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SSDP regional conference draws Chafee, Loury

The war on drugs must be re-evaluated “methodically and clinically,” from a global per-spective, former Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75 told a MacMillan 117 audience Fri-day. The speech kicked off the Students for Sensible Drug Pol-icy Northeast Regional Con-ference, hosted at Brown this weekend.

“We need to ask ourselves, is this working?” Chafee, a vis-iting fellow at the Watson Insti-tute for International Studies, said of current drug policies.

“We have to be honest with our-selves in looking at this world-wide problem.”

Chafee, who has admitted to experimenting with cocaine and marijuana while a student at Brown, commented on the “destabilizing effect of the illicit drug trade on so many coun-tries.” He said that reforming policies “has to be done col-lectively” and suggested the possibility of United Nations involvement in this process. “The doors are open to a differ-ent way of looking at the war on drugs,” he said.

BY OLIVIA HOFFMANSTAFF WRITER

Gender gap at Brown refl ects national trend

In line with a national trend, wom-en outnumber men in terms of ap-plicants to Brown, those accepted to the College and undergraduates enrolled.

The admitted class of 2011 was 53 percent female, which is the same as the percentage of females in the current undergraduate pop-ulation. Women made up an even greater proportion of the applicant pool — 59 percent of applicants to the College this year were female, down slightly from 60 percent last year.

Women have a lower accep-tance rate than men do primarily because of low female represen-tation in certain disciplines, said Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73. “As we shift our emphasis slightly to science and engineering in the admission process, that tends to be more male-heavy in the appli-cant pool than some of the other disciplines,” Miller said, adding that Brown is “looking for female scientists and engineers.”

The higher percentage of wom-en at Brown mirrors a broader na-tional trend. In 1970, women made up 42 percent of the U.S. under-graduate population, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, part of the Department of Education. That fi gure rose to 57 percent as of July 2006, accord-ing to a report by the American Council on Education, a higher ed-ucation research organization.

According to a 2006 NCES re-port, “women’s undergraduate en-rollment has increased more than twice as fast as men’s” since 1970. “From 2006 to 2015, both men’s and women’s undergraduate en-rollments are projected to increase

BY JAMES SHAPIROSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Students answer the call

Up until the 1950s, Brown — which has historic ties to the Baptist church — produced “tons of Bap-tist clergy,” said University Chap-lain Janet Cooper Nelson. Now, up to four dozen Brown graduates in each class pursue religious oc-cupations encompassing many faiths.

“The number of people leav-ing Brown who serve religious-ly is huge,” Cooper Nelson said, comparing the University to other schools where she has worked.

Hearing the callShulamit Izen ’07 has known

since elementary school that she wanted to become a rabbi.

“My family would sit by the rab-bi and the cantor, and I would want to be them,” she said of attending synagogue.

After graduating, Izen will at-tend the Reconstructionist Rab-binical College in Wyncote, Pa. Her program includes a fi ve-year study of Judaic history.

Izen has specifi c plans for her ministry. “I want to start an inno-vative Jewish day school that com-bines creative pedagogy with joy-ous Judaism,” she said.

BY TAYLOR BARNESSTAFF WRITER

VP for int’l affairs search narrowed to shortlist

The fi eld of candidates to be Brown’s fi rst vice president for international affairs has been narrowed to a list of 8 to 10, members of the search com-mittee told The Herald.

On-campus interviews of those candidates should be fi nished by April 19, said Assistant Provost Shelley Stephenson, who serves on the search committee. Following a second round of campus visits by a narrowed fi eld of three to fi ve candi-dates, the committee hopes to make a choice by early May, Stephenson said, though the selection would not necessarily be announced im-mediately.

The creation of a new vice-presi-dential position is a central compo-

BY MICHAEL SKOCPOLSENIOR STAFF WRITER

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Chris Bennett / HeraldPresidential candidates for the Undergraduate Council of Students debated in the Sharpe Refectory Friday evening. Vot-ing begins Tuesday.

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IVY FILM FESTIVALDoug Liman ’88 discussed in the keynote speech at the Ivy League Film Festivalhow Brown helped prepare him for Hollywood

CANDIDATE PROFILESThe Herald profi les the can-didates running for the presidential and vice presi-dential positions on UCS in this week’s election

FIRST IMPRESSIONS?Ben Bernstein ’09 thinks that two new student groups are struggling to accom-plish anything because their goals are undefi ned

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BASEBALL BASHESThe baseball team scored30 runs in two victories over Dartmouth to remain atop the Ivy League standings

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Rain or snow, Loughlin ’07 and Sieff ’07 will run the Boston Marathon today

When you’re complaining about the walk to Pembroke campus through a monsoon for your “ear-ly” 11 a.m. class this morning, try to be thankful you have only a cou-ple hundred yards to walk and not 26.2 miles.

Kevin Sieff ’07 and Herald Sports Staff Writer Kathleen Loughlin ’07 will run the 111th Boston Marathon today in what is likely to be the worst weather con-ditions in the history of the event. The oldest annual marathon in the world begins at 10 a.m. in the rural town of Hopkinton, Mass., and fi n-

ishes in Boston’s Copley Square.In order to qualify for the Bos-

ton Marathon, both Loughlin and Sieff completed a certifi ed mara-thon, where both met the desig-nated time standard required for the 18-34 age group. For Sieff, the qualifying time was three hours and 10 minutes, and for Lough-lin, the qualifying time was three hours and 40 minutes.

Sieff qualifi ed at the Buenos Aires Marathon in 2005, where he clocked in at 3:05:50. Lough-

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Innovation and originality abound-ed at the Sock and Buskin-pro-duced performance of Maurice Maeterlinck’s “The Blind.” Direc-tor Rebecca Schneider, associ-ate professor of theater, speech and dance, and her skilled group of actors certainly maintained Maeterlinck’s original artistic in-tentions that rejected realism and the boundaries of time and place — rather, both Maeterlinck and the production explore the subcon-scious and its mystical spirituality.

Rather than as individual char-acters, the assembly of actors worked seamlessly together as an embodiment of fears and ques-tions. Subverting logical dialogue, the actors repeatedly posed ques-tions that at fi rst appeared rudi-mentary, such as “Where are we?” and “How much longer?” Through continuous reiteration, these ques-tions shed light on the religious and other worldly undertones that nuance the play.

Despite its lack of substantial characterization and progression of plot, Saturday night’s perfor-mance of “The Blind” attained a strong sense of dramatic struc-ture and direction from the numer-ous dichotomies that re-occurred throughout the play. Schneider’s directorial choices highlighted the universal clashes between silence and noise, light and dark, move-

ment and inertia, knowledge and ignorance and comfort and anxi-ety, all of which are inherent in the dialogue of Maeterlinck’s original script.

The play opens on a stage strewn with scrap paper. The blind, a group of six fi gures — all in black, eyes shaded by oversized sunglasses — sprawl on a bench center-stage. Behind them, two projection screens hang, display-ing a montage of fl ashing text. Stage right, a giant plastic contain-er holds the decaying remains of a priest’s corpse, like an airtight Tupperware container attempting to preserve his leftovers. On both sides above the stage, three fi gures in orange prison jump suits stand erect. The contrasting array of col-ors and textures is overwhelming to the senses, yet the introductory moments of silence drag on por-tentously and create a clear sense of waiting and expectation.

The silence gives way to pa-per shuffl ing and falling. Classical music crescendos are cut short by a cacophony of metal clanging against metal. The dialogue begins suddenly and jars the audience with the unfamiliarity of the sim-ple words, “Where are we?” The language immediately takes on the unpredictability and ambiguity

BY MARIELA QUINTANACONTRIBUTING WRITER

‘The Blind’ rejects realism, explores fl uidity of language

Liman ’88 recalls Brown’s impact on his life

“If I learned anything at school, it was how to show up to class without any studying whatsoev-er,” said Doug Liman ’88, direc-tor of movies such as “Swingers” and “The Bourne Identity.” With these words, Liman began the Va-riety Keynote Speech of the Ivy Film Festival Saturday night in Salomon 101.

His speech was marked by candor and dry humor as he re-called his exploits, setbacks and accomplishments from his years at Brown to the present. “I cher-ish this place and jump at any chance to return to Providence,” he said.

Liman started with an an-ecdote about his senior year at Brown, during which he said he enrolled in a class known as “Rocks for Jocks” along with seven friends. While taking the course, he and his friends gave each other “handicaps” and com-peted to see who could score the highest grade. According to group-imposed rules, he wasn’t al-lowed to attend lectures or do the reading for the class, but he still managed to pass. He likened the experience to working in the fi lm industry, as he said both require one to “be able to work under in-sane conditions.”

After graduating from Brown,

Liman managed to direct his own short fi lm at University of South-ern California even after dropping out of its fi lm school, but the fi lm was unfortunately not the “ticket to Hollywood” he had thought it would be.

He subsequently directed his fi rst feature fi lm, titled “Getting In,” which was not well-received. After these two disappointments, Liman decided to climb the Alps with a friend from Brown. He credited the trip with giving him a sense of accomplishment that has inspired him throughout his

career.When working in fi lm, “you’re

gonna get bad news every day,” Liman said. “I get rejected every day (by actors and writers). You need a way to still feel good about yourself.”

“There’s an adage in Holly-wood — failure’s not falling down, it’s not getting back up,” Liman said. “To cut through and break in, you’ve gotta do something that’s great … it just has to have an original voice.”

BY CAMERON LEECONTRIBUTING WRITER

Brown Opera Productions’ “Goy-escas,” a Spanish opera inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya, triumphed in its three performanc-es this weekend. Written in three tableaux, the opera explores two parallel love stories — Goya and his lover Leocadia and Rosario and Fernando, two characters in one of the artist’s paintings.

Besides operatic voices, a pro-duction of “Goyescas” also calls for elegant dancers, convincing actors and powerful music, all of which BOP strongly delivered. Brown’s orchestra played the original score by Enrique Grandados, which of-fered a strong accompaniment to the emotional performance.

The story begins in the paint-ing studio of the artist (Kyle Dillon ’09), who is showing his lover Leo-

cadia (Autumn Graham ’09) his most recent painting. Expressed through ballet rather than song, the movements of the dancers re-vealed the playful and intimate re-lationship between the two lovers. At the end of the overture, Goya and Leocadia, hand-in-hand, dash through a large frame together, symbolic of their entrance into the world of Goya’s paintings.

Tableau I begins outside in a square as the Majos, a group of young bohemians, enjoy the day. On Friday night, singing was not the strong point of the initial few minutes of the fi rst tableau. Audi-ence members struggled to hear the Majos over the orchestra and had to depend on the English sub-

BY CATHERINE GOLDBERGCONTRIBUTING WRITER

BOP’s ‘Goyescas’ hits a high note

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“CONFESSIONS OF A CHA CHA FEMINIST”: A performance by Maria Elena Fernandez — Stuart Theater, 7 p.m.Stuart Theater, 7 p.m.Stuart Theater

TUESDAY, APRIL DAY, APRIL DAY 17

“SENORITA EXTRAVIADA”: A fi lm screening. Senior Exhibit Opening: Rochelle Garza ’07 — McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 7 p.m.

“ART IN ACTION: LUXURY ARTS AND INTERCONNECTIONS IN THE LATE BRONZE AND EARLY IRON AGES”: A lecture by Marian Feldman — Mencoff Hall (the Cabinet), 68 Waterman St., 5:30 p.m.

“VAS: AN OPERA IN FLATLAND”: A reading by Steve Tomasula, author of “The Book of Portraiture (FC2)” and “IN & OZ (Ministry of Whimsy Press)” — List 120, 8 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, ESDAY, ESDAY APRIL 18

HONORS / CAPSTONE SERIES: Readings by Marie Hopkins ’07 and Matthew Immerman ’07— Pembroke 210, 3 p.m.

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Doug Liman ‘88, director of “Swingers,” “The Bourne Identity” and “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” gave the Variety Keynote Speech of the Ivy Film Festival Saturday evening in Salomon 101.

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Brown Opera Productions staged three performances of “Goyescas,” a Spanish opera inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya, this weekend.

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… Women’s undergraduate enroll-ment is projected to continue grow-ing faster than men’s enrollment.”

The growing gender gap ex-tends beyond the United States, said Tom Mortenson, senior schol-ar at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Educa-tion.

“When I look at the interna-tional data, what’s going on in the U.S. is typical,” Mortenson said. “It’s true in almost every country in the world, except in sub-Saharan Africa.”

At 52 percent, the percentage of Brown students who are female is slightly larger than it is at other Ivy League schools. Columbia Univer-sity had a 48 percent undergradu-ate female enrollment rate in the fall of 2005, and Cornell University was then 50 percent female. This academic year, Princeton Universi-ty’s female enrollment rate was 46.5 percent, Yale University was 49.3 percent female and the University of Pennsylvania was 51.9 percent female. Dartmouth College was 49 percent female, according to an un-dated fi gure on its Web site.

Mortenson said the gender gap is more evident at most col-leges and universities than at elite schools. “Highly selective schools can pick anybody they want. Less selective schools are more driven by the underlying demographic forces,” he said.

“There is a much more even gender distribution at more elite schools,” said Sara Mead, senior policy analyst at Education Sec-tor, an education policy think tank. “These are schools where they have many more qualifi ed applicants than they can serve, so they’re able to choose who they en-roll. They have plenty of qualifi ed men and plenty of qualifi ed women to fi ll their class.”

Mead and Mortenson both said the gender gap is especially pro-nounced among black college stu-dents — the gap shows up more at “historically black universities where 60 percent or over 60 per-cent of African-American students are women,” Mead said.

Miller said the gender gap is a complex issue. “There are myriad theories about the gender imbal-ance, and it really is a national is-sue. It extends through all differ-ent populations and all different ra-cial and ethnic groups.”

Mortenson said the gender gap is partly due to inferior male aca-demic performance in elementary and secondary schools. “It looks like the classroom environment is far more favorable to girls and al-most hostile to boys,” he said, lead-ing to lower college attendance.

“There are also some differenc-es in economic incentives facing women,” Mead said. “The oppor-tunity cost (of college attendance) would be higher for lower-income men than for women. The types of jobs that men could get right out of high school pay more than the jobs that women could get.”

The gender gap could affect the U.S. economy in the long run, Mortenson said.

“Jobs that are being created require ever higher levels of post-

secondary education and training,” he said. “Men are not adapting to the new world, and women certain-ly are. The concern I have is that men’s lives are going to be very rough unless many more of them start going to college.”

Students interviewed by The Herald said Brown’s open curricu-lum and progressive atmosphere may make it more attractive to fe-male applicants.

“A lot of the guys I know were kind of nervous about how it’s so unstructured here, as far as the curriculum goes,” said Chantal Tape ’09. “Maybe girls are more fl exible about that.”

“Because of other progressive aspects of the University, perhaps women applicants feel like they can be more accepted as women who are striving to succeed in academia or whatever else they are trying to succeed at,” said Will Emmons ’09.

But most students said they were not particularly concerned about the gender gap. “It just seems like more of a curious phe-nomenon than a problem,” said Jake Kline ’10. “I don’t think it’s a huge issue if there are more wom-en than guys.”

“If the trend continues, I think Brown needs to think about what it’s doing that isn’t attracting men,” Tape said.

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lin qualifi ed at the New York City Marathon in 2006 by recording a time of 3:30:27.

But inclement weather condi-tions will make today’s marathon more challenging. The Boston Marathon’s Web site includes a Weather Alert and Advisory for Participants, which state that to-day’s heavy rain and wind, com-bined with temperatures in the 30s, puts runners at an increased risk for hypothermia.

“The weather’s going to be aw-ful,” Loughlin said. “But you can’t

control it. You’ve just got to get over it and try not to think about it.”

Loughlin and Sieff are not the only Brown students who will participate in the marathon. Nick Neely ’07 of the men’s cross coun-try team and Pat Clark ’07 will join Sieff for the last 10 miles.

“It’s a huge help to have some comrades along with you,” Sieff said.

Loughlin also plans to be ac-companied by friends. Becky Crossin ’08 and Alex Brown ’08 will each run part of the race with her.

“The intent is that one girl will meet me at mile 13 and run miles 13-20 with me,” she said. “Then, (another) will run miles 20-26 with me. Hopefully, we’ll fi nd each oth-er, but in the rain, it’s going to be hard.”

Despite the weather, Loughlin and Sieff said they are looking for-ward to the race.

“I’m still really excited,” Sieff said. “I spent all that time training, and I’m excited to be running with such elite runners, even if I can’t see them, even if they’re covered by mist. It’s cool to be in the same pack.”

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A freshman taking all of his class-es S/NC because “grades can sometimes provide the wrong in-centives for students,” Jake Hei-mark ’10 wants to have younger leadership at the top of UCS.

“I think the problem with UCS is the current leadership focuses too much on their own agendas,” he says. “I think it’s time that, with a younger person as vice presi-dent, they can help the younger members achieve their goals.”

Heimark, a Palo Alto, Calif., na-tive, is the UCS Webmaster and is leading an initiative to consider outsourcing Brown’s e-mail ser-vice to Google’s Gmail.

Heimark also calls the cur-rent state of technology at Brown “embarrassing” and says students deserve a three-year plan from the administration that includes a plan for wireless Internet, uni-versal card access and “an online registration system that’s actually usable.”

Because Brown is “a unique university,” he says, “we need to change Banner for Brown.”

Heimark is also involved with Free the Children, an organi-zation that focuses on building schools and advocating against child labor, among other things. He has been to Kenya fi ve times and has also been to Nicaragua and Mexico.

— Michael Bechek

Lauren Kolodny ’08, an interna-tional relations concentrator from San Diego, says there is too much bureaucracy in UCS and that indi-viduals often get left behind in the paperwork.

“The reason I really want to run for vice president,” she says, “is I think there needs to be more oversight of each individual mem-ber of UCS.” New members some-times get lost, she says, and are expected to know too much as soon as they arrive.

Kolodny — who transferred to Brown from the University of Cali-fornia, Los Angeles, the fall of her sophomore year — says she want-ed “a more open and progressive institution” and that the threat to shopping period represented by Banner “really undermines the open curriculum.”

Kolodny, who is UCS’ Corpo-ration liaison, says she has many important connections in the ad-ministration, which she wants to use to try to lessen course caps and prerequisites and to print cop-ies of the Course Announcement Bulletin.

She also pushed the Corpora-tion to create a social choice fund, which it fi nally approved at its

meeting this February after declin-ing to act on it on more than one occasion. The new choice offers donors to the University the op-tion of earmarking their money for a separately held fund that invests specifi cally in companies with good environmental practices.

Other than UCS, Kolodny is in-volved with the Darfur Action Net-work. She says she is focusing on trying to bring biogas stoves to a refugee camp so that women and children are not forced to leave the camp to collect fi rewood and are not exposed to rape and at-tack.

— Michael Bechek

UCS CANDIDATE PROFILESTHE BROWN DAILY HERALDMONDAY, APRIL 16, 2007 PAGE 5

Michael Glassman ’09

Lauren Kolodny ’08

Jake Heimark ’10With Banner creating an uproar across campus, Michael Glass-man ’09 understands why the “implementation process” is not going smoothly.

“You can’t impose a lot of rules on Brown students,” he says. “You have to let them make those choices for themselves.”

Glassman, currently the UCS communications chair, wants the council to develop an appropriate response to Ban-ner. But he has also set goals of renovating dorms, expanding January@Brown and increasing the number of students on UCS by reaching out to those who show interest in participating but are discouraged when they lose an election.

“I want to personally approach

them and make an effort to get those people into UCS,” he says.

A New York City native who plans to double-concentrate in the sciences and the humanities — he hasn’t yet decided which ones — Glassman worked to cre-ate the Flex meal plans last year as a member of the campus life and admissions and student ser-vices committees.

Glassman is also involved with the Sustainable Food Initiative, the goal of which, he said, “is to get students who don’t know any-thing — who are basically like me and are from New York City and don’t know anything about agriculture — to come volunteer on the farm.”

— Michael Bechek

Eric Mukherjee ’09Eric Mukherjee ’09, the only can-didate for president who does not serve on UCS or go to its meet-ings, would prefer not to start.

Mukherjee is running on a platform of “abolishing” the council, which he sees as bureau-cratic and ineffective. If elected, he says, he would instead “open a forum for creating a student gov-ernment with actual credibility.” Once that process is underway, he would probably resign.

Is it possible?“Anything’s possible,” says

the biochemistry concentrator from Topeka, Kan.

Mukherjee insists that his platform is not a joke — though it may have started out that way — and says the students will sup-port him.

“From the people that I’ve talked to, they’re very enthusias-tic about my position,” he says. “I’m running because I see a bro-ken system,” he added, “and I think I can fi x it.”

Mukherjee’s other interests include playing computer games and participating on Brown’s Quiz Bowl team.

— Michael Bechek

Moses Riner ’08Though he transferred from Duke University last fall, Moses Riner ’08 thinks he’s gotten in touch with his new school.

A member of the rugby team and an at-large UCS representa-tive since the beginning of the spring semester, Riner says go-ing door-to-door in dorms and talking to students has helped him “understand what Brown students want.”

“You might think that a lot of people would just blow you off,” he says. “But actually, I got a lot of positive feedback.”

A history concentrator with a strong interest in entrepreneur-ship, Riner’s major issues in-clude creating more social space

on campus and developing a re-sponse to Banner that protects the open curriculum.

“I live in New Dorm right now, and there’s absolutely no common rooms in there,” Riner said.

Riner, who is from Louisville, Ky., and is the youngest of six children, also wants to create a rewards system that would give students points for attending ath-letic events. These points would then be redeemable for Brown memorabilia.

In addition to the rugby team and UCS, Riner is also involved in the Brown Investment Group.

— Michael Bechek

Stefan Smith ’09Stefan Smith ’09, an at-large repre-sentative on UCS, wants to make sure Brown students don’t forget the world that exists around them.

Smith, a history concentrator, tutors at a juvenile training center in Cranston to help people earn their GEDs and is a crisis-line op-erator for suicide counseling and rape intervention at his home in Greenville, S.C. But he worries that Brown students are often “compla-cent” about the outside communi-ty, especially about education.

“We take so much for granted at Brown, in terms of intellectual free-dom,” he says.

Smith favors mandatory com-munity service for UCS members,

and he advocates that the Univer-sity freeze student tuition. He says tuition, which has been rising fast-er than infl ation, should be kept “at the status quo so that the gap be-tween who can come and who can’t doesn’t spread.”

Smith also wants to open the proceedings of the Undergradu-ate Financial Board to the public record, arguing that students have a right to know how their money is being spent.

“UFB Chicken Littles will tell you that the sky will fall down if we open meetings,” he says. “That’s not true.”

— Michael Bechek

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of free verse. In this way, the per-formance of “The Blind” evokes a mystical and imaginative quality that defi es realism and theatrical convention with its lack of specifi c time, scenes, setting and charac-ters.

The fl uidity of language toys with words and morphs their mean-ing. Lines are not merely spoken but rather chanted and sermonized. Eventually they take on a rhythmic beat, recalling a prayer or the reci-tation of the liturgy. In this way, the vague questions repetitively asked by the actors begin to recall ques-tions about the mysteries of faith. The repetitions of “Where is he?” evolve from a basic question to a

profound plea that probes God’s presence. The initially confusing and ostensibly random question, “Why did we leave the big house?” beseeched over and over again in chanted unison begin to evoke un-certainty about original sin and the Garden of Eden.

Though the questions posed never seem to reach defi nite con-clusions, the ceaseless cycle of guessing brings a coherent sense of struggle with the notions of mortality, fatalism and spirituality that have always challenged the motives of human action.

Despite the inaccessibility of some of these themes, Schneider and her well-rehearsed actors ably transcend Maeterlinck’s esoteric queries into lively and energetic

entertainment. The actors engage the audience and hold them in rapt attention with coordinated dance routines and harmonized incan-tations. A group of six actors clad in nurses’ gowns, hairnets, pris-tine white sneakers and thick pro-tective goggles intersperse them-selves throughout the audience. They interact with both the fi gures on stage and the audience itself.

Calling out in sudden excita-tion their impulsive propositions and recommendations, like at some sort of raucous Pentecos-tal Church retreat, the six fi gures humorously and provocatively dis-place the boundaries between the theatrical realm and the real realm, and perhaps even between the real realm and the divine realm.

Liman managed to break in with his next fi lm, “Swingers,” which was shot on a shoestringbudget of $250,000. Because of the limited funds, Liman said he had to be crafty, using the same props in multiple scenes and fi lming with-out a permit while evading the po-lice.

He also spoke about his forays into television, with shows like “The O.C.,” which he said “started out as a big success (and) ultimate-ly turned into garbage.”

Liman ended by recalling the hoops he had to jump through while directing his more recent feature fi lms, “The Bourne Identi-ty” and “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”

While preparing to enter pro-duction on “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” there was a point when Nicole Kidman, who had been set to play Mrs. Smith, dropped out, followed by Brad Pitt and the producers, Li-man said. Ultimately, Liman was able to complete the movie and is currently working on the television version of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”

After the hour-long keynote speech, Liman responded to ques-

tions from the audience, which in-cluded topics such as Liman’s shift from smaller movies to big-budget movies, the process of preparing for a movie and past and present fi lmmakers he admires. During the session, Liman insisted the au-dience call him “Doug” rather than “Mr. Liman.”

Liman told The Herald after his speech that he was glad the Film Festival had been organized. “The Ivy League schools as a whole are not supportive of fi lm as a serious fi eld of study,” he said. “I feel like at a place like Brown, it’s going to be the students who create the fi lm (community).”

Liman said he remains close to his friends from Brown. “I really formed my life-long friendships at this place,” he said. “Many of the friends I met here helped me on my fi rst fi lms and my short fi lms even though none of them went into fi lm. That entrepreneurial at-titude (here at Brown) made them good co-workers.”

Liman said he believes the fu-ture of fi lm continues to lie in good storytelling, but the Internet and especially YouTube have pro-vided new means to tell those sto-

ries. “Someone is going to create the fi rst successful Internet-based program and … it would surprise me if it wasn’t a Brown student or a Brown alum,” he said.

Simon Kinberg ’95, writer of the fi lm and television versions of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and a friend of Li-man’s, had originally been sched-uled to speak with Liman but had to pull out due to a commitment to the upcoming television series “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” said Eliza-beth Backup ’08, alumni relations coordinator for the festival.

Backup said Kinberg had been scheduled before Liman and that Kinberg helped bring Liman to Brown.

Backup said she didn’t know what to expect from Liman’s speech and was pleasantly surprised. “It was so funny,” she said. “I think it was kind of spontaneous.”

She added that she learned a few lessons from this year’s key-note and suggested the event may have drawn a bigger crowd if it were held on a Friday night or later in the evening. “I wish more peo-ple would have been there to see it, but (the scheduling) has to work with the fi lmmakers,” she said.


‘The Blind’ rejects realism, explores fl uidity of language


Liman ’88 recalls Brown’s impact on his life

nent of the University’s formal in-ternationalization effort. The initia-tive kicked off in October 2006 with the appointment of an international-ization committee, chaired by Pro-vost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98, to propose ways Brown can improve its international profi le.

The vice president for interna-tional affairs search committee is one of seven working groups that have been formed under the aus-pices of the internationalization committee. The others — focusing on such fi elds as global health and curriculum, language instruction and study abroad — will present possible areas of focus to the parent committee beginning in late April. The full committee’s recommenda-tions could be released as soon as the end of May, according to Ste-phenson.

The University received over 300 applications for the position, and the current group was chosen

from that pool for fi rst-round inter-views, Stephenson said. She said the search committee has tried to focus on candidates from a range of backgrounds, especially those with multiple areas of expertise.

“All of the candidates have a fa-miliarity with academia, and most also have a familiarity with one or more of the other worlds from which they come,” Stephenson said, citing diplomacy and work for international non-governmental or-ganizations as examples of candi-dates’ past experience.

“The strongest candidates … are people who have come with more than one type of background,” she added.

“I think we’ve defi ned the job in the way that is pretty challenging,” said search committee member Richard Spies, executive vice presi-dent for planning and senior advis-er to the president. “It’s going to re-quire an overall set of skills or expe-riences that will allow somebody to do a lot of different things.”

Both Stephenson and Spies de-clined to say if any of the candidates who received fi rst-round interviews come from within the University.

Philip Altbach, director of Bos-ton College’s Center for Interna-tional Higher Education, said inter-nationalization is “the fl avor of the month” in academia, and many oth-er universities have already created similar positionss.

“This is not a tremendous, inno-vative move on the part of Brown,” Altbach said.

But the position has generated strong interest, Stephenson said, because it is at the vice-presiden-tial level and because the incoming vice president will be able to build on the internationalization commit-tee’s work.

Altbach agreed that the posi-tion’s vice-presidential status at Brown is signifi cant.

“Three cheers for Brown for doing it at that level,” he said. “It means that Brown is taking it seriously.”


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The following summary includes all ma-jor incidents reported to the Department of Public Safety between March 30 and April 5. It does not include general ser-vice and alarm calls. The Providence Police Department also responds to in-cidents occurring off campus. DPS does not divulge information on open cases that are currently under investigation by the department, the PPD or the Offi ce of Student Life. DPS maintains a daily log of all shift activity and general service calls which can be viewed during busi-ness hours at its headquarters, located at 75 Charlesfi eld St.

Tuesday, April 3:10:09 a.m. Person reported that

sometime between 3 p.m. on Feb. 1 and 7 a.m. on March 25, unknown per-sons entered a room in Barus & Holley and took four pieces of metal needed for equipment in the area. There are no suspects or witnesses at this time.

Thursday, April 5:10:02 a.m. Person reported that a re-

cycling sign was missing from the Post Offi ce in Faunce House. There are no suspects or witnesses at this time.

1:28 p.m. Complainant reported that unknown persons removed the white-board from her door in Mead House. There are no suspects or witnesses at this time.

BY DEBBIE LEHMANNSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Thefts of metal among incidents reported

The students behind Mocha are introducing a new brew to accom-modate the University’s switch to Banner. The founders of Mocha, the student-run alternative to the University’s online course catalog, have been pouring hours of work into their project to help students fi nd courses as the fi rst online pre-registration period approaches. They are also preparing to hand down the program to a new team of students.

Mocha was founded in 2006 by fi ve computer science concentra-tors looking for an easier way to search for courses. Dave Pacheco ’07, Daniel Leventhal ’07, Adam Cath ’07, Dave Hirshberg ’08 and Bill Pijewski ’07 cultivated the idea of Mocha as a fi nal project in a CS class. After they released Mocha, the popularity of the program sky-rocketed. For many students, Mo-cha is now an indispensable re-source during shopping period.

The Mocha team currently consists of four original mem-bers — Pacheco, Leventhal, Cath and Hirshberg — and three new students, Colin Gordon ’08, Tim O’Donnell ’09 and Andres Douglas ’09, who started working on Mo-cha this semester.

The newest additions are now becoming familiar with how Mo-cha operates. “We’re almost trying to go slowly so we can bring the new guys up to speed,” Leventhal said.

Development of the updated version of Mocha was also slowed this semester because of the launch of Banner, the new computer data-base that has replaced Brown On-line Course Announcement. Since Mocha harvests course informa-tion from the University’s data-base, Mocha must be updated any time the Banner course catalog changes.

Updating Mocha can be in-credibly time-consuming, Pacheco said, but the work often occurs in bursts. After Banner’s course da-tabase went live, Leventhal put in about seven or eight hours a day for four or fi ve days.

“I took a deep breath before saying yes because I had some idea of how much time it would take,” Gordon said of his decision to join the Mocha team.

The three new members said they knew it would be a major re-sponsibility, but they ultimately joined to be a part of what they thought was a valuable project.

“It helps people around you and has a direct impact on every-one you know. You can see it be-ing used all around you,” Douglas said.

With the widespread criticism of Banner’s unfriendly user inter-face — including a public condem-nation from the Undergraduate Council of Students — students are continuing to rely on Mocha to search for courses.

“Banner is so hard to navigate that I’ll probably be using Mocha even more,” said Bricia Trejo ’09.

The Mocha creators did not particularly wish for that outcome — their main goal, they said, is to have an effective way to search for courses, whether provided by their program or by the University.

“We hoped that when Banner came out, we wouldn’t have to ex-ist anymore,” Leventhal said.

The group is aiming to keep up with changes to the Banner sys-

tem and maintain the accuracy of the course catalog.

“We have to spend a lot of time at Mocha fi xing problems with the way it reacts with Banner,” Pa-checo said.

For example, when the XLIST feature for cross-listed classes was added to Banner this week,

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A fresh pot of Mocha

CRIME LOG

Chris Bennett / HeraldThe founders of Mocha are preparing to hand down the program to a new team of students. Clockwise from top left: Adam Cath ’07, David Pacheco ’07, Daniel Leventhal ’07, Andres Douglas ’09, Tim O’Donnell ’09, Colin Gordon ’08.

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it “broke Mocha,” according to Pa-checo. He wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that the Mocha team used a “quick fi x” to update their program, but now they have to work to add the XLIST feature to Mocha.

Members of the Mocha team have met with Computing and Infor-mation Services administrators and, in the past, the Offi ce of the Reg-istrar to try to fi nd a way to make course updates more accessible to Mocha. But administrators have been unwilling to release course data other than through the Univer-sity Web site, the Mocha organizers said.

“I think the general consensus is that Mocha is useful to use in con-junction with Banner as an alterna-

tive to the scheduling offi ce of Ban-ner,” said Lisa Mather, associate registrar for registration services.

“They seem to be acknowledg-ing and liking Mocha now, but we’re hoping to have a tighter relationship in the future,” Cath said.

As the Mocha team looks to the future, its three graduating mem-bers still intend to contribute to Mo-cha. Pacheco, Leventhal and Cath will have full-time jobs next year, but the three plan to spend time on the project, even if they’re not at Brown. Their commitment to the project will decrease, but they believe the program will continue be a benefi -cial tool to new students because of their choices in their successors.

“We trust the new guys. We know Mocha’s in good hands,” Pa-checo said.

Tom Angell, government re-lations director for the national SSDP, told The Herald that hear-ing Chafee’s stance on drug policy “says a lot about how far the issue has come.”

“It was really heartening to hear Senator Chafee talking about how the war on drugs has failed and that we need to have a serious re-think-ing of how to move forward from here,” said Angell, who founded the fi rst SSDP chapter in Rhode Is-land in 2002 while he was a student at the University of Rhode Island.

Dan MacCombie ’08.5, co-chair of the conference, said he was par-ticularly pleased to hear Chafee speak about the Aid Elimination Provision of the Higher Education Act, which denies federal fi nancial aid to students with prior drug con-victions, a policy that Chafee called “backwards.”

Chafee is “a respected political fi gure, and it’s great that he came out against that,” MacCombie said. “That’s just one more voice to add to the chorus.”

This year’s conference, titled “Confronting the Drug War, En-visioning Alternatives,” was the fi rst SSDP conference to be held at Brown, though the University’s chapter had the most representa-tives of any chapter at the national convention last November, Mac-Combie said.

According to Julia van de Wal-le ’08, president of Brown’s SSDP chapter, the goals of the confer-ence were to “create cohesion” among the Northeast chapters and “reinvigorate their dedication to the cause.” This year’s conference drew about 80 people from 23 dif-ferent schools, in addition to the core membership of around 40 stu-dents at Brown.

Beyond its general goals, co-chair Matthew Palevsky ’07 said one theme of the conference was to understand “how the drug war provides a vehicle for systemic rac-ism.”

“We criminalize half of Ameri-ca — approximately half of Ameri-cans use an illicit substance — and we choose which cohort of that half we are going to incarcerate,” Palevsky said. “Because of system-ic racism, that ends up being pre-dominantly people of color.”

Brown Professor of Econom-ics Glenn Loury addressed the is-sue of institutional racism in a lec-ture Friday night in Leung Gallery called “Racial Stigma, Mass Incar-

ceration and American Values.” “We are a nation of jailers, and

racist jailers at that,” Loury said. “Today’s American race-making in-stitution, the place where the stig-matized status of blacks is repro-duced and reinforced in the Ameri-can imagination, is in the arena of criminal justice.”

Palevsky told The Herald he was impressed at the way Loury “really opened up.”

“This is a personal issue for him, as it should be for all of us, and he talked about it with such passion and knowledge that I think it affected everyone in that room,” Palevsky said.

A workshop on Saturday also addressed the issue of institution-al racism, focusing on the impor-tance of anti-racism analysis in the drug policy reform movement.

Sunday’s events were directed more at drug culture, MacCom-bie said. “One of my biggest is-sues with the drug war is cultural stigmatization and marginalization. … Although that’s something that all of us care about, it’s often ig-nored.”

Daniel Pinchbeck, author of “Breaking Open the Head: A Psy-chedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism” and “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl,” gave a speech Sunday about the role of traditional shamanistic prac-tices in modern society. Pinchbeck told the audience how his own per-sonally revelatory experiences led him to consider whether it is “pos-sible for there to be a reconsidera-tion of psychedelics in a positive, strategic way” and whether they “could actually be useful and heal-ing substances for our modern world.”

Conference organizers said they hope conferences like this weekend’s can create forums that encourage members to challenge existing policies and debate about alternative solutions.

“I think we’ve all realized that the war on drugs is a failure, but there’s great disagreement and de-bate within the organization about what exactly a drug policy utopia would look like,” Angell said.

“One of the most important aims of an event like this is to bring people together and to help foster that realization that you as a stu-dent on a campus are part of an international movement of young people who are concerned about these policies and their disastrous impact on our generation,” Angell said.


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titles projected above the stage. The strength of the performance was in the acting. Paquiro, a fl ir-tatious character played comical-ly by Patrick Ramsey ’07, entered the scene wooing the ladies until his sweetheart, Pepa — strongly portrayed as confi dent and con-trolling by Christie Gibson ’06 — arrived at the square.

Several minutes into the tab-leau, Rosario (Sonia Nayak ’08) enters the scene. Rosario’s beauty may halt the festivities in the world of the painting, but it was Nayak’s voice that literally stunned the audience. Her voice was strong, emotional and femi-

nine, and she sang the Spanish words as if she were speaking her native tongue.

Paquiro is quick to invite Ro-sario to a lantern-lit ball, but his courting is immediately inter-rupted by Rosario’s love, Fernan-do (Alexander Ebin ’07), jealous and fearful of Paquiro’s interac-tion with Rosario. Ebin exuded the masculinity, intensity and the sense of honor of men described in 18th-century Spanish litera-ture. His voice revealed his char-acter’s passion and pain caused by his love for Rosario.

Following the fi rst tableau is another ballet scene in the stu-dio with Goya and Leocadia. She struggles for Goya’s affections

as he becomes increasingly ob-sessed with his current paint-ing. While Graham expressed feelings of hurt and frustration, Dillon ably portrayed his ambiv-alence through graceful move-ment.

The opera continues in this back-and-forth manner between Goya’s studio and the tableaux, providing insight into his person-al struggle between the world of his reality and his art. Brown Opera Productions’ “Goyescas,” with the talent of its singers, dancers and musicians, left the audience impressed and touched in a performance that brought forth the complexity of what sep-arates love from obsession.


BOP’s ‘Goyescas’ hits a high note

Greta Pemberton ’06, who spoke about her desire to become a Unitarian minister at last year’s Commencement as a senior ora-tor, is still deciding whether to follow the path she planned last spring.

“The ministry is still a distant dream for me,” Pemberton said. She currently works at the Open Source radio show in Boston and said before becoming a spiritual leader, she needs “to get more life experience under my belt.”

Danyel Currie ’08 said she has considered career possibilities ranging from chemist to author, as well as a Christian pastor. After taking RS 72: “Christianity in Late Antiquity” as a freshman, Currie decided to concentrate in reli-gious studies and psychology.

“I’ve got to pursue my voca-tion,” she said. “I couldn’t see my-self doing anything with chemis-try.” But she admitted she would feel “so much more confi dent” graduating with a science de-gree.

Mother Teresa is Currie’s role model. “I kind of see myself go-ing to the extreme, like she did. Her work really resonates with me,” she said.

But for now, her plans are un-clear. “I’m as much in the dark as anyone to how this will play out,” she said.

For some students, matters of faith — not practicalities — made for late realizations about their interest in religious careers. Jon Mitchell ’09 said he initially re-sisted the Jewish faith and thus had hardly considered the rab-binate.

“I was never interested in prac-ticing Judaism,” Mitchell said. At his bar mitzvah in Israel, he spoke about not believing in God. But before coming to Brown, Mitch-ell said he “considered the possi-bility of reinterpreting Judaism” and has since delved so deeply into his faith that he is now set on becoming a rabbi.

Both Miller Hui ’07 and Jenni-fer Quiroa ’09 see Christian mis-sionary work in their futures, among other careers.

Hui said his father told him that pursuing missionary work alone would be ineffective. “ ‘You need some kind of craft, like Paul in the Bible — he was a tent-mak-er,’ ” Hui recalled his father tell-ing him. Hui said he applied to Brown’s Program in Liberal Med-ical Education because, on a mis-sion trip to Mexico, many people “would ask me to pray for some sort of physical ailment.”

“I felt like (my acceptance to PLME) was part of God’s plan. He put me here specifi cally,” he said.

Hui and several of his Chris-tian friends at Brown and Rhode Island School of Design hope to someday create a Christian hos-pital and orphanage.

“Some people say that you can’t mix religion and medicine, but, in my perspective, the best place is where someone cares for you, not just your vitals,” Hui said.

Quiroa decided she wanted to be an anaplastologist — or pros-thetics specialist — before she seriously considered doing mis-sions work. Volunteering in New Orleans during freshman year “gave me a heart” for service.

“I can’t imagine other lives without the amazing blessing that I have, and I want to share it,” she said.

She said war-torn countries have a high demand for new limbs due to frequent amputations.

“I have always wanted to make prosthetics. Maybe God could use me,” Quiroa said.

Questioning their convictionLike their classmates, stu-

dents pursuing religious occupa-tions are often indecisive when making a career choice.

“Very few people at 22 want to make a commitment to any-thing,” said Father Henry Bodah, the University’s Catholic chap-lain. “They don’t go into Goldman Sachs thinking they’ll be working there until they’re 40.”

Izen questioned whether she could devote herself to the rab-binate. “When you’re a rabbi, that’s a big responsibility,” she said. “People are handing you

their bundles of sorrow and say-ing, ‘Help me.’ ”

Pemberton said she thinks she is too young to enter religious service. “It would have been arro-gant for me to preach at age 21 or 22,” she said.

Currie has practical concerns as she approaches the ministry — she is unsure how following in Mother Teresa’s footsteps “will work in terms of me paying the rent,” she said.

But she said her faith keeps her going. “Jesus, he just walked around and talked to people. He was cool with that, and I’m cool with that.”

Quiroa sometimes questions why she is at Brown. “You go to this Ivy League school, you pay thousands of dollars for this school, and then you go and be a missionary? You beg people for money to be a missionary?” she said.

Faith at a secular schoolAs a religious person at

Brown, Currie said she fi nds her-self in the minority.

“Unfortunately, many of our peers don’t value religion,” she said. “Many people see religious people as stupid or irrational.”

Mitchell agreed. “It’s not a religious environment here,” he said. “It’s a secular, liberal univer-sity, and most people are not in-terested in religious life.”

Hui said he has not encoun-tered hostility toward his faith at Brown. “The people who point to Brown as being anti-Christian are people who have not talked to anyone at Brown about their faith,” he said.

Cooper Nelson said she dis-agrees with the notion that Brown is non-religious. Nearly three quarters of students claim a religious background, and nearly half are involved in religious ac-tivities on campus, she said.

Though Quiroa said she has met few students on a religious career track, she affi rmed the val-ue of preparing for religious ser-vice with a Brown degree. “Hav-ing a well-rounded education can just help so much when you’re sharing your faith,” she said.


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RBIs, while third baseman Robert Papenhause ’09 and leftfi elder Ryan Murphy ’08 both had three hits and three runs scored.

“You had a lot of guys (Satur-day) in the fi rst game who aren’t the guys you’re usually counting on to produce your runs,” Drabin-ski said. “Those four guys — Pap-enhause, Murphy, Tanabe, Kela-her — which is great because you can’t always rely on the same guys: (Devin) Thomas (’07), (Jeff) Dietz (’08), Tews, (Matt) Nuzzo (’09). It’s nice to get see those other guys get into the fold and contribute.”

The team’s offensive explosion overshadowed another stellar start by Dietz, who gave up just two runs while pitching a seven-inning com-plete game. After allowing a double and a home run to start the game, the right-hander settled down, al-lowing just three baserunners and striking out 11 batters the rest of the way. He improved his Ivy record to 3-0, with a 2.57 ERA.

“After the fi rst two batters, I felt pretty good,” Dietz said. “I threw my curveball for strikes — when I

start getting my curveball working, I feel fi ne.”

In the second game, both start-ers, Brown’s James Cramphin ’07 and Dartmouth’s Jeff Wilkerson, pitched well in the early innings. But in the top of the fourth, with the Bears leading 1-0, three of Brown’s fi rst four batters hit solo home runs to break the game open. Dietz, Tews and right-fi elder Dan Shapiro ’09 connected on the homers, and designated hitter J.J. Eno ’08 con-tributed an RBI-double later that in-ning. Tews, who went 3-for-3 in the second game, hit another solo hom-er in the sixth, and the Bears scored again in the seventh and the ninth.

Cramphin — who was two outs away from a complete game shut-out against Columbia last week — again pitched well, striking out 10 in six innings while allowing just one run in improving his Ivy record to 2-0, with a 2.66 ERA and 27 strikeouts in 20 and 1/3 innings. His recent successes have impressed Drabin-ski.

“The big thing with James is that we’ve worked on some mechanical issues in the offseason,” the coach said. “Since the Charleston South-

ern (University) game he pitched, he’s shortened up his arm action and he’s keeping his shoulders lev-el. … As you can see from the num-ber of strikeouts, he’s been very ef-fective.”

With Brown and Harvard’s Sun-day doubleheaders against Dart-mouth and Yale, respectively, post-poned because of rain, the Bears and Crimson will head into next weekend’s four-game series at Al-drich Field with identical 7-3 Ivy League records, tied for the Red Rolfe Division lead. Before the sea-son, Collegiate Baseball predicted that Harvard would fi nish fi rst in the division, with Brown second. Di-etz said the team has been looking forward to the match-up all year.

“There’s nothing I would like to do more than to take (the series) against Harvard,” Dietz said. “If we played like we did this weekend, we’ll have good results.”

Before the weekend’s double-headers against the Crimson, the Bears have three midweek games at home. They will face Marist Col-lege in a doubleheader on Tuesday and the University of Connecticut on Wednesday.


Schmidt said. “We were missing many of our best sprinters and throwers. (The) meet was main-ly about making individual im-provements.”

Craigwell ran to a second-place fi nish in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.49 seconds. Sean O’Brien ’09 also put up a sil-ver-medal fi nish in the 400-meter run with a time of 49.97 seconds, less than a second behind the winner. He also pulled double duty, running to a sixth-place fi n-ish in the 200-meter dash.

The Bears posted a number of successes in the fi eld events to cap the successful day. Ur-lacher won the javelin with a throw of 170-feet 9-inches. David Howard ’09 launched the discus a distance of 154-feet 6-inches, good for second place. Howard also took home a bronze in the shot put with a 48-foot 10.25-inch throw.

“The goal was to compete hard,” Lake said. “It was to com-pete to win or as close to winning as possible.”

To continue the winning ways of the day, Mike Woods ’09 best-ed the competition in the pole vault by clearing 14-feet 7.25-inches, and Deshaun Mars ’08 took home gold in the long jump with a 22-foot 2.5-inch jump.

Brown swept the top three

spots in the triple jump. Reg-gie Cole ’10 hopped, skipped and leaped to fi rst with a 47-foot 0.75-inch attempt and was fol-lowed by Craigwell and Andrew Chapin ’10, landed in second and third places, respectively, in the event.

The Bears will face the Hus-kies again next weekend at the UConn Husky Spring Invitation-al in Storrs, Conn.

“I don’t think we are too con-cerned about beating the Hus-kies,” Schmidt said. “They are not in our league, and when we face them, we are often miss-ing important parts of our team. …Next week, myself and a few of our top distance runners will not be competing or competing in events that we don’t special-ize in. We are preparing for (the Heptagonal Championships).”

The Heptagonal Champion-ships, the culmination of the sea-son for the Bears, looms on the horizon only three weeks away.

“Heps is the only meet that we truly care about team plac-ing, so until then we are using each competition as a tune-up for Heps on an individual level,” Lake said. “Each competition is an opportunity to learn and im-prove as an athlete both mental-ly and physically. Each athlete’s individual performances are critical to our team’s success at Heps.”


ished second in 10:36.19. Col-leen Brogan ’10 rounded out the scoring in the event with a fourth place fi nish of 10:54.91.

“I was most proud of Mad-eleine Marecki’s fi rst collegiate win in the 3,000 meters,” Fer-jan said. “It was great to see her breakthrough performance on the home track.”

Breakthroughs continued in the steeplechase as Lindsay Kahn ’08 and Brooke Giuffre ’10 provided big boosts for the Bears by coming in second and third, respectively, with times of 10:46.98 and 11:01.5. Kahn’s per-formance was an NCAA-Region-al qualifying time, and Giuffre’s race was her fi rst time running

the event.Tiffany Chang ’08 placed sec-

ond in the pole vault by clearing 11-feet 5.75-inches. There was a dramatic tie for third as team-mates Cassandra Wong ’10 and Keely Marsh ’08 each bested 10-11.75 feet in the event.

The next slated competition for the Bears will be at the UCo-nn Husky Spring Invitational next week in Storrs, Conn., where the Bears will continue to improve on their times, heights and throws as they move closer and closer to the Heptagonal Championships three weeks away.

“Weather in outdoor track in the Northeast is a huge factor for performances, and it looks hope-ful to be a decent day this Satur-day in Storrs,” Lake said.

generate even more momentum. After that, the Bears tightened up defensively and only allowed four more goals. They managed to out-score the Big Red 5-4 the rest of the way.

“In the second half, we start-ed to enforce our style of play on them, and it led to some positive results,” Markowski said.

After another goal by Vitkus and two more Cornell goals made the score 17-6, Bruno outscored the Big Red 4-2 for the fi nal 16:03. Vitkus, DeTolla, Markowski and Krystina DeLuca ’09 each scored for the Bears. Despite the solid de-fensive play in the latter stages of the second half, Brown could not overcome the early fi rst-half defi -cit, and Cornell came out with the victory.

The Bears return to action at home on Wednesday against Yale at 4 p.m.

“We’re extremely excited for our next Ivy competition,” Hol-land said. “We want to come out strong from the fi rst whistle and play strong all the way through till the end.”

Baseball’s offense explodes in doubleheader sweep of Dartmouth M. track races to six fi rst-place fi nishes at Brown Invitational

W. lax lose to Big Red

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To the Editor:

As a subscriber to Commentary magazine for over 40 years, I was simply delighted to fi nd that the maga-zine, in the eyes of Justin Elliott ’07 (“Ruth Simmons’ new boss: patron of the Right,” April 12), had created the intellectual underpinning for the Iraq war. I was horrifi ed that our actions would go unnoticed.

I was shocked — absolutely shocked — to fi nd El-liott indicating that the State of Israel is actually being helped by the United States in its effort to survive the continuous onslaught of its neighbors. That Thomas Tisch ’76 P’04 P’07 is part of this cabal relieves my

easily swayed mind that the next generation of Herald executive editors will have this guideline to work with, all neatly laid out by former Herald Executive Editor Justin Elliott.

I think we should all do whatever we can to help Justin land the right kind of job in New York. Maybe with Loews, the Tisch family’s corporation.

Sy DillProvidence

April 13

Elliott ’07 is divorced from realityElliott ’07 is divorced from realityElliott

This year’s pool for UCS president is larger than in the past two years, but not one of the four candidates vying for the council’s top post offers a reassuring combination of leadership qualities, knowledge of UCS and the University and a realistic agenda, whether big or small.

So students are left to decide which characteristics are most impor-tant for the UCS presidency. Do we want a UCS president who is going to fi ght for attractive yet ultimately unrealistic initiatives like a tuition freeze? Or should the UCS president be someone who has extensive experience on the council and is knowledge of all the projects on its slate? Or ought the leader of UCS be an affable, energetic person who shows potential to lead a bickering council to action and collaboration with University offi cials?

Moses Riner ’08, currently an at-large representative, seems like the student-government type we love to hate, and his potentially offensive ads and the self-laudatory Web site that extols him as the “Exodus to Awesomeness” give us pause. Yet his platform is well-researched, even if some of his initiatives — such as his plan to boost school spirit by creating an incentive scheme for attending athletic events — seem im-ported from Duke, from which he transferred last fall, and may not be right for Brown.

But, more importantly, Riner is outgoing and — unlike UCS repre-sentatives immersed in their own world of parliamentary procedure — can engage with students and pursue what matters to them in meetings with top administrators. He understands the importance of improving campus life in ways that would have a real impact on students, such as his plan to add printers and card value centers in dorms.

There’s no great candidate for UCS president this year, but we think Riner may inject energy into the council and focus its attention on achiev-able goals. That makes him the best choice for the UCS presidency.

Fortunately, the choice for UCS vice president is much clearer. Lauren Kolodny ’08 will make sure the council operates purposefully, with a no-nonsense emphasis on effi ciency.

The vice president of UCS is primarily responsible for running a tight ship — keeping the internal committees on task, following proj-ects through to completion and making sure the weekly meetings don’t drag on longer than necessary. Kolodny’s understanding of both UCS and University operations makes her perfect for the post.

As UCS Corporation liaison this year, Kolodny has demonstrated her ability to work with the University’s top decision-makers, bringing infl uential Corporation members — including the vice chancellor, the head of the Brown Alumni Association and a past chancellor — to Pet-teruti Lounge this week to hear student concerns. Her efforts to in-clude students and student groups beyond UCS in discussion would serve to improve the perception of UCS as a cabal removed from stu-dent life.

Three of this year’s UCS presidential candidates lack knowledge of the recent history of the council and the University, and all would ben-efi t from Kolodny’s institutional memory and effi cient leadership. No matter who wins the UCS presidency, we hope Lauren Kolodny will be at his side.

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To the Editor:

Recently, I was alarmed to see signs on campus pub-licizing a forthcoming lecture, “One Country: Moving Beyond Apartheid in Israel/Palestine,” sponsored by Common Ground. I hope that Brown students will see through the hate-fi lled rhetoric in the lecture’s title. Comparing Israel’s situation today with that of South Africa’s apartheid years is ignorant. Palestinians gen-erally dispute Israel’s very right to exist, whereas the South Africans did not seek to destroy their state. In spite of the constant threat of terrorism, Palestinians are allowed to work in Israel and to study at Israeli uni-

versities. They are also given the freedom to run most of their own affairs, unlike the situation of South Afri-can blacks during apartheid. Common Ground, don’t you know that sponsoring lectures promoting a fi cti-tious, vilifi ed image of all Israelis is no way to promote a fruitful dialogue about events in the Middle East? Balanced dialogue shouldn’t frighten you.

Mirele Davis ’07

April 15

Calling Israel apartheid is ignorant

To the Editor:

While I appreciate Sean Quigley’s ’10 attempt to present Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as an acceptable candidate for liberals (“Give the maverick at least 4 years,” April 13), his effort is futile. Despite his ca-reer as a maverick, McCain has committed a cardi-nal sin for which the left will not forgive him: He has relentlessly defended the liberation of Iraq. Until the

left wakes up and realizes the war on radical Islam is more important than their war on the Bush adminis-tration, McCain does not stand a chance with defeat-ist American leftists.

Pratik Chougule ’08April 14

Quigley ’10 misjudges liberals on McCainmisjudges liberals on McCainmis

Kolodny ’08 for UCS vice presidentKolodny ’08 for UCS vice presidentKolodny

First impressions really are everything, es-pecially when it comes to politics.

Political groups at Brown cannot achieve legitimacy merely through their intentions, and they cannot take for granted the sup-port of student sub-communities they claim to represent. Absolutely fundamental to the success of a new group is the way in which it is formed and the fi rst messages that it sends.

Two recently formed student groups have demonstrated the truth of these max-ims. The fi rst is Asian Equality in Admis-sions, started by two sophomores earlier this year. The other is the more mysterious Order for Jewish Action.

AEA has failed to gain widespread sup-port on campus. Its original goal, according to group co-founder Neil Vangala ’09, was to “battle assumed discrimination against Asians and Asian Americans” in the Brown admission process.

After fi nding less support than antici-pated for his group, Vangala said he and co-founder Jason Carr ’09 decided to make their group’s mission less aggressive. Cur-rently, their goal is to “understand ways that race and ethnicity affect Brown admissions” by getting the admission committee to pub-licize its data.

You would think that with goals like “admissions equality for Asians” and “in-stitutional transparency,” AEA would have

strong support in Brown’s Asian communi-ty. Not so.

None of the Asian groups on campus has endorsed AEA. The reason? From AEA’s formation to its subsequent outreach, the group’s efforts have been perceived as un-cooperative and arrogant. It is precisely this behavior that has landed the group in hot water with the Brown Asian community — the very people it would have to rely on for support.

AEA was announced to the Brown com-munity in The Herald in February (“Two students challenge Asian American admis-sion discrimination,” Feb. 9). Interesting-ly, this was also how most of the leaders of Asian student groups learned about the group.

After certain leaders in the Brown Asian-American community spoke with Vangala and Carr, they left feeling patronized. Be-linda Navi ’09, a member of the Filipino Alliance’s executive board, said AEA “ap-proached several of us (student leaders) in a very patronizing manner. They have no history of involvement in the Asian or Asian-American community at Brown, yet they spoke to us as if they knew more about our communities just because they read the relevant case reports.” Navi said when she challenged their assumptions regard-ing equality in admission, suggesting that releasing data was not the only way to pro-mote institutional transparency, Vangala and Carr responded with a take-it-or-leave-it attitude, turning her off from embracing the group.

It is also worth taking a look at the group’s aims. AEA has said it wants admission data to become public, so that it can determine

whether discrimination against Asians exists in Brown admission. Of course, discrimina-tion in admission can also be called by anoth-er name: affi rmative action. Many groups on campus see AEA as a threat to Brown’s affi r-mative action policies, and two sophomores started a Facebook group called “Real Equal-ity in Admissions” to articulate this fear. The group’s description calls AEA “nothing but a veiled attempt to attack affi rmative action.” One creator, Agnes Barrios ’09, said, “They (AEA) haven’t considered the long-term consequences of publishing data, and they refuse to openly discuss this with minority groups on campus.”

Though Vangala said AEA has no plans to campaign for the elimination of affi rmative action, by calling for an end to discrimina-tion the group seems to inherently threaten systems of racial preference in admissions.

Of course Vangala and Carr have the right to agitate for whatever they want, but they won’t get far when administrators re-alize that they will not garner the support of the students they purport to be fi ghting for. Vangala said, “we’re not even trying to get their (Asian student groups) support.” If AEA’s leadership hopes to be taken serious-ly though, they should approach all of the Asian groups on campus — not just a few — and do so with an open mind to new ideas and differences of opinion. It’s not too late to mend these fences.

AEA is not the only group that could learn some support-building tactics. Not since I received a naughty love note from a secret admirer in seventh grade has an un-signed letter gotten me really worked up — but though the former turned out to be a prank by my “friends,” the students behind

a radical new Jewish group remain veiled in mystery.

Many members of Brown’s Jewish com-munity received an e-mail from a new group, calling itself the Order for Jewish Action and promising “to strengthen Jewish pride and Jewish nationalism” and “change the mean-ing of Jewish activism at Brown.” Its hard-line pro-Israel position struck a nerve, and soon Jewish students were responding with short essays — mostly in opposition — to the group.

The group did little to elaborate on its message and continued to hide behind the OJA name, refusing to identify who was behind the group. OJA’s organizers wrote that they “do not feel comfortable” making themselves known and that “this is common practice … across history.” I wonder what historic clandestine organizations they are referring to.

What practical measures does OJA want to enact? If it is secure in its ideology, why does it feel “uncomfortable” taking cred-it for it? These questions and many others could have valid answers. However, because the OJA has opted for a secretive route and what many students feel is an unjustifi able position, it has poisoned its potential for fu-ture success — again, within the very group it would claim to represent.

These two groups have botched their fi rst impressions. Unless they take different approaches to gathering support, they will not be able to achieve the legitimacy they need to affect change at Brown.

Ben Bernstein ’09 cooperated with the Brown community in forming this column.

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALDMONDAY, APRIL 16, 2007 PAGE 11

How (not) to start a group at Brown

Our problems with AEA

In light of the articles that have been pub-lished in The Herald this semester regard-ing Asian Equality in Admissions, we feel the need to respond as a community about our strong reservations regarding the group formed by Neil Vangala ’09 and Jason Carr ’09. Though we cannot speak for the entire Asian, Asian-American, Third World and greater Brown communities, we feel com-pelled to voice our concerns both as individ-uals and based on the responses we have re-ceived from members of our organizations.

We do not oppose the stated purpose of AEA. On its Web site, AEA claims that it aims to promote “institutional transparen-cy” and “(educate) and (inform) the Brown student body of discrimination.” We do not object to fostering institutional transparency at our school, nor do we object to the pos-sibility of eventually advocating for the re-lease of admission statistics.

However, in our opinion, the goals touted by AEA have not been honored in an appro-priate and sensitive way. This column will therefore not dispute the claim that Asian or Asian-American applicants encounter bias in the admission process. That is an important but separate discussion. We hope instead to convey why we cannot embrace AEA.

We have three main concerns regarding Vangala and Carr’s group.

The fi rst is related to how the organi-zation was formed. At a recent debate be-tween AEA and the Brown Debating Union (a debate to which Asian and Asian-Ameri-can leaders were not invited), Carr and Van-gala explained that they formed their group in response to a recent lawsuit brought by Yale freshman Jian Li against Princeton, as

well as a 1983 report conducted at Brown. Carr and Vangala assumed that many of Li’s charges against Princeton were applicable to Brown, and they used the 1983 report — which claimed Asian and Asian-Ameri-can applicants encountered discrimination at Brown — to garner support. Somehow, these conclusions were reached even before AEA met with Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73 to discuss current admission policies.

Though many meaningful clubs are ini-tially started by a small group of individuals rather than entire communities, the leaders of AEA were unresponsive to calls for more widespread dialogue. During conversations some of us had with its founders, our con-cerns were dismissed in a cursory manner, leaving many of us feeling alienated.

Since AEA did not form organically as a response to community concerns, it may come as no surprise that it has not received support from any Asian or Asian-American student groups at Brown. Carr and Vanga-la only approached two of the 18 Asian and Asian-American groups on campus to solic-it their offi cial endorsement — which AEA never received.

However, AEA never entered into an ex-change with these groups, nor did it include them in the process of determining the best way to pursue “institutional transparency.” Rather, AEA sought these affi liations for the sake of promoting its own credibility. In-deed, a liaison to AEA felt he was being used as a liaison “in name only,” and many of his attempts to work with the organization went unacknowledged by Vangala and Carr. Fur-thermore, when Carr was asked if he would move forward with AEA even without sup-port from Asian and Asian-American orga-nizations on campus at the aforementioned debate, he responded, “Hell, yes,” demon-strating, we feel, a disturbing lack of respect for the opinions of the community.

This disregard for the voices of Asian

and Asian-American students — students whose causes it claims to champion — re-fl ects a general attitude within AEA. For an organization that insists on promoting insti-tutional transparency, there is an alarming lack of dialogue informing its own platform.

We are concerned with the strongly charged language continuously used by AEA. In a Spectator article (“Asian Ameri-cans in Admissions: When Success Breeds a Backlash,” Vol. 5, Issue 5), Carr wrote, “Only two groups of people believe discrim-ination is a nuanced issue: racists and col-lege admissions offi cers.”

We believe comments like these reveal that AEA’s campaign relies on the presump-tion of discrimination in Brown admission. If our “racist” admission offi cers are already written off as guilty of discrimination, how can we expect AEA to produce a report (one of its stated goals) that makes unmotivated and objective conclusions?

Furthermore, we feel that the group’s frequent use of words such as “equality” and “institutional transparency” to beckon campus support oversimplifi es a complicat-ed issue. AEA’s leaders would allege — ac-cording to the logic in their columns — that our critical analysis of their group and its goals makes us enemies of equality, out to “destroy a group that is both noble and pro-gressive” (a direct quotation about two of us from a recent e-mail, dated April 14, that Vangala sent to Asian community leaders). By using such terminology, AEA suggests that anyone who questions it must also be in favor of bias and institutional secrecy. Ap-parently, we’re either with them or against them.

We want to commend Vangala and Carr for bringing attention to an important topic. However, we will not lend support to an or-ganization that, in our opinion, has actively excluded the voices of members of our com-munity.

Unfortunately, we feel that attempts at communication with AEA have been ex-hausted, and we are wary of collaborating with a group that has ignored our input since its initiation.

For members of any campus group, we hope this letter will fuel the discussion that needs to accompany initiatives such as AEA. Finally, we encourage all those who are in-terested to contact admission offi cers so as to better understand the complexity of ad-missions here at Brown.

This column was written by Jennifer Chudy ’07, Hapa Club president and TWC staffer, and

Belinda Navi ’09, Filipino Alliance E-Board member and TWC staffer. It has been en-

dorsed by Henry Chien ’09, Chinese Student Association co-chair; Darnell Fine ’08, Minor-ity Peer Counselor coordinator; Natasha Go ’10, Brown Organization of Multi-Racial and

Bi-Racial Students co-chair; Karynn Ikeda ’09, VISIONS layout editor and MPC Friend; Heilyn

Paulino ’09, Latin American Students Orga-nization chair; Jane Tanimura ’07, co-chair of the Asian American Student Organization;Kristin Jordan ’09, MPC; Jessica Kawamura ’07, former AASA co-chair; Jamie Farris ’07, BOMBS member, FA member, MPC Friend, TWC staffer; Christable Lee ’07; Rukesh Sa-marasekera ’08; Cyprian Kibuka ’08, African

Students Association member; Wendy Chen ’09, CSA co-chair, AASA member; Agnes Bar-rios ’09, Movimiento Estudantil Chicano de Aztlan member, LASO member, Residential

Peer Leader; Robert Smith III ’09, Queer Politi-cal Action Committee member, MPC Friend;

Patrick Pangan ’09, MPC, FA member; Rick Ahl ’09, Operation Iraqi Freedom member; Nisha

Mirani ’10; Lily Shield ’09; Alexander Ortiz ’09; Laura Gerace ’07, BOMBS member, MPC Friend; Anna Hidalgo ’09; Victoria Chao ’08,

Strait Talk Symposium coordinator; and Amy Tan ’09, BOMBS member, TWC staff.Tan ’09, BOMBS member, TWC staff.Tan ’09, BOMBS member, TWC staff

BY JENNIFER CHUDYAND BELINDA NAVI

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BEN BERNSTEINCAMPUS ISSUES COLUMNIST

Baseball Head Coach Marek Drab-inski has been concerned about his team’s offense for much of the sea-son. But after Saturday’s showing, he might not have to worry any-more.

Behind solid starting pitch-ing and offense from unexpected sources, the Bears blew out Dart-mouth 20-2 and 10-3 in a double-header sweep at Aldrich Field. For the day, Brown batters hammered out 31 hits, and the defense, once a sore spot, committed no errors. The Bears improved their record to 7-3 in the Ivy League, 12-14 overall, while the Big Green dropped to 2-8 in league play, 5-19 overall.

“I think those are the best two games we played this season,” said infi elder Bryan Tews ’07. “We had

no errors, the pitching was great, the offense was great. If we keep playing well in those three (areas), we can beat anyone.”

In the top of the fi rst inning of the fi rst game, the Bears jumped out to a 3-0 lead and never looked back. Brown was the visiting team on its home fi eld because snowy condi-tions in New Hampshire forced the games to be moved south. The Bears scored a run in every inning of the fi rst game, and all 10 batters recorded hits and had either an RBI or run scored.

Chris Tanabe ’10 got his fi rst start of the Ivy League season in right fi eld and responded by going 2-for-3 with fi ve RBIs and hitting his fi rst collegiate homer, a three-run shot to left fi eld. Second base-man Brian Kelaher ’08 added four

SPORTS MONDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALDMONDAY, APRIL 16, 2007 PAGE 12

Seniors propel w. track to strong showing at Brown Invitational

A short-handed women’s track and fi eld team hosted its fi rst home meet of the spring season Saturday at Brown Stadium. The Bears man-aged to put up some impressive numbers despite missing most of their sprinters and throwers, who were competing at the Sea Ray Re-lays hosted by the University of Tennessee.

“Sea Ray Relays is one of the greatest track events in the coun-try, especially for the sprinters,” said middle-distance runner Naja Ferjan ’07. “Some of the best sprint-ers in the country come every year. Unfortunately, it was on the same weekend as the home meet. It was defi nitely hard to compete against UConn without our sprints crew, especially since UConn brought its entire sprints squad to Brown.”

Despite the depleted roster, the team managed to do just fi ne in front of the home crowd.

“I like competing at home be-cause all of the alumni come to see us race,” Ferjan said. “I was sur-prised to see a number of my pro-fessors with their families came too.”

Ferjan made sure she put on quite a show for the fans, win-ning the 800-meter run by two sec-onds with a time of 2:10.82. Jenna Ridgway ’10 followed her team-mate with a 2:14.82 fi nish, which was good for fourth place. Ridg-way also competed in the mile, in which she fi nished second with a time of 4:53.25, a personal best by six seconds. Teammate Smita Gup-ta ’08 fi nished fourth in 5:03.73 in the event to round out the shorter distances.

It was a good day to be a senior. Both Ferjan and Herald Assistant Sports Editor Madeleine Marecki ’07 won their respective events. Marecki’s fi nish came in the 3,000-meter run, where she blazed to a personal best time of 10:32.94, al-most four seconds ahead of team-mate Lena Groeger ’08, who fi n-

BY SARAH DEMERSASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

W. lax blindsided by Big Red

The women’s lacrosse team got into a shootout with Cornell game Friday afternoon but ran out of bullets in the end. It took the Bears a while to recover from the long bus ride to Ithaca, N.Y., and they spotted the Big Red an eight-goal lead midway through the fi rst half. The Bears couldn’t overcome the hole they dug ear-ly on and in the end fell to the Big Red, 19-10.

“The trip is very long, and none of us looked forward to it,” said co-captain Ali Holland ’08. “We prepared ourselves all week throughout practice so we were ready to play, but unfortunate-ly we didn’t come out playing Brown lacrosse.”

With the loss, Brown fell to 1-2 in the Ivy League and 4-7 over-all. Cornell bumped its record to 2-3 in the league.

The Big Red opened the game with a 3-0 run to grab the momentum, and despite the fi rst of three goals by Lauren Vitkus ’09 at 26:35, Cornell continued to roll. It tacked on two more goals to take a 5-1 lead just 6:14 into the contest, forcing Brown to call a timeout.

“I think it was tough for us, being our fi rst game that we traveled a long distance in a bus,” said Meghan Markowski ’10, who had two goals and an as-

sist in the game. “It seemed like it took us 10 minutes to wake up in the fi rst half.”

While the Bears were wak-ing up from the bus ride, Cornell continued to increase its lead. The Bears scored quickly after the timeout when Lindsey Glen-non ’07 netted her fi rst goal of the season, but the Big Red con-tinued its offensive barrage and scored fi ve straight goals to take a 10-2 lead midway through the fi rst half.

But after the midway point, Brown started to come together, and co-captain Mimi DeTolla ’08 and Markowski each scored a goal to cut the defi cit to 10-4 with 3:50 remaining in the half.

“After the fi rst 10 minutes of play, we got ourselves together and started playing better,” Hol-land said.

Cornell outscored Brown 4-1 to close out the fi rst half, includ-ing three goals in the fi nal 1:02. The Big Red took a 14-5 lead into the locker room.

“We didn’t make any specif-ic adjustments at halftime, but everyone re-focused and got hungry to play well,” Holland said. “I think that attitude really helped.”

Despite the concentrated effort after halftime, Cornell scored again just 34 seconds into the second half to make it 15-5 to

BY MEGAN MCCAHILLSPORTS STAFF WRITER

The men’s track and fi eld team fi nally got its chance to put on a show in front of the home crowd when it hosted the Brown Invi-tational on Saturday. Brown won six events and had multiple ath-letes fi nish in the top three of their events.

“It’s always good to have home-fi eld advantage,” said sprinter Miles Craigwell ’09. “Knowing that you have friends and family there watching gives you a lot of support and makes you want to do well.”

The invitational attracted sev-

eral of the top track and fi eld teams in the area to College Hill this weekend. Ivy League rivals such as Harvard and Yale brought athletes on Saturday as well as re-gional foes such as the University of Connecticut and the University of Rhode Island.

“Regardless of whatever team won the meet, the toughest com-petition is always against the oth-er Ivies,” said middle-distance runner Ozzie Myers ’08. “You al-ways want to go out and send a message.”

Despite missing a large por-tion of their throws and sprints squads, who participated in a meet held by the University of

Tennessee, the Bears managed to send a strong message under the sunny skies at Brown Stadium.

“Our coach reminded us of the importance of the meet,” said javelin thrower Sam Urlacher ’09. “Our championship meet is only a few weeks away now, and you never know what the weather is going to be like for our remaining meets.”

Myers took advantage of the opportunity to race on his home track by running the 3,000-meter steeplechase seemingly without competition — the runner-up fi n-ished almost 22 seconds behind him. His personal best time of 9:12.16 won the race and landed

him in seventh overall on Brown’s top 10 all-time list in the event.

“(Director of Track and Field Craig Lake) didn’t really tell me much before the meet, just go out and run my race,” Myers said. “ ‘Don’t hit any steeples.’ ”

Taking a page out of Myers’ book, a fl eet of Bears dominat-ed the 3,000-meter run. Brian Schmidt ’09, Stephen Chaloner ’09, Duriel Hardy ’10 and Ryan Graddy ’08 placed fi rst, third, fourth and fi fth, respectively.

“Although this was techni-cally a scoring meet, it really wasn’t about team competition,”

BY SARAH DEMERSASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

BY STU WOO

Baseball keeps pace with Harvard, Sunday’s doubleheader postponedFEATURES EDITOR

Home cooking helps m. track to six fi rst-place fi nishes at Brown Invitational

Ashley Hess / Herald File Photo

Pitcher Jeff Dietz ’08 backed up baseball’s offensive explosion by striking out 11 in a complete game.

Jacob Melrose / Herald File Photo

Lauren Vitkus ’09 scored three goals and added an assist in a loss to Cornell.

FRIDAY,AY,AY APRIL 13

W. CREW: Varsity Eight - No. 1 Brown 6:17.27, Boston University 6:33.60W. LACROSSE: Cornell 19, Brown 10M. TENNIS: Cornell 5, Brown 2W. TENNIS: Brown 4, Cornell 3SOFTBALL: Dartmouth 5, Brown 2; Dartmouth 13, Brown 0

SATURDAY,AY,AY APRIL 14

BASEBALL: Brown 20, Dartmouth 2; Brown 10, Dartmouth 3M. CREW: Varsity Eight - No. 6 Harvard 6:31.4, No. 3 Brown 6:36.6

M. LACROSSE: Penn 12, Brown 10SOFTBALL: Dartmouth 3, Brown 2; Dartmouth 10, Brown 3M. TENNIS: Columbia 5, Brown 2W. TENNIS: Brown 6, Columbia 1W. WATER POLO: No. 18 Brown 20, Utica 0; No. 18 Brown 13, Queens 3

SUNDAY,AY,AY APRIL 15

M. GOLF: 9th of 12 teams, New England Cham-pionshipsW. GOLF: 3rd of 3 teams, Dartmouth/Harvard Triangular

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