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Saving grace

Nicole Stock 09 broke

her own saves record in a

season-ending win.

Sports, 7

Staging conflict

Gever/Shebab brings

Israel-Palestine conflict

to the stage.

Arts, 5

money matterS

Simon Liebling 12 wants the

Universit to freeze tuition

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vol. cxliv, no. 22 | Monday, February 23, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891

Corporation deepens cuts; U. to keep building

By chaz KelSh and

Jenna StarK

News editors

Predicting a slow recovery or

the endowment, the Corporation

ocused this weekends meeting

on long-term plans to reduce the

Universitys budget by about $90

million over the next ve years,

and revised ambitious plans ortwo major capital projects so they

could begin even during a period

o economic recession.

The Universitys highest gov-

erning body deepened budget cuts

recommended by President Ruth

Simmons both or this year and or

uture scal years but attempted to

maintain academic priorities and a

commitment to nancial aid. It said

two high-priority projects a Medi-

cal Education Building and a brain

sciences building, would likely be

addressed through renovations o

existing buildings instead.

It also granted nal approval

or two other projects, the renova-tion o Faunce House and a new

Creative Arts Center, to begin this

summer.

This is the rst meeting I re-

member since Ive been at Brown

where so much has been debated

and changed, Simmons said in an

interview Sunday.

In an e-mail to the Brown com-

munity in January, Simmons set a

ramework or sustaining the Uni-

versitys nancial situation that

included reezing most salaries,

postponing the expansion o the

Graduate School and proposing to

reduce next years budget by $4.5million and cutting roughly $60 mil-

lion in planned budget increases

by 2014.

But the Corporation decided to

take more drastic measures to pre-

serve the health o the Universitys

endowment and nancial stability,

moving to increase budget cuts or

the 2010 scal year rom $4.5 mil-

lion to $6 million, and aiming to cut

as much as $90 million rom the

projected budget or 2014.

Simmons also announced or the

rst time in an e-mail to the Brown

community on Saturday that the

University plans to cut some cur-

rent administrative and sta em-

ployees jobs to help reduce the

budget.

Targeted position elimina-

tions will be enacted in the coming

months to help achieve this goal,

Simmons wrote. While some will

come rom existing vacancies made

permanent, some administrative

and sta positions will unortu-

nately have to be eliminated.

The meeting was enormously

engaged and in some respects so-

bering, said Chancellor Thomas

Tisch 76, Browns highest ocerand the Corporations leader.

There was an attempt to strike

Bn scnc, M Schbungs w b nvtnsBy Brigitta greene

seNiorstaffwriter

Facing a dicult economic climate,

the Corporation scaled back plans

this weekend or two major aca-

demic projects a planned Medi-cal Education Center and a brain

science building saying those

projects would likely involve renova-

tions o existing buildings instead o

new structures and would proceed

sooner rather than later.

The Corporation also gave nal

approval or construction o the

new Creative Arts Center and the

renovation o Faunce House into

a new campus center, which will

begin this summer.

In scrapping the original plans

or the two buildings, one a cen-

terpiece o a $100 million git to

the Alpert Medical School and theother an ambitious building that

was supposed to be built along The

Walk, the Corporation appeared to

strike a solution that allowed it to

push ahead with important aca-

demic priorities while navigating

new nancial obstacles to campus

expansion.

We thought very hard about

the consequences o putting every-

thing on hold, President Ruth Sim-mons said in an interview Sunday,

but the Corporation deemed it not

sensible to do so.

The cost o renovating an old

building is about one-hal to two-

thirds o building new, said Richard

Spies, executive vice president or

planning and senior advisor to the

president. He said the University

rst began exploring renovation in

early January, when it became clear

that the economic crisis would have

a long-term eect on the Univer-

sitys nances.

We havent just given up our

goals thats the other way to savemoney, he said. The whole idea

has been to ocus our resources to

BDS -k By Sydney emBer

seNiorstaffwriter

Managers or BuDS, the student

employment arm o Dining Services,

have introduced a new no-homework

policy or many on-duty workers, a

provision that was rst presented

to students in their contracts earlier

this month.

The new policy, which ormally

prohibits all non-cashier workers,

and cashiers in the Blue Room, rom

doing homework on the job, has re-

sulted in some workers reusing to

sign their annual contracts.

We elt a ormal warning sent

a message that this is important,

said Cindy Swain 09, a ormer BuDS

general manager who introduced

the ormal policy with current BuDS

general manager Alex Hartley 10. It

makes sense that people are talking

about it because it aects a lot o

people.

Workers have reportedly re-

sponded with a petition, though

Swain said no one has presented

the petition to her or Hartley yet.

People are going to have knee-jerk

reactions, she said. We cant do

anything about it until they come

to us.

Though the no-homework policy

previously existed as an inormal

rule or most workers, putting the

policy in the contracts rather than

just adding it to the new version o

the handbook was aster in terms o

getting the word out, Swain said.

We basically wanted some-

thing physical in peoples hands,

Swain said. We wanted people to

Bq bk kBy Sydney emBer

seNiorstaffwriter

Construction on a new aquatics cen-ter may begin as early as this sum-

mer, ater a large bequest breathed

resh lie into a project that appeared

likely to be shelved by the economic

downturn.

Approval or designs to proceed

on the project came this weekend, as

the Corporation ocially accepted

$14.75 million rom the estate o Ray-

mond Moran 41 in the name o his

late sister.

That amount is enough to und

more than hal the project, accord-

ing to Ronald Vanden Dorpel MA71,

senior vice president or University

advancement. Under Browns cur-rent guidelines, nal approval or the

project can come once the Moran

Kim Perle / Herald

A new BuDS polic bans homework for man workers.

Predicts slow rebound forstruggling endowment

Courtes of Brown Universit

A rendering of the Stephen Robert 62 Campus Center in Faunce House, one of the projects that will proceed.

$60 Original proposed

reductions to planned

spending b 2014

$90 New goal for 5-ear

reductions (est.)

$6 Spending cuts for next

ears budget, up from

$4.5 million

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MONDAy, FEBRUARy 23, 2009THE BROWN DAILy HERALDPAGE 2

CS wS I love the fact that Im training a new generation of journalists. Visiting Professor of English Trac BretonK By Sarah Julian

CoNtributiNgwriter

Put on your pretty lies, youre in thecity o wonder. Aint gonna play nice,

watch out you might just go under,

sang Pitch Slapped, in its cover o

Rihannas Disturbia, to a packed

Salomon 101 last Saturday night. The

group rom Berklee College o Music

won the Northeast quarternals in

this years International Champion-

ship o Collegiate A Cappella, hosted

by Browns Higher Keys.

Brown students, as well as riends

and amily o perormers rom Har-

vard, Boston University, New York

University, Northeastern University

and University o Maine, Orono,

gathered to watch the ve a cappellagroups compete in the 14th annual

competition. The rst runners-up in

the competition were the Opportunes

o Harvard College, with the Maine

Steiners o the University o Maine,

Orono as second runners-up. The

top two groups Pitch Slapped and

the Opportunes will advance to

the seminal round o the Northeast

region on March 21.

The men and women o Pitch

Slapped sang Gravity by Sara Ba-

reilles and Dont Stop the Music by

Rihanna, along with the crowd-pleas-

ing Disturbia. Cate Wright won the

award or outstanding solo.

The coed Opportunes, dressed all

in black with suits or the men and

dresses and heels or the women,

sang Lady Marmalade and James

Taylors Fire and Rain. Fire and

Rain won the outstanding arrange-

ment award o the night. The group

also sang a medley o songs including

parts o Michael Jacksons Beat It

and Smooth Criminal.

b, By Ben SchrecKingerseNiorstaffwriter

Its almost a cliche or aspiring stand-

up comedians and rock stars to hear,

Dont quit your day job. But some

Brown proessors have also taken this

advice to heart.

Despite their ully-booked days,

these aculty members nd satisac-

tion in both teaching and pursuing

proessional careers.

Teaching doesnt leave me with

a lot o the spare time that I used to

have, said Tracy Breton, a visiting

proessor o English who has workedas an investigative reporter at the

Providence Journal since 1973. She

added that time spent in the classroom

makes up only a raction o the time

she spends on her teaching job.

Breton, who won a Pulitzer prize

in 1994 or her investigation o cor-

ruption in the Rhode Island courts,

began teaching at Brown in 1997.

She currently teaches two sections

o ENGL0160: Journalistic Writing

in the all, ENGL1160A: Advanced

Feature Writing in the spring and a

three-week course in Browns pre-col-

lege summer program. This year, she

is also one seniors thesis adviser.

Despite their busy schedules, pro-

essors said they do not eel as i one

job suers because o the other. Just

the opposite, and I cant quite explain

why, said Visiting Lecturer in English

Tom Mooney. Mooney, who has been

a reporter or the ProJo since 1986,

said he has been teaching the spring

section o Journalistic Writing or

ve years.

I dont think Id have the energy

to do it year-round, Mooney said.

But he said his productivity increases

when working both jobs. I you want

something done, ask a busy person

to do it, he said. When gradua-

tion rolls around, I become a slug

in comparison.

The proessors said their outside

careers improved their teaching, and

vice versa.

Im oten using the real-lie experi-

ences that Im living at that moment to

teach, Mooney said. He said he be-

lieves he was hired partly because Im

really down in the trenches instead o

sitting up in an ivory tower.

Mooney said teaching has allowed

him to look dierently at the practice

o journalism. Earlier this semester,

he was writing a piece about a veter-

ans advocate who had gone to jail 30

years ago or killing a man. Mooneysaid he elt rustration and conu-

sion about how I was going to tell

this story.

When Mooney told his class

about the story, he raised the ques-

tion, Can a man ever be orgiven

or taking a lie? Mooney even-

tually began his article with that

exact question.

Breton said she appreciates the

job security o teaching during the

ongoing economic downturn. Daily

newspapers have been hit especially

hard, she said, and the ProJo hasbeen orced to lay o reporters in

recent months.

Though some established report-

ers are losing their jobs, Bretons stu-

dents still have been able to nd jobs

in journalism, she said. Newspapers

may be cutting costs by hiring recent

graduates with shorter contracts, she

said, instead o continuing to pay a

premium or their more experienced

counterparts.

Sarah Fox 89 said she is en-

ergized by teaching GNSS0090C:

Reproductive Health: Science and

Politics. Fox is an obstetrician-gyne-

cologist at Women & Inants Hospital

and teaches at the Alpert Medical

School. This year is her rst teaching

undergraduates, she said.

My lie is much more busy right

now, said Fox, who added that her

work has begun to spill over into

nights and weekends. But she at-

tributed much o the added stress to

a learning curve. I have a sense that

the next year that I teach, it will be

pretty reasonable, she said.

Her students bring a diversity o

views, Fox said, that makes the extra

work ullling.

The proessors said they struggle

to pick avorites between teaching andtheir outside careers. I think I like

the doing more than the teaching,

Mooney said. Thats a tough ques-

tion because they both have their own

rewards. He said teaching allows him

to appreciate just how much he learns

by practicing journalism. Both jobs

get you outside your comort zone a

little bit, he said.

I love the act that Im training a

new generation o journalists, Breton

said. The Providence Journal is a

pretty stressul place to work right

now, she said, but I still get a news

high rom doing a good story.

The proessors said they plan to

maintain a mix o teaching and practic-

ing. I sort o like the mix, Fox said.

I dont know i Id want to change the

proportions.

Right now, Im really enjoying

the undergraduate course, I have to

admit, she said.

I dont ever see mysel giving up

the teaching, Breton said. I have no

idea how much longer Ill stay in daily

journalism, given the newspaper in-

dustrys uncertainty. Still, Breton said

she plans to continue practicing some

orm o journalism or the oreseeable

uture.

And as or Mooney I hope to

keep doing both until I drop.

CDC By Jeremy JacoB

CoNtributiNgwriter

A brightly colored dialogue box

popped onto a screen in addition to

the two that were already present.

Caroline Chiang, assistant direc-

tor o the Career Development

Center, quickly responded to the

new conversation, handling three

at once.

Each o the chat boxes rep-

resented a student with a virtual

question or a career counselor.

The CDCs new service, IM walk-

in hours, gives students a chance

to talk over the Internet with ca-

reer counselors in real-time.Customer service is our high-

est priority, Chiang said.

The walk-in hours, or which

students to sign in to chat via

Google accounts, debuted in Janu-

ary, said CDC Assistant Director

Kerry Feather.

We are trying to reach stu-

dents where they are. For some

people, walk-in hours are ne; or

other students a quick question is

good, Feather said. We (now)

oer both.

The IM walk-in hours began

ater a successul two-day pilot pro-

gram over winter break, Feather

said. Ater conducting a surveyo participants, the CDC settled

on regular IM walk-in hours on

Friday rom 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., tak-

ing the place o traditional walk-in

hours, which are oered Monday

through Thursday at the same

time.

Feather said the program,

which has run each Friday since

the start o the semester, has been

very successul. She estimated

that in each o the last coupleo sessions, the Center has re-

ceived approximately 20 students

with questions.

I think the word is really get-

ting out, Chiang said.

To use the program, students

must either create or sign into a

Google account and invite a CDC

e-mail address to chat.

When students log on and be-

gin to chat, the message is directed

to a counselor, Feather said. I the

service experiences an uptick in

trac, an additional counselor can

be brought in to acilitate.

Theres been no wait time,Feather said.

Chiang said the conversations

last or about 10 to 15 minutes. I

the question is dicult to answer

online, the counselor will suggest

an in-person appointment.

Feather said the oce hours

are more helpul or students who

have only quick questions, rather

than those who need detailed cri-

tiques o resumes.

Questions like, Where do I get

started looking or an internship?

and, Can you look at my resume

or my cover letter? tend to be

asked requently, Chiang said.

Because counselors are right at

their computers, they can quickly

do research to help answer a stu-

dents question.

Feather said the newly oered

walk-in hours t into the CDCs e-

orts to incorporate more technol-

ogy into their services. In addition

to the walk-in hours, the CDC will

be debuting a new Web site in the

coming weeks, Feather said.

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CS wS Were not paing people to come and do homework. Sophie OConnell 09, Blue Room unit manager

I was really proud o it, said

Carolina Franch, a sophomoremember o the Opportunes. Were

really pleased with how we did.

There were a couple last-minute

things we were tweaking, and it

all turned out really well. Lady

Marmalade was good and we got

some good laughs, which was good.

We even got laughs or Michael

Jackson, and normally we kind o

just get awws.

The Steiners, who will not ad-

vance to semi-nals, sang a ver-

sion o Circle o Lie complete

with monkey noises and intricate

choreography which included

the occasional jazz hands orwhich the group won the outstand-

ing choreography award. Nathan

Richard, the lead o the Steiners,

said they had spent the majority o

their time since January working

on choreography.

Other groups included the

NHarmonics o NYU, Suno a

South Asian and Western usion a

cappella group rom BU and The

Noreasters o Northeastern.

Browns Higher Keys did not

participate in the competition but

opened and closed the show. Their

songs included Owner o a Lonely

Heart by Yes and a Michael Jack-

son medley or which the group

donned white gloves and Manjula

Raman 11 moon-walked across

the stage.

Though the Higher Keys hosted

the event last year as well, they

have competed in previous years.

Lorraine Fryer 09, a Higher Keys

member, said she expects they will

participate next year but added thatparticipating in the ICCA would re-

quire a big time commitment on top

o the six hours a week the group

already practices.

Some singers said competing

can be an intense experience.

Its denitely stressul, said

Danielle Larocque, a member o the

Noreasters. Theres, you know,

extra time because its encouraged

that you add choreography. Its a

lot o pressure, you want to make

sure you choose the right songs to

give yourselves the opportunity to

do the best you can.

Even as hosts, the HigherKeys had to prepare or the

tournament.

There was a lot o publicity be-

cause, you know, we want to give

them a good audience to perorm

to, said Kayla Ringelheim 11.

The audience seemed to appre-

ciate the eort o the a cappella

groups and joined in at times with

clapping or cheering. Especially

popular was the impromptu beat-

boxing competition held while the

judges deliberated.

Nandan Nath 09 said his avor-

ite group was the Opportunes. Ev-

erything was great, arrangement

and song choice, everything. Theyhad the talent.

Kara Kauman 12 said, The

NYU second piece was amazing.

They did a really long medley and

we were blown away.

know about it as quickly as pos-

sible make sure they got the

policy, understood it and understood

the repercussions.

Many managers said they are

happy with the new policy.

Were not paying people to

come and do homework. Were pay-

ing them to do work, said Sophie

OConnell 09, unit manager at the

Blue Room.

The policy, she said, makes it

easier or supervisors to monitor

employees, now that it is actually

in writing. But among her workers,

OConnell said, there has generally

been a good response to the policy.

No ones directly come to me

and complained about it, she said.

For the workers who work behind

the line, the homework policy didnt

change anything.

Though Swain said the restric-

tion on homework never needed to

be ormally written beore this year,

growing concerns rom non-student

proessional managers about con-

tamination rom books and study

materials, along with cases o de-

creasing employee perormance,

led the BuDS general managers to

streamline the policy, she said.

The policy was partially imple-

mented because BuDS managers

are trying to avoid cutting student

jobs, she said, especially given the

current economic situation. Peo-

ple need jobs, she said. Were

trying to not get pressure to cut

peoples jobs.

She added that she hoped the

new policy would improve stu-

dent productivity and reduce any

complaints rom proessional

managers that might jeopardize

workers positions.

The new policy also stemmed

rom growing complaints rom unit

managers that their workers were

slacking o, Hartley said. As a re-

sult, the new policy, which explicitly

changes the policy or Blue Room

cashiers and workers at The Gate

catering prep workers were already

subject to new homework restric-

tions as o last all seeks to de-

crease clutter in the workspace and

alleviate the strain on coworkers.

Hartley said workers requently

had to compensate or coworkers

shirking their duties in order to com-

plete assignments or study.

But most cashiers, who are still

allowed to bring a book, paper and

a writing utensil, have jobs that are

directly related to customer fow,

Swain said. Prohibiting these ca-

shiers rom doing a limited amount

o homework would be a slap in the

ace since they sometimes get only a

ew customers an hour, she said.

We were limiting how much clut-

ter could be at the register, Swain

said. I cant think o a single register

where theres enough space.

Though many workers say they

are unaected by the ormalization

o the policy, Hartley said she was

aware that there are a select ew

who are upset. Most o these stu-

dents work at the Gate, she said,

where she was aware that many

workers had books in the area used

or ood preparation.

But Laurie Schleimer 12, who

prepares ood at the Gate and works

as a utility cashier at the Ivy Room,

said the policy tends not to aect

many o the students who prepare

ood, adding that there wouldnt

be any chance or me to do work,

anyway. She said the policy did not

seem necessary.

It seems like theyre being a bit

ridiculous, she said. Its not like

theyre going to whip out a book

when theyre making alaels.

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LSBy dan alexander

staffwriter

Water rom a aulty pipe fooded

the rst foor o the Sidney E.

Frank Hall or Lie Sciences yes-

terday morning, soaking drywall

and carpeting, but destroying no

research.

Though the fooding spread to

six labs, There was no compro-

mise to any r esearch projects, pro-

gramming and equipment, Direc-

tor o BioMed Facilities Planning

and Operations Peter Holden said.

The damage was pretty much to

the building itsel.

Water covered 10,000 square

eet o the rst foor ater the pipebroke in the core service area o

the buildings east wing, Holden

said. There were two to two-and-

a-hal inches o water in the most

aected spaces and one inch in

outlying areas.

The fooding began between

7 a.m. and 8 a.m., when pressure

caused the cap o a water line to

fy o, Holden said. The cause

o the pressure in the pipe is still

unknown, but he said it was not

related to yesterdays rain.

The water started to ll the rst

foor and touched a re alarm, caus-

ing the alarm to go o.

When acilities management re-sponded to the alarm, they ound

no fames but inches o water in-

stead. Director o Custodial Ser-

vices Donna Butler and Director

o Maintenance Services Jim Coen

were among the rst at the site.

Donna Butler and Jim Coen did

a really great job o getting every-

one on site ast, Holden said. Be-

cause o their eort, we were able

to get a situation cleaned up that

could have been a lot worse.

Butler and Coen could not be

reached or comment.

Facilities Management thencontacted Water Out, a company

the University uses or str uctural

drying. According to Holden, Wa-

ter Out began drying the build-

ing within two hours ater the

fooding began.

What a company like that

allows us to do is get a quick re-

sponse, a ast cleanup and mini-

mize any damage to the building,

Holden said.

Holden said the cost o repairs

to the ve-story science research

building is unknown at this point.

The water soaked into the dry-wall, so its hard to know, said As-

sociate Dean or the Program in

Biology Edward Hawrot.

According to Hawrot, carpeting

and drywall may have to be torn

out and replaced.

The ast response by acilities

management prevented more seri-

ous damage, Holden said. It could

have been a lot worse.

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Sk k By andrew Braca

sports editor

The womens hockey team ended

its season this weekend, capping the

college careers o several players,

including captain and goaltender

Nicole Stock 09, who broke her

own single-season saves record in

the teams nal game, a 3-1 victory

over Quinnipiac Saturday at Meehan

Auditorium.

It was a nice way to go out

on Senior Day, said Head Coach

Digit Murphy. The kids played

hard. Ater all the losses weve had

all season its nice to go out with

a victory.

The win over Quinnipiac ol-lowed a 3-0 loss to Princeton the

previous day. The .500 weekend let

the teams nal record at 7-21-1 and

6-16-0 in ECAC Hockey, each two

wins better than last season.

All three o the teams seniors

Stock, a Herald sports sta writer,

Savannah Smith 09 and Frances

Male 09 started both games to

bring their careers to a close.

B 3, Qp 1

Saturday against Quinnipiac

(3-26-5, 2-15-5 ECAC Hockey), the

Bears brought a sometimes trying

season to a victorious close.

The Bears started quickly, tak-ing just 5:12 to break through or

the lead on the rst goal o orward

Katelyn Landrys 12 career. Jacquie

Pierri 12 took a shot rom the right

point that defected o Landry at

the top o the crease and ricocheted

just inside the right post. Male was

also credited with an assist on

the play.

It was early in the second period,

with Brown still holding its one-goal

advantage, that Stock recorded her

record-breaking 1,005th save o the

season. She would nish the game

with 1,026 saves or the season and

2,848 or her career, extending a

record she captured earlier in the

season.

Jenna Dancewicz 11 doubled

the lead 9:32 into the second period

with her team-leading eighth goal o

the season, o assists by assistant

captain Andrea Hunter 10 and Ni-

cole Brown 10.

Brown notched a goal o her own

8:09 later while her team was on the

penalty kill. Ater the Bears cleared

the puck all the way down the ice,

Bobcats goalie Nanna Holm Glaas

came out o the crease to stop the

puck or a teammate. Brown stole

the puck, circled behind the net,

wrapped around and slipped the

puck just past a diving Glaas.

With 2:19 remaining in the sec-

ond period, Bruno had a 3-0 lead

to protect.

We pulled together as a team

and were like, Okay, we have three.

Lets manage the game, be smart

about it and hopeully well come

out with a win. I think we did that

really well in the third. We played

good deense, Stock said.

The Bobcats ruined Stocks shut-

out bid 5:31 into the third period, but

the goalie bore down to keep it rom

getting any closer, making 12 o her33 saves in the nal rame.

Murphy was pleased with many

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assistaNtsports editor

The mens basketball team strug-

gled this weekend to build on its

rst conerence win, Feb. 14, over

Princeton, as Columbia and Cor-

nell each took a game rom theBears.

T h e

Bears (7-17,

1-9 Ivy) ell

to Columbia

(11-12, 6-4

Ivy) Friday

night at the Pizzitola Center by

a score o 70-57. The Bears then

suered their second home loss in

as many nights Saturday against

Cornell (18-8, 8-2 Ivy), an 85-45

rout that the Big Red dominated

rom start to nish.

Poor outside shooting plagued

the Bears throughout the home-

stand, as Brown shot 18 percent

rom behind the three-point line on

the weekend, while its opponents

shot better than 45 percent.

cb 70, B 57

In Fridays game, the Bears

couldnt keep pace with Columbias

hot shooting, alling by thirteen

points.

Columbia outshot Brown 54

percent to 41 percent rom the

foor and 53 percent to 22 percent

rom three-point range. Columbias

bench also out-scored Browns by

an outstanding 45-1 margin, includ-

ing 21 points rom Patrick Foley

and 14 rom KJ Matsui.

Columbia guard Noruwa Agho,

a starter, led all scorers with

27 points.

Mullery led the way or the

Bears with 21 points on 7-o-12

shooting, also making 7-o-8 at the

ree throw line. Mullery also added

our blocks, bringing his season

total to 43. That set a new Brown

record, surpassing Jaime Kilburns

05 42 in the 2003-2004 season.

Sullivan ollowed close behind

with 19 points, going 7-o-14 rom

the ield. Adrian Williams 11

joined the two in double gures

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sports editor

The wrestling teams nal dual meets

o the season ended on a positive note

this weekend with an emphatic 22-9

victory over Columbia on Saturday,

ater struggling in a 32-9 loss to a

dominant Cornell team on Friday.

Cornell, ranked No. 2 in the USA

Today/Intermat/NWCA poll, jumped

out to an 11-0 lead ater two matches,

but Stephen DeLorenzo 10 picked upthe rst win o the day or the Bears

with a 5-2 decision at 141 pounds. At

157, Bryan Tracy 10 pulled out a 3-2

win, and Zach Zdrada 09 closed out

the meet with a 3-2 win at 285.

Despite the inal outcome,

the Bears elt they wrestled well

against Cornell.

I thought the guys wrestled great

and wrestled tough, said Bran Crud-

den 10. We won three out o ten

bouts against a real tough team, so I

thought the team wrestled excellent

on Friday, and that momentum car-

ried over into Saturday or our match

against Columbia.

Against the Lions, Greg Einrank10 got Brown o to a good start in

his 125-pound match, where Einrank

scored two takedowns in the rst peri-

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sportseditor

In the aterglow o Saturdays 3-1 vic-

tory over Quinnipiac, the womens

hockey teams seniors were honored

in a post-game ceremony as the team

both refected on its accomplishmentsand turned its attention to seasons

to come.

The star o the ceremony and

the season was captain Nicole Stock

09, a Herald sports sta writer. She

leaves holding many o the teams goal-

tending records, including a single-

season saves record she set earlier

that day and Browns record or career

saves 2,848 in all.

Ater the game, Stock was award-

ed the Panda Cup, which is given or

outstanding team spirit, good sports-

womanship and dedication to play-

ing ice hockey, according to a guide

provided by the Athletic Department

at the game.

Its nice, or sure, to be acknowl-

edged or that kind o stu, Stock

said. At the same time, its a long

season. You just grind it out and you

dont really think about that stu when

youre playing.

Its bittersweet to be losing Stock,

said Head Coach Digit Murphy. Shes

just an incredible person and athlete.

Quite rankly, Browns lucky to have

her as a graduate, because shes going

to go on to do great things. Shes got

the work ethic o any Olympian Ive

ever coached.

Murphy also said her two senior

orwards both closed out their careers

with strong games.

Frances Male 09 played with en-

ergy and enthusiasm like she had

the heart o a lion, Murphy said. The

third goal was scored because o her

ability to ... get it out on the (penalty

kill) all the way down and allow (Nicole

Brown 10) to go down and do thewrap-around.

Savannah Smith 09 really ought

hard along the boards, she added.

Shes small in stature but I thought

she played big today.

Murphy said the young team will

get older, but the Bears will bring in

more recruits than they will lose play-

ers to graduation.

Well bring in seven or eight more

kids, she said. We need to be more

talented to win more games, so my

assistants have been out beating the

bushes or even more talent. I think

well bring in a ew more talented or-

wards so we can put the puck in the

net. We have a goaltender, one o the

top goalies in Canada.

Murphy declined to name the

goalie, but the Waterloo Chronicle

reported earlier this month that Katie

Jamieson, a goaltender who currently

stars between the pipes or o the To-

ronto Junior Aeros will join the Bears

next year.

I think next years team, with the

kids that are here now, is going to be

stronger, Murphy continued. Our

kids are going to be wiser. Were going

to have a big senior class. Im looking

orward to success o our uture, and

I think it starts because o senior role-

modeling that happened this year.

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Mens basketball fell to Columbia and Cornell over the weekend.

Courtes of Jesse Morgan

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with 10 points.

Brown jumped out to a quick early

lead against the Lions but quickly

ell behind trailed throughout the

second hal.

An early scoring spurt started

the weekend strong or the Bears,

as Matt Mullery 10 scored our ear-

ly points and Morgan Kelly 11 con-

nected on a three-pointer to put the

Bears up 11-4 with 11:16 remaining

in the rst hal. The game tightened

but remained close midway through

the period as both teams struggled

to create shot opportunities at the

oensive end.But the Lions ound their groove

and nished the hal on a 17-4 scor-

ing run, breaking out o its o ensive

cold streak while Brown continued

to struggle. Brown headed into the

locker room down, 27-21.

We went cold shooting the ball,

but when that happens, we cant

give up runs like that, Mullery

said. Guys are playing a lot o

minutes, but we have to play well

on both sides o the ball.

The Bears scored the majority o

their points in the paint in the rst

hal, as the team could not nd a

shooting rhythm rom the outside,

going 12.5 percent (1 or 8) rom

behind the three-point line.

Columbia stayed in control a-

ter the break, scoring the rst six

points o the second hal to take a

commanding 33-21 barely a minute

into the period.

Brown made a push to get back

into the game, as a jumper by tri-

captain Peter Sullivan 11 brought

the Bears within ve, 45-40, capping

a 7-0 run with nine minutes let.

But the Lions responded to

Browns run with a 15-6 run otheir own, and the Bears got no

closer than nine points the rest o

the way. The Lions built up their

lead by shooting 65 percent rom

the foor and 5-or-8 rom behind

the arc in the second hal.

c 85, B 45

Ater a hard-ought loss on Fri-

day, the Bears ound themselves

on the receiving end o a thrashing

rom deending Ivy League cham-

pions and current league leader

Cornell.

Cornell over-powered a small-

er Brown team by a reboundingmargin o 48-29. Browns shooting

woes also continued, as the Bears

struggled to make shots, shooting

just 14 percent rom three-point

range and 32 percent overall. Cor-

nell made more than hal its shots

rom the foor.

The Big Red put our players

in double digits or the game, led

by Foote with 16, Ryan Wittman

with 15 and Louis Dale, the reign-

ing Ivy League Player o the Year,

who netted 12.

Sullivan led the way or the Bears

with 12 points, and Mullery nished

with 11. Co-captain Chris Skrelja

09 played well all-around or the

Bears, contributing six points, ve

rebounds and six assists.

Despite a hot start rom Mullery,

who scored 10 o the Bears rst 11

points, Cornell pulled away early.

By the time a Mullery lay-up put

the Bears in double gures, the Big

Red had already opened a 21-11 lead

that they would relentlessly extend

throughout the game.

With easy inside looks and dan-

gerous outside shooting, Cornell

built its lead to 44-27 by haltime,

with orward Ryan Wittman going

3-or-3 rom behind the arc in the

rst period.

I got o to a good start, but they

started collapsing, putting the pres-

sure on, and orcing us to make

outside shots, Mullery said. We

just didnt have a good weekend

o shooting.

With tri-captain Scott Friske 09,

a 6-7 orward, out o the lineup

because o illness, the Bears gave

up a lot o size against the Big Reds

seven-oot center, Je Foote.

Foote began the second hal

with two emphatic dunks, spark-

ing a 10-0 run that blew the game

open even urther. Sullivan ended

the drought with 15:38 remain-

ing, but Brown ailed to build

any momentum.

With the team down by 30 with

over ten minutes to play, Head

Coach Jesse Agel emptied his

bench. Nearly every player logged

at least 15 minutes o play in the

game, an opportunity to spread play-

ing time among the young Brown

squad.

The Bears second unit aired

little better, and Cornell ultimately

won by 40.

We missed the leadership and

foor presence o Friske, Mullery

said. Hes played hard all year its hard to go out there without

him.

The Bears have two more weeks

o conerence play remaining in the

season. They will travel to Princ-

eton and Penn or the seasons nal

road trip beore returning home

to celebrate their two graduating

seniors, Friske and Skrelja, during a

nal homestand against Dartmouth

and Harvard.

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The University recently took the rst steps toward establishing a partnership

with the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, a business-oriented Spanish univer-sity. The Herald reported last week that the University will plan exchanges

with the Instituto de Empresa that might eventually include study abroad

opportunities. We view this collaboration as a welcome development in the

Universitys internationalization eor ts, and a valuable chance to reexamine

business education at Brown.

Due to restrictive language in the Universitys charter, Brown is one o only

two members o the Ivy League without a graduate school in business. Brown

still oers a handul o business-related courses in the engineering department

and the Commerce, Organizations and Entrepreneurship concentration. These

classes seem to clash with Browns academic philosophy.

Like most reputable institutions o higher learning, Brown does not oer

a pre-law concentration. The reasons are many: Pre-proessional courses o

study confict with a liberal ar ts education, colleges cannot teach the subject

as well as law schools and pre-law students do not have an advantage in

graduate school admissions. The same considerations apply to business

programs at the undergraduate level. Were especially concerned about thestudy o management, entrepreneurship, innovation, commerce and related

topics at Brown because there is no organized discipline or robust tradition

o scholarship in these areas.

We question the rigor o business-related programs relative to other courses

o study at Brown. For example, the Organizational Studies and Entrepre-

neurship and Technology Management tracks in COE allow concentrators

to ulll the statistics requirement in any o seven di erent elds, including

the Departments o Education and Psychology. Entrepreneurial courses, in

engineering and more broadly, contrast with the rest o the curriculum. Ac-

cording to the Department o Engineerings Web site, these classes are largely

intended to prepare science and engineering students or careers at start-up

companies. We ear that other students who only enroll in engineering-lite

courses and their fuy COE counterparts will graduate with some basic

training in marketing but without anything marketable.

Given the Universitys shortcomings in business education and the elds

limitations as an undergraduate academic discipline, we strongly encourage

administrators to aggressively pursue collaboration with the Instituto de Em-presa. Short o a dramatic transormation o Browns existing program, the

best solution may be to outsource business education altogether.

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Human rights abuses are no laughing mattert e:

During last Thursdays Janus Forum lecture on theuniversality o human rights, I heard a lot o laughter

in Salomon 101, though to be rank, nothing that was

actually humorous. Speaker John Yoos tactic o using

jokes and snide remarks to defect questions and state-

ments that challenged his stance was a pathetic and sad

thing to witness. There is nothing humorous about the

deprivation o human rights. Yoos humor was a poor

deense mechanism and refected his complete disregard

or human rights. Perhaps he and many o the audience

members who laughed at his jokes should refect on

what their laughter meant, and how it may have servedas a way to ignore a serious problem while shrugging

away culpability or an issue that should truly concern

all o us. Ater Thursdays talk I approached Yoo with

a question about his use o humor. Tellingly, he chose

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With nancial troubles setting in at Brown,

it doesnt surprise me that students dis-

contentment with the governing body o

the University has increased r ecently. The

standard concerns about the lack o transpar-

ency in the Corporations decision-making

process have transormed into anger about

the handling o the Universitys nances,

including resentment over what programs

have been cut and which projects have

lost unding.A number o students have vocally pro-

tested the Corporations actions, with little

regard or what those actions might entail

or students. Its time to think about what

exactly these decisions, and the alterna-

tives, mean.

Being concerned over nancial prob-

lems at an institution where you live, work

and study does seems reasonable. But the

orms that recent protests have taken, and

the issues they have ocused on, have been

somewhat bizarre. Earlier this month, The

Herald reported a controversial $15,000

registration ee or Vice President or In-

ternational Aairs David Kennedy 76 to

attend the Clinton Global Initiatives annual

meeting ($15k donation stirs controversy,Feb. 3).

But $15,000 is small change or a Univer-sity with a multi-billion dollar endowment,

and the benets o Kennedys attendance

may have justied the cost o admission.

Because o Browns investment, a senior

member o the administration was able

to advance the Universitys standing and

network with potential donors and other

infuential gures.

Brown students seem less bothered by

the $15,000 ee than the Corporations de-

cision-making procedures. Many students

are concerned that the Corporation does

not actively or adequately solicit student

eedback on important nancial decisions. At

least, this is the charge levied against them.

But this is hardly a bad way or a university

to operate. When it comes to university gov-

ernance an old adage applies. Too many

cooks spoil the broth, however undemocratic

that may sound. When it comes to the air

maintenance o a university, Im glad that

we are run by an oligarchy.

I almost wonder i Brown students wouldbe less upset with the Corporation i it were

called something more amiliar and less

capitalist. The Corporation is composed o

a mixture o people: some who were pre-

viously aliated with the University and

some who werent, some who have extensive

nancial experience and some who dont,

and none o them have a monetary stake

in the University.

Corporation members are not paid or

their eorts but attempt to maintain and

improve this University o ours. They act

as students advocates and, unlike other

members o the community, can govern

equitably because they dont have any -

nancial interest in the University.

A democratically operated Brown Univer-

sity wouldnt last long. In the current nan-

cial crisis, decisions about investments, sta

hiring, nancial aid and program cuts have to

be made quickly. I the ederal governmentand its eorts to stimulate the economy have

taught us anything, its that democracy isoten a slow process that cannot move at

the pace necessary to implement changes

at the opportune moment.

With a small group o experienced indi-

viduals who have dealt with the Universitys

nances in the past, the Corporation can

reach decisions and act on them without

having to deal with coalition-building and

other political pressures.

I believe history will vindicate the Cor-

poration or their actions in this time o

nancial instability. Their decisive action

is needed to keep the University afoat. Stu-

dents are primarily interested in the short

term, as they are only on College Hill or

our or ve years. The Corporation, with amembership that serves or six- or 11-year

terms, can take into account Browns long-

term health.

Brown students arent exposed to

the ugly details o running a machine as

large as the University they only see

the people determining its direction and

blame them. We need to look at where

the University is going, and how ar we

have come already beore we decide that

the orm o governance needs to change.

Susannah Kroeber 11 is a Slavic

studies concentrator from Beijing,

China. She can be reached at

Susannah_Kroeber@brown.edu.

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A curious point in President Ruth Simmons

e-mail to the Brown community on the

nancial apocalypse:

In light o our commitment to meet the

ull need o our nancial aid students, schol-

arship expenditures have increased. Given

all the changes that have occurred since the

FY09 budget was approved last Februar y, we

now expect scholarship expenditures to be

almost $1 million more than planned.

Ill pass on the opportunity to comment

on just who gets to decide what constitutes

need. In spirit, the added contribution to

nancial aida 9.8 percent increase over last

years aid budget, according to the provost

is laudable. Props or nding an extra mil-

lion or aid in a year when the endowment

took an $800 million hit while scraping $21

million o the operating budget.

But then I have to wonder: i the Uni-

versity could nd a million dollars or ad-

ditional aid in a year like this, why couldnt

it back when things werent so terriying,

when the endowment was knocking on the

three billion dollar door? The school, it

seems, wasnt always living up to its com-

mitment to make a Brown education a-

ordable. And its not that the need wasnt

there; plenty o students who even then

were taking out loans could have used that

added help. The Corporation acknowledged

that when it targeted loans or reduction

last spring.

Im skeptical, then, that Brown is ever

doing as much as it can to ease the nancial

yoke that it imposes with its outrageous tu-

ition. Gradually and sur reptitiously, it shits

to its students the burden o unding its op-erations. (Surreptitiously, except when the

chancellor gaes and says that Brown is

lucky to rely so heavily on tuition.)

The plan outlined in the presidents e-mail

and the budget approved by the Corporation

uses these same old habits to sustain Brown

through its nancial di culties. For students,

it still includes a 3 percent tuition hike. Sta

get a pay reeze and, by the presidents eu-

phemism, ace possible reductions. And Ill

bet that when the layos come, the pink slip

goes to the oce assistant, not the genius

who lost 28 percent o our endowment.

So despite administrative assurances to

the contrary, their plan is built largely on

the backs o students and sta. The implicit

assumption seems to be that the University is

suering rom the nancial crisis ar worse

than anyone else. They act like the constitu-

ent parts o the community are plenty able

to bankroll the school while Brown roughs

it through some tough times.

Our amilies, apparently, will be able

to pay even more or our education in this

climate. Sta will clearly be in a position to

give up their jobs or the good o the school.

Talk about being Ever True.As one o those expected to step up to

sustain my school, I eel comor table saying

to the administration here that no matter

how much money youve lost, youre still

sitting on $2 billion. As desperate as your

circumstances may seem, youve got it way

better than we do.

What is oten orgotten when considering

Browns nancial circumstances is that no

matter what amount o money has been lost,

the resources still on hand are way larger.

But the University obstinately reuses to dip

urther into its rainy day und on this most

rainy o days. Instead, it goes calling on indi-

viduals with less nancial clout, less ability to

assume debt and ar less cash stashed away

or the uture, and demands they pay up,

whether with their money or their careers.

Even though things are apparently so bad

as to warrant a $21 million budget cut and

cancelled expansion projects, the University

thinks it can justiy asking its students and

their amilies or a greater contribution. Con-

sider the basic equation in all its absurdity.

We have to nd a way to spend less money,

so you all have to spend more. The presump-

tion: This situation hurts us a lot more thanall o you. I wish.

The reality is that students cant aord

higher tuition any more than Brown can

aord a bigger Graduate School. Sta cant

aord to lose their jobs. Students will be

orced out o this school and deprived o the

education they have earned. The amilies o

the victims o job cuts will su er. There will

be human tragedy wrought by the adminis-

trations plan.

The just answer is to cancel the tuition

increase and guarantee the employment o

every competent sta member on campus.

Fill the gap by tapping a little bit more into

that still unimaginably huge endowment.

Give up on the superfuous construction

projects that, unbelievably, the University

says it is still pursuing. But dont ask or more

money when you know that there isnt a soul

who can spend more this year than last.

I Brown does, people will leave. The

University will necessarily become more

exclusive and less diverse. But since we

at Brown have a chancellor who sat on the

board o an organization responsible or kick-

ing homeless people out o Manhattan, you

have to ask whether thats the point.

Simon Liebling 12 is from New Jerse.

He can be reached at

simon.liebling@gmail.com.

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Despite administrative assurances to the

contrar, Browns plan for dealing with the

financial crisis is built on the backs of

students and staff.

When it comes to the fair maintenance of a

universit, Im glad that we are run

b an oligarch.

SIMON

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