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A SECOND LIFEAn MCM class has taken Brown into the popular Second Life world with an interactive art museum.

CAMPUS NEWS

7OPINIONS

11SQUEAKY CLEANFacilities Management is now cleaning the bath-rooms in dorms over the weekend.

SPORTS

12ORGAN DEBATE REDUXHope Henderson ‘08.5 continues the debate over organ sales with a strong vote for selling kidneys.

M. SOCCER ON A ROLLThe men’s soccer team defeated URI Sunday af-ternoon, improving its undefeated record.

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Fellowship through the fastBY MATThEW VARLEYStaff Writer

At sunset last Thursday, many Brown students were enjoying their second or third meal of the day at the Verney-Woolley Dining Hall. Just down the hall, in the Brown Muslim Students’ Center in the basement of Champlin Hall, approximately 60 others were ea-gerly anticipating their first.

Noor Najeeb ’09, president of the Muslim Students’ Association, weaved through the lively crowd, offering fresh dates and almond milk, the traditional first course of the Ramadan evening meal, the “if-tar.” It was just after 7 p.m., and the students had been without food or drink since before sunrise — which came at 5 a.m. on Thursday.

“We have people from literally everywhere in this room right now,” Najeeb said as she handed out the fruit. “So I think the one thing that bonds us all is the dates. Everyone eats the dates, that’s pretty staple.”

The MSA will be hosting an iftar every night for the holy month of Ramadan, which began Thursday and ends around Oct. 12.

Many Muslims use the month as a time for prayer, reflection and community in addition to daily fasts. After the customary consumption

of dates and almond milk, a num-ber of students assembled in the rear corner of the room to pray the “maghrib,” the fourth of five daily prayers in Islamic practice. Rumee Ahmed, the Muslim chaplain and associate University chaplain, led the worship with a melodic prayer that included recitations from the Quran in Arabic.

After the communal prayer, it was time to eat. The much-antic-ipated feast came from Shanghai on Thayer Street.

“Every night we have a contract with a different restaurant,” said Ayesha Ahmed, Rumee’s wife, as she dished out rice, lo mein, spring rolls and stir-fry. Ayesha Ahmed, who frequently works with the MSA and is coordinating the nightly if-tar during Ramadan, said students contribute unused meal credits to a fund for the dinners.

The Office of Student Life and various community groups have also contributed to the program, she said.

“Ramadan is a time for community and family, and all these people are away from their families. ... So it’s important, I think, to have

Chafee ’75 leaves the GOP behindFormer Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75, cur-rently a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, has left the Republican Party.

Records available on the Rhode Island Secretary of State’s Web site show that Chafee is currently an un-affiliated voter. Rhode Island law al-lows voters to register as Democrats, Republicans, other or as unaffiliated with a party.

Chafee, a moderate Republican and former mayor of Warwick, was elected to a full term in the Senate in 2000 after being appointed to fill his father’s seat in 1999, when Sen. John Cha-fee died. In 2006, Chafee was defeated by Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse after a grueling Republican primary against then-Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey, a conservative. Chafee was backed by the national party in that race.

“It’s not my party any more,” Chafee told the Providence Journal in an article Sunday, citing ideological differences between himself and the national GOP as the reason for his departure.

Chafee also told the Journal that he had changed his affiliation sometime in June or July, but that no one had asked him about his move until the news broke this weekend.

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Displaced history professors adjust to life in MetcalfBY CAITLIN BROWNEStaff Writer

After a weeklong move of 450 feet, the Peter Green House found a new home at 79 Brown St. on Aug. 7. Home to part of the Department of History, the house traveled to the northeast corner of Brown and An-gell streets from its former location next door to the rest of the history department in Sharpe House. It is expected to reopen by early 2008.

In the meantime, 13 history professors and four administrative staff members have reshuffled to the third floor of Metcalf Labora-tories.

“It’s a little odd to walk over here and have the smell of formaldehyde hit your nostrils. Historians aren’t used to that smell,” said Associate Professor of History Amy Remen-snyder.

She said that while she hasn’t met any new colleagues, working in another part of campus has made her realize “how separate certain parts of the faculty are from certain other parts.”

Assistant Professor of History Ethan Pollock said the move was “fairly well-organized,” even though the building could have been bet-ter prepared. Pollock said that for

Students of the U. unite 17 first-years vie for contested UCS rep positionsBY FRANKLIN KANINSenior Staff Writer

Voting is now underway for fresh-men class representatives to the Undergraduate Council of Students — the first foray into the politics of the University’s student government for the class of 2011.

Many first-years seemed gener-ally disinterested as campaigning began Friday evening, but the 17 candidates vying for five seats on the council worked full-throttle throughout the weekend to rouse interest in the election and garner votes from their peers.

The freshmen candidates are running on a variety of platforms, all outlined on a dedicated MyCourses Web site managed by UCS. Some of the more popular platforms include Banner reform, renovations to and maintenance of freshmen dorms and changes to the meal plans and dining halls.

Ideas to improve campus dining halls include extending their hours, revamping menus and changing the meal plans. Mike MacCombie ’11, a UCS hopeful from Cleveland who lives in Everett House, has pro-posed a new “hybrid meal plan” that combines the on- and off-campus meal plans.

“It would use the off-campus meal plan and include some on-cam-pus meals,” MacCombie told The Herald. “It would have some meal credits or something in partnership with some downtown places.”

Keisuke Yanagawa ’11, who lives in Keeney Quadrangle, said if elect-ed, he aims to increase interaction

among minority student groups at Brown. “Brown is known for its di-versity, but I feel there are too many groups that kind of segregate each other,” he said.

Not all the candidates have spe-cific goals — instead, they view the council as a powerful tool to effect change and represent their peers.

Jerry Cedrone ’11 sees UCS as an opportunity to get involved in campus life. “One of my goals in coming here was to get really in-volved in the campus community and in student life at Brown and in the community in general,” Cedrone

BY ROSS FRAzIERneWS editor

“Grammar is classist — and sub-jective, too!” yelled Will Emmons ’09, breaking the bit of tension that momentarily captured the crowd.

The disagreement was over the charter language for the newly formed SUBU — Student Union of Brown University — and no one at its inaugural May 3 meeting

in Alumnae Hall’s Crystal Room could quite agree whether deci-sion-making is one word or two.

For the record: It’s one word, but hyphenated.

Given that sort of disagree-ment, the logic of collective bar-gaining for consumers and the union’s somewhat vague purpose, students like Zachary Reiss-Davis ’08 quickly discounted SUBU.

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Chris Bennett / HeraldOver the summer, Peter Green House was relocated to the corner of Angell and Brown streets.

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Chris Bennett / HeraldUCS campaign fliers cover doors throughout campus.

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BY ROBIN STEELEartS & Culture editor

As twilight fell Friday evening and a hint of impending fall cooled the air, the Durham Shake-speare Company commenced its lively rendition of William Shake-speare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on Lincoln Field.

The Sept. 13 and 14 evening performances, sponsored by the student group Shakespeare on the Green, represented the British acting troop’s Ivy League tour.

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” tells the story of a cou-ple and their pursuers wandering into a fairy-filled forest, where a company of amateur actors are rehearsing. Love triangles and madcap adventures ensue as the fairies wreak havoc on the eas-ily misled mortals. The actors expertly navigated the classic dialogue while giving their char-acters a modern spin.

The energetic cast displayed a remarkable talent for physical comedy. The quartet of young Athenian lovers — clad in vir-ginal white dresses or suits or tuxes — became increasingly disheveled as they wrestled and romped during their night in the enchanted woods.

In one particularly memorable sequence, Jon Gracey’s Demetri-us and Jack Hudson’s Lysander waged an extended but silent out-and-out physical fight, while simultaneously attempting to woo a disbelieving Helena and subdue an enraged Hermia.

Fairy king Oberon and his mis-chievous lackey Puck spoke with a touch of Cockney and dressed in tatters reminiscent of Peter Pan’s Lost Boys, save for Puck’s Mardi-Gras-appropriate face paint and green glitter. Joel Bubbers played Puck with a shrill charm and an intoxicated reel that belied his deft acrobatics.

The fairy queen Titania, in a white body suit and tutu, stumbled around clutching a wine bottle, imperiously giving orders to her entourage of brightly dressed fe-

male fairies.Adam Blampied’s Bottom and

his troop of craftsmen-turned-am-ateur-actors were a silly delight, decked out as 1970s punk rockers a la the Sex Pistols, in shredded jeans, leather and complicated faux hawks.

They brought the two-hour production to a boisterous con-clusion with their play-within-a-play, “Pyramus and Thisbe.” The characters portrayed a meek lion, an apathetic moon, a chatty wall, a hysterical cross-dressing Thisbe and, of course, the bombastic Bot-tom as Pyramus.

The actors performed without any set, save for the field and a few spotlights to illuminate their performance space. They took full advantage of the outdoor set-ting — lounging, wrestling and feigning sleep on the freshly cut lawn.

The lack of microphones at times made it difficult to hear bits of the familiar dialogue in the open air, but the actors skill-fully projected over the sounds of motorcycles and sirens roaring down nearby Thayer Street.

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is arguably one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies, and while the Durham Shakespeare Com-pany certainly played it for laughs, they also chose not to concentrate on any of the play’s potentially serious moments.

But the show was fun, funny and accessible to Bard devotees and doubters alike, clocking in at a slim two hours. The cast’s animated mannerisms and humor-ous delivery drew a great deal of laughter from the responsive audience of students and other members of the community.

The performance transcended the limitations of the outdoor set-ting — including poor acoustics and students whizzing down the hill on bicycles. But after all, “The course of true love never did run smooth.”

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Well ‘met by moonlight:’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream enchants on Lincoln Field

Brown students discover a ‘Second Life’ onlineBY SARAh GORDONContributing Writer

While traditional art museums dis-courage public interference with their collections, the Open Source Museum of Open Source Art, a Brown student project, invites view-ers to not only tinker with the art, but the architecture of the museum itself.

The museum is located in Sec-ond Life, an Internet-based virtual world that is becoming increasingly relevant to radical media artists as well as mainstream society.

OSMOSA was created by Brown students Deborah Abramson GS, Kiera Feldman ’08 and Davis Jung ’09 as part of a modern culture and media class — MCM 1700P: “Radical Media” — taught by Assistant Pro-fessor of Modern Culture and Media Studies Mark Tribe ’90. Tribe said he has found his students increas-ingly fascinated by the much-hyped online environment.

In Second Life, users — referred to as residents — interact with each other as motional avatars that are essentially three-dimensional rep-

resentations of themselves. Started in 2003, Second Life now has 9.5 million users worldwide, according to its Web site.

Second Life is not only its own social network but has its own economy as well. Residents can buy virtual land and other goods with Linden dollars, the Second Life currency that can be legally traded with any other.

This is no play money: users wanting their own virtual island may be paying in Linden dollars, but the expense is still coming out of their pockets.

For Tribe and his students, Sec-ond Life is an intriguing new forum for media art. This virtual world is “the most dynamic manifestation of cyberspace as a kind of consen-sual hallucination,” he said. “Behind the hype, there is some interesting stuff.”

With OSMOSA, Tribe’s stu-dents engage with the issues of open source and intellectual prop-erty. Anyone can modify the virtual museum’s construction or content, and Tribe notes how his students have invited others to remix their

work. Two other student projects that challenge conceptions of art, performance and space are a virtual dance performance and a represen-tation of the Windows XP desktop as a liveable building.

Businesses and universities alike have already tapped into the potential of Second Life with virtual conference rooms and classrooms that transcend notions of communal space.

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RISD focuses on ‘young photographers’BY JESSICA KERRYContributing Writer

Twenty-one young photographers from non-profit programs at New Urban Arts and AS220’s Broad Street Studio gathered at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum yesterday to present work created in response to a current exhibition, entitled “Honky Tonk Portraits of Country Music 1972-1981: Photographs by Henry Horenstein.”

This event, “Focus on Young Photographers,” was the second of its kind sponsored by the museum’s education department to pair com-munity arts organizations in Provi-dence with the wealth of creative resources at RISD.

Ranging in age from 14 to 18, the eight students from Broad Street Studio and 13 from New Urban Arts presented slides of their photogra-phy to an audience of friends, family and museum personnel, providing brief accounts of their inspiration and attraction to the particular sub-jects on display.

The mostly black-and-white pho-tographs took in a range of visual themes — from intimate portraits and abstract cityscapes to journal-ism-style documentation, united by a common exploration of community and identity.

“My work was based on where I was and where I live,” said Lisegi Feliz, a New Urban Arts student.

Operated by working artists and volunteers, New Urban Arts and Broad Street Studio are both non-profit organizations that bring the arts to under-served high school students in the Providence area.

The former, now in its tenth year, pairs up to 150 students a semester with artist-mentors in different me-dia, emphasizing the importance of creative practice in the formative teenage years as a mechanism for social change.

Jesse Banks III, who mentored the five-week New Urban Arts sum-mer photography course that culmi-nated in yesterday’s event, began as a student at the program seven years ago before becoming a mentor and a professional photographer. The organization’s creative community provided a haven from the divisions of high school and society at large, allowing him to grow as an artist, Banks said.

“[New Urban Arts] has helped me mentally, socially,” he said. “It really blew me away.”

Broad Street Studio, AS220’s youth-outreach arm, principally targets teenagers at the Rhode Island Training School, the state’s juvenile detention center, and other programs of the Rhode Island De-partment of Children, Youth and Families. In “Photographic Mem-ory,” a three- to six-month course, students learn the basics of film and developing, with a focus on personal initiative and self-expression. Paul Clancy, one of the instructors, said the program “really changes the kids. It gives them the opportunity to do something they can’t do any-where else. They get to go to the scary places and open up.”

“Photographic Memory” stu-dents are also urged to take pho-tography to the next level. If they choose to continue past the intro-ductory course, they can learn the

business of professional photogra-phy and work as paid assistants to established photographers.

The RISD Museum’s collabora-tion with the two arts organizations encouraged students’ creative and professional development. Students met with Horenstein, a member of the RISD faculty as well as a profes-sional photographer, and museum curatorial staff to discuss the tech-niques and motivations leading to a career in the arts and a major exhibition like “Honky Tonk Por-traits.” They also received creative feedback on their own work from RISD graduate students, who served as role models for continuing pho-tography beyond high school.

Deb Clemons, who organized the “Young Photographers” event on behalf of the museum’s educa-tion department, said the Horen-stein exhibit provided the perfect opportunity to repeat the success of last winter’s teen photography showcase, created in response to “Nan Goldin: Urban America.”

“We wanted the young artists to be able to come into the museum, meet personnel and use the galler-ies for inspiration the way RISD students do,” she said. “It’s been an interesting avenue for them to share their work, talk about art and learn about possibilities for their futures.”

For their part, the students from New Urban Arts and Broad Street Studio who showed their work yesterday have internalized art’s importance, and they take it seri-ously. “It’s our life,” said Benito Rios, an 18-year-old from Broad Street Studio. thanks for reading

a time when everybody can come together and share this experi-ence,” she said.

A number of the students at the BMSC Thursday said they are still adjusting to Ramadan in the United States.

“Back home, for a month of the year everything changes,” said Asad Jan ’10, who grew up in Pakistan. He said schools and busi-nesses adopt different schedules during the month to accommodate fasting.

“Over here, when Ramadan starts, everything just kind of stays the same,” Jan said. “You have to fit

your fasting routine into the rest of your college routine.”

But Vivette El Fawal ’09, who was born in Egypt and raised in New Jersey, said the Ahmeds revo-lutionized the observance of Rama-dan at Brown when they came to campus in January of 2006.

“Freshman year, my friend and I would grab food from the V-Dub and bring it over here, so that way we felt like it was still Ramadan,” El Fawal said, noting that five people might have shared the meal on a good night. She said she was ex-cited by the high turnout at the first iftar, which included a number of first-year students.

“The first night of Ramadan is

usually the hardest because you’re not used to fasting yet, but at the same time, it’s like entering a new world,” El Fawal said. “You just feel more connected with other Mus-lims because everyone’s doing this together.”

And not all students at Thurs-day’s iftar were practicing Muslims. Lily Sorber ’10 came to support her roommate.

“I’m Catholic ... so I’ve fasted before, but definitely not to this ex-tent,” Sorber said. Her roommate, Michelle Ramadan ’10, said she ap-preciated Sorber’s support.

Ramadan, who is Lebanese by birth but lives in New Hampshire, joked that her name is “easy to re-member.”

“The weird thing about (fasting) is that I’m so committed to that no-tion in my head that I don’t think about food ever during the day,” Ramadan said. “In Ramadan, I start my day by telling myself that I am not going to eat food, and I can look at it and not get hungry.”

She said she occasionally goes to the dining hall during her fast “just to hang out.”

“Towards the end of the month, you start to feel more spiritual as

you realize how much you can ac-complish and how much, as a hu-man being, you have control over your body, you have control over your thoughts,” Ramadan said. The question, she said, is, “How can you take that with you after the month is over?”

Najeeb, the MSA’s president, also said she felt the spiritual di-mensions of Ramadan on the first day of fasting.

“Today at about 2 p.m., I got the hunger pangs ... I looked at my watch right away to see what time it was, and I knew that in a few hours I was going to be eating. And it just hit me ... there are so many people around the world that feel this and don’t know what time they’re going to eat,” she said. “It brings you back to your humanity.”

Though Najeeb emphasized that fasting is ultimately a personal activ-ity with meaning that varies among individuals, she said the knowledge of so many “God-conscious people” sharing the challenge was power-ful.

“It builds a really great sense of community,” Najeeb said. “By the end of the month, everyone’s going to be going through Ramadan

withdrawal.”At the close of the meal, Ayesha

Ahmed addressed the group in the first of a series of “reflections.” A different student, community mem-ber or faculty member will volun-teer to share an experience or idea on each night of Ramadan.

Ayesha Ahmed’s reflection re-called the life of a family friend who spent the last years of her life study-ing the Quran before passing away on Wednesday.

She said her friend’s greatest lesson was that “no matter what place we are in our path towards God ... other people are in different places, and we have to love them and care about them and respect them nonetheless,” she said.

Rumee Ahmed suggested his wife’s words were relevant to re-ligious life at Brown. “We know there are a lot more people who maybe don’t know (about the iftar) or who are exploring their religi-osity in dif ferent ways,” Ahmed said, noting a number of interfaith activities the MSA is planning for Ramadan and expressing his hope that people from different religious backgrounds would participate in the iftar.

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said. “I think this is one of the best ways and really the first opportunity to get involved in what’s going on here in campus.”

“I want to be on UCS just so I can improve Brown in some little way,”

said Arthur Matuszewski ’11, a New York City native living in Emery Hall. “It’s such an amazing place to study, and the real wealth of Brown is its student capital. I’m just excited to be around so many people, and I feel like I have to do something to contribute to that awesomeness.”

Everett resident Ben Xiong ’11, however, feels the council is not yet the powerful tool that it could be. His main platform, he said, is to “increase UCS’ responsiveness to student concerns. All the upper-classmen I’ve talked to — almost to a person — say that UCS is sort of a body that does nothing ... a body that’s useless, almost. ... I want it so the freshman class this year will never be like that.”

Many candidates told The Her-ald that they intend to participate in UCS as an associate member if they don’t get elected as class repre-sentatives. To become an associate member, a student needs to collect 50 signatures and attend two coun-cil meetings. Associate members can attend all meetings and sit on committees, but they have no voting power. Often, associate members are voted by other council members to replace elected members who resign or go abroad.

Candidates have used various methods to campaign, ranging from canvassing door-to-door in first-year dorms to creating Facebook groups to promote themselves. One candi-date — Ryan Lester ’11 — walked around dorms breaking into song with his guitar while he greeted his peers.

UCS has limited the candidates to 100 “publicity points” and a $40 budget for campaigning purposes. Candidates can advertise only through approved methods, includ-ing posters, Web sites, Facebook groups and dining hall table slips. Each form of advertising costs a certain number of publicity points,

and candidates cannot exceed their allocated amount of publicity points or financial budget. All campaign items must be approved by the council, and failure to adhere to these rules can result in immediate disqualification.

Posters have perhaps been the most popular form of advertising for candidates. Some posters advertise a candidate’s platform, while others feature pictures or clever slogans.

Stacey Park ’11 — the only fe-male running in the election — has posters bearing the distinctive slo-gan “U.C.Stacey 4 U.C.S.trogen. The only girl running for the job.”

Andy Furnas ’11 coined the slo-gan, “If you are ready to turn up the heat on issues you care about, vote Furnas.”

Freshmen who are voting indi-cated varied responses about what form of campaigning has been most effective.

Eric Sporkin ’11 said meeting and getting to know candidates in-fluenced him the most. “I think the most effective campaigning is hang-ing out with them in social scenes,” he said. “I feel like there’s no way to find out how to vote other than just meeting the person.”

Heidi Jiang ’11 said the posters have influenced her vote the most. But Andrew Loftus ’11 told The Herald, “The posters really don’t sway me very much.”

Seventeen first-years are vying for the five positions for class of 2011 representatives. The other candidates are Alex Morse ’11, Scotty Carroll ’11, Justin Coles ’11, Graham Rogers ’11, Nick Jes-see ’11, Matt Lawrence ’11, Haydar Taygun ’11, Harris Li ’11 and Mat-thew Balatbat ’11. Each member of the class of 2011 can vote for five candidates.

Voting on MyCourses began Sunday evening and concludes Tuesday at 5 p.m.

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Photo historian comes to U.BY ANNA MILLMANStaff Writer

The Department of History of Art and Architecture has hired Doug-las Nickel, a distinguished photo historian and the first in his field at the University, to expand Brown’s offerings in photo history.

Nickel, who received his Ph.D. in the history of photography from Princeton University, has taught at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley and, most recently, the University of Arizona. He has worked as a curator of pho-tography at the San Francisco Mu-seum of Modern Art as well as at the University of Arizona’s Center for Creative Photography.

This semester, Nickel will teach HIAA 0080: “Introduction to the History of Photography” and HIAA 2860A: “The Museum and the Pho-tograph.”

Though the department has of-fered classes in photo history before, it has never had a regular profes-sor who specialized in the field, said Professor of History of Art and Architecture Catherine Zerner, the department chair.

In expanding its photo history offerings, Brown has put itself on the map in the field, Zerner said. Though there is a lot of popular in-terest in the history of photography, few universities actually provide op-portunities to study the field, Nickel said.

Late last year, the department

set up a search committee for the position. Last spring, the candidates were invited to campus to give lec-tures and to be interviewed by the committee.

“Any search process is a long process,” Zerner said, adding that because the search was to fill a senior appointment, the appointee would immediately receive tenure rather than go through the usual lengthy process to receive it.

“When looking for junior or se-nior scholars, there’s a process that needs to be followed, and you do need to get out there to find out who the good people are in a field and contact them,” she said.

The committee looked for can-didates with specific research inter-ests, Zerner said. “Within the time frame of 19th and early 20th century, we were looking for academics with exciting work, and a field that had a lot of student interest, and Doug fit that perfectly,” she said.

As of now, there are no plans to expand the program by hiring other academics. “I’m the photo history program, I guess,” Nickel said. “It would be nice to think that we’ll get more instructors in the future, but I think we have to be realistic too.”

Photo history was attractive to the Department of History of Art and Architecture because of its inter-disciplinary applications and interest from other departments.

History of photography can be used in many different academic contexts, including anthropology,

political science and English, Nickel said, adding, “Photography is one of those areas that’s so important to our culture that it shouldn’t be tied to any one field.”

Professor of English Nancy Arm-strong, who wrote a book titled “Fic-tion in the Age of Photography,” said she thinks “the history of the novel and the history of photography talk to each other.”

“I do feel you can’t study the his-tory of the novel without understand-ing the history of photography,” she said, noting that both mediums portray scenes: the novel through words, and the photograph through pictures.

“Photography really touches on so many aspects of life,” said Mazie Harris GS, who transferred to Brown this year from the Uni-versity of Arizona to follow Nickel. “Photography is so much a part of our visually based culture, it can be really helpful for students in another field,” she added.

Staffing increased at campus social eventsBY SOPhIA LIContributing Writer

Recent on-campus social functions — such as the College Hill Kick-Off and Alpha Epsilon Pi’s Body Chem-istry party — have seen an increased number of professional event man-agement employees assisting with the events.

The increased staffing is a result of the March 8, 2006, report by the Ad Hoc Committee to Review Social Events Policy and Procedures.

The report included other pol-icy changes, such as an additional weekend event manager and the es-tablishment of clearer distinctions between the roles of Department of Public Safety officer and student event manager.

The company providing the pro-fessional event staffing, Green Horn Management, has also been used at athletic events, as well as at last year’s Spring Weekend.

“One of the things outlined in the report is that students are by and large good event planners but not

good event managers,” said Ricky Gresh, director of student activi-ties.

GHM helps students improve their management skills and assists in the operation of social functions, Gresh said.

“They create a better environment for party managing, since you know you have a professional fallback,” said Steve Beckoff ’08, chair of Greek Council.

The entryways and the interior of an event are the responsibility of the student event managers, while Department of Public Safety officers patrol the outside and are available in the event of an emergency.

“It’s easier to control crowds, be-cause (GHM personnel) do look like adults instead of kids, so they have that intimidating factor,” Beckoff said. “At the same time, (they are) not in uniform and aren’t law officers, so they’re not as intimidating as DPS.”

The report also suggested more strictly enforcing event entrance policies — such as prohibiting in-toxicated students from entering an

event in an attempt to reduce “pre-gaming,” or binge drinking before attending a social event.

The report was the result of sev-eral events during the fall of 2005. On Nov. 12, 2005, more than two dozen students required emergency medi-cal attention at Queer Alliance’s an-nual Sex Power God party. The previ-ous night, a melee on the Main Green ended with shots being fired.

While Green Horn Management is involved in the execution of event management plans, students are still fully in control of the event planning, Gresh said, adding, “What happens inside the event, students can still own.”

He also said students often ask for professional support, partly be-cause of a lack of student volunteers. The use of GHM employees enables students to enjoy themselves at the events they worked hard to organize, Gresh said.

“(GHM is) one of the pieces in place to help students have social events but also to have more fun at social events,” he added.

New policy lets U. see staff e-mailUniversity officials can now access staff or faculty members’ files on University computers or servers if the employee is “unavailable or unable to provide permission to access it, and if circumstances supersede the right to privacy,” according to a newly revised e-mail policy.

The change to the University’s e-mail policy allows authorized University officials to access staff or faculty members’ e-mail and other files on Brown’s computers or servers after going through a review process involving senior Computing and Information Services and University officials. The change was necessary after “various requests for emergency access when a staff member was not available,” said Patricia Falcon, IT security policy and communication coordinator at CIS.

Such a situation, the policy states, could include administrative leave, sud-den termination, incapacitation, a legal action, health and safety concerns or “urgent University business needs.”

Anyone seeking information must specify what they are looking for and where it is located.

Previously there had been no formal policy to address emergency access to faculty or staff e-mail accounts and other files, but Falcon wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that “practices developed over time due to periodic, but rare, requests that CIS received.”

The new procedure doesn’t apply to cases in which University officials require access to a student’s e-mail, Falcon wrote. In the “extremely rare” cases involving officials’ access to students’ e-mail, Falcon wrote, the matter would be handled by the Office of the General Counsel.

Revisions to the University’s interim e-mail policy were approved by the Com-puting Advisory Board in May. A year-long review of the policy was conducted by CIS, with input from the Undergraduate Council of Students, the Graduate Student Council, the Medical Student Senate, the Staff Advisory Committee and other groups, culminating in the new policy being made official.

In another change, a procedure describing how the University filters out “malware” — such as viruses or spam — sent or received through the Uni-versity e-mail system was removed from the interim e-mail policy and put in another document. That was done so that changes to the policy could be made more easily, without the need for a long review process, Falcon wrote in her e-mail.

— Diogo Alves

CIS now supports some Vista usersComputing and Information Services is now offering technical support for users who have the Windows Vista operating system pre-installed on their computers. Starting in January 2008, support will also be available for com-puters that have upgraded to the latest version of the Microsoft operating system, which was released in January.

Timothy Thorp, manager of training, communication and education for CIS, said that anyone on campus can operate Windows Vista on their computer, but CIS cannot offer support for those with upgraded systems until the “kinks” of Vista are worked out. A similar explanation was given for why support for Vista was not offered immediately after the operating system was released.

Steven McKay, manager of software distribution, said one of the kinks involves printing capabilities using the PAW Prints system. Training has been offered to CIS personnel who work in the Help Desk and the software distribu-tion department, as well as to computer experts within different academic departments, he said.

CIS also wants to install Vista in computing clusters and plans to do so in the fall of 2008 after the initial problems with certain programs are resolved.

— Evan Pelz


Courtesy of brown.eduProfessor of History of Art and Architec-ture Douglas Nickel

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“SUBU appears to be trying to create a truly democratic and communistic method of running a student government, which can-not work in a group this size,” said Reiss-Davis, who attended the first meeting but quit the union. “It’s a really cool organizational concept, but it’s not a practical one in terms of getting things done on this cam-pus.”

But 400 undergraduates joined the union last semester, with an-other 150 signing up this fall. Eighty-four attended the first meet-ing, which was held during spring exams. Many said they joined for the nifty membership cards, and others came to the meeting out of curiosity, boredom or both. Yet the hefty demand for an organization like SUBU and the discussion in its first meeting reveals latent dis-agreement over the University’s role in providing services and its students’ role in demanding those services.

SUBU emphasizes its lack of hi-erarchy and its use of general as-sembly meetings, which allow union members to propose any initiative they wish in a style that follows as closely as possible to direct democ-racy. For this reason, SUBU lead-ers hesitated to say what issues the group might take up, but organizers Scott Rasmussen ’09.5 and Franc-esca Contreras ’10 said transpar-

ency on the Undergraduate Finance Board and grant-based financial aid are likely to be discussed at the next general assembly, scheduled for Sept. 27 in Sayles Hall.

SUBU leaders said the group was founded in response to per-ceived student indifference and an aversion toward existing campus forums for change. “I think there is a general consensus or a fear that there is student apathy, so we wanted to give people better insti-tutions for student involvement,” Rasmussen said.

He and other union leaders are active with Students for a Demo-cratic Society, the leftist student group that led anti-war protests on college campuses decades ago and was recently revived at Brown, pushing for fair labor practices and opposing companies that contract with the U.S. military.

SDS members looked to other models of student unions when forming SUBU. Student unioniza-tion isn’t as common in the United States as abroad, Rasmussen said.

Undergraduates at McGill Uni-versity in Montreal, from which SUBU founder Mike Da Cruz ’08.5 transferred, used a labor-organizing model to successfully oppose a mea-sure that favored student loans over financial aid grants. Dacruz declined to comment for this article.

Contreras and Rasmussen pointed to those successes as an answer to the criticism that collec-

tive bargaining doesn’t work with undergraduates, who unlike many workers, pay for their services and can withdraw their support and go elsewhere.

“SUBU goes against the stan-dard conception of unionization, but it’s still a very valid concept,” Rasmussen said. “This is more like a consumer union. We are consum-ing a product that the University is making — our education. ... We’re based on the idea that if you can get a lot of students together for or against something, you can make serious change.”

Questions of legitimacyThe heavy SDS involvement in

the union drew criticism at its first meeting when then-outgoing Un-dergraduate Council of Students President John Gillis ’06 spoke repeatedly about the legitimacy problem the group faces.

“Are we trying to represent all students, or are we trying to rep-resent students who are interested in a specific topic?” Gillis asked in May, arguing that SUBU cannot realistically speak to the University about student needs when it rep-resents only a small, homogenous corner of the student body.

“It was amusing to hear SUBU say that because they had a hun-dred of the really liberal, politically active people show up to a meeting, they could say they represent all 6,000 Brown students,” Reiss-Davis

said. “SUBU’s claim to authority is that they are not elected. UCS’s is that they are.”

Contreras said those concerns are presently valid, but that the group is still in its infant stages and has the potential to grow into a representative of student concerns. “UCS’s legitimacy came about over time — actively — and it didn’t just drop out of nowhere. The student union will gain that sort of place over time,” she said.

It seems UCS leaders at least re-spect that possibility, for if SUBU’s first meeting attracted plenty of SDS members, it was also a who’s who of student government leadership.

UCS President Michael Glass-man ’09, one of several student gov-ernment officials who attended the May meeting, did not respond to requests for an interview.

Rasmussen said he hopes the question of legitimacy is applied not only to SUBU, but also to UCS. “Voter turnout is low,” he said. “It has this hierarchical structure. When I vote for someone for UCS, I don’t know where they stand on pretty much anything.”

“SUBU should make us think critically about UCS as our repre-sentative body,” he said.

Contreras and Rasmussen add-ed that SUBU is not intended as a UCS replacement but as a comple-ment. As UCS has lately focused on campus life issues — recently IPTV, meal plans and DVD rentals

— SUBU hopes to occupy a niche that focuses on big-picture issues like tuition and financial aid.

“Students need something other than UCS,” said Deborah Vacs Ren-wick ’09, who signed up with SUBU after hearing friends describe the concept. “Given UCS’s track record, they’ve never tackled a big issue ef-fectively in the two years I’ve been here.”

The Herald reported Friday that UCS will focus this year on reform-ing the University’s environmen-tal policies and increasing student involvement on the Corporation, the University’s highest govern-ing body, which suggests the two groups could end up addressing the same issues.

“UCS is focused on any issue relative to Brown University. One of the big ticket issues we’re pos-sibly bouncing around is reviewing financial aid,” said UCS Student Ac-tivities committee chair Drew Mad-den ’10. “We’d like to find out more information about how financial aid is determined. We want to bounce around ideas about how the student body feels about financial aid. We want to get the full opinion before going forward.”

Madden said UCS is holding an open forum tonight at 8 p.m. in Pet-teruti Lounge. “If SUBU members feel UCS isn’t focusing on big is-sues, they can come to the meeting and tell us what they want, and we will work on that,” he said.

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Jan. 2008 winter term planning still fuzzyBY RAChEL ARNDTSenior Staff Writer

Though it’s only September, Brown students and administrators are already planning for this year’s January@Brown, with Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron hoping to attract more than the 19 students who took classes in the winter term’s inaugural session last year.

Though Undergraduate Coun-cil of Students President Michael Glassman ’09 said the program is not officially in the University’s bud-get, it is still slated to take place this year.

“As far as I know, it’s going to happen,” Bergeron said.

She declared last year’s program a success and said continuing the initiative this year would allow Uni-versity officials to see if the suc-cess of last year’s program can be repeated.

During last winter’s debut, stu-dents chose among three non-credit classes: “Caught in the Web: The Internet, Politics and Public Policy,” “From the Iron Age to the Iron Chef: Food, Culture and History” and “Storytelling and Urban Engage-ment: Providence Narratives.”

Bergeron also said the program could serve well as an orientation for students entering the University in January.

Despite the ultimately low par-ticipation rates, between 100 and 150 students expressed interest in the program last year, Bergeron said. She said she would like to see how the program runs with more students and expects that she would get a “different sense” of the pro-gram’s dynamic with significantly more participants.

It will take time to garner high-er participation rates, Glassman said.

One way to draw more students to the program might be to offer academic credit.

“You need a reason to hang around in the snow in Provi-dence,” said Nicholas James Dolan Green ’10.

Despite general optimism about January@Brown, the details of this year’s program are still fuzzy. As of now, the program is “a blank sheet of paper,” said Karen Sibley, dean of summer and continuing studies.

“The original template will still stand,” said Rakim Brooks ’09, a member of the Task Force on Un-dergraduate Education, which is in the process of reviewing Brown’s undergraduate curriculum.

One possible change to the pro-

gram is different grading options. Bergeron said she did not think January@Brown is ready to offer academic credit this year, as it is still a very new program for the University. “It would require a lon-ger program,” she said, explaining that a certain number of hours are necessary to grant credit.

Students were “freed from grades in last year’s pilot run of the program,” Bergeron said, so perhaps offering a choice between graded and non-graded participation would work best. Bergeron said she would also like to see the program used to help sophomores work on their concentration declarations.

Declaring a concentration “should be a thoughtful process,” she said, and January@Brown “could be a very nice time ... to think through what your goals are.”

Facilities to clean up dorms on weekendsBY CAMERON LEEStaff Writer

Facilities Management began regular weekend restroom cleaning in several residence halls Sept. 9. Targeted resi-dence halls included Keeney, Wriston and Vartan Gregorian quadrangles and Perkins, Miller, Metcalf, An-drews, Hegeman and Caswell halls.

“We feel, with (the Office of Resi-dential Life), we’ve tackled the ma-jority of the restrooms to make sure they’re clean,” said Donna Butler, director of custodial services. She said the expanded coverage is a work in progress and that Facilities Management would be seeking feed-back on how the program could be improved.

The weekend cleaning is in ad-dition to normal weekday cleaning, Butler said. Bathrooms essentially receive the same type of cleaning on weekends as on weekdays, she said. Commodes and sinks are cleaned, trash is removed and dispensers are replenished. As of now, though, cus-todial staff will not “foam down” sur-faces in the restrooms on weekends, though they will on weekdays.

Last year, bathrooms were cleaned during Parents Weekend and Spring Weekend as “test runs,” The Herald reported on March 13. The original impetus for the cleaning came with the realization that Brown is a 24/7 campus, Butler said.

“Bathrooms, especially in larger dorms, get trashed on the weekends,” said Jane Zhang ’10, Undergradu-ate Council of Students admissions

and student services chair. “I think ResLife and Custodial Services have taken that in mind.”

Stephanie Le ’10, a former resident of Keeney, agreed. “People throw up in the bathrooms (on weekends),” she said.

“I used to live in Keeney, and by Sunday the sinks would be filthy,” Sheila Lin ’10 said. “It affects your quality of life.”

The trial runs during Parents Weekend and Spring Weekend were successful and paved the way for ad-ditional weekend coverage, Butler

said. “The custodians were excited about it. They felt much better on Monday morning.”

She said student feedback from those weekends was also positive.

The funding and the original pro-posal for regular weekend cleaning came from ResLife, Butler said.

“Cleaning the bathrooms on weekends has been on the minds of UCS, Reslife and Facilities Man-agement (for some time),” Zhang said. She said the funds for regular weekend cleaning only became avail-able this year.

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A grilled sandwich station has been added at Jo’s, and a pasta bar is on the way.

Beloved cheesesteaks out at Jo’sIf your favorite snack at popular nighttime eatery Josiah’s is the Philly

cheesesteak sandwich, you’re going to be out of luck the next time you have a late-night craving.

Jo’s has made several changes to its offerings this fall, and — according to Director of Retail Dining Operations Jacques Larue — more are underway.

“People get tired of eating the same thing,” Larue said. “There are new trends in the market in terms of food, and we try to follow them.”

Gone are the stir-fry and nacho stations. Instead, Jo’s introduced a grilled sandwich station, which has weekly specials and seems to be successful so far, judging from the long line that formed there last Thursday about an hour after Jo’s opened.

“People like it and think it’s a good change,” Larue said. “They are respond-ing very well.”

“I haven’t really noticed any changes at Jo’s except for the grilled sand-wiches, which I really like,” said frequent customer Alexis Anselin ’10.

But some students can’t seem to get over the disappearance of the chees-esteak. “I like the changes in the layout, but not the changes in the menu,” said Colin Fitzpatrick ’09. “The absence of the cheesesteak sandwich breaks my heart and ruins my Friday nights.”

On the Jo’s agenda for the coming year: apasta station, carrying both regular and whole wheat pasta; healthier cereals and bars in the Grab-and-Go section; weekly specials in each station; a farmer’s market cart that sells local products; and a sound system that will be installed in the next few weeks.

Dining Services is also toying with the possibility of introducing a create-your-own-salad station over winter break. “It is important to give customers healthy foods, variety and choices,” Larue said.

In addition to menu changes, students can expect more events. “We are going to try to have another theme dinner and movie nights probably three times a semester,” Larue said. “As soon as shopping period is over, it will be easier to implement changes. I think it’s going to be an exciting year.”

— Andrea Savdie

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The January@Brown program, which brings students to campus during the dead of winter, is working to expand its enrollment for the 2008 session.

Min Wu / HeraldFacilities Management has begun cleaning restrooms in dorms on weekends.

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a while, construction workers and painters were coming in and out of his new office in Metcalf to repair a faulty wall.

For the most part, students were able to track down their profes-sors despite the new location. But Remensnyder said one freshman ad-visee and a graduate student advisee had looked for her in Metcalf resi-dence hall on Pembroke campus, and Pollock said one of his students called to ask how to find him.

“Nancy (Jacobs) said she saw a student outside of Peter Green wondering how to find (Assistant Professor of History) Vazira Zamin-dar,” Pollock said.

“It’s a bit funny to be separated from the other half of the depart-ment,” Pollock said. “It can be a little bit of a strain to have the department in two separate places, especially for the staff. It was a strain in the first place, to have the department in both Peter Green and Sharpe.”

Remensnyder agreed, “It’s not good to have the department physi-cally separated like this.”

The Peter Green relocation was one of many changes — including exterior renovations to Wilson Hall and improvements on Wriston Quad — made to the face of campus over the summer. The move made way for the Walk, a pathway linking Pem-broke Campus to Lincoln Field.

Remensnyder was too busy working on her book this summer to watch the building’s move, but Pollock joined many of his other colleagues to view the spectacle from the porch of Sharpe House. Remensnyder said her colleagues in Sharpe House — next door to all the action — were the ones most excit-ed by the move, taking pictures and e-mailing each other back and forth about the latest developments.

Students on campus this summer came to witness the move, too. Kate Goodin ’08 joined the crowd of spec-

tators and saw the building being lifted. “I was curious to see what it looked like. It was really interesting to look at,” she said. “It looked like it had been uprooted entirely.”

Laurel Wright ’09 didn’t purpose-ly set out to watch the move but was doing biology research in the Sidney E. Frank Hall for Life Sciences and saw it in various stages of progress. “It happened really slowly, but ev-ery time I went outside it was in a different place. … The really cool part was when it moved out onto Olive Street and had to turn, and it didn’t look like there was going to be enough room.”

The move and the walk are part of a master plan for the University’s growth over the next several years, developed by architect Frances Halsband and adopted by the Corpo-ration in October 2003. Halsband’s plan emphasizes making better use of the University’s current space be-fore continuing to extend its reach beyond College Hill.

“The plan is to ring the neigh-borhood with old houses, so that neighbors don’t have to look up at a huge new brick building, but a nice old house like theirs,” said University curator Robert Emlen. “(They didn’t move Peter Green) because it was cheaper, but because it is better to have a buffer between the neighborhood and the core of campus.” Emlen suggested the re-location and renovations might have cost around $500,000, but Facili-ties Management Project Manager David LaPlante said he could not comment on the project’s cost. Once renovated, Peter Green will include a new basement with offices.

The Peter Green House may not be on the University’s architectural “superstar list,” Emlen said, unlike University Hall, which was built in 1770 and has been designated a Na-tional Historic Landmark. But the University probably decided it “con-tributes to the look of campus and adds to the ambiance of the neigh-

borhood,” Emlen said. “Certainly it’s a wonderful mid-19th-century house.”

The house was built in 1868, and purchased by the University in 1966 when it was known as the Lippit-Guild House. It underwent a major renovation in 1999 and was renamed in honor of alum and former trustee Peter Green MA’80 P’99 P’01. Green donated the funds for the renovation in honor of his late wife, Mary-Jean Mitchell Green. Formerly an invest-ments and mining executive, and a University trustee from 1997 to 2003, Green currently lives in Bermuda and heads the Dublin, Ireland-based Greenaap Consultants group.

The actual move of the 300-ton house was handled by Gary Sylves-ter’s Building Movers and Excava-tors, based in East Falmouth, Mass., and sub-contracted by Brown’s gen-eral contractor, H.V. Collins.

Overall, the move was consid-ered successful. “For the most part, it went well,” LaPlante said, adding, “There are always things in con-struction that are unexpected.” But the project is meeting its deadlines and caused no accidents or injuries, he said. A video of the relocation is available on Facilities Manage-ment’s Web site.

The history department ex-pects to be restored to a new and improved Peter Green House in January. “I don’t mind (Metcalf), but I’ll be excited to move back in,” Pollock said.

Despite having lost one special item in the move — “a green glass float that used to be on a fisherman’s net” — Remensnyder is content with the change. “I kind of like this one,” Remensnyder said, referring to her new office in Metcalf. “It’s a change. I feel like I’m in a new universe.”

“We understand that the Uni-versity has larger, exciting plans for the campus and we’re happy to cooperate with them on that,” said Ken Sacks, professor of history and chair of the department.

Building move leaves some in limbo“We played well enough to win,

but we made enough mistakes to lose,” Mercado said.

The loss came in a smaller-than-normal pool, as it progressed from shallow to deep, in addition to being shorter and skinnier than what the Bears — without a home pool while the Smith Swim Cen-ter is closed and a replacement is built— are used to. But Mercado said he didn’t give that factor any thought.

“It didn’t affect us at all, we adjusted just fine,” he said.

Gartner said, because of the smaller space, perimeter play became more important, and the team adapted by attempting more outside shots.

LeBeau led the Bears in scor-ing with four goals, while goal-keeper Kent Holland ’10 anchored the defense with eight saves.

Brown’s second game of the day was against Queens, which they dominated, 18-7. Coming off the slow start in the loss to St. Francis, the Bears went up early and led the first quarter 4-0.

“Defensively we played great. We were all clicking,” Mercado said.

Co-captain Gerrit Adams ’08 also acknowle dged the effort on the defensive end, saying it was something the team focused on during the game.

Though Brown caught Queens in yet another rebuilding year, Mercado attributed the win to the Bears’ strength, not the Knights’ shortcomings.

“The last three years have been rough (for the Knights), but we’re pretty good,” he said.

The landslide win also allowed for some of the more inexperi-enced members of the team to get playing time.

Co-captain Alex Robb ’08, who primarily plays defense, scored his first collegiate goal, and younger players such as Brandon Yoshimu-ra ’11, Gordon Hood ’11 and Kevin White ’11 all tossed in two goals each.

On Sunday, Brown will play a pair of games at Connecticut College, facing Pennsylvania State University-Behrend and Iona College.


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found receiver Paul Raymond ’08 wide open down the sideline for his second touchdown pass of the game, to increase the lead to 21-10.

Brown continued to expand its lead in the fourth quarter, when it moved the ball up the field with a 27-yard completion to Cloherty and strong play from the offensive line, which opened up holes for run-ning backs Knight and Jonathan Edwards ’09. With 11:05 remaining in the game and the ball on the 11-yard line, Dougherty fired a bullet to the end zone to Buddy Farnham ’10 in double coverage, for Dough-erty’s third touchdown pass of the game.

“For his first game, Michael was great,” said Head Coach Phil Estes.

On the following drive, Duquesne continued to move the ball up the field with its passing game, complet-ing a 26-yard pass on 4th-and-20, to move the ball to the Brown 10, the second time the Dukes converted a 4th-and-long opportunity.

“We have to tighten up our cover-age,” Estes said. “In those situations, you want to keep the receivers in front of you, to a point. But our cov-erage today was just too loose.”

That play set up a 1-yard touchdown plunge, which pulled Duquesne to within 11 points.

After Brown was forced to punt, Duquesne drove 34 yards to the Brown 45, but with 3:46 remaining, tri-captain linebacker Eric Brewer ’08 laid a huge hit on receiver Den-

nis Void to force a fumble, which was scooped up by lineman James Develin ’10 at the Brown 39. Both teams failed to score for the remain-der of the game, and the Bears came away with the win, 28-17.

Knight’s 208 rushing yards on 33 carries came within five yards of his season total from 2006. After his touchdown run to open the game, he continued to find holes in the line, allowing the Bears to move the ball up the field and keep his team’s defense rested, as the Bears controlled possession for 34 minutes of the 60-minute game.

“Dereck did an outstanding job,” Estes said. “He did what we thought he could do.”

Cloherty also had an excellent game, catching eight passes for 171 yards, a career high.

“I feel like it was a real sporadic day at times,” Dougherty said. “I like throwing to everyone, but I just happened to keep finding Colin wide open.”

Despite the win, Estes was criti-cal of many aspects of the team’s performance following the game, particularly Brown’s nine penalties for 79 yards.

“The penalties kept some drives alive for Duquesne, and put us in bad field position,” he said.

Next Saturday night, Brown will face Harvard, which fell 31-28 to Holy Cross in its first game on Saturday.

“We have a lot of cleaning up to do,” Estes said. “It’ll be good to watch this game on film, see what we did well and what needs work.”


Football steamrolls Duquesne, 28-17, in season opener Saturday

Brown defeated URI in the NCAA Tournament in overtime, 2-1.

The Rams have been a formi-dable team in the recent past, mak-ing three trips to the NCAAs in four seasons, but they have started slowly this season.

The constant stoppages pre-vented either team from gathering much momentum, and much of the play remained in the midfield. Both teams were only able to get partial deflections on crosses that did not test either goalkeeper.

Noonan was particularly happy with the defensive effort, especially since the team was in a new for-mation that it had recently imple-mented.

Brown had a few scoring chanc-es late in the half due to a number of free kicks created by Rhode Island fouls. With 10:20 to play in the half, Howerton hit a left-footed, in-swinging free kick from deep in the right corner, which was tipped away by the goalie. Then, with 6:34 left in the half, Howerton repeated the feat from a similar spot, this time finding the head of forward T.J. Thompson ’10, who had his shot saved by the Rams’ keeper.

In addition to solid free kicks, Howerton caused trouble for URI with his flip throw-in. He used it deep in the Ram’s end, much like a cross, as well as deep in Brown’s

defensive end as a clearing mecha-nism.

“(The flip throw) is tough for a goalie to read,” Howerton said. “They don’t see it every day, and their goalie was just sitting on his line.”

Bruno’s first half performance was certainly an upgrade from its slow start against the University of Maine Thursday. However, there were still multiple sloppy turnovers in the middle of the field that al-lowed URI some dangerous offen-sive opportunities.

“The team did exceptionally well coming off our poor performance (against Maine),” Noonan said. “We still need our possession to be bet-ter, though. We were tentative in the first half.”

Yet again, Brown came out stronger after the halftime whis-tle. Just two minutes into the half, midfielder Nick Elenz-Martin ’10 laid a ball off for midfielder David Walls ’11, whose shot from just out-side the 18-yard box sailed over the crossbar. Then, with 37:47 on the clock, Walls lofted a soft chip into the 6-yard box that the goalie just tipped away from the head of forward Dylan Sheehan ’09.

Brown’s pressure finally cracked URI with 30 minutes to play. Howerton took another in-swinging free kick from a similar spot on the right side. This time, it sailed to the back post, where

Sheehan was able to get to it and put it into the back of the net, giving Brown a 1-0 lead.

“I just tried to keep putting it in the same spot,” Howerton said. “The coaches said that the goalie didn’t come off his line, so I tried to put it right on top of him, and Dylan got to that one.”

After the goal, URI turned up the heat, which led to tempers flaring. Fouls were abundant, two more yellow cards were doled out and both sides became aggressive with each other and the officiating crew.

Rhody’s two major threats down the stretch came off free kicks. With 10:30 to play, the Rams were awarded a free kick right outside the 18-yard box, in front of the Brown net. Fortunately for Brown, the shot just cleared the crossbar.

Then, in the waning seconds of the game, URI was given a free kick on a desperation cross to the top of the box. Brown made an eight-man wall, which ended up blocking the free kick after much controversy regarding the call.

Brown will try to improve to 5-0 on Tuesday at home against St. Francis College. Despite the short turnaround time for its third game in six days, the players said fatigue wouldn’t be a factor.

“The V-dub has Powerade on tap,” Howerton said.


M. soccer downs URI, keeps win streak going

early, but were repeatedly turned aside.

Then the Hoyas came down the field and scored on their first shot of the game, at 10:50, when Lindsay Moramarco beat Hodavance with a shot to the far corner of the cage from the left side.

The Bears continued to play well but never managed to score the equalizer, despite having several tantalizing opportunities.

Failure to capitalize aside, the game was a much stronger showing by the Bears than previous games. Brown played a complete game for the first time this season and outshot Georgetown 16-14. Still, Bruno only managed to put seven of its shots in the cage, while Georgetown tallied 12 shots-on-goal.

“The kids came today and there was energy from the beginning to the end,” Harrington said. “They were very focused, very positive, (but) we couldn’t finish. We couldn’t knock one in. If we had knocked one in, it would have been a completely different ballgame.”

Co-captain Ani Kazarian ’08 said the team is making progress.

“We’re taking what the coaches are telling us, implementing it in the game, and improving, (which is) great for us,” she said. “Just com-ing out with the same passion that we did today will be helpful in our

future games.”Harrington praised Tacy Zysk

’11, who moved to the center for-ward position.

“She plays with a ton of passion, she’s an animal in front of the net and she dives for things,” Harrington said. “Tacy had an outstanding game today.”

One of the brighter spots of the weekend was the return of midfield-er Sara Eaton ’09, who saw her first action of the season on Saturday.

Harrington described Eaton as “a burst of energy.” Eaton said she was a little tired, but felt great. Now, she has to get back into the swing of things on a team that is strug-gling.

“We have to go back to the ba-sics,” she said. “That’s something our coaches keep saying. Go back to simple passes, simple defense, and get ourselves back together, back to where we’re playing good Brown field hockey.”

The Bears will have another chance to record their first win on Wednesday, when they host the Uni-versity of Rhode Island at 4 p.m. on Warner Roof.

“We’ll continue to work, and we’ll continue to improve,” Harrington said. “(The players) keep rallying, and they keep fighting. Certainly, (the loss to Georgetown) is not easy right now, but they continue to come and play with energy and passion. They’ll get it right.”


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Internationalization relationsWhen President Simmons outlined her plans to increase Brown’s inter-national profile, we expressed skepticism that a laundry list of vague bullet points — with often tenuous connections to one another — could fit under the neat umbrella of “internationalization.”

On Monday, the University released an epic report of 352 very thor-ough pages which indicate that University Hall is indeed serious about pursuing “internationalization” with very tangible goals.

What initially seemed a piecemeal project under a broad theme is now a comprehensive assessment of all things international, ranging from the global character of University admission to how Brown can engage in environmental issues throughout the world.

Poring through the report’s several hundred pages may not appeal to most students, but those with any interest in the world beyond the United States or the future of our alma mater would do well to skim the report for an indication of things to come.

It’s unclear how the report’s recommendations will take shape and which ideas will materialize. But in the meantime, students should skim the report because — before the class of 2011 graduates — Brown could be home to a new Global Health Institute or a prospective “I-4” research initiative that measures the impact of investment in develop-ing countries.

Though it’s certainly riddled with a few congratulatory pats on the back for Brown’s “existing” strengths, the report impressively leaves no corner untouched. It analyzes the number and quality of “internationally-oriented” courses, evaluates the geographical diversity of study abroad programs and cosiders the potential benefits of an African Development Initiative.

Among the array of ideas, we particularly support the University’s commitment to scholarship on “poverty, inequality and development.” College Hill is already home to one of the continent’s few undergradu-ate development studies programs, a testament to Brown’s competitive advantage in the area.

Other notable plans include an International Humanities Summer Institute to be held at Brown annually for three to four weeks each June or July. The program would foster global humanities at Brown and will allow the University to “deepen our knowledge about languages, cultures, history and arts of the world; and to foster viable working relationships between humanities scholars and programs at Brown and those in countries around the world as well as in North America.”

We applaud the breadth of the report and, in particular, the diverse character of its recommendations — they’re indicative of the cross-section of the University that comprised the committee. That the group was composed of faculty, students and administrators from fields and pursuits as different as East Asian studies, medicine and music is not only refreshing but demonstrates a true commitment to the effects of internationalization on essentially every aspect of this campus.

We applaud the University’s commitment to evaluating “interna-tionalization” in all its complexities, and we’re eager to see what the results will be.

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Grad students need more fellowships, not more TA shifts

To the Editor:

I was disturbed to read the comments that the pres-ident of the Graduate Student Council, Joseph Bush GS, made in a recent Herald article (“Grad School cuts enrollment after $2.5m budget deficit,” Sept. 13). The Herald reported that, “For his part, Bush sug-gested that placing more responsibilities on the shoul-ders of existing graduate students is not necessarily negative.” To quote Bush directly, “so if (the new Grad School policy) creates more TA shifts, and more peo-ple have to TA, is that a bad thing? I don’t think so.”

At least in the political science department, most of our grad students have to spend at least three full years serving as a teaching assistant. If we’re lucky, we get a dissertation fellowship so that we can com-plete our dissertations more quickly — a goal which Bush professes to support. To get more students to serve as TA’s, it seems that Bush is implicitly suggest-ing cutting down the number of dissertation fellow-ships — or at least, his comments could be construed as such.

To me, that is the worst possible scenario. We should be fighting to get more dissertation fellow-ships, not fewer, so more current students have the opportunity to have one year devoted to research. Also, in the world of “publish or perish,” we need re-search time to publish articles for an advantage in the cutthroat academic job market.

I’m not saying teaching is unimportant — indeed, I am a certified secondary teacher who appreciates the challenges — but there needs to be a viable balance between teaching and research. Furthermore, serv-ing as a teaching assistant can only go so far in de-veloping one’s pedagogical skills. Much of the work is grading examinations and supporting the professor logistically, not really teaching in the sense of develop-ing and implementing a curriculum or lecturing.

Bush’s statement seems to me to be antithetical to many doctoral students’ interests — and it was made by the president of the grad students’ own GSC.

Jeremy Johnson GSSept. 13

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’Twas two weeks before the academic year, and all through the campus … no one was here (except for a team of on-site review-ers from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc.) The on-site review of the Department of Public Safe-ty that took place in August was seemingly deliberately structured to minimize commu-nity involvement, while at the same time de-signed to give the (false) impression of a fair and open review of critical issues related to campus policing. This is yet another exam-ple of the kind of behavior that has become characteristic of the University’s handling of issues related to policing and safety.

We’ve seen this all before. Flashback to 2003: A string of anti-queer harassment leads to increased tensions on campus. Things come to a head following a very public in-cident involving several Brown students, allegations of hate-related violence and a mismanaged police and administrative re-sponse. Outrage on campus leads to the for-mation of Action for Safety, a student group which, among other things, advocates for the creation of a discrimination policy. Presi-dent Ruth Simmons charges Brenda Allen, director of the Office of Institutional Diver-sity, with the responsibility of drafting such a policy. What more could the community ask for?

A lot, it seems. Public input for the pol-icy is solicited over the following summer — again, when few people are on campus. The policy is finally released to the public in February 2006, more than two years behind schedule and only after public agitation for such. Although Allen claims she sought stu-

dent input on the topic, she is never able to identify the names of individuals or student organizations with whom she consulted. What on the surface seems like a reasoned response to issues of safety by the Univer-sity turns out to actually be a series of delays, clandestine planning and attempts to “reach out to the community,” all while “the commu-nity” was away on summer vacation.

Flashback to spring 2007: Chief of Police Mark Porter, fresh out of a fall semester trou-bled by allegations of police brutality and dis-crimination, begins a public relations cam-

paign and holds public meetings at various campus centers. One such meeting is held in the campus LGBTQ Resource Center. What could be a more generous gesture on his be-half, given his department’s troubled histo-ry with queer people? However, community members are given less than 24 hours’ notice that a public meeting is being held, and the center’s own staff is only notified of the meet-ing that same day. Needless to say, very few people are able to attend the meeting, and a subsequent meeting is never scheduled.

Finally, we return to the recent issue of

this summer’s on-site review of DPS that takes place every three years in conjunction with its accreditation as a law enforcement agency. As part of the review, DPS sched-uled a public hearing to specifically address the issues of “Use of Force, Bias in Policing, and Internal Affairs Investigations.” What could be more appropriate, given the allega-tions wielded against the department in the three years since its last review? The com-munity should feel safe knowing that a thor-ough review addressing these pressing top-ics has taken place, and takes place every

three years.Unfortunately, the hearing is set for Aug.

20, a date that represents one of the slowest points in the year for the Brown community population. A campus-wide e-mail from DPS explains that the department had no say in choosing the date of the review. A quick call to the program manager assigned to Brown at the law enforcement accreditation com-mission quickly reveals, however, that it was possible that not everyone had their Google calendars handy when scheduling this year’s on-site visit.

The program manager explained that the reason Brown’s on-site review takes place in August is because Brown originally selected August as its “month of choice” for on-site reviews. However, the program manager went on to say that a simple amendment of the contract Brown has with the accredita-tion commission could facilitate a change in review date. The program manager also ex-plained that all on-site review date discrep-ancies aside, Brown still had the option of asking for reviewers to visit before the ac-tual site visit (during the academic year) to enable a more genuine exchange with mem-bers of the community. This was the practice at Brown under former Chief of Police Paul Verrecchia, and why this is not the case now — against a backdrop of allegations of sys-temic rape and hate crime reporting failures (resulting in the University reporting zero instances of sexual assault last year), alle-gations of police brutality and racial profil-ing and allegations of faulty and improperly drafted discrimination policy — is anyone’s guess. When such accusations are being made, the need for transparency and student involvement should be prioritized.

With the (mis)handling of this on-site re-view, the University writes the latest chap-ter in what has become a legacy of clandes-tine and disingenuous dealings on issues of policing, campus safety and administrative accountability. After years of adjusting the truth — making what at first glance would appear to be genuine steps for improvement into nothing more than mockery after mock-ery of the public’s trust — the administrative dream team responsible for each dishonest misstep recounted here continues to prove itself unworthy Brown’s continued support.

Josh Teitelbaum ’08 hopes that Jorge Cas-taneda, former Secretary of Foreign Affairs of

Mexico, is invited to speak at Brown again.

People should be allowed to sell their kid-neys, not only because of the dire shortage of organs being donated and the incentive that payment would provide, but also because not allowing people to do so is an inappropriate paternalism that disregards personal bodily autonomy and ultimately hurts both would-be sellers and people waiting for kidneys.

In his recent column (“The cost of buying an organ is more than just monetary,” Sept. 10), Don Trella ’08 argued against allowing people to sell their kidneys and suggested that the solution to the shortage of kidneys for transplant is switching to a system of pre-sumed consent where people can “opt out” of being registered as a donor rather than our current policy of “opting in”. While I too sup-port implementing this sort of system, the best estimates indicate that presumed con-sent only results in 25-30 percent higher do-nation rates. As I’m writing this, 73,154 peo-ple in the United States are on the waiting list for a kidney. In 2006, only 13,615 kidneys were donated. The increased donation rate that would come from a system of presumed consent might raise that number to around 17,400, which, while clearly an improvement, would still be massively inadequate. Legal-ized, regulated sales of kidneys might not completely eliminate the waiting list either, but they could help.

Trella’s article addressed a version of or-gan sales where organs go to the highest bid-der and those with the most money would necessarily be the ones getting organs, but there are other ways kidney sales could work. Instead of a free-for-all, people could sell their kidneys to the government (or the United Network for Organ Sharing, the non-

profit that organizes organ procurement, dis-tribution and allocation in the United States) and the organs could then be distributed ac-cording to standard UNOS guidelines. If the compensation were the $20,000 suggested in James Shapiro’s ‘10 column (“Rethinking Kidney Markets” Sept. 6), this would actual-ly save the government a significant amount of money, since it pays for 80 percent of the $100,000+ lifetime cost of dialysis for most patients. Because the program would be government-run, the seller’s compensation package could include lifelong government-

funded health care, such as the Medical Ben-efits Package that veterans get, and perhaps even a slight advantage on the waiting list should the seller ever need an organ.

Contrary to Trella’s claim, a regulated system of kidney sales would not go against “our most cherished American values,” such as human dignity, and would not result in the exploitation of the poor by the rich. When it comes to concern for the poor and their dignity as human beings, a simple fact that many seem to miss is that selling one’s or-gans may be better than living in extreme

poverty. Georgetown bioethicist Robert Ve-atch testified against organ sales at the 1983 Senate hearings that preceded the 1984 legis-lature banning the sale of human organs. He explained that he thought it was unethical to make an offer that the very poor might find very attractive while the people before whom he was testifying had the power to address and eliminate conditions of poverty through other means. In 2003, Veatch published a pa-per reversing his position. In it, he explains that despite the 20 years that had elapsed since his testimony, the government was

still allowing people to live at unacceptably low standards of living. He wrote, “It must be even more immoral to continue under these circumstances to withhold the right of the desperate to market the one valuable com-modity they possess. If we are a society that deliberately and systematically turns its back on the poor, we must… lift our prohibition on the one means they have to address their problems themselves.” In other words, be-cause as a society we have consistently failed to adequately address the problem of pover-ty, we cannot then disallow the poor from try-

ing to better their circumstances in this way.A system in which the government was

the only buyer of kidneys would eliminate the situation where the poor would be sell-ing their organs to the highest bidder and the increased supply of organs would only benefit the rich. The option of selling a kid-ney would only be exploitative or coercive in so far as, for some, it might be extremely attractive given their financial situation. But if this is coercion and we cannot allow it to occur, then we cannot allow people to do-nate organs to loved ones either, since giv-en their emotional connection to the patient, the would-be donor might feel like he or she has no other choice. The fact that an option seems like the best, or even only, choice does not mean it is necessarily coercive, or that the person should not be able to make that choice. And what sort of notion of hu-man dignity does not include a respect for people’s autonomy and right to do what they wish with their own bodies when it causes no harm to anyone else (and in this case, may save someone else’s life)?

Let’s step back from the initial “yuck fac-tor” reaction to allowing people to sell their kidneys, and the privileged positions that make it so easy for us to say that there is no situation in which selling an organ would have an acceptable risk/benefit ratio. The facts are that there are people who would be willing to sell their organs and for whom do-ing so may substantially raise their standard of living, while simultaneously providing an-other person with something invaluable. We ought to let people exercise their autonomy with respect to their own bodies, especially when doing so would not only better their circumstances but literally save lives.

Hope Henderson ’08.5 supports the sale of kidney beans.

opinionsMONDAY, SePTeMBeR 17, 2007 THe BROWN DAILY HeRALD PAGe 11

BY JOSH TeITeLBAUMgueSt ColuMniSt

Opting for organ sales

A legacy of injustice

A system in which the government

was the only buyer of kidneys would

eliminate the situation where the poor

would be selling their organs to the

highest bidder and the increased supply

of organs would only benefit the rich.

The on-site review of DPS that took place last

August was seemingly deliberately structured

to minimize community involvement while at

the same time designed to give the (false) im-

pression of a fair and open review of critical is-

sues related to campus policing.

BY HOPe HeNDeRSONgueSt ColuMniSt

BY BENJY AShERaSSiStant SportS editor

Everything clicked for the football team on Saturday. Despite a new starting quarterback, a new start-ing running back and a defense sans star player Zak DeOssie ’07, the Bears gained 510 yards on of-fense and forced three turnovers to hold Duquesne University in check as the Bears rolled to a 28-17 victory.

The game saw an impressive debut from quarterback Michael Dougherty ’09, as well as breakout performances from tri-captain run-ning back Dereck Knight ’08 and tight end Colin Cloherty ’09.

The offense wasted no time giv-ing Brown a lead. On just the sec-ond play from scrimmage, Knight took the handoff from Dougherty and broke to the outside for a 61-yard touchdown run to put Bruno up 7-0.

“There were some great blocks up front,” Knight said. “The receiv-ers cut down the cornerbacks, and I was able to get to the edge.”

Duquesne hit back on its second drive of the game. On 4th-and-7, at the Brown 33-yard line, the Dukes completed a 13-yard pass for a first down to keep the drive alive. On their next series, they moved the ball to Brown’s 17-yard line to set up a 35-yard field goal attempt, which Mark Troyan converted to cut the Bears’ lead to 7-3 with 7:27 left in the first quarter.

Led by Dougherty, the Bears re-sponded quickly on their next drive. With the ball at the Duquesne 44, Dougherty found Cloherty wide open over the middle. Cloherty caught the ball in stride and ran untouched into the end zone, wid-

ening the Bears’ lead to 14-3.On the ensuing kickof f,

Duquesne kick returner Bill Po-letti broke toward the sideline and appeared to have a clear path to the end zone, but kicker Steve Morgan ’08 tripped him up at the Duquesne 31, saving a touchdown.

The next score came on a Duquesne drive in the second quar-ter, when the Dukes drove 81 yards in a little over two minutes. They advanced the ball to the Brown 14-yard line with complete passes of 25 and 20 yards, as well as a quarterback keeper for 21 yards.

With 7:19 left in the half, Kevin Rombach completed a 14-yard pass to Bruce Hocker, cutting Bruno’s lead to 14-10.

On the ensuing drive, Brown moved the ball to the Duquesne 6-yard line on a 35-yard comple-tion from Dougherty to Cloherty. When runs by Knight and Dough-erty moved the ball to the 1-yard line, the Bears looked poised to open up an 11-point lead.

But on 3rd-and-goal, with 21 seconds left in the half, Knight was stripped of the ball on an at-tempted leap into the end zone,

and Brown went into halftime with a 14-10 lead.

In the third quarter, the Dukes threatened to take the lead at the outset, but the Bears regained possession of the ball when Frank Nuzzo ’09 recovered a fumble by Duquesne receiver Jay Spinks at the Brown 18.

With 2:24 left in the third quar-ter and the ball at the Duquesne 33-yard line, Dougherty drew the secondary to the middle of the field with a play-action fake, then

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M. water polo can’t topple St. Francis, defeats Queens for splitBY WhITNEY CLARKContributing Writer

A back-and-forth battle between the men’s water polo team and No. 13 St. Francis University ended in a 14-12 loss Saturday, in the Bears’ first game in the Collegiate Wa-ter Polo Association’s Northern Division. Later that day, Brown defeated Queens College 18-7, to even its record at 1-1 in the CWPA North, 3-1 overall.

Though the Bears fell behind from the beginning, they stayed

within reach of the Terriers the whole game, thanks in part to new Head Coach Felix Mercado, who kept morale high.

“We could have gone down by a lot more, but (Mercado) kept our heads in the game,” said Mike Gartner ’09.

Brown was down 9-6 at the half but came back in the third quarter with a 4-1 run to tie the game. However, St. Francis was also quick to rebound and scored before the end of the third quarter to take back the lead.

The fourth quarter proved to be just as close, as Hank Wein-traub ’09 scored with 6:58 left on the clock, tying the score for the second time in the game. But St. Francis gained the lead again, scor-ing twice before Grant LeBeau ’09 could put the Bears back within one with 1:58 remaining. In the end, St. Francis secured the win with only 17 seconds left, off of a goal from Botand Szalma, making the final 14-12.

Football decks Dukes, 28-17, to start season with a boom

Ashley Hess / Herald File PhotoJose Yearwood ‘08 recorded a game-high eight tackles during the football team’s triumph over Duquesne.

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Field hockey falters in 2 more tough lossesBY ANDREW BRACASportS Staff Writer

The good news for the field hock-ey team was that the Bears were more consistent Sunday than they had been in previous games. The bad news was that Brown failed to score, despite strong offensive pres-sure, dropping a 1-0 heartbreaker to Georgetown University on Warner Roof.

Combined with a 2-0 loss Satur-day to the University of Maine, the loss drops the Bears’ record to 0-5 this season.

“Certainly there was better en-ergy out there (yesterday) from beginning to end, but we’re strug-

gling to score,” said Head Coach Tara Harrington ’94. “We’ve got to pick it up from the five-yard line to the cage, and that’s not just our forwards. That’s our midfielders helping keep the ball in off the rebound, and that’s our backfield helping pitch the ball in as well.”

The weekend started with a tough outing against Maine in dreary conditions. The Black Bears came out strong and scored 6:44 into the game, when Kim MacDon-ald came down the right side and fired a shot past Brown goaltender Kristen Hodavance ’08 into the far side of the cage.

Maine scored again 7:37 later when Erin Reusch knocked in a

loose ball. Although Brown shut down Maine after that, the Bears were never able to answer, despite compiling a 9-3 advantage in shots and a 6-1 advantage in penalty corners in the second half.

“We got down, (and) it took the wind out of our sails,” Harrington said. “Our energy wasn’t where it needed to be in the first half. That was something that we really talked a long time about after the game in the locker room.”

Brown looked like a completely different team Sunday. The Bears came out strong and tested George-town goaltender Deirdre Crovo

Rhody’s rough play can’t stop hot m. soccerBY JASON hARRISaSSiStant SportS editor

The men’s soccer team beat in-state rival the University of Rhode Island, 1-0, Sunday afternoon at Stevenson Field. The very physical win added to Brown’s undefeated start, improv-ing its record to 4-0, while the Rams fell to 1-4 on the season.

The game began in URI’s favor, with the Rams stringing together a number of short passes and finding the feet of their forwards in the first 20 minutes. The Brown defense was up to the task, however, preventing URI from generating many scoring opportunities.

Toward the middle of the first half, the game began to turn physi-cal, and the fouls began to pile up. Amidst the flurry of fouls, a yel-low card was handed out to each team.

Midfielder Darren Howerton ’09 felt a combination of factors led to the tough, and at times downright chippy play.

“They are a tough team, and it’s a rivalry,” Howerton said. “Since we didn’t get to play (Providence College) this year, and they beat PC, this was kind-of for the state championship.”

Head Coach Mike Noonan agreed that this particular game had a little something extra. “It was a combination of a rivalry and a team that desperately needed a win,” Noonan said.

The rivalry has been intense in recent years, cresting in 2005 when

Ashley Hess / Herald File PhotoThe men’s soccer team slipped past Rhody thanks to a well-placed free kick from Darren Howerton ’09 (above) that Dylan Sheehan ’09 headed into the net.continued on page 9

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