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Yale’s Lassonde named deputy dean of the College BY CHAZ FIRESTONE SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Stephen Lassonde, currently dean of Yale University’s Calhoun College, will become Brown’s deputy dean of the College July 1, University officials plan to announce today. Lassonde announced his resig-
nation in an e-mail sent to all Calhoun students last night, revealing his plans to fill Brown’s newly created position after 14 years as dean there. Lassonde “has worked extensively with Yale’s academic advising programs, including first-and second-year advising, upper-class advising, fellowship and pre-law
advising, career and study-abroad advising and advising on academic standing,” Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron wrote in a campus-wide e-mail to be sent today. “He has also participated on Yale’s equivalent to the (College Curriculum Council), and on the President’s Alcohol Policy Review Committee,” Bergeron wrote.
The position of deputy dean of the College was created as part of a restructuring of the Office of the Dean of the College. Lassonde “will be responsible for the overall coordination of the office” and will work with Bergeron and other deans “to establish programmatic continued on page 6
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Michael Glassman ’09 (left) and Moses Riner ’08.
Glassman ’09, Riner ’08 in run-off for UCS president BY MICHAEL BECHEK SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Green Horn Management is a private event management company hired by the University to man Spring Weekend festivities. Only 10 alcohol-related EMS calls and four transports — two to area hospitals — were reported from Thursday night through Saturday night, far fewer than the 22 calls and 10 hospital transports made during Spring Weekend in 2006 over the three-day period
Michael Glassman ’09 and Moses Riner ’08 will go head-to-head in a run-off election, beginning today, for president of the Undergraduate Council of Students, after no presidential candidate earned a majority of votes in last week’s election. Voting for the run-off election will be open on MyCourses between noon today and 9 p.m. Tuesday. Glassman and Riner spoke after the results were announced just after midnight Friday morning on the steps of Faunce House, and both expressed excitement for the upcoming run-off election. “I knew it was going to be a horse race,” Riner told The Herald. “I’m excited for some Spring Weekend campaigning,” Glassman said. Winners and losers alike shared champagne with the assembled crowd of about 30 students, including current and former UCS members. Lauren Kolodny ’08 was elected UCS vice president and Drew Madden ’10 was elected student activities chair in the only contested races for positions on UCS’s executive board. In uncontested races, Rakim Brooks ’09 was elected academic and administrative affairs chair, Jane Zhang ’10 admissions and student services chair, Ellie Cutler ’10 campus life chair, Tan Nguyen ’10 appointments chair and Jose Vas-
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Courtesy of Zachary Marcus ’10
Bright blue balloons floated above students gathered on the Main Green for the Flaming Lips’ headlining act at Saturday’s Spring Weekend concert. SEE ARTS & CULTURE, PAGE 3 AND PHOTOS FROM SPRING WEEKEND 2007, PAGES 8 & 9
Talent Quest aims to increase socioeconomic diversity BY JAMES SHAPIRO SENIOR STAFF WRITER
The increase in first-generation college students accepted to the College this year — 20 percent more than last year — can be attributed in part to the success of the Talent Quest program, University officials say. The share of first-generation students in the admitted class of 2011 increased to 15 percent, up from 12 percent last year. Talent Quest, the University’s effort to attract students from schools in low-income areas, “has been a very helpful program for us, creating interest in Brown among first-generation students,” said Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73. “We talk about diversity broadly, and socioeconomic diversity is certainly an important part of that effort,” Miller said. Miller said Talent Quest has heightened the Admission Office’s “collective sensicontinued on page 4
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Controlled Spring Weekend yields few EMS calls BY SCOTT LOWENSTEIN SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Revelers at this year’s Spring Weekend were met with a controlled scene, with few major disruptions and a decrease in alcohol-related Brown Emergency Medical Services ambulance transports from last year. As the weekend drew to a close, rumors about a conflict between the University and Sigma Chi over bulk beer purchases swirled around
Freshmen filmmakers retrace Civil Rights movement over break Four first-years spend spring break tracing Alabama’s Civil Rights movement BY JESSICA ROTONDI STAFF WRITER
Inside a “super zippy” silver Dodge Caliber, Evan Pulvers ’10, Jing Xu ’10, Shruti Parekh ’10 and Sarah Gibson ’10 blasted a gospel CD. The windows of the rented car were rolled down to let in the 80-degree air, and the odometer read 964 miles as the four girls drove through rolling green vis-
NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL Saturday’s performance of the “The Fishbone Fables” engaged the audience in a campfire-like setting
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campus, but University officials and members of the fraternity said the situation is still unresolved and offered few details. “Everyone from the deans, EMS, (the Department of Public Safety) and Green Horn Management thought everything went really smoothly,” said Margaret Klawunn, associate vice president for campus life and dean of student life. Student organizers “were equally happy with how things turned out,” she said.
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FEATURE tas toward their spring break destination. But the freshmen were not headed to Cancun or Miami. They were retracing the steps of Martin Luther King, Jr. as he led marchers from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., in March of 1965. Forty-two years after the original event, the four girls were driving through the deep South to film a documentary on the Civil Rights continued on page 4
BROWN-LONDON-FEZ Elizabeth O’Neill ’08 successfully hitchhiked from London to Morocco to raise money for charity
Courtesy of Evan Pulvers ’10
Sarah Gibson ‘10 (left) and Shruti Parekh ‘10 filmed Richard Bailey, a historian in Montgomery, Ala., as part of a documentary on the Civil Rights movement.
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AN AMERICAN ABROAD After spending the year in England, Maha Atal ’08 says she has a newfound appreciation for what it means to be an American
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BASEBALL SPLITS The baseball team went 22 against Harvard over the weekend to keep pace with the Crimson atop the Red Rolfe Division Standings
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