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Commmittee nears budget proposals for athletics

Varsity programs could be axed

By Tony Bakshi Sports Editor

With the charge of cutting the already-limited athletics department budget, a committee will inform President Ruth Simmons next month of its recommendations to raise the department’s revenue and cut expenses, which could include eliminating teams.

“There’s probably a list of 20 sports that have been discussed as possibilities of being dropped,” Director of Athletics Michael Goldberger said. “Some would fall into the category of big sports that you would see as untouchable, and others would have fallen into the category of, ‘They don’t cost anything.

Why would we keep it or get rid of it?’” Goldberger said it is possible no teams will be cut.

Though Brown offers the most varsity programs in the Ivy League, it also generates the least revenue from sports of any Ivy, according to 2010 fiscal year statistics submitted to the U.S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education.

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Prefrosh descend on campus for ADOCH

By Natalie Villacorta Senior Staff Writer

Around 660 high school seniors swarmed onto campus yesterday to spend a day — or two — on College Hill.

Prospective students came to campus to attend A Day On College Hill, the University’s annual event for admitted students, from as far as Moscow, Morocco and Tanzania, and as close as Rhode Island, according to Ruth Shefner ’13 and Victor Bartash ’13, co-coordinators of the program.

Students accepted through early decision were not invited to ADOCH, though they were invited to attend a separate event last month.

After checking in late yesterday afternoon, prospective students were led to Pembroke campus for a barbecue to get to know their future classmates. While students made small talk, parents proudly listed their childrens’ other elite options at the parents’ reception in the lobby of Salomon Center.

Paul and Huong Beck came from Orange County, Calif., with their daughter, Laura, who is deciding between Brown and the University

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High school seniors hailing from as far as Moscow and Morocco registered for A Day On College Hill yesterday.

of California at Los Angeles. “We have to make the decision with her,” Paul Beck said.

Laura is hoping to study visual arts, so the Rhode Island School of Design’s proximity makes Brown an attractive option, though the weather in Los Angeles could tip the scale, they said.

Jonathan Coleman traveled from Charlottesville, Va., with his daughter Logan, who is deciding

between Brown, Duke University — where she has received the full-ride Robertson Scholarship — Princeton and Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

Coleman’s parents are self-employed, so her decision will depend on financial aid. “I need to see if Brown can match the other offers,” she said.

Damon McIntire, who also came from Charlottesville, said there

Korean truck dishes up food and culture

By CLaire gianotti Staff Writer

Mama Kim’s Korean BBQ joined the fleet of food trucks that serve mobile cuisine to Providence locals and students this March, adding a variety of flavorful and healthy options. The truck primarily parks in front of Barus and Holley Building in the afternoon and in front of MacMillan Hall at night.

Hyun Kim ’01 and his mother Sook came to Providence from

Seoul 22 years ago and brought with them a love of traditional Korean food and the desire to share it.

Sook remembers when her own mother would prepare huge dinners to feed her family, along with those

city & state hard hit in the aftermath of the Korean War. Many of the dishes offered by the truck are still prepared from her mother’s recipes, she said.

The recipes are traditional for

higher-class Korean families — not typical street food, Sook said. Kim and his mother first got the idea to open a food truck during a trip to Los Angeles, where they saw “real moving kitchens” that were able to fit up to six or seven cooks. Kim said he was fascinated by how these trucks seemed to be “revolutionizing food culture.”

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Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., lectured on policy and the current administration.

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Midway through his lecture in Salomon 001 Monday afternoon, U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., made a confession. “I am one of the few Democrats you will never hear giving much celebration to Franklin Roosevelt,” he said.

Roosevelt’s New Deal “was a raw deal to many of the communities that I represent,” Clyburn said.

In its efforts to spur recovery after the Great Depression, “jobs did

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not go to non-white communities.”

Clyburn’s lecture, “Making All Communities a Part of the American Recovery and Resurgance,” was part of the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions’ John Hazen White Sr. lecture series. The talk addressed racial and economic disparities within the American political process and how all citizens can benefit as the nation recovers from the current recession. continued on page 2

Endorsement Ralanda Nelson ’12 for UCS president

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is “no question” he will come to Brown. “People are really welcoming, helpful and committed to helping their peers, which I don’t think you see often at a college of this caliber,” he said.

Maria Pabon, who flew to Brown from Puerto Rico, is almost as confident as McIntire. Though she is “99 percent sure” she will come to Brown, she said she is going to check out Penn after ADOCH. Prospective students expressed positive attitudes about the campus and its surrounding city. “People always make (Providence) out to be kind of shady, but I didn’t get continued on page 4

Elections Polls open today at 12 p.m. for UCS, UFB Elections for the Undergraduate Council of Students, Undergraduate Finance Board and Coordinating Class Boards open today at 12 p.m. on MyCourses and will close Thursday at 12 p.m. Ben Farber ’12, UCS vice president, and Ralanda Nelson ’12, UCS student activities chair, are running for UCS president. David Chanin ’12, a UFB representative, and Jason Lee ’12, UFB vice chair, are vying for UFB chair. David Rattner ’13, UCS campus life chair, and Michael Perchonok ’12, a UFB representative, are running unopposed for UCS vice president and UFB vice chair, respectively. The Elections Board will announce the results at 11:59 p.m. Thursday on the steps of Faunce House.

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Yue ’12 wins Truman Scholarship

By Daniel Sack Contributing Writer

As one of 60 students in the country to win the prestigious Truman Scholarship this year, Susan Yue ’12 will receive $30,000 toward graduate study. The Harry Truman Scholarship Foundation defines a good candidate as one who “has an extensive record of public and community service, has outstanding leadership potential and communication skills and is committed to a career in government or elsewhere in public service,” according to its website.

About 30 Brown students completed an internal application for the scholarship, and the University’s internal review committee selected six to interview, wrote Linda Dunleavy, associate dean of the College for fellowships and pre-law, in an email to The Herald. The committee — comprising three professors, a dean and a previous recipient of the scholarship — nominated four finalists, the maximum allowed. The Truman Foundation then chose to interview three of those finalists and selected Yue to receive the scholarship.

Yue, who is currently studying abroad in Italy, said she plans to attend the Stanford University School of Education using the scholarship and will specialize in the education of linguistic minorities. She is considering taking some time off before graduate school to observe examples

of successful education practices in Finland or Singapore that the United States could adopt.

The scholarship is open to juniors who are U.S. citizens and in the upper quarters of their classes.

Yue, along with the rest of the junior class, received a letter from the Truman Foundation encouraging her to apply at the beginning of her junior year.

“I looked at it, and I almost threw it away at first,” Yue said.

But after encouragement from one of her professors, Yue started looking at the application again.

“It looked like something I would get a lot out of, even if I didn’t get it at the end. I would probably learn a lot just going through the process. It turned out to be very true.”

In the application, Yue had to suggest a way to address a problem in society. She proposed forming a pre-kindergarten program to teach English to students whose families speak other languages. Yue cited a class she took her sophomore year called SOC 1870A: “Investing in Social Change” as her inspiration.

The course involved the process of philanthropy and tasked students with allocating $10,000 to a nonprofit in Providence. Yue’s group wanted to start its own English for Speakers of Other Languages program, but upon realizing the costs of such a program, instead decided to give that money to a group to enhance its preexisting program.

Before Yue attends school to

get her master’s degree in education, she hopes to receive a master’s of arts in teaching degree and teach in an urban school district for four or five years. “I feel there are a host of complex issues that occur within a classroom, and learning those things before going into the policy world is not only beneficial, it’s necessary,” she said. “Before I can get up and tell teachers what to do and how to teach their kids, I need to become a teacher.”

In her application, she talked about growing up with her grandparents in Tianjin, China, before moving to the United States when she was six.

“From early on, I saw the many social and linguistic barriers for immigrant parents and how the public school system is so impenetrable when you don’t understand the language,” Yue said. “Coming into my own about what it means to be a first-generation immigrant while negotiating the forms of privilege I do have I think is what drives me to want to pursue a career in public service and public school administration.”

After receiving the scholarship, Yue said President Ruth Simmons promised her a “fitting celebration” when she returns from her time abroad in Italy. “I typically inform Truman scholars of the award and hold a small private celebration in my office,” Simmons wrote in an email to The Herald. “I am hoping for something similar, but no plans have as yet been set.”

Clyburn: Equality often lacks equity continued from page 1 The question of what defines community was key to Clyburn’s speech. “I believe it’s a state of mind. It’s all about people developing tolerance, having hope,” he told The Herald. “Community, if it’s defined in a positive way … is about countries coming together with a shared value system.”

Even as he criticized inequalities, Clyburn noted, “I have never been an advocate of equality. There is often no equity in equality.”

He elaborated on this point with a story about his family. “I have three daughters. They’re different.

I don’t treat them equally,” he said.

Clyburn voiced support for increasing taxes on income over $200,000 and changing the struc-

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“If you make $100,000 a year, you pay Social Security taxes on 100 percent of your income,” Clyburn said. “If you make $200,000 a year, you pay taxes on 50 percent,” because taxes on Social Security are capped at $100,000. “I think we need to do some serious looking into it.”

When answering audience questions, Clyburn’s bold claims earned wild applause from the audience.

“I think we should get out of Afghanistan by tomorrow evening,” he said in response to a question about foreign policy. But realistically, he added, “I really believe the president ought to stick to his timeline on Afghanistan.”

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criticizing the national government’s — particularly Democratic leaders’ — failure to live up to expectations, he acknowledged the mistakes made by Congress and President Obama.

When an audience member said more money should have gone into the 2009 stimulus plan, Clyburn said the House of Representatives’ original plan included $2 billion in infrastructure spending that was later taken out by the Senate.

In response to a criticism that Obama has not spoken out more for tax increases on the highest earners, Clyburn answered, “I agree with you 100 percent.”

His tone was positive overall.

The unemployment rate is coming down and “people are expressing more hope for the future,” he told The Herald.

“I think everything in the economy is on the mend except for housing,” he added. “I don’t know what we’re going to do about housing, to tell you the truth.”

He voiced approval for the president, acknowledging the difficulty of working with a divided government.

That is not to say Obama has dislodged Harry Truman as Clyburn’s favorite president, he said.

“But you can do something about that,” he said, looking around for aspiring politicians in the audience.

“You can make him my second favorite.”

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Q&A with candidates for UCS president, UFB chair Interviews by David Chung

UCS President

Ben Farber ‘12

Ralanda Nelson ‘12

Herald: What would be your single highest priority as president?

Herald: What would be your single highest priority as president?

Nelson: After speaking with students, … my highest priority as (Undergraduate Council of Students) president would have to be their highest priority, and I see that as being the housing situation currently.

They really want to see UCS dedicate a large portion of its time next year to the housing situation and gaining student feedback and student opinion.

Farber: My single highest priority as president would be to increase (Undergraduate Council of Students) outreach in an effective way. I felt that as vice president I didn’t have as much ability … to direct the outreach efforts of the council, and … there are a lot more initiatives that I would like to undertake as president.

Why would you be a better UCS president than Nelson?

Why would you be a better UCS president than Farber?

I think I have more experience … in taking student feedback, converting it to proposals and advocating for practical, concrete change on campus, and I think that … the relationships that I have with administrators on campus … will enable me to help next year’s committee chairs and next year’s general body members to enact change on this campus.

I hate comparing myself to Ben because the reason I’m running is solely based off of my abilities, my evaluation of those abilities and my vision for next year.

But I think that my resume and the work that I’ve done and the work I will continue to do, with or without the title, speak to my tenacity and, I guess, my passion for changing Brown to be a better Brown. And I think, above all, I would be the best UCS president next year because I know the needs of the University.

Do you support the University’s expansion of its research presence?

I do support the University’s expansion of its research presence as long as it’s done in a way that does not negatively impact the undergraduate experience. I think that when research is expanded at the University, it can go one of two ways: It can either take away a lot of professors’ time that would otherwise be dedicated to teaching and advising … or it could be something that undergraduates are involved in, something that enhances professors’ teaching and something that overall presents more opportunities for academic growth of undergraduates.

Do you support the administration’s efforts to reform the tenure process? How do you think it will affect undergraduates?

Do you support the University’s expansion of its research presence?

I think that I support it as long as it doesn’t take away from a researcher and professor’s ability to advise and that there are always new opportunities and especially financial resources for undergraduates to be a part of that research. I think that the Brown undergraduate experience really shouldn’t take a back seat to the University’s expansion of research.

Do you support the administration’s efforts to reform the tenure process? How do you think it will affect undergraduates?

My biggest priorities when it comes to the issue of tenure are that research is not the only factor … and that teaching and advising are also serious considerations.

I would want to make sure that those two factors are considered because those are two aspects of professors’ jobs that most significantly and directly affect undergraduates.

I think that there were a lot of inconsistencies with the way in which tenure was achieved. … So I think I would be in favor of them re-evaluating the tenure process.

I think that it will enable perhaps conversations around tenured faculty — do our tenured faculty speak to mentorship and advising of the undergraduate student, and what does that relationship look like?

What is an action taken by the administration you’ve supported in the last year and why?

What is an action taken by the administration in the last year you’ve supported and why?

I definitely support … the creation of the committee on (the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps). I’m glad that such an important community decision is being considered seriously and that broad input from … the entire Brown community is being considered. I’m pleased such decisions aren’t made with haste.

I do support the conversations that the administration has opened up about (the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps).

I feel like the process in its entirety … has been very transparent and very clear as to how we’re going into these conversations, what we’re looking at and that we definitely want undergraduate student perspective.

What is an action taken by the administration you’ve opposed in the last year and why?

I currently am in opposition to … the new undergraduate athletics fee. … Not because I don’t recognize the need for a greater athletics budget or the fact that I think it’s too high, but … that I haven’t seen any concrete improvements made to the athletic experience of undergraduates in exchange for that fee, and as president, one of my priorities would be to ensure that undergraduates see improvements.

What is an action taken in the last year by the administration you’ve opposed and why?

I’ve just been really confused about how direct student feedback is being used by the University … to deal with what students have posited as their qualms with the housing crunch.

As a student leader, sometimes I’m confused as to where that feedback has gone.

UFB CHAIR

David Chanin ‘12

Jason Lee ‘12

Herald: Why would you be a better Undergraduate Finance Board chair than Lee?

Herald: Why would you be a better Undergraudate Finance Board chair than Chanin?

Chanin: I guess what separates us the most is, first off, I have more experience working with student groups.

For the last two years, I’ve worked directly with student groups, whereas Jason, as vice chair, has only worked with student groups for one year.

Lee: I have more of the relations on campus to find better sources of funding. I mean … tapping into the alumni network, where a lot of student groups have been around for quite some time. … Those alumni would definitely be willing to contribute to the group, in that they got something out of it with their time at Brown.

I’ve been a lot more motivated and responsible. … One of the issues is, I guess, time commitment to the board, where I’ve almost always been on time, never been absent — as opposed to, if you actually look at the minutes, you’d find that the other candidate is otherwise.

The opponent’s project this year was actually the online budgeting, which he says is for next year.

I think in terms of motivating all members, in terms of getting all the projects done, I’ve done a good job of that.

What would be your single highest priority as chair?

I think just making the funding process a lot easier on groups. I think my experience has been that a lot of groups are frustrated with how long the process takes and how sometimes it’s often confusing and not clear why UFB is allocating what.

To me, UFB’s purpose is to make sure that student groups have the resources they need to accomplish whatever it is that they set out to accomplish, and I want that process to be as easy and transparent as possible.

What would you do differently than Adam Kiki-Charles ’11, the current UFB chair?

I think Adam’s done a great job this year, and I think he’s set the seeds of a lot of good ideas, and I hope that next year’s chair … really keeps up with those procedures and policies he’s implemented and doesn’t let them fall by the side. I think one thing I’d do differently though is working a lot more with the administration … to ensure that student groups’ needs are being met and that money is being used in a very efficient way.

What would be your single highest priority as chair?

I’d think it’d be to find other sources of funding.

I mentioned the alumni funding. … And two, finding a way for the school to cover it because (some groups) are such a valuable part of this campus.

What would you do differently than Adam Kiki-Charles ’11, the current UFB chair?

I think something that we need to work on is more insight into our own finances as well.

Institutional memory is a huge problem for UFB, where the boards often change.

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Prefrosh urged to ‘go out and change the world’ continued from page 1 that impression at all. It’s a really nice size and there’s a lot to do,” said Rebecca Lullo from Naperville, Ill. Trevor Klee from Connecticut agreed. “Its magnificence is on par with the lost city of Atlantis,” he said. “I heard that they had a great mall.”

After the barbecue, students headed to the Main Green for a welcome from Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73 and Ken Miller ’70 P’02, professor of biology, where Jim Miller congratulated the prospective students on making the cut out of 31,000 applicants — the largest applicant pool in Brown’s history.

“We have very small aspirations for all of you,” Miller said. “We want you to go out and change the world.”

Miller urged the prospective students to go with their guts when making their college decision. After

the welcome, he encouraged them to stand in the middle of the Main Green, surrounded by history and the beauty of the campus, and listen to their stomachs and hearts rather than their brains.

When Ken Miller got up to speak, he informed the audience that many of them already knew him as the author of a popular high school biology textbook.

In an effort to woo prospective students, Miller said Brown offers faculty the promise of cutting-edge research and positive student interaction.

The open curriculum also distinguishes Brown from other schools, Miller said. While at other schools, where there are core or distribution requirements forcing students to take classes they are not interested in, at Brown, students want to take the classes that they are enrolled in.

This is an incentive for eminent faculty to teach introductory cours-

es, Miller said. “When I walk into my general biology course, I know that every single student wants to be there.”

Miller recalled an opening convocation speech he gave in 2005, during which he greeted incoming students with, “Welcome to trade school.” Brown students are like tradesmen because they fashion their own education, he said.

The welcome ceremony concluded with a 20-minute video that included clips from movies and television shows that relate to Brown, interviews with current students about why they love the school and panoramic shots of campus. The video was completely new this year.

“We wanted to make more of an emotionally driven video that would make the kids feel moved,” Bartash said.

The video began with a clip of President Ruth Simmons at a previous opening convocation ceremony — except Simmons seemed to be transformed into a techno-trance music artist with the phrase “energized by your immense potential to join a vibrant community” continuously repeated to club music.

Segments of the video were animated, employing stop-motion technique to depict life at Brown.

There were also clips from “The Simpsons,” “Family Guy” and “Sex

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Prospective students attended a welcome ceremony, speeches, talent shows and an ice cream social as part of ADOCH. Above, students register for the event.

and the City,” along with several movies that mentioned Brown — causing the audience to erupt in laughter.

Later in the evening, prospective students were treated to two talent shows featuring student performers such as Badmaash, the Poler Bears, Fusion Dance Company and Special Browniez among others.

An ice cream social on the Main Green followed the show, and the party continued late into the eve-

ning with many events including a mixer hosted by the Black Student Union, a comedy show and arch sings.

Today prospective students will have the opportunity to sit in on classes, attend lectures and hear Simmons speak. They can also attend several panels about premedical and pre-law tracks and learn about student groups at a noon activities fair in the OlneyMargolies Athletic Center.

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Brown struggles to compete for middle-class recruits

By Ethan McCoy and Lindor Qunaj Assistant Sports Editor and Senior Staff Writer

A month ago, the men’s lacrosse coaching staff sat down to review the financial circumstances of a high school student-athlete they had identified as a strong fit for the Brown program. Upon looking at the recruit’s file, Head Coach Lars Tiffany ’90 said he learned that with Brown’s financial aid offer, the prospective student would owe $20,000 per year to the University. At another Ivy, the price tag would be half that.

Not surprisingly, the player chose to commit to the less expensive option, and Brown lost the recruit.

Financial aid initiatives across the Ivy League have made it easier for many families to afford the cost of higher education — all eight schools have eliminated tuition for families making under $60,000 a year. For the wealthiest applicants, financial aid packages are not a factor, so all Ivy League schools recruit on an even playing field. But families with combined incomes of over $60,000 who still cannot afford a university’s full sticker price have to shop around the league for the best financial aid deals. For admits whose annual family incomes fall between $100,000 and $200,000, Brown is “struggling” to compete with the big three — Harvard, Yale and Princeton — in its financial aid offers, according to Director of Athletics Michael Goldberger.

As a result, Brown, in many cases, becomes the more expensive Ivy. Performance gap

But in athletics especially, the results of financial aid discrepancies are clearly on display as schools compete in a very tangible way. Because of this gap, the parity of the league may be under threat. It is a concern that the league, coaches and players are starting to notice.

“It’s something I’m going to pay attention to and try to figure out if there is an impact,” said Robin Harris, the Ivy League’s executive director.

“But at this point, I just don’t have enough information to know that.

If you look at the standings of our league, they’re pretty consistent over time. So we need to just wait and see what’s happening.”

But so far this academic year, the gap between the big three and the remainder of the Ivy League already seems to be widening. In fall sports with a league title or championship meet, Harvard, Yale and Princeton combined to win a share of five of seven titles, the only exceptions being a Penn football championship, a Penn women’s soccer championship and a first place tie between Yale and Penn in women’s volleyball. For winter sports, the three schools accounted for 11 of 13 titles.

Unlike other Division I schools, Brown and its Ivy peers cannot give out athletic scholarships to recruits, a restriction that Harris called a “fundamental principle” of the league. As a result, the University has always faced challenges in recruiting, including competition from in-state rivals Bryant University and the University of Rhode Island. And now, Brown is

having to struggle more and more to recruit middle-class athletes within the Ivy League on account of its smaller financial aid awards.

Harvard, Yale and Princeton, whose endowments are far greater than those of the other five Ivy institutions, can better recruit because of their ability to offer superior financial aid packages. Brown’s $2.2 billion endowment is the smallest in the Ivy League. Harvard, Yale and Princeton have endowments of $27.4 billion, $16.7 billion and $14.4 billion, respectively. The schools are the top three in the country for per-student endowments.

Giving competitive financial aid packages is a “real problem area for us,” Goldberger said. “It’s something that I’ve felt could really threaten the well-being of the league — the differences between those three institutions and the other five, in terms of their ability to recruit students.”

Tiffany said he has seen the impact of the financial aid discrepancy on the recruiting circuit. “There’s no question that we do encounter prospects that we are very interested in, that are interested in Brown,” he said.

“But if they’re in a certain financial aid range and other Ivies are involved, often times, unfortunately, we become the more expensive option.”

Tiffany said when he took the job in 2006, other Ivy League lacrosse coaches told him that cases in which financial aid considerations prevented a player from attending a school were rare and only occurred once or twice in a recruiting class.

But he said his experiences in the recruiting cycles the last two years have indicated otherwise.

In roughly 40 percent of cases, financial aid ends up being an important factor in the college the recruits ultimately select, he estimated.

Student-athletes who have gone through the recruiting and application process have taken notice of the issue as well. One Brown athlete, who agreed to speak to The Herald under the condition of anonymity, said he did not know any fellow athletes for whom a considerable financial aid discrepancy within the Ivy League affected their college choice because such a matter is often a private one.

But the player admitted that he has sensed from coaches and players that the developing discrepancies have left Brown with an “uphill battle.”

“Because there are no athletic scholarships, financial aid is a big issue in Ivy League sports in general,” he wrote in an email to The Herald.

“If a middle class kid can go to Harvard for $15,000 per year or Brown for $50,000 per year, it’s not really a tough decision to make — they’re going to Harvard.”

Tiffany explained that to combat this issue and produce successful programs, coaches at Brown must work harder in the offseason.

“We have to have a wider net,” he said. “We have to recruit more. We have to be on the road more.”

“If we can find families who are below the $75,000 range or above the $200,000 range, financial aid is not going to be a big issue,” Tiffany added.

“Now it’s just really comparing us to other schools based on education,

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Men’s lacrosse Head Coach Lars Tiffany ’90 said he has lost recruits to other Ivy League schools that could offer more financial aid.

the atmosphere — all the intangibles that go into picking a school and not having the price tag be a factor.”

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Tiffany also said the issue has affected the timeline for recruiting.

Each year starting July 1, coaches provide the Office of Financial Aid with a list of the students they are interested in recruiting. The office then sends information to these students about the aid process at Brown and

includes a link where students can fill out relevant financial information.

This data can then be used to give potential recruits a preliminary sense of the award they would receive at Brown “if everything stays the same when they apply,” said Jim Tilton, director of financial aid.

Although the office received about 750 requests for a “pre-read” last year, Tilton explained that only 390 award notifications were sent out since not every student submit-

ted the necessary information. This “pre-read process” also takes place at other Ivy League institutions.

In cases where a student gets early packages from two or more different schools, the financial aid office will look at the other offers and reconsider their own. “We ask families to get a copy of the award from another school, and we would make adjustments based on the new information,” Tilton said, adding that the University can match other schools in many cases.

Goldberger said athletes are not more likely than non-athletes to have success with financial aid appeals, though coaches can act as advocates within the school. Tilton also said coaches do not actually speak to the aid office about individual players and added that many other students have their own advocates such as high school guidance counselors or parents who understand the application process.

Even for students without guidance, Tilton said the office attempts to make them aware of the opportunity to have files re-read and encourages them to do so if they feel it is necessary by providing comprehensive instructions on their website.

“From our perspective, that’s all fine,” Harris said of the financial aid award matching. “It just can’t be done only for athletes. That matching has continued on page 8

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Teams could be defunded following budget review continued from page 1 a faculty member — builds on the findings of the Organizational Review Committee, a group of 12 subcommittees convened by the University in 2009 to develop recommendations for making up budget shortfalls.

In February 2010, the athletics subcommittee recommended a reevaluation of the “number and mix” of varsity sports offered at Brown.

“If we’re going to offer a varsity sport, we should do that correctly, with all the protections that students should have for competing in a sport,” Simmons said, according to a February 2010 Herald article.

“That’s the wake-up call for us, to face up to the fact that we simply don’t have the resources to mount the number of team sports that we offer.”

The University offers 21 sports, which mostly compete in the Ivy League. The University had $15,171,473 in athletic costs in fiscal year 2010, the smallest amount in the Ivy League, according to the Office of Postsecondary Education.

The University’s calculated athletics budget, which does not include expenses and revenues related to the Brown University Sports Foundation and Nelligan Sports Marketing, totaled $13.3 million in the last fiscal year. For the upcoming fiscal year 2012, the athletics budget is $13 million, approximately 1.6 percent of the University’s total budget of $834.3 million. The athletics budget also totaled about 1.6 percent of the overall budget in the current fiscal year.

The committee is nearing its final recommendations, Goldberger said. “We know the costs,” he said. “I think we have a lot of this information. Now it’s just saying, ‘All right, what comes together that makes sense for Brown?’”

X’s and O’s of the committee’s decision

There are no easy answers to questions about which programs should be cut and which can remain untouched within the school’s budgetary limits.

“The question of what’s the right level of resources — there’s no formula for that,” said Dick Spies, ex-

ecutive vice president for planning and senior adviser to the president, who chairs the committee. He said the committee and the administration must consider where the University should lie in terms of the rest of the Ivy League.

Spies said the committee must be aware of what it can do with the available resources.

“We don’t have the ability — in financial aid and faculty staffing and salaries — to overwhelm anything with resources,” he said. “So we have to be selective in what we do, and we have to find the right balance in the programs we can offer.”

The committee has made strides toward reaching decisions, but there is still a lot “open for discussion,” said Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services and a member of the committee.

“We haven’t even agreed upon the criteria to use for the evaluation,” Klawunn said. “But we’ve mentioned some things that we think are really valuable. Like what is the student-athlete experience, and what is the status of that sport in the Ivy League and the NCAA? What’s important for Brown in terms of the history of the sport at Brown and its success at Brown?”

Goldberger said maintaining gender equity will be another key factor in the decision making.

In 1995, the University was found to have violated Title IX, a 1972 law prohibiting gender discrimination in federally financed programs. Four years earlier, the athletics department, in response to school-wide budget difficulties, cut University funding to four varsity programs — men’s golf, men’s water polo, women’s gymnastics and women’s volleyball. Amy Cohen ’92 and other members of the gymnastics and volleyball teams filed a Title IX suit against the University, and the two programs were reinstated after the 1995 ruling and a subsequent failed appeal from the University in 1996.

Currently, the University offers 18 women’s varsity teams, the most in the Ivy League, and 15 men’s varsity teams, third-highest in the conference behind Harvard and Princeton. Approximately 48 percent of Brown’s varsity athletes

Total expenses on athletics across Ivy League

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are female, the highest in the Ivy League.

The budget’s impact on the field

Members of the committee said the University’s budget limits tangibly affect the athletics department.

For example, the University cannot afford to have as well-staffed a department as other Ivies’ athletics departments. “That means people are scrambling to do things.

It means we can’t do things as well, because we don’t have the hours in the day to do them,” Spies said.

“It affects the quality of the program when you can’t provide adequate support for it,” he added.

Varsity athletes said they can feel the effects of a pinched budget.

“We have a really great head coach, but I think sometimes he might wish that he had a bigger budget for an assistant coach,” said skiing captain Krista Consiglio ’11.

“The amount of injuries we have — sometimes it would be nice if we could have a trainer that travels with us,” Consiglio added.

Many other schools have two or three assistant coaches, said Alex DePaoli ’11, co-captain of

the fencing team. “In my freshman and sophomore years, we had an assistant coach. Last year, we had a part-time assistant, and this year for the first semester, we had a parttime coach.”

Klawunn said the budget also causes overcrowding at athletic facilities, especially when the winter teams and the spring teams overlap.

“One of the things the Corporation is looking at … is, ‘Is it healthy to have teams that have to travel a couple of hours to practice?’” Goldberger said. “Is it healthy to have teams that really don’t have the ability to do certain things?”

DePaoli said his team is limited by the school’s facility constraints.

“We have four strips, and we practice on the first (basketball) court of the (Olney-Margolies Athletic Center). We drop down one curtain, but other than that, we practice to the entertainment of anyone on the ellipticals.”

A new fitness and aquatics center will open next March, giving several teams the ability to host home competitions. The opening of the Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center will create a permanent home for the swimming, diving and water polo teams and a viable venue for home meets and games. Since the Smith Swim Center was closed in 2007 due to major structural issues, the teams have held home events in multiple locations, including Wheaton College, Providence College, the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and Seekonk High School.

The facility shortages can also negatively impact the academic experiences of athletes.

“It’s sort of a two-way street to make sure there’s a balance between what athletics is offering and what opportunities the athletes get academically,” Goldberger said.

Goldberger cited the scheduling conflicts that arise between practice and class schedules for students who must travel to other facilities.“Sometimes, there are definitely classes we don’t get to take,

but coaches are pretty understanding of academic needs,” Consiglio said. “It is harder for us than other teams — we can’t take classes Tuesdays and Thursdays before 2:30 because we have to travel two hours just to train.”

Boosting team funds

Apart from the decrease in expenses that would result from cuts in the varsity program, committee members also noted the importance of generating additional funds to support University athletics.

Raising money is “going to be a big part of what we do as a committee,” Goldberger said. “I can guarantee you that what we come out and say as a committee is that it’s going to cost more money. There are some that say that all we should do is get more money, and there are others that say all we should do is cut stuff. But somewhere in the middle is what we’re looking for.”

The Corporation accepted several athletics-related gifts at its February meeting. A combined $400,000 was donated to the men’s lacrosse head coaching chair. In addition, the Corporation established head coaching chairs for squash, men’s crew and baseball and assistant coaching chairs in squash and women’s crew.

Money donated to a specific coaching chair is actually allocated in the budget for all coaching expenses. “What we were really able to do, because we had that endowment, is support the (coaches) better in terms of salary, in terms of number of positions,” Spies said.

Goldberger said the department wants to encourage potential donors to support athletics through endowed chairs. But he said the department must ensure the endowments will actually enhance the team, not just provide a tangible way to inspire donors.

Gameplan ahead

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Brown head coaches paid 22 percent less than league average

By AShley McDonnell and Jake Comer Sports Editor and Senior Staff Writer

The Department of Athletics must live up to a high standard of competitiveness to assert itself as a powerful player in the Ivy League.

But with an average salary for head coaches more than $18,000 below the Ivy League average, Brown may be losing its competitive edge off the field when attempting to attract top coaches for its programs.

Brown pays its head coaches a league-low average of $63,618 — 30 percent lower than the average salary at Cornell, the highest-paying school in the league, according to information for last fiscal year compiled by the Office of Postsecondary Education.

Head coaches earn nearly $14,000 less on average at Brown than at the second-lowest paying school in the league, Dartmouth.

Cornell pays its head coaches a league-high average of $91,368.

The University Resources Committee — which confirmed in its February report that many coaches, assistant coaches and administrators receive salaries much lower than the Ivy League median — recommended athletics be allocated $70,000 to “improve salaries where most needed.” But the report also stated that administrators estimate “it would take approximately $450,000 to raise all the appropriate salaries to a competitive level,” and the University has meanwhile determined that the athletic department’s budget must be cut.

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Average Brown coaching salaries are over $18,000 less than the league average.

“Our assistants are well behind the Ivy League norm, and that frustrates us head coaches,” he said. “It frustrates us as we try to look around and attract the most passionate assistants. It’s disappointing when we get into a battle for the same recruit. When compensation is discussed, we have a harder sell job. … We don’t usually win that.”

Colleen Kelly ’06, assistant coach for the women’s basketball team, said she does not believe Brown’s lower assistant coaches’ salaries make Brown less competitive in the league. Rather, it means assistant coaches tend not to stay at the University for more than a few years.

“There’s a higher turnover of coaches, because you’ll get coaches that are just joining the profession,” Kelly said. “Then, after a few years, they go on to a higherpaying job.”

Coaches at Brown are willing to tolerate Brown’s lower salaries because they “love Brown that much,” she added.

Like Tiffany, Kelly came to Brown because it is her alma mater. She had a great experience

Average Ivy League head coaching salaries

Sacrificing salaries for Brown

Brown may be losing coaches to similarly competitive and prestigious institutions, but Richard Spies, executive vice president for planning and senior adviser to the president, said many coaches choose Brown for reasons they deem more important than salary.

Men’s lacrosse coach Lars Tiffany ’90 chose to coach at Brown because of his personal connection to the school. He called his experience here as a student-athlete “the best four years of my life.”

Tiffany said he took a slight pay cut when he left the State University of New York at Stony Brook for Brown. “But I feel good about that choice, because I truly love the balance that Brown provides,” he said.

“I don’t know that I’ve worked harder at Brown, but it means a lot more. There’s an extra sense of passion and pride,” he added.

Tiffany said he did not know how his salary compares to the salaries of head lacrosse coaches at the other Ivy League schools.

Similarly, Stuart LeGassick, head coach of the men’s and women’s squash teams, said he

Julien Ouellet / Herald

was not aware of the substantial discrepancy between coaches’ salaries at Brown and the rest of the Ivy League.

Men’s soccer Head Coach Patrick Laughlin said he did not care how his salary compares to Ivy League averages. “Whatever any other coach at another university is getting paid is not really any of my business,” Laughlin said.

“Whatever they’re able to negotiate for themselves. … If they’re receiving a great salary, then well

done for them.”

Trouble on the sidelines

Tiffany confirmed that assistant coaches at Brown receive salaries below the Ivy League average.

Assistant coaches of men’s teams earn about $29,733 — 36 percent less than Cornell’s average salary for assistant men’s team coaches — while assistant coaches of women’s teams make about $23,615 — nearly 23 percent lower on average than their Cornell counterparts.

as a student-athlete and believes having alums on a coaching staff is helpful, she said.

Kristy Fuzellier, a swimming and diving assistant coach, does not have an alumni connection but used to live in Massachusetts and said she came to Brown because she loves the area and the school. She said she does not know if her salary is competitive, but she has heard other coaches talk about salary discrepancies between Brown and the rest of

the Ivy League.

Football Head Coach Phil Estes said the number of assistant coaches and other athletic personnel substantially impacts team performance. But he said he does not think a team’s success depends on the salaries of its coaches.

Around the Ivy League

Despite facing budget crunches that affect hiring, Brown and the other Ivy League schools still manage to attract coaches.

Dartmouth women’s ice hockey Head Coach Mark Hudak wrote in an email to The Herald that he took a pay cut to work at Dartmouth.

“When first applying 15 years ago, (salary) was not super important,” Hudak wrote. “I wanted to coach, loved Dartmouth and the area and saw it as a great opportunity to work at a job I loved in a place that fit me and that may also provide me with opportunities further down the line in my career.”

Though Tiffany and Hudak each have personal attachments to Brown and Dartmouth, they said budget inequalities between the Ivy League institutions may limit their schools’ ability to stay competitive.

Yale football Head Coach Tom Williams said coaches’ salaries are an important factor when choosing a job position. Yale coaches get paid an average of $90,691, second highest in the Ivy League.

“Everyone’s trying to make ends meet and put food on the table,” Williams said. “As a coach, as a person, you’re looking to provide for your family, so when you do that, salary has to come into play.” But he added he did not decide to coach at Yale because of money. He decided to join Yale’s staff after working in the National Football League as a defensive assistant for the Jacksonville Jaguars, because he missed one-on-one interactions with players on a daily basis, he said.

Williams said he does not know how his salary compares to other Ivy League football coaches.

He added that salaries have to be structured competitively to keep both head coaches and assistant coaches around for several years. “The old adage ‘you get what you paid for’ is pretty true,” he said.

But at schools like Brown that want to compete on the field yet cannot pay as much as rival schools, the formula for winning may just be finding people who are willing to sacrifice for the University.

“When we compare ourselves to our peers, I think (Brown) coaches try to be more effective at their jobs,” Tiffany said. “We need to go find coaches who have got that hunger and who are thirsty.”

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Ivies with larger endowments enjoy recruiting edge continued from page 5 to occur for students who are not athletes as well.”

In accordance with that Ivy rule, Tilton stressed that the opportunity for this sort of appeal is not limited to just athletes and that files are reviewed in the same way for all students. “There’s a sense that we do things for athletes that we don’t do for others,” he said. “And that’s just not the case.”

But Goldberger said he is concerned that some coaches at other Ivy League schools are breaking Ivy

League principles. He said he is worried they demand that potential recruits promise not to court other Ivy League schools that could offer better financial aid packages to middle-class students.

“It becomes very competitive in very bad ways,” Goldberger said.

“That’s something the Ivy League is very concerned about — the notion being that you really want kids to make choices that are best for them.”

But for all Ivy League schools, the admissions processes for studentathletes are getting earlier. The Office of Admission has an early-review

process for potential recruits, in which it evaluates the credentials of these students beginning in the late summer or early fall and then mails out likely letters to the most qualified applicants as early as Oct. 1. Likely letters, as their name indicates, are not official acceptances but tell the student they will probably be admitted once actual decisions are sent out.

These likely letters, which have been in place for about 20 years, according to Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73, are used primarily for athletes who need to make decisions about their college plans earlier

than other students due to the earlier athletic recruitment calendar. “It’s rare to find a non-athlete who needs to make a commitment before the early-decision round,” Miller said.

But Miller noted there are exceptional circumstances where people do need a decision earlier on in the admission cycle, such as for major scholarships. “We need to treat everybody the same, whether they’re a recruited athlete or not,” he said.

Coaches, players and administrators all said that financial aid treatment is the same for all students. The effects of financial aid discrepancies

are not limited to the athletic fields.

“Everyone on campus is experiencing this significant obstacle,” Tiffany said. “Whether it’s the engineering department, the music department or other programs at Brown, we’re all at a disadvantage despite the fact that Brown has made some wonderful advances in the amount of financial aid provided for its students.”

But in athletics, the growing imbalance can be measured in wins and losses.

— With additional reporting by Dan Alexander

Athletics budget recommendations forthcoming this spring continued from page 6 findings and deliver a recommendation to Simmons before the end of the school year, Spies said. “If she agrees, that can be presented to the Corporation,” he added.

But before an implementation plan is taken to the Corporation, Klawunn said the committee’s recommendation will be “open to input from the community.”

“We expect to talk to studentathletes, coaches, (the Undergraduate Council of Students), the athletic advisory council, faculty liaisons,” she said.

Current varsity athletes said they see a difficult track ahead. “I don’t think that if any sport team was cut,

it would happen quietly,” Consiglio said. “I think you’d have a number of athletes that would be extremely upset about it.”

Title IX also makes cutting women’s teams complicated, she said. For example, if the women’s ski team, which was created because of Title IX, were cut, the University would need to find a men’s team to cut as compensation.

“I’m pretty sure we’re 100 percent donor-funded, so I don’t think they could cut our team,” said Allegra Aron ’11, a member of the varsity equestrian team.

University athletes agreed that though the initial mention of team eliminations last year led to serious discussions among coaches and

players, the topic has not been as prevalent this year.

“I really haven’t heard much about it,” Aron said. “I remember people were really worried that we could get cut last year.”

“I think last year, every athlete was a little bit more concerned about the potential for teams being cut,” Consiglio said. “But when they decided to postpone the decision, it wasn’t talked about much more.”

DePaoli said members of the fencing team had increased efforts in “figuring out ideas where we can stay on the good side of the committee” last season, including increasing participation in Fox Point programs and encouraging their families to donate to the athletic fund.

Students not directly involved with varsity programs expressed mixed opinions about a possible restructuring of the athletic program.

“I guess I wouldn’t be personally affected by any change, but I’d be sad to see programs go,” said Katie Barcay ’12. “I think it would have a negative effect on the school. … I’m not too sure why, but it just doesn’t feel right. It’s an opportunity for people to get involved in different teams, and it would be sad to see fewer opportunities on campus.”

“There would definitely be some sort of cultural shift if the number of athletes went down because some teams are cut,” said Ezra Berger ’11.

“Whatever Brown school spirit exists now, it’d be minimized even

more if there were less athletes.”

Berger also noted the possible effects on donations to the University. “I work at the advancement office, and you definitely would lose a lot of donors,” he said. “The Sports Foundation is a big selling point.”

While teams and students await the committee’s recommendations, Goldberger and other members must face difficult decisions.

“I think our goal is — what’s the logical group of sports that we should offer?” Goldberger said. “It could be all of them, or it could be a reduction of 10, but I don’t think it’ll be anything extreme that way.”

— With additional reporting by Dan Alexander

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Baseball

Bears win three of four against Ivy rivals

By Lewis pollis Contributing Writer

Jesse Schwimmer / Herald

Bre Hudgins ‘14 scored six times this weekend but women’s lacrosse lost twice, including a heartbreaking 13-12 overtime battle to No. 4 Duke.

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Bruno drops two weekend nail-biters By sam wickham Sports Staff Writer

The women’s lacrosse team fell to Ivy foe Harvard and No. 4 Duke at home this weekend, extending its losing streak to four games. Both games came down to the wire, but a late scoring streak from the Crimson (5-4, 3-1 Ivy League) and an overtime goal from the Blue Devils (11-2) were enough to down Bruno (5-6, 1-3 Ivy League). Bre Hudgins ’14 led the Bears’ offense, tallying six goals and two assists over both games.

Harvard 12, Brown 9

The Crimson drew first blood Friday, scoring three minutes in to take the early lead. Grace Healy ’14 answered a minute later, scoring an unassisted goal to tie the game. After one more Harvard goal, Bruno unleashed a scoring streak in the next 20 minutes of play, as six goals from Danielle Mastro ’14, captain Paris Waterman ’11, Hudgins and Healy pushed Brown’s lead to 7-2.

With a little under five minutes left in the first half, the Crimson scored three goals, going into the pause trailing 7-5. Their energy carried over to the second half, where they scored seven goals in 23 minutes, making the score 12-7. Bruno only managed two shots during the Crimson’s seven-goal onslaught.

“I think they just came in with a lot of energy at the end of the first half, and we just needed to be able to answer back with more goals,” said Head Coach Keely McDonald ’00.

The Bears finally broke Harvard’s scoring streak with a goal from captain Alexa Caldwell ’11. A final goal from Hudgins was not enough to mount a comeback, and the Crimson came away with the 12-9 victory.

“Harvard is a very tough team, and they have had comebacks like that all season,” Caldwell said. “I think we didn’t come up with those key possession periods that allowed them to have more time with the ball on offense and then put away those shots.”

“I think any Ivy League game is going to be a battle,” McDonald added. “And we needed to step up in terms of our composure in order to get that win, and I think we learned a lot from that game.”

Duke 13, Brown 12

Taking what they learned from

After a disappointing start to conference play last weekend, the baseball team won both games in a doubleheader against Columbia Saturday and split two games against Penn Sunday.

The Bears (6-18, 4-4 Ivy League) started their first home conference game against Columbia (12-15, 3-5) with an early 1-0 lead. Catcher Matt Colantonio ’11 reached base on an error and later scored on a wild pitch. The Lions tied the game with a run in the fourth inning, but Colantonio’s home run in the bottom of the fifth put the Bears back on top, and they held on to win 2-1.

Starting pitcher Matthew Kimball ’11 threw a complete game, holding the Lions to one run on three hits with six strikeouts to earn his first win of the season.

After Columbia jumped out to a 1-0 lead to start the second game, designated hitter Mike DiBiase ’12 singled to score Colantonio, who had led off with a double in the bottom of the first. Right fielder Josh Feit ’11, who had earlier reached on a bunt single, advanced

to second on DiBiase’s hit, then stole third and scored on a throwing error to give Brown a 2-1 lead.

Bruno’s bats were silenced after their early rally, and the Lions added four more runs to take a 5-2 lead in the eighth inning. But the Bears rallied to tie the game in the bottom of the ninth. After loading the bases with no outs, a single, a sacrifice fly and a fielder’s choice allowed the Bears to score three runs to tie the game 5-5, sending it into extra innings.

The score remained unchanged until the bottom of the 11th inning, when a two-out rally put Brown on top. After left fielder Jon Suzich ’12 popped out and second baseman Nate Kukowski ’14 struck out to start the inning, center fielder John Sheridan ’13 singled, stole second and advanced to third base on a throwing error. Colantonio was intentionally walked and Feit hit an RBI single to win the game 6-5 for Brown.

The Bears scored two runs on designated hitter Pete Greskoff ’s ’11 first-inning home run to start game one against Penn (15-12, 6-2 conference).

The Quakers responded with a six-run rally in the third inning

Friday’s game, the Bears got off to a blazing start against Duke Sunday.

Goals from Lindsay Minges ’13 and Hudgins in the first five minutes of play gave Brown an early two-goal lead. The two sides struck back and forth over the next 11 minutes, as two Duke goals were offset by two from Bruno to keep the 4-2 lead. But the Blue Devils took advantage of Bruno’s defensive lapses and scored three straight goals to take a 5-4 lead.

The two teams went into halftime tied at six.

“I think the team played the way that all season we have known we could,” Caldwell said. “We did that Dr. Bear | Mat Becker today, and that was really great — a testament to the team.”

The Blue Devils came firing out of the gate in the second half, putting away three goals in the first three minutes to jump out to a 9-6 lead. Minges’ goal two minutes later was nullified by a quick Duke response, as the Blue Devils seemed determined to keep their three-goal cushion, 10-7.

But Bruno would not stay behind for long, netting four goals in nine Dot Comic | Eshan Mitra and Brendan Hainline minutes to take back the lead once more, 11-10. But Duke managed to tie the game a minute before the end of regulation, pushing the match into overtime in dramatic fashion. The teams again traded goals in this first set of extra time, but Duke was able to net one more goal in the final minutes of the sudden-death overtime to come away with the 13-12 win.

“That was just a really, really fun game to play in, even though we lost,” Caldwell said. “We had played our hearts out and left everything on the field, and that’s all you can ask for.”

“I was really happy with how the players translated what we did well from Harvard and what we needed to fix from Harvard and put that into effect really just a day later,” McDonald said.

Bruno will look to break its fourgame slide next Saturday when it travels to Cornell at 1 p.m. The game is a must-win for the Bears if they hope to keep their Ivy Tournament ambitions alive.

“I think this game against Duke is going to give us incredible confidence,” Caldwell said. “If we play the way we did today for the rest of our games in the season, we’re going to have a very good shot at winning all of them.”

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and had gained an 8-2 lead by the fifth. Three RBIs from DiBiase in the fifth and ninth innings were not enough to lift Bruno and the Quakers won, 14-5.

After Penn’s rout in the first game, the second match-up with the Quakers was a pitchers’ duel.

The game was scoreless until the bottom of the sixth inning, when designated hitter Daniel Massey ’14 hit a sacrifice fly to score Colantonio. An RBI single by shortstop Graham Tyler ’12 later in the inning gave the Bears a 2-0 lead.

The Quakers responded with one run each in the seventh and eighth innings, but a two-run single by second baseman J.J. Franco ’14 put Bruno ahead. The Bears held on to win 4-2.

Starting pitcher Heath Mayo ’13 went 7.1 innings, giving up just one earned run and inducing 10 groundouts. Closer Feit earned the win, keeping the Quakers from scoring in 1.2 innings of work.

The Bears play again today, hosting Marist College for a doubleheader at Murray Stadium.

Bruno’s next conference games are April 16-17, when Harvard comes to Brown for a four-game weekend set.

10 Editorial Editorial Nelson ’12 for UCS President Beginning today at 12 p.m., students will have two full days to vote on MyCourses for leaders of the Undergraduate Council of Students and Undergraduate Finance Board. We encourage students to support Ralanda Nelson ’12 for UCS president.

This endorsement is not meant to disparage Nelson’s opponent, Ben Farber ’12. Farber is an experienced UCS member and current vice president of the council. We were impressed by his accomplishments during his three years on UCS — namely, his ability to implement small, everyday adjustments to create positive change. By focusing on the “little things” through his tenure on the council, Farber has been instrumental in producing tangible improvements to campus life, such as increasing dining options on campus.

But Nelson, the current student activities chair, has demonstrated impressive, concrete plans to tackle some of the biggest issues facing undergraduates. As a major leader on extracurricular campus life, Nelson has already worked alongside administrators and President Ruth Simmons to increase funding for the student activities endowment. This extremely important fund works toward eliminating the mandatory undergraduate student activities fee, and Nelson is committed to improving it. She stated emphatically that “Brown students should not have to pay to get involved in student activities,” and the way that funding is presently structured “limits the ingenuity of Brown students.” As chair this year, she decided not to raise the fee that had been increased in past years.

Additionally, Nelson showed an impressive vision, with arduous but achievable goals. She emphasized amending the Brown First Approved Vendor Policy, which she believes is neither the cheapest nor most efficient way to get resources to campus. She also detailed a plan to establish a contract with a new laundry service to set up an online system that would show students which machines are being used on campus and allow them to put money on their cards’ vending stripes, among other conveniences.

In a particularly astute observation, Nelson remarked that students have had little say in the construction and implementation of new buildings on campus. She detailed an ambitious plan in her attempt to secure more influence for student representatives from academic departments, the College Curriculum Council and student groups over these buildings that have such an impact on daily campus life.

On the particularly pressing issue of housing, Nelson identified three of the most glaring problems facing undergraduates. First, she noted that first-years need more communal spaces to build a more solid social community. Second, she stated that sophomores, after living in more integrated places such as Keeney, are “thirsting for community” and need more attention. Third, she recognized that juniors and seniors need more high-quality suites on campus. We are greatly encouraged by her distinct emphasis on this issue, one that her opponent did not mention.

We urge students to take just a few minutes to vote on our leaders for next year. When they do, we hope that they vote for Ralanda Nelson for UCS President.

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The Brown Daily Herald Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Drive home safely, Glenn

By Mike Johnson Opinions Columnist Society scored a huge victory Wednesday when Fox News Network announced it is taking the hatchet to Glenn Beck’s television show. In recent weeks, as the economy continued to create jobs, the esteemed Beck became increasingly erratic, spouting more and more ridiculous anti-Semitic drivel in an effort to draw his fleeing viewers back into the fold.

Chalk was flying everywhere, and Beck appeared as red-faced as ever as he told whomever would listen that the revolts in the Middle East were a conspiracy by American liberals and Muslim extremists to create a caliphate ruled by Sharia Law. He told what was left of his band of followers to start hoarding food and provisions for the coming apocalypse. Leave it to Beck to take pro-democracy revolutions and cast them as the devil — that is because democracy leaves blowhards like him behind.

For instance, when was the last time you heard from Sarah Palin? Michele Bachmann?

The big Republican headline grabber now is Donald Trump, who unabashedly repeats thoroughly debunked myths and hearsay evidence to proclaim his doubt that President Obama was born in Hawaii. The birthers are back, and it is a sad day for the GOP when there are popular candidates — Trump trails the front-runner Mitt Romney in New Hampshire by just 6 percent — who make

Palin and Bachmann seem centrist.

Now, it would be naive to think that we could declare the politics of fear dead in America. The cynic would say that Trump is being trotted out to make Palin look sane and more attractive as a candidate. If there is anything the political middle of the country hates more than a neocon, it’s a birther. We will most certainly see more of Beck as time goes forward, but his pulpit is now reduced to sharing camera time with whatever poor soul the network uses as a balanced analyst on an issue.

dents are all too familiar with a man by the name of Bill O’Reilly.

What really caused the toppling of the Beck monstrosity were active viewers. Viewers stopped watching his television show, listeners stopped listening to his radio show and his ratings took a nosedive too precipitous for Rupert Murdoch to overlook. Couple that with Beck’s frantic dash even further toward the right-wing extreme to energize some new recruits — Zionists are responsible for the Federal Reserve, really? — Fox News’ real reasons are clear. Instead of being an obvi-

On Wednesday, the power of the television viewer was demonstrated.

There are three issues cited as the reason for Beck’s unceremonious departure — the well-publicized advertising boycott, the possible damage he was causing to Fox News’ “fair and balanced” brand and his precipitous drop in ratings in both television and radio.

The ad boycott was a hollow promise. Those companies that pulled their ads from Beck’s hour still advertised on Fox News at other times. While the symbolism of the boycott was not lost on the American viewership, the economic pressure was likely illusory.

Furthermore, Fox News is not now, nor has it ever been, “fair and balanced.” Brown stu-

ous conservative outlet, the station was swiftly becoming the platform from which Beck spun his tales of race-based conspiracy.

On Wednesday, the power of the television viewer was demonstrated. American democracy is no longer a once-a-year proposition. Millions of us across the nation vote every night with the simple decision to turn our television on or leave it off, and it’s about time we began exercising that power. I would argue that the toppling of Beck was inevitable — he is, and always will be, a conspiracy theorist on the fringe, and should be firmly sent there. But perhaps now we can focus on the

more mainstream analysts who simply color everything with their own partisan bias.

I recently read an article about the most memorable moments in journalism — they were all from before the 24-hour news cycle.

Even the terrible events of Sept. 11, 2001 did not make the cut. Perhaps it is because it is too soon to judge those moments, or perhaps this is because the potent moments were lost in the mind-numbing volume of coverage.

What happened to Walter Cronkite shedding a single tear with John F. Kennedy’s assassination? There was more raw emotion in that single choked sob than in all of the Rachel Maddow and O’Reilly diatribes we are graced with every weeknight. In the old era of journalism, even ESPN had journalistic credibility — Jim McKay’s mortified “They’re all gone” at the 1972 Olympics said more in three words than any Keith Olbermann list possibly could.

Edward Murrow is credited with bringing down McCarthyism by demonstrating it was a witch hunt. He did this without calling McCarthy a Nazi or drawing on a chalkboard. He did this by looking into a camera and reading the news. The American people are smart — we demonstrated it leading up to April 6. We do not need partisan blowhards telling us what to think. We need the networks to tell us what has happened and let us form our own decisions. Force the news outlets to take us seriously, and we’ll take back our news.

Mike Johnson ’11 is mad as hell and is not going to take it anymore.

Government is good

By Ethan Tobias Opinions Columnist The center of substantive policy debate has shifted to the far right. The question is not whether to cut government services, but by how much. Not whether to increase or decrease taxes, but who can decrease them more. Republican rhetoric that spending must be slashed because we are broke has carried the day, while Democrats flounder and only find the spine to defend specific government programs.

A government shutdown was averted in the final hour Friday night by a lastminute compromise between House Republicans, Senate Democrats and President Obama. The final tense negotiations came down to a matter of a few billion dollars in spending cuts and the funding of certain Democratic prerogatives, like Planned Parenthood, National Public Radio and Head Start. Lost in these squabbles was a chance for the nation’s liberals to take a principled stand in favor of government.

Government can be an overwhelmingly powerful force for good. Medicare provides health care for the elderly and Social Security means that those who cannot work do not waste away on the street.

Unemployment benefits mean that workers and their families have a cushion to rely on as they transition between jobs.

A government shutdown would have been enlightening, if a bit scary. The government would have stopped processing

new applications for programs like food stamps and Social Security. Travelers would have been unable to obtain passports. Veterans would have had their benefits slashed. Museums, parks and monuments would have had their doors shuttered and sanitation crews in the District of Columbia would have been sent home while garbage piled up in the streets.

An estimated 800,000 federal employees would have been furloughed indefinitely.

In short, a government shutdown would have been devastating.

And a brief federal shutdown does not fully reveal how necessary government

Many of the grants that our professors need to fund their research — and often their undergraduate workers — would be in jeopardy. Federal aid to the states would be cut off, forcing the states to make even deeper spending cuts during these already hard times. Student loans would not be processed, nor would Pell grants. And let’s not forget the postal service.

A government shutdown would have reminded Americans of the indispensability of government in our lives. New and potentially life-saving drugs would have had to wait for FDA approval. The

It is time for liberals to stand proudly and defend government from the unwarranted assaults of Tea Partiers and political conservatives. Government run well is not only not the problem, but it is often the best solution.

truly is, since so-called “essential workers” would be forced to remain on the job indefinitely, often without pay. Pondering the effects of a shutdown, one starts to realize just how many areas of life would be affected.

The air traffic controllers that guide the planes we rely on are government workers. The Amtrak trains that many Brown students ride to and from their homes in the Northeast are federally subsidized.

people who make sure that our drinking water is safe and that our salads are not full of E. coli would have been sent home.

A shutdown would have endangered lives.

It is time for liberals to stand proudly and defend government from the unwarranted assaults of Tea Partiers and political conservatives. Not only is a well-run government not the problem, but it is often the best solution.

The stakes could not be higher. Rep.

Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., the House budget committee chairman, just released a longterm budget that would shear $6.2 trillion from the budget over the next decade by cutting spending on nearly every program, including health care for seniors and the poor. Forget the petty fight over Planned Parenthood’s medical services for low-income women — the Ryan Plan would shrink discretionary spending, including defense, to a percent of gross domestic product not seen since the 1920s.

The fight over this year’s budget might be over, but the fight over the future has just begun. So far, the loudest voices are those like Ryan who are pushing for the steepest cuts at the expense of those most in need.

Liberals need to press back and push the debate back to the left. The question should be by how much to increase social services. Between a public option for health care or Medicare for all. Between current levels of taxation and higher levels on the top 2 percent of earners.

The potential for a federal shutdown is a teachable moment on the efficacy of government. It plays a crucial role in the economy, in ensuring the public welfare, in progressing science and in taking care of the elderly and infirm. Without government, the trains do not run, the mail is not delivered and the planes cannot fly.

Democrats can no longer afford to concede this ideological point. It is time to take our country back.

Ethan Tobias ’12 is a biology concentrator from New York. He can be reached at Ethan_Tobias@brown.edu.

Daily Herald City & State the Brown

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Gay marriage bills stall in legislature Venturing off campus,

By Kat thornton Senior Staff Writer

Though gay marriage has the backing of Rhode Island’s governor and its Speaker of the House, bills to legalize it have yet to be put to a vote.

Opponents say the bills simply do not have enough support from state legislators.

Hearings for gay marriage bills have taken place in both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.

State Rep. Edith Ajello, D-Providence, chairs the committee that has considered the bill in the House. She said she is confident gay marriage will be legalized.

But votes on the bills remain “on a knife’s edge,” said Christopher Plante, executive director for the Rhode Island chapter of the National Organization for Marriage. He added that if House Speaker Gordon Fox, D-Providence, had enough support for the bill, he would already be calling for a vote. Fox, who is openly gay, strongly backs gay marriage.

Sen. Rhoda Perry, D-Providence,

said the Senate is awaiting a House vote. “It’s a very emotional issue,” Perry said, adding that legislators were “all sitting on tenterhooks, waiting to see what happens.”

Perry said Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed, D-Jamestown and Newport, who personally opposes gay marriage, has not officially stated whether or not she will hold a Senate floor vote on the bill.

Gay marriage opponents have sought to place the issue on the ballot.

In a 2009 Brown survey of registered Rhode Island voters, 60 percent of respondents said they supported gay marriage.

Perry said she opposes a public vote. “Referendums are mechanisms that frequently hurt the rights of minority groups,” she added.

A bill allowing same-sex couples, siblings or anyone above the age of 18 to become “reciprocity beneficiaries” and gain rights to make partners’ medical decisions is being considered as an alternative to legalization. The National Organization for Marriage is pushing for this option rather than

civil unions, Plante wrote in an email to The Herald.

Ajello said she does not know when a vote for the legalization bill will be scheduled. The House Judiciary Committee has not yet finished hearing all of the bills for this legislative session and has not voted on any “important” bills so far, she said.

A recent hearing soliciting public input on the legislation ran until 1 a.m. “I have never gotten more messages in support of this legislation,” Ajello said.

Gabe Schwartz ’13, co-director of the Queer Political Action Committee and a gay marriage supporter, said the fate of gay marriage in the state is by no means certain. While there is more support than expected, Schwartz said he is concerned that competing civil union and ballot bills will divert attention from legalization.

He opposes a referendum because he fears spending on advertising by groups like the National Organization for Marriage could sway the results.

“It’s now or never,” Schwartz said.

Mama Kim’s to open second truck continued from page 1 kitchens and customized the interior to meet the needs of Korean cuisine. Nothing on their menu is fried, so they converted the fryer into a steam machine to keep dishes warm. The coffee urn stores stews, a customary part of Korean meals.

This is the Kims’ first venture into the Providence restaurant scene, and Kim said he hopes to “serve the best quality food to my clients.” The Kims emphasized the healthiness of Korean cuisine, which is reflected in their menu. Meat is marinated or pickled, and very little oil is used in the cooking process.

The marinade is made from Korean pears grown in Shingo, avoiding the need for sugar. The Kims aim to “maintain both affordability and quality,” Sook said.

Produce is purchased from local farms using Farm Fresh Rhode Island, a local food system that links farmers and buyers. The truck appeals also to a vegan and vegetarian clientele. “Seventy percent of Korean food is vegan,” Sook said.

Four of the nine dishes consistently offered by the truck are designated as vegan.

Meat-eaters are also welcome.

Among the truck’s most popular dishes are the L.A. Short Ribs, named both for the city and for the lateral cut of the meat, a distinctly Korean style.

The Kims have enjoyed extraordinary success since they first opened March 18. They sold what they thought would be three days worth of food in one and a half hours on their first day. They have put in an order for a second truck and will sign a lease for an off-site commercial kitchen to prepare greater amounts of food. They have also been commissioned to cater events on and off College Hill.

Hyun, who concentrated in international relations and economics, has donated in recent years to the University’s Entrepreneurship Program. Professor Emeritus of Engineering Barrett Hazeltine, who taught Hyun as an undergraduate and took part in a food survey at the Kims’ home in early January, called Hyun an “example” for aspiring entrepreneurs and said he hopes he will “encourage other students to start businesses.” He is also a fan of the truck’s fare, saying it “doesn’t just taste like everyone else’s food.”

Joanna Lee ’11 and Allison Peck ’11, who are Korean, said they visit

Mama Kim’s when they are nostalgic for the Iron Wok truck, which disappeared last year when its owners opened a restaurant on Brook Street.

Mama Kim’s does “a good job of replacing the Chinese truck,” said Diogo Alves ’11.

Attracted by the low prices and convenient location near the Sciences Library, Alves eats at the truck once a week.

But not everyone is thrilled with the new truck on the block. Two female students stopped to look at the menu but continued down Thayer Street after lamenting the absence of dumplings on the menu.

Mama Kim’s represents “a successful attempt to make an inaccessible Asian food accessible,” Peck said, decrying a “serious lack of Korean food around Providence.”

Soyeoh Ahn, a senior at the Rhode Island School of Design from Korea, says Mama Kim’s food is “pretty much the same as home.”

Kim, who served in Iraq in the South Korean Army, said he is eager to inject Providence with some cultural diversity. “You can disseminate culture in war,” he said. “But food is an excellent vehicle to promote cultural exchange.”

students feel safe

By Kat Thornton Senior Staff Writer

Though East Side crime rates have risen in the past year, crime in downtown Providence has dropped slightly, and students and professors continue to feel confident about their safety off College Hill.

“Providence is a safe city,” said Mark Porter, chief of police and director of public safety. “But it’s only safe when students exercise safety awareness.”

From 2009 to 2010, Brown’s campus saw a 50 percent decrease in robbery, a 66 percent decrease in simple assault, a 32 percent decrease in larceny and a 33 percent decrease in breaking and entering and burglary, according to Porter.

But Porter said burglaries and laptop thefts are expected to increase with the warm weather.

Crime in downtown Providence also decreased in 2010 but by a smaller margin. A December crime report showed that property crimes downtown fell by 7 percent and violent crimes by 8 percent from 2009 levels.

Crime rates increased on the East Side this year due to a rise in breaking and entering cases, but crimes around campus generally occur less frequently than in the rest of Providence, said Providence Police Lieutenant John Ryan.

Brown’s policing system is more integrated with the city police than those of most other universities, Porter said. Department of Public Safety officers and Providence Police Department officers meet weekly to discuss crime trends around the city. Keeping the community informed is also an important part of DPS’s approach, Porter added.

Ryan said he does not think Brown students are more at risk than anyone else on the East Side, pointing to programs like SafeRide.

Eric Dahlbom ’11.5 found the value of SafeRide one night when walking alone on Benefit Street almost two years ago. Around 8 p.m. one winter night, he noticed three hooded men walking behind him.

“I wonder if this is what I think it is?” he said, recalling the incident. “This is definitely what I

think it is.”

When Dahlbom saw a SafeRide van, he got in quickly. The driver told him he had seen the men walking behind him and knew to pull over, Dahlbom said.

“There’s a certain level of awareness you should have,” Dahlbom said. But Dahlbom added he has “always felt really safe here, on campus and around campus.”

At least two first-years feel safe enough in the community to take late-night runs. Adrien Deschamps ’14 said he and a friend run around the East Side and into downtown about three times a week between 10 and 11 p.m. on weeknights.

The students’ running route goes from Pembroke campus to India Point Park, Wickenden Street and Kennedy Plaza, he said.

Deschamps added that the pair did not usually go deeper into the downtown area because of laziness, not fear.

“I generally feel very safe,” he said. “I don’t really think downtown is that scary.”

Deschamps added that safety concerns do not stop him from venturing downtown on weekend nights by himself or with friends.

Katherine Ernst ’14 said the population density and presence of DPS help her feel safer on campus than downtown or elsewhere in Providence. People on campus are more likely to help if they see someone in trouble, she said, and she feels more at ease at Brown events where she knows all attendees are students.

Other students depend on certain safety measures when leaving campus. When Christine Chapman ’14 walks back from the downtown train station at night, she makes sure not to go unaccompanied.

“Kennedy Plaza at night might not be the best place,” said Emily Regier ’14. To feel safer, she does not take the bus back alone at night from her job as a volunteer at the Rhode Island Free Clinic but instead gets a ride from a friend, she said.

“I’ve always felt safe here,” said Iraj Anvar, visiting lecturer in Modern Persian. But he added that he fears the poor economy could result in more crime. “Poverty is the mother of all ill,” he said.