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Morey ’99 suits up for
second Super Bowl
By Benjy Asher
Spor ts Editor
After initially struggling to make it
off the bench, Sean Morey ’99 can
finally enjoy his stay at the top.
On Sunday night, the former
Bruno superstar will suit up for his
second Super Bowl in four years.
In a Super Bowl match-up defined
by inspiring Cinderella stories, Mo-
rey’s Arizona Cardinals will take
on his former team, the Pittsburgh
Steelers.
The game will be the Cardinals’
first Super Bowl appearance in fran-
chise history. It will feature such
rags-to-riches stars as Arizona quar-
terback Kurt Warner — who has
won a Super Bowl ring and two MVP
awards after playing college football
at Division I-AA Northern Iowa —
and Pittsburgh defensive end James
Harrison, the first undrafted player
in NFL history to win a Defensive
MVP award.
Likewise, for Morey, a special
teams captain and, for the first time
in his career, a Pro Bowler, success
was not instant at the professional
level.
At Brown, Morey was a stand-
out from the start, earning 1995 Ivy
League Rookie of the Year honors
his freshman year. He went on to
become a three-time selection to
the All-Ivy first team and in his ju-
nior season was named Ivy League
Player of the Year and a first-team
All-American.
In the Sept. 30, 1996, issue of
Gaza panel draws large crowds
BY EMILY ROSEN
Contributing Writer
A 300-strong crowd turned out in
MacMillan 117 last night to hear a
panel of Brown faculty and alums
address the conflict between Israel
and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The event, “Gaza: Implications
and Reconceptualizations,” was or-
ganized by the student group Com-
mon Ground and brought together
academics and experts from a wide
range of disciplines. Scholars in an-
thropology, history, Judaic studies,
French studies and comparative
literature discussed the roles of the
media, international humanitarian
law and the United States in the
conflict.
Each participant discussed a
facet of the conflict for about 10
minutes and then fielded questions
from audience members. Professor
inside
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Arts........5-6
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Editorial..10
Opinion...11
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Sean Morey ’99 in a Brown football
game in Oct. 1998.
The Herald, then-Head Coach Mark
Whipple ’79 said of Morey, “We don’t
have a single senior that’s a receiver.
We’re counting on Sean Morey ... to
lead our receiving corps and he’s
only a sophomore.”
In addition to Morey’s outstand-
ing physical skill set, current Head
Coach Phil Estes remembers his
former receiver’s constant drive to
become a smarter football player.
Morey showed himself to be a
continued on page 8
A seven-member panel of faculty and alumni discussed the Gaza conflict
Emeritus of History Abbott “Tom”
Gleason moderated the seven-
member panel.
Critical of the media’s role in
and coverage of the conflict, Pro-
fessor of Anthropology Catherine
Lutz said there was more to the
News, 3
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BDS removes potentially
contaminated peanut products
from its shelves.
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SPOTLIGHT
A look at Brown’s
collection of books
from Hitler’s library
Hitler in the Hay stacks
By Emmy Liss
Features Editor
Shelved in the walk-in basement
vault of the John Hay Library is
a second-edition copy of “Mein
Kampf.” A yellowing bookplate on
its inside cover features a menac-
ing eagle with wings outstretched
and a banner spread above its
head reading “Ex Libris.”
With its talons, the eagle
clutches a branch and a circular
medallion inscribed with a large
swastika. Below the image, a
harsh, angular font spells out
the name of the book’s owner:
“Adolf Hitler.”
Tour groups parading past the
Hay are told of Abraham Lincoln’s
funereal flowers and the extensive
toy soldier menagerie, but rarely
is it mentioned that Brown pos-
sesses the nation’s second-largest
collection of books from Hitler’s
personal library.
Quinn Savit / Herald
war than military gains or losses.
“Contemporary war is waged as a
campaign of public relations,” she
said.
During her portion of the talk,
continued on page 2
The collection was a gift from
the nephew of Colonel Albert
Aronson, who arrived in Berlin
in May of 1945, one of the first
Americans to reach the German
stronghold. Russian soldiers
had already liberated the city
and collected many of the Third
Reich’s possessions. Within the
Fuhrerbunker — Hitler’s last
known hideout — Aronson found
80 assorted volumes remaining
from Hitler’s extensive book col-
lection.
The colonel “liberated the
books, so to speak,” said Samuel
Streit, director of special collec-
tions at the Hay, and brought
them home to the United States
with him.
For decades, the volumes lay
in Aronson’s attic. He died in
the mid-1970s and bequeathed
the collection to his nephew. A
Brown alum who elected to re-
main anonymous in all library
Simmons at World Economic
Forum in Switzerland
By George Miller
Metro Editor
President Ruth Simmons has joined
2,500 other world leaders in busi-
ness, government and education
at the annual meeting of the World
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzer-
land, this week.
The meeting — whose theme,
“Shaping the Post-Crisis World,”
suggests the ominous background
to the week’s discussions — be-
gan Wednesday and will continue
through Sunday.
Simmons moderated a discus-
sion on nonprofits at the forum
Thursday. The debate “focused
on identifying new partnerships,
involving youth, reaffirming our
missions and setting sound priori-
ties,” she wrote in an e-mail to The
Herald.
Sports, 7
Sports Weekend
W. basketball, m. hockey, w.
tennis face league challenges
at home this weekend.
Qidong Chen / Herald
records, Aronson’s nephew con-
tacted the Hay. Joking that the
titles were “not exactly coffee
table books,” according to Streit,
Aronson’s nephew acknowledged
the historical value of his collec-
tion. But he was “understandably
nervous,” Streit said. “He wanted
them to be used responsibly.”
Placing his trust in the rare
book specialists at the University,
Aronson’s nephew donated the
collection to Brown in 1979. The
80 volumes were catalogued and
shelved at the Hay, just like any
other books. There was no press
release about the new acquisition,
“but it’s not a secret that we have
them,” Streit said.
Even after three decades, the
books have attracted little at-
tention. One scholar, however,
recently paid Streit and the col-
lection a visit.
continued on page 2
Though Davos gives Simmons
the opportunity to rub elbows with
prominent Brown alums, including
potential donors, and other interna-
tional supporters, Simmons wrote
that she “can’t promise a big gift.”
At last year’s meeting, Simmons
announced a $5.75 million gift from
Israeli businessman Idan Ofer P’12
that funds a scholarship for Brown
students from sub-Saharan Africa.
Though the forum is dominated
by political and business leaders —
like Russian Prime Minister Vladi-
mir Putin and philanthropist Bill
Gates — Simmons wrote that the
forum also allows leaders of univer-
sities around the world to discuss
the economic crisis. She has met
with Indian and African educators
and will make a presentation today
on improving universities in sub-
Saharan Africa, she wrote.
Opinions, 10
sans Comic?
Michael Fitzpatrick ’12 writes
that The Herald should expand
the comics section.
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C ampus N EWS “It does tell us something about Hitler and his mental processes.”
— Samuel Streit, director of special collections at the Hay Library

Hay’s Hitler collection offers insight Gaza panel a success,

continued from page 1

Timothy Ryback, a historian of

the Holocaust and the deputy secre-
tary general of the Academie Diplo-
matique Internationale in Paris, has
studied Hitler’s private collection
extensively.
In his recent book, “Hitler’s Pri-
vate Library,” Ryback analyzes the
works Hitler owned, the frequent
notations he made within them and
what this information reveals about
the Fuhrer himself. Hitler was known
for his vast collection, which included
nearly 16,000 volumes. The bulk of
the collection found its way to Mos-
cow after World War II and has since
disappeared. The Third Reich Col-
lection at the Library of Congress
houses 1,200 of the surviving books,
and others are scattered across the
nation.
Ryback closely examined the
“hodgepodge” collection, as he
called it, at the Library of Congress
before coming to the Hay. Within the
80 volumes, he uncovered picture
books, art journals, political works
and nearly a dozen volumes on the oc-
cult, a topic that fascinated Hitler.
Among the occult volumes at
Brown is “Magic: History, Theory
and Practice,” written by Ernst Scher-
tel in 1923. According to Streit, this is
the only of Hitler’s books requested
“frequently.” Scholars are interested
in the volume itself, he said. The orig-
inal owner adds “creepy association
value.”
The book — which, according
to an article by Ryback, touches
on “Satanism, eroticism, sadomas-
ochism and flagellation” — bears
a handwritten dedication to Hitler
from the author. The book was evi-
dently well-used: the edges of the
pages are frayed, the spine is faded
beyond legibility and the cover is tear-
ing. Though there is no proof Hitler
himself read the book, the margins
are well marked. Perfectly straight
red lines, about an inch from the text,
denote the reader’s favorite parts.
Some chapters are left untouched,
others are marked heavily. Ryback
noted that one particularly high-
lighted section, with a wider line than
other passages, reads in German: “He
who does not carry demonic seeds
within him will never give birth to a
new world.”
Streit said the library has been
criticized for its collections, but he
feels owning Hitler’s books is “very
important,” because they document
the “dark side” of history.
“If you don’t preserve this kind
of thing, where’s the evidence that
it happened?” he asked.
“Their significance lies in what
they tell us about the kind of books
Hitler owned,” Streit explained. Hitler
may or may not have read them; most
of them he did not even buy for him-
self. But all of the volumes bear his
signature bookplate and most have
been marked. Ryback has analyzed
the marginalia carefully, finding that
Hitler annotated his books with fer-
vor, underlining heavily the words he
agreed with and leaving exclamation
points to denote his enthusiasm.
Many of the books contain dated
inscriptions from those who gave the
books, creating a literary timeline:
Brown’s collection includes a well-
worn copy of a Friedrich Nietzsche
book, given to Hitler by a friend in
December of 1933. Also among the
books is a 1922 history of the swasti-
ka, filled with nearly 500 illustrations
of its different renderings.
Streit said the library has made
every effort to respect the sensitiv-
ity of Aronson’s nephew toward the
collection. “He wanted them to be
used,” Streit reaffirmed, just not for
the wrong reasons.
By piecing together the subject
matter, “it does tell us something
about Hitler and his mental pro-
cesses,” Streit said. The collection
offers insight into what “might have
informed Hitler’s opinions.”
organizers say
continued from page 1
Lutz argued that a harsh “us ver-
sus them” style of reporting often
portrays force as the necessary
solution in situations like the Gaza
conflict.
Chelsea Sharon ’06, a student
at Harvard Law School and a for-
mer member of Common Ground,
discussed the role of international
humanitarian law — which distin-
guishes between military and civil-
ian targets to protect the latter from
military action — in the conflict.
“It is crucial to have some
benchmark of rules,” Sharon said,
adding that many principles of hu-
manitarian law are being violated
in Gaza.
Associate Professor of Judaic
Studies Maud Mandel spoke about
the deteriorating relations between
Muslims and Jews in Europe as a
result of the conflict in the Middle
East. She noted an increase in ten-
sion and violence between these
groups throughout the continent,
and in France in particular.
Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75,
a distinguised visiting fellow at the
Watson Institute for International
Studies, discussed the Bush admin-
istration’s historical involvement in
the Gaza conflict and its impact on
the war in Iraq. Yishai Blank, visit-
ing associate professor of interna-
tional studies and a senior lecturer
at Tel-Aviv University, offered an
Israeli perspective, addressing the
country’s dilemmas and question-
ing whether the conflict should be
“legalized and internationalized.”
While one of Common
Ground’s goals was to bring diverse
viewpoints to the panel, attendee
Reem Yusuf ’09 said she felt the
panel “needed a Palestinian point
of view.”
“There was something miss-
ing,” she said.
But event coordinators Joanna
Abousleiman ’09 and Alex Ortiz
’09 said they were pleased with the
evening’s packed house.
“The large turnout showed an
interest in the Brown community
about this issue,” Abousleiman
said.
Common Ground hopes to orga-
nize a film festival and bring more
speakers to campus in the future to
increase awareness and discourse
about the conflict, Ortiz said.

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Dining Services pulls peanut products
By Sarah Husk
Senior Staff Writer
Those with a penchant for peanuts
may have noticed the recent ab-
sence of the majority of products
containing peanuts from campus
dining establishments since last
week.
Due to a string of recalls issued
by producers of peanut paste start-
ing earlier this month, potentially
contaminated products were pulled
from shelves nationwide. The
contamination, originating from a
factory in Georgia, was linked to
several cases of salmonella.
The contamination, according
to the U.S. Food and Drug Ad-
ministration’s Web site, extends
only to bulk containers of peanut
paste, meaning that peanut butter
available directly to consumers
is safe. But the bulk quantities of
peanut paste that food processing
companies use as an intermediary
ingredient in foods like sandwich
crackers and candy bars are still
potentially dangerous.
Brown Dining Ser vices re-
ceived an e-mail update from the
FDA on Jan. 23 about the contami-
nation and removed all products
Some classes facing TA shortages
By Emma Berry
Staff Writer
Erin Curtis GS stood at the front of
Foxboro Auditorium with a stack
of index cards in her hand. “Could
I get someone to help me?” she
asked the students as she began
to distribute them.
Curtis was using the cards to
help determine which of the stu-
dents would be allowed to register
for AMCV 1612F: “Female Mala-
dies: Women and Mental Illness.”
The course had been capped, said
Professor of American Civilization
and History Mari Jo Buhle, be-
Rush events begin this
week for Greek houses
By Sarah Husk
Senior Staff Writer
This week marks the beginning of
the recruitment period for Brown’s
eight fraternities and two sorori-
ties, though some houses have al-
ready hosted their kick-off events,
and others will not begin to do so
until this weekend.
Recruitment, said Mike Pe-
terson ’10, head of rush at Sigma
Chi, “is probably the best part of
the year.”
Reasons for joining a Greek
organization are varied, and
while stereotypes may dominate
students’ perceptions about fra-
ternities or sororities, members
stressed the reality of the close-
knit communities that exist within
the houses.
Fears of salmonella contamination have caused Brown Dining Services
to remove many peanut-derived products many campus eateries
immediately, according to Gerry
Teixeira, the purchasing manager
for BDS.
“We’re happy that we pulled ev-
erything,” Teixeira said, because
FDA officials “keep adding prod-
ucts on a daily basis.”
Some peanut products do re-
main in dining establishments,
such as jars of Jif peanut butter in
the Sharpe Refectory, but Teixeira
said that anything available to stu-
dents has been officially declared
safe by the FDA. BDS has been
cause Curtis is its only teaching
assistant.
“As soon as registration figures
came out in November,” Buhle said,
she and her colleagues in the De-
partment of American Civilization
“knew that we didn’t have enough”
teaching assistants. She pointed to
the popularity of Associate Profes-
sor of American Civilization Ralph
Rodriguez’s course AMCV 1611V:
“Color Me Cool: A Survey of Con-
temporary Graphic Novels,” which
was assigned four TAs, and Senior
Lecturer in American Civilization
Paul Buhle’s course AMCV 1611L:
“The Sixties Without Apology,”
While prospective brothers may
have raucous parties or expanded
social possibilities in mind when
they decide to rush a fraternity,
Greek life is much deeper than
that, Peterson said,.
“There’s a misconception. It’s
not all about partying,” he said,
continuing that a large part of the
Sigma Chi experience revolves
around tradition and close rela-
tionships between brothers.
Sigma Chi President George
George ’10 said that although this
bonding may not initially be the
main drive behind pledging a fra-
ternity, relationships that develop
between the brothers are “deeper
than you might anticipate.” The
“camaraderie and strength of the
continued on page 4
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“I ask all the student to come back and educate me on how the
world really works” — James Morone, professor of political science.
Frederic Lu / Herald
especially scrupulous in keeping
the contamination out, according to
Sean DeBobes, assistant manager
of Josiah’s, who said Brown has
been “a little more precautionary”
than other local eateries.
As for the return of other
products containing peanut paste,
which includes the packaged pea-
nut butter available at the Sharpe
Refectory and the Verney-Woolley
Dining Hall, as well as packaged
continued on page 4
which was assigned two.
Her course, with roughly 70 pre-
registered students, was assigned
only one TA. It was the first time
in her career — and the last, since
she is retiring at the end of this se-
mester— she ever had to limit a
course’s enrollment, she said.
With the souring economy and
the diminished endowment, which
is estimated to lose approximately
$800 million by June, problems like
this are unlikely to go away. Expan-
sion of the Graduate School, a key
initiative of the Plan for Academic
continued on page 4
Seminar offers inside look at RI gov’t
By Anne Speyer
Staff Writer
Political Science concentrators at
Brown now have the opportunity to
explore Rhode Island government
first hand in a new course, POLS
1821J: “Rhode Island Government
and Politics.” Students enrolled in
the course will take on internships
in the state government and work
there for eight to 10 hours a week in
place of traditional class time.
Professor of Political Science
James Morone, the course instructor
and organizer, said the new course
will allow students to apply their stud-
ies to the real world.
“I want students to be think-
ing and writing about what they’ve
learned in political science and how
it’s prepared them and how it has
failed to prepare them (for their
internships) ,” Morone said. “I ask
all the students to come back and
Alum may become
Obama’s ‘car czar’
By Chaz Kelsh
News Editor
A Brown alum and Corporation mem-
ber could be appointed President
Barack Obama’s “car czar”, a new
position that would be created to
oversee a bailout of the American
auto industry, according to multiple
media reports.
Steven Rattner ’74 P’09, co-found-
er of the New York-based investment
firm Quadrangle Group, would be-
come Obama’s point person oversee-
ing the restructuring of manufac-
turing giants General Motors and
Chrysler, which received promises
of up to $17.4 billion in government
money in December in exchange for
promises to make serious internal
changes.
Obama was said to be near ap-
pointing a car czar, the New York
Times reported in mid-January, and
had “focused” on Rattner for the job.
Rattner had “expressed interest,”
the Times reported, though no final
decision was reached. Bloomberg
News and the Wall Street Journal,
among other media outlets, have
published pieces in recent weeks
exploring the possibility of Rattner’s
overseeing the automaker bailout.
Rattner worked as a business
journalist early in his career, then
worked at Wall Street firms, includ-
ing Morgan Stanley and Lazard
Freres, specializing in media and
communications investments. He
co-founded Quadrangle in 2000.
He is also a major fundraiser
for the Democratic party, and his
wife, Maureen White, served as a
co-chairwoman of finance for Hillary
Clinton’s presidential campaign.
A member of the Brown Corpo-
ration since 1994, Rattner was also
editor-in-chief of The Herald during
his undergraduate years.
Rattner could not be reached for
comment on his potential position.
educate me on how the world really
works.”
Students will be matched with
internships based on their personal
interests, said Robert Gemma, execu-
tive director of the Rhode Island state
government internship program.
Gemma, who is responsible for inter-
viewing enrolled students and pairing
them with available internships, said
many students use the internships to
explore career options.
“There’s a lot of students that want
to go to law school and they make up
their minds working with a judge,
working with a legal defender or the
department of legal council,” Gemma
said. “A lot of students come back as
law school students after making up
their minds in these internships.”
Morone said the course, which is
capped at 20 students and is limited
to department concentrators, has a
long waiting list.
“We’re going to have a very com-
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Though many have pushed for
a “car czar” so as to provide criti-
cal oversight of a major industry
in a time of economic crisis, others
question whether one person can
solve the complicated problems the
industry faces.
“I don’t think it’s entirely clear
what authorities will be given to the
car czar,” said Richard Arenberg,
adjunct lecturer in public policy.
Though the original idea was to al-
low the car czar to restructure the
“Big Three” automakers — Chrysler,
GM and Ford Motor Co. — without
bankruptcy proceedings that could
end in liquidation, previous czars
created for other problems have not
been effective, he said.
“The devil is in the details,”
Arenberg said. “The trouble is that
(czars are) outside the normal bu-
reaucracy.”
Though czars are meant to “cut
through all the bureaucratic red
tape,” they often end up stuck in
it because they lack the “lines of
authority” that would allow them to
succeed, Arenberg said. It’s also un-
clear who the car czar’s boss would
be, he said, adding that it could be
the secretary of the Treasury, the
secretary of commerce or even the
President.
In the background of the debate
over a car czar is Obama’s announce-
ment this week that California and
other states will be allowed to im-
pose their own stricter environmen-
tal standards on cars — breaking
with the stance of George W. Bush’s
administration. Such mandates could
make the auto industry’s recovery —
and hence the car czar’s job — even
more difficult, according to Profes-
sor of Economics George Borts, who
taught Rattner at Brown.
“There are conflicting noises
coming out of the Obama adminis-
continued on page 4
mitted, energetic bunch of concentra-
tors,” he said.
Stephen Chaisson ’10, who is in
the class, said he was given a position
working for the Commissioner for
Human Rights because Gemma felt
it fit his goals and interests.
“I really wanted to do some work
in the community, and I thought it
would be a great way to be a part of
something and actually do an intern-
ship in Providence,” he said. “I was
really excited to get this.”
Daniel Parnes ’10, another class
member, said he will be working with
House Deputy Majority Leader Ray-
mond Sullivan Jr., whom he met last
summer while working for President
Barack Obama’s campaign in Rhode
Island.
Parnes said the course “will be a
wild experience.”
“To get class credit for an intern-
ship … it’s the best of both worlds,”
he added.
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Rattner may advise Obama Departments suffer
continued from page 3
tration, which might make (the car
czar’s) job harder than I thought
it would be,” Borts said. Applying
more stringent environmental re-
quirements will advantage foreign
automakers, whose cars are often
more fuel-efficient, he said.
Peanuts pulled from campus eateries
continued from page 3
candies and snacks that contain
peanut products, Teixeira said
that BDS is waiting for clearance
from the FDA before restocking
shelves.
“If there’s any doubt whatsoever
that there could be some harm,”
Greek recruitment events attract all types
continued from page 3
relationships come later,” he said.
Michelle Flagg ’11, president
of Alpha Chi Omega, also said that
despite the various stereotypes at-
tached to the Greek system, the
actual experience is different.
Flagg wrote in an e-mail to The
Herald that “the women who make
up Brown’s Chapter of AXO are not
like the sorority girl stereotype in
which many people believe.” She
continued that the truth about
life in a sorority “is something we
cannot advertise; girls just have to
experience it themselves.”
For Ian Nappier ’10, president
of Alpha Epsilon Pi, those most at-
tracted to Greek Life are “people
who enjoy having a community.”
Phi Kappa Psi President Corey
Goerdt ’09 said that, for him, Greek
life offered a way to meet people he
otherwise never would have met,
adding that Greek organizations,
although they count only a small
percentage of the student body as
members, represent a wide diver-
sity of students and play a large
part in campus life.
The appeal of Greek organi-
zations is often unexpected, par-
ticularly given the presence of
The car czar must also try to
reconcile the Big Three’s needs
with union demands, Borts said.
American automakers are “weighed
down” by health benefit payments
for retirees not yet eligible for So-
cial Security or Medicare, he said,
adding that convincing unions to
allow cuts to these benefits will be
he said, “we will not put them out
on the shelves.”
Until then, DeBobes said Little
Jo’s has introduced several new
products to take the place of those
that were recalled.
Both DeBobes and Gate super-
visor Carlos Reyes reported few, if
any, complaints about the lack of
less traditional options, like co-ed
fraternities Alpha Delta Phi and
Zeta Delta Xi. “A lot of the people
in our house never expected to join
a Greek organization,” said Charlie
Shrader ’09, president of ADPhi.
On the other hand, for some,
joining a Greek organization was on
their minds early on: George said
that several freshmen approached
Sigma Chi brothers during one of
the fraternity’s parties this fall ea-
ger to know about the recruitment
process and when they would be
able to rush.
For fraternities, rush is overseen
by the Greek Council, which has
representatives from each Greek
house on campus, but for sororities,
recruitment is governed by Panhel-
lenic Council, which includes only
representatives from Brown’s two
sororities, Alpha Chi Omega and
Kappa Alpha Theta.
The sororities, said Ellie Cutler
’10, the public relations chair on
Greek Council and the membership
chair of Kappa Alpha Theta, work
together more than the fraternities
and have a slightly different events
schedule.
Some organizations, like Phi
Psi, go into rush with a specific
number of pledges in mind, Goerdt
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“A lot of people in our house never expected to join a Greek organization.”
— Charlie Shrader ’09, Alpha Delta Phi president
the “main hurdle of a car czar.”
Recalling Rattner’s days at
Brown, Borts said he taught him
courses in microeconomics, mac-
roeconomics and international
finance.
“He was a ver y smart guy,”
Bor ts said. “He’s ver y well-
informed.”
peanut butterproducts.
Teixeira said BDS will incur fi-
nancial losses from pulling prod-
ucts, but the specific numbers are
still unknown.
Ultimately though, he said, “that
was not our concern. Our concern,
always, is for the health and well-
being of the student body.”
said. He said the number was flex-
ible, but reported that his fraternity
was looking for a pledge class of 13
or 14 men.
Shrader also said that ADPhi
had somewhat specific numbers
in mind, but said that the process
was flexible.
Being co-ed, Shrader said, also
adds another dimension to craft-
ing a pledge class. And while he
said the house hopes to attract
prospective pledges regardless of
gender, currently in ADPhi, there
is a “solid female majority,” and
added that the fraternity would be
looking to “strengthen the male
side just a bit.”
George said that Sigma Chi
is relatively flexible in terms of
numbers and emphasized the im-
portance of selecting members
who will be good matches for the
fraternity.
All representatives from the
Greek community reported that,
so far, the events have been going
well and turnout has been either
on par with years past or slightly
better.
Cutler said that there has been
“a great turnout for a lot of different
groups” and added that both soror-
ity houses “had a lot of interest.”
without enough TAs
continued from page 3
Enrichment, has been postponed
indefinitely due to lack of funds,
President Ruth Simmons wrote in a
campus-wide e-mail on Tuesday.
Professors are already feeling
the effects of the TA shortage. “By
capping the courses, we all got our
courses down to manage the TA situ-
ation,” Buhle said. Because many
of the preregistered students never
showed up on the first day of class,
Buhle said that all students who had
shopped the course would be allowed
to register. However, by that time she
said she had already told several stu-
dents who contacted her by e-mail
that the course was closed.
Overall, Buhle said, “potentially
200 students” were turned away from
the three classes.
Graduate students in American
Civilization often serve as TAs in
other undergraduate departments,
including Africana Studies, which
does not have a corresponding grad-
uate program, Buhle said. Because
of American Civilization’s significant
need for TAs in its own courses, “we
can’t be as generous as in years past,”
Buhle said. “I don’t know what those
departments are doing now.”
However, Dean of the Graduate
School Sheila Bonde said, “There is
no overall shortage” of TAs. Last fall,
the Graduate School funded 369 TAs,
which has been the average over the
past six years, Bonde said. “In these
extraordinary (economic) times, I
think that it is remarkable that we
are able to maintain that status quo,”
she added.
The ability of individual under-
graduate departments to meet their
own need for TAs “depends on avail-
ability and expertise,” Bonde said. “A
spare student in Philosophy doesn’t
help us out in Physics ... it’s not a
failure necessarily of funding.”
Smaller graduate programs like
American Civilization are particularly
vulnerable to these problems, Bonde
said. “If three people go out and win
great grants, that can put pressure on
the number of available TAs.”
Buhle said a recent change in the
way graduate students are funded
was partly to blame for her depart-
ment’s shortage. The policy, which
went into effect in 2006, guarantees
five years of funding to each gradu-
ate student. Before that time, Bonde
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald,
each graduate program received “a
certain number of fellowships and
teaching assistantships,” but gradu-
ate students could not depend on
institutional support.
The policy put the Graduate
School in line with the other Ivy
League schools, Bonde said, all of
which offer five years of guaranteed
funding, and helps Brown’s gradu-
ate programs attract stronger can-
didates.
Guaranteed funding is a blessing
for graduate students, Buhle said,
who depend on it as they research
and write their dissertations. How-
ever, she said, “in the humanities,
very few students actually finish [a
Ph.D.] in five years.” She said that
Friday, January 30, 2009
in history, her field, students typi-
cally require seven to eight years to
complete their degree.
While the Graduate School may
still fund students after the fifth year,
such funding is not guaranteed.
Buhle said some graduate students
in the humanities had to find jobs in
order to support themselves, making
their own research more difficult
and making them unavailable for
teaching.
Buhle worries that “the under-
graduates are getting shortchanged”
by the policy. Without increasing the
size of the graduate school, humani-
ties courses will not have enough
TAs, she said.
Interdisciplinary programs have
already reported problems finding
TAs since they depend on other
departments’ graduate students for
assistance, The Herald reported in
September.
In the past, some courses, in-
cluding CHEM 0330: “Equilibrium,
Rate, and Structure,” have had to
limit class sizes due to a lack of TAs.
But, “as the present semester starts,
the number of available TAs is only
one of several restrictions” on class
sizes in the chemistry department,
Professor of Chemistry Peter Weber,
who chairs the department, wrote in
an e-mail to The Herald. “Others are
the size of classrooms, the number
of labs available for different courses
and the specialization of graduate
TAs,” he wrote.
Other departments said that,
though they also had trouble get-
ting enough TAs for their courses,
they were able to meet their teach-
ing needs.
Professor of History Joan Rich-
ards, director of graduate study for
the department, wrote in an e-mail to
The Herald that the history depart-
ment has experienced a “TA crunch”
due to high enrollment in certain
courses. Nevertheless, she said she
expected teaching needs to be met
by recent graduates who have been
hired to serve as TAs.
Professor of English Philip Gould,
the department’s acting chair, said
that a smaller class of graduate stu-
dents matriculated a few years ago,
which meant that this year, the Eng-
lish department had fewer potential
TAs than usual.
Still, the department has “suf-
ficient teaching” in large classes
like ENGL 0400A: “Introduction to
Shakespeare” that break into sec-
tions, he added.
“I don’t want to pretend that
there aren’t challenges,” Bonde
said. Though the number of TAs
has remained stable in the recent
past, during these past six years the
faculty has grown, and with it the
need for research assistants and TAs,
she said.
The Graduate School is commit-
ted to using “creative” solutions to
meet teaching needs, Bonde said,
including transferring money from
the Graduate School budget to hire
recently graduated Ph.D.s as ad-
juncts. As the economy improves, the
Graduate School will move forward
with its expansion plans, she said.
Arts & Culture
The Brown Daily Herald
‘Totally tantalizing’ Aussie wows audience
By Caroline Sedano
Senior Staff Writer
Imagine standing in a clean and
air y art galler y.
A small television set in the
corner plays a movie — perhaps
a cowboy western.
As the broadcast stops for a
commercial break, the sound
stops and is replaced by an am-
plified woman’s voice telling you
about the other art hanging on
the walls.
The only evident movement in
the gallery is a tall, white, woven
sculpture with protruding sticks
that seem to sway slightly even
though there’s no wind in the room.
On second glance, you notice an
inert human body whose head dis-
appears into the tall white shape.
That body would belong to
Barbara Campbell, an Australian
performance artist who brings
text, visual arts, movement and
speech together.
Campbell visited Brown on
Tuesday and Wednesday to give
a lecture, work with a class and
hold a workshop in List Art Cen-
ter while she was in the United
States for a few weeks.
“It’s an absolutely wonderful
opportunity for students to start
to work between dif ferent me-
dia and disciplines,” said Richard
Fishman, a professor of visual
art whose class — VISA1800L:
“Hybrid Art” — Campbell visited
on Wednesday.
“There’s something really fun-
ny about a lot of her work. I think
it’s absolutely great,” said Anna
Fisher GS, a doctoral candidate
in the Depar tment of Modern
Culture and Media who special-
izes in female performance art
practices.
“In some ways her work took
from recognizable performance
practices, but it was also really
imaginative, idiosyncratic and
employed a lot of her own self
and memor y,” Fisher said.
Campbell’s workshop on Tues-
day had students painting, writing
and moving to the rhythm of their
breath.
Rebecca Schneider, an associ-
ate professor of theatre, speech
and dance who helped bring
Campbell to campus, was most
excited about the idea that Camp-
bell would bring students from a
variety of disciplines together.
“We really emphasize becom-
ing talented in your own craft.
But, if you forget to look up from
your own craft and look around,
you can become limited,” Sch-
neider said.
“This is a great oppor tunity
for students who don’t normally
cross paths to do so and step
out of their comfort zones,” she
said.
Schneider first heard about
Campbell after being asked to
take part in her most recent per-
formance art piece, “1001 Nights,”
which ran from 2005 to 2008. The
project, inspired by the Iraq war
and the “1001 Nights” folk tales,
was a daily cycle of artistic cre-
ation that connected artists from
all over the world.
Ever y morning for 1001 days,
Campbell would wake up and read
the latest news stories from Iraq.
She would then pick one phrase
from one article — like “frenetic
failure,” “lull” or “mopping his
brow” — and make a simple wa-
tercolor painting of the phrase,
which she would post on a Web
site.
Then, one previously con-
tacted ar tist would have until
three hours before sunset to
create a 1001-word stor y using
that prompt.
Once the stor y was e-mailed
to Campbell, she would read
it out loud on a live streaming
video webcast that showed only
her mouth. Each webcast would
begin with an image of Camp-
bell’s tongue ornamented with
a stud displaying the day of the
project.
“I wanted to explore the idea
of a frame stor y and how one sto-
r y could generate other stories,”
Campbell said Wednesday.
She explained that she first
had the idea in 2005 shortly af-
ter former President George W.
Bush spoke to the crew of the
USS Abraham Lincoln in front
of a banner reading “Mission Ac-
complished.”
“Ever yone’s hear ts sank at
this moment knowing it would
be a long war and that we had all
been sucked into it,” she said.
Campbell’s Wednesday lecture
used photographs to document
some of her other strange, fun-
ny and insightful per formance
art pieces that explore political,
historical and purely abstract
themes.
The first piece she described
was inspired by the diary of Fran-
cis Ford Coppola’s wife, Eleanor,
during the filming of “Apocalypse
Now,” as well as by a plane crash
in the forests near Campbell’s
hometown and Joseph Conrad’s
novel “Heart of Darkness.”
Another piece, entitled “I have
been given the name Tania,” was
inspired by the kidnapping of
newspaper heiress and socialite
Patty Hearst into the Symbionese
Liberation Army.
Campbell recreated the iconic
photograph of Hearst wielding a
machine gun in front of an SLA
banner and encouraged passers-
by to pose as Hearst for Polaroid
pictures and read an SLA mission
statement.
“The Polaroids were given to
the people, and I like to imagine
the final work of the project is
all these little Polaroids stuck to
fridges around Perth (Australia)
as proof of this secret group,”
Campbell said.
Her other works included one
in which she glued a hat to her
hair and then proceeded to cut
the hat off, a five-day project in
which she examined the trial of
alleged axe murderess Lizzie Bor-
den and one in which she hid —
naked except for a coat of glow
paint — in an art exhibit.
Andrew Starner GS, who stud-
ies performance art, said he was
left wondering what it would be
like to witness Campbell’s piec-
es.
“I thought Barbara was quirky,
but totally tantalizing,” he said.
Friday, January 30, 2009 | Page 5
A ‘formula’ for
success in PW show
By Ben Hyman railway station” with “unwholesome
Arts & Culture Editor toilets,” and that the rail workers
have gone on strike, leaving Marga-
Some people have a natural gift for rita stranded on her journey.
doing math. Then there are those What follows is a sequence of sev-
who are less numerically savvy — en semi-connected monologues, one
they learn how to do other things, for each day of the week Margarita
like write theater reviews for their spends at the station. She recounts
college papers. But, as Edna St. dreams and memories, musing on
Vincent Millay wrote, “Euclid alone the little things people notice but
has looked on Beauty bare.” There’s rarely talk about, like the marks bed
something magical about the ability sheets leave on one’s face. The stage
of mathematics to strip away excess is littered with stopped clocks, and
in the pursuit of truth, restricting anything that disrupts the stasis be-
itself to a limited set of es- comes a cause for alarm —
sential tools as it searches REVIEW Margarita starts chopping
for the unambiguously right a carrot and is taken aback
answer. when she actually cuts through it.
“Mathematical Adventures,” “Being curious is like riding a
which opened last night in Produc- bike up a hill,” Margarita says at one
tion Workshop’s upstairs space, has point, and the viewers know exactly
very little to do with math and a lot what she means because they’ve be-
to do with thinking mathematically. come deeply, deeply curious about
Written and directed by Ioana Jucan her. In this case, though, getting
’11 — the program says “worked to the top of the hill is a Sisyphean
out by,” as though the production task. Xu acts her part as though she’s
itself were an algebra problem — holding in the biggest secret ever,
“Mathematical Adventures” con- and she always seems to be one step
fronts viewers with an abstract and ahead of us. From what little we can
schematic world that eludes them as tell of Margarita, she’s kind of into
soon as they think they’ve figured it pain, both experiencing it herself and
out. New formulas are tried, possible inflicting it on others, and she clearly
solutions hypothesized, but the audi- enjoys toying with us. At the same
ence won’t come up with the answer, time, she’s also very insecure. Xu
and the play, wisely, doesn’t try to deftly negotiates the interaction be-
supply one. tween these two poles of Margarita’s
Running just over 90 minutes, the personality, and the result is a fully
three-act play begins with Margarita realized and fascinating character.
(Jing Xu ’10) sitting on a beat-up suit- The next two acts of the play grow
case next to a set of wooden railroad increasingly abstract and difficult to
tracks that run up the center of the untangle. In the second act, Margari-
stage to an open door. The first Time- ta ends up in a strange romance with
Keeper (Herald comic artist Jeremy the second Time-Keeper (Herald
Kuhn ’10) announces in drawn-out
tones that we are in an “old, damp continued on page 6
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A rts & C ulture

‘Mathematical Adventures’
a thought-provoking puzzle
continued from page 5
editorial cartoonist Alex Yuly ’12).
We know they’re perfect for each
other when they play a thought
experiment — “Think about some-
thing you haven’t thought of in the
last 110 seconds,” Margarita com-
mands — and keep thinking of the
same things. But Margarita bridles
at the idea of opening herself up
emotionally to anyone else.
In the third act, Margarita and
the second Time-Keeper seem to
have moved in together, but she is
haunted by the third Time-Keeper,
played by the disembodied and au-
thoritatively English-accented voice
of Henry Peck ’11. Here in particu-
lar, but also throughout the play,
the sound design by John Racioppo
’11 is essential. There is a constant
undercurrent of noise running
through the three acts, from ambi-
ent sounds to weird sci-fi squawks
to a recording of “Different Trains,”
the minimalist composition by Steve
Reich. The train station noise during
the first act and the chirping birds
in the second ground the surreal-
ism in some kind of reality, keeping
everything from getting too porten-
tous without diminishing the play’s
strangeness.
“Mathematical Adventures” def-
initely takes place outside of any
strictly identifiable time, which adds
to the show’s sense of mystery. This
is a world where people still take
long train journeys but also use e-
mail, where the streets are narrow
and winding but each house has a
television — in other words, it’s a
lot like certain parts of Europe. In
keeping with this sense of timeless-
ness, Jucan’s language is rich and
a little bit antiquated — it should
have a vintage. The script is full of
words and concepts juxtaposed un-
expectedly. People say things like
“I would blush like a poppy” and
“Don’t leave things unfinished, or
you’ll go bald 10 times faster than
in normal conditions.”
In other words, “Mathematical
Adventures” is an extended poem,
a mood piece, and it’s not necessary
to understand everything that goes
on. As theater, it serves as a pretty
good antidote for shopping period
stress, and, as an equation, it’s a
thought-provoking puzzle for the
audience. Not that they’ll ever figure
it out — “Mathematical Adventures”
intends to keep its secrets. Q.E.D.
“Mathematical Adventures” runs
through Jan. 31, with performances
tonight at 7:30 p.m. and 11 p.m.,
and tomorrow at 9 p.m. in T.F. Green
Hall.
‘Millionaire’ faces child pay issues
By John Horn
Los Angeles T imes
HOLLYWOOD -— Determined
to make the rags-to-riches drama
“Slumdog Millionaire” as authentic
as possible, director Danny Boyle
reworked his film’s first act, cast-
ing Hindi-speaking children from
the slums of Mumbai, India, in two
lead roles. Now his choice to use
the impoverished 7-year-olds has
sparked a growing controversy
that is threatening to overtake the
movie’s global goodwill.
The dispute over the pro-
duction’s hiring of the children
comes on the heels of “Slumdog
Millionaire’s” 10 nominations for
this year’s Academy Awards. The
film, which recently collected the
top prizes at awards ceremonies
for the Screen Actors Guild and
the Producers Guild of America, is
up for the best picture Oscar.
Boyle, producer Christian
Colson and the film’s distributors
Wednesday issued a statement
disputing several reports saying
that “Slumdog Millionaire” took
advantage of the children.
The film follows two orphaned
brothers -- Salim and Jamal -- and
their friend Latika over the early
years of their lives. Each character
is played by three actors as they
progress from childhood to their
teens. The brothers clash not only
over the girl but also over what
paths they should follow. The law-
abiding Jamal, determined to re-
connect with Latika, finds himself
on India’s version of “Who Wants
to be a Millionaire,” where his re-
markable performance captivates
the nation.
Reports in Britain’s Telegraph
and India’s Hindustan Times,
quoting family members, said
actors Rubina Ali (the youngest
Latika) and Azharuddin Moham-
med Ismail (the youngest Salim)
were both poorly compensated for
their monthlong work and have
not shared in the film’s financial
windfall; other media outlets and
Internet sites either have repeat-
ed or linked to the allegations.
The Telegraph says Ali earned
about $1,000, while Ismail was
paid about $2,400. (According to
a World Bank report last year, 75.6
percent of India’s population lives
below $2 a day.) Fox Searchlight,
Boyle and Colson have declined
to say what their actual compen-
sation was.
The boy who played the
youngest Jamal (Ayush Mahesh
Khedekar) comes from a middle-
class family, and the older children
in the film are also comparatively
well-off, Fox Searchlight says.
In their statement, Boyle and
Colson said the production took
special care to look after the chil-
dren’s welfare, paying for their ele-
mentary and secondary schooling
(neither child had been educated
before) since June, covering their
basic living costs (including health
care and emergencies) and estab-
lishing “a substantial lump sum”
payment for college tuition that
will be distributed to the young
boy and girl “when they complete
their studies.”
Distributors Fox Searchlight
and its India counterpar t, Fox
Star Studios, along with “Slum-
dog Millionaire” sales agent Pathe
International, said in a separate
statement, “The welfare of Azhar
and Rubina has always been a top
priority for everyone involved in
`Slumdog Millionaire.’ ... For 30
days work, the children were
paid three times the average local
adult salary. ... We are extremely
proud of this film, and proud of
the way our child actors have been
treated.”
Boyle, Colson and Fox Search-
light head Peter Rice said in inter-
views that they never wanted to
publicize the financial assistance
they were providing to the two
children, fearful it might make
the children more vulnerable to
predators. “I am really worried
about the kids and the way they
are being dragged into this,” Boyle
said. “The spotlight is on them.”
Added Rice: “First people say,
`You’ve exploited the kids -- you
didn’t pay them.’ And then now
you’re publicly saying these two
little kids have a lot of money.”
Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy
originally had “Slumdog Mil-
lionaire’s” first third in English.
But the film’s casting director,
Loveleen Tandan, told Boyle that
Indian children who spoke Eng-
lish were so uniformly well-off that
she was unable to find the wir y,
undernourished kids whom Boyle
had seen running around Mum-
bai’s slums. So the dialogue for
the youngest three children was
rewritten into Hindi, and Boyle
and Tandan, who also is Boyle’s
co-director, went into the slums
to find actors.
“It was a difficult moral ques-
tion,” Boyle said. “Do you exclude
kids from the slums? If you ex-
clude them, then it feels morally
wrong. But if you include them, it
raises another set of moral ques-
tions -- how do you care for them
after the movie is finished?”
Colson said that he and Boyle
considered offering to remove Ali
and Ismail and their families from
Mumbai’s slums but decided it
was better to tr y to “ameliorate
the lives they are living,” Colson
said, “and put them in schools
that work with underprivileged
kids” while paying for their most
pressing financial needs. When
“Slumdog Millionaire” won the
audience award at the Toronto
International Film Festival in Sep-
tember, the $15,000 prize was put
into Ali and Ismail’s trust fund,
which will pay for their college if
they stay in school.
Now Fox Searchlight wants to
bring all nine of the film’s young
performers to the Oscars, sched-
uled for Feb. 22.
“They’re all desperate to
come,” Boyle said. “But then you
have to worr y about exposing
them -- even if it’s just a flash —
to this world.”

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SportsWeekend
The Brown Daily Herald

Friday, January 30, 2009 | Page 7

When STATA
meets Sunday
Three teams host
So there’s a football game being
busy sports weekend
played this Sunday. You’ve prob-
ably heard of it. And you’re prob- Sports staff reports Hockey) will attempt to build on those
ably sick of results against two conference op-
all the media It will be a packed weekend for ponents this weekend. Jarred Smith
coverage that sports on Brown’s campus, as three ’12 was named the ECAC Hockey
goes with it — teams host six events. Rookie of the Week for tallying the
except for the first two goals of his career against
commercials. Women’s Basketball the New York schools, while Mike
The talking Continuing a stretch of five Clemente ’12 made 32 saves against
heads dis- Ben Singer straight home games, the Bears (3- Colgate to earn the first victory of his
cuss intangi- High Notes 13, 1-1 Ivy) will look to rebound from career. This weekend, Brown will host
bles, “smash- last Friday’s 71-37 loss to Yale when Quinnipiac (13-9-2, 6-4-2) on Friday
mouth football” and let’s not forget they take on a pair of Ivy League foes at 7 p.m. and Princeton (14-5-0, 8-4-
the importance of establishing the over the weekend. Karly Grace ’11 0) on Saturday at 4 p.m. at Meehan
run. But what you might not have leads Bruno with 7.7 points per game, Auditorium.
heard is that the time-honored with help from Natalie Bonds ’10, av-
cliches and conventional wisdoms eraging 5.0 rebounds per game, and Women’s Tennis
of the highest-rated professional Courtney Lee ’10, who has chipped After beginning its spring season
sport in America are now being in with 38 steals. Brown hosts Cornell with a 4-3 win over Boston University,
challenged by a new breed of (5-9, 1-1) and Columbia (8-8, 1-1) on Bruno (1-0) will host Army on Satur-
sports analysts. Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. at the day at 11 a.m. and Buffalo on Sunday
Enter footballoutsiders.com. Pizzitola Sports Center. at 10 a.m., both rival teams playing
Founded with the objective of dis- their first matches of the season. The
proving the importance of estab- Men’s Hockey Bears, who are led by No. 1 singles
lishing the run, a group of fans and Coming off a split on the road, player Bianca Aboubakare ’11, will be
Zeta Delta Xi alums started doing Justin Coleman / Herald beating Colgate but falling to No. 3 playing at home for the first time since
to the NFL what sabermetricians Women’s basketball eyes challenging weekend ahead, hosting Ivy Cornell, Bruno (2-13-4, 2-8-2 ECAC the Brown Invitational in October.
rivals Cornell and Columbia.
had been doing for years in Major
League Baseball: use statistics.
Rather than rely solely on accounts
of player toughness and conven-
tional benchmarks of individual
performance, they sought to cre-
Nice on ice: Frosh named Athlete of the Week
ate their own measurements. by Andrew Braca a 5-1 loss to No. 3 Cornell (14-2-3, ed playing pretty much because Smith: There’s really not
Why is the importance of es- Spor ts Editor 9-1-2). Smith’s weekend brought my brother played. So I just fol- many ponds in Cleveland or what-
tablishing the run overrated? Be- his season totals to two goals and lowed whatever he did. ever. So it was all, started out rec
cause correlation and causality Jarred Smith ’12 was named the two assists. Herald: Is your brother old- and then started travelling when
frequently get screwed up. Most ECAC Hockey rookie of the week For his out- er? I got a little older. But yeah, it was
teams that win comfortably hap- after he scored his first two career standing play, ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Smith: all indoors for the most part.
pen to run the ball successfully. goals in games last Friday and Sat- Jarred Smith Yeah, he’s a Herald: Have you ever played
Often, this is because they already urday. Smith scored what proved is this week’s Herald Athlete of junior at Miami of Ohio. pond hockey?
have a lead, and they are tr ying to be the game-winning goal in the Week. Herald: Does he still play? Smith: I’ve played a couple
to milk the clock. But there’s no Brown’s (2-13-4, 2-8-3 ECAC) 4-1 Herald: When did you begin Smith: Yeah, he plays for of times. A bunch of kids on that
point in a team repeatedly running defeat of Colgate (6-13-5, 1-8-3) on playing hockey and why? them now. team that are from, you know, like
Larr y Johnson into the line for no Friday night. The following night, Smith: I started when I was Herald: Did you begin playing
gain. If you don’t think any head Smith scored the Bears’ lone goal in about three years old, and I start- pond hockey or rink hockey? continued on page 8
coach wouldn’t understand this,
re-watch Herm Edwards “coach”
the Chiefs against the Colts in the
2006-2007 playoffs.
Cliches aside, what’s the prob-
lem with conventional statistics?
If I were to ask you which run-
ning back played better this year,
Minnesota’s Adrian Peterson or
Houston’s Steve Slaton, it probably
wouldn’t be a very difficult choice.
Sure, they both averaged 4.8 yards
per carr y, but Peterson had more
touchdowns and almost 500 more
rushing yards while leading the
NFL in rushing and the Vikings
to a division title.
Problem is, football isn’t ten-
nis. More specifically, Peterson
and Slaton don’t play on one-man
teams. In fact, their performance
is based largely on how well their
teammates and their opposition
play. More than any other game,
the team dynamics of football are
astronomically important. Which
is why it seems so odd that indi-
vidual stats for NFL players don’t
even tr y to take these factors into
account.
So the Football Outsiders devel-
oped stats that do more than shrug
their shoulders at how team play
af fects individual per formance.

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S ports W eekend
Morey ’99 heads to Super Bowl with Cardinals Football
continued from page 1
student of the game, thirsting for
greater knowledge and awareness
of every facet of the sport, Estes
said.
“Sean was one of those guys
who, when we’d leave at nights
and we’d turn the lights out, would
still be in there watching film,” he
said. “He wanted to know football,
and he didn’t just want to learn his
own position. He wanted to learn
about everybody’s position on the
field.”
Estes was an assistant coach
during Morey’s first three seasons
at Brown, before taking over for
Whipple as head coach in 1998.
After being drafted by the New
England Patriots, Morey was given
a rude awakening at the pro level.
His 5’11’’ frame — small by NFL
receiver standards — made it a
struggle for him to find playing
time. After multiple unsuccessful
stints with NFL teams, and time
playing abroad in NFL Europe for
the Barcelona Dragons, Morey fi-
nally saw consistent NFL action
as a special teams player with the
Philadelphia Eagles in 2003.
Though it had taken four years,
Morey’s eventual success in the
NFL came as no surprise to those
who know him well.
“In my years as a player and as a
coach, Sean is the hardest-working
guy that I’ve ever seen,” said Brown
quarterbacks coach James Perry
’00, who counted on Morey’s re-
ceiving prowess in his years as the
Brown quarterback. “Obviously, his
talent was a prerequisite for what
he’s accomplished, but he’s battled
through a lot of adversity, and no-
body works harder than Sean.”
After one season with the Ea-
gles, Morey joined the Steelers
and a familiar face in Whipple,
who was then Pittsburgh’s quar-
terback coach. In 2005 — just his
third season in the league and his
second with Pittsburgh — Morey
was named a special teams captain,
ECAC top rookie Smith ’12 talks hockey, iPod playlists
continued from page 7
western Canada and up north or
whatever, a bunch of them say that
they play all the time when they
go back home, but, you know, I
haven’t been on a pond in prob-
ably about 10 years.
Herald: Did you ever play any
sports besides hockey?
Smith: I played baseball, foot-
ball and I wrestled a little bit. But
Outsiders
re-evaluate
game stats
Sean Morey ’99 plays in a Fall 1998 game versus
league rival Dartmouth.
and he helped lead the Steelers to
an 11-5 regular season record and
a Super Bowl victory.
“Sean just had that leadership
quality that brings out the best in
others, too,” said Zachary Burns
’99, a former All-American tight
end who played alongside Morey.
“I don’t think anyone who played
with Sean is surprised that he’s had
the success he’s had.”
Following the 2006 season, Pitts-
burgh offensive coordinator Ken
Whisenhunt took a new job as head
coach of the Cardinals, and Morey
decided to follow Whisenhunt to
Arizona, a team coming off a 5-11
season and without a playoff ap-
pearance since 1998. Despite the
franchise’s recent struggles, Mo-
rey was optimistic, according to
Perry.
“Talking to him, I could tell he
was very excited when he went to
Arizona,” Perry said. “He had great
confidence in Whisenhunt, and it
was his previous relationship with
Whisenhunt that made him go to
Arizona.”
“No one would have predicted
I was most serious about baseball
growing up. I was almost as se-
rious about, you know, playing
baseball as I was hockey, but I
made the choice when I was like
a freshman to quit baseball.
Herald: What is your past
hockey experience?
Smith: I started just like local,
in Cleveland. And then I started
playing for a travel team when I
was about 10. And then I played on
a couple of travel teams, and then
once I got to high school, I played
for my school, Gilmour Academy.
And then I played for their prep
team or whatever, did two years
with them. And then came up here
actually to play junior hockey,
played at Bridgewater. It’s like
30 minutes away from here, and I
played two seasons for them, and
then here now.
Herald: What persuaded you
to come to Brown?
Smith: Just the best combina-
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that they’d be in the Super Bowl,
but Sean ... was quite confident
they were going to have success,”
he said.
Morey has been an important
part of Arizona’s recent success,
seeing occasional action at wide
receiver in addition to being named
a special teams captain for both
his years with the Cardinals. This
year Morey will travel to Honolulu
for his first Pro Bowl appearance,
on Feb. 8.
But Morey, who turns 33 next
month, continues to set new goals
for himself.
“I don’t think Sean has ever
been satisfied. He thinks this Pro
Bowl thing is an honor, but he still
wants to make it as a wideout,”
Estes said. “Sean’s always look-
ing over his shoulder, at new guys
coming into the league, and he’s
not about to let anyone do his job
better.”
Morey won’t be the only
Brunonian holding down the NFC
special teams squad in Honolulu.
New York Giants long snapper Zak
DeOssie ’07, a former All-American
tion for me for school and hockey.
And then, once I met all of the
guys on the team, it was pretty
easy decision to make because I
just love all of the guys here.
Herald: What is playing on
your iPod before games?
Smith: I like to listen to songs
that like get me going, like songs
you hear like in a club — like
dancing songs. I’ll listen to like
Lil Wayne “Microphone Check”
and Rihanna — all that kind of
stuff. If you heard my iPod, you
would laugh. I love it.
Herald: What allowed you to
break out this weekend with your
first two goals?
Smith: Our team is playing
well as a team, I think. I think
that’s what really helped me this
weekend or whatever it is that as
a team, we played a lot better. And
so when your team plays better,
it’s easy, you know, personally, to
be better.
— James Perry ’00, Brown quarterbacks coach
linebacker for Brown who won a
Super Bowl ring with the Giants
in his rookie season last year, will
join the experienced alum.
“It’s kind of neat for us, because
this is recruiting season now, and
we have a lot to brag about,” Perry
said. “These are very unique guys,
and it speaks well of the whole Uni-
versity.”
Like Morey, DeOssie also made
the adjustment to a new role in the
NFL, after establishing himself as a
defensive standout in his collegiate
career.
“That’s not an easy transition, to
go from being the star of your team
to playing on special teams, but
both Sean and Zak are truly team
guys,” Perry said. “I think it speaks
to a sense of team that Coach Estes
has developed here. These are guys
who, at Brown, never had a sense
of entitlement, and ... when they
were asked to play special teams,
approached it with the same level
of vigor that they had approached
everything in football.”
While this may be an unusually
successful year for Brown alums
in the NFL, there is more to come
from Brown football.
The program currently boasts
several players who, according to
Estes, have received attention from
NFL teams, including defensive
tackle David Howard ’09, punter
Rob Ranney ’08.5, wide receivers
Bobby Sewall ’10 and Buddy Farn-
ham ’10, safety Chris Perkins ’10
and defensive end Jim Develin ’10.
If Brown’s NFL prospects want to
see the path to success, they need
look no further than Morey and
DeOssie.
“They’re role models for the
guys on our team — both were
outstanding students, and both
are incredibly hardworking,” Perry
said.
“We tell all the guys to play the
game the way those guys played it,
and to see them reap the rewards
of that is a pretty powerful motiva-
tional tool,” he added.
Herald: What does the team
have to do to keep up the good
play?
Smith: Our biggest thing is
our consistency, and like consis-
tency in terms of, not necessarily
our effort. But, you know, we’ve
got to make sure that we come
to play ever y day. We can’t afford
at this point, you know, to take
a game off, to take a period off
even. Just, you know, keep our
intensity high. And, you know, if
we do that, we’ll have a chance to
win ever y night.
Herald: What are your pre-
dictions for the last (10) regular
season games?
Smith: I feel that if we keep
making the right steps, we defi-
nitely can climb up the charts of
the ECAC, and, you know, hope-
fully get that goal of home-ice
advantage for the playoffs. I re-
ally think it’s possible, and I’m
excited for it.
Friday, January 30, 2009
continued from page 7
Two of these are Defense-adjusted
Value Over Average (DVOA) and
Defense-adjusted Yards Above Re-
placement player (DYAR). “DVOA
breaks down ever y single play of
the NFL season to see how much
success offensive players achieved
in each specific situation compared
to the league average in that situ-
ation, adjusted for the strength
of the opponent,” the site reads.
DYAR estimates the amount of
yards a player gained given his
DVOA over an average player in
his position.
Wouldn’t you know it? Peterson
had a DVOA of -.2 percent, while
Slaton had 5.8 percent and over
100 more DYAR. Or for those of
you who prefer English, it turns
out that having a monster offensive
line like the Vikings and playing
the Lions twice a year makes your
running backs look better.
Obviously there’s no per fect
way to control for all the other
players on the field, and certainly
Peterson still deser ves credit for
a great season. That doesn’t mean
these new stats aren’t legit. Long
gone are the days where scouting
reports and gut feelings were all
you needed to be an MLB general
manager. They’ve been replaced
by Billy Beane, Theo Epstein and
a cohort of statisticians to supple-
ment conventional analysis. Slowly,
the same trend is starting to take
over the NFL. Football Outsiders
is becoming a popular stats source,
notably cited on ESPN news blogs.
And newly hired Detroit Lions
head coach Jim Schwartz, a for-
mer Patriots intern and Tennessee
Titans defensive coordinator, got
his start with the statistical find-
ing that fumbles are random and
unrelated to team performance.
So what do these new stats say
about Sunday’s game? Well, Pitts-
burgh’s weighted DVOA was first
in the NFL at 30.8 percent, while
Arizona was good for 21st at -7.9
percent. And as of last weekend,
the Cardinals had a 13 percent
chance of winning it all. Ever y-
body already knew the Cards were
underdogs.
But what’s probable doesn’t al-
ways happen. Just ask last year’s
New York Giants. The Cardinals
are still playing, even though
they probably should have been
slaughtered long ago. The fact
that they’re still alive attests to one
everlasting and often overlooked
statistical truth — regardless of
how small the probability, nothing
is impossible as long as there’s a
chance.
Ben Singer ’09 cannot over-
state the importance of es-
tablishing the chicken wings.
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letter

The Herald should regain its

sense of humor
To the Editor:

I’m writing this letter to speak out against The Herald’s decision to
stop taking humorous cheap shots at opinions columnists at the end of
their columns. For those who don’t remember all the way back to last
semester, The Herald used to cap off columns with witty comments like
“Sarah Rosenthal ’11 has neither the education nor experience to opine
on this subject” (“The great pundit menace,” Apr. 15) or “James Shapiro
’10 wants employers to understand the difference between Engineering
and ENGN 0090” (“Shallow marks,” Feb. 1). Instead, readers are now
provided with bland information about the columnist’s concentration and
e-mail address. Boring!
The funny quips made me and plenty of other students chuckle, and
reminded all of us that the Herald opinions page is, well, just part of a
college newspaper, and a space for writers to spark controversy, go out on
a limb and most importantly not take themselves too seriously. I respect-
fully request you bring back my favorite part of The Herald!

Matthew Corritore ’09

Jan. 29

Join The Herald!

PETE FALLON

(Comic) Strip Tease

Info sessions at 195 Angell St. effort you put into your art was well spent, and it was
Michael Fitzpatrick certainly appreciated. To better understand your posi-
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Thursday, February 5 @ 8 p.m. When it comes to the newspaper, I’m not a par-
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the start of the new semester, I have noticed a large
comic strip. I was utterly fatigued, and I didn’t even
bother printing it out. You people do this on a regular
decline in the number of comics. basis? It’s a real challenge, and I have nothing but
I’m slightly disappointed. Why do we only get to respect for you.
Reporting, business, photography, read three comics per day? Surely, with all of the raw Aspiring doodlers, I challenge you to put your skills
design, opinions and more! artistic talent that a prestigious institution like Brown to the test. I’ve noticed lately that some of you already
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Opinions
The Brown Daily Herald
Marcus Gartner
Opinions Columnist
Imagine yourself as a Brown student return-
ing to your Pembroke dorm after a five-hour
study session in the SciLi.
You were either studying intensely for your
chemistry midterm or were distracted every
five minutes by playful incoming text messages
and only managed to read a page-and-a-half of
your text book. The page-and-a-half that you
read turned out to be the table of contents.
It is late in the night. As you walk up Thay-
er Street, icy wind hits your neck and you
slide the hood of your coat over your head.
Your stomach suddenly growls, reminding
you that you haven’t had a bite to eat since
scarfing down a plate of baked macaroni and
cheese and a bowl of Cocoa Puffs around
6:30 in the Ratty.
Your stomach demands hearty and nutri-
tious refueling: pizza.
Your eyes scan ahead, attempting to locate
the nearest pizzeria. They quickly move back
and forth across the street until they zoom
in on Antonio’s Pizza.
You make a beeline for the door. Your
mouth salivates profusely as you close the
distance between you and a few delicious
slices of potato bacon. Your hand reaches out
Simon
Liebling
Opinions Columnist
Imagine for a moment that Ruth Simmons,
arriving at Brown after a career as a warmon-
gering United States Senator, has just suffered
a near-unanimous vote of no confidence from
a faculty assembly.
Described by one of her former administra-
tive colleagues as “impulsive” and “autocratic,”
she’s just taken another blow with the resigna-
tion of David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98, the fourth
provost to leave the university during her brief
tenure. She declares her intent to serve in
his place despite repeated protests from the
faculty that she is utterly unqualified to direct
the academic affairs of the university.
Some professors go public, telling the
media that she has already irrevocably un-
dermined academic life. But despite the
groundswell of opinion calling for her ouster,
President Simmons stays put, refusing to
resign and instead proceeding with plans to
bulldoze Faunce House. The Rock and SciLi
have already been shuttered.
Now imagine that you hear from a friend
that some organizations on campus, sick of
being rebuffed by President Simmons and the
Corporation that backs her, are planning to
occupy Faunce in protest of their authoritar-
ian tendency. You know Brown will be a better
place the day she quits, and you can’t believe
that she’s talking about new buildings while
you’re scraping together your tuition.
But on the other hand, it’s exam week.
You’re headed home for break in a few days
anyway. And besides, it’s not like some ’60s-
style occupation is going to do anything any-
way, right? So the question is: Do you join
Food fight
to swing the door open, but you stop abruptly
when something catches your eye.
Across the street you see a sign offering
“Body Piercing.” A certain curiosity builds
inside you, but you are quickly reminded of
your immediate priority of food after another
growl of your stomach.
But wait! Your tunnel vision directed at the
sign has dissipated, revealing an alternative
to Antonio’s: Nice Slice.
You now have two options for satisfying
your hunger, but your stomach grows more
impatient by the second, and time is running
out. Which pizza place do you choose?
The war between Antonio’s and Nice Slice is
affecting thousands of Brown students.
This scenario is not an uncommon one.
The war between Antonio’s and Nice Slice
is affecting thousands of Brown students.
Sure, there are many other places to get pizza
around campus, such as Via Via IV, Pizza Pie-
er or even the Gate, but the central location
of Antonio’s and Nice Slice on Thayer and
their close proximity to one another makes
choosing one pizzeria over the other particu-
The problem isn’t protest
the protest?
Of course, in reality, Ruth can sleep easy;
the most Brown students can actually ac-
cuse her of is being construction-happy while
the Corporation jacks up tuition year after
year.
But while Brown students and faculty
dispersed for winter, with a few freshmen
stragglers still waiting for their ECON 0110:
“Principles of Economics” exam, the students
of the New School in Manhattan crammed
into their student center on Fifth Avenue,
left with no other option while President
Bob Kerrey, guilty of all the offenses named
SDS acts the way it does because when students
discard their apathy long enough to act, protest
works, as it always has.
above, stubbornly refused to resign.
Faced with the threatened loss of their
student spaces — their library already closed
with no plan to replace it — the students
began their occupation a few days after the
faculty no-confidence vote, the same day the
student government issued a no-confidence
vote of its own. They packed the building by
the dozen, with countless more outside on
the other side of the police blockade.
The occupation drew coverage from the
New York Times while students inside posted
their own updates online, documenting ne-
gotiations that carried on through the night
into a second day. The protesters inside faced
scuffles with police and some arrests and
were not permitted to re-enter the occupied
room if they left it to use the bathroom or
larly grueling.
Antonio’s will appeal to those looking
for a pizza with a heavy dosage of toppings.
Their pizza comes topped with everything
from spicy chicken to tortellini. The thick
and sturdy crust is a nice change of pace
for those who have dropped a meal credit
or two at the Gate for pizza with no more
rigidity than a single sheet of college-ruled
binder paper.
Because their pizza is thickly loaded with
toppings, most people will be able to fill up
easily on two or three slices, making it the
perfect place for a quick late-night pit stop.
Nice Slice takes a somewhat different ap-
proach to pizza. They sacrifice crust strength
for savory taste. The pizza seems to melts in
your mouth and the flavors dance upon your
tongue. The unique combinations of toppings
have been masterfully designed to please
every taste bud you possess.
However, this comes at a price — the
flimsy crust will leave those with big empty
get food.
They considered staying put well into the
break if they needed to, and their persistence
paid off. President Kerrey ceded to their final
demands, granting students voting power on
the Board of Trustees and on administrative
hiring decisions, ensuring the preservation of
student spaces at the school and promising
amnesty for the students arrested during
the occupation.
One imagines as well that given his un-
tenable position, his days at the New School
are numbered.
But judging by the widespread response
to similar instances of activism at Brown
during the fall semester, these student vic-
tories would catch a lot of people here by
surprise.
If only I could count the number of times
that Brown Students for a Democratic Society
was accused, even by the editorial board of
The Herald, of being obsessed with spec-
tacle, of clinging to a romantic infatuation
with outmoded means of protest, of trying to
get arrested for attention. After occupying a
Rhode Island Public Transit Authority board
meeting, organizing a die-in in protest of a
militarized career fair and opening a closed
Corporation meeting, SDS was consistently
met with pathetic and jaded skepticism.
In the face of this apparent reluctance
towards protest, the students of the New
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stomachs less satisfied than they might be
at Antonio’s.
The hipness of Nice Slice also appeals to
its customers. What could be more appeal-
ing than being served pizza by a man with
full-body tattoos and enough jewelry stapled
through his face to set off an airport metal
detector?
People dining at Antonio’s will be unlikely
to bump into other customers due to a rela-
tively larger restaurant space, though that
space is shared with the mysterious Gordito
Burrito.
Nice Slice offers a more intimate (and
poorly lit) atmosphere. Both provide ample
seating for people-watching along Thayer.
The choice for me usually ends up being
Antonio’s. This could be because deep down I
can’t convince myself that bigger isn’t always
better, and I am drawn to the mountain of top-
pings piled high on an Antonio’s slice.
Or I might choose Antonio’s more often
because I am already on the west side of the
street and too lazy to make the treacherous
crossing, which often begs the question: “If I
am too lazy to walk an extra 20 steps, should
pizza really be a regular part of my diet?”
Marcus Gartner ’12 is a computer
science concentrator from San Jose,
California. He can be reached at
marcus_gartner@brown.edu.
School — many of whom were SDS members
themselves — provide an example that SDS’s
critics must heed.
SDS does not act the way it does to recre-
ate the ’60s, much less to get arrested for the
sake of media coverage and “activist cred.” It
does so because when students discard their
apathy long enough to act, these ways work,
as they always have.
As hardcore or anti-intellectual as an oc-
cupation may seem, when “official channels”
and “rational discourse” and “dialogues” and
“bureaucratic recourse” fail, a cause becomes
a choice between giving up or using time-
tested protest techniques. The New School
is a better place because its students chose
the latter.
In February, the Brown Corporation will
be on campus again, this time to set tuition for
the upcoming year. Given the Corporation’s
recent history and trends across the country,
another tuition increase would surprise no
one. But at this point, with the economic nose-
dive, a tuition hike would be so out of touch it
would be comical if it weren’t so tragic.
If the Corporation proves willing to trample
on student interests once again, may we heed
the example of the New School so that when
the call to protest comes, we understand that
it is not a vain attempt at a romantic vision,
but instead a powerful and effective assertion
of our collective influence. Influence that,
unlike the governing administration at this
school, works — for us.
Simon Liebling ’12 is from New Jersey
and is a member of SDS.
He can be reached at
simon.liebling@gmail.com.
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Coal to this week’s financial and meteorological storms, both of which left us feeling kind of
impotent. Is it just winter, or is our endowment really that small?

On that note, coal to President Ruth Simmons for jetting off to Switzerland immediately after $800
million went missing. You only get the money back that way in heist movies.

A cubic zirconium to Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron for introducing CourseMap, a
new tool for class shoppers, just in time for shopping period to end. At least those plans to de-ice our
dangerous campus sidewalks by March are still on schedule.

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Coal to the Brown sophomore and “singer-songwriter” who describes her customary touring circuit
as a “tight network” of coffeehouses up and down the East Coast. By that, we assume you mean the
Blue State by New Pembroke down Thayer Street to the Blue State in the Bookstore?

A cubic zirconium to President Barack Obama, who hired three Brown alums to work in his of-
c a l e n da r fice of legal counsel. You’ve made a wise choice — just make sure to ladder-proof the Oval Office.

january 30, 2009
4:30 PM — Christian Lander, “Stuff
White People Like: “The Definitive Guide
to the Unique Taste of Millions,” Wil-
son 102
7 pm — M. ice hockey v. Quinnipiac,
Meehan Auditorium
january 31, 2009 But you can have a diamond for considering Steven Rattner ’74 P’09 for the position of car czar.
If you ever need a proofing prince, editing earl or Photoshop pharaoh, you know where we are.
8 PM — Piano Recital, Boris Berman,
Grant Recital Hall Coal to the reactionary Facebook group “Morning Mail Should Consider Events <300 people.”
What are “Events ice-cream-cone-with-two-scoops people,” exactly?
9 PM — Mathematical Adventures,
PW Upstairs, TF Green Hall A diamond to the humble science professors who variously dismissed a prestigious national honor
as “a big surprise” and “a mistake,” and referred to themselves as “old,” “homeless” and “one-trick
pony.” If modesty were research funding, you’d practically think you were at Harvard.

menu Coal to Dean of Admissions Jim Miller ’73, who dismissed a new college ranking list by saying,
“I’m not saying anyone manipulated it, but it can be easily manipulated.” And we’re not saying you
Sharpe Refectory Verney-Woolley Dining Hall manipulated it, but it could be easily manipulated by you.

Lunch — Chicken Fingers with
Dipping Sauces, Swiss Corn Bake,
Raspberry Chocolate Squares
Dinner — Seafood Pot Pie, Crispy
Thai Tofu, Chocolate Cake with
Chocolate Frosting
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Lunch — Chicken Fingers, Veg-
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Cookies
Dinner — Seafood Jambalaya,
Grilled Chicken, Macaroni and
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Coal to the judge whose zoning ruling led Chipotle to scrap plans for a Thayer Street location.
Maybe a ladle of Ratty nacho cheese will change your mind?
Cheers, and a diamond to the city for granting Roba!Dolce a limited liquor license. Though to be
honest, liquor probably had something to do with how that weird exclamation point got in there.
A diamond to the Brown-MIT team whose work aims to “redefine the moon.” You work on the
moon part, MIT — we’ll problematize the hermeneutics of ‘lunar-as-other’ normativity.

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