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Six undergrads to puzzle Times readers this week

By Alexandra Ulmer Senior Staff Writer

Crossword devotees are often stereotyped to be nostalgic retirees who avidly pen in answers to puzzles as they sip coffee at the breakfast table.

But six Brown students are rejuvenating the brainteasers by designing consecutive New York Times puzzles for Brown Puzzlemaker Week — the first time a specific university’s students have been given the reins of the paper’s celebrated puzzles.

Creations by Aimee Lucido ’13, Eshan Mitra ’12, Zoe Wheeler ’12, Joey Weissbrot ’11, Jonah Kagan ’13 and Natan Last ’12, listed in order of publication, will be published starting Monday.

Last, who designed his first crossword in 10th grade biology class and co-founded the Brown Puzzling Association, pitched the idea of the special week to the Times’ crossword editor Will Shortz, for whom he interned

Young guns, old stalwarts lead defense

By Sarah Beresford Contributing Writer

“The greatest compliment you can give a freshman is that he never played like a freshman,” said football Defensive Coordinator Michael Kelleher.

If one thing is certain, it is that last season — with a total of 57 tackles, several game-changing interceptions and an appointment

Magazine: Simmons is ‘fierce and fabulous’

this summer. “He said it was just a matter of finding six people who can do it,” Last said.

With roughly 30 members in the student group, Last said it was not difficult to find five other enthusiastic constructors. The association meets weekly to construct, discuss and solve puzzles and annually organizes a campus crossword tournament. Kagan and Last also construct special weekly puzzles, titled “Across to Bear,” for The Herald.

“I think it’s remarkable that there are so many Brown students who construct puzzles,” said Shortz, who attended this spring’s tournament. “The quality of the puzzles is just as high as in any other week, and I wouldn’t have published them otherwise.”

The six approach the craft of crossword making with different backgrounds. Lucido is concentrating in computer science and Moncontinued on page 3

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Living statues added to the atmosphere of Saturday night’s WaterFire on the majestic Seekonk River.

Growing BTV producing new shows

By Fei Cai Senior Staff Writer

Brown Television is back and expanding this semester with more episodes of student-run TV shows such as last year’s “Mt. Olympus,” “Campus Liquors” and “BTV Primer,” the premiere of “The Ratty” and additional student short films.

Beginnings A group of students includ-

ing Doug Liman ’88, director of “The Bourne Identity,” and David Bartis ’88, executive producer of “The O.C.,” founded BTV in 1987, according to the BTV website. At

arts & culture the time, the organization boasted more than 300 members and was the single largest student group on campus.

The station, which has won a national award for excellence in

to the All-Ivy Second Team — cornerback A.J. Cruz ’13 never played like a rookie. “I don’t think there is anything he could do on the field that would surprise me,” Kelleher said.

Cruz earned Ivy Weekly Honors in six of 10 games, was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week after an impressive performance against Cornell and was honored as the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week after a game-saving interception against Yale. Tri-captain linebacker Andrew Serrano ’11 described Cruz as “a super-athletic guy” who is “definitely going to have a huge impact on the team this year.”

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news broadcasting, had its ups and downs, but remained running until 2006. All shows went off the air for a two-year period, while the station became a medium for movies then stopped all broadcasts.

Revival But BTV was not dead.

In 2008, a small group of students came together, wrote a

President Ruth Simmons will receive a Visionary Award from Essence Magazine, less than a year after being honored for her accomplishments as an educator by BET. She will be awarded Monday at the “Fierce and Fabulous” luncheon in New York City celebrating the magazine’s 40th anniversary.

Simmons is one of 40 black women to be honored at the luncheon who have “fearlessly given voice to our dreams and paved the way for dreamers to follow,” according to Essence’s website. The magazine is honoring “exceptional women who are making a difference in the world,” according to a press release. She is featured along with other honorees in the magazine’s commemorative issue, which is on shelves now.

Other honorees include such influential women as Michelle Obama, Maya Angelou and Beyonce.

— Fei Cai

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A tangled Web: an undergrad’s life online

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news in brief

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By Alex Bell Senior Staff Writer

Ahalya Nirmalan / Herald file photo

Students waited in University Hall on a Sunday morning in 2006 to pre-register for writing seminars. Banner has simplified registration.

The class of 2010 was the last group of Brown students to have known a time without Banner. Juniors are the last class to have been introduced to advising without the Dean of the College’s Advising Sidekick tool. About 80 percent of them applied online, compared to more than 99 percent of this year’s freshmen. And with more than 5,000 students now using Banner’s new course scheduler tool, it’s questionable how many of those freshmen have even heard of Mocha.

After four years, who will be left to remember what being a Brown student was like before these new

Web systems came about?

Over the years, critics of technological innovations — most notably Banner — have assailed changes due to the detriment they might cause the New Curriculum and the undergraduate experience at Brown. The Herald took a retrospective look at how these new technological institutions quickly adopted by Brown students have affected student life.

Before Banner Banner’s predecessor for course registration began operating in the fall of 1983, according to University Registrar Robert Fitzgerald. It recontinued on page 2

Higher Ed, 2

Sports, 5

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lucky them Harvard’s endowment made an 11 percent gain last year

Soccer showdown Women’s soccer goes against nationally ranked teams

Ditching the dorms Sarah Yu ’11 demands offcampus housing options for all

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“I don’t think Banner really had the effect people feared it would have.”

— University Registrar Robert Fitzgerald

Banner, Sidekick, MyCourses shape undergrad experience online continued from page 1 mained the status quo for more than 20 years until the arrival of Banner in April 2007.

“Students used to line up with the old paper cards,” recalled Fitzgerald, who came to the University in 2003. “Back in University Hall, the line used to go all the way through the building.”

After students submitted their cards, a data entry firm would pick them up for processing, Fitzgerald said. Students had to wait until the next day to find out what classes they got into.

Fitzgerald said most of Brown’s peer group had online registration by the 1990s.

Brown’s system was “archaic,” he said. “It was like a step back in time for me.”

For the most part, the legacy system was written in-house, unlike the packaged Banner software that has been only tweaked by the University for Brown’s use. When Banner was first introduced, it used to display zeros for students’ grade-point averages on academic records, which was modified when students complained that it looked fishy to employers, he said.

Outside of changes like that and the Brown-built course scheduler, “Banner is pretty vanilla,” Fitzgerald said — if Computing and Information Services modified the Banner software too much, upgrades to Banner would become increasingly more cumbersome to implement.

At the time Banner was introduced, the previous mainframe was more than 20 years old. Fitzgerald said the people who built it were no longer around to fix it, and there

were few opportunities for upgrades or support for the outdated technology.

“Banner has got its faults, but at least it’s stable,” Fitzgerald said. “If it ever breaks down, we don’t have to go out and find somebody who worked here 15 years ago.”

Although the legacy system did not allow for most courses to be filled on a first-come, first-served basis, Fitzgerald said capped writing courses always drew quite the early-morning crowd to University Hall. He said the doors to the building would open at about 5 a.m., and registration for these weary-eyed students would begin around 9 or 10 a.m.

Banner-Brown tensions A September 2009 Herald editorial summarized the themes of many letters to the editor and news articles around the time Banner replaced the legacy paper system.

“Over the past few years, students and recent alumni have seen paperless pre-registration, and Banner especially, as a threat to the New Curriculum,” the editorial concluded.

“These concerns will be addressed if and when Brown uses its online resources to support course selections that are flexible and informed.”

Years ago, critics prophesied the downfall of Brown’s liberal learning curriculum, the introduction of distribution requirements and the uniform application of prerequisites to deny students access to classes they otherwise could have gotten into under a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

In March of 2007, the Undergraduate Council of Students passed a resolution describing Banner as a “disruptive and counterintuitive”

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system that would threaten the New Curriculum. A co-sponsor of the resolution condemned Banner as “one of the most impractical applications” introduced at Brown.

Student reactions varied, though.

“As long as there’s Mocha, we’ll be fine,” one student told The Herald at the time.

“I don’t think Banner really had the effect people feared it would have,” Fitzgerald said. “People shop now as much as they shopped in the ’80s.”

In the fall of 2009, overrides were introduced to allow students to register for courses that were full — but with the instructor’s permission, just like things always were, Fitzgerald said.

And as far as prerequisites go, some departments still ask the Office of the Registrar to tell Banner not to enforce listed prerequisites, which Fitzgerald said can be changed with a click of a button.

With the introduction of the course scheduler, Fitzgerald said he hopes students will have an easier time seeing which courses they do not meet the prerequisites for so they can know to ask for an override.

Banner is designed to enforce distribution requirements, but Fitzgerald said that is a capability his office simply has never used.

“Banner hasn’t changed the open nature of the curriculum,” he said. “The only thing that has really changed — and I don’t think anybody is missing it — is students don’t have to line up with pieces of paper anymore.”

ASK and Liberal Learning Though the debates over Banner have been prominent over the past several years, other technological innovations have been reshaping the undergraduate experience as well.

Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron said the Advising Sidekick tool that launched with last year’s freshmen will encourage reflection and integrate advising across students’ four years at Brown. The tool connects students with their advisers, gathers advising resources in

one place and allows students to upload their best work into a portfolio.

“ASK will increase the opportunity for students to live out the promise of the Brown curriculum,” Bergeron said. “It’s one thing to take courses, but it’s another thing to stop and reflect on why.”

Before the tool, she said, the liberal learning objectives were not as heavily emphasized to freshmen.

“We say this is a curriculum that encourages reflection,” Bergeron said. “This gives us an opportunity to prove that.”

Bergeron also said she hopes the tool will evolve with its pilot class of 2013 to integrate advising past students’ early years.

This year, sophomores will for the first time file their concentrations through ASK, and those forms will be housed in the program, Bergeron said. Previously, students’ files resided in paper form in University Hall, which she said was a hindrance to concentration advisers.

But with ASK, Bergeron hopes to see everything from students’ goals and introductory letters for first-year advisers to concentration essays go into one electronic file that is easily accessible, even when a student switches advisers after declaring a concentration. Just as importantly, she said, a student’s electronic file is also accessible to the student.

“There’s a great opportunity here for rethinking what that file is,” Bergeron said. “We want students to feel like the continuity of advising takes place over all four years.”

MyCourses and alternatives Before Brown adopted the Blackboard-based MyCourses system in 2002, the University had what CIS’s Manager for Instructional Technology Patricia Zudeck called a “homegrown” learning management system that was hard to support or extend.

Course packets sold by the Brown Bookstore containing assigned readings were very common for classes, but hard to update once they were printed and frequently misplaced by students, Zudeck said.

Now, Web-based software has

allowed students around-the-clock access to online assignments and assessments as well as the opportunity to view their grades online, among other features.

About 600 courses use MyCourses, but Zudeck said other platforms are becoming increasingly common as students expect more resources to be online. Some courses use wikis, Google sites or iTunes U. Though iTunes U can support video as well as audio, its use is becoming increasingly common for hosting audio files for language or music classes, according to Brown’s Director for Academic Technology Services Catherine Zabriskie. Faculty can request space on iTunes U from the University, and can grant access to the files only to students registered for their class, just as they would through MyCourses.

One problem with many of these systems has been their inability to interact with Banner. Though course registration lists are transferred to MyCourses nightly, grades entered by professors in MyCourses cannot be transferred to Banner.

With the recent launch of a new and very different Blackboard system, Zudeck said CIS has begun to assess alternative learning management systems and hopes to reach a decision this spring. One of many options under consideration is Luminis, which could be more easily integrated into the rest of the suite because it is made by the same company as Banner.

But John Spadaro, Brown’s director of technical architecture and outreach, said it is unlikely Brown will flock to one central system of record.

Instead, the focus is on making sure these various systems — from Banner to ASK to MyCourses — can interact in some way with one another.

“Particularly as we modernize systems, one of the things we try to do is make sure we have very open programming interfaces so we can exchange data between systems,” Spadaro said. “The hope is even if it’s not the same system, the data in one system will be able to be used or referenced easily by others.”

Harvard endowment soars 11 percent

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Harvard experienced an 11 percent investment return on its endowment this past year, bringing its total to $27.4 billion, several news sources reported Thursday.

This news comes in the wake of a previous year loss of 27.3 percent in value. Harvard is among the first universities to report its endowment returns for the fiscal year ending June 30, according to the New York Times. Harvard’s endowment stands as the largest among U.S. universities.

It is unclear if this positive return is a trend for major universities or case-specific, according to Rae Goldsmith, vice president for advancement resources at the Council for Advancement and Support of

Education “We are hearing similar encouraging signs from other institutions,” Goldsmith said. But she added, “There’s still a lot of uncertainty about the economy, so while we’re encouraged, we still need to take a ‘wait and see’ attitude.”

Brown has not yet released its returns for the past fiscal year. For the

HIGHER ED year ending June 30, 2009, Brown’s endowment dropped 26.6 percent in value to $2.038 billion, The Herald reported at the time.

Information about the current state of Brown’s endowment will be released when the return results are reported, Vice President for Public Affairs and University Relations Marisa Quinn wrote in an e-mail to

The Herald, but she declined to comment on Harvard’s results.

Harvard’s endowment increase comes after a year of restructuring to increase the liquidity of its portfolio among other adjustments, Har vard Management Company CEO Jane Mandillo told the Times.

The increase was smaller than stock market averages over the fiscal year, reported the Times, but more than what Harvard’s standard measures predicted.

The question remains as to the significance of Harvard’s gains in a larger national context.

“We’ll be seeing a little bit more concrete evidence of what’s happening when the National Association of College and University Business Officers does its annual study towards the beginning of next year,” Goldsmith said.

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“Next year, we will have more BTV.” — Sam Eilerstein ’12, BTV executive producer

BTV blossoms with new shows about liquor store, the Ratty continued from page 1

budget proposal and was granted funds from the Undergraduate Finance Board to renew the station.

BTV officially relaunched in 2009 and began showing reruns from the 90s.

The station, thirsty for new material, held a pilot competition in early 2009. More than 15 shows entered the competition, and four were chosen for production based on the quality of the screenplays and their appeal to the University’s audience.

Episodes, however, have been few and far between because of students’ busy schedules and the challenge of putting together shows from scratch, according to the station’s executive producer, Sam Eilertsen ’12.

“Time is the main challenge,” he said. “Getting people and getting them to stick to it is what we need. Actors are used to it, but it’s more difficult for the crew.”

Fantasy, myths, college life Current shows, though, are nothing if not creative and full of

potential. “The Circle,” a complete five-episode show about a university resisting evil forces that have overtaken the world, has set the bar for the station’s quality. The stor y revolves around the feats of an orphan at the university, which ser ves as a safe haven from the dark powers.

Eilertsen, who worked on “The Circle,” said the show, which has generally received positive ratings from viewers, had high production value because of its special effects.

Another show that began last year and hopes to continue this semester is “Mt. Olympus,” a series about the Greek gods and their college exploits. “Our show asks, ‘What would it be like if the gods lived amongst us?’ What happens if you take a normal person and give them extraordinar y powers?

How does that work in our society?” explained Ben Jones ’13, the show’s producer.

“Mt. Olympus” began with Arik Beatty ’10, one of the executive producers and co-directors of the show, and some of his friends.

“The whole thing started as a joke,” Beatty said. Last year he

lived in a house with 12 people, so the group called it Mt. Olympus.

“We started thinking, wouldn’t it be funny if we were actually 12 Olympian gods going to school?”

The idea jump-started a screenplay about the gods and their decision to disguise themselves as college students to have a bit of fun in modern times.

Hestia, guardian of the Sacred Flame on Olympus, is left behind, but decides she too wants to join in the fun. Without her, the flame goes out, and the gods find themselves stuck in college with no powers. The result is what Beatty calls “all hell breaking loose.”

But the show also explores deeper topics such as “struggles with identity,” he added.

Beatty noted that the group wanted to focus on Hestia because she is a lesser-known goddess, which allows the writers some creative freedom. Her role as the guardian of the Sacred Flame has kept her innocent and relatively naive, and “for once in her life, she would like to have a bit of fun.”

The first episode received positive reviews at its screening, Be-

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Six Brown undergrads wrote puzzles for the New York Times’ first-ever week of crosswords from one school.

Shortz picks six for Times’ puzzle publication continued from page 1 day’s puzzle is the first she has ever constructed, while Weissbrot is studying classics and used to spend his middle school lunch breaks solving crosswords.

But all concur that creating puzzles requires a love for language, a mathematical mind and a passion for quirky trivia. They also relish creating fresher clues — with topics ranging from “Harry Potter” to “The Simpsons” — for a hobby that has long been dominated by old-fashioned references.

“Constructing is a great way to get back at the crossword world for all those years,” said Kagan.

Shortz also organized a Teen Puzzlemaker Week in 2008 and a Half-Century Puzzlemakers’ Week in 2009. On average, he said he edits about half of all clues in any one puzzle to be published — but tweaked a lower percentage of the studentpenned clues, he added.

The clues are the final — but most fun — part of the creation process

for Last, who creates the puzzles via a computer program.

First, he picks a theme, thinks up answers and types them in a grid.

Then he blacks out the squares at the end of words, fiddles with the construction and ultimately writes out the clues.

“You try to have the least number of awkward letters crossing,” said Last, who added that he has always been passionate about fitting objects together. “I used to make mazes all the time. My favorite thing as a kid was Legos.”

In contrast, Lucido’s history with puzzles is far more recent. While she used to peek over her mother’s shoulder when she completed the Times’ Sunday crossword, she said she did not delve into crossword creation until late last semester.

“I had a week between two finals so I spent a day making it,” said Lucido of the puzzle, where the word “Brown” is prominently featured. “We were attempting to study for philosophy … but that just developed into writing clues. I realized it was way

cooler to work on a puzzle for the New York Times.”

She and Mitra will be published for the first time this week, while the other three have already had their creations printed in the Times.

“I want to continue to publish teens and young constructors,” Shortz said.

“I’m expecting people to think that, A, this week is cool and, B, these are really nice puzzles.”

atty said, adding that the series will have a five-episode stor y arc.

Currently, the second episode is in post-production, the third and fourth are being filmed and the fifth is still being written.

Campus comedies Not all shows have to do with the fantastic or the mythological.

Some, such as “Campus Liquors” and “The Ratty,” take place in an ever yday liquor store and the Sharpe Refector y, respectively.

“Campus Liquors” is about two friends who work at their local campus liquor store and the events that occur there.

“The Ratty,” a sitcom created

by Andy Newton ’11, Jeremy Noah ’11 and Benjamin Gold ’11, is about “four friends — normal Brown students — and their misadventures,” Newton said.

While “navigating the twists and turns of life and Brown,” the characters “are all brought together by the Ratty. It’s sort of their sanctuar y,” said Newton, who is a writer and director for the show. Newton and Gold said they hope to air the first episode this school year.

TV for the future With the termination of Brown’s cable system this semester, BTV has stopped airing its shows on television, becoming a purely Internetbased station. This will necessitate a few changes, Eilertsen said.

Currently, the shows are running 30-minute programs, the standard for normal television. Eilertsen thinks shows that have not yet begun filming, such as his new program “Fever Break,” should run about 10 - 15 minutes per episode in order to “fit the attention span of the Internet and student schedules.”

But moving the station to the Web also has its benefits. This transition will allow BTV to incorporate more student short films into its programming. Also, the Internet has looser restrictions on episode release dates than television. This means creators will have the freedom to air episodes whenever they want, instead of adhering to strict schedules.

Eilertsen remains optimistic about the future of the station. “It is growing at a very fast pace, but we don’t know if the pace is evident yet,” he said. “Next year, we will have more BTV.”

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Diablo Valley 3 Brown 9

Penn St.-Behrend 2 Brown 16

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Toronto 8 Brown 13

Navy 8 Brown 7

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Alexandra Rieckhoff ’14, the volleyball team’s leader in assists, sets up a teammate.

Volleyball

Squad beats PC, goes 2-2 on week

By Samuel Rubinroit Contributing Writer

There are certain rivalries in college sports that shut down entire cities, turn sibling against sibling and provide bragging rights for the rest of the year: Michigan vs. Ohio State in football, Duke vs. North Carolina in basketball and USC vs. UCLA in just about every sport. The crosstown women’s volleyball rivalry between Brown (3-4) and Providence College (4-8) doesn’t quite match up to those, but the yearly meeting is still marked on the teams’ calendars.

“It’s nice,” Head Coach Diane Short said. “It’s kind of like our little city championship, so it’s always good to play them every year.”

The PC game was the first in a week of four games for the players.

Brown 3, Providence College 0 Bruno played its home opener Wednesday against the Friars , coming away with a 25-16, 26-24, 25-20 victory.

“I thought we played really well,” said co-captain Danielle Vaughan ’11.

“We lost a little momentum in the second game, but I really like how we fought even though the score got tight at the end.”

The annual matchup against the Friars has some added significance

for Short, who served as an assistant coach at PC for three seasons, including two seasons as head coach of the school’s men’s club volleyball team.

“It’s a rivalry for us. Every year we have something we look forward to,” said PC Head Coach Margot RoyerJohnson.

Ohio State 3, Brown 0 After defeating the Friars, Brown traveled to Baltimore last weekend for the University of Maryland at Baltimore County Invitational, where the team first faced perennial volleyball powerhouse Ohio State (9-1), losing 25-12, 25-20, 25-18.

Despite the loss, facing the highly ranked Buckeyes has its benefits for the Bears.

“I think it’s going to prepare us really well” for league play, Vaughan said. “There’s a lot of really big teams in the Ivy League like Yale and Penn, so it’s great to see some big teams” in out-of-conference play.

Brown 3, Towson 1 In its second game of the UMBC tournament, Bruno faced one of the two host schools, Towson (10-3).

Despite dropping the first set 2517, Brown fought back to win three straight sets by scores of 25-19, 25-22 and 26-24.

“I think even when we lost the

first set,” Short said, the players “felt confident that they were going to win the match.”

Katrina Post ’13 recorded a teamhigh 12 kills and Annika Gliottone ’12 added 23 digs.

Maryland at Baltimore County 3, Brown 1 In the final game of the tournament, Brown encountered the other host school, UMBC (4-5). After winning the first set 27-25, Bruno dropped the next three in highly contested play.

UMBC took the remaining sets 25-21, 25-22 and 25-23.

“It was a disappointing loss against UMBC, but it was a very good learning experience,” Short said. “They had the fans behind them, and fans were yelling every time we served, so that was good practice for us to be able to handle those situations.”

The Bears saw strong performances throughout the tournament from Post, who made the All-Tournament Team, and Alexandra Rieckhoff ’14.

Rieckhoff has led the team in assists every game this year, including a season-high 42 against UMBC. The Bears return to action this weekend as they host the Brown Invitational on Friday and Saturday, featuring Boston College, Holy Cross, the University of Rhode Island and Central Connecticut State.

Though the team will return some star ters, like Cr uz and Serrano, it will have to look further to fill the holes left by the class of 2010, both on of fense and defense. According to Cruz, coaches have been emphasizing the transition to a team without “Buddys and Bobbys,” referring to former wide receivers Buddy Farnham ’10 and Bobby Sewall ’10. And the defense lost five players from the class of 2010, which means new faces in key roles.

Because of this, the returning players’ focus is “to come together as a team, to have each others’ backs,” Cruz said.

Kelleher describes the team’s philosophy as each man having his “job” to do on the field.

“Defensively, if we have 11 players doing their job, we’ll be a lot stronger,” Kelleher said.

“This season, our motto is ‘We are a team.’ ” The defensive line is physically smaller than it has been in the past, but what the group lacks in size, it makes up for in speed and agility.

“We’re going to play a lot faster, play more disciplined and play as a team more than we did last year,” Serrano said.

Cruz described a pre-practice ritual that encourages leadership from the entire team.

“Whether it be a junior, senior, sophomore, from players who maybe don’t play that much to the starters and captains, we always have someone go up and kind of get us going before practice,” Cruz said. He describes the leadership in these pep talks as less individual and more teambased.

In preseason, the defense has been practicing mostly against the Brown starting offense, but as the season approaches, its focus has shifted toward preparing

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for opponents.

Serrano stressed the importance of having the scout team help the defense prepare for different offensive strategies.

“We can’t always play our (star ting) of fense in practice, so having our scouts play well helps us prepare to take on other teams,” Serrano said.

The Bears’ first game is a rematch of last year’s season opener, when they suf fered a devastating 21-20 loss to Stony Brook. The defense is looking to come out with a better result this Saturday.

“They are a well-coached team and will be a good match for us physically,” Kelleher said. “Our foundation has always been defensively to stop the run first, and this will be a good gauge to let us know where we are.”

Stony Brook’s offensive line averages close to 300 pounds across the board, which will present a challenge to the Bears’ defensive linemen.

“They’re bigger than we are, but we’re faster,” Serrano said.

Though the team is tr ying to focus all of its energy on preparing for Stony Brook, it is difficult not to look ahead to the team’s second home game.

“I’d be lying if I said we can go a day without someone talking about the Har vard game,” Kelleher said.

The team is also looking ahead to a rematch of last year’s defensive battle against Penn, Cruz said.

Penn led the Ivy League in points last season , but the Bears were able to hold strong, only allowing one touchdown in regulation, but losing 14-7 in overtime.

Other defensive players to look out for this season include Chimso Okoji ’11 and Phil Roffi ’11, experienced players who will take over star ting linebacker roles this season.

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“We had the ball in our court.”

— Ryan McDuff ’13

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Commanding defense leads team to win, tie in Brown Soccer Classic The men’s soccer team stayed undefeated and per fect on the defensive side this weekend after two closely contested games in the Brown Soccer Classic. The Bears shut out the University of South Carolina 1-0 and drew 0-0 against Hofstra.

energy.

“We kept going till the end,” Walls said. “We had a few chances and eventually we got one.”

Goalkeeper Paul Grandstrand ’11 continued his perfect work in the goal with five saves.

“We tried real hard and communicated well,” Walls said. “It was great to be part of that performance.”

Brown 1, University of South Carolina 0 Brown (2-0-2) took the field with determination Friday night against the University of South Carolina. After 82 minutes of competitive play, the hard work paid off, as for ward Sean Rosa ’12 scored the first and only goal of the game.

The match involved much backand-forth action across the field and was ver y physical, with 12 fouls in the first half alone.

In a postgame inter view posted

by Brown Athletics, co-captain and defender David Walls ’11 commended the team’s continuous

Brown 0, Hofstra 0 The Bears took the field again on Sunday afternoon to play Hofstra in their second game of the Brown Soccer Classic.

In comparison to Friday night’s performance, the Bears started out slower than they wanted.

“The game started out rough,” said defender Ryan McDuff ’13. “It was after just one day of rest, and we had such a great crowd Friday night (that) it took a while for the energy to pick up.”

But the intensity increased in the second half.

“At halftime, coach gave us some inspiration and some minor

By Katie DeAngelis Spor ts Staff Writer

Jonathan Bateman / Herald

Forward Sean Rosa ’12 scored the lone goal in the soccer team’s 1-0 victory over the University of South Carolina.

fixes,” McDuff said. “Mostly, he said to show some passion and energy, and after that, we did.”

Both teams played aggressively and physically throughout the second half. Brown had several good crosses that passed right in front of the goal. The Bears put two balls in the net, but both goals were disallowed because of offside calls, causing an uproar from the animated fans. The score remained at 0-0 at the end of double overtime.

McDuf f was optimistic about the team’s performance after the game. “Our defense has been playing really well, not allowing any goals in our first four games,” he said. “And our offense has been creating chances. We just have to be more efficient.”

Head Coach Patrick Laughlin also encouraged the team to think positively about the result, McDuff said.

“After the game, coach said we can’t be disappointed,” McDuf f said. “We had the ball in our court.

We are the ones that have to make the plays.”

W. Soccer

Bruno loses to Boston College, but upsets No. 22 Monmouth

By Madeleine Wenstrup Contributing Writer

The women’s soccer team (2-2-0) faced a tough schedule this week, battling two nationally ranked opponents early in the season. But the young squad came away with an upset victory after a hard-fought away loss. Bruno fell 4-1 to No. 5 Boston College (4-0-1) on Wednesday night, but then returned to Stevenson Field Saturday afternoon to secure a 2-1 win in its home opener over No. 22 Monmouth (4-1-0).

No. 5 Boston College 4, Brown 1 The Bears’ defense was under immediate pressure early in the game against the Eagles on Wednesday night. Boston College’s Victoria DiMar tino scored less than two minutes into the first half and led BC to a 10-2 shot advantage in the first 45 minutes.

With a second goal by DiMartino, who went on to record her first career hat trick, the Eagles held a 2-0 advantage at halftime.

With two quick strikes about 10 minutes into the second half, BC added its third and fourth goals to secure the Eagles’ hold over the Bears.

Unwilling to give up, the Bears pressed on as forward-midfielders Erika Lum ’11 and Louisa Pitney ’14 and fullback Carly Ruiz ’12 each had a shot on goal late in the second half. And with only a minute remaining, midfielder Gina Walker ’11 scored with an assist from forward Eliza Marshall ’13, saving the Bears from a shutout.

Walker’s goal was only the second scored on Boston College this season. The Eagles have shut out five of the seven teams they have played so far, only allowing goals to Brown and No. 2 Stanford.

Head Coach Phil Pincince was pleased with how the team matched up against the Eagles. “It was actually a well-played match for us,” he said. “I was really happy we scored and that we didn’t give up.”

Brown 2, No. 22 Monmouth 1 The Bears and Hawks battled shot-for-shot in the first half of Saturday’s home opener. In the middle of the first half, Monmouth took the shot advantage, testing Brown’s defense and Amber Bledsoe’s ’14 goalkeeping abilities. But the Bears succeeded in fending off all of the Hawks’ first-half attempts on goal.

“We did a good job talking to each other and working in the back

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and just staying organized,” Bledsoe said of the Bears’ defense.

The first half looked to be at a standstill until Alison Mullin ’14 launched a high shot that hit the crossbar. The carom set up forward-midfielder Kiersten Berg ’14, who tapped it into the net to secure her first career goal just 18 seconds before halftime.

“It was really exciting to see her score the first goal of the season on our home field,” Bledsoe said.

Looking to increase Bruno’s 1-0 lead, Berg scored again 15 minutes into the second half with an assist from Walker. The Hawks answered six minutes later, finally beating Brown’s formidable defense. In the last 30 minutes of the game, Brown fought to avoid a tie and came out with a 2-1 win over previously undefeated Monmouth.

“We didn’t focus on them. We just played our game,” Berg said, speaking about facing the nationally ranked Hawks. “Going up against an undefeated team is always kind of fun.”

The Bears go back on the road this week, traveling to West Point, N.Y., Wednesday afternoon to face Army. They will be led by newly appointed captains Charlotte Rizzi ’11 and Walker.

Jesse Morgan / Herald

Kiersten Berg ’14 scored two goals and propelled the women’s soccer team to a 2-1 upset win over No. 22 Monmouth.

Editorial & Letters The Brown Daily Herald

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Coverage of mayoral race missed Taveras’ strengths To the Editor: I was not impressed by The Herald’s article on the Providence mayoral race (“Mayoral race heats up before Sept. 14 primary,” Sept. 7), which showed in its description of each candidate an extremely flimsy understanding of this election and what Providence has at stake.

For example, the article touted Steven Costantino’s role in Rhode Island’s recent adoption of an education funding formula. What it failed to mention was that Costantino has been Chair of the House Finance Committee for close to a decade now. When the Chair of the House Committee on Finance wants something to happen, it happens. A funding formula bill has been proposed by progressive representatives like Edie Ajello every single year going back to the mid-90s, yet time and time again it has been shot down by none other than Steven Costantino.

But suddenly, the year Costantino decides to run for mayor of Providence, what do you know, we get a funding formula.

Providence deserves better.

Providence deserves a mayor like Angel Taveras, who knows — in

a way that few political leaders in our country can ever claim to know — exactly what so many of Providence’s citizens are going through. Growing up in the infamous Lockwood Plaza projects, working his way through the public school system and returning to Providence after getting his law degree to continue community empowerment work has given Angel a profound understanding of how badly we need to remold city government into the tool for social justice that Providence needs.

But Angel can’t do it alone. This is an election where your vote really matters. To win this low-turnout, three-way primary, Angel needs only 10,000 votes. There are at least 500 registered Brown students. In an election this close — Providence elections have been known to come down to double-digit margins — a strong Brown student turnout could be the difference between victory and defeat.

We have the opportunity to be a part of something truly historic here. We can change this city. We really can.

Aaron Regunberg ’12 Sept. 9

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The other senior scramble As most seniors are well aware, the University places a great deal of emphasis on the idea of a senior capstone project — a thesis, independent study, performance, internship or other major undertaking that punctuates a student’s four years at Brown. The Dean of the College’s website remarks, “Some of the most satisfied graduates at Brown spend a portion of their senior year hard at work on an independent project of their own design.” And in August, seniors received two e-mails from Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron encouraging such work. We have no doubt about the value of a senior project or the capability of seniors to do an excellent job. However, we do wonder whether the University’s advising system is doing enough prior to senior year to set students up for successful and rewarding experiences.

The process of arranging to embark on a capstone project can be difficult, and students will likely have questions without obvious answers. Is my idea for a topic something that could feasibly blossom into a piece of serious scholarship? Who in the department would be best to help guide my work? Should I write a traditional thesis or consider some other medium through which to present my project? We imagine that for more than a few seniors, Dean Bergeron’s August e-mails touched off a scramble to find some good advice.

Simply put, pre-project advising must begin as soon as possible. Some departments already do a good job of starting early and shepherding students along. The Department of History, for instance, notes on its website that writing an honors thesis is “normally a three-semester process” that begins with a workshop class taken during junior year. However, we would like to see all departments push concentration advisers to help students with advance planning for

capstone projects.

For starters, concentration advisers should hold office hours in the late spring devoted to junior advisees considering a thesis or other major undertaking the following fall. These office hours could then lead to dialogue over the summer between students and professors, allowing seniors to return to campus with more concrete ideas and get to work right away on substance. Advisers could also encourage students to take a look at recently completed capstone projects and speak to graduating seniors about their experiences over the past year.

Perhaps the most difficult part of preparing to do a capstone project is finding a unique and doable topic, and we hope all faculty members are constantly keeping an eye out for students who might have stumbled upon a good idea. We’ve occasionally heard professors remark that a student’s question in class merits further investigation, but we’d like to hear it more often. Undergraduates are still relatively new to conducting independent research, and we need as much guidance as possible when it comes to knowing what could be worthwhile.

The University is providing a lot of support for students who are already working on a capstone project. The University Keystone Project gives seniors a chance to participate in workshops on how to present and communicate their work. And the Theories in Action Conference provides a forum for seniors to showcase their final product. These initiatives are important, but they should be complimented by a renewed focus on helping students through the earliest planning stages of their projects.

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Opinions The Brown Daily Herald

Monday, September 13, 2010 | Page 7

Get a room … off campus SARAH YU Opinions Columnist I am back this fall for my final year on campus, only this time, I’ll be living off-campus.

That’s right: I’m in the process of fulfilling my final test toward becoming an independent young adult, mastering the ability to live, cook, clean and pay rent and bills all on my own.

I received an e-mail from Residential Life last week titled “Important City Ordinance Information.” As someone who is learning to be a responsible member of the Providence community, I opened the e-mail with haste, only to scoff at its content. The second sentence of the e-mail reads, “If there are complaints about behavior at your residence, you can be moved back on campus and will not be granted off-campus permission again during your enrollment at Brown.”

But the Office of Residential Life won’t be able to find a room on campus to put me in if this happens, I thought.

I felt a little slighted at ResLife’s disciplinary tone at this early stage of my offcampus adventure. After all, I have not made, nor am I intending to make, any systematic unchecked attempts at delinquent behavior in my first year of big-people life.

While I recognize that many of the issues the email addressed needed to be reinforced for college students living alone for the first time, I could not help but be skeptical of ResLife’s actual capabilities to carry out disciplinary action against the socially

irresponsible — nor did I think the e-mail’s discouraging words were justified.

After reading The Herald’s Sept. 8 article, “Overcrowding causes unusual housing for some,” I remembered the sophomore-year plight of several of my peers, who found themselves in uninsulated fraternity “libraries” or miniature study lounges instead of a decent living space. My own housing choice and decision to go off meal plan were thwarted last year, as the only kitchen in my hall, located so conveniently

seems like a daunting possibility that all our dormitories’ lounges and kitchens could become bedrooms in the very near future.

Currently, while Brown seniors are all guaranteed off-campus permission if they choose to request it, it is definitely difficult for juniors, or younger students, to attain the same level of independence because of an on-campus residence requirement of six semesters. Also, many non-seniors usually receive their off-campus housing permission after local landlords’ deadlines for leas-

In light of our dorms’ problems with overcrowding, Brown students need increased access to off-campus housing permission.

next to my room, was converted to a triple.

How, I thought, can ResLife confidently assert that they could potentially revoke my off-campus permission, when the dormitories cannot possibly hold another student?

While ResLife’s commitment to providing on-campus housing for all students who want it is admirable, this promise clearly cannot be implemented with the conditions of our dormitories as they are now. Overcrowding is a big issue, and it seems as if the problem will likely not go away unless Brown instantly gains a large number of new dormitory rooms. With an increasing matriculation rate and more students to accommodate with every new school year, it

es to be signed, leaving students with such limited options for off-campus housing that some opt to live on campus instead. But it is clear, in light of our dorms’ problems with overcrowding, that Brown students need increased access to off-campus housing permission.

Although new to apartment life, I believe that living off-campus is a good culmination of a well-rounded residential college experience. We are lucky to be in a city like Providence — not too large, yet definitely not a small town. Providence is very accessible, and there exist plenty of off-campus options, varying in price, for Brown students.

With Brown’s heavy focus on responsibili-

ty to the community and our campus’ thorough integration into our surrounding demographics and geography, it is a surprise that Brown does not encourage students to seek out off-campus housing options more readily.

Living off-campus forces college students to address all the issues that ResLife’s email detailed. Noise, trash, parties and relationships with neighbors are all important things that students at Brown need to learn to deal with. Off campus, students will (hopefully) no longer feel the desire to destroy the exit signs in their apartment buildings, pay more attention to keeping living areas clean and learn a thing or two about paying rent and bills. Any opportunities for students to encounter these responsibilities should be encouraged by the University. It is probably likely that there will be some cases of neighborhood disturbances and disciplinary issues with Providence police, but I am confident that Brown students have the intelligence and ability to act responsibly when given a good opportunity to do so.

I would like to propose that the University relieve the lottery-unlucky from their study lounge fates. Making living off campus easier for Brown students will not only reduce problems of overcrowding in our dorms, but will also encourage students to become more responsible members of the Providence community.

Sarah Yu ’11 no longer has displaced sophomores living in her kitchen. She can be reached at xia_yu@brown.edu.

In defense of Brown, Inc.

BY MANAS GAUTAM Opinions Columnist In his recent column (“Brown, Inc.”, Sept.

10), Simon Liebling ’12 made it very clear that he has forgotten Brown University’s primary objective — education. It is not to provide healthcare to Dining Services or to take care of Rhode Island’s destitute, but to provide an education and a remarkable research platform to students, academia and professors from all over the world. There are quite a few flaws in Liebling’s analysis, which I hope to dispel.

Brown University is a home to knowledge, research and learning. For students and faculty to do this, they must have the best facilities that exist so that they can further their pursuits and make a name for Brown in the world. The University should keep reinventing and improving itself if it wishes to be regarded among the best in the world. That is precisely why they are building the new home for the Alpert Medical School, Life Sciences building and Creative Arts Center. The Athletic Center is also of great importance, since sports play a big role in leadership and team building. Furthermore, the University funds these new buildings and renovations through its endowment, which is purely gifted by alumni.

Should Brown think of itself as a corporation? Yes, I believe it should. It has customers — students and alumni — whose

money Brown (as a corporation) must allocate in the most effective manner. Last year, around 30,000 high school students applied to Brown. Why the recent surge? I believe it is because our institution has put a lot of focus on the sciences and engineering. In doing so, it has truly understood the trend of preferences of students worldwide. To continue giving us the latest and best opportunities, the University has to keep growing

a capitalistic society. Philanthropists such as John D. Rockefeller Jr. 1897, Thomas Watson Jr. ’37, Sidney Frank ’42, the Joukowskys and Stephen Robert ’62 are among the many that have done well in their fields and have allowed all of us to benefit from this institution. However, Liebling goes on to insult them (in particular Stephen Robert ’62, who was gracious enough to rebuild Faunce House as the appealing student cen-

I look forward to the day when Liebling’s $50,000 per year, “noble intentions” and pixie dust will pay for the University to be the best in the world and keep our lights on at the same time. and developing. After all, the rattling pipes in Metcalf did help keep one awake in class, but it did raise questions about the dilapidated condition of the building.

Even though Liebling’s column goes on to talk about how managing the budget is important, the article’s message is very clear — profit-maximizing is bad. What escapes me is how Liebling thinks that Brown will keep growing while providing financial aid to its students if it does not have a surplus of wealth or capital. America’s private educational institutions are undoubtedly the best in the world, and they are the boons of

ter it now is). By questioning their donations and intentions, he has not done any of us a favor. If this is how the University’s students think of such philanthropists, they certainly have no incentive to share their fortune with us. I look forward to the day when Liebling’s $50,000 per year, “noble intentions” and pixie dust will pay for the University to be the best in the world and keep our lights on at the same time.

What I find very distasteful in the column is Liebling’s choice of who the winners and losers are. He believes that letting employees go and not giving Dining Services work-

ers healthcare are outrages. Has he ever wondered whether these employees were actually efficient and effective? Furthermore, if Obamacare is really the solution to the healthcare problem, it can take care of the Refectory’s workers. Why must the University sponsor private healthcare and take on such a huge expense? Since when has healthcare been taken for granted? Should Brown’s employees (myself being one of them) also take for granted that they will have a car, a nice house, a loving family and a warm pair of socks? That is not any institution’s responsibility, but rather personal responsibility.

Harvard, our cousin to the north, saw an 11 percent increase in its endowment due to proper planning and effective investment. Brown’s investment, even though it did not lose much, is certainly doing well.

But that is an obvious problem to Liebling and his Open The Books Coalition, which wants investment transparency for Brown. If he understood the meaning of competition and having an edge in investment ideas, I would not be writing this column. He is riling the student body by reminding each one of you of the tuition hike, but he forgets to mention that a Brown education costs more than $100,000 a year without the endowment offsetting the cost. So, use the facilities well and prosper.

Manas Gautam ’12 gives lessons in fishing and can be reached at mg@brown.edu.

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c a l e n da r 7-8 P.M. — Male Sexuality Workshop Info Session, Wilson 102

7-8 P.M. — A Conversation with Providence Police Chief Dean Esserman, Hillel

9-10 p.m. — Girls’ Night Out, Sarah Doyle’s Women’s Center

7:30-9:30 P.m. — Human Rights and the Kurds in Turkey: An Eyewitness Account, List 110

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Dinner — Vegan Roasted Veggie Stew, BBQ Beef Brisket, Vegan Chana Masala

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Dinner — Roast Pork Calypso, Asparagus Quiche, Kalmata Olive Bread, Frosted Cookie Bars

crossword Dot Comic | Eshan Mitra and Brendan Hainline

Fruitopia | Andy Kim

The Adventures of Team Vag | Wendy Kwartin

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