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Hunter Fast ’12commends Brown’sprice discrimination
By AShley Aydin
Senior S taff W riter
For some Brown students, classroom
time extends beyond College Hill. This
isn’t just the typical educational experi-
ence –– it involves teaching younger
peers in places like Olneyville and
Providence’s West End. In these class-
rooms, it’s all about students teaching
students.
Summr for bo a ar
Providence Summerbridge’s mis-sion is to create an opportunity or
low-income, academically motivated
middle school students to attend col-
lege. The students come rom local
public schools, and the program en-
courages high school and college stu-
dents to pursue utures in education,
according to the program’s website.
Michael Goldstein ’92, co-ounder
o Summerbridge Providence, said he
was inspired by his past experience
with Summerbridge in New Orleans
and decided to start the program in
Providence.
“It was just completely a part o
who I was and how I ound mysel,
and so the opportunity to be able to do
something I love was great,” he said.
Providence Summerbridge uses
the students-teaching-students model
because “the teachers are students
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By MORgAn JOhnSOn
ContributingW riter
A panel o our Brown and Providence
experts on the Muslim community
addressed the causes o negativity
toward Islam in America, oering
dierent opinions on how to combat
increasing intolerance, in a mostly
ull MacMillan 115 Tuesday night.
The panelists cited media cov-
erage, especially rom cable news
outlets, as a requent perpetrator o
stereotypes about the Muslim com-
munity. The notion that “Islam is a total-
izing way o lie that accompanies
everything a Muslim does” is an
example o the media’s biased in-
terpretation o Islam, said Assistant
Proessor o Religious Studies Nancy
Khalek.
She said the media capitalize on
a common public assumption that
Muslims are intolerant o religious
and cultural dierences. The media
imply that i Muslims are permitted
to ollow Shariah law, she said, the
public should be araid that such laws
would be imposed on the rest o the
community.
“We must be aggressively undo-
ing what the media is doing,” said
Sherine Hamdy, assistant proessor
o anthropology. “You have to workagainst it. You can’t just be passive.”
In a 2005 cartoon contest held by
a Danish newspaper, artists depicted
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SportS S taff W riter
It was a little too close or comort, but
the No. 20 men’s water polo team (14-
4) escaped rom Harvard’s Blodgett
Pool with a 12-9 win over the Crimson
(8-13) last Thursday.
Bruno jumped out to a 5-0 lead in
the rst quarter, but the game tight-
ened up ater Brown was unable to
score in quarter two.
“I was pleased with the way we
started the game,” said Head Coach
Felix Mercado. “But obviously the
last three quarters on the scoreboard,
Harvard outplayed us.”
Despite the rocky nish, Mercado
said he was pleased with the game’s
outcome.
“I’m happy we were able to get out
o there with a victory and a top-two
seed at (the Northern Champion-
ships), which was probably the most
important thing,” he said.
Mercado praised the oense o
Svetozar Steanovic ’13, who scored
ve goals, as well as Corey Schwartz
’11 and James McNamara ’14, who
netted three apiece. Cyrus Mojdehi
’12 added Brown’s other goal. Merca-
do said these oensive perormances
“denitely propelled us to the win.”
“We did a little worse in the last
quarters,” Steanovic said. “But it
doesn’t matter because we won.”
Goalie Max Lubin ’12 was able toEmi Gibert / Herad
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Courtes of Christopher Bu
A coaboration between Brown and RISD students is bringing cean water to Keraa, India, but not withoutdifficuties. S Campus ns, pa 2.
L, Cbb S By eMily ROSen
S taff W riter
As the new director o the Center
or Latin American and Caribbean
Studies, Proessor o Political Sci-
ence Richard Snyder said he plansto implement new initiatives as well
as to continue and build upon exist-
ing ones.
“Latin American and Caribbe-
an studies is an absolute jewel at
Brown,” said Matthew Gutmann,
vice president or international a-
airs and the ormer CLACS director.
“(Snyder) can provide the leadership
the program needs right now.” Sny-
der, who began his term as direc-
tor in July, is a well-known scholar
in Latin American and Caribbean
studies.
The programs, events and con-
erences organized by CLACS are
geared toward both undergraduate
and graduate students.“These types o centers are
important or enhancing graduate
education,” Snyder said, adding that
as a graduate student, he beneted
greatly rom “robust area centers”
similar to CLACS, which bring to-
gether people rom multiple depart-
ments. “It’s good to be exposed to
people in other disciplines,” he said.
This year, Snyder is reinstating
“Politics, Culture, and Society in
Latin America and the Caribbean,”
a graduate student colloquium that
he launched a ew years ago. These
seminars allow graduate students
rom a variety o departments — in-
cluding sociology, anthropology and
political science — to present their research to other graduate students.
In addition to the interdisciplin-
ary undergraduate concentration
in Latin American and Caribbean
Studies, the center also oers pro-
grams and various opportunities or
undergraduates. As director, Snyder
said he is going to start initiatives
on social entrepreneurship and cli-
mate change as they relate to Latin
America.
Snyder said he thinks undergrad-
uates will nd the eld o social en-
trepreneurship interesting, and he is
planning to have a workshop on the
subject during this academic year.
As part o the climate change
initiative, there will be a coner-
ence Apr. 8 with experts on climate
change rom Latin America and
Washington, D.C. invited to attend,
Snyder said.
In addition, a small group o
undergraduates — sponsored by
CLACS, the Watson Institute or In-
ternational Studies and the Center
or Environmental Studies — will
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CAMS wS “It’s been an incredibe earning experience to get off CoegeHi.” — Kaa Urquidi ’11, eadership program coordinator
G k b IBy KATheRine SOlA
ContributingW riter
Rainwater or Humanity, a collabo-
ration between Brown and Rhode
Island School o Design students,
has developed a system or providing
clean, drinkable water to people living
in Kerala, India — but the project has
met some cultural challenges.
The residents o Achinakom, a vil-
lage in the state o Kerala, do not have
access to a ordable drinking water.
Much o the local groundwater is
contaminated, leading to disease and
increased medical costs, according
to the group’s website. Clean water
is available rom vendors, but at high
prices.
Brown and RISD students have
designed a solution to this problem
— tanks that catch, lter and store
rainwater during the monsoon. The
water collection rees amilies rom
the nancial burden o buying water
and paying or health care costs. The
rst tank was built in 2009, according
to the group’s website.
The group received about $40,000
in grants and has spent approximate-
ly hal o the unds, said Senior Re-
search Engineer and Senior Lecturer
in Engineering Christopher Bull ’79
MS’86 PhD’06, who advises the Rain-
water or Humanity team.
Bull said the tanks are generally
connected to the rainwater gutters
on existing dwellings. When it rains,
runo rom the rst ve minutes is
discarded and the rest o the water is
stored. The system is entirely human-
powered and gravity-ed, requiring
no electricity.
There are currently two prototype
tanks unctioning in Achinakom, Bull
said.
The team also designed a payback
system to make the tanks economi-cally sustainable. Several amilies pur-
chase a communal tank and pay or
it over the course o a ew years. Vil-
lagers pay less per month than they
spend on water vendors and medical
ees or water-borne diseases.
The group members wanted the
project to be economically sustain-
able and use locally available mate-
rials, said Christina Tang ’09, one o
the project’s original members. The
group has also partnered with a local
university and community members.
Though the team has successully
come up with a solution or providing
aordable, clean water, the project
is acing cultural challenges. The
tanks currently unctioning in Achi-
nakom were built as prototypes, at
no expense to the residents, Tang
said. Some now consider it unair
that the tanks were provided ree to
those amilies, while others will be
expected to pay back the cost. This
attitude stems rom Kerala’s com-
munist political ideology, which has
led residents to expect ree services,
she added.
Tang added that persuading vil-
lagers to purchase tanks is the “major
challenge” acing the project. In ad-
dition, politicians are oten unwill-
ing to support grassroots projects,
preerring larger projects that gain
media coverage.
Current group member Eli Crum-
rine ’11 said that many o the villag-
ers are employed unreliably as day
laborers or in seasonal agricultural
jobs and are thereore unwilling to
commit to paying o debt. But he
said he is optimistic about the pos-
sibilities or success and expansion
in the uture.
“I denitely eel good about what
we’ve learned, what our partners
have learned and about the eect
that we’ve had,” Crumrine said.
preserve the Bears’ lead, recording
nine saves in net.
Brown now prepares or what will
be its toughest test o the season: a
West Coast trip against some o the
nation’s best teams. On Thursday,
the Bears will head to the three-day
Santa Clara University Invitational in
Santa Clara, Cali.
Bruno will ace No. 14 Caliornia
Baptist University (22-3), No. 11 Uni-
versity o Caliornia at Davis (12-6),
Air Force (7-11), No. 11 Santa Clara
University (13-9) and No. 7 University o the Pacic (10-5). UC-Davis and
Santa Clara are tied in the rankings.
Even with the daunting schedule
ahead, Mercado said he is condent
in his team, and the win against Har-
vard reminded his squad o an im-
portant lesson.
“It let us know that we need to
play our quarters,” Mercado said. “I
think the last three days o practice
that we’ve had have been very o-
cused. The guys have worked hard.”
Steanovic said he was not in-
timidated by the higher rankings o
Bruno’s upcoming opponents, say-
ing that they are “not much better
than us.”“I we work hard in every game
and we give our best, we can beat
every one o those teams,” he said.
Mercado agreed, saying the
team will be in good shape as long
as it avoids bouts o sloppy play and
turnovers.
“That has been the biggest Achil-
les’ heel: our turnovers,” he said. “I
we protect the ball and we take advan-
tage o every oensive possession,
it doesn’t matter who we’re playing.
We’re going to be in the game.”
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themselves, so there is a real bond
that is created between the studentsand teachers,” Goldstein said. “The
high school and college teachers are
exceptional.”
At rst, Ari Rubenstein ’11, who
taught in the program the past two
summers, was not really sure he
wanted to do Summerbridge. He
ound, though, that “it was the most
rewarding way to spend my summer.”
Rubenstein taught English his
rst year and mathematics his sec-
ond year.
Typical days at Providence Sum-
merbridge are long — “the kids ar-
rive at 8 a.m.,” Rubenstein said.
Rubenstein’s day usually endedat 6 p.m. “We spend a lot o our time
writing quizzes and grading home-
work,” he added.
For Keith Catone ’00, a program
alum now attending the Harvard
School o Education, Providence
Summerbridge was also a big, but
valuable, commitment.
Catone spent most o his time
working with students ater school
ended, or two hours twice a week.
Catone said the program’s model
o students teaching students had
many advantages. People aged 16–20
“can do a lot i they’re given the right
type o training, and i they’re given
the support and space,” he said.
“They can have more success with
students than older teachers. There’s
a built-in sort o respect.”
Rubenstein also said being close
in age is benecial.
“One big thing is the students
come in and see someone who is
young and riendly, listens to the
same music they listen to,” he said.
“We’re students ourselves. We’re not
that ar out o middle school, so we
can be really sympathetic.”
This relationship is not a one-way
street, Rubenstein said.
“The learning is going in both
directions,” he said. “We’re not just
coming in to teach or do a avor or these kids because that’s not what
it’s about. It’s about working hard
and learning a lot.”
exprsso trou coaborato
The students-teaching-students
model is also used in the Brown Lan-
guage Arts Program, a writing club
intended to encourage sel-expres-
sion and help elementary students
with their written communication
skills, according to the Swearer
Center website. The clubs meet at
William D’Abate and Asa Messer
elementary schools.
Je Bauer ’11, the coordinator o the program, has participated in it
since his reshman year ater nding
out about it at the Student Activities
Fair.
“We basically do creative writing
with third-, ourth- and th-graders
with ction, nonction and poetry,”
he said.
“We’re old enough or the teach-
ing aspect o it, but on the other hand,
we have a really close relationship
with the kids. We can relate easier to
them,” Bauer said. “Since we’re ater
school, it’s not as rigid a structure.
We’re in a unique position because
o our age.”
Bauer said the program involvesa lot o individual help.
“We usually have a 2-1 student-
to-teacher ratio,” he said. “We try
to bridge the gap between building
skills and un activities.”
larsp out- a oors
While many Brown students have
the opportunity to explore the great
outdoors through Brown Outdoor
Leadership Training, some have
taken their experiences one step ur-
ther. Many participate in the Outdoor
Leadership and Experiential Educa-
tion Program, which teaches envi-
ronmental science and leadership
through workshops and eld trips tostudents at the Met School, according
to the Swearer Center website.
Program Coordinator Kayla
Urquidi ’11 discovered the program
— which was started by two BOLT
leaders about 13 years ago — during
her sophomore year.
“It was a usion o my passions,”
she said. “I just returned rom the
backpacking trip on BOLT, and I was
really looking to get involved in the
community. I was in other teaching
programs beore, and I wanted to
get involved with the Met School.”
Urquidi said there are multiple
ocuses o the program.“We try to help ulill the lab
science requirements or the Met
School. We do hands-on environ-
mental science workshops,” she said.
“Another acet o the program is the
camping component. We usually have
two trips each semester, and the men-
tors and mentees go together.”
Urquidi said many Brown stu-
dents in the program act as mentors
and have helped their mentees in the
past with community service projects
and college applications.
“We help them with whatever they
want,” she said. “Some o the pairs
click and take o.”
Urquidi said that with the close
age dierence o the mentors and
mentees, engaging the interest o
mentees is much easier.
“I really eel like the Brown stu-
dents learn so much in terms o how
to communicate their own knowledge
and acilitate discussions with the
Met students,” she said.
Mutua ar
With such large outreach in
the Providence community, Brown
serves an important role in support-
ing students — o all ages.
“Some o the middle schoolers
can be inspired by the act that there
are these students going to an Ivy
League that tell them they believe
in them and that they can make it to
Brown, too,” Rubenstein said.
Urquidi said she is amazed there
are so many programs involving
Brown students helping out in the
Providence community.
“Now that I’m coordinating, I
can see how many programs there
are. We had an amazing amount o
people apply this year. I really think
student groups do a good job in get-
ting involved in Providence,” Urquidi
said. “It’s been an incredible learning
experience to get o College Hill.”
With the participation in theseprograms, students volunteers said
they have discovered many valuable
lessons about themselves and about
teaching.
“It’s a very real way to understand
the setting the University is in and
the other parts it’s isolated rom,”
Catone said. “I think Brown students
are given space and reedom to think
about ‘Why am I learning this?’ and
‘Why am I here?’ ”
Bauer said he learned a lot about
the way kids think and how to make
activities “more exciting or stu-
dents.”
For Rubenstein, hard work led to
many new discoveries.“I worked harder then I ever had
in my lie over this summer. I learned
to have aith that the work that I was
doing was worthwhile and valuable
even i I couldn’t see the results right
away or ever,” he said.
Urquidi said she realized rom
the experience that she could be a
teacher.
“I always had done tutoring, but
this showed me that I could really be
a teacher,” she said. “Condence was
the biggest thing.”
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the prophet Muhammad in various
derogatory illustrations, which in-
cited a slew o angry and at times
violent protests rom the Muslim
community.
“Westerners interpreted this as
Muslim intolerance to reedom o
speech,” Khalek said.
She added that the reality o the
situation was quite dierent. From
the Muslim perspective, the protest-
ers were not necessarily critical o
the illustrators’ rights to ree speech,
but they wanted to demonstrate that
the drawings were highly oensive
and injurious.
Khalek also critiqued the reaction
o the media and the American publictoward the recently proposed Islamic
community center in the vicinity o
Ground Zero.
“It seems to me that what we’re
really talking about is not whether
religion belongs in the public sphere,”
she said. “What we’re talking about
is whose sensitivities ought to be
respected.”
Khalek disputed the common ar-
gument used against the community
center — that a majority o Americans
are not in avor o its construction,
according to some polls. Reerring
to past instances o popular public
opinion, such as the strong support o slavery by the American public
beore the Civil War, Khalek argued
that such an argument has no histori-
cal or moral validity.
Brown Muslim Chaplain David
Coolidge ’01 argued that such preju-
dice against Islam is uncharacteris-
tic o the American ideal as “the last
best hope on Earth.” Unlike coun-
tries such as France and Switzerland,
where nationalist values contribute to
a negative climate or Islam, American
sensationalism o Muslims appears to
be in contrast o its traditional plat-
orm o religious tolerance, which can
be damaging to young Muslims whenconronting Islamic identity, he said.
According to Coolidge, messages
rom the public and the media con-
cerning symbols o Muslim identity,
like the generalization that “scarves
are bad,” discourage people rom
wearing them who might otherwise.
Coolidge said he is treated dierently
when wearing a cap or sporting a
longer beard.
Khalek said a diculty with get-
ting the American public to accept Is-
lam, as opposed to some ethnicities
and cultures, relates to terrorist ac-
tivity inspired by radical sects o the
religion.“People don’t do things in the
name o their ethnicity,” she said,
but Muslims who perpetrate acts o
violence usually do so “in the name
o Islam.”
The technology-saturated culture
in the U.S. also poses a problem in
conronting myths and ignorance
about Islam, she said. Citing popular
conservative gures in shaping public
opinion, Khalek said, “Sarah Palin can
say something and 2 million people
read it later on Facebook.”
One way to ght generalizations
about Islam may be to change the
popular usage o the word.“We cannot use the word ‘Islam’
as an agent in a sentence,” Khalek
said. “What is Islam? Who is Islam?
There is no pope. There are bound
to be variations in a religion practiced
by 1.5 billion people.”
Local Imam Farid Ansari suggest-
ed another way to dispel misconcep-
tions is by encouraging people to read
the Quran.
“Learn or yoursel,” Ansari said
to those who believe in myths about
the Muslim community but take no
steps to educate themselves about the
religion. “I people are not inormed,
don’t vote, don’t take responsibility
— that’s going to aect the uture ina very negative way.”
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“What is Isam? Who is Isam? There is no pope.” — Assistant Professor of Reigious Studies Nanc Khaek
D f By KATRinA PhilliPS
Contributing W riter
Though Denmark and the United
States are acing similar challenges
— namely an aging population and
costly new medical techniques —
the two nations have “dierent
points o departure,” said Danish
Minister o Interior and Health Ber-
tel Haarder at a lecture Tuesday.
Haarder explained the benets
o European health care systems
to an overfowing crowd in the Joukowsky Forum at the Watson
Institute or International Stud-
ies. Though Denmark provides
universal health care and the U.S.
does not, the U.S. spends a much
greater percentage o its gross do-
mestic product on health care. This
disparity is largely due to money
spent on insurance companies and
the possibility o “some element
o overtreatment,” Haarder said,
citing the high rate o inpatient
surgeries in the U.S.
The minister said all European
countries have universal health
care, based either on the Scan-
dinavian tax-based model or the
“German Bismarck” model o com-
pulsory insurance. With the new
implementation o health care re-orm, the U.S. is “moving a little bit
to the German Bismarck model,”
he said. But rom the European
perspective, “it’s puzzling that the
have the opportunity to travel to
Cancun in December or a global
climate change summit. A report
o their ndings and experiences
at the summit will then be a point
o discussion at the climate change
conerence at Brown.
Snyder said he also plans to con-
tinue an initiative started by Gut-
mann on violence in Latin America.
People rom Latin America, In-
dia, South Arica and other coun-
tries have been invited to attend
an April conerence on the subject.Snyder said that scholars rom Latin
American cities will be paired with
scholars rom other cities in the
global south, adding that such
“cross-regional dialogue” doesn’t
happen oten.
“The best way to address theo-
retical questions in the social sci-
ences is to have people grounded
in context,” Snyder said.
“There are very exciting peda-
gogical and intellectual agendas
that come out o Latin America,”
Snyder said. Latin American stud-
ies remain an important eld o
research, he said, since the “share
o the U.S. population that’s Latinois growing.”
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CAMS wS “The Danes smoke too much.” — Danish Minister of Interior and Heath Berte Haarder
reorm did not go urther because
the need seemed to be evident,”
Haarder added.
Haarder also addressed the com-
mon assertion in the U.S. that the
Danish health care system is “only
one step away rom communism” by
noting that many Danes are reluctant
to allow too much political infuence
on their private lives. Being liberal
in Denmark means supporting ree
choice, Haarder said. Though Danes
are obligated to go through specied
general practitioners as “gatekeep-ers to the rest o the health sector,”
there is an element o choice in that
citizens choose their general practi-
tioners themselves and can change
them once every year, he said.
Haarder acknowledged that his
country’s system is ar rom per-
ect and that certain social behav-
iors have led to Denmark’s below-
average lie expectancy in Europe.
“The main reason is that the
Danes smoke too much, and par-
ticularly, the young Danes drink too
much,” he said.
Throughout his speech, Haarder
stressed the importance o equal-
ity in health care and other areas
o governance. The principle that
any service available to one should
be equally available to all is “one o
the undamentals o Danish politics,”
he said.
“The Europeans are way ahead
o us” in terms o health care, said
Dean o Medicine and Biological
Sciences Edward Wing in his intro-
duction or Haarder. Wing noted that
he avors the recent U.S. reorm but
does not think it will be adequate
to bridge the gap with European
countries. Among those who turned out or
the lecture was Proessor-at-Large
and ormer Prime Minister o Italy
Romano Prodi. During the question-
and-answer session, Prodi drew on
his experience in Italy to elaborate
on Haarder’s points concerning the
possibility o primary care neglect in
the European health care system.
Ater the lecture, Kristen En-
glund GS said the talk was “enlight-
ening.” Beore hearing Haarder, she
said she had seen Prodi speak and
noticed there were “a lot o parallels”
in their priorities.
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ContributingW riter
The Rhode Island School o Designlaunched a partnership last week with
car sharing company Zipcar, mak-
ing two Toyota Scions available last
Thursday.
The partnership was prompted
by the Graduate Student Alliance at
RISD, said Jerri Drummond, assistant
dean or student lie at the design
school.
The new Zipcars have specially re-
served parking spaces on Waterman
Street across rom the RISD Public
Saety Oce. They will be available
to Zipcar members 24 hours a day andcan be reserved online or by phone.
The arrival o RISD’s Zipcars
brings Providence’s total Zipcar count
to 20, according to Zipcar spokes-
man Greg Winter. The car sharing
company already has two vehicles at
Johnson and Wales University and 16
vehicles at Brown.
Zipcar members can rent cars by
the hour or the day. Gas, insurance
and roadside assistance are included
in the rental ee.
Though there isn’t yet any con-
crete inormation or numbers regard-ing the demand or and popularity
o RISD’s new Zipcars, “they’re al-
ways out o their slots,” Drummond
said. The design school arranged or
Scions, relatively large cars, so art
students can use them to transport
supplies, she said.
“Providence is a great market or
us,” Winter said. “We anticipate that
it’ll be really successul,” he said o
RISD’s new program.
This is at least partly because the
new cars are available to all Zipcar
members, though the program cen-ters on the student demographic, he
said.
Brown’s Zipcars have already been
popular with students at the design
school, Drummond said. Brown’s
program, now about three and a hal
years old, also started out with only
two vehicles, said Carleia Lighty, the
University’s transportation manager.
The partnership has expanded, she
said, to keep up with the demand or
convenient, inexpensive, short-term
car sharing on- and o-campus.
Lighty said having Zipcars avail-
able to students “works well” with
Brown’s eorts to be environmentally
riendly.
“We want to think green and do
our part to help our environment,”
she said.
For now, according to Drummond,
RISD is monitoring the usage o the
two vehicles, and will reevaluate the
situation according to demand and
popularity “maybe in a month or a
couple months.”
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The Brown Dai Herad
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wk By JAMeS BlUM
SportS S taff W riter
Last Friday was a day o rsts or
the men’s and women’s cross coun-
try teams. Not only did Brown host
the inaugural Rothenberg Race in
Warwick’s Goddard State Park, but
both squads also dominated the
competition, as they ran to match-
ing rst-place victories. The strong
team eorts were refected in the
individual results, with Brown run-
ners claiming the top three slots ineach race.
The women scored 18 points to
win and placed seven runners in the
top 10, handily beating second-place
nisher Boston College. Margaret
Connelly ’14 nished the ve-kilome-
ter course rst or Brown in a time
o 17 minutes, 27 seconds.
“It’s encouraging, but I look at
mysel in the larger eld o compe-
tition, too,” said Connelly, who has
placed rst among her teammates
in each race she has run or Brown.
As the top nisher overall, Connelly
also earned the meet title on the
women’s side.
Heidi Caldwell ’14 nished sec-
ond both or Brown and overall with
a time o 17:29. It was only her sec-
ond collegiate race, since she had
been sick earlier in the season.
“This race elt a lot better and I
think I will be eeling 100 percent
soon,” she said.
Elaine Kuckertz ’13 inished
third or Brown in 17:38 and Ari Gar-
ber ’12 nished next (th overall)
with a time o 17:55.
“I was really happy with how they
raced,” said women’s Head Coach
Jill Miller. “We played around a little
with the race tactics and they all did
really well in executing the plan.”
On the men’s side, Brown scored
15 points and placed eight runners
in the top 10, dominating runner-up
Harvard. Co-captain Matt Duy ’12
claimed the overall top spot on the
eight-kilometer course in a time o
24:48.
“I think the race went just as well
as I wanted,” Duy said. “It got me
ready or Heps,” reerring to the Ivy
League Heptagonal Championships.
Brian Schilder ’11 and Dan Low-
ry ’12 nished behind Duy in 25:05
and 25:23, respectively. The rst two rookie runners
to nish or Brown were Brendan
Boyle ’14 in 26:22 and Colin Savage
’14 in 26:31. They nished 12th and
15th, respectively, in the overall eld
o 36 competitors.
“It was denitely the best race we
had as a team all year,” Duy said.
With this race over, the teams
have almost two weeks until they
compete at the Ivy League Heptago-
nal Championships at Van Cortlandt
Park in New York, N.Y. on Oct. 29.
The men and women will look to
improve upon their th-place n-
ishes at last year’s championships.
The team’s training during this
pre-championship period will help
them succeed later in the season,
said men’s head coach Tim Spring-
eld.
“It’s not about what the other
teams are doing,” Springeld said.
“It’s us trying to run as a team the
absolute best that we can.”
In addition to preparing or the
conerence nale, both teams are
ocused on being in top shape or
regionals and nationals.
“We want to give 100 percent at
every meet, but we also want to have
the vision that our season is not over
at Heps,” Miller said.
. B By ZACK BAhR
SportSeditor
While there were not quite as many
yellow cards as there were against
Harvard, there was no lack o action
in the men’s soccer game Tuesday
night, as No. 14 Brown (8-1-3, 1-1-1
Ivy League) picked up a decisive 3-1
victory over the Hartwick Hawks
(2-10-1).
Ater a tangle in ront o the goal
with just over 16 minutes let in the
game, Hartwick midelder Greg
Mathers threw a punch at deense-
man Kevin Gavey ’13 beore Mathers
ell to the ground grabbing his ankle
and was eventually helped o theeld by an athletic trainer. Mathers’
teammate, orward Dan Summers,
was later given a red card and es-
corted o the eld ater receiving
his second yellow card o the game.
“Brown deserved to win the
game,” was all Hartwick Head Coach
John Scott had to say o his eelings
about the game.
The Bears, who had only ound
the net once in their past three
games, wasted no time in scoring,
as deender David Walls ’11 rocketed
a ree kick into the goal rom about 23
yards out. Forward Sean Rosa ’12.5
tallied another goal 15 minutes later
ater redirecting a hard, low shot by
orward Austin Mandel ’12.
“It’s always going to be a tricky
game ater such an emotional game
against Harvard,” said Head Coach
Pat Laughlin. “But we came out, and
we did some good things. We also did
some not-so-good things.”
Breaking Brown’s shutout op-
portunity ater an early 2-0 lead,
a Hartwick ast break in the 25th
minute let Mathers wide-open. Hered let-to-right rom the top o the
penalty box, skipping the ball o the
tur and netting it past goalkeeper
Paul Grandstrand ’11.
The nal goal or Bruno came
when Hartwick’s goalkeeper, Lee
Fenner, let the box to grab a ball
that was launched in the air. The ball
bounced over his head, leaving noth-
ing between Walls and the goal. On
the evening, the Bears took 22 shots,
compared to 14 by the Hawks.
Grandstrand, in a rare mental
error in the second hal, received
a oul or a botched throw-in inside
the penalty box. But the ensuing ree
kick rom roughly 12 yards out met a
wall o Bear deenders and eventually
picked up by the goalie.
“We obviously didn’t play our
best,” Gavey said. “We needed a win
here. Here, we came out and got the job done.”
Gavey was one o just a slew o
reserves that entered the game or
Brown throughout the contest —
so many that Laughlin said he lost
count. In total, 21 dierent players
saw playing time.
“I thought there were some guys
that really stepped up,” Laughlin said.
“Kevin Gavey was outstanding.”
Deenseman Dylan Remick ’13,
who has been a consistent player or
Brown all season, made numerous
quick breaks that let Hartwick play-ers struggling to keep up.
“I’m going to try and get as much
oensive power and help that I can
give,” Remick said. “My personal goal
is to all-around play or keeps.”
The Bears continue their whirl-
wind schedule o our games in 10
days as they take on Cornell this Sat-
urday at Stevenson Field. The 7 p.m.
game against the Big Red will give
Brown a chance to move up in the Ivy
standings. A win is worth three points
and a tie is worth one. The squad is
currently one point behind Harvardand ve behind league co-leaders
Princeton and Penn.
Jonathan Bateman / Herad
In a victorious 3-1 game against the Hartwick Hawks, defender David Was ’11 scored two goas.
CROSS COUnTRy
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In an op-ed about the upcoming elections last week in the
New York Times, Gail Collins asked, “How ar back in a
candidate’s history do we want to travel?” With multiple
campaigns across the country bringing up opponents’
college writings and actions, what counts as air game
is a now a particularly open question.
Collins argues that college is a time or experimen-
tation and growth, and that in electing candidates to
oce “nothing anyone did in college short o a elony
should count against them.” As Collins points out, “We
do not want the next generation to embrace premature
conormity just because they nurture a dream o one
day serving with Max Baucus on the Senate Finance
Committee.” Future campaigns must do a better job o
heeding Collins’ advice. There’s no denying that or many college is a time o
testing new ideas and learning by experience. But or
our generation more than any previous one, a person’s
decisions — bad and good — are well-documented
and easily accessible thanks to the Internet. Though a
Google search o a candidate can oten provide his or
her position on the issues, it can also requently reveal
a chronicle o ancient indiscretions. Incriminating evi-
dence about political candidates will increase exponen-
tially in the next decade as every unfattering personal
photo and melodramatic status update comes to light.
Earlier this year, we weighed the pros and cons o
banning employers rom using Facebook in the hir-
ing process. Should the calculus be dierent or those
seeking to become public ocials?
O course, all college students do and say things
publicly that they may regret later. Though we don’t
want to discourage the kind o experimentation that
makes college so special, a little orethought and pru-
dence during these years probably wouldn’t hurt. It’s
important to be aware o who has access to your various
online personas, as well as what medium you’re using.
Indeed, an inappropriate rant on your blog is likely to
be more detrimental than a picture o you holding a
red Solo cup.
Ultimately though, we agree with Collins that cam-
paign mudslingers should stay away rom all but the
most serious incidents that occur in college. The state-
ments and actions o a candidate during his or her
postgraduate career are clearly o more relevance. I a
candidate has retracted or revised statements publishedduring college, or provided plausible explanations or
orgivable actions, that ought to be sucient. In act,
such actions refect an admirable level o maturity and
sel-awareness.
Our nation has thrived or over two hundred years
choosing leaders without a complete digital history o
their lives. I we open the foodgates now, it’s going to
get worse, and it’s going to make political discourse
even less substantive than it already is. The “Facebook
generation” will be especially tempted to use digital his-
tories or vicious campaigning. Let’s be better than that.
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