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Bears take 3rd in ECAC championships Africana studies to launch grad program in fall 2011

By Dan Alexander Sports Editor

The men’s hockey team was the first No. 11 seed in ECAC Hockey Tournament history to make it to the tournament Final Four, but the Bears’ unlikely run to the championship ended Friday night in a 3-0 loss to No. 7 Cornell, who went on to win the tournament. “We were a program that was utterly down when I got there, and we’ve had to change the mentality and culture,” said first-year Head Coach Brendan Whittet ’94. “It would have been nice to obviously win a championship, but we made some good strides.” The Bears beat St. Lawrence in a 3-0 consolation game the next day to finish in third place.

By Talia Kagan Senior Staf f Writer

Cornell 3, Brown 0 When Cornell took the ice minutes before the opening faceoff, a sea of red shirts roared. And when Jonathan Bateman / Herald

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The 11th-seeded men’s hockey team lost to No. 7 Cornell in the semis.

Med students fundraise for new building By Sarah Mancone Senior Staff Writer

On Friday night the Medical Student Senate hosted a fundraiser at 222 Richmond St. for the renovations that will transform it into Alpert Medical School’s new Medical School Education Building. With drywall pieces scattered on the floor, large

holes in walls, light fixtures missing and orange spray paint decorating the walls, the building — whose renovations were approved by the Corporation last month — is a work in progress. “We’re going to shell this whole thing,” said Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences Edward Wing. Renovations are scheduled to of-

ficially begin on April 26, but the University has received demolition permits that allowed some work to begin earlier, Wing wrote in an email to The Herald. The event, attended mostly by medical students, faculty and University administrators, raised funds continued on page 2

The creation of a graduate program in Africana studies marks the latest development in the growth of the department, which hired renowned author Chinua Achebe in the fall. The Corporation approved the new program in December, said Tricia Rose, professor of Africana studies and chair of the department. The department, which is only a decade old, currently offers only an undergraduate degree. The graduate school will open admissions next fall for the program’s two fully-funded student openings, and the first students will enroll in fall 2011, Rose said. While students will earn a master’s degree en route to their doctorate, the approved proposal does not include a terminal master’s program, Rose said. The program’s curriculum has three areas of focus: history, politics and theory; literary, expressive and performance cultures; and feminism, gender and sexuality. Doctoral candidates will take two required classes and other seminars during their first two years and begin their dissertation proposal in their third. They will be able to choose among graduate seminars with topics including black feminist thought and race and cultural politics, according to a September memo sent to admin-

istrators by the Africana studies faculty. The small size is not unusual for a graduate program in the humanities at Brown, according to Dean of the Graduate School Sheila Bonde. The first class is limited to two students because of the amount of available funding, Rose said, adding that she hopes the program will expand to four or five students in each class. This would require the dedication of additional resources and fundraising efforts to create endowed student fellowships, she said. The department began considering the program in 2001, but did not actually begin working on it until two years later, said Barrymore Bogues, professor of Africana studies and a former chair of the department. In the following years, the depar tment made a series of high-profile hires such as Rose and Professor of Africana Studies and English John Wideman. These hires were part of a conscious decision to strengthen the department in specific areas, Bogues said. It is a departmental priority to “have the largest number of highly ranked cutting-edge research faculty” in order to attract top graduate students, Rose said. The Graduate Council apcontinued on page 2

Depts., concentration Creative arts opens programs face review center spring 2011 By Xuan Gao Contributing Writer

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Five academic units are in the midst of being reviewed this semester by internal review teams — led by the Academic Priorities Committee — and external review teams of scholars from other institutions, according to guidelines and procedures for reviews of academic programs produced by the Office of the Provost. The review process gives departments and concentration programs an opportunity to “improve the quality of academic units individually and the University as a whole,” according to the guidelines and procedures. Associate Provost Nancy Dunbar, who oversees the reviews of academic departments and cen-

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ters, said the goal of the review process is to “think about where we are, where we are trying to get and how to get there.” The units undergoing review this year are physics, chemistry, modern culture and media, English and literary arts. The issue most departments wanted to focus on was “how the department is doing in relation to its national or international peers,” Dunbar said. Scholar visits from other universities would help departments see themselves in relation to their broader disciplines, she said, adding that departments want to reflect on their strengths and their capacities for leading scholarship. continued on page 2

By Anna Andreeva Staf f Writer

The Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts will open for student use and offer classes and programs in spring 2011, said Richard Fishman, professor of visual art and director of the Creative Arts Council. The center will feature a recital hall, three production spaces, a gallery, a recording studio, a physical media lab and an outdoor amphitheater, according to the Creative Arts Council’s pamphlet about the center. The center is also designed with spaces for groups to “gather, talk, hold a seminar” in order to facilitate the exchange of ideas, Fishman said. The Creative Arts Council offic-

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The new Creative Arts Center is slated to open in spring 2011.

es that will be housed in the building should be open in December 2010, Fishman said. The center will be used for programs and courses taught by faculty from various departments but will not house any academic departments, Fishman said. Rhode Island School of Design students and faculty will be invited to make use of the building as well, he

said, and “public presentations and events that will be open to the community” will also take place in the building. The center was inspired by the need at Brown for a space where barriers between the arts, science and technology could be crossed, Fishman said. He said the resulting continued on page 3

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