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BSA ticket Web site crashes,
students snoop for answers
By Talia Kagan
and Sara Luxenberg
Senior Staf f Writers
Spring Weekend rain-capacity tick-
ets sold out yesterday morning after
trouble with the Web site that hosted
sales left frustrated students refresh-
ing their browsers for 40 minutes.
The tickets were adver tised
to go on sale at 8:00 a.m., but stu-
dents from Brown and Rhode Island
School of Design who attempted to
buy tickets were not able to do so
until about 8:40 a.m., according to
Alex Spoto ’11, the Brown Concert
Agency’s administrative chair. By
9:30 a.m., the 6,500 tickets available
— 3,250 for each day’s concert —
were completely sold out.
Inadequate capacity MGMT
On April 21, at 1:30 p.m., stu-
dents, staff and faculty who were
shut out will get a second chance —
Neurosurgery Hockey alums wear same pro uniform
department
gets new head
By Sarah Mancone
Senior Staff Writer
Garth Cosgrove has been appointed
as inaugural chair of the newly cre-
ated Department of Neurosurgery at
Alpert Medical School and as chief
of neurosurgery at Rhode Island
Hospital and the Miriam Hospital,
according to a press release from the
Med School. These appointments will
be effective June 1.
The neurosurgery department
was formed in December 2008, but
has not had a permanent chair be-
fore now.
It takes a while to appoint a new
chair, said Karen Scanlan, communi-
cation and administrative manager of
the office of Dean of Medicine and
Biological Sciences Edward Wing.
There is a “stringent process of hiring
a new chair,” she added.
The search committee first must
find candidates for the position, and
then there is a rigorous interview
process “once they get past the point
of being worthy,” she said.
The department was formed after
the Corporation separated the Depart-
ment of Clinical Neurosciences into
the Department of Neurology and
the Department of Neurosurgery. It
is great to be bringing “neurosurgery
onto the campus,” Scanlan said.
Cosgrove is taking over for In-
terim Chief of Neurosurgery Curt
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if BCA determines that the weather
will be good enough to hold the con-
cert on the Main Green. Until then,
the number of tickets is restricted to
3,500, the capacity of Meehan Audi-
torium. BCA could only offer 3,250
tickets per day in Wednesday morn-
ing’s online sale because the agency
reserves 250 tickets for people such
as the artists, security, volunteers
and stage crew, said BCA Hospitality
Chair Abby Schreiber ’11.
Of the 3,250 tickets available, a
“negligible” number were reserved
for RISD students, staff and faculty,
while the rest went to the Brown
community, according to Spoto.
As students attempted to pur-
chase tickets online, “the server’s
capacity to handle the amount of
data transfer at 8 a.m. was inade-
quate,” Mike Caron ’12, technology
and e-commerce coordinator for
continued on page 4
By Ben Noble
Contributing Writer
Three former men’s hockey players
— Matt Vokes ’09, Jeff Prough ’08
and Chris Poli ’08 — have kept in
touch better than most graduates. The
three alums play for the East Coast
Hockey League’s Trenton Devils,
a professional team owned by the
NHL’s New Jersey Devils.
All three alums are forwards but
Blue State brewing
two new locations
By Brigitta Greene
Metro Editor
The order is simple: coffee, black.
Alex Payson ’03.5 doesn’t miss a
beat.
He pours the 200-degree water
over the grounds, watching carefully
as the brown grains swell upward
and begin to froth. The mixture is
Metro
creamy and rich. Coffee beans give
off carbon dioxide for a brief period
after they are roasted. The bubbles
betray a truly fresh cup to come.
He waits 50 seconds before de-
livering the first serving. It tastes
of cocoa and stone fruit, of peaches
with a salty note.
Payson is co-owner of Blue State
Coffee — a shop that has established
itself, in less than three years, as a
Metro, 6
What’s percolating?
Take a sip of the coffee
shops Providence has to
offer
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
N e w d irection
Brown/RISD Hillel’s new executive director, Marshall Einhorn, will take
over this summer. See page 3.
rarely play on the same line. They
do, however, see each other plenty
off the ice.
Sports
Vokes and Prough are roommates
in Trenton, and Poli lives next door.
“It’s a fun atmosphere,” Vokes
said. “Its easy to make the transition
from college to the pros when you
have close friends looking out for
staple for coffee drinkers from both
Brown and the greater East Side.
Blue State has two locations on
College Hill, and now runs through
approximately 10,000 pounds of
coffee a year. If all goes well, the
company hopes to open two new
locations before the end of this year,
another store in Rhode Island and
one in Boston.
“We try to push the envelope for
how good coffee can be, to do the
best we can to treat coffee well,”
Payson said. He says his goal is ab-
solute quality in every cup. And the
coffee-curious customer is rarely
disappointed.
The company’s first store, at 300
Thayer St., opened in the summer
of 2007. Last January, Blue State
opened a new location — the Col-
lege Hill Cafe — within the Brown
continued on page 6
Sports, 8
pitch perfect
Pitching for Kristie Chin
’11 has been a walk in the
ballpark recently
Min Wu / Herald
you.”
“We do stuff after practice togeth-
er,” Prough said. “It’s nice having two
guys you went to college with.”
Vokes said he is enjoying the
lifestyle of a professional hockey
player.
“You have a lot of freedom and
time to pursue outside interests,”
Vokes said, mentioning that he does
continued on page 9
Blue State Coffee, which opened two new locations last January, is
looking to expand yet again by the end of this year.
Opinions, 11
IN DEFENSE OF LARRY
Susannah Kroeber ’11
ponders the benefits of
studying the gender gap
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Yellen ’67
tapped
for Fed
By Anne Artley
Contributing Writer
Janet Yellen ’67, the president of
the Federal Reserve Bank in San
Francisco, has been nominated by
President Barack Obama to serve
as vice chairwoman of the Federal
Reserve Board of Governors.
The Board of Governors is the
main branch of the Federal Reserve
System, the central banking system
in the United States. If confirmed,
Yellen will replace Donald Kohn in
the second highest Fed position in
the country.
Yellen wrote in an e-mail to
The Herald that, if confirmed to
the position, she hopes to help the
Federal Reserve work towards its
two key macroeconomic goals: full
employment and price stability.
“We need to foster a great deal
of job creation to achieve the first
goal,” Yellen wrote.
She wrote that another goal of
the Federal Reserve is to supervise
banking organizations and monitor
developments that could threaten
the financial system, especially in
light of the current recession.
Yellen wrote that she is “strong-
ly committed to price stability,” and
has voted 20 times to “raise interest
rates in order to contain inflation-
continued on page 3
Herald file photo
editor’s note
This is the last issue
of The Herald prior
to spring break.
Publication resumes
April 5.
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C ampus N EWS “You can expect to see a feistier version of me.”

— President Ruth Simmons on her coming years in office

Neurosurgery dept. gets first chair Simmons: dorms, grad

continued from page 1

Doberstein at the Med School and

school to expand next
Chief of Neurosurgery John Dun-
can at Rhode Island Hospital, who
stepped down in 2007.
“It is a real testament to our
growth at Rhode Island Hospital
and the Miriam Hospital to have
him lead our Department of Neuro-
sudoku
surgery,” Chief Executive of Rhode
Island Hospital Timothy Babineau
said in the press release. “We are
confident that Dr. Cosgrove’s ex-
perience and leadership skills will
enable him to effectively direct the
Department of Neurosurgery and
help us to successfully expand the
program to meet increased patient
needs.”
Cosgrove comes from the Lahey
Clinic in Burlington, Mass. There
he served as the chair of the De-
partment of Neurosurgery and se-
nior neurosurgeon. In addition, he
served as professor of neurosurgery
at Tufts University School of Medi-
cine. Before working at the Lahey
Clinic, Cosgrove was an associate
professor of surgery at Harvard
Medical School as well as attend-
ing neurosurgeon at Massachusetts
General Hospital.
Cosgrove has research interests
in epilepsy, stereotactic and function-
al neurosurgery, surgical treatment
of brain tumors, functional imaging
of the human cerebral cortex and
radiosurgery, according to the press
release.
Cosgrove “is an outstanding neu-
rosurgeon with expertise in func-
tional neurosurgery, a critical tie to
enhancing our research at Brown,”
Wing said in the press release.
“Everyone’s very excited about
him coming,” Scanlan said. He will
serve as a tie that “brings everyone
together in the clinical setting and
research,” she added.
Cosgrove will also be joining the
Brown Institute for Brain Science.
“Dr. Cosgrove brings exceptional
leadership, neurosurgical and sci-
entific skills to Rhode Island and
Brown’s flourishing multidisci-
plinary brain research community,”
said John Donoghue, the institute’s
director, in the press release.
“This appointment will create
important future collaboration with
the departments of neuroscience,
psychiatry, and neurology,” Wing
said in the press release. “Leaders
like Dr. Cosgrove will help boost our
potential to be one of the top destina-
tions in the country for clinical and
academic neuroscience.”
By Nicole Boucher
Senior Staff Writer
The University will improve and
expand residence halls in the com-
ing years, President Ruth Simmons
told the Undergraduate Council of
Students at its general body meeting
Wednesday night.
“I envision a big dorm project,”
Simmons said. Though she did not
discuss any specific residence hall
projects, she invited the council’s
input in the planning process.
“I think we have a lot to do,” Sim-
mons said, adding that it will be im-
portant to garner support from the
Corporation, the University’s high-
est governing body, for the capital
projects that establish new student
spaces.
Simmons also discussed growing
the Graduate School, saying that her
“State of Brown” speech was a means
“to launch that debate” within the
larger community. She said lively
discussion must occur before insti-
tuting any plan for growth to ensure
that Brown continues to “support the
undergraduate program as opposed
to detracting from it.”
She said any plan must strike
a balance between maintaining a
vibrant undergraduate experience
and improving the Grad School to
enhance Brown’s reputation.
Simmons advocated sharing in-
formation between universities as
a means of reducing costs while ex-
panding knowledge across a wider
community. “If we cooperate more,
we would have the ability to reduce
costs to students” and improve the
transfer of knowledge, she said.
Simmons also discussed her plans
for the rest of her time as president.
“You can expect to see a feistier ver-
sion of me,” she said of her coming
years as president. “I think I’m going
to have a lot of fun and not worry too
much about ruffling feathers.”
Simmons has ser ved since
2001 and announced at February’s
meeting of the Corporation that she
will remain at Brown beyond next
year.
“I learned a lot in my first nine
years how hard it is to move things.
It takes a long time,” she said. “I
think I’ve concluded that I’m prob-
ably going to have to break some
rules.”
President Simmons meets with
UCS annually, Clay Wertheimer ’10,
the council’s president, told The Her-
ald. The fact that Simmons’ visit falls
less than a week after her “State of
Brown” address means that “mem-
bers of UCS have had time to think”
and prepare questions about under-
graduate life that “springboard” off of
Simmons’ discussion last Thursday,
he said.
The council also approved chang-
es to the requirements for the consti-
tution that student groups must file
before receiving categorization from
the Student Activities Committee.
The changes include an expanded
statement of purpose that will better
reflect the group’s individual pur-
pose, according to Student Activi-
ties Chair Brady Wyrtzen ’11. It also
requires that groups agree to UCS
procedures after they receive official
categorization.
The Campus Life Committee also
discussed its proposal for increasing
lighting on the Main Green, said
Campus Life Chair Ben Farber ’12.

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Thursday, March 25, 2010
C ampus N EWS
Hillel’s new director starts in summer Fed nominee found ‘life’s
By Qian Yin
Staf f Writer
Megan Nesbitt, executive direc-
tor of Brown/RISD Hillel, will be
leaving at the end of the semester
to pursue graduate studies. She
will be replaced by Marshall Ein-
horn, who comes from a business
background.
Einhorn has been working
with Nesbitt since Jan. 25 and will
fully take charge this summer, he
said. This arrangement gives him
the opportunity to meet students,
faculty members, administrators
and alums and to “get an overall
sense of Brown and the Jewish
community at Brown,” he said.
Nesbitt will leave Brown in
June to pursue a master’s de-
gree in critical psychology at
George Washington University,
she said.
She said she loves Brown for
“the strength of the community
and the sense of really belonging
here.” Her experience at Brown
has been “incredibly rewarding,”
challenging her in unexpected
ways as well as teaching her
what she wants to do next, she
added.
Einhorn said the Hillel com-
munity has been ver y “warm and
welcoming.” He said he has been
struck by the diversity of the Jew-
ish community at Brown in terms
work’ on College Hill
of Judaic practices and student
backgrounds. “It has been amaz-
ing for me to see the dif ferent
avenues for Jewish students to get
involved and to have Jewish ex-
periences with their classmates,”
he said.
Einhorn called himself a “ca-
reer switcher.” Prior to coming to
Hillel, he had 11 years of working
experience in business, consult-
ing, informational technology and
marketing. He also holds a mas-
ters in business administration.
But his career in the for-profit
world “wasn’t speaking to me,”
Einhorn said, and so he began
looking for “work that had a larger
meaning to the community,” he
said. “I wanted to be in a position
where I felt the connection to the
work that I was doing.”
As an undergraduate student
at Tufts University, Einhorn was
on the executive board of Hillel
for two years, and had been “a
big believer in helping develop
Jewish life on campus.” He said
this position at Brown/RISD Hillel
“was exactly the kind of thing that
I was looking to shift into.”
Einhorn also said he wanted
to have a career through which
he could “help improve the world
in some small ways,” so as to set
up an example for his kids — a
four-and-half-year-old girl and a
two-year-old boy.
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
— George Borts, economics professor, on Fed nominee Janet Yellen ’67
Einhorn said he thinks having
a strong set of business experi-
ences will ser ve him well in Hil-
lel. He said he sees similarities
in operation between Hillel and
a business, and will utilize skills
he gained in the for-profit world,
such as financial and marketing
skills, to ser ve the Hillel com-
munity.
Nesbitt said she has been
“ver y impressed” by Einhorn’s
“mind for business operations and
management” and his ability to
see how the community works
as a whole and how individuals
fit into the organization.
The student executive board
at Hillel is “ver y excited” to have
Einhorn, according to Yoni Dol-
gin ’10, president of the board.
Dolgin said he thinks Einhorn is
a “good listener,” “a true leader”
and someone who is both vision-
ar y and capable of gathering re-
sources to support his visions.
“People just love him,” Dolgin
said.
Einhorn will work on crafting
an “authentic experience for stu-
dents to connect and do so in a
way that is meaningful to the in-
dividual students themselves,” he
said. He said he hopes that when
students leave Brown, “their Juda-
ism is in some ways important to
them” and they will bring this to
other communities.
“She’s not there to follow a party line.”
continued from page 1
ary pressures.” She predicted that the
inflation level will sink even lower than
its present level because of the histori-
cally high unemployment rate and low
rate of wage increases.
Yellen has held the position of
president of the Federal Reserve
Bank in San Francisco since 2004, and
chaired the Council of Economic Advi-
sors under the Clinton Administration,
according to the Christian Science
Monitor.
Before that, she taught at the
London School of Economics and, at
present, is a professor at University of
California at Berkeley’s Haas School
of Business. After graduating from
Brown, she went on to earn her doc-
torate in economics from Yale, and
received an honorary degree from
Brown in 1998.
As a Brown graduate of the late
1960s, Yellen remembers the debate
around the changes in the curricu-
lum. Overall, she wrote she has fond
memories of her college days and is
grateful to Brown for providing her
with a well-rounded education.
“I discovered economics as a field
of study, was excited by the course-
work I took in that field, and am thank-
ful that I found my life’s work in the
process,” Yellen wrote. “I also greatly
enjoyed remarkable courses that I took
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Janet Yellen ’67.
in fields as diverse as art history, ar-
chitecture, the philosophy of science,
Russian literature and geology.”
Professor of Economics George
Borts, who was chairman of the de-
partment when Yellen was an under-
graduate, said he was not surprised
by her success.
“She was very sharp and quick-
witted,” he said. “It was clear she was
going to have a good career in eco-
nomics. She was very interested in the
field and she picked good advisers.”
Though Borts said it was too early
to pinpoint Yellen’s policies should
she be appointed to the position, he
said he had confidence in her ability
to govern.
“I expect her to be pretty indepen-
dent,” he said. “She’s not there to fol-
low a party line. She follows her own
instincts and intelligence.”
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Site crashes, tickets sell out, causing ‘Major’ student outrage
continued from page 1
Brown Student Agencies, wrote in
an e-mail to The Herald.
Caron attributed the crash to “a
lack of sufficient bandwidth for such
a high-volume day.”
BCA and BSA members still do
not know why the bandwidth was
not large enough to accommodate
the demand. Caron wrote that either
the bandwidth had been decreased
from last year or the demand was
greater.
BSA uses an outside software
company called TouchNet to handle
the ticket sales for Spring Weekend
and other events. BCA was “working
closely with the software develop-
ers” before Weds. morning’s sales,
Schreiber said. “We were told it
should have had the bandwidth to
function with every person logging
on at once,” she added.
“As more information comes in,
we’ll be able to provide a more ac-
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“The system did not work the way we wanted it to.”
— Alex Spoto ’11, BCA administrative chair, on its Web site’s crash
curate picture,” Schreiber said.
“The system did not work the
way we wanted it to,” Spoto said. He
added that when the crash occurred,
both BCA and BSA members did ev-
erything they could to get the Web
site up and running again. “It was
frustrating. It was something that
we were trying hard to fix for an
hour, with the phones ringing off
the hook,” he said.
While BSA specifically is re-
sponsible for managing the online
ticket transactions, “it wasn’t their
program that they could fix,” Spoto
said.
BSA has no control over the
server TouchNet uses and how the
program functions, Caron said.
Spoto said he has been in contact
with TouchNet to attempt to figure
out why the bandwidth was set inap-
propriately.
“In light of the situation, I think
it is fair to say that BSA was very
quick to respond to all questions
and issues with sales, be it by e-mail,
phone call or visit to one of our of-
fices,” Caron said.
The possible heightened demand
for tickets could have been due to
BCA “making a bigger push to ac-
commodate grad students, faculty
and staff,” Schreiber said. “Last year
we didn’t publicize it as well,” she
added.
“Demand cer tainly seemed
much stronger this year, with this
Spring Weekend marking the 50th
anniversary and promising a strong
list of performances,” Caron said.
“Tickets sold out much faster
this year than they did in previ-
ous years,” he added. Last year,
tickets did not sell out until just
past midnight on their first day of
sales. While there were reports of
slow loading times, the response to
last year’s online sales was mostly
positive, The Herald reported at
the time.
BCA did not sell any tickets
to the general public this year,
Schreiber said.
Before last year, tickets were
sold in person to the Brown com-
munity. After 2008 Spring Weekend
ticket sales led to multi-hour lines,
online implementation was seen as
more effective, The Herald reported
in March 2009.
BCA sent to the Dogg-house
Stories of just how students did
— and did not — get tickets were
everywhere on campus yesterday.
Sam Barney ’12 has a story that
might make certain Brown students
turn green with envy.
After failing to get through to
the Brown Student Agency Market-
place Web site at 8 a.m., she called
her parents. Confused at why she
was awake so unusually early, their
Thursday, March 25, 2010
immediate question was, “Are you
hurt?” Barney explained the ticket
situation, gave them her Brown ID
number and went back to sleep. Her
parents — “huge concert buffs,” she
said — tried for an hour, and were
eventually successful. When she
woke up, she had tickets.
At 8:40 a.m., Melanie Johnson ’13
woke up her roommate, who told
Johnson she had been dreaming
about not getting tickets. Johnson
had been tr ying since 8:30 a.m.,
though she did not get tickets until
about 9:00.
Catherine Freije ’13 wasn’t so
lucky. After trying to log onto the
Web site, and making it as far as the
ticket selection menu at one point
before being shut out, she had to
go to her organic chemistry class
at 8:45, ticketless.
Early on in the day, Facebook
became a repository for misery and
schadenfreude.
“Everyone’s status was really an-
gry or really happy,” said Rachel
Zolno ’13.
Sometime before noon, Benja-
min Mossbarger ’10 created the
Facebook group “Spring Weekend
Riot” in response to the ticketing
controversy. At press time Thursday
morning, the group had over 400
members.
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Complaints, traffic at high volume

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Mossbarger had hit the BSA Web

site’s refresh button “continuously
for an hour,” but failed to get tickets
before he had to leave for his 9 a.m.
quantum mechanics class. He later
found out that tickets had sold out as
he sat in class. “I was livid,” he said.
He created the group and e-mailed
BCA, frustrated, he said, that the
agency hadn’t prepared adequately.
BCA should have instituted a policy
of one ticket per student, he said,
since many people got tickets for a
friend from another school.
Additionally, he said he believed
BCA should show preference to se-
niors because this Spring Weekend
is their last. Mossbarger said he
has only been to one Spring Week-
end concert while at Brown — his
sophomore year, he got shut out
of tickets, and the following year
he went abroad — and he is wor-
ried that he might not be able to
go this year.
“Both BSA and BCA understand
the frustration people have after Herald File Photo
today with the payment site,” Caron Spring Weekend 2009 marked the inauguration of online ticket sales. The
concert was ultimately held outside, permitting the sale of more tickets.
said. He added that nobody, includ-
ing BSA members, could access the
site in the 40 minutes it was down. tickets,” he said. “If it had r un smoothly or
“The majority of the BSA staff did With or without glitches, BCA is not,” Schreiber said of this morn-
not end up with tickets to the events, still limited by the capacity of either ing’s sales, “there would still be a
highlighting the fact that everyone Meehan Auditorium or the Main couple thousand students without
had the same chance of obtaining Green. tickets.”
Metro
In Pawtucket, perfecting the roast
By Avery Houser
Contributing Writer
North of the Rhode Island School
of Design, Main Street is a deso-
late wasteland, a drag flanked on
the west by gas stations and fast
food chains and on the east by a
graveyard. Main Street dampens
the soul.
There is a beacon of hope,
though, just north of the Providence
city limits. Near the Pawtucket bor-
der, bomb-shelled storefronts give
way to old warehouses. And this is
the home of New Harvest Coffee
Roasters.
The New Harvest facilities are
divided into a roasting room and a
training room. When a coffee shop
first begins working with New Har-
vest, the company’s coffee gurus
lead the shop’s baristas through
an intensive training regiment.
The slightest mistreatment of New
Harvest’s beans can ruin a coffee’s
flavors.
“You can buy the most beautiful
coffee and destroy it in seconds,”
said Gerra Harrigan, New Harvest’s
director of business development. A
coffee like their “El Alto” from Costa
Rica must be roasted very lightly for
the flavor profile to show its bright
notes. While trends are moving to-
wards roasting and brewing coffees
to their own specifications, many
shops indiscriminately dark-roast
all beans.
While coffee is central in barista
training, many of the classes are
espresso-centric, she said. Many
baristas want to jump right to
espresso art.
Harrigan says that espresso art
is important for baristas as it helps
them focus on steaming well-tex-
tured milk. When the milk is thin
enough to create detailed designs,
its density is ideal for a latte.
“It’s like chemistry,” Harrigan
said.
The community roast
The training room also plays
host to monthly “barista jams,”
during which baristas go head-to-
head over latte art. The judge usu-
ally throws out the losers’ latte, but
someone will drink the winner’s cup.
It’s too painful to throw it out, Har-
rigan said.
“It’s like basketball,” Harri-
gan said, gazing at the dry-erase
bracket proudly. This past week-
end the crew was in Boston at
the Northeast Regional Barista
Competition. It is the first time
the competition has been held
in the Northeast,
after previous-
ly being held
in conjunc-
tion with
t h e
Mid-
From training the city’s baristas to roasting the perfect coffee, New Harvest Roasters are passionate about their
craft. Cities like Portland, Ore. and San Francisco have long been considered isolated hubs for quality coffee —
where a cup of joe becomes more about the complex aromas, multi faceted taste and the art of presentation.
But Providence is not far behind. New Harvest has played a large role in facilitating the recent “explosion” in local
coffee spirit. New Harvest distributes their specialty roasts to many of Providence’s independent coffee shops —
including Seven Stars Bakery, Blue State Coffee and White Electric Coffee — and hosts regular coffee cuppings
and workshops for Rhode Island’s coffee-savvy.
Atlantic competition. New Harvest’s
own Todd Mackey came in fifth
place, Harrigan said.
Mackey and Simon Ouderkirk,
who runs the coffee program at
Seven Stars Bakery, are working
to develop the Providence Coffee
Society. The society’s goal is to es-
tablish a “coffee community.” The
barista culture in Providence is up-
and-coming, Harrigan explained.
“You can taste it,” he said.
The roasting room is home to
two coffee roasting machines, af-
fectionately called “Wolf Maiden”
and “Cupcake.” Wolf Maiden is
capable of roasting up to 35,000
pounds of coffee a week. When
coffee is roasted, it is placed into
a large drum that rotates it over
a gas flame, then transferred to a
cooling chamber. The roaster — a
person, not a machine — regulates
the temperature and air flow during
the entire process.
Wildness of the bean
This Tuesday morning, Rik
Kleinfeldt, the founder of New
Harvest, changes the air flow on
the Sumatra he’s roasting to split it
between the heating drum and the
cooling chamber. He explains that
a goal of roasting is to separate the
chaff from the quality part of the
bean through a heavy air flow, while
simultaneously maintaining a high
temperature.
Kleinfeldt roasts this Sumatra
as a “full city roast,” or a medium
roast. Upon picking, most artisanal
coffee is washed before the fruit
is removed from the bean. The
fruit of a Sumatra coffee is left in
contact with the bean far longer, so
Kleinfeldt roasts Sumatra longer to
“temper that wildness.”
All of the beans are shipped to
Pawtucket by importers in New York
City. While the New Harvest roast-
ers have visited a number of their
feeder plantations, they still buy
primarily from importers. To buy
directly from the farmers would re-
quire an enormous volume, but New
Harvest is beginning to
form relationships with
individual farms as part
of a goal to start buy-
ing from the
source.
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Providence’s Coffee Culture
It’s all in the slurp
Mackey runs a “cupping” every
morning — a blind coffee tasting.
Mackey sets out the grounds of
three or four coffees in twice as
many cups. Employees gather to
smell the grounds and take notes.
A barista then carefully pours boil-
ing water over grounds at the bot-
tom of each cup.
They count down four minutes,
the optimal brew time before the
“break.” When the magic moment
is reached, a barista sticks his nose
almost into the coffee and pushes
back the layer of grounds that has
formed at the top of the cup. It is at
this moment that the most intense
aromas are released.
The proper tasting method is
a loud slurp, such that the coffee
coats the entire mouth. A sip only
touches the tip of the tongue.
Some tasters cup in absolute
silence and under a red light to
heighten their senses of taste and
smell. Without speaking about
what they experience, the baristas
proceed to taste the coffee hot, and
as it cools. A coffee that is good
even as it cools proves itself to be
free of defects.
A cupping can consist of any
combination of coffees, often from
one region. Tuesday morning, the
New Harvest team is cupping east
African coffees. Sometimes they
will cup a triangulation, which con-
sists of two of the same types of
coffee and one different type, just
to keep themselves on point.
Mackey loves tasting coffee
from other roasters, as he likes
to keep track of what others are
doing. It’s not for the sake of com-
petition, he said, so much as for
the sake of learning. “We like to
enjoy everyone’s roasting style,”
he said.
Mackey says that he is always
growing at New Harvest. The spirit
is one of adventure — of reevalua-
tion — and it is always a learning
experience.
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Passion steams behind
the Blue State counter
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Bookstore, and a third branch in New
Haven, Conn. near Yale.
Beyond deep-rooted passion for
quality taste, the company has worked
to give back to the community — do-
nating five percent of sales to local
causes — and to be as environmen-
tally sustainable as possible, Payson
said.
“Most people still use coffee as
a conduit for caffeine,” he said. “We
want to get people to think about cof-
fee like people think about wine.”
Blue State, like many independent
Providence cafes, brews coffee roast-
ed at New Harvest Coffee Roasters
in Pawtucket.
New England’s coffee culture is
“exploding right now,” said Ryan Lud-
wig, manager of the College Hill Cafe.
Interest in the art of coffee is growing
nationwide, he said, and Providence’s
local coffee scene is “very passionate
but also very small.”
The University’s proximity cre-
ates a great opportunity to reach out
to students — often the most open
to “getting out there and trying new
things,” he said. He recently rear-
Over twenty five years,
and the coffee’s still hot
By Ellen Cushing
Senior Editor
A year before the first Starbucks
opened its doors and long before there
was an identifiable coffee culture in
Providence or anywhere else, Charlie
and Bill Fishbein started roasting and
selling brewed coffee and whole beans
in a cozy, wood-walled storefront on
Wickenden Street.
“When we founded Coffee Ex-
change, there was nothing,” Char-
lie said, sitting at a wooden table in
the cafe’s upstairs office, more than
a quarter-century after he and his
brother first set up shop. But now,
26 years later, Coffee Exchange has
managed to thrive, even as the cof-
fee culture around it has grown and
ranged the bar at his cafe to facilitate
conversation between baristas and
customers.
These conversations are incredibly
valuable, he said, adding that he hopes
to “create a community around the
shop,” to “really make the impression
that this is a quality product.” Whether
or not the coffee is appreciated to its
fullest “totally depends on the person,”
he said, but he is not pretentious about
his art.
Sugar and heavy cream are con-
sidered to mask the true flavor of the
roast, to take away from the full ap-
preciation of its complex flavors. “But
a mocha is a delicious drink,” he said
with a smile. “I have absolutely no
problem with it.”
The location on the Pembroke
campus offers open coffee cuppings
every Friday at noon. Community
members are invited to taste different
blends, develop their palate and learn
about the art and theory of coffee.
As Payson clears off the counter,
he speaks excitedly of a package he
ordered last week. Inside is an aroma
kit full of 36 samples, each one a dis-
tinct coffee aroma. His pallete, he
says, awaits fine tuning.
changed immensely.
This is, Fishbein said, in large part
due to the fact that even in 1984, long
before terms like “organic” and “fair
trade” even existed, he and the rest
of the business’s managers adopted
an ethos of social responsibility — a
commitment that hasn’t wavered.
The business is highly connected
with Coffee Kids, a nonprofit founded
by Bill Fishbein in 1988 that aims to
improve the economic and life cir-
cumstances of those who actually
grow the beans from which Coffee
Exchange’s lattes are made. What’s
more, the cafe’s coffee is 100 percent
organic and fair-trade, according to
Charlie Fishbein. “All of our coffee is
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M etro: The Buzz
Lucky Clover brews
pots of coffee gold
By Talia Kagan
Senior Staff Writer
“You’ll smell the berries,” said Steve
Peck, manager of a Wayland Square
coffee shop, inhaling the earthy smell
of sun-dried Ethiopian coffee. He then
displays the Sumatra bean, which he
said has been aged for three to five
years. The Ethiopia Sidamo is another
favorite, because of its “kind of lemony
flavor,” he said.
Peck said he enjoys small-batch
coffees like these because they give
him “the ability to talk coffee with
people.”
But Peck doesn’t work at some
obscure artisanal coffee house. He
works at Starbucks.
Starbucks may have popularized
the concept of gourmet coffee — ex-
panding from Seattle to countries as
far as Oman and the Philippines — but
most coffee purists these days turn
up their noses at the multinational
corporation’s mass-market appeal.
Yet the Starbucks in Wayland
Square houses a Clover machine, an
advanced coffee brewer found in only
47 Starbucks locations nationwide,
according to the company’s Web site.
This sleek, single-cup machine —
with an $11,000 price tag — could ar-
guably be deemed the most advanced
brewer in the state of Rhode Island.
The Clover was designed by the
Coffee Equipment Company, also
based in Seattle, which originally sold
the machine to independent coffee
shops. But in March 2008, Starbucks
bought the company. Cafes that previ-
ously owned a Clover still own one,
but Starbucks no longer distributes
the machines to stores other than
its own.
Starbucks debuted the machine in
four test markets nationwide — the
Wayland Square branch was the only
Rhode Island location included — and
plans to install 250 more machines
soon, Peck said.
The store boasts a metal plaque
reading “Clover” outside one of its
entrances to highlight its unique
brewing capacity.
The Clover is a good fit for the
Wayland Square Starbucks, which
sells a lot of drip coffee. In compari-
son, at some other branches — such
as the Thayer Street branch — lattes
and specialty beverages are more
popular, according to Peck.
When a customer orders a Clover
coffee, the beans are ground on the
spot, then poured into the cylindri-
cal brew chamber at the top of the
machine. Hot water fills the chamber,
and the barista mixes the grounds
and water with a metal beater. The
grounds are lowered down slowly,
then raised, then lowered again. The
process aerates them more for the
vacuum press, which pulls the water
through a filter out of the grounds,
Peck said. The coffee brews into a
cup while the grounds remain in a
sort of patty that Peck squeegees into
a container.
“They make a really great fertil-
izer,” he adds.
The whole process takes about
two minutes, which can sometimes
cause a bit of a delay, Peck said. If
customers prefer cold drinks, the cof-
fee can be brewed double-strength
and poured on ice.
Clover coffee has changed some
habits, Peck said. Some customers no
longer drink their coffee with milk,
he said, because they now prefer to
taste straight coffee.
But not everyone is buying it. One
possible deterrent is price — depend-
ing on the blend, a Clover coffee can
cost over twice the price of a regular
brew.
Eva Goodman, who tried a cup of
Clover-brewed coffee on the recom-
mendation of a friend, said she did
taste a difference, finding the taste
“clean and bold.”
According to Peck, about three-
quarters of his branch’s Clover sales
come from regular, die-hard fans.
One Clover fan drives to Wayland
Square even though he works in a dif-
ferent part of Providence, Peck said.
Another regular customer sometimes
buys two cups of Clover coffee in the
morning when she knows she won’t
have time to return later in the day,
he added.
Peck said customers are also pro-
tective. If the machine is not work-
ing, “people can get very upset,” he
said.
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Coffee culture settled in on Wickenden
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purchased with a social component
in mind. That’s part and parcel with
who we are,” he said. “We’ve always
tried to put the most sustainable
product out that we can.”
Coffee Exchange buys all of its
beans from a cooperative and roasts
them in-house — another part of the
formula that Fishbein said keeps
people coming back. “Very seldom
do we have coffee beans that are
more than two days old,” he said.
“It’s that freshness that translates
into taste, that translates into staying
in business for 26 years.”
Over the course of those 26 years,
Providence’s coffee scene has grown
exponentially and a whole host of
competitors has sprung up around
Coffee Exchange, starting with the
arrival of Starbucks in Providence
around 15 years ago.
“When (Starbucks) first came
into town, there was a question: ‘Is
Coffee Exchange going to go out
of business?’,” Fishbein said. “But,”
he continued, “we were never really
concerned about Starbucks putting
us out of business.”
Though the Seattle-based chain
has sparked an interest in gourmet
coffee and made for an increasingly
sophisticated customer palate —
the biggest change he said he has
seen over the years — Fishbein said
his cafe’s unwillingness to yield to
trends and enduring allegiance to
taste has allowed it to occupy a pro-
tected niche.
Starbucks is “a great marketing
company and they’re responsible for
a lot of the current coffee craze,” he
said. “But we’re a coffee business and
it’s because we do really great-tasting
coffee that we’ve been able to stay in
business for so long.”
He continued, “We don’t change
simply because somebody might
have a new marketing scheme. We
will improve the taste of our coffee,
but we won’t change it to follow some
sort of trend.”
Starbucks — which has six
stores in Providence, five of which
are within a mile of Coffee Exchange
— isn’t the cafe’s only competitor, as
Providence’s coffee market has seen
enormous growth in recent years.
And oddly enough, Coffee Ex-
change actually trained some of
the founders of New Harvest Cof-
fee Roasters, which now supplies
roasted beans to dozens of the city’s
coffeeshops.
Fishbein said the two businesses
have a friendly relationship. “We get
along very well,” he said.
“When his roaster
breaks, he
can use
mine,
and
Coffee Exchange roasts their beans in-house, allowing the coffee shop
to maintain high quality and freshness standards.
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when my roaster breaks, I can use
his. The bond is personal and very
much enjoyable.”
Fishbein said business is as
strong as ever even in the face of
a changing market and growing
competition, and a look at the Ex-
change’s deck on a Sunday morning,
as a long line of bleary-eyed Rhode
Islanders waits patiently for their
Ethiopian Oromia or Narragansett
Blend, seems to back this up.
“We do have the reputation with
the big deck and the crowds and the
line in the morning,” Fishbein said.
Parker Wood, a Rhode Island
native and longtime barista at the
cafe, said Coffee Exchange’s “loyal
local following and solid base” was
largely responsible for the store’s
longevity.
“It’s like a community center,” he
said. “It’s an unchanging variable in
the equation that is coffee in Provi-
dence.”
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 SportsThursday
The Brown Daily Herald
athlete of the week
Softball’s Chin ’11 on no-hitters, BBQ and Taylor Swift
By Seth Motel
Senior Editor
How do you match perfection? Af-
ter sending down 21 Arcadia bat-
ters in a row on March 14, Kristie
Chin ’11 came close to throwing a
perfect game again last Sunday. In
Chin’s five scoreless innings of work
against St. Peter’s, she gave up no
hits and allowed only one walk.
After 26 2/3 innings this season
as a starter and a reliever, Chin
sports a 3-0 record and a 0.79 ERA.
Her stellar ERA and .132 opponent
batting average top all Ivy pitchers.
In light of her second consecutive
gem, Chin has been named The
Herald’s Athlete of The Week.
Herald: Your first two years
on the team, you went 1-3, but
now you can’t lose. What’s been
the difference?
Chin: This year, I think we have
more consistent defense and our
offense has been really pulling
through. As far as my pitching
goes, I’ve narrowed my scope of
my pitches, and I try to focus on one
or two and mix up my speeds.
You’ve given up zero hits in
12 innings as a starting pitcher
this year. So are you done com-
ing in as a reliever?
I’m just going to keep working
whenever my team needs me.
Is (the cur veball) your strike-
out pitch or is it the fastball?
Probably my curveball, mostly.
I’m more of a movement pitcher,
whereas the other girls have a lot
more speed.
How much fun are you having
concentrating in civil engineer-
ing and being a varsity athlete?
I’m actually having a lot of fun.
I’m doing civil engineering and ar-
chitectural studies. I really try to
mix both the science and the hu-
manities perspectives.
Just like the fastball and the
cur veball.
Yep, there you go.
Take us to the seventh in-
ning of that Arcadia game. Are
you aware that you’re three bat-
ters away from a perfect game?
What’s going through your
mind?
I was mostly trying to forget. I
just tried to put that out of my mind,
take it inning by inning, pitch by
pitch.
Were your teammates staying
away from you on the bench?
They weren’t speaking of it. They
didn’t want to jinx it or anything.
Was your coach (DeeDee
Enabenter-Omidiji) saying any-
thing to you?
Not to me, specifically. She asked
one of the other coaches, “So are
there any hits? No? Shh, don’t say
anything. Are there any walks? No?
Don’t say anything.”
Why did you trade in the sun-
niness of Texas to come play in
Rhode Island?
I love Texas and everything, but
I’ve lived there most of my whole
life, so I really wanted to see what
else was out there. ... I like the fall,
but I don’t know if the four seasons
are worth the winter.
Have you been getting used
to pitching in the cold?
I get a lot colder a lot faster. My
body thinks the best way to deal
with it is to go numb.
Softball pitcher Kristie Chin ’11 has not allowed a hit in her last 12 innings.
Her 0.79 ERA and .132 opponent batting average lead the Ivies.
Are the northern kids tougher
than the southern kids when it
comes to (cold weather)?
I’ll put up a pretty good fight.
You won Ivy League Pitcher
of the Week last week, and the
week before, your teammate Liz
DiMascio (’13) did the same.
Where do you think Brown’s
pitching staf f is going to be
among the Ivies this year?
I think we have a ver y strong
staff this year. There’s four of us. We
have a very good mix of speeds and
different pitches, and I think that
flexibility is really going to help us
out in the long run. We’ll be able to
keep teams off balance and really
work the batters.
The Ivy season starts for you
April 2. Both Brown and Cornell
have 10 non-conference wins
right now. Do you think it’s go-
Stony Brook, Buffalo no match for Bears
By Han Cui
Assistant Sports Editor
The women’s tennis team extended
its winning streak to five victories
after defeating both Buffalo and Stony
Brook, 5-2, on Sunday and Tuesday,
respectively.
Brown 5, Buffalo 2
Emily Ellis ’10 and Marisa Schon-
feld ’11 won the No. 3 doubles, 8-5,
to give the Bears a strong start. Julie
Flanzer ’12 and Misia Krasowski ’13
followed by winning the No. 2 doubles,
8-4, to earn the doubles point for the
Bears.
Flanzer and Schonfeld then moved
on to win the No. 4 and No. 6 singles,
respectively.
With less than half of the spring
season remaining, the Bears have an
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Jonathan Bateman / Herald
ing to be a battle to the finish
between these two teams?
For me, I always enjoy playing
Cornell. I feel like they’re a very
competitive school and they always
bring a great game, so hopefully
we’ll be able to bring our best this
year.
I know they won (ECAC)
men’s hockey (and) they’re in
the Sweet 16 of men’s basket-
ball —
Hopefully, we can take them
down a notch in softball.
Have you thought about life
after graduation?
I’d like to go to grad school for
architecture and eventually become
a licensed architect and then, a
Ph.D. somewhere in there.
It doesn’t sound like as much
fun as softball.
Not at all. I’m really going to
impressive 12-3 record. Head Coach
Paul Wardlaw P’13 said the team is
building on the success of last year,
when Brown finished with a 19-4 re-
cord.
“Last year was a breakthrough
year for us,” Wardlaw said. “We were
winning at a consistent basis, so the
expectation is pretty high this year
too.”
Brown 5, Stony Brook 2
Unlike against Buffalo, when
Brown played outdoors in the sunny
weather, Tuesday’s rain forced the
Bears back indoors for their home
game against Stony Brook. But the
results of the competition were the
same.
The Bears featured the same
lineup as they had against Buffalo.
Brown won the doubles point again
miss competing, I think. I’ll try to
at least play pickup or might even
try and coach a little bit.
Would you want to go back
to Texas eventually?
Eventually. I really miss the
South. I mainly miss the sun-
shine.
Do you have a favorite thing
back home to eat?
I’ll eat it all, but I’m a big fan of
brisket — get a barbecue baked po-
tato with chopped brisket on top.
When I think of good barbe-
cue sports, I don’t think soft-
ball.
You’re going to the wrong soft-
ball parks.
Really? There’s good brisket
at softball games?
In Texas, you go to any conces-
sion stand, they got barbecue going,
they have chopped brisket, sausage
on a stick.
Have you tried United
BBQ?
I haven’t tried any barbecue up
here actually.
There’s a whole vegan section
(on the menu). They don’t really
have that in Texas, do they?
No. We don’t cater to vegans or
vegetarians ver y much, which is
kind of unfortunate because our
coach really likes Logan’s Texas
Roadhouse. We’ll go there and kids
will end up having to order the side
of broccoli, hold the bacon.
Have you found any good
countr y music out here?
I just do Pandora, but I’m a big
fan of old country music, none of
that Rascal Flatts, Taylor Swift stuff,
Carrie Underwood. That’s pop.
So you don’t like Taylor
Swift?
Her stuff’s OK, but she’s sing-
ing about the same thing over and
over. There’s only so many teen-
age high school dramas you can
go through.
What’s the rest of countr y
music about, though?
Drinkin’, heartache, livin’ life.
after the pair Bianca Aboubakare ’11
and Cassandra Herzberg ’12 and the
pair Ellis and Schonfeld won the No.
1 and No. 3 doubles, 8-1 and 8-4, re-
spectively. The Bears then took the
first four singles in order to clinch
the team victory.
“We won the first two singles con-
vincingly,” Wardlaw said.
The team will travel to Florida
next week to play against Florida In-
ternational and Miami on Tuesday
and Wednesday. Then the Bears will
kick off their Ivy League season with
a home stand against Penn and Princ-
eton April 2 and 3.
“We will be playing outside in Flor-
ida against two teams seeded higher
than us,” Wardlaw said. “Princeton
is the defending (Ivy) champion and
we look forward to playing them at
home.”
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a considerable amount of reading at
local bookstores.
Vokes said it is no coincidence
that three Brown alums ended up
in Trenton. Chris Lamoriello, the
team’s general manager, played for
Providence College, where his father
Lou was longtime head coach and
athletic director. With strong ties to
Providence, the Lamoriellos regularly
scout PC and Brown games and have
recruited many athletes to the Devils
in recent years.
It has worked out well for the
Devils.
After an early-season injury, Vokes
has recovered and has been on fire
lately, currently leading the Devils in
assists. He assisted on three goals in
Trenton’s Feb. 20 win at Johnstown,
only to score four of his own the very
next day against the Wheeling Nailers
— his first professional hat trick.
“He really understands how to get
to the net,” Trenton Head Coach Rick
Kowalsky told NHL.com earlier this
month. “He just seems to be very com-
fortable offensively right now.”
Vokes scored nine goals and eleven
assists in just 11 games, earning him
Reebok Hockey ECHL Rookie of the
Month for February. Of the nine, three
were game winners.
In his Brown days, Vokes played
115 games for the Bears and scored
28 goals. He was assistant captain his
senior year and the recipient of the Joe
Tomasello Award, presented annually
by the New England Hockey Writers
Association to the “unsung hero in
New England.”
“We didn’t necessarily win a lot, but
we had a lot of fun,” he said.
Vokes concentrated in economics
and interned at Deutsche Bank after
his junior year. He turned down a full-
time job for a chance to play profes-
sional hockey.
“Finance is always going to be
there,” he said. “Millions of kids want
the opportunity to play hockey in the
pros, and I was fortunate to have that
opportunity.”
“It would have been foolish not to
give it a shot,” he added, without a
hint of regret.
The ever-selfless Vokes was quick
to note that teammates Prough and
Poli have also been playing well.
Prough is the team’s leading scorer
with 27 goals, and Poli has posted 37
points in just 31 games.
Prough, meanwhile, was eighth on
Brown’s all-time scoring list with 109
points. He led the Bears in scoring in
2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08.
He began his ECHL career with
the Florida Everblades and was traded
to Trenton last season after a brief stint
with the Gwinnett Gladiators.
Poli signed with the Devils just
days after his last collegiate game in
2008.
“My dream since I was a little kid
was to play in the NHL, and that hasn’t
changed,” Prough said. “So going pro
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“It would have been foolish not to give it a shot.”
really wasn’t a hard choice for me.”
On Tuesday, The Herald reported
that the Vancouver Canucks of the
NHL signed current tri-captain Aaron
Volpatti ’10 to a two-year contract. Vol-
patti, who led the Bears with 17 goals
this season, will begin his career next
year with the Manitoba Moose, the
Canucks’ AHL franchise.
Freshman defenseman Rich Crow-
ley ’13 said the team looks up to its
alums playing in the ECHL, AHL, and
beyond.
“We all aspire to go pro,” he said.
Prough said he was able to watch
a couple Brown games this year while
he was temporarily called up to Lowell,
Mass. — the Devils’ AHL franchise —
in late November.
“The ECHL is a good developmen-
tal league,” Prough said. “It’s competi-
tive, and a lot of guys are getting called
up to the AHL and NHL.”
“I’m hoping that next year, I’ll make
it to the AHL full time,” he added.
“From there, you’re one step away.”
Vokes said he is happy with the
way his rookie season has gone and is
becoming a better player in Trenton,
but is unsure if he will ever make it
to the NHL.
“I take life one day at a time,” he
explained. “If that’s the way the course
goes, then great. If not, I have my
Brown education to fall back on.”
“And in case you’re wondering,”
he added, “Yes, Professor (Emeritus
of Engineering Barrett) Hazeltine,
we’re still friends.”
Thursday, March 25, 2010
— Matt Vokes ’09 on playing professional hockey
s p o rt s i n b r i e f
Big Red play Cinderella
The Cornell men’s basketball team made it to the Sweet 16
of the NCAA Tournament Sunday with a win over No. 4 seed
Wisconsin. The Big Red will face Kentucky, the top overall seed
remaining in the tournament, on Thursday night at 9:57 in
Syracuse, N.Y. in the Carrier Dome. The winner will face No. 2
seed West Virginia or No. 11 Washington on Saturday for a Final
Four bid.
Cornell is the first Ivy League team to advance this far since
1979, when Penn made the Final Four in a 40-team tournament.
Ivy hoops teams finish in postseason
The Princeton men’s basketball team also won its first two
games to move on to the College Basketball Invitational semifinals
after a 74-68 double overtime win over IUPUI.
Three other Ancient Eight teams have bowed out of other
postseason tournaments. The No. 11 seed Princeton women were
trounced by No. 6 seed St. John’s, 65-47, on Saturday in the First
Round of the NCAA Tournament.
Both Harvard teams lost their opening games. The men fell
to Appalachian State, 93-71, on March 17 in the CollegeInsider.
com Tournament, and the women lost to Syracuse, 87-68, the
following day in the Women’s National Invitational Tournament.
Cornell on national stage in women’s hockey, too
The Cornell women’s hockey team fell just short of a national
championship, falling to Minnesota-Duluth on Sunday in the
championship game, 3-2, on a goal with 33.6 seconds left in the
third overtime.
Yale and Cornell look to advance to men’s Frozen Four
Two ECAC Hockey teams will shoot for the men’s NCAA
Championship. In the East Regional, League champion and No. 2
seed Cornell will face No. 3 seed New Hampshire in the semifinals
Friday evening in Albany, N.Y. The winner will face Denver or the
Rochester Institute of Technology on Saturday for a trip to the
Frozen Four.
—Andrew Braca
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l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r

Athletic dept. a key

University component
To the Editor:
In his recent column (“Why spare
athletics?”, March 20), Tyler Rosen-
baum ’11 calls into question the Cor-
poration’s decision to incorporate a
$64 fee for recreational facilities, argu-
ing that the Department of Athletics
should not be exempted from Uni-
versity-wide budget cuts, especially
as athletics are a financial drain that
most students “don’t care about.”
What Rosenbaum fails to consider
is that the athletic department did
in fact have to make significant bud-
get cuts. With the smallest budget
of the Ivy League, the department
has incurred significant cuts in both
personnel and operational costs. Just
ask any member of an aquatics team
about the new pool, which is more
than two years behind schedule.
Other institutions, such as the
University of Pennsylvania, charge
significantly more than $100 per year
for athletic facility use. Prudent busi-
ness strategy calls for the Corporation
to emulate the successful policies of
its competitors, especially with regard
to fundraising in tight times.
As approximately 15 percent of
the Brown undergraduate student
body plays a varsity sport and another
seven percent play club sports that
also utilize the facilities and athletic de-
partment budget, it seems that despite
low attendance at games, athletics do
indeed matter to the community. It
would be difficult to find any depart-
ment, group, or other association on
campus that represents such a large
number of undergraduate students.
I encourage Rosenbaum to consider
this example in his future work. The
athletic department is a committed
part of the Brown community. As
such, when the University feels a R ichard S tein and P aul T ran
crunch, the entire community is af-
fected.
e d i to r i a l
Corey Schwartz ’11
March 24

Ticked off
Organizing back-to-back concerts featuring well- students to purchase tickets at the same time as
known acts is extraordinarily hard work. We can’t Brown students. A BCA member told the editorial
even imagine the full range of concerns that students page board that this move was intended to show
in the Brown Concert Agency face each year in ar- gratitude to RISD, as BCA was allowed to use a RISD
ranging Spring Weekend. By and large, BCA does a auditorium for the fall concert without charge. But
tremendous job of finding performers and making Spring Weekend is a long-standing Brown tradition,
the show happen, and the Brown community should and no quid pro quo should impact Brown students’
t h e b r o w n d a i ly h e r a l d be appreciative of their efforts. Nonetheless, justi- ability to get tickets.
Senior Editors
fied discontent with the Spring Weekend ticketing As far as steps in the right direction, we propose
Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Deputy Managing Editors
Sophia Li Ellen Cushing process persists. this: Starting next year, in the first round of ticket
George Miller Chaz Kelsh
Emmy Liss Seth Motel The process has improved significantly in recent sales, the limit should be one ticket per show per
Joanna Wohlmuth
years. Starting last year, BCA limited students to two person.
editorial Business
General Managers Office Manager tickets per show and moved to an online ordering As long as the number of students is greater than
Anne Speyer Arts & Culture Editor
Suzannah Weiss Arts & Culture Editor Claire Kiely Shawn Reilly system. The cap on tickets helped reduce the prob- the total available tickets, a one ticket per show per
Brian Mastroianni Features Editor Katie Koh lem of students buying tickets for outsiders. And person rule is the only sensible policy. If you have a
Hannah Moser Features Editor Directors
Brigitta Greene Metro Editor Kelly Wess Sales at least in theory, the opportunity to order tickets significant other or sibling at another school that you
Ben Schreckinger Metro Editor Matthew Burrows Finance electronically at a predefined time is preferable to were hoping to invite, then tough luck — he or she
Sydney Ember News Editor Margaret Watson Client Relations
Nicole Friedman News Editor Christiana Stephenson Alumni Relations
waiting in a long line. can come visit you on a weekend that isn’t supposed
Dan Alexander Sports Editor Given the size of the possible venues, the pro- to be a communal celebration. Students should only
Managers
Zack Bahr Asst. Sports Editor cess will not be perfect. In the first round of sales, be able to buy a second ticket if extras remain.
Andrew Braca Asst. Sports Editor Arjun Vaidya Local Sales
Han Cui Asst. Sports Editor Marco deLeon National Sales BCA can only release enough tickets to fill Meehan Of course, all this assumes that the Web site can
Aditi Bhatia University Sales
Jared Davis University Sales
Auditorium, in case weather forces the show to be handle the traffic, which this year it clearly couldn’t.
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Trenten Nelson-Rivers Recruiter Sales held there. This is just a fact of life for Brown’s 6,013 Even though tickets went on sale at 8 a.m., everyone
Stephen Lichenstein Graphics Editor
Maximilian Barrows Business Operations undergraduates, who are only initially supplied with we talked to said they weren’t able to place an order
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Jilyn Chao Business Analytics
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong Photo Editor about 3,000 tickets per show. Those who comprise until closer to nine. This was particularly frustrating
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Alexander Carrere Special Projects the excess demand have little choice but to wait for students who woke up early, hit refresh often, and
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William Martin Board member for both performances. We recognize BCA is facing For now, though, all anyone can do is pray for good
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SIMON
LIEBLING
Opinions Columnist
Another year, another tuition hike, another
chorus of compliant students racing to be the
first to thank our benevolent administrators
for once again balancing their budget on our
backs. Judging just by the gratitude some of
us expressed for the Corporation’s infinite
financial wisdom, you’d think they’d frozen
our tuition and cancelled layoffs. But no, we
masochists just love it when they jack up our
expenses five percent and fire more staff
while Building Brown continues apace.
This brown-nosing, “Thank you sir, may
I have another” attitude, expressed most fa-
mously by The Herald’s editorial page board,
is precisely why tuition keeps going up year
after year. At the University of California,
administrators who tr y to get away with a
tuition hike of essentially the same magni-
tude have to face thousands of students on
strike, rallying in the streets. At Brown, they
get a congratulator y editorial.
The administration doesn’t charge us
more and fire its workers because it has to,
but rather because when it comes time to
save money, tuition hikes and layoffs offer
the path of least resistance. There’s never
an organized mass student response forcing
Unfortunately, Harvard doesn’t always get it wrong
SUSANNAH KROEBER
Opinions Columnist
Five years ago, Lawrence Summers, then-
president of Har vard University, made a
remark at a conference that ended with his
resignation from the post. Many students
now in their junior or senior years of college
might remember this as the mar on Har-
vard’s name at the time they were applying to
colleges — the suggestion that “differences
in sex may explain why fewer women suc-
ceed in science and math careers.”
It may seem to many women that Dr. Sum-
mers has not received his just deserts. He is
now a senior economic advisor to President
Obama, and is probably just as famous within
intellectual, political and economic circles
as he was during his tenure as President
of Harvard University. But men who do not
have any respect for a woman’s place in the
sciences should not have a place in public
discourse.
But what if Dr. Summers’ comments actu-
ally had been an all-too-calculated move, so
calculated that many missed his intention
at the time? Dr. Summers made a very valid
point about the stark underrepresentation
of women in the math and science fields.
As any good president of an elite research
university should, he called on researchers
from all disciplines, including those in the
biological sciences, to determine why this
Grin and bear it
them to respect our interests. We let them
fire staff members without so much as a
peep. Instead, we thank them, because for
some mysterious reason we faithfully put
our trust in a president and an adminis-
tration that have done nothing to deser ve
that deference beyond projecting an image
of cool accessibility that has never been
grounded in fact.
Because administrators know that what-
ever they do, they will meet no opposition
from their fawning students, they know that
This brown-nosing, “Thank you sir, may I have
another” attitude is precisely why tuition keeps
going up year after year.
they can safely cover budget deficits with
tuition hikes while protecting their own
priorities from any meaningful cuts. That’s
precisely what they’ve done this year, pro-
ceeding with spending increases and mas-
sive capital projects that put buildings over
people yet again.
Those who are so quick to laud the Cor-
poration fail to understand that the tuition
hikes are going to continue — necessar y
or not — until students start sticking up for
is the case.
Had Dr. Summers only called on social
scientists to determine what societal pres-
sures force women to abandon aspirations
in the sciences, no one would have noticed.
Instead, he attracted a media frenzy, eager to
point out the blatant sexism in the president
of the most famous American university.
In the following years, there was a parallel
frenzy in research, as institutions around
the country poured dollars into disproving
Dr. Summers’ ignorance.
In 2005, Dr. Summers personified the faults
that America’s leading educational institutions
possessed, and represented the failure of
academia to rise above institutional and
societal biases.
Many of those dollars were put into inves-
tigating the biological differences between
men and women, particularly in terms of
excellence in education. Many of the ques-
tions include what structural features of cur-
rent educational practices benefit women
— not only in terms of how women have
been socialized, but also in terms of how
women learn from a neurological angle. Is
this discrimination framed by science? Is it
any different from the questions Dr. Sum-
mers was asking?
The only difference today is that we have
more data, and some scientists believe that
themselves and forcing the administration to
meet us halfway. Even if you think this year’s
hike isn’t particularly bad, perhaps even nec-
essar y, responding so eagerly to still more
administrative disregard for our interests
is what empowers the Corporation to keep
asking us for more sacrifices. It is confident
that whatever it does and whenever it does
it, we would rather defer to them than think
for a second about putting up a fight. And
so the tuition hikes will proceed unabated,
as they have for four decades.
This is Brown Incorporated — the Uni-
versity acting like a for-profit enterprise
by charging us as much as it can get away
with rather than as little as it needs. You can
see it when they waste a $2 million tuition
surplus — our money — not on financial
aid or mitigating this tuition hike but on
speeding up construction projects that will
get done anyway. You can see it when the
budget ignores taking care of the University
community in favor of initiatives that will
they are closer to answers, closer to un-
derstanding how much societal barriers as
opposed to biological factors are limiting the
number of women in the sciences. Maybe
Dr. Summers was just one of the first people
outside a science field asking these sorts of
questions.
In a more tangible way, Dr. Summers’
departure from Harvard heralded many new
changes at the institution. In 2005, only 13
percent of tenure offers at Harvard went to
women, while in 2009, 39 percent of tenure
offers went to women. A three-fold increase
in four years suggests a massive change in
attitude and priorities beyond simply ap-
pointing a woman as president of the Uni-
versity.
Five years ago, America was gloating
that Har vard — the bastion of liberalism,
tolerance and egalitarianism — was in fact
run by a sexist man no different from many
other men in the country. It was a moment
where intellectuals and average Joes united
behind the idea that Harvard, and the men
there, were not morally better than the rest
of us. In 2005, Dr. Summers personified the
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help Brown “remain competitive.”
But above all you can see it in the ethical
illogic of coupling budget cuts with tuition
hikes in this economic climate. The Uni-
versity, with $2 billion in the bank, decides
it has to spend less money, so it thinks it is
justified in asking families to spend more.
Why it thinks we are somehow better po-
sitioned than it is to increase spending in
times like this is beyond me. It’s hypocrisy,
straight up, and the only explanation is the
obvious one — this administration discarded
the University’s non-profit mission to ser ve
its community long ago.
The tuition hikes and layoffs reveal a
University administration consumed with
profitability and its own priorities — at the
expense of students and staf f. Passively
accepting — even welcoming — the adminis-
tration’s disrespect will do nothing to change
that; tuition will not level off just because we
asked nicely. The only way to win respect
for our interests — or rather, our needs —
is to demand it, to make raising tuition and
firing workers so politically damaging that
the administration no longer thinks of us as
the easiest way to patch budget problems.
The alternative is another forty years of
annual tuition hikes, but at least we’ll be
begging for it.
Simon Liebling ’12 is from New Jersey.
He can be reached at simon.liebling@
gmail.com.
faults that America’s leading educational
institutions possessed, and represented the
failure of academia to rise above institutional
and societal biases.
Five years later, Har vard has not fallen
from its pedestal. It is still one of the most
selective institutions in the countr y, and
over the past several years has been there
alongside Brown in seeing a dramatic rise
in applicants. Har vard no longer has the
lowest percentage of female tenured faculty,
vacating that position to Princeton University
last year.
The numbers are still low. Columbia leads
with women representing 38 percent of ten-
ured faculty. Princeton hovers at barely above
a quarter. But instead of these numbers only
being released by the American Association
of University Women, college newspapers
like the Daily Princetonian are interested
in gender discrepancies, along with national
papers like the New York Times.
Dr. Summers was doing his job. He in-
creased visibility and funding for projects
relating to women in academia and gender-
related differences. He upheld the academic
standard of being open to answers from any
field, no matter how unsavory society might
think them. And for those who still think
he has not received his comeuppance, they
just might want to reconsider just how easy
a job as an economic analyst in a political
administration is in today’s world.
Susannah Kroeber ’11 didn’t want to go
to Harvard anyway.
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A diamond to the Senate panel for recommending
decriminalizing pot. You’re doing a much better job
of preparing for Spring Weekend than the Brown
Concert Agency’s Web site.
A diamond to the University for “not shrinking back”
when it comes to construction. Just remember that
bigger isn’t always better.
Coal to Matthew Tsimikas, assistant director of
Coal to those advocating for a “gay” check-off box
on the Common Application — we don’t think Brown
needs that kind of affirmative action.
A diamond to the NHL’s newest player, Aaron
Volpatti ’10, not that you need it with that kind of
salary. You’ll be seeing enough ice, anyway.
A coal to the English Cellar Alehouse. While we
wouldn’t complain about a little British flavor com-

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7:00 P.m. — Palestine in Crisis: What Molecular Medicine
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