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Daily Heraldthe Brown

vol. cxliv, no. 44 | Friday, April 3, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891

S By seth motel

StaffWriter

Nearly 8 percent o students have

illegally used prescription stimulants

such as Adderall, Dexedrine and

Ritalin during this academic year,

according to a recent Herald poll.

Among the students surveyed,

7.9 percent said they had used pre-

scription stimulants that were notprescribed to them once or more

during that time period. O those sur-

veyed, 3.1 percent said they used

stimulants only one time, 3.7 percent

said they used them a ew times and

1.1 percent said they used them more

requently than that. 89.8 percent said

they had not used them this year and

2.2 percent chose not to answer.

The results are similar to the

national average estimated by the

National Center on Addiction and

Substance Abuse at Columbia

(CASA), which ound that 6.7 percent

o college students used prescrip-

tion stimulants illegally during the

12-month period studied. Doctorsgenerally prescribe such medications

to people who suer rom attention

decit hyperactivity disorder.

Most o the admitted illicit users

in the CASA study said they used the

medications to help them study, but

nearly a third said that getting high

was at least one actor. The study

ound that white males most requent-

ly used those drugs illicitly, and said

research has ound Greek member-

ship to be another positive correlate

with illegal use nationwide.

CASA reported that at least 43

pharmaceutical Web sites sell stimu-

lants without requiring a prescrip-tion. Still, the most common method

or college students to obtain these

drugs was through riends.

One Brown sophomore, who

asked to remain anonymous, has

bought Adderall 3-4 times this year,

he wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

It was real easy, he wrote.All I had

to do was ask a riend to get some.

The student, who added that

he has given the drug to riends,

wrote that he did not ear getting

in trouble.

A rst-year, who also asked not to

be named, said he has been taking

Adderall since a doctor diagnosed

him with ADHD in ourth grade.

Because he takes the prescribed

medication only when he eels it is

necessary, he has possessed surplus

pills that he has given to some o his

A, bBy mitra anoushiravani

SeniorStaffWriter

At 6 p.m. sharp yesterday, Deb Ma-

hato 09.5 was on the spot.

With the rst pick o the 2009

Housing Lottery, Mahato chose a

single in West Andrews, and Browns

annual dash or on-campus housing

ocially began.

The rst hal o this years lotterywent o smoothly Thursday night in

Sayles Hall, with almost 500 numbers

called in a rapid-re three hours. The

nights nal pick went to six rising

juniors group number 488 just

beore 9 p.m.

Im sweating, said Sage Erskine

11, one o the students who had the

last pick o the night. My adrenaline

is all up and down!

All six women in the group were

on the edges o their seats, yelling

words o encouragement to the

groups ahead o them that did not

choose the Goddard House suite they

wanted. Every time there was a no-show, the girls could be heard cheer-

ing rom anywhere in Sayles.

Our strategy is to intimidate ev-

eryone, Erskine joked.

Mahato, who is entering his tenth

semester, said he just wanted some

quiet space, so it didnt matter where

Im staying, because I know very ew

people and most o my riends are

gone.

Maggie Machaiek 09.5 had the

11th number called Thursday, but

she was still nervous beore head-ing to the podium to make her pick.

I really wanted a single in Minden,

but there are only 10 so I was really

nervous, she said.

It turns out she neednt have wor-

ried she got her wish.

For others, like Jennier Tan 11

who had number 403, the housing

lottery was especially tumultuous.

Im dissatised, Tan said. Were

at the beginning o the bottom hal o

numbers, so we cant even be on the

waitlist to maybe get a good room.

And there were a lot o people going

abroad, so there was a lot o hectic

switching around.

Tw mssng stunts sf n TnBy Ben schreckinger

SeniorStaffWriter

Kimberly Hays 11 and Sophia Roy

10, who had been declared miss-

ing ater they did not return rom

a spring break trip to Trinidad,

are now sae at a hotel there, Ste-

ven Hays, Kimberlys ather, said

Thursday.

Theyre all right, he told The

Herald in a telephone interview

last night.

Hays did not elaborate on what

happened to the two students ex-

cept to say that he had spoken to

Kimberly briefy and that one o

them may have been drugged.

Ocials at the FBI and the

State Department conrmed ear-

lier Thursday that both agencies were investigating the students

disappearance.

The University had announced

in an e-mail to students late

Wednesday night that two un-

named students had not returned

ater break.

Friends o Roy and Hays said

Thursday that the two had been ex-

pected back rom their trip by Mon-

day, the day classes resumed.

But Steven Hays said the two

missed their Delta Airlines fight

o the island, and the students

riends told The Herald that, to

their knowledge, no one had heard

rom either o them since they let

the country.An ATM withdrawal was made

in Trinidad rom Kimberly Hays

bank account on March 30, Steven

Hays said, and law enorcement

ocers had attempted to use se-

curity ootage to determine who

had made the withdrawal. The pair

had planned to return beore that

day, riends said.

Two students who live with

Hays said two FBI agents, accom-

panied by a Department o Pub-

lic Saety ocer, had questioned

them and searched Hays room on

Wednesday night.

Steven Hays said his daughter

was being interviewed by State

Department ocials in TrinidadThursday night.

Nat Rosenzweig 11, who said he

is a riend o both students, said he

had planned to travel to Trinidad

with Hays over spring break but,

or personal reasons, decided not

to go. Roy went on the trip with

Hays instead, he said.

I dont think there was any spe-

cic itinerary or the trip, Rosen-

zweig said.

The two departed rom New

York on March 22 ater originally

Quinn Savit / Hera

Stuents watche intent as rooms few off the boar.

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, By hannah moser

SeniorStaffWriter

A crowd o nearly 200 people gath-

ered in the State House rotunda

Thursday aternoon, calling or

legislators to use ederal

stimulus money to help

those who have lost their

homes due to oreclosure, eviction

or job loss.

The rally was organized by 10

groups, including non-prot orga-

nizations such as the Rhode Island

Coalition or the Homeless and

Housing Opportunities or People

Everywhere, a student organiza-

tion at Brown that works with the

homeless community. The coalition

and HOPE share a concern about

the lack o aordable homes, said

Nellie Gorbea, executive director o

Housing Works RI, a homelessness

advocacy group.

Rhode Island will

receive $1.1 billion rom

the ederal stimulus package, The

Herald reported last month.

The groups called or using the

ederal stimulus money to prevent

oreclosures, protect tenants and

reinstate unding or the Neigh-

continued onpage 3

Hannah Moser / Hera

Severa nonprofits organize a ra at the State House Thursa after-noon, caing for a soution to homeessness.

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CAS wS To think that ou can sen an ki off to schoo with an kin ofrug is naive. Aan Zametkin Md 77, NIMH senior cinica staff phsician

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riends.

The student said he has givenaway the pills a ew times, accepting

money i the other person insists on

buying the pills rom him. Whether

or money or not, he has been care-

ul to give out Adderall to only a ew

people, he said.

I wouldnt eel comortable giv-

ing it to someone I didnt know, he

said.

In comparison to using Adderall

to stay alert, coee and other drinks

with caeine are not as helpul, the

rst-year said.

h

In act, ingesting enough caeineto equal the eects o a prescription

stimulant would probably be more

harmul, said Associate Proessor o

Pediatrics Judith Owens 77 MD80,

who studies the relationship between

stimulants and sleep.

But snorting prescription stimu-

lants to get high is ar more danger-

ous than simply ingesting them in pill

orm, Owens said. In addition to ethi-

cal and legal issues posed by use o

the drugs, Owens cautioned against

thinking that they will necessarily im-

prove ones mental perormance.

One o the concerns I have is that

I think people assume that when they

use these sort o alertness-enhancingsubstances that they reverse any det-

riments associated with sleepiness,

she said. The jury is still also out in

regards to how much these medi-

cations actually do improve peror-mance, especially in the ace o sleep

deprivation.

Director o Health Education

Frances Mantak 88 said she worries

that a student who eels more alert

ater using a prescription stimulant

once might be convinced that he

or she can no longer ocus without

using the drugs. People can also

incorrectly assume there will be

relatively ew harmul physical e-

ects, she said.

People have a sense that, Well,

this is a legal drug, thereore its

sae, Mantak said. They dont o-

ten realize what could happen tothem i they have a heart condition,

or example.

In a 1990 study by the National

Institute o Mental Health, Alan

Zametkin MD77 concluded that

stimulants like Ritalin could help

treat ADHD a nding which some

people credit with starting the surge

o stimulant prescriptions or ADHD

diagnoses. Between 1990 and 2005,

prescriptions o methylphenidate

and amphetamine (the generic

terms or Ritalin and Adderall, re-

spectively) jumped more than 3,000

percent, according to the Chronicle

or Higher Education.

Now a senior clinical sta physi-cian or the NIMH, Zametkin said

ADHD is not over-diagnosed, but

there needs to be more attention

paid to the unlawul distribution o

drugs prescribed or the disorder.The medical community itsel

has to take some responsibility or

the issues o (stimulant) diversion

because we just dont warn our pa-

tients about it enough, he said.

People between the ages o 18

and 22 in particular may lack the

inormation and maturity to make

good decisions about prescription

drugs, he said.

To think that you can send any

kid o to school with any kind o

drug is naive, Zametkin said, add-

ing that colleges should do more to

oversee prescription drug use on

their campuses and educate studentsabout the risks o illicit use.

Still, he considers oral use o

these drugs to be relatively sae,

he said.

Compared to blackouts rom

alcohol, were talking about an en-

tirely dierent scale o magnitude o

medical problems, he said.

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Greg Anderson 10, president o

Students or Sensible Drug Policy,

said that taking these pills isnt nec-

essarily a bad thing and that they

should be treated like other illegal,

but rarely lethal, drugs.

I personally dont see anythingwrong with using it very rarely,

Anderson said. I would put using

stimulants at the same level as using

marijuana recreationally.The University treats illicit pos-

session or distribution o prescrip-

tion drugs in the same category as

any drugs that are completely illegal,

said Associate Dean o Student Lie

Terry Addison. University policy

states that dealers o drugs are sub-

ject to immediate separation rom

the University.

Though the Department o Pub-

lic Saety reers only about one stu-

dent a year to the Oce o Student

Lie or cases o stimulant misuse,

Addison said the University is aware

that students violate the rule more

requently.

Because theyre prescribed andbecause theyre being shared and

possibly sold by students, its sort

o beneath the radar, he said.

While Addison said he does not

condone use o the drugs without a

prescription, he said he takes selling

the drugs to be a much more seri-

ous oense.

When a person actively looks to

prot by selling prescription drugs,

he said, it puts it in a whole other

category.

In light o legal consequencesinside and outside the University,

Zametkin said colleges should make

their students more aware o the

legal ramications o distributing

or accepting prescription drugs il-

legally.

Health Educations Mantak said

she is planning to create a page on

Health Services Web site that will

inorm students o the dangers o

using prescription drugs not pre-

scribed to them.

But, she said, she doesnt want

people to lose sight o the act that

alcohol and marijuana use are much

more o an issue at Brown.

The poll, conducted rom March16 through 18, has a 3.6 percent

margin o error with 95 percent

condence. A total o 676 Brown

undergraduates completed the poll,

which The Herald administered as

a written questionnaire to students

in the University Mail Room at J.

Walter Wilson, outside the Blue

Room in Faunce House and in the

Sciences Library.

F b, continued frompage 1

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I beieve that whore is a wor invente for women who ike

sex as much as men o. Staceann Chin, poet an activist

G By caitlin trujillo

ContributingWriter

The broken heart syndrome, arare condition that mimics heart

attack symptoms, may now be bet-

ter understood, thanks to a group

o Brown and Miriam Hospital re-

searchers.

Richard Regnante, an interven-

tional cardiology ellow at Miriam

and teaching ellow in medicine at

the Warren Alpert Medical School,

initiated the study in July 2004 to

determine the demographics most

oten aected by the disease or-

mally known as Takotsubo cardio-

myopathy and to develop better

treatment methods.

The researchers observed ap-proximately 70 patients enrolled

at the Miriam and Rhode Island

Hospitals who were diagnosed with

the syndrome. The study was pub-

lished in the American Journal o

Cardiologys April 1 edition this

year.

Though the disease has some

heart attack symptoms, it does not

appear to result rom artery block-age. It gets its colloquial name

broken heart syndrome rom

the act that it tends to strike ater

an individual has suered a trau-

matic event, such as the death o a

loved one, according to a March 27

Providence Journal article.

According to Ryan Zuzek, an-

other teaching ellow involved

in the study, previous research

determined that the disease was

primarily prevalent in women. The

Brown-Miriam study aimed to re-

search the causes o the disease

and the specic groups o women

more prone to developing it.The results o the study suggest

that post-menopausal women at

low risk or heart disease are more

likely to experience broken heart

syndrome ater a stressul event.

Zuzek also said patients on ACE in-

hibitors, pharmaceutical drugs that

inhibit the angiotensin-converting

enzyme to relax blood vessels, did

not experience symptoms as se-verely.

Even without ACE inhibitors,

the disease does not usually cause

lasting heart damage and patients

recover i given the right treatment,

Zuzek said, adding that out o the

nearly 75 patients in the study, only

one elderly patient died ater her

amily decided to take her o lie

support.

The syndrome also has a low

recurrence rate, with only two or-

mer patients reporting a return o

symptoms, Zuzek said.

The next step in the study o

the syndrome is to conduct intra-vascular ultrasounds on patients

to look or ulcers or obstructions,

he said. The procedure could help

determine i the condition is the

result o an aborted heart attack

or some other mechanism.

F , C By alexanDra ulmer

StaffWriter

Weaving her way up and down the

aisles o Salomon 101, poet Staceyann

Chin candidly spoke o her graying

pubic hair. Nobody told me this would

happen, the energetic artist told a

laughing crowd last night.

This somewhat unorthodox scene

was just one o many in the event,

which kicked o Queer Alliances

2009 Pride Month and eatured Chin

and openly gay Providence Mayor

David Cicilline 83. The QAs theme

or the month is titled More Than

Marriage: Building an Inclusive Queer

Movement, and it includes eventsranging rom a lecture on homopho-

bia in hip-hop to a celebration o the

th anniversary o Browns LGBTQ

Resource Center.

The event also marked the rst

collaboration between Pride Month,

which aims to celebrate the lives o

LGBTQ people, and the Black Lav-

ender Experience, which centers on

black and queer theater.

The Pride Month is about more

than marriage its about building

an inclusive queer community, Pride

Month Co-Programmer Alex Morse

11 told The Herald.

Cicilline introduced the event by

praising youth and the Brown com-munity or supporting and respecting

the LGBTQ community.

You are pressing these issues and

raising public awareness, he said.

Full equality or our community is

only a short way o.

His visit to Salomon 101 or this

occasion was particularly wonder-

ul, Cicilline added, beore presenting

the LGBTQ Resource Center with a

proclamation rom the city.

President Ruth Simmons attended

and described the collaboration be-

tween the two groups as terric.

Its very indicative o ways in

which dierent groups nd a way oworking together, Simmons told The

Herald.

Throughout the event, Chin, equal

parts slam poet, writer and political

activist, proved to be an outspoken,unscripted and vigorous perormer.

She alternated between reading rom

her upcoming biography and chatting

with the sound technician.

Born to a Jamaican mother and a

Chinese ather who both let her, Chin

recounted her tumultuous upbring-

ing in Jamaica and her struggles as a

multiracial and queer artist. In one o

the three poems she read, a dramatic

and vibrant Chin roamed up and down

the aisles, her deep voice recounting

a list o what she believes in.

I practice believing in the smaller

things ... until I have time to believe

in the rest, she said. I believe birdswere once people in another lie.

Except I believe Saint Nicholas is

actually a transvestite, Chin contin-

ued. I believe that whore is a word

invented or women who like sex as

much as men do, she added to audi-

ence cheers.

In another poem she recited, Chin

spoke o the paradox between lesbians

attraction to straight girls and the di-

culty in seducing them. Rule number

one: You have to be platonic, Chin

advised. Rule number two: You cannot

bend rule number one or at least three

months until she adjusts.

When reading rom her book, Chin

shared her ear o writing and publish-ing her lie story. Im still a little shaky,

part-ashamed and also proud o this

book, she said.

The book, The Other Side o Para-

dise, will be released April 14 in New

York, with her amily, her ormer e-

male partners and one ex-boyriend in

attendance, Chin told the audience.

She read three passages about her

creation in the backseat o a car, anger

towards her oster home on Christmas

Day and her sel-exploration ollowing

the discovery o a porn magazine.

Chin said meaningul poetry to

her carries the spirit and anger and

emotional shit o the writer.I wanted to gure out where it

was that I belonged in this thing that

I loved so much, she said.

Tan came to Sayles prepared with

a thick stack o foor plans highlight-

ing the best rooms.

Some people were even too ner-

vous to speak to The Herald. Aparna

Kumar 10 declined an inter view, say-

ing only, We have to concentrate. Im

reaking out!

Others, like Melissa Diaz 10, had

not entered themselves into the lot-

tery but were still in Sayles to oer

moral support to their riends and

enjoy a little bit o no-stress, Diaz

said.

Besides the chaos, the housing

lottery is also notorious or causing

rits between riends.

This year was pretty chill, said

Tarah Knaresboro 11, a ormer Her-

ald copy editor. Were another year

more mature. The drama happens

reshman year.

But not everyone elt the same

way. One lottery-goer, Michael

Frauenhoer 11, said he had a mild

disagreement with a group member

about cleanliness and then they let

our group.

Many o the students that The

Herald talked to also said this years

housing lottery seemed more orga-

nized than in previous years and that

the switch rom MacMillan 117 the

site o last years lottery to Sayles

Hall was a good decision.

Ben Lowell 10, the chair o Resi-

dential Councils Housing Lottery

Committee, was one o the people

in charge o making sure the event

ran smoothly.

MacMillan was too small o a

venue, Lowell said. Sayles was a

bigger space that we could do a lot

with.

Another dierence this year was

the increased number o no-shows

the 44 no-shows Thursday night were

almost double the number who ailed

to pick on the rst night last year.

A lot o no-shows are people who

applied beore they ound out about

going abroad, Lowell said.

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borhood Opportunities Program, a

state-unded program that provided

low-income housing or the home-

less.

We dont want them to invest it

in plugging budget decits. We want

them to use it to benet the poorest

Rhode Islanders who need it right

now and to deal with the structural

budget decit as a separate issue,

said Jim Ryczek, the executive direc-

tor o the Rhode Island Coalition or

the Homeless.

In an eort to close the states

$357 million budget decit or the

scal year ending in June, a budget

proposal approved by the House

Finance Committee reduced state

aid to cities and towns by $55 mil-

lion. But on Wednesday, the House

voted to reinstate $25 million o the

$55 million in local revenue-sharing

money, according to an April 2 ar-

ticle in the Providence Journal.

At Thursdays event, several

groups, including nonprots and

social service agencies, placed inor-

mation tables around the rotundas

second foor. In keeping with the

events theme, Stimulating the

Economy, Growing Healthy Com-

munities, the organizers decorated

the site with pails and shovels and

planned to give each legislator a

shovel and a packet o seeds along

with a sheet outlining their major

concerns.

Supporters lined the State House

stairs, holding signs in English and

Spanish and ollowing organizers

in chants.

We are here to translate our

numbers into power and our power

into action, Linda Watkins, vice

president o Amos House, a local

social service agency, told the crowd.

Watkins gave examples o people,

now homeless, who paid their rent

but were nonetheless evicted when

their building was oreclosed on.

Organizers said they are hoping

or the passage o a House bill that

will allow renters to continue to live

in and pay rent on oreclosed prop-

erties as long as they maintain the

properties.

Watkins also asked the legis-

lature to reinstate unding or the

Neighborhood Opportunities Pro-

gram, which was eliminated rom

the state budget.

Two representatives rom the

Rhode Island Bank Tenants and

Homeowners Association shared

their personal experiences with ore-

closure. The house that I live in has

been in oreclosure, and the banks

right now are negotiating to rent

to me, but they still havent given

me a response, said Ida Rivera, via

translator.

I was once homeless or seven

years, so I can relate, said Catherine

Flemmings, a rally attendee. I eel

obligated that I should be part o

this because I once walked in their

shoes.

Megan Smith 10 attended the

rally with HOPE, a student organi-

zation at Brown that works with the

homeless community.

A lot o the people who died are

people weve known personally, said

Smith, one o the many supporters

who carried homemade crosses with

names written on them to honor the

35 homeless people she said died in

Rhode Island last year. Theyre olks

rom the community who lived on

the streets or in the shelter.

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planning to fy out the day beore,

he said.

They planned on going rom

hostel to hostel and didnt want

to be staying in one resort, hesaid.

Friends expressed relie upon

learning that Hays and Roy had

been ound. Im really happy and

relieved, said Jennier Grayson

11, who lives with Hays in a suite

on campus.

Previously, riends posted sev-

eral messages on Hays and Roys

Facebook walls expressing con-

cern about the students well-being

and asking or inormation.

Has ANYONE actually had

contact, phone, text or otherwise

with Sophia since March 21, 2009,

one poster asked Thursday ater-

noon. All o her riends help is

needed.An advisory on the State De-

partments Web site, dated March

4, advises that incidents o violent

crime have been steadily on the

rise in Trinidad and Tobago.

Violent crimes, including

assault, kidnapping or ransom,

sexual assault and murder, have

involved oreign residents and

tourists, including U.S. citizens,

according to the site.

Friends o Hays told The Her-

ald she had matriculated with the

Class o 2010, but took the spring

and all semesters o in 2008 to

travel in Europe.

In an e-mail to students late

Thursday night, Dean o the Col-lege Katherine Bergeron and Vice

President or Campus Lie and Stu-

dent Services Margaret Klawunn

wrote that the University was

extremely grateul or the work

done by law enorcement agen-

cies, as well as by members o the

Brown community, that led to this

outcome.

We look orward to their sae

return to campus, they wrote.


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w I By caroline seDano

SeniorStaffWriter

Love is truly in the air or the Brown

University Gilbert and Sullivans pro-

duction o Iolanthe this weekend

in Alumnae Hall.

Beyond the shows multiple in-

tertwined love stories, the BUGScast itsel had a clear aection or

the shows witty, comical and quick

dialogue and musical numbers, writ-

ten in 1882 by the team o librettist

W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur

Sullivan. This passion, along with

some original and creative twists,

gives Iolanthe a resh, light and

engaging eel that brings the love

ostage and into the audience.

The operetta begins with a cho-

rus o airies dressed in earth tones

giggling and rolicking around the

stage as they sing the tale o the

airy Iolanthe, who was banished

ater alling in love with a mortalman. Iolanthes son Strephon, who

is hal airy and hal mortal due to

his mixed parentage, has allen in

love with and plans to marry the

beautiul Phyllis, an orphan under

the legal protection o the court.

Confict emerges when Phyl-

lis caretakers, the noble lords

o the state, do not allow her to

marry Strephon, hoping instead

that she will marry one o them.

Over the course o two hours, the

show pits Phyllis against a chorus

o love-struck suitors vying or her

aection, including the Chancel-

lor and two lords who ultimately

decide they love each other more

than Phyllis.

The decision to make the two

lords relationship more than just

platonic came rom the shows rst-

time director, Alex Hills 11.

Hills said that as he was reading

the play, his rst thought was that

the two were not riends as the dia-

logue suggests, but rather riends.

This initial response became part

o Hills concept in directing the

show.

The budding romance between

the two lords, played charmingly

by Ravi Ramanathan 09 and Nick

Leiserson 09, results in one o the

most amusing numbers rom the

show. Ater Phyllis decides that

the lords must gure out between

themselves which one will marry

her, the two realize they will have to

ght to the death. Departing rom

the original intent o the show but

without changing any o the dia-

logue, the BUGs production turns araternitys sentiment into a comedic

scene o sexual revelation.

Hills said the production eatured

a air bit o creative license without

seriously altering the original con-

cepts. We didnt want to do Iolanthe

In Space or anything like that.

Having never directed or even

acted in a show beore, Hills said

that being the director o Iolanthe

was incredibly dicult yet also

somewhat liberating.

I had no concepts o what should

be done or how they should be done.

It was like language immersion, he

said, adding that having a dedicatedcast whose knowledge and admira-

tion o Gilbert and Sullivan, as well

as theater in general, made the ex-

perience much smoother.

The decision to turn a riendship

in the show into a romance made

unny scenes even unnier and a

story set over one hundred years

ago eel a bit more modern. But,

even in its original orm, the show

explores issues o tolerance, accep-

tance and womens equality, giving

it a persistent relevance.

Despite being written well beore

womens rights was an accepted

concept, Iolanthe presents women

who have the strength, power and

intelligence to call the shots.

In the show, the airies over-

run the parliament and ultimately

end the reciprocal animosity and

prejudice between mortals and im-

mortals. And Phyllis is portrayed as

neither a passive nor a treacherous

vixen, but instead as a woman who

has control over her own destiny

and heart.

Despite Phylliss power to say yes

or no to any o her suitors, one o the

more odd and amusing attractions

is her ather gure, the Chancellor,

who ultimately admits his agonizing

desire or Phyllis. Whatever Freud

might have thought o this, the inner

turmoil or the Chancellor is excel-

lently played out by David Deull 09,

who prances around the stage in a

curly white wig doing walks silly

enough to give Monty Python a run

or their money.

Not only did Iolanthe have a

rst-time director, but the musicaldirector, Matthew Jaroszewicz 12, is

also making his conducting debut in

this production. While Jaroszewicz

was new both to conducting and to

Gilbert and Sullivans works, he said

discovering people who love music

as much as he does was such an

eye-opening experience.

This production makes a classic

and time-tested work even more

entertaining and enjoyable. While

at times the speed o the songs

makes the words hard to decipher,

the entire casts pleasure in perorm-

ing them is evident. Because the

cast is having such a good time, itseems hard or an audience not to

as well.

Iolanthe runs Friday through

Sunday in Alumnae Hall with eve-

ning performances at 8 p.m. on Fri-

day and Saturday and matinees at

2 p.m. on Saturday and 3 p.m. on

Sunday. The show is free and open

to the public.

D By monica carvalho

ContributingWriter

A slender dancer in white roamed a

bare stage haltingly in hal-light. Sev-

eral sets o wires were attached to her

shirt and to a single glove she wore on

her right hand. Computer-generated

music emerged, seemingly produced

by the dancers movement.

As she moved, the music changed.

Almost in mid-step, she turned to

ace downstage and stopped danc-

ing the music stopped too.

Well, its still a work in progress,

she said.

The dancer was Paulina Pagan11, and she was rehearsing a piece

titled Candela or Brown University

Movement Experiments inaugural

perormance, Dance/Music/Play,

running this weekend in Production

Workshops upstairs space.

Annie Rose London 11, the

groups ounder and the producer o

Dance/Music/Play, said BUME

began to coalesce last semester, devel-

oping into a movement collaborative

project comprising student dancers,

musicians and choreographers. She

said she started the group because

other dance groups on campus are

not really experimental, and she was

looking or a creative outlet or innova-tive choreography.

Dance/Music/Play aims to exhibit

how music and dance infuence each

other, London said. The shows name

stemmed rom the way she would

consistently reer to the perormance

in e-mails to BUME members as a

dance/music/play/thing. London

highlighted the importance o the

word play in the shows title, which

represents the spirit o exploration

involved in the creation o the per-

ormance.

London described the show as a

rst-time-ever showcase o original

collaborations between dancers andmusicians, as well as the links be-

tween music and computer science.

The show is not just original cho-

reography, but also original composi-

tions by musicians, said Carolyn Lee

10, who coordinated publicity or the

perormance.

Lee said there is very little op-

portunity on campus or students to

create their own choreography unlessthey are already in an established

dance group. BUME oers a good

platorm or experimentation with

movement, she said.

I am really excited to see what

everyone has come up with, Lee

said.

The show eatures several short

pieces, some o which require audi-

ence participation to create the ull

eect.

The audience is involved in pro-

viding some o the sound, London

said. They are very much a part o

it.

Sam Tarakajian 10, who cho-reographed and supplies music or

Candela, described his piece as an

experiment in mapping a dancers

movement to music.

A computer science concentra-

tor, Tarakajian created the white

costume Pagan wears in the piece,

which is covered in wires and light-

sensitive parts called phototransis-

tors. Pagans movements determine

the way the ambient light onstage

hits the phototransistors, which in

turn changes the nature o the music.

Tarakajian controls the sound levels

throughout the piece.

Tarakajian echoed Pagan, saying

the piece is still very much a workin progress, adding that he would

like to continue exploring new ways

to combine music with dance and

chart a dancers movement.

Tarakajian said his avorite part

o working on the show was the way

it orced him to think o music and

dance in a di erent way.

Its a totally new usion kind o

thing, he said.

Although this is only the rst

BUME perormance, London and

Lee said the dancers, musicians, cho-

reographers and assistants involved

in the production hope that this ex-

perimental dance show will becomean annual event.

I just love it, London says, smil-

ing, I just eel like theres so much

potential. Its just wild.

Dance/Music/Play runs Friday

and Saturday at 9 p.m. in PWs up-

stairs space in T.F. Green Hall. Tickets

will be available at the door on both

nights. Doors open at 8 p.m.

Katherine Regaao / Hera

Brown Universit Gibert an Suivan performing Ioanthe, which runs tonight through Suna.

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By anna gorman

LoS angeLeS timeS

LOS ANGELES Federal au-

thorities are violating immigrant

detainees constitutional rights

by holding them or weeks at a

detention acility in downtown Los

Angeles that was designed as a

short-term processing center, ac-

cording to a lawsuit led in U.S.

District Court.

The center is regularly over-

crowded, causing violence, saety

hazards and humiliation, while

detainees are denied access to at-

torneys and courts and are rare-

ly provided drinking water or achange o clothing, according to

the lawsuit led Wednesday by the

American Civil Liberties Union o

Southern Caliornia, the National

Immigration Law Center and Paul

Hastings law rm.

Detainees are held at the acil-

ity during the days, then shuttled

to local jails at nights and on week-

ends which, according to the law-

suit, eectively cuts detainees

o rom contact with the outside

world and deprives them o their

basic needs.

They are detaining people

in inhumane conditions, grossly

unsanitary and disgusting condi-

tions, said ACLU attorney Mari-sol Orihuela. There are serious

violations o due process.

U.S. Immigration and Cus-

toms Enorcement authorities

said they couldnt comment on

pending litigation, but issued a

statement saying that Department

o Homeland Security Secretary

Janet Napolitano has called or a

comprehensive review o the na-

tions immigration practices and

is committed to making measur-

able, sustainable progress.

The department is commit-

ted to providing secure, sae and

humane treatment or all o ourdetainees, according to the state-

ment. We are continuing to work

with other agencies and stakehold-

ers to improve services to those

in our custody.

During a 2008 tour o the pro-

cessing center, Eric Saldana, Los

Angeles assistant eld director,

said ICE does its best to keep de-

tainees there or just 12 hours at

a time and quickly moves them

to acilities designed or longer

holding periods.

Sometimes, he said, detainees

are kept longer or brought back

because o delays in accessing

travel documents or deportation

or limited space at local jails.Our goal is to get people out

o here as quickly as possible,

Saldana said.

The processing center holds

up to 250 detainees. There are six

large holding cells surrounding

a central area with desks, where

the detainees are photographed,

ngerprinted and inter viewed.

Each cell has a telephone,

bathroom and a bench. There are

also smaller cells or amilies or

juveniles. Saldana said detainees

have access to medical sta and

can ask to see a judge.

There are our named plain-tis, but Orihuela said the law-

suit is on behal o hundreds o

detainees.

The plaintis have asked the

court to or der ICE authorities to

set a time limit on detention or

comply with detention standards,

and to provide hygiene items, sani-

tary conditions, adequate sleep-

ing acilities and access to legal

materials.

We just want them to ollow

the minimum standards guaran-

teed by the Constitution and the

statutory rights the detainees

have, Orihuela said.

D j

By mary macvean

LoS angeLeS timeS

Consumers could be orgiven or eel-

ing a little weary about this weeks

recall o pistachio nuts that could be

contaminated with salmonella.

It comes just weeks ater thou-

sands o products containing pea-

nuts were voluntarily recalled ina salmonella outbreak that made

nearly 700 people sick and ollows

ood-borne disease outbreaks con-

nected to peppers and spinach. As

consumers, we all have that reaction,

Here we go again, said Je Levi,

executive director o the Trust or

Americas Health, a Washington-

based nonprot organization that

has been advocating or reorm o

the ood saety system.

But the string o alerts keeps

ood saety on the minds o Ameri-

cans and ultimately could lead to

legislative reorm.

The U.S. Food and Drug Admin-

istration told consumers Mondayto stop eating anything containing

pistachios a broad eort to keep

people rom getting sick while inves-

tigators looked or the source and

extent o problems. The government

was tipped o by Krat Foods on

March 24, ater the company ound

salmonella in routine testing and

recalled some trail mix.

The pistachio recall is the latest

reminder o how vulnerable our ood

saety system is, Levi said. It is

encouraging that this response was

so quick, but we need to move to a

system that ocuses on prevention

through the entire ood production

process.

Notices o potentially contaminat-

ed oods containing pistachios and

peanuts could continue or weeks,

in part because both products are

used as ingredients in other oods.

As o Thursday aternoon, several

dozen products were on the FDAs

recall list.

But the two recalls are not relat-ed, ederal ocials said. And there

are marked di erences between

them.

In January, the FDA traced the

source o a nationwide salmonella

outbreak to a Peanut Corp. o Amer-

ica plant in Georgia ater several re-

ports o illnesses. Nine deaths have

been linked to the outbreak, and the

FDA has alleged that the company

knowingly shipped products ater

lab tests detected salmonella.

The pistachio recall, by Setton

Pistachio o Terra Bella Inc., was

not triggered by illness, but the FDA

said Thursday that several reported

illnesses have been reported that

might be associated with the nuts.

And, unlike in the peanut recalls,

the companies involved moved

quickly.

Once Krat learned o the salmo-

nella test by a company in its supply

chain, it began its own investigation,

sending auditors to Setton, said Lau-

rie Guzzinati, a spokeswoman or

Krat Foods. The auditor observed

raw and roasted pistachios not prop-

erly segregated, she said.

Setton, the countrys second-

largest producer o pistachios, vol-

untarily recalled 2 million pounds o

pistachios rom its 2008 crop.

S

By lori montgomery

theWaShington PoSt

WASHINGTON Congressional

Democrats overwhelmingly em-

braced President Obamas ambitious

and expensive agenda or the nation

Thursday, endorsing a $3.5 trillion

spending plan that sets the stage

or the president to pursue his most

ar-reaching priorities.

On a party-line vote, the House

approved a budget blueprint that

would trim Obamas spending pro-

posals or the scal year that beginsin October and curtail his plans to

cut taxes. The plan, however, would

permit work to begin on the central

goals o Obamas presidency: an ex-

pansion o health-care coverage or

the uninsured, more money or col-

lege loans and a cap-and-trade system

to reduce gases that contribute to

global warming.

Senate leaders predicted late

Thursday that their version o the

budget blueprint would win approval

by midnight.

I so, the two measures would then

move to a House-Senate conerence

committee, where the harder work

o implementing Obamas initiatives

would begin. While Democrats have

sanctioned the presidents vision or

spending massive sums to transorm

huge sectors o the economy, they

remain ercely divided over the

details.

There is no agreement, or ex-

ample, on how to pay or an overhaul

o the health-care system expected to

add more than $1 trillion to the bud-

get over the next decade, and there

is no consensus on how to spend

the hundreds o billions o dollars

the government stands to collectby setting limits on greenhouse gas

emissions and orcing industry to

buy permits to pollute. Those issues

will be decided in committees where

lawmakers have already begun the

tortuous work o penciling in the

details o Obamas vision.

Democrats in the House and,

I think, the Senate are shoulder to

shoulder with the president in try-

ing to make the big decisions we

need to make in this country, said

Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. But,

he said, Hammering out the details

$3.5

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The Brown dai Hera

. By anDreW Braca

SPortS editor

The No. 2 womens crew achieved

mixed results in its spring season

opener on Saturday. In a tough battle

with No. 8 Princeton and No. 15Michigan on Saturday on Lake Car-

negie in Princeton, N.J., the Bears

settled or third in a tight varsity

eight race beore dominating the

ours.

I think everybody raced re-

ally well, said tri-captain Cristina

Caligiuri 09. We had some strong

opponents, and it was great racing

all day.

Brown began the day with a

second-place nish in the reshman

eight in a time o 7:03.3, 2.7 seconds

behind Michigan.

The Bears turned their day

around by cleaning up in the ours.

The varsity our demolished the

competition, nishing at 7:33.8, while

the Wolverines lagged 5.1 seconds

behind and the Tigers ollowed them

three seconds later.

The second varsity our served as

a showcase or Brunos depth. Draw-

ing rom the strength o a large ros-

ter, Brown entered two boats in the

race, sweeping the top two spots.

The rst boat crossed the line

at 8:01.9, ollowed 2.3 seconds later

by the second boat, which held o

Princeton by six tenths o a second

in the most dramatic nish o the

day.

Im so proud o the ours, said

tri-captain Jessica Stage 09. Our

team did phenomenally in those

races, so Im hoping that their suc-cess will carry on in the next ew

races.

Bruno took second in the second

varsity eight with a time o 7:00.3, 4.2

seconds behind Michigan. Princeton

ollowed in third at 7:01.7.

Brown came out on the short end

o a hotly contested varsity eight race

to wrap up the day, in which just 5.2

G 0 B CAA By Dan alexanDerSPortS StaffWriter

Matt Gevelinger 09 headed to St.

Louis to represent Brown wrestling

in the NCAA Championships on

March 16. Gevelinger earned an

automatic bid to the tournament

ater placing ourth in the 184-pound

weight class at the Eastern Inter-

collegiate Wrestling Association

Championships.

Gevelinger went 0-2 at the tourna-

ment, dropping his opening match to

deending national champion and No.

3 seed Mike Pucillo o Ohio State.

The second match was closer, but

Gevelingers college career ended

with a 14-6 loss to Oklahoma States

Christopher McNeil.

For representing Brown as the

only wrestler at the NCAA Cham-

pionships this season, The Herald

has named Gevelinger athlete o

the week.

Herald: How did you get into

wrestling?

Gevelinger: In my hometown

Mineral Point, Wisc. wrestling

is a big deal. Everybody grew up

wrestling. It was just something you

have to do. No questions about it.

How old were you when youstarted?

I think competitively, the rst

time was in ourth grade.

Did any of your family mem-

bers wrestle?

Like I said, in my hometown, it

was a big deal or everyone to do it.

On my dads side, all o my uncles

wrestled. I have ve uncles all o

them wrestled. My dad wrestled, and

then both my brother and I wrestled.

It was kind o a amily experience,

you know.

Did you ever do any other

sports besides wrestling?

Yeah, I played ootball in high

school. It was a lot o un, but I wasnt

really all that good at it (laughs).

How do you pump yoursel

up before your matches?

Beore my matches, I try to relax

more than anything because usu-

ally Im really nervous. So i theres

anything, I try to tell mysel that Ive

worked hard, and now I have to go

out and prove to my opponent and

everyone else watching that I should

win this match.

Have you ever been injured?

Ive got a laundry list o inju-

ries.

What was your worst injury

and how did it happen?

The worst was I dislocated my

elbow in the state nals my junior

year. It was excruciating not only

because I lost the match due to in-

jury disqualication, but my arm,

like, you know, bent backwards the

wrong way.

That happened in state f-

nals?

Yeah, so I got second. The next

day was kind o the worst day o

my lie. I was in so much pain, kind

o disoriented, and I knew I lost. I

mean, it wasnt the worst day o my

lie, but it sucked.

Do you think you would have

won the state championship i

that hadnt happened?

I mean, thats the story I get to

stick to.

You wrestle in the 184 weight

A , , ..I. bb By Benjy asher

SPortSeditor

The baseball team rallied in the

nal inning Wednesday aternoon

to pull out a 7-6 victory over URI in

the rst game o a doubleheader,

beore tying the Rams in a short-

ened second game.

Bw 7, uri 6

In the rst game o Wednes-

days doubleheader, URI struck

or three runs o starting pitcher

Conor Burke 11 in the top o the

second inning, but the Bears an-swered right back in the bottom o

the inning. Ater rst baseman Rob

Papenhause 09 and let elder Dan

Shapiro 09 reached base, shortstop

Graham Tyler 12 scored both run-

ners on a double to center eld,

later scoring on a single by center

elder Steve Daniels 09 to tie the

game 3-3.

Tyler had a antastic day at the

plate or Brown, going 4-or-4 with

three RBI over the pair o games.

In the third inning, Brown took

its rst lead o the game when Pa-

penhause singled to center eld

and later came around to score on

an RBI single o the bat o catcherGarrett Champion 12.

But Burke surrendered a walk

and a double to start the top o the

ourth, putting runners on second

and third with no outs. URI capital-

ized on the opportunity, tying the

game 4-4 on an RBI single and later

taking the lead 5-4 on a sacrice fy.

With a runner on second and only

one out, Burke retired the next two

batters to get out o the inning with

the decit at only one run.

Tyler led o the bottom o the

ourth with a single, and advanced

to third with one out, but the Bears

were unable to bring him home.The Rams threatened again in

the top o the th, and with runners

at rst and second with one out,

Mark Gormley 11 came on in relie

o Burke. But Champion picked a

runner o o rst or the second

out, and Gormley got the hitter to

pop out to end the inning.

Brown went down one-two-three

in the bottom o the th, but ater

Gormley pitched a perect sixth

inning, Shapiro led o the bottom

o the inning with a single and ad-

vanced to third with one out on

a sacrice bunt and a wild pitch.

Daniels came to the plate and hit a

grounder towards the rst baseman,

whose throw to the plate skipped

to the backstop, allowing Shapiro

to score, tying the game, 5-5. The

Bears had a golden opportunity to

take a lead when co-captain and

team RBI leader Matt Nuzzo 09

came to the plate with the bases

loaded, but Nuzzo grounded into a

double play to end the inning.

With one out in the top o the

seventh and nal inning, URIs Dan

Rhault hit a line drive to let eld,

which Shapiro misplayed, allowing

Rhault to reach second base. Rhault

then advanced to third on a passed

ball, and came home on a perectly

executed squeeze play, giving the

Rams a 6-5 lead heading into the

bottom o the seventh.

But the bottom o the inning

started with back-to-back singles

by designated hitter Pete Gresko

11 and third baseman Ryan Zrenda

11, and with the bases loaded and

one out, Joe Mellano 10 came in

to pinch hit. The move paid o,

as Mellano slapped one through

the let side o the ineld, bring-

ing home two runners and giving

Brown a 7-6 victory.

Bw 7, uri 7The Bears again ound them-

selves in a hole early, giving up two

runs in the top o the rst inning o

the second game, but the oense

took advantage o two URI errors

and an RBI single by Papenhause

to tie the game, 2-2, in the bottom

o the inning.

In the top o the second, pitcher

Rob Wilcox 10 gave up three more

runs, and the Rams Mike LeBel

blasted a two-run homer over the

let eld ence in the top o the

ourth, giving URI a commanding

7-2 lead.

But Daniels hit a sacrice fy in

the bottom o the ourth to score

designated hitter Daniel Roso 12,

cutting the decit to 7-3, and in the

bottom o the th, the Bears bats

came alive.

Papenhause, who nished the

day 4-or-6, started the rally o with

a one-out double to center eld,

and a hit batter and a walk loaded

the bases or Tyler, who drove in

Papenhause with an RBI single.

Daniels cut URIs lead to 7-5 with

a sacrice fy, and with two outs, the

Bears continued to ght.

Zrenda drove an RBI single

to let eld to make it a one-run

game, and Shapiro brought homeTyler with a game-tying RBI single,

Shapiros ourth hit o the double-

header. Nuzzo then grounded out

to end the inning, at which point

the game was called on account

o darkness.

Bryant 4, Brown 3

On Thursday aternoon, Brown

took on Bryant, and the Bears got

on the board rst in the top o the

third inning, when catcher Matt

Colantonio 11 led o the inning

with a single, and later came around

to score, giving the Bears a 1-0 lead.

Papenhause widened the lead to

2-0 with an RBI single in the top o

the ourth, but the Bulldogs struck

or three runs in the bottom o the

sixth, and added another run in the

seventh inning, putting the Bears

behind, 4-2.

Shapiro brought the score to 4-3

when he singled home Zrenda in

the top o the eighth, but the come-

back bid ell short, as the Bears

ailed to get another run home.

Brown will next take the eld on

Saturday, when the Bears will take

on Penn at Murray Stadium, at 12

p.m. and 2 p.m. They will host an-

other Ivy League oe in Columbia,

in a doubleheader on Sunday.

Courtes of Jim Hooper

Womens crew, seen here practicing, emonstrate epth Satura with a win in the varsit four race.

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SSwD I ike our chances an ove this team. Feix Mercao, womens water poo hea coachw. -0 By meghan markoWski

SPortS StaffWriter

The womens water polo teamstarted o spring break with

tough competition at the Aztec

Invitational. The team played at

San Diego State University and

lost its rst our games to No. 18

Indiana, No. 6 Caliornia, No. 4

Hawaii and No. 5 San Diego. The

Bears were able to pull o a win

against Pacic in their last game

o the invitational.

They continued on to play

ranked teams on Wednesday and

Thursday acing No. 8 UC Irvine

and No. 3 UCLA, but again ell

short against both. They ended the

week at the Roadrunner Invitationalwith three wins and one loss.

When you play 11 games in

eight days, you are going to see

some good things and bad things,

wrote Head Coach Felix Mercado

in an e-mail to The Herald. I elt

that in both tournaments we were

able to adjust to most o the op-

ponents but we obviously made

more mistakes than I would have

liked, Mercado wrote. To play

teams that are ranked so high and

compete with them, I think our

team grew in condence.

az i

On March 20, Brown ell toNo. 18 Indiana, 9-8, in an excit-

ing match. The Bears started o

strong with a goal rom Samantha

Ryu 12, but the Hoosiers came

back with the next three goals to

earn a 3-1 lead at the end o the

rst quarter. Indiana continued

its streak by putting another goal

in the back o the net early in the

second quarter.

Sarah Glick 10 and Lauren Pre-

sant 10 ended Indianas run by

scoring two power-play goals to

go into haltime down 4-3.

Brown came out determined

in the second hal with a goal byPresant to tie the game up. But

Indiana scored two consecutive

goals to make it 6-4. Presant scored

with ve seconds let in the third

quarter to make it 6-5.

The Bears tied it in the nal

quarter, but Indiana scored three

more goals to make it 9-6 with less

than three minutes let in the game.

Brown tallied two more goals, but

it wasnt enough to win the game,

and the Bears ell 9-8.

During the Indiana game, we

were all trying to work together

to win the game, Presant wrote

in an e-mail to the Herald. Going

into the ourth quarter we were

trying to pull out the win, but we

made some mistakes as a team and

lost by one goal. In learning rom

our mistakes, we look orward toa rematch.

No. 6 Caliornia came out

strong in the rst hal to hold a

7-1 advantage over the Bears in

their second game. Brown was able

to outscore Caliornia 3-2 in the

second hal, but couldnt make up

an early decit and lost, 11-7.

Brown couldnt keep up with

No. 4 Hawaii and ell 20-4 in their

third game o the invitational. Ha-

waii held a 9-1 lead at haltime.

Browns our goals came rom

Bethany Kwoka 12, Glick, Presant

and Katherine Stanton 11.

Goalkeeper Stephanie Laings10 thirteen saves werent enough

to beat No. 5 San Diego on the last

day o the invitational. The Bears

kept up with San Diego in the rst

quarter but San Diego gained an

8-4 lead going into ourth quarter.

The game ended with San Diego

on top 10-6.

Laing was selected as the Col-

legiate Water Polo Associations

Northern Division Player o the

Week or her perormance at Aztec

Invitational. She recorded 45 saves

and seven steals.

The most exciting games were

against SDSU, Cal and UCSD, Pre-

sant wrote. In all these games weput orth impressive eort as these

top ranked teams with multiple

strings were orced to keep in their

starters.

uc i 12, Bw 7

No. 8 UC-Irvine tallied goals

right away, ending the rst quar-

ter up 5-0. Its tough deense al-

lowed Brown to only get o only

two shots. At haltime, the score

was 7-3.

Irvines our-goal run in the

third quarter put the Bears down

by eight. Brown netted our goals

in the ourth quarter, but theircomeback attempt ell short, and

the Bears lost, 12-7.

ucla 15, Bw 9

Browns competition didnt get

easier, as the team aced No. 3

UCLA Thursday aternoon. UCLA

shut out Brown and held a 7-0 lead

until 5:33 let in the second quar-

ter, when Glick netted the Bears

rst goal.

Brown pulled to within ve at

the hal, and Glick and Stanton

each scored early in the third

quarter to make it 8-5. But UCLA

went on a three-goal run to put the

game out o reach, ending with a

15-9 victory.

rd i

Brown cruised past Cal StateSan Bernardino, 12-6, and Concor-

dia University, 11-4, on the rst day

o the Roadrunner Invitational.

Against Cal State, Presant,

Bullwinkel and Bethany Kwoka

12 led the oense with three goals

apiece. Glick added two goals and

our assists.

Brown proved its all-around

strength against Concordia, allow-

ing the eagles just seven shots and

scoring eight goals to end the rst

hal up 8-1. Presant led the team

with six goals, while Kwoka had

three and Bullwinkel and Herald

Metro Editor Joanna Wohlmuth 11each had one. Glick led the team

in assists, with six.

On Saturday, Brown continued

its winning steak, beating Whit-

tier, 9-1. Browns goals came rom

Presant, Wohlmuth, Stanton and

Glick, and the deense kept Whit-

tier o the scoreboard until ourth

quarter.

The Bears last match o the

invitational was against UC-San

Diego, which ended in the Tritons

avor, 9-7.

The Bears held a 3-2 lead early,

but the San Diego deense held

the Bears scoreless in the second

quarter, and the Tritons pulledahead with a 4-3 lead. The teams

traded goals, each scoring three,

in the third quarter to make it 7-6.

But UC San Diego outscored the

Bears 2-1 in the ourth and came

away with the win.

Kwoka was named the Col-

legiate Water Polo Associations

Northern Division Rookie o the

Week or her perormance in Cali-

ornia. She had seven goals, three

assists and six steals.

It was great playing in Calior-

nia and it proved invaluable to play

the top 10 teams in the nation,

Presant wrote. UCLA and Hawaiiwere among the best competition

we have played. We look orward

to using what we learned in Cali-

ornia to nish o the rest o the

season strong!

The Bears next game will be

today at Wheaton College against

Hartwick.

We get our captain Rory Stan-

ton (09) back this week and that

will help a lot with the ability o

giving more girls some rest, Mer-

cado wrote. We just have to keep

learning rom our mistakes and

make sure we are playing our best

ball at the end o the season. I like

our chances and love this team.

seconds separated the three crews.

Michigan cruised home with a time

o 6:46.1, ollowed by Princeton at6:49.3 and Brown at 6:51.3.

It was disappointing, but Im

condent that our team will do well

in the upcoming races, said Stage.

We have a lot to work on, but we

have a lot o potential.

The Bears achieved solid results

against two o the top 15 crews in

the country, but said there is always

room or improvement.

Michigan and Princeton are

great competitors, but were hoping

to put a lot o work in on the water

and come back strong or the nextew races, Stage said.

The Bears will travel to Cam-

bridge tomorrow to ace perenni-

al-rival Radclie, as the Harvard

womens crew is known.

I think the whole team is really

excited or Radclie this weekend,

Caligiuri said. Theyre in our region,

and its always a great race.

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class. What do you weigh out

of season?

Ive never weighed 200, but Ive

been close about 198.

Is it hard to cut weight to get

back to 184?

Not really. I didnt really cut

much weight this year. Once I got

my weight under control, once I

initially cut down, everything was

really easy. I didnt have to cut a lot

o weight compared to a lot o the

other guys on the team.

Did the rest of the team stillpractice ater you qualifed or

Nationals, even though their sea-

son was over?

Nationals was the week beore

spring break. And Easterns when

we qualied or Nationals was the

rst week o March, so or those two

weeks in between, everyone came in

and was great moral support.

What happened at Nation-

als?

I went 0-2. I lost in the rst

round to last years deending na-

tional champ. He beat me up pretty

bad. And then I lost a tough match

to a kid rom Oklahoma State. Iwrestled hard. I did my best. And

you know, they were just better than

me. And sometimes you have to re-

alize that.

You went to Nationals last

year too. How did this year com-

pare with last year?

This year was a lot dierent. I was

by mysel just with my coaches

instead o with other teammates.

This year, I knew everything. It was

in St. Louis last year. And it was this

year, so I knew the acilities. I knew

what everything looked like. I knew

what weigh-ins were going to be

like. You know, it was ver y routine,

almost. But you know, unortunately,

I went 0-2 again this year.

Will you wrestle ater col-

lege?No. My career is over with.

How does that feel?

Pretty weird. Um, I dont quite

know what to do with mysel. Im

going to end up spending a lot more

time doing schoolwork and work-

ing in my lab. But yeah, its a weird

eeling.

Whats your lab?

Oh, I work in the molecular biol-

ogy department.

What are your plans when you

graduate?

I dont really know. Im kind olooking or a job. I maybe want to

be a lab tech or a little bit take a

little time o o school beore I go

back to grad school.

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will require everyone to roll up their

sleeves.

Republicans blasted the spend-

ing plan as a reckless maniesto that

would greatly expand the size o gov-

ernment and double the national debt

within ve years. Senate Minority

Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said

he and other opponents eared the

consequences o a budget that calls

or a dramatic and potentially irre-

versible shit o our nation to the let

in the areas o health care, education,

and private enterprise.Democrats rallied behind the

president, however, arguing that their

budget would rebuild an economy

ruined by eight years o Republican

rule. In the House, scal conserva-

tives ell in line behind the plan, even

though it would generate a decit

o more than $1.2 trillion next year

and produce large annual decits

well into the uture. The progressive

caucus oered an alternative budget

plan primarily to voice opposition

to the war in Iraq, though many o

its members also voted or Obamas

budget.

Its nice to support a president

whos got a brain and a heart and

uses them both, said Rep. Lynn

Woolsey, D-Cali., co-chair o the

progressive caucus.

In the end, the House voted 233 to

196 to support the presidents budget

proposal, with only 20 Democrats

voting no and no Republicans vot-

ing yes.The biggest dispute between the

two chambers is whether to use a

powerul procedural shortcut that

could allow Obamas health, educa-

tion and energy initiatives to pass

the oten balky Senate with 51 votes

rather than the usual 60, eliminating

the need to win over any Republi-

cans.

Encouraged by the administra-

tion, the House Thursday voted to

include the procedure, known as rec-

onciliation, in its budget plan to speed

health care and education legislation.

But Senate Republicans and some

Senate Democrats argue that the

maneuver would make bipartisan co-

operation all but impossible on some

o the most signicant measures to

come beore the Senate in years.

The Senate, meanwhile, has

roundly rejected reconciliation or

Obamas cap-and-trade proposal,

adopting an amendment to ban the

maneuver by a vote o 67 to 31. TheHouse budget does not include cap-

and-trade in its reconciliation provi-

sions. But neither act has deterred

cap-and-trade advocates, and admin-

istration ocials support leaving the

door open in the nal budget blue-

print when it emerges rom coner-

ence committee or a nal vote later

this month.


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Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON The U.S. andits allies stepped up pressure on

North Korea Thursday to scrap

its planned satellite launch, with

President Obama agreeing with the

South Korean president to respond

sternly i Pyongyang res a long-

range rocket.

Department o Deense ocials

said that they were not planning to

shoot it down, but said that the U.S.

would increase diplomatic pressure

on North Korea i it goes ahead, as

expected. Pyongyang would nd itsel

urther rom what it wants rom the

outside world, including diplomatic

recognition, trade and investment,and security guarantees.

They need things, one U.S. o-

cial said.

Fueling o the North Korean rock-

et has begun, and trailers and vehicles

with propellant have been observed at

the launch site, U.S. ocials said.

International concern about the

launch is based on a belie that it is

intended to serve as an interconti-

nental ballistic missile test by the nu-

clear-armed nation. Western nations

believe the satellite launch would be

illegal under United Nations resolu-

tions restricting North Koreas missile

programs.But Pyongyang says it has a right

to launch a satellite under international

space treaties. North Korea has been

impervious to diplomatic pressure in

the past. Analysts say North Korea

appears determined to go ahead this

time, despite the international pres-

sure, betting that no new sanctions

will be imposed.

North Korea heightened its rheto-

ric Thursday, saying it would retaliate

against any attempts to destroy its

rocket and also threatening to shoot

down U.S. surveillance aircrat. But

U.S. ocials did not take the threat

seriously.Deense Secretary Robert M.

Gates spoke to his counterparts in

Japan and South Korea on Wednes-

day, assuring them that the U.S. will

live up to its commitments to deend

its allies.

North Korea has insisted it will

use the rocket to launch a satellite

into orbit. U.S. ocials said they do

not believe the rocket poses a direct

danger to America.

Pentagon press secretary Geo

Morrell said Gates has made it clear

i there was a direct threat rom the

North Korea launch, the military

has the capabilities to destroy therocket.

The U.S. has interceptor rockets

and tracking radar designed to destroy

ballistic missiles in mid-course. The

U.S. could also use ship-based missiles

to take out the North Korean rocket

soon ater launch.

Deense ocials said the legality

o shooting down a rocket carrying

a satellite was questionable, even i

the North Korean launch was illegal

under U.N. resolutions.

Ocials still expect a launch to

come as early as Saturday, although

the window during which North Ko-

rea said the rocket would be launchedextends through April 8.

U.S. spy agencies will monitor the

launch or inormation on North Ko-

reas procedures as well as the peror-

mance and range o its Taepodong-2

rocket.

At the G-20 summit in London,

Obama met with President Lee

Myung-bak o South Korea on Thurs-

day and discussed North Korea at

length, according to a senior admin-

istration ocial.

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Ater delaying my planning or spring break, I realized

that I would be one o the ew people who would be

stuck at Brown or the week.

Friends tried to comort me by telling me that, by

staying here, at least I wouldnt spend a lot o money.

While that is a allacy, it is certainly true that those stay-

ing back get more sleep. Traveling can be exhausting,

and in an age when even vacations are over-programmed,

you dont really get the opportunity to make up or thesleep you didnt get during the semester.

Another benet o staying back is that students can

get more work done and thus have a smoother transi-

tion rom break to the ollowing week than they can i

they leave Providence. Luckily, the libraries are open

or most hours during the break, and so many students

can study calmly or their upcoming midterms, some o

which are just a couple o days ater the break ends.

When I was awake and not working, it surprised me

to see how dierent the University campus looks when

students are not here. For sure, there are ewer people,

and so theres just a lot more space and everything

looks very peaceul. But the nature o people who are

here seems dierent as well. Perhaps it was just that,

or the rst time, I started noticing the non-student

population that visits Thayer Street. For the rst time I

was moving around among regular Providence people,

like a regular resident o the city, instead o a somewhat

protected and privileged Brown student.

Eventually, I discovered other people who had stayed

back or break too. They were people that I would say

hello to i I saw them around campus, but I didnt actu-

ally know well. Most students have a par ticular circle

o riends comprised o people they live close to or with

whom they share a common interest. But they rarely

have the time or the interest to really get to know people

outside the connes o that circle.

On an average day, I wouldnt actually have had the

opportunity to talk to these people who had stayed be-

hind. But we ended up spending a lot o time together

and subsequently nding out more about each other.

It was a kind o socializing that couldnt ever happen at

a rat party or in a classroom.Obviously, I dont think anyone should or would

orego the opportunity to travel or go home during

break because people are just dying to stay in the SciLi

and study or because people want to make riends. In

addition, the thought o living alone, having to manage

your own ood and thinking about how much un your

riends must be having, seems a little unpleasant. More

traditional plans or spring break have their own, rather

blatant, advantages.

However, ater spending my break at Brown, I real-

ized that there was so much that I could do right here

that I cannot do on a regular day. Turns out, there are

good things about almost every situation. The trick is

simply to look or them.

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I hope everyone enjoyed his or her hour o

darkness last Saturday evening.

For those o you who may not know what

Im talking about, Earth Hour is an annual

event that takes place as part o the World

Wildlie Fund campaign to promote energy

conservation and curb global warming. At

8:30 p.m. on Saturday evening, millions o

homes and buildings turned o their lights

or one hour as a pledge to work toward re-

ducing their energy consumption.I discovered the Earth Hour campaign

the way most college students do a riend

sent me a group invitation on Facebook. A-

ter doing my background reading, I quickly

developed two distinct impressions o the

campaign. I was pleased that so many indi-

viduals nearly 840,000 Facebook mem-

bers still genuinely believed in energy

conservation.

I will also admit that I was a little skepti-

cal about the sincerity o all these people. Its

not that I dont trust the movement; I ques-

tioned whether or not all o these attendees

intended to keep their promise to the cause.

It didnt take long to dismiss my suspi-

cions. Over 1 billion people in 90 dierent

countries had planned to participate. Busi-nesses and organizations were making

pledges to turn o their lights, as well. Butas my ear o insincerity aded away, I elt a

wave o dissatisaction ll the void. Its not

like they asked much o us: We turned o

our lights or one hour, and hopeully the

governments o the world will pass a newer,

stronger U.N. resolution or regulating our

climate. So why do I eel like I havent done

anything?

As with most political movements, the

purpose o Earth Hour involves spreading

a rm message rather than producing any

physical accomplishment. No one would ex-

pect to solve our energy problems by turn-

ing o the lights or one hour each year.

However, by participating in Earth Hour,

concerned individuals can demonstrate to

the governments and people o the world

how strongly they believe in sustainable en-

ergy practices.

Unortunately, an annual event is simply

not enough. Although the Earth Hour cam-

paign has grown exponentially over the ewyears it has existed, its message will be lost

by mid-April i the cause doesnt maintain itsmomentum. We shouldnt have to wait until

Earth Hour 2010 to be reminded why energy

conservation matters. We should be remind-

ing ourselves every hour o every day.

The crusade to lower energy consump-

tion isnt the only thing about which people

need to be concerned. Resource conserva-

tion is just as important, but the Earth Hour

campaign isnt exactly modeled to address

practices such as water conservation, recy-

cling or reorestation. I no one takes the ini-

tiative to give these important practices the

same kind o publicity that Earth Hour gives

energy conservation, then well lose sight o

the big picture. Re

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