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Hiring freeze may hit athletics hard Artists’ dressing room
By Dan Alexander
Staff Writer
The Department of Athletics expects
to lose about 30 coaches and staff this
summer, but with a University-wide
hiring freeze in place, it is unclear
whether the department will be able
to get approval to fill vacancies with
new hires, Director of Athletics Mi-
chael Goldberger said.
If the tight hiring standards that
have been in place since November
last through the summer, the depart-
ment may be without a number of as-
sistant coaches next year — many of
whom are expected to move to other
schools, as routinely occurs.
While the freeze is in place, any
proposed new hires must be submit-
ted to a Vacancy Review Committee
of top administrators. Departments
must submit a form to their umbrella
division within the University and
explain why filling an empty post
is absolutely essential. If the form
is approved by the division, the re-
view committee can do one of three
things — refill the position, bring a
Pre-frosh flock to campus for ADOCH
By Sarah Husk
Senior Staf f Writer
At 5:30 p.m. on March 31 — a mere
30 minutes after thousands of stu-
dents received their admission de-
cisions — 15 students had already
registered to confirm a place at A
Day on College Hill.
Beginning this afternoon, those
Shower assault thought to be
unrelated to March incident
By Sydney Ember
Senior Staf f Writer
The assault that occurred Friday
evening around 6:30 p.m. in a Sears
House shower is “not related” to
a similar March 12 incident also
involving a female student shower-
ing, Chief of Police and Director
of Public Safety Mark Porter said
Monday.
According to an e-mail sent to
students Friday night by the De-
partment of Public Safety, a female
student was assaulted by an uniden-
tified male holding a knife.
The suspect pushed the woman
before fleeing the scene, according
to the e-mail.
The incident in March involved
a female student who was photo-
graphed by an unidentified man
while she showered in a Diman
inside
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The Department of Athetics is worried about being allowed to make new
hires to fill about 30 vacancies it expects to arise this summer.
temporary worker into the slot or you’ve got that.”
eliminate the position altogether. The hiring form states at the top,
But in a time when budgets are in bold and italicized font, “Only
pressed from all sides, athletic initia- those positions deemed essential
tives may suffer more than academic to support the highest priorities in
ones. the Plan for Academic Enrichment
Academics are “going to be the and mission-critical operations are
absolute core priority,” said Margaret likely to be approved.”
Klawunn, vice president for campus
life and student services. “So first, continued on page 2
students and hundreds more will According to Christiana Ste-
flood campus as Brown plays host phenson ’11, ADOCH co-coordi-
to this year’s crop of accepted stu- nator and a Herald sales manager,
dents. the experience accepted students
Dean of Admission Jim Miller have at ADOCH is crucial.
’73 said there are about 750 stu- “There’s a lot riding on this for
dents registered for ADOCH and a lot of people,” she said, calling
the Third World Welcome — a her own experience at ADOCH
number he said was on par with
attendance in recent years. continued on page 2
Interfaith House falls short in numbers
By Sarah Husk
Senior Staf f Writer
House bathroom. The sorority
Kappa Alpha Theta is located in After a poor recruitment season,
Diman, while Sears House is home Interfaith House will lose its Type
to Alpha Chi Omega, Brown’s other B status as a program house be-
sorority. ginning in the fall due to a lack
“There is no indication, at this of residential members planning
point, that this incident is related to to live in the organization’s space
any previous incident on campus,” in Diman House.
Porter added in an e-mail. Type B status carries with it
The female student in Friday’s exclusive access to the desig-
incident was unharmed, Por ter nated facilities in the building of
said, though the suspect remains residence, and can only be at-
at large. tained by an organization that
“DPS and (Providence Police has existed on campus for three
Department) detectives are fol- years and has adequately fulfilled
lowing up on this incident,” Por- all of the program housing ex-
ter wrote. “The investigation is pectations.
ongoing.” Each of the two status types
Por ter said the victim was for program houses, Type A and
able to give the police a detailed Type B, carries “varying degrees
description of the suspect, which of privilege and responsibility,”
was included in the campus-wide according to Residential Coun-
e-mail. cil’s Web site.
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SHARK Attack
Shark Sushi Bar and Grill
will open in three weeks,
according to its owner
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
robbed during show
By Sydney Ember
Senior Staf f Writer
An unidentified suspect broke into
the Faunce House dressing room
of one of the Spring Weekend art-
ists during Friday’s concert and
stole two laptops and some cash,
according to Brown Concert Agen-
cy Administrative Chair Stephen
Hazeltine ’09 and the Department
of Public Safety.
The theft occurred while Sha-
ron Jones and the Dap-Kings
were performing, but Hazeltine
declined to say if the retro-soul
group was the victim of the lar-
ceny.
“It’s an ongoing investigation.
We don’t want to step on anybody’s
toes,” Hazeltine said, adding that
BCA wanted to keep the identity
of the artist confidential.
In an e-mail to The Herald,
Chief of Police and Director of
Public Safety Mark Porter wrote
that the suspect stole “several
personal items,” including the
computers and an indeterminate
amount of cash.
DPS was notified of the inci-
dent at about 10 p.m. on Friday,
Porter said in an interview Mon-
day. DPS detectives are currently
investigating the incident, and are
trying to ascertain the total worth
of the stolen items, Porter said.
“We were ver y upset by the
incident,” Hazeltine added in an
e-mail, “and immediately worked
The 22-member requirement
stipulated by ResCouncil and the
Office of Residential Life techni-
cally applies to program houses
of either classification, but, ac-
cording to ResCouncil’s Web
site, houses with “an exceptional
record of positive contributions
may deser ve flexibility in the ap-
plication of these regulations.”
Interfaith House, which Presi-
dent Monikah Schuschu ’10 de-
scribed as a “safe space where
people can talk about religion,”
has always “been on the small
side,” she said.
During Inter faith House’s
six years as a program house,
Schuschu added, membership
was always near the 22 required
residential members.
But this year, she said, “re-
cruitment didn’t go well” and by
Interfaith House failed to recruit
enough people to live in Diman.
continued on page 2
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crimson crumble
Streaking baseball team
takes 6 of 7 from opponents
in torrid stretch
with our security partners to re-
vise the security plan for Satur-
day’s shows, which were incident-
free.”
No suspects have been identi-
fied yet, though Porter said the
investigation has yielded signifi-
cant clues.
“We do have a couple of leads,
including a description of the sus-
pect and possible video evidence
of the crime,” Porter said.
Hazeltine said a pass was nec-
essary to gain backstage access
during the concerts — a policy
he said BCA clarified before Sat-
urday’s concert to remove any
confusion regarding who could
enter the restricted area.
“We had a very in-depth secu-
rity plan for this year,” Hazeltine
said, adding that Green Horn
Management, a private company
that manages many of Brown’s
events, and DPS handled the situ-
ation well.
They “did ever ything right,
and we have no complaints about
them,” he said.
Both Hazeltine and Daniel Ain
’09, BCA’s booking chair, said they
will re-evaluate the security plan
for next year’s Spring Weekend.
BCA has been in touch with all
the artists who performed during
the Spring Weekend concerts to
assure them that appropriate mea-
sures are being taken to identify
the suspect and close the case,
Hazeltine said.
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Tory Hartmann ’11 says
those handwritten tests are
actually the best
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C ampus N EWS “Hopefully we don’t get beyond that.”

— Director of Athletics Michael Goldberger, on planned budget cutbacks

Budget cuts, new Athletics department facing vacancies

events for ADOCH
continued from page 1
“incredibly formative.”
“I remember what it was like
tr ying to make a decision about
the future,” she said. “And it’s a
hard decision.”
The program of fers oppor-
tunities for accepted students
to socialize with one another,
experience dorm life first-hand
by staying overnight with a cur-
rent student and get a taste of the
academic and extracurricular of-
ferings at Brown through panels,
lectures and chances to sit in on
courses.
Stephenson, who is coordinat-
ing ADOCH with Salsabil Ahmed
’11, also emphasized the impor-
tance of the widespread involve-
ment of current students, which
she said was “really indicative
that ADOCH is a campus-wide
effort.”
“Brown speaks for itself,”
Stephenson said. “We just step
back and … watch the Brown
community that we love speak
for itself.”
For the second year in a row,
students who were admitted un-
der early decision have not been
invited to ADOCH.
In the past, Miller said, there
had been complaints that ac-
cepted students found ADOCH to
be “ver y overcrowded” and that
inviting early decision students
“over whelms our facilities.”
Stephenson also said the Bru-
in Club has been hosting tours
exclusively for admitted students,
including students admitted un-
der the early decision program.
sudoku
These tours dif fer from the
standard campus tours and give
students a more in-depth look at
certain aspects of the University,
such as first-year dorms.
While this year’s ADOCH will
remain the same in most aspects,
some changes have been made,
both in terms of the budget and
in some of the activities and
events offered.
According to Miller, the Uni-
versity usually spends about
$80,000 on ADOCH, but this year
has trimmed the budget down to
around $70,000, mostly by cutting
costs on food.
One new addition to this year’s
ADOCH is a meet-and-greet bar-
beque on the Main Green that is
scheduled for Tuesday evening,
which Stephenson said she hopes
will be “a good opportunity” for
accepted students to interact with
one another and other members
of the Brown community.
And while Stephenson said
there would be no more empha-
sis than usual on financial aid
this year, another addition to the
ADOCH lineup is 12 to 14 parents
of current Brown students who
will be present during the parent
information session.
These parents, Stephenson
said, have “been there, fronted
the bill” and will be able to speak
to the value of a Brown educa-
tion.
Stephenson said there are
many programs — from a cap-
pella arch sings to a talent show
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continued from page 1
Goldberger said the departures
of assistant coaches and others in
athletics was not unusual in itself.
“The nature of coaching is that
people try to move up,” he said. “A
second assistant wants to be the first
assistant, and the first assistant wants
to be the head coach.”
“It’s just natural that people are
going to be looking for those oppor-
tunities at other places,” he added.
The hiring pause may not directly
affect all Brown teams — just those
that lose coaches. Goldberger said
that fact could create unfortunate
discrepancies between athletes on
different teams.
“I don’t think it’s fair to our stu-
dent-athletes to say that you’re going
to have one type of experience and
another group of student-athletes will
have a very different type based on
the vagaries of who decides to pur-
sue another job,” he said. “It’s got to
be a more thoughtful approach.”
Nothing is cer tain yet. The
athletics department does not yet
know which coaches will leave, or
exactly how many. The campus life
division does not know how many
positions from its 13 departments
will be vacant.
When assistant men’s soccer
coach Ken Murphy took a position at
another school, the athletics depart-
ment submitted the form requesting
Interfaith fails to recruit big, loses status
continued from page 1
Super Deadline Day the organiza-
tion had confirmation that member-
ship was drastically smaller than it
had been in the past. According to
Schuschu, there will only be eight
or nine students living in Interfaith
House next year, which will drop
the house to Type A status.
Because of the status down-
grade, Interfaith will lose exclu-
sive access to its kitchen, lounge
and librar y beginning in the fall.
It will retain preferred access to
these spaces, Associate Director
of Residential Life Natalie Basil
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald,
which means it will be allowed to
reser ve a space for any event the
house sponsors. But other students
living independently in Diman will
now have access to what was for-
the ability to refill the position. The
request is currently pending in the
Vacancy Review Committee.
“If we’re told we can’t fill it, then
we’re really going to be in trouble,”
Goldberger said.
The review committee does not
know which vacancies it will approve,
or how many.
“This is not something that any
of us have been through at Brown
before,” said MaryLou McMillan
’85, senior director for projects and
planning. “We just have to see what
develops.”
“I can say I’m very optimistic
about how we’re going to think about
pure coaching positions,” said review
committee member Karen Davis,
vice president for human resources.
“But I think it would do a disservice
to the committee process if I said
more than that.”
No head coaches have yet an-
nounced that they plan to leave
Brown, Golberger said. But with
37 teams, “it’s sure it happen,” he
added.
According to McMillan and
Klawunn, the only sure thing is
that not all positions will be filled,
and that others will have to pick up
the slack.
“It’s not going to be without pain,”
Klawunn said.
The athletics department has
already begun taking some steps
toward reducing its budget. Gold-
merly Interfaith House’s kitchen,
as well as the existing kitchen for
independents.
The decreased membership has
also translated into more available
rooms for independents in Diman.
According to Basil, ResLife was
able to offer 10 extra rooms in the
building in the housing lotter y,
increasing the number of indepen-
dents living in Diman relative to
members of Interfaith House and
sorority Kappa Alpha Theta, also
housed in the building.
Schuschu said the loss of these
spaces is “definitely going to hurt
us,” adding that members of the
house generally do a lot of cooking
and that the librar y has tradition-
ally ser ved as a study space. Both
the kitchen and the study area help
build the community of Interfaith
House, she said.
berger decided to eliminate the
costly All Sports Banquet — which
hosted all varsity athletes — and host
a less expensive Senior Celebration
and Awards Banquet instead. The de-
partment also eliminated a position
of assistant director for operations,
who was responsible for managing
events.
“Our job is to obviously take care
of all of the inefficiencies that we
should be doing better anyway,”
Goldberger said. “Then the next
would be, all right, what can we do
that’s not going to hurt the core
mission, but still keep what we’re
doing.”
“Hopefully we don’t get beyond
that,” he said.
According to Goldberger, the
department has not had to fire any
coaches or ask them to accept sal-
ary reductions. But he said he did
not know what steps the department
might have to take in the future.
The budget for next year is al-
ready in place, but expenses are
constantly rising. According to Gold-
berger, the athletic department had
over $100,000 of unanticipated fuel
costs this year. Goldberger said the
budget for the next fiscal year, which
begins July 1, looks similar to this
year’s, but the department will face
more uncertainty in the fiscal years
2011 through 2014.
“It’s hard,” he said. “But we’re
surviving.”
Schuschu added that members
of Interfaith House had spoken
with ResLife about retaining their
exclusive access to the kitchen,
but were denied.
But despite Interfaith’s reduced
membership, its mission to pro-
mote religious thought and dia-
logue among members and within
the Brown community and its
overall contribution to the campus
will remain relatively unchanged,
Schuschu said.
“Our main focus on discussion
activities … will be there,” she said,
adding that, for the most part, In-
terfaith will continue to hold regu-
lar events.
Despite the setbacks of the sta-
tus downgrade, Schuschu said of
the decision, “it’s not fun, but it’s
reasonable.”
“They’re doing what they can
to help us,” she said, adding that
ResLife will be monitoring In-
terfaith closely over the next se-
mesters to help the organization

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C ampus N EWS “September can’t come fast enough.”

— Kshitij Lauria, prospective student

news in brief
Poking around: Class of 2013 ‘meets’ online
Bike-sharing program up and running By Lauren Fedor set up an e-mail account on the admitted to checking the Face-
Senior Staf f Writer (Brown) site before going to the book page “ever y half hour or so
Charging a membership fee of $5 for the year, a bike- class Facebook page and ask- … during waking hours.”
sharing program operating out of a room in Faunce House was Each year, hundreds of prospec- ing for help from someone I met “Excitement about Brown just
officially launched last week. tive students look for ward to A there,” he wrote. “It’s funny how oozes out of the discussions, and
Members can use seven brand new bikes, purchased with Day on College Hill. They see it that works.” it’s infectious as hell,” he wrote in
funding from the Brown Outing Club, according to Carly Sieff as an opportunity to visit classes, But besides having his ques- an e-mail. “September can’t come
’09, who is in charge of the program called Bikes@Brown. attend special programs and per- tions answered, Bogosian has fast enough.”
Though the seven bikes are “not enough for the whole formances and meet their future also gotten in touch with future One of the most popular discus-
Brown community,” Sieff said, they are good for the purpose classmates for the first time. classmates who live nearby. sions on the page — with nearly
of “making bikes accessible to students.” She added that the But as Facebook reaches near- “I’ve ‘met’ a bunch online,” he 300 responses — is a thread en-
group is hoping to increase the number of bikes by getting universality and the idea of social- wrote, adding that he has since titled “Ask a Brown Student!” As
bikes donated by students who are leaving campus for the networking becomes practically met some of his online “friends” the name implies, prospective
summer. cliche, most members of the Class in person — Bogosian recently first-years write in with ques-
Though the program started with less than a month of 2013 have already “met” many attended a get-together with other tions about ever ything ranging
remaining in the semester, it will continue to operate through of their classmates — online. New York-area members of the from concentrations to cell phone
the summer. A free, student-run bike maintenance service will Though the Admission Office Class of 2013. coverage, which are answered by
also be available soon, Sieff said. set up an official Web site for in- New York is not the only city current Brown students.
Bikes@Brown is currently working out of the old coming first-years to communi- where students have coordinated Other popular discussions are
Undergraduate Finance Board room in lower Faunce. The cate, many prospective students impromptu get-togethers months seemingly random, with titles like
program’s members — a few less than a dozen in all — take say they have only used the site before settling into freshman year. “What Song Are You Listening to
turns staffing the office on weekdays from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. to set up their school e-mail ac- Henderson organized an outing Right Now?” and “Your Life as a
and from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., when students can come purchase counts or to check dates against in Philadelphia, and the class Single Quote — from Someone
membership or rent bikes. the University calendar. They Facebook page is teeming with Else.” There are threads where
Renters are asked to return bikes after two days, but the prefer instead to “meet” on the suggestions for meet-ups in the students have posted their opin-
program is flexible about granting requests for longer rentals, “Brown University Class of 2013” Bay Area, South Florida, Chicago ions on veganism, quiz bowl,
Sieff said. Facebook page, which has almost and Los Angeles. baking, opera, Judaism and ev-
The program has been receiving e-mails from students every 1,000 members. But many prospective fresh- er ything in between.
day asking questions or expressing interest, Sieff said. Adam Henderson, a senior at men — especially those who But in the end, though Face-
“People seem happy that it’s starting,” she added. Germantown Academy in For t live too far away to meet up with book provides a fun way for future
The group has chosen a purple-and-gold color scheme to Washington, Pa., wrote in an e- future classmates or to attend students to get to know one an-
decorate the bikes because the design “stands out,” Sieff said. mail to The Herald that though he ADOCH — simply visit the site other, most prospective first-years
Bikes@Brown is trying to connect with other groups that looked at the official Web site, he to learn more about their poten- agree that the best way to meet
use bikes, such as the Cycling Club, Sieff said. Though the found the information and discus- tial classmates, roommates and their potential classmates is still
Brown Outing Club provided money to start the program, sions on the Facebook page “a lot friends. in person.
members of Bikes@Brown are “hoping to eventually break off more helpful and interesting.” “It’s interesting to see the “I think that I’ll only truly get
and gather (their) own funding,” she said. Travis Bogosian, a senior at other types of people who will to know future classmates when
Some students interviewed by The Herald seemed optimistic Friends Seminar y in New York hopefully be my classmates,” I meet them face-to-face,” Hen-
about the new program. City, said Facebook makes it eas- wrote Marley Pierce, a student derson wrote.
“I think it’s a great idea,” said Pam Zhang ’11, “especially ier for him to get his questions at East High School in Denver Bogosian admitted that “oc-
for people like me who live far away and can’t transport their about next year answered. who will not be making the trip casionally the online meeting sys-
personal bikes to campus, and are too cheap or lazy to get “I’ve been clueless up until this to ADOCH. tem backfires when I meet the
one in Providence.” Zhang said she was considering buying a point, and any help I can get is Kshitij Lauria, an internation- classmate in person and realize I
membership with Bikes@Brown. welcome,” he wrote in an e-mail. al student from New Delhi also know a little bit too much about
“I think this program is based on an implicit social “I tried to figure out how to won’t be attending ADOCH, but their favorite movies.”
contract, or the integrity of the membership, that is only
feasible in an environment such as Brown’s campus,” said
Munashe Shumba ’11.
Though he already has his own bike, Shumba said he would Artistic seniors to be honored tonight
participate in the new program.
This way, “I don’t have to repair the bike,” he said, “and it’s By Heeyoung Min $500, he said — which came as a The budding poet, who also
so cheap.” Staf f Writer surprise, since the award’s Web won $4,000 for the Preston Gur-
— Alicia Dang site advertises a $400 prize. ney Prize in Literar y Criticism of
Thirty-two of Brown’s top grad- “Receiving this award is a big Poetr y, plans on using his award
uating ar tists, actors, writers, honor because I really respect money to support himself while

Bookstore owner, alum composers and directors will

be honored at the 14th annual
the people who read the manu-
scripts,” Litton said.
writing and traveling in Europe.
“I want to get more writing

donates rare science books Weston Awards ceremony tonight

By Andrew Sia
Contributing Writer
The John Hay Library has received
a gift of 130 rare books and manu-
scripts, including the first two editions
of Nicolaus Copernicus’ “De Revolu-
tionibus Orbium Coelestium,” from
Daniel Siegel ’57, the owner of M&S
Rare Books, a bookstore in Wayland
Square on the East Side.
The donation is the “most signifi-
cant single group of books given (to
Brown) in a decade,” said Samuel
Streit, director of special collections
at the Hay.
The titles donated to the library
cover a broad range of topics, includ-
ing American and European history
and philosophical and religious
“De Revolutionibus” established
the heliocentric theory of the solar
system.
Siegel, who has donated books
on a wide range of topics to Brown
twice before, said he hopes the gift
will strengthen the library’s collec-
tion of scientific materials, adding
that he likes “giving (to Brown) in
that way.”
“Brown is my alma mater and
has been in my will since 1964,” said
Siegel, who hopes his donation will
encourage others to contribute.
The Hay receives at least one
donation every two weeks, usually
from faculty and alums, Streit said.
Siegel’s donation is notable because
it contains works in “all of the im-
portant fields of human knowledge,”
at Stuart Theatre.
Recipients of the William and
Alethe Weston Fine Arts Awards
are selected by faculty in the ar-
eas of Visual Arts, Theater Arts,
Dance, Music and Creative Writ-
ing, said Eli Halpern ’09, one of
the recipients.
Over $250,000 in cash prizes
have been given over the last
14 years through the Weston
Awards, said Associate Director
of Major Gifts Richard Marshall
’71 P’10.
Recipients of this year’s
awards were notified of the hon-
ors shor tly after spring break,
said William Litton ’09, another
recipient.
Each received a cash prize of
He won in the fiction categor y
for his three short stories, “Phan-
tom Vibrations,” “Piccadilly Ro-
mance” and “Drunken Hearted
Man.”
Halpern, who won the award
for the best work in the poetr y
categor y with “THEY INHERE,”
said the award gave him a sense
of encouragement as a creative
writer leaving the ivor y towers.
The winning entries from both
Halpern and Litton came from
their honors theses in Literar y
Arts.
“People always make fun of me
for being a Literar y Arts concen-
trator,” Halpern said. “This kind of
award is meaningful because it’s
really one of the undergraduate’s
first legitimization as a writer.”
done, which is what the money
should be doing for the recipi-
ent — to allow the recipient to
write without worr ying about the
daily grind.”
The Weston Fine Arts Awards
are endowed by a donation from
William ’43 and Alethe ’41 Weston
who were active participants in
the performing and visual ar ts
departments at Brown.
“Upon their passing in the
early 1990s, the Westons left their
entire estate in a trust fund to
establish the Weston Awards. The
trust is a private entity managed
externally by its own trustees and
is not part of Brown’s endowment.
Nor is the University involved in
the management of the holdings,”
Marshall said.

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thought. Many are inscribed by their
authors or annotated by previous own-
ers, according to a press release from
the Hay. Some of the donation’s most
important books are about the history
of science, Streit said.
he added.
Siegel donated the materials,
which also include a copy of Abraham
Lincoln’s second inaugural address,
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and ice cream social — that will
keep accepted students busy on
Tuesday night. As always, sub-
stance use is strictly prohibited.
“I don’t think that’s the kind of
thing that people base their deci-
sion on,” Stephenson said.
Just as ADOCH will be ending
on Wednesday afternoon, another
program, Third World Welcome,
will be kicking off.
TWW co-coordinator Chris
Belcher ’11 said between 100 and
110 students have registered for
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the program, and a majority of
those students will be attending
both ADOCH and TWW.
The program, which caters
to minorities and international
students, is about exploring the
sense of community among mi-
nority students at Brown, Belcher
said.
It’s “an opportunity for the stu-
dents to come to Brown and see
what it has to offer,” he said, add-
ing that his own TWW experience
allowed him to find a tight-knit
community at Brown and “allevi-
ated a lot of that stress” of travel-
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
ing from Hawaii to Providence,
where he knew no one.
Natasha Go ’10, also a TWW
co-coordinator, along with Dan-
ielle Dunlap ’10, said it was “im-
portant to show that there’s a re-
ally strong community of students
of color” and that Brown has a
“strong and cohesive” sense of
community that “starts from the
second you step on campus.”
Stephenson said the coordi-
nators look for ward to the visits
from admitted students “as much
as the admitted students do.”
“Probably more,” she added.
U. gets rare book gift
continued from page 3
to the library in August, but the col-
lection had to be appraised for tax
purposes, he said. The process took
several months because the titles
were very rare and the appraiser
found it difficult to ascertain their
value, Streit said.
The library waited to publicize
the gift until the legal processes had
been completed, he added.
Siegel previously donated a manu-
script of George Orwell’s “1984” and
three other rare books, including a
first edition of “The Great Gatsby”
inscribed to T.S. Eliot by F. Scott
Fitzgerald.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Siegel — who said he plans to
give other rare titles to Brown in
the future — became a book dealer
and amassed a large collection in the
1960s, when he said it was easy to
acquire rare books and manuscripts
for very low prices.
As with all titles in the Hay col-
lection, those donated by Siegel will
be accessible to the general public,
provided they do not leave the library,
Streit said.
Though some titles might not
currently be accessible because the
library has not finished cataloging
them, the process should be com-
pleted shortly, he added.
Metro
The Brown Daily Herald
“They are acclimating the shark in the tank as we speak.”
— Ray Hugh, owner of Shark Sushi Bar and Grill

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 | Page 5

Liberian refugees get

extra year in U.S.
By Lauren Fedor
Senior Staf f Writer
Liberians in Rhode Island re-
joiced last month at news that
refugees from the West African
country would be granted an ad-
ditional 12 months of amnesty in
the United States, thanks to an
executive order signed by Presi-
dent Obama.
Mator Kpangbai, former presi-
dent of the Liberian Association of
Rhode Island, told the Providence
Journal on March 21 that Obama’s
decision was “great news,” adding
that the order provided another
Herald File Photos opportunity for many Liberians to
Thayer Street may have a different face this summer with the openings of new restaurants Shark Sushi Bar and renew their case for permanent
Grill (above left) and Better Burger Company (lower left). Other storefronts may have new looks, with the loss of legal status.
Spike’s (above center), Beadworks (above right), Roba Dolce (below center) and Geoff’s (below right).
The measure protects 3,600
ing civil war. Though the conflict
ended in 2003, and the period of
amnesty officially ended in Oc-
tober 2007, President Bush ex-
tended the rights of Liberians to
remain in the U.S. through the
end of last month. Last month,
Obama decided to continue the
official pardon — a grant of de-
ferred enforced departure — for
an additional 12 months.
“I have determined that there
are compelling foreign policy rea-
sons to extend (deferred enforced
depar ture) to those Liberians
presently residing in the United
States under the existing grant,”
Obama said in a press release
last month.
Rhode Island Democrats Rep.
Patrick Kennedy and Sen. Jack

Changes in store for Thayer Street

By Joanna Wohlmuth
Metro Editor
The recession has hit Rhode Island
hard, and Thayer Street businesses
have not been immune to the slump-
ing economy.
In the coming weeks and months,
as most students leave College Hill
for the summer, a number of new
players are expected to open shop
on the busy strip — even as still more
stores close.
Shark Sushi Bar and Grill, 275
Thayer St.
While progress may have seemed
slow for those accustomed to walk-
ing by the space formerly occupied
by Dunkin’ Donuts and La Femme
Boutique, the wait is almost over.
Shark Sushi Bar and Grill is slated to
open just in time for most students
to pack their bags and head home
for the summer, according to owner
Ray Hugh.
The Japanese restaurant, which
will feature hibachi grills and a five-
foot shark swimming in an 1,800-gal-
lon tank, will open in “about three
weeks,” Hugh said.
The restaurant caused some
conflict when another local business
owner, Grant Dulgarian, appealed the
Providence zoning board’s decision
to waive parking space requirements
for the 131-seat establishment. But
those issues have long been resolved,
according to Hugh.
“This is the final stage right now,”
Hugh said. “They are acclimating the
shark in the tank as we speak.”
Baja’s, 273 Thayer St.
If the Ivy Room burrito bar doesn’t
quite satisfy students’ cravings for
south-of-the-border cuisine, another
option will be available when they re-
turn to College Hill in the fall.
Baja’s, a Tex-Mex restaurant, will
open in about six to eight weeks,
according to Hugh, who also owns
neighboring Xtreme Pizza and Wings
and Shanghai.
Housed at Spike’s Junkyard Dogs’
former location, the restaurant will
Liberian-Americans living un- Reed lauded the decision.
der the temporary status. More “This measure will ensure that
than 250,000 Liberians live in the the hard-working Liberian-Amer-
United States, and Rhode Island icans in Rhode Island and across
offer Philly cheesesteaks, burgers, dows of the storefront that formerly has the highest concentration of the country will be able to remain
salads, fries and burritos, according housed the sandwich shop Geoff’s Liberians per capita of any state, in the United States. They have
to Hugh. were taken down earlier this month. with a population estimated be- contributed to our society for
Many ingredients will be import- Kent Stetson ’01, who answered at the tween 7,000 and 15,000. more than a decade, becoming ac-
ed “directly from Mexico,” Hughe number listed on the “for rent” sign, In 1991, the United States tive members of our communities
added. said though he could not comment for granted amnesty, formally known and providing for their families,”
privacy reasons on who the new oc- as temporar y protected status, Kennedy said in a press release. “I
Beadworks, 290 Thayer St. to Liberians who were forced to
Jewelry-making enthusiasts may continued on page 6 flee the West African nation dur- continued on page 6
have to trek a little farther to get
their fix next semester. This summer,
Beadworks will be moving from its
current location to another space in
Providence, said Beadworks employee
Alli Coate.
“There’s no parking here, and
there are just some other advantages
to the new space,” Coate said. She
declined to give the address of the
new location.
Better Burger Company, 215-
217 Thayer St.
Veteran burgermonger Andy
Mitrelis is set to open Better Burger
Company this summer in the space
that once belonged to Yang’s and the
closing Morrison Office Supply, he
said.
In addition to five other burger
shops in New England, Mitrelis owns
Andreas, Paragon and Spats. The new
restaurant will offer sandwiches, pizza
and breakfast food in addition to burg-
ers.
Though Mitrelis announced his
plans to open Better Burger months
ago when he secured the Yang’s prop-
erty, he acquired the lease to the office
supply store about 10 days ago, he
said Monday.
Bryan Creighton, who has owned
and run the independent stationery
and office supply store for the past 20
years, told The Herald in March that
business had been struggling for the
past year and that he was planning to
close the shop.
Without the additional space, the
burger joint would have been too
small, Mitrelis said. “I got my wish,”
he said.
Geoff’s, 233 Thayer St
The “for rent” sign and three tele-
vision screens that occupied the win-
Page 6 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Tuesday, April 21, 2009

M etro “They have worked very hard, played by the rules and paid their taxes.”
— Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., on Liberian refugees living in the state

R.I. leaders laud decision to Mall owner

let Liberian refugees stay
continued from page 5
am pleased that the president has
acted to preserve their status here,
preventing a grave injustice.”
While Reed was supportive of
Obama’s decision, he also empha-
sized the importance of guiding
Liberian immigrants toward Ameri-
can citizenship — a cause he has
worked toward for more than 10
years.
Reed has reintroduced a bill —
The Liberian Refugee Immigration
Fairness Act of 2009 — to grant the
Liberians permanent residency.
“Over the last two decades,
those who fled Liberia’s violent
files for
civil wars have become important
parts of our communities,” he said
in a March 20 press release. “They
bankruptcy
are here legally. They have worked
very hard, played by the rules and
paid their taxes. They have chil-
dren who are U.S. citizens, but the
parents, who were brought here
to escape a brutal civil war, were
never given the opportunity to ap-
ply for citizenship,” Reed said.
“This bill will prevent these
families from being torn apart and
give them the opportunity to live
permanently in the place they love
and call home,” he added.
By Sara Sunshine
Senior Staf f Writer
Though General Growth Proper-
ties Inc., the national real estate
investment company that owns
Providence Place Mall, filed for
bankruptcy last Thursday, stu-
dents will still be able to shop and
catch a movie as usual.
The bankruptcy claim comes
a few months after the owner an-
nounced its decision to sell the
mall to help pay off the company’s

New tenants might replace massive debt, The Herald report-

ed Jan. 27. The company has yet

old faces on Thayer Street

continued from page 5
cupant might be, “you will start seeing
things going on in the near future.”
John Zib, the mind behind Open
Art Cafe, the temporary art installa-
tion involving the screens, told The
Herald in November that he was
being allowed to use the space until
another business became interested
in occupying it.
Roba Dolce, 178 Angell St.
A new tenant may soon move into
the space left vacant after the evic-
tion of Roba Dolce, Nino DeMartino,
the store’s owner, said. The landlord
“wanted a national chain, to get more
money for rent,” he said.
The cause of the eviction, filed on
Feb. 16 in Rhode Island’s Sixth District
Court, was negligence of four months
of rental payments.
“People are saying that the con-
cept that’s going there is something
that doesn’t really belong on Thayer
Street,” DeMartino said, adding that
he could not be more specific. “The
only thing that we know for sure is
that it’s a national company.”
to find a buyer.
“While we have worked tire-
lessly in the past several months
to address our maturing debts,
the collapse of the credit markets
has made it impossible for us to
refinance maturing debt outside
of chapter 11,” said Chief Execu-
tive Officer Adam Metz in a state-
ment on Thursday.
But the daily operation of all
GGP’s properties will continue
as usual, Metz said. Any eventual
change in ownership will not af-
fect the mall’s individual retailers,
according to a Jan. 13 Providence
Journal article.
GGP representatives did not
General Growth Properties Inc., the owner of the Providence Place
Mall, filed for bankruptcy last week.
respond to multiple requests for
comment.
In Febr uar y, the company
repor ted an overall dip in rev-
enue and fourth-quarter funds
that were lower than expected,
forcing it to cut its workforce by
more than 20 percent, according
to the Journal.
The petition filed with the U.S.
Bankruptcy Court last week listed
Herald File Photo
more than $25 billion in debts, ac-
cording to an April 16 Providence
Business News article.
Much of that debt was ac-
quired during a series of property
purchases that made GGP the na-
tion’s second-largest mall owner,
including a reported $8 billion
taken out to buy the Rouse Co., a
competitor that owned Providence
Place and 36 other malls.
SportsTuesday
The Brown Daily Herald
Red-hot baseball sweeps Harvard Crimson bury softball
By Benjy Asher
Spor ts Editor in three of four games
Last week, the baseball team played
seven games, going 6-1 over the
stretch.
Brown started off the week by
taking two games from Marist Col-
lege in a home doubleheader on
Tuesday, before dropping a game,
10-6, to UConn on Wednesday.
The Bears (19-16-1, 12-4 Ivy)
then closed out the week with a
four-game sweep of Har vard at
home. Relief pitcher Matt Kimball
’11 was solid for the Bears all week,
picking up a win and three saves
in the seven-game span.
Brown 3, Marist 2
In the first game of Tuesday’s
doubleheader, outfielder Daniel
Rosoff ’12 hit a two-run homer, the
first of his collegiate career, in the
bottom of the fifth inning to tie the
game, and center fielder Steve Dan-
iels ’09 won it for the Bears with a
walk-off single.
Brown 8, Marist 2
In Tuesday’s second game,
Brown scored five runs in the sec-
ond inning and tacked on another
three in the bottom of the third.
The Bears never looked back,
as starting pitcher Josh Feit ’11 al-
lowed just one run over five innings
in the 8-2 victory.
UConn 10, Brown 6
On Wednesday, the Huskies
jumped out to a 7-1 lead, and
though Brown was able to cut the
lead to as little as three runs, the
comeback bid fell short.
Second-baseman and co-captain
Matt Nuzzo ’09 went 3-for-5 in the
loss, with two doubles and a home
run, while catcher Matt Colanto-
nio ’11 and designated hitter Pete
Greskoff ’11 each added two hits.
Brown 3, Harvard 1
No. 13 m. lacrosse gets two more wins
By Elisabeth Avallone
Sports Staff Writer
The No. 13 men’s lacrosse team
finished out the week with two vic-
tories, an exciting and integral 8-6
win over Ivy League rival Harvard
(6-5, 1-3), and a 10-6 non-league
game against cross-town opponent
Providence (6-7). Brown advanced
to an 11-2 record this season, and
3-1 in the Ivy League.
Brown 8, Harvard 6
Following a tough loss against
Penn last week, the Bears took an
8-6 victory Wednesday night at Har-
vard, keeping their aspirations of an
Ivy League title alive. Andrew Fein-
berg ’11, Brown’s leading scorer
with 35 goals and 14 assists on the
season, had three goals to lead the
Bears on attack. Thomas Muldoon
’10, who has 27 goals and 10 assists
on the season, added two goals and
three assists.
On defense, Head Coach Lars
Reliever Matt Kimball ’11 picked up three saves during a tear in which
the Bears won six of seven games, including four from Harvard.
In the first game of Saturday’s
doubleheader, Brown scored two
runs in the bottom of the second
inning, including an RBI double by
Daniels, and Nuzzo led off the bot-
tom of the third with a solo homer
to widen the lead to 3-0.
The Crimson (10-26, 8-8) fi-
nally got on the board in the top
of the sixth, when an RBI double
cut the lead to 3-1, but it was the
only run Harvard would score off
Mark Gormley ’11, who struck out
six batters over 6 1/3 innings of
work.
Kimball came on to close out the
game with one out and a runner on
first in the top of the seventh and
final inning. After walking the first
batter he faced, Kimball settled
down and struck out the next two,
recording his first of three saves
on the weekend.
“Matt Kimball was outstanding
coming out of the bullpen,” said
Head Coach Marek Drabinski. “It’s
nice to have your starters go deep
in the game and know that you can
Tiffany ’90 pointed to Ryan Cassil
’09 for his outstanding effort. Tif-
fany described a ground ball play
by Cassil as a “prime example of
the energy on the field.”
In goal, All-American quad-
captain Jordan Burke ’09 had 12
saves. Burke now leads the Ivy
League and ranks sixth nationally
in save percentage (.626) and saves
per game (12.4). In addition, he
has been named a finalist for this
year’s Tewaarton Award for the
best collegiate lacrosse player of
the year.
Goals from Feinberg, Muldoon
and quad-captain Brady Williams
’09 gave the Bears a 4-3 lead at the
end of the first half.
In the third, Feinberg scored
his third goal of the evening, once
again off of Muldoon’s feed. Sec-
onds later, Charlie Kenney ’10
scored a goal off a fast break from
the faceoff.
“Charlie Kenney was our MVP
of the game after winning 9 of the
Justin Coleman / Herald File Photo
turn the ball over to Matt.”
Brown 8, Harvard 5
In the second game, outfielder
Chris Tanabe ’10 reached base on
a walk in the bottom of the first,
and later came around to score on
an error, giving Brown a 1-0 lead.
Two batters later, first baseman
Rob Papenhause ’09 lined an RBI
double to right field, the first of his
three hits on the day, to increase
the lead to 2-0.
In the top of the second, Har-
vard cut the lead to 2-1, and looked
poised to take the lead, with run-
ners on first and second and no
outs. But starting pitcher Rob
Wilcox ’10 induced a double-play
grounder and got the next batter
to ground out as well, keeping
Bruno’s lead intact.
In the bottom of the third, Pa-
penhause knocked a triple to cen-
ter field to score Greskoff, and in
the bottom of the fourth, Daniels
continued on page 9
13 faceoffs he took, and on top of
that, scoring a goal,” Tiffany said.
“He had a great deal to do with
our team’s success. We win over
50 percent of our faceoffs, and look
at what happens.”
“I was really excited to have the
opportunity to play in my home
town and in such a huge game,”
said Kenney. “We all realized how
important it was for us to bounce
back after the loss to Penn and
came ready to play. Everyone took
the game extremely seriously and
played with such high intensity. We
really came together and played
as a team.”
Reade Seligmann ’09 netted an
unassisted goal shortly afterwards,
giving Brown a 7-3 advantage, but
Harvard scored with just over a
minute left on the clock, lessening
Brown’s lead to 7-4 going into the
final quarter.
Harvard continued to close the
continued on page 8
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 | Page 7
By Katie Wood
Assistant Spor ts Editor
Despite a strong showing on day
one of its four-game series with
Har vard at home — splitting the
first two games while scoring 16
runs — the Bears held the lead
for only one inning on the second
day, falling 11-0 and 12-2 — both
in six innings of play.
“We weren’t able to make the
adjustments on Sunday like we
were able to on Saturday,” said
Kate Strobel ’12.
Harvard 9, Brown 6
Har vard (24-24, 10-6 Ivy)
opened up the game with a run in
the top of the first before Brown
(11-21, 5-11) put together a three-
run third inning. Jackie Giovan-
niello ’12 hit a two-run double to
the right field fence, and Kelsey
Wilson ’09 advanced home on a
Crimson error to put Bruno up,
3-1.
Har vard hit a two-run homer
to tie the game in the top of the
four th, but the Bears answered
back with two runs of their own.
Kristie Chin ’12 sent a single to left
to bring in a run. Wilson’s shot to
center brought in the second run
of the inning for a 5-3 lead.
Jessica Iwasaki ’10 came in to
pitch in relief of Michelle Moses
’09 with one out and two runners
on base. A double to center field
drove in a run for the Crimson,
but Iwasaki pitched out of a bases-
loaded jam to close the inning with
a one-run lead.
But the Bears could not main-
tain that lead, as Har vard capital-
ized on its offensive opportunities
to score four runs in the sixth.
“When the other team gets
runners on base, we let it spiral
— that’s what happened in that in-
ning,” Strobel said. “When one run
scores, we don’t have the mentality
that we’re going to stop them.”
The Crimson added another
run in the seventh to take a 9-5
advantage into the final half-inning
of play.
Strobel led off the inning with
a solo shot to center, but the next
three Bears were retired in order.
Despite the six-run effort, Brown
fell 9-6.
Iwasaki recorded the loss, giv-
ing up five runs on five hits in
2 2/3 innings pitched.
Brown 11, Harvard 5
Trish Melvin ’12 star ted the
game on the mound for the Bears
and walked in the first run of the
game. But the offense was ready
to back her up with three runs in
the first.
Strobel’s double down the right
field line brought home Wilson,
and Andrea Browne ’10 doubled to
left field to add another two runs
and give the Bears a 3-1 advan-
tage.
But the Crimson tallied a run in
the second and came out strong in
the third with three runs to take a
4-3 lead over Brown.
Lindsay Rice ’11 stole home on
a passed ball in the four th with
two outs to tie the game, 4-4, and
the Bears’ defense handled the
Crimson with ease and sent them
back to the field for a rough bottom
half of the sixth inning.
The Bears put together a seven-
run sixth, all with two outs, to pro-
pel the team to an 11-4 win.
“We went single after single,”
Strobel said. “Ever ybody was hit-
ting. No one thought, ‘I’m going
to hit the game-winner.’”
A single from Chin gave Bruno
the initial one-run lead. Another
single from Katie Rothamel ’10
loaded the bases for Wilson.
Har vard called on a reliever, but
couldn’t get out of the two-out jam
as Wilson reached first on a walk,
scoring another run.
A two-r un single down the
right field line from Giovanniello
increased the lead to 8-4. Then
Strobel stepped up to the plate
and, for the second time on the
day, sent the ball over the center
field fence to cap off a seven-run
inning.
“When your team has been ral-
lying in front of you, it makes you
feel more confident — hitting is
contagious,” Strobel said.
Strobel led the Bears’ offense,
going 3-for-8 with two home runs
and five RBI on Saturday, while
Wilson contributed a double and
two RBI.
Chin recorded the win after one
inning of play, allowing one run on
three hits.
Harvard 11, Brown 0
The game started off evenly for
both squads, as neither team could
put together a run until the fourth
inning. After a Crimson double
and single brought in three runs,
Emily Chaddock ’11 walked in the
fourth run before being replaced
by Moses on the mound.
A solo shot and three Brown
errors catapulted the score to a
7-0 Har vard advantage in the fifth
inning. A double to right center
with the bases loaded in the sixth
and a single to center stretched
the lead to 11-0.
“The first three innings we
weren’t hitting, but our defense
was solid,” Strobel said. “And when
we made one or two errors, or had
some walks, they started to pro-
duce runs.”
Chaddock took the loss in
3 2/3 innings pitched, giving up
four runs on five hits. The Bears’
offense combined for only two hits
in six innings of play, compared
with nine hits for the Crimson.
Harvard 12, Brown 2
Brown bounced back in the
second game of the day with two
runs in the bottom of the first. But
Har vard scored 12 unanswered
runs to put the Bears away for the
third time in four games.
continued on page 8
Page 8
S ports Tuesday
Major League Gaming: The
world’s favorite new pastime
It’s getting to be that time again.
We’re already halfway through April,
and you can’t turn on your television
without hearing
announcers plug
the event. Every
year it happens;
another run in
the playoffs, an-
other champion.
Ben Singer ’09 You can barely
High Notes go anywhere
without hearing
somebody talk about it.
At least in Seoul.
I’m talking about professional
StarCraft. Noun-adjective disagree-
ment? Maybe to most in the United
States, but not to anyone in South
Korea, where the e-sport has been
spawning a mega-market fan base
since its inception in 2002.
There are stadiums, at least three
full-time cable channels exclusively
devoted to the games, announcers
and championship television ratings
rivaling that of the Korea Baseball
Organization. Did I mention there
are sponsors? Because those are
important for paying the six-figure
contracts the top players are raking
in. Like the three-year, $830,000 deal
superstar Lee Yun-Yeol inked with
WeMade FOX back in 2007. That’s
not exactly Alex Rodriguez money,
but it certainly is enough to upgrade
over ramen a few nights a week.
South Korea isn’t the only coun-
try where full-time gamers are now
earning enough to move out of their
parents’ basements. Paralleling
the StarCraft phenomenon, Major
League Gaming began in the United
States in 2002. The tournament-cir-
cuit games are heavily dominated by
team-oriented first-person shooter
titles, headlined by Halo 3.
Despite the current recession
hampering the growth and stabil-
ity of other American professional
gaming leagues, MLG has bloomed
from an underground community
into a prosperous franchise consist-
ing of over 500,000 viewers. From
that fan base, MLG has been able to
invest $1.75 million in signing the top
teams, including $250,000 to MLG
superstar Tom “Tsquared” Taylor.
Most of you are probably won-
dering where all the viewers come
from if there are no live TV chan-
nels broadcasting MLG in the United
States like there are for StarCraft in
South Korea. The online broadcast
for MLG garners a rate of viewership
among males aged 12-34 that even
many traditional cable networks
aren’t able to muster. That’s a fairly
selective demographic. If you were
an advertiser, what better way to
market your product than via a Web
site that filters your target audience
into one dedicated, homogenous
group?
In case you had any doubts about
the target audience, Dr. Pepper, Old
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
Spice and the U.S. Army are among
the leading sponsors (the Army
recruits top gamers to be remote
fighter pilots, as many of the same
hand-eye reflexes are required for
both tasks).
But MLG isn’t content to sit back
on its online laurels. Just last year,
the league signed a deal with ESPN
providing the sports media jugger-
naut the rights to broadcast all MLG
Pro Circuit Competitions. There’s
even a section of the ESPN Web site
devoted exclusively to MLG cover-
age, including a weekly top 10.
The question remains as to
whether the culture of competitive
gaming can overcome the stigma of
nerdiness and social taboo that have
long accompanied these pastimes.
On the one hand, there is something
odd about watching a group of peo-
ple play video/computer games on
your TV or computer. But it wasn’t
too long ago that poker was just a
game played by people in bars and
casinos. Now, the World Series of
Poker and its qualifying events are
staples on ESPN.
How much of a difference is there
between sitting around and playing
with a bunch of cards and sitting
around and playing with a bunch
of controllers? For that matter, how
much more obscure is either activity
from hitting a ball with a block of
wood and running in circles?
Ultimately, it comes down to
cultural momentum. History plays
the biggest factor in determining
what gains cultural momentum. Do
you think it’s a coincidence that the
United States cares so little about
professional soccer, when profes-
sional baseball has been played here
since the 1870s while Major League
Soccer was just founded in 1993?
But as the popularity of televised
poker illustrates, history is far from
the only factor determining cultural
momentum. If the early success of
MLG is any indicator, maybe the new
fads catch on because those who
watch them feel like they are more
able to be like the pros. It’s slightly
easier to feel like you can force a
fold in poker or snipe in Halo like
a professional than it is to imagine
you can windmill dunk like LeBron
James.
That being said, maybe the big-
gest thing MLG needs right now is
superstar recognition. Kobe sells
jerseys, Tom Brady makes tabloid
headlines, people tune in. Maybe
that’s the rationale behind MLG’s
move to sign the top players and
teams and the reason Dr. Pepper
and Gilbert Arenas sponsor team
Final Boss.
Whether the U.S. will have
multiple 24/7 networks covering
gaming like South Korea is open
to debate. Regardless of the path
professional gaming takes in the
United States, one thing is certain:
At least there will be fewer players
faking injuries.
Ben Singer ’09 wants to see Ed
Hochuli referee a professional
StarCraft match.
“Harvard was a must-win game for us.”
— Men’s lacrosse’s Reade Seligmann ’09
Men’s lax beats Friars,
looks to Big Red match
continued from page 7
gap in the second half, bringing
the score to 7-6 with 11 minutes
to go. But Muldoon’s second goal
of the evening, with four minutes
remaining, would be the last goal
of the game, securing the 8-6 vic-
tory for the Bears.
“To this point in the season,
Har vard was the most satisfy-
ing and rewarding victor y for
our program,” Tiffany said. “We
played well in so many phases of
the game, and put forth the best
overall team effort all year. The
intensity and energy levels were
palpable and spurred on by a really
supportive Brown crowd.”
“Harvard was a must-win game
for us and we came out and played
with a lot of emotion,” added Se-
ligmann. “We were strong off the
faceoff, and both our offense and
defense played well together.”
Brown 10, Providence 6
The Bears overpowered
Providence 10-6 Saturday night,
spearheaded by four goals from
Muldoon. Williams and Feinberg
added three goals each and Burke
had nine saves in goal.
“Providence played a tough
game,” Seligmann said. “We had
a sluggish start but were able to
recover with a great defensive ef-
fort, as well as great performances
from Thomas Muldoon and Brady
Williams on attack.”
Three goals from Muldoon, two
from Feinberg and another two
Softball loses Harvard
series in high-scoring tests
continued from page 7
Wilson star ted of f the first
with a hard-shot RBI double to
right center to score the game’s
opening run. A single up the mid-
dle from Strobel gave the Bears
a two-run lead they would not
hold for long.
The Crimson tied the game
in the second inning and added
another run in the third on a
sacrifice fly.
Brown had a valuable op-
portunity to score in the bottom
half of the inning when Browne’s
bunt single loaded the bases, but
Bruno’s offensive struggles con-
tinued and the Bears were unable
to put a run up on the board.
“We couldn’t execute — just
like the first game, our offense
wasn’t there,” Strobel said. “You
would hope that with the bases
loaded we’d be able to manufac-
ture one run — it wasn’t clicking
for us today.”
Melvin entered the game in
relief of Iwasaki with two runners
on and no outs. Melvin loaded
the bases with a walk and sur-
rendered a two-run double over
the center fielder’s head to bring
in two more runs for the Crim-
son.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
from Williams gave the bears a
7-2 lead at the half.
But Brown’s scoring streak was
cut short as Providence outscored
Brown 4-1 in the third quarter, cut-
ting the Bears lead to 8-6. Muldoon
added his fourth goal of the eve-
ning off a feed from Seligmann.
The Bears held off the Friars
in the fourth quarter as goals by
Williams and Feinberg locked up
the 10-6 win.
“Saturday night felt very dif-
ferent” compared to Har vard,
Tiffany said. “It felt more like a
great individual effort and less
of an overall team effort, yet the
results were the same. That we
had as much emotion as we did
was great, and some individuals
really stepped up.”
Tiffany praised Muldoon for
his strong play on attack, as well as
Seligmann, with two assists, who
“was doing a great job feeding the
ball and making some really smart
decisions.” Tiffany also had praise
for Cassil, who again stepped up on
defense, containing Providence’s
leading scorer, Colin Tigh.
The Bears will match-up against
No. 2 Cornell (9-2, 5-0 Ivy), this
Saturday, April 25 at 1 p.m. on Ste-
venson Field. Cornell is fresh off
of a win over then No. 1 Princeton
this past Saturday. With only two
games remaining in Ivy League
play, against two of the top teams
in Cornell and No. 5 Princeton (10-
2, 3-1) on May 2, the Bears aspire
to both the Ivy League title and an
NCAA tournament bid.
Before Melvin recorded an
out, Chin entered the game to
finish out the inning.
A single to left field brought
in two more runs, followed by
another RBI single, which pad-
ded the Har vard lead to 9-2.
A three-run sixth extended
the Crimson’s lead to 12-2. De-
spite putting runners on second
and third, the Bears could not
cut into the 10-run deficit.
Iwasaki received the loss on
the mound, giving up six runs on
eight hits, putting her record at
1-6 on the season.
The Bears finish of f their
season with a double-header at
Br yant on Thursday and a sea-
son-finale series against Yale on
Saturday and Sunday.
They travel to New Haven,
Conn., for two games on Saturday
before returning back to Provi-
dence for a double header start-
ing at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday.
The team will honor two of
its members, Moses and Wilson,
who will be playing their final
games in a Brown uniform.
“There’s no better way to
send off our seniors than with
six straight wins – that’s what
we’re going to strive for,” Stro-
bel said.
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S ports Tuesday
Red-hot baseball sweeps Harvard
continued from page 7
connected on his eighth homer of
the year, a three-run shot over the
right field fence, giving the Bears
a 6-1 cushion.
Harvard struck for four more
runs off Wilcox over the next three
innings, cutting Bruno’s lead to 7-5.
But a solo homer from Papenhause
in the seventh inning gave Brown
an 8-5 lead, and Andrew Bakowski
’11 and Kimball combined for 2 2/3
shutout innings out of the bullpen.
Brown 3, Harvard 1
In Sunday’s first game, Brown
once again jumped out to an early
lead, scoring three runs in the bot-
tom of the second. After left fielder
Dan Shapiro ’09 and Papenhause
reached base to start off the inning,
Rosoff got the Bears on the board
with a sacrifice fly, and shortstop
Graham Tyler ’12 added a two-run
single to give Bruno a 3-0 lead.
“It always helps to get in front
early,” Drabinski said. “I think it
helps the pitching staff to relax a
little bit.”
Sure enough, those three runs
were all the offense Brown would
need, as Conor Burke ’11 gave up
only one run in 5 1/3 innings, and
Kimball recorded the last five outs
to preserve the victory.
Brown 8, Harvard 1
In the final game of the series,
pitcher Will Weidig ’10 was given
the start in what seemed to be a
risky move. After a strong beginning
to the season, Weidig had struggled
of late due to mechanical problems
and nagging shoulder injuries, and
his most recent start had come on
April 4, when he was shelled for six
runs in 2 2/3 innings of work in an
18-11 win over Penn.
“We were kind of rolling the dice
as coaches, hoping he could give us
a solid outing,” Drabinski said. “It
couldn’t have come at a bigger time
for us, and he’s worked so hard.”
On Sunday, Weidig was up to the
challenge. The Crimson scored the
game’s first run in the top of the
first, but over the next four innings,
Weidig was nearly perfect, shutting
Harvard out while allowing only two
batters to reach base, exceeding
the coaching staff’s plan, which, ac-
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cording to Drabinski, had called for
Weidig to pitch only the first three
innings.
With RBIs from Tyler, Rosoff,
Shapiro, third baseman Ryan
Zrenda ’11 and Paupenhause, the
Bears were able to take a lead of
8-1 by the seventh inning, and Feit
pitched four innings of shutout relief
to keep the game out of reach for
Harvard.
After the sweep this weekend,
Brown is second overall in the Ivy
League standings, trailing only Dart-
mouth (19-11, 14-2). However, in or-
der to earn a spot in the Ivy League
championship series, the Bears will
have to finish atop the standings of
the Rolfe Division, which includes
the Big Green, though Brown is far
ahead of Princeton and Cornell, who
are tied for the Gehrig Division lead,
at 8-8 in league play.
“We know we have to leave it all
on the field and take it one game at
a time,” Drabinski said. “Then we’ve
got to get a little bit of help. It’s frus-
trating, but our guys are upbeat, and
we know we still have a chance until
we’re mathematically eliminated,
and we’ll play hard regardless.”
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e d i to r i a l

Another bump in the wall

Last Wednesday, Superintendent for Providence Public Schools Tom Brady
handed down some good news. In the coming academic year, six schools in
his district will abandon the practice known as “bumping,” in which teaching
vacancies are filled in order of seniority. The year after that, the entire school
district will follow suit. After the old single-criterion system ends, principals
will select replacement candidates based on a thorough evaluation of their
skills and their compatibility with the empty position.
Providence schoolchildren have demonstrated minimal academic prog-
ress in recent years, and bumping is one of many culprits. Currently, when a
teaching slot opens up, the teacher with the most years in the system is able
to take it, regardless of his talent or experience in teaching that curriculum
or grade level. And if a senior teacher’s position is eliminated, he can dislodge
one of his junior colleagues, leading to an uneven learning experience for the
affected students. Under the coming system, principals will instead choose
new members of their staff based on interviews, letters of recommendation
and their students’ work. Teachers are dedicated professionals with varying
sets of skills that don’t correspond neatly to the number of years they have
spent in the profession. They ought to be treated accordingly.
The teachers’ union has long relied upon the rigid rules of seniority to ensure
that all its members can make a decent living, and its leaders are understandably
worried about arbitrary hiring that might leave dedicated educators out in the
cold. But the bottom line isn’t job security, it’s the quality of the instruction that
Providence schoolchildren receive. Downgrading the significance of seniority
will make teaching in Providence more financially risky, but it will also pressure chris jesu lee
teachers to be creative and assiduous, and make them more likely to end up
in the classrooms where they can do the most good.
Union officials are threatening to sue the district over the new policy. That
would be an enormous mistake. Rhode Island teachers are not currently under
l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r s
contract — they are merely abiding by the terms that formally expired two

Freedom to let faculty teach their

years ago. That means that any lawsuit their union might file would be not
only wrongheaded but virtually doomed — a waste of their money and the
resources of the schools to which they have dedicated their lives. Instead of
suing, the union should work with the district to revise a fair set of standards
for teacher hiring. By the fall of 2010, bumping will be history in Providence,
and teachers should embrace the new process as a boon to their profession
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Fatima Aqeel
Opinions Columnist
As the election period for the Undergraduate
Student Council here at Brown drew closer,
many students eating at the dining halls were
confronted by their peers in UCS who were
hunting for signatures.
It was common to see students in the
Ratty, with half a noodle dangling from their
mouths, be approached by UCS members
and solicited for signatures.
“But, does it matter that I don’t even
know what your campaign is about?”
some students, myself included, would
initially protest.
“Not at all,” we would immediately be
assuaged. The signatures are only to allow
students to participate in the elections. In
fact, they have nothing to do with determin-
ing which candidate actually wins, because
the actual voting would only take place
online.
In the end, signing the paper they held
out to us seemed like too small a deal to
fuss over, so I didn’t protest any further. Be-
sides, you would only be helping someone
and surely hurting no one if you agreed to
sign, and so students generally did.
If I were to protest, however, it would be
about how this felt like a useless practice.
What does getting the signatures of 250
Blue book exams are the way to go
Tory
Hartmann
Opinions Columnist
Christina Domenico, a regular opinions colum-
nist for the Daily Pennsylvanian, the student
newspaper at the University of Pennsylvania,
recently wrote a column that described the
benefits of implementing Securexam, a word
processing program that allows students to
take in-class exams on their laptops.
The program will shut down if the stu-
dent attempts to open any other file or pro-
gram on the computer, thereby barring
him or her from looking at saved notes or
the Internet.
There are some obvious advantages to
using a personal computer, one of which is
that it would reduce the stresses inherent
to a blue book exam. Like Domenico, I am
always somewhat fearful of writing in blue
books because I do not know whether my
TAs will be able to understand my some-
what illegible handwriting. Typing exam
responses will alleviate this concern.
Domenico also points out that this pro-
gram would be helpful because it would
give students the chance to clearly organize
their thoughts. Rachel Wexler ’11 agreed,
saying, “The motion of typing makes my
thoughts flow.” In an age of computers,
this is unsurprising. After all, students are
required to type take-home essays and ex-
ams, so it is a skill that they have already
developed outside of the classroom.
Despite the program’s apparent bene-
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random students who do not know — and
probably do not care — about your cam-
paign even prove? It surely does not prove
that there are at least 250 people at Brown
who desperately want you to compete in the
elections. Why, then, was getting 250 ran-
dom signatures a benchmark for being able
to participate in the upcoming elections
when, clearly, anyone could accomplish
this task?
But then again, to fuss over something
so small would be unreasonable. And per-
haps the only requirement is to make the
What does getting the signatures of 250 students
who do not know and probably do not care about
your campaign even prove?
student body aware of your stance, or sim-
ply to make it aware of what UCS is up to,
even if said student body does not really
care to remember afterwards. I, for one,
had stopped asking what changes these
candidates would bring into effect should
they succeed in the elections.
There are, however, two separate inci-
dents that deserve special mention regard-
ing the solicitation of these signatures.
The first incident took place two weeks
ago in Poland House at a friend’s birthday.
It was a regular Keeney event, with stu-
fits, I do not like the idea of using Secur-
exam. Call me a Luddite, but I believe that
the benefits of hand-writing one’s own re-
sponses far outweigh the convenience of a
computer.
Although she believes that she is “a
much better typist than a writer,” Kathr yn
Wiseman ’11 also asserts, “There is some-
thing to be said for going in with a pen-
cil and writing yourself.” I agree. When
I write out responses to exam questions,
I feel much more connected to my work.
The physical distance between my pen and
my paper and the feel of my hand forming
the letters as opposed to typing them adds
Call me a Luddite, but I believe that the benefits
of hand-writing one’s own responses far outweigh
the convenience of a computer.
a degree of intimacy that would disappear
with Securexam.
Computers are also inherently distract-
ing. Even though Securexam shuts down
if a user attempts to open another appli-
cation, using a computer during an exam
will be distracting to many students. I can
imagine now the irritating sound of loudly
clicking keys. These added sound effects
will only heighten the stressful environ-
ment of the examination room.
Moreover, I am uncomfortable with this
potential development because it assumes
that all students have access to a laptop
dents running around the hallway in vari-
ous stages of intoxication. Indeed, all was
going as expected until one person, accom-
panied by a friend, turned up at the party
with a pen and paper and asked everyone
who seemed semi-capable of holding a pen
straight to sign for him.
My first reaction to this was obviously to
laugh. I’m sure that a majority of the people
who signed for him had no idea what they
were doing and do not remember having
signed anything. Unlike the people who ap-
proach students in the dining halls, this per-
son wasn’t even bothering to explain what
the sheet of paper was, what his campaign
stood for or what position he intended to
compete for. Indeed, it seemed useless to
do so because no one would understand.
But that’s exactly what was wrong about
going to a party and asking for signatures
in the first place. Not only was the purpose
of making students aware of UCS activities
defeated, but the idea of exploiting people’s
not-quite-right states of mind for anything
is completely wrong. The principle behind
that action is not one that I would want a
computer. Some students choose to use a
desktop or librar y computer when writing
take-home papers, and that option would
not be available to students if we used the
Securexam program.
Domenico contends that this program
could still be used so long as the school
made laptops available to borrow for exam
day. The University does provide laptops
for borrowing at the Rock, so a decision
like this one would not be unprecedented,
although ensuring that laptops are avail-
able for ever y student who might need one
would surely be costly.
Furthermore, students who get to use
their own computers will be at an advan-
tage in an exam administered electroni-
cally because they will have had extensive
experience using their particular brand
and model. Students who have to borrow
computers miss out on this familiarity and
will probably be less comfortable with the
new option.
Any introduction of this program, man-
dator y or not, will make students feel obli-
gated to use it. Since the typed-out exams
will be more legible, graders might have
an unintentional inclination to favor such
exams. Because certain students are more
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 | Page 11
person of authority and a representative of
mine to follow.
The other incident, based on the same
desperate quest for signatures, took place
about a week before that, when I was hav-
ing dinner at the V-Dub with a friend and
her sister who was visiting from Santa Fe,
N.M. A UCS member approached us and
asked us to sign for her, which we did. She
then turned to my friend’s sister and asked
why she did not sign. When the sister ex-
plained the situation and asked if she was
even allowed to sign, considering that she
did not go to school here, the UCS hope-
ful replied, “Well, technically, no. ... But, I
wouldn’t actually mind.”
That was definitely the part where she
lost my vote. (If I were going to vote in the
first place, that is.)
Besides these specific cases when can-
didate hopefuls demonstrated qualities that
weren’t so admirable, simply the idea of
asking people to sign instead of having a
system where they sign because they want
to isn’t very dignified.
Perhaps it would be a better idea to just
have a fewer number of required signatures
for every candidate hopeful, as long as these
are the signatures of people who care and
genuinely want that person to compete.
Fatima Aqeel ’12 is from Karachi, Paki-
stan. She can be reached at
Fatima_Aqeel@brown.edu.
computer-literate than others, they will
have an unfair advantage over students
who have not had the same level of expo-
sure to computers.
Although one might argue that dispar-
ities like this one already manifest them-
selves in blue book exams between stu-
dents who have different educational back-
grounds, the disparity created by Securex-
am will be even greater.
Instead of being a great convenience,
Securexam will prove to be a hindrance
to many students. Perhaps it will decrease
some amount of stress in certain instanc-
es. But I can picture computers malfunc-
tioning on exam day. This type of situation
is nearly impossible to imagine happening
on a written exam.
Ultimately, the unfortunate circum-
stances in which a computer may malfunc-
tion or students may not have their own
laptops to bring on exam day are not the
only things that make me feel that imple-
menting this program would be a poor
choice.
It is important that we leave certain
things in school as they are and that we
avoid computerizing ever ything because
being able to write coherently without the
aid of a computer is a valuable skill that
should not be forgotten.
Tory Hartmann ’11 is a political sci-
ence concentrator from Hillsborough,
New Jersey. She can be reached at
Victoria_Hartmann@brown.edu
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