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vol. cxliv, no. 102 | Monday, November 9, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891

P PLMBy HAnnAH moSer

SeniorStaffWriter

Students enrolled in the Program

in Liberal Medical Education who

apply to medical schools other

than Browns will oreit the spots

reserved or them, according to a

new policy enacted this week.PLME students received an

e-mail and a letter in their mail-

boxes on Wednesday inorming

them o the change. Starting with

the class o MD applicants who

hope to begin in 2011, students

must inorm the PLME oce by

Sept. 15 o their senior year or

each year they are on deerral i

they intend to apply out. By ap-

plying to other medical schools,

they oreit their spots at Alpert

Medical School, although they

may re-apply to the Med School

by the standard process.

Previously, there was no pol-

icy that addressed applying out,

according to Associate Dean o

Medicine Philip Gruppuso. It was

never an issue, he said, because

usually no more than one student

per year applied out.

However, around ve students

rom the undergraduate class o

2010 are sending applications

elsewhere, Gruppuso said, and

administrators anticipate similar

numbers rom the class o 2011.

Each year, the University enrolls

about 50 PLMEs. Incoming Med

School classes total around 100

students.According to Gruppuso, the

policy was added so that Med

School admissions ocers could

have a clearer picture o how many

spots would be available in the

P, By BriAn mAStroiAnni

SeniorStaffWriter

The intramural soccer team AppliedMath warms up on the eld behind

the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center.

The team members pass a ball back

and orth, each wearing a simple

white T-shirt as his uniorm. But one

player in particular stands out: With

his thinning white hair, Proessor o

Applied Mathematics Basilis Gidas

can easily be distinguished rom his

teammates, who are mostly under-

grads rom the department.

Gidas may seem an unconven-

tional teammate, but he is one o the

many proessors, sta members and

graduate students at Brown who

compete alongside and against

undergrads in intramural sports.

Unlike varsity and club teams,

Y - By DAn AlexAnDer

SeniorStaffWriter

Nothing suggested Brown would

have a high-scoring day against Yale.

Browns oense was shut out against

Penn a week

ago, and Yale

had allowed

just 10 points

against Brown in the last two years

combined. Going into the game, Yales

deense had ranked seventh in the na-

tion in scoring. Now, it ranks 12th.

The Bears (5-3, 3-2 Ivy) put up

35 points and gained 494yards against the Bulldogs

in a 35-21 win Saturday in

New Haven, Conn.

We wanted to prove we are the

best oense in the Ivy League, said

wide receiver Bobby Sewall 10.

The Brown oense, which is typi-

cally pass-ocused, showed its most

balanced attack o the season, gaining

269 yards through the air and 225 on

the ground.

We dont choose to do a balanced

attack, said Head Coach Phil Estes.

Instead, he said, the Bears just took

what Yales deense gave them.

From the rst quarter on, Yale (4-4,

2-3) let the Bears turn to their rush-

ing attack. By the end o the game,

the Bears had 42 rushes and only 31

passes.

Spiro Theodhosi 12, who had just

11 carries this season beore Saturday,

rushed 25 times or 167 yards and one

touchdown.

The key was Theodhosi, Estes

said, adding that he was not surprised

by how well he ran.

Theodhosi, who has been the

second man in the Bears two-back

system this season, stepped into the

leading role when Zachary Tronti 11

sustained an injury that sidelined him

or the rest o the game.

Estes said the injury, likely a torn

ACL and MCL, will probably end

Trontis season, though X-rays have

not come back yet.

Quarterback Kyle Newhall-Ca-

ballero 11 was 23-o-30 passing or

269 yards with two touch-downs and an interception.

He also had our carries or

20 yards rushing and a touchdown.

I think Kyle made some great

plays or us, Estes said. He ran the

ball extremely well.

Newhall-Caballeros avorite threats

on the pass were, as usual, Sewall and

ellow wideout Buddy Farnham 10.

Farnham had six catches or 62 yards

and two touchdowns, while Sewall con-

tributed ve receptions or 61 yards.

But Newhall-Caballeros one in-

terception was a costly one it was

returned or a touchdown by the Bull-

dog deense.

Yales oense ound the endzone twice and added a eld goal.

But they were 0-o-3 on points ater

touchdown.

The Bulldogs gained 345 total

yards but threw three interceptions

Hilary Rosenthal / Heral

Professor of Applie Mathematics Basilis Gias is one of many profes-sors an gra stuents who participate in intramural sports.

Kim Perley / Heral File Photo

PLMEs will now hae to let the Uniersity know of their me school application plans by Sept. of their senior year.

B By ellen cuSHing

SeniorStaffWriter

The Department o Public Saety

reported 111 criminal oenses

occurring on campus and in sur-

rounding areas in 2008, accord-

ing to an annual crime report

released by the department ear-

lier this all.

O those 111, the vast majority,

84, were burglaries. There were

also nine robberies and eight

motor-vehicle thets. There were

ve reported cases o aggravated

assault, our orcible sex oenses

and one case o arson, according

to the report.

Consistent with previous

years statistics, there were zero

reported homicides or negligent

manslaughters.

The report, which is ederally

mandated by the Clery Act, sum-

marizes disciplinary reerrals and

crimes reported to DPS and the

Providence Police or the calen-dar years 2008, 2007 and 2006.

Last years crime statistics rep-

resent a dramatic increase in the

number o reported thets. Last

years 84 burglaries and eight mo-

tor vehicle thets were up rom 54

burglaries and our motor vehicle

thets in 2007.

Mark Porter, director o public

saety, said the rise in thet was

partially attributable to the bad

economy, adding that Browns

statistics were generally consis-

tent with larger trends.

Porter also said 96 percent o

burglaries occurred in unlocked

dorm rooms. We are seeing a

rise in the issue o thet in un-

locked and unattended rooms,

he said.

One student, Ishaan Sethi 13,

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MONdAY, NOvEMBER 9, 2009THE BROWN dAILY HERALdPAGE 2

CMPS wSS f

The following summary includes all

major incidents reported to the Depart-

ment o Public Saety between Oct. 15

and Nov 2. It does not include general

service and alarm calls. The Provi-

dence Police Department also responds

to incidents occurring off campus. DPS

does not divulge inormation on cases

that are currently under investigation

by the department, PPD or the Ofce

of Student Life. DPS maintains a daily

log of all shift activity and general ser-

vice calls which can be viewed during

business hours at its headquarters,

located at 75 Charlesfeld St.

o. 158:27 a.m. Student reported that

she let her room in Hegeman Hall

E on Oct. 14 at 5 p.m. and locked her

room door. When she returned to

her room on Oct. 15 at 1:10 a.m., her

door was unlocked and her room-

mates were asleep in their rooms.

When she entered her room, she

noticed that her laptop computer

was missing rom her desk. One o

her roommates stated that when she

returned to her room at 7:30 p.m. on

Oct. 14, the room door was locked,

but that she let the room door open

ater that time and that she and an-

other roommate went to bed at 10

p.m. They reported that they heard

the room door open at 12:15 a.m.

and thought it was their roommate

coming in and went back to sleep.

o. 18

1:42 a.m. Brown Police were

dispatched to Wickenden Street in

response to a loud party involving

Brown students. Upon arriving, they

met with Providence ocers who

had already dispersed the party. Two

Brown students were issued citations

by the Providence Police.

1:19 p.m. Complainant stated that

between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., someone

broke the passenger-side window

on his rental car at Charleseld and

Brown streets and took his GPS de-

vice rom the dashboard.

2:55 p.m. Upon arrival at GoddardHouse, a Brown police ocer was

met by two student victims. One stat-

ed that she let her room at midnight

and returned home at 2 a.m. and went

to bed. Her door was let unlocked

rom midnight until the time a thet

was discovered. Her roommate was

not in the room during the night. She

returned to her room in the morning.

The items stolen were a laptop and a

pocketbook containing a credit card,

debit card and a key to the room. Fa-

cilities Management was notied and

responded to change the locks.

9:05 p.m. Victim stated that she

and her roommate were out o their

Goddard room between 11 p.m. Oct.

17 and 2 a.m. Oct 18. The door was

let unlocked during that time and

while they slept during the night.

When they heard that their riendsdownstairs had items stolen, they

searched their room and noticed that

their TV accessory that stores music

and rents movies over the Internet

was missing.

o. 23

10:27 a.m. Student stated that he

last saw his bicycle locked to a pole

at 86 Waterman St. on Oct. 22 at 11:30

p.m. On Oct. 23 at 10:27 a.m., he no-

ticed his bicycle and lock missing.

The pole that his bicycle was locked

to was approximately ve eet tall and

is used as a tree support pole so

it was possible that someone pickedup the bicycle and lock over the pole.

o. 26

11:56 p.m. Student stated his wal-

let was stolen rom the game room

in Morris Hall between 11:15 p.m.

and 11:45 p.m. He stated that there

were our unknown males in the room

during that time and that they let the

room beore he noticed his wallet

missing.

o. 27

5:32 p.m. A Brown employee re-

ported that sometime between 3:45

p.m. and 5 p.m., someone smashed

the passenger-side ront-door window

on his vehicle at Prospect and Olive

streets and took a GPS system that had

been mounted on the ront windshield.

o. 31

1:55 a.m. Student reported that,

sometime between 9:15 p.m. on Oct.

30 and 1:50 a.m. on Oct. 31, an un-

known person entered his Bronson

House room and removed several

valuable items. His room door was

locked during this period o time, but

the window was pushed open and the

screen was cut. Items stolen included

a fat-screen TV, a gaming console and

game, a digital camera and a vacuum.

There is a suspect at this time, and

the case is under investigation.

2:51 a.m. Brown student statedthat he and his roommate let their

Grad Center C dorm room around

11:30 p.m. When they returned about

1:30 a.m they noticed that a TV, two

laptops and an iPod were missing

rom the room. They stated that their

dorm room door sometimes does not

close on its own. There were no signs

o orced entry.

10:20 a.m. Student stated that she

let her Machado House dorm room

at about 9:30 a.m. and said her room-

mate was sleeping and that she did

not lock the room door. When her

roommate woke up at about 11 a.m.,

she noticed the reporting partys lap-

top was gone. The roommate saidwhile she was sleeping, she heard

someone enter the room and heard

some shufing at a desk. She thought

it was her roommate returning to get

something. Inside the computer there

were two $20 bills. Also missing was

a black leather computer case. There

is a suspect, and the case is under

investigation.

11:25 a.m. Student stated that at

around 8:30 a.m., an unknown sus-

pect entered his unsecured Sears

House room while he was sleeping.

He thought that the suspect madea mistake and entered the wrong

room. He didnt think anything o it

and went back to sleep. The student

later discovered that he was missing

$80 rom his wallet, which was on

the desk.

1:20 p.m. Student reported that

sometime between 11:30 p.m. on Oct.

30 and midnight on Oct. 31, someone

entered her Gregorian Quad A suite

and took her laptop. She reported

that it had been on the table in the

lounge. The lounge area is just inside

the main entry door, and she reported

that the door to the suite had been let

ajar during the evening.5:05 p.m. Student victim stated

that he let his Grad Center C suite

at 12:30 a.m. He let his door propped

open and went to a party. He re-

turned to his suite at 2:20 a.m. and

closed the door. In the morning, he

noticed that his laptop was missing.

n. 1

2:46 a.m. Sometime between 12:45

a.m. and 1:15 a.m., an unknown per-

son entered a students unlocked Ol-

ney House dorm room and removed

his laptop and speakers. The student

was in the bathroom during this pe-

riod o time.

9:43 a.m. Two students had theirlaptops stolen rom their unattended

Andrews Hall room, which was un-

locked.

6:17 p.m. Ocers were dispatched

to 70 Ship St. or a larceny rom a mo-

tor vehicle. Reporting party stated

she noticed a green pocketbook

on the sidewalk with the contents

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Its surprising an concerning. Aurora durfee 10, on the spike in burglaries in 2008

Strong debut for GLISP bodeswell for second semesterBy leonArDo moAuro

ContributingWriter

The Global Independent Study Initia-

tive, which debuted this semester,

drew 14 participants in its inaugu-

ral run and is looking orward to

receiving a second crop o propos-

als or the spring, said Kendall

Brostuen, director o the oce o

international programs.

To create a project under the Initia-

tive known as a GLISP and similar

to an Independent Study Project or

a Group Independent Study Project

students must design a research

project that they then carry out during

a semester abroad under the guidanceo a Brown proessor. It aims to give

students a chance to remain involved

with Browns aculty and curriculum

while abroad, Brostuen said. Students

also receive a Brown course credit

upon completion o the program.

The program really sets Brown

apart rom other institutions, Bros-

tuen said, adding that Brown is the

rst U.S. school that he knows o to

implement such a program.

GLISP applications or the spring

semester were due last week, but the

Oce o International Programs is

going to try to be very fexible with

the deadline, Brousten said. He said

he expects the program to receiveewer applications in the spring than

it did this all because students did not

have a whole summer to prepare or

it this time around.

In addition to receiving course

credit, GLISP research can also serve

as a oundation or a senior thesis,

Brostuen said, and it can deepen a

student-aculty relationship that might

otherwise be truncated by the semes-

ter abroad.

Students currently complet-

ing GLISPs said they ound the

program valuable.

I thought that conducting a GLISP

might also give me a better idea owhat topic Id like to pursue or my

senior thesis, wrote Marina Irgon

11 in an e-mail to The Herald rom

the Czech Republic. Irgons GLISP

evaluates how the recent economic cri-

sis has maniested itsel in the Czech

Republic.

One o the greatest downalls o

study abroad is the general lack o aca-

demic rigor, Irgon wrote. Conducting

a GLISP is a great way to be academi-

cally productive while abroad.

A GLISP allows students to useprimary resources or resources that

can only be ound in the study-abroad

city or country, wrote Celina Pedrosa

11, who is studying in France this se-

mester, in an e-mail to The Herald.

Her project ocuses on the cultural

impact and social integration o Bra-

zilian exiles in Paris who fed Brazils

dictatorship in the 1970s.

But or some students, the pro-

cess o ormulating a research topic

proves challenging.

For me, the hardest part o the

application process was designing my

own topic, wrote Megan Lin 11 in

an e-mail to The Herald. She is study-ing monetary economic policy in the

United Kingdom at the London School

o Economics.

Proessor o Hispanic Studies Julio

Ortega, who is currently advising Mi-

chelle Levinson 11 on a GLISP she is

doing in Cuba, said a rigorous process

was important to making the projects

valuable. I hope it is dicult that

there are rigorous criteria because

internationalization must be a serious

undertaking or all concerned, he

wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

Though an ocean may divide them

rom their advisees, aculty advisers

are expected to maintain close involve-

ment with students who are doingGLISPs, and they ultimately grade

the nal research paper that emerges

rom the study.

Patricia Symonds, an adjunct as-

sociate proessor o anthropology who

is advising Eleanor Chute 11 during

her stay in China, regularly e-mails

and chats with Chute via Skype and

also responds to specic questions,

Symonds wrote in an e-mail to The

Herald. She also said she is a resource

i Chute is simply eeling the need to

talk to someone at home.

The research proposals are re-

viewed by a committee composed o

members rom the OIP, the CollegeCurriculum Council which also

reviews ISPs and GISPs and the

Oce o the Dean o the College.

The committee did not reject

any GLISP applications or this se-

mester, Brostuen said, but it did ask

some students to clariy specics o

their projects.

We were amazed at the kind

o proposals we were getting,

Brostuen said.

class.

This is totally about our need-

ing to ll the medical school class,

Gruppuso said. Were not trying

to manipulate the careers o the

PLME students.

Students applying to medical

school can normally accept a spot

at one school while remaining on

the waitlist or several others. A

place on the waitlist can open up

as late as the day beore orienta-

tion, and students have the option

to accept it, leaving the rejected

school scrambling to ll the spot.

Guaranteeing PLMEs a spot while

allowing them to apply out, Grup-

puso said, would eectively al-

low them to make Brown their

saety school.

Gruppuso said the Med School

receives between 70 and 80 appli-

cations or each spot in the class,

and or every two students who

inject uncertainty into the pro-

gram we need another inter-

view day.

It actually just became a ne-

cessity or us to be able to ll our

medical school class, Gruppuso

said.

But current PLME under-

graduates, who wont be granted

exceptions, eel the policy violates

the conditions under which they

entered the program, according

to Arune Gulati 11, who serves

on the PLME Senate.

Gulati said the policy, i enact-

ed, should apply only to incom-

ing classes and not to students

who entered the program beore

the change. He said many PLME

students who may have also ap-

plied to similar programs at other

schools made their decisions

based on the programs leniency.

The policy makes a lot o

sense or the medical school, and

I denitely see where theyre com-

ing rom, Gulati said. But now,

he added, theyve changed the

whole game.

Gulati added that some stu-

dents apply out in order to weigh

their options or nancial aid.

The change is especially rus-

trating, he said, or th-semester

juniors who have already prepared

to apply out by taking second-

semester organic chemistry and

paying to take MCAT courses,

neither o which are required by

the PLME guidelines.

It would make perect sense

i people being admitted to the

program knew about the policy

beorehand, Gulati said.

It should not have to aect

the classes who are already here,

said Dominic Wu 12, a class repre-

sentative to the PLME Senate. Wuis not planning to apply out, but he

collected the opinions o several

PLME students and included them

in an e-mail to Associate Dean o

Medicine Julianne Ip, who sent

out the notication letters.

Ip orwarded the e-mail to

Gruppuso, who said he plans to

meet with a group o juniors and

hold a town-hall meeting with rst-

years and sophomores.

Wu said he invited his class-

mates to come and voice their

opinions at the next PLME Sen-

ate meeting on Sunday.

PLM z continued frompage 1

said he was surprised by the num-

ber o burglaries.

I would think it would be like

10, he said. Thats really some-

thing I wouldnt expect.

This years statistics also show

an increase in the number o re-

ported hate crimes on campus

ve in 2008, up rom zero in

2007 and one in 2006. O those

ve, three were classied as van-

dalism and two were classied as

intimidation. All involved race or

religion.

Some students expressed con-

cern about the spike in this type

o crime.

Its surprising and concern-

ing, said Aurora Duree 10. O

course, Id like to expect that

were moving toward a more ac-

cepting environment, especially

at Brown.

But Porter said this uptick

was due to a change in the U.S.

Department o Educations re-

porting regulations, which are

binding on all colleges and uni-

versities participating in ederal

nancial aid programs, including

Pell Grants, Staord Loans and

Perkins Loans.

In past years, intimidation

and vandalism were not report-

able hate crimes, and this pastyear they were, he wrote in an

e-mail to The Herald. He said the

majority o last years hate crimes

were vandalism-related incidents

involving bias and derogatory

grati.

But the number o orcible sex

oenses in 2008 dropped by more

than hal rom 10 in 2007 to

our in 2008.

Vice President or Campus Lie

and Student Services Margaret

Klawunn, whose oce manages

the Universitys sexual assault

resources, wrote in an e-mail to

The Herald that it is dicult to

identiy a single cause or the

drop, especially as sexual assault

is widely known to be one o the

most underreported crimes, both

on and o college campuses.

The DPS report also listed the

number o disciplinary reerrals

or alcohol, drugs and weapons

law violations. In 2008, there were

nine reerrals or weapons viola-

tions, 29 or drugs and 31 or alco-

hol. This represents a departure

rom 2007, when there were 77

reported liquor law violations and

18 drug violations.

While there were no reported

arrests or the 2008 violations,

those ound to be acting out o

accordance with the Universitys

policy are reerred to the Oce o

Student Lie and are subject to the

Universitys disciplinary code.

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intramural teams do not belong toconerences or leagues that compete

in regional or national tournaments,

only playing against other Brown

teams on campus. With 305 teams

in 13 dierent sports, intramural

athletics provide a less competitive

outlet or aculty, students and sta

to leave behind the stress o the

classroom and the workplace.

Ive always viewed intramurals

as something o a recreational out-

let, said Intramural and Facility

Coordinator Diane Yee. School is

more than education. It is about

community bringing students

and sta together.Yee, who participates in intramu-

ral ootball and sotball, oversees the

1,687 members o the Brown com-

munity who play intramural sports

including 167 aculty and sta

members and 482 grad students.

Linda Chernak GS, who is cur-

rently pursuing a Ph.D. in geological

sciences, has been playing or the

departments Rolling Stones soccer

and sotball teams since her rst

year at Brown.

Intramural sports gives us

something to do other than re-

search, Chernak said. It is a nice

break.

Chernak added that she enjoysplaying with her departments ac-

ulty members. It is nice to see

our proessors in a dierent light,

she said.Rachael Mazzella 12 said she

understands why grad students

would want to participate in intra-

murals. As captain o Synapsed,

an intramural soccer team, Maz-

zella has requently played against

grad students.

I love playing intramural soccer,

and i I were three years older, I

would want to have the opportu-

nity to do it still, she said. Its un

or everyone.

The only downside, Mazzella

said, is the higher skill level o some

o the grad students.

I wish it was a more equal dis-tribution o grad students and un-

dergrads, but I wouldnt really say

that it is a big deal, she said. We

all still have un.

Luiz Valente PhD83, associate

proessor o Portuguese and Brazil-

ian studies, has been a dedicated

intramural athlete since 1987, when

he joined the Eulers pronounced

Oilers a hockey team started

by physics graduate students and

named ater the mathematician Le-

onhard Euler.

Growing up in Brazil, Valente

played volleyball and soccer or

most o his lie and did not discover

his love or hockey until he was anundergrad at Bowdoin College. Ev-

eryone at Bowdoin played hockey,

he said.

Valente, who has served as theEulers team captain and also as

a aculty adviser to Browns var-

sity hockey team, said hockey is

one o those sports that once you

start playing it, you never want to

stop.

The Eulers have included a

mix o aculty and students rom

disciplines as varied as music, phi-

losophy and chemistry as well as

some o Valentes students.

Once you are on the ice, you

want to play, Valente said. You

dont think about relationships be-

yond the ice.

This relaxed attitude to sportsdrew Miranda Fasulo to Browns

intramural program as soon as she

arrived on campus as the manager

or planning and special programs

at the Watson Institute or Inter-

national Studies. An athlete in

high school, Fasulo joined Slam,

a womens ve-on-ve basketball

team, looking to nd a break rom

her lie in the oce.

We play or un, she said.

Were serious enough where we

want to win But in the end, we

dont care i we win or lose.

Though the team was started by

an undergrad, over time it came to

include mostly sta and graduate

students associated with Watson.

Fasulo said intramural sports

provide a un way to get exer-

cise and meet other people who

have a passion or sports, as well

as or building the morale o

University employees.

Its great to just get people to

use a gym, period, she said. Its

just a great benet to the sta,

makes them eel young and keeps

them in shape.

But Fasulo said she has ound

the schedule or games which

sometimes start as late as 11 p.m.

inconvenient or sta and ac-

ulty, who have to be ready or work

by 8:30 a.m. the next day. She saidshe is also rustrated by the low

number o women who play intra-

mural sports on campus. Eighty-

one percent o grad students and

83 percent o aculty and sta who

play intramural sports are men, ac-

cording to Yee.

Because o the disproportionate

ratio o male to emale intramural

athletes, Slam is taking a break this

season. Instead, the team members

have been keeping their shooting

skills sharp by playing together

on weekends.

Yee said it has been dicult to

structure the intramural programto acheive a more equal gender

distribution. Having brainstormed

options, including separate leagues

that were all-male, all-emale and co-

ed, the athletics department ound

that intramural athletes preerred

the current system.

The mentality that anyone can

enjoy intramural sports at Brown

is something Gidas particularly

loves about the program. Though

he has been playing soccer with

others rom his department since

the late 1980s, he only made Applied

Math an ocial intramural team

this semester.

The team consists o students,

aculty and a ew visiting scholars

rom all over the world, including

Europe, the United States and South

America, said Gidas, who managed

to rally together a team three hours

beore the applications deadline.

Soccer has held its appeal

to Gidas since his childhood in

Greece.

I was born in, what was at the

time, a third-world country, he

said. Soccer is always somethingyou can play. Even i you dont have

a good ball, you create one.

Gidas added that he sees con-

nections between soccer and math-

ematics. The strategic element o

soccer is part o why I like it, he

said. You have the strategy to avoid

blocking rom other players you

have to make a split-second decision

in response to an opponent who is

quite intelligent.

Back on the eld, Gidas blocks

a member o the opposing team,

moving with the dexterity o a

younger man, and he successully

deends the goal rom the opposingteam. Applied Math triumphs over

the Swedish Medics with a score

o 4-2, continuing its season-long

winning streak, and Gidas high-ves

his teammates, patting them on the

back, joking around.

A good mind is also a good

body, Gidas said. Physical activity

strengthens your mental thinking.

We do have ocial teams here, but

intramural gives the opportunity or

everybody else to participate.


CMPS wS It is about community bringing stuents an staff together diane Yee, Intramural an Facility Coorinator

Hilary Rosenthal / Heral

Intramural teams, such as the Applie Math soccer team (aboe), inclueplayers of all ages. Fun, not wins, is the primary goal.

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spilled out. She determined that the

owner was a grad student. The

victim stated that she arrived at

Ship Street around 5:30 p.m. and

parked her vehicle. She hid her

pocketbook under a vest and put

her GPS in the center console. She

let the GPS holder on the ront

windshield. The victim stated that

$10 was missing rom her pock-

etbook along with her new GPS.

Providence Police took a report,

and there are suspects at this time.

n. 2

5:13 p.m. Student stated that at

3 p.m., he was eating in the Sharpe

Reectory and had his laptop on

the seat next to him. He let at 3:30

p.m. and went home and an hour

later he remembered that he let

his laptop. He returned and spoke

to several workers, but they could

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MONdAY, NOvEMBER 9, 2009 | PAGE 5

Bb By emily KirKlAnD

Contributing Writer

Leavittsburg, Ohio, a new musi-cal written by Nate Sloan 09 that

premieres this Thursday in Browns

Stuart Theatre, brings more than a

year o meetings, readings, rehears-

als and late-night revisions to ruition.

For Brownbrokers the group that

has produced student-written mu-

sicals at Brown or more than 70

years Leavittsburg is the rst

new show since sweeping changes

two years ago that brought more

aculty involvement and department

resources to the program.

Under the new system, each

show spends a year in development

and a year in production, said AaronMalkin 10, a Brownbrokers board

member and the assistant director

or Leavittsburg. Faculty members

direct the shows instead o the stu-

dent directors o past productions. In

addition, the shows budget is con-

siderably larger, said Mike Williams

10, a ellow board member and one

o the musicals leads.

According to Malkin, the Brown-

brokers board received our propos-

als or new shows last December.

O those our, two were chosen or

urther development: Leavittsburg

and Adding Up, by Sarah Kay 10

and Drew Nobile 07. Through col-

laboration between the writers, theBrownbrokers board, Proessor

o Theatre Arts and Perormance

Studies Lowry Marshall and Adjunct

Lecturer in Theatre Arts and Per-

ormance Studies Andy Hertz, the

proposals were transormed into two

ull-length musicals. These were then

given staged readings in late spring.

On the basis o those two readings,

Malkin said, the board and the twoaculty members chose Leavitts-

burg or the all season.

Leavittsburg tells the story o

a girl rom rural Ohio who returns

home or spring break during her

rst year at a prestigious university

in New York City. She brings her

boyriend, an urban sophisticate,

with her. Complications ensue.

The show is based on personal

experience, but its greatly exagger-

ated, said Sloan, a New York City na-

tive who once traveled to Oklahoma

with a girlriend to meet her amily.

As part o the new development

process, Sloan worked closely withaculty mentors and the Brownbro-

kers board in developing the plot and

the characters. Marshall said that

the resulting changes ranged rom

the inclusion o a single joke to the

addition o a chorus that brought the

cast to 22 rom an original six.

There were never any ultima-

tums, just suggestions, Sloan said o

the development process. Invariably

correct suggestions, he added.

I dont want to say I eel blessed,

Sloan said, but I really do eel Ive

been lucky to work with such tal-

ented people.

Marshall, who is directing the

show, was quick with praise orSloans collaborative skills.

Hes voracious in soliciting

advice, Marshall said.

Whas pas s p

Many distinguished writers have

come out o the Brownbrokers pro-

gram. According to the Brownbro-

kers Web site, the group was ounded

in 1935 by Burt Shevelove, who wenton to write A Funny Thing Hap-

pened on the Way to the Forum.

Other alumni include Alred Uhry

58 (who wrote Parade and Driv-

ing Miss Daisy) and David Yazbek

82, who composed scores or Dirty

Rotten Scoundrels and The Full

Monty. A Brownbrokers show by

Stephen Karam 02, Emma, won

the American College Theatre Fes-

tivals Best Musical Award in 2002

and was perormed at the Kennedy

Center in Washington, D.C. Karams

new play, Speech and Debate, was

the second most produced new play

in America last year, according toMarshall.

According to John Emigh, proes-

sor emeritus o theatre arts and per-

ormance studies, the Brownbrokers

program is highly unusual among

Browns peer schools. Student-writ-

ten shows at Harvard, Columbia and

other universities tend to be comic

reviews with skits and songs, not

ull musicals.

Its very uniquely Brown, said

Williams.

But the Brownbrokers program

also has what Emigh called a check-

ered history.

As he put it, Brownbrokers pre-

sented some lovely shows, but alsomany that earned less than rave re-

views and still more that earned

rave reviews they didnt deserve.

There was one show called Ugly

Saaas 12 sps ffa ha f h d

arts inbrief

Taking a break from installing her solo sculpture show

Sunay, Cecilia Salama 12 looke aroun the small gallery

room at the half-ozen works she ha alreay put up. I think

Ie become completely numb to the fact that all this stuff is

gross, she muse.

Gross is in the eye of the beholer. That sai, there is ef-

initely a certain yuck factor to Salamas untitle sculptures,

which are on iew on the secon floor of List Art Center this

week, with a closing reception Thursay eening. They are

mixe meia works, some of which feature glue- or concrete-

cake fabrics contorte into perpetual rumple-ness. Others

are coate with un-colore resin.

An then, of course, theres the hair a surprising

amount of it, Salama sai. She took the bus to Pawtucket in

search of og fur there are no groomers in Proience,

she claime an poune the paement collecting the

sweepings from Thayer Street hair salons. Then she stuffe

the hair big, tangle clos of it into nylon stockings,

creating penular sculptures that swing gently from the ceil-ing an the walls.

Salamas show is the culmination of an inepenent stuy

project on art inspire by the boy. She worke with Paul

Myoa, assistant professor of isual art, who helpe her fin

artistic preceents to respon to, like the messy, organic

works of Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith an Ea Hesse.

After many weeks of research an planning, Salama mae

the works all at once so there coul be a strong ialogue

between them all.

Mostly, I just like experimenting, playing aroun with if-

ferent things, ifferent forms, Salama sai.

You can plan all you like, but you neer know how its go-

ing to turn out, she continue.

For Salama, the shows ominant aesthetic is the contrast

between clean an irty. She sai she use resin to gie

the homely works a kin of sheen, making them more isu-

ally complex.

I still feel like theres something ery beautiful about

it, she sai, looking aroun at her work, een though its

filthy.

Ben Hyman

Kayleigh Butera / Heral

Cecilia Salamas 12 untitle installation art features human ancanine hair, among other meia.

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S CL Theres a kin of elightful uncertainty. dennis Kozee 10, on the prouction of Leaittsburg, Ohio B , By KAyleigH ButerA

ContributingWriter

This weekend, a cruise directors

voice instructed audience members

to sit back and prepare or a journey

o cultural experiences. The cruise

ship was the Salomon auditorium,

and the cultural tour guides were

Browns Mezcla dancers.

Mezcla is a student-run Latino

perorming arts group. The groups

name Spanish or mixture

refects its mission to explore and

convey the diversity and richness o

Latino culture, according to Mez-clas Web site.

Dancer Jennier Gutierrez 12

said Mezcla is just as much about

community as it is about perorm-

ing arts. It unites students through

dance, she said.

True to its mission o mixture,

Mezclas all show, On a Boat,

guided the audience on an interna-

tional cruise o a medley o Latino

dances.

The show was high-energy rom

the very rst port-o-call, Brazil. In

this number, eight emale danc-

ers in jingling belts perormed an

animated samba that set up the

spirited atmosphere or the rest othe night.

The next stop was Venezuela,

where two couples perormed a styl-

ish salsa. The womens red dresses

encircled the dancers as they spun

and fipped over their partners

backs. A playul cumbia dance ol-

lowed, with perormers in traditional

Colombian costume.

Next up was a minor geographi-

cal detour. In a guest appearance,

Badmaash, Browns Indian dance

troupe, took the stage. Dancers

with bells on their ankles and hands

towards the skies drummed their

bare eet on the stage. While this

perormance was unlike the other

dances culturally, its spirit and pas-

sion aligned perectly with the rest

o the evening.

Back on the Latino tour, the au-

dience enjoyed a colorul famenca

perormance whose pace acceler-

ated to a lively rhythm. A Cuban

salsa, complete with playul partner

switching and lits, ollowed the fa-

menca dance.

Browns student mariachi band

made a guest appearance as well.They serenaded the audience with

guitars, violins, trumpets and es-

tive shouts.

Next came a Dominican-style

merengue inused with reggaeton,

a un combination o traditional and

modern dance that refects Mez-

clas ability to combine and unite

diverse elements.

In an interesting twist, guest

perormers Unnatural Selection,

a student break-dancing group,

adapted to the theme o the night. A

ew technical diculties at Fridays

perormance meant that their own

music would not play, but the danc-

ers were not azed, and they went onto break-dance to Latin guitar music.

They adjusted their rhythm, and the

resulting dance was an impressive

and ortuitous cross-cultural

perormance.

Mezcla wrapped up the night

with modern hip-hop dances in ront

o projected graphics o New York

and Puerto Rico. In a nal burst o

color, the dancers walked down the

aisles, waving the fags o the vari-

ous countries whose dance styles

had been perormed.

and a Vegetable, he said. I dont

really remember what it was about,

but it had a lot o puns in it.

Emigh described one year when

the Brownbrokers board was let

without a script. They perormed a

show by Woody Allen instead. An-

other year, they lacked a composer.

So, Emigh said, they borrowed

songs rom satiric songwriter Tom

Lehrer and stitched them together

into a plot.

Proessional musicals usually

spend many years being work-

shopped and revised beore they

are ever produced. But the previous

Brownbrokers program required

students to write, develop and pro-

duce an original musical within a

single calendar year something

Malkin called an impossible

task.

Marshall agreed, calling the

process rantic.

Along with the accelerated

schedule, the old program paired

student-written musicals with oten

inexperienced student directors.

Writers attempting their rst musi-

cal sometimes ended up working

with rst-time directors, Emigh

said, which magnied the inher-

ent challenges in producing new

work.

It was such a hard thing toask o students, regardless o tal-

ent, Marshall said. It was almost

cruel.

th a m. Sa

Sloan said he had benetted

enormously rom the aculty guid-

ance. When Sloan began writing

Leavittsburg, he had no experi-

ence in musical theater. His expo-

sure to the Brownbrokers program

came through a class in writing mu-

sicals Hertz o ered last all. Sloan

said he had been a musical theater

geek as a kid but had abandoned

it in high school. Although he was

a music concentrator and had been

composing or years, his only in-

volvement in theater at Brown was

as a musician in the pit.

This show just arrived in our

inbox an hour beore the deadline,

Williams said. We had no idea he

was out there.

Sloans proposal was especiallyunusual in that he planned to write

music, book and lyrics or Leavitts-

burg. Marshall said most writers

work in teams, with one respon-

sible or music and the other or

the words.

Last spring, ater Leavittsburg

was selected or production, Sloan

graduated. He let Rhode Island to

begin a doctoral program in histori-

cal musicality at Stanord just as the

show got underway this all. Malkin

said that meant requent phone calls

and e-mails among Marshall, Mal-

kin and Sloan, who also few out or

crucial periods like casting.It was crazy, Marshall said,

adding that or the next show,

theyd attempt to select a group

o writers whod still be at Brown

during production.

But Dennis Kozee 10 and Ned

Riseley 12, both actors in Leavitts-

burg, said the excitement o work-

ing on a new show had outweighed

the added stress.

Theres a kind o delightul un-

certainty, Kozee said.

Williams said he valued the

chance to shape the character he

was playing.

I love the circle o exchange

between actor and writer, he said,

even though that entailed a script

still undergoing changes as the last

week o rehearsals began. Accord-

ing to Marshall, two weeks beore

the premiere, Sloan added an entire-

ly new scene to the second act.

I just want to say sorry to all

the cast members who had to keep

waiting or their lines and music,

Sloan said, laughing.

But all diculties aside, Sloan

said he is now considering a career

in musical theater.

This has been the most thrilling

experience o my lie, he said.

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SportsweekendMONdAY, NOvEMBER 9, 2009 | Page 7

The Brown daily Heral

: MLB

Now that the World Series is over andthe Yankees are once again champi-

ons o baseball, the world, universe,

whatever, its a great time to step back

and refect on what we learned. Base-

ball is a simple game, and here are

some simple lessons.

Fear the Yankees

Saying the Yankees are really

good is an understatement. I dont

know i you noticed, but they basi-

cally destroyed the American League

East, rampaged through the playos

and rightully won a title. O course,

spending $400 million on some o thebest ree agents, having the highest

payroll by a stadium-load and having

essentially no weak spots tends to do

that. Dont hate the game, hate the

system and the system is stacked

in the Yankees avor. The bad news

is theyve got more money to spend

this oseason. The worse news is

they nally gured out how to spend

it wisely.

More money is better than

less money

The big-market teams dominated

the playos this year, and really the

playo race. Large-market teams with

the ability to print money are able tooutspend their ellow small market

teams. Sure, there are arguments

about prot-maximizing owners, but

it still comes down to population den-

sity. Especially with the recession, we

saw the gap between baseballs haves

and have-nots grow wider.

You should play in the NL

Sure, you can scream sample

size, but looking at the AL players

returning to the National League,

one starts to get the idea that the

NL is just plain bad. Matt Holliday

hit .286/.378/.454 with Oakland

pretty good numbers but a-

ter joining St. Louis, he put up an

insane .353/.419/.604. Remember

John Smoltz, Brad Penny or Vicente

Padilla? Smoltzs ERA+, where 100

is the average and higher is better,

jumped rom 57 with Boston to 97

with St. Louis. Penny jumped rom 84to 165, while Padilla went rom 92 to

130. George Sherrill, Adam LaRoche,

Edwin Encarnacion. I could go on, but

you get the point.

Zack Greinke is amazing

Easily the Cy Young winner, its

not even close. With three-plus pitch-

es, Greinke destroyed the AL. He

posted a 2.16 ERA, 1.07 WHIP and 203

strikeouts in 229.1 innings with a 4.75

K/BB ratio. According to angraphs.

com, he also led the league in Field-

ing Independent Pitching (2.33), Win

Probability Added (6.07) and Wins

Above Replacement (9.4). All those

ancy math stats and traditional stats

and eyeballs say the same thing:

Greinke is an ace.

Joe Mauer and Albert Pujols

j By Benjy ASHer

SportS StaffWriter

Coming into his reshman year

o college, Je Larentowicz 05

certainly didnt envision a proes-

sional soccer career. In act, he was

skeptical about his prospects at the

collegiate level.

I thought Brown was a bit o a

reach or my talent level, Laren-

towicz said.

But now, Larentowicz is thriving

on the American soccer stage in his

th season with the New England

Revolution o Major League Soc-

cer. On Oct. 25, Larentowicz had

possibly the biggest moment o his

career, when he sent a ree kick

into the back o the net in the clos-

ing minutes o New Englands nal

regular season match. The goal,

Larentowiczs rst o the season,

gave the Revolution a 1-0 win over

Columbus Crew and clinched the

leagues nal playo spot.

Despite Larentowiczs low ex-

pectations coming into Brown,

Head Coach Mike Noonan gave

him opportunities rom the start.

Though he was recruited as a or-

ward and was listed under that posi-

tion or the duration o his resh-

man year, Noonan recognized that

Larentowicz, the son o a soccer

coach out o West Chester, Pa., pos-

sessed remarkable adaptability andaptitude or the game, and inserted

him into the rotation as a deender

rom the outset.

One o the things that I

liked the most about Je when

I recruited him was that he was

very versatile, Noonan said. We

plugged him in where our need

was at the time, and Je just got on

with what the teams needs were,

and hes still doing that today with

the Revolution.

Larentowicz did not disappoint,

playing in all 16 games that season

and leading Brown to a share o the

Ivy League championship and earn-

ing All-Ivy honorable mention in

the process. His rst collegiate goal

came in the rst hal o the teams

nal league game, en route to a

title-clinching 3-0 win at Harvard.

It was a big game and we were

all getting up or it, Larentowicz

said. We had a lot o our students

come up or the game, and I just

remember scoring the goal and

running over to all the ans and

celebrating that was really spe-

cial.

Larentowicz continued to excel

in his sophomore year, earning sec-

, b . By AnDreW BrAcA

SportS editor

The womens hockey team picked

up a point against two o the top

our teams in the ECAC over the

weekend.

Ater battling to a scoreless tie

with Quinnipiac on Friday night in

Meehan Auditorium, Bruno ell to

Princeton by a 5-0 score the ollow-

ing day, moving to 1-4-1 overall and

0-3-1 in ECAC play.

It was okay, said Head Coach

Digit Murphy ater the Quinnipiac

game. It wasnt great, but we didnt

lose, and we got a point.

Bw 0, qpa 0 (ot)The Bears and Bobcats (5-3-2,

3-0-1) combined or 66 shots, but

Brown goalie Katie Jamieson 13

and Quinnipiac netminder Victoria

Vigilanti stopped them all to post

dual shutouts and secure the tie.

Our goaltending was solid, as it

has been, Murphy said. Jamiesons

been playing really well.

The game opened shakily or

the Bears, who took two penalties

in the rst our minutes the rst

or having too many players on the

ice but they were able to kill o

both Bobcats power plays.

Our kids getting mixed up on

the bench, especially since theywere upperclassmen, that was rus-

trating or me, but we did kill it,

Murphy said. Our kill has been

pretty good all year.

Brown rallied to end the rst pe-

riod with a 13-9 advantage in shots,

but Viglianti made the save o the

game in the 13th minute when she

ell on her back but still managed to

swat the puck out o the crease.

There were points in the game

where they could have scored on usand we could have scored on them,

Murphy said. It was just rustrating

because I elt like we had opportu-

nities and we just couldnt put the

puck in the net.

The Bobcats turned the tables

to post a 13-6 shot advantage in

the second period, but the Bears

weathered the storm.

The momentum shited a ew

times, and we held the ort and then

got out o it, whereas in the past

wed kind o get caught in that vor-

tex kind o thing, Murphy said.

Bruno surged again in the third

period to tally 13 shots, notching

our o them during the teams

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Princeton took a lea early in Saturays game against Brown an ne-er relinquishe it, for a 5-0 final.

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SPSw The efense i a really goo job toay. W. Ice Hockey Hea Coach digit Murphy

too

Ill take a plus bat, plus deenderand plus leadership rolled into one.

Mauer hit an incredible .365/.444/.587,

leading the AL with a 177 OPS+ and

8.2 WAR. Pujols hit .327/.443/.658 with

a 188 OPS+ and 8.4 WAR. These two

are the best at their positions, and it

isnt close.

Doing drugs

Hello A-Roid! Its okay, well let your

loosey-goosey era slide now that youre

a champion. Manny? Hows that baby

coming? That ertility drug didnt seem

to slow you down. Its okay though,

Bronson Arroyo apparently did roids

too, though clearly it hasnt reallyhelped, but at least his honesty and

media attacks are entertaining. My

personal avorite: Tim Lincecum. No

wonder his astball velocity is always

so high. Maybe you can be like Tiny

Tim too!

Blackmailing a Mets GM is the

new rage

Thank you, Omar Minaya, youare correct. A beat writer rom some

obscure newspaper who is secretly

petitioning or a job is the single reason

why the Mets were terrible this year.

Were all out to get you. As or you,

Steve Phillips, way to go? Should have

handled it like Letterman. Unortunate-

ly, Phillips departure doesnt make

Baseball Tonight any more educational

or insightul.

isa pa ad ps

Just put in instant replay already.

It wont take that much longer. It will

save everyone embarrassment.

Thats a lot o lessons. Some good,some bad. I hope everyone enjoyed

the 2009 season. I know I did.

Jh Hh 10 kws s

hb sp.

only ull two-minute power playo the game. But the Bears were

never able to score the winning

goal because they could not take

advantage o chances around

the crease.

Murphy said the Brown players

were not chopping down trees

in ront o the net. We really have

to put the puck in when youre in

ront o the net, and I think that

was something that we didnt do

well tonight.

Neither team could take advan-

tage o a pair o overtime shots.

The Bobcats entered the nal ve

minutes on a power play, but theBears deense shut them down.

Theyre starting to play ex-

perienced D, breaking the puck

out, Murphy said. I thought the

deense did a really good job to-

day.

Jamieson posted 32 saves and

Vigilanti came up with 34 as Brunoplayed to its rst tie in ECAC play

since February 2008 and its rst

scoreless tie since Feb. 3, 2006

against Harvard.

Murphy said she saw a lot o

positives, including strong play

rom orwards Jenna Dancewicz

11, Laurie Jolin 13 and the line o

Erin Connors 10, Kath Surbey 10

and Erica Kromm 11.

I cant really pinpoint anything,

but I know that the whole game

was more ups than downs, so Im

happy with that, she said.

P 5, Bw 0Jamieson added 33 saves on Sat-

urday, but the T igers (4-1-1, 3-0-1)

were too much or the Bears.

Princeton jumped on the board

just 14 seconds into the game, and

then took a two-goal lead under

a minute rom the rst intermis-

sion on a sharp play. Tigers goalieCassie Seguin slapped the puck to

center-ice, catching the Bears on

a line change. Danielle DiCesare

took the puck up the let side be-

ore centering it to Paula Roman-

chuk, who knocked it up and in.

Princeton scored twice more in

the second rame on the strength

o a 20-3 advantage in shots. Brown

took our penalties in the period

and surrendered a 5-on-3 goal.

The Tigers added an insurance

goal in a choppy third period that

eatured nine penalties. Bruno tal-

lied 10 o its 18 shots in the nal

period, but could not avoid beingblanked or the weekend.

The Bears will travel to Albany,

N.Y., this weekend to ace Union

(2-8-0, 0-4-0) and RPI (3-6-3, 1-2-

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SPSw Its certainly something to be able to say you beat eeryteam in the league. Wie receier Bobby Sewall 10.

and were just 4-o-12 on third-downconversions.

A.J. Cruz 13 led the Bears in the

secondary, with eight tackles in-

cluding one or a loss and an inter-

ception, his third o the season.

With Yale trailing, 35-21, and just

under seven minutes let in the game,

Yale quarterback Patrick Witt dropped

back to pass, just six yards rom the

goal line. Witt went or the end zone,

seeing his receiver in single cover-

age against Cruz. But the reshman

cornerback leaped and intercepted

the ball in the end zone, ending Yales

drive.

That cornerback, No. 12, that guycan jump, Witt said.

Estes called Cruz a playmaker

whom other teams were picking

on but at their own peril.

I think they look at it and say,

Freshman, Estes said. They look

at his size, and say, We can beat him.

They had some pretty big receivers,

but A.J. is a hell o a player.

Estes said he thought the rest o

the secondary played well, too. They

helped hold Witt, a transer rom

Nebraska, to 28-o-41 passing or 285

yards, two touchdowns and three in-

terceptions.

Witt ound most o his success

with screen passes in the rst hal.

With the Bears putting pressure on

the quarterback, Witt dumped passes

o to his backs.

We were able to neutralize the

rush rst hal, Witt said. But obvi-

ously, they made some adjustments in

the locker room at haltime.

Estes said his deense simply

wasnt doing its job in the rst hal andwas getting beaten by screen passes

because o it.

At haltime, they made sure to

remedy the problem. We changed

some things up deensively to make

sure that we spied the back, and that

helped out, he said. Ater scoring two

touchdowns in the second quarter,

Yale had just nine points in the sec-

ond hal.

Yale was the only team let that

Browns seniors had played, but not

beaten, in their careers.

Its certainly something to be

able to say you beat every team in

the league, Sewall said.Coming o a loss to Penn, the

teams win over Yale was huge or

team morale, he added.

The victory put the Bears in sole

possession o third place in the Ivy

League. Harvard and Penn, which both

hold 6-2 overall records and unbeaten

5-0 marks in league play, are tied at the

top o the league standings. The Bears

are mathematically eliminated rom a

back-to-back championship.

But they will return to Ivy League

action with pride on the line against

Dartmouth at Brown Stadium this

Saturday at 12:30 p.m. They wrap up

the 2009 season Nov. 21 on the road

at Columbia.Ater that loss to Penn, we decided

to take it one game at a time, nish o

the rest o our season, go 3-0 in No-

vember, said co-captain and oensive

tackle Paul Jasinowski 10. We took

step one and now we go on and ocus

on Dartmouth.

Bf P

continued frompage 1ond team All-Ivy honors, but it was

in his junior year when he really

hit his stride.In addition to rst team All-Ivy

and All-New England honors on

the heels o another Ivy champi-

onship season, Larentowicz was

named a second team All-Ameri-

can. Larentowicz said it was then

that he started seriously think-

ing about proessional soccer as

a potential career path, and the

summer ater his junior year, he

trained with a proessional club

in Sweden or six weeks.

That was a great experience,

and ollowing all that, I thought

maybe it was something I wanted

to do, Larentowicz said.Larentowicz closed out his

college career with another All-

American season and the ollow-

ing spring was selected in the

ourth and nal round o the MLS

Drat in the Supplemental phase,

as the Revolution took him with

the third-to-last overall pick, with

encouragement rom Noonan.

I told (New England head

coach) Steve Nicol that Je was

going to be a better pr oessional

player than a college player, Noo-

nan said. When he gets into a

locker room, hes not intimidated

by anybody or anything, and you

have to be able to hold your nervewhen you rst walk into a proes-

sional locker room.

For Larentowicz, though, it

was like the beginning o resh-

man year all over again, as he

struggled with the uncertainty

o whether or not he would get a

chance to contribute.

Coming in, I dont think Steve

Nicol had the highest hopes or

me, Larentowicz said. I think he

sort o saw me as a practice player,

and he gave me a contract to see

how I developed. But I dont think

he saw me as someone who was

going to come on and play.Even Noonan admits that at

rst glance, Larentowicz may not

look like a star.

Je is not blessed with tre-

mendous athleticism hed prob-

ably be in the bottom third o the

Revolution in a speed contest or

strength contest, but he is in the

top third when it comes to soc-

cer intelligence, Noonan said.

Hes got a gamesmanship intel-

ligence, he knows how to win, he

looks and nds the ways to win

and hes consistent in the way he

approaches everything. So you

know what youre going to get

consistently in his eor t and his

attitude.

This time, Larentowicz didnt

get his chance quite as easily. In

his rst season with the Revolu-

tion, he played just one minute,

designated to the reserve team

while New England went on to

the MLS Cup nal.

I think that the rst season

playing with the reserves, train-

ing with the team every day, and

getting a eel or the way the game

is played at the pro level was good

or me, Larentowicz said. In col-

lege, people are encouraging you

at all times ... but at the proes-

sional level, people are there to

take your job, so i you screw up

in practice or in a game, theyre

going to let you know about it. Sothere wasnt much o a nurturing

atmosphere rom my teammates

at that point.

Early in the 2006 season, Lar-

entowicz got his chance New

England was plagued by injuries

to several key players. Once again,

it was Larentowiczs versatility

that gave him a chance to break

into the rotation, as he played our

dierent positions right mid-

eld, center mideld, right back

and center back in his rst our

appearances.

I think the coaches saw me

as a utility player, who could goin at any position and get the job

done, Larentowicz said.

A watershed moment or Lar-

entowicz came in the th game

o that season, in a May 2006

matchup with FC Dallas. With

the team trailing, 4-0, at haltime,

Nicol substituted Larentowicz in

at center mideld.

I played well, and we still lost

the game, but I showed well or

mysel, and rom that point on I

think the coaches really trusted

me, Larentowicz said. Shortly

thereater, Larentowicz earned a

starting spot with New England in

19 games that season, and in thethree seasons since then, Larento-

wicz has started in the majority o

games or the Revolution, compil-

ing nine goals and nine assists in

his MLS career.

Larentowicz credits much o

his development at the proes-

sional level to playing alongside

Shalrie Joseph, a ve-time all-star

midelder or New England.

We play a system where I can

just run around and do the de-

ending and the dirty work and

retrieve the ball or the team and

sort o learn on the go, Larento-

wicz said. Over the years, Shalrieand other players have developed

more trust in me and understood

my abilities.

The team has enjoyed great

success throughout Larentowiczs

career, making the playos each

year, including two more nals

appearances in the 2006 and 2007

seasons.

Heading into the nal weekend

o the 2009 regular season, the

Revolution looked to be on the

verge o ailing to qualiy or the

postseason or the rst time since

2001, as they went into their nal

game tied or the nal spot with

three other clubs, two o which

would be avored by the leagues

tiebreaking procedures.

The odds against us were

incredible, Larentowicz said.

I dont even know i anyone on

our own team would have gone

to Vegas and bet on us because

there were so many scenarios

that needed to take place or us

to even come close to getting into

the playos.

But losses to all three o those

teams put New England in con-

trol o its own destiny, and in the

games 79th minute, Larentowicz

scored the games only goal to seal

a spot or the Revolution.

At my position you dont get

a ton o chances to score goals,

but I think when I have had mychances Ive taken them, Laren-

towicz said. It was important or

me because I practice ree kicks

a lot and to score elt great, and it

was also important or the team to

have that little bit o momentum

and condence to go into the rst

game o the playos.

New England earned a 2-1 vic-

tory over the Chicago Fire in its

rst game o the postseason, but

a 2-0 loss in Game 2 on Saturday

night knocked the Revolution out

o the playos on the basis o ag-

gregate goals.

Though the season came to adisappointing end, Larentowicz

remains a celebrated gure in the

Brown soccer program. He is one

o several players under Noonan

to go on to have proessional suc-

cess, including Cory Gibbs 01,

who has played overseas and or

the U.S. national team, and An-

drew Daniels 07, who has spent

time with FC Dallas.

Larentowiczs jersey rom an

MLS title game hangs in Noonans

oce or visiting recruits to see,

and Larentowicz himsel is still a

presence in the program, making

regular trips back to Providence to

stay connected with the team.Were happy that he continues

to come back to Rhode Island

he came down last spring to talk to

the guys, Noonan said. Hes just

a regular person, and very, very

thankul or his Brown experience

and his Brown degree.


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As the Herald reported Friday, student involve-

ment in Group Independent Study Projects (GISPs)is well past its heyday. GISPs were most popular in

the earliest years ater they rst became an option

in 1969 as part o the New Curriculum. The 1974-75

school year saw 50 GISPs, but more recently, the

number o GISPs in a given year has generally been

closer to 20.

One reason GISPs have become less prevalent

is that more students are now organizing group in-

dependent projects through individual academic de-

partments. To enroll in a departmental independent

study course, students need only nd a willing aculty

adviser and perhaps consult with the department chair.

By contrast, GISPs require students to go through

a more rigorous process that involves submitting a

proposed syllabus, bibliography and evaluation plan

to the College Curriculum Council or approval.The GISP approval process is modeled ater the

process proessors go through in creating new cours-

es, and it gives groups a unique opportunity to engage

with pedagogical questions about a courses scope,

methods and objectives. Students participating in ap-

proved GISPs get to have the title o the GISP noted

on their transcripts. The departmental independent

study option requires ar less paperwork, consistent

with Browns policy o minimizing administrative

obstacles to students academic choices.

While GISPs and departmental group independent

study projects have very similar goals, this two-tiered

system crucially allows groups o students a wider

range o experiences. We dont believe that reduced

student involvement in GISPs is necessarily a cause

or concern. However, because the goals o GISPs

and departmental group independent projects are

so similar, we believe that each could stand to learn

a little rom the other.

Because the approval process is considered an es-

sential part o the GISP experience, additional students

are currently not allowed to join a GISP once it has

been approved. We appreciate the concern underlying

this rule but believe that it is overly restrictive. A stu-

dent, especially one who goes abroad or a semester,

might have a deep interest in the subject matter o a

GISP but might only nd out about the GISP ater it

has already approved. I the student can demonstrate

his commitment and interest to the GISPs creators

and aculty sponsor, he should be allowed to enroll.

Students not directly involved in the initial approval

process could oer additional, unique viewpoints on

a courses pedagogical eectiveness.

The ormal GISP process is advantageous rom

a publicity perspective the Curricular Resource

Center helps get the word out about GISPs in the

making. Students doing independent studies in de-

partments should have similar options available to

them. I a student wants to pull together a groupor a departmental independent study project, the

department should help that student nd interested

peers, perhaps through an e-mail announcement or

a posting on a departmental bulletin board.

GISPs also benet rom a certain level o institu-

tional recognition; current courses (such as ENGN

0090: Management o Industrial and Non-Prot Or-

ganizations) have evolved directly rom GISPs. The

possibility o a transition to a ull course should also

be open to departmental group independent projects.

Department chairs should at least be aware o the

content o recent independent projects so that they

can get a better sense o what the current course

oerings might be lacking.

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tweaking could enhance both o the group indepen-

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We would like to address AviSchaeers 13 concern about the char-

acter o Common Ground (To those

interested in creating peace in the

Middle East, Nov. 2). Our ull name is

Common Ground: Justice and Equality

in Palestine/Israel, and our stated mis-

sion is to supplement campus dialogue

with voices and perspectives that we

believe are under-represented in main-

stream American media and political

discourse. Common Ground meetings

are not internal discussion orums, but

are geared towards planning campus-

wide events.

Common Ground was established

nine years ago by students o diverse po-litical leanings, connected by a commit-

ment to the equality o human lie and

the pursuit o just peace in Palestine and

Israel. Common Ground today does not

operate rom a set political platorm but

rather rom a shared belie that security

and human rights should be a birthright

or all. Common Ground, thereore,

reers to our common understanding

that beore peace is possible, continuing

injustice must be brought to light.

Our speakers are oten critical o

current Israeli policies because the sta-

tus quo o occupation is not conducive

to the just and equal peace we hope to

see in the region. As Schaeer points

out, we do not bring speakers who

represent the general view o Israeli

society because we believe that these

voices already dominate mainstream

American discourse. We bring neither

Yisrael Beitenu nor Hamas because

mere juxtaposition o diametrically

opposed voices does not achieve our

goal o ostering nuanced discussion.

It instead perpetuates a simplistic and

unproductive polar binary, which must

be overcome in order to achieve peaceand common ground.

As a group aiming to supplement

and diversiy (rather than encapsulate

and summarize) discourse, we bring

speakers whose politics and identities

refect a complexity inimical to the

language o pro and anti so oten

employed in criticism o our work. Re-

cent examples include Anat Biletzki,

ormer head o Israeli Human Rights

group Btselem; democratic Palestinian

politician Mustaa Barghouti; ormer

IDF soldier and human rights advocate

Micha Kurz and prolic Middle East

historian Joel Beinin. These speakers,

and numerous others, demonstrate howpeople o dierent backgrounds can

speak out together against systematic

inequality.

We are working towards a sustain-

able and just peace, centered around

respect or human equality and ad-

vocacy or basic rights. Common

Ground shares these values not only

with peace-oriented Israelis and Pal-

estinians, but with global civil society

and international law. I concern or

humanity doesnt seem so common

in campus discourse and i such a

platorm merits accusations o bias

then perhaps it is time to re-evaluate

the grounds upon which claims to bal-

ance are based.

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Lets say its just another one o those nights.

Every cup rom the 12-pack o ramen you

bought at the beginning o the semester has

become steadily more unappetizing. But you

have ew other options. Nutella straight rom

the jar? Stale chips? You schlump downstairs

to the communal kitchen to heat up some

water.

Upon opening the ridge to get water, you

spy a plate o cupcakes, just chillin there under

Saran wrap. Your stomach responds excitedly.

I only you had the time to bake.With midterms consuming every last sec-

ond o your lie, youve had no time to treat

yoursel this week. Youve suered enough.

There are, like, 20 cupcakes on that tray,

just taking up space and squishing everyone

elses ood in the ridge. It couldnt hurt to

just take one, albeit without asking. No one

would know it was you, anyway, i you were

quick enough!

So, what do you do? Steal a cupcake or

turn back to your cup o cardboard strips

and sodium?

Hopeully, you chose to stick to your

own ood.

Having kitchens is great. They provide

nice opportunities or supplementing a rather

monotonous diet o hot ham on bulky rolls,

spicy withs and Odwalla bars.

In an ideal world, everyone would be con-

scientious and respectul o other peoples

property. Perhaps an even more ideal world

would include a private kitchen space orevery student. However, reality is harsh,

and most underclassmen dont have the

choice o living o campus or in dorms with

such amenities.

They are pretty much orced to give others

the benet o the doubt when it comes to their

personal ood items and the maintenance o

the communal space.

Leaving dirty dishes out and moldy ood

in the ridge is pretty gross, but such issues

are always resolved in due time. Dishes get

washed because they need to be reused and

moldy ood gets thrown out when it starts

looking like a miniature ecosystem.

Deliberate thieving o other peoples ood

items, however, is inexcusable. It ruins the

community spirit. Its hard to live in a place

where you cant even trust your neighbors.

A riend o mine once let a large bowl o

raw chocolate cake batter in a dorm kitchen

or a ew minutes, only to return later to dis-cover it scraped completely clean. Another

riends letover pizza would almost always

mysteriously vanish, even when labeled with

his name. And it wasnt too uncommon to hear

o people sneaking bites rom birthday cakesin the ridge that werent theirs.

In my Grad Center tower last year, things

escalated beyond the usual utensil and

cooking-pot thets. People would lose ood

during unexplained possibly passive aggres-

sive cleaning sessions that swept ridges

and shelves nearly bare. Someone briefy bor-

rowed a kitchen microwave.

The CAs ended up having to send out a rath-

er embarrassing mass e-mail telling us many

things that we already should have known.

Thets arent limited to dorms. A recent

posting on PassiveAggressiveNotes.com, in

which a victim o cream cheese thet admon-

ishes the community or be

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