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Gender gap at Brown refl ects national trend

In line with a national trend, women outnumber men in terms of applicants to Brown, those accepted to the College and undergraduates enrolled.

The admitted class of 2011 was 53 percent female, while the current undergraduate population is 52 percent fe-male. Women made up an even greater proportion of the applicant pool — 59 percent of applicants to the College this year were female, down slight-ly from 60 percent last year.

Women have a lower accep-tance rate than men do primar-ily because of low female rep-resentation in certain disci-

plines, said Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73. “As we shift our emphasis slightly to science and engineering in the admis-sion process, that tends to be more male-heavy in the ap-plicant pool than some of the other disciplines,” Miller said, adding that Brown is “looking for female scientists and engi-neers.”

The higher percentage of women at Brown mirrors a broader national trend. In 1970, women made up 42 per-cent of the U.S. undergraduate population, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, part of the Depart-ment of Education. That fi g-

BY JAMES SHAPIROSENIOR STAFF WRITER

ADOCH kicks off with stricter alcohol policy

A Day on College Hill, Brown’s annual two-day program for stu-dents admitted to the incoming fi rst-year class and their parents, kicks off today with a stricter drug and alcohol policy to deter prospective fi rst-years from abus-ing alcohol.

ADOCH, which is co-spon-sored by the Admission Offi ce and the Bruin Club, seeks to give prospective students a sense of the undergraduate experienceat Brown — whether academic, athletic, extracurricular or other-wise.

At least 947 students and 756

BY MARIELLE SEGARRASTAFF WRITER

VP for int’l affairs search narrowed to shortlist

The fi eld of candidates to be Brown’s fi rst vice president for in-ternational affairs has been nar-rowed to a list of 8 to 10, members of the search committee told The Herald.

On-campus interviews of those candidates should be fi nished by April 19, said Assistant Provost Shelley Stephenson, who serves on the search committee. Following a second round of campus visits by a narrowed fi eld of three to fi ve can-didates, the committee hopes to make a choice by early May, Ste-phenson said, though the selec-tion would not necessarily be an-nounced immediately.

The creation of a new vice-presi-

dential position is a central com-ponent of the University’s formal internationalization effort. The ini-tiative kicked off in October 2006 with the appointment of an inter-nationalization committee, chaired by Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98, to propose ways Brown can improve its international profi le.

The vice president for interna-tional affairs search committee is one of seven working groups that have been formed under the aus-pices of the internationalization committee. The others — focusing on such fi elds as global health and curriculum, language instruction and study abroad — will present possible areas of focus to the par-ent committee beginning in late

BY MICHAEL SKOCPOLSENIOR STAFF WRITER

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Chris Bennett / HeraldHeavy winds late Sunday night apparently felled the Harrison Kravis ‘94 memorial tree, which was situated inside the Van Wickle Gates on the Front Green.

R U M B L E I N T H E R E F E C T O R Y

Chris Bennett / HeraldPresidential candidates for the Undergraduate Council of Students debated in the Sharpe Refectory Friday evening. Vot-ing begins today.

UCS CAMPAIGN PROFILES AND MORE NEWS, SEE PAGE 7

Loughlin ’07 and Sieff ’07 run 111th Boston Marathon

When the weathermen were wrong about yesterday’s forecast of heavy rains and strong winds, no one could have been happier than Kathleen Loughlin ’07 and Kevin Sieff ’07, who were competing in the 111th Boston Marathon.

“The weather wasn’t as bad as predicted,” Sieff said. “In the begin-ning, there was a light drizzle, and the wind wasn’t bad. Towards the end, the temperature dropped, and the wind picked up, but it wasn’t as bad as we expected it to be.”

The day before, marathon of-fi cials had distributed handouts announcing a Weather Alert and Advisory for Participants in order to prepare runners for what were predicted to be the worst weather

conditions in the marathon’s his-tory. Athletes were warned that the expected mix of heavy rainfall, severe wind and low temperatures would increase their risk of devel-oping hypothermia.

But the runners were in for a nice surprise. “The weather held off for us, which was incredibly lucky, considering what they were predicting,” Loughlin said.

Nevertheless, the cold temper-ature, light rain and wind did take their toll on Loughlin, who com-pleted the marathon in 3:34:57.

“I wanted to run it in 3:30, so this was a little slower with the weather conditions, and the course

BY ERIN FRAUENHOFERASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

33 dead after shooting rampage at Virginia Tech

BLACKSBURG, Va. — An outburst of gunfi re at a Virginia Tech dor-mitory, followed two hours later by a ruthless rampage at a classroom building, killed 32 students, faculty and staff and injured about 30 oth-ers Monday in the deadliest shoot-ing attack in the nation’s history.

The shooter, whose name was not released Monday night, carried two 9mm semiautomatic handguns and wore blue jeans, a blue jacket and a vest that carried additional ammunition, law enforcement offi -cials and witnesses said. Witnesses described the shooter as a young man of Asian descent — a silent killer who was calm and showed no expression as he pursued and shot his victims. He killed himself as police closed in.

He had left two dead at the dor-mitory and 30 more at a science and engineering building, where he executed people taking and teaching classes and even shot at a custodian who was helping a vic-tim. Witnesses described scenes of chaos and grief, with students jumping from windows to escape gunfi re and others blocking their classroom doors to keep the gun-man away.

Even before anyone knew who the gunman was or why he did what he did, the campus commu-nity in Southwest Virginia began questioning whether most of the deaths could have been prevent-ed. They wondered why the cam-pus was not shut down after the fi rst shooting, in which two people were killed.

The enormity of the event brought almost immediate expres-

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SPORTS

IVY FILM FESTIVALDoug Liman ’88 discussed how Brown helped prepare him for Hollywood in the keynote speech of the Ivy League Film Festival

UCS CANDIDATE PROFILESThe Herald profi les the candidates for the Under-candidates for the Under-candidates fgraduate Council of Stu-dents’ presidency and vice presidency

FLAWED GROUP TACTICS?Ben Bernstein ‘09 arguestwo new advocacy groups on campus aren’t getting support because they’re us-ing the wrong tactics

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Innovation and originality abound-ed at the Sock and Buskin-pro-duced performance of Maurice Maeterlinck’s “The Blind.” Direc-tor Rebecca Schneider, associate professor of theater, speech and dance, and her skilled group of ac-tors certainly maintained Maeter-linck’s original artistic intentions that rejected realism and the boundaries of time and place — rather, both Maeterlinck and the production explore the subcon-scious and its mystical spirituality.

Rather than as individual char-acters, the assembly of actors worked seamlessly together as an embodiment of fears and ques-tions. Subverting logical dialogue, the actors repeatedly posed ques-tions that at fi rst appeared rudi-mentary, such as “Where are we?” and “How much longer?” Through continuous reiteration, these ques-tions shed light on the religious and other worldly undertones that nuance the play.

Despite its lack of substantial characterization and progression of plot, Saturday night’s perfor-mance of “The Blind” attained a strong sense of dramatic structure and direction from the numer-ous dichotomies that re-occurred throughout the play. Schneider’s directorial choices highlighted the universal clashes between silence and noise, light and dark, move-ment and inertia, knowledge and ignorance and comfort and anxi-ety, all of which are inherent in the dialogue of Maeterlinck’s original script.

The play opens on a stage strewn with scrap paper. The blind, a group of six fi gures — all in black, eyes shaded by oversized sunglasses — sprawl on a bench center-stage. Behind them, two projection screens hang, display-ing a montage of fl ashing text. Stage right, a giant plastic contain-er holds the decaying remains of a priest’s corpse, like an airtight Tupperware container attempting to preserve his leftovers. On both sides above the stage, three fi gures in orange prison jump suits stand erect. The contrasting array of col-ors and textures is overwhelming to the senses, yet the introductory moments of silence drag on por-tentously and create a clear sense of waiting and expectation.

The silence gives way to pa-per shuffl ing and falling. Classi-cal music crescendos are cut short by a cacophony of metal clanging

against metal. The dialogue be-gins suddenly and jars the audi-ence with the unfamiliarity of the simple words, “Where are we?” The language immediately takes on the unpredictability and am-biguity of free verse. In this way, the performance of “The Blind” evokes a mystical and imaginative quality that defi es realism and the-atrical convention with its lack of specifi c time, scenes, setting and characters.

The fl uidity of language toys with words and morphs their meaning. Lines are not merely spoken but rather chanted and ser-monized. Eventually they take on a rhythmic beat, recalling a prayer or the recitation of the liturgy. In this way, the vague questions re-petitively asked by the actors be-gin to recall questions about the mysteries of faith. The repetitions of “Where is he?” evolve from a basic question to a profound plea that probes God’s presence. The initially confusing and ostensibly random question, “Why did we leave the big house?” beseeched over and over again in chanted unison begin to evoke uncertainty about original sin and the Garden of Eden.

Though the questions posed never seem to reach defi nite con-clusions, the ceaseless cycle of guessing brings a coherent sense of struggle with the notions of mortality, fatalism and spirituality that have always challenged the motives of human action.

Despite the inaccessibility of some of these themes, Schneider and her well-rehearsed actors ably transcend Maeterlinck’s esoteric queries into lively and energetic entertainment. The actors engage the audience and hold them in rapt attention with coordinated dance routines and harmonized incanta-tions. A group of six actors clad in nurses’ gowns, hairnets, pristine white sneakers and thick protec-tive goggles intersperse them-selves throughout the audience. They interact with both the fi gures on stage and the audience itself.

Calling out in sudden excita-tion their impulsive propositions and recommendations, like at some sort of raucous Pentecostal Church retreat, the six fi gures hu-morously and provocatively dis-place the boundaries between the theatrical realm and the real realm, and perhaps even between the real realm and the divine realm.

BY MARIELA QUINTANACONTRIBUTING WRITER

‘The Blind’ rejects realism, explores fl uidity of language

Liman ’88 recalls Brown’s impact on his life

“If I learned anything at school, it was how to show up to class with-out any studying whatsoever,” said Doug Liman ’88, director of movies such as “Swingers” and “The Bourne Identity.” With these words, Liman began the Variety Keynote Speech of the Ivy Film Festival Saturday night in Salo-mon 101.

His speech was marked by candor and dry humor as he re-called his exploits, setbacks and accomplishments from his years at Brown to the present. “I cherish this place and jump at any chance to return to Providence,” he said.

Liman started with an anecdote about his senior year at Brown, during which he said he enrolled in a class known as “Rocks for Jocks” along with seven friends. While taking the course, he and his friends gave each other “hand-icaps” and competed to see who could score the highest grade. Ac-cording to group-imposed rules, he wasn’t allowed to attend lec-tures or do the reading for the class, but he still managed to pass. He likened the experience to working in the fi lm industry, as he said both require one to “be able to work under insane conditions.”

After graduating from Brown, Liman managed to direct his own short fi lm at University of South-

ern California even after dropping out of its fi lm school, but the fi lm was unfortunately not the “ticket to Hollywood” he had thought it would be.

He subsequently directed his fi rst feature fi lm, titled “Getting In,” which was not well-received. After these two disappointments, Liman decided to climb the Alps with a friend from Brown. He credited the trip with giving him a sense of accomplishment that has inspired him throughout his career.

When working in fi lm, “you’re

gonna get bad news every day,” Liman said. “I get rejected every day (by actors and writers). You need a way to still feel good about yourself.”

“There’s an adage in Holly-wood — failure’s not falling down, it’s not getting back up,” Liman said. “To cut through and break in, you’ve gotta do something that’s great … it just has to have an origi-nal voice.”

Liman managed to break in with his next fi lm, “Swingers,”

BY CAMERON LEECONTRIBUTING WRITER

Brown Opera Productions’ “Goy-escas,” a Spanish opera inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya, triumphed in its three per-formances this weekend. Writ-ten in three tableaux, the opera explores two parallel love stories — Goya and his lover Leocadia and Rosario and Fernando, two characters in one of the artist’s paintings.

Besides operatic voices, a pro-duction of “Goyescas” also calls for elegant dancers, convincing actors and powerful music, all of

which BOP strongly delivered. Brown’s orchestra played the original score by Enrique Gran-dados, which offered a strong accompaniment to the emotional performance.

The story begins in the paint-ing studio of the artist (Kyle Dil-lon ’09), who is showing his lov-er Leocadia (Autumn Graham ’09) his most recent painting. Expressed through ballet rather than song, the movements of the dancers revealed the playful and intimate relationship between the

two lovers. At the end of the over-ture, Goya and Leocadia, hand-in-hand, dash through a large frame together, symbolic of their entrance into the world of Goya’s paintings.

Tableau I begins outside in a square as the Majos, a group of young bohemians, enjoy the day. On Friday night, singing was not the strong point of the ini-tial few minutes of the fi rst tab-leau. Audience members strug-gled to hear the Majos over the orchestra and had to depend on the English subtitles projected

BY CATHERINE GOLDBERGCONTRIBUTING WRITER

BOP’s ‘Goyescas’ hits a high note

TUESDAY, APRIL DAY, APRIL DAY 17

“SENORITA EXTRAVIADA”: A fi lm screening. Senior Exhibit Opening: Rochelle Garza ’07 — McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 7 p.m.

“ART IN ACTION: LUXURY ARTS AND INTERCONNECTIONS IN THE LATE BRONZE AND EARLY IRON AGES”: A lecture by Marian Feldman — Mencoff Hall (the Cabinet), 68 Waterman St., 5:30 p.m.

“VAS: AN OPERA IN FLATLAND”: A reading by Steve Tomasula, author of “The Book of Portraiture (FC2)” and “IN & OZ (Ministry of Whimsy Press)” — List 120, 8 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, ESDAY, ESDAY APRIL 18

HONORS / CAPSTONE SERIES: Readings by Marie Hopkins ’07 and Matthew Immerman ’07— Pembroke 210, 3 p.m.

EDITORS’ PICKS

Eunice Hong / Herald

Doug Liman ‘88, director of “Swingers,” “The Bourne Identity” and “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” gave the Variety Keynote Speech of the Ivy Film Festival Saturday evening in Salomon 101.

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Alum director gives Ivy Film Festival keynote

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Rahul Keerthi / Herald

Brown Opera Productions staged three performances of “Goyescas,” a Spanish opera inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya, this weekend.

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ure rose to 57 percent as of July 2006, according to a report by the American Council on Education, a higher education research or-ganization.

According to a 2006 NCES re-port, “women’s undergraduate enrollment has increased more than twice as fast as men’s” since 1970. “From 2006 to 2015, both men’s and women’s undergrad-uate enrollments are projected to increase. … Women’s under-graduate enrollment is projected to continue growing faster than men’s enrollment.”

The growing gender gap ex-tends beyond the United States, said Tom Mortenson, senior scholar at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in High-er Education.

“When I look at the interna-tional data, what’s going on in the U.S. is typical,” Mortenson said. “It’s true in almost every country in the world, except in sub-Saha-ran Africa.”

At 52 percent, the percentage of Brown students who are fe-male is slightly larger than it is at other Ivy League schools. Co-lumbia University had a 48 per-cent undergraduate female en-rollment rate in the fall of 2005, and Cornell University was then 50 percent female. This academ-ic year, Princeton University’s female enrollment rate was 46.5 percent, Yale University was 49.3 percent female and the Universi-ty of Pennsylvania was 51.9 per-cent female. Dartmouth College was 49 percent female, according to an undated fi gure on its Web site.

Mortenson said the gender gap is more evident at most col-leges and universities than at elite schools. “Highly selective schools can pick anybody they want. Less selective schools are more driven by the underlying demographic forces,” he said.

“There is a much more even gender distribution at more elite schools,” said Sara Mead, senior policy analyst at Education Sec-tor, an education policy think tank. “These are schools where they have many more qualifi ed applicants than they can serve, so they’re able to choose who they enroll. They have plenty of quali-fi ed men and plenty of qualifi ed women to fi ll their class.”

Mead and Mortenson both said the gender gap is especially pronounced among black college students — the gap shows up

more at “historically black univer-sities where 60 percent or over 60 percent of African-American stu-dents are women,” Mead said.

Miller said the gender gap is a complex issue. “There are myr-iad theories about the gender im-balance, and it really is a national issue. It extends through all dif-ferent populations and all differ-ent racial and ethnic groups.”

Mortenson said the gender gap is partly due to inferior male academic performance in ele-mentary and secondary schools. “It looks like the classroom envi-ronment is far more favorable to girls and almost hostile to boys,” he said, leading to lower college attendance.

“There are also some differ-ences in economic incentives fac-ing women,” Mead said. “The op-portunity cost (of college atten-dance) would be higher for low-er-income men than for women. The types of jobs that men could get right out of high school pay more than the jobs that women could get.”

The gender gap could affect the U.S. economy in the long run, Mortenson said.

“Jobs that are being created require ever higher levels of post-secondary education and train-ing,” he said. “Men are not adapt-ing to the new world, and women certainly are. The concern I have is that men’s lives are going to be very rough unless many more of them start going to college.”

Students interviewed by The Herald said Brown’s open cur-riculum and progressive atmo-sphere may make it more attrac-tive to female applicants.

“A lot of the guys I know were kind of nervous about how it’s so unstructured here, as far as the curriculum goes,” said Chantal Tape ’09. “Maybe girls are more fl exible about that.”

“Because of other progressive aspects of the University, perhaps women applicants feel like they can be more accepted as women who are striving to succeed in academia or whatever else they are trying to succeed at,” said Will Emmons ’09.

But most students said they were not particularly concerned about the gender gap. “It just seems like more of a curious phe-nomenon than a problem,” said Jake Kline ’10. “I don’t think it’s a huge issue if there are more wom-en than guys.”

“If the trend continues, I think Brown needs to think about what Brown needs to think about what Brown needs to think about whait’s doing that isn’t attracting men,” Tape said.

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parents will be attending this year, said Amanda Calderon, assis-tant director of admission. That is many more parents than last year, she said, and more students be-cause this year the University paid for the transportation of a number of students constrained by fi nan-cial need.

Today’s “student and parent welcomes” in Salomon Center and Sayles Hall are two of the most highly attended events of the 25-hour program, Calderon said. Stu-dents will hear welcoming remarks by President Ruth Simmons, Visit-ing Fellow at the Watson Insti-tute and former U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75 and Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73. Parents will hear Miller and Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron at a separate welcome scheduled for them.

Tonight’s talent show in Sa-lomon, in which student groups perform for the prospective fi rst-years, is also often highly attend-ed, Calderon said.

The talent show will be fol-lowed by a dessert social in Leung Gallery, a new event that will re-place the “Food with the Fellows” event of previous years, said Adam Kroll ’09, student co-coordinator for ADOCH. The social will be a look into student life, including a “meet-and-greet” with representa-tives from the Offi ce of Residen-tial Life and Residential Council, Meiklejohn advisers and repre-sentatives from the Swearer Cen-ter for Public Service, Kroll said, adding that the ADOCH coordina-tors hope to “expose (prospective students) to the non-academic services that Brown provides.”

Another new event this year is a concert in Sayles Hall sponsored by Greek Council and ResLife, Kroll said. The concert will take place during tonight’s “Late Night” activities and will hopefully draw students away from trying to fi nd parties elsewhere, he said.

ADOCH coordinators are en-forcing alcohol and drug policies strictly this year, requiring over-night student hosts to sign a form stating that they will not provide prospective students with alcohol or drugs, Calderon said. Prospec-tive students and parents must also sign a form in order to attend the program, Kroll said.

Other events during Late Night will include arch sings, a glow-in-the-dark Frisbee game and unit “get-togethers” to deter prospec-tive students from trying to fi nd places to drink, she said.

On Wednesday, students can attend classes, go on campus tours from the Main Green and at-tend the activities fair and lunch, which will help them learn more about some of Brown’s extra-cur-ricular activities, according to the ADOCH schedule. And for those interested in athletics at Brown, there is an information session at 2 p.m. in Petteruti Lounge in Faunce House.

There will also be a tent set up with refreshments today and to-morrow on the Main Green where students can go between attend-ing classes and other events, Kroll said. This way, even if the weath-er does not cooperate, students will have somewhere to go where they can interact with their future classmates, he said.

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After only three months in offi ce, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., has stuck to a Democratic agenda, meeting the initial expectations of Brown students and professors who followed his campaign closely last November.

Since he joined the Senate, Whitehouse has visited Iraq, given his fi rst speech on the Senate fl oor criticizing President Bush’s policy in Iraq and advocated a timetable for troop redeployment. Whitehouse — a former U.S. Attorney and now a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee — has also voted to is-sue subpoenas to high-ranking of-fi cials in the Bush administration to explain the recent controversy over the fi ring of federal prosecutors.

Brown students intimately in-volved in his election cited the pos-sible Democratic takeover of the Senate as a major force behind their commitment. Adam Axler ’08 worked between 25 and 30 hours a week assisting the campaign trea-surer and handling offi ce responsi-bilities. Axler, vice president of the Brown Democrats, said he worked

for the campaign because “we need-ed to send a message to the Bush administration and get a Democrat-ic Congress.”

For the Brown Dems, ensuring a Democratic majority in the Sen-ate was of paramount importance. “We should remember that Sen. Whitehouse put us over the top and ensured a Democratic majority in the Senate, all because of the dedi-cated Democrats — a large num-ber of them from Brown — who worked so hard to elect him,” said Tor Tarantola ’07, president of the Brown Dems.

And now that Congress is in Democratic hands?

“It is hard for me to say whether or not I am satisfi ed, but I have a lot of faith, and that’s why I worked for the guy,” Axler said.

Associate Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller said she believes Whitehouse’s focus on na-tional issues — such as Iraq and the federal prosecutors scandal — is the most effective strategy to please his constituency and fulfi ll campaign promises.

Schiller said Rhode Island is a

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About 35 Brown students — most belonging to emPOWER, a stu-dent group campaigning to make Brown climate-neutral — marched from the Main Green to the State House Saturday afternoon to urge Congress to make reducing carbon emissions by 80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050 a priority.

Holding signs reading “Step It Up” and “80% by 2050,” students followed the Brown Band to the State House, where they formed the number “80” on the steps. Stu-dents chanted, “It’s getting hot in here, there’s too much carbon in the atmosphere.”

“Even though our numbers are modest, we’re joined by 1,367 groups,” said emPOWER organizer Jon Magaziner ’07, speaking to the

group on the State House steps. “It’s up to us to continue to hold our insti-tutions accountable. Carbon dioxide is something you can’t conveniently sweep under the carpet,” he added.

Step It Up is a movement started by environmentalist Bill McKibben to draw attention to issues of global warming and climate change. The Brown march was one of 1,367 reg-istered rallies around the country on April 14, the national day desig-nated for climate action and aware-ness, said Tess Hart ’09, one of the protestors.

The rally will “generate media coverage” and present “tangible evi-dence that people care” about the en-vironment, Hart told the crowd be-fore students formed the “80” shape.

“We want to make (carbon emis-sions) a priority for presidential campaigns and congressional cam-paigns,” she told The Herald.

Danny Musher ’10, one of the protesters, said he hopes similar events across the country will have an impact on the legislators.

“People’s voice in theory is sup-posed to move our representatives to action,” he said. “I don’t know if one day alone will have an impact, but it is one in a series of events.”

Karen Kovalevich ’10, anoth-er protester, said reducing carbon emissions should be “a high prior-ity” for Congress.

“We only have one world, and we’re not doing a good job taking care of it,” she said.

“I think things like this do work so it’s worth our time,” she added.

Some students at the protest said they wished more Brown stu-dents had joined the march. Shane Easter ’10 said it was “sad” that they “couldn’t mobilize a lot of our own campus.”

BY NANDINI JAYAKRISHNASTAFF WRITER

Students march to State House to mark National Day of Climate Action

Twelve students decked themselves out in top hats, pearls, gowns and tux-edoes Friday and handed out coal to passersby in Kennedy Plaza to pub-licly “applaud” Merrill Lynch’s con-tinued investment in coal projects.

The students — members of the Brown chapter of Students for a Dem-ocratic Society and emPOWER, plus a local high school student — held a theatrical protest posing as “billion-aires for coal” outside of the bank’s location in downtown Providence.

While heartily shouting “Coal is the future!” “Thank you Merrill Lynch!” and “Who needs so many species anyway?” the students hand-ed out fl yers and pieces of coal to peo-ple on the street. “We want to share the wealth — well, the coal — with everyone,” protestor Alex Ortiz ’09 told The Herald.

The demonstration was part of Step It Up 2007, an event that claims to be the largest national protest to stop global climate change in the na-tion’s history, according to the event’s Web site. Rainforest Action Network was a primary organizer of the week-end’s national protest, which includ-ed protests in every state.

Rainforest Action Network runs public awareness campaigns and engages in non-violent direct action and grassroots organizing with the goals of breaking America’s oil addic-tion, protecting endangered forests and indigenous rights and stopping destructive investments around the world, according to its Web site.

“We’re here to thank Merrill Lynch for their contributions to our stock portfolios. Merrill Lynch is one of the seven banks to invest in the 150 new coal power plants to be built in

BY AMANDA BAUER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Students protest Merrill Lynch coal investments with irony

BY A. KAMYL BAZBAZCONTRIBUTING WRITER

3 months in, students and professors track Whitehouse’s senatorial progress

As legislators in the General As-sembly consider creating a center that may support a future state-wide wireless network, Brown continues to provide bandwidth to a group that has already imple-mented pilot programs around the state.

Rep. Amy Rice, D-Dist. 72, has introduced legislation in the state legislature to create a tech-nology center that may support statewide wireless. Meanwhile, the Business Innovation Factory and the Economic Development Corporation, both nonprofi ts, are already working to create a state-wide wireless network — Rhode Island Wireless Innovation Net-works.

The BIF is currently seeking funding from the state govern-ment — once it has received the funding it needs, it will take a year to a year and a half to set up per-manent base stations throughout the state, according to the BIF’s Web site.

Brown is one of several part-

ners providing the project with the bandwidth necessary to sup-port pilot programs. Two anten-nas on top of the Sciences Li-brary have supported the pilot program since last May, said Tim Thorp, manager of communica-tions and education at Comput-ing and Information Services.

The pilot program that ran through December allowed Brown graduate students in the Master of Arts in Teaching pro-gram to use the network to teach in three local schools — the Hope High School complex, the Wheeler School and the Robert L. Bailey IV Elementary School, Thorp said.

Though the pilot is complet-ed, the University still provides bandwidth for the Providence network, he said. Now, scientists and researchers will evaluate in-formation gleaned from the pilot to see how they can improve the program when they begin to im-plement it statewide, Thorp said.

Elizabeth Huidekoper, execu-tive vice president for fi nance and administration, said the Universi-ty allows external groups to use

its bandwidth if it thinks a certain program will make the best use of it. “It’s like we have property, and someone wants to lease the space,” she said. “What would they do with it if they had it, and would they do good things?”

Huidekoper said no money changed hands between the BIF or the EDC and the University.

“At the moment, that is the ex-tent of Brown’s involvement with the project. We plan to see how RI-WINs develops in the months ahead before making any fi rm commitments on our future par-ticipation,” wrote Michael Chap-man, vice president for public af-fairs and University relations, in an e-mail to The Herald.

Melissa Withers, communica-tions director for the BIF, said the BIF will “continue to work with Brown to see how they want to be involved and what kind of usage they want students to have.” If Brown chooses to par-ticipate in the project, the net-work may be helpful for students trying to access the Internet in remote places in Rhode Island, she said.

BY SIMMI AUJLAMETRO EDITOR

Nonprofi ts continue to develop a statewide wireless network with U. help

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Amanda Bauer / HeraldMembers of Students for a Democratic Society and emPOWER protested Merrill Lynch and its links to coal-fi red power plants in a re-enactment of the “Billionaires for Coal” demonstration held in New York City earlier this year.

Courtesy of emPOWERStudent group emPOWER and members of the Brown Band met at the State House Saturday as part of a nationwide campaign to encourage the U.S. Congress to mandate 80 percent reductions in carbon emissions by 2050 compared to 1990 levels.

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which was shot on a shoestringbudget of $250,000. Because of the limited funds, Liman said he had to be crafty, using the same props in multiple scenes and fi lming without a permit while evading the police.

He also spoke about his forays into television, with shows like “The O.C.,” which he said “started out as a big success (and) ultimate-ly turned into garbage.”

Liman ended by recalling the hoops he had to jump through while directing his more recent fea-ture fi lms, “The Bourne Identity” and “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”

While preparing to enter pro-duction on “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” there was a point when Nicole Kid-man, who had been set to play Mrs. Smith, dropped out, followed by Brad Pitt and the producers, Liman said. Ultimately, Liman was able to complete the movie and is current-ly working on the television version of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”

After the hour-long keynote speech, Liman responded to ques-tions from the audience, which in-cluded topics such as Liman’s shift

from smaller movies to big-budget movies, the process of preparing for a movie and past and present fi lmmakers he admires. During the session, Liman insisted the audi-ence call him “Doug” rather than “Mr. Liman.”

Liman told The Herald after his speech that he was glad the Film Festival had been organized. “The Ivy League schools as a whole are not supportive of fi lm as a serious fi eld of study,” he said. “I feel like at a place like Brown, it’s going to be the students who create the fi lm (community).”

Liman said he remains close to his friends from Brown. “I really formed my life-long friendships at this place,” he said. “Many of the friends I met here helped me on my fi rst fi lms and my short fi lms even though none of them went into fi lm. That entrepreneurial attitude (here at Brown) made them good co-workers.”

Liman said he believes the fu-ture of fi lm continues to lie in good storytelling, but the Internet and especially YouTube have provided new means to tell those stories. “Someone is going to create the

fi rst successful Internet-based pro-gram and … it would surprise me if it wasn’t a Brown student or a Brown alum,” he said.

Simon Kinberg ’95, writer of the fi lm and television versions of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and a friend of Li-man’s, had originally been sched-uled to speak with Liman but had to pull out due to a commitment to the upcoming television series “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” said Elizabeth Backup ’08, alumni relations coor-dinator for the festival.

Backup said Kinberg had been scheduled before Liman and that Kinberg helped bring Liman to Brown.

Backup said she didn’t know what to expect from Liman’s speech and was pleasantly surprised. “It was so funny,” she said. “I think it was kind of spontaneous.”

She added that she learned a few lessons from this year’s key-note and suggested the event may have drawn a bigger crowd if it were held on a Friday night or later in the evening. “I wish more people would have been there to see it, but (the scheduling) has to work with the fi lmmakers,” she said.


Liman ’88 recalls Brown’s impact on his life

above the stage. The strength of the performance was in the acting. Paquiro, a fl irtatious character played comically by Patrick Ramsey ’07, entered the scene wooing the ladies until his sweetheart, Pepa — strongly portrayed as confi dent and con-trolling by Christie Gibson ’06 — arrived at the square.

Several minutes into the tableau, Rosario (Sonia Nayak ’08) enters the scene. Rosario’s beauty may halt the festivities in the world of the painting, but it was Nayak’s voice that literally stunned the audience. Her voice was strong, emotional and femi-nine, and she sang the Spanish words as if she were speaking her native tongue.

Paquiro is quick to invite Ro-sario to a lantern-lit ball, but his courting is immediately inter-rupted by Rosario’s love, Fer-nando (Alexander Ebin ’07), jealous and fearful of Paquiro’s interaction with Rosario. Ebin exuded the masculinity, intensi-ty and the sense of honor of men described in 18th-century Span-ish literature. His voice revealed his character’s passion and pain caused by his love for Rosario.

Following the fi rst tableau is another ballet scene in the studio with Goya and Leocadia. She struggles for Goya’s affec-tions as he becomes increas-ingly obsessed with his cur-rent painting. While Graham expressed feelings of hurt and frustration, Dillon ably por-trayed his ambivalence through graceful movement.

The opera continues in this back-and-forth manner be-tween Goya’s studio and the tableaux, providing insight into his personal struggle between the world of his reality and his art. Brown Opera Productions’ “Goyescas,” with the talent of its singers, dancers and musicians, left the audience impressed and touched in a performancethat brought forth the complex-ity of what separates love from obsession.

‘Goyescas’ hits a high note

April. The full committee’s rec-ommendations could be released as soon as the end of May, accord-ing to Stephenson.

The University received over 300 applications for the position, and the current group was cho-sen from that pool for fi rst-round interviews, Stephenson said. She said the search committee has tried to focus on candidates from a range of backgrounds, especial-ly those with multiple areas of ex-pertise.

“All of the candidates have a fa-miliarity with academia, and most also have a familiarity with one or more of the other worlds from which they come,” Stephenson said, citing diplomacy and work for international non-governmen-tal organizations as examples of candidates’ past experience.

“The strongest candidates … are people who have come with more than one type of back-ground,” she added.

“I think we’ve defi ned the job in the way that is pretty challeng-ing,” said search committee mem-ber Richard Spies, executive vice

president for planning and senior adviser to the president. “It’s go-ing to require an overall set of skills or experiences that will al-low somebody to do a lot of differ-ent things.”

Both Stephenson and Spies declined to say if any of the can-didates who received fi rst-round interviews come from within the University.

Philip Altbach, director of Bos-ton College’s Center for Interna-tional Higher Education, said in-ternationalization is “the fl avor of the month” in academia, and many other universities have al-ready created similar positions.

“This is not a tremendous, innovative move on the part of Brown,” Altbach said.

But the position has generated strong interest, Stephenson said, because it is at the vice-presiden-tial level and because the incom-ing vice president will be able to build on the internationalization committee’s work.

Altbach agreed that the posi-tion’s vice-presidential status at Brown is signifi cant.

“Three cheers for Brown for doing it at that level,” he said.

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the next few years in the U.S., which will make us very, very rich,” Ortiz said while bracing his four-foot-tall top hat against the gusting wind.

Some banks profi t from “dirty money” investments, Rainforest Action Network claims. Despite the availability of alternative ener-gy sources, banks such as JP Mor-gan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Credit Suisse, Citibank and Morgan Stan-ley have continued to invest in tech-nologies that are harmful to the environment, such as coal power plants, according to the Rainforest Action Network Web site.

The Step It Up campaign calls for banks and other private organi-zations to stop investing in power that causes greenhouse gas emis-sions and to consider environmen-tally friendly options. These alter-

natives include “wind, solar energy and biomass,” Ortiz said. The cam-paign was also an attempt to bring national attention to global warm-ing and energy effi ciency and to put pressure on Congress, according to the Step It Up Web site.

“The whole campaign is geared towards galvanizing the whole na-tion about energy,” Ortiz said. “It’s an incredibly important issue, our futures are all at stake. … Science is behind it, and people are behind it.”

This is not the fi rst time this se-mester SDS members have taken part in theatrical protesting down-town. Students held a “die-in” on March 19 in front of the downtown offi ces of Textron Inc. — a contrac-tor for the U.S military — where they placed “bloody” handprints of raspberry jam on the building. One SDS member was arrested at that event.


small state in which Whitehouse has held a high profi le for some time. “He has no pressing need for a local connection because he is al-ready well-known,” Schiller said.

“The (federal prosecutors fi ring) has given him a platform that sepa-rates him from Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and also gives him visibility,” she added. Reed, a United States Military Academy graduate elected in 1996, has served in the U.S. Army and is considered a leading Demo-cratic voice on Iraq.

Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75, whom Whitehouse defeated last No-vember, said Whitehouse is “fi rmly lodged in the Democratic agenda” and said he does “not see much sur-prising votes” from Whitehouse. He said his own entry into the Senate in 1999 was slightly easier because he took up his father’s already well-es-tablished and functioning offi ce.

“I had a unique niche,” he said, as a Republican senator ideological-ly to the left of his party on many is-sues. Chafee said fulfi lling the Dem-ocratic agenda was Whitehouse’s campaign promise, and he must pursue it.

Whitehouse must “show oth-

ers he is willing to work, compro-mise and learn,” Chafee said. “Most Rhode Islanders might not be aware of it, but it does take a while to adjust to committee assignments and build trust,” he added. Schiller agreed, saying Whitehouse has to “develop a credibility within the senators fi rst and then look to gain media atten-tion.”

Though three months is almost a semester for Brown students, it takes time for a new senator to set up a functioning offi ce apparatus and get into the rhythm of life on Capitol Hill. Chafee called entering the Sen-ate a “chaotic initiation” where the fi rst months in offi ce can be spent “operating out of a hallway.” White-house was only able to move into his permanent offi ce about a month ago, according to a March 25 Provi-dence Journal article.

“You got to pay your dues, and that’s what (Whitehouse and his staff) are doing right now,” Axler said. “You are there for six years. He has been there for three months. It takes a long time to build up the in-frastructure.”

Schiller echoed Axler’s senti-ments. “It is too soon to tell which senator will emerge as the star in 2006,” she said.

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A freshman taking all of his classes S/NC because “grades can some-times provide the wrong incen-tives for students,” Jake Heimark ’10 wants to have younger leader-ship at the top of UCS.

“I think the problem with UCS is the current leadership focuses too much on their own agendas,” he says. “I think it’s time that, with

a younger person as vice presi-dent, they can help the younger members achieve their goals.”

Heimark, a Palo Alto, Calif., na-tive, is the UCS Webmaster and is leading an initiative to consider outsourcing Brown’s e-mail ser-vice to Google’s Gmail.

Heimark also calls the current state of technology at Brown “em-barrassing” and says students de-serve a three-year plan from the administration that includes a plan for wireless Internet, universal card access and “an online regis-tration system that’s actually us-able.”

Because Brown is “a unique university,” he says, “we need to change Banner for Brown.”

Heimark is also involved with Free the Children, an organization that focuses on building schools and advocating against child labor, among other things. He has been to Kenya fi ve times and has also been to Nicaragua and Mexico.

Stefan Smith ’09, an at-large repre-sentative on UCS, wants to make sure Brown students don’t forget sure Brown students don’t forget the world that exists around them.

Smith, a history concentrator, tutors at a juvenile training center tutors at a juvenile training center in Cranston to help people earn their GEDs and is a crisis-line op-erator for suicide counseling and rape intervention at his home in Greenville, S.C. But he worries that Greenville, S.C. But he worries that Brown students are often “compla-cent” about the outside communi-ty, especially about education.

“We take so much for granted at Brown, in terms of intellectual freedom,” he says.

Smith favors mandatory com-munity service for UCS members, and he advocates that the Univer-sity freeze student tuition. He says tuition, which has been rising fast-er than infl ation, should be kept “at er than infl ation, should be kept “at the status quo so that the gap be-tween who can come and who can’t tween who can come and who can’t doesn’t spread.”

Smith also wants to open the proceedings of the Undergradu-ate Financial Board to the public record, arguing that students have a right to know how their money is being spent.

“UFB Chicken Littles will tell you that the sky will fall down if we you that the sky will fall down if we open meetings,” he says. “That’s not true.”

With Banner creating an up-roar across campus, Michael Glassman ’09 understands why

the “implementation process” is not going smoothly.

“You can’t impose a lot of rules on Brown students,” he says. “You have to let them make those choices for them-selves.”

Glassman, currently the UCS communications chair, wants the council to develop an appropriate response to Ban-ner. But he has also set goals of renovating dorms, expanding January@Brown and increas-ing the number of students on UCS by reaching out to those who show interest in participat-ing but are discouraged when they lose an election.

“I want to personally ap-proach them and make an ef-

fort to get those people into UCS,” he says.

A New York City native who plans to double-concentrate in the sciences and the humanities — he hasn’t yet decided which ones — Glassman worked to create the Flex meal plans last year as a member of the campus life and admissions and student services committees.

Glassman is also involved with the Sustainable Food Ini-tiative, the goal of which, he said, “is to get students who don’t know anything — who are basically like me and are from New York City and don’t know anything about agricul-ture — to come volunteer on the farm.”

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MICHAEL GLASSMAN ’09

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Though he transferred from Duke University last fall, Moses Riner ’08 thinks he’s gotten in touch with his new school.

A member of the rugby team and an at-large UCS representative since the beginning of the spring semester, Riner says going door-to-door in dorms and talking to stu-dents has helped him “understand what Brown students want.”

“You might think that a lot of people would just blow you off,” he says. “But actually, I got a lot of positive feedback.”

A history concentrator with a strong interest in entrepreneur-ship, Riner’s major issues include

creating more social space on cam-pus and developing a response to Banner that protects the open cur-riculum.

“I live in New Dorm right now, and there’s absolutely no common rooms in there,” Riner said.

Riner, who is from Louisville, Ky., and is the youngest of six chil-dren, also wants to create a re-wards system that would give stu-dents points for attending athletic events. These points would then be redeemable for Brown memo-rabilia.

In addition to the rugby team and UCS, Riner is also involved in the Brown Investment Group.


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Lauren Kolodny ’08, an inter-national relations concentrator from San Diego, says there is too much bureaucracy in UCS and that individuals often get left behind in the paperwork.

“The reason I really want to run for vice president,” she says, “is I think there needs to be more oversight of each indi-vidual member of UCS.” New members sometimes get lost, she says, and are expected to know too much as soon as they arrive.

Kolodny — who transferred to Brown from the University of California, Los Angeles, the fall

of her sophomore year — says she wanted “a more open and progressive institution” and that the threat to shopping pe-riod represented by Banner “re-ally undermines the open cur-riculum.”

Kolodny, who is UCS’ Cor-poration liaison, says she has many important connections in the administration, which she wants to use to try to lessen course caps and prerequisites and to print copies of the Course Announcement Bulletin.

She also pushed the Corpo-ration to create a social choice fund, which it fi nally approved at its meeting this February af-ter declining to act on it on more than one occasion. The new choice offers donors to the Uni-versity the option of earmark-ing their money for a separately held fund that invests specifi cal-ly in companies with good envi-ronmental practices.

Other than UCS, Kolodny is involved with the Darfur Ac-tion Network. She says she is focusing on trying to bring bio-gas stoves to a refugee camp so that women and children are not forced to leave the camp to collect fi rewood and are not ex-posed to rape and attack.

Voting for Undergraduate Coun-cil of Students and Undergrad-uate Finance Board elections open today at 5 p.m. on My-Courses and will be open until 5 p.m. on Thursday.

Though many races are un-contested, the contests for UCS president and vice president are among those that will be closely watched until the results are an-nounced on the steps of Faunce House at midnight Thursday night.

One of the four candidates for UCS president, Eric Mukherjee ’09, was disqualifi ed by the UCS elections board early Tuesday morning, hours before voting was slated to begin.

“Several rules, which were clearly articulated to all candi-dates through various elections communications, were violat-ed” by Mukherjee, the elections board said in a statement. “These violations include the failure to attend mandatory elections in-formation sessions, candidate’s meetings and to submit a cam-paign platform to the UCS Elec-tions Board.”

The statement added that Mukherjee made no “good faith action” to warrant a lesser pun-ishment.

The online ballot for the elec-tions will include each candi-date’s photo and a personal statement, as well as any en-dorsements they have received from student organizations go-ing through the offi cial UCS en-dorsement process.

The beginning of voting marks the start of what will presum-ably be a stepped-up publicity campaign from the candidates, though most — including some whose races are uncontested — have already been busy adver-tising this week.

Christina Kim ’07, the UCS elec-tions board chair, said, before news of Mukherjee’s disquali-fi cation broke, that she had re-ceived some complaints from students who felt they were be-ing “bombarded” with invita-tions to candidates’ groups and events on Facebook, but that “by and large, things are going really well this year.”

Kim added that because of candidates’ signifi cant use of Facebook, there has been a de-cline in the use of other public-ity tactics, such as table-slipping and putting up posters.

“We haven’t seen as much of people using the traditional methods,” she said.

— Michael Bechek and Herald staff reports

Hours before voting begins, Mukherjee ’09 disqualifi ed in UCS presidential race


LAURENKOLODNY ‘08

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was a little tougher,” she said.Sieff fi nished with a time of

3:06:52. “I’m okay with it, consider-ing the conditions of the race,” he said. “I ran the fi rst half at a 6:40 pace, which was a little too fast. I had to slow down with eight miles left, at Heartbreak Hill.”

Heartbreak Hill is the fi nal hill of the course, which begins in the rural town of Hopkinton, Mass., and ends at Copley Square in Boston. Both Loughlin and Sieff agreed that the supportive crowd encouraged them during the fi nal sections of the race.

“When I was hurting, what helped was the great fan support and having two great friends pull-ing me along,” said Sieff, who was accompanied for the last 10 miles by Pat Clark ’07 and Nick Neely

’07, members of the men’s cross country team.

Loughlin also said she appreci-ated her friends’ support, thank-ing all the Brown fans who came to Boston. Many of her friends were waiting at the start of Heartbreak Hill to cheer her on, and like Sieff, Loughlin was paced by friends Eliz-abeth Bird ’07, Alex Brown ’08 and Becky Crossin ’08 for the last half of the race.

“I was really excited to see them,” Loughlin said. “It was awe-some because I’m used to running with people, and this would have been a long time to be by myself.”

Loughlin and Sieff also had to thank years of preparation for their strong performances yesterday. For training, Loughlin’s approach was to “just run as much as you can.” Sieff echoed her sentiment.

“It’s important to run six or sev-

en days a week,” he said. “Runners can do 50 miles a week to 150 miles a week, depending on how serious they are. I run between 60 and 70 miles a week.”

According to Sieff, training in-tensifi es during the weeks before a marathon. “The most important part is to do a few really long runs before,” he said, specifying distanc-es between 17 and 21 miles.

This may seem like a lot to peo-ple unaccustomed to running such long distances, but for Sieff, the strenuous training and competi-tion are worth it.

“I’ve always been an obsessive distance runner,” he said.

Loughlin had a more specifi c goal in mind going into the race. “I wanted to run the Boston Mara-thon before I graduate,” she said. “Obviously, this was the year to do it.”


Loughlin ’07 and Sieff ’07 run 111th Boston Marathon

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The Trolleys performed Saturday at the Spring Arts Festival on the Main Green.

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The recent reordering of several large states’ primary contests will favor candidates who can raise the most money early on, allowing them to compete in the expensive media markets of California, New York and Texas, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Ter-ry McAuliffe — now chair of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presi-dential campaign — told the Brown Democrats Monday.

Roaming the List 120 stage and speaking in a jocular tone, McAu-liffe started his talk by describing the beginning of his political ca-reer. He told the audience how he started raising money for President Carter’s campaign while he was at-tending law school at Georgetown University and “living in a big blue house with 20 guys and kegs in the bathtub.”

After leaving law school, McAu-liffe became the national fi nance di-rector of Carter’s campaign when he was 23. The sparse crowd was amused by his story of wrestling “Jumper,” an alligator, for a $15,000 donation for Carter from a Seminole tribe in Florida’s Broward County.

After turning to policy and poli-tics, McAuliffe’s remarks touched on a broad range of issues. He dis-cussed the recent shifts in the pri-mary schedule and advocated a na-tional reconsideration of election procedure.

“After this year, we’ve got to take a real serious look at how we do our primaries,” he said. The change “benefi ts the candidates which can raise the most money. It used to be these four small states, but now who can play on Feb. 5? Not many,” McAuliffe said. “You might stumble in the fi rst event or two, but now you have no time to recover.”

McAuliffe said he thought nei-ther Carter nor President Clinton

would have been nominated had this year’s schedule been in place at the time. He also discussed his ini-tiative that changed the Democratic primary schedule in 2004, the fi rst modifi cation in more than 25 years.

He also discussed Republican campaign tactics he characterized as “tough.” Describing various dis-information and intimidation tactics attributed to Republicans in recent elections, McAuliffe argued, “You don’t sink to their level, but you can’t let one attack go undefended in this business. With Fox News and 24-hour cable, if something is said enough times, it becomes true. … I’m a strong believer that when you get hit, you need to hit back harder. Folks, when they come af-ter you on patriotism, the American public wants you to hit back.”

McAuliffe repeatedly called for Democrats to develop a “noise ma-chine” to match conservative talk radio and Fox News Channel.

The Brown Dems and Students for Hillary initially co-sponsored the event, but the University required that the latter group pull its spon-sorship because it was construed as a political endorsement. University policy prohibits political campaign-ing on campus due to Internal Rev-enue Service tax regulations con-cerning Brown’s nonprofi t status.

“Originally, Students for Hill-ary was sponsoring the event,” said Craig Auster ’08, head of Students for Hillary at Brown and former vice president of the Brown Demo-crats. “(McAuliffe) was coming as a favor to help get publicity for the group, and the Brown Democrats were co-sponsoring it because it is a Category III group.”

The event’s organizers disputed the argument that the speech was a political event. They told The Her-ald the event was not an endorse-ment of Clinton’s presidential cam-

BY NICK WERLESTAFF WRITER

Compressed primaries benefi t fundraising-savvy candidates, McAuliffe tells Dems

R E L AY F O R A C U R E

Eunice Hong / HeraldRelay for Life at Brown sponsored a walk from 6 p.m. on Friday to 6 a.m. on Saturday to raise money for the American Cancer Society’s cancer research and support efforts. A total of 632 walkers helped raise $79,000, according to a society press release.

N E W S I N B R I E F

Two alums win Pulitzer PrizesMark Maremont ’80 and Usha Lee McFarling ’89 won Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism for Public Service and Explanatory Reporting, respec-tively. The awards, which are given by Columbia University, were an-nounced Monday.

Maremont, who writes for the Wall Street Journal, was a history concentrator at Brown and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He then re-ceived a master’s degree from the Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. The Journal won the Pulitzer for its series on “options backdating,” which Maremont helped report.

Backdating is a procedure whereby businesses grant stock op-tions at a set price dated prior to the transaction. Companies can grant stock options at prices that are months or years old. Recipients can make a windfall if they receive their options at an old price sub-stantially lower than the current price. Through backdating, business executives made millions of dollars on options granted at substan-tially lowered prices. Though backdating itself is not illegal in all in-stances, many companies did not disclose their engagement in the practice.

The reporting spurred investigations and the ouster of executives at UnitedHealth, CNET Networks Inc., McAfee Inc. and other compa-nies.

McFarling, a former Herald reporter who concentrated in biology while at Brown, is currently a science reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She won the Pulitzer for co-authoring a fi ve-part series titled “Altered Oceans,” which examined ecological problems plaguing oceans across the globe.

The fi rst article in the series discussed the proliferation of toxic primitive organisms that harm larger ocean species as well as fi sher-men. Subsequent articles addressed increasing incidences of toxic red tides and threats to wildlife caused by toxic algae and bacteria, plastic debris and acidic seawater.

— James Shapiro

The war on drugs must be re-evaluated “methodically and clini-cally,” from a global perspective, former Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75 told a MacMillan 117 audience Friday. The speech kicked off the Students for Sen-sible Drug Policy Northeast Re-gional Conference, hosted at Brown this weekend.

“We need to ask ourselves, ‘Is this working?’ ” Chafee, a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, said of cur-rent drug policies. “We have to be honest with ourselves in looking at this worldwide problem.”

Chafee, who has admitted to experimenting with cocaine and marijuana while a student at Brown, commented on the “de-stabilizing effect of the illicit drug trade on so many countries.” He said that reforming policies “has to be done collectively” and sug-gested the possibility of United Nations involvement in this pro-cess. “The doors are open to a dif-ferent way of looking at the war on drugs,” he said.

Tom Angell, government re-lations director for the national SSDP, told The Herald that hear-ing Chafee’s stance on drug pol-icy “says a lot about how far the issue has come.”

“It was really heartening to hear Senator Chafee talking about how the war on drugs has failed and that we need to have a seri-ous re-thinking of how to move forward from here,” said Angell, who founded the fi rst SSDP chap-ter in Rhode Island in 2002 while he was a student at the University of Rhode Island.

Dan MacCombie ’08.5, co-chair of the conference, said he was particularly pleased to hear Chafee speak about the Aid Elimi-nation Provision of the Higher Ed-ucation Act, which denies federal fi nancial aid to students with pri-or drug convictions, a policy that Chafee called “backwards.”

Chafee is “a respected political fi gure, and it’s great that he came out against that,” MacCombie said. “That’s just one more voice to add to the chorus.”

This year’s conference, titled “Confronting the Drug War, En-visioning Alternatives,” was the fi rst SSDP conference to be held at Brown, though the University’s chapter had the most representa-tives of any chapter at the national convention last November, Mac-Combie said.

According to Julia Van DeWal-le ’08, president of Brown’s SSDP chapter, the goals of the confer-ence were to “create cohesion” among the Northeast chapters and “reinvigorate their dedication to the cause.” This year’s confer-ence drew about 80 people from 23 different schools, in addition to the core membership of around 40 students at Brown.

Beyond its general goals, co-chair Matthew Palevsky ’07 said one theme of the conference was to understand “how the drug war provides a vehicle for systemic racism.”

“We criminalize half of Ameri-ca — approximately half of Amer-icans use an illicit substance — and we choose which cohort of that half we are going to incar-cerate,” Palevsky said. “Because of systemic racism, that ends up being predominantly people of color.”

Brown Professor of Econom-ics Glenn Loury addressed the issue of institutional racism in a lecture Friday night in Leung Gal-lery called “Racial Stigma, Mass Incarceration and American Val-ues.”

“We are a nation of jailers, and racist jailers at that,” Loury said. “Today’s American race-making institution, the place where the stigmatized status of blacks is re-produced and reinforced in the American imagination is in the arena of criminal justice.”

Palevsky told The Herald he was impressed at the way Loury “really opened up.”

“This is a personal issue for him, as it should be for all of us, and he talked about it with such passion and knowledge that I think it affected everyone in that room,” Palevsky said.

A workshop on Saturday also addressed the issue of institution-al racism, focusing on the impor-tance of anti-racism analysis in the drug policy reform movement.

Sunday’s events were directed more at drug culture, MacCom-bie said. “One of my biggest is-sues with the drug war is cultural stigmatization and marginaliza-tion. … Although that’s some-thing that all of us care about, it’s often ignored.”

Daniel Pinchbeck, author of “Breaking Open the Head” and “2012: The Return of Quetzal-coatl,” lectured about that theme Sunday in a speech about role of traditional shamanistic practices in modern society. Pinchbeck told the audience how his own person-ally revelatory experiences led him to consider whether it is “pos-sible for there to be a reconsidera-tion of psychedelics in a positive, strategic way” and whether they “could actually be useful and heal-ing substances for our modern world.”

Conference organizers said they hope conferences like this weekend’s can create forums that encourage members to challenge existing policies and debate about alternative solutions.

“I think we’ve all realized that the war on drugs is a failure, but there’s great disagreement and debate within the organization about what exactly a drug policy utopia would look like,” Angell said.

“One of the most important aims of an event like this is to bring people together and to help foster that realization that you as a student on a campus are part of an international movement of young people who are concerned about these policies and their disastrous impact on our generation,” Angell said.

BY OLIVIA HOFFMANSTAFF WRITER

SSDP regional conference draws Chafee, Loury



Retired military leaders warn of warming’s threat to national defenseBY KAREN KAPLAN AND THOMAS MAUGH IILOS ANGELES TIMES

Global warming poses a “serious threat to America’s national securi-ty” and the military should act now to minimize the destabilizing conse-quences of rising temperatures, a panel of retired generals and admi-rals warned Monday.

Shortages of food and water could cause weak governments to collapse, increasingly severe natu-ral disasters could draw U.S. forc-es into humanitarian missions in volatile areas and melting Arctic ice could spark territorial disputes over shipping routes and natural re-sources.

Even the effectiveness of sonar used by U.S. submarines could be at risk if parts of the oceans become

less salty.The 63-page report describes cli-

mate change as a “threat multiplier” that makes dangerous situations all the more menacing.

“We will pay for this one way or another,” said retired Marine Corps Gen. Anthony Zinni, who commanded U.S. forces in the Middle East. “We will pay to re-duce greenhouse gas emissions to-day … or we’ll pay the price later in military terms. And that will in-volve human lives.”

Other experts who were not in-volved in the report said national security concerns, though real, are probably not the most signifi cant threats posed by global warming.

“Everything’s a national security issue these days,” said Scott Barrett, director of the International Policy Program at Johns Hopkins School

of Advanced International Studies. “It’s a bit of a marketing ploy.”

The report, produced by the Center for Naval Analysis, a feder-ally funded nonprofi t research and analysis organization based in Al-exandria, Va., was overseen by an 11-member military advisory board chaired by former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Gordon Sullivan.

It was funded by the Rockefell-er Family Fund, the Bipartisan Policy Center and other founda-tions that were interested in how climate change would affect na-tional security.

The report’s release came on the eve of a United Nations Security Council debate on climate change beginning Tuesday.

“Global warming’s impacts on natural resources and climate sys-tems may create the fi ercest bat-tle our world has ever seen,” said Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., chair of the newly formed House Select Committee on Energy In-dependence and Global Warming. Markey will introduce legislation to fund climate change planning by the Department of Defense.

Those battles might force the demise of weak governments in the developing world, creating power vacuums for terrorist groups to ex-ploit, the report found.

Deteriorating conditions in Af-rica and the Middle East could prompt a wave of migration to Eu-rope. As a result, the report said, some of America’s most dependable allies could fi nd themselves too dis-tracted to participate in internation-al coalitions or other efforts aimed at preventing regional confl icts.

Other experts called those risks unlikely. Climate change will lead to more failed states, but it is not clear that the result would be an increase in terrorism, said Steve Weber, di-rector of the Institute of Internation-al Studies at the University of Cali-fornia, Berkeley.

The Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers “came from Saudi Arabia, not the fl oodplains of Bangladesh,” he said.

But Weber agreed with the re-port’s authors that the opening of shipping channels through the now-frozen Arctic could become a signifi cant source of confl ict.

The Russians, who have lots of

land above the Arctic Circle, and the Chinese, who do not, could have very different views about how to address access to new waterways there. “There could be some pretty big fi ghts over that,” he said.

When the U.S. military does deploy, the logistics will be more complicated than in the past. Wide-spread droughts will require mas-sive transportation of water to troops stationed in foreign coun-tries, the report found.

In addition, increased storm ac-tivity will impair normal maintenance and repairs of military equipment, and coastal fl ooding could inundate some key U.S. bases, such as Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida and the Naval Support Facility at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

To lessen the impact, the panel said climate change should be wo-ven into national security and de-fense strategies and called on the military to take a stronger role in reducing its own contribution to global warming.

The Department of Defense did not return calls seeking comment on the report.

BY SUDARSAN RAGHAVANWASHINGTON POST

BAGHDAD, Iraq — In the fi rst ma-jor shake-up of Iraq’s fragile coali-tion government, six ministers loy-al to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr pulled out of the cabinet on Monday over Prime Minister Nouri al-Mali-ki’s refusal to set a timetable for an American troop withdrawal from Iraq.

The action frees al-Maliki to pick qualifi ed people to fi ll ministries that are widely seen as ineffective, corrupt and sectarian. Yet it could also deepen tensions with al-Sadr within the government and on the streets, which could thwart U.S. and Iraqi efforts to bring about political reconciliation and stability, Iraqi of-fi cials and analysts said.

The withdrawal occurred on a day when the U.S. military report-ed the deaths of seven American troops, including fi ve who were killed Monday — three soldiers in Baghdad and two Marines in Anbar province — and two soldiers slain on Saturday in Fallujah.

At the Iraqi parliament, where a suicide bomber detonated explo-sives last Thursday killing one per-son and injuring 22, senior al-Sadr legislators on Monday framed the ministers’ decision to leave in na-tionalistic terms. They declared they wanted al-Maliki to replace al-Sadr loyalists in the cabinet with “in-dependent technocrats” who would not place sect, tribe, or religion over the best interests of Iraqis. Then, they urged other political parties to follow their example.

“I ask God to give the people an independent, devoted government that will be like a candle in the mid-dle of darkness,” al-Sadr said in a statement that Nassar al-Rubaie, a member of al-Sadr’s political bloc in parliament, read to reporters.

While the withdrawal is unlike-ly to collapse the government in the short term, it is a challenge to al-Maliki and his fractured govern-ment to fi x Iraq’s problems. Al-Sa-dr’s legislators blamed the govern-ment for not providing basic ser-vices, although they themselves ran ministries such as health and trans-portation.

Even with the resignations, al-Sadr will remain a potent political

force. His loyalists hold 30 seats in Iraq’s parliament and for now plan to remain a part of the ruling Shi-ite political alliance, the al-Sadr law-makers said.

Al-Sadr, who has long demand-ed a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, has threatened before to leave the U.S-backed government. Last Novem-ber, his legislators pulled out for nearly two months to protest al-Ma-liki’s meeting with President Bush in Amman. In conversations after Monday’s news conference, the leg-islators said the difference now is they had no intention of returning to the cabinet.

“There is no chance,” said Bahar al-Araji, an al-Sadr parliamentarian.

For several months, al-Maliki has said he intended to reshuffl e his cabinet. Al-Sadr’s offi cials four months ago sent him a list of 18 candidates to lead the six ministries the Sadrists presently control, said al-Araji. Falah Shanshal, head of al-Sadr’s parliamentary bloc, acknowl-edged their decision to leave was partly because al-Maliki would not choose any of their candidates.

“We are free because we are not in the government,” said al-Araji. “If the prime minister doesn’t do what we want, we can do something to the prime minister. We can make him leave the government.”

Al-Maliki, in a statement Mon-day, welcomed al-Sadr’s decision to give him the opportunity to fi ll the six slots. But he resisted demands for a timetable, stating that any with-drawal of U.S. troops “is linked to the readiness of our armed forces to hold the security fi le all over Iraq.”

“I know the prime minister feels relieved by the pullout,” said Haider al-Abadi, a legislator from al-Mali-ki’s Dawa party. “Now he can move forward and choose his own minis-ters without any haggling from the bloc which puts one foot forward and two feet backward.”

Al-Maliki, he said, had told him that al-Sadr’s nominations were “worse than the existing alterna-tive” and so “it was impossible to choose them.” He said al-Maliki would act quickly to fi ll the posi-tions, although al-Abadi didn’t say when. He also said al-Maliki wasn’t obligated to pick an independent and that he would pick whomever was best qualifi ed, regardless of

party affi liation.“The danger is that they (al-Sa-

dr’s legislators) could leave the po-litical process or take to the streets and disrupt the security plan,” said al-Abadi, referring to the nine week-old security offensive to pacify Bagh-dad. “We need to move very quickly to fi ll the positions. The situation on the ground is not very good.”

The decision to withdraw comes a week after al-Sadr mobilized tens of thousands of followers in the southern holy city of Najaf on the fourth anniversary of the fall of President Saddam Hussein. The demonstrators demanded a timeta-ble for U.S. troops to leave Iraq. But a few days later, al-Maliki said on a trip to Asia that he had no plans to set a timetable. Al-Rubaie said that triggered the cabinet pullout.

Motivated by the prospects of an eventual U.S. withdrawal, al-Sadr has uneasily cooperated with the current security plan, allowing U.S. troops to enter his Baghdad strong-hold of Sadr City and ordering his Mahdi Army militiamen to stand down. But in the past two months, bombings have risen in Shiite ar-eas while U.S. and Iraqi troops have killed or arrested hundreds of his fi ghters.

“The Sadrist base is becoming angry. This is mostly to preserve his base,” said Joost Hiltermann, a Jordan-based analyst with the In-ternational Crisis Group, a research group, referring to the pullout. “They were under a lot of pressure because the security plan which they tacitly accepted is not working. The Americans are failing. They can’t stop the bombings.”

By al-Sadr withdrawing his sup-porters from the cabinet, al-Maliki and the United States could end up having less leverage over him.

“Al-Maliki doesn’t have much time,” said Mithal al-Alusi, an inde-pendent Sunni legislator, referring to fi lling his cabinet. “Either you make the changes now and deal with the problem. Or else he’ll lose everything.”

In northern Iraq, armed men at-tacked an Iraqi army checkpoint at the village of Addaya southeast of Mosul early Monday, killing 13 sol-diers and wounding four, said a po-lice spokesman at the Mosul police operations center.

6 Al-Sadr loyalists leave Iraqi cabinet

CAMPUS NEWSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALDTUESDAY, APRIL 17, 2007 PAGE 11

The following summary includes all major incidents reported to the Department of Public Safety between March 30 and April 5. It does not include general ser-vice and alarm calls. The Provi-dence Police Department also re-sponds to incidents occurring off campus. DPS does not divulge information on open cases that are currently under investiga-tion by the department, the PPD or the Offi ce of Student Life. DPS maintains a daily log of all shift activity and general service calls which can be viewed during busi-ness hours at its headquarters, located at 75 Charlesfi eld St.

Tuesday, April 3:10:09 a.m. Person reported

that sometime between 3 p.m. on Feb. 1 and 7 a.m. on March 25, unknown persons entered a room in Barus & Holley and took four pieces of metal need-ed for equipment in the area. There are no suspects or wit-nesses at this time.

Thursday, April 5:10:02 a.m. Person reported

that a recycling sign was miss-ing from the Post Offi ce in Faunce House. There are no suspects or witnesses at this time.

1:28 p.m. Complainant re-ported that unknown persons removed the whiteboard from her door in Mead House. There are no suspects or witnesses at this time.

BY DEBBIE LEHMANNSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Thefts of metal among incidents reportedThe students behind Mocha are

introducing a new brew to accom-modate the University’s switch to Banner. The founders of Mocha, the student-run alternative to the University’s online course catalog, have been pouring hours of work into their project to help students fi nd courses as the fi rst online pre-registration period approaches. They are also preparing to hand down the program to a new team of students.

Mocha was founded in 2006 by fi ve computer science concentra-tors looking for an easier way to search for courses. Dave Pacheco ’07, Daniel Leventhal ’07, Adam Cath ’07, Dave Hirshberg ’08 and Bill Pijewski ’07 cultivated the idea of Mocha as a fi nal project in a CS class. After they released Mocha, the popularity of the program sky-rocketed. For many students, Mo-cha is now an indispensable re-source during shopping period.

The Mocha team currently consists of four original mem-bers — Pacheco, Leventhal, Cath and Hirshberg — and three new students, Colin Gordon ’08, Tim O’Donnell ’09 and Andres Douglas ’09, who started working on Mo-cha this semester.

The newest additions are now becoming familiar with how Mo-cha operates. “We’re almost trying to go slowly so we can bring the new guys up to speed,” Leventhal said.

Development of the updated version of Mocha was also slowed this semester because of the launch of Banner, the new computer data-base that has replaced Brown On-line Course Announcement. Since Mocha harvests course informa-tion from the University’s data-base, Mocha must be updated any time the Banner course catalog changes.

Updating Mocha can be incred-ibly time-consuming, Pacheco said, but the work often occurs in bursts. After Banner’s course da-tabase went live, Leventhal put in about seven or eight hours a day for four or fi ve days.

“I took a deep breath before say-ing yes because I had some idea of how much time it would take,” Gordon said of his decision to join the Mocha team.

The three new members said they knew it would be a major re-sponsibility, but they ultimately joined to be a part of what they thought was a valuable project.

“It helps people around you and has a direct impact on every-one you know. You can see it be-ing used all around you,” Douglas said.

With the widespread criticism of Banner’s unfriendly user inter-face — including a public condem-nation from the Undergraduate Council of Students — students are continuing to rely on Mocha to search for courses.

“Banner is so hard to navigate that I’ll probably be using Mocha even more,” said Bricia Trejo ’09.

The Mocha creators did not particularly wish for that outcome — their main goal, they said, is to have an effective way to search for courses, whether provided by their program or by the University.

“We hoped that when Banner came out, we wouldn’t have to ex-ist anymore,” Leventhal said.

The group is aiming to keep up with changes to the Banner system and maintain the accuracy of the course catalog.

“We have to spend a lot of time at Mocha fi xing problems with the way it reacts with Banner,” Pa-checo said.

For example, when the XLIST feature for cross-listed classes was added to Banner this week, it “broke Mocha,” according to Pa-checo. He wrote in an e-mail to The

Herald that the Mocha team used a “quick fi x” to update their pro-gram, but now they have to work to add the XLIST feature to Mocha.

Members of the Mocha team have met with Computing and In-formation Services administra-tors and, in the past, the Offi ce of the Registrar to try to fi nd a way to make course updates more ac-cessible to Mocha. But administra-tors have been unwilling to release course data other than through the University Web site, the Mocha or-ganizers said.

“I think the general consensus is that Mocha is useful to use in conjunction with Banner as an al-ternative to the scheduling offi ce of Banner,” said Lisa Mather, asso-ciate registrar for registration ser-

vices.“They seem to be acknowledg-

ing and liking Mocha now, but we’re hoping to have a tighter rela-tionship in the future,” Cath said.

As the Mocha team looks to the future, its three graduating mem-bers still intend to contribute to Mocha. Pacheco, Leventhal and Cath will have full-time jobs next year, but the three plan to spend time on the project, even if they’re not at Brown. Their commitment to the project will decrease, but they believe the program will continue be a benefi cial tool to new students because of their choices in their successors.

“We trust the new guys. We know Mocha’s in good hands,” Pa-checo said.

BY NICOLE DUNGCASTAFF WRITER

A fresh pot of Mocha

CRIME LOGChris Bennett / Herald

The founders of Mocha are preparing to hand down the program to a new team of students. Clockwise from top left: Adam Cath ’07, David Pacheco ’07, Daniel Leventhal ’07, Andres Douglas ’09, Tim O’Donnell ’09, Colin Gordon ’08.

Up until the 1950s, Brown — which has historical ties to the Baptist church — produced “tons of Bap-tist clergy,” said University Chap-lain Reverend Janet Cooper Nelson. Now, up to four dozen Brown gradu-ates in each class pursue religious occupations encompassing many faiths.

“The number of people leav-ing Brown who serve religiously is huge,” Cooper Nelson said, compar-ing the University to other schools where she has worked.

Hearing the callShulamit Izen ‘07 has known

since elementary school that she wanted to become a rabbi.

“My family would sit by the rab-bi and the cantor, and I would want to be them,” she said of attending synagogue.

After graduating, Izen will at-tend the Reconstructionist Rabbini-cal College in Wyncote, Penn. Her program includes a fi ve-year study

of Judaic history. Izen has specifi c plans for her

ministry. “I want to start an inno-vative Jewish day school that com-bines creative pedagogy with joy-ous Judaism,” she said.

Greta Pemberton ‘06, who spoke about her desire to become a Uni-tarian minister at last year’s Com-mencement as a senior orator, is still deciding whether to follow the path she planned last spring.

“The ministry is still a distant dream for me,” Pemberton said. She currently works at Open Source radio station in Boston and said be-fore becoming a spiritual leader, she needs “to get more life experience under my belt.”

Danyel Currie ’08 said she has considered career possibilities rang-ing from chemist to author, as well as a Christian pastor. After taking RS 72: “Christianity in Late Antiqui-ty” as a freshman, Currie decided to concentrate in religious studies and psychology.

“I’ve got to pursue my vocation,” she said. “I couldn’t see myself do-ing anything with chemistry.” But she admitted she would feel “so much more confi dent” graduating

with a science degree.Mother Teresa is Currie’s role

model. “I kind of see myself going to the extreme, like she did. Her work really resonates with me,” she said.

But for now, her plans are un-clear. “I’m as much in the dark as anyone to how this will play out,” she said.

For some students, matters of faith — not practicalities — made for late realizations about their in-terest in religious careers. Jon Mitchell ’09 said he initially resisted the Jewish faith and thus had hardly considered the rabbinate.

“I was never interested in prac-ticing Judaism,” Mitchell said. At his bar mitzvah in Israel, he spoke about not believing in God. But be-fore coming to Brown, Mitchell said he “considered the possibility of re-interpreting Judaism” and has since delved so deeply into his faith that he is now set on becoming a rabbi.

Both Miller Hui ’07 and Jennifer Quiroa’s ’09 see Christian mission-ary work in their futures, among other careers.

Hui said his father told him that pursuing missionary work alone would be ineffective. “ ‘You need

BY TAYLOR BARNESSTAFF WRITER

Students pursue religious occupationsBrunonians drawn to the rabbinate, ministry, missions


FEATURE


paign by the Brown Democrats.“Having this lecture is good for

politics at Brown because it’s im-portant to be able to have these kinds of political discussions, and I hope in the future we’ll be spon-soring events with other candi-dates as well,” said Brown Dems Vice President Adam Axler ’08, who also serves as the Rhode Is-land state director of Students for Barack Obama and interim chair of the Brown chapter. “I think that just bringing someone involved with a campaign to campus isn’t the Dems endorsing somebody, but it’s endorsing this sort of political dis-cussion.”

Auster said the groups informed the Student Activities Offi ce of the lecture last Monday but didn’t get a response until Thursday. Although

he said that they considered mov-ing the event to the Avon Theater on Thayer Street — which would have satisfi ed University policy and allowed Students for Hillary to re-main a co-sponsor — it was too late to arrange the move and easier for the Brown Democrats to sponsor the event alone.

Throughout the lecture, McAu-liffe commented on the diffi culty of speaking without seeming to en-dorse his candidate. “I’ve gotta be very careful about what I say be-cause you have a lot of rules here,” he said. In his talk and his answers to audience questions afterwards, McAuliffe referred to Clinton as “a certain woman.”

Attorney General Patrick Lynch’s ’87 introduction of McAu-liffe at the beginning of the lecture did not mention his role in the Clin-ton campaign.

After addressing the Brown Democrats Monday night, for-mer Democratic National Com-mittee Chairman Terry McAuliffe spoke with The Herald about the new Democratic Congress, current DNC Chairman Howard Dean and fundraising in the 2008 presiden-tial race.

Herald: What can Speaker Nan-cy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Ma-jority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., do in Congress to best help Demo-crats’ chances in 2008?

McAuliffe: Show that they can govern. Provide real health care, education, pass an immi-gration bill for the president to sign. What they want to see from us isn’t partisan bickering but re-sults. They want to see results on the things that affect people ev-ery day. Their incomes are down, they don’t have health care, they don’t feel there is quality educa-tion, and a disastrous foreign pol-icy.

Do you think it will help pub-lic perception of the Democrats to pass bills in Congress they know the president will veto?

If they think it’s right, they ought to pass it and let the chips

fall where they may. If the veto happens, so be it.

What do you think of Howard Dean’s 50-state strategy?

I’m all for it. I did it with him a week before he came in, and I said, “Howard, the national party is fi xed, now you’ve got to focus on the state parties.”

How have Democratic poli-tics changed since fundraising in-creased so drastically under your leadership?

I think the biggest change is that there are now so many more people involved with the demo-cratic process, because so many more young people, so many more people are giving money on the Internet. I think it’s ex-panding greatly the universe of people involved with the Demo-cratic Party. I think you’ve got a lot more people now who have voice and they want to hear their candidates talking about issues that are important to them.

What do you think about re-cent attempts to crack down on soft money?

I’ve said this many times, if you’re going to get rid of soft

money, you have to get rid of all of it. Right now you’ve got gigan-tic loopholes, you have the 527s. You’ve got to remember, in ’04, probably the most signifi cant ad that was done was the Swift Boat ad — that wasn’t done by the campaign, that was done by a 527. There are gigantic loopholes that people can use to give large amounts of money. If you’re go-ing to get rid of soft money, get rid of all of it.

Have you been surprised by Barack Obama’s ability to raise money for his campaign?

Well I’ve been hearing for a while that he was going to raise a lot of money. He put together a great operation, and he’s been working very hard. As I’ve said, there isn’t a donor I’ve called who Barack hasn’t called four or fi ve times. I think it’s great, I still think this is great for the process. I think that getting more people involved in it, bringing more peo-ple in will ultimately be great for our party. We collectively raised $80 (million) and they raised $40 (million) and that’s all good for us. So I wasn’t surprised.

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sions of condolences from Presi-dent Bush, both houses of Con-gress and across the world.

“I’m really at a loss for words to explain or to understand the carnage that has visited our cam-pus,” said Charles Steger, Virginia Tech’s president.

The rampage began as much of the campus was just waking up. A man walked into a fresh-man coed dorm at 7:15 a.m. and fatally shot a young woman and a resident adviser.

Based on witness interviews, police believed it was an isolat-ed domestic case and chose not to take any drastic security mea-sures, university offi cials said. But about 9:45 a.m., a man entered a classroom building, chained some of the doors shut behind him, then started walking into classrooms and shooting faculty and students with the two handguns, causing some to leap out of second-story windows and others to lie on the fl oor and bar their doors to keep the shooter from entering. Virgin-ia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flin-chum said investigators were still not certain that the same man com-mitted both shootings. But sever-al law enforcement sources said it was the same person.

As police entered Norris Hall, an engineering and science build-ing, shortly before 10 a.m., the man shot and killed himself before offi cers could confront him. He had killed 30 people in that build-ing. One witness said the gunman was “around 19” and was “very se-rious but (with) a very calm look on his face.”

“He knew exactly what he was doing,” the witness, Trey Perkins, 20, of Yorktown, Va., said. He said he watched the man enter his classroom and shoot Perkins’ pro-fessor in the head. “I have no idea why he did what he decided to do. I just can’t say how lucky I am to have made it.”

The university canceled classes Monday and Tuesday and set up counseling for the grief-stricken campus. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, who had just arrived in Japan on a trade mission, immediately fl ew back to Virginia. He was expected to attend a vigil Tuesday.

“We’ve been devastated as the death toll has been rising,” said Payton Baran, 20, of Bethesda, Md., who is a junior majoring in fi -nance. “I’ve been calling everyone I know, and everyone I talk to is pretty much in tears. It’s really, re-ally depressing.”

None of the victims’ names was released Monday, pending notifi -cation of their families.

Initial reports from the campus

raised the specter of “another Col-umbine,” in which two teenagers in Littleton, Colo., killed 13 people inside a high school in 1999 before killing themselves. But soon the Virginia Tech rampage dwarfed Columbine, to become the biggest mass shooting in U.S. history.

Students and parents launched a frenzied round of phone calls and text messages Monday morn-ing, monitoring news reports and waiting for information. And the shootings prompted intense ques-tioning of Steger and Flinchum from a community still reeling from the fatal shootings of a secu-rity guard and a sheriff’s deputy near campus in August and the ar-rest of the suspect on the edge of campus on the fi rst day of class-es.

Although the gunman in the dormitory was at large, no warn-ing was issued to the tens of thou-sands of students and staff at Vir-ginia Tech until 9:26 a.m., more than two hours later.

“We concluded it was domes-tic in nature,” Flinchum said. “We had reason to believe the shooter had left campus and may have left the state.” He declined to elabo-rate. But several law enforcement sources said investigators thought the shooter might have intended to kill a girl and her boyfriend Monday in what one of them de-scribed as a “lover’s dispute.” It was unclear whether the girl killed at the dorm was the intended tar-get, they said.

Students who lived in the dorm said they received knocks on the door telling them to stay in their rooms but nothing else. Shortly before 9:30 a.m., the university sent out this e-mail: “A shooting incident occurred at West Am-ber Johnston (dorm) earlier this morning. Police are on the scene and are investigating.”

“The university community is urged to be cautious and are asked to contact Virginia Tech Police if you observe anything suspicious or with information on the case.”

Steger said that, even though the gunman was at large, “we had no reason to suspect any other incident was going to occur.” He said 9,000 students live on campus and 14,000 live off-campus, and “it’s extremely diffi cult if not im-possible to get the word out spon-taneously.”

Students on campus and par-ents were angry. When Blake Har-rison, 21, of Leesburg, Va., learned of the shootings, he called an ad-ministrative help line and was told “to proceed with caution to class-es.” He said, “I’m beyond upset. I’m enraged.”

Monday, as offi cials began to sort out the shootings, tales of the

horror began to emerge.Alec Calhoun, a junior, was in

Room 204 in Norris. When the shootings began, people suddenly pulled off screens and pushed out windows. “Then people started jumping,” Calhoun said. “I didn’t just leap. I hung from the ledge and dropped. Anybody who made it out was fi ne. I fell and I hit a bush to cushion my fall. It knocked the wind out of me. I don’t remember running.”

About 9:50 a.m., Jamal Albarg-houti was walking toward Norris Hall for a meeting with his advis-er in civil engineering “to review my thesis. As I was walking, about 300 feet away, I started hearing people shouting, telling me to run or clear.”

He started to move away, but he also pulled out his cellphone, which has videorecording capabil-ity, and he began fi lming. His vid-eo, which he later shipped to CNN, captures offi cers running toward the brown three-story building, a couple of fl ashes from the second fl oor and 27 gunshots.

The video soon became the de-fi ning image of the rampage. “I just didn’t think I was in great dan-ger,” Albarghouti said later.

In a German class in Room 207, Perkins was seated in the back with about 15 fellow students. The gunman barged in with two guns,

shot the professor in the head, then started shooting students, Perkins said.

“Everyone hit the fl oor at that moment,” Perkins said. “And the shots seemed like it lasted forev-er.”

The gunman left Room 207 and tried to return several minutes lat-er, but Perkins and two other stu-dents had blocked the door with their feet. He shot through the door.

The last time anyone spoke with Kristina Heeger, she was headed for a 9 a.m. French class in Norris. Within an hour, the sopho-more from Vienna had been shot in the back. But she survived.

It was a story that played out across campus, and far beyond, with so many injured, so many dead. “She’s doing better,” said a friend, Eric Anderson, Monday night after seeing her. “She’s recov-night after seeing her. “She’s recov-nightering. We’re praying for her right now. She couldn’t talk to them yet, or anyone, and they didn’t know any details about what happened.”

Tucker Armstrong, a freshman from Stephens City, Va., passed in front of Norris as he headed to a 10 a.m. class. He said in an e-mail that he “noticed several kids hanging and jumping from the second fl oor windows trying to land in bushes.”

Armstrong said he heard re-peated bangs. He went to help

the people who had leapt from the building, but they yelled at him: “Get out of here, run! At that point I realized they were shots and they just kept going and going.”

Police and ambulances poured into the area. Dustin Lynch, 19, a sophomore from Churchville, Md., watched from the nearby Drillfi eld, as unresponsive students were car-ried out of Norris Hall.

“I saw police offi cers literally carrying kids out,” Lynch said. “It basically looked like they were car-rying bodies.”

Parents arrived at the Inn at Vir-ginia Tech to meet with other griev-ing families and were distraught at the university’s management of the incident. “I think they should have closed the whole thing. It’s not worth it. You’ve got a crazy man on campus. Do something about it,” said Hoda Bizri of Princeton, W.Va., who was visiting her daugh-ter Siwar, a graduate student.

Bret Hudner, 23, communica-tions major from Vienna, Va., was heading toward one of the dining halls and suddenly a scrum of po-lice cars came racing by. “The scary thing is I know I’m going to go into classes, and there’s going to be empty spaces,” Hudner said.

The Bizris, meanwhile, were waiting for news about a friend whom they could not locate. They think she was inside Norris Hall.


V I G I L F O R V I R G I N I A T E C H V I C T I M S


Students and other members of the community gathered in Manning Chapel Monday night for a candlelit vigil, led by University Chaplain Janet Cooper Nelson, for the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings.

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leftfi elder Ryan Murphy ’08 both had three hits and three runs scored.

“You had a lot of guys (Satur-day) in the fi rst game who aren’t the guys you’re usually counting on to produce your runs,” Drabinski said. “Those four guys — Papenhause, Murphy, Tanabe, Kelaher — which is great because you can’t always rely on the same guys: (Devin) Thomas (’07), (Jeff) Dietz (’08), Tews, (Matt) Nuzzo (’09). It’s nice to get see those other guys get into the fold and con-tribute.”

The team’s offensive explosion overshadowed another stellar start by Dietz, who gave up just two runs while pitching a seven-inning com-plete game. After allowing a double and a home run to start the game, the right-hander settled down, allow-ing just three baserunners and strik-ing out 11 batters the rest of the way. He improved his Ivy record to 3-0, with a 2.57 ERA.

“After the fi rst two batters, I felt pretty good,” Dietz said. “I threw my curveball for strikes — when I start getting my curveball working, I feel fi ne.”

In the second game, both start-ers — Brown’s James Cramphin ’07 and Dartmouth’s Jeff Wilkerson — pitched well in the early innings. But in the top of the fourth, with the Bears leading 1-0, three of Brown’s fi rst four batters hit solo home runs to break the game open. Dietz, Tews and right-fi elder Dan Shapiro ’09 connected on the homers, and des-ignated hitter J.J. Eno ’08 contribut-ed an RBI-double later that inning. Tews, who went 3-for-3 in the second game, hit another solo homer in the

sixth, and the Bears scored again in the seventh and the ninth.

Cramphin — who was two outs away from a complete game shutout against Columbia last week — again pitched well, striking out 10 in six in-nings while allowing just one run in improving his Ivy record to 2-0, with a 2.66 ERA and 27 strikeouts in 20 and 1/3 innings. His recent success-es have impressed Drabinski.

“The big thing with James is that we’ve worked on some mechanical issues in the offseason,” the coach said. “Since the Charleston South-ern (University) game he pitched, he’s shortened up his arm action and he’s keeping his shoulders level. … As you can see from the number of strikeouts, he’s been very effective.”

With Brown and Harvard’s Sun-day doubleheaders against Dart-mouth and Yale, respectively, post-poned because of rain, the Bears and Crimson will head into next week-end’s four-game series at Aldrich Field with identical 7-3 Ivy League records, tied for the Red Rolfe Divi-sion lead. Before the season, Col-legiate Baseball predicted that Har-vard would fi nish fi rst in the division, with Brown second. Dietz said the team has been looking forward to the match-up all year.

“There’s nothing I would like to do more than to take (the series) against Harvard,” Dietz said. “If we played like we did this weekend, we’ll have good results.”

Before the weekend’s double-headers against the Crimson, the Bears have three midweek games at home. They will face Marist Col-lege in a doubleheader on Tuesday and the University of Connecticut on Wednesday.

Baseball keeps pace with Harvard, Sunday’s doubleheader postponed


M. track gets six fi rst-place fi nishes

Craigwell ran to a second-place fi nish in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.49 seconds. Sean O’Brien ’09 also put up a silver-medal fi nish in the 400-meter run with a time of 49.97 seconds, less than a second behind the winner. He also pulled double duty, running to a sixth-place fi nish in the 200-meter dash.

The Bears posted a number of successes in the fi eld events to cap the successful day. Urlacher won the javelin with a throw of 170-feet 9-inches. David Howard ’09 launched the discus a distance of 154-feet 6-inches, good for second place. How-ard also took home a bronze in the shot put with a 48-foot 10.25-inch throw.

“The goal was to compete hard,” Lake said. “It was to compete to win or as close to winning as possible.”

To continue the winning ways of the day, Mike Woods ’09 bested the competition in the pole vault by clearing 14-feet 7.25-inches, and De-shaun Mars ’08 took home gold in the long jump with a 22-foot 2.5-inch jump.

Brown swept the top three spots in the triple jump. Reggie Cole ’10 hopped, skipped and leaped to fi rst

with a 47-foot 0.75-inch attempt and was followed by Craigwell and An-drew Chapin ’10, landed in second and third places, respectively, in the event.

The Bears will face the Huskies again next weekend at the UConn Husky Spring Invitational in Storrs, Conn.

“I don’t think we are too con-cerned about beating the Huskies,” Schmidt said. “They are not in our league, and when we face them, we are often missing important parts of our team. …Next week, myself and a few of our top distance runners will not be competing or compet-ing in events that we don’t specialize in. We are preparing for (the Hep-tagonal Championships).”

The Heptagonal Championships, the culmination of the season for the Bears, looms on the horizon only three weeks away.

“Heps is the only meet that we truly care about team placing, so un-til then we are using each competi-tion as a tune-up for Heps on an indi-vidual level,” Lake said. “Each com-petition is an opportunity to learn and improve as an athlete both men-tally and physically. Each athlete’s individual performances are critical to our team’s success at Heps.”


ish of 10:54.91.“I was most proud of Madeleine

Marecki’s fi rst collegiate win in the 3,000 meters,” Ferjan said. “It was great to see her breakthrough per-formance on the home track.”

Breakthroughs continued in the steeplechase as Lindsay Kahn ’08 and Brooke Giuffre ’10 provided big boosts for the Bears by coming

in second and third, respectively, with times of 10:46.98 and 11:01.5. Kahn’s performance was an NCAA-Regional qualifying time, and Giuf-fre’s race was her fi rst time running the event.

Tiffany Chang ’08 placed second in the pole vault by clearing 11-feet 5.75-inches. There was a dramatic tie for third as teammates Cassan-dra Wong ’10 and Keely Marsh ’08 each bested 10-11.75 feet in the event.

The next slated competition for the Bears will be at the UConn Hus-ky Spring Invitational next week in Storrs, Conn., where the Bears will continue to improve on their times, heights and throws as they move closer and closer to the Heptagonal Championships three weeks away.

“Weather in outdoor track in the Northeast is a huge factor for per-formances, and it looks hopeful to be a decent day this Saturday in Storrs,” Lake said.

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more goals. They managed to out-score the Big Red 5-4 the rest of the way.

“In the second half, we start-ed to enforce our style of play on them, and it led to some positive results,” Markowski said.

After another goal by Vitkus

and two more Cornell goals made the score 17-6, Bruno outscored the Big Red 4-2 for the fi nal 16:03. Vitkus, DeTolla, Markowski and Krystina DeLuca ’09 each scored for the Bears. Despite the solid de-fensive play in the latter stages of the second half, Brown could not overcome the early fi rst-half defi -cit, and Cornell came out with the

victory.The Bears return to action at

home on Wednesday against Yale at 4 p.m.

“We’re extremely excited for our next Ivy competition,” Hol-land said. “We want to come out strong from the fi rst whistle and play strong all the way through till the end.”


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both singled to bring in Asay for Brown’s fi rst run. However, Dartmouth got hot again while Brown’s bats went silent until the sixth, when the score was 10-1. Facing another early end from the mercy rule if Bruno didn’t close the gap to less than eight, pinch hitter Linnea An-derson ’08 started a two-out rally in the bottom of the sixth. With Lewis on second, Anderson hit one to deep right, and the ball grazed off the Dartmouth fi eld-er’s glove to drop and score Lewis. Browne stepped up to the plate and hit her fi nal RBI of the weekend to score Anderson.

“Kelsey (Wilson ’09) had just told us last week to go out there and have fun, since we’d been losing and thinking too much, and that helped me a lot today,” Browne said of her slugfest.

Browne had cut the defi cit to 10-3, giving the Bears one more chance in the seventh, but all of the at-bats produced pop-ups to right fi eld.

“We’re working on getting the little victories, like not get-ting mercied in this game,” Ena-benter-Omidiji said.

Pitchers Michelle Moses ’09 and Kristen Schindler ’09 split the game on the mound, allow-ing fi ve hits each. Moses walked four and struck out two while Schindler’s entered the game in relief and walked one and struck out three.

Brown is going up to Boston twice this week. On Thursday, it will travel to Boston College and then it will make a return trip to play Harvard next weekend.

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Our problems with AEA

In light of the articles that have been pub-lished in The Herald this semester regard-ing Asian Equality in Admissions, we feel the need to respond as a community about our strong reservations regarding the group formed by Neil Vangala ’09 and Jason Carr ’09. Though we cannot speak for the entire Asian, Asian-American, Third World and greater Brown communities, we feel com-pelled to voice our concerns both as individ-uals and based on the responses we have re-ceived from members of our organizations.

We do not oppose the stated purpose of AEA. On its Web site, AEA claims that it aims to promote “institutional transparency” and to “(educate) and (inform) the Brown student body of discrimination.” We do not object to fostering institutional transparency at our school, nor do we object to the possi-bility of eventually advocating for the release of admission statistics.

However, in our opinion, the goals tout-ed by AEA have not been honored in an ap-propriate and sensitive way. This column will therefore not dispute the claim that Asian or Asian-American applicants encounter bias in the admission process. That is an important but separate discussion. We hope instead to convey why we cannot embrace AEA.

We have three main concerns regarding Vangala and Carr’s group.

The fi rst is related to how the organi-zation was formed. At a recent debate be-tween AEA and the Brown Debating Union (a debate to which Asian and Asian-Ameri-can leaders were not invited), Carr and Van-gala explained that they formed their group in response to a recent lawsuit brought by

Yale freshman Jian Li against Princeton, as well as a 1983 report conducted at Brown. Carr and Vangala assumed that many of Li’s charges against Princeton were applicable to Brown, and they used the 1983 report — which claimed Asian and Asian-Ameri-can applicants encountered discrimination at Brown — to garner support. Somehow, these conclusions were reached even before AEA met with Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73 to discuss current admission policies.

Though many meaningful clubs are ini-tially started by a small group of individuals rather than entire communities, the leaders of AEA were unresponsive to calls for more widespread dialogue. During conversations some of us had with its founders, our con-cerns were dismissed in a cursory manner, leaving many of us feeling alienated.

Since AEA did not form organically as a response to community concerns, it may come as no surprise that it has not received support from any Asian or Asian-American student groups at Brown. Carr and Vanga-la only approached two of the 18 Asian and Asian-American groups on campus to solic-it their offi cial endorsement — which AEA never received.

However, AEA never entered into an ex-change with these groups, nor did it include them in the process of determining the best way to pursue “institutional transparency.” Rather, AEA sought these affi liations for the sake of promoting its own credibility. In-deed, a liaison to AEA felt he was being used as a liaison “in name only,” and many of his attempts to work with the organization went unacknowledged by Vangala and Carr. Fur-thermore, when Carr was asked if he would move forward with AEA even without sup-port from Asian and Asian-American organi-zations on campus at the aforementioned de-bate, he responded, “Hell, yes,” demonstrat-ing, we feel, a disturbing lack of respect for

the opinions of the community. This disregard for the voices of Asian and

Asian-American students — students whose causes it claims to champion — refl ects a general attitude within AEA. For an organi-zation that insists on promoting institutional transparency, there is an alarming lack of di-alogue informing its own platform.

We are concerned with the strongly charged language continuously used by AEA. In a Spectator article (“Asian Ameri-cans in Admissions: When Success Breeds a Backlash,” Vol. 5, Issue 5), Carr wrote, “Only two groups of people believe discrimination is a nuanced issue: racists and college admis-sions offi cers.”

We believe comments like these reveal that AEA’s campaign relies on the presump-tion of discrimination in Brown admission. If our “racist” admission offi cers are already written off as guilty of discrimination, how can we expect AEA to produce a report (one of its stated goals) that makes unmotivated and objective conclusions?

Furthermore, we feel that the group’s frequent use of words such as “equality” and “institutional transparency” to beckon cam-pus support oversimplifi es a complicated is-sue. AEA’s leaders would allege — accord-ing to the logic in their columns — that our critical analysis of their group and its goals makes us enemies of equality, out to “de-stroy a group that is both noble and progres-sive” (a direct quotation about two of us from a recent e-mail, dated April 14, that Vangala sent to Asian community leaders). By using such terminology, AEA suggests that any-one who questions it must also be in favor of bias and institutional secrecy. Apparently, we’re either with them or against them.

We want to commend Vangala and Carr for bringing attention to an important topic. However, we will not lend support to an or-ganization that, in our opinion, has actively

excluded the voices of members of our com-munity.

Unfortunately, we feel that attempts at communication with AEA have been ex-hausted, and we are wary of collaborating with a group that has ignored our input since its initiation.

For members of any campus group, we hope this letter will fuel the discussion that needs to accompany initiatives such as AEA. Finally, we encourage all those who are in-terested to contact admission offi cers so as to better understand the complexity of ad-missions here at Brown.

This column was written by Jennifer Chudy ’07, Hapa Club president and TWC staffer, and

Belinda Navi ’09, Filipino Alliance E-Board member and TWC staffer.

It has been endorsed by:Henry Chien ’09,

Chinese Student Association co-chair Darnell Fine ’08, Minority Peer Counselor coordinator

Natasha Go ’10, Brown Organization of Multi-Racial and Bi-Racial Students co-chair

Karynn Ikeda ’09, VISIONS layout editor and MPC FriendHeilyn Paulino ’09, Latin American

Students Organization chairJane Tanimura ’07, co-chair of the

Asian American Student OrganizationKristin Jordan ’09, MPC

Jessica Kawamura ’07, former AASA co-chairJamie Farris ’07, BOMBS member, FA member,

MPC Friend, TWC stafferChristable Lee ’09

Rukesh Samarasekera ’08Cyprian Kibuka ’08, African Students Association member

Wendy Chen ’09, CSA co-chair, AASA member Agnes Barrios ’09, Movimiento Estudantil Chicano de

Aztlan member, LASO member, Residential Peer LeaderRobert Smith III ’09, Queer Political Action

Committee member, MPC FriendPatrick Pangan ’09, MPC, FA member

Rick Ahl ’09, Operation Iraqi Freedom memberNisha Mirani ’10

Lily Shield ’09Alexander Ortiz ’09

Laura Gerace ’07, BOMBS member, MPC FriendAnna Hidalgo ’09

Victoria Chao ’08, Strait Talk Symposium coordinatorAmy Tan ’09, BOMBS member, TWC staff., BOMBS member, TWC staff., BOMBS member, TWC staff

BY JENNIFER CHUDYAND BELINDA NAVI

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OPINIONS EXTRATHE BROWN DAILY HERALDTUESDAY, APRIL 17, 2007 PAGE 15

“Wow, that’s incredible.” “Wait, how is that possible?” “But I don’t get it, you’re control-ling your TV over the Internet?”

These are the excited exclamations you’ll hear from friends once you show them the in-novative Slingbox AV ($179) from Sling Me-dia. You shouldn’t be surprised by these reac-tions — the Slingbox is probably the coolest gadget you’ve seen in a long time.

The Slingbox is a small, sleek box that at-taches to your digital cable box or DVR (Digi-tal Video Recorder). It also connects to the Internet through a broadband connection.

The concept works like this: the Slingbox allows you to view and control your cable box or DVR from any broadband-connected Mac or PC equipped with SlingPlayer software, which comes with the device.

This is a simple idea, but the application of it has mind-blowing results. Say, for instance, you’re a Brown student from California. You can hook up a Slingbox at your home in Cali-fornia and watch California TV on your com-puter at Brown. A virtual remote appears on your computer screen and you can change channels and interact with your TV just as if you were sitting in front of it. It’s pretty amaz-ing.

You connect the Slingbox to your cable box or DVR using those ubiquitous yellow, red and white composite video cables. Once you’ve done that, you connect your Slingbox to the Internet through your home router, with an Ethernet cable.

What if your router is in a room that can’t be reached by an Ethernet cable from the lo-cation of your Slingbox? To solve this, Sling Media offers a solution called SlingLink. Slin-gLink consists of two devices that turn the electrical wiring of your house into a distribu-

tion system for your Internet. One Slinglink connects to the router and the other connects to the Slingbox. The devices are connected together just by being plugged into the wall.

It’s that simple to set up, and it works fl aw-lessly.

Once you’ve connected your Slingbox to the Internet, you place tiny infrared “blast-ers” on your cable box or DVR and connect them to your Slingbox. This will allow your computer to act as a remote control when watching over the Internet (although you’ll experience a slight lag when changing chan-nels).

The only other thing you have to do is in-stall the SlingPlayer software on your Mac or PC (the Mac version is still a trial version and

has to be downloaded). You begin by confi guring your Slingbox

to share TV over just your home network, and this is easy. Unfortunately, being able to watch your home TV on your home comput-er isn’t particularly useful. The real advan-tage of the Slingbox is when you can watch it from anywhere in the world.

To enable this feature, you’ll have one of two experiences: You can get lucky and have immediate success, or you can run into signifi cant techno mumbo-jumbo. I ex-perienced the latter (UPnP was disabled on my home router, and even I don’t know what that means). Fortunately, Sling Media has

one of the best support sites I’ve seen, and it was able to help me fi x the problem.

When you begin actually watching your Slingbox over the Internet, you might have similar confused feelings. That’s because in order to achieve acceptable picture quality, you’ll need to understand confusing informa-tion about upstream and downstream band-widths. SlingPlayer automatically optimizes the picture, but some connections — even if they’re broadband — just aren’t fast enough to adequately stream your TV signal. Once again, credit to Sling Media for providing a simple tool online that allows you to test your connection.

If you can fi nd a nerdy friend to fi gure all these complications out, you’ll be happily

rewarded with one of the coolest technolo-gy experiences out there. A slick interface makes you feel as though you’re sitting on the couch in front of your TV. If you have a DVR, you can pause, record and rewind TV from thousands of miles away. You can also watch recorded shows. It’s incredible.

The quality of video and audio depends, as mentioned, on your Internet connections. If you meet the minimum requirements, it is generally pretty good.

The applications of the Slingbox are very exciting. You can watch your local sports teams wherever you have access to the Inter-net. You can also piggyback on your parents’

cable and have access to premium channels you don’t get at Brown, like HBO. Students living off campus should consider foregoing expensive cable service for a one-time fee of $179 (the cost of the Slingbox AV) to watch their home cable on their computer.

That proposition becomes even more at-tractive when you consider that Sling Media plans to release a new device in the second half of the year called the SlingCatcher. The SlingCatcher will allow you to “sling” your home TV to not only PCs and Macs but also to any other TV in the world.

When this gizmo is released, you could potentially take the off-campus scenario fur-ther: You could split a Slingbox and Sling-Catcher with your roommate and have a TV in your house with full access to cable with-out actually paying any monthly cable fee. If you’re wondering whether that’s legal, so am I.

It’s important to note that the Slingbox AV is just one of three Slingboxes the company offers. There is also a Slingbox TUNER, of-fered at the same price, which allows you to sling your basic cable TV without the need for a digital cable box, and there’s the Sling-box PRO ($249), which accepts and streams high defi nition broadcasts. It’s also worth mentioning that both the Slingbox AV and Slingbox PRO work with satellite services, and that all three Slingboxes can stream con-tent to cutting edge mobile devices like Palm Treos and Windows-based smartphones.

Sling Media really has an impressive technology on its hands, and I suspect you’ll be hearing more about the company as time goes on.

For now though, I’m going to close this Word document and get back to watching a Knicks game … in the Rock.

Very cool.

Bart Stein ’09: the Steinster!

The Slingbox allows you to view and

control your cable box or DVR from

any broadband-connected Mac or PC

equipped with SlingPlayer software.

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breaks. There were a couple of shots defl ected off helmets and de-fenders and went in, but we can’t take anything away from Penn.”

Brown went into the half down 6-4, as Muldoon scored before the half on a rebound off of midfi elder Jeff Hall’s ’08 shot. Muldoon fi n-ished the game with four goals and two assists, continuing his incred-ible rookie season.

Bruno hung with the Quakers for most of the third quarter and found itself trailing 8-7 with 8:31 re-maining in the third, but then Penn went on another run that put them up 11-7 to fi nish the quarter.

However, the gritty Bears would not quit, as has been the case all

season. They pulled to within one with 7:30 left in the game and had a chance to tie when attackman Kyle Hollingsworth’s ’09 shot produced a rebound right in front of the net, but the second effort was put just over the crossbar. Though Hol-lingsworth did not convert, he did fi nish with two goals on the day.

That was the last great oppor-tunity for the Bears, and Penn picked up an insurance goal late to take the game, 12-10.

“It’s always tough to come back when we’re in a three-four goal hole,” Tiffany said. “The Penn face-off men did a great job. They won all the face-offs in the fi rst half, and that’s how they got their run going.” Face-offs have plagued Brown throughout the season, and

though midfi elder Harrison Avart ’10 performed well in the second half — winning about 50 percent of his draws — it was too late be-cause Penn had already built up its lead.

Shields was impressed with Penn’s toughness. “This was the fi rst game this year that our op-ponent played a game congruent with ours,” he said. “They are a scrappy team that plays like we do. They just shot a little better than us.”

The team will try to right the ship against the University of Hart-ford at home Friday at 7 p.m. The Bears need a big win to get some momentum for two match-ups down the stretch against top-10 ranked Cornell and Princeton.

still has plenty of time to mature. Maybe someday his tiny head will even fi t into his hat.

In two starts this season, Gre-inke matched up well with two teams that boast powerful line-ups: Toronto and Boston. Grein-ke pitched well in both contests, allowing one earned run in each game. Though he gave up only one earned run in seven innings against the Red Sox, he was out-dueled by some guy from Bos-ton named Daisuke Matsuzaka, whom you may have heard of. What is also encouraging is his K/BB ratio — 12/1 — which sug-gests that he has regained the command that made him a fi rst-round draft pick in 2002. Assum-ing that Zack won’t pull a Ricky Williams and lose his desire to play ball, he should develop into the ace that the Royals have been looking for.

An AL East team might have the best ace no one’s heard of. Tampa Bay’s Scott Kazmir? Because we’re Mets fans, we couldn’t write a column about Kid K and still keep our secu-rity deposit. So … no. Daisuke?

We’ll see. Roy Halladay? An ace for sure, but too well known. In-stead, we’ll focus on Camden Yards. Yes, the Baltimore Ori-oles. As much as Peter Angelos has devastated the organization, the O’s still have two absolute studs at the top of their rotation: Erik Bedard and Daniel Cabrera.

The latter, a 26-year-old righty, had what baseball sage Peter Gammons called the best spring training pitching performance in 2006. However, Cabrera has not turned this potential into results during the regular season with any consistency. His career .500 record can be improved upon if he trusts his stuff and simply throws more strikes. In 2006, his 1.58 WHIP was higher than many journeymen starters, and he had a walks-per-nine-innings fi gure that is even larger than his mon-strous hands — above six. He won the MLB title for most wild pitches last season with 17, while allowing only 11 homeruns. Sim-ilar to Zack Greinke, Cabrera clearly suffers from a mental block.

As promising as Cabrera is, Erik Bedard is that much better. The Canadian southpaw has an

absolutely electric mid-90s fast-ball that mows down the best hitters in baseball’s best divi-sion on a regular basis. Combine that heater with an improving changeup, his tremendous slide pitch — which some consider to be a slurve a la Dontrelle Willis — and a deceptive delivery, and Bedard’s stuff becomes devastat-ing. The late bloomer (he’s 28) has racked up 17 strikeouts in his three starts this season, including a gritty April 8 start in the Bronx where he retired 11 straight in an eventual 6-4 win. O’s skipper Sam Perlozzo acknowledged the talent this spring and named Bedard his opening day starter.

Our honorable mentions for other dynamic duos of “pocket aces” would go to the Mets’ Mike Pelfrey and Oliver Perez, San Di-ego’s Jake Peavy and Chris Young, the Giants’ Matt Cain and Noah Lowry, and the Marlins’ Scott Ol-sen and Anibal “more no-hitters in my rookie season than 45 years of Mets baseball” Sanchez.

Shane Reil ’09 and Chris Petersen ’07 belly-fl op off of diving boards

that are higher than Ricky Wil-liams, and it hurts.

some kind of craft, like Paul in the Bible — he was a tent-maker,’ ” Hui recalled his father telling him. Hui said he applied to Brown’s Program in Liberal Medical Education be-cause, on a mission trip to Mexico, many people “would ask me to pray for some sort of physical ailment.”

“I felt like (my acceptance to PLME) was part of God’s plan. He put me here specifi cally,” he said.

Hui and several of his Christian friends at Brown and Rhode Island School of Design hope to someday create a Christian hospital and or-phanage.

“Some people say that you can’t mix religion and medicine, but, in my perspective, the best place is where someone cares for you, not just your vitals,” Hui said.

Quiroa decided she wanted to be an anaplastologist — or prosthetics specialist — before she seriously considered doing missions work. Volunteering in New Orleans, La., during freshman year “gave me a heart” for service.

“I can’t imagine other lives with-out the amazing blessing that I have, and I want to share it,” she said.

She said war-torn countries have a high demand for new limbs due to frequent amputations.

“I have always wanted to make prosthetics. Maybe God could use me,” Quiroa said.

Questioning their convictionLike their classmates, students

pursuing religious occupations are often indecisive when making the career choice.

“Very few people at 22 want to make a commitment to anything,” said Father Henry Bodah, the Uni-versity’s Catholic chaplain. “They don’t go into Goldman Sachs think-ing they’ll be working there until they’re 40.”

Izen questioned whether she could devote herself to the rabbin-ate. “When you’re a rabbi, that’s a big responsibility,” she said. “Peo-ple are handing you their bundles of

sorrow and saying, ‘Help me.’ ”Pemberton said she thinks she is

too young to enter religious service. “It would have been arrogant for me to preach at age 21 or 22,” she said.

Currie has practical concerns as she approaches the ministry — she is unsure how following in Moth-er Teresa’s footsteps “will work in terms of me paying the rent,” she said.

But she said her faith keeps her going. “Jesus, he just walked around and talked to people. He was cool with that, and I’m cool with that.”

Quiroa sometimes questions why she is at Brown. “You go to this Ivy League school, you pay thou-sands of dollars for this school, and then you go and be a missionary? You beg people for money to be a missionary?” she said.

Faith at a secular schoolAs a religious person at Brown,

Currie said she fi nds herself in the minority.

“Unfortunately, many of our peers don’t value religion,” she said. “Many people see religious people as stupid or irrational.”

Mitchell agreed. “It’s not a reli-gious environment here,” he said. “It’s a secular, liberal university, and most people are not interested in re-ligious life.”

Hui said he has not encountered hostility toward his faith at Brown. “The people who point to Brown as being anti-Christian are people who have not talked to anyone at Brown about their faith,” he said.

Cooper Nelson said she dis-agrees with the notion that Brown is nonreligious. Nearly three quar-ters of students claim a religious background, and nearly half are in-volved in religious activities on cam-pus, she said.

Though Quiroa said she has met few students on a religious ca-reer track, she affi rmed the value of preparing for religious service with a Brown degree. “Having a well-rounded education can just help so much when you’re sharing your faith,” she said.




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Baseball Head Coach Marek Drab-inski has been concerned about his team’s offense for much of the sea-son. But after Saturday’s showing, he might not have to worry anymore.

Behind solid starting pitching and offense from unexpected sourc-es, the Bears blew out Dartmouth 20-2 and 10-3 in a doubleheader sweep at Aldrich Field. For the day, Brown batters hammered out 31 hits, and the defense, once a sore spot, com-mitted no errors. The Bears im-proved their record to 7-3 in the Ivy League, 12-14 overall, while the Big Green dropped to 2-8 in league play, 5-19 overall.

“I think those are the best two games we played this season,” said infi elder Bryan Tews ’07. “We had no errors, the pitching was great, the of-

fense was great. If we keep playing well in those three (areas), we can beat anyone.”

In the top of the fi rst inning of the fi rst game, the Bears jumped out to a 3-0 lead and never looked back. Brown was the visiting team on its home fi eld because snowy conditions in New Hampshire forced the games to be moved south. The Bears scored a run in every inning of the fi rst game, and all 10 batters recorded hits and had either an RBI or run scored.

Chris Tanabe ’10 got his fi rst start of the Ivy League season in right fi eld and responded by going 2-for-3 with fi ve RBIs and hitting his fi rst colle-giate homer, a three-run shot to left fi eld. Second baseman Brian Kela-her ’08 added four RBIs, while third baseman Robert Papenhause ’09 and

Seniors propel w. track to strong showing at Brown Invitational

A short-handed women’s track and fi eld team hosted its fi rst home meet of the spring season Saturday at Brown Stadium. The Bears managed to put up some impressive numbers despite missing most of their sprint-ers and throwers, who were compet-ing at the Sea Ray Relays hosted by the University of Tennessee.

“Sea Ray Relays is one of the greatest track events in the coun-try, especially for the sprinters,” said middle-distance runner Naja Ferjan ’07. “Some of the best sprint-ers in the country come every year. Unfortunately, it was on the same weekend as the home meet. It was defi nitely hard to compete against UConn without our sprints crew, es-pecially since UConn brought its en-tire sprints squad to Brown.”

Despite the depleted roster, the team managed to do just fi ne in front of the home crowd.

“I like competing at home be-cause all of the alumni come to see us race,” Ferjan said. “I was sur-prised to see a number of my profes-sors with their families came too.”

Ferjan made sure she put on quite a show for the fans, winning the 800-meter run by two seconds with a time of 2:10.82. Jenna Ridg-way ’10 followed her teammate with a 2:14.82 fi nish, which was good for fourth place. Ridgway also compet-ed in the mile, in which she fi nished second with a time of 4:53.25, a per-sonal best by six seconds. Team-mate Smita Gupta ’08 fi nished fourth in 5:03.73 in the event to round out the shorter distances.

It was a good day to be a senior. Both Ferjan and Herald Assistant Sports Editor Madeleine Marecki ’07 won their respective events. Marecki’s fi nish came in the 3,000-meter run, where she blazed to a personal best time of 10:32.94, al-most four seconds ahead of team-mate Lena Groeger ’08, who fi n-ished second in 10:36.19. Colleen Brogan ’10 rounded out the scoring in the event with a fourth place fi n-

BY SARAH DEMERSASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

W. lax blindsided by Big Red

The women’s lacrosse team got into a shootout with Cornell game Friday afternoon but ran out of bullets in the end. It took the Bears a while to recover from the long bus ride to Ithaca, N.Y., and they spotted the Big Red an eight-goal lead midway through the fi rst half. The Bears couldn’t overcome the hole they dug early on and in the end fell to the Big Red, 19-10.

“The trip is very long, and none of us looked forward to it,” said co-captain Ali Holland ’08. “We prepared ourselves all week throughout practice so we were ready to play, but unfortunately we didn’t come out playing Brown lacrosse.”

With the loss, Brown fell to 1-2 in the Ivy League and 4-7 overall. Cornell bumped its record to 2-3 in the league.

The Big Red opened the game with a 3-0 run to grab the momen-tum, and despite the fi rst of three goals by Lauren Vitkus ’09 at 26:35, Cornell continued to roll. It tacked on two more goals to take a 5-1 lead just 6:14 into the contest, forcing Brown to call a timeout.

“I think it was tough for us, being our fi rst game that we trav-eled a long distance in a bus,” said Meghan Markowski ’10, who had two goals and an assist in the game. “It seemed like it took us

10 minutes to wake up in the fi rst half.”

While the Bears were waking up from the bus ride, Cornell con-tinued to increase its lead. The Bears scored quickly after the timeout when Lindsey Glennon ’07 netted her fi rst goal of the sea-son, but the Big Red continued its offensive barrage and scored fi ve straight goals to take a 10-2 lead midway through the fi rst half.

But after the midway point, Brown started to come together, and co-captain Mimi DeTolla ’08 and Markowski each scored a goal to cut the defi cit to 10-4 with 3:50 remaining in the half.

“After the fi rst 10 minutes of play, we got ourselves together and started playing better,” Hol-land said.

Cornell outscored Brown 4-1 to close out the fi rst half, includ-ing three goals in the fi nal 1:02. The Big Red took a 14-5 lead into the locker room.

“We didn’t make any specifi c adjustments at halftime, but ev-eryone re-focused and got hun-gry to play well,” Holland said. “I think that attitude really helped.”

Despite the concentrated ef-fort after halftime, Cornell scored again just 34 seconds into the sec-ond half to make it 15-5 to gener-ate even more momentum. After that, the Bears tightened up de-fensively and only allowed four

BY MEGAN MCCAHILLSPORTS STAFF WRITER

The men’s track and fi eld team fi -nally got its chance to put on a show in front of the home crowd when it hosted the Brown Invitational on Saturday. Brown won six events and had multiple athletes fi nish in the top three of their events.

“It’s always good to have home-fi eld advantage,” said sprinter Miles Craigwell ’09. “Knowing that you have friends and family there watching gives you a lot of support and makes you want to do well.”

The invitational attracted sever-al of the top track and fi eld teams in the area to College Hill this week-

end. Ivy League rivals such as Har-vard and Yale brought athletes on Saturday as well as regional foes such as the University of Connecti-cut and the University of Rhode Is-land.

“Regardless of whatever team won the meet, the toughest com-petition is always against the other Ivies,” said middle-distance runner Ozzie Myers ’08. “You always want to go out and send a message.”

Despite missing a large portion of their throws and sprints squads, who were participating in a meet held by the University of Tennes-see, the Bears managed to send a strong message under the sunny skies at Brown Stadium.

“Our coach reminded us of the importance of the meet,” said jave-lin thrower Sam Urlacher ’09. “Our championship meet is only a few weeks away now, and you never know what the weather is going to be like for our remaining meets.”

Myers took advantage of the op-portunity to race on his home track by running the 3,000-meter stee-plechase seemingly without com-petition — the runner-up fi nished almost 22 seconds behind him. His personal best time of 9:12.16 won the race and landed him in seventh overall on Brown’s top 10 all-time list in the event.

“(Director of Track and Field Craig Lake) didn’t really tell me

much before the meet, just go out and run my race,” Myers said. “ ‘Don’t hit any steeples.’ ”

Taking a page out of Myers’ book, a fl eet of Bears dominated the 3,000-meter run. Brian Schmidt ’09, Stephen Chaloner ’09, Duriel Hardy ’10 and Ryan Graddy ’08 placed fi rst, third, fourth and fi fth, respectively.

“Although this was technically a scoring meet, it really wasn’t about team competition,” Schmidt said. “We were missing many of our best sprinters and throwers. (The) meet was mainly about making individu-al improvements.”

BY SARAH DEMERSASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

BY STU WOO

Baseball keeps pace with Harvard, Sunday’s doubleheader postponedFEATURES EDITOR

Home cooking helps m. track to six fi rst-place fi nishes at Brown Invitational

Ashley Hess / Herald File Photo

Pitcher Jeff Dietz ’08 backed up baseball’s offensive explosion by striking out 11 in a complete game.

Jacob Melrose / Herald File Photo

Lauren Vitkus ’09 scored three goals and added an assist in a loss to Cornell.

FRIDAY,AY,AY APRIL 13

W. CREW: Varsity Eight - No. 1 Brown 6:17.27, Boston University 6:33.60W. LACROSSE: Cornell 19, Brown 10M. TENNIS: Cornell 5, Brown 2W. TENNIS: Brown 4, Cornell 3SOFTBALL: Dartmouth 5, Brown 2; Dartmouth 13, Brown 0

SATURDAY,AY,AY APRIL 14

BASEBALL: Brown 20, Dartmouth 2; Brown 10, Dartmouth 3M. CREW: Varsity Eight - No. 6 Harvard 6:31.4, No. 3 Brown 6:36.6

M. LACROSSE: Penn 12, Brown 10SOFTBALL: Dartmouth 3, Brown 2; Dartmouth 10, Brown 3M. TENNIS: Columbia 5, Brown 2W. TENNIS: Brown 6, Columbia 1W. WATER POLO: No. 18 Brown 20, Utica 0; No. 18 Brown 13, Queens 3

SUNDAY,AY,AY APRIL 15

M. GOLF: 9th of 12 teams, New England Cham-pionshipsW. GOLF: 3rd of 3 teams, Dartmouth/Harvard Triangular

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To the Editor:

As a subscriber to Commentary magazine for over 40 years, I was simply delighted to fi nd that the maga-zine, in the eyes of Justin Elliott ’07 (“Ruth Simmons’ new boss: patron of the Right,” April 12), had created the intellectual underpinning for the Iraq war. I was horrifi ed that our actions would go unnoticed.

I was shocked — absolutely shocked — to fi nd El-liott indicating that the State of Israel is actually being helped by the United States in its effort to survive the continuous onslaught of its neighbors. That Thomas Tisch ’76 P’04 P’07 is part of this cabal relieves my

easily swayed mind that the next generation of Herald executive editors will have this guideline to work with, all neatly laid out by former Herald Executive Editor Justin Elliott.

I think we should all do whatever we can to help Justin land the right kind of job in New York. Maybe with Loews, the Tisch family’s corporation.

Sy DillProvidence

April 13

Elliott ’07 is divorced from realityElliott ’07 is divorced from realityElliott

This year’s pool for UCS president is larger than in the past two years, but not one of the four candidates vying for the council’s top post offers a reassuring combination of leadership qualities, knowledge of UCS and the University and a realistic agenda, whether big or small.

So students are left to decide which characteristics are most impor-tant for the UCS presidency. Do we want a UCS president who is going to fi ght for attractive yet ultimately unrealistic initiatives like a tuition freeze? Or should the UCS president be someone who has extensive experience on the council and is knowledge of all the projects on its slate? Or ought the leader of UCS be an affable, energetic person who shows potential to lead a bickering council to action and collaboration with University offi cials?

Moses Riner ’08, currently an at-large representative, seems like the student-government type we love to hate, and his potentially offensive ads and the self-laudatory Web site that extols him as the “Exodus to Awesomeness” give us pause. Yet his platform is well-researched, even if some of his initiatives — such as his plan to boost school spirit by creating an incentive scheme for attending athletic events — seem im-ported from Duke, from which he transferred last fall, and may not be right for Brown.

But, more importantly, Riner is outgoing and — unlike UCS repre-sentatives immersed in their own world of parliamentary procedure — can engage with students and pursue what matters to them in meetings with top administrators. He understands the importance of improving campus life in ways that would have a real impact on students, such as his plan to add printers and card value centers in dorms.

There’s no great candidate for UCS president this year, but we think Riner may inject energy into the council and focus its attention on achiev-able goals. That makes him the best choice for the UCS presidency.

Fortunately, the choice for UCS vice president is much clearer. Lauren Kolodny ’08 will make sure the council operates purposefully, with a no-nonsense emphasis on effi ciency.

The vice president of UCS is primarily responsible for running a tight ship — keeping the internal committees on task, following proj-ects through to completion and making sure the weekly meetings don’t drag on longer than necessary. Kolodny’s understanding of both UCS and University operations makes her perfect for the post.

As UCS Corporation liaison this year, Kolodny has demonstrated her ability to work with the University’s top decision-makers, bringing infl uential Corporation members — including the vice chancellor, the head of the Brown Alumni Association and a past chancellor — to Pet-teruti Lounge this week to hear student concerns. Her efforts to in-clude students and student groups beyond UCS in discussion would serve to improve the perception of UCS as a cabal removed from stu-dent life.

Three of this year’s UCS presidential candidates lack knowledge of the recent history of the council and the University, and all would ben-efi t from Kolodny’s institutional memory and effi cient leadership. No matter who wins the UCS presidency, we hope Lauren Kolodny will be at his side.

Riner ’08 for UCS president

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To the Editor:

Recently, I was alarmed to see signs on campus pub-licizing a forthcoming lecture, “One Country: Moving Beyond Apartheid in Israel/Palestine,” sponsored by Common Ground. I hope that Brown students will see through the hate-fi lled rhetoric in the lecture’s title. Comparing Israel’s situation today with that of South Africa’s apartheid years is ignorant. Palestinians gen-erally dispute Israel’s very right to exist, whereas the South Africans did not seek to destroy their state. In spite of the constant threat of terrorism, Palestinians are allowed to work in Israel and to study at Israeli uni-

versities. They are also given the freedom to run most of their own affairs, unlike the situation of South Afri-can blacks during apartheid. Common Ground, don’t you know that sponsoring lectures promoting a fi cti-tious, vilifi ed image of all Israelis is no way to promote a fruitful dialogue about events in the Middle East? Balanced dialogue shouldn’t frighten you.

Mirele Davis ’07

April 15

Calling Israel apartheid is ignorant

To the Editor:

While I appreciate Sean Quigley’s ’10 attempt to present Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as an acceptable candidate for liberals (“Give the maverick at least 4 years,” April 13), his effort is futile. Despite his ca-reer as a maverick, McCain has committed a cardi-nal sin for which the left will not forgive him: He has relentlessly defended the liberation of Iraq. Until the

left wakes up and realizes the war on radical Islam is more important than their war on the Bush adminis-tration, McCain does not stand a chance with defeat-ist American leftists.

Pratik Chougule ’08April 14

Quigley ’10 misjudges liberals on McCainmisjudges liberals on McCainmis

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First impressions really are everything, es-pecially when it comes to politics.

Political groups at Brown cannot achieve legitimacy merely through their intentions, and they cannot take for granted the sup-port of student sub-communities they claim to represent. Absolutely fundamental to the success of a new group is the way in which it is formed and the fi rst messages that it sends.

Two recently formed student groups have demonstrated the truth of these max-ims. The fi rst is Asian Equality in Admis-sions, started by two sophomores earlier this year. The other is the more mysterious Order for Jewish Action.

AEA has failed to gain widespread sup-port on campus. Its original goal, according to group co-founder Neil Vangala ’09, was to “battle assumed discrimination against Asians and Asian Americans” in the Brown admission process.

After fi nding less support than antici-pated for his group, Vangala said he and co-founder Jason Carr ’09 decided to make their group’s mission less aggressive. Cur-rently, their goal is to “understand ways that race and ethnicity affect Brown admissions” by getting the admission committee to pub-licize its data.

You would think that with goals like “admissions equality for Asians” and “in-stitutional transparency,” AEA would have

strong support in Brown’s Asian communi-ty. Not so.

None of the Asian groups on campus have endorsed AEA. The reason? From its formation to its subsequent outreach, the group’s efforts have been perceived as un-cooperative and arrogant. It is precisely this behavior that has landed the group in hot water with the Brown Asian community — the very people it would have to rely on for support.

AEA was announced to the Brown com-munity in The Herald in February (“Two students challenge Asian American admis-sion discrimination,” Feb. 9). Interesting-ly, this was also how most of the leaders of Asian student groups learned about the group.

After certain leaders in the Brown Asian-American community spoke with Vangala and Carr, they left feeling patronized. Be-linda Navi ’09, a member of the Filipino Alliance’s executive board, said AEA “ap-proached several of us (student leaders) in a very patronizing manner. They have no history of involvement in the Asian or Asian-American community at Brown, yet they spoke to us as if they knew more about our communities just because they read the relevant case reports.” Navi said when she challenged their assumptions regard-ing equality in admission, suggesting that releasing data was not the only way to pro-mote institutional transparency, Vangala and Carr responded with a take-it-or-leave-it attitude, which turned her off from embrac-ing the group.

It is also worth taking a look at the group’s aims. AEA has said it wants admission data to become public, so that it can determine

whether discrimination against Asians exists in Brown admission. Of course, discrimina-tion in admission can also be called by anoth-er name: affi rmative action. Many groups on campus see AEA as a threat to Brown’s affi r-mative action policies, and two sophomores started a Facebook group called “Real Equal-ity in Admissions” to articulate this fear. The group’s description calls AEA “nothing but a veiled attempt to attack affi rmative action.” One creator, Agnes Barrios ’09, said, “They (AEA) haven’t considered the long-term consequences of publishing data, and they refuse to openly discuss this with minority groups on campus.”

Though Vangala said AEA has no plans to campaign for the elimination of affi rmative action, by calling for an end to discrimina-tion the group seems to inherently threaten systems of racial preference in admissions.

Of course Vangala and Carr have the right to agitate for whatever they want, but they won’t get far when administrators re-alize that they will not garner the support of the students they purport to be fi ghting for. Vangala said, “we’re not even trying to get their (Asian student groups) support.” If AEA’s leadership hopes to be taken serious-ly though, they should approach all of the Asian groups on campus — not just a few — and do so with an open mind to new ideas and differences of opinion. It’s not too late to mend these fences.

AEA is not the only group that could learn some support-building tactics. Not since I received a naughty love note from a secret admirer in seventh grade has an un-signed letter gotten me really worked up — but though the former turned out to be a prank by my “friends,” the students behind

a radical new Jewish group remain veiled in mystery.

Many members of Brown’s Jewish com-munity received an e-mail from a new group, calling itself the Order for Jewish Action and promising “to strengthen Jewish pride and Jewish nationalism” and “change the mean-ing of Jewish activism at Brown.” Its hard-line pro-Israel position struck a nerve, and soon Jewish students were responding with short essays — mostly in opposition — to the group.

The group did little to elaborate on its message and continued to hide behind the OJA name, refusing to identify who was behind the group. OJA’s organizers wrote that they “do not feel comfortable” making themselves known and that “this is common practice … across history.” I wonder what historic clandestine organizations they are referring to.

What practical measures does OJA want to enact? If it is secure in its ideology, why does it feel “uncomfortable” taking cred-it for it? These questions and many others could have valid answers. However, because the OJA has opted for a secretive route and what many students feel is an unjustifi able position, it has poisoned its potential for fu-ture success — again, within the very group it would claim to represent.

These two groups have botched their fi rst impressions. Unless they take different approaches to gathering support, they will not be able to achieve the legitimacy they need to affect change at Brown.

Ben Bernstein ’09 cooperated with the Brown community in forming this column.

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALDTUESDAY, APRIL 17, 2007 PAGE 19

As of next May, yet another celebrity will be taking up space in the children’s section of your local bookstore. Geri Halliwell — also known as Ginger Spice — announced Thurs-day that she will be publishing a series of six books about a nine-year-old named Ugenia Lavender. According to Halliwell, the books will feature a princess based on Victoria Beckham and will “taste like chocolate and feel like fun.”

This is bad news. Not because of the books themselves, which deserve to be judged on their own merits. It is just conceiv-able that Ginger Spice has developed a tal-ent for writing, although the combination of girl power, princesses and Victoria Beckham does not sound promising. The problem is that as far as the publishing industry and the chain bookstores are concerned, the books themselves are completely irrelevant.

When Madonna published “The English “The English “Roses,” a picture book that she had written but not illustrated, critics immediately point-ed out that it was trite, boring, syrupy and di-dactic. Yet despite its lack of entertainment value and its obvious attempt to force-feed children life lessons about the wrongness of bullying, “The English Roses“The English Roses“ ” proceeded to sell faster than any children’s book before or since.

A famous name will always sell books, but celebrities with literary ambitions used to be

satisfi ed with either writing an autobiogra-phy or having one written for them. The re-cent fad of writing children’s books is part of a general trend of lowered expectations for children’s literature. For people who want to be published but can’t produce a plot, char-acters or even a halfway readable sentence, the modern solution is to write for children. After all, they won’t know the difference.

It is a mistake to think that the only test of a children’s book is whether or not chil-dren like it. Children cannot learn to judge

a book’s quality until they have read enough to have a standard of comparison, and those who really like reading will swallow almost anything.

I grew up reading classic writers like E. Nesbit and Arthur Ransome, but I also brought home foot-high stacks of Sweet Val-ley Twins and Saddle Club from the library. It does children no harm to read bad books along with good — as long as the good books

are there for them to read. The problem is that in today’s world of chain bookstores and limited shelf space, the bad books are liter-ally crowding out the good ones.

Over the past few years, literature for children and young adults has become in-creasingly categorized. There are the books by celebrities, there are any number of fan-tasy series and there is chick-lit. The fantasy tends to be the stylized kind involving witch-es, wizards, dragons and alternate worlds, and the level of the writing is usually sub-

Harry Potter. The chick-lit ranges from ditzy (“An-

gus,” “Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging“Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging“ ,”Meg Cabot’s “Princess Diaries” series) to viciously class-obsessed (the “Gossip Girl,”“A-List,” “It Girl” and “Clique” series). Most of it has a lighter-than-air quality: People share personal revelations via text message, and instead of characterization, we get a list of brand names. Not long ago, the trend

in young adult fi ction was for brutal real-ism, and the shelves were fi lled with heart-wrenching tales of survival in the urban jun-gle. Most modern writers have gone too far in the other direction and have eliminated reality completely.

None of this would be a problem if there were other options. But the proliferation of chain bookstores means that their selections are increasingly homogenized. The regular fi ction section in most bookstores is large enough to allow for some variety, but the children’s section often is not. As a result, much of the available space goes to display-ing every volume of every series, with Meg Cabot and J.K. Rowling each getting her own shelf.

A large amount of space goes to books by celebrities, and a lesser amount goes to classics like “The Secret Garden“The Secret Garden“ .” The oth-er authors on the shelf tend to be ones who were already established 10 or 20 years ago and are still publishing. That leaves virtual-ly no space for emerging authors, especially those who are not writing either chick-lit or fantasy.

Every time that publishers manufacture a new “Gossip Girl” knockoff or sign a new celebrity, the chances of anything better get-ting published go down another notch. Geri Halliwell says she hopes to get children reading, and maybe she will do so. But get-ting children to read only works if they have something decent to move on to. Otherwise, they may as well be watching TV.

Goodnight, Katy Crane ’07

Goodnight, children’s literature

KATY CRANEOPINIONS COLUMNIST

For people who want to be published

but can’t produce a plot, characters or

even a halfway readable sentence, the

modern solution is to write for children.

After all, they won’t know the difference.

How (not) to start a group at Brown

BEN BERNSTEINCAMPUS ISSUES COLUMNIST

The Kansas City Royals certain-ly made a big splash this offsea-son when they signed free agent

pitcher Gil Meche to a fi ve-year, $55 million contract. Clearly this wasn’t

one of those can’t-miss, cannon-ball-type splashes, like when the Red Sox traded Carl Pavano for Pedro Martinez. But it wasn’t ex-actly a belly fl op either, like when the Yankees signed Carl Pavano. Meche can defi nitely eat some in-nings, throw a few gems here and there and help solidify a horrid Kansas City rotation that featured 17 different pitchers in 2006. If con-sistent, he will prove to be an effec-tive No. 2 starter.

Even better for KC, he’ll have help this season with the return of Zack Greinke, the former stud prospect whose pinpoint accuracy has drawn comparisons to Greg Maddux. Unfortunately, during his brief career Greinke has bat-tled psychological issues that have kept him from reaching his poten-tial. However, in his fi rst full sea-son in the majors, Greinke under-achieved with a 5.80 ERA and 17 losses. Strangely enough the main reason for his 17 losses wasn’t me-chanics or talent but rather his lack of passion for the game.

After a 2006 season in which he did not start a single game for KC, Greinke has asserted himself as a front-runner for Comeback Player of the Year. He has assured his fans he is committed to winning and seems poised to take over as the ace of the Royals’ staff. At 24, he

The men’s lacrosse team suffered another excruciatingly close loss Saturday at home against the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania, losing 12-10. The loss puts the 6-5 Bears in a precarious position with a 1-3 record in the Ivy League.

Brown started off strong, tak-ing a 3-1 lead after the fi rst quarter on goals by attackmen Dave Ma-deira ’07 and Thomas Muldoon ’10 and midfi elder Mike Bernard ’07. This was a good omen for the Bears, who have struggled all season with slow starts. Brown got down early against Harvard on Tuesday and had to mount a tremendous comeback, only to fall short at the end. Fed up with starting in the hole, Brown set out to remedy the problem.

“All week we put it on our-selves to come out strong,” said tri-captain defenseman Bobby Shields ’07.

Head Coach Lars Tiffany ’90 said he was pleased with the team’s effort early on. “I was im-pressed with the energy level of the men. After the loss on Tues-day, I told them ‘you have to make sure you fi nd the emotion,’ and they did.”

Though Brown corrected the pattern of sluggish openings, it could not carry the positive mo-mentum into the second quarter. Penn came out on fi re, scoring fi ve goals in the fi rst half of the period. Two of the goals came from Ivy League scoring leader attackman Craig Andrzejewski, who fi nished with a monstrous seven points (three goals and four assists) on the day.

“Craig Andrzejewski was

great,” Tiffany said. “We didn’t have an answer for him. We tried some different things, but it seemed like whenever he had the ball he made something good happen for them.”

Shields gave credit to Andrze-jewski as well. “He is the kind of guy that will take whatever the defense gives him and then make

one or two plays that are just un-believable. He also got a lot of teammates involved.”

Shields felt that the energy re-mained high in the second quar-ter, but the results just weren’t as favorable.

“We had a couple of bad

SPORTS TUESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALDTUESDAY, APRIL 17, 2007 PAGE 20

Chris PetersenShane ReilPocket Aces The hitting woes of the softball

team continued this weekend with 5-2, 13-0, 3-2 and 10-3 losses to Dartmouth. Friday and Saturday’s doubleheaders dropped the Bears to 1-11 in the Ancient Eight while boosting the Big Green to 6-6 and second place in the North Division behind Harvard.

Brown is still just two games be-hind Yale, which went 1-3 against the Crimson this weekend. The Bears will play Harvard next week-end before ending Ivy League play against Yale the weekend after. Last year, the Bears split two games with Harvard.

“We can beat anyone, and we just want to win and have fun for the rest of the season,” said second baseman Andrea Browne ’10, who had eight hits and scored four of Brown’s seven runs this weekend.

In the fi rst game, pitcher Jessi-ca Iwasaki ’10 struck out nine and walked one, giving Brown’s offense a reasonable chance for its second consecutive win. But the Bears left 11 on base despite smacking eight hits.

“The pitchers are just really fo-cusing on each pitch, hitting our corner spots, and staying in the mo-ment so we don’t think about (los-ing),” Iwasaki said. “As long as we can put hitting and defense togeth-er, we’d be fi ne.”

The second game on Friday was over after fi ve innings, as Dart-mouth pitcher Angela Megaw held Bruno to three hits and six left on base.

“We told them we couldn’t play any worse and to keep plugging away,” said Head Coach DeeDee Enabenter-Omidiji.

Brown almost bounced back for a win in its fi rst game the next day. Dartmouth struck fi rst in the second inning with two runs. The Big Green snuck another one in af-ter a slide by Ashley Gleason beat a tag from catcher Amy Baxter ’08 in the sixth. But shortstop Katie Rothamel ’10, Browne and Aman-da Asay ’10 turned a pretty double play to end the inning.

In the seventh, Asay walked, Lewis hit a single to left and a chop-per from Brittany Lavine ’10 was mishandled by Dartmouth’s short-stop to load the bases. Browne came up and punched a single over the second baseman’s head into shallow center to score two. The score was 3-2 with runners on the corners for Herald Sports Staff Writer Kaitlyn Laabs ’09. Af-ter a couple cuts landed foul, Laabs grounded to third and almost beat the throw to fi rst, but the game ended with the fi rst base umpire’s fi st in the air.

Iwasaki pitched another com-plete game with only four hits again, on walk and four K’s.

“They’re not better than us. We just need something to light a fi re under us and we need to remember why we play softball,” Iwasaki said.

In the second game of the day, Dartmouth jumped to a 4-0 lead in the second before Rothamel and third baseman Whitney Lewis ’10

BY AMY EHRHART

Softball smashed by Big GreenSPORTS STAFF WRITER

BY JASON HARRIS

M. lax drops another close game to PennSPORTS STAFF WRITER

The No. 1 women’s crew team won all fi ve races against Boston University Friday on the Seekonk River to continue its string of im-pressive performances. The Bears have lost only one race in their fi rst four competitions this year.

“I’m very pleased (with the re-sults) because BU has a strong program and a long tradition of rowing,” said Head Coach John Murphy. “Anytime we’re fortunate enough to beat them, I’m happy.”

The Bears’ varsity eight won by a comfortable margin, fi nish-ing at 6:17.27, while the Terriers came in at 6:33.60. The second varsity race was much closer, and Brown crossed the line at 6:34.66, while the Terriers trailed closely at 6:40.81. Brown’s freshman crew turned its race into a laugh. Bruno came in at 6:46, while Boston Uni-

versity’s lagged behind at 7:21.73.The Bears controlled the varsi-

ty four race, as all three of Brown’s crews beat the Terriers’ crew. Brown Novice “A” came in fi rst at 7:09.55, followed by Brown Nov-ice “B” at 7:15.59, Brown “A” at 7:26.32 and then Boston Univer-sity at 7:39.66.

The varsity four “B” race was the most dramatic of the day. The result came down to a matter of inches, but Brown prevailed by less than a second. The Bears crossed the line at 7:34.1, nip-ping the Terriers, who fi nished at 7:34.72.

“That was exciting,” Murphy said of the varsity four “B” race, which he watched from a boat that followed the offi cials’ boat. “I bumped into the buoy out there because I was watching so close-ly. That was close all the way, from start to fi nish.”

The forecast called for strong

winds, which could have been a problem. But while those winds did develop, they did not affect the competition.

“The winds were pretty high,” Murphy said. “It was a sustained 20 mile-per-hour wind, gusting to 30. But, for some reason, the wa-ter stayed pretty fl at. I’ve been out here a long time and sometimes the wind won’t be that strong but the water will be really rough. But we were fortunate that we were able to get it in.”

Christine Flynn ’08 echoed her coach’s sentiments and said the wind didn’t have a big effect on the team.

“We’re kind of used to it,” she said. “It gets pretty choppy and windy out there during the week, so we deal with that on a daily ba-sis. We just approached the wind and the water the way we do ev-ery day.”

The crowd that gathered on

the deck of the Narragansett Boat Club to support the Bears was a welcome prospect for the team.

“We heard all the fans and I could see the Brown Bear out of the corner of my eye,” Flynn said. “One of my friends was inside the Bear costume. It’s always nice to see all the fans down there.”

Murphy said he has been im-pressed with the way the team has performed, but there is still a long way to go.

“The class of 2006 was a large and very talented one,” he said. “Losing them when they graduat-ed was a big step. This group right from the start has stepped up to take their places. They’ve worked very hard and they’re continuing to improve each week.”

The Bears will take on Colum-bia and Cornell on the Seekonk River Saturday, April 21, at noon in their fi nal home event of the season.

BY ANDREW BRACA

W. crew continues to dominate, strokes past TerriersSPORTS STAFF WRITER

Unexpected pairpacks dangerous 1-2 punch on mound

Jacob Melrose / Herald File PhotoKyle Hollingsworth ’09 scored two goals against the University of Pennsylvania, but they were not enough to overcome two big scoring runs by the Quakers.

continued on page 16 continued on page 16


Courtesy of Mike Braca ’73 P’10The women’s crew team continued to lead the pack this season, sweeping all its races against Boston University.

tuesday, april 17, 2007

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