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Gala moves to Andrews, obligations to Westin unclear

By Alex Bell Senior Staff Writer

Tickets for Saturday’s Gala went back on sale Sunday after being put on hold Thursday, a few days after Student Labor Alliance members informed the event’s organizers of claims of unfair labor practices made by workers at the Westin Providence hotel, the previously scheduled location.

The Gala will instead be held in and around Andrews Dining Hall and on the terrace above it, according to Neil Parikh ’11, president of the 2011 Class Board. He said a tent will cover the terrace and other areas to prevent a repeat of last year’s muddy Gala.

“It was kind of a last-minute decision, but I think we got lucky,” Parikh said. The organizers have received assistance from Brown’s catering services, who put them in touch with the company that caters alumni functions on campus, he

Shortz spells it out, students are puzzled

By Alicia Chen Senior Staf f Writer

As other students relaxed outside in the sun Saturday afternoon, Brown’s puzzle fans gathered in MacMillan Hall 117 to compete in the second annual Brown Crossword Tournament for fame, glory and puzzle books by Will Shortz, the event’s host. Shortz is the New York Times crossword editor and puzzle master on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday.

Brown students constructed two of the four crossword puzzles used in the tournament, said event coorganizer Natan Last ’12. A puzzle constructed by co-organizer Jonah Kagan ’13 will be published in the Times on April 14 and Last, who will intern with Shortz this summer, will have his puzzle published April 30. Kagan and Last create weekly crosswords for The Herald.

Though Shor tz also hosts crossword tournaments at other colleges, he noted that Brown has the most student crossword constructors. He hopes to have a week of puzzles entirely created by Brown students in the Times next September, he said.

Participants were divided into three categories: pairs, Brown undergraduates and non-Brown competitors. All competed in the

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Protestors rally against Westin Hotel’s treatment of employees.

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The event is organized by the Class Boards and the Key Society.

Ticket prices for the new venue will be reduced by five dollars to $20 in advance and $25 at the door,

according to Parikh, though the total cost to put on the event is not yet known.

He said the on-campus event should cost about $20,000, adding that he was not sure whether the

organizers would be held liable for a $20,000 minimum food fee included in their contract with the Westin, including a $5,000 deposit that has already been made to the hotel. The University’s lawyers were pursuing the matter, he said.

Brown’s Vice President and General Counsel Beverly Ledbetter said she was not the attorney from the Office of the General Counsel in charge of the Gala contract, but said that in cases like this, at least the deposit would be non-refundable, and possibly more.

“It would be up to the Westin and any goodwill they wish to bestow on the students,” Ledbetter said. The attorney from her office responsible for the case could not be reached Sunday night.

According to an unfinalized draft of the contract obtained by The Herald, the only situations in which the agreement could be nul-

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Honesty is tour guides’ policy Red brick buildings, wide campus greens, the New Curriculum, the Van Wickle Gates: these ideas represent Brown to the outside world.

Brown’s image, and how it promotes that image to prospective applicants, is carefully tailored to cast the University in its desired light. Administrators, facilities

By Ben Schreckinger Metro Editor

Office.

“We are not tr ying to sell Brown to people,” said Christiana Stephenson ’11, tours cocoordinator for the Bruin Club and The Herald’s alumni relations director. “We are trying to show people what our lives are like here at Brown.”

Tours are the primary method used to show what campus and stu-

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managers, admission officers, architects, Web designers, students, faculty and staff all play a crucial role in crafting and promoting the way Brown sells itself to the world.

The first on-campus experience a prospective applicant has at Brown likely comes in the form of a tour or an information session, which are coordinated by the Bruin Club, a student group, in partnership with the Admission

2006 ouster was result of false rape charge, case alleges

A sealed civil case has been filed in federal court accusing the University, President Ruth Simmons, Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98, Senior Vice President for Corporation Affairs and Governance Russell Carey ’91 MA’06 and several other University employees of “acts tantamount to criminality,” false imprisonment, fraud and conspiracy to defraud, libel and 10 other counts of civil misconduct.

The claims stem from a September 2006 incident in which a former member of the class of 2010 was accused of raping a female student.

The female student and her father are accused in the complaint of extortion, fraud and conspiracy to defraud, libel and four other counts of civil misconduct. The Herald is withholding her name because she may have been the victim of a sex crime.

A complaint obtained by The Herald and filed in Rhode Island Superior Court last September on behalf of the plaintiffs — William McCormick III and his parents — alleges that pressure from University employees and the female student’s friends over several days led her

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By Max Godnick Staff Writer

Former student claims misdeeds

by U. officials in sealed case

Baseball team sweeps Princeton, Cornell the other three games, defeating Princeton, 17-4, and Cornell, 13-6 and 15-4.

By Chan Hee Chu Contributing Writer

It was the kind of scenario that baseball players act out in backyards from the time they were little leaguers. Josh Feit ’11 stepped up to the plate in the bottom of the ninth with two runners on and two

SPORTS outs. With the score tied, 12-12, Feit fell behind in the count. But he battled back and lined a single to right, giving Brown the series sweep over Princeton.

That was the only close game of the weekend for the Bears. They rolled over their opponents in

Brown 17, Princeton 4 In the first of two against the Tigers, the Bears received a quality outing from starter Kevin Carlow ’13 on the mound.

“It was important for Kevin to go deep in the game especially with the wind blowing. We knew we were going to need our relievers later,” said Head Coach Marek Drabinski.

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Brown defeated two Ivies this weekend with ease.

News, 3

Arts, 5

Sports, 7

Opinions, 11

mad science Brown researchers have raked in more than $28 million in grant funding

we are all geniuses In his new book, Shenk ’88 discusses “how people get good at stuff”

BRown beats penn The men’s lacrosse team beat Penn 12-9 to improve to 5-4 on the season

Religious prejudice Manas Gautam ’12 argues that religious people should not be treated differently

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to make a false accusation of rape against the plaintiff.

The complaint states that though an accusation of rape — which can carry a sentence of up to life in prison in Rhode Island — had been made, law enforcement officials were never notified of the matter.

This series of events has allegedly aggravated McCormick’s preexisting seizure condition. He and his parents are seeking unspecified damages from the defendants.

McCormick’s parents declined to comment and said their son could not be reached for comment.

The case was originally filed Sept. 4, 2009, in Rhode Island Superior Court, but according to a source familiar with the matter, the defendants removed it to the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island.

The source requested anonymity because there is an order from a federal judge sealing the case and the source was worried about potential legal consequences.

In an unusual move, the federal case, number 09-474-S, has been placed completely under seal. No publicly available record of that case, or the case originally filed in State Superior Court, number 09-5213, exists.

The complaint alleges that “financial self-interest” guided the University’s handling of the incident because the female student’s father, an alum, “has donated and raised ver y substantial sums of money for Brown.”

It asserts that the University was “desirous of keeping (the female student) content in the Brown com-

munity,” causing it to disregard its own policies and the well-being of the plaintiff.

The plaintiffs allege that the female student’s father was “in regular contact with the administration, including calling defendants Russell Carey and Ruth Simmons directly.”

The complaint alleges that, under pressure from friends and University officials, the female student eventually escalated initial “exaggerations and half-truths” about her relationship with the plaintiff to a false allegation of rape.

According to the complaint, the plaintiff and the female student came to be on friendly terms during the first days of their freshman year. But friends of the female student allegedly referred to him as her “stalker.”

The roommate of the female student allegedly encouraged her to express her concerns about a “ ‘creepy’ guy” to their Residential Counselor — a member of the class of 2009 — though the female student did not provide McCormick’s identity at that time. The RC allegedly then referred the matter to the Community Director on-call at the time.

The Community Director then referred the matter to Carla Hansen, associate dean of student life, who, according to the complaint, convinced the female student to meet with a special victims advocate at the Department of Public Safety.

Hansen, the advocate, and Director of Public Safety Mark Porter are all named as defendants in the case. In a phone interview with The Herald, Porter denied any knowledge of the case.

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The complaint states that despite the female student’s resistance to pursuing the matter, she eventually acceded to pressure from University employees to divulge McCormick’s name, an act which compelled her to file a written complaint.

McCormick was then served a “no-contact order” by Associate Dean of Student Life Terry Addison, according to the complaint, and “in violation of Brown policies, he was not provided a copy of the complaint, nor was he told the substance of the allegations.”

The plaintiffs allege that the female student “felt that the Deans were ‘yelling at her’ ” and “pressing her to add to complaints about” McCormick. Friends of the female student then allegedly confronted her and, despite her denials, concluded that she had been raped, according to the complaint.

The complaint states that the female student stated in a subsequent conversation with the friends and the Residential Counselor that she had been raped.

The female student and resident advisor then met with Jonah Ward, now senior associate dean for student life, and Richard Bova, now senior associate dean of residential and dining services, according to the complaint. The RC allegedly spoke on behalf of the female student at the meeting and wrote the University claim alleging rape on her behalf.

The complaint states that, “in violation of its own policies, Brown accepted (the female student’s) new allegation of rape as true and refused to provide of a copy of the complaint to” McCormick. Ward, Bova and the RC are all named as defendants in the case.

The complaint alleges that the plaintiff was detained unlawfully at the Office of Student Life for several hours the next day. The complaint states that McCormick then met with Carey, Ward, Addi-

son and Margaret Klawunn, now vice president for campus life and student services, who collectively compelled him to leave campus. It states that Carey handed the student a one-way plane ticket home.

Klawunn, who is named as a defendant, declined to comment and said she had no knowledge of the matter.

After McCormick’s return home, University officials allegedly “actively interfered” with his “ability to expose the truth and exonerate himself,” by obstructing his access to documents and witnesses, according to the complaint.

In an e-mail to The Herald, Marisa Quinn, vice president for public affairs and University relations, wrote, “Matters related to students and former students are private and confidential.”

Kertzer declined to comment in an e-mail to The Herald. Simmons, Carey, Bova, Ward, Hansen and Addison did not return requests for comment.

The complaint alleges that the female student and her father were complicit in “extortion” of the former student “by threatening to accuse (McCormick) of a crime or other offense with the intent to compel him to sign an agreement to waive his rights and sacrifice his scholarship and Ivy League education.”

J. Scott Kilpatrick, the Providence lawyer listed as the author of the complaint, acknowledged that he is the McCormicks’ attorney but said that, under the present circumstances, he could neither confirm nor deny the existence of any case.

According to the source familiar with the case, there will be some type of proceeding before District Judge William Smith at 11 a.m.

Monday. Smith’s calendar, posted on the district court’s Web site, does not include an item at that time.

Andrews Dining Hall to host Gala continued from page 1 lified are “acts of God, government authority, disaster, strikes, civil disorders, or other emergencies, any of which make it illegal or impossible to provide the facilities and/or services” for the event. The Westin’s management did not return repeated requests for comment.

Sheetal Sehgal ’10, co-president of the 2010 Class Board, said near the end of ticket sales Sunday that about 500 tickets had gone. The capacity of the event will be determined Tuesday by the fire marshal. Based on that estimate and the weather, she said, tickets may sell at the door Saturday as well.

Sehgal and Key Society Secretary Mayra Reyes ’10, who were selling tickets Sunday, said very few guests raised concerns about the venue change. In fact, many guests that The Herald interviewed Sunday afternoon were pleased with the new location.

Jing Xu ’10 said she was excited about the outdoor venue and happy to not have to travel to the Westin.

“It’s just so fresh,” she said.

“Dance parties are always inside and it gets so hot.”

Kelly Glaser ’10 and Patrick Corey ’10 said they were conflicted when they found out about the labor dispute at the Westin because they did not want to miss Gala their senior year but wanted to support the boycott. After buying their tickets Sunday afternoon, they could not say whether they would have bought tickets if the event were held at the Westin, but agreed the venue change made the decision much clearer.

Nathaniel Ford ’11 said he put his decision to attend Gala on hold when he went to buy his ticket last week in J. Walter Wilson and saw the Student Labor Alliance’s sign about the Westin’s labor dispute.

“It gave me enough pause that I didn’t take immediate action to buy a ticket,” he said. Instead, he bought his ticket Sunday, after the venue change was announced.

Still, some students, like Dave Gagnon ’10, were not strongly affected by the change of venue. Gagnon said he is happy there will be less “drama” at the new location, but he just wants to have a good time with his friends, which he said he could have done at either location.

In the spirit of reconciliation, Gala has even won over a few unexpected guests.

SLA member Rebecca Rast ’13 said she had considered going, but decided not to upon learning that the event was scheduled to be at the Westin. But in light of the location change, she and fellow SLA member Olivia Singer ’12 bought tickets Sunday, she said.

“We are really appreciative of the work Class Board and the Key Society put in, and we wanted to show that,” Rast said. “I’m excited to go to the Gala, and we’re very happy about the direction things are going in.”

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“I approve, but I am not totally familiar with everything she does.” — Jessica Feng ’12 on President Simmons

Despite Goldman publicity, Simmons as popular as ever

By Alicia Chen Senior Staf f Writer

Questions over President Ruth Simmons’ involvement as a member of the Board of Directors of Goldman Sachs earlier this year seem to have done little to dampen students’ enthusiasm for their president. The most recent Herald poll revealed that Simmons’ job approval among Brown students has not changed from last semester’s 77.5 percent rating. But many students who supported Simmons admitted that they did not keep up with administrative issues at the University.

“I approve, but I am not totally familiar with everything she does,” said Jessica Feng ’12, noting that she had found little to dislike about Brown’s administration.

Kibwe Chase-Marshall ’10 said he is also “for the most part in approval” of Simmons. Though he is “not fully aware” of all administration policies, he is “comfortable not pursuing complete knowledge of the inner workings of the administration” because he prefers to dedicate his time and energy to other interests, he said.

Nkechi Eze ’12 agreed that she does not feel the need to probe further into the administration. “My needs are being met so far,” she said.

Though students’ critique of the University did not extend to Goldman Sachs, the economy as a whole was on students’ minds.

Rolando Huerta ’11 said he is aware of budget cuts at Brown but understands their “necessity.” He said he appreciates the University’s commitment to “expansive financial aid” during this time.

Feng said she was concerned about the University’s prioritization of capital building projects given the economic climate.

Stephen Beale ’04, co-founder of the Foundation for Intellectual Diversity — a non-profit that funds the Brown Spectator and brings speakers to campus — said Simmons’ resignation from the Goldman Sachs board “shows that she puts her ideological principles above pragmatism.” Her commitment to her values may be the reason why there was so little backlash, he said.

Though he is concerned about

the University’s promotion of “leftwing” issues, Beale spoke positively about Simmons herself. “I think President Simmons is charismatic and inspirational,” he said, adding that she is “very diplomatic about how she presents her views” and “extends olive branches to other groups.”

Beale called Simmons “the Obama of Brown University,” citing her personality, charisma and public speaking abilities as reasons for her popularity. “It’s a phenomenon.”

Current students also pointed to Simmons’ personal qualities as key to their approval.

Eze said she likes how accessible Simmons is, citing her e-mails to the community, participation on panel discussions and open office hours.

Chase-Marshall said Simmons is “not just resting on her laurels” but actively working to improve the University. “She is very in command of her position,” he said.

“She cares, she has a good persona, a lot of students and faculty really respect her,” Huerta said.

Chantel Whittle ’12 cut to the chase. “I think she’s fabulous.”

NIH awards researchers $28 million

By Ben Noble Staff Writer

Researchers at Brown have received over $28 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health so far in the federal government’s current fiscal year, which began Oct. 1.

The NIH is the largest external source of research funding at Brown, according to Vice President for Research Clyde Briant.

The highest grant went to Professor of Medical Science Constantine Gatsonis, who received over $3.7 million from the National Cancer Institute. He and others at the Center for Statistical Sciences, which he heads, will study whether molecular imaging machines can detect early responses to therapies used for brain, breast and prostate cancer patients.

“This imaging holds a lot of promise,” Gatsonis said. “Very early in the therapy process, you could see whether it is actually working.”

Gatsonis said the grant has allowed Brown to keep researchers that might otherwise have been let go in a difficult economic environment. Last month, the University announced it would cut 60 non-faculty jobs in order to cut costs.

“With this kind of funding, we have been able to hold on to positions that we would have had to let go,” he said. “And we have even added new ones.”

The University is “very happy” with this year’s funding “but would like to see the amount of sponsored funding from NIH grow in the coming years,” Briant wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

Brown faculty members have received 77 NIH grants totaling $28,290,710 so far, according to data from the Institutes’ archives, though more funding could come through by the time the fiscal year ends in Sep-

tember. Last fiscal year, the University received $87,593,581 in NIH funding, thanks in large part to stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Still, these numbers pale in comparison to those of Brown’s competitors.

Researchers at Harvard have received over $113 million in NIH funding so far this fiscal year, about four times more than their counterparts at Brown.

“Our total research dollar numbers have been lower primarily because of our smaller size compared with many of our peers,” Briant explained. Harvard’s faculty, at around 2,100, is about three times larger than Brown’s.

President Ruth Simmons has made enhancing Brown’s research capacity one of her primary objectives in her remaining years at Brown.

“There is just no way to move the needle on Brown’s assets, reputation and rank without committing to more research productivity,” she said in her March 18 State of Brown address.

The University has formed new partnerships with other universities and hired a political consulting firm in an effort to raise its research profile and solicit more federal funding, The Herald reported last October.

Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Kim Boekelheide received just over $3 million from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to continue his $26 million Superfund Research Program.

The project comprises a group of scientists, doctors, engineers and government officials studying various health risks and remediation solutions for hazardous waste in Rhode

Island, according to Boekelheide. The SRP has partnered with the Rhode Island Department of Health and the Department of Environmental Management.

Funding for the program began in 2005 and was renewed through 2014 with a $15.4 million grant last year, Boekelheide said.

“The competition is really fierce for support,” Boekelheide explained, noting that NIEHS funding requests for many similar projects at other universities have been rejected.

“We have been extremely successful because we’ve done a really good job and we have demonstrated our interdisciplinary integration,” he added.

Boekelheide also just received a new, unrelated grant to study environmental impacts on fetal development.

“The intensity, interest and participation in research here is snowballing,” he said.

Do you approve or disapprove of the way Ruth Simmons is handling her job as president of Brown?

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Hundreds of students walked Friday night and Saturday morning for Relay for Life.

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“I just show Brown literally for what it is.”

— Bryan Smith ’10, tour co-coordinator

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dent life is like, Stephenson said.

“The information session is much more concerned with the open curriculum, advising, undergraduate research, study abroad and academic life,” she said. “But since we go up Wriston, since we go to Keeney, you can see how we focus more on campus life.”

Though Stephenson and her cocoordinator Bryan Smith ’10 agreed there is no overarching message conveyed in all tours, Smith acknowledged that there are themes the Admission Office attempts to deliver.

“In general, the stock admissions office answer is that we want to show that Brown is an elite university,” he said. “A university that is undergraduate-focused and is uniquely poised, because we — as undergraduate students — have so much opportunity to get involved.”

Currently, Brown’s hour-long tours start at the Quiet Green and end back at the Main Green, Smith said.

Along the way, high school students and their families enter Sayles Hall, walk through Lincoln Field into MacMillan Hall and exit onto Thayer Street. After visiting the park outside the Sciences Library, tours then go to Wriston Quadrangle where students see the Sharpe Refectory before passing by Keeney Quadrangle.

The tour route is not static and the coordinators — in conjunction with the Bruin Club and the Admission Office — are “in an ongoing discussion on how we can make the route better and show off more of campus in an hour,” Stephenson said.

“We are never 100 percent content with the route that we have. We are always trying to make it as current and as much improved as we can,” she added.

Balancing Brown’s image as both the happiest university in the country and a serious Ivy League institution is not always an easy task, Smith said.

“Brown is in a sticky place because we are perennially voted the happiest students,” he said. “But

there is a thought that if you are at an Ivy League university, you shouldn’t be very happy.”

“I try to show that we are very happy because of all the things that happen at Brown outside the classroom,” he added.

Smith said that he tries to be quite open and honest when touring students.

“There is nothing that we try to hide in the tour at all,” he said.

“I openly tell people that the SciLi was voted the ugliest building in Rhode Island. I show the building for what it is,” he said.

That said, Smith added, there are certain areas of campus that he chooses to emphasize during his tours.

“We are trying — as new buildings are completed — to take tours to the newer buildings,” he said.

“There are obvious parts of campus that we’re excited about. I would rather take people through J. Walter Wilson than Metcalf (Chemistry and Research Laboratory),” he said.

“We want to put our best foot forward but not keep our ugly other foot hidden behind us,” he said.

Building Brown Unlike Harvard or Yale, Brown’s buildings lack architectural uniformity. The University has had to reconcile its structural diversity by creating harmony between its contrasting building styles.

No one is more responsible for Brown’s architectural image than Frances Halsband, the University’s chief architectural consultant, who has drafted long-term campus development plans since 2003.

She spoke about some of Brown’s future and current architectural projects and how they will compare to the University’s preexisting buildings.

“Along the Walk, we are going to see a coherent and related group of new buildings that look modern,” she said about campus growth surrounding the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, which is currently being built.

“On the other hand, the new (Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center and Jonathan Nelson ’77

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Removing trash is one of many ways the University’s staff members maintain the cleanliness and beauty of campus.

Fitness Center) is going to go back to the traditional Brown look and is certainly a building that will look like the old Brown campus and not the new Brown campus,” she said.

“Brown’s brand may very well be the old campus quad, but that’s not what its future will be.”

Halsband expressed appreciation for both the old-fashioned and modern architectural styles that define Brown’s look.

“Brown has one of the classic New England university quads that can be found,” she said about the Main Green. “It’s one of the best.”

The University uses the more traditional features of its campus to its advantage in promotional materials, Halsband said.

“I think when Brown posts the nostalgia images,” she said about photographs depicting historical areas of campus, “they are the same images that would make somebody want to go to Brown.”

“The Green is not only a piece of architecture, but it reads as a piece of social space,” she added. “It really is a gathering place for the Brown community.”

Brown has emphasized the Green in its promotional efforts for decades. The University’s promotional viewbook featured the same four-page feature on the Green from at least 1993 through 2001.

The booklet features panoramic images of the Green along with descriptions of the architecture lining it.

“A stroll around the Green affords a tour in microcosm of Brown’s history and a glimpse of the vitality and diversity of the campus today,” it reads.

Halsband also offered her hopes for the future of Brown’s architecture.

“I would hope for, and look for, more outreach into the community that Brown is a part of,” she said.

“We are going to see a campus that does not have iron gates all around it. Buildings will have more ground floor uses that are more open to the public and less closed office space,” she said.

The new brown.edu Brown’s Web site is its primary means of communication to the rest of the world and is a crucial tool in promoting its image and themes, wrote Scott Turner, director of Web communications, in an e-mail to The Herald.

Brown is currently developing a new Web site that will include major changes to its homepage. Turner hopes these new changes will stay consistent with how the University wants to be seen.

“We expect a more consistent look and feel for the site, as a whole, and a more streamlined and less overwhelming navigation, with key information surfaced for visitors,” he wrote, adding that the new homepage will add a more personal element to the site through individual anecdotes.

“The Web presence is a chance to surface key information for audiences and to tell stories about the people who make up the Brown

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Students returned after Spring Break to find a freshly planted tree on Lincoln Field, one of the stops on campus tours.

community,” he wrote. “We would like the new site to be as unique as the university it represents and to be highly accessible and intuitive for all audiences,” he wrote.

Turner wrote that Brown’s Web site is unique in its emphasis on imagery.

“In meetings with stakeholders we learned that users were pleased with the uniqueness of the homepage,” he wrote.

“People expect the Brown site to be a compelling virtual representation of Brown: collaborative, independent, interdisciplinary, entrepreneurial, creative, diverse and vibrant,” he wrote. “We try to provide that experience for users.”

ADOCH and beyond Once they are accepted to Brown in the spring, prospective students are invited to A Day on College Hill, where they are given the opportunity to experience life at Brown in person.

ADOCH offers Brown a valuable opportunity to express the themes, images and messages administrators hope will draw accepted students into the next year’s freshman class.

ADOCH is “where we show regular-decision accepted students what the school is all about,” said Eddie Re ’12, ADOCH co-coordinator for the Bruin Club.

“We understand that the Brown lifestyle is our most attractive feature and that’s what we try to show,” he said. “We do that not through changing anything, but by directly showing all these things that Brown already has in place that reflect that idea.”

Re emphasized that the Brown that students see when they are at ADOCH is the same Brown they would experience during their time at the University.

“We are not here to hide anything, and I don’t think the University does anything out of the norm,” he said.

Though ADOCH is student-run,

its coordinators work with liaisons from the Admission Office, which oversees the entire application process.

Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73 told The Herald that in recent years Brown has increased its focus on international, minority, low-income and first generation students.

Miller said that admission officers try to emphasize Brown’s challenging academic program, adding that some people doubt the seriousness of Brown’s New Curriculum.

“People think it maybe is lacking in substance,” he said, adding that the admission office spends a lot of time “talking about the opportunity and the rigor that are embedded in the New Curriculum.”

He added that the New Curriculum is “more rigorous than the experience at some of our peer schools,” and that it “has matured remarkably well” since its adoption in 1969.

Despite its key role in crafting the University’s promotional strategy, the Admission Office is only one player in a much larger process of selling the University to prospective students.

The Web site, campus tours, information sessions, promotional materials and ADOCH all offer a different perspective of the University.

Though Brown attempts to promote its brand, it is really in the minds of students that the University’s image is created.

“Over the course of my last two years,” said Smith, one of the Bruin Club tour co-coordinators, “I have been telling people that Brown isn’t for everyone. Brown is a great place, so I don’t try to oversell things, I don’t try to hide things in the shadows.”

“I just show Brown literally for what it is.”

— With additional reporting by Sarah Forman

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Poets ‘push the art forward’ at slam

By Fei Cai Staf f Writer

“Does my sexiness offend you?”

Kai Huang ’11 posed this question to a crowd of college poets from all over the country in a poem based on Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise.”

While Angelou’s poem is about the “affirmation of black women,” Huang’s piece is an “awkward, partly insecure affirmation of short Asian men, which ends up turning into an attack on hypermasculinity and male privilege,” he wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

Huang is among five Brown students that traveled to Emerson College in Boston for the College Unions Poetr y Slam Invitational April 7–10. The other students were Phil Kaye ’10, Timothy Natividad ’12, Laura Brown-Lavoie ’10.5 and Jamila Woods ’11. All five are part of WORD!, the campus spoken word group.

The students were selected at a University competition hosted by slam poet Jared Paul and are the first team from Brown to go to the invitational.

The team placed first in both of their preliminary rounds and moved on to the semifinals. Though they did not qualify for the finals, they received recognition for “Pushing the Art Forward,” an award created

“Audre Lourde said: ‘The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.’

Sometimes when I use pronouns I wonder whose toolbox I’ve opened.

Like I’m aiming at a nail but keep on hammering my own thumbs.

This language, his language, his tool is unwieldy.

Oh! That’s what…

Adrienne Rich said: ‘this is the oppressor’s language yet I need it to talk to you.’ ” — excerpt from “That’s What He Said,” written and performed by Jamila Woods ’11 and Laura Brown-Lavoie ’10.5 at the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational especially for them this year.

Woods, who wrote and performed the piece “That’s What He Said” with Brown-Lavoie, won Best Female Poet. Brown-Lavoie said the honor makes Woods comparable to the Meryl Streep of spoken word poets.

The collaborative poem, inspired

by Audre Lourd’s essay “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House,” reveals the hidden connections between language and sexism. “We thought a lot about how

In new book, alum explores ‘The Genius in All of Us’

By Sarah Mancone Senior Staf f Writer

Since childhood, people are told that they can become whatever they want, but only recently has that been described as scientific fact. In his book, “The Genius in All of Us,” journalist and author David Shenk ’88 describes greatness as a thing to be achieved by anyone, not an inherent genetic gift.

The book is about “how people get good at stuff,” Shenk said. It aims to “help people understand that talent and intelligence are really much more about a developmental process” than something innate, he added.

The first and last chapters of the book address genetics specifically in relation to achieving one’s true potential. These chapters are intended to inform people in a new way about how genes work, Shenk said.

“Genes are not like blueprints that have specific information about what a trait is supposed to be like,” he said, but “have information on proteins and how proteins are to be built.”

The activation and inactivation of these genes is a process that can be influenced by many factors, including environmental ones, he said, adding that “they are more like switches.”

The reason only some people become the Mozarts and Einsteins of the world is not genes, then, but

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“a lot of things,” Shenk said.

To believe that talent and intelligence are limited, fixed resources is both wrong and very inhibiting, he said. People can’t develop an ability if they believe it is impossible or must “come from within,” he added.

Even if someone is considered gifted, that is not a “recipe for success,” Shenk said, because people tend to rely on what they are good at without attempting to push beyond it.

The goal of this book is to let readers “have a truer understanding of talent and intelligence” and eliminate the use of descriptions like “gifted,” “natural-born” and “hard-wired,” he said. Shenk aspires to “make the world a better place” by helping children, parents and teachers better understand talent, he added.

Becoming great at something “takes hard work and a lot of curiosity,” Shenk said, as well as being “open to all sorts of different ideas.”

In addition, achievement requires “having gigantic dreams and huge ambitions,” he said. It does not matter if a person achieves his or her biggest dream, he added, because just having one is “a very fulfilling way to live,” makes people constantly tr y to improve themselves and can lead to meeting “lots of people who are doing the same continued on page 6

language — everyday language — can be a tool of oppression, of the subtle pigeon-holing of women,” Brown-Lavoie said.

Brown-Lavoie added that a poet from the audience approached her and Woods after their performance, saying the poem made him rethink his own work because he had always taken for granted his language and the female characters in his poetry.

Each round in the competition involved the rotation of several

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Jamila Woods ’11 of Brown’s spoken word club WORD! won Best Female Poet for her performance at the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.

teams, each of which performed multiple pieces, in one room. Each piece performed was given a strict three-minute time limit. The individual with the highest score won the round for their team.

Because it was their first time competing, the students did not know what to expect at the invita-

tional. “Competing in the rounds was really intense, and to be honest, I didn’t enjoy that part that much,” Huang wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “I can’t enjoy someone else’s poetry from the audience if there’s pressure to score higher than them continued on page 6

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first three rounds and were judged based on time and accuracy. The top three Brown undergraduate finishers then moved on to the final round, which was played on giant whiteboards for all to see.

First-time competitors Brendan Hainline ’12 and Melissa Byun ’12 competed in the pairs division. They partnered up at the last minute, “borne of necessity,” Hainline said. Relative novices at the game — Byun only does crossword puzzles “when I find old used copies in the (Sciences Library),” she said — Hainline and Byun’s dreams were modest. “My hope is to finish a puzzle,” Hainline said at the competition.

Nathan Margolin ’11 and Sarah Hersman ’10 also competed in the pairs division. Margolin regularly completes the Monday and Tuesday crosswords in the Times and occasionally attempts the Sunday puzzle with a partner, he said. Hersman, on the other hand, admitted, “I’ve only done 10 crossword puzzles in my life.”

Both teams completed the firstround puzzle with time to spare but struggled with the second, for which all competitors needed ex-

tra time. With a minute and a half left, Last announced, “You should just put in some letters. You can put in all c’s, I don’t know.”

Hainline described his mental state after the second round as one of “despair.” Paula Gamache, who also helps Shortz with his crossword correspondence and constructed the second-round puzzle — which will appear in the Times April 20 — seemed surprised by the difficulties contestants had with the second-round puzzle, saying it was a “Tuesday-level puzzle.”

Gamache came to Brown to meet Zoe Wheeler ’12, the only teenage girl who has published a crossword in the Times, whom she mentors, she added.

The tournament’s third-round puzzle exhibited Shortz’s belief that “puzzles should embrace everybody’s culture,” he said. Clues in Kagan’s puzzle included “34 Across: What Justin Timberlake’s “ ‘bringin’ back,’ in a song” and “12 Down: Receptacle for Voldemort’s Soul in Harry Potter.”

Hainline and Byun’s knowledge of the “SexyBack” lyrics and the Dark Arts ultimately helped to propel them to a third-place finish in their division for that round.

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Margolin and Hersman did not place, but Hersman said, “We’re just having fun.”

Between the third and fourth rounds, Shortz entertained the crowd with word games.

Jack Gill ’11, Jonah Wolf ’12 and Wendy Kwartin ’11 advanced to the final round, where each was given a giant whiteboard, a pair of noise-canceling headphones and a 20-minute time limit to complete the puzzle. All immediately knew “1 Across: Inspiration for the cover band Bjorn Again” but were stymied by the correct spelling of “36 Across: Hound.” Ultimately, Gill earned first place, finishing a few minutes ahead of runnerup Wolf.

Last, who constructed the final puzzle, said he tries to include “as many awesome words as possible” in his puzzles.

Gill, who won second place in last year’s tournament, has done crosswords since middle school and described himself as a “daily Ratty solver.” A good friend of Wolf’s, the two “bonded over our love of puzzles,” he said.

Still smarting over his misspelling of 36 Across, Wolf said, “That one letter is going to haunt my dreams.”

— Jonah Wolf ’12

WORD! builds reputation in slam poetry world continued from page 5 when I get up there on stage. I didn’t listen to the other poets nearly as closely as I listen to kids at WORD! here on campus because I was so nervous.”

Still, he added that “the experience of going with my teammates was probably the best thing that’s happened to me at Brown.”

Despite the differences between competition and per formance, Brown-Lavoie said she knew Brown had a fresh, new voice to add to the national poetry scene and was glad to have the opportunity. She also said she felt supported by the whole Brown community, which helped raise funds to send the team to Emerson to compete.

“Now Brown has a reputation,” she said.

Huang wrote there are certain conventions in slam poetry that are rewarded, such as performing serious pieces about oppression and keeping the emotion angry or sad.

“We really messed with them,” he wrote, which he gave as a reason for why the audience of mostly poets appreciated Brown’s performances more than the judges.

“Brown poets have a healthy fear

of cliche, both in terms of form and in terms of content,” Huang wrote.

He cited Brown-Lavoie and Kaye’s collaborative piece “Cave Woman,” where Kaye played a spelunker to Brown-Lavoie’s cave, as an example of the team’s originality. “It was absolutely mind-blowing,” he wrote in the e-mail. “The piece was obviously about sex, but it ended up being about so much more — about warmth, about the promise of coming home at night, about the phrase ‘I love you’ and how cave people might have communicated that feeling before they stumbled across those words.”

Huang also performed an untitled collaborative piece with Natividad, which his teammates affectionately call “Kai and Tim Are Friends,” and a rap in the semifinals called “Sick.”

But competition is definitely not the only reason these poets write and perform. Huang wrote that “the musicality of words, a belief in social justice, and the way my own experiences connect with others’ ” inspire him to write.

“For me and for our team, the poetry we do is about community — the community of artists and poets at Brown,” Brown-Lavoie said.

Shenk ’88 reconsiders talent, genius, expertise continued from page 5 thing.”

Inspiration for the topic of this book came from his last book, “The Immortal Game: A Histor y of Chess.” While studying scientific research about what makes chess players great, Shenk stumbled upon a new branch of science called “expertise studies,” which focuses on the biological, psychological and cultural bases of becoming an expert and “thought that would be interesting to write about,” he said.

Shenk added that he has always been “fascinated by the idea of getting good at stuff,” a topic that “everyone is interested in and thinks about.”

He said he uses the advice he gives in his book in his everyday life. “I constantly think about these things as a parent,” he said.

“I am not trying to turn my kids into super-geniuses,” Shenk said.

Still, he tries to expose them to many things and give them the tools to reach their goals. “I want them to want to be great at something,” he said.

“Many of the things in the book resonate with me ver y strongly,” Shenk said, adding that he tries to lead his life in a way that makes his children understand the bases of talent and intelligence.

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Shenk’s beliefs about talent and intelligence pan out not only in his family life but also in his work. “My career as a writer has been ver y challenging and rewarding,” he said. Some have tried to define him as a science or technology writer, he said. But even though his book has a lot of science in it, he tries to take an interdisciplinary approach.

“I am basically just a writer,” Shenk said. “There isn’t anything I’m not interested in.”

Shenk traces this fascination back to his time at Brown, which taught him “how to be a curious person,” he said. “Brown had a profound impact on me,” he said.

“I can’t imagine anything I do now as a writer and a person without having been at Brown for four years.”

“The students are interested in so many different things,” and often are interested in more than one, “finding commonalities” between different worlds, he said. Brown students are always “bouncing between these worlds of study and thought,” he added.

Shenk added that he still spends time with many other Brown alums, who are good to “be with and learn from and talk to.”

“Brown is a great factor y for ambition and success,” he said.

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M. Tennis

W. Tennis

W. Lacrosse

W. Water Polo

W. Track

Columbia 6 Brown 1

Brown 5 Columbia 2

Brown 14 Columbia 12

Brown 6 Hartwick 11

First out of seven teams

Cornell 5 Brown 2

Brown 5 Cornell 2

Brown 17 Manhattan 9

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In ‘big’ win, Bears topple Penn

By Andrew Braca Assistant Sports Editor

Hilary Rosenthal / Herald

Shortstop Katie Rothamel ’10 arrives to greet her teammates at home after a solo home run against Cornell on Sunday.

ATHLETE’S NOTEBOOK

M. crew’s Ben Dann ’12: Cruisin’ through Crimson The men’s crew team hosted Harvard Saturday and sent the Crimson back to Cambridge in defeat. Brown won three of five races, and Ben Dann ’12, the No. 2 seat in the JV boat, helped row the Bears to one of their three victories. This is how it went down from his point of view.

Harvard week is finally over! Our team can let out a sigh of relief after a big W this weekend (and Ari can shave off his mullet and dirt ’stache).

Harvard is our biggest competition on the East Coast. Although we get to race them three times, including Eastern Sprints and IRAs, nothing feels as sweet as beating the Tide head to head in a dual race.

We won three out of five races, including the varsity, JV and 3V. In the 3V, Kyle Beatty ’12 and his crew charged out of the stakes guns blazing — and by guns I mean his jacked biceps — adding crucial boat speed to attaining a three-second victory.

The second varsity — or JV — won by just under a boat length thanks to Ari Resnick’s ’12 intimidating mullet courtesy of Brent Mylrea ’11. The varsity claimed the day with a one-second victory, holding off the Crimson’s sprint. The frosh and fourth varsity eights came up slightly short, now having reason to come back stronger against Harvard down the road.

There are a few things I remember about this week worth noting. First, we have a vendetta against Harvard, and we show it with fierce and sporadic shouts of, “IT’S HARVARD WEEK BABY YEEEAAAH.” Second, the majority of the race is filled with the noise of the coxswain

making calls and directing the boat when to make moves, but in the last 500 meters, the crowd takes over, and the only thing I hear is my mom’s cowbell.

Third, the women’s crew pinned up catchphrase posters on everyone’s locker with clever catchphrases, encouraging guys like Greg Silverberg ’12 to “go for the gold!” Or telling Jacques Greenberg ’12 to, “Jack them up Jacques!” However, someone decided to change “up” something a little more inappropriate, and he stared at it for five minutes wondering why anyone wanted him to do that to the opposing team.

However, whatever Jacques was supposed to do, Harvard did not stick around after the race long enough to see what it was. Traditionally, the losing team’s coach physically passes the trophy to the winning team’s coach in a ceremony displaying good sportsmanship. But after the Crimson’s abrupt departure, Harvard and their legendary Head Coach Harry Parker are not what I would call good sports.

Spring racing season flies by faster each day. Every race lasts close to six minutes, and preparation for the races account for thousands of hours training. It’s crazy to think how much time is invested into each stroke of a race.

We dream, joke, cry and lose sleep over races. But overall, we are just having fun racing and kickin’ ass.

— Ben Dann Want to write about your sport and think you can be entertaining? Send the Herald sports department an e-mail at sports@browndailyherald.com.

The No. 20 men’s lacrosse team rose up to beat Penn, 12-9, on Saturday in Philadelphia to advance to 5-4 overall and 2-1 in Ivy League play.

“Two games in a row, (against) Bryant and Penn, it’s been tied in the fourth quarter and we were the ones who stepped up and made plays,” said Head Coach Lars Tiffany ’90. “We picked up tough ground balls off the faceoffs, we made saves, we scored goals. …

The win is big, but it’s how we won it that’s really big for me.”

Andrew Feinberg ’11 netted four goals, quad-captain Thomas Muldoon ’10 added three and Matt Chriss ’11 made 12 saves for Brown.

The Bears jumped out to a 4-1 lead with 12:04 left in the second quarter on goals by Muldoon, Nicholas Laster ’12, Feinberg and Rob Schlesinger ’12. But the Quakers (4-7, 0-4) scored three-straight goals to go into halftime knotted at 4-4.

“We lost our intensity in our oneon-one defense,” Tiffany said.

The teams then traded goals for the first 16 minutes of the second half, with neither side able to open a two-goal advantage. Parker Brown ’12 scored just 13 seconds into the third quarter, but Penn answered in 1:14. Feinberg again gave the Bears the lead, but the Quakers responded with two goals to take a 7-6 lead.

Muldoon and Feinberg followed with goals in the waning minutes of the quarter, but Penn tied the game at 8-8 just 37 seconds into the fourth quarter.

“It was punch, counter-punch,

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Four goals by attacker Andrew Feinberg ’11 propelled the team to a win.

attack, counter-attack,” Tiffany said. “You have to give credit to both teams. We were trying to play as fast as we could, up-and-down, fast-paced, high-intensity game and Penn was willing to do it as well, so things loosened up for both offenses in the second half. It really

was a fun lacrosse game to … watch (and) to coach.”

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handed out one of his four assists on the game. Goals by Parker Brown ’12, Muldoon and Feinberg finished off the Quakers, giving Brown a fourgoal lead with 42 seconds left, though Penn tacked on a man-up goal 17 seconds later.

Tiffany said the key to the strong

second-half offense was “unleashing (the players) and giving them more creativity and more room to make plays.”

“Four of the eight second-half goals were scramble lacrosse, playing fast,” he said. “The ball goes down, we pick it up and fly from the defensive end to the offensive end, creating an odd-man rush on the

opposition.”

Tiffany said that the team will gain confidence from winning its second-straight game that was tied in the fourth quarter. With Brown having played eight games this season that were tied or within one goal in the fourth quarter, and winning four of them, Tiffany said he can see a “quiet confidence” emerging

in his players that reminds him of previous years.

“With the successful teams of 2008 and 2009, we were in many close games in those years — we won a majority of them,” Tiffany said.

The Bears will try to build on that when they host No. 19 Yale (7-2, 2-2) Saturday at 1 p.m. on Stevenson

Field. The Bulldogs’ only losses have come to No. 5 Princeton and No. 12 Cornell.

“While we will face a formidable opponent in Yale, we must first and foremost focus on being true to who we are,” Tiffany said. “That’s playing aggressive, fast and with our ‘Brown State’ mentality … and our ‘Brown State’ edge.”

Baseball team wins four games in one weekend continued from page 1 to just four runs. Carlow went the distance, allowing only seven hits while striking out eight.

In support of Carlow, the Bears offense scored early and often — blasting a total of five home runs, including two by Pete Greskoff ’11.

Other standouts included first baseman Mike DiBiase ’12, who went four for five with a home run, and center fielder Nick Punal ’10, who went four for four, also with a home run. The Bears ended the game with 17 runs on 20 hits.

Brown 13, Princeton 12 In the back end of the doubleheader, the Bears offense continued their hot hitting. Leading off the bottom of the first, shortstop Graham Tyler ’12 crushed the very first pitch over the left-field fence to spark a five-run inning. The Bears added three more runs in the third, thanks to a two-run single by Matt Colantonio ’11 and an RBI single

by Greskoff.

But the Tigers’ bats came alive as they chased Brown starter Rob Wilcox ’10 after just three and onethird innings by scoring four runs off the pitcher. The Tigers exploded for eight more runs in the top of the fifth to take a 12-8 lead.

The Bears appeared to be in trouble as Princeton freshman reliever Kevin Link — previously recruited

by Brown, according to Drabinski — began to dominate Brown hitters. He struck out the side in both the fourth and sixth, but the Bears edged closer in the seventh by touching up Link for three runs, highlighted by a towering home run to left by third baseman Ryan Zrenda ’11. The three runs cut the Princeton lead to 12-11.

Keeping the Bears within reach throughout the latter innings was a trio of relievers. Walter Albee ’13, Will Lacker ’13 and Matt Boylan ’10 combined to shut out the Tigers for the last four and two-thirds innings.

“Our first few relievers struggled but I thought the last three guys did a great job to keep us close and in the game,” Drabinski said.

The Bears also received a critical boost from their defense by cutting down an insurance run for Princeton at the plate in the top of the ninth to keep the game a one-run affair.

In the bottom half of the inning, after reaching on a sharp single to

center, Tyler scored the game-tying run on DiBiase’s double to center.

After a pitching change, Feit came to the plate and won it for the Bears with his walk-off single to right.

Brown 13, Cornell 6 After sweeping the Tigers, the Bears faced off against the Big Red Sunday afternoon. Even without the wind blowing hard like the day before, the Bears offense got rolling and scored 10 runs in the first four innings.

Leading 2-1 in the third, the Bears broke open the game by scoring five runs. Greskoff, Feit and Punal all drove in runs in the inning.

The Bears extended their lead by adding three more runs in the bottom of the fourth.

On the mound, Matt Kimball ’11 cruised through the first five, giving up just one run. But he ran into trouble in the sixth, giving up three runs, including two on a long home run to left. Kimball shook off the home run and finished his outing strong by striking out the last two batters he faced.

In the bottom of the sixth, the Bears answered back with three runs of their own, thanks in part to a high-arching blast over the leftcenter fence off the bat of Cody Slaughter ’13, the first home run of his career.

Boylan closed out the 13-6 win in the seventh.

Brown 15, Cornell 4 Looking to complete a clean sweep of the homestand, the Bears looked to Will Weidig ’10 to take the mound in the second game of the doubleheader. Over eight innings, Weidig scattered 11 hits, giving up four runs, while striking out 10.

Once again, the Bears’ offense scored early and often, chasing the Cornell starting pitcher after only two innings. The Bears scored two in the first and four in the second to open up a 6-1 lead. The highlight of the first two innings was a titanic blast by Zrenda, which landed well beyond the left field fence.

After reaching the Cornell bullpen, the Bears added to their run total with six more in the third and continued to pad their lead with two more in the fourth and one in the eighth.

Andrew Bakowski ’11 came on to pitch in the ninth to seal the 15-4 win.

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Surge in hate crimes challenges campuses Fla. U. gets

By Tim Barker St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It’s tempting to think of college campuses as islands of enlightenment, places where students embrace new ideas, people and cultures without the specter of hate hanging overhead.

Tempting. But it’s not always the case, as demonstrated by events on campuses across the nation in recent months.

There were cotton balls scattered outside the black cultural center at University of MissouriColumbia. There have been racial slurs and a threat of lynching at St. Louis University. There was a swastika scrawled on a bathroom wall near a Jewish studies center at the University of Miami. There were death threats against black students left on a bathroom wall at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio. And a white fraternity sparked an uproar at the University of California San Diego, when it sponsored a ghetto-themed “Compton Cookout” to mock Black Histor y Month.

To be sure, such events have always been par t of the American landscape. But campus and diversity experts say they’ve seen a surge in the past year, poking yet another hole in what increasingly appears to be the myth of a

post-racial America.

“I guarantee that any given campus in the nation will have small incidents like these in a given year,” said Darnell Cole, an associate professor of education at the University of Southern California who studies diversity issues.

But Cole and others see a correlation between a rise in campus hate crimes and the increasingly nasty exchanges taking place among our nation’s politicians and leaders — on both sides of the political spectrum. It would be naive, they say, to not expect that discord to show up on campuses.

The nation’s first black presidency, he said, has simply provided “kindling for the fire.”

It’s difficult to know just how much hate crime is occurring on college campuses. Justice Department data suggest that 12 percent of hate crimes occur on either college or school campuses. The numbers aren’t broken down to show how much of it happens at universities. And experts say many instances of racial or sexual slurs are never reported.

Even so, they say incidents reported in the news and through their own professional organizations point to a pattern.

“At least anecdotally, there

Stephanie Cordle / St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A cross belonging to an LGBT support group at St. Louis University was recently stolen in what may be a recent uptick in college hate crimes.

seems to have been an increase.

But we don’t know for cer tain because repor ting is so bad,” said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.

A search for examples need go no further than St. Louis University, which has witnessed a series of incidents in recent months.

Racial slurs have been found scrawled on walls or shouted at black students. A student in early Februar y repor ted being threatened with lynching during a confrontation with another student. And a cross belonging to a support group for gays and lesbians was stolen.

University investigations have resulted in punishments handed down in two incidents, but officials say privacy laws restrict how much they can say.

“All I can tell you is that two of the students who were involved are no longer enrolled at the university,” said Kent Por ter field, the university’s vice president for student development.

Of course, not ever y incident with racial overtones rises to the level of hate crime. But even the lesser transgressions can cause hurt feelings and, for some students, doubts about their future on the campus.

Such was the case for Erin Whitley, a freshman at SLU who learned earlier this year of a Facebook group for members of her dorm floor. Among the discussion threads on the social networking site was a post about things overheard on the floor: “There’s nothing I hate more than black people,” it said.

The comment was later deleted. And several people involved apologized to her in writing. But the damage was done: “I thought we were all really close. But then to see their true feelings. It made me feel really uncomfortable.”

In some ways, racial or hatedriven episodes can push a campus closer together. At SLU, for example, students and administrators have rallied in support of the targeted groups with town hall meetings, gatherings, diversity forums and a “We Are All Billikens” campaign, asking students to sign a diversity pledge and wear a wristband.

The university’s president, the Rev. Lawrence Biondi, issued a campus-wide e-mail in early February condemning hateful speech and acts of intolerance.

And while some find reason for hope in the community’s reaction, many say they know there is only so much that can be done to influence long-held prejudices.

“I wouldn’t say they are really changing anyone’s views,” said Michael Harriss, student government association president at St. Louis University. “We don’t expect them to pick up a wristband and

suddenly feel enlightened.”

Still, some students want more from administrators. Officials recently received a form-letter email from more than 120 students with a list of demands, including: the establishment of a 24-hour hot line to assist students who’ve been threatened; a campus-wide e-mail alert system to let ever yone know when an incident has occurred and a requirement that all students take a social justice class.

“They hear us, but I don’t see any action taking place,” said Ono Oghre-Ikanone, president of the Black Student Alliance.

Por ter field said administrators are reviewing the demands and that many of many will be addressed. But he urged students to give administrators time: “Sometimes the process takes longer than some people would like it to.”

One of the more frustrating aspects of these incidents, from a college administrator’s viewpoint, is the fact that colleges are composed of students with a wide range of backgrounds.

“Sometimes people think of college campuses as these isolated and protected environments, when in fact they are a microcosm of our broader society,” said Roger Worthington, the chief diversity officer at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

The Columbia campus had its own brush with racism in the early-morning hours of Feb. 26, when two white students scattered cotton balls outside the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center. The students were arrested and suspended.

As was the case at SLU — and vir tually ever y other campus where such events have happened — the incident was followed by calls for unity. There was a daylong event organized by students, along with a town hall meeting attended by top university officials.

That the community rallied in support of black students has done a lot to keep emotions in check, said Kristen Taylor, a sophomore from O’Fallon, Ill., and member of the Legion of Black Collegians. “It didn’t just affect the black students on campus,” Taylor said. “We were all embarrassed that this would happen on our campus.”

Lori Brown, associate professor of sociology at North Carolina’s Meredith College, said campus dynamics are fur ther complicated by students of different backgrounds not always understanding one another and how painful their actions might be.

“I do think a lot of white America doesn’t understand that you can’t play around with things like ‘lynching,’ ” Brown said. “There’s just no humor in that.”

sex video pulled from Web site

By Susan Jacobson The Orlando Sentinel

It’s been said that any publicity is good publicity.

But Florida A&M University was not amused when the name of its teams — the Rattlers — the FAMU logo and the school colors appeared in a video featuring what appeared to be eight students having an orgy.

On Wednesday, the Tallahassee university settled a lawsuit it filed last month in U.S. District Court against the operator of a sexually explicit Web site that posted the video. In the settlement, the company acknowledges that people in the video were not students and they were not filmed on campus.

FAMU had described the video in its suit as “a transparent attempt to trade on the good name and identity of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and its (trade) marks by wrongly insinuating that its students routinely engage in the debasing and degrading behavior depicted therein.”

RK Netmedia, based in Miami Beach, has agreed to pay $105,000 to fund Life-Gets-Better scholarships for two FAMU undergraduates and foot the $15,000 bill for attorneys’ fees, FAMU announced.

RK Netmedia operates a Web site that promises “the hottest real college girls having wild sex parties in their dorm rooms.”

FAMU sued March 16, about two weeks after the video titled “BigRattler77” was posted on the Web site.

The historically black university alleged trademark dilution and infringement and injur y to its business reputation. The FAMU board of trustees approved the settlement Wednesday.

A woman who answered the phone at RK Netmedia said the company would provide a statement within 24 hours. According to FAMU, RK Netmedia agreed to issue an apology and do its best to prevent the video from being shown.

It also agreed to destroy all but one copy that must be kept under federal law, the university said.

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Editorial & Letters The Brown Daily Herald

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e d i to r i a l correction An article in Friday’s Herald (“The Cook recalls the Cuban revolution,” April 9) misspelled the name of Assistant Director Zach Bleckner ’12. The article also misquoted Bleckner as saying the revolution was clouded by political and socioeconomic circumstances. In fact, he was referring to a reality that the play explores, not the revolution itself. The Herald regrets the errors.

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Event ethics The annual event Gala will be held this year at Andrews Dining Hall and Terrace — and not the Westin Hotel — according to an e-mail sent by event organizers to students April 10. The change comes following intense negotiations between organizers and “the Student Labor Alliance, Westin workers and management, University administrators and legal counsel,” The Herald reported April 9.

We support the compromise that Gala organizers and SLA were eventually able to reach. Nonetheless, the decision clearly was not easy and the event planners — the 2011 Class Board and the Key Society — now face thousands of dollars in potential losses for breaking their contract with the Westin.

In the future, it’s important that issues surrounding off-campus event locations be addressed before commitments are made.

Employees at the Westin Hotel, the original venue chosen for Gala, are upset with the hotel’s management over recent salary cuts and increased health insurance costs. The worker’s union said it has filed an “unfair labor practice complaint” with the National Labor Relations Board, according to a March 17 article in the Providence Journal.

Though the dispute began late last year, the workers did not initiate a boycott until March 18, the Journal reported. By the time the labor issue became widely known, Gala organizers had already signed a contract with the hotel, which required a $5,000 deposit and a minimum $20,000 expenditure on the event, The Herald reported last week.

We applaud the 2011 Class Board and the Key Society for their earnest collaboration with other groups involved in the issue. Even so, we sympathize with event organizers for having to navigate the difficult situation, in which they were unsure if the contract could be canceled without liability.

There are several ways to avoid situations like this in the future and also allow issue-focused student groups to provide input on event planning.

For one, we’d like to see SLA create a database of information about ongoing labor disputes in the Providence area and the labor practices of local employers. This database would allow event organizers to identify potential conflicts in advance and seek out responsible businesses. Though it may be possible for event organizers to find information about these issues themselves, SLA already has a strong presence in the Providence community and more comprehensive knowledge about labor conflicts.

Of course, not all controversies pertain to labor practices. For this reason, we believe that other issue-focused groups may also have valuable advice for organizations planning large, off-campus events.

All relevant groups should have a chance to provide their knowledge and expertise to event organizers as well. To this end, we’d like to see the creation of an event advisory council, composed of representatives from any student group that would like to help event organizers. The council would provide planners with information about the conduct of various businesses before any final decisions are made.

At the same time, the choice of venue is ultimately up to those planning the event. We are not suggesting that SLA or any other group be given veto power over other groups’ decisions. However, in the vast majority of cases, student groups don’t intend to work with businesses that are embroiled in ethical controversy. Through preemptive information sharing and collaboration, student groups can make more informed decisions.

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Opinions The Brown Daily Herald

Monday, April 12, 2010 | Page 11

The estrangement of the anointed

BY manas gautam Opinions Columnist I remember reading once that science has allowed us to become gods before we ever learned to be humans. Advancements in science have allowed us to do everything from saving lives to enjoying seedless watermelon. Such advancements have not only made life easier but have also improved the overall standard of living for everyone. These improvements will be vital in closing the third world divide and helping counter the population explosion, food shortages, water potability and other global problems. But has the pride of realizing truths about nature and advanced technology desensitized us toward life?

The Large Hadron Collider, which was recently restarted, has made me think about the limit to which I would accept the slightest negligence that might threaten humanity. The point to be noted is that the LHC was created by humans in the name of furthering science for humanity. Even if the smartest minds in the world know what they are talking about, anything could go wrong, including the unlikely creation of a black hole. Is human life that expendable?

The problem with academics is their inability to understand sentiment and human feelings. A case in point is the ridicule creationists face in the United States. Those who believe in Darwinism claim that they believe in evolution and survival of the fittest, yet they look toward the arrogance of a selected elite to direct them to the elite’s

chosen path.

Even if the theory of creationism is scientifically proven to be incorrect, it should not be a source of humor or serve as a reason not to vote for a competent candidate.

Even though creationism should not be taught exclusively in schools (due to separation of church and state), it should be mentioned in textbooks so that children are aware of the other side. An informed public should be free to make their own choices.

The job of academics is simply to make ev-

we not accept some people’s belief in an all-knowing entity that controls one’s fate?

The thought is certainly quite appealing and does help us rationalize terrible luck and offers answers to questions about the afterlife, which in turn helps us lead content lives and get through mundane dayto-day events. The feeling that everyone is unique and has a duty to play in a world orchestrated by the entity can certainly help some people perform at their best. On the other hand, being complacent and accept-

That a certain group arrogantly claims to know how we should live our lives should smack in the face of all Brown undergraduates who believe in the New Curriculum. ery option clear and not make decisions for anybody.

Has the atheist and agnostic movement become the new line of imperial thought?

The British used to conquer territories and exploit people in the name of destroying barbarism and imposing the “white man’s burden.” Are we rationals unknowingly walking on the same path and distancing ourselves from the majority of the population, which has a different set of beliefs?

It is necessary to understand people’s beliefs and their nature in order to understand their actions.

Our lives are full of little beliefs upon which we base some decisions (lucky objects, relationships with people, etc.). Can

ing or blaming everything on fate or God is not only a lazy man’s excuse, but also dangerous. Rationalizing manslaughter in the name of God is the other end of not being open to discussion and being detached from life and other people’s pain.

Such problems are also seen with Democrats, Keynesians and any other proponents of collectivism. The idea that the government or a collective leadership knows better and can make decisions for everybody is nothing short of serfdom. That a certain group arrogantly claims to know how we should live our lives should smack in the face of all Brown undergraduates who believe in the New Curriculum. We came here to break away from the serfdom of universi-

ty administrators deciding what it means to be educated. We are charged by our curriculum and by our system to individually create what it means to be educated. Yet these same advocates of the curriculum look to Washington, to Keynesians and to Democrats to dictate how and where we spend our money as they push us and make us pursue their self-interest. I say, Brown students, rise up against such collectivism and use Brown as an instrument against such forms of dictatorship.

I believe that we as humans will always strive to make our and our families’ lives better and will make the right decisions once we have all the necessary facts to make those decisions. Hostility toward people with different sets of standards and upbringings distances us from humanity and valuable relationships. Some of my best friends on campus attend religious services routinely and one of them is even a Byzantine chanter at a Greek Orthodox church.

Their friendships have been valuable in shaping me as a person, extending my knowledge about their cultures and making me tolerant of and open to any line of thought. Tolerance is key to rationally evaluating and then adopting or shunning any idea that we come across.

Manas Gautam ’12 gives lessons in fishing and respects your beliefs as long as they do not kill him.

He can be reached at manas_gautam@brown.edu.

No free lunch for Brown

BY HUNTER FAST Opinions Columnist Many viewpoints have been expressed in recent weeks regarding Brown’s proposed 4.5 percent tuition hike for the next academic year. In this regard, Simon Liebling’s ’12 column denouncing the increase as plutocratic excess (“Grin and bear it,” Mar. 25) stands as a beacon of clarity and reason in stark contrast to the “brown-nosing” opinions of anyone who could possibly find the administration’s actions to be justifiable.

Unfortunately for the entire Brown community, the policies that Liebling espouses — namely, a tuition freeze and the cancellation of layoffs — are inconsistent from a budgetary standpoint for a number of reasons. Furthermore, because financial aid has increased at a commensurate rate, the tuition hike resembles a progressive tax, primarily affecting those that have weathered the recession best: the wealthy.

Central to Liebling’s logic is the assumption that Brown’s endowment can be utilized to fill gaps in the University’s operational budget, thus allowing the administration to have “frozen our tuition and cancelled layoffs” in the face of sharply decreased revenue. However, the vast majority of the endowment is held in illiquid assets (i.e., assets that cannot be readily converted to cash).

The illiquidity of University endowments is evidenced most directly by the fact that Brown’s endowment lost 26.6 percent of its value at a time when the U.S. dollar gained value through deflation. This disparity implies either that the best schools in

the country hired profoundly incompetent money managers, or that their endowments cannot retain their value by converting to cash, with the latter being by far more likely.

Because of this painful reality, Brown does not have the ability to call funds out of the ether that national governments seemingly have, thus limiting Brown’s options for ameliorating the effects of the recession on the educational experience of its students.

In short, an endowment is not a savings account, nor is the administration as powerful as a government.

In light of this, Brown is bound by the economic maxim that “there is no such thing as a free lunch.” In order to fulfill one

day, some students will obviously see their tuition rise.

However, the University has, by expanding financial aid, ensured that the most economically vulnerable students will be generally protected from Brown’s budgetary woes. This is verified by a comparison of aid award estimates from the Office of Financial Aid for this academic year and the next, which demonstrates that the financial burden for families on financial aid will increase by a percentage that is well below current inflation rates, much less the tuition increase.

Therefore, the correct accusation is that through these policies, the University is callously neglecting the economic interests of

In short, an endowment is not a savings account, nor is the administration as powerful as a government. of Liebling’s demands, the University must make short-run sacrifices on some other front. While every student has a different set of interests, and thus different ideas of which expenses should be cut, demanding that the University renounce programs intended to ensure long-term financial stability in order to balance a short-run budget deficit is deeply irresponsible.

Enter the role of the tuition hike. Although the University administration has been accused of heartlessly exploiting its students in the interest of its ruthless campaign to improve Brown’s facilities, this accusation is only half true. At the end of the

its patrician students in order to provide the best educational experience possible to all of its students. Due to this fact, resistance and protest must be the best options. After all, the bourgeoisie has nothing to lose but its chains.

Of course, this is not to say that all is well for the affordability of a college education; such an assertion would merely be “brownnosing.” A collaborationist Herald editorial (“The Corporation and the economy,” Mar. 3) noted that “tuition has been growing faster than inflation since the 1970s.” However, without taking other factors into account, the inflation rate is a misleading value for

comparison.

The income growth of wealthy Americans began to heavily outpace that of the middle and working classes in the 1970s, and because the student bodies of Brown and other competitive universities are disproportionately wealthy, the editorial’s observation may not be a coincidence. If this conclusion is correct, then it gives rise to an unsettling phenomenon.

While many universities cover the demonstrated need of less well-off students through financial aid, perpetual increases in tuition can render the sticker price of a college education intimidating to all but the wealthiest of prospective students. This may prompt families to substitute less expensive options, to the detriment of future earning potential, thereby causing the income growth of the most wealthy relative to lower income brackets to accelerate further. Thus, the cycle is perpetuated for another generation.

There is no magic bullet for the problem of college affordability, but potential solutions will be found only through analysis of the ways in which amoral reactions to economic circumstances can generate negative outcomes. A moralistic approach that does little other than accuse its detractors of collaboration, hypocrisy and brown-nosing is remarkably unhelpful.

Hunter Fast ’12 is an economics concentrator who hopes that this column will be sufficient to earn him a writing gig for the Brown Noser. He can be reached at hunter_fast@brown.edu.

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