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vol. cxlv, no. 1 | Monday, April 5, 2010 | Serving the community daily since 1891

Am s,s eeze

t be feby alex bell

SeniorStaffWriter

Though the University an-

nounced approimately 60 sta

layos about two weeks ago, the

reeze on aculty and sta salaries

will be lited next year in order

to keep Brown competitive with

its peers.

Net scal years budget, ap-

proved by the Corporation at its

February meeting, includes a 4

percent increase in the pool o

unds or aculty salaries and a 3percent increase in the pool or

continuing sta salaries. Each

individuals salary increase may

be more or less than these per-

centages because compensation

is determined based on merit.

The increases are necessary

to address recent loss o ground

in aculty salaries and a some-

what lesser rate o loss o com-

petitive ground or non-aculty

salaries, according to President

Ruth Simmons e-mail to the

Brown community ollowing the

C by nicole Friedman

neWS editor

The maximum probationary period

beore a aculty member is either

promoted with tenure or dismissed

should be increased to eight years,

according to recommendations

in a report released March 25 by

the ad hoc Committee to Review

Tenure and Faculty Development

Policies.

The committees recommen-

dations also included standard-

izing the tenure review process

across departments, strengthen-

ing mentoring and eedback or

junior aculty and restructuring

: S by ana alvarez

SeniorStaffWriter

President Ruth Simmons approval

rating has not signicantly changed

since last semester, despite recent

publicity about her past tenure on

the Board o Directors o Goldman

Sachs, according to a Herald poll con-

ducted last month. O the students

polled, 77.5 percent said they approve

o the way Simmons is handling her

job, while only 6.2 percent said they

disapprove.

Simmons announcement in Feb-

ruary that she was stepping down

rom Goldmans board made national

headlines. She told The Herald be-

ore the decision that she did not

believe criticism about the rms

compensation practices would aect

the Universitys reputation, though

it could unnel to her.

The Herald poll was conducted

on March 22 and 23 and has a 3.5

percent margin o error with 95 per-

cent condence. A total o 714 Brown

undergraduates completed the poll,

which The Herald administered as a

written questionnaire to students in

the lobby o J. Walter Wilson during

the day and in the Sciences Library

at night.

More than two-thirds o students,

68.8 percent, said they eel condent

about their or their amilies ability

to pay or their Brown education,

almost 10 percent more than in last

semesters poll. But more than 10

percent o students responded thatthey were very worried, similar to

last semesters results. The poll

ound that signicantly more men,

at 43.8 percent, eel very condent

about the ability to pay than women,

at 28.4 percent.

Support or the Undergraduate

Council o Students remained stable

rom past semesters, with 48.6 per-

cent approving. Only 8.0 percent said

they disapprove o the council, but

43.3 percent o those polled said they

did not know or had no answer.

Slightly more students, 52.4 per-

cent to 43.5 percent, approved the

elimination o dining hall tableslips in

avor o centralized announcements,

a recent proposal by UCS. Upper-

classmen responded signicantly

more avorably to the removal, with

58.9 percent approving. Only 47.1

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Little damage to

campus buildings

by heeyoung min

SeniorStaffWriter

Record fooding hit Rhode Island last

week ater heavy rains, but it caused

only minor damage to University

buildings.

The Department o Facilities Man-

agement received nearly 200 servicecalls last week during Rhode Islands

worst fooding in 200 years, but there

were no severe damages to Univer-

sity acilities, said Director o Custodial

Services Donna Butler.

Butler, who began preparing to

clean up ater the storm several days

beore it hit, described the rain as the

biggest test she has encountered

during the 10 years she has worked

or Custodial Services.

The food was also the best test

o her oces equipment, resources

and emergency response, she said. I

theres another food, now we know

were ready, she said.

President Barack Obama issued an

emergency declaration or the food-

damaged state, which authorized the

Federal Emergency Management

Agency to coordinate all relie eorts.

The ederal government will be pick-

ing up 75 percent o the clean-up tab,

according to a March 30 White House

press release.

The record rainall is another set-

back or the economically struggling

state, whose 12.7 percent unemploy-

ment rate is the third highest in the

country, trailing Michigan and Ne-

vada, according to a March 26 report

.3 204by miriam Furst

StaffWriter

At 5 p.m. Thursday evening, Brown

released decisions online or thou-

sands o anxious high school students

across the globe bringing the num-

ber o admitted students to 2,804, or

9.3 percent o the record-breaking

30,136 students who applied, accord-

ing to a University press release.

The prospective members o the

class o 2014 include students rom

all 50 states and 81 countries, accord-

ing to the press release. University

administrators expect to enroll about

1,485 in the incoming rst-year class

in the all, ater a highly competitive

admissions cycle that saw a 21 per-

cent increase in applicants compared

to last year.

We were deeply impressed and

at times awed by the candidates we

were privileged to review over these

many months, and we are grateul

or the opportunity to get to know

so many inspirational and promis-

ing students rom across this nation

and around the world, said Dean

o Admission Jim Miller 73 in the

press release.

Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herad

Prospective students fooded the admission office with 31,136 appications for the cass of 2014.

IN THE NE T

Jonathan Bateman / Herad

The Bears batted Dartmouths Big Green on Saturda afternoon, eventua osing 9-7.

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Chance Craig, an admitted student

and senior at Marvell High School in

Marvell, Ark., has not visited Brown

yet, but said he is ecited to attend A

Day on College Hill in April.

I applied to nine schools, and

thats a lot or where Im rom because

nobody has ever gone to an Ivy League

school, he said. Its a big thing that

I got in. Its crazy.

Another admitted student, John

King rom North Haven High School

in North Haven, Conn., also applied

to nine colleges but in his school,

many seniors are admitted to selective

universities, he said.

By the end o sophomore year,

through junior year, people got re-

ally competitive about colleges, King

said.

Throughout the school day Thurs-

day, seniors were anxious about their

impending admissions decisions, King

said. My riends and I kept looking

at the clock in school, and a lot o my

riends were just on the computer

right away when they got home, even

though the decisions werent going tobe up or a while, he added.

While both Craig and King are ex-

cited about their acceptances, they

said they are not entirely sure whether

they will choose Brown.

Sohum Chatterjee 14, an early

decision admit rom Calcutta, India,

couldnt visit schools in the U.S. but

said he was initially attracted to the

opportunities or interdisciplinary

study at Brown.

I really wanted a blend o the

humanities and the natural sciences,

which my countrys system simply

doesnt oer, Chatterjee said.

Chatterjee also attributed his in-

terest in Brown to interacting with a

Brown alum who graduated rom his

high school and told him about the

unique campus culture.

Michelle Migliori 14 took a less

conventional route to College Hill. An

applicant or the class o 2013, she was

waitlisted and later oered a spot in

this years incoming class. Migliori is

a Providence resident and said budget

cuts in Providence public schools oten

prevented her rom ully pursuing her

interests in music, theater and art.

For the majority o my education, I

couldnt even study the things I loved,

Migliori said. So or me, Brown was

a place where I could go and actually

have the fexibility to study all that,

and I know Id be getting an amazing

education or it.

Migliori, who has been involved

with Providences Trinity Repertory

Company or the past ew years, hopes

to pursue a graduate degree in theater

through the Brown/Trinity Reper-

tory Consortium ater completing her

undergraduate studies.

Will Peterson, a regular decision

admit who hails rom Orange Coun-

ty, Cali., said his interest in Brown

stemmed rom talking to graduates ohis high school who had matriculated

as well as the New Curriculum, which

he called a big deciding actor.

Peterson is deciding between

Brown and Stanord, though he is

currently leaning towards Brown.

I think I could see mysel more

in the Brown student body, Peterson

said.

Je Handler 14, an early deci-

sion admit rom Newton North High

School in Newton, Mass., looks or-

ward eagerly to arriving on College

Hill in the all.

I spent a week visiting all these

schools, but when I got to Brown, I

knew it was the right place. I could go

down the list o reasons, including the

academic reedom Brown provides.

But overall, it was really just the eel

more than anything else, he said.It was raining when I visited and I

still liked it, he added. And i you like

a school in the rain, you know its the

right place or you. Im thrilled about

the net our years.

With additional reporting by

Claire Peracchio

1. Do you approve or disapprove o

the way Ruth Simmons is handling

her job as president of Brown?

Strongly approve: 37.7%

Somewhat approve: 39.8%

Somewhat disapprove: 4.5%

Strongly disapprove: 1.7%

Dont know / No answer: 16.4%

2. Do you approve or disapprove o

the way the Undergraduate Coun-

cil o Students (UCS) is handling

its job?


Somewhat approve: 38.8%Somewhat disapprove: 6.4%



3. Would you approve or disap-

prove o eliminating dining hall

tableslips in avor o centralized

announcements, either elsewhere

on campus or on the Internet?


Somewhat approve: 25.1%


Strongly disapprove: 17.9%Dont know / No answer: 4.1%

4. How oten this semester have

you used resources or services

including drop-in hours and

events provided by the Career

Development Center either online

or in person?

0 times: 41.9%

1-2 times: 38.0%

3-4 times: 12.5%

5-6 times: 4.2%

7 or more times: 2.2%


5. What is your current relation-

ship status?

Single: 59.4%

In an exclusive relationship:

33.6%

In a non-exclusive relationship:

3.4%

Engaged or married: 0.4%

Other: 1.5%


6. On average, how many hours

per week have you worked for pay

this semester?

0 hours: 42.3%

More than 0, less than or equal

to 3 hours: 7.4%


to 6 hours: 11.9%

More than 6, less than or

equal to 9 hours: 12.6%


to 12 hours: 9.9%


to 15 hours: 4.8%

More than 15 hours: 9.5%


7. How confdent or worried are

you about your or your amilys

ability to fnance your Brown edu-

cation?

Very confdent: 36.4%

Somewhat condent: 32.4%

Somewhat worried: 18.8%

Very worried: 10.2%


8. Compared to your peers at

Brown, how physically attractive

or unattractive do you consider

yourself?

Very attractive: 15.1%

Somewhat attractive: 57.1%

Somewhat unattractive: 8.8%

Very unattractive: 1.5%


9. Do you approve or disapprove

o Brown Concert Agencys choices

to play at Spring Weekend: Snoop

Dogg, MGMT, Major Lazer, the

Black Keys and Wale?

Strongly approve: 42.4%Somewhat approve: 37.3%




10. How important or unimport-

ant is religion in your life?

Very impor tant: 18.1%

Somewhat important: 26.2%

Somewhat unimportant: 17.2%

Very unimportant: 33.5%


sudoku

George Miller, President

Claire Kiely, Vice President

Katie Koh, Treasurer

Chaz Kelsh, Secretary

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percent o reshmen and sophomores

said they approved.The poll also ound that a large ma-

jority o students, 79.7 percent, approve

o Brown Concert Agencys choices

to play at this years Spring Weekend.

Though men and women approved o

the selection o musical acts in about

equal numbers, a signicantly higher

percentage o men responded that

they strongly approve than women.

While 49.0 percent o men said they

strongly approve o this years per-

ormers, which include Snoop Dogg

and MGMT, only 35.6 percent o

women said the same.

According to the poll results, 56.1

percent o students have workedor pay this semester. O those, the

plurality 12.6 percent o the total

sample have done so or an aver-

age o more than si and less than or

equal to nine hours per week. Among

non-reshmen, 62.8 percent reported

working or pay this semester, while

only 37.0 percent o reshmen polled

said the same.

The majority o students, 56.9 per-

cent, have utilized the Career Develop-

ment Center this past semester. Most

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by heeyoung min

SeniorStaffWriter

The Rhode Island School o Designmay become the third school in the

city to grant ocers arresting pow-

ers but some RISD students, who

ear that ocers could use their new

powers to arrest underage drinkers,

do not want to see that happen.

Brown and Rhode Island Col-

lege are the only two universities

in Providence employing campus

ocers with the power to arr est.

A bill under consideration by the

Rhode Island General Assembly

would recognize RISD ocers aspeace ocers, RISD spokesperson

Jamie Marland said. Peace ocer

status would give campus ocers,

who are presently not state-sanc-

tioned, the power to search, detain

and arrest individuals suspected o

illegal activity.

s

Several RISD students expressed

concern that campus ocers would

use their arresting powers inappro-

priately, especially to discipline un-

derage partygoers.

RISD police ocers gaining

the power o arrest is slightly dis-

concerting to me, said Elizabeth

Soucy 13, a Brown-RISD dual de-

gree candidate.

Soucy said student sentiment

toward the campus public saety

department at RISD is dierent

rom the attitude at Brown, mostly

due to the design schools stricter

enorcement o underage drinking

policies. As a result, Soucy said, she

thought RISD police ocers could

be more likely to arrest students

than Brown ocers.

Browns Department o Pub-

lic Saetys reputation o leniency

promotes the ultimate saety o the

students, Soucy said, making themeel more comortable calling the

police when in trouble especially

i the situation involves underage

drinking.

Ayo Ouditt, a RISD reshman,

agreed that granting RISD ocers

arresting powers is ecessive, and

may only lead to unnecessary ar-

rests o students who are drinking

underage.

In extreme cases o alcohol

abuse where intervention is nec-

essary, the administration already

has a disciplinary system in place,

Ouditt said. Those students ace, or

instance, suspension or epulsion,

which are more appropriate penal-

ties than arrest, he said.

Though there have been cases

o epulsion due to alcohol abuse,

excessive drinking isnt a problem

here, said Brenden Cicoria, a RISD

reshman. He added that RISD stu-

dents oten go to Brown to drink

because Brown is known or its mild

enorcement o drinking policies.

Brown police ocers made no

arrests or liquor law or weapons

violations and only one arrest or

drug violations in 2008, according

to the Department o Public Saetys

crime report. No such arrests were

made in 2007 or 2006, the report

said.

But in 2008, ocers issued a

total o 65 disciplinary reerrals or

potential weapons, drug and alcohol

violations on campus: 8 or weapons

violations, 29 or drug violations and

28 or alcohol violations, according

to the report. The number o reer-

rals or alcohol violations was 64

in 2007 and 80 in 2006, the report

said.

Students who receive a disci-

plinary reerral involving alcohol

are required to undergo appropri-

ate alcohol education, evaluation,

and/or treatment as determined

by appropriate ocials, according

to the Universitys Judicial Aairs

Web site.

Sarah Harrison 12, a Brown-

RISD student, hypothesized that

the design school might be stricter

in enorcing alcohol policies to cre-

ate the atmosphere o a serious

school.

Ive always suspected that

RISDs extreme sel-consciousness

in terms o its image has trickled

into its enorcement o rules but

RISDs desire to be taken seriously

as an institution doesnt really need

to make itsel present in the rela-

tionship between Public Saety and

the students, Harrison wrote in an

e-mail to The Herald.

RISD ocers might act more

like their Brown counterparts i they

gain arresting powers or they

might go on a power trip, according

to Harrison.

Its kind o complicated. I dont

know whether RISD tells Public

Saety to be strict in their enorce-

ment o school rules, or whether

they enjoy enorcing rules, or both,

Harrison wrote. I they had more

power, would they eel less the need

to assert it whenever opportunity

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RISD poice officers gaining the power of arrest is sightdisconcerting. Eizabeth Souc 13

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Browns officers are one of on two campus poice forces in Providencewith the power to arrest.

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higher ed

o those students, 38.0 percent in total,

have used the CDC only once or twice

this semester.

In this semesters poll, nearly 60

percent o students said they were

single and about one-third said they

were in an exclusive relationship.

Freshmen, at 72.3 percent, are sig-

nicantly more likely to be single than

non-reshmen, o whom 54.9 percent

are single.

The poll ound that a slight ma-

jority o students said religion was

unimportant in their lives. But 44.3

percent o students responded thatreligion was important in their lives.

The 18.1 percent o people who said

religion was very important in their

lives alls below the national average

o 57 percent, according to the Pew

Research Center.

About seven out o eight students

who gave an opinion said they were

attractive compared to their peers at

Brown. O all respondents, 15.1 per-

cent said they were very attractive,

while 57.1 percent said they were

somewhat attractive.

m

Written questionnaires were ad-

ministered to 714 undergraduates inthe lobby o J. Walter Wilson and in the

Sciences Library on March 22 and 23.To ensure random sampling, pollsters

approached every third person and

asked each one to complete a poll. The

poll has a 3.5 percent margin o error

with 95 percent condence.

The sample polled was demo-

graphically similar to the Brown under-

graduate population as a whole. The

sample was 51.1 percent male, 48.7

percent emale and 0.1 percent other.

First-years made up 25.8 percent o

the sample, 29.3 percent were sopho-

mores, 20.4 percent were juniors and

24.5 percent were seniors. O those

polled, 65.7 percent o respondents

identied themselves as white, 18.9percent as Asian, 10.9 percent as His-

panic, 6.6 percent as black, 1.0 percent

as American Indian or Alaska Native

and 0.8 percent as Native Hawaiian

or Pacic Islander. Also, 4.1 percent

identied with a racial group or ethnic-

ity not listed and 1.1 percent chose not

to answer. The sum o the percentages

is greater than 100 percent due to re-

spondents who identied with multiple

ethnic or racial groups.

Senior Sta Writers Ana Alvarez

13, Ale Bell 13 and Talia Kagan 12

and Arts & Culture Editor Suzannah

Weiss 12 coordinated the poll. Herald

section editors, senior sta writers

and other sta members conducted

the poll.

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CS wS Peope sa Providence is dangerous, but I woud seep onthe street here. Ao Ouditt, RISD freshman

struck or become more overzeal-

ous in their enjoyment o enorcingRISDs rules?

Ultimately Harrison, who was

written up by a RISD ocer last

year, wrote that she would eel

less sae i the peace ocer bill is

passed.

When Harrison lived in a RISD

residence hall located above the

Public Saety oce last year, there

was an atmosphere o stress due to

the possibility o being approached

by an ocer, she wrote. Living at

Brown has been much less stressul

in this respect because I worry less

about getting into trouble, despite

the act that Brown ocers do havethe power to arrest.

Though Harrison enjoys the

relatively lax enorcement o laws

at Brown, she nds it somewhat

unsettling. O course, the act that

Brown eels like kind o a legal play-

ground in the middle o a troubled

city is disturbing in its own right,

she wrote.

Ouditt said he would have sup-

ported the bill i Providence were

unsae, which he eels is not the

case.

I I thought crime was a prob-

lem at RISD, it would be a dier-

ent story, but its not, Ouditt said.

People say Providence is danger-ous, but I would sleep on the street

here.

Crime, including incidents like

the massacre at Virginia Tech, is

always a possibility, but those events

are extreme outliers, Cicoria

said.

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Though students at Brown said

there were benets to having state-

sanctioned police on campus, some

said it was not necessary or their

sense o security on campus.

It is mostly their presence that

counts, not that they have the powerto arrest, said Jerey Blum 12.

Ben Jones 13 said he has walked

alone at night on campus and has

never elt unsae but not because

o the presence o DPS ocers.

Ive walked alone in the dark

and Ive never ound mysel think-

ing, Im glad there are police o-

cers around, Jones said.

That said, he continued, Ive

read the crime reports, and I know

bad things do happen. In that re-

spect, its good that Brown can take

care o these things internally.

Chie o Police and Director o

Public Saety Mark Porter did notrespond to requests or comment.

dff

Campus ocers are not taken se-

riously, said Elizabeth Hernendez, a

senior at Johnson and Wales Univer-

sity. They look very young some

o them are college students so

no one takes them seriously.

Some o the ocers actually

are students at JWU, said Sarah

Bardwell, who graduated last year.

We have a criminal justice depart-

ment here that oers credit to stu-

dents or being public saety ocers.

They do it as an internship.

Campus ocers at JWU have

no power whatsoever to enorce

laws or university rules, Hernendez

said. I eel bad or them sometimes,

especially when they try to (tame)

drunken parties. Students are

constantly mouthing o to them.

Theyre treated like a joke around

here.

Herndenez said she was on the

ence about the necessity o a real

police presence on her campus. I

campus ocers had the power o ar-

rest, they would certainly get more

respect than they do now. But with

Providence police nearby, Im not

sure i we need real police ocerson campus.

Students at the University o

Rhode Island whose ocers

are state-sanctioned and thus can

arrest argue that campus ocers

can do their job better with arrest-

ing powers.

Problems on campus are not

always about drinking, said Renee

Lemieux, a URI reshman. There is

occasionally domestic violence that

goes on too, which is one example o

a case in which the ocers should

have the power to arrest.

Other URI students said the

integration o their campus withthe general community calls or

increased security.

Our quad is basically a park or

anyone to visit, said Sheena Mur-

ray, a reshman at URI. I eel like it

might make a dierence i a campus

is closed, since you might not have

as much o that outside orce com-

ing in to threaten the security o

the school.

URI ocers have the responsi-

bility to ensure the saety o students

on a campus that lacks ences to

keep other Rhode Islanders o

university grounds, Eli Roth, a

URI junior, wrote in an e-mail to

The Herald.Depriving our enorcement o-

cials their chie tool o enorcement

would be a mistake, Roth wrote. I

we want police ocers to do their

job, it is only natural to arm them

with the tools o their trade. This

comes with the essential caveat that

it would be wrong and indeed,

unconstitutional to see students

arrested or breaking university

rules, as opposed to state or ed-

eral law.


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Corporations February meeting.

The increased pools, which ol-

low a year o salary reezes, will

also be used to provide merit-based

salary increases and promotional

adjustments, according to the Feb.

27 e-mail.

I think people understood why

we had to (reeze salaries) given the

endowment, said Provost David

Kertzer 69 P95 P98, adding that he

believes people expected some in-

crease or the coming year. We need

to be sure we stay competitive with

other institutions. Browns endow-ment lost $740 million, or more than

25 percent, in scal year 2009.

Over the past eight years or so,

Kertzer said, Brown has made a air

amount o progress in achieving

more competitive aculty salaries,

but has slid a little bit in the past

ew years in comparison with its

peers.

Eecutive Vice President or Fi-

nance and Administration Beppie

Huidekoper said the discrepancy

between Browns sta salaries and

those o its competitors was less

pronounced than that o aculty

salaries.

Though the salaries o continuing

sta will be higher next year, Hu-

idekoper said the total amount paid

to sta will be signicantly smaller.

The overall decrease in the budget

or sta salaries will be achieved

through organizational restructur-

ing, including this years 60 layos,

139 early retirements and numer-

ous positions eliminated through

attrition.

The increase in aculty salaries

is certainly preerable to the cur-

rent years reeze, but still less thanwhats been done historically, said

Chung-I Tan, proessor o physics

and chair o the Faculty Eecutive

Committee. The University has

made some inroads toward becom-

ing more competitive, he said, but

Browns salaries are still lower than

its peers.

I dont think you can catch up in

one year, he said. But were mak-

ing sure were not losing ground.

One proessor, who spoke on con-

dition o anonymity, said she was

surprised that there was any raise

at all given the state o the economy,

and would have been willing to re-duce or orgo her raise completely

i it meant saving jobs.

Given the economy, this looks to

me pretty generous, she said.

Tan said it was hard to judge the

acultys general reaction to the sal-

ary increase in light o the layos.

Our main mission is providing

a rst-rate education or students

and maintaining the strengths o

the University in terms o rst-rate

teaching and research programs,

Tan said. I dont think anybody

disagrees with that.

No aculty layos have been an-

nounced, and Tan said he does not

epect any.We dont want to cut any aca-

demic programs, he said. In terms

o aculty, thats not being contem-

plated.

Kertzer also acknowledged the

trade-o between eliminating po-

sitions and increasing salaries to

remain competitive.

We have to balance the attempts

to minimize layos with the desire

not to have another reeze in sala-

ries, he said.

the Tenure, Promotion and Appoint-

ments Committee.

The ad hoc committee com-

prised o three administrators and

nine tenured aculty members

agreed that our system was in some

respects not in keeping with the

common approaches that we nd in

our peer institutions, said Provost

David Kertzer 69 P95 P98, who

chaired the committee.

The report addresses the seri-

ous faws and weaknesses o the

current system and its recommen-

dations represent what we thought

might be the best way o strength-

ening the system with appreciation

or Brown traditions and culture,

he said.

The committee was ormed

this all in response to criticisms

rom a New England Association o

Schools and Colleges review team

that Brown tenures a higher per-

centage o its junior aculty than do

peer institutions.

Browns cohort tenure rate

the percentage o junior tenure-

track proessors who eventually

receive tenure at Brown has

been above 70 percent since 1991,

according to the report. A 2006

study o 10 research universities

revealed an average cohort tenure

rate o 53 percent, according to the

report. Browns relatively high co-

hort tenure rate may eventually

degrade academic excellence as

the percentage o tenured proes-

sors continues to rise in proportion

to untenured aculty members, ac-

cording to the report.

Browns high proportion o ten-

ured aculty members imposes

constraints on hiring and restricts

opportunities, limits the ability to ex-

pand into new and important areas

o scholarship, (and) reduces the

turnover that is vital to intellectual

renewal, according to the report.

Junior aculty members are cur-

rently hired as assistant proessors

or an initial three-year contract,

then either dismissed or oered

a second three-year contract. The

tenure review processes can then

begin during their th year, so they

can either receive tenure ater their

second three-year contract is up or

search or alternate employment

during their sixth year i they are

not granted tenure.

Under the recommended time-

line, junior proessors would receive

an initial our-year contract, which

could then be renewed or another

our-year contract or two consecu-

tive two-year contracts.

While aculty members could

choose to be reviewed or tenure

sooner than in their seventh year,

the extra time would be intended

to allow researchers to build up a

stronger portolio o work beore ac-

ing departmental review. Reviewing

proessors or tenure ater only ve

ull years may in some cases be too

brie to allow even talented junior

aculty the opportunity to provide

evidence o their accomplishments,

according to the report.

These concerns are perhaps

especially acute in laboratory-based

sciences because o the time it

takes to set up laboratories and

obtain unding, according to the

report.

The report also ound that the

Universitys tenure review process

is highly unusual, perhaps even

unique in that departments are

ree to set their own standards or

tenure and candidates play an e-

ceptionally active role in their own

reviews.

In order to standardize the re-

view process across departments

and ensure condentiality, the com-

mittee recommended that candi-

dates or tenure not be allowed to

see the nal list o external review-

ers and that the required number

o outside reviewers be increased

to 10.

Were providing or, I think, a

more complete review and a more

deliberate review than the current

system permits, Kertzer said.

Though the committee did not

set any particular rate o junior

aculty members that should receive

tenure, the changes could have

the eect o putting us more into

the range o most o our peers, he

said.

The Tenure, Promotions and Ad-

vancement Committee reviews all

candidates or tenure ater they pass

departmental review. Pending the

approval o the reports recommen-

dations, the committees member-

ship would be increased by two and

divided into two subcommittees,

each o which would review hal

the cases. One subcommittee will

review cases in the humanities and

social sciences, and the other will

review candidates in the lie and

physical sciences.

It is always an eort to get ac-

ulty to serve on committees be-

cause o the extra time commitment,

Kertzer said, but the net eect o

the changes will be to make it much

more desirable to serve on TPAC

rom a aculty point o view because

its members will ocus more on re-

viewing candidates in their elds o

study and epertise, he said.

The tenure committee will meet

with untenured aculty members

Monday to receive eedback on itsrecommendations. The commit-

tee will also answer questions and

hear eedback at a general aculty

orum April 13 and in meetings with

the Faculty Executive Committee

and department chairs later this

month.

While some o the reports

recommendations can be imple-

mented administratively, others

require changing the aculty rules

and regulations. The aculty will

vote on these changes at its May

meeting, and i approved, they will

be put to a nal vote at the May

Corporation meeting.

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CS wS Peope sa Providence is dangerous, but I woud seep onthe street here. Ao Ouditt, RISD freshman- , b

by the Bureau o Labor Statistics.

The rain was heavier and lasted

longer than Butler had anticipated, but

University acilities saw only minor

damages due to rock-solid construc-

tion and the Universitys elevated

location on College Hill, she said. We

were very ortunate, she said.

The University o Rhode Islands

campus saw signicant damage due

to erosion and fooding, Jerry Sidio,

URIs director o acilities services,

told the Good Five Cent Cigar, the

schools newspaper.

Classes on the Kingston campus

were cancelled or two days due to

the storm.

While Brown students were scat-tered across the country during

spring break, University custodial

employees worked long shits and

overtime amounting to 10 to 12

hours straight to keep water at bay

in the basements o the John Carter

Brown Library, 37 Manning St. and

the John Hay Library, which houses

rare books and manuscripts, Butler

said.

Custodial workers continually

vacuumed aected basement foors

as water seeped in. The aster you

respond, the less travelling there is.

Fortunately our sta got there very

quickly. There was a great response

rom our employees, she said.Once you ll those (wet-vacuum)

machines with water, it can be ex-

tremely heavy, but our employees did

a great job. Everyone had a positive

attitude, she said.

c

The food put 4,000 Rhode Island-

ers temporarily out o work and cost

hundreds o millions o dollars in dam-

age, the Associated Press reported

April 2.

But or most students who re-

mained on campus during spring

break, the rain was only a nuisance.

Hadizza Mohammed 10, a Chi-

cago native, planned to explore RhodeIsland with her riends during her

last spring break beore graduation,

but the rain put a damper on their

plans.

We couldnt really travel because

o the rain. We ended up staying in,

sleeping and eating a lot, watching

movies, and playing a lot o Cranium.

We ended up having un, she said.

Mohammed said she rst realized

the severity o the fooding when she

took the Rhode Island Public Trans-

portation Authority trolley rom cam-

pus to Federal Hill on one o the heavy

days o rain.

The trolley dropped her o threeblocks rom her destination, and the

walk was unpleasant and wet, she

said.

That was when I knew the food-

ing was serious. I a shopping center

i businesses couldnt cope with

the fooding, I knew that neighbor-

hoods must have been hit pretty

hard, she said.

Hector Ramirez 12, who was in his

New Pembroke 1 dorm throughout

the three-day storm, called Facilities

Management to report two small

leaks by his windowsill, and a big-

ger one in his closet. The leaks have

been around or a while, but they were

never this bad, he said.Despite a quick response rom Fa-

cilities, they didnt do a whole lot,

Ramirez said.

I was ortunate that I was around

to take care o the leaks, Ramirez

said, who placed an Arizona gallon

jug under the leak in the closet, and

is still using Diie cups to catch the

smaller leaks by his windowsill.

None o his belongings were dam-

aged, but Ramirez said that the situa-

tion could have been worse i he had

gone home to Los Angeles instead

o staying on campus to get some

homework done and save money

in airare.

All in all, Im glad I stayed be-

hind, he said.

F f

Colby Jenkins 12, a native Rhode

Islander, lives just minutes east o

Browns campus in Rumord, R.I.

While the Universitys acilities

survived the storm virtually una-

ected, Jenkins recently renovated

basement was almost unrecognizable

ater the storm.

Rumord is near Browns campus,

but separated by a river so Im not

surprised that the two areas were a-

ected so dierently, he wrote in an

e-mail to The Herald.Jenkins went to Home Depot at

7 a.m. Tuesday, the rst day o the

storm, to purchase a vacuum and a

pump. He scored the last pump in

stock, but was less lucky in his search

or a vacuum.

They were already sold out o

vacuums, and every other store in the

area was out o pumps, orcing a large

number o people to just hope that the

damage wouldnt be too severe, he

wrote. People are already compar-

ing (the fooding) to our generations

Blizzard o 78.

As water poured into his base-

ment, Jenkins wrote he was more

disappointed than worried. The

disappointment stemmed rom losing

the hard work that my ather and I

put into renovating the nished area

o the basement, as were now back

to square one. The basements laminate foor,

which Jenkins and his ather nished

last year, had to be completely torn

up. The fooding gave a whole new

meaning to the phrase foating foor,

he wrote.

The Jenkins amily salvaged any-

thing drastically important by mov-

ing those items upstairs, but suered

damages to many storage boes and

heavier items, including a treadmill

and some eercise bikes.

Based on the speed at which wa-

ter was entering the house, I knew

that there was no way we could pre-

vent damage rom happening. All wecould do was cut our losses and save

what we could, he wrote.

The amily may receive ederal aid

or repairs, depending on FEMAs as-

sessment o the damage, Jenkins said,

describing the process as a waiting

game.

t ff

Amtrak train service to Rhode

Island has been suspended since

Wednesday, causing delay to some

students return to campus.

The water was about 15 inches

above the rails early Friday morning.

Amtraks Acela Express trains cannot

run with more than our inches o

water, and the slower regional trains

cannot run with more than six inches,

Amtrak spokesman Cli Cole told the

Providence Journal.

Marina Irgon 11 planned on re-

turning to campus on Friday or a

Frisbee tournament at the University

o Rhode Island, but missed the rst

day o the two-day competition be-

cause her train was cancelled.

Irgon, who travelled rom her

home in New Jersey, said that a parent

had to drive her to campus the net

day. The change o plan was a very

minor inconvenience compared to

the plight o other Rhode Islanders,

she said.

The eight-lane Interstate 95, Rhode

Islands main highway, was closed or

two days.

A trip that normally took 20 min-utes took close to 2 hours when trying

to nd detours or just simply ght the

trac, Jenkins wrote.

When traveling over bridges that

normally had water 1520 eet below,

the water was now up to the level o

the bridge, threatening to food and

block o another street, he wrote.

Since April 1, about 200 people

have volunteered to work with Serve

Rhode Island, the states volunteer

center, to help with disaster relie e-

orts, Bernie Beaudreau, executive

director o the organization, told The

Herald Saturday aternoon.

Among the volunteers are plen-

ty o Brown students, Beaudreau

said.


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w Kk? b Cby suzannah weiss

artS & Culture editor

Phil Hay 92 and Matt Manredi 93,

creative collaborators and riends

ever since they met at IMPROVi-

dence auditions 20 years ago, are

now the prolic screenwriters be-

hind last weekends bo-oce hit

Clash o the Titans.

The duo has worked on other

major lms, such as Crazy/Beauti-

ul, which starred Kirsten Dunst,

and Bug, an independent comedy

that won multiple estival awards.

Clash o the Titans arrived in

2-D and 3-D theaters Friday, and

as o Sunday evening, made $61.4

million in ticket sales throughoutNorth America, according to the

New York Times.

Its really eciting, Manredi

told The Herald on Thursday, the

morning ater the lms premiere

which he compared to a am-

ily reunion. When you work on a

movie or so long, you become like

a little amily, he said.

The movie is a remake o a 1981

lm by the same name, based on

the story o the Greek mythical

hero Perseus. Hay said he grew up

watching the original, and his goal

or the script was to get a sense

o movies we loved as kids. He

hopes audiences take in the child-like exuberance on the screen,

he added.

Manredi and Hay had known

director Louis Leterrier or a long

time when he called and asked i

they wanted to write the script.

From that point, we just kind o

locked ourselves in a room with

Louis Leterrier, Hay said.

We worked very closely with

Sam Worthington, the actor in

the lead role o Perseus, he added.

It was really interesting trying

to take in his perspective on the

character.

Manredis avorite part o the

process was seeing the script come

to lie on the rst day o lming in

London, he said.

For Hay, the highlight o work-

ing on Clash o the Titans was

seeing Liam Neeson, who played

Zeus, yell release the Kraken or

the rst time. The line reers to a

villainous sea monster.

The eternal Dungeons andDragonsplaying geek in me was

ecited, Hay said.

Manredi said he and Hay ar-

gued over who got to type this

line into the script, adding that

to watch (Neeson) say it during

that rehearsal was pretty thrilling

to us.

They may have made it to Hol-

lywood, but Manredi and Hay still

identiy with their alma mater.

We met at Brown University,

which you may have heard o, in

Providence, Rhode Island. Its a

liberal arts college, Hay said a-

cetiously.

I remember getting my dormassignment mailed to me, Man-

redi said. I just couldnt ind

Perkins.

The advantage to Manredis

reshman dorm assignment,

though, was the opportunity to

orm riendships that he still main-

tains. You gotta stick together out

there. Its cold, he said.

And though he did not mar-

ry someone rom Perkins as

Brunonian olklore goes, Man-

redi vividly remembers meeting

his wie outside Rites and Reason

Theatre.

Our close group o riends is

really rom our days at Brown,

Hay said.

Browns philosophy has helped

Manredi oster his way o thinking

and his approach to his career, he

said. Youre just kind o thrown

in here. Youre orced to kind o

nd a passion and what interests

you, he said. We are so ortunate,

as Im sure you g uys are now. Theproessors at Brown are amazing.

Theyre so interested in your well-

being.

Manredi, an American civili-

zation concentrator, said he also

made some spectacularly bad

art.

Thats not true, Matt! Hay

interrupted, citing a rock with a

gol club protruding rom it on the

Main Green as a countereample.

Conceptually, it was amazing.

Hay said he dabbled in a lot

o stu, such as cognitive science,

linguistics and modern culture and

media, but ultimately concentrated

in English literature.For both o us, our experience

at Brown was so much about doing

improv, doing plays, going to plays,

doing weird art projects, Hay said.

You put up a play and 50 people

by Fei cai

StaffWriter

Musically-inclined students nd

diverse creative outlets around

campus alone, in a group, elec-

tronically, acoustically creating

a scene in which students can build

o one anothers talents.

In act, some musicians may be

surprised by the number o stu-

dent artists currently perorming

or even working on albums.

I eel like there are a lot o

musicians on campus, but theyhave a hard time connecting, said

Stephen Poletto 12, who mixes

music on his computer and pro-

duces mash-up work.

r

For Benjamin Nicholson 11,

Heidi Jiang 11 and Rhode Island

School o Design junior Dylan

Ladds, releasing an album did

not mean stressing over signing

with a record label. On March 19,

their band, Leaky People, privately

produced its rst CD, Rats Eat-

ing Rats.

The band, which started a little

over a year ago, has been playingat small venues like Ben & Jerr ys

on Meeting Street. Guitarist and

singer Nicholson said he rst met

bassist Jiang during their resh-

man year, when they started play-

ing cover songs.

All through high school,

I played music in a bunch o

bands, and we recorded albums.

It was something I really enjoyed

doing, and coming to Brown, I

ound there was more access to

equipment without having to pay

the hourly studio ee, Nicholson

said.

The band, which Jiang de-

scribed as kind o olky, wrote

most songs with just an acoustic

guitar and vocals. Aterward, more

instruments were added, such as

bass, electric guitar and drum

patterns rom a computer. Jiangdescribed the production process,

including recording and editing,

as very long.

s

Other Brown musicians, such

as Addie Thompson 12, go solo.

Thompson, an acoustic singer

and songwriter, has been playing

the guitar since sixth grade. I

bought a chord book and taught

mysel to play, she said. I was

motivated mainly because I had

a lot o songs in my head and I

wanted to hear them.

She added that she sometimesmakes up stories in her songs.

About hal o my songs are like

that. The other hal are very per-

sonal and are very much about me.

I usually dont tell people which

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SC Im going to smite ou from Ompus. Phi Ha 92, co-writer of Cash of the Titans

Courtes of Benjamin Nichoson

The band leak Peope, whose members are Brown and RISD students, just reeased an abum.

by jessica liss

Contributing Writer

Over 500 individuals responses to the

question How are you? coupled with

dialogue and interviewers explana-

tions, radiate rom speakers within

wooden poles in the audio collage A

Thousand Voices.

First ormulated in September

2009, the idea or A Thousand Voices

developed over several months with

the help o a Creative Arts Council

grant, said Iona Juncan 11, president

and artistic director o Listening

LabOratory, a student group ocused

on creating audio perormance andradio theater. The project was installed

in two sites on campus, initially in the

upstairs space at Production Work-

shop Feb. 2627 and then in the Ly-

man Hall breezeway March 721.

We wanted to give voice to a thou-

sand people in the community and

beyond, Juncan said.

The simple question How are

you? is a mode o engaging with

people and approaching people, rather

than saying, what is your state o mind

at this time? which might be a bit

o-putting, Juncan said.

People walk into a space such as

the breezeway and do not expect to

become immersed in something o

this sort, she added.

According to Juncan, the project

had three primary goals: to provide

people with the opportunity to express

themselves during the dicult nan-

cial crisis, to restore meaning to an

overused and meaningless question

and, lastly, to create an animated, in-

teractive living space a concept

inspired by artists o the Russian revo-

lution, who converted public spaces

into perormance sites.

Listening LabOratory members

interviewed individuals in a variety o

settings. They sought out subjects on

campus and in places such as Provi-dence senior homes, airports and

students hometowns during breaks,

also incorporating oreign languages,

Juncan said. And whenever interview-

ers asked the question, they insisted

on a tr uthul answer, she added.

There have been eight peror-

mance events organized around the

installation the nal one as part o

the interdisciplinary Arts in the One

World Festival March 20.

Each perormance sought to

transorm spectators into active lis-

teners and to give them a chance to

participate in the community o voic-

es, wrote Quyen Ngo 12, the groups

coordinator o communications, in an

e-mail to The Herald.

I dont usually know whats go-

ing on, but it is really interesting. Ive

never experienced anything like this,

said Johnson and Wales University

reshman Gincy Jacobs ater being

guided through the installation at the

March 20 event.

Juncan said she and her collabora-

tors believe the installation is raising

awareness that we overemphasize

visual universe over the oral universe,

which is even richer, and the conse-quence o that is not listening actively

to people and communication.

In the uture, Listening LabOra-

tory hopes to reach new types o audi-

ences, such as the visually impaired,

Juncan said.

A Thousand Voices also will ap-

pear at the Megapolis Audio Festival

in Baltimore, May 1416.

The estivals goal is to bring

people rom dierent disciplines

who use audio really as the primary

component o their work, said Justin

Grotelueschen, the estivals manag-

ing director.

Alongside the work o over 60artists rom across the world, this

particular installation, I think, will be

one o the more challenging installa-

tions, he said, adding that one o its

best eatures is its ability to engage

the audience.

But Listening LabOratorys work

on the installation is not complete.

The group plans to increase the num-

ber o perspectives represented in

the piece and to keep adding to the

community o voices through more

interviews, Juncan said.

ones are which.

Thompson said when she writes

songs, she usually starts with a

melody or an idea. I then marry

the two when I sit down and play

the guitar, she added.

At Brown, Thompson has per-

ormed as both a solo artist and

part o a band called One Night

Band. She has given per ormances

at the Underground, talent shows

and coee shops. She said she

likes to gauge peoples reactions

when she plays.

It is nice to sort o see and get

eedback rom people, what songs

they liked, what songs they didnt,

she said.

t

But or others, music does not

always involve instruments. I usu-

ally set up really loud speakers, my

laptop, some strobe lights and do

live improv work or 45 minutes,said Poletto, whose artist name is

Spoletto.

Poletto, who began working

on his music a year ago, said he

was infuenced by Girl Talk and

hopes to perorm live in the near

uture. Ive DJed a ew parties,

but I want to get out o that and do

more concert-style shows.

Poletto said he took a ew elec-

tronic music courses that taught

him the basics o what he does.

He spends a lot o time collecting

samples online then laying down

tracks and layering drum beats

on top.

Poletto said he is currently tak-

ing MUSC 1200: Seminar in Elec-

tronic Music: Recording Studio as

Compositional Tool.

Im building up a lot o knowl-

edge about what these sotware

packages can produce, he said.

F

Though these students quickly

broke into Browns music scene,

many campus musicians may won-

der how to become part o the Uni-

versitys music community.

The rst thing you should do

is play with your riends, Jiang

said.

Nicholson agreed. He encour-

aged any musicians looking to play

with others to go to any type o

open mic.

People play in their rooms, and

they dont always start a band, but

you get to meet people and see

what music other people are inter-

ested in playing, he added.

Poletto and Sam Roseneld 12

plan to organize a Web site where

musicians can work together. The

idea would be to have a musician

upload a piece o music so that

other musicians will have access

to it.

A drummer can come, up-

load his track and a guitarist can

come and see it. He can lay it over

his own music and re-upload it.

Then a singer can come and lay

his own music over that track,

Poletto said.

There is an evolution, creation

and recreation o content. Musi-

cians would be building o o the

work o each other and ueling

each other, he said.

are going to show up or sure, he

added. Once you get out o college,

you realize thats not necessarily

the case.

Their lmmaking career, accord-

ing to Hay, is an extension o the

projects they have been doing since

college. We almost approached it

like another un thing we could do

as a team because we liked working

together so much, he said.

At this point, our voices on

the page have become eactly the

same. Thats not only creepy but

great, Hay said.

That is creepy, though, Man-

redi added. We spend so much

time together.

Asked which Clash character

he would preer to be in real lie i

he could, Manredi chose Apollo.

He was the center o a lot o the

myths I read as a kid, he said, add-

ing that i he were the sun god, Id

just hang out on Olympus or a little

bit.

Im going to go with a small

character named Ias, Hay said,

to which Manredi responded,

Then Im going to smite you rom

Olympus.

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Skby dan alexander

SportS editor

Sean Morey 99 signed a multi-year

deal with the Seattle Seahawks on

March 29, according to a Seahawks

press release.

The ormer Brown wide receiver

has made an NFL career as a spe-

cial teams standout. Morey earned

a spot on the NFC Pro Bowl team

as a special team player two years

ago. This past season, he was an

alternate to the Pro Bowl.

Morey heads to Seattle ater

three seasons with the Arizona Car-

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aSSiStantSportS editor

The No. 16 mens lacrosse team

dropped a pair o close games totop-10 opponents last week, alling

at No. 7 Duke (9-3), 11-10, on Tues-

day beore suering a 9-7 loss to

No. 5 Princeton (7-1, 3-0) at the New

England Lacrosse Classic at Gillette

Stadium Saturday. The Bears re-

cord ell to 3-4 overall and 1-1 in Ivy

League play.

Despite the act that our oppo-

nents were both in the top 10 and

both outstanding lacrosse teams

its still a disappointment in having

come so close, because close isnt

good enough or us, said Head

Coach Lars Tiany 90. The group

o men I coach, they want more, so

we wont be happy with coming upjust short against great teams.

Coupled with an 11-10 loss to No.

9 Massachusetts (7-2) on March 23,

Brown has lost three straight games

to top-10 opponents in which the

game was tied midway through the

ourth quarter.

Three games in a row, the oppo-

nent scored the net goal, and then

were the ones chasing to the end o

regulation, Tiany said. Weve got

to nd a way to make that net play

when its the middle o the ourth

quarter, tied. Weve got to take the

lead.

Ater the game against Princeton

in the home o the NFLs New Eng-

land Patriots, the Bears held a teammeeting in the locker room that

normally houses the New England

Revolution soccer ranchise to ask

themselves how they could improve.

But the answers will come on the

eld.

d 11, b 10

On the strength o a 17-1 rst-

quarter advantage in shots, Duke

raced out to a 5-0 lead just 17:26 into

the game in what Ti any called the

worst start in a lacrosse game that

Ive been a part o in my our years

at Brown. Yet the Bears battled back

with goals by Rob Schlesinger 12,

Andrew Feinberg 11 and two romquad-captain Thomas Muldoon 10

beore the Blue Devils scored once

more to take just a 6-4 lead into hal-

time.

Tiany said the coaching sta

made no signicant adjustments.

There was nothing special we

said. It was really the men them-

selves, ater the second time out I

called, getting on each other and

pushing each other.

Ater two goals by Feinberg and

one apiece rom Muldoon, quad-

captain Reade Seligmann 10 and

Parker Brown 12, the game was tied

at nine with 9:03 let in the ourth

quarter. Tiany said the Bears were

able to survive Dukes advantageso 46-27 in shots, 34-22 in ground

balls and 16-8 in aceos because

o Matt Chriss (11) making great

save ater great save, the deense,

ater the poor start, settling down

and playing very tough, tenacious

man-to-man deense against one o

the best attack units in the country

and opportunistic oense.

Muldoon scored his ourth goal

o the game to put Brown in ront,

but Duke answered with two goals,

the second coming 10 seconds ater

the rst, to take an 11-10 lead with

6:41 let.

Neither side would score again.

Though Chriss made two o his 15

saves in the waning minutes to keep

the Blue Devils o the board, the

Bears could not beat Duke goalie

Dan Wigrizer despite two late extra-

man oppor tunities.

p 9, b 7

On Saturday, the Bears never

took the lead against Princeton, but

they repeatedly answered the Tigers

rallies.

Thats the character o this group

o men: Never give in, never say die,

Ti any said. We constantly matched

what they were doing.

Ater a quiet rst hal in which

Brown trailed, 3-2, getting goals rom

David Hawley 11 and Feinberg, theBears recovered to take 36 shots in

the second hal, but they were re-

quently stymied by Princeton goalie

Tyler Fiorito, who notched eight o

his 17 saves in the ourth quarter.

Ive never coached a Brown team

thats taken 36 shots in a hal, Ti-

any said. We generated 36 shots

against a good deense. To only score

ve goals on those 36 shots is a tre-

mendous credit to Tyler Fiorito.

Ater Brown tied the game at ve

on goals by Feinberg, Schlesinger

and Hawley, Princeton took the lead

with 10:23 let in the ourth quarter.

The Bears answered ve seconds

later when Willie Fi 12 keyed theast break and ed Muldoon or the

game-tying goal.

Its tough to score in ve sec-

onds, Tiany said.

Ater a ive-minute scoreless

stretch, Princeton scored twice to

take an 8-6 lead with 4:07 let, with

the second goal coming on a strong

shot by Paul Barnes.

It was a 13-, maybe 14-yard laser

that hit the absolute corner, Tiany

said. It hit the net and the corner

and bounced out. It was a perect

shot.

Ater the Tigers added an insur-

ance goal, Seligmann added a man-

up goal with 53 seconds let, but

Fiorito made two saves in the nal30 seconds to seal the victory. Chriss

nished with nine saves.

The Bears adapted to the experi-

ence o playing in Gillette Stadium,

the home o the Patriots, ater Tiany

urged his players not to be awed by

the venue.

Try to enjoy the atmosphere,

then bring it back to Earth, but I have

to admit, it really was a thrill to play

in an NFL stadium, Tiany said.

What an exciting opportunity or

us and our men.

While the Bears ponder how to

conquer their late-game struggles

against top-10 opponents, they will

turn their immediate attention to in-state rival Bryant (6-3). The Bears

will take on the Bulldogs Tuesday

at 7 p.m. on Stevenson Field.

Bryant is a good lacrosse pro-

gram, by no means a pushover, Ti-

any said. Combine that with the

local state rivalry it always eels

good to beat your neighbors. Im

sure Bryant is going to come over

here red up and loaded, ready to

play. Were going to have to match

their intensity and take it one step

urther.

scores

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Jordan Maddocks 11,high jump

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Harvard 10

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track winnersDaniee Grunoh 10, shotput and discus throw

Brnn Smith 11, hammerthrow

Gabriea Baiter 11, tripejump

Susan Scavone 12, 100-meter hurdes

Fencing

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SSD It wasnt the prettiest win, but we sti came out with the win. Kate Strobe 12, first basemanB b by ashley mcdonnell

SportS StaffWriter

Over spring break, the sotball team

(12-9, 1-3 Ivy) started o strong, de-

eating Bryant (3-23). However, the

team went on to lose its rst two Ivy

League games to Penn (9-12, 4-0) and

only managed to win one o two games

against Columbia (6-17, 1-3).

b 5, b 4

Though the Bears won, Bryant

dominated most o the game on March

25. At the end o the ourth inning,

the Bulldogs led the Bears, 3-0, ater

the Bears had the bases loaded but

ailed to score any runs in the top o

the ourth.They just had a lot o hits, said

rst baseman Kate Strobel 12. It was

a matter o them hitting and us not

hitting.

But in the top o the th inning, the

Bears came alive. Ater second base-

man Erika Mueller 13 (also a Herald

sports sta writer) and shortstop Katie

Rothamel 10 walked, third baseman

Stephanie Thompson 13 doubled to

bring home Mueller. With two runners

in scoring position, Strobel stepped up

to the plate and hit a three-run home

run.

I just knew that there were run-

ners on second and third, so I wanted

a single to the right, Strobel said. Ihad two strikes on me quickly, but I

just ended up with the perect pitch,

and it went.

The Bears scored their game-

clinching run in the sixth inning.

Pitcher Kristie Chin 11, ater relieving

Liz DiMascio 13 in the bottom o the

ourth, only allowed the Bulldogs to

score one more run, sealing Browns

5-4 win.

It wasnt the prettiest win, but we

still came out with the win, Strobel

said. We proved that we have re.

p 6, b 2

But the Quakers extinguished the

Bears re in their rst series o Ivy

League games on Friday.

Teams tend to pick it up with Ivy

starts, when we play people in ourown conerence, said Head Coach

DeeDee Enabenter-Omidiji. We ex-

pected as a team to be competitive.

Unortunately, that didnt happen in

our rst series.

Penn scored two runs o a home

run in the rst inning. Though the

Quakers did not score again until the

bottom o the seventh, the Bears spent

the entire game playing catch-up. In the

ourth inning, Strobel hit a home run

and in the top o the seventh, Rothamel

hit a double that brought home Muel-

ler, tying the game, 2-2.

But in the bottom o the seventh,

Penns Brooke Coloma hit a grand

slam, dashing the Bears hopes o go-ing into etra innings.

We started guring things out, but

it was later in the game, Enabenter-

Omidiji said. We didnt start makingadjustments until it was too late.

p 5, b 0

The adjustments the Bears started

making in the rst game did not carry

over into the second game against the

Quakers. Though Penn scored all ve

o its runs by the end o the third in-

ning, Brown only managed to get one

hit against Penn the entire game.

According to Enabenter-Omidiji,

because the team was crushed ater

losing to Penn in the rst game o a

grand slam, the Bears were unable to

bounce back in time or the second

game.Some have the ability to put it in

the past, but we didnt, Enabenter-

Omidiji said. It carried into our play

in the second game. You could see the

devastation in the players aces.

b 3, c 0

The next day against Columbia,

Brown seemed to shake o the losses

to Penn. Though the Bears got o to

a slow start oensively, Chin on the

mound kept the team in the game by

shutting down Columbias oense.

Kristie Chin did a great job keeping

them o balance, Enabenter-Omidiji

said. Whenever you can shut a team

down like she can, you have talent.Thompson kick-started the oense

in the ourth inning with a double to

let eld, ollowed by a single rom

Strobel. Both Thompson and Strobelwere brought home by a single to right

eld rom catcher Amanda Asay 10.

The Bears scored another run in

the top o the th, capitalizing on a

throwing error by the Lions to seal

the victory.

c 10, b 5

But Columbia did not let their loss

to Brown in game one get them down.

The Lions came back and completely

dominated the Bears in the second

game.

At the end o the third inning,

Columbia led the Bears 3-0. The

Bears oense came alive, however,and scored our runs in the top o the

ourth inning. But the Lions would not

let themselves be outdone and scored

ve runs in the bottom o the ourth

inning, making the score 8-4.

They got a lot o cheap hits,

Enabenter-Omidiji said. They hit it

just sot enough to allow them to get

on base. It was one o those Twilight

Zone-type games.

The Bears scored their nal run

in the sith inning, but Columbia an-

swered with two runs o its own, mak-

ing the nal score 10-5.

Oensively, you would think scor-

ing ve runs would be enough to win,

Enabenter-Omidiji said. But not whenyoure giving up 10.

dinals, including one that ended

in a Super Bowl victor y.

Drated in the seventh round

by the New England Patriots in

1999, Morey played on the Pa-

triots practice squad or two

years beore being signed by

the Philadelphia Eagles in 2001,

the press release said. He joined

the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2004

and moved to the Cardinals in

2007.

In 109 games, Morey has 11catches or 168 yards as a re-

ceiver and 151 tackles on special

teams over his career, accord-

ing to the press release. Morey

will reunite in Seattle with Head

Coach Pete Carroll, who was the

Patriots head coach when New

England drated Morey during

his nal semester at Brown.

In college, Morey was a three-

time rst-team All Ivy selection

and won Ivy League Player o

the Year honors in 1997. He still

holds the Ivy League record in

career touchdowns, touchdowns

in a season, career receiving

yards and receiving yards in a

season.

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Brown students were lucky to get away rom school

last week, as Rhode Island was hit with r ecord rain-all and devastating foods. In one 24-hour period,

some areas received an astounding seven inches o

rain, resulting in foods that orced hundreds rom

their homes and let thousands without electricity.

This week, students return to an area or which

President Obama has issued a major disaster dec-

laration. Students cannot ignore their obligation to

help neighbors in need.

According to the Providence Journals Web site,

donations to the local chapter o the Red Cross are

urgently requested. The organization Serve Rhode

Island is coordinating volunteers statewide, and there

is also a great need or people to work in shelters and

assist with damage assessment and cleanup eorts.

Those willing to volunteer can register at www.server-

hodeisland.org. Moreover, students planning to hostevents or parties in the coming weeks should seek

to collect donations or food victims and encourage

guests to give what they can.

While the timing o the foods may have been

ortuitous or Brown students away on spring break,

the natural disaster could not have come at a worse

time or the state. Ocials estimate that 4,000 Rhode

Islanders were temporarily out o work last week

because o the fooding, on top o a statewide unem-

ployment rate over 12 percent. Governor Donald

Carcieri 65 predicted that repairing the damage will

cost hundreds o millions o dollars absolutely

horrible news given the states eisting scal chal-

lenges. The governor described the recent events

as a kick in the teeth. I there was ever a time or

Brown students to go the etra mile in helping thesurrounding community, this is it.

This context should also gure in the ederal

governments decision to apportion disaster relie

unds. The ederal response has thus ar been swit.

President Obamas declaration paves the way or the

Federal Emergency Management Agency to aid in

the recovery, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet

Napolitano visited the state on Friday.

Still, more can be done. Members o Rhode Is-

lands congressional delegation are pushing or the

ederal government to waive the usual requirement

that state and local governments match 25 percent

o ederal relie aid. Considering that the state un-

employment rate is the third highest in the nation

and has remained above the national rate or some

time now, Rhode Island would be a good candidateto benet rom a little etra ederal generosity.

While ederal aid is critical, it must be accom-

panied by an outpouring o support rom the local

community. Browns location atop a hill symbolically

suggests a level o distance and alooness relative to

the surrounding area. The symbolism o Browns

physical elevation comes even more clearly into ocus

in the atermath o a devastating food. Students must

now live up to their responsibilities as residents o a

city and a state. We encourage everyone to make a

much-needed contribution to relie eor ts.

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Send comments to [email protected].

Teaching at Brown worththe long commutet e:

As a aculty member with a

long commute, I read with inter-

est your recent article (From aar,

pros make the commute, March

11) on the subject. In my case, the

round-trip drive rom my home in

Madison, Conn., is approximately

175 miles, which I am able to make

every weekday with the help o an

incredibly supportive amily who

understand how much it means to

me to teach here. I would certainlypreer an aordable and convenient

mass transit commuter option that

ts my schedule (Amtrak doesnt cut

it or ve days a week), but until one

becomes available, I will be content

with National Public Radio, the oc-

casional book on tape and getting

to know my newly acquired hybrid.

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Starting college is always a signicant transi-

tion. Students are oten or the rst time

experiencing roommates, sharing bath-

rooms with strangers, guring out how to

work laundry machines and spending months

at a time away rom their amilies.

For me, when I star ted my reshman year

at Brown and began living in Rhode Island,

I eperienced another rst: I was suddenly

living in an area with representation in Con-gress.

I was born in Washington, D.C., and, beore

coming to Providence, Id never lived any-

where else. Living in D.C. has advantages. We

get to enjoy ree museums, like the National

Air and Space Museum. We can use a clean,

oten-reliable subway system. Last summer,

we even had the honor o sharing our city with

a new cast o The Real World.

However, D.C. residents are also the only

American citizens who pay ederal taes and

serve in the military without getting to vote

or members o Congress. Taation without

representation was a catchy slogan in the

time o the Revolutionary War, but that un-

democratic status still applies to the r oughly

600,000 people who live in D.C.The United States is the only country with

a representative government that has decided

to disenranchise its capital city. From Paris

to Baghdad, millions o other capital-dwellers

have been trusted to have a voice in their

national legislatures. Voting rights in D.C. have expanded

through history thanks to the 23rd Amend-

ment, ratied in 1961, we have three votes

in the Electoral College, giving us a vote in

presidential elections. Unortunately, we have

yet to attain representation in Congress. El-

eanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., serves as an

elected, non-voting delegate. She is allowed

to vote on bills when they are in House com-

mittees but not when they are considered by

the entire House.

The Founding Fathers were aware o the

capital citys representation problem. Alex-

ander Hamilton proposed tha

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