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the Brown
vol. cxlvi, no. 19
CIS staff
member dies
suddenly
By Aparna bansal
Senior Staff Writer
Robert Addison, a communica-
tions technician at Computing
and Information Services, died
Monday after falling ill at work.
An ambulance transported
Addison to Rhode Island Hospi-
tal where he passed away, wrote
Marisa Quinn, vice president for
public affairs and University rela-
tions, in an e-mail to The Herald.
“The University community
was saddened to learn of the
untimely passing of Robert Ad-
dison,” President Ruth Simmons
wrote in a statement. “During his
more than two decades of service
as a network technician, he visited
nearly every area of the campus,
contributing in fundamental
ways in support of the essential
communications infrastructure
at Brown.”
Addison had been working at
Brown since 1989 and University
representatives have contacted
Addison’s family to offer support,
Simmons wrote.
“He had some illnesses during
the last year,” Michael Pickett,
vice president for CIS, said. “It
might have been a heart attack.
No one knows for sure. Everyone
is just shocked.”
Reverend Janet Cooper Nel-
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Plenty of fish in the sea
Two bars, Olives and Colosseum, attract Wednesday night throngs.
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CITY & State.........4
editorial..............6
Opinions...............7
SPORTS...................8
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
PW delivers ‘Hamlet’
to an audience of one
By Emma Wohl
Senior Staff Writer
You start at the bottom of a stair-
case, with little to no idea of what
awaits you. A masked actress de-
scends and leads you back up. You
go through a door into a room
that — if you are familiar with
Production Workshop’s upspace
— you thought you knew.
Arts & Culture
But it’s different. It’s empty of
seats and an audience. There’s only
the cast, milling about the room,
and you.
The first few minutes of “Stand
and Unfold Yourself,” an “interac-
tive meditation on ‘Hamlet’” are
150 on off-campus waitlist await word
Size of first-year class will set permission levels faculty’s voice
sion, Bova said. This figure com- crease will solve ResLife’s ongoing in tenure
By Nick Lourie
dents who were approved last year. may approve more students cur- reform unclear
C W pares to between 125 and 150 stu- housing woes. Bova said ResLife
ontributing riter
This year, the Office of Residential
Life approved nearly twice as many
rising juniors to live off-campus as
it did last year, though about 150
students remain on the waitlist,
according to Richard Bova, senior
associate dean of residential and
dining services.
About 250 rising juniors have
already received off-campus permis-
Brielle Friedman / Herald
See full coverage on page 4.
Take two
Changes to “restore intel-
lectual rigor” to IR program
OPINIONS, 7
Herald
a more disorienting experience
than a theatergoer may be accus-
tomed to. There is only one audi-
ence member — perhaps audience
is not even the right term. Rather,
the observer takes on the role of
Hamlet’s confidante and follows
him through the events of the play.
The play is “Hamlet,” reduced
to an hour. Gone are any scenes in
which Hamlet does not appear —
no long-winded advice from Po-
lonius and no conspiring between
Claudius and Laertes. The story is
certainly recognizable, but some
knowledge of the original script
is important to fully understand
the events that unfold.
The show runs Feb. 21-26, with
continued on page 3
Roughly 900 seniors were granted
approval, representing no significant
increase over the previous year.
ResLife’s goal remains “a bed for
everyone,” with no students residing
in kitchens or lounges, Bova said. To
achieve this goal, the office approved
students for off-campus housing ear-
lier than in previous years.
But it is unclear whether the in-
Men’s basketball scores
upset win over Princeton
By Sam Rubinroit
Sports Staff Writer
After falling to Penn 70-62 on Friday,
the men’s basketball team toppled
first-place Princeton, 75-65, hand-
ing the Tigers their first loss in Ivy
League play.
sports
Penn 70, Brown 62
Bruno first faced the Quakers
(11-12, 5-4 Ivy League) Jan. 29,
losing in overtime, 80-78. The loss
came one day after the Bears’ (10-14,
3-7 Ivy League) captain and leading
scorer and rebounder, forward Peter
Sullivan ’11, injured his shoulder
against Princeton. Sullivan returned
to the Bears’ lineup for the first time
in three weeks Friday night for the
rematch against the Quakers. Wear-
ing protective padding on his shoul-
der, Sullivan led the team with 16
The PW’s one-hour production of “Hamlet” aims to immerse its audience.
Extent of
rently on the waitlist after the final
size of the class of 2015 is deter-
mined in April.
But notice of approval in late
spring may make it difficult for stu-
dents to negotiate other off-campus
housing arrangements before leav-
ing Providence for the summer.
continued on page 2
points in 25 minutes of play in the
loss.
“After getting up and down the
court a couple of times, I started feel-
ing like my old self again,” he said.
“I practiced all week, so I was just
trying to get my wind and my tim-
ing back. The shoulder felt fine, but
obviously a game is different than
practice. I was rushing stuff a little
bit, so I had to get used to the flow
of the game.”
Sullivan currently ranks ninth
on Brown’s all-time scoring list, and
despite the loss, Head Coach Jesse
Agel was glad to see him back on
the court.
“I’m extremely happy that he was
able to get back and be in the last six
games of his career,” Agel said. “He’s
had a great career, and I’m thrilled
that he has the opportunity to finish
his career on the court instead of on
continued on page 5
weather
Slipping
Men’s hockey falls to
Harvard 2-1
SPORTS, 8
Since 1891
Emma Wohl / Herald
By Shefali Luthra
Senior Staff Writer
Faculty will have more input on an
October 2011 report on tenure and
hiring practices than on an accom-
panying proposal to the Corpora-
tion for setting a ratio of tenured to
non-tenured faculty, according to
administrators charged with creating
both documents.
At its Feb. 12 meeting, the Cor-
poration commissioned the admin-
istration to write a report on hiring
and tenure practices at the Univer-
sity and peer institutions, as well as
the proposal for setting the tenure
ratio. The e-mail announcing the
report and proposal did not mention
faculty involvement, which worried
some faculty members, according
to Cynthia Garcia Coll, chair of the
Faculty Executive Committee and
professor of education.
The administration has indicated
it plans to involve faculty members
when preparing the documents,
though they will likely be granted
greater input on the report than on
the actual proposal, Provost David
Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 said.
Garcia Coll, who has met sepa-
rately with President Ruth Simmons
and Kertzer since the Corporation
meeting, said she is now “more
hopeful” that faculty will play a
significant role in drafting the pro-
posal and report. At the same time,
though, she said she will not be fully
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Sudoku until she sees solid evidence.
Faculty members “don’t like to
be given something that is com-
plete,” Garcia Coll said. “They like
to debate it, they like to think about
it, they like to make their opinions
heard.”
Kertzer said the Corporation had
an “unusual” series of meetings with
faculty before making any decisions
about tenure. The most recent meet-
ing took place the morning of the
Feb. 12 Corporation meeting, when
“a couple dozen” department chairs
shared their opinions with Corpo-
ration members. In December, a
delegation from the Corporation’s
Board of Fellows and Committee
on Academic Affairs met with ap-
proximately 100 faculty members
to discuss tenure.
Crossword “It’s been an issue on which
there’s been a huge amount of con-
sultation with the faculty on the part
of the Corporation,” Kertzer said.
Dean of the Faculty Rajiv Vohra
P’07 and Edward Wing, dean of
medicine and biological sciences,
will both be involved in drafting
the documents.
Vohra and Wing sent an e-mail
to faculty Feb. 14 further explaining
the Corporation’s requests. Vohra
said the e-mail was intended to
respond to faculty concerns about
whether the University plans to set
a fixed limit on tenure promotions,
as well as to explain what role faculty
will play in crafting the documents.
According to the e-mail, tenure
caps will not be instituted. Instead,
the Corporation asked that admin-
istrators look to establish “ranges
of tenure rates” that could lead to
“healthy faculty renewal.”
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Shifting more students off cam-
pus will serve as a one-year buffer
until the renovations to 315 Thayer
St. — a future dormitory — are fin-
ished in summer 2012, Bova told
The Herald in October.
Bova said the current housing
situation is on target, though room-
ing assignments have the potential
to become “quite hectic.” Housing
arrangements can fluctuate as stu-
dents take medical and personal
leave, change their academic stand-
ing and shift their commuter status
and study abroad arrangements, he
Dreier said he found Vohra and
Wing’s e-mail “somewhat reas-
suring” in that the administration
would not be setting a tenure cap.
Most encouraging, he said, was the
switch in emphasis from tenure rates
— the percentage of tenure-track
faculty who are promoted with
tenure — to the ratio of tenured to
non-tenured faculty.
A high tenure ratio is “something
that’s fairly clearly a potential prob-
lem, whereas a high tenure rate is
not as obviously a problem,” Dreier
said. “And the assumption that (a
high tenure rate) is a problem ap-
pears — to a lot of the faculty —
problematic.”
The administration will work in
“full and active consultation” with
faculty when drafting the docu-
ments, according to the e-mail. But
Vohra and Kertzer both said faculty
involvement would probably vary
between the report and the actual
proposal.
“There will be consultation,”
Vohra said. “I can’t imagine that
some of these things would involve
faculty debate and vote, because
there are lots of things that are not
of that nature.”
The administration has a strong
understanding of the tenure debate
from recent discussion and voting
on tenure-related proposals in fac-
ulty meetings, Vohra said. He added
that any revisions to faculty rules
would require discussion with the
FEC and faculty vote. As for the
report on hiring and tenure practic-
es, he said it was “hard to imagine”
what the administration could do
without talking to faculty.
But the decision on tenure ra-
tios, Vohra said, would be less likely
to come up for faculty debate and
vote. Vohra said he imagines the
administration will look at how
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said. Students often do not make
these decisions until June.
The University will also place
students in off-campus houses not
traditionally zoned as dormitories.
The University owns 150 residen-
tial housing units on and around
campus, according to the auxiliary
housing website.
Claudia Norton ’13, who is cur-
rently living in a triple, said she
plans to live off campus next year.
Off-campus life is “a good opportu-
nity for growth and a good learning
experience,” she said.
“different variables interact.” Such
factors might include how many
faculty members resign or retire and
how many professors the University
wants to hire.
“If there’s a mathematical equa-
tion, it’s not a question of deciding,”
Vohra said. In drafting the proposal,
the administration will design a
model analyzing the University’s
ideal tenure ratio based on current
hiring practices and plans for the
future, Vohra said. “If you analyze
a model, and you come up with a
certain way of looking at things,
you can explain and discuss it. It’s
not about deciding.”
But, Vohra said, the University
is still in the “early stages” of decid-
ing how to work on the report and
proposal.
Professor of Comparative Litera-
ture Edward Ahearn said he believes
the faculty will be well represented
in the drafting process, based on
both the Corporation’s meetings
with faculty members and the e-
mail from Vohra and Wing.
“I hope it will not be handled in
a top-down manner,” Ahearn said.
“The way I read the message I got,
it seems to suggest that all the inter-
ested parties will be consulted and
that a broad range of people will be
participating in the discussions. So
I’m hopeful.”
But Ahearn did express concern
that the Corporation commissioned
the University to compare its tenure
policies to those of its peer institu-
tions.
“They’re in danger of not rec-
ognizing something very special at
Brown and something very unique,”
Ahearn said.
Dreier voiced similar concerns,
saying that to “find out what every-
body else is doing” and imitate other
schools would detract from Brown’s
unique philosophy.
Brown has a “strong tradition” of
faculty governance, and maintain-
ing that tradition will be essential
in the drafting of the documents,
Ahearn said.
The drafting will take place dur-
ing a transition between provosts, as
Kertzer steps down from his posi-
tion in June. But Kertzer said he
plans to start working on the report
and proposal right away. He said he
does not believe the change will slow
the drafting process.
“These are the very issues I’ve
been working on a lot for the last
few years,” Kertzer said. “Whoever’s
the new provost will be able to come
in without losing speed in this issue.”
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
‘Hamlet’ forges bond with audience
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four performances each night.
Audience members were selected
through a lottery, determined at
the beginning of February.
Only 24 members of the Brown
and Rhode Island School of De-
sign community will get the full
experience. Others were able to
attend dress rehearsals or watch
from the light booth.
After seeing the show, the rea-
soning behind this set-up becomes
clear. The events of the play seem
much more personal and relatable
when narrated directly.
It is an experience difficult to
find outside of a college campus.
This sort of show is “financially
impossible” in a commercial mar-
ket, said Doug Eacho ’11, the play’s
director.
It also gives the lead charac-
ter a unique relationship with
Bears one win, one tie from home ice in playoffs
continued from page 8
5) to rescue a point in ECAC play.
With Quinnipiac leading 2-0
with just under three minutes left
in the second period, the Bears got
the boost they needed to get on the
scoreboard. On Brown’s fifth pow-
er-play chance of the night, Dennis
Robertson ’14 finally lit the lamp
for the Bears, as his long-range
blast beat Quinnipiac netminder
Eric Hartzell.
Brown carried its momentum
into the third period and evened up
the score four minutes in on a goal
produced by a trio of first-years.
Mark Hourihan’s ’14 close-range
finish was the product of crisp
passing from Matt Wahl ’14 and
Michael Juola ’14, both of whom
were credited with assists. For the
rest of the period and in overtime,
Hartzell and Mike Clemente ’12
played strong in net, and the two
sides had to settle for a single point
each.
Technician
suffers fatal
heart attack
continued from page 1
son, the University chaplain, will
be providing bereavement sup-
port to Addison’s colleagues in
the department, he said.
Daniela Stephen ’13 learned of
the death from a custodian who
works in her dormitory and who
was a close friend of Addison. She
was told that Addison suffered a
heart attack while on a ladder in
List Art Center.
She said she found it “outra-
geous” that the community had
not been sent an e-mail about the
news, the University’s precedent
for student deaths.
A bereavement ceremony will
be held later this week, Simmons
said in her statement.
his audience. Following Hamlet
through the course of his anger,
guilt, reluctance and determina-
tion makes it easier to understand
his decisions.
“There’s a way in which Hamlet
relates to the audience which is
very rare in Shakespeare or in any
play,” Eacho said. “He treats them
like confidantes.”
“He’s trying to explain to you
what he’s doing, but he’s not very
good at it,” he added. “When you
have him speaking to a house of
5,000 people, you lose that feel-
ing.”
This relationship deepens in the
course of 50 minutes. At first, the
observer’s discomfort is assumed.
“Hamlet’s central experience is
one of isolation, the feeling of be-
ing absolutely disconnected from
the people in his world and the
physical world altogether,” Eacho
said. “Plopping someone by them-
Harvard 2, Brown 1
On Tuesday night at Meehan
Auditorium, the Bears again sur-
rendered the first goal in the early
going. On the power play at 7:27,
Harvard forward Conor Morrison
snuck in alongside the right side of
the net, where he effortlessly tapped
in a pass from the blue line to put
Harvard (7-19-1, 5-14-1) up first.
Later in the period, Harvard
struck again on the power play.
With Chris Zaires ’13 in the box
for boarding, a long-range shot by
Crimson center Alex Killorn took
a fortuitous ricochet off a Brown
defender and wound up in the net
behind Clemente.
In the second period, neither
side was able to find the back of the
net. The Bears’ best chance came
on a four-on-four situation late in
the period. With just the goalie to
beat, Zolnierczyk blasted a wrist
shot just high, and moments later,
Harvard goalie Ryan Carroll, who
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selves into a theatrical space …
tries to double that experience.”
The goal “is not to alienate the
audience member but to find a
confidante and a co-conspirator,”
said Sam Yambrovich ’12, who
plays Hamlet in half of the per-
formances.
But the observer is supposed
to become more involved over the
course of the play. “I’ve found that
the more receptive the audience
member is to me, the better I can
perform,” said Conor Kane ’14,
who plays Hamlet in the other half
of the performances.
This play intensifies the notion
that the quality of the audience can
make or break a show. “If you, the
audience member, don’t comply,
the action stops,” Yambrovich said.
Naturally, the actors’ perfor-
mances in such a show are com-
pletely out of the ordinary. Ham-
let, in particular, is talking to a
had 40 saves for the game, made an
athletic save to again deny Bruno.
In the closing seconds of the sec-
ond frame, Brown survived another
Crimson power-play surge. One
shot glanced off the post before
Clemente was forced to make two
spectacular saves to keep his team’s
deficit at two.
Eight minutes into the third,
the Bears cut the Crimson’s lead
in half on a brilliant goal by Farn-
ham. The junior controlled the
puck away from two Harvard de-
fenders in Harvard’s half of the ice
before beating Carroll one-on-one.
Farnham skated to Carroll’s right
and easily beat the Crimson goalie
stick side for the score.
“I know Zaires chipped it up,
and it kind of went off their guy
into the middle of the ice,” Farn-
ham said. “I saw a nice seam and
just pulled it back. I fell down a lit-
tle bit, and the goalie tried to poke
check. I was a little lucky with that
friend — not a packed theater —
and so the actor’s performance is
duly subdued.
The other characters mostly
ignore the observer, going about
their business as usual. But their
performance style is still unique.
There is no fourth wall, no cheat-
ing out to incorporate the audi-
ence. Stage whispers are replaced
by actual whispers, and it is up
to the audience member to listen
in or not.
“Stand and Unfold Yourself ”
was funded by a PW Alumni New
Works grant.
“I argued that this counted as
new work,” Eacho said.
In the sense that the words
are the same, it is old, well-worn
Shakespeare. But as far as bringing
new meaning to characters’ ac-
tions and re-imagining the role of
actors and audience in the theatre,
this show is truly novel.
and just went around him.”
Brown pressed on looking for
the equalizing goal. With just over
a minute left in the game, Whittet
pulled Clemente in favor of a sixth
skater, but the extra man was of no
help, and the Bears suffered their
14th loss of the season despite out-
shooting Harvard 41-20.
“I thought we were dominant
for most of that game,” Whittet
said. “Our problem is that we can’t
score. We don’t have naturally gift-
ed guys around the net. We work
very, very hard. We outshot them
20 to one in the third period and
scored one goal. So until we figure
out a way to not give up power-
play goals and actually score on
our power play, the result is going
to be what it was.”
News in brief
Grant to open Hay’s
hidden collections
The John Hay Library began
organizing previously “hidden”
collections of manuscripts and
documents in January thanks to a
$141,455 grant from the National
Historical Publications and
Records Commission, according to
University Archivist Jennifer Betts.
The collections, which
had been difficult to access
because they were not digitally
cataloged, include papers by
Emily Dickinson’s niece Martha
Dickinson Bianchi, works by
S.J. Perelman — who wrote
screenplays for the Marx Brothers
— papers by Charles Evans
Hughes and pieces from a variety
of literary papers and journals.
The grant will pay for a project
archivist, two student assistants
and a laptop, said Alexander
Lorch, archives program officer
at the National Historical
Publications and Records
Commission.
The recently hired archivist
will put the documents, which
currently take up 6,500 linear
feet of shelf space, into a digital
cataloging system that will allow
researchers to search for them
and access them more easily,
according to Lorch.
“Each application (for the
grant) to NHPRC is reviewed by
the corresponding State Historical
Records Advisory Board, a panel
of professional peer reviewers
and the Commission staff,” Lorch
said. Based on these reviews, the
NHPRC makes recommendations
to the government on which
projects should receive funding.
The University received and
accepted the grant in June 2010.
—Casey Bleho
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Olives on North Main St.
By Brielle friedman
Staff Writer
It is 10 minutes to midnight and
Olives, one of the newest hotspots
for Wednesday night partygo-
ers, is in full swing. Students
are crowded by the bar sipping
beers, flirting and scoping out the
already sweaty dancers shaking
their stuff on the jam-packed floor.
The lyrics to “Put Your Hands Up”
by Fatman Scoop stream through
the speakers.
Olives features an elevated
stage much larger than that of the
Fish Company, students’ former
midweek party destination, and
both men and women are allowed
to dance on it — unlike Fish Co.’s
strict women-only policy.
“I think the dance floor is one
of the best things about it,” said
Blaine Grinna ’11, who created
a Facebook event advertising the
first Brown Night at the bar start-
ing Jan. 26. The venue also has two
bars, a feature Grinna said makes
getting drinks easier and more ac-
Bars vie to fill Fish Co. void
cessible. “At Fish Co. it was very
congested,” he said.
Olives allows entry to anyone
21 years old and up and employs
a strict identification-checking
policy. It prices its shots at $3 and
mixed drinks at $6. Last week,
the bar offered two drinks for the
price of one before 11 p.m., which
it plans to do again tonight.
“I worked at Fish Co. on and off
my whole four years,” Grinna said,
and when the bar closed down last
year, he and some friends started
to look into a new location for
Wednesday nights. Members of
Theta Delta Chi contacted Olives’
manager, Dave Tapalian ’97, about
throwing a party there last year.
At the time, Tapalian expressed
interest in organizing a consistent
Brown Night at the club, Grinna
said.
“He was really excited to get
the Brown crowd in there because
it’s a crowd he was part of himself,”
Grinna said. He added that Tapa-
lian has been great about work-
ing with him to make Wednes-
day nights accessible to students.
Grinna said he asked the bar’s
management to lower the usual
$10 entrance fee to $4, the same
amount Fish Co. charged students,
and it obliged. “I told him, ‘This is
what students are used to paying.
Is there any way we can match
this?’” Grinna said.
Grinna said he likes Olives a
lot. “Distance wise, it’s perfect.
It’s a half-mile from campus, so
there is the option of walking.
Otherwise it’s a $5 cab ride,” he
said. The bar also offers a $1 coat
check. “We’ve hit capacity each
week,” he said.
Last Wednesday Tess Kostiner
’12.5 went to Olives for the first
time. “I like the music,” she said
while waiting for a drink at the
bar.
“It’s much nicer than Fish Co.,”
said Jim Borelli ’13, though he said
he disliked the openness and vis-
ibility of the elevated stage.
DJ Meatball controlled the
music, which included Pitbull’s
“Hotel Room Service” and Ed-
die Money’s “Take Me Home To-
night.” Grinna said he spoke with
Meatball — who used to work at
Fish Co. and said he has worked
at students’ Wednesday nights for
the last six years — about making
the switch to Olives after Fish Co.
closed down last year.
Meatball said the new loca-
tion adds a different flavor to the
crowd. “With the students who
have been coming out this year,
it’s more of a chunkier, dancier
feel,” he said.
“I love you guys. You come in
here and ask for songs that are
European-based,” Meatball added,
referring to songs from genres
such as tech house, trance and
dubstep. “I couldn’t ask for a better
crowd,” he said. He added that drinks are “great
Other than scattered com-
plaints of bright lighting and a
lack of outside patio space for
smokers or dancers looking to
cool off, students expressed mostly
positive sentiments about Olives’
suitability as a Wednesday night
destination.
“It’s (expletive) great,” Borelli
said.
The Brown Daily Herald
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
“Midweek shenanigans” at Colosseum have found popularity with the under-21
crowd.
Colosseum on Pine St.
By Claire Gianotti
Contributing Writer
The displaced Fish Company crowd
may have found a new home for its
midweek shenanigans — the Col-
osseum, located on Pine Street in
downtown Providence, now hosts
Brown Night every Wednesday and
is open to anyone over 18.
The past two Wednesdays, the
Colosseum filled up not just with
Fish Co. regulars, but also with many
students new to the Providence club
scene. The lower age requirement
has attracted a more varied crowd.
The Colosseum has three distinct
social areas — the bar, the lounge
and the dance floor. Last Wednes-
day, larger groups dominated the
secluded lounge areas, talking and
drinking, while couples lingered in
the dance floor and bar area.
The club offers a stage about three
times bigger than that of Fish Co.
and a very lively dance floor. The
DJ plays a broad range of music,
including the latest mash-ups and
a number of throwbacks, such as
Usher’s “Yeah!”
“It is an actual club space, not just
a bar with a stage” like Fish Co. was,
said Julio Reyes ’12.
and pretty cheap.” Shots cost $2,
and most mixed drinks are priced
at around $4 or $5.
Students at the Colosseum con-
firmed that bouncers are very strict
about valid identifications and un-
derage drinking. The club employs
17 bouncers who promise to take
drinks away from patrons without
bracelets. A second offense will re-
Herald File Photo
sult in expulsion from the club, as
will sharing a drink with an under-
age friend.
The Colosseum also has a stricter
security policy than Fish Co. —
bouncers check bags and pat down
male patrons and will confiscate any
alcohol or illegal substances. The
club offers a coat check for $1, an
option that many students took ad-
vantage of. Many students who did
not check their jackets had trouble
finding them later.
The club opens at 10 p.m., and
before 10:30 p.m., patrons can enter
for free without waiting too long in
line. But last week, the club remained
relatively empty and the dance floor
was abandoned until the bar became
packed at 11 p.m. The sleepy dance
floor caught up around 11:30 p.m.
when it came alive in full force. The
week before, at least 200 people ar-
rived before 10:30 p.m., and the
dance floor was full at 11 p.m.
Partygoers who started their
nights later had difficulty getting
in. Resourceful students stuck in
line entered at the ground level and
moved up to the second floor, where
Brown Night takes place.
The life of a Wednesday night
is short — the Colosseum began
to clear out at around 12:45 a.m.
As Brown students left, Providence
locals trickled in.
There seemed to be little nostal-
gia for Fish Co. for the students at
the Colosseum. Sarah Grossman
’12 said the Colosseum is “10 times
better than Fish Co.,” classifying the
clientele as “underclassmen fratties”
as opposed to the “hipsters and up-
perclassman fratties” at Olives.
The Brown Daily Herald
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Sports Recap 5
Senior Bears tie Quinnipiac
continued from page 8
“We didn’t come out as strong as
we wanted,” said tri-captain Jenna
Dancewicz ’11 after the game.
“We’ve been working hard during
the warm-ups and trying different
things to motivate each other. But
I guess we are just a little bit more
motivated when we are behind.”
Quinnipiac 3, Brown 3
Sam Rubinroit / Herald The atmosphere was slightly bit-
Men’s basketball sustained a strong start, beating Princeton 75-65. tersweet as Brown lined up against
Quinnipiac (20-11-3, 12-9-1), with
Bears maintain early all four seniors — Kromm, Dance-
wicz, defender Samantha Stortini
in two seasons, had a brilliant first
period, blocking 16 shots to keep
Brown ahead after the first.
Sophomore forwards Jolin and
Polenska then combined again to
double Brown’s tally for the game
early in the second period, but the
two-goal advantage was short-lived
— the Bobcats pulled one back a
minute later. Jolin then scored in
the 10th minute with a fine unas-
sisted wrap-around attempt, but
Quinnipiac responded soon after
to narrow the deficit to a goal, 3-2,
at the end of the second.
Though Brown kept Quinni-
piac quiet for most of the third,
“It was slightly surreal,” Dance-
wicz said after her final game for
Brown, “but we tried to focus on
the game itself. We came out like
it was any other game. We were
really motivated to win, and I’m
glad we finished on a positive note.
It was great to see the goalie, Joy,
play the whole game — she had a
great game.”
Despite having a difficult sea-
son, the outgoing captains were
optimistic about the team’s future
prospects.
“They’ll learn a lot from the
things we went through this year,”
Kromm said. “No one wants to go

lead to trump Tigers

continued from page 1
the bench.”
Despite Sullivan’s notable per-
formance in his return, the Bears
were unable to hold off the Quakers.
Bruno had a difficult shooting night,
finishing at 39 percent from the field
and 30 percent from three-point
range. After pulling ahead 51-50
with just under five minutes to play,
the Bears were unable to convert
from the free throw line on several
opportunities to hold on for the win.
“We didn’t shoot the ball well
enough to win the game and we
didn’t make our foul shots when
the game was in the balance at the
end,” Agel said. “We’ve got to step
up and make those plays, and we’re
just struggling to do that. I think our
guys are playing hard enough to win.
We’re just not making enough plays
to get it done.”
Brown 75, Princeton 65
“We’ll see how it goes tomorrow,”
Agel said minutes after the Bears’ loss
to the Quakers. With Sullivan back in
the lineup, the Bears seemed great-
ly improved. But with top-ranked
Princeton (20-5, 8-1 Ivy League) as
their next matchup, there were no
guarantees as to how Sullivan would
perform in back-to-back games.
Putting all questions to rest, Sul-
livan exploded against the Tigers,
scoring 26 points and grabbing eight
rebounds in 36 minutes of play to
help hand Princeton its first loss in
the Ivy League. The Bears joined
then-number one ranked Duke Uni-
versity and then-number 19 ranked
University of Central Florida in beat-
ing the Tigers, becoming the fifth
team to defeat the Tigers this season.
“I’m coaching a special group of
guys who have persevered through
a lot of tough luck this year,” Agel
said. “Our captain hasn’t been with
us for the last three weeks. … To
come back and play as much as he
did tonight shows you how special
he is, how important he is to our pro-
gram and how much he was missed
this season.”
While everything seemed to be
going right for Bruno on Saturday,
Princeton struggled on nearly all
fronts. The Tigers had trouble scor-
ing throughout the night, shooting
4-21 from three-point range. De-
fensively, Princeton had difficulty
stopping the Bears from penetrating
the lane, and after the Tigers racked
up fouls early in the game, Bruno was
able kick the ball out and shoot 44
’11 and goaltender Joy Joung ’11 the Bobcats took full advantage through a season where you lose
— starting in their final match for of a power play to equalize, as Re- almost every game.”
the Bears. gan Boulton beat Joung with four Dancewicz agreed.
percent from beyond the arc. The added motivation was ap- minutes to play. Neither team was “We’ve definitely had our ups
“You miss some shots, you turn parent as Brown took an early lead. able to add another goal to win and downs — everyone is looking
it over some times, but you have Forward Erica Farrer ’13 found a outright in the remaining time, and forward to improving the program
to come down and get stops,” said way past the crush of players in the match ended even. Joung, in next year,” she said. “Everyone is
Princeton Head Coach Sydney John- front of the net to put Brown up a particular, had a fine match, re- going to work hard and we’re going
son. “We didn’t knock it down, and goal. Joung, starting her first game cording 38 saves. to have a better season next year.”
defensively we were tragic tonight.”
One notable factor in Bruno’s win
was its ability to maintain the lead
down the stretch. Against the Quak-
comics
ers and in several games prior, the BB & Z | Cole Pruitt, Andrew Seiden, Valerie Hsiung and Dan Ricker
Bears have been unable to convert
from the free-throw line, watching
leads slip away and small deficits
grow larger. But against the Tigers,
the team shot 93 percent from the
line, including a perfect 16 of 16 from
Sullivan, who earned Ivy League
Player of the Week for his perfor-
mance over the weekend.
“We played well the whole game,”
Sullivan said. “We’ve been getting
off to really good first halves, but
we haven’t been able to sustain it
the whole game. The whole season, Cloud Buddies! | David Emanuel
whenever the other team gets a run
we kind of falter a little bit. We let
up, and we kind of fold as a team.
Today, we didn’t do that.”
Another player who had an
impressive showing throughout
the weekend was point guard Sean
McGonagill, who tied Sullivan’s
game-high 16 points on Friday and
was the second-leading scorer the
following night with 16 points. He
has been a consistent driving force
for the Bears, and, as the team’s lead- Dr. Bear | Mat Becker
ing scorer in league play, he earned
Ivy League Rookie of the Week for
the third consecutive week.
Despite earning 20 stitches before
the Feb. 4 game against Columbia
and still wearing a protective face
mask, McGonagill has repeatedly
shown his willingness to sacrifice
his body by taking charges and div-
ing for loose balls. Nonetheless, he
still managed to play 38 minutes
against the Quakers and left the
game against the Tigers only once, Dot Comic | Eshan Mitra and Brendan Hainline
with 28 seconds remaining.
“Sean’s playing to win, doing a
little bit of everything — all the gutty,
tough things good players do,” Agel
said. “He’s done it night in and night
out. I took him out at the end just so
he could get a chance to see the game
from the sideline for the first time in
a long time. Anyone who wants me
to take him out — it ain’t happening
because I enjoy watching him play
too much.”
The Bears return to action this
weekend as they host Harvard Friday
night at 7 p.m. and Dartmouth the
following night at 6 p.m.
6 Editorial & Letter The Brown Daily Herald
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Editorial Editorial comic by sam rosenfeld

Out of the kitchen

Earlier this month, in a letter to the Brown community, President
Ruth Simmons announced an increase in budgeted undergraduate
enrollment to 6,000 students. At a time when the number of college
applicants is growing disproportionately to available spots, particu-
larly at selective universities, we find this initiative commendable.
However, the proposed 1.1 percent increase threatens to exacerbate
the housing crunch Brown current students are experiencing. Before
we invite more students to matriculate, we should be sure that we
can provide both enrolled and incoming students with not merely
adequate, but desirable housing options.
Achieving this goal requires an approach with multiple fronts,
starting with being able to accurately determine the number of stu-
dents who need on-campus housing. Last fall, we urged the Office of
Residential Life to “streamline the off campus permission process,”
a suggestion that thankfully, as The Herald reported in November,
ResLife heeded. We hope that revamping this policy to expand off-
campus permission and grant it at an earlier date will minimize the
situations in which upperclassmen are unable to secure a lease in time
or change their minds late in the game and return to campus, displac-

quote of the day

ing other students. Balancing the numbers of on- and off-campus
housing will be critical in the process of improving residential life.
But permitting more students to live off-campus is only a temporary

“With the students who have been

fix, and ultimately detracts from the atmosphere of a residential com-
munity that enhances the undergraduate experience. As The Herald
reported earlier this month, 50 students are still living in temporary
housing — truly a misnomer when the living situation lasts for over
a semester. How many of the new matriculants we are seeking to at-
coming out this year, it’s more of a
chunkier, dancier feel.”
tract would still choose Brown if they knew they would be assigned

to live in a converted kitchen for most of a year?
Moreover, many of the current dorms are in dire need of reno-
vation, particularly Graduate Center, which houses many upper-
classmen. Recent renovations, like those in New Pembroke, have
quickly improved students’ living conditions. It is heartening that the
Undergraduate Council of Students has prioritized these improve- -DJ Meatball, see olives on page 4
ments, particularly given the dismayed reactions of those Corpora-
tion members who toured Grad Center last spring. In the process of
evaluating living conditions across campus, we also hope to see a push
for more equalized first-year housing. For the first-years holed up
in a tiny Perkins double visiting her friend’s comparatively spacious
Littlefield Hall room, dealing with dormitory life and homesickness
is just that much harder. letter to the editor
It is no surprise, of course, that the most effective solution to the
housing problem is the construction of new residence halls. Though
the University is currently operating with a restrictive budget, this Herald coverage encourages Hope
project must be given priority, and soon, if we are to expand enroll-
ment as the Corporation has suggested. We hope that these plans To the Editor:
will come to fruition as quickly as financially possible, while still
providing students with comfortable accommodations. While we I wish to thank you for the wonderful write-up that you published about Hope Gallery.
applaud the University’s desire to expand the student body, we must It’s good to know that The Brown Daily Herald supports the arts in Bristol, R.I. It’s encouraging Hope Gallery
consider whether our resources are currently meeting the needs of to continue on in this present economy.
currently enrolled students before increasing our numbers.
Anita Trezvant
Editorials are written by The Herald’s editorial page board. Send comments Director, Hope Gallery
to editorials@browndailyherald.com.

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The Brown Daily Herald
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
By David
Sheffield
Opinions Columnist
The 1960s and early 1970s were a very in-
teresting time to be in college. Sure, being
college-age could get you sent off to war,
but that led to large demonstrations, which
made the period unique. There was free
love, drugs and protestors. The University
changed its curriculum based on student
suggestions, kicked the Reserve Officers’
Training Corps off campus and admitted
women.
Many people, including myself, have
a sentimental desire to see universities
maintain that tone. Brown, the Ivy League
school for hippies, has successfully done so
to some extent — that smoke in the hall-
way? That is the smell of preservation. The
University still has its 40-year-old New
Curriculum in place — even if it is increas-
ingly being adulterated. ROTC has been
kept off campus, even if the old anti-war
impetus has been replaced by an anti-anti-
queer one.
Other activities are present but lack lus-
ter. Some group of students is always ready
to tell people about the America’s wars, for-
eign genocide, mistreatment of Palestin-
ians, misrepresentation of Israelis or the in-
justices suffered by workers. Yet few people
care. Fractured, these causes do not draw
the support that demonstrations in the
By oliver doren
Opinions Columnist
Mutiny! With last week’s announcement of
sweeping changes to the international rela-
tions curriculum, first-year and sophomore
disciples of Brown’s second-most popular
concentration were up in arms against the
administration of the Watson Institute for
International Studies for what they deemed
to be the untimely and undemocratic im-
plementation of stringent new concentra-
tion requirements.
Even for a first-year, it is easy to see that
things are changing here. Just look around
at the ubiquity of on-campus construc-
tion projects, or check your inbox for the
latest policies coming out of the Office of
the President. It seems logical then that
the new developments at the Watson In-
stitute are only symptomatic of this greater
pattern of change at Brown. And, though
one could certainly object to the validity of
changes in other arenas of Brown life, the
restructuring of the IR program was ulti-
mately the right thing to do.
IR has a unique reputation on campus.
As a first-semester first-year vacillating be-
tween concentrations, it was not at all rare
to see an eyebrow raise or an abrasive look
whenever I threw around the letters “IR”
in discussing possible academic paths. At
least in my early impression, it seems that,
for some, IR has the reputation — though
probably undeserved — of being a sort of
cop-out — a last-minute, intellectually-in-
curious double major for those seeking a
more marketable supplement to a liberal
Nostalgia
1960s did. In most of the cases, the major-
ity of people interested in taking action al-
ready are part of the group. Even the civil
rights demonstrations for marriage equal-
ity lack the 1960s luster without police bru-
tality.
While the second coming of Ira Maga-
ziner ’69 P’06 P’07 P’10 to rid the curric-
ulum of creeping requirements and bring
back quality activism might be nice, times
have changed. Nostalgia by itself is not rea-
son enough to keep things the same on
campus, nor to return them to the way they
were.
Nostalgia by itself is not reason enough to keep things
the same on campus, nor to return them to the way
they were.
Continuing the memory of the Viet-
nam-era anti-war protests might be nice,
but that is insufficient reason to deny
ROTC a place on campus if it would oth-
erwise be beneficial. The main justification
has even changed with time to the mili-
tary’s discrimination against lesbians, gays
and bisexuals. Since Vietnam, the military
no longer drafts citizens, it fights differently
and it no longer goes to war based on false
premise. Scratch that last one. Even more
change will hopefully come this year when-
ever the military chooses to end “Don’t
In defense of the IR changes
arts degree.
Though this assertion probably applies
only to a very small portion of IR concen-
trators, these changes should nonetheless
dispel that reputation completely. The latest
requirements would, in fact, make IR one
of the more course-heavy concentrations.
Consider, for example, the prospects
facing an incoming first-year beginning on
a 100-level foreign language. They will have
to take, at the very least, 20 courses to com-
plete the full distribution requirements.
That is more than pre-med and almost
twice as many as economics. Even more,
their foreign language of choice will have
to match their regional focus, which means
that, unless they are focusing on Western
The responsiveness and accountability demonstrated
by the Watson Institute in this matter seems to contrast
sharply with the image that has been conjured of the
Brown administration — especially by this newspaper —
as a faceless, monolithic bureaucracy
that ruthlessly commands some sort of
evil University-industrial complex.
Europe or Latin America, they will need
to attain advanced proficiency in an im-
mensely difficult language such as Manda-
rin, Arabic, Hindi or Russian.
But this is not to say that these changes
were implemented masterfully. Deciding
to heap on a set of stringent requirements
in the middle of the year — let alone in
the middle of the semester — was a deci-
Opinions 7
Ask, Don’t Tell.”
But some things remain the same, even
after decades. Transgender citizens will still
be barred from service and women will still
face often ignored sexism — both officially
and unofficially.
After the invasion of Iraq, students
around the country tried to revive the old
Students for a Democratic Society. The pro-
tests against the Iraq War were anemic in
comparison to the Vietnam ones. Whether
it is for lack of a draft or some other rea-
son, people just do not care enough to pro-
test like they once did. Even the Univer-
sity’s SDS chapter cannot match the origi-
nal groups efforts. The best “the Man” they
can come up with is the Corporation? Are
there no more pressing threats to democ-
racy than the administrative body of the
University? All right, I suppose it will be
fun seeing Chancellor Thomas Tisch ’76
P’07 shut down the University’s Internet
access in a last ditch attempt to hold on to
his power.
Rather than try to use the cachet of the
1960’s group’s name, they should have tried
to start something separate. That way, the
sion I do not think I will ever understand.
Why not announce the changes over win-
ter break or over the summer, when sopho-
mores who have to declare in March would
know not to register for classes that no lon-
ger count? I’m looking at you, ANTH 0100:
“Introduction to Cultural Anthropology.”
Now, I am not one who believes in taking
classes solely to fulfill requirements — a
profound intellectual curiosity should al-
ways accompany any selection of classes.
But for second-semester sophomores who
may be looking to study abroad — which,
by the way, is “strongly recommended” ac-
cording to the website — they may not have
the luxury of passing up a class that is only
offered once a year.
So in the midst of this logistical night-
mare, what were the future international
relaters of this country to do? Maybe they
were doing their best to emulate the ob-
jects of their studies — Egyptian citizens
— when they formed a Facebook group
two weeks ago to protest the changes to
the curriculum. Bizarrely, it seems to have
worked. In last week’s “town-hall meeting”
old organization would not look frivolous
and the new one not fail to live up to ex-
pectations. While wanting to revive the old
level of outrage against injustice is good, it
should be tailored to today’s situation.
Of course, there has been continued
progress for some things. Gender equality
and the sexual revolution are clearly among
them. Modern Brown far outdoes 1960s
Brown when it comes to free love. It proba-
bly does so during Sex Power God alone —
the rest of the year is an added bonus. Some
students may still bemoan these suppos-
edly shallow hook-ups, but life at Brown
has still progressed. It should be noted that
some of what happens at SPG was illegal
during the 1960s and 1970s — sadly, it is
not the music.
The University continues to slowly im-
prove gender equality. Things like gender-
neutral housing are finally coming after
the University’s implementation of gender-
neutral admissions long ago.
It would be nice to revive some of the
old revolutionary spirit. But it should not
just be cut and pasted from the past. Just as
with gender equality and sexual liberation,
the essence should be retained, but the de-
tails should be designed to fit the current
environment.
David Sheffield ’11 is a mathematical
physics concentrator and the great-
great-grandson of a trustee of the Uni-
versity, hence pure evil. He can be con-
tacted at david_sheffield@brown.edu.
at the Joukowsky Forum, the department
heads at the Watson Institute retracted pre-
vious demands for the class of 2013, pos-
sibly making the transition much easier for
sophomores who are approaching the con-
centration deadline.
The responsiveness and accountability
demonstrated by the Watson Institute in
this matter seems to contrast sharply with
the image that has been conjured of the ad-
ministration — especially by this newspa-
per — as a faceless, monolithic bureaucracy
that ruthlessly commands some sort of evil
University-industrial complex. It seems as
if we often get too caught up in our trance-
like hippie righteousness to realize that, as
far as corporate institutions go, Brown is
really quite benign and does demonstrate
at least a modicum of interest in helping
out its students.
But I digress. These changes, above all,
are about more than cosmetically increas-
ing the difficulty or exclusivity of the con-
centration — they are about restoring in-
tellectual rigor to the study of internation-
al issues at Brown. I am not someone who
judges the worth of a school by its ranking
in U.S. News and World Report or other
places. But if we want to put the Watson
Institute on the map, if we want to keep
bringing in world-class scholars to study
and teach here, then we need to let the
world know that IR at Brown means busi-
ness. Though it is too early to tell how ef-
fective these changes will be, at this early
stage they seem to represent a step in the
right direction.
Oliver Doren ’14 is a (tentative) Math-
Econ and Development Studies concen-
trator from Miami, Fla.
Daily Herald Sports Wednesday
the Brown
M. Hockey
Bears lose
Maclellan ’12,
pick up one
point in ECAC
By Ethan Mccoy
Assistant Sports Editor
In the opening minutes against
Princeton — the start of a three-
game, five-night stretch — the
men’s hockey team (8-14-5, 6-12-2
Eastern College Athletic Confer-
ence) took a severe blow when team
points leader and Hobey Baker
Award finalist Jack Maclellan ’12
suffered a leg injury that is likely
to sideline him for the remainder
of the season.
“Jack suffered a brutal injury,”
said Head Coach Brendan Whittet
’94. “It’s a freak accident. First
shift against Princeton, someone
stepped on top of his boot and his
skate and hit a seam and went right
through him. Cut his tendon, cut
his nerve and went so deep that
it cut a notch out of his bone.
He had surgery on Sunday, and I
wouldn’t expect we’ll see Jack until
next year.”
“It’s a huge loss,” said Bobby
Farnham ’12 of his teammate’s in-
jury. “It’s a little adversity for us,
and we got to come together as a
team. We got to have other guys
step up. I mean, obviously he’s our
leading scorer, he’s our go-to guy,
and you can’t replace a Jack Maclel-
lan. So we got to have guys from
all over the place step up now, and
it’s going to take a full team effort.”
Without Maclellan for the re-
mainder of the Princeton game and
the following two against Quinni-
piac and Harvard — two teams the
w. basketball
Bruno’s winning streak snapped
By Madeleine Wenstrup
Sports Staff Writer
The women’s basketball team’s three-
game winning streak ended this
weekend after they lost to Penn and
Princeton on the road. They fell to
3-7 in the Ivy League after consecu-
tive losses in Philadelphia Friday
night and New Jersey Saturday.
Penn 55, Brown 43
It was a back-and-forth game
in the first half Friday night at the
Palestra. Penn started off hot and
maintained a steady lead in the first
11 minutes. Then the Bears took
over for the next 10 minutes to take
their first lead of the night, 24-21,
with 3:56 remaining. A three-point-
er by Penn guard Alyssa Baron tied
up the game, and her free throw
minutes later gave the Quakers a
one-point lead at the half.
The Bears never regained mo-
mentum.
“We started out each game very
strong, but our main issue was not
being able to maintain that way of
playing into the second half,” said
co-captain Aileen Daniels ’12. “We
stopped working together on of-
The Bears narrowly lost to Harvard following an early concession.
Bears are fighting against for home
ice in the ECAC playoffs — the
team struggled, picking up only a
single point out of a potential six
in the three-game stretch.
Brown now sits three points
behind Quinnipiac and Clarkson,
needing at least a win and a tie
against Cornell and Colgate this
weekend for home ice in the ECAC
playoffs.
Princeton 7, Brown 3
On Friday, Princeton (15-10-2,
10-8-2) controlled the game from
start to finish on its home ice, dom-
inating Bruno in a 7-3 victory. The
seven conceded goals tie for the
most the Bears have allowed this
season, with four of them coming
on the Princeton power play.
It took the Tigers only 45 sec-
onds to get on the board, and de-
fense.”
From the locker room, the
Quakers went on a 9-0 run to take
a double-digit lead with 12:08
remaining, 42-30. Baron led the
Quakers in this streak and ended
the night with a game high of 24
points. Brown, who lost to Penn
earlier this season, never got closer
than 12 until the final buzzer.
Co-captains Hannah Passafuime
’12 and Daniels led the offense with
nine and eight points, respectively.
Lindsay Nickel ’13 also put up eight
points for the Bears.
Princeton 75, Brown 38
While the Bears and the first-
place Tigers (19-4, 8-1 Ivy) are far
apart in the Ivy standings, Brown
had defeated another Ivy elite, the
second-place Harvard — the only
conference squad to beat Princeton
— at the Pizzitola Center last week-
end. But the Tigers dominated the
court Saturday night.
Bruno stuck with the Tigers for
the first 20 minutes, led by Daniels,
who put up all eight of her points
that night in the first half. Though
Brown never had a lead after the
second minute, they stayed close to
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spite a tally from captain Harry
Zolnierczyk ’11 to tie the score at
one goal apiece, Princeton added
two more in the first period to
take a 3-1 lead. In the second, a
Jesse Fratkin ’11 goal cut the deficit
again to two scores, but Princeton
responded. Goals at the end of
the second and start of the third
gave the Tigers a commanding 6-2
lead and put the game out of reach.
Farnham added the Bears’ third
goal late in the game, but it was
too little, too late.
Quinnipiac 2, Brown 2
The following night in Hamden,
Conn., the Bears again fell behind
by two goals in the first period, but
this time were able to fight back
against Quinnipiac (13-13-6, 6-9-
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the top-ranked Tigers until a surge
in the final two minutes gave Princ-
eton an eight-point advantage at
the half.
The Bears fell apart in the second
half, scoring only 15 points. They
were outscored by the Tigers 44-15
after the break.
Guard Lauren Clarke ’14 broke
Brown’s offensive silence after four
minutes into the second half with a
lay-up, but the shot only cut Princ-
eton’s lead to 15.
“We let them do whatever they
wanted to on offense,” Daniels said.
Sure enough, Princeton contin-
ued to dominate, led by guard Lau-
ren Edwards, who ended the game
with 20 points for the Tigers. They
shot 51 percent from the field in
the second half and increased their
lead to 37 by the end of the night.
The Bears were without their
leading scorer, Sheila Dixon ’13,
who was out of the lineup due to
illness. She averages 28 minutes and
10 points per game. According to
Daniels, the team missed Dixon’s
ferocity on the court, but they pre-
pared for her absence in practice.
“We switched the lineup around
— a lot of people’s roles changed,
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
W. Hockey
Veteran Bears grab
tie on Senior Day
By Sudarshan Sriraman
Sports Staff Writer
The women’s ice hockey team
fought gamely but ultimately lost
4-2 to Ivy rivals Yale and Princeton
before ending on a more positive
note in its last game of the season,
drawing 3-3 against Quinnipiac.
The Bears finished with an overall
2-21-4 record and a 1-15-4 record
in the Eastern College Athletic
Conference.
Yale 4, Brown 2
The Bears, who have been
plagued by weak offensive starts
in the first period all year, surged
out against Yale (9-17-3, 8-12-2
ECAC) and launched a flurry of
shots against the Yale goal. But
Bulldog goaltender Jackee Snikeris
parried all of the Bears’ attempts.
Brown conceded several consecu-
tive penalties midway through the
first period, but did well to kill a
full minute of a five-on-three situ-
ation without conceding a goal.
Though Brown won power plays
later in the period, they were un-
able to convert. The first period
ended scoreless, despite the Bears
outshooting the Bulldogs 12-6.
Ten minutes into the second pe-
riod, Yale then went up 1-0 after
forward Jenna Ciotti slapped the
puck into the back of the net.
It looked bleak for Brown when
Yale added two more goals six min-
utes into the third, as a now all-too-
familiar Brown defensive hiccup
allowed Yale to find the back of the
net twice in 25 seconds. But Brown
Women’s basketball lost momentum after losses to Penn and Princeton.
but we do it in practice,” Daniels
said. “Things like this happen.”
The Bears stay on the road in
their second-to-last weekend of the
responded with two quick goals
of its own. Forward Laurie Jolin
’13 beat Snikeris to get Brown on
the board, before assisting Alena
Polenska ’13 a minute later to get
Brown within one. The Bears pep-
pered the Yale goal with shots in
the third period, doubling up the
Bulldogs, 16-9, but even pulling
the goalie did not help them find
a way past Snikeris a third time.
Yale snuck in a last-gasp empty-net
goal with four seconds remaining
to close out the game.
Princeton 4, Brown 2
It was the same story against
Princeton (16-12-1, 13-8-1) Friday
inside Meehan Auditorium. Brown
again conceded a 3-0 lead before
scoring two in the third period, but
the team was unable to score the
elusive equalizer.
Princeton forwards Olivia Mu-
cha and Gabie Figueroa scored rap-
idly, putting the Tigers up 2-0 five
minutes into the game, as Brown
lapsed into its habit of starting
poorly. When Kelly Cooke scored
late in the second, the Bears were
again staring at a three-goal deficit.
Vanessa Welten ’14 pulled one
back for the Bears, converting an
opportunity presented by tri-cap-
tain Erica Kromm ’11, before play
was interrupted by a fire alarm.
Polenska was able to add another
after resumption of play, but as in
the previous match, the Bears con-
ceded a late empty-netter in pursuit
of the final goal.
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regular season. They look to sweep
the season series against Harvard
and Dartmouth, both of whom they
beat at home last weekend.