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Corporation approves sites for two new buildings By Ross Frazier News Editor

The Corporation, the University’s top governing body, this weekend approved the locations of two major capital construction projects, formally accepted over $12.5 million in gifts, discussed the ongoing review of the undergraduate College and considered a reassessment of Brown’s strategic plans. In addition, University officials announced the appointment of Brown’s first vice president for international affairs. As the new vice president, David Kennedy ’76, a Harvard Law School professor and expert on international law, will oversee the Watson Institute for International Studies and lead the University’s efforts to internationalize its teaching, research and reputation. In addition to Kennedy’s appointment, the Corporation discussed internationalization in general during its regular October meeting, speaking with University officials about how to spark campus conversation on the topic, build international partnerships and give research a global focus. Kennedy’s appointment fulfills one of the primary recommendations of the University’s internationalization committee. Though his job officially begins in January, the addition of an official to President Ruth Simmons’ cabinet who focuses solely on international initiatives will likely quicken the pace of Brown’s efforts to globalize. Dean of the Faculty Rajiv Vohra continued on page 6

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Kennedy ’76 named VP for int’l affairs By Nick Werle Senior Staff Writer

David Kennedy ’76, a professor of law and director of the European Law Research Center at Harvard Law School, will become Brown’s first vice president for international affairs, President Ruth Simmons announced Saturday after a meeting of the Corporation. Kennedy, who will lead the University’s effort to raise its global profile, will take his post in January 2008. “David has been one of the major forces in the teaching of

international law at Harvard for many years now and has developed an incredibly rich network of relationships with institutions and scholars around the world,” Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98, who co-chaired the search committee for the new vice president, told The Herald. “He knows government leaders and major figures in the academic world, so he brings a tremendous set of resources for Brown to build up relationships.” Since the University’s internationalization committee, which was established in October 2006,

released its report in early September, the administration has largely been waiting for the arrival of the vice president for the effort to continue. The report — a wide-ranging exploration of what Brown can do to raise its international profile and expand its connections to institutions abroad — makes clear that the vice president will drive the effort and determine the implementation of specific proposals. Kennedy’s appointment this weekend allows the internationalcontinued on page 6

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Newly appointed Vice President for International Affairs David Kennedy ’76

Future of UEL uncertain By Chaz Kelsh Contributing Writer

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A new “Mind Brain Behavior Building” will be constructed on the Angell Street site that is the current location of the Urban Environmental Laboratory.

The Corporation decided this weekend to locate a new “Mind Brain Behavior Building” on Angell Street between J. Walter Wilson and the Walk, at the current location of the Urban Environmental Lab and two University-owned houses, President Ruth Simmons announced Saturday in a campus-wide e-mail. The decision leaves the future location of the Center for Environmental Studies unclear. The proposed building, which will house the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, the Department of Psychology and the Brain Science Program, was originally to be located at 154 Angell St., which used to be the site of a Shell gas station and is now slated for the planned Creative Arts Center. The Corporation’s announcement did not specify whether the UEL could be relocated or whether the center would move to a new building, and both remain a possibility, according to Patti Caton ’92 MA’02, administrative manager

of the center. The UEL, conver ted from a carriage house in 1981, previously contained student housing and the offices and classrooms of the center. According to Encyclopedia Brunoniana, the UEL was designed to be “a model house to show what can be accomplished in an urban environment with a solar greenhouse, insulation, water-conserving plumbing and a recycling facility.” The construction of the cognitive and linguistic sciences building on the site is part of the University’s initiative to make better use of space near the center of campus, a goal that was adopted by the Corporation in 2003 as part of the Strategic Framework for Physical Planning. The UEL would be more difficult to move than Peter Green House, Caton said. The only likely new location would be Waterman Street, but even that would be a temporary solution. “It would only be a matter of time before they would want that footprint for another building,” continued on page 4

U. has no immediate plans Soapbox cars race down College Hill to switch to Common App By Seth Motel Contributing Writer

The University has no plans to abandon its unique admission application, but it is constantly reassessing options such as adopting the Common Application, Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73 told The Herald. Brown and Columbia University remain the only two Ivy League schools that have not adopted the Common Application, which is used by 315 colleges nationwide. Still, Brown could switch to either the Common Application or the newly formed Universal College Application for future classes, Miller said. “In terms of making Brown accessible, there is some amount that the Common App would allow us to do that,” Miller said. A possible impetus for change

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is the introduction of the Banner system, which Miller said could integrate with the Common Application more easily than the previous system. Though he agrees that joining one of the consortia would likely increase the number of applicants, Miller said that isn’t a primary concern. The University has seen applications rise by about 25 percent in the last five years, he said. “We’re not looking for more applicants,” Miller said. “The key is to have the right people in the applicant pool.” A school that has more applicants apply for the same number of spots is able to reject a higher percentage — a criterion used to determine the widely cited U.S. News and World Report rankings.

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An estimated 50,000 spectators watched over 50 human-powered, homemade soapbox cars race a quarter-mile track down College Hill Saturday afternoon at the Red Bull Soapbox Race. Competitors came from around the country and were scored by five judges on a scale of 1 to 10 based on three categories — creativity, speed and showmanship for each team’s opening skit prior to launching the soapbox. “This was one of the funniest, most outrageous events I have ever seen,” said Christopher Peck, a Boston College student. “Not every day do I see grown men dressed in tacky costumes racing down a hill in hilariously designed carts.” The Good, The Bad and The Nerdy — comprising five students from the South Dakota School of continued on page 4

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PHANTOM OF SAYLES Guest conductor Eric Culver led the Brown UniverARTS & CULTURE sity Orchestra in a concert Saturday evening.

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PITCHES AND EATS Scott Norton ’08 and Chris Ordonez ‘07 held a “Startup Dinner,” the first in a series, on Thursday.

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Homemade carts raced down Waterman Street Saturday as part of the Red Bull Soapbox Race.

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POWER TO THE PEOPLE Zachary Townsend ‘09 says there should be more student representation on key University committees.

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Orchestra creates musical dance with performance

SO(L)UNA examines birth, death, relationships

By Lydia Gidwitz Ar ts & Culture Editor

Led by guest conductor Eric Culver, the Brown University Orchestra played three pieces Saturday night to an enthusiastic crowd in a tightly packed Sayles Hall. Fluttering, swirling sounds dominated by the string section hauntingly introduced the audience to Jean Sibelius’ “Symphony #2, Opus 43,” the first piece performed. Yet these delicate and hurried notes layered upon one another to create a sense of worrisome anticipation. In the second movement, a series of notes echoed through the orchestra. The deep sounds of the cellos enriched these flourishes with resounding intonations of impending doom. Yet redemption came in the form of beautiful, lulling violins and innocent woodwinds. The woodwinds’ solid, steady countermelody to the fluttering lightness of the string sections created a complex crescendo accompanied by the brass section’s weightiness. Complex, swelling, smoldering sounds combined when the whole orchestra played together. In the final movement, the fluttering

strings from the first movement returned, yet the flourishes of clarinets and timpani brought a darker complexity to the chords. “(Sibelius’s) writing is inventive, never repeating a gesture without a new angle,” wrote Culver in the program notes. “This piece constantly defies our expectations.” The second selection of the night, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Opus 43” brought down the house. Audience members gave multiple standing ovations to the incredible performance of pianist Rosaleen Rhee ’08, whose mastery of the piano brought out the multitudes of musical expressions inherent in this piece. The taut countermelodies between Rhee and the orchestra created a musical conversation. Rhee punched out trills of contrasting notes and lightly touched the keys to invoke the mystic setting of Rachmaninoff’s piece, which was inspired by a talented violinist who was rumored to have sold his soul to the devil for his musical prowess. Perhaps one can make the same claim about Rhee, whose dazzling performance seemed out of this world.

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“SO(L)UNA,” the new production at Brown’s Rites and Reason Theatre opened this weekend. Directed by Erin Adams ‘09 and written by Selena Brown MA’06 GS, the play explores questions of identity through two distinct storylines. The title juxtaposes the words sun and moon in Spanish, paralleling the play’s structure of two separate stories. One chronicles the lives of three generations of women. The second thread — which is interwoven among the former’s scenes of rape, death and birth — is a creation myth told through dance. The play begins with a recording of overlapping voices that purposely create confusion and conflict. Words such as “queer” are distinct through the chaos. The stage lights then reveal two

lovers — an African-American woman, Madre Sol (Megan Smith ’10) and a Hispanic woman, Madre Luna (Jenny Garcia ’08) — who are separating after 25 years together, prompting their two grown daughters to question the nature of relationships. Yet, they both shortly become mothers. Dara (Lauren Neal ’11) finally becomes pregnant after months of trying,

REVIEW while Diana (Georgiana Drain ’11) has been raped. Diana talks to her friend Anahuac (Tasnuva Islam ’11) about getting raped and laments living as a woman. During their conversation, Dara explains that her boyfriend has left her pregnant — and alone. In the other story, the two narrators, played by Agnes Barrios ’09 and Jose Morillo ’11, recount a tale of creation. The same actors, though playing different roles,

dance to the accompaniment of drums and flutes. Later the characters of Dara and Diana are brought into the dance as their pregnancy progresses. The production ends with Diana and Dara going into labor at the same time. Their labor transforms into dance as the two storylines meld together. The scene transitions into Dara changing costumes from a light blue toga into a black dress, signifying her death in childbirth. Diana then comes in with her child. Birth and death go hand in hand, while the show ends as it began — with overlapping words slowly emerging as comprehensible. The show uses imagery to express complex issues. “As SO(L) UNA developed, it became more infused with my hopes, dreams, spiritual beliefs, and fears and my identity as a queer, Afro-Xicana became the focus of the story,” wrote Brown in the director’s notes.

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Corporation decision leaves UEL future uncertain continued from page 1 Caton said. Another possible location for the center is on the third floor of the Metcalf Chemistr y Building, which has housed the history department — temporarily displaced as its previous home, Peter Green House, was relocated and renovated — since the Department of Neuroscience moved to the Sidney Frank Hall for Life Sciences. “It’s actually kind of a cool space up there, and there’s a lot that could be done,” Caton said. But the space, which features multiple skylights, would require expensive renovations to become as cozy as the UEL,

and it is unclear whether that money would be available, Caton added. However, even renovations might not be able to recreate the sentiment attached to the UEL. “For years, the UEL was the most energy-efficient building on campus,” said Kurt Teichert, lecturer in environmental studies and environmental stewardship initiatives manager for the center. The UEL has been around for much of the modern environmentalist movement, according to Teichert, and represents a “standing testimony to Brown’s commitment in that area.” The building gives Brown’s environmental science program a physical center so that it is not

distributed across buildings and depar tments, as at some other schools, he added. In addition, the unique history of the UEL gives it a variety of formal and casual meeting spaces that are conducive to group study and interdisciplinary discussion. “You definitely won’t be able to recreate that residential feel,” Teichert said. Despite the move, the future of the center appears secure. “I think (the move) was inevitable, and we’re just going to have to accept it,” Caton said. “I’m optimistic that anything we do will strengthen the center,” Teichert said.

Soapbox race takes over College Hill continued from page 1 Mines and Technology — won first place. They dressed in nerdy outfits and drove in a calculator-shaped car named The Numerator 2.0. “This year’s run was off the hook,” said Anthony Johnson, driver of The Good, The Bad and The Nerdy. “The course was amazing, we almost lost in the last corner of the course but we kept it together.” The race began in front of the Admission Office, and then racers made a right turn on Waterman Street and proceeded down College Hill. Each soapbox team consisted of one driver and up to four mechanics, or pit crew. Before the start of each race, the driver and pit crew were required to do a short routine with a song. The skit and song were related to the theme of the cart design and drew some of the biggest applause from the crowd. Large video screens were set up at the start of the race, at the intersection of Benefit and Waterman streets and at the finish on South Main Street for the crowd to see the

races from start to finish. There was one entry from a team of Brown students, a car from the Formula SAE team. Deuces Wild, a team of five Cornell alums, finished in second, and third place went to team Road Killers, who were decked out in Boston Red Sox apparel. During Deuces Wild’s skit, the song “Rubber Ducky” blared as the team rolled out its vehicle — a toilet next to a bathtub. Driver Dan Baker dropped his pants, sat on the toilet and read a newspaper as the cart began its descent while mechanic Rafael Dionello climbed into the tub pretending to take a shower. “Second place is probably best fitting for Deuces Wild,” Baker said. “There’s nothing better than taking a crap going down a hill. It is a bonding experience.” As the cart sped down the hill at 30 miles per hour, Baker and Dionello, both wearing bathrobes, stayed in character. Deuces Wild was one of the greatest crowd favorites of the day. “The idea (for Deuces Wild) came

when I was straining on a big one on the crapper and I thought ‘Why not? Why not be doing this while I go down on a hill?” Baker said. The three highest-scoring teams received awards. First place received a VIP trip to a NASCAR race. Second place received passes to drive on a racetrack for an “ultimate driving day,” and third place won a day of go-kart racing. Alicia Sacramone ’10, a member of the U.S. gymnastics team, served as one the five judges for the event. Red Bull contacted Sacramone through her marketing firm and asked if she would be available to judge, she said. She readily agreed. “Judging overall was a lot of fun,” Sacramone said. “It was fun being in a different atmosphere since I was a judge and not a competitor. It was really different from gymnastics competition. I liked the creativity portion and talking to the people who made each cart. We got to talk to each team when we were going around judging.” A special award called the People’s Choice Award was given to the audience’s favorite vehicle, regardless of performance. The Valhalla Express won the trophy, receiving the most text votes from the audience. The Valhalla Express was an ornately decorated Viking boat. “This is actually from Costco for $7.99,” said a judge, referring to the trophy for the People’s Choice Award. Most cars reached speeds just over 20 mph. The Good, The Bad and The Nerdy was the fastest vehicle, reaching an average for the course of just over 31 mph. On each turn of the track the audience braced for a crash, and more than a few soapboxes wiped out on the course. “It was frightful yet funny to see the racers in their ridiculous outfits and vehicles crash into the haystacks,” said Lauren Smith, a college student from New Hampshire. Getting an invite to participate in the race is competitive. “You have to apply to get into the race,” Johnson said. “This year over 300 applicants, and only the 61 teams got in.” The Red Bull Soapbox Race debuted in Belgium in 2000. Providence is only the third U.S. city to host the event. Overall, The Good, The Bad and The Nerdy said they enjoyed the atmosphere. “The people from Providence made it all worthwhile,” Johnson said. “Great hosts. Beautiful town. Beautiful campus. Love it.” And as for advice to future soapbox hopefuls, Johnson said, “Stay in school and rock trigonometr y and aerodynamics. Use your calculators.”

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RPLs get universal card access to dorms Norton ’08 and Ordonez

’07 cook up Startup Dinner

By Eric Johnson Contributing Writer

Residential Peer Leaders can now use their Brown ID cards to access all residence halls — one step further in a plan to eventually grant all students that privilege. Since last year, some students have been able to open doors to dorms geographically close to their own, said Rich Bova, senior associate dean of residential life. The universal card access for RPLs was put in place to facilitate their normal responsibilities, he said. “Because of the nature of their work, they have card access to the residence halls so that they can work collaboratively with each other to do programming, attend faculty fellow study breaks (and) attend regional and campus-wide programs,” Bova said. Karen McLaurin ’74, associate dean of the College and director of the Third World Center, said in certain situations the card privileges could be key tools for residential counselors. “During Spring Weekend, a big weekend, the RPLs have their shifts to cover certain regions,” McLaurin said. “How could they do that if they didn’t have access (to multiple dorms)?” The benefits of widespread card swipe access far outweigh the negative results that could arise from the RPLs’ increased privileges, McLaurin said. “RPLs are entrusted to render their services to all the first-years, and if they don’t have access, it makes it a little difficult,” she said. Women’s Peer Counselor Sheela Krishnan ’10 said she and her fellow RPLs were not initially aware of their card privileges but now frequently use them when visiting friends elsewhere on campus. “A lot of my friends live on Wriston, so if I’m visiting them, it’s nicer than having to stand outside and call them,” Krishnan said. Members of the Undergraduate Council of Students approached Bova earlier this fall with a proposal to expand the card-swipe program so that all students would have cardswipe access to residence halls across campus. Crime statistics for 2006 released by the Department of Public Safety showed a spike in burglaries on campus, most of which occurred in residence halls. Despite the possibility of strangers working their way into dorms, reasons other than card access are frequently to blame for crimes, Bova said. “I think it’s more of an issue of tailgating and people just coming into the residence halls and the residents not being suspicious of unfamiliar faces in their hallway,” Bova said. “They need to be vigilantly reporting when they see strangers that are there for no other reason than just walking up and down the hallways, poking around for no reason.” McLaurin said certain security concerns about card-swipe access

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could be resolved through already existing technology in buildings’ card readers. “That swipe card will tell when somebody enters that building, so allowing RPLs the access is a tool of the trade on one hand, but on the other hand if anything ‘happened,’ we’d at least know whose card was there,” she said. RPLs’ training in confidentiality and awareness also contribute to the unlikelihood of an intruder stealing and abusing one of their ID cards, Krishnan said. “I guess there could be security concerns, (but) that just never crossed my mind,” she said. “We

don’t go around spreading it, saying ‘Oh, we can get you into every dorm.’ ” Sofia Pellon ’10 said she has noted an increase in activity among RPLs compared to her freshman year, part of which could be attributed to the addition of five more Minority Peer Counselors since last fall. “I’ve been noticing this year that the RPLs are more active with each other and with their freshmen, so I think it does make sense that they can have access to each others’ buildings so they can congregate,” Pellon said. “The MPCs are much busier in particular. My MPC last year didn’t live anywhere near me.”

Dozens of students filled the third-floor lobby in the Center for Information Technology last Thursday evening to munch on pizza and meet each other — and to discuss ideas that may someday become the next MySpace. Thanks to Startup Dinner, a series of events sponsored by the Slater Technology Fund, computer science students have a new outlet to explore entrepreneurship. Scott Norton ’08 and Chris Ordonez ’07 came up with the idea for the informal evening sessions because they wanted to give students a space to share and hear brief pitches on ideas for startup businesses by fellow Brown and Rhode Island School of Design students and alums. Though this first meeting featured just five pitches, Ordonez said he and Norton plan to bring more ideas to future meetings — as well as guest speakers, such as the entrepreneurs behind well-known startup companies. The goal of the event, Norton and Ordonez said, is to encourage Brown students to pursue original entrepreneurial careers after graduation rather than taking the traditional recruitment path. Norton and Ordonez — who are forming their own online startup, Havadot — cooked up the idea for Startup Dinner after spending the summer in Silicon Valley, where they attended numerous pitchand-mingle events. Norton said through their dinners, they hope to recreate the energy of Silicon Valley on College Hill. Norton and Ordonez also hope to match students with different talents in possible collaboration projects. They extended an invitation to RISD students in an effort to combine the “back door” aspect of technology with the “front end”

FEATURE of art and design, according to Ordonez. “The important thing here is that we’re connecting Brown to RISD,” Ordonez said. “We’re connecting talent to technology.” Several computer science students, including Jonathan Rhone ’08, attended the event simply to hear about the field of startups, although Rhone said he will probably pursue a more traditional path. “Brown doesn’t do a lot to encourage kids to do startups,” Rhone said. “The push is mostly for them to get recruited by big companies.” Speakers and students alike echoed Rhone’s thoughts throughout the evening. CS concentrator Jason French ’08 focused part of his pitch on the need for University students to get back to the spirit of innovation, a sentiment he feels is lost among recent graduates. “The majority of CS kids are very comfortable being hired by companies like Google,” French said. “What surprises me is that I don’t see a lot of students saying, ‘Hey let’s start something new.’ I see a lot of kids playing it safe.” French pitched his own startup idea, Fantasy Hip Hop, at Thursday’s dinner. The online video game, which he created last winter, follows in the tracks of fantasy baseball, with users building their own record companies featuring the artists of their choice and competing against other users. French was the runner-up of the Brown Entrepreneurship Program’s Business Plan Competition last year. Fantasy Hip Hop currently has around 14,700 users, French said, adding that he plans to continue to manage Fantasy continued on page 8

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Kennedy ’76 to advance U.’s internationalization efforts continued from page 1 ization agenda to move forward. “I think the most important thing is that Brown make the transition to a global university in its own way,” Kennedy said. “Brown has a very special ethos, a special ethic and approach to education, and I don’t think that Brown needs to start down a ‘me-too-ism’ road. I think we need to find our own way.” In many ways, Kennedy said, he conceives of the internationalization effort as similar to Brown’s emergence in the mid-twentieth century as a national-caliber university, and he eschews following established models. “Brown made the transition from strong regional college to national university-college over a whole generation. And it did so largely by having its own vision: the New Curriculum, its own approach to education,” he said. “As we make the transition to global university, I think we should expect it to be every bit as profound a transformation, every bit as important a challenge,” Kennedy said. “It’s the kind of thing that needs to be done in Brown’s own way. So we can learn from what other universities have done and what others have tried, but I think we have to first try to think about how we can deepen Brown’s strength here.”

“You really get a sense of a campus that is on the move, making strides where people are flexible and creative about what they want to do (and) enthusiastic about moving forward,” Kennedy said. “For me, the strongest impression I took away from the search is the sense of energy in the faculty and student body at the moment.” Brown’s relative lack of professional schools and smaller graduate programs — and the resources and connections that come with these assets — present a unique challenge as the University tries to expand its international profile. But Kennedy said he sees opportunities for the University to use these characteristics as leverage in a unique way. “I think there is a lot Brown can do in the area of advanced research as a convener of young scholars from around the world — to work with Brown students, to work with Brown faculty here — without having graduate schools,” he said. “Jump over the professional schools and hook undergraduate students up directly with young scholars, academics and policy-makers abroad in ways that other universities might have a harder time doing.” Nevertheless, Kennedy stressed the importance of graduate study to Brown’s global ambitions. “I think it’s impossible to imagine that Brown can become an international uni-

versity without a first-rate graduate program and advanced research,” he said. Though Kennedy held a position as a visiting scholar at the Watson Institute for International Studies last semester, he acknowledged that he needs to understand the current state of internationalization on campus before he begins moving the effort forward. “I hope in the coming weeks to have a series of conversations with folks around the campus to try to digest the report of the internationalization committee and understand better what the recommendations were and what would make sense as a next step in the process,” he said. University officials are also keen on getting Kennedy immersed in the campus milieu. Because Kennedy is currently teaching a full slate of courses at Harvard, the administration will try to make the most effective use of his time at Brown this semester. “One of the first things he needs to do, of course, is to get a fuller sense on campus of what is already going on, in terms of the teaching and research programs with international links that faculty and students are already engaged in,” said Kertzer, to whom Kennedy will report. To facilitate this process, Kennedy will be at Thursday’s faculty

forum to discuss the internationalization committee’s report. Though the administration had hoped to have the vice president on campus full-time this semester, the appointment process took longer than expected. A good part of this delay, Kertzer said, came from the exact nature of the appointment. In addition to his administrative position, Kennedy was also appointed to a named professorship in international relations and as a fellow at the Watson Institute. Because his appointment is tenured and the administration was not in the position to make an offer until the end of the last academic year, the official appointment had to wait until the University’s Tenure, Promotion and Appointments Committee resumed meeting this academic year. Both Kennedy and the administration expect he will make use of the full breadth of his appointment by teaching. Though Kennedy will be busy setting up his office for the next few semesters, he said, he hopes to teach undergraduate and graduate students as well as explore the issue of global governance, which is currently his primary research concentration. Kennedy specifically mentioned his interest in establishing a center for advanced research in global governance and noted the potential for undergraduates to get involved in this burgeoning field of

Corporation accepts more than $12.5m in gifts, discusses College review continued from page 1 P’07 spoke to the Corporation about trends in faculty hiring, the five-year, 15-percent increase in the number of professors and the strength of minority hiring efforts. In addition, the Corporation took steps to begin administering the $10-million Fund for the Education of the Children of Providence, established in February in response to October 2006 recommendations from the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. Three Corporation members — Chancellor Emeritus Artemis Joukowsky ’55 P’87, Vice Chancellor Emeritus Marie Langlois ’64 and former Brown Alumni Association President Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar ’87 MA’90 — will oversee the fund. The endowment, designed to support Providence public schools, will immediately begin making grants thanks to a $250,000 gift from an anonymous donor to build its principal. In its strategic discussion session, Corporation members heard from Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron about the ongoing review of the undergraduate College that the Task Force for Undergraduate Education is undertaking. The task force is expected to have specific

recommendations ready by February. Corporation members also discussed the reorganization of the Office of the Dean of the College, which has consolidated fellowship and pre-professional advising and focused more on centralized upperclassman advising. During Bergeron’s tenure as Brown’s top undergraduate academic officer, four highly experienced deans were fired or resigned, though it is not clear whether this was discussed by the Corporation. Bergeron did not respond to an e-mail request for comment Saturday. Along similar lines, Corporation members and student leaders dined together Friday night to discuss the state of undergraduate education. Elliott Maxwell ’68 P’06 and Ira Magaziner ‘69 P’06 P’07 P’10, fathers of the New Curriculum, spoke about the future of learning. Also during Friday’s strategic discussion, Simmons spoke about her belief that the University must re-evaluate its growth priorities, first laid out in 2002 as the Plan for Academic Enrichment, which has guided her presidency thus far. Simmons said as much in a faculty meeting earlier this month, though University officials told The Herald

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last week they did not expect her to address the matter with the Corporation until its February meeting. “I expressed my belief that it is timely to consider the plan and determine whether we are pursuing the right combination of initiatives to ensure Brown remains on its current trajectory, offering programs of international distinction,” Simmons wrote in a campus-wide e-mail. “We will return to the Corporation in February with suggestions of how we might continue to achieve desired results for Brown.” Simmons’ desire to re-evaluate the strategy laid out near the beginning of her presidency comes as the Corporation is already spending significant time discussing matters not in the original plan, including a wholesale review of the undergraduate College, a commitment to internationalization and the construction of facilities that few in 2002 expected the University would build. In other business, the Corporation approved 154 Angell St., just west of the Brown Bookstore, as the new site for the Creative Arts Center. The $45-million, 35,000-square foot fundraising juggernaut is expected to have a 250-seat recital hall and screening facility, recording studio, multimedia lab, gallery space and facilities for interdisciplinary art, according to a University press release. Construction is slated to begin in spring 2009, with completion scheduled for late 2010. Originally a cognitive and linguistic sciences building was planned for the space adjacent to the bookstore, but due to lagging donations and planning problems, its fate remains uncertain, The Herald reported Sept. 21. Perhaps trying to breathe new life into the project, the Corporation approved a site for the newly dubbed “Mind Brain Behavior Building” on the south side of Angell Street between J. Walter Wilson Laboratory and the Walk, where

the Urban Environmental Lab currently stands. Boston-based architects Leers Weinzapfel Associates are designing the building, on which construction will begin once the University raises enough money, a University press release said. Corporation members also decided to completely demolish the Smith Swim Center, which has been closed since February because of structural problems in its roof. Simmons told the faculty in September that there was a proposal to attach a new roof with “what look like flying buttresses,” but Corporation members ultimately decided to build an entirely new aquatics facility. The Corporation approved planning and design for a new aquatics center in May, to be designed in conjunction with the Nelson Fitness Center. The issue of new housing, plans for which The Herald reported Thursday might have been slowed by the unexpected need for a new pool, remains undecided. According to Simmons’ campus-wide e-mail, the Corporation wants planning to continue for housing renovation and has asked University officials to prepare a cost-benefit analysis of new dorms in time for their February meeting. The Corporation also conducted some usual business, including establishing three new professorships — one each in history, psychology and Africana studies — and formally accepting gifts to the University of greater than $1 million. Those gifts included $5 million for theater arts and the Brown Annual Fund, $1 million for a new pool, about $1 million for post-doctoral fellowships in the Political Theory Project and $2.5 million for the Creative Arts Building. In addition, Chancellor Thomas Tisch ’76 — in his first meeting presiding over the governing body — and his wife donated an undisclosed amount to endow five new professorships.

study. Kennedy’s experience — most notably as the director of Harvard’s European Law Research Center — focuses on a continent where Brown already has strong ties. Though the internationalization committee’s report did not discount the importance of continued enhancement of the University’s European connections, it advised that the effort concentrate on diversifying Brown’s nonEuropean assets. “It’s true that most of his experience has been in Europe, but he has a lot of experience in the developing world,” said Barbara Stallings, director of the Watson Institute. “But the most important thing for Brown’s effort is his general intellectual interest.” “The internationalization effort is very important to the future of the University. If we are to be a leader in the U.S., we have to reach overseas. We need a person with special skills, and David has a broad range of skills and experience, and he has a proven track record of scholarship and leadership,” said David McKinney P’80 P’82 P’89, a member of the Corporation’s Board of Fellows and vice chair of the Watson Institute’s Board of Overseers. “I think his appointment will help amplify the progress at the Watson Institute, which is vital to the University’s internationalization effort.”

Sudden death goal kills Crimson continued from page 12 The Bears are well-acquainted with pressure situations late in games. Last Saturday, the Bears came back to tie Princeton before defeating the Tigers in overtime, and this week they knocked off Boston College in overtime. “It’s the confidence we have in ourselves,” Sawyer said. “We have experience from being there before.” That familiarity became especially important for Brown when Harvard leveled the match at 2-2 in the 82nd minute and sent it to overtime. “We got too defensive (late in the game),” Sawyer said of the Bears’ inability to close out the match. Head Coach Mike Noonan said the late goal was not as much the result of a defensive letdown as it was Harvard turning up the heat. “They started pressing,” he said. “They took some chances, and we were protecting a lead.” But Brown was not disheartened by allowing the game-tying goal so late in regulation. Just over five minutes into overtime, the Bears put away the game. Another Howerton flip throw-in found Sheehan, who sat at the back post and redirected the ball by Hahn. The two goals in the game gave Sheehan a team-leading eight tallies on the season. “Every time they tied it up, we weren’t worried,” Sawyer said. While the team would prefer not to take the game down to the wire, they will certainly take the win, especially in the Ivy League. “We are in the driver’s seat in Ivies,” Sawyer said. “Everyone will be gunning for us now.” The Bears will take their threegame win streak on the road to Cornell on Saturday. The Big Red is coming off two losses and a tie in its last three matches.

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Study finds kids aware of ethnic ID early By Evan Pelz Contributing Writer

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A team of Brown computer scientists has developed “Drawing on Air,” a 3-D design tool.

CSers develop new 3-D design tool Robert Zeleznik, David Laidlaw and Daniel Keefe — all members of Brown’s Department of Computer Science — presented “Drawing on Air” in the September-October 2007 issue of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’s magazine Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Their device allows an artist to make precise 3-D designs with the help of a virtual reality mask, a stylus and a tracking device. Daniel Keefe, a postdoctoral research associate focusing on scientific visualization, has been working on how to convey years of scientific data in one image. He said he hopes his work will bring artists and scientists together and that “Drawing on Air” is part of this process. “If we could have this ability to really draw things on air, it makes some new things possible,” Keefe said. Keefe emphasized the different applications for his invention — for artists, it allows zero gravity sculpting, and for scientists, it allows 3-D designing and “tele-operations,” which could allow surgeons to practice their craft remotely. Keefe said he predicts that this idea will be adopted by people from different disciplines and will become widely used and inexpensive in 10 to 15 years. “People will have these devices on their desks and go into 3-D design mode and start working on 3-D illustration of an idea, which they can drop it into a PDF document and send it out to friends,” Keefe said. After taking part in the development of “Cave Painting,” the old model for 3-D drawing at the Cave Automatic Virtual Environment in 2001, Keefe worked on a specific problem — thethe difficulty for artists to control the lines they draw while experiencing virtual reality. Since there is no surface to push against when drawing on air, it was only possible to draw loose gestural 3-D sculptures and sketches. However, for scientific visualization, a more precise drawing was needed. With the help of grants from the National Science Foundation, Keefe and his colleagues adopted a more precise technique used by car designers called “tape drawing,” which involves a thin electrical tape on one hand and 3-D device on the other, giving the artists more guidance. Today’s technological advancement makes exhibition of the designs possible. “These creations will not just be displayed in one space. They’ll be displayed sometimes as 3-D printouts, sometimes as virtual worlds, sometimes as models at your desktop PC,” Keefe said. — Haydar Taygun

Children develop a sense of their own ethnic identity earlier than previously thought, and children with a strong ethnic identity are more prone to interact with children of other ethnicities, according to new research by Professor of Education Cynthia Garcia Coll. Garcia Coll and Amy Marks MS’05 PhD’07, adjunct assistant professor of human development, published their findings in the September issue of the International Journal of Behavioral Development, together with researchers from Howard University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2001, Garcia Coll completed a three-year study of second-generation immigrant children aged 6-12, then continued to track the children as they grew older. She tracked the children’s perception of their own ethnic identity by asking them to select labels, such as “Portuguese-American” or “white,” to describe themselves, according to a University news release. The study began in 1998 with about 400 children of Cambodian, Portuguese and Dominican immigrants living in Providence and East Providence, Garcia Coll said. She said she chose those groups

because of the diverse experiences of their immigration to the United States, including Cambodian “refugees coming to Providence with a particular experience in the 1980s,” as Providence was a federally designated location for such immigrants, Portuguese from the Azores who have been coming to Providence since the 19th century because “they are fisherman and their families have been coming for so many generations” and Dominicans coming “back and forth over time between New York and here.” Garcia Coll said she thinks “immigration is a topic we are struggling with in the United States,” and her study could help Americans better understand how the process affects the children of immigrants. Researchers encountered some surprises in conducting the study, Garcia Coll said. Interviews were offered to both the children and their parents in either English or the parents’ native language, and though many of the parents took the inter view in their native language, none of the children did. Another surprise was that while previously ethnic identity was thought to be developed in adolescence, the study found that “as early as six years of age, kids

are dealing with issues of ethnic identity,” Garcia Coll said. As the children grew older, they started to use more encompassing identity labels and hyphenated identities, such as “Dominican-American,” rather than specific nationalities. Marks, an assistant professor of psychology at Suffolk University in addition to her post at Brown, said an important part of the study was that there weren’t comparisons between different social groups, such as looking at the relative development of ethnic identity in Cambodian versus Portuguese children. Instead, conclusions were based on social and economic resources available to the specific group. For example, Marks said, the Cambodians, “despite fewer economic and social suppor t available,” did “disproportionately well” academically, which she called the “immigrant education paradox.” Christina Perkins ’08, a psychology concentrator, worked with Marks and Garcia Coll on the study. Perkins said she believes this “study can further this area of research” to possible practical applications, and that with the data researchers can “learn about students and education,” as well as about “what angle positive influences can have” in the lives of these children.

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Bruno mauls Princeton in homecoming game continued from page 12 that spurred the Bears to victory on Saturday. The team displayed a hard-hitting and aggressive defensive approach, qualitites that had been lacking in the team’s three losses. Brown used jarring hits to force turnovers at opportune times, including an interception by Darrell Harrison ’09 that sealed the win for the Bears. The Bears received contributions from a variety of sources. Steve Ziogas ’09 had an interception and forced a fumble, Joseph McPhee ’09 forced a fumble and recovered another, Jake Powers ’09 recovered two fumbles and Harrison added a forced fumble to his interception. The Bears also benefited from strong play from tri-captain Eric Brewer ‘08 and Jose Yearwood ‘08, who was returning from an injury. “One of our goals has been not to turn the ball over, but getting the ball, creating turnovers,” Estes said. On a crisp fall afternoon, Brown’s offense opened the game with efficiency. The Bears penetrated deep into Tiger territor y on their first drive of the game, but lost the ball on a fumble by receiver Sewall. On the ensuing drive, the defense responded emphatically when defensive end James Develin ’10 laid a forceful hit on Princeton quarterback Bill Foran to jar the ball free. Powers dove on the loose pigskin, and the Bears regained

possession at the Princeton 7. This time Dougher ty went straight for the end zone, lofting a pass over the top for Sewall in the back left corner of the end zone, and putting Bruno ahead 7-0. With 49 seconds left in the first quar ter, the Princeton of fense burned the Bears for the first time in the game. Foran found a receiver wide open for an easy 48-yard touchdown to tie the game at 7-7. Brown’s next scoring drive began when Farnham returned a punt 14 yards to the Princeton 44, and then the offense went to work. A 14-yard completion to tight end Colin Cloherty ’09 moved the ball to the 30, and the Bears moved the ball into comfortable field goal range with short passes and runs up the middle. Facing a fourth-andthree on the Princeton 13, Estes called on Morgan, who converted the 30-yard attempt to regain the lead, 10-7. With 4:55 left in the first half, Brown expanded its lead when Dougherty lofted a pass over the top to hit Farnham in stride on the right hash. Farnham ran into the end zone untouched for the 43-yard touchdown, which put the Bears ahead 17-7. “I feel like we can get the ball to anyone,” Farnham said. “If we get the ball in our receivers’ hands, they’ll make plays.” Princeton drove deep into Brown territory on its next drive, but the defense made several big plays to keep the Tigers out of the end zone. First, Yearwood tipped

away a would-be touchdown pass. Then, on a quarterback keeper, Foran appeared to have a clear path to the end zone, but linebacker Jon May ’09 tripped him up from behind. Brown also saw big plays from linebackers Ziogas and Miles Craigwell ’09, who made key tackles near the end zone, forcing the Tigers to settle for a field goal, to cut Brown’s lead to 17-10 at half. “We simplified our defense,” said defensive lineman Kai Brown ’08. “Hit, tackle, make plays.” In the third quarter, the Bears took control of the game with their hard-hitting defense and precisely executed offense. On Princeton’s first drive, Craigwell forced a fumble, and Powers recovered his second fumble of the game, returning the ball to the Princeton 26. The offense capitalized on the turnover when Dougherty found Farnham over the middle for 23 yards to bring the Bears to the 3-yard line. Sewall, a high school quarterback, lined up in the shotgun formation, took a direct snap and dove into the end zone to make the score 24-10. With nine minutes left in the quarter, Morgan added a 44-yard field goal, his longest of the season, to put Brown up by 17 points. Then Brown’s defense went to work, forcing turnovers on three straight possessions. Two of those turnovers were the work of Ziogas. The linebacker got the start in place of Frank Nuzzo ’09, the team’s leading tackler

entering the game, who was sidelined with a foot injury. “I thought (Ziogas) played a big game for us,” Estes said. After the dominant third quarter, the game appeared to be in jeopardy in the fourth. After Morgan’s first missed field goal of the day, Foran found a hole on a fourth down keeper up the middle, and ran 64 yards for the touchdown to cut the lead to 27-17. Morgan converted another field goal opportunity, but the Tigers answered two possessions later with a 39-yard touchdown pass, to put the score at 30-24. Princeton threatened to complete the comeback when a short kickoff was almost recovered by the Tigers, before the ball bounced out of bounds at the Brown 31. On the ensuing Brown drive, a 42-yard completion to Raymond moved the ball to the Princeton 6, setting up Morgan’s fourth, and record-breaking, field goal to make it a two-possession game again, at 33-24. On the next drive, Foran lofted a pass downfield, which Harrison read perfectly and intercepted, to seal the win for the Bears. The team will try to carry their aggressiveness and consistency into their remaining five games, all against Ivy League opponents, beginning with a game at Cornell next Saturday. “In last week’s game, we made a great comeback, but we didn’t finish,” Estes said. “This week, we added the finish.”

Brown’s application process still ‘uncommon’ continued from page 1 Brown tied for 14th in the U.S. News rankings this year, but Miller said that moving up the list is not an incentive to use a general application. “I’d love for us to be number one, but I want to make sure people reflect us accurately,” Miller said. Barmak Nassirian, associate executive director for external relations of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, said a school loses some of its individuality when it uses a general application. “In going with the standard set of questions, you are compromising on the particular needs of your institution,” he said. In order to ask applicants questions relevant to their institution, about two-thirds of the colleges that use the Common Application mandate that students fill out a school-specific supplement in addition to the standard Common

Application. The number of schools that use the Common Application has almost doubled in the last 10 years. Aaron Zdawczyk, assistant director of admission and financial aid at Northwestern University, said Northwestern decided to join the Common Application last year in order to reach out to underrepresented and international populations. “The decision to move to the Common App was one primarily of access,” Zdawczyk said. “We saw a pretty dramatic increase in applications last year.” He was unsure how much the switch to the Common Application contributed to the spike in applicants, since there was a large jump the year before as well, he said. Chris Munoz, Rice University’s vice president for enrollment, said Rice is using the Common Application exclusively for the first time this year, though it has offered the application as an option for several years. He said he expects the move

to save money for the school. “From the university side of it, we’re hoping that we’re going to gain some ... efficiencies,” he said. Miller said a switch at Brown would not likely affect the cost of applying, which is currently $70. Other than the supplement, Miller said any new application would need to accommodate applicants who are eligible for fee waivers, as the current application does. Any changes in the application would not go into effect until next year, he said, when prospective members of the class of 2013 apply to the College. Jordan Mainzer, a senior at Highland Park High School in Illinois, is applying early decision to Brown’s class of 2012. Just in case, he said, he has also filled out the Common Application for other schools, but he didn’t mind the extra work. “Most schools, anyway, are having me do a supplement, and I have to write separate essays,” Mainzer said.

Among current freshmen on campus, feelings about Brown’s unique application range from pleased to frustrated. “I thought the select nature of Brown’s application made it easier to express myself,” Dan Ricker ’11 said. “I thought the Common App was a little too restrictive.” Salsabil Ahmed ’11 disagreed, saying that Brown’s application “was a hassle.” “Plus, (the Common Application) is easier to organize,” she said. But even as each year brings a growing number of institutions accepting the Common Application, Nassirian said some schools will always retain their own application. “I’m very convinced that there will always be at least one school that has its own unique needs, and it’s going to go with what it needs,” he said. Time will tell whether or not Brown will continue to be one such school.

M. water polo dominates in weekend series in Cambridge continued from page 12 Adams also pointed to the team’s defense helping jump-star t its offense. “This entire weekend was so successful because of our counterattack,” he said. Hank Weintraub ’09 had four goals against MIT, while Grant LeBeau ’09 and Gartner contributed three apiece. Sparking the defense was goalkeeper Kent Holland ’10, who stopped 13 shots. Though the score of Brown’s second match of the weekend was closer, the play was just as unbalanced. Bruno came out with its fifth straight win in an 11-8 victory over Fordham. The score was closer, but the Bears felt the game was never out of their control. “We were up three or four goals for the most part,” Mercado said “We were up by three from the end of the first quarter and it pretty much stayed that way for the rest of the game.” The Bears’ scoring was well distributed, with five players got on the board with goals. Gartner and LeBeau lead the way once again with three goals apiece. Holland had another exceptional game and stopped seven shots. In the final game of the weekend, the Bears played Iona College and dominated from the very beginning. Bruno was leading 6-3 at the end of the first quarter. “We were pumped,” Gartner said “We played so hard for four quarters and they just couldn’t keep up.” Brown had another balanced offensive game with seven players making it onto the score sheet. “Everyone played great,” Mercado said. “The whole weekend everyone was contributing.” The offense was led by Gordon Hood ’11 who had four goals, and LeBeau and Nico Fort ’09 followed closely behind with three goals each. Adams stood out with a wellrounded game. He had four assists, drew three ejections and contributed one goal. Sporting a stellar 5-1 record in the CWPA North, Brown will be guaranteed seeding no lower than third at the Northern Division Championship, which will take place the weekend of Nov. 3. Coming up before the championships is next weekend’s trip to Annapolis, Md., where Brown will face Johns Hopkins University, Princeton, the United States Naval Academy and George Washington University.

Students discuss technology, entrepreneurship at dinner continued from page 5 Hip Hop while working for Apple next year. But not all the pitches were for entertainment Web sites: Douglas Campbell RISD’02 is in the process of launching FolioHub to help artists market their work. The Web site will let artists create portfolios to showcase and sell their work, rather than go through an individual contractor at higher expense and inconvenience. Campbell began

working on the startup in 2005 after creating many individual portfolios for artists that he thought could be simplified. Campbell’s advice to other nascent entrepreneurs is to find work that will make them feel good: He said FolioHub elevated him on a “spiritual level” because of the help he is able to provide artists. “Do something you believe in, not just for the projected income,” Campbell said. “Know the value of your own time, what you’re good at

and also what you need help with.” The speakers also stressed the importance of the undergraduate years. Speaker Matt Gillooly ’04 commented that his work in CSCI 1900: “Software System Design” helped him and his partners continue with their startup after graduation. His first startup, East Transit Technologies (EastTransit.com), was born in the spring of 2004 when four students stayed together to complete a class project after graduation. Three of the original four students,

including Gillooly, went on to create a second startup called Public Display (PubDisplay.com). “Brown’s role in the undergraduate role is amazing. We retained full ownership, which meant that there was nothing to stop us from taking off (with our idea) and running with it,” Gillooly said. The speakers emphasized starting the collaboration while students are still at school. Henry Shepherd ’08 said the inspiration for his startup came from his undergraduate

experiences. His Web site, which will be called University Commons, will give students a space to connect with each other and publish media of all kinds, Shepherd said. Shepherd described the project as a space for people to publish media along the lines of “student research journals.” Shepherd’s pitch for his startup echoed the evening’s overall theme. “The goal is to help students help each other,” Shepherd said.

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Conflicting laws create patchwork immigration policy

Democrats plotting new strategy on children’s health

Monday, October 15, 2007

By Anthony Faiola Washington Post

NEW YORK — In New York, state officials are about to offer driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants and already have extended limited medical coverage to those battling cancer. In Illinois, the state legislature just passed a law forbidding businesses there from using a federal database to check the legal status of employees. Oklahoma, meanwhile, recently passed some of the toughest immigration laws in the nation, including one making it a felony to “transport” or “harbor” an illegal immigrant — leading some to fear that people such as school bus drivers and church pastors may be at risk of doing time. Tennessee’s legislature this year revoked laws granting illegal immigrants “driving certificates” and voted to allow law enforcement officers to effectively act as a state immigration police. As the Bush administration and Congress sit gridlocked on an immigration overhaul, states are jumping into the debate as never before. In the process, they are creating a national patchwork of incongruous immigration laws that some observers fear will make it far more difficult to enact any comprehensive, federally mandated bill down the line. The volume of state immigration bills has skyrocketed this year. No fewer than 1,404 pieces of immigration-related legislation were

introduced in legislatures during the first half of 2007, with 182 bills becoming law in 43 states. That is more than double the number of immigration-related state laws enacted during all of 2006, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Some observers are alarmed by the trend, calling the wildly divergent laws further evidence of America’s cultural divide and saying they could pose new hurdles in reaching a national consensus on immigration. Piecemeal policymaking is opening the door to a flurry of legal battles — the Department of Homeland Security, for instance, is suing Illinois for banning businesses there from confirming an employee’s legal status through the federal E-Verify database, which state officials have called flawed and unreliable. Others argue that the inability to reach a national solution has left states no choice. Governors are grappling with cities and towns that, in the absence of a national or state policy, have taken it upon themselves to pass local immigration laws either protecting or cracking down on illegal immigrants. This has occasionally lead to radically different regulations within individual states. Still others assert that the rush of state activism has created an unforeseen opportunity. By viewing states as laboratories and studying the successes and failures of

their various policies, Americans may find useful information, even a road map, for developing a national strategy. Perhaps the most compelling current example is Oklahoma, where a package of tough new laws will not only make it a crime to transport or harbor illegal immigrants, but will also strip such immigrants of any right to receive most health care, welfare, scholarships or other government assistance; penalize employers who hire illegal workers; and force businesses to verify the legal status of new hires. That “comports with my philosophy that illegal aliens will not come to Oklahoma or any other state if there are no jobs waiting for them,” said Randy Terrill, a Republican state legislator and the author of the bill. “They will not stay here if they know they will get no taxpayer subsidy, and they will not stay here if they know if they ever come into contact with one of our fine law enforcement officers, they will stay in custody until they are physically deported.” Hispanic business groups, citing school enrollment losses and church parish figures, say the laws, which start going into effect later this year, have caused as many as 25,000 undocumented workers to flee the state in recent months. The loss is being decried by the Oklahoma State Home Builders Association.

Dems split over abstinence-only programs By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Los Angeles T imes

WASHINGTON — In the 1990s, amid a growing so-called “culture war” over the role of religion and morality in public policy, Republicans used their congressional majorities to crank up funding for programs that encouraged teens to abstain from sex until marriage. But now, even though Democrats have taken over Congress, so-called abstinence-only programs are surviving attempts to shut them down. And they could even get an increase with the aid of an unlikely ally — Rep. David Obey, one of the old liberal lions. “We’re expecting funding to be pretty comparable to what it was in the past,” said Valerie Huber, executive director of the National Abstinence Education Association “Those who oppose abstinence education are probably more surprised than I am.” Democrats have long criticized the programs as ineffective in combating teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases , because they do not include instruction in the use of condoms. Expectations that a Democratic-controlled Congress would gut abstinence-only education rose this spring after a major federally funded study concluded that such programs do not appear to have any effect on sexual abstinence among youths, nor on their age of sexual initiation or number of sex partners. But the oldest abstinence program won a reprieve last month. And a second, more important companion program could get a significant funding increase. The reason: Led by Obey, a Wisconsin Democrat, some Democrats sud-

denly are protecting it. Obey, who leads the House Appropriations Committee , is supporting abstinence-only education, saying he wants to steer his panel away from the highly charged terrain of moral issues. And by increasing funding for such programs, he also is making a political calculation that he can pick up some Republican support for much bigger health and social welfare programs the White House wants to cut. But the Senate could take a different direction. Committee leaders in that chamber are trying to reduce funding for abstinence-only education, but individual senators are expected to try to undo that. The issue could flare up soon on the floor of the Senate during debate about legislation to fund the departments of Labor and Health and Human Services . The reversal of fortunes for abstinence-only education has caused political discomfort for Democrats. “I’ve made clear to my colleagues that I don’t believe abstinence-only is an effective approach, or that it makes sense to increase funding,” said Rep. Henry Waxman D-Calif., one of the programs’ most prominent critics . “I haven’t been able to prevail on the issue of appropriations but plan to continue to fight for better programs for youth.” In 2004, Waxman issued a report cataloging a series of inaccuracies in the curricula of abstinence-only programs. Reflecting the sensitivity of the intraparty feud, Obey’s office declined a request for an interview. Some foes of abstinence-only education are feeling abandoned. “The Democrats, and most notably Henry Waxman, used the abstinence-only issue as the cor-

nerstone of the claim that the Bush administration was putting ideology and politics ahead of science,” said James Wagoner, president of Advocates for Youth, a nonprofit policy organization that focuses on sexual and reproductive health. “Now they suddenly have gone mute and silent when their own people are in power. There is an element of political hypocrisy here.” Wagoner supports what is known as “comprehensive sex education,” which includes instruction on abstinence and condoms, and is the leading alternative to abstinenceonly programs.

By Janet Hook Los Angeles T imes

WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders, almost conceding defeat in their quest to override President Bush’s veto of a popular children’s health bill, promised Sunday to pass another version of the bill after a showdown this week. The bipartisan coalition backing expansion of a health-care program created for poor children has sought to pressure more Republicans to vote to override President Bush’s veto on the House floor Thursday. But GOP leaders are confident they have the votes to sustain the veto, which requires a two-thirds majority to override, and House Majority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., did not challenge that claim. Asked on “Fox News Sunday” if the House would override Bush, Hoyer said: “No, I don’t think I’m going to predict that now.” Similarly, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was asked on ABC’s “This Week” about Republican predictions that the bill would die, she responded: “And isn’t that sad for America’s children?” Still, she promised that while Democrats would try “very hard” to override the veto, the core dispute would not die if they failed. “One thing’s for sure: We won’t rest until those 10 million children have health care,” she said. At issue is a bill that would expand coverage under the State Children’s Health Insurance Program for uninsured children -- mostly in low-income families but also in some in middle-class households. Because the popular program enjoys broad support, Democrats say they have the political upper hand in the face-off with Bush. They portray him and those Republicans opposing the expansion as standing in the way of providing health insurance to millions of needy children. “It’s difficult to predict victory (on the veto override), but it’s a bad vote” for Republicans, said a senior Democratic leadership aide

who requested anonymity when discussing the party’s thinking. The aide added: “We’ll just beat them up with it” in campaign ads. Bush and his GOP allies are trying to recast the debate as one over the role of government in health care. They argue that the measure sent to the president goes too far because it would offer government assistance to families who could afford private coverage. Bush, who has been trying to reestablish his party’s reputation for fiscal prudence, complains that the bill’s $60 billion price tag over five years is too high. As an alternative, he proposed spending $30 over the same period. The bill recently passed the House 265-159, with 45 Republicans joining the majority. But 290 votes would be needed to override the veto if ever y House member participated in the tally. The Senate approved the measure by more than a two-thirds margin. House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, who also appeared on “Fox News Sunday,” expressed confidence that the GOP would have the votes to sustain the veto. But he acknowledged the battle put Republicans in an awkward political position. “It probably isn’t the fight we’d want to pick, but it’s a fight (Democrats) decided to pick.” Pelosi did not offer any details on how Congress might eventually change the bill to make it acceptable to Bush. She also said she did not want to reduce the number of children who would be covered by the version sent to Bush. “We have a plan,” she said. “We’ll take it one step at a time.” Pelosi complained that Bush was unwilling to negotitate a soultion to the impasse. “Compromise to him means, `Do it my way,’” she said. White House spokesman Tony Fratto disputed that charge, quoting a recent comment by Bush: “If they need a little more money in the bill to help us meet the objective of getting help for poor children, I’m more than willing to sit down ... and find a way to do so.”

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To infinity and beyond The exploration of space is a worthy goal, and we’re glad that Brown is doing its part to help advance our knowledge of what lies beyond our small planet. The University’s partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration goes beyond including the NASA channel in our cable lineup. Brown, led by the planetary geosciences group in the Department of Geological Sciences, is involved in a number of ongoing research projects with NASA, including important work to explore Mars and other celestial bodies. Those trained at Brown are doing their part to advance our study of space, too — James Garvin ’78 ScM’81 PhD’84 is now the chief scientist for NASA, responsible for overseeing all the agency’s scientific endeavors and the lead scientist for Mars exploration, and Garvin lists Professor of Geological Sciences Jim Head PhD’69 in his official biography as an inspiration for his pursuit of the field. So why does any of this matter? When Col. David Scott, commander of the Apollo 15 mission to the moon, spoke on campus last week about the importance of reaching Mars, one audience member commented that since there are so many problems here on Earth, it doesn’t make sense to spend billions of dollars to explore another planet. That’s not an uncommon perspective, nor is it without merit. But it is shortsighted. The dividend from exploring space is tremendous — it’s wrong to see it as money, time and effort thrown down the drain. Inconsistencies from one presidential administration to the next take a big toll on NASA, to which over $16 billion of the federal budget is allocated each year, but the very weight of the financial commitment our country is already making to space exploration affirms the United States’ dedication to dreaming big and seeing where our dreams can take us. It is not enough for us to sit in our classrooms, to learn and (eventually) graduate, go on to work hard and fall in love and grow old and die, and never find out more about what is out there. Why should the celebrated insatiable curiosity of the human genus be limited to what we find on our own tiny planet? Who knows what resources, medical innovations, new products or scientific knowledge could come from reaching for the stars? We must explore space not just to learn but eventually, maybe, to live, settling on other worlds and building new lives away from Earth. It sounds like fiction, but so did exploring and settling a distant continent, and today the United States, in all its beauty and faults, stands as the product of that spirit. Mars, the asteroid belt, the moons of Jupiter and Saturn and what lies beyond our solar system — they are the New World we must explore. The challenge of exploring and settling space will force us to concentrate, to focus our efforts and energy and resources as a nation and as a species. For some reason, President Bush’s Vision for Space Exploration doesn’t ratchet up enthusiasm like the galvanizing words of President John F. Kennedy pledging to win the race to the moon, but exploring outer space shouldn’t be seen as an unnecessary burden — it’s an opportunity. As the founding declaration of the Mars Society, a group advocating the colonization of the red planet, notes, “Civilizations, like people, thrive on challenge and decay without it. As the world moves towards unity, we must join together, not in mutual passivity, but in common enterprise, facing outward to embrace a greater and nobler challenge than that which we previously posed to each other.” That dream is worth our time, money and effort.

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Students must have more representation in University committees ZACHARY TOWNSEND Opinions Columnist Although most students know about University committees through little more than annoying e-mails from the Undergraduate Council of Students, they in fact wield a huge amount of power in the University. As a member of the University Resources Committee, a committee that recommends the entire operating budget of the University to the president, I can speak to how valuable a student’s voice is on these committees. Although the provost and others might disagree, it is crucial for the student body to have representatives on these boards to articulate the views and concerns of students. The decisions that these groups make — though often not about things that affect the everyday life of students — are actually those that have the largest and longest impact on the lives of future undergraduates. It is shameful that some of the committees most important to the University have no student voice on them. If the administration truly takes student input seriously, then students should be added to these committees immediately. The first committee is the College Advisory Board, which the faculty governance Web site simply lists as “disbanded 2006.” Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron should not simply have decommissioned an entire faculty committee, particularly without any sort of explanation. It should be noted that the committee is still in the faculty rules — including the two requisite student members. To give you an idea of the possible import this com-

mittee may have, when it was formed in 2002 by the Task Force on Faculty Governance, it was supposed to have all or part of the responsibilities of the following committees (some of which still exist, and others of which were disbanded for the purpose of creating the advisory board): Committee on Academic Standing, Committee on Commencement Speakers, Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid, Faculty Resumed Undergraduate Education Policy and Admissions Committee, Prizes and Premiums Committee, Committee on Student

mittee is responsible for making recommendations to the president concerning the general direction of academic programs.” This committee has six administrators and six faculty members, but why does it have no students? Why is it that students have no say in the future of the academic programs of the University? I once discussed this with former Provost Robert Zimmer, whose stand, essentially, was that students’ opinions do not matter on these issues and, furthermore, that students could not successfully articulate use-

If students are mature enough to be the architects of their own curricular paths, then they are mature enough to have a say in the future of academics at Brown. Life, Advisory Committee on Summer Studies and the Financial Aid Awards Review Board. Clearly this was a place where students had a voice to address myriad vital issues, and this voice was taken away. The second committee is the Academic Priorities Committee, which you never hear about unless you listen quietly in faculty meetings. Yet this committee wields a tremendously large amount of power: It makes decisions about new centers and initiatives and the allocation of faculty positions. Generally, as its charge states, “the Academic Priorities Com-

ful opinions on them. Both of these arguments are insulting. If students are mature enough to be the architects of their own curricular paths, then they are mature enough to have a say in the future of academics at Brown. The third committee is arguably the most important: the Tenure, Promotion and Appointments Committee. This committee — made up of four administrators and twelve faculty members — reviews recommendations “concerning (1) the renewal of appointments of instructors, assistant professors and senior lecturers, (2) the promotion to the ranks of

senior lecturer, associate and full professor, and (3) the awarding of tenure to untenured faculty members.” Although many students might not understand how tenure or the academic hierarchy works, the incentives that this committee creates animate all of the work of faculty members — especially the younger ones. As the faculty rules state: “Candidates for tenure at Brown must show evidence of outstanding scholarship. They must also be highly effective teachers, and be positive contributors to faculty governance as well as to the intellectual life of their department, university and profession. Demonstrated ability in teaching and service are necessary but not sufficient conditions for tenure.” Yet students know that all too often teaching is not treated as important, and the quality of students’ education suffers as a result. It is crucial to have several voting students on this committee who can animate the conversations with a focus on teaching and dedication to undergraduates. These committees are crucial to the functioning of the University and lack appropriate student representation. Bergeron should immediately reconstitute the College Advisory Board. Further, the provost and the dean of the faculty, the primary administrators in charge of the Academic Priorities Committee and the Tenure, Promotion and Appointments Committee, respectively, should take immediate action to invite student observers appointed by UCS and, in time, should personally move to change the faculty rules so that the voice of students can be made permanent on these committees.

Zachary Townsend ’09 believes that a true patriot must always be ready to defend his university against its administration.

Dirty dining: Student leadership served over a bed of arugula BY JOSH TEITELBAUM Opinions Columnist Contrary to popular belief, the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Undergraduate Finance Board do matter, and their essential flaws have big ramifications for student life at Brown. All student group funding is controlled through UFB. UCS decides which groups are legitimate and controls how UFB considers each group in the budgeting process. Meanwhile, UCS and UFB move away from any kind of governance that is reflective of the student body and deeper into a world of self-promotion — and ultimately into positions of such weakness that mere gestures of generosity on the part of key University administrators become enough to keep UCS and UFB in their places. It is not in the University’s interest to change the nature of UCS and UFB. Their failure is the administration’s success. Take, for example, the internal elections process of UCS. Inevitably, each school year begins with UCS in a panic to fill vacancies resulting from the previous year’s lackluster electoral landscape. And like clockwork, each year UCS manages to fill those seats. Where do these candidates come from? If the seats could not be filled in the previous spring, why is there so much interest now? The tendency is for the majority of candidates in fall UCS and UFB elections to come from the pool of losers from the previous spring election cycle. Why would UCS knowingly vote on a candidate whom the student body did not see fit to vote for last spring? Most people who run for these positions have served on UCS in the past, either having been elected previously only to lose the student body’s trust (and vote) in the

next election or having served as a non-voting member of the council. A week or two after UCS internal elections, most of the campus will have long forgotten that these folks were never elected (as will have these newly “elected” officials themselves), and business will continue as usual — as if UCS speaks with authority on behalf of the student body. Grateful for their newfound places among the ranks of UCS, UFB and various University committees, these individuals have no real incentive to take a firm stand that would risk compromising their status. There is a danger for widespread rubber stamping, and University officials are

stituted, it owes its livelihood more to UFB than to any accountable membership. UFB determines what projects are valid, to which organizations groups can lend financial support (and how) and even with which vendors a group can contract. Want to transfer $100 from a group’s printing line-item to help pay for a speaker? You’ll need UFB’s permission. Want to ask UFB to channel all of a group’s funds next semester into a particular line-item? UFB doesn’t think that’s wise for the group — even if the group itself votes on the issue — so the request is respectfully denied. Now, this situation is no more UFB’s fault

UCS and UFB are moving away from any kind of governance that is reflective of the student body and deeper into a world of self-promotion. happy to reap the benefits of such fortuitous circumstances. The student-group funding process is also troubling. UCS has sole discretion in deciding what constitutes a legitimate group. They determine how the group’s constitution is structured and for which level of funding the group is eligible. And if they disagree with the premise for the formation of a group or its structure, there is nothing that compels them to approve the group’s application. Once a group is con-

than it is the students’ themselves. The student body has bought into a system in which funding and fundraising are oriented in a topdown, University-sanctioned model; we get what we pay for and we pay for what we get. The way groups get and manage their funding is a subject that should not be taken lightly, and the effects of this funding scheme are real. After all, it is always the groups that either implicitly or explicitly usurp the system that have the most fun, do the most to break away

from the traditional cookie-cutter model of student organizing and instead move toward something more creative, something better integrated into the Providence community, something more “Brown.” Whether it is keeping money in a shoebox under the president of an organization’s Grad Center dorm room, opening an “illegal” outside bank account, using deceptive methods to fund the activities of non-sanctioned groups or “gifting” money to a RISD organization for safe keeping, the only way groups have opted out of this top-down control in recent history has been to bypass the system altogether. But here’s something to think about for the future: Why keep this all in the shadows? Why not have a student government that openly allows for such freedoms in student organizing? I’ll tell you why. Because each week, while we busily write e-mails to our UCS and UFB representatives and then anxiously wait for replies that will never come, the leaders of UCS — the people whom we “elect” to represent us on the most pressing of campus issues — are busy dining with administrators at the Faculty Club for a weekly check-in. How good a January term at Brown must sound while downing each deliciously tender bite of filet mignon. And while you might doubt that a weekly lunch at the Faculty Club would be enough to sway the opinions of boldly independent Brownies, in the end it’s not really about the lunch at all. Would you be able to meet with campus life officials week after week knowing that, in the last week, you had taken a real stand?

Josh Teitelbaum ’08 would like to ask The Herald to stop worrying about a hyphen in the word “decision-making” and start asking itself why its articles about Brown read like University press releases.

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Bears defeat Tigers, 33-24, in ‘badly needed’ win By Benjy Asher Assistant Spor ts Editor

In front of a homecoming crowd on Saturday, the football team (2-3, 1-1 Ivy League) fought its way to what Head Coach Phil Estes called a “badly needed” win. Brown’s defense forced six turnovers in the 33-24 win over Princeton, finally showing some big play potential for the first time since the opening game of the season. Brown built a lead of 27-10 over the Tigers on the strength of a passing attack that has been a positive all season. Michael Dougherty ‘09 threw for 360 yards and two touchdowns, receiver Bobby Sewall ‘10 caught a touchdown and ran for another and wide receivers Buddy Farnham ‘10 and Paul Raymond ‘08 each went for over 100 yards. The third straight outstanding passing day gave Dougherty the Division I-AA lead in passing yardage. Another milestone was achieved Saturday when kicker Steve Morgan ’08 surpassed the Ivy League field goal career total of 46 when he kicked a 22-yard chip shot with 8:02 remaining in the game. Morgan had three other field goals on the day, giving him 47

By Whitney Clark Spor ts Staf f Writer

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Steve Ziogas ’09 intercepted a pass, forced a fumble and made nine tackles in the Bears’ 33-24 victory over Princeton.

for his career. “I think it’s really a team accomplishment for the last four years,” Morgan said. “It’s a result of having such a potent offense.”

But Morgan added “It felt good to get it done.” Brown’s formidable offensive attack was expected after hanging 37 and 42 points in losses to

the College of the Holy Cross and the University of Rhode Island respectively. But it was the defense continued on page 8

After 2 league losses, w. soccer erases Crimson in 1-0 win By Evan Kantor Spor ts Staf f Writer

After two straight Ivy League losses, the women’s soccer team got on the board in conference standings in a big way on Saturday. Despite facing a barrage of shots, Brown dealt Harvard its first home loss of the year, shutting out the Crimson 1-0. The Bears were outshot 24-8, but they still managed to keep Harvard (8-4-1) off the scoreboard for the first time this season. Jamie Mize ’09 provided all the offense Brown needed when she pounded home a goal less than a minute into

M. water polo cruises to three weekend wins

the second half. Goalkeeper Steffi Yellin ’10 finished with 10 saves. After a scoreless first half, the Bears didn’t waste time and struck just 31 seconds after halftime. Melissa Kim ’10 intercepted a pass at midfield and carried it into Harvard’s end of the field. She found Susie Keller ’08 on the wing, who crossed the ball in front of the goal. Mize got a foot on it, and after the goalie knocked down her initial challenge, Mize put the ball into the net on the rebound. Har vard threatened for the remainder of the second half, but could not beat Yellin. “(The Crimson) definitely kicked it into

a high gear,” said co-captain Kerrilynn Carney ’08. “They put (on) high pressure for five minutes (after the goal) and didn’t let up the entire half.” The Crimson had several chances, but the defense and Yellin were up to the challenge. “The play of the defense was awesome,” Yellin said. Yellin made two leaping saves where she punched high shots from outside the box over the crossbar. She also made a diving save on a low shot to the far post. “Steffi played amazing,” Carney said. “She made so many critical saves for us.” Head Coach Phil

Pincince added that it was an “outstanding performance for Steffi” and that “everybody played well.” “I’m really happy with the way we played,” Yellin said. “Everyone came out with a passion. ... It takes a lot of pressure off when a goal is scored.” “It always feels good to get a win,” Carney said. “Our team really needed it to stay in the Ivy League race. ... We played well, we moved the ball around and we exploited the flanks.” The Bears will be back in action on Tuesday night at home against intrastate rival the University of Rhode Island at 7:30 p.m.

Back from a tough trip to California two weeks ago, the men’s water polo team came out of the weekend in Cambridge, Mass., unscathed, defeating three College Waterpolo Association Northern Division teams to improve to a 5-1 record in the division, and a 12-7 mark overall. Star ting the weekend early, Brown traveled to Cambridge on Thursday where they played and defeated Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 14-4, in a blowout. The Bears traveled back to Cambridge to best Fordham on Friday night, 11-8. In its final game on Saturday, Bruno faced Iona College for the second time this season and finished the weekend with its third straight win, crushing Iona 16-7. Brown ran away with the first game easily, scoring 10 unanswered goals starting at the end of the first quarter and stretching to the beginning of the fourth quarter. It was a much different result from the previous weekend, when the Bears played six games on the West Coast and lost four of them to ranked opponents. “Coming out of California, we played six games against amazing teams, playing on the East Coast just made us confident,” Mike Gartner ’09 said. Co-captain Gerrit Adams ’08 echoed Gartner’s words. “The California trip really allowed us to step up our game a bit,” he said. Although MIT opened with the first goal, the score stood 2-1 at the end of the first quarter with Brown in the lead. The Bears then went on their scoring binge and the Engineers didn’t score again until the fourth quarter. “Our defense was definitely playing at another level and it fed into our offense” said Head Coach Felix Mercado. continued on page 8

No. 20 m. soccer defeats No. 7 Crimson By Jason Harris Assistant Sports Editor

As the No. 20 men’s soccer team trudged off the field at the end of 90 minutes of play on Saturday at Harvard, co-captain Stephen Sawyer ’09 was asked, “Does the coach just not let you win in regulation?” For the third match in a row, Brown pulled out a golden goal win in overtime, this time giving it a 3-2 victory over the 7th-ranked Crimson. The win moves Brown to 9-1-1, and to the top of the Ivy League at 2-0 in league play. The loss was only Har-

vard’s second of the season and it knocked the Crimson back to .500 in the Ancient Eight, at 1-1. Bruno came out strong, with no hangover from the two previous overtime games. A number of chances in the first half yielded an early goal. Just 14:26 into the game, midfielder Darren Howerton ’09 took a flip throw-in from deep in the Harvard end. The ball flew into the box, was knocked around and finally settled at the feet of midfielder Nick Elenz-Martin ’10, who ripped a shot on net. Crimson goalkeeper Adam Hahn made the initial save, but surrendered a re-

SCOREBOARD

FRIDAY, OCT. 12 Volleyball: University of Pennsylvania 3, Brown 0 M. Water Polo: Brown 11, Fordham University 8

W. Cross Country: 2nd out of 28 @ University at Albany Invitational Field Hockey: Princeton 5, Brown 0 Football: Brown 33, Princeton 24 M. Soccer: Brown 3, Harvard 2 OT W. Soccer: Brown 1, Harvard 0 Volleyball: Princeton 3, Brown 1 M. Water Polo: Brown 16, Iona College 7

SATURDAY, OCT. 13 KICKBALL: Brown Daily Herald 5, College Hill Independent 4

SUNDAY, OCT. 14 Field Hockey: Boston University 3, Brown 0

THURSDAY, OCT. 11 M. Water Polo: Brown 14, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4

bound that forward Dylan Sheehan ’09 scooped up and put in the back of the net. “We came out and dominated play,” Sawyer said. “We had some more chances that we didn’t put away.” Harvard had a few scoring opportunities of its own in the first half, but Brown was in control with a 1-0 lead going into halftime. The Bears’ defense, led by co-captain Matt Britner ’07.5 and Rhett Bernstein ’09 in the middle, contained Harvard’s dangerous forwards. In the second half, however, the Crimson played Bruno evenly. Harvard scored the equalizer in the 69th minute as forward Andre Akpan put in his team-leading ninth goal of the season. Just a minute later, Brown responded when Sawyer crossed a ball in from the left that Sheehan headed on net. Hahn made the initial save once again, but was unable to corral the rebound. Forward Kevin Davies ’08 retrieved the loose ball and scored his seventh goal of the season. continued on page 6

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Dylan Sheehan ’09 scored a golden goal in overtime, his second goal of the game and team-leading eighth of the season.