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“We have to be honest with ourselves in looking at this worldwide problem.”

Chafee, who has admitted to experimenting with cocaine and marijuana while a student at Brown, commented on the “destabilizing effect of the illicit drug trade on so many countries.” He said that reforming policies “has to be done collectively” and suggested the possibility of United Nations involvement in this process.

“The doors are open to a different way of looking at the war on drugs,” he said.

In line with a national trend, women outnumber men in terms of applicants to Brown, those accepted to the College and undergraduates enrolled.

The admitted class of 2011 was 53 percent female, which is the same as the percentage of females in the current undergraduate population. Women made up an even greater proportion of the applicant pool — 59 percent of applicants to the College this year were female, down slightly from 60 percent last year.

Women have a lower acceptance rate than men do primarily because of low female representation in certain disciplines, said Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73.

“As we shift our emphasis slightly to science and engineering in the admission process, that tends to be more male-heavy in the applicant pool than some of the other disciplines,” Miller said, adding that Brown is “looking for female scientists and engineers.”

The higher percentage of women at Brown mirrors a broader national trend. In 1970, women made up 42 percent of the U.S. undergraduate population, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, part of the Department of Education. That figure rose to 57 percent as of July 2006, according to a report by the American Council on Education, a higher education research organization.

According to a 2006 NCES report, “women’s undergraduate enrollment has increased more than twice as fast as men’s” since 1970.

“From 2006 to 2015, both men’s and women’s undergraduate enrollments are projected to increase

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The field of candidates to be Brown’s first vice president for international affairs has been narrowed to a list of 8 to 10, members of the search committee told The Herald.

On-campus interviews of those candidates should be finished by April 19, said Assistant Provost Shelley Stephenson, who serves on the search committee. Following a second round of campus visits by a narrowed field of three to five candidates, the committee hopes to make a choice by early May, Stephenson said, though the selection would not necessarily be announced immediately.

The creation of a new vice-presidential position is a central compocontinued on page 6

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Presidential candidates for the Undergraduate Council of Students debated in the Sharpe Refectory Friday evening. Voting begins Tuesday.

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Rain or snow, Loughlin ’07 and Sieff ’07 will run the Boston Marathon today

SSDP regional conference draws Chafee, Loury

BY ERIN FRAUENHOFER ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

BY OLIVIA HOFFMAN STAFF WRITER

SPORTS

When you’re complaining about the walk to Pembroke campus through a monsoon for your “early” 11 a.m. class this morning, try to be thankful you have only a couple hundred yards to walk and not 26.2 miles.

Kevin Sieff ’07 and Herald Sports Staff Writer Kathleen Loughlin ’07 will run the 111th Boston Marathon today in what is likely to be the worst weather conditions in the history of the event.

The oldest annual marathon in the world begins at 10 a.m. in the rural town of Hopkinton, Mass., and fin-

ishes in Boston’s Copley Square.

In order to qualify for the Boston Marathon, both Loughlin and Sieff completed a certified marathon, where both met the designated time standard required for the 18-34 age group. For Sieff, the qualifying time was three hours and 10 minutes, and for Loughlin, the qualifying time was three hours and 40 minutes.

Sieff qualified at the Buenos Aires Marathon in 2005, where he clocked in at 3:05:50. Loughcontinued on page 4

The war on drugs must be reevaluated “methodically and clinically,” from a global perspective, former Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75 told a MacMillan 117 audience Friday. The speech kicked off the Students for Sensible Drug Policy Northeast Regional Conference, hosted at Brown this weekend.

“We need to ask ourselves, is this working?” Chafee, a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, said of current drug policies.

TROLLEYS ON THE GREEN

Students answer the call Brunonians drawn to the rabbinate, ministry, missions

BY TAYLOR BARNES S TAFF WRITER

Up until the 1950s, Brown — which has historic ties to the Baptist church — produced “tons of Baptist clergy,” said University Chaplain Janet Cooper Nelson. Now, up to four dozen Brown graduates in each class pursue religious occupations encompassing many faiths.

“The number of people leaving Brown who serve religiously is huge,” Cooper Nelson said, comparing the University to other schools where she has worked.

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FEATURE Hearing the call Shulamit Izen ’07 has known since elementary school that she wanted to become a rabbi.

“My family would sit by the rabbi and the cantor, and I would want to be them,” she said of attending synagogue.

After graduating, Izen will attend the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, Pa. Her program includes a five-year study of Judaic history.

Izen has specific plans for her ministry. “I want to start an innovative Jewish day school that combines creative pedagogy with joyous Judaism,” she said. continued on page 8

IVY FILM FESTIVAL Doug Liman ’88 discussed in the keynote speech at the Ivy League Film Festival how Brown helped prepare him for Hollywood

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CANDIDATE PROFILES The Herald profiles the candidates running for the presidential and vice presidential positions on UCS in this week’s election

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FIRST IMPRESSIONS? Ben Bernstein ’09 thinks that two new student groups are struggling to accomplish anything because their goals are undefined

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ARTS & CULTURE MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2007

‘The Blind’ rejects realism, explores fluidity of language

BY MARIELA QUINTANA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Innovation and originality abounded at the Sock and Buskin-produced performance of Maurice Maeterlinck’s “The Blind.” Director Rebecca Schneider, associate professor of theater, speech and dance, and her skilled group of actors certainly maintained Maeterlinck’s original artistic intentions that rejected realism and the boundaries of time and place — rather, both Maeterlinck and the production explore the subconscious and its mystical spirituality.

Rather than as individual characters, the assembly of actors worked seamlessly together as an embodiment of fears and questions. Subverting logical dialogue, the actors repeatedly posed questions that at first appeared rudimentary, such as “Where are we?” and “How much longer?” Through continuous reiteration, these questions shed light on the religious and other worldly undertones that nuance the play.

Despite its lack of substantial characterization and progression of plot, Saturday night’s performance of “The Blind” attained a strong sense of dramatic structure and direction from the numerous dichotomies that re-occurred throughout the play. Schneider’s directorial choices highlighted the universal clashes between silence and noise, light and dark, move-

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REVIEW ment and inertia, knowledge and ignorance and comfort and anxiety, all of which are inherent in the dialogue of Maeterlinck’s original script.

The play opens on a stage strewn with scrap paper. The blind, a group of six figures — all in black, eyes shaded by oversized sunglasses — sprawl on a bench center-stage. Behind them, two projection screens hang, displaying a montage of flashing text.

Stage right, a giant plastic container holds the decaying remains of a priest’s corpse, like an airtight Tupperware container attempting to preserve his leftovers. On both sides above the stage, three figures in orange prison jump suits stand erect. The contrasting array of colors and textures is overwhelming to the senses, yet the introductory moments of silence drag on portentously and create a clear sense of waiting and expectation.

The silence gives way to paper shuffling and falling. Classical music crescendos are cut short by a cacophony of metal clanging against metal. The dialogue begins suddenly and jars the audience with the unfamiliarity of the simple words, “Where are we?” The language immediately takes on the unpredictability and ambiguity continued on page 6

Liman ’88 recalls Brown’s impact on his life Alum director gives Ivy Film Festival keynote

BY CAMERON LEE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

“If I learned anything at school, it was how to show up to class without any studying whatsoever,” said Doug Liman ’88, director of movies such as “Swingers” and “The Bourne Identity.” With these words, Liman began the Variety Keynote Speech of the Ivy Film Festival Saturday night in Salomon 101.

His speech was marked by candor and dry humor as he recalled his exploits, setbacks and accomplishments from his years at Brown to the present. “I cherish this place and jump at any chance to return to Providence,” he said.

Liman started with an anecdote about his senior year at Brown, during which he said he enrolled in a class known as “Rocks for Jocks” along with seven friends. While taking the course, he and his friends gave each other “handicaps” and competed to see who could score the highest grade. According to group-imposed rules, he wasn’t allowed to attend lectures or do the reading for the class, but he still managed to pass. He likened the experience to working in the film industry, as he said both require one to “be able to work under insane conditions.”

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Doug Liman ‘88, director of “Swingers,” “The Bourne Identity” and “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” gave the Variety Keynote Speech of the Ivy Film Festival Saturday evening in Salomon 101.

Liman managed to direct his own short film at University of Southern California even after dropping out of its film school, but the film was unfortunately not the “ticket to Hollywood” he had thought it would be.

He subsequently directed his first feature film, titled “Getting In,” which was not well-received.

After these two disappointments, Liman decided to climb the Alps with a friend from Brown. He credited the trip with giving him a sense of accomplishment that has inspired him throughout his

career.

When working in film, “you’re gonna get bad news every day,” Liman said. “I get rejected every day (by actors and writers). You need a way to still feel good about yourself.”

“There’s an adage in Hollywood — failure’s not falling down, it’s not getting back up,” Liman said. “To cut through and break in, you’ve gotta do something that’s great … it just has to have an original voice.” continued on page 6

BOP’s ‘Goyescas’ hits a high note

BY CATHERINE GOLDBERG CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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Brown Opera Productions staged three performances of “Goyescas,” a Spanish opera inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya, this weekend.

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Brown Opera Productions’ “Goyescas,” a Spanish opera inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya, triumphed in its three performances this weekend. Written in three tableaux, the opera explores two parallel love stories — Goya and his lover Leocadia and Rosario and Fernando, two characters in one of the artist’s paintings.

Besides operatic voices, a production of “Goyescas” also calls for elegant dancers, convincing actors and powerful music, all of which BOP strongly delivered. Brown’s orchestra played the original score

by Enrique Grandados, which offered a strong accompaniment to the emotional performance.

The story begins in the painting studio of the artist (Kyle Dillon ’09), who is showing his lover Leo-

cadia (Autumn Graham ’09) his most recent painting. Expressed through ballet rather than song, the movements of the dancers revealed the playful and intimate relationship between the two lovers.

At the end of the overture, Goya and Leocadia, hand-in-hand, dash through a large frame together, symbolic of their entrance into the world of Goya’s paintings.

Tableau I begins outside in a square as the Majos, a group of young bohemians, enjoy the day.

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EDITORS’ PICKS MONDAY APRIL 16 MONDAY, “CONFESSIONS OF A CHA CHA FEMINIST”: A performance by Maria Elena Fernandez — Stuart Theater Theater, 7 p.m.

TUESDAY, DAY, APRIL 17 DAY “SENORITA EXTRAVIADA”: A film screening. Senior Exhibit Opening: Rochelle Garza ’07 — McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 7 p.m.

“ART IN ACTION: LUXURY ARTS AND INTERCONNECTIONS IN THE LATE BRONZE AND EARLY IRON AGES”: A lecture by Marian Feldman — Mencoff Hall (the Cabinet), 68 Waterman St., 5:30 p.m.

“VAS: AN OPERA IN FLATLAND”: A reading by Steve Tomasula, author of “The Book of Portraiture (FC2)” and “IN & OZ (Ministry of Whimsy Press)” — List 120, 8 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, ESDAY APRIL 18 ESDAY, HONORS / CAPSTONE SERIES: Readings by Marie Hopkins ’07 and Matthew Immerman ’07— Pembroke 210, 3 p.m.

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Gender gap at Brown reflects national trend continued from page 1 … Women’s undergraduate enrollment is projected to continue growing faster than men’s enrollment.”

The growing gender gap extends beyond the United States, said Tom Mortenson, senior scholar at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education.

“When I look at the international data, what’s going on in the U.S. is typical,” Mortenson said.

“It’s true in almost every country in the world, except in sub-Saharan Africa.”

At 52 percent, the percentage of Brown students who are female is slightly larger than it is at other Ivy League schools. Columbia University had a 48 percent undergraduate female enrollment rate in the fall of 2005, and Cornell University was then 50 percent female. This academic year, Princeton University’s female enrollment rate was 46.5 percent, Yale University was 49.3 percent female and the University of Pennsylvania was 51.9 percent female. Dartmouth College was 49 percent female, according to an undated figure on its Web site.

Mortenson said the gender gap is more evident at most colleges and universities than at elite schools. “Highly selective schools can pick anybody they want. Less selective schools are more driven by the underlying demographic forces,” he said.

“There is a much more even gender distribution at more elite schools,” said Sara Mead, senior policy analyst at Education Sector, an education policy think tank. “These are schools where they have many more qualified applicants than they can serve, so they’re able to choose who they enroll. They have plenty of qualified men and plenty of qualified women to fill their class.”

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GENDER BREAKDOWN Mead and Mortenson both said the gender gap is especially pronounced among black college students — the gap shows up more at “historically black universities where 60 percent or over 60 percent of African-American students are women,” Mead said.

Miller said the gender gap is a complex issue. “There are myriad theories about the gender imbalance, and it really is a national issue. It extends through all different populations and all different racial and ethnic groups.”

Mortenson said the gender gap is partly due to inferior male academic performance in elementary and secondary schools. “It looks like the classroom environment is far more favorable to girls and almost hostile to boys,” he said, leading to lower college attendance.

“There are also some differences in economic incentives facing women,” Mead said. “The opportunity cost (of college attendance) would be higher for lower-income men than for women. The types of jobs that men could get right out of high school pay more than the jobs that women could get.”

The gender gap could affect the U.S. economy in the long run, Mortenson said.

“Jobs that are being created require ever higher levels of post-

secondary education and training,” he said. “Men are not adapting to the new world, and women certainly are. The concern I have is that men’s lives are going to be very rough unless many more of them start going to college.”

Students interviewed by The Herald said Brown’s open curriculum and progressive atmosphere may make it more attractive to female applicants.

“A lot of the guys I know were kind of nervous about how it’s so unstructured here, as far as the curriculum goes,” said Chantal Tape ’09. “Maybe girls are more flexible about that.”

“Because of other progressive aspects of the University, perhaps women applicants feel like they can be more accepted as women who are striving to succeed in academia or whatever else they are trying to succeed at,” said Will Emmons ’09.

But most students said they were not particularly concerned about the gender gap. “It just seems like more of a curious phenomenon than a problem,” said Jake Kline ’10. “I don’t think it’s a huge issue if there are more women than guys.”

“If the trend continues, I think Brown needs to think about what it’s doing that isn’t attracting men,” Tape said.

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But inclement weather conditions will make today’s marathon more challenging. The Boston Marathon’s Web site includes a Weather Alert and Advisory for Participants, which state that today’s heavy rain and wind, combined with temperatures in the 30s, puts runners at an increased risk for hypothermia.

“The weather’s going to be awful,” Loughlin said. “But you can’t

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control it. You’ve just got to get over it and try not to think about it.”

Loughlin and Sieff are not the only Brown students who will participate in the marathon. Nick Neely ’07 of the men’s cross country team and Pat Clark ’07 will join Sieff for the last 10 miles.

“It’s a huge help to have some comrades along with you,” Sieff said.

Loughlin also plans to be accompanied by friends. Becky Crossin ’08 and Alex Brown ’08 will each run part of the race with her.

“The intent is that one girl will meet me at mile 13 and run miles 13-20 with me,” she said. “Then, (another) will run miles 20-26 with me. Hopefully, we’ll find each other, but in the rain, it’s going to be hard.”

Despite the weather, Loughlin and Sieff said they are looking forward to the race.

“I’m still really excited,” Sieff said. “I spent all that time training, and I’m excited to be running with such elite runners, even if I can’t see them, even if they’re covered by mist. It’s cool to be in the same pack.”

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C A N D I DAT E S F O R U C S P R E S I D E N T Michael Glassman ’09

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With Banner creating an uproar across campus, Michael Glassman ’09 understands why the “implementation process” is not going smoothly.

“You can’t impose a lot of rules on Brown students,” he says.

“You have to let them make those choices for themselves.”

Glassman, currently the UCS communications chair, wants the council to develop an appropriate response to Banner. But he has also set goals of renovating dorms, expanding January@Brown and increasing the number of students on UCS by reaching out to those who show interest in participating but are discouraged when they lose an election.

“I want to personally approach

them and make an effort to get those people into UCS,” he says.

A New York City native who plans to double-concentrate in the sciences and the humanities — he hasn’t yet decided which ones — Glassman worked to create the Flex meal plans last year as a member of the campus life and admissions and student services committees.

Glassman is also involved with the Sustainable Food Initiative, the goal of which, he said, “is to get students who don’t know anything — who are basically like me and are from New York City and don’t know anything about agriculture — to come volunteer on the farm.”

— Michael Bechek

Eric Mukherjee ’09 Eric Mukherjee ’09, the only candidate for president who does not serve on UCS or go to its meetings, would prefer not to start.

Mukherjee is running on a platform of “abolishing” the council, which he sees as bureaucratic and ineffective. If elected, he says, he would instead “open a forum for creating a student government with actual credibility.”

Once that process is underway, he would probably resign.

Is it possible?

“Anything’s possible,” says the biochemistry concentrator from Topeka, Kan.

Mukherjee insists that his platform is not a joke — though it may have started out that way — and says the students will support him.

“From the people that I’ve talked to, they’re very enthusiastic about my position,” he says.

“I’m running because I see a broken system,” he added, “and I think I can fix it.”

Mukherjee’s other interests include playing computer games and participating on Brown’s Quiz Bowl team.

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Moses Riner ’08

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on campus and developing a response to Banner that protects the open curriculum.

“I live in New Dorm right now, and there’s absolutely no common rooms in there,” Riner said.

Riner, who is from Louisville, Ky., and is the youngest of six children, also wants to create a rewards system that would give students points for attending athletic events. These points would then be redeemable for Brown memorabilia.

In addition to the rugby team and UCS, Riner is also involved in the Brown Investment Group.

— Michael Bechek

Stefan Smith ’09 Stefan Smith ’09, an at-large representative on UCS, wants to make sure Brown students don’t forget the world that exists around them.

Smith, a history concentrator, tutors at a juvenile training center in Cranston to help people earn their GEDs and is a crisis-line operator for suicide counseling and rape intervention at his home in Greenville, S.C. But he worries that Brown students are often “complacent” about the outside community, especially about education.

“We take so much for granted at Brown, in terms of intellectual freedom,” he says.

Smith favors mandatory community service for UCS members,

and he advocates that the University freeze student tuition. He says tuition, which has been rising faster than inflation, should be kept “at the status quo so that the gap between who can come and who can’t doesn’t spread.”

Smith also wants to open the proceedings of the Undergraduate Financial Board to the public record, arguing that students have a right to know how their money is being spent.

“UFB Chicken Littles will tell you that the sky will fall down if we open meetings,” he says. “That’s not true.”

— Michael Bechek

Jake Heimark ’10 A freshman taking all of his classes S/NC because “grades can sometimes provide the wrong incentives for students,” Jake Heimark ’10 wants to have younger leadership at the top of UCS. “I think the problem with UCS is the current leadership focuses too much on their own agendas,” he says. “I think it’s time that, with a younger person as vice president, they can help the younger members achieve their goals.”

Heimark, a Palo Alto, Calif., native, is the UCS Webmaster and is leading an initiative to consider outsourcing Brown’s e-mail service to Google’s Gmail.

Heimark also calls the current state of technology at Brown “embarrassing” and says students deserve a three-year plan from the administration that includes a plan for wireless Internet, universal card access and “an online registration system that’s actually usable.”

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Because Brown is “a unique university,” he says, “we need to change Banner for Brown.”

Heimark is also involved with Free the Children, an organization that focuses on building schools and advocating against child labor, among other things.

He has been to Kenya five times and has also been to Nicaragua and Mexico.

— Michael Bechek

Lauren Kolodny ’08

— Michael Bechek

Though he transferred from Duke University last fall, Moses Riner ’08 thinks he’s gotten in touch with his new school.

A member of the rugby team and an at-large UCS representative since the beginning of the spring semester, Riner says going door-to-door in dorms and talking to students has helped him “understand what Brown students want.”

“You might think that a lot of people would just blow you off,” he says. “But actually, I got a lot of positive feedback.”

A history concentrator with a strong interest in entrepreneurship, Riner’s major issues include creating more social space

C A N D I D AT E S F O R UCS VICE PRESIDENT

Lauren Kolodny ’08, an international relations concentrator from San Diego, says there is too much bureaucracy in UCS and that individuals often get left behind in the paperwork.

“The reason I really want to run for vice president,” she says, “is I think there needs to be more oversight of each individual member of UCS.” New members sometimes get lost, she says, and are expected to know too much as soon as they arrive.

Kolodny — who transferred to Brown from the University of California, Los Angeles, the fall of her sophomore year — says she wanted “a more open and progressive institution” and that the threat to shopping period represented by Banner “really undermines the open curriculum.”

Kolodny, who is UCS’ Corporation liaison, says she has many important connections in the administration, which she wants to use to try to lessen course caps and prerequisites and to print copies of the Course Announcement Bulletin.

She also pushed the Corporation to create a social choice fund, which it finally approved at its

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meeting this February after declining to act on it on more than one occasion. The new choice offers donors to the University the option of earmarking their money for a separately held fund that invests specifically in companies with good environmental practices.

Other than UCS, Kolodny is involved with the Darfur Action Network. She says she is focusing on trying to bring biogas stoves to a refugee camp so that women and children are not forced to leave the camp to collect firewood and are not exposed to rape and attack.

— Michael Bechek

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‘The Blind’ rejects realism, explores fluidity of language continued from page 3 of free verse. In this way, the performance of “The Blind” evokes a mystical and imaginative quality that defies realism and theatrical convention with its lack of specific time, scenes, setting and characters.

The fluidity of language toys with words and morphs their meaning. Lines are not merely spoken but rather chanted and sermonized.

Eventually they take on a rhythmic beat, recalling a prayer or the recitation of the liturgy. In this way, the vague questions repetitively asked by the actors begin to recall questions about the mysteries of faith.

The repetitions of “Where is he?” evolve from a basic question to a

profound plea that probes God’s presence. The initially confusing and ostensibly random question, “Why did we leave the big house?” beseeched over and over again in chanted unison begin to evoke uncertainty about original sin and the Garden of Eden.

Though the questions posed never seem to reach definite conclusions, the ceaseless cycle of guessing brings a coherent sense of struggle with the notions of mortality, fatalism and spirituality that have always challenged the motives of human action.

Despite the inaccessibility of some of these themes, Schneider and her well-rehearsed actors ably transcend Maeterlinck’s esoteric queries into lively and energetic

entertainment. The actors engage the audience and hold them in rapt attention with coordinated dance routines and harmonized incantations. A group of six actors clad in nurses’ gowns, hairnets, pristine white sneakers and thick protective goggles intersperse themselves throughout the audience.

They interact with both the figures on stage and the audience itself.

Calling out in sudden excitation their impulsive propositions and recommendations, like at some sort of raucous Pentecostal Church retreat, the six figures humorously and provocatively displace the boundaries between the theatrical realm and the real realm, and perhaps even between the real realm and the divine realm.

Liman ’88 recalls Brown’s impact on his life continued from page 3 Liman managed to break in with his next film, “Swingers,” which was shot on a shoestring budget of $250,000. Because of the limited funds, Liman said he had to be crafty, using the same props in multiple scenes and filming without a permit while evading the police.

He also spoke about his forays into television, with shows like “The O.C.,” which he said “started out as a big success (and) ultimately turned into garbage.”

Liman ended by recalling the hoops he had to jump through while directing his more recent feature films, “The Bourne Identity” and “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”

While preparing to enter production on “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” there was a point when Nicole Kidman, who had been set to play Mrs. Smith, dropped out, followed

by Brad Pitt and the producers, Liman said. Ultimately, Liman was able to complete the movie and is currently working on the television version of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”

After the hour-long keynote speech, Liman responded to ques-

tions from the audience, which included topics such as Liman’s shift from smaller movies to big-budget movies, the process of preparing for a movie and past and present filmmakers he admires. During the session, Liman insisted the audience call him “Doug” rather than “Mr. Liman.”

Liman told The Herald after his speech that he was glad the Film Festival had been organized. “The Ivy League schools as a whole are not supportive of film as a serious field of study,” he said. “I feel like at a place like Brown, it’s going to be the students who create the film (community).”

Liman said he remains close to his friends from Brown. “I really formed my life-long friendships at this place,” he said. “Many of the friends I met here helped me on my first films and my short films even though none of them went into film. That entrepreneurial attitude (here at Brown) made them good co-workers.”

Liman said he believes the future of film continues to lie in good storytelling, but the Internet and especially YouTube have provided new means to tell those sto-

ries. “Someone is going to create the first successful Internet-based program and … it would surprise me if it wasn’t a Brown student or a Brown alum,” he said.

Simon Kinberg ’95, writer of the film and television versions of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and a friend of Liman’s, had originally been scheduled to speak with Liman but had to pull out due to a commitment to the upcoming television series “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” said Elizabeth Backup ’08, alumni relations coordinator for the festival.

Backup said Kinberg had been scheduled before Liman and that Kinberg helped bring Liman to Brown.

Backup said she didn’t know what to expect from Liman’s speech and was pleasantly surprised. “It was so funny,” she said. “I think it was kind of spontaneous.”

She added that she learned a few lessons from this year’s keynote and suggested the event may have drawn a bigger crowd if it were held on a Friday night or later in the evening. “I wish more people would have been there to see it, but (the scheduling) has to work with the filmmakers,” she said.

VP for int’l affairs selection expected next month continued from page 1 nent of the University’s formal internationalization effort. The initiative kicked off in October 2006 with the appointment of an internationalization committee, chaired by Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98, to propose ways Brown can improve its international profile.

The vice president for international affairs search committee is one of seven working groups that have been formed under the auspices of the internationalization committee. The others — focusing on such fields as global health and curriculum, language instruction and study abroad — will present possible areas of focus to the parent committee beginning in late April.

The full committee’s recommendations could be released as soon as the end of May, according to Stephenson.

The University received over 300 applications for the position, and the current group was chosen

from that pool for first-round interviews, Stephenson said. She said the search committee has tried to focus on candidates from a range of backgrounds, especially those with multiple areas of expertise.

“All of the candidates have a familiarity with academia, and most also have a familiarity with one or more of the other worlds from which they come,” Stephenson said, citing diplomacy and work for international non-governmental organizations as examples of candidates’ past experience.

“The strongest candidates … are people who have come with more than one type of background,” she added.

“I think we’ve defined the job in the way that is pretty challenging,” said search committee member Richard Spies, executive vice president for planning and senior adviser to the president. “It’s going to require an overall set of skills or experiences that will allow somebody to do a lot of different things.”

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Both Stephenson and Spies declined to say if any of the candidates who received first-round interviews come from within the University.

Philip Altbach, director of Boston College’s Center for International Higher Education, said internationalization is “the flavor of the month” in academia, and many other universities have already created similar positionss.

“This is not a tremendous, innovative move on the part of Brown,” Altbach said.

But the position has generated strong interest, Stephenson said, because it is at the vice-presidential level and because the incoming vice president will be able to build on the internationalization committee’s work.

Altbach agreed that the position’s vice-presidential status at Brown is significant.

“Three cheers for Brown for doing it at that level,” he said.

“It means that Brown is taking it seriously.”

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A fresh pot of Mocha

BY NICOLE DUNGCA STAFF WRITER

The students behind Mocha are introducing a new brew to accommodate the University’s switch to Banner. The founders of Mocha, the student-run alternative to the University’s online course catalog, have been pouring hours of work into their project to help students find courses as the first online preregistration period approaches.

They are also preparing to hand down the program to a new team of students.

Mocha was founded in 2006 by five computer science concentrators looking for an easier way to search for courses. Dave Pacheco ’07, Daniel Leventhal ’07, Adam Cath ’07, Dave Hirshberg ’08 and Bill Pijewski ’07 cultivated the idea of Mocha as a final project in a CS class. After they released Mocha, the popularity of the program skyrocketed. For many students, Mocha is now an indispensable resource during shopping period.

The Mocha team currently consists of four original members — Pacheco, Leventhal, Cath and Hirshberg — and three new students, Colin Gordon ’08, Tim O’Donnell ’09 and Andres Douglas ’09, who started working on Mocha this semester.

The newest additions are now becoming familiar with how Mocha operates. “We’re almost trying to go slowly so we can bring the new guys up to speed,” Leventhal said.

Development of the updated version of Mocha was also slowed this semester because of the launch of Banner, the new computer database that has replaced Brown Online Course Announcement. Since Mocha harvests course information from the University’s database, Mocha must be updated any time the Banner course catalog changes.

Updating Mocha can be incredibly time-consuming, Pacheco said, but the work often occurs in bursts. After Banner’s course database went live, Leventhal put in about seven or eight hours a day for four or five days.

“I took a deep breath before saying yes because I had some idea of how much time it would take,” Gordon said of his decision to join the Mocha team.

The three new members said they knew it would be a major responsibility, but they ultimately joined to be a part of what they thought was a valuable project.

“It helps people around you and has a direct impact on everyone you know. You can see it being used all around you,” Douglas said.

With the widespread criticism of Banner’s unfriendly user interface — including a public condemnation from the Undergraduate Council of Students — students are continuing to rely on Mocha to search for courses.

“Banner is so hard to navigate that I’ll probably be using Mocha even more,” said Bricia Trejo ’09.

Thefts of metal among incidents reported

BY DEBBIE LEHMANN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The following summary includes all major incidents reported to the Department of Public Safety between March 30 and April 5. 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.

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Chris Bennett / Herald The founders of Mocha are preparing to hand down the program to a new team of students. Clockwise from top left: Adam Cath ’07, David Pacheco ’07, Daniel Leventhal ’07, Andres Douglas ’09, Tim O’Donnell ’09, Colin Gordon ’08.

The Mocha creators did not particularly wish for that outcome — their main goal, they said, is to have an effective way to search for courses, whether provided by their program or by the University.

“We hoped that when Banner came out, we wouldn’t have to exist anymore,” Leventhal said.

The group is aiming to keep up with changes to the Banner sys-

tem and maintain the accuracy of the course catalog.

“We have to spend a lot of time at Mocha fixing problems with the way it reacts with Banner,” Pacheco said.

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Tuesday, April 3: 10:09 a.m. Person reported that sometime between 3 p.m. on Feb. 1 and 7 a.m. on March 25, unknown persons entered a room in Barus & Holley and took four pieces of metal needed for equipment in the area. There are no suspects or witnesses at this time.

Thursday, April 5: 10:02 a.m. Person reported that a recycling sign was missing from the Post Office in Faunce House. There are no suspects or witnesses at this time.

1:28 p.m. Complainant reported that unknown persons removed the whiteboard from her door in Mead House.

There are no suspects or witnesses at this time.

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Chafee, Loury headline SSDP regional conference at Brown

BOP’s ‘Goyescas’ hits a high note

continued from page 1 Tom Angell, government relations director for the national SSDP, told The Herald that hearing Chafee’s stance on drug policy “says a lot about how far the issue has come.”

“It was really heartening to hear Senator Chafee talking about how the war on drugs has failed and that we need to have a serious re-thinking of how to move forward from here,” said Angell, who founded the first SSDP chapter in Rhode Island in 2002 while he was a student at the University of Rhode Island.

Dan MacCombie ’08.5, co-chair of the conference, said he was particularly pleased to hear Chafee speak about the Aid Elimination Provision of the Higher Education Act, which denies federal financial aid to students with prior drug convictions, a policy that Chafee called “backwards.”

Chafee is “a respected political figure, and it’s great that he came out against that,” MacCombie said.

“That’s just one more voice to add to the chorus.”

This year’s conference, titled “Confronting the Drug War, Envisioning Alternatives,” was the first SSDP conference to be held at Brown, though the University’s chapter had the most representatives of any chapter at the national convention last November, MacCombie said.

According to Julia van de Walle ’08, president of Brown’s SSDP chapter, the goals of the conference were to “create cohesion” among the Northeast chapters and “reinvigorate their dedication to the cause.” This year’s conference drew about 80 people from 23 different schools, in addition to the core membership of around 40 students at Brown.

Beyond its general goals, cochair Matthew Palevsky ’07 said one theme of the conference was to understand “how the drug war provides a vehicle for systemic racism.”

“We criminalize half of America — approximately half of Americans use an illicit substance — and we choose which cohort of that half we are going to incarcerate,” Palevsky said. “Because of systemic racism, that ends up being predominantly people of color.”

Brown Professor of Economics Glenn Loury addressed the issue of institutional racism in a lecture Friday night in Leung Gallery called “Racial Stigma, Mass Incar-

ceration and American Values.”

“We are a nation of jailers, and racist jailers at that,” Loury said.

“Today’s American race-making institution, the place where the stigmatized status of blacks is reproduced and reinforced in the American imagination, is in the arena of criminal justice.”

Palevsky told The Herald he was impressed at the way Loury “really opened up.”

“This is a personal issue for him, as it should be for all of us, and he talked about it with such passion and knowledge that I think it affected everyone in that room,” Palevsky said.

A workshop on Saturday also addressed the issue of institutional racism, focusing on the importance of anti-racism analysis in the drug policy reform movement.

Sunday’s events were directed more at drug culture, MacCombie said. “One of my biggest issues with the drug war is cultural stigmatization and marginalization. … Although that’s something that all of us care about, it’s often ignored.”

Daniel Pinchbeck, author of “Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism” and “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl,” gave a speech Sunday about the role of traditional shamanistic practices in modern society. Pinchbeck told the audience how his own personally revelatory experiences led him to consider whether it is “possible for there to be a reconsideration of psychedelics in a positive, strategic way” and whether they “could actually be useful and healing substances for our modern world.”

Conference organizers said they hope conferences like this weekend’s can create forums that encourage members to challenge existing policies and debate about alternative solutions.

“I think we’ve all realized that the war on drugs is a failure, but there’s great disagreement and debate within the organization about what exactly a drug policy utopia would look like,” Angell said.

“One of the most important aims of an event like this is to bring people together and to help foster that realization that you as a student on a campus are part of an international movement of young people who are concerned about these policies and their disastrous impact on our generation,” Angell said.

A fresh pot of Mocha brewing continued from page 7 it “broke Mocha,” according to Pacheco. He wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that the Mocha team used a “quick fix” to update their program, but now they have to work to add the XLIST feature to Mocha.

Members of the Mocha team have met with Computing and Information Services administrators and, in the past, the Office of the Registrar to try to find a way to make course updates more accessible to Mocha. But administrators have been unwilling to release course data other than through the University Web site, the Mocha organizers said.

“I think the general consensus is that Mocha is useful to use in conjunction with Banner as an alterna-

tive to the scheduling office of Banner,” said Lisa Mather, associate registrar for registration services.

“They seem to be acknowledging and liking Mocha now, but we’re hoping to have a tighter relationship in the future,” Cath said.

As the Mocha team looks to the future, its three graduating members still intend to contribute to Mocha. Pacheco, Leventhal and Cath will have full-time jobs next year, but the three plan to spend time on the project, even if they’re not at Brown.

Their commitment to the project will decrease, but they believe the program will continue be a beneficial tool to new students because of their choices in their successors.

“We trust the new guys. We know Mocha’s in good hands,” Pacheco said.

continued from page 3 titles projected above the stage.

The strength of the performance was in the acting. Paquiro, a flirtatious character played comically by Patrick Ramsey ’07, entered the scene wooing the ladies until his sweetheart, Pepa — strongly portrayed as confident and controlling by Christie Gibson ’06 — arrived at the square.

Several minutes into the tableau, Rosario (Sonia Nayak ’08) enters the scene. Rosario’s beauty may halt the festivities in the world of the painting, but it was Nayak’s voice that literally stunned the audience. Her voice was strong, emotional and femi-

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nine, and she sang the Spanish words as if she were speaking her native tongue.

Paquiro is quick to invite Rosario to a lantern-lit ball, but his courting is immediately interrupted by Rosario’s love, Fernando (Alexander Ebin ’07), jealous and fearful of Paquiro’s interaction with Rosario. Ebin exuded the masculinity, intensity and the sense of honor of men described in 18th-century Spanish literature. His voice revealed his character’s passion and pain caused by his love for Rosario.

Following the first tableau is another ballet scene in the studio with Goya and Leocadia. She struggles for Goya’s affections

as he becomes increasingly obsessed with his current painting. While Graham expressed feelings of hurt and frustration, Dillon ably portrayed his ambivalence through graceful movement.

The opera continues in this back-and-forth manner between Goya’s studio and the tableaux, providing insight into his personal struggle between the world of his reality and his art. Brown Opera Productions’ “Goyescas,” with the talent of its singers, dancers and musicians, left the audience impressed and touched in a performance that brought forth the complexity of what separates love from obsession.

Students pursue vocations as missionaries, rabbis and ministers continued from page 1 Greta Pemberton ’06, who spoke about her desire to become a Unitarian minister at last year’s Commencement as a senior orator, is still deciding whether to follow the path she planned last spring.

“The ministry is still a distant dream for me,” Pemberton said.

She currently works at the Open Source radio show in Boston and said before becoming a spiritual leader, she needs “to get more life experience under my belt.”

Danyel Currie ’08 said she has considered career possibilities ranging from chemist to author, as well as a Christian pastor. After taking RS 72: “Christianity in Late Antiquity” as a freshman, Currie decided to concentrate in religious studies and psychology.

“I’ve got to pursue my vocation,” she said. “I couldn’t see myself doing anything with chemistry.” But she admitted she would feel “so much more confident” graduating with a science degree.

Mother Teresa is Currie’s role model. “I kind of see myself going to the extreme, like she did.

Her work really resonates with me,” she said.

But for now, her plans are unclear. “I’m as much in the dark as anyone to how this will play out,” she said.

For some students, matters of faith — not practicalities — made for late realizations about their interest in religious careers. Jon Mitchell ’09 said he initially resisted the Jewish faith and thus had hardly considered the rabbinate.

“I was never interested in practicing Judaism,” Mitchell said. At his bar mitzvah in Israel, he spoke about not believing in God. But before coming to Brown, Mitchell said he “considered the possibility of reinterpreting Judaism” and has since delved so deeply into his faith that he is now set on becoming a rabbi.

Both Miller Hui ’07 and Jennifer Quiroa ’09 see Christian missionary work in their futures, among other careers.

Hui said his father told him that pursuing missionary work alone would be ineffective. “ ‘You need some kind of craft, like Paul in the Bible — he was a tent-maker,’ ” Hui recalled his father telling him. Hui said he applied to Brown’s Program in Liberal Medical Education because, on a mission trip to Mexico, many people “would ask me to pray for some sort of physical ailment.”

“I felt like (my acceptance to PLME) was part of God’s plan.

He put me here specifically,” he said.

Hui and several of his Christian friends at Brown and Rhode Island School of Design hope to someday create a Christian hospital and orphanage.

“Some people say that you can’t mix religion and medicine, but, in my perspective, the best place is where someone cares for you, not just your vitals,” Hui said.

Quiroa decided she wanted to be an anaplastologist — or prosthetics specialist — before she seriously considered doing missions work. Volunteering in New Orleans during freshman year “gave me a heart” for service.

“I can’t imagine other lives without the amazing blessing that I have, and I want to share it,” she said.

She said war-torn countries have a high demand for new limbs due to frequent amputations.

“I have always wanted to make prosthetics. Maybe God could use me,” Quiroa said.

Questioning their conviction Like their classmates, students pursuing religious occupations are often indecisive when making a career choice.

“Very few people at 22 want to make a commitment to anything,” said Father Henry Bodah, the University’s Catholic chaplain. “They don’t go into Goldman Sachs thinking they’ll be working there until they’re 40.”

Izen questioned whether she could devote herself to the rabbinate. “When you’re a rabbi, that’s a big responsibility,” she said. “People are handing you

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their bundles of sorrow and saying, ‘Help me.’ ” Pemberton said she thinks she is too young to enter religious service. “It would have been arrogant for me to preach at age 21 or 22,” she said.

Currie has practical concerns as she approaches the ministry — she is unsure how following in Mother Teresa’s footsteps “will work in terms of me paying the rent,” she said.

But she said her faith keeps her going. “Jesus, he just walked around and talked to people. He was cool with that, and I’m cool with that.”

Quiroa sometimes questions why she is at Brown. “You go to this Ivy League school, you pay thousands of dollars for this school, and then you go and be a missionary? You beg people for money to be a missionary?” she said.

Faith at a secular school As a religious person at Brown, Currie said she finds herself in the minority.

“Unfortunately, many of our peers don’t value religion,” she said. “Many people see religious people as stupid or irrational.”

Mitchell agreed. “It’s not a religious environment here,” he said. “It’s a secular, liberal university, and most people are not interested in religious life.”

Hui said he has not encountered hostility toward his faith at Brown. “The people who point to Brown as being anti-Christian are people who have not talked to anyone at Brown about their faith,” he said.

Cooper Nelson said she disagrees with the notion that Brown is non-religious. Nearly three quarters of students claim a religious background, and nearly half are involved in religious activities on campus, she said.

Though Quiroa said she has met few students on a religious career track, she affirmed the value of preparing for religious service with a Brown degree. “Having a well-rounded education can just help so much when you’re sharing your faith,” she said.

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Baseball’s offense explodes in doubleheader sweep of Dartmouth continued from page 12 RBIs, while third baseman Robert Papenhause ’09 and leftfielder Ryan Murphy ’08 both had three hits and three runs scored.

“You had a lot of guys (Saturday) in the first game who aren’t the guys you’re usually counting on to produce your runs,” Drabinski said. “Those four guys — Papenhause, Murphy, Tanabe, Kelaher — which is great because you can’t always rely on the same guys: (Devin) Thomas (’07), (Jeff) Dietz (’08), Tews, (Matt) Nuzzo (’09). It’s nice to get see those other guys get into the fold and contribute.”

The team’s offensive explosion overshadowed another stellar start

by Dietz, who gave up just two runs while pitching a seven-inning complete game. After allowing a double and a home run to start the game, the right-hander settled down, allowing just three baserunners and striking out 11 batters the rest of the way. He improved his Ivy record to 3-0, with a 2.57 ERA. “After the first two batters, I felt pretty good,” Dietz said. “I threw my curveball for strikes — when I

W. lax lose to Big Red continued from page 12 generate even more momentum.

After that, the Bears tightened up defensively and only allowed four more goals. They managed to outscore the Big Red 5-4 the rest of the way.

“In the second half, we started to enforce our style of play on them, and it led to some positive results,” Markowski said.

After another goal by Vitkus and two more Cornell goals made the score 17-6, Bruno outscored the Big Red 4-2 for the final 16:03.

Vitkus, DeTolla, Markowski and Krystina DeLuca ’09 each scored for the Bears. Despite the solid defensive play in the latter stages of the second half, Brown could not overcome the early first-half deficit, and Cornell came out with the victory.

The Bears return to action at home on Wednesday against Yale at 4 p.m.

“We’re extremely excited for our next Ivy competition,” Holland said. “We want to come out strong from the first whistle and play strong all the way through till the end.”

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start getting my curveball working, I feel fine.”

In the second game, both starters, Brown’s James Cramphin ’07 and Dartmouth’s Jeff Wilkerson, pitched well in the early innings.

But in the top of the fourth, with the Bears leading 1-0, three of Brown’s first four batters hit solo home runs to break the game open. Dietz, Tews and right-fielder Dan Shapiro ’09 connected on the homers, and designated hitter J.J. Eno ’08 contributed an RBI-double later that inning. Tews, who went 3-for-3 in the second game, hit another solo homer in the sixth, and the Bears scored again in the seventh and the ninth.

Cramphin — who was two outs away from a complete game shutout against Columbia last week — again pitched well, striking out 10 in six innings while allowing just one run in improving his Ivy record to 20, with a 2.66 ERA and 27 strikeouts in 20 and 1/3 innings. His recent successes have impressed Drabinski.

“The big thing with James is that we’ve worked on some mechanical issues in the offseason,” the coach said. “Since the Charleston South-

ern (University) game he pitched, he’s shortened up his arm action and he’s keeping his shoulders level. … As you can see from the number of strikeouts, he’s been very effective.”

With Brown and Harvard’s Sunday doubleheaders against Dartmouth and Yale, respectively, postponed because of rain, the Bears and Crimson will head into next weekend’s four-game series at Aldrich Field with identical 7-3 Ivy League records, tied for the Red Rolfe Division lead. Before the season, Collegiate Baseball predicted that Harvard would finish first in the division, with Brown second. Dietz said the team has been looking forward to the match-up all year.

“There’s nothing I would like to do more than to take (the series) against Harvard,” Dietz said. “If we played like we did this weekend, we’ll have good results.”

Before the weekend’s doubleheaders against the Crimson, the Bears have three midweek games at home. They will face Marist College in a doubleheader on Tuesday and the University of Connecticut on Wednesday.

Seniors propel w. track to strong showing at Brown Invitational continued from page 12 ished second in 10:36.19. Colleen Brogan ’10 rounded out the scoring in the event with a fourth place finish of 10:54.91.

“I was most proud of Madeleine Marecki’s first collegiate win in the 3,000 meters,” Ferjan said. “It was great to see her breakthrough performance on the home track.”

Breakthroughs continued in the steeplechase as Lindsay Kahn ’08 and Brooke Giuffre ’10 provided big boosts for the Bears by coming in second and third, respectively, with times of 10:46.98 and 11:01.5. Kahn’s performance was an NCAA-Regional qualifying time, and Giuffre’s race was her first time running

the event.

Tiffany Chang ’08 placed second in the pole vault by clearing 11-feet 5.75-inches. There was a dramatic tie for third as teammates Cassandra Wong ’10 and Keely Marsh ’08 each bested 1011.75 feet in the event.

The next slated competition for the Bears will be at the UConn Husky Spring Invitational next week in Storrs, Conn., where the Bears will continue to improve on their times, heights and throws as they move closer and closer to the Heptagonal Championships three weeks away.

“Weather in outdoor track in the Northeast is a huge factor for performances, and it looks hopeful to be a decent day this Saturday in Storrs,” Lake said.

M. track races to six first-place finishes at Brown Invitational continued from page 12 Schmidt said. “We were missing many of our best sprinters and throwers. (The) meet was mainly about making individual improvements.”

Craigwell ran to a secondplace finish in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.49 seconds.

Sean O’Brien ’09 also put up a silver-medal finish in the 400-meter run with a time of 49.97 seconds, less than a second behind the winner. He also pulled double duty, running to a sixth-place finish in the 200-meter dash.

The Bears posted a number of successes in the field events to cap the successful day. Urlacher won the javelin with a throw of 170-feet 9-inches. David Howard ’09 launched the discus a distance of 154-feet 6-inches, good for second place. Howard also took home a bronze in the shot put with a 48-foot 10.25-inch throw.

“The goal was to compete hard,” Lake said. “It was to compete to win or as close to winning as possible.”

To continue the winning ways of the day, Mike Woods ’09 bested the competition in the pole vault by clearing 14-feet 7.25inches, and Deshaun Mars ’08 took home gold in the long jump with a 22-foot 2.5-inch jump.

Brown swept the top three

spots in the triple jump. Reggie Cole ’10 hopped, skipped and leaped to first with a 47-foot 0.75-inch attempt and was followed by Craigwell and Andrew Chapin ’10, landed in second and third places, respectively, in the event.

The Bears will face the Huskies again next weekend at the UConn Husky Spring Invitational in Storrs, Conn.

“I don’t think we are too concerned about beating the Huskies,” Schmidt said. “They are not in our league, and when we face them, we are often missing important parts of our team. …Next week, myself and a few of our top distance runners will not be competing or competing in events that we don’t specialize in. We are preparing for (the Heptagonal Championships).”

The Heptagonal Championships, the culmination of the season for the Bears, looms on the horizon only three weeks away.

“Heps is the only meet that we truly care about team placing, so until then we are using each competition as a tune-up for Heps on an individual level,” Lake said. “Each competition is an opportunity to learn and improve as an athlete both mentally and physically. Each athlete’s individual performances are critical to our team’s success at Heps.”

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STAF F EDITORIAL

Riner ’08 for UCS president This year’s pool for UCS president is larger than in the past two years, but not one of the four candidates vying for the council’s top post offers a reassuring combination of leadership qualities, knowledge of UCS and the University and a realistic agenda, whether big or small.

So students are left to decide which characteristics are most important for the UCS presidency. Do we want a UCS president who is going to fight for attractive yet ultimately unrealistic initiatives like a tuition freeze? Or should the UCS president be someone who has extensive experience on the council and is knowledge of all the projects on its slate? Or ought the leader of UCS be an affable, energetic person who shows potential to lead a bickering council to action and collaboration with University officials?

Moses Riner ’08, currently an at-large representative, seems like the student-government type we love to hate, and his potentially offensive ads and the self-laudatory Web site that extols him as the “Exodus to Awesomeness” give us pause. Yet his platform is well-researched, even if some of his initiatives — such as his plan to boost school spirit by creating an incentive scheme for attending athletic events — seem imported from Duke, from which he transferred last fall, and may not be right for Brown.

But, more importantly, Riner is outgoing and — unlike UCS representatives immersed in their own world of parliamentary procedure — can engage with students and pursue what matters to them in meetings with top administrators. He understands the importance of improving campus life in ways that would have a real impact on students, such as his plan to add printers and card value centers in dorms.

There’s no great candidate for UCS president this year, but we think Riner may inject energy into the council and focus its attention on achievable goals. That makes him the best choice for the UCS presidency.

Kolodny ’08 for UCS vice president Fortunately, the choice for UCS vice president is much clearer. Lauren Kolodny ’08 will make sure the council operates purposefully, with a nononsense emphasis on efficiency.

The vice president of UCS is primarily responsible for running a tight ship — keeping the internal committees on task, following projects through to completion and making sure the weekly meetings don’t drag on longer than necessary. Kolodny’s understanding of both UCS and University operations makes her perfect for the post.

As UCS Corporation liaison this year, Kolodny has demonstrated her ability to work with the University’s top decision-makers, bringing influential Corporation members — including the vice chancellor, the head of the Brown Alumni Association and a past chancellor — to Petteruti Lounge this week to hear student concerns. Her efforts to include students and student groups beyond UCS in discussion would serve to improve the perception of UCS as a cabal removed from student life.

Three of this year’s UCS presidential candidates lack knowledge of the recent history of the council and the University, and all would benefit from Kolodny’s institutional memory and efficient leadership. No matter who wins the UCS presidency, we hope Lauren Kolodny will be at his side.

PETE FALLON

LETTERS Elliott ’07 is divorced from reality To the Editor: As a subscriber to Commentary magazine for over 40 years, I was simply delighted to find that the magazine, in the eyes of Justin Elliott ’07 (“Ruth Simmons’ new boss: patron of the Right,” April 12), had created the intellectual underpinning for the Iraq war. I was horrified that our actions would go unnoticed.

I was shocked — absolutely shocked — to find Elliott indicating that the State of Israel is actually being helped by the United States in its effort to survive the continuous onslaught of its neighbors. That Thomas Tisch ’76 P’04 P’07 is part of this cabal relieves my

easily swayed mind that the next generation of Herald executive editors will have this guideline to work with, all neatly laid out by former Herald Executive Editor Justin Elliott.

I think we should all do whatever we can to help Justin land the right kind of job in New York. Maybe with Loews, the Tisch family’s corporation.

Sy Dill Providence April 13

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Recently, I was alarmed to see signs on campus publicizing a forthcoming lecture, “One Country: Moving Beyond Apartheid in Israel/Palestine,” sponsored by Common Ground. I hope that Brown students will see through the hate-filled rhetoric in the lecture’s title.

Comparing Israel’s situation today with that of South Africa’s apartheid years is ignorant. Palestinians generally dispute Israel’s very right to exist, whereas the South Africans did not seek to destroy their state. In spite of the constant threat of terrorism, Palestinians are allowed to work in Israel and to study at Israeli uni-

versities. They are also given the freedom to run most of their own affairs, unlike the situation of South African blacks during apartheid. Common Ground, don’t you know that sponsoring lectures promoting a fictitious, vilified image of all Israelis is no way to promote a fruitful dialogue about events in the Middle East?

Balanced dialogue shouldn’t frighten you.

Mirele Davis ’07 April 15

Quigley ’10 mis misjudges liberals on McCain To the Editor: While I appreciate Sean Quigley’s ’10 attempt to present Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as an acceptable candidate for liberals (“Give the maverick at least 4 years,” April 13), his effort is futile. Despite his career as a maverick, McCain has committed a cardinal sin for which the left will not forgive him: He has relentlessly defended the liberation of Iraq. Until the

left wakes up and realizes the war on radical Islam is more important than their war on the Bush administration, McCain does not stand a chance with defeatist American leftists.

Pratik Chougule ’08 April 14

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How (not) to start a group at Brown BEN BERNSTEIN CAMPUS ISSUES COLUMNIST First impressions really are everything, especially when it comes to politics.

Political groups at Brown cannot achieve legitimacy merely through their intentions, and they cannot take for granted the support of student sub-communities they claim to represent. Absolutely fundamental to the success of a new group is the way in which it is formed and the first messages that it sends.

Two recently formed student groups have demonstrated the truth of these maxims. The first is Asian Equality in Admissions, started by two sophomores earlier this year. The other is the more mysterious Order for Jewish Action.

AEA has failed to gain widespread support on campus. Its original goal, according to group co-founder Neil Vangala ’09, was to “battle assumed discrimination against Asians and Asian Americans” in the Brown admission process.

After finding less support than anticipated for his group, Vangala said he and co-founder Jason Carr ’09 decided to make their group’s mission less aggressive. Currently, their goal is to “understand ways that race and ethnicity affect Brown admissions” by getting the admission committee to publicize its data.

You would think that with goals like “admissions equality for Asians” and “institutional transparency,” AEA would have

strong support in Brown’s Asian community. Not so.

None of the Asian groups on campus has endorsed AEA. The reason? From AEA’s formation to its subsequent outreach, the group’s efforts have been perceived as uncooperative and arrogant. It is precisely this behavior that has landed the group in hot water with the Brown Asian community — the very people it would have to rely on for support.

AEA was announced to the Brown community in The Herald in February (“Two students challenge Asian American admission discrimination,” Feb. 9). Interestingly, this was also how most of the leaders of Asian student groups learned about the group.

After certain leaders in the Brown AsianAmerican community spoke with Vangala and Carr, they left feeling patronized. Belinda Navi ’09, a member of the Filipino Alliance’s executive board, said AEA “approached several of us (student leaders) in a very patronizing manner. They have no history of involvement in the Asian or Asian-American community at Brown, yet they spoke to us as if they knew more about our communities just because they read the relevant case reports.” Navi said when she challenged their assumptions regarding equality in admission, suggesting that releasing data was not the only way to promote institutional transparency, Vangala and Carr responded with a take-it-or-leaveit attitude, turning her off from embracing the group.

It is also worth taking a look at the group’s aims. AEA has said it wants admission data to become public, so that it can determine

whether discrimination against Asians exists in Brown admission. Of course, discrimination in admission can also be called by another name: affirmative action. Many groups on campus see AEA as a threat to Brown’s affirmative action policies, and two sophomores started a Facebook group called “Real Equality in Admissions” to articulate this fear. The group’s description calls AEA “nothing but a veiled attempt to attack affirmative action.”

One creator, Agnes Barrios ’09, said, “They (AEA) haven’t considered the long-term consequences of publishing data, and they refuse to openly discuss this with minority groups on campus.”

Though Vangala said AEA has no plans to campaign for the elimination of affirmative action, by calling for an end to discrimination the group seems to inherently threaten systems of racial preference in admissions.

Of course Vangala and Carr have the right to agitate for whatever they want, but they won’t get far when administrators realize that they will not garner the support of the students they purport to be fighting for. Vangala said, “we’re not even trying to get their (Asian student groups) support.” If AEA’s leadership hopes to be taken seriously though, they should approach all of the Asian groups on campus — not just a few — and do so with an open mind to new ideas and differences of opinion. It’s not too late to mend these fences.

AEA is not the only group that could learn some support-building tactics. Not since I received a naughty love note from a secret admirer in seventh grade has an unsigned letter gotten me really worked up — but though the former turned out to be a prank by my “friends,” the students behind

a radical new Jewish group remain veiled in mystery.

Many members of Brown’s Jewish community received an e-mail from a new group, calling itself the Order for Jewish Action and promising “to strengthen Jewish pride and Jewish nationalism” and “change the meaning of Jewish activism at Brown.” Its hardline pro-Israel position struck a nerve, and soon Jewish students were responding with short essays — mostly in opposition — to the group.

The group did little to elaborate on its message and continued to hide behind the OJA name, refusing to identify who was behind the group. OJA’s organizers wrote that they “do not feel comfortable” making themselves known and that “this is common practice … across history.” I wonder what historic clandestine organizations they are referring to.

What practical measures does OJA want to enact? If it is secure in its ideology, why does it feel “uncomfortable” taking credit for it? These questions and many others could have valid answers. However, because the OJA has opted for a secretive route and what many students feel is an unjustifiable position, it has poisoned its potential for future success — again, within the very group it would claim to represent.

These two groups have botched their first impressions. Unless they take different approaches to gathering support, they will not be able to achieve the legitimacy they need to affect change at Brown.

Ben Bernstein ’09 cooperated with the Brown community in forming this column.

Our problems with AEA

BY JENNIFER CHUDY AND BELINDA NAVI GUEST COLUMNISTS

In light of the articles that have been published in The Herald this semester regarding Asian Equality in Admissions, we feel the need to respond as a community about our strong reservations regarding the group formed by Neil Vangala ’09 and Jason Carr ’09. Though we cannot speak for the entire Asian, Asian-American, Third World and greater Brown communities, we feel compelled to voice our concerns both as individuals and based on the responses we have received from members of our organizations.

We do not oppose the stated purpose of AEA. On its Web site, AEA claims that it aims to promote “institutional transparency” and “(educate) and (inform) the Brown student body of discrimination.” We do not object to fostering institutional transparency at our school, nor do we object to the possibility of eventually advocating for the release of admission statistics.

However, in our opinion, the goals touted

by AEA have not been honored in an appropriate and sensitive way. This column will therefore not dispute the claim that Asian or Asian-American applicants encounter bias in the admission process. That is an important but separate discussion. We hope instead to convey why we cannot embrace AEA. We have three main concerns regarding Vangala and Carr’s group.

The first is related to how the organization was formed. At a recent debate between AEA and the Brown Debating Union (a debate to which Asian and Asian-American leaders were not invited), Carr and Vangala explained that they formed their group in response to a recent lawsuit brought by Yale freshman Jian Li against Princeton, as

well as a 1983 report conducted at Brown.

Carr and Vangala assumed that many of Li’s charges against Princeton were applicable to Brown, and they used the 1983 report — which claimed Asian and Asian-American applicants encountered discrimination at Brown — to garner support. Somehow, these conclusions were reached even before AEA met with Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73 to discuss current admission policies.

Though many meaningful clubs are initially started by a small group of individuals rather than entire communities, the leaders of AEA were unresponsive to calls for more widespread dialogue. During conversations some of us had with its founders, our concerns were dismissed in a cursory manner, leaving many of us feeling alienated.

Since AEA did not form organically as a response to community concerns, it may come as no surprise that it has not received support from any Asian or Asian-American student groups at Brown. Carr and Vangala only approached two of the 18 Asian and Asian-American groups on campus to solicit their official endorsement — which AEA never received.

However, AEA never entered into an exchange with these groups, nor did it include them in the process of determining the best way to pursue “institutional transparency.”

Rather, AEA sought these affiliations for the sake of promoting its own credibility. Indeed, a liaison to AEA felt he was being used as a liaison “in name only,” and many of his attempts to work with the organization went unacknowledged by Vangala and Carr. Furthermore, when Carr was asked if he would move forward with AEA even without support from Asian and Asian-American organizations on campus at the aforementioned debate, he responded, “Hell, yes,” demonstrating, we feel, a disturbing lack of respect for the opinions of the community.

This disregard for the voices of Asian

and Asian-American students — students whose causes it claims to champion — reflects a general attitude within AEA. For an organization that insists on promoting institutional transparency, there is an alarming lack of dialogue informing its own platform.

We are concerned with the strongly charged language continuously used by AEA. In a Spectator article (“Asian Americans in Admissions: When Success Breeds a Backlash,” Vol. 5, Issue 5), Carr wrote, “Only two groups of people believe discrimination is a nuanced issue: racists and college admissions officers.”

We believe comments like these reveal that AEA’s campaign relies on the presumption of discrimination in Brown admission.

If our “racist” admission officers are already written off as guilty of discrimination, how can we expect AEA to produce a report (one of its stated goals) that makes unmotivated and objective conclusions?

Furthermore, we feel that the group’s frequent use of words such as “equality” and “institutional transparency” to beckon campus support oversimplifies a complicated issue. AEA’s leaders would allege — according to the logic in their columns — that our critical analysis of their group and its goals makes us enemies of equality, out to “destroy a group that is both noble and progressive” (a direct quotation about two of us from a recent e-mail, dated April 14, that Vangala sent to Asian community leaders).

By using such terminology, AEA suggests that anyone who questions it must also be in favor of bias and institutional secrecy. Apparently, we’re either with them or against them.

We want to commend Vangala and Carr for bringing attention to an important topic.

However, we will not lend support to an organization that, in our opinion, has actively excluded the voices of members of our community.

Unfortunately, we feel that attempts at communication with AEA have been exhausted, and we are wary of collaborating with a group that has ignored our input since its initiation.

For members of any campus group, we hope this letter will fuel the discussion that needs to accompany initiatives such as AEA. Finally, we encourage all those who are interested to contact admission officers so as to better understand the complexity of admissions here at Brown.

This column was written by Jennifer Chudy ’07, Hapa Club president and TWC staffer, and Belinda Navi ’09, Filipino Alliance E-Board member and TWC staffer. It has been endorsed by Henry Chien ’09, Chinese Student Association co-chair; Darnell Fine ’08, Minority Peer Counselor coordinator; Natasha Go ’10, Brown Organization of Multi-Racial and Bi-Racial Students co-chair; Karynn Ikeda ’09, VISIONS layout editor and MPC Friend; Heilyn Paulino ’09, Latin American Students Organization chair; Jane Tanimura ’07, co-chair of the Asian American Student Organization; Kristin Jordan ’09, MPC; Jessica Kawamura ’07, former AASA co-chair; Jamie Farris ’07, BOMBS member, FA member, MPC Friend, TWC staffer; Christable Lee ’07; Rukesh Samarasekera ’08; Cyprian Kibuka ’08, African Students Association member; Wendy Chen ’09, CSA co-chair, AASA member; Agnes Barrios ’09, Movimiento Estudantil Chicano de Aztlan member, LASO member, Residential Peer Leader; Robert Smith III ’09, Queer Political Action Committee member, MPC Friend; Patrick Pangan ’09, MPC, FA member; Rick Ahl ’09, Operation Iraqi Freedom member; Nisha Mirani ’10; Lily Shield ’09; Alexander Ortiz ’09; Laura Gerace ’07, BOMBS member, MPC Friend; Anna Hidalgo ’09; Victoria Chao ’08, Strait Talk Symposium coordinator; and Amy Tan ’09, BOMBS member, TWC staff staff.

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Baseball keeps pace with Harvard, Sunday’s doubleheader postponed

BY STU WOO FEATURES EDITOR

Baseball Head Coach Marek Drabinski has been concerned about his team’s offense for much of the season. But after Saturday’s showing, he might not have to worry anymore.

Behind solid starting pitching and offense from unexpected sources, the Bears blew out Dartmouth 20-2 and 10-3 in a doubleheader sweep at Aldrich Field. For the day, Brown batters hammered out 31 hits, and the defense, once a sore spot, committed no errors.

The Bears improved their record to 7-3 in the Ivy League, 12-14 overall, while the Big Green dropped to 2-8 in league play, 5-19 overall.

“I think those are the best two games we played this season,” said infielder Bryan Tews ’07. “We had

no errors, the pitching was great, the offense was great. If we keep playing well in those three (areas), we can beat anyone.”

In the top of the first inning of the first game, the Bears jumped out to a 3-0 lead and never looked back.

Brown was the visiting team on its home field because snowy conditions in New Hampshire forced the games to be moved south. The Bears scored a run in every inning of the first game, and all 10 batters recorded hits and had either an RBI or run scored.

Chris Tanabe ’10 got his first start of the Ivy League season in right field and responded by going 2-for-3 with five RBIs and hitting his first collegiate homer, a threerun shot to left field. Second baseman Brian Kelaher ’08 added four Ashley Hess / Herald File Photo

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Pitcher Jeff Dietz ’08 backed up baseball’s offensive explosion by striking out 11 in a complete game.

Home cooking helps m. track to six first-place finishes at Brown Invitational

BY SARAH DEMERS ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

The men’s track and field team finally got its chance to put on a show in front of the home crowd when it hosted the Brown Invitational on Saturday. Brown won six events and had multiple athletes finish in the top three of their events.

“It’s always good to have homefield advantage,” said sprinter Miles Craigwell ’09. “Knowing that you have friends and family there watching gives you a lot of support and makes you want to do well.”

The invitational attracted sev-

eral of the top track and field teams in the area to College Hill this weekend. Ivy League rivals such as Harvard and Yale brought athletes on Saturday as well as regional foes such as the University of Connecticut and the University of Rhode Island.

“Regardless of whatever team won the meet, the toughest competition is always against the other Ivies,” said middle-distance runner Ozzie Myers ’08. “You always want to go out and send a message.”

Despite missing a large portion of their throws and sprints squads, who participated in a meet held by the University of

Tennessee, the Bears managed to send a strong message under the sunny skies at Brown Stadium.

“Our coach reminded us of the importance of the meet,” said javelin thrower Sam Urlacher ’09.

“Our championship meet is only a few weeks away now, and you never know what the weather is going to be like for our remaining meets.”

Myers took advantage of the opportunity to race on his home track by running the 3,000-meter steeplechase seemingly without competition — the runner-up finished almost 22 seconds behind him. His personal best time of 9:12.16 won the race and landed

him in seventh overall on Brown’s top 10 all-time list in the event. “(Director of Track and Field Craig Lake) didn’t really tell me much before the meet, just go out and run my race,” Myers said. “ ‘Don’t hit any steeples.’ ” Taking a page out of Myers’ book, a fleet of Bears dominated the 3,000-meter run. Brian Schmidt ’09, Stephen Chaloner ’09, Duriel Hardy ’10 and Ryan Graddy ’08 placed first, third, fourth and fi fth, respectively.

“Although this was technically a scoring meet, it really wasn’t about team competition,”

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Lauren Vitkus ’09 scored three goals and added an assist in a loss to Cornell.

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FRIDAY, AY APRIL 13 AY, W. CREW: Varsity Eight - No. 1 Brown 6:17.27, Boston University 6:33.60 W. LACROSSE: Cornell 19, Brown 10 M. TENNIS: Cornell 5, Brown 2 W. TENNIS: Brown 4, Cornell 3 SOFTBALL: Dartmouth 5, Brown 2; Dartmouth 13, Brown 0

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M. LACROSSE: Penn 12, Brown 10 SOFTBALL: Dartmouth 3, Brown 2; Dartmouth 10, Brown 3 M. TENNIS: Columbia 5, Brown 2 W. TENNIS: Brown 6, Columbia 1 W. WATER POLO: No. 18 Brown 20, Utica 0; No. 18 Brown 13, Queens 3

SUNDAY, AY APRIL 15 AY, M. GOLF: 9th of 12 teams, New England Championships W. GOLF: 3rd of 3 teams, Dartmouth/Harvard Triangular

The women’s lacrosse team got into a shootout with Cornell game Friday afternoon but ran out of bullets in the end. It took the Bears a while to recover from the long bus ride to Ithaca, N.Y., and they spotted the Big Red an eight-goal lead midway through the first half. The Bears couldn’t overcome the hole they dug early on and in the end fell to the Big Red, 19-10.

“The trip is very long, and none of us looked forward to it,” said co-captain Ali Holland ’08.

“We prepared ourselves all week throughout practice so we were ready to play, but unfortunately we didn’t come out playing Brown lacrosse.”

With the loss, Brown fell to 12 in the Ivy League and 4-7 overall. Cornell bumped its record to 2-3 in the league.

The Big Red opened the game with a 3-0 run to grab the momentum, and despite the first of three goals by Lauren Vitkus ’09 at 26:35, Cornell continued to roll. It tacked on two more goals to take a 5-1 lead just 6:14 into the contest, forcing Brown to call a timeout.

“I think it was tough for us, being our first game that we traveled a long distance in a bus,” said Meghan Markowski ’10, who had two goals and an as-

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sist in the game. “It seemed like it took us 10 minutes to wake up in the first half.”

While the Bears were waking up from the bus ride, Cornell continued to increase its lead.

The Bears scored quickly after the timeout when Lindsey Glennon ’07 netted her first goal of the season, but the Big Red continued its offensive barrage and scored five straight goals to take a 10-2 lead midway through the first half.

But after the midway point, Brown started to come together, and co-captain Mimi DeTolla ’08 and Markowski each scored a goal to cut the deficit to 10-4 with 3:50 remaining in the half.

“After the first 10 minutes of play, we got ourselves together and started playing better,” Holland said.

Cornell outscored Brown 4-1 to close out the first half, including three goals in the final 1:02.

The Big Red took a 14-5 lead into the locker room.

“We didn’t make any specific adjustments at halftime, but everyone re-focused and got hungry to play well,” Holland said. “I think that attitude really helped.”

Despite the concentrated effort after halftime, Cornell scored again just 34 seconds into the second half to make it 15-5 to

A short-handed women’s track and field team hosted its first home meet of the spring season Saturday at Brown Stadium. The Bears managed to put up some impressive numbers despite missing most of their sprinters and throwers, who were competing at the Sea Ray Relays hosted by the University of Tennessee.

“Sea Ray Relays is one of the greatest track events in the country, especially for the sprinters,” said middle-distance runner Naja Ferjan ’07. “Some of the best sprinters in the country come every year.

Unfortunately, it was on the same weekend as the home meet. It was definitely hard to compete against UConn without our sprints crew, especially since UConn brought its entire sprints squad to Brown.”

Despite the depleted roster, the team managed to do just fine in front of the home crowd.

“I like competing at home because all of the alumni come to see us race,” Ferjan said. “I was surprised to see a number of my professors with their families came too.”

Ferjan made sure she put on quite a show for the fans, winning the 800-meter run by two seconds with a time of 2:10.82. Jenna Ridgway ’10 followed her teammate with a 2:14.82 finish, which was good for fourth place. Ridgway also competed in the mile, in which she finished second with a time of 4:53.25, a personal best by six seconds. Teammate Smita Gupta ’08 finished fourth in 5:03.73 in the event to round out the shorter distances.

It was a good day to be a senior.

Both Ferjan and Herald Assistant Sports Editor Madeleine Marecki ’07 won their respective events.

Marecki’s finish came in the 3,000meter run, where she blazed to a personal best time of 10:32.94, almost four seconds ahead of teammate Lena Groeger ’08, who fin-

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W. lax blindsided by Big Red

BY MEGAN MCCAHILL SPORTS STAFF WRITER

Seniors propel w. track to strong showing at Brown Invitational