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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 2006

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GOING GREEK Fraternities and sororities report a lower number of recruits than last year; Tech House’s popularity intact CAMPUS NEWS 5

TA-XXX A proposed 25 percent tax on adult entertainment in Rhode Island has Foxy Lady owner, others up in arms METRO 3

OK Go and Edan final acts added to Spring Weekend lineup Ticket sales open to Brown community members this week

BY JONATHAN SIDHU ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR

OK Go and Edan will play at Spring Weekend this year, rounding out the lineup for the weekend’s concerts, Brown Concert Agency President Elizabeth Trongone ’06 told The Herald Monday.

OK Go, a rock group that includes Brown alum Damien Kulash ’98, will open for Ted Leo and the Pharmacists and Wilco on Thursday, April 20, in Meehan Auditorium. DJ Edan will open for Yerba Buena and Common on Saturday, April 22, on the Main Green.

Trongone said Edan will likely be performing with rapper Dagha, though she had yet to confirm this with Edan’s management at press time.

Trongone said OK Go will cost between $5,000 and $10,000. “They’re a poppy, happy rock music band. And one reason behind our thinking is that one of the singers went to Brown,” she said. “They’d be the type of group that would want to mingle with the crowd and stuff.”

Edan will cost between $2,000 and $3,000, Trongone said. “He’s a local artist from Boston. A couple of people on the board have seen him live,” she said.

Ticket sales for the concerts began

Michener ’06 dies while rafting in Peru

BY SIMMI AUJLA SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Alison Michener ’06 died Friday in a rafting accident while on vacation with friends in Peru. She was 21. Michener was vacationing with a “close friend from Brown,” according to a campus-wide e-mail sent yesterday by David Greene, vice president for campus life and student services, and Dean of the College Paul Armstrong.

According to the e-mail, Michener’s friend survived the accident, but another passenger who was not affiliated with the University drowned when the raft capsized.

The e-mail described Michener as “an exceptionally talented student.” A biology concentrator, she “had hoped to earn a Ph.D. in biology and direct research projects leading to discoveries that would improve the lives of others,” according to the e-mail, which also stated that Michener enjoyed traveling and studied abroad in Austrailia during her junior year.

Michener was born in Colorado but attended high school in California, where her parents reside.

In the e-mail, Armstrong and Greene wrote they will inform community members of memorial services as soon as information becomes available.

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yesterday, she said. “After the first hour, we’d already sold over 40 tickets — which is kind of unheard of,” she said.

This week only Brown community members can purchase tickets. Tickets for the Thursday and Saturday concerts can be purchased together for $25. Individually, the Thursday and Saturday shows cost $12 and $15, respectively, for Brown students.

Starting next week, anyone will be able to purchase tickets on Ticketweb.com, Trongone said.

“Thursday night could potentially sell out because Meehan has a smaller capacity than the Main Green,” she said.

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Ben Folds played a sold-out Meehan Auditorium on the Saturday afternoon of last year’s Spring Weekend.

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Class of 2010 acceptance rate lowest in University history

BY CHLOE LUTTS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Brown accepted a record low 13.8 percent of applicants this year out of an all-time high 18,313 applications. This is the “lowest rate in the history of the institution,” said Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73. Brown’s acceptance rate last year was 14.6 percent.

Of the 2,525 students admitted to Brown’s class of 2010, 39 percent are students of color, which is the highest proportion ever.

Geographically, there were “no significant shifts” among accepted students, Miller said. Students were admitted from every state but North Dakota and 62 foreign countries, up from 58 last year. The proportion of international students admitted stayed relatively stable, though Miller said Brown had a “very good year in Singapore” as well as in Asia generally.

94 percent of applicants were in the top 10 percent of their high school class. The most popular intended major is engineering. 59 percent of admitted students come from public high schools, 40 percent come from private

schools and 8 percent come from parochial schools.

Miller said the University admitted slightly fewer early decision applicants than last year. The early admission round was a “little conservative” because of high expectations for the regular applicant pool, which were met, Miller said.

Harvard’s acceptance rate rose by 0.1 percent this year to 9.3 percent.

Yale’s acceptance rate of 8.6 percent out of 21,099 applications set a new Ivy record low.

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Brown: 13.8* Columbia: 9.6 percent* Cornell: 21 percent* Harvard: 9.3 percent Penn: 17.7 percent* Yale: 8.6 percent* *record low Acceptance rates for Princeton and Dartmouth were unavailable.

Ruth’s truth: an inside look The president on pub crawling, traveling in ‘steerage’ and her own popularity

BY JONATHAN SIDHU ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR

Brunonians’ affection for — if not obsession with — President Ruth Simmons is no secret. But Simmons may not be as fond of her own popularity.

“The moment I realized I was in trouble was when I was inaugurated,” she told The Herald in a March 21 interFEATURE view. “The life-size cutout of me students made so they could take pictures with it was one of the most embarrassing moments of my life.”

Despite their fascination with their president, many students know little of Simmons’ daily routines and duties. This may be because there is no typical day in the life of the president, and her activities lack a distinct pattern. “It differs everyday,” she said. “If I gave you something like a typical day, it would be false.”

As the boundaries of her own job are frequently muddled, Simmons must negotiate the ever-changing role of the contemporary university president.

“The way that I think of it actually is quite simple: I look forward to retirement,” she joked.

The public nature of her job keeps her from seemingly mundane endeavors. “There aren’t places in Providence that I can go where people don’t see me as being on the job,” she said. “I can’t go to Johnny Rockets for a hamburger because people come up to me, and they want to take a picture of me eating a hamburger.”

It’s not just students who might approach her for a picture — many others in the University community share this fascination.

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“The faculty never feel that they know you well enough, because of course people want to invite you over for dinner and they want to be able to say, ‘Oh yes, I know Ruth, we hang out together,’” Simmons said. “And the kids want to be able to say, ‘Oh yeah, I dropped by Ruth’s, we went out for a beer.’”

Some students even have the gall to ask, Simmons to go “pub crawling.”

But does Simmons find time in her busy schedule for this and other social engagements? “Yes, I do. But it’s never enough, frankly.”

Instead, Simmons spends much of her time in ceremonial duties as the public face of Brown. Beyond that, she must also ensure that the University operates effectively on a daily basis.

“In that capacity I do the things that people would expect one to do,” she said of managing the University. “I meet with senior officers to make sure that our efforts are coordinated across the University, I write letters, I call disgruntled people to make them feel better. I meet with donors here on campus. I meet with visitors, who believe, because of their stature, they have to meet with the president on campus.”

These tasks require significant travel, but even this is not consistent. The president said she still spends most of her time on College Hill.

Fundraising and the current Campaign for Academic Enrichment are fundamental reasons for her travel. The Office of Advancement often fills up Simmons’ calendar with fundraising events a year in advance, she said.

Beyond the University’s immediate priorities, Simmons must also represent Brown in matters of public affairs. There is some question within the Brown Corpora-

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In an interview with The Herald, President Ruth Simmons said she sometimes dislikes the public appearances that are a daily part of her job. tion as to whether Simmons should play a prominent role in the public arena, she said. “I’d love it if the answer came back ‘no’ because it’s not my favorite role, let me put it that way. But, some people feel pretty strongly that I have to do that.”

This year she gave a presidential lecture at Columbia University, spoke at the Colony Club in New York and to the National Association of Independent Schools in Boston, among other organizations that are not Brown-affiliated, she said. Media interviews, she said, also figure into this public role.

Academic organizations and leagues the University belongs to, including the Association of American Universities and the Ivy League, also factor into Simmons’ position, “mostly because Brown thinks it’s good for Brown if I do,” she said. “The Corporation has a committee that makes decisions about my involvements, believe it or not.”

But while public appearances and ceremonies might sound glamorous, Simmons said the realities of her job can be harsh.

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LECTURE: CHIEN-CHI CHANG 8 p.m., (List Art 120) — A member of the photo agency Magnum Photos, Taiwanese photographer Chien-Chi Chang will serve as the keynote speaker for Taiwanese Culture Fest 2006.

RELAY FOR LIFE FUNDRAISER 8 p.m., (Faunce House) — Your fellow students take the stage at this open mic at the Hourglass Cafe to support Relay for Life in the fight against cancer.

SAVE THE BOOKSTORE: UNDERGRADUATE MEETING 9:30 p.m. , (Upper Blue Room) — The group Save the Bookstore will meet and discuss why the bookstore should not be outsourced.

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Large tax will be hard on local adult industry

BY SONIA SARAIYA STAFF WRITER

A proposed 25 percent tax on adult entertainment in Rhode Island has created tension between nightclub owners and lawmakers over legislating morality versus generating revenue for the state.

The bill defines “adult entertainment business” as “any business, bookstore or video store at which any nude or partially denuded individual … performs any service” on the business premises for payment. If passed, the act would affect gentleman’s clubs, strip clubs and other area businesses.

Thomas Tsoumas P’03, the managing owner of Foxy Lady, a Providence gentleman’s club, vehemently opposes the bill, calling it “unconstitutional” and the “ultimate, consummate insult.”

Tsoumas said the proposed tax is designed to discourage adult entertainment in Rhode Island.

“It’s being pointed toward a particular segment of business,” he said. “Are they taxing Wal-Mart? Is Costco involved? Why aren’t they involved? … Why just businesses associated with sex?”

The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Elizabeth Dennigan, D-District 62, told the Providence Journal the bill is intended to generate revenue and is not based on morals. Dennigan could not be reached for comment.

But Rep. Fausto Anguilla, D-District 68, another sponsor of the bill, said adult businesses create problems in their communities.

“Often, these businesses are located in fairly depressed areas. Most people would agree that property values decrease when this type of business moves into a neighborhood,” he said. “You have to look at what business takes out of a neighborhood, as well as what it puts in.”

“I think that every business has an obligation to give back to the area in which in which it’s located,” Anguilla said. But, he added, “My intent is not to run anybody out of town.”

Tsoumas disagreed.

“We’re like any other business — except now they’ve singled us out to be the source of additional revenues. …

It would virtually put our businesses out of business.”

But others in the adult industry are not so strongly opposed.

“It can be both good and bad,” said Angelina Spencer, executive director of the Association of Club Executives, the trade association for adult nightclubs in the United States.

“Good, because anytime you impose a tax on adult entertainment you legitimize the industry and say, ‘We welcome you,’” she said.

On the other hand, she added, “25 percent is excessive. … If you overtax any business you cut into the bottom line. There isn’t a corporation around that wants be taxed to death. If you went outside any other business and said this, they’d be screaming.”

Tsoumas echoed Spencer’s sentiment, pointing to other entertainment venues that would not be affected by the bill.

Tsoumas also criticized the bill for singling out the adult entertainment industry rather than taxing other forms of entertainment, such as the Trinity Repertory Theater or sexually explicit films.

But Spencer said morality will inevitably play a role in the debate over the tax.

“No one’s going to care if we excessively tax adult entertainment, due to the nature of the business,” she said. “What starts in adult entertainment will trickle down to other industries,” he added “If this excessive tax passes — and I agree with the owner of the Foxy Lady, there are lots of constitutional (issues) here — other business owners outside of adult entertainment should start asking themselves, ‘Who’s next?’”

Spencer and Tsoumas both said they sympathize with the state’s financial plight. The General Assembly is currently trying to close a $300 million budget gap.

But, Spencer said, “I don’t think taxing adult entertainment is the way to find (money).”

Tsoumas agreed.

“It is patently unfair to single out one segment of the society that operates legitimate businesses with competent people” to raise revenue, he said.

Tsoumas said he has worked in the adult entertainment industry for three decades.

“I would take my host of professionals and put them up against any other managerial staff, against any other business in the state. I am so proud of them.

What people are saying (with this legislation) is that our business is less legitimate.”

Overnight on-street parking to be tested in Washington Park

BY BEN LEUBSDORF METRO EDITOR

For the first time in over 70 years, some Providence residents will soon have the chance to park legally on the street at night.

Currently, cars may not be parked on city streets between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m., an offense that is punishable by a $15 fine. But a pilot program announced last week will allow residents of the Washington Park neighborhood in southern Providence to park cars on the street overnight.

The program is scheduled to begin May 1 and run through the end of June 2007.

“We have houses over there that do not have parking, do not have driveways, and some people have paved their front yards” for parking space, said Ward 9 City Councilman Miguel Luna, who represents part of Washington Park and has supported the program.

Overnight parking, he added, “made a lot of sense.”

Participating residents will need special permits for their cars, which will be limited to two per household at a price of $25 each. Cars must be parked in spots that would be legal during the day.

Luna said Providence has banned overnight on-street parking since 1935, and supporters of the ban say it keeps roads clear for public safety vehicles and snow clearance.

But Ward 1 City Councilman David Segal, an advocate of overnight parking who campaigned on the issue in 2002, said the new program is a common sense solution to the city’s parking problems.

“Fundamentally, we have asphalt on the sides of our roads, and rather than using that, we make additional asphalt” in other parking lots, he said.

The pilot program is the product of a three-year effort that began in early 2003 when the City Council’s ordinance commission appointed a sub-commission to study the issue.

That commission, according to Segal, held three public hearings, including one at Hope High School on the East Side.

“The majority of people were supportive of doing some kind of experimentation with overnight parking,” he said, but “there was, among commission members, substantial opposition to the idea.”

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Since 1935, overnight on-street parking has been banned in Providence. parking, supporters of the idea decided to take a different approach. Last year, Segal, Luna, Ward 10 City Councilman Luis Aponte and Ward 7 City Councilman John Igliozzi each put up $5,000 in bond money to hire a consultant to study the issue.

Two consulting firms — Edward and Kelsey and Traffic Solutions — looked at four neighborhoods: Washington Park in Wards 9 and 10, Federal Hill in Ward 13, Elmwood in Ward 9 and Hartford in Ward 7, according to Dave Everett, a planner in the city’s Department of Planning and Development.

“The primary role of the consultant was to look at the areas, tell us whether it was good idea (to try overnight parking there) and narrow them down to a digestible area for the experiment,” Everett said. Together with the city, the firms developed plans for pilot programs and eventual legislation, he said.

The pilot program is currently limited to Washington Park but will expand to “several pilot areas” in the near future, according to Yvonne Graf, a spokeswoman for the City Council. Graf said those areas have not yet been selected.

Luna said he has received mostly positive feedback from residents.

“The reaction actually has been really good,” he said. see PARKING, page 4

City auditing police records over alleged underreporting of crime

BY SIMMI AUJLA SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The city of Providence is auditing police records to determine if the Providence Police Department is intentionally misrepresenting and underreporting local crime.

Additionally, the City Council plans to create a Public Safety Committee to look into the problem.

Ward 7 City Councilman John Igliozzi spoke out last year on the alleged misrepresentation of crime, triggering the city’s investigation. Though Igliozzi and City Council President John Lombardi first voiced their concerns last June, the issue became prominent this year.

Igliozzi said several incidents have come to council members’ attention that indicate police officers may have inappropriately reported crimes as less serious offenses than they actually were. He added that the PPD has not yet satisfied the council’s concerns.

He cited an assault in October when two aides to Gov. Don Carcieri ’65, Jeffrey Britt and Jeffrey Grybowski, were beaten so badly that Britt went into a coma and suffered three broken bones in his face. The assailants were charged with misdemeanors instead of felony assault.

“That to me was very peculiar,” Igliozzi said. “A heinous assault should have been charged to the full extent of the law,” he said.

Lombardi also expressed concern regarding that particular incident, saying he also believes the assailants should have been charged with felonies.

“In most jurisdictions the police usually charge to the maximum,” he said. For example, if a victim says she has been sexually assaulted, police charge the suspect with sexual assault, not simple assault.

“If you want to negotiate or cut a deal, that’s the Attorney General’s job,” he said.

“I’m not saying (downgrading of crimes) is happening, but if it is, it goes from a felony to a misdemeanor,” Lombardi said.

But he noted, “These are very thin-iced waters that we’re

walking on. You run the risk of offending rank-and-file police officers.”

Lombardi called for a “full-blown audit for the last three years” of crime records, saying the dispatchers who receive emergency calls may have a better sense of how much crime is actually occurring in Providence.

But James Lombardi, the city’s internal auditor, said tracing every single emergency call would be a “tremendous task.”

“In early January, stats came out and the stats showed that crime was going up. That was consistent with what the council was saying,” he said, adding that he saw no need to begin auditing immediately.

Since the PPD only began using a program that tracks changes in a reported crime in August, Lombardi said he would be able to do a more thorough job if he waited four to six months, anyway.

“But then it blew up and Igliozzi went public,” Lombardi said.

Lombardi said he would like more direction from the council in conducting his audit and anticipates receiving advice from the Public Safety Committee once it has formed.

Igliozzi said it is difficult to answer many questions about the reporting of crime “because we don’t have a layperson overseeing these types of operations,” Igliozzi said.

Under the administration of former Mayor Vincent “Buddy” Cianci, a public safety commissioner appointed by the mayor and approved by the council played this role. But when Mayor David Cicilline ’83 came to office, he did not appoint a commissioner. Instead, he took on the role himself.

Igliozzi criticized the mayor’s action as a circumvention of the system of checks and balances guaranteed in the city’s charter.

Esserman’s leadership has also posed problems, Igliozzi said. Esserman places unnecessary pressure on officers when he highlights the achievements of the departments see CRIME, page 7

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Parking continued from page 3 Everett agreed that most residents seem excited for the program.

“I would say that most of the people … have been positive,” he said. “I hate to be too optimistic, but we think it will be a success in some way.”

“But, I’m sure we will need to make some adjustments,” he added If overnight parking is a suc-

cess in Washington Park, it will potentially be extended to the entire city. Residents will be able to create a petition defining an area — anything from an entire neighborhood to just a few blocks — and collect signatures in favor of overnight parking.

If two-thirds of the residents in that area support the petition, the city will then allow overnight on-street parking for residents there.

“That way, we will avoid imposing something on the neighborhood,” Luna said. “There are neighborhoods that don’t want

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this, and that’s fine, because some don’t need it,” Luna said, adding that heavily residential areas with plenty of parking might not be appropriate for the program.

It remains unclear if the program will garner support from College Hill residents.

“I actually don’t see how it would benefit the neighborhood here,” said Antoinette Breed, treasurer of the College Hill Neighborhood Association. “The residents aren’t clamoring for this.”

Breed added, “I’m not sure that blanketing the streets with cars is the solution for the neighborhood.”

Segal, though, said the idea that the program will lead to more traffic and congestion is something of a myth.

“There’s a notion out there that somehow this pilot program is going to increase the number of people who own or operate cars in the city, and I think that’s patently ridiculous,” he said. “There are very few people who are going to decide to buy a car who don’t own a car because they will save 30 bucks a month on parking,” he added.

Segal noted that Fox Point residents seem supportive of overnight parking.

“In Fox Point, I think there’s much more support for it than there was when I ran (in 2002),” he said. “I’ve had many people who opposed it then come up to me and tell me, ‘I think you were right.’”

Michael McCormick, Brown’s director of planning, said even if the program comes to College Hill, it will not solve the University’s parking woes.

“I don’t think it addresses our parking issues either way,” he said. “The residents are really going to have to decide on this one.”

McCormick said the University plans to lease off-campus parking spaces as needed and “shift students who live on campus to those off-campus spots” to free up space on campus for faculty and staff.

Simmons continued from page 1 their jobs properly, you have to say to people ‘this is not the right way,’” she said.

To cope with the psychological stress that these activities can create, she must find little moments for herself, she said, even within a tremendously busy schedule.

“So, if I have to go to New York, I might add a half day to be able to see friends,” she said.

Nevertheless, her busy schedule has taken its toll on several close personal relationships.

“Most of my friends are angry with me, actually,” she said.

“Most of them are not speaking to me because I don’t have any time for them. And they call to say ‘you never call. Why is it that you never call?’”

Though socially disconnected, she has resigned herself to the demands of the job, which she described as “all-consuming.”

“It is all-consuming in the sense that you work every day of the week and you work every evening of the week. I do get to sleep, OK. But, most jobs are defined in a way so that people can go home. And when they go home, they’re off. I don’t ever go home.

So that makes it a little odd,” Simmons said.

Because she does not return “home” regularly, when off the job, Simmons enjoys activities other people might find utterly commonplace.

“I like to go to a drugstore and shop or go to a grocery store and shop. Or go to museums and wander around for hours without anybody telling me I have to go do something else,” she said. “It’s all the little things that people do every day that are routine for them.

When I have free time that’s what I want to do,” she said.

But Simmons said, most of all, she loves driving cars. “I get so excited about driving a car. If I have to go somewhere for University business, I get driven. When I do my personal things I get to drive.

But I don’t have personal things.

So on occasion, I get to take my laundry, but that’s what — a few blocks?”

She noted, though, that last year she indulged this pleasure by driving all the way to Texas.

“When I told people I was going to drive all the way to Texas, they thought I was nuts. But I drove all the way to Texas. I didn’t get a ticket. I stayed on the road, I stayed in the lanes. I obeyed traffic rules,” she said.

Though she enjoys being behind the wheel, Simmons does not enjoy traveling as a whole for University-related business. “It’s odd to have a job where you have to travel a lot when you absolutely hate it,” she said.

Simmons said she rarely flies luxuriously. “I do not fly first class.

So I’m back in steerage in row 24 — 24 F — and it’s sometimes very funny because I get on a plane, I walk past faculty in first class because they’ve upgraded with their miles and I’m in the back of the plane,” Simmons said.

Such efficiency and a personal touch seep into other facets of her job. Despite what some may think, Simmons responds to all her e-mail — personally. “First of all, it comes directly to me. Nobody else reads it,” she said.

But not all official speeches and letters are penned by Simmons’ own hand.

“Most of the things that have to do with my deeply held views, I write personally,” she said. “If I have to do something ceremonial, it’s often written by somebody else.”

And, so how many more Convocation speeches will she give?

“I can’t say to you, ‘oh I think I will be at Brown until X date’ because the Corporation has not given me permission to be here for that. I’m here as long as the Corporation permits me to be here.”

And she joked, “My goal is to beat the Corporation to the punch and to go before they tell me they’re fed up with me.”

When will that be? “I am my worst critic. Therefore when I don’t feel I’m doing a good job, then I’ll say it’s time to go.”

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Frats, program houses see decline in numbers

BY THI HO STAFF WRITER

Recruitment for program houses and fraternities yielded a belowaverage turnout this year, according to Greek Council President Meghan Gill ’06.

Compared to last year, the Greek system saw a decline in numbers across the board, with some exceptions, Gill said. She suggested this year’s decrease must be looked at comparatively.

“Last year was exceptional.

This year we had good, solid numbers. They just weren’t as good as last year’s,” she said.

Phi Kappa Psi was one fraternity that saw a drop in numbers. The fraternity had 15 pledges this year, down from 16 or 17 last year, said Phi Psi Social Chair Alykhan Karim ’06. “First semester was strong for (fraternities) in terms of freshmen turnout for parties. I don’t know what happened,” Karim said.

Art House is one of the program houses that saw a decline in numbers, said Samantha Gorman ’06, a member of the house who is involved in its selection process.

According to Gorman, Art House had 50 applicants two years ago — its first year in existence — and 60

Every year, departments face the task of finding professors to teach their large introductory courses. Department chairs say they often try to enlist professors who can skillfully teach a large body of material to a great number of students in an attempt to both attract potential concentrators and engage students with a wide variety of interests.

Finding effective professors and accommodating their schedules poses “a can of worms,” said Marjorie Thompson, associate dean of biological sciences.

Thompson said finding professors who can teach these large classes is difficult for all departments, not just her own.

“Brown does value teaching skills; nonetheless the ability to get grant money is critical and teaching is not the way to do that,” she said.

Thompson said not everyone is qualified to teach such a broad-based introductory class.

“These days everyone is so specialized that teaching the intro level is harder, perhaps the hardest of all. It requires a different kind of knowledge,” Thompson said.

Departments use different strategies to deal with the problem. Some departments, like biology, use mainstays who teach intro courses year after year. In other departments, such as economics, the professors teaching these courses vary.

In the case of the Division of Biology, which is actually made up of several sub-departments, the division relies on Professor of Biology Ken Miller ’70 P’02 to teach the main introductory class, BI 20: “The Foundation of

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Most fraternities on Wriston Quad and across campus have seen their pledge numbers decrease this year. applicants last year. The number of applicants declined this year to 35, Gorman said.

Keara Kelly ’07, another member of Art House who was involved in the selection process, said the number of applicants was actually more than she expected. “We were pretty happy with that number.

We wanted somewhere between 20 to 25 recruits,” Kelly said.

But not all program houses saw a decline in the number of applicants. Technology House saw its best turnout since the class of 2004, said Haley Allen ’06, Tech

House president. Allen said 44 people were interested in joining, resulting in a recruitment class of 20. This year’s response stands out against Tech House’s results two years ago, when the house was “bordering on probation because not enough people joined,” Allen said.

Allen attributes Tech House’s increased popularity to word of mouth. “A couple of people who were interested convinced their friends, and that may be why we see RUSH, page 8

Departments use different tactics to find professors for introductory courses

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POLICE LOG

Living Systems.”

Thompson said the department relies on Miller because he enjoys it and has the ability to effectively teach a broad range of material. Thompson said Miller continues to teach BI 20 every year because he is one of the few biology professors who actually like teaching the class, adding that he feels a sense of commitment to it.

Andrew Foster, chair of the Department of Economics, also stressed the importance of teaching ability when dealing with large courses. “We try to identify faculty who are particularly effective in teaching

large lecture courses and provide appropriate incentives, encouragement and support so that they are willing to teach the more difficult large lecture courses,” Foster wrote in an email to The Herald.

In deciding who will teach intro courses, Foster said the general expectation is that every faculty member will teach one of the department’s intro or intermediate level courses.

In particular, large classes like EC 11: “Principles of Economics” present the greatest challenge, as professors need to see INTROS, page 6

The following summary includes all major incidents reported to the Department of Public Safety between March 17 and March 23.

It does not include general service and alarm calls. The Providence Police Department also responds to incidents occurring off campus. DPS does not divulge information on open cases that are currently under investigation by the department, the PPD or the Office of Student Life. DPS maintains a daily log of all shift activity and general service calls which can be viewed during business hours at its headquarters, located at 75 Charlesfield St.

ficers responded to a report of sexual assault at an off-campus residence. The incident is under investigation.

2:50 a.m. DPS officers responded to a report of four male students being disruptive in a hallway in Chapin House. Complainant reported that the students swore at her when she asked them to desist and that they pushed and slapped her boyfriend when he tried to intervene. Officers interviewed both parties and referred the matter to the Office of Student Life.

Monday, March 20: 7 a.m. A custodian reported that a card access reader outside of Diman House was damaged. The Brown Card Office was notified.

Saturday, March 18: 2:45 p.m. Complainant reported being harassed by an acquaintance at the corner of George and Brown streets. DPS’s Special Victims Unit is providing the complainant with support.

7:01 p.m. Complainant reported that a hard drive and monitor were stolen from a computer kiosk in Emery-Woolley Hall.

Sunday, March 19: 12:07 a.m. DPS and PPD of-

Source: Department of Public Safety

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Intros continued from page 5 be able to teach “an audience with broadly different interests and abilities,” according to Foster.

Lecturer in Economics Rachel Friedberg and Professor of Economics Roberto Serrano, who teach EC 11 this semester, were both chosen because of their impressive ability to teach a large number of students, Foster said. This semester, the enrollment of EC 11 reached a record high of 450, according to Foster.

The Department of History, like economics, uses a rotating schedule to decide who will teach the department’s intro courses. “Survey classes are extremely difficult to teach because they require the teacher to help students learn to ask significant interpretative questions while condensing enormous amounts of information into a semester,” wrote Professor of History and Associate Dean of the Faculty Car-

olyn Dean in an e-mail to The Herald. Dean has taught HI 2: “Europe since the French Revolution” several times in the past.

HI 2 is particularly difficult to teach because it is a requirement for both history and international relations concentrators, some of whom wait until the last minute to take it or are trying to decide if the concentration is right for them, Dean said. As an introductory course, HI 2 also attracts many first-years.

The Department of Political Science uses a combination of mainstay professors and a rotating system, according to Professor of Political Science P. Terrence Hopmann, who is also the department’s chair.

With many of the department’s intro courses, such as PS 10: “Introduction to Public Policy” and PS 40: “Conflict and Cooperation in International Politics,” a professor will teach the class for a couple of years, and then another professor will take over. In the case of PS 22: “City Politics,” Professor of Political Science James

Morone teaches the class every year. “Morone is the only one who teaches City Politics because he’s the only one who does research in that area, and he’s obviously one of the best rated teachers,” Hopmann said.

When choosing professors to teach other intro courses, Hopmann takes into account schedules as well as teaching ability.

“We put more of an emphasis on people who have more teaching experience and those who have done well with their classes based on their evaluations,” Hopmann said.

Hopmann is currently trying to create a system where two professors are capable of teaching the department’s intro courses at any given time, thereby enabling professors to have the chance to teach more upper-level courses.

Currently, only Associate Professor of Public Policy Ross Cheit can teach PS 10, Hopmann said.

While some may consider these lower-level classes less important, Thompson said she believes they are the most critical courses for a department.

“The introductory course is the class that engages students into biology. Teaching this class is a position of particular stature and everyone knows that and views it that way — you have the responsibility of exciting students and attracting concentrators,” Thompson said.

Thompson cited high enrollments in both BI 20 and BN 1: “The Brain: An Introduction to Neuroscience” as indications that the courses are successful. BI 20’s enrollment often nears 400, according to the Critical Review, and BN 1 is often even higher.

Some of the professors who teach these large intro courses are highly appreciated by students.

“I thought Professor Miller was great,” said Whitney Keefe ’08, who took BI 20 last spring.

“I loved him.”

Other classes draw even stronger praise. Morone’s “City Politics” lectures have the reputation of bringing students to tears, according to comments from the Critical Review. PS 22’s enrollment consistently nears 400.

Other students were less enthusiastic about intro courses in other departments. Jonathan Thompson ’08, who took EC 11 with Friedberg and Associate Professor of Economics Kaivan Munshi in the fall of 2004, said the professors were “alright but not great.”

“I wasn’t blown away,” Thompson added.

W. lax continued from page 12 Still, Biros’ outburst was not enough to overcome UNH’s hot start, in which the Wildcats got out to a 5-0 lead in under nine minutes. Brown was able to recover to make the score 9-7 at the half, but, again, the Bears’ opponent held on for a threegoal victory.

“If we get down in the first few moments of the game we aren’t always able to come back,” Staley said.

The Bears re-focused for their Ancient Eight opener against the Big Green, and it showed early, as the hosts stormed Stevenson Field to take a 5-1 lead.

Biros led the way with two goals in the frame, and Staley, Mimi DeTolla ’08 and Bethany Buzzell ’09 added one each. But the Big Green, which played in the semifinals of the NCAA Tournament last year, worked its way back, overcoming two more goals apiece by Staley and Buzzell to tie the score before the end of regulation. Dartmouth then scored two in the extra frame to win.

Despite the results, the Bears feel they’re on the verge of click-

Softball continued from page 12 “I am just trying to be more relaxed at the plate, and I’m trying to have fun in my last season,” Seid said.

This success comes after Seid had to miss the second half of the 2005 season with a shoulder injury.

“I am just happy that she was able to get back on the field,” McCreesh said. “She is someone that measures her success by what the team is doing, and it is great to have players like that.”

After taking the UMBC tournament crown, Brown suffered seven straight losses before finally getting back in the win column with a 4-1 victory against Monmouth University. Michelle Moses ’09 earned her third victory of the season against Monmouth, pitching a complete game while

ing and making a run in the Ivy League.

“We hold high expectations for our team and this season because that is such a large part of our mentality,” Biros said. “We have a lot of talent and we are on the brink of performing to our potential.”

The team’s depth and versatility has allowed for multiple contributors and a little healthy competition for playing time. Ten different players scored for Brown over the three games, with scoring spread particularly evenly in the St. Bonaventure game.

“People are finding their roles on the field,” Staley said. Playing time “changes based on who is playing well. We have so much depth. There is always competition because anyone can jump in and get (the) job done.”

The Bears have demonstrated that they can hang close with the stiffest competition. They have played in three overtime games, and four of their six losses have been by three or fewer goals.

Now able to concentrate fully on its Ivy schedule, the team has one goal in mind.

“We’re looking to win the Ivies this year,” Staley said.

Herald Sports Editor Chris Hatfield ’06 contributed to this article.

allowing only four hits and no earned runs.

“We had a pep talk before the game that made us re-focus,” Seid said. “We did not want to ride home with another loss, so we made sure to get a win.”

Even with the tough stretch, Bruno successfully laid a foundation for the upcoming Ivy season. Early success in the UMBC tournament gave the team some much-needed confidence.

“We played a lot of really close games over break,” said tri-captain Sarah Wilson ’06. “The games over break are about more than winning. We had a lot of really good bonding time. It is really important to get on the same page with all of your teammates.”

Brown has one more nonconference game against Central Connecticut State University Thursday at 3 p.m. before moving into its Ivy League season this weekend.

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DeLay to step down

BY JONATHAN WEISMAN AND CHRIS CILLIZZA WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, a primary architect of the Republican majority who became one of the most powerful and feared leaders in Washington, told House allies Monday night he will give up his seat rather than face a re-election fight that appears increasingly unwinnable.

The decision came three days after his former deputy chief of staff, Tony Rudy, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and corruption charges, telling federal prosecutors of a criminal enterprise being run out of DeLay’s leadership offices. Rudy’s plea agreement did not implicate DeLay in any illegal activities, but by placing the influence-buying efforts of disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff directly in DeLay’s operation, the former aide may have made an already difficult re-election bid all but out of reach.

DeLay, who will turn 59 on Saturday, did not say precisely when he would step down, but under Texas law, he must either die, be convicted of a felony,or move out of his district to be removed from the November ballot. DeLay told Time magazine that he is likely to change his official residence to Alexandria, Va., by the end of May. He said he informed President George W. Bush of his decision Monday afternoon.

Crime continued from page 3 in special press conferences, such as one held with Cicilline in mid2004, he said.

“When you do that, you create very difficult expectations to achieve,” he said. “(Esserman) creates a pressure cooker which puts pressure to show progress because of his claim,” he added.

Deputy Police Chief Paul Kennedy said there is no pressure put

Baseball continued from page 12 second game against Penn, plating 19 runs on 23 hits. The first five hitters had 20 hits, eight for extra bases, and 13 RBI. Right fielder Paul Christian ’06 was 5for-7 with three RBI, first baseman Danny Hughes ’06 was 4for-6 with a homer and three RBI, designated hitter Jeff Dietz ’08 was 4-for-6 with two RBI and catcher Devin Thomas ’07 was 2for-5 with a solo homer.

“It was just great to see guys hitting the ball all over the field,” Tews said. “There were four or five guys, you knew that every time one of them stepped to the plate, the chances of them getting a hit was just unreal.”

Sunday, the Bears jumped to a 4-0 third-inning lead against Columbia. Ethan Silverstein ’07, who recently won a job in the weekend rotation, gave up only one run on three hits through the first five in-

on officers to lower the crime rate.

“The pressure is to more accurately depict what the numbers are,” he said. Tabulating accurate statistics is in the department’s best interest, Kennedy said, because they help it identify trends and make informed decisions about assigning patrol officers.

In pushing for the audit, Igliozzi said his goal was to make his constituents feel safer about living in Providence.

“At this point in time, discussion about these questions is not forthright,” Igliozzi said. “(Residents of Providence) feel more concerned

and pensive with the types of violent crimes in the city,” he added, noting the spike in violent crimes in the past year.

But Ward 2 City Councilwoman Rita Williams said that spike might simply reflect more effective enforcement on behalf of PPD officers.

“It’s not that people are violating (the law) more,” she said. “It’s just that the police are able to apprehend people who are doing this.”

Williams said she has heard other council members complain about the police records but was

not aware of any underreporting of crimes, adding that the relationship between city residents and PPD officers is better today than it has been in the past.

“We’ve had communication like we’ve never had before (with the PPD),” Williams said. “I think they weren’t always honest with us in the past. It’s a very different atmosphere than it was in the past.”

It remains unclear if the audit of police records will include crime data collected by Brown’s Department of Public Safety. DPS spokeswoman Michelle Nuey did not respond to requests for comment.

nings. But Silverstein was chased from the game in the sixth; after recording an out, he gave up a run on three straight singles.

The Bears’ bullpen, the team’s Achilles heel thus far, could not get Silverstein out of the jam. Rob Hallberg ’08, who has struggled in the closer role, hit Noah Cooper with a pitch to load the bases. Dietz then took the mound and allowed all three inherited runners to score, plus one charged to himself. The Lions scored five runs in the inning to take a 6-4 lead. The Bears tacked on one more in their final at-bat, but the Lions hung on for the 6-5 win in seven innings.

In the second game, the Bears avoided using the bullpen for most of the game. Alex Silverman ’08 pitched brilliantly, giving up only one unearned run and three hits in 7 2/3 innings of work. He struck out five and walked three. Dietz came on to record the last five outs and close out the 6-1 victory.

Although Silverman went into the trip in competition with Silverstein for the fourth and final

conference starter position, it seems that both may have won the position battle.

“They came out, and they stepped up big-time this weekend,” McNamara said. “They grabbed the opportunity to get that conference starter role, and they’re definitely going to be in the rotation for the foreseeable future.”

As a result, Dietz moved to the bullpen, where he pitched with mixed results over the weekend.

Last season, Dietz emerged as one of Bruno’s frontline starters along with Tews. But Dietz faltered in three starts this spring, giving up 21 earned runs in 10 2/3 innings and struggling with his off-speed pitches. The move will give Dietz a chance to work on his own game while bolstering the struggling bullpen.

“I think that Jeff’s really taking one for the team,” Tews said. “We realize that our bullpen is lagging, and he’s a guy we can count on to be 100 percent both Saturday and Sunday.”

Dietz’s move is in part a reaction to the bullpen’s performance in the recent non-conference games, which started with backto-back blown saves by Hallberg at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va., on March 26 and 27. In the first game, the Bears took a 5-4 lead into the eighth, and in the second game, the Bears led 6-5 in the ninth, but VMI won both games, 7-6.

Over the next three days, the Bears lost 16-8 to Elon University, 7-6 to Davidson College, and 1210 to Greensboro, which scored 10 runs in the third inning.

Before the Bears resume Ivy play this weekend, they play host to in-state rival the University of Rhode Island on Wednesday in their first home games of the season. First pitch is at 2 p.m. at Aldrich Dexter Field.

“Obviously, we want to beat our only Division I intrastate rival,” McNamara said. “We know they’ll be ready to play, and it’s our home opener so we’ll be excited and ready to go.”

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continued from page 5 got so many recruits,” she said.

“People don’t join usually because their friends decide not to live there, and they want to live together.”

Kelly said some of the people she talked to who were interested in joining decided not to because they are studying abroad for portions of the year. Others simply chose to commit to other program houses.

Jason Lee ’09 said he was first interested in joining Tech House when one of his best friends decided to become a member. “It wasn’t part of my original plan, but I wanted to be closer to him. I had seen some of my other friends get terrible lottery numbers before and I didn’t want that to happen to me,” Lee said.

Lee said he could understand why other students might not be interested in becoming part of program houses. “One of my fears in joining was that I wouldn’t go out as much — that I’d be stuck there.

That may be one of the reasons that discourage people from joining,” he said.

continued from page 12 escape with a 9-7 win.

“In the Ohio State game, we got down early and we played the middle two quarters very well,” said Head Coach Scott Nelson.

“We were actually up in the fourth quarter and the fourth quarter was very disappointing. I think we played well against Ohio State and we just didn’t finish.”

On March 29 against the Fighting Irish, Brown was unable to match its quality of play from the Ohio State game. The Bears registered nine shots on goal in the opening quarter, but failed to find the back of the net on any of them, and Notre Dame went up 2-0. After attackman Dave Madeira ’07 cut the lead in half early in the second, Notre Dame scored five unanswered goals over the course of the second and third quarters to make the score 7-1 en route to an 11-5 triumph.

The two losses were frustrating, but Nelson came away from the trip sensing that his team still made some strides.

“It’s nice to get the guys away with each other. They got to know each other and play with each other,” he said. “The kids acted like adults and they were great about it. It’s one of those experiences that you want to do with your team every few years.”

From a competition standpoint, ending its non-conference

season with two quality opponents allowed Brown to prepare for its rough-and-tumble Ancient Eight schedule. One of the top lacrosse conferences in the country, the Ivy League currently has six teams in the top 20.

“Ohio State and Notre Dame are two extremely talented teams,” Derkac said. “Playing teams of that caliber before the Ivy League season as a tune-up for the type of teams you’ll see is helpful.”

Moreover, the Bears realize that their season is far from over. With a strong showing in their six Ivy contests, they can render their earlyseason struggles moot.

“People are positive just because the six games we have left are the Ivy season, and anything can happen in the Ivy League,” Derkac said. “If we play well enough in the Ivy League that can be our ticket into the (NCAA) Tournament.”

Bruno will be faced with a stiff test right off the bat in this Saturday’s tilt with Yale. Although the Bulldogs are 0-3 in league play, they still boast one of the country’s best faceoff specialists in midfielder Dan Kallaugher, something that Nelson has already factored into his game plan.

“Because of (Kallaugher) we have to play good defense, clear the ball well and win 40 to 50 percent of the faceoffs,” he said.

“This is the best clearing team we’ve had here in a long time led by (goaltender) Nick Gentilesco (’06), so I’m confident we can do that.”

SPORTS EXTRA THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · APRIL 4, 2006 · PAGE 9

Florida sun no fun for w. tennis in last non-Ivy tilts

BY BART STEIN SPORTS STAFF WRITER

Despite the brightness of the Florida sun, the women’s tennis team left Florida with dim results, losing two matches to Florida Atlantic University and No. 38 Florida International University by scores of 4-3 and 6-1, respectively, to fall to 4-8 on the season.

The team’s trip to Florida represented the first outdoor matches of the spring season for the Bears. The outing was the final tune-up for Bruno before the Ivy season begins on Friday at home with Princeton.

The two-match road trip kicked off in Boca Raton against Florida Atlantic in what turned out to be a thrilling — and ultimately heartbreaking — 4-3 loss.

Brown jumped out early against the Owls by grabbing the doubles point. Daisy Ames ’07 and Kara Zeder ’07 handled their opponent at second doubles, 8-5, and Michelle Pautler ’07 returned from injury to team up with Amanda Saiontz ’07 and earn a win at third doubles by a score of 8-5.

The singles draw would decide the match. Ames continued to look sharp in a 6-4, 6-4 win at first singles, and Saiontz dominated at third singles in a 6-2, 6-3 victory. With these two victories, all the Bears needed was one more win to close out the match.

Unfortunately, the normally overachieving duo of Sara Mansur ’09 and Brett Finkelstein ’09 struggled. Both lost in straight sets at

fifth and sixth singles, respectively.

After Anita Ivancevic ’08 lost a tough three-set match, it was up to Ashley Pariser ’08 to break the 3-3 deadlock and steal a victory for the Bears.

Pariser, however, came up short, losing 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, despite a gallant effort that garnered respect from her teammates.

“Ashley left it all out on the court in order to win that match,” Ames said. “It was one of the hardest fought matches I have seen all season.”

Even Pariser’s strong effort couldn’t compensate for the disappointment of the loss. Florida Atlantic was a beatable team, and the general feeling is that it was one match that slipped away from the Bears.

The Bears did not seem to be affected, however, against Florida International, despite a seemingly lopsided loss. In one of the bigger individual victories of the season, Finkelstein defeated Nikkita Fountain, who carried a 12-match win streak into the contest.

“I was still really disappointed from the Florida Atlantic match,” Finkelstein said. “I was prepared to do whatever it took to win, even if it was ugly tennis.”

Overall, the Bears were disappointed but not discouraged by their Florida trip. With the Ivy season set to start this weekend, the team is more focused than ever.

“With the Ivies we are really playing for something,” Wardlaw said. “I expect the energy and emotion to get cranked up a notch.”

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No. 63 m. tennis close, but winless against last three nonconference foes

BY ERIN FRAUENHOFER SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The men’s tennis team faced three ranked opponents over break to finish its non-league competition and came away with three tough losses. On March 26, the No. 63 Bears lost to No. 17 Virginia Commonwealth University 7-0, on March 29 the Bears suffered a 4-3 loss to No. 36 North Carolina State University and then a 5-2 loss to No. 25 Wake Forest University the following day.

“We fought hard,” said Basu Ratnam ’09. “Although we lost, it gave us confidence that we can play with any of these teams. We were close.”

The Bears came away with one victory against VCU, but the 8-3 second doubles win by Dan Hanegby ’07 and Saurabh Kohli ’08 was not enough to give Brown the doubles point.

The Bears tried to make up for the lost point with singles wins, but they fell short in four close matches. “The score didn’t reflect how close the match was,” said Head Coach Jay Harris. “All those guys played really tight matches.”

At first singles, No. 63 Hanegby dropped a 7-5, 7-5 match to No. 21 Arnaud Lecloerec, and

at second singles, Eric Thomas ’07 lost 7-6 (5), 6-3. Meanwhile, Kohli pushed No. 123 Francesc Lleal to three sets at third singles, eventually losing 6-3, 5-7, 6-2, and Ratnam barely lost the fourth singles match 7-6 (3), 3-6, 12-10.

“I had match points,” Ratnam said of his narrow loss. “I was kind of disappointed.”

Against N.C. State, the Bears again took only one of the doubles matches, this time a 9-7 victory by Thomas and Sam Garland ’09 at third doubles, and lost the doubles point.

Brown had been in position to take the first and second doubles matches, leading both 7-6, but the matches were ultimately lost 9-8 in tiebreakers.

“That was a little tough to swallow,” Harris said.

Unfortunately, the lost doubles point proved to be the deciding factor of the match when singles play was split 33. Thomas and Chris Lee ’09 took three-set victories at second and fifth singles, respectively, with Thomas defeating Val Banada 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 and Lee defeating Jay Weinacker 4-6, 7-6, 10-6. At third singles, Ratnam overpowered Andre Iriarte 6-4, 6-1.

In the Bears’ last non-con-

ference match of the season, they came away with just two victories over the Demon Deacons, but according to Harris, those wins were “big.” At second singles, Ratnam defeated Andrew Hamar, ranked 69th in the country, by a score of 7-5, 2-6, 6-2.

At sixth singles, Garland showed that his game is coming along, too, as he defeated Charles Sartor 6-4, 7-6.

“That was a hard, hard, win for him,” Harris said of Garland’s victory. “Those types of wins will really propel us.”

Overall, Harris was pleased with the team’s performance under the circumstances. “We were playing shorthanded,” he said. “(Co-captain) Phil Charm (’06) and Eric Thomas were injured. But against top teams, close matches are really good for us.”

The Bears will begin Ivy play Friday at Princeton, and the tough spring break competition has prepared them well for the difficult Ancient Eight schedule ahead.

“We can beat any of these Ivy League teams,” Ratnam said. “We need to all go out there with a certain eagerness, knowing we’re playing with our backs against the wall.”

EDITORIAL/LETTERS THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 2006 · PAGE 10

EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

Bookstore browsing

While visiting Columbia University last week, I took a minute to duck into the university’s Lerner Hall bookstore on Broadway, which opened in 1999 after Barnes and Noble College Booksellers won the right to manage its operations. Though I had been to Barnes and Noble’s commercial outlets before, I had never seen a store managed by the company’s privately held university affiliate.

What struck me most were its similarities to the independent Brown Bookstore. The Bookstore Review Committee’s recommendation that the bookstore be outsourced to an external vendor calls into question what exactly committee members believe such a change will address. How pressing are the bookstore’s current faults, and how might Barnes and Noble improve upon them?

The committee’s report notes the desire to enact tangible, easily implemented changes along with establishing a clearer definition of long-term corporate goals “to make (the bookstore) a more comfortable and welcoming destination for both Brown and the community.”

One such goal is the cultivation of a more consistent branding image for Brown, as reflected in merchandise offerings. Columbia’s bookstore certainly fills this role, featuring an apparel section with rows upon rows of sweatshirts, t-shirts, sweatpants, etc. that easily dwarfs similar offerings found at the Brown Bookstore. Committee members also seem to believe that outsourcing will allow the bookstore to improve its “confusing presentation.” At Columbia, the visitor immediately encounters an organized arrangement of commercial offerings (last week’s included a display of books related to Women’s History Month and another of Godiva chocolates), though textbooks are relegated to a back room.

The creation of a more welcoming and academic commercial space would be accomplished, in part, with the removal of grocery items from the second floor, according to the report. Indeed, you won’t find a grocery aisle at Columbia, though managers seem to have replaced this feature with several rows of Bed Bath and Beyond-style dorm accessories. Moreover, Columbia’s bookstore offers roughly the same number of chairs and reading spaces and a similar layout (no, there is no café). More importantly, Columbia’s bookstore did not seem to attract a broader and more diverse clientele than the Brown Bookstore currently brings in.

Several long-term goals cited in the committee’s report make a more compelling case for outsourcing. A partnership with Barnes and Noble would presumably give the University financial resources to implement architectural improvements, take advantage of in-house design expertise and enhance customer service. However, given the degree of protest that has already emerged as a result of the committee’s recommendation, University administrators would be wise to consider just what can be gained by outsourcing.

—Robbie Corey-Boulet

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 2006 · PAGE 11

A counterblast to Barnes and Noble, part two A Brown Bookstore employee adds nine more reasons to keep the bookstore owned and operated by Brown

BY PETER SPRAKE GUEST COLUMNIST

In a previous column I listed ways in which the Brown Bookstore beats Barnes and Noble on textbook prices and in service to the syllabus. The present column addresses the Campus Shop and the trade books department. Here are nine more reasons not to outsource the bookstore.

1. Brown-branded merchandise will be more expensive in a Barnes and Noble store than it is in our Campus Shop.

Barnes & Noble pads its profit margin by price markups on sweatpants, coffee mugs and other branded merchandise. A 2004 study by Campus Bookstore Consulting, the leading company in the field, found that our Campus Shop beats the national chains on price across the board. CBC also found a wider selection in our Campus Shop. Our merchandise buyers order from everyone, while Barnes and Noble buyers are more or less restricted to authorized vendors. I’ll come back to that CBC study in a moment. It’s one of two 900-pound gorillas that Barnes and Noble advocates don’t want you to know about.

2. Our Campus Shop beats the chains because its three buyers have among them 57 years in the job. They’re high-profile people in the industry. They work with manufacturers to design Brown-specific items. They respond instantly to Brown events and occasions. They have long experience of shopping trends at Brown and on Thayer Street.

3. Where does the Barnes and Noble markup go? It goes to the Barnes and Noble empire and its owner, Leonard Rig-

gio, so that he can gobble up more independent stores. Studies have shown that chain bookstores return less money to local economies. The advent of a Barnes and Noble on Thayer Street would hurt the character of the street and drive up rents, which is why there are so many small business owners on the roster of the Save the Bookstore Coalition. Also on that roster are our state senator, state representative, city councilman, leaders of trade organizations and hundreds of Brown faculty, students, alums and parents.

4. The roster also includes other bookstore proprietors because they know the industry story of Barnes and Noble inadequacy. Independent stores often step up to serve the depleted syllabus at Barnes and Noble campuses. Looking at New England alone, Labyrinth Books in New Haven attracts orders from Yale faculty who are dissatisfied with Barnes and Noble. In Cambridge, the Harvard Bookstore fills the same shortfall. At Mount Holyoke, Odyssey Books has won the syllabus from Follett, a Barnes and Noble rival. Famously, the Holy Cross bookstore re-acquired its independence after eight years of unsatisfactory service from Follett. Examples of New England schools that have kept non-chain bookstores are Dartmouth (Wheelock Books), Amherst (Jeffrey Amherst Store), Middlebury, Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Boston College and the universities of Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont.

5. What about our bookstore’s trade books department, the street-level store?

Couldn’t it do better on selection, and couldn’t it look nicer? Yes it could — and

cue the gorillas. In 2004, the bookstore paid for two hefty studies. The first was by the aforementioned Campus Bookstore Consulting. For a number of weeks CBC patrolled the aisles with clipboards, interviewed hundreds of customers and compared our product to that of other college stores. CBC found the bookstore needed a software upgrade and decor makeover, but that it was otherwise a superior store, for a world of reasons, and that it should remain owned and operated by Brown.

6. Also in 2004, the bookstore produced an internal report, titled “The Brown Bookstore Business Plan,” which set out a schedule for implementing the CBC findings. It included floor plans (some with a cafe and visitor center) and a color catalogue of the client-work of Bergmeyer Associates, a high-end interior design firm.

The bookstore also consulted other designers, among them Lerner, Ladds + Bartels of Providence, which has already done award-winning work for Brown. The bookstore wants its makeover to dazzle, and the classy product of either Bergmeyer or LLB is superior to Barnes and Noble interiors.

7. As for the reduced selection of books and magazines in the street-level store, it’s easily fixed not by outsourcing, but by restoring our bookstore’s mid-1990s inventory budget. If you can’t find the scholarly book or magazine you want, it’s because our inventory float was cut back in the past decade, which has tied our buyers’ hands. There are four buyers in the trade books department and between them they have 63 years in the job. Our senior buyer has been the subject of articles in indus-

try publications. In 2002, the Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed him and commented “The Brown Bookstore has long been one of the East Coast’s best.”

8. Does the bookstore have the money to beef up inventory and renovate? Indeed it does. University officials estimate that a makeover will cost something less than $1.5 million, a sum that the bookstore can reimburse fairly quickly. The bookstore has been quite profitable of late, especially since the closing of the College Hill Bookstore. We’re ranked third nationally among large campus stores in sales per student.

Most important, the bookstore is profitable even after it has paid rent, real estate taxes, interest on inventory, maintenance costs and University fees. It’s profitable even after employee benefits have been disbursed and employees’ children have received college grants of $10,000 per annum per family.

9. This brings us to the best argument of all for keeping the bookstore in Brown beneficence. There are 41 full-time employees, many of whom have carried their Brown IDs for decades. Their lives and the lives of their children are materially and intangibly improved by membership in Brown. They love serving this University, and it is no exaggeration or embarrassment to say that some hearts will break if they’re expelled.

Peter Sprake ’07 is a Brown Bookstore employee and invites you to check out www. savethebookstore.org, add your name to its roster of supporters and participate in the several events it will hold in April.

What is forgotten The Muslim world, despite its anger, has not given up on the West

BY NATALIE SMOLENSKI OPINIONS COLUMNIST

“Christianity is the world’s most tolerant religion.” These words surprised me, not only because of the certainty with which they were uttered, but because they came from the mouth of an Egyptian, Muslim intellectual.

The problem, according to Ahmad (his name has been changed), is that the Arab and Muslim world is confused. America, a “very Christian country” by all accounts, invokes the highest human values in its rhetoric yet corrupts these values through its actions. He described how a chasm between word and deed had formed, and for this reason, America has earned the kind of wrath that not even Great Britain, the world’s most successful colonizing power, could muster. “Britain dropped the ‘human rights’ rhetoric after the beginning,” he said with a wry smile. Apparently, what the world hates more than racism, oppression or even war, is hypocrisy.

The important question is, of course, to what extent is American policy hypocritical? Everyone has a personal answer to this question, contingent on political and cultural loyalties. However, the sheer number of people who see hypocrisy in our country’s actions — the millions who take to the streets condemning our president as the “world’s biggest terrorist,” the thousands of writers who flood the media translating our “freedom and democracy” and “suffering and injustice” and the countless number of people who greet the very mention of their country’s name in a speech by an American government official with foreboding — should be a cause for grave concern. Why is America singled out for this condemnation? Af-

ter all, nearly every nation’s government is guilty of outrageous hypocrisies; all of politics runs with lies, pretensions and corruption. Yet America’s blemishes are blown up to global proportions. Why? If we look back to the second half of the 20th century, we can see that America was a self-made hero, a real character that stood for people’s highest hopes and aspirations. Even as late as the 1990s, wherever I was in the world, I could count on the fact that introducing myself as American would help me. Now, however, things are changing. Even in Poland, a country that has especially loved the United States for generations, America’s image is coming under fire. A Pew research poll released in

during the 20th century; it therefore developed a history of opposition to war for religious and moral reasons. Yet the government sent troops to Iraq for the sake of political expediency.

And here we return to a perception of hypocrisy. Christianity, “the world’s most tolerant religion,” makes compromises — something difficult for many in the Muslim world to understand. In the Islamic political tradition, Muslim rulers historically based their legitimacy on their allegiance to the faith, and abandoning the Muslim religious tradition was the major catalyst for popular rebellion. Thus, rulers of many modern Muslim countries still have to prove to their people that their actions

America’s blemishes are blown up to global proportions. Why? June 2005 shows that, while America’s approval rating higher in Poland than in any other European country, America’s popularity has clearly fallen since 2002. Worse, even the traditionally idealistic Poles are becoming cynical with regards to their support for America. I notice these attitudes especially in casual conversation.

One young man told me frankly over tea, “Sure we have troops in Iraq. But it’s not because we believe in this war. We just need America on our side.”

The problem lies in the fact that people are increasingly torn between their religious and moral values and their allegiance to the American global “project.”

Poland itself is a predominantly Catholic country that has endured great ravages

have a basis in the Koran and Muslim law, even if they break with Islamic tradition.

In light of this historical approach to government, the Western political mind is a foreign object to many Muslims. Often, Muslims cannot decide if Westerners are bad Christians or simply atheists. Many simply do not understand the possibility of a bifurcation of consciousness into “religion” and “everything else.” According to a vast corpus of Muslim philosophy, religion should inform all human decisions, political ones included.

Furthermore, if American foreign policy is Christian, as indeed President George W. Bush asserts, then it is a terrifying new form of Christianity, one the Muslim world may not yet be ready to under-

stand. In fact, we may see a kind of hope in Muslim resistance — a rejection of this “new America,” a desire to force the West back to its roots as a beacon of hope and not hegemonic power. Few people remember, for instance, that after the creation of Israel in 1948 it was Eisenhower, acting at what was perhaps the height of America’s popularity in the Middle East, who sent aid to the Palestinian people without political strings attached. When Ahmad, a man whom I know to be bitterly realistic, called Christianity “the world’s most tolerant religion,” he was not being sarcastic. He was openly asking a question that has been cloaked by the angry rhetoric coming from the Muslim world: Have you Westerners truly strayed so far?

How can you shatter all the hope we had for you, and because of you?

I concluded my conversation with Ahmad with my characteristic idealism.

“You know,” I said to him, “despite all these troubles, I really do think ‘Westerners’ and ‘Muslims’ can understand each other.” I myself want to help work towards understanding, independent of governments or their policies.”

I had expected Ahmad to shake his head at me, or perhaps issue a warning about expecting too much. But instead he hesitated. It was as if somewhere deep inside of the layers of discouragement and hopelessness which have fallen over much of the Arab world, he found a bit of idealism himself. He looked up at me with sudden determination. Then he said something I will always remember: “How can I help?”

Natalie Smolenski ’07 needs a lot of help.

SPORTS TUESDAY THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · APRIL 4, 2006 · PAGE 12

Softball wins UMBC tourney on spring trip, gears up for Ivy play in process

Baseball busts out of 0-12 slump with 3-1 Ivy weekend

JUSTIN GOLDMAN ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

BY CHARLIE VALLELY ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Spring break started off with a bang for the softball team, which earned five wins and a championship trophy in the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Spring Classic two weekends ago.

In the tournament, Mary Seid ’06 was named MVP for batting .647 and hitting her first career home run in the semifinals.

Unfortunately, the Bears were not as lucky over the rest of break.

They lost seven of their next eight games, though the Bears managed to keep them close, losing five of those games by three runs or fewer.

The grueling spring break schedule, which included 14 games in nine days, served as solid preparation for the Ivy League season.

“The games over break allow us to play a lot of different people in a lot of different positions,” said Head Coach Pam McCreesh.

“These games expose us to all different kinds of game situations that help us more than practice does, so when the Ivy season comes, we’ll be ready.”

The UMBC tournament started with an offensive explosion, spearheaded by catcher Amy Baxter ’08.

In the first game against St. Francis College, she erupted for three

With the Ivy League season starting this weekend, the baseball team got the chance to wipe the slate clean after its non-conference spring break schedule — something it was all too eager to do.

The Bears lost their first 12 games of the year, including an 0-6 skid over spring break against Southern schools that ended with a stunning loss to Greensboro College, a Division III school. Four of the losses were by one run, and the Bears led or were tied in the late innings of five of the games, but lost all five in part because of a shaky bullpen.

But Brown started afresh on Saturday, trouncing the University of Pennsylvania 9-6 and 19-5 on the road to earn its first wins of the season. Sunday, the team split a pair of games with Columbia, losing 6-5 in a game that the bullpen let slip away before rebounding with a 6-1 victory.

The win upped Bruno’s record to 3-13 and 3-1 in league play.

“It’s tough when you look up your record and you’re 0-12,” said pitcher and second baseman Bryan Tews ’07, who threw a complete game against Penn and leads the Bears at the plate

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Mary Seid ’06 was named Ivy League Player of the Week for her performance over spring break. She currently has a 15-game hitting streak.

OT loss to No. 19 Big Green one of three near-misses for w. lacrosse during break

BY TOM TRUDEAU SPORTS STAFF WRITER

While most of Brown’s spring sports teams hit the road to sunnier locales over spring break, the women’s lacrosse team stayed behind in New England for a pair of home games and a trip north to New Hampshire. The Bears went winless in their three games, including an overtime loss to No. 19 Dartmouth in their first Ivy League game.

All three contests were close, and the team still has enthusiasm and confidence. The Bears fell to unbeaten St. Bonaventure University 12-9, the University of New Hampshire 1714 and ranked Dartmouth 11-9 in overtime. Now 3-6 overall (01 Ivy), the team hopes to take intangible benefits from the narrow losses.

“The team looked at spring break as a new beginning, a fresh start, to a few rough games we had,” said Amie Bi-

she will put the ball in play and hit it hard.”

Seid has been consistent throughout the season. She has hit safely in 17 of 18 games, including a current 15-game hitting streak. During the streak, she is hitting 26-for-49. For her efforts, she was named Ivy League Player of the Week.

home runs and seven RBIs en route to Brown’s 10-1 victory.

The rest of the tournament featured three more Brown victories in which Seid continued to put up impressive numbers. In the trio of wins, she went 9-for-12 from the leadoff spot.

“Mary is playing with extreme confidence right now,” McCreesh said. “She believes that every time she comes up to the plate

ros ’07. “We spent a lot of time together over break practicing and bonding as a team.”

The St. Bonaventure game was the definition of a seesaw battle, as the teams went goal-for-goal almost the entire game. The Bonnies took a 7-5 lead to end the first half when Stephanie Jordan snuck the ball by goaltender Melissa King ’08 with seven seconds remaining.

The Bears turned up the heat in the second half, outshooting their visitors 22-8, but the Bonnies and goaltender Eboni Preston withstood the charge, adding a goal to their lead for the 12-9 win.

Biros almost single-handedly kept Brown in the game Wednesday against UNH with co-captain Kate Staley ’06 out of the lineup. She had five goals and an assist, part of a week that saw her tally 11 points in the three games.

see SOFTBALL, page 6

with a .459 average. “We could have easily been 6-6 with those one-run games. But it was great that we came out Saturday and started to put everything together. … There’s no question we’re going to compete in the Ivy League, it’s just a little (frustrating) to have that hump in the spring trip.”

In their sweep of the Quakers, both of the Bears’ starters went the distance. Tews pitched the seven-inning game, allowing six runs — only two earned — on eight hits, while striking out eight and walking one. Co-captain Shaun McNamara ’06 went nine innings in his start, allowing five earned runs on 10 hits, while fanning seven and walking one.

The Bears feasted on the Quakers’ pitching, pounding out 28 runs on 35 hits. In the first game, Tews not only helped his own cause, he led the way. Batting second, Tews went 3-for-4 with two doubles and two RBIs. In the nightcap, he went 5-for-6 with a walk, a home run and four RBIs. “He’s been our best allaround player,” McNamara said of Tews. “We’ve come to expect big weekends from him.”

The Bears’ bats caught fire in see BASEBALL, page 7

Tough losses travel with m. lax on spring break to Ohio St., Notre Dame

BY CHRIS MAHR SPORTS STAFF WRITER

Despite a less-than-stellar 2-5 record following 9-7 and 11-5 losses at the Ohio State University and at No. 11 University of Notre Dame, respectively, the men’s lacrosse team is still upbeat and positive. At times Brown has shown flashes of brilliance on both ends of the field, but it will be the Bears’ ability to focus for the full 60 minutes that will determine how they will fare in Ivy League play, starting this Saturday at Yale.

“Our record doesn’t accurately portray the talent we have,” said midfielder and co-captain Grant Derkac ’06. “We’ve been close in a lot of our games but a few lapses have cost us.”

Bruno was done in by such lapses against the Buckeyes. After grabbing a 6-5 lead heading into the final quarter, Brown stumbled. Ohio State scored twice before attackman Kyle Wailes ’06 scored to tie the game at seven, but the hosts scored the final two goals of the match to

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Co-captain Grant Derkac ’06 and the men’s lacrosse team dropped a see M. LAX, page 8 pair of games on the road over spring break.

see W. LAX, page 6

BROWN SPORTS SPRING BREAK RESULTS BASEBALL (3-13, 3-1 IVY) MARCH 25 — at Virginia Military Institute (cancelled) MARCH 26 — VMI 7, Brown 6 MARCH 27 — VMI 7, Brown 6 MARCH 28 — High Point 2, Brown 1; Elon 16, Brown 8 MARCH 29 — Davidson 7, Brown 6 MARCH 30 — Greensboro 12, Brown 10 APRIL 1 — Brown 9, Penn 6; Brown 19, Penn 5 APRIL 2 — Columbia 6, Brown 5; Brown 6, Columbia 1

GYMNASTICS MARCH 25 — 8th of 9 at ECAC Championships MEN’S LACROSSE (2-5) MARCH 25 — Ohio State 9, Brown 7 MARCH 29 — Notre Dame 11, Brown 5

SOFTBALL (9-17) MARCH 24 — Brown 10, St. Francis 1 (UMBC Tournament) MARCH 25 — Niagara 7, Brown 1; Brown 4, Sacred Heart 3; UMBC 9, Brown 1 (UMBC Tournament) MARCH 26 — Brown 6, UMBC 4; Brown 7, UMBC 3 (UMBC Tournament) MARCH 28 — Maryland 8, Brown 0; Maryland 4, Brown 1 MARCH 29 — Towson 1, Brown 0; Towson 3, Brown 1 MARCH 30 — UMBC 5, Brown 0; UMBC 7, Brown 4 APRIL 1 — Monmouth 4, Brown 2; Brown 4, Monmouth 1

WOMEN’S CREW (1-2) WOMEN’S LACROSSE (3-6, 0-1) MARCH 25 — V8: 1. Princeton, 2. Brown, 3. Michigan APRIL 1 — V8: 1. Radcliffe, 2. Brown MEN’S GOLF APRIL 1-2 — 16th of 22 at Drew Upton Memorial (Westover, Md.)

NO. 63 MEN’S TENNIS (13-8) MARCH 23 — Brown 12, Holy Cross 11 (2OT) MARCH 25 — St. Bonaventure 12, Brown 9 MARCH 29 — New Hampshire 17, Brown 14 APRIL 2 — Dartmouth 11, Brown 9 (OT)

MARCH 26 — No. 17 Virginia Commonwealth 7, Brown 0 MARCH 29 — No. 36 North Carolina State 4, Brown 3 MARCH 30 — No. 25 Wake Forest 5, Brown 2

WOMEN’S TENNIS (4-8) MARCH 22 — Brown 7, Connecticut 0 MARCH 27 — Florida Atlantic 4, Brown 3 MARCH 29 — No. 38 Florida International 6, Brown 1

WOMEN’S WATER POLO (9-13) MARCH 25 — UC Davis 9, Brown 3 MARCH 26 — California 18, Brown 8 MARCH 28 — Brown 9, Sonoma State 7; Brown 10, Pacific 4 MARCH 29 — Santa Clara 5, Brown 2 APRIL 1 — Wagner 8, Brown 5; Brown 11, Gannon 5; Brown 11, Villanova 3 (ECAC Championsips) APRIL 2 — Brown 6, Harvard 5 (fifth place game at ECAC Championships)