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Back from abroad, just glad to be back in class

Numbers tell sad story for top schools’ endowments

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By Caitlin Trujillo Staff Writer

By Anne Simons Senior Staf f Writer

Coming back to Brown after studying abroad usually means a return to more homework and a rekindled love for the Rock.

But for those returning from a spring semester in France, it also means a return to a stable class schedule free from student-led strikes.

At several universities in Paris and Lyon, student protests fueled by unpopular government reforms regarding the standardization of European university degrees disrupted more than half the semester.

The disruptions left universities with the challenge of salvaging the semester for their local students, said Annie Wiart, last year’s director of the Brown in France program. This included canceling spring break, lengthening class hours and extending the semester into the summer.

The Brown in France program took measures to ensure that Brown students would be able to return with a full semester’s worth of credit. In Paris, the program organizers put together four courses — taught by French professors — for Brown students only. In one-on-one meetings, the program strongly encouraged students to take advantage of these courses, Wiart said.

Some students who wanted to be certain they would receive sufficient class credit took three of these Brown-organized courses. But others tried their luck at French universities, remaining enrolled in courses there.

Most students ended up taking at least one of the Brown-offered courses, Wiart said.

“Nobody wanted to take the risk” of ending up with too few credits, Wiart said.

“Students who wanted to get a full load certainly had the opportunity,” said Kendall Brostuen, director of International Programs. The majority of students received the equivalent of four Brown credits for the semester, he said.

Brostuen acknowledged that creating separate courses was “not a perfect system.” Some students were disappointed

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After a dismal year for university finances nationwide, losses reported by peer schools have been on par with the Brown endowment’s 26.6 percent decline.

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was serious training for intelligent and ambitious young poker players, Goldberg remembers its lighthearted environment.

“It was serious, but no one was overly intense,” Goldberg said. “It was quite social.”

Jared Okun ’07, who ran the game from 2005 to 2007, quickly rose up the ranks of the professional poker world after graduating from Brown.

A double-concentrator in computer science and economics, Okun said he first decided to check out the Blue Room Game after hearing about it through the Brown Daily Jolt.

At the time, Okun didn’t have

Harvard and Yale, the two wealthiest U.S. universities, both saw the total value of their endowments tumble by nearly 30 percent between July 2008 and June 2009, the schools reported recently.

Princeton, the third-wealthiest Ivy, fared slightly better, losing just under 24 percent of its endowment, which is now valued at $12.6 billion.

Brown’s endowment, which had hovered near $2.8 billion before last year’s financial crisis, stood at just over $2 billion this summer.

Brown and other universities suffered their worst losses in the fall of 2008, and many had already announced big declines last winter.

Cornell, for instance, reported a 27 percent decline in January, according to the Cornell Daily Sun, but earned 2 percent on its endowment from January through June, Joanne DeStefano, Cornell’s vice president for finance and CFO, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

Penn fared best among Ivy League schools, losing 15.7 percent of its en-

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Running back Zachary Tronti ’11 carries the ball through the rain in Bruno’s 28-20 victory over URI Saturday.

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Blue Room game graduated poker pros

By Matthew Klebanoff Staff Writer

While their classmates were writing papers and working on problem sets, a small group of Brown students were making high-stakes decisions that could win or lose them hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of dollars.

Since then, the stakes of the game have risen — several young alums who once hunched over cards in Faunce House or stayed up late into the night playing online poker have gone professional, some winning millions in just a few years.

Many of the professional card sharks who emerged from Brown

got their start in the Blue Room Game — a friendly poker game that met in the basement of Faunce House in the early 2000s. According to freelance writer Ryan Goldberg ’05, a regular at the meetings, the game reached its peak during the

FEATURE 2004-05 school year and began to decline after 2007.

Players met four times each week, with the highest turnout on Friday afternoons, Goldberg said.

Of the 30 or so players who came to the more popular games, most were men, but a small group of women played regularly.

Though the Blue Room Game

New efforts to boost U.’s international profile

By Dana Teppert Staff Writer

The University’s internationalization initiative — an effort to enhance Brown’s profile abroad — has a new leader at its helm and is launching programs to encourage scholarly dialogue and global health research this year.

Matthew Gutmann, the new vice president of international affairs, is carrying forward an internationalization agenda with help from Michael Kennedy, the new director of the Watson Institute for International Studies, said Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98.

“Two very creative and talented people are coming up with new pro-

grams and new proposals,” Kertzer said. “The students have a lot to look forward to.”

This summer, Brown inaugurated an annual series of workshops on diverse subjects such as global governance and development studies, bringing together 150 young academics from 55 countries and leading scholars from Brown and other schools, Gutmann said.

Titled the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes, the workshops have been the most prominent outgrowth of internationalization so far this year.

This summer’s institute was “very, very successful,” Gutmann said, noting that another will be held next summer. The University received a

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Matthew Gutmann will lead the University’s internationalization efforts.

grant from Santander Universidades, a charitable division of the Spanish bank, Banco Santander, to fund the program for three years.

Gutmann has taught in Brown’s department of anthropology since

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“The long-term sustainability of poker is not exactly there.”

— Mike Graves ’06, a Blue Room Game regular

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dowment, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported last month. Columbia also reported a relatively small loss of just over 16 percent, according to the Columbia Spectator.

Dartmouth reported a decline of 18 percent through December 2008 earlier this year, according to its newspaper, the Dartmouth, but the school has not yet released a year-end figure, making it the only Ivy that has yet to do so.

Penn benefitted from selling 10 percent of its public equities in early 2008, possessing a large amount of assets in fixed income and apportioning equity to quality stocks, according to the Daily Penn and CNN. Harvard, meanwhile, performed poorly in all but a few of its asset classes, the university’s endowment office reported in September.

Beppie Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration, said Brown’s endowment suffered in part because of what she called an “aggressive” portfolio.

“We just had a riskier portfolio with a better upside and a more challenging downside,” she said.

But Brown has done well on gifts and donations, Huidekoper said, allowing the University to continue with capital projects like the renovation of Faunce House and the construction of a new Creative Arts Center.

Many private universities outside the Ivy League experienced similar losses. James Hurley, associate vice president for Northwestern University’s office of budget planning, said the school is currently looking at a 23 percent loss, though data are not complete because its fiscal year ends in September instead of June.

The Stanford Management Com-

pany reported an endowment loss of 27 percent and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported a drop of 20.7 percent.

Though the financial market has improved in recent months, schools nationwide might lose an average of approximately 20 to 25 percent of their endowments once data from fiscal year 2009 have been analyzed, said Ken Redd, the director of research and policy analysis for the National Association of College and University Business Officers.

The association will not release its annual report on the overall health of university endowments until January.

At the same time, state governments are starting to cut appropriations to public schools, which are less likely to depend on endowments but whose finances have also taken a hit because of the recession, Redd said.

“Public institutions may be in as much trouble,” he said.

When endowments decline, schools might freeze staff travel, stop hiring and lay off adjunct faculty — all measures that affect students, Redd said.

But one area schools tend not to cut during a recession, he added, is financial aid. Many instead keep and even expand aid to students “to the extent that is prudent,” he said.

Brown has followed that model and recently set aside funds for financial aid increases, The Herald reported last month. But the University has also slashed millions from planned budgets, instituted hiring freezes, scaled back services and laid off some staff in the past year.

Other Ivies have also resorted to layoffs and other cost-cutting measures but have not decreased financial aid.

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continued from page 1 much experience with poker. He played occasionally with friends during high school, but after he started attending the Blue Room Game his sophomore year, he got serious about it. That led to 10 to 30 hours of online play each week and, eventually, an income of $100 to $200 an hour.

Later in his time at Brown, Okun took a course on the theory of poker in the Division of Applied Mathematics. Bill Gazes, a professional player, lectured in one of the classes and hit it off with Okun. The two stayed in touch, and during Okun’s senior year, Gazes offered to back him financially in tournaments while Okun was still in school.

At that point, Okun had to make a decision: He could either pursue a conventional career in finance or try his hand in the high-stakes world of professional poker.

“I was applying to jobs on Wall Street — trading jobs. And right at the beginning of that process, I decided I had the offer from Bill, and it was kind of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Okun said. “I could try it now when I’m young, see if I did well. If I liked it, I could do that. If not, after a year or two, I could get a regular job.”

Okun’s parents were not happy with his decision, but they have “grown more accustomed to it in the last couple years,” he said — possibly a side effect of the more than $800,000 that he has earned through tournaments and cash games.

Okun now lives in a condo in Las

Vegas with his girlfriend, Brett Abarbanel ’06, whom he met through the Blue Room Game. He likes to alternate his long hours of play between casinos and online games, “just to keep it fresh.” When he plays online, he said, he usually starts at night — taking advantage of the time difference that leaves his East Coast competitors bleary-eyed while his own judgment is still sharp.

While still at Brown, Okun introduced his mentor, Gazes, to a friend, Scott Seiver ’07, a fellow computer science and economics concentrator and a Blue Room Game regular. Just as he did with Okun, Gazes offered to pay Seiver’s entry fees to online and live tournaments while Seiver was still at Brown, according to the Brown Alumni Magazine.

Since then, Seiver has earned over $2 million through tournaments and cash games, the magazine reported.

Seiver did not respond to The Herald’s requests for an interview.

Surprisingly, the most successful poker player to emerge from Brown wasn’t a Blue Room regular. Isaac Haxton ’08, a philosophy concentrator, left Brown to earn over $4 million in tournaments and cash games, according to the Brown Alumni Magazine.

Goldberg said Haxton, who did not respond to inquiries from The Herald, chose to hone his skills in online poker rooms instead of playing with other students in Faunce.

Brown isn’t the only college to spawn a large number of high-earning young players. Other Ivy League schools, particularly Princeton, have

also yielded a few successful poker pros, Goldberg said.

To the extent Ivy League grads are more successful in professional poker than their counterparts, it’s not necessarily because they are smarter.

A crucial ingredient in their success is access to extra spending money, according to Mike Graves ’06, a Blue Room Game regular who earned over $700,000 and a bracelet at the World Series of Poker in 2007 — the most prestigious honor a professional player can receive.

Graves won the massive payout after his first year at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, where he is currently a medical student.

Graves chose to pursue medicine instead of professional poker because he has wanted to be a doctor for years.

“It’s something I’ve idealized for a long time,” he said.

The uncertainty of professional poker also made Graves hesitate to commit to it as a career.

According to Goldberg, poker reached the peak of its popularity in 2003 through televised tournaments and has since settled into a “mature stage.” Getting enormous payouts isn’t as easy as it used to be, he said.

For professionals to continue to earn as much as they used to, they now have to travel to tournaments outside of the country.

“The long-term sustainability of poker is not exactly there,” Graves said. “By natural selection, the games online will get tougher and tougher.”

Despite strikes, France still popular continued from page 1 they had to take courses with other Brown students instead of with French students.

But there were advantages. The courses offered by Brown in France were smaller and more intimate than typical French university classes, Wiart said, giving students more access to their professors. They could also go on field trips — to the Louvre and other museums, for instance — that would not have been included in university classes.

Meredith Weaver ’10 studied

at Universite de Lyon II and Sciences-Po, where strikes ended after Easter. She took three of the Brown program courses offered in Lyon. That way, if French university classes didn’t re-start, she would still get credit during her time abroad, she said.

Once classes resumed at the universities, Weaver ended up being able to take some of the courses she had originally signed up for.

That meant she had to take seven courses, but Weaver said she was “relieved” to be in classes despite the increased workload.

It was also a lot of work for the universities themselves — schools had to make up at least 80 percent of the class time missed by extending class hours and doing away with spring break, Weaver said.

Though Weaver was frustrated by the uncertainty the strikes brought, she said she now appreciates her unique experience in France.

Last semester’s protests have not affected this year’s application numbers for Brown in France, Wiart said.

“France is a destination,” Brostuen said.

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“Brown is global.”

— Matthew Gutmann, new vice president of international affairs

New year, efforts to internationalize continued from page 1 and Caribbean Studies.

He is also involved in the University’s new Global Health Initiative, which will draw faculty and students from various disciplines to work on health-related concerns throughout the world, including in China, India and Kenya. The initiative will raise the collective profile of Brown-sponsored international health efforts that have “long operated on their own and in separate departments,” the University announced in a press release last week.

Establishing a center for the study of global health was one of the highest-profile recommendations of the committee whose work was intended to lay the foundation for Brown’s internationalization efforts. The committee released its recommendations in 2007.

“Brown is global. Our faculty and students already do research and study in dozens of countries,” Gutmann said. “One of our challenges now is to get Brown out internationally even more, and to further raise its visibility throughout the world.”

Gutmann said he views his primary responsibility as developing policies to guide the University as it

seeks to increase its global engagement and international visibility.

“I’ve been teaching here a while,” he said. “I know that this campus is teeming with students that want to learn deeply other languages, cultures and history.”

Internationalization, Kertzer said, involves enriching the educational experience of Brown students by making the University fully international and enabling its students to become “students of the world.”

In 2006, following a discussion session on international education, the Corporation endorsed what was then an emerging strategic plan to enhance Brown’s presence in international higher education. It appointed a high-profile committee to begin laying the groundwork for the effort.

As part of Brown’s commitment to developing its international relationship and programs, the position of vice president of international affairs was created in 2007.

David Kennedy ’76 served in the position for nearly two years before leaving Brown this summer.

Last year, Kennedy was the interim director of the Watson Institute for International Studies, a post now filled by former Michigan University professor Michael Kennedy.

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Gutmann said he is working closely with Kennedy to achieve Brown’s internationalization goals.

“We’re both new at this job. It’s a work in progress, but so far it’s going great,” he said.

The University is trying to increase funding for international students, mainly undergraduates, a decision that was endorsed by the Corporation in 2006, Gutmann said.

“I think that’s going to be a challenge,” he said. The University needs to figure out how to “get the word out about Brown to (international) students who are from families who don’t have the funds to begin with.”

The Office of International Affairs also provides funding for international projects proposed by students and for student and faculty travel abroad.

Gutmann said the Brown International Scholars Program, which began last year, allowed 14 students to conduct international research projects this past summer. The office will fund up to 20 students this coming summer, Gutmann said. Applications for the grants are due this afternoon.

“We’re in a very exciting moment in Brown’s history,” Gutmann said.

news in brief

Local baseball history at Bookstore “It wasn’t like one day we just had baseball,” Rick Harris said to a modest audience at the Brown Bookstore on Saturday. “It’s kind of like a folk song. Baseball has a long history.”

Harris is a social worker, but that’s just his day job. His true passion is baseball, and when it comes to the history of baseball in Rhode Island, he’s practically a walking Wikipedia.

“As a social worker, you hear a lot of sad stories every week,” Harris said. “You have to have other things in your life that make you happy and relieve that stress.”

Harris uses primary sources to decipher history. A Brown student’s diary from 1827 mentions “playing ball,” and is one of the earliest written documentations of the game in Rhode Island. Harris deduced from the diary and other sources that in those days, the Brown “Base Ball Club” used to play on the green near where the Van Wickle Gates are today. Brown’s team got more serious by the late 1860s, traveling to play against a few other schools, he said, and in 1879 Brown won the Collegiate National Base Ball Championships for the first time.

Harris published a book last year called “Rhode Island Baseball: The Early Years.” He has several more on the way, with one specifically about the role of Brown in the evolution of baseball.

In the meantime, Harris has compiled a comprehensive record of Brown’s baseball seasons since 1827 and a list of Rhode Island firsts in the game, including the use of the term “bullpen” — originally intended for parking carriages — and the first use of turnstiles for crowd control in a ballpark.

“There are endless stories about baseball in Rhode Island,” he said.

— Alex Bell

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Deep listening, walking with a master

By Corina Chase Contributing Writer

As par t of this year’s Pixilerations, the FirstWorks Festival’s new media showcase, accordionist and composer Pauline Oliveros visited Providence to give a concert last Friday and lead classes on her work and unique artistic process.

Oliveros is “an American master,” said Kathleen Pletcher, executive artistic director of FirstWorks, an organization that brings prominent artists and premieres of their works to the city. “Her pioneering in sound is just astounding.”

FirstWorks prides itself in presenting firsts in the arts: musicians, dancers, filmmakers and visual artists with interests in experimentation. The organization evolved from First Night Providence, a New Year’s Eve festival that began in 1985 and now offers programming throughout the year.

Each fall, FirstWorks coordinates the FirstWorks Festival, a sevenweek event filled with gallery openings, performances and musical concerts.

Last Thursday, Oliveros spoke to students in MUSC 0200: “Computers and Music” at Grant Recital Hall. She said she has been fascinated with “in-between-the-cracks music,” even when she was young.

She enjoyed listening to her family’s Victrola phonograph stretching and distorting the music. She listened to the static between channels on her grandfather’s radio and to the cracks and pops of her father’s short-wave radio.

When Oliveros entered the world of electronic music, she enjoyed the feeling of “inventing (her) way through it.”

In 1953, Oliveros got hands on a tape recorder, and, listening to the playback, realized how much more the tape recorder’s microphone picked up than she heard consciously. She concluded that she was not really listening to the environment around her. That insight became the starting point for her philosophy of “deep listening.”

Deep listening, as Oliveros explained it, can be practiced by anyone, even those who know little about music. Oliveros called it a form of meditation — listening to listening, expanding attention and awareness to the “whole space-time continuum of sound.”

This idea and practice took off in many directions, including workshops in deep listening, one of which Oliveros ran Saturday at the Rhode Island School of Design’s Memorial Hall.

Oliveros opened with her defini-

tion of deep listening and an explanation of the practice. Nearly 50 participants — a mix of Brown and RISD students, at least one Brown professor and some Providence residents — spent the first half of the workshop trying two exercises: the “extreme slow walk” and the “extreme slow song.”

The extreme slow walk was just that — walking extremely slowly, becoming aware of the floor and recognizing how a person’s balance shifts when moving. Oliveros then asked ever yone to think of a song they knew exceptionally well, and to sing it as slowly as possible (walking at the same time).

After singing his extreme slow song, Zach Alterman ’12 said the exercises reminded him of how words are only “one of a trillion forms of communication” and helped him think about all the modes of communication people don’t normally use.

Though Oliveros will not be giving any more per formances or workshops, Pixilerations will continue through Oct. 11, and the FirstWorks Festival through Nov. 15. Upcoming events include a performance by the all-male Taiwanese dance company HORSE on Oct. 24, and, as part of the FirstWorks Festival finale, Cirque Mechanics on Nov. 14.

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Founder discusses theater company’s future

By Sarah Mancone Contributing Writer

For theater companies during an economic recession, the drama isn’t just in the plays, as Donald King ’93, artistic director of Providence Black Repertory Company made clear at a public forum in Rites and Reason Theatre on Friday. Before the talk, King was honored with the 2009 John Hope Alumni Award for Public Service, presented by the Brown Alumni Association and the Swearer Center for Public Service.

King founded Black Rep in 1996, when the company’s only home was a Providence print shop. Black Rep grew into one of the city’s major theaters, ending each of its seasons with Sound Session, a seven-day summer festival culminating in a Caribbean parade.

But the downturn made it more difficult for Black Rep to continue its programming. Due to financial difficulties, Black Rep entered receivership — a type of bankruptcy in which a receiver is appointed to run the company — on Aug. 17.

But King said he and the company will attempt to put budgets together and work as hard as possible to “get us out of receivership.”

In an attempt to balance the books, King cancelled some of Black Rep’s public programs, including an open-mike rap workshop, “Round Midnight: A Rap-

per’s Delight.” King said he found it frustrating when some accused Black Rep of moving away from its urban mission.

“How much more urban do you get than Providence Sound Session?” he said. “We cannot let BET and HOT 106 be the purveyors of what is black.”

Support for Black Rep has remained strong in Providence, King said, and the company’s remaining programs have continued to be popular. This summer’s Sound Session “was the biggest Sound Session ever,” he said. “They don’t want Black Rep to go away.”

At least a few of the approximately 30 people who attended the talk — mostly faculty and Providence residents, with some students as well — seemed to agree with that statement.

Richard Gray ’85 called Black Rep “one of my favorite places to go,” and Lowr y Marshall, professor of theatre, speech and dance, said she was amazed and grateful for what King had accomplished.

“We really need you here,” Marshall told King, earning the applause of the room.

King said he plans to remain positive and work through receivership.

“We hold our head up high,” he said.

The forum was co-sponsored by the Swearer Center, the Department of Africana Studies and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America.

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Governor’s Cup Field hockey takes win in overtime returns to College Hill

By Andrew Braca Sports Editor

By Dan Alexander Senior Staff Writer

With rainy skies overhead and a slick ball under center, football’s game against the University of Rhode Island Saturday 20 URI looked like it 28 Brown would turn into a run-dominated battle in the mud.

But the wet conditions didn’t stop Brown Head Coach Phil Estes from sticking to what the Bears do best: giving the ball to wide receivers Bobby Sewall ’10 and Buddy Farnham ’10. Together, the duo scored all four of Brown’s touchdowns in a 28-20 win that wasn’t as close as the final score suggested.

URI, typically a passing team, chose a different strategy. Rams’ quarterback D.J. Stefkovich only passed once in the first quarter.

Stefkovich, URI’s backup quarterback, came off the bench 1:30 after kickoff following an injury to starter Chris Paul-Etienne. Paul-Etienne’s injury, combined with the wet field, forced URI to rush for most of the first half, said URI Head Coach Joe Trainer.

The weather “certainly affected the passing game, but it’s still no excuse,” he said. “There is no acceptable reason for the way we played today.”

URI actually outgained the Bears, 416 yards to 295. But the Rams committed 17 penalties, mostly holding calls, putting them in 3rd-and-long situations over and over again. URI didn’t convert a third down until late in the third quarter.

“We shot ourselves in the foot,” Trainer said. “I don’t know if I’ve ever been around a team that had that many penalties.”

The Bears’ punter Nate Lovett ’12 gave Bruno a leg up in the field position battle with eight punts, four of which pinned URI inside their 20-yard line.

Lovett got the Bears out of trouble and gave the Rams a long field for much of the day. “He should get a game ball for that,” Estes said.

The Rams couldn’t put together long scoring drives, but did find the end zone on three big plays — a 68yard run by Anthony Ferrer early in the first quarter, a 75-yard interception return by URI linebacker Rob Damon in the second and a 55-yard pass to Ryan Lawrence with just 3:14 left in the fourth quarter.

The referees had a busy day, calling a total of 29 penalties. Estes said both teams got away with some calls, too.

“The game was sloppy from the beginning,” Estes said. “I thought they could have thrown 100 more (flags), to be perfectly honest.”

A day of big plays Every score in Saturday’s game was the result of a big play. Of the six touchdown drives, five took under a minute. Four took just a single play.

The game’s first score set the tone. Just over five minutes into the

game, Stefkovich faked a handoff and ran a quarterback counter up the middle. On the next play, Ferrer, URI’s running back, ran to the same spot as he had a play before, but this time the handoff was not a fake. Ferrer ran off the left tackle, juked a few defenders and broke a tackle before breaking out into open field.

“No one could catch up to Ferrer, who doesn’t have great speed on a dry field,” Trainer said.

“He’s a mudder. You know this is his kind of track,” he said. “He has a low center of gravity. His feet don’t come up that high.”

Ferrer’s touchdown gave the Rams a 7-0 lead early in the first quarter.

Less than three minutes later, the Bears scored their first touchdown when Kyle Newhall ’11 spotted Farnham wide open in the end zone.

Though the ball was underthrown, no one from URI was close enough to get to it before Farnham came down with the 32-yard pass.

The Bears fumbled the snap on the extra point attempt, making the score 7-6 with 6:10 left in the first quarter.

URI struck back on Damon’s interception return early in the second quarter, giving the Rams a 14-6 lead.

On the first play from scrimmage after Damon’s touchdown, Newhall threw a strike to Farnham, in double coverage. Farnham got the ball between two defenders at the 15-yard ine, broke through them and ran into the end zone.

The 42-yard bomb, followed by a successful two-point conversion, evened the score at 14-14 with 8:50 left in the first half.

Just under five minutes into the second half, it was the Brown defense that made a big play. Kelley Cox ’10 forced a fumble, giving the Bears great field position at the URI 13-yard line. One play later, Sewall scored on a reception in the front right corner of the end zone, giving Brown a 21-14 lead.

With just under a minute left in the quarter, Sewall found the end zone again, this time on a five-yard run out of the wildcat formation. But, for the second time of the game, a big play led up to Sewall’s touchdown.

On the previous play, Farnham returned a punt 69 yards to the URI 5-yard line. He started the return to the right, but cut across to the left sideline, where he broke free and almost reached the end zone.

The Bears held on to their 28-14 lead until Stefkovich completed a 55-yard touchdown pass with 3:14 remaining.

When the final whistle blew, the Bears rushed onto the field to take hold of the Governor’s Cup, awarded annually to the winner of the in-state rivalry. The win gave Brown its first victory of the season and brought the cup to Providence for the first time since 2005.

“That almost felt as good as winning the Ivy League Championship,” Estes said.

After 100 minutes, the field hockey team remained deadlocked with Vermont, 2-2, on Sunday afternoon, sending the game to penalty strokes. After the Bears had taken a 3-1 lead in the best-of-five stroke-off, the Catamounts sent out Mackenzie Williams, who needed to beat Caroline Washburn ’12 to keep the game alive.

Washburn was feeling “a lot of nerves,” she said, “but you try and just collect yourself and think that the only way this is going to happen is if I stop it.”

Williams fired, and Washburn dove to her right and smothered the ball to seal the 3-2 victory.

It was “nerve-wracking,” said Tacy Zysk ’11, “but as soon as we knew that it was going to strokes, we just knew we were going to put it away.”

The dramatic victory on Warner Roof eased the sting of a 4-3 overtime loss to Harvard on Saturday.

The Bears improved their record to 4-6, though they stand 0-3 in the Ivy League.

“I’m really proud of this team, because they bounced back,” said Head Coach Tara Harrington ’94.

“We came ready to play, we followed the game plan and we finished.”

The team had lost two one-goal games in a row leading into the Vermont matchup, to Harvard and Fairfield.

Against Vermont, Brown took the lead just 4:08 into the game, off a corner. After inserting the ball, Leslie Springmeyer ’12 slipped to the left post, where she knocked a pass from Katie Hyland ’11 into the far side of the cage.

But Allison Barnaby scored twice in the span of a minute to give the Catamounts a 2-1 lead with 9:28 left in the first half.

“They were both goals that we should have never let up,” Harrington said. “We know that as a defensive unit.”

But the Bears were inspired to keep fighting.

Brown tied the game with 18:20 left in regulation, as Springmeyer beat Vermont goalie Kristen Heavens on a corner play similar to her earlier goal, with the assist going to Whitney Knowlton ’10.

“As always, it’s so difficult to go down in the game, but I think it gave us fire and made us work so much harder to tie it up and get that win,” Zysk said.

With the game 2-2 after 70 minutes, the teams headed into overtime.

The atmosphere heading into the extra frames was loose and confident, Harrington said.

“We joked about being tough, and we joked about eating tacks, nails and barbed wire fence for breakfast, lunch and dinner,” she said.

Heavens stopped two shots in overtime for the Catamounts, while Washburn blocked three, sending the game into penalty strokes.

The Bears were ready, even though they had not reached a

stroke-off since beating Maine, 2-1, on Sept. 7, 2008.

“We have very good penalty stroke-shooters,” Harrington said.

“I’m very confident in our stroking team and very confident in Caroline, our goalkeeper. She’s saved a few strokes this year and made some really nice saves.”

Washburn saved Joanna Berger’s shot to open the stroke-off, before Bridget McNamara ’12 beat Heavens to her right to give Brown the 1-0 lead. After Lauren Goracy scored for Vermont, Hyland gave Brown a 2-1 lead.

Jenna Horowski next sent a shot wide for the Catamounts, setting up Cassie Puhalla ’11 for what would turn out to be the game-winning goal. Puhalla had also fired the shot that beat Maine a year ago and went for the same spot again, finding the upper left corner to give Brown a 3-1 lead with two strokes left.

When Washburn stopped Williams’ shot, the Bears began to celebrate, believing they had clinched the win, but the officials sent out Zysk, to her confusion.

“Honestly, I thought the refs counted wrong and that I didn’t actually need to take it, but I said, you know what, I’ll just shut everybody up and put it away,” she said.

Zysk beat Heavens on the ground to the left side, finally allowing the Bears to celebrate the 3-2 win. The stroke-off went in the books as a 4-1 victory for the Bears.

The Bears will now have six days off before they travel to Maine to face the Black Bears on Sunday.

Zysk said the team will be confident after a crucial win.

“Now we’ve beaten a team in a real battle,” she said. “We know we can fight, and when it comes down to grit and toughness, we know that we’re going to be the winners.”

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Academia necessitates inquiry into religion To the Editor: There have been several interesting pieces in recent weeks regarding religion. Sadly, Mike Johnson’s ’11 column (“The two-thousand-year (approximately) debate,” Sept. 29) attempted to sidestep this important issue altogether. He and others have every right to remain “secure” in their personal beliefs, just as he wishes. However, the burden is on them to remain secure, not on others who wish to honestly scrutinize religion. They have the right to ignore or disregard the scrutiny, not to stop others from rational inquiry.

Creationists (yes, there are creationists at Brown) have every right to try to feel secure in their beliefs, but they have no right to stop others from pursuing biology for fear that evidence of evolution might reduce that security. Though the beliefs Johnson mentions, like the “guiding power that energizes the human spirit,” are somewhat

less absurd than creationism, they remain statements about the world and should be investigated to determine whether they are actually true.

Free inquiry is at the heart of academia. Regardless of the outcome or how annoying some people may find this practice, we must continue to question our own beliefs and the beliefs of others to ensure that they are based on evidence and reason — not simply a wish that they be true.

This scrutiny need not make campus less amicable: Brown Freethought and College Hill for Christ have had an excellent relationship despite profound differences. We should not shy away from these topics for fear of offense. That is not in the spirit of a university.

David Sheffield ’11 Co-founder Brown Freethought Sept. 30

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Assisting assistants

It is unfortunate that only two of 200 undergraduate TAs attended the first installment of a four-part workshop series recently organized by the Office of the Dean of the College in conjunction with the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning. The Herald reported Thursday that the optional workshops were established in response to a handful of complaints about undergraduate TAs’ teaching and communication skills.

The second workshop — “Leading Group Discussion” — was cancelled after only four students expressed interest in attending. The third and fourth workshops — “Giving Effective Feedback” and “Reaching Students” — will be held as planned.

Given the number of undergraduate students currently serving as TAs, and the necessity of relying on undergraduate TAs because of certain Graduate School policies, we appreciate these efforts to better prepare undergraduates for TA responsibilities.

However, we also believe that such efforts could be more closely tailored to TAs’ needs.

One reason the workshops failed to attract a large crowd might be their redundancy with training that undergraduate TAs already receive from the professors and departments with whom they will be working. Undergraduate TAs in the computer science department come to school over a week early to review course material and learn how to give students clear, appropriately detailed explanations.

Furthermore, many undergraduates work as TAs in departments like biology, chemistry, computer science,and economics, where leading a discussion is less important than explaining complicated concepts or checking over students’ assignments. The workshop on leading effective discussions might be irrelevant to a substantial number of undergraduate TAs. At the same time, TAs from all departments could benefit from workshops on giving feedback and communicating effectively with students. These are skills that all TAs should be expected to develop.

We encourage the Office of the Dean of the College to look more closely at the training undergraduate TAs already receive, and to take into account the skills that are relevant to TAs in different departments. Once these factors are incorporated into a workshop curriculum for undergraduate TAs, the Dean of the College could consider making workshops mandatory. A carefully constructed series of required workshops would be the best way to improve the quality of undergraduate TAs. Departments that are found to already offer adequate training to TAs could be exempt from a requirement, while departments that have struggled to provide support to TAs would probably find the workshops highly beneficial.

In addition to the workshops, one other change in school policy could contribute substantially to holding undergraduate TAs accountable. Currently, the Guidelines for Undergraduate Teaching Assistants developed by the College Curriculum Council only obligate departments to provide feedback to undergraduate TAs at the end of the semester.

This lax requirement on evaluation and feedback is problematic. Undergraduate TA turnover is high, and many undergraduates only work as TAs for one semester, so at least some are unlikely to care a great deal about a review at the end of the term.

Moreover, by only requiring one evaluation at the end of the semester, the current guidelines make it less likely that professors will find out about problems during the semester and nip those problems in the bud. The CCC should rewrite the guidelines to encourage at least one mid-semester evaluation of undergraduate TAs. On the whole, we think undergraduate TAs have contributed positively to the learning experience at Brown. These changes will help to ensure that the continued use of undergraduate TAs is productive.

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Yes, I have swine flu. Yes, I’m comfortable with that.

ANDREA MATTHEWS Opinions Columnist Last week, a rather unfortunate event swallowed up my life for a few achy, cough-y, feverish days. I caught swine flu, Purell hand sanitizer be damned. Despite my every effort to protect myself from H1N1, I was hit and hit hard by the bug whose calling card, a persistent cough, still lingers as I write this column.

What did I do? I think perhaps Elizabeth Kubler-Ross described it best in her five stages of grief.

I began with denial: “Oh, it’s just a cough,” I thought as my temperature spiked and my joints began to ache. Maybe a trip to Health Ser vices is in order, but only to check in.

After the diagnosis came anger. “How could this happen to me?” Then refrain of ever y Brown student: “I don’t have time for this!”

After anger came bargaining: I’m confined to my room? Fine. Friends refuse to stand within a five-foot radius of me? Fair enough. I’ll just stay in bed and get some reading done. But that was when my immune system threw its hands — and my temperature — way, way up.

Then, perhaps a low electrolyte-induced depression, and finally a dehydrated, coughwracked acceptance.

But here’s the wonderful thing about

swine flu: you will get better. Your time in quarantine (Health Ser vices urges you to remain alone in your room until you have been fever-free for 24 hours) will be lonely, physically uncomfortable and a total respite from the outside world. Take advantage of it!

For the Swined: Take this moment to repeat after me: This is probably not my fault. When it is projected that 30 to 50 percent of the Brown population will fall ill with swine flu, there’s

pain. If you’re able to work at home, I applaud you and your abnormally functional fever-wracked brain. If you’re unable, congratulations! You’re human!

Here’s a challenge. Rather than cycling through the five phases I described above, why not fast-for ward to “acceptance”? Stay in bed, get some rest and clear some of that sleep debt you’re already accumulating too early in the semester. Who knows, maybe tr ying to work while sick with H1N1 increases the time it takes to recover. Will you remember anything you read with a 102

When it is projected that 30 to 50 percent of the Brown population will fall ill with swine flu, there’s a significant chance that no matter what you do, you will catch it. Do yourself a favor and stay home.

a significant chance that no matter what you do, you will catch it. Do yourself a favor and report your illness using FluNet, stay home and get someone to buy you lots of Gatorade.

Your professors will understand. They may even thank you. Putting yourself through the miser y of getting to class and your peers through the anxiety of tr ying to avoid you probably isn’t even worth the

degree fever anyway?

For the Swine-free: People wearing masks have covered their noses and mouths … but not their eyes and ears. They can hear you when you snicker, “Oh my god, swine flu!,” and they can see you when you point at them. If they’re out in public while suffering from symptoms, they’re probably doing something that just

can’t wait. Must you make it even less pleasant than it already is?

Fur thermore, just because you don’t have H1N1 now does not mean you will remain unspoiled. You’ve made it through September, and for the moment the rise in cases seems to be slowing, but our friends at Health Services speculate that this might just be the first round. (At least that’s what my ver y friendly nurse suggested, but I concede that this is hearsay.)

So treat others they way you would like to be treated. Would you want your friends to feed you Ratty takeout when you’re too weak to get it yourself? Do you want a steady supply of Gatorade and Kleenex? Be a friend.

Help a swined one out, and you’ll be much more likely to receive help yourself in the likely event that you are poxed.

How often does one receive the opportunity to completely disconnect from reality for a few days without serious repercussions? Of course, one wishes this could be achieved without catching a highly contagious and unpleasant virus, but I would encourage you to do what I did, and take what you can get.

Take your fever-filled days off. Be nice to your friends when they do the same. Make the best of a bad situation: When life gives you swine, make some bacon.

Andrea Matthews ’11 has plenty of extra masks, in case anyone needs one.

She can be reached at andrea_matthews@brown.edu

A minor change, a major difference

BY SUSANNAH KROEBER Opinions Columnist Brown students defend the New Curriculum almost as if it were a graduation requirement.

Against a hostile world of those who believe Brown to be a free-for-all education system, more representative of the late 1960s and 70s than modern-day America, Brown students stand together to advocate for a Satisfactory/ No-Credit grading system, the ability to design our own concentrations and our complete lack of distribution requirements.

This curriculum is the reason why many of us chose Brown. It is a significant part of the way we describe what distinguishes Brown as an educational institution.

We see the New Curriculum as a demonstration of the University’s willingness to let us make our own choices. This is the first time that most students are allowed to choose every single class, with no set requirements beyond those within individual concentrations.

As much as we love the new curriculum, when those from outside of Brunonia leave the room, there develops a sense of discontent within the idyllic kingdom. The concept of taking a risk on courses outside your chosen area of expertise without the pressure of performing highly by choosing the S/NC option is attractive, but many students focused on graduate programs are concerned with how the number of Satisfactories, as opposed to As and Bs, will look. Our lack of distribution requirements makes it possible to specialize even more by making it feasible to double- or even triple-concentrate.

Now think about the number of hoops we have to jump through to exercise some of the most innovative parts of the New Curriculum.

The addition of prerequisites into Banner to prevent students from pre-registering for certain courses, even with prior, non-Brown background in a subject, is just one of the limits on our choice. I don’t know many college students who try to pre-register for a fourth-year language class without previous introduction, but I’m sure that they could —

the New Curriculum, there is one issue with it that stands out: minors.

I realize that with our use of “concentration” instead of “major,” the term “minor” is potentially problematic, as there is not a comparable pair for concentration. Beyond semantics, the arguments for deliberately prohibiting minors in the New Curriculum seem to be well-conceived but have not proven entirely applicable to Brown students.

One of the concerns when the New Cur-

For many students, including myself, the lack of minors forces those of us interested in multiple disciplines to choose double concentrating over simply taking diverse courses.

upon shopping that class — figure out that this was not the appropriate course for them.

This problem of a fundamental lack of trust between students and administrators is exacerbated in scale by the process of creating independent studies or concentrations. With the New Curriculum’s birthday this calendar year, there has been more than the usual discussion about the integrity of the curriculum and how, if at all, it should be revised or revisited. Beyond the general arguments that students lay out regarding the discrepancies between the founding ideas and practice of

riculum was designed was that students would choose to form clusters of secondary interests, having one major and then several minors account for all their undergraduate courses. This would limit their desire to experiment with other classes for which they did not have the sufficient interest or experience to eventually declare a minor.

For many students, including myself, the lack of minors forces those of us interested in multiple disciplines to choose double-concentrating over simply taking diverse courses.

This is in part due to the graduate school ap-

plication system. For example, many teaching schools require a major or minor in the subject area you wish to teach.

Beyond the partially contrived world of academia and its corresponding requirements, showing a certain degree of acquaintance with various subject areas without requiring a very careful examination of an academic transcript can be very useful for career options. A resume, not an academic transcript, is the paper tool that helps you get a job. This rarely includes a full list of course work; rather, you are expected to give a concise summary of your collegiate knowledge, most often limited to concentration and perhaps language competency.

Having easy-to-recognize stamps (i.e., majors and minors) for each graduate’s degree of competence in each subject is not a pitfall of education. The fact is that what we learn in our undergraduate experience transfers benefits onto us in a manner that does not appear on an academic transcript or resume.

Giving students a few more tools to assert their qualifications does not detract from Brown’s commitment to educating its students in a liberal fashion, but may instead reduce the stress upon students, as we would be more concerned with personal development than job qualifications. An option of minors would allow some students to expand future career opportunities and make them feel more comfortable with their educational experience.

Susannah Kroeber ’11 is a Slavic studies concentrator from Beijing, China.

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