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have things like class participationr grads.

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tive DUGs are required to submita request or unding or the yearrom the Dean o the Colleges oce,which includes a budget and a list oupmg atts.

A DUG is considered active iit has at least one student leader,support rom the department inth rm a auty adsr ad atleast two events per semester, Ro-drguz wrt. Eah DUG s gbr $500 udg rm th Da th Cgs t math $500 dpartmta udg.

Rodriguez wrote that she andRyan Lester 11, the DUG coordina-

tor, have been contacting the handul dpartmts that d t yt haDUGs. I sm ass, auty hasuggested proactive students whow tatd t sparhad DUG

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creasing student awareness o theEgsh DUG.

Tere are announcements inclasses to tell you about things go-ing on within the DUG, he said.W wrk wth prssrs t spradth wrd abut what w d. Its a t -mag ad a t sa t-wrkg.

Te main purpose o DUGs isto increase student-aculty interac-tions outside the classroom and tohelp connect students with ellowtratrs, auty ad aums.

DUGs rat addta ppr-tunities or these types o less or-ma trats, Rdrguz wrt.Brown students are incredibly re-suru ad prat, ad DUGs

prd a h r thm t ratdisciplinary-specic activities thathp bud mmuty ad prd

valuable resources or concentrators.

Te goal is to enhance the senseo community in each concentrationby providing some unding so that

students can invite guest lecturers,organize panel discussions and holdother events that might be o interestt tratrs, sh wrt.

Rdrguz ga amps a-guage DUGs that have hosted lmseries and lunches in the Sharpe Re-try whr y Spash r Pr-tuguese is spoken. She added that

other DUGs have hosted alumniand aculty lectures, student researchprstats ad pa ssss nding internships or getting intograduat sh.

Besides being a good way to meetaculty and ellow concentrators, in-

volvement in a DUG allows studentsto sort o take the reins o program-ming that is directly involved withrecruiting people into the concentra-tion, Manduley wrote.For peopleusur abut tratg, gttg tuh wth a DUG ad ts ppcan help them make a decision theconcentration nally has a set o aces

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topical joke based around the themes

o the course, Condon said. But atth sam tm, hag that trp b

right in the project handout was att rrtatg.

While she said these experiencesare absolutely not the norm in theDepartment o Computer Science,the stereotype o women strugglingwith computers is culturally ubiq-utus.

Nationwide, the number o wom-

en in computer science is one o thelowest out o all science, technol-ogy, engineering and math elds. In200, y prt mputrs bahrs dgr rptswr wm, ardg t a suryby the Computing Research Asso-

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Statistics or Brown refect na-tional trends. Roughly 15 percento CS concentrators are emale, saidm Dppr, drtr udr-graduate aairs in computer science.He added he has seen that gureclimb as high as 25 percent in thepast.

Te department tries to makesure introductory courses have e-male teaching assistants and analyzes

which types o assignments are mosttmdatg t wm.

Te Admission Oce is quite

aware that the department wantsmore women who express an inter-est in CS, Doeppner said, though hesad h was usur prssg ainterest would actually increase aemale applicants odds at admission.

Admissions ocials did not respond

t mutp rqusts r mmt.Te CS department also oers

thr trdutry squs, par-tially in hopes o attracting women.But oering many options likely hasnot aected the Universitys num-bers, Doeppner said. He said hedoubts introductory courses arescaring women o any more than

thyr sarg m .Te problem is not that women

get disenchanted with CS when theyget here its that they arent coming

here interested in computer science,he said. Te perspective that peopleare getting is that a bunch o malehackers get together and just code all

the time, which isnt really computers.

Like Brown, Yale is pretty refec-tive o the national trends, said DanaAngluin, a proessor o computerscience there. O the 20 computerscience majors who graduated romYale last year, only our were emale.Te department considers attract-ing women a airly strong priority,Agu sad.

In recent years, Yale has staedits introductory computer sciencecourse with emale aculty to encour-

age its emale undergraduates, shesaid, although the department doesnot tailor the curriculum towardwomen specically. Te universityalso has a student group or woment wrk supprtg ah thr th majr.

Sm studts may tak a m-puter science course to help ulllYales quantitative reasoning re-qurmt, gg auty a ha

to convey the excitement o the eld,

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As a math-computer sciencedouble concentrator, Lu Zeng 12

said she would have to question hercounting skills i she didnt notice the

gender disparity in her CS classes.But has it aected the experienceo my education? Not at all, she said.

Its hard to denitively say whythr ar wr wm th d,but emale presence has historicallybeen low, she said. Its a little bit likewondering why there arent morepp rm sub-Sahara Ara th Wtr Oymps, sh sad.

Condon who plans to concen-trate in American civilization andmputr s sad sh kwaer her rst course that she wanted

to study CS. She enjoyed the eelingo accomplishment aer overcoming

hags ad dpg mp-tency in the languages o computing.

Te case was similar or Zeng,who had not initially planned ontratg th d. I udstart rom nothing (and go) to some-

thing like etris in a semester, Zengsad. I kd th g mastrythat I gt rm a urs k ths.

But gttg wm t tak thrrst ass th dpartmt a -ten be dicult, and Condon said shedoes not know how the departmentmght b ab t urag wmto do so. She said she did not eel

that her classes so ar had cateredspecically to her gender, but thatsh wud t wat thm t.

Still, there are signs the University

is making an eort. Condon pointedto the Women in Computer Sciencegroup and the Artemis Project, asummer program run by under-graduats t trdu hgh shstudts t th d.

Te network o undergraduateAs ad ts hd by Wm Cmputr S ad th dpart-mental undergraduate group help toprd a strgth mmuty

CS at Brw, Zg sad.Women in Computer Science

dd t mmt r ths stry.T ssu wm bg udr-represented in the sciences is deeply

complicated, and I am concernedthat simpliying it to t within thespace constraints o a newspaperarticle will result in misunderstand-ings, wrote Ashley uccero 11, ardatr r th grup, a -ma t T Hrad.

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Te proportion o emales incomputer science peaked duringthe early 1980s. But by the end oth dad, wm wr drppgut th d.

Computers were gradually be-coming a boy thing, said Harvey

Mudd College President MariaKlawe. When computers wereemerging in the early 1970s, most

typists were women, and so com-putr s smd k a jb rwomen. But the computer gamesthat arrived in the 1980s changedthat perception, since most o theminvolved sports or simulated vio-.

Te games were very easy toprogram a piece o light goingarss th sr ad bg ab tgure out whether it hit the targetor not, Klawe said, adding that itwas atura r gam dpmtto subsequently be very ocused onby trsts.

Te number o students inter-ested in computer science increasedsignicantly at the end o the 1990s,according to the New York imes.Since then, rates have steadily de-

d.As computer use spread to other

dsps, pp dsrd yudont have to do computer sciencet d mputrs, Dppr sad.

Most universities try to attractmr wm t th dsp, sadShriram Krishnamurthi, associateproessor o computer science atBrw. But I dt kw what thright baseline is. Is it parity? Is 50-50the right number? Should it be 70-30

in one direction, maybe 70-30 in theother? he said. Whats more useulis to nd the root causes. Percent-ags just ma thg t m.

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At Harvey Mudd, the number oemale computer science studentshas gone up signicantly in recentyears, the proportion o emalesincreasing rom 10 percent to 42prt, ardg t Kaw.

Te department oers a numbero summer research opportunities to

emale rising sophomores. It also re-structured its introductory computer

science class, which all students takein their rst three semesters. Teocus o the class switched romJava programming to computer-basd prbm sg, rsutg

a remarkable increase in popularity,Kaw sad.

Hary Mudd as startd t-ing its emale reshmen to a com-puter science conerence whereapproximately 95 percent o theattendees are women, Klawe said.Even students who do not end upmajoring in the eld leave with achanged perception o it. Its like,Oh yah, thr ar ts wmin CS! I met a thousand o them,Kaw sad.

She said she believes HarveyMudds suss a b rpatd at

other schools, since the changes were

not expensive. As an undergraduate,sh was td may tms that thrwr gd wm mathmat-as, thugh sh was

the best at every school she attended.Zeng, however, said that the open

curriculum might make HarveyMudds approach dicult to imple-ment at Brown. Te student bodyo an engineering school is verys-stg, sh addd.

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While Krishnamurthi said hesupports the Universitys departmen-

ta rts, h taks a wdr w the situation. I dont understandwhy women should be more im-portant than say, Arican Ameri-cans or Hispanics or the poor, he

said. I dont want to be picking andchoosing and saying, Tats the most

important criterion. For me, theyrea studts.

Krishnamurthi, who taught anintroductory CS course last all, saidhe believes the larger problem is amisunderstanding o what computer

science is. He said the problem islargely ueled by high school pro-grams. Te Advanced Placementcomputer science curriculum taughtin many high schools has tons ocontradictions in its design, hesaid. Many universities, includingBrown, do not oer credit or APcomputer science. Krishnamurthi

said this should be an indication thataddta rrm s dd.

o combat the problem, Krish-namurthi has spent the past 15 yearsrug tw utrah prgrams tintroduce high school and middleschool students to computer sci-. Wh h ds hp t a-ate misconceptions about computerscience, Krishnamurthi says his goalis broader and that ultimately, he

hopes to improve students mathskills and encourage them to get intoscience, technology, engineering and

mathmats.

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In the past, the negotiationscommittee had worked with thestat grmt rathr tha wth

th wrs th Wst, Castsaid. Te committee ound the own-rs hardr t gtat wth.

When the Westin decreasedwages in March, they also in-creased employees workload, ac-cording to Castillo. Tis increasein expected workload resulted in anrasd umbr bak jursand sparked worker rustration,Vrs sad.

Cast, wh rd appaus

as sh wakd t th pdum at thpress conerence, said this was ahistoric night or housekeeping. Shesaid she elt proud o the new con-

trat baus th m ad

managerial pressure the workerswr ab t rm.

Mayor Angel averas said theagrmt s mprtat t th ty.He added that he wants to increasethe level o tourism to help buildthe citys hotel business and benetht mpys.

Castillo announced that theworkers next victory will be acontract or employees at the Re-assa Ht.

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Te month-long rush process beganJan. 31, and campus Greek organi-zations have a wide range o eventsplanned or new recruits includ-ing Sushi and Haiku with AlphaDelta Phi, Under the Sea with AlphaChi Omega and Hookah and Medi-

trraa Nght wth Dta au.Catherine Mardula 12, the rushchair or Zeta Delta Xi, said theevents with sushi and ondueare the most popular and bringin students who might not haveconsidered joining a raternity. Shealso said the open mic nights were

very popular, drawing 40 students.

Adam Drsma 2, rrutmthar r Sgma Ch, sad ppsmotivations or rushing denitelyvary, but emphasized the appealo a close-knit group o peoplesimilar to the groups o riendsstudts mght ha had at hm.All students have to do is attend thets, whh mght b ddgbar a stak dr. But th prsscan become stressul and com-petitive with up to 100 studentsrushg r 25 t 30 pas, Drs-ma sad.

Te Greek Council plays anmprtat r rguatg rush.Araceli Mendez 12 is the public re-

lations chair or the Greek Councilas well as a member o Zete. Shesaid two houses are not allowedto have events at the same time,

mmzg mptt.At th d th rush prss,

each Greek organization gives

desired students bid cards. Testudts th tur bds t thrhs hus. T Grk Custipulates that students must go toa neutral location to hand in theseards, aga mmzg prssur.

T Cu as pubshs thrush booklets that are deliveredto students mailboxes. Mendezhighlighted the central locationo Wriston Quadrangle as a rea-son that all types o people endup rushg. It s asy r studtsto stop by events, she said, and ndut a partuar hus appas.

Adg th husg ttry s

absolutely not a actor in studentsdecisions to go Greek because othe large time commitment o join-

ing a house, said Richard Bova, se-nior associate dean o residentialad dg srs.

He cited the act that in the pastew years only one or two studentshave changed their minds andmoved out o Greek housing during

their sophomore years. Studentswh g Grk wat t b Grk,h sad. Tr ar 374 studts Grk husg ths yar.

But Patrick Lec 12 said avoiding

the lottery was the biggest actorin rushing Delta au two years ago.

T urtaty th ttry dhim to consider joining the house.Aer getting a decent lotteryumbr, h ddd agast t.

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Morris 88 defends guest columnTo the Editor:

In response to Jennier Graysons 11 letter (Requi-sites no reason to reject ROC, Feb. 14) comparing thepre-med requirements to the Reserve Ocers rainingCrps rqurd urss, hr mpars dst hdwatr. Gg a studt a h t pursu a mdacareer voluntarily because he or she is interested in it is

very dierent than an outside entity saying we will notgive you or will take away your scholarship money

yu dt tak ths r 0 rqurd urss.By way o example, lets say creationists came to

Brown and said they would pay or the education o

sm studts, but rtur, ths studts ha t:1. Spend eight years working or us aer they gradu-

at.2. Tey must not have any moral convictions against

ratsm ad rtay ud t rsk spakgut agast t.

4. W wud prsrb s hurs a wk thrtraurruar tm.

5. We would require them to take 10 specic courses.

. Ty ha t gt thr har ut th way w watthm t, ad thy ha t war ur urm daya wk.

7. International students, resumed undergradu-ate education students and overweight students areudd, thy watd t j us.

Certainly, no one at Brown would support thatsar.

I never understood why some people eel Brownmust ha a ROC ut. W dt ha rythg,nor prepare Brown students or every career, that othershs ad thr Is ha ad d. Ursty Psyaa has a Sh Nursg ad Cr

has a School o Hotel Administration. Te nursing andhospitality industries are both perectly ne and moralindustries to send students into, yet no one is clamoringto have similar programs at Brown. By the same token, s sayg that Brw graduats at j thmtary at th r th abs ROC.

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By now, most people recognize that the United States debt is grow-

g at a usustaab pa. Fr arus rass, dra dts addbt ha bad rt yars. It s ar that Cgrss w hat mak ry tugh dss t gt th budgt bak trak.

With a national debt now approximately equal to our gross domes-tic product and an annual decit in excess o $1 trillion, we recognizethat all Americans will have to bear signicant sacrice in therm spdg uts ad prbaby rasd tas as w. Ad whth ssary masurs w sury b pau r mst Amras,w pt that thy w stp up ad apt th rqust hags thy thk t w s ur sdrab sa prbms.

We were thereore somewhat reluctant to criticize national HouseRpubas wh w ard thr prpsa t mak draauts as muh as 5 prt r mr sm aras t draaid or science, research, education and other areas o domesticspdg. W kw sttus aways mpa wh thy at th budgt a, ad strut rtsm s hard t m

by tugh tms.But th prpsa t mak ths uts th am sa rsp-

sibility is not honest. Compared to our countrys massive decit,ths ad thr uts t dmst prgrams amut t a sma drp th bukt. By trast, th prpsa rss sstay utst ds, Sa Surty, Mdar ad Mdad, whh tgthraccount or more than 60 percent o the ederal budget. Add in otherthings that cannot or will not be cut like interest on the debt andth ast majrty th budgt s apparty -mts. But yu a-t squz bd rm a st. Ts msgudd rts t baath budgt sy by uttg dmst spdg aras k sad duat at d th jb.

Yt ths tk uts that sstay amut t a rudg rrr th grad shm thgs w raag th aras thy at. Framp, th prpsas pa t ut 30 prt rm th Dpartmt Ergys O S, whh uds bas st rsarh,will undoubtedly have seriously negative eects on students, uni-

rsts ad ur ats mpttss rsarh ad stadvancement. Like the similarly large cuts to the National Institute oHealth, these reductions will signicantly diminish ederal grants andrpp aadm prgrams at ursts thrughut th utry.

As, th mat AmrCrps ad ah r Amra whurt the students that take advantage o those programs and theudrprgd wh bt rm thm. Hug uts swhr thproposal will have similarly negative eects on education, transporta-t ad rgy, amg thr aras.

We have already seen the dangers o cuts like these at the statelevel. In Caliornia and Washington, or example, the nancial crisisbusted state budgets and orced devastating cuts in state aid or thosestates world-class public universities that resulted in double-digitprtag rass ass sz ad tut.

W udrstad that thr w d t b uts, t mprtatprograms, to get our nations scal house in order. But these cuts

shud b pursud rspsby, uy mdu th srus mpatthey will have on those they aect. Everyone should share in the painthat baag th budgt w rqur. Ad udg r s adgs shud t b sashd t mak a symb pt.

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pinions 7the Brown Daily eraldednesday, February 16, 2011

Pas, dar radr, dt tur th pag.I kw what yur thkg, Athr

um abut th Crprat? Id rath-r stab mys th ys wth Bu Rmhpstks.

I assur yu, I shar yur gs. ButIm tr. I, k s may udrgraduats,wat ry bady t rrm th prats th Crprat. Yt ry tm I apprahth tp I am mmdaty turd byth h-rdd argumts that ppuat

th dsurs spa. Its tag ad brgad aatg. Tus, t s tm w rrtth dsuss surrudg ths sat tp-, startg wth th aguag w us.

I a rt um, Jua Park 2ad Brw studts bssu ustmrsrady t bm bssu rprat wrk-rs (Crpratzat ad a prat shpmtaphr, Fb. ). Ray? Nt y dsths kd rhtra had-wag m as rdby dsdg, t hasta ghst a pt. What ds that phras ma? It may just b th arrw s-a rs I haut, but t sms t mthat Bruas, argatd as thy ar,strugg ry sg day wth ths typs qusts, tryg t srt ut thr ar-

us aadm, sa ad pta dt-ts ght ths hug mra dmmas.Yu mak us sud k rapturusy stup-

d shp t th bst way t prsuadsm t yur sd.

Athr argumtat apprah thatray ms m s th tratmt th Cr-prat as sm kd ssa, atur-ss, g-ss mah: th Crpratwth a apta C mhaa ad s-str. Park dubs thm pwr-druk p-rats. T wrd r ths s d-humazg.Aga, hw a yu pt t attrat bswh yur thrwg bakrs ad atth h? Spak t th Crprat k

thyr pp mp, fawd, rdarypp, apab udrstadg th mrawght thr dss. T wrd r thss mpathy.

Qut hsty, I at pars thtrm rpratzat. Hw ds gabut adg rpratzat, aty?Ds argug r sa just ma d-rpratzg? Why ar th tw mutuayus? T assumpt that rpra-ts ar bad s s hakyd ad atthat at rad t wthut rgs ys t th bak s sku. N-

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stp tratg ths pp as -humatts.

Sd, gt yur a-rtd prs bard. Ca yu mag a ray rt Ursty Ha mprsd mmr,rgazats ad trprurshp -tratrs, yug trprurs ad uturstmt bakrs? T ty thsspta wud draw mr ys ad mrattt tha ay addr-rasg Studtsr a Dmrat Sty prtst ud. Itsrsh, magat ad why uptd.

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a mr srus way?Imag a th prtsts, th mu-

tas ps ums, th umrabbarbs that ha b ast at th Crpra-t, t just ur tur, but thrughutth tr hstry Brw. D yu thkthrs a argumt thy hat hard?

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thrw arud, th mr saturatd th da-gu abut ths subjt bms, makgth wh thg sm ss squtatha t ray s.

I w ar t ram th dsurs sur-rudg ths ssu, w ha t attak -h. I w ray hp t hag th way ursh s maagd, as w as th aus thatgud that maagmt, w must sarh ra urthd apprah. Eshwg r-wrkd abuary ad baa mtaphrsmay b a sma stp, but ts a stp thrght drt.

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coctrtor rom Kss Ct, Mo.H c b rchd t

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The debate about the Corporation is repetitive and dull

Ys, ry, t s aga that tm th yar. T bdy pp wh ha tha say ry ds prtag t thsUrsty has grad us wth ts prsad, s t spak, ad dw th aw. Arradg Prsdt Ruth Smms -ma tth mmuty rmg us th Crp-rats may uss, my trst waspqud by th mpats sra datapts ad prmss.

S th tta amut my rasdr th Bdy Brw Campag r Aa-dm Erhmt was $.4 b May200 ad $. B Dmbr 200,ths mas ur Ursty rd mrtha $200 m w udg ast yar.

I ght th trat gtats b-tw Ursty admstrat ad thdg srs ad brary wrkrs rth past tw yars, my jaw s haggajar, w ad sghty t th rght. Athugha grat da ths my s armarkd rpt prjts th Campag r Aadm- Erhmt, w must t rgt that d-rs d t aways ha a shg s whr thy wat thr my t g. Rath-r, th Ursty sts udg rrta prjts.

I my p, t s th Urstys r-spsbty as a mpyr ad as a sup-psd agt pst hag th wrdt sur that ab a s, thr mmu-

ty mmbrs ar tak ar . I w pr-

at udr th assumpt that ur Ur-sty shud str t mak sur ts studts,auty ad sta ar prttd as muh aspssb thrughut ths aa rss,hw a th Crprat bg t justyyt athr tut hk wh th majrty

th Utd Stats s st surg rmth rrbrats th mst rt -m rash?

I th aswr t ths qust s thrstadby t sur th utur aasuss Brw Ursty t w markth mst grat ad bakwards abty

t rgz m prg I ha s my thr yars as a part ths mmu-ty.

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psat rmas mptt rdr

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ad attratg ma hrg, rtagmas turg ad rwardg mas -rasg mpsat.

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wth ths prms.Sd, w a t that th attr

part ths statmt, auty s hagdt sta. S th mda saary t-urd prssrs atuay drasd by abut$,000 ast yar, I am wdrg whr

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Sports Specialednesday, February 16, 2011

B JaMeS BluM

SportS StaffWriter

As the Bears closed the book ontheir regular season at last Sat-urdays New York Road RunnersNight at the Armory meet, therecord books were reopened theBears watched Bernard Lagat, pro-

essional distance champion, set anew American record in the indoor

two-mile run. Although Brown didnot bring home any records, thewomen claimed third place andth m shd sth.

Lagats impressive perormancecame during a special two-milerace at the meet, which also in-

cluded high-school star LukasVerzbicas, who was chasing thehigh-school two-mile record.Lagat broke the record, which hadstood or 21 years, by ve secondsas he clocked eight minutes, 10.07sds.

Te pace started, you know,really nice and comortable at thebeginning, Lagat said. So thats

why I was ab t d a 4:02 (m)twards th d th ra.

Lagat was assisted in his eortsby pag rabbts tw rurswho helped him stay on his re-rd-sttg pa r prts the race but or the nal lapso the race, Lagat was alone in hiseorts. o put the accomplishment

in perspective, both o Lagatsmiles were aster than Browns topone-mile nisher, Dan Lowry 12,wh ra 4:0.2.

Ts tm arud, t was d-rt, yu kw, t was a spaset o a race, Lagat said. And I

knew that in order or me to getths rrd I had t b strg t-wards th d by mys.

Tough he ran alone duringthe last laps o the race, the enthu-siastic crowd o college runnershrd Lagat .

Te crowd was going crazywhile he was running and aer,Lowry said. We actually got a pic-

ture with him r ight aer he did it.Even when he was unsure i

the crowd was cheering or himbecause he was behind or ahead orrd tm, Lagat akwdgdthat th rwd hpd push hm.

Even towards the end therewith ve laps to go, they startedbanging on the sideboards, Lagatsad. I was happy that I was abt b wth thm ad ru ad gtthr supprt.

he crowd was awesome,Verzbicas wrote in an e-mail toTe Herald. Te race was a goodpr.

Verzbicas missed setting thehgh-sh rrd Saturday -ning by three seconds, as he ran:43.24.

Beore the race, I elt great,he wrote. Aer though, I elt ver ybad r sm ras. I must ha

had some sort o an allergic re-

action to the dust o the armorybecause I couldnt stop sneezingr th t w days.

Athugh h dd t brak threcord in this try, Verzbicas willcompete in the 5,000-meter andtw-m at th Nw Baa I-dr Natas Marh.

When he came a little short t, thats th atur t, Lagatsaid. Ive tried to go into a race

hpg t ru a rta tm, butI m shrt. But that dst d-minish my ambition, so I keep go-ing and keep going and I told himth sam thg as w.

Beore and aer the two-mileevent, the Bears had several im-pressive perormances o theirown. Te women accrued 84.50pts thrughut th mt, adBrynn Smith 11 won an individualtt th wght thrw.

We had really good peror-mances, said Head Coach Mi-h Esrh.

Gabriela Baiters 11.5 peror-mance was another highlight o

the meet or Brown, as she jumped12.9 meters to capture secondplace in the triple jump. In ad-dt, Cby Lubma 4 ardh th 400-mtr dash wth atm 5. sds.

Te womens distance team also

contributed to the third place n-ish with the 4x800-meter relay,earning second place overall. First-

year runners Margaret Connelly14 and Heidi Caldwell 14 claimed

seventh and 11th place nishes inthe 3000-meter run, which theyran to hit certain, controlled timesardg t Esrh.

Tough the men le the Ar-mory with only 57 points over-a, thy dd m away wth twtitles. Daniel Smith 13 capturedth sht-put tt wth a ha 16.88m and John Spooney 14 won

th 200-mtr dash 2.4.T m as had sm strg

nishes in the longer events. Kevin

Cooper 13 came in second in the1000-meter run. Lowry and An-thony Schurz 12 placed well inth -m ru, shg sthad th, rspty.

It was a (prsa rrd) rme, so Im pretty happy aboutthat, Lowry said. It could havegone a little bit better, but twoweeks out rom (the Ivy LeagueHeptagonal Championships), itsa gd sg mprmt.

Te next challenge acing Bru-no will be the USA rack and Field

New England Championships atHarard Fb. 20.

Nt ry s mptg atth USAF mt, Lwry sad. Alot o us arent competing i we areracing at Heps. We have a breakweek and then get some morespd wrk .

he Ivy League HeptagonalChampionships, hosted by Co-

lumbia, will be held Feb. 26 and 27.

Bears race in New

York as nationaltwo-mile record set

B JaMeS BluM

SportS StaffWriter

Te mens and womens indoortrak squads rssd paths wthan all-time distance champion,Brard Lagat, at th Nw YrkRoad Runners Saturday Nightat th Armry ast wkd. Ia time o eight minutes, 10.07sds, Lagat, 3, apturd hsh American indoor record. He

has won two Olympic medals inhis career, in addition to sevengold medals at various WorldChampionships. Lagat started his

arr mptg r hs atKenya, but became an Ameri-

a tz 2004. T Hradcaught up with Lagat aer hisrrd-sttg ra.

Herald: At what age did yo

f i,

what did it consist of at that

im?

Lagat: Well, you know, the thingis I started running seriously a-ter high school. I started train-ing seriously but competing Iwudt a t mptgbecause I was a college studentand didnt know much about any-

thg ... I was 2 wh I startd

competing, I would say, seriously.And then, o course, ollowingup, coming up to WashingtonState (University), meeting mybest coach, James Li, who hasbeen my coach up til now. Soeverything has been so good,baus rm ah wh sray gd Kya t athr wh s bttr trmso coaching collegiate athletesad as prssa rurs.

Wh i ci cm

a naturalized American citizen

and compete for the united

S i K?

What made me decide to do thatis the act that I was looking atmy arr ad b aus what Imgoing to do aer my career isr s stay Amra ad, yukw, wrk ad ras my amyin America. I want to settledown, so when I start my amily Icould be able to stay in one place.

Ad urs, bg a rur, Iwould like to represent the Unit-d Stats t th bst my ab-ties, which Ive been able to doin so many outings that Ive beenable to go, like world champion-ships and even Olympics eventhough I could not make it to theas th 500, but mad thnals o the ve in 2008. Everyexperience Ive had running in a10-year period has been o greatmprta. S thats ththings that I actually enjoy inmy career representing theUtd Stats.

What does your training consist

?

Well, it is a little bit changed. Iused to concentrate more on not

long on the distance, in terms dg th mag, but w I

a d gr mag. S I amdoing longer now, but I am con-centrating on doing longer butalso aster. I I do long, some-times I split it into two, almostk I ha a tmp ru thr.I have to go all out, but still, at the

d t, Im rug 3 ms.And then we do track sessiononce a week, sometimes twicea week, do purely tempo runstwice a week. So its those kind owrkuts I d mr tha I usdt d br. S t s k myworkouts are more distance now,mr dura pad baus

my 5000-mtr ras.

A wh h w xpc

from yo in the ftre? What

races do you have your eyes on?

I have my eyes on the worldchampionship 5000 meters. Illbe running with strong guys now,

young guys. Teres a guy romKenya who ran 12:53 in 5000 me-

ters last week. So those are theguys Im ptg t mt, yukw, th guys 20 yars d adhs rug suprby ast rghtw. Vry strg. S t dpds

wh I ru agast, but hy, I amout there pushing mysel 100

prt trag.

A hv hgh

h ompic?

Ys sam thg ad sam ap-proach as Im doing or 2011world championships is the same

approach I will also be doingnext year in 2012 as I prepareor Olympics. O course, themore important thing is to behealthy, to be strong and to trainw. At th sam tm, just praythat all goes well at the trials,that you make the team, because

now the United States team isgetting stronger. Tey knowthat rdr r thm t b thbest in the world, they have torace against the best. And yousee the American guys goingoverseas competing at the verybest level, and they do the best job. Im proud o them all, andIm happy that Im th m the American athletes that aredoing well so ar. So Im goingto be doing that knowing that itsimportant, rst o all, i I want togo to Olympics to run strong and

t quay r t.

Q&A with Bernard LagatINDOOR TRACK

Courts o adr Zhtbur

Brrd Lgt fshd thrd th 1500 mtr vt th itrtolassocto o athltcs Fdrtos 2009 World Chmposhps Brl.

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