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Amid layoffs,
salary freeze
to be lifted
By Alex Bell
Senior Staff Writer
Though the University an-
nounced approximately 60 staff
layoffs about two weeks ago, the
freeze on faculty and staff salaries
will be lifted next year in order
to keep Brown competitive with
its peers.
Next fiscal year’s budget, ap-
proved by the Corporation at its
February meeting, includes a 4
percent increase in the pool of
funds for faculty salaries and a 3
percent increase in the pool for
continuing staff salaries. Each
individual’s salary increase may
be more or less than these per-
centages because compensation
is determined based on merit.
The increases are necessary
“to address recent loss of ground
in faculty salaries” and “a some-
what lesser rate of loss of com-
petitive ground for non-faculty
salaries,” according to President
Ruth Simmons’ e-mail to the
Brown community following the
continued on page 4
Herald poll: Simmons’
approval rate steady
By Ana Alvarez
Senior Staff Writer
President Ruth Simmons’ approval
rating has not significantly changed
since last semester, despite recent
publicity about her past tenure on
the Board of Directors of Goldman
Sachs, according to a Herald poll con-
THE HERALD POLL
ducted last month. Of the students
polled, 77.5 percent said they approve
of the way Simmons is handling her
job, while only 6.2 percent said they
disapprove.
Simmons’ announcement in Feb-
ruary that she was stepping down
from Goldman’s board made national
headlines. She told The Herald be-
fore the decision that she did not
believe criticism about the firm’s
compensation practices would affect
the University’s reputation, though
it “could funnel” to her.
The Herald poll was conducted
on March 22 and 23 and has a 3.5
percent margin of error with 95 per-
cent confidence. A total of 714 Brown
undergraduates completed the poll,
which The Herald administered as a
written questionnaire to students in
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Prospective students flooded the admission office with 31,136 applications for the class of 2014.
9.3 percent acceptance rate for 2014
By Miriam Furst
Staff Writer
At 5 p.m. Thursday evening, Brown
released decisions online for thou-
sands of anxious high school students
across the globe — bringing the num-
ber of admitted students to 2,804, or
9.3 percent of the record-breaking
30,136 students who applied, accord-
ing to a University press release.
the lobby of J. Walter Wilson during
the day and in the Sciences Library
at night.
More than two-thirds of students,
68.8 percent, said they feel confident
about their or their families’ ability
to pay for their Brown education,
almost 10 percent more than in last
semester’s poll. But more than 10
percent of students responded that
they were very worried, similar to
last semester’s results. The poll
found that significantly more men,
at 43.8 percent, feel very confident
about the ability to pay than women,
at 28.4 percent.
Support for the Undergraduate
Council of Students remained stable
from past semesters, with 48.6 per-
cent approving. Only 8.0 percent said
they disapprove of the council, but
43.3 percent of those polled said they
did not know or had no answer.
Slightly more students, 52.4 per-
cent to 43.5 percent, approved the
elimination of dining hall tableslips in
favor of centralized announcements,
a recent proposal by UCS. Upper-
classmen responded significantly
more favorably to the removal, with
58.9 percent approving. Only 47.1
continued on page 2
News, 3
police powers
RISD students react to a
bill that would give officers
the power of arrest
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
The prospective members of the
class of 2014 include students from
all 50 states and 81 countries, accord-
ing to the press release. University
administrators expect to enroll about
1,485 in the incoming first-year class
in the fall, after a highly competitive
admissions cycle that saw a 21 per-
cent increase in applicants compared
to last year.
“We were deeply impressed and
Committee proposes
changes to tenure policy
By Nicole Friedman
News Editor
The maximum probationary period
before a faculty member is either
promoted with tenure or dismissed
should be increased to eight years,
according to recommendations
in a report released March 25 by
the ad hoc Committee to Review
The Bears battled Dartmouth’s Big Green on Saturday afternoon, eventually losing 9-7.
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald
at times awed by the candidates we
were privileged to review over these
many months, and we are grateful
for the opportunity to get to know
so many inspirational and promis-
ing students from across this nation
and around the world,” said Dean
of Admission Jim Miller ’73 in the
press release.
continued on page 2
Tenure and Faculty Development
Policies.
The committee’s recommen-
dations also included standard-
izing the tenure review process
across departments, strengthen-
ing mentoring and feedback for
junior faculty and restructuring
continued on page 4
IN THE NET
Arts, 6
join the band
Brunonians with a musical
inclination work together
and go solo
Rhode Island
sees record
rain, flooding
Little damage to
campus buildings
By Heeyoung Min
Senior Staff Writer
Record flooding hit Rhode Island last
week after heavy rains, but it caused
only minor damage to University
buildings.
The Department of Facilities Man-
agement received nearly 200 service
calls last week during Rhode Island’s
worst flooding in 200 years, but “there
were no severe damages” to Univer-
sity facilities, said Director of Custodial
Services Donna Butler.
Butler, who began preparing to
clean up after the storm several days
before it hit, described the rain as the
“biggest test” she has encountered
during the 10 years she has worked
for Custodial Services.
The flood was also “the best test”
of her office’s equipment, resources
and emergency response, she said. “If
there’s another flood, now we know
we’re ready,” she said.
President Barack Obama issued an
emergency declaration for the flood-
damaged state, which authorized the
Federal Emergency Management
Agency to coordinate all relief efforts.
The federal government will be pick-
ing up 75 percent of the clean-up tab,
according to a March 30 White House
press release.
The record rainfall is another set-
back for the economically struggling
state, whose 12.7 percent unemploy-
ment rate is the third highest in the
country, trailing Michigan and Ne-
vada, according to a March 26 report
continued on page 5
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Opinions, 11
DC TEa Party
William Tomasko ’13 on the
capital’s taxation without
representation
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C ampus N EWS “We were deeply impressed and at times awed.”

— Jim Miller ’73, dean of admission

Poll: Almost 80 percent of students approve of concert picks

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percent of freshmen and sophomores
said they approved.
The poll also found that a large ma-
jority of students, 79.7 percent, approve
of Brown Concert Agency’s choices
to play at this year’s Spring Weekend.
Though men and women approved of
the selection of musical acts in about
equal numbers, a significantly higher
percentage of men responded that
they strongly approve than women.
While 49.0 percent of men said they
strongly approve of this year’s per-
formers, which include Snoop Dogg
and MGMT, only 35.6 percent of
women said the same.
According to the poll results, 56.1
percent of students have worked
for pay this semester. Of those, the
plurality — 12.6 percent of the total
sample — have done so for an aver-
age of more than six and less than or
equal to nine hours per week. Among
non-freshmen, 62.8 percent reported
working for pay this semester, while
only 37.0 percent of freshmen polled
said the same.
The majority of students, 56.9 per-
cent, have utilized the Career Develop-
ment Center this past semester. Most
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1. Do you approve or disapprove of
the way Ruth Simmons is handling
her job as president of Brown?
Strongly approve: 37.7%
Somewhat approve: 39.8%
Somewhat disapprove: 4.5%
Strongly disapprove: 1.7%
Don’t know / No answer: 16.4%
2. Do you approve or disapprove of
the way the Undergraduate Coun-
cil of Students (UCS) is handling
its job?
Strongly approve: 9.8%
Somewhat approve: 38.8%
Somewhat disapprove: 6.4%
Strongly disapprove: 1.6%
Don’t know / No answer: 43.3%
3. Would you approve or disap-
prove of eliminating dining hall
tableslips in favor of centralized
announcements, either elsewhere
on campus or on the Internet?
Strongly approve: 27.3%
Somewhat approve: 25.1%
Somewhat disapprove: 25.6%
Poll Results
Strongly disapprove: 17.9%
Don’t know / No answer: 4.1%
4. How often this semester have
you used resources or services
— including drop-in hours and
events — provided by the Career
Development Center either online
or in person?
0 times: 41.9%
1-2 times: 38.0%
3-4 times: 12.5%
5-6 times: 4.2%
7 or more times: 2.2%
Don’t know / No answer: 1.3%
5. What is your current relation-
ship status?
Single: 59.4%
In an exclusive relationship:
33.6%
In a non-exclusive relationship:
3.4%
Engaged or married: 0.4%
Other: 1.5%
Don’t know / No answer: 1.7%
6. On average, how many hours
per week have you worked for pay
this semester?
0 hours: 42.3%
More than 0, less than or equal
to 3 hours: 7.4%
More than 3, less than or equal
to 6 hours: 11.9%
More than 6, less than or
equal to 9 hours: 12.6%
More than 9, less than or equal
to 12 hours: 9.9%
More than 12, less than or equal
to 15 hours: 4.8%
More than 15 hours: 9.5%
Don’t know / No answer: 1.5%
7. How confident or worried are
you about your or your family’s
ability to finance your Brown edu-
cation?
Ver y confident: 36.4%
Somewhat confident: 32.4%
Somewhat worried: 18.8%
Ver y worried: 10.2%
Don’t know / No answer: 2.2%
8. Compared to your peers at
Brown, how physically attractive
or unattractive do you consider
yourself?
Ver y attractive: 15.1%
Somewhat attractive: 57.1%
Somewhat unattractive: 8.8%
Ver y unattractive: 1.5%
Don’t know / No answer: 17.4%
9. Do you approve or disapprove
of Brown Concert Agency’s choices
to play at Spring Weekend: Snoop
Dogg, MGMT, Major Lazer, the
Black Keys and Wale?
Strongly approve: 42.4%
Somewhat approve: 37.3%
Somewhat disapprove: 9.7%
Strongly disapprove: 2.7%
Don’t know / No answer: 8.0%
10. How important or unimport-
ant is religion in your life?
Ver y important: 18.1%
Somewhat important: 26.2%
Somewhat unimportant: 17.2%
Ver y unimportant: 33.5%
Don’t know / No answer: 5.0%

U. releases admission decisions to over 30,000 applications

continued from page 1
Chance Craig, an admitted student
and senior at Marvell High School in
Marvell, Ark., has not visited Brown
yet, but said he is excited to attend A
Day on College Hill in April.
“I applied to nine schools, and
sudoku
that’s a lot for where I’m from because
nobody has ever gone to an Ivy League
school,” he said. “It’s a big thing that
I got in. It’s crazy.”
Another admitted student, John
King from North Haven High School
in North Haven, Conn., also applied
to nine colleges — but in his school,
many seniors are admitted to selective
universities, he said.
“By the end of sophomore year,
through junior year, people got re-
ally competitive about colleges,” King
said.
Throughout the school day Thurs-
day, seniors were anxious about their
impending admissions decisions, King
said. “My friends and I kept looking
at the clock in school, and a lot of my
friends were just on the computer
right away when they got home, even
though the decisions weren’t going to
be up for a while,” he added.
While both Craig and King are ex-
cited about their acceptances, they
said they are not entirely sure whether
they will choose Brown.
Sohum Chatterjee ’14, an early
decision admit from Calcutta, India,
couldn’t visit schools in the U.S. but
said he was initially attracted to the
opportunities for interdisciplinary
study at Brown.
“I really wanted a blend of the
humanities and the natural sciences,
which my country’s system simply
doesn’t offer,” Chatterjee said.
Chatterjee also attributed his in-
terest in Brown to interacting with a
have the flexibility to study all that,
and I know I’d be getting an amazing
education for it.”
Migliori, who has been involved
with Providence’s Trinity Repertory
Company for the past few years, hopes
to pursue a graduate degree in theater
through the Brown/Trinity Reper-
tory Consortium after completing her
undergraduate studies.
Will Peterson, a regular decision
admit who hails from Orange Coun-
ty, Calif., said his interest in Brown
stemmed from talking to graduates of
his high school who had matriculated
as well as the New Curriculum, which
he called “a big deciding factor.”
Peterson is deciding between
Brown and Stanford, though he is
currently leaning towards Brown.
“I think I could see myself more
Classes by the numbers
2013
Early Decision 2,360
Total Applicants 24,988
Admit Rate 10.8%
Top 10% of Class 96%
in the Brown student body,” Peterson
said.
Jeff Handler ’14, an early deci-
sion admit from Newton North High
School in Newton, Mass., looks for-
ward eagerly to arriving on College
Hill in the fall.
“I spent a week visiting all these
schools, but when I got to Brown, I
knew it was the right place. I could go
down the list of reasons,” including the
academic freedom Brown provides.
“But overall, it was really just the feel
more than anything else,” he said.
“It was raining when I visited and I
still liked it,” he added. “And if you like
a school in the rain, you know it’s the
right place for you. I’m thrilled about
the next four years.”
— With additional reporting by
Claire Peracchio
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30,136
9.3%
96%

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C ampus N EWS “RISD police officers gaining the power of arrest is slightly
disconcerting.” — Elizabeth Soucy ’13

RISD students worry about police power Students more confident

By Heeyoung Min
Senior Staff Writer
about financing education
The Rhode Island School of Design continued from page 2 Sciences Library on March 22 and 23.
may become the third school in the To ensure random sampling, pollsters
city to grant officers arresting pow- of those students, 38.0 percent in total, approached every third person and
ers — but some RISD students, who have used the CDC only once or twice asked each one to complete a poll. The
fear that officers could use their new this semester. poll has a 3.5 percent margin of error
powers to arrest underage drinkers, In this semester’s poll, nearly 60 with 95 percent confidence.
do not want to see that happen. percent of students said they were The sample polled was demo-
single and about one-third said they graphically similar to the Brown under-
HIGHER ED were in an exclusive relationship. graduate population as a whole. The
Freshmen, at 72.3 percent, are sig- sample was 51.1 percent male, 48.7
Brown and Rhode Island Col- nificantly more likely to be single than percent female and 0.1 percent other.
lege are the only two universities non-freshmen, of whom 54.9 percent First-years made up 25.8 percent of
in Providence employing campus are single. the sample, 29.3 percent were sopho-
officers with the power to arrest. The poll found that a slight ma- mores, 20.4 percent were juniors and
A bill under consideration by the jority of students said religion was 24.5 percent were seniors. Of those
Rhode Island General Assembly unimportant in their lives. But 44.3 polled, 65.7 percent of respondents
would recognize RISD officers as percent of students responded that identified themselves as white, 18.9
peace officers, RISD spokesperson religion was important in their lives. percent as Asian, 10.9 percent as His-
Jamie Marland said. Peace officer The 18.1 percent of people who said panic, 6.6 percent as black, 1.0 percent
status would give campus officers, Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald religion was very important in their as American Indian or Alaska Native
who are presently not state-sanc- Brown’s officers are one of only two campus police forces in Providence lives falls below the national average and 0.8 percent as Native Hawaiian
tioned, the power to search, detain with the power to arrest. of 57 percent, according to the Pew or Pacific Islander. Also, 4.1 percent
and arrest individuals suspected of said. “I’ve always suspected that Research Center. identified with a racial group or ethnic-
illegal activity. But in 2008, officers issued a RISD’s extreme self-consciousness About seven out of eight students ity not listed and 1.1 percent chose not
total of 65 disciplinary referrals for in terms of its image has trickled who gave an opinion said they were to answer. The sum of the percentages
‘Slightly disconcerting’ potential weapons, drug and alcohol into its enforcement of rules — but attractive compared to their peers at is greater than 100 percent due to re-
Several RISD students expressed violations on campus: 8 for weapons RISD’s desire to be taken seriously Brown. Of all respondents, 15.1 per- spondents who identified with multiple
concern that campus officers would violations, 29 for drug violations and as an institution doesn’t really need cent said they were very attractive, ethnic or racial groups.
use their arresting powers inappro- 28 for alcohol violations, according to make itself present in the rela- while 57.1 percent said they were Senior Staff Writers Ana Alvarez
priately, especially to discipline un- to the report. The number of refer- tionship between Public Safety and somewhat attractive. ’13, Alex Bell ’13 and Talia Kagan ’12
derage partygoers. rals for alcohol violations was 64 the students,” Harrison wrote in an and Arts & Culture Editor Suzannah
“RISD police officers gaining in 2007 and 80 in 2006, the report e-mail to The Herald. Methodology Weiss ’12 coordinated the poll. Herald
the power of arrest is slightly dis- said. RISD officers might act more Written questionnaires were ad- section editors, senior staff writers
concerting to me,” said Elizabeth Students who receive a disci- like their Brown counterparts if they ministered to 714 undergraduates in and other staff members conducted
Soucy ’13, a Brown-RISD dual de- plinary referral involving alcohol gain arresting powers — or they the lobby of J. Walter Wilson and in the the poll.
gree candidate. are required to “undergo appropri- might go on a power trip, according
Soucy said student sentiment ate alcohol education, evaluation, to Harrison.
toward the campus public safety and/or treatment as determined “It’s kind of complicated. I don’t
department at RISD is different by appropriate officials,” according know whether RISD tells Public
from the attitude at Brown, mostly to the University’s Judicial Affairs Safety to be strict in their enforce-
due to the design school’s stricter Web site. ment of school rules, or whether Got tips?
enforcement of underage drinking Sarah Harrison ’12, a Brown- they enjoy enforcing rules, or both,”
policies. As a result, Soucy said, she RISD student, hypothesized that Harrison wrote. “If they had more herald@browndailyherald.com
thought RISD police officers could the design school might be stricter power, would they feel less the need
be more likely to arrest students in enforcing alcohol policies to cre- to assert it whenever opportunity
than Brown officers. ate the atmosphere of a “serious”
Brown’s Department of Pub- school. continued on page 4
lic Safety’s reputation of leniency
“promotes the ultimate safety of the
students,” Soucy said, making them
feel more comfortable calling the
police when in trouble — especially
if the situation involves underage
drinking.
Ayo Ouditt, a RISD freshman,
agreed that granting RISD officers
arresting powers is excessive, and
may only lead to “unnecessary” ar-
rests of students who are drinking
underage.
In “extreme” cases of alcohol
abuse where intervention is nec-
essary, the administration already
has a disciplinary system in place,
Ouditt said. Those students face, for
instance, suspension or expulsion,
which are more appropriate penal-
ties than arrest, he said.
Though there have been cases
of expulsion due to alcohol abuse,
“excessive drinking isn’t a problem
here,” said Brenden Cicoria, a RISD
freshman. He added that RISD stu-
dents often go to Brown to drink
because Brown is known for its mild
enforcement of drinking policies.
Brown police officers made no
arrests for liquor law or weapons
violations and only one arrest for
drug violations in 2008, according
to the Department of Public Safety’s
crime report. No such arrests were
made in 2007 or 2006, the report
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Gen’l assembly bill sparks controversy With 60 layoffs on the
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struck or become more overzeal-
ous in their enjoyment of enforcing
RISD’s rules?”
Ultimately Harrison, who was
written up by a RISD officer last
year, wrote that she would feel
less safe if the peace officer bill is
passed.
When Harrison lived in a RISD
residence hall located above the
Public Safety office last year, “there
was an atmosphere of stress” due to
the possibility of being approached
by an officer, she wrote. “Living at
Brown has been much less stressful
in this respect because I worry less
about getting into trouble, despite
the fact that Brown officers do have
the power to arrest.”
Though Harrison enjoys the
relatively lax enforcement of laws
at Brown, she finds it somewhat
unsettling. “Of course, the fact that
Brown feels like kind of a legal play-
ground in the middle of a troubled
city is disturbing in its own right,”
she wrote.
Ouditt said he would have sup-
ported the bill if Providence were
unsafe, which he feels is not the
case.
“If I thought crime was a prob-
lem at RISD, it would be a differ-
ent story, but it’s not,” Ouditt said.
“People say Providence is danger-
ous, but I would sleep on the street
here.”
Crime, including incidents like
the massacre at Virginia Tech, is
always a possibility, but those events
are “extreme outliers,” Cicoria
said.
Police presence at Brown
Though students at Brown said
there were benefits to having state-
sanctioned police on campus, some
After NEASC rebuke, committee proposes changes to tenure
continued from page 1
the Tenure, Promotion and Appoint-
ments Committee.
The ad hoc committee — com-
prised of three administrators and
nine tenured faculty members —
agreed that “our system was in some
respects not in keeping with the
common approaches that we find in
our peer institutions,” said Provost
David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98, who
chaired the committee.
The report addresses the “seri-
ous flaws and weaknesses” of the
current system and its recommen-
dations represent “what we thought
might be the best way of strength-
ening the system with appreciation
for Brown traditions and culture,”
he said.
The committee was formed
this fall in response to criticisms
from a New England Association of
Schools and Colleges review team
that Brown tenures a higher per-
centage of its junior faculty than do
peer institutions.
Brown’s cohort tenure rate —
the percentage of junior tenure-
track professors who eventually
receive tenure at Brown — has
said it was not necessary for their
sense of security on campus.
It is mostly “their presence that
counts, not that they have the power
to arrest,” said Jeffrey Blum ’12.
Ben Jones ’13 said he has walked
alone at night on campus and has
never felt unsafe — but not because
of the presence of DPS officers.
“I’ve walked alone in the dark
and I’ve never found myself think-
ing, ‘I’m glad there are police of-
ficers around,’ ” Jones said.
“That said,” he continued, “I’ve
read the crime reports, and I know
bad things do happen. In that re-
spect, it’s good that Brown can take
care of these things internally.”
Chief of Police and Director of
Public Safety Mark Porter did not
respond to requests for comment.
Different takes
Campus officers are not taken se-
riously, said Elizabeth Hernendez, a
senior at Johnson and Wales Univer-
sity. “They look very young — some
of them are college students — so
no one takes them seriously.”
Some of the officers actually
are students at JWU, said Sarah
Bardwell, who graduated last year.
“We have a criminal justice depart-
ment here that offers credit to stu-
dents for being public safety officers.
They do it as an internship.”
Campus officers at JWU have
no power “whatsoever” to enforce
laws or university rules, Hernendez
said. “I feel bad for them sometimes,
especially when they try to (tame)
drunken parties. Students are
constantly mouthing off to them.
They’re treated like a joke around
here.”
Herndenez said she was on the
fence about the necessity of a “real
police” presence on her campus. “If
campus officers had the power of ar-
been above 70 percent since 1991,
according to the report. A 2006
study of 10 research universities
revealed an average cohort tenure
rate of 53 percent, according to the
report. Brown’s relatively high co-
hort tenure rate “may eventually
degrade academic excellence” as
the percentage of tenured profes-
sors continues to rise in proportion
to untenured faculty members, ac-
cording to the report.
Brown’s high proportion of ten-
ured faculty members “imposes
constraints on hiring and restricts
opportunities, limits the ability to ex-
pand into new and important areas
of scholarship, (and) reduces the
turnover that is vital to intellectual
renewal,” according to the report.
Junior faculty members are cur-
rently hired as assistant professors
for an initial three-year contract,
then either dismissed or offered
a second three-year contract. The
tenure review processes can then
begin during their fifth year, so they
can either receive tenure after their
second three-year contract is up or
search for alternate employment
during their sixth year if they are
not granted tenure.
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“People say Providence is dangerous, but I would sleep on
the street here.” — Ayo Ouditt, RISD freshman
rest, they would certainly get more
respect than they do now. But with
Providence police nearby, I’m not
sure if we need real police officers
on campus.”
Students at the University of
Rhode Island — whose officers
are state-sanctioned and thus can
arrest — argue that campus officers
can do their job better with arrest-
ing powers.
“Problems on campus are not
always about drinking,” said Renee
Lemieux, a URI freshman. “There is
occasionally domestic violence that
goes on too, which is one example of
a case in which the officers should
have the power to arrest.”
Other URI students said the
integration of their campus with
the general community calls for
increased security.
“Our quad is basically a park for
anyone to visit,” said Sheena Mur-
ray, a freshman at URI. “I feel like it
might make a difference if a campus
is closed, since you might not have
as much of that outside force com-
ing in to threaten the security of
the school.”
URI officers have the responsi-
bility to ensure the safety of students
on a campus that lacks fences to
“keep other Rhode Islanders off
university grounds,” Eli Roth, a
URI junior, wrote in an e-mail to
The Herald.
“Depriving our enforcement of-
ficials their chief tool of enforcement
would be a mistake,” Roth wrote. “If
we want police officers to do their
job, it is only natural to arm them
with the tools of their trade. This
comes with the essential caveat that
it would be wrong — and indeed,
unconstitutional — to see students
arrested for breaking university
rules, as opposed to state or fed-
eral law.”
Under the recommended time-
line, junior professors would receive
an initial four-year contract, which
could then be renewed for another
four-year contract or two consecu-
tive two-year contracts.
While faculty members could
choose to be reviewed for tenure
sooner than in their seventh year,
the extra time would be intended
to allow researchers to build up a
stronger portfolio of work before fac-
ing departmental review. Reviewing
professors for tenure “after only five
full years may in some cases be too
brief to allow even talented junior
faculty the opportunity to provide
evidence of their accomplishments,”
according to the report.
“These concerns are perhaps
especially acute in laboratory-based
sciences” because of the time it
takes to set up laboratories and
obtain funding, according to the
report.
The report also found that the
University’s tenure review process
is “highly unusual, perhaps even
unique” in that departments are
free to set their own standards for
tenure and candidates play an “ex-
ceptionally active role” in their own
way, salary freeze ends
continued from page 1
Corporation’s February meeting.
The increased pools, which fol-
low a year of salary freezes, will
also be used to provide merit-based
salary increases and promotional
adjustments, according to the Feb.
27 e-mail.
“I think people understood why
we had to (freeze salaries) given the
endowment,” said Provost David
Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98, adding that he
believes people expected some in-
crease for the coming year. “We need
to be sure we stay competitive with
other institutions.” Brown’s endow-
ment lost $740 million, or more than
25 percent, in fiscal year 2009.
Over the past eight years or so,
Kertzer said, Brown has made “a fair
amount of progress” in achieving
more competitive faculty salaries,
but has “slid a little bit” in the past
few years in comparison with its
peers.
Executive Vice President for Fi-
nance and Administration Beppie
Huidekoper said the discrepancy
between Brown’s staff salaries and
those of its competitors was “less
pronounced” than that of faculty
salaries.
Though the salaries of continuing
staff will be higher next year, Hu-
idekoper said the total amount paid
to staff will be significantly smaller.
The overall decrease in the budget
for staff salaries will be achieved
through organizational restructur-
ing, including this year’s 60 layoffs,
139 early retirements and numer-
ous positions eliminated through
attrition.
The increase in faculty salaries
is certainly preferable to the cur-
reviews.
In order to standardize the re-
view process across departments
and ensure confidentiality, the com-
mittee recommended that candi-
dates for tenure not be allowed to
see the final list of external review-
ers and that the required number
of outside reviewers be increased
to 10.
“We’re providing for, I think, a
more complete review and a more
deliberate review than the current
system permits,” Ker tzer said.
Though the committee did not
“set any particular rate” of junior
faculty members that should receive
tenure, the changes “could have
the effect of putting us more into
the range of most of our peers,” he
said.
The Tenure, Promotions and Ad-
vancement Committee reviews all
candidates for tenure after they pass
departmental review. Pending the
approval of the report’s recommen-
dations, the committee’s member-
ship would be increased by two and
divided into two subcommittees,
each of which would review half
the cases. One subcommittee will
review cases in the humanities and
Monday, April 5, 2010
rent year’s freeze, but still “less than
what’s been done historically,” said
Chung-I Tan, professor of physics
and chair of the Faculty Executive
Committee. The University has
made “some inroads toward becom-
ing more competitive,” he said, but
Brown’s salaries are still lower than
its peers’.
“I don’t think you can catch up in
one year,” he said. “But we’re mak-
ing sure we’re not losing ground.”
One professor, who spoke on con-
dition of anonymity, said she was
surprised that there was any raise
at all given the state of the economy,
and would have been willing to re-
duce or forgo her raise completely
if it meant saving jobs.
“Given the economy, this looks to
me pretty generous,” she said.
Tan said it was hard to judge the
faculty’s general reaction to the sal-
ary increase in light of the layoffs.
“Our main mission is providing
a first-rate education for students
and maintaining the strengths of
the University in terms of first-rate
teaching and research programs,”
Tan said. “I don’t think anybody
disagrees with that.”
No faculty layoffs have been an-
nounced, and Tan said he does not
expect any.
“We don’t want to cut any aca-
demic programs,” he said. “In terms
of faculty, that’s not being contem-
plated.”
Kertzer also acknowledged the
trade-off between eliminating po-
sitions and increasing salaries to
remain competitive.
“We have to balance the attempts
to minimize layoffs with the desire
not to have another freeze in sala-
ries,” he said.
social sciences, and the other will
review candidates in the life and
physical sciences.
“It is always an effort to get fac-
ulty to serve on committees” be-
cause of the extra time commitment,
Kertzer said, but “the net effect of
the changes will be to make it much
more desirable to serve on TPAC
from a faculty point of view” because
its members will focus more on re-
viewing candidates in their fields of
study and expertise, he said.
The tenure committee will meet
with untenured faculty members
Monday to receive feedback on its
recommendations. The commit-
tee will also answer questions and
hear feedback at a general faculty
forum April 13 and in meetings with
the Faculty Executive Committee
and department chairs later this
month.
While some of the repor t’s
recommendations can be imple-
mented administratively, others
require changing the faculty rules
and regulations. The faculty will
vote on these changes at its May
meeting, and if approved, they will
be put to a final vote at the May
Corporation meeting.
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C ampus N EWS
Record-setting floods mostly spare campus, but disrupt travel
continued from page 1
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The rain was heavier and lasted
longer than Butler had anticipated, but
University facilities saw only minor
damages due to “rock-solid construc-
tion” and the University’s elevated
location on College Hill, she said. “We
were very fortunate,” she said.
The University of Rhode Island’s
campus saw “significant damage” due
to erosion and flooding, Jerry Sidio,
URI’s director of facilities services,
told the Good Five Cent Cigar, the
school’s newspaper.
Classes on the Kingston campus
were cancelled for two days due to
the storm.
While Brown students were scat-
tered across the country during
spring break, University custodial
employees worked long shifts and
overtime — amounting to 10 to 12
hours straight — to keep water at bay
in the basements of the John Carter
Brown Library, 37 Manning St. and
the John Hay Library, which houses
rare books and manuscripts, Butler
said.
Custodial workers continually
vacuumed affected basement floors
as water seeped in. “The faster you
respond, the less travelling there is.
Fortunately our staff got there very
quickly. There was a great response
from our employees,” she said.
“Once you fill those (wet-vacuum)
machines with water, it can be ex-
tremely heavy, but our employees did
a great job. Everyone had a positive
attitude,” she said.
Catching leaks with cups
The flood put 4,000 Rhode Island-
ers temporarily out of work and cost
hundreds of millions of dollars in dam-
age, the Associated Press reported
April 2.
But for most students who re-
mained on campus during spring
break, the rain was only a nuisance.
Hadizza Mohammed ’10, a Chi-
cago native, planned to explore Rhode
Island with her friends during her
last spring break before graduation,
but the rain put a damper on their
plans.
“We couldn’t really travel because
of the rain. We ended up staying in,
sleeping and eating a lot, watching
movies, and playing a lot of Cranium.
We ended up having fun,” she said.
Mohammed said she first realized
the severity of the flooding when she
took the Rhode Island Public Trans-
portation Authority trolley from cam-
pus to Federal Hill on one of the heavy
days of rain.
The trolley dropped her off three
blocks from her destination, and the
walk was unpleasant and wet, she
said.
“That was when I knew the flood-
ing was serious. If a shopping center
— if businesses — couldn’t cope with
the flooding, I knew that neighbor-
hoods must have been hit pretty
hard,” she said.
Hector Ramirez ’12, who was in his
New Pembroke 1 dorm throughout
the three-day storm, called Facilities
Management to report two small
leaks by his windowsill, and a big-
ger one in his closet. “The leaks have
been around for a while, but they were
never this bad,” he said.
Despite a quick response from Fa-
cilities, “they didn’t do a whole lot,”
Ramirez said.
“I was fortunate that I was around
to take care of the leaks,” Ramirez
said, who placed an Arizona gallon
jug under the leak in the closet, and
is still using Dixie cups to catch the
smaller leaks by his windowsill.
None of his belongings were dam-
aged, but Ramirez said that the situa-
tion could have been worse if he had
gone home to Los Angeles instead
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“People say Providence is dangerous, but I would sleep on
the street here.” — Ayo Ouditt, RISD freshman
of staying on campus to “get some
homework done” and save money
in airfare.
“All in all, I’m glad I stayed be-
hind,” he said.
‘Floating floor’
Colby Jenkins ’12, a native Rhode
Islander, lives just minutes east of
Brown’s campus in Rumford, R.I.
While the University’s facilities
survived the storm virtually unaf-
fected, Jenkins’ recently renovated
basement was almost unrecognizable
after the storm.
Rumford is near Brown’s campus,
but “separated by a river so I’m not
surprised that the two areas were af-
fected so differently,” he wrote in an
e-mail to The Herald.
Jenkins went to Home Depot at
7 a.m. Tuesday, the first day of the
storm, to purchase a vacuum and a
pump. He scored the last pump in
stock, but was less lucky in his search
for a vacuum.
“They were already sold out of
vacuums, and every other store in the
area was out of pumps, forcing a large
number of people to just hope that the
damage wouldn’t be too severe,” he
wrote. “People are already compar-
ing (the flooding) to our generation’s
‘Blizzard of ’78.’ ”
As water poured into his base-
ment, Jenkins wrote he was more
“disappointed” than worried. “The
disappointment stemmed from losing
the hard work that my father and I
put into renovating the finished area
of the basement, as we’re now back
to square one.”
The basement’s laminate floor,
which Jenkins and his father finished
last year, “had to be completely torn
up.” The flooding “gave a whole new
meaning to the phrase ‘floating floor,’ ”
he wrote.
The Jenkins family salvaged “any-
thing drastically important” by mov-
ing those items upstairs, but suffered
damages to many storage boxes and
heavier items, including a treadmill
and some exercise bikes.
“Based on the speed at which wa-
ter was entering the house, I knew
that there was no way we could pre-
vent damage from happening. All we
could do was cut our losses and save
what we could,” he wrote.
The family may receive federal aid
for repairs, depending on FEMA’s as-
sessment of the damage, Jenkins said,
describing the process as “a waiting
game.”
Travel delays and traffic
Amtrak train service to Rhode
Island has been suspended since
Wednesday, causing delay to some
students’ return to campus.
The water was about 15 inches
above the rails early Friday morning.
Amtrak’s Acela Express trains cannot
run with more than four inches of
water, and the slower regional trains
Monday, April 5, 2010
cannot run with more than six inches,
Amtrak spokesman Cliff Cole told the
Providence Journal.
Marina Irgon ’11 planned on re-
turning to campus on Friday for a
Frisbee tournament at the University
of Rhode Island, but missed the first
day of the two-day competition be-
cause her train was cancelled.
Irgon, who travelled from her
home in New Jersey, said that a parent
had to drive her to campus the next
day. The change of plan was a “very
minor inconvenience” compared to
the plight of other Rhode Islanders,
she said.
The eight-lane Interstate 95, Rhode
Island’s main highway, was closed for
two days.
“A trip that normally took 20 min-
utes took close to 2 hours when trying
to find detours or just simply fight the
traffic,” Jenkins wrote.
“When traveling over bridges that
normally had water 15–20 feet below,
the water was now up to the level of
the bridge, threatening to flood and
block off another street,” he wrote.
Since April 1, about 200 people
have volunteered to work with Serve
Rhode Island, the state’s volunteer
center, to help with disaster relief ef-
forts, Bernie Beaudreau, executive
director of the organization, told The
Herald Saturday afternoon.
Among the volunteers are “plen-
ty of Brown students,” Beaudreau
said.
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What’s Kraken? Alums collaborate on ‘Clash’
By Suzannah Weiss
Ar ts & Culture Editor
Phil Hay ’92 and Matt Manfredi ’93,
creative collaborators and friends
ever since they met at IMPROVi-
dence auditions 20 years ago, are
now the prolific screenwriters be-
hind last weekend’s box-office hit
“Clash of the Titans.”
The duo has worked on other
major films, such as “Crazy/Beauti-
ful,” which starred Kirsten Dunst,
and “Bug,” an independent comedy
that won multiple festival awards.
“Clash of the Titans” arrived in
2-D and 3-D theaters Friday, and
as of Sunday evening, made $61.4
million in ticket sales throughout
North America, according to the
New York Times.
“It’s really exciting,” Manfredi
told The Herald on Thursday, the
morning after the film’s premiere
— which he compared to a fam-
ily reunion. “When you work on a
movie for so long, you become like
a little family,” he said.
The movie is a remake of a 1981
film by the same name, based on
the stor y of the Greek mythical
hero Perseus. Hay said he grew up
watching the original, and his goal
for the script was “to get a sense
of movies we loved as kids.” He
hopes audiences take in the “child-
like exuberance on the screen,”
he added.
Manfredi and Hay had known
director Louis Leterrier for a long
time when he called and asked if
they wanted to write the script.
“From that point, we just kind of
locked ourselves in a room with
Louis Leterrier,” Hay said.
“We worked ver y closely with
Sam Worthington,” the actor in
the lead role of Perseus, he added.
“It was really interesting tr ying
to take in his perspective on the
character.”
Manfredi’s favorite part of the
process was seeing the script come
to life on the first day of filming in
London, he said.
For Hay, the highlight of work-
ing on “Clash of the Titans” was
seeing Liam Neeson, who played
Zeus, yell “release the Kraken” for
the first time. The line refers to a
villainous sea monster.
“The eternal Dungeons and
Dragons–playing geek in me was
excited,” Hay said.
Manfredi said he and Hay ar-
gued over who got to type this
line into the script, adding that
“to watch (Neeson) say it during
that rehearsal was pretty thrilling
to us.”
They may have made it to Hol-
lywood, but Manfredi and Hay still
identify with their alma mater.
“We met at Brown University,
which you may have heard of, in
Providence, Rhode Island. It’s a
liberal arts college,” Hay said fa-
cetiously.
“I remember getting my dorm
assignment mailed to me,” Man-
fredi said. “I just couldn’t find
Perkins.”
The advantage to Manfredi’s
freshman dor m assignment,
though, was the oppor tunity to
form friendships that he still main-
tains. “You gotta stick together out
there. It’s cold,” he said.
And though he did not mar-
r y someone from Perkins as
Brunonian folklore goes, Man-
fredi vividly remembers meeting
his wife outside Rites and Reason
Theatre.
“Our close group of friends is
really from our days at Brown,”
Hay said.
Brown’s philosophy has helped
Manfredi foster his way of thinking
and his approach to his career, he
said. “You’re just kind of thrown
in here. You’re forced to kind of
find a passion and what interests
you,” he said. “We are so fortunate,
as I’m sure you guys are now. The
professors at Brown are amazing.
They’re so interested in your well-
being.”
Manfredi, an American civili-
zation concentrator, said he also
“made some spectacularly bad
art.”
“That’s not true, Matt!” Hay
interrupted, citing a rock with a
golf club protruding from it on the
Main Green as a counterexample.
“Conceptually, it was amazing.”
Hay said he “dabbled in a lot
of stuff,” such as cognitive science,
linguistics and modern culture and
media, but ultimately concentrated
in English literature.
“For both of us, our experience
at Brown was so much about doing
improv, doing plays, going to plays,
doing weird art projects,” Hay said.
“You put up a play and 50 people
continued on page 7
Monday, April 5, 2010 | Page 6
Making the band,
Brown edition
By Fei Cai
Staf f Writer
Musically-inclined students find
diverse creative outlets around
campus — alone, in a group, elec-
tronically, acoustically — creating
a scene in which students can build
off one another’s talents.
In fact, some musicians may be
surprised by the number of stu-
dent artists currently performing
— or even working on albums.
“I feel like there are a lot of
musicians on campus, but they
have a hard time connecting,” said
Stephen Poletto ’12, who mixes
music on his computer and pro-
duces “mash-up work.”
Rats on the loose
For Benjamin Nicholson ’11,
Heidi Jiang ’11 and Rhode Island
School of Design junior Dylan
Ladds, releasing an album did
not mean stressing over signing
with a record label. On March 19,
their band, Leaky People, privately
produced its first CD, “Rats Eat-
ing Rats.”
The band, which started a little
over a year ago, has been playing
at small venues like Ben & Jerry’s
on Meeting Street. Guitarist and
singer Nicholson said he first met
bassist Jiang during their fresh-
man year, when they started play-
ing cover songs.
“All through high school,
I played music in a bunch of
bands, and we recorded albums.
It was something I really enjoyed
doing, and coming to Brown, I
found there was more access to
equipment without having to pay
the hourly studio fee,” Nicholson
said.
The band, which Jiang de-
scribed as “kind of folky,” wrote
most songs with just an acoustic
guitar and vocals. Afterward, more
instruments were added, such as
bass, electric guitar and drum
patterns from a computer. Jiang
described the production process,
including recording and editing,
as very long.
Sharing ideas through
melody
Other Brown musicians, such
as Addie Thompson ’12, go solo.
Thompson, an acoustic singer
and songwriter, has been playing
the guitar since sixth grade. “I
bought a chord book and taught
myself to play,” she said. “I was
motivated mainly because I had
a lot of songs in my head and I
wanted to hear them.”
She added that she sometimes
makes up stories in her songs.
“About half of my songs are like
that. The other half are very per-
sonal and are very much about me.
I usually don’t tell people which
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A rts &C ulture “I’m going to smite you from Olympus.”

— Phil Hay ’92, co-writer of “Clash of the Titans”

New student installation

shares thousand voices
By Jessica Liss
Contributing Writer

Over 500 individuals’ responses to the

question “How are you?” coupled with
dialogue and interviewers’ explana-
tions, radiate from speakers within
wooden poles in the audio collage “A
Thousand Voices.”
First formulated in September
2009, the idea for “A Thousand Voices”
developed over several months with
the help of a Creative Arts Council
grant, said Iona Juncan ’11, president
and artistic director of Listening Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald
LabOratory, a student group focused Tiny speakers yield many words.
on creating audio performance and
Courtesy of Benjamin Nicholson
radio theater. The project was installed teners and to give them a chance to
The band Leaky People, whose members are Brown and RISD students, just released an album.
in two sites on campus, initially in the participate in the community of voic-

Brown musicians discuss projects

upstairs space at Production Work-
shop Feb. 26–27 and then in the Ly-
man Hall breezeway March 7–21.
“We wanted to give voice to a thou-
sand people in the community and
beyond,” Juncan said.
The simple question “How are
you?” is “a mode of engaging with
people and approaching people, rather
than saying, ‘what is your state of mind
at this time?’ — which might be a bit
off-putting,” Juncan said.
People walk into a space such as
the breezeway and do not expect to
become immersed in something of
this sort, she added.
According to Juncan, the project
had three primary goals: to provide
people with the opportunity to express
themselves during the difficult finan-
cial crisis, to restore meaning to an
overused and meaningless question
and, lastly, to create an animated, in-
teractive living space — a concept
inspired by artists of the Russian revo-
lution, who converted public spaces
into performance sites.
Listening LabOratory members
interviewed individuals in a variety of
settings. They sought out subjects on
campus and in places such as Provi-
dence senior homes, airports and
students’ hometowns during breaks,
also incorporating foreign languages,
Juncan said. And whenever interview-
ers asked the question, they insisted
on a truthful answer, she added.
There have been eight perfor-
mance events organized around the
installation — the final one as part of
the interdisciplinary Arts in the One
World Festival March 20.
Each performance “sought to
transform spectators into active lis-
es,” wrote Quyen Ngo ’12, the group’s
coordinator of communications, in an
e-mail to The Herald.
“I don’t usually know what’s go-
ing on, but it is really interesting. I’ve
never experienced anything like this,”
said Johnson and Wales University
freshman Gincy Jacobs after being
guided through the installation at the
March 20 event.
Juncan said she and her collabora-
tors believe the installation is “raising
awareness that we overemphasize
visual universe over the oral universe,
which is even richer, and the conse-
quence of that is not listening actively
to people and communication.”
In the future, Listening LabOra-
tory hopes to reach new types of audi-
ences, such as the visually impaired,
Juncan said.
“A Thousand Voices” also will ap-
pear at the Megapolis Audio Festival
in Baltimore, May 14–16.
The festival’s goal is “to bring
people from different disciplines
who use audio really as the primary
component” of their work, said Justin
Grotelueschen, the festival’s manag-
ing director.
Alongside the work of over 60
artists from across the world, “this
particular installation, I think, will be
one of the more challenging installa-
tions,” he said, adding that one of its
best features is its ability to engage
the audience.
But Listening LabOratory’s work
on the installation is not complete.
The group plans to increase the num-
ber of perspectives represented in
the piece and to “keep adding to the
community” of voices through more
interviews, Juncan said.
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ones are which.”
Thompson said when she writes
songs, she usually starts with a
melody or an idea. “I then marry
the two when I sit down and play
the guitar,” she added.
At Brown, Thompson has per-
formed as both a solo artist and
part of a band called One Night
Band. She has given performances
at the Underground, talent shows
and coffee shops. She said she
likes to gauge people’s reactions
when she plays.
“It is nice to sort of see and get
feedback from people, what songs
they liked, what songs they didn’t,”
she said.
The electronic approach
But for others, music does not
always involve instruments. “I usu-
ally set up really loud speakers, my
laptop, some strobe lights and do
live improv work for 45 minutes,”
said Poletto, whose artist name is
Spoletto.
Poletto, who began working
on his music a year ago, said he
was influenced by Girl Talk and
hopes to perform live in the near
future. “I’ve DJ’ed a few parties,
but I want to get out of that and do
more concert-style shows.”
Poletto said he took a few elec-
tronic music courses that taught
him the basics of what he does.
He spends a lot of time collecting
samples online then laying down
tracks and layering drum beats
on top.
Poletto said he is currently tak-
ing MUSC 1200: “Seminar in Elec-
tronic Music: Recording Studio as
Compositional Tool.”
“I’m building up a lot of knowl-
edge about what these software
packages can produce,” he said.
From the stage to the streets
Though these students quickly
broke into Brown’s music scene,
many campus musicians may won-
der how to become part of the Uni-
versity’s music community.
“The first thing you should do
is play with your friends,” Jiang
said.
Nicholson agreed. He encour-
aged any musicians looking to play
with others to go to “any type of
open mic.”
“People play in their rooms, and
they don’t always start a band, but
you get to meet people and see
what music other people are inter-
ested in playing,” he added.
Poletto and Sam Rosenfeld ’12
plan to organize a Web site where
musicians can work together. The
idea would be to have a musician
upload a piece of music so that
other musicians will have access
to it.
“A drummer can come, up-
load his track and a guitarist can
come and see it. He can lay it over
his own music and re-upload it.
Then a singer can come and lay
his own music over that track,”
Poletto said.
“There is an evolution, creation
and recreation of content. Musi-
cians would be building off of the
work of each other and fueling
each other,” he said.

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are going to show up for sure,” he
added. “Once you get out of college,
you realize that’s not necessarily
the case.”
Their filmmaking career, accord-
ing to Hay, is an extension of the
projects they have been doing since
college. “We almost approached it
like another fun thing we could do
as a team because we liked working
together so much,” he said.
At this point, “our voices … on
the page have become exactly the
same. That’s not only creepy but to which Manfredi responded,
great,” Hay said. “Then I’m going to smite you from
“That is creepy, though,” Man- Olympus.”
fredi added. “We spend so much
time together.”
Asked which “Clash” character
he would prefer to be in real life if
he could, Manfredi chose Apollo.
“He was the center of a lot of the
myths I read as a kid,” he said, add-
ing that if he were the sun god, “I’d
just hang out on Olympus for a little
bit.”
“I’m going to go with a small
character named ‘Ixas,’ ” Hay said,
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m. lacrosse

Playing against top-10 teams, Bears keep falling just short

By Andrew Braca
Assistant Sports Editor
The No. 16 men’s lacrosse team
dropped a pair of close games to
top-10 opponents last week, falling
at No. 7 Duke (9-3), 11-10, on Tues-
day before suffering a 9-7 loss to
No. 5 Princeton (7-1, 3-0) at the New
England Lacrosse Classic at Gillette
Stadium Saturday. The Bears’ re-
cord fell to 3-4 overall and 1-1 in Ivy
League play.
“Despite the fact that our oppo-
nents were both in the top 10 and
both outstanding lacrosse teams …
it’s still a disappointment in having
come so close, because close isn’t
good enough for us,” said Head
Coach Lars Tiffany ’90. “The group
of men I coach, they want more, so
we won’t be happy with coming up
just short against great teams.”
Coupled with an 11-10 loss to No.
9 Massachusetts (7-2) on March 23,
Brown has lost three straight games
to top-10 opponents in which the
game was tied midway through the
fourth quarter.
“Three games in a row, the oppo-
nent scored the next goal, and then
we’re the ones chasing to the end of
regulation,” Tiffany said. “We’ve got
to find a way to make that next play
when it’s the middle of the fourth
quarter, tied. We’ve got to take the
lead.”
After the game against Princeton
in the home of the NFL’s New Eng-
land Patriots, the Bears held a team
meeting in the locker room that
normally houses the New England
Revolution soccer franchise to ask
themselves how they could improve.
But the answers will come on the
field.
Duke 11, Brown 10
On the strength of a 17-1 first-
quarter advantage in shots, Duke
raced out to a 5-0 lead just 17:26 into
the game in what Tiffany called “the
worst start in a lacrosse game that
I’ve been a part of in my four years”
at Brown. Yet the Bears battled back
with goals by Rob Schlesinger ’12,
Andrew Feinberg ’11 and two from
quad-captain Thomas Muldoon ’10
before the Blue Devils scored once
more to take just a 6-4 lead into half-
time.
Tiffany said the coaching staff
made no significant adjustments.
“There was nothing special we
said. It was really the men them-
selves, after the second time out I
called, getting on each other and
pushing each other.”
After two goals by Feinberg and
one apiece from Muldoon, quad-
captain Reade Seligmann ’10 and
Parker Brown ’12, the game was tied
at nine with 9:03 left in the fourth
quarter. Tiffany said the Bears were
able to survive Duke’s advantages
of 46-27 in shots, 34-22 in ground
balls and 16-8 in faceoffs because
of “Matt Chriss (’11) making great
save after great save, the defense,
after the poor start, settling down
and playing very tough, tenacious
man-to-man defense against one of
the best attack units in the country”
and opportunistic offense.
Muldoon scored his fourth goal
of the game to put Brown in front,
but Duke answered with two goals,
the second coming 10 seconds after
the first, to take an 11-10 lead with
6:41 left.
Neither side would score again.
Though Chriss made two of his 15
saves in the waning minutes to keep
the Blue Devils off the board, the
Bears could not beat Duke goalie
Dan Wigrizer despite two late extra-
man opportunities.
Princeton 9, Brown 7
On Saturday, the Bears never
took the lead against Princeton, but
they repeatedly answered the Tigers’
rallies.
“That’s the character of this group
of men: Never give in, never say die,”
Tiffany said. “We constantly matched
what they were doing.”
After a quiet first half in which
Brown trailed, 3-2, getting goals from
David Hawley ’11 and Feinberg, the
Bears recovered to take 36 shots in
the second half, but they were fre-
quently stymied by Princeton goalie
Tyler Fiorito, who notched eight of
his 17 saves in the fourth quarter.
“I’ve never coached a Brown team
that’s taken 36 shots in a half,” Tif-
fany said. “We generated 36 shots
against a good defense. To only score
five goals on those 36 shots is a tre-
mendous credit to Tyler Fiorito.”
After Brown tied the game at five
on goals by Feinberg, Schlesinger
and Hawley, Princeton took the lead
with 10:23 left in the fourth quarter.
The Bears answered five seconds
later when Willie Fix ’12 keyed the
fast break and fed Muldoon for the
game-tying goal.
“It’s tough to score in five sec-
onds,” Tiffany said.
After a five-minute scoreless
stretch, Princeton scored twice to
take an 8-6 lead with 4:07 left, with
the second goal coming on a strong
shot by Paul Barnes.
“It was a 13-, maybe 14-yard laser
that hit the absolute corner,” Tiffany
said. “It hit the net and the corner
and bounced out. It was a perfect
shot.”
After the Tigers added an insur-
ance goal, Seligmann added a man-
up goal with 53 seconds left, but
Fiorito made two saves in the final
30 seconds to seal the victory. Chriss
finished with nine saves.
The Bears adapted to the experi-
ence of playing in Gillette Stadium,
the home of the Patriots, after Tiffany
urged his players not to be awed by
the venue.
“Try to enjoy the atmosphere,
then bring it back to Earth, but I have
to admit, it really was a thrill to play
in an NFL stadium,” Tiffany said.
“What an exciting opportunity for
us and our men.”
While the Bears ponder how to
conquer their late-game struggles
against top-10 opponents, they will
turn their immediate attention to in-
state rival Bryant (6-3). The Bears
will take on the Bulldogs Tuesday
at 7 p.m. on Stevenson Field.
“Bryant is a good lacrosse pro-
gram, by no means a pushover,” Tif-
fany said. “Combine that with the
local state rivalry — it always feels
good to beat your neighbors. I’m
sure Bryant is going to come over
here fired up and loaded, ready to
play. We’re going to have to match
their intensity and take it one step
further.”

Morey ’99 signs contract with Seahawks

By Dan Alexander
Spor ts Editor
Sean Morey ’99 signed a multi-year
deal with the Seattle Seahawks on
March 29, according to a Seahawks
press release.
The former Brown wide receiver
has made an NFL career as a spe-
cial teams standout. Morey earned
a spot on the NFC Pro Bowl team
as a special team player two years
ago. This past season, he was an
alternate to the Pro Bowl.
Morey heads to Seattle after
three seasons with the Arizona Car-
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S ports M Onday
This bear is softball
evolving to Bears drop the ball in three of four league games
a seahawk
continued from page 8
dinals, including one that ended
in a Super Bowl victory.
Drafted in the seventh round
by the New England Patriots in
1999, Morey played on the Pa-
triots’ practice squad for two
years before being signed by
the Philadelphia Eagles in 2001,
the press release said. He joined
the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2004
and moved to the Cardinals in
2007.
In 109 games, Morey has 11
catches for 168 yards as a re-
ceiver and 151 tackles on special
teams over his career, accord-
ing to the press release. Morey
will reunite in Seattle with Head
Coach Pete Carroll, who was the
Patriots’ head coach when New
England drafted Morey during
his final semester at Brown.
In college, Morey was a three-
time first-team All Ivy selection
and won Ivy League Player of
the Year honors in 1997. He still
holds the Ivy League record in
career touchdowns, touchdowns
in a season, career receiving
yards and receiving yards in a
season.
By Ashley McDonnell
Sports Staff Writer
Over spring break, the softball team
(12-9, 1-3 Ivy) started off strong, de-
feating Bryant (3-23). However, the
team went on to lose its first two Ivy
League games to Penn (9-12, 4-0) and
only managed to win one of two games
against Columbia (6-17, 1-3).
Brown 5, Bryant 4
Though the Bears won, Bryant
dominated most of the game on March
25. At the end of the fourth inning,
the Bulldogs led the Bears, 3-0, after
the Bears had the bases loaded but
failed to score any runs in the top of
the fourth.
“They just had a lot of hits,” said
first baseman Kate Strobel ’12. “It was
a matter of them hitting and us not
hitting.”
But in the top of the fifth inning, the
Bears came alive. After second base-
man Erika Mueller ’13 (also a Herald
sports staff writer) and shortstop Katie
Rothamel ’10 walked, third baseman
Stephanie Thompson ’13 doubled to
bring home Mueller. With two runners
in scoring position, Strobel stepped up
to the plate and hit a three-run home
run.
“I just knew that there were run-
ners on second and third, so I wanted
a single to the right,” Strobel said. “I
had two strikes on me quickly, but I
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“It wasn’t the prettiest win, but we still came out with the win.”
just ended up with the perfect pitch,
and it went.”
The Bears scored their game-
clinching run in the sixth inning.
Pitcher Kristie Chin ’11, after relieving
Liz DiMascio ’13 in the bottom of the
fourth, only allowed the Bulldogs to
score one more run, sealing Brown’s
5-4 win.
“It wasn’t the prettiest win, but we
still came out with the win,” Strobel
said. “We proved that we have fire.”
Penn 6, Brown 2
But the Quakers extinguished the
Bears’ fire in their first series of Ivy
League games on Friday.
“Teams tend to pick it up with Ivy
starts, when we play people in our
own conference,” said Head Coach
DeeDee Enabenter-Omidiji. “We ex-
pected as a team to be competitive.
Unfortunately, that didn’t happen in
our first series.”
Penn scored two runs off a home
run in the first inning. Though the
Quakers did not score again until the
bottom of the seventh, the Bears spent
the entire game playing catch-up. In the
fourth inning, Strobel hit a home run
and in the top of the seventh, Rothamel
hit a double that brought home Muel-
ler, tying the game, 2-2.
But in the bottom of the seventh,
Penn’s Brooke Coloma hit a grand
slam, dashing the Bears’ hopes of go-
ing into extra innings.
— Kate Strobel ’12, first baseman
“We started figuring things out, but
it was later in the game,” Enabenter-
Omidiji said. “We didn’t start making
adjustments until it was too late.”
Penn 5, Brown 0
The adjustments the Bears started
making in the first game did not carry
over into the second game against the
Quakers. Though Penn scored all five
of its runs by the end of the third in-
ning, Brown only managed to get one
hit against Penn the entire game.
According to Enabenter-Omidiji,
because the team was crushed after
losing to Penn in the first game off a
grand slam, the Bears were unable to
bounce back in time for the second
game.
“Some have the ability to put it in
the past, but we didn’t,” Enabenter-
Omidiji said. “It carried into our play
in the second game. You could see the
devastation in the players’ faces.”
Brown 3, Columbia 0
The next day against Columbia,
Brown seemed to shake off the losses
to Penn. Though the Bears got off to
a slow start offensively, Chin on the
mound kept the team in the game by
shutting down Columbia’s offense.
“Kristie Chin did a great job keeping
them off balance,” Enabenter-Omidiji
said. “Whenever you can shut a team
down like she can, you have talent.”
Thompson kick-started the offense
Monday, April 5, 2010
in the fourth inning with a double to
left field, followed by a single from
Strobel. Both Thompson and Strobel
were brought home by a single to right
field from catcher Amanda Asay ’10.
The Bears scored another run in
the top of the fifth, capitalizing on a
throwing error by the Lions to seal
the victory.
Columbia 10, Brown 5
But Columbia did not let their loss
to Brown in game one get them down.
The Lions came back and completely
dominated the Bears in the second
game.
At the end of the third inning,
Columbia led the Bears 3-0. The
Bears’ offense came alive, however,
and scored four runs in the top of the
fourth inning. But the Lions would not
let themselves be outdone and scored
five runs in the bottom of the fourth
inning, making the score 8-4.
“They got a lot of cheap hits,”
Enabenter-Omidiji said. “They hit it
just soft enough to allow them to get
on base. It was one of those ‘Twilight
Zone’-type games.”
The Bears scored their final run
in the sixth inning, but Columbia an-
swered with two runs of its own, mak-
ing the final score 10-5.
“Offensively, you would think scor-
ing five runs would be enough” to win,
Enabenter-Omidiji said. “But not when
you’re giving up 10.”
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l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r

Teaching at Brown worth

the long commute
To the Editor:
As a faculty member with a
long commute, I read with inter-
est your recent article (“From afar,
profs make the commute,” March
11) on the subject. In my case, the
round-trip drive from my home in
Madison, Conn., is approximately
175 miles, which I am able to make
every weekday with the help of an
incredibly supportive family who
understand how much it means to
me to teach here. I would certainly
prefer an affordable and convenient
mass transit commuter option that
fits my schedule (Amtrak doesn’t cut
it for five days a week), but until one
becomes available, I will be content
with National Public Radio, the oc-
casional book on tape and getting
to know my newly acquired hybrid.
Although “hypercommuting” does
require some sacrifices and accom-
modations, I believe that I speak for
others in my situation when I say
that it’s well worth it to be able to
teach at Brown.
Richard Bungiro PhD’99
Lecturer in Biology

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D.C. — safe from democracy
WILLIAM TOMASKO
Opinions Columnist
Starting college is always a significant transi-
tion. Students are — often for the first time
— experiencing roommates, sharing bath-
rooms with strangers, figuring out how to
work laundry machines and spending months
at a time away from their families.
For me, when I started my freshman year
at Brown and began living in Rhode Island,
I experienced another “first”: I was suddenly
living in an area with representation in Con-
gress.
I was born in Washington, D.C., and, before
coming to Providence, I’d never lived any-
where else. Living in D.C. has advantages. We
get to enjoy free museums, like the National
Air and Space Museum. We can use a clean,
often-reliable subway system. Last summer,
we even had the honor of sharing our city with
a new cast of The Real World.
However, D.C. residents are also the only
American citizens who pay federal taxes and
serve in the military without getting to vote
for members of Congress. “Taxation without
representation” was a catchy slogan in the
time of the Revolutionary War, but that un-
democratic status still applies to the roughly
600,000 people who live in D.C.
The United States is the only country with
a representative government that has decided
to disenfranchise its capital city. From Paris
to Baghdad, millions of other capital-dwellers
They’re not all made out of ticky tacky
EMILY BRESLIN
Opinions Columnist
The statement that investment bankers have
replaced lawyers as the most hated profes-
sionals in America has become a common
throwaway line, but it makes me wonder why
lawyers apparently occupied that place to be-
gin with. Like many Brown graduates before
us, many of my friends and I will probably be
headed in the same direction after graduation.
We think of Brown as the type of place where it
is possible to avoid joining the rat race at least
temporarily; we can take all of our classes S/
NC if we want and still get a degree. We read
Marx over and over — I have been assigned
“The Communist Manifesto” three times in
college. So why do we go off to work for the
Man? At least, this is what I feel like Brown
students are thinking as they roll their eyes
when I tell them I want to be a lawyer.
I think the objection to lawyers is primarily
based on an undeveloped intuition that people
have. One only goes to a lawyer when there is
a problem, so lawyers are bad because they
profit off of the misery of others. This objection
fails spectacularly. It is not fair that life is such
that marriages do not always last forever and
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have been trusted to have a voice in their
national legislatures.
Voting rights in D.C. have expanded
through history — thanks to the 23rd Amend-
ment, ratified in 1961, we have three votes
in the Electoral College, giving us a vote in
presidential elections. Unfortunately, we have
yet to attain representation in Congress. El-
eanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., serves as an
elected, non-voting delegate. She is allowed
to vote on bills when they are in House com-
mittees but not when they are considered by
the entire House.
“Taxation without representation” was a catchy
slogan in the time of the Revolutionary War, but
that undemocratic status still applies to the
roughly 600,000 people who live in D.C.
The Founding Fathers were aware of the
capital city’s representation problem. Alex-
ander Hamilton proposed that, as D.C. grew
in population, it could eventually get a vote
in Congress.
Modern critics of D.C. voting rights, how-
ever, are perfectly happy to deny representa-
tion to 600,000 Americans, a number greater
than the population of Wyoming.
One leader in the struggle against enfran-
chisement has been Senator Jon Kyl from
Arizona. As the Republican whip, he’s played
a role in fighting bills that would give D.C. a
House member. In one 2009 floor speech, he
people need to get divorced, or that we have
to worry about unscrupulous behavior when
engaging in real estate transactions. However,
lawyers are not to blame for these facts of life;
rather, they help facilitate the negotiation of
this unfairness.
I suppose that people come by this prejudice
against working within a legal or social system
honestly; “The Catcher in the Rye” is required
reading in many American high schools. We
apparently have the sense that individualism
I will not be “selling out” if I go to law school.
I will be “buying in” — buying in to the idea
that our legal traditions are part of the good
American society.
is a good quality and that perpetual rebellion
is the way to demonstrate it.
I personally hated Holden Caulfield’s insipid
whining. I was as full of angst as the next teen-
ager, but I was frustrated with his obstinacy. He
may have refused to participate in the “phony”
adult world, but I was not convinced that his
life was at all better because of this decision, or
that he was intentionally making a sacrifice in
argued that my fellow D.C. residents and I
already have “representation in Congress —
100 senators and 435 House members.” His
claim rested on the fact that D.C. receives
more federal spending per resident than any
state.
However, as Kyl acknowledged in the same
speech, much of that money is spent on federal
buildings instead of going to local interests.
And, even though the federal government
owns 88 percent of Nevada’s land (and 68
percent of Utah’s), giving citizens of those
states plenty of built-in federal support, they
are still trusted to vote for their own repre-
sentatives.
Furthermore, as thrilled as I would be to
consider Kyl my own personal senator, his
official Web site sadly discourages that dream
of mine. His Web site promises to help Arizona
residents get help with federal agencies and
snag flags that were flown over the Capitol, but
he doesn’t seem to mention similar services
he can offer D.C. residents.
We may happen to live in the same city in
which they work, but the 100 senators and 435
representatives Kyl mentions must naturally
focus their attention on the people who actu-
order to do the right thing. He may have been
original with his hunting cap and all, but his
own life seemed pretty “crappy” to me.
I preferred “SLC Punk!” — James Meren-
dino’s 1998 film about a Salt Lake City kid’s dis-
illusionment with the punk scene and eventual
decision to attend Harvard Law School. Even
as a teenager, I had the feeling that joining
the professional adult world does not make a
person a poseur or a phony.
I do not think we all have to make extreme
personal sacrifices to have good values and be
decent and authentic human beings. Honestly,
I simply do not have the energy for all the
protest out there. Many teenagers (and Brown
students) seem to wish that they did, but we
can only reject so much about our society, and
growing up requires us to reach this conclu-
sion. As the protagonist of “SLC Punk!” says,
“there’s no future in anarchy.”
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ally elect them.
Congress can take immediate action to-
wards ending taxation without representa-
tion. One method would be passing a bill that
gives D.C. a voting House member. Such a bill
passed in the Senate in 2009, but was never
considered in the House because of a toxic,
anti-gun control provision.
Another potential solution would be a con-
stitutional amendment. The amendment could
grant D.C. its own House member, or maybe
a House member and two senators. It could
even go further and turn D.C. into a state.
Yet another fix would be giving D.C. back
to Maryland. When the Constitution was rati-
fied, Maryland and Virginia both ceded land
to create a capital city, and Virginia’s share
was eventually given back. If D.C. (excluding
a non-residential sector that would host the
federal government) became a city in Mary-
land, we’d be instantly entitled to senators and
a representative.
Plenty of solutions are out there, but for
one of them to be enacted, political will must
exist. According to one poll from 2005, only
18 percent of Americans know that D.C. is not
represented in Congress. Once they become
aware, however, 82 percent support giving us
senators and a representative.
If enough awareness arises across the
country and our leaders fully commit to pur-
suing one of these solutions, maybe one day I’ll
be able to be both taxed and represented. For
now, I’ll just have to appreciate Rhode Island
and its congressional delegation.
William Tomasko ’13 also appreciates the
National Zoo.
I will not be “selling out” if I go to law
school. I will be “buying in” — buying in to
the idea that our legal traditions are part of the
good American society. This does not involve
accepting everything about the American le-
gal system in practice or ceasing to examine
it with a critical eye. It simply involves the
acknowledgement that there is some good in
the system and that starting over in an effort
to build a utopia always fails. As adults, we
have to start where we are rather than dismiss
everything that came before us outright and
embrace anarchy like naive teenage punks. If
we have problems with the fact that less than
five percent of criminal cases went to trial in
2002, for example, it is far more productive
to work for change in small ways rather than
to lose perspective completely and gripe like
Holden Caulfield.
I realized a long time ago that I could do
“a lot more damage inside the system than
outside of it.” It is true that the system will
probably damage me too — long hours, boring
meetings, some unsavory coworkers — and
although that damage is not fair, it is just a
part of life.
Emily Breslin ’10 is a philosophy
concentrator from Harvard, Mass. She
can be contacted at emily_breslin@
brown.edu.
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Excelsior | Kevin Grubb

3 Fruitopia | Andy Kim

c a l e n da r
Today, april 5 tomorrow, april 6

12 p.m. — Hashim Sarkis speaks on 4 P.M. — Priyadarshini Ghosh: Mohini

Beirut, List Art Center
7 p.m. — Campfire Talk: The Los
Angeles Urban Rangers Enact the
Megalopolis, John Nicholas Brown
Center
Attam Dance Demonstration and
Lecture, Ashamu Dance Studio
4:30 p.m. — Financial Fitness
Workshop for Graduate Students
and Postdocs, Wilson Hall

menu Fruitopia | Andy Kim

Sharpe Refectory Verney-Woolley Dining Hall

Lunch — Popcorn Fingers, Gyro Lunch — Bacon Ranch Chicken

Sandwich, Vegetarian Submarine Sandwich, Swiss Broccoli Pasta,
Sandwich Enchilada Bar

Dinner — Macaroni and Cheese, Dinner — Italian Meatballs with

Roast Beef Au Jus, Grilled Cheese Pasta, Spinach Pie Casserole, Stir-
Fried Tofu

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Hippomaniac | Mat Becker

Hippomaniac | Mat Becker

Island Republic | Kevin Grubb