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vol. cxlvi, no. 32
Students,
prof safe
in Japan
By Nicole Boucher
News Editor
A professor and three students
studying abroad in Kyoto, Japan, are
safe after an 8.9 magnitude earth-
quake Friday triggered a tsunami
that hit Japan’s northeastern coast.
While the students studying
abroad were more than 450 miles
from the epicenter, 18 current
undergraduates list Japan as their
home residence, according to a
March 11 University press release.
Most of their relatives live near To-
kyo, which was moderately affected
by the earthquake, but several un-
dergrads also have non-immediate
family members who live in the
devastated Tohoku region, said Rie
Yamamoto ’11, co-president of the
Japanese Cultural Association.
Yamamoto said the cultural as-
sociation contacted its members
this weekend, and most students
have been able to reach family
members who said they were safe
and unaffected by the earthquake.
“Tokyo is for the most part up
and running already, so our family
members are fine, but what other
Japanese citizens are going through
right now is beyond our imagina-
tion,” Yamamoto wrote in an e-mail
to The Herald.
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Four alums fight their way onto NFL practice squads
By Azar Kheraj
Contributing Writer
It’s fourth-and-goal. You’re down by
five with just 10 seconds left on the
clock. Eleven enormous and entirely
imaginary men stand between you
and the freshly raked pile of leaves
signifying your makeshift end zone.
Super Bowl glory is yours for the
taking.
Sports
It is a childhood dream com-
mon in this football-crazed coun-
try. From city streets to suburban
backyards, rural farms to vacated
lots, children dream of one day
donning an NFL uniform. Most
never get the chance — they are
too clumsy, too small or too slow
to make the leap from backyard
believer to weekend warrior. But
for four members of Brown’s 2010
team, the dream hasn’t died.
As members of what Bobby
Sewall ’10 hopes will be remem-
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I m m i g r at i o n s a lu tat i o n
President Simmons welcomed participants Saturday morning to a symposium on immigration, five days after the
Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions released a poll on immigration issues.
Hitchner ’10 survived by network of friends
By Jake Comer
Senior Staff Writer
Jason Hitchner ’10 died in his sleep
late Wednesday. An advocate for
social causes during his time at
Brown, Hitchner was described by
those who knew him as a friendly
and passionate young man.
Hitchner’s friends and family
celebrated his remarkable ability
to look at the world from diverse
and profound perspectives. They
remembered his creativity, his in-
tellect and his wonderful sense of
humor. They admired his openness
to the world and his courage and
confidence in exploring it. They
treasured his gift of making those
bered as “one of the most talented
football classes to ever graduate
from Brown,” four former Bear
standouts — Sewall, James Develin
’10, David Howard ’09.5 and Buddy
Farnham ’10 — are all getting shots
in the big leagues.
“Making that team was the best
moment of my life,” said Develin,
a member of the Cincinnati Ben-
gals’ practice squad. “It was pouring
down rain, I was sleepy, tired and
sore, but I’ve never felt better.”
“It really was a great feeling,”
said Sewall, a practice squad wide
receiver on the Tennessee Titans. “I
was honestly just excited to get a call
and show them what I could do.”
But their transitions to the NFL
have been far from smooth.
After signing with the Titans,
Sewall, a former first team All-Ivy
receiver, was released by the club
during final cuts before the sea-
son began. Since then, he has been
working out with several teams,
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FYS-zle
Surge in first-year
seminars fizzles at 74
Campus news, 3
Herald
Monday, March 14, 2011
around him feel comfortable and
appreciated and the habit he had of
bringing the people he loved closer
together.
Hitchner’s friends alluded fre-
quently to his extraordinary friend-
liness. He never had trouble mak-
ing friends, they said, no matter
where he was or what he was doing
there.
“I don’t think there was ever
anyone that ever had any problems
with him,” said Gregory Anderson
’10, who lived with Hitchner on
Keeney Quadrangle during their
first year. This friendliness took
Hitchner far — he spent the first
semester of his junior year abroad
in Melbourne and decided to stay
Buddy Farnham ’10, the 2010 Ivy League player of the year, is on the practice
squad of the New England Patriots, the team he has rooted for since childhood.
Go unhemmed
Student-run magazine lets
fashionistas shine
arts & CULTURE, 6
Anna Gaissert / Herald
See full coverage on page 3.
second semester as well. He spent
three months after graduation tour-
ing Europe and visiting the friends
he had made in Australia.
Hitchner participated in Brown’s
chapter of the American Civil Lib-
erties Union, Students for a Dem-
ocratic Society and Students for
Sensible Drug Policy.
“He was very committed to pro-
gressive social issues,” Anderson
said. “He was a very excited person”
no matter what he was doing, he
added.
“He would make pop culture
sound really intelligent when we
would watch Lady Gaga videos,”
continued on page 3
Herald file photo
weather
Saving Sarah
Brown students play
into Palin’s hands
opinions, 11
Since 1891
Transfer
class to
grow by 50
By Katherine Long
Staff Writer
The Corporation approved an in-
crease of about 50 to the number of
admitted transfer students for the
2011-12 school year at its Feb. 12
meeting. The increase is designed
to stabilize the number of enrolled
undergraduates at 6,000 without
sapping any first-year-specific re-
sources, according to Provost David
Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98.
Those resources include first-
year dormitories, space in first-year
seminars and first-year advisers.
The number of admitted first-years
will increase slightly from 1,485 to
1,500, according to a Feb. 25 Herald
article.
Kertzer said the prospect of
additional revenue was a deciding
factor in the University’s decision
to increase the number of trans-
fer students. Transfer students are
admitted need-aware, not need-
blind, so increasing the number of
transfer students could increase the
University’s revenue from tuition,
he said.
While tuition will rise 3.5 per-
cent to $53,136, the total revenue
from undergraduate tuition is
expected to increase 4.8 percent
next year — from $235,376,000 to
$246,576,000 — according to the
annual budget report of the Uni-
versity Resources Committee.
Other financial aid restrictions
mean that increasing the number
of transfer students is cost-effective
for the University. Transfer students
who request financial aid are auto-
matically placed in the highest loan
bracket regardless of their parents’
income levels, meaning they get
fewer scholarships and more loans,
according to a Sept. 25, 2007, Her-
ald article. If they do not apply for
financial aid in their first year at the
University, they are not eligible to
apply in subsequent years.
“The University has a set amount
of financial aid dollars available for
transfer students. If admissions of-
ficers admit students whose finan-
cial situation requires them to use
up all that aid before deciding on
all the transfer students they want
to admit, then they can only ad-
mit transfer students who have no
demonstrated need,” Kertzer said.
Last spring, the Office of Admis-
sion planned to increase this year’s
transfer class by 50 students, but
administrators decided not to do so
when fewer students studied abroad
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7:30 p.m.
Sex-Ed Kink Romantic Comedy,
constant for transfers formed to
8 p.m.
Petteruti Lounge
8 p.m.
Rights and Reason Theatre continued from page 1
and more students returned from
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South Wayland Lounge
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Wilson Hall, Room 102
leave than expected, according
to Dean of the College Katherine
Bergeron.
menu “There were more students on
campus … than we had predicted,”
Bergeron wrote in an e-mail to The
SHARPE REFECTORY VERNEy-WOOLLEY DINING HALL
Herald. “The budget is modeled
LUNCH on the number of on-campus stu-
Chicken Fajitas, Gnocchi alla Chicken Cutlet Sandwich, Spinach dents.”
Sorrentina, Italian Vegetable Saute, and Rice Bake, Green Beans with Between 2003 and 2005, the
Vegan Moroccan Beans Tomatoes University did not offer any finan-
cial aid to transfer students, cit-
DINNER
ing its implementation in 2003 of
Vegetable Strudel with Cream Country Style Ham, Vegan Roasted a need-blind admissions process
Sauce, Broccoli Rabe, Chicken and Vegetable Stew, Garlic Bread, for incoming first years as too ex-
Pasta Medley, Baked Potato Cream Cheese Brownies pensive to continue offering aid to
transfers, according to a September
Sudoku
First-year seminar offerings
fall one short of U.’s goal
By Elaine Kuckertz
Contributing Writer
The 2008 Plan for Academic En-
richment set a goal of offering 75
first-year seminars by 2010. As
of the 2011 spring semester, the
registrar’s office lists 74 first-year
seminars on record. Despite be-
ing one course short of the goal,
Kathleen McSharry, associate dean
for writing and issues of chemical
dependency, said she is satisfied
with the current number of of-
Crossword ferings.
At the beginning of the 2010-
11 academic year, the University
had 76 courses on record, but Mc-
Sharry said courses tend to “melt”
as professors’ schedules change.
“Seventy-five is a target,” said
McSharry. “If we can say that from
2008 to 2013, that we offered on
average 75 offerings a year, and the
offerings never fell below 70, then
we’ve met our goal.”
The first-year seminar program
began in 2002 as a way to “expand
opportunities for student interac-
tion with faculty,” according to the
Plan for Academic Enrichment.
In 2002, the program began with
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But in 2005, the Corporation
earmarked $400,000 for financial
aid for transfer and resumed under-
graduate education students. Those
funds were designed to support in-
coming transfers as they moved
through the University for two to
three years, supplemented by fur-
ther increases over the long term,
then-Provost Robert Zimmer said
in a March 2005 Herald article.
The financial aid budget for
transfer students will remain the
same as last year, according to
James Tilton, director of financial
aid. Tilton did not return a request
for comment on how the increased
number of transfer students could
affect their financial aid packages.
23 course offerings and about 250
enrollments.
“There was a desire to create a
program that would make it pos-
sible for first-years to have a more
meaningful intellectual encounter
with faculty members in their first
year at Brown,” said Dean of the
College Katherine Bergeron.
From 2003 to 2007, offerings
leveled around 60. After a slight
drop in course offerings in the
2007-08 academic year, Bergeron,
with the help of Professor of Phys-
ics James Valles, then the associate
dean of the College for curriculum,
renewed University Hall’s focus on
the seminars. Bergeron and Valles
encouraged faculty to apply for
grants through the Curricular De-
velopment Grant program, placing
an emphasis on proposals for first-
year seminars. Bergeron called this
process a “small incentive system.”
The following school year, of-
ferings rose from 56 to 74, as many
as there still are.
The success of the program “is
a testament to the departments’
commitment to first-year stu-
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oversee
fundraising
By Emily Rosen
Staff Writer
In an effort to sustain the fundrais-
ing momentum initially sparked
by the Campaign for Academic
Enrichment, which ended in Dec.
31, the Corporation has formed
the Committee on Development,
which will oversee all University
fundraising.
The committee is chaired by
Vice Chancellor Jerome Vascellaro
’74 P’07, a Corporation trustee
and former co-chair of the cam-
paign. Senior Vice President for
University Advancement Steven
King ’91 will work closely with
the committee, which will also
include President Ruth Simmons,
Chancellor Thomas Tisch ’76 and
three to five other Corporation
members.
According to Vascellaro, the
Committee on Development will
oversee fundraising efforts and
develop strategies for future fund-
raising. King added that the com-
mittee will also review fundraising
progress and report its findings
to the Corporation at least once
per year.
With the recent end of the
campaign, Vascellaro said the
committee intends to ensure “a
continuation of the momentum
and fundraising results of the cam-
paign.” He added that before the
campaign began, the University
raised about $80 million in gifts
and pledges each year, but during
the campaign, that number rose to
$200 million per year.
Vascellaro called the new com-
mittee “a natural evolution from
the campaign.”
The Campaign for Academic
Enrichment Executive Committee,
including the president, chancel-
lor and three campaign co-chairs,
decided to create a development
committee at the Corporation lev-
el that would be established when
the campaign was over, King said.
The campaign “set a standard
of excellence,” he said.
King and Vascellaro both said
another important duty of the
Committee on Development will
be to discuss the University’s fun-
draising priorities. King said the
committee will ensure the Univer-
sity’s institutional priorities deter-
mine the committee’s fundraising
priorities.
Vascellaro said the committee
will work closely with the admin-
istration to establish these fund-
raising priorities and will work to
match specific donors to specific
initiatives. The new engineering
school and the financial aid pro-
gram are two possible areas of
focus for the committee, he said.
“I feel good that we will have
the leadership and support of this
group,” said King, adding that fun-
draising is crucial for the future of
the University.
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Higher ed by emma wohl Conference addresses immigration
news roundup senior staff writer
By Kristina Klara Kai of the Ministers Alliance. He Nasser Zawia, dean of the
Staff Writer recounted his own experiences as graduate school at the University
Lafayette students to cross into N. Korea an immigrant and described how of Rhode Island, who is Yemeni,
Five days after University research- hurt he felt when called an “alien.” spoke from the perspective of a
Lafayette College in Pennsylvania may be the first American ers released a poll showing public “They said ‘illegal alien,’” Kai Muslim immigrant, saying Mus-
university to offer a for-credit study-abroad program in North Korea division over immigration issues, said. The term angered and con- lims in the United States were par-
this summer. academic and policy leaders met fused him at first, “but then I didn’t ticularly affected after the Sept.
The program is being organized through the P’yongyang Project, for a conference entitled “Policy feel so bad because we were all 11 attacks.
a non-profit based out of Beijing that has run trips to North Korea and Demographics in Rhode Is- aliens — some of us were legal and “What some crazy lunatic did
since 2009. land: A Symposium on Immigrants some were illegal.” somewhere, I suddenly am re-
The U.S. government has issued a warning for citizens traveling and Immigration in the State” Sat- Molly Soum from the Gen- sponsible for,” said Zawia, adding
abroad in North Korea. “U.S. citizens crossing into North Korea urday in MacMillan 117, adding esis Center in Providence, who that many innocent people were
without proper documentation, even accidentally, have been subject a human face to the hard data of is Cambodian, spoke from the “rounded up” and held after the
to arrest and long-term detention,” reads the warning. The U.S. does the poll. perspective of a Southeast Asian 2001 attacks.
not have diplomatic or consular relations with the North Korean “We invited community lead- immigrant. Overall, the panel encouraged
government. ers and public officials to come “It’s not that we chose to come more community involvement and
The Lafayette program would be a two-and-a-half-week trip to to Brown to have a discussion on here — it’s that we were brought aid for immigrants.
China, North Korea and South Korea to study cultural interactions immigration based on hard data — here,” Soum said. “We aren’t here State Sen. Juan Pichardo, D-
between the three countries. It was organized by Lafayette Assistant the poll,” said Marion Orr, director to squeak the wheel.” Providence, encouraged Rhode
Professor of Anthropology Allison Alexy, who will co-lead the trip. of the Taubman Center for Public Soum said she sees herself and Island residents to “help all im-
The students would be under a number of security measures Policy and American Institutions, others as giving a voice to immi- migrants, whether they’re here
from both the program and the North Korean government. which conducted the poll. grants. “I’m speaking for the un- undocumented or not.”
Restrictions would prevent them from taking photographs, President Ruth Simmons speakable, the people who can’t “It is in our best interest to be
publishing articles, leaving the group without permission and opened the conference with an speak for themselves,” she said. mentors,” he added.
traveling anywhere without a North Korean staff person. address to an audience of about
The trip is structured in such a way that the North Korean 60 students and community mem-
portion could be canceled if any risks arise, Alexy said. The program bers. Thomas Tobin, bishop of the
organizers have also made arrangements for emergency charter Roman Catholic diocese of Provi-
flights in case they need to evacuate, she added. dence, was the keynote speaker.
There have not been any security issues with the P’yongyang Afterward, the results of the
Project’s past trips, project director and co-founder Matthew Reichel survey were presented by Orr and
’09 told Inside Higher Ed. There should not be problems “as long as Alexandra Filindra, a postdoctoral
you go in legally,” he added. research associate in public policy.
“Everything that we do is sanctioned by the Koreans,” he said. The poll surveyed the views of 508
Rhode Island residents about im-
Penn State may close branch campuses migration. The results showed that
Rhode Islanders were divided on
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett proposed cutting funding to issues of immigration and as-
higher education in half in a budget address last Tuesday. similation. But a majority favored
The plan, which would cut $211 million to the state-owned providing education to immigrant
institutions for next year, would be the largest one-time percentage children, whether documented or
decrease to higher education in history, according to the American not.
Association of State Colleges and Universities. The event was sponsored by
Corbett called the measure “a reality-based budget.” Pennsylvania the Taubman Center, the Bill and
has a $4 billion deficit for the 2011-12 fiscal year. Melinda Gates Foundation and the
John Cavanaugh, chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Rhode Island Foundation, among
Higher Education, told the Chronicle of Higher Education he plans to others.
make up for the decreased funding by trimming the system’s budget Two panels — one of com-
and looking for other sources of funding while at the same time munity leaders and another of
lobbying the General Assembly to restore some of the funds. academics — answered questions
The deficit will not simply be made up by increases to student regarding immigration.
tuition, Cavanaugh added. All of the community leaders
At Penn State, the budget cut would reduce the state’s had personal connections to im-
contribution to the school’s budget from 8 to 4 percent. With such migration issues.
a small input from the state, some have suggested privatizing the “Some people have given me
university. the title of troublemaker or com-
But Donald Heller, director of the Center for the Study of Higher munity organizer — same thing,”
Education at Penn State, said the state’s $165 million contribution for said immigration attorney Roberto
the next fiscal year would not be “insignificant.” Gonzalez, who has defended im-
Penn State currently has nearly two dozen campuses across the migrants facing deportation.
state. Campus closures are a “significant possibility” if the budget “Providence is 65 percent mi-
cuts persist, said Graham Spanier, the university’s president. nority,” said Reverend Matthew

Hitchner ’10 recalled by family, friends

continued from page 1
said Katie Glerum ’10, one of
Hitchner’s close friends.
He also had passionate, in-
formed opinions about art and
culture. “He could not watch a
show without ruining it for some-
one,” Glerum said. She recalled his
energy and sense of humor and
recounted the time when their
friendship was first solidified.
“I was wearing this really weird
stretchy green sweater, and he put
it on, and then he rolled down the
hallway,” she said. “He was really
funny.”
Hitchner’s extraordinary inter-
personal abilities complemented
his impressive mathematical and
scientific ability. He graduated from
Brown with a bachelor of science
in civil engineering.
“The most important thing to
remember about Jason is how pas-
sionate he was about everything he
did,” said Elizabeth Langevin ’10,
another of Hitchner’s friends. “He
was so friendly and kind to every-
one he met.” Whether he was at
home or abroad, discussing science
or politics, those who remember
him agree that, with his natural
humanity and warm disposition,
he inspired people to notice the
Courtesy of Gregory Anderson
positive qualities in others and to
Jason Hitchner ‘10, remembered
attract them as friends.
as friendly and passionate, died
“It was nice to see all of his Wednesday.
friends band together” after his
death, Glerum said. “I think it was left a pretty strong mark on every-
a good reflection on how good a one he met and everyone he knew.”
friend Jason was.” A viewing was held in Hitchner’s
Langevin said Hitchner’s bright honor in Ventnor, N.J., yesterday
personality survives him. “He really afternoon.
4 Campus News
Between the lines: Literary mags serve up variety
By Alexandra Macfarlane
Contributing Writer
Catalyst. Clerestory. Visions.
Their posters are plastered on
your bathroom stall.
African Sun. The Triple Helix.
Somos.
They’re on the dormitory door
you open each night.
Awaaz. The Brown Jug.
There is a plethora of creative
magazines at Brown.
Deadlines are fast approaching,
and Brown’s dozen or so creative
magazines are churning out pages
to bind and distribute around cam-
pus. To those uninvolved in the
literary publication scene, these
eclectic names may be bizarre and
sometimes confusing. What goes on
inside these covers?
Each magazine has a unique take
on what it means to be “literary”
and how to foster communication
between the creators and readers of
a magazine. Many magazines are
centered on a simple goal — to cre-
ate dialogue among writers, readers
and artists.
“It’s not just a journal,” said
Emma Janaskie ’13, managing editor
of Clerestory. “It’s a cultural touch-
stone to get people more involved
in creation itself.”
Clerestory, which was named af-
ter a type of architectural window, is
the oldest literary journal on campus.
With each publication, the magazine
searches out a variety of aesthetics.
There is no thematic criteria for sub-
Ivy schools reinstate early action
By Jamie Brew
Contributing Writer
Harvard and Princeton will al-
low prospective students to apply
through non-binding early action
programs beginning this fall, the
two schools announced Feb. 24.
Both schools cancelled their early
action and early decision programs
in 2006 in favor of single rounds of
admissions in the spring.
The single-admission policy
was meant to give equal consider-
ation to “excellent students from a
broad array of backgrounds,” said
Princeton President Shirley Tilgh-
man in a Feb. 24 press release. By
eliminating the early action option,
the schools mitigated the advantage
of students who were familiar with
the college application process or
who went to schools with strong
admissions advisory programs.
“In eliminating our early pro-
gram four years ago, we hoped oth-
er colleges and universities would
do the same, and they haven’t,” Til-
ghman said in the release. “One
consequence is that some students
who really want to make their col-
lege decision as early as possible
in their senior year apply to other
schools early, even if their first
choice is Princeton.”
With the exception of the Uni-
versity of Virginia, which adopted
a single admission system in 2007
only to switch back last year, no
other schools followed Harvard
and Princeton’s lead, causing the
two Ivy League schools to recon-
missions — artists create their own
inspirations. Issues include poetry,
prose and art by Brown and Rhode
Island School of Design students.
The upcoming issue will even in-
clude a music CD, Janaskie said.
But it is not just literary maga-
zines that are trying to spark new
conversations. “Catalyst bridges the
gap between sciences and the hu-
manities,” said Ariana Spawn ’11,
the magazine’s editor-in-chief. “We
take literary pieces that cover broad
scientific themes.”
Environmental studies concen-
trator Frans Johansson ’95 founded
the magazine in 1995. The editorial
leadership remains academically
diverse — one human biology and
ecology concentrator and one liter-
ary arts concentrator.
The Catalyst is not the only sci-
ence-based magazine on campus.
The Triple Helix is an “international
undergraduate journal of science,
society and law,” said Catherine Mc-
Carthy ’11, editor-in-chief. Unlike
submissions-based magazines, the
staff works extensively with each au-
thor before and during the writing
process, McCarthy said.
The Triple Helix is an internation-
ally run organization with chapters at
campuses worldwide. It was founded
to “establish a forum for discussion
about the integration of disciplines,”
said MariaLisa Itzoe ’12, president
of the Brown chapter. Each edition
includes pieces written by Brown
students and those written by their
international peers. Recent editions
Number of early applicants to Brown by
class year
sider.
Because many factors influ-
ence trends in applications, it is
hard to tell how strongly Harvard
and Princeton’s policies on early
admissions affect Brown’s admis-
sions, wrote Dean of Admission
James Miller ’73 in an e-mail to
The Herald.
“We did not see an increase
in our early decision pool when
Harvard and Princeton dropped
their early programs, so it is hard to
predict that we will see a decrease
as they reinstate their programs,”
Miller wrote.
Of the eight Ivies, Harvard,
have included submissions from the
University of Chicago and the Uni-
versity of California at San Diego.
Similarly, the Round does not
just include the work of Brown stu-
dents. Professors and members of
the writing community beyond the
University are published in the liter-
ary magazine. In fact, 30 percent of
the magazine is not written by Brown
students, according to founder and
feature
poetry editor Elizabeth Metzger ’11.
The Round staff distributes print edi-
tions to 12 other schools with re-
nowned master of fine arts programs
to further the literary discussion,
she added.
The magazine is “round in every
sense,” Metzger said, adding, “We
reconnect writers to readers without
delineations.”
In addition to their bimonthly
meetings, the Round’s staff holds
“literary salons” to discuss works of
fiction, poetry and art, she said. Past
published pieces include one work
describing the 63rd Street Tunnel
— a tunnel connecting Manhattan
and Queens — and another titled
“Instructions for a Self Portrait.”
Other magazines use a specific
theme as their founding principle.
Because there is no department for
South Asian studies concentrators,
Awaaz, the South Asian Journal of
Arts, seeks to connect both concen-
trators and writers to those interested
in the field, said co-editor Manasa
Katie Wilson / Herald
Princeton and Yale will now be
the only ones to offer non-binding
early action programs. All others,
including Brown, have binding
early-decision programs, which
require applicants to attend if ac-
cepted.
Early decision programs “tend
to provide more certainty for the
college in terms of constructing
an incoming class, while giving
students the chance to declare
and commit themselves to a very
clear first choice institution,” Miller
wrote. “At this time, we have no
plans to move to a single choice
early action program.”
Reddy ’12.5. Awaaz means sound
or voice.
The Latino literary magazine So-
mos also has a theme based on cul-
ture and heritage. It publishes pieces
in English, Spanish and Portuguese
and interprets the idea of culture
very broadly, said Kim Arredondo
’11, publicity director and editor-
in-chief. The magazine reflects its
idea of community through its title,
Somos, which means “we are” in
Spanish.
Issues Magazine, an under-
graduate arts and literary journal
for Brown and RISD, changes its
theme each semester. Last semester,
the theme was “the Miniscule,” and
this spring, it is “the Majescule.” But
the Issues staff does not expect each
piece to directly relate to its ideas.
“The theme is much more general,”
said Matt Weiss ’12, junior editor-
in-chief. “We set it and then keep it
in the back of our heads as we read
submissions.”
Issues is “a general magazine
about the sense and sensibility of
people on campus,” Weiss said.
Even the Brown Jug, a humor
magazine, relies on themes. The
Jug has a “Harvard Lampoon-esque”
style, said Greg Berman ’11, editor-
in-chief. Like Issues, the Brown Jug
Researchers present
new OCD treatment
By DAniel Jeon
Contributing Writer
A team of researchers presented
an innovative method for treating
obsessive-compulsive disorder called
deep brain stimulation at the annual
meeting of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science Feb.
18. The team shared the technique
and results of their ongoing research,
which began more than 10 years ago.
OCD “is a disorder characterized
by intrusive thoughts,” said Nicole
McLaughlin, assistant professor of
psychiatry and human behavior
and a member of the research team,
adding that these thoughts are often
caused by anxiety. An extreme case
of the disorder — which can range
from mild to severe — is defined as
“when something basically gets in
the way of life,” she said.
If medication and behavioral
therapy have failed in these severe
cases, deep brain stimulation can
help. Originally used for movement
disorders like Parkinson’s disease,
deep brain stimulation can now be
used to treat OCD.
During deep brain stimulation,
doctors insert electrodes under the
skin that send impulses to correct
problems in the brain. These elec-
trodes stimulate specific parts of
the brain — for example, those that
play a role in obsessive thoughts.
McLaughlin said the stimulation
helps to increase mood and decrease
general anxiety. In combination with
medication and behavioral therapy,
the stimulation has been success-
ful in about 70 percent of cases, ac-
cording to Steven Rasmussen P’13,
who led the research with Benjamin
Greenberg, both associate professors
of psychiatry and human behavior.
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Monday, March 14, 2011
picks broad ideas such as “religion,”
“the future,” “evil” and “inventions.”
About a third of accepted submis-
sions are based on the theme each
semester, Berman said.
The Brown Jug also has a much
more collaborative structure to its ar-
ticle process. Students send in ideas
and then work with the staff to craft
the final article, Berman said. Their
recent issue included humorous ar-
ticles with titles like “All About the
Benjamins” and “Conversations with
Your Mother Mad Libs.”
Despite these varied criteria, the
magazines are always looking for
contributors. March is a popular
month for submission deadlines
because many journals print spring
issues. Acceptance rates for submis-
sions vary between the different
titles, but all of the magazines wel-
come new writers. Catalyst receives
roughly 30 submissions a semester
and publishes about half of them,
Spawn said. Issues magazine is more
selective — they receive roughly 40
to 50 poetry submissions and run
about eight to 10, according to Weiss.
Issues receives about 20 fiction sub-
missions and run three to four of
these longer pieces, he said.
“We are discerning,” Janaskie said
of Clerestory, “not exclusive.”
Because researchers are still re-
fining the techniques of deep brain
stimulation, there have been mixed
feelings from the general public
regarding its safety and ethical im-
plications. Ethicists have expressed
concern that the research should not
have received a Humanitarian Device
Exemption grant — which provides
approval to implant electrodes in a
patient’s body — because they say the
success rate is not high enough. Ras-
mussen said that the ethicists doubt
whether deep brain stimulation has
been studied well enough to be fully
implemented for patients suffering
from OCD. But, Rasmussen added,
“if it was your family member who
was suffering from this, wouldn’t
you want the option of having the
treatment?”
Rasmussen and McLaughlin
both said a national registry is vi-
tal for the sake of the future of deep
brain stimulation. A registry would
help to collect data from every-
one who performs these surgeries
across the country, and “hopefully
this could help inform us and also
inform potentially other forms of
anxiety treatments and those kind
of things,” McLaughlin said. “If we
understand how these kinds of sur-
geries can make OCD better, then
we may also be able to find other
techniques we could use on a larger
OCD population.”
“The more systematic data we col-
lect, the better off we are in knowing
what’s going to help and what’s not
going to help,” Rasmussen said.
Both researchers expressed hope
for the future of deep brain stimula-
tion and said they believe that, with
further research, the stimulation can
be used in more effective and system-
atic methods.
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Students studying in Japan safe after earthquake
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Accounts from abroad
Nine students are planning to
study abroad in Japan this semes-
ter, though only three students are
there now due to the start time of
their term, according to the press
release.
Alec Brownridge ’12, an East
Asian studies concentrator study-
ing through the Kyoto Consortium
for Japanese Studies at Doshisha
University, said the natural disas-
ters did not affect students at the
university because Kyoto is an in-
land region, though media cover-
age of the disaster has been exten-
sive. Helen Diagama ’12 and Tyler
Kasindorf-Mantaring ’12 are also
studying through the consortium.
Kasindorf-Mantaring wrote in
an e-mail to The Herald that he
first heard about the earthquake
when his parents called him Fri-
day. Though Brownridge said his
area was not affected, he said his
homestay family was concerned
about their friend in Tokyo who
had to evacuate her seventh floor
apartment as aftershocks reached
the city.
James McClain, a professor of
history who is on leave this aca-
demic year to teach at the Kyoto
Consortium, wrote in an e-mail
to The Herald that CNN coverage
of the earthquake and tsunami ap-
pears “needlessly alarming” thus
far. But Japanese media coverage
of the tsunami appears “dispassion-
ately objective,” he wrote.
Jack Boeglin ’12, who plans to
leave March 21 to study abroad at
Keio University in Tokyo, said the
program has not contacted him to
suggest any changes to the plan.
While Tokyo was not the most
severely affected, Boeglin said he
knows a host family who felt the
shocks from the quake.
A professor teaching in Kyoto and three students studying abroad there are
all safe after Friday’s earthquake and tsunami.
Relief efforts
Brownridge said he hopes to get
involved in relief efforts in the up-
coming weeks, but noted that right
now, relief is much more focused
on immediate rescue missions and
evacuations.
The Japanese Cultural Associa-
tion will organize a charity event
set tentatively for March 21, Ya-
mamoto said. They will also col-
lect money in J. Walter Wilson
and attract other cultural groups
to perform.
Kerry Smith, chair of the East
Asian Studies Department and as-
sociate professor of history, said
he believes a comparison will be
drawn between national relief ef-
forts today and the response to the
1995 Hanshin earthquake in Kobe,
Japan. “The response appears to
be much better organized,” Smith
said, adding that aid appears to be
moving at a “relatively quick pace.”
Plans may also be in place to
accept external aid if necessary,
though in 1995, outside aid was
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U.S. Navy
largely turned away, according to
Smith.
It is difficult to know how exten-
sive the devastation will be when all
is said and done, McClain wrote,
since the country is still in the
midst of early relief efforts in the
hardest-hit regions where com-
munication has been essentially
severed.
But he added that the dam-
age may be severe. “The Japanese
prime minister, a person not given
to exaggeration, said that this is the
worst disaster to strike Japan since
World War II,” he wrote. “Indeed,
to me, some of the scenes of the
damaged cities bear an eerie re-
semblance to the Japanese cities de-
stroyed by American fire-bombing
in WWII.”
Historical perspective and
preparation
The earthquake occurred in a
region known over the last 150
years for volatile seismic activity,
said Smith, who lived in Tokyo for
four years and has also lived in the
northeastern Miyagi Prefecture
near the earthquake’s epicenter.
Smith is currently working on a
book about the Kanto Earthquake
of 1923 that hit Tokyo.
This active earthquake pattern
has contributed to the strict build-
ing codes in Japan that McClain
credited with dimishing the dam-
age inflicted by the earthquake.
“Japanese building codes, in re-
gards to anti-earthquake construc-
tion, are among the toughest in
the world, if not the toughest,” he
wrote.
Kasindorf-Mantaring wrote
that the 1995 Hanshin earthquake
spurred efforts to increase the in-
tegrity of Japanese homes. “I be-
lieve Japan averted more deaths, es-
pecially in the metropolitan Tokyo
area, with its airtight infrastructure
and strict building codes,” he wrote.
“There’s no place that’s earth-
quake-proof,” Smith said, though
he added that Japan has a “good
sense of what to expect under pre-
dictable conditions.”
“We’re used to experiencing
little earthquakes here or there,”
said Yamamoto, who is from an
area near Tokyo.
Because of the damage inflicted
by the earthquake and tsunami,
several nuclear reactors located
near Tokyo are in danger of leak-
ing radiation. McClain wrote that
the Japanese rely on these power
sources for one-third of their elec-
trical energy, and these reactors are
mostly concentrated in areas at risk
for earthquakes.
“The Japanese themselves have
long debated the wisdom of fol-
lowing such an energy policy,” he
wrote, adding that “many — re-
membering that the Japanese are
the only persons who have experi-
enced an atomic bombing — have
been deeply apprehensive about the
accidental release of radioactivity.”
Seminar
offerings
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dents,” McSharry said. “Depart-
ments do their very best to provide
first-year seminars.”
Professor of Geological Sci-
ences Reid Cooper said he began
teaching GEOL 0160F: “Patterns:
in Nature, in Society” in 2005, after
feeling a “push” from the deans.
But, after teaching it for several
years, Cooper found the courses
valuable to both him and his stu-
dents. He said he enjoyed the semi-
nar so much that he is interested
in creating another “field-trip in-
tensive” first-year seminar on the
natural history of Rhode Island.
David Caianiello ’14 took
CHEM 0080B: “Molecular Struc-
tures in Chemistry and Biology”
last semester. Caianiello said he
benefited from the intimate class
setting, which helped first-years
learn how to study in a college
setting and allowed for produc-
tive discussion. He called it a “re-
ally good eye-opener for being a
freshman.”
Additionally, Caianiello formed
a strong relationship with Profes-
sor of Chemisty Paul Williard,
who taught the class, which led
him to pursue an Undergraduate
Teaching and Research Award with
Williard.
McSharry said she is optimistic
about the future of the program.
As of right now, 81 first-year semi-
nars have been proposed for the
2011-12 academic year. “I’d be sur-
prised if we had 81,” McSharry
said. “But it’s a solid number to
have at this point, so I’m confident
that we’ll have at least 75.”
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S P R I NG H AS S P RUNG
The first flowers of spring are blooming. Winter officially ends March 20.
Sex Week kicks off
with ‘body positivity’
By Caroline Flanagan
Staff Writer
“If You Can’t Love Yourself … (How
Can You Love Anyone Else?)” was
the question posed at the Sexual
Health Education and Empower-
ment Council’s workshop yesterday.
The event — the second of the group’s
annual Sex Week — addressed body
image issues like body mass index
and shaving pubic hair. ­
Shanna Katz — a professional
sexuality educator, consultant, writer,
sex coach and self-described “profes-
sional pervert” — led the presenta-
tion.
The audience was rather small,
but it provided for a more intimate,
comfortable setting. “Our goal is not
to pack 500 people in a room. It’s
to touch on issues that aren’t often
talked about, so attendance isn’t a
major goal. These events usually
benefit from a more intimate setting
anyway,” said Aida Manduley ’11, the
chair of the Sexual Health Education
and Empowerment Council.
Katz emphasized “body posi-
tivity” in her presentation. “Body
positivity is about loving all bodies.
It’s not about being anti-thin, anti-
skinny or anti-anything,” she said.
She noted that body positivity is often
misconstrued as being one-sided ­—
that people who are body positive
only believe that “real women have
curves” or “real women have real
breasts.” But she emphasized that
people who are body positive love
all bodies. “We’re looking at authentic
people,” she said.
Katz touched on a variety of topics
in her presentation, including breast
and penis size and the benefits of
masturbation. She emphasized that
people should do what makes them
feel comfortable and should aim to
understand their own bodies. This
way, they can tell when something
is not right with their bodies and ask
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for what they want sexually. “Posi-
tive body image is about feeling sexy
whoever you are and at whatever
stage you’re at in your life,” Katz said.
At the end of the presentation,
Manduley raffled off sex toys and
body oils and offered everyone con-
doms, lubricant and small vibrators.
“We want people to have access to
good, body-safe things,” Manduley
said. “We want to normalize them
and inform potential consumers
about what companies are ethical
and what products are safe for their
bodies so they can be more discern-
ing in their purchases.”
“The main goals of Sex Week are
to inspire conversations, to provide
places for these conversations to take
place and to provide education. The
theme of this year’s Sex Week is
freedom of choice — not necessar-
ily reproductive choice — but choos-
ing whether or not to engage in sex
and finding out what you want,” said
Manduley. “This event focused on the
freedom to love yourself and your
freedom to have a body image that
makes you feel comfortable.”
Many audience members said
they enjoyed the event and might
attend future Sex Week events. “I was
looking at Sex Week events, and I
thought this one seemed interest-
ing. It was so much fun,” Brisa Pena
’13, said.
“I thought it was interesting to say
the least,” said Dan Rho ’13, adding
that he is thinking about taking MSex
as a result of the event.
Katz, who ran four events at Sex
Week last year and will run an event
tomorrow, said she thought the event
went well. “The people who showed
up were very engaged and had inter-
esting things to say,” she said. Brown
reminds her of her own undergradu-
ate experience because the students
have great ideas that do not fit the
cookie-cutter mold of society, she
added.
Festival addresses Cambodian repression
By Sarah Mancone
Staff Writer
In Cambodia, all news is good
news. Or at least, all news broad-
cast in the media is good news.
The lack of freedom of the press
in Cambodia, Vietnam and other
Southeast Asian countries is the
topic of this year’s week-long Inter-
national Freedom-to-Write Literary
Festival.
The annual festival, started
and run by the Program in Liter-
ary Arts and International Writers
Project, begins on Monday at 4
p.m. in Smith-Buonanno 106 with
readings by Vietnamese author
Linh Dinh and American play-
wright David Rabe.
“Every year, we have a fellow
running some kind of (Interna-
tional Writers Project) literary
festival about the art, culture and
politics of that country or region,”
said Robert Coover, visiting profes-
sor of literary arts. “We choose our
fellow on basis of need, of threat
against him. Sometimes they are
in exile,” he said.
The festival provides an oppor-
tunity to celebrate the fellow and
also to “become more knowledge-
able about the literature and cul-
ture of that nation,” as well as the
problems of the nation, said Gale
Nelson MA’88, assistant director of
the literary arts program.
The focus on Cambodia and
neighboring countries was sparked
by this year’s visiting fellow Tara-
rith Kho.
Hundreds of writers either ap-
ply or are nominated for the fellow-
ship every year, but Kho’s many im-
pressive nominations — by groups
like Poets, Essayists, Novelists, an
international literary and human
rights organization — solidified
Fashionistas’ magazine unravels style
By Luisa Robledo
Arts & Culture Editor
Before attending the Hermes lecture
in the Perry and Marty Granoff
Center for the Creative Arts last
Monday, a large crowd of fashioni-
stas and designer connoisseurs met
in Wilson Hall to create Brown’s first
fashion publication — ­ Unhemmed.
Frustrated with the lack of “fash-
ion-related things” at Brown, visual
arts concentrator April Zhang ’13
decided to take matters into her
own hands. She wanted to create a
student-run magazine that accu-
rately showcases fashion and style
at the University.
“I think there is a void on cam-
pus this magazine is really going
to fill,” said Zhang, who has been
making clothes since her parents
bought her a sewing machine in
elementary school. “We want to
have trend reports that can be ap-
plied to our lives and our budgets.”
“Of course we love Bottega Ve-
neta and Marc Jacobs, but we want
to know about students’ trends,”
said Monique Batson ’13, one of the
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his selection.
He stood out for his “energy and
enthusiasm for literature and hu-
man rights,” Nelson said.
Kho was born to a family of rice
farmers and was the “only one of
his siblings who got out of that and
got educated,” Coover said. Kho
has been very involved in helping
others in Cambodia do the same,
especially women who are trapped
by tradition and unable to get an
education, Coover added.
“Freedom of speech is difficult
to find in Cambodia,” Kho said. “I
promoted people to write about
contemporary issues.”
Kho said the media in Cambo-
dia is controlled by the country’s
high-ranking members of society.
“Televisions, newspapers, mag-
azines are all under the govern-
ment,” he said. As a result everyone
only hears the same “good” news,
he added.
Kho’s reading on Tuesday will
be about the state of the media in
Cambodia and how it has created
a “cage” for writers.
His efforts to “get the entrapped
rice farmer people out of their cir-
cumstances” was seen as a threat
in Cambodia, Coover said, and
on occasion, Kho had to flee to
the Thai border. Now if he returns
to Cambodia, he will likely be ar-
rested.
Though Kho’s family is here in
the United States right now as well,
he may have to return to Cambodia
when his visa runs out. Kho said he
did not want to talk badly about his
country, but he wants life to change
for the people of Cambodia.
“Writers are simple, not fighters.
We have no weapons,” Kho said.
The festival does not focus on
Cambodia alone but also explores
neighboring countries, especially
editors of the new up-and-coming
fashion magazine.
The magazine will be published
online only.
“We could have never printed
this to the standards we want —
we just don’t have the budget right
now,” Batson said of the group’s de-
cision to publish online. “Plus, this
way we can create a more dynamic
interaction with our readers. We
can update our blog between issues,
add links and videos and make it
really fun.”
“We are college students, and
we need certain outfits for certain
things, and we all have different
styles,” said Batson, who defines
fashion as wearable art.
Batson, a designer, is excited
to create an innovative layout that
will captivate readers’ attentions.
She still has not chosen one, but
she said she keeps waking up in
the middle of the night with “crazy
ideas.”
Both editors agreed the first
gathering was a success. At least
60 people turned up, and over 70
signed up on their listserv. Last
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Monday, March 14, 2011
Vietnam.
“Cambodia and Vietnam have
this really tangled history,” Coover
said. During the Vietnam War, the
United States targeted both coun-
tries, and both countries also tar-
geted each other, he said. After the
end of the war, Vietnam invaded
Cambodia.
The goal of this year’s festival
is to “provide greater insight into
the real nature” of Cambodian
and Vietnamese relations, Coover
added.
A panel Thursday will explore
these relations by bringing together
Vietnamese and Cambodian writ-
ers and American veterans of the
war.
Other speakers for this festival
were chosen based on their con-
nections to Cambodia and neigh-
boring countries, Nelson said.
Coover said the speakers that were
selected are “fellow workers in the
field of protecting human rights
and expression.”
The hope is that this festival will
promote “greater awareness” of the
situation in Cambodia, he added.
Kho said he hopes to help other
writers who are receiving threats in
response to their work. “Democ-
racy is a human right,” Kho said.
“If I know myself how to fight for
human rights, I want to do it.”
“Cambodian people did not
know how to find people’s help,”
he said, because they have no me-
dia and no network for contacting
people from other countries. They
are “living in a cage,” he said, and
can never open their eyes to see
another world.
Kho said that he hopes the festi-
val will generate American support
for Cambodia. “Americans must
fight for Cambodia to have a new
generation,” he said.
night, the first staff meeting took
place, at which writers, photog-
raphers and section editors were
selected.
“Unhemmed … is an unbeliev-
able opportunity to be involved
with a publication that is still de-
fining its own voice and establish-
ing both an identity and a pres-
ence within the Brown community,”
wrote Vivian Carlson ’14, one of the
new magazine’s staff members, in
an e-mail to The Herald.
“There are so many great ideas
floating around,” Zhang said. “We
have gotten a great response, and
there are so many people who want
to work with us.”
The first issue will come out
April 8. Until then, the staff mem-
bers will work on writing articles,
“getting the word out” and “execut-
ing ideas to the best of our abilities,”
Zhang added.
“This is our baby — we are super
excited and we hope everyone is
going to like it as much as we do,”
she said.
“Yes, it’s going to be great,” Bat-
son agreed. “It’s our mission.”
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Monday, March 14, 2011 Sports Monday 7
W. lax drops Alums grind it out, live ‘every kid’s dream’ in NFL
to 1-1 in Ivy continued from page 1 practice squad last December, and
he has been with the Raiders ever

League
trying to find a home. But thanks to since.
ongoing NFL labor disagreements,
Sewall said he has received less in- conventional route to the NFL was
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utes later, allowing the Tigers to
maintain a commanding 10-goal
lead. Hudgins and McGilloway
struck again, but the Tigers qui-
eted the Bears’ offensive surges.
“I don’t think anyone was hap-
py with our performance,” Water-
man said. “Everybody wanted to
step up and make big plays, but
instead of staying as a cohesive
unit and doing the things we
normally do, we kind of got in
a stink.”
Though the first loss in Ivy
League play stung, the team
aims to take the same positive
approach to Wednesday’s home
game at 5 p.m. against Holy Cross
(1-6).
“We had a great game plan go-
ing into (the Princeton game),”
Waterman said. “And we know
that we need to stick to the game
plan and do what we know how
to do.”
But of the four, the most un-
terest than he hoped.
“With this (collective bargain-
ing agreement) issue comes com-
plications for guys like me who
don’t have a team because teams
are reluctant to sign anybody in
case there is a lockout,” Sewall said.
“The best thing I can do, though,
is keep working hard, keep staying
in shape and go out there and show
the teams that are giving me tryouts
what I’ve got to offer.”
Still, Sewall said he remains op-
timistic.
If an agreement is reached, “I
definitely think I can sign some-
where,” he said. “I’ve just got to keep
working my butt off.”
Howard was in a similar posi-
tion after he was cut by the Titans
in September, despite being selected
by the team in the seventh round
of the 2010 NFL Draft. But How-
ard then impressed coaches for the
Oakland Raiders, a team that had
shown pre-draft interest in him.
The team offered him a spot on its
Develin’s.
“I went through the (Arena
Football League) and (United Foot-
ball League) and even changed my
position to make it to the NFL,” said
the defensive tackle-turned-full-
back. “The process really humbled
me and showed me how much work
it takes. It helped me appreciate
Cincinnati’s offer more once I fi-
nally got it.”
The day after Develin’s United
Football League team, the Florida
Tuskers, lost in the championship
game in late November, Develin
was called for a tryout with the
Bengals.
Herald file photo
Though Farnham was undrafted
Bobby Sewall ’10 (above) was on the Titans’ practice squad with David Howard
out of Brown, his path to the NFL
’09.5 this fall. Sewall was cut but is hoping to get re-signed for next season.
has been the simplest. After receiv-
ing a tryout from his hometown practice squad player of the week “Buddy’s living the life,” Develin
New England Patriots in the sum- leading up to New England’s Week said.
mer, Farnham was cut by the team 17 showdown against the Miami “He’s playing for the team he
only to be resigned several weeks Dolphins. He remains on the team’s rooted for growing up after playing
later. He went on to make the Pa- active practice squad roster and said for the college he rooted for grow-
triots’ practice squad and was also he hopes to earn a spot on the game ing up,” Develin added. “He’s just
recognized by his coaches as the squad next year. living every kid’s dream.”

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prepares for Harvard
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added his fourth to put the score
at 8-1.
The Bears added three goals in
the final quarter to stretch the on-
slaught to 11-1 before conceding
three late consolation goals to the
Hawks.
Just like in the Feb. 26 Quin-
nipiac win, every Brown player
had entered the game by the final
whistle.
The win moves the Bears back
to .500 after losses to the No. 5 Uni-
versity of Massachusetts at Amherst
and the University of Hartford.
Feinberg said Saturday’s com-
manding victory should help the
team regain momentum before
its first Ivy League game against
Harvard.
Tiffany said that game is when
the real test will begin.
“Now we head into the Ivy
League schedule playing a very
fast, athletic, aggressive Harvard
team,” Tiffany said. “We still have
a lot to prove. It’s good to win this
game, but there’s so much more to
prove, and that’s got to start next
Saturday against Harvard.”

Students fight child

obesity with brackets
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said Anderson, the second over-
all pick in the 1991 NBA draft.
“They want to become that. So it
definitely comes with the territory
that you’re a role model. When you
get a certain amount of exposure
and you’re out in the limelight,
your words carry a lot of weight.”
Anderson said the burden of
being a role model is hard for
many athletes. When sponsors
for junk foods or other poten-
tially harmful products come to
them with multi-million dollar
endorsement deals, it can be hard
to turn down the money in favor
of maintaining their ideals.
“It’s a Catch-22 situation,” An-
derson said. “The marketing guy
wants to make money by adver-
tising what they want to adver-
tise, but at the same time, kids
might get the wrong impression
when you’re trying to say, ‘Hey,
eat healthy’ and you’re sponsoring
fast food restaurants.”
But Rofes said he believes
March for Health is one way in
which athletes and college stu-
dents alike can remedy their im-
age to the rest of society.
“I think there is a lot to be said
for an effort that is run largely by
college students,” he said. “Just like
athletes, college students are be-
ing painted by a large portion of
society as a group of people that
don’t really care. I just disagree.
I think it’s a fact that, at least on
our campus, people do have their
causes that they care about very
dearly. We really want this to be a
college student-run program. We
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Alums in service support Concealed firearms mean safer campuses
ROTC reinstatement
To the Editor:
As just some of the proud
Brown alums who are serving or
have served in the military, we were
heartened to learn that the Univer-
sity is considering modifying its
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
policy. We were especially excited
when President Ruth Simmons or-
ganized the Brown Committee on
ROTC as a sign that Brown, like
our sister institutions, was honestly
exploring the options available. We
welcome this conversation and be-
lieve the time to reinstate ROTC on
Brown’s campus has arrived.
As stated in the Plan for Aca-
demic Enrichment, Brown aspires
to ensure all students are “offered
the best education possible through
opportunities to craft their own ed-
ucational paths.” Without question,
Brown offers an incredible range of
opportunities to its undergraduates,
but this alone is not what makes the
University unique. Rather, Brown
is distinctive because of the un-
paralleled freedom the University
gives students to make their own
decisions. We believe Brown can
better live up to this aspiration by
allowing students to decide for
themselves whether to participate
in ROTC.
We are better people because
of our service in the military, and
we believe Brown’s students, and
indeed the commonweal, will ben-
efit from increased opportunities
for Brunonians to serve. We know
from experience the challenges and
opportunities for development that
come with military service. We
know the import of the values of
selflessness, discipline and determi-
nation that military service instills.
Moreover, we believe the qualities
that are the hallmark of a Brown
graduate — passion, intellectual
curiosity, diversity of perspectives
— benefit the military as an organi-
zation. Allowing ROTC to return to
campus would provide additional
opportunities to students and be a
step toward more fully achieving
Brown’s mission to “serve the com-
munity, the nation and the world.”
We understand that, like almost
all decisions, there are benefits and
costs to be weighed. However, after
following this issue for years, we
encourage the University to rein-
state ROTC on campus immedi-
ately. Surely, Brown can find the
right partnership with our nation’s
military, the way other schools
have, that affords Brunonians
the highest level of opportunities
while enhancing Brown’s unique
curriculum. No one is more quali-
fied than the individual students to
determine whether participation
in ROTC is the right decision as
they chart their own educational
path. Let us live up to our values
and once again demonstrate our
trust in the individual by allowing
them to make that choice.
Ever True,
Doug Kechijian ’02
Charles Pollak ’03
Eric Neuman ’04
Jyri Wilska ’04
Scott Quigley ’05
Matthew Goracy ’06
Michael McBride ’06
Nicholas Morrell ’06
Evan Pettyjohn ’06
Christopher Rigali ’06
William Wilson ’06
Christopher Pollak ’08
Alexander Fye ’09
John Noh ’10
Sean Quigley ’10, former
Herald opinions columnist
To the Editor:
In his column (“Shooting for
Safety,” March 9), Ethan Tobias
’12 argues that colleges allowing
their students to carry concealed
weapons would expose their stu-
dents to severe risks. For a number
of reasons, I respectfully disagree.
While having trained security and
police personnel on campus is an
obvious necessity, it is also obvious
that they cannot be everywhere at
once. As my mother — a former
police officer — likes to say, the
police are about two minutes away,
but sometimes, only seconds mat-
ter. For instance, law enforcement
intervention was not responsible
for ending the tragedy at Virginia
Tech. After killing 32 people and
wounding 17, the attacker turned
the pistol on himself. Had some-
one on that campus been armed
with a concealed weapon, it is
not unreasonable to believe that
they might have ended the tragic
rampage much sooner, or at least
might have been able to fight back.
Though they would not have pre-
vented the attack, they may have
saved many, many lives. Unfor-
tunately, though, many people
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believe that college students are
not responsible enough to carry
weapons on campus. Sure, we can
join the military and travel the
world over to defend freedom, but
the thought of being prepared to
defend our lives at home — as dor-
mitories are homes for some of
us — and at school, gives people
pause. Some imagine that there
would be a dangerous mix of al-
cohol, drugs, stress from school
and guns, and that Texas can set
this dangerous precedent. This
is not at all the case. When I am
on break — oftentimes in Texas,
coincidentally — and go some-
where where I might drink alco-
hol, I leave my concealed handgun
permit at home. This is because it
is illegal to be intoxicated while
carrying a concealed weapon and
I do not want to lose my permit.
I would not do anything differ-
ently or more dangerous if I was
allowed to carry my firearm on a
Texas campus. I doubt that any
permit-holding student would. In
fact, the state of Utah has allowed
concealed firearms on college cam-
puses for many years now. There,
permit holders recognize the laws
behind mixing alcohol and guns,
comics
and permit holders prove to be the
vast minority in terms of criminal
convictions. There is nothing to
suggest that if Texas were to allow
concealed carry on campus, things
would be any more violent than
they are in Utah. And importantly,
despite the stress and alcohol that
is likely a part of college life in
Utah, there have been no shoot-
ings on a Utah campus since this
bill was passed many years ago.
With these facts in mind, I would
trust someone with a concealed
weapons permit not to let the
stress of school make them violent.
Still, as Tobias points out, there
will likely always be someone who
goes on a deadly rampage. I would
hope that if that happened in my
class or the classroom of someone
I love, somebody would end the
violence as absolutely quickly as
possible. Whether that someone
is the campus police, city police
or the law-abiding, permit-hold-
ing student or professor two rows
down makes no difference to me. If
you were in the classroom, would
you ask the permit holder to wait
two minutes for the police?
Nolan Broussard ’11

Teacher layoffs no
reason to villify Taveras
To the Editor:
I read the opinion piece on
teachers by Chris Norris-LeBlanc
’13 (“Who needs teachers anyway?”
March 8) with dismay. By failing to
make distinctions or provide con-
text for his comparison of Rhode
Island with Wisconsin and New
Jersey, Norris-LeBlanc could put
Mayor Angel Taveras and Scott
Walker in the same union-busting
camp. Providence is in deep eco-
nomic trouble, and Taveras, known
to be supportive of unions, has made
public his intention to fire as many
highly paid city administrators as
he can — he has taken a 10 percent
pay cut himself — so as to rehire as
many teachers and shut down as few
schools as possible.
Taveras did not, as Norris-LeB-
lanc contends, launch “a full-fledged
attack on teachers” or any other gov-
ernment workers, nor is there any
evidence for the claim that he is “sit-
ting atop … stacks of money.” Super-
intendent Tom Brady explained in
an open letter that dismissing teach-
ers was a decision “of last resort”
necessitated by a state law stipulating
that teachers must be notified of any
change in their status by March 1. If
not for that law, Brady claims, “no
teacher would have received dis-
missal notices” when they did. As
for protecting teachers, would it have
been preferable to hastily cut loose
a number of teachers simply on the Dot Comic | Eshan Mitra and Brendan Hainline
basis of their standing, whether ra-
tionalized by protecting those with
seniority or by firing the most highly
paid, regardless of the specifics of
training and performance? Where’s
the solidarity in that?
The story of Providence’s teacher
layoffs is much more complicated
than Norris-LeBlanc’s ideological,
rhetorically charged representa-
tion suggests. I support unions and
teachers. And there’s a world of
difference between the actions of
Taveras and those of Walker.
Denise Davis
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Stamp out the vote
One of the major sources of student unrest during the Vietnam
War was this simple injustice — although 18- to 20-year-olds could
be forcibly shipped off to fight in a foreign war, the vast majority could
not vote at home. In 1971, Congress and the states, recognizing the
unfairness of preventing draftees from registering their disapproval of
the war electorally, quickly proposed and ratified the 26th Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution, which granted the right to vote to all citizens
over 18 years of age.
At the amendment’s ratification ceremony, President Richard Nixon
expressed confidence in “America’s new voters,” who would bring “a
spirit of moral courage” and “high idealism … in the American dream”
to the political landscape. This sentiment was widely shared — the
amendment was ratified by the required 38 states in fewer than four
months, making it the fastest ratification in history.
But it seems that some modern politicians are beginning to have
second thoughts about this historic step. According to a March 8
article in the Washington Post, William O’Brien, the new Republican
speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, said college
students are “foolish,” lack “life experience” and “just vote their feel-
ings.” O’Brien made these comments at a recent Tea Party gathering
in support of tightening New Hampshire’s residency laws to prevent
college students from voting where they go to school.
Usually electoral changes such as these, which are afoot in many
other states, are pursued in the name of fraud prevention, so it is
somewhat refreshing that O’Brien explained the real motive behind
disenfranchising college students — all too often, they “vot(e) as a
liberal.” While fraud may be a problem in some instances, voting more
than once or lying on voting forms is already a federal felony punish-
able by five years in prison. And those who are prepared to commit
fraud in the current system won’t likely be deterred by the new require-
ments — which are nothing a little more fraud could not circumvent.
Rather, law-abiding citizens will be adversely affected. Some, and
especially primary voters in states that hold caucuses, would not even
be able to vote in their home states — where they spend little time at
all — even if they wanted to. Even students from New Hampshire who
Correction
An article in Friday’s Herald, (“15-minute musicals lampoon politics, bears,” March 11) misspelled the name
go to school away from their hometown may face difficulties voting.
of Sam Yambrovich ’12. The Herald regrets the error.
What’s worse, all students will lose their voice in the direction the
community they actually live in takes for the four years they are there
because leaders like O’Brien deem them too liberal or too transient.
Tellingly, there are not any moves to disenfranchise temporary
workers who move to a state for several years with the intention of
leaving later. Such a move would be blatantly unconstitutional. Its very
Clarifications
implausibility should illustrate how out of line this analogous, nakedly An article in Friday’s Herald (“Student activities endowment to get $1M,” March 11) called the student activi-
partisan power play is. ties endowment the “brainchild” of Ryan Lester ’11. The endowment was established under his leadership,
All law-abiding American citizens over 18 years of age have a fun- but members of the Undergraduate Council of Students conceived of the endowment before Lester assumed
damental constitutional right to vote in the place they live. Arbitrarily his position as student activities chair.
denying that right to one subset of the electorate on a flimsy pretext
— they only live there nine months of the year, so they do not know An article in Friday’s Herald (“BCA: Spring Weekend lineup limited by Coachella Festival”) quoted a student
the issues well enough — is reprehensible. Elected officials should be in saying of the artist and mogul Diddy, “He’s the man who wrote ‘Shake Ya Tailfeather’ and I think the Brown
the business of encouraging citizens’ participation in their democracy, community is forgetting that.” While Diddy is featured in the song, he did not write it.
not suppressing it.

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The Brown Daily Herald
Monday, March 14, 2011
Sarah Palin: created at Brown
By Oliver Rosenbloom
Opinions Columnist
As the race for the Republican presidential
nomination begins in earnest, Sarah Palin
will receive even more publicity than she
normally does. Liberal intellectuals will
continue to dismiss her as an ignorant
country bumpkin. This anti-Palin rheto-
ric will be just as intense at Brown, where
Palin certainly is not a popular figure. Her
nomination would be a disaster for many
Brown students.
It is therefore ironic that Sarah Palin
was in fact created at Brown. More pre-
cisely, her anti-elitist and anti-intellec-
tual rhetoric appeals to so many Ameri-
cans because elite liberal colleges, includ-
ing Brown, play right into her hands. By
deifying extreme social liberalism and
neglecting duty to, and love of, country,
Brown provides an easy target for Palin’s
brand of conservative populism.
The debate about the Reserve Officers’
Training Corps serves as a perfect example
of how the Brown community needlessly
alienates conservative Americans. Even
after the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,”
the Brown community continues to search
for reasons to ban the military from cam-
pus. These rationales for banning the mil-
itary continue to move further left along
the spectrum of social liberalism.
Brown students do not deserve criti-
cism for their extreme social liberalism.
Confronting transgender discrimination in ROTC
By Maddy Jennewein
Guest Columnist
In the current debate over the potential
return of the Reserve Officers’ Training
Corps to campus, much attention has been
given to economic, administrative and mil-
itaristic concerns. But little attention has
been paid to the rampant discrimination
within the military against transgender
people. Though the repeal of “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” is lauded as a huge victory for
the LGBTQ community, it does nothing
to affect the status of transgender service
members.
It is clear that the driving force behind
the new committee on ROTC is the recent
repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” but an im-
mediate reinstatement of ROTC ignores
the “T” in LGBT. Transgender people are
continually ignored in the push for lesbian,
gay and bisexual rights. Before declaring
recent political events a success for LGBT
rights and an open invitation for ROTC,
we need to consider continuing discrimi-
nation in the military.
Transgender identity and gender iden-
tity disorder have always meant automatic
disqualification from military service. Pro-
spective soldiers undergo a medical exam-
ination in which anyone with prior geni-
tal surgery is rejected and those who have
been diagnosed with gender identity disor-
der are turned away for mental health rea-
sons. In addition, veterans who come out
after their service face difficulties getting
Standing up for the rights of neglected
groups is admirable. What is not admira-
ble is Brown’s refusal to engage with other
Americans who do not share Brown’s lib-
eral ideology.
In terms of cultural beliefs, our mili-
tary will never be the socially liberal in-
stitution that Brown is. By eliminating any
military presence from campus, Brown
students show that issues of national se-
curity and duty to country are of relative-
ly little importance when compared to
Brown’s extreme form of social liberalism.
By deifying extreme social liberalism and neglecting
duty to, and love of, country, Brown provides an easy
target for Palin’s brand of conservative populism.
Neglecting to support the military fu-
els Sarah Palin’s anti-elitist and anti-in-
tellectual populism. A common theme of
Palin’s rhetoric is that some Americans are
ashamed of their country. These Ameri-
cans pursue a narrow agenda of grievance
politics and overlook the strengths of our
country and the sacrifices of our armed
forces.
This description fits Brown perfectly
when applied to the ROTC debate. ROTC
critics refuse to consider the strengths of
our military and only dwell on its social
conservatism. In their quest to spread
their liberal worldview, they refuse to
treatment at veteran’s facilities, and those
who change their sex after service face dif-
ficulties in simply receiving veteran bene-
fits.
The military’s discrimination, and thus
ROTC’s discrimination, against transgen-
der people, stands in direct violation of
the University’s anti-discrimination poli-
cy, which states, “Brown University does
not discriminate on the basis of … sexual
orientation, gender identity or gender ex-
pression in the administration of its edu-
cational policies, admission policies, schol-
arship and loan programs or other school-
The military’s discrimination, and thus ROTC’s
discrimination, against transgender people, is in direct
violation of the University’s anti-discrimination policy.
administered programs.” Because ROTC
runs military science courses and offers
scholarships, it directly violates this code.
With its exclusionary rules on admission,
ROTC goes against Brown’s anti-discrimi-
nation policy.
This calls into question what a non-dis-
crimination policy means to Brown. Is our
anti-discrimination policy a strict code that
we expect all Brown institutions to follow
or lenient guidelines that take a back seat
Opinions 11
make any concessions to the military and
instead demonize our armed forces. For
these critics, steadfastness in relation to
narrow social concerns gives the impres-
sion of an anti-military, anti-American
worldview.
Palin also argues that many elite lib-
erals and intellectuals are ungrateful for
the real sacrifices that previous genera-
tions of Americans have made to guaran-
tee our freedom. Again, this critique per-
fectly applies to Brown’s ROTC debate. In
the rush to identify discrimination in the
armed forces, ROTC critics conveniently
overlook the fact that the U.S. Army is the
force most responsible for guaranteeing
all of the freedoms we hold so dear.
Brown students enjoy unprecedented
academic, sexual and personal freedom.
Historically, this freedom did not instant-
ly appear at the request of socially liberal
reformers. It developed through the com-
bined work of politicians, private citizens
and our armed forces. Even today, we only
enjoy our freedom because brave young
men and women are willing to risk their
lives for it. Demonizing the army and
banning ROTC shows how ungrateful the
to broader University goals? If we allow
ROTC to ignore the non-discrimination
policy, where do we draw the line? Which
campus groups can interpret the policy at
will and who must strictly adhere to it?
Bringing ROTC back on campus is a di-
rect affront to transgender students and al-
lies. On a campus that has made huge com-
mitments to transgender inclusion in ar-
eas such as health services and residential
life, ROTC’s return would bring back the
inequality that Brown has been working so
hard to expel. ROTC’s presence would es-
tablish a hierarchy within the Brown com-
munity. It makes a statement about who is
more equal and who is more deserving of
rights.
The military has always had an evolving
standard of discrimination. With each new
generation, a new facet of discrimination
has been deemed too much. With women,
African Americans and now lesbian, gay
and bisexual people, aspects of prejudice
have been stripped away. But after each
new fight, when it seemed as if the strug-
Brown community is for the very forces
that protect this freedom. This ungrate-
fulness stems from our inability to engage
with those who do not share our socially
liberal worldview.
I would never vote for Sarah Palin. But I
believe that her anti-intellectual populism
carries an unfortunate amount of truth,
especially when applied to Brown. Elite
liberal institutions often are out of touch
with the beliefs of the majority of Ameri-
cans. Instead of offering general support
to our country, they prioritize narrow so-
cial agendas and dismiss all of those who
do not share their form of social liberal-
ism. Similarly, elite intellectuals neglect to
show proper gratitude and support to the
armed forces who fight and die for their
academic freedom. In the debate over
ROTC, Brown has shown all of these re-
grettable qualities of elite liberal opinion.
I doubt that any Brown students will al-
ter their positions to appease Sarah Palin.
But they should be aware that their arro-
gant and dismissive form of liberalism only
makes Palin more popular. By disrespect-
ing our armed forces and refusing to en-
gage with those who do not share their so-
cial values, these critics have set themselves
apart from all but the most socially liber-
al Americans. In doing so, they have im-
proved the electoral prospects of Sarah Pal-
in and every other conservative populist.
Oliver Rosenbloom ’13 is a history
concentrator from Mill Valley, Calif.
He can be reached at
oliver_rosenbloom@brown.edu.
gle were over, advocates wanted to quit and
walk away with the privileges that they had
earned. The LGBTQ fight in the military is
not over. The repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” is a huge step for lesbian, gay and bi-
sexual soldiers, but there is still rampant
discrimination in the military. Is Brown
willing to accept discrimination against
transgender individuals? Does it privilege
sexuality over gender identity in areas of
discrimination? This is the question. Do we
accept what we have earned and continue
to ignore the needs of transgender individ-
uals? Is some equality, but not total equal-
ity, enough?
Brown and the committee consider-
ing ROTC’s return need to carefully evalu-
ate what our values are and what our an-
ti-discrimination policy means to us. Are
we willing to allow exceptions to this poli-
cy and accept the consequences that come
with them? Or will we uphold our strong
commitment to equality and keep ROTC
off campus? How can we reconcile Uni-
versity goals with Brown’s admirable anti-
discrimination policy? To what extent will
we ignore the minority in the drive to bring
ROTC back on campus? I urge the Brown
community, and particularly the commit-
tee, to take this issue into consideration
and remember the values of our commu-
nity when debating this issue. Brown’s an-
ti-discrimination policy exists for a reason
and cannot simply be ignored for the sake
of ROTC.
Maddy Jennewein ’14 is a co-president
of GenderAction. She can be contacted
at madeleine_jennewein@brown.edu.
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the Brown
Students mix March W. Lacrosse
Madness with charity Squad suffers first Ivy League loss
By Sam Rubinroit
Sports Staff Writer
As a senior in high school, Lex
Rofes ’13 had an idea. Why not use
people’s love for college basketball
not as a way to make individual
profit, but to help charity?
What began as a high school se-
nior service project in Milwaukee
has evolved into March to Health,
a nationwide NCAA tournament
competition led by three Brown
students in which participants give
money to enter a bracket pool and
fight child obesity
“It came to me that you could
use the fact that people enter pools
for college basketball tournaments
as a motivation for them to actu-
ally donate to charity,” Rofes said.
“There are a lot of people out there
that feel uncomfortable gambling
with their friends. But if you turn
it into a situation where they’re do-
nating to charity, all of the sudden
they feel a lot more comfortable
and not like they’re dirty while
doing it.”
Hoping to expand March to
Health when he got to Brown,
Rofes turned to Allison Galer
’11 and Jeff Lipton ’13, a Herald
sports columnist. Galer was the
marketing consultant for Marie
Ferdinand-Harris, a two-time
WNBA All-Star with the Phoenix
Mercury, who worked with ’nPlay,
a non-profit organization commit-
ted to fighting childhood obesity.
Galer suggested partnering with
’nPlay and Ferdinand-Harris for
March to Health.
“Their message is what my mes-
sage is about — to educate and
help kids and adults make healthy
choices,” Ferdinand-Harris said.
M. Lacrosse
Back on track: Bears take down Hawks over weekend
By Ethan McCoy
Assistant Sports Editor
After dropping two consecutive
road games, the men’s lacrosse team
got back to business Saturday at
Meister-Kavan Field, brushing aside
winless St. Joseph’s University 11-4.
Bruno (2-2) shut out the Hawks
(0-5) in the first half to jump out
to a 6-0 lead and coasted the rest
of the way to the win.
“I’m pleased with our defense,”
said Head Coach Lars Tiffany ’90.
“We were able to force a tempo that
St. Joe’s didn’t want to play. Our
opponent today wanted to play a
patient, slow game, and we wanted
to play a fast transition game. …
I thought we did a really nice job
as a unit.”
Captain Andrew Feinberg ’11,
who led the Bears’ attack with
four goals and an assist, echoed
his coach.
“Our defense has been playing
well in all four games,” Feinberg
said. “I would not want to play our
defense if I were another team.
They just work well as a unit.”
In addition to Feinberg’s four
“Living a healthy life and exer-
cising daily I think are the two
messages that are very important
to be spread with youth, but also
with adults.”
March to Health also offers a
unique opportunity for athletes
at Brown, who are prohibited
from entering into pools because
of NCAA restrictions banning
gambling. But since there is no
prize for winning and all entrance
fees go towards charity, collegiate
athletes are allowed to enter the
charity contest.
“This is a great opportunity for
student-athletes to be able to enter
a bracket pool because they are not
normally allowed to,” said Lipton,
a student-athlete. “What’s great
about this is not only do they get
to enter a bracket pool, but it’s also
for charity.”
The partner organization ’nPlay
— which encourages schools to
offer healthier food and more op-
portunities for exercise — features
a coalition of 30 athletes including
Kenny Anderson, Paul Pierce, Jen-
nie Finch, Grant Hill and Evander
Holyfield.
“Professional athletes have the
unique ability to reach a large au-
dience pretty easily,” Galer said.
“With that, the athletes will com-
municate this project and our
goals in such a way that would get
a lot of people involved to help
fight childhood obesity.”
“When you’re getting so much
exposure on television and every-
body’s looking up to you because
you can dunk a basketball, shoot
a three-pointer or cross some-
body over, a lot of kids like that,”
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Rob Schlesinger ‘12 clashes with St. Joseph’s Alex Mahoney in the second half of Brown’s 11-4 win. Schlesinger scored
twice in the contest.
goals, Rob Schlesinger ’12 and Alex
Jones ’13 added two apiece.
Feinberg leads the Bears with
13 goals on the season, and his 112
career goals are the seventh-best in
Brown history.
By Sam Wickham
Contributing Writer
The women’s lacrosse team came
away with a win and a loss on the
road last week, defeating Quinni-
piac Tuesday and falling to No. 17
Princeton Saturday. Bruno (3-2,
1-1 Ivy League) lit up the Bobcats
(0-3) for 16 goals but could not
keep pace with the Tigers (3-1,
1-0).
Brown 16, Quinnipiac 11
Attacker Bre Hudgins ’14 led
the scoring charge with six goals
on 10 shots, bringing her season
total to 13 goals, tied for most
on the team with Kaela McGil-
loway ’12.
Though Quinnipiac scored
first, Erin Roos ’14 responded
with back-to-back goals to put
Bruno on top 2-1. The Bobcats
responded at the eight-minute
mark, scoring two goals in 20
seconds to put them back in the
lead 3-2.
But the Bears then unleashed
a seven-goal scoring streak fu-
eled by five different players. Two
goals apiece from Hudgins and
McGilloway, as well as tallies from
Nancy Baker ’12, Julia Keller ’12
and Grace Healy ’14, extended
Brown’s lead to 9-3.
“It’s essential for long-term
success, having a diverse group
of scorers, as well as people who
can score in different ways,” said
Head Coach Keely McDonald ’00.
“Last year, we had three or four
scorers every game,” said tri-cap-
tain Paris Waterman ’11. “This
year, at any given point, anyone
can score, which is awesome for
us, because the defense doesn’t
know who to key in on.”
“Andrew Feinberg is a natural-
born goal scorer,” Tiffany said. “But
he’s the hardest working guy on
the team. It’s funny when you have
someone with 108 goals here ­—
he’s always the one grabbing the
Paris Waterman ’11 and the women’s lacrosse team struggled to get the
offense going in a 17-5 drubbing at No. 17 Princeton.
The Bobcats refused to go
down without a fight, scoring
three goals in quick succession
to cut Brown’s lead to three. The
Bears managed to score two more
before the end of a high-scoring
first half, leading Quinnipiac 11-
6.
The Bobcats struck first in the
third, though not until 12 min-
utes into the half. But the Bobcat’s
defense then broke down and al-
lowed five goals, giving Bruno a
commanding 16-7 lead. Four late
goals from Quinnipiac were not
enough to make up the deficit.
“Quinnipiac in the past has
been somewhat of a tough game
for us,” Waterman said. “So it’s a
really good positive to see that,
although we didn’t come out and
Jonathan Bateman / Herald
ball bucket to do more shooting.
… Andrew’s always the one taking
more and more shots.”
Brown jumped out to a quick
lead courtesy of two unassisted
goals from Schlesinger in the first
Monday, March 14, 2011
Jesse Schwimmer / Herald
play our best, we were still able to
get the win.”
Princeton 17, Brown 5
The Tigers scored early and
often against the Bears Saturday,
bringing Bruno’s Ivy League re-
cord to 1-1. Hudgins and McGil-
loway struggled to break open the
scoring against Princeton, but the
Tigers ran through gaps in the
Bears’ defense.
The Tigers got off to a roaring
start in the first half, scoring 10
unanswered goals.
Goals from Waterman and
McGilloway early in the second
half were cancelled out by two
more Princeton goals three min-
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eight minutes. With 4:05 left to
play in the first quarter, Feinberg
scored his first goal of the day on a
shot that glanced off the post. Only
seven seconds later, Feinberg added
his second goal to extend Bruno’s
lead to 4-0. Tommy Capone ’14
took a faceoff and initiated a series
of quick passes that found Feinberg
on the doorstep for the score.
In the second quarter, the
Hawks tightened up their defense,
but the Bears broke through in the
final two minutes to add to their
lead. With 1:33 left in the half, Jones
used his size and strength to create
space before firing a rocket over St.
Joseph’s goalie Chris Moffa’s left
shoulder. With under a minute to
play, Feinberg completed his hat
trick with another score from close
range, this time on a nice find from
Schlesinger.
In the third quarter, St. Joseph’s
finally got on the board, but the
Bears answered right back. Jones
bounced one past Moffa for his sec-
ond goal of the day, and with 1:31
remaining in the quarter, Feinberg
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