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vol. cxliv, no. 37 | tuesday, March 17, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891
BDS k kBy MaTThew kleBanoff
StaffWriter
BuDS managers have revoked the
ormal warnings issued to work-
ers last month or ailing to sign a
new contract, which introduced a
no-homework-on-the-job policy or
Blue Room cashiers and non-ca-
shier employees across campus.
BuDS supervisor Yanely Espinal
11 said she thinks the repeal o the
ormal warnings came as a result
o the petition she e-mailed to the
management last week. Though
the petition called to revoke the no-
homework rule altogether, Espinal
said it primarily took issue with the
ormal warnings, which workers
received or ailing to sign and hand
in the new contracts on time.
Normally, two ormal warnings
are grounds or termination and
can aect the size o bonuses, Es-
pinal said, so workers take them
seriously.
A bunch o supervisors, mainly
at the Gate, were really disenchant-
ed with the entire policy, and we
wanted to try to get it revised,
Espinal said. We thought that
might be a little ar-etched, so
we just decided to do a petition
against the way the policy was
implemented.
According to Espinal, workers
received revised contracts in their
mailboes last month, which they
were meant to sign and return
to BuDS by a set deadline. But
many workers were not aware o
the orms purpose or the conse-
quences or not handing it in on
D jb B, GP MM By lauren fedor
SeniorStaffWriter
Former Vermont Governor Howard
Dean spoke to a packed MacMillan
117 last night about his 2004 presi-
dential campaign, his our years
as chairman o the Democratic
National Committee and the 2008
presidential election.Students seemed to enjoy
Deans characteristically direct
and oten blunt rhetoric, and
responded with a standing ovation
at the end o the lecture. Speaking
and answering questions or just
over an hour, Deans addressed
a wide variety o topics and criti-
cized, at times pointedly, the Bush
administration, the Republican Par-
ty and conservative pundits Rush
Limbaugh and Ann Coulter.
The Bush presidency was not
normal, he said. The presidentand vice president did not respect
the Constitution.
C bk By alicia chen
Contributing Writer
In these hard times, many people
are trimming costs wherever they
can. But does cutting back mean
cutting hair?
Economists and businessmen
have tied ashion styles to eco-
nomic trends or decades. Econo-
mist George Taylor dreamed up
the hemline index in the 1920s,suggesting that hemlines mirror
the economic climate
alling during reces-
sions and rising during
boom times.
Since the recent decline o
the global economy, The Nikkei,
Japans leading business news-
paper, has proposed a corollary
to Taylors theory. The paper,
which looked at over 20 years o
data rom Japans largest manu-
acturer o consumer products,
suggested that Japanese women
get shorter haircuts during nan-
cial crises.
Holly Matos, a hairstylist at
the Thayer Street Supercuts, said
the economic recession has con-
tributed to changes in the hair
salons customers.
Though Supercuts has tra-
ditionally catered to the urban
man, Matos said, she has noticed
an increase in the amount o e-
male customers in the past ew
months. Matos thinks the shit is
driven in large part by the wors-
ening state o the economy.
Customers are requesting
shorter haircuts because they
will last longer, Matos added.
The recession has helped
Supercuts overall business, she
said, because people dont wantto pay 70 bucks or a haircut.
With a basic cut
starting at $15.95, Su-
percuts oers its ser-
vices at a lower price than most o
the other salons on Thayer.
Hector Ramirez 12, who re-
cently got his hair cut at Super-
cuts, agreed that Supercuts is an
attractive option because o its
low price.
But, Ramirez added, In gen-
eral, $40 or a haircut is pricey
or whatever situation you are
in. The recession didnt really
impact my decision.
While other hairstylists on
College Hill have observed that
more women are getting shorter
haircuts, many disagreed that the
recession is the eplanation.
L b By lauren fedor
SeniorStaffWriter
Its been a long, hard winter or local
businesses.
As the economy continues to un-
ravel, shop owners on the East Side
have been orced to dramatically
alter their business strategies to stay
afoat. With sales signicantly down
rom this time last year and limited
cash available or advertising, long-
time vendors on College Hill have
marked down merchandise, cut back
on hours and introduced creative
promotional schemes.Its no secret that consumer
spending is down the Pew Re-
search Center reported in February
that a vast majority o Americans
have recently made changes in their
shopping habits. Many local store
owners say their single greatest sales
challenge is just getting passers-by
to enter their stores.
Jagdish Sachdev, owner o Spec-
trum India at 252 Thayer St., said
that despite a lack o customers
lately, his store o ers some o the
best prices and deals anywhere. So,
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By sophia lifeatureS editor
The Oice o Financial Aid sent
out our e-mails Monday that inad-
vertently released the names and
e-mail addresses o nearly 1,800
students who had initiated an ap-
plication or inancial assistance
rom the University.
Three o the messages showed
the Brown e-mail addresses in-
cluding irst and last names o
approximately 500 irst-years,
sophomores and juniors who havesubmitted inancial aid documen-
tation, and the ourth contained
nearly 300. In all, The Herald
counted 1,773 names mistakenly
divulged Monday.
The messages, which were sent
around 2:40 p.m. Monday rom Fi-
[email protected], reminded
students which documents they
need to submit and o the appli-
cations deadline. They did not
state that the messages recipients
were students who had begun the
process o applying or inancial
aid, but Director o Financial Aid
James Tilton conirmed that act
Monday night.
Normally, students are sent in-
ormation by blind carbon copy, or
BCC, which does not reveal an
e-mails other recipients, Tilton
said.
We made a mistake, and we
clearly need to make sure it doesnt
happen again, he said.
The Oice o Financial Aid
tracks the names o students who
send in any documentation through
Banner, according to Tilton. The
oice then sends those students
reminders about the process oapplying or inancial aid.
While the e-mail includes a dis-
claimer that the inormation it con-
tains is conidential and/or legally
privileged, Tilton said he does
not consider Mondays mistake
a violation o the conidentiality
agreement.
We didnt include any personal
inormation about individual stu-
dents, Tilton said. Because the e-
mail does not contain any other
identiying inormation, Tilton
said he did not consider the mes-Jesse Morgan / HeraldJagdish Sahdev has ome p with a promotional sheme based onthe days of the week to draw stomers into Spetrm India.
Sshant Wagley / Herald
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Before his lecture Monday, former
Vermont governor, 2004 Democratic
presidential nominee and Demo-
cratic National Committee Chair-
man Howard Dean spoke with The
Herald about the DNC, the Obama
administration and his plans for the
future.
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when youre on your own.
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a law rm in Washington, mostly
on alternative energy issues. Im
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a zero-to-three early childhood
program in connection with a school
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American people so they can have
a choice. I you only conne their
choices to private insurance plans,
then you might as well not do health
care reorm.
Hairstylist Patrick Knerr o Sa-
lon Kroma on Thayer said many
customers are requesting pixie
cuts. But, Knerr added, they say
they avor the shorter style due to
its easy maintenance, not because
o the recession.
Celebrities like Katie Holmes
may have pioneered the trend by
sporting short hairstyles, said
Sergio Veneziano, a hairstylist at
Squires Salon on Euclid Avenue.
While Knerr said the college
students who requent Salon Kroma
tend towards lighter subjects, theeconomic recession is a requent
topic on other customers minds.
The economy is the most com-
mon topic in the chair, said Vene-
ziano, whose clients include many
University administrators.
Many o his customers ask, I
wonder i I can keep aording to
do this? he said.
Despite customers nancial
concerns, many salons in the area
have not yet elt their business con-
tract signicantly.
Many stylists said that custom-
ers are spacing their appointments
arther apart. Still, the volume o
business has remained steady, they
said.
The apparent contradiction
can be explained by an upswing
in new customers, according to
Luz Pray, who owns Hairspray Sa-
lon on Wickenden Street. Pray is
amazed by the increase in new
clients, she said.
According to Pray, the haircut
can be a quick x that allows
customers an aordable way to
reinvent themselves, especially
ater a long winter. In times like
these, people want to eel good
about themselves, he said.
Venezianos observationsechoed Prays. In tough economic
times, people still spend money on
themselves, he said.
The actions that salons have tak-
en to retain and attract customers
are another explanation or their
survival in the tough economic
climate.
When people are cutting back,
you have to give more, Pray
eplained.
At Hairspray, Pray oers a pack-
age deal to her loyal customers. I
they book six appointments and
pay or all si in advance, they re-
ceive 20 percent o their haircuts.
Pray began oering this discount
last May, she said, and credits it
with helping her business continue
to thrive.
Stylists rom Salon Kroma,
Salon Persia and Hairspray have
all implemented weekly student
discount days.
Tuesdays and Wednesdays
were never a draw, Knerr said,
adding that Salon Kroma now gives
a student discount on those days
to attract customers.
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They did what Joe McCarthy
did, Dean said. The presidency
was totally ideologically based.
But Dean said he was condent
President Obama would usher in
an etraordinary time.
You have no idea how extraor-
dinary Barack Obama is, he said,
likening Obama to President Ken-
nedy. Barack Obama is your gen-
erations president. He brings your
generation into politics.Dean discouraged students
rom abandoning the commit-
ment to politics they showed dur-
ing the 2008 campaign now that
Obama is in the White House.
(My generations) biggest mis-
take was that we decided we could
take a vacation rom politics, he
said. I think i we had stayed in
politics, George Bush would have
never become president.
This doesnt stop with Barack
Obama, he said. It starts with
Barack Obama. Now youve got
to do the work.
During the question-and-answer
session ater the approximately
35-minute speech, Dean was asked
about rumors that he had sought
a cabinet appointment in the new
administration.
Obviously I was disappointed,
Dean said, but what really matters
is that they produce what theyre
supposed to produce.There are more important
things than whether I serve in Ba-
rack Obamas cabinet, he said.
Though the talk was titled
The Internet Revolution 2.0: A
New Age o Politics, Dean quickly
dismissed the idea that his use o
the Internet in the 2004 campaign
revolutionized politics.
Dont pay attention to what
people say, he said. The Internet
is a community. Its not just a tool
that you can use to raise money.
What we ound (during the
2004 campaign) was that i you
had something to say and you un-
derstand the Internet, the Internet
will make your campaign, Dean
said.
Dean said the Internet allows
like-minded people to connect
with each other and orm an-
ity groups to support a cer tain
candidate.
The basic notion is that youdevelop anity groups initially
around a candidate and eventu-
ally to each other, he said. When
(people) care about each other,
its almost impossible to pry them
away rom the candidate.
Despite the success o Deans
Internet strategy, the ormer gover-
nor did not receive the Democratic
nomination in 2004. And though
some pundits said his inamous
scream speech ater the Iowa
caucuses cost him the nomination,
Dean said he did not lose the elec-
tion because o that speech.
The scream speech is not why I
didnt win the presidency, he said.
I didnt win the presidency be-
cause I came in third (in the Iowa
caucuses) when I was supposed to
come in rst.
Dean became chairman o the
Democratic National Committee in
February 2005 and shited his o-
cus toward rebuilding the par ty.We didnt have a national
party, he said. We were in 25 or
30 states The Republicans had
everything.
They knew what they were
doing and they knew how to talk
people, he said.
Dean sought to emulate Re-
publicans by building a database
to track voter inormation or the
entire country. The party invested
money, people and resources in
every state which Dean said
aided both Obama and his main
opponent, Secretary o State Hil-
lary Clinton, in their respective
primary campaigns.
The voter prole, Dean said,
reerring to the database, was part
o a larger initiative known as the
50-state plan. Dean explained
the motivation behind that plan
oten mentioned as a actor in
Obamas victory last night.
I dont believe that you can win
with 25 states, he said. I you
want to govern, you have to be the
president o everyone.
I think George Bushs big-
gest mistake, among many large
mistakes, was that he decided to
care about only hal the countr y,
Dean said. That is a short-term
strategy or winning elections. The
long-term strategy is that you ask
everyone to vote or you.
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We want to foster natral hman-robot ollaboration. Matthew Loper GS
b bBy naTalie uduwela
ContributingWriter
A uture ull o obedient robots ol-
lowing our every command may not
be such an unrealistic possibility
ater all even i those commands
go unspoken.
A Brown robotics team has
recently developed a robot that
can ollow gestural commands in
a variety o environments with-
out having to adjust or changes
in lighting, a breakthrough in the
robotic world.
While the majority o robots are
programmed to recognize specic
colors and are constrained to spe-
cic lighting conditions, this new
robot uses an active light-based
system that easily adapts to light-ing variance. This ability allows it
to operate indoors and outdoors
without the need or re-calibration
in dierently lit environments.
Matthew Loper GS, the lead au-
thor o the paper about the project,
which was presented at the Human-
Robot Interaction Conerence inSan Diego, Cali., last weekend,
said the ability to adjust to light al-
lows the robot to unction outside
a laboratory setting. There have
been lots o works that have done
the kinds o things weve done
person ollowing, gesture recogni-
tion, speech recognition, Loper
said. But the important thing is
in making a system that has envi-
ronmental tolerance.
Despite its prevalence in the
robotics world, the other impor-
tant aspect o the robots design is
its ability to respond to nonverbal,
gestural commands.In the shorter term, were try-
ing to take a step away rom remote-
controlled, teleoperation, he said.
We would rather have them inter-
act with people more naturally, able
to understand nonverbal gestures,
understand speech and ollow a
person around.The robot can be programmed
to track multiple people and can
discriminate between whom to re-
spond to and whom to ignore.
But the design is not fawless.
While the tracking distinguishes
between two people, the robot can
sometimes be tricked because it
relies on silhouettes.
We want to oster natural hu-
man-robot collaboration in the long
term and the kind o interactions
that you can get between people,
said Loper, who was responsible
or creating the gesture-recognition
component. That a person couldinteract with a robot in the same
way that a person can interact with
a person.
. b By JereMy JacoB
Contributing Writer
As the patient sat listening to music
on her iPod, an electronic device
protruding rom her head delivered a
series o clicks into her skull, vibrat-
ing the skin around her orehead.
It eels like a woodpecker knock-
ing on your head, the patient said,
who asked to remain anonymous.
The patient was being treated
with the Transcranial Magnetic
Stimulation therapy device, a new
method designed to treat bipolar
depression, said Linda Carpenter,
associate proessor in the Bio-Meddepartment o psychiatry and human
behavior.
Carpenter, who is chie o the
Mood Disorders program, said the
device was rst used to treat patients
on Jan. 15 at Butler Hospital in Provi-
dence, where many Brown medical
students perorm their residencies
and which serves as the Universitys
fagship psychiatric hospital.
TMS therapy uses an appliance
to send short pulses o magnetic
energy to stimulate nerve cells in the
brain, according to the Neurostar
Web site.
The system targets a specic re-
gion o the brain that controls mood the let prerontal cortex by
inducing electrical charges to fow
and stimulate brain cells.
The system is one o only eight
to ten in operation around the coun-
try, Carpenter said, adding that it
is seen as a revolutionary break-
through in the treatment o bipolar
depression.
Its a huge step orward or many
patients that arent getting better
with eisting treatments, she said.Carpenter eplained that due to
Browns reputation or brain stimula-
tion research, Butler Hospital was
able to quickly acquire a TMS device
rom the company and get it running
promptly.
Based on our track record (the
company) knew we had expertise
and knew how to identiy patients or
this sort o treatment, and clearly we
had an interest in making it available
to the Rhode Island community as
quickly as possible, she said.
Beore the device was approved
by the Federal Drug Administration
in Oct. 2008, treating depressioninvolved only a limited number o
options such talk therapy, anti-de-
pressant medication and electrocon-
vulsive therapy, otherwise known as
shock therapy, Carpenter said. O
the 20 million people in the United
States with serious depression, only
one-third got better ater taking anti-
depressant medications.
Even with the introduction o the
new TMS device, electroconvulsive
therapy is considered by psychia-
trists the most e ective treatment
or depression and is still recom-
mended to people with serious cases,
she said.
Each o the eisting treatments,ecept or talk therapy, comes with
considerable risks most notably,
loss o memory and the monetary
cost o shock therapy.
But the TMS therapy machine
has not yet shown any negative side
eects as patients are able to remain
ully conscious during the process,
experience no conusion aterwards
F , By heeyounG Min
StaffWriter
The Graduate School has created
the Dissertation Writing Project to
help doctoral students cross the
nish line o their academic mara-
thon the All But Dissertation,
an inormal designation or a can-
didate who has completed nearly
all requirements except the nal
dissertation.
Though the Writing Center, now
housed in J. Walter Wilson, has long
been available as a general resource,
this pilot program is tailored to ad-
dress the specic concerns o dis-
sertation writing, said Dean o the
Graduate School Sheila Bonde.
The project, which started last
September, allows the Writing Cen-
ter to reach out to more graduate
students, said Douglas Brown, the
centers director.
The Graduate School wanted
graduate students to understand
that this service was available and
that indeed the Writing Center was
up to the task, Brown said. The
Graduate School also recognized
that (Writing Center) sta people
could be designated as special-
ists.
Three Writing Center associ-
ates, who are Ph.D. candidates
themselves, have been specially
trained as dissertation coaches.
They are regularly available or
one- or two-hour sessions weekly
to help at any stage o the writing
process. The project also holds a
dissertation workshop twice dur-
ing the academic year, in October
and January.
Dissertation coaches help
students make the transition into
a new kind o thinking, Brown
said.
The resource has attracted stu-
dents rom a variety o disciplines,
including biomedical students,
Bonde said, adding that its dicult
to gauge which departments have
the greatest number o students
who struggle to complete their
dissertations.
One student who has used the
Writing Center as part o the project
said she ound it very helpul.
(I) dont recall the substance
o the conversation, but I know it
was about seeing the writing pro-
cess as just that, a process, and it
was good to hear rom people at
dierent stages o that process,
said Margaret Stevens, a Ph.D. can-
didate in American Civilization, o
her eperience with a dissertation
coach.
Sometimes its easy to get
tracked into your year so that you
only see the grad eperience rom
your direct cohort, but when you
C S D By MoniQue Vernon
Contributing Writer
Patti Solis Doyle: longtime aide and
campaign manager or now-Secre-
tary o State Hillary Clinton, the
rst Latina to manage a presidential
campaign and one-time campaign
chie o sta or the candidate Barack
Obamas uture vice president. She
may have an impressive resume now,
but Solis Doyles credentials have
been hard-won.
In Salomon 101 last night, Solis
Doyle, a child o Mexican immi-
grants, delivered the opening con-
vocation or Latino History Month,
spearheaded by the Third World
Center. In keeping with this years
theme, Unlocking the Present:
Shaping the Future, Honoring Our
Past, her lecture charted her path
rom a di cult adolescence through
her contributions to the 2008 presi-
dential election.
Solis Doyle began her political
career working in the oces o
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, She
made her way through the ranks
and was soon hired as the sole
aide or would-be rst lady Hillary
Clinton during Bill Clintons 1992
run or president. Solis Doyle said
she established a close relationship
with Hillary Clinton during that rst
campaign and continued to work
with her or many years, through
Clintons bid or president in 2008.
Solis-Doyle resigned rom the
campaign during the 2008 primaries
ater she became the ocus o nega-
tive media attention.
In response to accusations that
she was too aggressive and oul-
mouthed, Solis Doyle shrugged o
the criticisms. Do I always have the
vocabulary o an altar boy? Not so
much. Do I like to win? Yes, she
said last night.
Despite her ultimate resignation,
she said, I am proud o the race
we ran Im proud o the 18 mil-
lion votes she got I am especially
proud o the role Hispanic voters
played.
Solis Doyle later ended up as the
campaign chie o sta or the po-
tential vice president o the Obama
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CMPS wS The state ant afford to lose $95 million in tax revene at this partilar point. Daniel Beardsley, Rhode Island Leage of cities and Towns
and dont generate epensive medi-
cal bills, Carpenter said.
When patients start treatment
they come to the hospital or an hour
a day, ve days a week, or a little
over a month.
So ar there have been six patients
that have gone through TMS therapy
at Butler Hospital. All but one have
shown some level o improvement in
treating their symptoms o depres-
sion, Carpenter said, adding that so
ar two patients have had total remis-
sion o their depression while one
patient noticed a 20 percent decrease
in depression symptoms.Its been really un to see pa-
tients get better with this because
these are people that are not getting
better with medications, she said.
Many o them had done ECT in the
past or their depression, some had
had hospitalizations.
So ar the device has been im-plemented in a limited number o
hospitals. There were roughly 20
hospitals involved in the clinical tri-
als, Carpenter said, adding that each
hospital still has its machine.
The slow pace o implementation
is due to the time needed to train
sta in machine operation, as well
as typical hospital procedure or
implementing new programs, Car-
penter said, adding that she is the
only doctor who currently perorms
the treatments at Butler Hospital
even though three others have been
trained.
Whats really cool about this isthat were probably at the beginning
o an era where we can give better
treatments or psychiatric disorders.
Carpenter said. Its a whole dierent
way to get at the organ that youre
trying to treat.
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talk to people who are writing at moreadvanced stages then it becomes a
more fuid process.
Since it started, the project has
seen, on average, over 25 visits to the
Writing Center per month, according
to statistics kept by the center.
Some students come in or mul-
tiple sessions so there are ewer stu-
dents utilizing the project than the
number o visits, according to Tiara
Silva, administrative assistant or the
Dean o the College.
Students can, and have in the past,
requested special hours to etend
a regular session to as long as ve
hours, Silva said. Students rom alldisciplines come in or help, added
Silva, but we seem to have the most
visits rom people in economics.
Brown said that, by providing peer
support, the project also ameliorates
the loneliness oten associated with
writing a lengthy thesis.
Some people are truly solitarywriters, but most people are not,
he said.
As aculty members oten work
collaboratively, Brown added that
it makes perect sense that gradu-
ate students would share their work
with each other.
Still, some students said they are
not concerned with the prospect
o having an All But Dissertation
status.
We know at some point well n-
ish it, even i it takes a longer time,
said Angelica Duran, a second year
Ph.D. candidate in political science
who saw a Morning Mail notice aboutthe program and plans to utilize the
resource. The most dicult points
are the beginning and the end.
The intermediate stage is the most
bearable.
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time, Espinal said, adding that
nearly 120 students did not turnin the contracts.
Some people were saying they
didnt get (the orms) in their
mailboxes, Espinal said. Oth-
ers didnt know i they didnt hand
it in, it was going to be such a big
deal.
BuDS general manger Alex
Hartley 10, who declined to com-
ment on why the ormal warnings
were revoked, said the warnings
issued to employees who ailed
to return the new contract would
not have aected the number o
allowable inractions ater which
students can be red.The ormals NEVER were tak-
en into account when someones
employment was concerned,
Hartley wrote in an e-mail to The
Herald. And by ormals I meanormals that were written or ail-
ure to return the contract.
Hartley also wrote that BuDS
has begun to encourage workers
to share ideas and input with man-
agement.
We now hold open orums.
We just had our rst two last week
where workers and supervisors
could come and communicate with
management on any issue, Hart-
ley wrote. Ater spring break, I
will be holding oce hours or
students to come and talk to me
personally.
To avoid any repercussionsbeore the ormal warnings were
revoked, many employees worked
an extra 10 hours in addition to
their regular shits, Espinal said,
adding that workers can now usethat time to enhance their bo-
nuses.
Espinal said management has
done an amazing job coming up
with a new tactic to involve work-
ers.
She said she is pleased that
the ormal warnings have been
revoked, but doubts that the
homework policy will undergo
any revisions in the uture.
I think people have gener-
ally started to accept it, because
I think that most people think
that the inner management team
isnt going to change it at all,Espinal said.
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campaign. Her position involved
securing venues, travel arrange-
ments and speeches or the ve
Democratic vice-presidential hope-
uls.
Though she did not speak much
on her short-lived work with the
Obama campaign, Solis Doyle said
she is proud o his historic run and
her role in it. For me I took pride
in my role as a top Hispanic aide,
she said.
Solis Doyle credited her strong
work ethic to her ather, Santiago
Solis, a Meican immigrant.
Hazte valer value yoursel,
work hard and never do anything
to embarrass yoursel and your
amily. Solis Doyle repeated her
athers creed oten throughout
her talk and said, It is still the best
advice I have ever been given.Solis Doyle described her a-
ther as a determined man, who
was deported twice ater attempts
to immigrate to the United States.
His third attempt at citizenship was
successul, and he and his amily
settled into the Pilsen neighbor-
hood o Chicago.
Though her parents both
worked hard at multiple jobs, So-
lis Doyle estimated that they never
made more than $18,000 a year
combined. Despite the amilys
economic hardship, Solis Doyle
worked hard in school and was
able to obtain a scholarship to
Northwestern University.
To me, school was one world,
home was another, Solis Doyle
said. In some ways it elt as ar
as Mars. Despite her enthusiasm
or her education, the confict be-
tween her home lie and the pres-
sures o school ultimately led Solis
Doyle to lose her scholarship. She
dropped out o school temporarily,
married at the age o 19 and was
divorced by 21. Eventually she re-
turned to Northwestern to nish
her degree.
It was through the infuence
o her brother, Daniel Solis a
Chicago city council alderman that Solis Doyle was able to make
connections and establish hersel
in the political arena. Solis Doyle
said she was inspired to continue
working in politics by the power
o organizing ordinary people to
do etraordinary things.
Students reacted positively to
Solis Doyles talk. I thought she
was very down to earth, Ashtin
Charles 12 said. Her ability to
connect with people, minority
people, was proound so the audi-
ence could really relate.
I thought she was excellent and
wonderully combined personalanecdotes with examples rom her
political activism and proessional
lie in a stirring review and tribute
o past, present and current contri-
butions o the Latino community,
Morgan Ivens 12 said.
Ater Solis Doyles talk, the foor
was opened up or a question and
answer session. Solis Doyle dis-
pensed advice rom her experience
as a political operative. When an
audience member asked why she
thought the Republicans were less
successul than the Democrats in
the past election, Solis Doyle spoke
o the importance o the Hispanic
media team in the campaigns.
Other questions also re-
turned to the importance o Solis
Doyles ethnicity to her political
lie. When asked how she bal-
ances her cultural and proes-
sional roles, she responded, You
cant really hide who you are or
what you are, its a ools errand.
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sages to be in violation o any
state laws or the ederal Family
Educational Rights and Privacy
Act, which prohibits educational
institutions rom releasing con-
idential inormation without
student or parental consent.
Tilton, who was hired to
head the inancial aid oice in
2006, said no similar mistakes
have been made during his
tenure. He does not know o
any such mistakes prior to his
hiring, he said.
In the uture beore mass
e-mails like this go out, Tiltonsaid, well certainly make sure
that theyre created appropriate-
ly and mailed appropriately.
Some student said they were
upset by the inadvertent release
o the names.
I think its a really big mis-
take, said Molly Jacobson 10,
who said she noticed the er-
ror as soon as she received the
e-mail. For a lot o students,
(inancial aid) is a private
thing.
Vivienne Vicera 11, who
also received one o the e-mails,
said she too was bothered by
the mistake.
But other students whose
names were divulged consid-
ered the error minor.
Im not angry, said Corlis
Gross 10. Its not something
that Im ashamed o.
I dont care, really, said
Gabe Heymann 10.5. I eel
like being on inancial aid is not
really something that is looked
down upon or should be looked
down upon at all.
With additional
reporting by Brigitta Greene
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We didnt have any problem with (warnings). Lietenant John Ryan, ommander of Providene Polie Dept., Distrit 9
G b k By Joanna wohlMuTh
Metro editor
As Rhode Island aces crippling un-
employment and the largest budget
decit in the states history, Gov.
Donald Carcieris 65 proposed bud-
get has garnered criticism rom all
sides in the week since its release.
The governors budget recom-
mendations or the net scal year
rely on taxes and ederal stimulus
unds to bridge the anticipated $860
million decit over the next two
years and to increase state spend-
ing by 10 percent. Under Carcierisproposal, the state would spend a
total o $7.62 billion in 2010.
But Carcieri whose approval
rating among Rhode Islanders re-
cently hit a low o 34 percent, ac-
cording to a poll by the Taubman
Center or Public Policy will have
to get his budget through the states
Democrat-dominated General As-
sembly.
Though the stimulus money in-
cludes $110 million rom a state
scal stabilization und to be spent
on education and aid to local com-
munities over the next two years, the
governors proposed budget elimi-
nates a revenue-sharing programrom his previous budget that was
to give $31 million in state aid to
cities and towns.
Many political leaders and inter-
est groups have already voiced con-
cerns about the governors proposed
use o stimulus unds and restructur-
ing o the states ta system.
In a letter to U.S. Secretary o
Education Arne Duncan, Providence
Mayor David Cicilline 83 questioned
the governors use o stimulus mon-
ey to replace state education und-
ing. The potential transormative
impact o the (ederal unding) is
undermined by the spending propos-
als in Carcieris budget proposal, Ci-cilline wrote. Rather than seizing an
opportunity or strategic, increased
unding (Carcieri) is instead only
maintaining the status quo.
Though the nal guidelines or
the use o the stimulus unds have
not been completed by the U.S.
Department o Education, the gov-
ernors proposal ollows the intent
and spirit o the recovery bill, said
Amy Kempe, the governors press
secretary. The scal stabilization
unds are ungible, she added.
The governors budget recom-
mendations also alter the states in-
come ta structure, increasing the
By Melissa shuBe
SeniorStaffWriter
Despite the economic struggles o
many o Providences artistic and
cultural organizations, the initiative
to produce a cultural plan or the
city Creative Providence is
soldiering on.
This month, the group, run by
the Department o Art, Culture
and Tourism, has been holding
meetings or artists and commu-
nity members to discuss topics
including inusing the economy
with creativity and increasing
community access to and cultur-
al participation in the arts, said
Lynne McCormack, director o
the department. The meetings, as
well as community orums and a
2,000-person survey completed last
year, will help develop the Cultural
Providence plan, McCormack said,
which would be ready or its steer-
ing committees approval in May.
The program has allowed the
arts community to identiy the
cultural resources o the city, said
Hope Alswang, director o the
Rhode Island School o Design
Museum o Art and member o
the Creative Providences steer-
ing committee. For a small city,
Providence provides a really richdiversity o arts opportunities, she
added.
The city is now branding itsel
as the creative capital, said Um-
berto Crenca, artistic director and
ounder o community arts venue
AS220 and member o Creative
Providences steering committee.
The group ensures that theres
as much substance as there is
hype, within the citys art scene,
he said.
The promotion o art and cul-
ture in Providence comes at a time
C k z By alicia danG
ContributingWriter
With over 35 inches o snow alling
in Fo Point in January, residents
have complained about the non-
enorcement o a city ordinance
that requires property owners to
remove snow rom public walkways,
prompting the city council to pre-
pare a new ordinance to respondto this problem.
There are about our or ve
more complaints this year than last
year, said Lieutenant John Ryan,
commander o Providence Police
District 9, which includes Brown
and much o the East Side, attribut-
ing this increase to higher requency
and volume o snowall.
According to Ryan, there were
10 houses in total that received
complaints, most o which are on
Gano, East Transit and Ives streets.
Two o the houses are unoccupied
and some have student tenants, he
said.Upon receipt o complaints, po-
licemen went to those houses to
give inormal warnings but did not
impose a ne. We didnt have any
problem with them, Ryan said, add-
ing that the tenants and landlords
o the buildings quickly removed
the snow ater being inormed o
the complaints.
We have more snow this year,
said Daisy Schnepel, president o
the Fox Point Neighborhood As-
sociation. We havent received a lot
o ormal complaints, but people do
get upset that the city doesnt take
care o its properties.
A ormer board member o the
neighborhood association brought
the issue to the boards attention
about two months ago and they dis-
cussed it in a meeting, Schenepel
said. The members then reported
the problem to the city council.
On the whole, i theres a prob-
lem, we contact whatever depart-
ment that deals with it, Schnepel
said. I the problem is related to
the mechanisms o the environment,
we tell (the complainants) to contact
the councilmen or the Department
o Public Works.
The city council is taking a two-
pronged approach to tackle this is-
sue, said Ward 1 Councilman Seth
Yurdin. The council is planning to
work with local lieutenants to raise
awareness o the city ordinance
a polite way to remind propertyowners to remove snow rom their
adjacent sidewalks, he added.
Additionally, a new ordinance
that is designed to be more eective
than the current one has been intro-
duced by Ward 4 Councilman Nicho-
las Narducci, Jr., Yurdin said.
The existing city ordinance re-
quires residents to clear a path at
least three eet wide on the sidewalk
in ront o their house within the
rst our hours o daylight ater a
snowall. Violators may be ned
between $25 to $300.
The newly introduced ordinance
proposes to increase the ne to up
to $500 and keep a record o the
properties whose residents violate
the ordinance, Yurdin said, adding
that this will hold landlords, rather
than tenants, responsible or obey-
ing the ordinance.Currently, police provide a copy
o the ordinance to violators, but i
a new ordinance is passed, fyers
will probably be distributed to all
city residents, Ryan said.
Yurdin is supporting the new
ordinance and is currently work-
ing with our other members o the
ordinance committee, the Depart-
ment o Public Works and local
lieutenants to discuss and amend
it, he said.
Once the proposal leaves the
ordinance committee, it will go to
the entire city council or a nal vote,
Yurdin added.Even with a new ordinance,
educating residents about their
responsibilities is still the highest
priority. Once there is more aware-
ness, there is more compliance (and
then) enorcement is less impor-
tant, Yurdin said.
Sometimes they just dont
know, Ryan said. Reminding peo-
ple is time consuming, but not a
problem.
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though he cannot aord to advertise
locally, Sachdev has tried to attract
shoppers by improving his stores
window displays.
The large, brightly colored signs
in the stores windows advertise
some o the stores promotions, in-
cluding a Name Your Price sale.
This year, we are not looking tomake a prot, Sachdev said. We are
looking to stay in business.
Many businesses around Col-
lege Hill have not been so ortunate.
In the last year, amiliar locations
such as Spikes Junkyard Dogs and
Cae Roba Dolce have closed their
doors, unable to keep up with high
Thayer Street rents. The windows
o a ormer Thayer sandwich shop,
Geos, are now papered over, while
the Wickenden Street sex shop Miko
Exoticwear went under last sum-
mer.
Few new businesses have opened
up to replace them and those owners
lucky enough to still be in business
have been orced to think o new
ways to attract customers.
Like Sachdev, local businessman
Michael Sherman, who has owned
the vintage apparel store The 1793
Shoppe or the last three years, has
aimed to make shopping a more
enjoyable experience or his cus-
tomers.
He estimated that December
2008 sales at his Steeple Street
store were down 90 percent rom
the same time in the previous year.
Since then, he has marked down
all o his merchandise in an eort
to appeal to customers.
In February, Sherman teamed up
with the owners o Curiosities a
Wickenden antique shop that used
to be housed on Angell Street
or a Save Our Stores event at his
store. Nearly 70 people paid a $5
cover charge or the rereshments
and entertainment, he said, and the
owners split the prots.
The event was very success-
ul because many o the attendeesbought merchandise, Sherman
added.
Yet Sherman said he has seen
very ew repeat customers since
the event, and with no money or
advertising, he nds it increasingly
dicult to attract customers to his
second-foor store.
Ann Dusseault, who has co-
owned Pie in the Sky at 225 Thayer
St. or 15 years, has also ound it
dicult to make her store appeal
to shoppers lately. A jewelry and git
shop, Pie in the Sky has seen sig-
nicantly ewer customers in recent
months, Dusseault said. To make
matters worse, her regulars are
also spending less.
I especially saw it at Christmas,
she said, adding that the more ex-
pensive items in the store, including
jewelry, are not selling at the rates
they used to.
Its a battle, she said, estimating
that sales are down nearly 50 percent
rom last year.
But Dusseault realizes that she
is not the only one aected by the
economic downturn. Because she is
barely able to make rent payments,
she is no longer ordering any new
merchandise yet vendors are now
requently calling or her business,
complaining that their companies
are suering, too.
Like Sachdev and Sherman, Dus-
seault has oregone most advertis-
ing, simply because any extra money
needs to be put toward paying the
rent.
As or the uture, Dusseault too
has become increasingly creative
in her sales strategies. She recently
joined studentrate.com, a Web sitethat oers students discounts and
promotions at local and national
stores. In addition, she has begun
making her own merchandise, and
has even moved stu around in
an eort to mix up the stores o-
erings.
Sachdev has been equally cre-
ative in his eort to make shopping
at Spectrum India a memorable ex-
perience. This week, he debuted
a series o promotions involving a
dierent discount or each weekday
with a catch. Depending on the
day, customers will have to perorm
a dierent activity or challenge in
order to receive the sale.As part o the Moody Monday
Blues, shoppers can sing a blues
song to receive an etra 10 percent
o CDs and DVDs. On Terrible
Tuesdays customers are encour-
aged to imitate a toddler throwing a
tantrum. I they do, the will receive
an etra 10 percent o toys, books
and games.
Wednesdays promotion invites
shoppers to do a sot shoe dance
or a ootwear discount, and i cus-
tomers tell a deep, dark secret on
Thursdays, they will receive ree
incense with the purchase o candles
or essential oils.
Though the sale might be out
o the ordinary, Sachdev said he
wants customers to have un in
his store despite the dicult eco-
nomic times.
Ive been through six recessions,
and Ive managed to survive, he
said.
With his options limited, Sher-
man said he plans to hold another
gathering similar to the S.O.Sevent most likely a ashion show
in April.
But not all business owners think
they have the energy to compete in
a prolonged recession.
Bryan Creighton, owner o
Morrison Oce Supply, Inc. at 215
Thayer St., said his business went
into survival mode about a year
ago. Since then, Creighton has ad-
justed purchasing, bringing less new
merchandise into his store. While
the strategy has allowed him to pay
this months rent, he said it does not
appear that the business can endure
much longer.
A business like his would neednew, younger management resh
blood to survive, said Creighton,
who has run the store or 20 years.
While he said that the indepen-
dent stationery and oce supply
industry was in decline even then,
nancial concerns have become in-
creasingly severe in recent months.
He said it was very possible that
he would soon sell the storeront to
local restauranteur Andy Mitrelis,
who told The Herald last month that
he plans to open a burger restaurant
where Yangs, a boutique store that
closed last summer, once was.
Sherman said he was concerned
about the number o local business
owners who were being orced to
close their doors.
When you lose small stores, part
o the character o the city dies,
he said.
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At a press conerence Monday,
President Obama emphasized the
importance o small businesses,which he called the heart o the
American economy. Obama cred-
ited small businesses with creating
70 percent o the new jobs in the
past decade, and introduced a variety
o measures intended to increase
lending.
The American Reinvestment and
Recovery Act o 2009, known as the
stimulus bill, has made provisions
to help small business owners, said
Mark Hayward, Rhode Island district
director or the United States Small
Business Administration.
Under the legislation, the SBA,
a ederal agency, will drop both its
borrower and lender ees on smallbusiness loans, and will guarantee
banks up to 90 percent o the value
o the loan.
The agencys main interests, Hay-
ward said, are the needs o small
business owners, providing nancial
assistance and counseling to small
businesses. Hayward said that de-
spite the diculties local businesses
are encountering, the SBA is actu-
ally in a good spot.
Our goal is to encourage and
entice lenders, Hayward said, add-
ing that businesses are in need o
lines o credit or something to get
through.
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1:sk Jukya dog273 Thayer St. After more
than 15 years of serving up
legendary hot dogs and fried
food, the Thayer Street estab-
lishment shut its doors last
September. Owner Gareth
Mundy told The Herald that
high taxes and rising property vales made bsi-
ness on Thayer Street diffilt. Spikes known
for its hot-dog-eating ontests maintains nine
other loations in Rhode Island, connetit and
Massahsetts.
2:Blaz o Thay272 Thayer St. The HopeStreet cookin With Fire restaurant opened a
Thayer offshoot in 2007, but it losed last year. The
seond-floor loation has sine been replaed by
tropial-themed Marleys, while the original Blazeon Hope remains.
3:p t sky225 ThayerSt. co-owner Ann Dusseault
said that sales at her jewelry
and gift shop are down nearly
50 perent from last year. In
reent months, Dusseault has
redued the stores operating
hors and stopped ordering new merhandise in
order to t osts.
4:stm i252 Thayer St. Owner JagdishSahdev said this years eonomi downtrn has
been togher than anything he has seen in his
time on college Hill and Spetrum India has
been on Thayer Street for 42 years. Reently, Sa-
hdev has introdued unusual promotions in
order to generate bsiness, inlding the Name
Yor Prie sale.
5: Goff sulatvsawch235 Thayer St.
The loal sandwih shop shut
down last summer, and its
Thayer Street loation has
remained empty ever sine.
The restaurants flagship site
on Benefit Street remains open.
6:roba dolc 178 Angell St. The Italian paniniand gelato afe on the orner of Angell and Thayer
nexpetedly losed last month. Owner Nino De-
Martino said he was not notified before reeiving
an evition notie on Feb. 16. DeMartino said this
month that the possibility of resuming business inthe 900-sqare-foot spae is very, very small.
7:yg217 Thayer St. Thefabri and gift boutique losed
its doors last smmer. Loal
restaurateur Andy Mitrellis
said he will open Better Burg-
er company a new brger,
sandwih and pizza shop in
the loation sometime this spring.
8:M o s215 Thayer St. OwnerBryan creighton went into survival mode about a
year ago by adjusting purhasing and bringing less
new merhandise into his Thayer Street store. While
he is able to pay the rent this month creighton
dobts the bsiness an last mh longer.
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o great economic turmoil or the
creative community, said Alswang. Alswang and Craig Dreeszen,
cultural planning consultant or
the Creative Providence project,
attribute the nancial struggles
o the artistic community to the
economic downturn and resulting
loss o corporate unding to many
cultural organizations, reduction o
endowments and decreased patron-
age o the arts.
Our arts institutions in this city
have not aced anything like this in
living memory, said Alswang,
Theres a struggle, more so
than Ive witnessed in a while,
Crenca said. A lot o arts orga-nizations ... are just trying to sur-
vive.
The crisis is hurting individual
artists too, according to Crenca,
who added that more artists than
usual have been reaching out to
AS220 sta or help nding work.
Dreeszen said the economic cri-
sis is the elephant in the room or
Creative Providence.
The group has had to adapt to
the economic realities, McCor-mack said.
I think we have been talking
more about sustainability than we
have about creating new things,
said McCormack. There has been
a lot o talk about how do we sustain
the organization, how do we make
sure we dont lose our art scene,
how do we keep spaces cheap and
aordable.
McCormack said the economic
situation has helped the committee
ocus on what is important to the
community.
Dreeszen said Creative Provi-
dence also hopes to stimulate eco-nomic development through arts
and culture by helping cultural
organizations whose unding has
been cut and assisting individual
artists and creative workers.
Were trying to establish a
climate in which these olks can
prosper, he said, noting that this
is more dicult in a tight economy
where art and perormance are
seen by some as discretionary
purchases.Alswang and McCormack said
Creative Providence acilitates re-
lationships and allows artists who
wouldnt normally talk to each each
other to work together.
While Alswang stressed that
theres no quick es here, the
relationships that artists and or-
ganizations are building could
help in the sharing o resources
and potentially in the reduction
o costs.
We could do more marketing
together, we could do more shared
backroom costs, she said.
Crenca said he was impressedwith the citys commitment to
arts and culture at a time when
it doesnt seem like the obvious
thing.
Theres plenty o ecuses not
to plan, he said. Despite the crisis
that were in, were continuing to
look towards the uture.
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earned-income tax credit or low-
income households while raising
taxes or some Rhode Island couples
and individuals making less than
$75,000 annually.
Carcieris proposed budget also
includes a ve-year phase-out o the
corporate income tax. It would raise
the states cigarette tax by $1 per
pack and slash unding or RIteCare,
the states subsidized health insur-
ance.
The state cant aord to lose
$95 million in tax revenue at this
particular point, said Daniel Beard-
sley, executive director o the RhodeIsland League o Cities and Towns.
Cutting taxes or wealthy people
and protable businesses will do
little to improve the economy in the
short run and will hurt it in the long
run.
Beardsley also called ederal
stimulus unding a double-edged
sword, expressing concern about
whether the state would again be
thrown into economic turmoil when
recovery aid is cut o in 2012.
Kempe deended the corporate
income tax cuts, stating that Rhode
Island needs to position itsel to be
competitive with neighboring states,
such as Connecticut and Massachu-
setts, which have much lower cor-porate tax rates. The only way to
grow jobs and grow revenue is to
grow business, she said.
The net key point in the states
budget proposal process will come
at the end o April and beginning o
May with the Revenue Estimating
Conerence, said Russell Dannecker,
scal policy analyst at the Poverty
Institute at Rhode Island College.
More signicant decisions will be
made once current budget projec-
tions are reevaluated, he said.
Whenever we get into these
types o (economic) situations, the
budgets are always dicult, Dan-necker said. This time there was
enough advanced notice o the ed-
eral aid that was coming in but
it does raise issues in the long term
about what to do when the money
disappears.
The state legislature will debate
the governors proposal over the
next ew months beore creating
its own revised budget or his ap-
proval.
Theyve got a long road ahead
o them in many respects, Beard-
sley said. Its going to be a very
dicult road over the next ve or
si months.
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The No. 15 mens lacrosse team
survived another close game on Sat-
urday, when Brown (4-1) jumped
out to an early 5-2 lead and held on
or a 9-8 victory over No. 13 UM-
ass (3-3) in the Bears nal contest
beore beginning Ivy League play.
Quad-captain Jordan Burke 09 had
a season-high 20 saves to anchor the
deense, while Reade Seligmann
09 paced the oense with a team-
high three goals. Quad-captains Jack
Walsh 09 and Kyle Hollingsworth
09 collectively registered a three-
point game or the Bears.
We came out pretty hungry,Seligmann said. We were talking
all week about how UMass is pretty
much our biggest rivalry. Theyre
very similar to us, theyre very
scrappy and we knew we were go-
ing to have to match them with that
type o intensity.
At UMasss Richard F. Garber
Field, aectionately known as The
Zoo, the game remained scoreless
or nearly nine minutes as UMass
goalie Doc Schneider made our
saves beore Walsh nally broke
the tie on an unassisted goal with
6:11 let in the rst quarter.
But the Minutemen went on the
attack, and though Burke made twomore saves, Brown ailed to clear the
ball each time, leading to a goal by
UMasss Art Kell o a ground ball
pickup with 4:58 let in the period.
Thomas Muldoon 10 scored
o a pass rom Walsh to regain the
lead or the Bears heading into the
second quarter, but the Minutemen
came out ring to start the period.
Burke made two saves in the
opening 30 seconds o the second
quarter, but once again, a ground
ball pickup o a clearing attempt led
to a UMass goal, tying the score at
2-2 just 40 seconds in.
They had a pretty good ride onus all game, and we had a little bit
o trouble clearing the ball, Burke
said. We know that UMass really
likes to shoot, so they dont neces-
sarily try to get the best shots, but
they like to re.
The score remained tied or near-
ly eight minutes, but then the Bears
took control. With 6:41 remaining
in the hal, Seligmann notched his
rst goal o the day, assisted by
Hollingsworth, who leads Brown
with nine assists this season. Just 28
seconds later, Rob Schlesinger 12
scored the rst goal o his college
career, the rst o his two goals o
the day, to widen the lead to 4-2. Less
than a minute later, Walsh added
his second goal o the day to make
it a 5-2 game.
It was great to see Jack Walsh,
Reade Seligmann and Rob Schlesing-
er step up and get a couple goals,said Head Coach Lars Tiany 90.
Theres no question, i were going
to be a strong program and contend
or another Ivy League champion-
ship and the NCAA Tournament, we
must have many threats. We have to
be a well-rounded oensive unit, and
that did emerge on Saturday.
The Minutemen got one back
with 4:36 let in the hal, but Brown
went into haltime with a 5-3 lead,
behind two goals rom Walsh and
12 saves rom Burke.
Jordan Burke was in All-Amer-
ican orm, Tiany said. We play
a style o deense that allows the
other team to take a lot o shots, and
we give up shots that a lot o other
teams wouldnt want their goalie to
see. But we welcome those shots
on Jordan, because we believe in
him so much, and he steps up to
the challenge.
M. k YBy dan alexander
SportS StaffWriter
Yales power-play was all it took
to end the mens hockey teams
improbable run in the ECAC tour-
nament.
The Bears (5-23-5, 3-16-4 ECAC
Hockey) jumped out to a 2-0 lead
in Friday nights game, but the
top-seeded Bulldogs (22-7-2, 15-
5-2) scored our straight goals,
including two power-play goals in
the nal rame, to get the rst win
in the best-o-three quarternal
series.
We took a lot o penalties andit killed the fow o the game, said
assistant captain Jordan Pietrus
10.
Two more power-play goals on
Saturday night gave Yale a 2-0 win,
ending Browns season and send-
ing Yale to Albany or the ECAC
Hockey seminals.
Saturdays loss was the th
loss to Yale this season or the
Bears, who ell to the Bulldogs
three times in November.
But the Bears were resh o
a sweep o No. 5 seed Harvard in
the opening round o the ECAC
Tournament and didnt look like
the same team that had droppedthree games to Yale in the begin-
ning o the season.
I think we were a lot more
condent coming o Har vard and
knowing that a lot o our young
guys made a nice step, said Head
Coach Roger Grillo. I just think
we were a much better team than
what Yale had aced earlier in the
season.
y 4, B 2
The Bears carried their mo-
mentum rom Cambridge to New
Haven and gained a 15-4 rst-peri-
od shot advantage on the Bulldogs,who had earned a bye in the rst
round.
We had lots o condence. Wewere amped up. We were ready to
go, Pietrus said. We knew they
had had an etra week o where
they hadnt had a game, so they
could be sluggish, so we really
wanted to try and take advantage
o that.
With seconds let on a Yale
power-play, Pietrus challenged
Bulldog Sean Backman at the
point.
I knew he was going to look
to shoot, so I just tried to get into
the shooting lane, Pietrus said.
He put the puck o my shin pads
and I got lucky and the puck endedup going out o the zone. At that
point, I had a step on him and, you
know, it was just kind o a ootrace
down the ice.
Pietrus won the ootrace and
put a shot o the pipe and into the
back o the net or his th goal o
the year.
The Bears got another when
David Brownschidle 11 scored
his rst o the season just 2:16 into
the middle rame, giving Brown a
2-0 advantage.
But Brown wouldnt score
again or the rest o the weekend,
and the penalty spree started ater
the second goal. The Bears wenton the penalty kill our times in the
second period and killed all our-
man advantages. But ater stopping
100 straight pucks over two and
a hal games, Mike Clemente 12
gave up his rst goal o the play-
os on an even-ice goal midway
through the second period.
Yale made it a 2-2 game beore
the end o the period when Bulldog
Denny Kearney put a one-timer
rom the slot past Clemente with
just three ticks remaining in the
period.
The Bulldogs then scored what
would prove to be the game-win-
Jstin coleman / Herald
Reade Seligmann 09 led No. 18 mens larosse with three goals.
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SPSuesday I apologized to them that their season had to end. Mike clemente 12, mens hokey goalie
UMass cut Browns lead to one
with 11:27 let in the third quarter,and the Minutemen nearly tied the
game with just under 10 minutes
let in the period, but Burke made
back-to-back saves just eight sec-
onds apart, giving Brown posses-
sion, which culminated in Holling-
sworths only goal o the day, o an
assist rom Andrew Feinberg 11.
The Minutemen scored two
straight goals to tie the game at 6-6,
but Seligmann scored his second
goal o the game with si seconds
let in the period, completing the hat
trick just under three minutes into
the ourth quar ter, giving Brown an
8-6 lead. Seligmanns three-goal per-ormance came on a day when the
Bears needed it most, as the UMass
deense shut down Feinberg, who
did not score ater recording a hat
trick in each o the rst our games
o the season.
We have a lot o dierent weap-
ons on oense and we have some
big superstar names out there, Se-
ligmann said. It was one o those
days where more people were get-
ting opportunities and hitting the
cage, rather than holding up on
shots.
Just 10 seconds ater Seligmanns
third goal, the Minutemen scored
o the ace-o to make it a one-goal game again, but Schlesingers
second goal, with 10:11 let to play,
widened the lead to 9-7. Though
the Minutemen brought the game
back to within one just 35 seconds
later, Burke was perect rom that
point on, making our saves in the
remainder o the game, including
three in the nal minute, to secure
the 9-8 win or Brown, the teams
third one-goal win o the season.
Jordan (Burke) wants the
weight o the world on his shoul-
ders, Tiany said. He wants to
be the last man back there when
were relying on him to make the
save to win the game. Weve been
doing that a lot lately, and he keeps
proving himsel.
The win gives Brown its second
straight victory over a nationally
ranked team, ater the Bears earned
a 12-11 victory over No. 19 Denver
on March 8. Both wins could prove
to be key later in the season, when
the team could nd itsel vying or
an at-large bid to the NCAA Tour-
nament.
The NCAA Tournament is
always kind o in the back o our
minds, ater last year, going 11-3
and not getting in, so we know its
really important to get quality out-o-
conerence wins, Burke said.On Saturday, Brown will travel
to Hanover, N.H., to take on Dart-
mouth (1-4) or its Ivy opener.
Going into the Ivy League sea-
son at 4-1 is key, and were play-
ing with a lot o condence right
now, Burke said. But we know
we havent played perect yet, and
theres room or improvement, so
hopeully well have a good week
o practice and be ready or the Ivy
League season.
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Qad-aptain Jordan Brke 09 made three of his 20 saves in the finalminte, sering the No. 18 mens larosses vitory over No. 13 uMass.
ning goal just 3:06 into the nal
rame, on their seventh power-play
o the night, when Yales Broc Little
beat Clemente with a tough-angle
wrist shot rom the bottom o the
right ace-o circle.
Yale tacked on another power-
play goal midway through the
third, and the Bears couldnt re-
cover, despite pulling Clemente in
avor o an etra attacker with 56
seconds remaining in the game.
y 2, B 0
The Bears did not get o to thesame strong start in Game Two as
they had on Friday night. Yale got
out to a 17-2 shot advantage in the
opening period.
I was really surprised at how
we came out in Game Two so fat,
said assistant captain Aaron Vol-
patti 10. We obviously didnt give
up, but its almost like we were
deeated. You kind o got that eel-
ing.
Yale got our power-play op-
portunities, including two ve-on-
three chances, in the rst rame
alone. Browns penalty kill kept
Yale rom taking over the game,
but eventually tired out.With the Bears a man down
12:25 into the rst period, Mark
Arcobello received a eed rom
Kearney, who was positioned at
the goal line, and one-timed the
puck past Clemente to give the
Bulldogs a 1-0 lead.
The penalty kill was awesome,
Clemente said. I mean, we killed
o a couple o ve-on-threes. The
rst goal they scored in the rst
period on Saturday, everyone was
just completely ehausted.The teams headed into the lock-
er room with Yale ahead by just
one goal, but the Bulldogs began
the second period with 1:54 still
remaining on their ourth power-
play o the game.
Six seconds into the middle pe-
riod, another Bear was sent to the
box, giving Yale its third ve-on-
three advantage o the night. Hal
a minute later, Backman scored on
the two-man advantage, putting the
Bulldogs up, 2-0.
The scoreboard didnt change
or the rest o the game. Clemente
turned the puck away 11 times inthe nal period, while Yale goalie
Alec Richards added nine saves to
bring his game total to 19.
The Bears pulled Clemente
with a minute remaining in avor
o an extra attacker, but Brown was
whistled or another penalty with
15 seconds let. Clemente headed
back in goal and made his 34th
save o the night seconds beore
the nal buzzer.
Saturday nights loss was a dis-
appointing end to the careers o
Browns seven seniors, who skated
o the ice or the last time.
I apologized to them that their
season had to end. Theyre justgreat guys, Clemente said. It was
pretty painul.
Grillo said he had mied emo-
tions in the locker room ater the
game.
I was proud o the act that
they battled through a tough sea-
son and gave themselves an op-
portunity to continue to play, he
said. But I was disappointed that
we didnt put our best oot orward,
especially in the second game.
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yet, these poor saps oten get warning messages about eceeding their
storage limits and have to ace the horriying possibility that they might
not receive important e-mails rom proessors, employers and potential
love interests.
But good news is on the horizon: Brown may outsource its e-mail to a
third-party server as early as this all, according to Michael Pickett, vice
president or computing and inormation services and the Universitys
chie inormation ocer. By outsourcing Browns e-mail, the University
can save money and continue to provide students with brown.edu ad-
dresses. In an interview with the board, Pickett said CIS was consider-
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among others. The weight o this opinion cannot be understated: CIS
should choose Gmail, or the good o the University and or the welare
o its students.A previous article on Brown e-mail (U. considers outsourcing stu-
dent e-mail, Sept. 28, 2007) reported that the overwhelming majority
o undergraduates who orward e-mail rom their Brown accounts use
Gmail. In addition to providing students with all the storage space they
could possibly need 7,305 MB as opposed to the current 50 MB limit
Gmail is ar above its competition in providing exciting, useul and
innovative eatures. Recent Google Labs inventions include a tasks bar,
where users can make to-do lists and check o items as they are completed,
and a orgotten attachment detector, which lets you know i you have
mentioned an attachment in your e-mail but orgotten to attach it.
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But Mail Goggles isnt perect though some o us writer-types here
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Watson coverage unnecessarily viciousT t et:
I was dismayed by both the tone and content o yes-
terdays ront-page article (Watson directors unpopular
agenda draws ire, March 16). The story comes across
as a highly charged personal attack. The Watson Insti-
tute or International Studies is certainly going through a
challenging transition, urther amplied by the nancial
crisis. There are important ongoing discussions and
debates within the Watson Institute and across the
University over the uture direction o the Institute, and
this includes reasonable and understandable dierences
o opinion over hiring priorities and research agendas.
In this regard, some Watson aculty, including mysel,
have at times disagreed with the interim director. But
rather than constructively reporting on and contributing
to these deliberations, The Herald has instead added
a dose o venom that is both inappropriate and unhelp-
ul not to mention ultimately counterproductive in
attracting a new director or the Institute.The most inappropriate line in the article reerred
to the interim directors romantic relationship with a
Brown public policy proessor. The ar ticle implied that
there may be something improper about their involve-
ment. The person in question h