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Students are divided on whether or not the University should give more money to the city of Provi-dence, according to a Herald poll conducted March 12-14. The poll also found that about one third of respondents said they were satisfied with the choice of Christina Paxson as Brown’s 19th president, though around half of those polled said they had no opinion or were not familiar enough to answer. More than one third of students also cited increasing financial aid as the most important issue for Paxson to address.

contributions to the cityThirty-seven percent of respon-

dents said they do not think Brown should contribute more money to

the city, while 30 percent said they believe Brown should contribute more and 33 percent said they are not sure. First-years and sophomores were slightly more likely than juniors and seniors to express no opinion.

Facing a $22.5 million budget deficit and the looming threat of bankruptcy, Mayor Angel Taveras asked the University to double its an-nual contributions to the city earlier this year. Currently, the University contributes around $4 million to the city each year. President Ruth Simmons reportedly offered a deal in which the University would donate an additional $2 million to the city each year for the next five years, but Taveras rejected the offer.

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A panel of four professors and ad-ministrators discussed the stresses of college, coping strategies, men-tal health stigmas and resources available to University students Monday night in front of a large, attentive audience in MacMillan 115. The teach-in was designed to explore mental health issues and raise awareness of resources avail-able to students.

“We hope that by having events such as these, we can begin a con-versation that will help eradicate the stigma that oftentimes prevents people from seeking the help they need,” said moderator Jessica Biesel, president of student volunteers for the Samaritans of Rhode Island, a suicide prevention and resource center and sponsor of this event.

The panel opened by discussing stressors that are new or unique to the college experience. Students and families can struggle to come to terms with the academic pressures at Brown, said Belinda Johnson, director of psychological services. Students can experience difficulty as they pull away from their parents or begin to see them from an adult perspective, said Carol Landau ’70,

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Robert Bentylewski ’13, David Rat-tner ’13 and Anthony White ’13 have officially announced they will run for president of the Undergraduate Council of Students in the upcoming election. Rattner is the current vice president of the council and White serves as the chief of staff for UCS President Ralanda Nelson ’12. Bentyl-ewski is not a member of the council.

Michael Schneider ’13 and Bran-don Tomasso ’13 will run for coun-cil vice president. Zak Fischer ’13 is running unopposed for chair of the Undergraduate Finance Board. No candidates are running for vice chair after the sole contender for the posi-tion failed to garner the 400 student signatures required to be eligible.

The candidates officially declared their intention to run last night, and

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As the University aims to compete with powerhouse research institu-tions — many of which have larger endowments — research experience has become a major factor in hiring and faculty tenure decisions. But faculty members remain conflicted as to whether the University’s in-creased emphasis on research and expansion — highlighted by the creation of the School of Engineer-ing two years ago and the current development of a school of public health — has affected the quality of undergraduate teaching at the University.

Teaching and research are often viewed as conflicting obligations that faculty must fulfill. Extra em-phasis on research can be interpret-ed as less time for undergraduate teaching, but portraying them as “disjointed and competitive would be the wrong model,” said Andries van Dam, professor of computer science and the University’s for-mer vice president for research. Van Dam’s argument was echoed by many faculty members.

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A Governor’s Workforce Board study published last month re-ported that defense industry employers are finding a lack of qualified engineers in the state. But despite a sixth of each class concentrating in engineering — and a suffering state economy where unemployment currently stands at 11 percent — defense sector employers rarely reach out to the University, and engineers

often look elsewhere after gradu-ation, some concentrators said.

Engineering students at Brown said there are a myriad of reasons that students may not be going to work for these firms. A factor

that several students mentioned is that engineers often look to continue their education after college. Though Dingyi Sun ’12 said he is interested in going into defense contracting, he said he

wants to “get the education por-tion of my life over with” and will pursue his PhD at Caltech next year.

“Defense is usually where I find the most innovation,” he said.

Lawrence Larson, dean of the school of engineering, said numbers show that going on to graduate school after college is a popular option. While about a third of Brown engineers go

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The University is soliciting ideas for innovative ways to de-velop technology invented by Brown researchers through a partnership with Allied Mind-storm, a crowd-sourcing website that allows public “thinkers” to brainstorm ideas in exchange for a monetary reward. In its first post-ing on the Allied Mindstorm web-site, the University sought ideas for profitable uses of a paper-thin plastic battery developed in 2007 by Tayhas Palmore, professor of engineering, and Hyun-Kon Song, a former postdoctoral research associate.

Allied Mindstorm was devel-oped last fall to more efficiently discover profitable ideas that could be applied to technology coming out of universities, said Sara Toussaint, university rela-tions manager for Allied Minds.

In the past, Allied Minds, an equity firm that facilitates the growth of startup companies, did not fund certain novel technolo-gies because it could not think of profitable applications for them, Toissant said. An open forum such as Allied Mindstorm allows “thinkers” to generate ideas that

could aid Allied Minds’ efforts to develop technology companies, she said.

The University began talking with Allied Minds about several projects they could work on to-gether when the firm became a sponsor of the University’s Life Sciences Technology Fair in 2011.

“We thought it was an interest-ing idea,” said Katherine Gordon, director of Brown’s Technology Ventures Office. “We thought looking for new applications would be really important.” Brown became one of the first universi-ties to have a winner selected for their submitted idea on March 31.

Danny Liu of Chengdu, Chi-na won the contest for his idea to use the plastic battery “with carbon-based nano-coatings or conductive fabrics applied to win-ter clothes and shoes” in order to provide more heat in winter months, especially for those in developing countries, accord-ing to his submission. Liu, chief executive officer of Tranztech, a company that helps green technol-ogy companies enter the Chinese market, will receive a $500 reward and could earn $25,000 if his idea leads to the creation of a company, in which he would have a formal role.

“To build companies, that’s always our goal,” Toissant said. Allied Minds also wanted to create an independent site that would not burden university technology transfers offices. Thus, the Allied Mindstorm challenge was born. The site allows the public to offer ideas for applications to technolo-gies coming out of several univer-sities, and its only requirement is that the thinkers have LinkedIn accounts. After the deadline for submissions is reached, Allied Minds and its investment board decide on the winner.

Though the winning idea for the plastic battery was selected from a pool of 14 submissions, there is no guarantee that Allied Minds will be able to form a com-pany around it, Gordon said. If a company is formed, the University will still hold intellectual prop-erty rights, so it would be able to negotiate a licensing agreement with the firm.

“The (Technology Ventures Office) is interested in novel ways to stimulate innovation, entrepre-neurship and commercialization,” Gordon said. “We’re interested in working with the broader com-munity of thinkers to share ideas about innovation.”

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Over a year after proposing two technology projects to en-hance student life, the Undergrad-uate Council of Students recently launched one of the initiatives — a system that allows graduates to transfer information from their student email accounts to alum accounts — but it is still in the beginning stages of implementing the second, a system that would enable students to check laundry machine availability online.

Under the change, which was implemented in March, gradu-ates will be able to keep all the information in their Brown email accounts starting with the class of 2011, though they will be required to switch to alumni.brown.edu addresses, said Michael Lin ’14, chair of the admissions and stu-dent services committee of UCS.

The email transition cost the University around $100,000, mak-ing it the University’s largest new

alumni engagement initiative in the last five years, wrote Todd Andrews ’83, vice president of alumni relations, in an email to The Herald.

Under the new system, emails to student addresses will be for-warded to the alum emails, and senders will receive automatic re-sponses explaining the address has changed, he said.

The University was concerned that keeping Brown student email addresses could create confusion or allow alums to misrepresent themselves, but students com-plained about losing the infor-mation in their accounts after graduating, Lin said.

“It was actually a pretty con-troversial issue, and (Computing and Information Services) took a middle position,” Lin said. CIS eventually decided to keep the different alum addresses but ad-justed the system so account hold-ers had to transfer the informa-tion from their original addresses.

Whether alums will take ad-

vantage of the extended Brown email services remains to be seen, Andrews wrote.

Another project UCS proposed last spring was installing Laun-dryView, a system other colleges use to enable students to check the availability of dorm wash-ers and dryers online or through email alerts.

The Office of Residential Life is currently working on a plan that would connect the laundry machines to the Internet, a neces-sary step before investing in the program, said Richard Bova, se-nior associate dean of residential life and dining services.

“They want to be certain that if or when LaundryView is in-stalled, it will run as smoothly as possible,” wrote David Rattner ’13, vice president of UCS, in an email to The Herald.

Bova said he was unable to provide an estimate for the cost of the system at this time, but he added that ResLife has requested funding for LaundyView as part of a larger laundry facilities reno-vations budget.

“I am confident that we will be able to bring this for the fall semester,” Bova said.

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“If you’re on the cutting edge, it will be reflected in your teaching,” said Sheila Blumstein, professor of cognitive and linguistic sciences. She conceded the difficulties of bal-ancing teaching and research – es-pecially with the extra effort needed to secure research funding in the sciences in the current economic climate — but she said the Uni-versity hires and values individuals who seek to do both research and teaching. In The Herald faculty poll conducted last fall, faculty estimat-ed that they spend about the same amount of time teaching and con-ducting research — 44 percent of their time was dedicated to teach-ing and 42.3 percent to research.

Professors may also couple the two elements in a complementary manner. Even in introductory courses, professors come across opportunities to talk about their latest research and findings, van Dam said, and undergraduates in the computer science department may incorporate research into their studies as early as their second se-mester at Brown.

But students are not the only ones who benefit from the rela-tionship between teaching and research, he said. Though profes-sors at Brown may not be able to compete as successfully with those committed to full-time research at research institutes, teaching and working alongside students can boost research and elicit new ideas, van Dam said. Teaching and research are “two halves of the same coin,” he said. “You lose some time, but you gain intelligence from stu-dent input and participation.”

But other faculty members be-lieve research is gaining the upper hand at the University. Professors are expected to be at the top of their field, said Harold Roth, professor of religious studies, and research is becoming increasingly important in tenure decisions.

“I would like to see a clear message from the administration that the quality of teaching will be viewed on equal footing to the sig-nificance and quality of research,” he said. “Right now, I don’t feel like that’s the case.”

“Should we attempt to compare ourselves to Harvard and Princeton on an alarmingly frequent basis?” he said. “We’re a different animal.”

Roth emphasized the impor-tance of the relationship between teaching and research, where top researchers are present in the class-room and develop “personal men-torships and relationships” with students. This is rare at larger re-search institutions and at some Ivy peer universities, he said.

Van Dam refuted the idea that the University pressures professors to prioritize research due to the more direct benefits it offers with regards to prestige. “What is in first place? Research,” he said. “But at a place like Brown, teaching is right behind there.”

Rather than moving the Univer-sity away from its focus on under-

graduate teaching, van Dam said he believes Simmons’ efforts through the Plan for Academic Enrichment have strengthened research at the University in a necessary and ben-eficial way. “It’s been redressing the balance in the right direction,” he said.

“I don’t think you come to Brown expecting to be left alone to do research in your lab,” said Dean of the Faculty Kevin McLaughlin P’12.

But Ivo Welch, professor of fi-nance and economics at the Uni-versity of California at Los Angeles and former professor of economics at Brown, wrote in an email to The Herald that he thinks the University does and should provide incen-tives to professors to emphasize research over teaching because high-quality research is necessary for maintaining its national ranking and reputation.

“Research reputation is the dif-ference between (the University of Rhode Island) and Brown, not teaching quality,” Welch wrote. “If you do not want Brown to com-pete with URI, but compete with Yale, Columbia and Princeton, you need top research that drives the knowledge that we are teaching. If anything, Brown has too little emphasis on research relative to its peers.”

“You cannot eat your cake and have it, too,” Welch wrote. “Yes, un-dergrads in the short run — and most have only a four-year per-spective — would be better off if all researchers suddenly deemphasized research and emphasized teaching. However, in the long run, it would drop the prestige of the University.”

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into engineering firms when they graduate, another third move on to graduate schools of various types, and about one third go into finance, he said.

Though the study shows de-fense contractors are seeking to hire new engineers, the firms are not well known on campus. “Per-sonally, I think there is a problem in getting defense contractors to come to our career fairs,” Sun said. Other types of engineering companies, such as computer and electrical ones, often frequent ca-reer fairs, but defense companies are almost never present, he said.

Kelsey MacMillan ’12, who is studying civil engineering, said she shares a similar sentiment. These types of firms “don’t re-ally come through Brown at all,” she said, adding that “Brown just doesn’t have a relationship (with them).”

Rick Brooks, executive direc-tor of the Governor’s Workforce Board, said the organization is working to enhance both student interest and company outreach. He said it is important that these companies create connections with students while they are still undergraduates, by providing internships, research and other opportunities. This way, he said, students can see the “exciting work that’s being done” within the companies, while companies will also have the opportunity to see the “caliber of students” and be more inspired to reach out to them.

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“We haven’t beaten Penn and Yale in the five years I’ve been here,” Griffiths said. “I’m very excited for the momentum.”

Bears toppled by windThe men’s squad showed

marked improvement at the Yale Invite, despite unfavorable con-ditions.

“We were very pleased with our first round,” said men’s Head Coach Michael Hughes. “We were ahead of Yale, who are the defend-ing champions of the Ivy League.”

In the fall, Yale outshot the Bears by 72 strokes. This time, Bruno only lost by five strokes.

Captain J.D. Ardell ’13, who shot 152 for the day and earned 14th place individually, paced the team. Standout first-year Justin Miller ’15 finished with a 155, while Nelson Hargrove ’13.5, in his first appearance for Brown, and Kyohei Itamura ’14 carded 159 apiece. Peter Callas ’14 round-ed out the scoring with a 160.

Though the first round placed Brown ahead of Yale on its home course, the wind conditions and exhaustion left the team feeling as though it left shots on the course.

“The conditions worsened a little bit, and we struggled with the wind. It’s a hard golf course to walk 36 holes,” Hughes said. “The

second round was a little bit more disappointing to go backwards.”

“Although we didn’t end how we wanted, we proved to our-selves we can compete with the top teams in the Ivies,” Ardell said.

The team looks to build upon this weekend’s strong showing as it moves into Ivy League play. Bruno got its first glimpse of its fellow conference competitors and faced arguably the two strongest teams in the league — Yale and Dartmouth.

“Personally, I think Dartmouth is head and shoulders above the rest of the competition,” Hughes said. Ardell echoed his coach’s thoughts and identified Dart-mouth as the “favorite” to win the league.

The Bears will compete against the entirety of the Ivy League this coming weekend at the Princeton Invitational April 14 and 15. How the team fares will give it an idea of what to expect during the Ivy League Championships to be played April 27-29, along with the women’s team.

“We all have things we can practice after this week,” Ardell said. “I think we can really show some stuff next week.”

“We got out of the cellar last year (at the Ivy League Champi-onships) with our seventh-place finish, and if we could move to the upper half of the conference, it would show the progress the program is making,” Hughes said.

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“(Mickle) started leading some groups and closing the gap on one group after the next,” Baker said. “Olivia looked so relaxed at that pace and was making all the right moves and showing all the right instincts.”

The push for excellence con-tinued Saturday at the George Da-vis Invitational hosted by UMass Lowell, as the women’s team earned five titles and the men recorded four first-place finishes. John Spooney’s ’14 first-place ef-fort in the 200-meter dash was the highlight on the men’s side and Susan Scavone ’12 turned in yet another championship perfor-mance in the women’s 100-meter hurdles.

A final contingent of throwers competed at the Corsair Classic Invitational hosted by UMass Dartmouth, where Bruno won three individual titles and both teams finished fifth overall. The Bears swept in the shot put with Jessica Eason ’14 winning for the women and Daniel Smith ’13 claiming the top spot for the men.

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clinical professor of psychiatry and human behavior. More and more, students face social class issues, added Maria Suarez, associate dean in the Office of Student Life.

Mistakes such as sleep disrup-tion, self-medication with comfort food or alcohol and a lack of exer-cise also “can have a cumulative lifestyle effect” on college students, Landau said.

“Some people sail through fine” even though they make such mis-takes, Landau said. “Other people, especially those who are predis-posed to depression, might find that just those issues alone can make things a lot worse.”

Self-esteem and mattering — the extent to which a person be-lieves he or she makes a difference in the world around them — are closely linked to mental health, and lacking either can lead to a “sharply descending pit of misery,” said Gregory Elliott, professor of sociology.

“(Mattering) is the strongest motivation inside the human be-ing,” Elliott said. “The notion that you don’t matter to anyone is a hor-rifying notion, and it is unbearable.”

This year, the University was named the third happiest college in the country, according to the Princ-eton Review. But this statistic can actually worsen a student’s depres-sion, Johnson said. People think they should be happy at Brown, but nobody is happy all of the time, she explained. “It’s an isolating thing,” she said.

The University offers a number of resources for students struggling with mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, panic disor-ders, eating disorders or substance abuse. Brown has long offered medical leave to students for a va-riety of reasons, Suarez said. When students go on medical leave, their academic standing is preserved, and their transcripts are simply marked with “leave of absence,”

Suarez added. The University can also help students approach faculty members for incompletes and ex-tensions. Most faculty are under-standing and accommodating of students’ struggles, she said.

“Our faculty are terrific,” Suarez said. “There’s not one of us who hasn’t been 20 or 25. There’s not one of us who hasn’t been in college. There’s not one of us that hasn’t had a breakup, that hasn’t failed an exam, that hasn’t had the dog die at home.”

Along with University resourc-es, Landau said she recommended “active therapies” to break or pre-vent the cycle of depression.

“Social engagement or social support is one of the most well documented … buffers to stress,” Landau said. “Scan your social horizon for someone who is a po-tential friend. Scan your social ho-rizon for an interest that matters to you. … These are all active things that you can do to push against the mental health problems.”

The panelists’ discussion was followed by a brief Q&A session with members of the audience.

Brandon Almy ’12, a psychology concentrator, said he attended the event because he is interested in the mental health aspects the panel discussed as they relate to students.

“From a psych perspective, you kind of go through all of these courses getting a really theoretical background about depression and other feelings and mental health in general,” Almy said, adding that the panel portrayed these same issues but focused on how they relate to Brown students. “You think about the Brown experience in terms of being open and stuff like that, but I’ve never really thought of it in terms of what it means for mental health.”

Ultimately, an open discussion of mental health can help students feel comfortable about voicing their depression, seeking the help they need and changing the social stig-ma of mental health issues, Johnson said.

“Life is stressful. We all have vulnerabilities. Things happen,” Landau said. “This should not be stigmatized. It really is all of us, in one way or another.”

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campaigning will begin today at 12 p.m. The Elections Board and The Herald will host a candidate debate at 8 p.m. Thursday in Metcalf Au-ditorium and students can vote on MyCourses April 17-19. The results will be announced at 11:59 p.m. out-side Faunce House next Thursday.

Though Bentylewski has never served on a governing body, he said he is a leader on the men’s rugby team and has an “intangible ability to get things done.”

As president, he said he would like to change the structure of the council so that it would consist of 12 elected officials from each class who would hold equal power. He said he believes the restructuring is neces-sary in light of the recent controversy surrounding the council’s desire to obtain more control over its funding, which brought to light tensions sur-rounding the roles of UCS and UFB. The council proposed an amendment in February that would allow them to allocate their own budget without UFB approval.

“I really started wondering how UCS could be that disconnected from the student body, because the stu-dent body was almost unanimously opposed to that move,” Bentylewski said. He said he believes the structure is causing this disconnect and should therefore be changed.

According to a March Herald poll, 43 percent of respondents said the proposed amendment affected their view of the council in a somewhat or very negative way. Only 16 percent of respondents said the amendment affected their view in a positive way, while 41 percent said it had little to no effect on their opinion.

Bentlyewski also said he hopes to create a Providence Collegiate Stu-dent Council, which would consist of student body government repre-sentatives from different colleges and universities in Providence.

Before serving as vice president of the council, Rattner served as chair of the campus life committee. These positions gave him a “strong sense of how Brown and how UCS operates,” he said.

In outlining his qualifications, Rattner pointed to his experience working with Nelson and cited his

role in encouraging the administra-tion to donate money for residence hall renovations by authoring a state-ment decrying the quality of housing at the University. As president, he said he would continue to work to improve the quality of student life at the University.

“I think UCS has a very impor-tant place in making sure that the administration, and (the Office of Residential Life) and (Office of) Student Life listen to what students want,” Rattner said. “That’s what I want to make sure happens.”

He also said he would like to facil-itate a discussion about financial aid issues at Brown, such as implement-ing universal need-blind admissions and revamping the council’s focus on the student body. He said the con-troversy surrounding the proposed UCS amendment detracted from the council’s ability to listen to and work on behalf of students.

White, who has served on the council for the past three years, said his experience working with other student groups will make him a more informed UCS president. He recently co-created Brown for Financial Aid and is a member of the Executive Board for Brown Democrats.

“What I think is really important for a UCS president is to have had to have struggled with putting on events in a student group, having struggled with a budget, having dealt with the bureaucracy that the University has,” he said.

If elected, he said he hopes to work on further increasing the stu-dent activities endowment to reach their $15 to $20 million goal. He said he plans to do this by loosening some of the strict policies restraining stu-dent groups to allow them to fund-raise more effectively.

“I think within the next semester we can raise the necessary amount if we work proactively towards that goal,” White said.

He also wants to create a Student Advocate Program, where students who have experience working with the administration can council their peers on issues like financial aid. He said he hopes to increase collabora-tion with UFB and to keep students more informed through a weekly

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tests calling for the University to increase its contributions. Students have organized a group called Brown for Providence, which advocates in-creased payments to rebuild the Uni-versity’s relationship with the city.

To date, the city and the Uni-versity have not reached a compro-mise, and the issue may be handed to President-elect Christina Paxson when she takes office later this year, though President Ruth Simmons has expressed hope that it will be re-solved prior to the end of her tenure.

satisfaction with PaxsonA majority of students did not

express an opinion on Paxson’s selec-tion as the University’s next presi-dent, with 34 percent stating they have no opinion and 20 percent say-ing they are not familiar enough to answer. Of students who did express an opinion, most support her selec-tion, with 42 percent of respondents saying they are very or somewhat satisfied and only 4 percent saying they are very or somewhat dissatis-fied.

First-years and sophomores were slightly more likely to say they have no opinion.

The University announced Pax-son’s selection March 2, and she will take office in July after Simmons steps down. Paxson currently serves as the dean for the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and Interna-tional Affairs at Princeton, where she modified the undergraduate concen-tration requirements, opened the program up to all undergraduates by eliminating selective admission and promoted fundraising for the school’s endowment.

shaping prioritiesA plurality of students — 38 per-

cent — said increasing financial aid was the most important issue for the next University president to focus on once she takes office. These results were in line with a similar question regarding general University priori-ties last year. In a poll conducted by The Herald last spring, 39 percent of student said financial aid should be the University’s top priority.

Other percentages remained roughly the same as the question posited in last spring’s poll, though the number of students who said they supported building on-campus residence halls declined, dropping from 10 percent last spring to 6 percent.

Around 18 percent of students listed renovating on-campus hous-ing as the most important issue for Paxson to focus on, followed by around 9 percent who said they supported hiring more faculty and another 9 percent who supported improving classrooms and labs. Five percent advocated improving food options, and 4 percent said they sup-ported improving athletic facilities.

university issuesFifty-seven percent of students

said they thought need-blind admis-sions for international and transfer students should be a higher priority for the University, while 21 percent said they did not think it should be a higher priority and 22 percent

said they were unsure. Currently, the University is only need-blind for domestic first-year students.

The majority of respondents — 58 percent — reported that they re-ceive enough aid or do not need any. Meanwhile, 22 percent said they do not get enough aid and have taken out external loans, while 20 percent said they do not get enough aid but have not taken out external loans. Only 0.4 percent of students said they receive too much aid.

The University has also been working to expand its medical, graduate and professional programs under Simmons’ tenure. Around 72 percent of students said they ap-proved of this expansion, with 38 percent strongly approving of the expansions and 35 percent some-what approving. Fourteen percent of students responded that they disap-proved of expanding graduate and professional programs, 10 percent said they had no opinion regarding the changes, and 3 percent were not familiar enough to answer.

Recently, the University began discussing offering gender-neutral housing for first-year students af-ter the administration received a proposal submitted by the student group GenderAction. A majority of students responded in support of gender-neutral housing for first years, with 34 percent saying they strongly agree and 25 percent saying they somewhat agree. Twenty-three percent said they had no opinion, 13 percent said they somewhat disagree and 6 percent said they strongly disagree. The issue will be brought before the Corporation, the

University’s highest governing body, in May.

The poll results show that stu-dents resoundingly support Sim-mons’ tenure in office as a whole, with 81 percent of students re-sponding that she contributed to their Brown experience in a positive way. Seventeen percent said Sim-mons had little to no impact on their Brown experience, and only around 2 percent said she impacted their experience in a negative way.

student concernsForty-nine percent of students

reported that their friend groups do not mainly consist of individu-als who share their socioeconomic status, while 44 percent said that they do and 7 percent expressed no opinion. Meanwhile, 52 percent of students responded that their friend groups do not largely share their own race, while 45 percent said that they do and 3 percent gave no opinion.

In the aftermath of an amend-ment proposed by the Undergradu-ate Council of Students in February that would allow it to allocate its own budget rather than having its funding approved by the Under-graduate Finance Board, 43 per-cent of students reported that the move affected their view of UCS in a negative way. Forty-one percent of students said it did not affect their opinion of the organization, and 15 percent said it affected their view in a positive way.

Seventy-nine percent of students reported that they approved of how President Obama is handling his

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Students view Paxson favorably

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continued from page 1 How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the choice of Christina paxson as the University’s 19th president?13.8% Very satisfied28.1% Somewhat satisfied33.9% no opinion3.3% Somewhat dissatisfied1.0% Very dissatisfied19.9% not familiar enough to answer

Do you approve or disapprove of the way president Obama is han-dling his job as president of the United States?16.5% Strongly approve62.3% Somewhat approve8.5% no opinion9.6% Somewhat disapprove3.2% Strongly disapprove

Do you think Brown should con-tribute more money to the city of providence?30.2% Yes36.6% no33.2% not sure

The Undergraduate Council of Stu-dents proposed an amendment last month that would allow it to allocate its own budget rather than having its funding approved by the Undergraduate Finance Board. How did the UCS proposal affect the way you view the organization?3.2% In a very positive way13.2% In a somewhat positive way40.9% Little to none30.8% In a somewhat negative way11.8% In a very negative way

To what extent does your financial aid package (or lack thereof) meet your financial needs?0.4% I get too much aid57.5% I get enough aid or do not need any21.7% I do not get enough aid, and I have taken out external loans20.3% I do not get enough aid, but I have not taken out external loans

“my friend group mainly consists of individuals of my socioeconomic status.”9.3% Strongly agree35.0% Somewhat agree6.8% no opinion31.3% Somewhat disagree17.6% Strongly disagree

“my friend group mainly consists of individuals of my race.”14.0% Strongly agree30.7% Somewhat agree3.1% no opinion24.8% Somewhat disagree27.4% Strongly disagree

The University is expanding its medical and graduate schools and professional master’s programs and is looking to create a school of public health. Do you approve or disapprove of Brown’s expan-sion of graduate and professional programs?38.1% Strongly approve34.8% Somewhat approve10.0% no opinion11.0% Somewhat disapprove2.8% Strongly disapprove3.3% not familiar enough to answer

Do you think making admission need-blind for transfer and interna-tional students should be a higher priority for the University?57.0% Yes21.4% no21.6% not sure

The University should offer gender-neutral housing for first-years.33.9% Strongly agree24.7% Somewhat agree23.4% no opinion12.6% Somewhat disagree5.5% Strongly disagree

What is the most important issue for the new president (to) focus on?37.8% Increasing financial aid5.7% Building on-campus residence halls18.3% Renovating on-campus housing8.6% Hiring more faculty4.4% Improving athletic facilities8.6% Improving classrooms and labs5.5% Improving food options11.0% other

How has president Ruth Simmons contributed to your Brown experi-ence?41.3% In a very positive way39.8% In a somewhat positive way17.4% Little to none1.0% In a somewhat negative way0.5% In a very negative way

Full poll Results

Written questionnaires were administered to 1,530 undergraduates March 12-14 in the lobby of J. Walter Wilson and the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center during the day and the Sciences Library at night. The poll has a 2.2 percent margin of error with 95 percent confidence. The margin of error is 3.3 percent for the subset of males, 2.9 percent for females, 3.9 percent for first-years, 3.9 percent for sophomores, 5.1 percent for juniors, 4.6 percent for seniors, 3.3 percent for students receiving financial aid, 3.0 percent for students not receiving financial aid, 9.5 percent for varsity student-athletes and 2.3 percent for non-varsity student-athletes.

The sample polled was demographically similar to the Brown undergraduate population as a whole. The sample was 45 percent male and 55 percent female. First-years made up 29 percent of the sample, 29 percent were sophomores, 19 percent were juniors and 23 percent were seniors. Varsity athletes made up 12 percent of the sample. of those polled, 45 percent currently receive financial aid from Brown. Students reported all races with which they identify, with 63 percent saying white, 23 percent Asian, 11 percent Hispanic, 9 percent black, 2 percent American Indian or Alaska native, 1 percent native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander and 5 percent other.

Statistical significance was established at the 0.05 level. All reported cross-tabulations are statistically significant.

news Editor Greg Jordan-Detamore ’14 and Senior Staff Writers Alexandra Macfarlane ’13, Margaret nickens ’15, Eli okun ’15, James Rattner ’15 and Adam Toobin ’15 coordinated the poll. Herald section editors, senior staff writers and other staff members conducted the poll.

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Amidst the discussions regarding the University’s contributions to Providence, we have been pleased that University officials and the general student body still consider financial aid a top priority. In fact, The Herald poll conducted in March shows that nearly 40 percent of students believe that President-elect Christina Paxson should make financial aid a top priority. Recently, the student ad-vocacy group Brown for Financial Aid came into the foreground, lobbying for a greater commitment to this cause. We believe that addressing this issue is of paramount importance for anyone who takes pride in being a Brown student, and we fully support Brown for Financial Aid.

As highlighted by a column written by members of BFA last week, the group’s goals are to achieve completely need-blind admis-sion, lower the average debt burden by more than $5,000, as well as “increasing student voices in financial aid and policy decisions” and “mak(ing) financial aid more responsive to student needs.” These goals, which reflect a strong dose of necessary idealism with a touch of pragmatism, are fully compatible with the University’s mission to be one of the top competitive institutions in the world. In realizing these goals, especially achieving entirely need-blind admission, the University would put itself in a position to help “dissolve socioeconomic barriers instead of reinforcing them.”

Brown’s reputation as an institution of diversity is well-justified — not only does the undergraduate body represent all 50 states and a large sampling of countries, but it also houses students of all races, beliefs, political values and most importantly, socio-economic standing. Despite our differences, we are united by one characteristic — we possess a special merit that is worthy of studying at a school that many only dream about attending. This diverse undergraduate body would not be the same without the existence of generous financial aid. In order for Brown to be the standard for academic excellence, the University must ad-mit its students based not on their capacity to make a financial contribution, but on their potential to enhance the quality of the academic environment for the sake of the University’s reputation and its fellow peers. As one BFA member simply yet poignantly announced, “My family’s socioeconomic status has zero to do with how much I deserve to be here as a student and how much I add to the Brown community.”

We appeal personally to Paxson, the Corporation and the rest of the administration concerned with such matters to seriously consider BFA’s goals and reaffirm the importance of providing financial aid. We came to Brown because we were enchanted by its promises, opportunities and values, which reflect the University’s commitment to serve the best interests of its students. Whether we are standard undergraduates, resumed undergraduates or transfer students, we have appreciated Brown and President Ruth Simmons’ efforts to further financial aid, and we are highly optimistic that Brown can continue to be an institution that is willing to invest in our futures. After all, attending university is not the pinnacle of success, but a stepping-stone to it. The investment toward our future must be made, and trust us, Christina Paxson: We Bruno-nians are more than worth it.

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UN negotiations unwelcoming to outsidersTo the Editor:

I am currently an undergraduate student at American University studying environmental sci-ence and global environmental politics. I also at-tended the Durban negotiations, and after reading the article about them (“Climate lab reports on UN negotiations,” April 6), I felt compelled to reply. I was struck by the resounding optimism that was expressed by your contributors. I agree with Spencer Fields ’12, who is quoted calling the United Na-tions Framework Convention on Climate Change “eye-opening,” though in my opinion, it shed light onto the somewhat chaotic and unfair nature of international environmental politics.

I wonder if the Brown attendees shared my feel-ings of disappointment that most of the action

occurred behind closed doors. My own reaction to this predicament was to sneak into the high-level meetings before the security arrived to scan badges, since they would surely have turned away myself as well as my peers given our NGO status.

Ultimately, I was dismayed at the lack of influence most of the attendees, including many of the smaller developing nations, had on the actual negotiations. Essentially, the convention was a back-and-forth squabble between the most influential world players over dominance and power, which produced few solutions. While J. Timmons Roberts, professor of sociology and environmental studies, may consider the talks to have been a “global turning point,” I would have to politely disagree.

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We’ve all met them. They’re the ones who see God in the hills,

on the beach and through the clouds. They see God when they’re struggling with an es-say and it all comes together. They see God when they’re having sex.

Sound familiar?In case you haven’t jumped on the SBNR

— “spiritual but not religious” — bandwagon yet, identifying oneself as such seems to be a growing trend. Roughly speaking, the term describes those who don’t identify with tradi-tional organized religion but still feel a spiri-tual presence.

This is no different on campus. In fact, it describes Brown so acutely that it’s almost as if we were the first SBNRers and the rest of the world is just catching up.

Not convinced? Check out the religion choices on Match.com and eHarmony: Mus-lim, Jewish, Christian — and then there’s spiritual but not religious.

Yes, it’s true, and the irony is flawless. Spir-itual but not religious is our most popular re-ligion. In a 2009 survey by LifeWay Christian Resources, 72 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds said they were “more spiritual than religious.”

Why us?Aside from the committed spiritual wan-

derer, your regular Josiah Carberry SBNRer is probably not going on an excessive num-

ber of spiritual journeys — at least not so-ber, anyway. Let’s be honest, many of us don’t want to take sides. We don’t want to be asso-ciated with the stereotypes connected to re-ligious extremism. We don’t want to face the possible emptiness surrounding the world of atheism, but we don’t want to bind our identities to full-fledged traditionalism. We would rather spend a beautiful day on the Main Green than sitting through a service. We would rather please everyone.

We have been raised in a customizable world. It’s not that we don’t want religion, it’s that we want a personalized, privatized

religion that fits into our busy lifestyles. We want it at a party, not at a temple. We want to text it drunk, and we want it to secretly ar-rive at 4 a.m. We don’t want it to nag us or make us pay for weekly dates. While we ad-mire organized religion from afar, while we study it platonically, what we really want are hookups.

We tend to focus on the potential for op-pression or close-mindedness and forget about the benefits of religious communities — friendship, a social support network, a positive outlook on life and a sense of com-mitment. Does this sound a bit like a serious relationship?

It’s almost eerie how vibrantly SBNR mir-

rors the hookup culture unique to our gen-eration. Just as we jump from partner to part-ner, just as we are uneasy with even choos-ing a relationship status on Facebook, we do not wish to bind ourselves to one religion. If spiritual dabbling is hooking up, choosing a lone religion is the until death do you part.

So we dabble in it all — a little Hindu yoga, some Buddhist meditation, a couple Alpha Epsilon Pi Passover seders — hard on the wine, easy on the Hebrew, maybe with a few Easter eggs thrown in.

Just like love, religion has become a scary word. It represents a hierarchy of intellect

and elitism. Be honest — don’t pretend you haven’t judged someone prematurely after learning they are “very religious.”

While we may meet God on a green, in the Rockefeller Library or in a downward facing dog pose held for too long, one thing’s for certain — many of us don’t meet God in a house of worship. Are we too self-centered to devote ourselves to religious responsibili-ties, or are we just avoiding sheer idealism? Is this just another allegory for our fear of com-mitment?

While our generation is known for being the most innovative, motivated and driven, it is also known for being the most depressed. We may have morphed from a Prozac to a

Xanax nation, but perhaps we’re using the wrong pills. Is religion the med we really need?

Many of us call ourselves spiritual, but we are reluctant to visit Hillel, the Brown Mus-lim Student Center or the Manning Chapel. We claim to enjoy different religious experi-ences, yet, with the exception of yoga in the Hillel social hall, we rarely set foot into these institutions.

Even groups like the Multi-Faith coun-cil pose the same threat. Religion. Commit-ment. Once you come you have to come back — you have to identify as a Hindu or Chris-tian or Jew. You feel the walls closing in, your freedom disappearing — you wonder what people will think. You start to feel a tiny bit uneasy when you scarf down that stack of ba-con, the plate sorely dripping with unkosher guilt.

Let’s not kid ourselves. Perhaps tradition-al organized religion is not appropriate for a generation terrified of commitment. Maybe we shouldn’t put a ring on it after all.

However, what we do need is access to more outlets. We need places that don’t only cater to traditional religions but cater to the amorphousness of SBNR. Because if we do see higher power(s) in interesting places, if we feel enlightened, we should have a place to talk about it, debate it and experience it with other people.

Love and religion may be two of the scari-est words, but spirituality is relatively safe. Even if we don’t choose religion, we need to build a stronger spiritual community.

Is religion the scariest word?

Just 147 years after the Civil War, political mudslinging and the economic crisis have accelerated fears that the country might find itself on the eve of another devastating na-tional conflict. Cooperation in Congress is at a low. The pressures of election season have created a culture of decisions that serve as a tourniquet rather than a permanent solu-tion. Only through bipartisan cooperation can the wounds, which political deadlock and paralysis have inflicted upon the nation’s self-image and reputation, be healed.

Ironically, it is a quintessential Civil War epic to which politicians should look for in-spiration: Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With The Wind” may have recently celebrated its 75th anniversary, but its imagery of endur-ance, pragmatism and micro-management is more relevant than ever in a country where riches-to-rags has become the most com-mon direction of social mobility.

In terms of equality, American society has progressed tremendously since the publica-tion of Mitchell’s racist novel and producer David Selznick’s stereotype-ridden film. But whatever we say about Mitchell’s heroine, Scarlett O’Hara was not afraid to make the necessary business or financial decisions to protect her land, the heart of her life, even if these rendered her a persona non grata in the wider community. After the Civil War, Scarlett cooperates with northerners to save her estate and enters into a marriage with

her sister’s lover for the same reason. It goes without saying that she isn’t exactly the most popular woman in the community.

This, in election season, is what politicians lack: They sacrifice sensible policy to appease all demographics — and get their votes. This explains why incumbent politicians always face accusations of defaulting on their prom-ises, exactly like those President Obama is facing currently from both the Republican and Democratic camps. If you promise the world, even the most impressive advance-ments can seem disappointing.

Of course, much of the discontent is tied

to the dismal state of the economy. The harsh postwar economic climate that starts Act II of “Gone With The Wind” is eerily similar to today’s situation. Scarlett is condemned to picking cotton in a field, a job she would never have taken on in regular circumstanc-es. With unemployment hovering around 8 percent, this is what an estimated 12.7 mil-lion Americans are facing right now — they hold jobs that they are grossly overqualified for.

Like Scarlett, they have shown determi-nation to adapt to the new situation, but our

government leaders have not followed suit. Politicians nourish artificial differences that serve to demarcate them from their sup-posed arch enemy, while in party ideology there is much upon which the Democrats and Republicans agree. They oppose each other for the sake of opposing, and the ap-parent rule of thumb is that negative com-ments generate more publicity than posi-tive ones do. This is also the case within the Republican Party itself. Their candidates are badmouthing each other in an attempt to de-cide who is furthest removed from the presi-dent, but in the process they seem most re-

moved from each other. While taking cues from a pop cultural

text may seem ludicrous to hardcore econo-mists, it can be a start. On a micro level, it has helped people keep faith in their cur-rent state and envision a better future. Cor-rin Paul of Long Island, N.Y., author of the longest “Gone With The Wind” fan fiction story on the website fanfiction.net, told me that fellow fans, from Oklahoma to the Unit-ed Arab Emirates, kept her sane during her daughter Cassie’s illness and kept her dream of mobility alive. “How else would a girl from

Long Island have a standing invite to visit the United Arab Emirates? One day, I will make it there.” Such sentiments are crucial to eco-nomic recovery. Envisioning a better future is the first step in materializing it — that’s why the consumer confidence index can be seen as such an important indicator of eco-nomic development.

Washington can only hope that voters will soon confide in it once again as much as Paul does in Scarlett: “Scarlett always en-dures, no matter what. She isn’t always nice, but she cares for the people she feels respon-sible for, no matter what it costs her.” This at-titude is the one that people have the right to expect from politicians. Representatives should not be worried about reelection or campaign funding. As long as they remain transparent, if politicians truly have the na-tion’s interests at heart, they need to abandon partisan interests and even voter demands. They need to use their privileged position of information and influence to devise a long-term financial strategy that will benefit the nation and the world.

They have to start now. That is what ul-timately separates fiction from reality. To-morrow is another day in Scarlett O’Hara’s universe, but in the United States, tomorrow could mean a default and the end of life as we know it. To demonstrate bipartisan goodwill and to bridge the fault lines that threaten to throw the country into disarray is the only way for the U.S. to retain its status as an in-ternational superpower.

Suzanne Enzerink GS is a master’s student in American studies and can be reached at

suzanne_enzerink@brown.edu.

Not gone with the wind, yet

‘Gone With The Wind’ and its imagery of endurance and pragmatism is more relevant than ever in a country

where not rags-to-riches, but riches-to-rags has become the most common direction of social mobility.

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The baseball team’s Ivy season continued at home this weekend as the Bears dropped both games of a doubleheader against Cornell Saturday and split two games with Princeton Sunday.

Bruno (5-21, 3-5 Ivy) struck early in the first game against Cornell (21-6-1, 7-1), scoring four runs in the second inning on second baseman JJ Franco’s ’14 two-run double, left fielder Matt DeRenzi’s ’14 RBI single and first baseman Cody Slaughter’s ’13 sacrifice fly. The Bears added two more in the third on third base-man Nick Fornaca’s ’15 sacrifice fly and DeRenzi’s RBI single and plated three more runs in the fourth via Slaughter’s RBI single and center fielder John Sheridan’s ’13 RBI triple to build a 9-5 lead.

But the Big Red rallied to tie it in the seventh, and the game went to extra innings. Cornell fi-nally broke the stalemate with an RBI single in the 11th inning. In their final at-bat, the Bears moved a runner to third with only one out, but they failed to score and Cornell prevailed 10-9.

“We just let them hang in there,” pitcher Anthony Galan ’14 said. “We kept walking guys, we

kept allowing a lot of baserunners. … We didn’t exactly pitch to win.”

Game two was not as close. The Bears took a 2-0 lead in the second inning on catcher Wes Van Boom’s ’14 RBI double and Franco’s RBI single, but Cornell rallied for seven runs in the next two innings to take the lead for good. Bruno did get offensive contributions from left fielder Daniel Massey’s ’14 sacrifice fly and right fielder Will Marcal’s ’15 solo home run, but it was not enough as the Big Red won 12-5.

“Everything that could’ve went wrong, went wrong,” Galan said, who started the game for the Bears. “I didn’t have my best stuff working.” Cornell’s five-run fourth inning set the tone for the rest of his outing, Galan said. “If I didn’t have that one inning, it would’ve been a clean start.”

Another blow to the Bears was that Sheridan dislocated his shoulder on a swing in the second inning. The starting center fielder had to be removed from the game and missed Sunday’s action. Galan said the team does not know how long Sheridan will be unable to play, but that the dislocation does not seem to be too serious. “I don’t think it’s career-ending,” he said.

Bruno failed to get on the board at all in the first game against

Princeton (12-12, 6-2). The Tigers set the tone with a seven-run first inning. Princeton starting pitcher Matt Bowman threw a complete game shutout, scattering six hits and two walks over seven innings while racking up 12 strikeouts as the Tigers won 8-0. It is “hard to really try to come back” after fall-ing behind so dramatically at the start of the game, Galan said.

But the Bears bounced back in game two. Fornaca’s RBI double and Massey’s RBI single gave Bru-no a 2-0 lead in the second inning. Shortstop Graham Tyler ’12 added a three-run double in the bottom of the third to extend the lead to 5-0. Marcal’s RBI single made it 6-0 in the fifth, and despite not get-ting a single hit, the Bears scored five runs and batted around in the bottom of the sixth in a messy in-ning for Princeton’s defense. Van Boom’s RBI double and Marcal’s RBI single in the seventh made it 13-0 Bears.

Starting pitcher Mark Gormley ’12 shut out the Tigers through seven innings, allowing only five hits and two walks. Princeton add-ed six runs in the final two innings, but the Bears’ offensive outburst combined with Gormley’s strong start gave Bruno a 13-6 victory to end the weekend.

Galan said the team was moti-

vated to finish the weekend on a high note after losing the first three games. “We felt like our backs were against the wall, and we needed to come out hitting and pitching well,” he said.

Overall, Galan called it “a bad weekend,” citing the extra-inning loss to Cornell as a game Bruno should have won. “We could’ve easily been 2-2,” he said. The Bears would have been tied with Dart-mouth (8-14, 4-4) for first place in the Red Rolfe division had they

won one more game this weekend.The Bears’ next game is at home

against the University of Con-necticut Wednesday afternoon. Their next conference games will come when they host Dartmouth in a critical four-game series April 14-15.

Galan said there is a minor ri-valry between the Bears and the first-place Big Green. “I’m really excited to play,” he said. “If we can take three games, that would be unbelievable.”

Baseball team splits games with Princeton, falls to Cornell

By coNNor grealySportS Staff Writer

The men’s and women’s golf teams are moving into the end of their spring schedules after the women’s team came in second over the weekend in its home tournament and the men’s team placed fifth, with a 623, at the 36-hole Yale Spring Invitational.

Bruno falls just shortThe women’s golf team wrapped

up its regular season at the Brown Women’s Golf Invitational yes-terday with a second-place fin-ish, carding a 36-hole 634 for the weekend.

In its first two tournaments of the spring season, the team was paced by the play of Stephanie Hsieh ’15 and captain Megan Tuohy ’12 in a ninth-place finish at the Low Country Intercollegiate in Hilton Heads, S.C. and a fifth-place finish at the Marsh Landing Invitational in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

“If Megan and Stephanie play well, we play well. They’re both our leaders on the golf course,” said women’s Head Coach Dani-elle Griffiths. “We can count on them every tournament.”

Improving to second place in its home tournament after medio-cre performances encapsulates the

team’s progress, the coach said.“I was very excited to finish

second,” Griffiths said. “Of course we wanted to win, but second was a good accomplishment for our team.”

The squad was again led by the play of Hsieh, who notched a 152, and Tuohy, who shot a 156 — they both placed within the top 10 individually for the tour-nament. Heather Arison ’12 and Carly Arison ’12 shot 162 and 164, respectively. Cassandra Caroth-ers ’15 closed out Brown’s scoring with a 171.

The tournament was well at-tended by a range of past players, professors and recruits. Former players Anita Sekar ’10 and Sar-ah Guarascio ’11 were present, along with professor of history and Brown’s NCAA representative Howard Chudacoff.

“It was a special day to have our players come back and see so much support for the program here at our home tournament,” Griffiths said.

Considering the team defeated all of its conference opponents at the Brown Invite — non-Ivy St. John’s University was the only team to best Brown — everything bodes well for how the team will stack up against its conference

Golf squads perform well against Ivies

By JaMes BluMSportS Staff Writer

The track and field teams had a busy weekend as they split forc-es to compete at three different meets across the country. Travel-ing the farthest were nine distance runners who competed Friday evening at the Stanford Invite in Palo Alto, Calif. Dan Lowry ’12, Olivia Mickle ’13 and Heidi Caldwell ’14 set school records in their respective events as they competed against some of the top collegiate distance runners in the country.

“I think the opportunity to take our currently fastest ath-letes out to a meet like that was a reward that was well earned,” said Mitchell Baker, the women’s distance coach. “It shows the type of hard work that we’ve been put-ting in and the level of athleticism that is on the team.”

Lowr y, the fourth-best 5,000-meter runner in the nation, finished the 5,000-m run in 13 minutes, 34 seconds, a time that earned him eighth in the first heat of the race.

“When you get close to 13:30, that’s really significant,” said Tim Springfield, the men’s distance coach. “The other thing is the quality of the athletes behind him in that race. I was just really

impressed with his effort and abil-ity to race in that environment.”

Lowry’s time in the event is not only the fastest in Brown history, but the second-fastest ever in the Ivy League. As it stands, Lowry’s time will also likely be fast enough to qualify him to compete at the Olympic trials.

“At the beginning of the race, I was towards the back,” Lowry said. “With three laps to go, the leaders started to really pick it up and I went with them. The record wasn’t on my mind at all, but I saw the clock and I thought, ‘If I close fast, I can get the record.’”

On the women’s side, Caldwell finished the 5,000-meter in 16:06 to finish seventh in the second heat and break the school record by 16 seconds along the way.

“Heidi was able to shine the way that she is capable,” Baker said. “When you take one lap at a time and just race, pretty good things can happen.”

Mickle ran a time of 33:59 in the 10,000-meter run and came in 10th in heat two, improving upon the school record set over 30 years ago by more than 40 seconds.

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Jesse Schwimmer / HeraldCaptain Graham Tyler ’12 contributed 3 RBI in Brown’s win over Princeton.

Jesse Schwimmer / HeraldHeidi Caldwell ’14 set Brown’s 5,000-meter record at the Stanford Invite.

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email to prevent UCS from becoming “an isolated decision-making body.”

Vice-presidential candidate Schneider said his ability to motivate students, along with his experience as campus life and appointments chair on UCS, makes him a strong candidate. He said he would work to increase the student activities endow-ment, expand first-year seminars and increase the number of sophomore and science seminars if elected.

His opponent, Tomasso, was pre-viously a member of UCS for two years. He said his break from UCS has allowed him to see the council from a fresh perspective. This per-spective would allow him to imple-ment better outreach efforts, such as an online suggestion box where students can more easily submit feed-back to UCS, he said.

Fischer, who is running unop-posed for UFB chair, also expressed interest in improving communica-tion with the council following the issues that arose after the proposed amendment.

Charlene Flores ’15 and Manya-Jean Gritter ’13 will be running for chair of the academic and adminis-trative affairs committee, while Afia Kwakwa ’14 and Kimberly Wachtler ’13 will compete for chair of the cam-pus life committee. All other campus chairs are uncontested.

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