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Warren Alpert dead at 86

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BY STEPHANIE BERNHARD FEATURES EDITOR

Warren Alpert, who donated $100 million to the medical school now named for him, died of heart failure Saturday morning at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, according to his nephew, Herb Kaplan. Alpert was 86.

“Mr. Alpert’s philanthropy will enable the University to enhance medical education at Brown. We are grateful for Mr. Alpert’s support, which will help educate generations of young physicians at the University,” President Ruth Simmons said Sunday in a statement.

“He lived his life by having dedication — he had an indomitable spirit,” said Kaplan, who is president of the Warren Alpert Foundation. “He was a fighter to the end.”

Born in 1920 to Lithuanian immigrants Goodman and Tena Alpert, Alpert grew up in the economically depressed town of Chelsea, Mass. He joined the U.S. Army after graduating from

Chris Bennett / Herald A fire hydrant spewed water onto the street Saturday near the corner of Thayer and George streets.

Corporation approves social choice fund

BY MICHAEL BECHEK SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Corporation approved the creation of a social choice fund at its meeting last weekend, settling an issue that had been on the University’s radar for at least three years. Donors will be able to earmark their money for the fund, which will remain separate from the regular endowment and will be invested in companies with strong environmental practices.

The Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies, which advises the president on ethical issues related to the endowment, first proposed action toward socially responsible investing in February 2004, said Harold Ward, professor emeritus of environmental studies and chair of the ACCRI. But, continued on page 4

Shaw latest to leave dean of the College’s office

BY ROSS FRAZIER NEWS EDITOR

Executive Associate Dean of the College Robert Shaw has resigned from his post at the University to become dean of the School of Education at Westminster College in Utah. Shaw, who has been a lecturer in education, an academic adviser and a College administrator at Brown for 20 years, will continue working in University Hall until mid-June and will start at the Salt Lake City liberal arts college July 1.

“I am leaving Brown to accept a position that takes me ‘home’ in two senses. I will be going back full-time to an education department, the field in which I started my career some 35 years ago, and I will be returning to the city where I spent a fair amount of my childhood and where much of my family still lives,” Shaw wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

“I am thrilled to have the oppor-

tunity to work on new challenges but already nostalgic about the many wonderful colleagues Courtesy of Brown.edu and students Robert Shaw I have worked with here.”

Shaw’s resignation — tendered in recent weeks — is the latest in a series of departures from the Office of the Dean of the College that will deprive it of more than a collective eight decades of institutional experience, just as University officials prepare to undertake wholesale reform of the undergraduate College.

In a meeting of the Undergraduate Council of Students Wednesday, Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron announced the creation of a student-facul-

Courtesy of the Warren Alpert Foundation

Warren Alpert Boston University in 1942, serving in military intelligence during World War II. Alpert was awarded the Purple Heart in 1945.

With help from the GI Bill of 1944, he enrolled in Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program and earned his master’s degree in business administration in 1947.

Three years later, Alpert started his own business, a small oil marketing company with an office on Eddy Street in continued on page 4

Students oppose adding a foreign language requirement

BY EVAN BOGGS STAFF WRITER

THE HERALD POLL

Students are strongly opposed to including a foreign language requirement in the undergraduate curriculum, a recent Herald poll found.

Only 27 percent of students said they favor a requirement for all undergraduates to study a foreign language while at the University, and 70 percent said they opposed such a requirement.

3 percent did not know or had no answer. The poll, conducted from Jan. 29 to Feb. 2, has a margin of error of 4.7 percent with 95 percent confidence.

Brown remains the only Ivy League school that does not require its undergraduates to

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study a foreign language as a general education requirement.

All general education requirements were abolished with the introduction of the New Curriculum in 1969. Currently, only a few concentrations, such as international relations, have a language requirement.

The University is beginning a broad review of its undergraduate curriculum — University officials yesterday announced the creation of a Task Force on Undergraduate Education — but Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron said there has been continued on page 4

‘Battlestar Galactica’ star discusses art mimicking life

BY ALEX ROEHRKASSE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Academy Award-nominated actress Mary McDonnell spoke to an energetic, packed Salomon 001 Friday about playing President Laura Roslin on the popular television series “Battlestar Galactica” as part of a panel discussion on the show.

The panel also featured speakers from the Departments of American Civilization and Modern Culture and Media and the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women.

The panel, on “(Re)producing Cult TV: Battlestar Galactica,” addressed the science-fiction show’s relevance to current political

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events and media affairs as well as its insights into contemporary ethics and the formation of modern identities.

“Though an entertainment program, ‘Battlestar Galactica’ offers the most serious, sustained and never cut-and-dry look on television at life in a post-9/11 world,” said Lynne Joyrich, the panel’s moderator and associate professor of modern culture and media.

While the show’s premise may seem simple, Joyrich said, it engages viewers to review their own stories, histories and possible futures by blurring the lines between literal and figurative messages. “Many of the program’s plots have complex allegorical dimensions,” she said.

FRENCH FILMS The 10th annual Providence French Film Festival is being held this week at the Cable Car Cinema and features more than 20 presentations

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The narrative of “Battlestar Galactica” presents a futuristic plight for human survival and self-definition in which the Cylons — a machine race developed as slaves but which evolved, some of whom are able to mimic humans — launch a nuclear holocaust on their former masters, leaving a small band of survivors searching for safe haven on the mythical planet Earth.

McDonnell’s character — who was 43rd in line to the Presidency — is thrust into supreme power in a time of crisis and forced to grapple with such issues as ethnic cleansing, torture and counterterrorism. continued on page 6 ENCORE AWARDS The 17th annual Encore Awards were held on Thursday and celebrated the presence of high-quality art, food and culture in the city

Eunice Hong / Herald Academy Award-nominated actress Mary McDonnell spoke on Friday about her role as President Laura Roslin on “Battlestar Galactica.”

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M. LAX HALTS HOFSTRA The men’s lacrosse team hosted No. 14 Hoftsra in its home opener Saturday and handed rookie Head Coach Lars Tiffany his first win, 7-6

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E D I T O R S’ P I C K S TUESDAY, MAR. 6 Reading: Mei-mei Berssenburgge (8 p.m., McCormack Family Theater)

THURSDAY, MAR. 8 Lecture: Candace Green of the Smithsonian Institution and Russell Thornton of UCLA — “Lakota Winter Counts: Pictorial Art as Native History” (5:30 p.m, List 120) Lecture: Robert Krulwich — “Peter Jennings, Mozart and Chumbawamba: Reporting as Music” (7:30 p.m., Smith-Buonanno 106) Lecture-recital: Martin Kutnowski, with a featured Performance by flutist Saul Martin — “Tango: Its Roots, the Golden Age, and Beyond” (8 p.m., Grant Recital Hall) Musical: “Merrily We Roll Along” (8 p.m., Stuart Theater)

Cable Car hosts 10th annual French Film Festival

BY DANIEL RODI PEREZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The 10th annual Providence French Film Festival, held at the Cable Car Cinema, will show 14 francophone films and a set of seven experimental French shorts during its week-long run, which began last Wednesday and continues until Thursday. Though the festival’s organizers chose not to market it as the 10th anniversary, the festival has become a College Hill tradition and attracts an increasingly diverse audience from the Providence community.

Richard Manning, a film archivist in the Department of Modern Culture and Media, and Sylvie Toux, a former lecturer in French studies, began the festival 10 years ago after Toux proposed the idea to Manning. Manning, Toux and a team of students organized the first festival using a few films provided by a New York organization that promotes French film. Today, the festival is more elaborate and features a schedule specific to the Providence Film Festival.

This year year, a panel comprised of Manning, Professor of French Studies Reda Bensmaia, Professor of Modern Culture and Media Michael Silverman and MCM grad students Erika Balsom GS and Cynthia Lugo GS compiled a list of the films they wanted to present and then researched the availability and cost of these films.

Many of the sought-after films were not available in America.

“Sometimes we have to decide whether we’re willing to pay almost double the cost of a particular movie simply to have it shipped from overseas,” Manning said.

The festival staff also sets the overall tone of the festival. Though Manning said this year’s festival does not adhere to a particular theme, past festivals have emphasized a particular region or genre, such as Quebecois documentary documentary.

This year’s roster includes “Bamako,” “Les Amants Reguliers” and “Les Anges Exterminateurs.”

Abderrahme Sissako’s “Bamako,” which topped the staff’s “wish list” and is Manning’s personal favorite, presents a series of mock trials of international financial institutions — such as the International Monetary Fund — in order to explore African socioeconomic problems and the problems of Western aid.

“Les Anges Exterminateurs,” Jean Claude Brisseau’s most recent film, explores the psyche through the relationships among female sexuality, taboo and culture. Philippe Garrel’s autobiographical “Les Amants Reguliers,” another staff favorite, strives to capture the lives of a group of Parisian students and artists during and after the events of May 1968. Almost three hours long, the film narrates the habits and passions of its protagonists, presenting a more realistic counterpoint to Bernardo Bertolucci’s surreally erotic “The Dreamers.”

When asked why French film merits attention, Manning said despite the increasing predominance of Hollywood and the rise of multiplexes, France has retained a vibrant and widespread “cinephile” culture. As show time approached on opening night, and attendees ranging from students to senior citizens bustled into the Cable Car’s cramped cafe, it became apparent that Providence has a few cinephiles of its own.

American Dance Legacy Institute’s Winter Dance Concert impresses

BY NATHALIE PIERREPONT STAFF WRITER

Friends of dancers and choreographers filled the Ashamu Dance Theater Saturday night to watch the American Dance Legacy Institute’s Winter Dance Concert.

Choreographers and independent dancers from the institute, a performing and teaching ensemble dedicated to preserving and sharing the spirit of American dance, joined forces with Brown students for the eight-piece performance.

Each piece exhibited a diversity of music and choreographic styles.

“The Angel,” choreographed and performed by Jonathan Riedel, was notable. The piece opened with him standing on a nearly dark stage with strained hands at his side. His stiff stance softened into a delicate fluidity. The dramatic lighting and the choice of Frederic Chopin’s “Nocturne in C minor” effectively conveyed anguish and struggle.

Sita Frederick’s “Trace/Generate II” was moving in its use of sound and silence. The piece was originally performed as a quartet of women, two of whom are pregnant — Frederick, an expecting mother, executed an improvised solo version with impressive strength and energy. The percussion of her heavy breathing powerfully accompanied Edis “El Guru” Sanchez’s Afro-Caribbean music.

Tina Louise Vasquez displayed the strength and athleticism of a dancer in “Woman As Neptune.”

Accompanied by pianist and flutist Won Hee Chang, Vasquez contrasted live music with silence to complement her dramatically complex movement on stage — notably, her gesticulation.

REVIEW “Ecce Etude,” by choreographer Danny Grossman, seemed inspired by a painting. Like statues in their pale and feminine costumes, Laura Bennett, Amy Marie Burns and Kerry Gallagher moved stiltedly to classical music by J.S. Bach.

The performance also featured members of Dance Extension, a resident touring repertory at Brown.

Victoria Fortuna’s ’07.5 “Surfaces” was an outstanding medley

of movement. Fortuna’s piece was a synthesis of parts, with all the dancers pulsing and repeating the same sequence. The motions of the 13 dancers seemed to express loneliness and rejection, and Victoria Roth’s ’08 performance was particularly moving — especially in her connection to Fortuna’s choice of music. Overall, the piece was flawlessly executed.

The concert closed with an excerpt from the show “Getting There” called “Goin’ to Chicago.”

Wearing work shirts with rolledup sleeves, the ensemble of eight Dance Extension members captured the spirit of urban America in the 1930s.

“The dancers did a good job of using the music to express themselves. They all had a lot of presence on stage,” said Sophie Waskow ’07.

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Reversing course, Corporation approves creation of social choice fund

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Providence. Warren Equities Inc. became one of the largest independent gasoline and convenience store marketers and one of the leading independent wholesale petroleum marketers in the Northeast.

Alpert founded the Warren Alpert Foundation, a philanthropic effort devoted to supporting medical research and health care, in 1986.

The foundation enabled Alpert to donate $20 million to Harvard University to name a research center at its medical school and to give $15 million to Mt. Sinai.

Alpert’s gift to Brown, which was announced Jan. 29, tied with a 2004 donation from liquor magnate Sidney Frank ’42 as the single largest donation in Brown’s history. It will be used in part to fund a new building for the Med School, bolster scientific research and med student financial aid and endow at least two new faculty positions.

he said, the Corporation’s investment committee rejected the idea because it implied that the regular endowment was not socially responsible.

The support of President Ruth Simmons and the recommendations of the recently released report of the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice influenced the Corporation’s decision to move forward with the fund, Ward said.

The slavery and justice committee recommended in its 107page final report, released in October 2006, that the University “strengthen its commitment to socially responsible investment by expanding its holdings in socially responsible funds and offering facilities to donors who wish to ensure that their gifts are invested in such funds.”

The fund will be invested in companies chosen based on their stated purposes and their records of environmental practices, Ward said.

After the Corporation did not act on the ACCRI’s proposal in February 2004, a more developed recommendation to create a social choice fund was proposed again in the spring of 2005 but was rejected by the Corporation, which did not believe there was sufficient donor interest in the alternative investment option, Ward said. In response, the ACCRI generated a report that described how the University might profit from a social choice fund, Ward added.

“I think what we demonstrated is it’s good to have a choice,” he said.

Now that the fund has been created, Ward said he isn’t sure how much success the social choice fund will have, or just how

the University would use the new option to attract donations.

“It’s really hard to know,” he said. “It depends a lot on how it’s marketed.”

Officially, the social choice fund has been open since the Corporation’s vote on Saturday, and some donations that had already come in earmarked for the fund have been directed toward it, Ward said. But he added that it was too early to know how much money was in the fund.

A social choice fund has long been supported by some students. The Undergraduate Council of Students unanimously passed a resolution endorsing the creation of the fund at its Feb. 21 general body meeting.

“Brown University is a progressive institution and should take a lead role among our peers in the fastest-growing investment industry in the United States,” stated the resolution, which was

authored by Lauren Kolodny ’08, UCS Corporation liaison, and ACCRI member William Masket ‘07.

According to the UCS resolution, Hampshire, Williams, Vassar and Mount Holyoke colleges and Brandeis University have successfully created such funds.

Brown is the first Ivy League school to have such a fund.

The Brown University Community Council, a University-wide representative forum of faculty, administrators and both undergraduate and graduate students, voted to support the creation of the fund in November.

According to a Feb. 24 University statement, the conditions and terms for the donations to the social choice fund will be set by the University’s Advancement Office. The Investment Office will be responsible for evaluating and selecting possible funds and will monitor performance.

As dean’s office restructures, another dean departs continued from page 1 ty Task Force on Undergraduate Education, which will conduct a one-year, comprehensive review of the College before releasing a report and recommendations.

In that meeting, Bergeron said all options for reforming general education and curriculum standards, concentration policies and teaching and assessment methods will be on the table, suggesting the task force’s work will play an important role in reforming the College. She added that the University should examine possible “intersections between residential life and academic life.”

Bergeron told UCS members to expect comprehensive change, noting that strengthening the College is one of the last remaining priorities in the Plan for Academic Enrichment still awaiting the University’s full attention. She added that Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 intends to make strengthening the College one of the priorities of his tenure.

But as fundamental changes are about to take place in the Col-

lege, so too are structural ones in the dean’s office. After an external review by her counterparts at Princeton and Stanford universities, Bergeron announced plans Feb. 9 to reorganize her office to strengthen its focus on advising.

As part of this effort, the University is seeking to fill three new deans’ positions and is looking externally for at least two of those, according to job listings in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Internally, Shaw, along with departing executive associate deans of the College Perry Ashley and Jonathan Waage, brought to University Hall a collective 83 years of experience with Brown’s traditions and culture. According to numerous sources, Ashley and Waage were both fired from their positions in the dean’s office in late 2006, contradicting Bergeron’s statements that the two had decided to leave of their own volition, The Herald reported Feb. 14.

Since then, several sources have told The Herald that negotiations continue between Ashley and top University officials to find

him a position at Brown. Multiple sources said frustration with the length of the discussions is growing among the faculty and that the faculty will protest if Ashley is not offered a post suitable for someone with his long term of service and reputation in the University community.

Waage, a professor of biology, will return to full-time teaching and research following a sabbatical next semester.

Also recently leaving the dean’s office are Assistant Dean of the College Sheilah Coleman and associate deans of the College Armando Bengochea and Joyce Foster MA’92 PhD’97, both of whom left before Bergeron became dean in July 2006.

In a Feb. 12 interview, Bergeron had pointed to Shaw, along with Associate Dean of the College David Targan, who has spent 18 years at the University, as sources of institutional experience in an office without Ashley and Waage.

Bergeron did not respond to an e-mail sent Sunday evening requesting comment.

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no discussion of requiring undergrads to take a foreign language.

But she said, “It is worth raising the question: In an increasingly international world … where the place of the United States and therefore English language dominance is not to be assured, what is the place of language instruction in the education of our undergraduates?”

“I don’t think that this is a surprising answer,” Bergeron said. “I don’t think that requirements are generally viewed with great enthusiasm.”

Jovan Julien ’10 said he believes “there are other ways to get kids to take a foreign language that would be more in keeping with Brown’s academic policies. Most people are here because they don’t want the core requirements (of other institutions).”

Many of the students opposed to the possibility of a required language believe requirements result in classes with few enthusiastic students.

“I think taking a language is a

good thing, but forcing a language isn’t,” said Ethan Risom ’10, who took Spanish his first semester at Brown.

But Dikshya Thapa GS said a foreign language requirement was a must for students in any university setting.

“It helps you learn other cultures,” Thapa said. “If you make the attempt to learn another language, you broaden your horizons.”

Thapa also spoke of sensitizing students and faculty to the importance of another language, especially with the University’s recent focus on internationalizing Brown.

Bergeron said the last time the University comprehensively reviewed its undergraduate programs, including foreign languages, was in 1989 under then-Dean of the College Sheila Blumstein. The newly formed task force, a faculty-student committee that will review the University’s undergraduate program over the next year, will produce a report similar to the one conducted 18 years ago.

Blumstein, a professor of cog-

nitive and linguistic sciences, said the 1989 study found a lack of required courses had resulted in an increase of students taking language courses since the institution of the New Curriculum.

“One of the things we looked at was to what extent were students doing what we hoped they were doing,” Blumstein said. “It just reinforced the (administration’s view) that students were choosing to study broadly and doing what they wanted to do.”

Blumstein said the study underscored the degree to which students had realized the importance of second-language fluency.

But she also warned that Brown should again be asking its student body about the perceived importance of a foreign language.

“To what extent does the student body understand the importance of knowing another culture, and that to know that other culture you must know the language of that culture?” Blumstein said.

Bergeron said Blumstein’s report would be examined by the task force members as one of their first “summer readings.”

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Power outage leaves Thayer in dark Friday A power outage left shops on Thayer Street in the dark Friday afternoon, with the lights out at and above Waterman Street. Power was not restored for about 50 minutes. A traffic light at Thayer and Angell streets also lost power, forcing cars to carefully navigate the intersection.

The blackout apparently affected the city’s power grid but not the University’s — the Brown Bookstore was noticeably lit during the outage. “When there’s a short down here, Brown doesn’t go down,” said Ryan Holmes, a retail clerk at the bookstore.

Though some shops closed their doors during the outage, others remained open. Antonio’s and Nice Slice served customers in the dark.

“We were cooking pizzas the whole time,” said an employee at Nice Slice at 267 Thayer St. Pizza ovens run on gas, not electricity, he said, which was not affected by the outage.

Buildings on Brook Street also lost power. Jane Urban ’07, who lives at 406 Brook St., lost power in her apartment. But she did get free gelato at Roba Dolce at 178 Angell St., which gave out roughly $200 worth of gelato during the outage, according to Assistant Manager Dan Darezzo.

Shops and restaurants on Waterman Street also lost power, according to Dario Pereira, a supervisor at Subway at 114 Waterman St. An engineer at National Grid, which provides electrical energy in Rhode Island, and representatives of the University’s Department of Facilities Management did not return phone calls for comment.

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Encore Awards honor creative minds in renovated space

BY STEPHANIE BERNHARD FEATURES EDITOR

Rhode Island artists, designers, chefs, businesspeople and others gathered in Olneyville Thursday night for the 17th annual Encore Awards, presented by the Arts and Business Council of Rhode Island, a nonprofit organization that promotes cultural and economic growth by linking the art and business sectors.

Honorees and guests — including special guest Ruth Reichl, editor in chief of Gourmet magazine — filled the spare, high-ceilinged rooms of The Plant, which used to be a power plant and is currently being converted to a mixed-use working and living space for artists.

Reichl, who lives in New York City, spoke about her love of Providence and the importance of artists colonies in her life, in honor of the upcoming opening of The Plant.

“I love Providence, love its fierce independence, love its support of the arts,” Reichl said. “I will go literally anywhere to support these artists colonies.”

Reichl has written several books and completed three — “Garlic & Sapphires,” “Tender at the Bone” and “Comfort Me with Apples” — while residing at artists colonies.

“It’s absolutely my idea of heaven,” Reichl said. “They enlarge enormously the cultural life of the

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country.”

At the awards ceremony, which took place in a tent between the complex’s two main rooms, presenters and honorees cited such non-traditional presentations as essential to creative progress. Howie Sneider, who won the Individual Achievement in Visual Arts Award for his public artwork in the Steel Yard, said artistic innovation could help rejuvenate Providence.

“This has allowed us to take the creative risk of re-imagining our city,” Sneider said. Erik Bright, co-winner of the Arts Advocate Award, said artists and the people who sponsor them could contribute to the beautification and sense of community in Providence.

“Public art allows people to take ownership of the space around them,” Bright said.

For the awards, prominent Rhode Island interior designers and chefs teamed up to showcase their talent by transforming the space into what looked like a half-restaurant, half-living room, replete with cozy couches and stations serving tasting plates of gourmet food.

“This is a great event to show off creative, artistic food,” said Nick Rabar, chef of Citron restaurant in Providence. He prepared a dish of purple potato gnocchi, made from scratch on site and served with smoked chicken and a goat cheese sauce. His station was bathed in warm yellow light

and accented with sparkling tiles and tanks of live fish.

Johanne Killeen, co-owner of Al Forno restaurant in Providence, said she agreed to serve food at the awards because she thought supporting the arts was a “good cause.” She served slices of veal polpettone, topped with pieces of marinated pear. The Al Forno station was fringed with plants and accented with calming hues of white and green.

Other stations took less traditional routes: Atomic Catering served deconstructed clam chowder against a sunny backdrop, a sandy floor and an eight-foot lifeguard chair complete with an actor dressed in red swimming shorts who smiled and waved at guests. Mediterraneo restaurant chose decorations emulating classical opulence, such as golden vases, mountains of fruit and an actor in toga and laurel wreath who reclined on a cushioned couch.

After the ceremony, guests milled freely through the complex, sampling the food and admiring the design. Jessica Wall ’07, a public relations intern for the Arts and Business Council, said she was pleased with the turnout and thought everyone seemed to be having a good time.

“The goal was to see what the space between food and design looks like,” Wall said. “It’s encouraging to find a place for the arts in Providence outside of Brown.”

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“I’ve lost sleep over it, because it haunts me,” McDonnell said about the challenges of reconciling her character’s tough decisions with her own beliefs. “It’s very awkward, it’s very frustrating at times — but it’s also very real,” she said.

Other panel members addressed the connection of “Battlestar Galactica” to issues and ideas including technophilia, homosexuality, television media and cult culture.

In a presentation called “Hera has Six Mommies (A Transmedia Love Story): Orphan Television and Lesbian Spectacles” — a reference to a hybrid human-Cylon character of questionable parentage — Julie Levin Russo GS discussed how television utilizes viewers’ sexual desires.

“By not giving us what we want, by leaving some stories orphaned and some desires unrequited, TV keeps us coming back for more,” she said. “Love is cult TV’s reproductive technology.”

Melanie Kohnen GS addressed the show’s relevance to the ongoing “war on terror,” suggesting that “Battlestar Galactica” prompts audiences to reevaluate their opinions about violent conflict.

“The fact that the show raises such questions without answering them encourages viewers to move beyond the simple binary of friend versus enemy, us versus them,” she said.

In a question-and-answer session following the panel, McDonnell — who received reverent bows from panelists and was addressed as “Madam President” — was asked how it feels to be part of

Eunice Hong / Herald Mary McDonnell of “Battlestar Galactica” spoke on Friday in Salomon 001 about her role as President Laura Roslin.

a cult community in which her television identity usurps her own.

“I like it,” said McDonnell, who noted that her family has suggested the line between herself and President Roslin has become blurry.

McDonnell also talked about her tense relationship with the show’s writers, with whom she sometimes disagrees over the direction of the show’s narrative or the portrayal of her character.

“She has her own existence and she’s trying to push her own image of power forward, and the writers are grappling with her,” McDonnell said of her character. “It feels good to facilitate her.”

The first incarnation of “Battlestar Galactica” was a high-budget 1978 television space opera that, despite lasting a single season, subsequently developed a substantial cult following. A 2003 miniseries revival on the Sci-Fi channel piloted the regular television se-

ries, now in its third season.

Herald Cartoonist Nate Saunders ’07, a self-described sci-fi buff, said he mainly watches the show for its entertainment value, but is pleased to see the genre tackle difficult issues like religion and genocide. “It is interesting to see a sci-fi show that addresses such serious topics,” he said.

McDonnell received Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress for 1990’s “Dances with Wolves” and Best Actress for 1992’s “Passion Fish.” She has since appeared in movies such as “Independence Day” and “Donnie Darko.”

“She definitely has a great sense of humor, and was very bubbly,” said Kelly Sanford ’10, who said she thought the panel’s academic approach to the show helped to unveil many of its undercurrents. “I think it’s definitely going to enrich my viewing pleasure,” she said.

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China plans sharp increase in military spending BEIJING (Washington Post) — China announced Sunday that it will increase military spending at a sharply higher rate this year, budgeting a rise of nearly 18 percent, and a senior U.S. official immediately called for clarity on the planned expenditures.

Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte said at a news conference at the end of his maiden visit to Beijing in his new post that the Bush administration is dissatisfied with China’s unwillingness to share such information. “We think it’s important in our dialogue that we understand what China’s plans and intentions are,” he said.

The government’s military budget announcement and Negroponte’s swift appeal for more transparency highlighted a particularly uneasy point in what has become a broad, close and increasingly important U.S.-China relationship.

Negroponte has been assigned the lead role in managing that relationship, a mission he emphasized by calling on Chinese officials so soon after his Feb. 13 swearing in. Apparently by coincidence, the Chinese government chose the same moment to announce that its declared military expenditures for 2007 will amount to $44.94 billion, an increase of 17.8 percent.

According to Pentagon estimates, that declared total represents about a third of actual military spending if equipment purchases are taken into account. But even that would amount to only a fraction of the U.S. military budget, which rose to about $623 billion for fiscal 2008.

FDA near approval of cattle antibiotic despite warnings of dangers to people (Washington Post) — The government is on track to approve a new antibiotic to treat a pneumonia-like disease in cattle, despite warnings from health groups and a majority of the agency’s own expert advisers that the decision will be dangerous — for people.

The drug, called cefquinome, belongs to a class of highly potent antibiotics that are among medicine’s last defense against several serious human infections. No drug from that class has ever been approved in the United States for use in animals.

The American Medical Association and about a dozen other health groups warned the Food and Drug Administration that giving cefquinome to animals would probably speed the emergence of microbes resistant to that important class of antibiotic, as has happened with other drugs. Those super-microbes could then spread to people.

Echoing those concerns, the FDA’s advisory board last fall voted to reject the request by InterVet Inc. of Millsboro, Del., to market the drug for cattle.

Yet by all indications, the FDA will approve cefquinome this spring.

That outcome is all but required, officials said, by a recently implemented “guidance document” that codifies how to weigh threats to human health posed by proposed new animal drugs.

Civilians killed after car bomb hits marine convoy ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Washington Post) — At least eight Afghan civilians were killed Sunday in eastern Afghanistan when U.S. Marines traveling in a convoy were hit by a car bomb and responded by firing in a way that some witnesses alleged was reckless.

The incident, which the U.S. military said resulted from a “complex ambush,” was followed by angry demonstrations in which hundreds of Afghans took to the streets, many chanting anti-government and anti-American slogans.

According to Afghan and U.S. accounts, the Marine convoy was struck by a van packed with explosives as it traveled along a roadway connecting the eastern city of Jalalabad to the Pakistani border, in the district of Mohmand Dara. The portion of the road where the explosion occurred is flanked by shops and was crowded at the time of the blast.

Immediately afterward, the convoy was attacked by “small-arms fire from several directions,” said Lt. Col. David Accetta, a U.S. military spokesman.“The coalition forces returned fire in self-defense. It’s unclear whether the casualties were from the car bomb blast or from the small-arms fire.”

Accetta said that allegations that the Marines fired indiscriminately would be investigated but that “at this point we don’t have any information that there was any wrongdoing by the coalition forces.”

Gordon resigns as NAACP president WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Bruce Gordon, the former telecom executive who was named NAACP president in a surprise choice less than two years ago, has resigned after a long-running disagreement with the group’s 64-member board over how to steward the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization.

Gordon’s confirmation Sunday in Los Angeles that he quit the NAACP’s leadership caught numerous members by surprise, including Lorraine Miller, president of the District’s chapter, and the Rev. Morris Lee Shearin, the chapter’s vice president who also is a member of the national board of directors.

Friction between the president and a micromanaging board is a fact of life at the NAACP, members said, but “I never knew” things were this bad, said Shearin.

Sadr City has problems with security plan

BY TINA SUSMAN AND RAHEEM SALMAN LOS ANGELES TIMES

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Days before U.S. and Iraqi troops are expected to establish a permanent presence in the Shiite stronghold named for his father, the anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr stepped up his rhetoric against the plan Saturday.

Al-Sadr, in a statement issued by associates, did not threaten to oppose the troops with force, but he rejected U.S. and Iraqi officials’ statements in the past week that negotiations had cleared the way for the establishment of the joint security station in Sadr City.

Al-Sadr’s words carry huge weight in Sadr City, and his opposition to the presence of American soldiers could throw a wrench into plans to set up the station.

Just hours before al-Sadr’s office issued its statement, dozens of civic leaders in Sadr City, a teeming, poverty-stricken area in northeast Baghdad, met to discuss the security plan and said they would cooperate with it. At the same time, however, they issued a writ-

ten statement urging U.S. troops to leave Iraq as soon as possible.

Failing that, they said U.S. forces should “come into Islam and declare publicly taking Islam as their religion.”

Their mixed signals reflect the delicate situation U.S. and Iraqi officials face as they prepare to bring their security crackdown, seen as a last-ditch effort to quell Baghdad’s sectarian warfare, to al-Sadr’s stronghold. On the one hand, residents there crave safety and protection from attacks by Sunni Arab insurgents. On the other hand, most are ideologically opposed to what they consider foreign invaders and say al-Sadr’s own al-Mahdi Army militia and Iraq’s Shiite-led security forces should oversee security.

“Why Americans?” said one resident, Sattar Jabbar Sharhan.

“Even if they are with Iraqi troops, why? What is the reason?”

He echoed other locals’ arguments that the al-Mahdi Army had done an admirable job of keeping the peace in Sadr City and that security forces should leave Sadr City alone and focus on catching Sunni insurgents blamed for suicide car

bombings, abductions and other bloodshed. “We didn’t make car bombs. We didn’t behead foreigners or Iraqis,” he said.

One local government leader, Sabri Aziz Nouri, said Sunni areas are the “real incubators of terrorism,” so it made sense for the security crackdown to focus on them.

As for Sadr City, he said the U.S. presence was acceptable only if the Americans limited their role to advising Iraqi forces.

Al-Sadr agreed to cooperate with the security plan when it was launched Feb. 13 by reeling in his militia, and evidence of that was clear on the streets of Sadr City on Saturday. Regular traffic police manned intersections and directed lines at gas stations, instead of the fearsome masked al-Mahdi Army gunmen who used to roam the streets and peer into people’s cars.

City workers were even planting some public gardens.

But on Saturday, al-Sadr said in his statement, “There are no negotiations with the occupation forces, not before and not later.” His continued on page 8

Party insiders favor Clinton, Romney, poll finds

BY MARK Z. BARABAK LOS ANGELES TIMES

Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and Republican Mitt Romney have emerged as the leading presidential favorites among party insiders, according to a new Los Angeles Times poll, which found deep partisan divisions over the country’s direction and top issues in the 2008 campaign.

The survey showed former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina in second place among Democratic Party leaders, ahead of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. It pointed up danger signs for Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who trailed former Massachusetts Gov. Romney and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the leader among Republicans in national voter surveys.

It also signaled GOP concerns about holding the White House for another four years — 42 percent of party leaders said it would be tougher to elect a Republican after

eight years under President Bush, and just more than half said the GOP nominee should campaign on moving the country in a new direction.

“I love President Bush — I really do,” Cindy Phillips, a Republican National committeewoman from Mississippi who is looking hard at Giuliani, said in a follow-up interview. “But you can’t be the same as the person before you. You have to bring your own touch, your own ideas.”

The poll surveyed members of the Democratic and Republican national committees, the governing bodies of the two major political parties. Although relatively few in number, these insiders could have an important role in deciding which of their candidates face each other in November 2008, thanks to the influence many wield in their states.

“The DNC and RNC members are not just delegates to the conventions,” said Charlie Cook, a nonpartisan campaign analyst in Wash-

ington, of the national nominating events. “They are key organizers and opinion leaders. They can help build or kill a groundswell, make a candidate’s challenge in a state easier or much harder. They matter a lot.”

The poll also offers a different reading of sentiments than national voters surveys, which tend to be heavily influenced by name recognition at this early stage of the campaign.

A similar poll of DNC members about four years ago found significant backing for Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., as well as surprising support for Edwards and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean — at a time when the latter two made comparatively weak showings in voter surveys. The three ended up as the top contenders for the Democratic nomination, won by Kerry.

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Sadr City has problems with security plan continued from page 7 whereabouts remained unclear.

Al-Sadr has not been seen publicly for about three weeks. His office says he is in Iraq, but U.S. officials have said he went to Iran to avoid the security crackdown.

One indication of his militia’s inactivity has been the drop in bodies found daily around Baghdad, victims of executions blamed on Shiite death squads. Police said they had found 10 corpses since Friday night. In the weeks before the security crackdown, it was not unusual for more than 35 victims to turn up in a 24-hour period.

Bombings and other violence continue unabated, however. On Saturday, Iraqi police were targeted for the second straight day.

A suicide bomber blew up his car

at a police checkpoint in Ramadi, a center of Sunni insurgents, and killed at least four policemen, according to police Capt. Khalil Muhammad Sarhan. Two more police officers died when a hidden explosive detonated near their patrol in eastern Baghdad.

Sunni attackers frequently target police checkpoints, patrols and training centers and accuse the mainly Shiite police and military of atrocities against Sunnis.

On Friday, at least 14 police officers in Diyala province were abducted and killed as they drove back to their home village for a break. A group linked to the Sunni Arab group al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the attack and said it was to avenge the purported rape of a Sunni woman by Shiite security forces last month.

South of Baghdad, in a remote farming area, officials said several members of a Sunni family were murdered by gunmen who burst into their home, separated the men from the women and killed the men.

Local police said six men were killed and indicated that the crime was the result of a land dispute.

But a government official from the area said the victims were targeted for participating in a reconciliation conference with Shiites two weeks earlier.

North of Baghdad, U.S. military officials said several “key terrorists” linked to an al-Qaida cell that had been targeting military helicopters were believed killed in an airstrike Saturday. The air raid occurred outside Taji, which is the site of a major U.S. air base.

Party insiders favor Clinton, Romney, poll finds continued from page 7 members between Feb. 13 and 26.

Since the poll attempted to interview current state members of each organization, rather than a random sample, there is no margin of error.

The survey found no candidate enjoying a lock on institutional support. To the contrary, more than 1 in 3 RNC members said they had no favorite, while just under 1 in 3 DNC members said they had no preference.

Among Republicans, Romney had the most backing among par-

ty insiders, with 20 percent support, followed by Giuliani with 14 percent, McCain with 10 percent and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia — who has said he might enter the race in the fall — with 8 percent.

In a potentially worrisome sign for McCain, slightly more than 1 in 10 RNC members said they would not support him if he won the party’s nomination in his second attempt.

“It shows just how much resistance there is within the Republican establishment to McCain and how open the party is to candi-

dates who either aren’t very conservative, like Giuliani, or only recently minted conservatives, like Romney,” Cook said. “McCain has worked pretty hard since 2000 to be a team player, but these numbers would suggest that there is still a problem for him.”

Among Democrats, Clinton had the backing of 20 percent of party leaders, followed by Edwards with 15 percent, Obama with 11 percent, former Vice President Al Gore — who is not in the race — with 10 percent and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson with 9 percent.

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M. hoops gives Quakers scare, handles Tigers in final weekend continued from page 12 over a minute to go and the shot clock winding down.

Huffman finished with 21 points and Mark McAndrew ’08, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Week, chipped in 16.

The game also signified the return of Head Coach Craig Robinson to Princeton’s Jadwin Gym. In his four seasons playing for Princeton, Robinson won two Ivy League Player of the Year awards.

“It was the first time I had been in that building for a game since my senior year,” Robinson said.

“I’ve been back to Princeton for reunions and that kind of thing but never for a game, so it was nice to be back but weird to be in the visitor’s locker room.”

Brown’s visit to Penn’s Palestra was a back-and-forth affair. Despite clinching its third straight league title and the first NCAA tournament bid to awarded in 2007 the night before, the Quakers started their usual lineup and played with passion from the outset.

Brown took a six-point lead early on but midway through the half found itself down eight. For the second straight night the team turned to Huffman. The guard buried four straight threes to rally the team to a 32-30 halftime lead.

“I’ve shot the ball better as the season’s gone along,” Huffman explained. “I think it’s a combination of being healthy and getting more games under my belt and (Robin-

son) and the players having faith in me.”

The second half saw more of the same chaotic action. After multiple lead changes, Brown pulled ahead 60-58 on a baseline jumper from Mark MacDonald ’08. But Penn rallied to take a 63-62 lead with 2:10 to play and then extended its advantage to 67-64. Brown had a chance to tie the game on its final possession, but a threepointer from Huffman was off the mark.

Huffman led the team with 14 points, all in the first half, and Marcus Becker ’07 had 13 points, four rebounds, two assists and two steals in his final game in a Brown uniform. In playing his 111th game, Becker broke the 110-game record held by Alai Nuualiitia ’03.

The game also marked Becker’s 55th consecutive start. Sam Manhanga ’07 also made his final appearance for Brown in the game.

“It was our last game, so we fought the war all the way to the finish,” Becker said. “All that Coach asks is that we have a shot at the end of the game, and we did.”

Despite the loss, Robinson felt competitiveness of the game showed the team had made great strides during the season.

“We wanted to show progress after the way we’ve played over the second half of the season, and we did,” Robinson said. “I couldn’t be more proud of the effort of my guys.”

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W. hoops drops final two games of season continued from page 12 Marie Burr. “She struggled a little bit making that first pass out (of the double team), but once we really identified it, she did a nice job of kicking it back out and resetting the offense.”

With the Tigers’ stingy defense focused on Walls, the Bears turned to King-Bischof for offense. With Brown trailing 18-12 with 8:17 to go in the first half, King-Bischof scored five straight points to cut the deficit to one with 6:31 remaining. Courtney Lee ’10 then nailed a jumper to tie the game 19-19 with 5:18 to play.

“They were doubling down on Lindsay … which left a lot of shooters open,” King-Bischof said.

“When I got the ball, there was no one around me, and I had really good looks at the basket.”

Princeton responded to Brown’s run with four straight points to gain a 23-19 advantage. But KingBischof struck back again, netting four straight points in a 6-0 Bruno run. Shae Fitzpatrick ’10 capped off the spurt when she knocked down a baseline jumper to give Brown its first lead of the game with 32 seconds remaining in the half, and the teams entered halftime tied at 25.

Princeton’s first-team AllLeague candidate Meagan Cowher was a non-factor in the first half.

She scored five points and played only five minutes after picking up two quick fouls.

The Tigers slowly began to take control of the game at the beginning of the second half. They built a six-point lead with 16:04 to play after Elyse Umeda drained a three from the left wing.

Brown battled back over the next eight minutes and eventually tied the game 40-40 after a KingBischof layup. Bruno outscored Princeton 6-2 over the next three minutes to build a 46-42 lead. The four-point lead was Brown’s largest of the game.

After a quiet first half, Cowher began to assert herself offensively and single-handedly pulled Princeton back into the game. She outscored Brown 8-0 over the next five minutes to give the Tigers a 50-46 lead.

Princeton made 5-of-6 free throws down the stretch to salt away the victory. Conversely, Brown went 1-for-4 from the charity stripe down the stretch, including two misses on front ends of one-and-ones.

Cowher led the Tigers with 23 points.

Though Cowher was the high scorer, Burr commended the defense for harassing Cowher at every opportunity.

“We threw a lot of different looks at her defensively,” she said.

“We’d start out playing her one-onone and then would try to get help

from the guards.”

King-Bischof led Brown with 16 points and seven rebounds. Guard Christina Johnson ’10 chipped in with 11 points.

On Saturday Brown started Senior Night slowly. The Bears turned the ball over on their first three possessions, and the Quakers raced out to an early 11-4 lead.

But Walls began to assert herself offensively, and the crowded Brown backcourt continued to find her in situations where she could score.

After the slow start, Brown outscored Penn 7-1 over the next five minutes to cut the deficit to 12-11, during which Walls scored two nice post-up lay-ups. With 5:30 left in the first half, Brown was down 20-15. Bruno responded by netting eight straight points, taking its first lead of the game at 23-20 with 1:13 to go.

This time, it was the Quakers’ turn to respond. They outscored the Bears 7-1 to close out the half.

Penn’s Monica Naltner knocked down a three from the top of the key with three seconds remaining to give Penn the lead and the momentum heading into the locker room.

The Quakers came out a determined team to start the second half. They outscored the Bears 142 over the first 5:30 to give them a commanding 41-26 lead.

“They moved the ball very well and got a lot of good looks,” Burr said. “We lost sight of number 11 (Joey Rhoads) and number 42 (Naltner), and the two of them really capitalized.”

The Penn lead ballooned to as many as 18 points at one point, but Brown refused to give up. The Bears made one last effort to try to get the game closer. They cut the deficit to 12 with 4:30 to go, but there was too much Naltner and Rhoads. Those two scored seven of the next 11 points for the Quakers, who built their lead back up to 16 with 54 seconds remaining.

Rhoads and Naltner each finished the game with 20 points.

Walls led Brown with 19 points before fouling out with 6:29 remaining.

“The two of them (Rhoads and Naltner) were really tough on us in the second half,” Burr said. “That is why they are potential first-team (all-league) players.”

Despite the loss and the team’s tough season, Burr said she was proud of what her four seniors accomplished throughout their careers.

“They have made great contributions to this program,” she said.

“To be a part of a championship team is very special. They all have a great passion for the game. All of them will do great things in the future. They will be great examples for our team in the future.”

Skiing treks to Colorado for Nationals continued from page 12 Anna Bengtson ’09 should figure into the scoring mix at some point this week.

Elgort barely missed All-American status at last year’s Nationals, finishing just out of the top 15 at an impressive 17th overall. Elgort came through at Regionals, placing third for the Bears in the slalom and second in the GS. Bengtson has had a breakout season after struggling with injuries in previous years and has consistently scored for the team this

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year. She served as the Bears’ final scorer in the GS at Regionals.

Rookie Elisa Handbury ’10 has also proven a capable fourth skier, finishing sixth overall at Regionals in the slalom and second for Brown.

Classmates Mallory Taub ’08 and Meaghan Casey ’08 will provide valuable depth. In a sport where just one fall can virtually eliminate a team from contention for a title, Brown’s depth will supply added security in case of an accident.

The giant slalom will be held on Thursday and the slalom on Saturday this week.

M. lax grounds No. 14 Hofstra in home opener continued from page 12 on a freshman connection. Midfielder Zach Caldwell ’10 threaded a beautiful pass to a cutting Thomas Muldoon ’10, who fired a shot that beat the Hofstra goaltender.

Again, Hofstra responded, and after three quarters, Brown led 6-5.

The Pride came out on the attack to begin the fourth quarter, putting pressure on Brown.

Though the defense held tough, they could not stop the relentless Hofstra offense from tying the game at six.

After the tying goal, the Bears’ offense took the pressure off with an impressive display of ball control. They controlled the ball for six minutes, finishing the possession with what proved to be the game-winner. With 3:38 left, midfielder Will Davis ’07 found Muldoon for his third goal of the game.

“I didn’t think about it,” Muldoon said of his game-winner. “We brought the offense in well. There was a good dodge on the wing, it swung around and then it came to me.”

Muldoon headlines a talented freshman class, put together in Tiffany’s first year at the helm, that contributed at virtually every position. However, with this youth comes inexperience, and Muldoon found that he is still getting his legs under him at the collegiate level.

“I could have been better last week, but I kept a positive attitude and let the game come to me. The team really pulled through though and put me in a position to be successful,” he said.

After Muldoon’s go-ahead goal, Hofstra turned up the heat, pressing for the tying tally. Goalie Jordan Burke ’09 responded, making three big saves in the last three minutes to secure the victory. Despite the pressure, Burke stayed on even keel.

“I knew there was a lot of game left, and we just had to stay sharp,” he said. “We had to stick with what we were doing well all game. Also, the offense had some good possessions late, which helped.” Burke finished with 10 saves, anchoring

the defense from the cage.

Tiffany also said the team kept possession better than it had a week earlier. He cited excellent face-off work from midfielder Nic Bell ’09, who won the ball for Brown on a consistent basis.

Though the team is still rough around the edges in a few areas, such as its transition game, Tiffany was very pleased with the win.

“I’m excited for the men of the Brown lacrosse program,” he said.

He added that “they have been working hard in the weight room and on the practice field.”

With two good performances against very solid teams so far, Brown hopes to build on its strong play next Saturday at cross-town rival Providence College.

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STAF F EDITORIAL

Time for a new New Curriculum?

After nearly a half-decade spent boosting the University’s research, expanding the faculty and building up the graduate and medical schools, University officials are finally putting the undergraduate College under the microscope. The Task Force on Undergraduate Education isn’t just another committee, and its work could lead to much more than the perfunctory fulfillment of accreditation requirements.

It’s certainly time for a wholesale review of the College. President Ruth Simmons placed evaluating the College high on the University’s agenda more than a year ago, and the two administrators who will lead the review — Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron and Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 — have now had eight months to settle into their new posts. And after nearly 40 years, the New Curriculum isn’t so new anymore.

Few doubt that the New Curriculum is the most distinctive contribution to Brown’s reputation. Michael Goldberger, who spent a decade as director of admission, told The Herald a couple years ago that over half of Brown’s applicants each year mention the curriculum as one of their most significant reasons for applying.

For better or worse, the New Curriculum is more than a unique feature of Brown — it’s the core of the University’s identity. Whether in response to prospective pluses and minuses or the transition to Banner registration, saving the New Curriculum often becomes the rallying cry of students opposed to change. But despite its strengths, the New Curriculum isn’t sacred.

Like most Brown students, we support the philosophy of the New Curriculum — allowing students to chart their own course of study and encouraging introspective decision-making are laudable principles. But the New Curriculum is only valuable so long as it promotes these core goals in the current academic environment. What might have been appropriate for Brown — and for Brown students — in 1969 might not be right in 2007.

For all our affection for the New Curriculum, there are serious concerns. Is the advising system capable of facilitating the self-directed introspection needed to make an open curriculum meaningful? In an increasingly globalized world, does allowing students to graduate without studying a foreign language still make sense?

We’re certainly not advocating a return to required physical education courses and a compulsory 100-meter swim test. Nor would we want Brown’s curriculum to mirror that of Yale or Princeton. But we hope this new task force will think critically about what it means to be an undergraduate at Brown, canvass the campus to get substantive student input and develop meaningful recommendations. This process could keep things the way they are — as the most recent review, in 1989, did — or it could lead to significant change. But it shouldn’t give rubber-stamp approval to the New Curriculum.

The committee’s success relies on the involvement of students and professors who care deeply about Brown. This curricular review wasn’t instigated by students like the 1969 one was, and it must not be seen as an administrative effort to destroy the New Curriculum. It’s important for administrators to give students some ownership of the process rather than leaving us feeling threatened.

Though he won’t have daily oversight of the committee, the provost has deep ties to the University. A classmate of New Curriculum architect Ira Magaziner ’69 P’06 P’07 P’10, Kertzer and his wife were students on College Hill during the creation of the New Curriculum, and both of their children are alums. Bergeron, the committee’s chair, has only been at Brown two and a half years, and the flow of experienced deans leaving her office in recent weeks doesn’t bode well for strong institutional memory in the Office of the Dean of the College. But we hope that Bergeron will actively encourage professors who have been here for decades to sit on the committee and engage in campus discussion about curricular change.

With careful thought and an open, inclusive process in which curricular reform stems from campus debate and not University Hall decision-making, the new Task Force on Undergraduate Education could lead to our generation’s new curriculum.

PETE FALLON

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CORRECTION An article in Friday’s Herald (“Former Guantanamo Bay chaplain describes loss of civil liberties,” March 2) incorrectly spelled the name of Samuel Hitov ’09.

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NICK SWISHER OPINIONS COLUMNIST

You may have watched the recent YouTube video released by comedian Joe Rogan, the burly former host of “Fear Factor” and ““The Man Show Show.” If not (the video has since been removed for a breach of copyright), here’s the scene: After finishing his set, Rogan insults comedian Carlos Mencia, creator of the Comedy Central sketch show “Mind of Mencia,” insinuating that Mencia steals jokes from other comedians. Mencia, who’s in the audience, rushes the stage. The two subsequently shout at each other with all of the eloquence of 8th-graders.

In his viral video, Rogan cuts this footage with examples of Mencia regurgitating jokes performed on earlier dates by other comedians. Rogan doesn’t help his cause by being an obnoxious frat-boy instigator, but in the end he makes a strong case that Mencia is a plagiarist.

The video becomes more salacious, though, when Rogan cites the fact that ‘Carlos Mencia’ is only a stage name and that, in reality, ‘Carlos Mencia’ is one Ned Holness.

Stage names are a staple in professional comedy, but Mencia’s is especially deceptive in light of his stand-up material. Much of Mencia’s racial comedy stems from the claim that he is a Mexican immigrant — Ned Holness is in reality half-Honduran and half-German.

Before Mencia was merely unfunny — now that he’s been revealed as an outsider to the “beaner” (his word, not mine) culture he satirizes, his comedy is not only inauthentic but also smacks of racism.

Mencia isn’t the only comedian whose authenticity has been challenged as of late.

Larry the Cable Guy — the beer-swilling, God-fearing, catchphrase-spewing redneck co-host of “Blue Collar TV” — was recently the subject of an open letter published online by David Cross, the bald, bespectacled, Bush-bashing comedian and former star of “Mr. Show” and “Arrested Development.”

Cross takes jabs at Larry’s decidedly lowbrow material — “You clearly have more fart jokes than most and for that I applaud you.”

— but much of the letter attacks Larry’s

moved to Florida when you were 16. This is when you developed your accent?! Not exactly the developmental years are they? At age 16 that’s the kind of thing you have to make a concerted effort to adopt. Did you hire a voice coach? Or were you like one of those people who go to England for a week and come back sounding like an extra from ‘Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels?’ ” It might be tempting to write off such criticisms of Mencia and Larry the Cable Guy as petty jealousy. Mencia, in fact, has explicitly argued this about Rogan, who’s known

In an Internet age, one can no longer afford to be inauthentic. The Internet has empowered audiences and backlash is inevitable against public figures who don’t realize it. duplicitous persona. Larry the Cable Guy, whose real name is Dan Whitney, is only a character that affects a southern accent, wears a costume of cutoff flannel and spouts “Git-R-Done” as a blue collar credo for the American everyman. In reality, Dan Whitney is a multimillionaire Floridian whose bluecollar credentials are virtually nonexistent.

In his letter, Cross demolishes the socalled redneck comedian’s credibility: “You were born and raised in Nebraska (hardly the South), went to private school and

less for his comedy and more for hosting a show where people eat fried yak penis. And “Freakshow” and “Arrested Development,” television programs in which Cross starred, were both cancelled prematurely, while Larry the Cable Guy continues to sell out comedy clubs across the country and recently starred in a movie.

Even if jealousy gave life to all this bad blood, it’s important to note the instrumental role played by the Internet in these feuds.

Each comedian has aired his respective

grievance primarily using online resources.

As mentioned, Rogan released his video on YouTube; Mencia posted a counter-video on the same site just days later. Cross displayed his letter on his personal Web site and subsequently published responses from the online community. Further, if you search for “Dan Whitney” on YouTube, you’ll find a truly awful video of Whitney as a nervous young comedian performing in a Florida comedy club, years before his transformation into Larry the Cable Guy. Much has been said about the so-called “YouTube effect.” YouTube can make you famous (from Lonely Island to lonelygirl15) or infamous (from “Star Wars kid” Ghyslain Raza to pompous i-banking applicant Aleksey Vayner). It ruins reputations (“macaca,” anyone?) and allows for a new style of instantaneous, independent journalism (video of Saddam’s execution appeared on YouTube within minutes of his death).

In this case, YouTube has become a virtual forum for public debate. Video evidence is compiled and presented solely for the benefit of an online audience. With the Internet, we can instantly use this information to expose hypocrites, frauds and plagiarists. In such an environment, audiences can now afford to place a higher premium on authenticity than ever before.

Carlos Mencia and Larry the Cable Guy make the same crucial flaw. In an Internet age, one can no longer afford to be inauthentic. The Internet has empowered audiences and backlash is inevitable against public figures who don’t realize it. The YouTube generation favors those who respect their audience. This holds true for politicians, journalists and, yes, even lowly comedians.

Nicholas Swisher ’08 gits-r-done.

The Supreme Court rules 5-4 for corporate profits MICHAEL RAMOS-LYNCH OPINIONS COLUMNIST T U.S. Supreme Court decided Feb. 20 by The a 5-4 vote to overturn nearly $80 million of punitive damages against the tobacco company Philip Morris USA. The damages were originally awarded in 1999 to the widow of Jesse Williams, an Oregon man who died from a smoking-related disease. The case, Philip Morris USA v. Williams, measured the power of juries to inflict big punitive awards against wealthy corporations in product-liability cases.

The most recent precedent that the court had to reference for product-liability cases was the 2003 case Campbell v. State Farm, in which the court overturned $145 million in punitive damages against the State Farm Insurance company. It ruled 6-3 that punitive damages must be proportionate to the actual losses suffered by individual plaintiffs. The court argued that a ratio of more than 4-to-1 “might be close to the line of constitutional impropriety.”

In Philip Morris USA v. Williams, the Oregon jury had awarded $800,000 in compensatory damages and almost 100 times that, $79.5 million, in punitive damages to Williams’ estate — far more than the 4-to-1 ratio for which the precedent calls. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the majority opinion overturning the case. He argued against the punitive damages award on the grounds that the Oregon courts possibly allowed the jury to base its award on an

inappropriate wish to punish Philip Morris for harming “persons who are not before the court” (other smokers). Breyer wrote that “such an award for supposed harm to nonparties would unconstitutionally take Philip Morris’s property without due process.”

Breyer’s opinion concerning the right to due process of Philip Morris is antithetical to the democratic values we hold dear. During the early colonial era, crown charter cor-

edent of the Santa Clara case to successfully argue in Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad Company (1893) that corporations had Fifth Amendment due process rights against the federal as well as state governments.

The idea that the Constitution was meant to protect corporations with the same legal status and rights of individual citizens is known as “corporate personhood.”

Philip Morris v. Williams is not the first

The Philip Morris v. Williams decision should make it abundantly clear that the Supreme Court favors corporations rather than the individual citizen. porations like the East India Company and the Hudson Bay Company controlled America. Thom Hartmann argues in his book, “Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights,” that the founding fathers did not apply the Bill of Rights to corporations due to their fear of similar corporate control. However, in the 1886 case, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, the Supreme Court ruled, in effect, that “corporations are persons.” Corporate attorneys used the prec-

case of its kind. Corporate personhood has been the root of many recent corporate malpractice and product liability cases. The laws of our nation have created hugely powerful corporations that enjoy the benefits of limited liability and an unlimited lifespan. Enron exercised their Fourth Amendment right to keep government accountants from analyzing their financial records. The protections provided to corporations by the Bill of Rights have enabled the leaders of many corporations to become incredibly wealthy, allowing

them to make inordinately large donations to political campaigns. Some states, such as Virginia, even allow corporations to make unlimited direct contributions to state level political campaigns.

The Philip Morris v. Williams decision should make it abundantly clear that the Supreme Court favors corporations rather than the individual citizen. Corporations have nearly unlimited wealth, limited liability and potential immortality, three things that Jesse Williams never had. Yet both Philip Morris and Jesse Williams have the same constitutional protections according to the Supreme Court. By giving corporations like Philip Morris the protection of due process, we essentially give them the power of demigods.

Jesse William’s constitutional rights served to protect his individual liberty from tyranny.

My only question is, since corporations are not individuals, why do they need the same protection?

“We the people” are allowing corporations to have a stronger voice than the rest of us. Corporations have more money, more influence and more power, yet they have the same constitutional protections as individuals. It’s a simple question. Do we want to be ruled by corporations made of certain groups of people, or do we want to rule ourselves? If the answer is to rule ourselves, then we must do away with corporate personhood and create a constitutional amendment that clarifies that corporations are not human beings and therefore, do not have the protections of the Bill of Rights or the Fourteenth Amendment.

Michael Ramos-Lynch ’09 challenges you to a game of Monopoly.

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M. icers out of playoffs, drops series 2-1 to Princeton

M. hoops scares Quakers, handles Tigers

The men’s hockey team was bounced from the ECACHL playoffs last night after losing to Princeton 4-3 in the deciding game of the best-of-three first round.

Brown held a 3-2 lead entering the final period, but the Tigers scored twice in the first seven minutes of the third period to take the lead and held on to win.

Kevin Westgarth tied the game at three 1:31 into the third with a power-play goal following a Brown penalty for too many men on the ice. At 7:22, Grant Goeckner-Zoeller scored again for the Tigers.

Brown was led by Aaron Volpatti ’10, who scored two goals in the game. All of the Bears’ scoring came in the second period, when they turned an initial 1-0 deficit into a 3-2 advantage. Goaltender Dan Rosen ’10 made 32 saves in the loss.

The Bears dropped the final two games in the series after taking the opener, 4-3 in overtime, on Friday.

Sean Muncy ’09 scored a goal 1:24 into the overtime to lift Brown to victory. Winger Ryan Garbutt ’09 had two goals in the victory.

The tables were reversed Saturday night. Princeton struck first, but Brown tied the game at one in the second period. Regulation time ended in a 1-1 tie, but Princeton’s Brett Wilson beat Rosen 1:50 into extra time to force a third game.

At this time next year, the men’s basketball team might look back on its split in the final weekend of the season as an indication that it is returning to the ranks of elite programs in the Ivy League.

After winning three of its last four games, the Bears defeated Princeton 64-55 on Friday, then gave Ivy League champion University of Pennsylvania all it could handle in a 67-64 loss at the Palestra. The weekend split gives the Bears a final record of 11-18 overall and 6-8 in the Ivy League, good for fi fth place in the Ancient Eight.

Brown entered Friday’s game looking for its first season sweep of the Tigers since the 2003-2004 season, but Princeton grabbed an early lead and maintained it for the majority of the first half. With 6:11 to play, Brown went on a 7-0 run, highlighted by a three-pointer from Damon Huffman ’08 to turn a 21-17 deficit into a 24-21 lead. The teams traded buckets for the next few minutes, and Brown closed the half leading 28-25.

Princeton reclaimed the lead early in the second stanza, but the Bears responded with 10 unanswered points to give them a 40-32 lead at the 16:00 mark. The Tigers closed to within two points with 3:45 to play. Yet, just as the Bears had done all half, they knocked down timely shots, including a Huffman three-pointer with a little

BY PETER CIPPARONE SPORTS EDITOR

Jacob Melrose/ Herald Thomas Muldoon ’10 (No. 24) scored three goals in Brown’s 7-6 victory over Hofstra University on Saturday. Muldoon’s goal with 3:38 remaining in the game secured the first win for Head Coach Lars Tiffany ’90 since his return to Brown.

M. lax grounds No. 14 Hofstra in home opener

BY JASON HARRIS SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The men’s lacrosse team outlasted No. 14 Hofstra University 7-6 Saturday in its first home game of the year. Bouncing back from last weekend’s heart-breaking 1211 loss to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Brown defeated the Pride in a fiercely contested game.

Brown jumped out to an early lead thanks to a goal by attackman Kyle Hollingsworth ’09 just 2:17 into the game. The Bears ex-

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tended the margin to 3-1 after the first quarter, but they could never stretch their lead to more than two goals. Brown never trailed though, thanks to staunch defensive play throughout the game.

Head Coach Lars Tiffany ’90 pointed to the team’s defense as key in collecting its first win.

“The defensive play was better,” he said. “Our slide packages worked well. We didn’t want them to have only one dodge, so we supported each other well.”

The defense was led by tri-cap-

tain Bobby Shields ’07, who created a number of turnovers as a result of strong checks.

Hofstra came storming back in the second quarter to tie the game at 3-3. The Bears answered, however, when attackman Jack Walsh ’09 shoveled a loose ball into the net late in the quarter to give Bruno a 4-3 lead at halftime.

The positive momentum carried over to the second half.

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W. hoops drops final two games of season

BY JUSTIN GOLDMAN SPORTS EDITOR

It was an emotional weekend for the women’s basketball team in games against Princeton on Friday night and the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday night.

They were the final games of the season and the last in a Brown uniform for the four members of the class of 2007. Unfortunately, the emotions were not enough to pull the Bears through, as late free throws propelled the Tigers

to a 55-49 victory and an early second-half run helped the Quakers to a 72-56 win.

Brown finished the year 523 overall and 3-11 in the Ivy League, a year after claiming the Ivy League Championship. The graduating seniors — Ashley King-Bischof ’07, co-captain Lena McAfee ’07, Courtney Peters ’07 and Kate Barr ’07, who was injured — were honored on Saturday at senior night.

On Friday, the Tigers made it a point to limit the damage caused

by center Lindsay Walls ’10. Walls was coming off a breakout performance and a career-high 19 points against Columbia, for which she won Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors. Every time Walls touched the ball, she faced a double team and was forced to give it up.

“Early on, (Princeton) had two people going to her and we weren’t recognizing that when we threw it in to her,” said Head Coach Jean continued on page 9

Skiing treks to Colorado for National Championships

BY MADELEINE MARECKI ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

The ski team is in Winter Park, Colo., this week to take on the nation’s best teams at the USCSA National Championships. After tying

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for first at last weekend’s Eastern Regional Championships with divisional powerhouses Colby-Sawyer College and Boston College, Brown is peaking at the right time.

Last year, the Bears finished fi fth at Nationals. This year, it is possi-

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FRIDAY, DAY MAR. 2 DAY, BASEBALL: Georgia Southern 9, Brown 2 M. BASKETBALL: Brown 64, Princeton 55 W. BASKETBALL: Princeton 55, Brown 49 M. HOCKEY: Brown 4, Princeton 3 (OT) W. LACROSSE: Brown 13, Sacred Heart 12 SOFTBALL: Brown 4, Bowling Green 3; Brown 3, Charleston Southern 1

SATURDAY, ATURDAY MAR. 3 ATURDAY, BASEBALL: Georgia Southern 16, Brown 9; Brown 10, Kennesaw State 2 M. BASKETBALL: Penn 67, Brown 64 W. BASKETBALL: Penn 72, Brown 56 FENCING: 7th of 12 GYMNASTICS: Yale 188.800, Brown 185.825

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M. HOCKEY: Princeton 2, Brown 1 (OT) M. LACROSSE: Brown 7, No. 14 Hofstra ofstra 6 of SOFTBALL: Brown 4, Hartford 3; Campbell 1, Brown 0 W. TENNIS: Marquette 5, Brown 2 W. WATER POLO: Brown 12, Wagner 11; Brown 12, Bucknell 9 WRESTLING: 10th of 14 teams, EIWA Championship

SUNDAY, DAY MAR. 4 DAY, BASEBALL: Kennesaw State 11, Brown 6 W. LACROSSE: Stony Brook 10, Brown 9 SOFTBALL: Providence 10, Brown 2; Brown 3, St. Bonaventure 1 W. TENNIS: Syracuse 4, Brown 3 W. WATER POLO: Princeton 7, Brown 6

ble that the Bears will match that performance — or improve upon it.

Brown’s chances hinge on the performance of captain Kelly O’Hear ’07. After a sluggish start to her final season, O’Hear dominated in the latter stages of the regular season. She blew away the competition at Regionals, winning both the slalom and giant slalom.

O’Hear distanced herself from her next competitor by a second and a half in the slalom, and she was an All-American after finishing sixth in the giant slalom at Nationals last year.

Though O’Hear has had an incredible season, the Bears have received contributions from numerous skiers. Sophie Elgort ’08 and continued on page 9

Jacob Melrose / Herald File Photo Damon Huffman ’08 led the Bears in scoring in both of Brown’s games over the weekend. Huffman’s 21 points in Friday’s contest were a game-high.