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RAISE THE RUTH The Providence Newspaper Guild’s 33rd annual Follies featured dancing joints and a stripping faux Ruth Simmons METRO 3

TUNING IN Brown is one of six schools nationwide using iTunes U, which lets students listen to lectures on their iPods CAMPUS NEWS 5

THE OTHER ‘BIG RED’ Te-Ping Chen ’07: The Communist Party’s “greatest revolution” has escalated development in China OPINIONS 11

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Main Green leak costs U. around $300k

Advising in IR bottlenecked by high number of concentrators

Snowstorm of two weeks ago an unlikely ally in solving problem

BY ANNE WOOTTON METRO EDITOR

In addition to being one of the most popu-lar concentrations offered at the University, the International Relations Program is also arguably the broadest. Its four concentration tracks include courses in economics, political science, anthropology, religion and foreign language departments, among others. But when it comes time to file a concentration in international relations, only one person at the University can sign the forms: Claudia Elliot Ph.D. ’99, an adjunct lecturer in international relations and concentration adviser to the entire program, which includes between 250 and 400 students at any given time.

Elliot’s job at the University is unique: in addition to her normal responsibilities as a faculty member, she is paid specifically to spend 20 hours per week as an adviser, meeting with and answering questions from international relations concentrators.

“It’s doable in the sense that students meet with me for half an hour, so the reality is that I can see all the students (concentrating in international relations),” Elliot said, though she added that the large number of concentrators “does put a strain on the advising process.”

Some international relations concentrators complain that it is difficult to make a significant connection with an adviser in just 30 minutes.

“It’s hard to develop a personal, oneon-one relationship with your concentration adviser in the international relations (program),” said Rita Cidre ’07, a double-concentrator in French and the politics, cultures and identity track of the International Relations Program.

Cidre referred to an advising meeting during which Elliot discouraged her strongly from writing a senior thesis, citing this as one reason she believes advising within the international relations concentration is not as supportive or involved as advising in other concentrations.

“The conversation I had with (Elliot) basically narrowed down to her telling me that it was very hard to do a thesis and very competitive,” Cidre said. “I really think that if anyone is willing to undertake such a big project, (that person) should have faculty support. I don’t think it’s important if you have five B’s and four A’s in the track — a student should have the faculty support and the tools available to get it done,” she added.

Owen David ’08, who filed his international relations concentration form last week, expressed sentiments similar to Cidre’s. “(My experience) has been very, very bureaucratic in nature — it took me three, four weeks to schedule an appointment with (Elliot),” said David, who ultimately felt like his meeting with her was cut short.

“In the end, I only got half an hour with Dr. Elliot, and that’s not really adequate time,” he said. “All these big questions that should be asked when you’re declaring see IR, page 8 Editorial: 401.351.3372 Business: 401.351.3260

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Practice,” one of two required seminars for the concentration. The course is currently being taught by Jeffrey Poland, an adjunct professor hired to fill in for Brock. The other required seminar, BE 150.1: “Topics in Biomedical Ethics: Objectivity and Its Loss,” was offered by Poland last fall.

Poland is the acting adviser for the concentration and one of several parttime professors who has worked over the last four years to teach the required classes.

The suspension of the biomedical ethics concentration was “not due to a lack of student interest,” Poland said, “but was a departmental issue.”

The department’s current arrangement works for many students, said Associate Dean of the College Carolyn Denard, who oversees independent

About two weeks ago, Cody Campanie ’08 chose to not shower for three days because of hot water loss in Caswell Hall.

During that stretch, Campanie played two rugby practices and lifted weights.

“I didn’t have much contact with girls Monday through Wednesday,” he added.

The outpouring of steam near Sayles Hall, which began Feb. 8, was caused by a rupture in a segment of the high temperature hot water piping near Manning Chapel. The cause of the leak is still unknown, but officials from Facilities Management suspect corrosion and old age were potential causes.

The total cost to the University has been roughly $300,000 to $350,000. This number is expected to rise as concrete that was removed to reach the leak is replaced, said Stephen Maiorisi, vice president of Facilities Management.

Workers from Facilities Management logged nearly 240 overtime hours during the repairs process.

Workers first noticed the leak on Feb. 8 when gauge readings indicated the main system was losing water.

“We immediately assembled a team to address the problem,” said Carlos Fernandez, director of engineering for Facilities Management.

Contractors hired by the University excavated the site near Sayles to fix the pipe.

The water in the pipe is between 250 and 320 degrees Fahrenheit, Fernandez said, so the pipe’s hot water had to be shut off to ensure workers’ safety during construction. An inability to locate the source of the leak then prolonged

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Some buildings on campus had their heat turned off to protect workers from high temperatures while repairing steam pipes under the Main Green, such as this one outside Manning Chapel.

Biomedical ethics on the way out despite student interest

BY SPENCER TRICE STAFF WRITER

Students wishing to concentrate in biomedical ethics are running out of options this semester, though opportunities for those interested in the field have not altogether disappeared.

The biomedical ethics concen-tration has drawn attention since Dan Brock, the last full-time professor in the discipline, left the University four years ago. The administration officially suspended the concentration last year after a decline in faculty and departmental support.

The administration reviewed the concentration and decided to phase it out over the 2005-2006 school year, closing it to new concentrators.

Spring 2006 will be the last opportunity for students to take BE 150.1: “Topics in Biomedical Ethics: Controversial Issues in Mental Health

Sweet success: Warren Brown ’93 flourishes in cake-baking

BY STEPHANIE LEE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Warren Brown ’93 has made good use of his Brown history degree — as a full-time cake-baker and FEATURE owner of the Cakelove bakery in Washington, D.C. In addition to running the bakery and the Love Café, which serves breakfast, lunch and desserts next door, Brown is now the star of a culinary TV show.

Brown hosts “Sugar Rush,” a program dedicated entirely to desserts of every kind, each week on Food Network. With the first season almost complete and a second forthcoming, Brown is making headway as a TV personality and dessert aficionado.

Brown’s days on College Hill and his decision to concentrate in history did not prepare him for his eventual career path, but they served him well when he was a public defender in the United

States Department of Health and Human Services. While in Providence, he served as a student government leader and participated in other extracurricular activities, as well. And though his collegiate career gave little indication that he would eventually pursue culinary arts, Brown said his activities outside of the classroom had some connection to his current occupation and plans for the future.

The chaos of event-planning and leadership gave him some insight as to what it would be like running his own business, he said.

Other elements of life in Providence provided more obvious ties to his current occupation.

“I cooked a lot at Brown,” he said.

“I used to live in Slater, and we all chipped in money for dinner. …We made everything from roast turkey, to breakfast burritos and pasta.”

Toward the end of his four years in Providence, Brown said he

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spontaneously purchased a 500-page cookbook from the Brown Bookstore.

He also found inspiration for Love Café on campus. Brown said the atmosphere he strived to emulate was “a combination of the (Rockefeller Library) on the second floor … and see CAKELOVE, page 6

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Warren Brown ‘93 hosts “Sugar Rush” on the Food Network.

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“GENDER BENDERS & CAMPY QUEENS” 5:30 p.m. , (Watson Institute) — Associate Professor of History James Green will speak at an event sponsored by the LGBTQ Resource Center and the Center for Latin American Studies.

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Singing Simmons stand-in, dancing joint delight at newspaper guild’s Follies ’05

BY BEN LEUBSDORF METRO EDITOR

SWANSEA, Mass. — It was an evening of songs, laughs and a stripping stand-in for President Ruth Simmons at the Providence Newspaper Guild’s Follies ’05, held Feb. 24 at the Venus de Milo Restaurant in Swansea, Mass.

The musical comedy revue of Rhode Island news and politics, now in its 33rd year, is written, produced and performed annually by the union representing employees of the Providence Journal. Rhode Island is not very big, so just about every Ocean State politico, large and small, was among the 1,200 guests. Before the show began, the attendees enjoyed drinks, a rich buffet and a brief awards ceremony.

Among those honored by the Guild was Luis Pagan ’06, who drowned after disappearing off the coast of Mexico Jan. 12. Only 22 years old at the time of his death, Providence-raised Pagan was posthumously awarded one of two John Kiffney Awards for his accomplishments as a community activist, notably his work with Youth in Action, for which he helped start an HIV-prevention program that reached thousands, according to the event program.

The tone of the remainder of the evening was lighthearted but sharp, with few notables escaping unharmed — as the final song declared, it was a time for “tasteless jokes and off-key singing.” A stand-in for Lt. Gov. Charles Fogarty appeared on stage and used a cloth to shine his famously large, bald head.

Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., who is confined to a wheelchair, was said by one emcee to be “the only Rhode Island politician we know isn’t playing golf with a lobbyist” on Congressional junkets.

The sharpest and most frequent barbs were reserved, though, for Gov. Don Carcieri ’65, who snubbed the Guild by not attending the dinner. That may not have been such a bad idea, since much of the show was devoted to making fun of him, including a remark by Journal writer and emcee Scott MacKay that Rhode Island has lost 6,000 manufacturing jobs but gained 5,000 slot machines under Carcieri.

Of special delight to the Journal reporters was the brief scandal in November when Democratic consultant Guy Dufault referred to Carcieri’s “comattas” — Italian slang for mistresses — during a sound check on a local television show which was then accidentally broadcast.

“I’m Lady Comatta, State House at my feet.

I’m the girl that politicians want to meet,” sang a Journal reporter in a slinky dress to the tune of “Lady Madonna” by the Beatles. Another reporter, dressed

as an enormous blue zipper, sang to the tune of Devo’s “Whip It” that when “a comatta comes along, you must zip it. Though it feels so wrong, you must zip it.”

Many of the songs required more than a passing familiarity with Rhode Island politics to fully appreciate, but several shone on their own.

One memorable moment was the sight of Senior Lecturer in Theatre, Speech and Dance Barbara Tannenbaum dancing around on stage dressed as an enormous lit marijuana joint during a song about Rhode Island’s recent legalization of medical marijuana.

“I can smoke freely now, the law has changed,” sang a line of Journal writers in medical gowns to the tune of “I Can See Clearly Now” by Johnny Nash.

“General Assembly now says it’s okay to get high, high, high in a medical way,” they crooned.

Another delightful moment came when Journal writer Talia Buford stood in for President Ruth Simmons and sang to the tune of Diana Ross’s “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” about the airing of a tape on Fox News from Queer Alliance’s Sex Power God party last semester.

“Ain’t no party wild enough, ain’t no co-ed drunk enough, ain’t no student high enough, can flunk out of this Ivy Leaguer,” sang “Simmons.” “Oh, ain’t no cocktail strong enough, ain’t no costume low enough, ain’t no party wild enough to sully our proud reputation.”

Surrounded by dancing “students” in bikini body suits, Buford stripped off her own academic robes midway through the song to reveal a similar bikini body suit.

Each year, the Follies presents a “mystery guest” who performs at the end of the show. Journal political columnist and former Herald editor M. Charles Bakst ’66 has called it a performance which “demonstrates a flicker of insight, fallibility and good sportsmanship” to much of the state’s press corp. Past appearances have been made by a skirt-wearing then-Attorney General Sheldon Whitehouse in 1999 and a sailor suit-clad Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., in 2001.

This year there were two mystery guests. Speaker of the House William Murphy conducted his own “Rhode Island Idol” show on stage to mock, among others, House Minority Leader Robert Watson for behaving like “a rooster on acid.” He was joined by Senate President Joseph Montalbano, who sang an off-key song based on the Beatles’ “When I’m 64” until he forgot his lines halfway through the song.

Proceeds from the event went to support the Guild’s scholarship fund.

Progress seen at Hope High as Brown ratchets up involvement

BY ELLEN WERNECKE STAFF WRITER

Brown students are becoming more involved at Hope High School, while a recent report by the Rhode Island Department of Education shows major improvement since the school’s reorganization by the state last February.

The report, released in December by State Education Commissioner Peter McWalters, describes “positive progress” in increasing Hope’s learning standards and “clear sense of shared purpose” and creating a distinct niche for ninth and 10th graders at the school. But the report also identified five areas still in need of improvement by the end of the school year.

Last February, Hope High was “reconstituted” into three separate learning communities under a Consolidated Corrective Action Plan.

Special Master Nicholas Donohue, who was appointed by the state last April to oversee reforms at Hope High, compiled the December report, which stated, “Hope is improving. Students are in school see HOPE HIGH, page 4

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A December progress report by the R.I. Dept. of Education showed marked improvement in Hope High School.

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Hope High continued from page 3 more persistently, the school is orderly and disruptive incidents are at a minimum.”

The report did not give specific figures on student performance or performance goals, but Adeline Becker, executive director of the Brownaffiliated University Education Alliance, said improvements in student performance will not be evident for several more years because of an “implementation dip.”

Such a dip would cause student performance to spike, decline a year after implementation and then slowly increase over a few years, according to Becker. “(Administrators) had to get students into school,” Becker said, “so they had to deal with a lot of issues like improving attendance, decreasing truancy and behavior problems. They have been successful at turning some of those things around.”

Becker said Hope High’s reconstitution model is becoming more common among high schools with large student bodies.

“They’re looking for smaller learning communities where teachers know where the students are and students care about whether they’re there every day,” she said. Becker said

Hope High’s “checkered past” has caused it to be singled out by state officials such as Gov. Don Carcieri ’65, who mentioned only Hope High by name in his 2003 State of the State address.

The state’s intervention at Hope High put the school “on the front burner” both for the Providence School District and for neighboring universities, Becker said, and she said the intervention was a “very hopeful” development. “(Hope High) is an environment where parents have historically been more vocal than in other parts of the city,” Becker said. The December report recommended “twoway, monthly communication between advisors and parents regarding how their child is doing in school and what the plans are for next steps” as an objective in the “personalization” of Hope.

Mackay Miller ’01, assistant director for youth programs at the Swearer Center for Public Service, called the school “a hot potato” but said the problems there are also present in schools across the state.

Rhode Island College, the Rhode Island School of Design, Johnson and Wales University, Roger Williams University and Brown all have partnerships with Hope, according to a Feb. 16 article in the Providence Journal. Some have made concrete donations, such as

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Johnson and Wales offering Hope High all its surplus computer equipment. RISD will offer three years of art education beginning in the freshman year, and Rhode Island College will allow Hope High teachers to take its graduate courses at no cost, according to the Journal.

Miller said most of the Swearer Center programs at Hope and other Providence schools are administered through a nonprofit organization called Hope High Optimized, but the grant that supports the organization is not crucial to Brown’s engagement with the school.

“We were there before the grant and we’ll be there after the grant, because we have interest,” Miller said. “The Swearer Center is committed to running programs in the Providence School District no matter what,” he added.

Katie Wang ’06, the Brown coordinator of Let’s Get Ready!, which offers SAT preparation classes to Hope High students, said she sees the role of the after-school program as “being able to work in a way complementary to what the school is doing.”

Approximately 30 high school students each semester take SAT classes free of charge through the program, which Wang says Hope High’s guidance counselors cannot currently provide.

That program, along with the College Guidance Project and the Pre-College Enrichment Program, makes up a Swearer Center group called the College Access Initiative, which aims to give students a “comprehensive” college-guidance enrichment program, according to Lang.

Let’s Get Ready! used to hold classes at night on Brown’s campus, but this semester it

will offer the course after school at Hope High.

“It’s better to be after school,” said Wang. “Many of the students live on the South Side of Providence, and that’s two buses to come to Brown and two buses back home late at night. They have many other responsibilities and obligations, whether jobs or babysitting siblings or cousins.”

Miller said the Swearer Center aims to partner undergraduate programs with teachers at Hope and other local high schools, but retirements and personnel changes can disrupt those programs.

While the December report cited progress in the creation of Individual Learning Plans for Hope High students, the process is “slow,” Wang said.

She said she was optimistic that the school will implement the plans, though currently accessing information at Hope about applying to college is “very difficult.”

“Ideally, Hope and other Providence public schools would be strongly invested in college access,” including programs during the day, Wang said, but “it would be difficult to prioritize what to include in a curriculum” for that purpose.

The school currently offers its students the Preliminary SAT but is not a College Boarddesignated testing site for the SAT. Rex Cheung ’07, a Starr Fellow who has tutored for two years at other schools in the Providence area, decided last year to establish a pilot program offering calculus after school to Hope High students because of “logistics.”

“I have run into people who have arranged (activities) with Mt. Pleasant (High School), but it took longer,” Cheung said.

He tried to enlist students who were able to help tutor students at Hope High in advanced math, since Hope High does not offer any courses in calculus.

“The teachers basically have their hands full,” Cheung said.

“When Brown students tutor it’s a closer interaction, one-onone and small group-to-one.

Because we’re younger than the teachers, they’re not afraid to ask the actual questions they’re thinking but don’t want to ask in class.”

The Department of Education is looking to hire a staffer to act as a liaison between Hope High and the University.

It may hire a candidate by the end of the semester, according to Becker.

There are nine recent Master of Arts in Teaching graduates from Brown currently employed at Hope, the highest number in decades, Becker said.

“I think it’s exciting that more students are opting to stay in Providence with their MAT degrees,” Becker said.

“The education department is very interested in working there,” she added.

“Hope and the school district created a passageway,” Miller said, for MAT grads from Brown and other area schools who might not otherwise have been able to teach at Hope High. This connection is open to undergraduates as well.

“You can’t learn everything in a classroom in Wilson Hall,” Miller said.

“I went into (tutoring) not trying to change the world or anything,” Cheung said. “I figured I would enjoy doing it and it would be worthwhile to do. … I have the modest aim of having (students I tutor) going away having learned something,” he added.

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POLICE LOG

Two cars robbed at Power Street garage

BY SIMMI AUJLA SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The following summaries include all major incidents reported to the Department of Public Safety between Feb. 16 and Feb. 27. The Providence Police Department also responds to incidents occurring off campus. DPS does not divulge information on open cases that are currently under investigation by the department, PPD or the Office of Student Life.

Friday, Feb. 17: (No time specified.) Complainant reported her Brown ID was stolen from her mailbox on Jenkins Street on Feb. 15.

3:29 p.m. Complainant reported that her Kenwood stereo was stolen from her car sometime between 11 p.m. on Feb. 13 and 11:30 a.m. on Feb. 17. There were no signs of forced entry. The car was parked in Lot 68 of the Power Street Parking Garage.

8:58 p.m. Complainant reported his vehicle was broken into sometime between 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 16 and 8:58 p.m. on Friday, Feb 17. The front passenger window of his vehicle was smashed and the car radio was stolen. The car was parked in Lot 68 of the Power Street Parking Garage.

10 p.m. Complainant reported that two men brandishing a gun and knife approached her and demanded she hand over her possessions at the intersection of Young Orchard and Cooke streets. One man was described

W. track continued from page 12 beat second-ranked (University of Pennsylvania), which was really exciting.”

The second place finish with the relay team was King’s third such finish at Heps. She took second in both the 200-meter and 400-meter dashes as well, with times of 24.84 and 56.05, respectively. “King was a superstar for us,” Lake said.

Before she joined with King, Scott and Snizek in the 4x400, Burns suffered one of Brown’s few disappointments at this year’s Heps in the 400 meters. Seeded at the top of her heat against considerably slower competition, Burns’ shoelaces came untied as she ran, distracting her and contributing to her failure to qualify for the finals.

“She just missed making the finals,” Lake said. “Kind of a freshman mistake. Her shoes came untied during the race and she didn’t get out fast enough. But she bounced back as the lead-off leg in the 4x400 relay.”

“You learn things at the Ivy League championships and she learned the hard way,” Lake added.

“She’s going to be a huge part of the future of the program.”

Willard, who had never before qualified for a final at Heps, fed off of her teammates and the

as approximately 5’8” tall and weighing around 200 pounds. The other was the same height and weighed around 160 pounds.

Tuesday, Feb. 21: 4:16 p.m. Complainant reported that $6 was removed from his unsecured locker in the Smith Swim Center sometime between 2 p.m. and 4:16 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 23: 10:11 p.m. Complainant reported that a man verbally harassed him and demanded money from him while he was walking on George Street. The man was described as being approximately 30 years old, 5’5” tall and wearing dark clothing.

Saturday, Feb. 25: 2:57a.m.DPSofficersresponded to a report that a student was behaving belligerently and yelling homophobic slurs in a hallway in Littlefield Hall. The student also ripped down a queer-related poster from another student’s door. Officers found the student, who appeared to be intoxicated, and escorted him back to his room.

Emergency Medical Services then responded to the scene.

Sunday, Feb. 26: 2:11 a.m. Complainant reported that a student violently kicked open the door of her room in Andrews Hall. DPS officers unsuccessfully attempted to find the student.

Source: Department of Public Safety

crowd during her mile run. After a slow start, Willard passed her competition and finished with a time of 4:49.99, good for fourth on the all-time indoor list.

In the 800-meter run, fellow long distance runners Ferjan and Powell grabbed more points for the team with second (2:11.21) and fifth place (2.11.74) finishes, respectively.

Thrower Chelsea McCarron ’08 — who was ranked ninth in the conference coming into Heps — was a pleasant surprise in the shot put with a sixth-place throw of 40-11 3/4.

Thanks to their impressive showing at Heps, Grovey (triple jump) and the 4x800 relay team took home first-team All-Ivy League honors. King (200m and 400m), Ferjan (800m), Tiffany Chang ’08 (pole vault) and the 4x400 relay team received secondteam honors.

Having completed the season’s greatest test with a passing grade, the team will ease into the outdoor season. Brown will compete at the ECAC Championships in Boston, Mass. this Friday, but most of the team’s major point-scorers will not compete.

“I knew if things went really well we could improve upon last year’s finish,” Lake said. “The team really stepped it up. It was kind of our idealistic goal.”

Apple pilot program has students listening to lectures on the run

BY MELISSA KAGEN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

An iPod can now enhance more than your music experience, thanks to iTunes U, a pilot program that allows academic material to be shared via Apple’s iTunes.

Through the program — which debuted last semester at Brown and five other institutions, including Stanford and Duke universities and the University of Missouri — participating professors can upload audio material onto iTunes. Students can then transfer files onto iPods and thus have access to lectures, exercises and listening assignments wherever they go.

“I can’t think of any courses in which some use of it could not be made, the question is just whether use would be pedagogical or convenience,” said Andrew Ross, director of the Language Resource Center.

When Apple approached the University in May, Computing and Information Services and the LRC had to scramble to make the program operational

by Fall 2005. Over 130 iPods were bought with funds pooled from six departments. Only three professors incorporated

iTunes U into their lesson plans — for a total of four courses — in the fall semester.

“It was a question of tracking people down … without a lot of lead time,” Ross said, adding that many more professors were interested in using the technology. This semester, 11 courses are utilizing iTunes U. It’s too soon to tell whether the program will be adopted permanently. Last semester there “wasn’t the opportunity to utilize it to its fullest,” said Senior Lecturer in German Studies Jane Sokolosky, who used iTunes U for GM 30:

“Intermediate German I.” An evaluation and decision will be made at the end of the academic year.

The University-purchased iPods are solely auditory because video iPods weren’t readily available last summer.

Sokolosky and Professor of Music Jeff Titon, who used iTunes U last semester for MU 129: “American Roots Music” and MU 222: “Field Research in Ethnomusicology,” both thought video availability would enhance the experience see APPLE, page 8

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Students can download lectures and listening assignments onto University-owned iPods under an Apple pilot program.

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Cakelove continued from page 1 the Blue Room café but kind of better food.”

According to Brown, the Love Café is a relaxed environment with a “laissez faire” staff — some people come and go while others socialize or use the free Wi-Fi Internet access.

He recently opened another Cakelove bakery in Silver Spring, Md., which is more than twice the size of the original U Street location. Additionally, he plans to write his own version of a cookbook to come out sometime

Heating continued from page 1 repairs.

The hot water pipe is made up of two concentric pipes; the outer serves to provide insulation, Fernandez said, while water runs through the inner one. Once it was discovered that the steam had not resulted from a leak in the inner pipe, workers attempted to locate the leak using an ultrasound test, he said. However, echoes within the insulating pipe prevented workers from pinpointing the source.

After a snowstorm Feb. 11 and 12, a patch of concrete near Manning Chapel attracted construction workers. The snow had melted on a certain patch of sidewalk, indicating that the leak was possibly under this

start baking earlier,” he said.

Brown’s friends and parents were encouraging and supportive of his new endeavor. He always had a true passion and

interest for food, he said, and so his abrupt job switch did not come as a shock.

But why cakes in particular?

As a self-taught cook, Brown did not even begin baking until after college, but he said he quickly learned that “cakes have a certain sort of magnetism.”

After a simple chocolate cake he brought to John F. Kennedy International Airport elicited much attention from other travelers, he noticed that people are particularly drawn to cakes over other desserts.

Brown’s specialty creations — such as “Crunchy Feet” pound cakes — are likely to garner attention on the Main Green on

area.

This prompted Facilities Management to bring in infrared specialists, Fernandez said. The site was also a likely suspect because the piping formed an elbow joint at this location, which adds stress on the pipe, according to James Coen, director of maintenance services for Facilities Management.

The infrared analysis could not determine the exact location of the leak — only its general vicinity. Accordingly, the entire section of pipe was replaced.

The heating infrastructure that serves most University buildings south of Angell Street was installed in 1967 and is nearing the end of its “life expectancy” recommended by manufacturers, Fernandez said.

Two years ago, Facilities Management submitted a plan to the University to replace the

current heating system. The original plan did not call for pipe replacement near Wilson Hall or Sayles, but the plan has been revised after the events of this past month.

Construction is expected to begin this spring, starting at Brown’s heating plant at 135 Lloyd Ave., where the University generates some of its own power. Plans for construction now include the Main Green and will continue for the next two to three years, Maiorisi said.

For the most part, students were very understanding of the situation. “I only got one e-mail,” said Thomas Forsberg, associate director of Residential Life. The number of Facilities Management requests dropped during the construction, Coen said. Now that the repairs are finished, “they’re on the rise again,” he added.

next year. As his business flourishes and new projects arise, Brown has no reservations about his unlikely career change.

“My only regret is that I didn’t

“My only regret is that I didn’t start baking earlier.”

Warren Brown ‘93

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Ethics continued from page 1 concentrations. Denard emphasized that students in the class of 2006, 2007 and even 2008 will still be able to graduate with a degree in biomedical ethics as long as they have successfully completed the required seminars.

According to Denard, the students most negatively affected by the change are those who are still undecided on their concentration, studying abroad or unable to enroll in either of the two seminars.

Denard added that several students decided to apply for an independent concentration in biomedical ethics as a way to complete the former concentration.

Choosing an independent concentration based in biomedical ethics “is not just a substitute biomedical ethics degree,” Denard said. “It allows you to tailor to the particular interests of the student.”

The path also “requires more of the student,” Denard explained.

The independent concentration program as a whole only graduates about five to eight students a year, she estimated.

Poland, however, does not know of anyone who successfully acquired an independent concentration based on biomedical ethics. “The independent concentration path does not seem to be a good antidote to the suspension,” Poland said. He suggested students consider concentrating in science and society as a possible alternative.

Angela Sherwin ’07 came to Brown intending to concentrate in biomedical ethics and was well on her way until she decided to go abroad last semester and missed her opportunity to take “Objectivity and Its Loss.”

Sherwin, anticipating her absence from campus in early 2005, decided to apply for an independent concentration related to biomedical ethics, but that effort was not successful.

Though Sherwin recently received credit for the seminar she missed with another class, her path was a rough and unpredictable one.

“The whole process was very frustrating,” she said, explaining how she did not have an official concentration for about a year while working toward approval for her independent concentration.

Sherwin also noted that several of her classmates changed concentrations as a result of the suspension.

Matt Kelly ’06, a current biomedical ethics concentrator, described the suspended concentration as “one of the most fulfilling programs at Brown.” The problem, Kelly commented, was that “it got to the point where one professor was holding it all together.”

“The University did not properly gauge student interest,” Kelly said, adding this “administrative neglect” may be to blame for the lack of progress.

Despite the demise of the biomedical ethics concentration, the field is still represented on campus by other means.

The Brown Bioethics Society, founded after the suspension of the undergraduate biomedical ethics major, is a student organization determined to keep students involved in the field “after the removal of (their) academic feeding tube,” as stated on its Web site. The group, which is similar to

a Departmental Undergraduate Group, aims to unite students still dedicated to the field of biomedical ethics and to get the concentration reinstated.

Also, the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Brown, which is affiliated with the Medical School, aims to provide resources to the Brown campus and greater Providence community and serve as a public discussion forum.

Despite this support for the study of biomedical ethics on campus, the future of the concentration is unclear.

“The University has thought of closing the concentration on several occasions, and each time students and faculty protested to

keep it instated,” Sherwin said.

Since it is not officially cancelled, there is a possibility that it could be reinstated, commented Denard, who added that faculty may decide to hire someone to teach the necessary courses. A vote to cancel the concentration is not likely to happen until 2011, Denard said, in keeping with the University policy of reviewing concentrations after three years of no graduates.

Acknowledging the spectrum of the biomedical ethics debate, Poland recommended that a “taskforce” of faculty and administrators be formed to study the issue and devise a clear plan for the concentration.

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advisers because of the sheer (number) of students.”

“You can’t just stop in and find me here,” Elliot said.

— there’s no room to discuss them or become comfortable discussing them. You’re meeting (Elliot) for the first time, an incredibly intelligent woman.

It’s pretty intimidating,” David added. He said that though Elliot told him not to hesitate before contacting her with more questions, “it’s difficult in the department to get real human connections with faculty or

Interdisciplinary advising Unlike most concentrations at Brown, which constitute their own departments, the international relations concentration is actually a program with faculty and courses culled from all parts of the University’s curriculum.

“One of the reasons this is different is that we don’t have our own faculty,” Elliot said.

Each of the four tracks in the

IR

international relations program — global security, political economy and development, politics, culture and identity and global environment — has either one or two advisers, depending on the size of the track. Since these advisers are more knowledgeable about their own specific departments than the international relations concentration as a whole, they are intended to provide more extensive, specialized advice for students. Track advisers are also responsible every year for determining the specific set of courses required by their track.

“It’s really about helping students think through how (their courses) might fit together and complement each other so that they have a set of courses that actually adds up to something — in that context, advising becomes really important,” said Simon Pulver, an assistant professor for international studies and adviser for the global environment track. Global environment is the smallest of the four tracks within the international relations concentration, with about 10 graduates each year.

According to Elliot, there are 140 students planning to

graduate in the spring with concentrations in international relations, and they all must first meet with her to revise forms and make sure they have thoroughly fulfilled the concentration requirements. Elliot estimated that an additional 140 students — mostly sophomores — will schedule appointments with her sometime this spring to file concentrations in the program.

Elliot is available by appointment only on Monday, Wed-nesday and Friday mornings, though she also spends “an enormous amount” of time outside of these scheduled appointments answering e-mails and occasionally holds office hours in the afternoon to “break up the bottleneck.”

Elliot’s signature is only required on the first page of Brown’s three-page concentration declaration form. For signatures on the short-answer portions on the second and third pages of the form, international relations concentrators are directed to their track advisers.

“In many ways I’m (answering questions) 24/7 — that’s what allows the concentration advising to work as it is structured at this point,” Elliot said.

Apple continued from page 5 further, but they both recognized economic limitations.

As it was, Sokolosky and Titon described audio uses such as students accessing musical pieces during exams, memorizing vocabulary lists and hearing and creating podcasts, which are online feeds of audio or video material that can be downloaded to an iPod or other mobile device.

“In that way, I think it speaks to a lot of different learning styles,” Sokolosky said.

Ross described the pilot as “potentially a great supplement” but thinks that the multidimensional quality of college education couldn’t be replaced by audio or even video media.

Kenneth Wong, professor of education, expressed concern that some students and professors might view the program as a potential substitute for more traditional forms of learning.

“Classroom interaction among students and professors form a collective, social basis that facilitates intellectual growth and identity,” Wong wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

Some students acknowledged that having lectures constantly available might make it more tempting to stay in bed instead of attending class. The idea of constant availability, however, was also appealing.

“I think that’s worth the possibility that people might not go (to class),” said Sean McGeary ’09.

“I think it would have to be used in the right way, not as a replacement (of lectures),” said Artur Walther ’06.

The biggest effect of iTunes U might be the change in the way students view their educational experience. “It interests me in the sense that there seems to be an assumption that what goes on in the classroom is on the same order or level as a reading assignment, that the classroom can be delivered,” Titon said.

“If we carried that to a logical conclusion, we wouldn’t need a university,” he added.

SPORTS EXTRA THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2006 · PAGE 9

UMBC freezes m. lax in season-opening loss

BY STEPHEN COLELLI SPORTS EDITOR

The men’s lacrosse team kicked off its season Saturday on a day more suited for playoff football than early-season lacrosse. A-mid intermittent snow flurries, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County — one of the top teams in the America East Conference — toppled Brown 6-4 in the seasonopener for both squads.

After falling behind 3-0 early in the game, the Bears battled back to tie it midway through the third quarter behind the play of midfielder Will McGettigan ’06.

His first goal, off an impressive individual effort, came just minutes before halftime and helped to jumpstart the Bears’ sluggish offense.

“Will played well,” said Head Coach Scott Nelson. “He’s a senior leader and I expected that from him.”

McGettigan’s second goal six minutes into the second half started a Bears flurry that saw them score three goals in a fourminute span to knot the game at 4-4.

“We were just trying to get guys space on offense,” McGettigan said of the halftime adjustments. “Winning faceoffs

M. track continued from page 12 personal best moves him to third all-time for Brown.

Dissmore entered the weekend with the top seed in the 500meter dash and won his first Ivy title in dominating fashion.

Dissmore showed no mercy in the preliminary heat, taking control of the race from the gun and pressing the pace even after he had gapped the field.

He ran the finals with the same aggressive strategy, refusing to let up until he had crossed the line in 1:02.55. He outpaced the competition by nearly two seconds, and his time was almost a best for the season, despite Dartmouth’s notoriously slow track.

Back on the infield, Golenor led the throws squad with a Herculean 55 foot, 1/4 inch effort in the shot put. His mark bested the second-place finisher from Yale by over two feet.

“Jake Golenor stepped it up this weekend,” Lake said.

“He was getting pumped up all weekend and fed well off of the other great performances on the first day.”

“Big Jake” brought the crowd to its feet with his personal best performance and gave the Bears priceless inspiration early on in the second day of the long and tiring weekend.

With the feeling of an Ivy League football championship still fresh, Raymond suited up for his first track Heptagonals and immediately put himself on the record books. The track rookie shocked the competition, first by winning his preliminary heat in 6.88 seconds and then by taking down Cornell’s Jordan Lester, who had been favored to win, in the finals.

here and there helps with the momentum. … My second goal was a transition-type goal. We’ve been working on that play all week in practice.”

Back-to-backUMBCpen-alties led to the Bears’ third goal. Six seconds after a pushing penalty expired, the Retrievers’ Mike Ims was called for slashing. Taking advantage of the opportunity, Brown worked the ball around the outer edge of the defense before swinging it around to attackman Jack Walsh ’09 on the right side of the net. Walsh swung the ball to Kyle Wailes ’06 on his left for a quick give-and-go, blasting a shot past goalie Jeremy Blevins after the return pass.

Less than 40 seconds later, an impressive move by Mike Bernard ’07 drew Brown even.

Bernard shook a defender on the left wing and walked in on the net untouched. Ripping a shot before the defense could converge upon him, Bernard snuck his shot past Blevins, eliciting a roar from the Bears’ bench and the few brave souls in attendance.

“We were a little apprehensive in the first half,” Nelson said.

“A couple kids were playing in their first collegiate game and it showed. Their goalie made a couple of saves, but we played

better in the third quarter.”

However, some errant passing down the stretch, coupled with a few fortunate bounces that went the Retrievers’ way, added up to the 6-4 margin. Bears goalie Nick Gentilesco ’06 made a fine initial save on a point-blank shot from UMBC’s Evan Kay, but the rebound fell right to Drew Westervelt, who blew a shot into the back of the net before Gentilesco could recover.

Down two goals, the Bears could not mount a sustained attack in the final five minutes.

“I thought we played tough all day,” Nelson said. “We hustled well and played well on defense.

We made some mental mistakes and that cost us a goal or two on either end. We threw a couple away and hit a few posts and that cost us. The bottom line is, you can’t win scoring four goals.”

Despite the setback, the team did not dwell on the outcome, instead shifting its focus to Saturday’s trip to Hofstra University. The Flying Dutchmen will provide as formidable a challenge as UMBC did, if not more so, in preparation for the Ivy League season.

“I think Hofstra is … better than (UMBC),” McGettigan said.

“We’ll be ready to go next week.”

Raymond and Lester both posted official times of 6.85 in the finals, and the fieldhouse grew silent while awaiting the photo-finish ruling. After a few tense moments, the Brown fans erupted when Raymond’s name was announced as champion.

“In his first championships, he came out as an Ivy League Champion, beating some really top guys across the league,” Lake said. “Paul is a tremendous athlete and a true competitor. He picked up everything extremely quickly.”

David Howard ’09 garnered second-team All-Ivy honors for his runner-up effort in the weight throw. Howard posted a 56-11 1/4 in the event on Saturday, then returned to the circle on Sunday to hit 49-9 3/4 in the shot put, good for third. Howard added 14 points to the Bears’ total with his breakthrough weekend.

“One thing I can say about the meet this weekend is that … this weekend was a perfect stepping stone going into outdoor Heps,” Golenor said. “I think a lot of our younger athletes gained valuable experience and confidence after this weekend. I could see it in their faces.”

Also earning second-team recognition was the 4x400-meter relay team. Mike Pruzinsky ’07, Christian Tabib ’07, Luke Renick ’08 and Dissmore clocked 3:16.75, with Dissmore anchoring and picking off two other squads to move his team from fourth to second.

A trio of Bears grabbed third-place points, as Pruzinsky clocked 48.64 in the open 400meter, Jamil McClintock ’08 posted 8.07 in the 60-meter hurdles and Grant Bowen ’07 cleared 16 3/4 in the pole vault.

The results were season bests for all three.

Ikenna Achilihu ’08 repeated his performance from 2005 and took fourth in the triple jump, hitting 48-8 1/4.

Sneaking in to grab points for the men’s distance squad with sixth-place finishes were Ozzie Myers ’08 and Chris Burke ’07 in the 3,000-meter and 5,000meter events, respectively. It marked the first time either scored at the indoor Heps.

“Performing at the Ivy League Championships is tough,” Lake said. “Anything happens … to go in and exceed expectations is truly magnificent, and we had a number of guys do that this weekend.”

With the indoor season drawing to a close for the improved Bears’ squad, a few elite members will continue on to the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America competition, but most athletes will switch gears to outdoor training.

“We have our sights on the outdoor Championship title already,” Lake said. “We are confident that we can place second outdoors, but want to aim higher.”

W. swim continued from page 12 time of 4:30.19. In the relays, the Bears took fourth place in the 200-yard medley relay in 1:45.83 and seventh place in the 800-yard freestyle relay in 7:42.80.

The last day of competition had one more individual victory in store for Brown. In the 100-yard freestyle, Robinson finished with a time of 50.56 to clinch the title, again clocking in at a personal best time.

Ashley Wallace ’07 placed

Home crowd unable to lift gymnastics at Ivy Classic

BY MADELEINE MARECKI SPORTS STAFF WRITER

Despite competing before a vocal home crowd, the gymnastics team finished last in the four-team field at Sunday’s Ivy Classic, held at the Pizzitola Center. Brown, which also finished fourth last year, scored 185.500 points. Cornell University moved up from last year’s runnerup position to capture the title, scoring 188.250 points. The Big Red edged out the University of Pennsylvania, which tallied 188.050 points. Yale University, last year’s champion, finished third with 187.675 points.

The Bears knew they had their work cut out for them because their Ivy competitors had been consistently scoring higher team totals throughout the season, according to co-captain Mandi Baughman ’06. Although the team realized winning the title was unlikely, Brown entered the meet optimistically. The result, however, was less than the team expected.

“We thought we could be more competitive,” said co-captain Amber Smith ’06.

Bruno’s undoing was chiefly due to its weak performance in its opening event, the uneven bars.

Although the team has struggled with the bars throughout this season, Smith said practice had been going very well.

“Everyone was hitting her routine during practice,” Smith said. “(Today’s performance) was probably a case of the nerves.”

Unfortunately, the performance essentially cost the team the meet.

After posting a total 45.125 points for the event, more than a full point less than the other three teams, the Bears knew that the title was out of grasp, according to Baughman.

“On the bars, we were too much in a hole to dig out of,” she said. “We were too far behind after the first event to place above other teams.”

Brittany Anderson ’09 led Brown in the event, scoring a 9.3.

After the bars, the team immediately went into a huddle, where Head Coach Sara CarverMilne told the gymnasts to pick up their performances in the remaining events and play for the home crowd. The Bears did just that in the next event.

On the balance beam, Brown had a very solid performance, suffering only one fall and scoring a total of 47.050 points, making it the team’s best event of the meet.

Three gymnasts finished in the top six positions. Jennifer Sobuta ’09 impressed with a complex routine second in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:04.28, finishing behind Noelle Bassi of Harvard, who set a meet and Ivy League record with her time of 1:58.11.

Larson took to the boards again on Saturday, taking fourth place in the 3-meter dive with a score of 291.25, a disappointing finish after she’d scored as high as 308.69 in the event this season.

Harvard’s Alison Pipitone won the event with a score of 305.65, and Larson and Pipitone later shared the Diver of the Meet Award.

“It was nice to be recognized,” Larson said. “It was a very nice gesture.”

punctuated by a solid dismount and finished second overall with a 9.75. Jess Pestronk ’08 was one of three athletes tied for third with a 9.675 and Baughman was sixth with a 9.5.

“It was really important for us to come back and hit the beam,” Smith said. “We could’ve fallen apart for the rest of the meet, but we didn’t. That was one of the great things we did.”

However, the troubles weren’t over for the Bears just yet. Brown was uncharacteristically weak in the floor exercise, scoring 46.325 points. A trio of gymnasts led Bruno with similar scores. Smith finished fifth overall with an energetic routine that got the crowd clapping along with the music.

Her 9.473 led the team. Anderson posted a 9.425 in the event, while Pestronk continued her valuable contributions by tallying a 9.4.

The team managed to put together a solid showing in its final event, the vault. The squad had no falls and scored 47.000 points.

Bruno was led by Jess McNell ’06, who finished second with a 9.6.

But shaky performances on the bars and floor exercise, combined with the depth of the Cornell and UPenn squads, proved too much for the Bears in the end. Yet, the team found positive aspects in its performance. Carver-Milne thought the efforts put forth by the underclassmen were exceptional.

“Most impressive for us were the freshman and sophomores in this meet. For them to perform the way they did in only their first or second Ivies is great,” she said.

“Sobuta came through for us big time. She’s been struggling a bit this year with a nagging Achilles injury, and for her to step up in the competition where we needed her most is just incredible.”

According to Baughman, the team as a whole put in a strong effort.

“Compared to where our program was at the end of last year, the improvement in our skill level has been great,” she said. “We are putting up six solid routines instead of scrounging around for five routines (as we were last year) … This is a good stepping stone for us.”

Brown will now focus its attention on the ECAC Championships in late March, where it will have another crack at all three Ivies, in addition to several other schools.

In preparation, the Bears will travel to Pennsylvania to take on Penn March 11 and West Chester University March 12.

The Bears finished out the competition with the 400-yard freestyle relay, placing third in 3:28.45.

“In terms of the championship, we were a little disappointed,” Larson said of the team’s overall finish. While Robinson agreed that the Bears “didn’t place as well as we would have liked,” she added that “everyone competed well, and that’s all you can ask of people.”

As for the year as a whole, “We won four and lost three, and people put up pretty good times,” Robinson said. “We did a pretty good job this season.”

EDITORIAL/LETTERS THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2006 · PAGE 10

STAFF EDITORIAL

Undergrad upkeep On Feb. 7, President Ruth Simmons announced a plan to examine the undergraduate College. For many undergraduates — particularly those concentrating in oft-perceived top departments like history, English and biology — this announcement might have seemed surprising. After all, the College is traditionally regarded as the University’s strongest front and the foundation of Brown’s esteemed reputation.

But for students pursuing more interdisciplinary and marginal fields, the announcement may have come as a relief.

Over the past year, a broad range of programs — including international relations and biomedical ethics — have dealt with resource shortages in a variety of ways.

Anyone who has glanced through university viewbooks can tell you Brown’s undergraduate curriculum is unique.

The experimental nature of many students’ academic paths greatly enhances the need for strong advising relationships.

Yet, as Provost Robert Zimmer concedes, “The current advising system is not a structure that is robust enough.”

Nowhere is this more evident than in international relations, one of the University’s most popular programs. Concentrators frequently encounter a frustrating roadblock when charting out their courses: only Claudia Elliot Ph.D. ’99, the program’s lone concentration adviser, can sign off on the requisite forms. She is often unavailable for more than 30 minutes at a time, a fact that, by her own admission, “does put a strain on the advising process.”

For a department that’s growing in popularity both at Brown and at universities worldwide, this inefficient set-up seems unnecessary. Why not permit track advisers, who can often provide more extensive advice on a particular students’ course selection, to approve concentration forms independently?

Granted, they might not share Elliot’s holistic knowledge of the department at first, but this could be learned — providing concentrators with advising relationships more conducive to serving their individual needs.

Students wishing to concentrate in biomedical ethics, on the other hand, would probably be happy with any advising system, no matter how frustrating. Ever since its last fulltime professor left the University, the concentration has been gradually phased out. Interested students have been forced to carve out related independent concentrations, with varying degrees of success. The precarious state of biomedical ethics persists despite vocal student and faculty support.

Clearly, the University could benefit from some level of oversight, even at the traditionally strong undergraduate level. If nothing else, we hope an examination of the College will dispel the notion that, as one biomedical ethics concentrator stated, “The University did not properly gauge student interest.” You won’t find statements like that in the viewbook. Ideally, you wouldn’t hear them on campus at all.

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LETTERS Herald coverage of Krimsky lecture falls short To the Editor: I was pleased to see that The Herald covered Sheldon Krimsky’s talk on how corporate sponsorship can compromise the autonomy of researchers (“Tufts professor warns against ‘corporate capture’ of science,” Feb. 24).

I was disappointed, though, that The Herald did not interview any students who attended the lecture or any members of the undergraduate Bioethics Society, which organized the event. The Bioethics Society emerged from the biomedical ethics concentration the University recently cancelled. The student group organized the lecture as part of its series to inform the Brown community of ethical issues that are increasingly relevant to scientific research and medical practice. Hearing

student views after the lecture would have been worthwhile.

Also, why didn’t The Herald seek out the perspectives of Brown professors who collaborate with industry in their research? What a missed opportunity for investigative reporting! If The Herald was just going to publish a summary of his talk, without getting student or faculty responses, perhaps it should have simply republished one of Krimsky’s articles instead.

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2006 · PAGE 11

Pulling the plug on biomedical ethics The suspension of the undergraduate biomedical ethics program contributes to the decline of the New Curriculum

BY MATTHEW KELLY MARIAN CONATY FRANCESCO FORIN GUEST COLUMNISTS

This spring, the University of Pennsylvania will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its prestigious Center for Bioethics. Penn followed in the footsteps of Brown, which in 1972 became the first university to organize an undergraduate program in biomedical ethics. Now, as society ponders an ever-growing list of bioethical dilemmas, Brown appears to have lost its courage and its wits.

By 2007, Brown will no longer offer an undergraduate program in biomedical ethics. The administration claims that there is a need for a respite, to last several years, after which it will evaluate the future of the program.

During this respite, students will be unable to declare a concentration in the field. Thus, as Penn celebrates a decade of active debate, Brown will mark its first year of silence. The university that once pioneered interdisciplinary study and was the first to embrace bioethics as an undergraduate field is losing its edge. We ought to be troubled by our current leadership’s failure

to extend the project of the New Curriculum into the 21st century even as the principles of the New Curriculum become ever more crucial to meeting the challenge that face society.

As senior biomedical ethics concentrators, we cannot help but wonder what exactly the University needs to ponder. Does it question the legitimacy of the discipline in today’s society? Does it suppose the ethical questions posed by advances in medicine and science have all been answered?

These questions hardly seem to merit several years’ reflection. The landscape of national and international

ethics seminars are shopped by two to four times the amount of students for whom slots are allotted. Most students have to be turned away. Furthermore, concentrators and sympathizers are actively working to organize biomedical ethics discussions on campus, such as the Feb. 23 lecture by Sheldon Krimsky on university-industry collaborations.

The student-run Bioethics Society is working feverishly to compensate for the uncharacteristic apathy of the administration.

The administration’s decision to discontinue the biomedical ethics program has been justified by claims that the University is unable to find a viable candidate to chair the program. To be blunt, this argument lacks merit.

The field of biomedical ethics features vibrant scholars hailing from medical, philosophical and legal communities. To suggest that it is impossible to find a candidate worthy of Brown is a mockery of institutions such as Penn that have established successful programs. We also caution the administration against requiring that professorial candidates be internationally renowned. We are reminded that Brown’s former bioethics professor, Dan Brock,

The landscape of national and international events reveals this century will no doubt be marked by a predominance of bioethical issues. events reveals this century will no doubt be marked by a predominance of biomedical ethical issues. Other Ivies have embraced this inevitability by creating their own biomedical ethics programs. The Brown student body has also voiced its support for the program: each semester, biomedical

was not internationally renowned when he began teaching here. He became internationally renowned while teaching here.

Last year, Congressional representatives stayed their posts into the night to vote on the matter of Terry Schiavo. This year, the government of South Korea and the scientific community at large grapple with questions of scientific fraud. Today, the battle between intelligent design and evolution is fought in our classrooms.

Tomorrow, Brown closes its eyes and ears to these problems, silencing the voices of its students.

Our point is simple: administrators have a duty to immediately organize a body of students and faculty members to orchestrate a search to find a professor to sustain our program. In the meantime, the University should sustain funding for visiting professorships so undergraduates can continue to benefit from outstanding seminars in biomedical ethics.

Pulling the plug is not the right answer.

When it comes to the biomedical ethics program, Brown administrators cannot afford to take a break from thinking simply because thinking hurts.

Matthew Kelly ’06, Marian Conaty ’06 and Francesco Forin ’06 are bioethics concentrators and members of the Bioethics Society.

Single sparks in China’s construction boom TE-PING CHEN GUEST COLUMNIST

BEIJING — Even here, tucked away eight floors above the rush of traffic and noise of the Haidian district, you can feel the city move.

If buildings tell the story of a city’s history, Beijing seems determined to raze them to the ground and thereby rewrite history. Change is ubiquitous. The motley collection of neighborhood stores across the street from my dormitory was recently demolished, and foundations for a new shopping center are already being laid. The sound of construction, an ever-present noise of clanging and drilling, punctuates even the late-night stillness.

Ten years ago here, people moved through the streets in crisscrossing waves of bicycles and rickshaws. Today, there are well over two million cars in Beijing, crowding the roads and clouding the sky with their fumes. Last year alone, the number of cars bought in Beijing increased by nearly 28 percent. Meanwhile last week, a section of a nearby road collapsed from the sheer weight of the number of cars it was never built to withstand. Often it seems the city is so sheathed in the white gauze of smog that when the sun sets, it doesn’t descend into the skyline, but appears rather to sink into the haze.

As China’s GDP growth continues to outpace itself at nine percent a year, the recent breakneck rebuilding of its capital has taken on almost mythic proportions. Even the surging masses of people overflowing Beijing’s sidewalks are dwarfed by the skyscrapers and construction cranes looming over the city. In preparation for the 2008 Olympics, Beijing plans to renovate or build three new

bridges, build 72 sports stadiums and lay asphalt for 59 new roads. By then, roughly $160 billion in construction is expected to add the equivalent of three Manhattans to Beijing’s skyline. From the leveling of traditional hutong alley neighborhoods to the radical reconstruction of road infrastructure designed to accommodate an ever-growing number of cars, the city seems poised to swallow itself whole and

achievement that’s hard to dispute.

With redevelopment at such a high premium these days in eastern China, it’s no surprise that many local governments are seizing agricultural land for construction into roads, factories and residential areas.

However, these land seizures have left over 30 million farmers jobless in recent years.

In a wise move last month, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiaobio publicly cautioned

While China’s development is fraught with inequalities, 250 million people lifted out of poverty over the past 25 years is an achievement that’s hard to dispute. start all over again.

And why not? Though some decry the forcible displacement of thousands of families cleared out in the process and others mourn the city’s increasing commercialization, the economic changes sweeping China’s eastern seaboard have led to the most dramatic rise in a country’s standard of living in recorded history.

It’s true that fully 70 percent of China’s population remains in the countryside, where the typical household income is still just $300. It’s also true that the bulk of the gains have undoubtedly accrued to China’s eastern provinces and that China’s rapidfire industrialization continues to exact a staggering environmental cost. But any way you spin it, 250 million people lifted out of poverty over the past 25 years is an

local governments against land grabbing.

The rising scale of the rural unrest fueled by economic liberalization should be of immediate concern to the Communist Party, if only out of its own interest in maintaining power. According to the Chinese government’s own most-recent statistics, last year some 87,000 protests and riots swept the nation, an increase of nearly seven percent from the previous year.

Yet such discontent, and the willingness — or desperation — of people to risk publicly demonstrating against it is by no means limited to China’s countryside.

Last month, after Shenzhen started to crack down on discos and massage parlors, over 3,000 karaoke hostesses and prostitutes left jobless took to the city streets in a protest that took thousands of

armed police to quell.

Nearly 60 years ago, Mao Zedong stood on the balcony of the entrance to the Forbidden City to proclaim the victory of the Communist revolution and the birth of the People’s Republic of China. What is happening in parts of China today is both the Communist Party’s greatest revolution and victory yet. And as China continues to open up in the move to become a 21st -century economic juggernaut, it’s likely that its people will ever more boldly continue to demand economic redress and increased political rights as well.

Two weekends ago marked the end of the Spring Festival, a two-week long celebration ushered in by the lunar new year. Between the sound of construction hammering away through the night and the cacophony of fireworks people were exploding in seemingly every intersection, the city sounded like a war zone. As I stood on a street corner watching the city’s residents set off strings of sparklers, an older man watching beside me shook his head ruefully. “It’s just like burning money,” he said. Maybe so. At least today, Beijing’s urban dwellers have more money to burn.

We didn’t say anything further, but only stood there watching as explosions continued to reverberate around us.

Everywhere in the city that night, the sound of fireworks was incessant and inescapable. Mao Zedong once said, “It takes a single spark to light a prairie fire.”

When I went to sleep hours later, Beijing was still ablaze with the orange and red shower of fireworks, each a glow of a thousand individual sparks lighting the city on fire.

Te-Ping Chen ’07 is currently studying abroad in Beijing, China.

SPORTS TUESDAY THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · FEBRUARY 28, 2006 · PAGE 12

W. track takes Heps field by storm, nabbing third

BY GEORGE MESTHOS SPORTS STAFF WRITER

Members of the women’s track team stunned everyone but themselves with a third-place finish at the Heptagonal Championships in Hanover, N.H. this weekend. This year’s performance, though far from flawless, replaced last year’s spills and miscues with shattered records, personal bests and one national ranking.

The Bears finished with 75 points, a mere 10 short of Yale’s 85.

Cornell won for the fifth straight year with a total of 142 points.

“I knew we were going to have to have people finish higher than they were seeded ... if we were going to improve on last year’s fourth-place finish,” said Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Craig Lake. “And people definitely came through in that regard.”

Jumper and co-captain Brittany Grovey ’06 entered this year’s Heps as the reigning champ in the triple jump and as one of the few bright spots from last year’s indoor championships. This season, she had leapt her way to the top of the triple jump rankings — the team’s only top-ranking member.

Grovey’s third-place finish in the long jump on Saturday — an event she only added to her resume this year — hinted something more impressive was in store in her next event, the triple jump. “Brittany had a whole level of confidence that helped her this weekend,” Lake said. “During the trials she said to me ‘I’m going to win this, Coach Lake.’”

Not only did Grovey win the event with a mark of 43 feet, 4 1/2 inches, she almost leapt out of the

sandbox. She broke a 17-year-old meet record and her own personal best — already a school record — by nearly two feet. Grovey is now ranked seventh in the nation in the triple jump.

Last year, the Bears’ relay teams were the difference between a third and fourth place finish. In Hanover, both the 4x800-meter and 4x400-meter teams had unprecedented success, setting a new school record and breaking a 16-year-old meet record.

The 4x800-meter team of Smita Gupta ’08, Naja Ferjan ’07, cocaptain Kelly Powell ’06 and Anna Willard ’06 tallied first-place points with a winning time of 8:53.91.

The ride home after Heps last season was a time for hanging heads. This year’s trip back to Providence was an opportunity for celebration. Lake called Willard, who was on the second bus, on her cell phone to inform the members of the 4x800 meter team of the broken records.

“None of us thought we had a chance of breaking it,” Willard said.

“No one was even aware of what the record was. It was kind of a bonus to complement our win.”

The 4x400 team met with similar success. Nicole Burns ’09 started out strong for the Bears followed by Laura Snizek ’07, Cheryl Scott ’07 and Akilah King ’08 on the anchor leg. While the team fell short of Cornell, its second place finish garnered important points and its time of 3:47.21 placed fourth on Brown’s all-time indoor list.

“The girls ran out of their minds in the 4x400,” Lake said. “They were seeded to be third place and they see W.TRACK, page 5

Fourth place after four firsts for m. track and field at Heps

BY JILANE RODGERS ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

HANOVER, N.H. — The blizzard that hit the Northeast this weekend could not cool off the men’s track and field team.

As the snow and chilling wind swirled around Dartmouth’s Leverone Fieldhouse, the squad took fourth at the Heptagonal Championships — tallying 88 points and securing an impressive four individual wins. Cornell captured the top spot with 122, Princeton was second with 102 and the University of Pennsylvania outpaced the Bears with 98. The fourth-place effort was a two-spot improvement from last year’s championships.

“Our staff was extremely pleased with the men’s performance,” said Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Craig Lake. “We were excited to improve on last year’s sixthplace finish ... but (we) narrowly missed both third- and secondplace finishes. So, we are pleased but not content. We have no doubt that there is more to come.”

Nearly half of the squad’s points came from first-place finishes, as high jumper Ray Bobrownicki ’06, sprinter Dallas Dissmore ’06, co-captain thrower Jake Golenor ’06 and sprinter Paul Raymond ’08 returned to Providence with first-team All Ivy honors.

Bobrownicki claimed his third indoor high jump title with his 7 foot, 1/2 inch clearance, more than three inches higher

Heat from w. lacrosse’s sticks enough to melt snow in 14-4 win over SHU Not even the elements could stop the women’s lacrosse team on Saturday. The Bears rolled to a 144 victory over Sacred Heart University in the team’s season opener despite playing in the middle of a snow squall on the pitch next to Stevenson Field.

“It was a little cold but we were just hoping to get a big lead early in case they called the game,” said midfielder Justine Lupo ’08. “We had a game called last year due to weather … but it was actually warmer (on Saturday) than a lot of the games we play.”

From the opening faceoff, the Bears left little doubt as to who would be the victor. They dominated the Pioneers in every facet of the game,

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Noelle DiGiola ’09 (left) and Amie Biros ’07 dealt with Saturday’s winter weather during a 14-4 victory over Sacred Heart University. Biros led the Bears with four goals and two assists.

highlighted by midfielder Amie Biros ’07 scoring just 27 seconds into the contest — the first of what would be four goals on the day for her.

After Biros’ score gave the Bears the early cushion, the teams traded opportunities in the early going before a four-goal flurry over a span of just 3:13 slam-med the door on the Pioneers.

Lupo kicked things off with a free position goal at the 4:43 mark that she hammered home with ease.

Tallies by Bethany Buzzell ’09 and Jen Redd ’07 followed, and Biros capped off the surge with her second goal at 7:56.

Sacred Heart cut the lead to 8-4 late in the first half, but Lupo notched her second score of the day to make it 9-4 at the half. The Bears poured in five unanswered goals in the second half to turn the match into a rout.

The big opening win puts the Bears on a path to wash away some of last season’s lingering disappointment. Brown went 4-11 last year and lost six games to ranked teams. The big opening win, powered by underclassmen, including Lupo, Biros, Buzzell, Mimi Detolla ’08 and Krystina DeLuca ’09 (one goal, two assists), bodes well for the Bears for the rest of the year.

“We have a pretty young team but we have been working really hard in practice so far,” Lupo said.

“Last year was not the best year for us so this was a great start. There were no first game jitters but part of that comes from what we’ve been doing in practice. We have been scrimmaging almost every day (to get ready for games).”

The Bears are back in action Saturday when they host Boston College at 1 p.m. The Eagles, who won their opening game, defeated Brown 15-8 last season.

— Stephen Colelli

Dan Grossman ’71

Jake Golenor ’06 dominated the Heps field in the shot put, winning by more than two feet with his mark of 55 feet, 1/4 inch. than the next competitor.

“Ray has absolute confidence and rises to the occasion at big meets,” Lake said. “He went in as the favorite and performed well under the pressure to defend his

title.”

Bobrownicki is only the third man in Ivy history to win the event three times, and his new see M. TRACK, page 9

Larson ’06 and Robinson ’06 win events as w. swimming and diving takes sixth at Ivies

BY ERIN FRAUENHOFER SPORTS STAFF WRITER

As the Ivy League Women’s Swimming and Diving Championship concluded Saturday night, so too did the Bears’ 2006 season. The championship, hosted by Harvard, ended with a sixth-place finish for Brown, with Eileen Robinson ’06 and Jessica Larson ’06 winning individual titles and Larson sharing the Diver of the Meet Award.

Princeton won the championship with 1,580 points to overcome Harvard. The Crimson took last year’s title and was undefeated for the past two seasons, but its 1,445 points were only good enough for second place.

Meanwhile, in a tight race for third place, Columbia barely prevailed with 968.5 points to the University of Pennsylvania’s 947. Yale was close behind in fifth place with 920 points, followed by Brown with 868 points.

“Overall, our effort was very good,” said Head Coach Peter Brown. “I was disappointed in our finish, but at the same

time, we didn’t show what we’re capable of. I think we were capable of a very strong thirdplace finish.”

Two of the Bears’ three individual wins came on the first day of competition on Thursday. In the 50-yard freestyle, Robinson finished with a time of 23.33, narrowly beating Meg Gill of Yale, who finished in 23.35. Robinson’s time was also her personal best.

“Once you get to a certain time, it’s hard to take off more,” Robinson said. “I feel good that I’m still able to take off time.”

Meanwhile, Larson took first place in the 1-meter dive with a score of 270.65, nearly five points ahead of the secondplace finisher, Harvard’s Sam Papadakis. The Bears also competed in two relays Thursday, placing second in the 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of 1:34.39 and sixth in the 400-yard medley relay in 3:53.09.

On Friday, Bridgette Cahill ’06 finished eighth in the 400yard individual medley with a see W. SWIM, page 9