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Students head to Boston, rally for tomato pickers BOSTON — Joining a crowd of almost 1,000, more than two dozen Brown students traveled to Massachusetts on Sunday to protest the low wages and poor working conditions of Florida tomato pickers in the “March to Stop Sweatshops.”

The march, organized by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the national Student/Farmworker Alliance, kicked off an East Coast tour that goes through March 5.

The protest began with a rally in Copley Square in downtown Boston. “The food movement and the workers’ rights movement cannot be separate,” one speaker said to the crowd.

Brown’s relationship with the coalition dates back to the early 1990s, when Greg Asbed ’85 and

News in brief Diddy tweet hints at Spring Weekend appearance Yes, Diddy did it.

His Sunday evening tweet, announcing an upcoming show on campus, may have broken the traditional code of silence surrounding the Spring Weekend lineup.

“I can’t say when but I can say we are coming to BROWN UNIVERSITY!!!! Dates Announced Tomorrow!!!! Let’s go!!!” reads the rapper and media mogul’s Twitter feed.

Despite rumors sparked by the tweet, the Brown Concert Agency declined to comment on the event’s lineup.

Diddy, a rapper and producer, previously known as Puff Daddy and P. Diddy, released an album last March entitled “Last Train to Paris” with his band Dirty Money.

The album was his first since 2006.

BCA organizes April’s Spring Weekend as well as a number of smaller events each spring semester. Headlining acts for the Spring Weekend concerts are traditionally kept secret until the official BCA announcement about a month prior to festivities.

The full lineup will be announced in “a couple of weeks,” said Abby Schreiber ’11, BCA’s booking chair.

Last year’s Spring Weekend lineup was announced March 10.

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Laura Germino ’84 helped found the group, said Kate Cielinski ’12, who has worked with the organization since last year. The coalition, based in Immokalee, Fla., was formed in 1993 to fight the sub-poverty wages, violence and abuse the workers are subjected to. The organization’s work has led to an agreement by many major chains — including Subway, Whole Foods Market and Taco Bell — to pay one more penny per pound for tomatoes and sign code of conduct agreements.

The coalition’s next step was to start the Campaign for Fair Food, which targets supermarkets such as Stop and Shop. “If management of Stop and Shop decides they will pay a penny a pound, they’ll be able to influence Ahold,” Cielinski said.

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Students joined protesters in Boston to launch the Campaign for Fair Food.

Mande rhythms ring through campus

By Kristina Fazzalaro Arts & Culture Editor

The pounding rhythms of bare feet echo throughout the small studio, the thunderous beats heightened by the driving pulse of Malian drumming and the dancers’ exuberant energy as they twist, jump and clap to the music’s commands. “Ka Mali Don” — the 2011 Festival of Mande Performance and Social Engagement — celebrated Malian culture,

dance and activism Friday and Saturday in Ashamu Dance Studio.

In addition to dynamic musical and dance performances and workshops, this year’s “African Per-

Arts & Culture formance Weekend” incorporated discussions on Mali’s culture. The festival, sponsored by the Department of Theater Arts and Performance Studies, also encouraged

students and attendees to discuss social, political and health issues surrounding Mali through volunteering and donation.

Cherif Keita gave the keynote lecture — “Locating Mande Performance on the Global Stage” — to an intimate gathering composed mainly of students from TAPS 1280T: “Contemporary Mande Performance” on Saturday. Mande continued on page 4

The body of Denis Chartier, an assistant coach of the women’s soccer team, was found Saturday morning inside his parked car in a commuter lot near Route 395 in Griswold, Conn., according to the Providence Journal. Chartier was last seen by his family Feb. 6. He was reported missing to the Burrillville Police Feb. 7.

“There was no evidence of criminal activity,” wrote Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services, in an e-mail to the Brown community yesterday.

The Burrillville Police and the Connecticut State Police were not available for comment Sunday.

Women’s soccer Head Coach Phil Pincince and members of the team did not return requests for comment.

“Denis was a valued member of the Brown community for more than 15 years. He will be remembered for his commitment to coaching and for his many contributions to soccer, athletics and campus life,” Klawunn wrote.

Chartier coached the women’s soccer team for 16 seasons, according to the athletics department.

Bears light up Quinnipiac 13-4 in season opener By ethan mccoy Assistant Sports Editor

The men’s lacrosse team (1-0) started its 2011 campaign Saturday with a statement win. The Bears jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first quarter and never looked back in a commanding 13-4 victory over Quinnipiac (0-1) at Meister-Kavan Field.

Sports “I’m really pleased with the energy we brought today and the excitement we played this game with,” said Head Coach Lars Tiffany ’90. “Watching our execution, there are certainly many places where we can be sharper. … But for February lacrosse — the first game, the first part of the season — I’m pleased with the energy level

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that we brought and the execution that we had in the transition game.”

“I thought it was a pretty good team effort,” said attacker Parker Brown ’12, who scored four goals on the day. “I think it speaks to our defense first. Middies played well on the defensive end and in transition. Overall, I think it was a pretty solid performance.”

Parker Brown also assisted on three other scoring plays to give him a seven-point day. And Captain Andrew Feinberg ’11 helped spearhead the Bears’ attack with four goals of his own.

“It’s very nice to see your work pay off,” Parker Brown said. “I had a lot of easy goals today. By that, I mean that my teammates made it easy. I was on the doorstep for continued on page 5

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Andrew Feinberg ’11 scored four times in Brown’s 13-4 victory over Quinnipiac.

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Events celebrate Cape Verdean culture

By Lindor Qunaj Senior Staff Writer

As nearly 100 guests trickled into Sayles Hall and sampled exotic Cape Verdean cuisine Friday evening, a live band added to the flavor with traditional music from the island nation. The event opened the Third World Center’s Cape Verdean Heritage Weekend, which featured a screening of two documentaries and a presentation on Cape Verdean immigrants in Providence.

“I think the best way to teach people about our culture is to surround them with it,” said Samantha Deandrade ’12, a Cape Verdean and one of the TWC’s student programmers.

The laid-back convocation, titled “Nos Terra, Nos Raiz,” began with a

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keynote address by first-generation Cape Verdean Ana Novais, the executive director of the Rhode Island Department of Health’s Division of Community, Family Health and Equity.

The music and festivities were temporarily put on hold while Novais spoke about her cultural background, the social and environmental determinants of health and racial inequality in the American health care system. “We cannot fully enjoy the freedom and democracy we have in the U.S. if we don’t have our health,” she said.

To provide an example of health care inequality, Novais shared a story about her experience in a Rhode Island hospital emergency room.

Her son had broken his arm and needed immediate care, but the

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hospital was unnecessarily slow to respond because, according to Novais, the staff saw her as “the black woman with dirty clothes and an accent.” But when she showed the nurse her badge from the Department of Health, the chief executive officer of the hospital came to apologize and, from that moment, Novais said she “was treated as a queen.”

Her speech — which received a standing ovation — was followed by a Cape Verdean dance performed by the troupe Groupu Kola Sao Joao to conclude the event.

The festival, which has been an annual University tradition since 1995, is designed to “build awareness of the Cape Verdean presence both on campus and in the greater community,” Deandrade said. Funding and support for the weekend-long cultural celebration came from various sources, including the TWC, the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and the Undergraduate Council of Students.

Claire Andrade-Watkins, a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, showed her documentary “Cape Verdean Pioneers” in the festival on Sunday before the screening of a second film, which told the story of George Lima ’48, a Cape Verdean who defied long odds by becoming a black aviator in the mid-20th century. Lima, a lifelong political activist, attended the screening.

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New Bookstore return policy proves efficient

By Daniel Sack Contributing Writer

Under the Brown Bookstore’s new return policy, students returned fewer textbooks, with higher return rates earlier in the semester.

Students returned $54,000 more in textbooks to the Bookstore this January than last. But compared to last February, the Bookstore suffered $172,000 less in returns this month, meaning fewer students were returning books at the end of shopping period.

“There was a huge change in overall buying and returns,” said Steven Souza, director of Bookstore administration.

Starting this semester, students had three days to return books after buying them. The only exceptions were made for books from classes students dropped, for which the deadline was held until last Wednesday. This semester’s deadline to return books without dropping a class was Feb. 8.

Under the old policy, students could return any books — regardless of whether they dropped the classes that required them — within the first two weeks of the semester.

Many students would buy books from the Bookstore while they waited for their online orders to come in, Souza said, making the Bookstore a sort of “lending library.”

Because students were essentially borrowing books, the Bookstore would run low on certain texts, prompting it to order more to meet student demand — only to accept those books back two weeks later.

“There’s repacking costs,” Souza said. “Some vendors don’t buy the books back. The long and short of it was that it was crushing our financial model.”

The new policy was adopted to ensure that the Bookstore could break even while still providing the more than 70,000 titles for Brown’s course offerings, he said. Aside from small tweaks, the policy will likely stay the same for next semester.

“The one thing we would never

touch is shopping period,” Souza said. “This is one of the things that makes this institution what it is.

The revision policy did not touch that at all.”

The Bookstore also began renting textbooks this semester, in line with what Souza said is a trend at other college bookstores. The rental system allowed the Bookstore to offer some of its merchandise at a price lower than it could for used books, meaning that the Bookstore could be more competitive.

Whether the Bookstore will benefit in the long run from the rental policy is still unclear, Souza said.

The Bookstore must rent a book several times before recouping its costs, and nobody can say how many copies of a book the store would have sold had the title not been rentable. While the Bookstore’s supplies of some books were rented out completely, the store was only able to rent 30 to 40 percent of other texts, he said.

“We’re very happy with the results,” Souza said. “I’m confident we’ll offer even more. I’m confident it will be an even bigger program come September.”

Student opinion about the policy change was mixed. Laurie Schleimer ’12 said she was frustrated but understood where the Bookstore was coming from. “It made sense from the Bookstore’s point of view, but it was not fair for the students because it takes more than three days to know if you want to take a class,” Schleimer said.

Along the same lines, Kerri Horvay ’14 said she thought the policy made it harder for her to shop classes but that she understood why the store changed its policy.

Still, others were not as understanding.

“I feel like there’s a lot of aspects of Brown that are already expensive,” said Benjamin Gellman ’14. “(The new policy) kind of reinforced the idea that the school’s trying to suck all the money out of my pocket… I think the Bookstore’s screwing us over.”

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Hoping to improve working conditions for tomato farmworkers, protesters congegrated at a Boston Stop and Shop.

Students march against supermarket continued from page 1 Ahold, an international supermarket conglomerate.

The speeches and music performances included words of encouragement and prayers in both Spanish and English.

Spirits ran high despite the cold weather. “We have the sun in our hearts,” a speaker shouted to the crowd.

After the rally, participants

marched two miles from Copley Square to the Stop and Shop store at Brigham Circle. During the march, people danced, played drums and sang in Spanish and English. Once the protesters reached Stop and Shop, their most popular chant was “Stop and Shop, shame on you — farmworkers deserve rights, too!”

“This is just the beginning. We will be back,” one protester told the crowd.

“It was exciting to see people

from all around the region mobilized with a focused target,” said Haley Kossek ’13, a member of the Student Labor Alliance. The protesters were from all demographics — college students, workers and parents with toddlers walked side by side.

“As consumers, (students) have a vital role to play in this whole thing,” Cielinski said. “We have the ability to demand highest ethical standards.”

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Dual Degree show embraces dichotomies

By Katrina Phillips Contributing Writer

“Anisotropy: The Third Annual Brown/RISD Dual Degree Show” guides visitors through a world of harmonious opposites — the modern and the antique, the cheery and the gloomy, the flat and the textured. A walk through the Brown-RISD Hillel gallery offers a rare glimpse into the work and lives of the students who straddle the boundary between Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design.

The exhibit explores the concept of being directionally dependent. Lukas Bentel’s ’14 sculpture “Violinist” — the largest and most noticeable work — uses striking pieces of welded metal in black and red to give a sense of limitless directions. Other drawings and paintings play on this idea in more subtle and figurative ways.

Opposite Bentel’s work in the entryway stand two fashion designs, “Jetsons Romper”

by Caitrin Watson ’13 and “ReInnovative Project” by Colin MacGregor ’13. Watson’s design is retro-futuristic in black and blue with a pattern from the old Jetsons cartoon. MacGregor’s uses recycled materials to create a warm-colored, flowery ensemble complete with petal-covered heels. The two outfits use shape to achieve a unique style, embodying a subtler theme of balance between opposites more than the overt thematic title.

Nature-inspired works like the row of chestnut pods by Lizzie Kripke ’13 face more industrial pieces like Kevin Wiesner’s ’14 small metal sculpture depicting a sinister winged figure. Wiesner’s piece is somewhat ironically titled “Angel.”

A multimedia exhibit, “Anisotropy” displays works that use means including marble sculp-

ture, animated video, weaving and painting.

Bright, colorful paintings are juxtaposed with monochrome charcoal drawings, like Rachel Himes’s ’14 drawing of Sayles Hall. Himes described her piece as a “unification of an art form I work with at RISD and a space I love at Brown.” She said she was happy the exhibit allowed her to see work from upperclassmen that she does not normally have the opportunity to see. Allison Wong ’14 agreed, saying “I don’t really know everyone in the other years really personally.”

“The intention of the theme was to show how everyone in the program is taking their individual education in such a different way,” Wong said.

Much like the students themselves, the works manage to embrace many directions successfully, without creating a disjointed or out-of-place atmosphere.

Several students employed the idea of dichotomous balance within their works. David Borgonjon ’13 literally merged two identities into one in “My Sister’s Face and My Face,” which consists of two images woven together inextricably. Josephine Devanbu ’14 captured two ideas in one in her diptych “The Myth of Sisyphus,” which depicts first an ominous view down a dark flight of stairs, then a simple sine curve.

Kseniya Konovalova ’13 said the works themselves and the overall creativity were more important than the suggested theme.

She also submitted a diptych, saying she likes the idea of “two pieces kind of combining to be one.”

The exhibit will run until March 18.

The exhibit presents great creative variety.

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Mash-up musician Girl Talk performed Friday in a show that featured a spectacle of lights, confetti and toilet paper.

Girl Talk mashes, openers bore

By Emma Wohl Senior Staff Writer

Playing to a packed crowd at Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel Friday night, Girl Talk captivated the audience by pressing buttons and twisting knobs.

But first, two opening performers provided a counterexample to Girl Talk’s appeal. Junk Culture, a duo on drums and a synthesizer, and solo artist Max Tundra took Girl Talk’s basic concept of unconventional mash-ups a little further.

Junk Culture’s sound was a mix between mashed-up samplings and his own vocals, which ended up sounding like bad karaoke.

Tundra also sang, but, by the time he launched into his rendition of “Single Ladies,” it was pretty clear that his set was as much of a joke to him as to the audience.

“He really doesn’t have much to do,” one audience member remarked. “He’s just pressing play.”

The lack of activity gave him time for some truly bizarre dance moves.

Some audience members danced through both perfor-

mances, but there was a definite feeling of awkwardness. Many people used the opening sets as a chance to snap pictures in the club’s cushioned alcoves.

With Girl Talk about to start, the mood changed palpably. Even before he took to the stage, the crowd gathered toward the front of the packed hall.

Before he came out, Girl Talk had the audience shouting his name, and he kept fans waving their hands and singing along the whole time.

Part of Girl Talk’s allure is his production values. The show began with an almost blinding flash of lights, both from spotlights overhead and from a wall of bulbs behind him.

The spectacle kept up for the hour and a half that he was on stage. The crowd was showered with balloons, confetti and water, as toilet paper sprayed out of leaf blowers.

Song choices ranged from accessible pop hits to classics like the Ramones, Bon Jovi and Stevie Wonder to indie darlings like Phoenix. He paired Kelly Clarkson with Lil Wayne, Peter Bjorn and

John with Akon.

“This show is already, like, five times as long as the last time I played here,” he told the audience shortly before the end. The comment met some of the loudest cheers of the night.

A crowd of audience members brought up from the audience shortly before the beginning of the set danced alongside Girl Talk on the stage. Others tried to get onto the stage later and were turned away by bouncers.

There was some confusion over the finale. The tune of John Lennon’s “Imagine” was enhanced with a throbbing bass beat while a shower of balloons rained down from the ceiling.

But in the ensuing silence, most of the audience stayed where they were. No one was sure whether or not they should leave, including the performer.

“We’ve been trying to end the shows by dumping a bunch of balloons on your head,” he said.

“I guess the show’s over, but now the after-party can begin,” he announced after a moment’s hesitation. Then he launched into another 10 minutes of music.

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Artwork by Brown-RISD students is on display at the Hillel gallery until March 18.

refers to several Western African ethnic groups.

Michelle Bach-Coulibaly, senior lecturer in theater, speech and dance and artistic director of the festival, introduced Keita. The festival is about the “intersection of performance and service to Africa,” she said.

Keita discussed the country’s history of performance and the role of Malian identity in shaping artists, such as Salif Keita, who he described as “one of the most beautiful voices of Mali and Africa.”

“I am speechless,” he said. “The energy I’ve felt in this room … and this campus about Mali … I’m happy and honored to bring my small contribution to Brown.”

Keita began his talk with a discussion on language, explaining that he would be using many

Malian words throughout the talk so that they could “really understand the culture, understand the language,” he said. He even passed out a glossary of useful terms to students.

The Mande people believe while one is born a person, one develops a personhood — an identity known as a togo, Keita explained. The togo is in constant contention with the jamu, or clan name, which each person inherits.

“Your ears are older than yourself,” Keita said. “The ears can hear things that come from way back.” It is this legacy which defines people until they attain their togo, their personal renown. Their togo then becomes part of the next generation’s jamu from which they can hear and learn.

“That’s how society evolves — a spiral that goes up,” he said.

He also discussed the role of the

hero in Malian culture, the duality of action and speech, the role of women and family and dance’s position in society.

“Dance is really something of nature,” he said. “Dankili, the word for song, means ‘a call to dance.’ It is accessible to everyone, a part of life.”

Keita’s warm, passionate speech was rich in its explanations and entertaining in his playful, upbeat interactions with the audience.

The crowd cheered as he wound down. His warm thanks and encouragements to the students and department members interspersed with applause. He jokingly capped off his talk, “I hope you all come to Mali one day because maybe everything I told you was lies.”

Laughter carried workshop participants to their afternoon classes, where Malian percussionists and dancers brought Keita’s words to life on the dance floor.

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W. hoops downs Big Green in final minute continued from page 8 and a free throw, putting her team up, 11-8. At 5:06, the Bears had a four-point advantage, the biggest lead either team held in the entire half. At the end of 20 minutes, Dartmouth had retaken the lead, 22-19.

Breaking the cycle of slow second halves, the Bears exploded after the break, scoring 14 points in the first eight minutes. But Dartmouth scored 11 points, keeping the game tied, 33-33. The teams continued to trade leads, and with only 1:22 remaining, the Big Green held a one-point advantage.

“They hit big shots, and we would answer,” Nickel said. “They

were playing for their seniors, and we just hung with them in the end.”

In the final minutes, Dixon took charge. She hit a three-pointer at the one-minute mark, following it up with a steal and breakaway layup to give Bruno the advantage.

At the buzzer, Dartmouth guard Meghan McFee hit a three, but it wasn’t enough for the Big Green.

Dixon was on fire Saturday night. She put up a game and career-high 22 points and 14 rebounds. Co-captain Aileen Daniels ’12 and guard Lauren Clarke ’14 each added 10 points for the Bears.

The team will return home to face Cornell (6-20, 3-9) and Columbia (5-19, 4-6) at the Pizzitola Center to close out the season.

Feinberg ’11, Brown ’12 score four each for M. lax continued from page 1 most of my goals, and it’s pretty easy when you’re two yards away.”

Goalie Matt Chriss ’11 was a wall behind the Brown defense.

The senior made a number of nifty stops and allowed only three goals while registering 14 saves.

“Somebody could look at the final score and think, ‘Oh, Brown had this game in hand from start to finish,’” Tiffany said. “But we all know it was because Matt Chriss just was not letting anything go in the game. He played like a senior. He played like how well he’s practiced.”

The Bears were all over the Bobcats from the start. Feinberg opened the scoring with an unassisted goal on a wraparound finish from behind the cage. The senior attacker added another in the first frame, Parker Brown put home two more and David Hawley ’11 scored a fifth, giving the Bears a 5-0 advantage by the end of the first quarter.

In the second quarter, midfielder Alex Jones ’13 stretched the Bears’ lead to 6-0 on an unassisted goal and, after Quinnipiac finally got on the board, Parker Brown scored his third of the day to lead the squad into halftime with a comfortable 7-1 lead.

Both sides traded scores in the third quarter, but the Bears added five more goals in the fourth to put the game out of reach.

Twenty seconds into the final quarter, Parker Brown found attacker George Sherman ’13 from behind the cage for a score. After

Billy Alessi scored for Quinnipiac, the Bears went up 10-3 on a brilliant captain-to-captain scoring play. Peter Fallon ’11 intercepted a clearance pass around midfield before charging downfield into the Bobcats’ half and dumping the ball off to a wide-open Feinberg for an easy finish. At the final whistle, the Bears had gotten every player into the game, and the scoreboard read 13-4.

“If you win and everyone gets a chance to play, it’s obviously the reward for an athlete,” Tiffany said. “The reward is getting the chance to be there on game day and proving to your teammates that all the hard work has resulted in you becoming a better athlete and helping your team get to the next level and win games. It’s really rewarding for me as a coach that everyone had an opportunity, and they earned it.”

The Bears now have a week to prepare to travel to Amherst, Mass. for what should be a hard-fought game against out-of-conference rival University of Massachusetts at Amherst (3-0).

“We won our first game — our objective has been accomplished,” Tiffany said. “We let the guys enjoy it for 24 hours — as coaches we get to enjoy it for about three — and now we face our rival. The UMassBrown game historically was the top two teams in New England and it was always a battle.”

“It’s a great first step,” Tiffany said referring to the Quinnipiac win. “But we know we’ve got a lot of work to do to get ready to play a great UMass team.”

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Adrian Williams ‘11 led the Bears with 26 points, including seven threes, as Brown defeated Dartmouth on Senior Night.

Bruno breaks 100 points in win continued from page 8 unbelievable shooter, one of the best shooters in Brown history.”

The Bears didn’t let this one slip away, keeping pressure on the Big Green down the stretch. By the end, they had racked up 100 points for the first time since the 2003-04 season — a feat Sullivan called a “cherry on top.”

In their final game at the Pizzitola Center, the four seniors all contributed in their own way. Wil-

liams lead the team in points and Sullivan grabbed a team-high 11 rebounds and scored 17 points.

Taylor, who has struggled with injuries this season, added four rebounds in 18 minutes, and Leffelman scored 11 points on fourof-six shooting.

“Some guys react differently” to Senior Night, Sorrentine said.

“They’ve put in so much time in this gym, so to play here one last time, you just want to make sure they’re loose. We’ve got a great

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bunch of seniors, and that class has been great leaders.”

Though the four upperclassmen received a standing ovation as they stepped off their home court for the final time with just over four minutes left and a 22-point lead, their careers have not yet come to a close. The Bears will finish off their season with two games on the road this weekend, playing against Cornell and Columbia Friday and Saturday nights, respectively.

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Keeping everyone connected At the most recent Undergraduate Council of Students meeting, the body evaluated a new initiative that would provide alums with permanent Brown e-mail addresses even after graduation. Jake Heimark ’11 conceived of the idea and has since started working in collaboration with the alumni association, Computing and Information Services and the council’s Admission and Student Services Committee. Other universities, including Harvard, already provide such addresses to their alums. This innovative project can only further integrate the Brown community and should provide significant advantages for both alums and undergraduates.

First, and most importantly, such a policy should strengthen our alumni network and reinforce graduates’ connection to the University and fellow alums. While many graduates will presumably use other primary e-mail addresses — either personal or through their employer — the alumni e-mail address can provide a nice alternative for Brown-related e-mail content. Further, the alumni e-mail offers a stable and professional e-mail option for those in between jobs or out of work.

Many of us have more juvenile personal e-mail addresses than we might like to admit, and more than a few students have presumably been relieved to be able to use the Brown domain for fear of providing potential employers with this information. The Brown alumni e-mail tag will provide an authoritative and elegant address for those applying for jobs. Also on the employment front, an alumni address should provide graduates with even more of a leg up when applying to jobs with fellow Brown alums.

The initiative will also help undergraduate students interact with alums, particularly recent alums. Undergraduates and graduates often need to be in close communication regarding the continuation and transition of clubs and groups on campus. The alumni e-mail should also make it significantly easier for student groups to proposition graduates about lecture and speaking opportunities and help keep alums informed about events on campus.

Additionally, a uniform alumni e-mail address system can make it easier for alums to reconnect with their former classmates on a social level. As presently addicted as many of us are to Facebook and the like, it is possible that adulthood might wean us off these social networking websites. As we hear our parents wistfully reminisce about their college friends with whom they have lost contact, it is comforting to know that we can have a wide-ranging network to keep in touch with ours. Lastly, the alumni association and the University administration should certainly love this initiative. The alumni e-mail system should provide another comprehensive and easy way to solicit donations from graduates.

Ultimately, as this project continues to progress, we will be intrigued to follow its development. We hope that campus clubs and groups will be given permission to target particular alumni classes. We also hope that the University can eventually develop an extensive directory to allow graduates to search for the individuals on this alumni e-mail network. For now, though, we are heartened at a new, inventive way to maintain a strong Brown community and support system for graduates leaving College Hill for the real world.

Clarification An article in Friday’s Herald, (“ResLife: Rise in enrollment will not strain housing,” Feb. 25) stated a projected 4,796 students will need to live in on-campus housing next semester. That figure represents the number of students who do not have permission to live off campus, but does not take into account the number of students who will not need housing from the Office of Residential Life, including those studying abroad or taking leaves of absence.

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The Brown Daily Herald Monday, February 28, 2011

The new IR: better but not good enough Sarah Yu Opinions Columnist As a senior about to graduate with a bachelor of arts in international relations, the current reflections and debate surrounding the new IR concentration requirements have definitely caught my attention.

I received an invitation to the Facebook group “IR students against the new IR program” last week. I took a considerable amount of time away from doing my homework to look through the comments and concerns about an issue that no longer concerns me. I was surprised at the number of negative comments students and parents alike had towards the new concentration requirements, to the extreme of proposing a rally. I understand that many sophomores are unhappy with the vast differences these changes make to their course selection choices, and I do believe that the IR program should have made more of an effort to announce these changes before the start of this semester.

But the benefits of the new IR concentration do need to be appreciated.

The new concentration requirements are a vast improvement from the old. The program is now more structured and more rigorous, and the requirement courses are now more coherent and streamlined. I especially applaud the integration of language skills into the senior seminar or

thesis projects. It does not make sense, after all, that IR concentrators spend six semesters studying a foreign language and do not use it anywhere else in their coursework. I also give a thumbs up to eliminating the multitude of classes that are too easy or too obscure and replacing them with a solid foundation in political theory and history.

While it is wonderful that the IR program is now a more structured, more focused concentration, I am not quite con-

preciate the breadth and flexibility offered to IR students in taking courses in a multitude of disciplines and departments, the IR program essentially has no real control over whether these courses will be available to students at any given time. I am familiar with the shopping period confusion at not having any of my required courses offered that semester.

What the IR program needs is more permanent teaching faculty, guarantees that there are enough required courses

This semester, there is only one lecture course offered under the international relations course code, and all other courses are capped senior seminars. For around 300 concentrators, there are only seven classes. vinced that my main concerns as a concentrator have been addressed. I, too, have gone through several semesters of concentration requirement changes and bewilderment at the many unfocused options. In particular, my frustrations with the concentration arose mostly because of the lack of IR course requirements offered in any one semester.

The fundamental problem with the concentration requirements is that IR concentrators must fill almost their entire curriculum with courses not offered by the IR program. While I definitely ap-

for students to take each semester and a quality, relevant “homegrown” curriculum at the Watson Institute for International Studies, using Watson faculty and resources. This semester, there is only one lecture course offered under the international relations course code, and all other courses are capped senior seminars. For around 300 concentrators, there are only seven classes.

The new IR concentration requirements have not done anything to address this shortcoming — there are just as few IR classes, and the core requirements of the

IR program are just as multidisciplinary as before. Most rising juniors who declare an IR concentration find themselves never having taken a course with Watson faculty, unfamiliar with the institute’s building and with what IR is really about.

In the spirit of liberal arts and selfdriven learning, it is extremely important for younger and potential concentrators in IR to become familiar with the faculty and their work to be able to think in advance about their own academic interests.

Younger students are not likely to approach faculty or visit office hours if they had not taken classes with these professors before, and many are unaware that the many accomplished scholars with offices in the Watson Institute are actually approachable. Watson and its faculty need to be more available and friendly to younger IR concentrators and potential concentrators and make it possible for all interested students to experience the full breadth of what the Watson Institute has to offer.

International relations has definitely taken a considerable step towards vast improvement in creating a more rigorous and cohesive curriculum, but all the improvements may be undermined by the fact that the vast majority of IR concentrators are taking classes in other departments.

Sarah Yu ’11 also thinks that the IR program could seriously benefit from a core required course in world geography. She can be reached at xia_yu@brown.edu.

Rape vs. rape-rape: confronting ambivalence about sexual violence

By Sara Matthiesen Guest Columnist By now, many of us are familiar with the recent attempts by the House to legislate degrees of rape — “forcible” and otherwise — in order to further restrict the already narrow circumstances under which abortions can be federally funded. In late January, lawmakers proposed changing the term “rape” under the longstanding Hyde Amendment to “forcible rape.” While the immediate public outcry forced the House Republicans to withdraw the phrase within a matter of weeks, the “forcible rape” distinction has yet to be dropped from the so-called No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act. Meanwhile, public opposition to the bill continues, with disbelief, rage, fear and, of course, satire.

The Daily Show’s recent “rapish” segment with Kristen Schaal poked fun at the bill, revealing the concept’s inherent contradiction.

Jon Stewart feigns incredulity at Schaal’s enthusiastic support of the change in terminology as she explains the difference between rape, rape-rape, rapish and rape-esque. Stewart implores her, “Kristen, rape — all rape — is by definition forcible.” Surely Schaal should know better. Indeed, those of us watching laugh as the witty exchange unfolds precisely because we know better. But do we know, know-know or just sort of know?

That is what I found myself wondering when I came across Sam Rosenfeld’s ’12 editorial comic that mocks the GOP’s illogical rape distinction in the Feb. 16 issue of The

Herald. Much like the rapish skit, the humor of Rosenfeld’s comic depends upon a general consensus among readers — that the GOP’s politics are so absurd they are in and of themselves laughable. But the satire employed by Rosenfeld also depends upon a more implicit consensus­— that the Brown community agrees on what constitutes rape. And while the Daily Show and Rosenfeld encourage us to see the definition of rape as self-evident, it is my sense that when faced with certain scenarios, our general consensus would quickly unravel.

hind such responses — that stranger rape is the most common form of rape and that alcohol, not people, rape. And I would bet that, when asked, many students — undergraduate and graduate alike — could list these and other harmful rape myths. But beneath what has become the expected level of awareness on victim blaming dos and don’ts among those of us who supposedly know better persist responses like the ones mentioned above.

How many of us have heard accounts of acquaintance rape and refused to take sides for lack of enough information or out of fear of

The truth of the matter is that there is still widespread ambivalence about where and on whom to place blame for instances of sexual violence, particularly when such instances are colored gray.

While Schaal jokes about the “gray areas of rape,” the truth of the matter is that there is still widespread ambivalence about where, and on whom, to place blame for instances of sexual violence, particularly when such instances are colored gray. Acquaintance rape, especially when alcohol is involved, is one such instance that often elicits ambivalent responses ranging from “well, they were both equally drunk” to “we weren’t there, so we can’t really know” to “I know him, and he would never do that.”

Importantly, Brown’s literature on sexual assault and rape directly rejects the logic be-

disrupting friendships? When is the last time you stayed silent as peers expressed doubt about an assault that you knew to be true?

How many of us police one another, taking into account how many drinks someone had or if they had been leading on the perpetrator when evaluating a friend’s story of assault?

How many people on this campus felt it was easier to blame themselves than confront their perpetrator because of any number of these factors?

The persistence of this rationale on a university campus that engages often in conversations, programming and artistic produc-

tions about the politics and pleasures of sexuality and sex is not surprising. While we have been schooled in the various societal factors that make possible a culture where sexual violence is seen as inevitable and normal, there has been less discussion about how to deal with the specific difficulties that accompany acquaintance rape. We do not talk about how to maintain important social relationships during the reporting of an assault by a friend. We rarely consider ways to ensure victim support while also pursuing less punitive approaches to perpetrator accountability. We do not treat acquaintance rape as what it is — a community, not individual, issue. These are just some of the challenges that keep acquaintance rape in the so-called gray area.

In light of these challenges, it is readily apparent why attacking the GOP’s outrageous legislation with satire is a much easier task.

Still, if most of our energy and attention is spent laughing at the Right, it becomes too easy to forget that it poses a serious threat to sexual and reproductive health and freedoms.

More importantly, it makes it seem as if there is no work left to do, when in fact there is a lot to be done about how communities here respond to all forms of sexual violence that too often elicit ambivalent responses. I will be the first to admit that this is no easy task. But until we start seriously engaging these issues, we will continue to think we know better without really getting anywhere.

Sara Matthiesen is a graduate student in the Department of American Civilization.

She can be contacted at sara_matthiesen@brown.edu.

Daily Herald Sports Recap the Brown

Monday, February 28, 2011

M. Hockey

Bruno takes down Big Red with dramatic overtime win

By Garret Johnson Sports Staff Writer

The men’s hockey team defeated Cornell and Colgate to finish strong on the final weekend of the regular season. Despite the two wins, Bruno (10-14-5, 8-12-2 ECAC) fell one point short of gaining home-ice advantage for the first round of the ECAC playoffs.

But the win against Cornell (1313-3, 11-9-2) came in dramatic fashion and provided a major morale boost heading into the postseason, said captain Harry Zolnierczyk ’11.

The first period was all Bears.

The Brown offense began clicking after a Cornell penalty, when Mathieu Brisson was sent to the box for hooking at 10:05. Just 40 seconds later, Zolnierczyk broke away from the Cornell defense and took a shot from just outside the crease that sailed past Big Red goalie Andy Iles. Dennis Robertson ’14 and Chris Zaires ’13 assisted on the captain’s 13th goal of the season.

“Robertson made a good play to get the puck out in front,” Zolnierczyk said. “Once it settled, I kind of whacked at it, and it just went in.”

After an impressive penalty kill to begin the second period, Zolnierczyk and company kept the

Jonathan Bateman / Herald

Mike Clemente ’12 and the men’s hockey team swept league rivals Cornell and Colgate University Friday and Saturday nights.

pressure on. The Big Red finally succumbed to Brown’s attack when Zolnierczyk powered past the Cornell defense and leaped in the air to avoid a Cornell defender, all while maintaining control of the puck.

The captain then fired in a miraculous unassisted backhander for his second goal of the game.

“It was kind of a race for the puck, and I just turned and dodged out of the way,” Zolnierczyk said.

“That one was special.”

Head Coach Brendan Whittet ’94 praised his captain’s performance.

“What an incredible individual effort,” Whittet said. “That was one of the best goals you’ll see at any level.”

With a two-goal lead, everything seemed to be going Brown’s way. But the momentum began to shift to Cornell halfway through the third period when Robertson was sent to the penalty box for holding. Just 23 seconds later, Zolnierczyk hit Cor-

W. Basketball

nell’s Sean Whitney from behind and received a five-minute major.

The captain was ejected from the game and Cornell was put on a fiveon-three power play.

“He’s the most penalized kid in the league,” said Cornell Head Coach Mike Schafer. “He put his team at a disadvantage. It’s fortunate that Whitney didn’t get hurt.”

Schafer’s squad finally had a chance to get back in the game, and they capitalized with a pair of

power play goals by Tyler Roeszler and Sean Collins. Despite Brown’s game-long dominance, regulation ended with the score tied at two.

“We allowed them back in a game that they didn’t have a right to be in,” Whittet said. “That was not the time to have a five-minute major.”

With the captain out of the game, assistant captain David Brownschidle ’11 saved the day. Just 30 seconds into overtime, the senior broke away from Cornell’s defense and flicked a game-winning goal past Iles.

“I was lucky to get to the loose puck, and I just got a stick on it,” Brownschidle said.

Brown goalie Mike Clemente ’12, who shut out the Big Red until the Zolnierczyk penalty, said he was thrilled by his team’s play.

“We were gritty tonight,” he said.

Zolnierczyk added two more goals in the 6-4 win over Colgate (7-24-3, 4-15-3), giving him four on the weekend and 16 for the year.

With the regular season now over, the Bears will look ahead to the start of the ECAC playoffs next weekend.

Brown will begin with a best-ofthree series at Quinnipiac (13-13-8, 6-9-7). Both regular season matchups between the two teams ended in ties.

M. Basketball

Squad splits weekend matchups Bears dominate Big

Green on Senior Night

By Madeleine wenstrup Sports Staff Writer

The women’s basketball team split the weekend, falling hard to Harvard Friday night and pulling out a one-point victory over Dartmouth Saturday.

By Sam rubinroit Sports Staff Writer

The men’s basketball team dominated Dartmouth Saturday in a 100-76 Senior Night victory, after falling 74-68 to Harvard Friday.

Harvard 72, Brown 59

The Bears (8-18, 4-8 Ivy League) upset the Crimson (16-9, 8-3) at home only two weeks earlier, but they were not able to repeat their performance at Lavietes Pavilion.

In what has become a pattern this season, Brown started off strong but lost momentum in the second half.

The teams traded baskets and leads for the first 10 minutes, but Bruno had to play catch-up for the rest of the half. Harvard held its greatest lead of the night, 29-14, with seven minutes remaining in the first. But the Bears had a scoring surge, and a three-pointer by guard Lindsay Nickel ’13 at 1:06 pulled Brown within one at the half.

“There have been times in this season where we have not responded very well, and we stormed back this time to make it a one-point game,” Nickel said.

But that was the closest Bruno got. They came out slow in the second half, and the Crimson jumped at the opportunity, scoring 15 points in the first seven minutes. Guard Victoria Lippert led the charge, scoring seven of those points to put Harvard up by 10, 5040. Though Nickel led the offense

Harvard 74, Brown 68

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Sheila Dixon ’13 led Brown with 22 points and 14 rebounds against Dartmouth.

with 15 points, and the team shot 46 percent from the field — one of its highest percentages all season — Bruno could not recover from the early second-half deficit.

Brown 56, Dartmouth 55

The Saturday night game started as a crowd-pleaser in Hanover, but the Bears ended up spoiling the fun.

“At Hanover, they pack the house,” Nickel said. “It’s known as

one of the toughest courts to play on. They bring the whole town of Hanover. It was their senior night and just a really emotional game.”

It was a low-scoring first half, with Bruno and the Big Green (718, 3-8) trading leads eight times.

After the first nine minutes, both teams had only eight points apiece.

Guard Sheila Dixon ’13 then gave Bruno a boost with a jumper continued on page 5

A week after toppling firstplace Princeton and handing the Tigers their first Ivy League loss, the Bears carried over the momentum, springing out of the gate against Harvard (21-5, 10-2 Ivy League). By halftime, the Bears (11-15, 4-8 Ivy League) led, 4130. Bruno controlled the tempo in the first half, shooting 57 percent from the field and 50 percent from beyond the arc, compared to the Crimson’s 39 percent and 31 percent, respectively.

True to recent form, after putting together a strong first half, the Bears watched their lead slip away in the second. The scoring balance tipped as Harvard shot 52 percent from the field compared to the Bears’ dismal 36 percent, allowing the Crimson to grab a six-point victory.

The loss came despite an explosive performance from forward Tucker Halpern ’13, who scored a career-high 29 points on 10-of15 shooting and six of nine from three-point range.

“Tucker is just a phenomenal player,” said Adrian Williams ’11.

“He’s really come out of his shell

a little bit, and he’s playing more confidently. He’s able to score in bunches pretty much like no one else in the Ivy League, so I think he has a bright future ahead of him.”

Brown 100, Dartmouth 76

Bruno sought to avenge the loss to the Crimson against a floundering Dartmouth team (5-21, 1-11 Ivy League) on Senior Night. Before the game, the Bears held a ceremony to honor the team’s four seniors, but after tipoff, they were all business.

Bruno once again exploded at the start, leading by as many as 26 in the first half. At intermission, the squad was ahead 51-30.

“Our seniors really got us off to a good start,” said Assistant Coach T.J. Sorrentine. “They played really well to start the game and got us going. Everyone just played fast and loose, and that’s what we try to preach.”

Williams led the Bears’ scoring, putting up 17 of his game-high 26 points in the first half. He shot five of seven from the field and four of six from beyond the arc before halftime, and his seven threepointers on the night rank second in Brown basketball history.

“He was just on fire,” Sullivan said. “On any given night he can do that, and tonight, it helped us to get off to a good start. He’s an continued on page 5