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Jewish and Muslim comics laughing toward ‘Peace’ Rock to By Amy Rasmussen Contributing Writer
Peace” tour, “One Muslim. One Jew. One Stage.”
In efforts to strengthen interfaith relations, university officials across the world sometimes turn to forums, academic lectures and focused leadership groups as vehicles for discussion. Sometimes, laughter works just as well.
Comedians on college circuit Though the pair has performed at venues across the nation — from the local synagogues of Alper’s hometown in Vermont to appearances on the Daily Show and CNN — Alper insisted that the college shows are often the most rewarding. One particularly memorable experience, he said, came from an evening spent at the University of Pennsylvania. Audience members were hanging out together after the show, when the students were asked to leave — the conversation had gone on for so long that Hillel staff members needed to go to bed. “It’s a pinch-me situation that I’m 65 and doing the college circuit,” Alper said. “No one my age doing is colleges — it’s a real thrill to be able
FEATURE For the past eight years, Bob Alper — an ordained rabbi with 14 years of congregational experience and more than 20 years of comedic experience under his belt — has traveled the country not to preach, but to joke. This evening, Alper and his performing partner Azhar Usman, a well-known Muslim comedian, will come together in Salomon 101 to perform the 90 minutes of interfaith comedy that have come to compose the nationally acclaimed “Laugh in
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add study space By Ju Myoung Kim Contributing Writer
Rhode Island governor. According to PolitiFact, the story missed “key facts” in its attempt to tie Chafee to Ukrainian mobsters. Fenton said GoLocalProv stands behind the story “100 percent.” He called Stephen Beale, who wrote the story, “one of the best investigative journalists in America.” “I think we must be of some impact to the marketplace, that (the Journal) seems to be motivated to evaluate our content,” Fenton said. The company is located in a small downtown office, tucked between larger buildings on Weybosset Street. The office itself is under-
A new study area will open in the Rockefeller Library at the beginning of next semester. The new area will be located on Level A, to the left of the Absolute Quiet Room. The plan is to remove three bookshelves and create an open space with large tables and seats similar to those in the Friedman Study Center at the Sciences Library, said Associate University Librarian for Access Services David Banush. But carrels by the windows will remain for those who prefer individual study areas. The books that will be removed along with the shelves will be mainly index and bibliography books, which Banush said have been mostly “superseded by online resources.” Some of the books are already being moved to the Library Collections Annex, an off-campus facility. The rest will be transferred once the construction begins at the end of this semester. Administrators decided to undertake this project last summer in response to general student requests for more study spaces, Banush said. Level A is one of the most used floors of the library, according to Banush. The new area will provide “improved spaces for students,” he said, and allow better access
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Azhar Usman and Bob Alper will perform an interfaith comedy skit tonight in Salomon 101 as part of the “Laugh in Peace” tour.
Alums bring new outlet to the Prov. news scene By Shefali Luthra Contributing Writer
Josh Fenton MA’94, CEO and cofounder of GoLocalProv — an online startup covering the Providence area — will tell you there are three
METRO things to distinguish the site from a traditional news organization. First, GoLocalProv operates exclusively online, posting stories because there are stories, rather than because there are pages to fill. Second, the website relies on social media, deriving about 20 percent of its visits from Facebook.
And third, the site relies heavily on video, shooting and producing — rather than writing — “a lot” of its news coverage, Fenton said. Fenton and GoLocalProv cofounder Paul Krasinski ’98 had the idea for the site two and a half years ago, Fenton said, but did not start actively working on it until last year. “Our strategy was to go recruit all the smart people,” Fenton said. “That is really a core component to our business.” Fenton said GoLocalProv also differs from other online news destinations in terms of the kind of stories it produces. It is neither a blog nor an aggregator. “Most of the digital replacements
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for newspapers, things like the Huffington Post, don’t do fact-based journalism,” he said. “They do aggregation and opinion. But opinion has to start with fact-based journalism.” In its first five months, the site has garnered the attention of both Providence residents and the traditional media. In an e-mail to The Herald, Michelle Nguyen ’11 wrote the site had surpassed a million page views, and a claim made in a GoLocalProv article was investigated by the Providence Journal’s PolitiFact Rhode Island. The organization questioned the accuracy of a story published on the site about Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 during his successful campaign for
Czech it out: hockey player looks for gold By Tony Bakshi Spor ts Editor
Most student athletes at Brown have to carefully balance their schoolwork and the meetings, practices and road trips that make up Division I athletics. But women’s ice hockey player Alena Polenska ’13 has to balance those commitments with another huge role — ser ving as captain of her national team.
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Olympic dreams Polenska, a native of Kutna Hora, Czech Republic, is the captain of the Czech Republic’s Olympic development team, a team preparing for the 2014 Winter
Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Qualifications for the tournament begin next spring at the World Championships, but Polenska and the squad are already beginning to practice as a group in hopes of eventually making it to Russia.
SPORTS Polenska left Providence on Tuesday to attend a training camp in Slany, Czech Republic, before traveling with the team to play in the Four Nations Tournament. She will miss two weeks of school. “It’s the start of the new team — the Olympic development team,” she said. Polenska was named captain of
the team earlier this year. She said the national team’s head coach, Karel Manhart, used to hint at the possibility of her becoming a team leader. “Sometimes he would mention, ‘When we name you captain’ and stuff, but I sort of didn’t pay attention to it,” she said. And when the day came, Polenska was not even aware it had happened. “One day, he e-mailed me, ‘How does it feel to wake up and know that you’re captain?’ But I didn’t even know because I wasn’t home and couldn’t check the website,” she said. continued on page 7
Food venture
Series shakeup
Frat culture
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Student group brings breakfast to the Main Green
Sam Sheehan ’12 surpised by world series matchup
Norris-LeBlanc ’11 criticizes frat values on campus
gets baked, gets down at PC FishCo, and gets to feelin’ like P. Diddy
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Alums’ Providence news site focuses on the local continued from page 1 ground, with brick walls and an alcove of pink and red couches. It’s not quite the garage space often associated with start-ups. Business meetings take place at a round table. The dress code is eclectic: Fenton wears a buttondown shirt and slacks, while another employee sports a New York Jets sweatshirt and a baseball cap. Between cups of coffee, employees joke about potential company faceoffs against the Brown basketball team, or an alleged rivalry between website columnists Matt Jerzyk ’99 and Travis Rowley ’02. Fenton said eight students from Brown started interning at GoLocalProv this fall, joining LeeAnn Chen ’11 and Marques Coleman ’12, both of whom started at the company last year. “Anyone can walk up to Josh (Fenton) and pitch him an idea,” Coleman said. “It’s also a very cre-
ative atmosphere.” Coleman works twice a week at GoLocalProv. He started out filming and editing video but now also spends time managing interns. Last summer, Coleman even covered Bill Clinton’s visit to Providence. “They kind of throw you in projects where it might be really hard,” Coleman said. “I like the fact that you’re being challenged.” Fenton said that immediate plans for the site include a redesigned interface, a new business section, and apps for iPhones, iPads and phones r unning Google’s Android operating system. In the long run, he hopes for GoLocalProv to become a major news source in the area. “People want to know what’s going on in their community,” Fenton said. “So as newspapers cut back… it creates a huge opportunity for us to produce original content.”
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“Only the drunkest of the drunk can handle this pancake.” — Rachel Thakore ’13, Chapter Chair of Nourish International
Laundry room quarter theft foiled, billiard balls stolen
The following summary includes a selection of major incidents reported to the Department of Public Safety between Oct. 6 and Oct. 27. It does not include general service and alarm calls. The Providence Police Department also responds to incidents occurring off campus. DPS does not divulge information on cases that are currently under investigation by the department, PPD or the Of fice of Student Life. DPS maintains a daily log of all shift activity and general service calls, which can be viewed during business hours at its headquarters, located at 75 Charlesfield St.
CRIME LOG Oct. 19 1:22 p.m. An athletics employee reported a laptop, projector, projection screen and carr ying bag stolen. The items were last seen at Mar vel Field during an awards ceremony for former Brown University lacrosse players Sept. 25. A check was made of the film room located on the second floor of the Pizzitola Sports Center, but the missing equipment was not located. Oct. 22 1:11 p.m. A custodian stated he witnessed a Brown student attempting to break into the washing machine in the Perkins Hall laundr y room with a butter knife. The student admitted to the officer that she was attempting to break into the washer with a butter knife to take quarters to do her wash. A check of the
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coin box was made and no damage was obser ved. The case has been turned over to the Office of Student Life. 7:26 p.m. A student stated that she was in the female bathroom in Archibald House taking a shower and had her room key and bathroom key on the sink. She heard someone enter the bathroom and use the sink. When the person left, they turned the lights off. The victim got out of the shower and noticed that her keys were missing. Oct. 24 2:24 p.m. A Brown Police officer was dispatched to meet with a Brown student cashier at the Campus Market. The student stated that at about 2:20 p.m., a Brown student’s parent requested billiard balls from him. He informed the parent that the game balls are kept inside the pool table. The game balls from both tables were not located in or around the pool tables. The manager of the Campus Market arrived on scene at about 2:35 p.m. and stated that between noon and 12:30 p.m., he observed a student and parent playing pool at the east table. The case is under investigation. Oct. 26 11:12 a.m. A student reported that he had locked his mountain bike on the Goddard House patio using a cable lock Oct. 21 at approximately 10 p.m. On his return Oct. 22 at about 8 a.m., he discovered that his bike was missing.
Group feeds the hungry, here and elsewhere By Kristina Klara Staff Writer
A new breakfast table has popped up on the Main Green. Every Wednesday, Brown’s chapter of Nourish International holds a “hunger breakfast,” modeled after “hunger lunches” held by other college chapters. “Hunger Breakfast is a twist on that. Every Wednesday morning from 8:30 to 11:00, we sell coffee from Coffee Exchange and pastries from Starbucks and various other restaurants for $2 or less,” said Rachel Thakore ’13, Brown’s chapter chair. The group’s chapter at Brown was established last year. “Nourish International is a nonprofit student organization. What we do is run business ventures throughout the year to raise money for a sustainable development project that we implement in the summer,” Thakore said. Ventures are very different than fundraising, she added. “The difference is, when we choose a venture, we think about who our market is, how we can target our market, what needs we can meet on a college campus, and we are constantly reshaping our ventures so they can be the most profitable and successful.” Students are not giving money away but paying for something they will receive in return, she said. Nourish has tailored their ventures to the college market. “What do college kids want?” Thakore asks. “Food and entertainment.” Past ventures have included a “Pancakes for Poverty” night, which was “wildly successful,” said Thakore. They are having another this Saturday from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the Bronson House kitchen in Keeney Quadrangle. The special is the “hangover pancake.” “It’s our everything pancake, featuring all the toppings we will be having that night,” Thakore said. “Only the drunkest of the drunk can handle this pancake. Will you be up to the challenge?” So far the club has raised around $750. Their goal for the semester is $1,500, Thakore said. This money will go toward the group’s summer project. “We are in contact with several different organizations,” Thakore said. “We want the project to be sustainable, and we want to be working alongside the community in deciding what needs to be done.” Potential projects include building schools and supporting sustainable agricultural practices. Nourish is still open to new members. “We give students who are interested in international development and finding modern, sustainable solutions to global poverty a creative and innovative way to raise money for sustainable projects,” Thakore said. The group aims to give students the leadership and business skills needed to become leaders in the fight against global poverty, she added.
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“Faith is very respected on Brown’s campus in general.” — Gene Goldstein-Plesser ’11, Hillel executive vice president
Comedians met through Google, now joking for ‘Peace’ continued from page 1 to do, and to laugh and to tease.” Though Alper said he likes to joke that he connected with Usman through JDate — an online Jewish dating service — he noted that the true story is equally humorous. “I literally Googled ‘Muslim comedian,’ ” he said. According to his best estimate, the two have since performed upwards of 90 shows together. Before pairing up with Alper, Usman co-founded the “Allah Made Me Funny” comedy tour, and has since performed in over a dozen countries, according to his website. Usman will be coming to Brown after a month performing his tour in Australia and South Africa. Alper’s material, which he said ranges from typical Jewish stereotypes to cracks about his dog, is most often a direct result of his own experiences. “People can relate to other people who are self-revealing,” he added. “It takes down the wall between you and the other person if you’re able to make fun of yourself.” Despite the nationally acclaimed status of the “Laugh in Peace” tour, Alper admitted to feeling nervous about the duo’s opening competition — the Brown Stand-Up Comics. “We hope they’re not funnier then we are,” he joked. “We’re counting on them to suck.” Throwing a pebble Gene Goldstein-Plesser ’11, executive vice president of Brown/RISD Hillel, said he began planning the event following a glowing recommen-
dation from another university Hillel. He approached the Brown Muslim Students Association and several other campus groups and departments to co-sponsor the event. The responses from Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design, Goldstein-Plesser said, have been overwhelmingly gratifying. Though financial contributions were not always possible, it seemed that everybody wanted to be part of an event with the potential to bring together a rabbi, a Muslim — and the community. When Valerie Wilson, the associate provost and director of Institutional Diversity, was approached with a proposal to sponsor the comedians, she recalled that her immediate reaction was, “How wonderful!” Together with University Chaplain Janet Cooper Nelson and the Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life, Wilson’s office recently undertook a project known as “Catalyzing Conversations on Diversity,” a new campus-wide initiative to explore issues of identity, literacy, diversity and co-existence. Humor, Wilson said, may provide a means of addressing deep-rooted issues of interfaith dialogue in a manner that the lectures and leadership groups of the initiative simply cannot. “We found that often times, people don’t know how to start a conversation,” Wilson added. “It’s a safe way, to bring people to an event like this, where everyone gets permission to laugh.” When speaking of her work on the promotion of interfaith dialogue, Wilson continually returned to one anal-
ogy. Any event or idea that serves to further interfaith dialogue is just like a pebble being thrown into a pond, she said. Her job is only to enhance the ripples. According to Wilson, the initiative is set to continue into next semester — and beyond. “We want to put to work all the diversity that we have on campus,” she added, to “find topics that everyone has a stake in and that everybody can bring a different perspective to.” Dave Coolidge ’01, associate University chaplain for the Muslim community, agreed that the performance could act as a way to explore topics that would otherwise be off limits. “Comedy is a place for truth-telling and making known that which is often hidden,” he added. “It can be useful as a way of exploring complex and difficult issues either personally or more widely.” Much of his work as a chaplain, Coolidge emphasized, focuses on enhancing what he refers to as the “natural symbiosis” between the Jewish and Muslim faiths that results from the shared experience of being minority groups in America. “That’s the bread and butter of cohesive community -— finding points of commonality and building off of it,” he said. ‘A much-needed laugh’ The student representatives from Hillel and the Muslim association emphasized that while tensions between the Muslim and Jewish communities at Brown are virtually nonexistent, stereotypes still exist that need to be addressed.
“Faith is ver y respected on Brown’s campus in general,” Goldstein-Plesser said, “but I think that people see there’s sort of this bias — people see Muslim and they think terrorist, they see Jewish and they think Israel, when really the Jewish and Muslim identities are so much bigger than that.” One of the driving reasons behind the event, Goldstein-Plesser said, was to create a space where different faiths could come together, not to engage in academic debate or heavy political conversation, but just to have fun. Jenna Zeigen ’12, president of Puzzle Peace — an on-campus group that promotes dialogue on issues surrounding the Israeli-Palestine conflict — expressed her excitement for the event in an e-mail to The Herald. Despite her involvement in a topic that causes conflict around the world, Zeigen’s e-mail shared the position expressed by Alper and others — this event isn’t about the politics. “The politics surrounding the (Israeli-Palestine) conflict are very present on this campus, and often very serious,” Zeigen wrote. “I think that this event will provide a much-
needed laugh to the mix.” Wilson echoed the sentiment. “Everything about the issue of interfaith dialogue is not all serious,” she said. “It’s nice just to see a little bit of irreverence and to actually poke fun at those things that are actually funny.” One misconception that needs to be destroyed, noted Shadia Karim ’12, president of the Muslim association, is that the “Laugh in Peace” performance represents a rare collaboration between Jewish and Muslim students. “The idea behind this event, that a Jew and Muslim can be on a stage together, actually rather mimics the relationships between the individuals involved in the issues of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict here,” Zeigen wrote. “Many of us are friends!” Clean comedy As with any comedic performance, Alper said, the sensitive nature of the material always runs the risk of offending people. Though the “Laugh in Peace” partners perform separately in a style known to the comic world as tag-teaming, Alper emphasized his continued on page 5
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“Nobody really considered, before this work, that size was a factor.” — Tricia Serio, associate professor of molecular biology
Students like new Rock study space continued from page 1 to large art books on the floor. Some of the books that will not be moved to the annex will be more tightly shelved to create space for the new study area. Students praised the idea of the new study area. “I definitely think it is a good idea for the Rock,” said Hayley Sparks ’14, because the Absolute Quiet Room can be a little “daunting” for freshmen. Helen McDonald ’14 said some students want a “social area” for studying, where they can study and see other people as well. Karine Ip ’12 agreed that the new area will definitely be helpful for group studying. “I would want comfy chairs for late night studies,” she added. According to Banush, the project is funded from gifts designated by donors for improvements to library facilities. Banush said there are no other immediate changes underway at the Rock.
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Brown researchers discover key to protein infection transmission A team of Brown researchers, led by Tricia Serio, associate professor of molecular biology, cell biology and biochemistry, have reported an important discovery which could be applied to mad cow disease and its equivalent in humans, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Serio, along with postdoctoral fellow Suzanne Sindi and postdoctoral research associate Aaron Derdowski — both in molecular biology, cell biology and biochemistry — discovered that the transmission of infections caused by proteins called prions is determined by the size of the proteins and not their abundance. “Nobody really considered, before this work, that size was a factor,” Serio said. “Protein aggregates need to stay a certain size to be transmissible,” since the aggregates lose their transmissibility if they are too large and fall apart if too small, she said. The ability of the prion to move is crucial to the development of a disease. “Even if you have the virus, you might not be sick. It has to be able to move,” Derdowski said. The team has come to understand that there is “heterogeneity in the size and age structure” of prions, Sindi said. The significance of this study lies in its possible application to a number of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, that involve a process similar to that of prions, Serio said. Though the team uses yeast in their research, they said they hoped that others will apply their findings in mammals. The research is an interdisciplinary effort by Sindi and Derdowski. In the lab, Derdowski observed the movement of protein aggregates in living yeast cells, while Sindi, also a postdoctoral fellow in computational biology, provided the model that explains the data Derdowski gathered. “It is nice to find something and have it backed up computationally by a totally different field,” Derdowski said. Now, the direction of the project is to find out why size matters and “whether there is a molecular mechanism that holds the bigger one back,” Derdowski said. “The bigger question everyone wants to answer is how to stop it,” Sindi added. — Inni Youh
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performance shares an important underlying principle with Usman’s — their routines are always un-hurtful, clean and non-political. “We want people to leave feeling good,” he added. “When you hear a comedian who’s really dirty or nasty or mean, you might laugh because it’s a well-constructed joke, but you end up feeling guilty.” Mordechai Rackover, rabbi at Brown/RISD Hillel, said he has often heard and greatly appreciates the humor and sensitivity of Alper’s work.
He also mentioned that he is sometimes alarmed by the overly harmful way in which people choose to make fun of their own culture or religion. “Just because you’re of that faith — of that ethnicity — doesn’t mean that you have a free pass to say those things,” he added. As long as the intent of the material is good, Karim said she isn’t too worried that audience members will be mistakenly offended. “We can make fun of both sides because we have both sides there,” Goldstein-Plesser said. Ultimately more important than
the material the show addresses, Alper emphasized, is the experience that it can provide to audiences. “It’s not just what they hear from us, but just sitting there, laughing together with people they might not even ordinarily talk to,” he said. “When people laugh together, they can’t hate each other.” “One Muslim. One Jew. One Stage.” will be held at 7 p.m. in Salomon 101. Admission is free and open to the public. Following the event, audience members are invited to partake in a night of discussion, snacks and “interfaith schmoozing” at Hillel.
GM to sell $13 billion in offering By Shawn Langlois MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO — Setting the stage for its long-awaited return as a public company, General Motors Co. said Wednesday it will sell $10 billion in common stock and another $3 billion in preferred shares in the open market later this month. The sale reportedly will include a stake of up to $2 billion for four or five sovereign-wealth funds and will bring the U.S. Treasury’s stake down to 43 percent from its current 61 percent stake. GM said it expects to offer 365 million common shares at a price between $26 to $29 each. Another 60 million in series B mandatory convertible junior preferred stock will be included in the deal.
The underwriters will also have the option to buy up to an additional 54.75 million common shares from shareholders and 9 million shares of preferred stock from the company to cover over-allotments.
WORLD & NATION GM also predicted a third-quarter profit of between $1.9 billion and $2.1 billion with sales of about $34 billion. Those numbers would mark a dramatic improvement from the third-quarter a year ago when GM, fresh out of bankruptcy, reported a loss of $1.15 billion on net revenue of $26.35 billion. “We are extremely pleased with the level of progress the company is making,” GM Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell said. “We will deliver a
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solid and profitable first year postbankruptcy, and we are continuing to improve our balance sheet and most importantly, the quality of our vehicles.” Looking ahead, the Detroit-based auto maker said it sees more profits in the fourth quarter as well, though the earnings likely won’t be quite as strong as they were in the first three quarters of the year. GM is slated to post its detailed third-quarter results next Wednesday. Earlier Wednesday, GM reported a 3.5 percent jump in October U.S. sales to 183,759 cars and trucks. GM’s four remaining brands — GMC, Cadillac, Chevy and Buick — have increased their sales by 22 percent this year, while the industry has only risen about 10.5 percent year-to-date.
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Funding may limit UCS advisory handout Funding constraints may prevent the inclusion of an additional advisory handout in next year’s first-year orientation packet, said Academic and Administrative Affairs Committee Chair Frank Rinaldi ’12 at the general body meeting of the Undergraduate Council of Students Wednesday night. Council members started creating an additional advising guide this summer, intended to provide helpful tips such as problem-solving techniques, The Herald reported in October. Concerns with funding were first addressed at last week’s council meeting after Rinaldi reported that Carol Cohen ’83, associate dean of the College for first-year and sophomore studies, said an additional insert would be too expensive. The committee will continue to find the best way to get the information to students, Rinaldi said. The Admissions and Student Services Committee completed its first audit of satellite gyms last week, said chair Chris Collins ’11, assessing each piece of equipment, noise levels and the functionality of the gym’s television. Vice President Ben Farber ’12 also announced at the meeting that voting in council elections will continue on MyCourses this year, with the addition of instant runoff voting. The council approved a constitutional amendment last spring to add instant runoff voting to avoid holding a separate election for candidates who do not receive the majority of the vote, The Herald reported at the time. Farber said he assessed different mechanisms to employ instant runoff voting and decided to keep voting on the MyCourses system to avoid decreasing turnout. — Nicole Boucher
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What I learned from watching this year’s World Series
By Sam Sheehan Sports Columnist
There are many reasons that I love October. In one month, I have my birthday, Halloween, Columbus Daaa — I mean, Fall Weekend, Leif Erickson Day and Sports Month. No disrespect to Leif Erickson Day (it got really commercialized when SpongeBob SquarePants got a hold of it, anyway), but Sports Month is definitely the most important part. October is the one time when all of the four major sports are going on. For the hockey and basketball seasons, it’s the exciting beginning of a new year. For football, it’s the pivotal time when pretenders are separated from contenders. For baseball, October means one thing: playoffs. I have to say that when the playoffs first shaped up in the beginning of October, I couldn’t have been less excited about them. In my mind, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that the Phillies would either play the Rays or the Yankees in a rematch of one of the previous two World Series. Yawn. I guess it would have been cool for Roy Halladay to get a ring and, yeah, the Rays finally winning it might have been OK. But I’m a Red Sox fan. I watch American League East teams all the time. And the Yankees are concentrated evil. That wouldn’t have been much fun for me. But lo and behold, it was the Texas Rangers on the backs of Cliff Lee and Josh Hamilton who emerged on top of the AL, putting down our divisional rivals in the process. By the same token, the San Francisco Giants pulled an upset of their own on the National League side, jumping on the tough Phillies pitching and silencing their bats. It was a World Series I didn’t see coming, and I was pleasantly surprised by it. One the one side, you had the tortured Giants who hadn’t won a title since 1954, when they were still in New York. The team had last made the World Series in 2002, only to lose a heartbreaking game seven to the Angels. On the other side, you had the Rangers, who had never even won a postseason series before this year, let alone make it to baseball’s big dance. Either way, it was going to be a good story, so I decided to look at this Giants’ World Series win as a learning experience. This is what this World Series has taught me. Pitching and defense actually win championships. The Giants had Buster Posey and Cody Ross batting third and fourth in their lineup for game five of the World Series. The Rangers had Josh Hamilton and Vladimir Guerrero in those same positions. There was no doubt who had the offensive firepower in this matchup — coming into the World Series, the Rangers were averaging about five runs per game to the Giants’ three. Not exactly a dif ference to
sneeze at. Maybe that was why it was so impressive to see the Giants’ pitching staff combine to hold the Rangers to 2.22 runs per game for the series. In games two through five, the Rangers only managed to generate 1.25 runs per game against that smothering Giants pitching. Speaking of that Giants pitching… Tim Lincecum was good … I mentioned The Freak in a column before this, predicting that the National League Championship Series pitching matchup between him and the aforementioned Halladay in game one would be a great one. I was wrong. It was a good game, but it wasn’t the pitching duel we expected — the two starters gave up seven runs. It was one of Lincecum’s uglier outings on the postseason. But he still won the game. That was the pattern for The Freak, who was matched against fellow aces in Halladay and Texas’ Lee. He operated by putting together unrattled, composed outings where he got strikeouts and gave his team chances to conquer the opposing pitchers. He looked like a seasoned vet all the while, putting up an impressive 4-1 record with a 2.43 ERA, 37 innings pitched and 43 K’s for the Giants in the postseason. He had to be the best Giants pitcher, right?
… but Matt Cain was better … He wasn’t. Matt Cain’s ERA for the postseason? Zero. No earned runs. Indeed, aside from the unearned run that the Braves nabbed off of him, no man crossed the plate while Cain was on the mound. While his inning workload was nearly half of Lincecum’s (21.1 innings pitched for Cain), you can’t argue with a guy not giving up an earned run all postseason. That’s why either Matt Cain or Tim Lincecum won the World Series most valuable player, right? … and Edgar Renteria wins World Series MVP. Edgar Renteria? Really? I get it. He hit a bomb off of Cliff Lee. BUT COME ON! Just because he’s about 76 years old and America can’t remember any game that isn’t a clincher is no reason to do this. Yes, his batting average in the series was high, but what about Cody Ross and his homers or Buster Posey and his timely hitting? OR ANY OF THE GIANTS PITCHERS!? Any of them minus Sanchez. I thought Edgar Renteria was dead and was being pulled around the field on puppet strings before I saw him blink. I’m convinced the votes were tampered with just to give me something to get upset about in this series.
Eleven-year-old Buster Posey convinced MLB that he is 23. I can’t prove Buster Posey forged a bir th cer tificate so he could play professional baseball. I can’t even confirm rumors that he spent his signing bonus on Yomega yo-yos, 57 years of Xbox Live and “get out of bedtime free” coupons. I can, however, release unconfirmed reports that he has previously gone to the 15-day DL with his condition listed as “cooties.” He’s going
to have to stop hanging out with girls if he wants to stay healthy next year. Since Texas lost, the Yankees will probably get Cliff Lee this offseason. (Expletive deleted.) Sam Sheehan ’12 refuses to write any more clever taglines until you talk sports with him at sam_sheehan@brown.edu.
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“She’s very fast — faster than she thinks she is.” — James Craig, assistant coach of the nat’l w. hockey team
Polenska ’13 splits time between Brown and national teams continued from page 1
But the national team’s assistant coach James Craig said he knows why the decision was made. “She’s just a natural leader,” he said. “Probably the biggest thing is where she goes in her mind when faced with challenges — she tends to gravitate to positive solutions and she has the ‘What can I do to help?’ kind of attitude.” Polenska was only 13 years old the first time she played for the women’s national team. At the time, the countr y did not have an under-18 women’s team, so talented players like Polenska were thrust right into the adult squad. Craig said the experience makes her an invaluable asset to the team. “She’s been on the team since there was one, since she’s been age-eligible,” he said. “Our most immediate goal is the establishment of a team, and that’s where Alena comes into the picture and why she was named captain,” he continued. “We probably text each other every day and come up with solutions and brainstorm. Our biggest thing is our actual teambuilding.” Bearing down But Polenska is also a key mem-
ber of the Brown women’s hockey team. Last year, she finished tied for second in goals scored on the team with five in her freshman season. Though Polenska’s national and college commitments sometimes interfere — she will miss three Bears games on her trip this month — her college teammates are fully supportive of her. “It’s a great oppor tunity for Czechie,” said tri-captain Erica Kromm ’11. “We would never want to hold her back from anything like that.” “The team kind of makes up for other players if they’re not there or having an off day,” added tri-captain Jenna Dancewicz ’11. “That’s the great thing about the team — ever ybody’s picking up for each other.” Of course, there is also schoolwork to worr y about. When asked how she manages to keep up with her classes, Polenska laughed and said, “That’s what I’m wondering, too.” “I met with my teachers, and I met with my dean,” she later said. “My teachers have all been helpful so far. They’re willing to accommodate.” While Polenska, who is undecided about her concentration, may have laughed off the question about her studies, Craig said he
knows she takes her work seriously. “We have players that complain about (studying and playing), but Alena never complains about it,” he said. “She gets excited about it, and it’s not like she’s just going to a school — she’s going to a difficult school, one of the best universities in the countr y, so she obviously has an academic responsibility as well.” “I get calls from her at times that equate to 3 or 4 in the morn-
ing her time, when she’s walking home from the librar y,” he added. On the ice Polenska has been playing hockey competitively since around the age of five, and she has been skating for even longer. “I had these sandals with two blades on it, and you put it over your shoe,” she said. “So I was making my first steps on the ice when I was 1.” In the 19 years since, she has developed into quite the danger-
ous player. “She’s a power for ward, a strong, stable skater,” Craig said. “She’s ver y fast — faster than she thinks she is.” Her teammates at Brown agree. “The most impor tant thing about Czechie is she’s a ver y consistent player,” Kromm said. “She’s confident with the puck and knows when to hold on to it and when to pass it away.” continued on page 9
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Cross country star Margaret Connelly ’14 born to run
By James Blum Sports Staff Writer
Runner Margaret Connelly ’14 has had an exceptional first season on the cross country team, finishing first in the squad in every race in which she has competed. She continued her streak last Friday at the Ivy League Cross Country Heptagonal Championships, earning a fifth-place finish overall and leading Bruno to a
third-place team finish. She earned First Team All-Ivy honors and ran the fastest time of any female Brown runner ever at the Van Cortlandt Park course. For her exceptional performance throughout the season and especially last Friday, The Herald has named Connelly athlete of the week. Herald: So you’re First Team All-Ivy honors as a freshman.
How does that feel? Connelly: It’s pretty cool. I mean, the competition was kind of what I expected just looking from last year’s results. That was my goal — to get top-five — so I’m happy with the results. What’s been the biggest change coming from high school to collegiate cross country? Probably the length of practices. We do core, you know, strides, pushups, all that stuff, weights — just a lot more intensive practices.
College, where he’s a junior now. And I came out to talk to the Providence coach, and since I was out here my brother suggested coming over talking to Brown — you know, might as well give it a shot — and ended up loving Brown and not loving Providence (College).
Withrow, just because he actually was on the same team in high school as my cousin and he is an amazing runner from Illinois. You know, did really well at Nationals — he won state, I think, his senior year. And I met him, he was at my cousin’s wedding — he was the best man — so he’s kind of close to home.
So what are you most interested in studying? Environmental studies is where I’m leaning towards. But I’ll probably take a variety of classes again this semester.
If you could run anywhere, what would be your ideal place? Probably through trails, you know, someday maybe I want to do an ultra (marathon).
What classes are you thinking of taking next semester? Probably a bio class, another environmental, maybe sociology or history. Kind of get a variety.
So maybe Western States 100? Yeah, maybe like Mexico. Just off that book, “Born to Run.” It inspired me. Yeah, I read it twice in one month.
Does the rest of your family run? My whole family: my mom, dad, two older brothers and my younger sister. So we’d always do (five-kilometer runs) together as a family tradition.
So if you could meet and talk with anyone from history, who would it be? Let me think of someone running-related. Michael Johnson, he’s a track phenom — you know, African-American who kind of paved the way for other African-Americans in his day. Pretty inspirational guy.
So do you ever see yourself running a marathon? Yeah, I want to run a marathon once I’m done competing on a team.
Why did you choose Brown? Actually, I came out here last year with my brother and dad to drop my brother off at Providence
All right, so who is your favorite professional runner or athlete in general? (University of Wisconsin’s) Matt
So why did you start running competitively in the first place? I started running track and cross country in fifth grade. (laughs) My mom was my elementary school coach. So I’ve been running since then.
And why do you enjoy running? You’ve been doing it for a really long time. You’re good at it. I guess it’s just a way of, you know, relaxing and having time to myself, but also it’s a hobby. It’s just like reading or something like that. And I love the team aspect that it comes with.
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“She’s a ver y smar t player,” Dancewicz said. “She gets into the right spots, and she has a great shot, a little snap in her wrist.” That snap shot helped Polenska make what she calls her greatest memor y as a member of the national team. At the 2008 under-18 world championships in Calgar y, the Czech squad rallied to defeat Germany in a quarterfinal game on its way to a surprising bronzemedal finish. “We were down by one or two goals, and we came together as a team and scored 0.8 seconds before the end of the game,” Polenska said. What Polenska initially failed to mention was that she was the player who scored that last-second goal. “Oh, yeah, it was me,” she laughed, when asked to identify the goal-scorer. “We were going into a face-off, and the (other) kid won it — a great job from her,” she said. “I skated a bit and shot it in between the circles. It hit the crossbar and went
in, so we sort of didn’t even know it was a goal. And then everybody started going crazy.” Polenska said the game was a big turning point for the team. “It was amazing because when we were going into worlds, our team was thinking, ‘Oh, I hope we don’t get relegated,’ ” she said. “But I think after the Germany game we really thought we could do it.” Looking to the future Polenska is aware of the tough road her team faces on its path to Sochi. The squad must finish first in its division at the World Championships next spring to make it to Olympic qualifications. If the team fails, it is relegated to a prequalification tournament, which it would have to win just to make it to the qualifying rounds. “It’s a longer process,” Polenska said of the latter option. But Polenska hopes the Olympic qualifying ordeal is just the beginning of her hockey career. “A lot of people stop after college, but I don’t really want to do that,” she said. She said she definitely hopes
to play in the 2018 Olympics, and she is also looking ahead to professional opportunities. “I know they’re tr ying to start a professional women’s league to keep women’s hockey in the Olympics,” she said. And if that league doesn’t pan out, she’ll tr y her hand in men’s competition. “One of my goals is to tr y to play men’s hockey for a bit,” she said. “Play second or third league somewhere. It would still be a good level, and playing with men makes you better because they’re stronger.” And it all comes full circle. Because of the dearth of opportunities for women’s players, Polenska said she’s content with juggling three tasks — leading her national team, helping the Bears improve on last season’s disappointing record and obtaining her college degree. “As a female hockey player, there’s not much chance you can make money playing hockey,” Polenska said. “That’s why we all go to school and tr y to get a good education.”
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Only 41 undergraduate students were cited for potential academic violations last year, The Herald reported last week. Out of a total undergraduate population of around 6,000 students, that number represents less than 1 percent of the student body. We should be proud to see so few reported academic violations. However, the numbers suggest that students aren’t necessarily shining examples of morality — rather, it seems most cheaters just aren’t getting caught. Seventy percent of violations were reported by the Department of Computer Science, according to The Herald. We find it hard to believe that computer science students simply cheat with such disproportionate frequency, especially considering that The Herald conducted a poll last year in which 17 percent of undergraduates admitted cheating during their time at Brown. Instead, violations in other departments, particularly the humanities, are going unnoticed. It’s important to note that cheating takes many forms. The most obvious way to cheat is to copy something from another student. This means glancing at another student’s exam in a large lecture room or lifting someone else’s idea without proper attribution. This kind of behavior is the most blatantly dishonest and was the focus of the recent Herald report. For instance, many students are able to access previous exams or answer keys for a class from older students that have already taken the course. Given that some professors reuse questions in alternating years, this gives students with older friends an advantage compared to the rest of the class. But even things as commonplace as copying another student’s homework answers are technically cheating. The problem with these practices is that they give unfair advantages to students with the right connections — or without the right moral compass. It also inflates grades in classes that are curved, making it more difficult for diligent students to excel. One possible solution would be for professors to make the material open to everyone. True, this may mean having to write
new exams every year, but it would level the playing field for students. We realize that many of the subtler forms of cheating are harder to detect. One of the simplest steps the computer science department takes to discourage this type of behavior is to make its collaboration policy clear. This may be a good first step for departments that want to cut down on borderline cases. Additionally, administrators might want to consider programs like Turnitin, or similar software. Because it’s much more difficult for professors to catch incidents of plagiarism in humanities classes where essays and papers dominate, a tool like this could be valuable to professors in those departments. Though some have raised questions about the possible cost of subscribing to programs like Turnitin, they usually charge several dollars per student and a relatively small base licensing fee. It’s true that this would total several thousand dollars, but it would also take the burden of double checking papers off of professors, and allow them to catch dishonesty that otherwise would have gone unpunished. We think the small expense is worth the benefits it would provide, especially considering that Brown already spends a good deal of money to allow members of the community to access costly journals and programs. We’re certainly not asking for more cheating violations. But it’s clear that many students cheat, and in some way or another most are getting away with it. This is ultimately unfair to students in more vigilant departments, and it diminishes the value of everyone’s degree. We hope professors in other departments can find novel ways to enforce an honest work ethic so that computer science concentrators aren’t the only ones that get caught.
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The giving spree at Dartmouth BY William Tomasko Opinions Columnist Last spring, nearly every member of Dartmouth’s class of 2010 decided to donate to the senior class gift, a scholarship fund for members of the class of 2014. The recordbreaking donation rate was 99.9 percent — only one student had chosen not to contribute. The graduating seniors, as well as the rest of the Dartmouth community, could have focused on celebrating the donation rate, especially because it is a sharp increase over previous years. In 2004, only about ten percent of graduating seniors donated. Instead, Dartmouth students demonized the one senior who did not want to contribute. The class of 1960 had agreed to donate another $100,000 to the gift fund if every single member of the class of 2010 contributed at least one dollar. The alum ended up making the $100,000 contribution despite the one holdout, but the terms of their offer helped incentivize individuals to lash out against the non-donating senior. Last June, in an opinions column in the Dartmouth, one senior had a message for the non-donator: “You have symbolically shown the Class of 2014 that you do not consider their chance at happiness valuable.” He accused the non-contributor of trying “to flat tire the collective spirit of over 1,000 people” in the senior class. “When you walk to receive your diploma at Commencement,” he warned, “I will stand up and burn a single dollar for you, and cry a single tear.” One Dartmouth student blog was even
harsher. The “Little Green Blog” somehow found, and decided to publish, the non-donating senior’s name. The post, written under a pseudonym, included a photo of her. The blogger also quoted the senior defending her decision. After the senior had explained why she hadn’t been happy with her experience at Dartmouth, the blogger argued she should have chosen previously to “leave. There is no honor in being a parasite, sucking off money and time from people who are trying to better you when in reality you don’t want to be there.” The rest of the post at times referred to her as a “space-cadet,” a “Rip Van Win-
bolic act of giving it. In an article on the Dartmouth donation pressure, the Chronicle of Higher Education referenced Rob Henry, an executive director at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, who argued that with senior gifts, “The goal is not to raise money, but to begin a pattern of behavior.” Similarly, the mission of the senior class gift at Dartmouth was advertised to be “to educate (the) Class about philanthropy, the importance of the Dartmouth College Fund and the needs of the College.” However, although “educating” about “philanthropy” was the first listed goal, the
Although “educating” about “philanthropy” was the first listed goal, the experience Dartmouth had with its senior class gift neither represents how philanthropy works nor how it should work. kle character” and a “fly” in the “ointment” of the senior gift collection. “You’re not even worth the one measly dollar that you wouldn’t give,” concluded the author. This senior was publicly shamed as a happiness-destroying, spirit-flattening, buglike parasite, just for this one donation decision. Tom Scocca, writing for Slate, effectively pointed out the extremely disproportionate nature of the smears. The $100,000 at stake amounts to only 0.003 percent of Dartmouth’s endowment, he pointed out. Then again, the amount of money could be considered less important than the sym-
experience Dartmouth had with its senior class gift neither represents how philanthropy works nor how it should work. At Dartmouth, student volunteers were given the names of their classmates who hadn’t yet donated. According the Chronicle’s report, the final drive to achieve a 100 percent donation rate “included knocking on the doors of those who had not yet donated,” and “the student interns who ran the drive encouraged volunteers to ask about a student’s personal reasons for not giving.” Lists of seniors who hadn’t yet donated were “passed along to many people.” One
volunteer sent such a list to the rest of her sports team so that they could also participate in the hounding for donations. According to Sylvia Racca, the Dartmouth administrator who oversaw the senior gift collection, “Student volunteers were kept up-to-date on who has given and who has not, since they need to solicit those who have not.” Even though Dartmouth never intended to release the name of the student who did not donate, this procedure allowed for the leak to occur and still is responsible for the shaming and taunts that followed. According to a Herald editorial this week (“Privacy in giving,” Nov. 3), Brown has student fundraising volunteers sign confidentiality agreements during the senior gift collection. However, Dartmouth’s volunteers were also “trained to respect confidentiality.” Formal confidentiality agreements can help maintain privacy, but in the face of the extremely high incentive among collectors, how can we be sure that students won’t act inappropriately, at Dartmouth or anywhere? The solicitation process at Dartmouth was flawed because it disrespected donors by letting peer pressure effectively take away their option not to give. Instead, a college needs to persuade prospective donors positively by demonstrating that a donation will do more good there than anywhere else. If a college isn’t committed to that cause, then it shows its lack own lack of confidence as a worthwhile donation destination.
William Tomasko ’13 is a political science concentrator from Washington, D.C. He can be reached at william_tomasko@ brown.edu.
Wriston: Shape up, or ship out BY Chris Norris-Leblanc Opinions Columnist Last week, Alyssa Ratledge ’11 delivered in her column (“Sex crimes, complacency and complicity,” Oct. 29) a scathing critique of the sexual assault policies at universities across the country, specifically citing the recent incident at Yale as well as an incident during Spring Weekend at Brown in years past. Ratledge was not only on the money with her argument, but also did a lot of work to open a discourse which seems to have previously resided in the shadows. In the spirit of this opened discourse, I would like to talk about Wriston Quad. This critique is in no way meant to be a blanket statement, but rather a recognition of trends and an analysis of their effects. That being said, I think Wriston is a clearly identifiable bastion for the kinds of cavalier approaches to sexual assault which Ratledge decries in her column. On Wriston, we see a system where sexual assault is protected on all sides: Alcohol blurs the lines of consent, which, if still acknowledged, can be crossed with little to no fear of serious repercussions. The latter part of this is true first because of the fraternal (pun intended) nature of the system. There exists an unspoken code that “what happens on Wriston stays on Wriston,” and if necessary, the “brothers” will close rank and protect their own. Second, because fraternity members are anonymized by institution, punishments are often brought against the organization rather than individu-
als. (Such is the case at Yale.) This allows for low impact accountability, and also serves to protect student groups which, at the end of the day, are really just a collection of glorified party-planning committees. In making this argument, it is important to recognize the membership of fraternities as being made up of individuals with agency, thus separating a bad institution with bad practices from the idea of “bad people.” In this framework, I think it is possible to explore how the archetypal oafish behavior of a “frat boy” is both a product of mob mentality, and actively detrimental to the members
still screen-printed on T-shirts during Spring Weekend. So, if we are to assume that the individuals who participate in fraternities are not all in agreement with this sort of anti-consent messaging, this means they are falling victim to an institutionalized system where mob mentality reflects the view of a minority, and thus implicate themselves in and become compliant with any and all subsequent consequences. In this way, fraternities are harmful not only to their surroundings but also to their constituents. The often fulfilled stereotypes of fraternity behavior push people to do and
In making this argument, it is important to recognize the membership of fraternities as being made up of individuals with agency, thus separating a bad institution with bad practices from the idea of “bad people.” themselves. Although possible, I highly doubt that every person at Yale chanting “No means yes, yes means anal” actually weighed and agreed with the tremendous consequences of that statement. Likewise, I doubt that every fraternity member who participates in the Wriston circus agrees with the morality of dangerous pledge events or the varying degrees of sexual assault which seem endemic to the scene. However, they participate nonetheless, and slogans like “It’s better to beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission” are
say things that, if thought through with independence of mind, would not even be considered. Having your identity displaced and reappropriated is a disempowering experience, and if repeated for long enough, it can fundamentally change your moral compass. Just like seeing excessive violence in various forms of media has desensitized our culture to images that would before have been shocking, the same thing happens as a result of overexposure to Wriston on a Saturday night. The definition of sexual assault
becomes slippery, and drunkenness starts to become a valid excuse for a lack of explicit consent. I anticipate that my argument might be cast aside as conjecture, and there may be claims that I did not sufficiently back up my opinions. I will say that this is not for lack of evidence, but rather due to an overwhelming amount that would easily warrant a dissertation and could not possibly be represented in an opinions column. Simply Googling the words “fraternities sexual assault” brings up page after page full of links referencing various sexual assault cases at various frats at various universities country-wide. Also, the validity of any statistics on this topic must be called into question since universities have a vested interest in keeping their yearly sexual assault reports to a minimum. At the end of the day, I think this means that fraternities either need to shape up and change their culture or get off of our campus. Aside from some community service projects, they do very little to make Brown University a better place, instead doing a lot of work to institutionalize a slew of really bad ideas. My personal call to fraternities at Brown and nationwide: Change your practices, change your reputation and make Greek life a positive experience for your members and the community at large. Or, conversely, GTFO.
Chris Norris-LeBlanc ’13 has friends in fraternities, and would like to make sure they know this is an institutional, not a personal, critique. He can be contacted at chris.norris.leblanc@gmail.com.
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LUNCH Chicken and Lo Mein Noodle Stir Fry, Vegetarian Carrot GingerSoup with Honey, Chinese Fried Rice
BBQ Beef Sandwich, Zucchini and Summer Squash, Milk & White Chocolate Chip Cookies
DINNER Creamy Parmesan Primavera, Edamame with Peppers, Italian Vegetable Saute
Cajun Pasta Chicken, Green Beans with Mushrooms, Chocolate Oatmeal Squares
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