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The University will form regional advisory councils around the world to help Brown identify opportunities, build visibility and raise funds to support its internationalization effort, senior University officials told The Herald. Vice President for International Advancement Ronald Margolin said he has begun assembling the first two councils — one that will focus specifically on China and another that will deal with Asia more generally — both of which should be active by the end of 2007. The creation of a third council, which will focus specifically on India, should begin soon, he added, and will be able to begin its work by March 2008. Some preliminary discussions have also taken place on an Africa council, and University officials are also considering creating councils for Europe, the Middle East, Latin America generally and Brazil specifically, though there is no current timetable for the development of those councils, Margolin said. The Office of the President and

Michael Glassman ’09 was declared the winner of the run-off election for president of the Undergraduate Council of Students last night, defeating Moses Riner ’08 by just 81 votes. Glassman’s 746 votes — or 53 percent of the votes cast — were just enough to beat Riner’s 665 in the head-to-head showdown. The run-off was needed after none of the original three presidential candidates was able to win a majority in the first vote, held last week. Glassman, currently the UCS communications chair, finished slightly behind Riner on that ballot, slightl said Christina Kim ’07, the UCS elections board chair. Stefan Smith ’09 was eliminated from the race after the first vote. Voting for the run-off election took place on MyCourses between 12 p.m. Monday and 5 p.m. Tuesday. In the other run-off ballot, Jonathan Natkins ’08 was declared the winner of the race for Undergraduate Finance Board vice chair with 570 votes, or 51 percent. Natkins and Don Trella ’08, a Herald Opinions Columnist, were forced into a runoff despite being the only two candidates for the position because neither received a majority in the first vote, due mainly to write-in votes. The results of the two run-off elections were announced just after 10 p.m. Tuesday on the steps of Faunce House. Glassman, Riner and members of the elections board were joined by several other UCS members as well as friends of the candidates. As he received congratulations from senior members of UCS, Glassman told The Herald he was “excited” about his election. “I guess I’ve got my work cut out for me,” he said. Glassman’s election as UCS president marks the end of a closely watched race that briefly attracted controversy when a candidate who had run on a platform of “dissolving” UCS if elected was disqualified. Eric Mukherjee ’09 was taken off the ballot by the elections board just hours before voting began for failing to attend two required meetings. Mukherjee was initially unaware that he was a candidate for president, The Herald reported Thursday. His campaign was spearheaded by friends without his knowledge and began as “a joke,” he said, but he decided to go forward with his campaign after sensing that his platform had strong support from students. Glassman, a New York City native and a two-year veteran of UCS, told The Herald his goals include developing a student response to Banner, renovating dorms, expanding January@Brown and reaching out to people who show interest in participating in UCS.

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The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance and other campus groups held a Take Back the Night event Tuesday night to protest rape as they marched through University buildings.

Nobel Prize-winner Mello ’82 to speak at baccalaureate Craig Mello ’82, who was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, will deliver the baccalaureate address at Commencement next month, University ofﬁcials announced Tuesday. Mello, a Howard Hughes investigator at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, was awarded the prize with Andrew Fire of Stanford University for their discovery of RNA interference, a phenomenon they documented in a landmark 1998 pa-

per that has signiﬁcantly affected research efforts worldwide. Mello and Fire discovered the mechanism of RNA interference, which leads to “gene silencing.” The discovery has allowed researchers to study gene regulation by controlling the expression of speciﬁc genes and has therapeutic implications for genetic diseases. Mello will also receive an honorary degree at Commencement on May 27. His address will take place in the First Baptist Church

in America the day before. Mello, who was a biochemistry concentrator as an undergraduate, told The Herald in October that he had fond memories of Brown. “Brown was a fantastic place for me,” he said. “The education I got there just prepared me so well for my future.” Mello, 46, is a native of Fairfax, Va., and now lives in Shrewsbury, Mass. — Michael Bechek

Profs voice support for more undergrad science research funding BY JAMES SHAPIRO SENIOR STAFF WRITER

At a faculty forum Tuesday sponsored by the Faculty Executive Committee, the Undergraduate Science Education Committee heard feedback from professors on its proposals for promoting undergraduate education in the ﬁelds of science, technology, engineering and math. The 20-person committee consists of eight students and 12 fac-

ulty and administrators working in those areas, known as STEM ﬁelds. The event was intended as a venue for professors outside the committee to express their opinions about a draft of the committee’s upcoming report, titled “Improving Undergraduate Education in the STEM Fields at Brown.” The forum, attended by about 30 professors, did not include voting or any formal motions. A ﬁnal version of the committee’s report will be released at

some point in May, said Karen Fischer, professor of geological sciences and chair of the committee. The committee’s recommendations focus on the areas of curriculum, research opportunities, advising efforts, academic support and admission. Forum participants expressed particular concern over research opportunities for undergraduates. A draft of the committee’s upcoming report recommends increasing “the number of Universi-

ty-funded undergraduate summer research positions by 50 per year, with a target total of 450 across all ﬁelds for the year 2012.” The recommendation is contingent upon continued demand from students and sufﬁcient space to accommodate them in research projects. Associate Dean of the College and Dean for Science Programs David Targan ’78, a member of the committee, said professors continued on page 8

Pulitzer-winner Maraniss shares Roberto Clemente’s mythology BY CHAZ FIRESTONE SENIOR STAFF WRITER

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Washington Post editor David Maraniss delivered the Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture Thursday night.

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Roberto Clemente’s life was one of graceful athleticism and personal adversity adversity. A black Puerto Rican, Clemente emerged from the cloud of racism that enveloped the United States in the Jim Crow-era to become one of the greatest right ﬁelders in Major League Baseball history history. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Davis Maraniss relayed the Pittsburgh Pirate’s inspiring story yesterday to a small but attentive crowd in Salomon 101. Maraniss, associate editor of the Washington Post and author of “Clemente: The Passion and CHEATING CHEATERS 30 academic code violations from last semester have gone before a faculty committee — a sharp increase from last year

Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero,” as well as a best-selling biography of former President Bill Clinton and an account of the Vietnam War, delivered the seventh-annual Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture in honor of Casey Shearer ’00, a promising writer and aspiring sports journalist who died days before he was to graduate from Brown. The lecture — entitled “The Mythology of Sport” — followed the life and tragic death of Hallof-Famer Roberto Clemente. Maraniss recounted Clemente’s entrance into and graceful domination of Major League Baseball

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As U. readies to build campus Grad School to evaluate center, it looks to other schools its size next semester BY OLIVER BOWERS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

BY ANDREW KURTZMAN STAFF WRITER

As planning for renovations to transform Faunce House and J. Walter Wilson Laboratory into a central hub for student activities and services moves forward, University ofﬁcials intend to look to an important resource — the student centers already in existence at other Northeastern campuses. “Before the Plan for Academic Enrichment, an (Undergraduate Council of Students) task force had issued a report on the needs for Brown’s campus. There were a lot of road trips during that process, and a consultant was brought in to help analyze patterns here and at other schools,” said Ricky Gresh, director of student activities. The process of planning Brown’s campus center “does not have that sort of external focus yet,” he said. “However, we are creating a planning community that will go on road trips and reach out to other schools. Just in this area alone there are quite a lot of great models to look at and learn what worked well and what did not,” Gresh added. Princeton University One such model is the Frist Center at Princeton University. Opened in 2000, the 200,000-square-foot Frist Center was fashioned out of an old physics laboratory at Princeton with $48 million and six years of planning and construction. By all accounts, the investment was a success. “The Frist Campus Center undoubtedly bettered Princeton by creating a campus heart:

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CAMPUS WATCH out,” declared a Nov. 26, 2001 Daily Princetonian op-ed. According to a Sept. 11, 2005, article in the Princeton Weekly Bulletin, a university-run news brief, the Frist Center is frequented by 12,000 students, faculty and staff each day, a number that has increased approximately 20 percent during its ﬁrst year of operation. In 2004, the

U. offering vouchers in lottery for summer storage with Space Station BY JOY NEUMEYER STAFF WRITER

The Ofﬁce of Residential Life began accepting applications from students Tuesday evening to participate in an online lottery for free vouchers for local summer storage. Over 600 vouchers, worth $60 each, will be available through the lottery to redeem with East Providence-based Space Station Self-Storage. The $60 storage voucher offered through the lottery on the ResLife Web site can cover the cost of one of three packages offered by Space Station, Brown Student Agencies President Idan Naor ’08 wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. One of the packages includes two small book boxes and one large box, another includes one large box and one medium box and a third offers two medium boxes and one large box. All packages include a roll of packing tape. The company’s same “discounted voucher rates” will also be offered to Brown students who did not receive a voucher, Naor said. In addition to the packages, the vouchers can also be put towards the cost of other storage options with Space Station, he added. Students can drop off boxes at several campus locations May 10-19, said Space Station General

Manager John Erikson. Over a three-day period in early September, Space Station will “stagger the deliveries” of boxes to students on campus, so they will be able to select a time frame when they would like to pick up their belongings, Erikson said. Students who are offered vouchers through the lottery will be notiﬁed by 5 p.m. on Friday and have until next Tuesday to conﬁrm. If they do not respond by the deadline, they will forfeit the voucher and it will be reassigned to a student on the waitlist. Students transferring their vouchers to friends caused problems last year, Naor said. “This year we made a very big point of nontransferable vouchers,” he said. If students wish to pass their voucher along to a friend, they will be given “a fairly narrow window of time” to do so, “probably over the weekend,” said Associate Director of Housing and Residential Life Thomas Forsberg. Forsberg said around 1,100 applicants applied for about 600 vouchers last year, and almost all of the vouchers were used. Students can choose to store their belongings with any company with services in the area, but the vouchers will only be good for storage with Space Station. continued on page 6

center hosted 13,519 events and meetings. In addition to a food court and an entertainment center, Frist contains a number of classrooms and lecture halls, equipped with projectors and sound systems so that they may be used for any number of purposes. But the Frist Center’s design reﬂects a very speciﬁc element of Princeton’s campus culture that does not exist at Brown. “Princeton’s social life for many years was dominated by eating clubs,” said Princeton Professor of Sociology Paul DiMaggio, referring to the fraternity-like organizations that meet separately from the continued on page 8

A working group chaired by Dean of the Graduate School Sheila Bonde will evaluate the number of graduate students at Brown in order to determine “where we’re going (and) what our goals should be in doctoral and master’s education,” Bonde told The Herald. The group will include four administrators — Bonde, Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron, Vice President for Research Clyde Briant and Associate Dean of the Graduate School William Heindel — as well as four faculty members and two graduate students. The faculty and student members will be chosen by the start of the Fall 2007 semester. “We will be looking at the size and scale (of the Grad School) and making some recommendations,” Bonde said. The group will begin meeting next semester and will “have some preliminary things to say in the fall and more definitive things to say at the end of the (academic) year,” Bonde said. She said the group will take the first major look at the Grad School’s size since she became dean in 2005. Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 told The Herald at a faculty meeting in March that the committee is expected to release its final report at the end of the Spring 2008 semester and deliver budget recommendations to the University Resource Committee earlier that semester.

He said the expansion of the faculty has “put pressure” on the Grad School to expand its student body. Bonde said the introduction of new master’s programs may have resulted in an increase in enrollment in certain fields — one of the trends the working group will examine, many of which are reflected in data released by the Office of Institutional Research. The data show that a number of fields of graduate study at Brown — including engineering, biology and computer science — have grown, some substantially, over the past nine years while other graduate programs, such as those in the Department of English, have shrunk slightly. The number of doctoral and master’s students studying biology at Brown has more than doubled in the past nine years, leaping from 104 students in Spring 1997 to 265 in Spring 2006. The number of engineering grad students has risen greatly in the same period, climbing from 85 to 130 students, according to the OIR data. Bonde said the increase in the sciences and engineering reflects a national swell of interest in new, cutting-edge programs in these fields. “There are new fields like … biomedical engineering (and) computational biology and the subfields of biology and engineering (that) have seen a growth across the nation, and that’s something we’re certainly continued on page 6

Now in 2nd year, iGEM team looks to November competition BY ANNA MILLMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Entering its second year, Brown’s International Genetically Engineered Machine competition team is brainstorming projects for the iGEM competition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in November. The seven undergraduate members of the squad are employing the help of last year’s members, several graduate students, faculty members and Pfizer’s Houseknecht lab. The iGEM competition began almost four years ago as several research scientists wondered whether it was possible to build operable biological systems from standard parts. They wanted to create an accessible “library” of parts, helping to provide an engineering perspective on biology, said Assistant Professor of Medical Science Alexander Brodsky, one of the Brown team’s faculty mentors. Brown’s iGEM team is the brainchild of John Cumbers GS, who first heard about the competition at a conference. He then gathered together enthusiastic undergraduates and faculty members for Brown’s first team, which received an honorable mention at the 2006 competition. The new team will stay in Providence this summer, developing projects for the competition in Novem-

ber. The undergraduates will be supported by a group Undergraduate Research and Teaching Award. As of now, the team has raised about $40,000 of the $70,000 it needs to fund its research, said Deepa Galaiya ’08, a team member. Laboratory funds have been donated from the Office of the President and various departments, Galaiya said. Pfizer has not as yet opened its purse to the team, though it has contributed some scientific guidance, Cumbers said. But he said the team still hopes for some funding from the pharmaceutical giant. For last year’s competition, the team created a kind of bacterial “freeze tag,” using three different chemicals to stop bacteria from moving. Though this year’s project has not yet been decided on, possibilities include a cellular oscillator for timing the distribution of drugs into the body’s systems, Cumbers said. Last year’s team faced hurdles in acquiring funding and lab space, Cumbers said, but he said this year’s team has benefited from the previous experience and has been able to focus more on research. Though faculty mentors and Houseknecht lab researchers provide some practical expertise, Cumbers said, the team largely works the project’s problems out on its own, he said.

“We don’t want too many faculty involved, but they’re all there to let us borrow equipment,” said Jeffrey Hofmann ’08, team member and computational biology major. “The team has an opportunity to do research in a very independent way,” Brodsky said. Members said they were excited by potential developments in the fast-developing field of synthetic biology. “Synthetic biology is very important. It could be the next computer revolution in terms of standardizing parts and making bacteria do what we want them to,” said Adam Emrich ’08, a team member. Galaiya said participating in the iGEM competition is a “wonderful opportunity” to get practical experience in research. “We read journals and familiarize ourselves with big names in the field, which is good preparation for future work,” she said. Many of the participants hope to work in research in the future, Galaiya said. Some team members, interested in studying the field of synthetic biology further, advocated for a new class set to debut in the fall, BIOL 1940T: “Synthetic Biological Systems.” The course will primarily be taught by Gary Wessel, professor of biology and one of the team’s faculty sponsors.

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As U. internationalizes, regional councils to guide the way, starting with China and Asia continued from page 1 the Office of the Provost are collaborating with him on the effort, Margolin said. Both President Ruth Simmons and Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 called the councils an important component of Brown’s official internationalization effort, which kicked off in October 2006 with the appointment of an internationalization committee chaired by Kertzer and the announcement of a search to recruit a vice president for international affairs. “Our goal is to connect (alums) to us, give them a sense that we are helping them if they try to advance Brown’s interests in their part of the world and to come up with concrete suggestions for what we can do to enliven the effort,” Simmons told The Herald. As the councils are set up “over the next several years,” Kertzer said, they will “help us in a variety of ways.” Forming such international advisory groups has been on the University’s radar for some time, Margolin said. Though they are just now beginning to come to fruition, the first discussions of the possibil-

ity came roughly a year before the formal internationalization effort was publicly announced, he said. The councils will consist of alums, parents and “friends of Brown” who are particularly knowledgeable and influential in their respective regions. They will advise Simmons and the yet-to-be-appointed vice president for international affairs on possible opportunities and work to raise Brown’s profile in their respective area of focus, Margolin said. The council’s membership will include people who have “important positions in industry, education, commerce, diplomacy, government or media,” Margolin said, adding that they might be natives or foreigners and will not necessarily currently reside in the region on which they are advising. As examples of the sort of influential, well-connected people University officials will ask to serve on the councils, Margolin identified Wei Yang PhD’85, president of Zhejiang University, and Wei Mingyi ScM’49, a former chairman of the China International Trust and Investment Company, a state-owned investment company founded in 1979 that seeks to attract foreign in-

vestment as part of efforts to open and reform China’s economy. Neither has formally agreed to serve on the China council yet, Margolin said. “Those letters are just going out to them now,” he said. A sample charge prepared by Margolin’s office calls for each council “to advise the president and senior administrators regarding opportunities for the greater involvement, visibility and reputation of Brown” in its country or region of focus. Specifically, the charge elaborates, the councils could identify possible student internships, study abroad programs, educational and research partnerships, recruitment opportunities or “friends of Brown and sources of funding” in their target area. Other possible focuses could be media outreach and other activities to raise Brown’s visibility. The councils, the charge states, will meet “at least one time a year.” Both his own office and the office of the vice president for international affairs will work with and staff the councils, Margolin said. The first vice president for international affairs could be appointed as early as next month, according to members of the search committee.

The size of the councils is flexible, Margolin said, but the China and India councils will both likely begin with roughly 15 members, and the Asia-wide council will probably be somewhat larger. The aim is to start the councils at “a manageable size,” he added, but they could grow, especially if a council decides to form subcommittees with emphases on particular objectives, such as media outreach. That China and India will each have their own committees reflects their international importance and appeal for Brown and other universities looking to build partnerships overseas. University officials have aggressively courted ties in those countries in recent years, with Simmons herself traveling to China twice in 2006 and other University delegations making trips to each country this spring to pursue research ties. A separate group of faculty and administrators will visit China in June. Though Brazil has not yet figured prominently in the University’s internationalization outreach efforts, its inclusion as the only other country to potentially garner its own advisory council reflects its size, international prominence and

the University’s already strong involvement with the country, Margolin said. Brown’s Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies is strong, Margolin said, and the Watson Institute for International Studies houses several Brazil experts, most notably Professor-at-Large Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a former president of the country. Margolin said the University is interested in drawing on the Watson Institute’s afﬁliations in forming the committees. Cardoso and Richard Holbrooke ’62, a former United States ambassador to the United Nations and Germany who is also a Weston Institute professor-at-large, are two of Watson’s most high-proﬁle connections, and Margolin said Simmons “might approach” them both for positions on the councils. Asia is one of several areas of expertise for Holbrooke, a former Herald editorin-chief who is currently chairman of the Asia Society. But Margolin said faculty and staff with more permanent ties to the University would not serve on the councils, due to the councils’ external advisory nature and the faculty’s ability to advise the University “through other channels.”

Pulitzer-winner Maraniss shares Roberto Clemente’s mythology continued from page 1 amid social and political turmoil. “Clemente was art, not science,” Maraniss said. “Trying to describe him by reducing him to statistics — which is baseball’s way — is like analyzing van Gogh’s paintings by writing about the chemicals in the paint.” Clemente made his Major League debut in 1955 with the Pittsburgh Pirates after a stint with the Montreal Royals, the same team Jackie Robinson played for in 1946 before breaking the league’s color barrier. Five years later, Clemente led the Pirates to a shocking seven-game world series victory over the mighty New York Yankees of Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle, recording a hit in each game of the series. “After the seventh game, he ﬂew home to San Juan, and he was literally carried off from the airport on the shoulders of his countrymen,” Maraniss said. “He was regaled as the ‘Prince of Puerto Rico’ all winter.” But his reception in the United States was marred by racial tension. Clemente felt he wasn’t receiving enough media attention for his accomplishments, and the Pirates’ held a celebration in a Florida hotel reserved only for whites. “The only blacks allowed in there were the waiters,” Maraniss said, adding that the team’s annual spring golf outing was held at a country club that prohibited blacks. Maraniss captured Clemente’s struggle against racism in America through the star’s portrayal in the Pennsylvania sports media, which patronized Clemente’s thick Latin American accent by spelling his quotes phonetically — “eef” for “if” and “heet” for “heat.”

“Clemente was an incredibly proud, intelligent person who was reduced to a caricature, a stereotype by American culture,” Maraniss said. “That created in him a beautiful fury.” Maraniss’s personal relationship with Clemente — a man with whom he never spoke — shone through endearingly as he told anecdotes from the baseball star’s life. “He got his great arm not from his dad — a little guy, short — but from his mother, a butcher,” Maraniss said. “She could haul 90pound slabs of beef on her shoulder.” Maraniss recalled Clemente’s interactions with teammate Victor Pellot, known as “Vic Power,” a fellow Puerto Rican baseball player who shared his struggles with racism. “(Pellot) once went into a restaurant for lunch in Florida. The waitress came up to him and said ‘We don’t serve colored people here,’ and he said, ‘That’s okay, I don’t eat colored people. I just want some rice and beans,’ ” Maraniss said. “He could almost get Clemente to laugh at some of those jokes, but Clemente did not think it was funny. He didn’t think any of that was funny.” Clemente would ﬁnally break through the barriers of language and race in 1971 when he led the Pirates to a second World Series victory, this time over the Baltimore Orioles. Clemente batted an incredible .414 against the Orioles and once again registered a hit in each of the series’ seven games — including a solo home run in the seventh game to give the Pirates the lead — and was named Most Valuable Player of the World Series. “It was ﬁnally his moment. In the dugout after the seventh game, the whole world was look-

ing at Roberto Clemente,” Maraniss said. But instead of responding to reporters’ questions, Clemente answered the press with a message to his family in Puerto Rico, asking for their blessing. “He said it in Spanish,” Maraniss said. “It was at that moment that he moved from a ball player into mythology.” Clemente died one year later. In the winter of 1972, Clemente joined a humanitarian effort to aid earthquake victims in Nicaragua suffering under then-president and dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Clemente felt he could use his cachet in Latin America to help aid reach those who needed it, so he took to the skies for Nicaragua and never returned. “Everything that could possibly be wrong was wrong with his situation,” Maraniss said, describing the conditions of Clemente’s ﬂight: an amateur crew, a 5,000pound overload and a DC-7 purchased from a part of Miami called “cockroach corner.” The plane crashed shortly after takeoff and sunk into the Atlantic Ocean. “The next morning, thousands of people lined the shore,” Maraniss said, “thinking that Clemente couldn’t die and would walk out of the sea.” Maraniss’s storytelling ability and his close attention to detail captivated students who attended the lecture. “He did a really good job of humanizing Clemente, whom I primarily knew as a baseball player,” said Alex Eichler ’08, who won a literary contest honoring Shearer and was awarded the ﬁrst prize in a ceremony last night for “Silent Night,” his story about Rhode Island’s haunted houses. “I didn’t know about the social and political context Clemente was in — I’m glad he emphasized those aspects of his life.”

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Every other Thursday this semester, roughly 50 students have gathered in the Watson Institute for International Studies for two hours to listen to diplomats, foreign policy experts and government ofﬁcials talk about global hotspots. The sessions are part of a study group led by former Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75, a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute. Since his appointment last December, Chafee has been highly visible on campus, and though he has yet to teach a class, he has led the biweekly no-credit seminar for international relations and political science concentrators, who were selected through an application process in Januar y. Chafee has invited speakers to discuss international hotspots such as North Korea, Venezuela, Israel and Palestine and Iraq. The class has no compulsory work, though articles are distributed before every meeting so students can prepare for guest speakers when the forum is opened up for a question-and-answer session in the seminar’s second hour. Though Chafee himself has not given lectures, he presented his views on certain topics in his introductions, said Harrison Moskowitz ’07. As the semester comes to an end, students involved with the group said the access to Chafee was invaluable. “Chafee was my senator, so I was very interested to hear his perspectives,” said Michael Boyce ’08. “The talks have all been very interesting and have allowed me to gain a keener understanding of situations.” Herald Contributing Writer Kamyl Bazbaz ’07 agreed.

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Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee ‘75, a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute, led a study group every other Thursday this semester.

“Chafee always brings in unique experts to talk and enlighten us on different issues,” he said. “It’s amazing to have access to Chafee. I learned everything I could learn in such a short time.” Last week, Frederick Barton from the Center for Strategic and International Studies spoke to the group about the deteriorating situation in Iraq, reminding them that the first step to solving problems in post-conflict states is to recognize that they’re working in a volatile world. Barton is the co-director of the post-conflict reconstruction project and senior adviser to the international security program at CSIS. He has traveled and worked in hot spots such as Haiti, Rwanda, the Balkans, Sierra Leone, the Philippines, Iraq and Afghanistan. Bazbaz said he enjoyed Barton’s lecture. “He has amazing credentials and is a clear expert in the field,” he said. Barton’s projects focus largely on “putting-people-first methodology.” In Afghanistan, he and his team traveled through the country and ultimately interviewed 1,000 people. “It’s a spec-

tacular way to discover what was going on,” Barton said. “Afghanistan is a 10-year project, but we have to get this year right,” he said. “2007 is a very important year.” Both Chafee and Barton said they were impressed with the students’ dedication and interest. “This was a terriﬁc group who had great questions and comments,” Barton said. “I could tell they were people who had a sense of the issue. But what impressed me most is that this is a non-credit course, and students still put so much effort into it.” Chafee told The Herald he is always impressed with the preparation and interest of students. “They’re all curious about these issues and ask aggressive questions,” he said. “I’m impressed most by the involvement of the students, the questions they ask speakers after class.” The study group will meet next Thursday for the last time. Chafee said he has not yet planned a similar project for next semester but will soon discuss his future plans with Watson Institute ofﬁcials.

SDS revived: 1960s group wraps up active year BY GABRIELLA DOOB STAFF WRITER

From distributing a “Disorientation Guide” to staging a die-in in front of the Textron headquarters this spring, the left-wing activist group Students for a Democratic Society has been a forceful presence on campus this year. Dormant since its collapse in 1969, chapters of the group — including Brown’s — have been re-emerging since January 2006. The University’s chapter of SDS is a successor of the 1960s incarnation, a radical group that sought to unite diverse student organizations under the common goal of participatory democracy. Speciﬁc issues included domestic poverty, the Vietnam War and racial diversity on campus. But the group did not last long. “It came and went,” said Paul Buhle, senior lecturer in American civilization and an active SDS member in the 1960s, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. In the short time since it was re-founded last year, SDS has

gained a foothold at Brown. Not only did Brown host the ﬁrst regional SDS New England conference last year, but the John Nicholas Brown Center now houses the exhibition “The SDS Comic Show,” a graphic history of SDS including pages and panels from the forthcoming book “Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History,” written by cartoonist Harvey Pekar and edited by Buhle.

FEATURE The exhibition traces the history of SDS from the drafting of the Port Huron Statement in 1962 to its resistance to the Vietnam War and protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. It also describes the cultural and political legacy of SDS, including acknowledgments of its overwhelming success at organizing a mass student movement and producing real social change in the 1960s. Despite initial success, SDS collapsed across the country in 1969 due to internal clashes in

philosophy, interests and protest tactics. National reformation But in 2006, two high school students called for a revival of SDS. With the help of Alan Haber, president of SDS from 1960 to 1962, they launched a Web site calling for new groups to form under the old name, and chapters quickly proliferated. The group now claims 2,000 members nationwide, with over 100 college chapters and dozens more in high schools, according to Christopher Phelps’ April 2007 article “The New SDS” in the Nation. The meetings of Brown’s SDS chapter now regularly draw 25 to 30 people, including local high school students, community members and college students from other chapters, said SDS member William Lambek ’09. Though SDS has no ofﬁcial group leaders, some members assume leadership roles within SDS, said member Bucky Rogers ’07. continued on page 6

It’s a testament to how successful Lisa Birnbach ’78 has become that not only is she receiving two Gracie Awards this year for her radio show, “The Lisa Birnbach Show,” but she’s also gained approval from another radio host working in the same building. “I guess you don’t suck,” she recalled humorist and Senate hopeful Al Franken telling her. Though Birnbach is an accomplished author and radio host, she said she was “just another fun-loving, pass/fail-taking member of my class” during her days at Brown. She said she came to Brown for its creative writing program. As a student, Birnbach was heavily involved in a number of activities: She wrote for The Herald and its now-defunct weekly magazine, Fresh Fruit, hosted her own show on WBRU called “Women’s View” and participated in student government and a peer counseling program. “Brown gave me the opportunity to try everything, and I managed to cram in a lot,” she said. As an aspiring writer, Birnbach said, “I had some idea that I wanted to work in journalism or media within New York, but I didn’t realize all of the possibilities then. I came to a point where I realized that the New York Times wasn’t sitting there waiting for me to graduate and give me a job right out of college. It’s just unrealistic to think that way.” So instead of working for the Times, Birnbach landed a dream job at the Village Voice a few months after graduation, writing a column for the newspaper called “Scenes.” “It was a great job because I was doing what I loved to do,” Birnbach said. It was also a job that gave her the idea for her most famous book to date, “The Official Preppy Handbook,” published in 1980. “My big break was definitely with ‘Preppy Handbook,’ no doubt. I was working at the Village Voice at the time, and I got the offer to write the book — it originally wasn’t my idea,” she said. With the chance to write a tongue-in-cheek book about the world of prepsters, Birnbach said she looked back at her own life and her college years for inspiration. “I remember I was going to play squash, and I wore a pink Lacoste polo shirt with a green sweater — now, I didn’t know anything about matching those two colors together, but apparently it worked, and I found others who wore similar outfits too. One wouldn’t think that you could find Preppies at a school like Brown, but I found them,” Birnbach said. “You know, the polo shirts with the rugby shirts on top — so many layers!” Birnbach quit her job in the summer of 1980 to write the book with a few friends. Surprising its authors, the book became a huge success — it sold 2 million copies nationwide and landed the writers on national talk shows. Thanks to the book, Birnbach joked, “I have the gift of discerning whether someone is hiding his or her preppiness.”

FEATURE With her new fame, Birnbach was offered the chance to write two television pilots for HBO and became a contributing editor for Parade Magazine. She has authored and co-authored 19 books since writing “The Official Preppy Handbook.” Birnbach said the success “didn’t change my wardrobe, didn’t change my friends or my apartment, but it did change my career.” On top of her success as an author, she was approached last year by GreenStone Media, a Internet talk radio network established in September 2006, which asked Birnbach to host her own radio show. “They asked me to do a demo, and I got three friends of mine on the phone with me, put mics on the conversation, and they liked it. I wasn’t nervous or anything because I was just having a conversation with my friends,” Birnbach said. The show airs live on the Web weekdays 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Eastern time, and since its launch seven months ago, it has won two Gracie Awards from the Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television. “No one even told me I was nominated,” she said. “It’s thrilling that the show is being recognized in this way. I think it shows that what we do at GreenStone is different. The feedback and the phone calls that we get from the listeners are so moving.” Birnbach was particularly glad she won an award for a show that featured actor and comedian Robin Williams as a guest. “I’m glad that the listeners enjoyed it,” she said. “Robin is an old and dear friend of mine, and since he ordinarily doesn’t bother with radio, I just wanted him to have a good time on my show and feel like it wasn’t a total waste of time or vanity act. I love playing with him. With him you speak first and think — if you must — later.” But despite her professional success, Birnbach said she most enjoys being “a great single mother” for her three children. “Being a mom is definitely my biggest accomplishment, and it puts me in the same boat as a lot of my listeners. Whether you live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan or in a small town in Rhode Island, we share many fundamental commonalities as parents, and in many cases, including mine, as a single parent,” she said. “I like to tell listeners about the little crises du jour: sick kid at home, problems at the slumber parties, et cetera. Sometimes it even makes me feel less alone.” One thing Birnbach has learned from her hectic schedule is to take things one at a time. “If there is one thing I learned, especially from being a mom and handling a career, is that you can’t have it all at once. Maybe eventually or at different times, but definitely not all at once,” she said. But for now, as Birnbach is happy and loving her job, and for now, there appears to be nothing left for her except, as Williams said on her show, to “go ahead on, girl.”

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Grad School to evaluate goals, size in the fall continued from page 3 seeing at Brown as well,” Bonde said. Bonde said, in some cases, funding and students have transferred from older departments into newer ones. The number of students in doctoral and master’s programs in computer science has also grown steadily, from 63 students in Spring 1997 to 106 students in Spring 2006, according to the OIR data. The number of grad students enrolled in those programs reached a 10-year high in 2006 at the same time that the number of undergraduate concentrators fell to a 10-year low of 37 students, according to OIR data. Maurice Herlihy, director of graduate study for the Department of Computer Science, said much of the growth in the depart-

ment has come about as a result of doubling the size of the department’s faculty. When he came to work at Brown in 1994, the department had 16 faculty members, and the number has since increased to the low 30s, Herlihy said. He added that the burst of the dot-com bubble in 2000 caused an increase in the number and quality of applicants to the program. “People who went off to join a start-up suddenly realized they were not going to become millionaires by the time they were 25, so they may as well get an education,” Herlihy said. “Since then, I think, it’s still the case that people who would have gone off to start a company stick around to earn a master’s or a Ph.D.” While many graduate programs have grown, others — such as the master’s and doctoral programs in the Department of English — have

decreased in size over the past decade. The English graduate program has seen a drop from 73 students in Spring 1997 to 45 in Spring 2006. Much of the reason for the drop was a decrease in the number of admitted students in the mid- to late1990s, from approximately 10 per year to 6 to 8 per year, said Daniel Kim, director of graduate study for the English department. The English department plans to suspend admission to its master’s program next year due to issues with funding and the vague goals of the program. The decrease in English grad st students also reﬂects cuts — made by the department in the late 1990s — of students who had been enrolled in the department for 10 to 15 years but had not yet earned a degree. “We asked them either to ﬁnish up or withdraw,” Kim said.

U. offering vouchers for summer storage continued from page 3 After ending on-campus storage A in the summer of 2004, the University used the storage company Smart Movers — now part of Mad Packers — for the summers of 2005 and 2006. Though no major problems occurred the ﬁrst year the University worked with the company, last fall many students complained of receiving their items days or even weeks after their return to campus. Many also expressed frustration over the company’s unresponsiveness to their attempts at contact. “I’m really conﬁdent things will go much better” with storage this summer, said Sara Gentile ’09, admissions and student services chair of the Undergraduate Council of Students. Gentile served on a committee of students and administrators that selected the new company. Gentile cited customer service as one of the key priorities in selecting the new company. Last year, boxes often went missing or

were not at the correct location when students returned to pick up their items in the fall, Forsberg said. Those problems, he said, were caused by a glitch in Smart Movers’ new computer system. “Students would call and e-mail and never get a response” about their belongings, Gentile added. Larry Byron, the company’s owner, told The Herald last September that the computer system glitches and students’ failure to reserve a pick-up time by the deadline contributed to delays in returning boxes. Erikson said Space Station would “be available 24/7 during the crucial periods,” rolling calls to its ofﬁces over to staff members’ cell phones to respond quickly to requests. Business Services Manager Diane Chouinard, who also served on the search committee, said the company’s location “just a few miles from campus” was a major attraction — if notiﬁed within approximately 24 hours, Space Station

promises to return students’ items to campus, she said. Forsberg said endorsing an offcampus company to provide summer storage for students is “certainly superior” to providing on-campus storage to students. On-campus storage was “extremely difﬁcult to manage,” with problems arising such as water damage to uninsured items, he said. Even students “squatting” in their current rooms for the upcoming year cannot keep items in their rooms over the summer, Forsberg said, since the University uses many rooms over the summer for such occasions as commencement and summer programs. Sarah Goldstein ’09 remembered that “it took like a month to get my roommate’s fridge,” after using Smart Movers last year because “they couldn’t locate it.” But she said she would still feel comfortable using storage handled by the University if she wasn’t driving her belongings to her home in Maryland instead.

SDS revived: 1960s group wraps up active year on campus continued from page 5 Members take pride in their diversity within the groups and across chapters, but they try to remember the dangers of fragmentation and factionalism that destroyed the old SDS in the late 1960s, Rogers said. “We are knowledgeable of the history,” he said. “We try to be as respectful as possible.” Issues on campus Though the goals, issues and tactics of SDS chapters vary widely, they share an interest in promoting social justice, government accountability and democratic participation at all levels of society, according to Phelps. Lambek said members of the Brown chapter have diverse backgrounds and activist interests. Problems of militarism, imperialism and environmental destruction are of particular concern among students here, he said. SDS has taken a particularly active role in protesting the Iraq war. Rogers cited increasing antiwar sentiment as a cause for the group’s recent growth and the eagerness with which students have mobilized. “There has been a resurgence in the anti-war group,” he said.

“There is more infrastructure now.” On April 7, at least 16 SDS members protested inside Sayles Hall over defense contractor Raytheon’s presence at the Career Fair. A Brown SDS member was arrested downtown at another rally in front of the headquarters of Textron Inc., a corporation the U.S. military contracts with for helicopters, armored vehicles and munitions. Lambek said he thought students were sympathetic to the message of these protests and — in the case of the Raytheon incident — with what SDS sees as the University’s tacit support for “war proﬁteers.” “(The protest) really showed the possibility that student power can hold,” he said. Planning for the future The next challenges for SDS, Lambek said, lie in strengthening activist culture, building links among issue-based groups and “organizing the organizers.” Though SDS now operates at a local and regional level, Lambek said he sees the formation of a national structure as a possibility. “I don’t see there being a central committee making decisions,” he said, adding that he envisioned

only a solidified structure that might allow chapters to communicate and mobilize. Meanwhile, SDS members anticipate that the group will expand and continue to agitate for meaningful reform in the coming years. “The current freshman and sophomore classes are passionate and knowledgeable,” Rogers said. SDS’s future activities are uncertain but will continue to reflect the interests and concerns of group members rather than being dictated by a certain prescribed set of issues, Lambek said. Molly McLaughlin ’10 said she anticipates that the debate over whether ROTC should return to campus will be one issue to engage SDS’s attention in the near future. For McLaughlin, groups like SDS were part of the reason she came to Brown in the first place. She joined SDS because she has long had “the desire to learn about things and the desire to do something about them.” Mael Vizcarra ’09 said that she was involved with activism in high school, but she stopped once she came to the University — until she found SDS. “I thought the organizations here were just talk,” she said. “But I found a group that represented my philosophy.”

C AMPUS N EWS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2007

Is cheating on the rise? Last semester saw increase in reported cases BY OLIVIA HOFFMAN STAFF WRITER

A sharp rise in cheating cases brought before the Standing Committee on the Academic Code has caused the committee’s chairs to question whether the statistic reflects a trend in cheating on campus. Thirty cases of cheating that occurred during the Fall 2006 semester have come before the code committee, said committee co-chair and Associate Professor of Community Health Catherine Dube — seven more than were reported for the entire 2005-06 academic year. All of last semester’s cases were first offenses and all but one case involved undergraduates. The committee’s annual report described last year’s figure — 23 cases of cheating for the academic year — as roughly average. But professors on the code committee and Associate Dean of the College Karen Krahulik, who also serves as case administrator for the code committee, differed over whether the spike in academic code violations indicates a rise in cheating. Krahulik said it is almost impossible to draw conclusions about whether more students are actually cheating. “If we just go by the number of cases, we can get a sense of how many are caught, but it doesn’t tell us how many are cheating, and nothing will,” she said. Several factors could have contributed to the increase, Krahulik said. “It could be that the dean’s office has done more outreach both to students and to faculty, and so faculty are more alert and students are more alert to each other.” Dube agreed that last semester’s statistic does not necessarily mean that cheating is on the rise. “My gut impression is that it’s not,” she said. Dube said she thinks faculty are “activated” and in turn are reporting more cases. But the committee’s other cochair, Associate Professor of Sociology Gregory Elliott, disagreed. Though “it’s impossible to tell exactly,” he said his “sociological take” leads him to believe that more students are cheating. “There are more people trying to succeed in a society in which the number of slots available for success is not getting any bigger,” Elliott said. “So that increases the pressure tremendously.” “Good people can do very bad things if the circumstances facilitate it,” he said. Even if there is escalating competition among students, Dube said she doubts it generates cheating. Cheaters make up “a very small subset of students,” Dube said, noting that “the vast majority”

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are “academically honest and have a lot of integrity.” The current system for dealing with academic code violations is “working pretty well the way it is,” Dube said, adding that there are no concrete plans to change the existing policy, despite the large number of code violations last semester. But the committee has discussed new methods for detecting cheating and also including students in code hearings. One detection system, a software program called Turnitin. com, allows professors to submit students’ essays to a database that compares them with works from the Internet, journals, periodicals and previously submitted student work. “I think it’s probably just a matter of time before most universities will have something like it available to instructors to check papers for plagiarism,” Dube said. The Department of Computer Science already uses a service called Measure of Software Unity to detect cheating. The department consistently reports the most academic code violations. Associate Professor of Computer Science Thomas Doeppner said cheating cases within the department rose proportionally last semester, “but we certainly have better means for catching people.” Doeppner said there are often issues about the extent to which collaboration is allowed. One freshman student who wished to remain anonymous said several of her professors often assign take-home quizzes that students submit online, making it “very easy to collaborate.” “In one of my classes, it’s explicitly stated that we’re not supposed to work with other people, but everyone kind of does,” she said. “If not, people still use their notes, and there’s no way for them to know if we used our notes or not.” Krahulik said efforts to make students aware of academic policies are “thorough.” First-years attend a lecture about the academic code during orientation and receive a copy of the handbook containing the code. Current freshmen had to complete an online tutorial the summer before beginning classes and other students were required to sign a card agreeing to the terms of the code. Still, given the recent rise in the number of cases, Elliott said the University could do more to address cheating. “Just telling (students) they’re not supposed to cheat isn’t enough,” he said. “The problem isn’t one of detection. The problem is dealing with the anxiety that makes desperate people do stupid things,” Elliott said. “If it continues and we ﬁnd a similar number of increased violations this semester and again next fall, then I’d start to get very nervous.”

Brown-Dartmouth medical program to end in 2010 BY KRISTINA KELLEHER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Between 15 and 20 students each year have been admitted to the Brown Medical School through the Brown-Dartmouth College program since 1981, but the partnership is now being phased out of existence. The program, which allows students to spend their first two years of medical school at Dartmouth and their last two years at Brown, will be ending once the program’s current students have graduated. The 2006-2007 academic year saw the last first-year class of 15 students enter the program, said Philip Gruppuso, associate dean of medicine for medical education. The program, which is billed as an opportunity to experience both rural and urban medicine, began over 20 years ago because of mismatched resources — Dartmouth had fewer clinical facilities but more basic sciences facilities than Brown. “We could accommodate more pre-clinical students than they could,” said Joseph O’Donnell, senior advising dean at Dartmouth Medical School. Students graduated from the program with an M.D. degree from Brown. The Brown-Dartmouth program made sense in the traditional medical school approach where the four-year experience was divided between basic sciences and clinical work. Students completed basic medical science coursework in their two “pre-clinical” years and spent the last two “clinical” years in hospital clerkships. But recently, medical education has become more of a “four-year package,” O’Donnell said, pointing to Brown’s development of its new “MD 2000” curriculum. “It became illogical to do in two different places,” he said. “It just made more sense to be in one place for four years,” O’Donnell said of ending the program. Dartmouth has also integrated the basic science and clinical years. “We’ve put much more clinical material in the first year … and much more basic sciences in the fourth year than ever before,” O’Donnell said. “Both schools thought (ending the program was) the best thing to do,” O’Donnell said, though “it’s with some degree of sadness

we feel up here about the end of the relationship.” “On balance, I’d say the program ending is a bad thing,” Gruppuso said, adding that Dartmouth provided an “excellent preclinical training program and their students did well in clerkships.” Plus, he said, the program’s students “lent some experiential difference,” to Brown’s clinical program. “It was good while it lasted,” Gruppuso said. “The program really worked,” O’Donnell said, explaining that on every measure — including grades on clerkships, residency acceptances and medical licensing exam scores — the graduates from the joint program mirrored those who spent four years at either Brown or Dartmouth. “I have very warm feelings about it,” O’Donnell said. The program was highly competitive and consistently received far more applicants than there were available spots, Gruppuso said. The program fostered great relationships and friendships between Brown and Dartmouth fac-

ulty but not as many joint research programs as had been envisioned at its inception. “The distance between Hanover and Providence proved to be hard” to manage, O’Donnell said. “Students who went (to Brown) had an excellent experience,” said O’Donnell, who also described ways Dartmouth is trying to ﬁll the void for students looking for an urban medical education experience. One way is with its new Urban Scholars program, supported in part by the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation, which gives students urban medical experiences in Manchester, N.H., and Boston. Nathaniel Link MD’08, who spent his ﬁrst two years of medical school at Dartmouth, said he enjoyed the “good urban-rural mix” the Brown-Dartmouth program provided. When he applied, he “thought it would be nice to have a change of location partway through medical school. … I wanted to have both those cultural experiences.” “I am really happy in the program and sad it is ending,” Link said.

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Profs voice support at forum for more undergrad science research funding continued from page 1 may have already exhausted available funding from external sources like the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Such professors would benefit most from an increase in the number of University-financed Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards granted each year, which would make more summer research opportunities available to students. In addition to increasing the number of UTRAs granted, the committee also advocated measures to make UTRAs sufficient to cover expenses for students on financial aid with summer work expectations. The draft report suggested increasing the UTRA stipend from $3,000

to $4,000 or subsidizing University housing for student researchers. Professor of Chemistry Richard Stratt said student research at Brown is a successful and important part of the University. “It’s criminal that students go wanting for undergraduate research opportunities,” he said. Jan Tullis, professor of geological sciences, said she expected alumni donors would be enthusiastic about supporting undergraduate research. Other forum participants said they were concerned that junior faculty members have fewer resources for hiring summer researchers. The report also suggests offering multidisciplinary courses to attract more students. One proposal recommends adding sections to

certain introductory courses that would be taught by faculty members from outside of the course’s field, such as an engineering professor teaching a section of an introductory biology course. Professors at the forum discussed possibilities for reducing attrition of STEM concentrators after students complete introductory courses and, more generally, increasing retention in those fields by increasing academic support for current and entering students. The report also recommends offering summer programs to teach study skills, providing refresher courses in core areas and holding an orientation for incoming firstyears interested in STEM fields. The report also discusses implementing a Supplemental Instruc-

tion program to target courses that have a high drop rate. SI is a nationwide instruction program with its national ofﬁce at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Associate Professor of Engineering Thomas Webster, a committee member, said SI would recruit seniors to lead regular informational sessions in courses they have mastered and support younger students by guiding them through the material and teaching them organizational and study skills. Webster said SI has substantially increased retention rates for women and minorities in science courses at other universities where it has been implemented. Professors at the forum seemed receptive to the admission proposals mentioned in the report, which

included increasing the scientific focus of admission literature and creating special publications targeted at students with a demonstrated interest in science. Committee members said they hoped to raise Brown’s profile as a “science school” among potential applicants and their parents. Faculty members at the forum offered some of their own suggestions for improving undergraduate STEM education at Brown. These included keeping track of talented high school students who participate in scientific summer programs at Brown and supporting measures that would find science-oriented students from local high schools and channel them into Brown’s admission process through a Universitysponsored club.

U. will look to other schools as it designs campus center continued from page 3 rest of the campus and which he said had come to define Princeton’s campus culture. “The Frist Center was very important because it provides alternate meeting places for students who are in eating clubs. Students see more people.” Just as the Frist model reflects Princeton’s culture, Interim Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Russell Carey ’91 MA’06 said he believes such a building cannot simply be copied. “Our priority is to come up with facilities that are right for Brown, that fit Brown and match the educational opportunities that are right for Brown students. We are informed by what others are doing, but not driven by that,” he said. Williams College A second potential model for Brown is Williams College’s Paresky Center. Opening in February 2007 after two and a half years of construction, this 72,000 squarefoot structure contains an auditorium, dining room, marketplace, balconies and a number of lounges that students and student groups may reserve for events. Paresky was constructed to replace an existing student center that had occupied the same location. Williams senior Maggie Lowenstein was enrolled while the old center, Baxter Hall, was in operation. “Baxter was kind of a barebones student center — dining hall upstairs, mailboxes, some offices for student organizations,” she said. “There was not a whole lot of general common space. It was functional but not necessarily like a campus hub. ... It was just kind of there.” Before constructing Paresky,

Lowenstein said, the Williams administration had made an effort to improve some of the other campus spaces, such as improving coffee bars and other common areas. However, student organizations were forced to meet in rooms dispersed around the campus, and even the mailboxes were not centrally located. Like Princeton’s Frist Center, Lowenstein said Paresky was extremely well-received once completed. “The way it is now, there is a good mix of student offices and other space. There is space to hang out, and the dining hall area is integrated with the social spaces. It is very nice that you can use the space in so many different ways. I think that is what a student center is supposed to do,” Lowenstein said, adding that, unlike at Frist, Paresky was constructed deliberately to have no academic classrooms. “Everybody studies all the time, tons. It’s nice to have a place without academic pressure.” And at Brown... So what would a similar hub for activity look like at Brown, and how would it reflect the University’s culture? The answer, according to Gresh, is that the University would like to construct not a student center, but rather a campus center. “Brown is intent upon Faunce being a campus center. A student center is typically a place for students, student offices and space for a majority of student activities. The philosophy and approach is student-centered,” Gresh said. “A campus center is a more recent idea, also taking into consideration how to get graduates and undergraduates to interact with each other and

with faculty. We ask, ‘How does this resource serve to bring the campus together — not just students?’ ” Gresh said students perceive Faunce House as a natural continuation of the Main Green. Activities from the Main Green continue on to the steps of Faunce and often into the building. And, despite its small size, students already treat the Blue Room as a sort of hub for social interaction and meetings. While the exact nature of how the campus center will be constructed has not yet been determined, Gresh said it will expand upon these strengths while addressing concerns that the rest of the building is underutilized and relatively inaccessible to students. Noting that the campus center is in the early planning phase, Carey said many University services would be consolidated into Faunce and J. Walter Wilson, with the intent that all of them become better utilized. “Particularly once an architect is selected, there will be a speciﬁc planning process to make that vision a reality,” Carey said. Carey speciﬁcally referenced the University’s peer tutoring in writing programs, which are currently divided between the Writing Center in the Rockefeller Library and the Writing Fellows program in Rhode Island Hall. “This program will be much more effective if it is located in the same place,” he said. “People need opportunities and space in order to work collaboratively and collectively, face to face,” Carey said. “We see this space as one where a faculty member might meet with his or her advisee, a place where all types of formal and informal interactions take place on a daily basis between faculty, students and staff.”

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W. track leaps to second at Husky Spring Invitational continued from page 12 wealth of points for the Bears starting in the pole vault which boasted five top-7 finishes. Kristin Olds ’09 led the way with a first-place finish by clearing 11feet 6.25 inches. Cassie Wong ’10 came in third with a clearance of 11-0.25. Tiffany Chang ’08, Keely Marsh ’08 and Allison Brager ’07 rounded out the scoring by sweeping fi fth through seventh places. Rikki Baldwin ’07 and Ferjan went two-three in the long jump. King not only jumped a personal best in the triple jump with a 40-foot 9-inch jump to put her in second place, but she also qualified for the NCAA East Regional meet. In the discus throw, Danielle

Grunloh ’10 threw a personal best of 140-feet 2-inches to silver in the event, and Sarah Groothuis ’08 placed third with a 138-9. The day was a proud one for the Bears, yet they said they still have a lot of work to do in a very short amount of time. “UConn was one of our last opportunities before Heps to step it up, and we did, which is promising,” Lake said. “We have two weeks left, and we really need to rally, up the ante, and up the focus level. Similar to indoors, we aren’t seeded very high in the league, and we will need to perform really well at Heps all around if we want to have a respectable ﬁnish. We want to remain in second (where we ﬁnished in the indoor season), and this will not come easily for us.”

M. golf claim second at Ivy Championships behind Haertel ’08, Malloy ’09 continued from page 12 appointing tournament, finishing seventh in the league with an overall score of 1,034. Tiffany Wade ’08 finished 13th individually with a three-round 243 (8380-80). Columbia captured the championship with a total of 933. Despite her finish at the tournament, Wade was not ecstatic with the weekend’s outcome. “I played fairly well but am still disappointed by the result,” Wade said. “It was a rough weekend for the team. The result is partially due to our lack of practice before the weekend due to

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weather.” However, the team is already looking forward to next year. According to Head Coach Danielle Grifﬁths, three freshmen will join the team next year, and all are expected to contribute. “This spring season has been a transition period for the team with the new coach and new system,” Grifﬁths said. “But we are looking forward to improving the team next fall.” Wade expressed the same optimism. “This season’s disappointing ending will be extra motivation for the summer and next year.”

McClintock ’08, throwers shine for m. track at sunny Husky Spring Invitational continued from page 12 a stunning first-place finish and a personal best of 14.04 seconds on the 110-meter hurdles. The exceptional time qualified him for the NCAA East Regional meet. Brown was impressive in the throwing events as well. In the shot put, the Bears flexed their muscles as Bryan Powlen ’10, Eric Wood ’09 and David Howard ’09 launched third-, fourth- and fi fthplace throws with distances of 49feet 1-inch, 47-9.5 and 47-7.25, respectively. Powlen and Howard also took fourth and fi fth, respectively, in the discus. But they were not the only throwers who doubled up on the day. Wood also launched a fourth-place effort in the hammer

throw. More personal bests came from Paul Rosiak ’07 and Samuel Urlacher ’09. Rosiak walked away from the javelin with a ﬁrst-place ﬁnish and a regional qualifying distance of 219-feet 9-inches. “The women had a great meet before us, and Coach Lake made sure that we knew how well they did in hopes that it would carry over, which it obviously did,” Tabib said. “At the end of the meet, we had everyone who (set a personal record) stand up, and it was obvious that we had a great day by the number of men who stood up.” The Bears hope that their hot streak will continue as they gear up for the end of their season. “The Heptagonals has and

will always be a great track meet in the Ivy League,” Rosiak said. “It’s a complete weekend of nothing but track and ﬁeld with the entire team. The competition is great, and there is a strong sense of camaraderie among your teammates. At this point, we start to phase into a peaking stage in training, so there is more mental than physical work to do.” Some of this mental work even included picturing the perfect championship run. “(My dream Heps) would be for everyone as a team to step up as a whole and run, throw, or jump to the best of their abilities,” Tabib said. “As a senior, knowing that everyone left it all on the ﬁeld would be a satisfying ending for me.”

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STAF F EDITORIAL

Revisiting the sciences A year after the Science Cohort initiative fizzled in the wake of strong faculty opposition, efforts to strengthen undergraduate programs in the fields collectively known as STEM — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — are primed to move forward once again. But this time, they’re to everyone’s benefit. On Tuesday, the faculty reviewed a preliminary draft of the Undergraduate Science Education Committee’s recommendations, and the proposals — increasing undergraduate research funding, lowering attrition from STEM concentrations and boosting interdisciplinary offerings, among others — represent a prudent departure from the University’s last major plan to ratchet up the desirability of undergraduate science programs. That last plan — the Science Cohort or the Integrative Science and Engineering Program — suggested recruiting a special cadre of about 60 incoming students each year who would have perks reserved specially for them, chiefly two University-funded summer research grants. Faculty reaction to the idea ranged from lukewarm to oppositional. Many professors rightly disliked the notion of reserving elite benefits for a set of students, and others questioned the logistical sense of accommodating growth in the incoming class’s size. However flawed the initial plan, the goals behind the Science Cohort are right for Brown. The University’s strength in both the sciences and the humanities is relatively unique. Students who spend their days (and nights) in Barus & Holley or the Sidney Frank Hall for Life Sciences can call Brown a serious science school, while those who instead find themselves in Peter Green House or Marston Hall consider the University one of nation’s top humanities institutions. Without neglecting the humanities or social sciences, University officials are right to build on Brown’s strengths in the STEM fields. After a year of deliberation, the Undergraduate Science Education Committee — created last year to rethink the undergraduate science initiatives after the cohort scheme flopped — has produced what appear to be appropriate recommendations. Increasing funding for undergraduate research opportunities, especially Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards, answers a longstanding student complaint. And building multidisciplinary science education can help move Brown along the path undergraduate science education is heading nationwide. With the Science Cohort a distant memory, the University’s new approach to strengthen undergraduate STEM offerings could improve education for all science students, not just a lucky few.

Loss of a great storyteller Originally known for his dogged, critical and ultimately correct reporting on the early stages of the Vietnam War, journalist and author David Halberstam P’02 became one of the best-known and well-written historians of his generation. Halberstam never lost his passion for what reporters do best — covering weighty or latent topics, whether Vietnam or the 1950s, so compellingly that a casual reader couldn’t help but be interested. Even at the time of his death on Monday, Halberstam was on his way to an interview. Fresh from a book on the Korean War and a piece on the 1958 NFL Championship Game between New York and Baltimore, Halberstam understood the value of reporting on the diverse stories that shape American life and can transport readers to either the jungles of Asia or in the middle of Yankee Stadium. After a lecture yesterday by Halberstam’s slightly younger contemporary and close friend David Maraniss, we’re reminded of the importance of writers whose beautifully crafted words make even the heftiest topics engaging. On Monday we lost one of journalism’s great storytellers and one of America’s great popular historians.

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SDS members want freedom to protest To the Editor: Students who planned to attend Monday’s Banner protest should be concerned about a recent summons to a dean’s hearing sent to members of Students for a Democratic Society by administrators after our recent action against Raytheon at the Career Fair. According to the administration, we violated the Standards of Student Conduct by “(engaging) in a protest on University property.” However, ofﬁcial school policy supports protest and allows “picket lines which permit free passage of those who wish to pass … signs, banners and peaceful assemblies.” Groups as diverse as the Darfur Action Network, which recently protested the visiting Chinese ambassador, and the College Republicans, who demonstrated against Operation Iraqi Freedom’s war memorial, stage actions similar to ours on campus. These groups, like us, try to persuade and educate without presuming to force opinions on other students.

Could it be that the administration has come down so hard on SDS because we questioned the University’s complicity in the military-industrial complex? This is just conjecture, but it is true that other groups on campus aren’t often invited to meet with deans simply for having “engaged in a protest on university property.” It is important that campus activism not be discouraged by this attempt to rein in SDS. This is our campus, and we must dare to struggle against any and all attempts to silence the student body’s voice. It’s important that folks in University Hall understand that protest isn’t a privilege, it’s a right! Lily Axelrod ’09 Alex Campbell ’10 Mike Da Cruz ’08.5 Will Emmons ’09 Alex Tye ’10 April 23

Student upset with Herald letter title To the Editor: I found the title assigned to my letter (“Intrepid thermometer-wielder proves U. overheated,” April 24) to be poorly chosen. Rather than choosing a title that summarized the main point of my letter — the fact that the University was defaulting on its commitment to reduce the level of heating — The Herald chose a title that was as much about me as it was about the letter. I don’t have a problem with people laughing at me for carrying a thermometer around campus, but is the

title of my letter really the right place for that? Isn’t the letters page a place for the opinions of the readers, rather than the opinions of the editors? The Herald is welcome to mock me in an editorial or a column, but if the editors choose to publish my letters, I’d ask that they at least include them under a title that represents the ideas expressed within. Adam Merberg ‘08 April 24

Students seek environmental, economic balance To the Editor: An informal survey of Brown students’ opinions on potential policy solutions to address global warming suggests that students favor holistic solutions that balance competing needs. The poll was conducted by members of the Brown Policy Review, a non-partisan publication of the Roosevelt Institution chapter at Brown, at last Wednesday’s Earth Day celebration on Lincoln Field. By a nearly two-to-one margin, students who responded to the survey indicated that the “benefits of directing resources toward fighting global warming must be balanced with costs to other social programs and economic growth” over an alternative statement that “the benefits of directing resources towards fighting global warming always outweigh the costs.” While the results and method of the poll are not sta-

tistically robust and a more comprehensive survey is needed to fully portray students’ perceptions, these initial results provide some glimpse into Brunonian perceptions of one of the more pressing policy challenges facing the world today. Whether on campus or in the greater community, students desire to see equitable and balanced approaches that promote environmental protection — but not at expense of other social and economic values. Adam Perry ’08 Brown Policy Review, Editor-in-Chief Christopher Hardy ’10 Brown Policy Review, Environmental Policy Editor April 24

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The University’s sweatshop labor BY MASHA PERELYUBSKAYA, JENNIFER PHUNG, SARAH ADLER-MILSTEIN, FRANCESCA CONTRERAS, WILL EMMONS, ALEX CAMPBELL, BECKY FISH, NICOLE CARTY AND KENNETH MORALES GUEST COLUMNISTS The University has vigilantly demonstrated its commitment to social responsibility, as has recently been demonstrated by the release of the slavery and justice report. The report, which pivots around the University’s unpleasant confrontation with its involvement in the Atlantic slave trade, brings into focus the momentous importance of truth, apology and the acknowledgement of past wrongdoings in confronting an institution’s entanglement in the infringement of civil liberties. Yet for all of its concern with acknowledging transgressions against human rights in its past, the University has left us wondering if the same concern applies to violations in the present. The University is remaining silent as the human rights of the people who make Brownlogo clothes are trampled. Much as the University failed to stand up for human rights during the slave trade, Brown is refusing to take a stand against the exploitation of the workers who make our clothes. Currently, the companies the University contracts for our uniforms and Brown-logo apparel are abandoning the few factories that have made progress in improving the conditions of their workplace and outsourcing production to factories where workers’ rights are non-existent. Instead of supporting alternatives to sweatshop exploitation, Brown is remaining silent while workers that have fought for their human rights are laid off and replaced by a more easily exploitable workforce. The vast majority of workers employed in apparel factories are plagued by low wages that fail to meet basic day-to-day needs, by excessively long working hours, by forced and unpaid overtime, by physical and verbal abuse and by a total lack of representation. By subscribing to University-logo apparel made under such circumstances, Brown plays the role of facilitator in the negation of civil liberties and the dehumanization of workers. Keeping this in mind, we wonder: Should Brown-logo garments on proud display at the Bookstore be seen as a denial of present-day violations of human rights or Brown’s proud display of its willingness to support them? Following the logic of the slavery and justice report, Brown should acknowledge its utilization of sweatshop labor and take part in the international action against poor working conditions by adopting the Designated Suppliers Program. The DSP works with universities and sweat-free factories to raise the substandard working conditions of the garment industry. In exchange for university apparel orders, factories are required to comply with labor laws, provide workers a living wage and recognize their rights to organize. Over thirty universities throughout the country have taken a stand for workers’ rights and adopted the DSP — which uses university buying power to support factories with fair working conditions and decent wages. Meanwhile, Brown has neither openly voiced support nor signed on to the DSP DSP, even as its creators have painstakingly attended to all of the legal concerns that might have hindered the University from participating. If Brown truly desires to set the standard for ethical behavior and ensure legitimate progress in the realm of worker empowerment, it should not hesitate to espouse the DSP program.

Masha Perelyubskaya ‘10, Jennifer Phung ‘09, Sarah Adler- Milstein ‘07.5, Francesca Contreras ‘10, Will Emmons ‘09, Alex Campbell ‘10, Becky Fish ‘09, Nicole Carty ‘10 and Kenneth Morales ‘09 are members of Brown Students Against Sweatshops.

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Taking a page from Dr. King BY JESSE ADAMS OPINIONS COLUMNIST When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech over 40 years ago, he inadvertently contributed to a paradigm that flies in the face of his legacy. Dr. King had a dream, yes, but he also had a plan — to win over the hearts and minds of wavering moderates, to attract the votes of self-interested officials and to leave no doubt that the Civil Rights movement had airtight moral legitimacy. King’s strategy involved presenting a unified front of undeniable respectability, co-opting traditional Biblical moral rhetoric and preaching an inclusive and hopeful message that embraced rather than alienated people. It was not enough for King to fervently believe that he was on the right side of history — he needed to actively and empathetically engage the world of his time in order to effect its transformation. Many of today’s activists, especially on America’s college campuses, remember King’s dream — but not, alas, his strategy. Despite their insistence on tolerance, they lack the empathy and self-reflexivity needed to understand, let alone persuade, the vast masses of people who oppose their opinions on sensitive issues — such as guns, abortion, sexuality and separation of church and state — that have drawn many to the Republican Party in recent years. Whereas King spelled out a powerful vision specifically crafted to be stirring and persuasive to a broad audience, today many activists have slipped into a form of self-congratulatory complacency that may satisfy true believers but often proves off-putting (or worse) to the unconverted. The shrillest examples of such complacency appear in the strident and divisive ‘activism’ of the far left, of which last year’s Anti-Racist Action is one of Brown’s more obnoxious examples. The group sought to spread its aggressively anti-Israel message with noisy confrontation, grandiose installations on the Main Green and vituperative fin-

ger-pointing — presumably with the hope of shocking passers-by into reconsidering their points of view. Instead of inciting change, ARA’s grating litany of grievances against “racist imperialists” antagonized a sizable minority into active opposition, provoked irritated indifference from most and thoroughly compromised the group’s credibility on campus. Even at such a liberal and activist-friendly place as Brown, ARA managed through sheer rudeness to undermine their cause by associating the legitimate plight of Palestinians with immature and unsavory radicalism. Off campus, many individuals view any and all activism with suspicion and are predisposed to react negatively — especially since the media invariably emphasize the shaggiest and most outrageous personalities they can muster. It’s paramount, then, that those who truly wish to get their message out borrow a trick from the famous 1964 protests at Berkeley, in which participants built a broad coalition, marched respectfully in coats and ties and ultimately won concessions from their rabidly conservative state government. As at Berkeley, activists must make themselves impossible to dismiss, which means anticipating and defusing the adversary’s arsenal of distractions. No matter how eloquent and respectful each member of Students for a Democratic Society may be, charging a building and smearing it with raspberry jam to simulate blood — as happened earlier this semester — provides easy fodder for defenders of the status quo who can duck issues by attacking the stereotype of spoiled rich kids smoking pot at protests instead of getting a real job. Indeed, Republicans have used such attacks for years, winning much working class support with various divisive cultural issues designed to make activists — and the Democrats they tend to support — seem like elitist alien saboteurs. And many, including members of the Brown community, have assisted the GOP every step of the way with behavior that alienates, disrespects and excludes the very constituents needed to win elections

and kick-start systemic change. Lest anyone believe that such counterproductive behavior is limited to an extremist minority, it’s important to remember how pervasive a problem it is — and how deeply many of us are implicated. Being counterproductive includes calling anyone who questions gay marriage homophobic. It’s condemning the Duke lacrosse players — or the Brown police — before a shred of evidence has been heard. It’s circulating chain e-mails after the 2004 election that labeled red-leaning states “Jesusland” and baselessly claimed that Democrats have higher IQs than Republicans. It’s Howard Dean declaring patronizingly that Democrats need to reach out to “guys with Confederate flags on their pick-up trucks” and it’s the excessive wave of politically correct liberal revulsion that his statement elicited. Progressives should have enough faith in their cause — as King did — to believe that it will advance through consciousness-raising and debate, not snide personal attacks and shrill street theater. In an era of rapid and destabilizing change, progressives cannot afford to build a small tent for a self-selected group of moral elites and simply “hope for the best.” Starting with the language of respect and reconciliation, they must strategically cultivate a muscular but moderate reputation in order to build genuine coalitions and marshal the necessary influence to make meaningful improvements. Underneath the noisy posturing, few of the participants in our republic — candidate, voter, donor or activist — are truly enemies. We are a diverse group of fellow citizens who, for the most part, are genuinely trying to make the right decisions for our common future. When progressives reject rather than court moderates, they undermine society’s potential for real cooperation and change. In order to build the nation that we’d like to see, we must first take after King and be willing to work with the nation that we have.

Jesse Adams ’07 is off to greener pastures.

How to put boxing back on top DON TRELLA OPINIONS COLUMNIST

Professional boxing today is suffering in popularity. This has not always been the case, however. In the 1990s, the two Mike Tyson fights with Evander Holyfield — the second one being the notorious “bite fight” where Holyfield lost a piece of his ear — broke gate revenue records in Las Vegas and smashed pay-per-view purchase records as well. But with Tyson, Holyfield and Lennox Lewis all retired, the heavyweight division lacks any real excitement, and this effect has trickled down to all the divisions. There’s reason to believe this could change in the near future, however. To understand the current state of professional boxing, it might be interesting to take a look at a different sport. Like boxing today, thoroughbred horseracing’s glory days were the 1970s. About 40 years ago, in the most prominent division of the sport — three-year olds, the horseracing equivalent of the heavyweight division — there suddenly emerged a plethora of horses with unprecedented levels of natural ability. This surplus of talent made racing’s three greatest showcases — the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes — some of the most exciting competitions in all of professional sports at the time. Three times in the 1970s, a horse was able to dominate all three of those races

to win the most elusive prize in professional sports: the Triple Crown. It has been 28 years since Affirmed captured the Crown in 1978, the last horse to do so. In a strange parallel, it has also been 28 years since Leon Spinks held boxing’s greatest prize and perhaps the most coveted individual prize in all of sports — the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world. What complicates things is that the four sanctioning bodies of heavyweight boxing — the WBC, the WBA, the IBF and the WBO — now recognize four different men as heavyweight champion. Some wonder if an undisputed champion will ever rise again, in an age where financial negotiations between promoters, media, agents and the boxers themselves take longer than ever. Often times the negotiations simply break down and the fans’ desire to see the best of the biggest go head-to-head is left unfulfilled. A unification series — a competition for the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world — is the principal victim of this clash of interests. The problem faced by contemporary boxing is a typical prisoner’s dilemma. Even though everyone involved in the sport would profit from the revived interest in a single world championship, everyone seems to have a reason to keep this unification from taking place. For instance, Don King — perhaps the best-known promoter in boxing — promotes one of the four champions, Shannon Briggs. If Briggs were not the winner of the tournament, King could be left without any share of the heavyweight championship for the first

time in decades. Meanwhile, HBO remains deadlocked in financial disputes with promoters. Each side is trying to maximize its bid, even though they would all benefit from coming to an agreement. In horseracing, there’s only a select few opportunities for truly giant paydays. There’s the three big Triple Crown races, and if owners choose not to run their best horses, they miss out on an opportunity that they’ll never have again — because a horse is only threeyears-old once. Boxing has an advantage over horseracing in that there are theoretically infinite opportunities for such enormous paydays, because the people involved — the fighters, the promoters and the media — have the power to create such big events themselves by arranging different exciting matchups. The hitch is that producing exciting match-ups requires a certain degree of cooperation. It requires the interested parties to see beyond their provincial squabbles and recognize that a revival in boxing would benefit them all. Given the possibility for unlimited matchups, producing a unified world championship could return boxing to its former position as one of the most exciting and profitable of all professional sports. If only the interested parties could recognize their common interest, boxing could be king once again.

Don Trella ’08 would be king himself, if it weren’t for his dastardly brother Roderick.

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W. tennis has ﬁrst winning Ivy record since 2003

McClintock ’08, throwers shine for m. track at sunny Husky Spring Invitational

The women’s tennis team finished its season on a high note, taking down two Ivy League foes over the weekend. The Bears overpowered Dartmouth Friday by a score of 5-2, and Sunday, they defeated Harvard, 4-3. The pair of victories boosted Brown’s Ivy record to 4-3 (9-11 overall) and marked the first time since 2003 that the team finished with a winning conference record. “(A winning conference recordis) always something we’ve been working towards, at least since my freshman year. So yeah, to finally accomplish that did make the wins (over Dartmouth and Harvard) a little more special,” said Michelle Pautler ’07. The Bears came out strong against the Big Green, winning two of the three doubles matches to gain an early advantage. At first doubles, Pautler and Sara Mansur ’09 had an 8-5 win, and at third doubles, Daisy Ames ’07 and Kathrin Sorokko ’10 dismantled their opponents 8-2, giving Brown the doubles point. Pautler said the win over Dartmouth was in doubt until Ames pulled out her three-set match in the next-to-last match to finish. “The final score was deceiving. It felt a lot closer, where we might lose 4-3,” Pautler said. “We were definitely worried … until Daisy Ames came up with a crucial win.” In singles play, the Bears’ winning ways continued. Ames had a 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 victory at second singles, and Mansur and Alexa Baggio ’09 took straight-set wins at third and fourth singles, finish-

BY SARAH DEMERS ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Jacob Melrose / Herald In the ﬁnal match of her collegiate career, Michelle Pautler ’07 won 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 at No. 1 singles to clinch Brown’s victory over Harvard.

ing with respective scores of 6-4, 6-4 and 6-3, 7-5. Tanja Vucetic ’10 rounded out the Bears’ 5-2 win with a 6-3, 3-6 (7-2) victory at sixth singles. The momentum carried over to Sunday’s match against the Crimson. Though the Bears dropped the doubles point, they took four of the six singles matches for the victory. At ﬁrst singles, Pautler outlasted her opponent 4-6, 7-5, 6-1. Mansur had a victory at third singles when her opponent retired with Mansur leading 7-5, 3-0. At ﬁ fth singles, Emily Ellis ’10 triumphed 6-3, 6-4, and at sixth singles, Vucetic breezed by her opponent 6-2, 6-0. The triumphant two-day stretch was the Bears’ fourth

W. track places second at Husky Spring Invitational BY SARAH DEMERS ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

After a string of successful showings in previous meets, the women’s track and field team traveled to Storrs, Conn., Saturday looking to improve on its already stellar season. The Bears finished second out of eight teams, falling only to the University of Connecticut by a score of 225 to 193 at the Husky Spring Invitational. But the Bears said they were already turning their focus to much tougher competition at the Heptagonal Championships in two weeks. “The women almost won the meet without even trying,” said Director of Track and Field Craig Lake. “We are gaining on UConn, which is a good sign that our team is putting it together at the right time.” Though some distance runners were absent and others competed in off-events, the Bears managed to string together an impressive day. The team finished with multiple top-five performances in almost every event, as well as two first-place finishes. “Although we don’t have an extremely large team, we still have a lot of depth,” said Akilah King ’08. “In most running events, we have more than one person who is capable of scoring at Heps. It’s the quality of the athletes that matters, not necessarily the quantity.”

There certainly were some quality performances on the day, which started off with a one-two punch from Thelma Breezeatl ’10 and Lauren Hale ’07. The speedsters came in second and third in the 100-meter dash with respective times of 11.82 seconds and 12.28. Breezeatl — who already made a name for herself by winning the 60-meter dash in the Indoor Heptagonal Championships earlier this year — broke the school record in the 100-meter with her personal best performance. Her time edged out the previous top time by .05 seconds. In the 200-meter dash, King blazed to a second-place finish of 24.19 seconds, while Breezeatl logged in at fi fth with a 24.48. Cheryl Scott ’07, Jasmine Chukwueke ’10 and Naja Ferjan ’07 placed second, fourth and fi fth in the 400-meter dash with times of 56.59 seconds, 58.01 and 59.26, respectively. In the 800-meter run, Smita Gupta ’08 ran a personal best of 2:13.21 to win the event, while teammate Brooke Giuffre ’10 followed in third place with a personal best of her own, at 2:16.92. Giuffre also ran the 1,500-meter and placed second, and Herald Assistant Sports Editor Madeleine Marecki ’07 placed fourth in the 5,000-meter with a time of 18:41.26. The field events provided a continued on page 9

weekend sweep of the season, and all nine of the team’s wins on the year came during those four weekends. Pautler, along with Ames, are the team’s only graduating players. Pautler said the ﬁrst winning conference mark in four years was something the Bears could build on. “Being on the team enhanced my time at Brown,” she said. “It really was like having a family that taught me patience, cooperation and teamwork even though a lot of these girls you were competing against for playing time. I think (the winning record) was good for the girls to see that, ‘Yes, they can compete with the other Ivy teams.’ ” — Erin Frauenhofer

Over the weekend, the men’s track and field team enjoyed the beautiful weather, not at Spring Weekend on campus, but competing at the Husky Spring Invitational in Storrs, Conn. The Bears raced their way to a third-place finish, recording 125 points in the meet to finish just behind the University of Connecticut and the University of Rhode Island. “In my last four years, I don’t think any of our UConn meets had conditions like this,” said javelin thrower Paul Rosiak ’07. “You always try not to let the conditions make a difference in your approach going into a meet, but having calm, 60 degree-plus conditions as opposed to the cold rain we’ve had to deal with definitely adds a little something. It’s much easier to get loose and stay loose throughout the competition.” Though the team often vows to make every event count in each meet, the Bears are focused on the Heptagonal Championships, now just two weeks away. This weekend’s invitational was simply a practice run in perfect weather. “As far as the team goes, all competitions are building towards Heps,” said Jamil McClintock ’08. “But for some individuals, every week, (the competitions are) used to get better individually and

see how you stack up next to the scholarship athletes. I know personally, this meet was for me to win. I want to win every week, and that’s all that’s on my mind.” Many of the Bears seemed to have that same mentality as they posted several top-five performances, including two wins and numerous personal bests. McClintock started off the day strong in the 200-meter dash, an event that he does not typically compete in. He placed fourth with a time of 21.99 seconds and will look to improve on that when he races the event in the Ivy Championships. “I am a hurdler, but I can also sprint,” McClintock said. “I plan on running the 200 at Ivy League Championships, so I have to get a few races under my belt. It’s fun for me to run without hurdles — it’s so much easier.” A slew of Bears made the 800-meter run look easy. Four of them placed in the top 10 — Sean O’Brien ’09, Christian Tabib ’07, Duriel Hardy ’10 and John Loeser ’10 ran to third-, fourth-, eighthand ninth-place finishes, respectively. O’Brien and Tabib both had breakthrough runs, posting times of 1:51.58 and 1:52.44. Hardy also ran the 1,500-meter event and finished fi fth with a personal best of 3:57.66. McClintock hurdled his way to continued on page 9

M. golf records best-ever ﬁnish at Ivy League Championships Nice weather, tough result for w.golf at Ivies BY HAN CUI SPORTS STAFF WRITER

In virtually perfect weather conditions, the men’s golf team traveled to Galloway, N.J., to compete in the Ivy League Golf Championship this weekend. The Bears took second place with a three-round 914 at the Galloway National Golf Club, 10 strokes behind the University of Pennsylvania, which took home the championship. The secondplace finish is the highest Brown has ever placed in the Ivy League. To top off the terrific weekend, Larry Haertel ’08 finished second individually, and Conor Malloy ’09 finished sixth. Both earned first team All-Ivy honors. The 54-hole tournament was an intense tug-of-war featuring topnotch competition. Three-time defending Ivy champion Princeton, last year’s runner-up-by-one-stroke Columbia and Penn all entered the tournament with title aspirations. One of the main advantages those three squads boasted was experience. Princeton sported two top10 finishers from last year, Columbia had three and the Quakers had one. But Brown entered the tournament with a formidable lineup of its own. Under the leadership of last year’s defending individual champion Haertel, the Bears hoped to capture their first Ivy League

Championship or at least improve on their third-place finish from last year. After the first two rounds, both played Saturday, Brown remained in third place, 11 strokes behind the leading Lions. With a tworound 148 (72-76), Haertel sat tied for fi fth place with Malloy, who shot 77-71. Malloy’s second-round even par was the best score in that round. On the second day, the Bears returned to the course at 7:30 a.m. to play the final 18 holes. Haertel closed out his last four holes in emphatic fashion, carding a final round 73, but it was not enough to ensure a second straight league title. Haertel finished in second place with a three-round total of 221, just one stroke behind Columbia’s Chris Condello, last year’s runnerup. Malloy shot a final round of 76 for a three-round 224, good enough for sixth place in the tournament. John Gianuzzi ’10, Chris Hoffman ’09 and Aaron Telch ’07 also contributed to the finish. Gianuzzi shot 231 on the weekend, good enough for 13th place overall, and Hoffman and Telch both shot 241. “I am very satisfied with the result,” said Head Coach Mike Harbour. “The boys played their hearts out and never gave up. Most players and coaches walked away knowing that Brown is not a pushover team anymore.” The men’s golf team has one more tournament before the spring season ends. The Bears will

dspics.com Larry Haertel ’08 fell one stroke shy of defending his individual Ivy League title.

compete in the University of Rhode Island Northeast Collegiate Invitational Saturday at Green Valley Country Club in Portsmouth. “We want to win this tournament. The boys know they can, and we will play as if it is the Ivy League Championship,” Harbour said. The women’s golf team also competed in the Ivy League Championship this past weekend at the Trenton Country Club in West Trenton, N.J. The Bears had a discontinued on page 9