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20By ANNA ANDREEvA
StaffWriter
The Perry and Mar ty Grano Cen-
ter or the Creative Arts will open
or student use and oer classes
and programs in spring 2011, said
Richard Fishman, proessor o vi-
sual art and director o the Creative
Arts Council.
The center will eature a recital
hall, three production spaces, a gal-
lery, a recording studio, a physical
media lab and an outdoor amphi-
theater, according to the Creative
Arts Councils pamphlet about the
center. The center is also designed
with spaces or groups to gather,
talk, hold a seminar in order to
acilitate the exchange o ideas,
Fishman said.
The Creative Arts Council oc-
es that will be housed in the build-
ing should be open in December
2010, Fishman said.
The center will be used or
programs and courses taught by
aculty rom various departments
but will not house any academic
departments, Fishman said. Rhode
Island School o Design students
and aculty will be invited to make
use o the building as well, he
said, and public presentations
and events that will be open to the
community will also take place in
the building.
The center was inspired by the
need at Brown or a space where
barriers between the arts, science
and technology could be crossed,
Fishman said. He said the resulting
A 20By tAlIA KAgAN
SeniorStaffWriter
The creation o a graduate pro-
gram in Aricana studies marks
the latest development in the
growth o the department, which
hired renowned author Chinua
Achebe in the all. The Corpora-
tion approved the new program
in December, said Tricia Rose,
proessor o Aricana studies and
chair o the department.
The department, which is only
a decade old, currently oers only
an undergraduate degree. Thegraduate school will open admis-
sions next all or the programs
two ully-unded student openings,
and the rst students will enroll in
all 2011, Rose said.
While students will earn a
masters degree en route to their
doctorate, the approved proposal
does not include a terminal mas-
ters program, Rose said.
The programs curriculum has
three areas o ocus: history, poli-
tics and theory; literary, expres-
sive and perormance cultures;
and eminism, gender and sexual-
ity. Doctoral candidates will take
two required classes and otherseminars during their rst two
years and begin their dissertation
proposal in their third. They will
be able to choose among gradu-
ate seminars with topics including
black eminist thought and race
and cultural politics, according to
a September memo sent to admin-
istrators by the Aricana studies
aculty.
The small size is not unusual
or a graduate program in the
humanities at Brown, according
to Dean o the Graduate School
Sheila Bonde.
The rst class is limited to two
students because o the amount o
available unding, Rose said, add-
ing that she hopes the program
will expand to our or ve students
in each class. This would require
the dedication o additional re-
sources and undraising eorts
to create endowed student ellow-ships, she said.
The department began consid-
ering the program in 2001, but
did not actually begin working on
it until two years later, said Bar-
rymore Bogues, proessor o A-
ricana studies and a ormer chair
o the department.
In the ollowing years, the
department made a series o
high-prole hires such as Rose
and Proessor o Aricana Stud-
ies and English John Wideman.
These hires were part o a con-
scious decision to strengthen
the department in specic areas,
Bogues said.It is a departmental priority to
have the largest number o highly
ranked cutting-edge research ac-
ulty in order to attract top gradu-
ate students, Rose said.
The Graduate Council ap-
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By XUAN gAOContributingWriter
Five academic units are in the midst
o being reviewed this semester by
internal review teams led by
the Academic Priorities Commit-
tee and external review teams
o scholars rom other institutions,
according to guidelines and pro-
cedures or reviews o academic
programs produced by the Oce
o the Provost. The review process
gives departments and concentra-
tion programs an opportunity to
improve the quality o academic
units individually and the Univer-
sity as a whole, according to the
guidelines and procedures.
Associate Provost Nancy Dun-
bar, who oversees the reviews o
academic departments and cen-
ters, said the goal o the review
process is to think about where
we are, where we are trying to get
and how to get there. The units
undergoing review this year are
physics, chemistry, modern cul-
ture and media, English and liter-
ary arts.
The issue most departments
wanted to ocus on was how the
department is doing in relation to
its national or international peers,
Dunbar said. Scholar visits rom
other universities would help de-
partments see themselves in rela-
tion to their broader disciplines,
she said, adding that departments
want to refect on their strengths
and their capacities or leading
scholarship.
M bBy SARAH MANcONE
SeniorStaffWriter
On Friday night the Medical Student
Senate hosted a undraiser at 222
Richmond St. or the renovations that
will transorm it into Alpert Medi-
cal Schools new Medical School
Education Building. With drywall
pieces scattered on the foor, large
holes in walls, light xtures missing
and orange spray paint decorating
the walls, the building whose
renovations were approved by the
Corporation last month is a work
in progress.
Were going to shell this whole
thing, said Dean o Medicine and
Biological Sciences Edward Wing.
Renovations are scheduled to o-
cially begin on April 26, but the
University has received demolitionpermits that allowed some work to
begin earlier, Wing wrote in an e-
mail to The Herald.
The event, attended mostly by
medical students, aculty and Uni-
versity administrators, raised unds
Bs tk 3 n ECAC chmpnshpsBy DAN AlEXANDER
SportS editor
The mens hockey team was the
rst No. 11 seed in ECAC Hockey
Tournament history to make it to
the tournament Final Four, but the
Bears unlikely run to the champion-
ship ended Friday night in a 3-0 loss
to No. 7 Cornell, who went on to win
the tournament.
We were a program that was
utterly down when I got there, and
weve had to change the mentality
and culture, said rst-year Head
Coach Brendan Whittet 94. It
would have been nice to obviously
win a championship, but we made
some good strides.The Bears beat St. Lawrence in
a 3-0 consolation game the next day
to nish in third place.
corne 3, Brown 0
When Cornell took the ice min-
utes beore the opening aceo, a
sea o red shirts roared. And whenJonathan Bateman / Heral
The 11th-seee mens hocke team lost to No. 7 Cornell in the semis.
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CAMS wS Our unerras will benefit extensivel. Professor of Africana Stuies Tricia Rose
Historically, departments have
said the most useul part o the re-view process is the initial discussion
that happens among aculty, Dunbar
said. Our departments are all in-
terested in being the best they can
be, she said.
The review process provides
us an opportunity to assess where
(we) currently stand, both in terms
o teaching programs and research
directions, Proessor o Physics
Chung-I Tan P95 P03 who chairs
the Department o Physics and the
Faculty Executive Committee
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.
Tan wrote that the most meaning-
ul part o the review to the physicsdepartment is the sel-study, which
allows the department to examine
what we have done over the past
decade or our aculty hire, under-
graduate and graduate programs,
uture research direction and hir-
ing and expansion. Tan added that
the physics department discussed
how to expand strategically in order
to maximize the outcome o the
growth o the Division o Engineer-
ing into an engineering school.
While the sel-study is valuable,
it is nice to receive validation by
the external visiting team, which
the administration should take seri-
ously, he wrote.According to Tan, the internal
review o the physics department
has been completed and a report
will be provided to the external vis-
iting team. This team consists o
ve aculty members two rom
Harvard and one each rom Princ-
eton, New York University and DukeUniversity. They will visit the physics
department in April.
The Department is always evolv-
ing, both in terms o new aculty and
the natural evolution o the rontier
areas o physics research, Tan
wrote. The concentration program
is evolving in tandem, he added. Tan
wrote that the department is add-
ing new tracks in biophysics and
astrophysics to its bachelor o sci-
ence concentration due to increased
aculty research and student interest
in those areas.
The English department identi-
ed our issues its undergraduateconcentration, doctoral program,
non-ction writing program and hir-
ing plan to ocus its review on,
said Kevin McLaughlin, proessor
o English and chair o the depart-
ment.
The review will not lead to a
revolutionary change but the de-
partment will try to simpliy our
numbering system, and thats a little
bit dicult because o the way the
concentration requirements are,
McLaughlin said. Thats probably
going to lead us to step back and
look at everything.
The departments practice has
been to stay open to making chang-es, McLaughlin said. Weve been in
this current kind o system or our
years. Its time to maybe look at it
again and have a conversation, try to
get some student input, he said.
McLaughlin said one o the things
the English department wants to get
out o this review is an assessment othe non-ction writing program and
its relationship with the literature
program. More o our literature
aculty are teaching courses in the
non-ction writing program, but
wed like to have more integration
o the two i possible, he said.
Brian Evenson, proessor o lit-
erary arts and director o the liter-
ary arts program, said the program
consulted with other departments
that had gone through the review
process in the past, because the lit-
erary arts program was part o the
English department until 2005 and
has never been reviewed beore.We worked very hard and gured
out what was both good and bad
about our department. We got some
very productive responses rom the
external review. Now its up to the
University to implement the exter-
nal review teams recommendations,
he said.
We have a responsibility as a
top-ranked program to expose stu-
dents to the best writers and the
best teachers possible, Evenson
said. We eel very good about the
process. The recommendations o
the external review committee were
good. Were really hoping the ad-
ministration will respond positively,he said.
With additional reporting by Anita
Mathews
proved the proposal in 2007, but
the department waited until ater
an external review o the proposal
was completed to bring the pro-gram beore the Corporation, Rose
said.
The external review did not
require any revisions to the pro-
gram, Rose said. According to the
aculty memo, the review concluded
that with the graduate programs
creation, Browns department is
poised to be one o the top three
Aricana studies programs in the
country. Brown will be joining only
10 other U.S. schools with doctoral
programs in the eld, according to
the memo.
In comparison with other schools
programs, Browns proposed gradu-
ate curriculum is notable or the
act that its very interdisciplinary,
Bonde said. It will also be the only
graduate program in the country
with a ocus on gender and sexual-
ity, Rose said.
Because o the programs highly
interdisciplinary nature, Rose said,
she expects that graduate students
rom other departments, who al-
ready take undergraduate courses
in the department, will be interested
in taking graduate seminars in A-
ricana studies.
The programs students will
serve as teaching assistants in the
departments undergraduate cours-
es, Rose said. In the past, the depart-
ment has had to borrow graduate
students rom other departments
or use undergraduates.
Our undergrads will benet
extensively, Rose said.
Graduate students will also be
able to take upper-level undergradu-
ate seminars, Rose said, adding that
they oten elevate the conversa-
tion in those courses.
The initial proposal included
opportunities or graduate study
abroad as part o the Trilateral
Reconnection Project, but there is
currently no budget in place to sup-
port that, Rose said. The Trilateral
Reconnection Project, a partnership
with the University o Cape Town
and the University o the West In-
dies that the University established
in 2006, encourages joint research
and student and aculty exchange
between the schools.
Bogues, who will teach graduate
courses on intellectual and critical
theory, said he is personally excited
to go deeper into subjects in a way
that more basic undergraduate sur-
vey classes are not able to.
Im looking orward to that kind
o work, he said.
D.
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or the buildings renovations. A
private donor has committed to
contribute twice as much as the
senate raises overall, said Patrick
Worth MD11, president o the
Medical Student Senate. Fridays
event alone raised $900, which with
the donors two-to-one match will
bring the total raised to $2,700,
Worth wrote in an e-mail to The
Herald.
The event was held on the build-
ings second foor. Painted lines on
the foor outlined where walls and
openings would be constructed,and written descriptions showed
that the space would become class-
rooms, a lounge and part o the
buildings atrium.
Despite the construction in
progress, the building appeared
relatively intact.
I expected raters, pillars,
beams, said Steve Lee MD11,
secretary o the Senate.
The building is going to sepa-
rate each medical class into its own
academy, Wing said. Each academy
will have its own lounge and eating
area and will serve as a home or
students during their our years at
the Med School, he added.It will be great or students to
have their own home and space
because it will provide study space
and better access to resources,
Worth said. Having their own space
will be very helpul or medical stu-
dents because main campus acili-
ties close when undergraduates are
not in session, Worth said, adding
that the Med School operates ona calendar dierent rom that o
the College.
The new building will also os-
ter a better sense o community
between upperclassmen and low-
erclassmen, said Audrey Butcher
MD13, a Senate representative.
There are already plans or acad-
emy Olympics as a orm o bond-
ing, she said.
The renovated building will
include a large atrium and stairs
that will lead up to each foor rom
the atrium, Wing said. At night,
our LED panels will be lit up on
the side o the building so youcan see it rom College Hill, rom
downtown, he said.
Seventy percent o the surace
o the building is windows, provid-
ing spectacular views o downtown
Providence, Wing said.
Anatomy labs with windows,
will be a welcome change, Worth
said. Their current location in the
basement o the Biomedical Center
seems more like a dungeon, he
added.
The building has a parking lot
next door, which will help make it
easily accessible, Lee said.
James Miller MD10 expressed
disappointment that he is graduat-ing and will not be able to use the
new building, which is slated or
completion in August 2011.
It is what the Med School
needs, he said, adding that it will
push the school in the right di-
rection.
Were really excited about this
building, Worth said.
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Nick Sinnott-Armstron / Heral file photo
The department of Africana Stuies recent rowth inclues the hire of
Chinua Achebe an the creation of a rauate proram.
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Ever aspect of life affects the search for truth. Swami Atmarupanana, Veanta scholar
k By gODA tHANgADA
SeniorStaffWriter
A scholar o one o the mystical
traditions o Hinduism, Swami At-
marupananda o the international
Ramakrishna Order o Monks, led
our guided meditations Sunday cen-tered around the theme Who am I?
The Search or the Sel as part o
the Sixth Annual Mary Interlandi
05 Lectureship. The event, held in
J. Walter Wilson, was organized by
the Oce o Chaplains and Religious
Lie and the Year o India.
Atmarupananda, who is rom
Caliornia, studies Vedanta, a phi-
losophy o sel-knowledge. The our
meditations were designed to point
to something in our present experi-
ence which is the ultimate reality,
Atmarupananda said. He will give a
lecture Monday on the history, phi-
losophy and methods or the searcho the sel.
Many o the approximately 20
participants had a background in
Buddhism, he said.
Having been a monk in America
or orty years, Atmarupananda said
he has observed major changes in
peoples attitudes toward and appetite
or spirituality. In the 1960s, many
young people were interested in
seeking a spiritual path just or spiri-tualitys sake, he said. Nowadays,
their entry is somewhat dierent.
They are looking or connections.
Theyre interested in environment,
social justice and so orth. Spirituality
is connected to that.
Founded in 1897 by Swami Vive-
kananda, the Ramakrishna Order
reinterprets Hinduism or modern
times. Hinduism is a living tradition
that has always met the changing
times, Atmarupananda said.
The Ramakrishna Order main-
tains several centers in India itsel.
In India, our centers are involved in
a great deal o work or the poor andthe distressed as part o our spiritual
process, he said. In the West, we do
more teaching work. While people
less requently choose to become
monks in America, Atmarupananda
said the order is growing rapidly in
India.
The interest in the order remains
strong in both the East and West,
he said.
The view o our tradition is thatreligion is really one, he said, and as
a result, Ramakrishna monks main-
tain connections and dialogue with
people o other aiths.
I have been challenged, cer-
tainly, he said. Most people give
at least a sympathetic hearing.
Atmarupananda said he attempts
to make Vedanta accessible to peo-
ple, especially Western audiences,
with a range o backgrounds and
needs. Its something everybody
can understand, he said. Its a ques-
tion o explaining it in the language
people can understand.
Every aspect o lie aects thesearch or truth, he said. The goal
is to nd a way o making everything
a spiritual practice.
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By MARgAREt yI
Contributing Writer
Associate Proessor o EngineeringThomas Webster and Erik Taylor
GS have created nanoparticles to
ght implant inections.
According to the American
Academy o Orthopaedic Surgeons,
about a million people receive im-
plants to replace a hip, shoulder or
knee each year.
Over 11 percent o these im-
plants become inected with bacte-
ria, Webster said. The bacteria that
cause these inections can be ound
on most suraces, including human
skin. But i they enter the body and
colonize, the bacteria can cause se-
vere damage to tissue, especially inpeople with compromised immune
systems, he said.
In the case o inected bone
implants, the bacteria gradually
multiply and orm a layer o biolm
on the implant, Webster said. The
biolm subsequently discourages
attachment o the implant to thepatients bone, causing pain and
discomort, he said. Doctors usu-
ally prescribe antibiotics to treat
the inection, but in the case o
antiobiotic-resistant bacteria, the
treatments prove ineective and
the patients end up having the im-
plants removed, Webster added.
But the nanoparticles that Web-
ster and Taylor have created pen-
etrate the biolm, start manipulat-
ing bacteria, decreasing bacteria
unction, Webster said in a March
15 interview with KFSN-TV. In lab
tests, these nanoparticles killed 74
percent o bacteria in 48 hours,Webster said. Their studies have
shown that the nanoparticles pro-
mote growth o new bone cells,
which could be an e ect o the iron
in the particles, he added.
Webster said he envisions u-
ture treatments that will involve
a simple injection o iron oxideparticles. Doctors could then use
a magnet to direct the par ticles
to the source o the inection, he
said. Unlike traditional antiobiotic
treatments, humans can withstand
repeat exposures o iron until
the inection is completely gone,
as long as the recommended daily
intake o iron is not exceeded, he
said.
Though several years o re-
search and clinical studies are still
required beore the nanoparticle
treatment becomes approved or
implant inections, iron oxide nano-
particles are already approved bythe Food and Drug Administration,
which will substantially reduce the
time or the treatment to be ap-
proved, Webster said.
vP for researh eeed oenineerin aadem
news inbrief
Vice Presient for Research Cle Briant was electe to the
National Acaem of Enineerin Feb. 17.
Election into the acaem is one of the hihest professional
istinctions aware to an enineer an is base on a
caniates lifetime achievements in one of the man fiels of
enineerin. Briant was reconize for his accomplishments in
the eluciation of microstructural effects on hih-temperature
mechanical performance of metals, accorin to a news
release from the National Acaemies.
Thouh Briant no loner oes research, his work prior to his
promotion to vice presient centere on perfectin new heatin
techniques to manipulate the performance of metals, he sai.
These techniques can then be applie to man areas of science
an enineerin.
Prior to joinin the Universit in 1994, Briant was a post-
octoral researcher at the Universit of Pennslvania an worke
for almost two ecaes at the general Electric Research andevelopment Center, accorin to his curriculum vitae. While
at gE, Briant worke on improvin enhance filaments in liht
bulbs at hih temperatures, an he sai that this experience
inspire him to further his research into structural materials.
Briant sai he creits a stron team effort with a major
part of his success throuhout his career. Thouh he now
eicates much of his time to his uties as vice presient for
research, Briant sai he hopes to appl his experiences an
skills as a researcher to improvin the research experience at
the Universit, stressin the importance of team approach
an collaboration.
The National Acaem of Enineerin one of four
oranizations comprisin the National Acaemies was
foune in 1964 to avise the feeral overnment on matters
pertainin to the enineerin sciences, accorin to the
acaems Web site. The acaem also conucts inepenent
stuies an seeks to provie the leaership an expertise for
numerous projects in enineerin an technolo, accorin
to its Web site.
The enineerin acaem consists of more than 2,000 peer-
electe members an forein associates who are amon the
worls most accomplishe enineers, accorin to its Web site.
Caniates to the acaem are electe b a boar of their peers
an must be first nominate b an existin acaem member,
then vote on b the entire membership urin Januar. Some
prominent members of the enineerin acaem inclue Bill
gates, Sere Brin, Steve Jobs an Steve Wozniak.
Margaret Yi
spaces will allow aculty to under-
take more ambitious projects with
all o these constituents.
Construction o the center is
unded ully by generous donor
support that covers the cost o
construction and an endowment
or the building, including main-
tenance, Fishman said. This proj-
ect would not have been possible
without external unding, he said.
Brown was very or ward-thinking
by not shrinking back rom doing
this at a time when other schools
were not moving orward with new
initiatives, Fishman said.
The goal is to have a building
which benets all constituents o
the University community, Provi-
dence and Rhode Island, Fishman
said. He said the main purpose o
the center will be to get people to
work together and to bring diverse
disciplines together.
In outlining the goals o the
building to architects, the Creative
Arts Council emphasized three main
points: that the building not privi-
lege any one department, discipline
or media, that it allow or transpar-
ency between activities so that one
could generate relationships among
people and programs and that the
building be conducive to chance
encounters among people in the
community, Fishman said.
I think the challenge is to main-
tain the vision behind it and to allow
it to grow and develop, always to be
orward-thinking, Fishman said.
Fishman said his hope is or the
center to always question assump-
tions o what art is and what art
can become and to play a role that
benets the makers and the audi-
ence and contributes something o
real value to this community and to
the larger community.
I am excited to see how all those
dierent spaces are going to t into
one building. It will be like a magic
Mary Poppins bag o art spaces,
said Olivia Harding 12.
Ana Escobedo 11 said she is
happy to have a building dedicated
to the arts on the Pembroke side
o campus. Students involved in
theater currently have a lack o
rehearsal spaces and places to per-
orm in general. The idea o having
spaces where people can go, sign up
and work is wonderul, she said.
The topping-o ceremony or
the building when the steel beam
marking the buildings highest point
is put in place will take place
Tuesday at 10 a.m., Fishman said.
Its going so ast. Its just amazing.
In one day, youll see the steelwork
doubling in size, he said.
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By ANItA BADEjO
Contributing Writer
Browns rst-ever team destined
or the College Unions Poetry
Slam Invitational an annual
nationwide competition or slam
poets perormed or a packed
and enthusiastic Macmillan 117
last Friday.
Laura Brown-Lavoie 10.5, Kai
Huang 11, Phil Kaye 10, Tim
Natividad 12 and Jamila Woods
10 will be the rst to represent
the University in the invitational,
which will take place at Emerson
College in Boston April 710.
At Fridays show, the team per-
ormed individual and collabora-tive pieces, including the ones
they currently plan on presenting
at nationals.
The team was selected Feb.
17, when 13 hopeuls competed
in ront o an audience o about
150 students. Accomplished Provi-
dence slam poet Jared Paul hosted
the competition and selected ve
students at random rom the au-
dience to ultimately decide who
made the team. The team mem-
bers selected are all members o
Word!, the campus spoken word
poetry group.
Audience members were asked
to pay a $2 entrance ee, which willgo toward paying or the teams
competition costs.
In an interview with The Her-
ald, team members Kaye and Na-
tividad said their eelings were a
little mixed when rst consider-
ing the idea o going to nation-
als because o the dierence
between spoken word poetry,which is more collaborative, and
slam poetry, which is primarily
competitive.
It is very dangerous to make
the transition, Natividad said. We
have so little experience in slam
poetry. Its going to be a lot harder
than people make it out to be.
Kaye echoed Natividads con-
cerns, adding that infated egos
and antagonism between compet-
ing slam poets oten keep them
rom uniting as a team. But Kaye
said the Brown teams shared ex-
perience as spoken word artists
gave the team an advantage.I think were really ortunate
that everyone on the team is re-
ally close already, Kaye said.
We trust each other, know each
others work.
Natividad compared the combi-
nation o camaraderie and compe-
tition to playing ootball with ones
amily on Thanksgiving. Its kind
o like you get to go on a road trip
with your riends, plus poetry,
he said.
Kaye cited members close re-
lationships with one another as
the reason he is not concerned
that they dont have a coach, un-
like many other teams.Both agreed that the team is
invested in winning, but that it
is not their only or even their
main goal. The desire to learn
rom and connect with other stu-
dents who care about the art o
spoken word provided much o
the impetus or Word! members
decision to send a group o poetsto nationals, the students said.
Kaye said the team doesnt neces-
sarily expect to blow everyone
out o the water.
Slam is a big part luck, but the
talented teams tend to be luckier
and I have ull aith in our talent
as a team, Kaye said.
Fridays team perormance
eatured a mix o individual and
collaborative poems, both old and
new, with interludes o rap as well.
The rst piece o the night was a
collaboration o all the team mem-
bers pacing throughout the audi-
torium and prompting audiencemembers to listen to both
poignant and serious lines, and to
such light-hearted ones as listen
to Snoop Dogg every night rom
now until Spring Weekend.
The rest o the pieces per-
ormed covered a range o top-
ics. A collaboration by Huang and
Natividad addressed their rustra-
tions and anger toward stereo-
types o Asian-Americans. Another
collaboration by Brown-Lavoie and
Woods played o thats what she
said jokes to address issues sur-
rounding gender in communica-
tion. Pieces by Kaye and Natividad
addressed internal conficts aris-ing rom, respectively, having two
separate amily histories on oppos-
ing sides during World War II, and
ambivalence about religion.
We tried to oer (the audi-
ence) something that we havent
given them beore, Natividad
said.
This oer included a ull-
fedged rap battle between Woods
and Huang in the middle o the
show, in which both humorously
attacked each other to the beats
o Three 6 Maas Stay Fly and
Lil Waynes A Milli, complete
with backup dancing by othermembers o the team. The battle
elicited roars o laughter rom
the audience, as the two threw a
number o verbal gems at each
other, such as Woods playul deri-
sion o Huang: At least you got
a backpack and a bowl o ramen,
yes, you and homeless people got
a lot in common.
Huang perormed two other
raps, one called Sick, which
listed things he is sick o, includ-
ing ree market capitalism and
policing political correctness,
and another that provided a hu-
morous, but also thought-provok-
ing, take on a typical meal at the
Sharpe Reectory.
All o the pieces conveyed what
Natividad described as each o the
members very distinct styles,
which included incorporations o
song, backup instrumentals, repe-
tition and other aesthetic devices.
The one-hour perormance, in-
used with each members unique
interpretation o spoken word,
let audience members clapping
vigorously. The team will travel to
Boston next week to participate
in a practice slam competition
against host college Emerson in
preparation or nationals.
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By jONAtHAN cHOU
ContributingWriter
The South Asian Students Associa-
tion entranced the audience with
perormances o dance, music and
comedy during their annual cultureshow, Nashaa, Friday in Salomon 101.
A year-long venture o planning
culminated that night to meet the
vision o showcasing and spreading
awareness o South Asian culture,
said SASA President Aparna Kumar
10. Applause lled the packed audito-
rium as the show provided perorm-
ers amilies, riends and peers with
a night ull o laughs and cultural
appreciation.
The event was organized chiefy
by co-chairs Radhika Kumar 12 and
Faiz Jiwani 12, with Akash Kumar
10, Soumya Sanyal 10 and Gaurab
Chakrabarti 10 emceeing.
The perormances that night,
which can be ound in videos on-
line, included comedic skits, elegant
dances and emotional spoken word
pieces, addressing a variety o issues
such as arranged marriages. Songs
and dances told stories o orbid-
den love, praised Hindu deities and
recounted Indian customs. One act
was based on a song rom a popular
Bollywood movie.
Musical acts spotlighted instru-
ments like the tabla, a popular North
Indian drum, and the veena, an an-
cient lute instrument carved out o a
single piece o jackwood. The tradi-
tional South Asian costumes included
colorul Indian womens garments
called saris, as well as ghungroos,
bells tied to the eet o the dancers,
which serve as both decoration and
percussion.
The perormances were tied to-
gether by hilarious videos starringthe emcees, which kept awkward
transitional pauses to a minimum
and kept the audience at the edge
o their seats.
The most popular perormances
seemed to be the class dances, which
integrated modern and hip-hop styles
with classical South Asian dance and
sounds. A tradition started long ago,
the class dances serve as a un way
not only to pit the classes against
each other, but also to give the gradu-
ating seniors their moment o glor y,
said Aparna Kumar, and to usher in
the new class o reshmen.
The events success stemmed
rom the emcees ability to keep
the audience engaged. The emcees
succeeded in stringing together the
diverse selection o perormances,
Aparna Kumar said.
The planning o the event began
a year ago when the three emcees
approached SASA or the position,
and much o the show came rom
their vision or it, she said.
Aparna Kumar also attributed
the events success to the positive
attitude with which the events chairs
and emcees met obstacles, adding
that despite a ew minor problems
the event turned out to be abu-
lous.
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The Jabberwocks and the Higher
Keys placed second and ourth,
respectively, at the International
Championship o Collegiate A Cap-
pellas Northeast seminals at the
Massachusetts Institute o Technol-
ogy Saturday.
The two groups wowed the
crowd in Salomon 101 by taking
both rst and second place in the
Northeast quarternals Feb. 20.
The Jabberwocks, who came in
rst, also took home awards orOutstanding Soloist Andrew
Wong 11 or Use Somebody by
Kings o Leon and Outstanding
Vocal Percussion, won by Erik Abi-
Khattar 10.
MIT a cappella group Reso-
nance hosted Saturdays seminals,
where eight groups rom all over
the Northeast region competed.
The winners, Pitch Slapped rom
Berklee College o Music in Bos-
ton, will compete in the interna-
tional nals at the Lincoln Center
or the Perorming Arts in New
York in April.
But or the Higher Keys, who
sang Cry Me a River, written byArthur Hamilton, Think by Are-
tha Franklin and a Beatles medley,
the experience was not all about
competition.
We have never been to semi-
nals, and its really great. We
want to work on our sound and
not get caught up in the competi-
tion, said Nick Herrmann 10, the
Keys president.
Josh Chu 11, the groups music
director, agreed. We entered the
competition as a goal to motivate
ourselves, he said. You always
study better when there is a test
coming up. We werent expectingto win.
Chu added, When we won at
quarternals, it kind o validated
all the hard work that we put in.
Normally, the group practices six
hours a week. For the quarternals,
though, they put in extra sessions
so that they were practicing nine to
10 hours weekly, Chu said.
A coed group is lot harder to
blend than i you were in, say, an
all-guy group, said Dominic Wu
12 o the Keys. Adding choreog-
raphy to the group is also very hard
because were so big. Another chal-
lenge is keeping up the energy.
Despite the long hours and tir-
ing practices that could last un-
til midnight, the members o the
group pulled through.
Ater the quarternals, the
Keys were like, that was a lot o
work, said Wu. For the semis, its
more about having un or us.
The Jabberwocks, on the otherhand, are veterans o the competi-
tion. The group had been to the
seminals two years ago, where
they also took second. This time,
they sang Aint No Sunshine by
Bill Withers, Use Somebody and
a hip-hop medley that included Ke-
shas TiK ToK, Lady Gagas Bad
Romance, the Black Eyed Peas I
Gotta Feeling and other songs.
Like the Keys, the Jabberwocks
put in a lot o rehearsal hours: three
or more hours a night the week
beore the seminals. Its a lot o
commitment, said member Leland
Lazarus 12. Normally, the group
practices seven hours a week.But being in an a cappella group
does not mean all work and no
play.
We hang out all the time. Some
o us live together, and we do pot-
lucks every once in a while, said
Herrmann about the Keys. Some-
times we go to Ben & Jerr ys and
share a Vermonster.
One o the main reasons I
would pick the Keys over other
groups, even though other groups
have dierent styles that I may be
into, is that the Keys has a great
amily atmosphere, Wu said.
For the Jabberwocks, hang-ing out means going to Wes Rib
House, a southern style restaurant
in Providence, beore or ater a
big concert. The group also gets
together to play sports.
Lazarus, who joined the Jab-
berwocks his reshman year,
envisioned college a cappella as
mainly a campus-oriented unction.
It was at (A Day on College Hill)
that I rst saw the Jabberwocks,
he said. Everyone in the crowd
knew each member, and everyone
had their own an club. There was
a lot o campus camaraderie. But I
also realized there is a global com-
ponent. We travel everywhere in
the country and have international
tours. We went to Hong Kong, Eu-
rope and Korea.
Similarly, the Keys have ex-panded their horizons beyond the
Universitys borders. The group
has traveled to many places, includ-
ing San Francisco, and plans to go
to Hong Kong next year.
I did not expect to be con-
nected to such a large network o
people, said Christopher Unseth
11.5, the Jabberwocks publicity
manager. We have really strong
alumni. They are so committed to
the group that they give money
and allow us to live at their (hous-
es).
At the competition, the Jab-
berwocks were rst to perorm.There were a bunch o numbers
in a hat, and every group picks a
number, Lazarus said. We got
rst. It was good because we didnt
have to wait and be nervous. We
were able to perorm and watch all
the groups ater us.
He added, On the other hand,
we were setting the tone. The judg-
es didnt have anything to compare
us to.
The semis also served as a
learning tool or both groups.
The competition changed the
way we approach a cappella, said
Herrmann, who discovered that a
large portion o the competition is
based on visuals, but at the same
time, its easy to over-choreograph
stu, and things look unnatural at
an expense to the music.Herrmann added that he was
glad the competition was over, as
now the Keys can ocus on other
songs.
Lazarus said he thought all the
groups had great choreography
and impeccable sound. I eel like
what dierentiated rst and sec-
ond place and the rest were minute
things one person coming in too
loud or someone doing choreogra-
phy a little too late. Little things.
Hopeully next year or the year
ater, the Jabberwocks can compete
again and get to nals, he added.
Currently, though, the group has
other projects to take care o.
Their last CD, Breaking &
Entering, is currently nominated
or the annual Contemporary A
Cappella Recording Awards or
best male collegiate album, best
all-male song and best arrange-
ment. Results will be announced in
April. The Jabberwocks will also be
singing at a Mets game April 8.
The Keys also ended the com-
petition on a positive note.
The nals are during the time
o Spring Weekend, said Her-
rmann. So ater the competition,
one o the members o our group
turned to a member o the Jabber-
wocks and said, I guess well see
you at Snoop Dogg.
Wu mirrored the sentiment.
The Higher Keys have a saying:
IJA its just a cappella.
Courtes of dominic Wu
The Jabberwocks place secon an the Hiher Kes fourth at a collee a cappella competition Satura.
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. 6 B . CBy ZAcK BAHR
aSSiStantSportS editor
Many things rode on Saturdays
mens lacrosse game between 11th-ranked Harvard and 16th-ranked
Brown. There was a chance to start
the Ivy season with a win. A chance
to move up in the national rankings.
And o course, a chance to taste
sweet victory over an archrival.
In what has become one o the
top lacrosse rivalries in the nation,
Bruno earned bragging rights with
a 1311 victory over the Crimson
at Harvard Stadium.
Brown 13, Harard 11
The Bears jumped out to a 50
lead to set the pace or the game.
In the words o Head Coach Lars
Tiany 90, Bruno played a go 100miles per hour and ask questions
later kind o game. It seemed liked
Bruno couldnt miss with Thomas
Muldoon 10 making a 360-degree
shot in ront o the goal and David
Hawley 11 launching a shot rom
15 yards out.
Charlie Kenney 10 and Seth
Ratner 11 dominated the mideld,
capturing 16 o 26 aceo opportu-
nities and allowing Bruno to have
more scoring opportunities.
We crushed em, said goalie
Matt Chriss 11. We had a great
game, controlling the eld. The
Ivy opener is always a big game.
Harvards a great team but, well,
we just wanted it more.
Browns deense had a strong
showing behind Chriss, who made
nine saves and even went the length
o the eld to make a shot, only to
have it called back on a penalty.
Poking un at ormer Brown All-
American goalie Jordan Burke 09,
Chriss said, I dont think Burke
ever tried scoring a goal.
Harvard was able to rally back
several times in the second hal.
Crimson standout Terry White
ound the goal our times, as didteammate Je Cohen.
We played all 60 minutes o
that game, said Harvar d Head
Coach John Tillman. Its hard
though when you have to keep
digging yoursel out. It wastes a
lot o time and energy.
Tiany said teams must walk a
ne line when theyre up big in the
second hal. Its the 4th quarter.
Do you keep pushing or do you kill
the clock? Its hard.
This led to some errors on be-
hal o the Bears as they tried to
pass the ball around the eld to
run time o o the clock.
Andrew Feinberg 11 answeredthe Crimson rallies, nding the
goal our times, with some shots
looking almost impossible.
When asked which goal was his
avorite, Feinberg said, Im not
sure. I dont really remember the
shots. Im just glad we won.
The Bears will be at home Tues-
day or a 4 p.m. game against the
University o Massachusetts at
Amherst.
Af , By DAN AlEXANDER
SportS editor
Goalie Dan Rosen 10 was once the
bright uture o Brown hockey.
Plagued by injuries, Rosens ca-
reer slowly slid downhill until he
was made the backup in his senior
season. But in his last game wear-
ing a Brown uniorm, Rosen got
one more chance to start in goal
Saturday. And he made the most
o it.
In the Bears 3-0 win over St.
Lawrence, the goalie played faw-
lessly. Rosen had 21 saves in the
shut-out and even got an assist on
the games rst goal.
We were all just hugging and
crying in the locker room, Rosen
said ater the game. The team just
gave it all out or me today and that
means a lot ater, not just or
me personally, but the number o
injuries and bad times that weve
had to have everybody come
together today and get a win in this
game is really special.
Rosens play was a reminder o
the promising career everyone ex-
pected him to have.
As a reshman, he earned second
team All-Ivy honors and etched his
name in the Brown record books
towards the top o the list in every
major goalie statistical category.
For eight weeks in a row, he led the
nation in goals against average and
save percentage.
His statistics were less impres-
sive during his sophomore year, but
he still started 25 games. By the
time Rosen was a junior, the once-
decorated reshman was battling a
hip injury and ghting or ice time
with a new young talent Michael
Clemente 12.
As a reshman, Clemente played
the hero in last seasons playo se-
ries with Harvard, in which Cle-
mente became the only opposing
goalie to shut out Harvard in back-
to-back home games in Crimson
hockey history, which dates back
to the nineteenth century.
We both had very high levels o
success our reshman years, Rosen
said, without a hint o resentment o
his teammate in his voice. It was
kind o interesting to see it rom the
other standpoint, as the goalie that
wasnt playing at that point.
The hiring o rst-year Head
Coach Brendan Whittet 94 last
oseason reopened the battle or
the goalie slot, but Clemente again
won the starting job.
Rather than harbor any bitter-
ness in his senior season, Rosen
said he was thankul or his oppor-
tunities in his rst three seasons
and supportive o Clemente in his
last.
I was pretty ortunate and I was
lucky to be able to play a large por-
tion o the games my rst three
years, Rosen said. Ater returning
rom a groin injury this season, I
just tried to be as best o a team
player as I could, because Mike was
playing really well this year.
The support didnt go unappreci-
ated by Clemente. Clemente called
Rosen one o the most supportive
and helpul teammates that anyone
could ask or.
This season has been a struggle
or Rosen. He got his rst start on
Nov. 17 when Brown played at
Providence. But just less than two
minutes into the game, he elt a
pop in his groin and ell to the ice
in pain. As he was helped o o the
ice by a teammate and the trainer,
Rosen looked down at the ice, shak-
ing his head.
Given that it was my rst chance
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the Bears skated out seconds
later, only a murmur came rom
the small Brown contingent. But
the atmosphere didnt intimidate
the Bears.
I thought we were going to
win this game because we were
on a roll, and our guys believed
not only believed we should be
here, but believed we should win
a championship, and thats pretty
powerul, Whittet said.
Brown controlled the opening
period, getting out to an 115 ad-
vantage in shots. But both goaliesshut down the nets, and the teams
skated into the locker rooms at
intermission with the scoreboard
still blank.
They did a lot o good things
in the rst period against us and
put us back on our heels, said
Cornell Head Coach Mike Scha-
er. We did a good job in the sec-
ond period and started to create
some oensive chances.
The rst chance to nd the
back o the net came o the stick
o Locke Jillson 15:35 into the pe-
riod. Jillson took the puck rom
the let aceo circle, sized up
Brown goalie Michael Clemente12, made a quick move and red
a blistering wrist shot inside o
Clementes elbow to give Cornell
a 10 lead.
What happened in the second
period was we couldnt get any
pressure at all because they were
in our zone or 40 or 50 seconds,
Whittet said. By the time we got
out, we were dumping pucks in
and we were gassed and had to
change.
The chances were there or
Brown in the third. Bobby Farn-
ham 12 got on a breakaway seven
minutes into the third period butwas shut down. And Jack Maclel-
lan 12 had a chance rom point
blank with 6:30 let in the nal
rame. But Cornell goalie Ben
Scrivens denied those two pucks
and 21 more in the shut out.
I one o those pucks went
in, its a dierent game, said tri-
captain Jordan Pietrus 10, who
returned Friday rom what was
once labeled a season-ending
injury.
John Esposito and Riley Nash
both beat Clemente in the third
period, giving Cornell the 3-0 vic-
tory.
Brown 3, St. Lawrence 0
In his last collegiate game, Dan
Rosen 10 who backed up Cle-
mente in goal this season got
the start and made the most o
his oppor tunity.
Rosen blanked the Saints and
had 21 saves.
Hes the real deal, St. Law-
rence Head Coach Joe Marsh
said o Rosen. He sees the puck
so well, hes quick. He made a
couple o saves that we had somereally good shots on we set
screens and he just stuck the pad
out there. Theres two really
quality goaltenders at Brown.
Ater a scoreless rst period,
Rosen got some support on the
other end when second team
All-Ivy selection Aaron Volpatti
10 got on a breakaway with little
more than ve minutes let in the
period. Volpatti approached the
goal rom the right, then swooped
to the let and dinged a wrist shot
o o the post and into the net,giving Brown a 1-0 lead.
I think (the rst goal) set us
up or, Okay, lets pop another
one and get the win or our class
and or the rest o the team and
send these guys on a high note or
next year, Volpatti said.
And the Bears did just that.
Jesse Fratkin 11 made it a 20
game on a one-timer rom Harry
Zolniercyzk 11, who then added
an empty-net goal with 3:08 let
on the clock to seal third place
or Brown.
Not many teams, or especially
seniors, get to go out with a win,Rosen said. To have the team
play as hard as they did and play
the way they did it meant a lot
to the seniors and particularly to
me.
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SportS editor
Tri-captain Aaron Volpatti 10 went
down in the record books Saturday
or the most penalty minutes o any
player in Brown history and he
did it on purpose.
Volpatti who was ve penalty
minutes shy o the single-season
record beore the game told
reeree Chip McDonald beore a-
ceo not to be scared to give him
a 10-minute game misconduct i
the Bears were ahead late in the
consolation game, Volpatti said.So when the Brown orward was
whistled or a slashing penalty with
4:33 let in the third period with
Brown ahead 20, he knew it was
his chance to break the record.
I got that penalty and then I said
to Chip (McDonald), Was that a 10
or? And he goes, Do you want a
10? And I cant really say what was
said, but, yeah, Volpatti said.
McDonald gave Volpatti the
game misconduct and boosted
his season total 10 extra minutes,
pushing Volpatti to 115 penalty
minutes on the season, ahead o
ormer leader Ryan Mulhern 96,
who had 108 minutes in the 1994
95 season.
Ten o the top 11 leaders in
Brown history beore this season
were ormer teammates o HeadCoach Brendan Whittet 94.
We had some knuckleheads
back then, Whittet said with a
laugh. Im glad (Volpatti is) the
king o knuckleheads.
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Aaron Volpatti 10 set a new recor for most penalt minutes in menshockes histor, surpassin Ran Mulhern 96 b seven minutes.
to play with the new coach, I really
wanted to make a good statement
in my rst game, he said. To have
(the injury) happen, it was just very
rustrating.
The groin injury kept him out
o uniorm or seven games, and
he wasnt back on the ice until 10
games ater he was helped o it.
Rosen struggled in his two regu-
lar season appearances ater the
injury, and with the Bears locked
in a race or playo home ice at
the end o the season, Rosen didnt
even play on Senior Night. In act,
he asked not to.
The night beore, Whittet called
Rosen into his oce, sat him down
and told him ace-to-ace that Cle-
mente was going to start on Senior
Night.
I was glad he did that, Rosen
said. I told him I didnt want to get
a pity start on Senior Night. In-
stead, he said he wanted Clemente
to go out and win it or the Bears.
Even this weekend Rosens
last games o collegiate hockey
he maintained the selfess attitude.
Ater the Bears lost to Cornell in the
opening round o the Final Four,
Whittet asked Rosen i he wanted
to have one more start in goal or
the consolation game. It was a ques-
tion Rosen wished his coach didnt
have to ask.
To be honest, we all includ-
ing mysel would have rather had
Mike ... playing in the champion-
ship game today, Rosen said.
But Rosen had spent all season
backing up the position he once
held so rmly, and in his last game,
he took the opportunity to get one
more start.
Dans a selfess guy, Whittet
said ater Rosen shut out St. Law-
rence in the nal game o the sea-
son. Dan was a guy that bided his
time, and he was unbelievable to-
night. It was a tribute to him.
Twenty-one saves, no goals
against and one assist what a
way to go out or Rosen, who said
the bright uture now belongs to
Clemente.
Mikes a great goalie, and this
team is going to do a lot o special
things with him in net, Rosen said.
Theyll be back in Albany and
theyll win it with him there.
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MilWaukee JournalSentinel
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. So Wiscon-
sin was the higher-seeded team Sun-
day at Veterans Memorial Arena?
Like so many previous games in
the 2010 NCAA mens basketball
tournament, 12th-seeded Cornell
proved to Wisconsin and the rest
o the nation that seedings mean
little once the teams step onto the
court.
The Ivy League champions were
the better team early in building a
double-digit lead less than our min-
utes into the game, withstood one
surge by the Badgers late in the rst
hal and then dominated the rest othe way to oust ourth-seeded Wis-
consin, 87-69, in the second round
o the East Region.
When top-seeded Kentucky takes
the foor in the East Region semi-
nals Thursday night in Syracuse,
N.Y., the Wildcats opponent will be
the upstart Big Red (29-4).
The reason: Cornell played Wis-
consins style o basketball and did it
better than Bo Ryans team.
The Badgers, who saw their
season end in the second round
or the second consecutive season,
will be home with a 24-9 record and
painul memories o their stay in
Jacksonville.Senior guard Louis Dale hit 10 o
17 eld-goal attempts and scored 26
points to lead our Cornell players
in double gures.Senior orward Ryan Wittman
hit 6 o 9 eld-goal attempts in the
rst hal when he scored 14 o his
24 points to help the Big Red build
a 43-31 haltime lead. Wittman n-
ished 10 or 15, including 3 or 5
rom three-point range.
The Big Red repeatedly burned
Wisconsins deense and nished at
61.1 percent (33 or 54), including
53.3 percent rom three-point range
(8 or 15).
The overall shooting mark was a
season-high against Wisconsin. The
previous high was 53.3 percent, set
by Illinois in a 63-56 victory at theKohl Center.
Senior center Je Foote (12
points) and sophomore guard Chris
Wroblewski (12 points) also played
well or Cornell.
Junior orward Jon Leuer was
Wisconsins best player. He went 5
or 5 in the rst hal en route to 14
points but didnt get nearly enough
help. He nished with 23 points.
Senior guard Jason Bohannon
broke out o his three-game shoot-
ing slump and inished with 18
points on 7-or-15 shooting
Senior guard Trevon Hughes had
ve rst-hal turnovers, struggled
deensively and gave a orgettable
perormance in his nal game at
Wisconsin. He ouled out with 2 min-
utes 39 seconds let and nished
with 10 points, six turnovers andtwo assists.
Junior orward Keaton Nankivil
was limited to two minutes in the
rst hal because o two early ouls
and picked up two more in the rst
3:10 o the second hal. He nished
with no points and two rebounds.
Redshirt reshman orward Ryan
Evans added 11 points or Wiscon-
sin, Sophomore guard Jordan Tay-
lor, also limited by oul trouble in
the rst hal, nished with seven
points.
Cornell was sharp early and
Wisconsin appeared discombobu-
lated.Wittman buried two open jump-
ers; Nankivil missed two shots and
Jon Jaques stole a pass by Hughes
and drove in or an uncontested
layup to give the Big Red a 6-0 lead
just 1:45 into the game.
Ryan called a timeout just one
second later and pulled Hughes and
Nankivil in avor o Evans and Tim
Jarmusz.
Wisconsin missed its rst three
eld-goal attempts and didnt score
until Leuer hit 1 o 2 ree throws
with 17:09 let.
Leuer hit a jumper to cut Cor-
nells lead to 11-4 but the Big Red,
which hit its rst ve eld-goal at-tempts, got a three-pointer rom Wittman to push the lead to 14-4
with 15:47 let in the hal.
Leuer continued to carry Wis-
consin in the rst hal. He scored
Wisconsins rst 12 points, on 4-or-4
shooting to keep Wisconsin within
striking distance at 18-12.
Bohannon inally got on the
board with a three-pointer with 10:26
let and when he scored on a drive to
pull Wisconsin to within 24-19 with
8:37, Cornell called a timeout.
Brimming with condence, Bo-
hannon buried a step-back jumper
to bring Wisconsin to within 24-21
with 7:20 let.Cornell answered with an 8-2
run, highlighted by a three-pointer
rom Wittman with one second let
on the shot clock, to build the lead
back to 32-23.
Leuer hit a jumper to cut the de-
cit to seven and then orced Foote
into a traveling violation.
Wisconsin ailed to capitalize,
though, when Hughes saw his drive
rejected.
Unlike Wisconsin, Cornell took
advantage o the opening.
The Big Red outscored Wiscon-
sin, 11-6, over the nal 3:29 o the
hal to build its lead to 43-31.
Wroblewski sparked the run with
a three-pointer and a jumper and
Wittman closed the scoring with a
three-pointer with ve seconds let
in the hal.
Led by Wittman, Cornell shot a
sizzling 59.3 percent in the rst hal
(16 or 27).
Wisconsin, which had made
just 18 o 56 three-point attempts
(32.1 percent) and 64 o 179 shots
overall (35.8 percent) in its previous
three games, shot 40 percent rom
three-point range (4 or 10) and 52.2percent overall (12 or 23) and still
trailed by 12.
Wisconsins comeback bid ended
in the opening minutes o the sec-
ond hal.
The Badgers hit 2 o their rst 4
eld-goal attempts to pull within nine
points but Dale hit a three-pointer
and ollowed that with a three-point
play. That sparked a 13-6 run that
allowed Cornell to build the lead to
56-41 with 16:15 remaining.
Wisconsin never got closer than
13 points the rest o the way.
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theorlando Sentinel
ORLANDO, Fla. Time was when
spring break was synonymous with
beer and bikinis. But these days, a
large and growing number o college
students are spending their precious
time o helping underprivileged
kids, abandoned pets, disabled vet-
erans and disaster victims.
Alternative spring break, as
the movement is called, will draw
roughly 72,000 students across the
country this year, according to the
national nonprot Break Away.
Florida is both a leading provider
o student volunteers and the ben-
eciary o scores o team projects
led by out-o-state students seeking
a side o sunshine with their altru-
ism.
Our alternative spring break
program has become so popular
that were actually booking schools
two to three years out, said Susan
Storey, communications director or
the Kissimmee-based Give Kids the
World, which treats children with
lie-threatening illnesses and their
amilies to an all-inclusive Central
Florida vacation. This week we have
Purdue with 55 students and Colo-
rado State with 10. DePaul gets here
next week, and St. Johns (Univer-
sity) and the University o Georgia
just let.
With 1,500 volunteer shits to ll
each week, Give Kids the World putsthe students to work doing every-
thing rom laying sod to serving up
pizza parties or the kids.
At University o Central Florida,
the alternative spring break pro-
gram has grown so much, so ast
that this year three students were
turned away or every one accepted.
Jessica Maureen Schwendeman, 23,
said theres no better way to spend
the week.
Im very passionate about this
work, and Im having a great time,
she said last week rom Birming-
ham, Ala., where she was leading
a group volunteering at inner-city
schools. I eel like its a waste o
time to just sit around when I could
be doing something thats ullling
to me as a person and helps some-
body else. I have the rest o my lie
to sit around.
That seems unlikely. The UCF
senior is not only a double major in
political science and sociology, but
she also has minors in womens stud-
ies and public administration and
she is student director o Volunteer
UCF, the group that coordinates the
alternative spring break trips. She al-
ready has applied to the Peace Corps
and, ater graduation, hopes to spend
two years working in Arica.
The super-achiever personality is
typical o todays generation o alter-
native spring breakers, said Saman-tha Giacobozzi, program director o
Atlanta-based Break Away, which
helps match participating colleges
with eager charities.
The caliber o student leader-
ship within these alternative break
programs is astonishing, she said.
The ones we meet have tremen-
dous motivation and interest in so-
cial justice and the desire to make
an impact.
Although Break Away was ound-ed in 1991, Giacobozzi and others
say the concept o alternative spring
break really came into its own ater
Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Colleges that already had alter-
native break programs added trips
aimed at disaster relie, and colleges
that lacked such programs began to
launch them.
Since then, Giacobozzi said,
student participation has risen 10
percent to 15 percent each year. Atthe University o Florida, which has
won national recognition or its ex-
tensive volunteerism, students this
year could choose rom nearly two
dozen projects, including protecting
marine lie, educating communities
about HIV and AIDS and laboring
alongside impoverished arm work-
ers.
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the hartford Courant
HARTFORD, Conn. To Colin
Carlson, its clearly a case o dis-
crimination.
As a double-degree honors stu-
dent with a 3.9 grade point average
at the University o Connecticut,
he was a natural candidate or an
Arican ecology course oered this
semester that involved a summer
eld study in South Arica.
In act, when he decided to go to
UConn, it was partly because this
course particularly addressed his
interests in the interplay between
culture and the environment.
However, Colin, a prodigy, is13 years old. And he believes that
the proessor who is teaching the
course turned him down last all
because o his youth.
His mother, Jessica Or, oered
to pay her own way on the trip to
chaperone Colin and to release the
university rom any liabili ty, but the
university response remained a rm
no.
Colin, who plans to earn a doctor-
ate degree and then a law degree,
said, I you dont eel comortable
taking a 13-year-old just because you
dont, then its the same thing as i
you dont eel comortable having a
black student on your trip or havinga woman on your trip.
I you cant teach any student
that the university deems capable
o taking your class and teaching
them, then you shouldnt be teach-
ing. You cant pick and choose your
students based on personal com-
ort, he said.
Colin and his mother, Jessica O-
r, contend that the decision violates
the universitys anti-discrimination
policy and state and ederal civil
rights law. The Coventry amily has
led a complaint with the univer-
sitys Oce o Diversity and Equity
and with the U.S. Department o Ed-
ucations Oce or Civil Rights.
Mike Kirk, spokesman or theuniversity, said he cant comment
on cases where litigation may be
involved. However, he said, when
it comes to trips abroad, gener-
ally speaking, student saety is our
number one concern.
I his mother accompanies him
on the trip, Colin doesnt see any
reason or the university to worry
about his saety any more than other
students. Yes, something could
happen, he said. I could get eaten
by a lion, but I am at just the same
risk as any other student.
I the university believes its un-
sae or him, Colin said, by that
logic, no one should be going on the
trip and UConn should not be oer-ing a study abroad program.
Colin started taking courses at
UConn at age 9 and matriculated
as a reshman last year. He has ex-
celled at UConn, and proessors who
have worked with him have nothing
but praise or both his academic
talents and his ability to get along
easily with other students.
His lawyer, Michael Agrano,
said that although it appears that
Colins age was the reason he was
not allowed into the course, it is
not clear exactly why his age is a
problem. Given the act that UConn
did accept him, said Agrano, Im
not sure yet what UConns problem
really is.Ater he was turned down or the
Arican eld ecology course, Colin
was admitted to another ecology
and evolutionary biology course that
also involves eld study in South
Arica. But that course ocuses on
plants rather than animals, which
are his greater interest. In addi-
tion, because he applied late or the
course delayed while waiting to
hear whether he was accepted intothe Arican eld ecology course
there was no grant money let. He
expects that his amily will have
to pay his way at close to $4,000,
plus the cost o his mothers travel
expenses.
Colin ears now that the univer-
sity might nd a way to keep him
rom going on this eld trip, as well.
Or said, We are willing to do any-
thing and everything to assuage
their ears on the liability ront.
Colin said he also ears that his -
nancial aid might be in jeopardy.
Until now, Colin said, his educa-
tion has gone smoothly at UConn,and he has enjoyed it greatly.
Id like to say that I am really
shocked that the university would
behave this way. I dont go look-
ing or ghts. Im generally a very
agreeable person, he said.
Carl Schlichting, the proessor
who has agreed to have Colin in
his class and on the South Arican
trip, said in an e-mail that he eas-
ily qualies or inclusion and is a
ne student.
Isaac Ortega, the proessor who
was teaching the class to which Co-
lin was not admitted, was out o the
oce and could not be reached or
comment.Chris Simon, a proessor in the
department o ecology and evolu-
tionary biology and Colins adviser,
said that he is a antastic student
who asks the kinds o questions
that usually come rom graduate
students or a colleague and is very
mature.
Michael McAnrews / Hartfor Courant
Colin Carlson, a 13-ear-ol honors stuent, has brouht a complaint aainst the Universit of Connecticut afterbein tol he coul not stu abroa in South Africa.
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editorial
Last weeks weather began to undo some o the
damage done by the cold, rain and snow o the past
our months. Most students quickly orgave Mother
Nature and embraced the outdoors. But on Thursday,several tore themselves away rom the estivities on
Main Green to attend the State o Brown lecture.
Those who did were treated to an extremely inorma-
tive and engaging look at where the University stands
now and where it is going in the uture.
Thursdays lecture was the rst State o Brown
address President Ruth Simmons has delivered
since 2006. Simmons addressed the Universitys
internationalization eorts, plans or expansion and
response to the economic crisis, as well as its identity
and position relative to other schools. She also took
students questions, and brought along several other
top administrators to help provide as detailed answers
as possible. We thank President Simmons or agree-
ing to give the talk and speaking candidly, and we
applaud the Undergraduate Council o Students orarranging the event.
In deciding whether to hold another State o Brown
lecture next year, President Simmons and UCS should
not be discouraged by the low attendance which
can mainly be attributed to the beautiul weather
outside. The State o Brown presents a unique op-
portunity or students and the administration to en-
gage with one another. The speech should become
an annual tradition.
The next several years will be especially chal-
lenging or the University, as it seeks to recover
rom the economic downturn while simultaneously
growing. And with new dorms and expanded gradu-
ate programs on the agenda, the University could
very well undergo a surprisingly great amount o
change in just a ew years. At the very least, our
years must not be allowed to pass beore the next
State o Brown address.
We dont doubt President Simmons willingness
to give a speech like this more regularly, nor do we
doubt UCS willingness to arrange it. We mainly
want to impress upon students that attending the
State o Brown is extremely worthwhile. Wed evengo so ar as to say its obligatory or those who want
to be inormed and engaged members o the Brown
community a community centered on College Hill
but also including alums across the globe.
Current students may be primarily concerned with
Browns consistently strong showing in the Princeton
Reviews annual student happiness rankings. But as
alums venturing into a competitive labor market and
an interconnected globe, well all have reason to be
equally i not more concerned with how Brown is
perceived both domestically and internationally. All
students make a tremendous investment in Brown in
terms o both time and money, and the State o Brown
crucially exposes students to the kind o long-range,
strategic thinking that one sensibly applies when
considering any big investment.For underclassmen, the need to stay inormed
about the administrations outlook is particularly
pressing. At the speech last week, President Sim-
mons noted that the University must expand and
improve its graduate school and research capacity
i it wants to remain competitive with its peers in
the years to come. But she also expressed her belie
that the graduate school can grow without aect-
ing Browns emphasis on undergraduates. Current
underclassmen will watch this expansion continue
to unold and will have to be active in ensuring that
it is mutually benecial.
We look orward to the next State o Brown ad-
dress we just hope President Simmons and UCS
will keep the weather report in mind beore nalizing
the date.
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pinionsThe Brown dail Heral
When we, as college students, go home or
spring break (or, i were lucky enough to
be going somewh