Wednesday, January 26, 2005

BY ROBBIE COREY-BOULETMETRO EDITOR

Last weekend’s blizzard — which led tothe first state of emergency in RhodeIsland since 1978 — shut down large por-tions of Providence through Sunday andMonday morning, interrupting munici-pal services and forcing many business-es to close.

Governor Donald Carcieri ’65declared a state of emergency Sundaymorning in response to nearly two feet ofovernight snowfall, while city officialstook measures to expedite cleanupefforts and encouraged residents to stayindoors for much of the day.

Mayor David Cicilline ’83 issued aparking ban for all business and com-mercial districts that remained in effectuntil midnight Sunday. The purpose ofthe ban was to help crews from the

Department of Public Works quicklynavigate the city’s streets and plow road-ways, said Major Paul Fitzgerald of theProvidence Police Department.

The blizzard produced “near whiteoutconditions,” according to JohnNickelson, director of the ProvidenceDepartment of Public Works. The cityreceived about three or four inches ofsnow every hour for much of Sunday, hesaid.

By Sunday evening, city workers hadmanaged to clear snow from much ofdowntown Providence, Cicilline said in astatement. The Department of PublicWorks used 75 plows and sanders in thecleanup effort, though their work was farfrom completed by evening’s end.

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Blizzard impedes return to campusBY JUSTIN ELLIOTTCAMPUS WATCH EDITOR

Students flooded back to campus Tuesdayafter the weekend’s powerful northeastercaused flight cancellations and dumpedsnow on roads, preventing many fromreturning to Providence over the week-end.

The blizzard, which began late after-noon Saturday and continued throughearly afternoon Sunday, shut down bothLogan Airport in Boston and T.F. GreenAirport in Warwick. Logan did not reopenuntil Monday morning, while T.F. Greenopened later Sunday.

Some roads in and around Providencewere unsafe or impassable as late asMonday, and Amtrak has operated on areduced schedule since Sunday.

In a campus-wide e-mail sent Sundayafternoon, Vice President forAdministration Walter Hunter informedthe Brown community that the Universitywould be closed Monday and urged stu-dents to delay their return until Tuesday.

As students arrived Tuesday, carscrowded College Hill’s streets, which werenarrowed by large snow banks and, insome cases, incompletely plowed, eventwo days after the storm.

Canceled flights stranded some stu-dents at airports around the country.

Henry Kaplan ’06 said he left LosAngeles Saturday morning, but didn’tarrive in Providence until middayMonday.

“I was supposed to fly from L.A. toNashville and change planes and contin-ue on to Providence,” he said, “but when Igot to Nashville they told me the flight hadbeen canceled.”

Kaplan said he made it to the Grand OleOpry, but he spent most of his time in theairport because he kept being told that hewould be put on the next flight.

His airline would not pay for the twonights he spent in an airport hotelbecause the delay was weather-related.

“It takes me a minimum of four planes

Popular prof.leaves U. for Big AppleBY ERIC BECKSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Josef Mittlemann ’72 P’00 P’04, adjunct lec-turer in engineering, has accepted the posi-tion of chief operating officer of SilversteinProperties, the New York real estate giantand World Trade Center leaseholderannounced Jan. 3.

Jon Cohen ’87, adjunct lecturer in engi-neering, will replace Mittlemann thissemester as instructor of the popular EN 9:“Management of Industrial and NonprofitOrganizations.”

Mittlemann, who will remain an adjunctlecturer at Brown, described his decision toaccept Silverstein’s offer as a difficult butquick one, adding that he sees the job as anopportunity to work on an important proj-ect in the field he knows best — real estate.

Students taking EN 9 will not be left in thelurch by Mittlemann’s departure.

Cohen, an experienced entrepreneur andprincipal of the Newport Hotel Group, hasextensive knowledge of the field and willprovide proper leadership for the course,said Clyde Briant, dean of engineering.

“Jon has been involved in EN 9 for a longtime,” said Barrett Hazeltine, professoremeritus of engineering. Hazeltine taughtthe course last semester.

Cohen delivered some EN 9 guest lec-tures last semester and was well received bystudents, Hazeltine said.

Mittlemann said he and Cohen have metto refresh the EN 9 curriculum. The twohave also worked together, leading a groupindependent study project and advising theBrown Entrepreneurship Program.

Though Cohen intends to draw from thesyllabi of both Mittlemann and Hazeltine,he said he would steer toward Mittlemann’sbecause many students probably registeredexpecting him to teach the class.

Cohen said EN 9 will feature four mod-

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High piles of fresh snow on Thayer prompted students to bring out their sleds and takeadvantage of the weather.

BY JANE PORTERSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Brown has the longest winter break of allof the Ivies, a five-week stretch with noclasses that leaves many students itchingto get back on campus and asking thequestion: Why is the University’s vacationso long?

The length of the break is not deter-mined independently, but is dictated bythe start and end of the academic year asa whole.

The nearly $250,000 the Universitysaves on heat and electricity during winterbreak is not a factor in determining thelength of winter break, said Carl Weaver,director of physical plant.

The amount saved is about the same asthat spent on additional security for unoc-cupied campus buildings, said PeterHeywood, professor of biology and chairof the committee responsible for creatingthe current academic calendar.

The wish for a warm, dryCommencement week weighed muchmore heavily in the decision to create thefive-week winter break, which went intoeffect in 1983. Shortening break by one

week would move Commencement activ-ities a week earlier, increasing the chanceof rain during the outdoor campus dance,Heywood said.

The committee changed the schedulein the early 1980s so that finals camebefore rather than after the winter recess.The original schedule gave Brown stu-dents two weeks off before reading periodand exams, followed by a week off as abuffer between exams and the springsemester, a schedule similar to the oneused today by Princeton and Harvard uni-versities.

“As one of the students said at the time,‘We didn’t study, but we worried,’”Heywood said. “The fact that there wereterm papers and examinations preventedstudents from enjoying the break.”

The committee began the schedulewith Labor Day and cut the break off justbefore Christmas on Dec. 20. It thenscheduled Commencement to take placeduring Memorial Day weekend andcounted backwards 16 weeks to arrive atthe start of the spring semester — theWednesday before the last Sunday ofJanuary.

“It was really these two magic dates,”said Robert Shaw, executive associatedean of the college. Labor Day was a con-venient separator between summer recessand the start of the new school year, hesaid.

Memorial Day was convenient not onlybecause of the warmer weather, but alsobecause it coordinated well with the com-mencement activities of other local uni-versities that did not take place at thesame time, said University RegistrarMichael Pesta.

The long winter break is a critical peri-od in which the University wraps up thefall semester and prepares for the spring.The five weeks provide a window in whichthe Committee on Academic Standing canreview student records and request thatthose in poor standing take leaves fromthe University before the start of springsemester, Pesta said.

Prior to the calendar change, these stu-dents would not learn of their academicstanding until two weeks into the springsemester.

WINTER BREAKS ACROSS IVIES

BROWN UNIVERSITY

DEC. 20 — JAN. 2537 DAYS

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY


CORNELL UNIVERSITY*DEC. 17 — JAN. 2439 DAYS

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE


HARVARD UNIVERSITY**DEC. 22 — JAN. 313 DAYS

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA


PRINCETON UNIVERSITY**DEC. 10 — JAN. 224 DAYS

YALE UNIVERSITY


*Includes optional winter session **Exams after break

May weather responsible for long winter break

R.I. gets most snow in 27 years

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STICKER SHOCKJudge orders evolution “theory”stickers removed from professor’stextbook; new case opens in Pa.

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THAYER STREET GAPRestaurant, clothier shuttered, butShanghai and City Sports set toreplace them

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WHELAN ‘04 REMEMBEREDTeammates and friends reflect onlife of men’s lacrosse team’s“Unsung Hero”

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WASHINGTON — Senate Democratsdelivered one of the sharpest critiques yetof the Bush administration’s credibilityand handling of the Iraq war Tuesday, asthe Senate prepared to confirmCondoleezza Rice’s nomination to be sec-retary of state Wednesday.

Seizing on a nine-hour debate thatRepublicans had hoped to avoid, severalDemocrats excoriated the administra-tion’s pre-war claims about Iraqi weaponsand its handling of the ongoing war andtransition. Both parties agreed that Rice,50, will be confirmed, but that didn’t stopa cross-section of Democrats from ques-tioning her truthfulness in terms thatuntil Tuesday were used only by liberal

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.Some of the most critical Democrats

were centrists from states that PresidentBush won or nearly won in November.Their comments came as recent pollshave shown growing public disenchant-ment with the situation in Iraq.

Too many Republican senators allowBush’s top aides “to get away with lying,”said Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn.“Lying toCongress, lying to our committees, andlying to the American people. It’s wrong,it’s immoral.”The only way to stop it,Dayton said, is to keep the administrationfrom promoting officials “who have beeninstrumental in deceiving Congress andthe American people, and regrettably thatincludes Dr. Rice.”

Dems lambast Rice in confirmation hearing

BY ROBBIE COREY-BOULETMETRO EDITOR

Two more Thayer Street mainstays — Café Java andThe Gap — ended their leases near the end of lastyear, continuing a series of store closures that beganwith the departure of In Your Ear Records last April.

Café Java, a restaurant and coffee shop located onthe corner of Thayer and Meeting streets, closed itsdoors Nov. 30 and is being converted into a Chineserestaurant.

The new owners, Michel Boutros and Ray Hugh,took over the space Dec. 1. Boutros’ father, IksandarBoutros, told The Herald in December that the newrestaurant, Shanghai, would likely open by mid-January.

But the process has been pushed back “by about amonth” as the owners wait for permits from theProvidence Fire Department, Michel Boutros said.Boutros’ family has been operating East Side Pocketsat 278 Thayer St. for eight years.

Shanghai’s owners said competition from nearbyrestaurants offering similar food and coffee options,such as Paragon and Starbucks, may have caused CaféJava to close.

Paul Anjoorian, owner of Café Java’s space at 272Thayer St., said he was not aware of the factors thatcaused the coffee shop and restaurant to close.

“They just transferred the lease to the new owner,”he said.

Café Java’s owners could not be reached for com-ment. The restaurant’s telephone number has beendisconnected.

Hugh said he believes there is sufficient demandfor a restaurant that only serves Chinese food. OtherAsian restaurants, such as Asian Paradise at 165 AngellSt., offer many different varieties, but none of themspecialize in Chinese dishes, he said.

Shanghai’s owners want to “supply the studentsand this whole area with Chinese food the way itshould be cooked.”


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Thayer St. departurescontinue over break

see THAYER, page 9

Midyear transfer orientation snowed underBY ALEXANDRA BARSKSENIOR STAFF WRITER

The blaring sounds of the Brown band welcomed 46midyear transfers and four visiting students to BrownTuesday morning as they made their first symbolic pas-sage through the Van Wickle Gates.

The procession was one of the first official events of themid-year transfer student orientation; the first two dayswere cancelled due to the blizzard last weekend. It wasfollowed by a lunch in the Leung Gallery where studentswere joined by members of the faculty and staff, 10 trans-fer student counselors and members of the Brown band.

Antonia Dixon ’07, who transferred from JohnsHopkins University because the school didn’t have an artconcentration, said of Brown, “It’s getting better everyday, but it didn’t start off very well because of the bliz-zard.”

“We had a big orientation planned out but had to scrapthe whole thing because of the storm,” said AndrewHirsch ’05, a transfer student counselor and co-coordina-

tor of transfer student orientation.“We had to cancel a welcoming meeting and a meeting

for parents and try to compress everything into one day.Now we’re focusing on explaining the nuts and bolts ofacademics,” said Joe Pucci, associate dean of the college.

According to Carol Cohen, also an associate dean of thecollege, the transfer student counselors took on extraresponsibilities on Sunday and Monday, keeping transfersinformed as they arrived on campus and organizing infor-mal events to replace the canceled ones.

“Last minute, we planned some getting-to-know-youactivities… a group lunch in the Ratty, a tour of campus(and) a trip to the bookstore,” Hirsch said.

He said midyear transfer student orientation is usuallyeasier and quieter than the one in the fall when there are100 students entering Brown. “But this year was prettystressful and hectic,” he said.

Hirsch said the goal of the counselors, all of whom

Anti-evolution sticker ruled unconstitutionalBY ALLISON WHITNEYCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Georgia trial over stickers placed in a science text-book written by a Brown professor was resolved Jan. 14when U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper ruled the stick-er was unconstitutional.

Stating that evolution was “a theory, not a fact,” thesticker was placed in the ninth-grade biology text in 2002after parents complained to the Cobb County schoolboard that alternative ideas about the origin of life werenot presented. A group of parents represented by theAmerican Civil Liberties Union sued the school board,claiming the stickers violate the separation of church andstate.

Professor of Biology Ken Miller testified for the plain-tiffs in the four-day trial in November 2004. As the authorof the textbook, he was called in to defend the presenta-tion of evolution in the book.

Cooper spent two months writing the 44-page ruling,

which calls for the stickers to be removed immediatelyfrom the textbooks. In the verdict he wrote, “By denigrat-ing evolution, the school board appears to be endorsingthe well-known prevailing alternative theory, creationismor variations thereof, even though the sticker does notspecifically reference any alternative theories.”

The school board decided Jan. 18 to appeal the deci-sion at the Southern Circuit Court of Appeals. Miller saidhe is confident the verdict will be upheld by the highercourt, despite the lack of clear precedents to the case.

Miller is already involved in another case in Dover, Pa.,where the area school board recently instituted a policythat requires teachers to read a two-paragraph statementexplaining an alternative theory to evolution called intel-ligent design. This policy makes Dover District the first inthe country to require the presentation of intelligentdesign in its classrooms.

see MILLER, page 8

see CONVOCATION, page 5

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to get here as is,” said SaraCunningham ’06, of Hilo, Hawaii.But because of a cancellation,she had a 20-hour delay and hadto stay overnight in Minneapolis.Cunningham left home Fridaynight and arrived in Providenceat noon on Monday.

“These are the times when Iwished I lived on the East Coast,”she said. “(But) I did spend anentire month in Hawaii lying onthe beach, so I guess I shouldn’tbe complaining too much,” she

added.Arielle Baskin-Sommers ’07,

whose flight from Los Angeles toProvidence was scheduled forSunday, said she pushed herflight back a day because of newsreports warning of the blizzard.

When she departed Monday,“it took (her) two hours to getthrough security” because theflight was packed with peoplewho had been delayed. She got toProvidence at midnight Monday.

Nina DiBona ’07 of WatervilleValley, N.H., said she hadplanned on driving back to cam-pus Sunday afternoon, but hadto wait until Monday afternoonbecause of the storm.

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the Bears to victory. “Our junior year, we were play-

ing Cornell in a torrential down-pour,” said Tuohey. “He starteddropping the ball on the groundbefore giving it back to the ref.Cornell started turning the ballover and he started getting moreaggressive. By the end of the gamehe was just raking the ball in themud and Cornell ended up witheight turnovers. It was just anexample of how Rick would doanything for his friends.”

It would not be the last timethat Whelan would engage insome exploits on the footballfield.

“One day I was doing market-ing at the football game and Ineeded someone to participate ina punt, pass and kick contest onthe field,” said former teammateChazz Woodson ’05. “He agreed todo it before I could even finishexplaining what it was, and hehad a smile on his face the wholetime.”

Whelan’s fierce loyalty and bigheart drew more than 1,000 peo-ple to a memorial service at hisformer high school on Jan. 15. Somany people were in attendancethat some could not even get inthe door.

“He just came across as friend-ly and genuine and he wouldalways be willing to do anythingfor you,” recalled Tuohey. “Hewould burn CDs and send themto my brother who is stationedover in Iraq.”

Whelan came to Brown fromthe Episcopal Academy inMerion, Pa. He was a three-sportathlete, participating in soccer,ice hockey and lacrosse. Lacrossewas the sport where he stood outthe most, garnering various acco-lades including two First TeamAll-InterAc selections, and his

team’s Most Valuable Playeraward.

An honors student as well asathletic standout, Whelan’saccomplishments also extendedinto the arts, where he wasawarded the James H. Mk. QuinnPrize for the greatest contribu-tion to his school’s drama pro-gram.

After graduating from Brown,Whelan went to work atBinswanger, a commercial realestate company. The job was per-fect for Whelan because it blend-ed his ability to connect withthose he came in contact with,while at the same time using hiscompetitive fire to make sure thejob got done.

Whelan could often be spottedwalking around campus wearingan orange Philadelphia Flyershat. The cap was a perfect acces-sory for someone who was neverafraid of the spotlight and alwaysstood out as being larger thanlife.

“He was one of those kids whowasn’t a big guy, but the way heattacked everything made up forit,” said former teammate TonyFrick ’05. “He had grit and he wasloyal. He always played like hewas seven feet tall.”

To Woodson, Whelan’s impactupon the community is one thatwill linger on.

“People know how much hemeant to the community aroundhere,” he said. “It made me take astep back and realize what wehave here, because tomorrow isn’tpromised, and he lived everydaylike that.”

Whelan is survived by his par-ents, Richard Q. and VirginiaJarvis Whelan, and two youngerbrothers, Denis and Reid. TheWhelan family has asked that anycontributions in honor of Rickybe made to the Richard Q. WhelanJr. Memorial Fund in support ofmen’s lacrosse at BrownUniversity at PO Box 1925,Providence, RI 02912.

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wind gusts are so strong, it’s a challenge for crews to keepthe roadways clear,” Cicilline said. As a result of theinclement weather, Cicilline ordered the closure onMonday of Providence schools, central administration andmunicipal buildings.

All but a handful of Thayer Street businesses were closedSunday, but those that remained open reported receiving ahigh number of customers.

Chris Fortin, general manager at Tealuxe, said he wassurprised by the turnout.

“I thought it would be really slow and I would get paidfor basically doing nothing. I was wrong,” he said Sunday.“We’ve been really busy since about 11.”

Fortin, who walked “about a mile” from his house to getto Tealuxe, said only two employees managed to maketheir scheduled shifts. Employees who typically drive tothe cafe were unable to work because of the parking ban,he said.

“A friend of mine who isn’t even employed by the storehelped to serve customers for two hours because we wereso slammed,” he said.

Fortin said Tealuxe would remain open only untilaround 6 or 7, well before the usual 10 p.m. closing time.

Joe Maraia, general manager at Store 24, said Sunday heplanned to keep the store open until its usual 2 a.m. closingtime.

“We’ve been super busy,” he said. Maraia said he had little trouble driving approximately

25 miles from Burrillville to get to work. A confused Swathi Bojedla ’07, who was supposed to be

meeting friends at Bagel Gourmet on Brook Street, walkedfrom her room in Caswell Hall to Bagel Gourmet Ole onThayer Street, only to find it closed.

“I had to eat at Antonio’s, and I had just walked pastthere,” she said. “It was very upsetting.”

For much of Sunday, Thayer Street saw very little vehicletraffic. Some pedestrians opted to walk down the middle ofrecently plowed streets and avoid the snow-covered side-walks.

The blizzard kept Providence Police Department officersbusy for much of the day, Fitzgerald said.

Residents obeyed the parking ban “for the most part,”Nickelson said.

But enforcing the parking ban proved to be a demandingtask, Fitzgerald said, as officers towed over 370 cars by earlySunday afternoon. The towing was necessary so snow-plows could access the roads, he said.

“The main roads are good and the side roads are beingworked on. People are starting to come out a bit now,”Fitzgerald said. “But we’re still asking people to stay inside.”

Fitzgerald said the blizzard made it difficult for officersto effectively move around the city and respond to calls.

“(Officers) have to use their common sense,” he said.“They’re walking to a lot of the calls.”

Fitzgerald added the department had received few callsthat were not related to the blizzard.

“The radio’s pretty quiet,” he said.The Department of Public Works managed to clear all

roads for travel by Monday morning, Nickelson said. “Right now, I’m encouraging people to get out and enjoy

the sunshine,” he said Monday afternoon. The Rhode Island Public Transportation Authority can-

celed its “fixed route” service Monday. An automated voicegreeting said the cancellation was “due to the Governor’sstate of emergency.”

The after-hours media information line for NarragansettElectric Company, which services many power lines inProvidence, reported 560 customers without electricitySunday morning, though these were located primarily inCranston. By 9 p.m. Sunday evening, the company man-aged to service all but two outages.

Carcieri lifted the state of emergency Monday evening,saying in a press conference he expected the state would“be back at 100 percent” by Tuesday morning, according tothe Providence Journal.

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PROVIDENTIAL SNOWFALL

Last weekend’s snowfalltotal was the highest inRhode Island since theBlizzard of ’78. Snowfalltotals in the Providence area for selected dates:

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were transfer students them-selves, is to help transfers adjustto the academic and social life atBrown and to create a stronginter-transfer community so thatthey will “have something to fallback on.”

“It’s easy to talk to people andbe friendly. It’s harder to makesure they’re really comfortable,”he said.

Meghan Denault ’07, whotransferred from Ithaca Collegebut took this past semester off tostudy in Ireland and travelaround Europe, said her biggestchallenge as she enters Brownwill be getting used to classes, notmeeting new people.

“I’ve changed environmentsso many times in the past couplemonths. It’s less of a big deal thistime around. There’s less socialpressure,” she said.

Some transfer students areaccepted at the mid-year pointdue to individual students’ pref-erences and in order to balancethe size of the University, saidMichael Goldberger, director ofadmission.

About three years ago Brownstopped admitting first-year stu-dents at the mid-year pointbecause “it really put them offtrack,” Goldberger said.

But he said entering theUniversity mid-year doesn’t seemto have the same effect on trans-fer students.

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ules: marketing, strategic plan-ning, finance and entrepreneur-ship, and organization behavior.

“This class is great because itmakes students think about anenvironment they might be inwhen they graduate,” Cohen said,adding that the Brown curricu-lum’s focus on personal choiceand individual exploration mirrorsthe experience of entrepreneurs inthe business world.

“I know there is some confusionwith the changes, but we’re look-ing forward to a great semester.Students should look forward tothe same type of excellent experi-ence they would have receivedhad Professor Mittlemann taughtthe class,” Cohen said.

Originally scheduled for twosections, EN 9 will be offered inone section this semester. Theclass will meet from 2:30 p.m. to3:50 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday inBarus and Holley 168. Brown’sonline course announcement hadnot been updated to reflect thechange in instructor Tuesdayevening.

Though Mittlemann is nowworking in New York, he said he isnot leaving Brown behind.

“While I am here in New York,my heart is always at Brown withmy students,” he said.

He will return to Brown Feb. 12to lead a Career Week discussionpanel, he said. Mittlemann is aplanning committee member forthe event.

Mittlemann said he hopes toparticipate in this semester’s EN 9,possibly delivering some lecturesas a guest or via video. He is also afirst-year advisor for the Divisionof Engineering and an advisory

board member of the BrownEntrepreneurship Program.

Mittlemann was a 2003 recipi-ent of the Undergraduate Councilof Students Award for TeachingExcellence. He continues toreceive e-mail from past students,he said.

He said his new position atSilverstein is akin to working in abusiness “laboratory,” where hecan examine the complexities ofrunning an organization andworking with various players, fromconstruction contractors to gov-ernmental regulators and environ-mental watchdogs.

Brown’s lack of a graduate busi-ness program meant that theUniversity could not support hisdesire to perform research, hesaid, pointing to his role atSilverstein as a way to examinereal-world business and organiza-tional management.

As chief operating officer,Mittlemann has been asked bySilverstein Properties Presidentand CEO Larry Silverstein toexamine several areas of the com-pany, including an overall evalua-tion of its strengths and weakness-es, Mittlemann said.

“Joe will be a tremendous assetas we move forward on the (WorldTrade Center project) and otherexciting developments. I haveasked him to work directly withme and other key people on all theactivities of Silverstein Propertiesand I am confident he will do asuperb job,” Silverstein wrote in aJan. 3 company statement.

Silverstein and Mittlemannhave a longstanding relationshipdating back to the 1970s, whenSilverstein was Mittlemann’s realestate mentor after graduatingBrown. They have worked togeth-er on social and charitable proj-ects.

Silverstein Properties regularly

appears in national headlines asleaseholder of the World TradeCenter complex. Silverstein’sefforts in redeveloping LowerManhattan will soon materializewith the opening of 7 World TradeCenter next year, followed byFreedom Tower in 2009.Silverstein also owns and operatesseveral other residential and com-mercial buildings, primarily inNew York.


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of positive things with the team.”So far, the Bears have been win-

ning the games they are supposedto, but they have not pulled off anyvictories against top-flight compe-tition. This weekend’s upcoming

games will be important confer-ence match-ups that could definethe direction of the rest of Bruno’sseason.

“We need to have a commit-ment to Brown hockey,” Murphysaid. “If the team has a commit-ment to defense and is patientwith that in mind then we’ll win.We also need discipline in the spe-cial teams category.”

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Intelligent design posits thatthe diversity and complexity oflife on Earth is so great that itcould not have developedthrough the natural Darwinianprocesses of evolution. Instead itis attributed to design by anunnamed higher intelligence.

Similar to the Georgia case,Miller’s textbook lies at the heartof the controversy. He said theDover high school teachers chosehis textbook, but the schoolboard was required to approve it.The president of the board rec-

ommended including intelligentdesign in the curriculum afterreading Miller’s book. The presi-dent of the board told a local tel-evision network that the textbookwas “laced with Darwinism frombeginning to end” and that itscontents should include cre-ationism, Miller said.

Early this month, all Dover sci-ence teachers refused to read thestatement to their ninth-gradestudents, citing the Pennsylvaniacode of education, which statesthat teachers cannot presentinformation they believe to befalse. Instead, the statement wasread to students by a schooladministrator.

A group of 32 University ofPennsylvania professors, includ-ing representatives of the depart-ments of biology and philosophyand the associate dean for natu-ral sciences, wrote an open letterto the Dover Area School Boardcondemning the teaching ofintelligent design. The letter read,“Science education should bebased on ideas that are well sup-ported by evidence. Intelligentdesign does not meet this criteri-on: It is a form of creationismpropped up by a biased andselective view of evidence.”

Paul Sniegowski, an assistantprofessor of biology at Penn whoco-authored the letter, said itswriters hoped to convince the

board that the policy was notgood science education. “I felt Icouldn’t sit by and not voice ourconcern,” he said.

Richard Thompson, presidentof the Thomas More Law Center,a non-profit conservativeChristian organization, repliedwith an open letter to the Pennprofessors. It stated, “If the levelof inquiry supporting your letteris an example of the type ofinquiry you make before arrivingat scientific conclusions, I sug-gest that at the very least, yourstudents should get their tuitionmoney back, and more appropri-ately, the University should fireyou as a scientist.”

The ACLU filed a federal law-suit on behalf of 11 parents inDover against the school boardfor requiring the teaching ofintelligent design. Miller, whorecently met with lawyers repre-senting the plaintiffs, said he esti-mates town residents are split“straight down the middle” intheir support of or opposition tothe lawsuit.

The case is set to appear incourt in September. Snielgowskisaid he hoped for “the same out-come as in Cobb County.”

Thompson, whose organiza-tion has been selected to repre-sent the Dover school board inthe upcoming trial, condemnedthe Cobb County ruling.

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Faculty members also benefitfrom the long break because theyare able to focus on their workoutside the classroom for a num-ber of weeks. “I can really do myown writing and research duringthat time,” said Lawrence Stanley,senior lecturer in English.

Many students, on the otherhand, feel the break is too long. “Ithink the school should still keepits schedule but maybe open upthe dorms earlier to allow peoplethe chance to fully adjust for thesemester,” said Roophy Roy ’05. “Ithink (break) is too long, andunless you’re going away for a few

days it’s hellish.”“This is a case in which the per-

ception of the students and thepeople that work at the Universityis very different, because there is alot going on for us — we don’t seeit as an idle time,” Pesta said.

Students too have differingopinions on the issue. “I think itgives a good break so that whenyou come back to school, at least,I feel very ready to come back andget to work,” said CatharineSotzing ’05.5.

Sotzing, who transferred toBrown from Bates College afterher freshman year, prefersBrown’s longer break to Bates’shorter winter recess. “I like that Ifeel like I want to come back asopposed to dreading comingback.”

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throughout, coasting to a 79-63victory. The young Bears had noanswer for the experienced andmore physical Providence front-court, as the Friars out-reboundedthe Bears, 50-33. First Team All-American Ryan Gomes made hispresence felt in the Friar win,scoring 24 points and grabbing 15rebounds. Brown’s own All-American, Forte, received a tech-nical foul early in the second halfand remained on the bench forthe rest of the game.

The Bears proceeded to splitthe final two games of the winterbreak, losing 67-56 to CanisiusCollege on Jan. 6 and blowing outMaryland-Eastern Shore 87-38 onJan. 14. At Canisius, the Bears

were off all day from three-pointrange, making a paltry four out of23 attempts. Brown’s cold shoot-ing enabled the Griffins to registerits second win of the season.

The Bears responded to theCanisius loss with a dominatingperformance at Maryland-EasternShore eight days later. Playingtheir sixth of ten straight roadgames, the Bears regained theirtouch from long distance, nailingnine three-pointers. All 13 Brownplayers made the scoring column,led by Forte’s 25 points.

The win brought the Bears backto .500 at 7-7. This marked thethird occasion since 1954-55 thatBrown registered seven or morenon-league wins in a season.

The Bears have been gettingsignificant contributions fromseveral of the nine freshmen onthe roster. Damon Huffman ’08 isseeing nearly 30 minutes of action

per game and is averaging 8.4points per game. Other first-yearcontributors include MarkMacDonald ’08, Mark McAndrew’08 and Adolphe Coulibaly ’08, allof whom are seeing major min-utes.

“They’re a talented group,”Miller said of his first-years. “Eachfreshman brings something dif-ferent to the table, and we’reexpecting big things from them.”

The Bears will open up IvyLeague play on Jan. 28 and 29 atPrinceton and Pennsylvania,respectively. Ruscoe, who leadsthe Bears with 1.85 steals pergame, feels defense will be the keyto a successful weekend againstthe two perennial Ivy powers.

“[Princeton and Penn] play dif-ferent styles, so each game will bedoing different things,” saidRuscoe. “Overall, we’ll have to playsolid defense.”

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Boutros said the restaurant’sprice range would be “reasonable.”

The restaurant should alsoappeal to Brown students because“there’s really almost no healthyfood on this street,” Hugh said.

The owners plan to feature anopen kitchen “so everyone can seewhat’s going on” while customers’meals are prepared, Boutros said.

The owners also hope to obtaina liquor license from the city by theend of February, Boutros said.

Christen Decker ’07 expresseddisappointment that Café Java hadclosed.

“Shanghai’s got a lot to live upto,” Decker said. “The Java Burgerwill be sorely missed.”

Across from Shanghai, The Gaprecently vacated its location at 271Thayer St. City Sports, a chain withstores in Boston and Chestnut Hill,Mass., began moving into thespace in January.

A spokesperson for The Gap,Inc. declined to comment for thisarticle, saying the corporation hasa policy of not speaking to themedia regarding store openingsand closings. Gene Goldstein, thebuilding’s owner, did not returntelephone messages.

Estelle Barada, a shift supervi-sor at Spike’s Junkyard Dogs at 723Thayer St., said she remembers

seeing notices of the impendingclosing go up in store windows atThe Gap before Dec. 24.

City Sports could not bereached for comment. A flier onthe building’s window requestedjob applicants, though the postedphone number did not have anactivated voicemail box. The com-pany’s Web site said the ThayerStreet location would be “openingsoon,” though a date was not spec-ified.

The closings of The Gap andCafé Java come amid a string ofclosings on Thayer Street last year,which included Esta’s, The CollegeHill Bookstore and In Your EarRecords.

Barada said the December clos-ings seemed to be part of a largertrend.

“That was about the same dateas all the other stores were closingin the area,” she said.

Despite this recent trend,Anjoorian said he believes ThayerStreet businesses still have theopportunity to succeed because ofthe district’s “captive audience,”comprised primarily of collegestudents.

But the business district alsosuffers from other problems thatmay hinder stores’ success, hesaid.

“I think a lot of people are afraidto go (to Thayer Street) because ofthe elements that hang aroundthere,” he said.

Anjoorian would not elaborate

on which “elements” he believesmay drive customers away.

Hugh said he wantedShanghai’s location because of itspotential for views of ThayerStreet. The owners plan to installglass windows along the entirelength of the wall facing MeetingStreet, he said.

Boutros said the business dis-trict has many advantages, though“parking is a problem.”

Anjoorian also said he believesa lack of parking spaces limitsbusiness opportunities.


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defenseman Pete LeCain ’06scored his first career goal to putBrown up 4-0.

In the third period, BrianMcNary ’08 added Brown’s fifthand final goal, and D’Alba turnedaway two last-minute shots beforeProvidence’s Chris Chaput scoredat 19:43 to deny the freshman hissecond straight shutout.

“The defense has been playingreally well in front of me, clearingthe lanes out,” said D’Alba. “I sawall the shots and they had onlyone or two real scoring chances.”

Against the nationally rankedRiver Hawks five days earlier,D’Alba stopped 25 shots to earnhis second career shutout.

Beginning this weekend at Yaleand Princeton, Brown embarks ona crucial 11-game stretch against

conference opponents. Thegames in the coming month willdetermine playoff seeds andhome ice advantage.

“We are still pushing to bringwhat makes us good onto the iceevery day,” said Haggett.

Haggett calls the game that histeam should be playing “blue-col-lar hockey”, a relentless, aggres-sive attack built on cycling thepuck in the other team’s zone.

On Saturday, Brown scored onegoal off a cycle play, while fourgoals came from driving hard atthe net.

“Speed, forecheck, putting thepuck into good spots — that is thegame we need to be playing,”Grillo said. “We played great hock-ey at UConn. Tonight we capital-ized on our chances, but we onlyplayed OK.”

He added, “We’ve really got tosharpen up, they’re like playoffgames. We’re trying to get into thetop four.”

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Over the holidays, Time Magazine chose GeorgeW. Bush, “American Revolutionary,” as its Person ofthe Year. Of course, our current President’s preemp-tive war policy, or his consistent disregard forAmerica’s traditional allies, could be considered rev-olutionary.

Lately it has become clearer that President Bush’s“revolutionary” foreign policy goes far deeper thansyntactical blunders justifying the war in Iraq, suchas writing “let freedom reign” on a napkin. In 2000,Marvin Olasky wrote a book entitled“Compassionate Conservatism: What It Is, What ItDoes, and How It Can Transform America.” Thebook details how faith based initiatives can alleviateissues like rampant poverty by leaving them to reli-gious charity groups. Religious groups, Olaskyargues, instill “good moral values and conservativeideas into the thick of the fight for justice and oppor-tunity," rather than merely handing out food andchecks. The 2000 election year saw the birth of thebuzzword, and political tool: “compassionate con-servatism.”

Today, Compassionate Conservatism has taken onan international focus. It is embodied in thePresident’s campaign to “spread freedom andDemocracy” in whatever areas of the world hedeems fit. But Bush’s “armies of compassion” havenow spread far beyond the bungled campaign inIraq. The Christian right has taken ownership ofmany issues Democrats used to wield heartily, and isnow working closely with Bush administration toforge new programs and shut Democrats out.

The 2004 elections not only gave Mr. Bush a man-date to “finish the job” in Iraq; they now appear tohave enshrined the President’s Christian moralistrhetoric as the new justification for Americanhuman rights intervention. Acts that used to be jus-

tified by Wilsonian internationalist tenets of peaceand human dignity are now being validated bydivine right. The President maintains that “Freedomis not America’s gift to the world, it is the Almighty’sgift to everyone.” The war in Iraq has shown that hebelieves America has a responsibility to make surethis gift is promptly delivered.

Consider Allen D. Hertzke’s recent publication,“Freeing God’s Children: The Unlikely Alliance for

Global Human Rights.” Hertzke argues that the 21stcentury push for human rights initiatives comesfrom religious groups that feel they are doing theLord’s work. For example, conservative Christianshave led the charge in coming to the aid of victim’s inDarfur while also pushing to crack down on NorthKorea’s ugly human rights record. When the rightwing evangelical Kansas Senator Sam Brownbacktraveled to rural Uganda to garner evidence of recentbrutalities, he justified American intervention bysaying to Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times: “Itmade me think, the things that the Lord would wantdone, let’s do. His heart is with the downtrodden, so

let’s help them.” Thus, the Christian right’s newest political move-

ment has acquired a controlling interest in Americanhumanitarianism. This does not bode well for theDemocrats. Most of them risk political isolation inopposing America’s apparent “moral values”. But ifthey want to recover from their recent politicalthrashing, more on the left are going to have to workwith such radical religious groups as Focus onFamily, New Directions International, andInternational Aid that have been incorporated as alarge part of Bush’s official American Tsunami reliefeffort. And although these groups tend to dislike lib-eral Democrats, a successful partnership betweenBrownback and Kennedy on humanitarian initia-tives should give Democrats hope of climbing backon the donkey. For only by regaining a stake inissues like human rights and foreign policy willDemocrats ever be able to expand the terms ofdebate from divine inspiration to more general val-ues of peace, human dignity, and prosperity.

For now, however, Time Magazine seems to havehit the nail on the head; George W. Bush is anAmerican Revolutionary. He has changed the termsof political debate by firmly introducing a proselytiz-ing ethic as substantive justification for military ordiplomatic actions. When it comes to humanitarianaide, the ends may be justification enough for every-body when the world hears of successful Americanfood and medical deliveries, but to give similar rea-son for U.S. force is truly disturbing. How can wepossibly debate a future war if it’s simply the Lord'swill?

Steven Groopman ’05 was Time Magazine’s Man ofthe Year in 1993.

Many people say that perception is reality. Thismakes sense, as anyone’s perception of the truth orreality can remain unaffected by facts so long asthose facts remain unknown. That said, I doubt thatPresident Bush ever asked an aide for a memo onpoverty statistics or economic inequality in theUnited States. If he ever did, he would realize that hisdrive for an “ownership society,” by which he seemsto mean high home ownership rates, has a keyrequirement yet to be achieved: before people canown something, they need to be able to afford it.

Congress last increased the minimum wage to$5.15 an hour in 1997. Today’s minimum wage isworth only about two-thirds of what it was in 1968.Had the minimum wage been tied to inflation since1968, its value would now stand at $8.65 an hour.That’s quite a raise.

Keeping up with inflation would be good. Butkeeping up with rising productivity, the ratio of laborproduction to hours worked or workers employed,would be better. Doing so would ensure that workersmaintained a certain percentage of the wealth theyproduced, thus preventing a widening of the wealthgap. By this measure, the minimum wage wouldhave to be $13.80 to match today’s workers’ unparal-leled productivity, and just 72 cents less to keep pro-portional pace with corporate profits since 1968.Clearly in the last 35 years, those at the top havetaken a larger amount of labor’s productivity forthemselves.

While the Bush administration is seeminglyunaware of these facts, it continues to promoteHoratio Alger’s image of the American Dream, par-ticularly with regard to two of Bush’s most recentappointments. Alberto Gonzales, Bush’s nominee forattorney general, grew up in a two-bedroom housewith seven siblings raised by parents who had not

made it past sixth grade. Bush's nominee forCommerce Secretary, Carlos Gutierrez, rose fromselling Kellogg’s cereal from his van in Mexico City tobecome its CEO years later.

Both of these men fit the “rags-to-riches” proto-type like the proverbial glove. And while there is nodoubt that such storybook lives still exist, the fact isthat it has become harder to get ahead in the UnitedStates today.

How much harder? There are currently 2.6 millionworkers in the United States who work full-time yet

live below the poverty level. According to USA Today,this number has risen by 45 percent since 1978.Living above poverty is a minimum handhold on theeconomic ladder. Below this there is less access toinsurance or medical care and terrible consequencesfor an individual’s health. Those living in poverty arealso more likely to live in poorly funded, low-per-forming school districts.

With declining real wages, is it any wonder per-sonal bankruptcies rose by 185 percent since 1980?The Charlotte Observer reports that 27 percent offamilies who earn less than $10,000 have a creditcard debt totaling over 40 percent of the theirincome. It’s hard to get ahead tomorrow when youare stuck paying for yesterday.

Let’s review: Bush’s goal for domestic policy is tocreate an ownership society. But ownership is hardto come by when one is earning minimum wage:$11,000 a year for full-time work, fully $7,000 lessthan what it takes to lift a family of four out of pover-ty. This amounts to nothing more than government-endorsed poverty wages. Without reasonable pay,buying on credit is often a low-income worker’s bestoption — and a fine way to ensure that the nation’sworkers will remain stuck in debt.

So much for turning Bush’s perception of an own-ership society into a reality.

Rob Sand ’05.5 used to work at McDonald’s.

Mr. President, Look Under this Rock

See the poverty and

injustice

you’ve never known?

The Christian Right

acquires a controlling

interest in American

Humanitarianism.

The Right and Human Rights

ROB SAND

GUEST COLUMN BY STEVEN GROOPMAN

BY MATT LIEBERSPORTS STAFF WRITER

The men’s hockey team com-pleted a seven-game semesterbreak with a 5-1 win overProvidence College Saturdaynight at Meehan Auditorium,bringing the Mayor’s Cup backto College Hill for the first timesince the 2000-2001 season.

Overall, however, the semes-ter break was full of mixedresults for Brown, which postedfour wins, two losses and a tiefor the month. The Bears rantheir record to 4-5-2 in theECACHL and 9-6-3 overall.

Last Tuesday at Meehan,Brown tied 15th-rankedUniversity of Massachusetts-Lowell, 0-0, with the two squadsmatching speed and stronggoaltending. A week earlier, theBears beat up on lowlyAmerican International College,5-2, shooting freely in a some-what sloppy effort.

Home losses to Cornell andColgate during the secondweekend of January droppedthe Bears to eighth in theECACHL conference. On theplus side, Brown captured twotrophies while most studentswere away from campus, win-

ning the Toyota Holiday Classicat the University of Connecticutbefore reclaiming the Mayor’sCup on Saturday.

Despite Brown’s five goals onSaturday, the team’s leaderswere not particularly happywith what they saw as an incon-sistent effort against the Friarsfrom a young squad.

“I thought we played okaytonight. We did what we had todo to win,” said Head CoachRoger Grillo. “Sometimes wewere good, and sometimes wewere so-so.”

He added: “I thought (goalie)Adam (D’Alba ’08) played well.And I thought Joe Bauer (’06),Seth Seidman (’08) and RugoSantini (’06) each had a greatgame.”

D’Alba stopped 21 of 22shots, blanking the Friars untilthe game’s final minute. In 11games, the freshman goalie hasa 1.61 goals against average,third-best nationally, and a .943save percentage, best in thecountry. For his efforts in theUMass-Lowell and ProvidenceCollege games, D’Alba wasnamed last week’s ECACHLGoalie of the Week andUSCHO/ITECH National

Defensive Player of the Week,receiving each award for thesecond time this season.

Bauer’s fourth-line unit fig-ured in four goals, including thepivotal first score.

Fifteen minutes into the firstperiod, defenseman SeanHurley ’08 put the Bears ahead,1-0 on a pretty play. Hurleyraced up the left wing, skatedpast a defender and banked hisown rebound after an initialsave for his second goal of theyear.

“It was a little bit lucky,” saidHurley. “I just took it to the netand kept going for it. Joey Bauerwas screening the goalie.”

“Hurley’s goal got us going,”said Captain Les Haggett ’05. Italso seemed to deflate the Friarsafter their failed protest on thegoal, which came after a quickwhistle by the referee.

The Bears dominated theFriars in the second period. At2:29, Bauer scored on an assistfrom Santini. A minute later,Mike Meech ’05 left theProvidence defense in tattersbefore netting his fifth goal ofthe season. At 11:27, Brown

BY KATHY BABCOCKSPORTS STAFF WRITER

Winter break was not a good timefor women’s ice hockey.

January started out on a posi-tive note as the Bears returnedfrom a short vacation to tie theUniversity of Connecticut, 3-3, onJan. 4, but the team finished winterbreak with a 1-4-1 record afterdropping their last three games.

“We’re going through someadversity training, going throughsome life lessons, (and I’m) tryingto be an educator and a teacher,”said Head Coach Digit Murphy.“The kids are still adjusting, andwe’ve had a few injuries.”

The Bears are now 10-8-1 over-all and 7-5-0 in the ECACHL. In thelatest U.S. College Hockey Onlinepoll they were unranked butreceived three votes.

“We may have been losing butwe definitely don’t feel that the restof the season is a loss,” saidChristine Holdredge ’07. “We havea lot more games ahead of us thatare a lot more important in termsof Ivies and ECACs.”

The Bears return to conferenceplay this weekend with two toughhome games against Yale andPrinceton, making it even moredifficult to end their three-gamelosing streak. Princeton wasranked ninth this week in theUSCHO poll, but in the ECACHLstandings they are sixth, rightbehind fifth-place Brown. Yale isunranked but currently third inthe ECAC conference standingswith an 8-3 record.

“We had a tough time inJanuary being on the road, but Iam optimistic that we are usually asecond semester team and some

of the things that we are learningare going to be beneficial becauseright now we are playing a lot ofour conference games,” Murphysaid. “I would definitely not be sur-prised if we swept this weekendbecause the kids are ready to play.”

The team has settled on split-ting goal time evenly betweenStacey Silverman ’08 and O’HaraShipe ’08. Over break, Silvermanearned her first career shutout onJan. 8 at Cornell.

“The good news for Brown isthat goaltending has been huge forus, and with two freshmen step-ping up even though they’re notwinning those games they’re con-tributing big,” Murphy said. “Oncewe get people back we’re startingto play our defensive style of hock-ey. Historically the teams that win

championships are the teams withthe strongest goaltenders and thecommitment to defense.”

Kerry Nugent ’05 leads the teamin scoring with seven goals, fol-lowed by Jessica Link ’05 andMyria Heinhius ’06 with six each.Nugent and Link are both four-year starters who are traditionallystrong performers in the Bears’offense and were expected to bestrong leaders for Brown this year.Katie Guay ’05 joins Nugent andLink to form a strong corps of sen-iors. Hayley Moore ’08 has alsoexerted a strong influence on theoffense, leading the team in assistswith 12 in addition to scoring fourgoals herself. Heinhius is adefenseman but has proven to bea dynamic threat on offense.

“We score a lot out of the backbecause a lot of offense is generat-ed off of point shots,” Murphysaid.

Their 8-2 and 5-0 losses to thetop-ranked University ofMinnesota were the season’stoughest, but they may prove keyfor the Bears in preparation forupcoming opponents.

“I was pretty happy with thesecond game at Minnesota. Thekids really played together. For anon-conference game playing thenumber one team in the country, Ithink it spoke volumes that on thesecond day we got back on thehorse,” Murphy said. “In any eventthere were six minutes left in thegame and we were down threenothing. We were hugely out-manned and the kids kept playinghard. Minnesota scored a coupleto put it away, but I’m seeing a lot

SPORTS WEDNESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

JANUARY 26, 2005 · PAGE 12

BY SHAUN MCNAMARASPORTS STAFF WRITER

The men’s basketball team posteda 3-3 record over the winter break,including two wins at theUniversity of Central FloridaHoliday Invitational in Orlando,Fla. The victories marked the firsttime the Bears claimed a holidaytournament title since the 1971-72season.

The Bears made it to the cham-pionship game by defeating hostCentral Florida in an 83-82 over-time thriller. Co-captain JasonForte ’05 sank two free throws with4.5 seconds left in the extra periodto cement the upset. Head CoachGlen Miller praised his team for itsvictory over the Golden Knights.

“Our guys took the game as achallenge,” said Miller. “CentralFlorida was 25-6 last season andmade the NCAA Tournament. Weplayed well on both ends of thecourt and ground out a win.”

Forte finished with 15 pointsagainst the hosts, then capped offa Tournament MVP performancethe next day with 25 points versusCharleston Southern in a 65-52victory. Co-captain Luke Ruscoe

’06 was named to the All-Tournament Team on the strengthof his 21-point, nine-rebound per-formance against Central Florida.The versatile junior drilled sixthree-pointers in the win.

The wins at the UCF HolidayInvitational came at just the righttime to boost the team’s flaggingspirits. The break started on anunsuccessful note for the Bearswith an 84-71 home loss againstHoly Cross on Dec. 21. TheCrusaders out-rebounded theBears 33-18 and forced Brown intocommitting 18 turnovers. Not tobe lost in the defeat was the play ofForte, Ruscoe, and P.J. Flaherty ’07.Forte led the way with 19 points,including a 13-13 performancefrom the charity stripe. Ruscoeplayed his usual balanced gamewith 15 points, four assists, andtwo steals. Flaherty netted acareer-high 14 points in the loss.

Following the UCFTournament, the Bears facedintra-city rival Providence Collegeat the Dunkin Donuts Center onJan. 3. The Friars were in control

BY BEN MILLERSPORTS EDITOR

Richard “Ricky” Whelan Jr. ’04was proof that there is so muchmore to Brown than academicsand athletics. The gregariousand kindhearted 22-year-oldpassed away suddenly in hissleep at his home in

Pennsylvania on Jan. 11, leavingbehind countless friends, familymembers and teammates whoselives he touched in myriad ways.

Whelan spent four years onthe lacrosse team at Brown,playing in 53 out of 56 possiblegames, missing three games dueto injury. He was also an activemember of the Theta Delta Chifraternity. He graduated in May2004 with a degree in Public andPrivate Sector Organizations.

“I always thought of Ricky asa great kid,” said men’s lacrosseHead Coach Scott Nelson. “Healways had a smile on his face.He seemed to get so much out of

Brown. He was always at thecenter of everything. The kidsreally liked him.”

On the field, Whelan was adefensive midfielder who madehis impact felt far beyond hisstatistics or his size.

“He was not a big scorer, buthe was the kind of guy who dideverything else,” Nelson said.“Even though he only weighedabout 155 pounds, he alwaystried to hit everybody. He wasthe kind of kid you love to coach.He just loved to play lacrosse.”

Ricky’s blue-collar work ethicwas acknowledged at the end ofhis senior season when he wasawarded the lacrosse team’sUnsung Hero Award.

“He epitomized that award inthat he did the dirty work,”Nelson said. “He was an unsunghero both on and off the field. Itdidn’t matter if you were a fresh-man or a senior, if you neededsomeone to talk to, you went toRicky.”

Whelan’s enthusiasm and loy-alty was not limited to thelacrosse team. He worked as aball boy for home footballgames — not for the money, butso that he could get as close aspossible to support his friends.Although he never set foot onthe field during the game,Whelan’s friend and formerteammate Rich Tuohey ’04recalled that he would do all hecould from the sidelines to will

W. ice hockey struggles with toughteams en route to 1-4-1 winter break

Mayor’s Cup and Holiday Classictitles highlight m. icers’ January

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Despite her position, defensemanMyria Heinhius ’06 is second onthe team with six goals, mostly onshots from the point.

Ricky Whelan ’04:loyal friend andlacrosse player

M. basketball goes .500 inpreparation for run at IvyLeague championship

see WHELAN, page 4

see M. HOOPS, page 8see M. HOCKEY, page 9

see W. HOCKEY, page 7

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