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Who is more meshuga? NewarkMayor Cory Booker asked a packedMetcal Auditorium last night, us-g th Hbrw wrd r razy.

T qust bga a dagusponsored by Hillel between Book-

er and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach onpositive social change. Booker iscurrently serving his second termas mayor, and Boteach has writ-t 27 bst-sg bks tp-s ragg rm ratshps tsprtuaty.

Bkr uragd th rwdto ask any questions, whether theyb abut B krs tm at Ysh-va or Shmuleys ootball career

in college in reality, Bookerplayed ootball at Stanord Uni-versity while Boteach studied atth Jwsh sttut.

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was 22 years old, Would I everin my lie not only be sitting uphere with an Orthodox Hasidic

B adam asher

ContributingWriter

It all started when Malcolm Burnley

12 went digging in the John HayLibrary archives or a historical nar-rative assignment in his creativenonction class. What he oundcatapulted him into the nationalspotlight a tape o a speech givenby then-Nation o Islam MinisterMam X Says Ha May ,1961. In a presentation hosted by the

Rhd Isad Bak Hrtag S-ty at th Hay ast ght, th tapscontents were heard by an audience

r th rst tm 50 yars.Burnley, who was enrolled in

ENGL 1180J: ales o the RealWorld, said he wanted to writeabout a relatively recent topic sohe could interview living people,rather than relying completely onold, dusty materials, like he saidmany o his classmates were doing.

While looking through Te Heraldsarchives rom 1961, he came acrossa photo o Malcolm X in Sayles Hall.

While he ound little coverageo the actual event, the photo ledhm t a ssay ttd T Amaz-ing Story o the Black Muslims,which was published in February6 T Hrad. H tatdKatharine Pierce, Pembroke College

Class o 1962, and the author o thessay, whh prkd Mam Xt m t Brw.

In the essay, Pierce repeatedly re-

ers to the Black Muslims as a cult,draws distinctions between the

Black Muslims and true Moslemsand characterizes the movement asdstrut ad at-ttua.

While speaking with Pierce overthe phone, Burnley learned she hadsent the Hay a tape the previousyear containing a recording o Mal-

Student uncovers Malcolm X legacy in Hay archives

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Malcolm Burnley 12 (right) unearthed a rare recording o a Malcolm X speechrom a 1961 visit to Brown in response to an essay by Katharine Pierce (let).

B Kate nussenBaum

Senior StaffWriter

Sixteen rst-years watched with ex-citement as their screens loaded the

sequence o 59,625 nucleic acidsthat comprise the DNA o Job42,the virus a student in their class had

discovered, isolated and nameddurg th a smstr.

Each o them codes or some-thing, said Jordan Rego, a studentin the Phage Hunters class atProvidence College, reerring tothe letters on his screen. Its prettyamazing. I honestly cant wait tostart analyzing the DNA, he said.

Rego and his classmates are therst grup Prd Cgstudts t tak Phag Hutrs, anew introductory biology coursethat s try hads-.

T urs s part a ataprgram dsgd by th HwardHughes Medical Institute, and thisyear both Providence College and

Brown joined the ourth cohort o

schools to oer the class, taught atrty shs atwd.

Or th urs th rst s-mester, the students each oundand isolated their own unknownphage, a virus that inects bacte-ria. Ten they selected one to besequenced. Troughout the secondsemester, students will work to-gether to nd and label the phagesgs usg a mputr prgramthat hps aayz DNA.

I they succeed in completelyannotating the DNA, the class willb ab t submt thr wrk t aonline database o known phages,awg thr dsry t b a-cessed and used by everyone in thest mmuty.

Its not like youre replicatingwhat someone has done y yearsago, said David argan, Brownsassociate dean o the college or

First-years discover viruses, analyze DNA

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Alex Hadik 15 isolated his own virus in the Phage Hunters rst-year seminar.

B tonya riley

StaffWriter

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to conront lies ugliness, but toempathize with it. rigger Hand,running at Production Workshop as

part o the Writing is Live estivalFeb. 10-13, does both. By usingthe politically charged setting oa supervised injection acility inVancouver, the play examines ques-

tions o addiction in the contexto the relationships it insidiously

pss ad stragy masts.Addt ds t b s as

a amily issue and a communityissue, not the individuals problem,

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arud dtr Grg Pu (Gr-d Sayr 2) ad hs wrk at thsupervised drug injection site,which provides a sae place or

addts t us ad gt hp. I thcourse o his work at the site, hislie intersects with those o his sta,hs patts ad thr drug dar.

Te direction o rigger Handimmediately orces the audiencemembers into this world by havingthem enter around the stage un-der scaolding into the supervisedinjection acility. Te set, never astatic place or time, juxtaposes ajunkies grungy room with a sad,

Trigger Hand puts new spin on addiction

B david Chung

neWS editor

A proposed amendment to the Un-dergraduate Council o Studentsconstitution has been met withmixed response, though many stu-dent group leaders have expressedconcern that the amendment would

place additional power in the coun-s hads at th ps thr

grups.Te councils unds are currently

dstrbutd by th UdrgraduatFinance Board, which overseesunding allocations or Category IIand III student groups. Te amend-ment would put decisions aboutUCS udg udr th authrty u mmbrs stad thboard. UFB would still allocate theremaining unds to other CategoryIII grups.

In light o rising conict be-tw th tw bds r th astew years, the council introducedth amdmt Wdsday t s-cure the unds necessary or its ini-tiatives, clariy its relationship withUFB and render UFB budgetingprocesses more transparent, saidUCS President Ralanda Nelson 12.

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Te Corporation will announceth Urstys budgt as w as

tuition and ees or the next scalyar at ts mtg ths wkd.Members o the Corporation, theUniversitys highest governingbody, will cast votes ollowing areview o President Ruth Simmons

recommendations, which stemrom a budgetary report by theUniversity Resources Committee.Te report will be made publicwg th mtg.

Tough tensions between theUrsty ad th ty Pr-dence have arisen in the lastmonth over Browns inancialcontributions to the city, no ac-

tion is expected to result romth mtg, sad Marsa Qu,vice president or public aairsand University relations. Te Uni-versity is continuing talks withProvidence Mayor Angel averas,and there is no proposal on the

table or the Corporation to re-w, Qu addd a ma tT Hrad.

Wh th budgt rmas thmain ocus at the Corporations

annual February meeting, the Cor-poration will also discuss pressingissues such as housing and athlet-ics. Te Corporation will reviewplans or dormitory renovation,including general acility improve-ment, said Margaret Klawunn, vice

president or campus lie and stu-dt srs. It w as dsusspas t stabsh rst-yar hus-ing communities on Pembrokecampus and Keeney Quadrangleand to allocate more suites andapartments to juniors and seniors.

With Director o Athletics Mi-ha Gdbrgr stppg dw

at th d ths aadm yar,the Corporation will discuss thesearch or a new athletic direc-tr, Kawu sad. It w as r-ceive an update on the progress ompmtg rmmdatsrom Simmons response to the

Athletics Review Committees re-prt rasd ast Apr.

Te Corporation will be up-dated on the state o the Ofceor Student Veterans and Com-

mssg Prgrams, whh wasstabshd ths smstr t sup-port veterans and students par-tpatg mtary prgrams.

he Corporation plans tooversee the re-dedication o theMetcal Research Laboratory Fri-day evening, said Russell Carey91 MA06, senior vice presidentor Corporation aairs and gov-ernance. It expects to receive aumbr gs ths wkd, asthey are a routine activity at theCorporations business meeting,h sad.

Carey declined to comment on

the progress o the presidentialsarh.

Te search is ongoing, hesaid, but no shortlist o candidatess aaab. H dd t m-mt wh mr rmatwud b mad pub.

Corporation convenes to set budget

amendment would be a positivehag r th ampus.

hough Kaz Wesley 14.5,president o Students or Sensible

Drug Py, sad h udrstadsthe councils intention o clari-ying its relationship with UFB,he added that the amendmentud brg abut a ry harm-ul change by giving additionalpwr t UCS at th st stu-dent groups. Because the amend-ment does not place a limit on thecouncils control over unds, hesaid its approval could bring aboutdagrus hags.

Nelson acknowledged thatsome groups have respondedwth r but addd that thcouncils intention was never

maus. UCS w t mpyunderhanded measures to allo-cate additional unds or itsel, shesad, ad wth ts p mmbr-ship policy, students opposed tothe councils decisions may joinad t agast th masurs.

Studts watd t s ths,she said. Its not about takingunds away, its equipping thestudent government to do its job.

Studts ha ut Suday tt th prpsd hag aMyCurss.

Its ridiculous that we have

ths tt tm ar thy ha a-nounced the proposal to vote,Wsy sad.

Joseph Rosner 12, president oth Brw Dbatg U, asexpressed concern. Even the best

tts ud ad t uarsqus r quay mpr-tant groups on campus, he wrote a ma t T Hrad.

Rsr stad ad UCSto explore alternative channels insttg ts t wth UFB.

Tere is no logical basis orth amdmt baus t smst tr -ghtg, Rsrwrote. Other options, like re-organizing the communicationchannels or settling the politicalproblems that exist between thetw grups, shud m rst.

T u a appa UFBs

budget decisions through theadministration or seek undingthrough other means, he wrote.Tat is exactly the same dealgiven to all student groups, andUCS shud b pt, haddd.

T ratshp btw thtwo bodies has been an issue in thepast, said UFB Chair Jason Lee 12.

But he said the amendment is notthe appropriate way to change theratshp struturay baust rms a hks ad baassystem or UCS unds and proj-

ects. Since the amendment wouldprovide the council unlimitedcontrol over its nances, it wouldmake UCS a priority over othergrups, L sad.

Nelson told Te Herald that she

has also received positive eed-back rom some student groupleaders who recognized the e-ort to improve the relationshipbetween the two organizationsad ras th udg bardstransparency. Group leaders haveprssd that th amdmt san interesting idea, Nelson said,adding that students want to holdUFB accountable or its budgetaat dss.

he main goal behind theamendment is to make UFB moretransparent and not necessarily toincrease available unds or the

council, she said. Groups are cur-rently underunded, and there aressus t addrss wth UFB.

Tey operate in the green, not th rd, sad Ns, a rmrmmbr UFB.

But many students expressedconusion over the conict be-tween the two organizations. Somewere suspicious o the councilstts, wh sm sad thywr t w-rmd.

Teyre getting all totalitar-ian, said Elizabeth Perez 13.G us ur my.

Othrs wr mr p t thda th amdmt. I thkit makes sense or UCS to con-trol their own unds, said AdwoaHs 4. I ma, thyr sup-posed to be the student govern-mt, rght?

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m Xs sph. Wth th hp Senior Library Specialists RaymondButti and Gayle Lynch, Burnley lo-cated the tape, which was at thetime shelved and uncatalogued,and the library sent it away to bedgtzd.

I thought it was one o manyrecordings that had been made,Pr sad th tap, addg thatsh had tak t rm T Hradsf as a sur.

Malcolm Xs 1961 speech con-tas a ds th rg adliestyle led by Black Muslims. Fol-

wg a trdut by rmrHerald editor-in-chie and U.S.ambassador to the United Nations,Richard Holbrooke 62, MalcolmX spoke about the need or racialsgrgat.

Prsdt Baraby Ky wasinitially opposed to the speech,viewing Malcolm Xs ideas as tooradical. He only relented whenHolbrooke threatened to move TeHerald o campus and out o itslocation in Faunce House and severts wth th Ursty.

Former Rhode Island BlackHeritage Society President RayRkma sad Mam X ga th

speech when he was on the cuspo ame, in a society still heavilysegregated. Brown was no excep-tion. Tough the University hadmatriculated black students since1877, Brown was still an almostcompletely white institution in1961, admitting only a very smallumbr bak appats, Rk-man said. Students rarely venturedar rom campus, Burnley said,avoiding the largely black neigh-borhood around Hope High School East Prd.

Media outlets around the world,ragg rm th Wa Strt Jur-

nal to the BBC, have reported onBurnleys nd. Both Burnley andPierce said they were caught o-guard by th tt th mdastrst.

Im a ry udrstatd prswhs t usd t gttg ay srt attt, s ts strag, Bur-y sad.

Pr as ud th atttoverwhelming, calling the past week

a wild ride that most people gothrough their lives never experienc-ing. Since the story has caught re,Bury ad Pr ha bm ajoint package o sorts, in Burn-

ys wrds, as thy ha appard

together in numerous interviews,including one on National PublicRads T akaway.

Te tape may be the earliestexisting recording o a completeMam X sph ad, at th ryleast, one o the oldest recordings oay th sphs h ga hs1961 tour o American universities,Rkma sad. St, Rkmahas b surprsd by th urry media attention, relating how hewas oered $50 or a seat at Turs-days t.

Elizabeth aylor, senior lecturerin English who teaches ales o

the Real World, said such mediaattention was rare or her class and

called Burnley the ideal student intrms hw h usd stgatjournalism techniques to nd outmr abut Mam Xs sph.

Burnley spoke Tursday ol-lowing introductions by UniversityArchivist Jennier Betts, Rickmanand Black Heritage Society Presi-dt Jy Sts, wh rrrd tmembers o the Society as keeperso the story o Arican-Americans Rhd Isad. Hs prstatwas interspersed with questions and

comments rom members o theaudience, which included ormer

and current members o the Nationo Islam and concluded with a moreormal question and answer session.

Some moments in the recordingprompted noises o approval, laugh-ter and even a ew amens romattds.

Burnley received multipleruds appaus, ad attdsspoke highly o the presentation.Elayne Walker-Cabral, directoro the Community School at theMet School in Providence, said shewud k Bury t m spakt hgh sh studts baus twud b a pprtuty r hm

to inspire our kids and said the pre-stat mad hr wat t deven deeper into the history o theC Rghts Mmt.

Te only ofcial record o Mal-m Xs sph sts th audrrdg ad Hrad arts.

Tr ar strs watg t bud, Bury sad. Pr adddthat studts d t tak (thr)eyes o the screen sometimes andk thrugh arhs r auabrmat.

Tere will be an encore o Turs-

days presentation Feb. 27 at theJh Hay Lbrary.

Senior unveils lostMalcolm X speech

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Executive Che John OShea wowed students while preparing a strawberry treat or the Ratty s special dessert night.

rabb r b th rst th hs-try humaty t b th bakgy prsdt a habad hus,

I wud thught that yu wrray razy, Bkr sad.

But that is just what happened.In 1992 at Oxord University, awoman invited Booker to theLCham Sty r dr.

Is thr smthg aught yur thrat? h sad h thughtwh sh td hm. But mt-ing women at the time was likethe Holy Grail, he added, so heaccepted the oer. he houseresembled a scene rom Yentl,wth m warg bak hats adclothed by terrible tailors, hesad. A a sudd, ry at

the party turned to look at him. Hesaid he could tell they were think-ing, What is this large black mandg hr? H sad h thughtth sam thg.

hough out o his comortzone, Booker decided to stayor dinner and was seated nextt Rabb Btah. Ar hag ag rsat, th tw bgat hag bks t ar abutah thrs uturs. Bkr r-ommended Te Autobiographyo Malcolm X, while Boteachsuggstd Nght by E Ws.Soon, Boteach asked Booker tobe the co-president o the Oxord

LCham Sty.Nw I s yu ar dwrght

meshuga, Booker said to theRabbi. But Booker agreed and be-am th rst -Jwshprsdts a Jwsh studt r-gazat.

Booker and Boteach bondedimmediately over a conversation tra, Bkr sad.

olerance is the oor, but loveis the ceiling, he added. I wekeep dividing each other along ra-cial, religious (and) political lines,we will never maniest the strength

necessary to advance this nation

t ts ag.Bkr dsrbd a rt trp

to the Israeli desert, where he

saw the top o Mount Nebo, theplace where Moses came to seethe promised land, even thoughh kw h ud t tr. Tsgeneration, Booker said, will gourthr tha Mss dd.

O ths g ampus s thJoshua generation, said Booker.Te generation o my parents didnot get this nation to the promised

land. Tey got it to the mountain-tp.

Boteach began his section oth tak by dsussg Mart Lu-ther King, someone who tookthe ancient Jewish tradition andmade it a modern maniesto ordm, h sad. H ga prdto my people, the likes o whichwe had never experienced beore.

Boteach was so inuenced byKg that h tk hs hdr a road trip to Mason emple inMmphs, ., t s th pawhere King gave his amousMutatp sph.

I you ever want to know whatpurgatory is, Boteach said, shovenine kids in a tin can cal led an RV.

Te Rabbi called King a proph-et, and he emphasized the ability pp t g byd tra,t g byd puttg up wth d-erence and actually eeling en-rhd by dr.

Boteach said the problem inAmerica is that we despise theother side more than we lovewh w ar. H sad th mssag

pta party s thatth thr s dstryg Amra.

Te population is sick andtired o partisanship or partisan-ships sake, Booker said. I believe sd ur pta sptrumhas a mpy gd das.

I am now a believer that theres thg w at d as a p-p ths utry. It s gra matter o can we. It is a matter o,D w ha th t w?Bkr addd.

T da that w a a wrktgthr r hghr gas hwcan we make that message sexier?

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t, Bkr rpd.

Newark mayor and rabbi team up

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Booker (let) recalled embarassing stories about Rabbi Boteach (right).

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In its annual report released lastNmbr, th Drsty Adsry

Board announced that it will seek torecruit more Native American stu-dts, auty ad sta. T rprtnoted that the board has not activelyworked to increase this groups pres-

ampus th past.Currently, Elizabeth Hoover

MA03 PhD10, visiting assistantproessor o ethnic studies andAmerican studies, is the only Na-tive American aculty member atBrown and will be the rst ull-timeNative proessor in nearly a decade.Lina Fruzzetti, chair o the advisoryboard and proessor o anthropolo-gy, said she sees a problem with this

statistic, and the student populationds t ar ay bttr.

Ts s t ugh busy,Fruzzetti said. We need to reallyras th umbrs.

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Fruzzetti, who is also interimprovost and director o institutionaldiversity, said she immediately no-ticed the lack o Native Americanauty wh sh assumd th p-st.

Dean o the Faculty KevinMcLaughlin said that in recent years

the administration has attempted tohire more Native American aculty,

but th sarhs rary sud b-aus th sma p quadcandidates and the high demandr ths prssrs.

Its simply a difcult market,MLaugh sad.

Rbrt L, har ad assatproessor o American Civilization,said his department also has a realcommitment to having as many

voices represented at the University.

But other more secure optionsavailable to strong candidates makerrutg thm dfut, h sad.

Tere are already well-estab-lished Native American studies

programs in other universities, andone o the issues is getting someonethats uragus ugh t rayb mmttd t rat a mmu-ty hr, L sad.

Fruzzetti said hiring Hoover rep-

resents a big step toward buildingthis community. She said she hopesth Ursty tus t sarhr mr Nat Amra hrs

order to oster the greater Nativemmuty.

We need to be ocused on a mo-mentum thats ongoing and reallybud that, sh sad.

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Last yar, th Ursty had 26undergraduate students who sel-identiied as Native American,makg up .4 prt th ttaundergraduate population, accord-ing to data rom the Ofce o Insti-tuta Rsarh.

Te Native American commu-nity is the only minority student

population not to increase in sizer th ast 0 yars, ardg tthe Ofce o Institutional Research.

Hr sad th prs current Native American students at

Brown depend on their background.I know its dierent or some

students who come rom muchmore homogenous communitieslike in the Southwest or some othe Navajo, she said. Whereas orother people like mysel, when youcome rom a mixed community, itst as shkg.

Loyola Rankin 11.5 said comingrom a reservation made attend-g Brw a tt dfut, but th

student group Natives at Brownhelped her ind a community.ogether with Kim Kummer 11,Rankin brought guest speakers andartsts t ampus t dsuss NatAmerican issues along with con-tinuing Hoovers tradition o theyearly powwow, an event that hasbecome a landmark in the localNat mmuty, sh sad.

But outside o Natives at Brown,both Rankin and Kummer havestruggd wth bg part suh asmall population among the greaterudrgraduat mmuty.

Browns big thing is diversity,

but pp ray dt udrstadwhat t mas t b Nat, Kum-mr sad. But as ar as wmgand being part o the student body,I thk Brw s ray aptg.

Rankin said she has taken classeswhere she was not able to discussNative American issues in depthbecause o her proessors lack okwdg that dpartmt.

Its been very taxing that youhave to go through a history lessonwth yur w prssr, sh sad.

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Te University participates ina arty prgrams ddatd tattracting Native American appli-cants as well as underrepresentedstudts t Brw ad thr prinstitutions, said Elizabeth Hart,associate director o the Ofce oAdmission and director o minorityrrutmt.

Te College Horizons program,which partners with 50 colleges and

universities across the country, isdedicated to recruiting NativeAmerican students to their cam-puses, according to its website.Hart sad th Ursty sds twrepresentatives to the College Hori-zons summer program, where theyprovide mentoring and assistance inth appat prss.

But the University does not pro-d -ampus stg prgramsr thr Brw-sp prgramsto potential Native American ap-pats, Hart sad.

Dartmouth, which boasts aary 4 prt Nat Amraundergraduate population, has run

a robust reservation visitation pro-gram or a number o years, saidPhil Gover, senior assistant director admsss ad th rdatr Nat Amra rrutmt atDartmouth. Gover and other ad-mission ofcers travel to states witha high Native American population rdr t rrut appats.

Dartmouth also runs a NativeFly-in Program each year thatbrings 50 Native American studentst th g r ur days, whrthey participate in workshops onthe application process and college, Gr sad.

Its a mini-Native Dartmouthpr, h sad.

Hart said one o the biggest chal-lenges in recruiting Native studentsis the lack o a strong educational

systm sm rgs wth argNative populations. Some parentsas hstat t sd thr hdrs ar away rm hm du t thrsk sg utur ad mmu-nity, she said. Rival peer institutionsalso pose a challenge to recruitment.

One o the real benets Dart-muth has had s ts hstry, Hartsaid. It has had the reputationo being the only Ivy League thatwas recruiting Native Americanstudts. Ty ha a g hstry

and a very large inrastructure. Imus that.

Fruzzetti said hiring more Na-tive aculty would do well to attractmr Nat studts.

I we want to attract NativeAmerican students, we should haveone or two representatives here, shesad. Hag a mmuty wudencourage undergraduate and grad-uate students to come because theyhave mentors and people to talk to.

Its good or people to see people

wh thy wat t b, Hr sad.Hoover said she has talked

with administrators about poten-

ta stratgs. Hag urrt u-dergraduates discuss Brown withptta appats wud as ga long way, she said, adding thatNatives at Brown is putting together

literature about both the studentgroup and the Universitys Nativecommunity in general to send toappats thrugh urrt udr-graduat studts.

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No matter the strategy, Fruz-zetti said she believes the Universityneeds to be persistent in its recruit-mt prss.

T thg s t tak that ta-t ad ray pursu t, sh sad.

Its a t wrk, ad yu ha thave your mind and heart in it andollow it through. None o these is-sues are easy, but that doesnt meanw g up ad d thg.

MLaugh sad h ds t m-prtat t try ad dp a str-gr Nat mmuty but s wary th dfuty ahad.

Gttg that mmuty start-ed, taking that rst step, is always sm ways th hardst stp, adts a t wrk, L sad.

But Rankin said she believes theurrt studts ar th ky t s-curing the next generation o Native

udrgraduat studts.We need to go back to our com-

munities, Rankin said. It reallydpds us.

U. aims to recruit Native American students, faculty

Emily Polk / HeraldThe University hopes to increase its Native American student population.

B mathias heller

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Aer graduating rom Brown with adegree in Classics and Sanskrit, Dea-

Patrk Myha 7 padto travel to Uganda. But when hismother opposed his plans, he seths sghts Hat stad. My-han related his experiences workingin Haiti to an audience o alums,students and aculty at the Mad-dk Aum Ctr ast ght a

tur ttd Why Ra Chagakes Real Involvement: Te Impacta Brw Eduat Ca Mak.

When Moynihan arrived in Haiti,

he helped build schools and assistedin bringing social services to Hai-tian children. Moynihan said hisexperience as head o the Louver-ture Cleary School, a tuition-reeCatholic boarding school in Haiti,ga hm a brad w th u-trys pta, sa ad mdevelopments. His brother Brian

Moynihan 81 P14, who is currentlyCEO o Bank o America, providedaid in growing the Cleary School,h sad. At th tm, Bra My-ha was a yug assat at a awrm, but he still decided to assist hisbrother with the schools nancialdpmt, Myha sad.

T sh has b ry su-cessul, he said, despite the 2010earthquake that damaged manyareas o the country. He served asthe schools head rom 1996 to 2006and then returned to the position inMarh 200.

In his role as president o theHaitian Project, a Providence-based Catholic charity organization,Moynihan directs eorts aimed atboosting the quality o education Hat, ad dpg th CarySchool. Te school has more thandoubled in size since it was oundedin 1987, and Moynihan said there

are now 343 alums, 90 percent o

whm g t attd ursts Hat.

We are social people and weneed to live in social institutions,Moynihan said, adding that the main

challenge in Haiti is building sus-tainable social services to supportthe long-term growth o the country.

W d t strgth th a-pacity o the Haitian people throughbuilding the inrastructure, headdd.

Addressing the question owhether emergency relie organiza-tions are best equipped to deal withthe issue o building social services,Myha sad h ud t appa-g that Utd Stats mda -sstty uss th ssty non-governmental organizations insupprtg th utry.

As muh as pp ar ad arinvolved, theyre not living in thecommunity long enough to make

meaningul changes, Moynihan

sad. I rdr t mak a ra dr-ence in Haiti, new non-governmen-tal organizations are not the best wayto unnel money into sustainable,long-term projects because theyprioritize temporary relie instead strutura dpmt, h sad.

Teres a lack o truth about therole Western governments playedin the earthquake relie process,Moynihan said. By impeding the au-tonomy o the Haitian government,trata pwrs trr wththe Haitian peoples homegrowneorts to improve their situation,h sad. Ts trstd d-pmt rts must st thrght thgs t hp Hatas buda sustaab utur.

Moynihan said education isa critical area or investment. Heptd t th Cary Sh as aexample o the type o long-termchange that Haitians need or a bet-

tr utur.

Alum reects on education reform efforts in Haiti

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StaffWriter

On the eve o World War I, tap danc-

er Lizzie Winrow and her accompa-nying jazz musician Osceola urnerlive in Charleston, S.C., with dreamso making it big. Teir journey tosuccess proves difcult when theylose the money they have been savingad Oss sts t ght Eurp,where he thinks jazz musicians havemr pprtuty t b hard.

Te stories o these two riendsare part o Some Sing, Some Cry, a wrtt by Ia Bayza, stgartist in residence o the departmento Aricana Studies. Bayeza discussed

this story and more in the BrownBkstr usday r a aud

abut 20 pp. Sm audmembers are enrolled in Bayezasclass AFRI 1050Q: New Narrativesin Arican American History: TeArt and Cra o Poetic and CreativeN-Ft.

Bayeza co-wrote the novel withher sister, the noted poet, novelistad paywrght Ntzak Shag.

Te stories o these two riendsmake up only 60 pages o SomeSing, Some Cry. Te novel, whichocuses on one amily over the span may grats, rus r 500pages, contains eight parts and docu-mts ary 200 yars Ara-Amra hstry.

Bayeza wrote a large swath o thenovel about events that take place

between the 1890s aer the am-ilys matriarch Bette leaves her is-land plantation and World WarII. Shange wrote much o the books

beginning and end. But some sec-tions overlap and include Shangeswriting to make the work more uid,Bayza sad.

Some Sing, Some Cry marksBayzas dbut as a st. Sh hasbeen writing plays since sixth gradead has wrtt wrks suh as TBallad o Emmett ill, which pre-miered in 2008 and won an EdgarAward r bst pay.

Bayeza chose to read rom a sec-tion ocused on young Lizzie, whoserecracker personality was in partinspired by Bayezas great-aunt,Bayza td th aud.

Te selection much like therest o the book is ocused on therole music has played in Arican-Amra hstry. T bk bgs th 00s ad ds wth a quksapsht th prst day, Bayzatold Te Herald. She and Shangemight write a sequel in the uturethat ocuses on the 21st century, shesad.

Bayeza, who also writes musi-cal theater, wrote her own lyricsor some o the songs that appear hr . Wh th aud bkcame out, she also composed thescratch track, a rough soundtrack,as a guideline or the songs melo-

ds, sh sad.A question-and-answer session

ollowed the reading. Reerencingthe link between music and memory th stry, Bayza sad mus rp-rsts th bra th pp the Arican diaspora brought to themdr wrd.

Vt mas 4, a aud-ence member enrolled in Bayezasass, sad h jyd hw amat-ed Bayeza was while she read. Tebookstore space, tucked away in acorner by the windows acing TayerStrt, mad th t sm muhmr k a stry r tha a rad-g, h sad.

omasino also said he ound thestory unny and quick-paced, but

was shkd by th ast s threading where Ossie is nearlybw up by a attak th WWIrt.

Bayeza turned a part o the novelinto a concert reading piece calledCharst O, sh sad.

Her other project at Brown isKid Zero, a musical comedy gearedor teaching math to schoolchildren.Te piece has already been produced,

but she said she is currently workingto upgrade some o its music and willshow the piece to Providence publicshs wh t s mptd. Sh s

also writing a semi-nonctionalmmr, sh sad.

Profs debut novel tells of music and memory

Corrine Szczesny / HeraldIa Bayeza shared stories Tuesday rom her debut novel, Some Sing, Some Cry.

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whitewashed hospital acility. In

typical PW ashion, platorms adddimension to the space and move-mt.

Director Leandro Zaneti 12sad th m raty ad dramin the play is meant to trigger ass rmmbra pp.

Like the aded ragments omemory presented to the audi-ence, the shis in action o theplay sometimes designated byactor movement or role changes are sometimes barely detectable asthey occur. It takes a ew momentso uncomortable uncertainty torealize that instead o Pull being

held up by ransportation Secu-rity Administration agents, we arenow witnessing drug addict Babysside-eects, which includes vomit-ing physically represented by theviolent rattling o the ences thatsurrud th stag.

rigger Hand painully im-merses the audience in its world.Te technical maniestations o thecharacters physical and emotionalstats ar spay ptt. WhPull is talking ellow traveller Hush(Elexis Williams 13)down roma panic attack on a plane rombehind a large clear curtain, theadded dimension o obscurity ur-

ther shoves us into Hushs impairedsusss.

I read the script and it terri-d m, ad at that mmt I r-ay watd t wrk t, Zatsaid, adding that working on anoriginal play is both difcult andreeing. He said having Barasch asa sounding board or his ideaswas ry hpu.

Audience members see many othe characters at their lowest points,

yet their struggles to push orwardrsat. T mp haratrs

ar bth th hrs ad as thr w s. HIV-pst adpregnant Baby, dely portrayed by

A Shaa 4, bth rpuss thaudience with her sel-destructivetds ad garrs sympathyas the victim o her addictions.What makes Pull who mightthrws sm at dyam sthe contrast between his counseling

hs patts ad hs abty trm hs w ags.

Te most enigmatic character th pay, bd drug rd Hush,serves as both a oil to Pul l, whomshe calls a bougie liberal activist,and a reection o his inadequacies.

Hush, sel-described as brutal,slowly develops into a surprisingly

w-rudd haratr as w shr gg t s-.

Trough the characters trials,th aud ms t s th ad-dicts as more than their aberra-tions. Nurse Katie, portrayed ina standout perormance by AvaLangord 14, says her job is not tomake the addicts eel worthwhilebut t mak thm bautuad huma.

Te play has got this theme startg a ad ag up,Barash sad. I thrs ay argu-mt that th pay maks t s thatstarting clean doesnt exist and thatda s just drg pp razy.

Baby reects this idea when shesays, Teres no starting clean. Butmayb I a try t mak pa.

In an almost Dickensian ash-ion, Baraschs impressive debuttakes a bevy o characters andbrings them together into anrarhg thm t just thwars addt, but as hwwe treat the casualties. riggerHand questions the responsibilityo a community in an age where weare quick to villainize those whomst d ur supprt.

PW seeks to cureaddiction misconceptions

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B hannah loewentheil

StaffWriter

Te John Hay Librarys steps werelined with Chinese lanterns and its

bby was d wth th sm dumplings Monday. Te phrasesmay everything go your way andmay you be prosperous were dis-payd papr mah Chsdrags t wm gusts t thChs Latr Fsta GaryWak, a spa brat thChs Nw Yar at th Ur-sity. Te decorations included thisyars Chs zda sg thdragon, which is considered themst pwru ad wsst ama at Cha, appratd rts strgth ad gd uk.

Te gallery walk was the result

o a collaborative eort by the Hay,the List Art Center and the Haen-

rr Musum Athrpgy.he dierent exhibits will

remain open to the public, butMonday nights walk was a spe-a shwas.

It was a way t bratad t th Latr Fstato everything on campus, saidShaa Wbrg, th rdatr th Yar Cha tat.

Te gallery walk consisted oa three-stop tour at each o thedierent venues. Te tour beganat the Hay with an exhibitionad D Lad, Czat

ad Pp. T ga th rstexhibition is to present Chinathough a touching approach, saidLi Wang, veteran curator o theEast Asian Collection. By showcas-

ing books, paintings and artiacts,the exhibit should bring the visi-tor in contact with Chinese cultureand the people o this divine land,h sad.

Wth th hbt ar a had-ul o Wangs personal items romwh h d Bjg. I add-

t, attds a w a -t 00 award-wg bksdonated by Bing Ling, chairmanor the association o ChineseWrtrs th Utd Stats.

Many unique items in theexhibit serve to establish a con-nection between China and theUniversity. Beyond books, theexhibit eatures bamboo slips oConucian classics, New Year olkpaintings, a Qing emperors callig-raphy scrolls, delicately decoratedchopsticks and award-winningpatgs by a -yar-d Ch-

s gr, a rwd art.Te List Art Center is home

t th sd hbt, T Shap Gd Frtu, whh was d-sgd ad but by studts aseminar taught by Maggie Bick-ord, proessor o history o art andarchitecture. Te exhibit stresseswishes or abundance, luck andprtt, thms that a-company the Chinese New Year, atm hag ad urabty.

Te goal o the exhibit was

t mak th sua dmss the celebration o the New Yearin China accessible to anybody,Bkrd sad.

he inal stop on the Gal-lery Walk was the Haenreer,where participants can view twoside-by-side exhibits CraingOrigins and aoist Gods romChina. Christy DeLair GS, whocurates the exhibits, accumulatedth shwasd tms a uddtrip to aiwan. Te cras werehandmade by indigenous tribes awa, skg t t th st-

ries o their origins through art.Te latter exhibit eatured Mienaoist paintings that aim to givea rgzab a t th a, aEast Asa mtaphysa pt th mhasm bhd ry-thg that sts.

Te exhibits in the Haenreerwill remain up until the end o thesemester. Shape o Good Fortune

runs through Feb. 16 and DivineLad, Czat ad Pp sp th Hay ut Marh .

Hay exhibit rings in Chinese New Year

Jane Hu / Herald

The gallery walk eatures three diferent exhibits dedicated to Chinese New Year.

B Ben Kutner

Senior StaffWriter

Anti-Semitism and light-heartedlove stories are odd themes to sharea stage, but the cast o rinity Rep-rtry Cmpay shws why TMerchant o Venice still packs aturs-d puh.

In the latest production oShakespeares masterpiece, whichruns until March 4, a strong castand minimalist set convey thecharm that rinity Rep can pull ts bst mmts.

Te highlights o the play comerom Shakespeares script, whichjuxtaposes light humor with thedark hu at-Smtsm. Whth rh Vta mrhat At- (J Ws Jr.) ds myto lend to his riend, the Jewishmoney-lender Shylock (StephenBrs) s thr t prd t at a tremendous personal cost toAt.

Te play recounts the hatredthat the Christians have or Shy-

lock, which he subsequently hasor them. Berenson does a tremen-dous job, approaching his role witha grace that is usually difcult toportray in such an alienated andastgatd haratr.

Te Merchant o Venice spansthe ull range o emotions, andthe cast excels in exhibiting thisdrsty. Wss s a studyin Shakespearian projection andlls the theater with every syllable.

Tere was no shortage o laugh-tr wh th strs tk thoreground during Wednesdaysprrma. Frd Sua Jr., a-ways a booming presence on therinity Rep stage, had the audi-ence in stitches during his portrayalo a Spanish prince vying or theaection o heiress Portia (MaryDavis). Dressed in bright pink andaunting a hilarious Spanish ac-cent, Sullivan revealed the Bardstmss wt.

Davis is the strongest emalerole in the production, with a sharp ad a rta ar.

Drtr Curt Cumbus taksadatag th maabty thatthe script oers the plot, supplyingthe production with homoeroticmpats.

Perhaps the most striking as-pt Cumbuss trprtats th mmts that ar t thscript. Te production begins witha sg-ad-da umbr, sm-ingly unrelated to the plot. Severalo these incidental moments occurthroughout the production, andthey do not necessarily enhancethe piece. Te plays strongest mo-ments are the ones that have existedr mr tha ur turs. Trecorded musical accompanimentoers little other than kitsch or themajrty ts prs.

T ast mmbrs tak ada-tage o the aisles in the theatre, oc-asay pstg thmssbetween viewers. Te drama isinescapable or surprised audi- mmbrs wh ha t da member o the Venetian courtstadg r thr shudr.

Trinity Rep adds music to Merchant

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System examinescancer proteins in 3-D

science education. Youre doingsmthg that s trbutg tw kwdg.

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Frst, studts gt thr hadsdirty, digging up soil samples toanalyze in the lab, in hopes o nd-g thr w phags.

Tey think there are around10 to the 31st bacteriophages inthe world, so the probability oyu dg a w phag s muh,much larger than nding one thathas been discovered, said inaVkr 5.

Tough the odds were in thestudents avor, isolating the viruses

was a long and at times, rustrat-

ing process. Alex Hadik 15 saidit was challenging to determinewhether his virus was one phageor a combination o several. odo this, he had to plate dierentstrands o the virus and watch howit developed over six- or eight-hour

increments, keeping track o hisdata mtuusy.

Te trying process ultimatelymtatd hm t am hs phagDante, reecting the layers ohell it put me through isolatingt, h wrt a w-up mat T Hrad.

Ultimately, Hadik succeeded insatg hs rus ad was ab t

enter it in the class Phage Olym-ps.

His electrophoresis gel wasbeautiul, Voelcker said, reerringto one o the steps the studentstook to analyze the basic geneticstrutur thr phags. Sh -plained how his sample had an op-tma trat DNA, adhow its genome was most likelyry g.

Dante proved victorious inthe Phage Olympics, and nowstudts ar gg t aayz adatat th 5,652 bas pars ts gm.

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Te rustration Hadik described

was not unique to Brown students.Teir Providence College counter-parts also suered rom sampletamat.

We had so much trouble, saidKathleen Cornely, a proessor ohmstry at Prd Cg,who co-teaches the course with Nic

Austra, a prssr bgy.She said the class had to race

t mt thr dad r atta-ing puried DNA. Te night be-ore Tanksgiving vacation, shewas giving an exam when thePhage Hunters students cameand knocked on her door. Hav-ing nally succeeded in isolatingphages, they were cheering, thrilled

to show her their specimens. I

just laughed or about 10 minutes,sh sad.

Utmaty, thr ass dddto sequence two o the phageswith the most DNA, the rst be-

g Jb42. It was amd ar tsisolator, James OBrien. Austriacopad that OBr addd th42 in reerence to the 42nd chapter th bk Jb, whh, h sad,is about redemption and how God

rstrs Jb ar a hs tras adtrbuats.

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Despite these rustrations, stu-dt rspss t th urs hab rwhmgy pst.

It was so antastic to be ex-posed to this world o actual re-sarh, Vkr sad.

Aisha Ferrazares 15, anotherstudent in the course, said she ini-tially decided to enroll because shewanted to go to medical school and

thought the class would give hergood research experience. But aerth pprtuty t d a ths -novative science, Ferrazares thinks

sh may wat t pursu strsarh ad ar a PhD stad.

Voelcker, Ferrazares and Hadikar hpg t pursu rsarh -trshps ths summr. My wrkhere will really help me get intoa program, Hadik said. His cre-atty ad prbm-sg skshave grown immensely throughovercoming some o the challengesh ad, h sad.

Te course is unique becauseit gives students the opportunityt j what s sstay a -perimental laboratory in (their)rst semester, said Peter Shank, aprssr mda s whteaches the course alongside threethr prssrs.

He said students oen struggleto nd research positions becausemst prssrs ad ab drtrsare only interested in students withresearch experience a catch-22,particularly or irst-years and

sophomores. I you say you iso-lated this phage and did restrictionmapping, thats a whole dierentst sks, Shak sad.

Excitement about Phage Hunt-ers is not limited to students auty jy t t. Im hag abast, Shak sad.

Everyone involved in the coursebth at Brw ad at PrdCg sad th bst partshas been the close-knit eeling thathas ars wth th asss. Wbam a ray bg amy, Rgsad.

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Neither Providence College norBrown designed the Phage Hunters

course the program was initi-atd by th S Eduat A-a brah HHMI.

Lucia Barker, SEAs program o-cer, said the Phage Hunters initia-t was ratd s yars ag, aexpansion o a course designedby Graham Hatu, a prssr

biotechnology at the University oPttsburgh.

Tis is the rst time HHMIhas provided a curriculum andeducational resources directly toproessors, Barker said. HHMI alsotrains proessors and provides thematerials and supplies to ull mem-

br gs, suh as Brw.Tis support gives them the

opportunity to ocus exclusively hw t tah th urs ad tocus exclusively on the studentsand the science, Barker said. Techerry on top o the ice cream sun-da s that ths wr rshm.

In selecting which schools to join the initiative, the most im-portant thing we were looking orwas a ddat t trasrmgscience education to be hands-on,Barkr sad.

Brown had already begun totransorm its biology oerings be-r sussuy appyg t b apart o Phage Hunters, argan said,tg th w bgy ab ursrgs r rst-yars.

Bth Barkr ad arga spk th mprta kpg stu-dents interested in science. Oneway to do that is to have more stu-dents involved in hands-on classes.

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HHMI has t yt ddd twill accept new schools to join thePhage Hunters program. Te idea SEA s that t wud b a srso dierent initiatives, Barker said.We do know that SEA is planningon being involved in innovativescience education programmingr a g tm.

Because Brown is a membersh th Phag Hutrs pr-gram, HHMI will continue to pro-

vide the supplies or the course ortwo more years. Aer that, argan

said the course could potentially beabsorbed into the biology program,

th thr yars pr ugh tstabsh a ampus-basd udr-standing o how to run the course.

G th suss th ass,argan said such hands-on experi-s wud mak ss maydierent departments, namingarchaeology, history and anthro-pgy as thr dsps whrhe could envision such engagingurss.

Having that much more viscer-

a pr usg a th sss its impossible not to be engaged t, whras ts asy t z ut a tur, arga sad. Trsjust a t d t shw thatthats the best way people learnand the best way to keep peopletrstd.

B sandra yan

StaffWriter

University researchers have em-ployed a novel method to studyPannexin 1, a recently discoveredprotein that scientists believe mayplay a role in the spread o can-cer. In an article published Jan.20 in the Journal o BiologicalChmstry, a tam rsarhrs

consisting o Brian Bao MD13,associate proessor o medical sci- Jry Mrga ad ab-ratrs at th Ursty BrtshColumbia used a 3-D system tostudy cells without their support-g rmts.

In previous in vitro studies, sci-entists could oen only observesg attd-ut s ptrdishes. Te 3-D technology allowsscientists to observe how multiplecells interact with each other rath-r tha wth thr rmts,giving researchers a more realisticmethod or simulating the human

bdy.Te team discovered Pannexin

1 was implicated in the processo binding cells together. Whens m t tat wth ahthr, Pa has pand cause the cell to release theenergy molecule AP, which bindsto specic receptors on other cells,trggrg a ras aum

trats ad dugchanges in the cells structural pro-teins. Tis ultimately causes thes t bd tgthr mrstrgy.

While each o this mechanismsstps had b studd ddu-ay, ths study was th rst t r-late all o them to Pannexin 1, saidBa, th studys ad authr.

Tese results could potential-

ly impact how researchers studyar. Carus s ar bound less tightly, which someststs b may pay a rin how the cancer spreads to otheraras th bdy.

Further down the road, thiscould have serious implicationsin (studying) tumor genesis,said Gerhard Dahl, proessor ophysgy ad bphyss at thUniversity o Miami Miller School Md.

Bas t stps ud k-g t hw Pa ats acancer tumors ability to spread.

While the study represents a posi-tive development, it is just one step

a muh argr prss that winvolve many other researchers,h sad. Car s a mmsycomplex phenomenon that ulti-mately requires a multi-acetedapprah amg a mmuty ststs, Ba wrt a mat T Hrad.

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Brian Bao / Brown University

Researchers used novel 3-D technology to view Pannexin 1, a newly discoveredprotein involved in cell binding. This technology could improve cancer research.

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B Connor grealy

SportS StaffWriter

In a week o extended practices anda return to the undamentals, mensice hockey head coach BrendanWhttt 4 prpard th tam ra tryg d th sas ar tdropped our consecutive games toa t th basmt th ECACstadgs.

We cant worry about thestandings right now, Whittet said.My goal is or us to be playing ourbest hockey going into the playos.

Brown (8-12-3, 5-9-2 ECAC)now sits in 11th aer being insixth less than a month ago. Teall in the standings ollowed a pair

o troubling home losses againstCarks (-2-5, 7-6-) ad St.Lawrence (10-15-3, 6-9-1) lastwkd.

Looking to rebound rom apoint-less weekend against Ivyoes Dartmouth (9-10-4, 6-7-3)and Harvard (7-7-9, 6-4-7), theteam played host to Clarkson atMha Audtrum Fb. . But twas the Golden Knights who struck

quickly, rushing out to a three-goalad th rst prd.

We started o very slow andspotted (Clarkson) a 3-0 lead,Whittet said. Its very hard torm that dt. Spay

or our team we dont score goals

buhs.T Bars ha surd th

opening rame, conceding six rstperiod goals in its last our match-es. Whittet said slow starts orceth tam t pay rm bhd admmt mstaks.

Tough captain Jack Maclel-a 2 was ab t put Brw the scoreboard in the second pe-riod, the initial burst o goals romClarkson was insurmountable andBrw st -.

I at qut put my gr why w am ut s at, Whtttsaid. We need to play with an edgeah ad ry gam.

Brown took a page out o Clark-

sons playbook and tallied threegoals in the rst period againstSt. Lawrence the ollowing night.A thr gas am durg a mut majr paty agast thSaints. Maclellan, who leads theteam with 13 goals, lit the lamptwice, while Ryan Jacobson 15as put past th St. Lawrga.

Te Bears seemed to have thegame locked up, but the Saintsclawed their way back throughprolonged power-play opportuni-ties. St. Lawrence scored ve unan-swrd gas br th gam wasup, ag Bru wth a 5- ss

ad -strgth gas.Mistakes we made were critical

mstaks, Whttt sad. T ss

was disappointing and dishearten-ing. Not because we lost, but theway w st.

Fwg th gam agast St.Lawrence, Bruno nds itsel inth mdd a sump at pssbythe most inopportune o times.Whittet said the team is ar romull strength and is still trying tomt ts dtty.

Were missing a lot o pieces.We had eight reshman in the line-up agast St. Lawr, h sad.Were still young in the Brownway. Wh w gt away rm urtaty ad ur wrk th, wr

t ry gd.Te injury bug has hit the Bears

hard, with some key players alsohospitalized with a stomach virus.Matt Wahl 14 wi ll be shelved or awhile aer getting hurt in the gameagainst Clarkson. Tis latest string jurs as th Bars th trms prd payrs adhas led to many rst-years beingrd t tak th rs, udgJacobson, Matt Lorito 15 and Mas-sm Lamaha 5.

Te road ahead will not get anyeasier as Bruno looks to climb backup the standings. Tis weekend thetam w a tw th ECACs

ad utrys bst tams, as t htsthe road to ace No. 13 Cornell(-6-6, --5) ad N. UCollege (16-6-7, 10-3-4) the toptwo seeds in the current ECACstadgs.

Whittet said he has been drilling

the team and getting back to thebasics o Brown hockey in lighto the upcoming matches againstpwrhus tams.

Were working on the basics systems, how were supposedto do things (and) winning puck

battles, Whittet said. When things

g suth r us, s srryor us. We need to play with a chip ur shudr.

Despite the losing streak,Whittet said he and his seniors including Maclellan, assistantcaptain Bobby Farnham 12 andgatdr Mk Cmt 2 all have the same goal in mind to

hag a bar Mha.We can deinitively turn

arud what has happd thast tw wks, Whttt sad.

Bears look to rebound before heading to playoffs

Emily Gilbert / Herald

Captain Jack Maclellan 12 led the Bears this season with 13 goals.

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Fraternity of Evil | Eshan Mitra, Brendan Hainline and Hector Ramirez

C O M I C S

B sam sheehan

SportSColumniSt

In the days ollowing the Super Bowl,Ive been watching a lot o Scrubs.It s my art shws atm. T prbm wth Srubs wasthat, r a ts ptta, t wastable to maintain the high level otrtamt that t st r ts th rst ur r sass. I thk

the best way to picture the show isas a tp--th- ra ar. Srubsrd th yr bt as a a-tastic piece o machinery. It was agreat construction that its engineersud b prud .

Until the race car driver got aholdo it. Ten he drove it into a wall.And when the car hit that wall, itipped over seven times, sprayedthe crowd with aming hot pieceso metal they once ound comortingad awd th drr just ughtm t gt ar br t pddin a cacophony o great ideas and-rmd ut.

Is it possible to compare Scrubs

t th Nw Egad Patrts? I sup-pose we could. I mean, they bothenjoyed the majority o their success th ary 2000s. Ad dspt hghptats, thy bth at arthe end o the decade. And they botheatured lead men who had a veryhigh opinion o themselves, whichmay have been what led to theirdwa.

But thats not why Im writing thiscolumn. Im writing this column be-cause o one scene rom the show that

stuck with me and seemed extremelyrat, g th rumstas the Super Bowl. It came in the second

t ast psd th rst sas.Dr. W s surg Chrs urks

attending physician in the show, andurk is puzzled as to how woman-izing and borderline stupid ellowsurgeon odd is considered the best hs ass prs. Wthut h-g, W drs th wg .

When you are working, I can al-ways see your wheels turning. Yourethinking o what you have to do next,what ud g wrg. Yur t the moment. As much as it pains met say ths, T dd s.

Is it possible to read those linesad t thk m Brady ad EMag? Mayb t s, but t r aPats a k m.

om Brady has always been con-sidered like a surgeon, the best o hisclass, a guaranteed hall-o-amer whoslices and dices opposing deenseswith the emotion o your standardrk. I w trust m Brady wth aootball game i my lie is on the line.

Ad yt, hr s m Brady, thmost clutch quarterback in NFLhstry, awg sats th rstplay. Trowing the NFL leader inrpts trrb tbas. Argut prayrs t ur jurd tght dwho can barely outrun or outjumpthe average box tortoise, not to men-

tion an NFL linebacker, let alone an

rdby arag .

What I saw that gam was aincredibly talented quarterback whowas worried about his legacy playingagainst another talented quarterbackwho wasnt. With every pass anddecision that om Brady made onth d, yu ud amst s hmthinking about where that wouldput hm th rsat tquartrbaks. Wth Mag, thrwas none o that only a blank, un-intelligible rown as he decided whot thrw th ba t t.

In Scrubs, the scene with Dr. Wenis ollowed up with urk thinkingt hms -r a th

reasons that Wen is wrong. Mean-while, a slow pan to Te odd revealshis thoughts to be, BumbadabumBadadbum Badabum shiny scalpel!

And that is exactly how the Su-per Bowl played out. Brady sat onhis sideline thinking about wherehe stood next to Joe Montana, andManning sat on his sideline thinkingabout which onka trucks he wouldplay with once the game was over.Manning has never had to worryabout where he stands in historybecause he is the little brother oone o the greatest quarterbacks tor pay th gam. Tr s waythat Manning can ever top that, so

h dst ha t wrry abut hwh prrms.

Except he has topped his brother.In blissul ignorance, Manning hascatapulted himsel into the conver-sation with Brady, Aaron Rodg-ers, Drew Brees and even his olderbrother as one o the leagues elitequarterbacks. Manning was in themmt. Just k h was ur yarsag. Tats why th Gats w thgam.

I wat t b ar. Im t thrw-ing Brady under the bus like thesehak Bst sprts wrtrs wh ars quk t rgt what h has d

r us.Any real Patriots an knew that it

was going to be a tough ght or us tow that gam. Vgas ad th rst the world could pretend all they wantthat the Patriots were avored in thatgam, but w a kw gg t twhat it would take to win against thetam that bat us ur w husarr th yar.

I a stadum that was sra-ty 0 prt at-Pats, th tamwth th wrst ds th aguput up a h a ght agast a -ense that everyone seems to agree isone o the best in the NFL. Im proud that.

Teres no making excuses aboutwhat mght ha happd wth ahathy Rb Grkwsk, r WsWkr aught that pass. Baus atth d th day, Im a h a tprudr my bys ths yar tha Iwas ur yars ag.

Kp sg, Chrs urk. Todd will eventually gure out hes insurgry. Ad wh that day ms,yu b ur Ch Surg.

Sam Sheehan 12 really hopes the

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Open heart surgeryon a Patriots fan

B nate huether

ContributingWriter

Last wkd, ms ts payrSua Azargu 4 w a uro his matches two at singlesad tw at dubs t hp thBears remain undeeated 6-0 inthe winter season. Azarguis winscame at home against Binghamton,Bryant and Quinnipiac. For hisdmatg prrmas t hptd th Bars wg strak,Te Herald has named AzarguiAtht th Wk.

do you moel your game afer

c p?

No, not really. Ive just beentryg t b mr aggrss, takballs a lot earlier and dictate a littlebt mr.

do you have a avorite player?At th mmt, I thk ry-

bodys avorite player would be(Nak) Djk, just baus the way hes playing and how heseems to be dominating the tennisgam rm th bas.

What is your favorite tennis

mm?

It probably came last year. Iplayed against Columbia in theIs, ad w wr 0- gg tthat match. It came down to mymath, ad sg hw mprtatthe team aspect was, with everyonecheering me on, and it was a reallydramat, g math. I dd uppulling it out with all the support omy teammates and coaches. Everytime I think about that, I get goosebumps. It was one o my avoritereshman memories, and probablyts mmrs, up t ths pt.

do you have any special pre-

mch s?

N, t ray. Br, I usd tdo my own warm-ups. But nowwr sh, a th tammatsd th sam kd warm-up b-ore every match. But I really like tost t sm upbat mus t tryto get me as pumped-up as possiblebr my math.

do you have any avorite songs ss?

O my art artsts rghtnow is J. Cole. Drake is a good one.Im rom around oronto, and hesrm rt.

Wh chs Bw?

It was at th tp my st wtha ew other schools, but I choseBrw baus, my st, I gtalong really well with the team. Iud t th gra atmsphr th sh ad th guys thtam. I thught that I wud t the best here. And also, I reallyliked the open curriculum, be-cause I mysel didnt know what

I watd t study g. AdBrown being the liberal school thatit is, it just seemed to me like it wasprbaby th bst h r m ttry t d what I watd t d rth rst my .

What has been your favorite

css Bw?

I would probably have to gowith bio, my introductory bio class

with Proessor Kenneth Miller. Itwas a really, really interesting class.I thought he was a brilliant proes-sr.

What have you like most Bw?

Te riends Ive made, probably.Ive met a wide variety o peoplerom dierent socioeconomicbackgrounds, with interesting lives,sm wth rma s, up t thspoint. Te variety in the riendsthat Ive made athletes and non-athts. Its just b a ray atmosphere. Ive made a lot o veryclose riends that I hope to keep ormay yars t m.

Azargui 14 leads m. tennis to 6-0

B alexander KaPlan

StaffWriter

Te skiing team nished its regu-lar season this week with a awless

record. Te squad rounded outleague competition by winning allrguar sas ras, a at rpreviously achieved by a womensteam in the MacConnell division.Te team also set a division re-cord twice rst by winning theBrown Carnival by 17 seconds and

then widening the margin to 20seconds at the Clarkson Carnival.

Tis success comes aer ski-g was satd t gt ut ths pastspring, along with the wrestlingand encing programs. Last Oc-

tober, aer the teams launchedundraising campaigns to save thesquads, President Ruth Simmonsrecommended against eliminating

th tams.

Aer avoiding the axe, six oeight Bears placed in the top 15skiers in the Eastern CollegiateSki Conerence MacConnell Divi-s, ad apta Ka Mstha12 won the individual divisiontt.

Mosenthal credited o-the-hill bonding as the key to thetams ra suss. T tamhas m tgthr a way thatI ha t s br, sh sad.I think our positive interactionsoutside o skiing have enabled us

t prrm s w ras.Uk prus yars, th sk

team benetted rom a more well-rudd squad, Mstha add-d. Fr th rst tm my ur

years, we have depth any o uscan win on any given day, shesaid. Everyone has worked reallyhard ths sas t stay pstad urag athr.

As a result o strong peror-mances during the regular sea-son, the team will be competing atthe ECSC Regionals in Sugarloa,Ma, Fb. 25-26.

Pretty good stu aer almostsg th prgram, wrt hadcoach Michael LeBlanc in anma t T Hrad.

Undefeated skiers look toward regionals

Jesse Schwimmer / HeraldSouane Azargui14 went undeeated in the teams perect last season (6-0).

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L E T T E R TO T H E E D I T O R

UCS does not justify amendmentTo the Editor:

I remain unconvinced by the justications that theUndergraduate Council o Students has provided in itsstatement (UCS: Vote yea to UCS-UFB role amend-mt, Fb. ) urgg studts t t ar thconstitutional amendment that would allow it to havecontrol over its own unding. First, the statement citesstatistics that contrast the unding situation o UCS toquat rgazats at thr Iy Lagu ur-sities. However, I am not sure that this comparisonis the pertinent one to make. Brown students haveinsufcient knowledge about the responsibilities and

scope o student governments at those universities toveriy UCSs contention that it is underunded. WhatI am mr trstd s hw th $,500 aatdt th UCS r th 20-2 aadm yar stads

rat t what thr studt grups at Brw hareceived. I consider this piece o inormation to bemore relevant, as it can serve to clariy i UCS is trulyudrudd s-a-s thr studt grups.

I addt, th statmt suats that th U-dergraduate Finance Board is denying UCS its rightulshar uds as a rsut tra pts. Ts s asrus agat, ad I am dsapptd by th ako a response rom UFB through its own choice orthrws wth th sam ssu T Hrad this matter, beore the poll on MyCourses opened.Sm studts may ha arady td basd justUCSs account o the situation. I believe this issue

dsrs a mr thrugh dbat tha what s rpr-std th statmt rasd by UCS.

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Mst pp w t yu that thr artw typs ratshps at Brw: rgd,Fabk-fa rmas ad hurrd,ft ad asay hr hk-ups. Tugh thr ar pts, mst us brag that wr t busy, t ssht ha tm r asua datg. W wrkhard, s urs w wat t pay hard.

But s that ray what w wat, r s tjust what w say w wat?

Nbdy w admt that thyd k t b

a ratshp that asts gr tha ght. It suds wak. It suds sur.It suds just pa stupd wh g sth y tm yur wh t s kay tb ssh. But pp st wat th m-rt ad amarty sg th sam pr-s r ad r aga, wh thyprtd t b t s-assurd r that.

S what d thy d? Ty d srahkups.

Ctrary t what mst partrs w tyu, a arg amut asua s st wthdrt pp. Its wth prs. Itsthat sam prs yu hkup wth ryFrday ght, r usday mrg, r arsharg mzzara stks at Jsahs whbth yu ar t druk t stad. Ts

ratshps ar t adta hkups,thy ar dty t Fabk fa,ad thy dty dt dsrb asua

datg.I rty tk th amus S, G-

dr ad Sty ass th sgy d-partmt. Etr dsuss prds wrddatd t dsussg th dt rap, whthr masturbat uts as sad prgraphy s ba t wm-.

W ud study datg ad marragprats a day baus thy wr pr-dtab. I ass, w ad that a suasrpt. G a dat, rst kss, a bak th

t day, g a sd dat ad s .But thr was tp w ud -

r agr , s w amst aways addt. It st bthrs m baus Im t surthr s a aswr: Wh ds a hkupbm a ratshp?

It rattd th ass baus thr s sua srpt. Eah hkup s try d-rt.

Sm pp w t yu that ursut hkups r ur su-t wkds s th pt ma

pu tdd. T up must thr stphkg up baus t bms t awk-

ward, r thy w tr a ratshp. Butgt ths th up hks up ur, r 0 tms, thy a tuwhat thy ar dg, as g as th hk-ups dt ur suty. Tat wudsm t muh k a ratshp.

W a kw that hary s dad, butts a t datg s, t. E ups g-trm ratshps dt ray g dats. Ty mt ah thr at parts,

thy hag ut wth ah thrs rds,but rary w thy g ut t dr.

W ar t k ur parts. Marragmay t b th rm aymr r a g-rat trrd mmtmt sma mmtmts. S rgt abut -summatg th marrag. E a musk must b summatd br twpp dd t bm Fabk f-

a. Ar a, dst t sm a tt rthat a ups w ratshp status yshws up yur ws d th mrg

ar thy rst had s?Its k w ha bm s austmd

t ths r-hagg, smtms -usg sua prats that w dt bthr t qust thm aymr, wh sm us r mayb a t us wud k t kw a prs, rat ast thr am, wh w hk up wththm. Why d w aways sm t tphysay wth ur rmat trsts b-r w a t mtay?

Is t baus w ar gr rprssgur Fruda urgs ad ar ay atghuma? Is t baus w sy wat su-a pasur, prpakagd ad rmua, smhaa that ts amst pat? Or st baus wr arad that w mght atu-ay k th prs w ar hag s wth?

Smtms kamd GratM, w ar a grup th mst dt,ambtus ad assrt pp that Amr-a has r s. Yt smtms wr tdstratd by ur w Fabk autsad wttr ds t t. Cdt-y, w ar as th mst arssst. Smpp thk wr th mst dprssd.

I a wrd whr prsa mag squky bmg rythg, s -bty mpusry ad ay urabtyubarab? It must b t rsky t mmtt a ratshp a asua wh th tua aur w b spashdarss th ws ds ry yur spk t.

Cara Doriss 15 can be reached atcara_doriss@brown.edu.

The ction of relationship?

Te Undergraduate Council o Students an-nounced a proposal and subsequently ran anopinions column in Te Herald yesterday(UCS: Vt ya t UCS-UFB r amd-ment, Feb. 9) recommending a constitutional

hag that wud g t th rght t st tsw budgt, wth th appra th dr-tor o student activities. Te UndergraduateFinance Board would like to urge a morerasd k at th prpsa ad ask stu-dents to consider the true impact the changewud ha.

T UCS prpsa wud st UCS apartrom every other student group on campus,whs budgts ar dtrmd by UFB. Itsnot surprising why they would want to dothis. As chair o a large student organizationmys, Id rsh th pprtuty t st myown budget rather than petitioning UFBor unds. Im sure its a sentiment shared bymay studt adrs ampus. Hwr,giving UCS this power, aorded to no otherstudent organization, would have disastrousconsequences or every undergraduate onampus.

Te amendment has been put to a vote bya udrgraduat studts MyCurss,and a two-thirds majority is necessary toratiy this change when the poll closes onSunday. On behal o UFB, and as a member th studt bdy, I strgy urg Brwstudts t t t th UCS prpsa.

Its a urtuat but mty tru at

that may grups ampus ar udrud-d. Tatr prduts prat sh-strg budgts. T Brw Bad a barytra t away gams du t gsta ps-s. Cub sprts sramb t r thr sts.Amst a studts wh ar mmbrs stu-

dt grups ha b thrugh th pr- mag dzs dpartmts ask-g r udg t r th gaps that UFBat ard t pay. Arss th bard, wrth-wh prjts ad ts g urazd. Tsprbm bs dw t th ry smp ssu t may ds ad t w uds.

Tat s why UFB must mak dfut d-

ss ry wk abut hw t mst f-ty aat th apprmaty $.2 m- studt atty ud, whh mprssa $7 pad by ry udrgraduat. Tt UCS hag ary uhkd a-ss t ths uds br ry thr stu-dt grup, at th mst bas , s t d-ras th uds aaab r ry thr stu-dt rgazat. Ts wud mak UFBsarady tugh dss tughr ada a gratr umbr prjts

ad ts uudd. Wh I d t dy

th au th wrk UCS ds, I dubt t ssufty rua t th s th studtbdy that t b prrtzd ab th ds ry thr studt grup, grups t whhstudts aty hs t dt thr tmad rt.

UCS argus that ts mss s t adatad at ps r th bt ryBrw udrgraduat. But suh rasg st suft t drtat UCS trms mpat th studt bdy rm maythr grups. May studt grups uddby UFB rah thusads studts wththr ts amps ths ud th

Spa Ets Cmmtts Cadyad adSprg Cara ts ad Brw CrtAgys Sprg Wkd rts. Md-szstudt grups brg utss spakrs adaadms t ampus t addrss hudrds studts. Smar grups ah mpat arwr studts, but w udrgraduats asay thy ha r attdd a studt grupt udd by UFB. Ts grups -ty mpat th day-t-day studts just as muh as, t mr tha, UCS.

H, UCSs suppsd mpat studt

s hardy sms k justat t g trst ass t uds rm th studt at-ty , wh ry dar UCS aats t t-s s a dar that w t b aaab r thts ad atts studts arady au.

UCS argus that Brws studt gr-

mt rs ss udg tha th studtgrmts thr Iy Lagu shs. Itts th amp Dartmuths UCS qu-at, whh rprtdy rs 2 tms asmuh udg as UCS ds. Ts s gag,t baus th magtud th dspar-ty, but baus th dgr UCSs ds-guusss. T bdy t whh th UCSps um rrs mprss t yDartmuths UCS quat, but as SPECad th Cass Crdatg Bard, bth whh r r $50,000 a yar rmUFB t dp prgrammg r th stu-dt bdy. Wh I dt ha ass t Dart-muths udg gurs, I mag wh amr aurat mpars s mad, th a-gd dsparty argy aprats.

UCS wshs t stabsh ts as suprrt a thr studt grups, but t dst d-d why th bts t prds t studtswarrat th w udg strutur. By th-y g a grss pas ts pwr, thu dsrgards th ds ry studtwh pays t th studt atty , whw ha t wat bhd a UCS that w pr-ptuay b th rt th r asst udg. Ts dst sm partuaryar t th rst us.

Raaj Parekh 13 is an at-large representa-tive or the UFB. UFB is available to answer

any questions about the constitutionalchange and can be contacted at

ub.submissions@gmail.com.

UFB: Vote no to UCS-UFB role amendment

Every dollar UCS allocates to itsel is a dollar that will

not be available or the events and activities students

already value.

Some people will tell you that our consecutive hookups

over our consecutive weekends is the point o climax

no pun intended. But get this: I the couple hooks

up our, ve or even 10 times they can continue whatthey are doing, as long as the hookups dont occur

consecutively. That would seem too much like a

relationship.

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B Kate nussenBaum

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Yu ar stadg at MamaKms yur md s rag adyour mouth is salivating. woweeks ago, you had the bee bulgo-

gi rice set, and it was delicious. But

tonight you are torn. Do you gowith the bulgogi again because you

know how much you like it, or doyu try th b gab ad pt-tially nd an even better culinarydelight? Should you exploit known

rewards or explore, hoping to reapa bttr prz?

David Badre and Michael

Frank, proessors o cognitive, lin-guistic and psychological sciences,cannot help you with your MamaKims dilemma. But thanks to their

study published in the Feb. 9 issueo the journal Neuron, they can tell

you what area o the brain is activewhen you make decisions basedon relative uncertainty the backpart o your rontal lobe, known asthe rostrolateral prerontal cortex.

Tis exploration-exploitationtrade-o is a very classic prob-lem, both or decisions everybodymaks a day-t-day bass adrom an artiicial intelligencestandpoint, Frank said. How do

you know how oen to go withwhat you think is best versus topr?

o try to answer this question,Badr ad Frak usd a pr-ment that Frank helped designad has usd prus studs.Participants had to stop a clock ata tm btw ad s-onds, earning a certain number opoints depending on when theyhs t stp t. T hag the game was that participantsdid not know the point valuesthat corresponded to each time,and those point values were not

stat.Instead, points were assigned

based on a probability distribution,

mag, r amp, that whparticipants stopped the clockearly they would have a greaterchance o receiving points, but thepoint values would be lower. Ithey stopped the clock later on,they would have a smaller chanceo receiving points, but when theydd r a rward, that rwardwud b muh gratr.

Participants who decided toexploit a 15-point reward which they usually received whenstppg th k ar s-ond would ail to discover thata 350-point reward was occasion-ally available i they stopped thek atr.

Tis task involves a number mp mta prsss. perorm well, participants hadto keep track o the number otimes they received good and badutms r drt tms admake decisions based on theirlevel o uncertainty about eachtime, Frank said. Some partici-pants did just that they ex-plored, while others repeatedlystopped the clock at a time they

to give them points, never ventur-

g t dsr bggr rwardswr aaab.

Tough other studies have em-ployed the clock game, this wasth rst tm partpats braswere scanned using MRI ma-hs wh payg.

We already knew that therewere explorers and non-explorers,

Frak sad. T purps thrstudy was to discover what wasgg th bras th d-rt partpats.

Based on his work and the work

o others, Badre said, theressome suggestion that those type

o abstract signals are computed inthe more rostral part o the rontalrt.

he study conirmed theirhypothesis that players who ex-prd wud shw mr attyin their rostrolateral prerontalcortex than those who did not.Tis activity appeared millisec-onds beore subjects made theirdss.

Badre said questions remainabut why sm pp prdad thrs ddt.

We saw that this region in therontal cortex only tracked rela-tive uncertainty in the people who

usd t, h sad. Why s that?He and Frank both said it is

unclear i some participants didnot explore because they could not

keep track o relative uncertainty,or i they simply chose to play thegame using a dierent strategyand thus did not waste energyby mputg what Frak adoperations on top o operations.

Frank said their research couldbe used in the uture to moreclearly understand diseases likeobsessive-compulsive disorderand schizophrenia. He said manyscientists believe that people with

OCD are averse to uncertainty.Rug th k tst ppwith OCD could reveal moreabut th atur th dsrdr,he said, though there are no deni-

t pas t ru th prmtwth patts at prst. T atthat there is a specic brain regionassociated with making decisionsusing relative uncertainty couldone day help shed light on poten-ta tratmts, Frak sad.

Badr ward that thugh thmu amp s a ass way texplain making decisions thatinvolve uncertainty, its hard toeven speculate what this (research)

would translate to in everyday be-har, h sad.

Sa Bug, assstat prs-sor o psychology at the Universityo Caliornia at Berkeley, calledBadre and Franks study a so-phisticated approach to the studyo cognition in an email to TeHrad.

As Kenny Rogers said, You got

t kw wh t hd m, kwwhen to old em, know when towalk away and know when torun, she wrote. Rostrolateralprerontal cortex, the subject othis study, appears to help us do

Profs research dissectsscience of uncertainty B PhoeBe draPer

Senior StaffWriter

Last summer, Graciela Kincaid12 was digging around or WhiteHouse budget statistics on climatenance policy as part o her Under-

graduate eaching and ResearchAward wh sh stumbd arsssmthg that aught hr att-t.

I started looking at speechesonline and just out o curiositystarted doing word searches onthm, sh sad.

Poring over speeches and pressreleases o the Obama administra-tions top ofcials, Kincaid com-pared the number o times ofcials

reerred to climate change versusthe number o times they citedclean energy. Intrigued by thepossibility o exploring rhetori-cal trends, Kincaid mentioned theproject o-hand to her mentor,J. immons Roberts, proessoro sociology and environmentalstudies and director o BrownsClimate and Development Lab.Roberts encouraged Kincaid toollow through on the project, andKincaid was o to the races, Rob-

rts sad.Aer examining 1,908 admin-

strat sphs drd sJanuary 2008, Kincaid uncovered

a poignant rhetorical trend in theadministrations climate and en-ergy reerences. Administrativelanguage involving climate changehad b raday swpt away byptmst tak a rgy.

Comparing the number otimes the word energy wasmentioned compared to climateduring the Obama presidency, sheound an average ratio o 7.6:1,meaning or every seven times en-rgy was rrrd t, mat wasmentioned once. Te ratio hasdoubled in magnitude between2009 and 2011, according to Kin-

ads study.Her study is totally new, re-

ay, baus bdy had trakdhow much climate change was be-g spk by th admstra-tion, Roberts said. We all sort otd that hd stppd takgabut t.

I hs 20 Stat th Uaddress President Obama reerredto energy nine times but steeredcompletely clear o the words cli-mat hag.

What the president says signalshs agda ad hs prrts adsets the tone o the general debate,Kad sad.

Its like talking the talk andwakg th wak, sh addd. Ihe doesnt talk about it, theres justthis silence that isnt going to bed.

Obamas change in rhetoricis largely due to the increasinglypolarized political climate, Kin-caid said. Climate change wasmentioned most requently inDecember 2009, when Obama at-tdd th Cphag Summt.But the midterm elections o 2010resulted in a stronger conservativeinuence in Congress, and actorssuch as the Deepwater Horizon

surveys and ailure o cap-and-trade policies in Congress havestruck a huge blow to hopes odomestic climate change policy,

Kad sad.Ater analyzing her results,

Kincaid oered to sell the studyt sra bgs but was rjtd.Instead, she decided to publishher ndings on the recent startupbg th Cmat ad Dp-mt Lab.

T study dd up gttg alot more attention than we thought

t wud, Kad sad. Kadsarticle quickly became the blogsmost viewed link and important

payrs wr tg.Te New York imes ound

Kincaids study and tipped o sev-

eral proessionals at other univer-sities, said Max Boyko, proessoro environmental studies at theUniversity o Colorado at Boulderand a research ellow at ColoradosCooperative Institute or Research Ermta Ss. Archecking out the study himsel,Boyko deemed Kincaids system-atic examination o rhetoric con-structive and published an opin-ion piece entitled, A dangerousshi in Obamas climate changerhtr, th Washgt PstJa. 27.

T argumt I mak s sup-prtd by th data (Kad) hadgathrd, Byk sad. Its ywhen someone systematicallylooks at these issues that we gain agreater appreciation or the largerpattrs takg pa.

Obamas hag rhtr san adaptation to political condi-tions in Washington D.C., Boykosad.

Climate change in the U.S.has bm suh a ptay p-larizing issue, he added. Otherissues such as energy efciencyand switching to renewables actu-ally do appeal to people across thesptrum. Mayb Obama ad hs

and are adjusting their languageardgy.

Rhetorical ne-tuning is espe-cially important as election time

nears, said Shawn Patterson 12,president o the Brown Democrats.

Its hard to come out againsta rgy, h addd. Obamasmove is a bipartisan attempt tomake progress in the direction hewats t g addrssg mathag, wh takg th Rpub-lican majority in the House intoaccount. Obama doesnt want towast pta apta prjtsthat art gg t gt aywhr,Pattrs sad.

Te political ipside is slightlymr rta.

As we get closer and closer

t t tm, Obama s udrpressure to show that hes actuallybeen doing something in ofce,said errence George 13, presi-dent o the Republican Club oBrown University. I think hes try-g t push mr ppuar thgscloser to election time. Globalwarmg s st a ttus s-sue, but energy production isntqut s muh.

Kincaid said she is disappoint-ed that Obama has never used thebuy pupt wh t ms t -mate change. But as she spoke with

White House staers during thecourse o her research, she said shewas pleasantly surprised to ndthat mat hag s a prsassu r th prsdt.

Tat mad m gd adk I wast just bg ray d-alistic in hoping that my presidentcared about climate change, Kin-ad