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blue states
New Haven, Conn. gets a
taste of Brown-born Ble
State Coffee.
News, 7
shall we dance?
Waltz with Bashir art
director David Polonsky
spoke at the Avon Cinema
Arts, 5
shop till you drop
Kate Doyle 12 offers
her advice for a Lit Arts
revamp.
Opinions, 11
inside
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vol. cxliv, no. 21 | Friday, February 20, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891
Budget, long-term planningtake center stage this weekendby chaz Kelsh
and Jenna starK
News editors
With an economic crisis throwing
a wrench in the Universitys ambi-
tious spending plans, the Corpo-
ration will have some major deci-
sions to make when it convenes
or a meeting this weekend.Chancellor Thomas Tisch
76, who arrived in Providence
Wednesday evening, said the
Corporation plans to review an
extraordinary amount o inorma-
tion this weekend. Its a pretty
ull schedule, he said.
One month ater the University
revealed it has likely lost roughly
30 percent o its endowment in
less than a year, sacriice may have
become the name o the game
or the inal years o President
Ruth Simmons signature capital
campaign. Though several major
projects including a new itness
center and a huge brain sciencesbuilding remain on Browns
to-do list, administrators have ac-
knowledged that, even i no new
building is scrapped, timelines will
need to be pushed back.
Some ambitious academic ini-
tiatives with tighter budgets
ahead also appear likely to su-
er rom a decreased availability
o unds, though the University
has repeatedly expressed its com-mitment to the goals o the Plan
or Academic Enrichment, Sim-
mons wide-ranging blueprint to
improve the schools academic
standing. The Universitys desire
to expand the Graduate School to
keep up with the growing size o
aculty, or example, is likely to
go unmet.
The Corporation, which gath-
ers three times annually in Feb-
ruary, May and October will
use this meeting to approve a bud-
get or the iscal year that begins
July 1. Simmons is expected to
present a balanced budget to the
by Jyotsna Mullur
staffwriter
Underwater WHAT?
The Rhode Island Reds a
team o underwater hockey enthu-
siasts oten hear this when they
tell riends what sport they play.
And on the surace, their un-
usual pastime merits the conused
response they receive.
On Thursday, the club teams
ippered players lined up along
the walls o the Care New England
Wellness Center in Warwick. At
a teammates signal, the players
dove rantically toward the center
o the rectangular swimming pool,
splashing loudly.
Suddenly, the splashing
stopped. The surace became de-
ceptively calm while, underwater,
eight fn- and snorkel-clad players
swam and icked small, one-oot
sticks. They pushed a lead puck
around on the pool oor.
T,
U. jby anne siMons
seNiorstaffwriter
When members o the Corpora-
tion gather on College Hill this
weekend, they will ace the sticky
reality o an economic recession
that threatens to derail or delaya number o planned construc-
tion projects on the Universitys
radar.
Browns top governing board is
likely to have a tougher standard
or evaluating whether or not to
move orward with projects, said
Richard Spies, executive vice presi-
dent or planning and senior adviser
to President Ruth Simmons. Given
the economy, administrators will
almost certainly do less than we
otherwise would have, he said.
In recent years, construction
has sometimes been given the
go-ahead to begin even beore all
money pledged by donors or the
Kim Perle / Herald
Trading ice skates for flippers, nderwater hocke plaers swam for the goal at a practice last night.
Qidong Chen / Herald
The Corporation ma rle this weekend on the fate of a new swim center, among other things.
continued onpage 2
A, B . b by hannah Moser
seNiorstaffwriter
Human rights are essential to a air and
just society though war can compli-
cate things, Larry Cox, the executive
director o Amnesty International USA,
and University o Caliornia, BerkeleyProessor o Law John Yoo agreed in
a debate at Salomon 101 Thursday
aternoon.
But the two agreed about little else,
with Cox who has spent his career
deending human rights describ-
ing such rights as sel-evident while
Yoo, a ormer lawyer or George W.
Bushs administration, countered that
such rights were sometimes, i not
sel-evident, sel-deeating.
At the nearly ull Janus Forum lec-
ture, One World, Many People: Are
There Universal Human Rights? the
two speakers took the divergent posi-
tions their backgrounds suggested
they would.
Cox used his initial 25 minutes
on the oor to describe the impact o
the Universal Declaration o Human
Rights that the General Assembly o
the United Nations adopted in 1948.
I governments generally do not like
limits on their power, Cox asked, then
why did they agree to such a pact?
One reason, he said, was that hu-
man rights are hailed as the ounda-
tion o peace. But governments do
not always ollow through with such
agreements because they do not be-
lieve they can be held to the accord,he said. This is why, Cox said, it is up
to people to use the power o moral
pressure to claim these rights.
The past decade has been one
o the most damaging to human
rights, Cox said. Citing detentions,
disappearances and the use o torture,
Cox said, human rights violations are
carried out in the name o security
everywhere.
Yoo, a contributor to the Patriot Act
who is known or his advocacy o the
legality o torture during wartime, said
he did not think he and Cox disagreed
about how an ideal world would look.
But he said that rights apply dier-
ently when a countrys security is
threatened. It is generally accepted,
or example, that killing does not count
as murder during war, he said, adding
that detainment keeps soldiers rom
continued onpage 4
Econom on th
ockt fo Cop.
continued onpage 2
SPOTLIGHT
Sure, its obscure, butunderwater hockey isjust like real hockey well, sort of. continued onpage 2
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FRIDAy, FEBRuARy 20, 2009THE BROWN DAILy HERALDPAGE 2
CAUS wS yo have got to come back p and breathe. Gabriel Matthias, member of the Rhode Island Reds
building is in hand. But one pos-
sible response rom the Corpora-
tion this weekend, Spies said, is
to withhold fnal approval on all
projects until 100 percent o unds
have been collected.
The Corporation also has au-
thoritative input in choosing archi-
tects and approving design plans,
said Steve Maiorisi, vice president
or Facilities Management.
The current economic environ-
ment leaves the uture o some
high profle building projects in
doubt. Some projects, like the
Creative Arts Center, are readyto move orward, Associate Pro-
vost Pamela ONeil said, because
o success with undraising or the
building. With approval rom the
Corporation, the University hopes
to break ground this summer, she
said.
The renovation o Faunce
House into an expanded campus
center is also expected to go or-
ward soon. But ONeil said the
Faunce changes may be split into
two phases, with the renovation o
the old mailroom area potentially
moving orward sooner than the
more extensive plans or the rest
o the building.Other projects, however, are
less certain. Plans or a $70 million
brain sciences building, provision-
ally dubbed the Mind Brain Be-
havior Building, will be reviewed,
but undraising has been slow, ac-
cording to Spies.
The Nelson Fitness Center and
a new swim center are currentlyon hold, Maiorisi said, but recent
developments may change plans
or the swim center. Executive
Vice President or Finance and
Administration Beppie Huidekoper
revealed on Wednesday, speaking
at a meeting o the Undergraduate
Council o Students, that an alum
has pledged a large proportion o
the needed unds or a new pool.
In addition to the initial costs
o construction, increased operat-
ing costs rom new buildings are
also an important consideration
when planning new projects, Spies
said. With any new acility, thereare usually increases to operating
budgets that must be accounted
or in University spending, he said,
adding that the budget is a main
constraint.
In the meantime, the Univer-
sity may be looking to scale down
projects or do renovations instead,
ONeil said. Classroom renova-
tions have already taken place,
and minor dorm upgrades will
continue, with the pace o these
projects determined by the eco-
nomic situation, she said.
Despite the economic slow-
down, Brown will still have access
to debt markets that fnance suchrenewal projects, Spies said.
The economic crisis does not
mean that construction will stop,
Maiorisi said, adding that potential
donors can come in anytime, and
that there is currently a very com-
petitive market or construction.
C j
continued frompage 1 Universitys highest governing
body a departure rom the lastseveral years, in which the Corpo-
ration has approved the spending
o reserve unds to inance the
goals o the Plan or Academic
Enrichment.
The proposed $551 million
budget, which administrators dis-
cussed at a meeting o the Brown
University Community Council
earlier this month, would repre-
sent a $4.5 million decline rom
the current years budget, and a
stark $21 million reduction rom
the igure the Corporation had
sketched out or the year last May.
The University has said it needsto cut $60 million in previously
projected spending or the next
ive years, beginning with the next
budget.
Given the tough choices acing
it, the Corporation will ocus on
adjustments the University needs
to make in the ace o market up-
heaval, Tisch said.
Still, he said there was a very
clear sense o a plan and a sense o
direction to move certain objec-tives orward, and that the Corpo-
ration hopes to support Simmons
goals.
Dealing with the economic
crisis will be the overriding
theme o the meeting, said Rus-
sell Carey 91 MA06, senior vice
president or Corporation a-
airs and University governance.
The Corporation, which ormed
an ad hoc committee at its last
meeting in October to assess the
economys impact, will be deal-
ing with ongoing uncertainty
as it considers the next budget,
he added. Tisch said Brown was rela-
tively well-positioned compared
to some wealthier peer schools,
and that the University has great
strengths in times o economic
decline. Brown is lucky that its
revenue relies more on tuition,
and less on endowment unds,
than schools like Har vard, Yale
and Princeton, he said.
Tisch also said the University
was ortunate to be able to post-pone capital projects, and to have
no major construction projects
currently in progress.
We have no big shovels in the
ground, he said.
Some programmatic cuts may
also be on the table this w eekend.
Reductions in student services can
be expected, Margaret Klawunn,
vice president or campus lie and
student services, said earlier this
week. Reductions in the budgets
o academic departments might
also be discussed.
Among other business matters,
the Corporation is also expectedto review the Universitys policy
regarding conlicts o interest in
research. The policy is being re-
vised to be more transparent and
more in line with ederal regula-
tions, Vice President or Research
Clyde Briant said during a aculty
meeting in December.
continued frompage 1
B f S
Their goal? A rectangular hole
at the end o one wall, similar to a
giant air hockey goal.But something else is just as im-
portant as shooting the puck in the
hole remembering to breathe.
Every ew seconds, the under-
water hockey players bobbed to
the surace or air, disturbing the
waters surace and hinting at the
rantic and competitive game that
raged just a meter below.
You go down, you push the puck
a certain distance but you have
got to come back up and breathe,
said Gabriel Matthias, a University
o Rhode Island sophomore who has
been playing underwater hockey
or nearly fve years. When yourebreathing, youre kind o out o
the game. Its hard to look down
and watch the other team take the
puck.
But you have to learn that you
just cant go right back down and
keep playing, he added.
Joe Klinger, northeast regional
director o USA Underwater Hock-
ey, agreed.
No one can hold their breath
or an unlimited amount o time, he
said. The hardest thing is coordi-
nating with your teammates to take
advantage o everyones individual
skills.
Many water lovers have splashed
eagerly into the little-known sport.
Matthias said underwater hockey
keeps him in shape or the spearfsh-
ing season. Many spearfshers get
hooked on the sport during the o-season as a way to train and stay in
shape, he said.
About 80 percent o the guys
who play are spearfshermen, and
they play in the winter when theres
no diving to be done, Matthias
said.
Klinger said many divers seeking
entertainment in the winter months
become involved with underwater
hockey as well. In act, the game
was invented by a British diver in
1954.
But thats not to say that it is a
sport only or those with underwater
experience.Water is a great equalizer,
Klinger said. Anyone can play.
According to Klinger, underwa-
ter hockey is even played in physical
education classes elsewhere in the
world and is gaining popularity in
the United States. USA Underwater
Hockey sends mens and womens
teams every two years to the world
tournament.
The Northeast Region boasts at
least 10 underwater hockey clubs
that meet weekly. They compete in
several regional tournaments and
an annual national tournament,
Klinger said.
About two weeks ago, players
rom the Turkish national underwa-
ter hockey team were on hand at a
Connecticut tournament to provide
expert assistance to local teams.
We talked strategy. Theresnot a lot o reerence around here,
since its not as popular, Matthias
said. Getting taught things is a real
treat.
Recently, the Ocean State has
been swept up in the current o
underwater hockeys popularity.
According to Klinger, the number
o Rhode Island underwater hockey
players has surged, especially when
compared to other Northeastern
states.
URI recently recognized an un-
derwater hockey team that Matthias
ounded on campus.
Theres a lot o interest whenyou explain (the sport), he said. It
took me less than a day to get the
eight names required or a club. I
now have 60 names o people inter-
ested in playing.
Currently, the Rhode Island Reds
play weekly in Warwick. Some mem-
bers o the team travel throughout
New England, competing in smaller
regional tournaments.
The Reds weekly pickup games
are largely inormal. They call their
own ouls and use weights to mark
the goals on the swimming pools
walls. New players learn right along-
side the sports seasoned veterans.
The game moves quickly, as each
side quickly racks up goals. I one
team becomes more dominant,
the group reorganizes the teams
to ensure that they are evenly
matched.
But the sport is constantly look-
ing or new stars. Klinger said high
school clubs are emerging across
the nation, and he hopes that play-
ers will get involved at a younger
age. He said he even sees a uture
or underwater hockey on College
Hill.
Brown needs to get something
going! he said.
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We realized that Rth wold be a sick addition. Brent Zajaczkowski 12 on his first-pick competition video
B S shannon obrien
CoNtributiNg writer
Blue State Coee is no longer ex-
clusive to the Brown community.
Now Yale students, too, can enjoy
a cup o coee at the companys
New Haven, Conn., location, which
opened Feb. 12.
The new store is in the heart
o Yales campus, on the ground
oor o an academic building right
across rom a residential hall. The
company rents the space rom
Yale.
Alex Payson 03.5, co-owner
and manager o Blue State, said
the company chose New Haven
in part because co-owner and co-ounder Drew Ruben is a sopho-
more at Yale. In addition, he said,
one o the other our ounders is a
Yale alum.
We know the area, Payson
said. Our ideal demographic is the
liberal New England college town,
and it works pretty well or us.
The new location will be simi-
lar to the one on Thayer Street inbasic concepts and ideas, Payson
said, but it will work hard to cater
to the local community.
Both shops give away 5 per-
cent (o profts to dierent chari-
ties), both are eco-riendly and
both are local, Ruben said. But
Yale ocuses more on social justice
causes, and the Providence-based
one ocuses more on educational
and environmental causes. The di-
erences reect the surrounding
environment.
Both Payson and Ruben said
the store has been well-received
so ar.Business has been antastic
ar better than we could have
hoped, Payson said.
Matthew George, a Yale sopho-
more, was enthusiastic about Blue
State in New Haven.
Theres a ton o coee shops
here, so it was nice to have one
that set itsel apart. It has a pur-
pose the charity stu inuenceseverything, George said. He added
that despite the prevalence o co-
ee shops in the area, Blue State is
usually pretty darn packed.
Payson said Blue State plans to
expand urther in the next year
or two.
Were going to stick with New
England or the next couple stores,
he said, mentioning Boston, New
York City and another Rhode Is-
land location as possibilities. When
weve really got the model perect,
we can open up in Ann Arbor, Wis-
consin, San Fran, Berkeley, L.A.
Ruben said expansion would berelatively slow because the owners
want to keep each store unique.
It takes a lot o careul attention
to make each store really reect
the local community and not just
be a cookie-cutter hodgepodge o
ideas, he said.
B S b by alicia dang
CoNtributiNg writer
The University has signed a
memorandum o understanding
with the Instituto de Empresa in
Madrid, a Spanish university with
top-ranked business programs, to
acilitate cooperation between the
institutions.
The collaboration is driven by
a combination o educational op-
portunities or students and pro-
grams that connect aculty, said
David Kennedy 76, vice president
or International Aairs and interim
director o the Watson Institute orInternational Studies.
The memorandum, which was
signed by Provost David Kertzer 69
P95 P98 and Rector o the Instituto
de Empresa Santiago Iniguez on
Feb. 3, does not create any new
programs or ormal institutional
afliations. Instead, it strives to
provide a oundation or increased
interaction between the universities
and discussion o joint seminars
and other educational, cultural and
research activities, according to a
University statement.
Kennedy said the planning and
actual implementation o the ex-
change programs are still underdiscussion.
He said the University hopes
to explore intellectually what we
can do in management and entre-
preneurship (programs) with IE
and to provide more opportuni-
ties or students concentrating
in Commerce, Organizations and
Entrepreneurship or pursuing a
masters degree with the Program
in Innovation Management and En-
trepreneurship.
The University also aspires to
attract more students to Browns
Summer and Continuing Studies
programs and to fnd new intern-ship and summer studies opportu-
nities or Brown students in Spain,
he said.
But there will probably not be
another regular semester- or year-
long study abroad program estab-
lished between the two schools,
Kennedy said, adding that the
administration is instead trying to
bring new things to the table.
Its a long process. We have
been talking with them or more
than one year, Kennedy said. I will
be back (in Spain) in a ew weeks
I , S, by dan alexander
staffwriter
Eight students sprinted down the
aisles o Salomon 101 during an
economics class, jumped on stage
and broke into o-key song.
Why do you build me up, build
me up, buttercup baby? they sang
to Senior Lecturer Rachel Fried-berg, who was in the middle o her
ECON 0110: Principles o Econom-
ics lecture.
Students flmed rom the seats as
the singers snapped and danced like
an a cappella group, belting out the
Foundations classic hit. The video
was turned in as an entry or the an-
nual First-Pick Lottery Competition
held by Residential Lie.
It was one o nine videos shown
to over 200 students on a big-screen
projector last night in Sayles Hall
in an event hosted by ResLie and
Residential Council.
Students voted or their avorite
videos ater all nine were screened.
The group with the winning video
will be given the frst choice in the
housing lottery this April.
The goal o our video was to
do something that no other group
would have the balls to do, said
Alex Tin 12, one o the Build Me
Up Buttercup singers.
The videos storylines varied
rom a group o reshmen avoiding
an attacking Bruno to one students
pursuit o a Young Orchard dorm,
told as a love story.
This was a lot more about the
movie or us than the competition,
said Anish Farma 12, director o the
attacking Bruno flm.
Farmas video, Ruthless, ea-
tured a cameo rom President Ruth
Simmons as the conniving director
behind the bear attacks.
We realized that Ruth would be
a sick addition, said Brent Zajacz-
kowski 12, another member o the
Ruthless group, about involving
the popular Simmons in the flming.The group realized that Simmons
had one open ofce hour every
month and went in to ask or her
help with the project.
She was really nice about it.
We told her the story and she was
completely willing to help, Zajac-
zkowski said.
The videos will be posted online
within a week, though ResCouncil
Chairman James Reed 09 said the
Council is uncertain exactly when
they will be posted. Students will
have another week to vote or their
avorite videos online.
The event also included inor-
mation tables or program houses,
Greek houses and special-interest
housing.
The point really is to raise
interest about the lottery, about
special-interest housing, program
and Greek houses, Reed said.
Some students visited the inor-
mation tables beore and ater the
videos played, but most students
enjoyed the ood and drinks beore
the show and let right ater the
screenings ended.
That was expected, said
ResCouncil Lottery Subcommit-
Qidong Chen / Herald
Ble State Coffee has a new location in the Brown Bookstore, and et another near yales camps.
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Arts & CultureThe Brown Dail Herald
FRIDAy, FEBRuARy 20, 2009 | PAGE 5
wz B f Aby caroline sedano
seNiorstaffwriter
Ater waiting in a line that stretched
rom the Avon Cinemas doors,
around the corner and past Via Via
IV, more than 400 people flled the
theater beyond capacity to watch
the Oscar-nominated and Golden
Globe award-winning Israeli flm,
Waltz with Bashir. The Wednes-
day aternoon screening was ol-
lowed by a question-and-answer
session with the flms art director
and artist-in-residence at Brown,
David Polonsky.
Waltz with Bashir, a contender
or Best Foreign Film at the Oscars
this Sunday, is the deeply personalstory o Ari Folman, the flms writ-
er, director and producer, who lost
all memory o his time as a soldier
during the 1982 Sabra and Shatila
massacre in Lebanon. Twenty years
ater the event that let hundreds
dead, Folman attempted to reclaim
his lost memories, reuniting with
old army colleagues and investigat-
ing his identity as a soldier and Is-
raeli citizen. Bashir is the artistic
chronicle o his eorts.
The flm, which combines docu-
mentary techniques with cutting-
edge animation, is dark and haunt-
ing. It contends with psychological
trauma, the repercussions o warand an entire countrys struggle
with guilt.
Polonsky explained that, or
Folman, animation provided the
only viable medium or a flm about
the massacre. Folman and Polon-
sky who has also written and
illustrated several childrens books
had worked together on previ-
ous projects beore collaborating
on Bashir.
The logic behind animation is
the act that we are dealing with
memories, hallucinations and his-
tory where questions o truth and
subjectivity are constantly beingcalled into question, Polonsky said
ater the screening.
He added that animation also
provided another, purely practi-
cal beneft, as the story covers
many dierent locations and
time periods. Animation eased
the budget on what would have
otherwise been a very expensive
live-action flm.
What we were trying to do
would not have been possible, un-less you are Francis Ford Coppola,
Polonksy said with a laugh.
Despite the grim subject matter,
Polonsky said, his work on Bashir
did not dier that much rom his
childrens book illustrations.
They are both a very slow and
tedious process, he said, explain-
ing that distancing himsel rom
the actual meaning o what he was
drawing helped him stay sane as
he worked on it.
I was hit with the subject o
the flm in 2006 during the second
Lebanon war and I saw the same
images I was drawing coming upon TV, Polonsky said. I could no
longer escape the work because it
was showing up all around me on
TV. It was then that I really started
getting the intensity o what we
had made.
Polonskys innovative anima-
tion techniques, which combine
real-lie photography and flm with
Photoshop and Flash animation,
have garnered the flm much criti-
cal acclaim.
An audience member at the
Q&A described the flm as one
o the most visually stunning mov-
ies he had ever seen.
While the actual animation re-mains consistent throughout the
flm, color, pacing, music and nar-
rative changes keep the movie dy-
namic and intriguing. Colors shit
rom monochromatic to shockingly
vivid, and the score includes ag-
gressive rock, tranquil orchestral
music and eerily haunting ambient
noise. Characters move in slow mo-
tion or super-speed in real lie and
in dream sequences.
While the story the flm conveys
is highly personal, the political con-
text is hard to ignore.
Polonsky explained that the
flm was not made as a politicalstatement, but many questions
and observations posed to Polon-
sky during the session ocused on
the political message, response andramifcations.
Danya Chudaco 11, who or-
ganized the Israel Film Festival o
College Hill, agreed that the flm
itsel is not about taking a political
stance, but said it inspired her to
evaluate how she elt about political
and cultural issues.
As someone with an Israeli
mom, I identiy with Israeli cul-
ture, Chudaco said. The frst
time I saw it, I was watching it in
Israel as an Israeli and I was nau-
seous or weeks aterwards.
Daniel Wolberg 09, executive
director o the Ivy Film Festival,which co-sponsored the event, had
not known much about the histori-
cal events explored in the flm. He
said he thought it was very impor-
tant that this flm could personalize
and publicize an event that many
people have orgotten.
I eel like you hear about stu
like this in the news a lot and its
just a regular thing, he said. But
this flm brought to light how we
oten orget about how so many o
these things we see on the news
have tremendous impacts on many
individual people.
I think the flm was just try-
ing to be honest not necessarilypolitical.
Honesty was a key issue or Po-
lonsky during his work on the flm,
he said, as he struggled to create
images, locations and emotions
that were truthul and real.
I was most concerned with
what people in Beirut would
think o his depiction o the city,
he said, given that he had never
been there beore making Bashir.
In the end, he said, his portrayal o
Beirut passed the test, even i his
representation o a snowy winter
in the Netherlands did not.
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arts & Culture editor
Abraham Lincolns 200th birthday
may have come and gone, but the
estivities continue at the John Hay
Library. Abraham Lincoln: The
Man, The Myth, The Making o a
President, an exhibition that draws
entirely rom the Hays impressive
Lincoln Collection, will be open until
March 6.
Lincoln traces not only the 16th
presidents extraordinary lie, butalso his vibrant aterlie as a symbol
whose meaning Americans have been
constructing and reconstructing or
almost 150 years. With the Obama
presidency just reaching the end o
its frst month, its easy to see the
legacy o Lincoln is still very much
with us.
The Hay exhibit begins with Lin-
colns childhood and upbringing,
eaturing photographs o the two
log cabins the Lincoln amily called
home. Though he had little ormal
education, Lincoln was a polymath
and autodidact, training himsel in
a wide variety o areas and pursuing
them with great ingenuity. One o
the items on display is a copy o U.S.
Patent No. 6,469, a device or improv-
ing the buoyancy o boats Lincoln
invented it, making him the frst and
only president to hold a patent.
As the exhibit progresses, Lin-colns uture as a public servant
emerges, irst in government
journals and proceedings rom
conventions he attended, then in
printed copies o his speeches, in-
cluding his career-making House
Divided speech at the 1858 Illinois
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Someone rom Holland came
along and told me it hadnt snowed
that much in Holland in 500 years,
he said.
Polonsky said Bashir has spo-
ken to many viewers particular ex-
periences despite the flms ocus
on Folmans own histor y.
Its an interesting phenom-
enon in Israel where soldiers are
going to see the flm as a kind otherapy and a course o treatment,
he said.
Polonsky, who arrived at Brown
on Feb. 9, will stay on campus or
three months. He will teach classes
and workshops and give lectures
to Brown and Rhode Island School
o Design students and members
o the Providence community.
Republican Convention. The chaotic
1860 presidential election, which Lin-
coln won, is represented by partyballots, campaign pins and a dramatic
photograph o the uture president
and a mass o supporters outside his
Illinois home.
Some o the most moving and ap-
pealing items in the exhibit are the
manuscripts Lincolns telegraphs
and drats o documents, which
should be comorting to anyone
who thinks his bad handwriting is
going to hold him back in lie. More
than any photograph, these objects
bring Lincoln to lie, revealing the
personal struggles o the man behind
the image.
One o these documents is theMeditation on Divine Will, a re-
markable ragment preserved by
John Hay himsel, who served as
one o Lincolns personal secretar-
ies. On a piece o plain, lined paper,
in 1862, Lincoln wrestled with the
inscrutability o God, ate and hu-
man responsibility, all in about 150
words.
I am almost ready to say that this
is probably true, Lincoln wrote, that
God wills this contest (the Civil War),
and wills that it shall not end yet.
The Hay owns a number o por-
traits o Lincoln, including six paint-
ings done rom lie, which arent
included in the main exhibition but
are on view by appointment in the
library rooms devoted to the collec-
tion. Theyre worth the extra eort
it takes to see them. The portraits
present six very dierent visions o
Lincoln some sot and pensive,
others harsh and ormidable. Ac-
cording to North American History
Librarian Holly Snyder, who curated
the current exhibition, the paintings
reect the range you get in Lincoln
iconography a little bit o every-
thing.
Snyder highlighted the way the
portraits represent, to varying de-
grees, Lincoln the person versus
Lincoln the icon, a theme that is
prevalent throughout the public ex-
hibition.
Even those who cant make it to
the Hay can still get access to the
Lincoln collection online. Through
the Center or Digital Initiatives, all
o Lincolniana at Brown is avail-
able on the Brown University Library
Web site.
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sports staffwriter
The mens tennis team (8-2) clinched
third place at the ECAC Champion-
ships over the weekend. The Bears
deeated Yale, 5-2, on Saturday, then
dropped a 4-1 semifnal match to
Columbia the next day. On Monday,
the Bears obliterated Penn in the
third-place match by a score o 6-0,
marking their frst victory over the
Quakers in three years.
The tournament was hosted by
Harvard, who took frst place, while
Columbia fnished second.
Its great to get a chance so early
in the season to compete against oth-
er teams in the (Ivy) League, CaptainChris Lee 09 said. Its a good mea-
suring stick or where we are and
where we have to go.
The Bears aced o against Yale
Saturday morning, taking the doubles
point with victories at frst and second
doubles. Captains Noah Gardner 09
and Sam Garland 09 overpowered
their opponents by a score o 8-5,
while at second doubles, Lee and
Jonathan Pearlman 11 earned an
8-6 win.
The same our Bears also domi-
nated in singles play. At frst singles,
Pearlman outlasted Yales Je Daw-
son, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4.
Pearlman picked up a huge win
over a guy who made the semis o the
(Intercollegiate Tennis Association)
Regionals, Head Coach Jay Harrissaid. That really says a lot about how
well hes been playing.
At second singles, Lee split sets
with his opponent beore deeating
him in the third set or a 4-6, 7-5, 6-4
victory.
I thought I played pretty consis-
tently all weekend, Lee said. Part o
the reason I was able to do that was
the between-court communication
we had this weekend. Each guy was
loud and could be heard rom six
courts away. That kind o energy and
communication really helps when we
are playing tough matches.
Garland and Gardner had straight-set wins at ourth and fth singles,
respectively. Garland won his match,
6-4, 6-4, and Gardner won, 6-4, 7-5.
Yale kind o hammered us in the
scrimmage a couple weeks ago, so I
was proud o how the guys came out
and really toughed out the match,
Harris said.
The next day, the Bears took
on Columbia in the semifnals. The
team started o strong, clinching the
doubles point. Garland and Gardner
led the way again at frst doubles,
where they had an 8-6 victory. At third
doubles, Kendrick Au 11 and Charlie
Posner 11 captured an 8-6 win to give
Brown a 1-0 lead.
But the Bears dropped our
singles matches to give the Lions
the our points they needed to win.At frst singles, Pearlman ell to Jon
Wong by a score o 6-3, 6-1. Skate
Gorham 10, Garland and Gardner
also had straight-set losses at third,
ourth and fth singles, respectively.
Lee and Au did not fnish their re-
spective matches at second and sixth
singles once Columbia had claimed
the victory.
Against Columbia, I thought we
played some good doubles, but in the
singles matches, we just didnt win
the key points, Lee said. Skate, Sam,
Noah and I all lost very tight frst sets,
and that put us in a big hole.
The Bears demolished the Quak-ers in Monday mornings battle or
third place, winning all six singles
matches. The doubles matches were
not played.
The loss to Columbia was a little
disappointing, but then we came back
the next day and really hammered
Penn, and thats a team we havent
beaten in three years, Harris said.
It was nice to kind o show our char-
acter.
Garland kicked o the win with
an easy 6-0, 6-2 victory at ourth
singles.
Sam was the spark rom the
w. CAC by Meghan MarKowsKi
CoNtributiNgwriter
The womens tennis team (5-2)
placed third in the ECAC Indoor
Championship this weekend. The
team blew by Cornell in the frst
round on Friday, 7-0, then lost
to Princeton by the same score
beore beating Dartmouth in the
consolation match.
In the Cornell match, Bian-
ca Aboubakare 11, Cassandra
Herzberg 12, Sara Mansur 09,
Tanja Vucetic 10, Julie Flanzer
12 and Catherine Stewart 12
all won their singles matches instraight sets. The Bears also took
the doubles point to make it a
clean sweep.
But things quickly reversed,
as the Bears dropped their semi-
fnal match against Princeton by
an identical 7-0 score. The second
doubles tandem o Mansur and
Herzberg recorded the only win
or Brown, 8-6 but the doubles
point went the Tigers way.
Aboubakare said the loss to
Princeton didnt a ect the play-
ers mindsets going into Sundays
match.
We were really disappointed
ater Saturdays game, but we
knew there was still anothermatch to play, she said. I guess
we really made it a point to leave
the match against Princeton be-
hind us and to ocus on our next
match against Dartmouth.
We had a tough loss against
Princeton, but most o the match-
es were really close, Mansur
wrote in an e-mail to The Her-
ald, and I think it was productive
or us to see their playing style,
especially because now we know
what is to come.
We changed our attitudes,
Aboubakare said, and you could
tell on each court that we wereall determined to fght hard to
reach our goal.
On Sunday, the fnal day o
the tournament, Brown beat Dart-
mouth, 4-3. The team recorded
one doubles win by Emily Ellis 10
and Kathrin Sorokko 10, 8-4, and
our singles wins by Aboubakare
(6-1, 7-5), Herzberg (6-2, 4-6, 6-2),
Vucetic (6-2, 6-2) and Flanzer (6-
1, 6-3) to secure third place.
The team was confdent go-
ing into Sundays match, even
though we lost to Dartmouth
last year, Mansur wrote in her
f sports staFF reports
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The mens track and ield team
competed last Saturday at the
Armory Track in New York City,
where many athletes earned per-
sonal bests. In addition to thestrong individual perormances,
the Distance Medley Relay squad
o Tom Elnick 12, Mike Elnick
12, Sean OBrien 09 and Duriel
Hardy 10 won in a time o 10:09.07.
Also competing at the Armory,
the womens track and ield team
had an equally strong showing.
The womens DMR earned a vic-
tory o their own, as Roseanne
Fleming 12, Amanda Filiberto
11, Samantha Adelberg 11 and
Kesley Ramsey 11 inished irst
in 11:42.36.
M
Hardy, mile: 4:12 (Personal
Record), 1st place.
Matt Jasmin 09, 60-m hur-
dles: 8.13 (PR), 1st.
Andrew Chapin 10, triple
jump: 14.63 m, 2nd.
wm
Grace Watson 11, high jump:
1.65 m, 1st.
Ari Garber 12, 3000 run:
9:51.25 (PR), 2nd.
Nicole Burns 09, 400:
55.32, 2nd.
Michaeline Nelson 11, mile:
5:00.54, 2nd.
wm w p
The womens water polo team
began its season at the Harvard
Invitational last Sunday, going 1-1.
In their season opener againstthe New York Athletic Club, the
Bears jumped out to an 11-5 lead
in the irst three quarters beore
surviving a ourth-quarter come-
back to pull out an 11-9 win. GoalieStephanie Laing 10 had 13 saves,
while Lauren Presant 10 led the
oensive eort with ive goals. In
the second game o the day, Bruno
aced No. 8 Michigan, but ell by a
score o 8-4 despite 15 saves rom
Laing and two goals rom Presant.
Bethany Kwoka 12 and Sarah Glick
10 also scored.
smm dv
Both the womens and mens teams
lost in a meet against Yale last Sun-
day. The women, in a 181-119 loss,
were led by Allyson Schumacher
12, who had two individual wins.
The men lost, 186-114, but captured
six events.
M
Ryan Kikuchi 11, 1,000 free -
style: 9:36.89, 1st; 200 Individual
Medley: 1:53.49, 1st.
CJ Kambe 10, 3-m dive:
309.22, 1st; 1-m dive: 278.10, 1st.
Daniel Ricketts 10, 50 free:
20.95, 1st; 100 ree: 45.71, 2nd.
wm
Schumacher, 500 free: 4:57.10,
1st; 1,000 ree: 10:11.59, 1st.
Kristen Caldarella 12, 200 free:
1:54.58, 1st; 100 ree: 52.80, 2nd.
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e-mail. Dartmouth and Princ-
eton have polar-opposite playingstyles. Princeton is aggressive
and Dartmouth is much more
ocused on consistency. What re-
ally helped us on Sunday was the
teams tenacity and the willing-
ness to keep fghting.
Our reshman did a great
job o playing under pressure in
singles, Aboubakare said. Its agreat indication o whats to come
in the next two months.
This Saturday, the Bears will
host Seton Hall at 9 a.m. and
Quinnipiac at noon.
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sports staFF reports
The campus will be buzzing this
weekend with our teams hostinghome games.
The womens hockey team (6-20-
1, 5-15-0 ECAC Hockey) will close
out the season by hosting Princeton
tonight at 7 p.m. and Quinnipiac on
Saturday at 4 p.m. at Meehan Au-
ditorium.
The Bears struggled to get
their oense going over the long
weekend, beating Union, 3-2, beore
losing to Rensselaer, 2-1, and Yale,
2-0. But this weekend, the team has
the advantage o acing a pair o op-
ponents it has already beaten. The
Bears beat Quinnipiacs Bobcats,3-0, on Jan. 30 beore pulling o a
dramatic, 2-1 upset o the Tigers
the ollowing day. Bruno will look
to duplicate that success this week-
end to create a happy ending or the
senior class that includes captain
and goaltender Nicole Stock 09, a
Herald sports sta writer, and or-
wards Frances Male 09 and Savan-
nah Smith 09.
The mens basketball team (7-15,
1-7 Ivy League) will look to build on
the momentum it secured in win-
ning its frst conerence game last
weekend when it hosts Columbiaon Friday and frst-place Cornell on
Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Pizzitola
Center. Ater alling to Penn, 73-52,
last Friday, the Bears broke a seven-
game losing streak with a 61-43 win
over Princeton the ollowing day,
propelled by a 19-point eort rom
Matt Mullery 10.
Coming o a 3-0 weekend, the
wrestlers (6-9) will ace Cornell on
Friday at 3 p.m. and Columbia on
Saturday at 2 p.m. The Bears will
hope to pick up where they let o
last weekend, when they beat Har-
vard, Wagner College and Boston
University.The womens tennis team (5-2)
will host a double-header on Satur-
day, acing Seton Hall at 9 a.m. and
Quinnipiac at noon. Coming o a
third-place fnish at the inaugural
ECAC Indoor Championship, the
Bears will look to Bianca Abouba-
kare 11, who plays frst singles
and partners with her sister Car-
issa Aboubakare 12 at frst doubles,
or leadership.
Kelley Wisinger 11, 200
back: 2:06.17, 1st.
Sage Erskine 11, 100 back:
59.10, 1st.
wm sq
The womens squash team had
an outstanding showing at the
Howe Cup National Champi-
onship over the weekend. On
Friday, the Bears earned a con-
vincing 9-0 win over George
Washington, and carried themomentum into Saturday, when
the Bears routed Bowdoin by
an 8-1 score. On Sunday, they
deeated Dartmouth, 6-3, to win
the Kurtz Division and inish
ninth in the nation. Highlights
included a dominant 9-0, 9-5, 9-2
win at No. 3 or Laura Pyne 10
and a straight-set win or Nikoo
Fadaiard 12 at No. 5, 9-0, 9-0,
9-3.
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start, Lee said. He was just calling
out breaks every 10 or so minutes and
getting all the other guys fred up.
Au soundly deeated his oe, 6-3,
6-3 at sixth singles, and Gardner
cruised to a 6-2, 6-4, win at fth sin-
gles. Gorham clinched the victory or
the Bears at third singles, overpower-
ing his Penn opponent, 6-4, 6-1.
At second singles, Lee deeated
his opponent by a score o 6-2, 7-6,
while Pearlman split sets at frst sin-
gles, beore his opponent retired.In my matches against Penn and
Yale, I did a great job o hanging in
the match even when things werent
going well, Pearlman said. I relaxed
a lot ater losing the frst set in both
o the matches and was able to swing
loosely aterwards.
According to Pearlman, having
the tournament in February instead
o its normal all date was benefcial
because it served as a marker o our
progress or the spring season.
We have a great shot at winningthe Ivy League title this year, and fn-
ishing third at this tournament is a
good sign that we are heading in the
right direction, he said.
The Bears will compete next
against Virginia Tech in Blacksburg,
Va., on Saturday and then will take
on Georgetown on Sunday in Wash-
ington.
This weekend will be a big chal-
lenge or us, as we play two ver y good
teams on the road, Lee said. This
weekend more than ever, we will
need great energy and between-court
communication rom each guy.
According to Lee, the Bears expe-rience at the Championships will help
them in the weeks to come.
This weekend, we really became
closer as a team, he said. Each guy
developed more trust in the other
guys abilities to perorm under pres-
sure, and I think we can only get bet-
ter rom here.
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At this University, you requently hear the prototypical
Brown student invoked. The administration, the stu-
dent government and many Herald columnists (mysel
included) requently allude to such an individual when
making their cases.
So I didnt think much about it until Sean Quigleys
10 column on the subject (The myth o the Brown stu-
dent, Feb. 11), which, though seemingly born o the
rustration o an ideological minority, brought up an im-portant question. Is the rhetorical Brown student a
valid concept? Is Brown University merely a collection
o buildings, an institution that leaves no trace on its in-
habitants?
Lets look at the United States. With its more than 300
million residents, it is nearly impossible to characterize.
Nevertheless, newspapers, politicians and Americans in
general, Quigley included, regularly write and speak o
the American ethos and the American dream.
Does it matter that some Americans reject democ-
racy, tolerance and all things commonly understood
as part o what it means to be an American? No, be-
cause the majority o Americans share certain traits and
belies, and it is this that we reer to when speaking in
broad terms like average American.
The same is applicable to denizens o our campus.
Not all Brown students need be liberal. Not all studentsneed agree on everything. This should not preclude us
rom recognizing the broader ethos o the University as
a whole, regardless o the act that there may be some
minority that does not share every aspect o that ethos.
Attempting to defne exactly what Brown-ness
means is a treacherous endeavor, but Ill take a stab at
it. Brunonians as a whole stand behind the totality o the
New Curriculum (i not every individual aspect o it). Not
only is this a result o sel-selection, as the New Curricu-
lum is one o Browns primary draws, but it also is some-
thing that grows on those who arrived on campus rela-
tively ambivalent about the whole thing.
Moreover, Brown students generally embrace toler-
ance and reject injustice. I recognize that these are in-
credibly broad terms, but I would venture to say that an
acceptance o eminism alls under the umbrella o what
it means to be a Brown student.
The Oxord English Dictionary defnes eminism as:
Advocacy o the rights o women (based on the theory
o equality o the sexes). I hope this is not the defnitionthat Quigley had in mind when he emphatically rejected
eminism and railed against the intolerance o the let
at Brown.
In an earlier column, Quigley wrote that homosexu-
als would have to answer to a higher power and to their
communities, through social ostracization or their be-
havior (Cultural tyranny and the calamity o gay mar-
riage, Apr. 3). I fnd it hard to accept that anyone who
espouses such belies can sel-righteously protest the il-
liberal and intolerant ideas o the dominant ideology on
campus.
Brown is not a monolithic ideological dictatorship.
On our campus there are liberals, conservatives, liber-
tarians, socialists and everything in between. Nonconor-
mity is appreciated and even encouraged. But that does
not mean that there is no prevailing spirit, some general
idea o what it means to be a Brunonian.
Tler Rosenbam 11 is an international relations
concentrator from Seattle, Washington. He can be
reached at [email protected]
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I spent shopping period as anyone does
harried, razzled, in need o sleep. My days
were an endless string o 10-minute cross-
campus traverses, ill-advised attempts to
visit three classes at once, and occasional
stops to scar down who knows what rom a
library ood cart.
Shopping is how its done here at Brown,
and, like all o us, I ound solace in the
knowledge that soon enough, things would
calm down and, moreover, that Id havea schedule that was just right or me. That
said, I dont pretend I was much the happy
camper as I reached my ourth or fth day o
hauling mysel rom one class to another
and another, and another, and another and
another.
Particularly stressul, I couldnt help no-
ticing, was shopping the Literary Arts De-
partment, where introductory level writ-
ing courses are extremely popular and
capped below 20. Many students pre-register
on Banner or these coveted spots. The rest
turn out in high numbers during shopping
period to write their names on slips o paper,
drop them in a hat and cross their fngers
that the instructor will pull theirs or one o
the ew remaining spots or, at the very least,a place on the waiting list.
My particular course o choice was o-
ered in our sections this semester, each
taught by a dierent instructor; I visited
three o them. In the frst, the efcient and
organized instructor knew the drill: Names
rom the hat flled both the remaining seats
and the 10 spots on the waiting list. These
students were expected to continue to at-tend class i they wished retain a seat; the
rest were asked to leave.
All in all, quite painless but not so in
the other sections I visited. A simple change
o location in one was explained by a note
on the door o the original classroom or
might have been, had the note not allen o
the door and onto the ground. Roughly 10
students, mysel included, discovered the
note too late, and ater dashing up two ights
o stairs, arrived at the new classroom to fnd
that names had already been drawn and
so lost our chance.
In the other section, the instructor
seemed simply perplexed by the names-
rom-a-hat system, unsure o how the wait-
ing list should be determined, how many
seats there should be on the waiting list and
whether those on the waiting list were ex-
pected to remain in class.
In the midst o shopping period, the last
thing any o us needs is a little more stress,a little more conusion and a little more run-
ning around. So I cant help but wonder i
there might be some way to simpliy this
hectic system ater all, i every capped
course used this method to fll its roster,
shopping courses would be a pretty harrow-
ing experience.
Perhaps the most obvious answer would
be to oer more sections o these introduc-tory classes but it is by no means the sim-
plest option. In an interview, Brian Even-
son, director o the Literary Arts Program,
expressed sympathy or students trying to
gain entry to these courses in the midst o
a busy shopping period, and explained that
more sections are being oered this year
than have been in the past. Still, he cited the
economy among other actors that prevent
the department rom undertaking any ma-
jor expansion o oerings at the current mo-
ment.
What, then, can be done? Personally, Im
all or scrapping pre-registration or these
courses altogether. The department has
done an admirable job o making things as
air as possible, reserving sections o each
course or frst-years and sophomores who
might otherwise lose seats to upperclass-
men. But I propose that the department have
everyone throw names in the hat. It would
put all students on equal ooting regard-less o seniority.
The department should also ensure that
instructors use a uniorm set o standards,
put the same number o students on class
waiting lists and make class attendance a re-
quirement or saving ones spot. And i there
are going to be classroom changes, perhaps
they could wait until the second time the
class meets, when the roster is complete. (Ihave scary dreams at night o cutthroat Po-
etry I hopeuls ripping notes rom doors to
thwart the competition.)
With a writing sample, many students can
gain entry into intermediate and advanced
courses, but many are unclear about how
to submit their writing, or arent aware that
these courses are open to them. By rewrit-
ing descriptions on Banner to give students
a clearer understanding o what options are
available, the department might be able to
reduce trafc ow in introductory courses.
Evenson noted that the current system is,
in some ways, less useul today than it was in
the days beore Banner. He called this year
a transitional year or the department andnoted that it may be time or us to reevalu-
ate.
O course I dont pretend to know the ins
and outs and the minute details o running
an entire department, but perhaps a stu-
dents perspective couldnt hurt. Were it up
to me, Id move the whole process wheth-
er it involved pulling names out o a hat, a
nice online lottery (as in Visual Arts) or, as
my ather jokingly suggests to me as I write
this, a Sorting Hat out o shopping peri-
od. Submitting writing samples and draw-
ing names or each semesters course lineup
should take place at the end o the previous
semester, so that we can all start our shop-
ping knowing ull well which rosters and
waiting lists were on. Then, perhaps, ourpoor razzled brains can have a rest and a
little less to ret about.
Kate Dole 12 is from Westport, Con-
nectict. She can be reached at
S : A - L A
A 2005 New York Times article by Louise
Story sent shockwaves o disbelie through-
out the Ivy League and the nation. In Many
Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to
Motherhood (Sept. 20, 2005), Story reported
that roughly 60 percent o 138 reshman and
senior emales surveyed at Yale said that
when they had children, they planned to
cut back on work or stop working entirely.
The article made some Brown undergradu-
ates araid araid that the ideals o the
Feminist Revolution had been lost and araid
that women were not receiving the support
that they needed to maintain successul ca-
reers.
Brown students took measures to address
both o these ears. Former Herald opinions
columnist Dana Goldstein 06 conducted
interviews with two dozen emale Brown
undergraduates, summarizing her impres-
sions in Work and motherhood: a Brown
study (Oct. 18, 2005). Goldsteins fndings
are completely opposed to Storys, assuag-
ing ears that women no longer value work
and long or independence. Her column
triumphantly proves that the eminist ideal
o independence is alive and well, at least at
Brown. Goldstein writes, Not one young
woman I spoke to on Browns campus sai
she plans on giving up working ater she
has children even i she does want to
have exible hours or the option o working
rom home.
Late in her column, Goldstein asks the
question: What is the world going to do tohelp us achieve our goals? This question
suggests that the eminist ame burns strong,
with undergraduates desperately yearning or
successul careers, but that certain actors
hinder their pursuits. I suggest that the
world will not and should not do anything to
help us. Yes, working while being a mother
is a challenge, but most o us have examples
in our lives o women who have graceully
balanced working and motherhood.
Kate Klonick 06 and Sunisa Nardone 07
took a dierent approach rom Goldstein,
launching Women in the World, a lecture
inspired by Storys article, and developing
a mentoring program o the same name.
In Herald Arts & Culture Editor Hannah
Levintovas 09 article Mentoring program
to match emale students with alums (Sept.
5, 2006), Nardone is quoted as saying Going
into senior year, we thought more guidance
was needed in the transition rom academia
to real lie, and continues It seemed kind
o surprising that there are no networking
events or women.
Nardone and Klonick identifed lack o
guidance and support as primary reasons
or women opting out o the workorce, butI am unconvinced o this truth. The women
in Storys ar ticle had career ambitions and
most were confdent that they would excel
in their felds or at least a decade or so out
o college. Something other than a defcit o
opportunity seemed to be inuencing their
decisions.
Another New York Times article sheds
more light on the phenomenon o women
opting out o the workorce. In The Opt-
Out Revolution (Oct. 26, 2003), Lisa Belkin
chronicles the lives and career choices o
several Ivy League graduates, each o whom
belongs to a book group or a childrens play-
group o mothers with prestigious degrees
who have chosen to stop working ater be-
coming mothers.
Among those she writes about is a Brown
graduate, Tracey Liao Van Hooser 93, who
says, It was wonderul to fnd a group o
women who had made the same decisions I
had, continuing, I am not a housewie. Is
there still any such thing? I am doing what is
right or me at the moment, not necessarily
what is right or me orever.
Several key points can be derived rom
her statements. First, she made a choice,and she is happy with it. Second, the choice
remains or her to return to the workorce
should she want to.
Both o the valiant eorts by Brown stu-
dents mentioned earlier ignore the role o
choice. They accept that some deep, dark,
institutional actors push women out o the
workorce, whether they are lack o support
and access or the impossibility o balancing
children and a career. But the women in the
two New York Times articles are shouting
rom the rootops the opposite message: I
am making a choice!
I have a eeling that the Opt-Out Revolu-
tion is not quite the revolution that jour nal-
ists make it out to be, but at the very least,
these stories provide beautiul examples
o choice choice that we should not be
threatened by but be happy to have. Whether
we use that choice to stop working ater hav-
ing children, fne, so be it, as long as it is a
reasoned, deliberate decision. I we use that
choice to work into our eighties, balancing
children and a career by any means possible,
thats wonderul as well. We need not be
rightened by our accomplished colleagues
who choose not to work. They are not victims,
and neither are we.
Katharine Hermann is a COE and r-
ban stdies concentrator from Port-
land, Oregon. She can be reached at
Katharine_hermann at brown.ed
f b
I have a feeling that the Opt-Ot Revoltion is
not qite the revoltion that jornalists make it
ot to be.
In the midst of shopping period, the last thing
an of s needs is a little more stress, a littlemore confsion and a little more rnning arond.
So I cant help bt wonder if there might be
some wa to simplif this hectic sstem.
KATE DOyLE
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underling16 Hyper toon
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champ Bob49 Like some
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A sympathetic diamond to Roba!Dolce. Were sorr y you got ore!closed on.
Acubic zirconium to the Brown Skydiving Club, which hopes to raise enough money to
sponsor jumps or members. Given the current economic climate, some might say leaping out o
a plane at 10,000 eetwithoutone o those expensive parachutes doesnt sound all that bad.
Coal to the Rhode Island colleges that are considering arming their campus police. Sure,
guns are one answer, but take it rom us: Nothing strikes ear in the heart o a criminal like
neon jackets and a Segway tricycle.
A welcoming diamond to the Corporation, which begins meeting today to decide the ate o
hal a dozen major building projects and hash out a budget totaling hal a billion dollars. I youre
still taking other suggestions, there was no tuna at the salad bar the other day, soooo...
Acubic zirconium to the regional director o USA Underwater Hockey, who described
one o the challenges o the niche sport as the act that no one can hold their breath or an
unlimited amount o time. Quite true, but thats precisely the discovery that led a ragtag bando Canadians 200 years ago to freeze the water beore the game.
Adiamond to Zipcar or changing its minimum age policy to allow Brown students who
are 18, instead o 21, to rent rom you. But since when did Fish Co. star t managing Zipcar?
Were using our stupid wooden token to vote acoal or Blue State Coee, which brazenly
opened another location in New Haven. We should have learned by now that when people
say Brown is their one and only choice, that just means theyre on the waitlist at Yale. (Plus,
we were still hoping or a third Thayer Street shop.)
Well gladly pass on two dozen shipments odiamonds and 300 tons ocoal to the Univer-
sity, which administrator Beppie Huidekoper said was taking much o its endowment money
out o hedge unds in avor o less risky investments. For the right price, that is. (Were trying
to get out o commodities.)
Coal to the modifed unofcial transcript the University made available online this week,
which includes more o students internal records than beore. The ormatting changes arewelcome, but including our Brown application essays was a little embarrassing.
Finally, acoal to Providence Mayor David Cicil line 83, who said in his State o the City ad-
dress Tuesday that the city government must mobilize, as i were in the economic equivalent
o wartime. Maybe you can start saving money by fring whoevers in charge o coming up
with original metaphors over there.