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By Talia Kagan
ContributingW riter
Almost a quarter o rooms inspected
by University sta this semester
were ound to have health and saety
violations.
The inspections, directed by the Oce o Residential Lie, were
conducted in 830 rooms rom Feb.
10 to 12, with 200 rooms receiving
citations or oenses including il-
legal extension cords, possession
o candles and ecessive trash.
Coupled with inspections rom
last October and November, the
oce has inspected a total o 1,534
rooms, according to statistics romResLie. O all rooms inspected this
academic year, 18.5 percent received
violation notices.
Almost 26 percent o the re-
corded violations — not including
alcohol- and drug-related inractions
— involved illegal power strips andetension cords. The second most
commonly recorded violation was
or “excessive wall decorations,”
which accounted or a little over 20
percent o the total violations. Other
common violations were blocked
exits and damaged or obstructed
re saety equipment.
The number o violations re-
ceived in dierent residence halls
varied widely, even or similar
dorms. For example, during the
October inspections, 22 percent o
rooms visited in Vartan GregorianQuadrangle B received violations,
while only 1.8 percent o those vis-
ited in Quad A did, according to the
ResLie data.
O all dorms inspected this year,
Marcy Hall was the only one that
did not have a single room with a
violation.
A total o ve notices were given
or “evidence o pets,” though that
does not mean inspectors necessar-
ily ound hordes o urry creatures
running around residence halls. Ac-
cording to Richard Hilton, assistant
director or operations or ResLie,
having cat ood visible in your room
counts as evidence o pets.
Not all rooms in inspected
dorms were visited, said Thomas
Forsberg, associate director o
Housing and Residential Lie. “We
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vol. cxliv, no. 23 | Tuesday, February 24, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891
B b b ULBy ellen cushing
and Ben schrecKinger
Senior S taff W riterS
The Corporation’s decision this
weekend not to pursue construction
o a new brain science building has
provided a reprieve or the Urban
Environmental Lab, which sits on the
lot that had been designated or the
new structure.
President Ruth Simmons wrote
in an e-mail to the Brown commu-
nity Saturday that given the Univer-
sity’s current nancial situation, theCorporation has “endorsed eorts
to explore renovation o existing
buildings” instead o pursuing new
construction.
“It’s great that we’re going to be
able to stay in this building and keep
the garden,” Administrative Manag-
er or the Center o Environmental
Studies Patti Caton ’92 MA’02 said
Monday.
Caton, who said she had collected
signatures to save the Lab, said the
building is the most energy-ecient
one on campus. Students had also
mounted a campaign against building
the so-called “Mind, Brain, Behavior”
building on the property, posting signs
on campus.Like Caton, Proessor Emeritus
Harold Ward, who helped ound the
Center or Environmental Studies now
housed in the UEL, reacted positively
to the Corporation’s decision.
“I am pleased that the potential
or confict between (brain science
building) interests and environmental
aculty and students has been elimi-
nated,” Ward wrote in an e-mail to The
Herald. He wrote that this decision
removed the “immediate threat to
the UEL.”
Caton said the garden in ront o
the UEL provides a space or mem-
bers o the Providence community to
garden on Angell Street. A proposed
uture location or the Lab on CushingStreet could not have accommodated
A b U.S. kBy lauren Fedor
Senior S taff W riter
As stock markets continued to
plummet and uncertainty about
the economic stimulus packagelingered, President Obama ap-
pointed another Brown alum to
his administration.
Steven Rattner ’74 P’09, a promi-
nent Wall Street nancier and mem-
ber o the Brown Corporation, will
serve as a top adviser to Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner on the
dicult task o rescuing America’s
troubled “Big Three” automakers,multiple media sources reported
Monday.
Last month, President Obama
was considering Rattner or the
unprecedented position o “car
czar,” in which the private equity
mogul would have supervised the
government bailout o the automo-
bile industry. But last week, Obama
instead selected a Presidential Task
Force on the Auto Industry, to be
led by Geithner and National Eco-
nomic Council Director Lawrence
Summers.
The Task Force — described
in a White House press release as
a cabinet-level group — was set to
include the secretaries o Trans-
portation, Commerce, Labor andEnergy, as well as representatives
rom other groups, including the
NEC and Environmental Protec-
tion Agency.
The committee convened on
Feb. 20 to discuss requests rom
two o the car companies, Chrysler
LLC and General Motors Corp., or
additional bailout money, accord-
ing to the release. In December,
the government gave the two auto
giants loans amounting to $17.4 bil-
lion. Last Tuesday, the companies
requested an additional $14 billion
in bailout money.
Though the White House state-
ment did not name Rattner as a
member o the Task Force, both
the Associated Press and the New
York Times reported yesterday
that he will join the committee as
G. C ’65
By sara sunshine
Senior S taff W riter
Only 34 percent o Rhode Islanders
approve o the job perormance o
Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65, accord-
ing to a recent Brown survey by
the Taubman Center or Public
Policy.
Carcieri’s approval
ratings — which peaked
at 63 percent in 2004 —
have declined ve percent since
the Taubman Center’s last poll in
September.One reason or the decline could
be the worsening economic situa-
tion in Rhode Island, said Marion
Orr, proessor o political science
and director o the Taubman Cen-
ter.
“My sense is that when people
look at government perormance,
they actually think about their eco-
nomic situation,” Orr said. Rhode
Island currently has a large budget
decit and one o the highest un-
employment rates in the nation,
he added.
Two-thirds o the survey’s re-
spondents said they knew a riend
or amily member who had recently lost a job.
A representative rom the gover-
nor’s oce declined to comment.
The poll showed mixed support
or some o Carcieri’s specic pro-
posals to close the state’s at least
$357-million budget decit. While
78 percent o Rhode Islanders were
in avor o possible consolidation o
some public services to lower costs,
71.8 percent opposed cutting aid to
local schools.
“People are re-
ally hurting,” Orr said.
“They are anious and
some o them may very well be
angry. When people are eeling
that way they tend to point an ac-cusing nger at those who are in
charge.”
Accordingly, approval ratings
were down or all state ocials,
Orr said.
However, Ray Sullivan, com-
munications director o the Rhode
Island Democratic Party, said com-
paring the approval ratings o more
low-prole local politicians to those
o the governor is not valid because
the latter has a “bully pulpit and
greater (media) eposure.”
Carcieri’s numbers have de-
clined because “his priorities have
been out o step with mainstream
Rhode Islanders,” Sullivan said,citing Carcieri’s opposition to the
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TUESdAy, FEbRUARy 24, 2009THE bROWN dAILy HERALdPAgE 2
CAUS wS“There’s a communit aroun this uilin.”
— Caroline Karp, senior lecturer in environmental stuies
S z b bBy Kevin PraTT
Contributing W riter
Sovereign Bank, which operates a branch on Thayer Street, has been
acquired by Spanish banking giant
Banco Santander, but the takeover
will not aect customer accounts,
according to Ellen Molle, a spokes-
person or Sovereign.
“Nothing has changed or cus-
tomers,” Molle said on Monday. “It’s
business as usual.”
Philadelphia-based Sovereign
suered losses o $1.4 billion in
2007, the Philadelphia Inquirer re-
ported last October. Santander, the
world’s seventh-largest bank by mar-
ket share, already held a 25 percent
stake in Sovereign beore agreeing
to purchase the remaining sharesor $1.9 billion in October.
The transaction was completed
this month, Molle said, adding that
she expects customers to benet
rom the merger with Santander, a
bank “known or customer service
and advanced technology.”
Sovereign will keep its name
“or the time being,” according to a
statement released by the bank to
its customers last November. In its
other recent acquisitions, Santander
has not changed the names o the
banks it buys, according to the In-
quirer article.
Sovereign will also remain FDIC-insured, according to the bank’s Web
site.
Brown students interviewed by
The Herald said they had not noticed
a change in banking at Sovereign
since the acquisition.
Sovereign customers Mats Horn
’11 and Allison Pincus ’10.5 both said
they were not previously aware o the
merger and had noticed no changes
in ees or customer service.
According to Molle, “a letter rom
the Santander chairman was sent to
all Sovereign customers on comple-
tion o the transaction.” Brochures
detailing the merger were available
at the Thayer Street branch.
Operating in 40 countries, San-tander leads both Europe and Latin
America in market shares. Its ATMs
abroad will not yet be accessible to
traveling Sovereign customers, ac-
cording to the statement.
Santander supports Spanish-
language instruction at universities
around the world and promotes stu-
dent exchange programs with Span-
ish institutions. It recently acilitated
several echange agreements with
Chinese universities, including a pro-
gram that will bring two researchers
rom Peking University to Brown.
Santander’s aliation with uni-
versities is “denitely something
they’ll be expanding in the U.S.,”
Molle said. An independent agreement be-
tween Santander and Brown, signed
by Santander chairman Emilio Bo-
tin and University ocials, will also
create grants or Brown students tostudy abroad and intern with San-
tander aliate banks globally, The
Herald reported in November.
Qinon Chen / Heral
The acquisition of Soverein bank shoul not affect customer accounts.
the garden.
For advocates o the UEL — lo-
cated in a 19th-century carriage house— the University’s nancial woes have
a silver lining.
“This economic slowdown gives
everybody time to reconsider the best
possible use o space,” said Senior
Lecturer in Environmental Studies
Caroline Karp.
The Providence Preservation
Society placed the UEL on its Most
Endangered Properties List last year.
When The Herald spoke with PPS
Director o Preservation Services Sara
Emmenecker ’04 last July, she said theSociety was concerned about losing
historic College Hill buildings to new
construction projects.
“We saw them as signicant, not
only as historic structures rom the
19th century but as providing a histor-
ic contet o the residential area that
once eisted,” Emmenecker said.
The University looked into having
the house moved to another campus
location, rather than demolishing it,
but resistance to the move created
uncertainty around the Lab’s ate, TheHerald reported.
One aculty member working at
the UEL said she was glad the build-
ing will be preserved.
Karp said people in the environ-
mental studies community preer to
“make the best possible use” o ex-
isting buildings beore tearing them
down and starting over.
“We’re delighted to be here,” she
said. “It’s a lovely building. There’s a
community around this building.”
Catherine Pearson ’08, a researchassistant at the Center or Environ-
mental Studies and research ellow
with Rhode Island Sea Grant College
said she elt the UEL’s warm environ-
ment acilitated collaboration between
sta and students.
While those interviewed said the
UEL’s position is secure or the time
being, the Center or Environmental
Studies still has other housing con-
cerns. Only seven aculty members
have oces at the UEL, with others
located in J. Walter Wilson and Mac-Millan Hall, according to Karp. The
physical diusion hinders collabora-
tion, she said.
In his e-mail, Ward suggested the
possibility o revisiting a proposal to
give the environmental studies de-
partment space in a house adjacent
to the UEL.
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“Repulicans have no clout in the state whatsoever.” — Anish Mitra ’10
By Melissa shuBe
Senior S taff W riter
Plans or wind turbine development
are moving orward in Narragansett,
bringing the state a step closer to
Gov. Donald Carcieri’s ’65 renewableenergy goal — to use wind to produce
15 percent o the state’s energy by
2011.
The Department o Environmental
Management received permission last
Tuesday rom the State
Properties Committee
— which manages land
and property holdings in the state’s
interest —to seek proposals rom
energy companies to build and run
wind turbines on state-owned land in
Narragansett. The committee “gave a
go-ahead,” said Chris Kearns o En-
vironment Rhode Island, a statewide
advocacy organization.Christopher Wilkins, president pro
tempore o the Narragansett Town
Council, said the town is also looking
at various town-owned properties on
which to harvest wind energy.
Research on potential wind power
in Narragansett began two years ago,
he said, ater the governor announced
his plan or renewable energy.
“We’re pretty much way ahead o
the curve on ... alternative energy,”
Wilkins said.
Although winds are stronger
oshore, Narragansett is looking
to place wind turbines onshore to
reduce opposition rom shermen,
Wilkins said. The town will probably ace protests rom neighbors wher-
ever the wind turbines are erected, he
said, noting that some people “love to
champion the wind energy movement
but don’t want to see it rom the decks
o their houses.”
Narragansett is looking to locate
its wind turbines either at one o its
high schools or middle schools, or at a public wastewater treatment cen-
ter near Scarborough State Beach.
Wilkins said the water treatment
center is the most likely candidate
because the wind power would be
used to run the treatment plant.
The town has applied or ederal
unding and is waiting to see i the
project will receive aid rom the re-
cently approved economic stimulus
plan.
Still, Wilkins noted that the costs
and easibility o the wind-harvesting
project in Narragansett are unknown.“There’s more questions than there
are answers out there at this point,”
he said.
Michael Sullivan, director o the
Department o Environmental Man-
agement, said his oce
has been working with
Narragansett, Providence,
Jamestown and Cranston to develop
plans or wind turbines.
The department is also developing
regulations and guidelines or the
turbines, he added.
Sullivan said the department plans
to erect a meteorological tower in
Narragansett which will collect data “on the reliability and intensity o
wind” and help the state determine
where a wind turbine would be most
eective.
In addition to helping Narragan-
sett develop wind energy, the state
department is also looking to build its
own wind turbine in the town and use
the power to run department build-
ings. “We will consume our own green
energy to the etent practical” in or-
der to “practice what they preach,”
he said.
The department also hopes to
install a small wind turbine to help
power the new state-owned beach
building at Salty Brine State Beach
in Narragansett or the Fisherman’s
Memorial State Park campground,
he said.
“You’d be amazed at the number
o people who want to go camping
at our acilities with a 50-oot (recre-
ational vehicle) with central air, and
they want to be able to plug it in to
our camp ground acilities,” Sullivan
said.
Kearns said the state was “making
good progress” on the wind-power
initiative, adding that it needs more
environmental legislation on the
books. “There’s always more work
to be done,” he said.
C 4 .I.
national stimulus package as one
example o this dissonance. The pollound that 74 percent o state resi-
dents support President Obama’s
stimulus package.
Sullivan also said Carcieri has
ailed to keep his pledge to help the
Ocean State through the economic
crisis.
“The governor promised to cre-
ate twenty thousand new jobs. The
governor is very good at making
big political pronouncements and
speeches, but the administration
has allen short in delivering,” Sul-
livan said. “Rhode Islanders are
very smart ... They pay attentionto what these (elected ocials) are
saying.”
But not everyone believes that
Carcieri is to blame or his low ap-
proval ratings and the lack o eco-
nomic recovery in Rhode Island.
“The state is basically run by
Democrats,” said Anish Mitra ’10,
member o the Brown Republicans
and Herald opinions columnist.
Though Carcieri has veto power,
he is unable to accomplish his objec-
tives without a cooperative legisla-
tive branch, Mitra said.
The governor’s low approvalnumbers are more a refection o
Rhode Islanders’ dissatisaction with
the mostly Democratic legislature’s
perormance, Mitra said, since “Re-
publicans have no clout in the state
whatsoever.”
Besides, Mitra added, 34 per-
cent support is not that bad. “It’s
still higher than Congress’ ap-
proval rating ... it’s higher than
Bush’s (was).”
a lead adviser to the Treasury
secretary.
Rattner will work alongside
ormer colleague Ronald Bloom,
senior adviser on the auto indus-
try. Bloom was vice president o
investment bank Lazard Freres
& Co., LLC rom 1985 until 1990.
Rattner served as deputy chair-
man and deputy chie executive
ocer o Lazard rom 1989 until
2000.
In 2000, Rattner co-ounded
Quadrangle Group, LLC, a New
York-based investment rm. He
will leave his role as managingprincipal o Quadrangle to accept
the Treasury position, accordingto reports.
A member o Brown’s highest
governing body since 1994, Ratt-
ner was also editor-in-chie o The
Herald as an undergraduate.
The White House also an-
nounced the appointment o anoth-
er Brown alum, Dana Singiser ’92,
yesterday. Singiser, who served as
a senior advisor or the women’s
vote on Obama’s campaign, was
appointed special assistant to the
president or legislative aairs.
She will be part o a team respon-
sible or promoting Obama’s legis-
lative priorities in the Senate.
Singiser worked on the presi-dential campaigns o both Sec-
retary o State Hillary RodhamClinton and President Obama, rst
as director o women’s outreach
or Clinton.
The Chicago Tribune also re-
ported last week that Jill Zuck-
man ’87, a Tribune reporter and
regular guest on cable news
shows like “Hardball” and “Fox
News Sunday,” was leaving the
publication to join the Obama ad-
ministration in the Department o
Transportation.
According to a Feb. 15 story on
the Tribune’s Web site, Zuckman
will serve as assistant to Trans-
portation Secretary Ray LaHood,
and the department’s director o public aairs.
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CAUS wS “you won’t e eterre one inspection” — Aam Kiki-Charles ’11
inspect as much as we can with the
resources we have,” he said, adding
that the number o sta volunteers
determines how many inspections
are done. Volunteers receive brie
training beore beginning inspec-
tions, he said. The oce tries to run
our to six rounds o inspections per
academic year.
According to violation notices
that were handed out, rooms o
students guilty o rule inractions
were candidates to be re-inspectedbetween Feb. 18 and 20, though
Hilton said a re-inspection was not
guaranteed.
Michael Caron ’12 and his room-
mate received a violation or exces-
sive wall decorations in their Keeney
Quadrangle double — but complied
with the notice’s instructions. “We
scaled it back,” Caron said, though
he added that the room was never
re-inspected.
Adrian Leanza ’11, who lives
in Diman Hall, said an inspector
was only in his room or about 20
seconds and ailed to notice visible
violations because the room was
“messy.”
Though “alcohol, illegal drugs or
drug paraphernalia” are among the
violations listed on the inspection
notice, Hilton said he had not yet
compiled the data on these viola-
tions. Alcohol is only considered a
violation i the inhabitant is under 21, and Hilton has not yet checked
dates o birth or occupants o these
rooms, he said.
Forsberg said while illegal sub-
stance violations are recorded,
they are “not the reason” or the
inspections, emphasizing that
health and saety are ResLie’s main
concerns.
Some students said they were
unsure how eective the inspec-
tions were.
“I you’re going to have those
issues in your room, you won’t be
deterred by one inspection through-
out the year,” Adam Kiki-Charles ’11
said. Instead, an inspection “makes
people aware o what they shouldn’t
have,” he added.
Spencer McAndrews ’12 said she
received a notice or an improper
extension cord, but that “a lot o
people put stu away” in prepara-
tion or the inspections, which wereannounced via e-mail.
According to Forsberg, ResLie
has recently discussed lengthening
the range o days in which inspec-
tions will be carried out to discour-
age quick es.
“Our goal isn’t to catch, it’s
to ensure that people are sae,”
he said.
w’ By Frederique
couTure-carrier
ContributingW riter
As they begin a new season, the
women’s ultimate Frisbee A and B
teams welcomed a third C team this
spring or the rst time ater receiving
a wave o new recruits throughout
the all semester.
The club sport — which has suc-
cessul women’s and men’s teams at Brown — has seen a dramatic expan-
sion over the past couple o years,
according to Julie Caplow ’09, Molly
Cohen ’09 and Zahra Hirji ’09, the
captains o the A team, which goes
by the name “Disco Inerno.”
“It is a truly momentous thing to
have a C team,” Cohen said. Women’s ultimate was previ-
ously divided into two teams, A and
B, based on commitment level and
intensity. But this year, the club had
over 65 members ater recruiting,
and could orm a third team or the
rst time, Hirji said.
Four years ago, the B team, known
as “Pity Da Fool,” consisted o very
ew players, but last year it grew to
include over 40 women, Hirji said,
adding that the women’s ultimate
team started to send two B squads
to participate in tournaments.
The decision to orm a C team
was initially brought up this all, as
the team captains realized that their heavy recruitment — through word
o mouth, table-slipping and “bring
your roommate” practices — had
succeeded more than they initially
thought, Cohen said. The B team,
which in previous years had never
turned a player away, had to cut over
20 girls or the rst time this all.
The B team has some “really tal-
ented players,” and could be competi-
tive, said Kathryn Roberts ’10, one o
the newly appointed C-team captains,
adding that the creation o a C team
oers players with less experience
the opportunity to become better
acquainted with the sport and havea lesser time commitment.
While several members o the
women’s ultimate team played ulti-
mate in high school, most o the play-
ers on the team had never picked up a
disc until joining, Cohen said, adding
that its good to have “diversity, and
not be so eclusive.”
Hirji said what attracted her most
to the sport was the sense o com-
munity among the team members,
and that she “ell in love with the
team” beore she ell in love with
the sport.
Molly Cousins ’11, a C-team cap-
tain, added that the “spirit o the
game” was a major attraction or new recruits.
While the ultimate team is com-
petitive, it is also entirely sel-run,
ostering a sense o unity and team-
work, Cohen said.
The newly established C team
will cause certain new diculties
in terms o unding, Hirji said, but
the captains were condent that they
“will be able to make it” as costs have
not “changed dramatically.” Women’s
ultimate obtains nancial support
rom the Ultimate Players’ Associa-
tion, alumni donations, merchandise
sales, working shits at The Gate, the
University’s Department o Athleticsand undraising eorts.
Still, the members are also cur-
rently brainstorming new ideas or
raising money, Hirji said. Some o
the concepts being thrown around
include pudding wrestling on the
Main Green and a tie-dye party.
The yet-to-be-named C team has
already begun practicing and will
participate in its rst round-robin
tournament on Mar. 8, along with
the B team. The A team will play in
a round robin on Mar. 1.
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. k - k QBy dan alexander
SportS S taff W riter
Ater losing to Princeton on Friday
night, the men’s hockey team, an-
chored by strong goalie play rom
Mike Clemente ’12, took down Quin-
nipiac in a 3-2 game on Saturday to
snap an eight-game losing streak.
Brett Wilson o Princeton (20-7-
0, 14-6-0 ECAC Hockey) netted twogoals and added an assist to help the
Tigers take down the Bears or the
third time this season. Tigers goalie
Zane Kalemba, the ECAC leader
in goals against average and save
percentage, stopped all but one o
the 26 shots he aced.
Matt Vokes ’09 scored his thpower-play goal o the season with
less than ve minutes remaining in
the rst period. The Bears (3-20-4,
3-14-3 ECAC Hockey) got out to a
3-2 lead early in the third period, and
the Bobcats (15-14-3, 8-9-3 ECAC
Hockey) couldn’t come back despite
pulling their goalie in avor o an ex-
tra attacker with 2:15 remaining.
Pt 4, B 1
Princeton took its home ice resh
o o a 3-1 loss to St. Lawrence last
Saturday. That deeat put an end
to a our-game winning streak or
the Tigers, a stretch that included a
2-1 victory over then-No. 5 Cornell.Princeton deeated Brown in Provi-
dence twice earlier this season, by
a combined score o 9-2.
Princeton pounced on Brown in
the rst period, gaining a 19-6 shot
advantage. For the rst time in their
last our games, the Tigers scored
the game’s rst goal when Brett
Wilson beat Clemente 11:47 ater
the puck dropped.
Just over thirteen minutes into
the middle rame, Lee Jubinville
scored a breakaway goal on an as-
sist rom Wilson, earning Wilson
his 100th career point.
The Bears tightened Princeton’slead just over a minute later with
assistant captain Aaron Volpatti ’10
snapped a wrist shot or his th
goal o the season, making the score
2-1.
But that would be the only goal
Kalemba let in all night.
“He’s been obviously tremen-dous,” said Head Coach Roger Gril-
lo. “He’s a good goal tender. They’re
a good team. It’s very dicult to
control the puck against them.”
The nal rame was close on the
shot charts, but not on the score-
board. Princeton only outshot
the Bears 17-15 in the period, but
managed to score two more goals
— one, a fick over Clemente and
the other, an empty net goal with
12 seconds let on the clock ater
Grillo pulled Clemente or an extra
attacker. Despite the nal score,
Grillo remained optimistic ollowing
Friday’s game.“I thought we played etremely
well on Friday and actually the
score o the game was much di-
erent than the actual game,” Grillo
said. “I thought it was as well as we
played maybe all year.”
B 3, qp 2
Brown returned to the ice on
Saturday to take on the Quinnipiac
Bobcats, who had tied No. 7 Yale
the night beore, 3-3.
The Bobcats took down the Bears
in a 5-1 game on Jan. 30 at Meehan.
But Brown got its second road win
o the season in the rematch.
According to Grillo, the dier-ence between the two games was
simple.
“We got some timely goals and
capitalized on some opportunities.
And I thought we just played a little
bit better deensively,” he said.
Twelve seconds into their second
power-play o the night, Vokes shot
rom the bottom o the let ace-o
circle and beat Quinnipiac goalie
Bud Fisher to put the Bears ahead,1-0, with ve minutes to go in the
opening period.
It took over thirty minutes o ice
time beore anyone scored again,
but momentum shited to Quinnip-iac when Brown took ve penaltiesin under eight minutes in the middle
o the second period.
A minute into a ve-on-three
power play during that stretch,
Quinnipiac’s David Marshall, the
second-leading scorer in the ECAC,
put a high wrist shot past Clementeto tie the game, 1-1.
With less than three minutes let
in the middle rame, Brown regained
a one-goal lead when Mike Wol ’12
scored his rst career goal. Sean
McMonagle ’10 centered the puck
to Wol at the point, and Wol red
a hard shot into trac. The puck
split deenders and eluded Fisher
on its way into the back o the net,
to put Brown ahead, 2-1.
Brown scored consecutive goals
or the rst time since Jan. 17 when
Assistant Captain Jordan Pietrus
’10 extended the Bears’ lead with
his ourth goal o the season. RyanGarbutt ’09 dropped the puck into
the Quinnipiac zone, and Pietrus
chased it down and won possession
in ront o the net. He red a hard
shot at Fisher rom short range. The
Quinnipiac goalie slowed the puck
down, but it slipped through his legs
to put the Bears ahead, 3-1.
“It’s great to see a guy like (Pi-
etrus) who does work as hard as
he works to get rewarded or it,”
Grillo said.
Fisher let an empty net in a-
vor o an extra Bobcat attacker with
2:15 let. Bryan Leitch, the nation’s
leading scorer, added to his totals
when he netted a goal with 36seconds let to bring the Bobcats
within one. Quinnipiac couldn’t put another puck on net, though, and
the Bears let with their third win
o the season.
Tempers fared ater the nal
buzzer and six players, three on
each team, were charged with
ghting and given one-game sus-
pensions. Vokes, Volpatti, and Mike
Stuart ’09 will have to watch Fri-
day’s game against Colgate rom
the stands.
“I looked back, and I saw two
guys go ater Stuart,” Volpatti said.
“And then I saw another guy goin, so I went ater him and it was a
matter o just protecting your team-
mates. It sort o got out o hand
rom there.”
Grillo seemed to agree with Vol-
patti that the altercation was blown
out o proportion.
“It was not anything near what it
seems like on paper,” Grillo said. “I
wouldn’t even call it a ght. It was,
you know, a little bit o a scrum.
In my mind it started with their
players, I think, a little rustrated
that we had won, and so they came
charging in.”
The Bears will have to overcome
their three-player loss when they
ace-o against Colgate (10-16-6,
5-11-4 ECAC Hockey) in their nal
Friday o regular-season hockey.
Brown deeated Colgate when the
teams aced each other on Jan. 23
in a 4-1 game in Hamilton, N.Y.
Then, on Saturday, the Bears will
play their last game o the regular
season, a nal tune-up or the ECAC
Hockey Playos, when they take
on No. 11 Cornell (17-6-4, 12-5-3
ECAC Hockey).
G f By elisaBeTh avallone
SportS S taff W riter
Though the gymnastics team was
outscored by No. 11 University o
Oklahoma (196.375), No. 13 Uni-
versity o Missouri (196.225) and
No. 18 West Virginia (195.250), the
Bears held their own last Friday at
the University o Oklahoma, post-
ing a 185.950 against some o the
strongest programs in the countr y.
The Bears set a number o personal
bests and season-high scores de-
spite alling short o team scoring
aspirations or the weekend.
“We may not have had our best
meet o the season, but considering
how strong the competition was,
we were not disappointed,” said
co-captain Stephanie Albert ’10.
On vault, Carli Wieseneld ’12
earned a season-high 9.625 to lead
o the Bears in 19th place. Follow-ing were Helen Segal ’10 (9.575),
Chelsey Binkley ’11 (9.525), Victo-ria Zanelli ’11 (9.500), Melissa Bowe
’11 (9.425) and Lauren Tucker ’12
(9.250). Brown earned a total o
47.650 on vault, the best team score
this season or the Bears.
Lilly Siems ’12, also with a per-
sonal best, recorded Brown’s top
score on the bars, with a 9.550.
Bowe (9.200) and Izzy Kirkham-
Lewitt ’10 (9.025) helped the B ears
tally a 45.275.
Binkley tied her season-high
o 9.650 to earn 16th place on the
beam, while co-captain Jennier
Sobuta ’09 was close behind, earn-
ing 9.625 or 17th place. Tucker
ollowed with a 9.500 and Katie
Goddard ’12 with a 9.050 or a team
combined score o 46.625.
On the loor exercise, Bin-
kley, Wieseneld and Zanelli each
scored a 9.400 or 19th place,
while Segal (9.275) and Goddard
(8.925) brought the Brown mark
to 46.400.
Zanelli notched a 36.075 in the
all-around, inishing in eighth-
place.
Head Coach Sara Carver-Milne
said she is optimistic heading into
the Bears’ net competition at the
Ivy Classic at Yale University on
Feb. 28.
“We did score our highest to-
tal on vault this weekend, but the
girls let their nerves get the best o
them on the other events,” Carver-
Milne said. “They know what they
need to correct beore Ivies next
weekend. We will work hard this
week. We are ecited to have our
strongest perormance at Yale on
Saturday.”
Justin Coleman / Heral
Sean McMonale ’10 an the bears roke a lon losin streak.
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Brown’s endowment is not a ‘rainy day und’T t et:
In his column (“Stealing rom the poor and giving to
the rich” Feb. 23), Simon Liebling ’12 made a undamen-
tal oversimplication regarding the interaction between
Brown’s investments, endowment and tuition. The en-
dowment is not a bank account rom which unds can be
withdrawn at a whim — it is not a $2 billion “rainy day und”that the University is “sitting on.” Instead, it is diversied
in a variety o investment vehicles, such as bonds, stocks,
mutual unds and real estate, which vary in liquidity and
return rates. The University cannot simply cash in a ew
more o its chips when money gets low without hurting
its long-term nancial strength. Excessive withdrawals
today would burden students a decade rom now with
accelerated (and unair) tuition hikes. This is due to
the approimately 5 percent o the endowment already
withdrawn annually that pays or a sith o the operating
budget, to which tuition contributes a third. In eect,
every student automatically receives substantial nancial
aid every year courtesy o the endowment, a gure which
would decrease in the uture by “tapping a little bit more”into the $2 billion now. While I agree that the absolute
cost o college tuition in general is outrageous and I’m
dreading paying o my loans, Brown is relatively lucky;the usual increase in tuition was repressed to the lowest
percentage since the 60s, nancial aid was expanded, and
the aculty and acilities that dene the Brown experience
were not diminished. Compared to Brandeis, which just
put art pieces rom their museum on sale to balance its
budget, we should count our blessings.
d M ’11
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clarification
An article in Monday’s Herald (“Bequest puts pool back on ast track,” Feb. 23) incor rectly attributed a quotation
to incoming men’s water polo captain Ken Collins ’10. The incoming captain’s name is Kent Holland ’10.
correction
An article in last Friday’s Herald (“‘Waltz with Bashir’ lls Avon,” Feb. 20) reerred to David Polonsky as anartist-in-residence at Brown. Polonsky is an artist-in-residence at Brown/RISD Hillel.
Sound and ury against University signifesT t et:
Regarding Simon Liebling’s ’12 column (“Stealing rom
the poor and giving to the rich,” Feb. 23):
Liebling’s suggestion that Brown draws more rom theendowment, which is already set to lose almost a third o
its value, is a completely irresponsible and unsustainable
way to address the University’s imminent budget decits.
Furthermore, in his column Liebling ignores the act
that the 3 percent tuition hike will not a ect those Brown
students on nancial aid who will be unaected since
the University guarantees to meet 100 percent o every
student’s demonstrated need. These students are the ones
coming rom the most economically vulnerable amilies
represented in our student body. His argument would
perhaps be supplanted by a justied call or nancial aid
or those students who all just short o qualiying — the
only people who could conceivably have to “leave” due tothe historically minuscule tuition hike.
Without contributing any concrete and easible solu-
tions to the grim nancial problems acing the Univer-
sity, Liebling’s piece reminds one o the usual rhetoric o
certain campus organizations that incessantly and ludi-
crously paint Brown as a bastion o corporate greed and
evil, instead o bringing constructive and sensible sug-
gestions to the table.
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Ah, Brown’s glorious open curriculum!
“What’s there to complain about?” you ask.
“It completely caters to the needs o the stu-
dents.” Perhaps, but when does the catering
go too ar? (Dramatic music.)
When I refect on the open curriculum,
the ollowing come to mind: no core require-
ments, no pluses or minuses and the S/NC
option. The curriculum is obviously ar more
nuanced than that, but those are the policies
by which I most oten nd mysel directly and regularly aected. Note that I do not in-
tend to criticize these policies, as I nd them
sound and integral to the Brown experience.
Another policy, however, nds itsel obscured
in the wake o these three giants, and it has
remained so or ar too long. I’ll call it the
NC/transcript policy.
The dreaded NC has kept many a student
up all night working. For tunately, you have no
need to ear the NC, as the University has a
brilliant policy in which all NCs are removed
rom your external transcripts, along with the
corresponding course description. Accord-
ingly, i you get an NC, Brown is willing to
wipe the slate clean — it will be as i you had
never taken the course. While this is surely a
policy that benets all students, I eel I must contest it on principle.
This policy certainly seems to be in the
spirit o the open curriculum, since not hav-
ing to ear the NC lends itsel to adventurous
course selection. But when you think about
it, should there really be any solace in ail-ing a course?
Consider what it means to ail a course,
especially at Brown. Not only did your work
(or lack thereo) all well below the standards
o the course (actoring in grade infation and
the vast number o out-o-class teaching re-
sources), but you orgot to take advantage o
the “Drop” unction on Banner, which wouldavoid a record on your internal transcript.
That’s not just a ail, that’s an epic ail.
I really don’t think we need to be urther
babied by the NC/transcript policy. When
you ail a course you should suer the con-
sequences. Your irresponsibility, whether re-
garding your course work or course selection,
is inecusable. Yet the policy preempts the
ecuse. It avoids the problem by absolving
you o the liability.
O course, don’t take this as me saying
you’re home ree when you get an NC. Fail-
ing a class literally results in “No Credit,”meaning it’s that much harder to get those
30 credit hours necessary or graduation.
Moreover, you still have to answer to the
deans and your amily (not necessarily in that
order), which I’m sure is not a very attractive
outlook. But these consequences should befeeting, i not insignicant, or the diligent
Brown student.
For example, the system is set up such
that, at the norm o our classes a semester,
you can aord two NCs and still graduate.
Thereore, you’re given two “get-out-o-jail
ree” cards just or playing the game. And,
worse comes to worst, the bold student could
make up or missing credit by taking a th
class the ollowing semester(s). I assume
the deans and our amilies can console them-
selves with these two acts.
Also consider that by removing NCs rom
the external transcript, you exclude them
rom GPA calculation. Now, the University
technically doesn’t calculate GPA, and rec-
ommends the world do the same or Brown
students, but the outside world really has
no reason to ollow through on that. GPAs
are a means o standardization, albeit not
necessarily always good ones. They give at least some picture o how well one is doing
(or did) in college, and I’d be astounded i
you go through lie without ever having to
calculate it.
That in mind, under the NC/transcript
policy, a C becomes less desirable than anNC. A C is a passing grade, and thus shows
up on your transcript and is actored into your
GPA. And it is a GPA killer, as its grade-point
value o 2 is sometimes enough to ruin one’s
post-college dreams. What type o policy
makes it worse o or you to pass a class
than ail it? Well, this one.
So, how do we correct the inconsistencies
o the current policy? This can most certainly
be accomplished by doing away with the NC/
transcript policy altogether, or it will not only
revalue the C but provide students with some
motivation to work harder, which couldn’t be
a bad thing. Failing will no longer be ecus-
able, as we rightully begin to ear — or at
least mind — the NC.One might argue that this policy would
make students more hesitant to explore cer-
tain courses, thus deeating the goals o the
open curriculum. That assumes that students
choose their courses based on the likelihood
o passing them. Now that’s not really in
the spirit o the open curriculum. And, once
again, given how relatively easy we have it,
we shouldn’t be ailing courses anyway, and i
we do, there should be consequences. Hence
this proposal.
I think the attention and reedom the open
curriculum provides us is a wonderul thing.
But there is a point when such things become
condescending, and we should know when
enough is enough.
Jare Lafer ’11 is a philosoph con-
centrator from Manhattan. He can e
reache at [email protected].
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I know that politicians want to seem hip. I
appreciate that public servants rom both
parties are trying to reach out to younger
voters, as they should. As demonstrated by
this past election, the youth vote is a orce to
be reckoned with. But I wish that eorts to
target young voters were not so ocused on
one particular medium: Twitter.
What’s wrong with Twitter? First, some
politicians act as though the sophisticated
use o technology is an eective substi-
tute or backing the policies young voters
support. Republican National Committee
Chairman Michael Steele seems to think
that Obama dominated the youth vote in
November because his campaign madebetter use o technology.
Surely the Obama campaign’s tet mes-
sages and regular e-mails made young vot-
ers eel involved, but that was not the rea-
son that they supported him in such large
numbers. Republicans are wrong i they
think they can win back the youth vote
by tweeting without altering their posi-
tions on the issues young voters care most
about, including the economy and global
warming.
The GOP proudly notes that 25 per-
cent o Republican lawmakers use Twitter,
while only 8.5 percent o their Democrat-
ic colleagues can say the same. Yet every
GOP legislator just voted against a bill that
provided substantial investments in green
energy technology and education. I they
think that young voters will ignore their
party’s position on the stimulus because o
a fashy tet, they’re in or a surprise.But Twitter is a bad method o com-
munication or other reasons. The nature
o Twitter makes inormed and balanced
statements impossible, since all updates
are strictly limited to 140 characters.
An honest discussion o the stimulus,
or eample, might mention the impacts
o dierent types o government spending,
the role o ta cuts and concerns about our
debt. Instead we get this statement rom
Rep. Paul Broun R-Ga.: “You’d think $1
trillion would buy you time and a better
debate. Clearly this steamroller o social-
ism needs to hit a speed bump.” Twitter
encourages politicians to be orceul, not
candid.
To make matters worse, many politi-
cians are inept at using the Web site. Take
Rep. Peter Hoekstra R-Mich. According to
his sta, “Twitter allows him to provide
real-time insight into… his congressional
activities.” On paper, his use o Twitter
sounds good. But two eamples highlight
the problems posed by political tweets.
Ater ormer Sen. Tom Daschle’s ta is-sues were brought to light, Hoekstra an-
grily tweeted, “Daescle/Geitner/Rangel
(sic) all avoided/cheated on taes!Daescle
latest!They don’t mind raising taes be-
cause they don’t pay them.” It’s di cult to
take elected ocials seriously when their
published statements are littered with mis-
spellings and poor grammar.
But that was not Hoekstra’s most egre-
gious tweet. On Twitter, he revealed, in
real time, the location o his helicopter
when entering Baghdad’s Green Zone. All
politicians and journalists know that on
congressional trips, they may not discuss
their location in a war zone until ater the
act, or security reasons. His oolish tweet
jeopardized soldiers’ saety.
Thankully, no troops were harmed as
a result. And while the tweets I mentioned
may have been inane, they had no seri-
ous consequences. On the other hand, Je
Frederick, the chairman o the GOP in V ir-
ginia, managed to use a Twitter account in
a way that actually hurt his own party.
The Republicans in the state senatehad developed an ingenious plan: in or-
der to increase their membership and gain
a majority, they were going to try con-
vince a Democratic senator to switch par-
ties. They ound one ready to switch and
their plan to take back power was almost
complete.
That plan would have worked, until
their own party chairman tweeted, “Big
news coming out o Senate: Apparently
one dem is either switching or leaving the
dem caucus. Negotiations or power shar-
ing underway.” Naturally, the Democrats
saw this tweet, shut down the Senate or
the day, and orced their ckle member to
stay in their caucus.
To be air, some politicians have oundeective ways to use Twitter, without giv-
ing away military secrets or partisan plots.
Twitter certainly does oer an oppor tunity
or transparency, as well as a way to com-
municate to young voters. But beore poli-
ticians declare that Twitter can help them
win our votes, they must start supporting
the policies we care about.
Jerem Feienaum ’11 is a politicalscience concentrator from Teaneck,
New Jerse. He can e reache at [email protected].
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Repulicans are wron if the think the can win
ack oun people tweetin, without alterin
their positions on the issues the care most
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10 Emcee14 Loads15 Tennessee
footballer16 “Porgy and Bess”
solo, e.g.17 Expose18 Leave alone19 Broker’s order
20 Start of aneditor’s quipabout verbosewriting
23 London lav24 Singer Brickell
who’s married toPaul Simon
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Cause”34 Quip, part 236 Supreme council
of old Rome37 Get an __: ace38 Tweeters’
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with five Emmys44 Quip, part 347 Lessens, as pain
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battleship Graf__
52 Guy’s partner53 End of the quip60 Sweatshirt
feature, at times61 “__ a break!”62 Drag racing org.64 Farm measure65 Old lab burners66 Sticky stuff67 Turner and a
general68 Thaw, as an
airplane wing69 Use FedEx
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5 Canonized popeknown as “TheGreat”
6 Stadium level7 ABA member8 Physical exam
expense9 Work with dough
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11 Cookie-basedJell-O puddingflavor
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19th Amendmentright
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values33 Dripping, maybe35 Pen filler36 Fed. assistance
payment
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cuisine
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55 Time gone by56 Potent
beginning?57 Financial svcs.
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58 “Oops!”59 “Star Trek: T.N.G.”
counselor Deanna
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