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Bears take 3rd in ECAC championships Africana studies to launch
By Dan Alexander
Sports Editor
grad program in fall 2011
The men’s hockey team was the
first No. 11 seed in ECAC Hockey
Tournament history to make it to
the tournament Final Four, but the
Bears’ unlikely run to the champion-
ship ended Friday night in a 3-0 loss
to No. 7 Cornell, who went on to win
the tournament.
“We were a program that was
utterly down when I got there, and
we’ve had to change the mentality
and culture,” said first-year Head
Coach Brendan Whittet ’94. “It
would have been nice to obviously
win a championship, but we made
some good strides.”
The Bears beat St. Lawrence in
a 3-0 consolation game the next day
to finish in third place.
Cornell 3, Brown 0
When Cornell took the ice min-
utes before the opening faceoff, a
sea of red shirts roared. And when
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Med students fundraise for new building
By Sarah Mancone
Senior Staff Writer
On Friday night the Medical Student
Senate hosted a fundraiser at 222
Richmond St. for the renovations that
will transform it into Alpert Medi-
cal School’s new Medical School
Education Building. With drywall
pieces scattered on the floor, large
Depts., concentration Creative arts
programs face review center opens
spring 2011
By Xuan Gao
Contributing Writer
Five academic units are in the midst
of being reviewed this semester by
internal review teams — led by
the Academic Priorities Commit-
tee — and external review teams
of scholars from other institutions,
according to guidelines and pro-
cedures for reviews of academic
programs produced by the Office
of the Provost. The review process
gives departments and concentra-
tion programs an opportunity to
“improve the quality of academic
units individually and the Univer-
sity as a whole,” according to the
guidelines and procedures.
Associate Provost Nancy Dun-
bar, who oversees the reviews of
academic departments and cen-
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The 11th-seeded men’s hockey team lost to No. 7 Cornell in the semis.
holes in walls, light fixtures missing
and orange spray paint decorating
the walls, the building — whose
renovations were approved by the
Corporation last month — is a work
in progress.
“We’re going to shell this whole
thing,” said Dean of Medicine and
Biological Sciences Edward Wing.
Renovations are scheduled to of-
ters, said the goal of the review
process is to “think about where
we are, where we are trying to get
and how to get there.” The units
undergoing review this year are
physics, chemistry, modern cul-
ture and media, English and liter-
ary arts.
The issue most departments
wanted to focus on was “how the
department is doing in relation to
its national or international peers,”
Dunbar said. Scholar visits from
other universities would help de-
partments see themselves in rela-
tion to their broader disciplines,
she said, adding that departments
want to reflect on their strengths
and their capacities for leading
scholarship.
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Scholar to lecture on
history, philosophy, and
spiritual paths
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
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ficially begin on April 26, but the
University has received demolition
permits that allowed some work to
begin earlier, Wing wrote in an e-
mail to The Herald.
The event, attended mostly by
medical students, faculty and Uni-
versity administrators, raised funds
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By Anna Andreeva
Staf f Writer
The Perry and Marty Granoff Cen-
ter for the Creative Arts will open
for student use and offer classes
and programs in spring 2011, said
Richard Fishman, professor of vi-
sual art and director of the Creative
Arts Council.
The center will feature a recital
hall, three production spaces, a gal-
lery, a recording studio, a physical
media lab and an outdoor amphi-
theater, according to the Creative
Arts Council’s pamphlet about the
center. The center is also designed
with spaces for groups to “gather,
talk, hold a seminar” in order to
facilitate the exchange of ideas,
Fishman said.
The Creative Arts Council offic-
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Word! members to compete
in national slam poetry
invitational
By Talia Kagan
Senior Staf f Writer
The creation of a graduate pro-
gram in Africana studies marks
the latest development in the
growth of the department, which
hired renowned author Chinua
Achebe in the fall. The Corpora-
tion approved the new program
in December, said Tricia Rose,
professor of Africana studies and
chair of the department.
The department, which is only
a decade old, currently offers only
an undergraduate degree. The
graduate school will open admis-
sions next fall for the program’s
two fully-funded student openings,
and the first students will enroll in
fall 2011, Rose said.
While students will earn a
master’s degree en route to their
doctorate, the approved proposal
does not include a terminal mas-
ter’s program, Rose said.
The program’s curriculum has
three areas of focus: history, poli-
tics and theory; literary, expres-
sive and performance cultures;
and feminism, gender and sexual-
ity. Doctoral candidates will take
two required classes and other
seminars during their first two
years and begin their dissertation
proposal in their third. They will
be able to choose among gradu-
ate seminars with topics including
black feminist thought and race
and cultural politics, according to
a September memo sent to admin-
The new Creative Arts Center is slated to open in spring 2011.
es that will be housed in the build-
ing should be open in December
2010, Fishman said.
The center will be used for
programs and courses taught by
faculty from various departments
but will not house any academic
departments, Fishman said. Rhode
Island School of Design students
and faculty will be invited to make
use of the building as well, he
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considers the place of
athletics at Brown
istrators by the Africana studies
faculty.
The small size is not unusual
for a graduate program in the
humanities at Brown, according
to Dean of the Graduate School
Sheila Bonde.
The first class is limited to two
students because of the amount of
available funding, Rose said, add-
ing that she hopes the program
will expand to four or five students
in each class. This would require
the dedication of additional re-
sources and fundraising efforts
to create endowed student fellow-
ships, she said.
The department began consid-
ering the program in 2001, but
did not actually begin working on
it until two years later, said Bar-
rymore Bogues, professor of Af-
ricana studies and a former chair
of the department.
In the following years, the
depar tment made a series of
high-profile hires such as Rose
and Professor of Africana Stud-
ies and English John Wideman.
These hires were part of a con-
scious decision to strengthen
the department in specific areas,
Bogues said.
It is a departmental priority to
“have the largest number of highly
ranked cutting-edge research fac-
ulty” in order to attract top gradu-
ate students, Rose said.
The Graduate Council ap-
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said, and “public presentations
and events that will be open to the
community” will also take place in
the building.
The center was inspired by the
need at Brown for a space where
barriers between the arts, science
and technology could be crossed,
Fishman said. He said the resulting
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C ampus N EWS “Our undergrads will benefit extensively.”

— Professor of Africana Studies Tricia Rose

New ‘home’ for med Depts. undergo review process

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Historically, departments have

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for the building’s renovations. A
private donor has committed to
contribute twice as much as the
senate raises overall, said Patrick
Worth MD’11, president of the
Medical Student Senate. Friday’s
event alone raised $900, which with
the donor’s two-to-one match will
bring the total raised to $2,700,
Worth wrote in an e-mail to The
Herald.
The event was held on the build-
ing’s second floor. Painted lines on
the floor outlined where walls and
openings would be constructed,
and written descriptions showed
that the space would become class-
rooms, a lounge and part of the
building’s atrium.
Despite the construction in
progress, the building appeared
relatively intact.
“I expected rafters, pillars,
beams,” said Steve Lee MD’11,
secretary of the Senate.
The building is going to sepa-
rate each medical class into its own
academy, Wing said. Each academy
will have its own lounge and eating
area and will serve as a home for
students during their four years at
the Med School, he added.
It will be great for students to
have their own “home and space”
because it will provide study space
and better access to resources,
Worth said. Having their own space
will be very helpful for medical stu-
dents because main campus facili-
ties close when undergraduates are
not in session, Worth said, adding
sudoku
that the Med School operates on
a calendar different from that of
the College.
The new building will also “fos-
ter a better sense of community
between upperclassmen and low-
erclassmen,” said Audrey Butcher
MD’13, a Senate representative.
There are already plans for “acad-
emy Olympics” as a form of bond-
ing, she said.
The renovated building will
include a large atrium and stairs
that will lead up to each floor from
the atrium, Wing said. At night,
four LED panels will be lit up on
the side of the building so “you
can see it from College Hill, from
downtown,” he said.
“Seventy percent of the surface
of the building is windows,” provid-
ing spectacular views of downtown
Providence, Wing said.
Anatomy labs with windows,
will be a welcome change, Worth
said. Their current location in the
basement of the Biomedical Center
seems more “like a dungeon,” he
added.
The building has a parking lot
next door, which will help make it
easily accessible, Lee said.
James Miller MD’10 expressed
disappointment that he is graduat-
ing and will not be able to use the
new building, which is slated for
completion in August 2011.
It is “what the Med School
needs,” he said, adding that it will
“push the school in the right di-
rection.”
“We’re really excited about this
building,” Worth said.
said the most useful part of the re-
view process is the initial discussion
that happens among faculty, Dunbar
said. “Our departments are all in-
terested in being the best they can
be,” she said.
The review process “provides
us an opportunity to assess where
(we) currently stand, both in terms
of teaching programs and research
directions,” Professor of Physics
Chung-I Tan P’95 P’03 — who chairs
the Department of Physics and the
Faculty Executive Committee —
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.
Tan wrote that the most meaning-
ful part of the review to the physics
department is the self-study, which
allows the department to examine
“what we have done over the past
decade for our faculty hire, under-
graduate and graduate programs,
future research direction and hir-
ing and expansion.” Tan added that
the physics department discussed
how to “expand strategically in order
to maximize the outcome” of the
growth of the Division of Engineer-
ing into an engineering school.
While the self-study is valuable,
“it is nice to receive validation by
the external visiting team, which
the administration should take seri-
ously,” he wrote.
According to Tan, the internal
review of the physics department
has been completed and a report
will be provided to the external vis-
U. dept. ‘poised’ as leader in Africana studies
continued from page 1
proved the proposal in 2007, but
the department waited until after
an external review of the proposal
was completed to bring the pro-
gram before the Corporation, Rose
said.
The external review did not
require any revisions to the pro-
gram, Rose said. According to the
faculty memo, the review concluded
that with the graduate program’s
creation, Brown’s department is
“poised to be one of the top three
Africana studies programs in the
country.” Brown will be joining only
10 other U.S. schools with doctoral
programs in the field, according to
the memo.
In comparison with other schools’
programs, Brown’s proposed gradu-
ate curriculum is “notable for the
iting team. This team consists of
five faculty members — two from
Harvard and one each from Princ-
eton, New York University and Duke
University. They will visit the physics
department in April.
“The Department is always evolv-
ing, both in terms of new faculty and
the natural evolution of the frontier
areas of physics research,” Tan
wrote. The concentration program
is evolving in tandem, he added. Tan
wrote that the department is add-
ing new tracks in biophysics and
astrophysics to its bachelor of sci-
ence concentration due to increased
faculty research and student interest
in those areas.
The English department identi-
fied four issues — its undergraduate
concentration, doctoral program,
non-fiction writing program and hir-
ing plan — to focus its review on,
said Kevin McLaughlin, professor
of English and chair of the depart-
ment.
The review will not lead to “a
revolutionary change” but the de-
partment will try to “simplify our
numbering system, and that’s a little
bit difficult because of the way the
concentration requirements are,”
McLaughlin said. “That’s probably
going to lead us to step back and
look at everything.”
The department’s practice has
been to stay open to making chang-
es, McLaughlin said. “We’ve been in
this current kind of system for four
years. It’s time to maybe look at it
again and have a conversation, try to
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald file photo
The Department of Africana Studies’ recent growth includes the hire of
Chinua Achebe and the creation of a graduate program.
get some student input,” he said.
McLaughlin said one of the things
the English department wants to get
out of this review is an assessment of
the non-fiction writing program and
its relationship with the literature
program. “More of our literature
faculty are teaching courses in the
non-fiction writing program, but
we’d like to have more integration
of the two if possible,” he said.
Brian Evenson, professor of lit-
erary arts and director of the liter-
ary arts program, said the program
consulted with other departments
that had gone through the review
process in the past, because the lit-
erary arts program was part of the
English department until 2005 and
has never been reviewed before.
“We worked very hard and figured
out what was both good and bad
about our department. We got some
very productive responses from the
external review. Now it’s up to the
University” to implement the exter-
nal review team’s recommendations,
he said.
“We have a responsibility as a
top-ranked program to expose stu-
dents to the best writers and the
best teachers possible,” Evenson
said. “We feel very good about the
process. The recommendations of
the external review committee were
good. We’re really hoping the ad-
ministration will respond positively,”
he said.
— With additional reporting by Anita
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C ampus N EWS “Every aspect of life affects the search for truth.”
— Swami Atmarupananda, Vedanta scholar

Researchers fight infections with nano-particles news in brief

By Margaret Yi multiply and form a layer of biofilm in the particles, he added.

Contributing Writer
Associate Professor of Engineering
Thomas Webster and Erik Taylor
GS have created nanoparticles to
fight implant infections.
According to the American
Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons,
about a million people receive im-
plants to replace a hip, shoulder or
knee each year.
Over 11 percent of these im-
plants become infected with bacte-
ria, Webster said. The bacteria that
cause these infections can be found
on most surfaces, including human
skin. But if they enter the body and
colonize, the bacteria can cause se-
vere damage to tissue, especially in
people with compromised immune
systems, he said.
In the case of infected bone
implants, the bacteria gradually
on the implant, Webster said. The
biofilm subsequently discourages
attachment of the implant to the
patient’s bone, causing pain and
discomfort, he said. Doctors usu-
ally prescribe antibiotics to treat
the infection, but in the case of
antiobiotic-resistant bacteria, the
treatments prove ineffective and
the patients end up having the im-
plants removed, Webster added.
But the nanoparticles that Web-
ster and Taylor have created “pen-
etrate the biofilm, start manipulat-
ing bacteria, decreasing bacteria
function,” Webster said in a March
15 interview with KFSN-TV. In lab
tests, these nanoparticles killed 74
percent of bacteria in 48 hours,
Webster said. Their studies have
shown that the nanoparticles pro-
mote growth of new bone cells,
which could be an effect of the iron
Webster said he envisions fu-
ture treatments that will involve
a simple injection of iron oxide
particles. Doctors could then use
a magnet to direct the particles
to the source of the infection, he
said. Unlike traditional antiobiotic
treatments, humans can withstand
“repeat exposures of iron” until
the infection is completely gone,
as long as the recommended daily
intake of iron is not exceeded, he
said.
Though several years of re-
search and clinical studies are still
required before the nanoparticle
treatment becomes approved for
implant infections, iron oxide nano-
particles are already approved by
the Food and Drug Administration,
which will substantially reduce the
time for the treatment to be ap-
proved, Webster said.
VP for research elected to
engineering academy
Vice President for Research Clyde Briant was elected to the
National Academy of Engineering Feb. 17.
Election into the academy is one of the highest professional
distinctions awarded to an engineer and is based on a
candidate’s lifetime achievements in one of the many fields of
engineering. Briant was recognized for his accomplishments in
the “elucidation of microstructural effects on high-temperature
mechanical performance of metals,” according to a news
release from the National Academies.
Though Briant no longer does research, his work prior to his
promotion to vice president centered on perfecting new heating
techniques to manipulate the performance of metals, he said.
These techniques can then be applied to many areas of science
and engineering.
Prior to joining the University in 1994, Briant was a post-
doctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and worked
for almost two decades at the General Electric Research and
Development Center, according to his curriculum vitae. While
at GE, Briant worked on improving enhanced filaments in light
bulbs at high temperatures, and he said that this experience
inspired him to further his research into structural materials.
Briant said he credits a “strong team effort” with a major
part of his success throughout his career. Though he now

Hindu monk lectures on ‘search for self ’
By Goda Thangada
Senior Staff Writer
A scholar of one of the mystical
traditions of Hinduism, Swami At-
marupananda of the international
Ramakrishna Order of Monks, led
four guided meditations Sunday cen-
tered around the theme “Who am I?
The Search for the Self” as part of
the Sixth Annual Mary Interlandi
’05 Lectureship. The event, held in
J. Walter Wilson, was organized by
the Office of Chaplains and Religious
Life and the Year of India.
Atmarupananda, who is from
California, studies Vedanta, a phi-
losophy of self-knowledge. “The four
meditations were designed to point
to something in our present experi-
ence which is the ultimate reality,”
Atmarupananda said. He will give a
lecture Monday on the history, phi-
losophy and methods for the search
of the self.
Many of the approximately 20
participants had a background in
Buddhism, he said.
Having been a monk in America
for forty years, Atmarupananda said
he has observed major changes in
peoples’ attitudes toward and appetite
for spirituality. In the 1960s, “many
young people were interested in
seeking a spiritual path just for spiri-
tuality’s sake,” he said. “Nowadays,
their entry is somewhat different.
They are looking for connections.
They’re interested in environment,
social justice and so forth. Spirituality
is connected to that.”
Founded in 1897 by Swami Vive-
kananda, the Ramakrishna Order
reinterprets Hinduism for modern
times. “Hinduism is a living tradition
that has always met the changing
times,” Atmarupananda said.
The Ramakrishna Order main-
tains several centers in India itself.
“In India, our centers are involved in
a great deal of work for the poor and
the distressed as part of our spiritual
process,” he said. “In the West, we do
more teaching work.” While people
less frequently choose to become
monks in America, Atmarupananda
said the order is growing rapidly in
India.
The interest in the order remains
strong in both the East and West,
he said.
“The view of our tradition is that
religion is really one,” he said, and as
a result, Ramakrishna monks main-
tain connections and dialogue with
people of other faiths.
“I have been challenged, cer-
tainly,” he said. “Most people give
at least a sympathetic hearing.”
Atmarupananda said he attempts
to make Vedanta accessible to peo-
ple, especially Western audiences,
with a range of backgrounds and
needs. “It’s something everybody
can understand,” he said. “It’s a ques-
tion of explaining it in the language
people can understand.”
“Every aspect of life affects the
search for truth,” he said. “The goal
is to find a way of making everything
a spiritual practice.”
dedicates much of his time to his duties as vice president for
research, Briant said he hopes to apply his experiences and
skills as a researcher to improving the research experience at
the University, stressing the “importance of team approach
and collaboration.”
The National Academy of Engineering — one of four
organizations comprising the National Academies — was
founded in 1964 to advise the federal government on matters
pertaining to the engineering sciences, according to the
academy’s Web site. The academy also “conducts independent
studies” and seeks to “provide the leadership and expertise for
numerous projects” in engineering and technology, according
to its Web site.
The engineering academy consists of more than 2,000 peer-
elected members and foreign associates who are among the
world’s most accomplished engineers, according to its Web site.
Candidates to the academy are elected by a board of their peers
and must be first nominated by an existing academy member,
then voted on by the entire membership during January. Some
prominent members of the engineering academy include Bill
Gates, Sergey Brin, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
— Margaret Yi

New arts center to encourage community

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spaces will allow faculty to under-
take “more ambitious projects with
all of these constituents.”
Construction of the center is
funded fully by “generous donor
support” that covers the cost of
construction and an endowment
for the building, including main-
tenance, Fishman said. This proj-
ect would not have been possible
without external funding, he said.
“Brown was very forward-thinking
by not shrinking back from doing
this at a time when other schools
were not moving forward with new
initiatives,” Fishman said.
“The goal is to have a building
which benefits all constituents of
the University community, Provi-
dence and Rhode Island,” Fishman
said. He said the main purpose of
the center will be to “get people to
work together and to bring diverse
disciplines together.”
In outlining the goals of the
building to architects, the Creative
Arts Council emphasized three main
points: that the building not privi-
lege any one department, discipline
or media, that it “allow for transpar-
ency between activities so that one
could generate relationships among
people and programs” and that the
building be conducive to “chance
encounters among people in the
community,” Fishman said.
“I think the challenge is to main-
tain the vision behind it and to allow
it to grow and develop, always to be
forward-thinking,” Fishman said.
Fishman said his hope is for the
center “to always question assump-
tions of what art is and what art
can become and to play a role that
benefits the makers and the audi-
ence and contributes something of
real value to this community and to
the larger community.”
“I am excited to see how all those
different spaces are going to fit into
one building. It will be like a magic
Mary Poppins bag of art spaces,”
said Olivia Harding ’12.
Ana Escobedo ’11 said she is
happy to have a building dedicated
to the arts on the Pembroke side
of campus. Students involved in
theater currently “have a lack of
rehearsal spaces and places to per-
form in general. The idea of having
spaces where people can go, sign up
and work is wonderful,” she said.
The topping-off ceremony for
the building — when the steel beam
marking the building’s highest point
is put in place — will take place
Tuesday at 10 a.m., Fishman said.
“It’s going so fast. It’s just amazing.
In one day, you’ll see the steelwork
doubling in size,” he said.
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Monday, March 22, 2010 | Page 4

Word! poets to go to slam poetry nationals b y e b y e bir d ie

By Anita Badejo
Contributing Writer
Brown’s first-ever team destined
for the College Unions Poetr y
Slam Invitational — an annual
nationwide competition for slam
poets — performed for a packed
and enthusiastic Macmillan 117
last Friday.
Laura Brown-Lavoie ’10.5, Kai
Huang ’11, Phil Kaye ’10, Tim
Natividad ’12 and Jamila Woods
’10 will be the first to represent
the University in the invitational,
which will take place at Emerson
College in Boston April 7–10.
At Friday’s show, the team per-
formed individual and collabora-
tive pieces, including the ones
they currently plan on presenting
at nationals.
The team was selected Feb.
17, when 13 hopefuls competed
in front of an audience of about
150 students. Accomplished Provi-
dence slam poet Jared Paul hosted
the competition and selected five
students at random from the au-
dience to ultimately decide who
made the team. The team mem-
bers selected are all members of
Word!, the campus spoken word
poetr y group.
Audience members were asked
to pay a $2 entrance fee, which will
go toward paying for the team’s
competition costs.
ing the idea of going to nation-
als because of the dif ference
between spoken word poetr y,
which is more collaborative, and
slam poetr y, which is primarily
competitive.
“It is very dangerous” to make
the transition, Natividad said. “We
have so little experience in slam
poetry. It’s going to be a lot harder
than people make it out to be.”
Kaye echoed Natividad’s con-
cerns, adding that inflated egos
and antagonism between compet-
ing slam poets often keep them
from uniting as a team. But Kaye
said the Brown team’s shared ex-
perience as spoken word artists
gave the team an advantage.
“I think we’re really fortunate
that ever yone on the team is re-
ally close already,” Kaye said.
“We trust each other, know each
other’s work.”
Natividad compared the combi-
nation of camaraderie and compe-
tition to playing football with one’s
family on Thanksgiving. “It’s kind
of like you get to go on a road trip
with your friends, plus poetr y,”
he said.
Kaye cited members’ close re-
lationships with one another as
the reason he is not concerned
that they don’t have a coach, un-
like many other teams.
Both agreed that the team is
invested in winning, but that it
spoken word provided much of
the impetus for Word! members’
decision to send a group of poets
to nationals, the students said.
Kaye said the team doesn’t neces-
sarily expect to “blow ever yone
out of the water.”
“Slam is a big part luck, but the
talented teams tend to be luckier
and I have full faith in our talent
as a team,” Kaye said.
Friday’s team per formance
featured a mix of individual and
collaborative poems, both old and
new, with interludes of rap as well.
The first piece of the night was a
collaboration of all the team mem-
bers pacing throughout the audi-
torium and prompting audience
members to “listen” — to both
poignant and serious lines, and to
such light-hearted ones as “listen
to Snoop Dogg ever y night from
now until Spring Weekend.”
The rest of the pieces per-
formed covered a range of top-
ics. A collaboration by Huang and
Natividad addressed their frustra-
tions and anger toward stereo-
types of Asian-Americans. Another
collaboration by Brown-Lavoie and
Woods played off “that’s what she
said” jokes to address issues sur-
rounding gender in communica-
Max Monn / Herald
tion. Pieces by Kaye and Natividad
Brown EcoReps placed a 4-foot osprey ice sculpture on the Main Green
addressed internal conflicts aris- Friday to raise awareness about plastic marine debris.
ing from, respectively, having two
separate family histories on oppos-

SASA showcases culture

In an inter view with The Her-
ald, team members Kaye and Na-
tividad said their feelings were a
little mixed when first consider-
is not their only — or even their
main — goal. The desire to learn
from and connect with other stu-
dents who care about the art of
ing sides during World War II, and
ambivalence about religion.
“We tried to offer (the audi-
ence) something that we haven’t
given them before,” Natividad
said.
This of fer included a full-
fledged rap battle between Woods
and Huang in the middle of the
show, in which both humorously
attacked each other to the beats
of Three 6 Mafia’s “Stay Fly” and
Lil Wayne’s “A Milli,” complete
with backup dancing by other
members of the team. The battle
elicited roars of laughter from
the audience, as the two threw a
number of verbal gems at each
other, such as Woods’ playful deri-
sion of Huang: “At least you got
a backpack and a bowl of ramen,
yes, you and homeless people got
a lot in common.”
Huang performed two other
raps, one called “Sick,” which
listed things he is sick of, includ-
ing “free market capitalism” and
“policing political correctness,”
and another that provided a hu-
morous, but also thought-provok-
ing, take on a typical meal at the
Sharpe Refector y.
All of the pieces conveyed what
Natividad described as each of the
members’ “ver y distinct styles,”
which included incorporations of
song, backup instrumentals, repe-
tition and other aesthetic devices.
The one-hour performance, in-
fused with each member’s unique
interpretation of spoken word,
left audience members clapping
vigorously. The team will travel to
through performance arts
By Jonathan Chou
Contributing Writer
The South Asian Students Associa-
tion entranced the audience with
performances of dance, music and
comedy during their annual culture
show, Nashaa, Friday in Salomon 101.
A “year-long venture” of planning
culminated that night to meet the
vision of showcasing and spreading
awareness of South Asian culture,
said SASA President Aparna Kumar
’10. Applause filled the packed audito-
rium as the show provided perform-
ers’ families, friends and peers with
a night full of laughs and cultural
appreciation.
The event was organized chiefly
by co-chairs Radhika Kumar ’12 and
Faiz Jiwani ’12, with Akash Kumar
’10, Soumya Sanyal ’10 and Gaurab
Chakrabarti ’10 emceeing.
The performances that night,
which can be found in videos on-
line, included comedic skits, elegant
dances and emotional spoken word
pieces, addressing a variety of issues
such as arranged marriages. Songs
and dances told stories of forbid-
den love, praised Hindu deities and
recounted Indian customs. One act
was based on a song from a popular
Bollywood movie.
Musical acts spotlighted instru-
ments like the tabla, a popular North
colorful Indian women’s garments
called saris, as well as ghungroos,
bells tied to the feet of the dancers,
which serve as both decoration and
percussion.
The performances were tied to-
gether by hilarious videos starring
the emcees, which kept awkward
transitional pauses to a minimum
and kept the audience at the edge
of their seats.
The most popular performances
seemed to be the class dances, which
integrated modern and hip-hop styles
with classical South Asian dance and
sounds. A tradition started long ago,
the class dances serve as a fun way
not only to pit the classes against
each other, but also to give the gradu-
ating seniors their “moment of glory,”
said Aparna Kumar, and to “usher in
the new class” of freshmen.
The event’s success stemmed
from the emcees’ ability to keep
the audience engaged. The emcees
succeeded in stringing together the
diverse selection of performances,
Aparna Kumar said.
The planning of the event began
a year ago when the three emcees
approached SASA for the position,
and much of the show came from
their vision for it, she said.
Aparna Kumar also attributed
the event’s success to the positive
attitude with which the events chairs

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in a practice slam competition
against host college Emerson in
preparation for nationals.
Indian drum, and the veena, an an-
cient lute instrument carved out of a
single piece of jackwood. The tradi-
tional South Asian costumes included
and emcees met obstacles, adding
that despite a few minor problems
the event “turned out to be fabu-
lous.”
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A rts &C ulture
Jabberwocks, Higher
Keys compete at MIT
By Fei Cai
Staf f Writer
The Jabber wocks and the Higher
Keys placed second and fourth,
respectively, at the International
Championship of Collegiate A Cap-
pella’s Northeast semifinals at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy Saturday.
The two groups wowed the
crowd in Salomon 101 by taking
both first and second place in the
Northeast quarterfinals Feb. 20.
The Jabber wocks, who came in
first, also took home awards for
Outstanding Soloist — Andrew
Wong ’11 for “Use Somebody” by
Kings of Leon — and Outstanding
Vocal Percussion, won by Erik Abi-
Khattar ’10.
MIT a cappella group Reso-
nance hosted Saturday’s semifinals,
where eight groups from all over
the Northeast region competed.
The winners, Pitch Slapped from
Berklee College of Music in Bos-
ton, will compete in the interna-
tional finals at the Lincoln Center
for the Performing Arts in New
York in April.
But for the Higher Keys, who
sang “Cr y Me a River,” written by
Arthur Hamilton, “Think” by Are-
tha Franklin and a Beatles medley,
the experience was not all about
competition.
“We have never been to semi-
finals, and it’s really great. We
want to work on our sound and
not get caught up in the competi-
tion,” said Nick Herrmann ’10, the
Keys’ president.
Josh Chu ’11, the group’s music
director, agreed. “We entered the
competition as a goal to motivate
ourselves,” he said. “You always
study better when there is a test
coming up. We weren’t expecting
to win.”
Chu added, “When we won at
quarterfinals, it kind of validated
all the hard work that we put in.”
Normally, the group practices six
hours a week. For the quarterfinals,
though, they put in extra sessions
so that they were practicing nine to
10 hours weekly, Chu said.
“A coed group is lot harder to
blend than if you were in, say, an
all-guy group,” said Dominic Wu
’12 of the Keys. “Adding choreog-
raphy to the group is also very hard
because we’re so big. Another chal-
lenge is keeping up the energy.”
Despite the long hours and tir-
ing practices that could last un-
til midnight, the members of the
group pulled through.
“After the quar ter finals, the
Keys were like, that was a lot of
work,” said Wu. “For the semis, it’s
more about having fun for us.”
The Jabberwocks, on the other
hand, are veterans of the competi-
tion. The group had been to the
semifinals two years ago, where
they also took second. This time,
they sang “Ain’t No Sunshine” by
Bill Withers, “Use Somebody” and
a hip-hop medley that included Ke-
sha’s “TiK ToK,” Lady Gaga’s “Bad
Romance,” the Black Eyed Peas’ “I
Gotta Feeling” and other songs.
Like the Keys, the Jabberwocks
put in a lot of rehearsal hours: three
or more hours a night the week
before the semifinals. “It’s a lot of
commitment,” said member Leland
Lazarus ’12. Normally, the group
practices seven hours a week.
But being in an a cappella group
does not mean all work and no
play.
“We hang out all the time. Some
of us live together, and we do pot-
lucks ever y once in a while,” said
Herrmann about the Keys. “Some-
times we go to Ben & Jerr y’s and
share a Vermonster.”
“One of the main reasons I
would pick the Keys over other
groups, even though other groups
have different styles that I may be
into, is that the Keys has a great
family atmosphere,” Wu said.
For the Jabber wocks, hang-
ing out means going to Wes’ Rib
House, a southern style restaurant
in Providence, before or after a
big concert. The group also gets
together to play sports.
Lazarus, who joined the Jab-
ber wocks his freshman year,
envisioned college a cappella as
mainly a campus-oriented function.
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“For the semis, it’s more about having fun for us.”
The Jabberwocks placed second and the Higher Keys fourth at a college a cappella competition Saturday.
“It was at (A Day on College Hill)
that I first saw the Jabber wocks,”
he said. “Ever yone in the crowd
knew each member, and everyone
had their own fan club. There was
a lot of campus camaraderie. But I
also realized there is a global com-
ponent. We travel ever ywhere in
the country and have international
tours. We went to Hong Kong, Eu-
rope and Korea.”
Similarly, the Keys have ex-
panded their horizons beyond the
University’s borders. The group
has traveled to many places, includ-
ing San Francisco, and plans to go
to Hong Kong next year.
“I did not expect to be con-
nected to such a large network of
people,” said Christopher Unseth
’11.5, the Jabber wocks’ publicity
manager. “We have really strong
alumni. They are so committed to
the group that they give money
and allow us to live at their (hous-
es).”
At the competition, the Jab-
ber wocks were first to perform.
“There were a bunch of numbers
in a hat, and ever y group picks a
number,” Lazarus said. “We got
first. It was good because we didn’t
have to wait and be ner vous. We
were able to perform and watch all
the groups after us.”
He added, “On the other hand,
we were setting the tone. The judg-
es didn’t have anything to compare
us to.”
The semis also ser ved as a
learning tool for both groups.
“The competition changed the
way we approach a cappella,” said
Herrmann, who discovered that “a
large portion of the competition is
based on visuals,” but at the same
time, “it’s easy to over-choreograph
stuff, and things look unnatural at
an expense to the music.”
Herrmann added that he was
glad the competition was over, as
now the Keys can focus on other
songs.
Lazarus said he thought all the
groups had great choreography
and impeccable sound. “I feel like
what differentiated first and sec-
ond place and the rest were minute
things — one person coming in too
loud or someone doing choreogra-
phy a little too late. Little things.”
Hopefully next year or the year
Monday, March 22, 2010
— Dominic Wu ’12
Courtesy of Dominic Wu
after, the Jabberwocks can compete
again and get to finals, he added.
Currently, though, the group has
other projects to take care of.
Their last CD, “Breaking &
Entering,” is currently nominated
for the annual Contemporar y A
Cappella Recording Awards for
best male collegiate album, best
all-male song and best arrange-
ment. Results will be announced in
April. The Jabberwocks will also be
singing at a Mets game April 8.
The Keys also ended the com-
petition on a positive note.
“The finals are during the time
of Spring Weekend,” said Her-
rmann. “So after the competition,
one of the members of our group
turned to a member of the Jabber-
wocks and said, ‘I guess we’ll see
you at Snoop Dogg.’ ”
Wu mirrored the sentiment.
“The Higher Keys have a saying:
IJA – it’s just a cappella.”
 SportsMonday
The Brown Daily Herald
Softball
Brown 6
Manhattan 4
Brown 0
Cleveland St. 6
SCOREBOARD
Brown 0
Wis.-Green Bay 6
M. LACROSSE
No. 16 Bruno scores upset victory over No. 11 Crimson
By Zack Bahr
Assistant Spor ts Editor
Many things rode on Saturday’s
men’s lacrosse game between 11th-
ranked Har vard and 16th-ranked
Brown. There was a chance to start
the Ivy season with a win. A chance
to move up in the national rankings.
And of course, a chance to taste
sweet victor y over an archrival.
In what has become one of the
top lacrosse rivalries in the nation,
Bruno earned bragging rights with
a 13–11 victor y over the Crimson
at Har vard Stadium.
Brown 13, Harvard 11
The Bears jumped out to a 5–0
lead to set the pace for the game.
In the words of Head Coach Lars
Tiffany ’90, Bruno played a “go 100
miles per hour and ask questions
later” kind of game. It seemed liked
Bruno couldn’t miss with Thomas
Muldoon ’10 making a 360-degree
shot in front of the goal and David
Hawley ’11 launching a shot from
15 yards out.
Charlie Kenney ’10 and Seth
Ratner ’11 dominated the midfield,
capturing 16 of 26 faceoff opportu-
nities and allowing Bruno to have
Goalie Dan Rosen ’10 had 21 saves and an assist in Saturday’s game
against St. Lawrence.
M. Tennis
Brown 4 Farfield 2
St. Peter’s 1 Brown 5
Brown 8 Connecticut 2
Farleigh Dickinson 7 Brown 5
Brown 2 Boston College 5
Marist 3 Brown 2
Against Harvard Saturday, the men’s lacrosse team took the lead early and never looked back.
more scoring opportunities. Har vard’s a great team but, well,
“We crushed ’em,” said goalie we just wanted it more.”
Matt Chriss ’11. “We had a great Brown’s defense had a strong
game, controlling the field. The showing behind Chriss, who made
Ivy opener is always a big game. nine saves and even went the length
After career twists, goalie shines in last game
By Dan Alexander
Spor ts Editor
Goalie Dan Rosen ’10 was once the
bright future of Brown hockey.
Plagued by injuries, Rosen’s ca-
reer slowly slid downhill until he
was made the backup in his senior
season. But in his last game wear-
ing a Brown uniform, Rosen got
one more chance to start in goal
Saturday. And he made the most
of it.
In the Bears’ 3-0 win over St.
Lawrence, the goalie played flaw-
lessly. Rosen had 21 saves in the
shut-out and even got an assist on
the game’s first goal.
“We were all just hugging and
crying in the locker room,” Rosen
said after the game. “The team just
gave it all out for me today and that
means a lot — after, not just for
me personally, but the number of
injuries and bad times that we’ve
had … to have ever ybody come
together today and get a win in this
game is really special.”
Rosen’s play was a reminder of
the promising career everyone ex-
pected him to have.
Jonathan Bateman / Herald
As a freshman, he earned second
team All-Ivy honors and etched his
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W. Crew
Brown 6:50
URI 7:06
Gymnastics
Brown, 3rd out of
three, with 189.825
points
Courtesy of David Silverman
of the field to make a shot, only to
have it called back on a penalty.
Poking fun at former Brown All-
American goalie Jordan Burke ’09,
Chriss said, “I don’t think Burke
name in the Brown record books
towards the top of the list in every
major goalie statistical categor y.
For eight weeks in a row, he led the
nation in goals against average and
save percentage.
His statistics were less impres-
sive during his sophomore year, but
he still started 25 games. By the
time Rosen was a junior, the once-
decorated freshman was battling a
hip injury and fighting for ice time
with a new young talent — Michael
Clemente ’12.
As a freshman, Clemente played
the hero in last season’s playoff se-
ries with Har vard, in which Cle-
mente became the only opposing
goalie to shut out Harvard in back-
to-back home games in Crimson
hockey history, which dates back
to the nineteenth century.
“We both had very high levels of
success our freshman years,” Rosen
said, without a hint of resentment of
his teammate in his voice. “It was
kind of interesting to see it from the
other standpoint, as the goalie that
wasn’t playing at that point.”
The hiring of first-year Head
Coach Brendan Whittet ’94 last
offseason reopened the battle for
the goalie slot, but Clemente again
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Brown 32
Yukon 31
URI 30
JWU 28
Wesleyan 28
ever tried scoring a goal.”
Har vard was able to rally back
several times in the second half.
Crimson standout Terr y White
found the goal four times, as did
teammate Jeff Cohen.
“We played all 60 minutes of
that game,” said Har vard Head
Coach John Tillman. “It’s hard
though when you have to keep
digging yourself out. It wastes a
lot of time and energy.”
Tiffany said teams must walk a
fine line when they’re up big in the
second half. “It’s the 4th quarter.
Do you keep pushing or do you kill
the clock? It’s hard.”
This led to some errors on be-
half of the Bears as they tried to
pass the ball around the field to
run time off of the clock.
Andrew Feinberg ’11 answered
the Crimson rallies, finding the
goal four times, with some shots
looking almost impossible.
When asked which goal was his
favorite, Feinberg said, “I’m not
sure. I don’t really remember the
shots. I’m just glad we won.”
The Bears will be at home Tues-
day for a 4 p.m. game against the
University of Massachusetts at
Amherst.
won the starting job.
Rather than harbor any bitter-
ness in his senior season, Rosen
said he was thankful for his oppor-
tunities in his first three seasons
and supportive of Clemente in his
last.
“I was pretty fortunate and I was
lucky to be able to play a large por-
tion of the games my first three
years,” Rosen said. After returning
from a groin injury this season, “I
just tried to be as best of a team
player as I could, because Mike was
playing really well this year.”
The support didn’t go unappreci-
ated by Clemente. Clemente called
Rosen “one of the most supportive
and helpful teammates that anyone
could ask for.”
This season has been a struggle
for Rosen. He got his first start on
Nov. 17 when Brown played at
Providence. But just less than two
minutes into the game, he felt a
pop in his groin and fell to the ice
in pain. As he was helped off of the
ice by a teammate and the trainer,
Rosen looked down at the ice, shak-
ing his head.
“Given that it was my first chance
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Page 7 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Monday, March 22, 2010

S ports M onday “I didn’t want to get a pity start on Senior Night.”

— Hockey goalie Dan Rosen ’10

M. Hockey

M. icers take home third place

continued from page 1

the Bears skated out seconds

later, only a murmur came from
the small Brown contingent. But
the atmosphere didn’t intimidate
the Bears.
“I thought we were going to
win this game because we were
on a roll, and our guys believed
— not only believed we should be
here, but believed we should win
a championship, and that’s pretty
powerful,” Whittet said.
Brown controlled the opening
period, getting out to an 11–5 ad-
vantage in shots. But both goalies
shut down the nets, and the teams
skated into the locker rooms at
intermission with the scoreboard
still blank.
“They did a lot of good things
in the first period against us and
Jonathan Bateman / Herald
put us back on our heels,” said The men’s hockey team’s postseason run ended in a third-place finish.
Cornell Head Coach Mike Scha-
fer. “We did a good job in the sec- and 21 more in the shut out. Rosen got some support on the
Jonathan Bateman / Herald
ond period and started to create “If one of those pucks went other end when second team
Aaron Volpatti ’10 set a new record for most penalty minutes in men’s
hockey’s history, surpassing Ryan Mulhern ’96 by seven minutes. some offensive chances.” in, it’s a different game,” said tri- All-Ivy selection Aaron Volpatti
The first chance to find the captain Jordan Pietrus ’10, who ’10 got on a breakaway with little

Volpatti ’10 breaks penalty back of the net came off the stick
of Locke Jillson 15:35 into the pe-
returned Friday from what was
once labeled a season-ending
more than five minutes left in the
period. Volpatti approached the

minutes record — on purpose riod. Jillson took the puck from

By Dan Alexander
Spor ts Editor
Tri-captain Aaron Volpatti ’10 went
down in the record books Saturday
for the most penalty minutes of any
player in Brown history — and he
did it on purpose.
Volpatti — who was five penalty
minutes shy of the single-season
record before the game — told
referee Chip McDonald before fa-
ceoff not to be scared to give him
a 10-minute game misconduct if
the Bears were ahead late in the
consolation game, Volpatti said.
So when the Brown forward was
whistled for a slashing penalty with
4:33 left in the third period with
Brown ahead 2–0, he knew it was
his chance to break the record.
“I got that penalty and then I said
to Chip (McDonald), ‘Was that a 10
or?’ And he goes, ‘Do you want a
10?’ And I can’t really say what was
said, but, yeah,” Volpatti said.
McDonald gave Volpatti the
game misconduct and boosted
his season total 10 extra minutes,
pushing Volpatti to 115 penalty
minutes on the season, ahead of
former leader Ryan Mulhern ’96,
who had 108 minutes in the 1994–
95 season.
Ten of the top 11 leaders in
Brown history before this season
were former teammates of Head
Coach Brendan Whittet ’94.
“We had some knuckleheads
back then,” Whittet said with a
laugh. “I’m glad (Volpatti is) the
king of knuckleheads.”
the left faceof f circle, sized up
Brown goalie Michael Clemente
’12, made a quick move and fired
a blistering wrist shot inside of
Clemente’s elbow to give Cornell
a 1–0 lead.
“What happened in the second
period was we couldn’t get any
pressure at all because they were
in our zone for 40 or 50 seconds,”
Whittet said. “By the time we got
out, we were dumping pucks in
and we were gassed and had to
change.”
The chances were there for
Brown in the third. Bobby Farn-
ham ’12 got on a breakaway seven
minutes into the third period but
was shut down. And Jack Maclel-
lan ’12 had a chance from point
blank with 6:30 left in the final
frame. But Cornell goalie Ben
Scrivens denied those two pucks
injur y.
John Esposito and Riley Nash
both beat Clemente in the third
period, giving Cornell the 3-0 vic-
tor y.
Brown 3, St. Lawrence 0
In his last collegiate game, Dan
Rosen ’10 — who backed up Cle-
mente in goal this season — got
the start and made the most of
his opportunity.
Rosen blanked the Saints and
had 21 saves.
“He’s the real deal,” St. Law-
rence Head Coach Joe Marsh
said of Rosen. “He sees the puck
so well, he’s quick. He made a
couple of saves that we had some
really good shots on — we set
screens and he just stuck the pad
out there. … There’s two really
quality goaltenders at Brown.”
After a scoreless first period,
goal from the right, then swooped
to the left and dinged a wrist shot
off of the post and into the net,
giving Brown a 1-0 lead.
“I think (the first goal) set us
up for, ‘Okay, let’s pop another
one and get the win for our class
and for the rest of the team and
send these guys on a high note for
next year,’ ” Volpatti said.
And the Bears did just that.
Jesse Fratkin ’11 made it a 2–0
game on a one-timer from Harr y
Zolniercyzk ’11, who then added
an empty-net goal with 3:08 left
on the clock to seal third place
for Brown.
“Not many teams, or especially
seniors, get to go out with a win,”
Rosen said. “To have the team
play as hard as they did and play
the way they did … it meant a lot
to the seniors and particularly to
me.”

Rosen ’10 closes out hockey career

continued from page 6
to play with the new coach, I really
wanted to make a good statement
in my first game,” he said. “To have
(the injury) happen, it was just very
frustrating.”
The groin injury kept him out
of uniform for seven games, and
he wasn’t back on the ice until 10
games after he was helped off it.
Rosen struggled in his two regu-
lar season appearances after the
injury, and with the Bears locked
in a race for playoff home ice at
the end of the season, Rosen didn’t
even play on Senior Night. In fact,
he asked not to.
The night before, Whittet called
Rosen into his office, sat him down
and told him face-to-face that Cle-
mente was going to start on Senior
Night.
“I was glad he did that,” Rosen
said. “I told him I didn’t want to get
a pity start on Senior Night.” In-
stead, he said he wanted Clemente
to go out and win it for the Bears.
Even this weekend — Rosen’s
last games of collegiate hockey —
he maintained the selfless attitude.
After the Bears lost to Cornell in the
opening round of the Final Four,
Whittet asked Rosen if he wanted
to have one more start in goal for
the consolation game. It was a ques-
tion Rosen wished his coach didn’t
have to ask.
“To be honest, we all — includ-
ing myself — would have rather had
Mike ... playing in the champion-
ship game today,” Rosen said.
But Rosen had spent all season
backing up the position he once
held so firmly, and in his last game,
he took the opportunity to get one
more start. The other BDH.
“Dan’s a selfless guy,” Whittet
said after Rosen shut out St. Law-
rence in the final game of the sea-
It’s what’s for dinner.
son. “Dan was a guy that bided his
time, and he was unbelievable to-
night. It was a tribute to him.”
Twenty-one saves, no goals
against and one assist — what a
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way to go out for Rosen, who said
the bright future now belongs to
Clemente.
“Mike’s a great goalie, and this
team is going to do a lot of special
things with him in net,” Rosen said.
“They’ll be back in Albany and
they’ll win it with him there.”
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S ports M onday
Upstart Cornell dismantles Wisconsin, moves on to Sweet 16
By Jeff Potrykus
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — So Wiscon-
sin was the higher-seeded team Sun-
day at Veterans Memorial Arena?
Like so many previous games in
the 2010 NCAA men’s basketball
tournament, 12th-seeded Cornell
proved to Wisconsin and the rest
of the nation that seedings mean
little once the teams step onto the
court.
The Ivy League champions were
the better team early in building a
double-digit lead less than four min-
utes into the game, withstood one
surge by the Badgers late in the first
half and then dominated the rest of
the way to oust fourth-seeded Wis-
consin, 87-69, in the second round
of the East Region.
When top-seeded Kentucky takes
the floor in the East Region semifi-
nals Thursday night in Syracuse,
N.Y., the Wildcats’ opponent will be
the upstart Big Red (29-4).
The reason: Cornell played Wis-
consin’s style of basketball and did it
better than Bo Ryan’s team.
The Badgers, who saw their
season end in the second round
for the second consecutive season,
will be home with a 24-9 record and
painful memories of their stay in
Jacksonville.
Senior guard Louis Dale hit 10 of
17 field-goal attempts and scored 26
points to lead four Cornell players
in double figures.
Senior forward Ryan Wittman
hit 6 of 9 field-goal attempts in the
first half when he scored 14 of his
24 points to help the Big Red build
a 43-31 halftime lead. Wittman fin-
ished 10 for 15, including 3 for 5
from three-point range.
The Big Red repeatedly burned
Wisconsin’s defense and finished at
61.1 percent (33 for 54), including
53.3 percent from three-point range
(8 for 15).
The overall shooting mark was a
season-high against Wisconsin. The
previous high was 53.3 percent, set
by Illinois in a 63-56 victory at the
Kohl Center.
Senior center Jeff Foote (12
points) and sophomore guard Chris
Wroblewski (12 points) also played
well for Cornell.
Junior forward Jon Leuer was
Wisconsin’s best player. He went 5
for 5 in the first half en route to 14
points but didn’t get nearly enough
help. He finished with 23 points.
Senior guard Jason Bohannon
broke out of his three-game shoot-
ing slump and finished with 18
points on 7-for-15 shooting
Senior guard Trevon Hughes had
five first-half turnovers, struggled
defensively and gave a forgettable
performance in his final game at
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Wisconsin. He fouled out with 2 min-
utes 39 seconds left and finished
with 10 points, six turnovers and
two assists.
Junior forward Keaton Nankivil
was limited to two minutes in the
first half because of two early fouls
and picked up two more in the first
3:10 of the second half. He finished
with no points and two rebounds.
Redshirt freshman forward Ryan
Evans added 11 points for Wiscon-
sin, Sophomore guard Jordan Tay-
lor, also limited by foul trouble in
the first half, finished with seven
points.
Cornell was sharp early and
Wisconsin appeared discombobu-
lated.
Wittman buried two open jump-
ers; Nankivil missed two shots and
Jon Jaques stole a pass by Hughes
and drove in for an uncontested
layup to give the Big Red a 6-0 lead
just 1:45 into the game.
Ryan called a timeout just one
second later and pulled Hughes and
Nankivil in favor of Evans and Tim
Jarmusz.
Wisconsin missed its first three
field-goal attempts and didn’t score
until Leuer hit 1 of 2 free throws
with 17:09 left.
Jonathan Bateman / Herald file photo
Leuer hit a jumper to cut Cor-
Pictured here in a game against Brown, Cornell’s forward Ryan Wittman
nell’s lead to 11-4 but the Big Red, scored 24 of his team’s 87 points against Wisconsin.
which hit its first five field-goal at-
tempts, got a three-pointer from Wittman to push the lead to 14-4 sin, 11-6, over the final 3:29 of the
with 15:47 left in the half. half to build its lead to 43-31.
Leuer continued to carry Wis- Wroblewski sparked the run with
consin in the first half. He scored a three-pointer and a jumper and
Wisconsin’s first 12 points, on 4-for-4 Wittman closed the scoring with a
shooting to keep Wisconsin within three-pointer with five seconds left
striking distance at 18-12. in the half.
Bohannon finally got on the Led by Wittman, Cornell shot a
board with a three-pointer with 10:26 sizzling 59.3 percent in the first half
left and when he scored on a drive to (16 for 27).
pull Wisconsin to within 24-19 with Wisconsin, which had made
8:37, Cornell called a timeout. just 18 of 56 three-point attempts
Brimming with confidence, Bo- (32.1 percent) and 64 of 179 shots
hannon buried a step-back jumper overall (35.8 percent) in its previous
to bring Wisconsin to within 24-21 three games, shot 40 percent from
with 7:20 left. three-point range (4 for 10) and 52.2
Cornell answered with an 8-2 percent overall (12 for 23) and still
run, highlighted by a three-pointer trailed by 12.
from Wittman with one second left Wisconsin’s comeback bid ended
on the shot clock, to build the lead in the opening minutes of the sec-
back to 32-23. ond half.
Leuer hit a jumper to cut the defi- The Badgers hit 2 of their first 4
cit to seven and then forced Foote field-goal attempts to pull within nine
into a traveling violation. points but Dale hit a three-pointer
Wisconsin failed to capitalize, and followed that with a three-point
though, when Hughes saw his drive play. That sparked a 13-6 run that
rejected. allowed Cornell to build the lead to
Unlike Wisconsin, Cornell took 56-41 with 16:15 remaining.
advantage of the opening. Wisconsin never got closer than
The Big Red outscored Wiscon- 13 points the rest of the way.
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World & Nation
The Brown Daily Herald
13-year-old college student claims discrimination in abroad program
By Kathleen Megan
The Har tford Courant
HARTFORD, Conn. — To Colin
Carlson, it’s clearly a case of dis-
crimination.
As a double-degree honors stu-
dent with a 3.9 grade point average
at the University of Connecticut,
he was a natural candidate for an
African ecology course offered this
semester that involved a summer
field study in South Africa.
In fact, when he decided to go to
UConn, it was partly because this
course particularly addressed his
interests in the interplay between
culture and the environment.
However, Colin, a prodigy, is
13 years old. And he believes that
the professor who is teaching the
course turned him down last fall
because of his youth.
His mother, Jessica Offir, offered
to pay her own way on the trip to
chaperone Colin and to release the
university from any liability, but the
university response remained a firm
“no.”
Colin, who plans to earn a doctor-
ate degree and then a law degree,
said, “If you don’t feel comfortable
taking a 13-year-old just because you
don’t, then it’s the same thing as if
you don’t feel comfortable having a
black student on your trip or having
a woman on your trip.”
“If you can’t teach any student
that the university deems capable
of taking your class and teaching
them, then you shouldn’t be teach-
ing. You can’t pick and choose your
students based on personal com-
fort,” he said.
Growing numbers of students turn to ‘alternative’ spring break
By Kate Santich
The Orlando Sentinel
ORLANDO, Fla. — Time was when
spring break was synonymous with
beer and bikinis. But these days, a
large and growing number of college
students are spending their precious
time off helping underprivileged
kids, abandoned pets, disabled vet-
erans and disaster victims.
Alternative spring break, as
the movement is called, will draw
roughly 72,000 students across the
country this year, according to the
national nonprofit Break Away.
Florida is both a leading provider
of student volunteers and the ben-
eficiary of scores of team projects
led by out-of-state students seeking
a side of sunshine with their altru-
ism.
“Our alternative spring break
program has become so popular
that we’re actually booking schools
two to three years out,” said Susan
Storey, communications director for
the Kissimmee-based Give Kids the
World, which treats children with
life-threatening illnesses and their
families to an all-inclusive Central
Florida vacation. “This week we have
Purdue with 55 students and Colo-
rado State with 10. DePaul gets here
next week, and St. John’s (Univer-
sity) and the University of Georgia
Colin Carlson, a 13-year-old honors student, has brought a complaint against the University of Connecticut after
being told he could not study abroad in South Africa.
Colin and his mother, Jessica Of-
fir, contend that the decision violates
the university’s anti-discrimination
policy and state and federal civil
rights law. The Coventry family has
filed a complaint with the univer-
sity’s Office of Diversity and Equity
and with the U.S. Department of Ed-
ucation’s Office for Civil Rights.
Mike Kirk, spokesman for the
university, said he can’t comment
on cases where litigation may be
involved. However, he said, when
it comes to trips abroad, “gener-
ally speaking, student safety is our
number one concern.”
If his mother accompanies him
on the trip, Colin doesn’t see any
just left.”
With 1,500 volunteer shifts to fill
each week, Give Kids the World puts
the students to work doing every-
thing from laying sod to serving up
pizza parties for the kids.
At University of Central Florida,
the alternative spring break pro-
gram has grown so much, so fast
that this year three students were
turned away for every one accepted.
Jessica Maureen Schwendeman, 23,
said there’s no better way to spend
the week.
“I’m very passionate about this
work, and I’m having a great time,”
she said last week from Birming-
ham, Ala., where she was leading
a group volunteering at inner-city
schools. “I feel like it’s a waste of
time to just sit around when I could
be doing something that’s fulfilling
to me as a person and helps some-
body else. I have the rest of my life
to sit around.”
That seems unlikely. The UCF
senior is not only a double major in
political science and sociology, but
she also has minors in women’s stud-
ies and public administration — and
she is student director of Volunteer
UCF, the group that coordinates the
alternative spring break trips. She al-
ready has applied to the Peace Corps
and, after graduation, hopes to spend
two years working in Africa.
reason for the university to worry
about his safety any more than other
students. “Yes, something could
happen,” he said. “I could get eaten
by a lion, but I am at just the same
risk as any other student.”
If the university believes it’s un-
safe for him, Colin said, “by that
logic, no one should be going on the
trip and UConn should not be offer-
ing a study abroad program.”
Colin started taking courses at
UConn at age 9 and matriculated
as a freshman last year. He has ex-
celled at UConn, and professors who
have worked with him have nothing
but praise for both his academic
talents and his ability to get along
The super-achiever personality is
typical of today’s generation of alter-
native spring breakers, said Saman-
tha Giacobozzi, program director of
Atlanta-based Break Away, which
helps match participating colleges
with eager charities.
“The caliber of student leader-
ship within these alternative break
programs is astonishing,” she said.
“The ones we meet have tremen-
dous motivation and interest in so-
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Michael McAndrews / Hartford Courant
easily with other students.
His lawyer, Michael Agranoff,
said that although it appears that
Colin’s age was the reason he was
not allowed into the course, it is
not clear exactly why his age is a
problem. “Given the fact that UConn
did accept him,” said Agranoff, “I’m
not sure yet what UConn’s problem
really is.”
After he was turned down for the
African field ecology course, Colin
was admitted to another ecology
and evolutionary biology course that
also involves field study in South
Africa. But that course focuses on
plants rather than animals, which
are his greater interest. In addi-
cial justice and the desire to make
an impact.”
Although Break Away was found-
ed in 1991, Giacobozzi and others
say the concept of alternative spring
break really came into its own after
Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Colleges that already had alter-
native break programs added trips
aimed at disaster relief, and colleges
that lacked such programs began to
launch them.
tion, because he applied late for the
course — delayed while waiting to
hear whether he was accepted into
the African field ecology course —
there was no grant money left. He
expects that his family will have
to pay his way at close to $4,000,
plus the cost of his mother’s travel
expenses.
Colin fears now that the univer-
sity might find a way to keep him
from going on this field trip, as well.
Offir said, “We are willing to do any-
thing and ever ything to assuage
their fears on the liability front.”
Colin said he also fears that his fi-
nancial aid might be in jeopardy.
Until now, Colin said, his educa-
tion has gone smoothly at UConn,
and he has enjoyed it greatly.
“I’d like to say that I am really
shocked that the university would
behave this way. I don’t go look-
ing for fights. I’m generally a very
agreeable person,” he said.
Carl Schlichting, the professor
who has agreed to have Colin in
his class and on the South African
trip, said in an e-mail that he “eas-
ily qualifies for inclusion” and is “a
fine student.”
Isaac Ortega, the professor who
was teaching the class to which Co-
lin was not admitted, was out of the
office and could not be reached for
comment.
Chris Simon, a professor in the
department of ecology and evolu-
tionary biology and Colin’s adviser,
said that he is a “fantastic student”
who “asks the kinds of questions
that usually come from graduate
students or a colleague” and is “very
mature.”
Since then, Giacobozzi said,
student participation has risen 10
percent to 15 percent each year. At
the University of Florida, which has
won national recognition for its ex-
tensive volunteerism, students this
year could choose from nearly two
dozen projects, including protecting
marine life, educating communities
about HIV and AIDS and laboring
alongside impoverished farm work-
ers.
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The Brown Daily Herald

Page 10 | Monday, March 22, 2010

correction

An article in Friday’s Herald (“Seniors struggle with theses,” March

19) incorrectly stated that the Department of Economics had instituted a
summer course for rising seniors interested in writing theses. In fact, the
course is being offered this spring to juniors.

An editorial in Friday’s Herald (“Motion to Table,” March 19) incorrectly

attributed an estimate of potential savings from phasing out tableslips to Juan
Vasconez ’10. The editorial also incorrectly stated that Vasconez was the
chair of the Undergraduate Finance Board. In fact, the estimate came from
Jose Vasconez ’10, who is in fact chair of the finance board. Juan Vasconez
is the vice-chair of the finance board. The Herald regrets the errors.

A be P ressman

e d i to r i a l

State of the U.
Last week’s weather began to undo some of the to give a speech like this more regularly, nor do we
damage done by the cold, rain and snow of the past doubt UCS’ willingness to arrange it. We mainly
four months. Most students quickly forgave Mother want to impress upon students that attending the
Nature and embraced the outdoors. But on Thursday, State of Brown is extremely worthwhile. We’d even
several tore themselves away from the festivities on go so far as to say it’s obligatory for those who want
Main Green to attend the State of Brown lecture. to be informed and engaged members of the Brown
Those who did were treated to an extremely informa- community — a community centered on College Hill
tive and engaging look at where the University stands but also including alums across the globe.
now and where it is going in the future. Current students may be primarily concerned with
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Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Deputy Managing Editors Senior Editors since 2006. Simmons addressed the University’s alums venturing into a competitive labor market and
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The Brown Daily Herald
TYLER
ROSENBAUM
Opinions Columnist
Well, we’ve finally reached the big five-oh —
the magic threshold of $50,000 per year in
tuition and fees, that is. The increasing cost
of going to Brown is, of course, as generally
unwelcome as it is inexorable.
For this reason, it would be a little too cli-
ched and starry-eyed to criticize the tuition
hike. Especially in these tough economic
times, when everyone is expected to sacri-
fice somehow, it would seem callous not to
support increasing the tuition.
After all, those who can afford to pay a little
extra will pick up the slack of those who are
presumably having a tougher time making
ends meet. Having increased financial aid by
6.5 percent, more than the tuition and fees
increase of 4.5 percent, the Corporation has
demonstrated its continuing commitment to
less well-off families.
But is everyone sacrificing equally? In a
letter President Ruth Simmons sent to the
campus two weeks ago, I was troubled to find
buried deep in the text the announcement of
another fee: the “recreational facilities usage
fee,” through which every student must now
contribute $64 to athletics.
But, I can hear supporters of the fee pro-
test, mightn’t the fee also end up supporting
the gyms that most students use? Vice Presi-
dent for Campus Life and Student Services
ADRIENNE
LANGLOIS
Opinions Columnist
When we, as college students, go home for
spring break (or, if we’re lucky enough to
be going somewhere exciting, when we call
home) we’re likely to be asked one terrify-
ing question: “What are you doing this sum-
mer?”
With an ever-increasing number of summer
internships and jobs to choose from, increas-
ing competition for them and a seemingly
dwindling funding pool, the question of sum-
mer work can be a scary one indeed.
Luckily, as Brown students, we have a few
unique opportunities at our purveyance, most
notably the UTRA program. The Undergradu-
ate Teaching and Research Awards offer stu-
dents the opportunity to pursue collaborative
projects in research or course design with
professors — and receive $3,000 for a summer
of work. Sounds like a dream, right?
As the old adage goes, “Nice work if you
can get it.” Each year, the UTRA program of-
fers around 200 summer grants to students.
The Office of the Dean of the College also
funds a smaller number of grants for projects
during the fall and spring semesters. While
the program is no small shakes (200 is a pretty
large number, all things considered), UTRAs
have grown considerably in popularity, with
the number of applications exceeding the
available grants every year. As a result, many
projects go unfunded.
The obvious solution would be to expand
Why spare athletics?
Margaret Klawunn has suggested that this
is the case.
If so, it certainly seems fishy, and sets a dis-
concerting precedent. Those of us who live on
campus already will be paying approximately
$6,500 per academic year for that privilege.
During the seven-and-a-half months we actu-
ally spend at Brown, that works out to more
than $860 per month, much higher than com-
parable off-campus housing (even taking the
free utilities into account).
Presumably the upkeep of gyms and all
other aspects of on-campus housing have
been subsumed into the amount the Univer-
Apparently, every area of the University has to
make its fair share of sacrifice — except the
athletics department.
sity charges us to live here (not counting,
of course, the $600 the University charges
those who choose to live off-campus for that
courtesy).
If this new fee is going to pay for gym
upkeep, will a new fee crop up next year to
pay for common area upkeep, or the myriad
other things we thought were included in
the room fee?
Of course I think it very unlikely we will
see any such fees in the future, because the
new fee is transparently not primarily for gym
upkeep, but rather to support athletics.
More UTRAs, please
the program, but this, too, is easier said than
done. Unfortunately, the University announced
in February that due to economic pressures,
it would be unable to expand the UTRA pro-
gram this year.
It’s a catch-22. As paid internships become
fewer and further between in our currently
weakened economy, more and more students
turn to University-funded programs for sum-
mer work. At the same time, however, the
economic recession prevents the University
from expanding the program for its increased
numbers of applicants.
UTRA decisions were released last week,
The UTRA program provides undergraduate
students from all disciplines with the valuable
and unique opportunity to explore the experience
of intensive research in an academic field.
and as expected, the program was forced
to reject many worthy projects, as it always
does. Rejection from the UTRA program puts
both professors and students in an awkward
situation. Because of the University’s fiscal
situation, professors may be unable to fund
important projects without UTRA funds, and
the late rejection date puts students in a disad-
vantaged position to apply for other funds or
search for other summer opportunities.
Obviously, being rejected for an UTRA
grant is not the end of the world. But the
flexible, collaborative nature of this program
deserves more fiscal attention for the ways
in which it has transformed and continues to
Last month, before the Corporation met to
finalize the budget, The Herald reported that
the Organizational Review Committee, which
President Simmons appointed to look for ways
to cut $14 million from the University’s bud-
get, would be recommending the creation of
a $65 fee which would go to the Department
of Athletics (“ORC proposes new recreation
fee,” Feb. 15). Perhaps sensing that $65 was
excessive, the Corporation cut the final ver-
sion to $64.
But why would a committee charged with
cutting the budget recommend the creation of
a new fee? Evidently, of the 12 subcommittees
that investigated various areas of the Univer-
sity to trim down in light of the recession, the
athletics subcommittee was “the only one that
did not meet its savings goal.”
This strikes me as quite unfair. Apparently,
every area of the University has to make its
fair share of sacrifice — except the athletics
department. This is despite the fact that a poll
conducted by The Herald at the end of last
semester found that half of students had not
gone to a single sports game that semester,
and in total nearly four-fifths had attended two
or fewer such games.
enrich the Brown community.
The UTRA program provides undergrad-
uate students from all disciplines with the
valuable and unique opportunity to explore
intensive research in an academic field. Lab
work and independent study projects are the
only comparable experiences the University
currently offers, but neither of these programs
are as accessible to students in all fields as
UTRAs.
More broadly, UTRAs promote a level of
collaboration between professors and stu-
dents not possible within the classroom. While
working on an UTRA grant, students have
the opportunity to do research and receive
critique and guidance from a professor without
being graded. In doing so, the student forges
a strong relationship with a professor in an
academic field he or she cares about, providing
him or her with an academic touchstone and
a potential source of recommendations and
advice for graduate school or other career
opportunities.
Most importantly, the UTRA program not
only enriches the academic community at
Brown through faculty-student collaboration
— it also improves it. Many UTRA projects fo-
cus on designing courses, Web sites and other
teaching aids, and improving or revising other
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Brown is not a “sports school” like Duke,
or even Cornell for that matter. Most students
here don’t care about athletics — universities
are for higher education, after all, not athletic
endeavors. I might sing a different tune if
sports here were financially self-sustaining,
or brought in additional funding, as they do
at other places.
But, as this new fee aptly demonstrates,
athletics at Brown are a financial drain on the
University’s budget. The question, then, is why
in these tough times the Corporation decided
essentially to exempt the athletics department
from the shared sacrifice in which every other
facet of this University was expected to take
part. I hope in its future meetings the Corpora-
tion reconsiders its priorities.
I laud the Corporation and the adminis-
tration for making this subsidy to athletics
readily visible as a separate fee and not hiding
it in the general tuition increase. This should
spur a campus-wide debate about the place of
athletics at our institution.
Should a financially non-self-sustaining
program that is completely extraneous to the
purpose of a university, and about which the
vast majority of Brown students are apathetic
at best, be sheltered from the tough deci-
sions the rest of us have to make? I should
hope not.
Tyler Rosenbaum ’11, a public policy
concentrator, thinks the public policy
concentration needs a fee to protect it
from cuts.
Brown programs. Still others allow students
and professors to connect with Providence
through research in the local community, or
build contacts abroad through international
research projects.
I understand that the financial crisis has
necessitated funding freezes for many worthy
programs. However, given the extraordinary
benefits of UTRAs, the University should re-
turn to prioritizing this program when funding
becomes available.
While we wait for the economy to recover,
there is still a possibility for expansion of the
program. Currently, the UTRA program has
over 20 named grants generously made possi-
ble by University alums. More donations from
alumni could sponsor additional grants.
I would like to echo The Herald’s recent
editorial encouraging alums to support the
Brown Internship Award Program (“Building
BIAP,” Feb. 10): Not all of the most valuable
experiences in a student’s academic career
occur within the classroom. Alums looking
to make a donation to a particularly worthy
program at Brown should consider the UTRA
program.
The University is already doing a good
job making the UTRA program available to
students. Expanding the program to serve
as many willing collaborators as possible will
enrich the University community, and give
students a great answer to the question of what
they will be doing with their summers.
Adrienne Langlois ’10 was rejected for an
UTRA last year and had a great summer
anyway.
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c a l e n da r comics
Today, March 22 tomorrow, mArch 23
Dot Comic | Eshan Mitra and Brendan Hainline
6 P.M. — “Cuba: What Everyone Needs 10 A.M. — Wigs for Kids Haircut-A-
to Know,” Joukowsky Forum, Watson Thon, Sayles Hall
Institute
5 P.M. — Thinking about Taking Time
7 P.M. — QUEERican, List Art Building, Off?, J. Walter Wilson, Room 310
Room 120

menu
Sharpe Refectory Verney-Woolley Dining Hall
Excelsior | Kevin Grubb
Lunch — Vegan Plantains with Lunch — Chicken Cutlet Sandwich,
Garbanzos, Jamaican Curried Chicken, Spinach and Rice Bake, Green Beans
Shrimp Bisque with Tomatoes

Dinner — Beef Shish Kabob, Broccoli Dinner — Macaroni Pudding,

Spears with Lemon Herb Bread, Vegetarian Washington
Chowder, Country Style Baked Ham

crossword

Fruitopia | Andy Kim

Hippomaniac | Mat Becker

Classic Trust Ben | Ben Leubsdorf