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Reflectionssimmons describes challenges, accomplishments
Johnson ’14: we cannot erase the past
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By Lucy FeLdmaNSenior Staff Writer
Crime on or near campus de-creased in 2010, according to the 2011 Annual Security Report re-leased this month. Robbery and motor vehicle theft on and near campus were the only crimes to increase last year, and all other cat-egories decreased or remained the same. The report includes statis-tics for nine offenses as stipulated by the Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
The seven robberies reported in 2010 took place on public prop-erty, compared to four on public property and one on campus in 2009. Rhode Island’s continuing
economic woes may be responsible for the uptick, said Mark Porter, chief of police and director of pub-lic safety. The rest of Providence has seen a similar increase in rob-beries, he said.
On-campus burglaries were down 42 percent last year from the year before, from 67 in 2009 to 39 in 2010, according to the report. Porter attributed this reduction partially to the department’s ef-forts to make students more aware of the risks involved with leaving laptops unattended and dormi-tory rooms unlocked. Reminders about laptop thefts and unlocked dorm rooms are regularly included in the department’s campus-wide emails. Increasing participation
in the DPS laptop tracking service is another possible factor, Porter said.
Forcible sex offenses saw a slight decrease — from 10 offenses to nine — but Porter said the sta-tistics may not fully reflect the in-cidence of sex offenses because the crime is frequently underreported. Next month, DPS will make a push to publicize the support and re-porting options for victims of sex crimes, he said.
The report also included sta-tistics on drug, alcohol and weap-ons violations, which include data compiled by both DPS and the Of-fice of Student Life.
Campus crimes decreased in 2010
By aLex BeLLneWS editor
Four years after signing off on a $68 million executive bonus at the height of the economic boom and two years after parting ways with Goldman Sachs amid a reces-sion, President Ruth Simmons said she does not feel her decade-long tenure on Goldman’s board has negatively impacted the University.
Simmons joined the board in 2000 when she was president of Smith College and stepped down a year and a half ago, saying she wanted to devote more time to Brown. The New York–based in-vestment bank was suffering harsh criticism at the time for doling out high bonuses to its executives after receiving money from the federal bailout program.
As one of Goldman’s 10 direc-tors and a member of its compen-sation committee, Simmons shared responsibility for determining and approving the compensation for the bank’s CEO and executives, including CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s $68 million bonus in 2007.
Two weeks after Simmons an-nounced she would not stand for re-election to Goldman’s board, a New York Times feature portrayed a campus outraged over Simmons’ association with Goldman and painted a picture of a “bogeyman of Wall Street” lurking “behind the wrought iron gates” of Brown.
When asked whether her ser-vice on Goldman’s board has ever cast the University in a negative light, Simmons said she “can’t
Simmons defends Goldman ties
McCormick to get donation records
A federal judge ordered the University Friday to hand over to William McCormick all records of donations and fundraising by the father of the woman who ac-cused McCormick of rape in 2006.
The judge, John McConnell ’80 of the Rhode Island District Federal Court, is the sixth to see the case land on his docket. The case was being heard by a New Hampshire judge before it was transferred back to Rhode Island Oct. 4.
McCormick, a former member of the class of 2010, is suing the University, his accuser and his accuser’s father — both alums — over what he claims is a false rape accusation made against him during the first days of his fresh-man year at Brown. The accuser’s father is a prominent University donor and fundraiser. The suit al-leges that the father’s donations and fundraising activities led University administrators to treat McCormick unfairly and improp-erly force him out of Brown.
McConnell also ordered the University Friday to provide unredacted copies of commu-nications between the accuser’s father and Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, currently senior vice presi-dent for Corporation affairs and governance and then-interim vice president for campus life and student services.
— Herald staff
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By sam RuBiNROitaSSiStant SportS editor
The men’s soccer team earned a vic-tory in its conference home opener Saturday, defeating the defending Ivy League champion Princeton Tigers in overtime 3-2.
It was a gratifying win for the Bears (6-4-1, 1-1 Ivy) after two re-cent overtime disappointments. The team lost its league opener to Columbia a week earlier in double overtime 2-1 and battled No. 9 St. John’s to a 0-0 draw in another double overtime thriller last Tuesday.
“Princeton is the defending Ivy League champ, and I think we re-alized with the Columbia game that the margins between a loss and a victory are very small in the Ivy League,” said Co-captain Ryan McDuff ’13. “It’s good to get into an overtime game again, like against Columbia, but this time come out on the right side of things.”
The Bears set the tempo early against the Tigers (2-7-1, 0-2), get-ting on the scoreboard first in the 31st minute with a goal from Evan Coleman ’12, his first of the season.
Popolizio ’12 hero as Bears vanquish TigersM. SoCCer
By mORgaN JOhNsONSenior Staff Writer
Rhode Island School of Design public safety officers will soon as-sume the power to search, detain and arrest criminal suspects on College Hill.
Legislation authorizing the change, signed into law this sum-mer by Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14, grants RISD police the legal status of “peace officers,” a status currently held by state and local police as well as public safety of-ficers at Brown, Rhode Island Col-lege and the University of Rhode Island.
RISD officers must enroll at the Rhode Island Municipal Po-lice Training Academy and pass training before assuming police powers. “None of our officers are sworn yet, so we are operating un-der the same guidelines as years previous,” said Jaime Marland, di-rector of media relations at RISD.
Hilary Wang, a sophomore at RISD, said she was unaware of the change. She said she assumed the school’s public safety officers had no powers beyond asking for stu-dent identification cards.
“I didn’t even know Brown po-lice could arrest,” said RISD junior Hillary Barton, who also had not heard of the law.
The bill does not authorize RISD officers to carry weapons. DPS officers have been armed since 2006.
RISD cops to get full police powers
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emily Gilbert / HeraldT.J. Popolizio ’12 scored twice, including a dramatic overtime goal, to defeat Princeton 3-2 saturday night.
Glenn Lutzky / HeraldAll-night construction on Thayer street angered and exhausted students in nearby dorms. See full coverage on page 4.
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Ben Schreckinger, PresidentSydney Ember, Vice President
Matthew Burrows, TreasurerIsha Gulati, Secretary
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As the window of opportunity to be part of the Campaign for Academic Enrichment was closing in the fall of 2010, Kay Warren knew she had to act fast to launch a fundraising effort for the Pembroke Center. Warren, who had been named director of the center that Octo-ber, had only two months to come up with a project to research “the human cost and benefit of social change,” she said.
Together with Elizabeth Munves Sherman ’77 P’06 P’09, chair of the Pembroke Center Associates Coun-cil, Warren, who is also a professor of anthropology and international studies, brainstormed ideas for fac-ulty-led initiatives that would foster research across the humanities and social sciences about global issues. The two came up with a plan — if the Pembroke Center could raise $750,000 for faculty research with the help of the campaign, Sherman and her husband David Sherman ’79 P’06 P’09 would make it $1 mil-lion with her own money.
Today, the Pembroke Chal-lenge has exceeded that original goal, though the actual sum will remain a secret until Nov. 5, the 30th anniversary of the Pembroke Center’s founding. Warren attrib-uted the challenge’s success to the “generosity” of alums.
Warren said the challenge’s focus on global issues is a way the Uni-versity can increase its prominence in the international community. “We’ll be seen as a positive force for understanding complicated issues that are global and the result of an interconnected world,” she said.
The funds raised by the chal-lenge will first go to the Univer-sity endowment and then will be spent according to the needs of the initiatives, which fall under three broad categories: Gender, Medicine and Science; Gender and Public
Policy; and Families and Workers on the Move. Both graduate and undergraduate students will have the ability to participate in these initiatives through assistantships and workshops.
Students will benefit especially from hands-on experiences because they will see how research is con-ducted from the very beginning, Warren said.
In addition to starting the Pem-broke Challenge, Warren has insti-tuted other changes to the center since she returned from leave in July. She has increased the number of faculty members involved in the center and created a faculty board with teachers from different fields to help run it.
Warren is considering new un-dergraduate academic opportuni-ties. One idea would have students from the humanities and those from the social sciences provide input on each other’s research. She
is also working on an archive that collects papers by feminist theo-rists and makes them available for scholarly research, a project recent-ly renamed the Feminist Theory Archives.
But Warren still has a few goals for the center she would like to ac-complish, including a general ex-pansion of the Pembroke Center to reach more students from diverse fields.
As for the Gender and Sexual-ity Studies concentration, which the Pembroke Center sponsors, she said she would like to see the cur-riculum grow — and maybe teach a course about “human trafficking and the legal dimensions of trans-national commerce” with a legal scholar or prosecutor who works in human rights.
But Warren said she does not know how feasible such a class would be. “I guess I’m allowed to dream,” she said.
Pembroke Center beats fundraising goal
Brown Department of AnthropologyPembroke Center Director Kay Warren said she hopes to expand the center to attract students from different fields and to teach a course on human trafficking.
RISD began pursuing peace of-ficer eligibility several years ago, Marland said. The school’s urban campus necessitates a stronger public safety presence than would
be required at schools in more isolated areas, she said.
The bill makes RISD police bet-ter equipped to deal with “routine quality of life issues” and improves partnerships with Brown and mu-nicipal police forces, Marland said.
Barton, who holds a “pretty positive” opinion of RISD public safety, said she is pleased with the peace officer designation. She said the knowledge that campus police can arrest would make her feel safer when traveling at night.
“A lot of students walk around with expensive equipment,” she said. “Sometimes they get ha-rassed.”
But Wang said RISD public safety officers’ reputation for being strict when dealing with students makes her concerned that RISD police might overreach in using their new powers.
“It makes me more wary of the abuse that might happen,” she said.
RISD public safety records paint a picture of sporadic theft on RISD’s campus. Eleven bur-glaries, two motor vehicle thefts and one robbery were reported between 2008 and 2010.
RISD public safety officers get power to arrest, carry weapons
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Campus news 3the Brown Daily heraldtuesday, october 11, 2011
By kate NusseNBaumContributing Writer
Since committing $400,000 to University research in January, Medtronic — Fortune 500’s top medical product and equipment company — has provided support for three engineering research proj-ects, according to Brian Sheldon, a professor of engineering who has been directing the collaboration.
In addition to the funding, Medtronic also works with Uni-versity professors to identify topics for projects and helps to determine the project’s directions.
Through the collaboration with Medtronic, Sharvan Kumar, profes-sor of engineering, is leading re-search on specialty steels that are used to manufacture different med-ical products, and Kyung-Suk Kim, professor of engineering, is work-ing on ways to prevent coagulation problems in heart valves without treating patients with large doses of the drug Coumadin. Sheldon, who said the funds will provide two years of support for his proj-ect, is exploring the development of a new material that might help prevent the failure of capacitors in defibrillators.
The model for research collab-oration was inspired by the Uni-versity’s relationship with General Motors, Sheldon said. Allan Bower, professor of engineering and co-director of the GM lab, said GM began collaborating with univer-sities in 2001 when it established research satellite labs around the world.
Bower said all of Brown’s col-laborative projects have two or three GM staff members who are contributing to the research. Brown researchers and GM staff meet ev-ery six months to review past work and plan future research.
The success of the GM program and the engineering department’s expertise in mechanics and mate-rials science piqued the interest of Medtronic executives, who decided to establish a similar model, Shel-don said.
In the summer of 2010, after several Medtronic executives and research scientists visited Brown,
the company started meeting with engineering professors to discuss how the University’s expertise could support its needs.
“We identified a huge number of possible projects,” Sheldon said. “We used that as a starting point.”
After several groups of a few fac-ulty members visited Medtronic multiple times to work out the spe-cifics, the three different projects were launched in January.
Like the GM model, there is no designated Medtronic lab building — researchers work in the Barus and Holley labs and in the Prince Laboratory basement.
Sheldon said the collabora-tive research model allows Brown professors a certain degree of free-dom. The funding for the research comes in the form of gifts, which means “they actually cannot dic-tate anything to us,” Sheldon said. The arrangement allows Brown re-searchers to pursue projects they are interested in publishing.
But Sheldon said that because the University wants to develop a long-term relationship with the company, there is frequent commu-nication with Medtronic staff. Shel-don and his post-doc researcher speak on the phone with Medtronic scientists several times a month, and he is working with them on the presentation of their joint proj-ect that he will deliver during the first week of December in Boston at the Materials Research Society meeting.
Sheldon expressed appreciation for the collaborative research mod-el, explaining that working directly with a company allows his depart-ment to research relevant industrial problems and offers students and post-docs who are interested in pursuing industrial jobs the chance to actively engage with the industry.
Sheldon said he believes re-searchers in his department are particularly well-suited for such joint endeavors. “This group of people has, for a very long time, worked in a very collaborative way with each other.” He said this puts small groups of faculty in a position to succeed at solving the industri-al problems that are of interest to Medtronic.
Medical corp. funds engineering research
By aLex BeLLneWS editor
“A lot of the things that have happened that seemed to be im-portant to people, I missed,” said President Ruth Simmons of her accomplishments at Brown. “I was here, I was doing it — and now somebody defines it as having been important.”
Simmons said she receives long letters in which admirers tell her what her greatest achievements have been. The differences, she said, are striking.
“I think it’s okay for people to have different perceptions of what I’ve done, and I think I’ll enjoy learning that what I’ve focused on and what I’ve thought I was doing are sometimes very differ-ent from what people see in what I’m doing.”
Simmons cited her boldness when she first took office as key to her success as president. Arriv-ing in the wake of the tumultuous tenure of Gordon Gee, Brown’s shortest-tenured president, Sim-mons took the Corporation’s ad-vice in acting swiftly to draft a five-year plan to lift the school out of stagnation. In hindsight, Simmons said drafting her plan without first better understand-ing the school seems “completely illogical.”
“The thing that scares the life out of me is that it’s what every-body talks about,” she said. “It was need-blind. It was expand-ing the faculty. All the things that people talk about now, I did with no knowledge of Brown, and so when I think about that, I think, ‘Goodness, maybe that’s the way to make decisions — in the dark.’”
Simmons said she lacks the courage today to do what she did when she first started. Now, decisions take more time and en-tail the formation of groups and solicitation of opinions.
“I’d go through all of that pro-cess and then end up in a place where who knows if it would have been better. I realize now if I hadn’t done it early, we probably wouldn’t have gotten much done because it takes a long time for these efforts to mature.”
Simmons credited her ability to withstand scrutiny as another key to her success. She remem-bers national media speculating what the female, African-Amer-ican Dillard graduate from Texas would do for Brown after she was appointed.
“I had some difficult times when I was president,” she said. “You always have a lot of self-doubt, and I had as much as any-body else when you start these kinds of jobs.”
At first, Simmons hoped Brown hadn’t made a mistake in its appointment, she added. She said she settled into her new job and responsibilities gradually.
“I’ve been very lucky, actu-ally, because when I look to the north and I look to the south, I’ve had far fewer perturbations than most of my peers. And yet, I think people watching so intently cre-ated a certain sort of discomfort for me that has been a feature of my presidency to be sure.”
Simmons called it a milestone that she will have gotten through 11 years without a “conflagration” of some kind, which some may have expected.
“They expected the Slavery and Justice thing to blow up and to be a negative,” she said, refer-ring the University Steering Com-mittee on Slavery and Justice she convened in 2003. “In fact, it’s turned out to be a positive.”
Simmons said she was most grateful for the fact that she “sur-vived.”
“I think I’ve had all the luck in the world for this job, and much more than I could have expected and probably much more than I deserved,” she said. “I have no complaints, and my aim now is really to make it as easy as pos-sible for the next person to have as good of an experience.”
Simmons reflects on themes of presidencyBoldness, endurance and a touch of luck is recipe for success
City & State4 the Brown Daily heraldtuesday, october 11, 2011
By haNNah LOeweNtheiLStaff Writer
All-night construction on Thayer Street to complete renovations to the Metcalf Chemistry and Re-search Laboratory Sept. 29 left angry and tired students in its wake.
“At the completion of the Met-calf renovation project, Thayer Street was cold planed and re-paved,” Stephen Maiorisi, vice president of facilities manage-ment, wrote in an email to The Herald. He added that no further construction on Thayer is planned.
“Nighttime construction oc-
curs only when necessary,” he ex-plained, adding that pedestrian safety is one reason for authoriz-ing construction at night.
This is not the first time Brown has resorted to overnight con-struction, Maiorisi wrote. Two years ago, the strategy was em-ployed when workers replaced the University’s high temperature hot water piping.
While Maiorisi said he was not aware of any formal noise com-plains, students like Adam Frees ’13 were nonetheless disturbed by the late-night construction. Frees wrote in an email to The Herald that he first noticed the noisy con-
struction around 2 a.m. one night, when he was trying to fall asleep.
Margarita Rodriguez ’13, who lives in Hegeman D, said the con-struction made her “very uncom-fortable.”
“It was very hot that night,” she said. “I wanted to keep my window open, and I couldn’t because the sound was just unbearable.”
Laura Curlin ’13 said the “loud and disruptive” construction nois-es interrupted her sleep.
Maiorisi wrote that construc-tion — which was supposed to begin around 4 p.m. and end be-tween 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. — did not begin until 6 p.m. due to un-
foreseen problems. At that point, “the asphalt was already on its way to the site, so the project couldn’t be postponed to another time,” Maiorisi wrote.
Frees said he was impressed the Department of Facilities Manage-ment finished the work in a single night, but he was still frustrated. “I understand that they had a sched-ule to keep,” he wrote, “but it was really inconsiderate of them to not give any warning to the hundred or so students that live less than 50 feet from where they were jack-hammering at 4 in the morning.”
In fact, students had been warned, according to Maiorisi. In
accordance with its policy, Facili-ties Management had originally coordinated with the Office of Residential life to alert students of the construction by sending a morning mail announcement that day.
But Maiorisi acknowledged there was a breakdown in com-munication after the delayed start. Once construction did begin, Fa-cilities Management did not co-ordinate with ResLife to see how the change in timing would affect students living nearby, he wrote.
— with additional reporting by Claire Peracchio
All-night construction on Thayer ‘unbearable’ for students
Campus drug violations jumped from five to 20, accord-ing to the report. Porter said DPS dealt with roughly the same num-ber of drug-related incidents in both years, but incidents in 2010 involved more violators on average than incidents in 2009.
Most drug, alcohol and weap-ons violations result in disciplinary referrals.
The University disciplinary process is usually equipped to deal adequately with such offenses, Porter said. But when a situation jeopardizes the health and safety of the community, DPS will make an arrest, he said.
There was one instance of ag-gravated assault last year and no incidences of homicide, negligent manslaughter, non-forcible sex of-fenses or arson. The full report can be found on the DPS website.
Crimes decline, but drug violations jump
imagine” how it could have, though she admitted she tends not to read what others write about her.
“I’m not the person to judge, but I have never been unwilling to have responsibility for what I do,” she said. “Everything I do and ev-erything I say is subject to people’s judgment. I’m entirely comfortable with that.”
Prior to leaving Goldman’s board, Simmons said in a February 2010 interview with The Herald that negative publicity she received
would not hurt the University’s reputation.
“I can explain the reason I was on the Goldman board — because both Brown and Smith encour-aged me to be on the board — and that is all I can say,” Simmons said last week. “And if I thought for a minute that my being president of Brown served Brown poorly or was an embarrassment to Brown, I would have been gone a long time ago. It’s not my intent to embar-rass the University. Quite the con-trary, I think my being president of Brown has lifted Brown. So I’m comfortable with that entirely, and that’s all I have to say about it.”
Simmons declined to speak on how involved she was in compen-sation discussions. She also de-clined to comment on the theory that giving Wall Street executives exorbitant pay to reward short-term profits could have contrib-uted to the poor decision-making that precipitated the financial meltdown.
She said she thinks her sepa-ration from Goldman is not ad-versely affecting the company’s recruiting on campus, noting that Goldman has a much longer relationship with Brown than she does.
“If you look at the history, there are a lot of people who have left Brown and gone to Goldman,” Simmons said. “That’s been going on for a long time and has nothing to do with me whatsoever.”
A LinkedIn search for profiles listing Brown as their education and Goldman as a current or past employer turned up more than 300 matches.
“I don’t think their recruiting here has anything to do with me at all, actually,” Simmons contin-ued. “They recruit everywhere, and one of the things that (Gold-man) says about Brown students is they like Brown students for the same reason other companies like Brown students: They tend not to be cookie-cutter. That means they can walk into an organization and they can think for themselves and add value because they have not had the traditional educational program in which they have been passive learners.”
Simmons still serves on the board of Texas Instruments. She did not say whether she plans to continue after her presidency, citing Securities and Exchange Commission insider trading policy. Simmons joined Texas Instruments’ board in 1999. She also served on Pfizer’s board from 1997 to 2007.
She credited her service on the three boards with instilling more courage in her.
“I’m essentially a pretty shy, pretty retiring person — very much an introvert,” she said. “I would say the one thing that boards have enabled me to do is to be a little bit bolder than probably I would have been.”
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Simmons does not regret board position
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But the Tigers responded with a score of their own less than five minutes later on a penalty kick, and the teams entered halftime knot-ted at 1-1.
The Tigers took a 2-1 lead after the break on an unorthodox goal. Princeton’s Matt Sanner sent an aerial pass into the box, forcing Bears’ keeper Sam Kernan-Schloss ’13 to stay home in the middle of the goal to prevent an anticipated headed shot. But the bending ball went through traffic untouched, and the unintentional shot wound up in the net past Kernan-Schloss’ last-gasp dive.
But with the pressure mounting and time running short, T.J. Popo-lizio ’12 headed home a clutch goal for the Bears in the 82nd minute, tying the game at two goals apiece. Neither team was able to convert in the closing minutes, sending the
game into overtime.The memory of coming away
winless in their last two overtime matchups was fresh in the players’ minds, and McDuff said the squad learned from its previous mistakes to come away with the win against Princeton.
“With that loss against Colum-bia, we didn’t approach the over-time well,” he said. “The team has really come together and found its identity and gotten back to the defensive basics that tradition-ally Brown men’s soccer has been about. Now, when we head into overtime or a game in general, the back line is confident that we can get the job done, and that will give our offense a chance to win.”
The defense was unrelenting in extra time, and just 1:23 into the overtime period, Popolizio scored the golden goal with his head on a set piece. On a free kick from outside the 18-yard box, Co-
captain Taylor Gorman ’12 floated the ball into a crowd of players and the 5-foot-7-inch Popolizio again outleapt his defender and drove the ball home to seal the victory. The score marked Popolizio’s eighth of the season, and his fourth game-winning goal of the year. He was named Ivy League Player of the Week for his recent strong per-formance.
McDuff said he was proud of his teammates’ resiliency to bounce back from a goal down to clinch the overtime win.
“It’s a veteran team, so the guys kept their composure very well,” he said. “I think it’s the first time we’ve come back from a deficit and won the game, so it was just about keep-ing constant pressure on them.”
The squad will continue its quest for an Ivy League title when it travels to Cambridge to face a struggling Harvard team (2-7-1, 0-2) Saturday at 7 p.m.
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Cross 43-yard line after O’Donnell came up with a big tackle to thwart an aggressive fake punt call by the Crusaders. A hard-nosed 16-yard run by running back Mark Kachmer ’13 fired up the Brown sideline and set up a 34-yard field goal attempt, and this time Norocea was on the mark, tying the game at 13.
After the Crusaders’ punter redeemed himself with a picture-perfect kick, the Bears had their backs against the wall at their own one-yard line. But after a first down completion to Lundevall, Kachmer and John Spooney ’14 had room to run, and both ripped off big gains to enter Holy Cross territory. Twice on third downs, including the one ending with the touchdown to Fay, Newhall-Caballero used his mobil-ity to elude the pass rush and buy time for his receivers.
“We had to scramble to make some plays, and that’s when I think Kyle Newhall-Caballero’s at his best,” Estes said. “When he’s out of the pocket and making plays with his feet, he’s always looking down-
field, and the receivers do a great job of finding open spots.”
Holy Cross had two more chanc-es to tie the game. A fourth-down pass by Taggart was deflected and fell incomplete, and then on the Crusaders’ final chance of the game, safety Peyton picked Taggart off to seal the win.
“It was just embarrassing today,” said Holy Cross Head Coach Tom Gilmore. “We made errors that shouldn’t happen in Pop Warner, no less in college football. There’s no excuse, especially when you’re playing a good team like Brown.”
The victory gives the Bears an undefeated non-conference record this season, with the team playing its best since falling to Harvard in its Ivy opener. Every game mov-ing forward will be an Ivy League contest, starting Saturday when the Bears take on Princeton (1-3, 1-0) in Brown Stadium at 12:30 p.m.
“That Harvard game was really devastating, and we feel like they got away with one,” Lundevall said. “We’re excited to get back into Ivy League play and take it to the Ti-gers.”
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No more drama in Shakespeare productionsTo the editor:
In your review of “Measure for Measure” (“Sinful production ‘measures’ well,” Oct. 7), you quoted, out of context, a communication between myself and The Herald reporter that makes it seem as though I mean my production as a rival to Shakespeare on the Green. I hold the greatest respect for Shakespeare on the Green and indeed am on the staff of their fall production. I’m
disappointed in The Herald’s decision to publish material that was included in my email as part of an explanation of why I did not wish to answer what I saw as gossipy ques-tions unrelated to the themes of the play — and, having done so, to omit necessary context in order to convey a meaning quite opposite from that of the email as writ-ten, and manufacture a controversy where none exists.
rebecca Maxfield ’13
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— in the dark.”— President Ruth simmons
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“We cannot wait for increased funding levels to be in place before establishing a vision for growth,” explains the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority in its first-ever strategic plan, which it released in March. The document — bold in its vision and frank in its discus-sion — was just one indicator of a laudable shift toward a long-term approach to transportation development in Rhode Island. We com-mend RIPTA’s efforts to take an in-depth look at transportation needs and how transportation infrastructure can create opportunities for economic growth, promote greater social inclusivity and improve quality of life in Rhode Island.
The Providence Journal reported that more than 100 Rhode Islanders joined a nation-wide rally Sept. 20 in support of public transportation, for which a one-third federal funding cut has been suggested. For RIPTA, which is 21 percent federally funded and facing a $4.6 million deficit this year, the impact of the proposed cuts would be severe. But even as RIPTA controversially approved service reductions to close its funding gap at the end of last month, it continued to push forward with strategies aimed at changing the future of transportation in Rhode Island.
Throughout the past year, RIPTA has conducted a “Core Connector Study” aimed at developing, refining and adopting a streetcar system as a “locally preferred alternative” in Providence. RIPTA encouraged dialogue and openness in its process, surveying the public, commu-nicating updates online and presenting in open forums before finally proposing a streetcar system just over a week ago.
Despite the $126 million investment, the streetcar project is ex-pected to require, we support RIPTA’s proposed streetcar system — and not just because it would be particularly well-suited to transporting students from College Hill. A streetcar system might appear to be an inappropriate luxury given RIPTA’s budget concerns, but future improvement requires current investment. One only needs look to the revitalization success in Portland, Ore., to see the potential of projects like this to promote growth. We mentioned the indispens-ability of transportation in our Sept. 22 editorial and maintain that transportation infrastructure is a critical priority for Rhode Island’s development.
While we are excited about what streetcars could do for Providence, we are also keen to remember that the proposed streetcar system is just a small part of a major vision for improving transportation in Rhode Island. Assuring accessible transportation for people of all income levels, for example, is a pressing issue that requires continued commitment. A streetcar system alone is not enough.
We applaud RIPTA for documenting the impact of transportation services, reaching out to users to identify their needs and advocating for changes — streetcar included — to support a stronger Rhode Island. We also maintain that transportation can be a vehicle not only for growth, but also for promoting social justice. We look for-ward to a Rhode Island where a streetcar system breathes new life into downtown Providence and to a Rhode Island where no one is barred from educational or job opportunities because of inadequate transportation.
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RIPTA has right ideas for transportation’s future
An article in Friday’s Herald (“WPCs criticize program,” Oct. 7) incorrectly stated that Octavia Wallace ’12 is a Women Peer Counselor. She is a Community Assistant and a former WPC. The article also stated that Wallace said she wanted the WPC program to merge with the Minority Peer Counselor program. In fact, Wallace said she thought the WPC program should adopt a programmatic model similar to the one used by the MPC program. The Herald regrets the errors.
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opinions 7the Brown Daily heraldtuesday, october 11, 2011
Throwing off the shackles of on-campus housing can be a relief. No more anxiety about the sleeping patterns of your ran-domly selected roommate, no more unan-nounced fire drills when you are just trying to take a shower, no more unwanted expo-sure to the compulsory Britney Spears spin-ning parties thrown by that girl on your floor. But this dream can quickly turn into a nightmare if your off-campus abode comes with a landlord or landlady who makes your life miserable. Some of these landlords from hell can be found right on the University’s Auxiliary Housing website, a problem that can be solved by a joint effort from both stu-dents and the Auxiliary Housing office itself.
The office explicitly denies responsibil-ity for the apartments listed and the indi-viduals marketing them and as such cannot be held accountable for deceptions that are the result of leases sealed through the web-site. But the mere presence of landlords on the Brown listing service lends them an air of authenticity and credibility. Students are inclined to assume — and understandably so — that the advertisements on the listing service are more trustworthy than those on other websites, such as Craigslist, whose us-ers know that they will have to separate the wheat from the chaff when looking for their humble palace.
We all know the stories of landlords ask-ing for advance deposits or all of a sudden “misplacing” the memory card with the pic-tures of those lovely Victorian ceiling details on it. But that’s okay — the simple fact that this happens through Craigslist is enough to set off alarm bells in the student’s head. But through the age-old power of associa-tion, this should not be the case for Brown-affiliated housing. Just the appearance of the University logo in the top-left corner of the browser is enough to persuade students
that “the landlord is legit,” as one graduate student put it. Sadly, these expectations are sometimes unfounded.
Take the case of an unnamed graduate student who found a nice furnished apart-ment perfect for an international student like herself. When she arrived, the landlady had rented her bed to someone else, telling her that “there’s a carpet in the room” when asked how this problem should be resolved. Two weeks later, I found myself helping said graduate student haul the long overdue bed up the stairs while the perfectly able-bodied landlady refused to move a finger. Then the refrigerator broke down. And the shower drain became clogged. All she heard from
the landlady was a deafening silence. When the student told her landlady that she want-ed out of the lease via the one-month notice specified in it, the landlady not only called her a slew of bad names, but also told her that she would drag her to court.
It all could have been prevented. When she contacted the graduate student lawyer and Auxiliary Housing, it turned out that the landlady had come to their attention be-fore. But since no one filed an official com-plaint, there was nothing they could do. The
negligence of students to report all bad ex-periences to the Auxiliary Housing office, either because of the time commitment or out of fear of further escalation of the con-flict with their landlords, is inexcusable. It ensures that other students walk into the same trap when they should not have to. When reported, the landlord can face exclu-sion from the listing service — “Brown Uni-versity reserves the right to deny placement in and/or remove from its housing service any listing(s) by any individual or compa-ny for any reason which it deems sufficient,” the terms and conditions read.
But there are other, less effort-intensive ways in which students could share their
landlord experiences. There is the possibil-ity of a testimonial that could appear next to the landlord’s name on the website — with a disclaimer that these reflect the students’ experiences, to absolve Brown from any le-gal liability — or the simple thumbs up or thumbs down to indicate appreciation or disapproval. To protect such a community-feedback system from outside spamming, the possibility to share one’s experiences could be restricted to students with a Brown email address. The argument that a public forum could provide rancorous students with an open platform to slander a land-lord is an important one, but not likely at all. Those who are unwilling to make the effort to file an official complaint can probably not be bothered to do so officiously either. It will certainly benefit the many upstanding land-lords in Providence, and when tenants are required to provide references to secure an apartment, why should we not expect the same of landlords?
Of course, one always has to exercise caution and use common sense before en-tering any type of contract, but a feedback system could make the Auxiliary Housing website more worthy of the Brown seal of approval that unofficially hovers over it. Af-ter all, no one likes a house from hell, except maybe when it’s Halloween.
suzanne enzerink Gs is a master’s student in American studies from the Nether-
lands. she is happy with her landlady and can be reached at
Thumbs down for lousy landlords
Happy belated Columbus Day. Or, as we call it here at Brown, Fall Weekend.
As many students know, in 2009 the fac-ulty voted to change the name of the holiday weekend to avoid celebrating a man who was responsible for the deaths of count-less Native Americans. Despite the fact that Columbus Day began with the efforts of Italian-Americans to celebrate their heritage, the University felt it would be best to avoid insulting anyone at any cost.
But why stop with Columbus Day? There are so many things here that might possibly offend someone. Why not rename everything?
For starters, the University should stop accepting cash as payment at dining halls, the bookstore and vending machines. Of the seven major bills issued by the Federal Reserve, five of them feature the faces of slave owners. Because the nickel and the dime could also be viewed as offensive, the University should not even accept coins.
Another offensive University icon is the life sciences building, which is currently named in honor of famous dropout Sidney Frank ’42. He created the importing dynas-ty that brought Grey Goose vodka and Jag-ermeister liqueur to America and donated $100 million to the University’s financial aid fund. For those who believe that alco-hol consumption is immoral, the name of
that building could be extremely offensive.Another atrociously offensive building
is that of the French and Hispanic studies departments, Rochambeau House. Brown has several students of British descent, and Jean-Baptiste Rochambeau fought against the British in the American Revolution. We cannot risk offending anyone from Great Britain just to commemorate the founding of this country.
And then there is the name of the Uni-versity itself. Brown is named after Nich-olas Brown, a Providence merchant who
was involved in the slave trade. Because of these ties to slavery, the University should seek an immediate name change. Perhaps it could return to its original name, the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. That would look great on a football uniform.
There is, of course, an alternative. Rath-er than changing every name, we could ac-cept history as it happened and attempt to learn from the failures and atrocities in our
past.Simply changing the name of some-
thing to avoid offense is more insulting than keeping the same name and promot-ing a dialogue about the bloody history of this country. In changing Columbus Day to Fall Weekend, for example, the University seems to think that it can erase the past. There is an attitude that the new name of our three-day weekend will somehow heal the wounds of Native Americans who suf-fered because of Columbus. The truth is that the horrible things that Columbus did
have already happened. They are irrevers-ible, and it is disrespectful to assert that a simple name change will alleviate past tragedies.
Don’t get me wrong: There is a level of sensitivity with which issues of slavery and colonization should be dealt. We should not, as a Harvard fraternity did last year, throw a “Conquistabros and Navajos” par-ty to celebrate the second Monday of Oc-tober. Although Brown’s party planners
could use a few fresh ideas — I’ve failed CHEM 0690 twice already — we should not stoop to overtly mocking a sensitive subject.
I believe that holidays like Columbus Day present a unique opportunity to dis-cuss both the good and the bad aspects of our history. It is possible to respect the hol-iday which honors a courageous explorer and co-discoverer of the Western world while also recognizing that Columbus committed horrible acts that rival those of Hitler and Stalin.
There are certainly those who will be of-fended that I mentioned Columbus in an even partially positive light. But I would respond that the best way to learn from the past is not to ignore it and change the name to meet the approval of modern-day political correctness. Rather we must ac-cept what has happened, examine it criti-cally without shying away from the gory details and vow never to allow such an atrocity to happen again.
Or we can keep doing what we are do-ing. In that case, students will graduate from the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Planta-tions without ever setting eyes on the face of George Washington, without knowing where their financial aid comes from and without knowing why they have the sec-ond Monday in October off every year.
Garret Johnson ’14 is a neuroscience concentrator from Boxford, Mass. who
will gladly change his name if it offends you.
Let’s rename everything
There is, of course, an alternative. Rather than changing every name, we could accept history as it happened
and attempt to learn from the failures and atrocities in our past.
some of these landlords from hell can be found right on the University’s Auxiliary Housing website, a glitch that can be countered by a joint effort from both students
and the website itself.
By GARReT JOHNsONopinions Columnist
By sUzANNe eNzeRINKopinions Columnist
Daily Heraldthe Brown
Sports tuesdaytuesday, october 11, 2011
By sam wickhamSportS Staff Writer
The women’s soccer team defeated Princeton for the first time in five years Saturday after back-to-back goals erased an early deficit. The Tigers (1-8-1, 0-3-0 Ivy) had over twice as many shots on goal as the Bears (7-3-1, 2-1-0) but only breached Bruno’s back line once.
Maddie Wiener ’14 and Captain Sarah Hebert-Seropian ’12 each scored their second goals of the season within a 12-minute period to claim the lead in the first half. Stellar play from center backs Di-ana Ohrt ’13 and Joanna Price ’12 kept the Princeton attack at bay for the rest of the game, and solid goalkeeping from MC Barrett ’14 prevented a Tiger comeback.
“I was excited that we came back after giving up an early goal,” said Head Coach Phil Pincince. “I thought it was a great effort in the first half to score two and be up 2-1 at halftime, and I really thought defensively we hung together in that whole second half.”
“We did the little things that mattered to come out with the win,” Hebert-Seropian said. “This was a big win, and I think we are all thrilled.”
The Tigers capitalized on their first opportunity of the game just four minutes after the opening whistle. Brown keeper Amber Bled-soe ’14 was forced to make a diving save off of a driven shot, but her parry fell to the feet of Princeton leading scorer Jen Hoy, who slotted home the rebound to give her team the early 1-0 advantage.
But Bruno responded and found an answer only eight minutes later. After a foul just inside the Bears’ half, Ohrt hit the resulting free kick out wide to winger Marybeth
Lesbirel ’12. Lesbirel hit the ball on the volley into the middle, where Wiener first-timed the cross into the right corner of the net for the equalizer.
Bruno kept attacking and snatched the lead just 12 minutes later, again through the play of Wie-ner. The pacey forward earned a penalty kick after she beat her de-fender and was dragged down in the box. Hebert-Seropian stepped up and placed the shot in the cen-ter over the keeper’s head to put Bruno ahead.
“We had great movement up top,” Hebert-Seropian said. “That was good for us, to have the lead in the first half for once.”
Despite seven more shots from Princeton in the remainder of the period, the Bears maintained their 2-1 advantage heading into half-time.
The Tigers got off to a roaring start once again in the second half, applying constant pressure to the Bears’ back line. But Bruno held fast and withstood a frantic six-minute period that included four corner kicks and three attempts on goal. Bruno’s defensive unit held the Tigers for the remainder of the game, despite being outshot 20-9.
“I thought our goalkeepers did the job again,” Pincince said. “And I thought the whole back four was — as they have been all year — phe-nomenal.”
Bruno will face Francis Marion University (3-9-1) tomorrow at 4 p.m. at Stevenson Field. The Bears will look to carry their momentum into the season’s final stretch as they chase the Ivy League title.
“We definitely want to be at the top,” Hebert-Seropian said. “All wins in the next games — that’s what we’re aiming for, nothing lower.”
Bears defeat Tigers, move to 2-1 in Ivy
By James BLumSportS Staff Writer
The cross country teams traveled to the New England Championships in Boston Saturday with squads composed of younger and less-ex-perienced competitors. The decision allowed the teams to simultaneously rest their strongest runners while gauging the progress of developing athletes.
“In our sport, we try to focus on the training in the first part of the season, and racing often takes away from that,” said Mitchell Baker, head coach of the women’s cross country team.
“It was really about getting ex-perience and skill development,” said Tim Springfield, head coach of the men’s squad.
The women finished 24th in a field of 39 teams and were led by Abigail Jones ’15, who finished the five-kilometer race in 19 minutes, 20 seconds.
“I think that the training that Coach Baker has been implement-ing is really starting to show and pay off,” Jones said. “We did re-ally well representing the up-and-coming runners.”
Elizabeth Ryan ’13 finished sec-ond for Brown in 19:36 and Taylor Williams ’15 captured the third spot on the team with a time of 20:01.
“I was not expecting to be com-petitive as a team,” Baker said. “A lot of those teams were running their best athletes.”
In his first race of the year, Colin Savage ’14 led the men to a 15th-place finish in a field of 43 teams
with a time of 26:11 for the eight-kilometer race.
Savage was followed nine sec-onds later by Ethan Hickey ’12. Benjamin Stephenson ’13 finished third for Brown in 26:24.
“I thought they executed their game plan pretty well,” Springfield said of his top three finishers. “They ran together as a pack most of the way and climbed through the field.”
The squads will host the Rothen-berg Run Friday at their home course in East Greenwich. Accord-ing to both coaches, more runners will compete than did Saturday, but some of the top runners will likely forgo the race.
“This is a lot of our team’s last chance to race,” Baker said. “I hope we can do well, especially at the home meet.”
Top runners rest during Fall Weekend
W. SoCCer
By ethaN mccOySportS editor
With the game tied at 13 in the fourth quarter, co-captain quarter-back Kyle Newhall-Caballero ’11.5 orchestrated an 11-play, 99-yard touchdown drive to lead the Bears past Holy Cross 20-13 Saturday. The drive started at the Bears’ own one-yard line with 9:06 left on the clock and ended when Newhall-Caballero found wide receiver Jonah Fay ’12 in the back of the end zone for an 18-yard score.
“The team played really hard, and we were resilient,” said wide re-ceiver Tellef Lundevall ’13. “Things didn’t always go our way, but it’s all about resiliency and toughness, and that’s something our team has. That’s what gave us the will to finish that game.”
Brown’s (3-1, 0-1 Ivy) defense was staunch all day and played exceptionally well in the red zone, even without co-captain defensive tackle Kyle Rettig ’12. The unit con-tained the Crusaders (2-3) — who had scored over 30 points in each of their last three games — to a single touchdown. Safety Stephen Peyton ’12 spearheaded the effort, logging 10 tackles and an intercep-tion. Linebackers Matt O’Donnell ’12 and Daniel Smithwick ’12 were close behind, with nine stops apiece.
Newhall-Caballero completed 25 of 39 passes for 229 yards and two scores. He spread the wealth among his weapons, but the hot hand belonged to Lundevall, who hauled in nine catches for 90 yards and a touchdown.
“Kyle just does a great job of reading coverages,” said Head Coach Phil Estes. “He just sees the field so well.”
Going into the game, the contest had the potential for a shoot-out between two high-powered aerial attacks. But early on, neither side could muster much of anything on offense. After a scoreless first quar-ter, Holy Cross drew first blood on a 30-yard field goal, which the Bears answered seven minutes later when
kicker Alex Norocea ’14 split the uprights from 35 yards out to even the score 3-3.
On their next possession, the Crusaders marched down the field but were again held by Brown’s de-fense inside the 20 and had to settle for another field goal.
The Crusaders’ 6-3 lead was short-lived. On the ensuing kick-off, returner A.J. Cruz ’13 looked to be wrapped up but was able to slip out of a mass of white jerseys and cut upfield all the way to the Holy Cross 42-yard line. With just over two minutes left in the half, Newhall-Caballero made quick work of the short field. A pair of first-down completions to Lunde-vall and Jimmy Saros ’12 moved the ball to the Crusaders’ 14-yard line. Newhall-Caballero then found Lun-devall for a third time on the drive for the touchdown, as the junior receiver was able to keep one foot planted in bounds while diving to haul in the catch.
“I looked back and (Newhall-Caballero) was scrambling, so I got into the end zone just trying to get open,” Lundevall said. “The defense converged on him and left me open, so he just put the ball into my hands.”
The score put the momentum in Brown’s court as Bruno took a 10-6 lead into the locker rooms.
Holy Cross retook the lead mid-way through the third quarter. After gaining a first down on a fourth-down conversion in Brown territory, the Crusaders’ quarterback Ryan Taggart found Gerald Mistretta over the middle for a nine-yard touch-down, giving his team a 13-10 lead.
Twice, the Bears looked primed to either tie the game or take the lead, but they could not put any points on the board.
After an encouraging drive, Bru-no could not convert on fourth-and-one from the Holy Cross nine-yard line, and Brown turned the ball over on downs. On their next possession, the Bears failed to capitalize when the team was given a first-and-goal from inside the Holy Cross five-yard line after the Crusaders’ punter dropped to his knee to catch a low snap and was ruled down. But after a costly false start penalty and two incompletions, Norocea missed a 26-yard field goal attempt.
But on its next turn with the ball, the offense made good on its chanc-es. Bruno took over on the Holy
Late drive clinches win over Holy CrossFooTbALL
Brian Ballweg PhotographyJonah Fay ‘12 hauled in the winning catch to beat Holy Cross 20-13 on saturday.
Jesse schwimmer / HeraldMaddie Weiner ‘14 contributed one goal in the Bears’ 2-1 victory over Princeton.
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