was founded while foraying into newer domains. It has not only lived through the American fight for inde-pendence, but two world wars and countless recessions and depressions. If you think that it needs to rethink how it utilizes its resourc-
es to survive in the coming years, you must have been born yesterday.
In the scariest and most thoughtless col-umn I’ve read in the past few weeks (“Rais-ing our Brown taxes,” Oct. 7), Susannah Kroeber ’11 demands a massive increase in tuition, primarily at the expense of the wealthy. Although it is very noble of her to want a greater debt-free student population and more financial aid for students who can-not afford to enroll at this institution other-wise, her idea of forcing the wealthy students to pay more to subsidize the tuition cost for
a less fortunate student is unfounded. She is not allowing them the choice to pay more.
Charity comes from within; it cannot be forced. I challenge Kroeber to ask her par-ents to donate their hard-earned money to subsidize education for the less fortunate. She should set an example for all of us by starting a scholarship grant for students through the extra hundreds of thousands of dollars she expects the wealthy to pay as tu-ition. That would certainly inspire the rest of us to follow her example.
Furthermore, it’s startling that Kroeber never raised the question of moral hazard.
If the students on financial aid have all their needs covered, does she expect them to ac-tually make the most of their education? One can see a situation where students without financial aid are struggling to pay tuition and hence every grade matters to them. What message is sent to them when they see their debt-free counterparts partying more than they get to? What forces these debt-free students to give back to Brown once they start getting a regular paycheck? Practically speaking, if you force students with wealthy parents’ to pay more, they will take their business to other universities, perhaps even to another country.
America is a country that promises us choice, from the toothbrush you use to the career you choose. This is quite possibly why the communist nations never survived and never will. There isn’t a government tell-ing you if you are smart enough to be coal miner or an officer in the Communist Par-ty. You can drop out of school and start your own business if you like. You may then al-locate the wealth you have earned and dedi-cate it to causes you feel are important — be it a noble cause, like curing AIDS, or a self-ish one, like making sure you don’t need to walk from your bedroom to your bathroom. Therefore, my friends, if you really cannot stand how a corporatized Brown is wasting (not your) money, why don’t you transfer out? You always have that choice.
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As the trees shed their leaves and restless New England winds foretell winter, there is an inclination among Brunonians to draw into their work and away from the commu-nity. One community issue, however, that students cannot afford to ignore is the local and state elections this November.
With its perennially mismanaged gov-ernment and an unemployment rate hov-ering around 12 percent, Rhode Island is a state on its knees. These issues require competent and impassioned problem-solv-ers to attend to their amelioration. No lead-er embodies this more than Richard Rodi.
Richard Rodi is an independent candi-date running for the Rhode Island House of Representatives in the second district, home to many off-campus students. Unlike his Boston lawyer opponent, Richard Rodi is a Providence native and no stranger to the problems that plague this city. For de-cades, Rodi has witnessed the impact of misguided state policies that have caused businesses to flee and jobs to disappear, all to the detriment of Rhode Island’s most vul-nerable citizens.
Far from witnessing these problems and doing nothing, Rodi has already shown his dedication to fixing them. As founder of the Rodi Foundation, which helps low income and at-risk people, organizer of the Provi-dence Senior Club-House and a principle associate of Children’s Wishes of Rhode Is-
land, which grants wishes to terminally ill children, Rodi has devoted his life to help-ing the people of Rhode Island. Such prov-en dedication to the community remains unparalleled in this election. Rodi is a candi-date we socially-conscious Brown students can easily support.
Rodi is right on the economy, too. A Democrat turned independent, Richard Rodi is far from the “tea-drenched” mon-ster that Jeremy Feigenbaum ’11 depicted in his Oct. 1 guest column, “I support Chris Blazejewski.” Rodi is a level-headed family man who cares about his community. In-
stead of giving tax breaks that favor the rich (never part of Rodi’s plan, despite Feigen-baum’s insistence), Rodi believes that the only remedy to the state’s financial woes is renewed fiscal responsibility.
With Rhode Island ranked second only to Alaska as the country’s least business-friendly state, it’s no wonder that tens of thousands of Rhode Islanders are unem-ployed. As a small business owner, Rodi recognizes that sustained economic growth happens only in the private sector. By re-versing egregious, business-unfriendly
legislation, such as the $500 mandatory income tax on companies that do not turn a profit, Rodi will put Rhode Island in the place of helping business, not killing it.
Rodi is also an advocate for education. Ignoring the cries of special interests, Rodi supports charter schools and mayoral acad-emies that offer specialized learning to stu-dents in need. Rodi recognizes the commu-nity contributions of Rhode Island’s college students and promises to fight against the continually proposed Rhode Island student tax, which would saddle the already strug-gling with an extra $300 worth of debt. In
the wake of the 35 percent Providence land-lord tax hike, which will undoubtedly raise off-campus students’ rents, Rodi promises to provide assistance by introducing “a bill that offers tax relief to landlords who rent to students and low-income families and individuals.” Rodi believes students have an integral role to play in the formation of Rhode Island’s knowledge-based economy.
Though Rodi is against the aspects of the legislation he believes will add to con-sumer costs, Rodi favors the part of the fed-eral health care bill that will allow students
to stay on their parents’ health insurance plans until they are 26. In this tough econo-my, he knows secure health care can make all the difference to young job-seekers. Having met with student leaders on cam-pus, including the president of the Brown Republicans and the editor-in-chief of the Brown Spectator, and vowing to fight on our behalf, Rodi understands the plight of students and would carry that knowledge with him to the Statehouse.
In Rhode Island electoral history, money has been known to corrupt politicians. Un-like his opponent, Chris Blazejewski, who has taken thousands in contributions from several PACs and special interest groups, Richard Rodi refuses to accept a penny from anyone but the residents of his dis-trict. Rodi is a man of integrity who will not be bought.
On Election Day, the residents of Rhode Island’s second district have a choice: a proven community leader with a plan to save this state or a business-as-usual politi-cal opportunist. Though we’ll only be here for four fleeting years, Brunonians have a duty to improve our community. A vote for Richard Rodi is a step toward that end. In these elections, every phone call, every do-nation and every supporter matters. I hope you will decide to support Richard Rodi, as I have.
Terrence George ’13 is a political science concentrator from Chicago.
He can be reached at [email protected].
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On Election Day, the residents of Rhode Island’s second district have a choice: a proven community leader with a plan to save this state
or a business-as-usual political opportunist.
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At Inlay Overlay by Aimee Lucido ’13ACROSS1 Schooner part 5 Schlep8 Period13 It may be raised
at a table 14 Big bird15 Red, red wine17 *Lack of19 Something one
might hold or save
20 Poi base 21 Type of
machine or car23 ___ B. Wells,
early civil rights advocate
24 Most silly27 *Garbage29 “Famous”
cookie guy 30 Party clothes32 Repetitive
routine33 OB-___34 It might precede
eroticism?35 ___ Bears36 *Pillage39 Some giant
fl oaters42 Revolver found
in campus libraries?
43 Six-pack you can’t buy at Spiritus
46 Org. often seen giving information on the main green
47 Jewelry lover of literature
49 Comeback show for Lea Michelle
50 *Beauty’s beau52 Perpetually
sleepy pokemon
54 Macao money 55 When doubled,
Jim Carrey movie
57 Sunset direction58 “Rugrats”
dinosaur
60 Language that might help one make sense of the answers to the starred clues
64 Cold sound65 One who pities
the fool66 Not mad67 Curl one’s lip68 Word with Red
or Dead69 Therefore
DOWN1 Fannie ___
(home fi nancing group)
2 Grey’s matter?3 Mister Sister
purchase, perhaps
4 Playing with blocks, basically
5 Set the pace6 Thurman of “Kill
Bill”7 Bros8 Print to stand
out?9 City on the
Swan River
10 Mine treasure11 L’Oreal
alternative12 Sexual
prospect16 Brown’s
parallel18 Ground-
breaking tool22 “___ note to
follow ...” 24 Hammarskjold
of the UN 25 Damn, he’s
sexy26 Schlep28 Gabriella’s
beau31 Lizzie’s beau34 Ques. follower 35 Something to
shoot for36 ___ the crack
of dawn 37 Places for
peas38 “Laughing”
bird 39 Britney who
sings “Circus”40 “My word!”41 “Come in!”
43 Smash Mouth smash hit
44 Ahead of45 Activity that
might involve a 3-Down
47 Not so slanted
48 Scandinavian rug
49 Musical with the song “Summer Nights”
51 Smoke the reefer
53 Hedwig, e.g.56 Tach
readings59 Summer shirt61 Tick off62 Vid. game
that involves killing hookers
63 The oneSolutions and
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7:00 P.M.
R.I. Gubernatorial Debate,
Salomon 101
7:30 P.M.
Coming Out Week Student Panel,
Hunter Lab Auditorium
5:00 P.M.
West African Music and Dancing,
Lincoln Field
8:00 P.M.
Heddatron, Production Workshop
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Roast Turkey with Gravy, Cheese
and Corn Strata, Homemade Bread
Stuffing, Marble Squares
Meatloaf With Mushroom Sauce,
Tomato Quiche, Vegetable Egg Rolls,
Marble Squares
Grilled Key West Chicken, Vegan
Tofu Raviolis With Sauce, Vegetarian
Sandwich bar
Hot Roast Beef on French Bread,
Baked Macaroni and Cheese, Grilled
Cajun Chicken
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