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An independent newspaper serving the Brown community since 1891 NOT ON THE LIST Police Log: DPS officers find two 40-yearold men wandering in the basement of Olney House Thursday night CAMPUS NEWS 5

JAZZ HANDS The Brown Jazz Band supplements jazz classics with a guest appearance from New Orleans-based Johnny Vidacovich ARTS & CULTURE 3

IN NIT TO WIN IT? W. hoops falls to Dartmouth to lose out on NCAA bid, awaits possible shot at Women’s NIT spot SPORTS 12

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Downtown Providence of today vastly different from city of early ’90s

Four students robbed at gunpoint near Main Green

Wave of development, taken for granted by many students, is result of revitalization over last decades

BY SIMMI AUJLA SENIOR STAFF WRITER

BY ANNE WOOTTON METRO EDITOR

Though some Brown students may question Providence’s status as a veritable metropolis in comparison to their homes — whether New York, London, Tokyo or Islamabad — they seem to agree about one thing: they like PROVIDENCE it here.

In a Herald poll TODAY conducted at the beFirst in a series ginning of the semester, almost 75 percent of students claimed to like or love the city of Providence, compared to just 2.3 percent who said they hate it.

Today, downtown Providence is experiencing a flurry of development. A tower of luxury condominiums is under construction on Westminster Street, just down the block from where Rhode Is-

Deanna Chaukos ’08.

Other potential changes include adding furniture to the areas outside the Ratty’s entrances and using the rooms off the main dining area for additional dining or meeting space to promote interaction be-

Four male students were robbed within sight of the Main Green on Prospect Street, between Waterman and Angell streets, at approximately 9 p.m. Friday night. One of the male suspects brandished a silver handgun.

Stephen Babish ’08, Brandon Dolly ’08, Andrew Potter ’08 and Norman Yang ’08 were walking south on Prospect Street when two males approached them from behind. One of the men displayed a gun and demanded the students place their money on the ground. Babish, Dolly and Potter placed $32 and Potter’s wallet on the ground. The men then directed the students to walk south on Prospect Street, while they took the money and headed north.

The students called the Department of Public Safety when they reached Babish’s room in Caswell Hall. DPS alerted the Providence Police Department, and officers from both departments interviewed the victims and searched the area for the suspects later Friday night.

The suspect with the gun jogged up behind the students and told them to stop, Potter said.

“We just kept walking,” Babish said.

“Then he said, ‘Hold the (expletive) up,’ and that’s when we realized we were going to be robbed,” he said.

The second suspect stayed about 10 yards behind the students and did not speak at all, according to Dolly. The students were not facing the second suspect throughout the encounter, Dolly said.

“We were pretty much focusing on the gun (that the first man was holding),” he said.

Dolly was unable to describe the sec-

see RENOVATIONS, page 4

see ROBBERY, page 9

Jacob Melrose / Herald

In recent years, a series of development projects has dramatically increased investment in downtown Providence, resulting in several large-scale construction projects. land School of Design students moved into brand-new residence halls in the fall. Empty space in existing buildings downtown is being converted into lofts, buoyed by economic incentive from a generous tax credit for development in historic buildings. The world headquarters for lottery operator GTECH is being erected in front of the Providence Place Mall — itself a recent addition to the cityscape — and construction is underway for two more condominium towers on the other side of Riverwalk. Construction is also planned for the relocation of Interstate 195, which will open up prime waterfront space in about two years.

Many students, living in Providence only as long as they attend the University,

have a hard time imagining the Renaissance City any other way. Indeed, development has been going on in the city for longer than the four years of an undergraduate education. But the city has undergone major changes since the early 1990s, before the days of the mall, when the river was still covered by a four-lane highway and downtown was deserted after dark.

“In 1992, it was scary to stand on Westminster Street at 10 p.m. — cars would go by with four or five scary youths,” said Rich Lupo, owner of Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel and director of the Providence Scrabble Club, which for some years held its meetings in the Blue Room at Faunce House. see PROVIDENCE, page 6

Ratty, Faunce renovations planned for summer and winter breaks

BY SARAH GELLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The addition of an elevator to the Sharpe Refectory and more lounge spaces in Faunce House are among changes slated to occur this summer and during next winter break.

Renovations to the Ratty will take place this summer, though some changes will not take place until next winter, as they are not yet definite, according to David Greene, vice president for campus life and student services.

The cost of changes made in the summer will be “somewhere in the neighborhood of four million dollars,” he said. He added that because some necessary upgrades, including improved accessibility and fire safety, are so expensive they limit other renovation plans.

Because details of changes to Faunce are still up in the air, they will also not take place until next winter and their cost has not yet been determined.

Greene’s office is mostly responsible for the changes, along with the Brown Corporation Committee on Campus Life and President Ruth Simmons. The Campus Life Committee of the Undergraduate Council of Students makes recommendations regarding campus life improvements.

dents and not have it fully accessible. That to me is just fabulous that we’re getting it done,” he said.

Other changes to the Ratty will include new lighting and fire safety improvements.

“The sprinkler system is ancient and a fire hazard. That’s a necessary change that they have to do,” said UCS Campus Life Chair

Ratty improvements Greene said he believes the elevator in the Ratty is the most notable of proposed changes.

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Music dept. drawing more applicants Faculty and offerings grow, but department still faces space constraints

BY JOSH TOBIAS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

With interests ranging from avant-garde to Christian rock, high school seniors seeking a spot in the class of 2010 sent more than 900 music portfolios with their applications. The number of music portfolios increased by 10 percent over the previous year, according to Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73.

Several music department faculty members, who review the portfolios, said the number and quality of applicants has been slowly increasing over the past couple of years. The rising applicant pool has brought more musically talented firstyears to Brown.

“There is more excitement around the department, students are taking a more active role than they have been,” said Matthew McGarrell, senior lecturer in music and the department’s director of bands.

Music performance has improved re-

markably over the past two or three years, as more talented first years enter the school, according to several students in the department.

“The overall level of playing, at least in the classical music, has increased dramatically,” said Nora Krohn’06, a violist in the Brown Orchestra.

Valeria Iavtouhovitsh / Herald The Brown Chorus has The recent increase in the number of music students also gotten better, said applying to Brown has raised awareness of the limited Clara Schumacher ’06, a space available for the music department, which is cursoprano in the Chorus. rently in the Orwig Music Building.

“The level of difficulty of the pieces has increased,” she added. said Gerald Shapiro, a professor of music.

The department’s reputation has benBrown attracts some serious music efited from expansion in size and pro- students who have conservatory-level grams, according to some faculty. “The skills but want the liberal arts education stature of the music program has grown, it see MUSIC, page 4 has become a more distinguished place,”

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TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS “BLUE STUDIO: GENDER ARCADES” 4 p.m. , (McCormack Family Theater) — Poet, scholar and critic Rachel Blau DuPlessis will give a lecture as part of Women’s History Month.

TALK BY BURMESE FORMER POLITICAL PRISONER 7:30 p.m. , (MacMillan 117) — Bo Kyi, joint-secretary of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, will give a talk about the current political and human rights crisis in Burma.

PURIM PARTY 2006 6:30 p.m. , (Hillel) — Purim is a holiday celebrating the triumph of the Jewish people over Haman, as told in the Book of Esther. There will be a reading from the Book of Esther, food, costumes and performances by ARRR!, Yamulkazi and the Bear Necessities.

“PRAYER IN SECRET” 8 p.m., (McCormack Family Theater) — Abbot Thomas Keating, a founder of the Centering Prayer Movement and Contemplative Outreach, will give a talk.

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CAMPUS NEWS THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2006 · PAGE 3

Revealed preference study ranks Brown Judge rules against city officials in suit over hiring ordinance seventh among selective universities Study is an alternative to ‘flawed’ college rankings, authors say University, followed by Yale and Stanford universities.

Christopher Avery of Harvard, The University ranks seventh one of the study’s authors, said among 105 national undergrad- he and Caroline Hoxby, another uate programs in a revealed pref- of the study’s authors from Harerence study authored by re- vard, had been interested in consearchers at Harvard, the Univer- ducting such a survey for a long sity of Pennsylvania and Boston time. The study’s other two auUniversity. The study ranks each thors, Andrew Metrick of Penn college based on the number of and Mark Glickman of BU, knew accepted students who choose Hoxby and Avery from playing to matriculate there in relation to chess together. “Over the years the other colleges to which they the four of us in different groups (have thought) about how the are accepted.

The most preferred institu- college rankings are flawed,” tion in the study was Harvard Avery said, adding they felt “it RANKINGS MATCH-UP

BY BRENNA CARMODY STAFF WRITER

The Top 10 Institutions According to revealed preference study:

Top National Universities According to U.S. News and World Report:

1) Harvard University 2) Yale University 3) Stanford University 4) California Institute of Technology 5) Massachusetts Institute of Technology 6) Princeton University 7) Brown University 8) Columbia University 9) Amherst College* 10) Dartmouth College

1) Harvard University 2) Princeton University 3) Yale University 4) University of Pennsylvania 5) Duke University 6) Stanford University 7) California Institute of Technology 7) Massachusetts Institute of Technology 9) Columbia University 9) Dartmouth College

*Amherst is not eligible for the U.S. News and World Report list, which only ranks top national universities, but is ranked second on the list of top liberal arts colleges.

would be great to have a systematic approach to college rankings.”

Because students often make decisions among a cluster of colleges such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton or a group including Cornell, Dartmouth and Brown, it can be difficult to see overarching preference trends. However, there is some overlap — “that’s see RANKINGS, page 6

BY ANNE WOOTTON METRO EDITOR

Superior Court Judge Stephen Fortunato ruled in favor of local advocacy groups Friday when he ordered METRO the city to comply with the First Source ordinance within 14 days.

The ordinance, designed to provide unemployed city residents with jobs, was first passed by the City Council in 1985 but has never been imple-

mented. In recent years, certain city council members and local activists have made enacting the ordinance a priority.

Along with three city residents, Direct Action for Rights and Equality and Rhode Island Jobs with Justice filed a suit against Mayor David Cicilline ’83 and Thomas Deller, director of planning and development for the city, when they were unsatisfied with the city’s response to their demands. see FIRST SOURCE, page 4

Brown jazz band funks it up with Vidacovich

BY NINA CRUZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER

As excited as audience members were to hear the Brown Jazz Band perform jazz classics during its ARTS & Friday night concert, a perCULTURE formance by Johnny Vidacovich — a New Orleans-based drummer who has played with jazz greats like Charlie Miller and John Scofield — provided the main draw. The performance, which filled Grant Recital Hall, was the eighth annual concert in memory of Daniel Milano ’93.

The first half of the concert was repertoire jazz, a rare kind of performance for the Brown Jazz Band. A fairly modern concept, repertoire jazz strives to exactly reproduce great jazz performances of the past by mimicking recordings of them. This may seem antithetical to the improvisation that is crucial to jazz, but the idea is that these classic recordings have taken on a life of their own and that replicating the performance is a way of honoring them. The jazz band focused on a few Duke Ellington pieces recorded mostly from the years 1939 to 1942.

With steady drums and a smooth walking bass, the band waltzed through “It Could Happen to You” and “Take the ‘A’ Train.” The saxophones called, the trumpets responded and the clear voice of Herald Sports Photo Editor Kori Schulman ’08 sailed into the night. “Concerto for Cootie” featured a trumpet solo by Josh Waitzman ’07, for which he used a plunger mute that gave his solo a grainy sound resembling records played on a phonograph.

“Clothed Woman,” described see JAZZ, page 8

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First Source continued from page 3 Under First Source, businesses and organizations that receive grants or tax breaks from the city must sign a contract promising to give residents preferential consideration when hiring, based on a list of names to be provided by the city.

Fortunato’s ruling mandates the city hire or transfer one full-time employee within the next 14 days to work on implementing First Source; it may not award any grants or tax breaks in the next 30 days; and it must draw up language for an official First Source contract within the next 30 days. A poteential contract from the city is currently under review by the law department and businesses that will be affected by it.

“Just having a piece of paper doesn’t mean somebody is going to do what they say they’re going to do,” Deller told The Herald two days before Fortunato’s ruling.

“We are struggling with how to make this … the best advantage for everybody,” he said, adding that one of the things on his agenda is meeting with unions and “talking about how we get people off the First Source list and onto the union

lists.”

Currently, Deller said, there are over 100 names on the First Source list of unemployed city residents.

“I don’t know how many people on that list need job training, but (we’re going to provide them with it), we just have to find it,” he said.

Though there was talk on Friday of the city appealing Fortunato’s decision on claims that the plaintiff did not have grounds to file suit, Ward 1 City Councilman David Segal said this would be a bad move.

“To appeal (the decision) doesn’t seem wise politically, and to appeal it is certainly not in the best interest of the people of Providence,” said Segal, one of those who has been pressuring the city to act on the legislation for the past few years.

“We’re all very excited and hopefully in not too long there’ll be some finality to the whole thing,” he added. “We’ve been trying … to get First Source implemented for a long time and we saw some incremental movement, but it wasn’t happening in the way that we had confidence in it.”

“I think if the city abides by the court’s orders it’ll be tremendous for the people of Providence, and we’re all very happy with the results to date,” Segal added.

Music continued from page 1 Brown provides. Pianist Andrew Aziz ’07 transferred to Brown this year from the Boston University School of Music so he could pursue his interest in math.

“It is difficult to do music and a second concentration (at conservatory) just because of the time that the music takes up,” Aziz said.

He added that students who perform music at Brown are “very talented” but are “not defined by music.”

Aziz said the enhanced reputation of the department might attract more talented performers.

“People talk, maybe the past couple of concerts has increased its reputation,” he said.

Professors also make themselves available to prospective students interested in music.

Shapiro said he met with 10 or 15 high school students over the past year, adding that it is typical for a music professor to meet with a dozen prospective students over the course of the year.

Music professors also review the portfolios students send in with their applications.

While Brown does not accept applicants based on music portfolios alone, having a strong portfolio does increase an applicant’s chance of admission. In an e-mail to The Herald, Miller wrote, “We are very conscious of students with top music ratings as we make our decisions, and a strong evaluation certainly can help to boost a candidacy.” Miller said his office also takes into account needs within the vocal and instrumental programs.

An evolving department

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tween students and faculty.

Greene suggested these could be areas for deans to hold office hours or discussions.

Both Greene and Chaukos said Simmons is interested in reclaiming these rooms for students’ use.

The specific changes to those rooms are not yet finalized.

Taken together, these changes are meant to serve as interim improvements until larger plans for the Ratty can be put in place, according to Greene. Such future projects would change the Ratty’s infrastructure and the way students get food. “We’d like to be able to change the facility around in some sense, so that more of the cooking is done as students get their food. If we could change the center core, where most of the machinery is, we could change the whole experience,” Greene said.

Chaukos agreed there are many problems with the arrangement of the Ratty, citing ventilation concerns and power sources as additional issues. “I don’t even think there’s enough power to even have another panini grill,” Chaukos said. “I think the administration realizes that they need to do more changes in the Ratty, they just don’t have enough resources.”

More lounges for Faunce The renovations to Faunce will focus on issues of space for student use and recreation. Some changes will be aesthetic improvements such as installing new lighting, re-carpeting and renovating the

Students have also been expanding their musical horizons by exploring more unconventional forms of music. One recent addition is Brown New Music, a group that performs “contemporary classical music.” The group’s most recent concert, which students say packed Grant Recital Hall, featured a John Cage work called “Telephones and Birds” featuring telephone recordings of bird calls.

In addition to growth in student interest and ability, the music department has also hired three new professors in the past two years.

Katherine Bergeron and Joseph Rovan were hired for Fall 2004 as professor and associate professor of music, respectively. Professor of History and Music Michael Steinberg, who is also director of the Cogut Humanities Center, was hired for Fall 2005. The department is currently looking for an assistant professor in historical and cultural studies of music.

Some students attribute much of the excitement surrounding the department to the husband and wife duo of Bergeron and Rovan. Bergeron serves as the department’s chair, and Rovan co-directs the Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments program.

“They’ve shaken up the music department, which had been in somewhat of a static period,” Schumacher said.

Bergeron said the Plan for Academic Enrichment was a main feature that drew her to Brown, citing in particular the department’s ability to hire new faculty, which she said results from the Plan’s initiatives.

“There was a movement of change at Brown,” Bergeron said, “I felt that it was a place where you can play a role, make a difference.”

Rovan’s courses, which focus on music and technology, are reportedly popular among undergraduate students. Jonathan Russ ’07, who took Rovan’s MU 11: “Computers and Music” last semester, said the class was one of the biggest classes in the department, filling all 130 seats in Grant Hall. “It’s (a) really big thing for a lot of people,” he said.

bathrooms, while others will address the issue of common space.

“Faunce could be changed to create a lot more space for student organizations and students in general,” Greene said. Both Greene and Chaukos said specific renovations are still being discussed, but one likely possibility is adding couches and other lounge furniture to the area near the ATM machine and games room in the basement. In addition, some game machines may be removed to create more space. Another possible change would be to turn the area outside the mailroom, currently home to the UCS office, into a lounge.

Greene said other possible changes — such as re-organizing the Student Activities Office, the Blue Room and Peterutti Lounge on the first floor to provide more common space for students — are still being considered. Greene and Chaukos both emphasized that space in Faunce could be rearranged to create more common areas, a feature Chaukos referred to as “much needed.” These suggested changes would require relocating some offices.

“I think there’s too many office spaces and not enough student and common space,” Greene said.

“There are a lot of areas that could be a lot better than they are.”

“We’re just really keen on getting another lounge space,” echoed Chaukos. “This is basically just facilitating community. I think common space on this campus is a huge problem.”

In addition, Chaukos and her committee have looked into adding more dining options to Faunce.

Committee members are creating

a menu of fast, fresh food — including salads, sandwiches and potentially some items currently available in the Blue Room — which could be sold in the Campus Market.

Because a new student center is not high on the University’s list of priorities and could take years to devise and construct, the changes to Faunce are meant to serve campus life needs in the near-term, according to Chaukos.

“I think during the winter, when you can’t sit outside and your only options are Upper and Lower Blue Room, students aren’t so happy,” Chaukos said. One concern Chaukos has is whether new common spaces will be used by students. She said that it can be hard to know what students want without student feedback.

Some students said they are excited about the creation of more lounge areas on campus, specifically in Faunce. “I think more common space is a great idea — there definitely is not enough now.

The Blue Room isn’t big enough to accommodate all the people who come there,” said Kevin Roose ’09.

Other students are interested in the idea but also cautious. “There isn’t a lot of lounge area on campus, so it would be a nice space to have,” said Allison Barkley ’07. She added, however, that “one lounge is not going to change the nature of Faunce. Right now it’s not structured to be a student union.”

Greene said he is also pleased with the upcoming changes.

“When we have a place where students can eat, meet with students, professors, hang out — that will really make a difference,” he said.

Space constraints But some faculty said some talented students do not come to Brown due to its lack of a large performance space.

“We lose good musicians because there is no large performing space,” said McGarrell, the bands director. McGarrell said the large performance groups often are forced to go to other schools to find adequate performance facilities. The wind symphony, for example, had to hold its most recent concert at Rhode Island College.

Students in the Brown University Orchestra agree the lack of performing space is a problem.

The Orchestra usually performs in Sayles Hall, which students say does not have great acoustics.

Also, the orchestra is placed on the floor, leaving only half the room open for audience seating. Many audience members have difficulty finding seats at concerts.

“For the audience and performers it is not enjoyable in a room where you can’t hear everything as well,” said Nathaniel Seelen ’08, who plays in the orchestra.

But others, like Shapiro, see the lack of performing space as less of an issue.

“I doubt that it has a big impact on admissions,” Shapiro said. “If students were basing their decision on facilities, there are a million reasons why they wouldn’t want to go to Brown.”

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SSDP members aim to reinvigorate ACLU

BY CAROLINE SILVERMAN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

After continued struggles with dwindling membership, Brown’s American Civil Liberties Union has instated two new leaders — neither of whom had any previous association with the group — in an effort to revitalize its presence on campus. The ACLU’s new president, Colin Chazen ’09, and vice president, Dan MacCombie ’08, are also respectively the media chair and president of Brown’s Students for Sensible Drug Policy.

Though Chazen and MacCombie now hold prominent positions in both groups, the ACLU and SSDP will remain distinct entities.

“ACLU is not going to become SSDP, it’s going to keep the historic focus that it has had,” said Tristan Freeman ’07, who served as ACLU president during the 2004-2005 school year.

“SSDP and ACLU will be two entirely independent groups,” Chazen said. “I know there are rumors that SSDP is taking over ACLU but this is really not the case at all.”

MacCombie said though he had been involved with the ACLU prior to college, he did not originally join the group at Brown because “there wasn’t much of an organization.”

Andrew Kurtzman ’08, the ACLU’s previous president, acknowledged the group’s membership numbers were low last semester. In spite of this, the ACLU continued to operate, but turnout at meetings and public events was less than optimal, Kurtzman said.

“Basically all of our older members didn’t show up,” he said.

Christopher Schmitt ’06, the ACLU’s former vice president who has also been a member of SSDP, suggested looking to SSDP for new leadership, Kurtzman said. Chazen and MacCombie soon came up as potential leaders.

MacCombie said he, Schmitt and Kurtzman decided “a younger person who wasn’t in a leadership position in SSDP” should lead the ACLU. “I knew (Chazen) was interested and that he had ideas and things he would like to do with the group,” MacCombie said.

“He’s really gung-ho about re-

building the chapter.”

Kurtzman said he is not concerned about Chazen’s age.

“Younger is a lot better, especially when the organization has been going through transitions rapidly,” he said, adding that Chazen will have a “base of older wellrounded students who know what they’re doing.”

“Age is not the most reliable determinant of leadership,” said Nathaniel Lepp ’06, a former president of SSDP who now serves on the organization’s national board of directors. Lepp observed that first-years have “free time” upperclassmen might not have.

Also, Chazen’s lack of previous involvement with the ACLU “is not an issue at all,” Kurtzman said. “His experience in SSDP is more than appropriate.”

Still, Kurtzman said, the “ACLU will take him in a different direction.”

SSDP was a logical source of leadership for the ACLU, Kurtzman said, describing SSDP as “a very well-run organization.” In addition, the ACLU had a “close relationship” with SSDP in the past, he said.

Lepp said he is not concerned MacCombie and Chazen will be overworked serving two organizations, referring to coinciding leaderships as a “fairly routine matter.”

“People in political groups are likely to participate in more than one,” Lepp said, citing his own simultaneous involvement in SSDP and the Brown Democrats.

However, Lepp said anyone taking on multiple leadership roles “runs the risk of spreading themselves too thin.”

“I don’t think (MacCombie’s) involvement in ACLU will fundamentally change his work in SSDP,” Lepp said. “(MacCombie’s) priority is with SSDP,” said Jennifer Giron ’09, head of the SSDP-sponsored Drug Resource Center. “He’ll use ACLU as a symbiotic force to accomplish things.”

MacCombie stressed that the “ACLU is a strong, unique organization,” but added, “I don’t want to discount the fact that we’re going to try and work with other groups,” mentioning the Dems and Green Party as potential collaborators.

“There are certainly issues that SSDP deals with that ACLU see ACLU, page 8

Liquid-filled trash bags among incidents reported to DPS last week POLICE LOG

BY SIMMI AUJLA SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The following summary includes all major incidents reported to the Department of Public Safety between March 3 and March 9. It does not include general service and alarm calls. 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.

Saturday, March 4: 9 a.m. A Brown employee reported that, at approximately 6:30 p.m. on March 3, a silver pickup truck pulled along the driver’s side of her car and then in front of her car so that she could not leave Lot 68 in the Power Street Parking Garage. When the driver did not move the truck after she had honked at him, she maneuvered around it and left the lot. The incident is under investigation.

7:25 p.m. DPS officers responded to a car fire at the corner of Prospect and Waterman streets.

Officers attempted to extinguish flames and managed traffic once

Providence Fire Department firefighters arrived. Firefighters put out the fire. No one was injured.

Sunday, March 5: 4:22 a.m. The Providence Police Department requested assistance from DPS to respond to a second complaint of loud noise coming from an off-campus residence on Waterman Street. The student in the off-campus residence exhibited disruptive behavior and was uncooperative with law enforcement personnel.

A PPD officer recommended the student’s behavior be addressed by the University, and the student was not arrested.

8:54 a.m. A Brown employee reported being harassed by an acquaintance. DPS is providing the complainant support services.

Monday, March 6: 12:25 a.m. DPS officers responded to a report of harassment and violation of a University-issued no-contact order in Perkins Hall. Officers provided intervention, and both parties were interviewed. The Office of Student Life is handling the conflict.

Wednesday, March 8: 2:40 a.m. A student reported

that 12 Xbox games were stolen from his unsecured residence on Power Street between 2:30 a.m. and 2:40 a.m. There was no indication of forced entry.

8 p.m. Complainant reported that her coat was stolen from a room in Wilson Hall. Her cell phone, which was in the coat, is also missing.

Thursday, March 9: (No time specified.) Complainant reported that two males in their 40s were wandering around the basement of Olney House. The men left the area before DPS officers arrived. The officers searched the area for the men and made sure the building was secure.

1 a.m. The PPD notified DPS that a student was arrested at an off-campus establishment for disorderly conduct.

7:45 a.m. A custodian reported that an unknown liquid has been dumped in the trash and recycling receptacles on a terrace in Grad Center every day for the past few months.

When the custodian attempts to remove the liquid-filled trash bags, they break. This incident is under investigation.

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Providence continued from page 1 The arts and revitalization Lupo has been in the live music business in Providence since 1974. He rented space at 93 Westminster St. — which has since been purchased by local developer Buff Chase of Cornish Associates and today is in the heart of a downtown historic and arts district — between 1993 and 2003 and, before that, occupied space down the block between 1975 and 1988. Lupo currently shares space at the Strand with nightclub Diesel. He said real estate development in Providence has always played a big role in the livelihood of his business.

He emphasized the link between arts and entertainment to the overall development of a city, expressing frustration over complaints he has received about the nature of his clientele and certain drunken, late-night incidents that occur in the city around 2 a.m., when most clubs and bars must close for the night.

“Real estate developers feel that their property values will maintain their highest values if there isn’t a kid peeing on their doorstep,” Lupo said, adding that extending the 2 a.m. curfew by an hour would solve some late-night problems.

“There’s a constituency (of people) that doesn’t want partiers downtown, (but) you need a lot of people for safety,” Lupo said. “It’s got nothing to do with the pieces of art strewn along the waterfront. There are 5,000 20-year-olds downtown on a Friday (night) —

they’re largely the same as they were in 1960 and 1980. They’re not murderers,” he said.

Lupo formerly rented property in the Down City arts district that was part of a plan for the city drawn up in 1991 during the administration of Mayor Vincent “Buddy” Cianci. When established, the district received national acclaim for being the first of its kind in any American city. The district has since been expanded to Olneyville, but Lupo expressed skepticism about its effectiveness.

“I think the arts should develop on their own and not be implanted by developers,” said Lupo, who relocated to the Strand when it became clear to him that the Westminster Street project was “really key to Buff’s scheme of things and the development of the rest of the city.”

“What I’ve learned in the last 30 years is how related real estate and music are — who would’ve thought?” Lupo said. In fact, brand-new condos are currently being renovated for rent in the top floors of the Strand, above Lupo’s and Diesel.

Tax credits were important to Stanley Weiss, owner and founder of the Hotel Providence on Westminster Street. Weiss started out in real estate on the East Side in the 1970s, renovating several buildings along Pitman and Gano streets and the entire University Heights shopping and apartment complex. He said the Hotel Providence could never have been started without the benefits of the tax credit for historic buildings.

Weiss is also one of the developers who, in Lupo’s words, “doesn’t want partiers downtown.”

“There are certain things that have to be corrected, and one of

them is the clubs at night. Those big clubs like Diesel — you know, they have to get rid of that,” Weiss said.

“At two o’clock in the morning, the city is crazy,” he said. “You have such drunks coming out, going into cars and driving away — they’re so loaded … and they literally piss all over the city. You have a whole 25 policemen for the evening and thousands of marauders coming out — the city knows it’s in trouble, and it has to correct that,” Weiss said.

Weiss mentioned Lupo’s as one type of “good nightlife” because it closes by 10:30 on weekend nights, though these restrictions are the very ones Lupo has mentioned in the past as limiting his establishment.

Weiss added that the University seems to him to be the only local university that has not invested in downtown Providence real estate, expressing disdain for members of the University community who do not look beyond College Hill.

“Brown has never made a public investment in downtown. …

They’ve turned their backs. It’s amazing,” Weiss said. “I wish (President) Ruth Simmons would just forget about all the black stuff for a minute and think about growing the University,” he added, citing several properties on Westminster that the University could potentially be interested in.

Revitalization through the 1990s WaterFire — the festival that takes place along the Providence River every other Saturday night between the spring and fall — may seem to many Brown students a longstanding, albeit quirky, Providence tradition. The festival celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2005 and would not have been possible without the major construction in the early 1990s that removed a bridge — listed in Guinness World Records as the world’s widest — and relocated the raised railroad tracks which ran between City Hall and the State House.

Billed as a transportation project, the uncovering of the river

Rankings continued from page 3 where you start learning about relative preference,” Glickman said.

The study began in the spring of 1999 when Avery asked college counselors throughout the country to help with the survey. In advance of finding out their acceptance status, 3,240 high school students were asked to provide basic data included on the Common Application for the survey.

After they were accepted, students also submitted data on the scholarships they were offered, where they were accepted and where they chose to enroll. The researchers then used the data to determine which colleges were preferred most among accepted students.

Glickman said the rankings are “surprisingly consistent with other rankings.” The top 10 universities in the U.S. News and World Report ranking of national universities includes largely the same schools as the revealed preference rankings. Avery said the consistency adds validity to the preference rankings. “If we had something that completely clashed with U.S. News it wouldn’t be credible,” he said.

However, Brown and Amherst

was funded largely by the federal and state government but left Providence residents with a revamped downtown that barely resembled its previous self.

“The struggle through the ’80s and early ’90s was to try to figure out how to make things happen — how to make anything happen,” said Thomas Deller, director of planning for the city, who came to Providence in 1989. Until the late 1980s, Westminster Street, from Dorrance to Empire streets, was a pedestrian mall created in 1969 as part of an effort to save city merchants from suburbanization and one-stop shopping malls.

Providence Place Mall was a similar attempt at urban revitalization — but that attempt, unlike the pedestrian mall, was successful, Deller said.

“The mall really changed the way people thought about Providence — I think leaders really did a great job preserving the historic character (of the city),” he said.

“People get very annoyed when I say this, but in many ways we have to acknowledge that some people think of us as a suburb of Boston: it’s cheaper to live here, city life with great venues,” Deller added.

Deller acknowledged the concerns of club owners like Lupo, conceding that a decision regarding closing times is “a policy discussion that’s going to have to involve lots and lots of people.” He mentioned that most other communities in Rhode Island have laws requiring bars and clubs to close at 1 a.m., which often results in an influx of partiers into the city between 1 and 2 a.m.

“We have to figure out a way that the two can coexist,” Deller said. “You have to have art life, you have to have clubs. … The ultimate question is, ‘How do you balance all of those things?’”

A development boom By 2000, according to Deller, Providence had become a hot spot for development.

“We’re probably in the biggest development boom that a city has seen since the ’20s,” Deller said.

Of the $3 billion currently going toward Providence development projects, over $950 million is downtown.

“We’re in a situation now where developers look at Providence very differently: (as) a place to make money,” Deller said. “In the long run the things that will determine the growth and success (of Providence) are what policy decisions are made to effect potential to bring jobs into the state.”

Deller cited the tax credit for developments in historic buildings, which spurred much of the development in downtown Providence, as one such decision.

Kelo v. New London One recent Supreme Court decision, Kelo v. New London, could have huge implications for Providence’s future.

In June 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that local governments can force property owners to sell their property to make way for private economic development, if the local government believes the development would benefit the public. A controversial 5-4 ruling, which then-Justice Sandra Day O’Connor voted against, it markedly increases a local government’s power to use eminent domain for urban revitalization.

The decision has particular meaning for economically underperforming cities in the Northeast — the development program in question in the case was the plan of New London, Conn., to turn 90 acres of waterfront land into facilities to service a $300 million research center built by pharmaceuticals company Pfizer.

For the time being, the state of Connecticut has frozen new developments enabled by the ruling until provisions are drawn up that better protect homeowners.

Rhode Island was also one of the seven states to introduce legislation to limit eminent domain following the Supreme Court’s ruling, but it remains unclear how the decision might affect the future of development in Providence and the rest of the state.

— which is a liberal arts college and thus not considered in U.S. News’ ranking of national universities — do not make the U.S. News most recent top 10. Penn and Duke University, which did not place in the top 10 in the revealed preference rankings, are fourth and fifth in the U.S. News ranking.

Glickman said the results have provided “no clear answer” on what makes a college good, adding that the study only measured “how much the school is attractive to students.”

Glickman, who has done research on chess tournaments, said he took those methods and “brought them over to college admissions.”

The study has elicited both positive and negative feedback.

Avery said college admissions officers have told him that it “reflects the way they think about the world.” Both Glickman and Avery said they have heard complaints the survey is too much like a popularity contest. Glickman refuted this, saying the “choice a student is making is the result of an extensive thought process.” Avery added he would “leave it up to others to decide if (the survey) is valuable.”

One of the study’s advantages, Avery believes, is its simplicity.

“Nobody can disagree on wheth-

er this is the correct methodology (for what we wanted to accomplish) and what this means. … They can disagree on whether it’s useful.”

While Glickman said the authors do not plan to repeat the study, he added that in “the ideal world somebody will use our method to come up with alternative rankings.” Avery said an annual preference study would probably be more consistent in its findings than U.S. News. “U.S. News varies more than it should,” he added.

Director of Admissions Jim Miller ’73 said he thinks the study is “great,” adding, “the more … facets of an institution you can look at, the better.” He said although he knew of Hoxby and Avery’s work, he had not read the study until contacted by The Herald. Miller said the U.S. News formulas and factors for its rankings often change and are “subject to subjectivity,” while the revealed preference study “probably has more statistical validity.”

Miller said that the study was more of an academic piece and not widely circulated. Two local high school college counselors, Helen Scotte Gordon MAT ’05 of Moses Brown School and Paul Tukey ’66 AM ’72 of Rocky Hill School said they had not heard of the study.

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Arrest of ex-Bush aide shocks associates

BY MICHAEL FLETCHER AND JOSHUA PARTLOW WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — Claude Allen has said his mother warned him that as a black man he risked ruining his life, or at least his career, by becoming a Republican. As it turned out, nothing could have been farther from the truth.

Allen rose steadily through the Republican political ranks. From congressional campaign aide, to Senate staffer, state Cabinet secretary, federal appeals court nominee and the upper reaches of the Bush administration — all by age 45.

But Allen’s once-soaring career has taken a bizarre turn with his arrest Thursday on theft charges for allegedly ripping off two department stores in a phony refund scheme.

The arrest of Allen, who suddenly resigned last month as President Bush’s top domestic policy adviser, startled those in his bigticket Gaithersburg, Md., neighborhood and at the White House who knew him as a soft-spoken and collegial aide who was loyal to his young family and devoted to his church.

“When I heard the story last night, I was shocked, and my first reaction was one of disappointment, deep disappointment,” Bush said Saturday.

Allen is accused of swindling Hecht’s and Target stores out of more than $5,000 in refunds for items he did not buy. His lawyer, Mallon Snyder, denied the charges. “His returns and refunds were exactly what they should have

been,” Snyder said Saturday, saying that the charges stem from a series of misunderstandings.

Allen’s arrest marks a baffling setback in a career that until recently seemed headed nowhere but up. “If the allegations are true, something went wrong in Claude Allen’s life,” Bush said. “And that is really sad.”

Bush named Allen his top domestic policy adviser last year.

With a West Wing office and a salary of $161,000 a year, Allen was the top-ranking African American on the White House staff. His broad portfolio involved advising Bush on policy issues including health care, space exploration, housing and education.

In a White House where real power is centered in a few hands, Allen was not so much a decision maker as he was purveyor and tailor of Bush administration policy. Still, Allen was frequently at Bush’s side, accompanying him on trips around the country and briefing him and the media on the administration’s domestic policy initiatives.

Despite its prominent profile, the chief domestic policy job was only a consolation prize for Allen.

Bush had named him in 2003 to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, but the nomination was scuttled by Senate Democrats who saw Allen as too conservative and too inexperienced, and blocked it from coming to a vote.

Before coming to the White House, Allen served four years in the No. 2 job in the sprawling Department of Health and Human Services.

Allen got his start in politics in North Carolina, and he spent years working for Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina Republican senator alternately revered and reviled as a conservative stalwart. Allen became a protégé of Helms, a fervent opponent of affirmative action who stood against a federal holiday for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Working in Washington, Allen cultivated a circle of influential conservative friends. While clerking for Judge David Sentelle at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in the late-1980s, Allen befriended Clarence Thomas, who served on the appeals court before being elevated to the Supreme Court in 1991.

The two would often go to lunch, sometimes talking about the burdens of being black conservatives. “He would always say to make sure I conducted myself appropriately,” Allen recalled in an interview last year.

Allen went on to practice law for several years, before working in Virginia under Gov. Jim Gilmore in the state attorney general’s office and as state health and human resources secretary. Gilmore recalled that Allen helped organize a meeting of Southern attorneys general in response to a string of arsons at black churches — the fires stopped soon after — and how he was influential in getting King’s widow, Coretta, to come to Virginia to demonstrate that it is an inclusive community.

“I have never seen anything except the highest character from Claude Allen,” Gilmore said.

Hurricanes past and future speed hiring by FEMA

BY STEPHEN BARR WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — With the next hurricane season only three months away, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is adding employees in Washington and regional offices so that it can deploy staffers to disasters this year while also undertaking a multiyear effort to help Gulf Coast states recover from Hurricane Katrina.

FEMA has cut its hiring time to 37 days, from the normal 45 to 60 days. The streamlined employment process includes electronic fingerprint checks that are turned around within 24 hours as part of background investigations. Personnel officials hired 80 people in a single day last week for an array of jobs that provide support or direct services to disaster victims.

The hiring push is called 95/95 inside FEMA — to fill vacant jobs so that each FEMA bureau has 95 percent of its authorized staff within 95 days.

The countdown began last month, according to a memo sent to top FEMA officials by Michael Hall, director of the agency’s personnel division.

The staffing initiative could help FEMA bounce back from Katrina. The agency was blamed for a sluggish response to the hurricane, which claimed about 1,300 lives.

Congressional hearings and reviews, including a House investigation led by Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., suggested that the agency had undergone a “brain drain” in recent years, losing too many experienced hands in key positions and failing to replace them with skilled professionals. The House report estimated FEMA had 500 vacant jobs at the time Katrina struck.

Last week, Bruce Baughman, president of the National Emergency Management Association, described FEMA as “vastly understaffed at both the headquarters and regional offices” in testimony prepared for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. He said workload issues have made it difficult for FEMA to retain employees.

The issue of staffing shortages, and the agency’s morale, is a sensitive matter inside the agency. Nicol Andrews, a FEMA spokeswoman, said personnel officials were too busy

last week to discuss the hiring initiative.

Andrews said FEMA has been increasing its work force since Katrina hit New Orleans and other Gulf Coast communities in late August. On Sept.

3, FEMA had 20,434 employees; by Feb. 18 it had 27,575.

Most of the growth took place in a job category called “disaster assistance employee,” the temporary workers hired for a specific disaster until no longer needed. FEMA added more than 6,800 disaster assistance employees after Katrina.

Slightly more than 1,900 of FEMA’s employees are permanent and full-time, and an additional 700 hold full-time jobs, known as core positions, that are assigned to disaster relief efforts for two to four years.

Under the 95/95 initiative, FEMA will add nearly 1,300 employees. About 620 will be hired for permanent positions and about 650 will be added to the core work force.

The new staff, Andrews said, “is to help fill up the need presented by Katrina.” At the end of the hiring cycle, FEMA estimates, it will have more than 2,500 full-time employees, she said.

Preliminary autopsy findings: Milosevic died of heart attack

BY MOLLY MOORE AND DANIEL WILLIAMS WASHINGTON POST

PARIS — Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic died of a heart attack, according to autopsy results released Sunday by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague. A more detailed examination to determine the cause of the heart failure has not been completed, the court said.

Milosevic, 64, the first former leader of a state to be tried for genocide and other crimes against humanity, was found dead Saturday on his bed inside his cell at the U.N. tribunal’s prison outside The Hague.

Milosevic had been on trial the past four years for his role in four Balkan wars during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The trial had been expected to conclude by May. Sunday night’s announcement came at the end of a day of speculation about his death that had taken on the drama of a mystery novel. The war tribunal’s chief prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, said at a news conference that suicide was a “possibility.”

A short time later, one of Milosevic’s attorneys showed reporters two letters purportedly written by Milosevic on Friday — the day before he died — claiming he was being poisoned with drugs that were neutralizing his medication for high blood pressure and a chronic heart condition.

“According to the pathologists, Slobodan Milosevic’s cause of death was a ‘myocardial infarction,’ “the medical terminology for a heart attack, the international war crimes tribunal said in statement, adding, “The pathologists identified two heart conditions that Slobodan Milosevic suffered from, which they said would explain” the heart attack.

The autopsy was performed

by Dutch forensic pathologists in The Hague, under the ob-

servation of two pathologists from Belgrade at the request of the government of Serbia and Montenegro, the tribunal said in a statement.

The tribunal said a toxicological exam to determine the cause of the heart attack “will still be carried out” and that “the final report will be issued as soon as possible.”

Zdenko Tomanovic, an attorney who has been assisting Milosevic prepare his defense before the war crimes tribunal, told reporters in The Hague on Sunday that Milosevic had written a letter to the Russian Embassy there and to the Russian foreign minister last Friday saying, “They would like to poison me. I’m seriously concerned and worried.”

Milosevic based his allegations on a Jan. 12 medical report showing “strong drugs in his system only used for treating leprosy or tuberculosis,” Tomanovic said. He said the drugs were countering the effects of the medicine prescribed for Milosevic’s high blood pressure and heart condition.

Milosevic last month had asked the court to allow him to travel to Moscow for medical treatment. The judges rejected the request, saying he could bring his own doctors to the prison. They also said they feared he would not return to The Hague.

“In the letter, Milosevic stressed that the main reason that he was not allowed to go to Moscow for medical treatment was the existing fear by some that the careful examination by the Russian hospital would reveal that his health was being systematically destroyed,” Tomanovic said. “Milosevic pointed out that during the last five years he had never used any such antibiotics, especially since he never had leprosy or tuberculosis or any kind of infectious disease except for the flu.” see MILOSEVIC, page 9

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by Senior Lecturer in Music and Band Director Matthew McGarrell as “an enigmatic piece,” featured David Frisof ’09 on the piano playing a note-for-note transcription of Ellington’s recording.

At first, Frisof was joined only by soft accompaniment from the brass section, but as the piano really got rolling, the drums and bass joined in and the song proceeded to careen around the band, focusing on each different instrument group and coming back to Frisof at the piano.

After a rather abrupt ending, the band launched into “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore,” a song which it took in a bluesy direction, using only the rhythm section, the strong voice of Justin Revelle ’07 and a trumpet solo by Matt Leder.

“Raincheck” rounded out the first half of the performance with Amy Goins ’07 playing the sharpest trombone solo of the night.

After a brief intermission, the Vidacovich half of the concert began. Warming up with Miles Davis’ “Nardis,” Vidacovich, whom McGarrell described as “among the best drummers in the world,” exhibited his energetic style of play.

With quick, sharp movements, Vidacovich — a tall, wiry man who looks more like a marathon runner than a drummer — zipped through the song in an effortless manner, all available appendages constantly on the move.

“Gunslinging Bird,” more of a jam than the previous song, featured solos alternat-

ing among trombones, saxophones, trumpets and bass, building in strength to climax at Vidacovich’s drum solo, an incredible performance that proved a drum solo is not always the boring part of a song.

“Come Sunday,” a beautiful song from Duke Ellington’s “Black, Brown and Beige,” followed, serving as a reprieve both for the audience and for Vidacovich himself, as Jay Levin ’08 took back the drums.

Before long, the song was over, and Vidacovich returned.

McGarrell was so excited about “Louisiana Be-Bop” that he skipped over the next song in the program and had to go back for it later. “Louisiana Bebop,” a Les Hooper tune, catered to the Vidacovich brand of New Orleans funk. The electric bass was brought out, and Vidacovich stayed true to his promise to “funk it up.”

The band then backed up to play “Caravan,” a song arranged and performed by the rhythm section. Perhaps because they don’t have to breathe so hard to do what they do, Frisof on piano, Andrew Lim ’08 on bass and Peter Boyer ’09 on guitar made keeping up with Vidacovich seem easy.

After Charles Mingus’ “Boogie Stop Shuffle,” the band took their bows, and McGarrell invited everyone who had brought an instrument to join them in Fulton Rehearsal Hall for a jam session with Vidacovich. Members of the band were really able to show off their skills and have fun at the same time — taking cues from each other, improvising, soloing, building up speed and slowing back down, refusing to let the night end.

Bachelet sworn in as Chile’s first female president

BY PATRICK MCDONNELL AND EVA VERGARA LOS ANGELES TIMES

SANTIAGO, Chile — Michelle Bachelet, a lifelong socialist, former political exile and ex-prisoner of the military dictatorship, was sworn in Saturday as Chile’s first woman president with the luminaries of South America’s new leftist leadership and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the audience.

“Our strength will be the women,” Bachelet, 54, told an animated, largely female crowd of thousands downtown as she made her initial address as chief of state from the ornate presidential palace, La Moneda. “In Chile, there will be no forgotten citizens. This is my promise.”

Many Chilean women donned presidential sashes of white, red and blue in homage to the bespectacled physician and daughter of a general whose dramatic personal story encapsulates for many the recent history of Chile.

Thousands of admirers lined the route as the president’s motorcade made its way into the capital from the seaside port of Valparaiso, where she was formally inaugurated for a four-year term.

Bachelet, donning a twopiece, cream-colored suit featuring an Asian-style jacket, waved from her standing perch in an official Ford Galaxy convertible as

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Declining ACLU membership

According to Freeman, the ACLU has been at Brown about 30 years, but last semester, the “ACLU didn’t really do as well as it should have been doing.”

He added that “there weren’t as many ACLU events as there were in the past.”

Last semester the ACLU held one general body meeting and about 12 executive board meetings. Because old members strayed from the group, last semester’s ACLU leadership had to “work from the ground up” in re-

W. hockey continued from page 12 Moore tallied her second goal of the period, this time off a feed from Keaton Zucker ’06. After winning the ensuing faceoff, Kathryn Moos ’07 hammered home Margaret Ramsay ’06’s rebound, giving the Bears a 3-1 lead.

But then Shipe began to struggle, giving up a second and then a third goal at 15:40, resulting in a change between the pipes. Unfortunately, Shipe’s replacement, Nicole Stock ’09, who has had success all season in relief, could not stop Harvard’s first period offensive flurry. The Crimson’s Sarah Wilson, who had already scored a goal on the day, completed the comeback for Harvard at 18:45.

The goal gave Harvard a 4-3 lead and would turn out to be the game

the heavily guarded motorcade made its way toward the presidential palace.

“The past is past and we will never forget it,” the new president, speaking from a balcony, told the enthusiastic multitudes during her brisk, 19-minute address.

World attention has focused on Bachelet since her victory Jan. 15 in a runoff election, in part because of her past but also because of the cultural and political significance of her election.

Bachelet is an agnostic and separated mother of three from two different fathers. Until recently, she drove her youngest daughter, Sofia, 12, to school each morning and did the family shopping in her SUV. She likes cooking with her family, a glass of wine with dinner and strumming a guitar while singing 1970s folk songs.

Her rise highlighted a cultural shift in a mostly Catholic country long regarded as among the most conservative in Latin America, a nation where divorce was only recently legalized, abortion remains illegal and women often earn as much as 40 percent less than men with similar jobs.

Bachelet has pledged a “parity government,” with equal numbers of men and women in key jobs, and has named 10 women and 10 men to her Cabinet. She rose to national prominence in the Cabinet of outgoing President Ricardo Lagos, serving as

minister of health and defense.

Bachelet was a physician and had worked for Lagos’ campaign.

Bachelet heads the fourth consecutive government of the center-left coalition known as the Concertacion that has ruled since the 1990 ouster of the military regime of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who took power in a Sept. 11, 1973, coup that overthrew leftist President Salvador Allende.

Chile, swimming in funds from exports of copper and other commodities, is considered one of Latin America’s major economic and political success stories, a place where the widespread political corruption and citizen dissatisfaction so evident elsewhere is less apparent.

Bachelet, like Lagos, embodies a pragmatic socialism that embraces American notions of free trade and democracy even while differing on issues like the war in Iraq, which is very unpopular here and in much of Latin America.

However, Bachelet has consistently bemoaned the wide income gap between Chile’s elite and working classes and has pledged to help provide “decent and dignified” jobs for all. Part of her appeal, along with her personal charisma, has been her consistent refrain, which most Chileans seem to view as sincere, that she didn’t seek high office, but rather accepted the challenge as her responsibility.

establishing membership, Kurtzman said.

MacCombie acknowledged that “there is a sort of leadership overlap,” but Freeman stressed that the leadership change will “ensure that ACLU survives for decades to come.”

Chazen will take the lead in spearheading projects for the ACLU, while MacCombie will play more of an assistant role, MacCombie said.

“We will begin meeting regularly soon,” Chazen said, also mentioning that the ACLU is “interested in becoming involved with the Rhode Island chapter.”

“Historically ACLU has been one of the most active groups,” Kurtzman said, adding that it’s older than both the Dems and the College Republicans.

Kurtzman said he and Schmitt, who were elected to ACLU’s leadership in spring 2005, “weren’t intending to run the organization” by themselves, but they found “everyone else jumped ship.”

“In the last few years, there have been some organizational problems,” Kurtzman said. Also, other groups had pushed into the ACLU’s established “niche” on campus and usurped membership.

The pair spent last semester “trying to pull (ACLU) back up,” Kurtzman said.

Chazen has organized a lecture on April 6 with Jerry Elmer, a volunteer attorney for the ACLU in Rhode Island. Elmer will talk about his book “Felon for Peace,” Chazen said. MacCombie described this as an “ACLU kick-off event, to get things going again.”

winner. Despite Stock’s 28 saves, the Bears were unable to mount a comeback.

The Bears got to Sunday’s championship game by accomplishing most of what they had set out to do on Saturday: Play tight defense, rely on its goaltending and let the top line take over offensively. Knowing that Harvard, national runner-up the past three seasons, had defeated powerhouse St. Lawrence earlier on Saturday, Brown had extra incentive to advance to the championship game.

Early on, the Bears’ defense, led by Ashlee Drover ’06 and Heinhuis, minimized the quality of Princeton’s looks. But when the Bears’ backline was not there to make the play, Shipe was. Her nine first-period saves merely warmed up the sophomore goalie, as she went on to make 42 stops in the shutout victory. The one first-period shot that allud-

ed Shipe’s grasp was picked up inside the crease and cleared by Lindsey Glennon ’06 to keep the game scoreless.

In a physical second period, the Bears scored what proved to be the game winner. With just over seven minutes gone by, leading scorer Moore found fellow sophomore Rylee Olewinski skating in along the near side. Olewinski wrestled the Tiger defender to free herself up for a shot that beat Princeton’s goaltender, Roxanne Gaudiel, to give the Bears the decisive one-goal advantage.

In the final period, Princeton’s best chance to score was neutralized after a heads-up play by Lindsay Wilde ’09. The first-year defenseman made a play similar to Glennon’s first-period save to keep the Bears’ lead. Shipe stood strong the rest of the way, helping Brown advance to the championship round.

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Milosevic continued from page 7 Milosevic’s death distressed court officials, who have concentrated much of the court’s time and resources on the trial against their highest-profile defendant.

“It is extremely unfortunate that the victims and their families will not have a final answer in this case on the criminal responsibility of the accused,” the tribunal’s president, Fausto Pocar, said at a news conference Sunday at the court in The Hague.

The tribunal said Milosevic’s body would be given to his family Monday.

The family, however, reportedly is bickering over funeral and burial arrangements.

The Russian news agency In-

Robbery continued from page 1 ond suspect, but said the armed suspect was black, approximately 5’10” and weighed around 180 pounds. In a crime alert e-mailed to the Brown community Saturday morning by Chief of Police Mark Porter, the suspects were described as the same age as the victims —19 or 20 years old.

When the robbery occurred, the students were walking back from Providence Place Mall toward Brown’s campus, Babish said.

The students were in front of the Office of Admission at 45 Prospect St. when the men approached them, Potter said. “It didn’t seem that dangerous beforehand because it was so close to the Main Green,” he added.

Babish agreed: “(The area) wasn’t at all sketchy. … It just

W. hoops continued from page 12 ened things up midway through the half, beginning to call fouls far less obvious than those that had gone uncalled earlier.

Dartmouth’s ability to get to the free-throw line kept it afloat.

The Big Green shot 12-for-13 from the line in the half, while Brown only shot 3-for-9. All-Ivy Honorable Mention Ashley Taylor of Dartmouth made a free throw to tie the game at 36 with 2:42 to play, and neither team would score a point for the rest of the half.

While the Big Green held an edge from the line, Lena McAfee ’07 helped keep the game close for Brown. In the first half, McAfee had 13 points — two shy of her career high — on 6-for-11 shooting.

“Lena was very active in the first half,” said Head Coach Jean Marie Burr. “She was getting out in transition and was really getting on the boards. She was really our spark in the first half.”

In the second half, Dartmouth began to exploit its advantage in the paint. The Big Green went to forward Sydney Scott on three consecutive possessions in the early going, and she capitalized on all three to give Dartmouth its biggest lead to that point at 44-38. After that, Brown used a 7-0 run to take the lead.

However, that was the last

terfax reported that Mirjana Markovic, Milosevic’s widow, and their son, Marko, want him buried in Moscow where they live in exile, trying to avoid criminal charges in Serbia. Markovic was a key adviser to her husband, and prosecutors have been considering charging her with incitement to murder for a series of assassinations carried out under Milosevic’s rule.

Milosevic’s daughter, Marija, told Belgrade’s Beta news agency that she wanted her father buried in Serbia, where he was born.

The Socialist Party wants Milosevic to have a funeral in Belgrade and be buried in a special section of the city’s main cemetery reserved for national leaders and heroes. “It should be a huge political demonstration in support of his policies,” said Ivica Dacic, the party’s leader.

A steady stream of mourn-

ers paid condolence visits to the headquarters of the Socialist Party of Serbia, which Milosevic founded. They lit candles, signed a visitor’s book and placed flowers near a photo of Milosevic.

The government of Serbian president Boris Tadic has declined to declare an official period of mourning.

At Belgrade’s Novo Groblje cemetery, hundreds of mourners commemorated the third anniversary of the assassination of Zoran Djindjic, an archenemy of Milosevic who was prime minister when he was shot by a sniper.

Djindjic spearheaded an opposition movement that eventually led to Milosevic’s ouster in 2000.

The next year, he arranged Milosevic’s transfer to The Hague to stand trial for war crimes. Tadic attended the memorial at Djindjic’s grave site.

happened to be unpopulated,” he said.

But Dolly noted the lack of lighting. “There was just one streetlight,” he said. “It was not very well lit at all.”

Although none of the victims saw a car, Yang said they heard a car behind them before they were robbed and heard a car drive off after the incident. None of the students saw the suspects getting into a car because they did not look back as they walked away from the scene.

The incident was the second armed robbery prompting an e-mailed crime alert this semester. The first alert was sent in response to a Feb. 19 incident when two men armed with a gun and a knife robbed a student as she walked back from Providence Place Mall to her offcampus apartment. The student was walking at the intersection of Young Orchard and Cooke streets around 10 p.m. on a Fri-

day night when she was robbed.

“We look at (the incidents) as two isolated crimes, but … we try to see if there are any patterns or any things we can alert our officers about,” Porter said.

Porter said the incidents indicate that DPS should increase patrols on the outskirts of campus. He said the fact that the robbery was on campus and so close to the Main Green worries him, but he is more concerned the incident occurred at all.

“It’s not the location that concerns me, it concerns me that the student is a victim — that’s the first thing that concerns me,” he said.

The students filed a report with DPS. Officers told them that PPD would contact them later to file a formal statement, but that has yet to occur, according to Porter. PPD detectives could not be reached for comment. Potter and the victims have not heard any updates from PPD.

time the Big Green trailed. Like it did throughout the second half, the Big Green answered every time Brown began to rally. Dartmouth outscored Brown 8-2 over the next two minutes to push its lead back to six.

With 4:50 left, Herald Sports Staff Writer Amy Ehrhart ’09 made a jumper from just inside the free-throw line to cut the Big Green lead to three at 57-54.

Taylor then made a huge threepointer to push the Big Green lead back to six.

Two minutes later, Brown cut the lead to three again when Kelly made a nice layup while being fouled and converted the free throw. The next time down the floor, Dartmouth broke Brown’s press, and Taylor provided another dagger when she made a driving layup and was fouled. The foul was one of several questionable calls down the stretch, as McAfee made a conscious effort to avoid contact with Taylor but was called for the foul anyway.

The Big Green continued to make its free throws down the stretch, going 10-for-12 en route to the 11-point victory. The teams were whistled for a combined 20 fouls in the second stanza, which slowed the game down considerably. Several questionable calls made fans from both sides grow increasingly impatient with the officiating.

The difference in the second half was Dartmouth’s dominance on the glass. The team collected 12 offensive rebounds in the sec-

ond stanza and converted them into 11 points.

“They were sending everyone to the glass and we had a hard time boxing out,” Burr said.

The Big Green also did a better job of stopping the conference’s best player than anyone had done all year. Hayes shot just 5-for-14 from the floor, and Dartmouth made sure every shot she took was contested.

“I was doing my best trying to get open, but they did a very good job applying pressure on the ball not only against me, but against everyone,” Hayes said.

Even though it was a tough loss, Burr was proud of her team.

“This was one of those games that you hate to see anyone lose,” she said. “But we didn’t lose because they played harder than we did. We just came up a little short.”

Now the Bears must await their fate to see if their impressive season will continue. The women’s NIT draw will take place late Monday night after the NCAA selection show. The WNIT will expand to 40 teams this season from its usual 32, with the eight extra bids reserved for teams that won their conference’s regular season championship but missed out on the automatic bid by losing in the conference tournament. Brown’s eligibility for these automatic bids is unclear based on the wording on the WNIT Web site, but there will be six or seven teams that do qualify, possibly leaving spots for Brown and Princeton.

W. track continued from page 12 four weeks off for (the injury), but I don’t really have the time right now,” she said. “I’m focused on maybe taking on a few more events so that we can improve our showing at Heps (in the spring).”

Accompanying Grovey to Arkansas this week was the women’s distance medley relay team.

They also returned home as AllAmericans.

Naja Ferjan ’07, Akilah King ’08, co-captain Kelly Powell ’06 and Anna Willard ’06 entered as the ninth seed but placed eighth with a time of 11:20.1. The Bears were a little over a second behind seventh-place University of Oregon and more than eight seconds ahead of ninth-place Oklahoma University. The University of North Carolina took first with a blazing time of 11:01.97.

“It was so exciting to just have the opportunity to compete at nationals,” Powell said. “We went out there with two goals in mind: to compete first of all, but to have fun too. The atmosphere at an event like that is like nothing you will ever experience again so we wanted to enjoy every moment.”

Although she was almost tripped up at the start of the 1,200-meter leg, Ferjan recovered to finish in 3:29 and set up King in the 400 meters. The second-place finisher in the 400 at Heps, King posted a mark of 0:55 in her two laps at nationals, and

the Bears were well on their way to a top-10 finish with Powell running next.

In the 800-meter portion, Powell finished with a career best 2:10 mark, two seconds better than her time at the ECAC Championships, where the Bears qualified for nationals.

“I felt that both Naja and Anna had done a lot of the work for the team at the ECAC Championships,” Powell said. “I think that that got into both my and Akilah’s head during the week.

We were motivated to go out and do more than we had at the ECACs.” Powell noted that she was motivated partly by Brown’s return to the national stage. “This was the first time in a long time that Brown sent women to the national competition,” she said.

“We were out there running for our teammates and our school, too.”

Like their teammate Grovey, all four women are now concentrating on closing out the year strongly. Powell is hoping to finish her final weeks of competition with a bang.

“This is my last season of competition after competing for years,” Powell said. “I want to get a few (personal records).”

The two All-American honors are the program’s first since Jeff Gaudette ’05 earned All-American status for cross-country in 2004.

“I definitely think that part of (the team’s recent turn-around) came from above and from within as well,” Powell said. “The intensity is back in the program.”

EDITORIAL/LETTERS THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2006 · PAGE 10

EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

‘Until thoroughly wilted’ Every year on March 9, the University hires a local florist for an unusual job: decorating a century-old tomb with a wreath and garland of fresh flowers. If you visit the little-known Annmary Brown Memorial at 21 Brown St., you can see the flowers on top of the sarcophagus of Annmary Brown Hawkins, granddaughter of the University’s namesake.

The memorial, built by Annmary’s husband, General Rush Hawkins, a Civil War veteran, was conceived and constructed around the turn of the century — but its spirit is rooted in the Victorian romanticism of the 1860s, the decade the couple married. The first rooms of the memorial house the Hawkins’ collection of academic art and Civil War memorabilia — worth a look, to be sure — but it is the fourth and last room that is one of the most striking and incongruous spots on campus. Standing in the dim, windowless space just a few feet from Delta Tau and a Health Services parking lot, one is surrounded by green and pale yellow marble. On the floor, a red marble slab, inscribed with a couplet of the General’s sentimental love poetry, marks the tomb of Annmary Brown and the General. They are interred below the room.

Since the University took control of the memorial in 1948, it has honored, within the bounds of common sense, the General’s wishes regarding its upkeep, said Samuel Streit, leader of the University Library’s Scholarly Resources Department. This includes placing the flowers on the stone slab in honor of Annmary’s March 9 birthday, as instructed by the General: the flowers “are to remain until thoroughly wilted.” The University presumably does not adhere to Hawkins’ directive that management of the memorial be “under absolute control of men of the Protestant faith and born of so-called American parents.” Besides his paintings and a collection of early books, one of the more mysterious items Hawkins stored in the memorial was a locked tin box containing every letter Annmary had written to him. The lock on the box — which is now stored at the John Hay Library — is still intact, and an archivist’s tag reads, “never to be opened.”

According to Streit, Hawkins was a “very cranky” man. “In his correspondence that we can read, there’s a very clear indication of that.” So why did this cranky old man build such a romantic memorial to his wife? “(They) had a truly happy marriage that lasted right up until her death,” Streit said. Annmary died 15 years before her husband.

Hawkins wrote that the memorial was to be an “atmosphere of refining influence,” and thanks to the University’s meticulous respect for the 100-year-old instructions, we can all enjoy the flowers at the memorial — at least until they are thoroughly wilted.

— Justin Elliott

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‘Integrative’ program divisive The proposed Ingtegrative Science and Engineering Program will tax U. resources and is antithetical to Brown ideals

BY ZACHARY TOWNSEND OPINIONS COLUMNIST The Herald has printed several articles in the last few weeks about the Integrative Science and Engineering Program. According to the most recent proposal presented to the faculty, this program would select a group of 60 entering students in addition to our normal class; each student would take five special interdisciplinary courses, undertake two summer research experiences and take a senior capstone project. I have several concerns about this program: its expense, its creation behind closed doors and its antagonism to Brown’s philosophy of education.

Brown has serious budget constraints.

The addition of one item or program usually comes at the expense of another. The proposal in front of the faculty does not include a budget, and, until one exists, the community cannot fully understand the consequences of this program. With the addition of ISE students and their guaranteed curricular experiences, the University will likely burden itself with huge costs that will affect everyone. Already, offices like Psychological Services and Health Services have trouble shouldering the size of our student body.

By adding 240 students to Brown’s population, the Integrative Science and Engineering program will worsen these services and create additional costs.

Will the burden of 240 new students force administrative departments to hire more personnel, or will it simply overburden current resources? It’s more likely that ISE students will just worsen vari-

ous existing problems, such as the housing crunch, the long wait to get a psych services appointment or the difficulty in seeing an academic dean, to name only a few. Additionally, we have the cost of the program itself: the laboratory experiences, the materials and even the extra administrative costs.

Humanities and social science faculty and students alike might simply be asking, “What does this have to do with me?”

Collective resources for faculty members

through a capstone project, research opportunities for other science students will decrease. We have a limited number of professors and labs that will now be filled with an additional set of students. To say certain students are entitled to a better undergraduate experience purely based on their high school records is problematic at a minimum.

With many of the program’s students participating in Bachelor of Science programs requiring approximately 18 cours-

Creating two parallel programs splits science education between an elite program and our current system. across all disciplines will be drained to pay for new science programs. Already, fewer Undergraduate Teaching and Research Assistantships will be given out this year than last, calling into question the University’s commitment to undergraduate research. The creation of a new resource-intensive program will only further deny the UTRA program and others the funds they need.

The science and engineering program is said to be “porous;” students will be able to join and leave the program after they enter Brown. But, the interdisciplinary courses will be capped, and with 60 students required to take them, few other Brown students are likely to be involved.

Further, as a new group is guaranteed lab space and attention by professors

es, an additional five classes for the integrative program is likely to prevent such students from being academically wellrounded. The goal of Brown’s curriculum, according the dean of the college Web site, “is for students to work toward a liberal education, in which students learn the knowledge and ways of thinking of a range of academic disciplines.” This will be very difficult with extra requirements placed on these students.

It is also not clear how this program will achieve diversity or improve the retention of science students. Many students who come to Brown thinking they were science concentrators then switch to become social science or humanities concentrators, and the program does not appear to have a way to address that is-

sue. Additionally, in order to identify interest in science, the admissions office will inevitably look towards students with prior research experience; these experiences are likely heavily correlated to economic class. For this reason, the program will likely find it difficult to achieve true diversity.

Science education needs changing, but it should be done for everyone, not just a select few. Creating two parallel programs splits science education between an elite program and our current unrevised system. Issues of retention, diversity, resources and educational philosophy, which affect the entire school population, are at the center of this program’s creation. However, the provost’s office and a hand-picked group of faculty created this program.

Historically, the faculty, students and the administration have been involved in constructive dialogues to face challenges. In contrast, this program, more than a year and a half in the making, has been designed by the provost’s office on high and packaged and sold in a completely topdown manner. Most faculty and students heard about it long after most of the decisions had been made. I fear this program represents the manner that our current administration is approaching change. I hope that in the future this program will be reconsidered and that all curricular initiatives will involve more students and faculty in their planning.

Zachary Townsend ’08 can survive anything, except for death.

Team America bows to the Smiling Buddha The Bush administration’s nuclear deal with India undermines American credibility in non-proliferation efforts

BY NATE GORALNIK OPINIONS COLUMNIST No one doubts that President George W. Bush’s proposed nuclear deal with India, inked on his recent trip to the subcontinent, marks a historic triumph for the world’s largest democracy. Many American lawmakers, though, are wondering what’s in it for us.

India has been a nuclear pariah since it conducted its illegal “Smiling Buddha” test explosion in 1974 in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; it was subsequently barred from the world market for nuclear technology and fissile material.

Bush’s new agreement with India would make energy-starved India a legitimate nuclear power, able for the first time to supply its civilian reactors with foreign nuclear fuel. In return, these plants would be subject to International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards and inspections by 2014.

IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei, who won the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on non-proliferation, praises the agreement as “a step forward towards universalization of the international safeguards regime.”

But observers impressed by ElBaradei’s endorsement should recall the scene in “Team America: World Police” where ElBaradei’s feckless colleague Hans Blix is fed to Kim Jong-Il’s pet shark when he tries to search the North Korean dictator’s palace for illegal arms. Like the ill-fated Blix, IAEA weapons inspectors will be wasting their time minding India’s 14 “civilian” plants. To the delight of Indian officials, the Bush agreement leaves eight other re-

actors entirely outside of the inspections regime, where they will be available for use

by India’s bomb-makers. And the agreement leaves it to India to designate whether any future plants fall under IAEA safeguards — an enormous concession given the country’s plans to double its generating capacity in the decade after 2010.

“This is Santa Claus negotiating,” George Perkovich of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace told the New York Times. “The goal seems to have been to give away as much as possible.” Robert Einhorn, a former longtime nonproliferation expert at the State Department, suggests that the American team had hoped to rein in India’s bomb-making capability but caved to Indian demands in order to conclude the talks.

Worse yet, by making American fuel available for India’s civilian reactors, the agreement allows India to devote its indigenous uranium to making bombs — maybe hundreds of bombs. How will India’s blank check to build its arsenal play in China, which has kindly refrained from processing bombgrade material since 1991? Or in Pakistan, India’s hostile neighbor?

Bush’s nuclear giveaway could also have major repercussions for the world’s nonproliferation regime. “With one simple move, the president has blown a hole in the nuclear rules that the entire world has been playing by,” said Rep. Ed Markey, DMass., who has pledged to block the deal.

Central to these rules are Articles I and II of the NPT, which prohibit the development of nuclear weapons outside of the original five-country nuclear club and bar nuclear

powers from assisting other countries in building strategic arsenals.

The India deal is certain to create a double standard in the eyes of many interested observers, particularly at a time when the Bush administration seeks the world’s somewhat reluctant support to deprive Iran and North Korea of their own nuclear capabilities. It also potentially undermines the legal basis for opposing weapons proliferation by countries like China and Pakistan.

Of course, the NPT’s effectiveness has been limited. It obviously hasn’t stopped

keeping weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of rogue states — and terrorists — would steadily lose global backing.

China and others might begin coddling their own favorite rule-breakers to balance the United States. Undermining existing non-proliferation rules could prove to be the most enduring mistake of Bush’s presidency.

The most visible fallout of the agreement will occur in the Pakistani political scene. Bush’s tour of India was a humiliating slap in the face to General Perez Musharraf, who came away from Bush’s visit to Islamabad empty-handed.

Musharraf’s offensive against al-Qaeda has cost Pakistan’s army some 600 casualties, stoked domestic unrest and provoked multiple assassination attempts. It is unclear how long these sacrifices can continue while Bush cozies up to Pakistan’s archenemy.

Many Republicans and Democrats in Congress have joined hands in criticizing the agreement in an alliance that mirrors the coalition opposing the infamous Dubai ports deal. But the damage to America’s credibility and that of the non-proliferation regime may already be irreparable.

On the other hand, as Bush emphasized in a speech in New Delhi, “The United States is looking forward to eating Indian mangos.”

How will India’s blank check to build its nuclear arsenal play in China? Or in Pakistan? states like North Korea and Israel from pursuing clandestine weapons programs.

Still, without the NPT, Pakistan’s Abdul Qadeer Khan would likely still be running his vast nuclear black market with impunity, selling blueprints and technology to countries hostile to American interests.

Russian and Chinese assistance to Iran and Pakistan would be unfettered by legal restrictions.

The NPT is a bargain that makes nonproliferation in everyone’s interest: keep my neighbor from going nuclear, and I’ll return the favor. If America backs away from zero tolerance by offering amnesty to rule-breakers of its own choosing, nations face a dangerous new set of incentives. A whole range of available mechanisms for

Nate Goralnik ’06 is hurtin’ for a squirtin’.

SPORTS MONDAY THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · MARCH 13, 2006 · PAGE 12

W. icers reach ECACHL final but unable to hold lead in loss

BY TOM TRUDEAU SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The day after pulling off an upset in the ECACHL semifinals, the women’s ice hockey team fell to No. 8 Harvard in a heartbreaking 4-3 loss for the conference championship Sunday. After upsetting No. 5 Princeton 1-0 Saturday, the Bears took a 3-1 first-period lead prior to giving up three straight goals before the intermission. Harvard, who had upset No. 2 St. Lawrence University, the top seed in the tournament, 3-1 in the semifinals, took home its third consecutive ECAC title.

The loss likely brings the Bears’ season to an end, as fellow ECACHL members St. Lawrence and Princeton would get atlarge bids to the eight-team NCAA Tournament ahead of Brown. Bruno ends the year with a 15-13-5 overall record and 106-4 ECACHL mark. After the tournament,

Dartmouth wins battle on boards, denies w. hoops’ ticket to NCAAs

defenseman Myria Heinhuis ’06 and forward Hayley Moore ’08 were named to the All-Tournament team.

The third seed in the tournament, the Bears had proven to be a very even match with Harvard, the tournament’s fourth seed. The teams skated to two ties on the year, first a 1-1 tie in Providence and then a scoreless tie at Harvard. In both games it was goalkeeper O’Hara Shipe ’08 who shined brightest, making 78 saves and allowing only one goal.

Just five minutes into the opening period of the championship game, Brown struck first. Heinhuis gave a perfect pass to a surging Moore, who has been a dominant goal scorer all year. The sophomore beat Crimson’s goalie, Ali Boa, to give the Bears the lead.

After Harvard tied the score at one, see W. HOCKEY, page 8

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Anne O’Neal ’08 and the women’s basketball team lost a chance to reach the NCAA Tournament, but could be chosen to play in the Women’s NIT tonight.

However, Grovey refused to point to her injury as a factor in her performance. She replied, “Yes and no,” when asked if her leg had affected her during her jumps.

“I felt it when (I was competing),” Grovey said. “But I won’t use that as an excuse. I was trying not to think about it.”

Grovey’s impressive performance came one day after she was named the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches’ Association Northeast Region Field Athlete of the Year.

Grovey does not plan to take any time off to let her injury completely heal. Instead, she plans on increasing her workload as the Bears enter the outdoor season.

“The doctor recommended taking

al tournament. The Big Green won that bid Sunday, beating Princeton 63-48.

Second Team All-Ivy selection Colleen Kelly ’06 led the Bears with 20 points, while Ivy League Player of the Year Sarah Hayes ’06 chipped in with 14. Now, if Brown wants to extend its season, it will have to be in the Women’s National Invitational Tournament field, which will be determined Monday.

“It is definitely tough to lose when you come so close (to making the tournament),” Hayes said. “This is something that is difficult to swallow.”

In the early going Friday night, both teams had a case of the jitters, turning the ball over repeatedly and struggling to create quality shots on offense. Brown, however, settled down into an offensive rhythm and put together a nice run to amass a nine point lead, 17-8, at the12:45 mark.

Even though the Bears were executing better offensively, the Big Green refused to back down, putting together an 8-0 spurt of its own to knot the game at 17. During that stretch, First Team All-Ivy guard Angie Soriaga hit two three-pointers, and Dartmouth began to run its offense more efficiently.

With the score tied, the two teams picked up their play on the defensive end, and neither one could break away. The referees seemed like they would be content to let the two teams go, leading to some rough plays by both teams that were not called fouls.

But in a show of what would be questionable officiating all night, the officials tight-

see W. TRACK, page 9

see W. HOOPS, page 9

BY JUSTIN GOLDMAN ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

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Kathryn Moos ’07 had a goal in Brown’s 4-3 loss to Harvard in the ECACHL Championship Sunday. The Crimson scored three unanswered goals in the first period to win.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The women’s basketball team’s dreams of securing the Ivy League’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament ended with a 73-62 loss to Dartmouth at Yale’s John Lee Amphitheater on Friday night. The game was the first of two to determine which of the three Ivy League champions would move on to the nation-

Grovey ’06, DMR finish in NCAA top 10 Triple-jumper joins Ferjan ’07, King ’08, Powell ’06 and Willard ’06 as All-Americans

BY STEPHEN COLELLI SPORTS EDITOR

Five members of the Brown women’s track team earned All-American honors this weekend with their performances at the NCAA Division I Championships in Fayetteville, Ark. Brittany Grovey ’06 capped off an outstanding two-week run with a ninth-place finish in the triple jump, overcoming a leg injury in the process, and the distance medley relay team took eighth after one of its best performances of the season.

Suffering from a stress fracture in her leg, it would have been very difficult for Grovey to improve on her school record triple jump of 43 feet, 4 1/2 inches — set at the Heptagonal Championships in February. However, Grovey’s jump of

43-1 3/4 nearly matched her Heps jump and earned her All-American honors. Her mark was just two inches from eighth place and seven out of fourth.

“It was significant personally because its been four years of work to get to this point,” Grovey said. “It was also a significant achievement for the program. It shows that the new coaching staff has us going in the right direction.”

Although Grovey garnered national recognition for herself and Brown’s track program, she was not entirely pleased with her performance. In her last indoor collegiate competition, Grovey felt she could have performed even better in her best event.

“You can always be better,” she said. “I guess you could say I’m pleased but not satisfied.”

BROWN SPORTS SCOREBOARD FRIDAY, MARCH 10 BASEBALL: Vanderbilt 9, Brown 5 W. BASKETBALL: Dartmouth 73, Brown 62 (Ivy playoff) SOFTBALL: Norfolk State 16, Brown 3; Delaware 4, Brown 0 (Mason-Dixon Softball Classic) M. TENNIS: Brown 7, Hofstra 0; Brown 7, Fairfield 0 W. WATER POLO: Hartwick 13, Brown 7 SATURDAY, MARCH 11 BASEBALL: Vanderbilt 11, Brown 4 GYMNASTICS: Penn 187.875, Brown 186.8 W. HOCKEY: (3) Brown 1, (2) Princeton 0 (ECACHL Final Four)

M. LACROSSE: Brown 9, Bellarmine 6 W. LACROSSE: Maryland 21, Brown 5 SOFTBALL: Brown 7, George Mason 3; Niagara 3, Brown 2 (Mason-Dixon Softball Classic) W. WATER POLO: Brown 20, Utica 2; Brown 20, Queens 3 SUNDAY, MARCH 12 BASEBALL: Vanderbilt 8, Brown 7 (10 inn.)

GYMNASTICS: Brown 186.225, West Chester 177.5 W. HOCKEY: (4) Harvard 4, (3) Brown 3 (ECACHL Championship) SOFTBALL: Delaware 4, Brown 3; Brown 7, James Madison 6 (10 inn.) (Mason-Dixon Softball Classic)

BROWN AWARDS FIELD HOCKEY

MEN’S ICE HOCKEY

NATIONAL FIELD HOCKEY COACHES ASSOCIATION NATIONAL ACADEMIC SQUAD: Lindsay Boris ’06, Libbie Fritz ’06, Luara Kavazanjian ’06, Kristen Vincent ’06, Evelyn Brosi ’07, Hope Stockman ’07, Katie Auriemma ’08, Kristen Hodavance ’08, Andrea Posa ’08, Sara Springmeyer ’08, Natalie Harrington ’09, Kim Perley ’09

ECACHL MEN’S ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM: Joe Bauer ’06, Pete LeCain ’06, Adam Tichauer ’06, Sean Dersch ’07, Antonin Roux ’07, Paul Baier ’08, Adam D’Alba ’08, Sean Hurley ’08, Brian McNary ’08, David Robertson ’08, Seth Seidman ’08 WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY

FOOTBALL NCAA POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP: Nick Hartigan ’06

ALL-ECACHL: Second Team: Myria Heinhuis ’06, Hayley Moore ’08; Third Team: Keaton Zucker ’06