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vol. cxlv, no. 38 | Tuesday, March 23, 2010 | Serving the community daily since 1891

U. nnon6 tf lofby alex bell

SeniorStaffWriter

The University will lay o approxi-

mately 60 sta members in June, ad-

ministrators announced to employees

via e-mail message Monday morning.

This gure does not include the 139

sta members who have opted or vol-

untary early retirement packages.

Executive Vice President or Fi-

nance and Administration Beppie

Huidekoper said in an interview with

The Herald shortly ater the e-mail

was sent out that the elimination o

these currently lled positions was

based on the February report romthe Organizational Review Com-

mittee. The committee was tasked

with nding $14 million o savings

in Browns budget or the 201011

scal year.

As we have stressed throughout

this process, in addition to improv-

ing eciencies while protecting our

academic programs and student lie

experiences, the plans are ocused

on limiting the number o layos

that will become eective on July 1,

2010 and providing support or those

whose jobs are being eliminated,

Provost David Kertzer 69 P95 P98

and Huidekoper wrote in their e-mail

to employees.According to the e-mail, these

employees severance packages will

provide our weeks o compensation

or every year worked at Brown, up

to 40 weeks. The packages will also

provide health coverage during the

severance period.

The message emphasized ser-

vices the University will provide to

the employees whose positions are

being eliminated, including training

programs, career counseling, nan-

cial planning, outplacement support

and placement wherever possible in

alternative positions at Brown.

Though the review committee re-port recommended the elimination

o certain positions, the University

will also create some new jobs and

merge other existing positions. Some

positions vacated by retirees will be

relled. Huidekoper said the train-

ing programs would not be geared

toward obtaining other jobs at Brown,

but the skills employees could learn

through them would be helpul to

nding uture employment. She said

she cannot be certain yet how many

o the 60 terminated employees will

seek or obtain alternative positions

at Brown.

We want to make sure the individ-

uals are ully supported, Huidekoper

told The Herald.

Huidekoper said last years 31

terminated employees were oered

similar outplacement and support

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news inbrief

Tickets for this ears

Spring Weekend concerts

featuring Snoop Dogg and

MGMT will be available

Wednesda morning at 8

a.m. on Brown Student

Agencs online store at

http://bsa.brown.edu, ac-

cording to Abigail Schreiber

11, Brown Concert Agen-

cs hospitalit chair.

Tickets will cost $18 for

each concert for Brown and

Rhode Island School of De-

sign students, who will be al-

lowed to purchase up to twotickets per show. BSA will

sell 3,000 tickets for each

concert on Wednesda.

Currentl, BSA can onl

sell tickets up to the capac-

it of Meehan Auditorium.

Weather permitting, both

concerts will be held on the

Main Green, and BSA will

sell 1,500 more tickets on

April 22, the Thursda be-

fore the concerts.

Schreiber said she does

not expect students to en-

counter an problems on

BSAs Web site when pur-

chasing tickets, despite the

expected high traffic.

Unlike last ear, reduced-

price packages will not

be available. According to

Schreiber this is partl to

allow for a portion of tick-

ets to be offered at reduced

prices for students who

qualif for financial aid.

Ana Alvarez

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S zby mark raymond

StaffWriter

A commission studying marijuana

policy in Rhode Island recommended

last week that the state legislature de-

criminalize possession o marijuana

in small amounts.

The Special Senate Commission

to Study the Prohibition o Marijuana,

which was composed o experts in

relevant elds including Proessor

o Economics Glenn Loury re-

leased its nal report, which outlined

various benets o decriminalization

or the state, earlier this month. The

commission ound that decriminaliza-

tion o under an ounce o marijuana

would create signicant savings or

the state through lower administra-

tive costs and ewer arrests or minor

cases o possession.

The report states savings would

accrue to agencies such as the Rhode

Island Department o Corrections

and the Oce o the Public Deender.

A report published by OpenDoors, a

Rhode Island organization that works

on behal o released convicts, esti-

mates the change will create $12.7

million in savings or the state.

But others have projected more

modest savings. Rep. John G. Ed-

wards, D-Tiverton and Portsmouth,

told The Herald last month that he

believed decriminalization would

save the state between $250,000 and

$2 million annually.

It would make what is already

close to true de acto, said commis-

sion member Jerey Miron, a senior

lecturer in economics at Harvard and

the director o undergraduate studies.

People ound with small amounts o

marijuana are rarely incarcerated

under the current system.

Miron, a supporter o not only

decriminalization but ull legalization

o marijuana, said, Painting this as

a panacea or state budgets is a airy

tale. But, he added, the burden o

proo should be on the government

when the government wants to in-

ringe on what people can do.

Col. Joseph Moran, CentralFalls chie o police and president

o the Rhode Island Police Chies

Association, also said the current

system does not result in as many

marijuana-related incarcerations as

some may think. Moran said he op-

poses decriminalizing marijuana.

Many o the people in jail or

marijuana are there or violating pro-

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Az T EC MADN ESS

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Aaron Volpatti 10 is being vetted b the NHLs Vancouver Canucks.

V 0 bV Ckby dan alexander

SportS editor

The NHLs Vancouver Canucks

signed tri-captain Aaron Volpatti 10

to a two-year, $400,000 contract with

a $200,000 signing bonus Monday,

ullling Volpattis lielong dream

o playing or the team he rooted

or as a child.

Its kind o surreal still, Volpatti

said. It will probably sink in tomor-

row when I fy out to Vancouver and

meet everyone and Wednesday night

when Im watching the game with all

o the general managers.

Volpatti will begin his career with

the Manitoba Moose, an American

Hockey League team aliated with

the Canucks. His season salary with

the Moose will be $200,000. But it

will increase to $500,000 i he gets

called up to the NHL. He will receive

hal o the $200,000 signing bonus

this year and hal o it next season.

Volpatti who inished his

senior season Saturday led the

Bears with 17 goals this year, includ-

ing a team-high six power-play and

three game-winning goals. He also

set the Brown record or penalty

minutes in a season, reaching 115

minutes on a game misconduct

Saturday.

The signing didnt come as a

surprise. Head Coach Brendan

Whittet 94 predicted it a month

and a hal ago in an interview with

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As students lter into the RockeellerLibrary on a Sunday night and pre-

pare to start the work theyve put o

all weekend, a group o dedicated

team members convene on the other

side o campus. The team sets up

equipment, transorming the dimly

lit Andrews Dining Hall into a suitable

table tennis practice room. Over a se-

ries o warm-up drills, excited chatter

about the teams recent accomplish-

ment lls the air in February, the

team claimed the New England Divi-

sion Table Tennis championship title

or the second consecutive year. In

April, they will send ve members to

Waukesha, Wis., or the National Col-legiate Table Tennis Tournament.

An orange ping pong ball fies back

and orth between rubber paddles as

the teams two best players, Yanqiang

Tan 13 and Jurica Bulovic 13, rally.

They back arther and arther away

rom the edge o the table, hitting the

ball with a variety o oensive and

deensive strokes. In table tennis,

there isnt a lot o time to respond

to a shot, so each second matters.

Maintaining ocus is essential, and

its something Tan and Bulovic are

incredibly good at doing. Despite

cheers rom a group o teammates at

the next table, the two never break

their concentration.Finally Bulovic responds with a

strong spin that sends the ball fying

over Tans reach. It drops sotly onto

the carpeted foor. Warm-up is over.

Its time to play a match.

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Unless students wander into the

Olney-Margolies Athletic Center

during the activities air, they prob-

ably wont hear much about the table

tennis club. The team may be one o

the Universitys best-kept secrets.

Not every student organization can

boast New England Division cham-

pionship titles three o the past our

years, nor can most student organi-

zations claim members who played

semi-proessionally beore coming

to college.

Tan and Bulovic, two rst-yearplayers, have made the team much

stronger this year than its been, I

think, ever, said Andrew Tarr 11, the

clubs president. The clubs members

are more actively improving their

individual skills by trying to add more

structure to their practices and work-

ing with a coach rom the Rhode Is-

land Table Tennis Association who

attends the teams practices three or

our times a semester.

Additionally, the team may try to

apply or status as a club sport. It will

really depend on how much eort

people are willing to put in, Yuan

said. Club status will give the team

better access to University undingand practice spaces on campus.

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Tarr said the rst time he saw Tan

and Bulovic play he was blown away.

They were able to do a lot o looping ateach other without dropping the ball,

a technique he said signals experience.

We had never seen anything like that

here, he said.

Tan, an international student rom

Singapore, said he started playing table

tennis when he was nine. He played

on the Singapore National Youth Team

and even represented Singapore re-

gionally once. At age 16, Tan stopped

playing proessionally in order to con-

centrate on his other interests, though

he continued playing or un. Tan said

he started playing again beore coming

to Brown in anticipation o joining the

team, should there be one.Bulovic, who is rom Croatia, also

started playing at age nine. My a-

ther bought a table tennis table and

we played in the basement, Bulovic

said. Then I ound out there was a

way I could play in school. Almost

immediately, Bulovics school encour-

aged him to join one o the capital citys

several table tennis clubs.

Soon Bulovic was playing between

six and nine times a week, oten prac-

ticing beore school and again ater

classes nished.

I didnt have much time outside o

practicing, Bulovic said. Whenever I

would have ree time, I would probably

study. I mean, i you have tournamentsand training every day, you cant go out

every day and every weekend.

The lack o ree time was a sacrice

Bulovic said he was willing to make to

play at such an intense and competitivelevel, especially or a sport to which he

said he eels strong attachment.

You start playing and you have

tournaments and then you always have

higher goals to achieve, Bulovic said.

By age 12, he was playing with the best

table tennis club in Croatia.

Bulovic said playing a sport at such

a high level helped him learn a lot about

himsel. You learn i youre a ghter

or not, how ar are you ready to go to

achieve some goals, how strong and

determined you are, Bulovic wrote

in an e-mail to The Herald. Bulovic

was named the eighth-best player in

Croatia or his age group and evenearned a bronze medal at one o the

international table tennis tournaments

held in Croatia.

Ater injuring both o his knees a

common occurrence among table ten-

nis players as well as his shoulder,

Bulovic began to seriously consider

taking a break.

I would see the specialist and go to

therapy but the injury would never go

completely away, Bulovic said. Even

today, he said, these injuries oten

bother him i he plays or an extended

period o time.

But his education was the biggest

actor in his decision to stop playing

proessionally. His parents elt edu-cation was more important than his

potential table tennis career, and en-

rolled Bulovic in the citys most rigor-

ous high school, a choice that meant

he could no longer continue to play at

the same level.

Im still in contact with some o

the people that played with me, he

said. Now these players are travelingaround the world and earning money,

Bulovic said, but its not like soccer

or a dierent sport. You really cant

make a living.

I am really happy this is the path

I chose, Bulovic said. Playing table

tennis or all those years was amazing

and an unorgettable experience, but

also a lot o sacrice and hard work.

Eight years, that was enough.

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It is dicult or the average college

student whose only interaction with

a ping pong table usually involves red

Solo cups and spilled beer to imag-ine what an intensely ast-paced game

table tennis can be. Overall, the sport

is relatively unknown in the United

States, oten regarded as little more

than a recreational activity.

The table tennis club is mainly

comprised o international students,

something Yuan said just happens

to be that way.

Maybe because ping pong is a

more organized and respected team

sport in other countries, he said.

Club member Kaijian Gao 13 is

rom China, where table tennis is the

national sport. He said he eels like

table tennis is hardly recognized in

the United States.In China, theres all this media

attention devoted to table tennis, he

said, comparing it to the way the U.S.

looks at Michael Phelps.

Though Bulovic said table tennis

is not as popular in Croatia either, he

said people in Europe are denitely

more amiliar with table tennis than

they are in the United States.

sudoku

George Miller, President

Claire Kiely, Vice President

Katie Koh, Treasurer

Chaz Kelsh, Secretary

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Nationals is gonna be reall weird.Jurica Bulovic 13, member of the table tennis team

services, but less in-house train-

ing. Also new this year, employees

with more than 10 years o service

will be given additional compensa-

tion, but Huidekoper said she could

not disclose more details on this

bonus.

According to Huidekoper, the

layos are spread evenly through-

out all 12 areas o the Organizational

Review Committees ocus. She said

most employees will be inormed otheir terminations in person over

the next ew weeks.

Our goal is to complete this pro-

cess as soon as possible but with as

much care as needed, Huidekoper

said in a press release issued Mon-

day morning.

These are enormously challeng-

ing times or our entire community,

Kertzer said in the same statement.

The economic downturn has orced

the University to review and rethink

the way we operate in order to re-

duce budget decits while maintain-

ing academic excellence in teaching

and research.

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Gao stressed the act that table

tennis is an Olympic sport that is

very technical and involves a lot oootwork. He said the game is much

more complicated than most people

imagine.

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The team is excited about the na-

tional tournament later this spring and

though the players agreed they do not

have any strong expectations, plac-

ing somewhere in the top 10 would

improve on their perormance last

year. We have really dedicated play-

ers who are willing to give it their all,Tan said.

Nationals is gonna be really

weird, Bulovic said. He said hes

heard o our or ve colleges that are

so good that its virtually impossible

to compete with them. One o these

schools, Texas-Wesleyan University,

has ranked rst in the National Col-

legiate Table Tennis Tournament or

the past eight years, according to the

teams Web site. They have world

class table tennis players, Bulovic

said. Texas-Wesleyan even oersa table tennis scholarship to attract

players.

Princeton is the nations other table

tennis powerhouse.

Im really looking orward to play-

ing one o the top two schools, Bulovic

said, smiling as he adds, I want to see

how good they really are.

C b k

The Herald.

Hes the type o kid that can

make a living playing hockey andI dont mean in some lower minors I

mean in the National Hockey League,

Whittet said on Feb. 6. Hes such a

good hockey player. And when I stress

hockey player, I mean in all aspects

deensively, you know physicality,

you know oensively obviously hes

been chipping in, and hes a good

leader.

What did come as a pleasant sur-

prise or Volpatti was that he landed

with his hometown team ater a bid-

ding war between eight NHL orga-

nizations.

But he wont get to play back home

quite yet. He will probably close out

the last month o this season withManitoba but hopes to be with the

Canucks by the start o next season.

Depending on injuries, he could get

the call to the NHL by the end o this

season, Volpatti said.

Ill probably be at a couple ocamps this summer with them. And

i that works out well, then I could start

out in Vancouver, he said.

Volpatti said his Brown teammates

and coaches were pumped about

the news. He said his success in

addition to the teams recent run in

the ECAC playos will open doors

or his teammates when they try to

play proessionally and will also make

Brown more appealing to recruits.But he cant celebrate much yet.

When asked what he was going to

do tonight, Volpatti laughed.

I got to start packing. Ive got to

leave tomorrow.

He has a job to do.

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AWESOME B LOSSOMS

Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald

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Were specialiing in the European thing. Umberto Sorbo, owner of Liquid Lounge

, Lq Bby CC Chiang

ContributingWriter

Ater 13 years, Liquid Lounge will be

closing its doors or good. On April

1, the English Cellar Alehouse will

open in its place under the same own-

ership.

According to owner Umberto

Sorbo, who also operates bars in Cr-

anston and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the

decision to close down Liquid Lounge

was partly due to its age. Its ran its

course ater 13 years and it needed

renovations and a acelit, he said.

Sorbo also revealed that business

has decreased over the last couple o

years due to the economy.

But you have to remember as well

that the Liquid Lounge was more o a

watering hole. Once you have ood, it

rounds o the whole business well,

he added.

The Alehouse, modeled ater a clas-

sic English pub, eatures brick walls

and a replica red telephone booth. I

knew I had a very old building to begin

with, Sorbo said, so I wanted to makethis as authentic as possible.

According to Sorbo, the main at-

traction o the English Cellar Alehouse

will be its extensive liquor selection,

English cuisine and a wide range o

games and entertainment.

Were going to have a lot o crat

beers, such as Dog Fish, Sorbo said.

The Alehouse will eature over 180

varieties o liquor, with an emphasis

on European and English brands. The

lunch and dinner menus will include

English dishes such as shepherds

pie and sh and chips. Sorbo also said

the Alehouse will organize a Cellar

Dweller Beer Club that oers tiered

prizes to acionados who sample more

than 25 brands o oreign beers.

A section o the pub is dedicated

to billiards and darts with weekly

league competitions. Televisions will

broadcast the Soccer Network and

the Rugby Network.

Were specializing in the Euro-

pean thing, Sorbo said.

To Sorbo, opening a pub in themidst o a slow economic recovery is a

calculated risk. In general, the market

is doing pretty well with pubs that

are not overpriced, he said. High-

end restaurants are the market that

is getting hit hardest in this economy,

but an appetizer and beer or $10 will

always do well.

Sorbo considers the Alehouses lo-

cation in the heart o Browns campus

to be a competitive advantage. Were

going to get college and graduate stu-

dents, as well as local proessionals,

he said. There are Brown students

rom across the world, and they make

the neighborhood very cultural.

I appreciate the quality anduniqueness o the East Side, Sorbo

said.

Theo Spiridis, manager o Spats,

Viva and Paragon, welcomed the new

competition. The more people in the

CC Chiang / Herald

The English Cellar Alehouse will feature a selection of European liquors and traditional English dishes.

visions o probations, Moran said.

We can all manipulate statistics to

say what we want them to say.

Moran, one o two opponents o

decriminalization on the commis-

sion, claimed that decriminalization

would not only ail to cure state

budgets but also called marijuana

a dangerous drug.

It can open up the horizon or

use o more dangerous drugs, he

said.

Mischa Steiner 10, treasurer o

the national board o directors o

Students or Sensible Drug Policyand ormer president o the Brown

chapter, praised the commissions

decision.

It doesnt make sense economi-

cally, socially or politically or mari-

juana to be criminalized, Steiner

said. Ocers are spending their

time arresting people or marijuana

possession when they could be deal-

ing with ar more serious crimes.

David Lewis, proessor emeritus

o community health and medicine

at Brown, said both sides exaggerate

their cases, but he still believes mari-

juana should be decriminalized.

Proponents o legalization or de-

criminalization otentimes overlooksome o the health risks o mari-

juana, while opponents otentimes

exaggerate the risks, Lewis said.

But he added that marijuana

should still be treated as a poten-

tially dangerous substance, though

it is less harmul than tobacco and

alcohol.Any substance that has risks

needs to be regulated in one way

or another, Lewis said. I we de-

criminalize or ever legalize mari-

juana, it will need to be stringently

regulated.

Steiner said he believes decrimi-

nalization and even legalization are

bound to occur. He said the inertia o

state governments will be the actor

holding back policy changes.

Not only will decriminalization

become a reality, but ull legaliza-

tion with taxation is inevitable,

Steiner said. It is just a matter o

how quickly the state governmentcan move.

My guess is that within a year

or two, marijuana will be decriminal-

ized in Rhode Island, Lewis said.

Despite the growing sense o

inevitability, Moran believes that

not much will change i and when

marijuana is decriminalized in small

amounts.

Were still going to have to seize

the drugs and le reports, Moran

said. Its still going to take lots o

time and energy, and I dont see a

windall o money coming into the

state as a result o this policy.

But Steiner said he believes sig-

nicant change is within sight.Support or marijuana legaliza-

tion in our generation is extremely

high and it continues to grow across

the entire population, Steiner said.

I think that once a state ully legal-

izes marijuana, it will be a major

turning point.

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editorial

As Proessor o Histor y Ken Sacks told The Herald

last week, writing a senior thesis is agony. Indeed, in

some departments a stunning one-third o students who

begin the process drop out. The Heralds recent report

on thesis attrition should signal to all departments thatthey might want to take another look at how theyre

preparing students or the thesis-writing process.

Most students sign up to write a thesis without

knowing what to expect. This is particularly true in

data-oriented elds. In the Department o Economics,

most students who dropped their theses this year did so

because they discovered they did not have the statistics

skills necessary or data analysis. In one particularly

awkward case, a biology concentrator told The Herald

that she dropped her thesis because she realized only

ater completing her research that she would need to

learn both computer programming and computational

biology in order to run the numbers.

Students have an obligation to prepare themselves

or some aspects o the thesis process. They must come

up with an interesting and relevant topic and be readyor laborious research, tight deadlines and long hours in

the library. But the University has an obligation to give

students the tools they need to complete their research.

It is counterproductive to usher students through the

thesis-writing process when they do not have the skills

they need to nish. It is also unair to students, who may

sink time and resources into a project only to nd that

they are unable to see it through.

Some departments could take a lot o agony out

o the thesis process simply by clariying statistics re-

quirements. Departments like psychology, economics,

political science and sociology already require concen-

trators to take a statistics class, but the basic statistics

courses that meet the requirement do not necessarily

give students the tools to analyze real data. Data-oriented

departments should require thesis writers to take a

more rigorous statistics class beore senior year. In

departments where concentrators can choose rom

several courses to ulll the statistics requirement,advisors should be clear early on about which course

is a prerequisite or writing a thesis.

All departments should also make more o an e-

ort to introduce students to the thesis-writing process

beore they embark on their research. Thesis classes

or seniors provide morale-boosting camaraderie and

some guidance during the research and writing phases,

but much o this comes too late. Students should know

what theyre getting into beore they even pick a research

ocus. A thorough understanding o what goes into aca-

demic research in a given eld will help students decide

whether they want to pursue a thesis. An introduction

to research methods and current research themes

will also help students come up with viable topics or

undergraduate projects.

A number o concentrations, such as developmentstudies and environmental studies, oer a thesis prepara-

tion class or juniors. Other departments should do the

same. And the Department o History, which will make

its junior thesis class optional next year, should make

sure students who do not enroll still begin the thesis-

writing process with realistic expectations.

Lets not orget that, even or students who come in

prepared, writing a thesis is hard work. To all you seniors

who are typing away in the Rockeeller Library keep

sticking it out, spring break is only our days away.

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While I was amused by the vague-

ly Switian whimsy and diction o the

quixotic Sean Quigleys 10 recent

opinion column (Appropriate or

the occasion, March 17), I am a bit

concerned or his welare. He seems

to be in a mild existential crisis, a

modern-day Sartre Resartus stuck

in a n-de-siecle Zeitgeist. Ironically

or a Brown student, he ignores the

massive hipster subculture, which

ocuses heavily on clothing and any

other sort o sartorial individuality.

Many may wear a standard jeans and

tee, but is this not just as conorm-

ist as an ensemble suit in an earlier

era? Nay, I preer to save my dap-

perness or the occasions when they

matter most, making it all the more

contrastive. So what, precisely, did I

take away rom all this cockpuery?

To wit: with petty topics come pithy

aphorisms.

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