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Cafe Roba Dolce closes suddenly after eviction Penn works

By Sydney Ember
Senior Staf f Writer to contain
Roba Dolce closed its doors Tues-
day and its owners were notified
meningitis
that they were being evicted from By Ellen Cushing
their corner location on Thayer and Gaurie Tilak
Street, a shocking development that Senior Staff Writer
left Nino DeMartino, the owner of and Higher Ed Editor

the panini and gelato cafe, search-

ing for answers.
“Unfortunately, we have a situa-
tion where we are subleasing, and
the people who are subleasing are
defaulting,” DeMartino said in a
telephone interview yesterday. “It
just happened today, suddenly, and
it was unexpected.”
Students and passers-by ap-
peared taken aback by the dark-
ened storefront, with many people
stopping to read the notice tacked
onto the front entrance.
The eviction notice, filed on
Monday in Rhode Island’s Sixth
District Court, came a mere three
weeks after the cafe was granted a
limited liquor license by the Provi-
dence Board of Licenses.
DeMartino said he was not
notified before being served with
the eviction notice. He said he was
hoping to negotiate “some kind
of adjustment” in court allowing
him to continue to operate his busi-
ness while the legal aspects of the
case are discussed, though he said
the likelihood of a successful re-
The Italian cafe Roba Dolce was evicted from its Thayer Street storefront on Tuesday.
opening during the proceedings
was unclear.
“It’s really bad what they did,”
DeMar tino said, “but it’s the
law.”
“Hopefully, we can get resolved
soon and continue to ser ve the
community,” he said.
Murray Gereboff, the attorney
representing the landlords, New
York-based real-estate company
Stonehenge Partners, Inc., in the
legal proceedings, said the evic-
tion was filed because the tenants
“wouldn’t pay their rent,” owing
$36,000, though he did not specify
who was guilty in defaulting on pay-
ments. He said the district sheriff
ser ved the execution yesterday,
but “there isn’t much more that
Kim Perley / Herald
I know.”
DeMartino’s lawyer declined to
comment about the case.
Before he was served the evic-
tion notice, DeMartino, who has
owned Roba Dolce since November
2007, said business had been going
“okay,” especially given the current
continued on page 3
Three students at the University of
Pennsylvania have been hospitalized
with meningococcal infection, ac-
cording to health alerts issued by
the school.
HIGHER ED
Penn announced Thursday that
two students had suffered the infec-
tion, which can cause meningitis,
and announced the third case on
Friday. The three students all had a
“common interaction through Penn’s
Greek system,” according to the Feb.
13 alert. The alert recommended
preventative treatment for anyone
who attended Greek-related events at
Penn held since Feb. 2 and for anyone
who had “prolonged contact” with
those who did.
Penn also canceled all “university
and student-sponsored parties” for
the weekend, the alert said.
An e-mail to community members
from Brown Health Services about
continued on page 5

Filling the gap: tops y- t u r v y

students take
years off in Israel
By Lauren Pischel
Staf f Writer
When Sara Glick ’10 arrived on
College Hill freshman year, it was
not her first time living away from
home. After graduating from high
school, Glick spent a year in Israel
to learn more about her Jewish
heritage.
FEATURE
“I had been in school for 12
years, and then I was going in for
another four,” Glick said. “It was
good to have a break.”
Many students who take so-
called “gap years” choose to spend
the time in Israel to explore their
cultural roots, while others seek to
gain a deeper connection with the
countr y itself. “People ­­that spend
time in Israel feel much more con-
nected with their Jewish identity,”
said Yossi Knafo, Israel Fellow at
Brown/RISD Hillel.
continued on page 2
inside
Zipcar membership doubles
after minimum age lowered
By Etienne Ma
Staf f Writer
Since Zipcar implemented changes
to its program over the summer,
the number of Zipcar members has
almost doubled, according to the
Brown Transportation Office. Last
July, Zipcar lowered the minimum
age for drivers from 21 to 18 and
added two more cars to its fleet to
raise the total number of cars on
campus to seven.
Zipcar is a car rental company
that offers “self-ser vice access to
cars 24/7,” according to its Web
site. After a membership fee of $30
a year, members can pay for hourly
or daily usage for a price that in-
cludes gas and insurance.
According to Carleia Lighty,
the transpor tation manager for
Brown, the number of Zipcar users
at Brown has increased from 472 to
790 since July, when the changes
were put into effect. Roughly 60
Justin Coleman / Herald percent of users are students,
The men’s basketball team lost to Penn Friday night but won its Lighty estimated, while roughly
first Ivy game of the season in an upset over Princeton. 40 percent are faculty and staff.
See Sports, page 7
The service is not only for those
affiliated with Brown, she noted,
but for others the age minimum
remains 21, and the rates are
higher.
The Zipcar program has “real-
ized over 100 percent growth” in
users and vehicles at Brown in the
past three years, said Matt Malloy,
Zipcar’s vice president of new mar-
ket development. He attributed the
program’s success to an “ongoing
relationship” that Zipcar has with
Brown.
“What’s great about it is you
have seven cars to pick from. If
you need a car (for) just one hour,
you can get one. You can’t normally
rent a car like that ­— you gotta do
24 hours,” said Lighty. “You don’t
have to deal with all the insurance
and parking of the personal vehicle
and just everything that goes along
with having your vehicle.”
For Pete Ciullo ’12, Zipcar made
things easier when he went with
his friends to attend a concert in
Massachusetts. Ciullo has used
Zipcar twice — he first used the
continued on page 3

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C ampus N EWS “It was a very important time to find myself and devote my time to
exploration and personal growth.” — Harry Reis ’11, on his gap year

Students take year off after high school to volunteer, study in Israel
continued from page 1
“Israel is so a part of your life
all of the time,” Knafo said. “You
hear it mentioned about 100 times
in a ser vice in synagogue.”
For their years abroad, students
can choose from a wide variety of
programs and projects, including
learning Hebrew, volunteering in
schools and working on farming
collectives.
Taking a gap year, Glick said,
of fered her a break from a fast-
track culture which propels young
adults from high school to college,
followed immediately by work or
graduate school. “Israeli society
is ver y dif ferent than American
society,” she said. “In Israel, people
take a lot of time to just travel and
just discover themselves.”
Glick spent the first semester
taking classes at Hebrew Univer-
sity and the second semester vol-
unteering in a school.
“The kids (at the school) were
crazy,” Glick said. “They would yell
at the teacher, calling her fat and
ugly. I got really good at saying,
‘Don’t hit him.’”
Most gap-year programs are di-
vided into two semesters like Glick’s
was. Most gap-year programs are
also highly structured. “Once I got
there, I found that I could not do
certain things and go certain plac-
es, and that was really annoying,”
Glick said.
Jenna Zeigen ’12 worked on a
farming collective for the first half
of her gap year and then volun-
teered in a high school for the sec-
ond half. The program Zeigen par-
ticipated in was smaller than most,
with only 48 other students.
“We had this closeness that
I just cannot describe,” Zeigen
said, that was “beyond the bond
of friendship.”
Harr y Reis ’11, president of
Brown Students for Israel, spent
the first semester of his gap year
learning Hebrew in Jerusalem.
During his second semester he
volunteered in an ambulance and
in an “absorption center” that
provided housing to recent im-
migrants.
“It was a ver y important time
to find myself and devote my time
to exploration and personal growth
and friendships without the obli-
gations of being in school,” Reis
said.
Some students said they found
it difficult to describe their experi-
ences in Israel when people asked
them.
“It is just a question that you
can’t answer, because it is just this
comprehensive experience,” Zei-
gen said. “It is like asking what the
first year of college is like.”
Adjusting to Brown was difficult
at first for Glick, who — like many
gap-year students — entered col-
lege a year older than most of her
fellow classmates.
“The first week before classes
was hard. I felt a little bit different
than the other freshmen who had
just come out of high school,” she
said. “But then once classes start-
ed, I felt like ever yone else.”
“I think it was one of the best
decisions I could have made for
myself,” Zeigen said. “I’m definite-
ly more outgoing since going on
the program.”

news in brief

Banner internal
record gets facelift
Changes have been
implemented to Banner’s
internal academic tran-
script page, the Office of
the Registrar announced
in a community-wide e-
mail yesterday. The up-
date fixes problems with
the old online transcript,
which displayed some un-
wanted records and omit-
ted others, and which was
not amenable to printing.
Programmers encoun-
tered technical difficul-
ties earlier this month,
but those issues were re-
solved quickly.
Most students inter-
viewed last night said
sudoku they had seen the e-mail
and visited the new Ban-
ner site, but plenty said
they continued to have
issues with the Banner
transcript, despite the
changes.
“It’s more clear-cut,
but there are still dis-
crepancies,” said Sherrie
Khadanga ’09.
Michael Levy ’10 said
he had already sent an e-
mail to Dean of the Col-
lege Katherine Bergeron
voicing his concerns about
the new system. Levy
said he was “very disap-
pointed” by the update
because the transcript
now displays dropped
courses.

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
C ampus N EWS
Program seeks to replace
Hope High writing tutoring
Sarah Julian
Contributing Writer
When the Writing Fellows program
at Hope High School ended last year,
Sejal Jhaveri ’09 and Cristina Rodri-
gues ’10 wanted to make sure the
school’s students would continue
to get the writing help Brown stu-
dents had previously offered. The
two have collaborated to create the
Literacy Fellows program, which
aims to replace the functions of the
old program.
Jhaveri’s and Rodrigues’ pro-
gram was created through the
Swearer Center for Public Service.
In addition to discussing the new
program with former Writing Fel-
lows program director Britt Har-
wood ’09, the two are also working
with Jonathan Goodman MAT’89,
head of the English department at
Hope High and co-director of the
previous Writing Fellows program
with Harwood.
The Literacy Fellows plan to
work in classrooms at Hope twice
Thayer loses Italian cafe
continued from page 1
economy.
“Everybody’s suffering a little
bit,” he said. “Under my supervi-
sion, we made more money than
ever.” But he said there had been
a 20 to 30 percent decrease in busi-
ness since 2007, a trend he said he
had been hoping to combat with the
recently granted liquor license.
“We finally got the license,” he
said, “but now we can’t even oper-
ate.”
DeMartino said his goal had
been to create a classic Italian cafe
— not a full-scale restaurant — with
the limited license, fostering a so-
cial atmosphere for students and
local residents. But with his cafe
doors currently locked, the windows
boarded shut and the phone discon-
nected, DeMartino acknowledged
his plans were uncertain.
“We’re trying very hard to ac-
commodate people,” he said. “If
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“This is our livelihood, and these people come in and shut our doors,
and now we have nothing.” — Nino DeMartino, owner of Roba Dolce
a week, every other week. They will
work to improve students’ writing
and teach the foundations of essay
writing, Jhaveri said. She has tu-
tored Hope students for the SAT
and said many students are not even
proficient in basic grammar.
“English and literacy skills are
so important to being a success-
ful person,” she said. The goal
of the program would be to help
the high school students master
these skills.
“Classrooms at Hope are big,”
Harwood said. “Having volunteers
in the classroom automatically
means each student is getting more
individual attention.” Herald File Photo
According to Harwood, students Twice as many students have signed up for Zipcar after the company changed its rules and added cars.
at Hope are generally behind grade
level in reading and writing. “The
ultimate goal is really trying to help Zipcar registrations gain speed on campus
students value their own writing and
academic work, and to facilitate im- continued from page 1 rent to using Zipcar. “appealing,” while Cydney Dupree
proving their writing,” she said. Despite the perks of Zipcars, ’11 said that she has “been want-
Jhaveri said she is still looking service last December — and has many students have yet to try the ing to” use Zipcar, though neither
for more volunteers, but plans to had no difficulty booking the cars ser vice, and several inter viewed had tried it.
start the program next week. for travel. by The Herald said they didn’t Zoe McKinnell ’12 also in-
The pricing, Ciullo said, is have the need for it. Some were tends to rent a Zipcar once she
“pretty fair” and “pretty inexpen- unsure what Zipcar was, while has her license. “Many students
sive” because the cost would usu- others were unaware that Zipcar use Amtrak to get around, but
ally be divided among friends. operated with a minimum age Zipcar would be cheaper.”
you don’t have money, you can’t But Marielle Giancarlo ’11 of 18. “We’re proud of the program,”
operate.” cited price as the largest deter- Emily Reese ’11 found Zipcar Lighty said.
DeMartino, who said his cafe
caters primarily to Brown and RISD
students, has been in the restaurant
business for 16 years, he said.
His goal in life, he said, has been
to support his family, especially his
children, whom he said he wants to
send to college. “I’m a family man,
and I have children,” he said. “If
this doesn’t go well, what am I go-
ing to do?”
Many Brown students were
equally stunned.
“They had amazing paninis,” said
Mike Tackeff ’12. “I always thought
they were a little expensive, but it
was a good place to take a date.”
Without the cafe, DeMartino
said he is unsure if he will be able
to support himself or his family.
“This is our livelihood,” he said,
“and these people come in and
shut our doors, and now we have
nothing.”
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The Brown Daily Herald
Meningitis at
Penn linked to
Greek system,
fencing team
continued from page 1
the outbreak at Penn also tied the
infections to Penn’s fencing team.
The Brown team participated in a
tournament with Penn’s team at
Columbia last week.
Jeanne Leong, a Penn spokes-
person, was unable to confirm that
one of the affected students was in-
volved with the fencing team, but
both Brown and Columbia have is-
sued health alerts that specifically
referred to the schools’ fencing
teams as at risk.
One of the infected students has
already been released from the hos-
pital, Leong wrote in an e-mail to The
Herald, while “the other two are in
fair condition.”
To ensure that more students
aren’t infected, Penn health services
is offering preventative antibiotic
pills to students free of charge. The
cost of the treatment is being shared
by the university and the city of Phil-
adelphia, Leong told The Herald.
Pennsylvania state law already
requires all entering undergradu-
ate students to receive one dose
of the meningitis vaccine, Leong
said. But, she said, the vaccine only
protects the body against four of
the five strains of meningitis. The
Penn students all contracted the
strain of infection not covered by
the vaccine.
Antibiotic treatment was avail-
able to students over the weekend
and on Monday and will continue to
be offered on a case-by-case basis
for the remainder of the week, Le-
ong wrote in her e-mail. So far, about
3,000 of the 10,000 undergraduates
at Penn have opted to receive treat-
ment, she wrote.
But Penn sophomore Lucy Me-
drich, who did not take the antibi-
otics, said many students were not
concerned by the outbreak.
“I didn’t get a prophylactic be-
cause I didn’t go to any frats over the
time period they said the meningitis
outbreak occurred,” she wrote in
an e-mail to The Herald. “Most of
my friends aren’t worried about it
Courtesy of Pamela Ellerman / The Daily Pennsylvanian
About 3,000 University of Pennsylvania students received preventative
meningitis treatment at the school’s Student Health Service, above.
either.”
In response to the Penn out-
break, Brown Health Services is-
sued an e-mail alert on Monday
recommending preventative treat-
ment for students who have had
close contact with the students in
the Penn Greek system or fencing
team.
Twelve Brown students received
the prophylaxis yesterday and about
20 other students went to speak with
Health Services, said Health Ser-
vices Director Edward Wheeler.
Although no cases have been
reported at Brown since the Penn
outbreak, the Brown e-mail alert
was sent because of the potential
seriousness of the disease, Wheeler
said. The situation at Penn poses “a
very low risk,” he added.
“We don’t have any reason to
believe that anyone was actually in
contact with the people who actually
have it,” he said. “We’re just being
cautious.”
Symptoms of meningitis include
stiffening of the neck, high fever,
headache and rash, Wheeler said.
It is spread through close physi-
cal contact, like kissing or sharing
utensils, cups or toothbrushes, he
said.
Brown fencers contacted by the
Herald Tuesday all said they are not
concerned about the outbreak, al-
though several team members said
they had already gone to receive
antibiotics from Health Services.
“Personally, I am not worried
about this scare,” fencer Scott Phil-
lips ’11 wrote in an e-mail to The
Herald. Phillips added that a Health
Services representative was plan-
ning to come to the team’s practice
yesterday to offer the antibiotic pill
to anyone on the team who wanted
it.
Joseph Isaacson ’11 wrote in an
e-mail that he is not worried about
infection because contact between
fencing teams during the tourna-
ment was “limited to a quick hand-
shake.” But he is glad Brown offered
the team treatment. “Even if chance
of infection is near zero,” he wrote,
“it is better to offer those most at
risk some preventative treatment.”
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 | Page 5
National trend favors
untenured faculty
By Nicole Friedman
Senior Staff Writer
Colleges and universities around the
country are hiring fewer faculty mem-
bers on the tenure track, choosing
instead to hire contingent faculty,
which include adjunct professors and
lecturers.
As of 2007, full-time tenured facul-
ty made up only 21.3 percent of faculty
nationwide, down from 36.5 percent in
1975, according to the Department of
Education. Full-time, non-tenure-track
faculty and part-time faculty together
made up 68.8 percent of national fac-
ulty in 2007, compared to a combined
total of just 43.2 percent in 1975.
This trend is often attributed to the
lower cost of part-time and untenured
faculty, said John Curtis, director of
the department of research and public
policy for the American Association
of University Professors. Part-time
faculty do not receive full benefits
and are often hired on a per-course or
per-credit basis at “rates that are well
below those paid to full-time faculty,”
he said.
The current economic crisis will
“exacerbate this situation” by provid-
ing colleges and universities with “the
rationale for a further decrease of
workplace security,” wrote Steffen
Hantke, a professor at Sogang Uni-
versity in South Korea, in an e-mail
to The Herald. Hantke co-edited a
book about the struggles of adjunct
faculty.
But Brown and other top-tier in-
stitutions buck the national trend. Of
Brown’s 689 regular faculty mem-
bers, 637 are professors, associate
professors or assistant professors,
meaning they either have tenure or
are on the tenure track, according to
the Dean of the Faculty’s Web site.
The remaining 7.5 percent of regular
faculty members are lecturers and
senior lecturers.
In addition to regular faculty,
Brown currently has 200 to 300 vis-
iting and adjunct faculty members, As-
sociate Dean of the Faculty Elizabeth
Doherty said.
Unlike many other schools, Brown
has a student body whose size re-
mains relatively constant from year
to year and a commitment to using
regular faculty in teaching “whenever
possible,” Doherty said.
Other top schools are similarly
situated. Of Stanford’s regular faculty
— which does not include faculty at
its Medical Center — 54 percent are
tenured and an additional 16 percent
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Struggling colleges hire more part-time profs; Brown bucks trend
continued from page 5
are on the tenure track, information
on the university’s Web site shows.
Around 62 percent of Dartmouth’s
total faculty are either tenured or on
the tenure track, according to that
school’s Web site.
Harvard and Yale both employ
around 68 percent of their regular
faculty in tenured or tenure-track
positions, according to their respec-
tive Web sites. Those figures do not
include research faculty or academic
support personnel.
Curtis said research universities
often employ graduate students to
teach courses, decreasing their need
to hire non-tenure-track faculty. Top-
tier universities also employ profes-
sors in full-time, non-tenure track
positions as research faculty — po-
sitions that are not always included
when schools calculate their regular
faculty numbers.
Brown does not track the number
of adjunct and visiting faculty mem-
bers, Doherty said, but the number
of regular faculty has gone up so fast
that “it would be hard to imagine that
adjuncts and visitors would have in-
creased at anywhere near that rate,”
she said.
In addition to allowing institutions
to “contain or control the cost” of fac-
ulty, having fewer tenured positions
gives institutions flexibility to adjust
the size of the faculty to enrollment
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levels, said Professor of Education
Kenneth Wong. Hiring faculty on
fixed-year contracts is also a “flexible
way to bring in new ideas to the teach-
ing program of those institutions,”
said Wong, who serves as chair of
his department.
But the use of non-tenure track
and part-time faculty can have nega-
tive consequences for students, Cur-
tis said. Since non-tenure track faculty
members often hold other jobs, they
are less available to students, which
places the burden of advising and
writing letters of recommendation al-
most entirely on tenure-track faculty,
he said. Also, without the protections
of tenure, contingent faculty may be
less willing to address controversial
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
issues or “challenge students to really
take on tough questions,” he said.
Nonetheless, many faculty mem-
bers choose not to be on the tenure
track for various reasons. Instructors
who are solely interested in teaching
sometimes choose not to be on the
tenure track, since review for tenure
focuses on a professor’s publications
and scholarly efforts in addition to
teaching.
Because contingent faculty are
evaluated on teaching ability and
student enrollment, adjunct faculty
members are “often among our best
teachers,” said Professor of Econom-
ics Andrew Foster, who also chairs
the Department of Economics.
At Brown, many adjunct faculty
members are hired to teach specific
classes about their field of work,
Wong said, citing professional per-
formers, teachers and judges as ex-
amples of professionals who have
taught as adjunct faculty members
at Brown.
Brown has a hiring freeze in place
for staff and administrative positions,
but not for faculty, and it will continue
to hire tenure-track professors. If any
group is affected by changes in hir-
ing, Doherty said, “it’s more likely to
be on the visitor and adjunct group.”
If a department wanted to hire a visit-
ing or temporary faculty member, the
University would be more rigorous
in determining the necessity of the
hire, she said.
SportsWednesday
The Brown Daily Herald
M. hoopsters score first Ivy win Hockey team continues
By Benjy Asher
Spor ts Editor
After a devastating 73-52 loss to
Penn (7-13, 3-3 Ivy) on Friday night,
the men’s basketball team (7-15, 1-7
Ivy) bounced back the following
night, earning its first Ivy League
win under new Head Coach Jesse
Agel in an upset 61-43 win over
Princeton (9-10, 4-2 Ivy).
Penn 73, Brown 52
Friday’s matchup with Penn was
an emotional game for both sides.
Brown was coming off two narrow
losses the previous weekend, 63-61
to Dartmouth and 64-63 to Har-
vard, while Penn had lost back-to-
back Ivy League home games for
the first time in 41 years, according
to the Daily Pennsylvanian.
To add to the tension, three
starters for the Bears — Matt
Mullery ’10 and tri-captains Chris
Skrelja ’09 and Scott Friske ’09
— were former recruits of Penn
Head Coach Glen Miller, who held
the head coaching job at Brown
through the 2005-2006 season.
“It’s always difficult when we
play against players I recruited,”
Miller said. “They’re good guys,
which is why I recruited them, so
I want to see them do well, but I
also want to win.”
Early on, Tyler Bernardini had
the hot hand for Penn, leading the
Quakers with 13 first-half points en
route to a game-high 16. Adrian
Williams ’11 kept the Bears in the
game with his hot shooting, as he
went off for 15 points on 4-of-4
shooting from the field, including
three treys, in the first half.
Two free throws from Williams
tied the game at 21 with 7:04 re-
maining in the first half, but the
game quickly began to slip away
from the Bears. The Quakers fin-
ished the half from that point on
with an 18-8 run, including seven
points from guard Harrison Gaines
in the last 3:08 of the half.
“They played at an extremely
fast tempo, and they had great
guards who pretty much blew by
us at will,” Agel said.
In the second half, the Quak-
ers’ offense continued to click, as
Gaines and guard Zack Rosen ran
The men’s basketball team lost against Penn Friday but beat Princeton
the next day for its first Ivy win of the season.
the motion offense to perfection to
build a 20-point lead, 56-36, with
9:52 left to play. As the Penn de-
fense clamped down on Williams,
Brown struggled to generate any
offense. Mullery, the Bears’ lead-
ing scorer on the season, was held
to just 12 points, while tri-captain
Peter Sullivan ’11 managed just
seven points and Friske and Skrelja
made just one field goal each.
“We struggle when people get
in our face, because we don’t have
a lot of guys who can create off the
dribble to get shots for themselves
or for other people,” Agel said. “We
also didn’t cash in on free throws,
and we just looked rattled on the
floor.”
Brown shot 11-for-21 from the
charity stripe, while shooting just
34 percent from the floor, and Penn
cruised to a 73-52 victory.
Brown 61, Princeton 43
On Saturday, Brown opened
with three-pointers by Williams
and Mullery on back-to-back pos-
sessions to take an early 6-0 lead,
but a 19-8 run gave Princeton a
19-14 lead with 4:49 left in the
first half. Treys from Mullery and
Morgan Kelly ’11 gave the Bears a
one-point lead, and at halftime the
score was knotted at 21. Mullery
led the way with 12 points in the
first half, and finished with a game-
high 19, along with six assists and
four blocks.
After the slow first half, in
which Brown shot just 38 percent
Courtesy of Jesse Russell Morgan
from the floor and attempted only
two free throws, the offense was
operating on all cylinders in the
second half. The Bears came out of
the locker room and put together a
17-3 run in the first nine minutes of
the half to take a 38-24 lead. During
the run, Sullivan, who was held to a
single point in the first half, scored
six points, while Williams hit a pair
of treys and Mullery continued to
make his presence felt in the post,
adding five points.
Free-throw shooting was key
for the Bears, who shot 14-of-19
from the line in the second half.
Sullivan led the offensive effort for
Brown in the second half with 12
points, including 7-of-9 free throws,
to finish with 13 points. Skrelja had
a solid all-around game as well,
chipping in with nine points and
a team-high nine rebounds, while
Williams knocked down three
treys to finish with 11 points.
The Bears also protected the
ball, committing only nine turn-
overs, well below the team’s sea-
son average of 14.7 turnovers per
game.
Brown will try to carry its mo-
mentum into Friday night’s game
against the Columbia Lions (10-12,
5-3 Ivy), who defeated the Bears,
65-59, in the first meeting between
the teams. Then, on Saturday, Bru-
no will take on first-place Cornell
(17-7, 7-1 Ivy), looking to avenge a
90-58 loss at the hands of the Big
Red on Jan. 30. Both games will be
at 7 p.m. at the Pizzitola Center.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 | Page 7
on seven-game slide
By Dan Alexander
Sports Staff Writer
The men’s hockey team (2-19-4, 2-13-
3 ECAC) fell to ECAC rivals Rens-
selaer Polytechnic Institute (7-21-2,
6-11-1) and Union (15-13-2, 8-9-1) in
away games last weekend, extend-
ing Brown’s losing streak to seven
games.
RPI had a 4-2 lead heading into the
final frame on Friday night, and as-
sistant captain Matt Vokes ’09 scored
his ninth goal of the season with just
over seven minutes left in the game
to bring the Bears within one goal.
But the last minutes ticked away with-
out either team netting another goal,
making the final score 4-3.
The Bears lost again the next
night when Union goaltender Corey
Wrestlers sweep weekend
By Katie Wood
Assistant Sports Editor
The wrestling team finished off its final
road trip of the season on Saturday
with a 3-0 sweep over Boston Univer-
sity, Harvard and Wagner, including
a 49-0 shut-out against Wagner. After
a win at Princeton last weekend, the
Bears have rattled off four wins in a
row heading into the final weekend
of the regular season.
“We did a much better job this
weekend,” said co-captain Matt
Gevelinger ’09. “In the past we have
underachieved. This weekend we felt
that we were capable of winning three
and finally reached our potential.”
Brown 25, Harvard 19
Brown traveled to Cambridge,
Mass., to take on Ivy League foe Har-
vard early Saturday afternoon. The
Crimson failed to suit up a full team
as Greg Einfrank ’10 won by forfeit at
125 pounds to start off the meet. Har-
vard controlled the middle-weights as
Milan had a shut-out until Bobby
Farnham ’12 beat Milan with 1:17
remaining in the game to make the
score 2-1. Union scored an empty-net
goal with 2.8 seconds left to make the
final score 3-1.
RPI 4, Brown 3
The Bears headed to Troy, N.Y.,
on Friday night to close out the sea-
son’s series with the RPI Engineers.
When the teams faced off against
each other earlier in the season, RPI
handed Brown one of its worst de-
feats of the season in a 7-2 game.
The Engineers took to their home
ice Friday night amid a four-game
losing streak. The weekend before,
they had lost a home and an away
continued on page 8
its team put together five wins in the
next seven matches. Eli Harris ’09
lost 8-3 at 133 pounds and Stephen
DeLorenzo ’10 bounced back from
the Harris defeat and pulled away
from his opponent with a technical
fall (6:36). Rickey Bailey ’11 could not
get started and fell 16-0 in a tech. fall
(2:48) at 149 pounds.
For the next five matches, the
Bears and the Crimson would battle
back and forth, each team record-
ing two major decisions to keep the
match close.
No. 4 J.P. O’Connor handed Bryan
Tracy ’10 a 14-3 major decision at 157
pounds. But Jeff Lemmer ’12 returned
the favor to the Crimson at 165 pounds
and scored his own 15-6 major deci-
sion. Despite a fever, Bran Crudden
’10 battled his opponent and fell by a
slight 5-2 margin at 174 pounds. Louis
Caputo (No. 10) recorded a 10-0 ma-
jor decision over Gevelinger at 184
pounds and Leo Saniuk ’09 handled
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Men’s hockey loses two
games over the weekend
continued from page 7
game, both to Union.
After a scoreless first period dur-
ing which RPI outshot Brown 10-6,
the Bears began the second period
with 1:26 remaining on a power-play.
Jeff Buvinow ’12 took the puck from
the top of the left face-off circle to the
point and fired a rocket with under a
minute remaining on the power-play.
Assistant captain Aaron Volpatti ’10
deflected the puck to Milan’s five-
hole to give Brown a 1-0 lead.
RPI evened the score 2:40 later
when Jeff Foss tried a shot from the
blue line. Mike Clemente ’12 stopped
the puck, but Justin Smith won the
rebound. Smith took a shot from just
outside of the crease and put the puck
across the goal line.
Clemente started in net for the
Bears on both nights last weekend.
Head Coach Roger Grillo has experi-
mented with different players in goal
recently. Last weekend, Clemente
and Dan Rosen ’10 each got starts.
The weekend before, Mark Sibbald
’09 got a chance in net too.
“I think we have three very good
goaltenders,” Grillo said. “I don’t
think we have a definite number
one.”
Grillo said he was impressed with
Clemente’s play last weekend. “I
thought he played really well. There’s
a goal or two that he’d probably want
back and that’s generally the case
when you don’t win,” he said.
The Bears reclaimed the lead
when Jack Maclellan ’12 scored the
third goal of the period 4:00 after the
opening face-off. RPI goaltender Allen
York stopped three shots in a row,
but couldn’t make the fourth save on
Maclellan’s shot from the bottom of
the left face-off circle.
Brown maintained the 2-1 lead un-
til RPI gained a 5-on-3 man advantage
late in middle frame. Chase Polacek
knotted the score at 2-2 with a slap-
shot 16:11 into the period.
The Engineers took the lead just
24 seconds later while they still had a
one-man advantage. Clemente stopped
one shot, but the puck went loose in
the crease, and Alex Angers-Goulet
managed to knock it into the net.
RPI’s scoring spree continued
when they put in their third goal in
just over a minute on a shot from the
bottom of the right face-off circle, giv-
ing the Engineers a 4-2 lead.
“You take out that 1:16 and we
actually played a heck of a game,”
Grillo said.
Vokes added to his team-leading
scoring statistics with 7:07 left in the
game when he beat York with a wrist
shot from point-blank, to make the
game 4-3.
Grillo pulled Clemente, who tal-
lied 26 saves on the night, with 1:13
left in favor of an extra attacker. De-
spite the man advantage, the Bears
only managed to get off one shot
before the buzzer sounded with RPI
still ahead 4-3.
Union 3, Brown 1
Union came into their Saturday
match-up against the Bears having
won two of their last three games.
They had fallen to No. 7 Yale (19-
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
5-1, 14-3-1) the night before in a 4-2
game.
The first time Brown faced off
against Union this season, the Bears
left with their first victory of the sea-
son, a 5-4 win on Dec. 5 at Meehan
Auditorium.
Grillo said the difference between
the two games was Brown’s power
play. In the first game, the Bears were
3-for-6 with the man advantage. They
went 0-for-8 on the power-play last
Saturday.
Saturday’s game was more of
a defensive battle than the last
match-up. Corey Milan, who gave
up all five goals against Brown in
the teams’ first meeting, was perfect
in net until he let one by him with
1:17 remaining.
Union took control in the first pe-
riod, gaining a 16-5 shot advantage.
It took Union all 16 shots to finally
beat Clemente.
Brock Matheson fired the puck
from the left point and teammate
Adam Presizniuk deflected it past
Clemente for his 13th goal of the
season, to put Union ahead 1-0 at
the end of the first period.
The goal siren lit up far fewer
times in the second period on Sat-
urday than it had the previous night,
when Brown and RPI combined for
six second-period goals. The middle
frame was scoreless on Saturday until
Jason Walters made it a 2-0 game with
five seconds left in the period.
Milan passed to Lane Caffaro,
who fed Walters on the left wing.
With the last seconds ticking away,
Walters threw a shot on net from the
left boards. The shot that would prove
to be the game-winning goal deflect-
ed off of a Brown defenseman’s skate
and went into the net.
“That was kind of a downer,” Cle-
mente said.
Like the first two periods, the last
20 minutes remained scoreless until
the end of the frame. With Brown
trailing 2-0 and just 1:35 remaining,
Grillo pulled Clemente in favor of an
extra attacker.
The strategy worked as Buvinow
won the puck on the right wing and
passed it off to Maclellan. Maclellan
fed Farnham, who scored Brown’s
lone goal on the night.
The goal prevented the shutout,
but it wasn’t enough to bring the
Bears back. Grillo pulled Clemente
again after the face-off at mid-ice.
This time, the extra attacker wasn’t
enough and Union scored an empty-
net goal with 2.8 seconds left, making
the score 3-1.
The two losses keep Brown at the
bottom of the ECAC standings with
only seven points.
“We’re not giving up,” Clemente
said. “We’re going to keep battling.
Everyone is still coming to practice
and working hard.”
Brown will take on No. 10 Princ-
eton for the third time this season in
New Jersey next Friday at 7 p.m. The
Bears lost their home opener, 4-1,
against Princeton and lost another to
the Tigers in a 5-1 game at Meehan
on Jan. 31.
“The expectation is to go down
to Princeton and beat them,”
Grillo said.
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Wrestlers win four straight
continued from page 7
his opponent 11-1 for a major decision
at 197 pounds.
Harvard could not fill the heavy-
weight spot as the Bears narrowly
edged the Crimson 25-19 with the help
of 12 free points from forfeits.
“Everyone stepped up and did
their job as certain people had to get
bonus points and not get pinned in
order to win the match,” Einfrank said.
“It was nice to see — the team coming
out of the weekend on a high.”
Brown 49, Wagner 0
The Bears had a few moments to
rest before they faced off with Wag-
ner for the second match of the day.
Many new faces filled the lightweight
positions in the dual, taking down the
Seahawks 49-0.
Einfrank was stuck on the bench
yet again as Wagner did not have a
125-pound entry, earning six points
with the forfeit. Ross Baldwin ’09
(133), Grant Overcashier ’12 (141),
Bailey (149), Tom Fazio ’09 (157) and
co-captain Chris Musser ’09 (165)
each rolled to convincing wins. The
Seahawks were never able to recover
as Crudden (174) battled through a
7-6 decision, and Gevelinger (184),
Branden Stearns ’09 and Zach Zdrada
’09 carried out the perfect match for
the Bears.
Despite the dominant win, the
Bears still have a lot of work to do in
order to finish out the season strong,
Gevelinger said.
“Our goal is to continue to im-
prove,” he said. “Each day we try to
get a little bit better.”
Brown 17, BU 15
After an impressive win over Wag-
ner, the Bears traveled across town for
their final match of the day against
BU. The team arrived a little early
for the 7 p.m. dual and had the op-
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portunity to see the Terriers in action
against Sacred Heart.
Once Brown’s match began,
Gevelinger (184) pulled out a close
3-0 win, keeping the momentum going
from the Bears’ hard-fought match
against Harvard and their domination
over Wagner. Stearns (197) fell in a
tough 4-2 decision as Zdrada (heavy-
weight) kept the score low once again
with a 6-3 decision.
Einfrank was ready to wrestle de-
spite sitting out the first two matches.
He finally had the opportunity to
wrestle for his team and aimed to
score as many points as he could for
Bruno because he knew it would be
a tight match.
“I watched my opponent against
Sacred Heart, so I knew what was
coming,” Einfrank said. “I went out
aggressive and got some bonus points
for the team. It was crucial for every-
one to battle for points.”
Einfrank delivered for his team
and recorded a 19-4 tech fall (5:15)
to earn five crucial points.
Brown and BU traded wins the
next four bouts as Harris (133) fell 3-2,
DeLorenzo (141) won 4-1, Dave Foxen
’11 (149) would not let his opponent
distance himself for bonus points, fall-
ing 11-6, and Tracy (157) managed to
hold on for a 6-4 decision.
The Terriers took the next two
matches, but with the score close,
Lemmer (165) and Crudden (174)
held off their opponents from scoring
bonus points. The Bears prevailed 17-
15 despite their last two duals.
The Bears return home for the
final weekend of the regular season
to take on No. 3 Cornell on Friday
at 3 p.m. and Columbia on Saturday
at 2 p.m.
“We’re excited to finish off on
a strong note, especially after four
straight wins,” Einfrank said. “We’ll try
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e d i to r i a l

More free rides

Providence can sometimes be a difficult mistress. We want to take public
transportation — it’s good for the environment, and best of all, the University
gives it to us for free — but traveling on RIPTA buses can be a tragicomic
adventure filled with delays, vaguely marked stops and confusing routes.
Despite the system’s obvious flaws, the University should continue to
encourage students and employees to take public transportation by offering
free rides with the UPass program. Recent Herald coverage stated that the
University will need to re-negotiate the financial terms of this program in
August. Elizabeth Gentry, assistant vice president for Financial and Admin-
istrative Services, said that due to RIPTA’s own budget crisis, they will likely
want the University to start paying more for the UPass service.
We hope that the University will not consider discontinuing this program,
which is a valuable service for students and employees. Though the program
cannot be expected to solve the parking shortage on campus overnight —
which it certainly hasn’t — anything that encourages more people to take
public transportation is a good thing.
The UPass program will never replace students’ need for cars, unless there
is a dramatic overhaul of RIPTA’s routes and services. Those who choose
to bring cars to campus are not likely be dissuaded by the promise of free
bus rides — especially when most RIPTA routes run infrequently and lack
service to popular student destinations like Seekonk and Sam’s Club.
However, administrators seem more hopeful that free RIPTA tickets
via the UPass program will encourage University employees to use public
transportation to commute to work. This is an eminently reasonable expecta- carly hudelson
tion for the program, especially with the price of gas fluctuating wildly as it
has been over the past year. If nothing else, UPass might make commuting
much more affordable for employees.
In the end, however, the success of Providence’s public transportation
l e t t e r s to t h e e d i to r s
program is completely in the hands of the RIPTA board of directors. They
can make Rhode Island a much less car-dependent state by lowering ticket
prices, increasing the frequency of service along popular routes and adding Deferral and delay stifle dissent
more routes where there is a demand. Making RIPTA convenient for use
on a daily basis will not be an easy or inexpensive task, but is well worth To the Editor: ing some initial divisiveness? There will always be
the investment. The energy crisis in this country is only going to become disagreement, but discomfor t should never be a
more severe, and any city with a high-quality public transportation system With regards to “Vote on renaming Columbus Day reason to disregard the values and priorities of this
will have a significant head start in confronting it. put off” (Feb. 11), I must add I am both disappointed University. The decision is the faculty’s alone. To
and angered by the response from the Faculty Ex- defer our motion (which already conceded to them
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Rethink the science resource center: make it bigger
NICK
WERLE
Opinions Columnist
In the midst of a campus-wide reckoning over
how the current economic misery will shape
Brown’s future, the Office of the Dean of the
College announced last week that it is mov-
ing forward with plans to build a science re-
source center on the third floor of the Sciences
Library.
The center, slated to open about a year from
now, is intended to bring together science stu-
dents from different departments and to help
build an interdisciplinary science community
with dedicated study space and resources tar-
geted at science students.
Since the beginning of the semester, I have
attended two undergraduate focus groups that
debated the design and mission of the science
resource center. We analyzed the project’s
goals and discussed how the center’s design
could best serve the University’s science com-
munity. These meetings provided a detailed
view of not only the goals and constraints facing
the architects but also the project’s motivations
and potential.
I predict that the science center will quickly
become a campus resource nearly as valuable
to the student community as the Friedman
Study Center. As it stands, however, I believe
that the physical plan is too modest to meet all
of the needs the Dean of the College has out-
lined. The solution to this problem is not to re-
duce the scope of the center, but to increase its
proposed size from one floor to two or three
in order to satisfy all of the constituencies in-
volved.
Currently, the design team is soliciting in-
put from both students and faculty, groups that
have starkly different demands for academic
space. The proposal aims to squeeze in space
WILLIAM
MARTIN
Opinions Columnist
The smallest state in the union is in a deep
hole. The economic crisis has pushed
Rhode Island’s unemployment rate to nearly
10 percent — worse than any other state ex-
cept Michigan. And this year’s budget runs
an estimated $357 million deficit — more
than 10 percent of what the state will have
spent once the fiscal year ends in June.
For now, the needs of the budget and
the economy are in competition, and the
government is trying desperately to bal-
ance the two. It isn’t going well.
Last Wednesday, Republican Governor
Donald Carcieri ’65 withdrew his support
for $20 million of increased taxes and fees
that he himself had put forward, only an
hour before the proposal was due for a vote
before the Rhode Island House of Repre-
sentatives. The next day, a House fiscal ad-
visor announced that revenue and savings
projections had been vastly overestimated.
Carcieri’s latest plan is aimed at long-
term economic renewal, at the expense of
a big chunk of short-term tax revenue. Fol-
lowing the recommendation of a panel he
had convened, the governor declared in his
“State of the State” address on Feb. 10 that
he would seek to scuttle the state’s taxes
for students to study, for professors and TAs to
hold out-of-class meetings, for campus groups
to host occasional seminars and for students
and researchers to conduct community out-
reach projects.
And all of this is supposed to fit on the
third floor. To give some perspective to those
readers who have never been above the Mez-
zanine, the SciLi’s upper levels have only one
quarter as much floor space as the Friedman
Center. Obviously, this project’s collection of
deserving stakeholders and its list of laudable
goals will not fit on the third floor alone.
The Friedman Center should be used as a
design model here. As soon as it opened, the
Friedman was recognized as one of the pre-
mier study spaces on campus. Indeed, it may
As the project team designs the third floor
renovation it should focus on meeting
the needs of students.
have gotten so busy that it has become a vic-
tim of its own success. And there is a simple
reason why it has worked so well: The Fried-
man Center was designed solely to accommo-
date the students who study there every day.
Aside from the paucity of outlets in some ar-
eas, the Fried’s design intelligently anticipates
the ways that students currently study. Indeed,
a properly designed science center would take
some strain off the Fried and make it a more
usable space again.
The Friedman Center’s success should
also serve as the strongest indication on
Brown’s campus of how the University’s librar-
ies will function in the future. It has been clear
for more than a decade that libraries will have
to physically transform from book warehous-
es to serve the needs of laptop-toting, twenty-
first century students. Facing this reality, the
Slash and burn
on corporate profits and the estates of its
deceased residents.
Carcieri has the right idea. Cutting these
taxes will earn Rhode Island much-needed
attention from businesses and retirees, put-
ting the state back on track to economic
stability — and ultimately fiscal sanity.
But eliminating the taxes entirely would
remove two of the main contributions these
newcomers could make to eliminating fu-
ture deficits and allowing the government
to deliver on its promises without mortgag-
Cuts to Rhode Island’s estate and corporation
taxes can bolster both the budget and the
economy much more quickly and reliably than
the gradual elimination Governor Carcieri favors.
ing the state’s future.
Rhode Island is primarily competing
with its two immediate neighbors, Connect-
icut and Massachusetts. But it doesn’t need
to drop its rates to zero to create an entic-
ing business environment.
Connecticut taxes 7.5 percent of corpo-
rate earnings; Massachusetts grabs 9.5 per-
cent. If Rhode Island lopped off just a third
of its 9 percent rate, it would outshine its
neighbors while laying the groundwork for
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Brown Library must keep thinking about how
it can repurpose space that is currently wasted
housing underused print materials.
Of the six on-campus libraries, the SciLi is
clearly the most retrograde. Its premier loca-
tion makes its physical misuse all the more
disappointing. With the nearly complete on-
line migration of scientific journals, it hardly
seems necessary to keep decades worth of
journal archives in the SciLi. I doubt moving
the 42 volumes of the Oil and Gas Journal
from Thayer Street to the Library Collection
Annex in Cranston would seriously incon-
venience any Brown researchers, especially
considering that the Library’s LexisNexis sub-
scription includes instant access to the journal
back to 1978.
As a physics concentrator, the WiFi and
the dry erase boards (and walls) in the Fried-
man Center have been far more useful to me
than the 11 floors of books above it. To facili-
tate this inevitable conversion, the Library, as
an institution, should be a full partner in any
redesign efforts.
In an economic environment that will pre-
vent the University from undertaking large-
scale capital projects for the foreseeable future,
it is important that the administration recon-
sider the current uses of all existing campus
resources. The recent renovation of J. Walter
Wilson is a great example of how moderniza-
tion can reclaim the relevance of underutilized
campus spaces for a fraction of the price of a
new building.
Right now, it is clear that the administra-
tion considers the science center to be a one-
balanced budgets in the future.
But if the Rhode Island corporate earn-
ings tax plunges too far below those of its
neighbors, the state economy is likely to
see diminishing returns: The bulk of busi-
nesspeople willing to move from Connecti-
cut or Massachusetts will make their deci-
sion with only a little prompting, and as the
tax rate moves towards zero, the state will
see less and less marginal benefit.
Meanwhile, new Rhode Island business-
es would only pitch in for the state budget
indirectly, through increased sales and in-
come tax revenue, which wouldn’t come
close to replacing the tax on profits. The re-
sult would be higher deficits and more cuts
to vital programs.
The estate tax is a similar story — worthy
of diminution, not elimination. As in other
states, the tax is determined by a complex
series of brackets and deductions, but ac-
cording to Carcieri’s advisory panel, it func-
tionally taxes all estates above $675,000 —
floor project. However, for the center to be
as successful as possible the current design
process should envision that floor as part of
a larger complex. The center would be better
able to meet its goals if the demands on each
floor were pared down with a larger project
in mind.
During the focus group meeting, the archi-
tects, whose most recent on-campus project
was the bookstore renovation, seemed keenly
aware of the elements that make for effective
study spaces. The students who came to the
focus groups unanimously felt that the most
effective help the science center could provide
would be to facilitate the formation of ongoing
study groups.
Because science students are not the most
gregarious on campus, the architecture itself
must do a lot of the social engineering. The
center should be designed to bring students
together in spaces that will be both accessible
to newcomers and private enough for students
to concentrate. Science students should also
be able to reserve the study rooms and see
real-time availability online so that more time
is spent studying instead of searching for a
place to sit.
Group study rooms, dry erase boards, fully
loaded scientific computing stations, printer
kiosks and electric outlets are the components
of an ideal resource center for students. As
the science resource center project team de-
signs the third floor renovation it should focus
on meeting the needs of students, not faculty
or outreach programs. If the center is popular
with its intended audience, the University can
expand the science resource center and move
in the remaining programs on higher floors.
Nick Werle ’10 is a physics and modern
critical philosophy concentrator
from New York.
the lowest threshold of any state.
Nonetheless, Rhode Island shaves off
less from most estates than its neighbors:
Massachusetts and Connecticut claim 16
percent and 20 percent, respectively, from
the highest bracket; Rhode Island only
takes 9 percent. And by increasing the
threshold and cutting 1 percent across the
board from the already lenient tax rates,
the state can both attract retirees and enlist
them in balancing the budget.
Rhode Island needs relief immediately,
and these cuts can bolster both the budget
and the economy much more quickly and
reliably than the gradual elimination Car-
cieri favors.
Reductions would be more likely to pass
through a Democrat-dominated legislature
already irked by Carcieri’s plans to cut ben-
efits for state employees. They would also
be more likely to stick around — the phase-
out is a recipe for future wrangling in a
deep-blue state with perennial budget prob-
lems. The corporation tax and the “death
tax” won’t stay dead.
Carcieri hasn’t yet announced a firm
plan for the phase-out. With any luck, he’ll
come to prefer reduction rather than repeal.
But when it comes to government and the
economy, Rhode Island isn’t a lucky state.
William Martin ’10 is a history
concentrator from Seattle, Wash.
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