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Occupiers march in opposition to BoA

One percent express interest in off-campus ROTC

By Anna lillkung Staff Writer

In solidarity with Occupy movements nationwide, about 70 Occupy Providence protesters

By Greg Jordan-Detamore Senior Staff Writer

The vast majority of students indicated they would not be interested in joining a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program if Brown offered one, according to a recent Herald poll. Students also expressed mixed opinions on the number of admissions spots for recruited athletes, and they almost never deemed their classes too small — only too big or just right.

Corrine Szczesny / Herald Occupiers marched to Bank of America as part of National Bank Transfer Day.

the herald poll Other issues the poll addressed included approval of President Ruth Simmons and the Undergraduate Council of Students, number of sexual partners this semester, satisfaction with advising and confidence in obtaining a desirable job post-graduation. Simmons’ approval rating improved over last semester, rising from 62 to 68 percent.

Eighty-two percent of students polled indicated they would not be interested in joining a ROTC program. Seven percent indicated they would be interested in joining a ROTC program only if it were offered at Brown’s campus, and 1 percent continued on page 5

marched Saturday to support the closing of Bank of America accounts. The march coincided with National Bank Transfer Day, when Occupiers across the country staged actions to encourage people

Pembroke campaign exceeds $1M goal

By Nora McDonnell Contributing Writer

The Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women celebrated its 30th anniversary and the successful end to the Pembroke Challenge capital campaign Nov. 5. The challenge, launched last year, raised $1.5 million for faculty research, surpassing its $1 million goal.

The money will go to endowment funds and eventually be used to support seed grants in the humanities and social sciences. Seed grants allow faculty members to develop new research projects with the hope that findings will be used to submit long-

term proposals to other foundations.

The grants allow for a more lasting research process, as faculty members are not dependent on one source for funding, said Kay Warren, director of the Pembroke Center and professor of anthropology and international studies.

During the two-hour conference luncheon Saturday, past directors of the Pembroke Center discussed the history of the center and contemporary feminist thought.

Funding from national foundations provided “crucial support” for the Pembroke Center’s founding, said Ellen Rooney, chair of the modern culture and media department and

a former director of the center.

Other topics of discussion at the luncheon centered on the place of women’s studies as an academic discipline. “There is no department of women’s studies, because women’s questions should be asked everywhere,” said Karen Newman, former director of the Pembroke Center and professor of comparative literature.

Following the discussion, the panel opened up for questions from the audience, which was composed mostly of women.

There “isn’t another place in the country like this,” said Joan Wallach Scott, founding director of the Center.

Hip-hop jam showcases break dance movement Where can you find some good clean fun that appeals to the whole family, even a whole community?

The last place you might look is a hip-hop jam like PROOV, an

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event hosted by Phi Kappa Psi and Ground Breakin’, Brown’s break dancing club, Saturday night.

“You really want people with no experience in hip-hop to show up and learn what it really is all about. … You’d be surprised to see families — full on families — just hanging out there. People don’t expect that the first time,” said

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Sam Rosenfeld ’12, member of Ground Breakin’ and an editorial cartoonist for The Herald.

Saturday saw the auditorium in Alumnae Hall flooded with people of all ages, grooving to the music. Even the youngest attendees showed off their skills — a young boy, no more than three- or fouryears old, spent the night hamming it up for the crowd. Gleefully dancing his heart out to Eric B. and Rakim’s “Don’t Sweat the Technique,” he was welcome on the dance floor, the older boys cheering him on and making sure he was a safe distance from other performers’ kicking feet.

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Bears take sixth straight with thrilling win at Yale

By Ethan mccoy Sports Editor

NEW HAVEN—Running back Mark Kachmer ’13 ripped off a recordbreaking 95-yard touchdown run and never looked back, totaling 213 yards of offense and three scores to lead the football team in a 34-28 win over Yale in New Haven Saturday. The Bulldogs (4-4, 3-2 Ivy) made a frantic comeback late in the fourth quarter, but could not catch the Bears (7-1, 4-1), who won their sixth straight and sent home a disappointed crowd at the Yale Bowl.

“We knew it’d be a struggle,” said Head Coach Phil Estes. “We knew we were in for a game, and I just think it was a grind — and we won the grind.”

Brown’s defense again turned in a stellar performance. The unit held Yale’s offense to seven net rushing yards and shut down Mordecai Cargill, who ran for 235 yards against Columbia the previous week. Yale quarterback Patrick Witt threw for 370 yards, but was picked off three times by the ball-hawking Brown defense.

“The story of the game was that we capitalized on turnovers and made some big plays,” Estes said. “I think (Kachmer’s) run in the first quarter was setting the tone.”

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to withdraw their money from big banks and deposit it in local banks and credit unions.

The protesters gathered at 10 a.m. at Burnside Park, where Occupiers have been staying since Oct. 15, to march to Bank of America’s office on Federal Hill.

Mark Doe, who marched with the group, said he opposes Bank of America due to its “shady business” of influencing politicians through campaign contributions.

Javier Gonzalez, who also marched, said Occupiers would welcome the demise of Bank of America, though he said they hope in the short term that the

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U.S. Senators Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., told a crowd of students, professors and community members that oil dependency poses a threat to national security, health and the economy in Smith-Buonanno 106 Friday night.

The speeches were part of the “Get Off Oil” forum hosted by Brown emPower and Environment Rhode Island.

Oil dependency has “turned Washington, D.C., and specifically the Capitol Building, into one of the two or three last places on earth where climate change is still denied,” Whitehouse told the crowd. “This is an industry that is comprised mostly of international corporations who owe no allegiance to any flag or nation. The idea that we would allow them to control the debate in our country as to what direction our energy future will go is a very poor idea,” he said.

Following the senators’ presentations, a panel addressed the environmental and health risks of using oil as an energy source before opening the discussion to questions and comments from the audience.

Stephen Porder, assistant professor of biology and one of the panel-

ists, said many people tend to ignore extreme climate change models. But “even middle of the road scenarios mean big changes,” he said, listing ecosystem failure and an increase in the number of extreme weather events as consequences of unsustainable oil use.

“It essentially means moving the climate of Atlanta up to Rhode Island,” Porder said.

Molly Clark, manager of health promotion and public policy at the American Lung Association in Rhode Island, discussed the decrease in air quality caused by oil emissions.

Catherine Lutz, chair of the Department of Anthropology, compared society’s dependence on cars with its dependence on oil. Due to suburbanization, the failing of public transportation systems and flashy car marketing techniques, car and oil use has increased dramatically in past decades, Lutz said. She also focused on “some positive but fragile trends,” such as the move toward more fuelefficient and hybrid vehicles.

Following a brief question and answer session, a second panel took the stage to discuss ways of decreasing oil use.

Jim Malloy of Malloy Biodiesel and Mike Bailey, assistant production manager of Newport Biodiesel, spoke about their work to increase

the production and sale of biodiesel as an alternative energy source.

During his presentation, Malloy challenged Lutz’ labeling of such increases as “fragile trends,” noting that his company celebrated the sale of its one millionth gallon this past summer.

Albert Dahlberg, Brown’s director of state and community relations and the founder of Project Get Ready Rhode Island, emphasized the need to adopt plug-in electric vehicles as oil availability continues to decrease.

“The era of cheap oil is over,” Dahlberg said. “It will never come back. It is a physical impossibility.”

During the second question and answer session, audience and panel members debated the merits of increasing the cost of oil to make sustainable energy more appealing and discussed whether to emphasize the environmental or economic impacts of oil dependency.

“I loved everything that’s going on tonight,” said Danielle Fournier, a student at the University of Rhode Island.

“I thought it was ... very informative,” said Anthony Baro, co-founder of Efficient Energy Solutions, an organization dedicated to developing alternative energy sources. “It is a great initiative to start from the ground roots.”

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Kachmer’s run was the longest in Brown football history and put the Bears on the board first. On thirdand-six from Brown’s five-yard line, Kachmer, who had missed the past two games with turf toe, cut outside and took off down the right sideline.

“That’s not necessarily where I was supposed to go, but I watched my fullback go outside on the play, and I just followed him,” Kachmer said. “Then I saw (wide receiver Tellef) Lundevall ’13 just kind of kill that corner. After that, it was off to the races.”

But the momentum of the historic run was short-lived. Yale answered immediately with a six-play, 80-yard drive that culminated in a one-yard rushing touchdown by Witt to even the score at 7-7.

The Bears reclaimed the lead early in the second quarter when quarterback Kyle Newhall-Caballero ’11.5 connected with Jimmy Saros ’12 for a 20-yard touchdown reception. Newhall-Caballero threw for

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Brown extended its lead to 20-7 with 1:28 remaining in the second quarter on another Newhall-Caballero touchdown pass to Jonah Faye ’12.

In the third quarter, the Bears added to their lead after Adam Pelzer ’13 came flying in and got a piece of the ball on a Yale punt. The partial block set the offense up at Yale’s 21yard line, and Kachmer finished the short drive when he dove into the end zone on a direct snap to make the score 27-7.

After a Witt touchdown pass cut the lead to 27-14, the game took a wild turn in the fourth quarter.

There were four turnovers in a bizarre, back-and-forth six minute span. During this time, Yale could not manage to put any points on the board. Kicker Philippe Panico pushed a 29-yard field goal attempt wide right, and after a pair of Brown three-and-outs, Witt was twice picked off by A.J. Cruz ’13 and

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Brown finally took control after recovering a bobbled punt return at Yale’s 10-yard line. On third-andgoal, Newhall-Caballero rolled out and found Kachmer wide to stretch Brown’s lead to 34-14 with 8:55 left in the game.

But the Bears were not out of the woods yet. Witt scored on a quarterback sneak with 5:42 to play then connected with Cargill for a 22-yard touchdown to cut the deficit to 34-28 with 1:28 to play.

The Bulldogs needed to recover an onside kick to give themselves a chance. But on the kickoff, the sixfoot-three inch tall Lundevall rose up above the crowd just as he was hit to make what Estes called “a heck of a catch.”

The Bears suffered one final scare when the snap on the game-ending kneel-down was mishandled. But the referees ruled that Brown recovered, and the Bears could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

“We made what could have been a really boring game really interesting at the end there,” Estes said. “You always knew that with the kind of skill they have, that they always have the opportunity to come back. But when you’re up by three touchdowns, it’s a matter of getting first downs, and we blew it down there.”

The Bears will now return home to take on Dartmouth (3-5, 2-3) next week before traveling to Columbia (0-8, 0-5) for the season finale. They remain a game behind Harvard (7-1, 5-0) in the Ivy standings. The Crimson can win the league outright by winning its final two games, but those victories will have to come against a pair of tough opponents — the Bulldogs and defending champion Penn (5-3, 4-1).

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Community grooves with break dance group continued from page 1 community-centered,” said Pierre Arreola ’13, president of Ground Breakin’ and the chief organizer of the event. Arreola said this year he worked hard to reach out to the entire New England hip-hop community and also brought in two of his friends from Los Angeles. He hopes to show Brown that hiphop is something with universal appeal — and in the process erase some preconceptions about the genre, he said.

“It’s a real socially inclusive environment in that, regardless of race, ethnicity, regardless of disability or ability, everyone is given the same amount of respect,” Arreola said.

The mosaic population at the event was proof positive, and it was hard to ignore the handshakes, hugs and happy reunions that were taking place all around the room.

Alfonzo “Megatron” Hunt, a big name in underground hiphop, came down from Boston to judge the event. “The message that (Arreola’s) sending here at Brown is whether you’re an Ivy Leaguer or someone who grew up in the hood, dance is all the same,” he said.

But Arreola also said PROOV represents an effort to bring more of hip-hop’s diverse forms togeth-

er. Aside from break dancers — otherwise known as b-boys and b-girls — PROOV hosted DJs, masters of ceremony and live graffiti artists from Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design. DJ Rox Swift and DJ Dynamik provided the beats throughout the night, and Rosenfeld’s jam band Sweet Beat Street also performed.

“We hope to inspire youth to look at these art forms and really find their own determinism, find their own path within hip-hop,” Arreola said.

This year’s dancers had a chance to show off their skills in a Bonnie-and-Clyde all-style battle, where pairs of one b-boy and one b-girl performed for judges Hunt, Jennifer “Lady Beast” Viaud and Lorenzo “Devious” Chapman. Billy Perez and his partner, Mari Del Rosario Maria, said Bonnie-and-Clyde battles are a way to promote equality between male and female break dancers and to demonstrate that there should not be differences in how men and women are expected to dance. Competitors also included America’s Best Dance Crew’s Phillip “Pacman” Chbeeb and Dzajna “Jaja” Vankova, representing their crew, I.aM.mE. Later on, b-boys competed in a one-on-one battle, also judged by dancers Donnie “Keebla123” Senna and Eddie Ed.

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Closing a Bank of America account amounts to “closing down excessively greedy corporations,” said Annie Rose London ’11.5, adding that big banks prioritize profits over the well-being of ordinary people.

Before the rally began, two female marchers briefly explained the day’s importance. They argued that Americans should stop supporting banks that evict people and fund companies that degrade the environment. Chanting “Bank of America — bad for America,” marchers departed Burnside Park carrying signs featuring slogans like “Stop Foreclosure, Stop Eviction” and “Too Rich for Rules.”

As the group reached the Bank of America office on

Federal Hill, Lindsay Goss GS shared her reasons for closing her account. She said the bank illegally foreclosed homes, despite receiving bailout money from taxpayers and awarding CEO Brian Moynihan ’81 P’14 a generous bonus. Moynihan is a trustee of the Corporation, the University’s highest governing body.

A security guard stopped marchers at the door to the bank’s office and limited entry to one to two protesters at a time while other customers entered freely.

About 10 Occupiers closed their accounts after entering.

Police were on hand during the march and account closings, which lasted roughly an hour.

Lt. John Ryan said police were there to ensure roads were not blocked and added that police generally found protesters to be very cooperative.

During the battle, the crowd stood cheering as dancers jerked in carefully orchestrated sequences of abrupt halts and freeze frames, creating elegant architecture with their bodies. They provoked whoops of admiration as they jolted back into a smooth, fluid glide, some tipping their bodies to the floor to balance artfully on one arm. Other dancers wowed the audience by driving their bodies into rapid tremors, vibrating with the deep beat of the music.

Kelvin “Poppin Groove” Romero, part of Providence’s All City Rockers dance crew, said he loves dancing just for the feel of moving to the music. But he also said hip-hop is a way to keep himself out of trouble.

To cynical ears, Romero’s statement seems suspiciously like a line from an after-school special. But in truth, his experience speaks to hip-hop’s authentic history as a movement for social change.

“Hip-hop is not fully represented at Brown as the powerful social movement that it is in the world and in Providence,” Rosenberg said. He detailed the origins of hip-hop in 1970s New York City, where reformed gang members used it as a way to express themselves creatively. For them, it was a way to escape the adverse circumstances of low-income urban

environments, he said.

Both Rosenfeld and Arreola got a chance to teach last summer as well, thanks to a Royce Fellowship.

They worked in Los Angeles with the group the G818ers, holding dance, music and art classes for kids as part of a gang reduction program that received recognition from the California State Legislature, Rosenfeld said.

He wants to continue those efforts now that he has returned to the East Coast, he said. Having events like PROOV at Brown helps the hip-hop community see that a major academic institution is interested in their movement. A portion of the proceeds from the event went to fund the purchase of safety equipment for Studio 360, a hip-hop community center in Providence.

Arreola said hosting these

events is not easy. Contemporary artists whose music promotes violence, objectification of women and drug use have created a stigma preventing people from understanding hip-hop’s original purpose, he said.

“If you listen to any of the classics, like Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Afrika Bambaataa … they were talking about using hip-hop as a way to escape drug use and to escape violence,” Rosenfeld said.

Arreola and Rosenfeld both said they would like to see hiphop bring Brown closer to the community at large. “We believe that there’s a fundamental misunderstanding between people of different socioeconomic classes, of different races,” Rosenfeld said, “Hip-hop brings everyone together — real hip-hop.”

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Cornell quickly tied the game up at the start of the second period. The Big Red dominated most of the period and took the lead when Brian Ferlin dispossessed Brown defenseman Dennis Robertson ’14 in the neutral zone and beat Clemente on the ensuing breakaway.

After a dormant 15 minutes, the Bears jolted to life and tied the game 3-3 when Wahl lifted a skillfullytaken wrist shot over Cornell goalie Andy Iles’ glove to light the lamp.

But Bruno had another lapse in play, leading to the third shorthanded goal surrendered in two games to give the Big Red the 4-3 lead.

After Cornell successfully killed a pair of Brown power-play chances, Lamacchia took matters into his own hands. The five-foot-eight-inch firstyear stole the puck around mid-ice,

then beat Iles glove-side for the unassisted game-tying goal.

“Lamacchia is a very skilled kid,” Whittet said. “He just has a knack for putting points on the board. He’s not the biggest guy. He’s a little bit of a guy and he’s not the fastest skater, but he understands the game. When he gets a chance to bury it, he buries it.”

Only 1:19 later, Jacobson — playing on the first line with Maclellan and Farnham — found the gamewinner.

“It was a crazy game,” Maclellan said. “Definitely an exciting win, and it was nice to see some of the young guys step up and win it for us.”

The Bears will return to the ice for more conference play next weekend as they travel to upstate New York to take on defending ECAC champion Union (5-1-3, 2-0) and a struggling RPI side (1-8, 0-2), who bounced Bruno from last season’s ECAC tournament in the first round.

While the average Brown student might be more familiar with the Phoenix song “Lisztomania” than Franz Liszt’s classical compositions, Saturday’s “Listztomania! A Bicentennial Festival Concert” proved that nothing beats the original.

The concert — performed in a nearly filled Sayles Hall — occurred both Friday and Saturday nights, as part of the two-week “Visions of Liszt” festival held in honor of the Hungarian composer’s bicentennial.

Dana Gooley, associate professor of music, described Liszt Saturday evening as “one of the first multimedia composers,” drawing inspiration for his pieces from art — hence the festival name “Visions of Liszt.”

According to Gooley, the pieces performed at “Lisztomania” were chosen to highlight Liszt’s lesserknown religious and orchestral pieces.

Gooley said the festival organizers wanted to have a concert that incorporated the ensemble efforts of an orchestra, organ, piano and chorus to showcase the diversity of Liszt’s work beyond the piano music for which he is best known.

“I think Liszt is one of those misunderstood, maligned composers in the musical world, and people may only know him for

one or two pieces, or even more for his reputation than his work,” said Mark Steinbach, University organist, curator of instruments and lecturer in music.

Steinbach said the concert gave audience members a chance to experience the complexity of Liszt’s work and his composing virtuosity.

Steinbach’s performance of “Prelude and Fugue on the name B-AC-H (1870 version)” on the organ was visually stimulating, a blur of rapidly moving fingers on keys and feet on pedals. Audibly, it was a full and resonant piece of music that reflected Liszt’s intricacies.

As a performer, Steinbach said playing Liszt is both technically and physically challenging, akin to “running a marathon.” As a lover of music, Steinbach said he appreciates Liszt for his “musical surprises” and “mercurial” nature.

“If you have a Bach fugue, it is complicated but very logical. Liszt is very complicated but not always logical,” Steinbach said.

In a concert composed of work that explores the themes of heaven and hell, the Brown University Chorus filled the role of angelic voices in the pieces “Anima Christi” and “Ossa Arida.”

But the logistics of accompanying the organ meant the audience was able to watch the performance only on a projection screen. While Liszt was the “first multimedia composer,” having to watch the

first portion of the concert on a screen put up a wall between the performance and the audience that slightly detracted from the show.

But pieces such as “Consolations, No. 4” more than made up for this by providing the kind of intricate, epic music that one would expect to accompany a brilliant period piece or award-winning film.

Andrew Garland, teaching associate in music, commanded performances of both “The Beatitude” and “The Bells of Stratsbourg Cathedral,” a piece in which Liszt used English poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With his baritone voice, he exemplified the visceral and humanistic nature of Liszt’s works.

Guest pianist Kenneth Hamilton wowed the audience in the piece “Totentanz” and received a standing ovation. Translated in English as “Dance of Death,” the complex piano and orchestra arrangement was a prime example of how Liszt can take something that starts very simply and layer it into a rich and haunting piece. The way Liszt quickly shifts from something seemingly soft and simplistic to something compelling and elaborate, and then ends on a strangely tender note is emotionally draining in an artistically fulfilling way.

Though “Visions of Liszt” and the bicentennial are now over, “Lisztomania” will linger at Brown for some time to come.

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Undergrads find class sizes ‘just right’ continued from page 1 reported they would be interested in another institution’s program. Eleven percent indicated they have no opinion or are not familiar enough to answer. Men and seniors were more likely to indicate they would be interested in joining a program if offered at Brown, though the number was still a minority.

ROTC has been a hotly debated issue on campus over the past year.

The Herald’s spring 2011 poll found no consensus among students asked if they would support lifting the ban on ROTC, though more students approved than disapproved. A third of students reported at the time that they either had no opinion or were not familiar enough to answer, while 43 percent approved and 24 percent disapproved.

Faculty have less favorable opinions of ROTC, though opinions are still mixed. In a Herald faculty poll conducted this fall, 31 percent of faculty reported they strongly disapproved of lifting the campus ban on ROTC, 13 percent somewhat disapproved, 7 percent had no opinion, 26 percent somewhat approved, 13 percent strongly approved and 10 percent indicated they were not familiar enough to answer.

In its October meeting, the Corporation directed the University to create an office to support students interested in exploring ROTC programs at other schools, but it agreed with Simmons’ recommendation that the ban on ROTC should remain in place.

The Herald poll was conducted Nov. 2 through Nov. 3 and has a 3.1 percent margin of error with 95 percent confidence. A total of 851 students completed the poll, which The Herald distributed as a written questionnaire in J. Walter Wilson and the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center during the day and in the Sciences Library at night.

Other results

The Corporation decided at its October meeting to lower the number of admissions spots for recruited athletes from 225 to 205. Poll respondents had mixed opinions on that reduced figure. A third of those polled indicated they are not familiar enough to answer.

A combined 28 percent of respondents said 205 spots is much too high or too high, while 13 percent said it is much too low or too low. Twenty-seven percent said 205 spots is just right. Opinions varied widely between varsity athletes and non-athletes. Only one percent of athletes said the number is too high, with none saying it is much too high, while 63 percent said it is too low or much too low. Of non-athletes, 31 percent said 205 is too high or much too high while 5 percent said it is too low or much too low.

A majority of students reported the size of their classes, in terms of number of students, to be just right.

But those who did not call their class sizes “just right” almost exclusively reported them to be too large. Four percent said their classes are much too large, 28 percent said they are too large and 64 percent said they are just right. One percent said their

classes are too small and no students said their classes are much too small.

Four percent indicated no opinion.

Most students reported having no more than one or two sexual partners so far this semester, with 38 percent saying they have had none, 36 percent one, 9 percent two, 5 percent three to five and 1 percent six or more. One percent of respondents indicated they are not sure, and 9 percent said they have no answer.

Men reported having more sex partners than women.

A majority of students expressed satisfaction with academic advising — 32 percent said they are very satisfied, 40 percent said they are somewhat satisfied, 19 percent said they are somewhat dissatisfied and 6 percent said they are very dissatisfied. Three percent reported having no opinion. First-year students were more satisfied than others — 83 percent of first-years said they are very satisfied or satisfied with advising.

Students expressed broad satisfaction with Simmons. Thirty-eight percent of those polled indicated they strongly approve of the way Simmons is handling her job as president, 30 percent said they somewhat approve, 6 percent said they have no opinion, 3 percent said they somewhat disapprove and 1 percent said they strongly disapprove. A little over a fifth of students said they are not familiar enough to answer. Varsity athletes expressed less approval than others.

As in previous Herald polls, the activities of UCS seem to be unknown to much of the student body.

Over half of student respondents said they are not familiar enough to answer or have no opinion on how UCS is handling its job. Of those who answered, most said they approve — 10 percent said they strongly approve, 28 percent said they somewhat approve, 5 percent said they somewhat disapprove and 1 percent said they strongly disapprove.

Students are more likely to think their families are less wealthy, rather than more wealthy, than the family of the average Brown student. Four percent of students said their families’ levels of wealth are much higher than average, 20 percent said somewhat higher, 27 percent said the same, 26 percent said lower and 18 percent said much lower. Seven percent said they had no opinion. Students on financial aid were far more likely to think their families are less wealthy.

When asked how confident or worried they are about obtaining a desirable job after graduation, students had mixed responses. Fifteen percent indicated they are very confident, 28 percent indicated they are somewhat confident, 18 percent indicated they are neither confident nor worried, 28 percent indicated they are somewhat worried and 8 percent indicated they are very worried. Three percent reported they are not considering employment after graduation. Men indicated more confidence than women.

Students were also asked what electronic devices they own. Almost all students — 98 percent — reported having laptops. Other popular devices include iPods and MP3 players, owned by 68 percent of students, iPhones, owned by 37 percent of students, Blackberries, owned by 14 per-

cent of students and Android phones, owned by 13 percent of students. Few students reported having eReaders, owned by 6 percent of students, tablet computers, owned by 6 percent of students, and netbooks, owned by 3 percent of students.

Over the next couple weeks, The Herald will publish a series of articles about individual poll questions. Find results of previous polls at thebdh.org/ poll.

Methodology

Written questionnaires were administered to 851 undergraduates Nov. 2 through Nov. 3 in the lobby of J. Walter Wilson and the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center during the day and the Sciences Library at night. The poll has a 3.1 percent margin of error with 95 percent confidence. The margin of error is 4.6 percent for the subset of males, 4.3 percent for females, 6.4 percent for seniors, 3.6 percent for non-seniors, 6.3 percent for first-year students, 3.6 percent for non-first-years, approximately 4.7 percent for students receiving financial aid, 4.2 percent for students not receiving financial aid, approximately 9.2 percent for varsity student-athletes and 3.3 percent for non-varsity student-athletes.

The sample polled was demographically similar to the Brown undergraduate population as a whole.

The sample was 46.5 percent male and 53.5 percent female. First-years made up 24.4 percent of the sample, 29.0 percent were sophomores, 22.4 percent were juniors and 24.3 percent were seniors. Varsity athletes made up 11.6 percent of the sample. Of those polled, 45.0 percent currently receive financial aid from Brown. Statistical significance was established at the 0.05 level.

Senior Editor Julien Ouellet ’12, City and State Editors Rebecca Ballhaus ’13 and Claire Peracchio ’13, Senior Staff Writers Greg JordanDetamore ’14 and Jacob Comer ’13 and Staff Writer Alexandra Macfarlane ’13 coordinated the poll. Herald section editors, senior staff writers and other staff members conducted the poll.

Full Poll Results Circle which of the following you own: Laptop (non-netbook): 97.5% Netbook: 3.1% eReader (Kindle, Nook, etc.): 6.2% Tablet computer: 5.5% iPod or MP3 player: 67.8% iPhone: 37.4% Android phone: 13.4% Blackberry: 13.5%

program, would you be interested in joining? (Circle One) Yes, at another institution 0.7% Yes, only if it were offered on Brown’s campus 7.2% No 81.5% No opinion 5.0% Not familiar enough to answer 5.7%

Do you approve or disapprove of the way Ruth Simmons is handling her job as president of the University? (Circle One) Strongly approve 38.4% Somewhat approve 29.8% Not familiar enough to answer 21.1% Somewhat disapprove 3.4% Strongly disapprove 1.1% No opinion 6.1%

The University recently decided to lower the number of admissions spots for recruited athletes from 225 to 205. 205 spots is: (Circle One) Much too high 8.8% Too high 18.5% Just right 26.8% Too low 8.6% Much too low 3.5% Not familiar enough to answer 33.7%

Do you approve or disapprove of the way the Undergraduate Council of Students (UCS) is handling its job? (Circle One) Strongly approve 9.7% Somewhat approve 27.9% Not familiar enough to answer 43.4% Somewhat disapprove 5.0% Strongly disapprove 0.9% No opinion 13.1% Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with your academic advising experience at Brown? (Circle One) Very satisfied 31.9% Somewhat satisfied 40.2% Somewhat dissatisfied 18.9% Very dissatisfied 5.9% No opinion 3.1% The size of classes I take at Brown, in terms of number of students, is on average: (Circle One) Much too large 3.6% Too large 27.8% Just right 64.3% Too small 0.7% Much too small 0.0% No opinion 3.7% If Brown offered a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC)

My family’s level of wealth, compared to that of the average Brown student’s, is: (Circle One) Much higher 3.5% Somewhat higher 20.0% The same 26.6% Somewhat lower 25.5% Much lower 17.7% No opinion 6.7% How confident or worried are you about getting a desirable job after graduation? (Circle One) Very confident 15.0% Somewhat confident 27.8% Neither confident nor worried 18.2% Somewhat worried 28.4% Very worried 7.5% Not considering employment after graduation 3.0% How many sexual partners have you had so far this semester? (Circle One) 0 - 37.5% 1 - 36.4% 2 - 9.3% 3-5 - 5.3% 6 or more - 1.1% Not sure - 1.2% No answer - 9.2%

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6 Editorial & Letter Editorial

The Brown Daily Herald Monday, November 7, 2011

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by pao l a e i s n e r

One large step for student activities The Herald recently reported that the Undergraduate Council of Students has recommended a $72 dollar increase in the student activities fee for the upcoming year (“UCS votes for $72 activities fee hike,” Oct. 27). This would put the fee at $250, which The Herald reported is higher than at wealthier Ivy League schools.

Though it sounds like a sudden and perhaps outrageous jump, we encourage students to see the money they spend on student activities as a worthy investment — especially when compared with the magnitude of other costs associated with attending Brown. Tuition dollars, currently near $40,000, are widely dispersed across various University expenses like support for research, funding the library system, facility maintenance and shuttle transport services. Student activities play just as vital a role in the Brown experience as those services and come at far less cost. Generous donations to the University are also usually earmarked for building expansions or department fellowships, but students can be sure that the money they pay into student activities will directly affect them. After all, it was a council of undergraduate students that devised this proposal, taking into account the best interests of the student body.

The student activities fee sustains the many organizations of which all students are either members or supporters in some form, and every dollar of the fee increase would be put back into undergraduate activities — be it in the form of expanding event publicity, group travel allowances or on-campus concert options. Mae Cadao ’13, Student Activities chair and a Herald senior finance associate, wrote in an email to the editorial page board that students will hopefully not see another fee increase like this one in the next few years. Ultimately, a fee increase might mean that student groups would not have to work as hard to raise their own additional funds during the year. Many would acknowledge that cocurricular activities are as educational and meaningful as classroom experiences. With that in mind, we hope students see the necessity of expanding the student activities budget and give willingly to a fund that benefits all undergraduates.

That said, the fee hike is a short-term solution. Under-funding for student groups has been a consistent problem, and the administration has made it a goal to address the issue in the long run not by increasing the student activities fee, but by eliminating it all together. President Ruth Simmons saw the need to start a student activities endowment and seeded the project with $100,000. We are deeply grateful that Chancellor Emeritus Stephen Robert ’62 P’91 saw fit to donate $1 million to the endowment, because, as he told The Herald last spring, students should not have to bear the burden of additional costs to enjoy co-curriculars at Brown. Yet the fund’s current standing at $1.8 million falls far short of its intended aim of reaching $17 million, and if student activities fees are to come down or disappear any time soon, we have to make some progress toward that goal.

We urge donation solicitation for the student activities endowment to continue and commend the new strategies UCS plans to employ in demonstrating the need in this area. We also hope that potential donors will see that undergraduate students value their organizations and events enough to step up to this fee hike while trusting that a long-term fix will come to fruition.

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letter to the editor Ending coaches’ salary disparities a priority To the Editor: In response to Friday’s article on coaches’ salaries, (“Gender gap in coaches’ salaries scrutinized,” Nov. 6) I want to emphasize that we are committed to fair and competitive salaries for all of our coaches. The $1.1 million investment in coaching salaries, as recommended by the Athletics Review Committee and endorsed by President Ruth Simmons, is an effort, across the board, to improve the salaries of all our coaches.

As the charts included with the article illustrate most glaringly, our coaching salaries overall are lower than our peers, and that deficiency in compensation deserves to be addressed, as we would with any other class of employees at Brown who are underpaid to an extent that recruitment and retention could be concerns. In fact, the discrepancy between salaries for coaches of men’s teams versus women’s teams is smaller at Brown than at many of our peer schools,

but it has been a value in our salary review to lessen this difference as much as possible. We need to know the market for each position to insure that we can pay what it costs to recruit and retain quality coaches, but we focused equally on the experience and success of each individual coach, his/her tenure at Brown and the duties involved in the particular position — how many athletes on the team, how many assistant coaches to supervise, etc.

This salary review, and the recommendation for increases, is an endorsement of the importance of the teaching students receive from coaches. By attracting and retaining high-caliber coaches, we provide a quality experience for the members of women’s and men’s teams at Brown.

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The Brown Daily Herald Monday, November 7, 2011

Making off-campus living as difficult as possible

By Garret Johnson Opinions Columnist At many colleges, junior year is the time when students can finally take the plunge and sign their very first lease for their very first apartment. It’s a pivotal moment in our lives — out of the house, out of the dorm and into the almost-real world.

But here at Brown, juniors are not always allowed to live off campus. Instead, they must apply for permission. We are told where we can and cannot live at the age of 20 or 21.

In the interest of full disclosure, I may have a personal stake in seeing this policy changed — a three-bedroom on Thayer Street. But it is my belief that the University’s off-campus policy makes the already difficult process of finding an apartment all the more arduous.

For starters, there is the lack of publicized information about the odds of receiving off-campus permission. Rising sophomores receive an email over the summer informing them that they may “apply for off-campus permission.”

They are warned in bold, underlined and enlarged font to “not sign a lease until you receive written approval via email of your permission.” But they are never told how likely it is that they will be granted permission. There is no information published about the previous year’s numbers.

It is, quite simply, a mystery.

Then there is the timing. Sophomores hoping to live off campus for their junior year do not receive permission until Nov. 3, at the earliest.

Any veteran of the battlefield of apartment hunting on College Hill knows that

by Nov. 3, you are lucky to find a cardboard box on Brook Street to rent, let alone a nice wooden crate on Thayer. Most

to mind the mafia men who sit outside of Cosa Nostra, or whatever it is called now.

Between the oppressive timing of ResLife’s policy and the arm-breaking, cigarsmoking Patriarca landlords, rising juniors are left in a tough position. Essentially, the majority of juniors are forced to live on campus.

This whole situation wouldn’t sting nearly as much if the University offered us

Between the oppressive timing of ResLife’s policy and the arm-breaking, cigar-smoking Patriarca landlords, rising juniors are left in a tough position.

leases are signed in September and early October for the following academic year, which leaves almost nothing after the November notification date.

And don’t expect any help from the landlords of the East Side. Many of them seem to be related, which means a few powerful landlord families — the 1 percent, if you will — control a significant portion of the apartments near campus. A handful of them are nice. But most bring

nice, cheap housing. As a resident of Chapin who pays $6,522 per year in housing, and who hardly lives in luxury — thank you Theta Delta Chi — I was stunned to learn that my contribution to a beautiful, newly renovated apartment on Thayer Street would only be $700 per month.

There were hardwood floors, nice bathrooms and no linebackers puking in the hall. And if you multiply the $700 times the nine months of the academic year, the

result is $200 less than the University’s fee.

Except I forgot to include one other ridiculous detail of ResLife’s off-campus housing policy: the $616 non-resident fee that everyone who lives off campus is forced to pay. That’s correct — students are forced to pay the housing office even when not living on campus.

The University could do any number of things to remedy this awful policy. For one, they could just allow juniors to live off campus. This would bypass the entire lottery system for off-campus permission.

Perhaps letting more people off campus would allow the University to renovate a dorm every once in a while.

Or ResLife could simply move up the dates of the process to make it a little fairer for juniors in the housing market. If the application period were in the summer, for instance, sophomores could sign leases for their junior year upon returning to campus. Rising seniors would still be able to sign whenever they wanted, because they are guaranteed off-campus permission.

Either way, the system as it stands now is not acceptable. Between the secretive oligarchy of ResLife and the Scarfaceesque landlords, something has got to change.

Garret Johnson ’14 is a biochemistry and molecular biology concentrator from Boxford, Mass., who may be in danger of mob retaliation for having written this column.

Students are not commodities

By Ian Trupin Opinions Columnist It does not take a detective to know where Brown banks. As anyone who receives checks from the University as an employee or has ever walked into the basement of the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center can tell you, this is a Bank of America school, though Sovereign Bank’s campus center ATM and strategic Thayer Street branch location should probably earn it an honorable mention as the second choice on campus.

This arrangement may seem fair enough, if not downright convenient, to any observer. As a holder of a Sovereign Bank account, I, for one, rejoice in the convenience of their ATMs, and I know from conversations that my friends with Bank of America accounts feel much the same way. And why shouldn’t they? Adidas makes clothes for our sports teams, and Bank of America makes cards for our shopping sprees.

But the more I inquire about this seemingly mundane set of observations, the more I find reasons to feel concerned as a student and as a consumer.

It is no coincidence that Bank of America is so accessible to students. But it would be more to the point to say that Brown students are accessible to Bank of America, which highly values this ac-

cess — to the tune of a seven-year contract worth $2.3 million. This money is not just about who gets the ATM in the campus center. As a Bank of America executive said in 2006, it is about students as “an emerging market that we could really capitalize on.”

Since 2006, Bank of America has certainly been capitalizing on students. In that year, it purchased MBNA, a credit card company that had pioneered a type of contract known as an affinity agree-

provide banks with students’ personal contact information, giving banks priority access to athletic and other events for advertising purposes and actively marketing banks’ credit cards. In return, colleges have received commissions for every student who opens a credit card account and a cut of every purchase the student makes with that credit card. In other words, banks have been paying colleges to encourage their students to acquire and use credit cards — the more the better.

When Brown accepted $2.3 million from Bank of America, it was selling me and so many students like me as potential lifelong Bank of America customers.

ment. Affinity agreements give banks broad access to consumers through institutions like colleges. Bank of America quickly became the industry leader in developing such agreements, paying colleges $62 million in 2009 alone.

Colleges have been secretive about the details of these agreements, but according to a 2010 investigation by the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, components have included colleges agreeing to

I do not know the specific terms of the University’s contract — like many schools, Brown has not made the terms of its contract easily accessible, though the Credit CARD Act of 2009 requires that such information be made available.

What bothers me about the current state of affairs is not that the University receives so much money from Bank of America — and possibly other banks — as much as it is that the University is

treating me and my fellow students like commodities. When Brown accepted $2.3 million from Bank of America, it was selling me and so many students like me as potential lifelong Bank of America customers. And when it signed that contract, Bank of America knew that students are a good group to invest in, to shower with credit cards and ultimately to hook like fish in a pond. Bank of America knew that students are often inexperienced financial planners with a tendency to accumulate credit card debt and incur fees that can only add to their profitability as customers.

I would not want to inconvenience other people by asking the University to remove the ATMs in the campus center, or even to instantly end its affinity agreements. But I do think the University should come clean about its relationship with Bank of America and any other banks with which it may have agreements. These agreements should be made easily accessible to the public for general scrutiny. If the University is going to sell its students, I think we should at least be able to read the terms under which we have been commodified.

Ian Trupin ’13 is a COE/Organizational Studies concentrator who doesn’t always take himself as seriously as he fears the general tone of his columns may suggest. But he is serious about this. So be very afraid.

Daily Herald Sports Monday the Brown

Monday, November 7, 2011

M. soccer

M. hockey

Bears split on ECAC opening weekend Victory sets stage for

Ivy League showdown

By ethan mccoy Sports Editor

The men’s hockey team was poised to come away with no points on its conference-opening weekend, falling 5-3 to No. 18 Colgate Friday and trailing Cornell in the third period Saturday.

But a pair of goals in a 79-second span propelled Bruno (2-2, 1-1 ECAC) to a 5-4 win over the Big Red (1-2, 1-1).

The goals, from first years Massimo Lamacchia ’15 and Ryan Jacobson ’15, salvaged the weekend.

“I give the guys a lot of credit for coming in after the second period and regrouping, refocusing and saying, ‘You know what? We got a period to win this. It’s our rink in our house, and we need these two points,’ ” said Head Coach Brendan Whittet ’94.

“In the future, hopefully we don’t have to let it get to that point, but I couldn’t be happier coming away with a split from this weekend, as much as we would have wanted four points,” said captain Jack Maclellan ’12, who had a goal and two assists on the weekend.

Colgate 5, Brown 3

The buzz in Meehan Auditorium from the home-opening puck drop was quickly quieted Friday when Colgate (5-3-1, 1-1) took an early 1-0 lead. The Bears were on the power play but were caught overcommitted and fell victim to a two-on-one break that resulted in a Colgate shorthanded score.

But Brown came out in the second period and made better use of its chances. Two penalties and a delayed penalty in just over a minute against Colgate gave the Bears a six-on-three advantage, and it took Maclellan only seven seconds to find the back of the net.

By Sam Rubinroit Assistant Sports Editor

Emily Gilbert / Herald

Captain Jack McClellan ’12 had two assists in Brown’s win over Cornell.

A little over a minute later, now on a five-on-three advantage, Lamacchia was the beneficiary of a Matt Wahl ’14 assist and smacked home a onetimer to put Brown on top for the first time, 2-1.

But goals from Kevin McNamara and Jeremy Price gave Colgate a 3-2 lead by the end of the second period.

Jeff Ryan ’13 got one back to tie the game six minutes into the third period, and the Bears looked poised to take the lead on the power play. But Bruno surrendered another shorthanded goal to Smith. An empty netter put the icing on the 5-3 Colgate win.

“We’re screwing around with the puck and we’re just not making intel-

ligent decisions,” Whittet said of the short-handed goals. “We’ll get better, but we’re just screwing around with it up high too much.”

Brown 5, Cornell 4

The Bears came out the next night determined to not let more points slip away, jumping out to an early 2-0 lead over the Big Red. Goals from defenseman Richie Crowley ’13 and assistant captain Bobby Farnham ’12 provided the lead. But just three minutes after Farnham’s power play goal, Cornell’s Greg Miller redirected a shot past Mike Clemente ’12 from close range to cut the lead to 2-1 at continued on page 4

The men’s soccer team moved into first place in the Ivy League standings Saturday after a thrilling 1-0 overtime victory against Yale in New Haven.

The matchup was a defensive battle, with neither team able to find the back of the net before the end of regulation. The Bears (104-2, 4-1-1 Ivy) managed 16 shots, five on goal, in the two halves, but Bulldog (7-7-2, 3-3-0) goalkeeper Bobby Thalman was unrelenting.

“Their goalkeeper made some excellent saves,” said Head Coach Patrick Laughlin. “One or two were just outstanding saves that you rarely see and that you hope don’t go against you.”

But the Bears’ defense showcased its own resolve. The unit did not allow the Bulldogs to get a single shot off for the duration of the game.

“It’s something I don’t know if I’ve ever seen in my 18 years as a collegiate coach where a team has zero shots,” Laughlin said.

“It’s such a rarity.”

In overtime, the Bears drew blood after just 1:01 when Yale was whistled for a foul inside the 18-yard box. Forward Austin Mandel ’12 stepped up to take the penalty kick and outfoxed Thalman for the golden goal.

Saturday’s finish was reminiscent of the Bears’ Oct. 29 1-0 victory over Penn, in which Mandel scored the game’s lone goal on a penalty kick in blizzard-like conditions.

“The Penn game was hard to play,” said center back Ryan McDuff ’13. “It was kind of sloppy, and we had to battle the elements. In this game, we took 17 shots and had really good opportunities, but their goalkeeper made some incredible saves that literally just took goals away from us.”

With the win Saturday, Bruno moved into a tie for first place in the Ivy League with Dartmouth (8-5-3,4-1-1). Cornell (8-2-5, 3-12) was alone atop the league table entering the weekend with the Bears and the Big Green sharing second place, but Dartmouth’s victory over the Big Red Saturday turned the tables.

The weekend’s results have shifted Bruno’s season finale this Saturday against Dartmouth into a de facto Ivy League championship game. The winner will take home the Ivy title and earn an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

“One more chance to play as a team,” Laughlin said. “That’s all we’re guaranteed.”

The Bears and the Big Green will kick off Saturday at 4 p.m. at Stevenson Field. Brown will be honoring its seniors as they play what might be their final game in a Brown uniform.

“The Ivy League Championship is at our fingertips, and winter is coming,” McDuff said.

“All year, and going back to last spring, we have said that we were going to win the Ivy League ring.

Everything is riding on this one game.”

W. soccer

disc dive

10-win season ends after loss at Yale

By Sam Wickham Sports Staff Writer

Emily Gilbert / Herald

Co-captain Jake Price ’13 lays out to make the grab during Brownian Motion’s showcase game against Boston College Friday night.

The women’s soccer team saw its successful 2011 season come to a close after narrowly falling to Yale 1-0 in New Haven Saturday. The Bears (105-2, 3-3-1 Ivy League) could not find an equalizing goal after a first-half strike from the Bulldogs (9-5-3, 4-21), marking only the second game this season in which Bruno was kept off the scoreboard. The loss ends an otherwise positive season for the Bears, whose 10 victories, the team’s most since 2003, were good enough for a fourth place league finish.

“We accomplished quite a bit,” said Head Coach Phil Pincince. “I thought we had strong leadership.

That was a goal. We wanted commitment from every player, and we had that. And we finished in the top half of the league, so it was a very rewarding season for us.”

The Bulldogs controlled the game early, dominating the midfield by corralling loose balls and holding possession. Yale held a commanding 12-5 advantage in shots in the first half, forcing Bears keeper MC Barrett ’14 to make four saves.

The Bulldogs eventually solved Bruno’s defense in the 39th minute.

Yale midfielder Emma Mullo beat three Bears and fired a laser that deflected off both posts and went in for what proved to be the gamewinning goal.

“It’s not that we didn’t do a good job in the first half,” Pincince said. “I just think that we didn’t win enough first and second balls in the middlethird of the field, and we let them dictate the tempo. And the kid that scored hit a rocket. Great shot. Nothing MC could do on that one.”

Bruno settled into the game in the second half and was able to repeatedly test the Yale back line. The

Bears dominated the shot advantage 11-3 but could not beat Bulldog keeper Elise Wilcox, who made eight saves to preserve her clean sheet and the win.

“I thought we dominated the second half,” Pincince said. “But we just couldn’t get the equalizer. It was a very strong Ivy battle.”

The loss does little to detract from Bruno’s winning season, but it does signify the end of the road for some.

Bruno’s six seniors will be leaving the program upon graduation this spring, and Pincince was quick to praise their achievements.

“When you consider what they’ve accomplished as a senior class — three winning seasons out of four — their contributions to this program have been the most we’ve seen in many, many years,” Pincince said.

“My hat is off to all of them. They will be sadly missed, and they’ve been a dynamic group of young ladies.”

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