Daily
the Brown
vol. cxlvi, no. 27
Convocation kicks off
new master’s program
By Jake Comer
Senior Staff Writer
The University’s business master’s
program held convocation yester-
day afternoon in Pembroke Hall
for the inaugural class of Brown’s
joint experimental business master’s
program with Spain’s Instituto de
Empresa.
The 24 students sat interspersed
throughout an audience of about
75 to listen to a series of short talks
presented by leaders of the new pro-
gram, including Brown and Insitute
de Empresa faculty members who
will teach courses in the program
and Craig Cogut ’75, Corporation
trustee and founder and co-man-
aging partner of Pegasus Capital
Advisors.
Michael Steinberg, director of the
Cogut Center for the Humanities
‘No confidence’ vote shakes RISD
Mailboxes
turn over, but By Miriam Furst
S W
combinations Spurred by the administration’s un- consistently
popular plan to reorganize academic partment heads and deans, when posal should have first gone through
don’t change divisions, faculty at the Rhode Island undertaking major changes that an elected faculty curriculum com-
School of Design voted “no confi- affect academic instruction,” Sher- mittee and then to a full faculty vote.
By Jackie Choi
Contributing Writer
Back on campus after a semester on
leave, a junior went to check her mail.
She entered the familiar combina-
tion and found, to her surprise, a
bag of chocolates. Assuming it was
a welcome gift for all students, she
enjoyed the treat. But two weeks later,
she received a package arrival notice
listing an unfamiliar campus box
number — and she began to have
suspicions about the chocolates.
It was only after asking University
Mail Services about the unfamiliar
number that she found out her cam-
pus mailbox had been changed.
The junior — who asked that her
name be withheld because it is illegal
to open another person’s mail — real-
ized her old mailbox had been reas-
signed to another student, but the
combination had not been changed.
She said if she had not received the
package arrival notice, she might
still be accessing another student’s
mailbox.
Four students — including the
female junior — have reported to
The Herald that their mailboxes were
reassigned without notification this
semester after they returned from
studying abroad or leaves of absence.
But the lock combinations were
not changed, and all four students
continued on page 2
news..................2-5
inside
Arts....................6-7
editorial............10
Opinions.............11
SPORTS..................12
Monday, March 7, 2011
and professor of history and music,
served as master of ceremonies.
Collectively, the speakers em-
phasized the unique nature of the
program as a liberal arts-focused
M.B.A. taught by faculty from both
IE and Brown.
“What we do in this program is
say, ‘Okay, let’s take the core of the
M.B.A., let’s make sure you know
everything you need to know about
management, but let’s take the con-
versation further. Let’s take the
conversation further by bringing in
content from the humanities and
social sciences that is usually not
part of a management program,” said
David Bach, dean of programs and
professor of strategy and economic
environment at IE and one of the
academic directors of the IE-Brown
continued on page 3
“The overarching issue is perhaps Full Time Faculty Union. He said
the president and provost having the administration violated the Full
taff riter
and willfully ignored Time Faculty Contract in laying out
the advice of faculty, especially de- the reorganization plan. The pro-
dence” in President John Maeda and
Provost Jessie Shefrin by a margin
of 147 to 32 March 2.
The no-confidence vote comes
as the result of a series of grievances
against the administration, accord-
ing to Mark Sherman, chairman of
the Faculty Steering Committee.
Bruno sweeps final weekend, finishes fourth
By Madeleine Wenstrup
Sports Staff Writer
One month ago, the women’s bas-
ketball team was crushed by Co-
lumbia 72-49 in New York. But
Saturday, fresh off a victory over
Cornell (6-21, 3-10 Ivy League)
the previous night, the Bears were
sports
hungry for an upset at home. In the
final game of the season, the Bears
(10-18, 6-8) charged past the Lions
(7-21, 6-8) in a 65-55 win to end
the season with a weekend sweep
and a move to fourth in the league.
“We knew what had happened
last time,” said Lindsay Steele ’12.
“Having lost to them before pre-
pared us well and got us excited
for this game.”
Their preparation paid off. The
Bears took an immediate lead after
Biblio-tech
Library creates new position
that utilizes online resources
Campus news, 5
Herald
Yo u l i k e i t ?
Sock & Buskin take on “As You Like It” in their fourth show of the season, which
runs through March 13 in Stuart Theater.
man said.
Three weeks ago, the administra-
tion announced an academic reorga-
nization plan merging the Division
of Architecture and Design and the
Division of Fine Arts into a single
Division of Undergraduate Studies,
said Henry Ferreira, president of the
tip-off. But with 12 minutes re-
maining in the first half, the Lions
flexed their muscles and respond-
ed, building an eight-point advan-
tage before Bruno could recover.
A three-point shot by co-cap-
tain Aileen Daniels ’12 put the
Bears back on track, and with 3:23
remaining, Brown had taken back
the lead 22-18. Columbia fought
back to tie things up 22-22, before
co-captain Hannah Passafuime ’12
hit a three to retake the lead head-
ing into halftime.
The Lions never came close
again. The Bears surged out to an
11-point lead after halftime. The
Bears’ 54 percent shooting from
the floor in the second half car-
ried them to victory. Daniels and
Lauren Clarke ’14 led all scorers
with 15 points apiece.
Things were not as easy the pre-
continued on page 8
Since 1891
Mathematics
institute to
open today
By Katherine Long
Staff Writer
The $15.5 million Institute for
Computational and Experimen-
tal Research in Mathematics will
officially open today at noon. U.S
senators Jack Reed and Sheldon
Whitehouse, both democrats of
Rhode Island, will join President
Ruth Simmons in speaking at the
celebration at 121 South Main St.,
where the institute will be housed.
The institute is the first of its
kind in New England to be funded
by a grant from the National Sci-
ence Foundation. Its goals include
Jessica Lilien / Credit attracting top-level researchers to
Providence and creating a reputa-
tion for the University as one of
See review on page 5. the top math research universities
in the nation.
It will support research on the
convergence of mathematics and
computation. Such research could
spur advances in the studies of cli-
mate change, cryptography, cyber
security, energy production and
distribution, finance, personal-
ized medicine, search engines and
social networks, according to a
University press release. It will
“There is a process in our con- establish a variety of programs,
tract that the administration knows including “hot topics” conferences
about and did not follow,” Ferreira in the summers and undergradu-
said. The faculty union plans to en- ate, graduate and postdoctoral
force the contract. research projects that will pair
“The union met with the ad- students with mathematicians.
continued on page 2 continued on page 2
Jonathan Bateman / Herald
Lauren Clarke ’14 led Brown past Columbia Saturday with 15 points in a
65-55 win.
weather
Real relics
t o d ay tomorrow
Tour features actual
ancient artifacts
Arts & Culture, 7 43 / 24 44 / 27
2 Campus News
Today
calendar
March 7 ToMORROW March 8
RISD students, board
6 P.m.
Careers in Education,
5:30 p.m.
“Business of Chinese Food in
split over faculty vote
CDC Library Mexico,” Barus and Holley 153 continued from page 1
8 p.m. 7 p.m.
ministration before the vote of no
“History of Women in Print in the Intel Information Session, confidence and told them they could
U.S.,” Smith-Buonanno 201 CDC Library either rescind their decision or the
union will go forward with a griev-
menu ance,” Ferreira said. If the adminis-
tration does not respond, the issue
could go to a board of arbitration
SHARPE REFECTORY VERNEy-WOOLLEY DINING HALL
that would determine whether the
LUNCH administration violated the contract.
Cajun Pasta with Chicken, Tortellini Baked Macaroni and Cheese, “President Maeda and Provost
Provencale, Vegan Chana Masala, BBQ Chicken Sandwich, Italian Shefrin have heard the point of view
Spiced Vegetables, Butter Cookies Marinated Chicken, Butter Cookies of the faculty and take it very se-
riously,” said RISD spokeswoman
DINNER
Jaime Marland.
Vegan Roasted Veggie Stew, Texas Tuscan Pork Roast, Pesto Pasta “President Maeda and his admin-
Style Beef Brisket, Jumbo Couscous, with Sundried Tomatoes, Moo Shu istration continue to have the full
S’Mores Bars Chicken, S’Mores Bars support of RISD’s Board of Trustees,”
said Merrill Sherman, chair of the
Sudoku Board of Trustees, in a statement.
The faculty, which requested a meet-
ing with the Board of Trustees fol-
lowing the vote, is waiting to hear
whether the board will meet with
them.
Students have also weighed in on
the controversy. The Student Alli-
Switched mailboxes
raise privacy concerns
continued from page 1
continued to receive mail at their old
boxes, unaware the boxes had been
reassigned until receiving mail that
was not addressed to them — or in
Cr ossword the case of the female junior, receiv-
ing the package arrival notice with a
new mailbox listed on it. After bring-
ing the mail to the student service
window in J. Walter Wilson, students
were told their mailboxes had been
assigned to new owners.
“I was never officially notified,”
wrote Amitte Rosenfeld ’12.5, who
returned this semester from a leave of
absence, in an e-mail to The Herald.
There is no inventory of extra
Daily
the Brown
www.browndailyherald.com
195 Angell St., Providence, R.I.
Ben Schreckinger, President
Sydney Ember, Vice President
The Brown Daily Herald (USPS 067.740) is an independent newspaper serving the
Brown University community daily since 1891. It is published Monday through Friday
during the academic year, excluding vacations, once during Commencement, once dur-
ing Orientation and once in July by The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. Single copy free for
each member of the community.
POSTMASTER please send corrections to P.O. Box 2538, Providence, RI 02906.
Periodicals postage paid at Providence, R.I.
Subscription prices: $280 one year daily, $140 one semester daily.
Copyright 2011 by The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. All rights reserved.
editorial
(401) 351-3372
herald@browndailyherald.com
ance voted to release a statement
asking for more cooperation be-
tween the faculty and administration
the same day as the no-confidence
vote. “We are concerned by the lack
of communication from both parties
and request an open dialogue that we
wish to be included in,” said Under-
graduate Student Alliance president
Naomi Mishkin.
RISD freshman Lauren Allegrez-
za said she stands with the faculty
because she knows and respects
them. Students created a website
calling for student support for the
faculty. A statement on the website
ends, “RISD is not Maeda. Maeda
will not be RISD.”
“The (Strategic) Plan is well-
meaning and aspirational,” said
Peter Simon, a RISD senior. “Most
of the disagreement was based off
of longstanding communication is-
sues between faculty, students and
administrators.” He said he hopes the
controversy serves as a catalyst for
improving communication within
the school.
mailboxes, so boxes must be put
to use if their owners are not cur-
rently on campus, said Fred Yattaw,
manager of Mail Services. “The mail-
boxes must find an owner,” he said.
Mail Services has no time to notify
individual students who return to
campus from being away that their
mailboxes have changed, he said.
Students also raised concerns
about the security and privacy im-
plications of reassigning mailboxes
without changing the combinations.
Yattaw said making such modi-
fications would be time-consuming
and that there has never been a prob-
lem with unchanged combinations
in his 43 years with Mail Services.
Herald
Matthew Burrows, Treasurer
Isha Gulati, Secretary
Business
(401) 351-3360
gm@browndailyherald.com
The Brown Daily Herald
Monday, March 7, 2011
News in brief
Planning begins
for Iway lands
Providence Mayor Angel
Taveras has enlisted the help
of a design firm to zone the
city’s Jewelry District and
surrounding areas following
the relocation of I-195,
according to a press release
from the Mayor’s office.
The firm, Perkins and
Will, will determine how best
to develop the area. Land
parcels will open once the
state finalizes the move of the
highway.
The University has
previously expressed interest
in aquiring plots freed up
by the Iway project. In 2009,
adminstrators from Brown and
Johnson and Wales University
lobbied state legislators to
assure the two universities
exclusive rights to purchase
the lots. But city planners have
insisted the land be sold at
market value.
The Jewelry District is home
to the Women and Infants
Hospital and the will house
Brown’s new Medical Education
Building. The area is a potential
hub for businesses attracted by
Providence’s biomedical and
biotechnical resources.
— Caitlin Trujillo
Mayor to
speak at
ceremony
continued from page 1
“The role of the institute is
to create the right environment
— from the scientific vision and
the setting of priorities to the in-
frastructure and computational
tools — which supports the vital
research projects of its participat-
ing scholars as well as the training
and mentoring of the next genera-
tion of mathematicians,” Professor
of Mathematics Jill Pipher, who
will lead the institute, wrote in an
e-mail to The Herald in September.
Pipher will be among the
speakers at the event. Other speak-
ers will include Provost David
Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98, U.S. Rep.
James Langevin, Mayor Angel
Taveras and Sastry Pantula, head
of the Division of Mathematical
Sciences at the National Science
Foundation.
See tomorrow’s Herald for full
coverage.
The Brown Daily Herald
Monday, March 7, 2011
Graduate School continues to expand, funding grows
By Lindor Qunaj
Senior Staff Writer
The graduate student body has
grown 14 percent since a May
2008 report by the Working Group
on Graduate Education recom-
mended expansion, according to
Dean of the Graduate School Peter
Weber P’12. With 1,905 students
enrolled in 48 PhD and 24 master’s
programs as of last fall, Weber said
the school intends to continue to
increase both the number of stu-
dents and the number of degree
programs in the future.
The committee, which consist-
ed of professors, graduate students
and administrators, developed
six long-term recommendations
for the Grad School, including
the continued growth of the stu-
dent population and increase in
the number of programs offered.
Other objectives included fund-
ing, diversity, instruction and data
assessment.
Prior to the enrollment in-
creases, small incoming classes
— as few as two students in some
humanities programs — made it
difficult for “cohort formation and
peer learning,” according to the
report.
Jeremy Powell GS, a fourth-
year doctoral candidate in the De-
partment of Modern Culture and
Media, which matriculates only
two or three new students a year,
agreed that creating a “cohesive
cohort” is more difficult in small
programs. He cited the “Current
Perspectives in MCM” graduate
symposium as a program designed
to build community and provide
a venue to present work but said
these activities have been limited
and largely organized “from the
ground up.”
Powell said he was not aware of
any initiatives being planned by
the Grad School to address these
issues, adding that in many de-
M.B.A. program goes ‘beyond business’
continued from page 1
Executive M.B.A. Program.
In the convocation’s keynote
speech, Cogut shared vignettes of
recent encounters with prominent
business professionals who value a
knowledge of the humanities. He
said that last week, for instance, he
met with the CEO of a large insur-
ance company who told him that he
likes to see a strong background in
history from prospective hires.
“Today’s business leaders must be
so much more aware of the world as
a whole,” Cogut said.
Vani Nadarajah, associate admis-
sions director at IE, also emphasized
a different approach to the M.B.A.
that goes “beyond business.” Her
speech focused on the inaugural
program’s participants and their
diversity, qualifications and social
consciousness.
“People that are the participants
in this program are very into people,”
she said. They “have a real passion,
partments, there have not been
“enough students to warrant or
even support” such programs. But
as the number of grad students
increases, community-building
programs may “start to develop
more naturally,” he said.
For Seth Kadish GS, a fifth-year
doctoral candidate in the plan-
etary geosciences, the small size of
his program — about 20 students
— has not been an issue. “The de-
partment may seem small, but it
seems more crowded than some
others,” Kadish said, explaining
that, for his program, most of the
students’ workstations are housed
in a single room. “We’re using the
same software, the same data —
it’s incredibly collaborative,” he
said.
Though some programs may
not grow immediately, the recent-
ly formed School of Engineering
will certainly expand, Weber said.
Computational biology admitted
its first doctoral class last fall,
and the first two PhD students
in Africana studies will enroll
next semester. Lawrence Larson,
the newly announced dean of
engineering, will be involved in
supplementing the school’s cur-
rent offerings with courses and
research in fields such as bioen-
gineering and entrepreneurial
studies, according to a March 4
Herald article.
“We have a good size in some
programs, but others still have
a capacity to grow,” Weber said.
He said there is also potential
for significant growth in the mas-
ter’s programs — one of the Grad
School’s highest priorities.
‘Acute need’
The working group identified
summer funding and conference
travel support as areas of “acute
need.” At the time the report
was issued, summer funding for
doctoral students was limited to
motivation, concern for their peo-
ple.”
Nadarajah also said that the IE-
Brown Executive M.B.A. Program is
not just about being a good business
leader, but also about being a global
citizen.
“It’s about being a different class
of leader,” she said. “The emphasis
is on people and ethics.”
To provide such a background for
their students, the program has en-
listed faculty such as Brown Profes-
sor of Philosophy Bernard Reginster.
He will be teaching a course called
“Work, Meaning and Identity,” which
he told The Herald he hopes will
“contribute somehow to make them
better businessmen.” But instead of
providing students with some intel-
lectual tool directly related to achiev-
ing success in the business world,
Reginster said he will try to make
them think about how their work
shapes their identities.
The 24 students, who work in 12
different industries and represent
browndailyherald.com/register
Campus News 3
$2,500 for each of three sum-
mers, less than the stipend given
to students for an Undergraduate
Teaching and Research Award.
Though the Grad School has
not added to that annual limit,
it has increased the guarantee
of summer support from three
to four years, a decision Powell
called “a definitive move in the
right direction.” The increase was
implemented starting with stu-
dents who matriculated this year.
But Powell said “offering some-
one a fourth year of summer fund-
ing potentially at the expense of
sixth-year assistantship is not a
good thing.” The University cur-
rently guarantees doctoral stu-
dents five years of funding, and
according to Powell, a sixth year of
funding has been generally avail-
able. But there may be a “move
coming down the pike to curtail
the vast majority” of sixth-year
support, Powell said.
In many humanities disci-
plines, it can take longer than five
years to complete a PhD, Powell
said.
Weber is currently meeting
with doctoral students to “hear
their thoughts about funding be-
yond the five-year guarantee and
to discuss potential changes to the
process of seeking and distribut-
ing funds,” Beverly Larson, direc-
tor of communications for both
the Grad School and the office of
the vice president for research,
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.
As a supplement to summer
funding, which is part of the
overall support package for PhD
candidates, the Grad School be-
gan to offer summer research
grants in July 2007. In the 2008-
09 academic year — the academic
year following the publication
of the working group’s recom-
mendations — 51 awards total-
ing $165,329 were made to stu-
dents, a massive increase over the
more than a dozen nationalities, said
the humanities-oriented approach
was a major draw to the IE-Brown
program.
“You can get M.B.A. skills at any
university,” said Mark Stover, owner
of Pine Valley Property Services and
a member of the inaugural class. But
he said the opportunity for inter-
disciplinary study drew him to the
program.
The participants begin their
first on-campus learning module
today, which will last two weeks.
The 15-month program ­— which
is conducted predominantly online
— calls for a total of seven weeks of
“face-to-face” learning opportunities
to be held in Providence and Madrid.
Santiago Iniguez de Ozono, dean
of IE, encouraged the participants
to “keep an open mind” in pursu-
ing this unusual track for an M.B.A.
“There’s no program like this,”
he said in his speech. “We are go-
ing to experience something which
is unique.”
$15,200 awarded the year before,
Larson wrote in her e-mail. But
that amount dropped substantially
the following year. In 2009-10, 50
grants were made, but the total
plummeted to $57,913 and the
average award fell from $1,382
to $1,158.
The funding available for con-
ference travel and attendance has
“not been adequate,” Powell said.
“We would definitely benefit
greatly” from additional funding
for conferences, he said, adding
that this concern has been dis-
cussed at multiple meetings with
other students in his department.
But these concerns vary across
and within disciplines. Kadish
— who works with Professor of
Geological Sciences James Head
­— said his adviser, like many in
the department, is well-funded
and has been able to send students
to conferences in places such as
Iceland and Germany. “I honestly
don’t even notice the effect that
Brown funding has on us,” said
Kadish, who called his situation
“admittedly atypical.” He added
that conference funding may be
more of an issue for students
working with professors who are
just beginning their careers.
Other recommendations
The Grad School has focused
on addressing “pockets of need”
where not enough teaching as-
sistants are available, Weber said.
Though the Grad School’s growth
has solved some of these prob-
lems, there are still issues, par-
ticularly in courses where there
does not exist a corresponding
graduate program or department.
“Just as undergraduate enroll-
ments should not dictate the size
of our doctoral programs, neither
should uncertainty regarding in-
structional support inhibit or im-
pair the curricular offerings of the
College,” the working group wrote
in its 2008 report. The report sug-
gested the Grad School improve
support for teaching assistants and
collaborate with departments to
anticipate how many TAs will be
needed for each course.
Kadish — who served as a TA
for GEOL 0050: “Mars, Moon and
the Earth,” in fall 2007 — said the
job required an “overwhelmingly
large amount of work — or about
a course and a half worth of work.”
At the time, there were only two
TAs for the course, which had an
enrollment of approximately 75
students. “My general feeling is
that each TA should not be re-
sponsible for more than 25 stu-
dents,” Kadish said.
The working group report
also criticized “patterns of attri-
tion among minority and inter-
national students” and recom-
mended programs and structure
to support those students. Former
Grad School dean Sheila Bonde,
professor of history of art and
architecture, hired an assistant
dean for recruiting and profes-
sional development, who focuses
on recruiting minority students,
Weber said.
The Grad School has also be-
gun to publish comprehensive in-
formation and statistics on each of
the master’s and PhD programs.
The working group called this sort
of data compilation “a healthy
exercise that promotes transpar-
ency,” which Larson agreed was a
“good thing.”
The process of data assessment
has “evolved dramatically,” We-
ber said, and the reports include
data about admission and funding
sources as well as student demo-
graphic information such as age,
ethnicity, gender and nationality.
The expanded focus on data
gathering “enables individual de-
partments to see certain issues
and take corrective measures as
they see fit,” Weber said.
4 Campus News
Local chiropractor
shares Everest story
By Meia Geddes
Contributing Writer
Tim Warren, author of “Lessons
from Everest,” has a mission: “In-
spire as many people as possible
to achieve a healthy, adventurous
life.” Warren, a local chiropractor
and inspirational speaker, talk-
ed to roughly a dozen students
and young adults Saturday at the
Brown Bookstore.
Warren stressed the importance
of enjoying the journey along the
way to a goal. Drool frozen on
his camera did not stop him from
documenting his journey, but he
could not linger when avalanches
posed a constant risk — no matter
how many changing shadows he
wished to record.
When Warren attempted to
climb Mount Everest in 2007, he
suffered altitude-related illness
and made the “good, smart de-
cision to turn around.” He said
he felt conflicted afterward about
mountain climbing, but realized
he wanted to go back the following
year. Warren showed a picture of
a brain, illustrating his belief that
one must bring the subconscious
mind to the forefront with the aid
of a catalyst, such as a screen-saver
image of Everest.
Along with all the challenges of
summiting Everest, Warren faced
the additional obstacle of a fear
of heights. He forced himself to
climb at the Rhode Island Rock
Gym, “gradually stepped it up”
and within a year had nearly elimi-
nated the phobia. Beside Everest,
Warren has climbed Kilimanjoro
in Tanzania, Denali in Alaska and
Acancagua in Argentina.
Warren said he is fascinated by
the human mind and its relation-
ship to the realization of one’s full
potential. Everest is different from
other mountains, and summiting
it requires different training, he
said. At some points, Warren was
“in despair.” But eventually, “I got
my mojo back,” he said. Upon his
return, he found his eyesight and
tooth enamel had deteriorated due
to lack of oxygen.
He said he did not always know
what time it was and his vision was
at times limited to his three-me-
ter headlamp beam. He dropped
through a snow bridge into a hole,
from which — with the help of a
friend and passing skiers — he
extricated himself in 10 minutes.
He also mentioned the potentially
fatal consequences of forgetting
to wear one’s crampons, which
are heavy-duty spikes that pro-
vide traction on steep slopes. One
lapse, and a climber can tumble
down the mountain to his or her
death.
Warren said he could not have
made the climb without the as-
sistance of Sherpas, native guides
hired to assist with the climb. War-
ren showed an image of a Sherpa
carrying packs at least double his
height on his back. Sherpas per-
formed such onerous tasks as the
setting up of about 150 ladder sec-
tions for the journey, Warren said.
But his memories of the climb
were not just of exertion. Movie
night at camp featured the likes
of “Superbad” and “Kill Bill,” with
the mountaineers bundled up and
clustered together as they watched.
Another highlight of the trip was
the presence of yaks, which he de-
scribed as “cows on steroids.” The
audience chuckled when Warren
mentioned the Italian professional
mountaineers who looked like Fa-
bio Lanzoni, an Italian romance
novel icon.
Sitting at his laptop at ease
among the audience, Warren
conversed with its members
throughout his presentation and
question-and-answer session. Sev-
eral people expressed an interest in
mountain climbing, asking about
such issues as caffeine intake and
altitude sickness.
Daniel Goodwin, who was vis-
iting a friend at Brown, said he
came to the talk because there are
not many people who attempt or
are able to climb Everest.
Kelly McCullough said she at-
tended the event because she is
fascinated by stories about Everest.
“You can live vicariously,” she said.
Q&A with Tim Warren
By Meia Geddes
Contributing Writer
Before his presentation, Warren
sat down with The Herald for a
question-and-answer session.
Herald: How did you go about
compiling “Lessons From Ever-
est”? How did you narrow it
down to seven lessons?
I like the number seven be-
cause it’s a very spiritual number
and if you look at all the major
religions the seven just keeps
popping up. (Those lessons) were
seven that were just super mean-
ingful for me on this climb and I
suspect that they can be meaning-
ful for anybody, not just climbing.
My hope for this whole book is
that — nobody’s going to climb
Mount Everest: Only us knuckle-
heads climb Mount Everest — ­ but
everybody has great difficulties
or goals or things throughout
their lives and my hope is that
these seven lessons that really
were sunk home for me on the
second climb can be meaningful
to people overcoming difficulties
in their own lives. I just wanted
to share. I had some music in me
and I wanted to get it out.
Could you talk a little about
what led to your passion for
climbing?
Well, I started when I was
very, very young. My parents
were very outdoorsy and are still
very outdoorsy. Summers and
school vacations we got into the
pick-up truck as a family and
drove to New Hampshire and
Maine and hiked and camped.
And then one summer, which
really got me enthralled with the
outdoors, was for a whole two
months when we got in that pick
up truck. We visited a lot of na-
tional parks across the country
and did a lot of hiking, and not
technical climbing … but just a
lot of backpacking. It was fantas-
tic and I was totally hooked. And
then going on to college and then
to graduate school to become a
chiropractor, I was just starting
my practice here in Rhode Island.
I was unable to really have a lot
of time except for one three-day
weekend per year where I went
backpacking with a friend up
north. I was always an endurance
athlete, always a runner, a triath-
lete. In the early 1990’s I just kind
of got the yen for more technical
climbing, especially with a book
that came out in 1996 called “Into
Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer, talk-
ing about Mount Everest. There
seem to be two types of people:
the people who have read that
book and are horrified by it ...
and the other people like me who
probably have serious psychosis
and are like “Wow, that’s cool.”
Not that I had a goal in 1996 of
trying to climb Mount Everest,
but I knew then that I was going
to do some climbing. So the next
logical thing for me was I went
up to Mount Washington. And
then I decided to go to Mount
Rainier. And there I set a goal
that once a year I would climb
one big mountain in the world.
And I was still not thinking about
Mount Everest at all. Then Mount
Kilimanjaro in Africa… Denali in
Alaska ... Yosemite National Park
… the Rockies and Wyoming …
back to Denali and Alaska and
was able to get to the top. I still
knew I didn’t have the stuff for
Everest yet. I went down to Ar-
gentina, ... to Acancagua, … and
then set the goal to climb Everest
the next year. The whole endeavor
is about two and a half months.
And I did not make that in 2007,
but realized there were some les-
sons I needed to learn and under-
stand about myself, changed all
those, and went back in 2008 and
I was lucky enough to get to the
top, becoming the only Rhode Is-
lander who’s ever been to the top.
Do you think the youth of today
don’t move their bodies enough?
It’s not limited to young peo-
ple. Sadly, the younger generation
may just be the first generation in
the last dozen or so that does not
outlive their parents because they
don’t move enough. The world’s
different now, and everybody is
wired. It’s very simple that people
need to move. In order for the
body to work properly, the body
has to move. Your mind has to
move. Your mind has to con-
stantly do new things and bite
off more than it can chew and
chew it, in order to be healthy.
The brain is created that way. The
body is created that way. People
may know that innately, but doing
it and knowing it are two different
things so it’s part of my mission
to get people moving, body and
mind.
Would you describe yourself as
adventurous?
Yeah, I would definitely de-
The Brown Daily Herald
Monday, March 7, 2011
scribe myself as adventurous,
but I would not describe myself
as a thrill-seeker. It was never a
draw for me to be an adrenaline-
junkie. What is always a draw is
to push to the limits. Now, do
you know where your potential
is until you really get up close to
it? I know I pushed it as much as
I could push it. Both physically
and mentally. And that was glori-
ous to be able to do that, and to
survive and tell the tale in that
aspect of my life. But how do I
know what my potential is be-
ing a health-care practitioner?
Being a business man? Being a
father? Being a good mate? How
do you know? So I’ve always been
enthralled with that as an open-
ended question and because you
wear a lot of hats in life and you
have to pay attention to those if
you want to grow in all those di-
mensions.
Do you have any advice for your
audience?
Find your own Everest. De-
termine what your own Everest
is. If you don’t take precautions
and you overestimate your abili-
ties, Mother Nature can smite
you down at will. And I knew
that I was nothing more than a
bug on the side of Mother Na-
ture on Mount Everest. I never
conquered any mountain that
I climbed. I was just allowed to
climb. And if it was not right, if
the weather was not good, if the
wind was too high, if I didn’t have
a good feeling, if I was exhausted,
turn my little rear end, go home,
and climb another day. And that’s
advice that I will give to people
who are interested in climbing.
But the main thing for humanity
is move your mind, move your
body, determine what your own
mission is, what I term “your own
Everest,” and put your passion
into achieving that.
Who or what motivates you in
life?
I get motivated from people
that work hard at whatever their
vocation is. They have a definite
mission. Bill Gates doesn’t have
to work a day in his life but he
works every day. I’m impressed
by that. There are people who cre-
ate things, who build companies,
who achieve things, who start
movements because of sheer pas-
sion — not because there’s any
logic in it — and succeed. That’s
pretty motivating.
The Brown Daily Herald
Monday, March 7, 2011
The new digital humanities librarian will help students and faculty use modern technologies for digital research.
Library updates with new position
By Nicole Grabel
Contributing Writer
In an effort to keep up with
modern technologies in digital
resources, the University Library
has created a new digital humani-
ties librarian position. The librar-
ian will help students and faculty
use new methods of research. The
search committee aims to fill the
position by the end of May, said
Ned Quist, interim coordinator for
scholarly research and a member
of the committee.
The position requires knowl-
edge of new technology and
digitized research resources, and
fits into the library’s larger goal
to “look ahead to the future of
libraries,” Quist said.
“To be prepared for the future,
it’s important that we in the library
step up to talk about extended
uses of technology,” said Harri-
ette Hemmasi, University librarian
and head of the search committee.
She said other universities already
have similar positions and that it is
almost “past time” the University
created one.
According to the job posting,
the digital humanities librarian
will work not just in one depart-
ment, but “together with other
scholarly resources librarians,
the center for digital scholarship
and other related library and cam-
pus partners.” This sort of cross-
disciplinary work is “where ev-
erybody’s headed,” in the move
towards a more modernized age,
Quist said.
This is not the only library po-
sition being created with an eye
towards the future. The University
is also looking for an e-science
librarian, who will be “in charge
of managing data sets,” Quist said.
The creation of these positions
Campus News 5
Over 18 percent of classes are being taken S/NC this semester, according to
Robert Fitzgerald, University registrar.
news r oundup
Herald file photo
is an effort to “anticipate needs
and meet those needs,” said Hem-
masi.
Last spring, the University
reduced the staff of libraries by
making cuts and enacting a new
retirement plan to encourage old-
er employees to retire. But more
staff members left than the Library
had anticipated, leaving additional
funds to hire necessary librarians.
After last year, “we had to eval-
uate which positions we needed
to keep” and whether to “keep
them in the same form” Hemassi
said. The digital humanities and
e-science librarian positions are
updated versions of positions left
vacant last year, Quist said.
So far, 29 people have applied
for the job of digital humanities
librarian, Sheila Coleman, head of
human resources and professional
development, wrote in an e-mail
to The Herald.
Spring 2011 Grade Option Registrations
Non-mandatory S/NC
Mandatory S/NC
11.9%
6.6%
81.5%
A/B/C/ NC
Katie Wilson / Herald
Higher ed by natalie villacorta
senior staff writer
Northwestern students attend after-class
sex toy demonstration
Northwestern University administration is investigating an
after-class sex toy demonstration in response to strong reactions
from national media sources and members of the Northwestern
community, according to the Daily Northwestern. The demonstration
was performed after a popular Human Sexuality course taught by
Professor of Psychology John Michael Bailey and featured a naked
non-student female being sexually stimulated to the point of orgasm
by a motorized sex toy. Students were informed of the topic and
explicit nature of the optional demonstration beforehand. University
President Morton Schapiro released a statement last Thursday
expressing disapproval of the demonstration. Bailey is defending
the demonstration, saying it was educational about sexual diversity.
About 120 students attended, and Bailey said he has received no
student complaints.
LSE director resigns over Libyan donation
scandal
The director of the London School of Economics and Political
Science, Sir Howard Davies, has resigned amid controversy regarding
the school’s links with Libya, according to the Times Higher
Education.
The controversy arose after the university accepted a donation
of 1.5 million p
­ ounds — about $2.5 million — from a charitable
foundation run by Saif Gadhafi, an alum of the university and one of
the sons of controversial Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Last Thursday, the Times of London published an article detailing
WikiLeaks cables from 2009 that revealed the London School of
Economics had received funding from Libya’s government to train
the country’s future leaders. According to the leaks, the university
was one of several schools cooperating with Libya on student
exchange programs.
The university’s governing council has commissioned an
independent inquiry of its relationship with Libya and Gadhafi. The
council has received 300,000 pounds — about $500,000 — of the
donation pledged by the Gadhafi foundation, and it has announced
it will not accept the remaining balance.
New Hampshire debates legislation to
prevent out-of-state students from voting
The state of New Hampshire is debating legislation that would
require out-of-state students to vote in their home states and not in
New Hampshire, according to the Dartmouth. The bill would redefine
the state constitution’s definition of domicile —­ or residency
requirements — ­ for voting in New Hampshire. Under the current
definition of domicile, students can vote both at home and at school,
Grafton County Treasurer Carol Elliot said at a hearing Thursday.
Opponents of the bill say that its goal is to eliminate voter fraud, not
to mandate where people vote. Students from Dartmouth, Plymouth
State University, Keene State College and the University of New
Hampshire attended the hearings and testified against the bill.
Supporters of the bill argue that students are uninformed about
candidates and issues. Rep. Gregory Sorg, R-Grafton, said he believes
that students can also drown out the voices of permanent residents.
Sorg said being domicile in a state requires more than physical
presence.
6 Arts & Culture
Artist spotlight:
Jina Park ’11
By Emma Wohl
Senior Staff Writer
Jina Park ’11 has always been fas-
cinated with how clothes shape
people’s lives.
“I think it’s really interesting
that for work, a person would
have to care about how they
dress,” she said.
Brown has no concentrations
in fashion design or apparel, so
Park had to find her own path
in the world of design. She is
concentrating in visual arts and
economics but has been interested
in fashion since freshman year.
“Not to be discouraging to people
who want to work in fashion, but
I actually found it pretty difficult
to work on fashion at Brown,” she
said.
Park has taken apparel classes
at the Rhode Island School of De-
sign and Parsons The New School
for Design in New York City. She
also studied abroad in Paris for
one semester with the Internships
in Francophone Europe Program.
In Paris, “I ended up working for
a menswear firm in the licensing
department, which helped me …
view the more business side of
fashion,” she said.
But Park said her most valu-
able experience came from work-
ing in the world of professional
fashion. In 2008, she interned
in New York with the designer
Brian Reyes. Through her work
with the designer, she explored
the business side of the industry,
she said. She even went to South
Korea with the company’s execu-
tives as a translator.
“If they ask for three designs
in an hour, but you take an extra
10 minutes or so and you come
The Brown Daily Herald
Monday, March 7, 2011
back with five, maybe that little
bit extra will set you apart,” Park
added.
But in the end, “I decided I
wanted to try the more creative
side,” she said.
At Brown, Park works in
painting and drawing as well as
in clothing. One of her works,
“(Pre)vision,” was featured in the
show “S(t)imulation” in the fall.
Now it hangs behind her bed. The
centerpiece of the painting is a
giant eye with four quadrants of
different colors.
Many of Park’s paintings in-
volve bold splashes of color. “Do-
ing visual arts at Brown helped me
explore a lot of the color schemes
I’m attracted to,” she said.
She was drawn to the style of
the painter Gustav Klimt. “I use
a type of reddish orange that’s Jessica Lilien / Herald
present in a lot of Klimt’s work,” The ongoing production of “As You Like It” employs unorthodox sets and mixed media to modernize Shakespeare.
she said.
Park is also influenced by the
work of Jackson Pollock. In one
of the works hanging in her room,
Production plays up ‘theaterness’
the influence is quite literal — on By Caroline Flanagan between Rosalind and Celia, was highlight the role of the text to the
a pane of Plexiglas, she splashed Contributing Writer youthful and humorous. words themselves. Throughout the
paint, focusing on her signature Ridout opted for a simplistic set production, Ridout did not want
pallet of bold oranges, blues and With musical numbers and dancing in the first act — wooden fold-out the audience to forget that they
reds. pandas, Sock & Buskin’s produc- chairs and a table. But once the were watching a play — one rea-
Now, with only a few months tion of “As You Like It” is a fun and characters arrived in the Forest of son why the actors read from their
left as an undergraduate, Park is quirky adaptation of Shakespeare’s Arden, the set changed to an enor- scripts at the beginning of the play.
looking toward a future in the classic that is modern, young and mous red ramp with a red bridge These were “experiments that
fashion industry. She is applying unique. The play, directed by Nicho- over it, both of which were crafted contain a certain amount of risk,”
to graduate schools in fashion and las Ridout in collaboration with the specifically for the play. Although he said. “But the audience seemed
hopes to get into a program in Department of Theatre Arts and green and blue lights on the ceil- happy to go with them.”
London. Performance Studies, is the group’s ing mimicked foliage, the stage A number of audience members
She emphasized the impor- fourth show this season. ultimately failed to look at all like were confused by certain elements
tance of perseverance. “There are The cast members obviously en- a forest. of the play, but enjoyed it none-
quite a few people in the fashion joy themselves, charging the play Ridout said he was trying to em- theless. “I had a lot of fun. I didn’t
mafias who went to Brown,” she with an infectious playfulness that phasize “theaterness” of the pro- totally understand all the choices
said. But she has had to work to lets the audience in on the fun. “It duction. “The colors and shapes the director made, but I found it
find people to support her, she was one of the most fun experiences used for the set emphasize the per- entertaining and that’s all I cared
added. “I’m still working,” she I’ve had,” said Mariagrazia LaFauci spective of the theater,” he said. He about,” said Leandro Zaneti ’12.
said. ’12, who played Phebe. wanted to explore and highlight “As You Like It” will run in Stuart
Modern popular music can be the idea of “a play within a play.” Theater through March 13. Shows
heard throughout, putting a mod- “In a way, the Forest of Arden is a are at 8 p.m. Thursday through Sat-
ern twist on the classic play. A wres- theater,” he said. urday and 2 p.m. on Sunday.
tling match between Orlando and He included mixed media for
Charles becomes a dance battle set similar reasons. During the tran-
to the tune of “Eye of the Tiger.” sition to the Forest of Arden, he
The dialogue remained faithful showed a mute video that the artists This play aimed to entertain its
to the original play, but Ridout in- had made beforehand. They recited audience and make them laugh,
cluded a colloquial twist that made lines while facing the screen, nar- and it succeeded. It was a creative
it easier to understand. The banter rating the video’s plot. With this and unique interpretation of
between the characters, particularly technique, Ridout said he wanted to Shakespeare.
The Brown Daily Herald
Monday, March 7, 2011
Dumas ’91 crafts Hermes scarves Rabbi brings hands-on
By Sarah Mancone
Staff Writer
Twenty years ago, Pierre-Alexis
Dumas ’91 discovered the visual
arts program at Brown. Now the
chief creative officer of the luxu-
ry brand Hermes, Dumas will be
speaking tonight at 8 p.m. in the
Martinos Auditorium in the Perry
and Marty Granoff Center for the
Creative Arts about the creation of
his new project Hermes Editeur,
which launched in 2008.
This project “tries to bridge arts
and craft by inviting contempo-
rary artists to develop a project
with Hermes to be reproduced on
silk,” Dumas wrote in an e-mail
to The Herald. In his talk, he will
provide an overview of the history
of the Hermes silk scarf before
addressing the Hermes Editeur
series. The series came out of a
collaboration with the Josef and
Anni Albers Foundation in 2008
and with the French artist Daniel
Buren in 2010.
Dumas began working with
Buren not only on the mass mar-
keting of scarves, but also on
creating a dialogue between an
artist and a business, said Richard
Fishman, professor of visual art
and director of the Creative Arts
Bell Gallery features student art
By Amy chen
Staff Writer
The bright, cheerful colors of the
background contrast with the
brooding darkness of the central
figure. Todd Stong ’14 captures a
certain loneliness in his contem-
plative self-portait, on display in
the 31st Annual Student Exhibition
in the David Winton Bell Gallery.
The show — highlighting the
talents of 38 student artists —
consists of a diverse spectrum
of paintings and sculptures. The
myriad of original works includes
complex portraits, abstract de-
constructions and renderings of
pop culture images, urbanity and
media.
Judges evaluated submissions
on their skill and originality, and
six winners were selected to re-
ceive cash awards, equally split
between three males and three fe-
males. Judges used perspectives
from their experiences in the art
world and knowledge of art his-
tory in evaluating the works, said
Got something to say?
Leave a comment online!
Visit www.browndailyherald.com to
comment on opinion and
editorial content.
Council. The collaboration has led
to the creation of more contem-
porary scarves, said Haruka Aoki
’12, who has worked in the fashion
industry. “You can hang them up
on walls and put them in a frame,
and they could be art.”
Hermes is a “timeless brand,”
Aoki added. “It’s an icon.”
Dumas recently sent Fishman
a book of Buren’s photographs
and said he was coming back to
the U.S. His experience with the
visual arts program at Brown had
significant impact on his life, he
wrote, and he wanted to come visit
the University. “What inspired the
talk was a desire to share that ex-
perience. I believe now is the time
in my life to start doing that,” he
wrote.
The talk is “one of the spon-
taneous things the Creative Arts
Council likes to do,” Fishman said.
Hermes has maintained a sense
that “the highest quality is worth
striving for” in craft, design and
aesthetics, he added.
“Fine craft is disappearing,” he
said, and Hermes is “a living muse-
um” — one of the only companies
that remains willing to support
the design of fine, handmade craft
and to train people in old world
skills. Hermes is a family-owned
Maya Allison, curator of the Bell
Gallery. Most students who sub-
mit works are visual arts majors,
Allison said.
The two jurors were Lucky
Leone, a Rhode Island School of
Design professor and local art-
ist, and Olive Ahyens, an artist
based in Brooklyn whose work
has been shown throughout the
United States.
This exhibit is unique from
other annual shows because of the
unexpected and surprising quality
of students’ works, Allison said.
“With other shows, I do re-
search and find artists,” she said,
“(but) student shows are always
a surprise event.” This is because
students typically organize the
show and it’s a group effort, she
added.
“All the works are strong,” said
Brice Peterson ’11, a visual arts
and English concentrator, who was
one of this year’s winners and an
organizer of the exhibit. He said
he thinks the show provides an
interesting opportunity to see
Arts & Culture 7
company that strives to achieve
excellence through quality manu-
facturing, and its impact comes
from valuing people before profit,
Dumas wrote.
Dumas became creative di-
rector of Hermes a few years ago
and has kept the Hermes tradition
while bringing in a fresh perspec-
tive, Aoki said.
“People and organizations need
to reinvent themselves,” Fishman
said, and Dumas “wants Hermes
to reinvent itself.”
“I believe Hermes can lead the
way for a new form of ethical capi-
talism in the field of art, craft, de-
sign and services,” Dumas wrote.
The brand has a status con-
nected to it as just a high-end
luxury brand, Fishman said, but
“Pierre-Alexis represents that it
is much more than that.”
Fishman said he expects a
broad audience of people inter-
ested in Hermes’ reputation, the
craft involved and the “relation-
ships of contemporary artists to
Hermes’ work on silk.”
“I would like to help the audi-
ence to look at the world with a
different eye. We tend to take our
cultural heritage for granted when
in fact it needs to be constantly
challenged,” Dumas wrote.
what other students are doing
and what’s happening in the de-
partment.
“It’s very exciting to see what’s
being made in the building around
me,” Allison said. While you work
in List, you see only bits of stu-
dents’ art works, she said. “It’s
nice to get a sense of what they
are thinking.”
This year’s winners are Aviva
Grossman ’11, Kelly Winter ’12,
Lamia Veerasamy ’12, Brice Pe-
terson ’11, Michael Price ’11 and
Harry Reis ’11.5. The awards were
funded by the Gilbert Stuart Prize
in Art, the Minnie Helen Hicks
Prize in Art and the Roberta Joslin
Prize in Art, according to a press
release.
The diversity of perspectives
represented in the show — in-
cluding portraits and abstract
mixed-media works — showcases
the eclectic talent of University
students.
The 31st Annual Student Exhi-
bition will run in the Bell Gallery
through March 13.
history to Providence
By Alexandra Macfarlane
Contributing Writer
History just got real in Providence.
Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch,
founder and curator of the Living
Torah Museum in Brooklyn, N.Y.,
visited the Renaissance Hotel last
night with a van full of priceless,
ancient artifacts in tow.
In front of a packed crowd,
Deutsch wowed the audience with
artifacts dating back to ancient
days. He even let members of the
audience hold them to demon-
strate their uses and sizes. Most
of the audience came from the
Providence Community Kollel
­— an institute for the advanced
study of Jewish texts — partici-
pating in a program called Jewish
Unity Live.
Deutsch said physical connec-
tion to the artifacts is essential to
understanding and connecting
with the Torah. His motto is, “If
you touch history, it touches you.”
This is the guiding principle
of both his life and the life of the
museum he founded. As a child,
“I drove my teachers crazy,” he
said. “I wanted to know what
everything looked like and how
everything worked.”
His goal in finding these pre-
cious, ancient artifacts was not
only to increase his understand-
ing but also to collect them. It has
been “my life’s journey to bring to
learning something that we can
relate to,” Deutsch said.
In his collection in the 3,000
square-foot Brooklyn museum,
there are 15,000 artifacts, 1,200
of which are from as early as 1800
B.C. He added that a full tour of
the museum would take over 37
hours. The entire collection is
valued at 30 million dollars.
Deutsch’s stop in Providence
was part of his larger tour with
the museum. He travels to Jewish
schools and communities around
the country to keep the history
behind his ancient artifacts alive.
He can only take a small number
of his artifacts with him due to
insurance costs.
During his presentation,
Deutsch invited members of the
audience to participate. As he
presented several weapons of the
ancient Roman world, he asked a
young man to come to the stage
with him and hold the sword
and shield that were once held
by a gladiator. These were used
to make a replica for the movie
“Gladiator.”
He presented other artifacts
that would have been used on the
battlefield, including a Roman
legionaire’s whistle that still works
today. The whistle was recently
discovered in an ancient ship-
wreck at the bottom of the sea
and was used to make replicas for
the HBO television series “Rome.”
“Everybody loves weapons,”
Deutsch said. “And I have every
kind of weapon.”
Deutsch also presented to his
audience a pair of ancient hand-
cuffs that had also been discov-
ered in a sunken ship. A young
boy was subsequently handcuffed
and led through the audience,
smiling as he walked. “This is
the way they would take you into
exile,” Deutsch said, laughing at
the boy’s expression.
“The more you learn, the more
you appreciate,” Deutsch said. For
Deutsch, learning and collecting
has given him “a whole new un-
derstanding of the ancient world
and the Torah that surrounds it.”
This is not the first time that
these artifacts were available for
students on campus.
“Students at Brown who par-
ticipate in the Maimonides Lead-
ers Fellowship take a trip to the
actual museum in New York,”
Rabbi Lurie, director of the Mai-
monides Leaders Fellowship on
campus, wrote in an e-mail to
The Herald.
8 Sports Recap
Third quarter key in Bruno loss Men’s ice hockey
continued from page 12
game out of reach. Brown scored
his sixth goal of the season with
seven minutes left, but it served
only as a consolation.
“We were tied 4-4 at half, so we
knew we could play with them,”
Fallon said. “But in the third
quarter, we got beat pretty badly,
and that was the difference in the
game.”
The Bears have a quick turn-
around before their next game,
when they will travel to the Univer-
sity of Hartford (1-2) Wednesday
afternoon.
“There’s a balance here to not
walk away from an early loss all
negative and understand that we
played a lot of good lacrosse,” Tif-
fany said. “But there’s also the bal-
ance that we can’t come away from
this game thinking, ‘Okay, UMass
is really good. Don’t worry about it.
We’ll be fine.’ We certainly can’t do
that because there’s so much more
that we have to improve upon.”
Fallon said the team is set for a
strong three days of practice before
the next game as it prepares to face
an improved Hartford squad.
“I think any time you have a
loss, it’s a great thing to get back
out there as soon as possible,” Fal-
lon said. “Hartford’s a really good
team and took us to OT last year,
so we have to be ready for them.”
Tiffany said the upcoming week
George Sherman ’13 scored two goals against No. 9 UMass, but it wasn’t enough,
as the Pioneers beat the Bears 9-6 in a matchup of previously unbeaten teams.
is crucial in this young season, as a
home March 12 matchup with St.
Joseph’s University (0-3) will follow
on the heels of the Hartford game.
Jonathan Bateman / Herald
“We have to make progress,” he
said. “We have to make that next
positive stride now. We’ve got to
get back to work.”
optimistic for next year
continued from page 12
35 seconds in, and less than two
minutes later, Langlois doubled his
side’s lead.
Quinnipiac added two more in
the third, while goalie Eric Hartzell
kept the Bears off the scoreboard
with 26 saves. Prior to this week-
end, the Bears had been shut out
only twice all year.
“We definitely had our chances,”
Hourihan said. “We had a couple
of good opportunities, but it just
didn’t seem like things were bounc-
ing our way.”
Quinnipiac will now advance
to the quarterfinals for the sixth
straight season.
What’s next?
While the first-round exit was
Bears beat Cornell in
final minutes of game
continued from page 1
vious night. The crowd was on edge
in the final minutes as Cornell and
Brown traded blows.
“Going into the game, we knew
it was going to be a tight game,”
Steele said. “They are a very good
team, and they had been playing
really well.”
Bruno fell behind early, but
guard Lindsey Nickel ’13 turned
things around for the Bears. Her
three-pointer ignited a 12-0 run to
put the Brown ahead 26-22 with
3:40 remaining in the half.
Passafuime found Nickel for
open shots and also put in four
points of her own in the last few
minutes.
“Hannah (Passafiume) took
some really smart shots, and the
way she passed the basketball, she
was able to find the open players
extremely well,” Nickel said.
Daniels came onto the court af-
ter the break and scored five points
to cushion Brown’s lead 36-26.
But Cornell turned up the heat
and tied the score with just under
10 minutes remaining. Forward
Clare Fitzpatrick led Cornell with
a game-high 19 points on seven-
of-10 shooting.
“They were shooting very well,”
The Brown Daily Herald
Monday, March 7, 2011
a disappointing finish to the Bears’
season, Hourihan said the team
has a bright future ahead. Despite
losing key seniors captain Harry
Zolnierczyk ’11, assistant captains
David Brownschidle ’11 and Jer-
emy Russell ’11, along with Jesse
Fratkin ’11, Brown will welcome
back a score of nightly contributors,
including 10 first-years.
Among the returning players
will be Hobey Baker Award finalist
Jack Maclellan ’12, whose season
was cut short by injury, and second
team All-Ivy defenseman Dennis
Robertson ’14.
“We’re obviously going to miss a
couple of great players,” Hourihan
said. “Some guys are definitely go-
ing to have to step up but the future
is bright. … We’re going to keep
getting better.”
said Head Coach Jean Marie Burr.
“They were making some plays.
They really stayed in it.”
Both teams looked to secure a
lead in the next few minutes, and
with 3:34 to go, the Big Red inched
ahead 53-52. Cornell’s aggressive
defense made it difficult for Bruno
to respond, but the Bears finally
tied the game with a free throw
by Daniels.
“I was really proud of them,”
Burr said. “They were very orga-
nized and knew what they were
going to do. The execution was
what became important, that and
making stop after stop after stop.”
With the clock ticking down,
Cornell was forced to foul to try
to slow things down. Free throws
accounted for Brown’s final seven
points. The Big Red saw a few op-
portunities in the final minute but
could not sink the shots to take the
lead from the Bears, and the game
ended 60-55.
The Bears finished their season
on Saturday, and they ended on
good note, moving up to fourth in
the Ivy League rankings.
“Overall, it was a great transi-
tion from last year’s season,” Sheila
Dixon ’13 said. “The way we ended
makes us confident for next sea-
son.”
The Brown Daily Herald
Monday, March 7, 2011
ROTC should not LGBTQs against ROTC aren’t hypocrites
receive special privileges
To the Editor:
In response to Wednesday’s let-
ter from Andrew Sia ’12 (“Distance
deters ROTC participation,” March
2), despite the goals of Students for
ROTC to “remove any and all stig-
mas” attached to the Reserve Of-
ficers’ Training Corps, it must be
recalled that the facts of the matter
are unequivocal — the military is
an institution rife with formal and
cultural discriminatory practices.
One in three women in the mili-
tary experience some form of sexual
assault or rape, versus one in six
amongst civilians. Recent charges
filed against the Department of
Defense argue that military culture
promotes this environment and fails
to investigate assaults. Furthermore,
transgender individuals are prevent-
ed from joining the military, a form
of discrimination which explicitly
violates Brown’s non-discrimination
policies.
Racial discrimination is also
rampant. ABC in 2009 reported that
while the vast majority of white of-
ficers perceive there to be less race
discrimination in the military than
among civilians, only approximately
one-third of enlisted minorities
agree. This is particularly concern-
ing as whites are disproportionately
represented among officers — 80
percent are white — and it is offi-
cers who set discrimination policies.
These are the facts, not stigmas or
prejudices.
Students for ROTC have few
truths on their side. For example,
while Sia has done an excellent job
describing how one gets to Provi-
dence College by 6 a.m., the facts
end there. There is no evidence of
any sort that students would be
more likely to join ROTC were there
buses provided. Conjecture is not
a valid reason to change Brown’s
current policy, especially given the
aforementioned issue of discrimina-
Letters 9
To the Editor: Furthermore, arguing that
“potential members of ROTC
our campus.
Freedom of choice does not
In response to Friday’s let- will be joining for reasons that mean that Brown has a mandate
tion and other concerns bringing ter from Scott Friedlander ’12 do not include enhancing this in- to provide every possible opportu-
back ROTC would raise. What we (“LGBTQ activists hypocritical justice” does not mean that the nity out there for its student body,
do know is that few students have on ROTC,” March 4), to say that argument against injustice should especially one that certain groups
said that changes of this sort would LGBTQ activists are restricting be removed from the discourse see as inherently discriminatory.
encourage them to join. Sia is the freedom of choice in the same way altogether. I doubt anyone attends However, being a person means
first we’re familiar with, and as a they protest the immorality of dis- Brown for the purpose of fund- that America has a mandate to
member of Students for ROTC, his crimination is ridiculous. Brown ing potentially corrupt organiza- provide equal treatment. Mar-
position ought to be taken with a is a private institution. It has no tions, but look to the reason we riage is a civil right, while ROTC
grain of salt. obligation to offer any services that have discussions on the ethics of is hardly a legal right. I’m sorry, I
While Sia claims that Students are not federally required. This is Corporation funding. Because we simply don’t see any contradiction
for ROTC is not advocating for any why there is a Reserve Officers’ believe Brown should not sponsor in philosophies here, and believe
special privileges, his claim that Training Corps debate in the first things that further injustice. I don’t LGBTQ supporters are capable
other extracurricular programs re- place. If some people do not want think anyone who wants to join of both defending and attacking
ceive “freedom of access” is untrue. ROTC here for ideological reasons, ROTC is immoral, but I think that ROTC’s presence on campus with-
Student groups on campus are not they are not oppressing anyone’s if ROTC perpetuates severe injus- out being inconsistent.
provided with regular transporta- freedom of choice by expressing tice, it is important to recognize
tion services. Only Category III stu- these opinions. that when making a choice about Yvonne Yu ’13
dent groups — which receive this
categorization based on group size
and activity — have the opportunity
to receive transport funding and
comics
must make budget requests from the
Undergraduate Finance Board to BB & Z | Cole Pruitt, Andrew Seiden, Valerie Hsiung and Dan Ricker
fund transportation for conferences
or other events on an individual
basis. “Lack of adequate transporta-
tion” does not discourage students
involved with Swearer Center for
Public Service programs from par-
ticipating in any of its various public
service programs. While the center
has a single van, students need to
be authorized to use it, which few,
even amongst its student coordina-
tors, are.
Cloud Buddies! | David Emanuel
Finally, the parallel Sia draws is
misleading. ROTC is not, strictly
speaking, an extracurricular activity.
First and foremost it is vocational
training. While we must acknowl-
edge that military involvement is a
form of national service, it is equally
an employment opportunity. Brown
does not, and should not, drive any
students to their jobs. We already
spend enough on unlimited free
Rhode Island Public Transit Au-
thority passes — which even Rhode Dr. Bear | Mat Becker
Island’s public college students don’t
receive.
Kevin Casto ’13
Dot Comic | Eshan Mitra and Brendan Hainline
Hey Dot Comic,
Sorry for partying.
— The Management
comics@browndailyherald.com
10 Editorial & Letter The Brown Daily Herald
Monday, March 7, 2011

Editorial Editorial comic by julia streuli

The practical value of a
humanities degree
Last month, a Herald article (“Humanities departments tout
practicality,” Feb. 24) reported that Brown has maintained a relatively
constant number of concentrators in the humanities, even in the
face of a decreasing national trend. We find this heartening given
the temptation to forsake one’s passions to appear more hirable dur-
ing the current job crisis. Even as the University seeks to expand its
professional degrees by establishing a School of Engineering, Brown
continues to attract students who are interested in liberal learning and
gaining broad reasoning skills rather than job-specific knowledge.
Here is yet another reason to be grateful for the open curriculum,
which, as the Herald article points out, allows students to double
concentrate in the humanities and the hard or social sciences and
thereby acquire skills across multiple fields. We also commend the
Department of Comparative Literature for factoring in our sug-
gestion from last fall to provide current students with information
about what alums are doing with their degrees, and we hope other
departments will follow suit. It would be reassuring for students to
receive input from alums about how their chosen field of study and
even their particular courses within their field can help with the
construction of a career.
In some ways, humanities courses can even better prepare stu-
dents than do the hard sciences for the types of problems they will
be asked to solve in the workplace. In a Feb. 21 Inside Higher Ed
column, Robert Elsinger calls for faculty to embrace the ambiguous
areas of their fields when teaching students. Elsinger writes that,
equipped with search engines and online publications, students are
capable of tracking down the concrete facts for themselves. It is the
experimental issues, on which even faculty may not have a definite

letter to the editor

answer, that students should wrestle with in order to mimic the kind
of open-ended issues they will later encounter as doctors, consultants,
lawyers and managers.
Fortunately, Brown already seems to teach in this way, especially
in the humanities. Asking students to confront the problems they
study with a critical eye, and devising novel analyses of them, is not
Coal to The Herald
an uncommon initiative in classrooms on this campus. We encourage To the Editor:
faculty to continue and expand this method of favoring the experi-
mental over the established, both in the humanities and the sciences. Coal to the writer or editor or proofreader who allowed an “it’s” instead of “its” in the coal on the student
We hope all students, particularly sophomores preparing to declare activities endowment (“Diamonds and Coal,” March 4).
their concentrations, will not be dissuaded from following their aca-
demic passions due to issues of perceived practicality. We also hope the Nancy Buc ’65
faculty will structure courses, concentrations and advising to confer The Herald regrets the error.
a broadly applicable skill set upon graduates of their departments.

Editorials are written by The Herald’s editorial page board. Send comments
to editorials@browndailyherald.com. quote of the day
“Mother Nature can smite you down at will.”
— Tim Warren, author of “Lessons from Everest”
See q&a on page 4.

t h e b r ow n da i ly h e r a l d
Editors-in-Chief Deputy Managing Editors Senior Editors
Sydney Ember Brigitta Greene Dan Alexander
Ben Schreckinger Anne Speyer Nicole Friedman
Julien Ouellet
editorial Business
Kristina Fazzalaro Arts & Culture Editor General Managers Office Manager
Luisa Robledo Arts & Culture Editor Matthew Burrows Shawn Reilly
Rebecca Ballhaus City & State Editor Isha Gulati
Claire Peracchio City & State Editor
Directors
Talia Kagan Features Editor
Aditi Bhatia Sales
Hannah Moser Features Editor
Danielle Marshak Finance
Alex Bell News Editor
Margot Grinberg Alumni Relations
Nicole Boucher News Editor
Lisa Berlin Special Projects
Tony Bakshi Sports Editor
Ashley McDonnell Sports Editor Managers
Ethan McCoy Asst. Sports Editor Hao Tran National Sales
Tyler Rosenbaum Editorial Page Editor Alec Kacew University Department Sales
Hunter Fast Opinions Editor Siena deLisser University Student Group Sales
Michael Fitzpatrick Opinions Editor Valery Scholem Recruiter Sales
C O R R E C T I O N S P olicy
Jared Davis Sales and Communications
Graphics & Photos Lauren Bosso Business Operations The Brown Daily Herald is committed to providing the Brown University community with the most accurate information possible. Corrections may be
Abe Pressman Graphics Editor Emily Zheng Business Analytics submitted up to seven calendar days after publication.
Alex Yuly Graphics Editor Nikita Khadloya Alumni Engagement C ommentary P O L I C Y
Stephanie London Photo Editor James Eng Special Projects
Hilary Rosenthal Photo Editor The editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial page board of The Brown Daily Herald. The editorial viewpoint does not necessarily reflect the views of
Arjun Vaidya Special Projects
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong Photo Editor The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. Columns, letters and comics reflect the opinions of their authors only.
Webber Xu Special Projects
Jonathan Bateman Sports Photo Editor L etters to the E ditor P olicy
Post- magazine Send letters to letters@browndailyherald.com. Include a telephone number with all letters. The Herald reserves the right to edit all letters for length and clarity
Production
Kate Doyle Editor-in-Chief
Dan Towne Copy Desk Chief and cannot assure the publication of any letter. Please limit letters to 250 words. Under special circumstances writers may request anonymity, but no letter will
Gili Kliger Design Editor BLOG DAILY HERALD be printed if the author’s identity is unknown to the editors. Announcements of events will not be printed.
Anna Migliaccio Design Editor David Winer Editor-in-Chief
advertising P olicy
Katie Wilson Design Editor Matt Klimerman Managing Editor
The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. reserves the right to accept or decline any advertisement at its discretion.
The Brown Daily Herald
Monday, March 7, 2011
By Adil Lachgar
Guest Columnist
Hans Kung, a Catholic priest, once said,
“There will be no peace among the nations
without peace among the religions. There
will be no peace among the religions with-
out dialogue among the religions.” After
Sept. 11, things have changed in the world,
and religious intolerance has become wide-
spread. Terrorism, wars and violence are a
threat to the stability of humanity. We are
all different ethnically, religiously and lin-
guistically, but we all belong to the same big
family of human beings. In fact, this world
belongs to us. Therefore, promoting mutual
respect and tolerance for people of different
cultural and religious backgrounds is one of
humanity’s missions. The only reasonable
way of achieving this is through spreading
the culture of peace, tolerance and dialogue.
My love for teaching languages and my
fascination with other cultures were the
main motivations that fueled my desire to
apply for the Fulbright Program. I was sure
this program would eventually reveal a se-
cret that would enable me to make correct
judgments about all sorts of things. I had
always dreamt of America — the land of
dreams, the America of freedom, social jus-
tice and egalitarianism, the land of equal op-
portunities to live a decent life. I feel blessed
to be a Fulbright scholar and a cultural am-
bassador of my country. Indeed, by sharing
Shalom-Salaam: dialogue as distraction or dialogue as action?
By Francesca
Contreras
Guest Columnist
Israel’s public relations machine is work-
ing full force on campus this month in the
form of the Watson Institute for Internation-
al Studies’ conference “Israelis and Palestin-
ians: Working Together for a Better Future”
and Brown-RISD Hillel’s Israeli-Palestin-
ian Peace Week. The events’ respective goals
are to “bring together Israelis and Palestin-
ians to foster better understanding between
them” and to “talk to Brown students about
religious pluralism and the value of building
inclusive communities on campus … and to
create a forum for dialogue without pushing
any political agendas or sides.” Pluralism, un-
derstanding, peace and dialogue — sounds
good, right?
Unfortunately, the sound of Caterpillar
bulldozers mowing over Palestinian olive
gardens and homes for the construction of il-
legal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and
Israel’s unmanned drone attack on the south-
ern Gaza Strip in late February do not sound
quite so good. Consider this — in the West
Bank today, over 400,000 Israeli settlers live
in over 120 illegal settlements despite the fact
that Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Con-
vention clearly states, “The occupying power
shall not deport or transfer parts of its own
civilian population into the territory it occu-
pies.”
These settlements are built on prime ag-
ricultural land confiscated from Palestinian
farmers and over key water resources such
as the Western Aquifer basin. Amnesty In-
ternational has accused Israel of denying Pal-
estinians access to adequate water by main-
From Marrakesh to Brown
my culture and teaching my native language,
I found my calling in life.
Being a Fulbright scholar and a foreign
language teaching assistant at Brown com-
pletely changed my outlook on cultures, reli-
gions, customs, languages, people and life in
general. Now, I think about all these things
in a distinctive way and have a propitious
understanding of them. Additionally, teach-
ing my native language and sharing my cul-
ture helped me develop an understanding
of the American lifestyle and bridge the gap
Being a Fulbright scholar and a foreign language
teaching assistant at Brown has completely changed
my outlook on cultures, religions, customs, languages,
people and life in general.
between Moroccan and American cultures.
At the same time, it allowed me to share
the culture of peace, dialogue and tolerance
with social activities, through which we
could explore deep concepts like hospitality,
beauty and love. For instance, volunteering
to prepare a glass of green tea with mint in
an interfaith house convinced me that small
positive actions can make significant chang-
es in our lives and around the world. Repre-
senting Morocco, I seized the opportunity to
present some understandable aspects of my
language and culture through food, particu-
larly tea.
Moreover, being on campus with inter-
taining total control over the “shared” water
resources and pursuing discriminatory poli-
cies. Israeli daily water consumption hovers
at 300 liters per day, much of which is used to
fill the settlements’ swimming pools and ir-
rigate their lush lawns. Meanwhile, Palestin-
ians barely get by on 70 liters a day.
Today in the West Bank — an area the
size of the state of Delaware — 74 percent of
the main routes are controlled by 699 road
blocks, including permanent or “flying” mili-
tary checkpoints, where Palestinians often
wait for hours and must show their identity
cards or passes, while settlers are granted im-
mediate passage. Since 2000, 69 women have
I am pro-dialogue, but only if the dialogue begins
with the acknowledgment of the horrific reality on
the ground and the irrefutable fact that Israelis and
Palestinians do not stand on equal ground.
had to give birth at these checkpoints in some
of the most unsanitary and inhumane condi-
tions imaginable. Thirty-five of the newborns
have died, and five mothers have perished.
Palestinians in Gaza — who have lived
under Israeli blockade since 2007 — are af-
flicted by a 70 percent poverty rate, a 50 per-
cent unemployment rate, lack of medical
equipment and physical deformities in chil-
dren from malnourishment. In the winter of
2008, the Gaza Strip was bombed to smith-
ereens. Unlawful white phosphorous burned
through children’s skin to their bones, and
over 1,400 Palestinians were massacred. The
Israeli death toll? Thirteen.
Opinions 11
national students gave me the chance to
meet people from different cultural and re-
ligious backgrounds. I tasted various dishes
and learned how to cook different foods.
Now, I have new friends, and I feel as if I
have a home in each of their countries. On
top of that, I have learned that interreligious
and intercultural dialogue is urgent to the
survival of the human species.
Teaching Arabic to students from differ-
ent countries enabled me to introduce stu-
dents to Moroccan culture, customs and tra-
ditions. I believe that education is the key to
success, and I appreciate how learning a lan-
guage can be a strong tool for cultural un-
derstanding. As a teacher, I aimed to provide
students with stimulating, challenging and
healthy environments to allow them to be-
come active learners. Additionally, my fun-
damental philosophy was to build students’
confidence in their ability to communicate
effectively in a new language. I was happy to
see the students’ thirst to know more about
my culture and their eyes sparkling as they
learned. What is more, during my time at
Brown, class discussion and course syllabi
proved useful to me. They paved my way,
To what end, may I ask, does Hillel pro-
pose to “create a forum for dialogue without
pushing any political agendas” when it is in-
stitutions like our University that invest in
companies like Caterpillar that profit from
the occupation and when it is our govern-
ment that sustains these horrors through its
annual $3 billion aid package to Israel? They
are the ones who have chosen through their
capital investments to push an agenda — the
daily dispossession and violent subjugation of
Palestinians.
I am pro-dialogue, but only if the dialogue
begins with the acknowledgment of the hor-
rific reality on the ground and the irrefutable
fact that Israelis and Palestinians do not stand
on equal ground. This type of dialogue is a
necessary part of the process to end apart-
heid, and it is happening all the time.
It includes Palestinian-Israeli journals and
joint demonstrations like those in the occu-
pied Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah
that protest the colonization of East Jerusa-
lem. It includes community meetings, joint
documents, bilingual poetry readings — all
organized between Palestinians and Israelis
against the occupation. The growing, grass-
roots, global and nonviolent Boycott, Divest-
ment and Sanctions movement against Israel
— supported by a diverse coalition of organi-
improved my English and opened up my ap-
petite for learning and research.
Being a Fulbright scholar helped me
maintain confidence in my commitment
to public service and work with people. As
a cultural ambassador, I was responsible for
sharing my culture, spreading the notion of
religious tolerance and mutual respect and
organizing cultural events. Thus, joining
the Brown Muslim Students’ Center and the
Rhode Island Chapter of the Fulbright As-
sociation allowed me to interact with and
meet people of different religious and cul-
tural backgrounds. I believe that interfaith
and intercultural dialogue has helped me
foster discussion, understanding and re-
spect among people of faith and those with-
out a particular religious background. This
invaluable experience taught me a lot about
working with people and knowing how to
win their respect. At the same time, it broad-
ened my views on topics that involve reli-
gion, culture and society.
In brief, I am convinced that the foreign
language teaching assistant program has not
only provided me the opportunity to im-
prove my teaching skills, increase my Eng-
lish language proficiency and enhance my
knowledge of American culture and society,
but has also enabled me to understand my-
self and my culture and serve the commu-
nity.
Adil Lachgar is a Fulbright scholar and a
foreign language teaching assistant from
Morocco. He can be reached at
lachgar2020@hotmail.com.
zations ranging from Palestinian Queers for
BDS to Israeli Boycott from Within and the
U.S.-based Jewish Voice for Peace — is the
most promising case in point. Its goal is Is-
raeli compliance with international law, and
it has come to Brown in the form of a selec-
tive divestment campaign from the occupa-
tion. It holds the greatest potential for usher-
ing in productive dialogue, and it is one that
we should support and publicize at Brown.
Unfortunately, these movements receive
no air time whatsoever in the United States
because they fly straight in the face of the
U.S.-Israeli portrayal of the conflict as rooted
in either some kind of “ancient hatred” be-
tween Arabs and Jews or some kind of nat-
ural Palestinian proclivity for terrorism. Too
often, many well-intentioned groups insist
that if we could just sit around a table and
talk about it, then the conflict will simply dis-
appear — unfortunately, if this approach ig-
nores the imbalances of power, then it is des-
tined to fail.
If you get invited to Israeli-Palestinian
Peace Week’s role-playing activity “that will
ask participants to embody different politi-
cal, ethnic and religious identities,” ask your-
self if you would ask Tibetans and Chinese to
engage in interfaith dialogue to resolve their
long conflict. Ask yourself how any one of
the 2.5 million West Bank Palestinians barred
from using Jewish-only roads on their own
land or subjected to Israeli military law while
Israelis in the same territories are subjected
to civilian law would respond. Or even bet-
ter yet, go to their events, raise your hand and
ask, “What about systematic violations of in-
ternational law and occupation?”
Francesca Contreras ‘11 is a Mexican-
American Jew who spent her childhood
in South Africa and Israel.
Daily Herald Sports Monday
the Brown
M. Hockey
Brown eliminated from ECAC tourney Bears suffer first loss
By Ethan McCoy
Assistant Sports Editor
After ending the regular season
with back-to-back wins, the men’s
hockey team finished its season
with a whimper this weekend. The
Bears (10-16-5, 8-12-2 ECAC) lost
the first two games of a best-of-
three series to Quinnipiac (15-13-8,
6-9-7) 4-0, sealing their elimination
from the ECAC tournament. The
final weekend capped an up-and-
down season for Bruno in which
the team ended with a losing record
but also defeated perennial power-
house Boston University 6-1, beat
then-No. 1-ranked Yale and won
both games of the Cornell-Colgate
road trip for the first time in Brown
history.
Quinnipiac 4, Brown 0
The tournament’s opening game
got off to a nightmarish start for
Bruno. Only 15 seconds into the
game, Quinnipiac forward Jeremy
Langlois beat Mike Clemente ’12
on the game’s first shot to give the
Bobcats a quick lead.
“We just came out flat,” said for-
ward Mark Hourihan ’14. “They
got a goal right off the bat, and we
never got anything going the whole
game.”
The Bears outshot Quinnipiac
for the rest of the first period, but
they were unable to capitalize on
any of their chances. Quinnipiac,
on the other hand, took advantage
of its opportunities. On only their
fourth shot of the night, the Bobcats
M. Basketball
Sullivan, seniors end careers with two weekend losses
By Sam Rubinroit
Sports Staff Writer
After a season of heart-wrenching
losses and upset victories, the
men’s basketball team played its
final games on a grueling road
trip, falling to Cornell 75-66 and
Columbia 91-74.
The Bears (11-17, 4-10 Ivy)
lost to Cornell (10-18, 6-8) Fri-
day in a game emblematic of the
rest of the season. Throughout
the year, Bruno fell into the same
pattern game after game, grabbing
an early lead only to let it drift
away as the game wore on. True
to form, after building a first half
advantage over the Big Red, the
Bears watched it slip away thanks
to a scoreless final 6:54 minutes.
Bruno faced a myriad of chal-
lenges when the team faced the
Lions (15-13, 6-8) the following
night for the final game of the
season. After a late-night arrival
in Manhattan the night before,
the Bears were plagued by a stom-
ach virus that sidelined guards
Garrett Leffelman ’11 and Matt
Sullivan ’13. At game time, only
eight Bears were able to play, in-
cluding Tucker Halpern ’13, who
was forced to fight through the
sickness.
Again, the weekend reflected
the year — the Bears had faced
Mike Clemente ’12 let a puck sail past him just 15 seconds into Brown’s best-
of-three playoff series against Quinnipiac. The Bears never recovered and
lost the first two games of the series 4-0.
doubled their lead with a tap-in
goal by forward Yuri Bouharevich.
In the second period, Quinni-
piac added another pair of goals
to give themselves a four-goal ad-
vantage. After the final goal at 5:57,
Clemente was pulled in favor of
Anthony Borelli ’13, who stopped
all 15 shots sent his way.
The Bears’ undisciplined play
precluded any chance of a come-
back. They spent half of the first
10 minutes in the final period on
the penalty kill and were unable
to gain any offensive momentum.
Peter Sullivan ’11, the fourth-leading scorer in Brown basketball history, walked off the court for the final time in his
career Saturday after a 91-74 loss to Columbia.
unexpected setbacks all season.
They lost captain Peter Sulli-
van ’11 to a shoulder injury in the
middle of Ivy League play and got
a major scare when rising point
guard Sean McGonagill ’14 had
to be rushed to the hospital to
receive 20 stitches after a collision
in practice.
“We’ve been through a lot,”
said co-captain Adrian Williams
’11. “We’ve seen the top of the
mountain, and we’ve been at the
Jonathan Bateman / Herald
Quinnipiac 4, Brown 0
The following evening was more
of the same. Brown came out stron-
ger than they had the previous eve-
ning, but neither side could break
through in the first. Clemente, who
had been shaky in the early going
of Friday’s defeat, stopped all eight
of the Bobcats’ shots.
But in the second period, Quin-
nipiac wasted no time in finding
the back of the net. Defenseman
Zack Currie beat Clemente just
continued on page 8
lowest troughs of the basketball
spectrum, so to speak. It was re-
ally an emotional thing for us, but
we’re just happy that we made it
together.”
Saturday’s game marked the
end of the careers of Bruno’s four
seniors — forwards Peter Sullivan
and Chris Taylor ’11 and guards
Williams and Leffelman.
The four walked off the court
for the final time Saturday, but
they left their legacies behind.
M. Lacrosse
of season to UMass
By Ethan McCoy
Assistant Sports Editor
The No. 20 men’s lacrosse team
suffered its first defeat Saturday,
coming up short against the No.
9 University of Massachusetts at
Amherst 9-6. The 50th game in
the history of the regional rivalry
went into halftime with the score
all square, but the Minutemen (4-0)
scored three-straight goals in the
third quarter to build a 7-4 lead.
From there, UMass never looked
back and posted their fourth win
of the season.
“We played against a very for-
midable opponent,” said Head
Coach Lars Tiffany ’90. “UMass
has earned the number nine rank-
ing in the country and they proved
to us why they were undefeated.”
But the Bears (1-1) managed
to find some positive indicators
to take away from the loss. Goalie
Matt Chriss ’11 turned in another
strong performance with 16 saves.
“Matt Chriss was outstanding
in goal,” Tiffany said. “He kept
the score close as UMass went on
spurts.”
“We went in thinking we were
definitely capable of winning,” said
co-captain Peter Fallon ’11. “Obvi-
ously that didn’t happen, but we
did a lot of things right. I thought
we got really good play from Matt
Chriss, our goalie. A couple of
defensive possessions were pretty
Sam Rubinroit / Herald
Peter Sullivan’s 1,361 points rank
fourth all-time on the career
points list, and he set a school
record last season by starting all
31 games.
As co-captain, Williams pro-
vided much-needed guidance
and support for the young team
— McGonagill refers to him as a
“big brother.”
He played in 115 career games,
more than any player in Brown
history.
Monday, March 7, 2011
good for us, but overall we need to
get better as a team.”
Tiffany was quick to praise
Fallon,who shut down attacker
Art Kell, UMass’ biggest weapon.
“Team defense overall was de-
cent, but there were some really
good performances individually,”
Tiffany said. “Captain Peter Fal-
lon was stalwart in his one-on-one
matchup against Art Kell, one of the
best attackmen in New England, if
not the country. Peter shut him out
and did an outstanding job, and
Peter was great with ground balls
and the clearing game.”
The game was neck and neck in
the first half. Goals from co-cap-
tain Andrew Feinberg ’11 and Rob
Schlesinger ’12 in the first quarter
canceled out the Minutemen’s two
scores. In the second, both teams
again scored a pair of goals. After a
Parker Brown ’12 tally, Bruno tied
the game going into the half with
only two seconds left on the clock,
thanks to a masterful finish from
George Sherman ’13.
But the third quarter belonged
to the Minutemen. UMass fired
14 shots, three of which found the
back of the net. Sherman scored
again in the final seconds of the
third — this time with 14 ticks left
on the clock — but UMass added
two quick goals to extend its lead
to 9-5 in the fourth and put the
continued on page 8
“Peter (Sullivan) and Adrian
(Williams) have been captains for
a couple of years now, and they’ve
really matured,” said Assistant
Coach T.J. Sorrentine. “We’ve
got a great bunch of seniors. That
class has been great leaders, and
they stepped into that role.”
Though the team loses four se-
niors, the young roster has shown
signs of a promising future. In
addition to McGonagill,Dockery
Walker ’14 showed potential with
his rim-rattling dunks and inside
presence on offense. Halpern’s
ability to score will make him a
major player in future seasons.
“I think they have phenomenal
talent coming up behind us, so
I’m not worried about them at all,”
Williams said. “I know they’re go-
ing to be a really good team, and
we have a freshman point guard
leading the way. The whole squad
is just young and talented, so I
look forward to watching them
play and progressing in the fu-
ture.”
“I think it’s a really bright fu-
ture,” Halpern said. “We’re get-
ting some really good recruits
in, some pieces that we needed,
and I think we have a good core
sticking around. I really think
we’ll have a shot in the next few
years to go to the tournament.
No question.”