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Simmons still liked, UCS still unknown

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By Kat Thornton Staff Writer

President Ruth Simmons and the Undergraduate Council of Students have largely maintained their approval ratings from past semesters, according to The Herald’s poll this month.

The vast majority of students — 74 percent — still approve of Simmons, while undergraduates’ views of UCS remains split between those who approve and those who don’t know.

About 35 percent of students responded that they strongly approved of Simmons and about 39 percent somewhat approved, with under 6 percent expressing disapproval. Freshmen were much more likely to state strong approval than non-freshmen, who were more likely to somewhat approve. Freshmen also had a higher rate of unfamiliarity with her handling

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“Legends of the SEA,” a cultural show and part of Southeast Asian Heritage week, featured a professional Balinese dancer.

of the job than non-freshmen.

According to Stephen Nelson, a senior scholar at Brown’s Leadership Alliance who studies university leadership, Simmons’ popularity is due to several factors — including her charisma, her representation of both women and minorities as a leader and her ability to navigate successfully through an economically and politically turbulent decade.

THE HERALD POLL Nelson said current trends in how students value authority also account for Simmons’ popularity on campus.

As opposed to the 1960s and 1970s, when students were “automatically jaded” toward authority, students now are more likely to value their leaders, he said.

College presidents then were

“damned if they did, damned if they didn’t,” Nelson said, especially in regard to their stances on contemporary political affairs. Today, Nelson said, students are more likely to value the work it took for a leader to be in a position of authority.

The student mentality is “you got to where you are because you worked for it,” Nelson said. “Go ahead and lead me.”

In the nine years Simmons has been president, she has faced the small recession following 9/11 and the bigger one that started in 2008. In her tenure, Nelson said, the endowment has performed erratically, but Simmons managed to “offset” cuts with reconfiguration of academic departments, so the overall loss was not as bad as it could have been. continued on page 2

Conference Afghan scholars discuss country’s women post-9/11 explores Haiti history

By Sahil Luthra Contributing Writer

By Ju Myoung Kim Contributing Writer

“Haitian studies is everywhere,” said Guerda Nicolas, president of the Haitian Studies Association, in her speech convoking that organization’s 22nd annual conference, held on campus Thursday through Saturday.

About 250 scholars of Haitian studies gathered in Sayles Hall Friday morning to attend an opening ceremony that began with a brief moment of silence to commemorate the victims of the catastrophic earthquake that struck Haiti last January.

In her speech introducing the conference theme, “Haiti, History Healing: Facing the Challenges of Reconstruction,” Nicolas said the event was a great opportunity to remember those who were lost during the earthquake.

Nicolas said participants in this year’s conference represented a number of countries other than Haiti, including Jamaica and the Bahamas, allowing scholars to form new collaborations and friendships.

This year, the conference featured more than 50 sessions with wide-ranging topics, from political development and economy to music and visual arts, approaching the issue of reconstruction from “both disciplinary and interdisciplinary views,” said Marc Prou, executive director of the Haitian Studies Association.

The conference was an “outstanding endeavor,” promoting the “pursuit of new knowledge and skills for Haitian

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Jennifer Heath and Ashraf Zahedi spoke about Afghan women post-9/11.

South Asian Identity Week’s opening convocation featured a presentation by two scholars on Afghanistan who discussed what is necessar y to understand and empower Afghan women.

Jennifer Heath, an Islam scholar, curator and artist, and Ashraf Zahedi, a feminist researcher and social justice activist from the University of California at Berkeley, talked Sunday to an audience of about 70 in Salomon 001. Heath is also involved in an Afghan hunger relief effort, and both women are collaborating on an anthology about Afghan women in a post9/11 world.

After providing a historical background of U.S. involvement

in Afghanistan, Heath focused her talk on how to counter “naive projections” onto Afghan culture.

“The fetishizing and imposition of a one-size-fits-all Western-style democracy, Western ideals and ideas are not necessarily appropriate for tribal, dynastic societies and have more often than not resulted in backlash,” Heath said.

Heath said that pictures in the New York Times and Time magazine, one of which shows an Afghan woman whose nose has been cut off, do not reflect “the norm” in Afghanistan. She advocated looking at underlying causes rather than highlighting horrific incidents.

Arguing against other stereotypes, Heath said not all Afghan continued on page 2

M. bball pulls off surprise opening win vs. Fordham

By Sam Rubinroit Sports Staff Writer

The men’s basketball team opened its season on the road Friday, defeating Fordham, 69-65, in a hard-fought battle. The ability of the young Bruno squad (1-0), which features four seniors and nine underclassmen, to win its first game of the year against a tough Atlantic 10 team provides a lot of momentum for the rest of the season.

“When you play an Atlantic 10 team, the way it’s drawn up, no matter what, you’re not supposed to go win the game,” said Head Coach Jesse Agel. “We try to win every game, but in terms of setting up the rest of the year, if it hadn’t happened it wouldn’t have affected us. But it

certainly gives us a lot of confidence that we were able to get it.”

The Bears were led by co-captain forward Peter Sullivan ’11, one of only four players in Brown history to score over 1,000 points before entering his senior year. Sullivan scored 17 points against the Rams

SPORTS (0-1), including five of six clutch free throws in the final 25 seconds of the game. Sullivan’s 17 points vaulted him to 20th place on the all-time scoring list with 1,053 career points.

Despite Sullivan’s performance, the matchup against the Rams was a battle. Though Bruno built a 40-27 lead at halftime, Fordham clawed

its way back and took a one-point lead with about five minutes to play.

Forward Tucker Halpern ’13 scored five consecutive points to regain the lead with just over three minutes to play. With a precarious two-point lead in the final minutes, Sullivan stepped up to hit the clutch free throws to put the game out of reach.

The young team fended off the Rams’ second-half push and persevered, demonstrating its character in the season opener. Sullivan said he was pleased that the team was able to withstand a comeback effort that might have derailed the Bears in recently past seasons.

“We definitely showed signs of maturity and signs of improving that continued on page 5

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Peter Sullivan 11 scored 17 points in Friday’s close win over Fordham.

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“Haitian studies is everywhere.”

— Guerda Nicolas, president of the Haitian Studies Association

Conference to jump-start Scholars: Afghan women’s rights key campus Haitian initiatives continued from page 1

continued from page 1 studies,” he added.

In the face of the current postearthquake crisis, there has been increased discussion of Haiti’s past, said Matthew Smith, vice president of the association. It is “particularly urgent” to deal with history in such times of crisis, added Laurent Dubois, professor of history and Romance studies at Duke University, who gave the keynote address on Haiti’s 19thcentury history and its relevance to the country’s reconstruction.

Brown decided to help organize the conference two years ago upon the request of the association, said Professor of Africana Studies Barrymore Bogues in his speech at the opening ceremony. Hosting the conference at Brown is an “integral part” of the University’s initiative to engage with issues of the world beyond campus, he said.

Bogues told The Herald he hoped the conference would “become a catalyst” in two ways. First, the conference was intended to continue and

develop Haitian initiatives currently active on campus, such as the BrownHaiti Medical Exchange and the John Carter Brown Library’s “Remember Haiti” initiative. Bogues also stressed that the conference would reflect what he considers the centrality of Haitian studies to current research in the humanities and social sciences, helping people “think about Haiti as a country with history and culture,” rather than a “charity case.”

“It is one of the most informative and important conferences that I’ve ever experienced,” said Naika Apeakorang ’11, one of the student directors for the conference. It was “certainly a place to be for anyone who is interested in Haiti and all aspects of its culture,” she added.

Apeakorang also said she was disappointed by the low attendance among Brown students and faculty.

But she added that she hopes that Brown will organize a similar event in the future with various panels on a range of topics and representation of Haitian scholars to continue interest in Haiti at Brown.

men are fundamentalists or wife-beaters. Some Afghan men are in the Taliban not because they agree with the group’s ideals, she said, but rather because there are not enough paying jobs elsewhere.

Heath added that Afghan women are often misconstrued as lacking agency, citing the depiction of the burqa as an example.

Heath said that rather than sending in military forces, a “new and progressive” force of people who could work directly with Afghans would be more productive.

She added that any lasting peace agreement would need to focus on women’s rights.

In her speech, Zahedi agreed with Heath’s ideas about striving to fully understand Afghanistan’s culture. She said that working within the framework of Afghan culture would be cr ucial to achieve gender equality.

“Right now, we have to value what they value at this point,” Zahedi said.

In strategizing about Afghanistan, Zahedi said, it is necessar y to understand why Afghans might seem opposed to certain ideas.

For instance, she said, women often refuse medical help because they are not comfor table with male doctors, not because they are opposed to aid. A family that doesn’t send its child to school might be concerned for the child’s safety and is not necessarily opposed to education, she said.

To achieve gender equality, Zahedi argued, it would be necessar y not only to provide women with an internal source of power, but also to complement it with social and legal empowerment.

“Addressing practical needs of women is more important at this point than this grand, external idea,” Zahedi said.

Both Heath and Zahedi said it would be a mistake to ignore males and that educating boys and gaining support from men would be essential in achieving gender equality in Afghanistan.

The speeches were followed by a question-and-answer session as

well as a dinner with the speakers at the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center.

The committee behind South Asian Identity Week also arranged for Sunday’s exhibit of Afghan war carpets in lower Salomon and in the Stephen Rober t ’62 Campus Center. The convocation also involved a reading of an Afghan poem by Mina Qulizada, an Afghan woman based in Washington who organizes for Afghan refugees.

Areebah Ajani ’11, a co-leader in steering the week, said she hoped the event would “broaden the discussion of a salient issue” by specifically examining the empowerment of Afghan women. She said a discussion of South Asia requires looking at the surrounding regions as well — including Afghanistan — so as to not limit the discussion with “artificial region identities.”

South Asian Identity Week will continue with events — including a film screening, game night and music performance — through Saturday.

UCS reaches out to community, but most undergrads remain unaware continued from page 1

“Simmons has navigated Brown enormously well,” Nelson said.

“Ruth seems like a good president,” said Colin Schofield ’14. Schofield cited her charisma as a source of her popularity, especially among freshmen.

“I don’t know much about her” because she does not have “much of a presence on campus,” said Zach

Rothstein-Dowden ’13.

Just as in past semesters, about as many undergraduates approve of UCS as those who said they did not know about its job performance. A total of 43.5 percent approve, with 35.3 percent somewhat approving and 8.2 percent strongly approving. The most popular response was “don’t know/ no answer,” which was chosen by 46.1 percent of poll-takers.

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Lao ’13 said she was surprised that 67.7 percent of freshmen — about 30 percent more than other undergraduates — do not know about the council’s job because “there are actually a lot of freshmen on UCS.” “We definitely try our hardest to reach out,” Lao said.

Lao said the council is involved in multiple efforts to increase its role in campus life. The council is planning “Fireside Chats,” a Stephen Colbertstyle news show that will be streamed online in the spring. The show will interview campus figures such as Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron, who will appear in the first episode.

UCS has also expanded office hours to reach students in the Blue Room and the Gate in addition to the Sharpe Refectory. The group also allots a half hour at the beginning of each of its Wednesday meetings for “community time,” when students can come in and voice their issues to UCS. Still, the council remains unknown to many students. “UCS is mostly an

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President Ruth Simmons remains popular, especially among freshmen.

e-mail agent to me,” said Jason Reeder ’11.

As for the 10.4 percent of undergraduates who disapproved of UCS, Lao said, “Sometimes, people just don’t approve of institutions in general.”

The Herald poll was conducted Nov. 1–2 and has a 3.0 percent margin of error with 95 percent confidence.

For the subset of freshmen, the margin of error is 6.0 percent. For non-freshmen, the margin of error is 3.5 percent. A total of 915 students completed the poll, which The Herald distributed as a written questionnaire in the University Mail Room in J. Walter Wilson and the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center during the day and the Sciences Library at night.

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Fain Lecture on health care kicks off economist symposium

By Abby Kerson Staff Writer

Students, professors and community members gathered in Solomon 001 Friday evening for the Bernard I. Fain Lecture on health care reform given by Jonathan Gruber, professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the health care program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Gruber gave an overview about the problems with health care, outlined the key points of the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and discussed the future of health care in America.

He said he was optimistic about the law and had not expected a bill that inclusive to pass.

The lecture was the opening for a Department of Economics symposium intended to “try and showcase how economics is useful in the real world,” said Roberto Serrano, professor of economics and chair of the department.

The problem with health care in the United States is twofold, according to Gruber. There is both a “lack of access” and a “rising health care cost,” he said.

The left-wing solution involves a single-payer insurance company, but this is a “political non-starter” because 80 percent of the population is happy with its insurance and the industry is too large just to disappear, Gruber said. The right-wing solution gives tax credits to those who cannot afford insurance, but this solution does not “recognize the broken system,” he said.

Gruber called the solution that was implemented in the bill “incremental universalism.” This system models the one passed in Massa-

chusetts in 2006, which Gruber played a key role in developing.

Gruber referred to the bill as a “three-legged stool.”

The first leg is reform to insurance practices, which Gruber said is the “single most important part of the bill” and changes “the entire nature of the social contract in America.” The reforms include no longer allowing insurance companies to deny applicants or drop current clients simply because they are unhealthy.

The second leg of the stool is an individual mandate requiring every citizen to get health insurance.

Gruber stressed the importance of this piece of the bill and said that it was crucial in getting the insurance companies on board.

The third and final piece of the bill makes health care more affordable, making it possible for the government to mandate that every citizen purchase health insurance.

This was accomplished by making anyone 133 percent above the poverty line eligible for Medicaid and giving tax credits to anyone whose income is lower than four times the poverty line, according to Gruber.

He pointed out the compromise made here between the two original solutions.

In Massachusetts, the outcome of the bill has been “quite good,” Gruber said, though he admitted he might be biased. The number of uninsured has fallen from 10 percent to 4 percent, and employersponsored benefits have increased.

According to Gruber, the Congressional Budget Office projects similar results on the national level.

Gruber also spoke of the costcontrol aspect of the Affordable Care Act, though he said that cost control “is not what this bill is

about.” The politicians focused on this aspect of the bill only because “the American voter doesn’t care about the uninsured,” he said.

According to Gruber, there are two “fundamental barriers” to cost control, a scientific one and a political one. On the scientific side, economists don’t yet know how to cut the huge annual growth in health care spending. Also, calculations have indicated the rise in health of the population has been worth the enormous increase in health care costs since the 1950s, he added.

From a political perspective, it is easy to make cost-cutting health care reform sound “evil,” Gruber said. He pointed to outrage caused by a recent panel suggesting mammograms for women in their 40s are unnecessary and not cost-effective, leading politicians to claim, “The government wants to take away your mammograms.”

As for the future of health care reform, there are two possible hurdles to keeping the bill in place, Gruber said. The first is the legality of the individual mandate, which Gruber predicted will eventually come to the Supreme Court.

The second hurdle to the bill is the 2012 election, said Gruber. If a Republican wins the White House, he said, the bill could be repealed.

The audience asked questions

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Jonathan Gruber, professor of economics at MIT, spoke about health care.

about many topics, including the insurance companies’ response to the bill, budgetary concerns, malpractice and effectiveness of care.

Gruber said he wanted to make sure he talked about what the audience wanted to hear, and the dozens of questions pushed the lecture beyond its original 90-minute time slot.

Ken Chay, professor of economics, said Gruber “did an incredible

job taking a complex issue and getting the key points through to a non-academic audience.” He added that Gruber’s role in the Massachusetts health care reform made him well-suited to discuss what is “politically feasible.”

The symposium continued on Saturday, with four more lectures and a concluding panel with professors from the economics, sociology and community health departments.

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Worlds and eras collide in Ralske brings multifaceted art ideas to RISD MFA program’s ‘Dream’

By Jacob Comer Contributing Writer

By Aparna Bansal Contributing Writer

The Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA Program’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is “about leaving the safety of what you know, to go into the chaos and the darkness of the unknown to discover who you are and what you want to get out of life,” said director Shana Gozanksy GS, a student in the program.

In the play — performed by a cast of second-year MFA acting students — Hermia (Mary C. Davis) loves L ysander (Charlie Thurston), but her father wants her to marr y Demetrius (Tyler Weaks), whom Helena (Ruth Coughlin) dotes upon. Theseus (Philippe Bowgen), the Duke of Athens, decrees that Hermia must either obey her father’s wishes or else die or become a nun, prompting Hermia and L ysander to run away together so that they can be free of Athenian law. Helena and Demetrius follow them into the woods, where, in a world of fairies, magical revelers and love potions, their traditional arrangements are abandoned and chaos and confusion result.

While the Shakespearean language has been preser ved, Gozansky used a more contemporar y approach toward the set, with bathtubs to represent ponds or beds. In one scene, L ysander pulls out incriminating photobooth pictures of Helena and Demetrius.

“It’s not set in a specific time or place,” Gozansky said. But “we wanted to create characters that people could identify with and relate to immediately, and in that sense we have modernized it.”

Costumes are also used well to reinforce the distinction between the world of Athenians ruled

by Theseus and the ephemeral Fair yland of Titania (Mia Ellis) and Oberon (Brough Hansen).

The four lovers are first seen in formal black-and-white uniform, while the magical creatures introduced in the next scene don colorful, tribal wear in a scene reminiscent of “The Lion King.”

But as the lovers travel deeper into the woods, layers of their clothing come off. They are transformed by the magical forest, left in tattered, minimal clothing, with flaming red leaves in their hair.

In the wilderness, the audience is invited to explore the relationships between the characters and question the true nature of love. Gozansky emphasizes the fickleness of love: In one moment, L ysander cannot keep his hands off Hermia, and in the next, influenced by a potion, he tries to physically pr y her off him, cruelly calling her a “tawny Tartar” and a “dwarf.”

The jealousy that poisons friendships is also beautifully il-

lustrated. Helena coldly half-hugs Hermia when she declares that she is running away, then excitedly reveals Hermia’s secret to Demetrius because she can gain from doing so.

In another amusing scene, when L ysander begins to dote on Helena, Hermia breaks into a rage, threatening to scratch Helena’s eyes out and calling her a “juggler” and a “canker blossom.” Helena runs away in fear, inadvertently riling Hermia up further by commenting on how “low” she is — Hermia takes it as an insult to her height. The four lovers throw balls of vines at one another, jumping niftily from bathtub to bathtub, driven by love, hatred and confusion.

One of the highlights of the play is Bottom (Ricky Oliver), who is rehearsing a play to perform in front of the Duke. In a hilarious scene, he prances around the stage begging director Quince to allow him to play more than one role, demonstrating his ability to act as the hero, Pyramus, but also the heroine, Thisbe, and the lion. Oliver conveys per fectly the proud and stubborn but lovable nature of Bottom, who is transformed into a donkey and ends up in the arms of Titania, who has been drugged

by Oberon to fall in love with a “vile thing.” Later, Bottom delivers the famous “I have had a dream” soliloquy wearing nothing but wet under wear.

“Pyramus and Thisbe,” the play within the play, is masterfully performed, with Lovell Holder playing the timid, apologetic Lion who assures female audience members that they need not fear his roaring. Caroline Kaplan and Alexandra Lawrence act as a very animated (and entertaining) Wall and Moonshine, respectively.

The scenes fluidly transition, complemented by mystical music to distinguish between the dual worlds of the Athenians and the Fair yland creatures. The actors also move in a crisp, purposeful manner, with perfectly timed simultaneous head movements that add to the comic element of the play. While the musical number (“Home”) at the end is a little forced, it effectively sets the stage for Puck’s (Kevaughn Har vey) final soliloquy, in which he apologizes to the audience if the play has offended and encourages them to simply think of it as a dream if it has.

With a talented cast and quirky costumes and set design, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” provides not only a lot of laughs, but the lingering feeling of having had a whimsical, highly entertaining dream.

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” runs at Brown/Trinity Rep’s Pell Chafee Performance Center through Monday. Tickets are $10.

Kurt Ralske integrates aesthetic direction, artistic curiosity, technological prowess and cunning instrumentality in his digital art — a synthesis to strive for — and the results are captivating.

Ralske, who has had a video piece permanently on display in the lobby of New York’s Museum of Modern Art since 2004, presented a sampling of his art Thursday evening at the Rhode Island School of Design’s Center for Integrative Technologies.

About 50 attendees, mostly students, filled the small lecture space.

Ralske showed clips of his video works and images of his stills and spoke about the thoughts that underpinned their creations and the processes that drove them.

Many of his pieces are concerned with time and movement, and how they can be reconstructed and transferred from medium to medium.

For instance, in presenting pieces from his exhibition “Zero Frames per Second,” he asked, “What are the defining qualities of cinema?…

Is a film really only the sum total of its 150,000 frames?”

In his series “Motion / Stasis Extractions” (2007–2009), Ralske pursues such conundrums by manipulating feature-length films to remove the variables of narrative and duration. The series is a collection of images derived algorithmically from movies. Each piece represents the entirety of a single film, reconstructed as strips of a still image

showing all the movement that takes place over the course of the film.

The results are long, continuous blurs of all the frames. For these works, Ralske chose such movies as “Nosferatu,” “Superfly” and “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

Ralske’s inquiries into time and movement and the implications of artistically warping them extend beyond the cinema. His piece “Times Square Timeshare” (2006) is a video taken from a single point of view in Times Square shown across four monitors. Ralske manipulated the footage so that every object in motion in the original video appears at rest in the piece, and everything that was originally motionless appears to move — taxis and pedestrians are frozen, but buildings drift across the screens.

During the question-and-answer session immediately following the presentation, Ralske discussed the difference between design and art.

Though Ralske concretely defined many of the themes he is attentive to — such as time, movement and media reconstruction — he said he does not see his work as expressly designed for the furthering of these ideas.

Though his work tends to follow consistent inquisitive threads, he said, he recognizes a gulf between art and design, and his pursuits belong to the former.

“The difference between design and art is that design is always functional… design does something,” he said. “But art does no job. Art does the job of being art… art is

mysterious… and design is never mysterious. It has to be transparent.”

He expanded on this idea when he told The Herald about his transition from musician to visual artist — Ralske was a member of the band Ultra Vivid Scene in the 1980s and ’90s.

“Music is an arena where people can express themselves very directly… but contemporary art is a very different sort of game,” he said.

“It’s not really so much about the magical hand of the artist,” he added. “It’s more about a game of ideas,” critiquing culture and “the meanings that we all share.”

Ralske accomplishes much of the media shifting and reconstruction he depends on in his art through the creation and use of special algorithms and software. He has written his own custom software, called Auvi, which he recently released as a free package for anyone interested in the sort of digital distortion he’s engaged with.

Ralske is currently a visiting professor and artist-in-residence at RISD. Derek Boyl, a graduate student in digital media at the design school, said he requested that Ralske be on his graduate committee because of the experimental nature of his work and his focus on video, as well as his “interesting” personality.

“He’s strengthening the concepts of video in our department,” Boyl said. “He’s very experimental and very engaging with students.” He added that Ralske manages to be both a full-time artist and a fully dedicated teacher.

‘Sacred’ concert expands definition of music

By Sophia Seawell Contributing Writer

Using everything from piano and violin to computer sound effects and the audience itself, Brown New Music put on a sacred music concert Friday in Grant Recital Hall to an audience of about 50.

Affiliated with the Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments program, New Music “has been around for 10 years or so,” said Mason McGill ’13, who said he was “more or less” the president of the organization.

“We’re sort of the experimental avant-garde music group at Brown,” McGill said. The group has “done a range of things” from “original compositions” to well-known pieces, he explained, adding that there is “a trend towards a lot of improvisation and electronic and multimedia work.”

For this particular concert, McGill said the group was “trying something new,” and the performance would be “a little more tonal than we usually go for, but we’re still sticking

to the theme of having experimental music.” The theme of the concert, as the title hints at, was world religious traditions.

The beginning of the concert quite literally set the tone for how the event would proceed: The usual announcements about fire safety and silencing cell phones were not spoken, but sung by one member, whose vocals were supported by two others singing a bass note. While this introduction had a comical effect, it also demonstrated the group’s unique take on music.

The first piece, “Tuning Piece,” was “an experiment,” composer Dylan Nelson ’11 told the audience.

The instructions on the program asked everyone in the room to join in as one member of Brown New Music began to vocally produce a note, either producing the same note or harmonies thereof. The resulting sound had eerie, discordant layers, akin to members of an orchestra tuning their instruments. It elicited creepy natural imagery, like an amalgamation of animal night calls. Lucy Boltz ’12 said she “really enjoyed”

this “interactive part” despite not knowing many of the words used in the instructions, such as “tonal” and “sonic.”

The other student-composed piece was “Who Am I? (Music for Meditation)” by McGill. It was comprised of piano, violin and computergenerated wind-like sound effects.

The program said these three instruments represented “mind, body, and soul,” respectively.

The remainder of the selections included “Mictrotonal Raga #11” by 20th-century avant-gardist John Cage, which was inspired by traditional Indian music, and Igor Stravinsky’s second arrangement of “Ave Maria.” A particularly unusual piece was “Hosianna Mantra” by Florian Fricke, an eclectic combination of voice, oboe, acoustic guitar, electric guitar and piano.

The sacred music concert was not only an accurate representation of the experimentation Brown New Music aims for, but also a great opportunity for students to expose themselves to a new definition of music.

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Bears halt two-game losing streak

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By Tony Bakshi Sports Editor

The football team bounced back from two straight conference losses to grab a 35-28 comeback victory against the Big Green on Saturday afternoon.

Bruno (5-4, 4-2 Ivy League) seemed destined for a third consecutive loss after Dartmouth punt returner Shawn Abuhoff took a kick 76 yards to give the Big Green a 2817 lead late in the third quarter, but Brown came storming back to win its fourth straight decision against its foes from Hanover, N.H. The Bears’ offense began to roll immediately after Dartmouth’s big play. A 37-yard field goal from Alex Norocea ’14 cut the lead to eight, 28-20, before the final whistle of the third quarter. The Bruno defense made Dartmouth go backward on the following drive, allowing the offense to start with incredible field position at the Dartmouth 29-yard line.

Quar terback Joe Springer ’11 connected with receiver Alex

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Running back Mark Kachmer ‘13 scored the game-winning touchdown in the final minutes of the football team’s victory over Dartmouth.

Tounkara ’11 on a 30-yard strike to make it 28-26 and then completed the two-point conversion with a pass to receiver Tellef Lundevall ’13 to tie the score.

Brown regained the lead later in the fourth quarter with less than two minutes remaining in the game.

Running back Mark Kachmer ’13 capped off an eight-play, 59-yard drive with a plunge into the end zone from two yards out. Defensive back AJ Cruz ’13 sealed the win for the

Bears, intercepting a Connor Kempe pass on the first play of Dartmouth’s ensuing drive.

Head Coach Phil Estes said he was pleased with the result.

“After two fairly devastating losses, it was a good win for us,” he said.

“We had started to lose confidence after the two losses and we were able to hang in there and win.”

we were able to hold off a good run, especially being on the road in a crowded gym,” he said.

Bruno saw strong performances from forward Andrew McCarthy ’13, who was the second-leading scorer with 11 points, and Halpern, who contributed 10 points, all in the second half. In his collegiate debut, guard Sean McGonagill ’14 added an impressive nine points, six assists and five rebounds. Veteran guards Garrett Leffelman ’11 and co-captain Adrian Williams ’11 added eight points apiece and Leffelman led the team with seven rebounds.

“We had a real balanced attack,” Sullivan said. “We got a lot of positive things from a lot of different guys.”

After a tough matchup, Bruno has little time to rest before the players travel across town to face the University of Rhode Island on Tuesday, a squad Agel calls “one of the elite teams in the country.” By

— With additional reporting by Chan Hee Chu

SWIMMING

Brown crushes PC, Bryant in opener

By Ashley McDonnell Assistant Sports Editor

The men’s and women’s swimming and diving squads won almost every race against Bryant University and Providence College in their first meets this weekend. The men easily defeated Bryant, 153-61, and PC, 157-61, while the women posted even more decisive wins, beating the Bulldogs 174-46 and PC 174-48.

The swimmers said they consider this a valuable warmup for their first conference meet Saturday against Dartmouth.

“It was just an opportunity to swim and see what I can do differently for next weekend,” said women’s quadcaptain Allyson Schumacher ’12.

Schumacher won the 400-meter freestyle with a time of 4 minutes, 32.34 seconds and was followed .18 seconds later by teammate Ellen Downing ’14. Sarah Champagne ’11 rounded out the top three with a time of 4:39.34.

The top performances from Schumacher, Downing and Champagne were only a sample of Brown’s dominating results this weekend. The women’s squad took the top two spots in 10 of the 12 events, including the 200-meter medley and freestyle team relays.

The men also won 10 of the 12 events, while “diving had a good, solid meet,” according to men’s and women’s Head Coach Peter Brown.

Though the Bulldogs and Friars did not prove to be much competition for the Bears, “this weekend was just a good gauge for where we are,” said tri-captain Ryan Kikuchi ’11. He said he thought the freshmen performed well and that it was valuable experience not only for them, but for everyone.

But the meet was perhaps most valuable not for the competition provided by PC and Bryant, but for gaining experience in PC’s pool.

Since Brown does not have a swimming facility, Bruno will host the Big

Green for the swimming portion of the competition at PC this Saturday at noon. The diving portion will start an hour earlier at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.

PC’s pool is measured in meters, while the Bears normally practice in yards, according to Schumacher.

Because of the difference in measurement, the swimmers “were swimming longer courses” than they normally do at practice, Schumacher said.

In addition to racing experience and familiarity with the pool, this meet also helped identify what both teams need to work on to succeed against Dartmouth.

“We need to get better with the details, like starting and turning,” Brown said. “Those sorts of things will make a big difference.”

After seeing this weekend’s performance, Schumacher was confident that Bruno can defeat the Big Green.

“We have a good chance to win, but it’s not a guaranteed win,” she said. “We have to try harder.”

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taking on two talented Atlantic 10 teams in the beginning of the season, Agel said he hopes his squad will be adequately prepared for the challenges it will face later in the year in the Ivy League.

“You use your out-of-conference schedule for many different things in college basketball,” Agel said. “(These teams) are extremely challenging, so when you face people in your league or you face people on other teams, you won’t see somebody who’s way better athletically or way better than these divisions.”

The victory over Fordham has boosted the team’s confidence, and Sullivan said he feels they are prepared for the challenge posed by URI. “They’re tough, probably one of the best teams, if not the best team, we are going to play all year,” he said. “We’re going to be on the road and they have good home court advantage, so it’s going to be a tough game, but I think we’ve proved that we can win on the road in a tough environment.”

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In May, The Herald reported that the Admission Office saw a nearly 21 percent spike in applicants for the class of 2014. The record number of 30,135 applicants was cited by the New York Times in a recent article on a nationwide push by many universities for more applications without a corresponding increase in numbers of admitted students. The article suggests that schools primarily want to appear more selective and more popular, which could translate to higher institutional rankings and increased alumni donations.

As the article acknowledges, not all schools’ motives are so self-serving. New outreach efforts can draw in underrepresented groups of students who, for lack of guidance or financial means, might not consider applying to notoriously competitive colleges. Indeed, Brown has made a concerted effort to reach out to these groups. The Herald reported earlier this fall that the admissions office zeroed in on talented would-be first-generation college students and underprivileged applicants via the QuestBridge consortium. Brown also took steps to improve minority recruitment, and ultimately saw a record number of black students matriculate in the class of 2014, The Herald reported. The outcome is commendable and a clear indicator of the success of Brown’s recruitment efforts.

These efforts to increase diversity and opportunity contrast sharply with efforts to manipulate rankings. There are several problems with soliciting more applications only to create an appearance of selectivity. The Times cites the

negative psychological impact of rejection on students and the strain on admission officers.

Moreover, in seeking to constantly grow the applicant base, a university may fail to emphasize to prospective students the defining characteristics that distinguish it from peer institutions.

The recent increase in applicants to Brown is likely the result of switching to the Common Application. But when it comes to Brown’s standing in the Ivy League, Brown has little to gain from sharply increasing the number of applicants. The acceptance rate for the class of 2014 (9.3 percent) was close to that of Princeton (8.2 percent) and Yale (7.5 percent) and lower than the rate at Cornell (18 percent) and Penn (14.2 percent).

Rather, we hope admission officers and applicants have an open, forthright conversation about Brown’s academic and social culture. After all, having a diverse or highly intelligent class of incoming students is not the lone goal of the admission process. Brown should seek to attract students from a wide range of backgrounds who are also good matches for Brown, something the admission committee here has consistently and laudably done. As this year’s applications continue to roll in, we look forward to seeing next year’s crop of select students, hailing from near and far, who are best suited to take advantage of all Brown has to offer.

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BY michelle uhrick Opinions Columnist Last year, I was with the visiting family of a friend of mine when we received the seemingly unavoidable Providence parking ticket.

“Brown University Parking, $30 fine,” I read aloud.

“Brown University!” my friend’s father said. “Who is Brown to issue parking tickets? Does Brown think it’s part of the government?” And he ripped the ticket up right then and there. Apparently, he was right: They never heard from Brown about the parking ticket again.

I was completely taken by surprise. I would have just paid without questioning.

It made me realize the extent to which I take Brown’s authority for granted. Brown has its own police, its own parking policies, its own justice system and its own transportation system. The University, in many ways, is a government in microcosm.

But how far does the University’s jurisdiction reach, and how far should it reach?

Brown has come under a lot of scrutiny lately for allegedly overstepping the bounds of its authority. The University is facing not one, but two lawsuits from students who claim that the University unfairly tried them outside the judicial system and removed them from campus. Smaller conflicts between the University’s authority and students’ rights play out all the time, however, in the form of torn-up parking tickets and petitions to move off-campus.

The farther afield the University goes from academics, the less clear the Universi-

ty’s authority becomes — and the more the University overlaps with the actual government. The line between the domain of the Department of Public Safety, the University’s fully-accredited department of police officers, and that of the Providence Police is hazy, especially when students themselves are under scrutiny. It’s public knowledge that being caught with alcohol or having a party be broken up can have vastly different consequences depending on which depart-

up feelings of anger on all sides. If McCormick was actually guilty, then the University allowed a known rapist to go freely back to his hometown. If McCormick is innocent, the University kicked him off campus while denying him the right to defend himself.

Does the University have the right to hold its own courts and decide its own punishments in lieu of our criminal justice system, especially when it lacks our traditional constitutional protections for the innocent?

The farther afield the University goes from academics, the less clear the University’s authority becomes — and the more the University overlaps with the actual government. ment answers the call. Regardless of whether this is fair to the rest of the population, this double standard is fairly common practice among private universities.

Brown has gained unwanted attention recently, however, for its forays into the criminal justice system. The lawsuit by William McCormick III against the University has brought to light just how far the power of the University goes. According to the suit, allegations of rape were brought against McCormick — but they were brought to the University, rather than the state police. McCormick alleges that the University, without ever filing official charges or bringing in law enforcement in any capacity, forced him to leave the school. This revelation has stirred

The clash between the University and local authority goes beyond these unusual circumstances. Most students clash against the University’s limitations when they try to move off-campus. At Brown, the quality and price difference between on and off-campus is huge: A private bedroom in an apartment off-campus can cost less than a dorm room on campus.

The University manages to maintain its high price by requiring students to remain on-campus so long as the University has space to put them in. Last year, a record numbers of juniors were denied off-campus permission, forcing many to break leases and change living arrangements to compete for doubles and public bathrooms on-cam-

pus at much higher prices. To make matters worse, Residential Life then “discovered” that it was actually over capacity, and was forced to renovate more lounges and kitchens into triples and even placed students into off-campus housing specially bought for that purpose — but at University prices.

Every government operates on some sort of social contract between the people and itself: people expect something specific in exchange for some of their freedoms.

Brown offers the traditional mainstays of government — safety and protection — but most of all it offers an education and a degree. Brown can pretty much do as it pleases because it is a private institution and, unlike the real government, no one is forced to attend: You can always opt out by giving up your right to graduate with a Brown degree.

We exchange our freedoms for participation in academia, and from that perspective, it’s amazing what we’re willing to give up. You can insist on living off-campus and refuse to pay ResLife, but you will be unable to register for classes, request a transcript or graduate until the University has been fully paid.

You can refuse the University’s request to attend a disciplinary hearing, but you can then be kicked out of the University without trial.

Would we accept a government that told us where we could live, allocated housing by lottery and meted out jury-less punishment?

If Brown is a government, is it becoming an authoritarian one?

Michelle Uhrick ’11 may disagree with its practices, but she is pretty sure the University isn’t Hitler.

The graduate repining experience Sarah Yu Opinions Columnist The last 24 hours of my life have been filled with forgetting. No, I did not have any unfortunate experiences at Sex Power God, nor did I accidentally walk into a men’s bathroom. Rather, I had begun the mind purging process that is necessary after any exam that requires one to “study” by rote memorization. A few weeks’ worth of cramming for the Graduate Record Exam (commonly, but not fondly, known as the GRE) finally served its purpose as I sat at a computer at a testing center in Warwick, and, after three grueling hours of typing and clicking, I was done.

Definitions for words such as “adumbrate,” “badinage” and “chiaroscuro” began flying out of my head as soon as I stepped foot out of the testing center. As I stood in the windy cold for 20 minutes, waiting for the RIPTA to take me back to civilization, I tried to make myself forget about the lessthan-ideal New England weather conditions by instead clearing all the GRE argot from my mind. When I did get onto the bus and began to thaw, however, I started ruminating on how useless an exam is if test-takers work harder to forget all the material postexam than to study for it beforehand.

GRE General Test scores are required for applying to many postgraduate programs around the United States. The exam, in essence, is the SATs for grad school —

standardized, computer-graded and costly.

Even though admissions offices increasingly declare that they put less emphasis on applicants’ GRE scores and more weight on other components of the application, there is still a considerable pressure to study extensively and score highly on the exam. As a recent victim of the unsavory experience of taking the GRE General Test (and the $160 registration fee), I would like to use my power as a columnist to highlight some of the fundamental flaws of this standardized test.

In order to work within the confines of

to provide proof that my English language skills are up to par with their expectations.

The GRE Verbal syllabus looked down its nose at me from an even snobbier level — it dictated that I must learn a gargantuan number of obscure words that I am likely never to use again in order to be thought of as half-decent. If the goal of the Verbal section of the GRE is to gauge test-takers’ grasp of the English language, I would think that a better measure would be the personal statement essays and writing samples that are already important parts of application processes for most programs.

“Readers, you have the option to take a tenminute break between the Verbal and the Math parts, but the column will proceed regardless of your attention once the ten minutes are up.” the system to induce change, I shall proceed to construct this column to reflect the premises of my subject matter, and organize my argument into three main components — discussion of the Verbal, Mathematical and Analytical Writing sections of the GRE. Readers, you have the option to take a ten-minute break between the Verbal and the Math parts, but the column will proceed regardless of your attendance once the ten minutes are up.

As an international student, I often feel slighted with application forms asking me

If the goal of the section is actually to get some sense that students have the ability to think logically, I would suggest that a better method is for admissions officers to simply interview applicants.

In defense of mathematics, I believe that every student with aspirations to commence graduate education, with the possibility of taking a position as a teaching assistant, should be adept at applying the basic principles of counting and numerical distribution for the purposes of grading papers and collating students’ results.

Instead, the Math section of the GRE prefers to ask test-takers to recall mathematical exercises from high school years. For students wishing to apply to math- and science-oriented programs, the exam is definitely too shallow. For students going into the humanities, it is absolutely useless.

While I do believe that ensuring that applicants to postgraduate programs can write with some degree of dexterity is a brilliant idea, the execution and the logistics of the Analytical Writing section are rather terrible. Students are asked to debate obscure and intangible topics in a very limited time, putting students who are unfamiliar with English proverbs and idioms — and slow typers — at serious disadvantage. Again, I would hope that admissions officers will regard my 2500 word personal statement and 20-page writing sample with more care than they would my GRE writing score.

The GRE has become redundant and burdensome to the application process for graduate school admissions. There are better, easier and more cost-efficient methods for assessing whether prospective students are of the right caliber for admission. As students progress toward postgraduate education, we individualize our areas of academic interest and expertise. Standardized testing, by nature, slows us down.

Sarah Yu ’11 tried to sneak some particularly poignant GRE vocabulary into this column, and invites anyone who can spot the words to reach her at xia_yu@ brown.edu.

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