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PLMEs will now have to let the University know of their med school application plans by Sept. of their senior year.
Policy change rankles PLMEs
By Hannah Moser
Senior Staf f Writer
Students enrolled in the Program
in Liberal Medical Education who
apply to medical schools other
than Brown’s will forfeit the spots
reserved for them, according to a
new policy enacted this week.
PLME students received an
e-mail and a letter in their mail-
boxes on Wednesday informing
them of the change. Starting with
the class of MD applicants who
hope to begin in 2011, students
must inform the PLME office by
Burglaries most common Profs, grad students take to the fields
campus crime in 2008
By Ellen Cushing
Senior Staf f Writer
The Department of Public Safety
reported 111 criminal offenses
occurring on campus and in sur-
rounding areas in 2008, accord-
ing to an annual crime repor t
released by the department ear-
lier this fall.
Of those 111, the vast majority,
84, were burglaries. There were
also nine robberies and eight
motor-vehicle thefts. There were
five reported cases of aggravated
assault, four forcible sex offenses
and one case of arson, according
to the report.
Consistent with previous
years’ statistics, there were zero
reported homicides or negligent
manslaughters.
The report, which is federally
mandated by the Clery Act, sum-
marizes disciplinary referrals and
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Sept. 15 of their senior year — or
each year they are on deferral — if
they intend to “apply out.” By ap-
plying to other medical schools,
they forfeit their spots at Alpert
Medical School, although they
may re-apply to the Med School
by the standard process.
Previously, there was no pol-
icy that addressed applying out,
according to Associate Dean of
Medicine Philip Gruppuso. “It was
never an issue,” he said, because
usually no more than one student
per year applied out.
However, around five students
crimes reported to DPS and the
Providence Police for the calen-
dar years 2008, 2007 and 2006.
Last year’s crime statistics rep-
resent a dramatic increase in the
number of reported thefts. Last
year’s 84 burglaries and eight mo-
tor vehicle thefts were up from 54
burglaries and four motor vehicle
thefts in 2007.
Mark Porter, director of public
safety, said the rise in theft was
partially attributable to the bad
economy, adding that Brown’s
statistics were generally consis-
tent with larger trends.
Porter also said 96 percent of
burglaries occurred in unlocked
dorm rooms. “We are seeing a
rise in the issue of theft in un-
locked and unattended rooms,”
he said.
One student, Ishaan Sethi ’13,
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from the undergraduate class of
2010 are sending applications
elsewhere, Gruppuso said, and
administrators anticipate similar
numbers from the class of 2011.
Each year, the University enrolls
about 50 PLMEs. Incoming Med
School classes total around 100
students.
According to Gruppuso, the
policy was added so that Med
School admissions officers could
have a clearer picture of how many
spots would be available in the
continued on page 3
By Brian Mastroianni
Senior Staf f Writer
The intramural soccer team Applied
Math warms up on the field behind
the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center.
The team members pass a ball back
and forth, each wearing a simple
white T-shirt as his uniform. But one
player in particular stands out: With
FEATURE
his thinning white hair, Professor of
Applied Mathematics Basilis Gidas
can easily be distinguished from his
teammates, who are mostly under-
grads from the department.
Gidas may seem an unconven-
tional teammate, but he is one of the
many professors, staff members and
graduate students at Brown who
compete alongside — and against ­—
undergrads in intramural sports.
Unlike varsity and club teams,
continued on page 4
Offense pounds Yale for
high-scoring gridiron win
By Dan Alexander “The key was Theodhosi,” Estes
Senior Staff Writer said, adding that he was “not surprised
by how well he ran.”
Nothing suggested Brown would Theodhosi, who has been the
have a high-scoring day against Yale. second man in the Bears’ two-back
Brown’s offense was shut out against system this season, stepped into the
Penn a week leading role when Zachary Tronti ’11
Brown 35 ago, and Yale sustained an injury that sidelined him
Yale 21 had allowed for the rest of the game.
just 10 points Estes said the injury, likely a torn
against Brown in the last two years ACL and MCL, will probably end
combined. Going into the game, Yale’s Tronti’s season, though X-rays have
defense had ranked seventh in the na- not come back yet.
tion in scoring. Now, it ranks 12th. Quarterback Kyle Newhall-Ca-
The Bears (5-3, 3-2 Ivy) put up ballero ’11 was 23-of-30 passing for
35 points and gained 494 269 yards with two touch-
yards against the Bulldogs SPORTS downs and an interception.
in a 35-21 win Saturday in He also had four carries for
New Haven, Conn. 20 yards rushing and a touchdown.
“We wanted to prove we are the “I think Kyle made some great
best offense in the Ivy League,” said plays for us,” Estes said. “He ran the
wide receiver Bobby Sewall ’10. ball extremely well.”
The Brown offense, which is typi- Newhall-Caballero’s favorite threats
cally pass-focused, showed its most on the pass were, as usual, Sewall and
balanced attack of the season, gaining fellow wideout Buddy Farnham ’10.
269 yards through the air and 225 on Farnham had six catches for 62 yards
the ground. and two touchdowns, while Sewall con-
“We don’t choose to do a balanced tributed five receptions for 61 yards.
attack,” said Head Coach Phil Estes. But Newhall-Caballero’s one in-
Instead, he said, the Bears just took terception was a costly one — it was
what Yale’s defense gave them. returned for a touchdown by the Bull-
From the first quarter on, Yale (4-4, dog defense.
2-3) let the Bears turn to their rush- Yale’s offense found the end
ing attack. By the end of the game, zone twice and added a field goal.
the Bears had 42 rushes and only 31 But they were 0-of-3 on points after
passes. touchdown.
Spiro Theodhosi ’12, who had just The Bulldogs gained 345 total
11 carries this season before Saturday, yards but threw three interceptions
rushed 25 times for 167 yards and one
touchdown. continued on page 9
Hilary Rosenthal / Herald
Professor of Applied Mathematics Basilis Gidas is one of many profes-
sors and grad students who participate in intramural sports.
Sports, 7 Opinions, 11
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Spate of Halloween thefts hits dorms across campus
The following summary includes all
major incidents reported to the Depart-
ment of Public Safety between Oct. 15
and Nov 2. It does not include general
service and alarm calls. The Provi-
dence Police Department also responds
to incidents occurring off campus. DPS
CRIME LOG
does not divulge information on cases
that are currently under investigation
by the department, PPD or the Office
of Student Life. DPS maintains a daily
log of all shift activity and general ser-
vice calls which can be viewed during
business hours at its headquarters,
located at 75 Charlesfield St.
Oct. 15
8:27 a.m. Student reported that
she left her room in Hegeman Hall
E on Oct. 14 at 5 p.m. and locked her
room door. When she returned to
her room on Oct. 15 at 1:10 a.m., her
door was unlocked and her room-
mates were asleep in their rooms.
When she entered her room, she
noticed that her laptop computer
was missing from her desk. One of
her roommates stated that when she
returned to her room at 7:30 p.m. on
Oct. 14, the room door was locked,
but that she left the room door open
after that time and that she and an-
other roommate went to bed at 10
p.m. They reported that they heard
the room door open at 12:15 a.m.
and thought it was their roommate
coming in and went back to sleep.
Oct. 18
1:42 a.m. Brown Police were
dispatched to Wickenden Street in
response to a loud party involving
Brown students. Upon arriving, they
met with Providence officers who
had already dispersed the party. Two
Brown students were issued citations
by the Providence Police.
1:19 p.m. Complainant stated that
between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., someone
broke the passenger-side window
on his rental car at Charlesfield and
Brown streets and took his GPS de-
vice from the dashboard.
2:55 p.m. Upon arrival at Goddard
House, a Brown police officer was
met by two student victims. One stat-
ed that she left her room at midnight
and returned home at 2 a.m. and went
to bed. Her door was left unlocked
from midnight until the time a theft
was discovered. Her roommate was
not in the room during the night. She
returned to her room in the morning.
The items stolen were a laptop and a
pocketbook containing a credit card,
debit card and a key to the room. Fa-
cilities Management was notified and
responded to change the locks.
9:05 p.m. Victim stated that she
and her roommate were out of their
Goddard room between 11 p.m. Oct.
17 and 2 a.m. Oct 18. The door was
left unlocked during that time and
while they slept during the night.
When they heard that their friends
downstairs had items stolen, they
searched their room and noticed that
their TV accessory that stores music
and rents movies over the Internet
was missing.
Oct. 23
10:27 a.m. Student stated that he
last saw his bicycle locked to a pole
at 86 Waterman St. on Oct. 22 at 11:30
p.m. On Oct. 23 at 10:27 a.m., he no-
ticed his bicycle and lock missing.
The pole that his bicycle was locked
to was approximately five feet tall and
is used as a tree support pole — so
it was possible that someone picked
up the bicycle and lock over the pole.
Oct. 26
11:56 p.m. Student stated his wal-
let was stolen from the game room
in Morris Hall between 11:15 p.m.
and 11:45 p.m. He stated that there
were four unknown males in the room
during that time and that they left the
room before he noticed his wallet
missing.
Oct. 27
5:32 p.m. A Brown employee re-
ported that sometime between 3:45
p.m. and 5 p.m., someone smashed
the passenger-side front-door window
on his vehicle at Prospect and Olive
streets and took a GPS system that had
been mounted on the front windshield.
Oct. 31
1:55 a.m. Student reported that,
sometime between 9:15 p.m. on Oct.
30 and 1:50 a.m. on Oct. 31, an un-
known person entered his Bronson
House room and removed several
valuable items. His room door was
locked during this period of time, but
the window was pushed open and the
screen was cut. Items stolen included
a flat-screen TV, a gaming console and
game, a digital camera and a vacuum.
There is a suspect at this time, and
the case is under investigation.
2:51 a.m. Brown student stated
that he and his roommate left their
Grad Center C dorm room around
11:30 p.m. When they returned about
1:30 a.m they noticed that a TV, two
laptops and an iPod were missing
from the room. They stated that their
dorm room door sometimes does not
close on its own. There were no signs
of forced entry.
10:20 a.m. Student stated that she
left her Machado House dorm room
at about 9:30 a.m. and said her room-
mate was sleeping and that she did
not lock the room door. When her
roommate woke up at about 11 a.m.,
she noticed the reporting party’s lap-
top was gone. The roommate said
while she was sleeping, she heard
someone enter the room and heard
some shuffling at a desk. She thought
it was her roommate returning to get
something. Inside the computer there
were two $20 bills. Also missing was
a black leather computer case. There
is a suspect, and the case is under
investigation.
11:25 a.m. Student stated that at
around 8:30 a.m., an unknown sus-
pect entered his unsecured Sears
House room while he was sleeping.
He thought that the suspect made
a mistake and entered the wrong
room. He didn’t think anything of it
and went back to sleep. The student
later discovered that he was missing
$80 from his wallet, which was on
the desk.
1:20 p.m. Student reported that
sometime between 11:30 p.m. on Oct.
30 and midnight on Oct. 31, someone
entered her Gregorian Quad A suite
and took her laptop. She reported
that it had been on the table in the
lounge. The lounge area is just inside
the main entry door, and she reported
that the door to the suite had been left
ajar during the evening.
5:05 p.m. Student victim stated
that he left his Grad Center C suite
at 12:30 a.m. He left his door propped
open and went to a party. He re-
turned to his suite at 2:20 a.m. and
closed the door. In the morning, he
noticed that his laptop was missing.
Nov. 1
2:46 a.m. Sometime between 12:45
a.m. and 1:15 a.m., an unknown per-
son entered a student’s unlocked Ol-
ney House dorm room and removed
his laptop and speakers. The student
was in the bathroom during this pe-
riod of time.
9:43 a.m. Two students had their
laptops stolen from their unattended
Andrews Hall room, which was un-
locked.
6:17 p.m. Officers were dispatched
to 70 Ship St. for a larceny from a mo-
tor vehicle. Reporting party stated
she noticed a green pocketbook
on the sidewalk with the contents
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Burglaries rose steeply from ’07 to ’08
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said he was surprised by the num-
ber of burglaries.
“I would think it would be like
10,” he said. “That’s really some-
thing I wouldn’t expect.”
This year’s statistics also show
an increase in the number of re-
ported hate crimes on campus
— five in 2008, up from zero in
2007 and one in 2006. Of those
five, three were classified as van-
dalism and two were classified as
intimidation. All involved race or
religion.
Some students expressed con-
cern about the spike in this type
of crime.
“It’s surprising and concern-
ing,” said Aurora Durfee ’10. “Of
course, I’d like to expect that
we’re moving toward a more ac-
cepting environment, especially
at Brown.”
PLME policy penalizes ‘applying out’
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class.
“This is totally about our need-
ing to fill the medical school class,”
Gruppuso said. “We’re not trying
to manipulate the careers of the
PLME students.”
Students applying to medical
school can normally accept a spot
at one school while remaining on
the waitlist for several others. A
place on the waitlist can open up
as late as the day before orienta-
tion, and students have the option
to accept it, leaving the rejected
school scrambling to fill the spot.
Guaranteeing PLMEs a spot while
allowing them to apply out, Grup-
puso said, would effectively al-
low them to make Brown their
“safety school.”
Gruppuso said the Med School
receives between 70 and 80 appli-
cations for each spot in the class,
and “for every two students who
inject uncertainty into the pro-
gram … we need another inter-
view day.”
“It actually just became a ne-
2007
2008
Motor Vehicle Aggravated
Thefts Assault
But Por ter said this uptick
was due to a change in the U.S.
Depar tment of Education’s re-
porting regulations, which are
binding on all colleges and uni-
versities participating in federal
financial aid programs, including
Pell Grants, Stafford Loans and
Perkins Loans.
“In past years, intimidation
and vandalism were not report-
able hate crimes, and this past
year they were,” he wrote in an
e-mail to The Herald. He said the
majority of last year’s hate crimes
were “vandalism-related incidents
involving bias and derogator y
graffiti.”
But the number of forcible sex
offenses in 2008 dropped by more
than half — from 10 in 2007 to
four in 2008.
Vice President for Campus Life
and Student Ser vices Margaret
Klawunn, whose office manages
cessity for us to be able to fill our
medical school class,” Gruppuso
said.
But current PLME under-
graduates, who won’t be granted
exceptions, feel the policy violates
the conditions under which they
entered the program, according
to Arune Gulati ’11, who ser ves
on the PLME Senate.
Gulati said the policy, if enact-
ed, should apply only to incom-
ing classes and not to students
who entered the program before
the change. He said many PLME
students — who may have also ap-
plied to similar programs at other
schools — made their decisions
based on the program’s leniency.
“The policy makes a lot of
sense for the medical school, and
I definitely see where they’re com-
ing from,” Gulati said. But now,
he added, “they’ve changed the
whole game.”
Gulati added that some stu-
dents apply out in order to weigh
their options for financial aid.
The change is especially frus-
trating, he said, for fifth-semester
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— Aurora Durfee ’10, on the spike in burglaries in 2008
Forcible Sex Arson
Offenses
the University’s sexual assault
resources, wrote in an e-mail to
The Herald that it is difficult to
identify a single cause for the
drop, especially as sexual assault
is widely known to be one of the
most underreported crimes, both
on and off college campuses.
The DPS report also listed the
number of disciplinar y referrals
for alcohol, drugs and weapons
law violations. In 2008, there were
nine referrals for weapons viola-
tions, 29 for drugs and 31 for alco-
hol. This represents a departure
from 2007, when there were 77
reported liquor law violations and
18 drug violations.
While there were no reported
arrests for the 2008 violations,
those found to be acting out of
accordance with the University’s
policy are referred to the Office of
Student Life and are subject to the
University’s disciplinar y code.
juniors who have already prepared
to apply out by taking second-
semester organic chemistry and
paying to take MCAT courses,
neither of which are required by
the PLME guidelines.
“It would make perfect sense
if people being admitted to the
program knew about the policy
beforehand,” Gulati said.
“It should not have to affect
the classes who are already here,”
said Dominic Wu ’12, a class repre-
sentative to the PLME Senate. Wu
is not planning to apply out, but he
collected the opinions of several
PLME students and included them
in an e-mail to Associate Dean of
Medicine Julianne Ip, who sent
out the notification letters.
Ip for warded the e-mail to
Gruppuso, who said he plans to
meet with a group of juniors and
hold a town-hall meeting with first-
years and sophomores.
Wu said he invited his class-
mates to come and voice their
opinions at the next PLME Sen-
ate meeting on Sunday.
“It’s surprising and concerning.”
Strong debut for GLISP bodes
well for second semester
By Leonardo Moauro
Contributing Writer
The Global Independent Study Initia-
tive, which debuted this semester,
drew 14 participants in its inaugu-
ral run and is looking forward to
receiving a second crop of propos-
als for the spring, said Kendall
Brostuen, director of the office of
international programs.
To create a project under the Initia-
tive — known as a GLISP and similar
to an Independent Study Project or
a Group Independent Study Project
— students must design a research
project that they then carry out during
a semester abroad under the guidance
of a Brown professor. It aims to give
students a chance to remain involved
with Brown’s faculty and curriculum
while abroad, Brostuen said. Students
also receive a Brown course credit
upon completion of the program.
The program “really sets Brown
apart from other institutions,” Bros-
tuen said, adding that Brown is the
first U.S. school that he knows of to
implement such a program.
GLISP applications for the spring
semester were due last week, but the
Office of International Programs “is
going to try to be very flexible with
the deadline,” Brousten said. He said
he expects the program to receive
fewer applications in the spring than
it did this fall because students did not
have a whole summer to prepare for
it this time around.
In addition to receiving course
credit, GLISP research can also serve
as a foundation for a senior thesis,
Brostuen said, and it can deepen a
student-faculty relationship that might
otherwise be truncated by the semes-
ter abroad.
Students currently complet-
ing GLISPs said they found the
program valuable.
“I thought that conducting a GLISP
might also give me a better idea of
what topic I’d like to pursue for my
senior thesis,” wrote Marina Irgon
’11 in an e-mail to The Herald from
the Czech Republic. Irgon’s GLISP
evaluates how the recent economic cri-
sis has manifested itself in the Czech
Republic.
“One of the greatest downfalls of
study abroad is the general lack of aca-
demic rigor,” Irgon wrote. “Conducting
a GLISP is a great way to be academi-
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cally productive while abroad.”
A GLISP allows students to “use
primary resources or resources that
can only be found in the study-abroad
city or country,” wrote Celina Pedrosa
’11, who is studying in France this se-
mester, in an e-mail to The Herald.
Her project focuses on the cultural
impact and social integration of Bra-
zilian exiles in Paris who fled Brazil’s
dictatorship in the 1970s.
But for some students, the pro-
cess of formulating a research topic
proves challenging.
“For me, the hardest part of the
application process was designing my
own topic,” wrote Megan Lin ’11 in
an e-mail to The Herald. She is study-
ing monetary economic policy in the
United Kingdom at the London School
of Economics.
Professor of Hispanic Studies Julio
Ortega, who is currently advising Mi-
chelle Levinson ’11 on a GLISP she is
doing in Cuba, said a rigorous process
was important to making the projects
valuable. “I hope it is difficult — that
there are rigorous criteria — because
internationalization must be a serious
undertaking for all concerned,” he
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.
Though an ocean may divide them
from their advisees, faculty advisers
are expected to maintain close involve-
ment with students who are doing
GLISPs, and they ultimately grade
the final research paper that emerges
from the study.
Patricia Symonds, an adjunct as-
sociate professor of anthropology who
is advising Eleanor Chute ’11 during
her stay in China, regularly e-mails
and chats with Chute via Skype and
also responds to specific questions,
Symonds wrote in an e-mail to The
Herald. She also said she is a resource
if Chute is simply “feeling the need to
talk to someone at ‘home.’”
The research proposals are re-
viewed by a committee composed of
members from the OIP, the College
Curriculum Council — which also
reviews ISPs and GISPs — and the
Office of the Dean of the College.
The committee did not reject
any GLISP applications for this se-
mester, Brostuen said, but it did ask
some students to clarify specifics of
their projects.
“We were amazed at the kind
of proposals we were getting,”
Brostuen said.
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For intramural athletes, winning is often an afterthought
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intramural teams do not belong to
conferences or leagues that compete
in regional or national tournaments,
only playing against other Brown
teams on campus. With 305 teams
in 13 different sports, intramural
athletics provide a less competitive
outlet for faculty, students and staff
to leave behind the stress of the
classroom and the workplace.
“I’ve always viewed intramurals
as something of a recreational out-
let,” said Intramural and Facility
Coordinator Diane Yee. “School is
more than education. It is about
community — bringing students
and staff together.”
Yee, who participates in intramu-
ral football and softball, oversees the
1,687 members of the Brown com-
munity who play intramural sports
— including 167 faculty and staff
members and 482 grad students.
Linda Chernak GS, who is cur-
rently pursuing a Ph.D. in geological
sciences, has been playing for the
department’s Rolling Stones soccer
and softball teams since her first
year at Brown.
“Intramural spor ts gives us
something to do other than re-
search,” Chernak said. “It is a nice
break.”
Chernak added that she enjoys
playing with her department’s fac-
ulty members. “It is nice to see
our professors in a different light,”
she said.
Rachael Mazzella ’12 said she
understands why grad students
would want to participate in intra-
murals. As captain of Synapsed,
an intramural soccer team, Maz-
zella has frequently played against
grad students.
“I love playing intramural soccer,
and if I were three years older, I
would want to have the opportu-
nity to do it still,” she said. “It’s fun
for everyone.”
The only downside, Mazzella
said, is the higher skill level of some
of the grad students.
“I wish it was a more equal dis-
tribution of grad students and un-
dergrads, but I wouldn’t really say
that it is a big deal,” she said. “We
all still have fun.”
Luiz Valente PhD’83, associate
professor of Portuguese and Brazil-
ian studies, has been a dedicated
intramural athlete since 1987, when
he joined the Eulers — pronounced
“Oilers” — a hockey team started
by physics graduate students and
named after the mathematician Le-
onhard Euler.
Growing up in Brazil, Valente
played volleyball and soccer for
most of his life and did not discover
his love for hockey until he was an
undergrad at Bowdoin College. “Ev-
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“It is about community — bringing students and staff together”
eryone at Bowdoin played hockey,”
he said.
Valente, who has served as the
Eulers’ team captain and also as
a faculty adviser to Brown’s var-
sity hockey team, said hockey is
one of those sports that “once you
start playing it, you never want to
stop.”
The Eulers have included a
mix of faculty and students from
disciplines as varied as music, phi-
losophy and chemistry — as well as
some of Valente’s students.
“Once you are on the ice, you
want to play,” Valente said. “You
don’t think about relationships be-
yond the ice.”
This relaxed attitude to sports
drew Miranda Fasulo to Brown’s
intramural program as soon as she
arrived on campus as the manager
for planning and special programs
at the Watson Institute for Inter-
national Studies. An athlete in
high school, Fasulo joined Slam,
a women’s five-on-five basketball
team, looking to find a break from
her life in the office.
“We play for fun,” she said.
“We’re serious enough where we
want to win … But in the end, we
don’t care if we win or lose.”
Though the team was started by
an undergrad, over time it came to
include mostly staff and graduate
students associated with Watson.
— Diane Yee, Intramural and Facility Coordinator
Intramural teams, such as the Applied Math soccer team (above), include
players of all ages. Fun, not wins, is the primary goal.
Fasulo said intramural sports
provide a fun way to get exer-
cise and meet other people who
have a passion for sports, as well
as for building the morale of
University employees.
“It’s great to just get people to
use a gym, period,” she said. “It’s
just a great benefit to the staff,
makes them feel young and keeps
them in shape.”
But Fasulo said she has found
the schedule for games — which
sometimes start as late as 11 p.m.
— inconvenient for staff and fac-
ulty, who have to be ready for work
by 8:30 a.m. the next day. She said
she is also frustrated by the low
number of women who play intra-
mural sports on campus. Eighty-
one percent of grad students and
83 percent of faculty and staff who
play intramural sports are men, ac-
cording to Yee.
Because of the disproportionate
ratio of male to female intramural
athletes, Slam is taking a break this
season. Instead, the team members
have been keeping their shooting
skills sharp by playing together
on weekends.
Yee said it has been difficult to
structure the intramural program
to acheive a more equal gender
distribution. Having brainstormed
options, including separate leagues
that were all-male, all-female and co-
ed, the athletics department found
that intramural athletes preferred
the current system.
The mentality that anyone can
enjoy intramural sports at Brown
is something Gidas particularly
loves about the program. Though
he has been playing soccer with
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laptop disappearance
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spilled out. She determined that the
owner was a grad student. The
victim stated that she arrived at
Ship Street around 5:30 p.m. and
parked her vehicle. She hid her
pocketbook under a vest and put
her GPS in the center console. She
left the GPS holder on the front
windshield. The victim stated that
$10 was missing from her pock-
etbook along with her new GPS.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Hilary Rosenthal / Herald
others from his department since
the late 1980s, he only made Applied
Math an official intramural team
this semester.
The team consists of students,
faculty and a few visiting scholars
from “all over the world,” including
Europe, the United States and South
America, said Gidas, who managed
to rally together a team three hours
before the application’s deadline.
Soccer has held its appeal
to Gidas since his childhood in
Greece.
“I was born in, what was at the
time, a third-world countr y,” he
said. “Soccer is always something
you can play. Even if you don’t have
a good ball, you create one.”
Gidas added that he sees con-
nections between soccer and math-
ematics. “The strategic element of
soccer is part of why I like it,” he
said. “You have the strategy to avoid
blocking from other players — you
have to make a split-second decision
in response to an opponent who is
quite intelligent.”
Back on the field, Gidas blocks
a member of the opposing team,
moving with the dexterity of a
younger man, and he successfully
defends the goal from the opposing
team. Applied Math triumphs over
the Swedish Medics with a score
of 4-2, continuing its season-long
winning streak, and Gidas high-fives
his teammates, patting them on the
back, joking around.
“A good mind is also a good
body,” Gidas said. “Physical activity
strengthens your mental thinking.
We do have official teams here, but
intramural gives the opportunity for
everybody else to participate.”
Providence Police took a report,
and there are suspects at this time.
Nov. 2
5:13 p.m. Student stated that at
3 p.m., he was eating in the Sharpe
Refector y and had his laptop on
the seat next to him. He left at 3:30
p.m. and went home and an hour
later he remembered that he left
his laptop. He returned and spoke
to several workers, but they could
not find the laptop.
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a rt s i n b r i e f Brownbrokers return to stage with musical

By Emily Kirkland full-length musicals. These were then come out of the Brownbrokers pro-
Contributing Writer given staged readings in late spring. gram. According to the Brownbro-
On the basis of those two readings, kers Web site, the group was founded
“Leavittsburg, Ohio,” a new musi- Malkin said, the board and the two in 1935 by Burt Shevelove, who went
cal written by Nate Sloan ’09 that faculty members chose “Leavitts- on to write “A Funny Thing Hap-
premieres this Thursday in Brown’s burg” for the fall season. pened on the Way to the Forum.”
Stuart Theatre, brings more than a “Leavittsburg” tells the story of Other alumni include Alfred Uhry
year of meetings, readings, rehears- a girl from rural Ohio who returns ’58 (who wrote “Parade” and “Driv-
als and late-night revisions to fruition. home for spring break during her ing Miss Daisy”) and David Yazbek
For Brownbrokers — the group that first year at a prestigious university ’82, who composed scores for “Dirty
has produced student-written mu- in New York City. She brings her Rotten Scoundrels” and “The Full
sicals at Brown for more than 70 boyfriend, an urban sophisticate, Monty.” A Brownbrokers show by
years — “Leavittsburg” is the first with her. Complications ensue. Stephen Karam ’02, “Emma,” won
new show since sweeping changes “The show is based on personal the American College Theatre Fes-
two years ago that brought more experience, but it’s greatly exagger- tival’s Best Musical Award in 2002
faculty involvement and department ated,” said Sloan, a New York City na- and was performed at the Kennedy
resources to the program. tive who once traveled to Oklahoma Center in Washington, D.C. Karam’s
Under the new system, each with a girlfriend to meet her family. new play, “Speech and Debate,” was
show spends a year in development As part of the new development the second most produced new play
and a year in production, said Aaron process, Sloan worked closely with in America last year, according to
Malkin ’10, a Brownbrokers board faculty mentors and the Brownbro- Marshall.
member and the assistant director kers board in developing the plot and According to John Emigh, profes-
for “Leavittsburg.” Faculty members the characters. Marshall said that sor emeritus of theatre arts and per-
direct the shows instead of the stu- the resulting changes ranged from formance studies, the Brownbrokers
dent directors of past productions. In the inclusion of a single joke to the program is highly unusual among
addition, the show’s budget is con- addition of a chorus that brought the Brown’s peer schools. Student-writ-
siderably larger, said Mike Williams cast to 22 from an original six. ten shows at Harvard, Columbia and
Kayleigh Butera / Herald ’10, a fellow board member and one “There were never any ultima- other universities tend to be comic
Cecilia Salama’s ’12 untitled installation art features human and of the musical’s leads. tums, just suggestions,” Sloan said of reviews with skits and songs, not
canine hair, among other media.
According to Malkin, the Brown- the development process. “Invariably full musicals.
brokers board received four propos- correct suggestions,” he added. “It’s very uniquely Brown,” said
Salama’s ’12 sculptures offer als for new shows last December. “I don’t want to say I feel blessed,” Williams.
a little hair of the dog Of those four, two were chosen for
further development: “Leavittsburg”
Sloan said, “but I really do feel I’ve
been lucky to work with such tal-
But the Brownbrokers program
also has what Emigh called “a check-
Taking a break from installing her solo sculpture show and “Adding Up,” by Sarah Kay ’10 ented people.” ered history.”
Sunday, Cecilia Salama ’12 looked around the small gallery and Drew Nobile ’07. Through col- Marshall, who is directing the As he put it, “Brownbrokers pre-
room at the half-dozen works she had already put up. “I think laboration between the writers, the show, was quick with praise for sented some lovely shows, but also
I’ve become completely numb to the fact that all this stuff is Brownbrokers board, Professor Sloan’s collaborative skills. many that earned less than rave re-
gross,” she mused. of Theatre Arts and Performance “He’s voracious in soliciting views — and still more that earned
Gross is in the eye of the beholder. That said, there is def- Studies Lowry Marshall and Adjunct advice,” Marshall said. rave reviews they didn’t deserve.”
initely a certain yuck factor to Salama’s untitled sculptures, Lecturer in Theatre Arts and Per- “There was one show called ‘Ugly
which are on view on the second floor of List Art Center this formance Studies Andy Hertz, the What’s past is prologue
week, with a closing reception Thursday evening. They are proposals were transformed into two Many distinguished writers have continued on page 6
mixed media works, some of which feature glue- or concrete-
caked fabrics contorted into perpetual rumpled-ness. Others
are coated with dun-colored resin.
And then, of course, there’s the hair — a “surprising”
amount of it, Salama said. She took the bus to Pawtucket in
search of dog fur — “there are no groomers in Providence,”
she claimed — and pounded the pavement collecting the
sweepings from Thayer Street hair salons. Then she stuffed
the hair — big, tangled clods of it — into nylon stockings,
creating pendular sculptures that swing gently from the ceil-
ing and the walls.
Salama’s show is the culmination of an independent study
project on art inspired by the body. She worked with Paul
Myoda, assistant professor of visual art, who helped her find
artistic precedents to respond to, like the messy, organic
works of Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith and Eva Hesse.
After many weeks of research and planning, Salama made
the works all at once so there could be “a strong dialogue
between them all.”
“Mostly, I just like experimenting, playing around with dif-
ferent things, different forms,” Salama said.
“You can plan all you like, but you never know how it’s go-
ing to turn out,” she continued.
For Salama, the show’s dominant aesthetic is the contrast
between “clean and dirty.” She said she used resin to give
the homely works a kind of sheen, making them more visu-
ally complex.
“I still feel like there’s something very beautiful about
it,” she said, looking around at her work, “even though it’s
filthy.”
— Ben Hyman

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A rts & C ulture
‘On a Boat’ mixes
styles, cultures
By Kayleigh Butera
Contributing Writer
This weekend, a cruise director’s
voice instructed audience members
to sit back and prepare for a journey
of cultural experiences. The cruise
ship was the Salomon auditorium,
and the cultural tour guides were
Brown’s Mezcla dancers.
Mezcla is a student-run Latino
performing arts group. The group’s
name — Spanish for “mixture” —
reflects its mission to “explore and
convey the diversity and richness of
Latino culture,” according to Mez-
cla’s Web site.
Dancer Jennifer Gutierrez ’12
said Mezcla is just as much about
community as it is about perform-
ing arts. “It unites students through
dance,” she said.
True to its mission of mixture,
Mezcla’s fall show, “On a Boat,”
guided the audience on an interna-
tional “cruise” of a medley of Latino
dances.
The show was high-energy from
the very first port-of-call, Brazil. In
this number, eight female danc-
ers in jingling belts performed an
animated samba that set up the
spirited atmosphere for the rest of
the night.
The next stop was Venezuela,
where two couples performed a styl-
ish salsa. The women’s red dresses
encircled the dancers as they spun
and flipped over their partners’
backs. A playful cumbia dance fol-
lowed, with performers in traditional
Colombian costume.
Next up was a minor geographi-
cal detour. In a guest appearance,
Badmaash, Brown’s Indian dance
troupe, took the stage. Dancers
with bells on their ankles and hands
towards the skies drummed their
bare feet on the stage. While this
performance was unlike the other
dances culturally, its spirit and pas-
sion aligned perfectly with the rest
of the evening.
Back on the Latino tour, the au-
dience enjoyed a colorful flamenca
performance whose pace acceler-
ated to a lively rhythm. A Cuban
salsa, complete with playful partner
switching and lifts, followed the fla-
menca dance.
Brown’s student mariachi band
made a guest appearance as well.
They serenaded the audience with
guitars, violins, trumpets and fes-
tive shouts.
Next came a Dominican-style
merengue infused with reggaeton,
a fun combination of traditional and
modern dance that reflects Mez-
cla’s ability to combine and unite
diverse elements.
In an interesting twist, guest
performers Unnatural Selection,
a student break-dancing group,
adapted to the theme of the night. A
few technical difficulties at Friday’s
performance meant that their own
music would not play, but the danc-
ers were not fazed, and they went on
to break-dance to Latin guitar music.
They adjusted their rhythm, and the
resulting dance was an impressive
— and fortuitous ­­— cross-cultural
performance.
Mezcla wrapped up the night
with modern hip-hop dances in front
of projected graphics of New York
and Puerto Rico. In a final burst of
color, the dancers walked down the
aisles, waving the flags of the vari-
ous countries whose dance styles
had been performed.
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
— Dennis Kozee ’10, on the production of “Leavittsburg, Ohio”
tear d own that wall
Saturday night’s Freedom Without Walls Gala in Sayles, part of a series of events put on by the German
department, marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
‘Leavittsburg’ tells tale of Midwestern spring break
continued from page 5
and a Vegetable,’” he said. “I don’t
really remember what it was about,
but it had a lot of puns in it.”
Emigh described one year when
the Brownbrokers board was left
without a script. They performed a
show by Woody Allen instead. An-
other year, they lacked a composer.
So, Emigh said, they borrowed
songs from “satiric songwriter” Tom
Lehrer and stitched them together
into a plot.
Professional musicals usually
spend many years being work-
shopped and revised before they
are ever produced. But the previous
Brownbrokers program required
students to write, develop and pro-
duce an original musical within a
single calendar year — something
Malkin called “an impossible
task.”
Marshall agreed, calling the
“There’s a kind of delightful uncertainty.”
process “frantic.”
Along with the accelerated
schedule, the old program paired
student-written musicals with often
inexperienced student directors.
Writers attempting their first musi-
cal sometimes ended up working
with first-time directors, Emigh
said, which magnified the inher-
ent challenges in producing new
work.
“It was such a hard thing to
ask of students, regardless of tal-
ent,” Marshall said. “It was almost
cruel.”
The entertaining Mr. Sloan
Sloan said he had benefitted
enormously from the faculty guid-
ance. When Sloan began writing
“Leavittsburg,” he had no experi-
ence in musical theater. His expo-
sure to the Brownbrokers program
came through a class in writing mu-
sicals Hertz offered last fall. Sloan
Monday, November 9, 2009
Frederic Lu / Herald
said he had been a “musical theater
geek” as a kid but had abandoned
it in high school. Although he was
a music concentrator and had been
composing for years, his only in-
volvement in theater at Brown was
as a musician in the pit.
“This show just arrived in our
inbox an hour before the deadline,”
Williams said. “We had no idea he
was out there.”
Sloan’s proposal was especially
unusual in that he planned to write
music, book and lyrics for “Leavitts-
burg.” Marshall said most writers
work in teams, with one respon-
sible for music and the other for
the words.
Last spring, after “Leavittsburg”
was selected for production, Sloan
graduated. He left Rhode Island to
begin a doctoral program in histori-
cal musicality at Stanford just as the
show got underway this fall. Malkin
said that meant frequent phone calls
and e-mails among Marshall, Mal-
kin and Sloan, who also flew out for
crucial periods like casting.
“It was crazy,” Marshall said,
adding that for the next show,
they’d attempt to select a group
of writers who’d still be at Brown
during production.
But Dennis Kozee ’10 and Ned
Riseley ’12, both actors in “Leavitts-
burg,” said the excitement of work-
ing on a new show had outweighed
the added stress.
“There’s a kind of delightful un-
certainty,” Kozee said.
Williams said he valued the
chance to shape the character he
was playing.
“I love the circle of exchange
between actor and writer,” he said,
even though that entailed a script
still undergoing changes as the last
week of rehearsals began. Accord-
ing to Marshall, two weeks before
the premiere, Sloan added an entire-
ly new scene to the second act.
“I just want to say sorry to all
the cast members who had to keep
waiting for their lines and music,”
Sloan said, laughing.
But all difficulties aside, Sloan
said he is now considering a career
in musical theater.
“This has been the most thrilling
experience of my life,” he said.
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Monday, November 9, 2009 | Page 7

No wins, but not a total wash for w. icers
By Andrew Braca
Sports Editor
The women’s hockey team picked
up a point against two of the top
four teams in the ECAC over the
weekend.
After battling to a scoreless tie
with Quinnipiac on Friday night in
Meehan Auditorium, Bruno fell to
Princeton by a 5-0 score the follow-
ing day, moving to 1-4-1 overall and
0-3-1 in ECAC play.
“It was okay,” said Head Coach
Digit Murphy after the Quinnipiac
game. “It wasn’t great, but we didn’t
lose, and we got a point.”
Brown 0, Quinnipiac 0 (OT)
The Bears and Bobcats (5-3-2,
3-0-1) combined for 66 shots, but
Brown goalie Katie Jamieson ’13
and Quinnipiac netminder Victoria
Vigilanti stopped them all to post
dual shutouts and secure the tie.
“Our goaltending was solid, as it
has been,” Murphy said. “Jamieson’s
been playing really well.”
The game opened shakily for
the Bears, who took two penalties
in the first four minutes — the first
for having too many players on the
ice — but they were able to kill off
both Bobcats’ power plays.
“Our kids getting mixed up on
the bench, especially since they
were upperclassmen, that was frus-
trating for me, but we did kill it,”
Murphy said. “Our kill has been
pretty good all year.”
Brown rallied to end the first pe-
riod with a 13-9 advantage in shots,
but Viglianti made the save of the
Princeton took a lead early in Saturday’s game against Brown and nev-
er relinquished it, for a 5-0 final.
game in the 13th minute when she
fell on her back but still managed to
swat the puck out of the crease.
“There were points in the game
where they could have scored on us
and we could have scored on them,”
Murphy said. “It was just frustrating
because I felt like we had opportu-
nities and we just couldn’t put the
puck in the net.”
The Bobcats turned the tables
to post a 13-6 shot advantage in
Jonathan Bateman / Herald
the second period, but the Bears
weathered the storm.
“The momentum shifted a few
times, and we held the fort and then
got out of it, whereas in the past
we’d kind of get caught in that vor-
tex kind of thing,” Murphy said.
Bruno surged again in the third
period to tally 13 shots, notching
four of them during the team’s
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Hahn ’10: MLB
lessons learned
Now that the World Series is over and
the Yankees are once again champi-
ons of baseball, the world, universe,
whatever, it’s a great time to step back
and reflect on what we learned. Base-
ball is a simple game, and here are
some simple lessons.
Fear the Yankees
Saying the Yankees are really
good is an understatement. I don’t
know if you noticed, but they basi-
cally destroyed the American League
East, rampaged through the playoffs
and rightfully won a title. Of course,
spending $400 million on some of the
best free agents, having the highest
payroll by a stadium-load and having
essentially no weak spots tends to do
that. Don’t hate the game, hate the
system — and the system is stacked
in the Yankees’ favor. The bad news
is they’ve got more money to spend
this offseason. The worse news is
they finally figured out how to spend
it wisely.
More money is better than
less money
The big-market teams dominated
the playoffs this year, and really the
playoff race. Large-market teams with
the ability to print money are able to
outspend their fellow small market
teams. Sure, there are arguments
about profit-maximizing owners, but
it still comes down to population den-
sity. Especially with the recession, we
saw the gap between baseball’s haves
and have-nots grow wider.
You should play in the NL
Sure, you can scream “sample
size,” but looking at the AL players
returning to the National League,
one starts to get the idea that the
NL is just plain bad. Matt Holliday
hit .286/.378/.454 with Oakland
— pretty good numbers — but af-
ter joining St. Louis, he put up an
insane .353/.419/.604. Remember
John Smoltz, Brad Penny or Vicente
Padilla? Smoltz’s ERA+, where 100
is the average and higher is better,
jumped from 57 with Boston to 97
with St. Louis. Penny jumped from 84
to 165, while Padilla went from 92 to
130. George Sherrill, Adam LaRoche,
Edwin Encarnacion. I could go on, but
you get the point.
Zack Greinke is amazing
Easily the Cy Young winner, it’s
not even close. With three-plus pitch-
es, Greinke destroyed the AL. He
posted a 2.16 ERA, 1.07 WHIP and 203
strikeouts in 229.1 innings with a 4.75
K/BB ratio. According to fangraphs.
com, he also led the league in Field-
ing Independent Pitching (2.33), Win
Probability Added (6.07) and Wins
Above Replacement (9.4). All those
fancy math stats and traditional stats
and eyeballs say the same thing:
Greinke is an ace.
Joe Mauer and Albert Pujols
continued on page 8

Alum kicks his way into

major league soccer
By Benjy Asher
Spor ts Staf f Writer
Coming into his freshman year
of college, Jef f Larentowicz ’05
certainly didn’t envision a profes-
sional soccer career. In fact, he was
skeptical about his prospects at the
collegiate level.
“I thought Brown was a bit of a
reach for my talent level,” Laren-
towicz said.
But now, Larentowicz is thriving
on the American soccer stage in his
fifth season with the New England
Revolution of Major League Soc-
cer. On Oct. 25, Larentowicz had
possibly the biggest moment of his
career, when he sent a free kick
into the back of the net in the clos-
ing minutes of New England’s final
regular season match. The goal,
Larentowicz’s first of the season,
gave the Revolution a 1-0 win over
Columbus Crew and clinched the
league’s final playoff spot.
Despite Larentowicz’s low ex-
pectations coming into Brown,
Head Coach Mike Noonan gave
him opportunities from the start.
Though he was recruited as a for-
ward and was listed under that posi-
tion for the duration of his fresh-
man year, Noonan recognized that
Larentowicz, the son of a soccer
coach out of West Chester, Pa., pos-
sessed remarkable adaptability and
aptitude for the game, and inserted
him into the rotation as a defender
from the outset.
“One of the things that I
liked the most about Jef f when
I recruited him was that he was
ver y versatile,” Noonan said. “We
plugged him in where our need
was at the time, and Jeff just got on
with what the team’s needs were,
and he’s still doing that today with
the Revolution.”
Larentowicz did not disappoint,
playing in all 16 games that season
and leading Brown to a share of the
Ivy League championship and earn-
ing All-Ivy honorable mention in
the process. His first collegiate goal
came in the first half of the team’s
final league game, en route to a
title-clinching 3-0 win at Harvard.
“It was a big game and we were
all getting up for it,” Larentowicz
said. “We had a lot of our students
come up for the game, and I just
remember scoring the goal and
running over to all the fans and
celebrating — that was really spe-
cial.”
Larentowicz continued to excel
in his sophomore year, earning sec-
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S ports W eekend
Hahn ’10: MLB lessons W. hockey skids through weekend
continued from page 7
too
I’ll take a plus bat, plus defender
and plus leadership rolled into one.
Mauer hit an incredible .365/.444/.587,
leading the AL with a 177 OPS+ and
8.2 WAR. Pujols hit .327/.443/.658 with
a 188 OPS+ and 8.4 WAR. These two
are the best at their positions, and it
isn’t close.
Doing drugs
Hello A-Roid! It’s okay, we’ll let your
loosey-goosey era slide now that you’re
a champion. Manny? How’s that baby
coming? That fertility drug didn’t seem
to slow you down. It’s okay though,
Bronson Arroyo apparently did roids
too, though clearly it hasn’t really
helped, but at least his honesty and
media attacks are entertaining. My
personal favorite: Tim Lincecum. No
wonder his fastball velocity is always
so high. Maybe you can be like Tiny
Tim too!
Blackmailing a Mets GM is the
new rage
Thank you, Omar Minaya, you
are correct. A beat writer from some
obscure newspaper who is secretly
petitioning for a job is the single reason
why the Mets were terrible this year.
We’re all out to get you. As for you,
Steve Phillips, way to go? Should have
handled it like Letterman. Unfortunate-
ly, Phillips’ departure doesn’t make
Baseball Tonight any more educational
or insightful.
Instant replay and umpires
Just put in instant replay already.
It won’t take that much longer. It will
save everyone embarrassment.
That’s a lot of lessons. Some good,
some bad. I hope everyone enjoyed
the 2009 season. I know I did.
Jonathan Hahn ’10 knows it’s
time to hibernate till spring.
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continued from page 7
only full two-minute power play
of the game. But the Bears were
never able to score the winning
goal because they could not take
advantage of chances around
the crease.
Murphy said the Brown players
were not “chopping down trees
in front of the net. We really have
to put the puck in when you’re in
front of the net, and I think that
was something that we didn’t do
well tonight.”
Neither team could take advan-
tage of a pair of overtime shots.
The Bobcats entered the final five
minutes on a power play, but the
Bears’ defense shut them down.
“They’re starting to play ex-
perienced D, breaking the puck
out,” Murphy said. “I thought the
defense did a really good job to-
“The defense did a really good job today.”
— W. Ice Hockey Head Coach Digit Murphy
day.”
Jamieson posted 32 saves and
Vigilanti came up with 34 as Bruno
played to its first tie in ECAC play
since February 2008 and its first
scoreless tie since Feb. 3, 2006
against Harvard.
Murphy said she saw a lot of
positives, including strong play
from forwards Jenna Dancewicz
’11, Laurie Jolin ’13 and the line of
Erin Connors ’10, Kath Surbey ’10
and Erica Kromm ’11.
“I can’t really pinpoint anything,
but I know that the whole game
was more ups than downs, so I’m
happy with that,” she said.
Princeton 5, Brown 0
Jamieson added 33 saves on Sat-
urday, but the Tigers (4-1-1, 3-0-1)
were too much for the Bears.
Princeton jumped on the board
just 14 seconds into the game, and
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then took a two-goal lead under
a minute from the first intermis-
sion on a sharp play. Tigers’ goalie
Cassie Seguin slapped the puck to
center-ice, catching the Bears on
a line change. Danielle DiCesare
took the puck up the left side be-
fore centering it to Paula Roman-
chuk, who knocked it up and in.
Princeton scored twice more in
the second frame on the strength
of a 20-3 advantage in shots. Brown
took four penalties in the period
and surrendered a 5-on-3 goal.
The Tigers added an insurance
goal in a choppy third period that
featured nine penalties. Bruno tal-
lied 10 of its 18 shots in the final
period, but could not avoid being
blanked for the weekend.
The Bears will travel to Albany,
N.Y., this weekend to face Union
(2-8-0, 0-4-0) and RPI (3-6-3, 1-2-
1).
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Soccer-smart alum plays in the big leagues
continued from page 7
ond team All-Ivy honors, but it was
in his junior year when he really
hit his stride.
In addition to first team All-Ivy
and All-New England honors on
the heels of another Ivy champi-
onship season, Larentowicz was
named a second team All-Ameri-
can. Larentowicz said it was then
that he started seriously think-
ing about professional soccer as
a potential career path, and the
summer after his junior year, he
trained with a professional club
in Sweden for six weeks.
“That was a great experience,
and following all that, I thought
maybe it was something I wanted
to do,” Larentowicz said.
Larentowicz closed out his
college career with another All-
American season and the follow-
ing spring was selected in the
fourth and final round of the MLS
Draft in the Supplemental phase,
as the Revolution took him with
the third-to-last overall pick, with
encouragement from Noonan.
“I told (New England head
coach) Steve Nicol that Jeff was
going to be a better professional
player than a college player,” Noo-
nan said. “When he gets into a
locker room, he’s not intimidated
by anybody or anything, and you
have to be able to hold your nerve
when you first walk into a profes-
sional locker room.”
For Larentowicz, though, it
was like the beginning of fresh-
man year all over again, as he
struggled with the uncertainty
of whether or not he would get a
chance to contribute.
“Coming in, I don’t think Steve
Nicol had the highest hopes for
me,” Larentowicz said. “I think he
sort of saw me as a practice player,
and he gave me a contract to see
how I developed. But I don’t think
he saw me as someone who was
going to come on and play.”
Even Noonan admits that at
first glance, Larentowicz may not
look like a star.
“Jeff is not blessed with tre-
mendous athleticism — he’d prob-
ably be in the bottom third of the
Revolution in a speed contest or
strength contest, but he is in the
top third when it comes to soc-
cer intelligence,” Noonan said.
“He’s got a gamesmanship intel-
ligence, he knows how to win, he
looks and finds the ways to win
and he’s consistent in the way he
approaches ever ything. So you
know what you’re going to get
consistently in his effort and his
attitude.”
This time, Larentowicz didn’t
get his chance quite as easily. In
his first season with the Revolu-
tion, he played just one minute,
designated to the reser ve team
while New England went on to
the MLS Cup final.
“I think that the first season
playing with the reser ves, train-
ing with the team every day, and
getting a feel for the way the game
is played at the pro level was good
for me,” Larentowicz said. “In col-
lege, people are encouraging you
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“It’s certainly something to be able to say you beat every
team in the league.” — Wide receiver Bobby Sewall ’10.
‘Huge’ win for Bruno
at all times ... but at the profes-
sional level, people are there to
take your job, so if you screw up
scored the game’s only goal to seal
a spot for the Revolution.
“At my position you don’t get
after loss to Penn
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in practice or in a game, they’re a ton of chances to score goals, Estes said his defense simply
going to let you know about it. So but I think when I have had my and were just 4-of-12 on third-down wasn’t doing its job in the first half and
there wasn’t much of a nurturing chances I’ve taken them,” Laren- conversions. was getting beaten by screen passes
atmosphere from my teammates towicz said. “It was important for A.J. Cruz ’13 led the Bears in the because of it.
at that point.” me because I practice free kicks secondary, with eight tackles — in- At halftime, they made sure to
Early in the 2006 season, Lar- a lot and to score felt great, and it cluding one for a loss — and an inter- remedy the problem. “We changed
entowicz got his chance — New was also important for the team to ception, his third of the season. some things up defensively to make
England was plagued by injuries have that little bit of momentum With Yale trailing, 35-21, and just sure that we spied the back, and that
to several key players. Once again, and confidence to go into the first under seven minutes left in the game, helped out,” he said. After scoring two
it was Larentowicz’s versatility game of the playoffs.” Yale quarterback Patrick Witt dropped touchdowns in the second quarter,
that gave him a chance to break New England earned a 2-1 vic- back to pass, just six yards from the Yale had just nine points in the sec-
into the rotation, as he played four tory over the Chicago Fire in its goal line. Witt went for the end zone, ond half.
different positions — right mid- first game of the postseason, but seeing his receiver in single cover- Yale was the only team left that
field, center midfield, right back a 2-0 loss in Game 2 on Saturday age against Cruz. But the freshman Brown’s seniors had played, but not
and center back — in his first four night knocked the Revolution out cornerback leaped and intercepted beaten, in their careers.
appearances. of the playoffs on the basis of ag- the ball in the end zone, ending Yale’s “It’s certainly something to be
“I think the coaches saw me gregate goals. drive. able to say you beat every team in
as a utility player, who could go Though the season came to a “That cornerback, No. 12, that guy the league,” Sewall said.
in at any position and get the job disappointing end, Larentowicz can jump,” Witt said. Coming off a loss to Penn, the
done,” Larentowicz said. remains a celebrated figure in the Estes called Cruz a playmaker team’s win over Yale was “huge” for
A watershed moment for Lar- Brown soccer program. He is one whom other teams were “picking team morale, he added.
entowicz came in the fifth game of several players under Noonan on” — but at their own peril. The victory put the Bears in sole
of that season, in a May 2006 to go on to have professional suc- “I think they look at it and say, possession of third place in the Ivy
matchup with FC Dallas. With cess, including Cor y Gibbs ’01, ‘Freshman,’” Estes said. “They look League. Harvard and Penn, which both
the team trailing, 4-0, at halftime, who has played overseas and for at his size, and say, ‘We can beat him.’ hold 6-2 overall records and unbeaten
Nicol substituted Larentowicz in the U.S. national team, and An- They had some pretty big receivers, 5-0 marks in league play, are tied at the
at center midfield. drew Daniels ’07, who has spent but A.J. is a hell of a player.” top of the league standings. The Bears
“I played well, and we still lost time with FC Dallas. Estes said he thought the rest of are mathematically eliminated from a
the game, but I showed well for Larentowicz’s jersey from an the secondary played well, too. They back-to-back championship.
myself, and from that point on I MLS title game hangs in Noonan’s helped hold Witt, a transfer from But they will return to Ivy League
think the coaches really trusted office for visiting recruits to see, Nebraska, to 28-of-41 passing for 285 action with pride on the line against
me,” Larentowicz said. Shortly and Larentowicz himself is still a yards, two touchdowns and three in- Dartmouth at Brown Stadium this
thereafter, Larentowicz earned a presence in the program, making terceptions. Saturday at 12:30 p.m. They wrap up
starting spot with New England in regular trips back to Providence to Witt found most of his success the 2009 season Nov. 21 on the road
19 games that season, and in the stay connected with the team. with screen passes in the first half. at Columbia.
three seasons since then, Larento- “We’re happy that he continues With the Bears putting pressure on “After that loss to Penn, we decided
wicz has started in the majority of to come back to Rhode Island — the quarterback, Witt dumped passes to take it one game at a time, finish off
games for the Revolution, compil- he came down last spring to talk to off to his backs. the rest of our season, go 3-0 in No-
ing nine goals and nine assists in the guys,” Noonan said. “He’s just “We were able to neutralize the vember,” said co-captain and offensive
his MLS career. a regular person, and very, very rush first half,” Witt said. “But obvi- tackle Paul Jasinowski ’10. “We took
Larentowicz credits much of thankful for his Brown experience ously, they made some adjustments in step one and now we go on and focus
his development at the profes- and his Brown degree.” the locker room at halftime.” on Dartmouth.”
sional level to playing alongside
Shalrie Joseph, a five-time all-star
midfielder for New England.
“We play a system where I can
just run around and do the de-
fending and the dirty work and
retrieve the ball for the team and
sort of learn on the go,” Larento-
wicz said. “Over the years, Shalrie
and other players have developed
more trust in me and understood
my abilities.”
The team has enjoyed great
success throughout Larentowicz’s
career, making the playoffs each
year, including two more finals
appearances in the 2006 and 2007
seasons.
Heading into the final weekend
of the 2009 regular season, the
Revolution looked to be on the
verge of failing to qualify for the
postseason for the first time since
2001, as they went into their final
game tied for the final spot with
three other clubs, two of which
would be favored by the league’s
tiebreaking procedures.
“The odds against us were
incredible,” Larentowicz said.
“I don’t even know if anyone on
our own team would have gone
to Vegas and bet on us because
there were so many scenarios
that needed to take place for us
to even come close to getting into
the playoffs.”
But losses to all three of those
teams put New England in con-
trol of its own destiny, and in the
game’s 79th minute, Larentowicz
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l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r
Middle East no simple matter
To the Editor:
We would like to address Avi
Schaefer’s ’13 concern about the char-
acter of Common Ground (“To those
interested in creating peace in the
Middle East,” Nov. 2). Our full name is
Common Ground: Justice and Equality
in Palestine/Israel, and our stated mis-
sion is to supplement campus dialogue
with voices and perspectives that we
believe are under-represented in main-
stream American media and political
discourse. Common Ground meetings
are not internal discussion forums, but
are geared towards planning campus-
wide events.
Common Ground was established
nine years ago by students of diverse po-
litical leanings, connected by a commit-
ment to the equality of human life and
the pursuit of just peace in Palestine and
Israel. Common Ground today does not
operate from a set political platform but
rather from a shared belief that security
and human rights should be a birthright
for all. “Common Ground,” therefore,
refers to our common understanding
that before peace is possible, continuing
injustice must be brought to light.
It instead perpetuates a simplistic and
unproductive polar binary, which must
be overcome in order to achieve peace
and common ground.
As a group aiming to supplement
and diversify (rather than encapsulate
and summarize) discourse, we bring
speakers whose politics and identities
reflect a complexity inimical to the
language of “pro” and “anti” so often
employed in criticism of our work. Re-
cent examples include Anat Biletzki,
former head of Israeli Human Rights
group B’tselem; democratic Palestinian
politician Mustafa Barghouti; former
IDF soldier and human rights advocate
Micha Kurz and prolific Middle East
historian Joel Beinin. These speakers,
and numerous others, demonstrate how
people of different backgrounds can
speak out together against systematic
inequality.
We are working towards a sustain-
able and just peace, centered around
respect for human equality and ad-
vocacy for basic rights. Common chris jesu lee
Ground shares these values not only
with peace-oriented Israelis and Pal-
estinians, but with global civil society e d i to r i a l
and international law. If concern for

Groupthink
Our speakers are often critical of humanity doesn’t seem so “common”
current Israeli policies because the sta- in campus discourse — and if such a
tus quo of occupation is not conducive platform merits accusations of “bias”
to the just and equal peace we hope to — then perhaps it is time to re-evaluate
see in the region. As Schaefer points the grounds upon which claims to “bal- As the Herald reported Friday, student involve- are currently not allowed to join a GISP once it has
out, we do not bring speakers who ance” are based. ment in Group Independent Study Projects (GISPs) been approved. We appreciate the concern underlying
“represent the general view of Israeli is well past its heyday. GISPs were most popular in this rule but believe that it is overly restrictive. A stu-
society” because we believe that these Eric Axelman ’12 the earliest years after they first became an option dent, especially one who goes abroad for a semester,
voices already dominate mainstream Rahel Dette ’13 in 1969 as part of the New Curriculum. The 1974-75 might have a deep interest in the subject matter of a
American discourse. We bring neither Maria Fregoso ’10 school year saw 50 GISPs, but more recently, the GISP but might only find out about the GISP after it
Yisrael Beitenu nor Hamas because Lucas Mason-Brown ’13 number of GISPs in a given year has generally been has already approved. If the student can demonstrate
mere juxtaposition of diametrically Anna Samel ’12 closer to 20. his commitment and interest to the GISP’s creators
opposed voices does not achieve our Members of Common Ground One reason GISPs have become less prevalent and faculty sponsor, he should be allowed to enroll.
goal of fostering nuanced discussion. Nov. 8 is that more students are now organizing group in- Students not directly involved in the initial approval
dependent projects through individual academic de- process could offer additional, unique viewpoints on
t h e b r o w n d a i ly h e r a l d partments. To enroll in a departmental independent a course’s pedagogical effectiveness.
Editor-in-Chief Managing Editors Deputy Managing Editors Senior Editors study course, students need only find a willing faculty The formal GISP process is advantageous from
Steve DeLucia Michael Bechek Nandini Jayakrishna Rachel Arndt adviser and perhaps consult with the department chair. a publicity perspective — the Curricular Resource
Chaz Firestone Franklin Kanin Isabel Gottlieb
Michael Skocpol Scott Lowenstein By contrast, GISPs require students to go through Center helps get the word out about GISPs in the
editorial Business a more rigorous process that involves submitting a making. Students doing independent studies in de-
Ben Hyman Arts & Culture Editor General Managers Office Manager proposed syllabus, bibliography and evaluation plan partments should have similar options available to
Sophia Li Features Editor Alexander Hughes Shawn Reilly
George Miller Metro Editor Jonathan Spector
to the College Curriculum Council for approval. them. If a student wants to pull together a group
Joanna Wohlmuth Metro Editor The GISP approval process is modeled after the for a departmental independent study project, the
Seth Motel News Editor
Jenna Stark News Editor
Directors process professors go through in creating new cours- department should help that student find interested
Ellen DaSilva Sales
Andrew Braca Sports Editor Claire Kiely Sales es, and it gives groups a unique opportunity to engage peers, perhaps through an e-mail announcement or
Han Cui Asst. Sports Editor Katie Koh Finance with pedagogical questions about a course’s scope, a posting on a departmental bulletin board.
Alex Mazerov Asst. Sports Editor Jilyn Chao Asst. Finance
Katie Wood Asst. Sports Editor Christiana Stephenson Alumni Relations methods and objectives. Students participating in ap- GISPs also benefit from a certain level of institu-
Graphics & Photos Managers proved GISPs get to have the title of the GISP noted tional recognition; current courses (such as ENGN
Chris Jesu Lee Graphics Editor Kelly Wess Local Sales on their transcripts. The departmental independent 0090: “Management of Industrial and Non-Profit Or-
Stephen Lichenstein Graphics Editor Kathy Bui National Sales
Kim Perley Photo Editor Alex Carrere University Sales study option requires far less paperwork, consistent ganizations”) have evolved directly from GISPs. The
Max Monn Asst. Photo Editor Matt Burrows Credit and Collections with Brown’s policy of minimizing administrative possibility of a transition to a full course should also
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obstacles to students’ academic choices. be open to departmental group independent projects.
production Opinions
Ayelet Brinn Copy Desk Chief Alyssa Ratledge Opinions Editor
While GISPs and departmental group independent Department chairs should at least be aware of the
Rachel Isaacs Copy Desk Chief Sarah Rosenthal Opinions Editor study projects have very similar goals, this two-tiered content of recent independent projects so that they
Marlee Bruning Design Editor system crucially allows groups of students a wider can get a better sense of what the current course
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Julien Ouellet Asst. Design Editor Matt Aks Board member student involvement in GISPs is necessarily a cause We like the current system and aren’t advocating
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Post- magazine Zack Beauchamp Board member for concern. However, because the goals of GISPs anything radical. We only think that a little minor
Arthur Matuszewski Editor-in-Chief
Debbie Lehmann Board member and departmental group independent projects are tweaking could enhance both of the group indepen-
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The Brown Daily Herald
PassiveAggressiveColumns.com
BY IVY CHANG
Opinions Columnist
Let’s say it’s just another one of those nights.
Every cup from the 12-pack of ramen you
bought at the beginning of the semester has
become steadily more unappetizing. But you
have few other options. Nutella straight from
the jar? Stale chips? You schlump downstairs
to the communal kitchen to heat up some
water.
Upon opening the fridge to get water, you
spy a plate of cupcakes, just chillin’ there under
Saran wrap. Your stomach responds excitedly.
If only you had the time to bake.
With midterms consuming every last sec-
ond of your life, you’ve had no time to treat
yourself this week. You’ve suffered enough.
There are, like, 20 cupcakes on that tray,
just taking up space and squishing everyone
else’s food in the fridge. It couldn’t hurt to
just take one, albeit without asking. No one
would know it was you, anyway, if you were
quick enough!
So, what do you do? Steal a cupcake or
turn back to your cup of cardboard strips
and sodium?
Hopefully, you chose to stick to your
own food.
Having kitchens is great. They provide
nice opportunities for supplementing a rather
monotonous diet of hot ham on bulky rolls,
spicy withs and Odwalla bars.
In an ideal world, everyone would be con-
scientious and respectful of other people’s
property. Perhaps an even more ideal world
BY JONATHAN TOPAZ
Opinions Columnist
The majority of Brown students can breathe
a sigh of relief that the Rhode Island Senate
seems to be turning against the implementa-
tion of a student tax. The Oct. 29 Senate meet-
ing did not feature discussion of a potential
bill that would tax out-of-state students up
to $300 per year, and if the proposal is not
reestablished in January, the legislation will
become inactive.
As Brown students celebrate this small vic-
tory in the face of next year’s tuition increase,
a disturbing trend is developing at public uni-
versities across the country. American public
universities are greatly increasing tuition, by
an average of 6.5 percent. At the same time,
schools are cutting costs on facilities, faculty,
resources and technology. It is apparent that
students are, as Jane Wellman, executive direc-
tor of the Delta Project on Postsecondary Edu-
cation Costs, Productivity and Accountability,
puts it, “paying more and getting less.”
The national trend certainly has devastat-
ing consequences here in Rhode Island. The
Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher
Education voted again to vastly increase tu-
ition for the state’s public universities. In-state
students attending the University of Rhode
Island will not merely see a five-percent hike
in their room and board fees, but an astonish-
ing 9.9 percent jump in their tuition. Since
2004, tuition and other fees for Rhode Island
public universities have skyrocketed. This
year, three public universities increased costs
by ten percent and, since 2004, fees have in-
would include a private kitchen space for
ever y student. However, reality is harsh,
and most underclassmen don’t have the
choice of living off campus or in dorms with
such amenities.
They are pretty much forced to give others
the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their
personal food items and the maintenance of
the communal space.
Leaving dirty dishes out and moldy food
in the fridge is pretty gross, but such issues
are always resolved in due time. Dishes get
It’s hard to live in a place where you can’t even
trust your neighbors.
washed because they need to be reused and
moldy food gets thrown out when it starts
looking like a miniature ecosystem.
Deliberate thieving of other people’s food
items, however, is inexcusable. It ruins the
community spirit. It’s hard to live in a place
where you can’t even trust your neighbors.
A friend of mine once left a large bowl of
raw chocolate cake batter in a dorm kitchen
for a few minutes, only to return later to dis-
cover it scraped completely clean. Another
friend’s leftover pizza would almost always
mysteriously vanish, even when labeled with
his name. And it wasn’t too uncommon to hear
Increasing the education gap
creased by 64 percent for URI, 72 percent for
the Community College of Rhode Island, and
75 percent for Rhode Island College.
While it is expedient for politicians to point
out that the Department of Education received
an unprecedented $3 billion of stimulus fund-
ing, the numbers are misleading. Education
stimulus funding largely functioned as a form
of life support for states and districts that are
barely hanging on. In addition to the large
portion of that money that went to districts
desperately attempting to stay afloat, much
went to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s
ambitious plan to “turn around” America’s
By accepting wealthier, out-of-state students
who pay higher tuition, public universities are
turning their backs on lower and middle class
in-state applicants.
worst schools. These turnarounds, which Dun-
can implemented as chief executive officer
of Chicago Public Schools, are designed to
completely change the faculty, staff, culture
and educational philosophy of suffering pri-
mary schools by shutting them down and
reopening them with everything new except
the students. Such drastic action costs about
$5 million per school, and it has dominated
much of the funding.
While it is still somewhat unclear how
the state budget crises will affect financial
aid packages, tuition increases will surely
of people sneaking bites from birthday cakes
in the fridge that weren’t theirs.
In my Grad Center tower last year, things
escalated beyond the usual utensil and
cooking-pot thefts. People would lose food
during unexplained — possibly passive aggres-
sive — cleaning sessions that swept fridges
and shelves nearly bare. Someone briefly “bor-
rowed” a kitchen microwave.
The CAs ended up having to send out a rath-
er embarrassing mass e-mail telling us many
things that we already should have known.
Thefts aren’t limited to dorms. A recent
posting on PassiveAggressiveNotes.com, in
which a victim of cream cheese theft admon-
ishes the “community” for behaving in such a
manner, actually comes from the Department
of Computer Science here at Brown.
These could be isolated cases, but, no mat-
ter how far or few, they contribute to general
feelings of anger, distrust and misanthropy.
The shield of anonymity provided by a
communal kitchen is nigh impenetrable. This
is what gives it the potential to become a breed-
ing ground for food theft and other misdeeds.
With so many people living in one building, it’s
have devastating consequences for middle
class families. It is inevitable that, without
the expansion of financial aid, students will
be forced to drop out of college or will be
unable to apply.
Additionally, as argued by Paul Fain, senior
reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Educa-
tion, public universities run the risk of looking
just like their private university counterparts.
By accepting wealthier, out-of-state students
who pay higher tuition, public universities are
turning their backs on lower and middle class
in-state applicants.
The consequences that will follow are in-
credibly dire. First, public universities are cre-
ating a problematic situation for their states.
If state schools are educating fewer of their
own citizens, they run the risk of extending
their state’s budget problems into the future.
Second, by increasing tuition, public universi-
ties are precluding many of their students —
particularly those with insufficient financial aid
— from staying enrolled. Third, and perhaps
most disturbing, is that public universities are
on the brink of becoming much more elitist.
By accepting, as Fain puts it, “more wealthy
and better-prepared students,” universities are
Monday, November 9, 2009 | Page 11
hard for even roommates to realize that one
of their own is the perpetrator of the infamous
organic hummus theft of the week.
Anonymity is a sly sort of demon. Arthur
Beaman and Bonnel Klentz’s oft-cited field
study shows that even cute little trick-or-treat-
ing children aren’t safe from its pervasive
influence. Masked children are more likely
to defy instructions limiting the amount of
candy they take, as opposed to children whose
identities are made more obvious.
With proper cooperation and respect, com-
munal kitchens live up to their nice-sounding
name. They foster “communities” and become
nice spaces for sharing ingredients, learning
new recipes from fellow residents and holding
impromptu gatherings that revolve around
tasty food.
The urge to sample food that isn’t yours
gets the best of us. At the same time, it’s so
easy to just step back and remember to respect
other people’s property, regardless of whether
or not they’re present.
If you’re really that starved for something
new, put up a Facebook status about it. Se-
riously. You’re sure to get a few responses
offering snacks.
People are usually generous and understand-
ing, as long as their stuff isn’t being stolen.
Ivy Chang ’10 was a naïve sophomore
when she lost those cupcakes, but she
still cries about them sometimes. She can
be reached at ivy_chang@brown.edu.
increasingly educating a narrower segment
of the population.
Public universities exist on the premise
that every segment of the population deserves
an education, and by excluding any segment
based on financial situation, they betray their
mission. To educate a more economically ho-
mogeneous part of the population, to turn their
backs on poorer students who desperately
need a college education, to give preference
to wealthier students, to attempt to increase
revenue at the expense of young Americans
who rely so heavily on public universities for
their future would be catastrophic for the
nation as a whole.
There is no easy answer to this problem.
Public universities are just attempting to stay
afloat, and state legislators are forced to make
extremely difficult decisions in a dreadful eco-
nomic climate. However, with senior citizens
getting a disproportionate amount of attention
and funding from the upcoming health care
bill (which will total hundreds of billions of
dollars), young Americans are getting the
short end of the stick. And with the higher
educational system struggling, with public
universities primed to select against the na-
tion’s middle and lower classes, we are at
risk of creating a much starker imbalance
— economically, culturally and socially — of
our generation.
Jonathan Topaz ’12 is a political science
concentrator from New York City. He can
be reached at
Jonathan.Topaz@gmail.com.
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Today, november 9
11 am — Freedom Without Walls: Tear
Down This Wall!, Main Green
7:30 pm — “Taming the Wild Mind,”
A Talk By Zen Teacher Joanne Friday,
Manning Chapel
menu
Sharpe Refectory
Lunch — Chicken Curry, Black Bean
and Sweet Potato Ragout, Couscous
Dinner — Beef Shish Kabob, Vegan
Black Bean Taco, Rice and Orzo Pi-
laf
crossword
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W. hockey survives rough weekend
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Cabernet Voltaire | Abe Pressman
Lunch — Pepperoni French Bread
Pizza, Vegan Stuffed Peppers, Green
Beans with Tomatoes
Dinner — Country Style Baked
Ham, Gnocchi A La Sorrentina, Oven
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Hippomaniac | Mat Becker
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