Monday, September 10, 2012

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vol. cxxii, no. 63

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Public dissent

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Computer wiz Former student Dylan Field wins tech development grant

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Monday, September 10, 2012

football

Recharged Bruno offense seeks to defy expectations By Lindor Qunaj Sports Editor

After the men’s football team lost backto-back games to Dartmouth and Columbia last November, taking the team out of championship contention, the question of who would replace All-Ivy quarterback Kyle Newhall-Caballero ’11.5 this year began to surface. And the graduation of several of the team’s strongest receivers only added to doubts about the offense’s competitiveness in the Ivy League this season. But these challenges do not seem to have deterred a team ready to charge into the season with a fresh core of both new and experienced players. “We don’t really deal with the guys that have left,” said Head Coach Phil Estes at the Ivy League Football Media Day Teleconference last month. “It’s about the guys that we have.” Coming in as starting quarterback is Patrick Donnelly ’13, a veteran of the team who is no stranger to leading the Bears’ offense. Donnelly got playing

time two seasons ago when NewhallCaballero was out due to a wrist injury. In eight games that season, Donnelly racked up 411 passing yards and 114 rushing yards. Donnelly has an “outstanding arm” and a “great knowledge of our offense” that will enable him to play effectively in a variety of offensive schemes, Estes said. And with the personnel changes that are inevitable in a college program, Estes said the team’s variety of offensive strategies may be the focal point this season. Another key change to the squad is the graduation of high-powered receivers like Alex Tounkara-Kone ’11.5, who ended his final season with the Bears with a team-high 590 receiving yards. Despite that loss, Estes said he was confident in the team’s ability to adapt. “We have a group of talented kids,” he said. “And we’ve had some people who have really stepped up to fill that (wide receiver) role.” Jordan / / Football page 3

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Running back Mark Kachmer ‘13 will lead the Bears’ rushing attack this season as the team looks to strengthen its offensive line.

BTV ‘passion project’ film offers surreal experience By meia geddes staff writer

There’s nothing like the sound of rushing air, the rhythmic beating of a heart and the alluring sigh of echoes to usher moviegoers into an almost otherworldly experience. Brown Television screened its first student-made feature film, “Two Hearts,” Friday at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. The film, funded by a grant from the Creative Arts Council, took about a year to produce and involved over 100 Brown students from many artistic disciplines. To summarize the complex plot of “Two Hearts” would be akin to summarizing the Bible. The film follows a dancer named Vesper, played by

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Madeleine Heil ’13, who struggles to fit in with her peers. Vesper happens across a very cute and very bloodstained angel, played by Christopher Fitzsimmons ’13.5. Heil brings pitchperfect strength and vulnerability to the lead role. She has the ability to hypnotize a crowd, conveying a breadth of emotions in split seconds. The film is infused with haunting music and beautiful cinematography, a testament to Brown’s student talent. “It was shot amazingly well,” said Will Vinci ’11, a former BTV member. The film uses close-ups and odd angles, playing with soft and harsh lighting that manages to tint the ordinary so that it seems a dimension or two off. This is a movie that asks viewers to / / Hearts page 2 go along for

By Christian Petroske Contributing Writer

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“Two Hearts,” BTV’s first student feature film, boasts odd angles and varied lighting to impart a sense of surrealism.

New gender studies center expands U.’s China footprint By Alison Silver Senior Staff Writer

Courtesy of Christy Law Blanchard

Nanjing University opened the Center for Gender Studies and the Humanities to celebrate its joint program with Brown this summer.

Med prof pleads guilty to coin theft

The Nanjing-Brown Joint Program in Gender Studies and the Humanities marked its fourth year with the opening of the Center for Gender Studies and the Humanities at China’s Nanjing University this summer. To commemorate the center’s establishment, seven Brown faculty members and a postdoctoral fellow from the Cogut Center for the Humanities attended the International Conference on Gender Research in Chinese Studies June 9-11 at Nanjing University. At the conference, scholars from the U.S., China, Europe, Hong Kong and Taiwan exchanged ideas about gender research in Chinese studies, discussing gender in imperial and modern China, feminist theory, women’s trafficking and transgender issues in a global context. The new Center for Gender Stud-

ies and the Humanities represents Nanjing University’s continuing investment in the joint program’s aim to extend research and scholarly exchange to include the humanities and social sciences, in addition to hard science and technology. The new center serves as “an institutionalization of the program” on the Nanjing side, said center director Kay Warren. Established in June 2008, the Nanjing-Brown partnership is a collaboration between Nanjing University’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences and Brown’s Pembroke Center, Cogut Center and the department of East Asian studies. “The fundamental goal of this transnational collaboration is to forge important and concrete alliances among scholars in gender studies and feminist theory in China, the United States and other parts of the world,” said / / China page 2

Arnold-Peter Weiss, a hand surgeon and professor of orthopaedics at the Alpert Medical School, pleaded guilty July 3 to charges of criminal possession of ancient Greek coins that were the property of the Italian government. Under a plea deal, Weiss must complete 70 hours of community service, give up all 23 coins that were seized from him at the time of arrest and attempt to publish an article on the problem of trading coins with uncertain origins. The University did not respond to repeated email requests for comment. The article’s purpose will be to “raise needed awareness about unprovenanced coins” and “promote responsible collecting among numismatists,” said Joan Vollero, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, in a statement made outside the courtroom. Weiss has been instructed by his attorneys to refrain from comment until after his case has been discharged. The conditions of the plea deal will be set into court record during the official sentencing hearing Sept. 17, according to court records. Weiss was arrested Jan. 3 at a coin auction at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York after he tried to sell what was thought to be a silver tetradrachm, a Greek coin from the fourth century B.C., at the / / Coin page 3


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