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Brown starts aid efforts Applications skyrocket 20 percent in Haiti disaster’s wake

By Anne Simons Staf f Writer

By Sydney Ember News Editor

In the two weeks since an earthquake devastated Haiti, the Brown community has begun mobilizing to aid the worldwide relief efforts. With immediate support from students, faculty and staff, President Ruth Simmons launched the Haiti Crisis Response Committee Jan. 14 to coordinate extensive relief efforts and to provide recommendations to the University about further measures the community can take to assist the Caribbean nation. The committee has met twice — once Jan. 15 and again Jan. 22 — to discuss ways to harness the outpouring of community support.

“The distressing situation in Haiti following the massive earthquake has left us all searching for ways of getting involved to bring aid and comfort to the people of Haiti,” Simmons wrote in a University-wide e-mail on Jan. 14. “The urgent need for virtually every category of assistance calls upon us to respond quickly and decisively.”

Coordinating University efforts The committee, which was introduced in the e-mail and includes professors, administrators, undergraduates and medical students, has already spearheaded fundraising efforts, organized drives for muchneeded supplies and planned educational opportunities on campus in a push to provide relief.

“Part of the real catastrophe here is the incredible poverty and inequality,” said Matthew Gutmann, vice president for international affairs and a co-leader of the committee with Professor of Africana Studies Barrymore Bogues. “What the president has asked us to do is to coordinate our efforts both long-term and shortterm.”

To manage the relief efforts, the committee created four working groups — a group charged with organizing fundraising efforts, a communications group that will develop a Web site, a group to address medical and health issues and a scholarly task

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Max Clermont ’11 was one of those helping out at Alumnae Hall, which served to handle the overflow of admissions applications.

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Brown retains NEASC accreditation

By Jenna Steckel Senior Staff Writer

After a lengthy review process, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges decided to reaccredit Brown as one of its member institutions. The organization formally informed President Ruth Simmons of the decision in a letter Jan. 8, and Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 announced the news in an e-mail to the Brown community Jan. 13.

In addition to praising the University’s Plan for Academic

Enrichment, the letter provides suggestions on how to improve the school further. The letter is based on the findings of the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education, the branch of the NEASC responsible for college and university accreditation.

The process of reaccreditation, which occurs about once a decade, involves a review of member schools by a committee of faculty and administrators from peer institutions. This committee compiles a report on the state of the school under review and offers suggestions

for improvement. Their report evaluates schools based on NEASC’s 11 standards, which include mission and purpose, academic program, faculty, physical and technological resources, students, public disclosure and integrity.

A 10-person team sent by NEASC began to evaluate Brown for reaccreditation in April 2008.

Their findings formed the basis for NEASC’s decision to reaccredit the University. According to the letter sent to Simmons, the team found Brown to be “one of the premiere continued on page 6

Brown’s admission office was inundated by “just north of” 30,000 undergraduate regular and early decision applications this January, according to Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73. This represents about a 20 percent increase in total applicants from last year and almost a 50 percent increase over the last two years, he added.

The surge in applications exceeded the processing capacity of the Admission Office’s building and forced the opening of a satellite facility in Alumnae Hall.

“We got buried,” Miller said.

Miller said it was dif ficult to attribute the massive increase to any one cause. He said he believes Brown has raised its national profile with initiatives like the Plan for Academic Enrichment and increased availability of financial aid, as well as the advancements of specific fields at Brown like neuroscience and environmental continued on page 2

Moynihan ’81 named to head Bank of America

By Ana Alvarez Senior Staff Writer

Bank of America selected senior executive Brian Moynihan ’81 as CEO in December. Moynihan took over earlier this month as the country’s largest bank faced large losses from the repayment of federal loans and continued trouble in consumer loan repayments.

While facing the difficult economic times that the bank has ahead, Moynihan told The Herald he hopes to “con-

tinue to do a great job for consumers and for our employees,” adding that “if we can be good at both of those, we can also do a good job for our shareholders.”

Following a rigorous search that attracted much speculation, the bank’s board of directors elected Moynihan after vetting several other candidates from inside and outside Bank of America, according to a statement from the bank. Moynihan previously worked as the bank’s president of global corpocontinued on page 3

At BET Honors, rubbing elbows with stars show, which recognizes the lifetime achievements of high-profile black Americans and will be broadcast Feb. 1 on the cable network. In front of a decked-out crowd that included celebrities, athletes and prominent professionals, the quintet was feted with video tributes and musical performances by the likes of Mary J. Blige, Stevie Wonder and Jennifer Hudson.

“I’m a little bit out of my element here,” Simmons said, taking the stage to accept her award in a floor-length black gown and a gold-and-pearl necklace. She spoke for about five minutes about the value of education, likening herself to “millions of children” worldwide who “walk every day along dusty

roads and mean streets to places of learning.”

“With the help of the teachers who pushed me beyond what I thought I could do,” she said, “I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a living, but to enable us to make a worthwhile life.”

Among those she thanked were the Corporation members who in 2001 made what she called the “boldly independent” decision to appoint her the Ivy League’s first black president.

“I hope and pray that I’ve lived up to their confidence in my abilities,” she told the crowd, adding, after a pause, “I’m sure I have.”

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News, 3

Sports, 7

Opinions, 11

Withdrawn Erroll Southers ’78, tapped for TSA head, pulls his name from consideration

a slippery start Men’s hockey team struggles to find momentum this season

smart shopping Mike Johnson ’11 urges students to think outside the Brown Bookstore

By Michael Skocpol Staff Writer

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WASHINGTON — Chatting politely with Diddy. Clasping hands with Queen Latifah. Receiving a bear hug from Whitney Houston. And delivering a speech that may reach a television audience of millions.

It was all in a glamorous night’s work for President Ruth Simmons, who accepted an award for her accomplishments as an educator Jan. 16, at the 2010 BET Honors in downtown’s Warner Theater.

Simmons, Latifah, Houston, renowned neurosurgeon Keith Black and Sean “Diddy” Combs were the honorees at the third-annual awards

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“I don’t think I’ve ever seen this kind of quality or numbers.”

— Jim Miller ’73, Dean of Admission

U. sees another large increase in first-year apps

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Miller said. They focused on areas that had more ethnic diversity and first-generation college students, resulting in a 40 percent increase in applications from first-generation college students, a 40 percent increase in Latino applications and a 45 percent increase in AfricanAmerican applications — which have doubled in the last two years, he said.

International applications are also up about 23 percent, Miller said.

Not all of Brown’s peer institutions saw similar increases in application numbers. According to a Jan. 22 article in Business Week, Princeton had a 19 percent increase in applications, while Harvard and Cornell’s numbers rose by only 5 percent, and Yale’s dropped by less than 1 percent. “It’s funny because there’s no pattern across the countr y,” Miller said.

Though these schools are similar to Brown in many ways, he said, something seems to have set the University apart.

The move to Alumnae Hall will be a one-time occurrence. Volume will not be a problem in the future because applications will be stored and read in electronic form next year, instead of the current method of printing applications out to read

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Miller also pointed to the cumulative effect of various positive impressions of Brown in the media and on college research Web sites.

The large volume and variety of information available about uni-

versities — from sources such as publications and Web sites that rank universities — has had a “ver y positive” effect, though it is “hard to quantify,” he said.

The Admission Office also increased targeted recruiting this year, especially in areas “that were not traditional feeder areas for us,”

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Early and regular decision applicants for the class on 2014 hit a record high for the University.

them, Miller added.

When the admission office was reconstructed seven years ago, Miller said, it was built to hold 25,000 applications each year. At the time, the University believed it would be large enough, but the unexpected increase in applications over the last several years meant the space was too small, he said.

The sorted applications were

just moved back into the Admission Office, where 19 full-time readers and “a bunch” of part-time readers will have to make it through tens of thousands of applications by April 1, when admission decisions are released, Miller said.

“It’s a challenge” and “a laborintensive process,” he said. In his years working in admissions, Miller said, “I don’t think I’ve ever seen this kind of quality or numbers.”

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Some syllabi now available online

By Thomas Jarus Contributing Writer

Courtesy of Erroll Southers

Errol Southers ’78 withdrew his name from nomination to head the Transportation Security Administration earlier this month after Senate concerns.

Southers ’78 out of running for transport security head

By Nicole Friedman News Editor

Though nominated by President Barack Obama to head the Transportation Security Administration in September, Erroll Southers ’78 withdrew his name from consideration Jan. 20 amid concerns in the Senate about the potential unionization of TSA employees and inconsistencies in his testimonies about his past.

Southers is currently the assistant chief of homeland security and intelligence for the Los Angeles World Airports Police Department, as well as associate director of the University of Southern California’s Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events.

Obama nominated Southers to oversee the TSA as assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in September, but his nomination was put on hold before the Senate’s winter recess. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., who placed a hold on the nomination, has expressed concerns about the unionization of TSA personnel.

After the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound flight on Dec. 25, Senate leadership tried to speed up the confirmation process, according to a Jan. 7 article in the Washington Post. But Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., placed another hold on Southers’ nomination pending a White House response to inconsistencies in Southers’ testimonies, the newspaper reported.

Southers provided two different

accounts to Congress about incidents in which he inappropriately accessed federal records in 1987 and 1988.

While he initially told the Senate he asked a friend to access the databases for him, he later recounted that he had accessed the database himself, according to the Post.

“I made, obviously, an error of testimony as it related to my recall,” Southers told The Herald.

Southers withdrew his nomination because he had “become a distraction,” he said. “I didn’t want to remain in a politicized environment as I was trying to deal with a real threat, and that being terrorism.”

“There was a reason for my demise that was beyond my control,” Southers said. While he was “really looking forward” to taking on new challenges at the TSA, he plans to stay in his current positions in Los Angeles for the time being and continue to “be a part of the solution” in counterterrorism efforts, he said.

Though Southers graduated from Brown with a degree in biology, he switched to law enforcement work after a half-semester of medical school.

“Talk about a 180-degree move,” he said.

Southers was active in the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and the Orientation Welcoming Committee while at Brown, he said.

Southers encountered an “unusual number of Brown alums” in the Department of Homeland Security, he said, including two of the three people who conducted his first interview there.

The effort by Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron and the Undergraduate Council of Students to expand the University’s course preview page, undertaken in November, made large strides by the end of winter break.

Bergeron said that over one-third of all courses have syllabi available on the preview page at courses.brown. edu. In an e-mail to all undergraduate students Tuesday, she wrote that students have been asking for course previews for a long time, and she is pleased to see it finally a reality.

Bergeron and UCS have been working to expand the course preview page in time for this semes-

ter’s shopping period. Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 formally asked professors in a November e-mail to upload their syllabi for this semester.

In a Jan. 15 e-mail to faculty, Bergeron reminded instructors of the importance of their cooperation.

She wrote, “Through your participation, the shopping period will become even more fruitful for both you and your students.”

In asking professors to post their syllabi online, the administration intends to help students determine their interest in a class before and during shopping period.

According to Robert Taj Moore ’11, chair of academic and administrative affairs for UCS, the council

stressed the importance of online syllabi to the faculty as well.

He said his committee e-mailed department chairs and attended their office hours in order to remind them to utilize the course preview page.

About 900 courses are offered during the spring semester, and Bergeron said she thinks more professors will upload their syllabi over the next couple of days.

She added that the course preview pages offer more information than MyCourses at this time of the year.

While she acknowledged that many students have yet to hear about the course preview page, she said, “Whenever you try something new, it takes a while for people to find out about it.”

Moynihan ’81 takes charge at Bank of America continued from page 1 rate and investment banking.

The search for a new CEO began after previous CEO Ken Lewis unexpectedly announced his retirement last September following Bank of America’s highly criticized takeover of Merrill Lynch.

Bank of America posted a $5.2 billion loss for the fourth quarter of 2009. The majority of the loss resulted from a $4 billion repayment that the bank made to the Troubled

Asset Relief Program.

As high unemployment continues to hamper Americans’ abilities to pay back credit card debts and mortgages, Bank of America will continue facing losses, Moynihan said.

“Our company continues to get better on credit,” he said, “but we still have elevated credit losses due to unemployment.”

Moynihan said he hopes that under his leadership, the bank can continue to “do our part to get the economy back on speed and help

the recovery.”

While at Brown, Moynihan majored in history and headed the men’s rugby team. After graduating, Moynihan earned a law degree from the University of Notre Dame and worked as a lawyer in Providence.

He then joined FleetBoston, a Massachusetts-based bank that Bank of America later acquired.

Of his time at Brown, Moynihan recollected, “I think the number-one great thing was that they taught you critical thinking.”

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“You can’t go into Haiti like you can any other country.”

— Will Perez ’08 MD’13

After devastating earthquake, campus organizes for Haiti aid continued from page 1 force to provide educational opportunities.

The committee has already set up various Web sites to offer information to people looking for ways they can help. In addition, four members of the medical school traveled to Haiti earlier this week to provide first-hand medical care, Gutmann said.

“There’s a lot of people who want to help out, and we want to make sure we’re doing what’s best for Haiti,” he said after the committee’s second

meeting, during which the working groups reported on their first week of discussions. “Everything is really up and running.”

Showing support In addition to providing avenues for coordinated relief efforts, Brown has also reached out to those who have been directly affected by the disaster, including Haitian students and other members of the community.

“We’ve been in touch with all the students we know of,” Gutmann said.

“Everybody seems to be OK, but at

the same time, there are people who have family that have been killed.”

Gutmann said student groups have also approached the committee searching for ways to raise money and awareness.

“Students here have been incredibly active in terms of coordinating efforts on campus,” Gutmann said.

“Students have got to be at the heart of all this.”

Many student groups are already involved in the relief efforts, with plans to host concerts, clothing drives, open-mic events and teach-ins across campus. One of the working groups is putting together a teach-in, a day-long academic event scheduled for Feb. 19, Gutmann said. A Facebook group, which sprung up immediately following the earthquake, had more than 1,200 members as of Tuesday. WBRU held a telethon Jan. 24 to raise money for ProvidenceHaiti Outreach.

Gutmann said his committee’s most important tasks are to keep Haiti “alive in people’s minds” once the sensational media coverage ebbs and to continue to improve communication with the nation.

Brown has also allocated a variety of resources to help the committee educate the community. Gutmann said the University is designating funding for future speakers and providing staff support for various lecture series to be held later in the semester. “We’re really trying to keep the expenses to an absolute minimum so all the money can go to Haiti itself,” he added. Though the committee has many ideas, no long-term plans will be finalized without input from intellectuals and political leaders in Haiti, Gutmann said.

Will Perez ’08 MD’13, who spent a year in Haiti before medical school and is now leading the medical working group along with Professor of

Medicine Timothy Flanigan, said one of the things his group is trying to do is “harness the energy and activism on campus” to create long-term relationships between groups in the Brown community and Haiti. But Perez said it was important to provide support without creating a situation in which Haiti becomes more dependent on outside resources.

“We literally have a nation that is dependent on charitable aid,” he said.

“There’s no sustainability.”

Perez has provided people with a list of small, on-the-ground organizations seeking funds. He said many of the bigger organizations such as the Red Cross are “getting paralyzed” by the sheer number of donations, leading to an inability to get money directly to people most in need.

“You can’t go into Haiti like you can any other country,” Perez said.

“They have no infrastructure. People are doing the best they can.”

Perez said his direct connection to Haiti has led others to reach out to him, too.

Immediately after the disaster, Perez said he received an outpouring of support from other students — his e-mail inbox was flooded with notes from people asking if he was OK. But Perez said all the well-meaning messages were ultimately too painful, especially because four of his friends had died.

Like Perez, Max Clermont ’11, who is one of three undergraduate students involved with the crisis committee and whose parents are both from Haiti, has been directly affected by the disaster. As of Tuesday, Clermont said his family has not heard from his grandmother. He already knows of family members who have been lost.

But Clermont said he is encouraged by the amount of support he has received from members of the

community looking to help.

“This is obviously something that is very personal,” he said. “The outpouring of support from administrators, professors and students has been one of the greatest things.”

Honoring Haiti The crisis has also galvanized already-established community interest in Haiti. There is an ongoing effort to digitize Haitian documents at the John Carter Brown Library, which also contains one of the world’s leading collections of Haitian artifacts, said Ted Widmer, director of the JCB. The digitized documents would be available to all residents of the island nation. Coincidentally, the library received a “very generous donation” earlier this year from a member of the library’s board to provide support for a year of digitization, he said, adding that a scanning machine necessary for the project arrived yesterday.

“We were already considering Haiti as an important priority in the years to come,” he said. “It’s all the more urgent that we do this because we’re all very concerned about the libraries in Haiti and their conditions.”

Brown has also reached out to Haitian scholars affected by the earthquake, Widmer said, adding that Patrick Tardieu, one of the leading senior librarians in Port-au-Prince, was invited to start a residency at the JCB beginning as early as next Monday so he could rebuild his collection of archives. In addition, former Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis is scheduled to give a lecture here on May 7.

“When the earthquake hit, I was in the position of knowing other people out there,” Widmer said. “Together, we need to make a global appeal to people who admire (Haiti’s) rich history.”

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“I’m so impressed by what they do.”

— President Ruth Simmons, on the other BET honorees

Simmons honored by BET with performance by India.Arie continued from page 1 ident and CEO Debra Lee ’76 and President of Music Programming and Specials Stephen Hill ’84 — are Brown alums, and Lee said the president of her alma mater fit the spirit of the award perfectly.

“Being the first African-American Ivy League president is quite an accomplishment, and when you look at her full history of everything she’s done for our young people in education, she’s a natural,” Lee, a member of Brown’s Board of Trustees, told The Herald. “Hopefully it will impress upon young people that there are a lot of different professions. You don’t have to be an entertainer or an athlete; you can be a university president.”

Last year’s BET Honors, which recognized luminaries including Blige and Magic Johnson, drew about 2.5 million television viewers, according to the network’s Web site.

“Where (Simmons) came from and how much she has accomplished hopefully will inspire young people that you can do whatever you want,” Lee added.

Simmons grew up during Jim Crow in Grapeland, Texas, as the youngest of 12 children in a family of limited means.

The tribute to Simmons included an introduction by actress Victoria Rowell, a brief video that recounted

her life story and lauded her expansion of financial aid at Brown and a musical performance by the singer India.Arie and the pianist ELEW. Simmons’ son, Khari, accompanied the pair on bass.

The setting revealed that Simmons is no complete stranger to the entertainment world.

Because her son regularly performs with Arie, she and Simmons are on a first-name basis, and Arie said Simmons specifically requested she perform at the event. That personal connection made honoring Simmons — whom she called a “longtime friend” — all the more special, Arie said.

“I kind of grew up around her,” Arie told the Herald. “She’s someone that I just admire and admire on a personal level, too.”

Simmons has been known to break into song when she sees Arie, the singer revealed. “I have a song called ‘India’s Song,’ and every time I see her she goes, ‘India, India, Indiaa-a,’” she said.

Arie serenaded Simmons with her song “Beautiful Flower,” whose refrain includes the lyrics “There’s nothing in the world that you can’t do / When you believe in you, who are beautiful.”

The video tribute featured photos — many of which showed Simmons in her academic regalia — and

interviews with Simmons and others.

Many parts of the video drew loud applause from the audience, especially a part that showed Simmons telling the interviewer that a key moment in her life was when she realized that “I should not be grateful to be at Harvard,” where she received her doctorate, “but they should be grateful to have me.”

Rowell credited Simmons with a “commitment to helping build academic golden gates.”

“Education is an equalizer, a way that those less fortunate can bridge the economic gap,” Rowell said. “Tonight, we celebrate Dr. Ruth Simmons, a woman who crossed that bridge and is now dedicated to shepherding as many others across the divide as possible.”

Simmons also used the occasion to express her sympathy for the people of earthquake-devastated Haiti.

“I hear everybody saying that Haiti has to overcome its history, and it annoys me,” she said, to applause.

“Haiti’s a beautiful land, full of beautiful, brilliant people. It just is going to have to live up to its history.”

Before the event, Simmons walked the red carpet with the likes of D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth of “The Apprentice” fame, singer Patti LaBelle and actress Gabrielle Union, the show’s host.

The red carpet is “not quite like

the normal thing that I do,” Simmons laughed while shuttling from interview to interview. “It’s always nervewracking,” she said, stumbling briefly over her gown as she made her way through a gauntlet of reporters, photographers and television cameras.

“You can see why.”

Simmons told the crowd while accepting her award that she found the company humbling.

“I don’t know why I’m here with them,” she said. “I’m so impressed by what they do.”

“It’s intimidating, because I can get up and talk, but they can too,” she added. “And I can’t perform.”

But despite the bright lights and heady atmosphere of the night, Simmons made sure to slip in at least one plug for Brown.

“It’s imperative that I give a shoutout to the students, faculty and staff of Brown University,” she said.

Drawing mid-sentence laughter from the audience for her use of slang, Simmons asked, “I can say that, can’t I?”

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“It was an opportune moment” — Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98

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educational institutions in the United States.” In its review, the visiting team focused specifically on the undergraduate program in accordance with a request from Brown.

At “nearly forty years since the open curriculum was created, and twenty since the last thorough review, it was an opportune moment to see how well the curriculum is serving our students and to identify possible areas of improvement,”

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Kertzer wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

Brown’s most recent round of reaccreditation began in 2007, but the University successfully petitioned to defer the process by one year in order to allow its Task Force on Undergraduate Education, led

by Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron and consisting of a mix of faculty, administrators and students, to complete its own evaluation before the outside committee began

its review. The Task Force’s report guided both Brown’s continued selfexamination and the visiting team’s focus, Kertzer wrote.

In its letter, the Commission wrote that it considers the Plan for Academic Enrichment “a valuable roadmap for future development,” and requested an interim report to be submitted by the University in the spring of 2013. The Commission requested that the report provide an update on the University’s progress in the areas it identified as warranting improvement, highlight the plan’s continued success and include any adaptations made to the plan because of current economic difficulties.

NEASC’s suggestions to the University included: reevaluating its policies for granting tenure, for which plans are already underway; improving research facilities in order to provide sufficient space and materials as Brown expands its research program; and the development of a successful system for evaluating learning and student achievement.

Kertzer wrote that he saw the reaccreditation process as helpful because it encouraged the Brown community “to reflect on what we are doing well and where we could improve. Good things are underway as a result.”

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M. hoops finishes 3-5 in rough stretch

By Erika Mueller Contributing Writer

After finishing up what Head Coach Jesse Agel called a challenging out-of-conference schedule, men’s basketball opened up Ivy League play with a split against Yale in two games over the past two weeks.

Overall, the Bears put up a 3-5 record over winter break play.

Returning from a 21-day break, the Bears earned a 74-63 victory against Kean on Dec. 28. Led by Matt Mullery’s ’10 double-double and 17 points from Adrian Williams ’11, the Bears put the Cougars down despite leading by only three points with 4:05 left on the clock.

After an 83-78 loss to Sacred Heart on the road two days later, All-Ivy for ward Muller y guided Brown to an 72-71 overtime victory against Wagner on Jan. 4. His driving lay-up with five seconds remaining put the Bears on top and gave Mullery 14 on the night.

Tucker Halpern ’13 added 22 points and seven rebounds, both career highs. Andrew McCarthy ’13 netted 15 points and had six rebounds in just 14 minutes.

Halpern was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week following strong performances against both Wagner and Army.

“As well as he is playing now, he’s just scratching the surface of what we expect from him and what he expects from himself,” Agel said.

McCar thy also earned Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors for the second time this season.

With the Bears plagued by injuries, McCarthy stepped off of the bench and had 14 points and eight rebounds against Yale on Jan. 15.

M. hockey struggles on ice after 25-day hibernation

By Dan Alexander Sports Editor

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Forward Tucker Halpern ’13 collected a career-high 22 points in the Bears’ 72-71 overtime win against Wagner.

“As far as the freshmen are concerned, I told them they’re having tremendous freshman years,” Agel said. “They’re learning on the fly and have done a great job.”

Brown kicked off its 14-game Ivy League season with its first conference contest against Yale.

The Bears earned a 75-66 victory with a strong performance from Steve Gruber ’10, who scored a career-high 15 points off the bench.

The Bears gained a 10-point lead midway through the second half, but Yale answered with a 7-0 run to pull within three points with 7:34 left in the game.

The same teams played a week

later, but Brown fell short, 71-63.

Mullery scored 19 and guard Garrett Leffelman ’11 added a careerhigh 15, but the shots weren’t falling for the rest of the team. After splitting the series, both Brown and Yale are now 7-12 overall and 1-1 in Ivy League play.

The pressure couldn’t be any greater for goalie Michael Clemente ’12 and the Brown defense this season. Shut down the cage, and the Bears win.

Slip up three times, and it’s going to be a long night.

In games in which the team (6-12-1, 4-7-1 ECAC Hockey) has let in at least three goals, the Bears are 0-11-1. But when they have let in fewer than three, they’re 6-1-0.

“When we’re clicking defensively, we’re very dangerous,” Clemente said.

“It’s just that we need to continue to work on being consistent.”

It’s not just Clemente who bears the responsibility. Brown’s defensemen know they must make it easier on him.

“You take every goal against you kind of personally if you’re on the ice,” said defenseman Jeremy Russell ’11.

“But at the same time, you’ve just kind of got to be able to park it and get ready for the next shift.”

On Nov. 28, the Bears became the last team in the nation to get their first win of the season. But then they didn’t lose again until January. During the stretch, opposing teams averaged just 1.17 goals against Brown.

The five-game winning streak started with an 8-1 trouncing of UConn and was highlighted by a 2-1 victory on Dec. 5 over then-No. 6 Quinnipiac.

“I thought they outworked us tonight,” Quinnipiac Head Coach Rand Pecknold said after the game.

The Bears’ momentum ended with their break over exams and the holidays. They re-opened their schedule with a two-night doubleheader against No. 5 St. Cloud State on Jan. 2 and Jan. 3. St. Cloud State took down the Bears, 5-1 and 5-3, to open the New Year.

The downward spiral kept twisting and the Bears dropped their next three games — all of which were away, including one against No. 6 Yale.

During the five-game losing streak, Brown allowed an average of 6.4 goals per game and the team gave up eight more power play goals than they earned.

“We just weren’t committed to team defense,” Russell said. “We sometimes got out-battled down low. We took way too many penalties and just had lapses we can’t afford to have.”

But the losing skid ended on Saturday when the Bears beat Clarkson 3-2 in the Golden Knights’ rink.

“The Clarkson game reminded me of the UConn game,” Clemente said. “So I’m excited for this weekend because there’s a good feeling in the locker room.”

The team will take its home ice for the first time since Dec. 8 on Friday at 7 p.m. against Rensselaer. The Bears will return the following night at 7 p.m. to take on ECAC leader Union — with whom Brown tied 3-3 on Nov. 6.

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By Dan Alexander Sports Editor

Men’s soccer Head Coach Mike Noonan accepted an offer on Dec. 24 to be the head coach at Clemson and will officially resign from his post at Brown on Feb. 4. The Brown Department of Athletics immediately began a nationwide search for Noonan’s replacement.

“Mike is sort of like the gold standard,” said Director of Athletics Mi-

chael Goldberger. “It’s really hard, I think — in an Ivy institution — to be able to put (together) teams that can compete on a national level.”

In his 15 years on Brown’s sidelines, Noonan led the Bears to 10 NCAA tournament appearances, won eight Ivy League titles and compiled a 160-77-31 record.

“It was an extremely emotional and difficult decision,” Noonan said.

“You stay at a place for 15 years, you always want to look for the right time

for a new challenge.”

Noonan said another “big reason” he decided to go to Clemson was so that he could train with his players year-round, something he couldn’t do at Brown because of Ivy League restrictions.

Noonan will take assistant coach Phil Jones to Clemson with him, but assistants Patrick Laughlin and Gregg Miller will remain in Providence.

Laughlin will be the Bears’ interim coach and is also a candidate for the head coaching job.

Though Noonan had told his players he was interviewing for the position, some were still caught off-guard when he called to inform them.

“I knew it was a possibility, but you never, sort of, imagine him leaving,” said defenseman Dylan Remick ’13. “You always think, ‘Oh, he’ll find a way, he’ll stay, he won’t take the job.’ So, when he said it, I was a little shocked.”

Noonan will take over the Clemson job from former Brown Head Coach Trevor Adair, who resigned from the South Carolina school last June after being arrested on charges of assaulting his teenage daughters — charges that were dropped in mid-January, according to USA Today.

It’s only coincidence that Clemson has hired two consecutive coaches from Brown, according to Kyle Young,

Jonathan Bateman / Herald file photo

Men’s soccer Head Coach Mike Noonan took a position as head coach at Clemson.

Clemson associate athletic director and sports supervisor for soccer.

Noonan “was a guy who was pointed to by many as an individual who can really pull young men together into a team,” Young said. “We desperately need that right now in our men’s soccer program.”

After being contacted by the Tigers in September, Goldberger allowed Clemson to speak to Noonan.

But the coach refused to talk about

another job while in season.

“I had better things to do,” Noonan said. “I didn’t want any distractions for our players or for me or my staff.”

Noonan eventually decided to accept the job, in part because of the strength of the players remaining at Brown. “I felt that the program was in very, very good shape and was going to continue to have success after I was gone. That’s the way you want to leave something.”

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“We were hungry for a win.”

— Jean Marie Burr, women’s basketball

W. basketball off to shaky start

By Zack Bahr Contributing Writer

Coming off a 19-day break isn’t easy. Neither is practicing ever y day while your classmates are still enjoying the comforts of home. But “easy” hasn’t described any part of the women’s basketball season thus far.

The Bears resumed after the break with 29- and 27-point losses to St. Joseph’s and South Carolina, respectively, in the Philadelphia Hawk Classic.

“It’s hard going up against teams who haven’t had time off,” Head Coach Jean Marie Burr said.

“They’ve been playing while we’ve been away.”

Bruno’s non-conference woes continued against Albany and a Syracuse team that had only one loss going into the game.

Brown’s tough schedule included teams from conferences such as the Atlantic 10 and Big East.

“I think this will really get us ready for conference play,” Burr said.

Januar y brought back-to-back contests between the Bears and the Yale Bulldogs. In the thrilling Ivy home-opener, Brown picked up its win in the split series.

Lindsay Nickel ’13, Hannah Passafuime ’12 and Aileen Daniels ’12

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The women’s basketball team will play Princeton this Friday

all scored double-digit points in the much-needed victor y against the Bulldogs. The game was a shootout, with the Bears prevailing 60-56.

“We were hungr y for a win,” Burr said. “We took it to the highest level.”

Brown faced the same Yale team the following weekend on the road, but not with the same outcome.

With just 10 minutes remaining, Bruno led, 37-35. But then bad news Bears began, as the team faced fouls

and turnovers. The Bulldogs held Brown to just eight points for the remainder of the game and earned the “W” on their home court with a final score of 67-43.

Bruno will be back in action Friday at Princeton and will have a chance to gain a winning record in Ivy play. The Tigers — which ESPN recently ranked No. 10 in the mid-major poll — are off to the best start in school history with a 13-2 record.

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Haiti and beyond The earthquake that ravaged Haiti earlier this month was a powerful reminder of the country’s deep-seated poverty and political misrule. But it was also a reminder that humans are sometimes powerless against the earth — that natural disasters can kill thousands, wound many more and turn civilization upside-down, not just in Haiti, but anywhere on our planet.

The global community has been called upon repeatedly in recent years to respond to major humanitarian crises caused by natural disasters. In 2004, we watched as a tsunami swept over Southeast Asia, killing over 200,000 people. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and the American Gulf Coast. Now, once again, we are gearing up to send aid to an area that will need to rebuild itself from the ground up.

Brown has been swift and thorough in its response to the earthquake in Haiti. In the days following the disaster, the University appointed a committee to oversee relief efforts, which include fundraising, medical assistance and scholarship on Haiti. The University has organized supply drives and assembled lists of organizations that are accepting donations. As the semester unfolds, the committee will hold a Haiti teach-in to explore issues surrounding the country’s poverty. And in the long term, Brown has pledged to strengthen its focus on Haitian studies, especially in the areas of education and medicine. These are laudable goals, and we encourage all members of the Brown community to get involved.

Brown can further its long-term commitment to relief in Haiti and elsewhere by promoting broader research on disaster response, reconstruction and humanitarian aid. Disaster relief is highly interdisciplinary, drawing from public health, development economics, urban planning and international relations.

As a university with strong programs in all of these fields, Brown is well-situated to promote research on humanitarian crises and emergency management that will benefit countries all over the globe.

Indeed, a number of universities have already launched programs like this. Johns Hopkins’ Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, for example, collaborates with nongovernmental organizations to develop and implement emergency systems for populations in crisis. Harvard’s Humanitarian Initiative seeks to improve humanitarian response strategies to relieve human suffering in war and disaster. Brown could take these ideas a step further by promoting student participation — creating opportunities for students to conduct pertinent research or work with disaster-relief organizations. By establishing ties between students and organizations that work on the front lines, Brown can play a role in training the next generation of leaders who will manage responses to crises.

In the days after the Haiti earthquake, President Ruth Simmons wrote to the Brown community, telling us that we must be prepared “to commit to ongoing efforts even after the initial phase of relief is over.”

A new center for disaster relief, reconstruction and humanitarian aid would represent not only a longterm commitment to help rebuild Haiti, but also an ongoing effort to relieve human suffering across the globe.

Haiti’s earthquake will not be the last natural disaster to devastate a country. Though we hope for the best, we must be prepared for what will come next.

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Money can’t buy me ... text MIKE JOHNSON Opinions Columnist As spring kicks into high gear far too early for any of us to handle, all of our hard-earned summer cash is doomed to spiral (counterclockwise, since we’re in the northern hemisphere) straight down the drain. The city of Providence is looking forward to the Brown community returning to its stores and restaurants, providing the millions of dollars of income that keep the city afloat (student tax notwithstanding).

But that’s not where the semester’s first mountain of cash will vaporize; rather, hundreds of dollars will vanish with the swipe of a card at the Brown Bookstore. It’s a necessary expense; not many professors are proponents of the “it’s true because I say so” approach to teaching. Invariably, every semester, humanities concentrators arm themselves for the fruitless debate against sciences concentrators over who spends more money on textbooks.

But the real debate should be, why do we choose to spend as much as we do?

For most of my tenure here at Brown, I’ve resigned myself to the attitude that I didn’t have a choice. When handing out the syllabus, my professors would claim, “All of these are

available at the bookstore.” The bookstore is conveniently located on Thayer Street, and I can buy everything there, without worrying that I won’t be able to find what I need. By contrast, Borders and Amazon.com were so “over there.” What I didn’t realize, however, is that I was paying heavily for the convenience of the bookstore.

The Brown Bookstore is a rip-off. I know it; you know it; the employees of the bookstore know it. The bookstore overcharges for what it sells, and when students opt to participate in the deceptively benevolent-sounding “text-

of ours, the bookstore is entitled to charge whatever it likes for textbooks, no matter how insane the markups are, so long as people keep buying. While outrage and hullabaloo spread through the student population faster than the swine flu, the only recourse that truly affects the bookstore is taking our money elsewhere.

The Brown Bookstore is not a monopoly; there are scores of establishments that sell books required for our classes. Speaking from experience, the Brown Bookstore is not the only place to obtain a copy of Henry David

The Brown Bookstore is a rip-off. I know it; you know it; the employees of the bookstore know it. book buyback” program, it shells out pennies on the dollar, effectively making a sizable profit twice on the same book. This sort of scheme makes Bernie Madoff drool. Yes, the Brown Bookstore is a business, and it deserves to make a profit, but is it necessary for that profit to come via price gouging, which harms students?

The short answer is no. The longer answer is that the bookstore can only charge what it does for textbooks because no one is telling it not to. In this wonderful free market society

Thoreau’s “Walden.” There’s a Borders 15 minutes’ walk from campus, and Amazon (where books grow on trees) is a click away.

With the economy still working on that “slow but strong” recovery plan, money is tight; why not shop around? It won’t really kill us to take an hour or two out of the daily allotment of Facebook time and check out Amazon’s prices.

To be clear: I am not advocating a full-out boycott of the Brown Bookstore. Instead, I’m simply a proponent of bargain hunting. Many

professors don’t really care if you have the same edition as they do, so long as the words are the same. Other professors, if they insist on using the same editions, will issue the ISBN of the edition they prefer.

Coincidentally, a federal law, the Higher Education Opportunity Act, goes into effect July 1, and makes this process mandatory. Pop that into the search bar of Amazon and you have an instant price check. The bookstore even enables this process, posting their prices online. Check them all out and then buy the cheapest one. If the bookstore continues to lose profits on textbook sales, prices will drop faster than you can say “invisible hand rhymes with supply and demand.”

The power of the purse strings is one of the most effective powers students have during this process. To not exercise it is irresponsible and lazy. The hallmark of the consumer experience is choice, and it would be a disservice to cast off those choices in favor of convenience. I personally plan to shop at the Brown Bookstore, so long as they can offer me the lowest price on the specific books I need.

If they can’t, I’m taking my dead presidents elsewhere.

Mike Johnson ’11 spent most of break playing Beatles Rock Band, seriously influencing his titles.

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ETHAN TOBIAS Opinions Columnist The semesters are always extremely busy, with tons of classes, exams and papers. On top of all the coursework, students have many extracurricular responsibilities. Most students can barely cram in a social life, let alone an occasional full night’s sleep. Overwhelmed by the breadth of work and activities, it is easy to lose touch with the wider Providence community.

Over the last week of winter break, 12 Brown students tried to bridge this divide by volunteering at Highlander Charter School with a program run by the Brown/RISD Hillel.

As a participant, I had the chance to connect with local elementary school children, helping with homework and running activities. For me, this was a very meaningful experience.

Unfortunately, I cannot really say the same for the third graders I spent time with. This was illustrated when one student said, “I’ve never heard of Brown, and I never want to go there!”

This exclamation fleshed out the irony of the whole program. While the Brown students were having this very positive experience, serving a part of the Providence community with which they would not usually interact, what kind of experience were the children having?

They certainly recognized our presence, interacting with us as if we were their teachers.

At several points, students who had met us at previous activities would run up to us to say a quick hello. However, the week, already shortened by Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, only provided a small window into their world. By the time I had a good grasp of the personalities of the children I was assigned to, the week was over and we were ready to begin another work-filled semester.

Had this one week of service really had an impact on their lives? Their days would have

how much greater our impact could have been if we had spent our time campaigning in Massachusetts for Martha Coakley. With the health care bill seemingly dependent on the Democrats holding onto that Senate seat, we might have made more of a difference by helping pass a bill with the potential for providing insurance coverage for these children’s parents. That would mean more money at home for things like books and food. Furthermore, the impact from this election will

When motivated to continue serving for the months and years to come, Brown students like us will have the opportunity to be role models for hundreds of children. been very similar whether we were or were not there, since the usual after-school teachers were still in charge. Could it even be detrimental that the program had ended as soon as the children finally got a chance to really connect with us? Had we actually let them down in a way?

These questions do not just apply to the twelve students in Hillel’s program. With so many students on campus volunteering their time in a variety of types of service, it seems altogether possible that our energies might be wasted, or an inefficient use of human resources.

One Brown student on the program remarked

be felt nationwide, helping tens of thousands of children rather than the 200 at Highlander Charter School.

Ultimately, this game of theoretical happenings and questions of efficacy fails to consider the potential hidden value in service. In the case of this program, a whole group of students from around the world had a taste of what it means to be an educator and serve in the community. Hopefully, this first bite will lead to a sustained relationship between Highlander Charter School and Hillel, and the continuation of programs that engage in service projects with the community.

A sustained initiative means that this first week of service, affecting only a few children, might morph into something that impacts the lives of hundreds of children over the course of months and years. Furthermore, if one of these community service programs leads Brown students to want to do more community service, or even something like Teach for America, the benefits are exponentially greater.

For this program, it was much more important that community service influenced those serving rather than those being served. When motivated to continue serving for the months and years to come, Brown students like us will have the opportunity to be role models for hundreds of children.

Sometime between shopping a dozen classes and cramming for papers and midterms, consider serving in the Providence community. It might not seem to have the huge impact that volunteering for a political campaign does, and it might be a little disconcerting at times. Remember, however, that the effects of service are not limited and will continue to grow with time into something that might have a noticeable impact.

Ethan Tobias ’12 is a biology concentrator from New York. He can be reached at Ethan_Tobias@ brown.edu.

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