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Some admit Two missing students safe in Trinidad

illicit use of By Ben Schreckinger
Senior Staf f Writer
Officials at the FBI and the
State Department confirmed ear-
their knowledge, no one had heard
from either of them since they left
Steven Hays said his daughter
was being inter viewed by State

stimulants Kimberly Hays ’11 and Sophia Roy

By Seth Motel
Staff Writer
Nearly 8 percent of students have
illegally used prescription stimulants
— such as Adderall, Dexedrine and
Ritalin — during this academic year,
according to a recent Herald poll.
THE HERALD POLL
Among the students surveyed,
7.9 percent said they had used pre-
scription stimulants that were not
prescribed to them once or more
during that time period. Of those sur-
veyed, 3.1 percent said they used
stimulants only one time, 3.7 percent
said they used them “a few times” and
1.1 percent said they used them more
frequently than that. 89.8 percent said
they had not used them this year and
2.2 percent chose not to answer.
The results are similar to the
national average estimated by the
National Center on Addiction and
Substance Abuse at Columbia
(CASA), which found that 6.7 percent
of college students used prescrip-
tion stimulants illegally during the
12-month period studied. Doctors
generally prescribe such medications
to people who suffer from attention
deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Most of the admitted illicit users
in the CASA study said they used the
medications to help them study, but
nearly a third said that getting high
was at least one factor. The study
found that white males most frequent-
ly used those drugs illicitly, and said
research has found Greek member-
ship to be another positive correlate
with illegal use nationwide.
CASA reported that at least 43
pharmaceutical Web sites sell stimu-
lants without requiring a prescrip-
tion. Still, the most common method
for college students to obtain these
drugs was through friends.
’10, who had been declared miss-
ing after they did not return from
a spring break trip to Trinidad,
are now safe at a hotel there, Ste-
ven Hays, Kimberly’s father, said
Thursday.
“They’re all right,” he told The
Herald in a telephone inter view
last night.
Hays did not elaborate on what
happened to the two students ex-
cept to say that he had spoken to
Kimberly briefly and that “one of
them may have been drugged.”
Students watched intently as rooms flew off the board.
lier Thursday that both agencies
were investigating the students’
disappearance.
The University had announced
in an e-mail to students late
Wednesday night that two un-
named students had not returned
after break.
Friends of Roy and Hays said
Thursday that the two had been ex-
pected back from their trip by Mon-
day, the day classes resumed.
But Steven Hays said the two
missed their Delta Airlines flight
off the island, and the students’
friends told The Herald that, to
Quinn Savit / Herald
the country.
An ATM withdrawal was made
in Trinidad from Kimberly Hays’
bank account on March 30, Steven
Hays said, and law enforcement
officers had attempted to use se-
curity footage to determine who
had made the withdrawal. The pair
had planned to return before that
day, friends said.
Two students who live with
Hays said two FBI agents, accom-
panied by a Department of Pub-
lic Safety officer, had questioned
them and searched Hays’ room on
Wednesday night.
Anxiety, relief as first
rooms fly off the board
By Mitra Anoushiravani
Senior Staff Writer
At 6 p.m. sharp yesterday, Deb Ma-
hato ’09.5 was on the spot.
With the first pick of the 2009
Housing Lottery, Mahato chose a
single in West Andrews, and Brown’s
annual dash for on-campus housing
officially began.
The first half of this year’s lottery
went off smoothly Thursday night in
Sayles Hall, with almost 500 numbers
called in a rapid-fire three hours. The
night’s final pick went to six rising
juniors — group number 488 — just
before 9 p.m.
“I’m sweating,” said Sage Erskine
’11, one of the students who had the
last pick of the night. “My adrenaline
is all up and down!”
All six women in the group were
on the edges of their seats, yelling
words of encouragement to the
groups ahead of them that did not
choose the Goddard House suite they
wanted. Every time there was a no-
show, the girls could be heard cheer-
ing from anywhere in Sayles.
Department officials in Trinidad
Thursday night.
Nat Rosenzweig ’11, who said he
is a friend of both students, said he
had planned to travel to Trinidad
with Hays over spring break but,
for personal reasons, decided not
to go. Roy went on the trip with
Hays instead, he said.
“I don’t think there was any spe-
cific itinerary for the trip,” Rosen-
zweig said.
The two departed from New
York on March 22 after originally
continued on page 3
“Our strategy is to intimidate ev-
eryone,” Erskine joked.
Mahato, who is entering his tenth
semester, said he “just wanted some
quiet space, so it didn’t matter where
I’m staying, because I know very few
people and most of my friends are
gone.”
Maggie Machaiek ’09.5 had the
11th number called Thursday, but
she was still nervous before head-
ing to the podium to make her pick.
“I really wanted a single in Minden,
but there are only 10 so I was really
nervous,” she said.
It turns out she needn’t have wor-
ried — she got her wish.
For others, like Jennifer Tan ’11
who had number 403, the housing
lottery was especially tumultuous.
“I’m dissatisfied,” Tan said. “We’re
at the beginning of the bottom half of
numbers, so we can’t even be on the
waitlist to maybe get a good room.
And there were a lot of people going
abroad, so there was a lot of hectic
switching around.”
continued on page 3

Homeless, advocates demand share of stimulus package

One Brown sophomore, who
asked to remain anonymous, has
bought Adderall “3-4 times this year,”
he wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.
“It was real easy,” he wrote.“All I had
to do was ask a friend to get some.”
The student, who added that
he has given the drug to friends,
wrote that he did not fear getting
in trouble.
A first-year, who also asked not to
be named, said he has been taking
Adderall since a doctor diagnosed
him with ADHD in fourth grade.
Because he takes the prescribed
medication only when he feels it is
necessary, he has possessed surplus
pills that he has given to some of his
continued on page 2
inside
By Hannah Moser tion at Brown that works with the
Senior Staff Writer homeless community. The coalition
and HOPE share “a concern about
A crowd of nearly 200 people gath- the lack of affordable homes,” said
ered in the State House rotunda Nellie Gorbea, executive director of
Thursday afternoon, calling for Housing Works RI, a homelessness
legislators to use federal advocacy group.
stimulus money to help METRO Rhode Island will
those who have lost their receive $1.1 billion from
homes due to foreclosure, eviction the federal stimulus package, The
or job loss. Herald reported last month.
The rally was organized by 10 The groups called for using the
groups, including non-profit orga- federal stimulus money to prevent
nizations such as the Rhode Island foreclosures, protect tenants and
Coalition for the Homeless and reinstate funding for the Neigh-
Housing Opportunities for People Hannah Moser / Herald
Everywhere, a student organiza- continued on page 3 Several nonprofits organized a rally at the State House Thursday after-
noon, calling for a solution to homelessness.

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C ampus N EWS “To think that you can send any kid off to school with any kind of
drug is naive.” — Alan Zametkin MD ’77, NIMH senior clinical staff physician

For a boost, some students turn to pills

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friends.
The student said he has given
away the pills a few times, accepting
money if the other person insists on
buying the pills from him. Whether
for money or not, he has been care-
ful to give out Adderall to only a few
people, he said.
“I wouldn’t feel comfortable giv-
ing it to someone I didn’t know,” he
said.
In comparison to using Adderall
to stay alert, coffee and other drinks
with caffeine are not as helpful, the
first-year said.
Health concerns
In fact, ingesting enough caffeine
to equal the effects of a prescription
stimulant would probably be more
harmful, said Associate Professor of
Pediatrics Judith Owens ’77 MD’80,
who studies the relationship between
stimulants and sleep.
But snorting prescription stimu-
lants to get high is far more danger-
ous than simply ingesting them in pill
form, Owens said. In addition to ethi-
cal and legal issues posed by use of
the drugs, Owens cautioned against
thinking that they will necessarily im-
prove one’s mental performance.
“One of the concerns I have is that
I think people assume that when they
use these sort of alertness-enhancing
substances that they reverse any det-
riments associated with sleepiness,”
she said. “The jury is still also out in
regards to how much these medi-
cations actually do improve perfor-
mance, especially in the face of sleep
deprivation.”
Director of Health Education
Frances Mantak ’88 said she worries
that a student who feels more alert
after using a prescription stimulant
once might be convinced that he
or she can no longer focus without
using the drugs. People can also
incorrectly assume there will be
relatively few harmful physical ef-
fects, she said.
“People have a sense that, ‘Well,
this is a legal drug, therefore it’s
safe,’” Mantak said. “They don’t of-
ten realize what could happen to
them if they have a heart condition,
for example.”
In a 1990 study by the National
Institute of Mental Health, Alan
Zametkin MD’77 concluded that
stimulants like Ritalin could help
treat ADHD — a finding which some
people credit with starting the surge
of stimulant prescriptions for ADHD
diagnoses. Between 1990 and 2005,
prescriptions of methylphenidate
and amphetamine (the generic
terms for Ritalin and Adderall, re-
spectively) jumped more than 3,000
percent, according to the Chronicle
for Higher Education.
Now a senior clinical staff physi-
cian for the NIMH, Zametkin said
ADHD is not over-diagnosed, but
there needs to be more attention
paid to the unlawful distribution of
drugs prescribed for the disorder.
“The medical community itself
has to take some responsibility for
the issues of (stimulant) diversion
because we just don’t warn our pa-
tients about it enough,” he said.
People between the ages of 18
and 22 in particular may lack the
information and maturity to make
good decisions about prescription
drugs, he said.
“To think that you can send any
kid off to school with any kind of
drug is naive,” Zametkin said, add-
ing that colleges should do more to
oversee prescription drug use on
their campuses and educate students
about the risks of illicit use.
Still, he considers oral use of
these drugs to be relatively safe,
he said.
“Compared to blackouts from
alcohol, we’re talking about an en-
tirely different scale of magnitude of
medical problems,” he said.
‘Beneath the radar’
Greg Anderson ’10, president of
Students for Sensible Drug Policy,
said that taking these pills “isn’t nec-
essarily a bad thing” and that they
should be treated like other illegal,
but rarely lethal, drugs.
“I personally don’t see anything
wrong with using it very rarely,”
Fewer than 10 percent of students said they used unprescribed
stimulants this academic year, according to a poll conducted by The Herald.
Anderson said. “I would put using
stimulants at the same level as using
marijuana recreationally.”
The University treats illicit pos-
session or distribution of prescrip-
tion drugs in the same category as
any drugs that are completely illegal,
said Associate Dean of Student Life
Terry Addison. University policy
states that dealers of drugs “are sub-
ject to immediate separation from
the University.”
Though the Department of Pub-
lic Safety refers only about one stu-
dent a year to the Office of Student
Life for cases of stimulant misuse,
Addison said the University is aware
that students violate the rule more
frequently.
“Because they’re prescribed and
because they’re being shared and
possibly sold by students, it’s sort
of beneath the radar,” he said.
While Addison said he does not
condone use of the drugs without a
prescription, he said he takes selling
the drugs to be a much more seri-
ous offense.
“When a person actively looks to
profit by selling prescription drugs,”
Quinn Savit / Herald
he said, “it puts it in a whole other
category.”
In light of legal consequences
inside and outside the University,
Zametkin said colleges should make
their students more aware of the
legal ramifications of distributing
or accepting prescription drugs il-
legally.
Health Education’s Mantak said
she is planning to create a page on
Health Services’ Web site that will
inform students of the dangers of
using prescription drugs not pre-
scribed to them.
But, she said, she doesn’t want
people to “lose sight” of the fact that
alcohol and marijuana use are much
more of an issue at Brown.
The poll, conducted from March
16 through 18, has a 3.6 percent
margin of error with 95 percent
confidence. A total of 676 Brown
undergraduates completed the poll,
which The Herald administered as
a written questionnaire to students
in the University Mail Room at J.
Walter Wilson, outside the Blue
Room in Faunce House and in the
Sciences Library.

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C ampus N EWS
Feminist poet, Cicilline Getting to the heart of the matter
kick off Pride Month
By Alexandra Ulmer
Staff Writer
Weaving her way up and down the
aisles of Salomon 101, poet Staceyann
Chin candidly spoke of her graying
pubic hair. “Nobody told me this would
happen,” the energetic artist told a
laughing crowd last night.
This somewhat unorthodox scene
was just one of many in the event,
which kicked off Queer Alliance’s
2009 Pride Month and featured Chin
and openly gay Providence Mayor
David Cicilline ’83. The QA’s theme
for the month is titled “More Than
Marriage: Building an Inclusive Queer
Movement,” and it includes events
ranging from a lecture on homopho-
bia in hip-hop to a celebration of the
fifth anniversary of Brown’s LGBTQ
Resource Center.
The event also marked the first
collaboration between Pride Month,
which aims to celebrate the lives of
LGBTQ people, and the Black Lav-
ender Experience, which centers on
black and queer theater.
“The Pride Month is about more
than marriage — it’s about building
an inclusive queer community,” Pride
Month Co-Programmer Alex Morse
’11 told The Herald.
Cicilline introduced the event by
praising youth and the Brown com-
munity for supporting and respecting
the LGBTQ community.
“You are pressing these issues and
raising public awareness,” he said.
“Full equality for our community is
only a short way off.”
His visit to Salomon 101 for this
occasion was “particularly wonder-
ful,” Cicilline added, before presenting
the LGBTQ Resource Center with a
proclamation from the city.
President Ruth Simmons attended
and described the collaboration be-
tween the two groups as “terrific.”
“It’s very indicative of ways in
which different groups find a way of
working together,” Simmons told The
Herald.
Throughout the event, Chin, equal
Lottery kicks off smoothly
continued from page 1
Tan came to Sayles prepared with
a thick stack of floor plans highlight-
ing the best rooms.
Some people were even too ner-
vous to speak to The Herald. Aparna
Kumar ’10 declined an interview, say-
ing only, “We have to concentrate. I’m
freaking out!”
Others, like Melissa Diaz ’10, had
not entered themselves into the lot-
tery but were still in Sayles to offer
moral support to their friends and
“enjoy a little bit of no-stress,” Diaz
said.
Besides the chaos, the housing
lottery is also notorious for causing
rifts between friends.
“This year was pretty chill,” said
Tarah Knaresboro ’11, a former Her-
ald copy editor. “We’re another year
more mature. The drama happens
freshman year.”
But not everyone felt the same
way. One lotter y-goer, Michael
Frauenhofer ’11, said he “had a mild
parts slam poet, writer and political
activist, proved to be an outspoken,
unscripted and vigorous performer.
She alternated between reading from
her upcoming biography and chatting
with the sound technician.
Born to a Jamaican mother and a
Chinese father who both left her, Chin
recounted her tumultuous upbring-
ing in Jamaica and her struggles as a
multiracial and queer artist. In one of
the three poems she read, a dramatic
and vibrant Chin roamed up and down
the aisles, her deep voice recounting
a list of what she believes in.
“I practice believing in the smaller
things ... until I have time to believe
in the rest,” she said. “I believe birds
were once people in another life.”
“Except I believe Saint Nicholas is
actually a transvestite,” Chin contin-
ued. “I believe that ‘whore’ is a word
invented for women who like sex as
much as men do,” she added to audi-
ence cheers.
In another poem she recited, Chin
spoke of the paradox between lesbians’
attraction to straight girls and the diffi-
culty in seducing them. “Rule number
one: You have to be platonic,” Chin
advised. “Rule number two: You cannot
bend rule number one for at least three
months — until she adjusts.”
When reading from her book, Chin
shared her fear of writing and publish-
ing her life story. “I’m still a little shaky,
part-ashamed and also proud of this
book,” she said.
The book, “The Other Side of Para-
dise,” will be released April 14 in New
York, with her family, her former fe-
male partners and one ex-boyfriend in
attendance, Chin told the audience.
She read three passages about her
creation in the backseat of a car, anger
towards her foster home on Christmas
Day and her self-exploration following
the discovery of a porn magazine.
Chin said meaningful poetry to
her carries “the spirit and anger and
emotional shit of the writer.”
“I wanted to figure out where it
was that I belonged in this thing that
I loved so much,” she said.
disagreement with a group member
about cleanliness and then they left
our group.”
Many of the students that The
Herald talked to also said this year’s
housing lottery seemed more orga-
nized than in previous years and that
the switch from MacMillan 117 — the
site of last year’s lottery — to Sayles
Hall was a good decision.
Ben Lowell ’10, the chair of Resi-
dential Council’s Housing Lottery
Committee, was one of the people
in charge of making sure the event
ran smoothly.
“MacMillan was too small of a
venue,” Lowell said. “Sayles was a
bigger space that we could do a lot
with.”
Another difference this year was
the increased number of no-shows —
the 44 no-shows Thursday night were
almost double the number who failed
to pick on the first night last year.
“A lot of no-shows are people who
applied before they found out about
going abroad,” Lowell said.
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“I believe that ‘whore’ is a word invented for women who like
sex as much as men do.”— Staceyann Chin, poet and activist
By Caitlin Trujillo
Contributing Writer
The “broken heart syndrome,” a
rare condition that mimics heart
attack symptoms, may now be bet-
ter understood, thanks to a group
of Brown and Miriam Hospital re-
searchers.
Richard Regnante, an interven-
tional cardiology fellow at Miriam
and teaching fellow in medicine at
the Warren Alpert Medical School,
initiated the study in July 2004 to
determine the demographics most
often affected by the disease — for-
mally known as Takotsubo cardio-
myopathy — and to develop better
treatment methods.
The researchers observed ap-
proximately 70 patients enrolled
at the Miriam and Rhode Island
Hospitals who were diagnosed with
the syndrome. The study was pub-
lished in the American Journal of
Cardiology’s April 1 edition this
Missing students located in Trinidad
continued from page 1
planning to fly out the day before,
he said.
They planned on “going from
hostel to hostel” and “didn’t want
to be staying in one resort,” he
said.
Friends expressed relief upon
learning that Hays and Roy had
been found. “I’m really happy and
relieved,” said Jennifer Grayson
’11, who lives with Hays in a suite
on campus.
Previously, friends posted sev-
eral messages on Hays’ and Roy’s
Facebook walls expressing con-
cern about the students’ well-being
Homeless rally for stimulus support
continued from page 1
borhood Opportunities Program, a
state-funded program that provided
low-income housing for the home-
less.
“We don’t want them to invest it
in plugging budget deficits. We want
them to use it to benefit the poorest
Rhode Islanders who need it right
now and to deal with the structural
budget deficit as a separate issue,”
said Jim Ryczek, the executive direc-
tor of the Rhode Island Coalition for
the Homeless.
In an effort to close the state’s
$357 million budget deficit for the
fiscal year ending in June, a budget
proposal approved by the House
Finance Committee reduced state
aid to cities and towns by $55 mil-
lion. But on Wednesday, the House
voted to “reinstate $25 million of the
$55 million in local revenue-sharing
money,” according to an April 2 ar-
ticle in the Providence Journal.
At Thursday’s event, several
groups, including nonprofits and
social service agencies, placed infor-
mation tables around the rotunda’s
second floor. In keeping with the
event’s theme, “Stimulating the
Economy, Growing Healthy Com-
year.
Though the disease has some
heart attack symptoms, it does not
appear to result from artery block-
age. It gets its colloquial name —
“broken heart syndrome” — from
the fact that it tends to strike after
an individual has suffered a trau-
matic event, such as the death of a
loved one, according to a March 27
Providence Journal article.
According to Ryan Zuzek, an-
other teaching fellow involved
in the study, previous research
determined that the disease was
primarily prevalent in women. The
Brown-Miriam study aimed to re-
search the causes of the disease
and the specific groups of women
more prone to developing it.
The results of the study suggest
that post-menopausal women at
low risk for heart disease are more
likely to experience broken heart
syndrome after a stressful event.
Zuzek also said patients on ACE in-
and asking for information.
“Has ANYONE actually had
contact, phone, text or otherwise
with Sophia since March 21, 2009,”
one poster asked Thursday after-
noon. “All of her friends help is
needed.”
An advisory on the State De-
partment’s Web site, dated March
4, advises that “incidents of violent
crime have been steadily on the
rise” in Trinidad and Tobago.
“Violent crimes, including
assault, kidnapping for ransom,
sexual assault and murder, have
involved foreign residents and
tourists, including U.S. citizens,”
according to the site.
munities,” the organizers decorated
the site with pails and shovels and
planned to give each legislator a
shovel and a packet of seeds along
with a sheet outlining their major
concerns.
Supporters lined the State House
stairs, holding signs in English and
Spanish and following organizers
in chants.
“We are here to translate our
numbers into power and our power
into action,” Linda Watkins, vice
president of Amos House, a local
social service agency, told the crowd.
Watkins gave examples of people,
now homeless, who paid their rent
but were nonetheless evicted when
their building was foreclosed on.
Organizers said they are hoping
for the passage of a House bill that
will allow renters to continue to live
in and pay rent on foreclosed prop-
erties as long as they maintain the
properties.
Watkins also asked the legis-
lature to reinstate funding for the
Neighborhood Opportunities Pro-
gram, which was eliminated from
the state budget.
Two representatives from the
Rhode Island Bank Tenants and
Homeowners Association shared
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hibitors, pharmaceutical drugs that
inhibit the angiotensin-converting
enzyme to relax blood vessels, did
not experience symptoms as se-
verely.
Even without ACE inhibitors,
the disease does not usually cause
lasting heart damage and patients
recover if given the right treatment,
Zuzek said, adding that out of the
nearly 75 patients in the study, only
one elderly patient died after her
family decided to take her off life
support.
The syndrome also has a low
recurrence rate, with only two for-
mer patients reporting a return of
symptoms, Zuzek said.
The next step in the study of
the syndrome is to conduct intra-
vascular ultrasounds on patients
to look for ulcers or obstructions,
he said. The procedure could help
determine if the condition is the
result of an aborted heart attack
or some other mechanism.
Friends of Hays told The Her-
ald she had matriculated with the
Class of 2010, but took the spring
and fall semesters off in 2008 to
travel in Europe.
In an e-mail to students late
Thursday night, Dean of the Col-
lege Katherine Bergeron and Vice
President for Campus Life and Stu-
dent Services Margaret Klawunn
wrote that the University was
“extremely grateful for the work
done by law enforcement agen-
cies, as well as by members of the
Brown community, that led to this
outcome.”
“We look forward to their safe
return to campus,” they wrote.
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their personal experiences with fore-
closure. “The house that I live in has
been in foreclosure, and the banks
right now are negotiating to rent
to me, but they still haven’t given
me a response,” said Ida Rivera, via
translator.
“I was once homeless for seven
years, so I can relate,” said Catherine
Flemmings, a rally attendee. “I feel
obligated that I should be part of
this because I once walked in their
shoes.”
Megan Smith ’10 attended the
rally with HOPE, a student organi-
zation at Brown that works with the
homeless community.
“A lot of the people who died are
people we’ve known personally,” said
Smith, one of the many supporters
who carried homemade crosses with
names written on them to honor the
35 homeless people she said died in
Rhode Island last year. “They’re folks
from the community who lived on
the streets or in the shelter.”
Arts & Culture
The Brown Daily Herald
Brown University Gilbert and Sullivan performing “Iolanthe,” which runs tonight through Sunday.
Witty ‘Iolanthe’ gets modern twist
By Caroline Sedano
Senior Staff Writer
Love is truly in the air for the Brown
University Gilbert and Sullivan’s pro-
duction of “Iolanthe” this weekend
in Alumnae Hall.
Beyond the show’s multiple in-
tertwined love stories, the BUGS
cast itself had a clear affection for
the show’s witty, comical and quick
dialogue and musical numbers, writ-
ten in 1882 by the team of librettist
W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur
Sullivan. This passion, along with
some original and creative twists,
gives “Iolanthe” a fresh, light and
engaging feel that brings the love
offstage and into the audience.
The operetta begins with a cho-
rus of fairies dressed in earth tones
giggling and frolicking around the
stage as they sing the tale of the
fairy Iolanthe, who was banished
after falling in love with a mortal
man. Iolanthe’s son Strephon, who
is half fairy and half mortal due to
his mixed parentage, has fallen in
love with and plans to marry the
beautiful Phyllis, an orphan under
the legal protection of the court.
Conflict emerges when Phyl-
lis’ caretakers, the noble lords
of the state, do not allow her to
marry Strephon, hoping instead
that she will marry one of them.
Over the course of two hours, the
show pits Phyllis against a chorus
of love-struck suitors vying for her
affection, including the Chancel-
lor and two lords who ultimately
decide they love each other more
than Phyllis.
The decision to make the two
lords’ relationship more than just
platonic came from the show’s first-
time director, Alex Hills ’11.
Hills said that as he was reading
the play, his first thought was that
the two were not friends as the dia-
logue suggests, but rather “friends.”
This initial response became part
of Hills’ concept in directing the
show.
The budding romance between
the two lords, played charmingly
by Ravi Ramanathan ’09 and Nick
Leiserson ’09, results in one of the
most amusing numbers from the
show. After Phyllis decides that
the lords must figure out between
themselves which one will marry
her, the two realize they will have to
fight to the death. Departing from
the original intent of the show but
without changing any of the dia-
logue, the BUG’s production turns a
fraternity’s sentiment into a comedic
scene of sexual revelation.
Hills said the production featured
“a fair bit of creative license without
seriously altering the original con-
cepts. We didn’t want to do ‘Iolanthe
In Space’ or anything like that.”
Having never directed or even
acted in a show before, Hills said
that being the director of “Iolanthe”
was incredibly difficult yet also
somewhat liberating.
“I had no concepts of what should
be done or how they should be done.
It was like language immersion,” he
said, adding that having a dedicated
cast whose knowledge and admira-
tion of Gilbert and Sullivan, as well
as theater in general, made the ex-
perience much smoother.
The decision to turn a friendship
in the show into a romance made
funny scenes even funnier and a
story set over one hundred years
ago feel a bit more modern. But,
even in its original form, the show
explores issues of tolerance, accep-
tance and women’s equality, giving
it a persistent relevance.
Despite being written well before
women’s rights was an accepted
concept, “Iolanthe” presents women
who have the strength, power and
intelligence to call the shots.
In the show, the fairies over-
run the parliament and ultimately
end the reciprocal animosity and
prejudice between mortals and im-
mortals. And Phyllis is portrayed as
neither a passive nor a treacherous
vixen, but instead as a woman who
has control over her own destiny
and heart.
Despite Phyllis’s power to say yes
or no to any of her suitors, one of the
more odd and amusing attractions
is her father figure, the Chancellor,
who ultimately admits his agonizing
desire for Phyllis. Whatever Freud
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might have thought of this, the inner
turmoil for the Chancellor is excel-
lently played out by David Deull ’09,
who prances around the stage in a
curly white wig doing walks silly
enough to give Monty Python a run
for their money.
Not only did “Iolanthe” have a
first-time director, but the musical
director, Matthew Jaroszewicz ’12, is
also making his conducting debut in
this production. While Jaroszewicz
was new both to conducting and to
Gilbert and Sullivan’s works, he said
discovering people who love music
as much as he does “was such an
eye-opening experience.”
This production makes a classic
and time-tested work even more
entertaining and enjoyable. While
at times the speed of the songs
makes the words hard to decipher,
the entire cast’s pleasure in perform-
ing them is evident. Because the
cast is having such a good time, it
seems hard for an audience not to
as well.
“Iolanthe” runs Friday through
Sunday in Alumnae Hall with eve-
ning performances at 8 p.m. on Fri-
day and Saturday and matinees at
2 p.m. on Saturday and 3 p.m. on
Sunday. The show is free and open
to the public.
Dance artists turn
movement into music
By Monica Carvalho
Contributing Writer
A slender dancer in white roamed a
bare stage haltingly in half-light. Sev-
eral sets of wires were attached to her
shirt and to a single glove she wore on
her right hand. Computer-generated
music emerged, seemingly produced
by the dancer’s movement.
As she moved, the music changed.
Almost in mid-step, she turned to
face downstage and stopped danc-
ing — the music stopped too.
“Well, it’s still a work in progress,”
she said.
The dancer was Paulina Pagan
’11, and she was rehearsing a piece
titled “Candela” for Brown University
Movement Experiments’ inaugural
performance, Dance/Music/Play,
running this weekend in Production
Workshop’s upstairs space.
Annie Rose London ’11, the
group’s founder and the producer of
“Dance/Music/Play,” said BUME
began to coalesce last semester, devel-
oping into a “movement collaborative”
project comprising student dancers,
musicians and choreographers. She
said she started the group because
“other dance groups on campus are
not really experimental,” and she was
looking for a creative outlet for innova-
tive choreography.
Dance/Music/Play aims to exhibit
how music and dance influence each
other, London said. The show’s name
stemmed from the way she would
consistently refer to the performance
in e-mails to BUME members as a
“dance/music/play/thing.” London
highlighted the importance of the
word “play” in the show’s title, which
represents the “spirit of exploration”
involved in the creation of the per-
formance.
London described the show as a
“first-time-ever showcase” of original
collaborations between dancers and
musicians, as well as the links be-
tween music and computer science.
“The show is not just original cho-
reography, but also original composi-
tions by musicians,” said Carolyn Lee
’10, who coordinated publicity for the
performance.
Lee said there is “very little op-
portunity” on campus for students to
Friday, April 3, 2009 | Page 5
create their own choreography unless
they are already in an established
dance group. BUME offers a “good
platform” for experimentation with
movement, she said.
“I am really excited to see what
everyone has come up with,” Lee
said.
The show features several short
pieces, some of which require audi-
ence participation to create the full
effect.
“The audience is involved in pro-
viding some of the sound,” London
said. “They are very much a part of
it.”
Sam Tarakajian ’10, who cho-
reographed and supplies music for
“Candela,” described his piece as an
experiment in mapping a dancer’s
movement to music.
A computer science concentra-
tor, Tarakajian created the white
costume Pagan wears in the piece,
which is covered in wires and “light-
sensitive parts” called phototransis-
tors. Pagan’s movements determine
the way the ambient light onstage
hits the phototransistors, which in
turn changes the nature of the music.
Tarakajian controls the sound levels
throughout the piece.
Tarakajian echoed Pagan, saying
the piece is “still very much a work
in progress,” adding that he would
like to continue exploring new ways
to combine music with dance and
chart a dancer’s movement.
Tarakajian said his favorite part
of working on the show was the way
it forced him “to think of music and
dance in a different way.”
“It’s a totally new fusion kind of
thing,” he said.
Although this is only the first
BUME performance, London and
Lee said the dancers, musicians, cho-
reographers and assistants involved
in the production hope that this ex-
perimental dance show will become
an annual event.
“I just love it,” London says, smil-
ing, “I just feel like there’s so much
potential. It’s just wild.”
Dance/Music/Play runs Friday
and Saturday at 9 p.m. in PW’s up-
stairs space in T.F. Green Hall. Tickets
will be available at the door on both
nights. Doors open at 8 p.m.
World & Nation
The Brown Daily Herald
Detainees sue feds over jail conditions
By Anna Gorman
Los Angeles T imes
LOS ANGELES — Federal au-
thorities are violating immigrant
detainees’ constitutional rights
by holding them for weeks at a
detention facility in downtown Los
Angeles that was designed as a
short-term processing center, ac-
cording to a lawsuit filed in U.S.
District Court.
The center is “regularly over-
crowded, causing violence, safety
hazards and humiliation,” while
detainees are denied access to at-
torneys and courts and are rare-
ly provided drinking water or a
change of clothing, according to
the lawsuit filed Wednesday by the
American Civil Liberties Union of
Southern California, the National
Immigration Law Center and Paul
Hastings law firm.
Detainees are held at the facil-
ity during the days, then shuttled
to local jails at nights and on week-
ends which, according to the law-
suit, “effectively cuts detainees
off from contact with the outside
world” and deprives them of their
basic needs.
“They are detaining people
in inhumane conditions, grossly
unsanitary and disgusting condi-
tions,” said ACLU attorney Mari-
sol Orihuela. “There are serious
violations of due process.”
U.S. Immigration and Cus-
toms Enforcement authorities
said they couldn’t comment on
pending litigation, but issued a
statement saying that Department
of Homeland Security Secretar y
Janet Napolitano has called for a
comprehensive review of the na-
tion’s immigration practices and
is committed to making “measur-
able, sustainable progress.”
The department is “commit-
ted to providing secure, safe and
humane treatment for all of our
detainees,” according to the state-
ment. “We are continuing to work
with other agencies and stakehold-
ers to improve services to those
in our custody.”
During a 2008 tour of the pro-
cessing center, Eric Saldana, Los
Angeles assistant field director,
said ICE does its best to keep de-
tainees there for just 12 hours at
a time and quickly moves them
to facilities designed for longer
holding periods.
Sometimes, he said, detainees
are kept longer or brought back
because of delays in accessing
travel documents for deportation
or limited space at local jails.
“Our goal is to get people out
of here as quickly as possible,”
Saldana said.
The processing center holds
up to 250 detainees. There are six
large holding cells surrounding
a central area with desks, where
the detainees are photographed,
fingerprinted and interviewed.
Each cell has a telephone,
bathroom and a bench. There are
also smaller cells for families or
juveniles. Saldana said detainees
have access to medical staff and
can ask to see a judge.
There are four named plain-
tiffs, but Orihuela said the law-
suit is on behalf of hundreds of
detainees.
The plaintiffs have asked the
court to order ICE authorities to
set a time limit on detention or
comply with detention standards,
and to provide hygiene items, sani-
tar y conditions, adequate sleep-
ing facilities and access to legal
materials.
“We just want them to follow
the minimum standards guaran-
teed by the Constitution and the
statutor y rights the detainees
have,” Orihuela said.
Friday, April 3, 2009 | Page 6
House passes $3.5 trillion
budget for Obama agenda
By Lori Montgomery
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Congressional
Democrats overwhelmingly em-
braced President Obama’s ambitious
and expensive agenda for the nation
Thursday, endorsing a $3.5 trillion
spending plan that sets the stage
for the president to pursue his most
far-reaching priorities.
On a party-line vote, the House
approved a budget blueprint that
would trim Obama’s spending pro-
posals for the fiscal year that begins
in October and curtail his plans to
cut taxes. The plan, however, would
permit work to begin on the central
goals of Obama’s presidency: an ex-
pansion of health-care coverage for
the uninsured, more money for col-
lege loans and a cap-and-trade system
to reduce gases that contribute to
global warming.
Senate leaders predicted late
Thursday that their version of the
budget blueprint would win approval
by midnight.
If so, the two measures would then
move to a House-Senate conference
committee, where the harder work
Series of food recalls
could lead to reforms
By Mary MacVean
Los Angeles T imes
Consumers could be forgiven for feel-
ing a little weary about this week’s
recall of pistachio nuts that could be
contaminated with salmonella.
It comes just weeks after thou-
sands of products containing pea-
nuts were voluntarily recalled in
a salmonella outbreak that made
nearly 700 people sick and follows
food-borne disease outbreaks con-
nected to peppers and spinach. “As
consumers, we all have that reaction,
‘Here we go again,’ “ said Jeff Levi,
executive director of the Trust for
America’s Health, a Washington-
based nonprofit organization that
has been advocating for reform of
the food safety system.
But the string of alerts keeps
food safety on the minds of Ameri-
cans and ultimately could lead to
legislative reform.
The U.S. Food and Drug Admin-
istration told consumers Monday
to stop eating anything containing
pistachios — a broad effort to keep
people from getting sick while inves-
tigators looked for the source and
extent of problems. The government
was tipped off by Kraft Foods on
March 24, after the company found
salmonella in routine testing and
recalled some trail mix.
The pistachio recall “is the latest
reminder of how vulnerable our food
safety system is,” Levi said. “It is
encouraging that this response was
so quick, but we need to move to a
system that focuses on prevention
through the entire food production
of implementing Obama’s initiatives
would begin. While Democrats have
sanctioned the president’s vision for
spending massive sums to transform
huge sectors of the economy, they
remain fiercely divided over the
details.
There is no agreement, for ex-
ample, on how to pay for an overhaul
of the health-care system expected to
add more than $1 trillion to the bud-
get over the next decade, and there
is no consensus on how to spend
the hundreds of billions of dollars
the government stands to collect
by setting limits on greenhouse gas
emissions and forcing industry to
buy permits to pollute. Those issues
will be decided in committees where
lawmakers have already begun the
tortuous work of penciling in the
details of Obama’s vision.
“Democrats in the House and,
I think, the Senate are shoulder to
shoulder with the president in try-
ing to make the big decisions we
need to make in this country,” said
Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. But,
he said, “Hammering out the details
continued on page 9
process.”
Notices of potentially contaminat-
ed foods containing pistachios and
peanuts could continue for weeks,
in part because both products are
used as ingredients in other foods.
As of Thursday afternoon, several
dozen products were on the FDA’s
recall list.
But the two recalls are not relat-
ed, federal officials said. And there
are marked differences between
them.
In January, the FDA traced the
source of a nationwide salmonella
outbreak to a Peanut Corp. of Amer-
ica plant in Georgia after several re-
ports of illnesses. Nine deaths have
been linked to the outbreak, and the
FDA has alleged that the company
knowingly shipped products after
lab tests detected salmonella.
The pistachio recall, by Setton
Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc., was
not triggered by illness, but the FDA
said Thursday that several reported
illnesses have been reported that
might be associated with the nuts.
And, unlike in the peanut recalls,
the companies involved moved
quickly.
Once Kraft learned of the salmo-
nella test by a company in its supply
chain, it began its own investigation,
sending auditors to Setton, said Lau-
rie Guzzinati, a spokeswoman for
Kraft Foods. The auditor “observed
raw and roasted pistachios not prop-
erly segregated,” she said.
Setton, the countr y’s second-
largest producer of pistachios, vol-
untarily recalled 2 million pounds of
pistachios from its 2008 crop.
SportsWeekend
The Brown Daily Herald
A win, a loss, a tie vs.
R.I. baseball rivals
By Benjy Asher
Sports Editor
The baseball team rallied in the
final inning Wednesday afternoon
to pull out a 7-6 victory over URI in
the first game of a doubleheader,
before tying the Rams in a short-
ened second game.
Brown 7, URI 6
In the first game of Wednes-
day’s doubleheader, URI struck
for three runs off starting pitcher
Conor Burke ’11 in the top of the
second inning, but the Bears an-
swered right back in the bottom of
the inning. After first baseman Rob
Papenhause ’09 and left fielder Dan
Shapiro ’09 reached base, shortstop
Graham Tyler ’12 scored both run-
ners on a double to center field,
later scoring on a single by center
fielder Steve Daniels ’09 to tie the
game 3-3.
Tyler had a fantastic day at the
plate for Brown, going 4-for-4 with
three RBI over the pair of games.
In the third inning, Brown took
its first lead of the game when Pa-
penhause singled to center field
and later came around to score on
an RBI single off the bat of catcher
Garrett Champion ’12.
But Burke surrendered a walk
and a double to start the top of the
fourth, putting runners on second
and third with no outs. URI capital-
ized on the opportunity, tying the
game 4-4 on an RBI single and later
taking the lead 5-4 on a sacrifice fly.
With a runner on second and only
one out, Burke retired the next two
batters to get out of the inning with
the deficit at only one run.
Tyler led off the bottom of the
fourth with a single, and advanced
to third with one out, but the Bears
were unable to bring him home.
The Rams threatened again in
the top of the fifth, and with runners
at first and second with one out,
Mark Gormley ’11 came on in relief
of Burke. But Champion picked a
runner off of first for the second
out, and Gormley got the hitter to
pop out to end the inning.
Brown went down one-two-three
in the bottom of the fifth, but after
Gormley pitched a perfect sixth
inning, Shapiro led off the bottom
of the inning with a single and ad-
vanced to third with one out on
a sacrifice bunt and a wild pitch.
Daniels came to the plate and hit a
grounder towards the first baseman,
whose throw to the plate skipped
to the backstop, allowing Shapiro
to score, tying the game, 5-5. The
Bears had a golden opportunity to
take a lead when co-captain and
team RBI leader Matt Nuzzo ’09
came to the plate with the bases
loaded, but Nuzzo grounded into a
double play to end the inning.
With one out in the top of the
seventh and final inning, URI’s Dan
Rhault hit a line drive to left field,
which Shapiro misplayed, allowing
Rhault to reach second base. Rhault
then advanced to third on a passed
ball, and came home on a perfectly
executed squeeze play, giving the
Rams a 6-5 lead heading into the
bottom of the seventh.
But the bottom of the inning
started with back-to-back singles
by designated hitter Pete Greskoff
’11 and third baseman Ryan Zrenda
’11, and with the bases loaded and
one out, Joe Mellano ’10 came in
to pinch hit. The move paid off,
as Mellano slapped one through
the left side of the infield, bring-
ing home two runners and giving
Brown a 7-6 victory.
Brown 7, URI 7
The Bears again found them-
selves in a hole early, giving up two
runs in the top of the first inning of
the second game, but the offense
took advantage of two URI errors
and an RBI single by Papenhause
to tie the game, 2-2, in the bottom
of the inning.
In the top of the second, pitcher
Rob Wilcox ’10 gave up three more
runs, and the Rams’ Mike LeBel
blasted a two-run homer over the
left field fence in the top of the
fourth, giving URI a commanding
7-2 lead.
But Daniels hit a sacrifice fly in
the bottom of the fourth to score
designated hitter Daniel Rosoff ’12,
cutting the deficit to 7-3, and in the
bottom of the fifth, the Bears’ bats
came alive.
Papenhause, who finished the
day 4-for-6, started the rally off with
a one-out double to center field,
and a hit batter and a walk loaded
the bases for Tyler, who drove in
Papenhause with an RBI single.
Daniels cut URI’s lead to 7-5 with
a sacrifice fly, and with two outs, the
Bears continued to fight.
Zrenda drove an RBI single
to left field to make it a one-run
game, and Shapiro brought home
Tyler with a game-tying RBI single,
Shapiro’s fourth hit of the double-
header. Nuzzo then grounded out
to end the inning, at which point
the game was called on account
of darkness.
Bryant 4, Brown 3
On Thursday afternoon, Brown
took on Bryant, and the Bears got
on the board first in the top of the
third inning, when catcher Matt
Colantonio ’11 led off the inning
with a single, and later came around
to score, giving the Bears a 1-0 lead.
Papenhause widened the lead to
2-0 with an RBI single in the top of
the fourth, but the Bulldogs struck
for three runs in the bottom of the
sixth, and added another run in the
seventh inning, putting the Bears
behind, 4-2.
Shapiro brought the score to 4-3
when he singled home Zrenda in
the top of the eighth, but the come-
back bid fell short, as the Bears
failed to get another run home.
Brown will next take the field on
Saturday, when the Bears will take
on Penn at Murray Stadium, at 12
p.m. and 2 p.m. They will host an-
other Ivy League foe in Columbia,
in a doubleheader on Sunday.
Women’s crew, seen here practicing, demonstrated depth Saturday with a win in the varsity four race.
Mixed results for w. crew in opener
By Andrew Braca
Sports Editor
The No. 2 women’s crew achieved
mixed results in its spring season
opener on Saturday. In a tough battle
with No. 8 Princeton and No. 15
Michigan on Saturday on Lake Car-
negie in Princeton, N.J., the Bears
settled for third in a tight varsity
eight race before dominating the
fours.
“I think ever ybody raced re-
ally well,” said tri-captain Cristina
Caligiuri ’09. “We had some strong
opponents, and it was great racing
all day.”
Brown began the day with a
Gevelinger ’09 Bruno’s lone NCAA wrestler
By Dan Alexander
Sports Staff Writer
Matt Gevelinger ’09 headed to St.
Louis to represent Brown wrestling
in the NCAA Championships on
March 16. Gevelinger earned an
automatic bid to the tournament
after placing fourth in the 184-pound
weight class at the Eastern Inter-
collegiate Wrestling Association
Championships.
Gevelinger went 0-2 at the tourna-
ment, dropping his opening match to
defending national champion and No.
3 seed Mike Pucillo of Ohio State.
The second match was closer, but
Gevelinger’s college career ended
with a 14-6 loss to Oklahoma State’s
Christopher McNeil.
For representing Brown as the
only wrestler at the NCAA Cham-
pionships this season, The Herald
has named Gevelinger athlete of
the week.
Herald: How did you get into
wrestling?
Gevelinger: In my hometown —
Mineral Point, Wisc. — wrestling
is a big deal. Everybody grew up
wrestling. It was just something you
have to do. No questions about it.
second-place finish in the freshman
eight in a time of 7:03.3, 2.7 seconds
behind Michigan.
The Bears turned their day
around by cleaning up in the fours.
The varsity four demolished the
competition, finishing at 7:33.8, while
the Wolverines lagged 5.1 seconds
behind and the Tigers followed them
three seconds later.
The second varsity four served as
a showcase for Bruno’s depth. Draw-
ing from the strength of a large ros-
ter, Brown entered two boats in the
race, sweeping the top two spots.
The first boat crossed the line
at 8:01.9, followed 2.3 seconds later
by the second boat, which held off
How old were you when you
started?
I think competitively, the first
time was in fourth grade.
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Did any of your family mem-
bers wrestle?
Like I said, in my hometown, it
was a big deal for everyone to do it.
On my dad’s side, all of my uncles
wrestled. I have five uncles — all of
them wrestled. My dad wrestled, and
then both my brother and I wrestled.
It was kind of a family experience,
you know.
Did you ever do any other
sports besides wrestling?
Yeah, I played football in high
school. It was a lot of fun, but I wasn’t
really all that good at it (laughs).
How do you pump yourself
up before your matches?
Before my matches, I try to relax
more than anything because usu-
ally I’m really nervous. So if there’s
anything, I try to tell myself that I’ve
worked hard, and now I have to go
out and prove to my opponent and
everyone else watching that I should
win this match.
Friday, April 3, 2009 | Page 7
Courtesy of Jim Hooper
Princeton by six tenths of a second
in the most dramatic finish of the
day.
“I’m so proud of the fours,” said
tri-captain Jessica Stage ’09. “Our
team did phenomenally in those
races, so I’m hoping that their suc-
cess will carry on in the next few
races.”
Bruno took second in the second
varsity eight with a time of 7:00.3, 4.2
seconds behind Michigan. Princeton
followed in third at 7:01.7.
Brown came out on the short end
of a hotly contested varsity eight race
to wrap up the day, in which just 5.2
continued on page 8
Have you ever been injured?
I’ve got a laundr y list of inju-
ries.
What was your worst injur y
and how did it happen?
The worst was I dislocated my
elbow in the state finals my junior
year. It was excruciating — not only
because I lost the match due to in-
jury disqualification, but my arm,
like, you know, bent backwards the
wrong way.
That happened in state fi-
nals?
Yeah, so I got second. The next
day was kind of the worst day of
my life. I was in so much pain, kind
of disoriented, and I knew I lost. I
mean, it wasn’t the worst day of my
life, but it sucked.
Do you think you would have
won the state championship if
that hadn’t happened?
I mean, that’s the story I get to
stick to.
You wrestle in the 184 weight
continued on page 8
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S ports W eekend
AOTW: Gevelinger ’09 on
balancing wrestling, lab work
continued from page 7
class. What do you weigh out
of season?
I’ve never weighed 200, but I’ve
been close — about 198.
Is it hard to cut weight to get
back to 184?
Not really. I didn’t really cut
much weight this year. Once I got
my weight under control, once I
initially cut down, everything was
really easy. I didn’t have to cut a lot
of weight compared to a lot of the
other guys on the team.
Did the rest of the team still
practice after you qualified for
Nationals, even though their sea-
son was over?
Nationals was the week before
spring break. And Easterns — when
we qualified for Nationals — was the
first week of March, so for those two
weeks in between, everyone came in
and was great moral support.
What happened at Nation-
als?
I went 0-2. I lost in the first
round to last year’s defending na-
tional champ. He beat me up pretty
bad. And then I lost a tough match
to a kid from Oklahoma State. I
wrestled hard. I did my best. And
you know, they were just better than
me. And sometimes you have to re-
alize that.
Women rowers looking ahead
after ‘disappointing’ opener
continued from page 7
seconds separated the three crews.
Michigan cruised home with a time
of 6:46.1, followed by Princeton at
6:49.3 and Brown at 6:51.3.
“It was disappointing, but I’m
confident that our team will do well
in the upcoming races,” said Stage.
“We have a lot to work on, but we
have a lot of potential.”
The Bears achieved solid results
against two of the top 15 crews in
the country, but said there is always
You went to Nationals last
year too. How did this year com-
pare with last year?
This year was a lot different. I was
by myself — just with my coaches
instead of with other teammates.
This year, I knew everything. It was
in St. Louis last year. And it was this
year, so I knew the facilities. I knew
what everything looked like. I knew
what weigh-ins were going to be
like. You know, it was very routine,
almost. But you know, unfortunately,
I went 0-2 again this year.
Will you wrestle after col-
lege?
No. My career is over with.
How does that feel?
Pretty weird. Um, I don’t quite
know what to do with myself. I’m
going to end up spending a lot more
time doing schoolwork and work-
ing in my lab. But yeah, it’s a weird
feeling.
What’s your lab?
Oh, I work in the molecular biol-
ogy department.
What are your plans when you
graduate?
I don’t really know. I’m kind of
looking for a job. I maybe want to
be a lab tech for a little bit — take a
little time off of school before I go
back to grad school.
room for improvement.
“Michigan and Princeton are
great competitors, but we’re hoping
to put a lot of work in on the water
and come back strong for the next
few races,” Stage said.
The Bears will travel to Cam-
bridge tomorrow to face perenni-
al-rival Radcliffe, as the Harvard
women’s crew is known.
“I think the whole team is really
excited for Radcliffe this weekend,”
Caligiuri said. “They’re in our region,
and it’s always a great race.”
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W. waterpolo fall to top-10 teams
By Meghan Markowski
Spor ts Staf f Writer
The women’s water polo team
star ted of f spring break with
tough competition at the Aztec
Invitational. The team played at
San Diego State University and
lost its first four games to No. 18
Indiana, No. 6 California, No. 4
Hawaii and No. 5 San Diego. The
Bears were able to pull off a win
against Pacific in their last game
of the invitational.
They continued on to play
ranked teams on Wednesday and
Thursday facing No. 8 UC Irvine
and No. 3 UCLA, but again fell
short against both. They ended the
week at the Roadrunner Invitational
with three wins and one loss.
“When you play 11 games in
eight days, you are going to see
some good things and bad things,”
wrote Head Coach Felix Mercado
in an e-mail to The Herald. “I felt
that in both tournaments we were
able to adjust to most of the op-
ponents but we obviously made
more mistakes than I would have
liked,” Mercado wrote. “To play
teams that are ranked so high and
compete with them, I think our
team grew in confidence.”
Aztec Invitational
On March 20, Brown fell to
No. 18 Indiana, 9-8, in an excit-
ing match. The Bears started off
strong with a goal from Samantha
Ryu ’12, but the Hoosiers came
back with the next three goals to
earn a 3-1 lead at the end of the
first quarter. Indiana continued
its streak by putting another goal
in the back of the net early in the
second quarter.
Sarah Glick ’10 and Lauren Pre-
sant ’10 ended Indiana’s run by
scoring two power-play goals to
go into halftime down 4-3.
Brown came out determined
in the second half with a goal by
Presant to tie the game up. But
Indiana scored two consecutive
goals to make it 6-4. Presant scored
with five seconds left in the third
quarter to make it 6-5.
The Bears tied it in the final
quarter, but Indiana scored three
more goals to make it 9-6 with less
than three minutes left in the game.
Brown tallied two more goals, but
it wasn’t enough to win the game,
and the Bears fell 9-8.
“During the Indiana game, we
were all trying to work together
to win the game,” Presant wrote
in an e-mail to the Herald. “Going
into the fourth quarter we were
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— Felix Mercado, women’s water polo head coach
trying to pull out the win, but we
made some mistakes as a team and
lost by one goal. In learning from
our mistakes, we look forward to
a rematch.”
No. 6 California came out
strong in the first half to hold a
7-1 advantage over the Bears in
their second game. Brown was able
to outscore California 3-2 in the
second half, but couldn’t make up
an early deficit and lost, 11-7.
Brown couldn’t keep up with
No. 4 Hawaii and fell 20-4 in their
third game of the invitational. Ha-
waii held a 9-1 lead at halftime.
Brown’s four goals came from
Bethany Kwoka ’12, Glick, Presant
and Katherine Stanton ’11.
Goalkeeper Stephanie Laing’s
’10 thirteen saves weren’t enough
to beat No. 5 San Diego on the last
day of the invitational. The Bears
kept up with San Diego in the first
quarter but San Diego gained an
8-4 lead going into fourth quarter.
The game ended with San Diego
on top 10-6.
Laing was selected as the Col-
legiate Water Polo Association’s
Northern Division Player of the
Week for her performance at Aztec
Invitational. She recorded 45 saves
and seven steals.
“The most exciting games were
against SDSU, Cal and UCSD,” Pre-
sant wrote. “In all these games we
put forth impressive effort as these
top ranked teams with multiple
strings were forced to keep in their
starters.”
UC Irvine 12, Brown 7
No. 8 UC-Ir vine tallied goals
right away, ending the first quar-
ter up 5-0. Its tough defense al-
lowed Brown to only get off only
two shots. At halftime, the score
was 7-3.
Ir vine’s four-goal run in the
third quarter put the Bears down
by eight. Brown netted four goals
in the fourth quarter, but their
comeback attempt fell short, and
the Bears lost, 12-7.
UCLA 15, Brown 9
Brown’s competition didn’t get
easier, as the team faced No. 3
UCLA Thursday afternoon. UCLA
shut out Brown and held a 7-0 lead
until 5:33 left in the second quar-
ter, when Glick netted the Bears’
first goal.
Brown pulled to within five at
the half, and Glick and Stanton
each scored early in the third
quarter to make it 8-5. But UCLA
went on a three-goal run to put the
game out of reach, ending with a
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15-9 victory.
Roadrunner Invitational
Brown cruised past Cal State
San Bernardino, 12-6, and Concor-
dia University, 11-4, on the first day
of the Roadrunner Invitational.
Against Cal State, Presant,
Bullwinkel and Bethany Kwoka
’12 led the offense with three goals
apiece. Glick added two goals and
four assists.
Brown proved its all-around
strength against Concordia, allow-
ing the eagles just seven shots and
scoring eight goals to end the first
half up 8-1. Presant led the team
with six goals, while Kwoka had
three and Bullwinkel and Herald
Metro Editor Joanna Wohlmuth ’11
each had one. Glick led the team
in assists, with six.
On Saturday, Brown continued
its winning steak, beating Whit-
tier, 9-1. Brown’s goals came from
Presant, Wohlmuth, Stanton and
Glick, and the defense kept Whit-
tier off the scoreboard until fourth
quarter.
The Bears last match of the
invitational was against UC-San
Diego, which ended in the Tritons’
favor, 9-7.
The Bears held a 3-2 lead early,
but the San Diego defense held
the Bears scoreless in the second
quarter, and the Tritons pulled
ahead with a 4-3 lead. The teams
traded goals, each scoring three,
in the third quarter to make it 7-6.
But UC San Diego outscored the
Bears 2-1 in the fourth and came
away with the win.
Kwoka was named the Col-
legiate Water Polo Association’s
Northern Division Rookie of the
Week for her performance in Cali-
fornia. She had seven goals, three
assists and six steals.
“It was great playing in Califor-
nia and it proved invaluable to play
the top 10 teams in the nation,”
Presant wrote. “UCLA and Hawaii
were among the best competition
we have played. We look forward
to using what we learned in Cali-
fornia to finish off the rest of the
season strong!”
The Bears’ next game will be
today at Wheaton College against
Hartwick.
“We get our captain Rory Stan-
ton (’09) back this week and that
will help a lot with the ability of
giving more girls some rest,” Mer-
cado wrote. “We just have to keep
learning from our mistakes and
make sure we are playing our best
ball at the end of the season. I like
our chances and love this team.”
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w orld & N ation
North Korea preps for satellite launch
By Julian E. Barnes
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON –– The U.S. and
its allies stepped up pressure on
North Korea Thursday to scrap
its planned satellite launch, with
President Obama agreeing with the
South Korean president to respond
sternly if Pyongyang fires a long-
range rocket.
Department of Defense officials
said that they were not planning to
shoot it down, but said that the U.S.
would increase diplomatic pressure
on North Korea if it goes ahead, as
expected. Pyongyang would find itself
further from what it wants from the
outside world, including diplomatic
recognition, trade and investment,
and security guarantees.
“They need things,” one U.S. of-
ficial said.
Fueling of the North Korean rock-
et has begun, and trailers and vehicles
with propellant have been observed at
the launch site, U.S. officials said.
International concern about the
launch is based on a belief that it is
intended to serve as an interconti-
nental ballistic missile test by the nu-
clear-armed nation. Western nations
House budget passes along party lines
continued from page 6
will require everyone to roll up their
sleeves.”
Republicans blasted the spend-
ing plan as a reckless manifesto that
would greatly expand the size of gov-
ernment and double the national debt
within five years. Senate Minority
Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said
he and other opponents feared the
consequences of a budget that “calls
for a dramatic and potentially irre-
versible shift of our nation to the left
in the areas of health care, education,
and private enterprise.”
Democrats rallied behind the
president, however, arguing that their
budget would rebuild an economy
ruined by eight years of Republican
rule. In the House, fiscal conserva-
tives fell in line behind the plan, even
though it would generate a deficit
of more than $1.2 trillion next year
and produce large annual deficits
believe the satellite launch would be
illegal under United Nations resolu-
tions restricting North Korea’s missile
programs.
But Pyongyang says it has a right
to launch a satellite under international
space treaties. North Korea has been
impervious to diplomatic pressure in
the past. Analysts say North Korea
appears determined to go ahead this
time, despite the international pres-
sure, betting that no new sanctions
will be imposed.
North Korea heightened its rheto-
ric Thursday, saying it would retaliate
against any attempts to destroy its
rocket and also threatening to shoot
down U.S. surveillance aircraft. But
U.S. officials did not take the threat
seriously.
Defense Secretary Robert M.
Gates spoke to his counterparts in
Japan and South Korea on Wednes-
day, assuring them that the U.S. will
live up to its commitments to defend
its allies.
North Korea has insisted it will
use the rocket to launch a satellite
into orbit. U.S. officials said they do
not believe the rocket poses a direct
danger to America.
Pentagon press secretary Geoff
well into the future. The progressive
caucus offered an alternative budget
plan primarily to voice opposition
to the war in Iraq, though many of
its members also voted for Obama’s
budget.
“It’s nice to support a president
who’s got a brain and a heart — and
uses them both,” said Rep. Lynn
Woolsey, D-Calif., co-chair of the
progressive caucus.
In the end, the House voted 233 to
196 to support the president’s budget
proposal, with only 20 Democrats
voting no and no Republicans vot-
ing yes.
The biggest dispute between the
two chambers is whether to use a
powerful procedural shortcut that
could allow Obama’s health, educa-
tion and energy initiatives to pass
the often balky Senate with 51 votes
rather than the usual 60, eliminating
the need to win over any Republi-
cans.
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Morrell said Gates has made it clear
if there was a direct threat from the
North Korea launch, the military
has the capabilities to destroy the
rocket.
The U.S. has interceptor rockets
and tracking radar designed to destroy
ballistic missiles in mid-course. The
U.S. could also use ship-based missiles
to take out the North Korean rocket
soon after launch.
Defense officials said the legality
of shooting down a rocket carrying
a satellite was questionable, even if
the North Korean launch was illegal
under U.N. resolutions.
Officials still expect a launch to
come as early as Saturday, although
the window during which North Ko-
rea said the rocket would be launched
extends through April 8.
U.S. spy agencies will monitor the
launch for information on North Ko-
rea’s procedures as well as the perfor-
mance and range of its Taepodong-2
rocket.
At the G-20 summit in London,
Obama met with President Lee
Myung-bak of South Korea on Thurs-
day and discussed North Korea at
length, according to a senior admin-
istration official.
Encouraged by the administra-
tion, the House Thursday voted to
include the procedure, known as rec-
onciliation, in its budget plan to speed
health care and education legislation.
But Senate Republicans — and some
Senate Democrats — argue that the
maneuver would make bipartisan co-
operation all but impossible on some
of the most significant measures to
come before the Senate in years.
The Senate, meanwhile, has
roundly rejected reconciliation for
Obama’s cap-and-trade proposal,
adopting an amendment to ban the
maneuver by a vote of 67 to 31. The
House budget does not include cap-
and-trade in its reconciliation provi-
sions. But neither fact has deterred
cap-and-trade advocates, and admin-
istration officials support leaving the
door open in the final budget blue-
print when it emerges from confer-
ence committee for a final vote later
this month.
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Earth Hour 2009: the hour without power
BY MICHAEL
FITZPATRICK
Opinions Columnist
I hope everyone enjoyed his or her hour of
darkness last Saturday evening.
For those of you who may not know what
I’m talking about, Earth Hour is an annual
event that takes place as part of the World
Wildlife Fund campaign to promote energy
conservation and curb global warming. At
8:30 p.m. on Saturday evening, millions of
homes and buildings turned off their lights
for one hour as a pledge to work toward re-
ducing their energy consumption.
I discovered the Earth Hour campaign
the way most college students do — a friend
sent me a group invitation on Facebook. Af-
ter doing my background reading, I quickly
developed two distinct impressions of the
campaign. I was pleased that so many indi-
viduals — nearly 840,000 Facebook mem-
bers — still genuinely believed in energy
conservation.
I will also admit that I was a little skepti-
cal about the sincerity of all these people. It’s
not that I don’t trust the movement; I ques-
tioned whether or not all of these attendees
intended to keep their promise to the cause.
It didn’t take long to dismiss my suspi-
cions. Over 1 billion people in 90 different
countries had planned to participate. Busi-
nesses and organizations were making
BY SEAN QUIGLEY
Opinions Columnist
Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65 offered so much hope to
Rhode Island voters in 2002, when he emerged
from fallow political soil and was elected as the
state’s 57th governor. He even managed to sur-
vive that very anti-Republican year (2006), albeit
by a slim margin. Brown students should be
proud of his personal accomplishments and
his dedication to the betterment of the state in
which our University educates.
Yet Carcieri is, to my regret, often in the
wrong. The raid on the Narragansett tribal land
in 2003 was shameful, both for its devolution into
violence and for the near-comical justification
for it, namely the American Indians’ failure to
collect the sales tax.
And while his frontal attack on the corrupt
system of taxpayer-funded favors and familial
politics running rampant throughout the leg-
islature has been admirable, he often gives up
too easily. His cries of “Fight, fight, fight” at the
recent state Republican convention thus rang a
little hollow.
Adding insult to injury, Carcieri himself has
begun to float very illiberal proposals in order to
address the budget shortfall caused in large part
by lavish state-pension plans and ever-expanding
bureaucracies. Carcieri, to his credit, acknowl-
edges the tyrannical and stifling elements of
the state’s government. Yet he is, essentially,
now trying to fund those very elements that
he swore to upend!
Of special importance for the younger gen-
pledges to turn off their lights, as well. But
as my fear of insincerity faded away, I felt a
wave of dissatisfaction fill the void. It’s not
like they asked much of us: We turned off
our lights for one hour, and hopefully the
governments of the world will pass a newer,
stronger U.N. resolution for regulating our
climate. So why do I feel like I haven’t done
anything?
As with most political movements, the
Green technology and reduced consumption both
improve our environmental impact, but we needn’t
treat them as exclusive solutions to our problem.
purpose of Earth Hour involves spreading
a firm message rather than producing any
physical accomplishment. No one would ex-
pect to solve our energy problems by turn-
ing off the lights for one hour each year.
However, by participating in Earth Hour,
concerned individuals can demonstrate to
the governments and people of the world
how strongly they believe in sustainable en-
ergy practices.
Unfortunately, an annual event is simply
not enough. Although the Earth Hour cam-
paign has grown exponentially over the few
years it has existed, its message will be lost
Buckle up… or else
eration is the governor’s proposal to make not
wearing one’s seatbelt a primary offense. This
would mean that, in contrast with current prac-
tice, the police could pull over a motorist simply
for not buckling up.
Currently a driver needs to have committed a
primary offense (speeding, for instance) before
being ticketed for failure to wear a seat belt.
Under Carcieri’s proposal, soon to be considered
by the legislature, not wearing a seatbelt would
itself be a primary offense.
I lack the space to address even half of the
Green technology and reduced consumption both
improve our environmental impact, but we needn’t
treat them as exclusive solutions to our problem.
reasons why this proposal is authoritarian to
the core, ignorant of frequent inequalities in
enforcement and destructive towards the ends
of a free, liberal civilization. I shall therefore limit
my discussion to the pernicious effects of this
law for young people in Rhode Island.
First, as the young generally know better than
most age groups, professional law-enforcement
agents can be arrogant and invasive. From raid-
ing our social gatherings to attempting to skirt
the long-established conventions regulating the
by mid-April if the cause doesn’t maintain its
momentum. We shouldn’t have to wait until
Earth Hour 2010 to be reminded why energy
conservation matters. We should be remind-
ing ourselves every hour of every day.
The crusade to lower energy consump-
tion isn’t the only thing about which people
need to be concerned. Resource conserva-
tion is just as important, but the Earth Hour
campaign isn’t exactly modeled to address
practices such as water conservation, recy-
cling or reforestation. If no one takes the ini-
tiative to give these important practices the
same kind of publicity that Earth Hour gives
energy conservation, then we’ll lose sight of
the big picture. Reducing our energy con-
sumption is immensely important, but only
if our world still has trees and potable water.
Finally, we shouldn’t shun the idea of
green technology. This is where the symbol-
ism of turning off your lights for an hour be-
comes counterproductive. We should strive
to release ourselves from this notion that we
are dependent upon technology for our en-
government’s interest in private property to
harassing us on the road because young people
tend to be more naive about their rights, those
agents are frequently Gendarmes by another
name.
Presently, at the local and state level in Rhode
Island, there are tolerable limitations on officers’
ticketing powers because not wearing a seat
belt is, as previously mentioned, a secondary
offense. But if it were made a primary offense,
cops would have one more excuse for pulling
over motorists.
And because proof for such an offense is
usually very hazy and reliant on he-said-she-said
testimony, cops will have yet another way to de-
tain motorists without anything even resembling
probable cause. If they don’t have a reason for a
traffic stop or a search, they can always lie their
way out of responsibility by claiming the driver
was not buckled up.
Why would a Republican governor claiming
to be a conservative want to give such policing
agents that sort of power?
Friday, April 3, 2009 | Page 11
tertainment, communication and comfort.
We should not, however, pursue a course
that rejects all technology. By aiming to im-
prove technology and using new science to
reduce our environmental impact, we can
avoid having to sacrifice all the benefits of
technology along with its necessary evils.
Reducing our environmental impact is
analogous to losing weight: One can reduce
consumption (or diet), and one can improve
the efficiency of their system (or exercise).
Common sense tells us that dieting and exer-
cising are not exclusive paths to weight loss;
people treat them as such because they are
too lazy to consider doing both. In fact, exer-
cise and dieting are complementary. By the
same logic, green technology and reduced
consumption both improve our environmen-
tal impact, but we needn’t treat them as ex-
clusive solutions to our problem.
Earth Hour is a fine idea, but we can’t
let the campaign stop now that the hour has
come and gone. Unless we continue to low-
er our energy consumption with the help
of green technology, Earth Hour will have
been a dismal failure. The true measure of
our conviction will be demonstrated when
we leave the lights off long after Earth Hour
is over.
At 8:30 p.m. last Saturday, Michael
Fitzpatrick ’12 was writing this column
by flashlight.
Second, the debate over this law should make
the young consider other such “crimes” that
overwhelmingly affect them.
Prohibition of recreational drugs, age re-
strictions on alcohol, seat-belt laws — all hit
the young very hard, and all primarily exist as
legal crimes due to a terrible tendency to erect
coercive social controls. Why do we submit to
these social controls when, for the vast majority
of human history, our ancestors lived without
them (or their equivalents)?
Third, this debate should also force the
young to reconsider what liberty and conser-
vatism truly mean in the American context. In
a nation born of a backwards-looking rebellion
against oppressive taxation, arrogant customs
enforcers, overly hierarchical religion and profes-
sional law-enforcement agents (both civilian and
military), how can it be conservative to make or
accept this seat-belt proposal?
For my part, I maintain that a willingness
to rebel against the executive element of one’s
government is the core of conservatism. Perhaps
the tea-party phenomenon of late confirms this
idea. Perhaps it does not, as the parties are
nothing compared to the glorious actions of our
colonial forebears.
Why are the contemporary sentiments of
liberty so weak and we so slavish? Are we dead
inside, sentenced to a millennium of apathy and
submission?
Who cares?
Sean Quigley ’10 will be at the Providence
Tea Party on April 15th. He can be reached
Sean_Quigley@brown.edu.
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A diamond to the 22,280 high school seniors who were rejected from Brown this year,
the most ever. May it comfort each of you that your great personal misfortune marginally
increases our own feelings of self-worth.

And while we’re at it, a diamond to the fact that transfer applications to Brown were up
40 percent this year. Either other schools are getting worse, or Ruth is telling potential trans-
fers something we don’t know about a new water park.

Coal to the spoken-word poet who confessed that he felt like a “trained capitalist mon-
key” for liking Justin Timberlake’s music. We’ll pretend that wasn’t a veiled reference to the

5 diabolical research currently going on in the animal testing lab in BioMed — those monkeys
are still proprietary experiments.

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Today, April 3
2 p.m. — Cora Marshall’s art, “Eman-
cipated Memories: Uncovering Hidden
Faces of Slavery,” 357 Benefit St.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
11:30 A.m. — Native Americans at
Brown, 8th Annual Spring Thaw Pow
Wow, Lincoln Field
A diamond to the results of this semester’s Herald poll, in which we got not only your
approval rating of various things, but juicy details on your favorite substances. It looks like
opinion of Ruth isn’t the only thing that’s high at Brown.
Speaking of the poll, a diamond to UCS, which had the highest percentage of students
in years respond that, good or bad, they held at least some opinion of the council. Hopefully
this increased interest won’t convince anyone to actually attend those four-hour meetings.

8 p.m. — Brown Theatre presents “The 1:30 p.m. — Crossword Competition

A diamond to the Brown chemists who have designed a “palladium nanoparticle” that
Other Shore,” Leeds Theater with New York Times Crossword Edi-
speeds up fuel cell reactions. But coal to the fact that the nanoparticle supposedly increases
tor Will Shortz, MacMillan 117 efficiency by making targeted layoffs and trying to buy out aging free radical atoms.

menu And in a further pooh-pooh to dire financial straits, coal to the fact that second-floor
kitchens in Caswell Hall will be converted into doubles over the summer. The last thing we
Sharpe Refectory Verney-Woolley Dining Hall need in this economy is eliminating those few safe havens where students can unwind from
career-related stress by making overambitious culinary disasters that they don’t clean up.
Lunch — BLT Sandwich, Creamy Cap- Lunch — Chicken Fingers, Baked
pellini with Broccoli, Italian Roasted Vegan Nuggets, Sticky Rice
A diamond to the naive Chinese student who complimented Americans for their ability to
Potatoes, Lentil Croquettes
Dinner — Salmon Quiche, Grilled
“think and talk at the same time.” Apparently the verb “to bullshit” doesn’t translate.
Dinner — Sliced Turkey and Ham, Chicken, Cheese Raviolis with Sauce,
Teriyaki Salmon, Basmati Rice Pilaf, Vegetarian Chick Pea Soup A cubic zirconium to a new state law that allows 16- and 17-year olds to pre-register to
Clam Bisque vote. We’re all for increasing the youth electoral voice, but only if they have to wake up at 8
RELEASE DATE– Friday, April 3, 2009
a.m. and neurotically type in pre-recorded five-digit candidate ID numbers.
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