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News.....1-4Arts........5-6Sports...7-8Editorial..10Opinion...11Today........12
Saving grace
Nicole Stock 09 broke
her own saves record in a
season-ending win.
Sports, 7
Staging conflict
Gever/Shebab brings
Israel-Palestine conflict
to the stage.
Arts, 5
money matterS
Simon Liebling 12 wants the
Universit to freeze tuition
and tap the endowment.
Opinions, 11
inside
Daily Heraldthe Brown
vol. cxliv, no. 22 | Monday, February 23, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891
Corporation deepens cuts; U. to keep building
By chaz KelSh and
Jenna StarK
News editors
Predicting a slow recovery or
the endowment, the Corporation
ocused this weekends meeting
on long-term plans to reduce the
Universitys budget by about $90
million over the next ve years,
and revised ambitious plans ortwo major capital projects so they
could begin even during a period
o economic recession.
The Universitys highest gov-
erning body deepened budget cuts
recommended by President Ruth
Simmons both or this year and or
uture scal years but attempted to
maintain academic priorities and a
commitment to nancial aid. It said
two high-priority projects a Medi-
cal Education Building and a brain
sciences building, would likely be
addressed through renovations o
existing buildings instead.
It also granted nal approval
or two other projects, the renova-tion o Faunce House and a new
Creative Arts Center, to begin this
summer.
This is the rst meeting I re-
member since Ive been at Brown
where so much has been debated
and changed, Simmons said in an
interview Sunday.
In an e-mail to the Brown com-
munity in January, Simmons set a
ramework or sustaining the Uni-
versitys nancial situation that
included reezing most salaries,
postponing the expansion o the
Graduate School and proposing to
reduce next years budget by $4.5million and cutting roughly $60 mil-
lion in planned budget increases
by 2014.
But the Corporation decided to
take more drastic measures to pre-
serve the health o the Universitys
endowment and nancial stability,
moving to increase budget cuts or
the 2010 scal year rom $4.5 mil-
lion to $6 million, and aiming to cut
as much as $90 million rom the
projected budget or 2014.
Simmons also announced or the
rst time in an e-mail to the Brown
community on Saturday that the
University plans to cut some cur-
rent administrative and sta em-
ployees jobs to help reduce the
budget.
Targeted position elimina-
tions will be enacted in the coming
months to help achieve this goal,
Simmons wrote. While some will
come rom existing vacancies made
permanent, some administrative
and sta positions will unortu-
nately have to be eliminated.
The meeting was enormously
engaged and in some respects so-
bering, said Chancellor Thomas
Tisch 76, Browns highest ocerand the Corporations leader.
There was an attempt to strike
Bn scnc, M Schbungs w b nvtnsBy Brigitta greene
seNiorstaffwriter
Facing a dicult economic climate,
the Corporation scaled back plans
this weekend or two major aca-
demic projects a planned Medi-cal Education Center and a brain
science building saying those
projects would likely involve renova-
tions o existing buildings instead o
new structures and would proceed
sooner rather than later.
The Corporation also gave nal
approval or construction o the
new Creative Arts Center and the
renovation o Faunce House into
a new campus center, which will
begin this summer.
In scrapping the original plans
or the two buildings, one a cen-
terpiece o a $100 million git to
the Alpert Medical School and theother an ambitious building that
was supposed to be built along The
Walk, the Corporation appeared to
strike a solution that allowed it to
push ahead with important aca-
demic priorities while navigating
new nancial obstacles to campus
expansion.
We thought very hard about
the consequences o putting every-
thing on hold, President Ruth Sim-mons said in an interview Sunday,
but the Corporation deemed it not
sensible to do so.
The cost o renovating an old
building is about one-hal to two-
thirds o building new, said Richard
Spies, executive vice president or
planning and senior advisor to the
president. He said the University
rst began exploring renovation in
early January, when it became clear
that the economic crisis would have
a long-term eect on the Univer-
sitys nances.
We havent just given up our
goals thats the other way to savemoney, he said. The whole idea
has been to ocus our resources to
BDS -k By Sydney emBer
seNiorstaffwriter
Managers or BuDS, the student
employment arm o Dining Services,
have introduced a new no-homework
policy or many on-duty workers, a
provision that was rst presented
to students in their contracts earlier
this month.
The new policy, which ormally
prohibits all non-cashier workers,
and cashiers in the Blue Room, rom
doing homework on the job, has re-
sulted in some workers reusing to
sign their annual contracts.
We elt a ormal warning sent
a message that this is important,
said Cindy Swain 09, a ormer BuDS
general manager who introduced
the ormal policy with current BuDS
general manager Alex Hartley 10. It
makes sense that people are talking
about it because it aects a lot o
people.
Workers have reportedly re-
sponded with a petition, though
Swain said no one has presented
the petition to her or Hartley yet.
People are going to have knee-jerk
reactions, she said. We cant do
anything about it until they come
to us.
Though the no-homework policy
previously existed as an inormal
rule or most workers, putting the
policy in the contracts rather than
just adding it to the new version o
the handbook was aster in terms o
getting the word out, Swain said.
We basically wanted some-
thing physical in peoples hands,
Swain said. We wanted people to
Bq bk kBy Sydney emBer
seNiorstaffwriter
Construction on a new aquatics cen-ter may begin as early as this sum-
mer, ater a large bequest breathed
resh lie into a project that appeared
likely to be shelved by the economic
downturn.
Approval or designs to proceed
on the project came this weekend, as
the Corporation ocially accepted
$14.75 million rom the estate o Ray-
mond Moran 41 in the name o his
late sister.
That amount is enough to und
more than hal the project, accord-
ing to Ronald Vanden Dorpel MA71,
senior vice president or University
advancement. Under Browns cur-rent guidelines, nal approval or the
project can come once the Moran
Kim Perle / Herald
A new BuDS polic bans homework for man workers.
Predicts slow rebound forstruggling endowment
Courtes of Brown Universit
A rendering of the Stephen Robert 62 Campus Center in Faunce House, one of the projects that will proceed.
$60 Original proposed
reductions to planned
spending b 2014
$90 New goal for 5-ear
reductions (est.)
$6 Spending cuts for next
ears budget, up from
$4.5 million
n nbs
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MONDAy, FEBRUARy 23, 2009THE BROWN DAILy HERALDPAGE 2
CS wS I love the fact that Im training a new generation of journalists. Visiting Professor of English Trac BretonK By Sarah Julian
CoNtributiNgwriter
Put on your pretty lies, youre in thecity o wonder. Aint gonna play nice,
watch out you might just go under,
sang Pitch Slapped, in its cover o
Rihannas Disturbia, to a packed
Salomon 101 last Saturday night. The
group rom Berklee College o Music
won the Northeast quarternals in
this years International Champion-
ship o Collegiate A Cappella, hosted
by Browns Higher Keys.
Brown students, as well as riends
and amily o perormers rom Har-
vard, Boston University, New York
University, Northeastern University
and University o Maine, Orono,
gathered to watch the ve a cappellagroups compete in the 14th annual
competition. The rst runners-up in
the competition were the Opportunes
o Harvard College, with the Maine
Steiners o the University o Maine,
Orono as second runners-up. The
top two groups Pitch Slapped and
the Opportunes will advance to
the seminal round o the Northeast
region on March 21.
The men and women o Pitch
Slapped sang Gravity by Sara Ba-
reilles and Dont Stop the Music by
Rihanna, along with the crowd-pleas-
ing Disturbia. Cate Wright won the
award or outstanding solo.
The coed Opportunes, dressed all
in black with suits or the men and
dresses and heels or the women,
sang Lady Marmalade and James
Taylors Fire and Rain. Fire and
Rain won the outstanding arrange-
ment award o the night. The group
also sang a medley o songs including
parts o Michael Jacksons Beat It
and Smooth Criminal.
b, By Ben SchrecKingerseNiorstaffwriter
Its almost a cliche or aspiring stand-
up comedians and rock stars to hear,
Dont quit your day job. But some
Brown proessors have also taken this
advice to heart.
Despite their ully-booked days,
these aculty members nd satisac-
tion in both teaching and pursuing
proessional careers.
Teaching doesnt leave me with
a lot o the spare time that I used to
have, said Tracy Breton, a visiting
proessor o English who has workedas an investigative reporter at the
Providence Journal since 1973. She
added that time spent in the classroom
makes up only a raction o the time
she spends on her teaching job.
Breton, who won a Pulitzer prize
in 1994 or her investigation o cor-
ruption in the Rhode Island courts,
began teaching at Brown in 1997.
She currently teaches two sections
o ENGL0160: Journalistic Writing
in the all, ENGL1160A: Advanced
Feature Writing in the spring and a
three-week course in Browns pre-col-
lege summer program. This year, she
is also one seniors thesis adviser.
Despite their busy schedules, pro-
essors said they do not eel as i one
job suers because o the other. Just
the opposite, and I cant quite explain
why, said Visiting Lecturer in English
Tom Mooney. Mooney, who has been
a reporter or the ProJo since 1986,
said he has been teaching the spring
section o Journalistic Writing or
ve years.
I dont think Id have the energy
to do it year-round, Mooney said.
But he said his productivity increases
when working both jobs. I you want
something done, ask a busy person
to do it, he said. When gradua-
tion rolls around, I become a slug
in comparison.
The proessors said their outside
careers improved their teaching, and
vice versa.
Im oten using the real-lie experi-
ences that Im living at that moment to
teach, Mooney said. He said he be-
lieves he was hired partly because Im
really down in the trenches instead o
sitting up in an ivory tower.
Mooney said teaching has allowed
him to look dierently at the practice
o journalism. Earlier this semester,
he was writing a piece about a veter-
ans advocate who had gone to jail 30
years ago or killing a man. Mooneysaid he elt rustration and conu-
sion about how I was going to tell
this story.
When Mooney told his class
about the story, he raised the ques-
tion, Can a man ever be orgiven
or taking a lie? Mooney even-
tually began his article with that
exact question.
Breton said she appreciates the
job security o teaching during the
ongoing economic downturn. Daily
newspapers have been hit especially
hard, she said, and the ProJo hasbeen orced to lay o reporters in
recent months.
Though some established report-
ers are losing their jobs, Bretons stu-
dents still have been able to nd jobs
in journalism, she said. Newspapers
may be cutting costs by hiring recent
graduates with shorter contracts, she
said, instead o continuing to pay a
premium or their more experienced
counterparts.
Sarah Fox 89 said she is en-
ergized by teaching GNSS0090C:
Reproductive Health: Science and
Politics. Fox is an obstetrician-gyne-
cologist at Women & Inants Hospital
and teaches at the Alpert Medical
School. This year is her rst teaching
undergraduates, she said.
My lie is much more busy right
now, said Fox, who added that her
work has begun to spill over into
nights and weekends. But she at-
tributed much o the added stress to
a learning curve. I have a sense that
the next year that I teach, it will be
pretty reasonable, she said.
Her students bring a diversity o
views, Fox said, that makes the extra
work ullling.
The proessors said they struggle
to pick avorites between teaching andtheir outside careers. I think I like
the doing more than the teaching,
Mooney said. Thats a tough ques-
tion because they both have their own
rewards. He said teaching allows him
to appreciate just how much he learns
by practicing journalism. Both jobs
get you outside your comort zone a
little bit, he said.
I love the act that Im training a
new generation o journalists, Breton
said. The Providence Journal is a
pretty stressul place to work right
now, she said, but I still get a news
high rom doing a good story.
The proessors said they plan to
maintain a mix o teaching and practic-
ing. I sort o like the mix, Fox said.
I dont know i Id want to change the
proportions.
Right now, Im really enjoying
the undergraduate course, I have to
admit, she said.
I dont ever see mysel giving up
the teaching, Breton said. I have no
idea how much longer Ill stay in daily
journalism, given the newspaper in-
dustrys uncertainty. Still, Breton said
she plans to continue practicing some
orm o journalism or the oreseeable
uture.
And as or Mooney I hope to
keep doing both until I drop.
CDC By Jeremy JacoB
CoNtributiNgwriter
A brightly colored dialogue box
popped onto a screen in addition to
the two that were already present.
Caroline Chiang, assistant direc-
tor o the Career Development
Center, quickly responded to the
new conversation, handling three
at once.
Each o the chat boxes rep-
resented a student with a virtual
question or a career counselor.
The CDCs new service, IM walk-
in hours, gives students a chance
to talk over the Internet with ca-
reer counselors in real-time.Customer service is our high-
est priority, Chiang said.
The walk-in hours, or which
students to sign in to chat via
Google accounts, debuted in Janu-
ary, said CDC Assistant Director
Kerry Feather.
We are trying to reach stu-
dents where they are. For some
people, walk-in hours are ne; or
other students a quick question is
good, Feather said. We (now)
oer both.
The IM walk-in hours began
ater a successul two-day pilot pro-
gram over winter break, Feather
said. Ater conducting a surveyo participants, the CDC settled
on regular IM walk-in hours on
Friday rom 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., tak-
ing the place o traditional walk-in
hours, which are oered Monday
through Thursday at the same
time.
Feather said the program,
which has run each Friday since
the start o the semester, has been
very successul. She estimated
that in each o the last coupleo sessions, the Center has re-
ceived approximately 20 students
with questions.
I think the word is really get-
ting out, Chiang said.
To use the program, students
must either create or sign into a
Google account and invite a CDC
e-mail address to chat.
When students log on and be-
gin to chat, the message is directed
to a counselor, Feather said. I the
service experiences an uptick in
trac, an additional counselor can
be brought in to acilitate.
Theres been no wait time,Feather said.
Chiang said the conversations
last or about 10 to 15 minutes. I
the question is dicult to answer
online, the counselor will suggest
an in-person appointment.
Feather said the oce hours
are more helpul or students who
have only quick questions, rather
than those who need detailed cri-
tiques o resumes.
Questions like, Where do I get
started looking or an internship?
and, Can you look at my resume
or my cover letter? tend to be
asked requently, Chiang said.
Because counselors are right at
their computers, they can quickly
do research to help answer a stu-
dents question.
Feather said the newly oered
walk-in hours t into the CDCs e-
orts to incorporate more technol-
ogy into their services. In addition
to the walk-in hours, the CDC will
be debuting a new Web site in the
coming weeks, Feather said.
Hang Nguen / Herald
A cappella groups from the Northeast performed in Salomon Saturda.
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CS wS Were not paing people to come and do homework. Sophie OConnell 09, Blue Room unit manager
I was really proud o it, said
Carolina Franch, a sophomoremember o the Opportunes. Were
really pleased with how we did.
There were a couple last-minute
things we were tweaking, and it
all turned out really well. Lady
Marmalade was good and we got
some good laughs, which was good.
We even got laughs or Michael
Jackson, and normally we kind o
just get awws.
The Steiners, who will not ad-
vance to semi-nals, sang a ver-
sion o Circle o Lie complete
with monkey noises and intricate
choreography which included
the occasional jazz hands orwhich the group won the outstand-
ing choreography award. Nathan
Richard, the lead o the Steiners,
said they had spent the majority o
their time since January working
on choreography.
Other groups included the
NHarmonics o NYU, Suno a
South Asian and Western usion a
cappella group rom BU and The
Noreasters o Northeastern.
Browns Higher Keys did not
participate in the competition but
opened and closed the show. Their
songs included Owner o a Lonely
Heart by Yes and a Michael Jack-
son medley or which the group
donned white gloves and Manjula
Raman 11 moon-walked across
the stage.
Though the Higher Keys hosted
the event last year as well, they
have competed in previous years.
Lorraine Fryer 09, a Higher Keys
member, said she expects they will
participate next year but added thatparticipating in the ICCA would re-
quire a big time commitment on top
o the six hours a week the group
already practices.
Some singers said competing
can be an intense experience.
Its denitely stressul, said
Danielle Larocque, a member o the
Noreasters. Theres, you know,
extra time because its encouraged
that you add choreography. Its a
lot o pressure, you want to make
sure you choose the right songs to
give yourselves the opportunity to
do the best you can.
Even as hosts, the HigherKeys had to prepare or the
tournament.
There was a lot o publicity be-
cause, you know, we want to give
them a good audience to perorm
to, said Kayla Ringelheim 11.
The audience seemed to appre-
ciate the eort o the a cappella
groups and joined in at times with
clapping or cheering. Especially
popular was the impromptu beat-
boxing competition held while the
judges deliberated.
Nandan Nath 09 said his avor-
ite group was the Opportunes. Ev-
erything was great, arrangement
and song choice, everything. Theyhad the talent.
Kara Kauman 12 said, The
NYU second piece was amazing.
They did a really long medley and
we were blown away.
know about it as quickly as pos-
sible make sure they got the
policy, understood it and understood
the repercussions.
Many managers said they are
happy with the new policy.
Were not paying people to
come and do homework. Were pay-
ing them to do work, said Sophie
OConnell 09, unit manager at the
Blue Room.
The policy, she said, makes it
easier or supervisors to monitor
employees, now that it is actually
in writing. But among her workers,
OConnell said, there has generally
been a good response to the policy.
No ones directly come to me
and complained about it, she said.
For the workers who work behind
the line, the homework policy didnt
change anything.
Though Swain said the restric-
tion on homework never needed to
be ormally written beore this year,
growing concerns rom non-student
proessional managers about con-
tamination rom books and study
materials, along with cases o de-
creasing employee perormance,
led the BuDS general managers to
streamline the policy, she said.
The policy was partially imple-
mented because BuDS managers
are trying to avoid cutting student
jobs, she said, especially given the
current economic situation. Peo-
ple need jobs, she said. Were
trying to not get pressure to cut
peoples jobs.
She added that she hoped the
new policy would improve stu-
dent productivity and reduce any
complaints rom proessional
managers that might jeopardize
workers positions.
The new policy also stemmed
rom growing complaints rom unit
managers that their workers were
slacking o, Hartley said. As a re-
sult, the new policy, which explicitly
changes the policy or Blue Room
cashiers and workers at The Gate
catering prep workers were already
subject to new homework restric-
tions as o last all seeks to de-
crease clutter in the workspace and
alleviate the strain on coworkers.
Hartley said workers requently
had to compensate or coworkers
shirking their duties in order to com-
plete assignments or study.
But most cashiers, who are still
allowed to bring a book, paper and
a writing utensil, have jobs that are
directly related to customer fow,
Swain said. Prohibiting these ca-
shiers rom doing a limited amount
o homework would be a slap in the
ace since they sometimes get only a
ew customers an hour, she said.
We were limiting how much clut-
ter could be at the register, Swain
said. I cant think o a single register
where theres enough space.
Though many workers say they
are unaected by the ormalization
o the policy, Hartley said she was
aware that there are a select ew
who are upset. Most o these stu-
dents work at the Gate, she said,
where she was aware that many
workers had books in the area used
or ood preparation.
But Laurie Schleimer 12, who
prepares ood at the Gate and works
as a utility cashier at the Ivy Room,
said the policy tends not to aect
many o the students who prepare
ood, adding that there wouldnt
be any chance or me to do work,
anyway. She said the policy did not
seem necessary.
It seems like theyre being a bit
ridiculous, she said. Its not like
theyre going to whip out a book
when theyre making alaels.
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LSBy dan alexander
staffwriter
Water rom a aulty pipe fooded
the rst foor o the Sidney E.
Frank Hall or Lie Sciences yes-
terday morning, soaking drywall
and carpeting, but destroying no
research.
Though the fooding spread to
six labs, There was no compro-
mise to any r esearch projects, pro-
gramming and equipment, Direc-
tor o BioMed Facilities Planning
and Operations Peter Holden said.
The damage was pretty much to
the building itsel.
Water covered 10,000 square
eet o the rst foor ater the pipebroke in the core service area o
the buildings east wing, Holden
said. There were two to two-and-
a-hal inches o water in the most
aected spaces and one inch in
outlying areas.
The fooding began between
7 a.m. and 8 a.m., when pressure
caused the cap o a water line to
fy o, Holden said. The cause
o the pressure in the pipe is still
unknown, but he said it was not
related to yesterdays rain.
The water started to ll the rst
foor and touched a re alarm, caus-
ing the alarm to go o.
When acilities management re-sponded to the alarm, they ound
no fames but inches o water in-
stead. Director o Custodial Ser-
vices Donna Butler and Director
o Maintenance Services Jim Coen
were among the rst at the site.
Donna Butler and Jim Coen did
a really great job o getting every-
one on site ast, Holden said. Be-
cause o their eort, we were able
to get a situation cleaned up that
could have been a lot worse.
Butler and Coen could not be
reached or comment.
Facilities Management thencontacted Water Out, a company
the University uses or str uctural
drying. According to Holden, Wa-
ter Out began drying the build-
ing within two hours ater the
fooding began.
What a company like that
allows us to do is get a quick re-
sponse, a ast cleanup and mini-
mize any damage to the building,
Holden said.
Holden said the cost o repairs
to the ve-story science research
building is unknown at this point.
The water soaked into the dry-wall, so its hard to know, said As-
sociate Dean or the Program in
Biology Edward Hawrot.
According to Hawrot, carpeting
and drywall may have to be torn
out and replaced.
The ast response by acilities
management prevented more seri-
ous damage, Holden said. It could
have been a lot worse.
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The Brown Dail Herald
Sk k By andrew Braca
sports editor
The womens hockey team ended
its season this weekend, capping the
college careers o several players,
including captain and goaltender
Nicole Stock 09, who broke her
own single-season saves record in
the teams nal game, a 3-1 victory
over Quinnipiac Saturday at Meehan
Auditorium.
It was a nice way to go out
on Senior Day, said Head Coach
Digit Murphy. The kids played
hard. Ater all the losses weve had
all season its nice to go out with
a victory.
The win over Quinnipiac ol-lowed a 3-0 loss to Princeton the
previous day. The .500 weekend let
the teams nal record at 7-21-1 and
6-16-0 in ECAC Hockey, each two
wins better than last season.
All three o the teams seniors
Stock, a Herald sports sta writer,
Savannah Smith 09 and Frances
Male 09 started both games to
bring their careers to a close.
B 3, Qp 1
Saturday against Quinnipiac
(3-26-5, 2-15-5 ECAC Hockey), the
Bears brought a sometimes trying
season to a victorious close.
The Bears started quickly, tak-ing just 5:12 to break through or
the lead on the rst goal o orward
Katelyn Landrys 12 career. Jacquie
Pierri 12 took a shot rom the right
point that defected o Landry at
the top o the crease and ricocheted
just inside the right post. Male was
also credited with an assist on
the play.
It was early in the second period,
with Brown still holding its one-goal
advantage, that Stock recorded her
record-breaking 1,005th save o the
season. She would nish the game
with 1,026 saves or the season and
2,848 or her career, extending a
record she captured earlier in the
season.
Jenna Dancewicz 11 doubled
the lead 9:32 into the second period
with her team-leading eighth goal o
the season, o assists by assistant
captain Andrea Hunter 10 and Ni-
cole Brown 10.
Brown notched a goal o her own
8:09 later while her team was on the
penalty kill. Ater the Bears cleared
the puck all the way down the ice,
Bobcats goalie Nanna Holm Glaas
came out o the crease to stop the
puck or a teammate. Brown stole
the puck, circled behind the net,
wrapped around and slipped the
puck just past a diving Glaas.
With 2:19 remaining in the sec-
ond period, Bruno had a 3-0 lead
to protect.
We pulled together as a team
and were like, Okay, we have three.
Lets manage the game, be smart
about it and hopeully well come
out with a win. I think we did that
really well in the third. We played
good deense, Stock said.
The Bobcats ruined Stocks shut-
out bid 5:31 into the third period, but
the goalie bore down to keep it rom
getting any closer, making 12 o her33 saves in the nal rame.
Murphy was pleased with many
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assistaNtsports editor
The mens basketball team strug-
gled this weekend to build on its
rst conerence win, Feb. 14, over
Princeton, as Columbia and Cor-
nell each took a game rom theBears.
T h e
Bears (7-17,
1-9 Ivy) ell
to Columbia
(11-12, 6-4
Ivy) Friday
night at the Pizzitola Center by
a score o 70-57. The Bears then
suered their second home loss in
as many nights Saturday against
Cornell (18-8, 8-2 Ivy), an 85-45
rout that the Big Red dominated
rom start to nish.
Poor outside shooting plagued
the Bears throughout the home-
stand, as Brown shot 18 percent
rom behind the three-point line on
the weekend, while its opponents
shot better than 45 percent.
cb 70, B 57
In Fridays game, the Bears
couldnt keep pace with Columbias
hot shooting, alling by thirteen
points.
Columbia outshot Brown 54
percent to 41 percent rom the
foor and 53 percent to 22 percent
rom three-point range. Columbias
bench also out-scored Browns by
an outstanding 45-1 margin, includ-
ing 21 points rom Patrick Foley
and 14 rom KJ Matsui.
Columbia guard Noruwa Agho,
a starter, led all scorers with
27 points.
Mullery led the way or the
Bears with 21 points on 7-o-12
shooting, also making 7-o-8 at the
ree throw line. Mullery also added
our blocks, bringing his season
total to 43. That set a new Brown
record, surpassing Jaime Kilburns
05 42 in the 2003-2004 season.
Sullivan ollowed close behind
with 19 points, going 7-o-14 rom
the ield. Adrian Williams 11
joined the two in double gures
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sports editor
The wrestling teams nal dual meets
o the season ended on a positive note
this weekend with an emphatic 22-9
victory over Columbia on Saturday,
ater struggling in a 32-9 loss to a
dominant Cornell team on Friday.
Cornell, ranked No. 2 in the USA
Today/Intermat/NWCA poll, jumped
out to an 11-0 lead ater two matches,
but Stephen DeLorenzo 10 picked upthe rst win o the day or the Bears
with a 5-2 decision at 141 pounds. At
157, Bryan Tracy 10 pulled out a 3-2
win, and Zach Zdrada 09 closed out
the meet with a 3-2 win at 285.
Despite the inal outcome,
the Bears elt they wrestled well
against Cornell.
I thought the guys wrestled great
and wrestled tough, said Bran Crud-
den 10. We won three out o ten
bouts against a real tough team, so I
thought the team wrestled excellent
on Friday, and that momentum car-
ried over into Saturday or our match
against Columbia.
Against the Lions, Greg Einrank10 got Brown o to a good start in
his 125-pound match, where Einrank
scored two takedowns in the rst peri-
w. k bBy andrew Braca
sportseditor
In the aterglow o Saturdays 3-1 vic-
tory over Quinnipiac, the womens
hockey teams seniors were honored
in a post-game ceremony as the team
both refected on its accomplishmentsand turned its attention to seasons
to come.
The star o the ceremony and
the season was captain Nicole Stock
09, a Herald sports sta writer. She
leaves holding many o the teams goal-
tending records, including a single-
season saves record she set earlier
that day and Browns record or career
saves 2,848 in all.
Ater the game, Stock was award-
ed the Panda Cup, which is given or
outstanding team spirit, good sports-
womanship and dedication to play-
ing ice hockey, according to a guide
provided by the Athletic Department
at the game.
Its nice, or sure, to be acknowl-
edged or that kind o stu, Stock
said. At the same time, its a long
season. You just grind it out and you
dont really think about that stu when
youre playing.
Its bittersweet to be losing Stock,
said Head Coach Digit Murphy. Shes
just an incredible person and athlete.
Quite rankly, Browns lucky to have
her as a graduate, because shes going
to go on to do great things. Shes got
the work ethic o any Olympian Ive
ever coached.
Murphy also said her two senior
orwards both closed out their careers
with strong games.
Frances Male 09 played with en-
ergy and enthusiasm like she had
the heart o a lion, Murphy said. The
third goal was scored because o her
ability to ... get it out on the (penalty
kill) all the way down and allow (Nicole
Brown 10) to go down and do thewrap-around.
Savannah Smith 09 really ought
hard along the boards, she added.
Shes small in stature but I thought
she played big today.
Murphy said the young team will
get older, but the Bears will bring in
more recruits than they will lose play-
ers to graduation.
Well bring in seven or eight more
kids, she said. We need to be more
talented to win more games, so my
assistants have been out beating the
bushes or even more talent. I think
well bring in a ew more talented or-
wards so we can put the puck in the
net. We have a goaltender, one o the
top goalies in Canada.
Murphy declined to name the
goalie, but the Waterloo Chronicle
reported earlier this month that Katie
Jamieson, a goaltender who currently
stars between the pipes or o the To-
ronto Junior Aeros will join the Bears
next year.
I think next years team, with the
kids that are here now, is going to be
stronger, Murphy continued. Our
kids are going to be wiser. Were going
to have a big senior class. Im looking
orward to success o our uture, and
I think it starts because o senior role-
modeling that happened this year.
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Mens basketball fell to Columbia and Cornell over the weekend.
Courtes of Jesse Morgan
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with 10 points.
Brown jumped out to a quick early
lead against the Lions but quickly
ell behind trailed throughout the
second hal.
An early scoring spurt started
the weekend strong or the Bears,
as Matt Mullery 10 scored our ear-
ly points and Morgan Kelly 11 con-
nected on a three-pointer to put the
Bears up 11-4 with 11:16 remaining
in the rst hal. The game tightened
but remained close midway through
the period as both teams struggled
to create shot opportunities at the
oensive end.But the Lions ound their groove
and nished the hal on a 17-4 scor-
ing run, breaking out o its o ensive
cold streak while Brown continued
to struggle. Brown headed into the
locker room down, 27-21.
We went cold shooting the ball,
but when that happens, we cant
give up runs like that, Mullery
said. Guys are playing a lot o
minutes, but we have to play well
on both sides o the ball.
The Bears scored the majority o
their points in the paint in the rst
hal, as the team could not nd a
shooting rhythm rom the outside,
going 12.5 percent (1 or 8) rom
behind the three-point line.
Columbia stayed in control a-
ter the break, scoring the rst six
points o the second hal to take a
commanding 33-21 barely a minute
into the period.
Brown made a push to get back
into the game, as a jumper by tri-
captain Peter Sullivan 11 brought
the Bears within ve, 45-40, capping
a 7-0 run with nine minutes let.
But the Lions responded to
Browns run with a 15-6 run otheir own, and the Bears got no
closer than nine points the rest o
the way. The Lions built up their
lead by shooting 65 percent rom
the foor and 5-or-8 rom behind
the arc in the second hal.
c 85, B 45
Ater a hard-ought loss on Fri-
day, the Bears ound themselves
on the receiving end o a thrashing
rom deending Ivy League cham-
pions and current league leader
Cornell.
Cornell over-powered a small-
er Brown team by a reboundingmargin o 48-29. Browns shooting
woes also continued, as the Bears
struggled to make shots, shooting
just 14 percent rom three-point
range and 32 percent overall. Cor-
nell made more than hal its shots
rom the foor.
The Big Red put our players
in double digits or the game, led
by Foote with 16, Ryan Wittman
with 15 and Louis Dale, the reign-
ing Ivy League Player o the Year,
who netted 12.
Sullivan led the way or the Bears
with 12 points, and Mullery nished
with 11. Co-captain Chris Skrelja
09 played well all-around or the
Bears, contributing six points, ve
rebounds and six assists.
Despite a hot start rom Mullery,
who scored 10 o the Bears rst 11
points, Cornell pulled away early.
By the time a Mullery lay-up put
the Bears in double gures, the Big
Red had already opened a 21-11 lead
that they would relentlessly extend
throughout the game.
With easy inside looks and dan-
gerous outside shooting, Cornell
built its lead to 44-27 by haltime,
with orward Ryan Wittman going
3-or-3 rom behind the arc in the
rst period.
I got o to a good start, but they
started collapsing, putting the pres-
sure on, and orcing us to make
outside shots, Mullery said. We
just didnt have a good weekend
o shooting.
With tri-captain Scott Friske 09,
a 6-7 orward, out o the lineup
because o illness, the Bears gave
up a lot o size against the Big Reds
seven-oot center, Je Foote.
Foote began the second hal
with two emphatic dunks, spark-
ing a 10-0 run that blew the game
open even urther. Sullivan ended
the drought with 15:38 remain-
ing, but Brown ailed to build
any momentum.
With the team down by 30 with
over ten minutes to play, Head
Coach Jesse Agel emptied his
bench. Nearly every player logged
at least 15 minutes o play in the
game, an opportunity to spread play-
ing time among the young Brown
squad.
The Bears second unit aired
little better, and Cornell ultimately
won by 40.
We missed the leadership and
foor presence o Friske, Mullery
said. Hes played hard all year its hard to go out there without
him.
The Bears have two more weeks
o conerence play remaining in the
season. They will travel to Princ-
eton and Penn or the seasons nal
road trip beore returning home
to celebrate their two graduating
seniors, Friske and Skrelja, during a
nal homestand against Dartmouth
and Harvard.
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with the Instituto de Empresa that might eventually include study abroad
opportunities. We view this collaboration as a welcome development in the
Universitys internationalization eor ts, and a valuable chance to reexamine
business education at Brown.
Due to restrictive language in the Universitys charter, Brown is one o only
two members o the Ivy League without a graduate school in business. Brown
still oers a handul o business-related courses in the engineering department
and the Commerce, Organizations and Entrepreneurship concentration. These
classes seem to clash with Browns academic philosophy.
Like most reputable institutions o higher learning, Brown does not oer
a pre-law concentration. The reasons are many: Pre-proessional courses o
study confict with a liberal ar ts education, colleges cannot teach the subject
as well as law schools and pre-law students do not have an advantage in
graduate school admissions. The same considerations apply to business
programs at the undergraduate level. Were especially concerned about thestudy o management, entrepreneurship, innovation, commerce and related
topics at Brown because there is no organized discipline or robust tradition
o scholarship in these areas.
We question the rigor o business-related programs relative to other courses
o study at Brown. For example, the Organizational Studies and Entrepre-
neurship and Technology Management tracks in COE allow concentrators
to ulll the statistics requirement in any o seven di erent elds, including
the Departments o Education and Psychology. Entrepreneurial courses, in
engineering and more broadly, contrast with the rest o the curriculum. Ac-
cording to the Department o Engineerings Web site, these classes are largely
intended to prepare science and engineering students or careers at start-up
companies. We ear that other students who only enroll in engineering-lite
courses and their fuy COE counterparts will graduate with some basic
training in marketing but without anything marketable.
Given the Universitys shortcomings in business education and the elds
limitations as an undergraduate academic discipline, we strongly encourage
administrators to aggressively pursue collaboration with the Instituto de Em-presa. Short o a dramatic transormation o Browns existing program, the
best solution may be to outsource business education altogether.
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Human rights abuses are no laughing mattert e:
During last Thursdays Janus Forum lecture on theuniversality o human rights, I heard a lot o laughter
in Salomon 101, though to be rank, nothing that was
actually humorous. Speaker John Yoos tactic o using
jokes and snide remarks to defect questions and state-
ments that challenged his stance was a pathetic and sad
thing to witness. There is nothing humorous about the
deprivation o human rights. Yoos humor was a poor
deense mechanism and refected his complete disregard
or human rights. Perhaps he and many o the audience
members who laughed at his jokes should refect on
what their laughter meant, and how it may have servedas a way to ignore a serious problem while shrugging
away culpability or an issue that should truly concern
all o us. Ater Thursdays talk I approached Yoo with
a question about his use o humor. Tellingly, he chose
to brush it o.
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With nancial troubles setting in at Brown,
it doesnt surprise me that students dis-
contentment with the governing body o
the University has increased r ecently. The
standard concerns about the lack o transpar-
ency in the Corporations decision-making
process have transormed into anger about
the handling o the Universitys nances,
including resentment over what programs
have been cut and which projects have
lost unding.A number o students have vocally pro-
tested the Corporations actions, with little
regard or what those actions might entail
or students. Its time to think about what
exactly these decisions, and the alterna-
tives, mean.
Being concerned over nancial prob-
lems at an institution where you live, work
and study does seems reasonable. But the
orms that recent protests have taken, and
the issues they have ocused on, have been
somewhat bizarre. Earlier this month, The
Herald reported a controversial $15,000
registration ee or Vice President or In-
ternational Aairs David Kennedy 76 to
attend the Clinton Global Initiatives annual
meeting ($15k donation stirs controversy,Feb. 3).
But $15,000 is small change or a Univer-sity with a multi-billion dollar endowment,
and the benets o Kennedys attendance
may have justied the cost o admission.
Because o Browns investment, a senior
member o the administration was able
to advance the Universitys standing and
network with potential donors and other
infuential gures.
Brown students seem less bothered by
the $15,000 ee than the Corporations de-
cision-making procedures. Many students
are concerned that the Corporation does
not actively or adequately solicit student
eedback on important nancial decisions. At
least, this is the charge levied against them.
But this is hardly a bad way or a university
to operate. When it comes to university gov-
ernance an old adage applies. Too many
cooks spoil the broth, however undemocratic
that may sound. When it comes to the air
maintenance o a university, Im glad that
we are run by an oligarchy.
I almost wonder i Brown students wouldbe less upset with the Corporation i it were
called something more amiliar and less
capitalist. The Corporation is composed o
a mixture o people: some who were pre-
viously aliated with the University and
some who werent, some who have extensive
nancial experience and some who dont,
and none o them have a monetary stake
in the University.
Corporation members are not paid or
their eorts but attempt to maintain and
improve this University o ours. They act
as students advocates and, unlike other
members o the community, can govern
equitably because they dont have any -
nancial interest in the University.
A democratically operated Brown Univer-
sity wouldnt last long. In the current nan-
cial crisis, decisions about investments, sta
hiring, nancial aid and program cuts have to
be made quickly. I the ederal governmentand its eorts to stimulate the economy have
taught us anything, its that democracy isoten a slow process that cannot move at
the pace necessary to implement changes
at the opportune moment.
With a small group o experienced indi-
viduals who have dealt with the Universitys
nances in the past, the Corporation can
reach decisions and act on them without
having to deal with coalition-building and
other political pressures.
I believe history will vindicate the Cor-
poration or their actions in this time o
nancial instability. Their decisive action
is needed to keep the University afoat. Stu-
dents are primarily interested in the short
term, as they are only on College Hill or
our or ve years. The Corporation, with amembership that serves or six- or 11-year
terms, can take into account Browns long-
term health.
Brown students arent exposed to
the ugly details o running a machine as
large as the University they only see
the people determining its direction and
blame them. We need to look at where
the University is going, and how ar we
have come already beore we decide that
the orm o governance needs to change.
Susannah Kroeber 11 is a Slavic
studies concentrator from Beijing,
China. She can be reached at
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A curious point in President Ruth Simmons
e-mail to the Brown community on the
nancial apocalypse:
In light o our commitment to meet the
ull need o our nancial aid students, schol-
arship expenditures have increased. Given
all the changes that have occurred since the
FY09 budget was approved last Februar y, we
now expect scholarship expenditures to be
almost $1 million more than planned.
Ill pass on the opportunity to comment
on just who gets to decide what constitutes
need. In spirit, the added contribution to
nancial aida 9.8 percent increase over last
years aid budget, according to the provost
is laudable. Props or nding an extra mil-
lion or aid in a year when the endowment
took an $800 million hit while scraping $21
million o the operating budget.
But then I have to wonder: i the Uni-
versity could nd a million dollars or ad-
ditional aid in a year like this, why couldnt
it back when things werent so terriying,
when the endowment was knocking on the
three billion dollar door? The school, it
seems, wasnt always living up to its com-
mitment to make a Brown education a-
ordable. And its not that the need wasnt
there; plenty o students who even then
were taking out loans could have used that
added help. The Corporation acknowledged
that when it targeted loans or reduction
last spring.
Im skeptical, then, that Brown is ever
doing as much as it can to ease the nancial
yoke that it imposes with its outrageous tu-
ition. Gradually and sur reptitiously, it shits
to its students the burden o unding its op-erations. (Surreptitiously, except when the
chancellor gaes and says that Brown is
lucky to rely so heavily on tuition.)
The plan outlined in the presidents e-mail
and the budget approved by the Corporation
uses these same old habits to sustain Brown
through its nancial di culties. For students,
it still includes a 3 percent tuition hike. Sta
get a pay reeze and, by the presidents eu-
phemism, ace possible reductions. And Ill
bet that when the layos come, the pink slip
goes to the oce assistant, not the genius
who lost 28 percent o our endowment.
So despite administrative assurances to
the contrary, their plan is built largely on
the backs o students and sta. The implicit
assumption seems to be that the University is
suering rom the nancial crisis ar worse
than anyone else. They act like the constitu-
ent parts o the community are plenty able
to bankroll the school while Brown roughs
it through some tough times.
Our amilies, apparently, will be able
to pay even more or our education in this
climate. Sta will clearly be in a position to
give up their jobs or the good o the school.
Talk about being Ever True.As one o those expected to step up to
sustain my school, I eel comor table saying
to the administration here that no matter
how much money youve lost, youre still
sitting on $2 billion. As desperate as your
circumstances may seem, youve got it way
better than we do.
What is oten orgotten when considering
Browns nancial circumstances is that no
matter what amount o money has been lost,
the resources still on hand are way larger.
But the University obstinately reuses to dip
urther into its rainy day und on this most
rainy o days. Instead, it goes calling on indi-
viduals with less nancial clout, less ability to
assume debt and ar less cash stashed away
or the uture, and demands they pay up,
whether with their money or their careers.
Even though things are apparently so bad
as to warrant a $21 million budget cut and
cancelled expansion projects, the University
thinks it can justiy asking its students and
their amilies or a greater contribution. Con-
sider the basic equation in all its absurdity.
We have to nd a way to spend less money,
so you all have to spend more. The presump-
tion: This situation hurts us a lot more thanall o you. I wish.
The reality is that students cant aord
higher tuition any more than Brown can
aord a bigger Graduate School. Sta cant
aord to lose their jobs. Students will be
orced out o this school and deprived o the
education they have earned. The amilies o
the victims o job cuts will su er. There will
be human tragedy wrought by the adminis-
trations plan.
The just answer is to cancel the tuition
increase and guarantee the employment o
every competent sta member on campus.
Fill the gap by tapping a little bit more into
that still unimaginably huge endowment.
Give up on the superfuous construction
projects that, unbelievably, the University
says it is still pursuing. But dont ask or more
money when you know that there isnt a soul
who can spend more this year than last.
I Brown does, people will leave. The
University will necessarily become more
exclusive and less diverse. But since we
at Brown have a chancellor who sat on the
board o an organization responsible or kick-
ing homeless people out o Manhattan, you
have to ask whether thats the point.
Simon Liebling 12 is from New Jerse.
He can be reached at
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Despite administrative assurances to the
contrar, Browns plan for dealing with the
financial crisis is built on the backs of
students and staff.
When it comes to the fair maintenance of a
universit, Im glad that we are run
b an oligarch.
SIMON
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