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Football clinches Ivy title with win over Lions Economy

may affect dept. merger

Championship shared with Harvard

By Benjy Asher Spor ts Editor

By Chris Duffy Staff Writer

With just over a minute remaining in Saturday’s game, members of the football team began to rejoice on the sidelines, Columbia 10 as the clock 41 ran down and Brown Head Coach Phil Estes was doused with Gatorade. Saturday’s 41-10 win over Columbia (2-8, 2-5 Ivy) improved Brown’s record to 6-1 in the Ivy League (7-3 overall), clinching the Bears a share of the Ivy League championship.

“We said at the beginning of the season that this was our goal ... and thank God, it came true,” said a smiling, but visibly tired, Estes. “I couldn’t be happier right now.”

Though the win may have seemed like a sure thing for the Bears, who were facing a Columbia team that had struggled all year long, Estes was quick to emphasize that his team was not taking continued on page 4

reffer’s Bristol site attracted 5,000 to 6,000 visitors a year, according to Kevin Smith, the museum’s deputy director and chief curator.

The University has been considering moving the museum from its Bristol location for some time, said Associate Provost Pamela

The current financial crisis is creating uncertainty around plans to merge the cognitive science and psychology departments.

Overlap between the two departments is tied to construction of the planned $69-million Mind Brain Behavior Building. Plans have indicated that the new facility will sit on Angell Street where the Urban Environmental Lab currently stands. University officials said the original plan was for construction of the new building to coincide with steps to combine psychology and cognitive science into one department by the summer of 2010.

Tough economic times have complicated that plan. Administrators and faculty said the University seems unwilling to move forward with new capital projects without the strong support of a donor or until cash from pledged donations comes in.

While any decisions to delay projects will be made by the Corporation, many involved in the project felt the original timeline is unlikely to be met.

“I just don’t see how we can go forward with these huge capital projects when we’ve already got commitments to financial aid, students and faculty,” said Ruth Colwill, associate professor of psychology and past chair of the Faculty Executive Committee.

The construction “is going to be delayed,” said William Heindel, associate professor of psychology and chair of the department. “But I think

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Tailback Dereck Knight ‘08.5 charges through the Lions’ defense during Brown’s sub-freezing win over Columbia on Saturday.

Land-use experts to help with Haffenreffer Estate’s future

By Charlene Kim Contributing Writer

Brown has hired land-use experts from the Conser vation Fund to help determine the future of a 375-acre plot of land in Bristol that is home to the recently closed Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, the University announced earlier this month.

Plans for the future of the Mount Hope Grant, as the tract of undeveloped waterfront land is known, will not be finalized for some time. Over the next 90 days, the Conser vation Fund Land Advisor y Ser vices will complete an initial assessment of the land’s natural resources, according to Douglas Horne, a senior associate for the organization. It will

then formulate recommendations based on its findings.

The land grant, also known as the Haffenreffer Estate, has been home to the museum since 1955, but on Aug. 30 the University closed the museum to the public because of fire code violations.

The museum has been open since then only by appointment.

Before the closing, the Haffen-

Two years after arrest, some say relations can improve Street incident sparked discussion about race relations on campus

By Sydney Ember Staff Writer

It was a perfect storm: A black man who students later said police had profiled as a criminal — in fact, he was a graduate student in computer science. A murky set of events and an arrest that ended in injury. Add them up and in September 2006, the campus erupted in protests and angry calls for reform.

A little more than two years later, Chipalo Street ’06 MA’07 and members of the now-defunct Coalition for Police Accountability and Institutional Transparency say the University has made strides in improving its relations with students, but much can still be done.

At the center of the controversy was Street, now a computer program-

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mer. He and a friend were looking for a party on a Sunday night in early September 2006, when a Department of Public Safety officer approached the pair as they were coming out of Wayland Arch. They didn’t know that two women had called the Department of Public Safety not long before, complaining that two African-American men had tried to enter Keeney Quadrangle. The officer near Wayland asked Street and his friend to show identification, but Street refused and continued walking across the Main Green to Thayer Street.

The DPS officer summoned the Providence Police Department, which had been hired to provide reinforcement for patrols. Two PPD and one DPS officer stopped Street on Thayer and arrested him. He was injured in the process.

“I just remember getting hit on the back of the head and getting hit a bunch more times,” Street told The

Opera in the open Brown community members attended a close rehearsal at the Metropolitan Opera House

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RISD students pilot bike-sharing program

By Chaz Kelsh Senior Staf f Writer

A new bicycle sharing ser vice is making it easier for Rhode Island School of Design students to bor-

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History dooms lions Ben Singer ‘09 wonders whether Columbia will ever field a decent football team

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For a few Brown students, a chance to redefine opera

By Ben Hyman Arts & Culture Editor

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The organ in Sayles hall came to life Saturday night during a organ concert featuring the works of Oliver Messiaen.

Organist’s performance fills its space

By Rosalind Schonwald Contributing Writer

University Organist Mark Steinbach presented “Celebrating Messiaen at 100,” an organ concert, in Sayles Hall on Saturday evening. The concert featured five works of Oliver Messiaen, a noted 20th century composer, and was jointly sponsored by the Department of Music and the Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life.

REVIEW The program, chosen by Steinbach himself, was meant to reflect the breadth of Messiaen’s interests and influences which included “world music, Catholicism, additive rhythms, improvisation and humanism and birdsong,” Steinbach said in a statement.

“No matter what music you love to listen to, from Bach to jazz to progressive rock, you will find Messiaen fascinating,” Steinbach added in the statement.

Steinbach also teaches in the Department of Music, so it’s no surprise that he admires Messiaen for both his musical compositions and his academic life.

“I particularly find Messiaen worthy of emulation,” Steinbach wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

“He was able to live a life combining his academic pursuits of teaching and research while also working as

a performing musician.”

Steinbach’s last performance on campus was during Halloween’s traditional midnight organ concert.

Saturday’s audience, however, was a far cr y from the masked and painted college students lying on the floor during the Halloween performance. Instead, this weekend’s audience predominantly consisted of silvered and sweatered adults.

This performance was similar, however, to the midnight organ concert in the consistently high quality of the music. Like the last concert, the students that were in the audience were highly appreciative.

“I thought it was really great,” Liam Sullivan ’11 said.

“The last movement was pretty uplifting” Sophie Lebrecht GS said of “Prayer from Christ ascending towards His Father.”

Steinbach once again used the 105-year-old Hutchings-Votey organ to its utmost advantage, laying out swathes of sound with contrasting colors and textures.

This skill was particularly appropriate because Messiaen had synesthesia. For Messiaen, different tones and melodies evoked colors, in addition to musical qualities. Similarly, Steinbach was able to evoke spatial qualities during his execution of the first movement of L’Ascension. During this piece, the organ trembled downward, creating a tangible contrast. The music grew slower and slower, until it

stopped on a barely audible note.

Suddenly, like a sparkling flash descending from the sky, spritely tones danced in from above. One could hardly believe such disparate sounds emerged from the same instrument.

The lighting in Sayles Hall was too bright, missing an opportunity to set a dramatic mood for the concert. The audience was bathed in light, as was Steinbach and the organ. The music, however, almost seemed to drape itself over the room, coloring the mood and the tone of the lighting while Steinbach played. At the end of the first piece, it was as though a veil were suddenly lifted, the room returning from its temporary transformation.

NEW YORK — As she started up the red-carpeted steps of the Metropolitan Opera’s grand staircase on Friday, Audrey Chait ’11 slowed to an unhurried stride and took in the elegance around her with an air of calm. It was her first time at the Met, and she was determined to make an entrance.

Chait was just one in a group of around 50 Brown community members — about half of them students — who were given the opportunity to see what goes into a production at one of the world’s foremost opera houses. In an event organized by the Cogut Center for the Humanities, they attended a closed rehearsal of Richard Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” — opening at the Met on Nov. 28 — and participated in a discussion afterward with conductor Daniel Barenboim, who, at 66, is leading a Met production for the first time in his 58-year performing career.

Most of the students, along with a few faculty members, met at Faunce Arch at 6:30 a.m. on Friday to take a bus to Manhattan, arriving just in time for the 11 a.m. rehearsal of Act I of “Tristan.” The group watched from seats in the first rows of the Grand Tier as Barenboim led the singers and the Met Orchestra through the act. For much of the rehearsal, he conducted from memory without a printed score.

With chorus members on stage in jeans, technicians adjusting lighting levels and, most obviously, the 3,800-seat auditorium almost completely empty, there was no mistaking the rehearsal conditions for a performance. This unveiling of the workings behind the finished product

allowed those already familiar with this famously dense opera to notice elements that might otherwise have been obscured.

“For me, it was a chance to really look at the orchestra,” said Rose Subotnik, a professor emeritus of music.

She described the interesting way in which Barenboim handled one of the orchestra’s entrances, coming in after an a cappella section “with a huge sweep.”

“You got a chance to see how the conductor reacted,” she said.

For Zach McCune ’10, who had never seen an opera performed live before, seeing the rehearsal was “a completely different experience” from listening to recordings.

“Sharing a space with the operatic experience doesn’t give you anywhere to hide,” McCune said, adding that he had been particularly affected by the collaborative nature of the rehearsal, with its sense of “working towards something.”

Barenboim worked extensively with the chorus and the orchestra, finessing musical details. Having conducted the opera dozens of times, he seemed confident in nuances of interpretation.

At one point, he stopped the chorus in the middle of the line, “Heil, Konig Marke, heil,” clearly not satisfied with the sound.

“Start the ‘Heil’ earlier,” he instructed the chorus. He encouraged them to put equal emphasis on every syllable of the words “Konig Marke,” and when they sang the passage again, the change in the weight of the words was palpable. The phrase, with a newfound rhythmic precision, suddenly continued on page 9

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Football grabs Ivy title with win over Columbia Lions continued from page 1 anything for granted.

Columbia “worried me because of how they play up front and the type of players that they have,” Estes said. “They play hard on every snap.”

Quar terback and co-captain Michael Dougherty ’09 led the way for the Bears in his last collegiate game, completing 18 of 35 passes for 261 yards and three touchdowns, while adding a 22yard rushing touchdown. In his senior season, Dougherty led the Ivy League with 19 touchdown passes and finished second with 2,677 passing yards.

The Bears got on the board first on Saturday, less than three minutes into the game. After going three-and-out on their first possession, the Bears caught a break when a punt from Robert Ranney ’08.5 glanced off the leg of a Columbia player, and linebacker Andrew Serrano ’11 dove on the loose ball at the Columbia 42-yard line. On third-and-12, Dougherty hit receiver Buddy Farnham ’10 on a short route, and Farnham, off a great lead block from receiver Matt Sudfeld ’11, fought his way to the 9-yard line, for a 35-yard gain.

Two plays later, Bruno found the end zone when receiver Bobby Sewall ’10 lined up under center and ran a sweep to the right corner of the end zone to give the Bears a 7-0 lead.

The Lions tied the game later in the first quarter when a play fake opened a seam up the middle for quarterback M.A. Olawale, who broke loose for a 70-yard touchdown run. Before leaving the game with an injury late in the second quarter, Olawale ran for 105 yards on eight rushing attempts.

Brown regained the lead with 11:31 left in the half, when Dougherty ran a sweep to the left off a play fake, then cut back to the middle of the field and found the end zone to put the Bears ahead, 14-7.

Bruno continued to widen its lead when Farnham returned a punt 28 yards to the Columbia 40, eventually setting up a 34-yard field goal for Ranney. On the ensuing possession, cornerback David Clement ’10 broke up a third-down pass to force the Lions to punt, and on the second play of the Brown drive, Dougherty found tight end Colin Cloherty ’09 wide open for a 32-yard touchdown catch. Cloherty finished his senior season with 40 receptions for 418 yards and three touchdowns.

The Lions got a field goal as time expired in the first half to cut Brown’s lead to 24-10, but the Bears came out of the locker room looking to put the game away.

On Columbia’s first possession, on third-and-7, defensive end James Develin ’10 provided pressure from the left side, forcing backup quarterback Shane Kelly into a hurried throw to the right, directly into the hands of linebacker Steve Ziogas ’09, who ran it back to the Columbia 21.

Ziogas added three tackles on the day, wrapping up a stellar season in which he led the team with 65 tackles, including three tackles for a loss and two sacks.

After the interception, the Bears resorted to some trickery.

Running back Dereck Knight ’08.5 took a handoff up the middle, then pitched the ball back to Dougherty, who lofted a pass to Farnham in the back right corner of the end zone for a touchdown. The touch-

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Fans braved freezing-cold temperatures to watch the Bears in their final game of the season. down was the sixth touchdown catch of the year for Farnham, who added three rushing touchdowns this year, and finished with 63 catches for 816 yards, both third in the Ivy League.

Following Farnham’s touchdown, with the Bears ahead 31-10, linebacker Kelley Cox ’10 jarred the ball loose on a quarterback keeper on the first play of the Columbia drive, and outside linebacker Miles Craigwell ’09 recovered the fumble at the Columbia 25.

Craigwell registered a game-high seven tackles for Brown, with two tackles for a loss.

On second down of the ensuing possession, Dougherty fired a 20-yard completion to Sudfeld, eventually setting up a 26-yard field goal for Ranney to give Bruno a 34-10 lead.

“The big thing about this defense and this offense, all year long, is that they’ve been able to capitalize on the big plays, to force turnovers and turn them into points,” Estes said. “Some magic happened out there.”

Tackle David Howard ’09 helped lead the defensive effort with five tackles, including two sacks, to finish with a team-high 6.5 sacks on the season, good for third in the Ivy League.

After another defensive stop, the Bears put together a 93-yard touchdown drive on the shoulders of senior running backs Knight and Jonathan Edwards ’09. Knight started off the drive with a 20-yard run up the middle and added a 14-yard run on third-and-5 on the next series.

Edwards followed that up with a 12-yard run to move the ball into Columbia territor y, and the Bears found the end zone when Sewall caught a screen pass from the 13-yard line and picked up a few lead blocks to get across the goal line.

After the departure of All-Ivy receiver Paul Raymond ’08, Sewall followed up an impressive sophomore season with a phenomenal junior year for the Bears, leading all Ivy League receivers with 69 catches, 948 receiving yards and eight touchdown receptions. He also added six rushing touchdowns to finish with a league-leading 14 overall touchdowns.

“There was talk at the beginning of the year that we weren’t going to have a deep threat, and I kind of took that personally,” Sewall said.

“This is my first championship in football in my life, so this obviously means a lot.”

In the fourth quarter, the Bears continued to give the ball to Knight and Edwards to run the clock down. Knight played strongly in his last collegiate game, with 21 carries for 87 yards in addition to a 28-yard reception, while Edwards

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Receiver Bobby Sewall ‘10 had two touchdowns in Saturday’s game.

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The Bears celebrated their seniors’ second Ivy League championship.

added 44 yards on 10 carries.

On Brown’s final possession, as the clock wound down to zero, the cheers began to swell in the crowd, and the celebration began on the sideline, as the players and fans reveled in Brown’s second Ivy League championship in four years. Though Brown will share the championship with Har vard (9-1, 6-1 Ivy), the Bears feel that the championship is theirs, in light of their 24-22 early-season win over the Crimson.

“As far as I’m concerned, that’s the way I’m going to spin it,” Estes said. “We won it, we beat Harvard,

so we won the whole thing, and we won it outright.”

After the depar ture of this year’s senior class, the first in Brown football history to earn two Ivy League championship rings, the Bears will turn their attention to next season, when they will look to defend their title.

“When I came to the Brown football program, we decided that we were going to change ever ything ... it wasn’t about the past, it was about this team, now,” Estes said. “And next year, we’ll move on and make it about next year’s guys.”

O’Neil PhD’91, and the decision to close it this summer jump-started plans for a relocation.

Decisions about where and when the museum might be moved and what to do with the land surrounding it are proceeding in parallel.

As for the surrounding property, Horne said, there are many groups that will be affected by any decisions, including the University, Bristol residents and the Pokanoket Native American tribe, who have historic ties to the land. Representatives from the University, the town, the tribe and the Conser vation Fund have already met several times this fall to discuss future plans for the land.

Ken Marshall, chair of Bristol’s Town Council, said town residents care about the future of the land.

The general sentiment among Bristol residents is that they would like the museum to remain on the proper ty, Marshall said, but he also expressed interest in seeing the University develop a satellite campus on the land.

But according to O’Neil, Bristol residents have said their primar y concerns are that Brown does not develop on the land and that “it respects the historical importance of the land.”

The interest in the land among the community in Bristol “caught us by surprise,” O’Neil said. “There was a lot of concern there.”

“We felt that we didn’t have enough information,” she said.

“That’s why we hired the Conservation Advisor y Fund.”

Whatever the fate of the surrounding land parcel, it is unlikely that the museum will remain at its current location in the long run.

University officials and Haffenreffer staff have suggested that relocating it closer to campus would benefit Brown.

Smith said one of the problems the museum has had for the last 50 years is its distance from the University.

The museum is 17 miles from College Hill, which can be a 35- to 45-minute drive with traf fic, he said, making it hard for students to visit the museum.

Additionally, the provost’s office believes the cost of bringing the current building up to code is high enough to make relocation a cost-effective option, O’Neil said.

In addition to the fire code violations that forced the museum’s closing, she said, the building has a mold problem.

Disability access at the current building is also a concern, Smith said.

Despite the problems with the current facility, no new location has yet been selected, and even once a decision is made, the move may unfold gradually.

Relocating the museum’s entire collection and staff will take “a minimum of 18 months,” Smith said.

But current economic conditions are “not conducive to moving a museum,” said Thierr y Gentis, associate curator and collections manager for the museum. Depending on the resources the University has to commit to a move, he said, any relocation could take as much as five years.

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A Thanksgiving meal for the modern world

BY Rachel Starr Contributing Writer

Instead of spending hours laboring in the kitchen this Thanksgiving, Providence families can purchase fully cooked, all-inclusive and reasonably priced turkey dinners from their favorite grocery stores.

For many families, however, tradition may prevail over convenience even in today’s tough economic climate.

Stop and Shop offers a full meal for six to eight people for only $60.

In addition to a Butterball turkey and the accompanying gravy and cranberr y sauce, the dinner includes mashed potatoes, stuffing, butternut squash, rolls and either pumpkin or apple pie, according to the Stop and Shop Web site.

Rob Johnson, assistant deli manager at the Super Stop and Shop on West River Street, said the turkey dinners have been offered for about eight years and have always been “a popular item,” citing their con-

venience as the primary reason for their popularity.

This year, Johnson said he estimates the store has sold 70 of the dinners. Despite this year’s poor financial conditions, Johnson said that number is not markedly different from any other year’s sales.

Shoppers still flocked to the frozen turkey section on Sunday, preferring to cook their own Thanksgiving dinners rather than purchase the ready-made meals at a bargain price.

Claudia Sweeney, one such shopper from Pawtucket, said the economic conditions have not affected her Thanksgiving plans “at all,” adding that the cooking itself is one of her favorite parts of the holiday. Sweeney said she and her husband, who is from Syria, incorporate traditional Syrian dishes into their meal.

A Butterball turkey sat in Sweeney’s shopping cart, but she said she would prefer a slightly more expensive Nature’s Promise

all-natural turkey. “So I guess (the economy) has affected me,” she said.

Whole Foods offers a similar pre-cooked turkey dinner, but at $20 per person, it is nearly twice as expensive as Stop and Shop’s. The Whole Foods meal also does not include dessert.

The “Thanksgiving 2008” pamphlet available in the store does, however, provide an extensive selection of side dishes, platters, hors d’oeuvres and vegetarian alternatives that can be pre-ordered like the traditional turkey dinner.

Sweeney said purchasing a precooked meal would defeat much of the purpose of her Thanksgiving, but said she was “glad that those are available” for families who might not have as much time to prepare an elaborate meal.

For Sweeney, Thanksgiving would not be the same without “everybody bringing something” to the meal and coming together to “rejoice” and give thanks, she said.

Herald welcomes 119th editorial board

By Juan Ateen Contributing Writer

The staff of The Herald gathered Friday night at the Waterplace Restaurant in downtown Providence to wish farewell to outgoing editors and managers and to welcome new leaders.

Outgoing Editors-in-Chief Simmi Aujla ’09 and Ross Frazier ’09; Executive Editors Taylor Barnes ’09 and Chris Gang ’09.5; Senior Editors Irene Chen ’09, Lindsey Meyers ’09 and Stu Woo ’08.5; General Managers Dee Gill ’09 and Darren Ball ’09; and post- Managing Editors Rajiv Jayadevan ’09 and Matt Hill ’09 thanked The Herald’s 240 staff members for their dedication and talent and introduced next year’s leadership team.

Former Mayor Vincent “Buddy” Cianci also made a surprise (and probably coincidental) appearance that delighted many attendees.

Steve DeLucia ’10 will serve as editor-in-chief, joined on the 119th editorial board by Michael Bechek ’10 and Chaz Firestone ’10 as managing editors; Nandini Jayakrishna ’10, Franklin Kanin ’10 and Michael Skocpol ’10 as associate editors; Rachel Arndt ’10, Catherine Cullen ’10 and Scott Lowenstein ’10 as senior editors; and James Shapiro ’10 as the editorial page editor.

Alexander Hughes ’10 and Jon Spector ’10 will serve as general managers, joined by Ellen DaSilva ’10, Claire Kiely ’11 and Phil Maynard ’11 as sales directors and Katie Koh ’11 as finance director.

Kelly McKowen ’10 and Arthur Matuszewski ’10 will serve as the managing editors of post- magazine, The Herald’s arts and culture weekly.

A favorite son of Manchester, N.H., DeLucia will take the reins as editor-in-chief after two years as design editor. Responsible for the paper’s look, he has helped improve its production process, devise a unique training regimen for budding designers and guide the transition to a new Web site. He has logged more hours at The Herald’s offices than any known human being. DeLucia will be president of The Brown Daily Herald Inc. Bechek, who hails from Need-

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The Herald’s 119th editorial board at a banquet Friday night. ham, Mass., will be a managing editor. As a news editor, he vigorously pursued coverage of the Corporation and Brown’s fundraising efforts, bringing his razor-sharp judgment to bear on the most complex topics of University governance. Bechek will be vice president of The Brown Daily Herald Inc. Firestone, who never lacks in fun facts about his native Toronto, will work as a managing editor. As features editor, he debuted the Friday “Spotlight” series and reported heavily on the apocalypse. His eye for stories has brought coverage of subjects hard-hitting and hard to stomach — from medical research ethics to a guy who eat bugs — to The Herald’s pages.

Cur rently a metro editor, Jayakrishna will bring her enthusiasm for journalism to the associate editor position. Depending on how you ask, she will say she is from either Providence, New Orleans or India. But wherever she’s from, Jayakrishna’s work as a metro editor and reporter brought relevant and incisive coverage of presidential candidates, local residents and the homeless to the newspaper.

Kanin, a happy-go-lucky Bostonian who likely sleeps in his Red Sox hat, will serve as an associate editor. As a news editor and reporter, Kanin has covered a broad range of campus news, including Brown ties to the Super Bowl, curricular and advising changes and a group of people who sing the praises of meat.

He has also thrice administered The Herald poll.

Skocpol, who is from Cambridge, Mass., will serve as an associate editor. As news editor, his level-headed

and analytic nature yielded incisive coverage of the University’s finances.

Long-winded in speech and graceful in prose, he is adept at finding the story behind stories, as seen in his coverage of a malfunctioning bell atop University Hall.

Arndt, who is from Chicago, will be a senior editor. As a metro editor, she examined Rhode Island’s microbrewery industry and those who use marijuana for medicinal reasons. She has also reported on the University’s growth, including protests against moving the Urban Environmental Lab, and the new Brown-RISD joint degree program. As a judo master, she is the only member of the 119th continued on page 7

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Rakim Brooks ‘09, an Africana studies concentrator, is one of 32 Rhodes Scholars this year. He went through a lengthy application process, including a “grueling” interview.

Brooks ‘09 named a Rhodes Scholar Rakim Brooks ’09 will never forget the final interview that determined whether he would be among next year’s 32 Rhodes Scholars.

“The second interview was one of the most grueling experiences of my life,” Brooks said. Brooks entered the circular room where the other District 1 finalists were waiting and was surprised that he had been in the interview for 40 minutes — the longest period out of all the interviews that day.

“At that moment realized I had a better shot than anyone else,” he said.

A committee member entered the waiting area and announced that Brooks and Matthew Gethers III from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were chosen as the two Rhodes Scholars for District 1 including Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

“We were so in shock,” Brooks said. “Everyone is clapping, and I find that I’m clapping because everyone else is clapping.”

Among the oldest international fellowships, the Rhodes Scholarships were instituted after the death of British philanthropist Cecil Rhodes in 1902.

The program is designed to bring some of the most talented international scholars to study at the University of Oxford, according to Saturday’s press release.

Brooks said applying to be a Rhodes Scholar involves one of the most rigorous scholarship application processes. Candidates for the scholarship must first be endorsed by their college or university. The Brown endorsement process requires that applicants have eight recommendations, four or five of which have to be academic with the remainder outside of academics, Brooks said.

The scholarship divides the nation into 16 districts, with only two scholars selected from each district. As part of the application process, the candidates have to write a 1,000-word personal essay. Once endorsed by their respective schools, the candidates interview before members of the Committee of Selection of their districts.

The Committee of Selection interview process goes for two days. The first day consists of an informal cocktail party and dinner reception. The second day consists of two interviews, a short 20-minute interview and then a longer interview with no set time limit. Each of the district recipients still have to apply to their respective Oxford programs.

Brooks, who is concentrating in Africana studies, is deciding on whether he wants to pursue a Master’s of Philosophy in comparative social policy at Oxford. He said Brown has given him the chance to choose how he should pursue his academic goals and that he was treated as an adult from the moment he arrived on campus.

“We all have a choice to change each moment,” Brooks said. “My obligation has grown — I’m intimidated as all hell. Now this is a platform for things that I need to do in the world,” he said.

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Bike sharing program uses pink, abandoned rides continued from page 1 to use for up to eight hours at a time.

Phipps installed the first bicycles last week and said the program could at some point be expanded to Brown.

The program began as Phipps’s project for a class called “Design for Social Entrepreneurship,” in which students examine the ways design can help communities, the industrial design major said.

Phipps and McGarrity modeled Pink Rides after similar bicycle sharing ser vices that have become popular in Europe, he said.

“Most bike programs, or at least the early ones, were branded by color,” Phipps said, explaining the name of the program. “We wanted to do a color, and pink just felt right.”

The two original bicycles were abandoned on campus and removed by the RISD Department of Public Safety, which gave them to Phipps for free.

Phipps said he hopes to “scale up” Pink Rides to a total of 20 bicycles in the spring, when the weather gets warmer, by recycling discarded bicycles.

“You’re giving people an idea of it now so that when the full program comes out in the spring they’ll be more likely to use it,” McGarrity said.

The bicycles are marked with pink fabric that bears Pink Rides’ flamingo emblem.

Bicycles can help foster a sense of community, Phipps said.

People go around in “boxes” all day, he explained, from the car box to the office box and back again. But when people ride bicycles, “people talk, and are exposed to each other,” he said.

“It’s kind of all in the spirit of the cycling community,” he added.

“We want more people to bike.

Having a bike on campus is so much better than walking,” McGarrity said. “It’s a lot faster, and it encourages people to get into biking even when they’re not at school.”

Phipps said the service would also allow students to get of f campus. “At college, it’s always

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a struggle to get out of the bubble that is your school,” he said, adding that a bike lets students get away in just a few minutes.

Because they are using abandoned bicycles, “costs are ver y minimal,” he said. Their biggest cost is getting secure locks. Pink Rides is tr ying to persuade bicycle stores to donate locks or sell them at wholesale prices, he said.

A RISD student can sign a bicycle out from the Public Safety officer stationed around the clock in the lobby of 15 West by filling out a small form with his or her name, e-mail address and student ID number, along with the current time.

“We hope that students will respect the system. It does involve some kind of responsibility and respect,” Phipps said.

“I think because it’s limited to people with RISD IDs, it’s going to work really well,” McGarrity said. She said she thought having to identify oneself to a Public Safety officer before taking a bicycle will also cut down on bicycle theft.

The program could eventually be expanded to include Brown students or the greater Providence community.

McGarrity said other distribution points could be added, such as the Quad, RISD’s first-year dorm, though such expansion would be restricted by where Public Safety of ficers are stationed.

Students will be asked to fill out an online survey after borrowing a bicycle, and Phipps said he hopes the sur vey will give Pink Rides “good information” on how to move for ward. Pink Rides is just one project that Bike Town, a larger umbrella organization at RISD that Phipps is part of, is working on. The group is also planning bicycle maintenance and safety workshops as well as organized rides.

Though Pink Rides currently receives no funding from RISD, Phipps said, Bike Town is applying to be an official student group.

If it is approved, Pink Rides could receive funding from the RISD Office of Student Life as a subsidiar y group.

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Street later filed a complaint with both police departments, claiming extreme and unnecessary violence was used against him.

In the ensuing investigation, which Director of Public Safety and Chief of Police Mark Porter said he launched before Street filed his complaint, DPS found that there was no evidence of misconduct on the part of its officers, claiming the only involvement by DPS was in handcuffing Street. The University later stopped supplementing its patrols with paid PPD officers.

In the aftermath of the September incident, students formed the Coalition for Police Accountability and Institutional Transparency, CoPAIT, in order to speak out against DPS mistreatment towards minority students and members of the gay community and increase the dialogue between students, administrators and police, said Darshan Patel ’09, a former member.

Many people in the Brown community provided testimonies that members of Co-PAIT used anonymously in campus rallies. He added that though the contents of these testimonials were always confidential, “they gave the larger Brown community a forum to un-silence themselves.”

Responding to that outcry, DPS has made progress in improving communication between students and officers and increasing transparency in the department, Porter said.

He said these improvements include actively participating in the Third World Center’s annual orientation program, sponsoring dialogue sessions between minority students and DPS officers and providing culture and diversity training with Providence Police to improve relations with community members.

This increased transparency “helps keep people honest,” Street said last week. “If (DPS officers) know that people are watching exactly what they do, then they’re more likely to dot their i’s and cross their t’s and look into every single thing.”

Street said that, looking back, the outcome of his complaint is still unclear. “In terms of my case, I just gave them the evidence, and then they came back with a conclusion,” he said. “I don’t know who came to that conclusion. I don’t know how they came to that conclusion. I don’t

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Members of Co-PAIT demonstrate on the Main Green in 2006.

know anything about it so it would be interesting to know how they decided on that. But that wasn’t available.”

Porter said he does not think racial profiling was a factor in DPS’s decision to stop Street, and the investigation that followed concluded there was no misconduct on the part of DPS officers.

“The role in terms of how the officer reacted and responded to victims and the witness statements was the focus,” Porter said. “DPS has very clear policies in terms of how our officers are to stop and conduct field interviews.”

Yet Street said he thinks racial profiling was at play in his arrest. “I wouldn’t be surprised if I was white, that this wouldn’t have happened or at least gone to those extremes,” Street said.

Many students agreed with Street.

Co-PAIT made significant strides in raising awareness of police accountability and prompting DPS to review its policies. But despite its efforts to foster a long-term alliance between minority students and DPS officers and to provide a better process for reporting biased incidents to DPS, the breadth of issues was “too much to be addressed with the amount of people that we had,” said Christine Goding-Doty ’08, a former Co-PAIT member.

Goding-Doty said Co-PAIT’s collapse during the spring of 2007 may limit efforts to prevent racial profiling and further improve police accountability.

“After Co-PAIT ended, the spaces to voice whether (racial profiling) was still happening and the capacity had decreased,” she said.

“We didn’t get everything we wanted and ultimately there was a lot of opposition on a number of fronts from the University, so ultimately efforts faded out in that respect,” said Josh Teitelbaum ’08, who was active with the group.

These attempts to make DPS more accessible to students have had positive results, said Margaret Klawunn, vice president of campus

life and student services.

The University took measures to make certain that there were good ways to report concerns and that officers understood proper conduct, Klawunn said.

She added that since the September 2006 incident and the formation of Co-PAIT, there have not been any similar student complaints.

“There has not been, since then, as far as I know, any incidents between students and officers where there was a question about racial profiling or race-based response,” Klawunn said.

Porter said he thinks the new policies show “a lot of good progress” regarding bias and accountability — both issues that have caused strain between minority student groups and DPS, which department records show is 83 percent white.

“It’s almost a matter of time until another student is treated poorly by DPS,” said Patel, the former Co-PAIT member and an organizer of historical reenactments of rallies for TWTP. He added that DPS officers “need to take bias-related incidents more seriously.”

What role race plays in DPS’s field stops remains an open question.

DPS’s data tracking all field stops show that for 2007, about 21 percent of identified suspects were identified as either black or Asian-Pacific Islander — 40 of out 192.

From January through April 2008, 27 percent fell into either category, though only 92 people were stopped overall. More current data was unavailable.

Street said racial bias has left him with lingering physical scars and the memory of a strained relationship between minority students and DPS. “If officers also understand that they are in a position of power — and that’s intimidating to lots of people, especially when there’s a fear that power may be used negatively against the subject,” Street said, “then they might approach people differently and speak to them in different tones and just not be so heavy-handed.”

Construction delay could affect dept. merger continued from page 1 everyone, on all levels, is working with a good faith understanding that it’s going to move forward.”

William Warren, professor of cognitive and linguistic sciences and chair of the department, said he was still planning for the construction of the MBB building and the integration of the two departments to happen in tandem.

But, he added, “that’s my optimistic prediction.”

If construction on the new facility is delayed, the merging of the depart-

ments would also likely be pushed back. “The timing of all this is very connected to the timing of the building if we want to make it successful,” Warren said.

Heindel echoed this sentiment but added that it was “premature to speculate” on whether a merger would be delayed.

The cognitive science and psychology departments have only recently begun the work of integrating their programs, he said. “We’re all just talking about it at this point,” Heindel added.

Dean of the Faculty Rajiv Vohra

P’07 wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that the departments are searching for people to fill several joint positions.

“The two departments have been hard at work, coordinating curricular issues, making plans for faculty hiring and being involved with plans for the building,” he wrote.

Both department chairs emphasized that students would benefit from a unified department.

“A bigger department is going to have bigger benefits and going to be able to do more things,” Warren said, citing more faculty hirings and increased course offerings.

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Cullen, ever-proud of her native Grosse Point Shores, Mich., will serve as a senior editor, following a stint as copy desk chief and reporter.

In her time as copy desk chief, Cullen improved recruiting and training for The Herald’s team of fact-checkers and greatly expanded the department. She has written on student entrepreneurship and is a master of punctuation.

Lowenstein, of Vestal, N.Y., will bring his passion for fun to the senior editor position. As metro editor, he guided campaign coverage and has reported extensively on the local economy, including cuts to state services and grass-roots initiatives.

He has also covered Thayer Street, its comings-and-goings and its characters. At 6-foot-4, he is the new editorial board’s tallest member. He enjoys friendship and flasks.

Shapiro, ever the Silver Spring, Md., gentleman, will serve as editorial page editor, managing The Herald’s editorial page board and opinions content. Earning his spurs as a reporter, he has spent the last year as opinions editor, where he increased the number of columnists and emphasized local and campus issues. Shapiro, a champion of logic and good debate, enjoys gastronomic blogging.

Matuszweski, formerly a postassociate editor, is currently the magazine’s features editor and will take the helm as a managing editor.

Matuszweski has created a concentration all his own, “Revolution,” but will take the editorship peacefully.

He enjoys playing with vocabulary — both English and Polish, which he speaks fluently — and is rumored to be taking all GISPs next semester.

McKowen transferred to Brown from Boston College and quickly rose up the ranks of post- to become its off-the-Hill editor before transforming the page into “From the Hill” this past fall to focus it more on Brown culture. An Ohio native fluent in Norwegian, McKowen keeps a close eye on politics and College Hill’s cultural scene.

On The Herald’s business side, Hughes, from Rockville Centre, N.Y., will become general manager.

Hughes helped standardize the paper’s advertising sales and train its staff. He has been involved with the transition to a new Web site and will serve as secretary of The Brown Daily Herald Inc. Spector will also serve as general manager. As finance director, his mastery of The Herald’s books vastly improved its financial health.

Straddled between Massachusetts and New York, let there be no doubt that this New Canaan, Conn. native is forever a Yankees fan. Spector will be treasurer of The Brown Daily Herald Inc. DaSilva, who is from Scarsdale, N.Y., will become a sales director.

As a University sales manager, she helped many student groups and departments get their messages into the newspaper. Her charisma and knowledge of the University market helped expand advertising sales.

Kiely, from San Jose, Calif., will serve as a sales director. As a national and local sales manager, she has worked tirelessly to help advertisers from Cranston to California reach out to Herald readers. Behind her big smile hides a fierce negotiator and James Bond fanatic.

Maynard, who hails from the steel forest of New York City, will also serve as a sales director. As recruiter and local sales manager, he

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is connected with businesses across Providence and in the labor market.

His friendly nature and big-picture thinking have helped The Herald expand its advertising sales and training.

Koh, who will serve as finance director, is far more friendly and level-headed than her fellow Orange County, Calif., natives appear on television. As assistant finance director, she helped The Herald modernize its bookkeeping and build strategies for long-term growth. She has an impressive knowledge of terms like “aging” and “receivables” and enjoys eating muesli in her free time.

The arts and culture desk will benefit from the return next semester of not one but two veteran critics. Ben Hyman ’11 and Hannah Levintova ’09 will team up again next semester to orchestrate The Herald’s coverage of all the creativity Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design have to offer. Always easy to work with and enthusiastic, the return of this duo with a semester’s work together under their belts is an exciting prospect.

With a sharp mind and a broad smile, Emmy Liss ’11 quickly became a compendium of information about all things ResLife during her time as campus life beat reporter. Combined with organizational skills honed orchestrating the much-loved Herald Buddies program, her reporter’s instincts will come in handy as features editor next semester.

Sophia Li’s ’11 contagious laugh and keen news sense will serve her well at the features desk next semester. Li, who in her free time knits coffee cozies and eats fruits that begin with the letter “p,” has logged plenty of hours in the Third World Center and has even alerted the Providence community to a local bed bug infestation. The Connecticut native will be joining Liss next semester as features editor.

Expanding coverage of trends at colleges and universities nationwide, Gaurie Tilak ’11 and veteran Matt Varley ’09 will be heading up the Higher Ed section.

Tilak, the New Jersey native, has reported on this year’s budget deficits and freshman surpluses. Uncovering voyeuristic virtual software and the Sharpe Refectory’s possibly toxic cups, the mock trial superstar will bring her enthusiasm to the Higher Ed section. Varley will take on a second stint in his favored section.

George Miller ’11 and Joanna Wohlmuth ’11 will be broadening their coverage to take in more than just the hill in their new role as metro editors.

Miller, hailing from Virginia, likes his vanilla ice cream with a platter of cheeseless pizza. Miller has tirelessly covered the workings of the University’s administration, following the progress of the Task Force on Undergraduate Education, reporting on the major decisions of the Corporation last February and tracking the changeovers in leadership at both RISD and the Alpert Medical School.

Ever the dedicated investigative journalist, Miller recently spent a day at a sewage treatment plant.

Students looking to enter Brown will probably have read some of Wohlmuth’s articles, as the acclaimed water polo player from California has kept on top of Admission Office news.

While forcing even more ejections than the office she covers, Wohlmuth has been getting her dose of courtroom drama as she follows the ongoing disciplinary procedures involving Students for a Democratic Society members in the wake of their protest of the Corporation.

Chaz Kelsh ’11 and Jenna Stark ’11

are no strangers to campus news and will bring their know-how as news editors to the paper.

Kelsh, the Philadelphia native who has been doubling as both senior staff writer and assistant design editor, spent his Wednesdays last spring sitting through hours-long UCS meetings. This fall he has moved on to other areas of University life, including Brown’s foray into the real estate business with $10-house offers and investigating questionable drug research by one of Brown’s own.

Having refined her reporting craft dissecting faculty meetings and the finer points of traditional tenure structures, Stark will bring her formidable skills as a reporter to bear on a broader field of coverage next semester as news editor. With her work ethic and quick wits, both honed during her time on the rugby pitch, this Milwaukee, Wis., native will be key in keeping The Herald’s campus news coverage fresh and timely.

As Brown football earned the name “Champion” this weekend, Benjy Asher ’10 and Andrew Braca ’10 were given titles of their own — sports editors.

Asher, from Westchester, N.Y., has experience overseeing The Herald’s back page, first as an assistant sports editor and, this semester, as a sports editor. Focusing on football but covering a variety of sports, the Alpha Epsilon Pi brother has held the line at the sports desk.

No rookie either, Braca will take the helm of the section he has served his entire Herald career. The Rhode Island redhead has shown versatility in his coverage of Brown’s hockey teams, on ice or field.

Jessie Calihan ’11 and Marlee Bruning ’12, as design editors, will team up to produce The Herald’s print and Web editions each day.

A native of Rochester, N.Y., Calihan has made time for layout work between early-morning crew practices and trips to the White House over the past three semesters. Bruning, a favorite daughter of Manchester, N.H., brings her keen sense for both news and design to her work as a designer. The duo will refresh The Herald’s look and train a new crop of designers.

After a semester of comics for The Herald’s page two, Stephen Lichenstein ’11 will join editorial cartoon creator Chris Lee ’10 as a graphics editor. Lichenstein, who visualizes and puts to paper the life at an alien news desk in his daily “Alien Weather Forecast,” will oversee and organize the creative contributions on The Herald comics page. Lee, the cartoonist from Vancouver who has himself contributed time and again to the art on the editorial page, will take charge of the editorial cartoon process.

Current Copy Desk Chiefs Seth Motel ’11 from Chicago and Katie Delaney ’11 from Philadelphia will be staying on board in those roles to continue to keep the paper both grammatically and factually accurate.

Motel, when not behind the copy desk or cheering for his Cubs, has dabbled in writing of his own as a staff writer covering both sports and campus news — recently reporting on the current high incidences of As. The two veterans will lead the copy editors in guarding the paper from errors.

A new crop of young journalists became staff writers this semester, including Zunaira Choudhary ’11, Chris Duffy ’09, Sydney Ember ’12, Lauren Fedor ’12, Nicole Friedman ’12, Juliana Friend ’11, Sarah Husk ’11, Kelly Mallahan ’11, Hannah Moser ’12, Jyotsna Mullur ’12, Ben Schreckinger ’12 and Alexandra Ulmer ’11.

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Unhappy people watch more TV Happy people spend more free hours socializing, reading and participating in religious activities, while unhappy people watch 30 percent more television, according to new research on American life.

In a study that is among the first to compare daily free-time activities with perceptions of personal contentment, researchers found that television hours were elevated for people who described themselves as “not too happy.” On average, the down-and-out reported an extra 5.6 hours of tube time a week, compared with their happiest counterparts.

The research does not mean that television causes unhappiness, its authors said, but rather that there is a link that is not yet understood.

“It could be that watching television makes you unhappy, but there is also the question of whether people who are unhappy turn to television as a way to ward off their unhappiness,” said University of Maryland sociologist John P. Robinson, the study’s lead author.

Robinson and his co-author, sociologist Steven Martin, concluded that people enjoyed what they watched the previous evening but that those who watched television the longest did not feel as happy about their lives. “We were getting two different signals: In the short term, people could be happy doing it, but in the long term, that could lead to something more negative,” Robinson said.

This made sense to Michelle Griggs, 33, of Woodbridge, Va., who watches “House” and “The Mentalist” with her husband, Aaron, but she sees the limits of television, too. “If you spend all of your time watching TV and not living your life, you’re not going to be too happy,” she said. “You’re watching other people’s lives.”

— Washington Post

Guard shoots man at Scientology building LOS ANGELES — A security guard at the Church of Scientology’s Celebrity Centre shot and killed a man wielding two samurai swords Sunday afternoon, police said.

Police detained the guard for questioning but said that a surveillance tape at the Hollywood facility backed his claim that he fired his semi-automatic handgun to protect himself and two colleagues.

“The evidence is very clear the security officers were defending their safety,” Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief Terry S. Hara said.

Police did not release the name of the guard or man killed. An investigator said the man had a history with the church but was not a member now. The tape showed the man arriving at the Celebrity Centre’s parking lot in a red convertible, getting out of the vehicle and approaching a trio of security guards and waving a sword in each hand, Hara said.

He said the man, who was described as being in his 40s, was “close enough to hurt them” when the guard fired. The man was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

A teenager who witnessed the man arrive in the parking lot said he braked the car abruptly in the driveway and climbed out with a five-foot-long sword in his hand and an angry expression on his face.

Tony Marquez, 17, said the man, bald and tattooed on his arms, said he started to walk away, but then returned and got a second sword.

“I thought it was part of a show,” Marquez said.

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seemed to make musical sense.

As Barenboim rehearsed the chorus, the four principal singers, wearing their stylized costumes, sat downstage chatting.

“The most entertaining for me was when they were working the chorus, the leads and the orchestra,” said Chait, herself a singer. “It was nice to see the singers be people.”

After the rehearsal, the Brown group met with Barenboim in List Hall — a smaller space next to the main auditorium named for Albert List, of List Art Center. Barenboim fielded questions on a wide variety of topics, from the current financial crisis to the significance of musical tempo.

For Barenboim, though, these subjects weren’t as disparate as they might initially have seemed.

“The economic crisis would not have happened if all of these bankers and governments had studied music,” he said, only half-kidding. “They would have seen that everything is connected.”

He described the choice of tempo as “the most important choice the musician makes,” in part because the use of rubato, the deliberate expansion and contraction of musical time, has consequences — any slowing down of tempo has to be “paid for” in the end with a subsequent speeding up.

Barenboim was still able to link all of these issues back to “Tristan” itself, which he called “a key work in the repertoire.” “‘Tristan’ gives you a different perception of time,” he said.

Responding to a friendly suggestion from the audience that Barenboim himself might make a good secretary of state in the Obama administration, the conductor began a reasoned and powerful analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a subject he is uniquely qualified to address.

Barenboim — who said he holds both Israeli and Palestinian passports — is, among his many duties, the musical director of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, an ensemble he founded in 1999 with Edward Said, the Palestinian-American academic.

The orchestra — which Barenboim has called “an orchestra against ignorance,” according to the New York Times — is composed of young Arab and Israeli musicians.

Barenboim spoke eloquently about the need for both sides in the conflict to appreciate the other’s position before any agreement could become possible.

In December 2006, Brown hosted a three-day visit of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra during the ensemble’s first U.S. tour. According to Cogut Center Director Michael Steinberg, Friday’s trip was made possible

by the connection established then between Brown and Barenboim.

“He was very excited about Brown,” Steinberg said. “He said that whenever he came back to the States, he would come back to Brown.”

Barenboim’s extremely full schedule, however, made such a visit infeasible, so, Steinberg said, “I suggested we would bring some of Brown to him.”

The Cogut Center held an application process to select students for the trip. An e-mail forwarded to students in multiple departments asked applicants to send an e-mail “indicating their interest in this opportunity and how it fits into their Brown University curriculum.”

Steinberg said the Cogut Center got a “great response” to the e-mail, receiving many more applications than could be accepted.

The group of students who attended represented a range of academic backgrounds, he said, including the music, German studies and modern culture and media departments.

Steinberg felt this diversity of interest reflected the cross-disciplinary appeal of Barenboim’s work.

“As a humanities center, we’re about the humanities and about humanity,” Steinberg said. “That kind of connection being made by a very visible, highly talented person is a wonderful model for what we do and the kind of people we want to engage with.”

continued from page 12 the game to pull the Bears to within eight, 66-58.

After a Northwestern hook shot fell short, Brown cleared the ball out and Skrelja drove hard to the hoop to pull the game to within six with 4:43 remaining. But the Wildcats would not let the Bears get any closer, extending their lead to 13 after scoring three consecutive baskets with two and a half minutes remaining. Northwestern ultimately closed out the game with a 73-64 win.

“We definitely grew as a team, learning to overcome adversity,” Skrelja said. “The physicality of the game will prepare us for conference. We definitely need to be more mentally prepared, realizing ever y possession is important.”

Brown finished the game shooting 62 percent from the field and 60 percent from behind the threepoint arc. The Bears’ second-half shooting was remarkable, as they connected on 70 percent of their shots. The Bears coughed up the

ball 17 times in the game while the Wildcats took care of it, with only four turnovers for the forty minutes of play.

The Bears had a balanced scoring effort as Muller y (17), Skrelja (10), Sullivan (16), and Williams (13) each scored in double figures.

The bench scored three points from Garrett Leffelman ’11 on a trey. The starting five, which also consists of Friske, all received significant playing time last season, while the bench is young and in the process of warming up to the speed and physicality of the college game.

“Right now they’re on a shorter leash, a little hesitant,” Sullivan said. “Once we get more comfortable playing together in games, rather than practice, we’ll start to get contributions we need.”

Bruno fought hard on the glass and out-rebounded the taller Wildcats 24-17.

The Bears will look to even their record with two games at home against Army and Eastern Michigan over Thanksgiving break.

W. icers lose battling hockey’s toughest continued from page 12 Suprey said. “We all had so much energy. We all really wanted to win, but we gotta want to win for more than 12 minutes. We’ve got to win for the whole 60 minutes.”

Murphy also said that the Bears did not do enough to win the game.“I thought we didn’t make the easy passes that we could have out of the zone,” she said. “I think we were trying to do a little too much in our D-zone instead of just keeping the game simple. I don’t want to say that it’s good that we lost, but if we’re not executing our game plan we shouldn’t expect to win.”

Brown played better in most aspects of the game against Mercyhurst on Saturday, although they took eight penalties. But Murphy said the Lakers, ranked No. 10 in the USCHO. com Division I Women’s College Hockey Poll, were too talented for the Bears.

“Mercyhurst is a (school) that started women’s hockey so they could be a national champion, and they pretty much are what we call a

hockey school,” she said. “So I think that the talent differential was a little overwhelming. ... We have to have pretty near-perfect games to beat those kind of teams. I think the penalties killed us, (but) our kids just kept battling. I was happy that they fought till the end and they didn’t give up, and every goal they gave up was earned by the other team.”

After the Lakers struck first for an even-strength goal just 2:29 into the game, Male answered for the Bears 2:06 later to tie the game. Suprey possessed the puck to the left side of the net, causing the goalie to slide over, before she passed across the crease to Male, who pushed the puck into the unoccupied side of the net.

Mykolenko also picked up an assist on the play.

But the Bears were burned by a devastating goal just 3:16 later. With Bruno skating with a five-on-three advantage, Vicki Bendus came streaking up the left side on a breakaway and beat Stock with a shot just under the crossbar to score the ultimate shorthanded goal. Just 7:51 into the first period, the Lakers had a 2-1 lead,

and they never looked back.

Mercyhurst added two powerplay goals in the second period and one in the third to close out the 5-1 victory. Stock made 32 saves, but the Bears could not overcome the Lakers’ strong power play attack and suffocating penalty kill. The Bears had the advantage for more than 10 minutes but managed only three shots, none of which came after the disastrous first power play.

Brown will continue its nonconference slate this week with two games against Hockey East opponents. The Bears will travel to Storrs to face the UConn Huskies on Tuesday before hosting the Providence College Friars on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. as they try to win back the Mayor’s Cup. Both teams enter the game with 6-6-2 records, with PC coming off a loss to Mercyhurst and a tie with Niagara this weekend, and both will pose another challenge that the Bears can learn from.

“These teams are usually a little more physical, so we have to match the physical game without taking penalties,” Murphy said.

Singer ’09: Sports teams and their histories continued from page 12 because they want to win. In turn, having better recruits leads to better winning, and the momentum of a winning history powers a repeating cycle. Unfortunately for those teams who couldn’t get the winning momentum going early on, this cycle cuts both ways. As teams start losing more, fewer players want to come, more losing is likely to ensue, and it becomes harder to break out of the status of being a perennial nonfactor.

Which is exactly why the BrownColumbia game was so much more fascinating than the Harvard-Yale game. Columbia’s Wien Stadium may only seat a meager 17,000 people, but you’d guess it would be

more if you saw the massive vacancies on game days. The stadium is almost 2.5 miles from campus, and when you add in the fact that the team has been at the bottom of the Ivy League for years, it doesn’t bode well for breaking the cycle.

The 41-10 score perfectly encapsulates both faces of hierarchical mobility in the Ivy League: one team breaking through the weight of a less-then stellar history to establish itself as a winner in the present, while the other couldn’t offset the burden of its past. It almost reminded me, although in a much less flashy fashion, of a professional sports team in the area that recently cast of its history of mediocrity by grabbing two championships in four years. Last time I checked, that team

was riding its newfound momentum pretty well.

In a way, the two games played 50 miles away from each other on Saturday showcased the dual-nature effects of reputation on college football competitiveness as a whole: two teams whose past history has solidified their present status, and two teams trying to reinvent their present for the benefit of their future. I can’t truly speak for those in Manhattan, Cambridge or New Haven, but the team in Providence did more this weekend than grab momentary glory.

Ben Singer ’09 is stoked about the prospect of Matt Ryan’s brother playing QB for Brown in 2010.

Enjoy your Turkey Day.

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Letters Safe cheese at the Ratty To the Editor: In a recent letter to the editor (“Something rotten in the state of Dining,” Nov. 18), Brent Mylrea ’11 claimed that, after being handed a package of shredded cheese by a Ratty employee, “I wanted to confirm the condition of the cheese, so I asked about the expiration date. Looking over her shoulder, I saw it had expired on September 29th 2008.” In fact, the package date in question was not an expiration date; rather, it was the ‘packed’ date — the date the cheese was processed. Manufacturer specifications indicate that that shredded cheese has an expected usable shelf-life of 90 days. Therefore, cheese

that was processed on September 29, 2008 would be usable until December 29.

Brown Dining Services managers, all of whom are required to become certified in Food Safety and are licensed Food Safety Managers by the state of RI, are available onsite to assist customers with every aspect of their dining experience. I encourage you to direct questions or concerns to them first so they may provide immediate resolution.

Ann Hoffman Director of Administration, Brown Dining Services Nov. 21

U. should warn about morning noise To the Editor: The residents of west-facing rooms in Hegeman Hall awoke Friday at 7:15 a.m. to the sound of heavy construction taking place literally a few feet from their windows.

We are willing to give the administration the benefit of the doubt that there is a justification for this level of noise nearly two hours before the earliest class, but we cannot overlook the fact that no attempt was made to inform us of the disruption in advance. When the University authorizes an action that will so clearly impact

sleep for a number of students (even those of us with 9 a.m. classes rarely wake up before 7 a.m.), it shows a lack of common courtesy to not take 30 seconds to send out an e-mail to the residence hall listservs a day or two ahead of time to give us the chance to plan around this interruption to our sleep schedules.

Eli Fine ’10 Trevor Carle ’10 Oct. 22

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Behavioral monopolies and Sex Power God boris Ryvkin Opinions Columnist The tradition continues and Brown’s favorite party, Sex Power God, appears to have been a smashing success again this year. The number of EMS’d students was a relatively low nine, and a religious crowd praying for those inside was nowhere in sight.

I remember what SPG was like back in 2005. Who can forget the massive ticket scalping, hordes of EMS’d students and frenzied party hopefuls breaking through the windows of Sayles in a last ditch effort to circumvent the door monitors? Some were willing to pay upwards of $80 for tickets, and the pre-gaming was intense.

I never really asked myself why so many people were caught up in such frenzy over SPG and why such exorbitant prices were paid, including by out-of-staters, to attend this thing. That changed after I spent a semester abroad in Europe and saw how the other western states lived. I realized that SPG was actually a symptom of a larger story.

There is this image of a group of random European students that keeps floating around in my mind. They visit Brown, see the barrage of media coverage surrounding SPG, the huge lines, the ticket scalping (pretend this is before the guest list) and huge prices people are willing to pay to attend and laugh themselves silly.

Let’s be honest and assume that maybe 20 percent of SPG attendees go for “ideological” reasons and genuinely see the party as a place to comfortably and freely express their sexuality. The remainder goes for no-strings attached sexual gratification, hoping this one bash would compensate for many long and thankless nights of frat cruising.

I sympathize with this, and so do my imaginar y Europeans. Instead of waiting in the huge lines and freezing in the cold on their way to the main event, they simply look up the

different from ours that a Sex Power God equivalent would probably get a quarter of its Brown attendance across the pond. To them, SPG would be just another party whose objectives could be more easily attained elsewhere.

Here, it is a byproduct of behavioral monopolies that America continues to deal with, by which I mean limitations on the choices for individuals to satisfy their demand for sex and alcohol.

Going against market forces is pretty much always a bad idea. Restriction and interdiction

Sex Power God is a byproduct of behavioral monopolies that America continues to deal with. nearest brothel and take care of their sexual needs directly. Those hoping to top their night off by showing the man how much they can drink before becoming comatose would have no need for bravery, since the drinking age in Europe is set around 18 (16 for beer).

The approach of many Western European countries to these behavioral issues is so

only produce a thriving black market, drive up prices and heighten exploitation and social costs. The cost of our not having a drinking culture and setting a ridiculously high drinking age is a heavier EMS presence.

Criminalized prostitution produces a horrendous market disequilibrium, where the demand for sexual gratification exceeds an

artificially reduced supply. Men who can’t get laid the normal way have other options shut to them. They become depressed, less productive and even suicidal. Sex workers are driven underground and left without protection, health benefits and other important support. There is no longer a hint of a level playing field, both because women come to dominate interactions and because a privileged class of men price the “losers” out of the market.

The Europeans came to terms with reality and took appropriate action. When will America do the same?

Those preventing society from living according to rules of nature can be found on both the right and the left. The religious right can’t help itself and appears hell-bent — pun intended — on limiting people’s choices and pretending markets can simply be wished or regulated away. It would be better for them to keep the values of the 18th century and the apostles to themselves.

The same goes for those feminists who make the rest of us feel gloomy and guilty on a 24-hour basis.

We as a country need to join our industrial counterparts, maybe not in nationalizing our health care system, but at least in adjusting how we view natural and inevitable behaviors. Not doing so seems both foolish and incredibly irresponsible. Worse, we might actually come to believe in the farce that our behavioral monopolies perpetuate.

Boris Ryvkin ’09 just had to write this column.

Hugo Chavez: just a minor threat

BY William martin Opinions Columnist Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is an immensely overblown figure. Leftists tend to lionize him for leading his country toward socialist utopia and thumbing his nose at the United States. Rightists love to lambaste him as an unstable dictator who has devastated Venezuela’s economy and put his countr y at the disposal of some of the world’s worst criminals and tyrants.

Chavez deserves nowhere near that much credit, and not quite that much blame. He has attempted to crush his opposition and has done serious harm to his already damaged countr y as well as the surrounding region. But he remains democratically accountable to a population that distrusts him and is unlikely to allow him to reign indefinitely.

Instead of wasting time and energy butting heads with Chavez, American policymakers should aim to contain his most dangerous stunts and await his downfall.

Chavez was elected president in 1998, promising to radically restructure a social and governmental system that afforded the country’s poorest citizens little benefit from its massive wealth — particularly oil revenues from one of the largest crude reserves in the world.

On many counts, Chavez delivered. Since he took office, education, public health and other social ser vices have received a more generous share of Venezuela’s bounty. The once-shameful proportion of the population living in extreme poverty has dropped off considerably.

However, stringent price controls have predictably decimated the countr y’s supply of many staple foods. And instead of promoting development and diversification, Chavez

has continued to lean on Venezuela’s naturalresource wealth — shackling the economy to commodities such as oil, which has lost two-thirds of its value since July.

Even as Chavez has massively ramped up government spending, he has done little to confront public corruption. The accountability organization Transparency International ranks Venezuela 158th worldwide in terms of public officials’ perceived rectitude.

Chavez’s foreign policy is similarly egregious, granting safe haven to the Lebanese terrorist organization and Iranian client Hez-

wrecking the employment prospects of opposition members by circulating a blacklist of their names and refusing to extend the license of a major television station critical of his government.

By any measure, Chavez is a villain. But the bombast of the American right has overvilified him, helping to cement his dominance of Venezuela and his influence over Latin-American leftism in a climate where “Yankee imperialism” is still considered a dire threat.

In 2002, a band of Venezuelan business-

Instead of wasting time and energy butting heads with Chavez, American policy should aim to contain his most dangerous stunts and await his downfall. bollah as well as the Revolutionar y Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a guerrilla army responsible for hundreds of murders and kidnappings each year.

The goal of these policies is to afflict the United States and its allies, whom Chavez sees as mortal enemies — and easy political targets, thanks to the long and bloody histor y of American meddling in LatinAmerican affairs.

But rhetoric is not Chavez’s most powerful electoral weapon. He has also attempted to bludgeon his opposition into submission,

men and militar y of ficers briefly ousted Chavez, but their coalition collapsed after several days of massive popular protests.

The coup received encouragement and possibly support from the Bush administration, and its collapse helped burnish Chavez’s anti-imperialist image.

In the years since, the Bush administration has repeatedly branded Chavez a dictator, and in July it reactivated the Navy’s Fourth Fleet, which will oversee operations in the Caribbean and has been defunct for decades. This was easily interpreted as a

militar y threat to Venezuela, and it allowed Chavez to stoke fears of a U.S. invasion.

Most partisans in this debate assume Venezuelans are too politically lethargic or inattentive to hold the president responsible for his pernicious policies.

But that’s far from the truth. Chavez is still democratically accountable, and while he won re-election in 2006 by a wide margin, in December 2007 voters defeated a constitutional amendment that would have abolished presidential term limits and expanded his powers.

Without such an amendment, he would have to step down in February 2013. Recent polls estimate that he has the support of only a third of the population, and the plummeting price of oil — which dipped below $50 a barrel last week — will make it more difficult for him to maintain the patronage distribution essential to his power.

If Chavez leaves without a fight, the United States can step in with a barrage of aid for Venezuela’s poor and incentives for American investors to help develop a sustainable Venezuelan economy. If he clings to power without democratic approval, we can impose sanctions until his allies abandon him and a new and potentially more sensible government takes over.

Until then, we can help Colombia combat the FARC and pursue research into alternative fuels that will further undermine one of the foundations of Chavez’s power.

As I write this, Venezuelans are going to the polls in mayoral and gubernatorial elections. They may rebuke Chavez’s rule by trouncing his allies, or they may deliver him a limited endorsement. Either way, the United States should abandon Bush’s hysterical evaluation of Chavez’s rule and handle Venezuela through cautious containment.

William Martin ’10 will defeat you.

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First-half deficit proves too much for m. basketball

Of Gatsby and college football On Friday night, I was planning on heading to Cambridge in the morning and watching the 125th edition of the Harvard-Yale football game.

After all, a win over Columbia for Brown was already a foregone conclusion.

I was planning Ben Singer on writing a colHigh Notes umn today about how the rivalry between those two schools compares with our own absence of rivalry. I was hoping to write about what it was like to root for Yale after rooting so bitterly against them two weeks ago, and how their stout defense spared me from writing about how bogus a lack of tie-breaking system in the Ivy League is.

But I didn’t end up going to Cambridge Saturday morning. When I explained my plan to someone Friday night, he replied, “But wouldn’t you rather root for your own team?

Wouldn’t you rather be here for the last football game you’ll ever get to see as an undergrad at this university, with people who you know, especially a game where your team can clinch the title?”

Compelling stuff.

But as I watched the Bears demolish an overmatched and under-thawed Lions side to clinch their second Ivy League Championship in four years, two unanticipated thoughts occurred to me. First, is there some inherent requirement that every Lions football team be completely inept? Second, how much does a college football team’s history dominate its present and future?

Over in Cambridge, the two teams battling were generally regarded as the top two teams in the Ivy League heading into the regular season. And after a hard-fought, defensively sound 10-0 result, they both certainly played like two of the top teams in the conference. In fact, if you look back at the history of the Ivy League football conference, which dates back more than 53 years, it’s no wonder that history plays such a dominant role. Yale has taken at least a share of the crown in 14 of those years, and Harvard 13 years. In contrast, Brown has only won its share four times, and Columbia is dead last on the list: their only championship was split with Harvard back in 1961. For the sake of comparison, landing on the moon was a pipe dream back then, and Brown still had distributional requirements.

But is it just coincidence that some teams are perennial contenders while others seem to be forbidden from success? Just look at Ivy League basketball, where Princeton and Penn have won all but four of the titles since 1958. You could make good arguments for other factors playing a role in winning consistently, such as the existence of a strong rivalry encouraging two teams to keep their programs more competitive than they might otherwise be. Still, it seems that one of the greatest factors is a winning reputation itself. Once a team starts winning its conference for a good chunk of time, the fought-over, high-quality recruits are more likely to want to come play for that team continued on page 9

By Katie Wood Assistant Spor ts Editor

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Matt Mullery ’10 led the men’s basketball team against Northwestern with 17 points, six rebounds and three blocks.

The men’s basketball team (1-3) fell to the Big Ten’s Northwestern (3-0) at home Saturday night, 73-64, after a fierce Northwest. 73 second-half 64 comeback.

Brown Nor thwestern’s Craig Moore scored a careerhigh 31 points, and connected on a Pizzitola and Northwestern-record nine three-pointers for the Wildcats. The Bears could not overcome a 22-point halftime deficit, as Moore scored 24 points and shot eight-ofnine from three-point range.

“We knew he was a great shooter going into the game,” said tricaptain Chris Skrelja ’09. “But we had some defensive mishaps. We started off in zone, catering to his specialty. Switching to man coverage in the second half helped us control the outside shot.”

Brown played Nor thwestern tight early on in the game. With 10 minutes left in the half, and the score at 20-15, Moore caught on fire. He tallied four buckets from downtown in a seven-minute span.

The Wildcats only needed a few touches to find an open Moore, who could not miss a shot. The Wildcats shot 60 percent from the floor and 68.8 percent from behind the arc in the first half. The Wildcats controlled the ball, with no turnovers in the first 20 minutes of play, and capitalized off of nine first-half turnovers by the Bears.

Matt Mullery ’10 and tri-captain Peter Sullivan ’11 lead the Bears with eight points apiece heading into the half, with Brown down 48-26.

The Bears shot a solid 55 percent from the floor, but with only 20 field goal attempts, compared to 30 for Northwestern, Brown was unable to create a lot of scoring opportunities. There was a mountain left to climb to get Brown back in the game, and the Bears came out with a new intensity in the opening minutes of the second half to pull

the game back to within reach.

“We were more aggressive, confident and stronger,” Skrelja said. “We took the ball to the basket north and south and passed the ball into Muller y who was hitting ever ything. We believed we could win.”

Brown opened up the half with an 11-2 scoring run. Adrian Williams ’11 kicked off the run with a three from the right corner. Skrelja scored on a step-back dribble from the free throw line. Sullivan and Muller y found a hot spot from the left wing and each knocked down a three-pointer to bring the score to 50-37 with 17:37 left.

The Bears began to penetrate the Wildcat defense and found open looks when Sullivan and Williams each connected on a three. Brown fought back for the second time, going on a 16-6 run in a seven-minute stretch.

“We star ted moving a lot more,”Sullivan said. “We were standing around in the first half, going one-on-one. We picked up the defensive intensity leading to some fast breaks and some good shots. Unfortunately, it ended up being too little too late.”

With the shot clock winding down, Skrelja drove to the basket from the left baseline for two with 10:52 remaining. Sullivan kept on attacking the basket as a Northwestern defender fouled him hard.

He hit two of two from the charity stripe to narrow the lead.

Northwestern brought the ball up the floor and was almost too patient, as a player was forced to take an off-balance shot from the left elbow as the shot clock wound down. The tough defense was not enough, as his shot found the bottom of the net.

Tri-captain Scott Friske ’09 answered with a nice post move, faking right and laying it in left, and followed that up with another basket on a nice left-handed drive with just over five minutes left in continued on page 9

Two losses for w. hockey against tough opponents

By Andrew Braca Assistant Sports Editor

The women’s hockey team lost two games to tough non-conference opponents over the weekend at Meehan Auditorium, giving up four straight goals in each game to fall into big deficits. Falling to College Hockey America stalwarts Niagara, 4-2, on Friday and No. 10 Mercyhurst, 5-1, on Saturday dropped the Bears’ record to 2-7-1, but Head Coach Digit Murphy said that the games served as a learning experience for the team.

“The speed of the game is faster, the amount of work you have to do is harder when you play these kind of teams, so it just gets us better prepared for our ECAC league games, and that’s why we play these teams,” she said. “We know that they’re good, we know that they’re ranked and we know that we have to play near-perfect games. We didn’t, and we got beat, fair and square.”

Niagara loomed as the more beatable of the opponents, having started the season 2-9-1 against a brutal schedule. The Bears started slowly,

struggling to get it out of their defensive zone for the first six minutes, but they got on the scoreboard first when Nicole Brown ’10 scored her second goal of the season 13:11 into the period. Savannah Smith ’09 picked off a pass by Niagara from behind the net and fed Brown just in front of the crease, who backhanded a shot into the net. Despite being outshot 14-8 in the first period, Bruno went into the first intermission up, 1-0.

“I thought we easily could have been down, 2-1,” Murphy said. “I didn’t think we played particularly well in the first period, (and) I told the kids that. I said, ‘You gotta play with more energy.’”

The Bears made it out of the first period unscathed because they killed off two Purple Eagles’ power plays and goalie Nicole Stock ’09, the captain and a Herald sports staff writer, made 14 saves. She stopped all six shots she faced on the second man-advantage to keep Niagara off the board with less than two minutes remaining in the frame.

“I think that got our whole team fired up and really excited,” said Mag-

gie Suprey ’11. “But I don’t know what happened. We just kind of lost our fire somewhere in the beginning of the third period, when they scored all those goals on us. It was a good thing definitely at the end of the period that we turned it back on and we were playing hard, but you gotta be able to keep that up.”

Bruno lost the lead early in the second period on a stunning play.

After Melanie Mills was called for tripping 1:02 after the intermission, the Bears went on an unsuccessful power play. Two minutes later, the Purple Eagles sent a long pass up the ice and found Mills exiting the penalty box to create a breakaway, and she finished the play by beating Stock top-shelf to tie the game only 3:08 into the frame. Brown kept Niagara off the board for more than 14 minutes, before the Purple Eagles took the lead on a power-play goal with 2:31 left in the second period and didn’t look back.

After Niagara tacked on two evenstrength goals 4:05 and 7:19 into the third period to take a 4-1 lead, Murphy called a timeout and pulled a surprise

move: she removed Stock, who had notched 26 saves, and inserted Joy Joung ’11, who made the first collegiate appearance of her career. Stock was the only goalie to play for Brown all of last season. The last Bear other than Stock to log a minute between the pipes was O’Hara Shipe ’07 on Jan. 19, 2007.

“We just rely on (Stock) way too much,” Murphy said. “We rely on her just being there the whole time.

The team needs to figure out how to generate more offense right off the bat and not just be on their heels and being comfortable playing in the defensive zone.”

The move fired up the Bears for the final 12:41 of the game. Suprey answered for the Bears 4:09 later to cut the lead to two goals, getting assists from Vika Mykolenko ’12 and Frances Male ’09. Joung stopped all four shots she faced to keep the Purple Eagles out of the net, and the Bears posted a 13-7 advantage in shots over the final period.

“We were really connecting,” continued on page 9