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Students overwhelmingly support early admission

Most Brown undergraduates sup-port early admission, according to a recent Herald poll.

The majority of respondents — 73 percent — said they believe Brown should offer an early ad-mission program to the College, while only 15 percent said the Uni-versity should not offer early ad-mission. Another 12 percent said they had no opinion or did not an-swer. The poll was conducted from Jan. 29 to Feb. 2 and has a margin of error of 4.7 percent with 95 per-cent confi dence.

The University currently offers high school students the opportu-nity to apply early decision in the

fall — the deadline is traditionally Nov. 1. Early applicants hear back from the University in mid-Decem-ber and are required to attend the College if they are admitted.

Early applicants constitute 36 percent of the class of 2010 and were admitted at a rate of 22.7 per-cent, compared to the class’ overall acceptance rate of 13.8 percent.

Early admission has received extensive attention since Harvard University decided last September to discontinue its single-choice early action program, which did not require admitted students to

commit to attending Harvard. In the following weeks Princeton University and the University of Virginia followed suit and termi-nated their binding early admis-sion programs.

Harvard, Princeton and UVa’s decisions were primarily in re-sponse to concerns that early ad-mission disproportionately bene-fi ts applicants with more resourc-es and knowledge about college admission.

“Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged. Students from more sophisticated backgrounds and affl uent high schools often apply early to in-crease their chances of admission,

BY JAMES SHAPIROSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Corporation approves student center, elects new chancellor

The Corporation, the University’s top governing body, was especial-ly busy this weekend, discussing a strategic vision for the Alpert Medi-cal School, approving next year’s $704.8 million budget and electing a new chancellor. It also approved a social choice fund and endorsed an offi cial response to the report of the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice.

The Corporation, which is re-quired to formally accept all gifts of more than $1 million, accepted nearly $22 million in donations to the University. A gift of $3.5 million was given to support Commerce, Organization and Entrepreneurship programs. William Rhodes ’57, a trustee emeritus and Citigroup ex-ecutive, donated $10 million to es-tablish the Rhodes Center for Inter-national Economics, which will be part of the Watson Institute for In-ternational Studies, and to endow a professorship in international trade and fi nance.

The Corporation also accepted four gifts that will fund a $15 mil-lion renovation of Faunce House as a 24-hour student center. A $5 million gift from outgoing Chancel-lor Stephen Robert ’62 P’91, along with three other anonymous gifts, will fund the new facility, which will be named in Robert’s honor. It may include performance spaces, a food court and meeting and study spac-es, according to a University news release.

Student support offi ces cur-rently housed in Faunce, such as the Offi ce of the Chaplains and Re-ligious Life, may be moved across the street to the J. Walter Wilson Laboratory, which will be renovat-ed to accommodate them, the re-lease said.

The Corporation also approved a social choice fund, which will fo-cus on environmental responsibil-ity. The fund will be established and administered through the Offi ce of Advancement, and the University’s

BY ROSS FRAZIERNEWS EDITOR

$700m budget boosts U. spending

The Corporation approved a $704.8 million University bud-get for next year during its general business meeting Sat-urday, raising tuition and fees by 5 percent to bring total un-dergraduate costs to $45,948 next year. Faculty salaries will increase by 5 percent, and graduate student stipends will rise to $18,500.

The $120 million budget for the Division of Biology and Medicine, which was in-creased 14.5 percent last year, was only raised by 4.4 percent for next year. The Universi-ty’s general budget, which funds the College and Gradu-ate School, will total $508 mil-lion next year — a 7 percent increase.

Brown’s budget next year calls for a $9.3 million defi cit, which it will make up using some of its $50 million in re-serves, which were authorized by the Corporation in 2004. By next year, it will have used half of those reserves. University offi cials have said the need for reserves is to be expected with the heavy spending called for by the Plan for Academic En-richment.

“It is clear that the Univer-sity’s aspirations will contin-ue to require the investment of reserves and balances for the next fi ve to seven years,” read the University Resources Committee’s annual report, released last week.

One of the University’s largest expenditures is fi nan-cial aid, on which it will spend $56.9 million next year — an 8 percent increase. Financial aid for international students will increase nearly 40 percent

BY ROSS FRAZIER

NEWS EDITOR

BET CEO Debra Lee ’76: success is about risk-taking

Entrepreneurship is innate, not a learned skill, Black Entertain-ment Television Chairman and CEO Debra Lee ’76 told students at the Brown Entrepreneurship Program’s 10th Annual Forum Saturday afternoon.

Lee encouraged a standing

room-only crowd in Leung Gal-lery to “take risks, learn from them, grow with them and rein-vent yourself if necessary.”

“I fundamentally believe that you either are or are not an entre-preneur. I really don’t think you can aspire to be an entrepreneur,” she said — though she said it may be possible to “learn to do it better along the way.”

Drawing largely from events in her own life, Lee discussed how ambition and open-mindedness propelled her from her racially segregated hometown of Greens-boro, N.C. — where she grew up in the 1960s — to Brown and Harvard Law School, then on to a corporate law fi rm in Washington,

BY ABE LUBETKINSTAFF WRITER

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Tai Ho Shin / Herald Peter Tannenwald ‘64, Dan Berns ‘69, Rita Cidre ‘07, Dan Oppenheim ‘98, Jason Sigal ‘07, Susan Smulyan, Associate Professor of American Civilization (left to right), at a panel discussion on college radio.

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Tai Ho Shin / HeraldBET Chairman and CEO Debra Lee ‘76 (left) with Robby Klaber ‘07 and Young Peck ‘07, co-presidents of the Brown Entrepreneurship Program.

Alums discuss future of college radio

Alums and current students from WBRU and Brown Student Radio discussed balancing creativity and commercial success in radio Sunday evening on a panel on “The Impor-tance of College Radio,” one in a se-ries of campus events celebrating 70 years of college radio at Brown.

Peter Tannenwald ’64, Don Ber-ns ’69, Dan Oppenheim ’98, former WBRU General Manager Rita Cidre ’07 and BSR General Manager Jason Sigal ’07 addressed the evolution of Brown college radio and challenges facing stations today.

Susan Smulyan, associate profes-sor of American Civilization, opened

the panel by explaining that student interest in the two campus radio sta-tions sparked the series of events celebrating college radio. WBRU and BSR were also eager to work to-gether and put to rest rumors of ri-valry between them after an article about the alleged rivalry appeared in the Brown Alumni Magazine last year, she added.

The panel discussion focused on radio stations’ need to reinvent themselves in the face of newer communication technologies. Ber-ns urged students to help save the medium.

“Right now is the time to come up with some idea to save radio as

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THE HERALD POLLLast in a three-part series on

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PEMBROKE’S PASTThe Pembroke Center is cel-ebrating its 25th anniversa-ry by hosting a series of lec-tures and discussions on cul-ture and gender

DEEP SPRINGS DETOURAt least one current student spent time at Deep Springs College, a substance-free, all-male College in California, before coming to Brown

SPECTATOR SPINJustin Elliott ’07 takes the Uni-versity’s conservative publi-cation, the Brown Spectator, to task for lacking journalistic standards

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From their perch on the top fl oor of Alumnae Hall, employees at the Pembroke Center for Teach-ing and Research on Women have a perfect view of the former all-women’s campus.

Established in 1981, just 10 years after the all-female Pem-broke College merged with the men’s college, the center’s loca-tion is a constant reminder of so-ciety’s changing views of gender roles. To celebrate its 25th anni-versary, it is hosting a series of lectures and roundtable discus-sions designed to further investi-gate the cultural values assigned to gender.

“Unlike a lot of other feminist research centers, the Pembroke Center questioned gender from the beginning,” said Elizabeth Weed MA’66 PhD’73, the center’s director and one of its founding members. “It was an absolutely scandalous thing to do in the 80s.”

Advised by a diverse group of faculty representing disciplines ranging from biology to modern culture and media, the center seeks to create a better under-standing of gender through re-search and seminars.

The 25th-anniversary lecture series, titled “The Future of Cri-tique,” brought philosopher Ju-dith Butler to campus last month. The lecture series will not only fo-cus on gender issues but will also delve into concerns of scientifi c and social critique. The series will continue in April with two collo-quia that will include professors from across the country.

When asked about the impor-tance of critiquing society, Weed said the practice “enables one not to settle down in the complacen-cy of truth.” The critique allows scholars to identify “the condi-tions of possibility for knowledge,” something the center has always strived to do, she said.

Thanks to alumni donations and grants from organizations such as the Ford Foundation, the center is also currently sponsoring two re-search initiatives. “Embodiment,” led by Professor of Biology Anne Fausto-Sterling PhD’70, explores the development of sex differen-tiation in children. The project has found that from the moment a child is born, both nature and nur-ture act simultaneously to shape a child’s future behavioral patterns.

The second initiative, “Gen-

der and the Politics of ‘Tradition-al’ Muslim Practices,” is aimed at understanding gender customs in Middle Eastern countries.

“The practice of veiling looks disturbing to the West,” Weed said, “But we’ve found that it doesn’t just have to do with gender, but with notions of public and private and religion.”

The center also publishes the theoretical journal “differences” as a means of identifying and ad-dressing political and social dis-crepancies. Compiled three times a year, Weed said the publication has become one of the country’s premier theoretical journals. Its latest installment, titled “Indexi-cality: Trace and Sign,” is guest-edited by Professor of Modern Culture and Media Mary Ann Do-ane and will focus on problems in representational theory.

While wrestling with modern gender issues, the center also man-ages to uphold its ties to the past. The Pembroke Center Associates, a predominately female group of Brown and Pembroke alums, cre-ated and maintain the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives in the John Hay Library. The archives contain an extensive collection of diaries, newspapers and photo-graphs documenting the activities of Rhode Island women in the 20thcentury.

The Pembroke Center Associ-ates also puts out pamphlets on the history of women at Pembroke and Brown. Their latest synopsis covers the development of female athletic programs and contains a host of quirky facts. For instance, Sayles Gym — now Smith-Buon-anno Hall — originally housed two bowling alleys in addition to its basketball court. The pamphlet also states that the sinking of the Titanic prompted Brown admin-istrators to institute a mandatory swim test in 1913 for all men. The stipulation did not apply to women until 1931.

The Pembroke Associates will soon have another item for their histories — relocation is on the center’s horizon. In the fall of 2008, the Pembroke Center will move to renovated offi ces in Pembroke Hall, leaving behind its headquar-ters in Alumnae Hall.

According to Weed, Pembroke Hall was constructed in 1894 as the fi rst building for “the wom-en’s college of Brown University.” Weed said she couldn’t think of a more fi tting place for the Pem-broke Center to call home.

BY ALLISSA WICKHAMSTAFF WRITER

Catching up with the Pembroke Center

Rutherford’s ’07 Macbett awes with the absurd

James Rutherford’s ’07 mainstage production of Macbett by Eugene Ionesco — who was part of a clique of intellectuals who decried the absurdity of any moral convic-tion or personal ambition in post-World War II Europe — was heavy with the emptiness of alienation.

Like fi gures in a Giacometti painting, the inhabitants of Mac-bett’s world circled the theater in solitude, talking without being heard, searching for companion-ship and never quite fi nding it.

Lighting designer Justin Spie-gel ’08 created a sense of vastness by illuminating the outer edges of the theater in hollow blues and reds that forced the audience into the center of an unsettling open-ness.

Ionesco’s work is bred from Shakespeare’s original Macbeth, which was translated into French by Victor Hugo and adapted by Io-nesco. His adaptation was trans-lated into English by Charles Ma-rowitz and was further adapted and translated by Rutherford, who chose to keep some of the original French in his production.

Bewildered? So was the audi-ence. And so were the actors. Ev-eryone involved in Rutherford’s

production shared a sense of dis-communication. The dialogue was a jumble of English and French, sometimes with a translation on a large screen that ran the span of the stage. Other times, the screen was conspicuously blank.

Running on the assumption of its audience’s prior knowledge of the Scottish play, Rutherford’s piece — more a collection of scenes that glided together on a razor blade of ambition and con-spiracy — skirted around the clas-sic plot line.

Far from falling apart, the mad-ness that Rutherford created had remarkable method to it. Warfare without reason, power without check and the search for the elu-sive motivated the characters as they navigated through a some-times literal darkness with their hands stretched out in front of them.

The forcefulness of Ruther-ford’s actors jolted the story for-ward, as Macbett plotted to kill the archduke, assumed his power, committed adultery with his wife and stamped out the opposition. He was shadowed by his alter ego, Macbeth, played by Mike Obrem-ski ’07, an overly ambitious lemon-

ade salesman who, contrary to the implications of his name, spoke only French.

In the title role, Elliot Quick ’07 was a formidable presence.

His forbidding quest for the throne was tempered by his weak-ness in the face of the capricious seductress Lady Duncann, played by Anne Troup ’07.

With a serial number branded onto the side of his shaved head — reminiscent of a Nazi concen-tration camp prisoner — and a swastika tattooed behind his ear, he was an ambiguous tool in a plot with larger implications than at fi rst glance.

In a fi nal condemnation of des-potism, the play ended with the unfurling of enormous red fl ags with swastikas, the new ruler of the land standing erect with arm raised straight in front of him. It was a shock, but one that reso-nated sharply with the enormity of the burden with which Ionesco and his contemporaries tried so desperately cope.

Imbued with irony, a quick wit and a sense of the profound amidst absurdity, it was Rutherford’s di-rection that gave Ionesco’s work a paradoxical beauty. More impres-sive still was its brilliance with a scope larger than the confi nes of the stage.

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Investment Offi ce will identify ap-propriate allocations for the fund.

The Corporation spent Friday in a retreat at the Westin hotel down-town, discussing a strategic vision for the Med School as well as bud-get and capital issues. Their discus-sions on the Med School focused on recommendations from a strate-gic working group that studied the school’s growth potential. It also

heard a presentation from Charles Vest, former president of the Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology, on the role of research institutions in a globalized society.

The Corporation also elected a new slate of offi cers. Thomas Tisch ’76 P’07, managing partner of pri-vate investment fi rm Four Partners in New York City, will serve as the University’s 20th chancellor. The chancellor is the University’s top offi cial — and President Ruth Sim-

mons’ boss. Also elected was a new vice-chan-

cellor, Jerome Vascellaro ’74 P’07, a former McKinsey & Company ex-ecutive who is now a partner with the private investment fi rm Texas Pacifi c Group. Reappointed were Corporation Treasurer Matthew Mallow ’64 P’02, a New York corpo-rate lawyer, and Secretary Wendy Strothman ’72 P’07, a Boston liter-ary agent. Mallow and Strothman will serve one-year terms.

Corporation accepts $22m in gifts and appoints new chancellor

to $4.4 million over the next four years.

Corporation members also discussed a two-year $190 million budget that would allow the Uni-versity to begin work on planned facilities projects such as a fi tness center, the Walk, the Creative Arts Building and a new cognitive and linguistic sciences building, among others.

The University is also spend-ing heavily to attract new faculty. Seventy-fi ve searches for new fac-ulty are currently under way. Al-though most will compensate for normal attrition, the number of full-time professors is expected to increase by between 15 and 25 in the next year, bringing the total near 680.

The budget includes $200,000 to replace and maintain athletic equipment and support team trav-el. An additional $200,000 will be given to the Offi ce of the Dean of the College to support pilot pro-grams related to the curriculum and advising.

The Grad School’s budget is suffering from major expen-ditures on student support, the URC report said, though fund-ing in that area will increase by

$3.2 million next year. The Grad School’s guarantee of fi ve years of fi nancial support has hurt the University fi nancially not only be-cause of its cost, but because it eliminates revenue from self-sup-porting students who had paid tu-ition out-of-pocket.

To offset additional costs, the Grad School will reduce graduate admission — perhaps by about a dozen students, the URC report said. It will also review its policies to see where money can be saved. However, the report acknowledg-es that the Grad School’s budget-ary needs will only increase, es-pecially because the size of the school must be increased to sup-port the addition of new faculty.

The Corporation also ap-proved a 10 percent increase in payout from the University’s $2.4 billion endowment, the interest of which will provide an estimated $85.4 million in revenue next year — a $9.8 million increase. These fi gures are based on the assump-tion that Brown will raise $50 mil-lion for the endowment next year, according to the URC report.

University investment policy states that the draw on the endow-ment should range from 4.5 to 5.5 percent of the endowment’s aver-age market value during the last three years. For next year, the en-

dowment draw will be about 5.39 percent.

The budget also refl ects the University’s expectation that it will be reimbursed by outside sources, such as the federal gov-ernment, for some of the money it spends on research. Known as in-direct cost recovery, this amount is expected to decline 0.8 percent to $31 million next year.

In the past few years, the Uni-versity has seen an average 10 percent growth in its indirect cost recovery, which refl ected increas-es in lab space, faculty size and research volume. But, according to the URC report, federal fund-ing cutbacks, particularly at the National Institutes of Health, will hurt the BioMed research fund-ing. Though other departments are expected to receive 5 percent more in indirect cost reimburse-ment, BioMed is projected to see a 6 percent decrease.

The University’s revenue pro-jections have typically been fairly conservative. Despite the budget-ed decrease in indirect cost re-covery, grants have been up near-ly 8 percent relative to last year. The University also projected the endowment would return 7.5 per-cent annually, though it has aver-aged a 14.3 percent return over the last three years.

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Financial aid, facilities spending in $700m budget



Set the budget, raised tuition• Approved a $704.8 million bud-get — a 6.4 percent increase• Increased total undergraduate fees 5 percent to $45,948• Discussed two-year $190-million capital budget to fund the con-struction of planned facilities

Elected new Corp. offi cers• Selected Thomas Tisch ’76 P’07 as chancellor and Jerome Vascel-laro ’74 P’07 as vice chancellor• Reappointed Treasurer Matthew Mallow ’64 P’02 and Secretary Wendy Strothman ’72 P’07 to one-year terms

Accepted major gifts• $15 million — including $5 mil-lion from outgoing Chancellor Stephen Robert ’62 P’91 — to fund the renovation of Faunce House into a student center to be named in Robert’s honor• $10 million from William Rhodes ’57 to fund a Center for Interna-

tional Economics at the Watson Institute for International Studies and an endowed professorship in international trade and fi nance• $3.5 million in gifts to support programs in Commerce, Organi-zations and Entrepreneurship• $1.8 million grant to design and build a high-speed 3-D X-ray im-aging system for musculoskeletal biomechanics research• More than $1 million in gifts for undergraduate fi nancial aid

Endorsed President Simmons’ slavery and justice response• $10 million endowment to sup-port Providence public education• Establishment of Urban Fel-lows, a program in which Brown will waive the tuition of up to ten master’s students in the Depart-ment of Education if they agree to teach in area public schools for three years• Communication with local and state offi cials to discuss memo-

rializing Rhode Island’s connec-tions to the slave trade• Online and print distribution of the original committee report and the offi cial University response• Academic initiatives to support the study of slavery as well as a team of outside experts to con-sult on strengthening the Depart-ment of Africana Studies• Strengthening Brown’s long-standing partnership with Tou-galoo College and building new partnerships with historically black colleges and universities

In addition• Establishment of a social choice fund, which will assure donors their gifts will be invested in en-vironmentally responsible com-panies• Devoted extra time to discuss-ing a strategic plan for growing the Alpert Medical School

— Ross Frazier

M A J O R CO R P O R AT I O N B U S I N E S S T H I S W E E K E N DU. responds to slavery and justice report

The University will raise $10 million to endow a fund supporting Prov-idence public education and will waive tuition for up to ten masters stu-dents who teach in the public schools for three years following gradua-tion. The commitment to public schools is a main component of Presi-dent Ruth Simmons’ response to the October 2006 recommendations of the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. The Corpora-tion endorsed Simmons’ plan at its weekend meeting.

“One of the clearest messages in the slavery and justice report is that institutions of higher education must take a greater interest in the health of their local communities,” Simmons said in a news release. “Lack of ac-cess to a good education, particularly for urban schoolchildren, is one of the most pervasive and pernicious social problems of our time. Col-leges and universities are uniquely able to improve the quality of urban schools.”

The $10-million fund could provide up to $500,000 in its fi rst year, with the amount increasing as the principal grows.

The University will also work with local and state offi cials to discuss memorializing the Rhode Island slave trade. The slavery and justice com-mittee originally recommended a memorial be constructed on campus.

The University will disseminate both its response and the original re-port by posting the information online and making print copies avail-able.

Brown will also strengthen its longstanding partnership with Touga-loo College and begin relationships with other historically black colleges and universities. The response also calls for sponsoring academic initia-tives within the University and bringing in an external team to evaluate how the Department of Africana Studies can be strengthened.

— Ross Frazier

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The path from high school to Brown is less direct for some than others. Some students might take time off to travel or work, but a few head to the California desert to a small institution called Deep Springs College, where they farm alfalfa, herd cattle and read Nietzsche with around 26 other young men.

Sean Eldridge ’09 spent one year at Deep Springs before trans-ferring to Brown in January. After a summer in an alcohol-soaked social atmosphere at a pre-col-lege program in Ohio, Eldridge was attracted to Deep Springs’ substance-free policy. He said the policy, which prohibits nicotine, marijuana and other narcotics as well as alcohol, showed him that “people were really there to learn.”

Eldridge said he is the only Deep Springs student current-ly enrolled at Brown, though a handful of others have left the California desert for Providence over the past decade. Associate Professor of History Robert Self attended Deep Springs for one year in 1986.

The two-year all-male accred-ited college was founded in 1917 by electrical engineering pioneer Lucien Lucius Nunn. When he

founded the school, Nunn envi-sioned it would attract and shape the nation’s future leaders. In ad-dition to academic seminars, stu-dents are required to participate in a manual labor program at the on-site ranch. Each student must farm alfalfa, milk cows and herd cattle.

Deep Springs students typical-ly spend two years at the college, but they do not receive a degree. Instead, they put the credits they earn towards a degree at another college or university.

Deep Springs students prac-tice democratic self-governance — the farm is completely run by students, and all important deci-sions, including faculty hirings and student admission, are made in democratic meetings that in-clude the entire student body.

The school’s unique educa-tional philosophy and eccentric reputation — it is often described as the most competitive school in the country — have attracted media attention. Articles in Van-ity Fair in 2004 and the New York-er in 2006 focused on scandals at the school that, according to Van-ity Fair, have included sexual re-lations among the students or be-tween students and professors, and a fl oundering endowment.

Eldridge said Nunn founded Deep Springs in part to separate bright young men from alcohol

and women, which he saw as damaging temptations. Eldridge said the student body has voted on a number of occasions to allow women to attend, but the board of trustees always vetoes that vote.

Despite media interest in the school and efforts to incite in-trigue, Eldridge said most Deep Springs alums are proud of their institution.

Self said he remembers tak-ing classes on feminist literature,

From Deep Springs desert to College HillBY KYLE MCGOURTYCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Department of Public Safety has launched a number of new out-reach initiatives this semester in an effort to better address community issues and foster positive relations with students.

DPS began looking at ways to enhance its programs last semester after several robberies prompted community concern about safety, said DPS Manager of Special Ser-vices Michelle Nuey.

Nuey said the alleged incidents of police misconduct that occurred last semester prompted dialogue about police-community relations, but she added that DPS has “always strived to provide offi cer-student dialogue” and said the outreach ef-forts did not come purely as a reac-

tion to this increased conversation. “It defi nitely played a role in us

saying ‘Okay, we need to continue these efforts and create more op-portunities for those dialogues to happen,’” Nuey said. “Following these incidents there was a great deal of communication between (DPS offi cials) and students, and out of those conversations it came that continued communication will be critical.”

DPS has been analyzing the re-sults of a community opinion sur-vey that launched in late January and will remain available to the pub-lic on DPS’s Web site through mid-March. The results so far, which in-dicate increased demand for crime prevention events, have contributed to the department’s outreach plans, according to Nuey.

Nuey said DPS would continue

to enhance its older initiatives, add-ing that the department has offered meet-and-greets and study breaks with offi cers in the past. But addi-tional staffi ng, including a new spe-cial assistant to Chief of Police Mark Porter, has allowed DPS to “build Porter, has allowed DPS to “build Portergreater productivity” and launch ad-ditional outreach efforts.

DPS began the semester by hosting a hot cocoa study break in the evening at the Friedman Study Center. Nuey said the event attract-ed over 100 students and said DPS hopes to hold similar events in the Rockefeller Library.

In addition, Nuey said Porter would begin holding offi ce hours this March to provide students and staff with the opportunity to voice concerns.

DPS launches new outreach initiativesBY DEBBIE LEHMANNSENIOR STAFF WRITER


Some students want gyms open earlier

N E W S I N B R I E F

Some students are irked that the gyms in Keeney Quadrangle, Grad-uate Center and on Pembroke campus open later on the weekends than during the week.

The Bigelow and Emery satellite fi tness centers open their doors at 7 a.m. on weekdays but don’t open until 11 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The Bears Lair in Grad Center opens at 7 a.m. Mondays through Thursdays and is closed until noon from Friday through Sunday.

But early-morning workout fi ends can still use the facilities at the Olney-Margolies Athletics Center, which opens at 8:30 a.m. on week-ends.

Some students said they fi nd the situation annoying.“I’d like to come a little earlier than 12,” said Brian Craigie ’07, a reg-

ular at the Bears Lair. Because of the later opening, he said, the gym is often crowded at opening time. And, he said, “The OMAC might as well be in the next zip code.” Craigie lives across the street from the Bears Lair in Vartan Gregorian Quadrangle.

“For most people, it’s fi ne” that the gyms open late on the week-ends, said Sonya Goddy ’07. But, she said, “there’s a small contingent” of the “exercise-obsessed” who want to exercise earlier.

But administrators say they haven’t heard complaints about the opening times.

“This is the fi rst time I’ve heard of it,” said Director of Athletics Mi-chael Goldberger.

— Ian Nappier

Chris Bennett / HeraldSean Eldridge ‘09 spent a year at Deep Springs, a two-year all-male institution in California, before coming to College Hill.

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Guggenheim ’86 wins Oscar

Davis Guggenheim ’86 won an Academy Award Sunday night for his documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” on which he collaborated with former Vice President Al Gore.

Director Guggenheim won the Oscar for best documentary fea-ture with producers Lawrence Bender and Laurie David. On the stage, Guggenheim handed his statuette to Gore, who was the star of the documentary, which warned of the dangers posed by global warming.

The movie was made “because we were moved to act by this man,” Guggenheim told the crowd, according to Reuters.

—Herald staff reports


Dante, the politics of technol-ogy and basic chemistry. “The concept was great,” Self said of Deep Springs, even though he “wasn’t prepared to embrace the monastic life.”

“It wasn’t the right fi t for me,” he said.

Self fi nished his undergrad-uate studies at Oregon State University and received mas-ter’s and doctorate degrees from Washington State. Rough-ly 70 percent of Deep Springs alums eventually earn a Ph. D., Deep Springs student John Moriarty wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

Eldridge was a dairy boy at Deep Springs and rose at 4 a.m. every day to milk the cows for the students’ breakfast. After morning chores, Eldridge at-tended classes in philosophy, literature and classics. In the afternoon, he had duties on the ranch — planting and harvest-ing eight fi elds of alfalfa and herding a few hundred head of cattle. In the early evening, he would serve as the budget and operations trustee, managing the alumni annual giving rate.

Donations fund the school, which has an annual budget of $1.2 million and does not ac-cept student tuition, valued at $50,000. The endowment is currently at $8 million. “It was

weird just arriving at the place and be already fi ghting for its survival,” Eldridge said of the school’s fi nances. But he said alumni generosity is “extraor-dinary.”

Deep Springs and Brown share similar ideologies, but the schools differ in many ways besides their geographic settings, Eldridge said. “After Deep Springs everything else is downhill,” he said. “I have so much more time.”

Though he hasn’t had dif-fi culty adjusting to Brown aca-demically, Eldridge said the College Hill social life is vast-ly different. Since coming to Brown, Eldridge said he has re-mained a “tame animal.”

“Socially it is incredibly dif-ferent,” he said. “Interactions were very complicated at Deep Springs. You have peers who are your classmates and board members, and you certainly get very close.” Of Brown, Eldridge said, “It has been nicer to have a more diverse community.”

Eldridge said he hopes to enter national politics after his time at Brown. He said he was inspired by the Deep Springs precept “to serve humanity.”

“I can’t say I prefer one over the other,” he said of Brown and Deep Springs. “The great thing about Deep Springs is you get to decide where you want to go to college twice.”


Deep Springs alums settle at Brown

while minority students and stu-dents from rural areas, other coun-tries and high schools with fewer resources miss out,” said interim Harvard President Derek Bok in a Sept. 12 news release.

Princeton presented similar rea-sons for its decision. “Less than 10 percent of the entire pool of stu-dents applying for fi nancial aid were in the early-decision pool. We had similar fi ndings for students of color, and we simply didn’t think it was fair. We didn’t want to continue to have a process for applicants who were privileged and could therefore get to us fi rst,” wrote Princeton spokeswoman Cass Cliatt in an e-mail to The Herald.

Dean of Admission James Mill-er ’73 said the Offi ce of Admission recently reconsidered early admis-sion in light of other universities’ actions. “When Harvard and Princ-eton made their announcements, it was an impetus for everybody to go and take a look at their programs, and we did. I know we’re very hap-py with our early decision program, and we have no plans to alter it.”

Miller said many students are ready to make decisions about which college they want to attend by the early admission deadline.

“Early decision gives students who have made up their minds a chance to get into the college appli-cation process and to make a deci-sion relatively early in their senior year,” Miller said. “It doesn’t make a lot of sense to make people wait until April when they know where they want to go by December.”

“We have early decision as op-

posed to early action because we see it as a clear commitment on the part of both parties. We are willing to extend to (students) the opportu-nity for an early decision and, in ex-change, we expect that to be a fi rm and clear decision on (their) part,” Miller said.

Most students interviewed by The Herald said they support hav-ing the early admission program.

“It gives students who really feel passionately about coming to Brown a chance to dedicate their time early on to the application,” said Laith Kadasi ’10. “It’s an easy way to distinguish the students who have Brown as a top choice from those who are applying to all the Ivies and who haven’t researched Brown.”

But some students said they op-pose the program.

“I think that the early admission process runs counter to the Brown idea of taking time to explore one’s options and have academic fl exibil-ity,” said Alex Cox ’08.

Many students said they doubt early admission substantially dis-advantages lower-income students and minorities.

“I think early decision is great. I myself am on fi nancial aid, and at the same time I was accepted ear-ly. It didn’t affect me,” said Sonya Mladenova ’09.

“I’m not quite sure why a lower income would lead to not knowing about your different admissions op-tions,” said Andrew Ahn ’08.

Other students said they think early admission does favor appli-cants from certain backgrounds.

“Coming from a very upper-mid-dle-class public school, early admis-

sion was on the tip of everybody’s tongue. But that’s certainly not the case with some family (members) of mine who go to school in rural districts,” said Steve Hazeltine ’09.

Other students said they favored alternate solutions to the under-rep-resentation of particular groups. Gillian Heinecke ’07 said she knew Harvard had dropped its program in an effort to increase representa-tion of minority students, but she questioned whether ending early admission was the best strategy. “I think that it would be more pro-ductive to do campaigning in other ways to get more minority appli-cants,” she said.

Princeton and Harvard students interviewed by The Herald had mixed feelings about their schools’ decisions.

“I consider it a noble attempt to try and bring diversity, but I ques-tion its effectiveness, at least from the arguments I’ve seen for it,” said Princeton freshman Tim Branigan. “They really didn’t provide much statistical evidence saying early ad-mission hurts diversity.”

Other students said dropping early admission was a move in the right direction. “I thought it was a good decision as I thought that the policy only benefi ted those with the resources and means to apply ear-ly,” said Harvard freshman Geoff Smith. “I thought it was something that other institutions should follow and in some cases did follow.”

But Brown students were not eager for the University to follow Harvard, UVa and Princeton’s lead. “What other schools do shouldn’t really dictate how Brown runs its admission process,” Kadasi said.

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BY GREG KRIKORIANLOSLOSL ANGELES ANGELES A TIMES TIMES T

When the Bush administration shut down the nation’s largest Muslim charity fi ve years ago, offi -cials of the Dallas-based foundation denied allegations it was linked to terrorists and insisted that a num-ber of accusations were fabricated by the government.

Now, attorneys for the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and De-velopment say the government’s own documents provide evidence of their claim.

In recent court fi lings, defense lawyers disclosed striking discrep-ancies between an offi cial summa-ry and the verbatim transcripts of an FBI wiretapped conversation in 1996 involving Holy Land offi cials.

The summary attributes infl am-matory, anti-Semitic comments to Holy Land offi cials that are not found in a 13-page transcript of the recorded conversation. It recently was turned over to the defense in an exchange of evidence by the government.

Citing the unexplained discrep-ancies, defense lawyers have asked

U.S. District Judge A. Joseph Fish in Dallas to declassify thousands of hours of FBI surveillance record-ings, so that full transcripts would replace government summaries as evidence.

The demand could force gov-ernment prosecutors to either de-classify evidence it has fought to keep secret or risk losing a critical portion of evidence in its case.

In December, the judge denied a defense request to declassify the documents so they could be ex-amined by defendants in the case. Seven former foundation offi cials, six of them U.S. citizens, have been charged with funneling money to overseas charities controlled by Hamas, which has been designat-ed a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. The defendants have denied the charges.

While defense attorneys have government clearances that allow them to review the material, they have been prohibited from shar-ing it with their clients under the federal Classifi ed Information Pro-cedures Act. And unless the CIPA rules are declared unconstitutional in the case, defense attorneys ar-gue, the defendants will have no way of proving that the statements attributed to them were miscon-strued or never made.

The recently declassifi ed sum-mary of an April 15, 1996, surveil-lance asserts that during a conver-sation wiretapped by the FBI, Holy Land’s former executive director Shukri Abu Baker told two asso-ciates there was no need to worry about the foundation being unfairly targeted because U.S. courts were not under the control of the Ameri-can-Israeli Political Action Commit-tee or its sponsor, he said, “the gov-ernment of the demons of Israel.”

The summary portrays Baker as raging against “the Jews of the world” and as claiming that Jews have no allegiance to anything but “their pockets and to preserving the illegal Zionist state of Israel.”

Suicide bomber targets Iraqi university

W O R L D I N B R I E F

BAGHDAD, Iraq (Los Angeles Times) — A suicide bomber pushed past guards at a crowded college campus Sunday and set off a thun-derous blast that killed at least 40 Iraqis, most of them female stu-dents who were waiting in line in the midday sun to enter class-rooms for midterm exams.

The attack was the second in recent weeks to target the mainly Shiite Mustansiriya University, and it sent a clear message that what-ever calm had followed the launch of the latest U.S.-Iraqi security plan was over. Even as rescue workers mopped blood from the col-lege grounds and as the wounded told their stories of survival, the Iraqi government insisted the plan launched nearly two weeks ago was succeeding.

But radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose followers virtually control the campus, denounced the plan as a failure and said Iraqi government troops and police should take charge of security and “invaders,” a reference to U.S. troops, should leave.

Sharpton descended from slave owned by Strom Thurmond relative NEW YORK (Washington Post) — The Rev. Al Sharpton, the promi-nent civil rights activist, is descended from a slave owned by rela-tives of the late senator, and one-time segregationist, Strom Thur-mond, a genealogical study released Sunday reported.

“It was probably the most shocking thing of my life,” Sharpton said of learning the fi ndings, which were requested and published Sunday by the New York Daily News. He called a news conference to respond publicly to the report.

The revelation was particularly stunning for the juxtaposition of the two men’s public lives.

Sharpton, known for his fi ery rhetoric and a tendency to inter-vene in racially charged incidents, ran for president in 2004 on a tick-et promoting racial justice. Thurmond made a bid for the presidency in 1948, promising to preserve racial segregation, while in 1957, he fi libustered for more than 24 hours against a civil rights bill.

After his death in 2003, though, it became clear that Thurmond had a complicated history with issues of race when a 78-year-old retired schoolteacher, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, revealed she was the daughter of his extramarital relationship with his family’s black housekeeper.

Hope outrunning experience in primary race

WORLD & NATIONTHE BROWN DAILY HERALDFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2007 PAGE 7

BY JOHANNA NEUMANLOSLOSL ANGELES ANGELES A TIMES TIMES T

WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama bristled at charges that her husband was not experienced enough for the presidency.

“We’ve heard this spewed from the lips of rivals every phase of our journey: He is not experienced enough, he should wait his turn,” she recently told supporters of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., who at 45 is serving his fi rst Senate term. Only political insiders, she said, would look at his life accomplishments “and dare to have the audacity to say he is not ready.”

Experience — and how to mea-sure it — has become one of the fi rst big debating points of the 2008 presidential race.

In one of the curiosities of the Democratic primary, some of the candidates with the most experience in national politics are at the bottom of the early popularity surveys. By contrast, Obama, with a mere three years on the national stage, is this year’s campaign-trail sensation.

And so Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut — with 33 years in the House and Senate — has been trying to heighten the importance of Washington knowledge, making a constant refrain of his claim that

President Bush proves the dangers of on-the-job training in the White House. “I think people do care about experience,” Dodd said.

Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico — 15 years in the House, two years as U.N. ambassador, three years as Energy Secretary — touts his “unparalleled experi-ence.” And Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. — 35 years in the Senate — has said of his campaign rivals: “It’s not so much whether I can compete with their money, but whether they can compete with my ideas and my ex-perience.”

Even former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, who served a single term before opening a White House bid in 2004, has brought his twist to the issue. Asked at an event last month how he differed from Obama, Edwards said: “Experience. I’ve been through a presidential campaign.”

Advocates for Obama, as for oth-er candidates who are positioning themselves as outsiders to Wash-ington’s political culture, like to say that the range of their life experi-ences makes them more fi t for of-fi ce than those who have spent their careers in government. In Obama’s case, that resume includes stints as a community organizer, law profes-sor, civil rights attorney and eight-

year member of the Illinois state Senate.

Obama’s allies also assert that a wealth of government experience did not make Vice President Dick Cheney or former Defense Secre-tary Donald Rumsfeld any wiser in confronting the nation’s prob-lems. And Obama launched his campaign from Springfi eld, Ill. — a city identifi ed with Abraham Lin-coln — perhaps to remind voters that one of the country’s greatest presidents had little Washington experience before he reached the White House. Lincoln had served one House term and 12 years in the Illinois Legislature.

Among conservative voters, ex-perience is prized. “Republicans generally believe, particularly con-servatives, that we are electing a wartime president, so experience will be critical,” said GOP political consultant Christopher Barron. “It’s one of the reasons you continue to see someone like Rudy Giuliani over-performing among conserva-tives who disagree with him on a litany of social issues.”

Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and federal prosecutor, built a national reputation as a steady leader after the Sept. 11 attacks. He leads in several early polls of Repub-lican voters.

Transcript points up discrepancies in Muslim charity case


title, the Bears will need to dupli-cate the defensive prowess they showed in the Ivy Tournament and in the fi rst three quarters of Satur-day’s game against Hartwick. They will also need to avoid the letdown suffered at the end of Saturday’s contest.

“We played three quarters of great water polo against Hartwick, and we will continue to work hard this week on conditioning and tight-ening up our offensive strategies,” said co-captain Elizabeth Balassone ’07. “There is no doubt that we have a great opportunity for a fi rst place fi nish at ECACs.”

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DPS will also launch offi cer-stu-dent dialogue opportunities as part of its Diversity Awareness Develop-ment Initiative. Nuey said the depart-ment would begin a pilot program in early March with two black student organizations. The dialogues will be small, with fi ve offi cers, fi ve stu-dents and predetermined questions generated by both groups.

“The idea is to offer this as a mechanism where we can go to a special interest group and say, ‘We want to engage in productive dia-logue with you,’” Nuey said.

DPS has also introduced addi-tional crime prevention events. The department’s “Know More!” crime awareness and prevention sessions teach community members how to enhance personal safety. DPS repre-sentatives also update participants on resources and services from oth-er departments on campus during the one-hour presentations.

According to Nuey, the depart-ment hopes to hold one session ev-ery other week. The next session will be held on March 7.

In addition, Nuey said residential

counselors have expressed interest in hosting safety presentations in residence halls. Last semester, of-fi cers held pizza-making sessions in Barbour and Minden halls to ad-dress student questions. Nuey said DPS would like to continue the ses-sions this semester and hopes to be-gin presentations in dorms by mid-March.

DPS has also announced the Brown Building Security Initiative, a campus security program. Accord-ing to Nuey, enhancing workplace security has been an ongoing effort, but giving the program a name this semester “really structured the pro-cess for us.”

“It’s a formal system for address-ing this issue,” Nuey said. “It lets de-partments know that it’s a resource for them to use if they have a secu-rity concern about a building.”

Nuey said DPS is continually looking for ways to “reach out to the community around us.” As part of this effort, the department has partnered with the Brown chapter of Habitat for Humanity, and six of-fi cers will join students in building a house for a low-income family next month.


DPS reaches out to campus

D.C., and ultimately BET.The former sixth-grade class

president said she developed “a fi rm sense of self” growing up in a segregated but “proud” middle-class black community.class black community.class black

“We were so proud of our seg-regated high school that when integration looked like it was in-evitable, we held ‘Save the Black School’ rallies,” she said, add-ing later that she had led some of those rallies. “We didn’t need oth-ers to tell us we were smart … or articulate,” she said.

Lee described her years at Brown as “some of the happiest moments of my life” and said she fostered her entrepreneurial spirit studying abroad in Southeast Asia her junior year.

After fi ve years with the “white

shoe” Washington law fi rm Step-toe & Johnson, where Lee worked on the BET account, she left to join the cable network “no one thought would last” as its fi rst full-time in-house lawyer. Given cable television’s then-murky future, the career move was risky.

“You get to a point in life where you have to really make decisions for yourself and you have to fi gure out what you really want to do,” she said. “I took a step back and said ‘this is something that I want to do, even though I don’t know whether it will be successful.’ ”

Twenty years later, as chair-man and CEO of BET Networks, which she said reaches more than 100 million households through various media outlets, Lee said the company is at a crossroads again. As viewers rely increasingly on new technologies for entertain-

ment, Lee said BET is pursuing fresh sources of revenue — for ex-ample, making the network’s con-tent available through iTunes and Verizon VCast.

As she steers the company’s ef-fort to reinvent itself, Lee said she is relying on her entrepreneurial spirit. Effective leaders, she said, must be “politically savvy to reach the top and entrepreneurial to stay there.”

Responding to a student’s ques-tion about BET’s role in promot-ing negative stereotypes of black Americans, Lee said she and her colleagues “try to strike a balance” when determining each year’s pro-gramming.

“It’s important for us to enter-tain, but we want to educate at the same time,” she said.

Students in the audience told The Herald they enjoyed hearing

Lee’s life story.Renata Sago ’10, who said she at-

tended a predominantly black high school in Chicago, said she related to Lee’s description of her early life. “What she said was inspirational,” Sago said.

Gabriel Doss ’10 said he was glad Lee shared information about her life experiences. “It was an in-teresting choice to focus on her personal story,” he said. “I enjoyed it a great deal.”

Robby Klaber ’07, co-president of the Enterpeneurship Program, said he was “very pleased” with Lee’s speech but did not agree with her assertion that entrepreneur-ship is an exclusively intrinsic trait.

“I don’t think it’s a gene that some people have and some people don’t,” he said. “Entrepreneurship is a way of thinking, and a lot of the qualities that go along with it are

developed over time.”Co-president Young Peck ’07

said he appreciated Lee’s honesty and thought her defi nition of entre-preneurship may be more specifi c than their organization’s.

“I think entrepreneurs can be created. Entrepreneurship is a way of life. It’s a mindset that involves being creative in whatever you do,” he said.

In addition to Lee’s opening address, the forum included a se-ries of smaller panels and closing remarks from John Sculley ’61, a former CEO of both Apple and PepsiCo.

Founded by Brown students in 1998, the Entrepreneurship Pro-gram is a student-run organization that seeks to connect students in-terested in entrepreneurship with successful alumni and business leaders.


BET CEO Lee ’76 stresses value of entrepreneurial spirit, risk-taking in career decisions

we know it,” he said. “It’s the minds that are currently passionate about what they are doing at WBRU and BSR that are going to come up with these ideas.”

As podcasts and streaming ra-dio on the Internet gain popularity, “the whole world is becoming col-lege radio,” Oppenheim said. He added that stations gain audiences through their Internet presence, and that “The mass market as mea-sured by the Arbitron (radio ratings system) is waning.”

Particularly contentious is how college radio stations can balance their commercial interests and role as centers for students to learn and

experiment.“College radio is an experimental

alternative to other media,” Smuly-an said. “(It) allows us to look at the producers of radio in addition to the structure of programming.”

But there are real commercial limitations to college radio, Tann-enwald said. To attract advertisers, radio stations have to appeal to a larger demographic than the 18-25 category and navigate confl ict be-tween acceptance from their larger audience and students’ desire to be creative and try new things.

This issue is particularly rele-vant for WBRU, an independently funded commercial station. BSR was created for students interested in experimenting with alternative

programming whereas WBRU ap-peals to students attracted to the large-scale commercial side of ra-dio, panelists said.

Commercial and non-commercial college radio stations are often at odds because of these differences, Cidre said. “There’s always this idea that BRU has turned into the corpo-rate commercial monster — which we haven’t — and to idealize BSR.”

“We are an educational work-shop, but in order to provide that training and for students to have that experience, the sacrifi ce can be playing My Chemical Romance or another band in that genre,” Ci-dre said.

“College radio at its best is a space for new ideas to grow unin-

hibited by the audience’s demands,” Sigal said. But college stations must also manage other interests such as providing a service to the communi-ty and providing local programs that can’t be found elsewhere, he said. The relationship works both ways, Sigal said, as community members teach students about the area and students learn from their listeners’ experiences.

The representation of minori-ties on the airwaves also came up in panelists’ discussion. One audi-ence member, a Brown alum in-volved in creating WBRU’s Sunday hip-hop program 360°, said that, though some people don’t like the hip-hop show, college radio intro-duces people to different genres of

music. “You may have some people say ‘I don’t want to hear 360,’ but the music is not necessarily a mystery to them.”

Most of the audience members were Brown college radio alums or current interns who enjoyed the discussion. Jim Brennan ’69 said he came to see old friends and remem-ber his college days. “I spent an enormous amount of time at WBRU, to the detriment of my academic ca-reer,” he said.

“The panel itself was a good di-versity of people,” said Anit Jindal ’09, station manager for WBRU. “There were a lot of really relevant alumni. It was good to sit down in an open forum and discuss these things.”


Future of college radio debated by alums, WBRU and BSR student leaders

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the blue line, Sean Muncy ’09 and Dersch capitalized on the ensuing two-on-one advantage.

RPI struck back at 13:34, beat-ing goaltender Dan Rosen ’10 on a rebound on an Engineer power play. Just 2:24 later, forward Jeff Prough ’08 regained the lead, scoring off a pass from forward Brian McNary ’08. McNary has a point in six consecutive games. But Brown’s lead was short-lived. RPI knotted the game at two at 17:11 of the fi rst.

After the intermission, the En-gineers scored back-to-back goals 24 seconds apart at 4:19 and 4:43 of the second, staking them to a 4-2 lead. Bears’ forward Chris Poli ’08 buried a puck in the net just 46 seconds after the second RPI goal though, narrowing the RPI lead to 4-3 at 5:29. Forward Aaron Volpat-ti ’10 assisted on Poli’s goal.

After 10 minutes of scoreless play, the Engineers padded their lead with another goal to take a 5-3 lead just before the end of the second period.

“We had a good fi rst period,” said Muncy. “But then we just kind of fell apart. We came out looking fl at. And then they got a lucky goal, which defl ated us. We never really got our energy back.”

During the intermission, Rosen was replaced by Mark Sibbald ’09. After a number of solid saves, Sib-bald was fi nally cracked when an RPI player scored on a breakaway at 7:35, increasing the Engineers’ lead to 6-3. But the Bears respond-ed once again as Prough scored just 1:03 later to bring Brown back into the game

After another minute of back-and-forth play, Prough gained possession of the puck after an RPI turnover and passed it to for-ward Sean McMonagle ’10, in the middle of the offensive zone. Mc-Monagle fi nished the pass into the back of goal for his third goal of the year and his sixth point in as many games, narrowing the RPI lead to 6-5 at 5:46.

Brown kept the pressure on the Engineers, holding the puck in their defensive zone for almost the entire three minutes remain-ing in the game. Bruno was un-able to net a tying goal, losing 6-5. The loss ended Brown’s chances of hosting a fi rst-round series in the ECAC tournament.

“I think we played pretty well, overall,” said Head Coach Roger Grillo. “Friday night, our defen-sive play was lacking, but the for-wards were great. They’re putting

up some really big numbers late-ly, and that’s good to see because that wasn’t really our strength ear-lier in the season. We just need to get back to defense, which has tra-ditionally been one of our best ar-eas. If we can do that, we can beat anybody.”

Brown responded to the set-back with a strong effort in Satur-day’s regular season fi nale. Union and Brown played an even fi rst period, with each scoring on the power play. McNary scored the fi rst goal of the game at 2:39 with Brown on a two-man advantage. Prough sent the puck back to de-fenseman David Robertson ’08 at the blue-line, who hit McNary with a pass at the bottom of the left face-off circle. McNary buried the pass for his seventh point in as many games.

“We opened the game skating, playing more consistently, not just at the start but throughout all the periods,” Muncy said.

Union evened the score at 10:41, sneaking a puck past Sib-bald. Brown regained its lead 46 seconds into the second pe-riod when Robertson picked up a rebound off a Muncy blast and knocked the puck into an open net.

The fi nal goal of the game was an empty-net goal scored by for-ward Devin Timberlake ’10 with 1:55 left in the third period. The 3-1 win was Sibbald’s second of the season.

The Bears fi nished the regular season in 11th place and will trav-el to Princeton next weekend for a best-of-three series in the fi rst round of the ECACHL playoffs.

“Of course, now there’s added pressure,” Poli said. “It’s impor-tant to just try not to think about that going into the games. Princ-eton is a very good team and they’ve earned their position up there at the top of the rankings. We’ll just try to play them tough and if we do, we will defi nitely match up well against them and come out on top.”

In the regular season, Brown lost at Princeton, 3-2 in overtime, in the fi rst meeting and tied the Tigers, 1-1 at home, in early Feb-ruary.

“I feel confi dent against any team in the league at this point,” Grillo said. “There’s really not much difference between teams. One more win, or two more points anywhere, and we’d be playing at home. All the teams are really close. If we play the way we’re ca-pable of playing, we could go all the way.”

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Brown tries to do. Or maybe the opposition’s hot shooting was a result of the Bears running out of gas in the second half of its games. Regardless, defending the trey should be a big part of Bru-no’s practice regimen this week.

Not your typical Ivy League scor-ing leader

When people think about of-fense in Ivy League basketball, they tend to think of backdoor cuts and a bunch of undersized players hoisting three-point shots. Though he is profi cient in both shooting and cutting, McAndrew is much more than a standstill shooter. He takes his opponent off the dribble, gets to the hoop and gets to the foul line.

In Saturday’s loss to the Big Red, McAndrew went into the sec-ond half wanting to attack, attack, attack, and he brought his team to within three before he suc-cumbed to cramping and the team succumbed to Cornell.

Good hustleYou know those crowd favor-

ites who seem to come up with loose balls and important re-bounds that energize the team and the fans? Well, before long, Robinson could fi nd himself with an army of such players.

For much of the season he has preached the value of getting af-ter an opponent and not ever let-ting up, and it defi nitely looks like his players have bought into that mentality. They rarely take a break from their full-court pres-sure, hit the fl oor for every loose ball and aren’t afraid to play a physical game in general.

Two hustle guys that Brown will rely on next season are Chris Skrelja ’09 and Steve Gruber ’10. Skrelja can guard any man on the fl oor and may yet emerge as Brown’s best rebounder. He had fi ve offensive rebounds in Fri-day’s win over Columbia. Gruber is an absolute pest to ball handlers in Brown’s pressure defense, and in recent weeks Robinson has

turned to him several times when his team has needed a boost.

Getting bigger and redderCornell is just a really good

team, and they have been since I started following Ivy League basketball freshman year. Head Coach Steve Donahue runs a re-ally scary offense up in Ithaca, and he seems to reload with good players each year. His latest stars are both great shooters, and un-fortunately for Brown and the rest of the Ivy League, they’re only freshmen.

Both Ryan Wittman and Louis Dale fi nished with 22 points in Sat-urday’s 12-point win, and it seemed like neither missed in the second half. Dale in particular was on fi re, going 5-of-5 from beyond the arc in the fi nal 20 minutes. It will be interesting to see if both Brown and Cornell fi nd themselves fi ght-ing at the top of the Ancient Eight standings next season and what role Skrelja and Gruber and Witt-man and Dale have for Brown and Cornell, respectively.


arc. The Lions shot 9-of-13 from three-point land in the second half, hitting both open and contested shots from every spot on the court. But the Bears countered with Huff-man, who fi nished the game with six treys and 22 points.

“Every year I seem to go out and do really well against Colum-bia,” Huffman said. “Freshman year, I had my career high (17), sophomore year I had my career high (23), and this time around was a really good game … those fi rst two threes that I hit really gave me confi dence. Anytime you start out the game hitting shots, you really get into a rhythm.”

After beating Columbia, Satur-day’s game against Cornell was an opportunity for the team to add to its three-game winning streak and even its Ivy League record.

But the Bears’ fi rst-half play versus the Big Red was a far cry from their machine-like disman-tling of Columbia in Friday’s fi rst period. The Bears committed 10 turnovers in the fi rst half against Cornell, one less than their total against Columbia for the game. Despite the team’s sloppy play, Brown found itself down only 24-20 at the 5:18 mark after a 6-0 run capped by a breakaway layup from Becker. But the Big Red combined

steady free-throw shooting with easy layups to take a 33-22 lead into the break.

In the second half, the Bears came out with a burst of energy. The team cut the Big Red lead to seven just 2:33 into the second half on the strength of a three-pointer by McAndrew. But it seemed every time the Bears trimmed the defi cit, the Big Red would respond with a three-pointer to restore its lead.

With 8:58 left, Becker led an ag-gressive full-court press and Steve Gruber ’10 came up with a steal and a fast-break layup to draw with-in three, 54-51. But then Cornell freshman and leading scorer Ryan Wittmann buried a three from the corner.

“Once we went in at half time (we) came out with a little more fi re,” Robinson said. “You make your run and you hope you slow them down a bit, but they just kept coming.”

Just 30 seconds later, the in-tensity of the game boiled over when McAndrew was fouled hard on a drive to the basket. A Cornell player fell to the ground, and play-ers on all sides jawed at each other. Becker received a technical foul for his role in the incident.

“I was turned the other way, and (a Cornell player) had his foot on Mark McAndrew’s chest, and it looked like it was coming down

like he was stepping on him,” Becker said about the incident. “So I pushed him off, and just then the ref looked, so that’s why I got the technical.”

After Wittman converted the technical free throws, Cornell freshman point guard Louis Dale hit three pointers on two of three possessions and Wittman hit an-other three to push the Big Red lead to 12 at the 6:08 mark. Brown would get no closer the rest of the way.

McAndrew led the Bears with 33 points, including 27 in the sec-ond half, for a career-high. McAn-drew scored most of his points on drives to the basket, saying that the team “needed to be aggressive and I made a concerted effort to do that.”

Though Becker was disappoint-ed to end his home career with a loss, he said he was satisfi ed with the team’s effort.

“For my last game, it was a good ending because there was a lot of action and the crowd was really into it,” Becker said. Becker fi n-ished the game with seven points, four steals, three assists and two rebounds.

Next week the team hopes to end its season on a high note with a trip to Princeton and the Ivy League-leading University of Pennsylvania.

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EDITORIAL & LETTERSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2007PAGE 10

The news streaming out of University Hall this weekend is a strong reminder that the University is on the move — it is spend-ing more, hiring more, building more and doing more. The Brown of today looks very different from the Brown of just fi ve years ago, and leaders in University Hall and on the Corporation are guiding the University on a trajectory that leads to a much larger, more ro-bust and more complex institution.

Many of the initiatives adopted by the Corporation this week-end address long-standing campus or institutional needs that mat-ter to students. The plan to overhaul Faunce House to create a campus hub that will be open around-the-clock fulfi lls a goal that has been on President Ruth Simmons’ radar since her fi rst day at Brown. The creation of a social-choice fund has long been ad-vocated by students, and more money — a 40 percent boost over the next four years — will fi nally be allocated to fi nancial aid for international students, which we have advocated as a top fundrais-ing priority.

But all of this aggressive spending requires aggressive fund-raising. The complicated $700 million budget for the next fi scal year calls for increased revenues from a variety of areas, including the continued success of the Campaign for Academic Enrichment and a greater payout from the endowment. But one source of fund-ing that the University shouldn’t count on to support its capital ini-tiatives is undergraduate tuition. Many cash-strapped undergrad-uates are already buckling under the weight of the $45,000 burden they face each year on College Hill.

University offi cials stress the importance of fi nancial aid as a key institutional goal, and tremendous progress has been made in the few years since the Plan for Academic Enrichment was craft-ed. Indeed, the University calls fi nancial aid “long (one) of the fast-est growing expenditure categories,” and the new budget increas-es the fi nancial aid allocation by 10 percent to $56.9 million.

But a boost to fi nancial aid isn’t enough to address the serious concerns about the rising cost of a college education. Slowing tu-ition increases won’t affect the University’s ability to attract stu-dents from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, but it will ease the burden for much of the student body, including the nearly 40 per-cent of fi nancial aid recipients who told The Herald in 2006 they were dissatisfi ed with their packages.

We know the fi ve-percent tuition increase is in step with virtu-ally all peer institutions — the College Board reported that tu-ition and fees jumped 5.9 percent nationally for the next academic year at private four-year colleges and universities — and that the University can’t afford to hold off on tuition increases. We know Brown lacks the fundraising muscle and mammoth endowments of Harvard, Princeton and Yale. It’s unrealistic to expect the Uni-versity will be the fi rst to halt, or at least slow, tuition increases.

Still, as each February adds a few extra thousand dollars to the tuition bill and the Corporation demonstrates a commitment to bold initiatives, we hope quashing the rising tuition that students are asked to pay each year ranks high among the University’s in-stitutional priorities.

To the Editor:

To the Editor:

I am writing in response to Jon Bogard’s ’09 column (“Asians are not discriminated against,” Feb. 22). I ap-plaud Bogard for pointing out that a study that consid-ers only race and SAT scores is woefully incomplete.

However, I have to point out a signifi cant error in Bogard’s reasoning. He writes, “To affi rmatively val-ue one quality is not to discriminate against those who do not have that quality.” However, as any economist will tell you, this is not the case if one is allocating a

limited resource, such as Brown University accep-tance letters. The admissions process is a zero-sum game, and consequently a preference for those in a particular group is logically equivalent to discrimina-tion against those not in the group.

Casey Marks ‘01.5 GSFeb. 22

I am writing to express my surprise and disappoint-ment with Brown for entertaining an application from, much less recruiting, Reade Seligmann, one of the Duke lacrosse players involved in last year’s rape in-cident. Irrespective of whether he is guilty or inno-cent of the particular charge, he exercised fl agrantly bad judgment by remaining at the party where these events occurred, and a total absence of character by

not intervening and putting a stop to it. For an institu-tion such as Brown that rightly prides itself on its so-cial conscience, it’s beyond reproach how it can admit someone who lacks any.

Peter Friedman P ’07Feb. 22

In response to Wednesday’s editorial on the vigils at the offi ce of Rethe offi ce of Rethe offi ce of R p. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., (“A messy debate,” Feb. 21) I am writing to thank The Herald for acknowledging the efforts of Military Families Speak Out, R.I. Declaration of Peace and Operation Iraqi Freedom members to bring the war to an end. However, I reject the idea that the aim or motivation of However, I reject the idea that the aim or motivation of However, I reject the idea thatthe protest were in any way convoluted. Our purpose was simple: to end the war by taking away the fund-ing. Our troops are only infl aming the confl ict and the situation will not improve with our troops there, a fact the British have acknowledged in the explanation for their partial pullout. Defunding the war would require President Bush to recall the troops before the current funding runs out in 10 months.

It would be hypocritical for Congress to simultane-ously be against the war but still fund it.

If our representatives want to end the war, as Ken-

nedy and Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., now say they do, they have the perfect opportunity to take a very sim-ple, straightforward action: block the bill to increase the money for the war. Our presence was meant to show our representatives that Rhode Islanders are committed to supporting them in taking a politically courageous action in keeping with their stated views.

While the war might be a sticky situation, those of us who participated in the vigils this week did so be-cause we strongly believe that the right fi rst step to-ward solving it is to take away the money for it.

Ingrid O’Brien ‘07Operation Iraqi FreedomR.I. Declaration of Peace

Feb. 22

To the Editor:

Next on the agenda

Brown shouldn’t recruit Duke’s Seligmann

Bogard ’09 misses admission as a zero-sum game as a zero-sum game as a

Iraq protest’s logic not convoluted

The United States stands at a critical geopoliti-cal crossroads. The next year will determine whether the United States attains the position of power broker or sees its power break. The current situation in Iraq underscores an un-fortunate adage: politicians rarely make effec-tive strategists. In order for the United States to buttress its strategic interests and national security needs, minimize its military casual-ties and wartime expenditures and strength-en its regional infl uence, it must repudiate de-mocracy building and return to a realist mind-set. A new vision for Iraq and the Middle East is necessary if U.S. fortunes are to improve.

Iran’s nuclear ambitions and regional aims must be addressed in any serious discussion of Iraq. The regime in Tehran faces a number of serious challenges in its nuclear develop-ment. The quality of the nuclear fuel at the Bushehr and Isfahan facilities is dubious, as are the centrifuges necessary for uranium en-richment. The lack of a delivery mechanism is another problem, which is underscored by a few comparisons. South Africa began its nuclear program near the end of World War II and tested its fi rst device only in 1976. It should be noted that the country had a well-funded and advanced research and develop-ment core, large territorial uranium deposits and near-perfect secrecy. According to the In-stitute for Science and International Security, the fi rst bomb measured a gargantuan 4.5 me-

ters in length and weighed 3,400 kilograms. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists reported that China, a state with a $700-billion trade surplus and a standing army of over 2.3 million, has produced only 80 land-based weapons after 40 years of nuclear development. Given Iran’s low uranium deposits, dearth of trained scien-tists and 11 percent unemployment rate, his-torical precedent should cause us to question our hysteria. Whatever weapon Iran does pro-duce, it will simply be too large to hand to indi-vidual terrorist groups. Iran’s nuclear drive is not aimed at global apocalypse, but at sustain-ing an increasingly tenuous regime.

Iran’s aims are almost purely regional. Shackling Western diplomacy with its public provocations and military posturing, it has made tremendous inroads on the Arab street. The regime has expanded its infl uence in Lebanon by footing the bill of last summer’s confl ict between Israel and Hezbollah, signed military cooperation pacts with Syria and funds the Shiite United Iraqi Alliance in Iraq. While problematic, this situation presents an opportunity for U.S. strategists. It was Iran that backed the Northern Alliance against the Taliban more than fi ve years before Enduring Freedom. Tehran fears a success of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, perhaps more than we do. It is especially eager to augment its position at the expense of its chief Sunni rival to the west and the second regional player of signifi cant importance — Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia’s relations with the United States are heavily one-way. The threat ema-nating from Riyadh could be traced back to 1925, when the House of Saud captured

Mecca and Medina to become the domi-nant political force in the Arabian Peninsula. The victory was achieved in part due to Mu-hammed Saud’s alliance with the followers of Muhammed Abd bin-Wahhab, the founder of Salafi sm, considered among the most funda-mentalist strains of Sunni Islam. In 1979, Kho-meini’s rise in Iran and the seizure of sensi-tive parts of Mecca by extremist elements led the Saudi royal family to make what former C.I.A. Director James Woolsey called a “Faus-tian bargain” with the Salafi clerics. The roy-als ceded most educational, religious and cul-tural authority to the clerical elite in return for increased legitimacy and fewer investigations into state corruption. Presently, the Saudi roy-als are largely shunned on the Arab street as apostates and Western sell-outs, forcing them further into the arms of the clerics.Twenty-fi ve percent of state GDP is set aside for so-called “patronage projects,” largely bribes to tribal and religious leaders as well as the export of Salafi sm across the globe. The bil-lions of Saudi Riyals spent on such efforts, which include complete or partial funding of over 200 Islamic centers, 1,500 mosques and 202 colleges were publicly acknowledged by the royal family. According to the think-tank Fredom House, King Fahd, the main mosque in Los Angeles, has been directly staffed by Saudi offi cials. Fifteen of the 19 Sept. 11, 2001 hijackers were Saudi nationals. Right up un-til the U.S.-led invasion, the U.S.’s trusted “al-lies” in Saudi Arabia were directly equipping and fi nancing the Taliban. The Saudis pose a distinctly transnational threat, and to a US fi ghting an ideological confl ict and defending

far-reaching global interests, a more lethal danger than Iran’s regional aspirations.

Having positioned the chief players, we re-turn to Iraq. The United States should move toward trade and diplomatic normalization with Tehran, perhaps engaging in limited mil-itary cooperation. The Saudis, heavily divided about supporting the Sunni insurgency be-tween clerical hardliners and wealthy coastal Shiites, would be pushed to step up aid.

Accepting Riyadh, and not Tehran, as the chief threat to US interests, Iran would be al-lowed to consolidate a sphere of infl uence in the Shia south. The Saudis would be pressed to create a sphere of infl uence in Anbar Prov-ince. U.S. troop deployment could be re-duced from 133,000 to less than 50,000, with bilateral negotiations beginning with Turkey on a package of fi nancial and military incen-tives to allow for a maximum of Kurdish au-tonomy and a minimum of tolerance for the increased troop presence. Iraq’s collapse into three pieces and a Saudi-Iranian balance co-ordinating a massive proxy sectarian confl ict would completely change U.S. fortunes. The Saudis would have to divert funding to check Iranian infl uence and a feigned embracing of Tehran might convince them to stop seeing their relations with the United States as a one-way street. Iranian regional infl uence would be weakened, a split from Syria made more likely and its nuclear program delayed. The United States could emerge as a major region-al power broker and frame Iraq into a larger balance of power strategy.

Boris Ryvkin ’09 wants to be a politikian.

Brown Jug, move over. The Brown Spectator is now the premier humor magazine on cam-pus.

For those of you who don’t know, the Spec-tator is a right-wing magazine that appears at the Ratty more and more often these days thanks to a few Brown alums who started a fundraising operation called the Foundation for Intellectual Diversity (motto: “ideas with-out labels”). The offi cers of the foundation in-clude Travis Rowley ’02, whose book “Out of Ivy” is a heart-rending account of his brutal victimization at the hands of the campus left.

Ideally, a conservative magazine like the Spectator would provide a welcome counter-point to Brown’s prevailing “liberal ortho-doxy.” Instead, the latest issue of the publica-tion that calls itself “a journal of conservative and libertarian thought” is a hilarious mix of bad writing, bad arguments and other crimes against journalism.

Editor in Chief Pratik Chougule ’08 leads the charge with two classic conservative-as-eternal-victim narratives. In “Teaching Re-publicans: Dogmatism at the Brown Alumni Magazine,” Chougule takes aim at the BAM for printing two letters to the editor respond-ing to a recent cover story on campus poli-tics.

Chougule was one of a handful of students featured in the BAM cover story, and both let-ter-writers criticize his comments about Iraq and Iran. In his Spectator article, Chougule asserts the letters have a “totalitarian tone” (whatever that means) and writes, “most gall-ing … is the Brown Alumni Magazine’s deci-sion to publish only these two letters. While I am certainly speculating, I think it is fair to

assume that (Howard) Karten ’65 and (Sara) Silberman ’63 were not the only alumni to send letters to the editor.” Chougule reinforc-es his anti-totalitarian credentials with the as-sertion that “reeducation in journalistic integ-rity wouldn’t be such a bad idea for the edi-tors at the Brown Alumni Magazine.”

I went ahead and asked BAM editor and publisher and known pinko Norman Bouch-er about the letters — something Chougule could have done instead of “certainly specu-lating.” Here’s what Boucher wrote me via e-mail: “The letters we printed were the only ones we received about the article.” Oops.

Who is it, again, that needs reeducation in journalistic integrity?

Chougule’s other article, titled simply “Sharia Law,” takes on the Nonie Darwish speaker controversy. Darwish is an “Arab feminist” who gave an emotional, somewhat loony speech earlier this month about the threat of radical Islam. Chougule tells his ver-sion of the story of how Darwish’s initial invi-tation to speak was withdrawn by Hillel.

His is a lurid tale of radical Islamist cen-sorship. “When Hillel announced its decision to invite Darwish to speak, the Brown Uni-versity Muslim Students Association prompt-ly insisted that Hillel rescind the invitation. Their reasoning: Darwish is ‘too controver-sial.’ After a brief period of internal debate, Hillel buckled and withdrew its invitation.” Chougule doesn’t cite any source for his “too controversial” quote or, for that matter, any of his narrative. The kicker, however, comes lat-er: “In successfully pushing to silence a wom-an ... simply for voicing grievances against Is-lamic radicalism, the Muslim Students Asso-ciation sends an unequivocal message: Mus-lims who defend Israel and America in the War on Terrorism … are anti-Muslim.”

That’s quite a condemnation. Our poor Muslim Students Association really comes

across as an al-Qaida sleeper cell. If Chou-gule had bothered to spend two minutes on Google before breathlessly alerting us that the Brown MSA hates Israel, he would have found an offi cial University statement from December that dispels all of his allegations: “It has been reported in many venues that the Muslim Students Association voiced ob-jections to the original idea of bringing Ms. Darwish to the Brown campus. That is not, in fact, true. The Muslim Students Associa-tion was not approached as a group about the event nor did they express any objection to her speaking at Brown. Any representations to the contrary are false.”

Hmm. The only mystery left is where Chougule got his false narrative. It turns out some right-wing commentators in the na-tional media, including CNN talk show host Glenn Beck, picked up the Darwish story late last year. Unsurprisingly, while scoring cheap talking points on a campus story, the pundits got some basic facts wrong, including the (non) role of the Muslims Students Associa-tion. Chougule apparently decided that Beck, who once described himself as “a recovering alcoholic rodeo clown with limited educa-tion,” was a good source for campus news. So much for “Sharia Law.”

Unfortunately, Chougule’s not the only Spectator writer to suffer from a trigger-hap-py keyboard. Managing Editor Jason Carr ’09 has a thought-piece in the latest issue called “Asian-Americans in Admissions: When Suc-cess Breeds a Backlash.”

Surely this is a complex issue that de-serves a nuanced treatment, especially be-cause Brown admission data is not public, meaning that any speculation about discrimi-nation is, well, speculation.

The argument Carr delivers instead is vintage Spectator. He begins by seeming to quote our own admission offi cer: “according

to Brown Dean of Admission James S. Miller ’73, the University works to achieve, ‘selec-tion by a personal estimate of character on the part of the admission authorities, based on the probable value to the college and to the community of his admission.’”

Except Carr immediately reveals that the quote is from 1926, and the speaker not our own James S. Miller but A. Lawrence Lowell, former president of Harvard University — “that rabidly anti-Semitic institution of yore [sic].” Whoah! Bet you weren’t expecting that one. Rather than actually quoting Miller, Carr puts words from a completely different con-text in his mouth — a context which happens to be anti-Semitic. No explanation is neces-sary. The analysis is damning.

I can’t cover the whole magazine here, only encourage you to fl ip through and share a few guffaws with your friends. “Panda Porn” is a strange, extended analogy involving Sex Power God and Chinese pandas having sex. There’s another piece arguing Israel should put the peace process “on the ash heap.” There’s an article taking on the Red Terror (“Thievery as Public Service: Understanding Communism”) approximately 20 years after everyone stopped caring. All of this from a publication that bestows the title “editor” on twenty-fi ve individuals.

What’s worse, this column will probably infl ame the magazine’s misplaced sense of victimhood. Seriously though, if the Specta-tor is the cutting edge of “intellectual diver-sity” at Brown, can someone please tell me how to opt out?

Former Herald Executive Editor Justin Elliott ’07 is actually an alumnus from Yale. His real

name is Martin Silberman. We apologize to our readers for any confusion.

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALDMONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2007 PAGE 11

Fact-electual diversity

Iraq: More real and less moralpolitik

BY JUSTIN ELLIOTTGUEST COLUMNISTGUEST COLUMNISTGUEST

BY BORIS RYVKINOPINIONS COLUMNIST

The men’s hockey team traveled The men’s hockey team traveled Tto upstate New York this weekend for two games with playoff impli-cations. Brown faced Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College in its last two ECACHL games and would have had an outside opportunity to host a fi rst-round playoff series with two vic-tories.

But Brown fell 6-5 to the En-gineers on Friday night. Even though the team rebounded on Saturday and defeated the Dutch-men 3-1, it will be heading to Princeton on Friday to face the Ti-gers in the ECACHL fi rst round. The Bears closed the regular sea-son with a record of 10-13-6 over-all, and 6-13-4 in the ECACHL. Both were improvements over last year’s regular season marks of 4-18-7 overall and 3-14-5 in the conference.

The opening period of Friday’s game was full of offensive chanc-es for both teams. Brown and RPI each tallied two goals in the fi rst 20 minutes of play. Captain and forward Sean Dersch ’07, started the scoring at the 7:16, notching a short-handed goal. After an RPI player lost control of the puck at

SPORTS MONDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALDMONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2007 PAGE 12

M. icers beat Union, lose to RPIBY ELIZA LANESPORTS STAFF WRITER

With the Smith Swim Center still closed while the University assess-es the roof’s structural problems, the women’s water polo team trav-eled to Harvard for its scheduled home game on Saturday and lost to No. 13 Hartwick College, 13-7. Though the 20th-ranked Bears held a 7-4 lead with under two min-utes remaining in the third period, Brown allowed nine unanswered goals to fi nish the game.

The loss was Bruno’s fi rst of the season. Previously, the team went 6-0 at the season-opening Ivy Tour-nament on Feb. 10 and 11.

The Bears faced their fi rst Top 20 opponent of the season in Satur-day’s game. For most of the game, Brown appeared to be up to the challenge. Brown jumped out to a 3-1 lead in the fi rst quarter and led 4-2 at the end of the second quarter. In the third quarter, Brown opened up a three-goal advantage at 7-4, but Hartwick responded forcefully.

The Hawks’ Kirsten Hudson scored with 1:38 remaining in the period, and then again with six sec-onds left in the session to cut Bru-no’s lead to 7-6 heading into the fi -nal period.

In the fourth quarter, Hartwick ran away with the victory, erupting for six goals in the fi nal 6:06. The Hawks tied the game with a goal with 6:06 left, and Megan Dahl-Smith put them ahead just 51 sec-onds later with the fi rst of her two goals. Hartwick never looked back, scoring fi ve more times to fi nish off the contest with a convincing 13-7 victory.

“Having a lead late in the game against a highly ranked team is something that is fairly new for us,” said Head Coach Jason Gall. “I

think we were a little too worried about protecting the lead instead of building on it. Hartwick turned up the intensity, and we became less aggressive on offense.”

The Bears received signifi cant contributions from a mix of players, both veterans and underclassmen. Sarah Glick ’10 led the team with three goals, and Lauren Presant ’10 and Paige Lansing ’07 added two goals apiece.

“Sarah Glick and Lauren Pre-sant have raised the level of inten-sity of our team,” Gall said. “They see plays develop and play with a level of intensity that allows them to make game-changing plays. Their teammates have seen this, and in turn everyone is playing with more intensity. For two freshmen to be making this type of impact is very impressive.”

Gall also lauded the play of goal-keeper Stephanie Laing ’10. She blocked 11 shots, including a fi ve-meter penalty shot, and assisted on

two goals.“The blocks that Stephanie made

allowed us to be more aggressive and get open on the counterattack,” Gall said. “Having the confi dence to know that Stephanie is going to block most shots allows us to take more chances on the defensive end, which results in goals for us on the offensive end.”

The Bears’ next competition comes this weekend, when they will return to Cambridge for the ECAC Championships. The Bears are cur-rently ranked behind only Prince-ton in the ECAC. The fi eld contains other talented teams such as Buck-nell University, Harvard and the University of Maryland at College Park. Brown has already claimed two wins against ECAC teams, hav-ing defeated Wagner College 10-8 and Harvard 11-4, both at the Ivy Tournament.

To come away with the ECAC

W. water polo suffers fi rst loss of seasonBY BENJY ASHERCONTRIBUTING WRITER

S P O R T S S C O R E B O A R D

M. hoops fi ghts past Columbia but falls to Cornell on barrage of 3’s

In its last home games of the sea-son, the men’s basketball team beat Columbia 64-59 on Friday but lost to Cornell 79-67 on Sat-urday. The team’s mixed results did not refl ect the effort the Bears put forth in the two games — the last at home for seniors Marcus Becker ’07 and Sam Manhanga ’07. Brown is now 5-7 in the Ivy League, 10-17 overall.

The team staved off some deadly second-half shooting Fri-day from Columbia by making 20-of-23 free throws. On Saturday, the Bears fell behind by 11 but clawed back with gutsy play from Becker and Mark McAndrew ’08. As a re-sult, Head Coach Craig Robinson said he was less disappointed with the Saturday loss.

“The team really wanted to win the game, I mean we all did, and they took (losing) hard,” he said. “So I had to go in there and be a little bit positive because we’ve made so much progress.”

The team began the weekend hosting Columbia in a battle for fourth place in the Ivy League. Da-mon Huffman ’08 started the game with two three-pointers to give the Bears an early 6-3 lead. The teams then traded defensive stops until

center Mark MacDonald ’08 got the team back on track.

MacDonald, who started the weekend’s games in place of Matt Mullery ’10, hit a three-pointer from the corner, then received a pass from Scott Friske ’09 and dunked over John Baumann, Co-lumbia’s leading scorer, a minute later. MacDonald’s strong play gave the Bears a 16-11 lead at the 7:35 mark and ignited a 17-7 run, punctuated by another MacDon-ald slam. As a result, the Bears ended the half with a 28-17 lead.

“I dunked a lot in high school, but I haven’t gotten too many in college, so it felt good,” MacDon-ald said.

In the second half, the Lions’ shooting brought them back from a 14-point defi cit. They closed to within six with 8:59 to play in the half, then cut the Bears’ lead to three with 1:13 to go. But on the next possession, MacDonald re-ceived the ball underneath the basket, converted a layup and was fouled in the process. He hit the ensuing free throw to secure the victory. He fi nished with a season-high 14 points.

The biggest contributor to the Columbia comeback was its marksmanship from beyond the

BY PETER CIPPARONE

SPORTS EDITOR

FRIDAY,DAY,DAY FEB. 23

M. BASKETBALL: Brown 64, Columbia 59W. BASKETBALL: Brown 72, Columbia 69M. ICE HOCKEY: Rensselaer 6, Brown 5

SATURDAY,ATURDAY,ATURDAY FEB. 24

M. BASKETBALL: Cornell 79, Brown 67W. BASKETBALL: Cornell 41, Brown 36EQUESTRIAN: 1st of 10 teams (Wesleyan University Show)M. HOCKEY: Brown 3, Union 1M. LACROSSE: UMBC 12, Brown 11 (OT)

M. SWIMMING: 7th of 9 teams (EISL Champion-ships)M. TENNIS: Brown 7, Navy 0; Brown 6, Buffalo W. TENNIS: No. 25 Vanderbilt 6, Brown 1W. WATER POLO: Hartwick 13, Brown 7

SUNDAY,DAY,DAY FEB. 25

W. LACROSSE: North Carolina 17, Brown 5W. TENNIS: No. 28 Virginia 7, Brown 0M. TRACK: 5th of 8 teams, Ivy League Heptago-nal Championships W. TRACK: 2nd of 8 teams, Ivy League Heptago-nal Championships

Jacob Melrose / Herald File PhotoPaige Lansing ’07 scored two goals in the women’s water polo on Saturday.

Jacob Melrose / Herald File PhotoDavid Robertson ’08 scored the game-winning goal in the men’s hockey team’s 3-1 win over Union on Saturday. Robertson also assisted on the team’s fi rst goal of the game. continued on page 9

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I hadn’t really given much thought to the personal signifi -cance of Saturday’s game against Cornell, but when Mark McAn-drew ’08 asked me after the game

if I was a se-nior and I said yes, I couldn’t help but feel sentimental . It was the last game I would ever cover for The Herald.

While the game doesn’t

mark the end of my tenure as a writer — Mahrtian Encounters will still appear this semester — it will take some time for me to adjust to weekends of not show-ing up early at Stevenson Field, Meehan Auditorium, the Pitzzito-la Center or even the Smith Swim Center, press pass in hand, ready to serve as that token annoying reporter from the campus news-paper.

So for everyone associated with football, men’s basketball, men’s hockey, men’s and wom-en’s soccer, men’s and women’s swimming, men’s and women’s lacrosse and women’s water

polo, I thank you for answering my questions and bringing me inside the game these past four years. It’s been real.

But enough of my self-involved reminiscences — on to the game notes.

Practice pointersI’m sure I don’t need to tell

Head Coach Craig Robinson or anyone on the team about this, but Brown needs to work on de-fending the three-point shot. In Brown’s seven conference home games this year, there have been junctures in every single game where the opponents have shot the lights out from long range. The Columbia and Cornell games were probably the most stinging examples, particularly in the sec-ond half of each game. The Lions and Big Red shot 9-of-13 and 10-of-13, respectively, in the fi nal 20 minutes — and yet Brown man-aged to escape the weekend with a split.

My guess is that the open threes are a consequence of the diffi culty in switching between a full-court press and a 2-3 zone, as

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