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vol. cxlvi, no. 8
At Emory,
Simmons
confronts
slavery
By jake comer
Senior Staff Writer
Almost a decade after the University
began examining its own historical
ties to slavery, President Ruth Sim-
mons delivered the keynote speech
at “Slavery and the University: His-
tories and Legacies,” a conference
hosted by Emory University, last
night.
At the conference, which runs
until Feb. 6, representatives from
universities across the country will
address the role slavery has played
in the developments of their schools
and how to come to terms with
those aspects of their histories.
It is “somewhat distressing how
unnecessary people thought it was
for so many decades” to confront
the role of slavery in the history of
universities in the country, Simmons
told The Herald. “It’s all about dem-
onstrating how important it is for
the university,” she said.
Simmons’ speech is titled “From
the Shadows to Plain Sight: Slavery
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Friday, February 4, 2011
A new bridge designed to connect the East Side with the Jewelry District will feature a cafe and terrace with seating.
Bridge to link East side, Jewelry District
By Caitlin Trujillo
Senior Staff Writer
The city of Providence has chosen
a design for a pedestrian bridge to
link the East Side to the Jewelry
District, though budget problems
leave the timeline for the project
in doubt. The bridge would join
College Hill to the new home of
the Alpert Medical School, which
is set to open in 2012.
The design competition winner,
Michigan-based Inform Studio,
was announced in December after
a selection committee presented
the top two choices — which
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also included a design from lo-
cal firm Studio Providence — to
then-Mayor David Cicilline ’83
for final selection.
According to Inform Studio’s
description, the bridge will in-
clude a cafe on the lower deck,
a terrace to the south with avail-
able seating, water jets near the
Dorrance Street entrance and an
extension of the proposed western
waterfront park that would in-
corporate a garden into the deck’s
access points.
The selection committee chose
the winning design based on its
potential to attract residents and
Peace Corps’ challenge
lures students abroad
By Sarah forman
Staff Writer
When Charlie Wood ’10 wants
to withdraw his monthly pay-
check, he leaves home at 4:30 a.m.
and spends five hours traveling
through southeastern Africa in
the back of a pickup truck along-
side 20 to 30 people, produce for
Feature
a local market, a few chickens
and a goat. Once he makes it to
the closest city ­— Nampula — he
stops at the bank, turns around
and starts the whole process over
again.
The lack of transportation was
only one of the difficulties Wood
faces as a Peace Corps volunteer
teaching physics to eighth and
11th grade students in a rural vil-
lage in Mozambique, he wrote in
an e-mail to The Herald.
“The most challenging aspect
of the Peace Corps so far has defi-
nitely been getting used to the
Courtesy of Inform Studio
ability to connect the two parks on
either side of the Providence River,
said Mike McCormick, the Uni-
versity’s assistant vice president
of planning, design and construc-
tion, as well as a member of the
bridge’s selection committee.
As part of the selection pro-
cess, the city displayed the con-
testants’ designs in City Hall, so
the public could provide feedback,
which the city’s Department of
Planning and Development shared
with the selection committee, Mc-
Cormick said. Each design team’s
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way the school is organized — or
not organized — to be precise,”
Wood wrote. “It wasn’t until the
second week that I got my sched-
ule and kids started showing up.”
Although Wood said he has
to sweep dead insects out of his
“really, really nice” home every
morning and can expect many
of his students to leave school
before his classes begin because
the teachers of other classes never
showed up, he insisted that “(I)
can’t imagine anything else I’d
rather be doing.”
Part of the allure of the Peace
Corps is its promise of complete
integration into local culture,
since volunteers live in the same
conditions as their communi-
ty members and see few other
Americans, according to the
organization’s website. Jeanine
Chiu ’10 said the chance to see a
developing nation at a “grassroots
level” compelled her to sign up as
a Peace Corps volunteer in south-
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Taxing Sin
Fast ’12 opposes tax
on ‘unhealthy goods’
Opinions, 7
Since 1891
U. boosts
research
funding
By Sahil Luthra
Senior Staff Writer
After taking steps to streamline ad-
ministrative support for research and
to secure additional grants, the Uni-
versity has seen a 37 percent increase
in sponsored research this fiscal year.
Some departments still continue to
fight for scarce funds, even though
others have seen their awards double.
Brown received $179.7 million
in research grants for the fiscal year
that ended in June, said Clyde Briant,
vice president for research. Of these,
Brown secured approximately $27
million from funds made available
through the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009, the eco-
nomic stimulus package signed into
law by President Obama.
Although the one-time boost
from stimulus funds contributed to
the overall increase, other funding
avenues rose 16 percent from levels
consistent over the past few years,
Briant said.
“It’s a really positive statement
about the faculty and their interest in
sponsored funding and the good job
that they do to attract it,” he added.
Streamlining
Recent structural changes to the
Office of the Vice President for Re-
search contributed to the growth in
funds by encouraging grant propos-
als, Briant said. Last February, the Or-
ganizational Review Committee — a
task force working to cut $14 million
from this year’s budget — outlined
recommendations to, among other
things, facilitate the grant proposal
process.
The recommendations included
using the Office of Sponsored Proj-
ects to help with grant contracts and
subcontracts and creating a consoli-
dated center that would provide ad-
ministrative support in areas such
as grant proposals, according to an
ORC report released last February.
But the University opted not to
provide research support through
a consolidated administrative cen-
ter and reorganized Briant’s office
instead.
As a result, “a number of backlogs
in the office have gone away,” Briant
said. “For example, we have overseen
all of the subcontracts that are asso-
ciated with our awards, and we feel
that that’s going extremely smoothly
now. But in general, I think it’s just
the overall processing has flowed out
in a very nice sequence.”
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granite piers from the old I-195
Sudoku highway that is undergoing relo-
cation. An additional $2 million
is needed to build the remainder
of the bridge, said Lambri Zerva,
the Rhode Island Department of
Transportation’s project manager
for the Iway relocation project.
Each entry in the competi-
tion, including Inform Studio’s,
exceeded the budget, McCormick
said. The winning design is cur-
Graduates well-suited to Peace Corps
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ern Jordan, teaching English at a
girls’ school.
“While at Brown, I took Arabic
classes and even studied abroad in
Cairo for a year,” she wrote in an
e-mail to The Herald. “However,
Cr ossword even during my study abroad ex-
perience, I felt that my knowledge
was largely academic and that I
had little idea what day-to-day
life is really like.”
Chiu was sworn in as a vol-
unteer last month, so the real
substance of her work has yet to
begin, she wrote. But because she
lives with a host family and fully
participates in their daily rou-
tines, she has already begun the
challenging yet rewarding transi-
tion to a new set of traditions and
customs, she wrote.
“Integrating into a new cul-
ture and society is never easy,” she
wrote. “It takes time and patience
and often includes a fair amount
of confusion and self-doubt. Am
I doing this wrong? Did I just
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rently estimated to cost $5 million,
said Bonnie Nickerson, the city’s
director of long-range planning
for the Department of Planning
and Development.
Though RIDOT applied for a
federal grant to make up the $2
million difference, the state did
not receive the funding. Nicker-
son said the city is working with
RIDOT to finalize ways to raise
that revenue, which may include
public-private partnerships with
other businesses and institutions.
The University is one potential
fundraising partner, he said.
McCormick said the University
has had “no specific discussions”
about a possible partnership with
the city or state on building the
bridge, but added that it “clearly
(has) an interest in the area and
making sure the bridge is success-
ful.”
The funding issue might also
affect how and when the bridge
is built, Zerva said.
Though Nickerson said the
bridge was on track for comple-
tion by early 2013, Zerva said the
bridge might be complete closer
to the middle of 2014. And the
bridge might be built in phases,
depending on how fundraising for
offend someone? Is this or that
culturally appropriate?”
Like Chiu and Wood, 19 other
Brown undergraduate alums are
currently serving abroad and
dealing with their own set of chal-
lenges. “Each volunteer brings
his own expectations, history,
tradition,” said Norm Tremblay,
a recruiter and return volunteer.
The 21 Brown alums are serv-
ing in Asia, Africa, Europe and
South America. Though each vol-
unteer has a unique living situ-
ation and experience, all work
in education, health, business or
youth development.
Brown is currently the 25th
largest feeder school for the Peace
Corps among medium-sized uni-
versities and colleges, with 21 vol-
unteers in the field.
Partly because of their “self-
directed academic philosophy,”
Brown students have traditionally
been successful applicants to the
increasingly selective program,
Tremblay said.
Wood offered a similar ex-
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the bridge progresses, Zerva said.
Additionally, the bridge’s con-
struction must not detract from
the development of the parks, he
added.
Inform Studio is also work-
ing with the city and RIDOT to
scale the bridge design so it fits
the budget, said Michael Guthrie,
a partner at Inform Studio. The
firm had done a cost analysis to
find ways to make the construc-
tion less expensive, coming “pretty
close” to the budget in the process,
Guthrie added.
One major consideration is
changing the material of the
bridge while maintaining the de-
sign’s integrity, he said. The pro-
posed design suggested an entire
timber system, both exposed and
concealed, Guthrie said, but a re-
vised plan might make the con-
cealed structure steel, which is less
expensive.
The firm will meet with the city
and RIDOT sometime this month
to discuss the master plan and any
attempts to cut costs.
“We want to make sure that the
bridge that is ultimately built is
very similar to what was presented
to the selection committee and the
public,” Nickerson said.
planation for Brown’s high rank-
ing among Peace Corps feeder
schools.
“Some of the core traits that I
observed in the Brown communi-
ty were resourcefulness, flexibili-
ty, independence, a willingness to
work hard, social conscientious-
ness and a taste for adventure,”
he wrote. “These are also some
of the most important qualities
in successful volunteers, so it’s
not surprising that many of the
people attracted to Brown are also
drawn to the Peace Corps.”
Part of the reason Jason Reeder
’11 decided to apply to volunteer
with the Peace Corps in the Mid-
dle East or North Africa was his
conversation with Chiu, he said.
Nearly 600 Brown graduates have
completed Peace Corps terms, ac-
cording to a recent press release,
so there are plenty of alums avail-
able to share their experiences
with potential applicants.
Reeder also found current
Brown students on campus to be
quite understanding of his deci-
sion to consider working for 27
months in minimal living condi-
tions in exchange for only about
$6,000 or $7,000.
“I don’t feel like an outlier ap-
plying to Peace Corps. I feel very
supported,” Reeder said. “They
don’t ask why I would want to
do something that is difficult and
poorly financially compensated.”
Reeder has not yet decided
whether he wants to commit to
the Peace Corps. But he said he
sees it as one of few ways to find
a meaningful, long-term experi-
ence abroad, even if it does in-
volve a lot of personal sacrifice.
“It’s kind of a masochism that
makes me want to do it at all,”
he said.
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Simmons talks slavery’s legacy Sabar ’93 teaches the
continued from page 1
and Justice at Brown University.”
The conference builds on Brown’s
initiative to bring the history of the
connection between slavery and U.S.
universities to light. In 2003, Brown
established the Steering Committee
on Slavery and Justice to investigate
the role of slavery in Brown’s history.
The committee — which included
faculty members, administrators
and students — published a report
documenting Brown’s ties to slavery.
The 106-page report, which re-
ceived considerable media attention
when it was released in 2006, asks,
“How are we, as members of the
Brown community, as Rhode Island-
ers and as citizens and residents of
the United States, to make sense of
our complex history?”
This question has recently been
Opinions differ on effect of stimulus
continued from page 1
Alert and active
In addition to administrative
reorganization, the University has
been taking steps to encourage fac-
ulty members to write more grant
proposals.
“One of the main things I do is to
try to be aware of opportunities and
then to try to get that information all
to faculty,” Briant said. One recent
strategy has been to have program
officers from the National Institutes
of Health talk to Brown faculty about
the NIH’s funding areas and what
funders might look for in grant pro-
posals.
Two years ago, the University
also hired Lewis-Burke Associates,
a government relations organization,
to alert faculty of funding opportuni-
ties, Briant said.
Although the amount of fund-
ing has increased, the University
has not seen a large change in the
percentage of funds coming from
different agencies, Briant said, add-
ing that the NIH provides the largest
portion of Brown’s federal funding
sources, followed by the National
Science Foundation. The University
also attracts funding from several pri-
vate organizations and foundations,
including General Motors, Pfizer,
IBM, the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute and the William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation, according to the
University research profile published
last month.
Reeling it in?
When the economic stimulus
package was signed into law two
years ago, researchers were unsure
if its effects would last. Some worried
the stimulus would give out enough
grants to set a higher standard that
would be difficult to reach when the
taken up by several other universi-
ties. Anne Valk, associate director
for programs at the John Nicholas
Brown Center, wrote in an e-mail
to The Herald that schools — such
as the University of North Carolina,
the University of Alabama and the
College of William and Mary —
have taken measures in recent years
to come to terms with their histori-
cal connection to slavery through
acts like public apologies and the
creation of memorials.
Patrick Jamieson, a senior at Em-
ory who will be presenting a paper
at the conference, told The Herald
that Emory’s research into its past
was inspired by the work of Brown’s
Steering Committee.
“There are some really important
connections between the 18th-cen-
tury slave trade and the wealth that
came from that and the founding of
stimulus funding ended, said Mark
Bertness, professor of biology and
chair of the Department of Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology.
Another concern was that in-
creased competition for grants would
discourage young researchers and
drive them out of the field, according
to a March 2008 report, co-sponsored
by the University, called “A Broken
Pipeline? Flat Funding of the NIH
Puts a Generation of Science at Risk.”
Now, Bertness said, researchers
across campus have differing opin-
ions about the effects of the stimulus,
depending on their department.
Bertness added his division,
which is largely NSF-funded, has
seen its funding nearly triple over
the last four years. Faculty in his divi-
sion have seen their funding double.
“We’re really pretty optimistic
about funding,” Bertness said. “We
have lots of students that go on to
graduate school and want to be re-
searchers, and certainly I’ve never
— well, never say never — but I
don’t hear students deciding not to
go into ecology and evolutionary bi-
ology because they’re not going to
get funding. You go into it because
you love it.”
On the other hand, Barry Con-
nors, professor of medical science
and chair of the neuroscience de-
partment, said “everyone’s getting
squeezed” in his field. His depart-
ment is largely funded by the NIH,
whose budgets “haven’t gone up very
much and haven’t tipped with infla-
tion,” he said.
Because the increase in funding
was largely tied to the stimulus bill,
there likely will not be a long-term
increase in grant funds, Connors
said.
Things have changed greatly since
Connors was a student, he said. Now,
progressing from a student to an in-
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Brown University,” he said.
He compared Brown’s history
with Emory’s, adding that the board
of trustees at Emory issued a state-
ment of regret Jan. 13 regarding the
school’s connection to slavery.
Upon completion of the Steer-
ing Committee’s Report on Slavery
and Justice, the committee issued a
number of recommendations to help
the University come to terms with
its past. These included establish-
ing a day and creating a memorial
in remembrance and recognition
of the slaves who were integral to
Brown’s history, putting together an
institution for researching slavery
and justice and doing more to bring
black students to Brown.
Jamieson said one of the primary
aims of the conference this weekend
will be to come up with similar rec-
ommendations at Emory.
dependent research position is “a
long haul” made more difficult by
the shortage of funds.
“Not only do you need money
to run a laboratory and do science,
but you need money to train people,”
Connors said. “The graduate pro-
grams here at Brown — and really
anywhere in the state — are heavily
dependent on funds from the federal
government.”
Juggling jobs
Faculty members have had to
spend more time writing grant
proposals in recent years, Connors
said. The number of awards has gone
down, and funding has become in-
creasingly competitive. Faculty have
started writing more grant proposals,
after initial attempts are rejected.
As a result, it’s harder to “actually
do some science,” Connors said.
“I think all of us would rather do
research than write proposals about
doing research,” he said.
Bertness said he has not noticed a
difference in time spent writing grant
proposals, though he added that the
case might be different for different
departments.
“There’s certainly a perception by
some that it has changed, that this has
become an onerous burden for junior
faculty members in departments like
cell and molecular biology, where
almost all of them are NIH-funded,”
he said.
But Briant said writing grant ap-
plications is really the “first stage of
research.”
“You’re looking at the literature,
you’re looking at what’s known,
you’re sort of mentally testing your
hypothesis that you want to propose,”
Briant said. “So to say that the pro-
posal is somehow completely sepa-
rated from the research is not the
right way to think about it.”
art of memoir writing
By Kat Thornton
Senior Staff Writer
Author and journalist Ariel Sabar
’93 spoke last night on “wrestling
with meaning” in “Telling Personal
Stories: Memoir as More Than Self
Journalism,” a lecture hosted by
the English Department at Brown-
RISD Hillel.
Tracy Breton, visiting professor
of English and a former coworker
of Sabar’s at the Providence Jour-
nal, introduced the author. Sabar
worked as a journalist for the
ProJo, The Baltimore Sun and The
Christian Science Monitor. He has
written two books, “My Father’s
Paradise” and “Heart of the City”
and is a professor of creative writ-
ing at George Washington Univer-
sity. “My Father’s Paradise” was his
first book and memoir, tracing his
family’s history back generations
from their origins as Kurdish Jews
in Iraq to the current generation
living in Los Angeles.
“I’ve never been on this side of
the podium at Brown,” said Sabar,
who was a double concentrator
in public policy and modern cul-
ture and media at Brown. He also
played in the band MuthaFridge,
who performed once at Spring
Weekend.
Sabar opened by telling the
story of how he came to write a
memoir, then used this tale as an
example — he asked the audience
how the story he had just told
was different from a journalistic
article or an autobiography. The
difference between these strictly
factual accounts and memoir, he
explained, is doubt. “A memoir is
not an account of a writer’s past,”
Sabar said. “We’re trying to make
sense of the past in the present.”
A memoir writer must look
through the past, then step back
and reflect, Sabar said. “What do
you see now that you didn’t see
then?” he asked.
The key to writing a great
memoir, Sabar said, is to “wrestle
on the page with the meaning of
your past.”
Sabar said that in his experi-
ence as a creative writing teacher,
most students hold back infor-
mation about themselves out of
embarrassment. He said writers
should think about their narrative
voice as another person to avoid
this in a memoir.
But the memoir author must
be discerning with an “unsparing
critique of your own life,” he said,
adding that memoir writers must
have the right balance of interest
and attachment.
“Memoir is not journalism,”
Sabar said. The memoir writer
may bend or elaborate on the
facts, but “you do have a contract
with your readers,” Sabar said.
For his story, Sabar interviewed
over 100 people, traveled twice to
the Middle East and listened to
many oral histories. “I wanted to
get the essentials right and infer
the rest,” he said. He compared
his experience as changing a low
definition black and white pic-
ture into a high definition color
photograph.
“Memoir transcends its writers’
stories.” It was the “lens by which
I come to see my own,” Sabar said.
“If you didn’t discover something
as you wrote your memoir, don’t
publish it.”
Audience members ranged
from freshmen to older fans of
the author, including some of his
former coworkers from the ProJo.
4 Arts & Culture
Spring stage set for success Theater festival brings
By Aparna Bansal
Senior Staff Writer
What do pandas, feminists and gen-
der confusion have in common? They
will all be featured as part of Main
Stage and Production Workshop’s
spring semester line-ups.
Theater groups have started
preparing a new season of shows,
including an unusual Shakespeare
production and a student-directed
four-person play to be performed
in the newly constructed Perry and
Marty Granoff Center for the Cre-
ative Arts.
First up on Main Stage is “As
You Like It,” directed by Nicholas
Ridout, visiting professor of theatre
arts and performance studies, which
premieres March 3 in Stuart Theatre.
It’s about a “complicated and hilari-
ous love affair,” Ridout said, adding
that the show also features “dress and
gender confusion” — and a panda.
“I’ve enjoyed working with them a
lot,” Ridout said of the undergradu-
ates in the play. “A lot of them are
very experienced now but also have
a fun energy.”
Auditions were held this week for
“Talk,” written by Visiting Lecturer
in Playwriting Carl Hancock Rux
and directed by Professor and Head
of Playwriting Erik Ehn. “Talk” pre-
miers April 7 in Leeds Theatre.
“It’s a phenomenal play — a real
Brown play that’s full of ideas and
challenges history,” said Kym Moore,
visiting assistant professor of theatre,
speech and dance. “Carl Hancock
Rux is a well-known playwright and
we’re really honored to have him here
and doing this play.”
Also upcoming is the “Writing is
Live” festival, which begins today and
continues through Feb. 13. According
to the “Writing is Live” website, the
festival features nine student plays.
Production Workshop has also
confirmed its first two plays for the
season. The first show will be “How
I Learned to Drive” written by Paula
Vogel and directed by Alexandra
Keegan ’12. It will be performed in
T.F. Green Hall Feb. 11-14.
“It’s an amazing play by Paula,
who used to run a playwriting pro-
gram here and even won a Pulitzer
Prize,” Sam Alper ’11.5, a PW board
member, said. “It’s about a little girl’s
relationship with her uncle when she
was underage, but not really a child.
It’s a weird, complicated play — but
beautiful in an odd way.”
“Closer,” written by Patrick Mar-
ber and directed by Sean Patrick Mc-
Gowan ’12, will run March 11-14.
“It’s a 4-person intense drama about
infidelity and betrayal,” Alper said.
Another member of the PW
board, Max Posner ’11, is writing
and directing “The Famished,” which
will be the first play to be performed
at the new creative arts building and
will run March 18-21.
“It’s about people trying to nego-
tiate life in an office,” said Alper, an
actor in the play. “It’s going to feature
a lot of intense scene work.”
“(Posner) is a really talented play-
wright,” Abby Colella ’12, PW board
member and production manager for
the show, said. “It’s also a new space
and I’m excited to see what it will
end up being.”
In the Upspace, PW’s smaller
venue, there will be scattered read-
ings throughout the semester, Alper
said. Through Feb. 5, the venue is
featuring “Bitches in the Upspace:
A Week-Long Festival of Feminist
Performance.”
“It’s feminist with a wink. It points
out some interesting things,” said
Colella, who is starring in the show.
“It’s fun and funny and there’s food
involved.”
Another upcoming event is
“Week in the Space,” which changes
every year and showcases perfor-
mances that are different from tra-
ditional plays, such as mini-musicals,
Colella said.
She added that she is also looking
forward to “Stand and Unfold Your-
self,” directed by Doug Eacho ’11.
“The show is described as being
for a one-person audience and you
have no idea what it will be or what
you’re going into,” she said. It will
be performed in the Upspace from
Feb 21-27.
“It’s been an exciting year,” Alper
said. “It’s really cool that playwrights
at Brown are beginning to direct their
own work. We’re seeing more student
productions with a unified focus.”
With a line-up of promising stu-
dent and faculty produced plays, the
theatre scene on College Hill is sure
to keep the Brown community en-
tertained this semester.
student writing to life
By Margaret Yi
Staff Writer
The Department of Theatre Arts
and Performance Studies’ second
annual “Writing is Live” festival
— a 10-day event featuring nine
fully staged productions, read-
ings and workshops in locations
all over campus and downtown
Providence — begins tonight with
“And Joy,” written by Zarina Shea
GS and directed by Kristopher
Lencowski GS.
The event grew out of the
“New Plays” festival, the main
medium for graduate student
playwrights to showcase their
works for the past 30 years, said
Vanessa Gilbert, adjunct lecturer
in TAPS and artistic director of
the festival. The event’s transition
to “Writing is Live” also reflects
the move of the Masters of Fine
Arts in Playwriting from the lit-
erary arts program to the TAPS
department.
“The festival is expanding into
a more rigorous look at what writ-
ing can do when it is staged,” Gil-
bert added.
Highlights of the festival in-
clude plays by second-year play-
wrights Theo Goodell GS, Rachel
Jendrzejewski GS and Ian Mc-
Donald GS, who are all part of
the MFA playwriting program.
Goodell’s piece, “The Dark-
son Chronicles,” focuses on the
adventures of a detective named
Dan Darkson. The play is inspired
by pulp-noir, with a very 1950s
feel, Gilbert said.
Jendrzejewski is presenting
“Meronymy,” which incorporates
“amazing props,” Gilbert said. The
play is based around memory and
takes place on three levels of scaf-
folding that move through the
theatre space, she added. Attached
to the scaffolding are 13 slide pro-
jectors and a large sculpture of
one of the characters.
Adding to this eclectic mix of
productions is McDonald’s “The
Boy Who Lived Forever (and the
Woman Who Didn’t).” He de-
scribed his play as “a scary fairy
tale of sorts” that was inspired
by horror movies and novels, as
well as young children. McDonald
said he has enjoyed working with
adolescents and felt there was a
need for more plays with children
protagonists.
“There’s not a lot of scary plays
out there, and I’m trying to rectify
that,” McDonald said.
The story follows two preado-
lescent children who find a dead
woman in the woods hanging
by her neck, McDonald said. As
the play progresses, the woman
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gradually loses parts of her body,
which leads to an encounter with
the mysterious entity responsible
for this.
“It’s supposed to be funny and
silly in parts, but I’m hoping to
scare some people,” McDonald
said.
While the festival in past years
has featured almost exclusively
graduate student productions,
Rebecca Schneider, chair of the
TAPS program, said this year’s
festival includes a play by Franny
Choi ’11, who is also a Herald
cartoonist.
Choi’s piece, titled “Mask
Dances,” is based on the 1980
Kwangju incident in South Korea,
when pro-democracy students
protesting the new government
and martial law were brutally sup-
pressed, Choi said. “This project
is about exposing a very violent
event,” she added.
The protagonist is a female stu-
dent in her first year at Chonnam
National University in Kwangju
who is thrown into the world of
student activism. “I can feel it
resonating strongly with the ac-
tors — many of whom have been
involved in this kind of work —
and I think it will resonate pretty
strongly with other students who
come to the play,” Choi said.
She added that she incorpo-
rates traditional Korean art forms,
music and costumes in the play.
The title of the play is named af-
ter a form of traditional Korean
theater.
“The play relies pretty heav-
ily on Korean traditions of art
and theater arts because it uses
those modes to euphemize what
can’t be represented realistically
on stage,” she said.
Organizing “Writing is Live”
has been challenging at times —
especially due to the weather —
but not any more difficult than
putting together a typical play,
Gilbert said. Plans for the festi-
val were begun almost immedi-
ately after last year’s event ended.
Along with the playwrights, ac-
tors and department staff, the fes-
tival also had help from people in
the community.
“What’s really important now
is that audiences complete that
circle of development,” Gilbert
said.
For McDonald, who is also
directing his own play, the past
month has been an endless sched-
ule of rehearsals, rewriting and
creating props.
But he said he has enjoyed
the experience. “It’s like Christ-
mas three times a week,” he said.
“There’s these constant surprises.”
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Sheehan ’12 picks Big Ben to fall in big game W. hockey
continued from page 8
Secondary
On the one hand, you have
former Heisman Trophy winner
Charles Woodson, the best tackler
in the game. On the other hand, no
one covers more ground and ac-
counts for more of the field than
Troy Polamalu. Woodson’s corner
blitzes are deadly, but bringing down
Big Ben is like trying to wrangle a
baby killer whale — I don’t think
that his blitzes are going to be as
effective as usual.
It’s no coincidence that when
Polamalu was injured last year, the
Steelers missed the playoffs. He is
the single most important member
of this squad. With the exception
of some spotty tackles against the
Ravens, he’s been nothing short of
superb for the Steelers. With his size,
speed and high football IQ, hav-
ing Polamalu peering in from the
backfield is the asset that pushes
this Steelers pass defense to the next
level. Oh, and he’s the Associated
Press Defensive Player of the Year.
Edge: Steelers
Hair
Though linebackers Clay Mat-
Maclellan ’12 nominated for national award
continued from page 8
is the last mention my name gets
for the award, I think it’s still a huge
honor and kind of a testament more
to the people I’ve played with and the
confidence the coaching staff’s had in
me to play me as much as they have.
You’ve just won a really big
game. Describe your ideal way to
celebrate.
Celebrate a big game? Well, we’d
probably go hang out at the No Fun
Zone — that’s what we call one of the
apartments a few of the guys live in.
We have a couple of songs that we
listen to in the dressing room after
a big win and then basically just go
out, hang out with the boys, soak it
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suffers Ivy
thews and A.J. Hawk have some
good-looking freak-flags, Polamalu
has science on his side for his long,
losses
flowing locks. As he tells us in his
overplayed and ridiculous commer-
cial, it’s the “Polamolecules, dude!” I
file that ad in the category of “funny,
but not for the reasons it’s supposed
to be.”
Edge: Polamolecule
Linebackers and Pass Rush
You’d think this would be a land-
slide, given the sensational play of
Clay Matthews and the entire Green
Bay blitzing corps. But James Harri-
son, a Steeler who lands my nominee
for most terrifying man in the world,
isn’t someone you can forget about.
The hard-hitting Harrison is just as
likely to injure someone in a game as
I am to underhandedly whine about
the Steelers’ thuggery in one of my
columns. This one is close, but given
the Steelers’ depleted O-line, I gotta
go with the Pack Attack.
Edge: Anyone not getting hit by
Harrison
Receivers and Tight Ends
Both these teams are going to
have to account for deep threats
in this game, with speedsters Mike
up. That’s what we like to do.
You’re obviously a talented ath-
lete, but do you have any other tal-
ents that most people don’t know
about?
Probably the only one would
be the guitar. I play the guitar, and
I’ve played since I was pretty young.
That’s definitely a passion of mine —
second to hockey.
If you weren’t playing hockey,
what would you be doing with all
of your spare time?
I really don’t know. It takes up
pretty much all my time, and it’s what
I like to do, so I honestly don’t know
where I’d be without it.
comics
Sports Friday 5
Wallace and Greg Jennings on the
field. Veterans Donald Driver and
Hines Ward both bring experience
to the table, but where this matchup
gets decided is at the tight end po-
sition. With Jermichael Finley on
injured reserve since early on in
the season, Donald Lee has filled in
wonderfully for the Pack’s big man.
Talented as Lee is, he can’t hang with
the monstrous scoring threat that is
Heath Miller. Miller is one of Ben’s
favorite targets in the red zone, and
given his size and hands, it’s easy
to see why. When it’s time for a big
third-and-goal, the Pack had bet-
ter be accounting for the big ole’
Heath bar.
On a side note, be ready for the
guy who figures out that you can
make “Pulp Fiction” jokes with
Wallace’s name halfway through
the game. You’re going to need that
preparation to prevent yourself from
throttling him when he follows each
of Wallace’s catches with, “WHAT
DOES MIKE WALLACE LOOK
LIKE?”
Edge: Steelers
Run Game
Rashard Mendenhall is quick and
powerful and has been putting up
Name a few athletes that you
admire.
They’re all going to be probably
hockey players, but, my favorite play-
er is probably Pavel Datsyuk. And
Sidney Crosby is the best hockey
player in the world right now, and
he’s a Canadian and someone I ob-
viously look up to right now. Yeah,
those are the two guys that stick out
in my mind.
You’re in a karaoke bar with
those athletes and they’re waiting
for you to serenade them. What’s
your song of choice?
It would have to be country. I
would probably sing maybe “Watch
the Wind Blow By” by Tim McGraw.
numbers all season with a thin O-
line. The key to this game is going
to be if the Pack can stop the run,
making Mendenhall the most im-
portant guy on this side of the ball.
Show me stats all day, but Menden-
hall is a much better running back
than James Starks. The good news,
Green Bay fans? You don’t need to
run the ball because you have Aaron
Rodgers.
Edge: Steelers
Final Score
Pittsburgh likes to make games
ugly slugfests, but the Packers like
to run them in a more high-octane
fashion. For that reason, we are go-
ing to be somewhere in the middle.
I predict a 24-21 Packers win, with
Rodgers finally banishing the Brett
Favre demon. No matter what the
outcome, I bid you farewell, NFL
season. Here’s to hoping you are
around next
Sam Sheehan ’12 just wants another
round of good, talking baby E-trade
ads out of this Super Bowl.
Talk sports with him at
sam_sheehan@brown.edu or follow
him on twitter @Sam_Sheehan.
What would you like to accom-
plish after Brown?
To be honest, I just want to see
how far I can go with hockey. My
goal is to play professional hockey
when I’m done here, so that’s my
main goal right now — to sign with
a team when I’m done after my senior
year and hopefully have a long career
in professional hockey. And if that
doesn’t work out for me, then I’ve
got a great degree to start a career
in something else. As of right now, I
just want to play hockey.
continued from page 8
first fifteen minutes of last Tuesday’s
game, a decisive advantage they nev-
er relinquished despite enterprising
offensive play from Brown. Brown’s
best opportunity to score came in
the first period, when forward Lau-
rie Jolin ’13 surged ahead to create
a breakaway situation, only to be
tripped from behind as she readied
her shot. Although Jolin drew a pen-
alty on the play, Bruno was unable to
capitalize on the power play.
Brown outshot Yale in the game,
32-28, but some spectacular saves
by Yale goalie Jackee Snikeris kept
Brown scoreless, despite a relentless
offensive effort. Yale forward Jackie
Raines scored her team’s fourth goal
in the final period. She deked around
both a defender and Jamieson before
slapping the puck into the open goal
at point-blank range.
“We know we’re in a little bit of
a slump at the moment,” said tri-
captain Samantha Stortini ’11 after
the game. “We have to stay positive
and remember that we’re still a young
team trying to pull together.”
Stortini said the team’s uneven
performances contributed to the
disappointing results.
“It’s consistency,” she said. “There
are a couple of mental breakdowns
here and there, and offensively, it’s
finishing. It’s obviously frustrating
when we are creating a bunch of
chances and don’t score. We need to
be getting goals — we’re working on
challenging the other team and make
them react to what we’re doing.”
“But our team is really a lot bet-
ter than it seems on paper,” Stortini
added. “It’s a little frustrating, but we
can’t get down on ourselves, and we
gotta keep pushing hard.”
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DIAMonds & Coal Editorial Comic

by erik stayton and
evan donahue
A diamond to the University, for tracking down a priceless Civil
War-era sword stolen from the AnnMary Brown Memorial in the
1970s. Even if we don’t let ROTC back on campus, we’ll still be able to
defend ourselves if RISD ever invades.

A diamond to Professor of Medical Science Barry Connors, who

said “everyone’s getting squeezed” in his field. Your field sounds a lot
like a Herald Happy Hour.

A cubic zirconium to the alum who said she and her friends all
signed up for an existentialism class Thursdays at 1 p.m. to recap
Wednesday nights at the Fish Company. We’re sure there’s something
profound to be said about that, but we are way too hung over to figure
out what.

Coal to the registrar, who bumped 380 students from POLS 1510:
“Great Powers and Empires” after 680 people enrolled. The last time
this many students suddenly found themselves with nothing to do on a
Wednesday night was — well, when Fish Co. closed.

A diamond to the students studying abroad in Egypt who safely

evacuated to the Czech Republic then home to the United States. With
so many students still upset over the University’s decision to charge full
Brown tuition for foreign programs, maybe every study abroad experi-
ence should include a free trip to Prague.

Coal to Private Investigator Pat Brosnan, who explained his em-

ployee didn’t intend to intimidate former Assistant Wrestling Coach
Mike Burch when she called him from a blocked number by saying
she “wanted to convey to him that there was no ulterior motive to the
extent that she thought that this would be helpful to him to understand
in some way.” That doesn’t help us understand in any way.

A cubic zirconium to the naked donut runner who defended the

run by saying, “We’re not handing out drugs — we’re handing out do-
quote of the day
“Each volunteer brings his own expectations,
nuts.” We just thought of an idea for a new naked run.

”
Coal to students locking bicycles to handrails rather than bike racks,
who caused — according to Director of Disability Support Services
Catherine Axe — a blind student to injure herself. We had a feeling the history, tradition.
hipster trend of buying vintage fixed-speeds was detrimental to society,
but now we know exactly how. — Norm Tremblay, recruiting officer for the Peace Corps
Coal to the Rhode Island General Assembly, for considering man-
dating that Halloween fall on a Saturday every year, rather than Oct. 31.
You can’t do that.

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Just say ‘no’ (to the nanny state)
Hunter Fast
Opinions editor
In recent years, Rhode Island’s fiscal woes
have repeatedly made national news. With a
deficit of $427 million for fiscal year 2011 and
a projected shortfall of $290 million for fiscal
year 2012, legislators are hard pressed to en-
gineer solutions to the budget crisis. Sin taxes
— taxes on alcohol, tobacco and other prod-
ucts considered by some to be, well, sinful
— are a politically expedient and frequently
used tactic to raise revenue.
Indeed, Rhode Island’s cigarette taxes
are already the second highest in the coun-
try, adding $3.46 to each pack. In light of the
Ocean State’s solidly Democratic nature and
the fact that sin taxes are generally favored by
liberals, this figure seems set to grow.
Despite their popularity, sin taxes are un-
just and economically destructive in the long
run. They represent a blatant attempt by gov-
ernment to regulate personal consumption
choices based on an arbitrary set of moral
and aesthetic preferences. In addition, sin
taxes leave store owners vulnerable to com-
petition from black markets, especially near
state lines.
Sin tax proponents frequently argue that
making unhealthy goods like cigarettes and
junk food more expensive will result in a
healthier populace. This may be true, but
this assertion is based on the erroneous belief
that one person’s health is the concern of the
whole of society.
Rather, personal health is a matter of per-
ROTC at Brown: When a statement becomes a policy
By Susannah Kroeber
Opinions Columnist
In a recent Herald column, Chris Norris-LeB-
lanc ’13 rightly cautioned students against
disregarding the political and historical con-
texts that led to the removal of the Reserve
Officers’ Training Corps from the University
(“The ROTC Question,” Jan. 28). As a history
concentrator, I applaud his column on prin-
ciple. But I think we would be remiss if we did
not also examine our current political situa-
tion, as well as the way the government is or-
ganized today.
In the wake of the repeal of “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell,” I had an interesting conversation
via e-mail with one of my professors, from
which I have largely extracted my argument.
First off, I want Brown students to have
the opportunity to attain officer status with-
in the military, which is hard to do without
an ROTC chapter. I do not think that Brown
students who wish to serve their country by
joining the military should be limited to en-
listing. Not many Brown graduates would
like a $17,000 starting salary.
I want the military leadership to have
Brown students in it. It is the only way the
military will ever see the serious reform
the left clamors for. As a liberal institution,
Brown should be all for change within the
military structure. As much as progressives
might attack the military, it is here to stay. I
think it would be far better to change how our
military thinks, is viewed and acts around the
sonal responsibility. Most of the negative ex-
ternalities that arise from things like smoking
and a high-fat diet are already borne by the
consumer. Health insurance companies fre-
quently charge higher premiums for smokers
and biases against the obese are pervasive in
modern American culture.
It is true that some health costs of tobac-
co use accrue to government-funded health
services. However, these expenses can be bet-
ter managed by paying less in state benefits in
cases of smoking-related illnesses. This way,
the external costs associated with smoking
When government policy emphasizes social engineering
over personal freedom, the interests of outliers —
people radically different from the “average
American” — tend to get trampled.
are paid solely by the ones who incur them.
Furthermore, the ethical basis for impos-
ing sin taxes is rigid, allowing no variability
in incentives and motivations between indi-
viduals. Because the tax is applied per unit
purchased, all smokers and all overeaters are
equally guilty in the eyes of the tax code.
To understand why this is a problem, con-
sider Alice. Alice has a terminal genetic dis-
ease for which no cure has been discovered.
In light of this, she has decided to take up
smoking, since it helps her manage the stress
of her condition and would be unlikely to al-
ter her life expectancy anyway.
However, Alice, who lives in Manhattan,
world than just complain about it.
Brown does not have the lightest tuition
burden, and financial aid does not go far
enough for some families. ROTC is the only
way many students can attend college, and
there is no reason to limit our applicant pool
and discourage promising students by elimi-
nating military financial support.
Most importantly, when polled a full year
before the repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,”
41.3 percent of Brown students said they
would support reinstating ROTC, while only
25 percent listed some degree of disapproval
(“Herald Poll: Students more satisfied with
Where they see an anti-military statement, I see that ban
as a sign of protest. Protests are meant to be temporary.
They are not meant to be new policies.
advising,” Nov. 6, 2009). Given that its remov-
al in 1971 was mainly student-led, I think it is
appropriate that we should listen to students.
Norris-LeBlanc pointed to student orga-
nization around the subject — many more
anti-ROTC groups than pro-ROTC — but I
would posit that this is most likely due to the
fierce feelings about anti-discrimination that
Brown students tend to have. Only weeks
after the repeal, we cannot expect student
groups to change their orientation so quickly.
Two months ago, being pro-ROTC was the
Opinions 7
has encountered difficulty in obtaining her
nicotine fix. For every pack of cigarettes that
Alice buys in New York City, she pays over $4
to a government that condemns her under-
standable desire to “sin” as much as possible
while she still can.
In Alice’s case, the justifications most often
used by sin tax supporters fall flat. Her lifes-
pan is unlikely to be affected by her choice
to smoke, and because she has no children,
no one is forcibly hurt by secondhand smoke
when Alice lights up in the privacy of her
own home.
The example of Alice is admittedly hy-
perbolic, but in a way, that’s the point. When
government policy emphasizes social engi-
neering over personal freedom, the interests
of outliers — people radically different from
most Americans — tend to get trampled.
Drug Enforcement Agency raids on medical
marijuana dispensaries exemplify this phe-
nomenon.
Consumers are far from the only ones
adversely affected by sin taxes. Such taxa-
tion also threatens the bottom line for store
owners that sell tobacco and other frowned-
upon goods. Because online distributors are
exempt from sin taxes, the government effec-
same as being anti-gay at Brown. Now, that
is not true.
My final point is not a practical point but
rather a point of contention I have with many
ROTC nay-sayers. Many of them point to
the historical context in which ROTC was
banned from Brown and so many other
schools — the Vietnam War. Where they see
an anti-military statement, I see that ban as a
sign of protest. Protests are meant to be tem-
porary. They are not meant to be new poli-
cies.
The meaning of that protest vanished
in the years after the Vietnam War. When
ROTC was first banned, much of America
was still supportive of the war, but that had
changed by the mid-1970s. The fact that it
was never reinstated meant that when Brown
students were outraged about “Don’t Ask
Don’t Tell,” they had nothing they could do as
a vehement sign of protest — for example, re-
banning ROTC. Instead, we have muddled
all these issues together into the ban without
positing a viable alternative.
The experiment with not having liberal in-
stitutions participate in ROTC and the mil-
tively eliminates the ability of local stores to
compete on the basis of lower prices.
Even before the advent of online grocery
shopping, wide sin tax differentials across
state lines had a similar effect. For example,
Washington’s tax on cigarettes is the fourth
highest in the nation, at roughly $3.03 a
pack, while neighboring Idaho’s tax per pack
is a mere 57 cents, one of the lowest in the
country.
Such gaps deny shops at the edges of high-
tax states a vital source of revenue, but they
also generate profits for black market opera-
tors by letting them buy from a cheap market
and sell into a nearby market where prices are
artificially inflated. The state is, in effect, tak-
ing money from established shopkeepers and
handing it to smugglers.
Given popular misconceptions of smok-
ers as addicts and obese people as gluttons,
it’s easy for voters to see sin taxes as an effort
to protect certain groups from themselves.
However, is a thin person who buys a candy
bar not taxed equally? Is a first-time smoker
not taxed equally?
Sin taxes send the message that citizens —
all citizens — are so inept at guarding their
own welfare that the government needs to
nudge them toward what it deems the right
choices, which it is specially equipped to
identify. Moreover, every sin tax increase rep-
resents food taken from the mouths of shop-
keepers who often rely on revenue from to-
bacco sales. Then again, if the shopkeeper is
overweight, sin tax proponents are unlikely
to mind.
Hunter Fast ’12 thinks that an ideal world
would involve a sin tax on Kesha’s albums.
itary is over, and I believe it to have been a
failed experiment. We see the same stale lead-
ership today as we have in decades past, and
there is little that points to major reform out-
side of the civilian command. We do not elect
our leaders in the military, but we sure do get
to decide who can qualify. By hamstringing
our fellow students, we are just creating our
own future headaches.
The only point that gives me pause is one
that my professor reminded me of. We pride
ourselves as Americans for having a volun-
teer army, but most of us know that this is an
illusion. The military is a convenient escape
from many situations, and often the only es-
cape. Those facing poverty often do not have
the means to pursue their education without
the financial help that the military provides.
I can only hope that a new generation of lib-
eral, Brown officers in the military will bring
some sort of change to this situation.
The repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” is
not the end to discrimination in the military.
But I would like to think that it might have
happened faster, and that all positive change
might happen faster, if the military includ-
ed more Brown graduates. Reestablishing
ROTC on campus is not a white flag of sur-
render to issues such as discrimination or re-
ducing the size of the military. It is picking up
the gauntlet to the challenge of military re-
form in the United States, and accepting plu-
rality here at Brown.
Susannah Kroeber ‘11 would like to thank
Professor Michael Vorenberg, whose e-
mailed inquiries into this subject helped
her attain (some) lucidity.
Daily Herald Sports Friday
the Brown
Athlete of the week
Maclellan ’12 enters the national spotlight
By Maria Acabado
Contributing Writer
Jack Maclellan ’12 still has one year
to go at Brown, but he has already
earned an impressive number of ac-
colades for his efforts on the men’s
hockey team. Before Brown, Maclel-
lan was named Rookie of the Year
during his 2006-2007 season with
the Calgary Canucks of the Alberta
Junior Hockey League, and he hasn’t
slowed down since. During his soph-
omore season, Maclellan played in
36 of 37 games and led the Bears in
points (34) and goals (15). Most re-
cently, Maclellan has been nominated
for the Hobey Baker Award, given to
the top NCAA men’s hockey player
of the season. For his outstanding
efforts with the men’s hockey team,
The Herald has named Maclellan
Athlete of the Week.
Herald: Being from Canada, was
it pretty much a no-brainer that you
would dedicate yourself to hockey?
Maclellan: Yeah, up in Canada it’s
basically the main sport. Kids kind
of get started when they’re young,
and it’s definitely the biggest sport up
there. I think I was about four years
old when I started playing organized
hockey.
Do you follow any other sports?
To be honest, not really. I follow
hockey pretty closely, but that’s about
it.
W. Hockey
Icers’ season-long losing streak now eight
By Sudarshan Sriraman
Sports Staff Writer
It was another tough week for the
women’s hockey team, as it suffered
decisive 4-0 defeats to Harvard and
Yale and a lopsided 6-0 defeat to
Dartmouth. Although competitive
for two of three periods in each
game, crucial defensive lapses in
one period proved catastrophic for a
team still seeking its first win in 2011.
Harvard 4, Brown 0
A rampant Harvard (12-7-2,
11-3-2 Ivy) offense was initially
blunted by Brown’s defense, led by
goaltender Katie Jamieson ’13, last
Friday. But Harvard forward Liza
Ryabinka found the net 10 minutes
into the first period, making full use
of a power play. Though the Bears
(2-17-3, 1-11-3) created several
opportunities, they were unable to
convert on any of their ten shots in
the first period.
Harvard surged out in the sec-
ond period, doubling its lead just
over a minute into the frame, when
defender Josephine Pucci received a
beautiful pass from Jillian Dempsey
in the Brown half. With a clear one-
on-one opportunity a few feet away
from the net, Pucci made no mistake
and doubled Harvard’s lead. Critical
lapses in defense with five minutes
remaining in the middle period re-
sulted in two goals within a minute.
Crimson defender Marissa Gedman
Super
Sunday
Jack Maclellan ‘12, Brown’s leading scorer, made the short list for the Hobey
Baker Memorial Award, given to the best men’s college hockey player.
Compared to other sports,
how violent do you actually think
hockey is?
It’s definitely a physical sport —
there’s not a lot of sports where play-
ers are colliding with each other at
such high speeds. But I don’t see it
as being a whole lot more violent
like a sport like football. The biggest
difference between hockey and al-
most any other sport is that in hockey
— basically at every level except for
college — you can fight, and it’s just a
Even though she allowed four goals, Katie Jamieson ‘13 had a whopping 50 saves in Friday night’s game against Harvard.
managed to thread a shot past a
crush of skaters to beat a screened
Jamieson. Harvard then took full
advantage of another power play,
scoring its third goal of the period
and effectively putting the game out
of reach for the Bears.
Though Brown picked up its in-
tensity and threatened in the final
period, tallying eight shots, Harvard
goalie Laura Bellamy kept the puck
out of the net. Despite conceding
the four goals, Jamieson recorded a
massive 50 saves on the game.
Dartmouth 6, Brown 0
Brown was playing from behind
Jonathan Bateman / Herald
five-minute penalty. So lots of people
don’t agree with that, but it’s kind of
just a part of the game.
What made you decide to come
to Brown three years ago?
I just had the opportunity to go to
an Ivy League school, and it was an
opportunity that I wouldn’t have had
without hockey. There’s not a lot of
people from where I’m from that get
a chance to go to a school like Brown.
I was recruited by the coaches my
from the outset of the following
night’s game. Dartmouth (14-8-0,
10-6-0) forward Camille Dumais
scored in the first minute of play to
give her team an early advantage
before Bruno and its fans could
blink. Strong defensive play from
both teams ensured no change to the
score for the next 35 minutes, despite
steady pressure exerted by both of-
fenses. With five minutes left in the
second period, Dartmouth added to
its total, as forward Amanda Trunzo
converted an opportunity created by
a fine Dumais pass.
Dartmouth exploded in the final
period, scoring four goals. Dumais
last year of junior hockey, and I just
thought it was a huge opportunity
and I didn’t want to let it pass me by.
Can you talk about the dynamic
of the team this year and how that
affects your personal game?
It’s the best team I’ve been on
since I’ve been here. And I think it
has a lot to do with both the new
players the coaching staff has brought
in and kind of the systems they’ve
employed since they’ve come in.
But the coaches have been great,
and they’ve kind of got us playing
a different style of hockey. … Our
trademark is being an in-your-face
kind of team — we play hard and we
don’t make it easy for the opposition
to get a win. We’re a top team, and
we’ve got a lot of offensive upside
this year compared to years past, so
that’s kinda helped me a lot. … The
opportunity to play with some really
good players that I’ve played with has
been huge for me.
How do you feel about being
nominated for the Hobey Baker
Award?
It’s obviously a huge honor. I
mean, I didn’t expect it to happen.
And as a junior, still with a year left,
it’s a huge honor just to be mentioned
with some of the names of other play-
ers in the country that are also up for
the award. And I don’t know what
the next step with that is, and if this
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Jonathan Bateman / Herald
and Trunzo continued to dominate,
with Dumais completing her hat
trick with two goals, assisted on both
by Trunzo. Trunzo scored the final
goal of the game to cap a dominating
victory for the Big Green.
Yale 4, Brown 0
For the second consecutive game,
the Bears’ opposition grabbed the
lead early in the first period. A com-
bination of brilliant positional play,
fine passing and more than a few
fortuitous bounces saw Yale (6-14-2,
5-9-1) surge to a 3-0 lead within the
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Friday, February 4, 2011
By Sam Sheehan
Sports Columnist
The other day, I saw an advertise-
ment for “The Social Network,” a
best picture nominee. In case you
missed it, the movie is about this guy
named Mark Zuckerberg who made
a website that allowed people you’ve
never met to look at pictures of you
and invite you to slam poetry read-
ings. Anyway, this new trailer features
the intense Kanye West song “Power”
in the background, presumably to
highlight Zuckerberg’s hubris and
pursuit of money presented in the
film. The song has one of those catchy
beats you end up singing under your
breath until all of your friends want
to strangle you.
Even though the TV was show-
ing Andrew Garfield smashing a
computer and jabbing his finger in
Jesse Eisenberg’s face, the only thing I
could think was, “Yeah, I’m definitely
seeing a montage of big plays with
this over the top of it come Sunday.”
And why not? There’s a lot of power
tied up in this Super Bowl. The Steel-
ers are pursuing their third Super
Bowl in six years. That would give
quarterback Ben Roethlisberger his
third title and move him into a tie
among active quarterbacks for cham-
pionships with Tom Brady.
Excuse me (vomits). Okay, I’m
good for now.
Yes, a win this Sunday would al-
low Roethlisberger to plop his ample
frame in the discussion for best quar-
terbacks of this era. Of course, he’ll
have to go through a fellow candidate
in Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay
Packers. It’s a game with some in-
triguing matchups, so I think it would
be fun for us to run through some of
them and analyze which team has
the edge.
Quarterbacks
How on Earth do you make a
team — led by a guy who has two
championships and has willed his
team through the playoffs — the un-
derdog when you have never played
in a Super Bowl before? You put up
a quarterback rating of 109.2 and
throw for 790 yards in the playoffs.
You go into the No. 1 seed’s house
and drop four touchdowns on them.
You “put on the championship belt”
whenever you have a big play. In
short, you be Aaron Rodgers.
Big Ben has been playing well, but
no one is playing better than Rodg-
ers. Like Ben, he can extend a play
with his legs, throw on the run and
scramble for yardage when nothing
is there. He also has an absolute can-
non for an arm, and can thread the
ball into tight coverage better than
Roethlisberger can. In this quarter-
back matchup, I take the real A-Rod.
Edge: Packers
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