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Volume CXLII, No. 113

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As college president salaries rise, Simmons’ comp nears $700,000

mezcla m i x es i t up

By Debbie Lehmann Senior Staf f Writer

Rahul Keerthi / Herald Alexandra Heredea ‘08 and Jason Reeder ‘11 (guitar) performed a rendition of Gloria Estefan’s ‘Hoy’ at the MEZCLA fall show.

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Steep Thanksgiving fares keep students in driving distance

By Gaurie Tilak Staf f Writer

Thanksgiving may be the busiest travel time of the year, but many Brunonians won’t be contributing to that rush. Students who live a plane flight away often have a hard time making it home over the short recess, plagued with steep

plane fares.

“Thanksgiving is always a lot more expensive than winter break, and it’s been that way for the past four years,” said Amy Baxter ’08.

Baxter, who lives in California, usually buys her tickets for Thanksgiving in September. This year, she had to change her flight

Communication issues thwart MPC, RPL efforts

By Emmy Liss Staff Writer

Nearly two years after the Minority Peer Counselor program broke away from the Office of Residential Life, MPCs now live alongside Residential Peer Leaders in every first-year dorm, but student counselors say communication between the programs could still stand to improve.

The MPC program had reported to the Third World Center until 2000, and it was a part of the RPL program run by the Office of Residential Life — a structure that lasted until 2006. Under the joint supervision of ResLife and the TWC, MPCs had the same general responsibilities as RPLs but received additional training for minority issues.

But when the program was internally reviewed a few years ago, administrators discovered a “consistent trend that MPCs were unhappy with their role as RPLs,” said MPC Co-Coordinator Nabanita Pal ’09. Exit surveys completed

by MPCs over the years suggested students felt that their duties as general counselors detracted from

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their ability to spend time working on minority-specific issues, Pal said.

In 2006, the program was redesigned and separated from ResLife to allow MPCs to focus more on minority programming.

Pal said that, contrary to the belief that they were “pulled out of the units,” MPCs did remain in freshmen dorms. For funding reasons, there were not enough MPCs to place one in each unit, and the counselors were instead assigned according to regions. This year, there is at least one MPC in each dorm, if not in every unit.

Equal distribution of MPCs is an integral component of the program. Current MPC Okezie Nwoka ’10 said last year his MPC lived in a different building, adding to the stress of his freshman year.

“There were a lot of issues I didn’t know how to deal with, and I did want to articulate them to someone with the insight to help me with those issues,” he said.

Some see this specialization as limiting. “They’re there for anyone, but they seek out more minority continued on page 6

mezlca gets dirt Campus Latino dancing group MEZCLA wowed attendees with their Dirty Dancing-inspired show.

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time after she booked her tickets, and she ended up paying $200 more for her flight.

“I don’t think it’s ever a problem of not being able to get tickets,” she said. “It just gets really expensive.”

Travel gets so costly, in fact, continued on page 9

The expectations placed on university presidents are rising along with their salaries, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s latest report on executive compensation.

The median compensation for presidents of private universities has increased 37 percent since 2001, the Chronicle repor ted, reaching just above $528,000 and creating a large gap between the salaries of presidents and university faculty. The Chronicle found that 81 presidents of private universities earned more than $500,000 in 2006 — a 200-percent increase from five years earlier.

In the 2005-2006 fiscal year — the most recent with data available — three university presidents had salaries over $1 million, and many more took home more than $1 million after receiving deferred compensation upon leaving their posts.

For the two previous years, only one university leader — Vanderbilt University’s Gordon Gee — received a yearly compensation package of over $1 million. Gee, who was president of Brown from 1998 to 2000, resigned as chancellor of Vanderbilt in July to take the presidency of the Ohio State University.

In 2005-2006, President Ruth

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Gordon Gee, Simmons’ predecessor, left his Vanderbilt post to become the highest paid public college president at Ohio State.

Simmons received $500,000 in salar y and $189,007 in benefits for a total compensation package of $689,007, according to the Chronicle. Four years earlier — in her first year on College Hill — Simmons’ total compensation was $432,900.

Elizabeth Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration, said the Corporation sets Simmons’ compensation package and that her salar y “reflects their confidence and support of Simmons as a terrific leader of Brown.”

Lawrence Summers, the presicontinued on page 5

IR concentration changes on tap for spring

By Irene Chen Senior Staff Writer

International relations, one of the largest concentrations at Brown, has begun the process of re-evaluating its advising and curriculum.

After a sur vey conducted by the IR Department Undergraduate Group last spring, some changes were instituted to address complaints of insufficient advising and limited senior course offerings. Now, a se-

mester later, the implementation has been slow, but Michael Boyce ’08, a member of the IR DUG’s executive board, said more changes are on the horizon.

The biggest shift, Boyce said, has been the increased student input into discussions about changes to the IR program.

“If nothing else, the student voice in the IR program now garners a lot more respect and attention than it did before,” Boyce said. “It’s a variety of

reasons, but at least partly due to the fact that the IR DUG has really been active and attentive in trying to monitor what goes on (in) the program and trying to be a stakeholder. We’re invited to the table, and we get to participate in these decisions.”

Peter Andreas, associate professor of political science with a joint appointment at the Watson Institute for International Studies, is now the continued on page 4

Campus unicyclists go it alone

By Joanna Wohlmuth Staff Writer

Some students get around campus on four wheels, many on two wheels and a select few on just one.

Charlie Wood ’10 said he began riding a unicycle in his backyard in Maine two summers ago. He had been interested in the circus arts since junior high, when he learned how to juggle. He then picked up slacklining, which is similar to tightrope walking but on a stretchy rope, and then finally found his niche with unicycling. He bought an entry-level cycle online and began to practice.

UCS WHAT? The Herald’s semi-annual poll finds mixed student confidence, some confusion about UCS’ performance.

Using two chairs as a base to balance, he mastered going straight in a few hours. Turns took a week or two.

Once he came to Brown, Wood began to use his unicycle as a mode of transportation. He said the unicycle is convenient because he can keep it

FEATURE in a dorm room and carry it almost anywhere when he’s not riding it.

That mobility makes unicycles useful for college students, Wood said.

But soon, his interest in the device broadened. “Second semester, it became more of a sport,” Wood said. He

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learned how to do jumps and spins by watching videos online and speaking with other unicyclists.

Though unicycles were invented in the late 18th century, their use has expanded in recent years. The Internet now connects unicyclists from across the globe allowing them to learn new tricks, share advice and find other riders in their area. YouTube is an important resource, as are forums such as Unicyclist.com.

Most unicycle tricks are learned through imitation, so watching people from across the globe means newly continued on page 6

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MEZCLA mixes it up with ‘dirty dancing’

By Marisa Calleja Staff Writer

MEZCLA, the Latino performing arts troupe, held their fall show Thursday and Saturday in a nearly sold out Salomon 101. The “Dirty Dancing”-themed show featured dancers, singers, musicians and poets in 18 different acts representing diverse performance styles and traditions from Latino culture.

REVIEW This year’s performance showcased samba, mambo, salsa and other dance styles from Cuba, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Spain and Mexico.

The pieces, all choreographed by students in MEZCLA, came from the spirited, eclectic repertoire of the large group.

Some pieces, such as “Bam BamSalsa Duet,” a Cuban salsa choreographed and performed by Alyssa Iglesias ’08 and Daniel Oviedo ’10, reflected traditional dance styles.

Others, especially the large group pieces, showcased fusion styles created in the United States from Latin American influences. Pieces such as “Reggaeton Salsa Medley,” choreographed by Bianca Figueroa-Santana ’10, served as dynamic testaments to the continuing evolution of Latino dance styles in the United States.

“Samba Urbano,” the first piece in the performance, was a fusion of traditional samba and urban styles.

“With this piece, we take that dance out of the land of the Carnaval Brasileiro and onto the streets,” read the abstract from the piece’s five choreographers — Megan Brattain ’10, Rocio Bravo ’10, Vivian Garcia ’10, Sarah Magaziner ’10 and Herald Staff Writer Christian Martell ’10. The nine dancers stomped and shook fiercely to traditional samba drums and Fulanito’s “Chillando Goma” in this elaborately choreographed piece, dedicated to their mothers “who taught us how to dance.”

“Ballroom-Mambo y Salsa,” a skillful and sensual three person dance — choreographed and performed by Savonya McAllister ’08, Dina Tsukrov ’08 and Wilfredo Perez ’08 — was one of two ballroom pieces in the show. In combining Cuban mambo, Brazilian samba and American ballroom dance, the choreographers merged these disparate cultures. This indicates the continuing fusions of different Latino and American styles, both in MEZCLA pieces and throughout the dance world.

In addition to dance, MEZCLA’s fall show included two spoken word performances — “Socorro” by Irene Castillon ’09 and an untitled piece by Alyse Ruiz ’09 — which passionately discussed family, tradition and culture. “Socorro” was an ode to Castillon’s abuelita or grandmother, who continually sacrificed for her family.

The show also featured two vocal performances and a song by Mariachi de Brown, “La Ley del Monte.”

MEZCLA, according to their mission statement, strives “to convey and at the same time teach the beauty, diversity and richness of the Latino culture to the Brown community at large.” The group, which is led by an executive board, holds fall and spring shows, as well as open dance workshops throughout the year.

“Just because it’s a Latino performing arts troupe, doesn’t mean it’s specifically for Latinos,” said MEZCLA President Marco Martinez ’08.

Rahul Keerthi / Herald Gretel Terrero ‘11 performed flamenco, a dance originating from the Andalusian region of Spain, at the MEZCLA fall show.

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IR DUG, IR program working to improve advising, change requirements continued from page 1 director of the program, replacing Assistant Professor of Political Science Melani Cammett ’91, who served as interim director for one year and is currently pursuing a fellowship at Harvard University. Andreas said the DUG has been instrumental in conversations about how to improve the program.

“In general, the IR DUG has been wonderfully active and engaged in the program, probably in a way that is kind of a model for other programs and other departments,” Andreas said. “Yes, there are criticisms in that report, but I think their engagement reflects a certain enthusiasm for the IR concentration.”

The advising system for IR concentrators was one of the main concerns of the report issued last spring.

Claudia Elliott MA’91 PhD’99, the only general concentration adviser for the several hundred IR concentrators, now serves as a full-time faculty lecturer and assistant director of the undergraduate program.

According to the Office of Institutional Research, 122 students in the class of 2007 completed the IR concentration.

Andreas said he thinks Elliott becoming a full-time staffer has been

the most important change in terms of advising IR concentrators. Among other things, her position allows her to hold more office hours, especially open office hours for students. Elliott wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that she is now able to hold 12 hours of office hours per week, with nine of them open and the other three by appointment.

There are six advisers in the program — five track advisers and Elliott as the sole concentration adviser.

“The needs of a large, interdisciplinary program require a centralized system where someone monitors courses and initiatives across campus and is the primary linkage to the dean of the College and the registrar,” Elliott wrote in her e-mail.

“In our two-tiered advising system, students have plenty of options and office hours for seeking advice.”

Elliott wrote that she thinks the DUG should hold another survey to assess the changes in the program, since the previous one targeted juniors and seniors who don’t often seek advice from advisers.

“It might be useful to hold a survey that includes the recent experience of sophomores filing the concentration,” Elliott wrote. “My understanding is that advising is

challenged across the campus and that this is being examined by the administration.”

Other aspects of advising in the program have remained relatively the same, Andreas said.

“The track advising system is pretty much the same. There has been more interaction between the IR DUG and individual track advisers,” Andreas said.

advice, and so advisers can feel that their role is more important, and that students are really interested in getting quality advising and quality guidance, not just a signature on paper.”

But the major issue with advising is the large number of students in the IR concentration. “It looks like IR is going to be even bigger than last year — it’s probably a record-breaking

“The program is partly a victim of its own success. ... Due to its popularity, its sheer size has made it a challenge to run effectively.”

Peter Andreas Director of the International Relations Program and Associate Professor of Political Science Boyce said he hopes to create a more personal advising system by matching students with professors who have similar research interests.

“If students are going to use their professors regularly, they need to be sure that they can get something out of it,” Boyce said. “We’re still trying to adjust the track-advising system so students can get more personalized

year, probably making it the largest concentration on campus,” Andreas said. “Those numbers will fluctuate, but basically we’re looking at maybe a 20 percent increase in graduates this year over last year.”

“The program is partly a victim of its own success,” Andreas said.

“Due to its popularity, its sheer size has made it a challenge to run effectively.”

Boyce said more changes to the program are on the way but haven’t been disclosed yet. He said those could include changes in the diversity of options in course requirements, at least relating to one of the program’s core requirements, HIST 0020: “Europe since the French Revoluton.”

Andreas said he thinks that new changes will help to make IR even more interdisciplinary. “For example, starting next year, we’re hoping to add sociology and anthropology options to the core. And (we) also hope students will be able to choose from more than just one history course in the core,” he said. “We’ve made the keystone course offerings in each track more interdisciplinary, by bringing anthropology course offerings into each keystone track.”

Andreas said the program hopes to make several improvements in the future, including obtaining more funding for IR seminars taught by visitors at the Watson Institute, which would address the dearth of small senior seminars.

“We have the greatest demand for smaller classes, and senior seminars in particular. ... We need smaller classes, and there simply are not enough IR faculty for this,” Andreas said. Senior seminars are “extremely popular (and) often very hard to get into,” he added.

“At the top of our wish list would be funding for more senior seminars,” Elliott wrote. “All IR students are required to have a capstone experience — an IR seminar where students are expected to write a major term paper and have feedback along the way from the instructor in that process. There is nothing more frustrating than to hear students tell me their seminar — their only seminar at Brown — was really a lecture course.”

Changes to the concentration program will be presented to the College Curriculum Council, which must approve any changes, in the spring, Elliott wrote.

“The number of requirements would stay the same, but there would be a slight redistribution of requirements aimed at broadening the core requirements from economics, history and political science, to include sociology and anthropology,” she wrote, noting that changes would take effect for the 2008-2009 academic year. She added that new options for the HIST 0020 requirement would be included in those changes.

Boyce, of the IR DUG, also said the creation of “study groups” at Watson — which include opportunities to sit down in a group setting with figures like Ricardo Lagos Escobar, the former president of Chile and a professor-at-large at the Watson Institute, and senior UN peacekeeping officials — create learning opportunities for students outside of the classrooms. Boyce said students have responded positively and said he hopes that more funding will become available to continue these sessions.

Despite the changes on tap, Boyce said he thinks the structure of the IR program is the most important issue to be addressed.

“Based on the conversations I’ve had, people are acknowledging that the relationship between the Watson Institute (and) the University needs to be more specifically defined,” Boyce said. “We have this great interdisciplinary program, but we have these structural problems in the administration of the program, which is preventing the program from moving forward and really shining as a great example of an interdisciplinary program.”

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Students express lackadaisical confidence in UCS

Simmons jets to Guadalajara for Thanksgiving holiday

By Franklin Kanin Senior Staf f Writer

By Nick Werle Senior Staf f Writer

THE HERALD POLL

“That’s the Undergraduate Council of Students, right?” responded Shaun Verch ’11 when asked his opinion of UCS. “Yeah, I haven’t really heard a lot about it.”

Verch isn’t alone. A recent Herald poll found that while 39.3 percent of undergraduates said they somewhat or strongly approve of UCS, 31.6 percent of students said that they have no opinion of the council.

The Herald poll was conducted from Nov. 5-7 and has a 3.9 percent margin of error with 95 percent confidence. A total of 621 Brown undergraduates completed the poll, which was administered as a written questionnaire to students in the University Post Office at Faunce House and in the Sciences Library.

UCS President Michael Glassman ’09 said he thinks the poll indicates that UCS needs to do a better job communicating with the student body. But, he said, he wouldn’t read too much into the results.

“I think it obviously highlights an ongoing challenge for us that people are skeptical about us, and we always need to be doing a better job about communicating and letting people know the good things that we are doing,” Glassman said.

More important than the current poll results, Glassman said, is what has changed between this fall’s poll and the Herald poll conducted last fall and what the results will be next spring.

“The fall number is always lower than the spring number, which makes sense,” he said. “Everyone has been here a semester longer.

It’s more likely that they’ve seen something UCS did or interacted with us more.”

But according to the Herald poll, the students who have been on College Hill the least time — first-years — approve of the council most strongly. 45.4 percent of first-years strongly or somewhat

strongly approve 6 percent somewhat approve 33.3 percent

don’t know / no answer 7.2 percent

strongly disapprove 7.2 percent somewhat disapprove 21.9 percent

approved of UCS, whereas only 39.3 percent of sophomores, 35.4 percent of juniors and 36.9 percent of seniors answered that they strongly or somewhat approve of the council.

The percentage of students in each class who selected the option “Don’t Know/No Answer” was fairly consistent among class years — 32.9 percent of first years, 31.8 percent of sophomores, 34.0 percent of juniors and 33.6 percent of seniors.

UCS Communications Chair Gabe Kussin ’09 said UCS will continue to work to improve its image among the student body and make students more informed of the council’s activities.

“It falls on us to really get out there and say what we’re doing,” Kussin said.

But some students told The Herald that they are not interested in the council’s actions, explaining that their lack of opinion on UCS stems from general apathy about the council.

“Honestly, I don’t really care

about them. I see it in the paper and stuff like that but I pretty much skip over it,” said Brian McNary ’08.

For others, the lack of information about UCS has led them to believe the council has not been accomplishing much.

“I think UCS in general is pretty ineffective,” said Marc Frank ’09.

“I’m not totally familiar with all that they do, but as a student I can’t think of a time they’ve ever really affected my life or effected change in a way I can conceive of as better, so I don’t really pay much attention to it.”

Glassman said the council hopes to change that sentiment over the next semester.

“We have a lot of people who are really excited and actually do a really good job and put together some really cool projects,” he said. “Most students don’t really know what we do. We tried to do that — publishing those agendas was part of it,” “We’re going to be working really hard the rest of the semester and all next semester to get this image up,” Kussin said.

Some college president salaries hit seven figures continued from page 1 dent of Har vard University from 2001 to 2006, made $611,226 in 2005-2006, up from $487,687 in 2001-2002. Dar tmouth College President James Wright received $527,088 in 2005-2006, compared to $444,894 in 2001-2002.

Salaries are also on the rise at public universities. Almost onethird of the higher-end public research universities surveyed by the Chronicle paid presidents at least $450,000 last year, and eight paid their presidents at least $700,000.

Still, at most public universities, executive compensation rates are significantly lower than they are for presidents of private institutions. University of Rhode Island President Robert Carothers made $239,326 last year, up from $218,552 in 2004-2005.

The rise in compensation for university presidents is in large part due to rising expectations, according to Stephen Nelson, assis-

tant professor of educational leadership at Bridgewater State College.

Nelson said though the “enormous” number of duties of university leaders might not have increased, the expectations have “certainly increased qualitatively.”

“The bar has raised,” he said. “If it’s getting along with alumni, it’s getting along with alumni better. If it’s tending to the morale of staff, it’s doing it better. If it’s improving campus life and the satisfaction of students, it’s doing it better.”

Compensation rates reflect the heavy burden of university presidents, who often work as many as 85 hours per week, Nelson said.

“University presidents are not paid near what Fortune 500 CEOs are paid, but their jobs are much harder,” he said. “For tune 500 CEOs go home on the weekends and play golf. Ask Ruth Simmons the last time she had a long weekend. Ruth Simmons doesn’t have weekends.”

Still, Nelson said universities

must consider the opportunity cost of such high compensation packages, noting that the money that goes to a university leader could alternatively be used for things like hiring faculty, expanding academic opportunities and improving campus life.

Though presidents’ salaries may be escalating rapidly, the salaries of university faculty have not been growing nearly as fast. There is a “clear growing gap,” Nelson said, between the salaries of presidents and others at the university, including members of the president’s senior cabinet. At Dartmouth, he said, faculty members used to make onethird of what the president made.

Now, they probably make less than one-sixth, he said.

Nelson acknowledged the “high-pressure, high-stress work” of university presidents, but he added that this gap is cause for concern.

“At some point,” he said, “it’s going to get out of control.”

As students sleep off their turkey hangovers Friday, President Ruth Simmons will be speaking at Mexico’s Universidad de Guadalajara at the invitation of famed authors Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Brown Professor of Hispanic Studies Julio Ortega.

Simmons’ talk, “Exhibiting What is True: A Lesson from Francis Wayland,” is the keynote address of the Jalisco, Mexico, university’s “La Catedra Latinoamericana Julio Cortazar.”

Though Simmons was invited to speak at last year’s conference, scheduling issues forced her to defer her trip until this year, said Assistant to the President Marisa Quinn. The annual forum, which was endowed by donations from Garcia Marquez and Fuentes in 1995, is intended to bring speakers to Guadalajara to reflect on many aspects of Cortazar’s writings and thoughts on Latin America, said Ortega, who sits on the committee that oversees the Cortazar chair.

Julio Cortazar was a 20th-century Argentine writer.

Ortega said Simmons was a popular choice for the speaking engagement. “Some years ago, the committee decided to invite Ruth Simmons to speak because of her leadership in higher education in America,” Ortega said.

Indeed, Simmons’ speech will focus on the role of education in civil society and “the ways in which our education should impel us to exhibit ‘what is true,’ ” Quinn said.

Ortega described Simmons as an example of the power of

education and said this message was particularly relevant abroad.

“In the university she is an example of self-accomplishment and fulfillment, and in this way, she belongs to the classical notion that education is a great human achievement,” he said. “That is a very powerful story.”

“She has a very clear and lucid notion of what education is: A formation of individuals and a better society,” Ortega said. “So she has this conviction and empathy with the structural meaning of education in contemporary life that strikes beyond languages and cultures.”

Simmons’ trip comes during Brown’s Year of Focus on Latin America, as well as at a time when the University is working to raise its international profile and strengthen connections with institutions and scholars in other countries.

In an e-mail to The Herald, Quinn wrote that “this trip is very much aligned with our internationalization work. ... President Simmons’ trip to Mexico will seek to accomplish many of these things through the speech itself, coverage in the international media, meetings with representatives from the University of Guadalajara and possibly meetings with alumni, parents and friends in the region.”

Following the talk, Simmons will attend a dinner held by Fuentes, a professor-at-large at Brown, in her honor.

In addition to speaking at the university, Simmons will talk at the opening of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, a major book fair in Latin America.

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Unicyclists garner glances, marriage offer continued from page 1 developed techniques and stunts can spread rapidly. “It’s something you can’t really teach people,” said Hans Dejong ’08, who also uses a unicycle.

“You just have to try and try.”

Four riding styles have emerged, each with its own cycle design and skill set, Wood said. “Freestyle,” in which riders perform spins and flips similar to those done on skateboards, always takes place on flat land. “Trials” riding requires a stronger cycle to support riders doing jumps and dropping off raised platforms. “Offroad” or “MUnis” — an abbreviation for mountain unicycling — requires larger wheels and thicker tires. Riders engaging in “touring,” or distance riding, use unicycles with the largest wheels to increase the distance covered with each pedal rotation.

When Dejong was 13 and living in Madagascar, he met a Canadian amateur magician who taught him juggling and tricks. Soon after, he met a Belgian unicyclist and began bor-

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rowing his unicycle when he wasn’t concentrating on his home schooling, he said. His parents bought him his first unicycle for Christmas.

Dejong rode mostly for fun, once completing a 22-kilometer ride to an extinct volcano, and began learning tricks when he got to Brown. After watching a video from the Twin Cities Unicycle Club, he began practicing at the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center about once a week.

The response from people who see him riding is generally positive, Dejong said, though it is generally more energetic overseas. While living in India, he would ride through markets and villages, always causing excitement among locals.

“The first question people always ask is “How do you brake yourself?”’

Dejong said. The wheel, crank and pedals of a unicycle are connected in such a way that the rotation of the crank directly controls the rotation of the wheel. This means that to slow down or stop, the rider pedals slower.

“Once a month people stop me and ask where they can get one,” Wood said. “Once a girl asked me to marry her on Thayer Street.”

Wood said a more common reaction is for people to step into the street or “dive” out of the way — though he said he has never hit anyone. He said he has sustained only one unicycle-related injury: At the end of last spring, he slipped while attempting a 180-degree turn off a cement block and hit his chin. The injury resulted in a hospital trip and 11 stitches.

“That was not how I imagined my last Saturday at Brown,” Wood said.

Dejong also said he’s suffered only one cycling injury. While speeding down an extremely steep hill, he lost control of his cycle and one of the pedals hit his foot. The resulting injury caused his foot to become infected.

Wood’s favorite tricks are the crank grab or 180-degree rolling hop. The crank grab allows riders to get onto things — like benches or steps — that are higher than they could normally jump by first landing on the crank and then jumping again so that they are on top of the object.

Eventually Wood hopes to increase his jump — now 1.5 feet — so that he does not need to use the grab.

Dejong is interested in freestyle and distance riding but dislikes the distinctions between types, describing them as almost cliquish. “I just like to ride,” Dejong said. “Charlie (Wood) can do wicked stuff I want to learn.”

MPCs, RPLs concerned about lack of communication continued from page 1 students,” said Residential Counselor Jude Fleming ’10. Though MPCs’ interaction with first-years varies, RC Molly Jacobson ’10 said MPCs are “exclusionary by title.”

But Pal said the MPC program is constantly criticized in a way that other programs, like the Women’s Peer Counselor program, are not.

“People are uncomfortable with a program based on difference,” she said.

First years tend to gravitate toward “whoever you see most,” Nwoka said, not necessarily the counselor with a relevant focus. If a specialized problem arises, the peer counselor can then “direct them to resources and reassure them that it’s okay to talk to someone else,” Payne said.

Even though WPCs and MPCs are trained in specific issues, “students come to me for general issues,” said WPC Hee Kyung Chung ’09. She said many MPCs make an effort to express that they want first-years “who don’t necessarily have minority problems” to also come to them.

“Just because you’re not close with your RC or MPC doesn’t mean the program isn’t fulfilling its mission,” Pal said.

Though there are no general

conflicts between the programs, RCs and MPCs expressed concern about poor communication under the current structure. Because MPCs do not take part in the weeklong training of RCs and WPCs, the initial bonds of communication are often not formed, counselors said.

For this reason, RPLs — many of whom did not have MPCs in their dorms as freshmen last year — may be confused about MPCs’ role within the unit. “(We’re) not sure what the goal of our interaction is, how we are supposed to relate,” Fleming said.

Payne, the WPC, agreed. “If we don’t force ourselves to make that communication, there is no reason for us to understand,” she said.

Many current RPLs said the goals and expectations of all programs should have been more clearly explained in training and to first-year students during Orientation.

Jacobson, an RC, said a workshop on race for RCs, WPCs and MPCs during Orientation would have been useful. Joint programming would create a stronger bond between the counselors and reinforce for RCs, WPCs and firstyears the role of MPCs, she said.

Many current RPLs had suggestions for improving cohesion between the two programs, most of which focused on improving communication. Chung said she told ResLife officials that a designated liaison between the two programs might foster “better coordination.” Jacobson recommended that MPCs and RPLs be strongly encouraged to have a weekly meal or other meeting.

Some already counselors already so on their own, and consequently their units often have “the best MPC-RPL relations,” she said.

Any communication gap can be easily remedied if both groups make a concerted effort to “normalize” the differences between their programs, Jacobson added. “Talking about these things shouldn’t be a big deal.”

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Herald welcomes 118th editorial board

By Juan Tzeventine Staff Writer

In the smile-filled basement of Trinity Brewhouse in downtown Providence Friday evening, The Herald’s 117th editorial board bid farewell to its staff and introduced the new leadership team that will take the helm of the paper starting in January.

Outgoing Editors-in-Chief Eric Beck ’08 and Mary-Catherine Lader ’08; Executive Editors Stephen Colelli ’08, Allison Kwong ’08 and Ben Leubsdorf ’08; and Senior Editors Jonathan Sidhu ’08.5 and Anne Wootton ’08.5 enthusiastically presented the 118th editorial board: Simmi Aujla ’09, Ross Frazier ’09, Taylor Barnes ’09, Chris Gang ’09.5 and Stu Woo ’08.5.

Aujla, a native of Timonium, Md., will move up from her current post as metro editor to become editor-in-chief of The Herald and president of The Brown Daily Herald Inc. A devoted journalist, Aujla expanded The Herald’s coverage of town-gown relations and local politics, and as a reporter delved into Brown history to provide perspective on the University’s legacy of student activism.

Frazier, a resident of Tampa, Fla., and currently news editor, will step up to the post of editor-in-chief and vice president of The Brown Daily Herald Inc. Frazier has seamlessly guided The Herald’s coverage of changes in University Hall and research policy.

As a reporter, he journeyed into the depths of the Ratty for a memorable feature on its inner workings and comprehensively covered Corporation actions and higher education trends.

Barnes, a native of Fayetteville, Ga., will return from Brazil, where she has spent the fall semester perfecting her Portuguese, to become a senior editor in January. A perennially sunny and dependable reporter, Barnes adeptly reported features including Iranian authors in exile and students who served in Iraq.

Gang, who hails from outside of Boston, was The Herald’s copy desk chief last spring, serving as the last check on The Herald’s accuracy and reporting on campus events on occasion before taking a semester off to travel across Europe.

Woo, a proud San Franciscan, is a hardened Herald veteran, having working his way up from staff writer to lead three separate sections over the years: Campus Watch, Features and, this past semester, Sports. A good-natured reporter, he captured former Duke lacrosse suspect Reade Seligmann’s ’09 thoughts about transferring to Brown in a piece for The Herald’s summer issue.

General Manager Mandeep Gill ’09 and Executive Manager Darren Ball ’09 will continue their transfor-

mative leadership of The Herald’s business staff and operations, both as general managers in 2008.

Also Friday, the 118th board announced the full slate of section and department heads who will help lead The Herald through 2008.

Robin Steele ’08, of Nashville, Tenn., will ensure strong coverage of arts on campus as arts & culture editor for another semester, joined by staff writer Andrea Savdie ’10, of Miami, as assistant editor.

Chaz Firestone ’10, ever-quick to extol the virtues of his native Toronto, will oversee some of The Herald’s most creative, in-depth stories as features editor. As a senior staff writer, he brought his boundless energy to the implementation of Banner and the effects of guaranteed graduate student funding. Experienced features and campus news reporter Olivia Hoffman ’10 will bring her enthusiasm and skill to the features desk as assistant editor.

Debbie Lehmann ’10, a former crime and campus life reporter, will use her vast knowledge of college life next semester as higher ed editor, covering issues related to higher education across the country. The section will replace the current Campus Watch page. Lehmann, who hails from Palo Alto, Calif., also directed a series this semester about religion on campus.

Rachel Arndt ’10 and Scott Lowenstein ’10 will take on Providence news next semester as metro editors.

As a senior staff writer, Arndt, raised in Chicago, launched a series on health on campus, which placed exhaustive stories — including ones about anorexia on campus and health insurance for recent Brown graduates — in The Herald’s pages. Her comprehensive coverage of a planned Chipotle on Thayer Street has whetted the appetites of Brunonian burrito-buffs.

Lowenstein, a favorite son of Vestal, N.Y., used his tall stature and joyful smile this year to convince Thayer Street’s biker gangs to go on the record about a new parking law. He’s also had an insider’s look at changing leadership at Brown Emergency Medical Services and co-directed the religion series with Lehmann.

As news editors and New Englanders, Michael Bechek ’10, Isabel Gottlieb ’10, Franklin Kanin ’10 and Michael Skocpol ’10 will use their expansive knowledge of University policy and student life to direct incisive and informative campus news content.

Bechek, a Needham, Mass., native with a keen news sense, thoroughly covered University Hall goings-on this semester, including a reorganization in the Office of the Dean of the College, concern about the

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Chris Gang ’09.5, Ross Frazier ’09, Simmi Aujla ’09, Stu Woo ’08.5 and Taylor Barnes ’09 (not pictured) will take the reins of The Herald in January.

number of students concentrating in math and physics and the public life of President Ruth Simmons.

Gottlieb, a Lakeville, Conn., resident, not only reported on the University’s capital campaign and growing number of facilities projects, but also on a different kind of campaign — Shape Up R.I., a fitness and dieting program designed to keep Rhode Islanders’ weights in check.

Kanin, from Boston, has his finger on the pulse of the student body, spending countless hours in Undergraduate Council of Students meetings to uncover tales of student government intrigue.

Gottlieb and Kanin also conducted this semester’s Herald poll.

They spent hours earlier this month tallying up the numbers of Brown students having sex, volunteering for presidential campaigns and doing cocaine — though not all at once.

Skocpol, who survived an upbringing in Cambridge, Mass., has honed his reporting skills covering internationalization, slavery and justice, the Plan for Academic Enrichment, interdisciplinary studies and the University’s growing debt.

Name a complicated, hard-to-explain University initiative, and chances are Skocpol has reported on it.

New York state native Karla Bertrand ’09 will continue editing the opinions page next semester. She will be joined by Silver Spring, Md., native James Shapiro ’10, who has written both perspicacious columns and hard-hitting news stories.

Fans of New England sports have been eagerly awaiting the debut of the Big Three for the past few months.

The Herald is proud to announce its own dynamic triumvirate of sports editors for next year: Whitney Clark ’08, Amy Ehrhart ’09 and Jason Harris ’10.

Clark, a Eugene, Ore., native, will help head the sports desk after covering men’s water polo this fall.

A former varsity soccer player, Clark enjoys studying comparative literature when she is not bending it like

Beckham or editing sports stories.

Ehrhart, a varsity basketball player and Golden, Colo., native, will step up from assistant sports editor to her new position — at least when she’s not mercilessly dunking on, rejecting and otherwise posterizing her hapless, helpless opponents on the court.

Harris, also an assistant sports editor this semester, covered men’s soccer this year. The men’s soccer team went undefeated in the Ivy League and is ranked No. 4 in the nation. Coincidence? We’ll find out next semester as Harris, a Needham, Mass., native who is ranked No. 4 in the nation in The Herald’s unofficial poll, continues his work next semester.

The Big Three will have help from a supporting cast of assistant sports editors: Benjy Asher ’10, Andrew Braca ’10 and Megan McCahill ’09.

Asher, a Westchester, N.Y., native, will return for his second stint as assistant sports editor. In addition to covering the football team, Asher enjoys playing trombone for the Brown Orchestra and wearing gaudy Halloween outfits.

Braca, a proud native of Providence, has been attending Brown sports events since he was a child.

Now, he does it as part of his job. After covering field hockey this fall, he will write about the women’s hockey team this winter.

McCahill, a former varsity basketball player, returns to Brown after spending a semester in Australia. The Highlands Ranch, Colo., native will bring her love of three-point shooting and sports writing to round out the Herald sports staff.

Ashley Hess ’08 will return to The Herald for one last hurrah as sports photo editor. The Seattle/Dallas/Connecticut resident will bring back her hard-hitting, club-rugby playing style of photography and photography editing back to the sports photo desk.

Rahul Keerthi ’09 has traveled half-way around the world from his native Singapore to work at The

Herald. He will continue to bring his energy and creativity to the paper every day as photo editor next semester, joined by enthusiastic staff photographers Meara Sharma ’10 and Min Wu ’09.

Manchester, N.H., native Steve DeLucia ’10 will continue to make The Herald’s pages eye-catching and well-organized as production and design editor. As he chases the record for most consecutive nights at Herald headquarters, DeLucia will be sharing with his assistant design editors — Chaz Kelsh ’11 of Philadelphia and Alex Unger ’11 of Providence — his favorite piece of wisdom from software maker Adobe Systems: “Design always wins.”

Catherine Cullen ’10 of Grosse Pointe, Mich., will continue to serve as copy desk chief next year. With her cheery smile and disdain for copy errors, Cullen and her fellow copy editors will ensure perfect punctuation and flawless facts in The Herald’s pages.

Rajiv Jayadevan ’09 and Matt Hill ’09 will use their creativity and classiness to lead post- magazine as managing editors next semester.

Jayadevan, from Long Island, got his start at post- reviewing restaurants and moved gracefully into the role of features editor. Hill survived the wilderness of Hanover, N.H., for two years before coming home to College Hill. As associate editor for post- this semester, Hill, who likes to print in color, worked tirelessly with the current managing editors — Hillary Dixler ’08, Melanie Duch ’09 and Taryn Martinez ’08.

A bumper crop of first-time writers has joined the staff of The Herald this semester as staff writers. They are Stefanie Angstadt ’08, Sam Byker ’10, Marisa Calleja ’11, Noura Choudhury ’11, Erika Jung ’11, Chaz Kelsh ’11, Sophia Lambertsen ’11, Sophia Li ’11, Emmy Liss ’11, Max Mankin ’11, Brian Mastroianni ’11, George Miller ’11, Evan Pelz ’11, Gaurie Tilak ’11, Simon van Zuylen-Wood ’11, Allison Wentz ’11 and Joanna Wohlmuth ’11.

With 7-0 Ivy record, men’s soccer looks to the playoffs continued from page 12 It appeared as though the one-goal lead was safe as Brown’s defense tightened up and allowed few opportunities for the Lions in the second half. But with seven minutes to play, the Brown defense did not get out to pressure the ball at the top of the 18-yard box, and Columbia was able to serve a ball in front of the goal.

Due to confusion between the Bears’

center backs and goalkeeper Jarrett Leech ’09, the Lions’ Tom Davison — playing his final collegiate match — got to the ball first and headed it

by Leech to tie the game and send it to overtime.

In the extra session, Brown continued to dominate play. After a scoreless first overtime, the teams switched sides and played a final 10 minutes.

Bruno finally broke the tie with three minutes to play. Midfielder Darren

Howerton ’09, who sat out most of the game to avoid receiving a fifth yellow card, which would have gotten him suspended for the first round of the NCAA Tournament, took an inswinging corner kick from the right side. Sawyer, Okafor and Thompson surrounded the goalie, causing the goalkeeper to mishandle the ball. The ball found its way into the net and Okafor was credited with the goal.

The win gives Bruno positive

momentum going into the NCAA Tournament. Brown’s nine-game win streak should net it a top-eight seed, according to Noonan, which would guarantee a bye and two home games.

The Bears are happy with their season so far but know they still have work to do.

“We are proud of what we have accomplished,” Davies said. “It’s cool looking down (the) list of goals now, and we’ve accomplished almost ev-

erything. Now we have to refocus and get ready for tournament.”

The Bears hope to get 5,000 fans out to their first playoff game, likely to be held on Nov. 28. In the past two years, Brown has won first-round home matches, but fell to No. 1 seeds University of Maryland and Duke University on the road in consecutive years. The Bears hope that the home field advantage will propel them deep into the postseason.

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any other contest, was ultimately a test of endurance. The players were evenly matched, trading points and games throughout the night. But as the match entered its latter stages, Hall stayed stronger. His quick shots often sent Reeves sprawling as he stretched to reach the ball.

Reeves grew visibly frustrated.

At one point in the final game, which Hall dominated 9-4 to win the match, Reeves yelled and threw his racquet to the ground. Hall characterized the match as “physical and kind of sloppy,” and said he thought his opponent “was more tired.”

The women, who finished 8th last February in the Howe Cup National

Championship, took the courts next.

It was a tough night for the top positions, but Sarah Roberts ’10 and Denia Craig ’08 dominated their respective matches. Roberts won with a score of 9-4, 9-1, 9-3, and Craig demolished her opponent 9-3, 9-0, 9-3. The Bears also received competitive four-game matches from Breck Haynes ‘09 and Lily Cohen ’11, who put on a stellar performance in her collegiate debut, but neither could break into the win column.

Head Coach Stuart LeGassick, who coaches both the women and the men, said Harvard is perennially a strong opponent. He also mentioned that injury problems affected Brown on both the men’s and women’s sides, adding that the team was working to improve in some areas.

“We’d like a little more consistency and less unforced errors,” LeGassick said.

The squash team will play two Ivy League rivals the first weekend of December. The team will travel to Princeton on Saturday, Dec. 1 and will continue on to Philadelphia to play the University of Pennsylvania the next day.

continued from page 12 With the Saints applying pressure, Prough cleared the puck from the Bears’ hash marks, launching it toward the St. Lawrence net, where the puck took a bad bounce.

Goaltender Alex Petizian “played it like a shortstop and it hopped between his legs,” said captain Sean Hurley ’08. “I was going in for a line change and ever yone started celebrating.”

“It was a huge turning point,” Eric Slais ’09 said. “We were just getting outplayed and it seems like we were at the point of giving up and that ... sparked everyone on the team and everyone started playing.”

After Prough’s goal at the 14:45 mark, Sean McMonagle ’10 cut the deficit to 3-2 with 15 seconds left in the period, thanks to what Slais described as a “breakdown of the St. Lawrence defense.” But the Saints regained their two-goal advan-

tage off a power-play tally 3:22 into the third period.

The Bears answered right away. Twenty-seven seconds after the Saints’ goal, David Brownschidle ’11 scored his first career goal after knocking in a rebound off a Slais shot.

Fifty-one seconds after that, McMonagle tied the score with his second goal of the game, taking an Aaron Volpatti ’10 pass in the center of the slot and firing it over Petizian’s shoulder.

“His second goal was really nice,” Slais said. “He got a pass from Volpatti and came out and shelled it. The water bottle flew up and ever ything.”

But Brown couldn’t find the back of the net for the rest of the game, and goalie Dan Rosen ’10 made one over time save for a total of 42 on the game.

After playing St. Lawrence in Canton, N.Y., Friday night, the Bears traveled to Potsdam, N.Y., to play Clarkson Saturday night, but they could not carr y over the momentum from the Saints game, again falling behind 3-0 in the second period.

The Golden Knights scored off a rebound 5:31 into the second period, after a scoreless first period. About 11 minutes later, they added two goals in a span of 33 seconds, with the first coming off a power play.

Chris Poli ’08 made it a 3-1 game just 16 seconds into the third period, scoring on a power play, but Clarkson tallied three minutes later to regain its threegoal advantage. Prough scored on the power play at 12:29, but the Bears could not get any closer.

The Clarkson game was especially frustrating, Hurley said, because the Bears started out just as slowly as they did against St. Lawrence.

“I think again we sat back and tried to feel out how good they were going to be and we knew they were going to be good,” he said. “We had to come out and set the pace, (but) we got ourself in a 3-0 hole.”

But Hurley added that he didn’t think the No. 8 Golden Knights played as well as their ranking would suggest, and he is looking for ward to the rematch in Meehan Auditorium on Feb. 15.

Overall, Hurley and Slais share one feeling about the team after coming out with one point on their road trip: They are a very lucky team.

“We definitely should have beat (St. Lawrence) and we should’ve got both points,” Hurley said. “But we played badly enough that we didn’t deser ve any points, so we were lucky to get one.”

Hurley said he does not feel that there is anything wrong with the team’s philosophy or fundamentals. The only thing it needs to work on, he said, is coming out with more energy in the opening minutes.

Though the team has been finishing games strongly this year, it has started most of them slowly.

“We’ve got to end that soon if we want to right the ship,” Slais said.

The Bears next play at the University of New Hampshire on Saturday night, taking a break from their ECAC schedule.

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will be usable in time for the team to practice today and will be functional for the rest of the season.

Athletic Director Michael Goldberger said the team would most likely play its Feb. 1 game with Harvard at Meehan instead of in Cambridge as scheduled.

Murphy was pleased that the Bears were able to hang tough against strong teams even after missing practice and having to move the games.

“I feel really happy that they played as well as they did in the face of a lot of adversity,” she said.

“Nicole Stock and the defensive corps are really doing a great job right now. I’m proud of them. I think it’s just a matter of time before the offense starts to click and we get our feet under us.”

On Friday, Dartmouth opened the scoring with a short-handed goal 15:56 into the first period.

Sarah Parsons intercepted a pass, skated down the ice to face Stock one-on-one and fired a back-handed shot over the goalie’s right leg and into the back of the net.

“I think it always takes a little bit out of a team when you let one in on your power play trying to score one of your own,” Stock said. “But I think we took it well.

You have to come back. It’s just another goal.”

The Big Green controlled the first two periods with a 31-13 ad-

vantage in shots, but Stock, who finished with 38 saves, prevented them from adding to their one-goal lead. The Bears rallied to take nine shots in the third period, but Dartmouth goalie Carli Clemis stonewalled the Bears, finishing with 22 saves to preserve the shutout.

Dartmouth added an insurance goal with 2:59 left when Jenna Cunningham skated around the back of the net and passed to Maggie Kennedy in the slot, who one-timed a shot past Stock.

In the Bears’ second game of the weekend, Harvard struck on a power play 8:37 into the game to give Brown an early deficit once again. The Crimson kept the pressure on all game long, but Stock kept the Bears close by making 45 saves, tying her career high for the second time in three games.

Harvard goalie Christina Kessler earned her second shutout of the weekend with 14 saves, including two critical saves on dangerous second-period shots by Nicole Brown ’10 and Hayley Moore ’08.

The score remained 1-0 until Brown was whistled for a pair of penalties at 6:31 and 6:40 of the third period. Brown successfully killed Harvard’s 5-on-3 power play, but the Crimson got their second goal 10 seconds after Brown returned to even strength. Anna McDonald’s shot was headed wide, but it hit defender Erica Kromm ’11 in the back and ricocheted into the net.

“It was definitely a heartbreaker,” Stock said. “Our team was really pumped up. ... We were trying like hell to kill off the power play and then tie it up, but bounces happen and sometimes they don’t go your way.”

Playing well against two ranked teams gave the Bears confidence.

“I think we’ve improved as a team dramatically and we’ll just continue improving,” Stock said.

“When we meet them again later in the season, we’re going to put up a fight.”

Brown has a very green defense consisting of only one sophomore and four freshmen, but Murphy said she was pleased with the job the group did against Dartmouth and Harvard.

“We’ve got a very young squad trying to adjust,” she said. “Without a lot of practice this week, the kids did a great job. They were diving in front of the puck and playing with a lot of willingness and determination.”

Stock also sees considerable growth in the unit.

“They’re improving as a corps and learning a lot from the amount of playing time that they’re getting,” she said. “They’ve definitely stepped up. They don’t act like freshmen as much anymore.”

The Bears will host Robert Morris University on Friday and then travel across the city the following day to play Providence College in the 13th Annual Mayor’s Cup.

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“We had a good balance of playcalling in the first half,” Tracey said.

“We were picking up their blitzes and defensive fronts, and we were able to effectively counter their defense.”

But the Lions came roaring back in the second half. A 46-yard kickoff return gave Columbia the ball at the Brown 49 to start the drive, and a 15-yard pass interference penalty as well as several short runs and passes moved the ball deep into Brown territory. On 2nd-and-goal at the 9, quarterback Craig Hormann threw a pass over the middle and receiver Nico Gutierrez made a diving catch in the end zone to make the score 24-10.

Brown was forced to punt on its next two drives, which resulted in two short Columbia field goals that cut the lead to 24-16 early in the fourth quarter.

“I think we started to play a little flat, and we lost the enthusiasm we came out with initially,” Brewer said.

“I give a lot of credit to the Columbia seniors, who were making some big-time plays.”

The Brown offense finally started to click on the next possession, but Columbia defensive end Matt Bashaw hit Sewall to force a fumble, and Eugene Edwards scooped up the loose ball at the Columbia 31 and sprinted down the sideline for a touchdown.

With Brown’s lead down to two points after the touchdown, the Lions opted for the two-point conversion. The Bears appeared to have stopped them when cornerback Darrell Harrison ’09 batted away a pass in the end zone, but the officials called interference, giving Columbia another shot. But the de-

fense stopped Hormann on a keeper to hold onto the lead.

The Lions got the ball back after another three-and-out possession for Brown, but on second down, Harrison stepped in front of a short pass to the left sideline, intercepted the pass and ran the ball back to the Columbia 9.

“That was the play that just gave Brown back the momentum,” Brewer said. “That really sparked us to pull out the victory.”

Harrison’s interception and return set up a 25-yard field goal for Morgan, who nailed it to put the Bears up 27-22. Morgan added a 32-yarder with 2:48 left to make it a 30-22 game.

The Lions kept fighting, though, and their offense converted a 4thand-12 opportunity to move the ball to the Brown 41. On the next play, the defense’s seniors came through, as Matt Mullenax ’08 made a leaping deflection on a throw to the right sideline, tipping the ball to fellow senior Yearwood to give Brown the ball.

Columbia would get another chance with 50 seconds remaining, but linebacker Steve Ziogas ’09 intercepted a pass over the middle to seal the win — and third place in the Ivy League — for the Bears.

At 4-3 in the Ivy League, and 5-5 overall, the team exceeded the predictions of the preseason media poll, in which the Bears ranked seventh in the league. Despite the team’s winning record, some players are disappointed with the team’s final outcome this season.

“I’m glad we exceeded some people’s expectations, but we had higher expectations internally,” Brewer said. “We had some things go against us, but we won some big football games. I’m definitely going to walk away proud of the way we played as a team.”

The day was bittersweet for the seniors, who likely played their last football game.

“We all love the game. I’ve been playing football for the last 10 years of my life, and it’s going to be a weird transition,” Brewer said.

Tracey echoed these sentiments, but also spoke of a sense of relief.

“I think a lot of us are ready to be done,” Tracey said. “Physically, my body is just completely destroyed.”

Though the ability and leadership of the seniors will be missed, the team will have a great crop of players returning next season, and no one sees any limits. Dougherty hinted that running back Dereck Knight ‘08, who was expected to have a big season before getting injured in the second game this season, might return to Brown for a fifth year. He would give the Bears another weapon on an offense that led the league in scoring and yards gained this season.

“I think it’s pretty obvious that the future for Brown football is very, very bright,” Brewer said.

“The amount of talent coming back is unparalleled, and there’s no reason why next year’s team shouldn’t be the best in the league.”

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continued from page 1 that many people avoid going home altogether.

“Last year and the year before I didn’t go home because it was too expensive,” said Hope Hardesty ’08.

For many students, this means staying closer to Brown.

“My solution each year has been to stay on the East Coast,” said California native Phillip Burns ’08.

A number of West Coast upperclassmen have made similar plans. “I have not traveled home for Thanksgiving since my freshman year,” said Alexander Cerjan ’09, another Californian. “I find that the trip is too long, and I have to book tickets too early for me to have security in not having a midterm or project that I would miss by trying to leave early.”

“I’m glad I’m not flying home — when I looked at tickets with my parents a few months ago, they were already $350,” said Dana Frankel ’08 from Columbus, Ohio.

For many international students, the long trip home is just too much for the Thanksgiving break.

“So far I have gone home to Bombay only once — last winter break,” said Sriram Subramanian ’10. Arjun Bhartia ’08 returns to his home in New Delhi only twice a year, during winter and summer breaks. When he was a first-year, Bhartia went to his roommate’s home in Albany, N.Y. The past two years, he has gone to New York, and this year, he will visit a friend in Washington, D.C.

But some international students do journey halfway across the world for the short Thanksgiving break.

Pur vi Paliwal ’08, whose home is also in New Delhi, took an entire week off last year to make the trip.

“I wanted to be home with my family,” she said. “I could afford to take the time off,” she added. This year, however, she won’t be returning to India.

It’s possible, too, that traveling during Thanksgiving break has not always been this difficult — or expensive. Three years ago, Hardesty, then a first-year, booked a flight home to California the week before Thanksgiving and paid around $450 for a round-trip ticket.

This year, she booked her tickets much earlier — in late September — and ended up paying over $500. And the flight she wound up with takes off from Boston rather than Providence and has two layovers. She will return on a red-eye flight Sunday night. “I think the prices have gone up, and the possibility of getting a cheap flight has gone down,” she said.

“There are ways to manipulate the system to get cheaper tickets,” she said, the most obvious being booking tickets in advance. Additionally, flights to and from major cities tend to be cheaper than flights to smaller airports.

“Whenever I buy plane tickets, I buy round trip and then change the return date,” said Masumi HayashiSmith ’10 from Tacoma, Wash., who cited inconveniences with travel as one of her reasons for not returning home this Thanksgiving.

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Letters Those who keep Brown running aren’t faceless robotrons To the Editor: The comments by Nathaniel Sloan ’08.5 in The Herald (“Overheard on College Hill,” asking “What do you think of off-campus living on College Hill?” Nov. 2) leapt off the page at me. While I’m sure that he did not mean his comments to be offensive, they were nonetheless.

His statement was, and I quote, “it feels good to be responsible and not have some faceless janitor cleaning your bathroom.” I was very insulted to have to read a statement like that in a newspaper from a university like Brown, which prides itself on mutual respect, the dignity of the human being and the individual. This struck me as very callous from a responsible young man who I would assume is striving to better himself through the very excellent education that he has received in the last three years that he has been at Brown.

Speaking of being and belonging to the Brown community, I have been a “faceless” member of this community for 20 years, 20 years of “faceless” commitment to the students who come here to learn and the faculty that teach them. Twenty years of providing a clean, safe environment.

We are also the eyes and ears of Brown. I have personally, not once but twice, chased outsiders to the Brown community who were intent on perpetrating crimes here at Brown, one resulting in an arrest and removal from the campus. Just last week, while I was working overtime, I found a cashbox containing money

left behind by students who had held a fundraiser. It was turned over to the Department of Public Safety and returned to its rightful owners.

We aren’t called Essential Services for nothing. I am on an emergency call-back list, and if I get a call at home, just as I did at 2 a.m. the other night, I will respond to the campus. When the University is shut down, as in a snowstorm and no one is even reporting to work, myself and fellow co-workers in Facilities Management will be here putting the University back together again.

I am not the only “faceless” person on this campus.

There are a myriad of “faceless” people from DPS who keep you safe, my co-workers and the great management team we have at Facilities Management who fix everything imaginable and all those good “faceless” folks who prepare all of your delicious meals at Dining Services, to the research librarian who finds that rare book you need to finish a paper.

In closing, I would like to reiterate that we are not “faceless” robotrons, but people who love Brown, love working here and being recognized for what we do. The fact that we actually spend more time with our Brown “family” than with our own does not diminish the fact that we do have families and lives away from Brown and that in fact we are not “faceless.”

Frank Almeida III Custodian, Metcalf Dorm & 111 Brown St. Nov. 12

Enjoy the Gate’s cookie dough? Beware To the Editor: The Gate’s “Zuzzy’s New Cookie Dough Cups” seems like a delicious treat, and the nutritional facts don’t seem so bad considering it is cookie dough. The nutrition label claims “about 1” 37 gram ser ving per cup with 125 calories and 7 grams of fat per serving.

Unfortunately someone at Zuzzy’s forgot how to do

division. The cup weighs 115 grams, meaning that there are 3.1 servings, not “about 1!” Eating the whole thing means 387 calories and 22 grams of fat! Too bad my math professor took points off my midterm when I wrote 3 equals about 1.

Evan Lazer ’10 Nov. 15

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All the small things BEN BERNSTEIN Campus Issues Columnist In honor of the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning of “midterm” season — which at Brown describes any test that is not a final — I decided to do significantly less reporting than usual. And by “in honor of,” I obviously mean that I didn’t have the time to write the great column of which I’m capable.

This column, then, is about mysteries. Not unsolvable ones, like why the loudest door in the entire school is located at the entrance to the Absolute Quiet Room of the Rockefeller Library. Instead, I will discuss fixable problems that make preparing for midterms that much more difficult, like the following.

Just as some rules were made to be broken, some traditions were made to ruin student’s weekends. On Parents Weekend at around 9:30 in the morning, Brown students were rudely awakened to a marching band playing outside our windows. This display, which occurs on Parents Weekend every year, defies logic and something called common courtesy. Sophie McCoy ’08, tenor saxophonist and president of the Brown Band, explains that the ritual is scheduled to coincide with early-morning Parents Weekend programming. It seems to me that another intention of playing the Brown fight song on full blast is to rally students for the game — but this mission fails. As one of my suitemates put it at 9:37 that morning, “They want me to go cheer at the football game,

but now I’m going to never attend another Brown athletic event for the rest of my time here.” Fearing a trombone slide to the face, she prefers anonymity.

This is the easiest problem to fix of any problem ever. Brown Band, despite your noble (mobile?) intentions and truly excellent tone quality, please stop doing this. Play later in the day, or maybe just don’t play in front of the

wake up to their own alarm clocks. The rest of us want to sleep.

Another minor irritation comes in the form of the Sciences Library. It’s bad enough, as Herald Opinions Columnist Sean Quigley ’10 pointed out (“Aesthetics matter,” Oct. 12), that the new Friedman Study Center in the SciLi has made going to study there so social, loud and, frankly, impossible that you might

Why is the loudest door in the entire school located at the entrance to the Absolute Quiet Room? dorms. Just please remember that this a liberal arts university, which is both by definition and in practice not the kind of place where many people wake up early on Saturdays so they can pre-game a 1 p.m. football game to the tune of “When the Saints Come Marching In.” As a letter to The Herald from Elizabeth Baecher ’57 (“Alum exhorts students to support football team,” Oct. 25) pointed out, “Here was a team that won the 2005 Ivy League trophy, and only a smattering of their classmates showed up to support their efforts.” That smattering can

as well be going to a frightening 1970s nightclub. On the floors above the mezzanine, the study space is like a more distasteful version of what I imagine a prison library to be like.

Our library staff deserve better. What is more frustrating, however, is that above the third floor of the SciLi, one can only get weak-to-zero wireless Internet service. To summarize, we make the main study areas either too cool for school, literally, or too depressing and technologically backward to be useful. Walking to the Rock, where construction has rendered

the second floor’s popular red room and computer lab uninhabitable, is also a weak option.

Instead, why not just make the SciLi wireless?

And maybe provide some more comfortable tables, chairs and lighting for the upper levels of the SciLi while we’re at it? Please, Brown spending gods? Please?

One final request to ease my midterm experience goes out to safeRIDE. While nothing makes me happier than taking safeRIDE to the library in the evening, few things make me more miserable than realizing I left some necessary study item like a textbook or my lucky study pencil in my room. This is because safeRIDE runs in only one direction, and thus it is the wrong direction half the time. One might object that some streets only run one way. Well, some don’t. And we can use these streets to run safeRIDE in both directions and make campus travel faster and easier for Brown’s enormous lazy-student population.

This column sounds like a lot of complaining. And as one student observed to me recently, “Complaining, mostly about how tired they are, is all anyone does here.” That said, sometimes I get distracted by bigger projects while the small things that make our lives as students easier or harder get lost. Well, I think I’ve found them, and I hope we make these changes before another midterm season (read: entire semester) is corrupted by noise, indolence and evil.

Ben Bernstein ’09 writes a regular column on campus issues. If there is an issue you would like to bring to his attention, email benjamin_bernstein@brown.edu.

In search of coffee culture

BY TAYLOR BARNES Guest Columnist SAO PAOLO, Brazil — My first relationship with a Brazilian lasted less than a week, and I´m blaming it all on Starbucks.

I waited through several months of smiles and waves with the attractive waiter who works near my building before I made my first subtle move: “So, would you like to hang out sometime?”

I waited for the correct response, as in, an invitation to lattes at a nearby coffee shop.

Imagine my surprise when I instead heard: “Alright. Let´s get a beer tomorrow.”

A beer? My inner Southern lady wrinkled her nose and wondered what kind of gentleman would take his lass to get sloshed on their first date. Still, I faced a dilemma. My dream of sipping flavored coffees to the backdrop of snazzy jazz music was just that — an unattainable dream — in this marvelous city that is as of now untouched by the Starbucks Empire.

And, to worsen my predicament, independentchic cafes a la The Edge are as scarce as onepiece bathing suits on the Copacabana Beach.

Thus, I accepted this questionable character’s invitation, throwing 20 years of decency training in Georgia by the wayside.

The conversation on the first date was minimal. I would have liked to discuss the student movement to sack the president of the Brazilian Senate or the representation of the Rio de Janeiro police force in the current film “Tropa de Elite.” Instead, the most my slipping-from-grace cute waiter offered was: “Have a beer. No? A caipirinha then?”

I had dreamed a second date to the theater or a museum. He instead asked me to meet him at midnight to head out to a nightclub in a neighborhood that only a few years ago

was frequented exclusively by those seeking illicit personal services. Even though I was disappointed, I shouldn’t have been surprised — after accepting the first unsavory date offer, I was only inviting more.

Needless to say, sweaty discotecas and hangovers didn’t steer our romance in the direction I wanted. Less than a week after our first date, I confronted him about his lack of respect for “us” when he didn’t call me and stood me up for a date. I tried to delicately

my friendships and threatened my academic performance. On a recent afternoon, I called a friend to ask her to hang out between classes.

I looked forward to a chat over cappuccinos.

“Sure, let’s get a beer.” Her response threw me back to my dilemma with my waiter — miss a chance to catch up with a friend or arrive to my 3:00 seminar buzzed and overly eager to discuss Brazilian romantic poetry. More than ever, I missed Brown, where caffeine refueling stations are tucked away in every corner

Rio’s lack of coffee culture hasn’t just ruined by love life, it has also jeopardized my friendships and threatened by academic performance. explain my frustration, that I prefer my suitors to do more than booze me up from time to time. Whether it was my poor Portuguese or our different expectations for decent dating, I don’t know, but he didn’t seem to understand.

“Oh. Do you want to get a beer tomorrow?”

It was over.

Please don’t call me ethnocentric. I’ve embraced many aspects of Brazilian culture — I wash my underwear in the shower and wear skin-baring skimpy bikinis. But replacing steaming mocha lattes with lukewarm beers I just can’t withstand.

Rio’s lack of coffee culture hasn’t just ruined my love life, it has also jeopardized

of campus. I would welcome even a Dunkin Donuts Coconut Coolatta in such desperate circumstances.

I recently made a trip to Sao Paulo, and I realized that with just a six-hour bus ride, I could reinvigorate my quest for love. In just the past year, six Starbucks have opened in the city. I followed the siren’s call to the nearest location, until I saw her black-outlined figure gracing the sign at the entrance.

My American travel partner bemoaned the loss of local culture upon the intrusion of a multinational company. Passing our Thayer Starbucks anytime while at Brown, I would have likely made the same complaints. Even

in the snowiest months of winter, I trek out to Coffee Exchange, telling myself that fair-trade coffee tastes much better than the mainstream bland brand. I secretly pride myself on drinking not from a standard green-sleeved paper cup but from oversized mugs at local-chic The Edge.

But after months of cafe-culture starvation, I had forgotten my resentment towards the mega coffee chain. I simply stared around the store — at the happy couples chatting over frappuccinos and listening to the serenades of Norah Jones. I had to buy something, despite the specialty drinks costing twice as much as a meal at the average Brazilian restaurant. Tears spilled into my cafe com leite as I thought of my cute waiter and how we star-crossed crosscultural lovers would have fared so differently if only everyone’s favorite caffeine monopoly would hurry and open a store in Rio. I glanced at the recent slew of Herald articles debating the wisdom/morality/purpose of hooking up, on whether the love of liberty outweighs the risk of contracting STDs. My only contribution to the “to hook up or not to hook up” question is this: It’s a “not” when stale beer breath and smelly nightclubs kill the romance for this Southern belle. My heart beats only for mocha frapuccinos and beats all the more quickly when I add a shot or two of espresso to it.

Thus is the sad, short story of a tropical and tipsy failed relationship in Rio. Despite resenting your high prices and clone-like stores, I beg you, Starbucks, come here as soon as possible. Until then, I wait, single and lonely, for the Brazilian of my dreams to win me over with a tall cup of love.

Taylor Barnes ’09, who will join The Herald’s editorial board next semester as a senior editor, is a Brazil nut.

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M. soccer bounces back for double OT win over Columbia

By Jason Harris Assistant Sports Editor

A great team finds a way to win even when it doesn’t bring its “A” game The men’s soccer team has pulled out wins time and again this season, and Saturday night’s 3-2 doubleovertime victory at Columbia was no exception.

The win — sealed with a goal by Jon Okafor ’11 with three minutes left in overtime — finalized Bruno’s regular season record at 15-1-1 and, more impressively, 7-0 in the competitive Ivy League.

Predictably, Bruno started lethargically against the last-place Lions (3-13-1, 0-7 Ivy League). Coming off a physical win the week before against Dartmouth, in which the Bears clinched the Ivy League title, Brown looked uninspired early on.

“A little emotional letdown is natural in any sport,” said Head Coach Mike Noonan. “They were looking forward to important games ahead of them.”

Columbia, despite its poor record, had plenty of motivation against the No. 4Bears on its Senior Day. Bruno is now 6-0-1 against the Lions in the past seven years, but five of those victories have been by just one goal.

Columbia came out of the gates quickly and got on the board with 23 minutes to play in the first half.

“Sometimes you are happy when the other team scores. It gave us a

little wake up call,” Noonan said.

But when its lackadaisical play continued through the first half and the team found itself down 1-0 heading into the locker room, Brown regained its sense of urgency.

“We were really motivated being down 1-0,” said co-captain Stephen Sawyer ’09. “We knew we were going to have to come out with everything we had to turn the game around.”

Although the game had little meaning on the surface, it was important for Brown to accomplish its preseason goal of going 7-0 in the Ivy League.

“Coach normally comes in during halftime and gets on us for poor play in the first half,” said forward Kevin Davies ’08. “But (yesterday) he didn’t yell that much. He said he wanted us to win it for ourselves.”

Early in the second half, Brown’s newly found energy paid off. Though Columbia kept a lot of defenders behind the ball, Bruno moved the ball quickly to crack the Lions’ defense.

With 25:17 to play in the game midfielder Nick Elenz-Martin ’10 crossed the ball to Okafor, who ripped a shot by the Lions’ goalie for his third goal of the season, tying the match.

Brown kept the pressure on, and following a Columbia turnover deep in its own end, forward TJ Thompson ’10 scored his first goal of the season at 72:44 to give Brown a 2-1 lead. continued on page 7

M. hockey loses, ties over weekend

By Stu Woo Spor ts Editor

By the players’ account, the men’s hockey team did not deser ve a single point for its two-game road trip to New York this weekend.

The Bears were outshot by both St. Lawrence University and No. 8 Clarkson University. They made costly penalties during their comeback bids. They star ted games lethargically, falling in three-goal holes in both matches. Though

the Bears fell to Clarkson 4-2 on Saturday, they were able to bring home a point after clawing back to a 4-4 tie against St. Lawrence after a fluke goal reinvigorated the team on Friday.

With the Bears (1-3-3 overall, 1-2-3 Eastern College Athletic Conference) down 3-0 in the second period, assistant captain Jeff Prough ’08 scored a short-handed goal with a little help from a bad hop. continued on page 8

Squash opens with losses to Crimson

By Christina Stubbe Sports Staff Writer

Squash opened its season Friday night at home when both the men and women battled Ivy League rival Harvard. Playing at the Kate Brodsky Squash Pavilion in the Pizzitola Sports Center, the men lost 8-1 and the women fell 7-2.

In front of a large crowd of parents and fans, the men played first. The Bears stayed competitive in several individual matches. Two matches, including the Brown victory, went to five games, and two others finished

in four.

Harvard, which finished third in the national championship tournament last year, ultimately overwhelmed the hosts, but Chester Hall ’08 believed the close matches displayed the team’s depth.

“It was more games than we’ve gotten in a while,” Hall said.

The highlight of the night for Brown was Hall’s 10-8, 6-9, 9-6, 1-9, 9-4 victory at the No. 6 position over Harvard’s Ned Reeves. The five-game match, which lasted far longer than continued on page 8

SCOREBOARD FRIDAY, NOV. 16 M. hockey: Brown 4, St. Lawrence 4 OT w. hockey: Dartmouth 2, Brown 0 M. SQUASH: Harvard 8, Brown 1 W. SQUASH: Harvard 7, Brown 2 M. water polo: George Washington 8, Brown 3 SATURDAY, NOV. 17 Football: Brown 30, Columbia 22 M. Soccer: Brown 3, Columbia 2 OT W. BASKETBALL: Vermont 69, Brown 38 M. CREW: 1st at Tail of the Charles W. CREW: 2nd at Foot of the Charles

M. hockey: Clarkson 4, Brown 2 w. hockey: Harvard 2, Brown 0 w. sWIMMING & DIVING: Brown 186, Dartmouth 114 M. SWIMMING & DIVING: Brown 191, Dartmouth 52 M. SWIMMING & DIVING: Navy 139.5, Brown 103.5 M. water polo: Brown 12, Iona 10 SUNDAY, NOV. 18 W. BASKETBALL: NC State 65, Brown 31

After ice melts, w. hockey sinks

By Andrew Braca Sports Staf f Writer

Ashley Hess / Herald File Photo

Jon Okafor’s ’11 double-overtime goal in the men’s soccer team’s contest against Columbia Saturday secured Bruno’s undefeated Ivy League record.

Melting ice at Meehan Auditorium forced the women’s hockey team to flee on a weekend when two home games were scheduled.

Brown moved downtown to face No. 9 Dartmouth at the newly renovated Dunkin Donuts Center on Friday, and traveled to Cambridge, Mass., to take on No. 7 Harvard. Despite 83 total saves by Nicole Stock ’09, Brown lost both games by identical 2-0 scores.

Head Coach Digit Murphy said compressors in Meehan failed sometime on Wednesday, causing a rise in the temperature of the brine used to chill the concrete surface. The same computer glitch that knocked out the compressors also silenced the alarm that monitors the ice temperature, causing the problem to go unnoticed for three hours on a warm day.

“It was like being on a warm spring afternoon on a pond and (worrying) you might fall through,” Murphy said. “It was that wet out there.”

Murphy said she expects Meehan continued on page 9

Football holds on against Columbia for winning Ivy record

By Benjy Asher Assistant Sports Editor

NEW YORK — Things had taken a disastrous turn for the football team in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s game, the last collegiate game for its seniors. Brown’s 24-3 halftime lead over Columbia had shrunk to 24-22 with 11:37 left in the game, and hopes of a winning Ivy League record were in danger.

“Throughout our careers, we’ve learned that you can’t panic, you have to respond,” said tri-captain guard AJ Tracey ’08. “But I, of course, was worried, and I was saying my prayers that we’d hold on to win the game.”

The Bears did respond, and big defensive plays and a few key offensive drives helped Brown to hold off the Lions’ comeback for a 30-22 victory in New York City.

Brown’s offense got rolling in the first quarter, scoring on its first three drives to open up a 21-0 lead.

Quarterback Michael Dougherty ’09 consistently found open receivers in the middle of the field, before completing a 17-yard touchdown pass to Buddy Farnham ’10 for a 7-0 lead on the opening drive.

“We had good timing, and the offensive line was giving good protection,” Dougherty said. “Our receivers were getting open, and I was making good throws. Everything was going right.”

On the ensuing Columbia drive, the Lions opted to go for it on 4thand-5 at the Brown 30, but linebacker Frank Nuzzo ’09 and safety Jose Yearwood ’08 broke up a pass in the end zone to give the Bears the ball back.

On the next drive, the big play came when receiver Paul Raymond ’08 made a great turning catch on a slightly under-thrown pass from Dougherty for a 38-yard gain.

Ashley Hess / Herald File Photo

Quarterback Michael Dougherty ’09 led the Bears to a 30-22 victory over Columbia on Saturday.

Brown then moved the ball down to the 3-yard line, where wide receiver Bobby Sewall ’10 took a direct snap in the shotgun, broke a tackle in the backfield and ran the ball in for a touchdown.

Brown kept its third drive alive with two consecutive third-down conversions. The Bears then turned again to Sewall, who caught a 12-yard pass, and then ran the ball in on the next play for his second touchdown of the day.

Though his performance was not as flashy as in last week’s game, when he ran for four touchdowns and threw for another, Sewall put in another solid effort, with 23 car-

ries for 80 yards in addition to 83 yards on 12 catches. Though listed as a wide receiver, the coaches have been using Sewall as the Bears’ primary running back for the past two games.

In the second quarter, the defense was led by sacks by tri-captain linebacker Eric Brewer ’08 and lineman David Howard ’09. With 1:24 remaining in the first half, the Lions finally got on the board with a 23-yard field goal, but the Bears answered with a 36-yard drive, including a 25-yard completion to tight end Colin Cloherty ’09, which continued on page 9