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U. to change
faculty early
retirement
policy
By Kate Monks
Senior Staff Writer
Brown is looking to change faculty
retirement plans as part of Univer-
sity-wide budget cuts, according to
recommendations made at the Jan.
26 Faculty Executive Committee
meeting.
The Committee on Faculty Equity
and Diversity recommended phas-
ing out early retirement programs
and instead creating a health care
retirement account. Such a policy
would reward those seeking later
retirement by giving them a greater
amount of money to go toward post-
retirement health care, according to
the meeting’s minutes.
Professor of Physics and Vice-
Chair of the CFED Michael Koster-
litz said that because of the current
economic situation, he didn’t see
many people taking advantage of the
early retirement option for faculty.
“Everyone’s retirement fund has
taken a gigantic hit,” Kosterlitz said.
“Until things settle down, I don’t see
many people retiring.” He said he
believed that the early retirement
policy was being phased out because
not many faculty members partici-
pated in the program.
The current system that rewards
early retirement was intended “to
make retirement a little more attrac-
tive to a lot of faculty,” Kosterlitz
said.
But he said he believed few
people had taken advantage of the
plan. The new policy would use the
money saved from the early retire-
ment program to make retirement
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Fatal attraction: danger
and desire in ‘Lulu’
By Amy Chen
Contributing Writer
“Lulu,” Sock and Buskin’s latest pro-
duction, is irresistibly dark and sen-
sual, an exploration of the interplay
between danger and sexual desire.
ARTS & CULTURE
The titular character, portrayed
fearlessly by Hollis Mickey ’10, is
sexually aggressive and enchantingly
attractive, yet impassive in the face of
the wrongdoings she commits. The
inside
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D ress to I mpress
“Revealing Attire” by Sara D’Apolito-Dworkin ’10 is part of the
student exhibition in List’s David Winton Bell Gallery, which runs
through March 14.
Pitcher has major-league ambitions Int’l studies
without the
By Penny King
Contributing Writer
Every summer, college students
begin internships intended to ex-
pose them to a particular career,
traveling
provide networking opportunities
and — they hope — lead to a job
after graduation. In reality, a lot
of internships are spent making
coffee, updating spreadsheets and
answering phones. But for Mark
Gormley ’11, a baseball player
who aspires to pitch in the major
leagues, last summer proved to
be a huge step towards his career
goal.
play, which runs in Stuart Theatre
March 4–7 and 11–14, shifts geo-
graphically from Germany to Paris
and then to London, chronicling the
riveting life of Lulu as her multiple
husbands subsequently die after
marrying her.
Her husbands, played with fervor
by Chris Tyler ’10, Aubie Merrylees
’10 and Gordon Sayre ’12, each try to
mold her to fit their ideal and choose
their own name for her. One of her
husbands calls her Eve, a possible
continued on page 5
News, 2
focus on Palestine
Student group highlights
Brown’s role in Middle East
conflict
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
Freddy Lu / Herald
As a pitcher for the Hyannis
Mets, one of 10 teams in the Cape
Cod Baseball League — the na-
tion’s premier collegiate base-
ball summer league — Gormley
competed against the best college
SPORTS
baseball players in the country.
The Cape Cod Baseball League
is an unpaid, amateur league from
which some of the most famous
major league players — including
Nomar Garciaparra, Barry Zito,
Mark Teixeira and Mo Vaughn
— emerged.
Hollis Mickey ’10 plays an alluring wife as the title character of Sock
and Buskin’s “Lulu,” which runs March 4–7 and 11–14 in Stuart Theatre.
Arts, 4
Dreaming of oscar
A Brown alum is nominated
for best original score
U. plans a makeover
for its main Web site
By Heeyoung Min
Senior Staff Writer
For the first time in four years, the
University plans to redesign its Web
site’s main pages, said Vice President
for Public Affairs and University Re-
lations Marisa Quinn, who is spear-
heading the redesign team.
The goal of the project is to archi-
tect a more accessible and dynamic
Web site, Quinn said, not necessarily
to improve the site’s aesthetic design.
People will have varying opinions on
the look of the new page, she said.
Brown’s current Web site, de-
signed in collaboration with Pen-
tagram Design, Inc., is somewhat
restricting in its potential to com-
municate the University’s character
and mission, said Director of Web
Communications Scott Turner.
Though Web developers at
Brown’s peer institutions have
praised Brown’s “unique” design,
the architecture of the site’s main
page supports only 10 content win-
dows and a limited number of links,
Many of the players in the
league are from warm-weather
schools with big athletic pro-
grams, used to large crowds and
the constant scrutiny of major
league scouts. Gormley said
some of his teammates had not
even heard of Brown or other Ivy
League schools, except Harvard.
He said they were “baffled” to
learn that there were no athletic
scholarships in the Ivy League.
Gormley entered the Cape
Cod league after an impressive
sophomore season in which he
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Opinions, 7
Outing the Outers
Dominic Mhiripiri ’12 on
the importance of keeping
an open mind
Turner said. A simple link to the
University’s Facebook or Twitter
page on the homepage, for instance,
would require an existing link to be
removed, Quinn said. The site’s lat-
est version, scheduled to launch in
Fall 2010, will support more func-
tions and interactive multimedia,
she said.
A primary goal of the project
is “to showcase Brown more ef-
fectively to key constituencies and
better articulate Brown’s position
within higher education,” according
to the redesign team’s blog. Quinn
identified one of the “key constituen-
cies” to be prospective international
applicants, who rely more on online
resources to learn about Brown than
students from the U.S. do.
The project is a collaboration be-
tween the Office of Public Affairs and
University Relations, Computing and
Information Services and an external
consulting firm. The redesign team,
which began meeting in January, is
continued on page 2
By Brielle Friedman
Contributing Writer
International students have always
been a presence at the University,
but technology is now allowing
Brunonians to collaborate with
students in Brazil, India and Cuba
without requiring a passport.
A new seminar offered for the
first time last fall, PPAI 1701G:
“Science and Technology Policy
in the Global South,” enabled
Brown students to work directly
with students at other universi-
ties. Throughout the semester,
students held video conferences
with students from Brazil’s Uni-
versidade Federal da Bahia and
Universidade Nacional del Sur
on social and racial inequalities
relating to access to science
and technology. In addition, the
Brown students maintained a blog
about renewable energies with
students from India’s University
of Calcutta.
In designing the seminar, Geri
Augusto, adjunct assistant pro-
fessor in public policy, said she
wanted to create a way in which
continued on page 3
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C ampus N EWS “We are focusing on how we are complicit.”

— Rosi Greenberg ’10, Brown Students for Justice in Palestine member

Student group speaks out against profiting from Israel-Palestine conflict

By Crys Guerra and Anne
Artley
Contributing Writers
With the hope of building a campus-
wide movement, Brown Students for
Justice in Palestine held their spring
kick-off event, Education without
Occupation, on Wednesday, present-
ing their campaign for divestment
from companies profiting from what
the group called the Israeli occupa-
tion of Palestine.
The presentation, an hourlong
slideshow, focused on the terms
and the reasons used to frame their
position. As a part of a weeklong
series, this event is in coordination
with the 6th annual International
Israeli Apartheid Week.
The members began by introduc-
ing themselves and their reasons
for responding to Palestine’s call.
Six of the members present — Dia
Barghouti ’12, Janine Khraishah
’12, Francesca Contreras ’11, Rosi
Greenberg ’10, Gavriel Cutipa-Zorn
’12 and Ghada Abdelqader GS —
have all either lived or spent time
in Israel or Palestine. They shared
a common story of their personal
experience viewing and in some
cases living through the injustice
as driving their support for the
campaign.
“I witnessed the occupation
firsthand and its progress,” said
Khraishah, who said she supports
the campaign because it addresses
“the root of the problem: occupation
of Palestine by the state of Israel.”
Though faith is sometimes per-
ceived as dividing individuals on
the issue, some members said their
Jewish faith was the reason they
took action.
“I realized that Israeli actions
were not in line with my Jewish
values,” Cutipa-Zorn said.
Identity, however, is not the only
reason for the members’ solidarity
with the movement against Israeli
occupation of Palestine. Ruhan Na-
gra ’10, stated that “this isn’t about
identity, its about fundamental hu-
man rights.”
The other group members pres-
ent — Alysha Aziz ’12, Lindsay Goss
GS, Michael Dawkins ’12, Osman
Chaudhry ’11 and Herald Opinions
Columnist Simon Liebling ’12 — re-
ferred to their support as a respon-
sibility, stating their complicity in
the issue as taxpayers through U.S.
investment in companies profiting
from the occupation.
The group’s campaign on divest-
ment from Israeli occupation of Pal-
estinian territories is in solidarity
with the 2005 call by “Palestinian
civil society” as stated on the global
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
Web site.
“We are basically focusing on
initiatives that are specific and rel-
evant to our complicity in Israeli’s
human rights violations as Brown
students,” Nagra said.
The group called for Brown to
divest from “companies that provide
products or services that: contribute
to the maintenance of the Israeli
militar y occupation of Gaza, the
West Bank and East Jerusalem;
that contribute to the maintenance,
expansion and operations of Israeli
settlements in the Occupied Pales-
tinian Territories; that contribute
to the maintenance and construc-
tion of the Separation Wall; and that
contribute to violent acts against
Palestinian and Israeli civilians.”
The group compared the Sepa-
ration Wall, which is often justified
as necessary for security purposes,
to South Africa’s Group Areas Act
which reserved 87 percent of the
land for the minority white popula-
tion.
When questioned about the pos-
sibility of opposition to the demands,
Nagra said the group’s “entire cam-
paign is centered around basic hu-
man rights and international law.”
She said she believes that “Brown
students would want to uphold those
values.”
Among the many American com-
panies listed as facilitating Israeli
occupation, according to the group,
are General Electric, Caterpillar,
Motorola and Raytheon, a major
arms contractor for Israel which has
also recruited on campus.
Emphasizing Brown’s divest-
ment campaign from South Africa in
1985, the group noted the parallels
between the two movements.
“There is no greater testament to
the basic dignity of ordinary people
ever ywhere than the divestment
movement of the 1980s,” the stu-
dents said, quoting South African
Archbishop Desmond Tutu. “These
tactics are not the only parallels to
the struggle against apartheid.
Yesterday’s South African township
dwellers can tell you about life in the
Occupied Territories.”
Special attention was also paid to
the use of the term “apartheid” to
describe the situation in occupied
Palestinian territories.
The group uses the 1973 United
Nations definition of apartheid as
“inhuman acts committed for the
purpose of establishing and main-
taining domination by one racial
group of persons over any other
racial group of persons and system-
atically oppressing them,” according
to their presentation.
Apar theid’s ultimate signifi-
cance, Nagra said, is “a practice, not
an experience. It’s a crime against
humanity whose scope goes beyond
South Africa.”
The group said divestment from
companies profiting off Israel’s oc-
cupation of Palestinian territories is
their action of choice toward peace
between Palestine and Israel.
“It is nonviolent, grassroots and
effective,” Chaudry said.
The question-and-answer pe-
riod prompted questions about
the group’s evidence of Brown’s
investment in the companies men-
tioned.
“We don’t know what Brown is
invested in, but we can establish
a criterion for investment,” Nagra
said.
A question was also raised con-
cerning Israel’s “right to exist” in
light of the injustices presented
during the event.
“That is not a productive ques-
tion,” Greenberg said. “This is not
an idea of how Israel (and) Pales-
tine should be. It is not for us to
decide. We are focusing on how we
are complicit.”
The group said they plan to
focus on “mobilizing the student
body to approach the administra-
tion full force” and on creating a
sustainable movement committed
to the campaign, which according
to them could take two to five years
to succeed. This week’s events, so
far, have given them hope.
“We have been tabling on the
Main Green and already we’ve col-
lected hundreds of signatures,” said
Nagra. “The support has been in-
credible.”
The rest of the week’s events
include Activestills, a photo exhibit,
and a talk by Susanne Hoder on
“Multinational Corporations and
Israeli Apartheid.”

Brown.edu to get revamped for fall

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incorporating feedback from cur-
sudoku rent and prospective students, alums
and faculty who participated in focus
groups, Turner said.
After researching more than
10 firms, the University selected
mStoner, Inc., whose clients include
Northeastern University School of
Law, Princeton’s undergraduate ad-
missions office and Yale Law School,
according to its Web site. The firm
was chosen based on its proposal,
Quinn said, adding that costs were
also a consideration.
One of the alums involved in
the project is About.com’s former
CEO, Scott Meyer ’91, who also led
the design of the New York Times’
Web site. Though he was a public
policy concentrator at Brown, Meyer
said he “spent a lot of time in CIS”
and would seize “any opportunity”
to help his alma mater, especially
when his professional experience
is useful.
Brown trails the other schools in
the Ivy League “by any analysis of
Web statistics,” including the num-
ber of unique visitors each month,
Meyer said. “When the Web site
comes out, it will be dramatically
better.”
At this stage it is difficult to assess
what the new Web site will look like
— but it will be distinctive. The new
flagship Web site may incorporate
certain features from the homepages
of various schools, but there’s no
model in mind, Turner said.
“We certainly didn’t say that we
want our Web site to look like that of
school X or Y,” Meyer said. “Brown
is Brown.”
It’s impor tant that the new
homepage communicates Brown’s
unique brand, Meyer said. “One of
the tremendous strengths of Brown
is that the brand experience is deeply
personal.”

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Students collaborate with peers in Brazil, India and Cuba
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her students were “learning with
(other students) and not from
them.” She said she wanted to
create a forum for “an equitable
and sophisticated two-way con-
versation.”
“I’m always interested in how
collaborative learning and teach-
ing can take place across time
and space,” said Augusto, adding
that she also continually looks for
“ways we can increase learning
that are more equitable.”
“Ideas and perspectives exist
ever ywhere among students,”
Augusto said. “What’s different
is the access.” Technology is one
way to make this access more
equitable, she said.
Though the class was not as-
sociated with specific internation-
alization efforts, Augusto said she
received a course international-
ization grant from the of fice of
Vice President for International
Af fairs Matthew Gutmann. The
grant helped her travel to Sal-
Gormley ’11 focuses on winning an Ivy championship
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had a team-high 50 strikeouts and
a 4.55 earned run average, which
earned him the honor of First-Team
All-Ivy.
He had an inauspicious start to
the season in Cape Cod, after the
Brewster Whitecaps declined to
renew his temporary contract. But
Hyannis Mets Head Coach Chad
Gassman, who coaches at Waldorf
College in Iowa during the aca-
demic year, needed a left-handed
pitcher and invited Gormley to join
the team as a reliever.
Gormley’s performance earned
him a full contract for the season
and, over time, his confidence grew.
He proved that he belonged on the
Hyannis Mets when he made the
All-Star team as a reserve, “a real
honor,” Gassman said.
The Cape Cod Baseball League
is known for attracting “a certain
kind of swagger,” in the words of
Jim Collins, author of “The Last
Best League,” which chronicles a
season with the Chatham Anglers.
Gormley agreed, saying that some
players “walked on the field and
vador da Bahia, Brazil, over the
summer and contact professors
and students there.
“No matter how good elec-
tronic stuff is, face-to-face inter-
changes are ver y important when
you are tr ying to establish a new
relationship,” Augusto said, add-
ing that she will include a section
on the Andes to the course when
she teaches it next fall.
HMAN 1970R: “Literature
and the Arts in Today’s Cuba,” a
senior seminar offered last fall,
also reflects the increasing role
technology plays in classes that
work with universities abroad.
The class, taught last semester
by Assistant Professor of Com-
parative Literature Esther Whit-
field, was of fered in the fall for
the second time. Throughout the
semester, students participated in
several video conferences with
Cuban intellectuals and artists —
including architect Mario Coyula,
writer Victor Fowler Calzada and
filmmaker Fernando Perez.
Though the seminar was
announced their presence” — not
necessarily through their athletic
performance, but by their behav-
ior.
For example, a teammate once
took his position in the outfield
wearing an infielder glove, instead
of an outfielder glove that has more
padding, and missed a fly ball.
But Gormley, most likely hum-
bled by his experience at the be-
ginning of the season, emphasized
that he remained focused on taking
advantage of the incredible oppor-
tunity at hand, which included the
challenge of playing against some
of the top draft prospects and ex-
posure in front of major league
scouts.
Gormley recalled throwing the
baseball when, suddenly, 30 guys
raised their radar guns to measure
his speed. Gassman acknowledged
that players are under a lot of pres-
sure, but he reminds them to treat
each game in Cape Cod like any oth-
er game and avoid showing off.
“Team was first with Mark,” said
Gassman, who called Gormley one
of the top five most pleasant players
that he has coached.
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“Ideas and perspectives exist everywhere among students.”
— Geri Augusto, adjunct assistant professor in public policy
conducted primarily in English,
all lectures were in Spanish, as
were many of the readings. The
students conducted video con-
ferences in the Watson Center
for Information Technology that
were linked to Casa de las Amer-
icas, the cultural institution in
Cuba where Brown students take
classes while abroad.
Cuba’s Internet censorship
required the program to acquire
special permission from the
government to hold the video
conferences. Though specialists
were present during the confer-
ences, both at Brown and in Cuba,
there were often technical dif-
ficulties.
“The Cuban government had
never set up one of these inter-
changes before, so they didn’t
really know how to do it,” said
Michelle Levinson ’11, who stud-
ied in Cuba last fall and attended
the e-lectures.
Despite technological prob-
lems, students back at Brown said
they felt the class was a ver y valu-
While many unpaid summer in-
terns might look forward to having
lunch paid for by their supervisor at
the end of the internship, Gormley
received a much more substantial
reward for his hard work with the
Hyannis Mets.
He joined the League’s Western
Division All-Star team as a reserve
for a game at Fenway Park, the
home of his favorite baseball team,
the Boston Red Sox. He called that
night the best experience of his life
and a gratifying conclusion to a sea-
son that gave him more confidence
to take on the competition that he
will face this season at Brown.
Gormley says that his primary
focus is winning an Ivy League
championship this spring, having
finished a “heartbreaking” game
short of playing in the Ivy League
championship last year. Brown
Head Coach Marek Drabinski said
Gormley’s “extremely competitive”
attitude will benefit the team this
season. Drabinski said he has high
hopes for Gormley and would like
to see him further develop his chan-
geup and curveball.
Nevertheless, the Major League
able experience. Lily Friedman
’09.5, who took the class last fall,
said one of the reasons she first
became interested in the seminar
was because it focused on such an
isolated part of the world.
“Traditionally, Cuba is a ver y
inaccessible par t of the world,
especially for us in the United
States,” Friedman said.
Without Brown’s special uni-
versity-to-university relationship,
the participating artists “probably
would not have been able to pres-
ent themselves to an international
community,” Levinson said.
Marianna Faircloth ’10, anoth-
er student who took the class,
said she used the opportunity to
communicate with a direct source.
While working on her final paper,
she e-mailed one speaker, who
helped her find sources on Cuban
tattooing and body art.
Without the guest lecturers,
Friedman said, “It would have
been a great ar t histor y class,
but the artists never would have
come to life in the same way.”
Baseball draft in June looms ahead
for Gormley. Drabinski has talked
about this possibility with Gormley
and advised him to “go about your
business every day as if nobody’s
watching.”
“There’s a real good chance
Mark gets a pro contract and he
signs,” said Gassman, who added
that he remains confident that
Gormley will win as many games
as he can for Brown.
Gormley has great expectations
for the upcoming season, which
begins today in Baton Rouge, La.,
where the Bears will play the Pep-
perdine Waves. Mark Gormley will
be the starting pitcher.
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New retirement
plan could be
finalized soon
continued from page 1
more attractive to older employees.
The money would go toward cre-
ating a “health-care retirement ac-
count,” according to the FEC meet-
ing minutes.
“The main incentive would be if
retired faculty could get some kind of
medical service,” said Kosterlitz.
A new plan to take effect for the
upcoming academic year is cur-
rently in the works, said Chung-I
Tan, chair of the FEC and professor
of physics.
Though this plan was originally
supposed to be announced in Febru-
ary, “there are certain details that
are being worked out,” he said.
Finalization could occur “as soon
as this month or next month,” he
said, but he is not entirely sure as
to when it will be released.
This faculty proposal follows
several programs — including the
Voluntary Staff Retirement Incentive
— that encouraged early retirement
in efforts to cut costs. Between Nov.
4 and Dec. 23, non-faculty staffers
who were at least 60 years of age
were eligible to retire and receive
a year’s salary and $15,000 toward
“the transition to retirement,” ac-
cording to a University press release
on the program.
Despite the University’s efforts
to encourage faculty retirement,
it must work within certain con-
straints. Tenured faculty cannot
be fired and there is no mandatory
retirement age, so many faculty
members choose to continue to
teach and bring home a paycheck
as they reach retirement age, Ko-
sterlitz said.
“A lot of people just hang on until
they get too old,” he said.
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A rts &C ulture
Performers flock to College Hill festival
By Lindor Qunaj
Contributing Writer
Musicians, dancers and other per-
formers from around the world will
gather at Brown for the Rhythm
of Change Festival March 5–7.
Presented by the Department of
Theatre Arts and Performance
Studies, with additional help from
the Creative Arts Council and the
Brown International Organization,
the weekend-long event seeks to
unite a wide range of artists, social
entrepreneurs and educators from
Africa, America and the Caribbean
to use the power of performance for
social change.
The festival will feature a series
of workshops and performances,
including Burundian dance, Djembe
drumming and discussions about
hip-hop as a force for change in
Western Africa. Among the main
events will be the Africa for Haiti
Benefit Concert on Saturday night
featuring Troupe Komee Josee from
Mali and a dance performance by
Rwandan children on Sunday.
“It is very, very hard not to be
moved by a group of young children
who have just come to this country
running from genocide joyously shar-
ing this dance,” said Senior Lecturer
in Theatre Arts and Performance
Studies Michelle Bach-Coulibaly.
They have an “ability to transcend
trauma through their performance.
There is a sense of engagement and
of breaking down the boundaries of
race, class and gender.”
According to Bach-Coulibaly, the
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
— Marco Beltrami ’88, Academy Award–nominated composer
roots of the festival can be traced
back to the 1989–1990 academic
year, when she, along with a diverse
group of professors from various
University departments, collaborat-
ed to create a course on the dance
and culture of the Mande, a fairly
large West African ethnic group.
Spread throughout the countries
of Mali, Burkina Faso, Mauritania
and others, the Mande people have a
strong tradition of performance art,
Bach-Coulibaly said. As a student of
West African dance, she said she was
initially fascinated by the way that
“performance is used in that society
to negotiate very difficult social is-
sues, including gender incongruities
and global invasion.” The Mande
people “utilize performance to bring
the community together and heal,”
she added.
A team of professors and stu-
dents was able to raise a significant
amount of money, even receiving a
grant, to develop the course, which
would become a huge success. Since
then, the course has been offered
continuously, enrolling nearly 2,000
students over a span of 20 years.
This semester, 137 students are
registered for TSDA 0330: “Mande
Dance, Music and Culture,” accord-
ing to Banner.
Aside from learning the various
dance and performance styles of
this ethnic group, students in the
course are paired with an organiza-
tion that does humanitarian work in
Alum nominated for best original score Oscar
By Fei Cai
Staff Writer
“I, Robot.” “Scream.” “The Omen.”
These are just a few of the films
for which Marco Beltrami ’88 has
composed the scores. Recently,
the Brown alum, with co-composer
Buck Sanders, was nominated for
his second Academy Award for best
original score for Kathryn Bigelow’s
film, “The Hurt Locker.”
“The Hurt Locker” is an ac-
claimed thriller about a leader of
an Explosive Ordnance Disposal
unit in the U.S. Army in post-inva-
sion Iraq in 2004. The film has been
nominated for eight other Academy
Awards, including best picture and
best director.
Beltrami’s score is going up
against original scores from “Ava-
tar,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “Sherlock
Holmes” and “Up.”
An urban studies concentrator
at Brown, Beltrami said he never
thought he would be nominated
for one, let alone two, Oscars. His
first nomination was in 2008, for his
original score in James Mangold’s
“3:10 to Yuma.”
The composer, who said that his
first job out of college was with the
Rhode Island Public Transit Author-
ity, has since reached public acclaim
for his film scores. He is also known
for his work with Marilyn Manson
and his collaboration with Guns N’
Roses on their 2008 album, “Chinese
Democracy.”
Beltrami said Bigelow had been
in the process of editing her movie
when she first contacted him. “I
got a call over a few years ago from
“The movie didn’t need much music.”
The Rhythm of Change Festival will take place March 5–7.
these Mande communities, particu-
larly in Mali, according to Matthew
Garza ’11, a teaching assistant for
the class. They also organize raffles
to raise money, design projects and
otherwise help their cause through
performance-based methods.
Garza, who has traveled to Mali
as part of an Undergraduate Teach-
ing and Research Award project,
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that
the main goal of the course is to fos-
ter “awareness about circumstances
and movements in West Africa and
to take action through performative
deliberation.”
The festival serves as a vehicle
to provoke dialogue about these
issues and get other members of
the community to appreciate the
role of performance in enacting
social change and perhaps become
Kathryn,” he said. “She had seen
‘3:10 to Yuma,’ and she liked the
music in regard to her movie.”
The writing process took about
two months, after Beltrami first
watched the movie with Sanders.
Beltrami said the score was intended
to be subtle and not draw attention
to itself. He added that the music
was there to enhance the intensity
of the movie, and that he wanted
the music to be seamlessly woven
into the film.
“The movie didn’t need much
music, it was very much a docu-
mentary-type style,” he said. “The
music is textural. There is a theme
that comes in for the main character
when he has emotional connections
with his teammates, and this devel-
ops later on in the movie.”
Beltrami added, “People have
asked me, because the film takes
place in Iraq, if the music has a
little Middle Eastern flavor to it.
But the lead role, (William) James,
is a stranger in a strange land, and
the music is more in his point of
view.”
He said that it was the first time
he had composed a score like this,
and it has changed how he thinks
about film and sound. “I am much
more conscious of the rest of the
sound world than just writing the
music and getting it done. I’m more
conscious of the picture as a whole,”
he said.
Though this is his second Oscar
nomination, Beltrami said that he
was shocked and surprised, though
very happy, at the nomination.
“I knew that the movie was a
great movie, and it was receiving
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involved themselves, according to
Bach-Coulibaly and Garza.
Bach-Coulibaly said the festival
would allow people to see the impor-
tance of building community. “In-
stead of sound bites and stereotypes,
this is about real people engaging
with each other outside of those con-
structed bits of communication. It’s
about real communication between
people.”
Garza said he hoped the event
would not only encourage students
to “engage in transnational collabo-
ration and action” but also “to learn
from some of the world’s most amaz-
ing musicians, artists, dancers and
social activists.”
As Bach-Coulibaly describes it,
the festival will be “a weekend of
immersion, collaboration and par-
ticipation.”
a lot of attention, but the score is
very subtle, and musically, it’s very
understated,” he said.
He added that he thought there
would be a very small chance people
would notice it. He was not think-
ing about or considering an Oscar
nomination, and he said he feels the
same way about the results on Sun-
day. “There are some other strong
scores, and musically, they call more
attention to themselves,” he said.
Jokingly, though, he admitted
that he would be preparing a speech
just in case.
At Brown, Beltrami was first a
geology concentrator before switch-
ing to urban studies, but was always
interested in music. He said that it
was at Brown that he was first intro-
duced to electronic music, and has
been attracted to it ever since.
“Brown was very formative for
me in many ways, especially aca-
demically and creatively,” he said.
He added that when he visited the
University, he found that, though
the students were not as technically
advanced as those coming out of a
conservatory, they had something
more unique and more interesting
to say.
“Just because you aren’t in music
school doesn’t mean you can’t be a
composer,” he said, and encouraged
anyone interested in film scoring to
continue pursuing it.
Beltrami said he already has
two future projects lined up. He is
working on scores for an upcoming
film called “Jonah Hex,” directed by
Jimmy Hayward, and a Guillermo
del Toro remake of a film called
“Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark.”
Arts & Culture
The Brown Daily Herald

Friday, March 5, 2010 | Page 5

In ‘Lulu,’ everything is taken to the limit as love becomes fatal

including Lulu’s attempt to cleanse unspeakable things.” the choice that I make. It’s not only
herself in the on-stage bathtub and “One of the great things is how I meant about the play, but production
a song she sings in each act. don’t know how the audience will re- also is a personal experience of life,”
But what is most striking about act,” said Madden, who worked with Golub said.
the play is its intensity. Everything Golub previously on “The Change- “Lulu” is ultimately a play that ex-
must be taken to the limit and love ling” in 2008. “Some will be shocked. plores the mysteries of desire and
becomes fatal. Others will be repulsed.” affection in relation to sexual appeal
From the beginning, the stage Golub described the rehearsal and passion. It experiments with what
is clouded in mist, lit by dim lamps process as painting and “moving a one is willing to sacrifice for love. And
that barely penetrate the murky at- canvas, using different colors.” Lulu, the epicenter of all desire and
mosphere. The mix of myriad lights “As a director, I tend to bring a attraction, serves as the dark core of
and colors suggest the explosive personal vision and style — this is just this exploration.
creativity and underlying symbolic
meanings of the story. Washed in
red, the stage hints at the possible
grotesqueness of the consequences
of sexual pleasure, lack of self-control
and brazen passion.
Instead of an overburdened set,
“this set condenses the stage, allows
you to create multiple looks and
scenes. Different doors are used and
have different meanings,” said Stage
Manager Drew Madden ’10.
“This is a tense production,” Gol-
ub said. The show has “great range
of expression and color and shock,”
he said.
Lulu’s body is constantly moving,
an endless repetition of symbolism
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald throughout the play. Her fingers
“Lulu” plays at Stuart Theater March 4–7 and 11–14.
rock, her arms flail, and her body
tremble like a slim, fragile twig in
continued from page 1 between violence, sex and love. rhythm with the music.
Portrayed in a suggestively ar- The play was originally a multi-
allusion to the biblical Eve. tistic and abstract way, the weapons hour work by Frank Wedekind and
Lulu’s malleability at the hands of indicate a frightening enjoyment of has been compressed over time to its
her husbands introduces the issue of danger within one’s sexual yearning current form. The show “compresses
sexual identity, which Spencer Golub, and desire. not just time and space, but also emo-
the show’s director and professor of The danger is further emphasized tion and inner lives of characters,”
theatre arts and performance stud- toward the end of the play when Lulu Golub said.
ies, said is an important element of works as a prostitute in London. One “It is an intense, high-volume,
the play. “Lulu” begins with a jubilant of her many admirers appropriately high-voltage production,” he add-
female character sensually offering tells her that “a brothel is your natural ed.
her body to the gaping mouths, claw- habitat.” Golub said he hoped the audi-
ing hands and whims of men. The play also works as a mirror of ence would know that they have
An undoubtedly bold play, the plot itself, where the second part repeats experienced the “sense of all that’s
is driven by sexual aggression and events and actions from the first, there — to bring out all the invisible,
the desperate hunger to fulfill it. Lulu
cannot control the allure she has for
men, as one by one, they plead for
her love with gripping, uncontrollable
urges. Lulu responds passionately to
their love but cannot fulfill her own
desires and eventually brings doom
upon those who fall for her.
Many of her admirers die over the
course of the play — by their own
hand or Lulu’s — including the les-
bian Countess, played with poignancy
by Jing Xu ’10. Despite the poisonous
nature of their love for Lulu, despite
the incredible sacrifices they must
make, one of her husbands admits
to her, “There is something about
you that I cannot resist.”
While she yells and screams in
pain at the death of her husbands,
and symbolically attempts to cleanse
herself of her actions by rubbing her
arms and body, Lulu recovers after
each love affair to quickly move on
to another man.
Commenting on Lulu as a char-
acter, Golub said, “I don’t see this as
being life. (It) draws the inner springs
of life, but it wouldn’t be mistaken for
real life, (it’s) not meant to be.”
Though comical at times, especial-
ly when the men in the cast interact,
characterized by silly dialogue and
excitement, the play is dark, defined
by violence and aggression. The use
of weapons such as a knife, axe and
gun suggest a disturbing relationship
Editorial & Letters
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l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r

The nature of secular values

To the Editor:
In his recent column (“The creep-
ing nihilism of Stanley Fish,” March
2), Brian Judge argues for the exis-
tence of secular, universal normative
values by making recourse to what
was always my father’s favorite logi-
cal argument:
1. A is true.
2. Duh.
3. Still don’t get it? You’re an
idiot.
I’d still like to know just where
Judge thinks these secular norma-
tive values are coming from (I’m not
going to touch on religious values
here) if he’s not just trying to bully
us into agreeing with him because
the idea that secular, objective nor-
mative values don’t exist makes him
uneasy. Do they exist in nature? Are
they like height and color, which
exist outside of us and can be per-
ceived by the discerning (moral)
eye? Is anyone who can’t “see” those
values merely blind? If they’re out
there, Judge hasn’t shown me where
to find them.   basis for his secular ethics.
Let’s say that it is true that, due
to “biological commitments,” suffer-
ing exists in others. But if I didn’t
care, and I didn’t have any personal
pleasure at stake, I’m not convinced
Judge would be able to do anything
to convince me I’m wrong but give
me a scornful wag of the finger. (Ni-
hilism! Shame!)
Now, my own biology may ex-
plain why I act as if there are nor-
mative reasons. I don’t go around
punching children on the street
because, as I am, doing so results
in a most unpleasant gut reaction.
Rather, I prefer to soothe injured
companions until they stop crying
and to eat ice cream sundaes (which
are delicious), because, for reasons
that stem from my “biological com-
mitments,” those things are much
more pleasant. But these are, in es-
sence, practical concerns, not truly
normative reasons.
Then again, isn’t that enough? julia streuli
John Rawls argued that his Theory
of Justice was supposed to be an at-
tempt to describe our “considered e d i to r i a l
judgments” (our intuitions after de-
liberation), not to prescribe univer-
sal values; maybe a similar approach Formula one
could give Judge a sufficiently sound
Rhode Island is well on its way to rejoining the rest of based on its median household income, concentra-
the country. Yesterday, the state’s Board of Regents tion of low-income students and aggregate taxable
Andy Garin ’09 for Elementary and Secondary Education considered property value — a reliable proxy for its ability to
March 4 a new method for allocating money to the state’s pay for school operations on its own. Wong said that
troubled public education system. Rhode Island let many states’ formulas include only the latter factor,
its last formula for this purpose obsolesce 15 years short-changing districts that have to deal with the
ago, and it is now the only state without one. The challenges of educating relatively underprivileged

Letters, please! proposed plan would be considerably more efficient

and comprehensive than those used by most other
states. The General Assembly should approve it ex-
children.
Flexible grants of state aid would supplement
the money allocated by the team’s method. They
peditiously and with minor adjustments at most. would include funds for early-childhood programs
letters@browndailyherald.com Since the end of the previous distributional for- and other needs that would be difficult to assign
mula, legislators have assigned money to each district through a general formula, Wong said. The proposal
based mainly on the previous year’s sums, with ad also includes a budget increase of one percent next
t h e b r o w n d a i ly h e r a l d hoc adjustments. This system has to end. It priori- year, raising to $722 million the state government’s
tizes back-room wrangling and sheer force of habit share of Rhode Island’s roughly $2 billion primary
Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Deputy Managing Editors Senior Editors
Ellen Cushing over efficient and reliable procedures, and it has and secondary education system. That contribu-
George Miller Chaz Kelsh Sophia Li
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district’s actual needs. It even leaves the state open coming decade.
editorial Business
General Managers Office Manager to litigation: Last month, Woonsocket and Pawtucket The plan will not make everyone happy. Some
Anne Speyer Arts & Culture Editor
Suzannah Weiss Arts & Culture Editor Claire Kiely Shawn Reilly filed suit, claiming that the current system is unfair areas would suffer significant funding cuts under the
Brian Mastroianni Features Editor Katie Koh and arbitrary. proposed formula: Southern Rhode Island’s sizable
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Brigitta Greene Metro Editor Kelly Wess Sales Professor of Education Kenneth Wong, along with Chariho Regional School District would lose nearly
Ben Schreckinger Metro Editor Matthew Burrows Finance two of his graduate students, worked with state of- 47 percent of its state aid. But hard-hit districts would
Sydney Ember News Editor Margaret Watson Client Relations
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ficials to craft the new proposal. In an interview with have a full decade to internalize the reductions.
Dan Alexander Sports Editor the editorial page board, Professor Wong laid out Wong estimates that over 70 percent of Rhode
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the team’s methodology. It considered the costs of a Island students will receive more funding under the
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Nick Sinnott-Armstrong Photo Editor Maximillian Barrows Business Operations of educating each Rhode Island student at $8,295 per puts its public education money to better use. Once
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Opinions
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Understanding the odd story of gay rights in Africa
DOMINIC
MHIRIPIRI
Opinions Columnist
The gay rights movement, for all its endless
challenges inside America and other West-
ern nations, faces an even bleaker future in
Africa. Pitted against the social aftermath of
a continent that wallowed in colonial estab-
lishments for almost a century, and a stub-
bornly conservative culture spanning virtual-
ly every single country from South Africa to
Egypt, Senegal to Ethiopia — the prospects
do not look good for the countless Africans
who seek to enter into same-sex relation-
ships and marriages.
Even in a place affectionately known to its
natives as the “continent of dreams” and the
“rhythm of our existence” — Africa is no ref-
uge for the LGBTQ community, a fact epito-
mized by developments in one small country
sitting at the very heart of the continent. No
Brown student has a legitimate excuse not to
be interested in knowing about this.
Uganda is a beautiful country — carpet-
ed with a central African equatorial savanna
landscape and full of nature’s generous en-
dowments of flora and fauna, a warm people
whose charisma and sense of humor are nev-
er lost when they leave for faraway lands (if
you meet one at Brown, you will understand)
and an epic, storied history of a torturous po-
litical journey through colonialism and post-
independence eras. The country’s former
military dictator, the infamous Idi Amin who
reigned between 1971 and 1979, inspired the
Hollywood blockbuster thriller, “The Last
King of Scotland.”
But today, Uganda stands at the cross-
BY WILL WRAY
Opinions Columnist
Monday’s editorial (“Cut it out,” March 1)
was yet another iteration of the editorial page
board cloaking socialist sensibilities in vague-
ly utilitarian terms. They chided Congress for
cutting college subsidies, suggesting that said
funding is a worthy “investment” in America’s
economy. I demur.
Four-year colleges are not worthless, and
high-level educational programs should not
be restricted to those who have deep pock-
ets. However, taxpayers’ funds are not be-
ing used efficiently when we subsidize four
years of tuition to glorified social clubs.
The phrase “cutting public funding for
colleges” conjures up images of destitute ge-
niuses who will never hold a diploma due to
the machinations of stingy conservatives.
“Without tax subsidies,” the argument goes,
“the next Einstein may waste away mowing
lawns.”
This alarmism is unwarranted. Financial
aid exists in a world without taxpayer subsi-
dies. Even the most profit-hungry universities
have myriad incentives to pay the way for stu-
dents who can’t do so themselves; need-blind
admissions lead to greater prestige, increased
applications and higher rates of alumni giv-
ing.  The expected rebuttal? The converse of
Since colleges already have the means
and the motive to provide student aid, tax-
payer funding effectively subsidizes pet proj-
ects. Money is fungible. A National Review
roads of a continent’s defining moment for
the gay rights movement. A law proposed to
the Ugandan parliament last year by tough-
talking legislator David Bahati — now a
subject of intense debate across the world
— seeks to make some homosexual acts
punishable by death. The Anti-Homosexual
Bill of 2009 goes a step further than current
laws that ban gays and lesbians by includ-
ing capital punishment. The legislation has
strong support from the country’s evangeli-
cal Christian groups and within the govern-
ment itself, in a country where 95 percent of
Killing people for who they want to be is
unconscionable and not acceptable. Yet I want
those who differ to do so with understanding —
without patronizing or hastening Africa to force
all notions of Western culture down its reluctant,
conservative throat.
the general population is reportedly opposed
to legalizing homosexuality.
However, the West has predictably been
shaken by the legislator’s move. World lead-
ers, international organizations and gener-
al people alike have roundly criticized Ba-
hati and his “accomplices,” with President
Obama recently condemning the bill as “odi-
ous.” I have personally talked to many peo-
ple at Brown and RISD about Uganda’s sto-
ry, and even by standards of the huge liberal
inclinations on College Hill, I have obtained
extremely one-sided takes on this controver-
sial issue. From mild surprise at the nature
of the bill, to teeth-gnashing, table-banging
B.A. — D.O.A.
article highlighted a recent Sports Illustrat-
ed story describing the consequences of fed-
eral “aid”:  The University of Mississippi re-
cently constructed the “indoor Tiger grotto...
(which) takes on a South Beach vibe... Stu-
dents chill in the hot tub or splash in a lazy
river surrounded by palm trees and a rocky
waterfall while waiters serve poolside wraps,
smoothies and protein shakes.”
There is no explicit connection between
tax subsidies and Ole Miss’s palatial sports
complex, but perhaps one or two of those
50 million dollars would have been spent on
Hopefully, the B.A. will soon be seen as a luxury
good, like a closet full of polo shirts or a sports car.
initiatives less sexy than hot tubs and indoor
waterfalls had not American taxpayers swal-
lowed the bill for the basics.  competent.”  afford cushy colleges while less moneyed,
Tiger Grottos aside, it is not entirely clear
that upping the number of Americans with
four-year degrees is beneficial for the stu-
dents or for the economy. The hundreds of
thousands of dollars spent on four years of un-
dergraduate tuition are often wasted.
An early 2007 study found that one out of
four college graduates works in an occupation
that does not require a college education. 15
percent of college graduates are unemployed.  ucation experts printed in the November 2009
the above-quoted statistic is that three out of
four college graduates are employed by a firm
that does require a four-year degree.  degree was always costly, often inefficient and
Conceded, but why do so many jobs re-
reactions to the impending legislation, I have
listened to countless varieties of discontent.
And this is exactly where my problem
with all these “open-minded” people lies.
Those at Brown and in the U.S., who with-
out any sort of understanding seek to batter
and insult those opposed to them across the
cultural divide, definitely need a little sense
drilled into their heads. First, however mis-
placed Uganda’s intentions may be, they are
very understandable. African culture is tradi-
tionally ultra-conservative, South Africa not-
withstanding.
The reality of Africa lies in its wise old
men and women, the generation of their chil-
dren (my parents), and the established cul-
ture that defines their history. They sit at the
apex of Africa’s social hierarchy and tell their
children that marriage is for a man and a
woman, that anything outside of this is taboo
and unacceptable. They hold homosexuality
as an appendage of Western or imperialistic
influence on their continent, and no one can
question the basic logic of such convictions.
Respecting these men and women means re-
specting their beliefs and culture.
America itself, as a powerful example,
has been on a winding road with issues of
quire college degrees? Author Robert Ver-
bruggen suggests that, given the “massive
tuition subsidies” taxpayers provide, the B.A.
has become little more than a “convenient and
free screening method.” To wit: While you will
never use $150,000 dollars’ worth of under-
graduate sociology, MCM or psychology in
the private sector, prospective employers use
your B.A. to establish a baseline of competen-
cy: The applicant was able to gain admission
to a college and graduate. So long as we insist
on sending every somewhat competent high
school graduate to a four-year college, regard-
less of his or her ability to pay tuition, “B.A.”
remains excellent shorthand for “somewhat
If we stopped subsidizing college tuition,
businesses would be forced to utilize less pric-
ey methods of separating the wheat from the
chaff. As Verbruggen puts it, with entrance ex-
ams, “a few minutes with a pencil and a sheet
of paper could accomplish what requires four
years today.”
Verbruggen is in good — and startlingly di-
verse — company. A symposium of higher-ed-
issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education
revealed that both liberals and conservatives
within higher education felt that a four-year
did not necessarily impart the skills that work-
Friday, March 5, 2010 | Page 7
race for centuries, and that process is far
from over — a post-racial America is not yet
here. Meanwhile, a more contemporary is-
sue — homosexuality and gay rights — has
joined that road as a challenge that requires
a very long process full of great divisions
across the country and immense struggles
on the minority group fighting for their par-
ticular cause. The sensational defeat of the
gay rights agenda in all 31 American states
where the issue was put to vote signifies that
even this country is not yet united in opening
the doors for marriage equality.
Brown students, and the Western world
that they mirror, must realize that only by un-
derstanding first, without patronizing those
who differ, will open the doors of understand-
ing and dialogue. I’m sure Africa will not wel-
come any lecturers on how to make its own
decisions — and the “where-have-you-been-
slash-we-know-it-all” attitudes I have seen
and heard will not solve any problems. Espe-
cially from people who do not have their own
house in order on the very same issue.
I obviously do not support the “barbaric”
elements in Uganda’s proposed legislation.
Killing people for who they want to be is un-
conscionable and not acceptable. Yet I want
those who differ to do so with understanding
— without patronizing or hastening Africa
to force all notions of Western culture down
its reluctant, conservative throat. Change to-
wards more tolerance in Uganda is good for
humanity, and therefore imperative and inev-
itable. Yet that change should only be gradu-
al and respected by all.
Dominic Mhiripiri ’12 is from an
even more beautiful country than
Uganda. He can be reached at
dominic_mhiripiri@brown.edu.
ers needed to be effective on the job.
The four-year system is certainly worth-
while for engineers, pre-medical students, ac-
ademics and a select few individuals. But au-
thor Charles Murray offers that, in most cas-
es, “there are better, faster and more efficient
ways for young people to acquire credentials
to provide to employers.” 
Murray, Verbruggen and others suggest
that if taxpayer subsidies come into play, they
should more often be directed towards vo-
cational and two-year programs in specified
fields. 
The traditional benefits attached to a col-
lege education are rapidly eroding in the face
of free public libraries and the Internet. To
borrow a line from Good Will Hunting, why
drop 150 grand on an education that you can
get for a dollar fifty in late charges at the pub-
lic library?
It may smack of injustice that the rich can
more talented individuals attend stigmatized
vocational schools. But stigmas change with
time. Rest easy knowing that the shrewdness
of the private sector will cut through the fa-
cade and hire the most qualified candidates.
Hopefully, the B.A. will soon be seen as a
luxury good, like a closet full of polo shirts or
a sports car. It’s a status symbol that is nice to
have, but it isn’t clear that everyone needs it to
succeed. And it’s certain that taxes shouldn’t
be paying for it.
Will Wray ’10 wants to splash in a
lazy river and drink smoothies.
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The Brown Daily Herald
s p o rt s a ro u n d t h e b e n d
Men’s basketball will close out
its season with a pair of home games
against Cornell on Friday at 7 p.m.
and Columbia on Saturday at 7 p.m.
Men’s lacrosse will kick off its
season against the No. 11 Hofstra at
1 p.m. on the Pride’s turf.
Women’s basketball will travel
to Cornell on Friday for a 7 p.m.
game, then to Columbia the next
day for their last game of the season
at 7 p.m.
Men’s swimming and diving
will compete in the Ivy Champion-
ships at Princeton starting today
until Saturday. The team will look to
c a l e n da r
Today, March 5
12:00 p.m. — Peace Corps Information
Session, CDC Library
8:00 p.m. — “Lulu: A Pandora’s Box,”
Stuart Theatre
menu
Sharpe Refectory
Lunch — Brussel Sprouts Casserole,
Hot Pastrami Sandwich, Antipasto Bar,
Blondies
Dinner — Manicotti Piedmontese,
Filet of Sole with Bananas
crossword
improve from its seventh place finish
from last year.
Skiing has been competing since
Monday in the USCSA National
Championships, which will conclude
on Saturday.
Men’s and women’s track &
field will compete in the Eastern
College Athletic Conference all day
Saturday and Sunday at Boston Uni-
versity.
Women’s water polo will travel
to Indiana to compete in the CWPA
Elite Eight Championship this week-
end starting on Saturday at 11:10 a.m.
and continue onto Sunday.
tomorrow, March 6
1:00 P.M. — 13th Annual
Entrepreneurship Program Forum,
Smith-Buonanno Hall
7:00 P.M. — imPulse Dance
Company’s 7th Annual Spring Show,
Alumnae Hall Auditorium
Verney-Woolley Dining Hall
Lunch — Chicken Fingers, Peanut
Butter and Jelly Bar, Blondies
Dinner — Salmon Teriyaki, Grilled
Chicken, Spinach Pie Casserole
Tortellini Italiano with Sausage
2 Students call for divestment
Music festival goes international
4
Friday, March 5, 2010
d i a m o n d s a n d c oa l
A diamond to students who faced a wet
Providence and got excited by orgasms coming
to Brown. Perhaps the lecture will help students
craving early release… of the Spring Weekend
lineup.
Coal to Dean of the College Katherine
Bergeron for thinking a SideKick will improve
our writing skills. Thx 4 ur tip.
Coal to the four seniors who subscribed to
the new Club Plan. A GCB membership would
have given you the same feeling of exclusivity
at one-eighth of the price.
Cubic zirconium to the Open the Books
Coalition for researching the University’s invest-
ments on YouTube. Trust us — the secrets are
not hidden in “Charlie Bit My Finger.” We’ve
looked.
A diamond to Robert Healey, candidate for
lieutenant governor, for telling Rhode Islanders
that the state needs an “explosion.” It’s always
comics
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good to have a fresh perspective on being tough
on terrorism.
A diamond to Banner for adding a Mocha-
esque course search feature. Perhaps next they’ll
add a feature to help the system get over its
inferiority complex.
Coal to University Librarian Harriet Hem-
masi for telling students that the Sciences Li-
brary “needs to come to life.” It’s been sticking
up straight for over 35 years, and we thought
you were supposed to call your doctor after
four hours.
Diamonds to Dow Travers ’12 and Becky
Kellar ’97, Brown’s proud Olympians. But coal
to Travers for thinking he won’t get Coke for
free after leaving Vancouver. Surely he hasn’t
forgotten the Ratty so quickly.
Want more D&C? Check out a retro-diamond from
2000 at blogdailyherald.com, and write your own
at diamondsandcoal.com.