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Fun in the sun Students compete to design eco-friendly housing Page 5

Judgment call Prof finds children base moral judgements on intent

The minimum donation requirement continues to deter young alums from contributing

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Since the creation of the University’s Social Choice Fund in 2007 — the first in the Ivy League — the fund has struggled with a lack of donations and poor investment returns. The fund, which invests in companies based on their active commitments to promoting social change, has seen only one donation — about $1.3 million in 2008, according to minutes from a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies.

“It was an excellent idea,” said Dan MacCombie ’08, a member of ACCRIP. “But as of now, it’s sort of stunted.”

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Choosing social choice Brown students advocated the creation of a social choice fund both in 2004 and 2005, but the Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — struck down the proposals over concern about donor interest, The Herald reported in 2007.

The Investment and Development Offices wanted reassurance that creating the fund would not detract from the rest of the endowment, said MacCombie, who became involved with ACCRIP first as a research assistant and then as a member.

Administrators were also concerned that the fund’s original title, “Socially Responsible Fund,” implied that the University’s other investments were irresponsible, and the name was changed, MacCombie said.

Since ACCRIP already screens companies for social irresponsibility, the focus of the Social Choice Fund was on / / Fund page 2 investing in

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Handbag designer Kent Stetson ’01 incorporated surreal masks and costumes into his Tuesday runway show at Northeast StyleWeek.

Hypnotism probes minds, delights audience Continuing Professors explain the cognitive science behind the mysterious mindbending technique

By Riley Davis Staff Writer

It is not often one finds college students screaming about aliens and singing top 40 songs they barely know, but last night, that seemed to be the norm — at least for a couple of hours.

During Frank Santos, Jr.’s hypnosis show, held Thursday at the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center, students mimed frantically with their hands because they had forgotten how to speak English. They took off their shirts and could not re-

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member how to put them back on. They performed in “butt-shaking competitions.”

Santos, a comedic hypnotist who has performed at colleges, high schools and corporate events around the country, began his performance with a quick round of hypnosis tests to determine which volunteers from the audience would be hypnotized most easily. He and his 11 chosen volunteers then kept the audience laughing for over an hour as he provided witty commentary on his subjects’ antics.

The field of hypnotism doesn’t just involve speaking in a luring tone and convincing people to do strange things.

It is a complex phenomenon, so quantified research concerning its effects on patients is difficult to procure and even more difficult to duplicate, said Catherine Kerr, professor of cognitive, linguistic and / / Hypnosis page 2 psychological

Studies closed its doors

Falling enrollment causes the end of the Continuing Ed. Department’s adult learning program

By Caleb miller senior staff writer

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Frank Santos, Jr. held the audience in rapture last night as he prompted hypnotized students to engage in the bizarre and hilarious.

Spring theater to present new works and old favorites A new semester on the stage promises an array of emotional and entertaining performances

By ANDREW SMYTH Senior staff writer

Theater aficionados and newcomers alike will have plenty to see and talk about this semester as students, faculty members and visiting artists stage an ambitious spring lineup with performances of a vast thematic range. From Neoclassical tragedy to contemporary devised work, the next few months in drama offer works meant to challenge, arrest and delight audiences.

Production Workshop will start off the season next week with Peter Shaffer’s provocative “Equus,” directed by Ben Freeman ’13. Equal parts psychological detective story and cosmic rite, the work examines a boy’s theological and erotic fascination with horses and will

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play Feb. 8-11 in the PW Downspace.

“What has delighted us about ‘Equus’ is the depth of its ambiguity — ecstasy, doubling as torment, doubling as passion, doubling as madness,” Freeman said. “As a team we have far more questions about the play than answers.”

Also at PW this semester, Jenny Gorelick ’14 will direct “Goose and Tomtom” by David Rabe, a play about small-time jewel thieves that combines scenes of intense violence with crude humor and slapstick gags. “‘Goose and Tomtom’ is a physical comedy that incorporates elements of the surreal to create an experience that is both hilarious and destabilizing,” Gorelick said. “My vision of the play centers on power — how much we have over each other, our environments and ourselves.”

Power and its erosion will figure prominently in visiting director Young

Jean Lee’s “Straight White Men,” which she is producing in residency with Sock and Buskin. Lee has earned an international reputation as an avant-garde playwright. “When starting a play, I ask myself, ‘What’s the last show in the world I would ever want to make?’ Then I force myself to make it,” she wrote in an email to The Herald.

The work is still in development, and much of it will be devised on site.

“I write my shows as I’m directing them, working collaboratively with my performers and artistic team and getting feedback from workshop audiences,” she said. “I never really know for sure until I’m in the room with the actors making it happen.”

The performance will feature themes familiar to a Brown audience, such as the deconstruction of gender, race and sexuality. “Our goal is to find ways to get past our audiences’ defenses against uncomfortable subjects and open people up to confronting difficult questions by keeping them

disoriented and laughing,” she added.

“Straight White Men” will run April 4-7 and 11-14 in Leeds Theatre.

In a shift from the experimental to the canonical, Sock and Buskin will also be producing “Phaedra,” a tragedy

by French dramatist Jean Racine, first performed in 1677. The work, which will run Feb. 28 - March 10 in Stuart Theatre, will be directed by Spencer Golub, professor of theatre arts and performance studies. The play revolves around characters from Greek mythology who were first staged by the likes of Greek dramatists Euripedes and Seneca.

At Musical Forum, Alex Ostroff ’14 will direct “Bat Boy” by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming with music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe. The show tells the story of a mysterious bat-like boy who is found in a cave and raised in small town West Virginia. It will run in the PW Downspace in April.

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The Continuing Education department shut down the Continuing Studies program at the end of last semester due to dropping enrollment, said Jodi Devine, associate director for executive education and adult programs.

The program offered not-for-credit evening courses to adults in the community for five years, Devine said. But the program experienced a decrease in enrollment over the last few semesters, including a 46 percent drop in fall course enrollment from 2011 to 2012 and a 40 percent drop over the same period in the spring courses, Devine said.

“The program was no longer sustainable and that was the driving force behind the closing,” she said.

Last fall, the department formed a committee to examine the program and consider the possibility of its closure, Devine said. The program officially ended at the close of the semester.

“This was not a decision we made lightly,” Devine said. She added that the department would look into reopening the program if interest rose again in the future.

Sarah Baldwin-Beneich, communications director at the Watson Institute for International Studies, is a former student and instructor in the Continuing Studies program. She said she had a great experience with the program and is upset to see / /Continuing page 3 it closing.

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companies that were “proactive” in social change, MacCombie said.

After the fund gained support from both the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Brown University Community Council, the Corporation approved the Social Choice Fund in 2007.

Social stagnation MacCombie said student awareness about the fund was greater when it was first introduced, but that the minimum donation requirement of $25,000 has been a deterrent to the young donors that would be most interested in donating.

Harvard students who advocated for creating a similar fund — the Fair Harvard Fund — looked to other institutions, including Brown, as examples when they proposed the idea to their university.

Unlike Brown’s fund, the Fair Harvard Fund will not have a minimum donation requirement, said Eliza Nguyen, a

Harvard junior and campus campaign coordinator for Responsible Investment at Harvard. The group, which includes students, alums and faculty members who address finance management at Harvard, pushed against such a minimum, she said.

ACCRIP, which has two undergraduate members, monitors the fund and the social responsibility of other University investments, but there is no student organization at Brown actively involved with the fund.

ACCRIP members discussed possible issues with the fund’s structure last semester, but with the committtee’s focus on divestment from coal companies and those who may be profiting from Israel’s presence in Palestine, it remains uncertain if changes to the fund will be considered in the near future, said Ian Trupin ’13.5, an ACCRIP member. The minimum donation requirement is a possible issue the committee will address, he said.

Future funding Like many other mutual funds in recent years, the Social Choice Fund has “not had a very good performance,” said Beppie Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration.

In the past few months, the Investment Office has started looking into hiring a different firm to manage the fund, but no definite decisions have been made, she said.

Most donors consider Brown’s overall investment strategy socially responsible, and those who cannot meet the donation minimum for the social choice fund can donate to specific institutions at Brown that meet their interests, she said.

The minimum donation requirement reflects the baseline figure required to establish a fund according to University policy, Huidekoper said.

Any changes to the fund’s structure would be up to the Development Office and the Corporation, she said.

Saper ’12 maps Martian landscape Ridges and minerals on Mars reveal that the planet likely had water in ancient times

By Kiki Barnes Senior Staff Writer

In the spring semester of his junior year, Lee Saper ’12 began a journey that would let him explore the surface of Mars.

In 2011, Saper applied for the Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium, a NASAfunded scholarship for undergraduate research. The scholarship — in addition to a conversation Saper had with John Mustard, professor of geological sciences — culminated in a senior thesis and a study providing evidence there was once water in the subsurface of Mars. That study, currently in press in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, was published online Wednesday.

Saper, Mustard and Brown’s Department of Geological Sciences used

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“There’s a lot of stuff going on in a hypnosis encounter,” Kerr said. “It’s very rich. There’s a lot of information — including nonverbal exchanges of information — between the hypnotist and the person being hypnotized, so that makes it a complex situation to research.”

Hypnosis itself is difficult to describe.

The general consensus in the field is that hypnotism is a trance state of susceptibili-

high-resolution images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to map more than 4,000 raised ridges on Mars’ surface in two specific areas, Saper said. They hypothesized the ridges are actually fossilized remnants of cracks in the crater floor — originally formed by the force of impact that produced the crater itself or adjustment of the crust after the impact. Water in the subsurface flowed into these cracks and deposited minerals that formed a layer harder than the surrounding crust. Over time, the crust eroded away, leaving raised ridges, Mustard said.

“The minerals around the ridges today are consistent with water once being present there,” Saper said. “So we thought perhaps the water was important in their formation in the first place.”

If water was present in the ancient cracks, life forms possibly were as well.

“The surface (of Mars) has always been inhospitable, cold, filled with toxic radiation,” Mustard said. “The subsurface is potentially a more stable place” for microbes to form.

“These ridges are the remnants of the Martian subsurface condominium complex” where microbes theoretically

lived, he said.

But the study had limitations, particularly the areas on Mars that Saper mapped — Nili Fossae and Nilosyrtis. “(Saper) mapped a large area, but in the context of Mars, it is very small,” Mustard said.

A follow-up study could examine the mineral composition of other ridges on the Red Planet’s surface. “There might have been a subsurface geological system on ancient Mars,” Saper said.

After graduating with an Sc.B in geology and chemistry, Saper is an assistant staff scientist for Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, a company that designs, builds and operates satellites and cameras. Saper controls one of the cameras on a satellite orbiting Mars.

Saper and Mustard said they hope to continue their study in the future using images from many more areas on Mars.

“We can see where (the ridges) exist, where they don’t exist and put them in the context of the study,” Saper said.

“It’s a matter of finding the right time and additional people,” Mustard said.

“We would like to extend the study as much as we can.”

ty, in which subjects are cognizant of their surroundings but are more connected to their inner thoughts or the subject on which they were asked to meditate.

A hypnotized person is actually in a hyperattentive state of mind, not in a sleepy semi-conscious state, said Steven Sloman, professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences. Some people may be more easily hypnotized than others, depending upon their current mental states, their beliefs in the science of hyp-

nosis and perhaps even the structures of their brains.

“What we think might be going on is that there are regions that help you pay attention and make decisions in the prefrontal cortex of the brain, and they tend to be pretty executive-oriented in taking action and things like that,” Kerr said. “In more highly hypnotizable people, there is actually a greater connection between that network and networks that are involved in detecting inner experience.”

Performance hypnotists, Sloman said, are very good at picking out those kinds of people. Though they cannot see the inner structure of a person’s brain, they are adept at analyzing behavioral responses and selecting members of the audience who might be the most susceptible to hypnotism.

Hypnosis may also have therapeutic benefits, Sloman said. “Anything that’s related to stress can be helped through hypnosis, as long as the person is hypnotizable.”

Hypnosis can help alleviate things like driving anxiety, perfectionism, gastrointestinal problems and skin problems, according to the Hypnosis Motivation Institute, a nationally accredited college of hypnotherapy in Southern California.

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Fashionable aliens, robots invade runway Kent Stetson ’01 collaborated with Providence’s Big Nazo Labs for a unique show

By Sam Heft-Luthy Senior Staff Writer

A hush fell over a crowd of Providence fashionistas Tuesday night as a bug-headed creature strode across an empty runway and took a seat in the front row. She was a fashionista in her own right, wearing a sparkling red and gold number and carrying a handbag, square and plastic, imprinted with a photograph of her own insect face. A bodyguard who donned a massive futuristic diving helmet shielded her from photographers as she held the handbag up to her head, and the show began.

The playful runway show — which closed StyleWeek Northeast’s Tuesday night program and received a standing ovation — was a collaboration between handbag designer Kent Stetson ’01 and creature workshop Big Nazo Lab. Big Nazo, headed by Rhode Island School of Design graduate Erminio Pinque, specializes in creating latex and rubber beasts. The troupe of performers uses the characters in artistic endeavors such as lively street performances and even a Brown TV short film. Stetson said he wanted to present

a unique product to the fashion market as well as provide a performance that would be more entertaining than an average runway show.

Calling the exhibition bizarre would be an understatement — the models ranged from a squat alien who vomited up a plastic envelope-style bag with hands printed on it, a clever play on the ‘hand-bag’ — to a robot carrying a glossy red strapped bag with splotches of neon green poking through. At one point, a giant skeleton danced down the runway, carrying a black purse with an x-ray pelvic bone along the front.

Stetson’s style is a mix of the classic and the irreverent. Some of his bags are exactly the sort of pieces one would expect to find in the designer section at Nordstrom, like one leather hand purse with a lattice texture and gold fringe hanging off the lip. Others are pure whimsy, like a black bag one of the aliens modeled with a zipper in the front that opens to reveal a fabric flap with a design of a mouth inside. Most, though, are somewhere in between.

As the show closed, Stetson stood up from his seat beside the bug-headed fashionista and walked the runway with his models. The crowd applauded enthusiastically, and the excitement in the room lingered for some time afterward.

“It took me by surprise,” said Gail Vartion, who was in attendance Tues-

day night. “I expected all the models to come out in basic black carrying the handbags, letting the handbags be the focus. But seeing the costumes, I thought that was really different and fun and upbeat.”

Stetson said that after StyleWeek is done, he will head off to Florida for a few shows and spend the spring season exhibiting his work.

“My goal is to be able to sustain a career doing this for the rest of my life,” he said.

Whether that career means commercial deals with major department stores or trying to carve a niche out in the world of high fashion is yet to be determined, he said. For now, Stetson said he is enjoying the attention and working to build his name among the Providence community.

“Everyone is asking me when they can buy the bags,” he said. “I’m not selling tonight, it’s about celebration. This is about an experience that I wanted people to have and not about a transaction.”

Andrew Bramson, another StyleWeek attendee, said he had seen Stetson’s work before but thought the exhibition tonight was “able to showcase the bags in a way that made you want to be a part of the whole experience.”

“Who doesn’t want a pelvis bag now?” he said. “When you see a twelve-foot skeleton holding one, you think, ‘Hey, I might be able to pull it off, too!’”

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“What I saw, as a student and as an instructor, was a great, vibrant evening classroom of people who had lives and wanted to inject some extra learning into those working lives,” she said. “It’s a sad thing that programs like this are not sustainable.”

The students in her classes were a mix of Brown employees and working and retired people from all over Rhode Island, Baldwin-Beneich said. She added that some of her former students have contacted her, also disappointed by the closing of the program.

The program is not being replaced, but the Continuing Education department is scheduling many speakers and events that will be open to community members, Devine said.

Baldwin-Beneich said she believes former students of the Continuing Studies program will attend these events, though they will be very different from the program’s classroom environment.

“It certainly doesn’t fulfill the same need, which is a much more interactive and personally challenging need,” she said. “But I think the public that was liable to sign up for classes will be a very important constituency for the lectures.”

to a big kickline chorus number,” Ostroff said. “It’s a lot of fun, and my main goal is that everyone involved has a lot of fun making it, because at the end of the day that’s the kind of theater I love watching most.”

Later this month, Shakespeare on the Green will present “Festen” directed

by Margaret Maurer ’13. This riff on “Hamlet” was originally a Danish film and was adapted for the stage by David Eldridge. The play dramatizes a dinner party during which a painful family secret is exposed.

“As the night goes on, the party devolves and the family is forced to face the truth,” Maurer said. “This is the party that never ends.”

Brown University Gilbert and Sullivan will stage “Pirates of Penzance,” an irreverent comic opera that satirizes honor, duty and the alleged ferocity of sea marauders. “This show is all about poking fun at those who take themselves a little too seriously, and I look forward to bringing that spirit into the modern era,” said stage manager Robert Volgman. With musical direction by Alec Kacew ’14, “Pirates” will run April 12-14 in the PW Downspace.

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Team to build energy-independent house Study examines development In Europe, Brown-RISD team will build and display its energyefficient solar house

By William Watterson contributing writer

A team of students from Brown, the Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Applied Sciences in Erfurt in Germany will be one of 20 teams competing to build the best energy-independent solar house in the European Department of Education Solar Decathlon in June 2014.

The team learned of its acceptance to the competition, which will take place at the Palace of Versailles in France, last December after being selected based on a proposal submitted before winter break, said Matt Breuer ’14, a member of the team. With its selection came €100,000 of seed money, which the team members will use to build the house.

The team was formed by Johnathan Knowles, an assistant professor of architecture at RISD. The team currently has 30 members and is still growing, wrote Derek Stein, assistant professor of physics and the team’s faculty advisor, in an email to The Herald.

Students on the team have diverse skill sets, with its members studying disciplines including engineering, environmental science and architecture, Stein wrote. The team chose to partner with students from the University of Applied Sciences in Erfurt because of the school’s focus on passive solar design, Stein said. Passive solar design uses structure to regulate the building’s temperature with minimal power use.

For students on the team, competing is both an opportunity and a responsibility because almost everything is student-organized, Breuer said.

The students are responsible for most aspects of the project — including everything from fundraising and design to the actual physical construction of the house — though Knowles is also devoting significant time to the project, Breuer said.

The team spent most of the fall semester putting together a proposal to qualify for the competition, a process which Breuer said took “a lot of long hours to get done.”

The final 20-page proposal included the team’s original technical designs and architectural concept work, along with financial and organizational plans, Gareth Rose ’16, a member of the team, wrote in an email to The Herald.

The house will comprise woven

textiles within a solid frame, and it will be both movable and alterable, Breuer said.

After the proposal was accepted, team members from RISD traveled to Germany to refine the house’s design with their German counterparts, Stein wrote. The team will select one of the three plans they devised, and will then spend the next calendar year finalizing design plans. The projected budget for the house is $600,000, so students will spend a significant amount of time fundraising, Stein wrote.

One year from now, the team will begin the actual construction of the house in Germany, Breuer said. It will be transported to the Palace of Versailles for the competition, after which it will be put into use by Vitra, a highend German furniture manufacturer, which has invited the team to move the final project to its foundation retreat.

This will allow the team’s work to occupy a high-profile location for years to come, Stein wrote.

The team’s ultimate objective is not to win but rather to create something “with a real impact,” Breuer said. The goal of competing is to raise a “tremendous amount of awareness about the importance of the energy issue we face and how to work towards solving it,” Rose wrote.

of perception of morality Cushman’s new research reveals moral judgements change with age

By Steven michael contributing writer

As children develop, they base moral judgments more on people’s intentions than on the outcomes of their actions, according to new research led

by Fiery Cushman, assistant professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences. The study was published in the online edition of the journal Cognition last month.

To conduct the study, researchers read picture books to children between the ages of four and eight. In the stories, the actions of characters with good intentions lead to negative outcomes, while the actions of characters with bad intentions lead to positive outcomes. For example in the “apple” story, one character inadvertently steals an apple that rolls into his basket. Another character tries to steal an apple, but it rolls out of his basket without him noticing.

After responding to reading comprehension questions, the children were asked whether the character was “naughty” and whether the character deserved punishment. The researchers found older children were more likely to consider characters’ intentions when determining whether they should be punished.

Still, even older children placed greater emphasis on intent when determining naughtiness than when determining punishment.

“My research shows there’s an interesting dissociation between moral judgment and punishment,” Cushman said.

That dissociation holds implications for sentencing in the criminal justice system, which Cushman examined in a 2011 essay published in the book “Future Science.” In the essay, Cushman sketches a hypothetical

scenario in which two friends, Hal and Peter, both drive under the influence of alcohol and lose control of their vehicles. While Hal crashes into a tree, Peter crashes into a young girl, killing her. Based on the outcomes of their otherwise similar accidents, Hal only faces a fine and license suspension while Peter stands to serve time in prison.

Cushman suggested that when determining punishment, it is important to ask if the person actually did anything wrong. “It is possible that they are the victim of unfortunate circumstances instead of the perpetrator of an immoral act,” Cushman said.

Cushman’s interest in morality research developed in middle school when he read the book “The Moral Animal” by Robert Wright.

He planned to study the evolution of morality and pursued an undergraduate degree in biology at Harvard.

For his Ph.D., Cushman said he realized morality was more of a “human phenomenon” and decided to pursue psychology instead.

Jin Li, an associate professor of education who teaches EDUC 1850: “Moral Education and Development” said Cushman’s recent study advances the notion that children undergo “conceptual change.”

Li noted that research by Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology at Yale, suggests that children as young as one have “some moral sense” in terms of punishment. Bloom and other researchers at his lab found that when one-year-olds watched a puppet show featuring a “naughty” puppet and a well-behaved puppet and then had to punish one by taking away their treat, most chose to punish the naughty puppet.

But unlike Cushman’s research, Bloom’s study did not test whether the children distinguished intent from outcome in determining punishment.

Li said she will likely assign the Cushman article when she teaches her students about the transition from infancy to adulthood.

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Men’s tennis disappoints in Borelli ’13 earns first career shutout Athlete of the Week looks opening spring matches forward to competitive The team prepares for its home opener and a challenging season ahead

By DANIYAL KHAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The men’s tennis team started its spring season with a disappointing weekend trip to Hanover for the Dartmouth Kickoff Classic, falling to Clemson University and Purdue University in the team tournament.

The No. 51 Bears (0-2) lost 4-0 to the No. 61 Tigers on Saturday, with the duo of Michael Riechmann ’15 and Michael Hill ’13 picking up the lone victory at the No. 2 doubles match. The following day against the Boilermakers yielded better results in the singles matches, as William Spector ’15 and Sam Fife ’14 posted wins at the No. 3 and No. 4 positions. But it was a repeat of Saturday’s struggles in the doubles matches, as the second straight victory for Riechmann and Hill could not stop Purdue from wining the fixture 4-2.

“Some of the guys expected to win.

We were favored on paper,” said captain Soufiane Azargui ’14 referring to the Bears’ superior NCAA ranking. He added that the rankings did not reflect their opponents’ actual skill levels.

Members of the team were back on campus by Jan. 14 for pre-season training, though a number of players

who live in the Northeast got together over break to get a head start, Azargui said. Other players trained at home — some with former coaches — before returning to Brown.

“Our goal this season is to get the highest possible ranking and finish in the top 48,” Azargui said.

The top 48 NCAA-ranked teams qualify for the season-ending NCAA tournament outright, whereas conference champions are awarded wildcard berths. Azargui added that the Bears have a bigger opportunity to gather momentum and improve their ranking since they are playing higher-ranked teams more often this year.

“It’s a good learning experience for us. The most important part of our season is definitely the Ivy League tournament,” said David Neff ’14. “So when it comes to close matches in March and April, we want to be prepared.”

If the Bears fail to finish in the top 48, they will have to win the Ivy League to book a ticket to the NCAA tournament. The team will have a chance to bounce back from last weekend’s disappointment as it plays its homeopeners Saturday against Binghamton University and Quinnipiac University.

“Its tough to come out with two losses to start the season,” Neff said.

“Everyone’s coming to beat us — especially at home — since we moved up the rankings, so we’re going to be prepared.”

season with the Bears on ice

By Dante O’Connell Contributing Writer

As starting goalie for men’s hockey, Anthony Borelli ’13 is the last line of defense on the ice. While teammates have suffered from untimely injuries, the Grant Island, N.Y. native has stayed healthy and helped keep Bruno competitive this season. Borelli earned his first career shutout Saturday, making 23 saves in a 3-0 victory over Cornell. For his outstanding effort, he has been named The Herald’s Athlete of the Week.

Herald: How did it feel to pick up your first career shutout against Cornell?

Borelli: If felt great. It felt good to get the monkey off the back, per se, especially at Cornell because it’s known as a hostile environment. That kind of made it even better for me — it was nice. I’m just happy we won to be honest. Shutout or not, it didn’t matter to me.

How would you asses your team’s play this season?

I think I would describe us as a resilient team, because we’ve had a good amount of guys go down with injuries, some guys left, some guys de-committed, a

recruit didn’t end up coming, and I don’t think that we’ve really let it bother us at all. We just keep getting better and better and I think that we’re primed to make a pretty good push here coming into the end of the season.

When did you start playing hockey?

I started playing hockey when I was three. My mom put me in hockey as just something to do and I don’t remember much from those days. But I just kept sticking with it and I was pretty good. I started out as forward, and I switched to goalie when I was nine. I got a shutout my first game and never looked back.

What has been your best memory of Brown hockey so far?

That shutout was pretty good (laughs).

I would have to say my freshman year making it to the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference finals. To do that in the first year kind of showed us what it takes to get there, and hopefully we can emulate that.

What’s the most anticipated game coming up?

I would have to say Quinnipiac (University) on Friday because they’re number two — should be number one in the nation. … So that should be a pretty good opportunity for us to beat another very good team in our league and in the country.

Do you have any specific pressures or

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goals as a senior?

I’ve been trying to do the opposite of focusing on pressure. I’m trying to take the pressure off myself. But as far as goals go, as long as you play well and you play for your team, if you play for the logo on the front of the jersey, as cliche as that is … then everything else will fall into place.

Is there an athlete you admire the most?

When I was growing up, Patrick Roy was my idol — loved him. He played for the Colorado Avalanche — he was an amazing goalie, a great competitor.

That’s who I always pretended to be and who I wanted to be when I grew up.

What is your concentration and why?

My concentration is economics. I chose that because it’s the closest thing to finance, and that’s what I was interested in. I guess I want to be a businessman. I’d also like to open a restaurant someday.

What else are you passionate about, other than hockey?

I like watching football. I love the Buffalo Bills, unfortunately. It’s kind of like a torturous thing, but I love them to death.

Finally, the most important question: Antonio’s or Nice Slice?

That’s an easy one — Nice Slice all day.

The barbecue chicken can’t be beat.

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Editorial cartoon b y i va n a lc a n ta r a

A diamond to Harry Belafonte for telling students at the Rhode Island School of Design to “tell me the generosity of your soul, and I’ll tell you how far I think we can go.” We gave a half a scone to a squirrel once. How far does that take us?

Coal to James Hall, executive director of the Providence Preservation Society, who suggested demolishing the strip with Froyoworld and Metro Mart in order to beautify Thayer Street. Um, hello — tear down the Sciences Library.

Diamonds to all the students who participated in “butt-shaking competitions” during Frank Santos Jr.’s hypnotist show Thursday at the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center. You are all winners, no butts about it.

Coal to the attendee of Kent Stetson ’01 and Big Nazo Labs’ StyleWeek fashion show who said, “Who doesn’t want a pelvis bag now? When you see a twelve-foot skeleton holding one, you think, ‘Hey, I might be able to pull it off, too!’” Yeah, that’s what we thought about parachute pants — and pictures are forever.

A diamond to the UCS member who said, “It’s really hard to enter a class where people have already made friends.” Unless Janis Ian draws you a cafeteria map, that is.

Cubic zirconia to Colin Kane, chairman of the I-195 Redevelopment District Commission, who said the Jewelry District’s Dynamo House would require a creative tenant to take advantage of the large, historic building.

Four bouncy castles, two bowling alleys and one aboriginal basket-weaving emporium coming up.

Coal to the junior who said his student group attracted two or three times as many members this year by advertising spring rolls at its first general body meeting and then complained about their lack of funding for food. He failed to realize that you don’t need a food budget in order to advertise free food.

A trove of diamonds to the Committee for Financial Aid to help fund universal need-blind financial aid for undergraduate applicants, which the committee endorsed in its interim report released last Friday. Given the current state of the University’s endowment, we’re pretty sure Brown needs them more than we do.

Coal to Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology at Yale, who conducted a study in which children watched “naughty” puppets. We’re jealous. We spent hundreds of dollars to see Avenue Q. A diamond to the head coach of the Brown player recently drafted into Major League Lacrosse, who said, “A scholar by day, he puts on his locksmith hat and goes to work at night.” Sounds like a sick hat, bro.

Cubic zirconia to Patricia Ybarra, co-chair of the Committee on Educational Innovation and associate professor of theater arts and performance studies, who said an eight-hour conference the day before classes began was “actually very fun.” We’re nervous if she’s the one planning curricular reform.

Coal to Young Jean Lee, the director of Sock and Buskin’s production of “Straight White Men,” who said “When starting a play, I ask myself, ‘What’s the last show in the world I would ever want to make?’ Then I force myself to make it.” Brown Concert Agency, please do not take note.

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Inviting King to lecture offensive to student To the Editor: As a student and alum of Brown University, I am disappointed by the Office of Institutional Diversity’s decision to invite Bernice King to give the Jan. 30 Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture under the title of “Advancing the ‘Dream’: Addressing Social Equity Issues to Eliminate Health Disparities in the 21st Century.” As she demonstrated in her lecture, hers is not a dream that includes the equity of me, my partner or other LGBTQ people on this campus and in this country.

Of course, the diversity of opinions on a university campus, and on Brown’s campus especially, is sacrosanct.

In another context, King should and would be welcomed to campus to describe her passion for equality for non-sexual minorities. But in the context of a program organized by Brown’s Office of Institutional Diversity and in memory of this country’s greatest civil rights hero, her invitation to appear on this campus, whether in spite of her views or in ignorance of them, smarts even more than her words.

Zachary Marcus ’10 MD’16

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“The Jets have Revis. Brown has Ferguson.”

— Head Coach Lars Tiffany ‘90 See draft on page 8.

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Should students take unpaid internships?

YES

NO

school because we thought the benefits — the prestige and respect of a college degree, the knowledge and experience hoped to gain, the increased future Opinions Columnist we earnings — would outweigh those costs.

The same applies to an unpaid inEvery year around this time, students de- ternship. We give up the opportunity to scend into applications for that three-syl- make some cash working a minimumlable word that makes most of us shutter wage job, but we gain a lot from the exwith dread: internships. For many, that perience as well. We might feel proud means brushing the dust off resumes, up- of or respected for getting impressive dating cover letters with over-exagger- internships. They might look good on ated examples of leadership and calling our resumes. Or the skills and experifamily friends in high places. For some ences may enhance our prospects for lucky ones, the opportunity might mean future earnings. We might even enjoy a thicker wallet when fall semester arrives. them. All these nonmonetary and intanAnd yet for others, gible benefits must the process may ulbe taken into contimately yield nothsideration when ing more than a choosing whether cookie-cutter, 9-to- The real-world experience to accept an un5 job of paper pushoffered by an internship is paidJustinternship. ing and number think about crunching — with an essential component it — why do we no paycheck. Why, want an internship of a well-rounded and then, should stuover the summer dents agree to take in the first place, thorough education. the infamous unpaid or unpaid? I paid internship? assume for most of Let’s start with us it is not about one of the most bathe potential $8.50 sic principles of economics: Every de- per hour. An internship is an investment cision has an opportunity cost — what in one’s future and in one’s own educayou give up, monetary or otherwise, to tion, just like coming to Brown is. The reap the benefits of one decision over real-world experience offered by an inanother. I say this not to display my eco- ternship is an essential component of a nomics prowess to potential finance re- well-rounded and thorough education, cruiters reading this column. Rather, I a very different educational opportunity say this because this is the framework in from the theoretical knowledge we gain which we make our everyday decisions. in classes. Whether it is interning for In every decision, we weigh the oppor- your local councilman, an alum’s hedge tunity cost with the potential benefits, fund or a nonprofit startup, your experimonetary or otherwise. ences will teach you at least as much as Consider, for instance, your Brown you learn from your time at Brown — education. There are costs, not only and perhaps even more. in the form of $50,000 a year but also in lost wages you could be earning by working during this time. ObviousAlex Drechsler ’15 is looking at you, ly, we all chose Brown over a full-time Bain Capital. He can be reached at minimum wage job coming out of high alex_drechsler@brown.edu.

port in order to work unpaid internships.

The LINK Award, previously known as the Brown Internship Award Program, has provided hundreds of students with summer Opinions Columnist opportunities in the past. But let’s ask ourselves — why should Brown need to step in for for-profit employers and pay the wagAs we return to campus for the spring se- es of unpaid interns? If unpaid interns are mester, many of us will begin to plan what adding value to the companies, shouldn’t to do over the upcoming summer. As of these employers foot their own bills? this week, the Student Job and Internship Many unpaid internships justify their Board has nearly 300 paid internship post- lack of wage due to the gained educational ings and over 150 unpaid internship post- experience. In fact, the U.S. Fair Labor Stanings. In choosing what to do this year, I dards Act explicitly states in order to merit urge Brown students to opt out of unpaid a lack of wage, an unpaid internship must internships. be “similar to training which would be givMany supporten in an educational ers of unpaid inenvironment” and When seeking summer the unpaid intern ternships tout the “exposure-audience must “not displace opportunities, it is model.” According regular employees.” important that we to this model, both Many unpaid ininterns and employterns carry out tasks recognize the moral ers benefit from un— such as makpaid internships. Inand ethical implications ing copies, buildterns gain a line on ing Twitter feeds or of taking on unpaid their resume and even emptying trash a chance to see the cans — that disinternships, and as a inner workings of a place the labor that company. Employlow-skilled employcommunity, opt out of ers are provided the ees would normally these programs. opportunity to aube paid to do. Not dition prospective only is this practice candidates for fullunfair — replacing time positions at little cost. low-skilled workers with unpaid interns This justification is inherently flawed. who will work for free — but it is also ilThe unpaid internship scheme excludes legal under the Fair Labor Standards Act. It many prospective employees who are will- is, in fact, only possible because employers ing and able to work in industries such as exploit students’ needs for increased compublishing, entertainment and fashion, petitiveness in the labor market upon gradbut who cannot afford to live in cities such uation. as New York, Washington or Los Angeles When seeking summer opportunities, while working unpaid, full-time positions. it is important that we recognize the moral Students who cannot afford to live in these and ethical implications of taking on unhub cities, where lower-cost rents can run paid internships, and as a community, opt up to nearly $1,000 per month, are limited out of these programs. from taking on these sorts of opportunities.

For its part, Brown does offer the Linking Internships and Knowledge, or LINK Dorothy Lutz ’13 thinks we ought to get Award, to students who need financial suppaid for our hard work.

Lutz’s Rebuttal

Drechsler’s Rebuttal

Alex Drechsler

Alex Dreschler and I both agree internships offer valuable “real-world” experience that complements and strengthens the educations we receive in the classroom here at Brown. We diverge on whether the value of this experience is worth foregoing a wage.

Dreschler claims the expenses associated with an unpaid internship should be viewed as an investment parallel to our Brown educations. But is it viable to consider an unpaid internship on the same terms as we consider our educations? The answer is no.

In exchange for paying tuition at Brown, we get everything that makes Brown what it is: teachers, courses, resources and on-campus opportunities.

We also get diplomas. Unpaid interns may be gaining experience out in the real world, but their experiences are not parallel to the educational experiences we get at Brown. If these unpaid internships provided educational experiences parallel to those we receive in the classroom, they would merit the lack of wage. In most cases, though, unpaid internships are just jobs by an-

other name.

A close friend of mine worked in a coveted, yet unpaid, internship position at a reputable production studio last summer. On his first day, he was presented with an orientation manual outlining his work for the summer.

One section included a grocery list of items he was to stock the kitchen with every Tuesday. Another included the schedule for when the trash bins needed to be emptied. There is nothing wrong with carrying out unglamorous tasks as an intern — it is to be expected. But claiming these experiences are “educational” to avoid paying wages to an intern should be considered morally reprehensible on the part of the employers.

A recent successful lawsuit filed by a group of unpaid interns from the Charlie Rose Show has gained media attention over the past few weeks. This summer, opt out of an unpaid internship, and join companies such as the Atlantic, Eileen Fisher and Google — all of whom have committed to running fair and legal paid internship programs.

Dorothy lutz

Unfortunately, economics has never really grasped the idea of morality.

So the consideration of opportunity costs does not, I must admit, address the third party who may lose from the arrangement of unpaid internships.

Economics’ faults notwithstanding, my adversary’s conclusion that taking an unpaid internship is somehow unethical for Brown students is flawed in two ways.

First of all, that our decision to take an unpaid internship will lead to the displacement of another worker is not inherently immoral. In fact, it is one of the unfortunate realities of the labor market. When we leave Brown, we will take jobs that will be ours and only ours, in effect displacing another worker. The worker displaced by our hiring will likely be one of the thousands unemployed and unskilled in the U.S. — yet this is reality. The labor market is structured around the fact that we as laborers will compete for scarce jobs and, ultimately, someone will lose out. We will get this job because we can afford to be more com-

petitive — such as being able to come to Brown rather than go directly into the labor market.

If you still have qualms about the morality of taking a job that could have been paying an unskilled laborer, consider this — how many summer jobs that we as students take would have alternatively gone towards an unskilled laborer? For many of these unskilled workers, a job that lasts no more than 8 to 10 weeks is not really a job at all. And, most likely, these companies would not hire outside labor rather than take students as interns. If there was really a need for labor, and companies had the money available, they would have already hired the unskilled laborers rather than waiting for summer to come around. Eliminating unpaid internships will not create millions of paid, full-time, stable jobs.

This argument is a fallacy backed neither by data nor logic. Rather, it will eliminate the opportunity for students like us to augment our Brown educations with real-world, professional experiences.

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Friday, February 01, 2013

Two senior standouts welcomed to the big leagues Lacrosse defenseman drafted 31st and soccer defender picked 35th

By Alexandra Conway Senior Staff Writer

To balance the rigors of being an athlete and a full-time student, an individual has to be disciplined, determined and hardworking — and there is no guarantee that the hard work will pay off. A 2012 report released by the NCAA found that just over 1 percent of students athletes, with the exception of baseball players, will make it professionally after their collegiate careers. Those athletes who do are usually from major universities that allot more money for athletics.

But over winter break, two Bears learned they were selected for the professional sports circuit. Lacrosse defenseman Roger Ferguson ’13 and soccer defender Dylan Remick ’13 were drafted into Major League Lacrosse and Major League Soccer, respectively.

All-Ivy Ferguson was selected by the Denver Outlaws as the 31st pick overall in the fourth round of the MLL Collegiate Draft.

“A scholar by day, he puts on his locksmith hat and goes to work at night.

Roger is … always assigned to guard the best midfielders in the game of college lacrosse,” said Head Coach Lars Tiffany ’90. “The Jets have Revis. Brown has Ferguson.”

During his four years at Brown, Ferguson has been a key player for the men’s lacrosse team. He was an All-New England selection, Defensive co-MVP in 2012 and a “formidable shutdown defender,” Tiffany said.

“We give him a very difficult matchup every game, and he responds by effectively eliminating his opponent,” Tiffany said. “The rest of the team can lean on Roger to not only neutralize a formidable opposing player, but to also see the rest of the field and be a reliable and communicative member of the defensive unit.”

In addition to his defensive abilities, Tiffany said Ferguson is a “slippery offensive threat … setting picks with the

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Roger Ferguson ’13 hopes to lead the Bears to a National Championship before heading to Denver to continue playing lacrosse professionally.

attack or midfields to finds seams and take advantage of missteps.”

Ferguson’s versatility on the field was an attractive quality to MLL coaches, Tiffany said. Ferguson said his coach notified him and a few other players there was a chance they could be drafted, but nothing was certain.

“It works like this — MLL coaches talk to Division I coaches asking who they should pick. There is no set pool so they can pick any player they want,” Ferguson explained.

The MLL, founded in 1998, has this flexibility because the league is still in its early stages, and there are only eight teams. Since the NCAA bans formal contact between professional coaches and prospective athletes until the conclusion of their collegiate seasons, Tiffany informed Ferguson that he had been drafted officially.

“I was pretty surprised, but definitely excited,” Ferguson said. “It came and went pretty fast in terms of finding out, but I’m more focused on my final Brown season now. … (I) definitely want to give it my all.”

Though the MLL season runs from April to August, Ferguson will not be able to join the Denver Outlaws until May due to NCAA restrictions.

Ferguson said it is incredible to be a student-athlete at an Ivy League school and be drafted alongside athletes from powerhouse lacrosse schools like Johns Hopkins, the University of Maryland and the University of Virginia.

“It’s cool that you can go to an Ivy League school and still have an impact on the professional level,” Ferguson said.

While Ferguson remains at Brown finishing his final season with the Bears, Remick has traveled to Seattle for preseason training. Remick was selected 35th overall in the second round by the Seattle Sounders in the MLS SuperDraft. This year’s SuperDraft, which is followed by supplemental picks, included two rounds with 38 soccer players.

“Any time you get drafted in the first two rounds — it’s a great feeling being one of top 38 picks in MLS. … It’s so good to see you’re in that top category,” Remick said.

Remick is a three-time first-team All-Ivy selection, a 2012 New England Intercollegiate Soccer All-Star and a 2012 second-team All-American — the first Bear to earn All-American honors since Jeff Larentowicz ’05 in 2004. Remick also

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Dylan Remick’s ’13 performance as one of the top defenders in the Ivy League was a stepping stone in his quest to a professional career in soccer. helped the Bears earn three consecutive berths in the NCAA tournament.

“I am very excited for Dylan earning this opportunity to play at the professional level,” said Head Coach Patrick Laughlin. “Over the four years of watching him grow and develop as a player, his commitment to the sport lead to his rapid improvement and where he is now.”

In contrast to the MLL, there is less uncertainty surrounding the possibility of being drafted in the MLS. For Remick, the journey began in December after the Bears were eliminated in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

“I tried to stay healthy and fit for the preseason and draft,” Remick said. “I trained a lot over break back at home in Chicago. My high school coach helped me out a lot and obviously Brown was really helpful in terms of giving me anything I needed in terms of training and advice.”

Remick was then invited to play in the MLS Combine, “one last time to showcase yourself before the draft,” Remick said.

After the four-day showcase, Remick returned home, awaiting the league’s next move.

“I was in the basement with my dad. … It was a very nerve-wracking day before I got drafted, but once I found out I was so excited,” Remick said. “I was extremely happy I got picked that high, but the next day it was back to business because in the end you still have to work as hard as the people drafted in front of and behind you.”

fencing

Fencing squads finish undefeated at home After impressive start to the season, the Bears look forward to Ivy League Championship

By George Sanchez Contributing Writer

The men’s and women’s fencing teams finished undefeated with large margins of victory in their only home meet of the year on Saturday. At the second tournament of the year for the Northeast Fencing Conference, Brown hosted 13 schools from New England, competing successfully in foil, saber and epee to win all of its matches.

“With respect to strategy and attitude, the team did a very good job,” said co-captain Cory Abbe ’13. “Know-

ing to get in with the right mindset and game plan will help us over the next weekends.”

Brown’s fencing programs dominated the NFC this year — the men’s team finished 9-1, losing only to Sacred Heart in the first tournament at MIT in November, while the women’s team finished undefeated for the first time since the 2007-2008 season.

“Every year we beat our program record — our national rank and NCAA ranking goes up on a yearly basis,” said co-captain Kelly McGuire ’13. “The team is as strong as it has ever been. It is really exciting to see.”

On the women’s side, Audrey Lee ’16 and Kathryn Hawrot ’14, fighting with foils, went 17-1 and 18-0 at the tournament, respectively. Abbe, on the epee squad, compiled a 13-2 record during

the tournament. On the saber team, Christine Whalen ’15 bolstered Bruno by going 15-1, along with Lauren Altman ’16, who finished 16-3.

For the men, the epee team, led by McGuire and Simon Jones ’16, went 8-1 with victories against Dartmouth and Brandeis. The saber squad featured big performances from Teddy Weller ’13 and Nick Deak ’14. For the men’s foil, Barrett Weiss ’15 and James Golin ’13 each helped Bruno maintain large margins, with two 26-1 performances over both Vassar and the University of New Hampshire.

McGuire said he thought the team maintained a good attitude during the tournament.

“I feel that our most valuable team dynamic is the fact that we are all passionate about fencing — we were

coaching and cheering each other on,” McGuire said.

In two weekends, the squads will compete at the Ivy League Championship at Harvard and the NCAA qualifiers in early March. Last year, Brown was represented by six athletes at the NCAA Division I Tournament, where the squad finished 13th.

“I am looking forward to maintaining our current focus, and cannot express how proud I am of how the seniors on the team are giving it their best,” Abbe said.

McGuire added that the first-years on the squad have been performing well. “As a senior, it feels good to know that I will be leaving the team in good hands,” he said.

Bruno’s efforts continue this weekend at the Eric Sollee Invitational at MIT.

Remick is currently training with the Sounders to earn a spot on the final roster and hopes to be in Seattle for the season’s start March 2, he said.

“I hope to make a decent career out of it,” he said. “I hope for it to be a long stretch, but it’s not something you can control.”

Fergueson and Remick both said it was important to have good time-management skills and to do the little things that will be important in the long run.

“Balancing with school was hard and with my major it was tough with labs. You have to give up those Friday or Saturday nights to do work because you were out practicing,” Remick said. “I think there are many talented athletes but there are sacrifices that you have to be willing to make to balance athletics, academics and still excel.”

Ferguson said lacrosse taught him valuable life lessons that he believes only a sport can teach.

“Perseverance, getting up when you’re knocked down and always striving to be your best,” Ferguson said. “At the Division I level it’s like a job. You’re playing year-round, staying on top of everything … including schoolwork.”

Ferguson and Remick said they are thankful for the academic and athletic opportunities they have found at Brown.

“Lacrosse is a team sport. … I would not be where I am now without the other guys,” Ferguson said. “We started together and are now finishing together. … It’s been a four year culmination to this point.”

Home Games This Weekend Friday

M. Ice Hockey vs.

Quinnipiac 7 p.m. @ Meehan Aud. W. Basketball vs.

Dartmouth 6 p.m. @ Pizzitola Saturday

M./W. Swimming and Diving vs. Cornell 12 p.m. @ Aquatics Center M. Ice Hockey vs.

Princeton 4 p.m. @ Meehan Aud. W. Basketball vs. Harvard 6 p.m. @ Pizzitola