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Wertheimer
wins UCS
presidency
Other races marred by
controversy, appeals
By Ben Schreckinger
Senior Staf f Writer
Clay Wertheimer ’10 was elected
president of the Undergraduate
Council of Students with 65 per-
cent of the vote in this week’s
run-of f election, defeating Ryan
Lester ’11.
Diane Mokoro ’11 was elected
vice president of the council with
66 percent of the vote, winning her
run-off with Harris Li ’11.
The run-off was announced last
week when no candidate achieved
a majority in either the UCS presi-
dent or vice president race last
week, although both Wertheimer
and Mokoro came within 5 percent
of doing so in the first round of
voting.
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Political scientist Fareed Zakaria.
Zakaria will
be graduation
speaker
By Chaz Kelsh
News Editor
Journalist and political scientist
Fareed Zakaria will deliver the bac-
calaureate address at Commence-
ment next month, the University
announced Thursday.
Grammy-winning recording
artist Aretha Franklin and global
health leader Jim Yong Kim ’82 will
receive honorar y degrees along
with Zakaria and five others.
Anthropologist Mar y Elmen-
dorf, businessman Richard Barker
’57 P’03 P’05, humanitarian David
Saltzman ’84, engineer Jerry Fish-
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Faunce overhaul headlines summer construction
By Brigitta Greene
Senior Staf f Writer
Initial construction on the Stephen
Robert ’62 Campus Center in Faunce
House is now underway, according
to Stephen Maiorisi, vice president
for Facilities Management.
The University also plans to
break ground on a new Creative
Arts Center and renovate Caswell
and Slater Halls before classes be-
gin in September.
The Faunce renovations are not
scheduled to be complete until De-
cember 2010, Maiorisi said, though
a new basement event space in the
former mailroom should be com-
plete by September.
Because the rest of the building
will be under construction for the
duration of the 2009-2010 school
year, the Blue Room Cafe will tem-
porarily relocate to the Salomon
Center lobby, Maiorisi said.
After an expensive new “Mind
Brain Behavior building” was
scrapped earlier this semester
due to financial pressures, the
University has now identified an
overhauled Metcalf Chemistry and
Research Laboratory as the likely
More active writing
enforcement in store
By Anish Gonchigar
Staff Writer
Plans to more actively enforce the
undergraduate writing requirement
are moving forward, according to
Dean of the College Katherine
Bergeron.
Brown’s degree requirements
call for students to demonstrate
competence in writing, but offi-
cial University policy does not of-
fer concrete avenues for students
to do so.
The College Curriculum Coun-
cil, which Bergeron chairs, has
been looking at ways to clarify and
strengthen the “implementation”
of the writing requirement, CCC
members said.
Currently the requirement “has
been handled as a kind of deficit
model,” Bergeron said — the writ-
ing requirement is considered
fulfilled as long as a student is not
flagged for poor writing. But the
CCC’s goal is to ultimately have
students take some tangible step
to fulfill the writing expectation,
according to CCC member Jason
Becker ’09.
Bergeron said she felt the writ-
ing requirement’s enforcement is
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An artist’s rendering of the revamped eatery slated to succeed the Blue Room Cafe in Faunce House.
future home of Brown’s brain sci-
ence programs, administrators said
Wednesday.
A facelift for Faunce
The revamped Faunce House
will look very different from the
one students use now.
When renovations are complete,
“inadequate” and that “there’s a
great desire on the part of the fac-
ulty who teach writing at Brown to
turn this into a positive benefit.”
No structures have yet been of-
ficially approved to more strongly
enforce the writing expectation,
according to Becker. But stronger
implementation could mean stu-
dents will soon be expected to fulfill
one of a series of active steps, both
Bergeron and Becker said.
Among the ways they identified
that students might do so would
be to complete a specifically desig-
nated writing development course
or maintain an electronic portfolio
of their college writing.
Extracurricular writing might
also fall among the other ways to
demonstrate writing proficiency,
Bergeron said.
“The expectation was, if you’re a
good writer, you come to Brown and
become a better writer,” Bergeron
said. “The next phase is to be clear
about ways to fulfill this.”
As a first step in that process,
Becker said, the CCC has been
working on drafting a new official
statement of the University’s writ-
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a new food service area will occupy booth-style seating and views of
the space currently filled by Pet- both the Main Green and Water-
teruti Lounge, Maiorisi said, adding man Street, he said.
that Dining Services is “planning Additional renovations to the
a potential expansion” of the food building will include new side ac-
service offered in that location. cess from Faunce Arch, a visitor
The Blue Room’s current loca- center, a new roof on the building’s
tion will be converted into an ex-
panded dining area, complete with continued on page 4
Justin Coleman / Herald
On the agenda for this year’s Ivy Film Festival is a keynote panel
featuring Academy Award-winning actor Jack Nicholson P’12.
Annual Ivy Festival
celebrates best of film
By CaitLin Trujillo mount CEO Brad Grey P’10P’12.
Staff Writer The panel will focus on the inner
workings of Hollywood and new
The 2009 Ivy Film Festival, which developments in filmmaking.
kicked off Tuesday, will showcase Saturday will also feature two
an array of student films and ce- other panels — one on screenwrit-
lebrity panels focusing on the art ing, with writers Simon Kinberg
and industry of ’95 and Scott
cinema. ARTS & CULTURE Neustadter, and
The six-day another, “Getting
festival plays host to a variety of the Green Light: A Film’s Journey
high-profile professionals in the from Script to Big Screen,” with
film industry. Saturday’s keynote studio executives Lauren Levy
event, titled “Iconoclasts,” will and Steven Puri. Thomas Roth-
feature actor Jack Nicholson P’12,
producer Robert Evans and Para- continued on page 9
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C ampus N EWS “I got a glimpse into the South.”

— Evan Pulvers ’10.5, on spending last fall at Tougaloo College

Tougaloo exchange Brown to

honor ‘Queen
opens eyes, doors of Soul,’ Kim
By Ellen Cushing Brown-sponsored conference at
Senior Staff Writer Tougaloo, a response to the report
of the University Steering Commit- continued from page 1
When Courtney Johnson MD’12 ar- tee on Slavery and Justice, which
rived on College Hill in the dead of was released in 2006. man P’99 and health advocate Jessie
winter last January, she had never But throughout the partner- Gruman will also receive honorary
seen snow before. ship’s evolution, the student ex- degrees.
But the weather wasn’t her only change has remained its flagship Zakaria will deliver a speech
surprising or difficult experience. program. Brown now sends a small entitled “Living a Global Life” dur-
Johnson is one of nearly 600 stu- but stable number of undergradu- ing the traditional ceremony in the
dents, faculty and staff from both ates to Tougaloo for semester-long First Baptist Church in America
Brown and Tougaloo College — a exchanges, and several Tougaloo May 23. The editor of Newsweek
small historically black liberal arts students come to Brown each se- International since 2000, Zakaria is
school in Mississippi — mester. The Tougaloo well-known for his weekly column
to have participated in FEATURE students participate in the magazine, which also appears
an exchange program in an undergraduate in the Washington Post.
since its inception in 1964. exchange and as part of the joint He is also a former managing
Johnson and others involved Early Identification Program, which editor of the journal Foreign Af-
with the program said it provides grants Tougaloo students early fairs, and his 2008 book, “The Post-
a valuable — though challenging admission to the Alpert Medical American World” became a New
and underused — opportunity for School and requires them to spend York Times best-seller. He serves
both schools’ students. one semester at Brown during their on the boards of the Council on
The relationship between undergraduate years. Foreign Relations, the International
Brown and Tougaloo began in the Institute of Strategic Studies and
early 1960s, when several students Another school, another world the Trilateral Commission.
went to Tougaloo to participate ac- Students from both schools said He has also hosted PBS’s “For-
tively in the civil rights movement, participating in the exchange eign Exchange” and currently hosts
according to Associate Dean of the was an eye-opening experience “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” a weekly in-
Graduate School Valerie Wilson, for them. ternational affairs show on CNN.
the program’s director. “I had some really formative, Franklin, who will receive an
The official partnership that valuable experiences,” said Evan honorar y doctor of music, is the
came out of this collaboration Pulvers ’10.5, who spent last fall second soulful superstar to be hon-
began on the 10th anniversary at Tougaloo. “I got a glimpse into ored by Brown in the last three
of Brown v. Board of Education, the South, I got some really good years. Blues legend B.B. King
said Wilson, who was named as- friends.” received an honorar y degree in
sociate provost and director of Pulvers, who is white, contin- 2007.
institutional diversity last week. ued, “I also think I got a better Franklin has won 20 Grammy
Since then, the program has understanding of what it means awards and has had 45 Top 40 hits
evolved to include joint learning to be a minority, in the numeric since 1961. The first female artist
and research ventures, including sense.” to be inducted into the Rock and
a “virtual classroom” for student Roll Hall of Fame, she entranced
collaboration and an upcoming continued on page 6 America in January when she sang
“My Country ‘Tis of Thee” at Presi-
dent Obama’s inauguration. Her
sudoku songs, which include hits such as
“Respect,” “Chain of Fools” and
“I Say a Little Prayer,” are known
around the world.
Franklin was awarded the na-
tion’s highest civilian honor, the
Presidential Medal of Freedom, in
2005. She is still recording — she
released an album in December
2008 and recently founded her own
record label, Aretha Records.
Kim, a renowned physician and
humanitarian, was elected president
of Dartmouth College in March. His
work has focused on health care in
developing countries. He ser ved
as executive director of nonprofit
organization Partners in Health and
also worked for the World Health
Jim Yong Kim ’82 and Aretha Franklin will be among the recipients of
honorary degrees at Commencement this year.
Organization, where he oversaw a
host of HIV/AIDS programs.
An expert in the field of tubercu-
losis, Kim won a MacArthur genius
grant in 2003 and was named one
of the 100 most influential people
in the world by Time magazine in
2006 and one of America’s 25 best
leaders by U.S. News & World Re-
port in 2005. He earned both an
M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard after
graduating from Brown.
Other leaders honored
Barker has served as vice chair-
man of the board and director of
Capital Group International, Inc.
and chairman of the board of both
Capital International and Capital
Guardian Tr ust Company. He
ser ves on the advisor y boards
of venture capital funds Cham-
pion Ventures and Pharos Capital
Partners.
The former Corporation trustee
serves on the Board of Governors
of the Watson Institute for Interna-
tional Studies. He is also the leader
of the Campaign for Academic En-
richment’s initiative to raise money
for financial aid.
Elmendor f, a peace activist,
worked for more than 60 years to
improve drinking water and aid
women in emerging nations. She
ser ved on the Ford Foundation’s
First Task Force on women in 1972
and was the World Bank’s first staff
anthropologist. Her work has taken
her to United Nations conferences
all over the world.
She has also worked with the In-
ternational Development Research
Centre, the International Rescue
Committee, the U.S. Agency for
International Development and the
World Health Organization. Her
work has centered on water sanita-
tion in Latin America.
Gruman is president of the
Washington-based nonprofit Cen-
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ter for Advancing Health, which
she founded in 1992. Her career
has centered on improving health
care in the U.S. and working to end
disparities in the care Americans
receive. She has also worked at
AT&T, the National Institutes of
Health and the American Cancer
Society.
Gruman teaches at the School of
Public Health and Health Services
at The George Washington Univer-
sity and serves on the boards of the
Public Health Institute, the Center
for Medical Technology Policy and
the Advisor y Panel on Medicare
Education of the Department of
Health and Human Services.
Saltzman is the executive direc-
tor and a founding board member
of the Robin Hood Foundation,
which has raised over $1 billion to
combat poverty in New York City
since its inception in 1988, and
which projects that it will distrib-
ute $150 million this year alone. He
led two AIDS education programs
sponsored by the New York City
Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene.
Time magazine named Saltz-
man to its list of 100 Innovators in
2001. After graduating from Brown,
Saltzman earned a master’s in pub-
lic policy and administration from
Columbia, which awarded him its
Global Leadership Award.
Fishman, president and chief
executive officer of the semicon-
ductor company Analog Devices,
ser ves on the boards of Cognex
Corp. and Xilinx Corp. He has
contributed to Brown to support
various projects in the Division of
Engineering, including the Labora-
tory for Engineering Man/Machine
Systems and the “studio lab.” He
holds an M.S. from Northeastern
University, an M.B.A. from Boston
University and a J.D. from Suffolk
Law School.

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Thursday, April 23, 2009
C ampus N EWS
Appeals complicate UFB elections
continued from page 1
“I want to thank ever ybody
that helped make this possible,”
Wertheimer said Wednesday night
after the results were announced
by Elections Board Chair Lily
Tran ’10 from the steps of Faunce
House.
While those two races were
neatly resolved, elections of fi-
cials had to respond to several
elections-related controversies.
UCS voted not to cer tify the
results of the election for Under-
graduate Finance Board at-large
positions after an appeal from An-
ish Mitra ’10, whose name was
absent from the online ballot for
the first hour and 15 minutes of
the 48-hour voting period due to an
error by an elections official.
Two hundred and sixty-eight
votes — more than 10 percent of
all votes cast in the race — were
cast before Mitra’s name was
added to the ballot.
The elections board threw out
these votes in calculating the top
six finishers in the at-large race.
The exclusion of these votes
did not alter the results, but Mi-
tra, a Herald opinions columnist,
argued that the outcome could
have been dif ferent if his name
had been on the ballot when those
votes were cast.
Mitra finished in eighth place,
just 66 votes away from sixth place
and a seat on the board.
The seventh place finisher, Tan
Nguyen ’10, finished just 22 votes
For visiting student, winding path led to Brown
By Matthew Klebanoff
Staff Writer
Instead of venturing off to the jungles
of South America or the cobblestone
streets of Europe, Michael Riecken,
an undergraduate at Catholic Uni-
versity in Washington, D.C., chose
to spend his junior year “abroad” on
College Hill.
Riecken is now finishing up his
second semester at Brown as a visit-
ing student — one of only a handful
admitted this year.
The visiting student application to
Brown was very similar to a transfer
application, Riecken said. He had to
write several essays and submit his
original SAT scores as part of the
application process.
“Not many people know about vis-
iting student applications,” Riecken
said.
Riecken first learned about
Brown’s visiting student program
when researching various study-
abroad options for his junior year.
“When it came time to consider a
study-abroad program, I was consid-
ering Oxford University,” he said. “I
thought if a school of Oxford’s caliber
had a visiting student program, then
Brown probably would as well.”
Riecken said he ultimately chose
Brown over Oxford because of an in-
terest in Egyptology he has harbored
since the fourth grade. Brown is not
only home to one of the few Egyptol-
ogy departments in the country, but
behind 6th-place finisher Soobin
Kim ’11.
A new student body election
will be held for the six at-large
seats either this semester or in
the fall, according to current UCS
president Brian Becker ’09.
The council certified the elec-
tions of Juan Vasconez ’10 to UFB
chair and Jose Vasconez ’10 to
UFB vice chair despite appeals
brought by one-time vice chair
candidate Neil Parikh ’11, who
withdrew from the race on the
first day of voting, and Salsabil
Ahmed ’11 who lost in her bid for
UFB chair.
Parikh argued that elections
board of ficials improperly pres-
sured him into resigning after he
was seen tearing down campaign
posters for both Vasconez broth-
ers from a door on Wriston Quad-
rangle.
He also said the posters had
been placed in an illegal loca-
tion.
Rakim Brooks ’09, an elections
board official, responded that the
elections board has never enforced
rules against the placement of
posters on those doors.
Ahmed appealed to the council
on the grounds that Jose Vaconez’s
campaign posters inaccurately
represented her experience, and
that the elections board failed to
respond to a formal complaint she
had lodged early last Thursday
morning.
The council deliberated on the
appeals in closed session for over
also to his mentor, James Allen, a
professor of Egyptology and former
curator at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, he said.
Riecken said he first learned of Al-
len while talking to a few curators at
the Met, who helped put him in touch
with the Egyptology expert.
FEATURE
Riecken proceeded to work full-
time with Allen in the museum’s
Department of Egyptian Art during
the summers following his junior
and senior years of high school, he
said.
In the museum, Riecken orga-
nized photos from excavations, and
catalogued periodicals and acquisi-
tions.
Though it did not have an Egyp-
tology program, Riecken ultimately
chose to attend Catholic University.
After spending two years at a
conservative and religious college,
Riecken found it exciting to come to
Brown — Catholic’s “polar opposite,”
he said.
“One thing I really enjoy about
Brown is the separation of church
and academics,” Riecken said. “The
fact that there’s no theology in one’s
daily conversation — it’s really re-
freshing.”
Riecken, who grew up in New
Jersey, doesn’t describe himself as
a religious person. He said he went
to Sex Power God last semester and
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PLME is “a very expensive commitment in this economy.”
UCS Election
Results
President
First-round voting
Paris Hays: 332
Mike MacCombie: 324
Ryan Lester: 448
Clay Wertheimer: 976
Run-off results
Lester: 542
Wertheimer: 1,009
Vice President
First-round voting
Evan Howlonia: 166
Harris Li: 601
Diane Mokoro: 885
Run-off results
Li: 466 votes
Mokoro: 921
40 minutes.
Becker told The Herald before
deliberations that there has been
significant controversy surround-
ing the process in each of the four
most recent elections, and that
he hoped UCS would order a re-
view of the elections process next
year.
“It needs to be fixed,” he
said.
attended both Spring Weekend con-
certs.
“I’ve been given a year to ex-
perience a Brown education, and
I’ve been trying to live it up every
moment,” Riecken said. “I’ve been
relishing every moment I’ve had
here.”
Besides attending parties and
concerts on campus, Riecken has
also become involved with the Col-
lege Republicans and has participated
in the Ballroom Dance Club.
One of the main differences be-
tween Catholic and Brown, Riecken
said, is each college’s attitude toward
academics. “I feel students at both
schools are really open and friendly,
but there’s a stronger drive in stu-
dents at Brown,” he said. “There’s
greater academic emphasis here,
which is a nice thing.”
Riecken has taken classes in a va-
riety of departments, though he said
his favorite class this semester was
CLAS 0210L: “Who Owns the Clas-
sical Past?” because it was related to
cultural property law, a field Riecken
said he has considered entering in
the future.
Riecken said he has cherished
his time at Brown, but added that
the visiting student program could
be improved. He said he befriended
some transfer students at the begin-
ning of the year, but living in a single
in Harkness House has made meet-
continued on page 7
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— Julianne Ip, associate dean of medicine
news in brief
PLME applications drop 13 percent
Despite a 21 percent increase in applications for ad-
mission to the Class of 2013, PLME applications for the
undergraduate class of 2013 decreased by 13 percent,
according to Associate Dean of Medicine Julianne Ip.
The Program in Liberal Medical Education­­­ — which
allows students to earn their undergraduate and medi-
cal degrees in a single eight-year program ­— admitted a
total of 97 students this year, including 20 early decision
candidates, Ip wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. Both
numbers are consistent with previous years, she added.
The drop in applications could be due to the current
economic recession, Ip wrote.
“When a student applies and is accepted to the PLME,
it is an eight-year commitment — a very expensive com-
mitment in this economy,” she wrote. “It would be my
educated guess that the economic downturn played a
significant role in our drop in applications.”
Admitted PLME students visiting campus during A
Day on College Hill said other reasons could explain the
drop in the number of applicants.
Sahar Shaharmatdar of Rockville, Md., said she
thought the decrease might be related to waning student
interest in eight-year medical programs.
“A lot of people I know weren’t really interested in
the program because they wanted to do accelerated pro-
grams,” she said. “Since they were already committed to
becoming doctors, they just wanted to get through the
courses as fast as possible.”
For example, she heard of many such students ap-
plying to Northwestern University, Shaharmatdar said.
Northwestern’s Honors Program in Medical Education al-
lows students to earn an undergraduate degree in three
years and complete a four-year medical program after
that.
Alex Grieb, an admitted PLME student from New Or-
leans, had a different theory.
“Because of the new application on the Common App,”
she said, “you just had to check a box and write an extra
essay (to apply for PLME consideration). Some people
may have missed that part of the application.”
But Ip wrote that the drop in applications this year
could have just been an aberration, adding that the pro-
gram will probably not undergo any major changes as a
result of the decline.
“We are probably not going to change anything given
this one-year drop in applications considering we have a
steady increase over the past five years in applications,”
she wrote.
“It will be interesting to see where medicine in general
is going ... to see if there is a drop in overall interest
in medicine or to see if this was just an ‘off year,’” she
added.
— Shara Azad
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C ampus N EWS A renovated Faunce House will help create a “student district” on campus.
— Vice President for Facilities Management Stephen Maiorisi

Courtesy of Brown
A floor plan depicting how the first floor of the new Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center in Faunce House will
look when renovations are completed in December 2010, including expanded dining space and a visitor center.

Arts center construction to begin this summer

continued from page 1
older west wing and overhauls of
all interior spaces, including Leung
Gallery, the Underground and the
Student Activities Office.
Overall, the changes will allow
Faunce — which has over the years
evolved into a de facto center of so-
cial life on campus — to more eas-
ily cater to student and community
needs, Maiorisi said.
Because it is located within steps
of the student services hub in J. Wal-
ter Wilson, the Third World Center
and Brown/RISD Hillel, he said,
the renovated building can form the
cornerstone of a “student district”
on campus.
The Underground and Campus
Market will be closed for construc-
tion from this summer through De-
cember 2010, Maiorisi said.
Certain details of the Faunce
Illustrations Courtesy of Brown, Photo by Katherine Regalado / Herald plans have not yet been finalized,
Artist’s renderings of the new event space (top) that will replace the old Maiorisi said.
University mail room (bottom) in Faunce and of the new expanded dining The University is considering
area where the Blue Room currently is (middle). adding a mezzanine that would hang
over Leung Gallery in an effort to
increase flow across the building’s
third floor and add to the “student
center feel,” he said.
A Mezzanine would add about
$600,000 to the approximately
$18 million project, he said. Cur-
rent plans illustrate Leung Gallery
equipped with chairs and tables,
with new reading and lounge spaces
in the space currently occupied by
the SAO.
Though many aspects of the
plans — from the new glass entry-
way in Faunce Arch to the modular
armchairs of the proposed dining
area — are modern in style, “historic
parts (of the building) are being
renovated to look historic,” Maiorisi
said.
Ceilings, woodwork, fireplaces
and historic wainscoting will be
restored throughout the building,
he said.
Breaking ground, scaling back
Elsewhere on campus, construc-
tion will begin this summer on the
long-planned Creative Arts Center,
Maiorisi said.
The University expects to break
ground for that project in late May
and complete it by January 2011.
The facility will hold classrooms,
studios and meeting spaces for in-
terdisciplinary work in the arts and
will be equipped for acoustics and
exhibitions.
But as a chorus of construction
tones warms up along the Walk,
the University will continue mak-
ing quiet plans for a proposed brain
sciences building.
In response to budgetary con-
cerns, the Corporation decided in
February that the University should
consider renovating an existing
building — rather than building
new — for the project.
Renovations could cost less than
building a new structure by as much
as half, Richard Spies, executive vice
president for planning and senior
adviser to the president, told The
Herald in February.
The University has since iden-
tified the Metcalf Chemistry and
Research Laboratory as the “main
option” for construction, said Marisa
Quinn, vice president for public af-
fairs and University relations.
Renovations on the building —
currently home to the Cognitive
and Linguistic Sciences program, a
planned occupant of the new facility
— were scheduled for summer 2010
but were postponed due to tightened
budgets, Maiorisi said.
Administrators will present a
formal proposal for the brain sci-
ences facility to the Corporation at
its meeting in May.
Were the Corporation to sign off
on renovating Metcalf as a way to
proceed with that project, it would
lay to rest for the near future the pos-
sibility of tearing down or relocating
the Urban Environmental Laborato-
ry and two University-owned houses
on Angell Street to make way for a
new facility.
Though University officials said
in February that construction on a
new aquatics center could begin as
soon as the summer, the pool proj-
ect is “still in its planning phase,”
Quinn said.
The Corporation officially ac-
cepted a $14.75 million bequest in
February — more than half of the
necessar y funding — that jump-
started the project, which officials
had previously suggested was a low
priority.
Under Brown’s current guide-
lines, the project can move forward
only once the funds from the be-
quest are in hand and gifts have
been secured for the remainder
of the approximately $25 million
project.
The University is still actively
fundraising to secure the remaining
funds, she said.
Plans for the new Nelson Fit-
ness Center remain on hold, Quinn
said.
Other plans
Facilities Management will be
completing only minor work on the
campus’s 90 classrooms this sum-
mer, Maiorisi said.
The University has completed
the Task Force on Undergraduate
Education’s recommended technol-
ogy upgrades, he added.
But Facilities will move forward
with renovations of Slater and Cas-
well Halls to be completed by Sep-
tember, Thomas Forsberg, associate
director of housing and residen-
tial life, wrote in an e-mail to The
Herald.
New bathrooms will be created
on the first and fourth floors of
Slater, while the existing second-
and third-floor facilities will be
renovated.
The addition of new bathrooms
will have “no significant impact”
on existing room sizes, as they will
largely take over spaces now occu-
pied by hallway closets and entry-
ways, Forsberg wrote.
Construction will “virtually dou-
ble” the existing lounge space of
Caswell Hall, he wrote, and a new
kitchen will be installed where the
current lounge sits.
New doubles will replace exist-
ing smaller kitchens on the upper
floors. The University also expects
to upgrade the furniture in Barbour
Hall doubles in time for the fall, he
added.

So far, avoiding layoffs.

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Move to online evals
aims to save on paper
By Kristina Fazzalaro
Contributing Writer
Seventeen departments are using
online course evaluations instead of
in-class paper forms this semester,
according to Dean of the College
Katherine Bergeron.
The online form, which the Uni-
versity has been developing and
revising since 2006, was completed
by 600 students for the first time in
a seven-course trial run last spring,
Bergeron said. That form drew on
questions from a variety of depart-
mental evaluations, she said, allow-
ing deans to assess which questions
were most useful.
This semester, for the first time,
departments are able to add their
own questions regarding specific
aspects of curricula to the online
evaluation form, Bergeron said.
Last semester’s form also in-
cluded a question asking students
to rate the form itself, and the feed-
back was “over whelmingly posi-
tive,” Bergeron said.
The dean’s of fice decided
to implement online evaluation
forms based on input from the
College Curriculum Council and
the Task Force on Undergraduate
Education.
The online evaluations are part
of a University effort, partially in
response to student concerns, to
reduce paper consumption and
move toward being a “paperless”
university, Bergeron said.
Last fall, the Office of the Dean
of the College offered an updated
form to all math and music classes
and revised it again based on stu-
dent response, Bergeron said.
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Thursday, April 23, 2009
“People can do it at their own convenience.”
— Rebecca McGoldrick ’12, on online course evaluations
One professor told The Herald
she was in favor of online evalu-
ations.
“It’s nice because students can
do it at their own convenience,”
said Nina Tannenwald, associate
research professor at the Wat-
son Institute for International
Studies.
But Tannenwald said she is con-
cerned that students might not take
the initiative to fill out the forms.
“(When) you have students fill
out forms in the class room, you
have a captive audience,” she said.
“They have to do it.”
Bergeron, who said she shared
Tannenwald’s concern, said in the
future her office hopes to link the Courtesy of Joshua Bernard
form to Banner, so that students Members of Brown’s Mock Trial team attended a national championship in Des Moines, Iowa last weekend.
must complete an evaluation to
receive their final grades.
Still, last semester both the
math and music departments re-
Mock trial team makes it to nat’ls
ceived about 60 percent of their By Anna Andreeva in all at the tournament. Trial is entirely student-run. Its 30
evaluations — a “pretty good” rate Contributing Writer Rachel Shur ’12 received an in- undergraduate members are di-
for a voluntary system, Bergeron tercollegiate All-American Witness vided into three equally-weighted
said. This year, nearly 20 percent of Ten members of Brown Mock Trial Award at the tournament — which teams.
students completed online evalua- earned a place at the American took place Friday to Sunday in Des The team captained by Spre-
tions in the first two days after the Mock Trial Association National Moines, Iowa — after scoring high cher earned the opportunity to
form was made available Monday. Championship last weekend. marks, along with two other par- participate in the national champi-
Students inter viewed by The The team placed 17th in its 24- ticipants, for her portrayal of a onship by finishing third at a pre-
Herald appeared to prefer the on- team division at the tournament, defense witness. liminary national tournament.
line form because it is faster and according to team captain Daniel Unlike most of its competition
continued on page 7
easier to complete than paper Sprecher ’09. There were 48 teams at the tournament, Brown Mock
forms.
“I think online is more practi-
cal for people, especially for larger
classes where only one-third of the
class shows up,” said Rebecca Mc-
Goldrick ’12. “People can do it at
their own convenience.”
“When you can do it on your own
time, you can put more thought into
it,” said Gabe Gonzalez ’12.
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Program welcomes minority students
By Heeyoung Min
Staf f Writer
Though most prospective first-
years finished their preview of
Brown on Wednesday, some are
still on campus for one more day
on College Hill. About 140 admit-
ted students are staying for Third
World Welcome, the Admission
Office’s program for minority stu-
dents, according to Natasha Go ’10,
the program’s co-coordinator.
The program gives students
of color an opportunity to learn
about the academic and social ex-
perience of minority students at
Brown, said Christopher Belcher
’11, another of the program’s co-
coordinators.
The two-day program is more
intimate than A Day on College
Hill, Belcher said. Because the
program is “smaller and more
manageable,” students admitted
in the early decision round are
permitted to participate, he said.
Early decision students have not
been allowed to attend ADOCH
since last year to make the event
smaller.
The TWW program kicked off
with a buffet-style dinner at Sayles
Hall, where prospective first-years
had the opportunity to interact
with faculty and administrators
from several departments.
Other events Wednesday night
included a “Cultural Show,” fea-
turing several of Brown’s per-
forming groups, and later, an ice
cream social with Minority Peer
Counselors and representatives of
various ethnic and cultural student
groups.
Today, students can attend
classes, tour Brown’s science
facilities or attend a panel on re-
search opportunities for minority
students, among other events.
TWW par ticipants told The
Herald they enjoyed the program’s
first day.
Chao Long decided to attend
TWW to help her decide between
attending Brown and Princeton.
“Princeton did not have a program
specifically for minorities,” she
said. “I’m not leaning towards
either school yet, but it’s nice to
know that Brown has a supportive
community in terms of race and
heritage.”
Other prospective students al-
ready committed to Brown saw the
program as an opportunity to meet
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
more of their future classmates.
Evangeline McDonald ’13 said
she was persuaded to register for
the program by a phone call from
a Brown alum.
“I signed up because an alum-
na called and told me that TWW
was one of her best Brown ex-
periences. I’ve already chosen
Brown — I have a Brown sticker
on my car, and own a Brown
sweater and sweatpants — but
I came out here because TWW
seemed like a lot of fun,” she said,
adding that ADOCH seemed like
a “whirlwind” compared to Third
World Welcome’s more intimate
setting.
Diego Ciccia ’13 and Ramy
Pena ’13 have also committed to
Brown, but said they registered
for the program to get to know
some of the members of their
class in a more comfortable en-
vironment.
“We come from inner-city
schools, so we feel more wel-
comed in this diverse environ-
ment. We were here yesterday for
ADOCH, and we just didn’t feel as
comfortable,” Pena said. “There
are just more people that we can
relate to in the TWW program.”
Brown-Tougaloo
partnership declines
continued from page 2
Nina Fitzerman-Blue ’09, who
participated in the exchange in fall
2007, also said going to Tougaloo
changed the way she thought about
race.
“I was one of a handful of non-
African-American students on cam-
pus,” she said. “I’ve never had to
be concerned about my race every
single second of every single day,
and that’s something minorities deal
with every single second of every
single day. So I’d say that I got a little
taste of what minorities have had to
deal with since the beginning of time
in America.”
Johnson said Brown’s diversity
provided her with a more complex
view of race.
Race “wasn’t cut-and-dry, black-
and-white any more,” she said.
Michael Sweeney ’70 said his ex-
periences at Tougaloo in the fall of
1968 were “unbelievable and utterly
fascinating.” They shaped the rest
of his life, he said.
“I knew why I was at Brown after
Tougaloo,” he said. The semester
was his “most important sensitiza-
tion to the real world,” said Sweeney,
who now teaches anthropology and
African-American studies at a high
school in Portland, Ore.
Several Tougaloo students who
attended Brown said the resources
the University offers were a high-
light of their experiences.
“You can get involved in so many
ways,” said Andre Whittington, a ju-
nior from Tougaloo currently study-
ing at Brown. “It’s overwhelming.
That was the biggest shock.”
At Brown, Whittington said,
“when you desire to do something,
there’s no limitation.”
Steven Shadwick, a student in
the Early Identification Program
spending his last undergraduate se-
mester at Brown, said the exchange
“helps keep perspective open for
both parties.”
He said he found Brown to be a
very warm environment — except
for the weather, that is.
“I felt extremely welcomed here,”
Shadwick said. “The biggest thing
was the cold.”
Johnson said she experienced
her share of challenges and culture
shock — especially coming from
the South.
“It was a new environment, noth-
ing like where I’d grown up,” she
said. “Coming from a more conser-
vative institution, being here totally
opened my eyes to very liberal people
and ideas. Things like guys and girls
in the same dorm — that doesn’t
happen at Tougaloo,” she said.
Shadwick, who lives in Chapin
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House, recalled a particularly un-
expected moment.
“I was walking up the steps from
Thayer onto the quad, and I just saw
this crowd of naked people,” he said.
“That was, I guess, exciting.”
A program in decline
But in recent years, the number of
Brown students in the program has
gone down, and the students from
Tougaloo who participate in the ex-
change regularly outnumber those
who come from Brown.
“People never think to do it,” said
Fitzerman-Blue, who was Brown’s
only participant during the 2007-2008
academic year.
Wilson acknowledged that fewer
Brown students attend Tougaloo
than the other way around. “Some
of that has to do with how visible the
program is,” she said.
“I don’t think it’s well-publicized,”
Pulvers agreed.
The structure of the program, as
well as disparities in the two schools’
resources, mean “there’s not a lot
of incentive for Brown students to
go,” she said.
Tougaloo has no graduate
school, and enrolls fewer than 1,000
students.
“In terms of things like course
offerings, Tougaloo has substantially
fewer,” Pulvers said, adding that
it was difficult to transfer credits
and coordinate housing and course
registration — problems Wilson said
Brown was working to solve.
Tougaloo has several outstanding
academic programs, particularly in
music and Africana studies, accord-
ing to Assistant Dean of Medicine
Timothy Empkie, who has taught
twice at the historically black col-
lege. “We could do a better job of
understanding the faculty expertise
at Tougaloo and communicating that
to Brown students,” he said.
Empkie, Pulvers and Wilson also
said the increasing number of op-
portunities for Brown students to
study abroad may have diverted inter-
est away from the Brown-Tougaloo
exchange.
“Brown has so many resources
for students, and recently more stu-
dents have been more excited by
the opportunity of going abroad,”
Wilson said.
Wilson said she was confident
the exchange would continue to
serve students despite its current
low enrollment.
“Each generation of presidents,
students and administrators redis-
cover the partnership and rediscover
it in the context of the current time
and find it valuable,” she said. “The
program has become adept at rein-
venting itself.”
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Mock Trial team succeeds For visiting student, winding path
even without a coach
continued from page 5
“It was very much unexpected,”
team member Ben Schrank ’11
said of earning the trip to nation-
als. “Brown is unusual in that we
do not have a coach. … We came
across no (other teams) without
coaches.”
In addition to having no profes-
sional guidance, the Brown team’s
most experienced members are
spread evenly among its three
groups.
“This team was freshmen and
sophomores, and we were neck and
neck with everyone else, which was
absolutely incredible,” Sprecher
said. “We were definitely the young-
est team there.”
The last time a Brown Mock
Trial team made it to Nationals
was in 2007, when the team was
composed primarily of experienced
upperclassmen, said Venkat Mendu
’12, one of the team members.
“We do ver y well pretty con-
sistently,” said Erinn Phelan ’09,
a captain of one of the two teams
that did not travel to Iowa. “Every
year, we qualify beyond the first
round.”
Though some of the costs of the
trip were covered by funding the
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Thursday, April 23, 2009
continued from page 3 for the next school year and has
even applied to transfer to Brown.
before applying for transfer.
Riecken’s persistence has paid
ing new people difficult. “After being here for the past off. On Wednesday he received for-
team receives from the Undergrad- Riecken also said he needed to year I found that this is the only mal permission to apply to Brown
uate Finance Board, team members work to become a part of the Brown school I really want to go to,” Rieck- as a transfer student.
had to pay about $150 out-of-pocket community in areas other students en said. “I can’t see myself happier Allen said Riecken is one of the
to fund the trip, said Maria Gordon did not — how many other students anywhere else.” most determined people he has ever
’11, one of the 10 students who went can say they had to manually sign The process to apply has been known.
to nationals. up for Morning Mail? difficult for Riecken, who had to “The ancient Egyptians
The team’s success stems in Regardless of the visiting student petition the University to waive a would’ve liked that,” Allen said.
part from its cohesion, members program’s weaknesses, Riecken said policy that requires visiting students “They awarded gold necklaces for
said, and its ability to focus on hav- he is “reluctant” to return to Catholic to first return to their home school persistence.”
ing fun.
“In the end, it’s just a game,”
said team member Joshua Bernard
’11. “It’s hard to remember that
when you put so many hours into
it.”
Despite the young team’s suc-
cess this year, Schrank said a
return trip to nationals next year
would require just as much hard
work and team effort.
“I think if we continue to do what
we did this year — practice regular-
ly, maintain our great team dynamic
and exploit the natural talent that
each of our members possesses —
we’ll be well-situated for a repeat
performance next year,” Shur wrote
in an e-mail to The Herald.
The other team members who
competed at nationals were Joshua
Bernard ’11, Alysha Naik ’11, Her-
ald Higher Ed Editor Gaurie Tilak
’11, Andrew Becker ’12 and Andrew
Nizamian ’12.
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Bergeron, CCC exploring
more writing enforcement
continued from page 1
ing expectation. Bergeron provided The Herald
with a draft of that statement Wednesday.
“As a Brown student, you are expected to
work on your writing in your general studies
and in your concentration,” the draft reads in
part. “You may begin to fulfill this expectation
by taking at least one course that engages you
in the writing process.”
“Remember to save examples of your best
work each year,” the draft statement reads.
“This evidence will allow you to demonstrate
your abilities, not only to Brown advisors but
also to future colleagues and employers.”
The draft, recently approved by the CCC, is
intended to make clear to students that “this is
what we expect you to do, this is the process
we want you to engage in, this is what we want
you to have at the end,” Becker said.
Toward the end, the CCC recently approved
a special designation for courses, such as those
that participate in the Writing Fellows Program,
in which students can expect to receive feed-
back on their writing and conduct revisions.
Those courses will be marked with a “W” in
the Course Announcement Bulletin, Bergeron
and Becker said.
Becker stressed that there are no plans
to require all students to take a “W” course,
only a sentiment that they should be one of
many ways students can satisfy the writing
expectation.
The University also plans to launch an elec-
tronic portfolio this summer where students
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Thursday, April 23, 2009
fair point
will be encouraged to store their best pieces of
writing each year, Bergeron said. The portfolio
is intended as a way to track a student’s develop-
ment as a writer over the course of their time
at Brown, Becker said.
The portfolio is part of a larger effort to
help advisers, deans and students assess their
writing improvement. The University is “going
to build in some reflective practice” to students’
studies, Bergeron said.
In a report issued last fall, the Task Force
on Undergraduate Education, which Bergeron
chaired and of which Becker was a member,
recommended that the University take a “much
more coherent approach to its writing require-
ment.” The electronic writing portfolio was one
of the Task Force’s recommendations, Becker
said, as was an independent assessment of
Brown’s writing programs.
That took place last September, Bergeron
said, when the University invited writing special-
ists from Yale and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology to evaluate writing at Brown.
Though for now the work of the CCC has fo-
cused mainly on articulating clearer principles,
Becker said, “We’re going to have in place at
some point, some kind of check by somebody
that says that a student has worked on their
writing here at Brown in a constructive way.”
But, he added, “We’re very, very appre-
hensive about limiting the ways that students
can do this.” Kim Perley/ Herald
Brown students discussed their organization at the ADOCH Activites Fair Wednesday.
A Day on College Hill wrapped up later that afternoon for the roughly 650 attendees.
— With additional reporting
by Lauren Fedor
 Arts & Culture
The Brown Daily Herald

Thursday, April 23, 2009 | Page 9

Ivy Film Festival draws big names Plenty of art to check

continued from page 1 out near semester’s end
man ’76 P’11, a top executive at Fox
studios, will also lead a discussion By Ben Hyman Tomorrow and Sunday: The
on Friday. Arts & Culture Editor Brown University Orchestra offers
At the same time, the core of the up Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Por-
festival, according to its executive Tonight through Sunday: trait,” for speaker and orchestra,
director, Daniel Wolfberg ’09, is the Shakespeare on the Green pres- with two very special guest stars.
student film competition. ents not one, but two plays this On Friday night at 8 p.m., hear the
Wolfberg and his staff received a semester. “Coriolanus,” the late words of Abraham Lincoln read by
total of 350 student submissions this tragedy of imperial Rome, will be another Lincoln — Watson Insti-
year — an increase from previous performed (fittingly) in the pres- tute distinguished visiting fellow
years. Wolfberg attributes the jump ence of Marcus Aurelius on Lin- Lincoln Chafee ’75, that is. And on
to the festival organizers’ decision to coln Field. That’s at 6 p.m. tonight Sunday at 2 p.m., the same work
begin accepting submissions earlier, and tomorrow, and at 8 p.m. on will be performed by none other
during the summer. Saturday and Sunday. Meanwhile, than President Ruth Simmons.
Screenings of the student films “Macbeth” gets bloody in the park- Tickets are available all week in
— which hail from universities ing lot between T.F. Green and Or- Orwig 101 and an hour before each
throughout the United States and wig Halls, tonight and tomorrow at performance in Sayles, $2 with a
Europe — begin Friday night and 8 p.m., and at 5 p.m. on Saturday Brown ID.
will run through Saturday. and Sunday. The Tomorrow:
In addition to the student work, two tragedies go A&C: Editor’s Picks Badmaash pres-
advance screenings of upcoming head-to-head for ents its third an-
feature films — including an IMAX a combined midnight showing Fri- nual show, “Throw It Down,” at
sneak preview of “Star Trek” on Fri- day night on Lincoln Field. 6:30 in Salomon 101. Tickets are
Justin Coleman / Herald
day at the Providence Place Mall Writer and director Robert Siegel spoke at a screening of his newest film, Tomorrow: Professor of Music $5 at the door or in advance in the
— will be a major highlight of the “Big Fan,” in MacMillan 117 last night. Rose Subotnik will offer a farewell mail room.
festival. lecture — “How Many Ways Can April 27 through May 3:
Writer and director Robert Siegel Inspired by early Martin Scorsese festival was recently profiled in Va- You Fetishize a Song? From Ador- Next week, enjoy a packed festi-
presented his newest film, “Big Fan,” films, Siegel said, he never intended riety magazine. no to ‘American Idol’” — before val of solo performances by ten
last night in MacMillan 117. Centered to make humor “the object of the “I think we’ve established our- embarking on her retirement after senior actors. Featuring Julian Cihi
around Paul (Patton Oswalt), an ob- scene.” Instead, he wanted the real- selves as a quality film festival and a 18 years at Brown. At 4 p.m. in ’09, Lucian Cohen ’09, Emily Bor-
sessive New York Giants fan who istic nature of the film and charac- unique film festival,” Wolfberg said. Grant Recital Hall. romeo ’09, Lily Spottiswoode ’09,
is assaulted by one of his idols, the ters to reflect the natural interplay But though celebrity guests have Tomorrow through Monday: Phoebe Neidhardt ’09, Jonathan
movie explores the main character’s between humor and sadness. helped the festival make its name Musical Forum presents Will Finn Dent ’09, Sophie Shackleton ’09,
attempt to strike a balance between “The humor comes from real-life in the film world, Wolfberg said, the and James Lapine’s P’07 1998 Samantha Ressler ’09, Adam Lu-
maintaining his devotion to the team situations and characters as organi- focus is really on the student film- musical “A New Brain,” in PW’s bitz ’09 and Albert Huber ’09. A
and accepting his trauma. cally woven into it,” Siegel said. makers and their projects, thus pro- Downspace. Performances at 8 complete schedule is available at
Paul finds himself both unwilling Siegel also described his work moting the art of film on university p.m. on Friday, Sunday and Mon- solofest2009.blogspot.com. Free
to press charges against his hero as the screenwriter of 2008’s “The campuses. day., and at 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. on tickets will be available 30 minutes
and unable to shake the feeling of Wrestler,” his own development as “We want to celebrate the art of Saturday. Free tickets available an before each performance in Stras-
being betrayed. His well-meaning a comedy and drama writer, casting film, generally, but also we want to hour before each performance. berg Studio.
family tries to spur him to abandon and directing a film, his preference provide a quality venue for student
his pastime and grow up, but in the for “flawed, regular everyday char- filmmaking,” Wolfberg said.
end, he must develop his own coping acters” and his future plans for the a rt s i n b r i e f
mechanism. film’s distribution.
Siegel said in the discussion held “(500) Days of Summer” will The Ivy Film Festival runs through Sock & Buskin announces ’09-’10 line-up
after the screening that, though he screen tonight at Avon Cinema, fol- Sunday. All screenings and events are
feels characters are expected to un- lowed by a discussion with writer open to the public. Tickets for screen-
dergo drastic change by the end of a Neustadter. Max Mayer’s “Adam” ings are available at the Ivy Film Fes- In addition to presenting four plays from three different
film, he wanted to present something was given an advance showing at tival table on the Main Green or in J. centuries, Sock & Buskin’s 2009-2010 season will mark the
closer to real life. Instead of portray- the Avon Tuesday. Walter Wilson through today and are culmination of a retooled relationship between Brownbrokers
ing characters experiencing huge Wolfberg said the festival’s popu- free for students, $5 for non-students. — a group that produces student-written musicals — and the
changes, Siegel aimed to show that larity, as measured by the number Tickets to “Iconoclasts” sold out yester- Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance. Next season’s
many people do not alter their lives of submissions and attendees, has day, but a limited number of tickets student musical will benefit from increased faculty support
and are happier for it. been increasing in recent years. will be raffled off at Saturday’s other and funding, according to Brownbrokers board member Aaron
Siegel also talked about the tone Big-name guests like Scorsese and panel events. “Iconoclasts” will also be Malkin ’10.
of the film, which alternates between Oliver Stone have attracted both simulcast in Salomon 001. Brownbrokers has traditionally produced one musical writ-
the humorous and the dramatic. audience members and clout. The ten, directed and produced by students as part of each Sock
& Buskin season. But next season’s show will be faculty-di-
rected, and it will enjoy more design mentoring and a fuller
development process.
The season kicks off in September with Moliere’s classic
farce “Tartuffe,” auditions for which will take place before the
end of this semester, Sock & Buskin board member Chris
Tyler ’10 wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.
Frank Wedekind’s proto-expressionist play “Lulu” will be
produced in February.
Two contemporary plays will also be featured. “The Cook,”
a drama by Eduardo Machado about Cuba under Fidel Cas-
tro, goes up in April. Jordan Harrison’s MFA’03 play “Doris to
Darlene” will be presented in December.
The Brownbrokers’ show, which has yet to be selected, will
be produced in November. Two musicals are currently under
consideration for the slot — “Adding Up,” by Sarah Kay ’10
and Drew Nobile ’07 and “Leavittsburg, Ohio,” by Nate Sloan
’09. Both works will soon receive staged readings — “Adding
Up” on May 9 and “Leavittsburg, Ohio” on May 10. The board,
in collaboration with department faculty, will then select one
of the musicals for production, Malkin said.
— Ben Hyman
 Metro
The Brown Daily Herald
“It’s not journalism. It’s getting out and meeting people.”
— Scott Kingsley, co-founder of Stimulus Times

Thursday, April 23, 2009 | Page 10

Laid-off ProJo workers print ‘stimulus’ paper metro in brief

By Lauren Fedor
Senior Staf f Writer
Four former Providence Journal
employees have teamed up to have
“a little fun in the face of potential
economic ruin” — by creating their
own newsletter.
Scott Kingsley, Brandie Jeffer-
son, Denise Bass and David Del-
Poio — who all lost their jobs as
part of recent layoffs at the Journal
— now manage Stimulus Times, a
free weekly publication available
throughout the East Side.
Stimulus Times, which published
its second issue Wednesday, has a
circulation of 2,500 copies. Accord-
ing to its Web site — stimulustimes.
com — the newsletter is “a quirky
look at the stimulus package and its
effect on our economy.”
Started by Kingsley, a former
assistant managing editor at the
Journal, the newsletter can be found
at local businesses on Hope Street,
Thayer Street and Wickenden Street
and in Wayland Square.
Kingsley told The Herald he
decided to publish the newsletter
after being laid off from the Journal
in March.
“There aren’t any jobs in the
newspaper industry,” he said, add-
ing, “There’s no way I could make
any money sitting on the end of the
couch, and I wanted to put my name
out there.”
Though the newsletter’s name
alludes to the Stimulus Package,
formally known as the American
Recover y and Reinvestment Act
of 2009, Kingsley said there is no
political agenda motivating the
newsletter.
“It’s about stimulating a conver-
sation,” he said. “It’s about the times
we live in.”
This week’s edition includes
articles with titles such as “Think
You’re Stressed?” and “AIG’s Lar-
gesse.”
There is also a “Stimu-stat” about
employer insurance, a “Stimu-dex”
measuring public interest in the
stimulus package and a request for
readers to vote online for a “Stimu-
lator of the Week” from three local
figures — a florist, a sushi chef and
the infant of a neighborhood busi-
ness owner.
The group is also hosting a
“handwringing party” next Tuesday
where attendees can “kvetch” about
their economic worries.
Kingsley admitted that many of
the stories the Stimulus Times offers
are supposed to be humorous.
“It’s goofy. I get that,” he said.
“It’s not journalism. It’s getting out
and meeting people.”
Kingsley has certainly met peo-
ple. Since publishing the first issue
last week, Kingsley estimates he has
met more than 50 local business
owners. In addition to introducing
himself and Stimulus Times, he en-
courages them to advertise in the
newsletter.
“I can put feet in their street,”
he said.
Though the paper now has many
advertisers, Kingsley said he has
yet to break even. But he said he
expects to begin turning profits in
the near future, and he and his col-
leagues will stay in the business for
as long as they can.
Still, the project isn’t going to
replace a day job for Kingsley.
“I am looking for a full-time job,”
he said. “I have a family. I need
health benefits.”
Rep. calls for ‘product stewardship’
State Representative Donna Walsh, D-Dist. 36, has
introduced a bill in the General Assembly that calls for
manufacturers to regulate the disposal of waste from
certain consumer products.
The approach, called “product stewardship,” requires
makers, designers and sellers to share the responsibility
and costs of waste disposal.
“Americans are inundated with products with hazardous
components and wasteful packaging,” Walsh said in a press
release. “We need the people who create and sell items to
be more mindful of the harmful effects their products have
on the environment.”
Toward that end, the bill would institute product
stewardship methods of waste disposal.
“It doesn’t make much sense that cities and towns —
and ultimately, taxpayers — are the ones who end up paying
for the disposal of hazardous items used in products,”
Walsh said in the press release. “Some of that responsibility
should fall to manufacturers who choose to make products
that way. If we start implanting product stewardship,
we will see manufacturers making design changes that
reduce waste and unnecessarily harmful effects on our
environment.”
Some businesses currently voluntarily engage in product
stewardship. Some office supply stores, for example,
collect used ink cartridges to ensure that they are recycled
properly.
Walsh’s bill would require the state Department of
Environmental Management to develop recommendations
consistent with the product stewardship programs
already in place in states such as California, Vermont and
Minnesota.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, which first
instituted a product stewardship policy in 1999, offers
initiatives for the disposal of beverage containers, telephone
directories, paint, compact fluorescent lightbulbs, carpets,
automobiles and electronics.
According to the press release, Rhode Island already
has an “e-waste” law that requires proper disposal of
hazardous electronic products. Walsh’s bill would institute
requirements similar to those in the e-waste program.
The House Environment and Natural Resources
Committee recommended on March 19 that the bill be held
for further study.

— Anne Speyer

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awesome blossoms
Friends of Brown Street Park will host an Earth Day event Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. at Brown Street Park. Festivities will
include a performance by Joe’s Backyard Band and work sprucing up the park’s gardens. The Rhode Island Water Lady
will discuss rain barrels, and the Worm Ladies of Charlestown will talk about worms and compost.
Community argues against restaurant
By Melissa Shube
Senior Staf f Writer
Problems with rowdy crowds at a
Providence nightclub, including re-
ports of fights, underage drinking
and weapons, may keep the owner
from getting the city’s permission
to open another establishment in
Fox Point.
Elington Rosario wants to open
Privilege Restaurant and Lounge on
345 South Water St., which he says
will be “like Kartabar, but closer to
the water.”
Rosario is also one of three own-
ers of Club Elements, a nightclub
on Richmond Street downtown, but
has ventured out on his own to open
restaurant. The Providence Board
of Licensing did not grant him the
licensing he sought last Friday, and
community members say the rejec-
tion was due to problems with the
management of Club Elements.
“The objection was the proposed
owners have a lot of unresolved
issues and a lot of serious issues
with their own establishment,” said
Seth Yurdin, the city councilman for
Ward 1, which includes the area that
Privilege would take. “If they’re not
“I don’t understand why we have to fight the city instead of work with the city.”
running one business properly and
respectfully under the law, it doesn’t
seem like it makes sense for them
to have the privilege of opening the
second business,” he said.
“It’s just the owners have a rep-
utation for running rowdy night-
clubs,” said Daisy Schnepel, presi-
dent of the Fox Point Neighborhood
Association. “So the police have a lot
of trouble with the crowd, and the
police have no assurance that they
aren’t going to do the same thing
in this neighborhood.”
“I don’t think it would be a good
fit over there,” Lieutenant John
Ryan, commander of Providence
Police District 9, said of the res-
taurant.
Ryan testified to the licensing
board about “underage drinking,
weapons charges and a whole series
of different problems” at Club Ele-
ments, Yurdin said.
Privilege Inc., Rosario’s com-
pany, wants to open the restaurant
in a location currently occupied by
the restaurant Chez Ben.
Rosario applied for a transfer
license, a liquor license and an ex-
tended license to allow the venue to
stay open until 2 a.m. on Fridays and
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Thursday, April 23, 2009
— Elington Rosario, local business owner
metro in brief
Local relations director to leave Brown
Darrell Brown, director for state and community
relations, will leave his post at Brown this May to start a
new job in Washington, with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse,
D-R.I.
In his current position, Brown is responsible for all
community relations activity off campus, he said. He is a
registered lobbyist for the University in the Rhode Island
General Assembly, and deals with local community groups
on issues involving businesses on Thayer Street and the
University’s emergency siren system.
“It’s been a pleasure working for Brown,” Brown said.
Brown will start his new job June 1, acting as counsel
to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative
Oversight and the Courts.
Vice President for Public Affairs and University Relations
Marisa Quinn told The Herald the University would look for
a replacement for Brown.
“The University’s relations with the state, city and
community are crucial, so I hope to fill the position,” Quinn
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. Quinn’s office includes
George Miller / Herald the office of government relations and community affairs.
“Darrell has been very effective in dealing with
community issues and will be missed,” Will Touret,
president of the College Hill Neighborhood Association,
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.
— George Miller
Saturdays, according to the Provi-
dence Board of Licensing. The li-
censes were denied last week, but
Privilege Inc. plans to appeal the
decision on Monday, Rosario said.
Rosario said his proposed restau-
rant was not going to be a nightclub.
Since this project doesn’t involve
the other owners of Elements, he
said he didn’t think incidents at the
nightclub should disqualify him
from opening a new restaurant.
“We’ve never had anyone get
hurt inside or anything happen like
that,” he said.
But Rosario did acknowledge
that Elements has had its share
of incidents and conflicts with the
city. He said the club told the police
when there were incidents of under-
age drinking or rowdy behavior and
that he felt the police department
and the licensing board were hold-
ing those reports against him.
“I don’t understand why we have
to fight the city instead of work with
the city,” he said.
One incident discussed at the
hearing involved a weapon in the
club’s parking lot.
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“We own the nightclub but we
can’t go outside and check people’s
cars,” Rosario said.
He also said he didn’t feel he
should be responsible for fights
that happened blocks away from
the club.
The club and the city have also
disagreed about the capacity at
Elements, Rosario said. The city
initially set the capacity of the club
at 254, which Rosario said left the
club “empty” and “dead.” An appeal
to the state saw the capacity rise to
390, Rosario said, but in the interim
Elements was cited for capacity vio-
lations.
Rosario said his planned restau-
rant would benefit the city.
“I think that will be good for the
area, especially because they are
bringing down the highway,” he
said. The state is currently relocat-
ing the interchange between I-95
and I-195, a project it has named
Iway.
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The restaurant and lounge would
bring in tax revenue for the city,
and would create jobs for students,
Rosario said, adding that he hoped
to employ Rhode Island School of
Design and Brown students.
But the community does not
seem convinced. Yurdin said he was
supportive of new businesses and
venues but that the issue was with
the ownership. If Privilege Inc. ap-
peals the licensing board’s decision,
a lot of concerned people will come
out to oppose it, he added.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
metro in brief
Forbes: Providence a tough place to live
If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere — at
least according to Forbes.
The magazine recently named Providence the U.S. city
“where it’s hardest to get by.” Rounding out the rest of the
top five, in order, were Los Angeles; Riverside, Calif.; Tampa,
Fla. and Buffalo, N.Y.
The rankings were based on unemployment, cost of living
and median income. Rhode Island’s unemployment rate
recently rose to 10.5 percent, but according to the April 14
article, Providence residents are even worse off, facing an
11.6 unemployment rate.
And though the city has a median income above the
national average, it ranks 22 points higher on the cost-of-
living index than the national average of 100, according to
the article.
The Forbes ranking covered metropolitan statistical areas
used by the federal government.
— George Miller
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Thursday, April 23, 2009 | Page 13

Looking Burke ’09, Gormley ’11, Glick ’10 take home awards
back: The Spor ts Staf f Repor ts All-American.

year in sports A bevy of Bears received recog-

By Benjy Asher
and Andrew Braca
Sports Editors
With the 2008-2009 school year coming
to an end, it’s time to take a look back
at the year of Brown sports. While
the year was disappointing on many
fronts for Brown athletics, it also had
its share of shining moments.
On a rain-soaked Saturday in Sep-
tember, the football team pulled out a
24-22 victory over Harvard, Brown’s
first win over the Crimson since 1999,
to open up the Ivy League season. A
key stop on a Harvard two-point con-
version in the closing minutes sealed
the victory for the Bears, propelling
them to a 6-1 Ivy League record and a
share of the Ivy League championship,
Brown’s second in four years.
nition on the awards scene this
week.
For the second year in a
row, men’s lacrosse captain and
goalie Jordan Burke ’09 has been
named a finalist for the Tewaar-
ton Award, given annually to the
national player of the year. Burke
is also a finalist for the Lowe’s
Senior Class Award, which rec-
ognizes excellence in the class-
room, community, character
and competition. Burke leads
the Ivy League with a .626 save
percentage and 12.4 saves per
game, while his 7.6 goals against
average stands eleventh in the na-
tion. Last season, he was honored
as both the Ivy League and the
New England Player of the Year
and was named a Second Team
On the diamond, Mark Gorm-
ley ’11 was named the Ivy League
co-Pitcher of the Week for two
sparkling appearances in which
he surrendered just one run over
eight innings. He pitched 1 2/3
innings of one-hit relief in a 3-2
win over Marist on April 14, then
led Brown to a 3-1 win over Har-
vard on Saturday, beginning a
four-game sweep of the Crimson.
In his start on Saturday, Gormley
scattered six hits and struck out
six batters in 6 1/3 innings.
After a strong showing at the
Nor thern Division Champion-
ship, Sarah Glick ’10 was named
the Collegiate Water Polo As-
sociation’s Nor thern Division
Player of the Week. She filled
the stat sheet with nine goals,
Justin Coleman / Herald
Jordan Burke ’09 was named a finalist for the Tewaarton Award, given
continued on page 15 to the national player of the year, for the second time in a row.

Mixed week for women’s tennis, both golf teams

“We’re in the infant stages of what
could be something very special,”
Head Coach Phil Estes said.
Though inconsistency plagued
the women’s soccer team in the 2008 Sports Staff Reports ’10 was disqualified in the first round, of play. Megan Tuohy ’12 and Susan for a 6-0 win of her own in the third
season, the high point came early but finished with a 75 on the second Restrepo ’11 each came in at 170, set to take the match. Sara Mansur
on, when Brown took the collegiate As teams embark on their final chal- day of competition. This weekend, and Sarah Guarascio ’12 finished ’09 won convincingly, 6-0, 6-2, at No.
soccer scene by storm at the UConn lenges, the Bears continue to repre- the team will head to the Atlantic City at 176. This weekend, the women’s 4 singles, and Julie Flanzer ’12 pulled
Classic. On Sept. 12, the Bears scored sent both at home and on the road. Country Club in Northfield, N.J., for team will head down to the Atlantic out a tough 6-3, 7-5 victory at No. 6
in overtime to notch a 1-0 win over the Ivy League Championship in a City Country Club for the Ivy League singles. But losses by Tanja Vucet-
No. 11 Penn State, before playing to Men’s golf 54-hole tournament, played Friday Championship. ic ’10 at No. 3 singles and Carissa
a scoreless tie against No. 1 UCLA The men’s golf team finished sev- through Sunday. Aboubakare ’12 at No. 5 singles gave
on Sept. 14. enth out of nine competing teams at Women’s tennis Harvard the 4-3 win.
For the second straight year, the the Caves Valley Spring Invitational, Women’s golf On Friday, the No. 58 women’s On Sunday, the Bears rebound-
field hockey team started out 0-6 in racking up a team score of 619. Co- The women’s golf team finished tennis team lost its final home match ed with a 4-3 win at Dartmouth to
Ivy League play, and for the second captain Conor Malloy ’09 led the with a team score of 665 at the Roar- of the season, falling 4-3 to Harvard. close out the season. Brown won
straight year, the Bears defeated Yale team with a combined score of 150 ee Invitational in Suffern, N.Y., over The Crimson took all three doubles the doubles point, as Bianca Abou-
in their final contest of the season. over the two rounds, followed by the weekend, coming in eighth out matches to secure the doubles point, bakare and Herzberg got a 9-7 win at
On Nov. 8, Leslie Springmeyer ’12 Michael Amato ’11, who shot a 74 in of ten teams. Julia Robinson ’11 fin- and Bianca Aboubakare ’11 lost her No. 1 doubles, and at No. 3 doubles,
scored three goals to pace Brown to the second round to finish at 155. Co- ished with a 163 to lead the team, match at No. 1 singles, 1-6, 6-4, 6-2. At Emily Ellis ’10 and Kathrin Sorokko
a 4-1 victory, giving the Bears a 5-12 captain Chris Hoffman ’09 finished while Heather Arison ’12 and Carly No. 2 singles, Cassandra Herzberg ’10 won, 8-6, for their Brown-record
overall record to finish out the season, at 162 and Joe Rued ’09 was close Arison ’12 were close behind, each ’12 won the first set, 6-1, before fall-
a significant improvement from their behind with a 168. John Giannuzzi shooting a 167 over the two rounds ing 6-0 in the second set, but rallied continued on page 15
1-16 mark in 2007.
“It’s great to finish my career with a
win. It’s definitely a bittersweet feeling,
though, having the four years go by
so quickly, but it’s definitely finishing
on a really good note,” said Victoria
Sacco ’09.
Following the departure of Head
Coach Craig Robinson and All-Ivy
guards Damon Huffman ’08 and Mark
McAndrew ’08, the men’s basketball
team was unable to repeat the suc-
cess of its 2007-2008 season, when
the Bears went 19-10, with an 11-3
record in the Ivy League. The team did
end its season on a high note, though,
finishing with back-to-back wins over
Harvard and Dartmouth. On March
6, Garrett Leffelman ’11 drained a
three-pointer as time expired to give
Brown a 61-59 win over the Crimson,
and the momentum carried into Satur-
day, when the Bears defeated the Big
Green, 69-59, to send off tri-captains
Chris Skrelja ’09 and Scott Friske ’09
on a high note.
“They’re wonderful people, and
when I’m recruiting somebody I want
them to be able to go to those guys,
and I want our guys coming in to be
like those guys,” Head Coach Jesse
Agel said. “They worked hard all the
time, they cared, they were passion-
ate, they were good teammates and
they’re what Brown basketball aspires

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Mixed year for sports had ups and downs
continued from page 13
to be.”
The men’s hockey team struggled
for the duration of the regular season,
but finally hit its stride in the opening
round of the ECAC playoffs. Heading
into the best-of-three series as the No.
12 seed, taking on No. 5 Harvard in
Cambridge, Mass., the Bears swept
the Crimson with back-to-back shut-
outs, 1-0 and 2-0, behind incredible
performances from goalie Mike Cle-
mente ’12, who made 86 saves over
the two games. Though the team’s
season came to an end with a pair of
losses to top-seeded Yale the follow-
ing weekend, the Bears established
themselves as a team to watch next
season.
“It’s fun. When you’re a little kid,
you want to be in a 1-0 or 2-0 playoff
game where your team needs you,”
Clemente said.
The gymnastics team had one of its
most successful seasons in recent his-
tory, including a second-place finish
at the Ivy Classic, and Victoria Zanelli
’11 capped off the season with an All-
American performance at USAG Na-
tionals. Zanelli posted a score of 9.725
on the beam, putting her in 12th place
and giving her All-American status.
Notable quotables
Here are our top three favorite
quotes from this year:
3. “I never doubt the heart of
these men. I love this team. I love
these men. They play with a passion,
they play with a sense of urgency and
they love each other.” Men’s lacrosse
Head Coach Lars Tiffany ’90, follow-
ing an 11-10 double-overtime loss to
Hofstra.
2. “It sounds bad to say this, but
I was like, ‘Yeah, we should win the
region because we’re that good,’” —
Jennifer Grover ’10 of the equestrian
team.
1. “We won it, we beat Harvard, so
we won the whole thing, and we won
it outright.” — Estes, following the
football team’s season-ending 41-10
victory over Columbia.
Outlook for the rest of the way
While here at The Herald we’re
wrapping up our semester of pro-
duction, the year is not yet over for
Brown’s sports teams, and there’s
still plenty to watch for.
With a 11-2 record, and a 3-1 mark
in the Ivy League, the men’s lacrosse
team’s Ivy League championship
hopes are still alive, and with a current
No. 13 national ranking in the USILA
Coaches Poll, Brown could make for
a serious contender for an at-large bid
to the NCAA tournament. Saturday at
1 p.m., at Stevenson Field, the Bears
will take on No. 2 Cornell (9-2, 5-0 Ivy)
with their Ivy League championship
hopes on the line, and next Saturday,
Thursday, April 23, 2009
they will close out their regular season
at No. 5 Princeton (10-2, 3-1).
With its Ivy League record at 12-4
heading into the final weekend of play,
the baseball team is still in the running
for a spot in the Ivy League champion-
ship series. Brown will take on Yale
in a four-game series this weekend,
but even if they sweep the series, the
Bears will still need some help from
Harvard, who will face Rolfe Division
leader Dartmouth (20-11, 14-2) in a
four-game series this weekend. The
Bears will travel to New Haven, Conn.
for a doubleheader on Saturday, before
returning home for a doubleheader at
Murray Stadium on Sunday, begin-
ning at noon.
Both crew teams have a lot left
to race for. The men will shoot to de-
fend their Ivy League title at Eastern
Sprints on May 10 before heading
back on June 4 to the Intercollegiate
Rowing Association National Cham-
pionships, where they finished fifth
last year.
The two-time defending national
champion women will host Columbia
and Cornell on Saturday at 8 a.m. on
the Seekonk River. The women will
look to retain their status as the most
successful program in the history of
women’s crew, having won six of the
past 10 championships and finishing
in the top three at every NCAA Cham-
pionship, at this year’s NCAAs from
May 29 to 31.
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wins in tuneup for Heps
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20th doubles win this season. Once
again, Herzberg, Mansur and Flanzer
came through in singles play, secur-
ing the victory for the Bears. With
the win over the Big Green, Brown
finished up the season with a 19-4
overall record and a 5-2 mark in Ivy
League play. Both win totals are the
highest for the team since 1997, when
Brown went 19-3 overall and 7-0 in the
Ivy League.
Men’s track and field
The men’s track and field team
saw strong performances at several
meets over the weekend. Duriel Har-
dy ’10 competed at Princeton’s Larry
Ellis Invitational and ran a 14:11.75
in the 5000-meter run to qualify for
NCAA Regionals. At the Husky In-
vitational at UConn, Tyler Prince ’09
threw 51.44m for third place in the
hammer throw, and Kevin Cervantes
’10 earned a fourth-place finish in the
400m with a time of 50.87.
At the John McDonnell Invitational
at the University of Arkansas, Craig
Kinsley ’11 launched a personal-best
throw of 69.66m to win the javelin
throw, and Bryan Powlen ’09 threw
54.58m for second place in discus and
16.46m for fourth place in the shot
put. Matt Jasmin ’09 ran a personal
best of 14.28 in the 100m hurdles.
Jasmin will join Hardy, Kinsley and
Powlen at the NCAA Regionals in
late May.
Women’s track and field
For the women’s squad, Brynn
Smith ’11 finished fourth in the ham-
mer throw at Arkansas, with a school-
record toss of 54.79m and a NCAA
Regional qualifying mark. Danielle
Grunloh ’10 also performed well in
the throwing events at Arkansas,
finishing third in the shot put with a
throw of 14.64m and throwing 44.00m
for a fifth-place finish in the discus
throw. Nicole Burns ’09 also com-
peted at Arkansas, finishing fifth in
the 400m in a time of 55.06.
At UConn, Herald Assistant
Sports Editor Katie Wood ’10 earned
a fourth-place finish in the javelin with
a personal best throw of 41.41m, and
Cassandra Wong ’10 cleared 3.35m to
finish second in the pole vault. On the
track, Samantha Adelberg ’11 won the
1500m in 4:37.75 and Susan Scavone
’12 ran a 14.73 for third place in the
100m hurdles. Michaeline Nelson ’11
competed at Princeton, qualifying for
NCAA Regionals with a time of 10:49
in the 3000m steeplechase.
This Sunday, the team will com-
pete at the Brown Invitational in a
final tune-up before the Ivy League
Heptagonal Championships the fol-
lowing weekend.
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week. He tallied two goals and
three assists in an 8-6 victory over
team, midfielder Alexa Caldwell
’11 shone in a pair of losses to
six steals and nine assists in three Har vard on April 15, and netted Quinnipiac and Penn. She tallied
games. Glick notched a pair of four goals in a 10-6 win over Provi- seven ground balls, two draw con-
hat tricks on Saturday in a 16-4 dence College on Saturday. trols, forced seven turnovers and
win over Connecticut College and For the women’s lacrosse netted a goal against Penn.
an 8-7 double-overtime win over
Har vard, scoring the tying goal
with 26 seconds left in regulation.
Glick also scored three goals in
Sunday’s 11-7 loss to Hartwick,
but the Bears will still advance to
the Eastern Championship, which
begins on Friday.
In addition, four Bears were
named to the Ivy League honor
roll for their respective sports.
Robert Papenhause ’09 scored at
least one run in all seven of the
baseball team’s games last week.
In an 8-5 win over Har vard in the
second game on Saturday, Pap-
enhause fell a single short of the
cycle and drove in three runs.
Kate Strobel ’12 powered
the softball team to a 1-3 record
against Har vard over the week-
end, going 5-for-13 with two dou-
bles, two home runs, three runs
scored and five RBI. She leads the
Bears with a .344 batting average,
33 hits, 20 runs, five home runs,
a .573 slugging percentage and a
.933 OPS on the season.
Attackman Thomas Muldoon
’10 tallied six goals and three as-
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Third woman says Paraguayan
president fathered child with her
By Joshua Partlow
Washington Post
The clamor over Paraguayan Pres-
ident Fernando Lugo’s behavior
is getting louder, one crying baby
at a time.
For the third time in less than
a month, a woman came for ward
Wednesday saying that Lugo, a
former Roman Catholic bishop,
is the father of her child.
A single secret out-of-wedlock
child by any president would
make headlines. But in this heav-
ily Roman Catholic countr y, the
revelations about a man who had
sworn chastity vows as a priest
has stirred deeper concerns that
some say could have serious re-
percussions for his government.
The scandal broke this month
when lawyers for Viviana Carrillo,
26, said they were bringing a pa-
ternity suit against Lugo, claiming
that he had fathered her child,
Guillermo Armindo Car rillo
Canete, who will turn two next
month. Carrillo said she was 16
when their relationship began.
Lugo shocked the countr y by
publicly admitting that he was the
boy’s father and saying that he
would “assume all responsibili-
ties.”
browndailyherald.com
“I recognize that I fathered the
child,” he said at a news confer-
ence in the capital, Asuncion.
Lugo, 57 and single, became
a bishop in 1994 but resigned a
decade later from the diocese in
San Pedro, a province in central
Paraguay. In December 2006,
he said he was renouncing his
bishop status to run for president,
but Pope Benedict XVI did not
accept his resignation until last
July — before he took office as
president.
Lugo’s admission of paternity
has prompted widespread discus-
sions not only about his loyalty to
his vows to the Catholic Church
but also about his credibility on
other matters. During the cam-
paign, he did not admit to having
children.
“We are in the phase of initial
incredulity about these announce-
ments,” said Jose Luis Simon, a
political analyst, journalist and
professor who has long opposed
Lugo. “We have begun to see a
process of deterioration of the
popular support of this president
... all this has set off ver y serious
questions that puts Paraguayan
democracy at risk.”
In a column in La Nacion
newspaper, Claudio Paolillo, an
editor, wrote that “from now on,
it’s legitimate that Paraguayans
ask if when the president speaks
whether he is telling the truth.”
“If he was capable of hiding,
concocting facts and lying about
nothing less than his condition as
a father, why would he not `sin’
again ... about other things related
to his term. How many more chil-
dren does the president have that
he has not yet admitted?”
Others seemed more con-
cerned about the church’s rules
on priestly celibacy.
“It’s evident that the demands
of the church restricting the sex-
ual life of priests to permit them
to do their work is anti-natural,”
another columnist, Enrique Var-
gas Pena, wrote in La Nacion.
On Monday, the second wom-
an to speak out, Benigna Leguiza-
mon, said she began working at
the San Pedro diocese in 2000
when she was 17, and that her
son with Lugo was born in Sep-
tember 2002.
“At the time, the monsignor
gave me his suppor t but took
advantage of my great need and
induced me to have relations,”
she was quoted as saying in local
media. “In a year, I got pregnant
by him. A midwife delivered my
baby in the same house where I
was living, whose rent he paid.”
Lugo did not confirm or deny
her claim but read a statement
saying he would comply with all
legal procedures. Leguizamon
filed a suit demanding Lugo take
a DNA test to determine whether
he was the father.
The woman who came forward
Wednesday, Damiana Moran, a
39-year-old divorcee, said in inter-
views with the Paraguayan media
that she had only compliments
for Lugo, whom she met in 2006,
after he left the diocese. Moran,
a social activist and director of a
childcare center, called him “phe-
nomenal” and said their relation-
ship “was driven by a great love.”
She said her son, Juan Pablo, is
16 months old but that she, unlike
the other women, does not plan
to file suit against Lugo.
Lugo has not yet responded to
the most recent claim.
One bishop, Rogelio Livieres,
told Paraguayan radio Tuesday
that the Catholic Church was
aware of Lugo’s relationships in
2004 but let him resign.
“The church hierarchy knew
for years of this misconduct by
Lugo but kept silent. Now there’s
nothing they can do,” Livieres
said.
Thursday, April 23, 2009 | Page 16
ANC looks set to
retain large majority
By Robyn Dixon
Los Angeles Times
DIEPSLOOT, South Africa — South
Africans queued before dawn in chilly
temperatures Wednesday for an elec-
tion expected to slightly narrow the
African National Congress’ large par-
liamentary majority yet still result in
the installation of controversial party
leader Jacob Zuma as president.
A large voter turnout was reported,
and in some areas election officials
ran short of ballot papers and had
to call for more. Voting results were
expected Thursday.
Corruption charges against Zuma
were dropped two weeks ago. Despite
his extraordinary political comeback,
the ANC faces its toughest challenge
since it took control in 1994 in the
nation’s first democratic vote. Many
South Africans are disillusioned by
continuing high unemployment, crime
and a lack of decent housing.
For the first time, the ANC faced a
sizable black opposition party in this
election: the Congress of the People,
or COPE, which was formed by for-
mer ANC members. The other major
opposition party, the Democratic Alli-
ance, or DA, is led by a white woman,
Helen Zille.
In South Africa, the parliament
elects the president, so Zuma is ex-
pected to be voted into office early
next month.
For some voters, the early eupho-
ria of democracy has faded.
“Actually, I don’t know why I’m vot-
ing,” said Victoria Jonathon, 27, who
waited hours to cast her ballot. “I’m
still staying in a shack. That makes
me very angry.”
She voted for the ANC but said it
would be the last time unless there was
real change before the next national
election.”I don’t see change in five
years, no change, I won’t vote ANC
again. I’ll vote for someone else.”
Gigi Mafifi, 33, an insurance sales-
man, said he usually voted ANC but
decided this time to cast his ballot in
favor of a small opposition party.
“The quicker the small parties
grow, the better it is for South Africa,”
he said. “I haven’t got anything against
the ANC and COPE, but I think they
need to be shaken up. We need to
shock them a bit.
“Once the ANC doesn’t have the
majority in the parliament, they’ll start
to listen.”
In contrast, Solomon Mapheto, 59,
a pensioner, said he would always vote
ANC.
“I voted ANC because they stopped
apartheid. I don’t see any other party
for me but the ANC.”
The ANC won 69.9 percent of the
vote in the 2004 elections. Opinion
polls indicated that it was likely to re-
ceive two-thirds of the vote this time
— slightly less, but still above the criti-
cal level required for it to change the
constitution at will. The DA’s election
campaign slogan, “Stop Zuma,” urged
voters to deprive the ANC of a two-
thirds majority.
ANC dominance remained clear
among voters in deprived townships
such as Diepsloot. .
But some were shunning the party
for the first time, such as Siyanda Sd-
lulene, 28, who said, “They don’t do all
the promises they said they will do.
I voted for COPE. I hope that maybe
things will change.” Sdlulene, who
fixes tires and earns about $260 a
month, said, “People are walking
around with guns, shooting people
for no reason. I’d like to have a better
job, and to have security. And some
more building of houses and infra-
structure.”
Most of the poor and jobless reflex-
ively vote ANC “because they believe
in Nelson Mandela,” he said, referring
to South Africa’s first democratically
elected president. “They see him as
their hero, and I think that’s why they
vote ANC.”
Edigan Malale, 29, said that when
he wore his DA T-shirt around the
township, he was abused and jeered
by residents who derided DA as a
white party.
“It’s mostly black people around
Helen Zille as the leader,” he said. “So
that brings in hope.” Away from the
dusty streets and shacks of Diepsloot,
in the distant upscale neighborhood
of Killarney, Mandela’s supporters
waited hours for a glimpse of him as
he arrived to vote amid cheers and
ululating.
Hundreds of people with cameras
crowded onto a terrace to photograph
the man who has come to personify
South Africa’s struggle against apart-
heid. Frail and stooped, he was so
thickly flanked by party officials that
a group of elderly supporters couldn’t
see the face they’d waited for.
After voting, he left the polling sta-
tion, beaming at the cameras.
Another iconic elder statesman
who fought apartheid and served as
chairman of South Africa’s Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, Nobel
laureate and Archbishop Emeritus
Desmond Tutu, voted in Cape Town.
He recently said he was not looking
forward to having Zuma as presi-
dent.
Tutu said Wednesday that people
had tended to vote ANC automatically
in the past but that that was chang-
ing.
“I feel good, but it isn’t like the
previous elections. That is true of so
many people who are having to ask
questions. It’s good for democracy,”
he said.
Zuma was charged with corruption
in 2005 in connection with a multibil-
lion-dollar arms deal. In 2006, he was
acquitted of rape charges. Prosecutors
recently dropped the 2005 corruption
charges, citing outside interference in
the timing of charges.
Marlyn Abrams, a white psycholo-
gist voting in Killarney, was concerned
about the charges being dropped.
“I think he (Zuma) is a bit of a di-
saster. He’s a buffoon, unintelligent,
populist. He has avoided facing it
(the corruption trial). He’s avoided
clearing himself, although he said he
wanted to.”
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W orld & N ation
Supreme Court visits question of reverse discrimination
By Robert Barnes
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — The Supreme
Court on Wednesday searched for
the line where possible discrimina-
tion against one race turns into
actual discrimination against an-
other.
Conser vative justices clearly
believed they have found it in New
Haven, Conn. That is where the
city threw out the results of the
fire department’s promotional test
because no blacks and only two
Hispanics would have been eligible
for advancement.
City of ficials are being sued
by the white firefighters who
scored well on the test and had
their promotions scuttled. But
the of ficials claim that because
federal law treats as suspect tests
that have such disparate impacts,
they would have been sued by mi-
norities if they had approved the
promotions.
Wednesday’s intense, serious
and expanded argument is the
first of two the court has taken to
examine the role race should still
play in government policies; the
constitutionality of a provision at
the heart of the Voting Rights Act
will be examined next week.
They come as the cour t has
become more skeptical of such
policies, and in the wake of the
election of the nation’s first black
president, who has urged a new
conversation about the effects of
past discrimination and the future
of race relations.
But Wednesday’s argument
quickly revealed a familiar split
on the court. Liberals on the court
sprang to the city’s defense, say-
ing it should have the flexibility
to discard the results of a test that
seemed to produce discriminatory
results.
Justice David Souter said New
Haven found itself in a “damned-if-
you-do, damned-if-you-don’t situa-
tion.” Using the test would seem to
cross Title VII of the Civil Rights
Act and its warning about tests
with disparate impacts. Throwing
out the test has led to the lawsuit
from white firefighters, who claim
their constitutional rights to equal
protection have been violated.
“Why isn’t the most reasonable
reading of this set of facts a read-
ing which is consistent with giving
the city an opportunity, assuming
good faith, to start again?” Souter
asked.
But Chief Justice John Roberts
and Justice Antonin Scalia made
clear they believed New Haven of-
ficials were only concerned that
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the test had not produced the out-
comes they had hoped for. They
sharply questioned New Haven’s
lawyer, and the lawyer represent-
ing the federal government, which
largely supported giving the city
the right to discard the test.
Roberts asked Deputy Solici-
tor General Edwin Kneedler if the
results had been reversed — that
black applicants had scored well
and no whites were eligible for
advancement — “can you assure
me that the government’s position
would be the same?”
When Kneedler said yes,
Roberts literally raised his eye-
brows. Scalia went further, telling
Kneedler: “I don’t think you’d say
that.”
With the court’s most consistent
liberals and conser vatives in bal-
ance, the outcome likely depends
on Justice Anthony Kennedy, who
is often skeptical of race-based
government policies and who was
tougher in his questioning of the
governments’ lawyers.
“Shouldn’t there be some stan-
dard that there has to be a signifi-
cant, a strong showing after the
test has been taken that it’s defi-
cient? Before it can be set aside?”
Kennedy asked Kneedler.
Gregor y Coleman, an Austin,
Texas, lawyer who opposes race-
based policies and is represent-
ing both the firefighters and the
voting-rights act challengers, said
his clients were being punished
simply because of their race.
“Racial classifications are in-
herently pernicious and, if not
checked, lead as they did in New
Haven to regrettable and socially
destructive racial politics,” he told
the court. He said New Haven of-
ficials scuttled the promotions not
because they found fault with the
test, which they had commissioned
from a private company, but be-
cause the results caused a political
uproar.
Souter said Coleman wanted to
turn “any race-conscious decision
into a discrimination decision, and
that equation we certainly haven’t
made and we’re never going to
make.”
Kennedy asked whether a city
could take race into consideration
when choosing between two tests,
one of which showed a disparate
impact and another that did not.
Coleman eventually said yes.
Christopher Meade, who repre-
sented New Haven, said both public
and private employers should have
“some limited degree of flexibility”
when they learn of a practice that
has a “severe adverse impact such
that it creates an inference of dis-
Thursday, April 23, 2009
crimination.”
But Roberts said the test the city
wants is only that it acts in good
faith because it fears a lawsuit.
“Isn’t that kind of a blank check
to discriminate, if all they need is
a reasonable basis to think that
further investigation might be use-
ful?” Roberts asked, saying there
would be nothing to stop the city
from numerous “do-overs” until it
got the results it was seeking.
The Obama administration’s po-
sition is that New Haven’s actions
are justified if they were under-
taken in good faith, and not as a
“pretext” for simply tr ying to pro-
mote minorities at the expense of
whites. It advised to send the case
back to lower courts for a decision
on that question.
The district cour t originally
granted the city summary judgment
and the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Second Circuit affirmed. But it
seemed unlikely from Wednesday’s
questioning that a majority of the
justices would agree with those
decisions.
If the court remands, it would
likely be with new standards for
the lower courts to apply.
The case, Ricci v. DeStefano,
is likely to be one of the last the
court decides before it adjourns
at the end of June.
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e d i to r i a l
Expand orientation, move TWTP
As members of the Class of 2013 move on from ADOCH, they begin the
long wait until their next major event at Brown: Orientation. We’ve all been
through it, but Brunonians graduating in 2009 and 2010 experienced their first
days somewhat differently — mostly because there were more of them. The
University should return to a six-day orientation, a move recommended in no
small part by problems with the current Third World Transition Program.
TWTP is a valuable forum for students of color to discuss issues of race,
class and gender and we hope that it remains a fixture of Orientation. However,
the program’s current timing (before the rest of Orientation) does significant
damage to its stated aims. As we have previously noted, social life at Brown is
dangerously divided along racial lines, a problem to which the current TWTP
schedule contributes. TWTP participants have noted that, like all new first-years,
they tend to make friends and personal connections with the people they meet
in their first few weeks.
Given the demographic makeup of TWTP, social groups largely or entirely
composed of students of color form before those students even have a chance
to meet their peers who arrive on “White Tuesday,” a term used by some TWTP
participants in reference to the first day of Orientation. This is not a healthy
way to promote interracial dialogue and understanding.
That is not to say that there shouldn’t be any programming exclusive to
students of color. We believe all aspects of TWTP should be incorporated
into Orientation. Unfortunately, this transition cannot happen as long as the ALEX YULY
University insists on limiting Orientation to three days.
The University’s most compelling justification for the current length of
Orientation is that the old system resulted in more alcohol abuse and sexual
misconduct among first-years. If evidence existed to support such a claim, we
l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r s
might agree. In fact, recent crime records suggest the opposite: In 2007, the
first year in which the shortened Orientation was used, there were three times
as many forcible sex offenses on campus as in 2006.
Don’t use American money to fund Israeli repression
A longer Orientation would also allow for a more steady and manage- To the Editor: shrinking enclaves of land, with ever-dwindling human
able introduction to the University, giving students more time to get to know rights, leading to the shattered open-air prison that is Gaza
Brown’s curriculum and organizations as well as their fellow first-years. There’s The recent letter from Brown Students for Israel and today and the checkpoint-riddled Bantustan landscape of
a reason that 200 polled students unanimously preferred the old Orientation Hillel (“No divestment at Hampshire, no divestment at the West Bank.
to the new one. Brown,” April 15) grossly misrepresents the Hampshire The Israeli government just elected not only refuses to
We recognize that the schedule for next year is already in place. However, divestment, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions move- support even a notional Palestinian state, but features as
as the University starts putting the 2009 schedule together, we hope they will ment and the nature of Zionism. Foreign Minister the openly neo-fascist Avigdor Lieber-
consider how much easier (and more welcoming) it could be in 2010. First, Hampshire President Hexter released the letter man, who has variously advocated bombing the Aswan
cited only after Zionist enforcer Alan Dershowitz threat- Dam, drowning thousands of Palestinian prisoners in the
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the administration partly acquiesced to overt intimidation was elected. He openly advocates transfer of Israel’s 1.2
t h e b r o w n d a i ly h e r a l d cannot erase the fact that it was Hampshire Students for million Palestinian citizens.
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Steve DeLucia Michael Bechek Nandini Jayakrishna Rachel Arndt presented their case to the Board, securing the deci- project of self-determination if that project fundamentally
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editorial Business retrospectively whitewash, but the action and its context people. As anti-Zionists, we oppose not the Jewish right
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Opinions
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Always believe in the power of your dreams!
BEN BERNSTIEN
Opinions Columnist
I’ve always been a dreamer. When I was in
pre-school, my recurring dreams centered on
being kidnapped. I would often be at a restau-
rant with my parents, sitting in a wrap-around
booth, one of those leather-bound semi-circles,
and some faceless men would come and try
to pull me away by the arm while my parents
pulled me by the other.
I would wake up and immediately look
around frantically for my parents who would,
of course, be fast asleep in their bed, hardly
an obstacle to me as I burst violently into
their room just to make sure they were still
there.
Now my dreams are all about graduation.
Or more specifically, they are allegorical,
psychedelic references to what came before
graduation — my time at Brown.
In one, I take a breathless trip to the top of
an immensely tall building, a real skyscraper,
and ask one of my fellow travelers, a math
major (so you know he’s smart) if I am ready
for the next step. He assures me, despite my
doubts, that I am. When I open a door to head
back down to earth, I am met by nothing-
ness.
I’m sure I’ve lost some of you, but if you
stay with me, there’ll be a payoff.
In another dream, I am hanging out at the
KEVIN ROOSE
Opinions Columnist
If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that Brown
students love unpaid internships. We love un-
paid internships the way Romeo loves Juliet,
the way Joanie loves Chachi, the way Ange-
lina Jolie loves adopting third-world babies.
Every June, thousands of us leave College
Hill and spread across the nation like over-
eager kudzu, checking into the workplaces
where we’ll spend the summer fiddling with
Excel spreadsheets and changing #2 coffee
filters in exchange for “class credit” and a
subway pass.
I’ll admit that although I’ve had summer
jobs, I’ve never had a full-time unpaid intern-
ship. And frankly, I’m a little depressed about
it. According to a 2006 survey by Vault, a ca-
reer counseling firm of some sort, about 80
percent of college students have done an in-
ternship by the time they graduate. What if I’m
missing something by spending my summers
making actual money? What if sitting in an
air-conditioned office and doing an imaginary
job for free is an integral part of the Brown
experience, like eating at Loui’s or using the
word “dichotomy?”
This week, I decided to fall in line behind
the rest of collegiate America. I decided to
find the perfect unpaid internship. I began
my search on the Internet. An e-book titled
“The Last Guide to Finding a Great Internship
You’ll Ever Need” offered to help me “define
what will make an internship great for you and
then how to land it.” But there was a catch:
OMAC when a voice in my head tells me to
come down to the basketball courts. There,
I meet a woman, dressed in business attire,
who identifies herself as the leader of a special
organization and tells me she has tapped my
phone, but has done so for my own benefit.
Behind her is the rest of her organization —
superheroes and geniuses in wheelchairs. I
try to speak but only nonsense comes out,
to which the group of people laughs under-
standingly.
The best gift Brown ever gave you was to throw
you like a naked babe into the cold world of
college with no more than your own wits as a life
preserver.
The woman tells me that I’ve been accepted
into the group and I’m shocked. “Why me,” I
ask, “How am I possibly qualified?”
“You just are,” she answers. And I under-
stand.
Then I wake up, only this time, instead
of making sure my parents are still there, I
want to make sure that my university is still
around.
I know this feels like a non-sensical Indy
article right now, so I’ll try to bring it back to
As the world interns
at $17, the cost of the advice would eat into,
oh, 90 percent of my potential earnings. A
Craigslist search for freelance entertainment
jobs turned up a casting call from a national TV
show offering to give on-camera makeovers
to people whose eyebrows are “so furry and
full that plucking doesn’t even make a dent”
(I’ll pass, thanks), but no appealing internship
leads. I thought about asking Brown’s Career
Development Center for help, but I refuse on
principle to engage with anyone who sends
me 27 e-mails a day.
So I struck out on my own. Remembering
that one of my friends had spent last summer
What if sitting in an air-conditioned office and
doing an imaginary job for free is an integral part
of the Brown experience, like eating at Loui’s or
using the word ‘dichotomy’?
interning for Joan Rivers after approaching
her on the street and asking for a job, I began
thinking of celebrities who might need a sum-
mer grunt. I sent a Twitter message to Shaq,
offering to work for him for free. He didn’t
respond, which, in retrospect, is probably a
good thing. I’m not sure I want to spend my
summer watching basketball practices and
describing things as Shaqalicious.
Next, I found a list of the 50 Best Intern-
ships, as ranked by Business Week magazine.
They’re serious gigs at investment banks and
government offices — jobs requiring diligent
work and boatloads of ambition — and I didn’t
the real world:
How does Brown, or rather, the experience
of going to school at Brown prepare or change
20-year-old kids in a meaningful way?
To paraphrase from my dream — it just
does. That is to say, Brown’s education gives
students the ability to reassure themselves,
to have a little faith.
At Brown, where the advising generally
stinks and there are no curriculum require-
ments to make academic choices any easier,
students are simply forced to develop some
self-confidence.
I majored in history and in some respects,
it was disappointing. I can name some dates,
battles and kings, but I’ll forget them within a
few years. I know what different scholars say
about the rise of the American working class,
but I’ll forget them soon too.
What I will retain, what I feel confident I will
take with me after spending four years here,
is my confidence. Recently, a professor told
think I was up to the task. I thought back to
my first-ever job interview, at a Chinese res-
taurant in Manhattan whose owner took one
look at my resume and concluded that I had
“no real-world skills.” Which is true. I don’t
know what it takes to get hired at Pricewa-
terhouseCoopers, but I’m pretty sure being
able to quote from all 87 episodes of “Saved
By The Bell” won’t help.
Maybe, I thought, I should set my sights a
little lower, find something I could really excel
at. A friend forwarded me a New York Times
article about Pizza Hut’s much-publicized list-
ing for a “Twintern” — an intern whose job
would consist of Twittering breaking pizza
news from a cubicle in Dallas. That could
work. Even more promising was a listing for
a position at Electronic Arts, the video game
manufacturer behind the Madden series. I
called up EA spokesman Brian Schneider
to ask if the listing meant what I thought it
meant: that there are interns whose duties
involve playing Wii all summer.
“We hire about 100 interns every summer,”
Schneider said. “But most of them are involved
in game development.”
Schneider — whose e-mail signature
reads “I play games at work. For research
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me that college is auto-didactic, which means
that you have to teach yourself.
I was lucky to work for The Herald where
I could teach myself on a regular basis. As a
columnist who wrote primarily about Brown-
related issues, I talked with Ratty workers,
library staffers, Chancellor Thomas Tisch
’76, all sorts of deans and provosts and a
wider range of students than I knew existed.
I learned how to talk to people, how organi-
zations work, how change happens and how
it doesn’t.
What these students specifically had, be-
sides a melting pot’s worth of brilliant ideas,
clever schemes and nervous tics, was self-reli-
ance — and a willingness to teach themselves
— that would make Ralph Waldo proud.
Although frankly I’m hardly qualified to
advise even myself, if I could give one piece
of advice to students still at Brown, and feel
free to cringe here, it would be to try to teach
yourself at every opportunity.
The best gift Brown ever gave you was
to throw you like a naked babe into the cold
world of college with no more than your own
wits as a life preserver.
The most important thing about the dreams
I brought up earlier was that I was the person
dreaming them. Learn to believe in your abili-
ties and you’ve gotten all that you ever could
from Brown.
Ben Bernstein ’09, a former Herald
opinions editor, is from St. Louis,
Missouri.
and development, of course.” — then told
me that EA has a year-round squad of full and
part-time game testers, some of them college
students from local universities. When I told
him this sounded like the Platonic ideal of a
job, he responded: “People say that. But our
testers sometimes have to play the same level
over and over again, to find all the bugs and
glitches. Then it’s maybe not so fun.”
I wasn’t convinced. I told Schneider I could
beat Madden’s career mode on All-Pro dif-
ficulty when I was 16, and asked him if this
alone would qualify me for an internship. He
laughed.
“We have some hardcore players over here.
I’m not sure where you’d rank. Being a tester
isn’t just about gaming, though. Our testers get
intimately familiar with the intricacies of the
games. They see them as they’re developed,
they poke and prod and find out what’s fun
and what’s not fun.” To be a tester, you appar-
ently have to talk about video games in the
terms most people reserve for lovemaking.
He continued: “It’s not an easy job. Definitely
not for slackers.”
I thought about challenging Schneider’s
implied accusation, if only because nothing is
more shameful than being dissed by a guy who
uses “game” as a verb. But then I had a jarring
realization: It’s the last week in April, and I still
don’t have summer plans. So I thanked him
and got off the phone, newly aware of my place
in the world. When it comes to internships, I
guess slacker is as slacker does.
Kevin Roose ’09.5 is an English concen-
trator from Oberlin, Ohio. He can be
reached at
kevin_roose@brown.edu.
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Today, April 23
4:00 P.M. — Licht ’38 Lecture: “An
Afternoon with Donna Brazile,”
Salomon 101
7:00 P.M. — Performance by The
Tranny Roadshow, List 120
menu
Sharpe Refectory
Lunch —Hot Turkey Sandwich with
Sauce, Falafel in Pita, Mashed Red
Potatoes with Garlic, Hawaiian Pizza
Dinner —Braised Beef Tips, Pumpkin
Raviolis with Cream Sauce, Rice Pilaf
with Zucchini, Sunny Sprouts
crossword
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Coal to financial “challenges,” hiring “pauses” and other euphemisms
we’ve heard this semester. Anyone who’s looked for a job this summer knows
this economy is totally had-intercouse-with.
A diamond to the pioneering students who heroically abolished Columbus
Day this semester. After being commissioned to embark on your ambitious
project, you boldly navigated the frothy waters of administrative commit-
tees, languishing at the mercy of procedural obstacles for months, before tri-
umphantly discovering the savage University calendar of myth, to which you
brought modern enlightenment. Truly, you deserve a holiday of your own.
Coal to SDS and the Corporation, whose respective antics have surely
gone on far too long. How about a compromise — SDS members get to sit on
the Corporation, and Corporation members get to, every now and then, cut
the brakes on that boom-box/shopping cart during a downhill protest.
A diamond to new UCS President Clay Wertheimer ’10. With Petteruti un-
FRIDAY, April 24
der construction all year, we hope you won’t mind having the council meet-
ings in the suite you chummy kids are all living in together.
12:00 P.M.— “Out for Lunch With
Providence Mayor David Cicilline ’83,”
Coal to the fact that the owner of Shark Sushi Bar and Grill has actually
Leung Gallery
followed through on his promise that Shark would indeed have a shark, say-
ing last week that the five-foot predator was currently “acclimating in the
6:30 P.M. — Badmaash Dance
tank.” This sounds like the most dangerous abuse of literalism in branding
Company’s annual show, Salomon
since Johnny Rocket’s brought in that surplus Soviet VA-111 Shkval.
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Coal to journalist and Commencement speaker Fareed Zakaria. You’ll need
to stretch your speech out to at least 30 minutes, so try to rack your brain for
some words other than “I,” “me” and “my new book.”
Verney-Woolley Dining Hall
A diamond to Aretha Franklin, who will receive an honorary degree from
Lunch —Asian Sesame Chicken
the University at Commencement next month. Maybe you can teach whoever
Salad, Crispy Thai Tofu, Grilled Rotis-
was pooping in the Harkness washing machine earlier this semester a little
serie Chicken
bit about R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
Dinner — Roast Turkey with Sauce,
A sentimental diamond to the Blue Room, which will soon no longer exist
Mashed Potatoes, Stuffing, Jamaican
as we know it. There’s nowhere in the world we’d rather not be able to spend
Pork and Apricot Saute
meal credits.
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