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Minority
prof. hiring
accelerates
By Emmy Liss
Features Editor
The University has seen an increase
in minority and women faculty since
the creation of the Office of Institu-
tional Diversity in 2003, according
to statistics released by the Office
of the Dean of the Faculty. Though
the faculty expansion outlined in the
Plan for Academic Enrichment has
been completed, minority hiring will
continue to improve despite the eco-
nomic downturn.
“Over the last six years we have
made remarkable progress in diver-
sifying the faculty,” said Dean of the
Faculty Rajiv Vohra P’07. “The growth
in minority as well as female faculty
has been considerably higher than
the overall growth of the faculty.”
Since 2003, the number of Asian
faculty has increased by 36 percent,
black faculty by 52 percent and His-
panic faculty by 40 percent. During
the same period, the number of white
faculty increased by only 13 percent.
The number of women on the faculty
has increased by 31 percent. Vohra
said these numbers demonstrate
the net effect of hiring and faculty
departures.
Although the percentage increas-
es show minority faculty hiring has
grown faster than general hiring,
the total number of minority faculty
still remains relatively small. For ex-
ample, there were 21 black faculty in
the 2002-2003 academic year, and 32
in 2008-2009.
“In terms of the big picture, be-
cause for many of these categories
the numbers are still small, it’s im-
portant to measure progress over a
number of years rather than on an
annual basis,” Vohra said.
Brenda Allen, associate provost
and director of institutional diversity,
said she has noticed steady growth
in general minority hiring, “really
good success” with women and in-
creases in diversity “all across the
University.”
Though she acknowledged
change does not happen “fast and
overnight,” looking at the numbers
from the past six years, “we can see
that we’ve really made some prog-
ress,” she said.
The University’s strategy for
actively diversifying the faculty is
“two-fold,” Vohra said. Primarily,
departments searching for faculty
work with Allen to determine the
best strategy for increasing the num-
ber of minority applicants.
“The idea is, the more people
you recruit to your pool, the more
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Vogel still
mum on
future plans
By Sydney Ember
Senior Staff Writer
Pulitzer Prize-winner and Profes-
sor of Literary Arts Paula Vogel has
remained noncommittal about her
plans to return to Brown for the
2009-2010 academic year, echoing
the stance she took when the Uni-
versity granted her a one-year leave
of absence.
Vogel, who announced last Janu-
ary that she would take a leave to
chair the playwriting department
at Yale, has left Brown’s program
without its most esteemed lecturer
Frederic Lu / Herald
and its corps of second-year gradu-
Professor of Biology Robert Reenan and Reina Saki ’10 of the Brown Ballroom Dance Team dazzled
Friday night en route to first place in the second annual “Dancing with the Profs” competition. ate students, all of whom followed
her to Yale.
Professors show off their moves In an e-mail to The Herald, Vogel
wrote, “I am currently the Eugene
O’Neill (Adjunct) Professor of Play-
By Kelly Mallahan crowning of Professor of Biology and Derek Bangle ’10, to a dra- writing at Yale School of Drama, and
Staff Writer Robert Reenan and Reina Saiki matic tango set to Shakira, danced Chair of the Playwriting Program.
’10 as 2009 dance champions, the by Visiting Professor of Applied And that’s really, all I can say. I
The Brown Ballroom Dance audience packed into Alumnae Hall Mathematics Vladimir Dobrush- don’t wish to speak about leaving
Team’s second annual “Dancing never stopped cheering for — and kin and Michelle Norworth ’10. Brown.”
with the Profs” on Friday night occasionally laughing at — their Short videos were played before “She is on leave this academic
had it all — charismatic emcees, professors’ dance moves. each routine, showing some of the year,” said Gale Nelson, assistant
celebrity judges and, of course, Six professors were paired training process in true “Dancing director of the literary arts program.
a sea of sequins. From the mo- with members of the Ballroom with the Stars” style. “We have not heard back from her
ment Visiting Assistant Professor Dance Team to learn 90-second This year’s event featured a at this point about her plans.”
of Psychology Theresa DiDonato dance routines ranging from a real Brown celebrity judge — But Vogel added in her
and Eric Ho ’11 took the floor with high-spirited quickstep, danced
continued on page 4 continued on page 4
a hip-hop-infused cha-cha to the by Chaplain Janet Cooper-Nelson
RISD’s Balls play
tough, ‘stick together’
By Brian Mastroianni their fans’ applause and cheers
Senior Staf f Writer were not diminished.
“We have great fans who come
As players practice their jump out to our games,” said Don Mor-
shots on the court, the soundtrack ton, associate director of the Of-
to “Space Jam” blares in the back- fice of Student Life at RISD. “It is
ground. The coaches of the two not about winning — it is just all
opposing teams walk over to one about pure support for the team.”
another and shake hands. The two Morton said the small turnout for
teams stop warming up that week’s game was
and gather around their FEATURE atypical for a RISD Balls
respective coaches. “Go game. Recently, he said,
Balls!” shouts the team in maroon the Balls drew 400 fans when they
uniforms. faced RISD’s main rival, the Pratt
It’s time for the Rhode Island Institute.
School of Design’s basketball team, The Balls (yes, it’s intention-
the Balls, to take the court. al) have been entertaining fans
Quiet at first, a small crowd since 2000 with their moves on the
of about 20 spectators who have court and their signature slogan:
ventured into the Wheeler School “When the heat is on, the Balls
gymnasium where the Balls are stick together.” RISD’s other
taking on Sarah Lawrence soon athletic headliners, the ’Nads,
becomes animated. play hockey at Meehan Audito-
Though the Balls lost to the rium to fans cheering (of course) Justin Coleman / Herald
Gryphons (an alternate spelling The RISD Balls maintained strong team spirit and loyal fan support
of the mythical “griffins”) 57-53, continued on page 2 despite a loss to the Sarah Lawrence Gryphons Saturday.
Arts, 5 Sports, 7 Opinions, 11
Israel in film Pretty in Pink r-e-s-p-e-c-t
A College Hill film festival Men’s tennis raised Breast Tory Hartmann ’11 decries
focused on Israeli society Cancer awareness in a students’ lack of respect
opened Saturday victory over Marist for facilities
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C ampus N EWS “We play with as much passion as Duke, but without the
full-ride scholarships.” — William Miller, RISD basketball coach
Coach Miller raises Balls’ visibility
continued from page 1
“Go Nads!”
“My nephew is on the team and
it is great to go out and support him
— but I’ve been a fan of the Balls
for awhile now,” said team supporter
Sherry O’Brien. “Usually being at
a RISD game is unlike going to any
other game.”
For O’Brien’s nephew, fresh-
man Cooper O’Brien, what adds
to this unique atmosphere of a
RISD Balls game is the make-up
of the team itself. “People come
from different parts of the school,
which provides completely differ-
Justin Coleman / Herald ent points of view when it’s game
A RISD basketball player shows off his ball-handling skills against Sarah
Lawrence
time,” he said. “There are so many
different levels of skill on the team,
and I think that as a team we are all
sudoku pieces of a larger whole — we are
all complementing one another’s
level of skill.”
Sherr y said that the positive
energy of the Balls’ fans and the
RISD players makes for exciting,
unpredictable games. “When there
are big crowds, there is usually a lot
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of really amusing yelling out, and
it’s hilarious when the RISD band
will come out and it will just be a kid
with a ukulele and another with a
wooden flute,” she added.
For the team’s players, the op-
portunity to play for the Balls of-
fers the chance to escape from a
heavy workload. “Obviously this
gives us a chance to stay in shape,
but it’s definitely nice to have
something to do other than work,”
said team captain and RISD junior
Coral Anderson.
Anderson, who had participated
in athletics throughout his child-
hood and high school years, was
unsure of what it would be like to
attend an arts school where athletic
programs are not a major part of
campus life, he said.
“It was a big adjustment at first
and completely different from high
school, but it is like home in that we
have great support from our fans,”
Anderson said. “We don’t win all
the time, but they all come out to
support us. It’s a lot of fun.”
Behind every united team is a
Monday, February 9, 2009
Justin Coleman / Herald
dedicated coach. Leading the Balls
is William Miller, a RISD alum and
technician in the school’s painting
department. After the Balls’ previ-
ous coach left the team, students
in the painting department asked
Miller to take the position.
For Miller, a former high school
athlete now in his second season as
the team’s coach, the opportunity to
coach the Balls gave him the chance
to enjoy two of his passions, sports
and art.
This balance of athletics and
painting is evidenced by the ar-
rangement of his 2 College Street
office. The shelves are filled with
stacks of paint buckets, brushes and
other art supplies, but a sack full of
basketballs sits nearby.
Since taking on the coaching
position, Miller has been trying to
get as much publicity for the team
as possible.
This publicity includes a deal
with Converse that resulted in the
company providing the team with
warm-up gear, uniforms, shoes,
socks and gym bags.
“The visibility of the program
has gone up with the Converse deal
— my objective was to garner as
much attention as I could get for
the team,” Miller said.
Miller said that he would love
for this visibility to include the Balls
opening for a Brown game in the
future, or for more Brown students
to venture over to watch games
at Wheeler.
But more important than pub-
licity is the need to encourage the
sense of school spirit that the Balls
seems to generate, Miller said.
“I really like the joy that (bas-
ketball) brings to the students, the
players, the fans and the staff at the
school. It’s equal part recreation and
entertainment value,” Miller said.
What adds to this entertainment
value is unique energy and creativity
that the players bring to the game,
Miller said.
“We play with as much passion
as Duke, but without the full-ride
scholarships. RISD students are
creative and creativity can find it-
self in almost every field in human
endeavor,” Miller said.
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Simmons makes annual
appearance at B.E.A.R. Day
By Sydney Ember
Senior Staff Writer
The smell of hors d’oeuvres wafted
onto the Main Green as faculty and
staff gathered Friday afternoon at
a reception for Brown Employee
Appreciation and Recognition Day,
an event commemorating service,
performance and excellence in the
Brown community.
The annual awards ceremony and
celebration recognizes dedication to
the University and acknowledges ac-
complishments that reflect a commit-
ment to sustained achievement.
Nearly 600 faculty, staff and their
families and friends filled a festive
Salomon 101 with laughter and
congratulatory greetings before
President Ruth Simmons thanked
the honorees for their citizenship,
innovation and effectiveness.
Despite this year’s change in
venue — the event was previously
held in the Olney-Margolies Ath-
letic Center — “our gratitude for
the work you’ve done on a daily ba-
sis is unchanged,” Simmons said.
“We appreciate everything you’ve
done to make the University what it
is today.”
She said the service awards,
which honor all faculty and staff who
have worked at the University for
five or more years, are a testament to
the “supportive and cohesive nature”
of the Brown community, adding that
the honorees “reflect the letter and
the spirit of Brown’s character.”
Staff members celebrating their
time at Brown — 119 current em-
ployees have 30 or more years of
service, according to Simmons —
were called to the stage to accept
recognition for their service, be-
fore excellence awards were given
to teams and individuals for their
work in the community.
Employees were honored in cat-
egories such as citizenship, diversity,
efficiency, innovation, managing,
“rising stars” and service, repre-
senting the breadth of accomplish-
ment that Simmons said benefits the
community.
“Every service,” Simmons said,
“helps to build a better environment
for teaching, learning and research
on College Hill.”
At the reception in Sayles Hall
following the ceremony, community
Excellence Awards
Citizenship
• Ladd Observatory Team,
Physics and Dean of the
College
• Psychiatry and Human
Behavior Team
Efficiency
• Jennifer Slattery-Bownds
Efficiency
• Raymond Bubier, David
Coite, Kathryn Salisbury,
Kenneth Talbot
Innovation
• Sean Ferns, John
Huffman, Kathleen
Shannon, Kenneth Silva
• CORE Team, Division of
Biology & Medicine
Managing for Excellence
• Mary Lepry, Paul
Magliocco
Rising Star
• Suzanne Brough, Marc
Doughty
Service
• Louis Amadio, Mary Beth
Bryson, Richard Reed,
Katherine Schott
members mingled while munching
on hamburgers and reflecting on
their Brown experiences.
“I’m very happy that I made
20 years,” said Eugene DeJesus, a
campus police officer celebrating
his milestone anniversary. “I never
thought I’d be in the same job for
20 years.”
“It’s pretty exciting,” said Shan-
non Silva, a program coordinator in
the Department of Ecology and Evo-
lutionary Biology who has been at
Brown for 19 years. “It’s just a huge
honor.”
Simmons said in an interview
afterward that Brown could not
“carry on its work of learning and
teaching and doing research” with-
out these employees, adding that it is
important to honor faculty and staff
not only because “we are grateful
to them for what they do,” but also
because “it’s fun.”
“I’m still kind of in a state of dis-
belief,” said Kit Salisbury, humanities
center manager in the Cogut Center
for Humanities, who received an Ex-
cellence Award for Efficiency for her
work on last year’s annual report. “I
was just doing my job.”
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“I never thought I’d be working in the same job for 20 years.”
— Eugene DeJesus, campus police officer
Students gather on campus for Ivy Summit
By Ellen Cushing leadership and energy independence. the event, in addition to transporta-
Senior Staff Writer The day ended with a final keynote ad- tion, and were housed by Brown
dress from Collins, as well as a banquet students.
Approximately 450 Ivy League students and an after-party in Leung Gallery. Student delegates said they were
gathered on campus over the weekend The conference was sponsored attracted by the conference’s focus
for the ninth annual Ivy Leadership primarily by various Brown offices, on global and environmental issues.
Summit, a two-day conference featuring including the Office of the President “I was partly drawn by all the sustain-
speakers and workshops centered on and the Dean of the College, with ability speakers,” said Brian Levin, a
the theme of “Leading in a Globalizing funds also coming from the Cornell Yale sophomore. “I think that global
Community.” University Johnson School, Michael warming is the challenge of our gen-
The conference was organized by Hanson, USA Today and student and eration, and it’s incumbent upon us to
the Ivy Council, a nonprofit organiza- school fees. Jose Vasconez, ’10, the Ivy work to solve it.”
tion composed of student leaders from Council’s Finance Chair, said the Uni- Alexa Chu, another Yale sopho-
the eight Ivy League schools, all of versity provided financial and logistical more, said, “I was drawn by the in-
which sent delegates. According to the support to the summit. “The adminis- ternational aspect. There are a lot of
conference’s organizers, the Ivy Lead- tration sponsored us, and everyone I ambassadors speaking.”
ership Summit aims to bring together approached at Brown was more than Others said that they were inter-
students from across the Ivy League willing to help,” he said. ested in collaborating with other Ivy
to discuss current issues. According to Park and Vasconez, League students. “One reason for the
“It’s an opportunity for students planning began in April, when a Brown summit is to foster relationships be-
to come together and collaborate,” steering committee submitted a pro- tween the Ivy League, which I think
said Stacey Park ’11, one of the event’s posal and a budget to the Ivy Council. is important. We always think of these
co-chairs. According to Vasconez, the steering rivalries between the Ivy Leagues, but
The conference was organized committee then raised approximately we really need to work together to
by Park, co-chair Paris Hays ’10 and $24,000 through sponsorships. They solve problems,” said Columbia Uni-
a team of about a dozen Brown stu- later worked to recruit speakers and versity first-year Amber Tunnell.
dents, and featured three keynote coordinate event spaces. Vasconez and Park both said they
addresses given by US Ambassador Student delegates, who underwent were pleased with the way the confer-
Charles Manatt and Irish Ambassador an application process and were se- ence went. “We worked really hard
Michael Collins, as well as President lected to attend by their respective to plan everything, and it’s all going
Ruth Simmons. schools, paid a $21 fee for attending exactly to plan,” said Vasconez.
In her speech Saturday, Simmons
discussed the conference’s theme and
the importance of diversity, exploration
and nuance in solving the world’s prob-
lems. “Tomorrow’s reality, whether
we like it or not, is global. The topic
‘leadership in the global community’
could not be more timely,” she said.
Simmons also thanked the event’s
organizers and praised the summit’s
goals. “The Ivy Leadership Summit
is an inspired idea, as it allows us a
chance to consider debate and learn
from the most challenging issues of
this time,” she said.
Activities began Friday evening
with opening ceremonies featuring
a number of Brown’s performance
groups, a welcome reception and
a keynote address by Manatt.
Many students were impressed
by the performances, including
those by Mezcla, Out of Bounds,
Fusion Dance Company and the
Jabberwocks.
“The student groups were phenom-
enal,” said Yale sophomore Abigail
Cheung.
After Simmons’ speech Saturday
morning, students attended work-
shops covering topics such as business
etiquette, civic engagement, global
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Vohra: Diversity is key
continued from page 1
diverse and rich that pool will be,”
Allen said.
Strategies include outreach —
both on the department’s and on Al-
len’s behalf — as well as attendance
at conferences where high-quality
applicants might be found.
In addition to depar tmental
searches, the University’s “Target
of Opportunity” program has had
a “significant impact on our abil-
ity to diversify the faculty,” Vohra
said. The program allows a depart-
ment to pursue an unusual hiring
opportunity, even if it doesn’t have
an immediate vacancy. The Plan for
Academic Enrichment called for 100
new faculty hires and allocated 25
of them specifically to the Target of
Profs tango with Ballroom Team
continued from page 1
President Ruth Simmons herself.
As a judge, Simmons was “looking to
have fun myself” and wanted to see
couples that danced with “attitude,”
she said.
The other two judges were for-
mer collegiate chairwoman of the
Rhode Island chapter of USA Dance
Laura Colaninno and Ballroom Team
Coach Russell Monk — who was
described by Bangle as the competi-
tion’s token “cantankerous British
judge.” The friendly banter between
Monk and Bangle was an entertain-
ing theme of the evening: When the
mustachioed Bangle asked Monk
what he was looking for on the
dance floor, Monk replied, “A clean-
shaven face.”
This year’s event also featured
a special performance by dancers
from the Dance Alliance of Rhode
Opportunity program.
As of this year, nearly all of the
100 positions outlined in the Plan for
Academic Enrichment have been
filled, Vohra said. But despite the
end of the major expansion and the
current financial situation, the Uni-
versity still expects to hire about
30 faculty members each year, and
opportunities remain to further di-
versify the faculty. Though the over-
all number of hires will be smaller,
the percentage of spots that go to
minority applicants will continue to
increase.
“Diversity will continue to be a
goal integral to any growth we have,”
Allen said. “As we manage the eco-
nomic situation, our priority is pro-
tecting the quality of the academic
program.”
Island, a nonprofit organization that
promotes dance education in the
community.
Last year’s “Dancing with the
Profs” debut raised $2,000, which the
team donated to the Brown Annual
Fund, according to Chihiro Ikegami
’10, who helped to organize the event
and also served as co-emcee.
This year, the team will donate
half of its proceeds to the Dance Alli-
ance of Rhode Island. The other half
will be used to support the 40 to 50
active Ballroom Team members in
their travels and competitions.
At the end of the evening — after
the cha-cha by DiDonato and Ho, the
sultry first-place samba by Reenan
and Saiki, the quickstep by Cooper-
Nelson and Bangle, the tango by
Dobruskin and Norworth, a jive by
Visiting Lecturer in French Stud-
ies Stephanie Ravillon and Michael
Kim ’10 and a mambo by Assistant
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“Definitely the booty drop. Dip it low, take it up slow.”
— Professor of Biology Robert Reenan on his favorite dance move
Number of Regular Faculty by Gender and Race/Ethnicity
600
500
400
300
200
100 72
53
21
0
02-03 08-09 02-03
Asian Black
Source: Dean of the Faculty
Professor of Economics Geoffroy
DeClippel and Deeksha Gupta ’10
— the audience was asked to vote
for their favorite performance.
As the audience cast their votes
— extra votes were on sale for a
dollar apiece — Simmons said that,
though she couldn’t name her favor-
ite pair for the sake of impartiality,
“the fact that the faculty are funda-
mentally out of their element” and
are “willing to allow themselves to
be judged on something so unlike
what they’re used to — that’s what
I find so exciting.”
Like Simmons, the champions
wouldn’t name their favorite per-
formance, though they did agree on
their favorite dance move. “Definitely
the booty drop,” Reenan said. “Dip it
low, take it up slow.”
“We worked on it quite a
bit,” Saiki added. “It was the
climactic moment.”
Women
Men
## = Total
32
15 21
1 1
08-09 02-03 08-09 02-03
Hispanic Native
American
Prof. Vogel’s return
to Brown uncertain
continued from page 1
e-mail that she was “happy to re-
port” that she is continuing her
work on “A Civil War Christmas”
at Yale’s Long Wharf Theatre. She
is also working on a new play in
conjunction with Yale Repertory
Theatre, where she is playwright-
in-residence, and Long Wharf
Theatre, where she is the artistic
associate, for the 2010 season.
Ken Prestininzi, lecturer and as-
sociate chair of playwriting at Yale,
declined to comment on whether
he thought Vogel intended to re-
turn to Brown next year.
Vogel’s departure has left a hole
in the University’s literary arts
graduate program. The program
usually has six graduate students
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White
— three first-year students and
three second-year students — but
all three of Vogel’s second-years
decided to attend the Yale School
of Drama when Vogel announced
she was leaving Brown. Without
a second-year class, the depart-
ment has had to hire a number
of visiting artists to serve in one-
year positions in order to replace
Vogel and her graduate lecturers,
Nelson said.
He said the department also
accepted four first-year continuing
students in playwriting this year
to fill the void. Next year, though,
the department plans to return to
accepting three students.
Before taking her leave of ab-
sence, Vogel, who won the 1998
Pulitzer Prize for Drama for “How
I Learned to Drive,” spent 24 years
in the University’s Department
of Literary Arts. In her absence,
the department has temporar-
ily replaced her with Gregor y
Moss, Samuel Marks and Dan
LeFranc, all visiting lecturers in
literary arts.
But it is unclear how the de-
partment will be affected if Vogel’s
absence becomes permanent.
Nelson, who said he took a
course from Vogel as a graduate
student at Brown, acknowledged
that the department is under strain
in Vogel’s absence.
“I think I can say from my own
personal experience that she is
an exceptional teacher,” he said.
“How her leaving will affect the
program will certainly depend
on who comes in to teach these
programs.”
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The Brown Daily Herald
DRUMMING IN THE NEW YEAR
Students took part in a celebration of the Chinese lunar New Year Friday evening in Andrews Hall.
Israeli Film Festival opens on College Hill
By Andrea Savdie
Arts & Culture Staff Writer
The first annual Israel Film Fes-
tival of College Hill kicked off on
Saturday with a screening of Ronit
and Shlomi Elkabetz’s “The Seven
Days.” The festival, which runs
through next Thursday, is com-
posed of films that focus on salient
issues in Israeli society. They cover
a range of topics including migra-
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tion and sexuality, religion and the
kibbutz experiment, and several
attempts to reconcile centuries-old
traditions with the progressive ide-
als of contemporary Israel.
The apparent absence of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict may
seem like a giant elephant in the
room. But the aim of the festival is
to portray aspects of Israeli soci-
ety that are disconnected from the
political lens through which Israel
Frederic Lu / Herald
is usually discussed, said Danya
Chudacoff ’11. She organized the
event and selected the films in col-
laboration with Brown/RISD Hillel
Israel Fellow Yossi Knafo.
“We are not ignoring Israel’s
political issues and the Israeli-Pal-
estinian conflict,” she said. “The
festival was specifically organized to
be a look into Israeli culture, society
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Mixed-media exhibit
uses runaway slave ads
By Luisa Robledo
Staf f Writer
Cora Marshall revisits a difficult
point in American history in “Eman-
cipated Memories: Uncovering the
Hidden Faces of Slaver y.”
The show, which opened Thurs-
day at the John Nicholas Brown
Center, showcases Marshall’s deft
use of mixed media to recreate
newspaper ads used by slave-
owners to sell slaves or to offer
rewards for runaways.
Marshall first discovered these
ads at the Librar y of Congress
while doing research for a differ-
ent art project.
“These newspaper advertise-
ments were ver y rich in descrip-
tion: color of hair, type of complex-
ion, clothes,” Marshall said. “You
know, it was a skirt with blue polka
dots and a red stripe.”
For Marshall’s ar tistic eye
such detailed verbal description
“conjured up images.” Inspired to
transform these into art, Marshall,
who had long used exclusively oil
paints, began to experiment with
acr ylic paints and mixed media.
She wanted to reveal the charac-
ters and emotions absent in the
bare wording of the ads. Slaves
were described as soulless com-
modities, but Marshall sought to
animate these ads, incorporating
them into visual depictions in order
to reveal the slaves as “ordinar y
people.”
The ads used by Marshall were
primarily drawn from New England
newspapers. According to Mar-
shall, many slaves in New England,
unlike most slaves in the South,
could read and write but still had
to “blend in, not stand out.”
“I want to give them an iden-
tity,” Marshall said.
The exhibit features two series
of Marshall’s paintings: “Going, go-
ing, gone” and “To be sold.” The
former is based on the descriptive
runaway ads, while the second one
is based on newspaper ads that
simply said “to be sold” and lacked
any visual description at all.
The empty “to be sold” ads are
an object of curiosity for Marshall.
“Who are they? Where did they go?
Were they being separated from
their families?” she writes on her
Web site.
“I think it’s really beautiful,”
said Ife Salam, a graduate student
from the Rhode Island School of
Design who viewed the exhibit on
Friday. “She kind of flips traditional
roles and makes the slaves that are
depicted really personal and makes
the slave holders abstract.”
Marshall uses layering as her
primary method, fusing snippets of
the ads with acrylic paint and later
covering her images with a layer
of wax. With this technique, Mar-
shall is able to direct the viewer’s
attention through various parts of
the painting.
“Certain aspects of the figure
come out and become all the more
real to you,” Salam said.
The layer of wax Marshall ap-
plies seems to act as a veil over
the faces of the slaves. She also
uses bright colors that allude to
the African ancestr y of the slaves.
Although the background of each
work inter weaves these different
elements, Marshall paints each
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Exhibit shows slave
ads in a new light
continued from page 5
slave’s face as one cohesive
whole.
“No matter where you go in
the room, their eyes will follow
you,” she said.
In addition to her exhibit,
Marshall gave a lecture on black
female artists last Thursday. She
mentioned artists such as Betye
Saar and Faith Ringgold and
spoke of the ways that each of
them had honored black histor y
in her works. Through her art,
Marshall seeks to find a connec-
tion to her past as well.
“I am par t of ever yone be-
fore me,” Marshall said. “I am
the summation of all my ances-
tors.”
The exhibit will be run through
April 5 and is free and open to
the public.
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Festival films shy away from politics
continued from page 5
and art outside the context in which
it is found so often abroad.”
Chudacoff began organizing the
festival in September, although the
heaviest part of the planning took
place over winter break, when she
was in Israel.
“It was a very hard time,” she
said, referring to the war in Gaza.
She considered postponing the fes-
tival, but decided not to. “Something
like a film festival which celebrates
culture doesn’t have to fluctuate with
political climate.”
“Israel is more than just the
(Israel Defense Force),” she said.
“The country is not based on war
and violence and definitely not based
on politics.”
Israel may not be all about con-
flict, but “The Seven Days” is brim-
ming with bitterness and secrets
from the start.
The film centers on a Moroc-
can family’s tragic, agonizing and
at times comic attempt to live un-
der the same roof for seven days of
shiva — the period of mourning for
the death of a relative. The shiva
house featured in the film at times
threatens to erupt into a walled-in
family battlefield.
One can feel the tensions sim-
mering beneath the surface long
before it becomes clear how the
characters are related and exactly
who died. While overwhelming at
first, the way viewers are thrown
into the chaos from the start allows
them to experience the realistic in-
tensity of an unexpected, involun-
tary and emotionally charged family
reunion.
As one audience member said
during a discussion following the
film, there is a lot of talking going on,
but very little communicating.
Perhaps that explains why the
“I am part of everyone before me.”
— Cora Marshall, artist
most powerful stor y line of the
film, that of Vivianne — played by
director Ronit Elkabetz — and her
sister Simona, is also the quietest.
As the characters’ efforts to act civil
towards one another out of respect
for the deceased begin to fail, family
members’ claims to be observing the
somber tradition of shiva border on
ridiculous.
Squabbles over bankruptcy, busi-
ness and male responsibility tear the
brothers apart, while the women
deal with issues of marriage, adul-
tery and widowhood. Some audience
members found the film powerful,
but others argued that it tended to
stereotype and exaggerate.
“The Seven Days” will play again
on Wednesday. The screening will
follow a showing of the film’s 2006
prequel “To Take a Wife,” which
tells the story behind Vivianne and
Eliyahu’s strained marriage and de-
picts the tension between their old
Moroccan traditions and their life in
modern Israel.
Any subtlety that may have been
lacking from “The Seven Days” can
be easily found in Eran Kolirin’s “The
Band’s Visit,” which played Saturday
at the Brown/RISD Hillel and will be
screened again.
Elkabetz acts in this film too,
stealing the show in a bittersweet
comedy about an Egyptian band that
gets stranded in a desolate Israeli
desert town. The band members
end up at a small restaurant owned
by Dina –– Elkabetz’s character –– a
confident Israeli woman who offers
them hospitality for the night. Avoid-
ing the recycled and excessively po-
liticized Middle East culture clash,
Kolirin instead opts for a funny, cu-
rious and occassionally awkward
depiction of cultural differences.
The atmosphere of isolation ex-
tends beyond the film’s desert set-
ting. The tremendous yet effectively
Monday, February 9, 2009
understated sense of loneliness and
relative insignificance that the char-
acters seem to share transcends
cultural differences, particularly in
the interactions between Dina and
the band’s leader, Tewfiq, played by
Sasson Gabai.
“If you’re only going to see
one of the films in the festival,”
Chudacof f said, it should be
“The Band’s Visit.”
The festival will include a screen-
ing of Ari Folman’s 2008 animated
documentary “Waltz With Bashir,”
followed by a Q&A with the film’s
art director and illustrator David
Polonsky, who is at Brown this se-
mester as the Creative Art Council’s
artist-in-residence. In the Golden
Globe-winning and Oscar-nominated
film, Folman delves into his past ex-
periences as a soldier in the first
Lebanon War, trying to decipher a
recurring nightmare in which he is
being chased by 26 vicious dogs.
“Most people really want to see
‘Waltz With Bashir,’” Chudacoff said.
She worries, however, that it may
divert attention from the rest of the
films, she said.
“I’m personally most excited to
see ‘Homeland,’” Chudacoff said.
Homeland takes place during the
1948 Israeli War of Independence
and explores the contrast between
the Diaspora Jew and the new Zion-
ist Jew, according to the film festi-
val brochure. Chudacoff praised the
film’s cinematography, referring to
the shots as “breathtaking.”
The theme of global immigra-
tion seems to recur in the festival’s
lineup. “Paper Dolls,” directed by
Tomer Heymann, explores the world
of a group of transsexual Phillip-
pine immigrants and “Noodle,” a
film by Ayelet Menahemi, tells the
story of the bond between an Israeli
flight attendant and an abandoned
Chinese boy.
SportsWeekend
The Brown Daily Herald
Sporting pink, men’s M. hoops still winless in Ivy
tennis wins for cause
By Erin Frauenhofer
Spor ts Staf f Writer
With a 6-1 victory over Marist Col-
lege on Friday, the men’s tennis
team also made strides against
breast cancer.
The match represented a spe-
cial opportunity for Kendrick Au
’11, a member of the Student-Ath-
lete Advisory Committee, which
hosted Brown’s Second Annual
Breast Cancer Awareness Week.
“My mom passed away from
breast cancer when I was really
young, so breast cancer aware-
ness is a personal stronghold to
me,” Au said. “I wanted the team
to get involved not just for the
personal meaning it had for me,
but I wanted the guys to know
we’re so fortunate to be here and
there’s more to life than wins
and losses.”
The Bears wore pink wrist-
bands and used pink grips on their
racquets to show their support
for the cause. The Bears also sold
raffle tickets to fans during the
match, with the proceeds going to
the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer
Resource Foundation.
“It’s one of the coolest things
we’ve done since I’ve been here
at Brown,” said Head Coach Jay
Harris. “It was a great thing for
us to be involved in.”
During the victory, the Bears
also received their rings for
winning the 2006 Ivy League
Championship.
“It motivated the younger guys
to see the older guys getting our
rings,” Lee said. “It was a complete
M. icers continue losing slide
By Dan Alexander
Sports Staff Writer
Men’s hockey was locked in a tight
contest with No. 19 Darmouth Fri-
day night early in the third period
when the Big Green’s Evan Stephens
slipped a shot past Bears goalie Dan
Rosen ’10 to give his team the lead.
Rosen laid his head on the ice in exas-
peration as Stephens celebrated.
The moment was a turning point
for the Bears, who would lose the
game and fail to score a goal the rest
of the weekend.
Dartmouth (12-8-3, 9-5-2 ECAC
Hockey) added two more goals
before the final buzzer to make the
score 5-2, and Merrimack blanked
the Bears, 2-0, the next night in
North Andover, Mass.
Brown (2-17-4, 2-11-3 ECAC)
entered the weekend on a three-
game losing streak, having dropped
back-to-back-to-back 5-1 games at the
hands of Cornell, Quinnipiac and
Princeton.
Dartmouth 5, Brown 2
Dartmouth Coach Bob Gaudet,
continued on page 8
surprise to all of us. It was really
cool.”
The Bears started strong, nab-
bing the doubles point by winning
all three doubles match-ups. At
first doubles, captains Sam Gar-
land ’09 and Noah Gardner ’09
overpowered Christian Coley and
Rhys Hobbs, 8-4. Captain Chris
Lee ’09 and Jonathan Pearlman
’11 defeated Loic Sessagesimi and
Matt Himmelsbach, 8-6, at sec-
ond doubles, and Au and Skate
Gorham ’10 had an 8-5 victor y
over Landon Greene and Nicolas
Pisecky at third doubles.
In singles play, Pearlman
breezed by Coley at first singles
by a score of 6-2, 6-3. Meanwhile,
his teammates at second, third and
fourth singles found themselves
in three-set matches, all of which
they ultimately won.
Lee outlasted Sessagesimi at
second singles by a score of 6-2,
6-7, 6-4.
“I thought I played pretty
well throughout the match,” Lee
said. “I haven’t played a lot,” he
said, since pulling a quad muscle
in September, “so I’m proud of
myself.”
At third singles, Gorham
swapped tiebreakers with Pisecky
before trouncing him in the third
set for a final score of 7-6, 6-7,
6-2.
Meanwhile, at fourth singles,
Garland battled back from near-
defeat for a 2-6, 7-6, 6-2 victor y
over Marcus von Nordheim.
Lee said he was impressed that
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Men’s hockey loses close game against Dartmouth.
Monday, February 9, 2009 | Page 7
By Benjy Asher
Sports Editor
The men’s basketball team (6-14,
0-6 Ivy League) struggled over the
weekend, pushing its losing streak to
six games. After falling to Dartmouth
(6-14, 4-2 Ivy) in a 63-61 overtime loss
on Friday night, the Bears suffered a
64-63 loss on a last-second free throw
by Harvard’s ( 10-10, 2-4 Ivy)Jeremy
Lin. With the two losses, Brown re-
mains winless in league play under
first-year Head Coach Jesse Agel.
Dartmouth 63, Brown 61 (OT)
At Dartmouth, the first half saw
five lead changes and neither team
was able to build a lead of more than
five points. After Brown took a 19-18
lead, the Big Green went on a 6-0
run to grab a 24-19 lead with 6:36
remaining in the first half. But tri-
captain Scott Friske ’09 scored seven
consecutive points to give Bruno a
26-24 lead, and Brown closed out the
first half clinging to a 28-27 lead.
Friske, who had nine first-half
points, finished with a team-high
19 points and 13 rebounds against
Dartmouth. Tri-captain Peter Sul-
livan ’11 led the way for Brown with
12 points in the first half, including
two three-pointers, and he finished
the game with 18 points on 6-of-14 Justin Coleman / Herald File Photo
shooting. Men’s basketball is having a hard time getting a win in the Ivy League this
season.
“I went and worked with the
coaches a lot this week to get my Bears a 34-33 lead with 14:49 left. Fol- ing in 20 of his game-high 28 points.
confidence in my shot back,” Sul- lowing Sullivan’s go-ahead jumper, He went 11-of-21 from the field on the
livan said. “I started shooting better Dartmouth answered right back with night, and knocked down five treys,
in practice, and that carried over into an 8-0 run, which included a pair of including four in the second half.
the game.” three-pointers from the Big Green’s Brown finally got the lead back
Dartmouth started off the second Alex Barnett. with 3:36 left in regulation when Matt
half with a jumper to go up 29-28, and Barnett, who entered the game Mullery ’10 sank two free throws to
the Big Green held the lead until as the Ivy League’s leading scorer at make the score 52-50, but 40 sec-
Sullivan knocked down a jumper off 19.2 points per game, was virtually
the assist from Friske to give the unstoppable in the second half, pour- continued on page 8
Justin Coleman/ Herald
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S ports W eekend
M. tennis
preps for
ECACs
continued from page 7
Garland was able to come back
from behind. At 6-2, 5-4, he had
been two points away from losing
the match.
According to Harris, once
Garland was able to break his
opponent’s serve in that game,
he played perfectly for the rest
of the match.
“The maturity he showed was
something I was really proud of,”
Harris said.
At fifth singles, Au defeated
Greene by a score of 6-3, 6-3, a
result Au said “doesn’t reflect
how tough the match was.”
Au’s win secured the team’s
fourth point, putting the victory
beyond doubt. “It was fitting
Kendrick was the one to clinch
the match,” Harris said. “It was
a very efficient match.”
Charlie Posner ’11 dropped a
6-3, 7-5 match to Himmelsbach
at sixth singles to bring the final
team score to 6-1.
The Bears compared the
difficulties they faced against
the Red Foxes — with so many
match-ups going to three sets —
to their loss to Boston College
three weeks ago, and said that
they were proud they were able
to prevail this time.
“It was similar to the BC
match because we had to deal
with a lot of challenges,” Au said.
“In the case of the BC match,
we didn’t respond that well. But
we’ve gotten tougher, and we
were able to tough out these
matches.”
“Marist is a little better than
BC and a little tougher,” Harris
agreed. “Marist didn’t go away
(after the doubles point), and we
didn’t expect them to. We had to
really work hard and fight hard
to put them away.”
The Bears are now preparing
for the ECAC Championships,
which will be hosted by Harvard.
Brown will face Yale in the first
round on Saturday.
“This is the first-ever ECAC
tournament held in February,”
Harris said. “It’s going to be a
ver y intense tournament this
time of year. The guys are re-
ally excited about it.”
According to Au, the Bears’
victory over Marist bodes well
for the future.
“We’ve come a long way,
and I hope this win and what it
represented will fuel the fire,”
Au said.
M. hoops loses two nail-biters, falls to 0-6 in Ivy
continued from page 7
onds later Barnett tied it up with
a jumper.
On the next two possessions,
tri-captain Chris Skrelja ’09 sank a
pair of free throws and Sullivan hit
one of two. The free throws gave
Brown a three-point lead, but with
57 seconds left, Barnett connected
from behind the arc to send the game
into overtime.
Down 62-61 with 11 seconds left
in overtime, the Bears had a chance
to win, but Dartmouth’s Robby Pride
came up with a big steal to end the
possession. Pride got fouled and
made one of two from the line, leav-
ing Brown down two with just two
seconds left. Friske’s full-court pass
looking for a last-second miracle was
picked off, and Dartmouth escaped
with the win.
Harvard 64, Brown 63
The following night, the Bears
controlled the game throughout the
first half, as Sullivan scored 15 of his
20 points to lead Bruno to a 32-20
halftime lead over Harvard.
But in the second half, the Crim-
son turned things around behind a
scoring outburst from Jeremy Lin,
who leads Harvard with 19.0 points
per game this season. Lin made na-
tional headlines earlier this season
when he scored 27 points in an upset
win over Boston College on Jan. 7.
After being held to just five points
Tie game slips away in 3rd period for m. hockey
continued from page 7
the predecessor of current Bears
Head Coach Roger Grillo, returned
to the Meehan Auditorium with a
Dartmouth team that was unde-
feated in its last five games and that
defeated the Bears, 5-1 in Hanover
on Jan. 10.
“We came out flat when we were
on the road” earlier in the season,
said Assistant Captain Matt Vokes
’09 after the game. “Tonight we came
out well.”
Vokes scored the game’s first goal
just under eight minutes after the
puck dropped. Mike Wolff ’12 passed
up to Vokes, who took the puck down
the right side. Vokes switched sides
to avoid a defender, but the puck got
tangled up in the defender’s skates.
Vokes got control of the puck at the
bottom of the left face-off circle and
threw it on net, giving the Bears a
1-0 lead.
“A lot of that was pure luck, to be
perfectly honest,” Vokes said.
The Big Green evened the score
on a power-play less than four min-
utes later. Doug Jones came from
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“A lot of that was pure luck, to be perfectly honest.”
— M. hockey’s Matt Vokes ’09, on scoring the Bears’ first goal
in the first half, Lin erupted for 22
points after intermission, including
three treys.
“Our defense was still good in the
second half, but they started making
real tough shots,” Sullivan said. “I
think we also started to feel some fa-
tigue after a long, hard game against
Dartmouth, and another hard game
at Harvard.”
As good as Lin was, Mullery was
equally impressive for Brown. After
sitting out much of the first half be-
cause of foul trouble, Mullery scored
21 of his team-high 27 points in the
second half to keep the Bears in the
game. Following a disappointing ef-
fort against Dartmouth, in which he
went 3-of-14 from the floor, Mullery,
who leads the team with 16.1 points
per game this season, dominated the
paint on Saturday, knocking down
13-of-16 field goal attempts.
Mullery’s 27 points were a career
high.
“I sat out a lot of the first half, so I
got back in fresh in the second half,
ready to go hard for 20 minutes,”
Mullery said. “I was fortunate to have
a good shooting night, but unfortu-
nately it wasn’t enough.”
A layup by Mullery gave Bruno a
54-46 lead with just over seven min-
utes remaining, but the Crimson
fought back to cut Brown’s lead to
two points. With 2:57 left, Lin drained
a three to put Harvard up 57-56, its
first lead of the game.
Mullery hit a layup to regain the
behind the net and passed across
the crease to captain Rob Pritchard.
Rosen tried to recover to the far side,
but Pritchard one-timed the puck
through the five-hole to make the
score 1-1.
Dartmouth took its first lead of
the game 3:14 into the middle frame
on a 5-on-3 power-play. Adam Estoclet
sent a cross-ice feed from the left goal
line to Scott Fleming, who one-timed
it into a half-open net.
Brown got that goal back less than
two minutes before intermission. On
a play that looked almost exactly the
same as Dartmouth’s previous goal,
Vokes sent a cross-ice feed from the
left goal-line to Jarred Smith ’12, who
one-timed it into a half-open net, mak-
ing it a 2-2 game.
Grillo said that he told the team
after the game that he “was happy
with the way they played the first
two periods.”
“I was happy with the energy, the
way they battled,” he said.
With the score tied going into the
final frame, Gaudet said he thought
that the team that scored the next
goal was going to win. Stephens’
Tri-captain Peter Sullivan ’11 had a banner scoring weekend, sinking 38 shots.
lead 19 seconds later, and Adrian
Williams ’11 expanded the lead to
four with a three-pointer with 2:12
remaining. The Crimson came back
to tie the game at 61, then Mul-
lery made another layup with 55
seconds left.
With 40 seconds left, Lin hit two
free throws to tie it up. After a missed
shot attempt on Brown’s possession,
Lin was fouled on his last-second shot
attempt, and he drained a free throw
with no time left on the clock to give
Harvard the 64-63 victory.
game-winner proved him right less
than five minutes into the period.
Dartmouth’s Pritchard fired a
hard shot that Rosen blocked less
than five minutes into the third
period. Rosen couldn’t control the
puck, and the rebound went to Ste-
phens, who beat Rosen on a partially-
open net.
“We made a mistake and gave
them that third goal and the momen-
tum shifted,” Grillo said.
Dartmouth made it a two-goal
game when Fleming, who leads the
Big Green in goals, put in his sec-
ond of the night. With heavy traffic
around Rosen, Fleming found the
puck and slapped it into the back of
the net to make the game 4-2.
Grillo pulled Rosen in favor of an
extra attacker, and Dartmouth scored
an empty-net goal with 1:31 left in the
game, making the game seem like
more of a blowout than it was.
“Basically it was a one-goal
game, despite the score at the end,”
Gaudet said.
“We shot ourselves in the foot
in the third,” Vokes said. “You
know, that’s kind of been our
Achilles’ heel.”
Merrimack 2, Brown 0
The Bears couldn’t turn their
weekend around when they headed
to North Andover, Mass., to take the
ice against Merrimack (6-17-3) the
next night.
Merrimack entered the contest
against Brown on an eight-game
losing streak. Excluding two wins
in the UConn Holiday Classic, the
Monday, February 9, 2009
Justin Coleman / Herald
Coming off a five-game road
stretch, Brown will look to get its
season back on track when the Bears
return to the Pizzitola Center this
weekend to take on Penn on Friday
and Princeton on Saturday.
“We’ve got to be persistent,”
Mullery said. “It would be easy for
us to go in the tank right now, but
we’re a team that has a lot of char-
acter. We’re right there, and we can
win games — it’s just a matter of
staying positive and working hard
in practice.”
Warriors hadn’t won a game since
November.
In the first period of their match-
up with the Bears, Merrimack led
the shot count, 15-9. Joe Cannata of
Merrimack and Mike Clemente ’12
were perfect in net to keep the game
scoreless.
The Warriors looked like they
were going to score the game’s first
goal when Rob Ricci got on a break-
away midway through the second
period. He took the puck all the way
into the crease, but Clemente stoned
a low shot from point blank.
Brown spent the first three min-
utes of the third period killing penal-
ties. It was a telling beginning, as the
Bears took seven penalties for a total
of fourteen minutes in the twenty-
minute long final frame.
Merrimack made use of the re-
sulting power-play opportunities.
The Warriors scored on a 5-on-3 ad-
vantage 6:15 into the period. Ricci
made up for his missed opportunity
earlier when he beat Clemente off of
a rebound with a wrist shot.
Just 21 seconds later, Pat Bowen
fired another hard shot at Clemente.
Clemente stopped the first attempt,
but Joe Cucci corralled the rebound
and beat the goaltender with a try
from the bottom of the left face-off
circle to make it a 2-0 game.
The Bears will try to end their
five-game losing streak when they
travel to Troy, N.Y. next Friday to
take on Rensselaer Polytechnic In-
stitute at 7 p.m. RPI got the best of
Brown in a 7-2 game in Providence
on Dec. 6.
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e d i to r i a l

Increasing black enrollment

Brown’s relatively unimpressive level of black enrollment (second-
to-last in the Ivy League) should be cause for concern. Black students
comprise a mere 6.7 percent of Brown’s freshman class compared to
12.1 percent at Columbia University.
While Brown admitted 22 percent of black applicants — much higher
than the overall rate of 13 percent — only 37 percent of admitted black
applicants accepted the offer. Ever y other school in the Ivy League has
seen an increase in black student enrollment over the last 16 years,
yet Brown’s enrollment rate has remained constant.
These statistics are surprising given that blacks have a strong and
active presence on Brown’s campus. The Department of Africana Stud-
ies, Third World Center, Harambee House, the Third World Transition
Program and Minority Peer Counselors all help make Brown a com-
munity that celebrates the African diaspora. We have the first black
president of an Ivy League institution and placed 20th in the Black
Enterprise Top 50 Colleges for African Americans rankings.
So why is Brown lagging behind? One possibility is location: Colum-
bia’s high ranking may be due, in part, to its attractiveness as a black
cultural center. Yale and Columbia also have large local black applicant
pools due to their respective locations in New Haven and New York.
Another important factor may be the presence of a core group of
black students at other schools. A larger black student population at
Brown would help ease the transition to a challenging and predominantly
white environment and would increase the likelihood of prospective F ranny choi
students hearing about the many opportunities Brown has to offer
black students.
The Office of Admission is moving in the right direction by bring-
ing more low-income admits to the Third World Welcome and putting
accepted students in touch with black alumni. But in order to close the
gap, the University needs to do more. Many colleges solicit feedback
from admitted students who do not accept their offers of admission.
Brown should sur vey black applicants who decide to matriculate else-
where in order to figure out how it can make itself more attractive to
admitted black students.
The University’s diverse student body is one of the most important
components of the Brown experience. A complacent approach to sus-
taining diversity runs the risk of losing talented students to our peers
and jeopardizing what makes Brown unique.

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The Brown Technology Center’s ‘key partners’
JARED LAFER
Opinions Columnist
Is there anything more frustrating than a
broken computer? I can think of a few things,
but that would ruin this exciting hook, so
let’s ignore them.
Computer problems are inevitable, and if
you haven’t yet experienced the blue screen
of death consider yourself lucky and pre-
emptively dash for the nearest Amish com-
munity. Fortunately, in the worst of times
you have the Bookstore Technology Cen-
ter to expedite the recovery of your beloved
personal computing devices. Well, that’s not
completely true.
I have the utmost respect for the BTC,
and am confident that its employees are
highly competent and helpful when it
comes to customer ser vice. In fact, they
proudly flaunt their impressive 65 years of
experience on their Web site, and I have no
doubt it shows in their work.
However, their work ethic does not ex-
cuse their business ethic, as the BTC has
overt relationships with only a small group
of hardware brands, exclusively selling
those companies’ products and satisfying
those companies’ customers. This is just
not fair to Brown students.
Here’s the deal: the BTC has “key part-
nerships” with Dell, Apple and Lenovo (ap-
parently Lenovo owns IBM). According to
Brown students, show some respect
BY TORY HARTMANN
Opinions Columnist
Brown students are generally respectful of
our fellow community members. We are at-
tentive in class, we stay relatively quiet in the
libraries and most of us do not cut in line at
the Ratty. We understand that other people
have things that they need to do and we try
not to get in each other’s way too much.
Knowing that Brown students are so
respectful some of the time makes me all
the more disappointed that we are not that
way all the time. Moreover, many of us
are downright rude to the people who are
hired to maintain our facilities.
This tendency is best exemplified in
University housing. In my experience liv-
ing in University housing for the past two
years, breaking exit signs has become
something of a sport. I will assume that no
one is breaking the exit signs with the ex-
press intent to ensure that students who
live in the dorms cannot find their way out
of the building in the event of a fire, so my
only available assumptions are that stu-
dents break them because they are bored,
drunk, stupid or all three.
Maybe ever y weekend it is entirely dif-
ferent students who break the signs, may-
be not, but regardless, it is an extremely
BTC Assistant Director Michael Romauld,
contracts with these companies allow the
BTC to perform hardware warranty re-
pairs, and “exclusively affect vendor cam-
pus store setups.”
What does the former entail? If you
happen to own a Dell, Apple or Lenovo
system and it malfunctions, the repair can
conveniently be performed right at the
bookstore. On the other hand, if you hap-
pen to have any other system, you have to
The BTC has overt relationships with only a small
group of hardware brands, exclusively selling
those companies’ products and satisfying those
companies’ customers. This is just not fair to
Brown students.
ship your computer to the manufacturer,
which is quite a hassle, especially for time-
pressed college students like us.
Of course, the bookstore says on its
Web site that it’s willing to assist in the
process of getting “Non Dell, Apple and
Lenovo systems” repaired in any way un-
der warranty, and for that it has my re-
spect. The BTC even performs general re-
pairs on excluded brands, which certainly
speaks to its versatility.
But that doesn’t change the fact that
the BTC’s ser vices privilege only a triad of
disrespectful and expensive habit. The
worst part is that it is expensive in both
time and money, and these expenses are
not paid by the miscreants who vandalize
University property.
By now, you would have to be living un-
der a rock not to realize that the University
has had to tighten its pursestrings lately.
According to Richard Bova, senior associ-
ate dean of the Office of Residential Life,
the University generally spends between
It seems like a pretty basic idea: if you make
a mess, clean it up, and if you do not have the
supplies to clean with, call Facilities yourself.
$8,000 and $10, 000 in an academic year
repairing broken exit signs and windows.
Bova notes that there is sometimes a “gen-
eral lack of respect for the places where
some folks live.”
Some students do not care in the slight-
est that what they do for “fun” negatively
affects other people. It is a waste of the
Department of Facilities Management em-
companies.
The plot thickens as I reaffirm that the
BTC only sells Dell, Apple and Lenovo
products on its Web site. I guess the BTC
knows something we don’t about the qual-
ity of computers, because apparently these
are the only systems in demand.
Although that’s not all, for CIS, which
according to Romauld works closely with
the BTC, outright recommends only Dell
and Apple computers, and HP printers (I
guess HP computers aren’t recommend-
ed), on its Web site.
Selling only a select group of computers
is one thing, but explicitly recommending
that group over all others is simply unjust.
If that’s not enforcing some kind of monop-
oly (or triopoly?), I don’t know what is.
I know what you’re thinking. Doesn’t the
Dell-Apple-Lenovo triad encompass a large
majority of the student body, making this
column seem petty? Well, at Brown there
is a 70-to-30 PC to Mac ratio. I couldn’t
find the exact computer brand breakdown
ployees’ time and the University’s money
to fix problems caused by student reck-
lessness.
Ever y dormitor y bathroom has the
“Betcha didn’t know” sign that informs stu-
dents that they can call Facilities Manage-
ment if they notice any bodily fluids in the
restroom and Facilities will come clean up
the mess. This sign shows the University’s
commitment to our right to clean, function-
ing public spaces in our dorms.
I do not think this sign is intended to
give students license to make messes in
the restrooms and not clean them up. It
seems like a pretty basic idea: if you make
a mess, clean it up and if you do not have
the supplies to clean with, call Facilities
yourself. Do not leave vomit in the sink or
on the carpet in the hallways so that it will
fester overnight until someone else calls
Monday, February 9, 2009 | Page 11
among the student body, but I really don’t
think Dell and Lenovo collectively account
for 70 percent of computers at Brown.
Accordingly, there is bound to be a de-
cent number of students that do not bene-
fit from the BTC’s ser vices or sales in any
way, including me(I have a Hewlett-Pack-
ard laptop). Are we supposed to accept this
condemnation to technological neglect? I
hope not.
I realize Brown’s intentions of providing
us easy access to computing ser vices and
products are admirable, but the reality of it
just doesn’t make sense. To throw a bit of
a cliche out there, policies for the students
should reflect the needs of the students. I
don’t see this happening here.
Attempting to remedy the situation
doesn’t seem that difficult. Brown could
certainly start by forging partnerships
with other major computer system manu-
facturers.
Naturally it would be impossible to
partner up with ever y computer brand on
the market, but big names like Hewlett-
Packard, Sony and Toshiba are undeniably
a necessity. This might call for a little fi-
nancial expenditure on the part of the Uni-
versity, but that’s something I’m willing to
sacrifice for a technology center with more
comprehensive policies.
Jared Lafer ’11 is a philosophy
concentrator from Manhattan. He can
be reached at jared_lafer@brown.edu
and reports it.
Facilities is not a maid ser vice. It is the
responsibility of ever y student to take his
or her own trash to the in-dorm trash facili-
ties. It is for this reason that the University
provides each dorm room with trash cans.
Nevertheless, it is routine in some dorms
for students to leave their room trash and
recycling in the bathroom for someone
else to take care of.
First of all, this act is incredibly lazy.
Seeing as most of us are relatively fit 18- to
22-year-olds, I do not understand why tak-
ing trash down a few flights of stairs into
the trash room is such a challenge. Sec-
ond of all, this act leaves dorm custodians
to take not only bathroom trash, but also
students’ gross, ketchup-covered cartons
from Jo’s, old shoe boxes and dozens of
old water bottles outside.
No one would tear pages out of a librar y
book or trash a classroom. Brown students
are clearly capable of respecting commu-
nal facilities, so it’s time they assumed
some responsibility in maintaining their
dorms. It seems that we are off to a good
start — I have not seen a broken exit sign
yet this semester, and I hope that it stays
that way.
Tory Hartmann ’11 is a political sci-
ence concentrator from Hillsborough,
NJ. She can be reached at
victoria_hartmann@brown.edu.
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