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Six undergrads to puzzle
Times readers this week
By Alexandra Ulmer
Senior Staff Writer
Crossword devotees are often ste-
reotyped to be nostalgic retirees who
avidly pen in answers to puzzles as
they sip coffee at the breakfast table.
But six Brown students are rejuvenat-
ing the brainteasers by designing
consecutive New York Times puzzles
for Brown Puzzlemaker Week — the
first time a specific university’s stu-
dents have been given the reins of the
paper’s celebrated puzzles.
Creations by Aimee Lucido ’13,
Eshan Mitra ’12, Zoe Wheeler ’12,
Joey Weissbrot ’11, Jonah Kagan ’13
and Natan Last ’12, listed in order of
publication, will be published starting
Monday.
Last, who designed his first cross-
word in 10th grade biology class and
co-founded the Brown Puzzling Asso-
ciation, pitched the idea of the special
week to the Times’ crossword editor
Will Shortz, for whom he interned
Young guns,
old stalwarts
lead defense
By Sarah Beresford
Contributing Writer
“The greatest compliment you can
give a freshman is that he never
played like a freshman,” said foot-
ball Defensive Coordinator Michael
Kelleher.
If one thing is certain, it is that
last season — with a total of 57
tackles, several game-changing
interceptions and an appointment
Pigskin Preview
Part one of three
to the All-Ivy Second Team — cor-
nerback A.J. Cruz ’13 never played
like a rookie. “I don’t think there is
anything he could do on the field
that would surprise me,” Kelleher
said.
Cruz earned Ivy Weekly Honors
in six of 10 games, was named Ivy
League Rookie of the Week after
an impressive performance against
Cornell and was honored as the
Ivy League Defensive Player of
the Week after a game-saving in-
terception against Yale. Tri-captain
linebacker Andrew Serrano ’11 de-
scribed Cruz as “a super-athletic
guy” who is “definitely going to
have a huge impact on the team
this year.”
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this summer. “He said it was just a
matter of finding six people who can
do it,” Last said.
With roughly 30 members in the
student group, Last said it was not
difficult to find five other enthusiastic
constructors. The association meets
weekly to construct, discuss and solve
puzzles and annually organizes a cam-
pus crossword tournament. Kagan
and Last also construct special weekly
puzzles, titled “Across to Bear,” for
The Herald.
“I think it’s remarkable that there
are so many Brown students who con-
struct puzzles,” said Shortz, who at-
tended this spring’s tournament. “The
quality of the puzzles is just as high as
in any other week, and I wouldn’t have
published them otherwise.”
The six approach the craft of
crossword making with different
backgrounds. Lucido is concentrat-
ing in computer science and Mon-
continued on page 3
Growing BTV producing new shows
By Fei Cai
Senior Staff Writer
Brown Television is back and
expanding this semester with
more episodes of student-run TV
shows such as last year’s “Mt.
Olympus,” “Campus Liquors” and
“BTV Primer,” the premiere of
“The Ratty” and additional student
short films.
Beginnings
A group of students includ-
Students waited in University Hall on a Sunday morning in 2006 to
pre-register for writing seminars. Banner has simplified registration.
Higher Ed, 2
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Harvard’s endowment
made an 11 percent gain
last year
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Living statues added to the atmosphere of Saturday night’s
WaterFire on the majestic Seekonk River.
ing Doug Liman ’88, director of news broadcasting, had its ups
“The Bourne Identity,” and David and downs, but remained run-
Bartis ’88, executive producer of
“The O.C.,” founded BTV in 1987,
ning until 2006. All shows went
off the air for a two-year period,
according to the BTV website. At while the station became a me-
dium for movies then stopped all
arts & culture broadcasts.
the time, the organization boasted Revival
more than 300 members and was But BTV was not dead.
the single largest student group In 2008, a small group of stu-
on campus. dents came together, wrote a
The station, which has won a
national award for excellence in continued on page 3
A tangled Web: an
undergrad’s life online
By Alex Bell
Senior Staff Writer
The class of 2010 was the last group
of Brown students to have known a
time without Banner. Juniors are the
last class to have been introduced to
advising without the Dean of the Col-
lege’s Advising Sidekick tool. About
80 percent of them applied online,
compared to more than 99 percent
of this year’s freshmen. And with
more than 5,000 students now using
Banner’s new course scheduler tool,
it’s questionable how many of those
freshmen have even heard of Mocha.
Ahalya Nirmalan / Herald file photo After four years, who will be left
to remember what being a Brown
student was like before these new
Sports, 5
Soccer showdown
Women’s soccer goes
against nationally ranked
teams
news in brief
Magazine:
Simmons is
‘fierce and
fabulous’
President Ruth
Simmons will receive a
Visionary Award from
Essence Magazine,
less than a year after
being honored for her
accomplishments as an
educator by BET. She will
be awarded Monday at
the “Fierce and Fabulous”
luncheon in New York City
celebrating the magazine’s
40th anniversary.
Simmons is one of
40 black women to be
honored at the luncheon
who have “fearlessly
given voice to our dreams
and paved the way for
dreamers to follow,”
according to Essence’s
website. The magazine
is honoring “exceptional
women who are making a
difference in the world,”
according to a press
release. She is featured
along with other honorees
in the magazine’s
commemorative issue,
which is on shelves now.
Other honorees include
such influential women
as Michelle Obama, Maya
Angelou and Beyonce.
— Fei Cai
Web systems came about?
Over the years, critics of techno-
logical innovations — most notably
Banner — have assailed changes due
to the detriment they might cause
the New Curriculum and the under-
graduate experience at Brown. The
Herald took a retrospective look at
how these new technological insti-
tutions quickly adopted by Brown
students have affected student life.
Before Banner
Banner’s predecessor for course
registration began operating in the
fall of 1983, according to University
Registrar Robert Fitzgerald. It re-
continued on page 2
Opinions, 7
Ditching the dorms
Sarah Yu ’11 demands off-
campus housing options
for all
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C ampus N EWS “I don’t think Banner really had the effect people feared it would have.”
— University Registrar Robert Fitzgerald

Banner, Sidekick, MyCourses shape undergrad experience online

continued from page 1
mained the status quo for more than
20 years until the arrival of Banner
in April 2007.
“Students used to line up with the
old paper cards,” recalled Fitzger-
ald, who came to the University in
2003. “Back in University Hall, the
line used to go all the way through
the building.”
After students submitted their
cards, a data entry firm would pick
them up for processing, Fitzgerald
said. Students had to wait until the
next day to find out what classes they
got into.
Fitzgerald said most of Brown’s
peer group had online registration
by the 1990s.
Brown’s system was “archaic,”
he said. “It was like a step back in
time for me.”
For the most part, the legacy sys-
tem was written in-house, unlike the
packaged Banner software that has
been only tweaked by the University
for Brown’s use. When Banner was
first introduced, it used to display
zeros for students’ grade-point aver-
ages on academic records, which was
modified when students complained
that it looked fishy to employers,
he said.
Outside of changes like that and
the Brown-built course scheduler,
“Banner is pretty vanilla,” Fitzgerald
said — if Computing and Information
Services modified the Banner soft-
ware too much, upgrades to Banner
would become increasingly more
cumbersome to implement.
At the time Banner was intro-
duced, the previous mainframe was
more than 20 years old. Fitzgerald
said the people who built it were no
longer around to fix it, and there
sudoku
were few opportunities for upgrades
or support for the outdated technol-
ogy.
“Banner has got its faults, but at
least it’s stable,” Fitzgerald said. “If
it ever breaks down, we don’t have
to go out and find somebody who
worked here 15 years ago.”
Although the legacy system did
not allow for most courses to be
filled on a first-come, first-served
basis, Fitzgerald said capped writ-
ing courses always drew quite the
early-morning crowd to University
Hall. He said the doors to the build-
ing would open at about 5 a.m., and
registration for these weary-eyed
students would begin around 9 or
10 a.m.
Banner-Brown tensions
A September 2009 Herald edito-
rial summarized the themes of many
letters to the editor and news articles
around the time Banner replaced the
legacy paper system.
“Over the past few years, students
and recent alumni have seen paper-
less pre-registration, and Banner
especially, as a threat to the New
Curriculum,” the editorial concluded.
“These concerns will be addressed
if and when Brown uses its online
resources to support course selec-
tions that are flexible and informed.”
Years ago, critics prophesied the
downfall of Brown’s liberal learning
curriculum, the introduction of distri-
bution requirements and the uniform
application of prerequisites to deny
students access to classes they oth-
erwise could have gotten into under
a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
In March of 2007, the Under-
graduate Council of Students passed
a resolution describing Banner as
a “disruptive and counterintuitive”
system that would threaten the New
Curriculum. A co-sponsor of the reso-
lution condemned Banner as “one of
the most impractical applications”
introduced at Brown.
Student reactions varied, though.
“As long as there’s Mocha, we’ll
be fine,” one student told The Herald
at the time.
“I don’t think Banner really had
the effect people feared it would
have,” Fitzgerald said. “People shop
now as much as they shopped in the
’80s.”
In the fall of 2009, overrides were
introduced to allow students to regis-
ter for courses that were full — but
with the instructor’s permission, just
like things always were, Fitzgerald
said.
And as far as prerequisites go,
some departments still ask the Office
of the Registrar to tell Banner not to
enforce listed prerequisites, which
Fitzgerald said can be changed with
a click of a button.
With the introduction of the
course scheduler, Fitzgerald said he
hopes students will have an easier
time seeing which courses they do
not meet the prerequisites for so they
can know to ask for an override.
Banner is designed to enforce dis-
tribution requirements, but Fitzger-
ald said that is a capability his office
simply has never used.
“Banner hasn’t changed the
open nature of the curriculum,” he
said. “The only thing that has really
changed — and I don’t think any-
body is missing it — is students don’t
have to line up with pieces of paper
anymore.”
ASK and Liberal Learning
Though the debates over Banner
have been prominent over the past
several years, other technological
innovations have been reshaping the
undergraduate experience as well.
Dean of the College Katherine
Bergeron said the Advising Sidekick
tool that launched with last year’s
freshmen will encourage reflection
and integrate advising across stu-
dents’ four years at Brown. The tool
connects students with their advis-
ers, gathers advising resources in
one place and allows students to up-
load their best work into a portfolio.
“ASK will increase the oppor-
tunity for students to live out the
promise of the Brown curriculum,”
Bergeron said. “It’s one thing to take
courses, but it’s another thing to stop
and reflect on why.”
Before the tool, she said, the lib-
eral learning objectives were not as
heavily emphasized to freshmen.
“We say this is a curriculum that
encourages reflection,” Bergeron
said. “This gives us an opportunity
to prove that.”
Bergeron also said she hopes the
tool will evolve with its pilot class of
2013 to integrate advising past stu-
dents’ early years.
This year, sophomores will for the
first time file their concentrations
through ASK, and those forms will
be housed in the program, Bergeron
said. Previously, students’ files re-
sided in paper form in University
Hall, which she said was a hindrance
to concentration advisers.
But with ASK, Bergeron hopes to
see everything from students’ goals
and introductory letters for first-year
advisers to concentration essays go
into one electronic file that is eas-
ily accessible, even when a student
switches advisers after declaring a
concentration. Just as importantly,
she said, a student’s electronic file is
also accessible to the student.
“There’s a great opportunity
here for rethinking what that file is,”
Bergeron said. “We want students to
feel like the continuity of advising
takes place over all four years.”
MyCourses and alternatives
Before Brown adopted the Black-
board-based MyCourses system in
2002, the University had what CIS’s
Manager for Instructional Technol-
ogy Patricia Zudeck called a “home-
grown” learning management system
that was hard to support or extend.
Course packets sold by the Brown
Bookstore containing assigned read-
ings were very common for classes,
but hard to update once they were
printed and frequently misplaced by
students, Zudeck said.
Now, Web-based software has
allowed students around-the-clock
access to online assignments and as-
sessments as well as the opportunity
to view their grades online, among
other features.
About 600 courses use MyCours-
es, but Zudeck said other platforms
are becoming increasingly common
as students expect more resources to
be online. Some courses use wikis,
Google sites or iTunes U.
Though iTunes U can support
video as well as audio, its use is be-
coming increasingly common for
hosting audio files for language or
music classes, according to Brown’s
Director for Academic Technology
Services Catherine Zabriskie. Fac-
ulty can request space on iTunes U
from the University, and can grant
access to the files only to students
registered for their class, just as they
would through MyCourses.
One problem with many of these
systems has been their inability to
interact with Banner. Though course
registration lists are transferred to
MyCourses nightly, grades entered
by professors in MyCourses cannot
be transferred to Banner.
With the recent launch of a new
and very different Blackboard sys-
tem, Zudeck said CIS has begun to
assess alternative learning manage-
ment systems and hopes to reach a
decision this spring. One of many
options under consideration is Lu-
minis, which could be more easily
integrated into the rest of the suite
because it is made by the same com-
pany as Banner.
But John Spadaro, Brown’s direc-
tor of technical architecture and out-
reach, said it is unlikely Brown will
flock to one central system of record.
Instead, the focus is on making sure
these various systems — from Ban-
ner to ASK to MyCourses — can in-
teract in some way with one another.
“Particularly as we modernize
systems, one of the things we try to
do is make sure we have very open
programming interfaces so we can
exchange data between systems,”
Spadaro said. “The hope is even if
it’s not the same system, the data in
one system will be able to be used or
referenced easily by others.”

Harvard endowment soars 11 percent

By Nicole Boucher
Senior Staff Writer
Harvard experienced an 11 percent
investment return on its endowment
this past year, bringing its total to
$27.4 billion, several news sources
Education
“We are hearing similar encour-
aging signs from other institutions,”
Goldsmith said. But she added,
“There’s still a lot of uncertainty
about the economy, so while we’re
encouraged, we still need to take a
The Herald, but she declined to com-
ment on Harvard’s results.
Harvard’s endowment increase
comes after a year of restructur-
ing to increase the liquidity of its
portfolio among other adjustments,
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BTV blossoms with new shows about liquor store, the Ratty
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budget proposal and was granted
funds from the Undergraduate Fi-
nance Board to renew the station.
BTV officially relaunched in 2009
and began showing reruns from
the 90s.
The station, thirsty for new ma-
terial, held a pilot competition in
early 2009. More than 15 shows
entered the competition, and four
were chosen for production based
on the quality of the screenplays
and their appeal to the University’s
audience.
Episodes, however, have been
few and far between because of
students’ busy schedules and
the challenge of putting together
shows from scratch, according to
the station’s executive producer,
Sam Eilertsen ’12.
“Time is the main challenge,”
he said. “Getting people and get-
ting them to stick to it is what we
need. Actors are used to it, but it’s
more difficult for the crew.”
Fantasy, myths, college life
Current shows, though, are
nothing if not creative and full of
Six Brown undergrads wrote puzzles for the New York Times’ first-ever week of crosswords from one school.
Shortz picks six for Times’ puzzle publication
continued from page 1
day’s puzzle is the first she has ever
constructed, while Weissbrot is study-
ing classics and used to spend his
middle school lunch breaks solving
crosswords.
But all concur that creating puz-
zles requires a love for language, a
mathematical mind and a passion for
quirky trivia. They also relish creating
fresher clues — with topics ranging
from “Harry Potter” to “The Simp-
sons” — for a hobby that has long
been dominated by old-fashioned
references.
“Constructing is a great way to
get back at the crossword world for
all those years,” said Kagan.
Shortz also organized a Teen
Puzzlemaker Week in 2008 and a
Half-Century Puzzlemakers’ Week
in 2009. On average, he said he ed-
its about half of all clues in any one
puzzle to be published — but tweaked
a lower percentage of the student-
penned clues, he added.
The clues are the final — but most
fun — part of the creation process
potential. “The Circle,” a complete
five-episode show about a univer-
sity resisting evil forces that have
overtaken the world, has set the
bar for the station’s quality. The
stor y revolves around the feats of
an orphan at the university, which
ser ves as a safe haven from the
dark powers.
Eilertsen, who worked on “The
Circle,” said the show, which has
generally received positive ratings
from viewers, had high production
value because of its special effects.
Another show that began last
year and hopes to continue this se-
mester is “Mt. Olympus,” a series
about the Greek gods and their
college exploits. “Our show asks,
‘What would it be like if the gods
lived amongst us?’ What happens
if you take a normal person and
give them extraordinar y powers?
How does that work in our soci-
ety?” explained Ben Jones ’13, the
show’s producer.
“Mt. Olympus” began with Arik
Beatty ’10, one of the executive
producers and co-directors of the
show, and some of his friends.
“The whole thing started as a
joke,” Beatty said. Last year he
for Last, who creates the puzzles via
a computer program.
First, he picks a theme, thinks up
answers and types them in a grid.
Then he blacks out the squares at
the end of words, fiddles with the
construction and ultimately writes
out the clues.
“You try to have the least number
of awkward letters crossing,” said
Last, who added that he has always
been passionate about fitting objects
together. “I used to make mazes all
the time. My favorite thing as a kid
was Legos.”
In contrast, Lucido’s history with
puzzles is far more recent. While she
used to peek over her mother’s shoul-
der when she completed the Times’
Sunday crossword, she said she did
not delve into crossword creation until
late last semester.
“I had a week between two finals
so I spent a day making it,” said Lu-
cido of the puzzle, where the word
“Brown” is prominently featured. “We
were attempting to study for philoso-
phy … but that just developed into
writing clues. I realized it was way
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lived in a house with 12 people, so
the group called it Mt. Olympus.
“We started thinking, wouldn’t it
be funny if we were actually 12
Olympian gods going to school?”
The idea jump-started a screen-
play about the gods and their de-
cision to disguise themselves as
college students to have a bit of
fun in modern times.
Hestia, guardian of the Sacred
Flame on Olympus, is left behind,
but decides she too wants to join
in the fun. Without her, the flame
goes out, and the gods find them-
selves stuck in college with no
powers. The result is what Beatty
calls “all hell breaking loose.”
But the show also explores
deeper topics such as “struggles
with identity,” he added.
Beatty noted that the group
wanted to focus on Hestia because
she is a lesser-known goddess,
which allows the writers some
creative freedom. Her role as the
guardian of the Sacred Flame has
kept her innocent and relatively
naive, and “for once in her life,
she would like to have a bit of fun.”
The first episode received posi-
tive reviews at its screening, Be-
Stephanie London / Herald
cooler to work on a puzzle for the
New York Times.”
She and Mitra will be published
for the first time this week, while the
other three have already had their
creations printed in the Times.
“I want to continue to publish teens
and young constructors,” Shortz said.
“I’m expecting people to think that,
A, this week is cool and, B, these are
really nice puzzles.”
“Next year, we will have more BTV.”
— Sam Eilerstein ’12, BTV executive producer
atty said, adding that the series
will have a five-episode stor y arc.
Currently, the second episode is
in post-production, the third and
fourth are being filmed and the
fifth is still being written.
Campus comedies
Not all shows have to do with
the fantastic or the mythological.
Some, such as “Campus Liquors”
and “The Ratty,” take place in an
ever yday liquor store and the
Sharpe Refector y, respectively.
“Campus Liquors” is about
two friends who work at their lo-
cal campus liquor store and the
events that occur there.
“The Ratty,” a sitcom created
by Andy Newton ’11, Jeremy Noah
’11 and Benjamin Gold ’11, is about
“four friends — normal Brown stu-
dents — and their misadventures,”
Newton said.
While “navigating the twists and
turns of life and Brown,” the char-
acters “are all brought together by
the Ratty. It’s sort of their sanctu-
ar y,” said Newton, who is a writer
and director for the show. Newton
and Gold said they hope to air the
first episode this school year.
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TV for the future
With the termination of Brown’s
cable system this semester, BTV has
stopped airing its shows on televi-
sion, becoming a purely Internet-
based station. This will necessitate
a few changes, Eilertsen said.
Currently, the shows are running
30-minute programs, the standard for
normal television. Eilertsen thinks
shows that have not yet begun film-
ing, such as his new program “Fever
Break,” should run about 10 - 15 min-
utes per episode in order to “fit the
attention span of the Internet and
student schedules.”
But moving the station to the Web
also has its benefits. This transition
will allow BTV to incorporate more
student short films into its program-
ming. Also, the Internet has looser
restrictions on episode release dates
than television. This means creators
will have the freedom to air episodes
whenever they want, instead of ad-
hering to strict schedules.
Eilertsen remains optimistic
about the future of the station. “It
is growing at a very fast pace, but
we don’t know if the pace is evident
yet,” he said. “Next year, we will have
more BTV.”
SportsMonday
The Brown Daily Herald
M. water polo
Diablo Valley 3
Brown 9
Toronto 8
Brown 13
SCOREBOARD
Brown 9
Bucknell 13
Alexandra Rieckhoff ’14, the volleyball team’s leader in assists, sets up a teammate.
Volleyball
Squad beats PC, goes 2-2 on week
By Samuel Rubinroit
Contributing Writer
There are certain rivalries in college
sports that shut down entire cities,
turn sibling against sibling and pro-
vide bragging rights for the rest of
the year: Michigan vs. Ohio State in
football, Duke vs. North Carolina in
basketball and USC vs. UCLA in just
about every sport. The crosstown
women’s volleyball rivalry between
Brown (3-4) and Providence College
(4-8) doesn’t quite match up to those,
but the yearly meeting is still marked
on the teams’ calendars.
“It’s nice,” Head Coach Diane
Short said. “It’s kind of like our little
city championship, so it’s always good
to play them every year.”
The PC game was the first in a
week of four games for the players.
Brown 3, Providence College 0
Bruno played its home opener
Wednesday against the Friars , com-
ing away with a 25-16, 26-24, 25-20
victory.
“I thought we played really well,”
said co-captain Danielle Vaughan ’11.
“We lost a little momentum in the sec-
ond game, but I really like how we
fought even though the score got tight
at the end.”
The annual matchup against the
Friars has some added significance
M. water polo
Penn St.-Behrend 2
Brown 16
Navy 8
Brown 7
for Short, who served as an assistant
coach at PC for three seasons, includ-
ing two seasons as head coach of the
school’s men’s club volleyball team.
“It’s a rivalry for us. Every year we
have something we look forward to,”
said PC Head Coach Margot Royer-
Johnson.
Ohio State 3, Brown 0
After defeating the Friars, Brown
traveled to Baltimore last weekend
for the University of Maryland at Bal-
timore County Invitational, where the
team first faced perennial volleyball
powerhouse Ohio State (9-1), losing
25-12, 25-20, 25-18.
Despite the loss, facing the highly
ranked Buckeyes has its benefits for
the Bears.
“I think it’s going to prepare us
really well” for league play, Vaughan
said. “There’s a lot of really big teams
in the Ivy League like Yale and Penn,
so it’s great to see some big teams”
in out-of-conference play.
Brown 3, Towson 1
In its second game of the UMBC
tournament, Bruno faced one of the
two host schools, Towson (10-3).
Despite dropping the first set 25-
17, Brown fought back to win three
straight sets by scores of 25-19, 25-22
and 26-24.
“I think even when we lost the
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first set,” Short said, the players “felt
confident that they were going to win
the match.”
Katrina Post ’13 recorded a team-
high 12 kills and Annika Gliottone ’12
added 23 digs.
Maryland at Baltimore County
3, Brown 1
In the final game of the tourna-
ment, Brown encountered the other
host school, UMBC (4-5). After win-
ning the first set 27-25, Bruno dropped
the next three in highly contested play.
UMBC took the remaining sets 25-21,
25-22 and 25-23.
“It was a disappointing loss against
UMBC, but it was a very good learn-
ing experience,” Short said. “They had
the fans behind them, and fans were
yelling every time we served, so that
was good practice for us to be able to
handle those situations.”
The Bears saw strong performanc-
es throughout the tournament from
Post, who made the All-Tournament
Team, and Alexandra Rieckhoff ’14.
Rieckhoff has led the team in assists
every game this year, including a
season-high 42 against UMBC.
The Bears return to action this
weekend as they host the Brown
Invitational on Friday and Saturday,
featuring Boston College, Holy Cross,
the University of Rhode Island and
Central Connecticut State.
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Navy Invite
Twelfth place
Football ‘D’ aims to avenge
loss to Stony Brook in ’09
continued from page 1
Though the team will return
some star ters, like Cr uz and
Serrano, it will have to look fur-
ther to fill the holes left by the
class of 2010, both on of fense
and defense. According to Cruz,
coaches have been emphasizing
the transition to a team without
“Buddys and Bobbys,” referring
to former wide receivers Buddy
Farnham ’10 and Bobby Sewall
’10. And the defense lost five play-
ers from the class of 2010, which
means new faces in key roles.
Because of this, the returning
players’ focus is “to come togeth-
er as a team, to have each others’
backs,” Cruz said.
Kelleher describes the team’s
philosophy as each man having
his “job” to do on the field.
“Defensively, if we have 11
players doing their job, we’ll be
a lot stronger,” Kelleher said.
“This season, our motto is ‘We
are a team.’ ”
The defensive line is physi-
cally smaller than it has been in
the past, but what the group lacks
in size, it makes up for in speed
and agility.
“We’re going to play a lot fast-
er, play more disciplined and play
as a team more than we did last
year,” Serrano said.
Cruz described a pre-practice
ritual that encourages leadership
from the entire team.
“Whether it be a junior, se-
nior, sophomore, from players
who maybe don’t play that much
to the starters and captains, we
always have someone go up and
kind of get us going before prac-
tice,” Cruz said. He describes the
leadership in these pep talks as
less individual and more team-
based.
In preseason, the defense has
been practicing mostly against
the Brown starting offense, but
as the season approaches, its fo-
cus has shifted toward preparing
cross Country
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place
for opponents.
Serrano stressed the impor-
tance of having the scout team
help the defense prepare for dif-
ferent offensive strategies.
“We can’t always play our
(star ting) of fense in practice,
so having our scouts play well
helps us prepare to take on other
teams,” Serrano said.
The Bears’ first game is a
rematch of last year’s season
opener, when they suf fered a
devastating 21-20 loss to Stony
Brook. The defense is looking
to come out with a better result
this Saturday.
“They are a well-coached team
and will be a good match for us
physically,” Kelleher said. “Our
foundation has always been de-
fensively to stop the run first, and
this will be a good gauge to let
us know where we are.”
Stony Brook’s offensive line
averages close to 300 pounds
across the board, which will
present a challenge to the Bears’
defensive linemen.
“They’re bigger than we are,
but we’re faster,” Serrano said.
Though the team is tr ying to
focus all of its energy on prepar-
ing for Stony Brook, it is difficult
not to look ahead to the team’s
second home game.
“I’d be lying if I said we can
go a day without someone talk-
ing about the Har vard game,”
Kelleher said.
The team is also looking
ahead to a rematch of last year’s
defensive battle against Penn,
Cruz said.
Penn led the Ivy League in
points last season , but the Bears
were able to hold strong, only al-
lowing one touchdown in regula-
tion, but losing 14-7 in overtime.
Other defensive players to
look out for this season include
Chimso Okoji ’11 and Phil Roffi
’11, experienced players who will
take over star ting linebacker
roles this season.
Page 5 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Monday, September 13, 2010

S ports M onday “We had the ball in our court.”

— Ryan McDuff ’13

M. Soccer

Commanding defense leads team to win, tie in Brown Soccer Classic

By Katie DeAngelis
Spor ts Staff Writer
The men’s soccer team stayed
undefeated and per fect on the
defensive side this weekend after
two closely contested games in
the Brown Soccer Classic. The
Bears shut out the University of
South Carolina 1-0 and drew 0-0
against Hofstra.
Brown 1, University of South
Carolina 0
Brown (2-0-2) took the field
with determination Friday night
against the University of South
Carolina. After 82 minutes of
competitive play, the hard work
paid off, as for ward Sean Rosa ’12
scored the first and only goal of
the game.
The match involved much back-
and-forth action across the field
and was ver y physical, with 12
fouls in the first half alone.
In a postgame inter view posted
Jonathan Bateman / Herald by Brown Athletics, co-captain and
Forward Sean Rosa ’12 scored the lone goal in the soccer team’s 1-0 defender David Walls ’11 com-
victory over the University of South Carolina. mended the team’s continuous
energy.
“We kept going till the end,”
Walls said. “We had a few chances
and eventually we got one.”
Goalkeeper Paul Grandstrand
’11 continued his perfect work in
the goal with five saves.
“We tried real hard and com-
municated well,” Walls said. “It
was great to be part of that per-
formance.”
Brown 0, Hofstra 0
The Bears took the field again
on Sunday afternoon to play Hof-
stra in their second game of the
Brown Soccer Classic.
In comparison to Friday night’s
performance, the Bears started out
slower than they wanted.
“The game started out rough,”
said defender Ryan McDuff ’13. “It
was after just one day of rest, and
we had such a great crowd Friday
night (that) it took a while for the
energy to pick up.”
But the intensity increased in
the second half.
“At halftime, coach gave us
some inspiration and some minor
fixes,” McDuff said. “Mostly, he
said to show some passion and
energy, and after that, we did.”
Both teams played aggressively
and physically throughout the sec-
ond half. Brown had several good
crosses that passed right in front of
the goal. The Bears put two balls
in the net, but both goals were dis-
allowed because of offside calls,
causing an uproar from the ani-
mated fans. The score remained at
0-0 at the end of double overtime.
McDuf f was optimistic about
the team’s performance after the
game. “Our defense has been play-
ing really well, not allowing any
goals in our first four games,” he
said. “And our offense has been
creating chances. We just have to
be more efficient.”
Head Coach Patrick Laughlin
also encouraged the team to think
positively about the result, McDuff
said.
“After the game, coach said we
can’t be disappointed,” McDuf f
said. “We had the ball in our court.
We are the ones that have to make
the plays.”

W. Soccer

Bruno loses to Boston College, but upsets No. 22 Monmouth

By Madeleine Wenstrup
Contributing Writer
The women’s soccer team (2-2-0)
faced a tough schedule this week,
battling two nationally ranked op-
ponents early in the season. But
the young squad came away with
an upset victory after a hard-fought
away loss. Bruno fell 4-1 to No. 5
Boston College (4-0-1) on Wednes-
day night, but then returned to Ste-
venson Field Saturday afternoon to
secure a 2-1 win in its home opener
over No. 22 Monmouth (4-1-0).
No. 5 Boston College 4, Brown
1 pleased with how the team matched
The Bears’ defense was un-
der immediate pressure early in
the game against the Eagles on
Wednesday night. Boston College’s
Victoria DiMar tino scored less
than two minutes into the first half
and led BC to a 10-2 shot advantage
in the first 45 minutes.
With a second goal by DiMar-
tino, who went on to record her
first career hat trick, the Eagles
held a 2-0 advantage at halftime.
With two quick strikes about 10
minutes into the second half, BC
added its third and fourth goals to
secure the Eagles’ hold over the
Bears.
Unwilling to give up, the Bears
pressed on as forward-midfielders
Erika Lum ’11 and Louisa Pitney ’14
and fullback Carly Ruiz ’12 each
had a shot on goal late in the sec-
ond half. And with only a minute
remaining, midfielder Gina Walker
’11 scored with an assist from for-
ward Eliza Marshall ’13, saving the
Bears from a shutout.
Walker’s goal was only the sec-
ond scored on Boston College this
season. The Eagles have shut out
five of the seven teams they have
played so far, only allowing goals
to Brown and No. 2 Stanford.
Head Coach Phil Pincince was
up against the Eagles. “It was actu-
ally a well-played match for us,” he
said. “I was really happy we scored
and that we didn’t give up.”
Brown 2, No. 22 Monmouth 1
The Bears and Hawks battled
shot-for-shot in the first half of Sat-
urday’s home opener. In the middle
of the first half, Monmouth took the
shot advantage, testing Brown’s
defense and Amber Bledsoe’s ’14
goalkeeping abilities. But the Bears
succeeded in fending off all of the
Hawks’ first-half attempts on goal.
“We did a good job talking to
each other and working in the back
and just staying organized,” Bled-
soe said of the Bears’ defense.
The first half looked to be at a
standstill until Alison Mullin ’14
launched a high shot that hit the
crossbar. The carom set up for-
ward-midfielder Kiersten Berg ’14,
who tapped it into the net to secure
her first career goal just 18 seconds
before halftime.
“It was really exciting to see her
score the first goal of the season
on our home field,” Bledsoe said.
Looking to increase Bruno’s 1-0
lead, Berg scored again 15 minutes
into the second half with an assist
from Walker. The Hawks answered
six minutes later, finally beating
Brown’s formidable defense. In the
last 30 minutes of the game, Brown
fought to avoid a tie and came out
with a 2-1 win over previously un-
defeated Monmouth.
“We didn’t focus on them. We
just played our game,” Berg said,
speaking about facing the national-
ly ranked Hawks. “Going up against
an undefeated team is always kind
of fun.”
The Bears go back on the road
this week, traveling to West Point,
N.Y., Wednesday afternoon to face
Army. They will be led by newly Jesse Morgan / Herald
appointed captains Charlotte Rizzi Kiersten Berg ’14 scored two goals and propelled the women’s soccer
’11 and Walker. team to a 2-1 upset win over No. 22 Monmouth.

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Editorial & Letters
The Brown Daily Herald

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l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r

Coverage of mayoral race

missed Taveras’ strengths
To the Editor: a way that few political leaders in our
country can ever claim to know —
I was not impressed by The exactly what so many of Providence’s
Herald’s article on the Providence citizens are going through. Growing
mayoral race (“Mayoral race heats up in the infamous Lockwood Plaza
up before Sept. 14 primary,” Sept. 7), projects, working his way through
which showed in its description of the public school system and return-
each candidate an extremely flimsy ing to Providence after getting his
understanding of this election and law degree to continue community
what Providence has at stake. empowerment work has given Angel
For example, the article touted a profound understanding of how
Steven Costantino’s role in Rhode badly we need to remold city govern-
Island’s recent adoption of an educa- ment into the tool for social justice
tion funding formula. What it failed that Providence needs.
to mention was that Costantino has But Angel can’t do it alone. This
been Chair of the House Finance is an election where your vote really
Committee for close to a decade matters. To win this low-turnout,
now. When the Chair of the House three-way primary, Angel needs only
Committee on Finance wants some- 10,000 votes. There are at least 500
thing to happen, it happens. A fund- registered Brown students. In an
ing formula bill has been proposed election this close — Providence J ulia S treuli
by progressive representatives like elections have been known to come
Edie Ajello every single year going down to double-digit margins — a
back to the mid-90s, yet time and strong Brown student turnout could e d i to r i a l
time again it has been shot down by be the difference between victory
none other than Steven Costantino. and defeat.
But suddenly, the year Costantino
decides to run for mayor of Provi-
We have the opportunity to be
a part of something truly historic The other senior scramble
dence, what do you know, we get a here. We can change this city. We
funding formula. really can. As most seniors are well aware, the University capstone projects.
Providence deserves better. places a great deal of emphasis on the idea of a For starters, concentration advisers should hold
Providence deserves a mayor Aaron Regunberg ’12 senior capstone project — a thesis, independent office hours in the late spring devoted to junior advi-
like Angel Taveras, who knows — in Sept. 9 study, performance, internship or other major un- sees considering a thesis or other major undertaking
dertaking that punctuates a student’s four years at the following fall. These office hours could then lead
Brown. The Dean of the College’s website remarks, to dialogue over the summer between students and
“Some of the most satisfied graduates at Brown professors, allowing seniors to return to campus with
spend a portion of their senior year hard at work more concrete ideas and get to work right away on
t h e b r o w n d a i ly h e r a l d on an independent project of their own design.” And substance. Advisers could also encourage students to
Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Deputy Managing Editors Senior Editors in August, seniors received two e-mails from Dean take a look at recently completed capstone projects
George Miller Chaz Kelsh Emmy Liss Ben Hyman of the College Katherine Bergeron encouraging and speak to graduating seniors about their experi-
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such work. We have no doubt about the value of a ences over the past year.
editorial Business senior project or the capability of seniors to do an Perhaps the most difficult part of preparing to
General Managers Office Manager
Anne Speyer Arts & Culture Editor excellent job. However, we do wonder whether the do a capstone project is finding a unique and doable
Suzannah Weiss Arts & Culture Editor Claire Kiely Shawn Reilly
Sara Luxenberg Features Editor Katie Koh University’s advising system is doing enough prior topic, and we hope all faculty members are constantly
Brian Mastroianni Features Editor Directors to senior year to set students up for successful and keeping an eye out for students who might have
Brigitta Greene Metro Editor Kelly Wess Sales
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rewarding experiences. stumbled upon a good idea. We’ve occasionally heard
Sydney Ember News Editor Margaret Watson Client Relations The process of arranging to embark on a capstone professors remark that a student’s question in class
Zack Bahr Sports Editor Christiana Stephenson Alumni Relations project can be difficult, and students will likely have merits further investigation, but we’d like to hear it
Tony Bakshi Sports Editor Managers
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Erika Mueller Asst. Sports Editor Arjun Vaidya Local Sales topic something that could feasibly blossom into a to conducting independent research, and we need as
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Stephen Lichenstein Graphics Editor Aditi Bhatia University Sales
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Jonathan Bateman Sports Photo Editor Danielle Marshak Credit and Collections that for more than a few seniors, Dean Bergeron’s project. The University Keystone Project gives seniors
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Opinions
The Brown Daily Herald
SARAH YU
Opinions Columnist
I am back this fall for my final year on cam-
pus, only this time, I’ll be living off-campus.
That’s right: I’m in the process of fulfilling
my final test toward becoming an indepen-
dent young adult, mastering the ability to
live, cook, clean and pay rent and bills all on
my own.
I received an e-mail from Residential Life
last week titled “Important City Ordinance
Information.” As someone who is learning to
be a responsible member of the Providence
community, I opened the e-mail with haste,
only to scoff at its content. The second sen-
tence of the e-mail reads, “If there are com-
plaints about behavior at your residence,
you can be moved back on campus and will
not be granted off-campus permission again
during your enrollment at Brown.”
But the Office of Residential Life won’t
be able to find a room on campus to put me
in if this happens, I thought.
I felt a little slighted at ResLife’s disci-
plinary tone at this early stage of my off-
campus adventure. After all, I have not
made, nor am I intending to make, any sys-
tematic unchecked attempts at delinquent
behavior in my first year of big-people life.
While I recognize that many of the issues
the email addressed needed to be rein-
forced for college students living alone for
the first time, I could not help but be skepti-
cal of ResLife’s actual capabilities to carry
out disciplinary action against the socially
BY MANAS GAUTAM
Opinions Columnist
In his recent column (“Brown, Inc.”, Sept.
10), Simon Liebling ’12 made it very clear
that he has forgotten Brown University’s
primary objective — education. It is not to
provide healthcare to Dining Services or to
take care of Rhode Island’s destitute, but to
provide an education and a remarkable re-
search platform to students, academia and
professors from all over the world. There
are quite a few flaws in Liebling’s analysis,
which I hope to dispel.
Brown University is a home to knowl-
edge, research and learning. For students
and faculty to do this, they must have the
best facilities that exist so that they can
further their pursuits and make a name for
Brown in the world. The University should
keep reinventing and improving itself if it
wishes to be regarded among the best in the
world. That is precisely why they are build-
ing the new home for the Alpert Medical
School, Life Sciences building and Creative
Arts Center. The Athletic Center is also of
great importance, since sports play a big
role in leadership and team building. Fur-
thermore, the University funds these new
buildings and renovations through its en-
dowment, which is purely gifted by alumni.
Should Brown think of itself as a corpo-
ration? Yes, I believe it should. It has cus-
tomers — students and alumni — whose
Get a room … off campus
irresponsible — nor did I think the e-mail’s
discouraging words were justified.
After reading The Herald’s Sept. 8 arti-
cle, “Overcrowding causes unusual hous-
ing for some,” I remembered the sopho-
more-year plight of several of my peers,
who found themselves in uninsulated fra-
ternity “libraries” or miniature study loung-
es instead of a decent living space. My own
housing choice and decision to go off meal
plan were thwarted last year, as the only
kitchen in my hall, located so conveniently
In light of our dorms’ problems with
overcrowding, Brown students need increased
access to off-campus housing permission.
next to my room, was converted to a triple.
How, I thought, can ResLife confidently as-
sert that they could potentially revoke my
off-campus permission, when the dormito-
ries cannot possibly hold another student?
While ResLife’s commitment to provid-
ing on-campus housing for all students who
want it is admirable, this promise clearly
cannot be implemented with the conditions
of our dormitories as they are now. Over-
crowding is a big issue, and it seems as if
the problem will likely not go away unless
Brown instantly gains a large number of
new dormitory rooms. With an increasing
matriculation rate and more students to ac-
commodate with every new school year, it
In defense of Brown, Inc.
money Brown (as a corporation) must allo-
cate in the most effective manner. Last year,
around 30,000 high school students applied
to Brown. Why the recent surge? I believe it
is because our institution has put a lot of fo-
cus on the sciences and engineering. In do-
ing so, it has truly understood the trend of
preferences of students worldwide. To con-
tinue giving us the latest and best opportu-
nities, the University has to keep growing
I look forward to the day when Liebling’s
$50,000 per year, “noble intentions” and
pixie dust will pay for the University to be
the best in the world and keep our
lights on at the same time.
and developing. After all, the rattling pipes
in Metcalf did help keep one awake in class,
but it did raise questions about the dilapidat-
ed condition of the building.
Even though Liebling’s column goes
on to talk about how managing the budget
is important, the article’s message is very
clear — profit-maximizing is bad. What es-
capes me is how Liebling thinks that Brown
will keep growing while providing financial
aid to its students if it does not have a sur-
plus of wealth or capital. America’s private
educational institutions are undoubtedly the
best in the world, and they are the boons of
Monday, September 13, 2010 | Page 7
seems like a daunting possibility that all our
dormitories’ lounges and kitchens could be-
come bedrooms in the very near future.
Currently, while Brown seniors are all
guaranteed off-campus permission if they
choose to request it, it is definitely difficult
for juniors, or younger students, to attain
the same level of independence because of
an on-campus residence requirement of six
semesters. Also, many non-seniors usually
receive their off-campus housing permis-
sion after local landlords’ deadlines for leas-
es to be signed, leaving students with such
limited options for off-campus housing that
some opt to live on campus instead. But it is
clear, in light of our dorms’ problems with
overcrowding, that Brown students need in-
creased access to off-campus housing per-
mission.
Although new to apartment life, I believe
that living off-campus is a good culmination
of a well-rounded residential college experi-
ence. We are lucky to be in a city like Provi-
dence — not too large, yet definitely not a
small town. Providence is very accessible,
and there exist plenty of off-campus op-
tions, varying in price, for Brown students.
With Brown’s heavy focus on responsibili-
a capitalistic society. Philanthropists such
as John D. Rockefeller Jr. 1897, Thomas
Watson Jr. ’37, Sidney Frank ’42, the Jou-
kowskys and Stephen Robert ’62 are among
the many that have done well in their fields
and have allowed all of us to benefit from
this institution. However, Liebling goes on
to insult them (in particular Stephen Rob-
ert ’62, who was gracious enough to rebuild
Faunce House as the appealing student cen-
ter it now is). By questioning their donations
and intentions, he has not done any of us a
favor. If this is how the University’s students
think of such philanthropists, they certainly
have no incentive to share their fortune with
us. I look forward to the day when Liebling’s
$50,000 per year, “noble intentions” and pix-
ie dust will pay for the University to be the
best in the world and keep our lights on at
the same time.
What I find very distasteful in the column
is Liebling’s choice of who the winners and
losers are. He believes that letting employ-
ees go and not giving Dining Services work-
ty to the community and our campus’ thor-
ough integration into our surrounding de-
mographics and geography, it is a surprise
that Brown does not encourage students to
seek out off-campus housing options more
readily.
Living off-campus forces college stu-
dents to address all the issues that Re-
sLife’s email detailed. Noise, trash, parties
and relationships with neighbors are all im-
portant things that students at Brown need
to learn to deal with. Off campus, students
will (hopefully) no longer feel the desire to
destroy the exit signs in their apartment
buildings, pay more attention to keeping
living areas clean and learn a thing or two
about paying rent and bills. Any opportuni-
ties for students to encounter these respon-
sibilities should be encouraged by the Uni-
versity. It is probably likely that there will
be some cases of neighborhood disturbanc-
es and disciplinary issues with Providence
police, but I am confident that Brown stu-
dents have the intelligence and ability to act
responsibly when given a good opportunity
to do so.
I would like to propose that the Univer-
sity relieve the lottery-unlucky from their
study lounge fates. Making living off cam-
pus easier for Brown students will not only
reduce problems of overcrowding in our
dorms, but will also encourage students to
become more responsible members of the
Providence community.
Sarah Yu ’11 no longer has displaced
sophomores living in her kitchen. She
can be reached at xia_yu@brown.edu.
ers healthcare are outrages. Has he ever
wondered whether these employees were
actually efficient and effective? Further-
more, if Obamacare is really the solution to
the healthcare problem, it can take care of
the Refectory’s workers. Why must the Uni-
versity sponsor private healthcare and take
on such a huge expense? Since when has
healthcare been taken for granted? Should
Brown’s employees (myself being one of
them) also take for granted that they will
have a car, a nice house, a loving family and
a warm pair of socks? That is not any institu-
tion’s responsibility, but rather personal re-
sponsibility.
Harvard, our cousin to the north, saw
an 11 percent increase in its endowment
due to proper planning and effective invest-
ment. Brown’s investment, even though it
did not lose much, is certainly doing well.
But that is an obvious problem to Liebling
and his Open The Books Coalition, which
wants investment transparency for Brown. If
he understood the meaning of competition
and having an edge in investment ideas, I
would not be writing this column. He is ril-
ing the student body by reminding each one
of you of the tuition hike, but he forgets to
mention that a Brown education costs more
than $100,000 a year without the endowment
offsetting the cost. So, use the facilities well
and prosper.
Manas Gautam ’12 gives lessons in fishing
and can be reached at mg@brown.edu.
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Today, september 13
7-8 P.M. — Male Sexuality Workshop
Info Session, Wilson 102
9-10 p.m. — Girls’ Night Out, Sarah
Doyle’s Women’s Center
menu
Sharpe Refectory
Lunch — Pumpkin Ravioli with Cream
Sauce, Chicken Fingers, Tarragon
Chicken Salad, Chana Masala
Dinner — Vegan Roasted Veggie
Stew, BBQ Beef Brisket, Vegan Chana
Masala
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comics
Bat & Gaz | Sofia Ortiz
tomorrow, september 14
7-8 P.M. — A Conversation with
Providence Police Chief Dean
Esserman, Hillel
7:30-9:30 P.m. — Human Rights and
the Kurds in Turkey: An Eyewitness
Account, List 110
Dr. Bear | Mat Becker
Verney-Woolley Dining Hall
Lunch — Chicken Parmesan Grinder,
Swiss Broccoli Pasta, Butter Cookies
Dinner — Roast Pork Calypso,
Asparagus Quiche, Kalmata Olive
Bread, Frosted Cookie Bars
Dot Comic | Eshan Mitra and Brendan Hainline
Fruitopia | Andy Kim
The Adventures of Team Vag | Wendy Kwartin