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By Talia Kagan

ContributingW riter

Almost a quarter o rooms inspected

by University sta this semester

were ound to have health and saety

violations.

The inspections, directed by the Oce o Residential Lie, were

conducted in 830 rooms rom Feb.

10 to 12, with 200 rooms receiving

citations or oenses including il-

legal extension cords, possession

o candles and ecessive trash.

Coupled with inspections rom

last October and November, the

oce has inspected a total o 1,534

rooms, according to statistics romResLie. O all rooms inspected this

academic year, 18.5 percent received

violation notices.

Almost 26 percent o the re-

corded violations — not including

alcohol- and drug-related inractions

— involved illegal power strips andetension cords. The second most

commonly recorded violation was

or “excessive wall decorations,”

which accounted or a little over 20

percent o the total violations. Other

common violations were blocked

exits and damaged or obstructed

re saety equipment.

The number o violations re-

ceived in dierent residence halls

varied widely, even or similar

dorms. For example, during the

October inspections, 22 percent o

rooms visited in Vartan GregorianQuadrangle B received violations,

while only 1.8 percent o those vis-

ited in Quad A did, according to the

ResLie data.

O all dorms inspected this year,

Marcy Hall was the only one that

did not have a single room with a

violation.

A total o ve notices were given

or “evidence o pets,” though that

does not mean inspectors necessar-

ily ound hordes o urry creatures

running around residence halls. Ac-

cording to Richard Hilton, assistant

director or operations or ResLie,

having cat ood visible in your room

counts as evidence o pets.

Not all rooms in inspected

dorms were visited, said Thomas

Forsberg, associate director o

Housing and Residential Lie. “We

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vol. cxliv, no. 23 | Tuesday, February 24, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891

B b b ULBy ellen cushing

and Ben schrecKinger

Senior S taff W riterS

The Corporation’s decision this

weekend not to pursue construction

o a new brain science building has

provided a reprieve or the Urban

Environmental Lab, which sits on the

lot that had been designated or the

new structure.

President Ruth Simmons wrote

in an e-mail to the Brown commu-

nity Saturday that given the Univer-

sity’s current nancial situation, theCorporation has “endorsed eorts

to explore renovation o existing

buildings” instead o pursuing new

construction.

“It’s great that we’re going to be

able to stay in this building and keep

the garden,” Administrative Manag-

er or the Center o Environmental

Studies Patti Caton ’92 MA’02 said

Monday.

Caton, who said she had collected

signatures to save the Lab, said the

building is the most energy-ecient

one on campus. Students had also

mounted a campaign against building

the so-called “Mind, Brain, Behavior”

building on the property, posting signs

on campus.Like Caton, Proessor Emeritus

Harold Ward, who helped ound the

Center or Environmental Studies now

housed in the UEL, reacted positively

to the Corporation’s decision.

“I am pleased that the potential

or confict between (brain science

building) interests and environmental

aculty and students has been elimi-

nated,” Ward wrote in an e-mail to The

Herald. He wrote that this decision

removed the “immediate threat to

the UEL.”

Caton said the garden in ront o

the UEL provides a space or mem-

bers o the Providence community to

garden on Angell Street. A proposed

uture location or the Lab on CushingStreet could not have accommodated

A b U.S. kBy lauren Fedor

Senior S taff W riter

As stock markets continued to

plummet and uncertainty about

the economic stimulus packagelingered, President Obama ap-

pointed another Brown alum to

his administration.

Steven Rattner ’74 P’09, a promi-

nent Wall Street nancier and mem-

ber o the Brown Corporation, will

serve as a top adviser to Treasury

Secretary Timothy Geithner on the

dicult task o rescuing America’s

troubled “Big Three” automakers,multiple media sources reported

Monday.

Last month, President Obama

was considering Rattner or the

unprecedented position o “car

czar,” in which the private equity

mogul would have supervised the

government bailout o the automo-

bile industry. But last week, Obama

instead selected a Presidential Task

Force on the Auto Industry, to be

led by Geithner and National Eco-

nomic Council Director Lawrence

Summers.

The Task Force — described

in a White House press release as

a cabinet-level group — was set to

include the secretaries o Trans-

portation, Commerce, Labor andEnergy, as well as representatives

rom other groups, including the

NEC and Environmental Protec-

tion Agency.

The committee convened on

Feb. 20 to discuss requests rom

two o the car companies, Chrysler

LLC and General Motors Corp., or

additional bailout money, accord-

ing to the release. In December,

the government gave the two auto

giants loans amounting to $17.4 bil-

lion. Last Tuesday, the companies

requested an additional $14 billion

in bailout money.

Though the White House state-

ment did not name Rattner as a

member o the Task Force, both

the Associated Press and the New

York Times reported yesterday

that he will join the committee as

G. C ’65

By sara sunshine


Only 34 percent o Rhode Islanders

approve o the job perormance o

Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65, accord-

ing to a recent Brown survey by

the Taubman Center or Public

Policy.

Carcieri’s approval

ratings — which peaked

at 63 percent in 2004 —

have declined ve percent since

the Taubman Center’s last poll in

September.One reason or the decline could

be the worsening economic situa-

tion in Rhode Island, said Marion

Orr, proessor o political science

and director o the Taubman Cen-

ter.

“My sense is that when people

look at government perormance,

they actually think about their eco-

nomic situation,” Orr said. Rhode

Island currently has a large budget

decit and one o the highest un-

employment rates in the nation,

he added.

Two-thirds o the survey’s re-

spondents said they knew a riend

or amily member who had recently lost a job.

A representative rom the gover-

nor’s oce declined to comment.

The poll showed mixed support

or some o Carcieri’s specic pro-

posals to close the state’s at least

$357-million budget decit. While

78 percent o Rhode Islanders were

in avor o possible consolidation o

some public services to lower costs,

71.8 percent opposed cutting aid to

local schools.

“People are re-

ally hurting,” Orr said.

“They are anious and

some o them may very well be

angry. When people are eeling

that way they tend to point an ac-cusing nger at those who are in

charge.”

Accordingly, approval ratings

were down or all state ocials,

Orr said.

However, Ray Sullivan, com-

munications director o the Rhode

Island Democratic Party, said com-

paring the approval ratings o more

low-prole local politicians to those

o the governor is not valid because

the latter has a “bully pulpit and

greater (media) eposure.”

Carcieri’s numbers have de-

clined because “his priorities have

been out o step with mainstream

Rhode Islanders,” Sullivan said,citing Carcieri’s opposition to the

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Jonathan Spector, Treasurer

Aleander Hughes, Secretary

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TUESdAy, FEbRUARy 24, 2009THE bROWN dAILy HERALdPAgE 2

CAUS wS“There’s a communit aroun this uilin.”

— Caroline Karp, senior lecturer in environmental stuies

S z b bBy Kevin PraTT

Contributing W riter

Sovereign Bank, which operates a branch on Thayer Street, has been

acquired by Spanish banking giant

Banco Santander, but the takeover

will not aect customer accounts,

according to Ellen Molle, a spokes-

person or Sovereign.

“Nothing has changed or cus-

tomers,” Molle said on Monday. “It’s

business as usual.”

Philadelphia-based Sovereign

suered losses o $1.4 billion in

2007, the Philadelphia Inquirer re-

ported last October. Santander, the

world’s seventh-largest bank by mar-

ket share, already held a 25 percent

stake in Sovereign beore agreeing

to purchase the remaining sharesor $1.9 billion in October.

The transaction was completed

this month, Molle said, adding that

she expects customers to benet

rom the merger with Santander, a

bank “known or customer service

and advanced technology.”

Sovereign will keep its name

“or the time being,” according to a

statement released by the bank to

its customers last November. In its

other recent acquisitions, Santander

has not changed the names o the

banks it buys, according to the In-

quirer article.

Sovereign will also remain FDIC-insured, according to the bank’s Web

site.

Brown students interviewed by

The Herald said they had not noticed

a change in banking at Sovereign

since the acquisition.

Sovereign customers Mats Horn

’11 and Allison Pincus ’10.5 both said

they were not previously aware o the

merger and had noticed no changes

in ees or customer service.

According to Molle, “a letter rom

the Santander chairman was sent to

all Sovereign customers on comple-

tion o the transaction.” Brochures

detailing the merger were available

at the Thayer Street branch.

Operating in 40 countries, San-tander leads both Europe and Latin

America in market shares. Its ATMs

abroad will not yet be accessible to

traveling Sovereign customers, ac-

cording to the statement.

Santander supports Spanish-

language instruction at universities

around the world and promotes stu-

dent exchange programs with Span-

ish institutions. It recently acilitated

several echange agreements with

Chinese universities, including a pro-

gram that will bring two researchers

rom Peking University to Brown.

Santander’s aliation with uni-

versities is “denitely something

they’ll be expanding in the U.S.,”

Molle said. An independent agreement be-

tween Santander and Brown, signed

by Santander chairman Emilio Bo-

tin and University ocials, will also

create grants or Brown students tostudy abroad and intern with San-

tander aliate banks globally, The

Herald reported in November.

Qinon Chen / Heral

The acquisition of Soverein bank shoul not affect customer accounts.

the garden.

For advocates o the UEL — lo-

cated in a 19th-century carriage house— the University’s nancial woes have

a silver lining.

“This economic slowdown gives

everybody time to reconsider the best

possible use o space,” said Senior

Lecturer in Environmental Studies

Caroline Karp.

The Providence Preservation

Society placed the UEL on its Most

Endangered Properties List last year.

When The Herald spoke with PPS

Director o Preservation Services Sara

Emmenecker ’04 last July, she said theSociety was concerned about losing

historic College Hill buildings to new

construction projects.

“We saw them as signicant, not

only as historic structures rom the

19th century but as providing a histor-

ic contet o the residential area that

once eisted,” Emmenecker said.

The University looked into having

the house moved to another campus

location, rather than demolishing it,

but resistance to the move created

uncertainty around the Lab’s ate, TheHerald reported.

One aculty member working at

the UEL said she was glad the build-

ing will be preserved.

Karp said people in the environ-

mental studies community preer to

“make the best possible use” o ex-

isting buildings beore tearing them

down and starting over.

“We’re delighted to be here,” she

said. “It’s a lovely building. There’s a

community around this building.”

Catherine Pearson ’08, a researchassistant at the Center or Environ-

mental Studies and research ellow

with Rhode Island Sea Grant College

said she elt the UEL’s warm environ-

ment acilitated collaboration between

sta and students.

While those interviewed said the

UEL’s position is secure or the time

being, the Center or Environmental

Studies still has other housing con-

cerns. Only seven aculty members

have oces at the UEL, with others

located in J. Walter Wilson and Mac-Millan Hall, according to Karp. The

physical diusion hinders collabora-

tion, she said.

In his e-mail, Ward suggested the

possibility o revisiting a proposal to

give the environmental studies de-

partment space in a house adjacent

to the UEL.

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“Repulicans have no clout in the state whatsoever.” — Anish Mitra ’10

By Melissa shuBe


Plans or wind turbine development

are moving orward in Narragansett,

bringing the state a step closer to

Gov. Donald Carcieri’s ’65 renewableenergy goal — to use wind to produce

15 percent o the state’s energy by

2011.

The Department o Environmental

Management received permission last

Tuesday rom the State

Properties Committee

— which manages land

and property holdings in the state’s

interest —to seek proposals rom

energy companies to build and run

wind turbines on state-owned land in

Narragansett. The committee “gave a

go-ahead,” said Chris Kearns o En-

vironment Rhode Island, a statewide

advocacy organization.Christopher Wilkins, president pro

tempore o the Narragansett Town

Council, said the town is also looking

at various town-owned properties on

which to harvest wind energy.

Research on potential wind power

in Narragansett began two years ago,

he said, ater the governor announced

his plan or renewable energy.

“We’re pretty much way ahead o

the curve on ... alternative energy,”

Wilkins said.

Although winds are stronger

oshore, Narragansett is looking

to place wind turbines onshore to

reduce opposition rom shermen,

Wilkins said. The town will probably ace protests rom neighbors wher-

ever the wind turbines are erected, he

said, noting that some people “love to

champion the wind energy movement

but don’t want to see it rom the decks

o their houses.”

Narragansett is looking to locate

its wind turbines either at one o its

high schools or middle schools, or at a public wastewater treatment cen-

ter near Scarborough State Beach.

Wilkins said the water treatment

center is the most likely candidate

because the wind power would be

used to run the treatment plant.

The town has applied or ederal

unding and is waiting to see i the

project will receive aid rom the re-

cently approved economic stimulus

plan.

Still, Wilkins noted that the costs

and easibility o the wind-harvesting

project in Narragansett are unknown.“There’s more questions than there

are answers out there at this point,”

he said.

Michael Sullivan, director o the

Department o Environmental Man-

agement, said his oce

has been working with

Narragansett, Providence,

Jamestown and Cranston to develop

plans or wind turbines.

The department is also developing

regulations and guidelines or the

turbines, he added.

Sullivan said the department plans

to erect a meteorological tower in

Narragansett which will collect data “on the reliability and intensity o

wind” and help the state determine

where a wind turbine would be most

eective.

In addition to helping Narragan-

sett develop wind energy, the state

department is also looking to build its

own wind turbine in the town and use

the power to run department build-

ings. “We will consume our own green

energy to the etent practical” in or-

der to “practice what they preach,”

he said.

The department also hopes to

install a small wind turbine to help

power the new state-owned beach

building at Salty Brine State Beach

in Narragansett or the Fisherman’s

Memorial State Park campground,

he said.

“You’d be amazed at the number

o people who want to go camping

at our acilities with a 50-oot (recre-

ational vehicle) with central air, and

they want to be able to plug it in to

our camp ground acilities,” Sullivan

said.

Kearns said the state was “making

good progress” on the wind-power

initiative, adding that it needs more

environmental legislation on the

books. “There’s always more work

to be done,” he said.

C 4 .I.

national stimulus package as one

example o this dissonance. The pollound that 74 percent o state resi-

dents support President Obama’s

stimulus package.

Sullivan also said Carcieri has

ailed to keep his pledge to help the

Ocean State through the economic

crisis.

“The governor promised to cre-

ate twenty thousand new jobs. The

governor is very good at making

big political pronouncements and

speeches, but the administration

has allen short in delivering,” Sul-

livan said. “Rhode Islanders are

very smart ... They pay attentionto what these (elected ocials) are

saying.”

But not everyone believes that

Carcieri is to blame or his low ap-

proval ratings and the lack o eco-

nomic recovery in Rhode Island.

“The state is basically run by

Democrats,” said Anish Mitra ’10,

member o the Brown Republicans

and Herald opinions columnist.

Though Carcieri has veto power,

he is unable to accomplish his objec-

tives without a cooperative legisla-

tive branch, Mitra said.

The governor’s low approvalnumbers are more a refection o

Rhode Islanders’ dissatisaction with

the mostly Democratic legislature’s

perormance, Mitra said, since “Re-

publicans have no clout in the state

whatsoever.”

Besides, Mitra added, 34 per-

cent support is not that bad. “It’s

still higher than Congress’ ap-

proval rating ... it’s higher than

Bush’s (was).”

a lead adviser to the Treasury

secretary.

Rattner will work alongside

ormer colleague Ronald Bloom,

senior adviser on the auto indus-

try. Bloom was vice president o

investment bank Lazard Freres

& Co., LLC rom 1985 until 1990.

Rattner served as deputy chair-

man and deputy chie executive

ocer o Lazard rom 1989 until

2000.

In 2000, Rattner co-ounded

Quadrangle Group, LLC, a New

York-based investment rm. He

will leave his role as managingprincipal o Quadrangle to accept

the Treasury position, accordingto reports.

A member o Brown’s highest

governing body since 1994, Ratt-

ner was also editor-in-chie o The

Herald as an undergraduate.

The White House also an-

nounced the appointment o anoth-

er Brown alum, Dana Singiser ’92,

yesterday. Singiser, who served as

a senior advisor or the women’s

vote on Obama’s campaign, was

appointed special assistant to the

president or legislative aairs.

She will be part o a team respon-

sible or promoting Obama’s legis-

lative priorities in the Senate.

Singiser worked on the presi-dential campaigns o both Sec-

retary o State Hillary RodhamClinton and President Obama, rst

as director o women’s outreach

or Clinton.

The Chicago Tribune also re-

ported last week that Jill Zuck-

man ’87, a Tribune reporter and

regular guest on cable news

shows like “Hardball” and “Fox

News Sunday,” was leaving the

publication to join the Obama ad-

ministration in the Department o

Transportation.

According to a Feb. 15 story on

the Tribune’s Web site, Zuckman

will serve as assistant to Trans-

portation Secretary Ray LaHood,

and the department’s director o public aairs.

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CAUS wS “you won’t e eterre one inspection” — Aam Kiki-Charles ’11

inspect as much as we can with the

resources we have,” he said, adding

that the number o sta volunteers

determines how many inspections

are done. Volunteers receive brie

training beore beginning inspec-

tions, he said. The oce tries to run

our to six rounds o inspections per

academic year.

According to violation notices

that were handed out, rooms o

students guilty o rule inractions

were candidates to be re-inspectedbetween Feb. 18 and 20, though

Hilton said a re-inspection was not

guaranteed.

Michael Caron ’12 and his room-

mate received a violation or exces-

sive wall decorations in their Keeney

Quadrangle double — but complied

with the notice’s instructions. “We

scaled it back,” Caron said, though

he added that the room was never

re-inspected.

Adrian Leanza ’11, who lives

in Diman Hall, said an inspector

was only in his room or about 20

seconds and ailed to notice visible

violations because the room was

“messy.”

Though “alcohol, illegal drugs or

drug paraphernalia” are among the

violations listed on the inspection

notice, Hilton said he had not yet

compiled the data on these viola-

tions. Alcohol is only considered a

violation i the inhabitant is under 21, and Hilton has not yet checked

dates o birth or occupants o these

rooms, he said.

Forsberg said while illegal sub-

stance violations are recorded,

they are “not the reason” or the

inspections, emphasizing that

health and saety are ResLie’s main

concerns.

Some students said they were

unsure how eective the inspec-

tions were.

“I you’re going to have those

issues in your room, you won’t be

deterred by one inspection through-

out the year,” Adam Kiki-Charles ’11

said. Instead, an inspection “makes

people aware o what they shouldn’t

have,” he added.

Spencer McAndrews ’12 said she

received a notice or an improper

extension cord, but that “a lot o

people put stu away” in prepara-

tion or the inspections, which wereannounced via e-mail.

According to Forsberg, ResLie

has recently discussed lengthening

the range o days in which inspec-

tions will be carried out to discour-

age quick es.

“Our goal isn’t to catch, it’s

to ensure that people are sae,”

he said.

w’ By Frederique

couTure-carrier

ContributingW riter

As they begin a new season, the

women’s ultimate Frisbee A and B

teams welcomed a third C team this

spring or the rst time ater receiving

a wave o new recruits throughout

the all semester.

The club sport — which has suc-

cessul women’s and men’s teams at Brown — has seen a dramatic expan-

sion over the past couple o years,

according to Julie Caplow ’09, Molly

Cohen ’09 and Zahra Hirji ’09, the

captains o the A team, which goes

by the name “Disco Inerno.”

“It is a truly momentous thing to

have a C team,” Cohen said. Women’s ultimate was previ-

ously divided into two teams, A and

B, based on commitment level and

intensity. But this year, the club had

over 65 members ater recruiting,

and could orm a third team or the

rst time, Hirji said.

Four years ago, the B team, known

as “Pity Da Fool,” consisted o very

ew players, but last year it grew to

include over 40 women, Hirji said,

adding that the women’s ultimate

team started to send two B squads

to participate in tournaments.

The decision to orm a C team

was initially brought up this all, as

the team captains realized that their heavy recruitment — through word

o mouth, table-slipping and “bring

your roommate” practices — had

succeeded more than they initially

thought, Cohen said. The B team,

which in previous years had never

turned a player away, had to cut over

20 girls or the rst time this all.

The B team has some “really tal-

ented players,” and could be competi-

tive, said Kathryn Roberts ’10, one o

the newly appointed C-team captains,

adding that the creation o a C team

oers players with less experience

the opportunity to become better

acquainted with the sport and havea lesser time commitment.

While several members o the

women’s ultimate team played ulti-

mate in high school, most o the play-

ers on the team had never picked up a

disc until joining, Cohen said, adding

that its good to have “diversity, and

not be so eclusive.”

Hirji said what attracted her most

to the sport was the sense o com-

munity among the team members,

and that she “ell in love with the

team” beore she ell in love with

the sport.

Molly Cousins ’11, a C-team cap-

tain, added that the “spirit o the

game” was a major attraction or new recruits.

While the ultimate team is com-

petitive, it is also entirely sel-run,

ostering a sense o unity and team-

work, Cohen said.

The newly established C team

will cause certain new diculties

in terms o unding, Hirji said, but

the captains were condent that they

“will be able to make it” as costs have

not “changed dramatically.” Women’s

ultimate obtains nancial support

rom the Ultimate Players’ Associa-

tion, alumni donations, merchandise

sales, working shits at The Gate, the

University’s Department o Athleticsand undraising eorts.

Still, the members are also cur-

rently brainstorming new ideas or

raising money, Hirji said. Some o

the concepts being thrown around

include pudding wrestling on the

Main Green and a tie-dye party.

The yet-to-be-named C team has

already begun practicing and will

participate in its rst round-robin

tournament on Mar. 8, along with

the B team. The A team will play in

a round robin on Mar. 1.

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. k - k QBy dan alexander

SportS S taff W riter

Ater losing to Princeton on Friday

night, the men’s hockey team, an-

chored by strong goalie play rom

Mike Clemente ’12, took down Quin-

nipiac in a 3-2 game on Saturday to

snap an eight-game losing streak.

Brett Wilson o Princeton (20-7-

0, 14-6-0 ECAC Hockey) netted twogoals and added an assist to help the

Tigers take down the Bears or the

third time this season. Tigers goalie

Zane Kalemba, the ECAC leader

in goals against average and save

percentage, stopped all but one o

the 26 shots he aced.

Matt Vokes ’09 scored his thpower-play goal o the season with

less than ve minutes remaining in

the rst period. The Bears (3-20-4,

3-14-3 ECAC Hockey) got out to a

3-2 lead early in the third period, and

the Bobcats (15-14-3, 8-9-3 ECAC

Hockey) couldn’t come back despite

pulling their goalie in avor o an ex-

tra attacker with 2:15 remaining.

Pt 4, B 1

Princeton took its home ice resh

o o a 3-1 loss to St. Lawrence last

Saturday. That deeat put an end

to a our-game winning streak or

the Tigers, a stretch that included a

2-1 victory over then-No. 5 Cornell.Princeton deeated Brown in Provi-

dence twice earlier this season, by

a combined score o 9-2.

Princeton pounced on Brown in

the rst period, gaining a 19-6 shot

advantage. For the rst time in their

last our games, the Tigers scored

the game’s rst goal when Brett

Wilson beat Clemente 11:47 ater

the puck dropped.

Just over thirteen minutes into

the middle rame, Lee Jubinville

scored a breakaway goal on an as-

sist rom Wilson, earning Wilson

his 100th career point.

The Bears tightened Princeton’slead just over a minute later with

assistant captain Aaron Volpatti ’10

snapped a wrist shot or his th

goal o the season, making the score

2-1.

But that would be the only goal

Kalemba let in all night.

“He’s been obviously tremen-dous,” said Head Coach Roger Gril-

lo. “He’s a good goal tender. They’re

a good team. It’s very dicult to

control the puck against them.”

The nal rame was close on the

shot charts, but not on the score-

board. Princeton only outshot

the Bears 17-15 in the period, but

managed to score two more goals

— one, a fick over Clemente and

the other, an empty net goal with

12 seconds let on the clock ater

Grillo pulled Clemente or an extra

attacker. Despite the nal score,

Grillo remained optimistic ollowing

Friday’s game.“I thought we played etremely

well on Friday and actually the

score o the game was much di-

erent than the actual game,” Grillo

said. “I thought it was as well as we

played maybe all year.”

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Brown returned to the ice on

Saturday to take on the Quinnipiac

Bobcats, who had tied No. 7 Yale

the night beore, 3-3.

The Bobcats took down the Bears

in a 5-1 game on Jan. 30 at Meehan.

But Brown got its second road win

o the season in the rematch.

According to Grillo, the dier-ence between the two games was

simple.

“We got some timely goals and

capitalized on some opportunities.

And I thought we just played a little

bit better deensively,” he said.

Twelve seconds into their second

power-play o the night, Vokes shot

rom the bottom o the let ace-o

circle and beat Quinnipiac goalie

Bud Fisher to put the Bears ahead,1-0, with ve minutes to go in the

opening period.

It took over thirty minutes o ice

time beore anyone scored again,

but momentum shited to Quinnip-iac when Brown took ve penaltiesin under eight minutes in the middle

o the second period.

A minute into a ve-on-three

power play during that stretch,

Quinnipiac’s David Marshall, the

second-leading scorer in the ECAC,

put a high wrist shot past Clementeto tie the game, 1-1.

With less than three minutes let

in the middle rame, Brown regained

a one-goal lead when Mike Wol ’12

scored his rst career goal. Sean

McMonagle ’10 centered the puck

to Wol at the point, and Wol red

a hard shot into trac. The puck

split deenders and eluded Fisher

on its way into the back o the net,

to put Brown ahead, 2-1.

Brown scored consecutive goals

or the rst time since Jan. 17 when

Assistant Captain Jordan Pietrus

’10 extended the Bears’ lead with

his ourth goal o the season. RyanGarbutt ’09 dropped the puck into

the Quinnipiac zone, and Pietrus

chased it down and won possession

in ront o the net. He red a hard

shot at Fisher rom short range. The

Quinnipiac goalie slowed the puck

down, but it slipped through his legs

to put the Bears ahead, 3-1.

“It’s great to see a guy like (Pi-

etrus) who does work as hard as

he works to get rewarded or it,”

Grillo said.

Fisher let an empty net in a-

vor o an extra Bobcat attacker with

2:15 let. Bryan Leitch, the nation’s

leading scorer, added to his totals

when he netted a goal with 36seconds let to bring the Bobcats

within one. Quinnipiac couldn’t put another puck on net, though, and

the Bears let with their third win

o the season.

Tempers fared ater the nal

buzzer and six players, three on

each team, were charged with

ghting and given one-game sus-

pensions. Vokes, Volpatti, and Mike

Stuart ’09 will have to watch Fri-

day’s game against Colgate rom

the stands.

“I looked back, and I saw two

guys go ater Stuart,” Volpatti said.

“And then I saw another guy goin, so I went ater him and it was a

matter o just protecting your team-

mates. It sort o got out o hand

rom there.”

Grillo seemed to agree with Vol-

patti that the altercation was blown

out o proportion.

“It was not anything near what it

seems like on paper,” Grillo said. “I

wouldn’t even call it a ght. It was,

you know, a little bit o a scrum.

In my mind it started with their

players, I think, a little rustrated

that we had won, and so they came

charging in.”

The Bears will have to overcome

their three-player loss when they

ace-o against Colgate (10-16-6,

5-11-4 ECAC Hockey) in their nal

Friday o regular-season hockey.

Brown deeated Colgate when the

teams aced each other on Jan. 23

in a 4-1 game in Hamilton, N.Y.

Then, on Saturday, the Bears will

play their last game o the regular

season, a nal tune-up or the ECAC

Hockey Playos, when they take

on No. 11 Cornell (17-6-4, 12-5-3

ECAC Hockey).

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Though the gymnastics team was

outscored by No. 11 University o

Oklahoma (196.375), No. 13 Uni-

versity o Missouri (196.225) and

No. 18 West Virginia (195.250), the

Bears held their own last Friday at

the University o Oklahoma, post-

ing a 185.950 against some o the

strongest programs in the countr y.

The Bears set a number o personal

bests and season-high scores de-

spite alling short o team scoring

aspirations or the weekend.

“We may not have had our best

meet o the season, but considering

how strong the competition was,

we were not disappointed,” said

co-captain Stephanie Albert ’10.

On vault, Carli Wieseneld ’12

earned a season-high 9.625 to lead

o the Bears in 19th place. Follow-ing were Helen Segal ’10 (9.575),

Chelsey Binkley ’11 (9.525), Victo-ria Zanelli ’11 (9.500), Melissa Bowe

’11 (9.425) and Lauren Tucker ’12

(9.250). Brown earned a total o

47.650 on vault, the best team score

this season or the Bears.

Lilly Siems ’12, also with a per-

sonal best, recorded Brown’s top

score on the bars, with a 9.550.

Bowe (9.200) and Izzy Kirkham-

Lewitt ’10 (9.025) helped the B ears

tally a 45.275.

Binkley tied her season-high

o 9.650 to earn 16th place on the

beam, while co-captain Jennier

Sobuta ’09 was close behind, earn-

ing 9.625 or 17th place. Tucker

ollowed with a 9.500 and Katie

Goddard ’12 with a 9.050 or a team

combined score o 46.625.

On the loor exercise, Bin-

kley, Wieseneld and Zanelli each

scored a 9.400 or 19th place,

while Segal (9.275) and Goddard

(8.925) brought the Brown mark

to 46.400.

Zanelli notched a 36.075 in the

all-around, inishing in eighth-

place.

Head Coach Sara Carver-Milne

said she is optimistic heading into

the Bears’ net competition at the

Ivy Classic at Yale University on

Feb. 28.

“We did score our highest to-

tal on vault this weekend, but the

girls let their nerves get the best o

them on the other events,” Carver-

Milne said. “They know what they

need to correct beore Ivies next

weekend. We will work hard this

week. We are ecited to have our

strongest perormance at Yale on

Saturday.”

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Over the weekend, the Corporation made several important decisions

involving campus building projects — most notably, it revised plans or new buildings or brain sciences and medical education. The Corporation wisely

decided to renovate existing buildings as soon as possible to accommodate the

needs o these departments, rather than postponing plans or new buildings

until the nancial climate improves.

The Corporation should be praised or keeping the best interests o the

University’s academics in mind — brain sciences and medical education re-

quire new acilities now and could hardly wait several years or the economy

to recover enough to elicit the donations needed or construction. While the

Corporation may have been tempted to put the departments’ needs in secondplace — ater all, new buildings are fashy and sound great to donors and

prospective students alike — they made a decision which prioritized academic

goals and was nancially sound.

The Corporation’s decision may also have a ew unintended, benecial

consequences. The east side o Providence is chock-ull o ascinating historic

architecture, plenty o which is University-owned and unprotected by any his-

torical society. Many o these houses contribute to the rich architectural abrico this part o the city. Brown is an important part o the history o Providence,and properties like the small depar tment houses which dot George and Angell

Streets help to connect us to that history. Shiny, huge new buildings like the

LiSci — though they might smell nicer and work better — remove us rom

that history, and make us more like any other university.

Renovations oer the best o both worlds: We can make better, more ecient

acilities while maintaining historic properties and preserving the architectural

eel o the city. Though the Corporation’s decision to renovate rather than build

was based on nancial considerations, we hope these projects are successul

enough that more renovations will be approved in the uture and that new

buildings will only be constructed when absolutely necessary.

The decision to renovate a building or brain sciences has also brought back

a glimmer o hope or those invested in the uture o the Urban Environmental

Lab. Several years ago, the University had planned to knock down the UEL to

make room or construction along the Walk, but recently relented to student and

aculty pressure and agreed to move the historic building rather than destroy

it. Now that the Mind Brain Behavior Building will not be constructed in itsplanned site, we hope that the University will leave the UEL where it is.

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[email protected].

Brown’s endowment is not a ‘rainy day und’T t et:

In his column (“Stealing rom the poor and giving to

the rich” Feb. 23), Simon Liebling ’12 made a undamen-

tal oversimplication regarding the interaction between

Brown’s investments, endowment and tuition. The en-

dowment is not a bank account rom which unds can be

withdrawn at a whim — it is not a $2 billion “rainy day und”that the University is “sitting on.” Instead, it is diversied

in a variety o investment vehicles, such as bonds, stocks,

mutual unds and real estate, which vary in liquidity and

return rates. The University cannot simply cash in a ew

more o its chips when money gets low without hurting

its long-term nancial strength. Excessive withdrawals

today would burden students a decade rom now with

accelerated (and unair) tuition hikes. This is due to

the approimately 5 percent o the endowment already

withdrawn annually that pays or a sith o the operating

budget, to which tuition contributes a third. In eect,

every student automatically receives substantial nancial

aid every year courtesy o the endowment, a gure which

would decrease in the uture by “tapping a little bit more”into the $2 billion now. While I agree that the absolute

cost o college tuition in general is outrageous and I’m

dreading paying o my loans, Brown is relatively lucky;the usual increase in tuition was repressed to the lowest

percentage since the 60s, nancial aid was expanded, and

the aculty and acilities that dene the Brown experience

were not diminished. Compared to Brandeis, which just

put art pieces rom their museum on sale to balance its

budget, we should count our blessings.

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clarification

An article in Monday’s Herald (“Bequest puts pool back on ast track,” Feb. 23) incor rectly attributed a quotation

to incoming men’s water polo captain Ken Collins ’10. The incoming captain’s name is Kent Holland ’10.

correction

An article in last Friday’s Herald (“‘Waltz with Bashir’ lls Avon,” Feb. 20) reerred to David Polonsky as anartist-in-residence at Brown. Polonsky is an artist-in-residence at Brown/RISD Hillel.

Sound and ury against University signifesT t et:

Regarding Simon Liebling’s ’12 column (“Stealing rom

the poor and giving to the rich,” Feb. 23):

Liebling’s suggestion that Brown draws more rom theendowment, which is already set to lose almost a third o

its value, is a completely irresponsible and unsustainable

way to address the University’s imminent budget decits.

Furthermore, in his column Liebling ignores the act

that the 3 percent tuition hike will not a ect those Brown

students on nancial aid who will be unaected since

the University guarantees to meet 100 percent o every

student’s demonstrated need. These students are the ones

coming rom the most economically vulnerable amilies

represented in our student body. His argument would

perhaps be supplanted by a justied call or nancial aid

or those students who all just short o qualiying — the

only people who could conceivably have to “leave” due tothe historically minuscule tuition hike.

Without contributing any concrete and easible solu-

tions to the grim nancial problems acing the Univer-

sity, Liebling’s piece reminds one o the usual rhetoric o

certain campus organizations that incessantly and ludi-

crously paint Brown as a bastion o corporate greed and

evil, instead o bringing constructive and sensible sug-

gestions to the table.

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Ah, Brown’s glorious open curriculum!

“What’s there to complain about?” you ask.

“It completely caters to the needs o the stu-

dents.” Perhaps, but when does the catering

go too ar? (Dramatic music.)

When I refect on the open curriculum,

the ollowing come to mind: no core require-

ments, no pluses or minuses and the S/NC

option. The curriculum is obviously ar more

nuanced than that, but those are the policies

by which I most oten nd mysel directly and regularly aected. Note that I do not in-

tend to criticize these policies, as I nd them

sound and integral to the Brown experience.

Another policy, however, nds itsel obscured

in the wake o these three giants, and it has

remained so or ar too long. I’ll call it the

NC/transcript policy.

The dreaded NC has kept many a student

up all night working. For tunately, you have no

need to ear the NC, as the University has a

brilliant policy in which all NCs are removed

rom your external transcripts, along with the

corresponding course description. Accord-

ingly, i you get an NC, Brown is willing to

wipe the slate clean — it will be as i you had

never taken the course. While this is surely a

policy that benets all students, I eel I must contest it on principle.

This policy certainly seems to be in the

spirit o the open curriculum, since not hav-

ing to ear the NC lends itsel to adventurous

course selection. But when you think about

it, should there really be any solace in ail-ing a course?

Consider what it means to ail a course,

especially at Brown. Not only did your work

(or lack thereo) all well below the standards

o the course (actoring in grade infation and

the vast number o out-o-class teaching re-

sources), but you orgot to take advantage o

the “Drop” unction on Banner, which wouldavoid a record on your internal transcript.

That’s not just a ail, that’s an epic ail.

I really don’t think we need to be urther

babied by the NC/transcript policy. When

you ail a course you should suer the con-

sequences. Your irresponsibility, whether re-

garding your course work or course selection,

is inecusable. Yet the policy preempts the

ecuse. It avoids the problem by absolving

you o the liability.

O course, don’t take this as me saying

you’re home ree when you get an NC. Fail-

ing a class literally results in “No Credit,”meaning it’s that much harder to get those

30 credit hours necessary or graduation.

Moreover, you still have to answer to the

deans and your amily (not necessarily in that

order), which I’m sure is not a very attractive

outlook. But these consequences should befeeting, i not insignicant, or the diligent

Brown student.

For example, the system is set up such

that, at the norm o our classes a semester,

you can aord two NCs and still graduate.

Thereore, you’re given two “get-out-o-jail

ree” cards just or playing the game. And,

worse comes to worst, the bold student could

make up or missing credit by taking a th

class the ollowing semester(s). I assume

the deans and our amilies can console them-

selves with these two acts.

Also consider that by removing NCs rom

the external transcript, you exclude them

rom GPA calculation. Now, the University

technically doesn’t calculate GPA, and rec-

ommends the world do the same or Brown

students, but the outside world really has

no reason to ollow through on that. GPAs

are a means o standardization, albeit not

necessarily always good ones. They give at least some picture o how well one is doing

(or did) in college, and I’d be astounded i

you go through lie without ever having to

calculate it.

That in mind, under the NC/transcript

policy, a C becomes less desirable than anNC. A C is a passing grade, and thus shows

up on your transcript and is actored into your

GPA. And it is a GPA killer, as its grade-point

value o 2 is sometimes enough to ruin one’s

post-college dreams. What type o policy

makes it worse o or you to pass a class

than ail it? Well, this one.

So, how do we correct the inconsistencies

o the current policy? This can most certainly

be accomplished by doing away with the NC/

transcript policy altogether, or it will not only

revalue the C but provide students with some

motivation to work harder, which couldn’t be

a bad thing. Failing will no longer be ecus-

able, as we rightully begin to ear — or at

least mind — the NC.One might argue that this policy would

make students more hesitant to explore cer-

tain courses, thus deeating the goals o the

open curriculum. That assumes that students

choose their courses based on the likelihood

o passing them. Now that’s not really in

the spirit o the open curriculum. And, once

again, given how relatively easy we have it,

we shouldn’t be ailing courses anyway, and i

we do, there should be consequences. Hence

this proposal.

I think the attention and reedom the open

curriculum provides us is a wonderul thing.

But there is a point when such things become

condescending, and we should know when

enough is enough.

Jare Lafer ’11 is a philosoph con-

centrator from Manhattan. He can e

reache at [email protected].

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I know that politicians want to seem hip. I

appreciate that public servants rom both

parties are trying to reach out to younger

voters, as they should. As demonstrated by

this past election, the youth vote is a orce to

be reckoned with. But I wish that eorts to

target young voters were not so ocused on

one particular medium: Twitter.

What’s wrong with Twitter? First, some

politicians act as though the sophisticated

use o technology is an eective substi-

tute or backing the policies young voters

support. Republican National Committee

Chairman Michael Steele seems to think

that Obama dominated the youth vote in

November because his campaign madebetter use o technology.

Surely the Obama campaign’s tet mes-

sages and regular e-mails made young vot-

ers eel involved, but that was not the rea-

son that they supported him in such large

numbers. Republicans are wrong i they

think they can win back the youth vote

by tweeting without altering their posi-

tions on the issues young voters care most

about, including the economy and global

warming.

The GOP proudly notes that 25 per-

cent o Republican lawmakers use Twitter,

while only 8.5 percent o their Democrat-

ic colleagues can say the same. Yet every

GOP legislator just voted against a bill that

provided substantial investments in green

energy technology and education. I they

think that young voters will ignore their

party’s position on the stimulus because o

a fashy tet, they’re in or a surprise.But Twitter is a bad method o com-

munication or other reasons. The nature

o Twitter makes inormed and balanced

statements impossible, since all updates

are strictly limited to 140 characters.

An honest discussion o the stimulus,

or eample, might mention the impacts

o dierent types o government spending,

the role o ta cuts and concerns about our

debt. Instead we get this statement rom

Rep. Paul Broun R-Ga.: “You’d think $1

trillion would buy you time and a better

debate. Clearly this steamroller o social-

ism needs to hit a speed bump.” Twitter

encourages politicians to be orceul, not

candid.

To make matters worse, many politi-

cians are inept at using the Web site. Take

Rep. Peter Hoekstra R-Mich. According to

his sta, “Twitter allows him to provide

real-time insight into… his congressional

activities.” On paper, his use o Twitter

sounds good. But two eamples highlight

the problems posed by political tweets.

Ater ormer Sen. Tom Daschle’s ta is-sues were brought to light, Hoekstra an-

grily tweeted, “Daescle/Geitner/Rangel

(sic) all avoided/cheated on taes!Daescle

latest!They don’t mind raising taes be-

cause they don’t pay them.” It’s di cult to

take elected ocials seriously when their

published statements are littered with mis-

spellings and poor grammar.

But that was not Hoekstra’s most egre-

gious tweet. On Twitter, he revealed, in

real time, the location o his helicopter

when entering Baghdad’s Green Zone. All

politicians and journalists know that on

congressional trips, they may not discuss

their location in a war zone until ater the

act, or security reasons. His oolish tweet

jeopardized soldiers’ saety.

Thankully, no troops were harmed as

a result. And while the tweets I mentioned

may have been inane, they had no seri-

ous consequences. On the other hand, Je

Frederick, the chairman o the GOP in V ir-

ginia, managed to use a Twitter account in

a way that actually hurt his own party.

The Republicans in the state senatehad developed an ingenious plan: in or-

der to increase their membership and gain

a majority, they were going to try con-

vince a Democratic senator to switch par-

ties. They ound one ready to switch and

their plan to take back power was almost

complete.

That plan would have worked, until

their own party chairman tweeted, “Big

news coming out o Senate: Apparently

one dem is either switching or leaving the

dem caucus. Negotiations or power shar-

ing underway.” Naturally, the Democrats

saw this tweet, shut down the Senate or

the day, and orced their ckle member to

stay in their caucus.

To be air, some politicians have oundeective ways to use Twitter, without giv-

ing away military secrets or partisan plots.

Twitter certainly does oer an oppor tunity

or transparency, as well as a way to com-

municate to young voters. But beore poli-

ticians declare that Twitter can help them

win our votes, they must start supporting

the policies we care about.

Jerem Feienaum ’11 is a politicalscience concentrator from Teaneck,

New Jerse. He can e reache at [email protected].

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Repulicans are wron if the think the can win

ack oun people tweetin, without alterin

their positions on the issues the care most

aout.

When ou fail a course ou shoul suffer the

consequences. your irresponsiilit, whetherrearin our course work or course selection,

is inexcusale. yet the NC/transcript polic

preempts the excuse.

JAREd LAFER

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FeBruary 24, 2009

7 PM — guatemalan Film Series: “Es-

trellas e la Linea,” Joukowsky Forum,

Watson Institute

7 PM — “War Aainst Women in the

dRC,” Salomon 001

FeBruary 25, 2009

6 PM — “The Arument,” A Perfor-

mance davi greenspan,

McCormack Famil Theater

8 PM — “Hot an Heav: Leave Me

breathless,” St. Anthon Hall

ACROSS1 Litter box users5 Corn support

10 Emcee14 Loads15 Tennessee

footballer16 “Porgy and Bess”

solo, e.g.17 Expose18 Leave alone19 Broker’s order

20 Start of aneditor’s quipabout verbosewriting

23 London lav24 Singer Brickell

who’s married toPaul Simon

25 “How I Met YourMother” narratorBob

28 Big galoot30 “__ Without a

Cause”34 Quip, part 236 Supreme council

of old Rome37 Get an __: ace38 Tweeters’

quarters40 When repeated,

a Latin dance41 Game show host

with five Emmys44 Quip, part 347 Lessens, as pain

48 Take care of thetab49 __-weensy50 German

battleship Graf__

52 Guy’s partner53 End of the quip60 Sweatshirt

feature, at times61 “__ a break!”62 Drag racing org.64 Farm measure65 Old lab burners66 Sticky stuff67 Turner and a

general68 Thaw, as an

airplane wing69 Use FedEx

DOWN1 One in an airport

queue2 Jai __3 Ripped

4 BenRoethlisberger,for one

5 Canonized popeknown as “TheGreat”

6 Stadium level7 ABA member8 Physical exam

expense9 Work with dough

10 Faded star

11 Cookie-basedJell-O puddingflavor

12 Rural skylinesight

13 Chat21 Exercise a

19th Amendmentright

22 Grow weary25 Condition26 Now, in Nogales27 Trait carriers28 Wall St. trading

group29 Rigatoni, e.g.31 Breakfast side32 Group cultural

values33 Dripping, maybe35 Pen filler36 Fed. assistance

payment

39 Commandmentpossessive

42 Anyway43 “Around the

Horn” channel45 Like Felix Unger46 Fits in48 Small, sizewise51 Urged (on)52 Honkers in

flight53 Southeast Asian

cuisine

54 Gibraltarlandmark

55 Time gone by56 Potent

beginning?57 Financial svcs.

giant affiliatedwith an autocompany

58 “Oops!”59 “Star Trek: T.N.G.”

counselor Deanna

63 PC program

By Pancho Harrison

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lunch — Creole Pork with Suar Snap

Peas, Pepperoni an Feta Calzone

dinner — Curr Chicken with

Coconut, Pizza Rustica, Vean Chana

Masala, basmati Rice Pilaf

verney-woolley dining hall

lunch — Hot Turkey Sanwich,

Stuffe Shells with Sauce

dinner — beef Pot Pie, Vean Ve-

etale Couscous, bake Sweet Pota-

toes, Italian Veetale Saute

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