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Hillel plants Interactions with profs vary beyond the classroom Student interaction with professors tree for Schaefer ’13 By Amy Rasmussen Staff Writer

By Brian Mastroianni Features Editor

Students, University administrators and members of the Brown/RISD Hillel community stood huddled outside in the cool November breeze Friday to honor the memory of Avi Schaefer ’13. Stories were shared and traditional Jewish songs were sung while the group witnessed the dedication of a birch tree planted in Schaefer’s honor in the courtyard outside Hillel. The group was there to join Schaefer’s family — his parents, Rabbi Arthur Gross-Schaefer and Laurie Gross-Schaefer, along with his three brothers — in honoring the memor y of the 21-year-old freshman who was killed last February when he was hit by a drunk driver. The tree was chosen for the “living memorial” specifically because it sheds and automatically replaces old layers of its bark, University Chaplain Janet Cooper Nelson told the crowd. “This makes the tree beautiful in the winter and beautiful in the summer,” Cooper Nelson said. “I hope that this tree will, in a sense, protect us.” Nine months after Schaefer’s death, emotions still clearly run high — some members of the crowd hugged one another closely during the dedication. But the memorial ceremony was more about celebrating a life than mourning continued on page 7

At Brown, professors can be found lecturing to hundreds from the stage of Salomon 101, performing cutting edge research in Sidney E. Frank Hall for Life Sciences and — at a high rate — engaging in conversa-

THE HERALD POLL tion with their students outside the classroom. According to the results of this month’s Herald poll, about 90 percent of students interacted with a professor outside of class at least once so far this semester. For Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron, the poll results are just one more indication that advising at Brown is continuing to move in the right direction. Last fall’s Herald poll showed that about

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60 percent of students were satisfied with their advising experience, up from just under 50 percent in spring 2008. Bergeron, who has spearheaded improvements to advising programs

over the last several years, said she likes to view the current level of interaction as a baseline off which student-faculty connections can only grow stronger. Though students can and often

By Alexandra Ulmer Staff Writer

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage? Not always so for female students at Brown, who envision their futures in a myriad of ways. From marrying as an undergraduate to promoting community childrearing, women at Brown are stretching the definition of family. New notions of family are also growing in the United States, according to “The Decline of Marriage and Rise of New Families,” a report released by the Pew Research Center last week. “How many of today’s youth will eventually marry is an open

question,” according to the executive summary. “Even as marriage shrinks, family — in all its emerging varieties — remains resilient.” Women are especially creative in carving out new types of families, said Carrie Spearin, visiting assistant professor of sociology.

FEATURE The paths women choose to follow are now far more numerous than they used to be, agreed Gail Cohee, director of the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center. “People are really thinking about the different ways families get made,” she said. Six undergraduates agreed to share their views with The Herald.

By Kristina Fazzalaro Senior Staff Writer

In the intimate space of the darkened Ashamu Dance Studio, the only sound to be heard was the patter of bare feet on the stage. A packed audience waited excitedly for the lights to come up and the first steps to be taken at this year’s Fall Dance Concert, sponsored by the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies.

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Students wow at the Fall Dance Concert sponsored by the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies.

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Brown women shape the new family M. soccer Married at 20 Catherine Pflughaupt ’11.5 used to hide her Brown card and keys on the windowsill of her ground floor room in Marcy House. She had to ensure that her husband Justin, who does not attend Brown, had access to the single they shared. Pflughaupt, a 21-year-old from Texas, married her high school flame last Christmas Eve. They began dating when she was a freshman in high school, but broke up by the time she came to Brown. They reconnected during her time at home, and Justin proposed to her last Thanksgiving. Though the continued on page 6

Weaving together a wide array of dance styles, including hip-hop, contemporar y and tap, the Fall

scores upset in NCAA By Tony Bakshi Sports Editor

The No. 22 men’s soccer team has made it to the NCAA tournament Sweet 16 after defeating the No. 9 University of Connecticut in a thrilling game that went to a penalty shootout. The Bears won the shootout, 7-6, after battling the Huskies to a 1-1 deadlock in the 110 minutes of regulation and overtime play in Storrs, Conn.

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Dance Concert was a celebration of student choreography. Ever y piece was not only performed by students, but also created and developed by them, said Julie Strandberg, senior lecturer in theatre arts and performance studies and producer of the concert. Though the concert mainly featured dance companies as a whole, the show was really about independent student choreography, Strandberg said, adding that she strongly encouraged individual choreographers to perform their pieces as well. Strandberg referred to the production as a “mentor show”

“There’s only 16 teams left in the whole country playing, and for us to be one of them is extremely exciting,” said Head Coach Pat Laughlin. Midfielder Jay Hayward ’12 scored the decisive goal for Bruno (12-3-4, 3-3-1 Ivy League), scoring in the eighth round of the shootout to book a ticket for his team into the next round. The Bears had to recover from a devastating equalizer from UConn (12-2-6) just minutes before the end of regulation. Brown had been holding on to a one-goal lead for almost the entire game, after a strike by midfielder Taylor Gorman ’12 in the eighth minute opened the scoring. But with their season on the line, the Huskies pressed the Bears’ defense the entire second half, tallying 11 shots to the Bears’ one. In

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do turn to their professors’ scheduled office hours for guidance, she said, a number of other resources have made important contributions

Dance, dance

Bears vs. Lions

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Students shake it up at the Fall Dance Concert

Bruno beats down Columbia on Senior Day

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“We want to be a book lover’s bookstore.” — Steven Souza, director of the Brown Bookstore

Purchases dropping, bookstore battles online competition

By Ashley Aydin Senior Staff Writer

With the rising popularity of websites such as Amazon and eBay, many college bookstores have seen increased competition in the textbook market. Students have turned to online retailers to find cheaper deals and to take advantage of features such as Amazon’s free two-day student shipping. College bookstores, like Brown’s, have adapted to appeal to consumers. According to Steven Souza, director of the Brown Bookstore, the purchase of textbooks at all university bookstores “has been declining,” in large part due to Internet competition. Bookstore employees observe offers from Amazon to “adjust pricing to stay competitive with them,” Souza said. “We recognize that they are a serious competitor.” A different mission Explaining why online retailers have seen a rise in traffic and business, Souza said he believes there is a significant difference between the missions of these websites and the missions of university bookstores. “You know the professor is expecting about 150 students, and you try to hit the right numbers (of books) so you can support it. Amazon is less worried about supporting this kind of stock,” Souza said. “Amazon has shareholders and has a responsibility to make a profit. We’re focused on the University and its students.” Souza is content with the bookstore’s mission and explained that the bookstore is focused on making sure students get the right course material. “If there’s anything wrong with the book, we’ll take it back,” Souza

said. “If you’re out there buying a book from, say, a kid from Kansas, he doesn’t care about this.” The mission resonates within the community — the bookstore saw popular support from students and faculty against the idea of making it independent from the University. “There was a point in time that the University started looking for an independent bookstore, but the faculty, the students and everyone involved thought it would be a serious negative for the culture of Brown and the environment and academic freedoms that Brown values,” Souza said. Instead, there was large support to make the bookstore much more state-of-the-art, Souza said. “Bookstores are generally profitdriven. We’re here to support the academic community,” he said. Offering new services Still, with the many purchasing options for books online, Charles Schmidt, director of public relations at the National Association of College Stores, said college stores need to become better retailers. “For every dollar spent on a textbook, the college store makes a profit of only 6.3 cents,” he said. “College stores can combat competition by offering non-traditional services to students.” Some of these services include offering dry cleaning for next-day pickup, tanning beds, selling tickets to local music or sports events and redesigning stores to include coffee shops or entertainment centers to draw students in, Schmidt said. The Brown Bookstore, too, has looked to a number of features to stay appealing to consumers, including buying used and deeply discounted

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books. It has also introduced a textbook delivery service, though it does not account for a large amount of the store’s business, according to Souza. Most people like to come into the bookstore to look around and see new merchandise, he said. The bookstore has also been sensitive to College Hill’s demographics by, for example, expanding its children’s book section. “If there’s anyone still buying books, it’s moms and dads for the youngsters,” Souza said. The bookstore has also focused on getting the books faculty want and staying attuned to what books are popular. “We want to be a book lover’s bookstore. We want that when a new book comes out, we have it here,” Souza said. The bookstore has also been actively collecting information on what customers want and observing purchase trends around major University events such as Commencement and Family Weekend, Souza said. For example, after watching demand trends, the bookstore began offering items for pets, including collars and leashes. The technology section of the bookstore has also helped it stay competitive with online retailers, but it is a small-margin business for the bookstore, Souza said. “I’m really proud of the team we have here. If you have questions or problems, if you need a repair, we have expertise right here,” he said. Watching major trends in the textbook business, the bookstore has also decided to add a new service for students that will be available starting January: textbook rental for lower prices. “There will be some titles available, some of the popular ones, that you will have the option to buy a new book, used book or rent a book. Renting is the least expensive,” Souza said. Textbook rental programs have been a major trend for college stores this year as they try to stay competitive, growing from 300 stores last year to 1,500 this fall, Schmidt said. While the book market has become highly competitive, the bookstore has seen great success in profit from apparel. The Brown bookstore does more apparel business than

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The Brown Bookstore faces competition from online vendors such as Amazon and eBay.

book business, Souza said. “It’s the type of thing that we sell on the Internet to alumni and to visitors. For most colleges, that’s the way it is,” he said. Beyond the margins Barry Dejasu, a cashier who has been working at the bookstore for five years, said the apparel section is one of the most highly trafficked sections of the store. “Incoming students frequent the section a lot — students looking to get gifts and things,” he said. Another popular section of the bookstore is its cafe. But students hoping to use Flex Points at the bookstore’s cafe, which is managed by Blue State Coffee, might have to wait a little longer to use points to purchase its beverages and snacks. “We brought the issue up, and apparently it is a dining services issue. I’m sure Blue State would be thrilled if that became a possibility,” Souza said. Traffic at the cafe and the store has generally picked up since he started working there, Dejasu said. This may be because of recent renovations, including the addition of large, open windows in the cafe area and free wireless Internet within the building. Since the renovations, there has

been more open space for people to see everything around the store, as opposed to when it was smaller and more cluttered, Dejasu said. “There is more activity and draw to the store,” Dejasu said. The bookstore is currently looking into offering exterior seating, but that is still early in the planning process, Souza said. The future of the Brown Bookstore, along with many other college bookstores, will be shaped by how well the stores can reinvent themselves and adjust to competitive online retailers. “I don’t think we need to do major changes. We need to continue to adjust based on what competition is doing, like going into the rental business, adjusting our prices to stay competitive and making sure we have the right books in the right quantities,” Souza said. “We just need to make sure that what we’re doing, we’re doing well.” Souza said the bookstore will continue to work on how it delivers its services and how it can improve its business. “I think one of the things we’ve been actively working on is what we don’t have,” Souza said. “We will keep changing. As you come in, you will keep seeing new things.”

Mousetraps in Faunce preventative By Jeffrey Handler Staff Writer

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Mousetraps have recently popped up near the welcome desk of the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center, but not because of an infestation. Rather, the traps are an effort to be proactive with new buildings, said Donna Butler, director of custodial services, and Carlos Fernandez, assistant vice president for facilities operations and engineering. Mousetraps are only on the first floor near the information desk because of the nearby food in the Blue Room, Butler said. Right now, there are four traps on the first floor. “That is not a significant number

of traps for that size of a building,” she said. Because the campus center is a public lounge space, “you see food all over the place,” Butler said, adding that they are very concerned about maintaining the new building. “It’s a preventative measure.” The traps are “to ensure that we don’t have a problem. There are mousetraps in every (unit) where there is food consumption,” Jacques Larue, director of retail dining operations wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. He wrote that he had not heard of visitors asking about the traps. “We have never had a rodent problem here at Brown,” said Fer-

nandez, who has been here for 15 years. In a given year, about 40 mice are caught in buildings, Fernandez said. This number is remarkably low considering the area of Brown’s campus, he said. “We do have some excellent control measures in place,” Butler said. “We have to prevent them from coming into the buildings. In the winter, they love coming into the warm buildings,” Fernandez said. “If we didn’t have this program, then we’d have a problem. … Good cleaning, good waste management and good pest control management are very connected, and that is what we have at Brown.”

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“The literature says people are taking...longer to grow up.” — Will Litton ’09, co-founder of the “Bachelors of the Arts” blog

ACLU chapter returns with new leaders Program offers jet-setters a comparative semester by alexandra macfarlane Contributing Writer

Under new leadership, the Brown American Civil Liberties Union is back on campus. The chapter was left leaderless at the end of last semester, but now is run by President Ian Eppler ’13 and Vice President Holly Hunt ’13. With a recent history of shifting leadership and small membership, “this year it is almost completely new,” Eppler said. The group will hold weekly meetings and hopes to expand to include contrasting student voices, community speakers and film screenings as a sort of “weekly event,” Eppler said. Eventually these weekly meetings could expand into “larger lectures with nationally known speakers or youth speakers to bring perspective on civil liberties constructed broadly,” Eppler said. Like many ACLU organizations across

the nation, the Brown ACLU chapter hopes to do advocacy work for the Providence community and on a national scale, according to Eppler. In the most recent weekly meeting, the group focused on a recent raid of the popular Fish Company, where officers arrested students with fake IDs and drinking underage, according to a Nov. 6 Providence Journal article. At the recent meeting, members discussed the legality of questioning students and entering the establishment. The members also expressed the need to educate Brown students about laws regarding liquor and fake identification. The Brown ACLU could produce “guides to laws that affect Brown students” said Eppler. In the past, the group has addressed the issue of co-ed housing, Eppler said. Rooms used to be designated as male or female prior to the lottery, even if no other student had picked it. The Brown ACLU was

involved in changing that process, Eppler said. The Brown ACLU was also involved with advocacy around postPatriot Act civil liberties issues, Eppler said. Since its inception, the group has maintained a relationship with the Rhode Island ACLU. As president, Eppler holds a seat on the organization’s board, and the state organization often helps fund and co-sponsor events held on campus. With the new leadership of the Brown ACLU, the Rhode Island chapter hopes to maintain “a positive and active relationship” with the group on campus, said Steven Brown, its executive director. The Brown chapter has great strength to advocate and educate because “it covers a broad range on campus,” Brown said. The Brown ACLU holds meetings ever y Monday at 8 p.m. in Wilson 302.

Recent grads blog on emergence By Miriam Furst Staff Writer

After graduating from Brown and leaving the College Hill bubble, how do students define their lives in the so-called “real world?” In their young twenties, are they adults? According to the New York Times article “What Is It About 20-Somethings?” this post-college period is becoming its own life stage, dubbed “emerging adulthood” by psychology professor Jeffrey Jensen Arnett in the article.

FEATURE Recently, three Brown alums and one of their friends started a blog called Bachelors of the Arts: Eligible Criticism. The blog attempts to ask and potentially answer the question of what it means to be an emerging adult, said one of the blog’s founders and editors, Will Litton ’09. According to Litton, he and his friend David Brent, an alum of University of Chicago, came up with the idea after talking about the article. Litton and Brent wanted to be a part of a community that would allow them to think critically about everyday things the way they could during their college days, Litton said. Half-jokingly, they decided they should star t a blog called Bachelors of the Arts. When they checked to see if the URL was available and realized that it was, they bought the domain and became serious about starting the blog, Litton said. The pair recruited fellow classmates Will Guzzardi ’09 and Albert Huber ’09 to be fellow editors. “It took two or three months to start writing pieces and decide what it was we actually wanted to publish … we wanted a stockpile of material to launch the blog with,” Litton said. The blog has experienced a growing readership since its launch in late October, Litton said. When

the editors post entries on the blog, the site receives about 550 hits a day. While only editors have posted so far, Litton said he and his fellow editors have friends who are currently working on articles. The editors also want to open the blog up to guest contributors, Litton added. An ‘emerging adult’? “The literature says people are taking ... longer to ‘grow up,’ and ‘grow up’ means career, marriage, family,” Litton said. “But, at the same time, I think there’s so much more than just that. The point of the blog is to ask what it means to be an ‘emerging adult,’ ” he added. Litton said the blog helps him keep the interests he developed at Brown alive. “A lot of this is about maintaining a dialogue with people I went to college with. It’s really easy to let that go once you get a job, live in city. The people we advertise to are basically all our friends from college,” he said. Huber agreed that the blog is a home for academic and critical discussion. He said what he missed most about Brown was the community and the people. “You’re around a lot of people who think about issues critically and that is really inspiring,” Huber said. The blog allows the editors to continue to think and speak critically “about all the issues we care about,” he added. The Brown years At Brown, all three editors were heavily involved in both academic and extracurricular life. Guzzardi started the improv comedy group Starla and Sons, which Litton also joined. Huber was heavily involved in theater and wrote and performed a solo show his senior year. Academically, all three focused on the humanities and social sciences during their time at Brown –– Guzzardi concentrated in comparative literature, Litton in literary arts and Huber in political science. Like Huber, Brent majored in political science

at the University of Chicago. “We all bring in perspectives from a multitude of backgrounds,” Huber said. Both Litton and Guzzardi cited Elizabeth Taylor, senior lecturer in English and co-director of the department’s nonfiction writing program, as playing a large role in their writing. “Both Wills brought their comedy into their writing, but they were also meticulous writers and ver y serious in what they were doing,” Taylor said. She said the blog has a “sense of humor,” but is also “very wellattuned to what the audience would be interested in.” As undergraduates, it was clear that both Litton and Guzzardi would be writers in some way, she said, adding that “they bring their personality to the blog and I think that was clear in their writing as undergrads.” Another class that influenced the blog creators was ENGL 1140B: “The Public Intellectual,” taught by Catherine Imbriglio, senior lecturer in English. Guzzardi said the content of the class closely matches up to the blog because “Professor Imbriglio gave us a sense of how to understand the world around us in an essay.” “I found it really exciting that they were doing some of the things that we were thinking about in ‘The Public Intellectual,’ which is how to use academic things we were studying and convert that into the public arena,” Imbriglio said. “Most of my students aren’t going on into the academic life, but how to do academic work in the public arena is a fascinating project,” she added. Litton said he sees the blog expanding in the future to include a greater variety of topics, articles and perspectives from more writers. “Bachelorism as a theoretical state is about not being married to any one idea. The blog is about exploring dif ferent schools of thought,” he said.

By Kat Thornton Staff Writer

Many students spend a semester abroad integrating themselves into a single country. But participants in the International Honors Program, a popular study abroad option among Brown students, visit many places all related to a theme, investigating “how people in different countries create varied solutions to the common problems they face,” according to the program’s website. The program of fers three tracks. Of those, “Health and Community” draws the most Brown students. Margeaux Berroth ’11.5 and Shristi Pandey ’11 participated in the health track last semester. Their group of 33 students, six from Brown, went to Switzerland, India, China, South Africa and Washington. Though “there is no typical day in IHP,” Berroth said, an average day began with class at 7 or 8 a.m. until around 10 in the morning, followed by a guest lecturer from the community and then a site visit in the afternoon to complement students’ background knowledge and reading. At each location, students also stayed with a family, Berroth said. Students were “very immersed in the culture” through the families so they didn’t get a “superficial view” of the country, Pandey said. Each country’s itinerary had a specific theme relating to global health, including how communism and globalization affect health and aging in China, AIDS/HIV and racial identity in South Africa and basic needs in India. “The structure of the program is so encompassing,” Berroth said. Another track of IHP is “Cities in the 21st Century,” which took students to Detroit, India, South Africa and Argentina this spring, and “explored the relationship between people and their built environment,” said participant Kim Nguyen ’11.

Nguyen was the only Brown student in her group. She had to petition to participate in the program because the Office of International Programs does not yet approve this track of IHP, she said. Students explored different neighborhoods in Detroit, the state’s image in India and the politics of race in South Africa. Nguyen said she found it interesting to be an American college student in such different environments. She also said she found it challenging to be objective while also connecting on a human level. As an international relations concentrator, Nguyen said it was interesting to see the theories she had learned in class in practice in real life. Berroth, Pandey and Nguyen agreed that there is no parallel program in study abroad options, adding that their interaction with their groups was an important characteristic of the program. Berroth and Pandey said they found some of their closest friends this way. Additionally, all three mentioned the unique experience of having their professors travel with them throughout the semester. It created “a different level of interaction with them,” Pandey said. The program was “rigorous in a way you would never expect,” Berroth said. Ned Quigley, associate director of the OIP, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that the type of student that would participate in IHP must be “willing to stretch themselves intellectually and personally.” “The programs are academically rigorous and personally challenging,” Quigley wrote. According to Quigley, IHP is a popular option for Brown undergraduates because students are generally “highly motivated, intellectually curious and willing to step out of their comfort zones. This is what attracted them to Brown and this is why many of them choose to study abroad.”

Most competitive year yet for campus Israel trip By Claire Gianotti Contributing Writer

This year’s Taglit-Birthright Israel trip hosted by Brown/RISD Hillel had one of the biggest applicant pools in the country — and accepted just over half of the hopefuls, its lowest percentage yet. After 115 Brown and RISD students applied, Taglit allotted the campus Hillel 60 seats to fill. Last year, this Hillel sent only 30 students, but far fewer applied. According to Leehe Ralph, Brown/RISD Hillel Israel fellow, the only other organization that had as many applicants was the Hillel at the

University of California at Berkeley. The Brown/RISD group will fill oneand-a-half buses that will carry them to many of Israel’s main sites. The jump in applications was probably due to this year’s new recruiting campaign, said Marshall Einhorn, executive director of Brown/RISD Hillel. Ralph said this campaign consisted of work by engagement interns, who are undergraduates working at Hillel, as well as an active effort to raise awareness of the trip through e-mails, Facebook and posters. Funding for the trips is provided mostly by private donors, according continued on page 4

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“Serendipity is a very good way to start a relationship.” — Katherine Bergeron, dean of the College

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Bike thefts have increased significantly, but students are told that DPS “can’t do much.”

Bike theft numbers double in 2010 BY JU MYOUNG KIM Contributing Writer

The number of bike thefts on campus has increased this year, according to Chief of Public Safety Mark Porter. There have been 25 reported bike thefts so far this year, while only 13 were reported in 2009. Five cases were reported in November alone, including three bikes taken from a single dorm room. Once a theft is reported, Department of Public Safety officers review footage from cameras installed in the area where the bike was stolen to see if anything was captured on video, Porter said. DPS maintains records of bike thefts and their locations on a map, Porter added. This year, there have been no bikes recovered after being re-

ported stolen to DPS this year, said Porter. Porter said the main difficulty with bike theft is that stolen bikes are not usually registered in the DPS bike registration system. “DPS told me they really can’t do much, because (the bike) was not registered,” said Seth Mohney ’11, whose bike was stolen from in front of Miller Hall in 2009. “It was really bizarre,” he added, because he found his bike in front of Barbour Hall after two weeks. When bikes are registered with DPS, the name of the owner is engraved on the bike, allowing DPS to trace a lost or stolen bike back to its owner if it is found, Porter said. In addition, DPS will break the lock on a registered bike if its owner loses the key to the lock. Students, faculty, staff and even some Rhode Island School

of Design students are currently registered, Porter added. Mohney said his chain lock was not secure enough to prevent his bike from being stolen, and he now uses a U-shaped lock. According to Porter, bikes are often found improperly secured with weak or damaged locks and cables. When a bike is registered, DPS shows the owner how to properly secure the bike and recommends the proper type of lock to purchase, he said. DPS also recommends that bikes not be secured to wooden fences or parking meters because they do not offer much protection, said Porter. Instead, bikes should be secured to a bike rack or a fence. Bike owners should also take photos of their bikes for police use and insurance purposes, in case they are stolen, he added.

to the rising level of interactions. Each weekday afternoon, a rotating cast of 19 faculty members make themselves available to students in Advising Central for cookies and conversation. A group of nine Randall advisers is also available specifically to address sophomore concerns. “The Faculty Advising Fellows program is one part of a whole array of things that the College has been doing, in collaboration with (the Office of) Student Life, to improve student experience of the open curriculum at Brown,” Bergeron said. “The open curriculum is an opportunity for students to be in dialogue with professors.” According to Bergeron, one of the most beloved and worthwhile components of the program has been the fellows’ dinners. “What we discovered was that this was a very profitable enterprise,” she said. “Students felt that they were worth going to and faculty felt that it was really beneficial.” Danny Bressler ’12 was quick to express his “love” for the program — and quick to worry that further publicity might cause the ever-popular

meals to fill up more rapidly than they already do. “Free food, good conversations and good people,” he said of the limited-capacity events, which require a student RSVP. Though Bergeron said she was thrilled by the results of the poll, to her, the numbers could always be higher. “Maybe you feel a little too much that you should already have the answer,” she said of students who have yet to reach out to professors. “College helps to develop a different way of understanding how to ask for help.” The best thing that she can do as an administrator, Bergeron said, is to continue to encourage these interactions. From faculty advising events to cookies and tea with a Randall adviser, students never know when they could “click” with a faculty member. “Serendipity is a very good way to start a relationship,” she added. Reaching out Brynn Smith ’11, coordinator of the Matched Advising Program for Sophomores, admitted that she had continued on page 5

Campus applicants to Hillel Birthright trip skyrocket continued from page 3 to the organization’s website. Ralph said that since the economic crisis — and the aftermath of the Bernard Madoff scandal — Birthright Israel has had fewer seats to distribute. Students participating in the trips, which will take place in January, partake in orientation sessions to get to know each other and learn more about their destination. Einhorn described the orientation, which include a Shabbat dinner and an Israeli culture session with Senior Lecturer in Judaic Studies Ruti Adler, as “Israel 101.” Ralph, who will accompany her second Brown/RISD Hillel birthright group this year, said alums usually become “more involved” with Hillel after visiting Israel, adding that the trip is an invaluable tool for building a “Jewish community back on campus.” “As an Israeli, I am so happy to see my country has changed their lives,” she said. Ralph said the main goal of Birthright is to “strengthen the connection between these students and their Jewish identity.” The trip fosters “a lot of conversation about cultures and customs” during the time in Israel and afterward, she said. Emily Shelkowitz ’12 applied to Hillel’s Birthright trip after being waitlisted this summer for the trip run through her local Jewish Community Center. Shelkowitz said she is “very excited to see all of these places I’ve learned about since I was little.” While Shelkowitz described herself as “fairly religious,” participant Miriam

Joelson ’11, vice-president for cultural arts on Hillel’s executive board, said she has been “discovering Judaism in college.” As a beginning Hebrew student, Joelson said her motivation for going on Birthright as a senior is to “see for myself what I’ve been reading about for the past few years.” She said people she has met through Hillel “speak about Israel with so much love.” Because the Brown/RISD Hillel trip consists of students sharing the same campus Hillel, participants can “continue their journey when back on campus,” Ralph said. In this way, students are “guaranteed a continuing community” when they return. Einhorn said Birthright is a “formative time for Jewish-American students.” He praised the concept of the trip as a “shared immersive experience” that allows students to “internalize Israel together.” One of Taglit’s main goals is to “strengthen the bonds between diaspora Jews and Israel.” Ralph said. “Israel is a part of Judaism.” The 10-day immersion into Israel is only the beginning of a lifelong journey of developing a Jewish identity, Ralph said. “I always want to be questioning what I am doing,” Joelson said. The trip is available to anyone with a Jewish heritage, regardless of degree of religious beliefs or practice, Ralph and Einhorn said. Ralph encouraged students who were not accepted into a trip this year to apply again, saying they will have a better chance when applying a second time.

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“They’re not this scary box of intelligence.” — MAPS Coordinator Brynn Smith ’11, on professors

Herald says hello to 121st editorial board, other 2011 leaders By Sven Twintee Staff Writer

At a banquet for Herald staff at CAV restaurant in the Jewelry District Friday evening, the newspaper’s outgoing leadership toasted a great year, bid farewell to the staff and introduced the new leadership team, who will take charge starting in January. Editor-in-Chief George Miller ’11, Managing Editor Chaz Kelsh ’11, Deputy Managing Editors Emmy Liss ’11 and Joanna Wohlmuth ’11 and Senior Editors Ben Hyman ’11 and Seth Motel ’11 enthusiastically presented the 121st editorial board: Dan Alexander ’12, Sydney Ember ’12, Nicole Friedman ’12, Brigitta Greene ’12, Julien Ouellet ’12, Ben Schreckinger ’12 and Anne Speyer ’12. Schreckinger, who now serves as metro editor and hails from Belmont, Mass., will serve as editor-in-chief. Bringing his intrepid reporting skills and Delta Tau pride, Schreckinger will lead the organization into a new decade. He will also serve as president of The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. Ember, who comes from Los Angeles and is the current news editor, will also serve as editor-inchief. With unrivaled news sense and story-assigning ability, Ember will ensure that The Herald maintains its journalistic prowess. She will also serve as vice president of The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. Greene rises from metro editor to deputy managing editor, bringing sass, spunk and a good relationship with the folks at Nice Slice. The

Westfield, N.J., native and Jewelry District expert has explored every facet of greater Providence in her tenure at the metro desk. Speyer will also serve as deputy managing editor, following her stint as arts and culture editor. The New York City native and College Publisher aficionado will inspire The Herald to aspire to reach new heights. Alexander, originally of Columbus, Ohio, and currently residing in Cuba, will return to The Herald as a senior editor. The former sports editor brings a volume of editing and writing experience — and the athletic prowess to steer the Herald kickball team to continued victory. Also returning from afar, Friedman will join The Herald as a senior editor after a semester at Oxford. The former news editor, hailing from Piedmont, Calif., enjoys faculty meetings, good writing and the Byzantine inner workings of Brown administration. Rounding out the editorial board is design editor and Frenchman Ouellet, who will also serve as a senior editor. Under the SaintMammes native’s leadership, the office will continue to feature Europop dance music, flawless whiteboards, scooter-riding and impeccable page proofs. The 121st editorial board announced a strong slate of section editors Friday. Rising news editors and Connecticut natives Alex Bell ’13 and Nicole Boucher ’13 will be keeping track of all the comings and goings on campus. Bell, a current senior

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The new editorial leadership team was officially introduced at The Herald’s banquet on Friday. From left, Anne Speyer ’12, Brigitta Greene ’12, Sydney Ember ’12 and Ben Schreckinger ’12. Not pictured: Dan Alexander ’12, Nicole Friedman ’12 and Julien Ouellet ’12.

staff writer, is the resident expert on everything from University Hall to library contracts. Boucher, also a senior staff writer, is The Herald’s eyes and ears at meetings of the Undergraduate Council of Students. Current senior staf f writers Rebecca Ballhaus ’13 and Claire Peracchio ’13 will be monitoring all the happenings of Providence and beyond as city and state editors. Ballhaus, of Brooklyn, N.Y., brings a delightful attitude and expertise on our neighbors at the Rhode Island School of Design. Peracchio, of Grosse Pointe, Mich., has been on the front lines of Rhode Island’s contentious political battles as a metro reporter. The features desk will be under the strong leadership of current ex-pats Talia Kagan ’12 and Hannah Moser ’12. Returning from a

semester in Paris, former senior staff writer Kagan will bring her creative Brooklyn flair and a love of quirky features and iced coffee. Canyonville, Ore., native Moser returns to the features desk after a semester in Bologna, Italy, contributing her editing expertise and a penchant for clever ledes. Kristina Fazzalaro ’12 and Luisa Robledo ’12 will take over the arts and culture desk. Fazzalaro has spent the past year getting to know the arts scene at Brown as a senior staff writer, and the Staten Island, N.Y., native will continue to provide the section with dazzling reviews. Robledo, of Bogota, Colombia, will bring flair and strong writing skills to the section following her career as a senior staff writer and her stint as an intern at Vogue. Tony Bakshi ’13 will continue

in his role as sports editor and will be joined by Ashley McDonnell ’12. Bakshi, of Marlboro, N.J., has provided the section with strong leadership and sports coverage we can actually all understand. McDonnell, of Cheltenham, Pa., will co-lead the sports desk, having proven her abilities as assistant sports editor. Leading the copy desk will be the sharp-eyed Dan Towne ’12, current assistant copy desk chief. Towne hails from Williston, Vt. He does not like mistakes. Putting the paper together every day will be three lovely ladies with extensive InDesign expertise: Chappaqua, N.Y., native Gili Kliger ’12, White Plains, N.Y., native Anna Migliaccio ’12 and Katie Wilson ’12, of Dallas. Kliger and Wilson currently continued on page 7

Bergeron emphasizes student-faculty alliances in education continued from page 4 never been to a professor’s office hours until the second semester of her junior year. When she finally did, she said, it was wonderfully empowering. Like the Randall advisers, MAPS is devoted exclusively to providing sophomores with more guidance during their time at Brown. Though the program deals with all aspects of college life — from academics to personal issues — Smith said that senior mentors emphasize to sophomores how important it is to have “some adult that you can have a connection with and really feel comfortable with if you have a problem.” Last year, MAPS hosted a panel on how to interact with professors. Smith said the group plans to do so again in the coming months. A common misperception that advisees hold coming into the program, she added, is that they have nothing “good enough” to say to their professors. The panels and other events provide an informal setting that helps to demystify professors and to foster those connections. One of the most important goals of the program, Smith emphasized, is to empower students to take control of their own education. Sometimes, all it takes is an introduction. “This is a professor, and they’re

not this scary box of intelligence,” she said. “This is someone at Brown who is teaching undergrads to help you out.” Arnold Weinstein, professor of comparative literature, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that he has recently found himself taking a more proactive approach to encouraging student interactions through announcements at the beginning and throughout the course of the semester. He tells his students to take advantage of his office hours. “You’re in this course, and you have a claim on my attention,” Weinstein wrote. Weinstein participated in the Curricular Advising Program for many years. “I urged my first-year students to go to office hours, knock on doors, tell professors outright that they wanted to pick their brains … The faculty is more shy than you think, so you have to take the lead,” he wrote. “It is inherently flattering to a professor when a student comes in to see him/her, to ask further questions about a lecture, the course, even wider topics.” A person, not a ‘pedestal’ According to the poll, seniors are far more likely to have more than one interaction a week with faculty members than non-seniors. Just over

30 percent of seniors said they interacted with professors at least once a week, compared to about 16 percent of sophomores and juniors combined and 8 percent of freshmen. But there is no significant trend for lower levels of interactions in the poll. For all class years, contact with professors outside of class range between 84 and 95 percent. Though Smith said she was more likely to come into contact with faculty both as a result of her job and due to the various concentration requirements needed to be fulfilled by seniors, she felt that her advising experience was lacking in one critical element — life after Brown. “I don’t even know where I’d go for those types of questions,” she said. “I’m sure that there is someone out there whose job it is to help seniors who are lost.” While Marley Pierce ’13 said she frequents office hours, especially near the end of the semester, she is far more likely to be seeking paper advice than casual conversation. “I almost feel like I don’t want to take up my professor’s time just going to talk about something separate from academics,” she said. “If I have actual questions that they can answer, that’s different.” In regard to other concerns, Pierce said, she is more hesitant to approach faculty members, who of-

ten tell her, “You have a really good head on your shoulders. I’m sure you’ll make the right decision.” “Maybe I haven’t met the professor yet that I’ve really clicked with,” she said. For some students, gaining valuable face-to-face time with professors doesn’t have to be all about their classwork. “I generally don’t use the office hours for academic reasons,” said Webber Xu ’12, a senior sales associate for The Herald. “I go talk to them if I find a professor interesting or if they’re a nice person.” While some first-year students might be intimidated by large class sizes, Xu said he has been frequenting the Department of Economics — the home of his favorite professor — since his freshman year. “We joke around all the time,” Xu said. “I just go to say hi and hang out. But I also go to him if I need to find a job in the department or if I want to become a (teaching assistant).” Both Xu and Bressler encouraged others students to reach out to professors without fear. “Don’t hold them up on a pedestal,” Bressler urged. “They’re regular people.” While Mariela Martinez ’14 said it was initially intimidating to introduce herself to faculty members, she has since done so on a number of

occasions. “The professor has always been really good at asking me questions first,” she added. “It was easier for me to go because they’re also really curious about who I am.” With so many things to juggle during a first semester at Brown, from shopping classes and extracurriculars to making new friends, connecting with professors was a lower priority for some freshmen. “It’s almost like I don’t think to take advantage of those opportunities,” said Ben Gellman ’14, who said he has not yet gone to office hours. With final exams rapidly approaching, he said he plans to attend office hours before the end of the semester. Ultimately, Bergeron emphasized, students need to remember that faculty are present as intellectual allies — and as friends. “It is actually wonderfully empowering to discover how much it matters to a faculty member to hear from a student that they mattered,” she said. Conversations between students and faculty “are the actual threads of the intellectual community we fancy ourselves to be, but all too often are not,” Weinstein wrote. “I’m simply not in a position to gauge what students gain by chatting with me, but I have a real sense it is a central — if time-consuming — part of my job.”

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“I definitely feel like an anomaly.” — Safiyah Hosein ’11, on putting children over career aspirations

Family life: U. women’s new perspectives reflect that of nation continued from page 1 two got engaged independently of their families’ desires, Pflughaupt said her husband’s family’s Christian values precipitated their marriage. “I wasn’t looking for someone to prioritize. But then prioritizing him became a priority,” Pflughaupt said. “I’ve taken on this other person, and he’s taken me on too. I see my life in more of a long-term way.” But not everyone shares her vision. In her hometown, people have expressed disappointment that she wed early. “I get a lot of people who talk to me like I’m young and stupid,” Pflughaupt said. “But I don’t think I’ve lost anything. I think I’ve gained.” She said adults are often the most judgmental — and the most skeptical. Their eyes often dart to her engagement finger — where a diamond-encrusted ring shines —

to verify that she really is married. Recently, a repairman who was working in the off-campus apartment she now shares with her husband told her she was naive to have gotten married. “But at what magical age do you know enough to get married?” Pflughaupt said. Her husband will return to Texas next fall to continue his studies. She plans to join him after graduating and hopes to enroll in an Officer Training School for the Air Force. And in five years, Pflughaupt said, she will probably begin to think about having children. A triad of childrearers For Aida Manduley ’11, Queer Alliance head chair and Queer Coordinating Committee leader, three is the ideal number. She would like her children to be raised communally — preferably by a triad. Manduley, who said she is queer and practices polyamory, feels that society is too

focused on matrimony to the detriment of other valid alternatives. “I don’t feel marriage is necessary to have a stable life or to have a long, fulfilling relationship,” she said. While Manduley said she remains open to marriage, the idea of non-monogamy is more appealing to her at the moment. But Manduley’s family, which lives in her native Puerto Rico, isn’t as enthused about her alternative ideas. They expect her to maintain a career and a family, which Manduley also desires — albeit in a different structure. “But there’s no shame or worry in having different opinions to my family,” she said. They do align on career — which Manduley has prioritized as far back as in her childhood diary. “I’m not happy or fulfilled unless I am working,” said Manduley, who wants a career in sexual education. At the same time, she added, children are an increasing draw for her. “But I don’t want to be a parent who (only) sees their kids before they go to bed,” she added. “I wouldn’t have children if I didn’t feel I could devote enough time to them.” A single mother by choice? After reaching the age of 35, a woman’s fertility starts to decline. That’s why Safiyah Hosein ’11, who

wants up to two children, says she’ll have them on her own if she doesn’t have a partner when she hits 32. “I’ve looked into being a single mother,” Hosein said. “Though I’d love to have a partner, kids are more important to me.” Much of her desire for a family can be traced to her own upbringing in Massachusetts. Her extended family — including grandparents, her father’s three siblings, one great aunt and one great uncle — all lived on the same street. “The one thing I’ve been taught is that family matters,” she said. But at Brown, Hosein feels that valuing children above career is rare. “I definitely feel like an anomaly,” she added. While she has attended an increasing number of baby showers for her friends from home, Hosein said there would be judgment from her peers at Brown if she chose to prioritize children over her career. Hosein is following a pre-med track and hopes to become an OBGYN. But ultimately, children come before both career and marriage. “I don’t think there would be judgment if I chose not to have a partner,” she said about her Brown peers. “But it would be the exact opposite at home.” Revaluing relationships Jessie Papalia ’13 grew up in France, where her American mother was not permitted to work. So she stayed home to raise her children — a role her mother, whom Papalia describes as a staunch feminist, had never envisioned undertaking. When Papalia came to Brown, she was adamant about not playing a similar role in the future. But her peers’ judgment toward women who opt to stay home surprised Papalia, who said she had anticipated more openness at Brown. She began to reconfigure her ideas and now sees herself as more family-oriented than before. “I realized where we go wrong is the judging,” Papalia said. “My parents had very traditional roles but the ways they spoke about them were very nontraditional. You can have an equal relationship regardless of the structure of the relationship.” Judgment of women who prioritize their families is symptomatic of a larger undervaluing of interpersonal relationships, according to Papalia. “And that,” she added, laughing, “is the only main conclusion I’ve come to.” Though she said she remains unsure about her ideal trajectory, Papalia wants to work and have children. To fulfill those goals, Papalia is eyeing France — where women are granted three years of maternity leave and certainty of returning to their jobs. “Family is a new phase of your life,” she said. “And when I get to that point, I want to dedicate myself.” The fragility of family The parents of Sara David ’12 divorced when she was a child. She

grew up with her father in New Jersey and visited her mother in New York on the weekends. Two years ago, they both simultaneously cut off ties with their children. “It was a jarring experience,” said David, who still doesn’t have any contact with her parents. “It’s redefined my entire idea of family.” They didn’t want the familial commitment anymore, said David, whose father returned to the Philippines and whose mother moved to the West Coast. As her parents also cut off financial assistance, David left Brown to work at the Brooklyn Academy of Music for a year. Her older brother, who lives in Brooklyn, has become her family. The two will spend Thanksgiving together in his apartment, and they have promised to take up some of the actions traditionally performed by parents — like hanging up each other’s college diplomas. Though David’s family was always fragmented, she nurtured strong bonds with her blood ties. But since her parents’ departures, she said she has become fearful of the fickle nature of many relationships. “It made concrete to me how easy it is… to pull the switch,” David said. “What if that lies inside of me?” David said she therefore doesn’t want to have children and probably won’t get married. She had never been oriented toward children because of the divorces she witnessed during her childhood, but her parents’ leaving further steered her focus away from family. “So job is definitely number one,” said David, who wants to pursue a career in arts administration and teaching. “I’ve known what it’s like to have zero dollars in the bank.” A physician’s family planning Jyotsna Mullur’s ’12 parents emigrated from India to the United States in the 1980s. By the time she was born, her father had accumulated four master’s degrees, she said. “My parents instilled in me the idea that they came to the United States so that me and my brother can be whatever we want to be,” said Mullur, a former Herald staff writer. “I want to do well and make them feel their investment was worth it.” To that end, she is studying neuroscience and aims to be a doctor. Mullur, who is a student coordinator for Women in Science and Engineering, said it is difficult for women to succeed in a field that is traditionally known as “an old boy’s club.” And with medical school and residency looming, Mullur is also worried about finding time to create a family. “I think a lot about whether I can maintain a healthy relationship when all that is going on,” Mullur said. “It’s not very pretty, but you almost want to schedule in a family at a proper time in your life.” Though she ultimately wants a spouse and children, Mullur said she is presently focused on her educational path. “I think it’s great that we can have this uncertainty,” she said. “It’s a testament to how much independence women have gained.”

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“Everyone dies, but few people are mourned.” — Rabbi Mordechai Rackover, Associate University Chaplain

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a death. ‘Few people are mourned’ Prior to the tree dedication, the ceremony began at 11 a.m. at the chapel in Hillel. Cooper Nelson was the first of seven speakers who addressed the crowd. “Dear family of Brown, this is how we were never supposed to meet,” Cooper Nelson said at the beginning of the ceremony. Cooper Nelson talked about Schaefer’s unquenchable curiosity and ability to inspire those around him. “This day is about the stitching that Avi began even before coming to Brown. His work is growing still even as we mourn his loss and tr y to find things about ourselves that we never knew,” she said. Referring to the tree standing outside in the courtyard, Cooper Nelson said it is a physical manifestation of Schaefer’s influence on campus. “This organism sitting behind you that keeps rippling out of this place is his as well,” she said. Rabbi Mordechai Rackover, associate University chaplain for the Jewish community, followed Cooper Nelson and addressed the full chapel. Rackover said he had never given a eulogy in Schaefer’s memory. He said that since a eulogy’s main purpose is “to make people cry,” he wanted to do something different. Instead of eulogizing Schaefer, Rackover focused on the qualities that made Schaefer a potent influence on Brown’s campus — even if he was on College Hill for a relatively short period of time. “Everyone dies, but few people

are mourned,” he said. After recalling a moment when Schaefer helped him set up a television in his office, Rackover said the student always had a smile on his face and a great capacity for kindness. Despite not having given a eulogy, Rackover said, he did take something from the funeral ser vice last winter that he knew would make the tree dedication even more meaningful. “In my jacket pocket is a bottle from the cemeter y full of earth,” Rackover said, telling the crowd he would place the soil around the tree. “I’ve been thinking about this since that day.” Rackover said the tree planted in Schaefer’s memory is an embodiment of his soul. “Humans are like trees — we are growing, we have roots,” Rackover said. A strong community Leor Shtull-Leber ’12, president of Brown/RISD Hillel’s student executive board and Herald assistant design editor, spoke following Rackover. Shtull-Leber said it was shocking that Schaefer had only been at Brown for such a short time. Though he was here for less than a year, he had tremendous impact, she said. For Shtull-Leber, Schaefer’s death was a moment of sadness that brought people together, and strengthened communal ties among students. “I don’t think I have ever experienced the power of the Jewish community until last February at Brown,” she said. Shtull-Leber said that while new friendships were made in the wake

of Schaefer’s death, those people would still have met had he been alive. “We would have become friends anyway because Avi brought people together,” she said. Concluding her speech, ShtullLeber urged the people in the room to introduce themselves to “someone new.” “Tell people in your life that you care about them. Tell them you love them,” Shtull-Leber said. “Tell them today and tomorrow — be there for Avi and especially for one another.” President Ruth Simmons spoke after Shtull-Leber left the stage. Simmons said it was impressive how quickly Schaefer’s “verdant ideas” emerged in classrooms, deans’ offices and meetings of student organizations around campus. Simmons said that at the time of his death, Schaefer’s “name and voice and friendships were still taking off,” adding that “his was and remains a living vision.” Of the tree, Simmons said, “This living memorial will grow and shelter generations of Brunonians.” Broadening views Following Simmons, three professors took turns to discuss how Schaefer had opened their eyes while he was at Brown. For Professor of Judaic Studies David Jacobson, Schaefer offered a glimmer of hope that ideals he had always believed in still survived. Jacobson talked about his struggle through the years to open dialogue between the two opposing sides in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Last fall, Jacobson saw Schaefer’s opinion column in The Herald, titled “To those interested in creating peace

Herald welcomes new leadership continued from page 5 serve as assistant design editors and Migliaccio previously held the post, before jetting off for a semester near Sydney, Australia. A picture speaks a thousand words, and 2011 will see a strong team leading the charge at the photo desk. Stephanie London ’13 and Hilary Rosenthal ’12 will continue as photo editors and former photo editor Nicholas Sinnott-Armstrong ’13.5 will serve alongside them after a stint at Facebook. Jonathan Bateman ’13 of Hinesburg, Vt., will continue snapping shots as sports photo editor. Current opinions editor Michael Fitzpatrick ’12, of San Antonio, will stay on in the role, to be joined by columnist Hunter Fast ’12, of Bloomington, Ill. The editorial page board will be led by Tyler Rosenbaum ’11, current co-editor from Auburn, Wash., and current board member Anita

Mathews ’12 of Nashville, Tenn. The Herald welcomed over 60 new writers this semester, and is proud to announce a full slate of new staff writers: Aparna Bansal ’14, Jacob Comer ’13, Jeffrey Handler ’14, Abby Kerson ’13, Kristina Klara ’13, Ben Kutner ’14, Chip Lebovitz ’14, Shefali Luthra ’14, Amy Rasmussen ’13, Katie Sola ’13, Kat Thornton ’14, Natalie Villacorta ’13, Emma Wohl ’14 and Margaret Yi ’12. Kate Doyle ’12, hailing from Westport, Conn., will continue as editor-in-chief of post-, The Herald’s sexy but refined weekly magazine. Blog Daily Herald, the jewel of The Herald’s Web empire, will continue under the strong leadership of current managing editors David Winer ’13 and Matt Klimerman ’13. Winer, who hails from near Washington, D.C., will serve as editor-inchief, and Klimerman, of New York City, will serve as managing editor. The 2010 business board — outgoing General Managers Claire

Kiely ’11 and Katie Koh ’11, Alumni Relations Director Christiana Stephenson ’11, Sales Director Kelly Wess ’11, Finance Director Matthew Burrows ’12 and Special Projects Director Margaret Watson ’11 — also announced their successors Friday evening. Burrows will serve as general manager and treasurer of The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. He will be joined at the helm by Isha Gulati ’13, who will serve as general manager and secretary. Danielle Marshak ’13, currently the assistant finance director, will lead the finance team. Aditi Bhatia ’13, currently the student groups sales manager, will serve as sales director. Margot Grinberg ’12, currently the credit and collections manager, will keep track of all past Herald staffers as alumni relations director. Lisa Berlin ’12, currently a senior finance associate, rounds out the board as special projects director.

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in the Middle East.” “He was unlike other first-year students. In two months, he had already declared an intention of concentrating in international relations and Middle Eastern studies,” Jacobson said. Jacobson began working with Schaefer and Palestinian student Sami Jarbawi ’12 to help create forums on campus to discuss Middle Eastern conflict and the prospect of peace in the region. This spring, the results of their work will be seen on campus in the form of Jacobson’s new course JUDS 0980W: “The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Contested Narratives” and a conference called “Israelis and Palestinians: Working Together for a Better Future.” The conference will bring in Israeli and Palestinian speakers and will take place March 13–14. Jacobson said none of this would have been possible without Schaefer’s influence. According to Michael Satlow, professor of religious studies and Judaic studies, Schaefer was unique in his ambitions. “Never before had I had a student, graduate or undergraduate, who thought he could solve Middle East peace,” he said, eliciting laughter from an audience familiar with Schaefer’s high goals. “He was no naif,” Satlow said. “He transformed this experience into hope and hope into vision.” Satlow was followed by Maud Mandel, associate professor of Judaic studies and histor y. Mandel said what most struck her about Schaefer’s philosophy was his belief that two people of opposing views can cooperate when they know “each other’s stories.” As a scholar who has observed the frictions between groups of

people who she said “often know ver y much about one another’s stories,” Mandel said she wishes she could sit down and talk with Schaefer about his views. “Avi was a talker and a commentator,” she said. “He engaged friends and family and professors.” Forever a part of Brown Outside, the tree dedication was a mixture of celebration and painful remembrance. Friends and strangers approached the Gross-Schaefer family with warm embraces, and the group gathered to hear a few more parting words from Cooper Nelson and Rackover before heading into a special Hillel luncheon. During the dedication, the group sang traditional Jewish songs, including Psalm 121, “Shalom Rav: The final blessing of the silent meditation” and “Oseh Shalom.” Each voice melded into the other, as the cool breeze lightly blew the young tree’s branches. In reference to Jewish funeral tradition, members of the group were urged to leave something at the birch tree and take something back with them. Cooper Nelson said the shedding bark provided the per fect oppor tunity for the group to take something honoring Schaefer back with them. After Cooper Nelson and Rackover concluded their remarks, Schaefer’s father spoke to the crowd. Looking into the faces of his son’s friends, family and professors, Gross-Schaefer talked about how special the Brown community is to him. “When Avi came to Brown, I didn’t know that Brown was this,” he said while standing in front of the tree planted in honor of his son.

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Art talk concludes Asian American History Month By Aparna Bansal Contributing Writer

“Why are humans attracted to all things shiny? It evokes the warmth of sunlight,” said Pook Panyarachun ’10 about the appeal of using bright saffron colors in her sculptures. Panyarachun, who was raised in Thailand, and Jenny Lee, a Boston University graduate of Chinese descent, talked about their artwork at “Art Worlds of the Asian American Diaspora,” the closing convocation of Brown’s Asian American History Month. Lee began with a slideshow of photographs of her family and visit to China in 2007, during which she “internalized the culture.” She then showed images of her various artworks, many of which are strongly influenced by Asian art and topography. “Asian art is more stylized, and it pays a lot of attention to lines,” Lee told the audience, explaining that she finds herself unintentionally drawn to it. She also finds that there is a greater focus on angles and sharpness in Chinese art, whose use of tools and colors is different from other countries’. A biology major in college, Lee incorporates science into her art in “Evolution and Growth,” which symbolizes the metamorphosis of friendships, but also features Chinese calligraphy and represents the close relationships Lee observed

between women in China. Panyarachun then showed images from a collection of her saffron sculptures. “It is a very yellow, organic color. Growing up in Thailand, I would see monks wearing saffron shawls, and it is a color that is ingrained in my mind. I associate it with home, ritual and Buddhism,” she said during her presentation. She also described some of the other Thai influences in her work: the symbol of a gourd to represent prosperity in “Meditation Gourd” and the reference to the Buddhist concept of rowing across the river of human suffering to reach nirvana in “Boat,” located in the Leung Gallery. “I grew up with (the Thai culture) so it’s something I think about on a daily basis,” said Panyarachun, who compared the process of creating artwork to meditation because of the devotion both activities require. This event signaled the culmination of the 30th annual Asian American History Month and the 10th annual Southeast Asian Heritage Week. “We thought it would be interesting to see how the Asian identity manifests itself in art,” said Chenelle Chin ’12, co-organizer of Asian American History Month. “Throughout the month, we explore issues that affect the Asian American community in different forms: art, music, theater … overall, it was a success.”

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China Care Concert raises funds, awareness By Emma Wohl Staff Writer

What do hip-hop dance, breakdancing, acoustic guitar, Chinese pop music and spoken word have in common? They all gathered in List 120 Friday night for China Care Brown’s Fall Care Concert. The concer t was par t of the club’s yearlong goal to raise money to help an orphaned Chinese girl with facial cancer and heart problems get chemotherapy and medical care. The club raises “as much as we can to donate back to the (international) China Care organization,” which helps orphaned children with serious medical conditions get the care they need, said Catherine Chiu ’12, co-president of the club. China Care Brown also mentors children adopted from China living in Providence. Throughout the event, the club’s organizers highlighted the importance of their cause. A major piece of the program was a video about the group’s parent organization, China Care, which is in its 10th year of international operation. “I think (China Care) is so

important because it actually addresses the problem” of China’s orphaned children, said Stephanie Chen ’11, the group’s co-president. “It’s not only spreading awareness,” she added. “China Care actually takes these children into their home.” The selection of performance groups was intentionally eclectic, Chen said. “We just wanted to find a diverse group of people that everyone would enjoy.” Emceeing was spoken word artist Christopher Johnson, who opened the concert with a few reminders and a cheer. “When I say ‘China!’ you say ‘Cares!’” he called out to the audience, transferring some of his infectious energy. Two dance groups performed, providing energetic bookends to the night’s program. The first group to perform was Badmaash, Brown’s South Asian fusion dance group. About 10 students moved in perfect coordination through their hip-hop routine. Closing the evening was a breakdance performance by Special Browniez Crew, who displayed an assortment of slides, spins, flips

and kicks that was remarkable, almost dangerous, for the small stage. One par ticularly impressive move, involving several mid-air flips, elicited gasps from the audience. Fortunately, no dancers — or audience members — were harmed. Kaijian Gao ’13 performed a Chinese pop song. He announced the song title, “Give Me Your Love,” prompting several shrieks and one audience member shouting, “We’ll give it to you!” The performance included two solo acoustic sets by student singersongwriters. Rosalind Schonwald ’12, a former Herald arts and culture editor, accompanied several of her own songs on the ukulele and captivated the audience with her soaring voice. Elexis Williams ’13 sang and played several pieces on guitar, including one she wrote while learning how to play, and finished her set with a soulful rendition of Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door.” Chiu said she hoped the concert got people “in the spirit of Thanksgiving.”

Dancers join for fall performance continued from page 1 because of the department’s role in super vising it and suggesting ways for students to convey their ideas to the audience more clearly. The first piece, entitled “Coming Home,” was a contemporar y performance by Attitude Dance Company. The fluidity and grace with which the dancers entered and exited the stage was a delight — the constant comings and goings teased viewers’ eyes, forcing them to jump from dancer to dancer. When the pulsating beats of Far East Movement’s song “Like a G6” came over the speakers, it became abundantly clear that Fusion’s “Like a Friend Mikey” was going to be a completely different affair. Combining hard-hitting moves with more lyrical styles, this hip-hop routine was high energy, pumping up audience members so that they bobbed their heads to the bounce and flow of the piece. Fusion performed three other routines, which showcased the group’s versatility. “Chance Encounter,” a duet between choreographers Dan Lurie ’11 and Joelle Murphy ’11, was simply beautiful to watch, as their support of each other and grace on the stage came together to create a truly moving contemporary work about the pair’s give-and-take relationship. In “Bleeding Love,” the chemistr y between the dancers electrified the audience as the male

lead danced with each of his three female co-stars, systematically winning and breaking their hearts. In the end, though, the player got played as the girls left him on stage without a backward glance. Fusion’s final piece, “Hang With Me,” was a huge group number that fostered organic movements and showcased the raw talents of the group members. An amazing per formance by Doug McDonald ’13 and Perri Katzman ’14 showcased the pair’s sheer athleticism and strength. Dancing on the ground is one challenge, but these two raised the bar by taking their routine to the sky — performing completely off the ground on a bar and a hoop, both suspended from the ceiling. They gracefully created the most intricate shapes with their bodies and completed some moves that would surely make any gymnast green with envy. The concer t also featured numbers by Amira Belly Dance Company and Brown Badmaash. Both groups could be heard long before the lights went up, as their jingling costumes gave them away. The bright splashes of color and technically challenging movements of each group made the performances memorable. A particular standout was Adam D’Amico ’11, who meshed with his female counterparts in Amira spectacularly and showed off some excellent moves amidst an entertaining number.

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One group chose to forgo music altogether in favor of busting out a tight beat with their feet. What’s on Tap? performed perfectly in synch despite the company’s large size — 10 dancers. They moved about the stage, created formations and all the while kept the rhythm. The concert also featured a piece from Brown University Movement Experiments, which combined dance with acting and speaking. “Memory/Translation,” performed to a voiceover in Chinese, relating stories of the Chinese Civil War, was visually compelling. The three dancers performed staccato, disconnected movements brought together by common threads and similar moves. The dance felt like a memory — thoughts flitted and moved across the mind, like dancers across the stage, in disjointed patterns, coming together create a story. The dancers asked, “Do you remember?” Per formances from imPulse Dance Company, Attitude, Extension and the Aerial Arts Society rounded out the concert, giving the audience a taste of conventional and lyrical hip-hop, contemporary routines and even a lyrical scarf dance. Nicole Taykhman ’11, who choreographed a lyrical hip-hop piece for Attitude, said this year’s concert was exceptional for both quality and diversity of dancing and was ver y pleased with the high turnout — every concert was sold out.

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“Everyone loves his music.” — Matthew McGarrell, on composer Gustav Holst

Installation gives light a life of its own By Suzannah Weiss Ar ts & Culture Editor

Art can bring to life things that were never meant to breathe. Streetlamps, speakers and projectors assume the roles of the undead and the never-born in AS220 artist-in-residence Lyn Goeringer’s “Liminal/subLIMINAL.” Though it’s physically located in the Nightingale-Brown House, home of the John Nicholas Brown Center, the installation is really in the eyes and ears of the beholder. It speaks in the second person, engulfing and digesting visitors until they are integrated into the exhibit. To objectively dissect it, probe the artist’s intentions or describe the materials — which are vehicles for ideas — would miss the point. The Nightingale-Brown House sits at 357 Benefit St., where College Hill’s slope settles. A sign on the front door directs you around the back. Let the courtyard foliage derail you, then continue through the homey entryway and windowed corridor to a dark hall. At last, arrival. Yet you’re compelled to turn around. Amidst the darkness is a deep, ominous buzzing. Changes in tone and volume startle periodically. You begin to feel trapped in a sur vival horror video game, at the stage when deranged demons may emerge any minute, leaving three options: right, left or backwards. To the left is a former living room — literally, the room is living — dimly lit by humming streetlights. Black velvet has barred all natural light, save a struggling sunbeam peaking out the bottom of each window. The fireplace is eerily empty. To test the limits of your control over this virtual world, you flick the lights on and off, fearing that it’s secretly some kind of electroshock death trap. Nothing happens: You are more of a character following Goeringer’s script than a collaborator in her environment. The autonomous lights hold this game’s control panel — they threaten to leave you in the dark. Darkness fosters the weakness of oblivion. The less one witnesses, the less one knows, so people constantly seek illumination. Further disrupting your sense of security, the lamps are individ-

uals with signature voices. Their tonality fluctuates, signaling the part of the game where the dead make demands and reveal the motives behind their droning. Tip-toeing across the woodpanelled floor, you surrender to darkness so you can better decipher these creatures’ instructions. Secrets accumulated, you can progress to the next level. You don’t step, but stumble into the right room — seriously, watch the ledge. Creaking noises suggest a need for hesitation, but the only inhabitants are rustling leaves and a convex white sheet cur ving from the left wall. The dancing lights on the fabric’s surface are the only features that seem volitional, that seem human. Your eyes cling to the sheet like a baby’s fingers to a blanket. You strain to peak behind it like a child checking for monsters under the bed. Once again, you gravitate toward the light switch. You can control it this time — a relief. It illuminates a circle on the next room’s cracked-plaster floor. This subsequent room is an old garage, an inherently creepy setting — but this one is especially haunted. It speaks. The ceiling growls, the walls knock on themselves and the floor swishes — or is it the sound of cars outside the veiled windows? Pink specks accumulate like glowing insects and dissolve on the left wall. Examining this activity, you realize you have stepped into the spotlight you yourself activated. Rather than illuminating your view, the light you flicked on has made you into a specimen under a microscope. Combined with the banging and rustling of the room, this makes you feel under attack, and you run. “Liminal/subLIMINAL” reveals light not as a natural resource but as a technology. It makes the natural seem unnatural — supernatural, even. Afterwards, you’ll wonder whether the flickering streetlamps are gossiping and conspiring in your absence and whether the leaves catapulting down Williams Street are riding on the breath of a ghost. “Liminal/subLIMINAL” is open at the John Nicholas Brown Center Monday to Friday through Nov. 24.

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Conductor Matthew McGarrell and the Wind Symphony enchants Salomon with Holst.

Wind Symphony ends with Holst By Margaret Yi Staff Writer

The Brown University Wind Symphony performed pieces by popular wind band composer Gustav Holst under the direction of Matthew McGarrell, director of bands and senior lecturer in music, for a sizable crowd in Salomon 101 Friday night. All the pieces in the program are characteristic of Holst’s use of intricate counterpoints — when a musical piece has more than one melodic line played at the same time, McGarrell said. “It makes (the music) very complex,” he explained. The concert was the last of two performances the symphony puts on each semester. It was also a “capstone” and a chance to show friends and family what the symphony had prepared in a short amount of time, McGarrell said. The symphony first presented “Bach’s Fugue a la Gigue,” which is Holst’s wind band arrangement of an organ work by the Baroque composer. “A fugue is the ultimate statement of counterpoint,” McGarrell said. “It shows how interested Holst was in organ music, counterpoint, 18thcentury music in general,” he added. The fugue was fast, lively, upbeat and overall a very enjoyable piece. The music grew gradually louder toward the middle then softened as the piece transitioned into a minor mood. The music slowed dramatically toward the end and finished with a sustained note. After a round of applause, the band proceeded to play the threemovement “Moorside Suite.” The suite was a brass band competition piece that the BBC commissioned Holst to compose. The program described the suite’s melodies as

“traditional in quality but not actual folk songs.” The first movement, titled “Scherzo,” began with a soft and low but fast tune, then suddenly crescendoed, with trumpets sounding a melody reminiscent of medieval fanfare. Just as abruptly, the music softened, with four flutes playing a tinkling melody. The piece ended with a soft note that provided a fluid transition to the second movement, “Nocturne.” “Nocturne” began with a single oboe, sounding out a slow, sorrowful tune. The oboe solo was undeniably one of the highlights of the concert, effectively conveying the melancholy, almost heartbreaking tone of the piece. The last movement, “March,” reflected its title. The piece began with a loud fanfare by the trumpets, punctuated by drums. The band next played “Hammersmith: Prelude and Scherzo,” which McGarrell described as “probably the most challenging piece” on the program, but nevertheless a rewarding one to perform. The piece was inspired by the English town of the same name, where Holst lived and worked for part of his life. Hammersmith juxtaposes the liveliness of the bustling town with the tranquility of the nearby Thames River, McGarrell said. “Prelude” depicted the Thames River with a slow, low melody carrying a mysterious, foreboding tone that was startlingly punctuated by a single piccolo, then a trumpet. Both played a fast, brief and sharp tune. “Scherzo” uses counterpoints to convey the “bustling and chattering of life that goes on in the streets of Hammersmith,” McGarrell said. The piece began with fast, sharp staccato

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notes on a minor scale. The music grew louder and more complex as multiple melodies — as many as four or five — were played together to convey the excitement of the town. The music built up to a climax with lots of trumpets and tubas and swiftly gave way to a slower, softer melody similar to that in “Prelude.” The last piece was “Suite in F for Military Band.” The exact circumstances of and the purpose in Holst’s composing this is unknown, but according to McGarrell, the suite is essentially a collection of folk songs rearranged into four movements. “Holst was very interested in collecting folk songs throughout England, preserving the heritage of England through folk songs,” McGarrell said. The first movement was “March,” a very fast, upbeat piece with lots of drums and other percussions. The second movement’s title, “Song without words: I’ll love my love,” hinted at the romantic, sorrowful nature of the piece. “Song of the Blacksmith,” the third movement, returned to a more lively tone. It was quite surprising to see how Holst incorporated an actual hammer and anvil into the piece, with the percussionist banging the hammer with the beat of the main melody. The program describes the last movement, “Fantasia on the Dargason,” as a “particularly brilliant display of contrapuntal writing.” The fast, dynamic piece provided an energetic ending to the concert. For those who missed this concert, McGarrell said he definitely plans to have more performances dedicated to Holst in the future. “Holst’s music among band players, among wind players, is very popular,” McGarrell said, adding, “Everyone loves his music.”

SportsMonday The Brown Daily Herald

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Fencing

M. squash

W. squash

w. basketball

Wrestling

Northeast Fencing Conference No. 1

Brown 0 Harvard 9

Brown 0 Harvard 9

Brown 66 New Hampshire 54

Keystone Classic

Men: 3-2 win Women: 6-0 win

Tufts 0 Brown 9

Tufts 0 Brown 9

12th out of 12

SCOREBOARD

FOOTBALL

Bears crush Columbia on Senior Day, tie for second in league

By Ethan McCoy Sports Staff Writer

Key season statistics Passing: Joe Springer ’11 1625 yards, 10 TDs, 5 INTs Rushing: Mark Kachmer ’13 134 rushes, 557 yards, 8 TDs Receiving: Alex Tounkara ’11 61 rec, 842 yards, 4 TDs Defense: Stephen Peyton ’12 79 tackles, 2 INTs

In the final game of the 2010 football season, the Bears jumped out to a 28-0 lead over Columbia (4-6, 2-5 Ivy League) by halftime and never looked back, posting a dominant 38-16 victory on Senior Day at Brown Stadium. The win gives Bruno a final record of 5-2 in the Ivy League (6-4 overall), good enough for a three-way tie for second place with Harvard and Yale. Penn, who defeated Brown 24-7 on Oct. 30, took home the Ivy crown after a 31-7 demolition of Cornell to cap an undefeated conference record for the Quakers. “I really enjoyed this group of seniors and their leadership, hard work and toughness,” said Head Coach Phil Estes after the win. “All the things that we recruit at Brown, they brought it

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Running back Zach Tronti ’11 ran for 46 yards in Saturday’s victory over Columbia, bringing the Bears to a final 5-2 Ivy League record.

out this year in this team.” The victory was a fitting end to the collegiate careers of the 26 seniors playing in their final game. The class of 2011 has a remarkable resume: 18-9

in Ivy League games, four winning records in conference play and a 2008 league championship. “You can’t ask for much better than that,” Estes said.

Brown took charge of the game right from the outset. On their first drive, the Bears marched right down the field for an opening score. Two big plays by receiver Alex Tounkara ’11 — a 31-yard reception and a 15-yard gain on a reverse — moved the ball inside the Columbia 20-yard line, which led to a 1-yard touchdown run on a direct snap to Mark Kachmer ’13. The score was the sophomore’s eighth rushing touchdown of the season. “We’ve had some problems on our first drives this season,” said quarterback Joe Springer ’11, who threw for 197 yards and two touchdowns. “We always want to emphasize coming out strong and really set the tone for the game, especially when we get the opening kickoff. We did well, marched right down the field and were in rhythm the whole time. “ Brown added to its lead toward the end of the first quarter after a Columbia punt. A 33-yard rush by Kachmer was the key play on the drive, which ended with an 8-yard rushing score by Jimmy Saros ’12 on a reverse. Saros hit one hole before breaking through a weak arm tackle and cruised into the end zone standing up. At the end of the first quarter, Brown had out-

gained Columbia 174 yards to 9. Early in the second quarter, Brown picked off Columbia quarterback Jerry Bell (5-19 for 11 yards) for the second time. Bell was under heavy pressure, and in an attempt to dump the ball off to his running back, threw a pass right into the arms of linebacker Matthew O’Donnell ’12, who took the ball back to the Columbia 23-yard line. Bruno made quick work of the short field. On third and goal, Springer connected with Tellef Lundevall ’13 for a 7-yard touchdown pass to extend the lead to 21-0. Springer was forced out of the pocket and evaded two tacklers to keep the play alive before finding a diving Lundevall near the right pylon for a spectacular catch. The Bears’ fourth touchdown of the half came on a long score from Springer to tight end Alex Prestley ’11. The offensive line gave Springer lots of time in the pocket before he found Prestley at the 15-yard line. The senior tight end out-leaped two defenders to pull down the tough catch, then broke free and rumbled into the end zone for a 48-yard score to extend the lead to 28-0. By halftime, the yardage difcontinued on page 11

Basketball

After URI loss, Bruno wins home opener with balanced attack By Sam Rubinroit Sports Staff Writer

The men’s basketball team played its home opener Saturday, defeating Sacred Heart in an exciting nonleague match, 81-67. Earlier in the week, Bruno (2-1) fell to the Atlantic 10 powerhouse University of Rhode Island, 92-67. The key to Bruno’s success against Sacred Heart (0-4) was a balanced attack. Against Fordham, Brown’s first opponent of the year, and Rhode Island, the Bears attempted 60 and 55 shots from the field, respectively, and 34 and 23 shots from beyond the arc. In the Fordham game, Bruno shot 41.7 percent from the field and 29.4 percent from threepoint range, and against Rhode Island those numbers fell to 40 percent and 26.1 percent. The team lacked a strong inside presence, allowing opponents to defend the perimeter and force tough shots. In the game against the Pioneers, the Bears were able to penetrate the defense, forcing Sacred Heart to defend the lane and freeing up players for quality shots. “Our ability to drive the ball was real important to us because we can’t just rely on our shooting,” said Head

Coach Jesse Agel. “Once we are able to drive the ball, our shooting will come into play. We shot 67 percent in the first half, over 60 percent in the game and they were high-percentage shots that we took.” Bruno’s post presence came in the form of forwards Peter Sullivan ’11 and Tucker Halpern ’13, whose abilities to slash to the basket opened the court for the rest of the team. Sullivan led all scorers with 26 points, shooting six of eight from the field and two of three from three-point range. His aggressive play also earned him a game-high eight rebounds and multiple trips to the free-throw line, where he shot a perfect 12 for 12. Halpern had an impressive performance as Bruno’s second leading scorer, shooting five for 10 from the field and 4-4 from the free-throw line to finish with 14 points. Halpern’s ability to drive to the basket forced the defense to collapse, allowing him to pass the ball around to get the rest of the team open looks. “He’s a very unselfish player,” Agel said. “He can do a lot of things for his size. He’s a guy that can make guys around him a lot better, and that’s what you have with good players.” Another emerging figure on the

Bear’s roster is Sean McGonagill ’14, a rookie point guard from Illinois. In the first three games of his college career, he is averaging 9.7 points, 4.3 rebounds, and 6.3 assists in 33.3 minutes. Though the weight of his first home game got to him as he struggled with turnovers in the opening minutes against Sacred Heart, he finished the game with nine points and a game-high eight assists. “He’s been everything we thought he could be,” Agel said. “He’s just a joy to coach because he loves it so much and he plays so hard.” Last season, Bruno was forced to experiment with different players at the point guard position, moving Matt Sullivan ’13 from his natural two-guard spot and putting pressure on Adrian William ’11 to make shots. With McGonagill starting, Sullivan and Williams have been key bench players, hitting clutch shots and allowing the team to run the floor more effectively. “It’s been great,” Halpern said of McGonagill’s integration into the team. “We really needed a point guard to come in, and he was just what we needed. We get the ball up the floor a lot quicker, and he makes things happen.” On a team with nine underclass-

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Guard Sean McGonagill ’14 had nine points and eight assists in Bruno’s successful home opener against Sacred Heart on Saturday.

men and four seniors, there is still a great deal of uncertainty for the rest of the season. However, winning two key games early in the year has buoyed

spirits. The team returns to action at home Wednesday at 4 p.m. to face St. Francis in their final home matchup before a four game, 10-day road trip.

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Monday, November 22, 2010

“Those power play goals really cost us.” — Erica Kromm ’11, women’s ice hockey tri-captain

W. HOCKEY

Icers split weekend with tie at Clarkson, loss at St. Lawrence By Sudarshan sriraman Contributing Writer

The women’s ice hockey team extended its unbeaten home run to four games with a thrilling 1-1 tie against Clarkson on Friday night. But on Saturday, an inspired St. Lawrence comprehensively outplayed Brown, defeating the Bears 5-2 and ending Bruno’s longest unbeaten streak in five years. Brown 1, Clarkson 1 The Clarkson Golden Knights (5-8-2, 3-1-1 ECAC) came into the game with an unbeaten 3-0-0 record in the Eastern College Athletic Conference. Facing a Brown team (2-42, 1-3-2 ECAC) on a similar threegame unbeaten streak and fresh off a tough victory against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, fans expected a tough and evenly contested game, and the players delivered. The tough and attritional first two periods were scoreless, as both teams proved unable to penetrate the opposition’s defense. But with only five minutes left in the game, forward Melissa Waldie shot one past goalie Katie Jamieson ’13 to put Clarkson up 1-0. Brown kept fighting hard, and the perseverance was rewarded when forward Laurie Jolin’13, ably aided by tri-captain Erica Kromm ’11 and forward Vanessa Welten ’14, scored a last-gasp equalizer with only 22 seconds left on the clock. Some fine saves by Clarkson goalie Erica Howe in overtime ensured both teams walked away from the game with a point each.

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Goaltender Aubree Moore ’14 faced a relentless St. Lawrence offense in the Bears’ 5-2 loss on Saturday.

“Obviously, we were hoping to win, but it felt great to tie them ­— they are a great team,” Kromm said after the game. “We never gave up and it was great that we could bounce back. (Our performance) really reminded us that every minute counts in this game.” St. Lawrence 5, Brown 2 There were few signs of the upcoming goal-fest in the first period

On football’s Senior Day, Bears maul Lions continued from page 10 ferential was 279-34 in favor of Brown, and the game seemed all but out of reach for Columbia. But in the second half, Columbia looked poised to make the game interesting. Quarterback Sean Brackett, who normally starts for the Lions but sat out the first half due to a hamstring injury, replaced Bell and breathed life into his team. Though his injury took his running abilities out of the attack, he threw the ball extremely well to set up two third-quarter Columbia touchdowns. Down 31-13, Columbia found itself inside the Brown 10-yard line and looked ready to cut the lead to a twoscore deficit with an entire quarter to play. But the Brown defense came up big. Brackett’s pitch to running back Nick Gerst was mishandled and fumbled, and Phil Roffi ’11 scooped up the loose ball to keep the Lions out of the end zone. After a Columbia field goal made the score 31-16, Brown put the game away with a devastating eight-minute drive. Starting at its own 27-yard line with 9:19 to play, running backs Kachmer and Zach Tronti ’11 chewed up huge chunks of yardage to move

the ball downfield while burning the clock. On fourth and 2 from the 5-yard line, two of Brown’s unheralded seniors iced the win in their final game, as quarterback Ryley Hegarty ’11 handed the ball off to fullback Kasey McCurdy ’11, who plowed over the goal line for the score. On Columbia’s next possession, the Bruno defense ended its season in a fitting manner, logging a sack and twice jarring the ball loose from Columbia receivers on huge hits over the middle. “We preach hitting hard and knocking the ball out,” said linebacker and tri-captain Andrew Serrano ’11. “We came out there and we weren’t going to let them get a first down. We wanted to finish the game the right way.” After the game, Estes was full of praise for his team and the way the players finished a season riddled with injuries and adversity. “We talked about not being individuals and being a team, and I think that’s truly what we did this year,” Estes said. “We were a football team together right from the start and right to the end. I’m very proud of them and what they accomplished… they’ve got nothing to be ashamed of.”

of the Brown-St. Lawrence game, which remained scoreless as the Brown defense maintained the fine form it had showed in previous games. Brown came out strong in the

second period, maintaining pressure on the Saints’ goal and scoring in the second minute, with a powerful slap shot by defender Samantha Woodward ’14 pinging off all three goalposts before sliding past the goal line. The Saints struck back quickly, making the most of a power play to equalize. In the following five minutes, St. Lawrence added two more goals to seize a decisive advantage against a shocked Brown defense. Precise passing and brilliant positional play were features of the Saints’ offense in this period, and they continued into the third period. St. Lawrence added a fourth tally five minutes into the third period. Goaltender Aubree Moore ’14, after facing 33 shots in 45 minutes of play, was relieved by Jamieson. But even Jamieson, who had a stellar performances in her last few games, found the scintillating Saint offense hard to handle, conceding a fifth goal with 11 minutes to play. Brown kept battling and managed a second goal with nine minutes to play, courtesy of forward Alena Polenska ’13. Though the Bears surged and created opportunities in the last few minutes, ultimately there was too much ground lost to make a comeback. “Those power play goals really cost us,” Kromm said, referring to

the first and third goals conceded in the second period. “We need to stay out of the box, but these are mistakes that even NHL players make. We knew they were a really talented team and we had to be very careful in the penalty-kill situations.” Kromm did note there were some positives emerging from the game. “It’s obviously very disappointing, but we’re still optimistic. St. Lawrence are a very good team,” she said. “It was great how everyone battled back to score that second goal. The offense has been getting progressively better and it’s important that we stay positive.” Tri-captain Samantha Stortini ’11 agreed. “Obviously, we are disappointed, but we aren’t feeling down or defeated. We’ve got a great team dynamic ­— we’re strong enough to get past this and we are always learning from our mistakes. The team is really coming together and you can see that through our spirit. No one is giving up at any stage,” she said. Brown will be hoping that their defensive performance on Saturday — which was the foundation upon which they constructed their remarkable streak — was a blip. The Bears will try to rediscover their mojo as they take on Providence College for the Mayor’s Cup on Friday at Meehan Auditorium.

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“We’re just so excited for this part of the journey.” — David Walls ‘11, men’s soccer co-captain and defender

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the 87th minute, they finally broke through off a free kick. Forward Mamadou Diouf headed the ball past goalkeeper and co-captain Paul Grandstrand ’11, tying the game and shifting all the momentum to the home side. “It was a real body blow for us,” said co-captain defender David Walls ’11. “It hurt us a lot because we were so close. To give up the goal in the manner we did — from a free kick that we didn’t believe was going to be a free kick — was tough.” But the squad persevered, and both Laughlin and Walls said the team’s strong mentality was nothing out of the ordinary for this Bruno squad. “One of the hallmarks of the team has been their mental toughness,” Laughlin said. “They’re always playing for keeps and they make sure they play hard the entire time.” “It took us a couple of minutes to get over it,” Walls said. “Coach gave a real inspirational talk, and we just came out in overtime with a lot of belief.” Neither team was able to break through in the two 10-minute overtime periods, so the game headed to a shootout. Walls said Brown was mentally prepared for perhaps the most nerve-wracking experience in soccer, especially after losing to Providence College on penalty kicks

earlier in the season. “We’re not scared of failure right now,” he said. “We’re a strong team. We just had to go out there and do what we do all the time — put the ball in the net.” The first four Bears in the shootout — midfielder Thomas McNamara ’13, Gorman, forward Austin Mandel ’12 and defender Dylan Remick ’13 — did just that. Grandstrand blocked UConn’s third attempt, parrying away forward Stephane Diop’s shot and giving the Bears an advantage. But defender Ian Smith ’11, the fifth and final shooter, had his shot blocked by Husky goalie Matt Sangeloty to even the shootout score at 4-4. Then, with the score at 6-6, defender Max Wasserman missed his shot for the Huskies. Hayward finally stepped up and hit the game-winner into the back of the net. Walls credited Grandstrand, who along with his save also converted a penalty kick in the shootout, with leading the way to the Bruno victory. “Like I’ve said many times before this year, we have a goalkeeper that we believe in,” Walls said. “Paul is definitely going to take the hero status of today.” Laughlin also noted Gorman and the importance of scoring the first goal in a hostile road environment. The goal “was a great lift for us,” Laughlin said. “One of the challenges of the NCAA tournament is if you don’t have a bye, you need to play

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Thursday and then travel to a rested team. That was a big challenge, so the goal really lifted our spirits and got the team going.” Walls said his team recovered well from Thursday’s home victory against Boston College, and he partly credited the fans who made the trip to Connecticut for raising Bruno’s energy. “We definitely took it to them… Even though we played the other night, we felt fresh, we had a lot of energy,” he said. “We took so many fans down there. It was great to look into the stands and see so many people in Brown sweatshirts and Brown hats.” The next opponent for the team is No. 6 University of California at Berkeley (13-2-3), who defeated No. 14 University of California at Santa Barbara (14-4-3) by a 2-1 margin in the second round. The Bears will travel across the country and play the Golden Bears next Sunday. “We’re just so excited for this part of the journey,” Walls said. “Cal is very well-respected, and they’ve played some good teams this year. But we like our chances — we like our chances against anybody.” Ahead of the team’s trip to California, the co-captain went back to the team mantra that the players have been following all season. “It’s just another chapter in the book,” Walls said. “We’re going to go out there and play for keeps.”

m. hockey in brief

Bruno sweeps New York teams for first time in 17 years The men’s hockey team (3-2-1, 2-1-1 ECAC) went undefeated last weekend with a 5-2 win at Colgate (27-1, 0-5-1) and a 3-2 win against Cornell (2-6, 2-4). Brown 5, Colgate 2 Forward Jack Maclellan ’12 led the Bears offensively against the Raiders with a goal and two assists. Bruno led 2-1 going into the third period and then padded its lead with three goals in the third. Goalie Mike Clemente ’12 was solid in net, making 28 saves. Brown 3, Cornell 2 Brown led the Big Red in the first period with defenseman Matt Wahl’s ’14 first career goal. Forward and captain Harry Zolnierczyk ’11 added to the lead in the second period with his third goal of the season. Cornell answered with a goal of its own five minutes later, but the Bears extended their lead, 3-1, halfway through the third period. With less than a minute remaining, Cornell scored, but it was too little, too late, and Bruno was able to hold on to the win. The weekend sweep of Colgate and Cornell is Brown’s first since 1993, according to Brown Sports Information, when Coach Brandon Whittet ’94 was a junior. The Bears will stay on the road to face No. 7 New Hampshire (6-2-3) on Tuesday, followed by a road game against No. 2 Boston University (8-1-4) on Saturday. — Garett Johnson

Nationwide, universities starting to put a price on education By Lisa Krieger San Jose Mercury News

SAN JOSE, Calif. — As tuitions climb in a still-shaky economy,

college is feeling less like Animal House and more like Career U. To prove their worth, 20 California State University campuses are leaders in a national movement to measure education in dollars

and cents, publicizing the salaries of their graduates. What’s a degree worth? It’s no longer measured by the number of days devoted to Milton, Mar xism and margaritas. New data show that the midcareer median salar y of a San Jose State University graduate is $92,900 — 21 times the current $4,440 investment for annual tuition. “Families want to see the rate of return on their investment,” said King Alexander, president of Cal State Long Beach, who with Cal State Chancellor Charles Reed is leading the campaign to measure a college degree like a mutual fund, IRA or 401(k). “Educators have always said: ‘Trust us, it’s worth it.’ Now we can say ‘Here’s the data — make up your own mind.’ We think it shows that we’re a great bargain.” It also emphasizes how some courses of study are more lucrative than others, and how some universities are even altering their curriculum to cater to the new way of measuring what a degree is worth. So far, University of California schools and Stanford University have not followed Cal State’s lead in touting graduates’ median salaries, which are compiled by the Seattle-based compensation company Payscale.com. San Jose State, UC Berkeley and Stanford grads start out somewhat even in pay — but after two decades in the work force, Berke-

ley and Stanford grads were earning significantly more — $109,000 and $119,000, compared with $92,900 for SJSU grads. With tuitions soaring, value is hard to ignore. This month, Cal State leaders adopted a two-step undergraduate fee hike that will raise tuition by a combined 15 percent by next fall. UC leaders are looking at increasing fees 8 percent for next school year. So, borrowing a page from Consumer Reports, the campuses seek to prove what they’re worth. For star ters: College grads earn 1.8 times the average salar y earned by those with only a high school

WORLD & NATION diploma, and 2.5 times more than high school dropouts, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. “Earnings are one of the real outcomes you can measure,” Cal State’s Alexander said. “And with high earnings come many other things. Graduates are good taxpaying citizens. Their homes are less likely to go into foreclosure. They read more. They have more leisure time, and contribute to their communities. There are huge spillover effects.” Many universities have resisted using graduates’ salaries as a measure of “educational outcome.” However, Cal State took the lead, in 2008 becoming the first and only university system in the nation to publish its graduates’

salar y data. It’s available on a website launched after a federal commission called on colleges to do a better job of measuring and publicizing students’ academic success. Now other public schools are following Cal State’s example. Within the next six months, 300 public universities will post salar y information compiled by PayScale. com. The data — which only include graduates with bachelor’s degrees — show that students with the greatest “return on investment” are those who do well in technical majors, such as science or engineering, at a rigorous public school. For instance, graduates of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo earn just as much as graduates of the private Pomona College or University of Southern California — at less than half the cost. And the top 10 percent of students from Fresno State earn as much as midlevel students from Stanford, said Al Lee, director of quantitative analysis at PayScale.com. Some schools are even changing their course catalog. In Michigan, where the recession hit early and hard, Michigan State eliminated majors in American classics, and the University of Michigan created 100 new courses in entrepreneurship. Minnesota’s state colleges distribute colorful graphics that list how many students continued on page 13

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Monday, November 22, 2010

Crime log: dorm trash cart, Hillel-owned computer stolen The following summary includes a selection of major incidents reported to the Department of Public Safety between Oct. 28 and Nov. 6. 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 Office 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. Oct. 28 12:08 p.m. Student reported that she left her Graduate Center room at 11:40 a.m. When she returned to her room at noon she noticed that her laptop was missing. She stated that her suite door was propped at the time of the incident and her room door was open. 3:45 p.m. Student reported he left his Grad Center room at 10 a.m. to go to class. When he returned his laptop was missing. The door to his room was left unlocked. His suitemate also reported a laptop theft earlier in the day. 3:45 p.m. Employee stated that

Harvey Mudd beats out Princeton, Stanford continued from page 12 pass professional licensing exams. “Most parents don’t say, ‘Here’s $200,000, do whatever you want.’ There’s a utilitarian streak,” Lee said. “They ask, quite reasonably, ‘Will my child earn enough to make it worthwhile?’ “ The highest-earning college graduates in the U.S. come from Har vey Mudd College, surpassing Har vard, Princeton and Stanford. This fact is attributed to its heavy focus on math, science and engineering — as well as a strong alumni base in Southern California, where salaries are high. Students with the lowest “return on investment” are those who go into debt to finance a private education, then pursue nonlucrative careers like theater, he said. Even worse are those who never graduate.

she left the Grad Center office on Friday, Oct. 22 at 5 p.m. and believed that the office was secured and the alarm was activated. Upon her arrival back to the office on Monday at 8 a.m. other employees reported that a bowl and a plant were taken. Oct. 31 2:24 a.m. Student at 100 Waterman Street reported that while he and his roommate were out some unknown person entered their apartment and stole an iPod, watch and backpack. The roommate came back to the apartment to find the front door dead bolted from the inside and a side door that is normally locked, unlocked. A tall white male subject was seen leaving the area shortly before, but may have come from another apartment. No damage was done to either door. A few other items that the reporting party kept in his room were found in a plastic bag in the kitchen. Providence police took a report. 12:18 p.m. Student stated that her bicycle was stolen from the bicycle rack in Keeney Quadrangle. She had her bicycle locked with a Kryptonite brand lock and last used the bike Oct. 28. Nov. 3

10:32 p.m. Student reported that she was in her off campus apartment when she heard a noise coming from the back of the apartment. She proceeded to the back of the apartment and observed an unknown male at the window. At first she thought it was a roommate and called out his name. The unknown male then fled the area. Providence Police were dispatched also and found the area to be clear. Nov. 5 9:37 p.m. Student at the OlneyMargolies Athletic Center stated he was playing basketball from approximately 6 to 10:30 p.m. and had left his belongings near the sideline. He stated he left a black iPod in his jeans. When he returned to get his belongings he noticed that his iPod was missing. Nov. 6 3:57 a.m. A Providence Police officer informed a Brown Police officer that he was dispatched to 185 Angell Street and spoke with two Brown student complainants. They stated they returned home and found they had left the front door of their residence unsecured. They stated that an unknown subject(s) gained access to a first floor bedroom by breaking in the door, and a

laptop was stolen. They also stated an unknown subject(s) gained access into a second floor bedroom, by breaking in the door, and a laptop was stolen. The PPD officer stated he did observe the damage to both doorways. He filed a Providence Police report documenting the incident. Nov. 9 12:33 p.m. Brown student reported that he found the passenger window of his vehicle smashed and the iPod that was left on the front seat was missing. Nov. 11 5:45 p.m. A research associate reported the radio stolen from her vehicle. There were no signs of forced entry into the vehicle. Nov. 12 8:50 a.m. Custodial supervisor reported between 9 a.m. Oct. 11 and 7 a.m. Oct. 12 person(s) unknown took the large, gray-colored trash cart from Olney House. Nov. 15 10:24 a.m. Reporting party reported that on Oct. 29 at 2 p.m. he left his duffel bag unattended on the OMAC basketball court while he was playing basketball. At 3 p.m.

Spacecraft provides look at comet By Amina Khan Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Hours after the Deep Impact space probe flew within about 435 miles of comet Hartley 2 Thursday morning, images beamed back to Earth revealed a body shaped rather like a peanut or an overturned bowling pin, with two bulbous, roughened edges and a smooth band in between.

WORLD & NATION The images coming in were “just amazing,” team scientist Jessica Sunshine of the University of Maryland said in a news conference. The collection of ice and debris that make up a comet are thought to be leftovers from the solar system’s early development, when the planets were still coalescing, said astronomer Michael A’Hearn of the University of Maryland, the mission’s principal investigator. Thus, learning about their composition could help reveal what our early solar system looked like. The fly-by was only the fifth time

a spacecraft has had such an upclose and personal look at a comet — and each of those encounters has provided new information, the scientists said. Hartley 2 was not the spacecraft’s original target. The Deep Impact spacecraft, operated by engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge in Southern California, shot an 820-pound copper impactor into the comet Tempel 1 five years ago in an effort to determine its composition. After the mission was completed, NASA officials decided to send the intact spacecraft to another comet. Hartley 2 was chosen because its small size — it’s total volume is about 100 times smaller than that of Tempel 1 — and its propensity to shoot out relatively large amounts of gas and dust made it quite different from other closely observed comets. Scientists have been observing Hartley 2 for several weeks, and it has already surprised researchers by spitting out cyanide for eight days. What may have caused the outburst remains a mystery.

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when he was leaving the basketball court he noticed that his bag was missing. Nov. 16 8:43 a.m. Student at Lincoln Field stated that the girl’s rugby team was practicing. Before she joined the practice she left her backpack approximately 20 yards away on the grass. At 8:30 a.m. after she was done practicing, she went back to get her backpack and noticed it missing. 11:43 a.m. Reporting party stated that he left a study room on the first floor of Brown/RISD Hillel at approximately 11 a.m. for a meeting elsewhere in the building. He left his Hillel-owned computer in the study with the door unlocked and open. Upon his return to the room at approximately 11:40 a.m. he discovered the computer missing. 1:15 p.m. Repor ting person stated she locked her bicycle on the bike rack in front of J. Walter Wilson on Nov. 4 at 12:30 p.m. She said she double-checked her cable lock to make sure it was secured. On Nov. 15 at 10 p.m., she noticed her bicycle was missing. However, the bicycle lock was locked to the bike rack.

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Monday, November 22, 2010 | Page 15

Capitalism: a fairly ugly story BY Lorraine Nicholson Opinions Columnist We’ve all seen “You’ve Got Mail”… No? The masterful romantic comedy about Internetlove circa 1998? Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks’ reunion hit after “Sleepless in Seattle”? Well, for those who haven’t had the pleasure, the plot is quite simple. Meg Ryan owns a charming children’s bookstore called “The Shop Around the Corner.” Tom Hanks is opening up a Fox Books “Superstore” (in the style of Barnes & Noble), promising to push Meg Ryan out of business. By way of the Internet romance, they fall in love. And, while Meg Ryan has to close down her family-owned shop, no hard feelings are exchanged. After all, she ends up marrying a handsome millionaire. Unfortunately for Ms. Young and her eponymous salon, Forever Young Nail Care, life is not a Nora Ephron movie. Located directly across Thayer Street, E-nails, a salon offering nearly identical services, opened for business in the fall of 2010. Young’s business was hit hard. On hearing about the opening of the salon, she described, “I was surprised. Oh no, not good. I have to work. If I don’t work, I don’t make money… We don’t want to pay for rent only, we want to support our families.” Young, who hails from Vietnam, works side-by-side with her two employees: her sister-in-law and another close personal friend. Located in the basement of 224 Thayer

Street, the salon has a comfortable, familyowned business vibe, with playful wallpaper and state-of-the-art spa chairs. Young offers manicures, pedicures and friendly conversation, all for a bargain. She says she gives special rates to students because, “I have fun with the kids. Makes my mind feel younger.” While Young knows little about the owner of E-nails, she knows he has owned numerous businesses in the past. According to Young, his reputation in the nail-salon business was set. He would, “build, then sell. Build, then sell.” After hearing about E-nails,

remains largely upbeat, tears come to her eyes when she reflects upon the state of her two college-aged children. She explains, “I support my family. My husband died 20 years ago. My daughter goes to college. It’s all very expensive. I am really sad because my daughter has had to get a job. She works herself to pay rent, because she knows I don’t do well anymore.” There is a lesson to be learned here, and it isn’t necessarily a socialist one. I am not here to knock capitalism or call for city planning. Instead, I wish to highlight the impor-

With the coming of Chipotle and perhaps a future onslaught of corporate food-stops, we must remember to support our local, family-run businesses. Young claims to have reached out to him, saying, “I’m not jealous, but if you open this business, we will both get hurt. If he really wants to have a business in this location, he can buy the business from me. I don’t like to fight… He didn’t listen.” And now, they’re both suffering for it. Young says, “I can tell, he don’t do good either.” The problem, Young describes, is when she is busy. She tells me, “You come, I’m busy, you’ll come back. Now, you go across the street. That’s the problem. And it’s a problem for both of us.” While Young’s attitude, in spite of things,

tant role we as Brown students play in the local economy. Young puts it best by saying, “Really, thank you to the kids. They’re very loyal. I need more support. I really need more support.” As members of the Brown community and key constituents of the surrounding Providence economy, we must accept our role as economic deciders. With the coming of Chipotle and perhaps a future onslaught of corporate food-stops, we must remember to support our local, family-run businesses. Realistically speaking, Thayer Street draws its charm from these very individuals. Imag-

ine our Thayer without the characters of TeaLuxe, the kind ladies at Spice or the cyclers at Nice Slice. Perhaps we don’t realize, but it is these very people who make up our college experience. It would be a pity to lose this colorful group, so indicative of our own multifaceted identity at Brown. Lastly and most importantly, in the big picture of our future lives, we must remember to buy responsibly and support companies that align with our own moral compasses. This means supporting those businesses that make an effort to reduce their ecological footprint, sponsor charitable organizations and strive to positively impact the global community at large. Perhaps you’re not passionate enough to go out and protest in the name of the environment or your community. That’s understandable. But I believe people, by and large, underestimate their own ability to change the world around them. Bad corporations survive because the consumers support them. The American public needs to make an effort to know the source of their products and harshly judge the company in question. As for Young, she assures me there is no need to worry. She affirms, “As I told you, I won’t give up. I am tired. I have headaches, stress… but I won’t give up.” As Meg Ryan suggests in “You’ve Got Mail,” we must save the shop around the corner.

Lorraine Nicholson ’12.5 is a literary arts concentrator from Los Angeles, Calif. She can be contacted at Lorraine_Nicholson@brown.edu.

Liberal education, trending BY Sissi Sun Opinions Columnist As students finish pre-registration for Spring 2011, once again some popular liberal arts classes, such as VISA 0100: “Studio Foundation,” are quickly filling up. As the popularity of these courses shows Brown students’ general enthusiasm for a liberal education, it might be exciting for the entire community to know that many liberal arts classes are attracting more students from groups previously stereotyped as science concentrators. For instance, the number of Chinese international students to jump out of their circle of stereotypical concentrations has been increasing in recent years. Before then, most of the courses they took were in the departments of applied mathematics, computer science, economics, mathematics, physics or some combination of the five. Among the 2013 and 2014 graduating classes, however, more students from Chinese high schools are taking courses and planning to concentrate in areas including comparative literature, psychology, history and modern culture and media. Following the liberal education ideal, a friend of mine tried out for a play despite her heavy commitments in an investment-related student group and wearisome search for a summer banking internship. This is certainly good news for a school that endorses a liberal education for the very purpose of getting everyone to explore the diversity of academia as well as its depth. At Brown, we try to let all students explore and experience classes that interest them, challenge them or inspire them, whether as

whole disciplines or particular perspectives within disciplines, that they might hardly venture into otherwise. Before I transferred to Brown, I spent two years at Northwestern University as a hardcore journalism major at the Medill School of Journalism. At Northwestern, one of those universities where the undergraduates are divided by academic departments upon their admission, the encouragement for a liberal arts education speaks louder on the school’s website than in reality. Classes at some schools are nearly impossible to get into for the students outside that school, but one can always “transfer from

fixed curriculum that allows for no course selection freedom, they might not stand on the same ground as others in understanding the benefits of a liberal arts education. The lack of exposure itself stands as a potential barricade for some students. And that is why we appreciate that Brown has preserved the Open Curriculum concept, so that the University eliminates as much red tape on its own part as possible. As a result of this and many other factors, a liberality-endorsing culture exists to encourage pro-liberal education trends like the one happening to the Chinese student population. I once talked to Associate Professor of

At Brown, we try to let all students explore and experience classes that interest them, challenge them or inspire them from some disciplines or some particular perspectives within a discipline that they might hardly venture into otherwise. one school to another,” as they say there. But in order to do that, a student will have to fill out forms and obtain signatures from an important and hardly available dean, yet still may not be guaranteed a space unless he or she takes and excels at some of the basic courses required by the new school. When such processes exist at any college, students usually get the message, despite what the administration claims. Many obstacles lie between students and the liberal education ideal. For those students from a pre-college education with a

Applied Mathematics Govind Menon about Brown versus other colleges. He said each year he sees quite a few students deeply dedicated to science or economics. They knew what they wanted to do before they came to Brown, and they take only those classes that fulfill those concentrations. Often, they find schools like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or the University of Chicago might get them closer to what they want to do than Brown will. In this case, Brown might not be the best fit for them, as they are not making use of any of the liberal part of

Brown’s curriculum. But that is particularly why Brown must endorse liberal arts ideals and welcome everyone to them. Not everyone appreciated those ideals when they came, but the community at Brown believes that everyone should experience liberal education and can come to benefit from it. There has hardly been a college that gives greater freedom in building one’s own education than Brown. We respect the existing differences in the demographics of the candidates for some concentrations. At the same time, we encourage accessibility for all, in an effort to get a well-balanced composition of students across concentrations, as well as each individual student’s balance in the education. Does cultural segregation across concentrations exist? It might, and might continue to, despite current trends and the community’s push to lessen the boundaries between and among concentrations. But it is certainly a breakthrough for Brown’s liberal education campaign that more Chinese students are trying to throw aside some habitual thinking and instead go for what they really find passion in, like trying out for a play or concentrating in comparative literature. It does not matter that some may try and fail. The point is that our community as a whole keeps encouraging exploration, so that more and more students coming to Brown from any part of the world will explore those fields that they might not even think of, nor have the opportunity to venture into elsewhere.

Sissi Sun ’12 is a theater and mathematical economics concentrator from Chicago. She can be reached at siqi_sun@brown.edu.

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