Tuesday, September 9, 2008

The Brown Daily Herald T uesday, S eptember 9, 2008

Volume CXLIII, No. 66

Since 1866, Daily Since 1891

Banner registration problems for students back from abroad

Hire me!

By Brian Mastroianni Senior Staff Writer

Carly Sieff ’09 spent five months in South Africa during this past spring semester, one of over 500 students who chose to study abroad during her junior year last year. Sieff, a science and society concentrator, participated in a program sponsored by Duke University, and though she found it to be a rewarding experience, the process of returning to College Hill didn’t go quite as planned.

On April 7, the Registrar’s office sent an e-mail to all students studying abroad reminding them to preregister — but it also included this caveat for students on “alternative programs”: “your official semester level probably will be lower than you expect, as our office cannot advance you without officially receiving your completed credits.”

Because Sieff’s program wasn’t run by Brown, the University’s registration system — as she had been warned — treated her as someone not actually enrolled in courses for credit that semester, she said. With a semester level of just 5, Sieff couldn’t preregister with the rest of her class — who, as rising seniors, were at semester level 6. This meant that she had to preregister as a junior, losing the one-day preference given to seniors.

Min Wu / Herald Seniors get an early start on career planning at a meeting run by the Career Development Center in Salomon 101 yesterday.

Alaskan students ponder Palin in the White House Clay Wertheimer ’10 was so accustomed to strange questions about his home that he used to introduce himself with the line, “ask me about polar bears.”

“Now when I introduce myself,” said the native of Juneau, Alaska, “I say ‘ask me about Sarah Palin.’ ”

FEATURE The 49th state has been getting a lot of attention recently, and not for its usual quirky reasons. Since the August announcement that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin would be Sen. John McCain’s vice presidential running mate, the country has turned its political eye to the former mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, and the work she has done in her home state.

Back on campus, Brown’s Alaskans have found themselves having to answer political questions on top of the usual odd queries.

“When you get back to school,” said Greg Hunter ’09 from Sitka, Alaska, “people ask ‘so how was your summer — so what do you think of Sarah Palin?’ ” Elected governor of Alaska in2006, Palin is known for her social conservatism and stamping out corruption — even within her own

3

www.browndailyherald.com

continued on page 4

By Christian Martell Staff Writer

only two present at a meeting held at the end of their freshmen year.

“When we got to the meeting, we realized how bad things really were, but thought it would be fun to get involved,” Notis said. “It was harder than we thought.”

Doug Liman ’88, a Hollywood director and producer, founded BTV in 1987 to encourage and showcase student-made content on campus.

But while Liman, director of “The Bourne Identity,” is now a big name in Hollywood, BTV has been off the air for the last two years.

Efforts to relaunch the channel were taken up once more when two

Brown Film Production members, Roman Gonzalez ’11 and Herald Comic Artist Joe Larios ’10, decided they needed better equipment to make their films.

The two approached Joseph and continued on page 5

Courtesy of State of Alaska

Republican VP Sarah Palin.

party — and enjoys an approval rating among Alaskans of more than 80 percent, according to some polls.

For several Alaskans at Brown, the general consensus is that Palin is a good governor, but not experienced enough to be vice president.

“She is a fresh face,” said Michelle Snyder ’09.5 from Dillingham, Alaska. Palin’s visit to Dillingham is the only time Snyder has met any of the current candidates for executive office. She said, “It makes her more real to me than all the other candidates.”

Wertheimer said most Alaskans are with Palin on many political is-

Life on the East Side The colors and colorful characters of Thayer Street

METRO

About half of the students who studied abroad in the last academic year participated in non-Brown programs and therefore likely ran into the same problem, said Kendall Brostuen, director of international programs and associate dean of the college.

Students who studied abroad in non-Brown programs were considered to be separated from the University, even those who studied at programs on a list pre-approved by the University. “ From the registrar’s point of view, they are still separated from the University until they begin registering for

BTV — returning soon to a TV near you?

Many Brown students have not been able to enjoy the programming of Brown Television, instead accustomed to seeing a blank screen as they flip past channel nine on IPTV. But a note flashing on the channel recently provided hope that the station may soon be revived: “BTV will be coming back soon.”

Jad Joseph ’10 and David Notis ’10 inherited BTV from its former managers, Elizabeth Backup ’08 and Kevin Volk ’08, after being the

By Lauren Pischel Staf f Writer

Min Wu / Herald File Photo

A map in the Office of International Programs

continued on page 4

5

CAMPUS NEWS

Summer trip to Zimbabwe, Chad for activists

By George Miller Senior Staf f Writer

Scott Warren ’09 and Colin O’Brien ’10 spent five nights stuck in Abeche, Chad, sleeping in a United Nations gym instead of visiting refugees as planned, after rebels attacked their destination. They had hoped to learn more about the situations on the ground in various African hotspots during their trip through the continent this summer. But the frustration that met them in Chad taught them one lesson they could have done without.

INDIE MOCHA The popular class-surfing site gets its own server, posting links to sites that sell textbooks

11

OPINIONS

“It showed us how hard it is to work in that region,” Warren said.

Instead of spending the summer doing the traditional internship or camp counseling, Warren and O’Brien planned and paid for the majority of a month-long trip together to Zimbabwe, Chad, Ethiopia and Kenya during May and June. After the end of their joint trip, O’Brien continued on to Tanzania, where he worked at a hospital. The purpose of the visit, O’Brien said, was to “try to understand a little bit of what’s going on.”

Being v. Believing Jeremy Feigenbaum ’11 cautions against voting for diversity if it means sacrificing ideals

195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island

12 SPORTS

They also hoped to turn their time on the continent into speaking oppor tunities with high schools and colleges in the United States, which will also help to defray their costs for the trip. The pair is in the process of planning speaking engagements at a high school in Washington and a college in Cleveland, OH. Both Warren and O’Brien have been involved in Darfur advocacy at home, with the Brown Darfur Action Network, a chapter of STAND: A Student Anti-Genocontinued on page 4

Take two Women’s golf and men’s tennis look to promising seasons with returning players

News tips: herald@browndailyherald.com

T oday Page 2

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

We a t h e r TODAY

Enigma Twist | Dustin Foley TOMORROW

sunny 68 / 46

thunderstorms 78 / 55

Menu Sharpe Refectory

Verney-Woolley Dining Hall

Lunch — Pepperoni and Feta Calzone, Tuna Noodle Casserole, Stewed Tomatoes, Chocolate Chip Cookies

Lunch — Beef Tacos, Vegan Burritos, Peanut Butter and Jelly Bar, Fudge Bars

Dinner — Curry Chicken with Coconut, Basmati Rice Pilaf, Roasted Cauliflower with Lemon Tahini Sauce

Dinner — Roast Beef au Jus, Baked Sweet Potatoes, Peppers Stir Fry, New York Style Cheesecake

Free Variation | Jeremy Kuhn

Sudoku Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.

Classic How To Get Down | Nate Saunders

Classic Deep-Fried Kittens | Cara Fitz-Gibbons

© Puzzles Pappocom RELEASE DATE– Tuesday, January 29,by2008

Los Angeles Times Puzzle C r o sDaily s w oCrossword rd Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

ACROSS 1 Singer Vikki 5 Intrinsically 10 Minute part of a minute: Abbr.

14 Village Voice award 15 Spew out 16 The last Mrs. Chaplin 17 Treaty of Versailles creation 20 Water world?

21 First name in cosmetics 22 Very, in Vichy 23 Spanish river to the Mediterranean 25 Decrease in strength 28 Rita, in a Beatles tune 33 Go by again, in a race 35 Cyberchortle 36 K thru 12 37 Lord’s Prayer verb 38 CBS drama costarring Scott Foley (who cocreated this puzzle), and a hint to puzzle theme that begins answers to 17-, 28-, 47and 61-Across 41 Actor Chaney 42 La __ Tar Pits 44 Ref. work chronicled in “The Professor and the Madman” 45 One of seven 47 Places to find bargains 50 More up-to-date 51 Count (on) 52 Some time displays, briefly 54 Engaged in battle 57 “I Can’t Help Myself” singers, with “the” 61 Lions and Tigers and Bears 64 “The African Queen” coscreenwriter James 65 Pittsburgh product 66 Pinocchio, famously 67 Perot of politics

68 Reporters as a group 69 Pennsylvania Avenue liners

30 Permit 31 Start of a wish 32 Roadside sign 34 Riverboat hazard 39 Hard to hang on to 40 Treeless arctic plain 43 Commercial costs 46 Make over 48 Certain Slav 49 Skier’s milieu 53 Selects carefully

54 Many miles away 55 Like many a pizza order 56 Tribulations 57 Run off 58 Trompe l’__ 59 Canterbury crib on wheels, basically 60 Pre-1991 pol. divisions 62 Cleopatra’s “poor venomous fool” 63 Paper size: Abbr.

DOWN 1 RC or Jolt 2 Help in wrongdoing 3 Mideast money 4 Annual Charles River event 5 Golfer Calvin 6 Self-absorption 7 Officials on the court ANSWER TO PREVIOUS 8 W-2 ID 9 Frat letter 10 Reeking 11 Chimney sweep’s target 12 -ess relative 13 Instance 18 Discord 19 Okla., before 11/16/1907 23 007’s alma mater 24 Misrepresent 25 Mack Sennett’s “The Shriek of __” 26 Catcher in the World Series’ only perfect game 27 More suitable 29 Give the slip xwordeditor@aol.com

Classic Deo | Daniel Perez

PUZZLE:

Classic Nightmarishly Elastic | Adam Robbins

1/29/08

T he B rown D aily H erald Editorial Phone: 401.351.3372 Business Phone: 401.351.3260

University community since 1891. It is published Monday through Friday during the aca-

Simmi Aujla, President

once in July by The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. POSTMASTER please send corrections to

Ross Frazier, Vice President Mandeep Gill, Treasurer Darren Ball, Secretary

By David Kwong and Scott Foley (c)2008 Tribune Media Services, Inc.

1/29/08

The Brown Daily Herald (USPS 067.740) is an independent newspaper serving the Brown demic year, excluding vacations, once during Commencement, once during Orientation and P.O. Box 2538, Providence, RI 02906. Periodicals postage paid at Providence, R.I. Offices are located at 195 Angell St., Providence, R.I. E-mail herald@browndailyherald.com. World Wide Web: http://www.browndailyherald.com. Subscription prices: $319 one year daily, $139 one semester daily. Copyright 2007 by The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. All rights reserved.

M etro Tuesday, September 9, 2008

PPD, DPS patrol offcampus parties

Know your neighbor: history behind some Thayer faces

By Scott Lowenstein Metro Editor

With a new year of the Metro section comes the opportunity to get to know our neighbors a little better. Here are some of the everyday people on Thayer Street — long-time residents and out-of-towners, regulars and firsttime visitors — that color the East Side’s main drag.

By Simon van Zuylen-Wood Senior Staf f Writer

As in years past, some East Side residents are growing impatient with rowdy off-campus student parties this September. But this year, community members say the Providence Police Department and the University are taking a firmer stance on disruptive students.

In the last two weeks, since students have returned to campus, there have been six noise or disorderly conduct complaints that have resulted in $200 fines for student tenants, said Lieutenant John Ryan, who leads the PPD on the East Side.

Three of the fined houses are rented

by Brown students, and the students involved have been contacted by the University, said Richard Bova, senior associate dean of Residential Life.

The $200 fines are issued to a house if noise is clearly audible from 200 feet away or more, Ryan said.

In a recent e-mail to community members, local politicians and the University, the association wrote “we feel that alcohol consumption is having a negative effect on town/gown relations. This has gotten steadily worse,” adding that the “Providence Police department are superbly responsive but they are, in our opinion, doing the work of the University.”

Legally, however, Brown DPS officers are not permitted to respond to off-campus calls unless they are accompanied by a member of the Providence Police, Ryan said.

“We’re trying to work together with Brown,” Ryan said. “Unless it’s a major violation, we prefer to keep (Brown-related incidents) in-house,” meaning Brown DPS is involved.

The District 9 station, which Ryan heads, is responsible for the highly student-populated areas in the College Hill and Fox Point neighborhoods. Ryan said the station began using two-man units on Friday, Sept.

5 made up of one PPD and one DPS officer to monitor houses that have been reported on their night of duty or beforehand.

The team monitored seven locations last weekend which have posed problems in the past, and did not need to issue any warnings or fines.

Ryan said the DPS/PPD team would be used again next weekend.

At the beginning of the year, students living off-campus received an e-mail from administrators asking them to be respectful neighbors.

This is the second time such an email has been sent, Director of State and Community Relations Darrell Brown said. If a noise complaint is recorded by the Providence Police, Brown is notified, and in turn sends letters to the disruptive tenants.

If further action is deemed necessary, the students must meet with either Bova or Brown. Students who repeatedly cause problems, even after receiving letters or attending meetings, can be forced to move back on campus.

Students this year were also given a revamped online tutorial before signing off-campus housing continued on page 6

Page 3

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

Mike and Dawn Ottone Thayer and Euclid streets Scott Lowenstein / Herald Mike and Dawn Ottone come to Thayer to “eat, drink coffee and look at motorcycles,” as Mike says.

Scott Lowenstein / Herald Fav Guerrero, Leticia Mendiez and Ana Gutierrez, from Mexico, got a salad and business vacation in Providence.

The Ottones and fellow motorcycle enthusiasts have been coming to Thayer Street for years, to “eat, drink coffee and look at motorcycles,” said Mike in front of his neon-lighted bike parked next to Urban Outfitters.

Though the Ottones visit Thayer two to four times a week, a law mandating bikers park in specifically marked spots has hampered the once-prevalent motorcycle culture on the street, Dawn said.

“It’s discriminating,” Mike said about the law, implemented in the summer of 2007, which imposes fines on motorcycles parked outside of specially marked zones on Thayer. “Imagine if they just banned Toyotas.”

Despite the bikers’ complaints, the law has drawn mostly positive reviews from neighborhood residents, who lobbied for the law to limit motorcycle-related noise.

“The motorcycle situation had gotten increasingly out of hand because there are so many motorcycles — we counted as many as 80 on a summer evening — which is too much for such a small area,” said Susan Hardy told The Herald last fall.

Hardy is a member of the College Hill Neighborhood Association, a group dedicated to preserving the history of the neighborhood, according to their Web site.

Fav Guerrero, Leticia Mendiez and Ana Gutierrez Sitting at Roba Dolce

Scott Lowenstein / Herald

Eric Johnson, a former employee at Geoff’s, Roba Dolce and the Creperie, would like to move back to the East Side some day.

Guerrero, Mendiez and Gutierrez are first-time visitors from Mexico (by way of San Diego), in Providence on business, enjoying an authentic Caprese salad at the recently updated Roba Dolce on Thayer.

The three women mostly complimented Providence and the East Side. The city is “pretty nice, (with) lots of places to go out and have dinner,” Guerrero said. “The harbor is beautiful, too.”

Their only complaint? The construction that makes getting in and out of town difficult. Not to worry — some of the city’s biggest road-

related construction projects have recently finished or are slated to be completed this fall.

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation has dubbed the recent slate of projects to relocate Interstate I-195 further south the “Iway” project, with the goal of relieving traffic congestion caused by I-195’s current path through downtown Providence, according to the DOT Web site. The Iway project is slated to be finished this fall.

The replacement of the Washington Bridge over the Seekonk river was completed this summer in a separate DOT project.

With the end of construction and reduced congestion, the city can be “nice all over,” Gutierrez said.

Eric Johnson Standing in front of Store 24 Eric Johnson, a line cook from South Kingstown, travels to Providence every couple of weeks to go shopping and “hang out with old friends” from his days living and working on the East Side.

“I used to work at all of these Thayer Street places,” Johnson said, listing the now-closed Geoff’s Superlative Sandwiches, Roba Dolce and the Creperie among the restaurants where he was employed.

“It’s my day off, and I thought I would come ... and pick up a few tees from American Apparel,” Johnson said.

Why Thayer Street?

“I like the Thayer aesthetic,” he said.

Improvements like new trash cans, street signs and the decorative waffle-style crosswalks were completed last spring under the Thayer Street District Management Authority — a coalition of Thayer Street merchants, along with representatives from Brown and the city.

At the time many of the improvements were being made in 2007, Ed Bishop ’54, who was on the DMA board of directors as a member of the public and insures several businesses on Thayer, questioned the usefulness and completeness of the renovations.

“As far as I’m concerned, what should have been done was bury the utilities, widen the sidewalks and address parking for the Thayer Street business community,” Bishop told The Herald. “I think they have — oh, let’s say, lots of challenges.”

Still, the renovated street earns high marks from Johnson, who is itching to return to the East Side.

“As soon as I get enough money, I am moving back,” he said.

Page 4

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

Class of 2010 will not face class standing problem continued from page 1 classes during the current semester,” Brostuen said.

In some instances — as with some foreign universities that don’t release course listings until just before their semesters begin — students have a very difficult time getting course credit arranged ahead of time. For students like Sieff, getting credit for work completed abroad involved follow-up meetings with concentration advisers and the Office of International Programs to review and approve the courses taken, Brostuen said.

In spring 2007, members of the class of 2008 studying in non-Brown programs abroad faced the same problem when trying to preregister as rising seniors, The Herald reported on Sept. 20, 2007.

But an administrative change this year should put an end to this Banner hiccup. Starting with the class of 2010, students studying abroad will pay regular Brown tu-

ition — and this change will also give their abroad programs regular credit recognition, allowing them to register for classes as seniors, Brostuen said.

Not every student who attended a non-Brown study abroad program this past year encountered registration or housing difficulties.

Sierra Salton ’09, an English concentrator focusing in nonfiction writing, studied in Brussels during this past spring semester.

“I was very worried about the process,” Salton ’09 said. “I heard that it was harder to register for classes when you do return to campus, but I didn’t have any problems when I came back.”

Despite confusion over registration, Sieff said her semester abroad — which consisted of working in a South African national park and traveling with her professors and 29 other students on safaris, as well as spending time in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Mozambique — was well worth the trouble.

Courtesy of Africatrip08.com

Scott Warren ’09 and Colin O’Brien’10 traveled to Zimbabwe and Chad this summer.

Students: Popular Palin lacks experience continued from page 1 sues. “People in Alaska like social conservatism,” he said.

One common conservative position that Palin holds strongly is her support of offshore oil drilling.

Before she was governor she was chairwoman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission in 2003.

Anne Krapu ’10, an international relations concentrator who studied for a year at the University of AlaskaFairbanks, pointed to the political importance of Alaska’s oil industry in an e-mail to The Herald.

“Negotiating with the oil industry (is) a major issue for the state of Alaska,” she wrote. “But outside of that, corruption is probably the largest issue.”

Palin’s record on both issues have boosted her popularity among Alaskans. “She is certainly a step up from (former governor Frank) Murkowski,” said Samantha Angaiak ’09, who is from Bethel, Alaska.

“Alaska likes Palin because Alaska has suffered from all the good old boys, and she is not a good old boy,” Wertheimer said.

But though she has a high ap-

proval rating in Alaska, many Brown Alaskans have questioned whether she can be an effective vice president.

“She just doesn’t have the experience,” Snyder said. “I don’t think she’s ready for it.”

“It is going to be a really big shock for her to go from Alaska to Washington,” said Richard Stein ’10, a native of Sitka, Alaska.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Jennifer Lawless, who ran for Congress in 2006 as a Democrat, said Palin was picked more for what she stands for than for her experience.

“Obviously everybody was very surprised with McCain’s pick,” she said, but added that Palin’s strengths complement McCain’s weaknesses. “First, she is very socially conservative,” Lawless said.

For those with reservations about McCain’s positions on drilling or abortion, “Sarah Palin quells their anxiety.”

“Secondly, she can resonate with blue-collar workers,” she added.

“Third, she is a woman. McCain’s campaign has tried to capitalize on Hillary Clinton’s 18 million supporters.”

Palin appeared on national television for the first time as the vice

presidential nominee last Wednesday, September 3, at the Republican National Convention. Lawlesscalled this appearance a success for Palin’s party.. “She did an excellent job of rallying the base,” Lawless said, but added that her speech was not geared toward swing voters and was therefore not effective at courting blue-collar workers who supported Clinton.

Her speech was characterized by strong statements such as “By the way, do you know, they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick,” and “My fellow citizens, the American presidency is not suppose to be a journey of personal discovery.”

“She is charismatic enough to make those punches,” said Krapu, the junior who studied at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks..

“Though I don’t like her personally,” she added, “I do appreciate the tough Alaskan woman vibe.”

Regardless of their political views, Alaskan students at Brown seem to appreciate the way Palin’s nomination has brought attention to their home state.

“The jokes are getting more relevant, more serious,” Angaiak said.

“It’s no longer, ‘Oh, do you live in an igloo?’”

Students meet with Zimbabwe opposition continued from page 1 cide Coalition. Warren is a former national director of STAND, and O’Brien has served as its national high school outreach coordinator.

This was O’Brien’s first time to the continent, while Warren had previously been to Zimbabwe — where his parents live — and also lived in Kenya.

Despite the rebel attack in Chad and some other “hiccups” with flights, the rest of the trip was a success, O’Brien said, citing the many locals and officials with which they had the opportunity to speak.

“There’s no way you can get close to that in the news,” he said.

“You just don’t get that on CNN.” Complete strangers opened up to them, alternately bursting into tears or yelling in outrage, O’Brien said.

Their time in Harare, Zimbabwe — the first leg of their trip — was

especially interesting because of the elections going on at the time, Warren said. There, they met with members of parliament and the mayor of Harare, none members of the ruling party led by the polemical Robert Mugabe.

Warren and O’Brien were in Zimbabwe between the two rounds of elections there this year. Opposition officials seemed confident but also fearful, Warren said. One member of parliament met them at a hotel and spoke with them while they rode in his car for fear of being seen with them, Warren said.

The members of the opposition they spoke to said that they would need international help in ensuring a fair outcome if they did win the elections, Warren said. The opposition lost the presidential run-of f election, which Warren called a “sham,” after political violence forced the candidate Morgan Tsvangirai to drop out.

The Brown students also got a tour of a town in Kenya from the

principal of a grade school there.

He told them the only reason students came to school was the promise of a meal during the day, O’Brien said. Also greeting them in Kenya, Warren said, were locals whose excitement for the candidacy of the half-Kenyan Barack Obama directed their discussions about Wolf Blitzer and superdelegates.

War ren and O’Brien kept friends and family at home up-todate on their successes and travails through their blog at http://www. africatrip08.com. The blog was important, O’Brien said, because not many people are lucky enough to make the same trip they did.

Their experiences also offered a chance to digest the complicated situations as a whole as they wrote each post.

“In activism, sometimes we’re too rash with our judgment,” he said, adding that it’s dangerous to draw conclusions about distant problems without hearing the voices of the people involved.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Ne

w s

Page 5

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

i n

B

Students working to bring BTV back

r i e f

RI primary elections held today

continued from page 1

Rhode Island’s primary election will be held today, though Candidates in no elections in Brown’s district Today’s Primary are seriously contested. The election covers state offices and U.S. Senator state representation in the U.S. • Jack Reed Congress.

• Christopher Young Only the Democratic race for U.S. Senator is contested in U.S. Representative Brown’s district, District 3. Chris• Patrick Kennedy topher Young faces incumbent Sen. Jack Reed, though Reed’s Senator in General Assembly, seat is considered safe, accordDistrict 3 ing to Matt Jerzyk ’99, founder of • Rhoda Perry the liberal political blog Rhode Island’s Future.

Representative in General Brown students who have Assembly, District 3 been registered to vote in Rhode (Brown) Island for 30 days are eligible to • Edith Ajello vote. Voting will be held in the lobby of the Salomon Center Representative in General from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Assembly, District 2 (east of In nearby District 2, incumBrown) bent General Assembly Rep. Da• David Segal vid Segal is being challenged by • Richard Rodi Richard Rodi, though Segal is expected to win by a “wide marWard 1 polling places gin,” Jerzyk said.

• Vartan Gregorian School, 421 “The Segal campaign is one Wickenden St. of the most well-organized cam• Fox Point Boys and Girls Club, paigns I’ve seen in this city in a 90 Ives St. long time,” Jerzyk said.

• Salvation Army, 201 Pitman In Districts 10 and 11, also St. near campus, incumbent repre• Brown University Salomon sentatives Tom Slater and Grace Center, Main Green Diaz are both being challenged.

Brown students have worked closely with Slater and Diaz on the Medical Marijuana Act and on immigrant rights, respectively, Jerzyk said.

Notis hoping that their combined efforts could benefit the station, Gonzalez said. The four students now compose the first BTV executive board since the station went off the air.

With help from other BFP members, the new leaders cleaned up the old studio on the third floor of Faunce House, cataloged all equipment and drafted a budget proposal to submit to the Undergraduate Finance Board.

In April, UFB approved approximately $5,000 for use by BTV, a Category III group, under the presumption that the network would run more student-produced shows, said former UFB Representative Drew Madden ’10.

Having purchased a new High Definition video camera and other necessar y equipment — all currently on order — Gonzalez said BTV would go on air within a few weeks.

Notis and Joseph both said there was no exact date for the relaunch, but that they would go ahead with it when they had more student pro-

gramming and had digitized more of the videos they already had in stock.

BTV content will primarily be composed of campus events including lectures, dance and theater productions, fraternity events and any other quality videos produced by students, Notis said.

“We want BTV to eventually become a community of people who come together to make films and TV shows on campus,” Joseph said.

The original reason he signed up for BTV was because he had an idea for a show and wanted the resources to create and air it, he said.

Now, Joseph, along with the others involved, will give students on campus the opportunity and the resources to produce and air original shows and films, by accepting students’ proposals and helping them with production.

This coming Sunday, the studios will open their doors to the 100 to 150 students who showed interest in becoming a part of this group at the activities fair held last week.

Some informal talk of collaboration between BTV and the Janus Forum has already been established

to show lectures and conferences, Notis said.

The Brown Noser is another organization that has shown great interest in collaborating, Gonzalez said.

“I don’t know what the viewership will be, but it’s no skin off our backs to put videos we’re already making for our Web site on television,” said Mitch Moranis ’10, editor emeritus for the Brown Noser.

Longer materials — 30-minute comedy shorts or a daily morning news show with a comedic twist — are also a possibility, he added.

Ricky Gresh, director of student activities, has been the primary University adviser for BTV leadership throughout the process. He said they will have to anticipate finding a different location for the studio once Faunce closes its doors for renovations this year.

While issues may arise in the process, Gresh said efforts by BTV leadership to relaunch BTV have been substantial.

“This is actually going to happen and we’re really open to any suggestions, ideas or input of any kind,” Notis said.

— Chaz Kelsh

Textbook links new to independent Mocha Mocha, a popular alternative to Banner for class hunting since 2006, now displays on a given class’ page the prices of its required textbooks at both the Brown Bookstore and Amazon.com and links to the respective Web sites.

The program, which was never officially supported by the University, has been moved outside of the Brown Computer Science Department to Siliconfections, a company created and run by the original founders of Mocha. The site is no longer hosted by the Computer Science Department at cs.brown.edu, but runs on its own server at a private URL, http://brown.mochacourses.com. However, the former address still redirects to the new one.

The founders — Adam Cath ’07, David Hirshberg ’08, Daniel Leventhal ’07 and David Pacheco ’07 — formed a partnership with Amazon.com to include online textbook links. This partnership necessitated the switch to a server outside of Brown because students are not allowed to use University property for commercial reasons, Pacheco said. “(After graduating), we were looking for ways to keep Mocha running in a sustainable way,” Pacheco said. “What occurred to us in the last year or so is using the Amazon program to make textbook links online.”

Mocha earns a commission every time a textbook is purchased, and the earnings go toward developing and maintaining the site, he added.

The Web site is more popular than ever, with 9,500 different visitors and a total of 38,000 site visits since Tuesday, Pacheco said.

Diogo Alves ’11 said the changes make the usually stressful shopping period easier, because he can compare textbook prices and shop for the best deal.

“I like it because I can quickly compare the prices of the bookstore and Amazon. With that, I can go to the bookstore and get my books and then order the books on Amazon and then return my books to the bookstore,” he said.

The site managers are looking to continue improving the accuracy and timeliness by acquiring an official data-feed from Banner’s course listings, Pacheco said. The four are also considering creating a site similar to Mocha for other universities in the future.

— Jenna Stark

Join The Herald!

reporting, opinions, business, copy editing, photography, design, graphics, illustration, and more

Learn more at an info session: Tuesday................9/9 @ 8:30pm Sunday................9/14 @ 8:30pm all at 195 Angell Street (one block EAST of Thayer)

Page 6

Markets surge, but Fannie and Freddie shares stumble

By Walter Hamilton Los Angeles T imes

NEW YORK — The financial markets weighed in Monday on the government’s historic takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — and the verdict was a rousing thumbs up.

Yields on mor tgage-backed bonds tumbled, opening the door to sharply lower mortgage rates.

That fueled a powerful stock rally, led by the beaten-down shares of home builders and financial companies, as investors concluded that the federal intervention could alleviate the credit crunch and housing downturn and benefit the overall economy. The Dow Jones industrials surged almost 300 points.

But shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac themselves plunged — officially becoming penny stocks — because the government takeover is expected to diminish their value severely. Fannie plummeted $6.31, or 90 percent, to 73 cents, while Freddie sank $4.22, or 83 percent, to 88 cents.

A day after the Treasury Department said it would stand behind the obligations of the twin housing giants, yields on mortgage bonds guaranteed by them tumbled, driving down the companies’ borrowing costs, as investors jumped in to buy the bonds in the open market.

The annualized yield on the benchmark Fannie Mae 30-year mortgage-backed bond sank to a five-month low of 5.21 percent from

5.63 percent Friday. A similar security issued by Freddie Mac fell to 5.39 percent from 5.74 percent.

If the declines in yields hold, Fannie and Freddie can demand lower interest rates on home loans they buy from banks and thrifts. A sustained drop in mortgage rates could bring more buyers into the housing market while also giving an assist to homeowners who are trying to refinance.

The lower yields already began to show up in mortgage rates Monday as the average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate conventional mortgage loan dropped to 6.04 percent from 6.34 percent Friday, according to research company HSH Associates.

But mortgage-bonds yields and home-loan rates have fallen on optimism for a turnaround during other turning points in the housing crisis as traders got excited at the prospects of a turnaround — such as when the Federal Reserve engineered the rescue of Bear Stearns Cos. in March.

But the gains quickly petered out as the economy’s underlying fundamentals weakened.

“After a week or two those moves didn’t hold,” said James Bianco, president of Bianco Research in Chicago.

Still, the drop in mortgage rates is a hopeful sign after a year in which rates remained stubbornly high even as the overall bond market rallied.

A drop in mortgage rates below 6 percent would help revive home-

JetBlue auctions flights on eBay

By Peter Pae Los Angeles T imes

Travelers searching for deals on airfares this fall might consider an unusual alternative: bidding for them online.

With the slumping economy and high fuel costs grounding passengers, JetBlue Airways Corp. on Monday began auctioning more than 300 round-trip flights on eBay, the popular online bidding site.

Opening bids for the weekendonly flights this month and in October started at a nickel.

Individuals have long auctioned unused airline tickets on eBay, and airlines have sold tickets on eBay for charity or for unique events such as the first flight of Singapore Airlines A380 super jumbo jet.

But New York-based JetBlue said the auction was the largest of its kind for an airline and, if successful, could portend the use of the auction site as another way for the low-fare carrier to sell seats on less-than-crowded planes.

“We’re always looking for new outlets for passengers to purchase JetBlue flights,” said Alison Eshelman, the airline’s spokeswoman.

“If they say they find value in it, we would consider doing it again.”

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

The flights leave Thursday or Friday and return Sunday or Monday. Fewer passengers fly in the fall, particularly on weekends, than most other times of the year.

Of the 300 tickets being auctioned, 27 were for flights departing from Long Beach and Ontario airports with arrivals in Las Vegas, Washington, D.C., Seattle, and Salt Lake City.

Other departure cities include Boston, Chicago, New York, Orlando, Fla., and Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. In addition to the flights, JetBlue also began taking bids for six vacation packages, two of which include airfare for two people and four-night hotel stay in Las Vegas or Nassau, Bahamas. The four remaining packages are “mystery getaways” that include airfare for two and four-night stay at a fourstar Marriott property at an undisclosed location.

By midday Monday, some flights and vacation packages had more than 60 bids, with the highest being $3,350 for a “mystery” vacation package for two. Based on the flight details, including departure time and the need for a passport, the destination — Aruba in this case — was no mystery at all.

buying demand, but only if they remain at those levels long enough for potential buyers to feel confident they would secure them by the time they’re ready to buy, said Keith Gumbinger, vice president at HSH. “That should provide some kick start but they do have to get down there and hang around there a little bit,” Gumbinger said. “It takes time to build a water-cooler buzz.”

The Dow closed strongly in the final hour to finish with a gain of 289.78 points, or 2.6 percent, to 11,510.74.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index was up 25.48 points, or 2.1 percent to 1,267.79, while the Nasdaq composite index crept up 13.88 points, or 0.6 percent, to 2,269.76.

The blue-chip indicator was powered by a 6.6 percent advance in Citigroup Inc. and a 7.8 percent leap in Bank of America Corp.

The KBW bank-stock index surged 6.9 percent.

The advance built on a strong overnight rally in foreign markets that followed the Treasury’s move Sunday to place the housing-finance giants into conservatorship. Most markets across Europe and Asia gained 3 percent to 4 percent.

“Like anything else, you’re going to have immediate euphoria, then a reassessment and then time will tell,” said Robert W. Bissell, president of Wells Capital Management in Los Angeles. “But still, this was a good step.”

m u ddy m arc u s

Min Wu / Herald

A torn-up Lincoln Field after the weekend’s rain.

Mixed reception on digital TV conversions

By Jim Puzzanghera Los Angeles T imes

WILMINGTON, N.C. — Thousands of households that rely on television antennas here began receiving better-looking programming Monday, as the coastal city became the nation’s first to switch to all-digital TV signals.

But Vivian C. Brown didn’t get the picture.

The 79-year-old had heeded the announcements urging viewers like herself to get a $40 government coupon and buy a special converter

box to receive the clearer signals.

But she couldn’t figure out how to set it up.

“I’m a ner vous wreck, just tr ying to get it going,” she said.

For tunately for her, federal and city of ficials had arranged for Wilmington firefighters to help, with the bonus of being able to check for working smoke detectors. Assistant Chief Frank Blackley, who lives nearby, went to Brown’s single-stor y house at the end of a sandy driveway lined with magnolia trees — and had her watching “The Oprah Winfrey

Show” within minutes.

Such scenes will offer valuable lessons as the rest of the countr y prepares to shut off analog signals and go all-digital in Februar y.

Whether Wilmington, the nation’s 135th-largest media market, serves as a great test for major metropolitan areas remains to be seen.

Inspector Ron Haralson of the Los Angeles County Fire Department said it would be difficult to send firefighters to help senior citizens hook up converter boxes.

“We have a lot of seniors,” he said.

Some rowdy students do bother residents continued from page 3 release forms, Bova said.

The Williams Street Association, a group of Williams Street residents — including several Brown professors — has been particularly active in discussions concerning off-campus parties.

Richard Fleischer, a Williams Street resident and member of the association, blamed landlords as well as their student tenants. “There seem to be equal numbers of both decent and considerate students and spoiled, selfish, inconsiderate ones,” Fleischer wrote in an e-mail, adding, “There is a frequent connection to their behavior and the general natures and oversight provided by their landlords.”

With landlord responsibility in mind, Ryan said he plans to use a city ordinance passed in 2006 that a landlord must pay an initial fee of $250 if there is a second incident reported by police within 60 days of a first incident reported by police at a given house. Subsequent fines of $350 and $500 are issued if further incidents in the 60-day

period occur. Ryan said he has not taken advantage of the ordinance since he became lieutenant earlier this year.

Brown said he and Bova already met with three prominent landlords on College Hill over the summer.

Brown said extensive communication between the PPD, Brown and student tenants is preferred to strictly enforcing penalties.

“The (DPS/PPD) task force has evolved out of our meetings with the city, neighborhood associations and (Ward 1) Councilman Seth Yurdin,” Brown said. “We think joining with the Providence Police has improved coordination and cooperation.”

John Rousseau, a member of the Fox Point Neighborhood Association and former landlord to Brown students, says he thinks Brown has improved in monitoring and maintaining troublesome student activity.

“The thing that’s different this year is they have jumped on it immediately,” said Rousseau, who says he forwards all complaints from the FPNA to Bova.

Yurdin, whose jurisdiction covers the controversial Williams Street

area said he was also impressed with Brown’s increased efforts this fall.

“There have been a series of steps the University has taken — if you compare the way things were 4 or 5 years ago,” including the information given to students, Yurdin said.

Despite the University’s efforts, students don’t always seem to get the message, Rousseau said. “We don’t care about their love lives ... or doing weird things with their computer guitars. ... We just want to get a good night sleep.”

East George Street resident Peter McElroy ’09.5 says he is occasionally guilty of being noisy, but he and his neighbors have resolved conflicts without police inter vention. “It’s easy to be in a large group and the noise level just kind of escalates,” he said. “All it takes (to stop) is someone calling you and telling you to be quiet.”

“The vast majority of students are respectful of their neighbors,” Brown said.

But “Dean Bova and I are like Batman and Robin,” he added. “Poor behavior by a few students is unacceptable.”

W orld & n ation Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Ages well: Scientist brews ancient yeast

By Gabe Oppenheim Washington Post

Raul Cano is the real-life “Jurassic Park” scientist. Yes, there is one.

A day before that movie opened in 1993, Cano announced that he had extracted DNA from an ancient Lebanese weevil entombed in amber, just as the fictional employees of InGen do with a mosquito to create their dino-amusement park. One newspaper account said the “achievement” refuted “the long-held view of many biologists that DNA of so great an age” couldn’t be preserved.

But Cano was less interested in extinct reptiles than in Homo sapiens now roaming the Earth. He next revived ancient bacteria from the gut of an amber-encased bee, hoping to turn the strains into new antibiotics. That didn’t work, and Cano, who has a doctorate in medical mycology, put his 1,200-specimen organism collection on the back shelf and returned to more fruitful microbial endeavors, like assessment of petroleum-degrading diversity in sand dunes and the bioinformatics of Lactobacillus acidophilus.

And then, last month, a breakthrough.

The product?

Beer.

“I was going through my collection, going, `Gee whiz — this is pretty nifty. Maybe we could use it to make beer,’ ” says Cano, 63 , now director of the Environmental Biotechnology Institute at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.

The result is Fossil Fuels Brewing Co., which ferments a yeast strain Cano found in a piece of Burmese amber dating from 25 million to 45 million years ago. The company — in which Cano is a partner, along with another scientist and a lawyer — introduced its pale ale and German wheat beer with a party last month at one of the two Bay Area pubs where Fossil Fuels is made and served.

FLINT, Mich. — Barack Obama and John McCain accused each other of flip-flopping Monday, with Obama questioning the forthrightness of the Republican presidential ticket and McCain challenging the Democrat’s toughness on defense.

Obama ridiculed his opponents’ claim that they represent the best hope for change — something voters say they desperately want — accusing McCain and his GOP running mate, Sarah Palin, of attempting to “repackage themselves” out of political necessity. Taking aim at Palin, Obama challenged the Alaska governor’s assertion that she opposed the “Bridge to Nowhere,” a project that has become a symbol of government pork and, lately, of Palin’s willingness to buck the political establishment.

Monday, the McCain campaign launched a television ad that says Palin stopped the $400 million bridge — even though she spoke of the project in supportive terms while running for governor in 2006 and, after the bridge was canceled, kept the money for other Alaska programs.

“She was for it until everyone

Ike third great storm to hit Cuba in three weeks

By Carol J. Williams Los Angeles T imes

Courtesy of the Washington Post

A researcher of prehistoric DNA starts brewing beer made from ancient yeast strains.

In April, at the World Beer Cup in air before the revolution. “My dad San Diego, “we had one judge give used to drink,” he recalls, a lilt in his us the highest marks, one just below voice. “I remember when I was 10, and one who didn’t like it,” says Chip 12 years old, I used to walk over to Lambert, 63, the company’s other where he had a mini glass of beer second microbiologist. “We learned and talk him out of 10 cents, so I that the issue was that in these com- could go to a movie and have a hampetitions, you brew to match the tra- burger.” ditional concept of the style, which At some point back then, Cano these yeast just don’t do.” began sipping about two ounces a William Brand, the Oakland Tri- week (the volume would increase as bune beer critic, says the ancient his age did) of Hatuey, a famous Cuyeast provides the wheat beer with ban brand that Hemingway mentions a distinctively “clove-y” taste and a in “The Old Man and the Sea.” “weird spiciness at the finish.”

“It was really refreshing and Of the science behind the suds, tasty,” Cano recalls with relish.

Cano says: “It’s just like the Rip Van “Drinking two ounces a week in the Winkle effect. What they are doing, warmth and the humidity — there’s they are remaining dormant — the very little better than a cold beer. bacteria or the yeast and generally Nothing better than a cold beer.” spores of some sort — and then The memory of that taste spurred when you take them out of the am- him to create Fossil Fuels even beber, they reawaken and continue to fore his medical venture foundered; reproduce. So they are alive.” he figured he could coax a compelYou ask, of course, why men able ling taste out of a strange, primorto imbue life would do so ultimately dial ingredient. The first version was for booze. And Cano drifts back to continued on page 9 his childhood in Havana, to the thick

Candidates accuse each other of inconsistencies

By Peter Nicholas and Maeve Reston Los Angeles T imes

Page 7

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

started raising a fuss about it,” said Obama, standing against a backdrop of hybrid SUVs in this economically hard-pressed automotive city. “You can’t just make stuff up. You can’t just re-create yourself. You can’t just reinvent yourself. The American people aren’t stupid. What they’re looking for is someone who has been consistently calling for change.”

McCain, campaigning in Missouri, seized on comments Obama made Sunday in an interview on ABC. Asked on “This Week” to name changes he planned as president that would be unpopular with his party, the Illinois senator responded by calling for a bigger military. McCain said that statement was at odds with comments Obama made a year ago while campaigning for the Democratic nomination, when he vowed to “cut investments in unproven missile-defense systems.”

“My friends, we have found out in recent days that this is a more dangerous world than we had thought,” McCain said in Lee’s Summit, Mo. “This is not a time to slow our development of future combat systems.

This is not that time.”

The Arizona senator went on to question Obama’s larger judgment on foreign policy, citing his opposition to the troop surge in Iraq, his willingness to meet with the leaders

of Iran and other U.S. enemies and his initial comments on the RussiaGeorgia conflict, which McCain said were too pro-Russia.

“He was wrong about Iraq, he was wrong about Iran, he was wrong about Russia,” McCain said, adding as Palin stood by his side: “He’s wrong for America, and this governor is right for America.”

With eight weeks until the election, a new batch of national polls suggests the presidential race is a dead heat, although Obama still is ahead in the Electoral College count. McCain is now running even with, or slightly ahead of, Obama after consistently trailing in national surveys, thanks in good part to his selection of Palin and the support she has received from Republicans and white female voters.

McCain and Palin had planned to campaign separately Monday after appearing together over the weekend. But given the large, supportive crowds she has drawn, the pair continued together for another day in Missouri, one of several Midwestern battleground states.

Obama campaigned in Michigan, a state that has voted Democratic since 1992 but is in play this year.

He spoke to a crowd of about 325 continued on page 9

MIAMI — Hurricane Ike ripped through central Cuba on Monday, toppling colonial landmarks and forcing the evacuation of nearly 1 million people — with more likely to be displaced as the powerful storm plowed toward populous Havana.

Revolutionar y leader Fidel Castro proclaimed his country on “combat alert” against the third massive storm to hit the island in as many weeks and what he portrayed as a heartless double standard that blocks U.S. humanitarian aid.

The extent of Ike’s damage elsewhere in the Caribbean emerged Monday, a day after it ravaged Turks and Caicos and the Bahamas as a Category 4 hurricane with winds upward of 135 mph and triggered more flooding in Haiti, where the death toll from the series of storms was reported to exceed 1,000.

In important farming and mining areas near Camaguey, Cuba, news agencies reported that buildings had collapsed under the ferocious winds, including colonial columns that graced the UNESCOdesignated historical site.

Exiting into the Caribbean Sea at midday, Ike slowed to about 12 mph and the National Hurricane Center in Miami reported its sustained winds had subsided to about 80 mph. But the center warned that it was likely to regain intensity overnight as it moved across the warm waters off Cuba’s southern coast.

Forecasters feared Ike might hit Havana on Tuesday with winds exceeding 100 mph.

“It will have a very powerful fuel there,” Jose Rubiera, head of Cuba’s National Meteorological Institute, said on state television after Ike crossed into the shallow waters of the Gulf of Ana Maria.

Haiti’s consul general for South Florida, Ralph Latortue, reported an even more dire state in his homeland than was apparent from the images showing bloated, mud-covered bodies stacking up at makeshift morgues along the flooded west coast. More than 1,000 people have been killed in the storms over the past month, 14,000 homes have been destroyed and 5 million people have been left without food, water or shelter, he told journalists in Miami.

The U.S. Navy sent its amphibious assault ship Kearsage to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to assist in ferrying disaster relief to victims cut off by collapsed bridges and flooded towns. In contrast to the $100,000 in assistance offered to Cuba, Washington upped its aid to Haitian storm victims to $10 million.

Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham reported widespread damage to housing and landscape but no human casualties in Great Inagua, where Ike hit Sunday. There also were no confirmed casualties in the Turks and Caicos.

As Ike made its way westward across the 625-mile length of Cuba, it churned up five-stor y storm surges that blasted seaside towns and villages. Soldiers and civil de-

fense volunteers moved more than 900,000 people from endangered areas inland to schools, hospitals and other fortified buildings. At least 9,000 foreign tourists were among those uprooted, and Cuban media reported more evacuations in the capital. The eye was expected to pass south of Havana on Tuesday morning.

Evacuations are mandatory in Cuba, a policy the country’s Communist rulers say has prevented deaths and injury.

Raul Castro, the former defense minister who took over for his older brother as president in February, spent Monday directing the massive evacuation and public security operations from Havana in a conference call with the leaders of all 14 Cuban provinces, the Communist

“The world has admired our people’s conduct under the scourge of Gustav.

As our enemies cynically rubbed their hands with glee, our friends ... are determined to cooperate with our people.”

Fidel Castro Former Cuban President Party daily Granma reported.

Fidel Castro, 82 and convalescing at a secret location, issued one of his periodic “reflections,” praising Cuba’s civil defense efforts and accusing the U.S. government of reveling in Cuba’s sorrows from Ike and the storms that preceded it, Gustav and Hanna.

At least 140,000 homes in Cuba were destroyed by Gustav and Hanna, and preliminary reports from the eastern provinces where Ike first made landfall estimated at least 10,000 more toppled or severely damaged.

Fidel Castro warned even before Ike hit that recovery costs would be in the billions of dollars for a nation in which the average monthly salary is less than $20.

“The world has admired our people’s conduct under the scourge of Gustav. As our enemies cynically rubbed their hands with glee, our friends, who are obviously not few, are determined to cooperate with our people,” the elder Castro wrote, referring to aid sent by Russia, Vietnam, China and Venezuela.

Hurricane preparedness in Cuba, where there is rarely any loss of life despite the frequent battering, is one of Castro’s proudest achievements.

It also is a political tool in the hands of the semi-retired revolutionary, who condemns the U.S. embargo on his island’s 11.2 million citizens as particularly inhumane in times of natural disaster.

The U.S. government last week expressed regret over the devastation inflicted by Hurricane Gustav and offered to send a disaster assessment team to Cuba. It also offered $100,000 in relief aid. Both were politely rejected.

Page 8

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Field hockey goes 1-1 in opening weekend continued from page 12 our backfield and defensive midfield.”

Taft added to her standout performance by beating substitute Wildcats goalie Katherine Nagengast in transition with 1:29 remaining, capping a game in which she took six of Brown’s 13 shots.

“She is very fast, and she is just a very dangerous presence in front of the net,” Harrington said. “She’s got natural speed, but she’s just got a natural sense and ability to be in the right place at the right time and get great touches on the ball.”

The Bears needed to regroup quickly after Friday’s loss before taking on Maine’s Black Bears.

“We had a meeting on Sunday morning before the game,” Harrington said. “I challenged them to go out there and show themselves and show the world what they’re really made of, to show the toughness that we have been working on all off-season and all preseason.”

The Bears did not let her down.

Just 12 minutes into the game, the defense buckled and Maine’s Maire Dineen got a shot past Brown goaltender Lauren Kessler ’11, but it would be the only goal Bruno surrendered. The Black Bears cruised to a 36-11 advantage in shots taken but never again found the back of the cage during the game , thanks

to tenacious defense and Kessler’s 20 saves.

“I think she was maybe four saves shy of the Brown field hockey record for saves in a game,” Harrington said. “She did a great job of keeping the ball out of the net. I think Annie LeClerc (’08) and Victoria Sacco (’08), our two fullbacks, did an incredible job of organizing and communicating, and they also did an incredible job of taking turns going on the attack to throw off Maine a little bit by adding some numbers for us upfield.”

The Bears continued to battle with the score at 1-0, and with 3:03 remaining, Taft attacked again to tie the game.

“When the ball was kind of lying between the goalkeeper’s feet and Abigail just knocked it in — it was just awesome,” Harrington said.

“It was a great, great feeling for the kids. Playing out the last three minutes, the momentum started to swing our way even more by knocking in that goal. Going into overtime, our kids really had an attitude that they weren’t leaving that field without a win.”

Brown sur vived 30 minutes of overtime, a period in which Maine held an 8-2 advantage in shots, to send the game to a stroke-of f.

Brown defended first, and Kessler stopped Dineen’s shot. Laura

Iacovetti ’12 scored for Brown. .

“She just absolutely stuck her penalty shot,” Harrington said. “It was right inside the pipe, and it just made such a great statement. Once Lauren made the first save and Laura made the first penalty stroke, once again you could just feel the momentum going our way.”

Kelly Newton of Maine tied the score, but Michaela Seigo ’10 stepped up to give Brown a 2-1 advantage. After Maine’s Kim McDonald and Tess Standa ’08 were both denied, Kessler stopped Stephenie Gardiner’s stroke, giving Puhalla a chance to win it. Puhalla said she thought about her teammates before she shot.

“I just kind of thought about every practice and everything that we’ve worked for, and how hard ever ybody else had fought that day,” she said. “I knew that I could do it if I stayed poised and kept it together.”

Puhalla found the back of the cage to give the Bears the win. It’s an experience they’d like to carr y over into their next game at Villanova on Friday.

“The feeling that ever ybody shared at the end of the game was so exhilarating and so exciting,” Puhalla said. “We want to feel like that all the time. It was a good reminder that ever ything we work for is worth it.”

Fermented ancient yeast strain makes new beer continued from page 7 made by a home brewer in 1997 and served at both the cast party for “The Lost World” (the second “Jurassic Park” movie) and Cano’s daughter’s wedding. But without a business plan, the company died out.

In 2006, Cano revived his ancient yeast and his company, with the help of fellow biologist Lambert, whose duplication of Cano’s experiments gained them widespread acceptance. Lambert had a refined taste for hooch from his days as a lab di-

rector in Saudi Arabia, where the prohibition against alcohol led him to smuggle and culture his own wine and beer yeasts.

It’s been on tap for two years at Stumptown in Guerneville, Calif.

“I was impressed with the flavor that the yeast brought out,” said Orvil Kirby, a patron who tried the wheat beer at Kelley Bros. Brewery, where it’s made. “My first taste of it, I thought they might’ve added some cloves to the beer.”

If Fossil Fuels enters the mainstream market, which it hopes to do soon, the beers won’t carry funky

names like other microbrews. The scientists went that route back in ’97 with Stegosaurus Stout and Jurassic Amber Ale. But “one thing people are skeptical about,” Lambert says, is whether they’re “gonna grow long scales if they drink the beer. Tyrannosaurus Pale Ale — that was so intimidating and so dangerous as far as marketing that we decided to get rid of any association with ‘Jurassic Park.’ ” So the real-life scientists are crafting a new legacy, in what may be the first “Jurassic Park” sequel you’ll actually be able to swallow.

Obama and McCain trade more jabs continued from page 7 people at a community college in Flint, which has a 12 percent unemployment rate. His visit was an attempt to keep voters focused on bread-and-butter economic woes.

Standing before the crowd in a white button-down shirt and tie, Obama said: “John McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, at the (Republican) convention asserted that they were the agents of change.

Page 9

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

... And now they’re trying to repackage themselves. We’ve been talking about the need to change this country for 19 months. I guess it must be working, because suddenly John McCain is saying, ‘I’m for change, too.’ ” Obama said his rival’s repeated vow to take on Washington lobbyists was an empty gesture. “Sounds pretty good until you discover that seven of his top campaign managers and officials are — guess what? —

former corporate lobbyists.

“What they are going to try to do is what they always do,” Obama went on, “which is attack, go on the negative, distort, mislead, assert.” Some in the crowd began to chant, “Lie! Lie!” Obama did not respond, but his campaign began airing a TV spot that says as much. “Politicians lying about their record?” an announcer says over the image of McCain and Palin. “You don’t call that maverick.

You call it more of the same.”

Reil ’09: Sock it to former Sox Ramirez continued from page 12 Sox slightly less buoyant, but with harder abs. Kotsay should fill in adequately for the oft-injured and identically proportioned J.D. Drew, who was just beginning to endear himself to Sox fans after replacing fan favorite, six-foot, two-hundredand-ten-pound, left-handed reserve outfielder Trot Nixon.

All told, it was still very sad to see Manny go. He was one of my favorite players as a kid, and

I don’t think anyone can ever replace the lighthearted spirit he brings to the game of baseball.

But, unlike the Yankees, the Sox plan on making the playoffs this year, and if that means Manny’s gotta go, then Manny’s gotta go. I mean, it worked out just fine when we lost Nomar.

Shane Reil ’09 is a slightly more intimidating version of Pippin Took.

W. golfers swing up north for weekend at Dartmouth continued from page 12 Megan Tuohy ’12 and twins Carly and Heather Arison ’12, through any on-course nerves they might have.

“Already we’ve had a lot of practices where we’ve been able to show the freshmen the ropes, and they have done a great job and played great in the qualifiers,” Guarascio said. “I remember how nervous I was for my first tournament last year, so we just want to keep them relaxed and make sure they play their game and have some fun at the same time.”

All three of the freshmen qualified for the first competition this weekend at Dartmouth.

Griffiths said she’s counting on Bennett and Restrepo to step up and post strong scores, and to show improvement over the course of this season.

“I expect Kendalle (Bennett) to rise to the occasion and really step up over the next two years, and Susan (Restrepo) is another player I expect to see some really great things from both this fall and

in the spring,” she said.

Griffiths is also excited about the potential of this year’s incoming class. “The freshmen will help add a lot of depth to our team, and I feel that the increased strength of our inner-team competition will only help us as we prepare for Ivy League play in the spring,” she said. “Our goal as a team is to see improvement at ever y tournament.”

“Since I’ve been here this team has seen remarkable progress,” Bennett said. “It’s been fun to see the team evolve, and we all have great expectations for our team this year.”

Bruno will have its first chance to meet this year’s raised expectations this weekend, when it opens up the fall season at the Dartmouth Invitational on Friday and Saturday.

“We’re a lot more prepared at this point this year than (we were at this point) last year,” Guarascio said. “We feel confident we should do well at Dartmouth, and then hopefully we can carry that momentum into the rest of the tournaments this fall.”

E ditorial & L etters Page 10

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

Staf f Editorial

Political thought — and action While students make a beeline for POLS 1030: “Modern Political Thought” in Wilson Hall today, a number of non-students are next door, in Salomon Center, choosing the political leaders of Rhode Island.

The primary elections today could easily seem small. In Brown’s district, only the Democratic race for U.S. senator is contested. In nearby districts, a smattering of Rhode Island General Assembly representatives face competition.

The names on the ballot don’t show up on the CNN scroll each day and are likely not recognizable to the mass of students on College Hill, many of whom are from out of state. While these primary elections are decided on our Main Green, many students will go to their nearby classes and be unaware of the political exercise taking place in their proximity.

As college students, it’s easy for us to focus on issues on the grand scale, or to theorize, analyze and deconstruct them while taking no action on the matter at hand. While debating and analyzing global politics, we cannot let ourselves fall into apathy as we pass our years in academia if we want to see real change in the day-to-day lives of us, our neighbors, the community around us.

And that’s where elections like today’s come in. Newbies to College Hill should know that they have the option to change their voter registration to Rhode Island, if they so choose, so that they can participate in the politics closest to them during their years here.

For all students able to vote in the United States, now is the time to make sure you are registered to vote for the presidential election in November. If you are voting by absentee, check your state regulations to see how far in advance you need to request a ballot.

Voting — especially when away from home — can seem like a long, drawn-out process with little bearing on our daily lives. But we must appreciate casting that ballot in light of those worldwide unable to exercise the same freedom, and because voting is how we can take our bodies of knowledge and connect them, however indirectly, to the changes we want to see in our world.

Great change won’t come from your nose being stuck in a textbook.

It comes from long, hard work in the community around you and by accepting — and taking pride in — the small steps you can take toward your goal.

As college students privileged with the time and resources to thoughtfully consider the world around us, we cannot lose the chance to effect change in the smallest way. Any voter, even the least informed, has more say in elections than the academic too busy with his books to cast a ballot.

T he B rown D aily H erald Editors-in-Chief Simmi Aujla Ross Frazier

Executive Editors Taylor Barnes Chris Gang

Arts & Culture Editor Arts & Culture Editor Higher Ed Editor Higher Ed Editor Features Editor Metro Editor Metro Editor News Editor News Editor News Editor News Editor Opinions Editor Opinions Editor Sports Editor Sports Editor Sports Editor Asst. Sports Editor Asst. Sports Editor Asst. Sports Editor

production Production & Design Editor Steve DeLucia Asst. Design Editor Chaz Kelsh Copy Desk Chief Kathryn Delaney Copy Desk Chief Seth Motel Graphics Editor Adam Robbins

L e tt e r s Mailboxes should all be fully functional soon To the Editor: In regards to a recent article (“Students finding new mailroom problematic,” Sept. 4): Mail Services, Facilities Management and Shawmut Design and Construction have been working diligently with the mailbox vendor to rectify the issues identified with the new mailboxes installed in J. Walter Wilson.

Over 6,000 new mailboxes were installed and less than 200 have been identified as defective — product quality unacceptable for various reasons.

We fully understand the need to get the boxes op-

erational as expeditiously as possible and every effort is being made to do just that. All boxes identified to Mail Services staff as problematic are expected to be fixed by the end of the day on Thursday, Sept. 11. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused and thank you for your patience during this transition. Best wishes for a great year!

Elizabeth Gentry Asst. Vice President Financial and Administrative Services Sept. 8

Senior Editors Irene Chen Lindsey Meyers

editorial Ben Hyman Hannah Levintova Matthew Varley Alex Roehrkasse Chaz Firestone Nandini Jayakrishna Scott Lowenstein Michael Bechek Isabel Gottlieb Franklin Kanin Michael Skocpol Ben Bernstein James Shapiro Benjy Asher Amy Ehrhart Megan McCahill Andrew Braca Han Cui Katie Wood

P ete fallon

Business Darren Ball General Manager Mandeep Gill General Manager Shawn Reilly Office Manager Alex Hughes Sales Manager Lily Tran Sales Manager Emilie Aries Public Relations Director Jon Spector Accounting Director Claire Kiely National Account Manager Ellen DaSilva University Account Manager Philip Maynard Recruiter Account Manager Katelyn Koh Credit Manager Ingrid Pangandoyon Technology Director photo Meara Sharma Min Wu

Photo Editor Photo Editor

post- magazine Matt Hill Rajiv Jayadevan Sonia Kim Allison Zimmer Colleen Brogan Arthur Matuszewski Kimberly Stickels

Managing Editor Managing Editor Features Editor Features Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor

Steve DeLucia, Designer Kathryn Delaney, Kelly Mallahan, Copy Editors Franklin Kanin, Chaz Kelsh, Emmy Liss, Jenna Stark, Night Editors Senior Staff Writers Mitra Anoushiravani, Colin Chazen, Chaz Kelsh, Emmy Liss, Max Mankin, Brian Mastroianni, George Miller, Caroline Sedano, Melissa Shube, Anne Simons, Jenna Stark, Sara Sunshine, Joanna Wohlmuth, Gaurie Tilak, Simon van Zuylen-Wood Staff Writers Sam Byker, Noura Choudhury, Joy Chua, Cameron Lee, Debbie Lehmann, Sophia Li, Christian Martell, Anna Millman, Evan Pelz, Eli Piette, Leslie Primack, Marielle Segarra, Catherine Straut, Allison Wentz Sports Staff Writers Peter Cipparone, Han Cui, Lara Southern, Nicole Stock, Katie Wood Business Staff Stephanie Cheung, Veronica Yu, Jay Guan, Jennifer Chang, Jamie Phinney, Anna Reisetter, Kartika Chourdhury, Serena Ho, Akshay Rathod, Galen Cho, Maryrose Mesa, Van Le, Maura Lynch, Grant LeBeau, Jacqueline Goldman, Dana Feuchtbaum, Geraldo Guanaes, Lauren Presant, Lindsay Walls, Lucy Wang, Ruyi Jiang, Saul Lustgarten, Diego Gomez, Laura Sammartino, Ava Amini, Charley Chen, Lee Chau, Rory Stanton, Oliver Bowers, Katherine Richards, Alison Greenberg, Lilia Royanova Design Staff Jessica Calihan, Serena Ho, Rachel Isaacs, Andrea Krukowski, Joe Larios, Joanna Lee, Alex Unger, Aditya Voleti Photo Staff Oona Curley, Alex DePaoli, Erik Maser, Kim Perley, Quinn Savit Copy Editors Ria Ali, Paula Armstrong, Kim Arredondo, Ayelet Brinn, Aubrey Cann, Rafael Chaiken, Stephanie Craton, Erin Cummings, Julianne Fenn, Jake Frank, Anne Fuller, Josh Garcia, Jennifer Grayson, Rachel Isaacs, Joyce Ji, Jenn Kim, Tarah Knaresboro, Ted Lamm, Alex Mazerov, Lisa Qing, Alex Rosenberg, Madeleine Rosenberg, Elena Weissman, Jason Yum

Join The Herald!

reporting, opinions, business, copy editing, photography, design, graphics, illustration, and more Learn more at an info session: Tuesday................9/9 @ 8:30pm Sunday................9/14 @ 8:30pm both at 195 Angell Street (one block EAST of Thayer)

C o r r e ct i o n An article in Friday’s Herald, (“Simmons to faculty: U. financially stable,” Sept. 5), incorrectly stated the amount in new gifts and pledges the University received last year. The University received $239 million, not $139 million.

C O R R E C T I O N S P olicy The Brown Daily Herald is committed to providing the Brown University community with the most accurate information possible. Corrections may be submitted up to seven calendar days after publication.

C ommentary P O L I C Y The staff editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Brown Daily Herald. The editorial viewpoint does not necessarily reflect the views of The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. Columns, letters and comics reflect the opinions of their authors only.

L etters to the E ditor P olicy Send letters to letters@browndailyherald.com. Include a telephone number with all letters. The Herald reserves the right to edit all letters for length and cannot assure the publication of any letter. Please limit letters to 250 words. Under special circumstances writers may request anonymity, but no letter will be printed if the author’s identity is unknown to the editors. Announcements of events will not be printed. advertising P olicy The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. reserves the right to accept or decline any advertisement at its discretion.

O pinions Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Page 11

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

Election is not big enough for two idealists

BY GRAHAM ANDERSON Opinions Columnist It seems as if many supporters of Senator Barack Obama think that it would be strategic for him to turn his presidential campaign into a “referendum” on President George W. Bush. Approval ratings in the 20-percent range are hard to argue with, after all, and the Democratic National Convention certainly demonstrated a whole-hearted implementation of this political strategy. Perhaps, though, turning the 2008 presidential election into a referendum on Bush overlooks an important fact: the people of the United States elected Bush twice!

Even if you dispute his first victory, Bush won fair and square in 2004, and by that time everyone already knew what his administration was about, Rumsfeld and all. Policy-wise, essentially nothing has changed about Bush’s government since his election and yet he has gone from American political candidate number one into America’s top political scapegoat.

George Carlin once said, “Maybe it’s not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here — like, the public.”

As much as Carlin may have meant that more as humor than straight-up truth, and as much as I may subscribe to that statement as truth, there has to be more than that to explain how 62,040,610 people voted for Bush on November 2, 2004.

While the American people may seem easily fooled at times, the real lesson one should take from Bush’s two victories is that

the American people respond to a particular kind of optimistic rhetoric rooted in themes of liberty and democracy.

To illustrate this point, try to identify the authors of these two quotes: 1) “My fellow citizens, the dangers to our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of peril and carry on the work of peace. We will defend our freedom. We will bring freedom to others and we will prevail.”

2) “The world must be made safe for de-

speech announcing the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom. President Woodrow Wilson made the second in his 1917 message to Congress asking for a declaration of war.

Optimistic rhetoric is nothing new. Americans look for their presidents to be dreamers more than pragmatists — idealists as opposed to truth-tellers.

After Sept. 11, 2001, Bush began shaping this sort of rhetoric — and indeed the central grand purposes of his presidency — based on the democratic idealism of Presidents

We have a race between a dreamer, in Senator Obama, and a grumpy pragmatist, in Senator McCain. The outcome should be crystal clear if Obama makes sure the campaign stays that way. mocracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty ... We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.”

Bush made the first statement in his 2003

like Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan. President Bush won in 2004 with this brand of idealism –— and dare I say “hope.”

It was not just in foreign policy that Bush successfully won by spouting idealism. Al-

though in a much cruder form, he succeeded in the campaign with an equally dreamy and optimistic picture on the domestic front. Global warming? Don’t worry, that’s all a fallacy. Unbridled government spending and federal debt spiraling into the depths of hell? Shut up, life is short.

Senator John Kerry spoke the truth and lost. After all, many of us do not like to hear presidential candidates tell the truth — just ask Walter Mondale. But, neither Kerry nor Mondale were horribly optimistic personalities. At least Bush smiles a lot.

It is 2008 now, though, and Bush has come to the end of the Shakespearean-tragedy-gonemad that was his presidency. We have a race between a dreamer, in Senator Obama, and a grumpy pragmatist, in Senator McCain. The outcome should be crystal clear if Obama makes sure the campaign stays that way.

On this same note, there is a risk in turning the election into Obama versus Bush instead of Obama versus McCain. The danger is if this sort of referendum on President Bush as a failure turns into a referendum on President Bush, the idealist.

And while in the minds of the vast majority of my Brown peers there probably is not a fine line between the two, in reality there is. The American electorate — essentially the same American electorate that reelected President Bush nearly four years ago — prefers idealism and optimism. If the Democrats unnecessarily turn this election into one of idealist versus idealist, then the outcome becomes anyone’s guess.

Graham Anderson ’10 once ran for fifth-grade class president, and lost.

Pardon his appearance

BY Jeremy Feigenbaum Opinions Columnist Now that another orientation has passed and 1,554 new Bruins have heard the word “diversity” repeated endlessly, I would like to discuss a divisive issue in modern politics which stems from this desire for diversity: identity politics.

I want to draw your attention to a state not often on Brunonians’ radar, Tennessee. Instead of deciding between candidates with huge egos and similar policies, voters in Tennessee’s 9th District had the choice of two vastly different types of representative. That’s why the Democratic primary between Steve Cohen, a white Jew, and Nikki Tinker, a black woman, was so captivating.

Some back-story is necessary. TN-09 is a majority-minority district surrounding Memphis, in which 60 percent of the residents are black. From 1975 until the 2006 race for an open seat (when State Senator Steve Cohen became the representative), the district had been represented by a pair of African Americans. Cohen prevailed in part because he faced fourteen opponents — who, luckily for him, split the black vote. He won the seat with only 31 percent of the votes.

One of those opponents, Tinker, returned for a rematch this summer. She believed that it was a travesty for a white guy to represent one of the nation’s few majority-minority districts, which had been gerrymandered to ensure the election of more black candidates. I strongly disagree.

Disclaimer: I don’t believe that a House comprised entirely of white men can appreciate the problems other groups face. Different perspectives are needed. But that does not require black voters to substitute a black woman

for their white congressman, as Tinker would have everyone believe.

Cohen is a phenomenal member of Congress, especially on issues relevant to the black community. In addition to seeking membership in the Congressional Black Caucus to demonstrate dedication to his constituents, Cohen authored the House’s apology for slavery (which, shockingly, had never happened until he pushed for it).

Moreover, he has advocated for more grants to historically black colleges and considers education, crime and civil rights — issues that disproportionately affect the black community

was rated by NARAL Pro-Choice America as “fully pro-choice,” and was honored by a local Planned Parenthood chapter. Tinker, however, made no mention of choice or gender equality in the workplace on her Web site (while Cohen did).

Yes, Tinker is black, and, yes, she is a woman. But that does not mean she would be a better legislator for all African Americans and women.

But don’t tell that to members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who rejected Cohen’s attempt to join their ranks. It’s clear that the CBC, a group of African American congress

I don’t believe that a House comprised entirely of white men can appreciate the problems other groups face. ...

But that does not require black voters to substitute a black woman for their white congressman.

— to be among his top priorities.

Tinker’s Web site, by contrast, made no mention of crime or civil rights, and altogether ignored historically black colleges. It goes to show that a black candidate does not automatically represent her whole community.

Similarly, when it came to issues relevant to women, Cohen was a vocal supporter. He

members, must adapt in order to stay relevant. Why reject a white man dedicated to his community simply because of his skin color?

Imagine the anger we would see if any caucus excluded African Americans. While black legislators must continue to lead the fight for racial equality, disrespecting their allies is not the right path.

And it doesn’t stop there. Ellen Malcolm, president of EMILY’s List, strongly endorsed Tinker. Her group supports pro-choice Democratic women. While too few women have won election to the House and Senate, EMILY’s List should spend its time fighting pro-life Democrats and Republicans. Why waste contributors’ money by attacking a Democrat who has fought for their principles? Groups that place identity before policy, like the CBC and EMILY’s List, should be ashamed.

Thankfully, that is how they eventually felt.

Days before the primary, the race became far nastier. Tinker aired an ad (widely seen as racist) that tried to conflate Cohen with the KKK. But even that wasn’t enough — shortly thereafter, Tinker aired an anti-Semitic ad attacking Cohen for entering “our churches.”

EMILY’s list quickly stated that it does not “support these types of attacks.”

But, in reality, it tacitly does. Tinker’s attacks were not extraordinary. Criticizing Cohen for his whiteness and Judaism is the logical extension of theories that support identity politics.

Her ads simply show how ugly those ideas are when put into practice.

I still support the existence of majorityminority districts. I think that some congresspersons should be held accountable for their views on issues affecting African Americans.

Likewise, I want to preserve the CBC — but as a group based on issues, like the pro-choice caucus. Leaders like Cohen should never be prevented from fighting for their black and female constituents.

Thankfully, the voters agreed. A resounding 79 percent supported Cohen’s bid for reelection.

Jeremy Feigenbaum ’11 hopes to one day represent Tennessee’s 9th district.

S ports t uesday Page 12

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

Red Sox’s Manny had to go Manny Ramirez is, arguably, the best right-handed hitter of our generation, and yes, I am including Alex Rodriguez. But, numbers aside, the best thing about Manny is that you know he is one of the hardest-working players in the game, and Shane Reil The reil deal yet, he never looks like he isn’t enjoying himself out there. As Red Sox fans, we could always put up with his ridiculous behavior because we knew deep down that he was trying.

That is, until we saw him intentionally miss a fly ball, then fall over and roll around on top of it like he was making a snow angel, only to get up laughing after committing four errors on the play earlier this summer. Manny was clearly gearing up for an end-of-season vacation, while the Tampa Bay Rays, of all people, ran away with first place in the AL East. In order to keep going in the season, Manny had to go.

Luckily for Man-Ram, the Los Angeles Dodgers continue their tradition of chasing after former Red Sox players, after the resounding successes of Bill Mueller, Nomar Garciaparra and Grady Little. Red Sox West can now enjoy Manny’s antics, along with his .400 plus batting average, eleven homers and two thefts of base — however those happened.

For the Red Sox, of course, there is a major downside. Our cleanup spot has recently been manned by Dustin Pedroia and Kevin Youkilis — our slightly more intimidating versions of Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee. On the plus side, at just over five feet, Pedroia has no other choice but to try his hardest and Youkilis has a big, red beard.

Down the stretch, every bit of extra effort and/or facial hair counts ... just ask a Yankees fan. Sure, A-Rod is probably choking on purpose, but I’m positive that by now he will continue to look ridiculous when needed most. Until he can figure it out, the Yanks’ hopes, like Derek Jeter before them, ride on Jason Giambi’s lucky moustache.

Anyway, I’m perfectly confident in the Sox’ post-Manny lineup. Though it is significantly less famous and much more Canadian, it continues to produce. Outfielder Jason Bay in particular has been fantastic since coming over in the trade, batting just over three hundred, slugging four homers and doing it all while looking as excited as a kid in a candy store.

(Except it isn’t a candy store, it’s more like a Bed, Bath and Beyond, and instead of selling furniture, it sells tooth cleanings and fillings. So, essentially, like a kid who is about to go to the dentist.)

Not to be forgotten are the other pieces of this deal. Six-foot, two-hundred-and-five-pound, lefthanded reserve outfielder Brandon Moss has been replaced by six-foot, two-hundred-and-four-pound, lefthanded reser ve outfielder Mark Kotsay — a move which has left the continued on page 9

Field hockey takes down Maine

By Andrew Braca Assistant Spor ts Editor

What a difference a year makes.

Last year, the field hockey team had no wins until the 17th and final game of the year. This season, the Bears capped their opening weekend with a dramatic 2-1 win over the University of Maine in Orono, Maine on Sunday, winning in a stroke-off after overtime had expired.

“It was really cool for all of us, because it was a big game for us, especially after last season,” said Cassie Puhalla ’11, who stroked the game-winning shot. “I think ever ybody just really fought it out and gave it their all. It was really exciting for ever yone to see it coming together.”

The win was a big step after opening the season with a frustrating 5-2 loss to New Hampshire in Durham two days before. Though the Bears lost, the started out the game with a bang.

UNH’s Meg Shea struck first at 13:30, but the Bears came roaring back 51 seconds later when Abigail Taft ’12 redirected a shot from Sara Eaton ’09 past Wildcats goalkeeper Jenna Lehman for the first goal of her collegiate career, validating Brown’s new emphasis on offense in practice.

“We’re really pumped about tr ying to have an attacking philosophy going into this fall,” Head Coach Tara Harrington ’94 said. “Three of our starting for wards (Kit Masini ’12, Leslie Springmeyer ’12 and Taft) are all first-year students. They’re very fast and they’re ver y exciting around the goal mouth. To come back and knock one in right away sends a great message that we’re here to fight.”

But speed wasn’t enough.

Women’s golf back for more

By Megan McCahill Sports Editor

talized,” Harrington said. “They have extremely fast defenders (who) could come from the backfield into our attacking circle and create a lot of disorganization in

The women’s golf team returns to competition this fall hungry and more dedicated than ever to raising their team and their program to new heights. With five returning players ready to bring strong scores and steady leadership and three talented freshmen prepared to add depth and contribute early, the Bears feel ready to take their program to a new level this year.

“My five returning players have raised the expectations of this program through their work ethic,” Head Coach Danielle Griffiths said.

“Their dedication and mentality has helped us attract some young, talented players, which has really raised the bar for our program.”

Although none of the Bears’ five returning players — Kendalle Bennett ’10, Anita Sekar ’10, Sarah Guarascio ’11, Julia Robinson ’11 and Susan Restrepo ’11 — are seniors, Griffiths said she is confident her team will have plenty of strong leadership.

“We have a very young team but I expect our five retuning players to lead as a unit,” Griffiths said. “All five bring something different and I expect them to be leaders both on and off of the golf course.”

The Bears will be counting a lot on Guarascio and Robinson, the team’s top two players, to provide the on-course leadership this season by posting low scores. The two players will also be helping to guide the team’s three freshmen,

continued on page 9

continued on page 9

Herald File Photo

Cassie Puhalla ‘11 runs with the ball. Her goal in stroke-off proved to be the deciding one for the Bears.

New Hampshire got a goal back to take a 2-1 lead going into halftime, and then scored three more times for a 5-1 advantage.

“In the second half we let down a little bit and we had a bit of a lull, and UNH really capi-

Seniors look to lead men’s tennis this season

By Erin Frauenhofer Spor ts Staf f Writer

The men’s tennis team is poised to have another standout season after last year’s second-place finish in the Ivy League. With all but one player returning and the arrival of some promising new talent, the team is in the best shape it’s been in for a long time.

“We’re still coming off a high from last year,” said captain Noah Gardner ’09. “We’re pretty fresh.

No one is really injured this season, for the first time.”

Gardner cited another advantage the team will enjoy this season: Gardner and his classmates Sam Garland ’09, Chris Lee ’09 and Basu Ratnam ’09 — all of whom are captains — make up “the biggest and strongest senior class we’ve had so far.”

All four of the ’09-ers received All-Ivy recognition last year. Ratnam was named to the First Team All-Ivy in doubles with Saurabh Kohli ’08. Lee was selected to the Second Team All-Ivy in singles, and the doubles duo of Gardner and Garland also earned Second Team All-Ivy honors.

“I’m looking for ward to build-

ing upon the level I was playing at last year,” Lee said.

In addition to the four captains, the Bears will welcome back Nathaniel Gorham ’10, Cody Simmons ’10, Charlie Posner ’11, Jonathan Pearlman ’11 and Kendrick Au ’11.

The only player not returning to the team is Kohli, who graduated in May. Gardner acknowledged that Kohli’s absence is “a huge, huge loss.” But overall, he said, “It’s not too much of an adjustment. I feel like we’re adding, not playing catch up.”

The Bears will say hello to new teammates Jimmy Crystal ’12 and Andrew Yazner ’12. “Everybody is really excited about the freshmen and the amount of potential they have,” Au said.

Meanwhile, Au said he’s happy to be back. “Already going through (freshman year) once, I know how much of a grind it is,” he said.

“Last year, I was nervous, but this time, I know there’s always a place for me on the team.”

Au added that the team’s chemistry will be another strength this season. “Ever yone has a huge foundation friendship-wise, and I’m looking for ward to building

Herald File Photo

Basu Ratnam ’09 looks to lead the team back to the Ivy title this year.

upon all these relationships with the guys,” he said.

The Bears’ first event of the year will take place Sept. 19 to 21, when they host the Nor theast Intercollegiate. Brown has a histor y of nabbing first-place wins in multiple flights during the competition.

“We expect big things,” Au said. “We demand, ever y season, to improve, and this season is no different.”

Although the fall season consists of tournaments where players compete for individual rankings, according to Lee, the Bears are keeping their eyes on the big prize. “We have a good chance to win the Ivies in the spring,” he said.

Brown took back-to-back titles in 2005 and 2006, and the seniors are eager to repeat their freshmanyear victor y. “We just want to go out on top,” Gardner said.