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Across campus, puzzlers get down with Shortz Students never

By Emmy Liss
Features Editor
The room was silent except for the
squeak of markers against white-
boards. Messy letters filled the
boxes, building corners with words
intertwined. As white space disap-
peared, the crowd held its breath
until, suddenly, Aaron Mazel-Gee
’09 took a step back and threw up
his hands. He had finished.
FEATURE
On Saturday, the Puzzling Asso-
ciation of Brown sponsored its first
annual Brown Crossword Puzzle
Competition. Hosted by New York
Times crossword puzzle editor Will
Shortz, the contest could barely
be contained in MacMillan 117 as
students and members of the larg-
er community flooded in to hear
Shortz speak and try their luck at
the student-created puzzles.
The event’s organizers — Dustin
Foley ’09, Joey Weissbrot ’11 and
Natan Last ’12 — all came to Brown
with a passion for puzzles.
Foley, who designs the daily
puzzle comic “Enigma Twist” for
The Herald, has been making maz-
es since elementary school and be-
gan delving into crossword puzzles
in sixth grade. He constructed the
Strikes at European schools
The Puzzling Association of Brown held its first Crossword Puzzle Competition, hosted by Will Shortz.
crossword for his monthly school
paper during junior and senior
years of high school.
Weissbrot defines himself as
more of a doer than a creator —
he tackled the Times crossword
every day in high school. Then,
after finding out through a friend
that Shortz takes a summer intern,
Weissbrot spent last summer edit-
ing and fact checking puzzles at
Shortz’s home.
“Will’s house is sort of the Mec-
ca of puzzle making,” Weissbrot
said. “Constructors come to his
house, hang out and do puzzles.”
Weissbrot met — and competed
against — some of the Times’ top
Hang Nguyen / Herald
puzzle makers.
Last has also spent time puz-
zling at Shortz’s house. Until
recently, Last held the record as
the youngest creator of a Sunday
Times crossword puzzle. To date,
he has published nine puzzles in
continued on page 2
in danger in
Trinidad
By Lauren Fedor
and Ben Schreckinger
Senior Staff Writers
No foul play was involved in the disap-
pearance of two students who had been
missing after failing to return home from a
spring break trip to Trinidad, according to
a local law enforcement official there.
“They were unharmed,” the official
— a representative of the anti-kidnapping
unit of the Trinidad and Tobago police —
told The Herald.
“They were not abducted. They were
not kidnapped,” said the official, who
spoke on the condition of anonymity.
“They were in fact secured and with a
friend, staying at a guest house.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
and the U.S. State Department, along with
local police in Trinidad, had been investi-
gating the whereabouts of Kimberly Hays
’11 and Sophia Roy ’10 after they did not
return to campus by March 30, as friends
said they had planned. The girls arrived
in Trinidad on March 22, according to a
friend of the students.
According to the local official, Hays
and Roy left Trinidad for the neighbor-
ing island of Tobago and “spent some
time with a friend.” During that time,
they “did not communicate” with their
parents, he said.
The students returned to Trinidad
“around the first of April,” he said, and

sidetrack students abroad

By Anne Simons
Senior Staff Writer
Protests and strikes taking place
at universities across France have
disrupted classes for most Brown
students studying abroad there
this semester.
Three schools that are host-
ing Brown students have held
almost no classes this semester,
while others have seen some just
a few classes affected, wrote Annie
Wiart, director of the Brown in
France program, in an e-mail to
The Herald.
The professor-led strikes op-
pose government reforms related
to ongoing efforts to standardize
higher education policies across
the European Union.
At Universite de Paris III, for ex-
ample, where Brown students have
been the most affected, strikes
have been ongoing for about nine
weeks during which virtually no
classes have been taught, Wiart
wrote.
Among the 24 Brown students
currently studying in Paris, seven
have not been affected at all, while
“most” have had one or two of their
inside
five classes “partially or completely
cancelled,” she wrote.
Even some professors not on
strike have been unable to teach
because of locked classrooms and
picketing students, Wiart wrote.
A few students study in Lyon,
where two of the three universi-
ties that host Brown students have
been affected and one remains on
strike, Wiart wrote.
At least one school, Institut
d’Etudes Politiques in Lyon, has
resumed and made plans to pro-
vide a full semester’s worth of
teaching by holding class during
spring break and later into June,
and there is hope that strikes at
two Paris universities, IV and VIII,
will end soon, Wiart wrote. But the
three hardest-hit schools, Lyon
II, Paris I and Paris III, may face
“completely forfeiting the semes-
ter,” she wrote.
Despite the disruptions, stu-
dents should have no concerns
about receiving full credit for the
semester upon their return to
Brown, said Director of the Office
of International Programs Kendall
continued on page 3
The Native Americans at Brown hosted the eighth annual Spring
Thaw Pow Pow in the Pizzitola Sports Center.
Drums, dancing at annual
Spring Thaw Pow Wow
By Hannah Moser
Senior Staff Writer
The rumbling of drums and
jingling of bells filled Pizzitola
Sports Center this Saturday and
Sunday as the Native Americans
at Brown hosted their eighth
annual Spring Thaw Pow Wow.
Hundreds gathered to take part
in the celebration that included
food, booths and dancing and
Shristi Pandey / Herald
drumming competitions.
The event, which was planned
to take place on the Main Green
as it was in 2008, was moved in-
side due to overcast weather.
Peter Hatch ’11, a member of
NAB and the Siletz tribe of Or-
egon, said the pow wow attracted
80 to 100 dancers, about a dozen
vendors and seven drum groups.
continued on page 3
were staying at another friend’s home on
the island when they were located.
The official said Friday the students
were “safe” and “doing well” in the cus-
tody of U.S. State Department officials.
Vice President for Campus Life and
Student Services Margaret Klawunn
confirmed in an e-mail to The Herald
that the students were not the victims
of foul play.
Kimberly Hays’ father, Steven Hays,
told The Herald late Thursday that the
girls were safe at a hotel in Trinidad, but
did not elaborate except to say that “one
of them may have been drugged.”
On Friday, he said the information
about a possible drugging did not come
directly from his daughter, Roy or the
FBI, and he referred further questions
about the investigation to the FBI’s Bos-
ton Field Office.
Both Steven Hays and a friend of both
students said the duo were returning to
Providence Sunday.
Kimberly Hays, reached Sunday on
her cell phone, declined to comment and
directed questions to the FBI.
Gail Marcinkiewicz, a representative
for public affairs at the FBI’s Boston of-
fice, said she could neither confirm nor
deny the local police official’s account,
citing privacy concerns.
A U.S. State Department official in
Trinidad declined to comment Friday,
citing “the Privacy Act.”

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C ampus N EWS “In my family, puzzling is a competitive sport.”

— Ariel Hudes ’11

It’s Shortz season: Puzzlers tussle in crossword tournament

continued from page 1
the Times, which he began submit-
ting the summer after his sophomore
year in high school.
Because Shortz knew both Last
and Weissbrot would be at Brown
this year, he suggested they meet
up, start a club and organize a com-
petition. Having “no idea how to get
it off the ground,” the two went to
the Student Activities Office, where
someone asked if they knew Foley,
Last said. The duo e-mailed him and
they hit it off immediately.
“Before meeting these guys, I had
never met any other puzzle construc-
tors,” Foley said.
The competition was a “great way
to kick off this association,” Foley
said. Though the group has not yet
held regular meetings, they are in-
terested in doing “puzzlish stuff” and
hope to expand, Weissbrot added.
The association’s founders cre-
ated three of the four puzzles used
at Saturday’s competition. All were
edited by Shortz and will appear in
the Times within the next two weeks,
which will be Foley’s and Weissbrot’s
debuts.
“I’m not making any allowance
because of the relative youth,” Shortz
said. “The quality of their puzzles is
the same as any Times puzzles.”
For many of the 300 people
crammed into MacMillan on Satur-
day, Shortz was the main attraction.
Students clapped and cheered wildly
as he took the podium and screams
of “I love you, Will!” punctuated
the applause.
Shortz spoke about his all-time
favorite puzzles, many of which could
be recognized from the hit documen-
tary “Wordplay.” These included a
marriage proposal Shortz orches-
trated for an avid puzzler and a puzzle
from Election Day 1996, whose clue,
“Tomorrow’s Headline,” could be an-
swered with either “Clinton Elected”
or “Bob Dole Elected.”
“In my family, puzzling is a
competitive spor t,” said Ariel
Hudes ’11. “And you don’t touch a
crossword that doesn’t come from
the Times.”
Hudes had originally intended
to stay only for Shortz’s opening re-
marks, but decided to participate in
the competition for fun.
Participants could compete in
one of three categories — under-
graduates, non-undergraduates and
pairs. At the start of each round, the
constructor introduced his puzzle
(except for the third puzzle, an as-
yet unpublished creation by Times
puzzlemaker Joon Pahk) before con-
testants flipped over their papers and
began writing frantically.
Though accuracy was the most
important factor for winning, tim-
ing was crucial as well. As contes-
tants finished, they were assigned
numbers to mark their spots and at
the end of 20 minutes, all puzzles
were collected.
During the rounds, competi-
tors were silent — those working
as pairs communicated only on the
grid. But as soon as time was called,
contestants broke into a low roar of
conversation centered on the puzzles.
The five-minute breaks were spent
rehashing the clues and answers.
“I knew that,” one competitor
groaned to a friend. “I just couldn’t
figure it out.”
After three consecutive rounds,
the judges finished scoring all the
puzzles while Shortz entertained
the audience with interactive word
games — a special surprise even for
the organizers, Weissbrot said.
Finally, the winners of the three
rounds for each category were an-
nounced and the three undergradu-
ate winners were called forward:
Danny Sugar ’11, Jack Gill ’10 and
Mazel-Gee.
At the front of the room were
three whiteboards with drawn-on
crossword grids, a sight many rec-
ognized from the documentation
of the American Crossword Puzzle
Tournament in “Wordplay.”
The three contestants — and each
member of the audience — received
the final puzzle, and the finalists filled
their boards with letters as a hush fell
over the crowd. Sugar filled nearly
the entire top half of his board before
either of the other two competitors
had made a dent. But they quickly
caught up and all three were neck-
and-neck until the last possible
moment.
“It really was unclear who was
going to win,” Shortz said, noting
how exciting it was for the audience
to watch.
“I was a little more nervous than
expected,” Mazel-Gee admitted.
Though he does the Times cross-
word daily, he had never been in a
tournament before and had been aim-
ing to be one of the top 10 finalists.
All of the winners in each catego-
ry received books of puzzles edited
and signed by Shortz. He happily
personalized the inscription for many
of the winners.
Dan Katz GS, who is in his sixth
and final year of studying mathemat-
ics at Brown, swept the non-under-
graduate category, winning all three
rounds. Katz is an avid puzzler and
finished 18th this year at the Ameri-
can Crossword Puzzle Tournament,
which Shortz hosts.
“I’m always in favor of more tour-
naments,” Katz said. “The puzzles
were great.”
Shortz said he was “really pleased
there are so many young people
solving and making puzzles.” The
turnout was “wonderful” — Brown’s
tournament had 200 competitors, as
compared to Harvard’s 2008 con-
test, which boasted only 100 solvers,
Shortz said.
The Puzzling Association had “no
idea” what kind of turnout to expect,
Weissbrot said, and was “really, really
happy that so many people came.”
“Overall, I thought it was great,”
he said.
After leaving Providence on Sat-
urday, Shortz headed to Harvard to
conduct a competition there, and will
follow that with a contest at Yale. He
has had summer interns from each
school and was invited to host all the
events. Puzzles from students at the
other two schools will be published
in the Times as well.
Reflecting on the enthusiasm of
college students for puzzling, Shortz
said, “It’s good for the future of cross-
words.”

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Pow Wow in the Pitz
continued from page 1
Vendors sold food such as corn cakes
and “Indian tacos,” a modern pow
wow staple. Other booths offered
clothing and traditional crafts.
Each drum group sat around a
large common drum and provided
the music for the dancers who com-
peted in different events over the
weekend, including contemporary
fancy shawl dances and more tradi-
tional dances. A hand drum competi-
tion was also held on Sunday.
Elizabeth Hoover GS served as
the Head Lady Dancer and it was
her responsibility to lead the other
women onto the dance floor. She
participated in the fancy shawl dance
and wore an outfit that she said took
her a few years to make. The hum-
mingbird beadwork and neon green
fabric reflected a more contemporary
Native American style developed in
the 1950s, Hoover said.
Pow wows have become a sea-
sonal tradition for many Native
American families. Hoover has been
attending pow wows since she was
a child and Katherine Cachimuel, a
high school student from Boston,
said she and her family attend one
almost every seasonal weekend as
vendors.
The NAB Spring Thaw event
is quickly becoming part of many
people’s traditions. “People know us
because we’ve been here for eight
years,” Hatch said.
The cultural event attracted a di-
verse crowd, from people who had
attended pow wows throughout
their lives to people who had never
seen one before. Though the dance
competition required registration to
participate, “Intertribal” dances were
held throughout the weekend and
were open to all in attendance.
“Probably the predominant num-
ber of people would be from the real
local tribes and then a lot of other
people have moved to this area or
have driven down just for this oc-
casion,” said Hoover, who helped
NAB organize the first pow wow in
2002. “This is a way to bring the lo-
cal people here on campus and have
an event for them ... and then at the
same time it’s a way of educating the
Brown students who are here about
contemporary native culture.”
Paasheshau Papoose Driver, a
cultural teacher who has been at-
tending pow wows her entire life,
said pow wows are celebrations of
“unity, sovereignty and those things
that were attempted to be taken away
from our people 500 years ago.” A
Narragansett Piquat tribe member,
Driver said she was raised to pass
on her tribe’s oral culture. “I like
(to answer) questions ... there are
stereotypical things. I like to cor-
rect them.”
Many members of the 500-strong
crowd that passed through Pizzitola
this weekend were simply curious.
Rachel Hunter ’12 and her friends
saw an announcement about the pow
wow and went by “just to see what it
was all about” and ended up staying
longer than they had planned. “It was
good people-watching,” said Hannah
Rose-Mann ’12.
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“This semester has been kind of a roller coaster.”
Students abroad to get credit, despite strikes
continued from page 1
Brostuen.
Students have been consulting
individually with the leaders of
Brown in France to ensure they
have enough class hours and as-
sessments to receive full credit, he
said. Measures such as following
an accelerated schedule in the lat-
ter part of the semester and taking
courses offered by Brown directly
should make up for students’ can-
celled classes when necessar y,
he said.
In Paris, Brown in France has
hired instructors to teach two cred-
it-bearing courses students can take
to help make up credits lost to the
strikes, Wiart wrote, while students
in Lyon have the option of taking
two special eight-week classes or-
ganized by professors at Institut
d’Etudes Politiques for students of
some American universities.
“Brown is making sure that
students get good quality cours-
es, worth full Brown credit,” Wiart
wrote.
But students whose host univer-
sities have been affected said the
strikes have caused uncertainty.
Tanya Bogaty ’10, who is taking
classes at Paris III and IV, wrote in
an e-mail to The Herald that some
of the classes she had planned to
take did not meet for “weeks in a
row.”
Sometimes professors would
post that information ahead of time,
she wrote, but often students had to
attend class to find out if the profes-
— Meredith Weaver ’10
sor would show up.
Meredith Weaver ’10, studying
at Lyon II and IEP, wrote in an e-
mail to The Herald that she had
one class that did not meet between
Jan. 22 and March 3 and another
that met five out of the first eight
weeks.
All together, there have been
seven weeks where at least some
classes didn’t meet, she wrote. Be-
cause of the strikes, she has had
to take different courses than she
originally planned, she added.
As a result, students have had
to take special steps to ensure they
can receive credit.
“Because the situation varies so
much from student to student it has
been really important to communi-
cate with the office about what is
happening,” Bogaty wrote.
“We have to keep logs of which
of our classes are meeting and for
how many hours per week,” wrote
Dustin Sposato ’10 in an e-mail to
The Herald.
Despite the complications, Wi-
art and Brostuen both expressed
hope that students are taking in the
experience of the protests.
“They’re living French history,”
Brostuen said, adding this is a “very
interesting time to be in France.”
“We’re encouraging everyone to
get a real taste and appreciation of
what is happening in France right
now,” Wiart wrote.
Students reported mixed feel-
ings about the strikes.
“It’s hard to complain about
spending spring in Paris without
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much in the way of class or home-
work,” Sposato ’10 wrote. “But
even though it means we may have
more free afternoons, everyone
I’ve talked to here is anxious for
the strikes to end.”
The situation “means we’ve had
very limited French university ex-
perience,” he wrote.
“It’s been difficult to deal with
the uncertainty about whether
I will get enough credit and the
lack of routine from week to
week,” Bogaty wrote. “It’s dis-
appointing that instead of being
fully immersed in the French
university system I am having
classes with other Brown students,”
she added.
“This semester has been kind
of a roller coaster,” Weaver wrote,
saying that the uncertainty caused
by the strikes is frustrating. “I have
seen a side of France that I did
not expect.”
“I have been told that the roots
of this movement were growing
last semester. If this is truly the
case, I think Brown should have
warned students of the possibility,”
Weaver added.
Brostuen said Brown officials
saw no reason to expect strikes
apart from a general histor y in
France of strikes and protests.
But overall, Weaver’s experi-
ence in France so far has made
her appreciate Brown more,
she wrote.
“Suddenly Banner and the occa-
sional class during reading period
don’t seem so bad,” she wrote.
Arts & Culture
The Brown Daily Herald

Monday, April 6, 2009 | Page 4

Travel to ‘The Other Shore’

By Adam Lubitz
Contributing Writer
The audience travels along with the
cast of Gao Xingjian’s “The Other
Shore” through various settings and
quirky vignettes. Some characters
gamble, others play tug-of-war as the
production rides with its audience to
the other shore and back.
In Buddhism, the “other shore”
signifies the place of enlightenment.
At the Leeds Theatre, members of the
cast both construct a river with their
bodies and cross over it. Audience
and actors alike are submerged into
a dreamlike world that drifts between
different characters and a number of
narratives.
Entering the theater, the audience
is literally greeted by the perform-
ers. The cast runs through warm-ups
onstage, and, while stretching and
doing light calisthenics, welcome
their friends and acquaintances to
the theater.
The atmosphere is so relaxed
that when a cast member changed
the track playing from the boombox,
a friendly dispute arose about one
song’s merits over the other’s.
This initial interaction, which
lacks both script and fourth wall, es-
tablishes that the audience is to travel
with the players in this production,
rather than merely spectate.
Rafael Cebrian Aranda ’11 poi-
gnantly announces, “Our play starts
with a game.” The ensemble cast
proceeds to demonstrate how folks
playing with a simple thing like a rope
can be the manifestation of myriad
and distinct interpersonal relation-
ships. Love (physical and romantic),
fighting, excitement and tensions
of all kinds are successfully carried
forth by a cast that is not timid, to
say the least.
Multiple roles are shared, and
quite often the performers must
become the center of attention and
then swiftly return to participating in
the ensemble. This feat is carried off
professionally by the undergraduate
cast and it is a great pleasure to watch
a play with actors in such fine tune
with each other and the overall tenor
of the production.
Of particular note was the dum-
my-ventriloquist duo portrayed by
Matt Bauman ’10 and Michelle Ilutsik
Snyder ’09.5 — as well as Chris
Smothers ’10 — whose focus and
placid stage presence underscored
the meditative elements of the show
nicely.
Every performance attested to a
cooperative and instructive rehearsal
style, most appropriate in a collegiate
theatrical setting.
Xingjian’s “The Other Shore” puts
the human condition on display. Orig-
inally written as an acting exercise,
the play invites the audience to learn
to use words, anger, suspicion, mob
mentality and blame as they witness
the performers discover speech.
The play’s avant-garde nature and
individualistic focus were deemed
threatening by the Chinese govern-
ment. The regime banned the play in
W hat is s l a v ?
1986, along with several of Xingjian’s
other works, motivating him to leave
China and begin his life in France as
a political refugee.
The show’s director Kym Moore,
a visiting assistant professor of The-
atre, Speech and Dance, utilizes the
individual talents of her performers
to great success. Tightrope walking,
tap dancing and even a jump from a
supine to standing position are all in-
corporated, but with the discretion of
a seasoned eye for the stage. Moore,
who has directed “The Other Shore”
in an undergraduate setting before,
commented that this incarnation is
completely different, no doubt due to
the inclusive rehearsal style.
“(The Other Shore) was a phe-
nomenal collaboration,” Moore said.
She added that whenever she or the
cast experienced an inadvertent suc-
cess in rehearsal, “I’d pull it out, and
we would turn it into something.” The
combination of Brunonian creative
talent and Moore’s dramatic instincts
lent itself very well to the musical
writing style and eclectic tone of the
piece.
Aided by a flexible set and excel-
lent lighting, the cast consistently
produces evocative stage pictures
for the audience.
“The Other Shore” is under two
hours, but it’s unlikely you’ll be check-
ing your watch; I know I didn’t.
“The Other Shore” can be seen at
Leeds Theatre April 9-12, at 8pm on Justin Coleman / Herald
The Slavic community at Brown celebrated their culture Saturday with the
Thurs-Sat, and 2pm on Sun. Slavic Festival, featuring student performances, dancing and traditional food.

Brown and Tufts choruses join forces

a rt s i n b r i e f

Production Workshop’s New Deal

Production Workshop, Brown’s only completely student- BY Caitlin Trujillo This song, according to the show’s because it sounds better with a large
run theater organization, is changing its show selection Contributing Writer program, is meant to discuss man’s group of singers, Jodry said.
process. perpetual search for meaning. The They chose Sayles for its acous-
PW has seven available slots to fill each year with student Over 100 powerful voices filled choir used stomping throughout the tics, Jodry added, and the singers’
productions: three slots first semester, three second semes- Sayles Saturday night as the Brown piece to symbolize this daily march voices certainly resonated in the
ter and one during Commencement. University Chorus, in tandem with of humanity, Andrew Clark, the Tufts large space. Clark told The Herald
In the past, PW has had a rolling submission process their guests — the Tufts University conductor, told The Herald. Sayles was different than the space
where shows were picked for production one at a time. Concert Choir ­— put on a memorable “The Human Secret” was dark and his choir is accustomed to, but that
The new submission process — which the PW calls the and passionate performance. ominous. Soprano Robyn Goodner, a they all thought it was beautiful once
“New Deal” — will now only accept proposals three times The show began with the Brown Tufts sophomore, sang a strong solo, they had the chance to sing in it.
per year and will select from each pool of submissions to Chorus performing two British folk- forcefully conveying the vulnerability The proceeds of the collabora-
fill two to three shows at a time, depending on the season. songs arranged by John Rutter — “O of the human condition. Near the tive show will help fund the Brown
PW’s Fall Season will consist of two productions during Waly, Waly” and “Dashing Away with end, the singers’ voices softened but Chorus’s trip to Prague and Vienna
first semester. Winter Season will combine the third slot of the Smoothing Iron.” Though united retained their strength, indicating the in May.
the first semester with the first and second slots of second by the theme of love, the songs dif- song’s resilient hope that though the On Sunday, Brown returned the
semester, for a total of three slated productions. The Spring fered tonally. The Chorus sang “O answers to life may never be certi- favor by performing with the Tufts
Season will comprise two shows: the third slot of second Waly, Waly” with a soft sweetness de- fied, the search is worthwhile in and choir on its campus.
semester and one Commencement slot. void of melodrama, conveying the la- of itself. Audience member Ben Bonyhadi
With these changes, the PW Board intends to allow more ments of troubled love with a pensive The two choirs finally came to- ’11 thought the Rachmaninoff pieces
time for show production and the creative process. Since and subtle sadness. “Dashing Away gether for the last piece, selections that were first performed were stron-
a few shows are chosen at once, people involved will know with the Smoothing Iron,” conversely, from Rachmaninoff’s “All-Night Vig- ger and should have come last, but
ahead of time whether their show will be in production or was joyous in its celebration of love il.” Sung in Russian, the piece started he found the concert impressive on
not. and charming in its liveliness. quietly and then built in strength. the whole.
In an informational meeting last week, Max Posner ’11 The Chorus shifted to a more Again, a multitude of voices resound- “I was very pleased,” Bonyhadi
said this change will enable directors to “truly dream up somber tone in the next portion of ed in Sayles with powerful religious said. “It might’ve jumped around a
their projects.” the show, which featured selections fervor before ultimately receding. little too much, but overall, it was
Posner also said the PW Board hopes its New Deal will from Ildebrando Pizzetti’s “Requiem.” The night ended with a jaunty “Praise very enjoyable.”
encourage a larger volume of proposals, since it will al- As the ominous Latin hymns intensi- the Name of the Lord,” a lively chant The directors and singers also
low people to plan their semesters around PW shows with fied, Sayles filled with thick sound, compared to its fellow hymns. enjoyed the experience and were
greater ease. creating a soothing ambience that Clark and Brown’s conductor, pleased with the two choirs’ first at-
Along with these changes in the submission process, PW was both haunting and uplifting. Frederick Jodry, senior lecturer in tempt at collaboration.
will implement a buddy system wherein students planning The Tufts choir also performed re- music, began arranging the concert “It was really fun to sing with new
to submit scripts for consideration will be assigned a PW ligious music, singing Bach’s “Lobet in December, though the two choirs people,” said Camile Rodriguez ’11, a
veteran to help with the proposal process. den Herrn” in spirited and exultant had never performed together until member of the Brown Chorus.
April 29 will be this year’s deadline for Fall 2009 propos- tones. The singers were clearly en- Saturday night. Jodry told The Her- According to Jodry, this type of
als. The Fall season has two slots offered, one the weekend joying themselves, gesturing anima- ald that he and Clark discussed the collaborative concert was not the first
of Sept. 25 and the other the weekend of Oct. 16. tedly with their bodies as well as their musical details of each choir’s indi- in which Brown has participated, nor
All students are eligible to submit show proposals to the voices. Their next piece, the world vidual performance as well as the is it likely to be the last.
PW Board. premiere of a Travis Worthley selec- particulars of the final Rachmaninoff “It’s fun to hear other groups,”
— Alexys Esparza tion called “The Human Secret,” fur- piece. The conductors chose to have he said. “It’s fun to see what other
ther emphasized physical movement. their choirs collaborate on this piece universities have to offer.”
 SportsMonday
The Brown Daily Herald
M. lax comes from behind for a win over Yale
By Elisabeth Avallone
Spor ts Staf f Writer
With ten minutes remaining in
the third quarter, the No. 9 men’s
lacrosse team trailed Yale, 9-6.
But with seven unanswered goals
and strong fourth quarter play,
the Bears came from behind for
a 13-9 victory this Saturday, their
eighth consecutive win. With the
win, Brown improved its record
to 9-1 overall and 2-0 in the Ivy
League.
“Yesterday was a great team
effort,” said quad-captain Kyle
Hollingsworth ’09. “It was the first
game this season that we have re-
ally been down, and it was great
to see our team overcome that
adversity.”
Leading the Bears’ attack was
Thomas Muldoon ’10, who led the
team with four goals, advancing
his point streak to 29 games, the
sixth-best active streak in the coun-
try. Andrew Feinberg ’11, Brown’s
leading scorer of the season, con-
tributed three goals and an assist,
while Hollingsworth and Brady
Williams ’09 each added an addi-
tional goal and two assists.
In the net, All-American quad-
captain Jordan Burke ’09 anchored
Brown’s defense with 15 saves, in-
cluding three saves in the fourth
quarter, when he held Yale (4-5,
1-3 Ivy) scoreless.
“Yale played a really tough
game yesterday, and it took us a
while to get it together,” Muldoon
said. “But when we play as a team
and play our game, I truly believe
that we can’t be stopped.”
Midway through the first half,
Brown was seemingly controlling
the game as two goals by Muldoon
and a goal each by Feinberg and
Rob Schlesinger ’12 pushed the
Bears to a 4-3 lead. A goal by Hol-
lingsworth with 7:47 left in the half
widened the lead to 5-3, but Yale
countered with four unanswered
goals in the closing minutes of
the half to take a 7-5 lead over
Brown.
The Bulldogs’ scoring streak
continued, as they secured an 8-5
Men’s lacrosse came from behind in the fourth quarter to beat Yale.
lead early into the third quarter.
Muldoon cut the lead to 8-6 with
his third goal of the day, but that
was countered with another Yale
goal.
But Williams’ goal with 5:55
on the clock would be the first of
seven consecutive goals for the
Bears, and Brown entered the
fourth quarter trailing 9-7.
An unassisted goal by Collins
Carey ’10 midway through the
fourth made it a one-goal game
and with 9:20 left to play, Feinberg
tied the game at 9-9. Minutes later,
quad-captain Jack Walsh ’09 gave
Brown the lead off a feed from
Williams, followed by an unas-
sisted goal by Reade Seligman ’09.
Feinberg’s third goal of the game
and Muldoon’s fourth cushioned
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Brown’s lead, for the 13-9 win.
“I am really proud and im-
pressed with the mental toughness
of our team,” said Head Coach Lars
Tiffany ’90. “We faced a determined
and excited opponent, who gave
us everything they had, and we
not only withstood them, but also,
despite being down three goals
in the third quarter, continued to
believe in who we are. We contin-
ued to play Brown lacrosse and
our style of game, to keep fighting
the battle.”
The Bears will face off next
Saturday against Penn at 1 p.m.
on Stevenson Field.
“Every game means the world
to us, and we will do everything we
can to beat UPenn next weekend,”
Muldoon said.
Ben Singer ’10:
The Tar Heel Plan
Facing mounting political pressure
to jump-start the nation amid a his-
toric recession, President Obama
announced yesterday his decision
to bet the entire
Ben Singer
High Notes U.S. economy on
the University of
North Carolina men’s basketball team
winning the NCAA tournament.
The Tar Heel Plan, as it is known,
originated from the president’s ob-
session with March Madness com-
bined with the realization that he had
assembled “the best basketball-play-
ing cabinet in American history.”
Among its hallowed ranks are
Secretary of Education Arne Dun-
can, a former co-captain at Harvard
who played professionally in Aus-
tralia, National Security Advisor
James Jones, a 6’4’’ former forward
for Georgetown University and the
president himself, who struggled
to make his high school team de-
spite a self-professed “devastating”
jump-shot.
The idea for the plan dawned on
the president while he was filling out
his inaugural bracket during a cabi-
net meeting three weeks ago. Some
perceive the president’s Tar Heel
plan as a hasty departure from his
previous strategy of a congressional
stimulus package and investment in
long-term infrastructure.
Amid allegations that the plan
is a risky gamble, especially given
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UNC’s early exit from the Atlantic
Coast Conference Tournament at
the hands of middling Florida State
University, Federal Reserve Chair-
man Ben Bernanke held a confer-
ence explaining his support for the
President’s proposal.
In the question-and-answer por-
tion of the conference, Bernanke
was asked specifically why the Fed
gave up on pursuing a multi-faceted
strategy of using more of the tools
at its disposal, such as the discount
rate.
But Obama has continued imple-
menting his plan. Just last Monday,
the president delivered an ultimatum
to Detroit automaker giants General
Motors, Ford and Chrysler to clean
up their acts in preparation for the
Final Four and national title game,
which the Motor City hosts tonight.
In the wake of Obama’s recent ul-
timatum, some have come out in
greater support of the President’s
economic agenda.
Chief economic bracketol-
ogy expert Dick Vitale said of the
Obama plan, “It’s freaking awesome,
baby! UNC’s gonna put Barry O.B.
on the map!” before returning to
film an endorsement for Hooters’
barbecue wings.
Ben Singer ’09 thinks the Spar-
tans will bankrupt the nation.
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e d i to r i a l

Taken
The campus was in for a shock last Wednesday evening. Vice President for
Campus Life and Student Services Margaret Klawunn and Dean Katherine
Bergeron sent out an e-mail announcing that two Brown students were miss-
ing — they had not returned from spring break, and the University was work-
ing with friends, family and law enforcement to locate them. No names were
provided, nor any identifying information. The announcement did, however,
include detailed contact information for psychological counseling services to
deal with potential grief.
This was a dire suggestion. Arriving only four days after the break, it
prompted students to worry about friends and acquaintances — were they
all okay? And if so, then who was missing? It also set off a flurry of local and
national coverage: The message claimed to be preparing students for distress-
ing media reports, but the coverage that followed invariably traced back to the
message itself. It was a bad miscalculation; even media vultures won’t swoop
down on a “co-eds in peril” story unless it has some meat on it, and that’s what
the e-mail provided.
Soon enough, the tension was defused. On Thursday evening, another e-
mail assured us all that the students had been found. The next day, The Herald
reported that the two had been vacationing on the Caribbean island of Trinidad,
a country noted by the State Department as a dangerous vacation destination.
A missed flight seems to have been the extent of their tribulations.
Naturally, we’re relieved that the students are safe and thankful for the ef-
forts of the government officials and Brown staff who helped to locate them.
But we’re also conscious of one thing that hasn’t come to light — a single piece F ranny C hoi
of hard evidence justifying Wednesday’s e-mail. Before uncovering anything
other than circumstantially troubling evidence, the University made a choice
that broadcast the students’ situation to the student body and subjected their
personal affairs to unnecessary scrutiny from their peers and the media. When
an announcement of this kind can be expected to advance legitimate safety
interests, the risk of alarm or embarrassment should not be a deterrent. But
in this case, there could not have been a reasonable expectation that such an
interest would be advanced. Even if the students’ situation had been desperate,
no harm could have come from waiting for actual information before breaking
the news to the community at large.
We hope there won’t be a “next time.” But if there is, University officials
need to think hard before they speak.

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Opening independent concentrations for questions
NICK WERLE
Opinions Columnist
A lot has changed since I applied to Brown
as a biochemistry concentrator. Back then
I planned to take four years of Mandarin so
that I could have a competitive advantage as
a scientific researcher. Back then I thought I
would be a neurosurgeon when I grew up.
And not one of those things is true today.
I’ve never taken a single class in biochemis-
try or Chinese and I can’t think of something
I want to do less than study for the MCAT.
But there is one thing I specifically in-
tended to do, back when I was working my
way toward senioritis, that I have completed:
an independent concentration. I’m happy —
and honestly a little surprised — to be able
to say that I will be the first “Modern Critical
Philosophy” concentrator. The College Cur-
riculum Committee subcommittee on inde-
pendent concentrations tentatively approved
my concentration the week before spring
break, and after I make a couple of minor
changes to my proposal I will be in the clear.
Generally, the independent concentration
proposal process was a good experience,
even if it felt like I had a fifth class for the
first half of this semester. Before proposing,
my idea for a concentration felt pretty con-
trived, and I wasn’t sure if the only justifica-
tion for its independence was my own gim-
micky enthusiasm.
But after spending weeks writing and re-
vising my proposal, I felt like “Modern Criti-
cal Philosophy” was at least as justifiable a
concentration as Commerce, Organizations
and Entrepreneurship. I then ran the gaunt-
Hey, Senator! Leave them kids alone!
BY ALYSSA RATLEDGE
Opinions Columnist
For 1,700 poor elementary school students in
Washington, D.C., the best chance for a quality
education ended last week. Despite entreat-
ies from Education Secretary Arne Duncan
and even President Barack Obama himself,
the Senate used the omnibus spending bill to
eliminate the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship
Program by the 2009-10 school year.
Implemented by a Democratic D.C. mayor
in 2004, this program allows public school
students in D.C.’s most troubled schools to
apply for scholarships to attend charter and
private schools of their choosing. Why would
Senate Democrats and teachers’ unions so
vehemently oppose a plan that aims to improve
education access and outcomes for the poorest
students? Because for them, this is a first step
towards the mortal sin of school choice.
There is no substantial data on the efficacy
of this particular program, but the anecdotal
evidence of success, found everywhere from
the Cato Institute to the New York Times,
indicates that something remarkable has taken
place. Students who would otherwise face
great barriers to educational success are ex-
celling far beyond expectations. Because they
are no longer trapped by their geography and
socioeconomic status, they finally have the
opportunity to access the type of education
that many people in the United States take
for granted.
Consider this: The average annual income
let of advisers, Curricular Resource Center
coordinators and Associate Dean of the Col-
lege for Upperclass Studies Karen Krahulik.
Then, finally, I submitted my proposal to the
independent concentration subcommittee.
And that was it. After e-mailing my pro-
posal to Dean Krahulik, who was quite help-
ful through this whole multi-year process,
I had nothing else to do. It was a shock to
find out that I would have no opportunity
to speak to any of the members of the com-
Since the committee meets in secret, there is
no opportunity for students to defend their own
work in front of the committee and correct any
misperceptions about their proposal.
mittee that would be evaluating whether my
academic plans were worthy of the Univer-
sity’s sanction.
While the membership of the indepen-
dent concentration subcommittee changes
annually, it is always composed of a group of
faculty members, a student program coordi-
nator from the CRC and the dean currently
in charge of the program. While these fac-
ulty members are surely great researchers
and (hopefully) dedicated educators, there
is no way of knowing whether their areas of
expertise overlap with any of the concentra-
tions in question.
By their very nature, independent concen-
trations are specific and frequently technical.
Indeed, the most important requirement for
a potential concentration is that it must re-
for families of enrolled children is $22,736.
Such families don’t have the option to “vote
with their feet” and improve their children’s
prospects by moving to an area with better
schools. They don’t have the disposable in-
come to hire private tutors or enroll their
children in expensive after-school activities.
What they do have is the opportunity to apply
for a scholarship — yes, a school voucher —
that gives the poorest children in some of
the poorest neighborhoods in the country
What message does ending the school voucher
program send to these children —
you know first-hand what a good education
feels like, but because you can’t afford it,
you don’t deserve it anymore?
an educational lifeline. Eliminating this pro-
gram preserves private schools as a privilege
available only for the affluent. That seems
directly at odds with Democrats’ claims for
more universal access to education.
I understand why many liberals are op-
posed to school vouchers. Their philosophy
dictates that — rather than allow children to
opt out of failing schools and enroll in schools
that offer a comprehensive, worthwhile edu-
cation — the government ought to fix the
schools in question. According to them, sound
public schools are the most equitable solution
to education inequality.
flect an existing field of study. Though it will
include courses from multiple departments,
“the concentration must articulate a coher-
ent field of study, with a disciplinary focus
and cohesive connection between its various
components,” according to the CRC’s inde-
pendent concentration guide. Articulating
the subtleties of this coherence is the most
difficult part of the application.
And through no fault of their own, pro-
fessors from starkly different disciplines
may not always be able to appreciate these
nuances. My concentration, for example,
carefully stakes out a position between tra-
ditional Anglo-American analytic philosophy
and modern continental critique. I wonder
how a committee member who is unfamil-
iar with both schools of thought could either
independently evaluate my claims about the
materials or understand the exact relation of
the proposed concentration to existing ones.
Because students prepare their proposals
with help from faculty advisors in their own
fields, it may not be immediately apparent if
something in the proposal is unclear.
My biggest concern when submitting my
proposal was that there would be a simple
misinterpretation of my concentration. And
since the committee meets in secret, there is
But “fixing” public education, especially in
economically depressed areas, isn’t easy; if it
were, Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton would have
done it. Since Carter created the Department
of Education, average per-pupil spending in
American public schools has gone from $2,307
to $8,701. We haven’t seen a 377 percent in-
crease in education quality. Throwing money
at the problem hasn’t solved it.
School choice is no panacea. It doesn’t help
attract better teachers to low-income areas. It
doesn’t force parents who are disinterested
in their children’s education to take an active
role. Teachers will still struggle to find ways
to instill a love of reading in children whose
families own no books and will still fail at dis-
ciplining children who have no rules at home.
Schools will still face the specter of violence
on one hand and lawsuits on the other.
Allowing some students to escape the inevi-
tability of an inferior or nonexistent education
doesn’t fix the overarching problems with
today’s public education system. All it does is
give those children who need it most a chance
to do better. But isn’t that a laudable goal?
Monday, April 6, 2009 | Page 7
no opportunity for students to defend their
own work in front of the committee and cor-
rect any misperceptions about their propos-
als. As a result, some unintentional misread-
ing of a technical disciplinary argument
might metastasize and cause the committee
to reject a concentration proposal or demand
unnecessarily radical revisions.
Neither of these things happened in my
case — I just need to get a letter of support
from a professor in the philosophy depart-
ment — but it was a big concern. From my
conversations with other students in the in-
dependent concentration program, I gather
that this is a common worry.
I think the whole process would be well
served by opening at least some of the com-
mittee’s deliberations to the students whose
work is being evaluated. Just as other large
academic projects — theses and disserta-
tions, for example — benefit from an in-per-
son defense, the independent concentration
program could work much more smoothly
and produce much less anxiety for students
if there were an opportunity for students to
answer questions. This could also save the
committee members some time, since they
would no longer have to reconsider propos-
als rejected due to confusion.
Obviously, applicants shouldn’t be present
for the whole meeting since the committee
should be able to speak candidly about any
proposal it is considering. But it couldn’t be
that much of an imposition to allow students
an opportunity to answer questions that
might otherwise lead the committee to pro-
long an already lengthy and difficult process. 
Nick Werle ’10 is (officially) a modern
critical philosophy and physics concen-
trator from Port Washington, New York. 
Senate Democrats have laid their cards
on the table: Ideology is more important than
the future of D.C.’s poorest children. D.C.
School Chancellor Michelle Rhee and Duncan,
people on opposite sides of the education-
reform spectrum, have both expressed their
dismay at the idea that low-income children
flourishing under the scholarship program
will soon be forced back into failing public
schools, a difficult transition with detrimental
consequences.
It is hard to switch schools anyway, but to
be forced by the federal government to accept
a lesser education because of your economic
station? What message does that send to these
children — you know first-hand what a good
education feels like, but because you can’t
afford it, you don’t deserve it anymore?
People at Brown spend a lot of time dis-
cussing how to convince more minority and
low-income students to apply, but education
starts earlier than that. If children can’t get a
passable education from their neighborhood
public school, they shouldn’t be condemned
to stay there, languishing, for 12 years. When
children have been given equal access to
schools where they can thrive, regardless
of their parents’ income level, they shouldn’t
have that taken away from them to protect the
sanctity of a public school ideal.
Obama has said that he plans to fight Con-
gress to prevent the program from expiring
next year. Let’s hope he does.
Alyssa Ratledge ’11 went to public school,
but she can vouch for vouchers.
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39 Legal Lance
40 __ away: hide on
a ship
42 Hit, in billiards
43 Paquin and
Nicole Smith
45 Jeff Gordon was
its 1993 Rookie
of the Year
47 Cavern
48 Sold for a big
profit, as tickets
50 Gucci of fashion
51 Brit’s boob tube
52 *Act all innocent
56 Miscellany
57 Soft-tipped pen
brand
59 Civil War color
60 Dole’s 1996
running mate
61 Give up
62 This, in
Tegucigalpa
63 Draws away from
shore
64 Force units
65 Swedish auto By Elizabeth A. Long
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