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SENIOR ShOWCASEJose Macian’s ’08 new play uses sound and levels of drama to articulate issues of gender and class

5 11dIvINg TO vICTORyMen’s swim team brings in U. celebs to win housing lottery first-pick contest

CAREER WEEk ANgSTJonah Fabricant ‘10 looks forward to Career Week but not to choosing his career

3TOMORROW’S WEAThER Wintry weather makes students feel as if they are following the men’s basketball team to Ithacasnow 32 / 28

Corporation to review financial aid, set tuitionBy gEORgE MILLERSenior StaF F Writer

The Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, will have a full plate when it meets today and Saturday to discuss financial aid, review the Task Force on Under-graduate Education’s report and set the budget and tuition for the next fiscal year.

“This is going to be a really interesting, exciting meeting,” Secretary of the University Albert Dahlberg said. “The Corporation has some decisions to make.”

Many people will have their eyes on financial aid spending. Many of Brown’s peers, includ-ing Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dart-mouth, Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania, have announced changes to their aid programs to ease the burden on students from low- and middle-income families.

This is the first Corporation

meeting since Harvard announced its new package in December, and the 54-person, bicameral body is expected to make some sort of fi-nancial aid decision this weekend. President Ruth Simmons told the faculty at a Feb. 5 meeting that next year’s budget may include a larger draw from the endowment and an increase in financial aid.

As the Corporation deliber-ates financial aid changes Satur-day, Students for a Democratic Society plans to demonstrate for better access to education outside University Hall Saturday — the first planned student demonstra-tion related to the body’s agenda in recent memory.

The Corporation will meet Fri-day for a “retreat” strategy session at the Westin Hotel downtown. It will also hold an afternoon session on Friday to discuss the financial

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Food is more than the sum of its parts, writer arguesBy ALLISON WENTzStaFF Writer

Michael Pollan has a simple nutri-tional tip: “Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recog-nize as food.”

Pollan, a writer and professor of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, shared this pointer with a full audience in Sa-lomon 101 Thursday night during a lecture in which he argued that nutritional facts and science don’t always provide the best guide for how we should eat.

Pollan spoke about and signed copies of his new best-selling book, “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto.” He summed up his new book in seven words: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

“We had very good advice on how to eat before we had a science of food,” Pollan said, citing culture as what should determine what foods to eat. He also devised some proverbs of his own.

“Don’t eat anything with more than five ingredients,” Pollan said. “Don’t eat anything that won’t even-tually rot.”

Pollan named the problem in the American diet today “nutritionism,” the idea that “food is essentially the sum of its nutritional parts.”

“We don’t feel confident to make decisions about this most basic ani-mal function that is finding some-thing to eat,” Pollan said, explaining

Min Wu / HeraldPollan spoke against “nutritionism.”

Freshman hockey player faces child porn chargesBy MAx MANkINSenior StaF F Writer

Harrison Zolnierczyk ’11, a for-ward on the men’s ice hockey team, is facing charges in Canada in connection with accusations that he produced, recorded and distributed a pornographic video involving a teenage girl on You-Tube, the Providence Journal and

Canwest News Service, a Canadian wire service, have reported.

In a written statement, the Uni-versity said Zolnierczyk will not participate on the men’s hockey team this season. He will remain enrolled at the University, the statement said.

Zolnierczyk has “been forced to withdraw from the hockey team, the team he loves playing on,” his

Vancouver-based lawyer, Richard Fowler, told The Herald.

Zolnierczyk last played in a game against St. Lawrence Uni-versity on Feb. 16 at Meehan Au-ditorium. He has appeared in 16 games this season.

He is facing charges of voyeur-ism and production, possession

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By FRANkLIN kANINneWS editor

Walking down George Street, stu-dents might notice a red Chevy Suburban parked near the Sharpe Refectory. It bears slogans and bumper stickers like “M.E.A.T.: Mankind Eating Animals To-gether” and a picture of a whale with a harpoon through its side. Many students are not sure what to make of this.

“I actually just wondered what it is,” said Kaitlin Fitzpatrick ’10. “I have no idea what purpose it serves, or if it’s like promoting some food com-

pany or something.” Others assumed it is meant

to be funny or satirical. “I didn’t really take it as anything serious. I just assumed it was a joke or something,” said Michael Cohen ’08. “I wasn’t really taken aback by it or anything.”

But someone who spent last summer at Nobadeer Beach, on Nantucket, Mass., would know exactly what it was.

For those beachgoers, the truck heralded

an impromptu social gathering abundant with food, funny T-shirts and two friendly college students and amateur entrepreneurs who made it their job to bring people together through barbecues.

The truck is the vehicle of the M.E.A.T. Club. The two are Devin Wilmot ’10 and Kevin Meehan, a student at George Washington University, who started their “pro-

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Bolton, Holbrooke ’62 face off over U.N. at Janus ForumBy MIChAEL SkOCPOLneWS editor

Former U.N. ambassadors John Bol-ton and Professor-at-Large Richard Holbrooke ’62 outlined contrasting visions of the United Nations and its role in U.S. foreign policy to a crowded Salomon 101 Thursday af-ternoon. Bolton criticized the U.N.’s ineffectiveness, while Holbrooke highlighted its importance as a fo-rum to advance U.S. interests.

The U.N. is flawed and often cor-rupt, Bolton said. The only solution

to render it more effective and ac-countable is to allow member states to contribute funds voluntarily and for specific purposes they approve. Too often, the U.N. also seeks to ex-ert influence on issues that should be left to the domestic political process, said Bolton, who was appointed to his post by President Bush in 2005.

Holbrooke, a Clinton appoin-tee, said the U.N. is “a flawed but vitally important institution” whose effectiveness and influence is only

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‘Hamletmachine’ piles layers on layersBy BEN LEUBSdORFStaFF Writer

A man stalks the stage with a sword. A woman delivers a passionate mono-logue on feminism and male inade-quacy. Another woman reaches down a man’s pants while enthusiastically recounting the exploits of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, a 1970s West German terrorist group.

Jose Macian’s ’08 production of Heiner Mueller’s “Hamletmachine” opened last night at Leeds Theater, where it will run through Sunday. It is a jarring and intense show, with lay-ers of meaning and allusion grafted onto the skeleton of William Shake-speare’s “Hamlet” in 90 minutes of fractured scenes.

“Hamletmachine,” a 1977 play by the East German playwright Muel-ler, is this year’s Senior Director’s Showcase production — the slot at Brown’s mainstage theater reserved each academic year for a graduating senior in the Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance. Last February, Macian proposed directing “Hamlet-machine,” and later that spring the department’s faculty and staff chose him for the senior slot.

“I’ve been living and breathing Heiner Mueller for the last year,” Macian said.

Last summer, Macian traveled to Berlin’s Akademie der Kunste to research Mueller’s original staging of the play and to take in rehearsals for a production of the show at the Deutsches Theater.

He also decided that the two existing English translations of the play wouldn’t work, and so last fall re-translated the script with Katrin Dettmer GS, a native German speak-er and the production’s dramaturg. The result, Macian said, is “a transla-tion that is on one hand poetic and on the other hand faithful to Heiner Mueller.”

“Hamletmachine” has no tradi-tional plot or set roles — Macian said he had to modify the script to accommodate the cast of six (Tamara Del Rosso ’08.5, Hollis Mickey ’10, Max Posner ’11, Charly Simpson ’08, Evan Smith ’10 and Sam Yambrovich ’11). The characters of Hamlet and Ophelia survive from Shakespeare’s

story, as do allusions to other char-acters and the plot. But new layers of meaning and allusion were crafted by Mueller and added to by Macian, and the play tackles social collapse, gender and feminism, New Left ter-rorism in Europe and U.S. cultural influence.

“Heiner Mueller believed that, the more layering, the more possibilities for meaning you could have,” Macian said. The play is at least in part about “the uncertainty of transitions and how to survive that transition,” Ma-cian said, but he was hesitant to sum it up so neatly. “I don’t want people to come and say, ‘This is a play about

Basil Twist pulls all the strings at McCormackBy ROBIN STEELEartS & Culture editor

A small wooden string puppet named “Stickman” delicately danced and flew through the air Monday night in McCormack Fam-ily Theater, carefully controlled by the hands of renowned puppet master Basil Twist. The Literary Arts Program hosted Twist and theater producer Barbara Busack-ino of Tandem Otter Productions earlier this week, holding a talk and demonstration Monday eve-ning and a workshop Tuesday afternoon.

At the Monday talk, Professor of English Paula Vogel introduced Twist and Busackino to the crowd in McCormack. Twist created pup-pets for Vogel’s play, “The Long Christmas Ride Home,” which premiered at Trinity Repertory Company in 2003. Busackino is “the person who makes magic happen,” Vogel told the audience, calling her “the patron saint of off-off-Broadway.”

Twist answered questions posed by Vogel as well as by audi-ence members and demonstrated his skill with the agile “Stickman,” using the puppet to perform a win-some dance routine. During the informal question-and-answer session, Twist and Busackino discussed their work and collabo-ration and showed video footage

from past productions. These included “Symphonie

Fantastique,” an elaborate abstract puppet show set to classical music that takes place in a large water tank. Puppeteers stationed around and suspended over the tank used a multitude of materials in the show, including cloth, feathers and dye, to create a unique perfor-mance. There is a “random chaos factor to what the water will do that you could never replicate as a puppeteer,” Twist said.

Twist’s show “Dogugaeshi” uti-lized a Japanese technique involv-ing the shifting of sliding screens to indicate scene changes. The show featured hundreds of mov-ing screens, augmented by video projection, a musician playing a shamisen — a Japanese string instrument — and a nine-tailed fox puppet.

For a production of “Hansel and Gretel,” Twist created a 12-foot witch, embodied by a male opera singer inside an elaborate mechanical puppet operated by multiple puppeteers.

Twist also adapted the Rus-sian ballet “Petrushka,” which usually features dancers playing puppets. Twist’s production used Bunraku-style puppetry — a Japa-nese puppetry form in which three puppeteers directly move one pup-

Courtesy of Jeff Barnes

Hollis Mickey ‘10 and Sam Yombrovich ‘11 will perform tonight and tom-morrow at 8 p.m and at 2 p.m. Sunday, in “Hamletmachine.”

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this,’ ” he said. “It’s a play about so many different things.”

At Wednesday’s dress rehearsal, on a set of crumbling concrete and metal pipes, the six actors moved spasmodically, microphones taped to their cheeks with electrical tape as they delivered monologues. They robotically served cupcakes to the front row of seats and echoed one another’s lines in both English and German. The soundscape — a mix including mechanical noises, stage directions in German and classi-cal music — added to the discon-certing, decaying atmosphere, as did projections onto faux-cement blocks.

All six actors gave skilled, in-tense, almost frightening perfor-mances. Especially memorable was Simpson’s impassioned speech about the “limp prick” being the ultimate weapon in the battle of the sexes and a scene when Del Rosso — clad in a red jumpsuit — led most of the cast in dancing to a remix of Britney Spears’ “Oops! … I Did It Again.”

“This is an American production of a play that is quite Germanic,” Macian said. Mueller included ref-erences to U.S. and Western culture in his original script, and “we’ve

reveled in that,” Macian noted.Mueller’s script channels “Ham-

let” through the decay of the East-ern Bloc, and towards the end of the show, the play itself crumbles, with actors breaking character and directly addressing the audience. A double-sided photo of Mueller and Macian is ripped apart, the script is scattered into the air and Yam-brovich storms off stage, declaring, “This play is ridiculous.”

Macian said he was initially wor-ried that the play might prove inac-cessible to audiences. But, he said, the production’s openness — Friday rehearsals were open to the public — helped reassure him. People who came to see rehearsals said it was “a complete theater experience,” Macian said.

“If people can go away with the essence of ‘Hamletmachine’ and can go away connecting it to something in their own lives, then I’ve suc-ceeded,” he said.

“Hamletmachine” is playing this weekend at Leeds Theater. There will be 8 p.m. showings tonight and Saturday, and a 2 p.m. performance on Sunday. All performances are sold out, but some house seats will be available at the door each night. Tickets are $7 for students, $17 for general admission and $12 for fac-ulty, staff and senior citizens.

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pet. “Petrushka” centers on three puppets — a clown, a ballerina and a moor — and took nine puppeteers to produce.

Another complex show, “Mas-ter Peter’s Puppet Show,” a puppet opera by Manuel de Falla, is based on an incident from “Don Quixote.” The production, which took place in a confined space in front of a live orchestra, included a life-size Don Quixote puppet watching an old-fashioned tent puppet show. When he falls in love with the pup-pet maiden and tries to rescue her, he brings the tent crashing to the

ground.Twist rounded out these clips

with a live demonstration of his ability with the simple “Stickman” for the benefit of an enthusiastic audience. Among various upcoming productions, Twist has worked on puppetry for the Joe Goode Per-formance Group’s performance “Wonder Boy” in June 2008.

According to the Literary Arts Program’s Web site, Twist is a third generation puppeteer and “the only American graduate of the Ecole Su-perieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette in Charleville-Mezieres, France, one of the world’s premier puppetry training programs.”

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fessional tailgating” business as sophomores at Deerfield Academy, in Massachusetts.

The M.E.A.T. Club holds barbe-cues and sells apparel with catchy taglines like the ones on the truck. The club is based around the idea that “whenever there is a plethora of meat, joy will follow,” as its Web site — meatclub.com — boasts.

For Wilmot and Meehan per-sonally, the club serves as a way to help people escape their busy lives and connect with one another.

Wilmot said the M.E.A.T. Club started as a joke in reaction to a film the Deerfield’s student body was required to watch about chick-en slaughterhouses. Wilmot and his classmates felt it was wrong to force every student to watch this movie, especially because the caf-eteria was serving chicken cutlets for lunch, which was right after the film screening.

“Our dining hall got free-range chickens, so (the film) didn’t even apply,” Wilmot said. Frustration sparked the idea for the group they would soon create.

The club debuted its first batch of T-shirts on that semester’s “Cho-ate Day,” during which Deerfield plays its rival high school, Choate Rosemary Hall, in various sports competitions. The T-shirts said “Choate Day 2003” on the front, and “Hungry? Why wait?” on the back, with a drawing of a pig roast-ing over a green flame. The pig was representative of Choate — the school’s mascot is a boar — and the green flame because of Deerfield’s color, Wilmot said.

The facetious club was an in-stant success for the two high school sophomores. “It was re-ally popular. We hadn’t really put any effort into it and it still became popular,” Wilmot said. “Junior and senior year, we realized it was a big deal and kind of stepped up.”

Junior year, the duo continued to sell T-shirts and hats, and began to make money. “We raised money for the Special Olympics hockey team in Massachusetts,” Wilmot said. “So that year was fun.”

By senior year, Wilmot and Meehan began to look at the club in a new light. Though it started as a joke, it became a way for them to give busy students a chance to relax and socialize.

During their senior year, M.E.A.T. also became more lu-crative.

“We raised thousands of dol-lars,” Wilmot said. “We obviously couldn’t take any money because we were a student group, so we had a celebration called ‘Meat Week.’ ... We had a Red Bull dance, where we spent $800 on Red Bull. It was pretty out of control.”

Meat Week also included a “meat-themed poetry and art con-test” and a “Festivus of Meat” with 400 pounds of ribs.

Though the two would go to different colleges after graduation, Wilmot and Meehan were deter-mined to keep their business alive. They raised money from Deerfield faculty members, hired a graphic designer, started a Web site and made some new T-shirts. Finally, with big decals, a speaker system, a roof rack that can hold two five-foot grills and a brand-new Chevrolet Suburban, the M.E.A.T. truck was born. The first event for their busi-ness was last spring at Deerfield,

which they felt was fitting, Wilmot said.

“We figured it was a good place to start. We started it there, people knew who we were. It was really successful and we had a good time,” he said. Over that summer, the club held events in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Wilmot’s hometown. They even tailgated a John Mayer concert.

Word of the group quickly spread to social circles outside their own, leading to events in Nantucket, where Wilmot said they knew very few people. They obtained vehicle permits to drive on the sand at Nobadeer Beach, which Wilmot said is known for drawing large swaths of college students. They spent two weeks there, and Wilmot said they had repeat customers.

“It’s kind of like a party on wheels to an extent. We’ve got this music you can hear from a quarter mile away,” Wilmot said. “Even if they don’t buy anything, people are definitely happy they saw us and they laugh.”

When the summer ended, the founders had to go their separate ways, Wilmot to Brown and Mee-han to GWU, but M.E.A.T. carried on. And though Brown got the M.E.A.T. truck, GWU was graced by the club’s first college event. The duo ran a barbecue for the Col-lege Republicans at GWU, which Meehan said went well.

“They had all the presidential tables out there,” Meehan said. “Personally, I’m a liberal guy, but I got to meet a very successful or-ganization and they all had a good time. It was just a good opportunity to meet new people.”

Wilmot said he has been work-ing to plan events on College Hill.

“We’re definitely interested in doing something here. I want to talk to some of the different com-mittees and see if we can maybe grill on Spring Weekend, or just do an event,” he said. “It’s also pos-sible we can do something with the frats — if we go through them and avoid some of the bureaucracy maybe. If it was right on Wriston (Quadrangle), it would be a pretty good time.”

Other planned events include a second one at Deerfield and one at Milton Academy in Milton, Mass. But Wilmot said that as the club gains popularity, it has become less necessary for the organizers to seek out events.

“More and more we have to plan less and less of the events because these people pick up on us and want us to come,” Wilmot said. “They say ‘Oh, we want you to come on this date,’ or ‘Can you do a wedding?’”

While they have not yet catered a wedding, Wilmot said, “We’d like to. It would be fun.”

The group has also expanded from GWU and Brown, and its Web site now boasts chapters at other colleges and high schools, including Georgetown University, the University of Pennsylvania and Milton Academy. Wilmot said he

hopes there will eventually be M.E.A.T. membership cards.

“In terms of the company, we want to be able to make it into a bigger deal — be known enough and widespread enough, so if I was traveling, I could be in Montreal, and see a M.E.A.T. club there, show my membership card and get free hamburgers,” he said.

So why do they do it?“It’s a lot of fun,” Meehan said.

“It’s a four-year job where I basical-ly get to cook, hang out and listen to music at different events.”

The mission statement on their Web site reads, “The M.E.A.T. Club™ is a company and commu-nity based upon the idea that with feast comes joy … The M.E.A.T. Club™ started as a funny idea, but now it has become a way to bring people together.”

“For me, in all seriousness, it’s to feed people who are hungry for meat, for something fun and new,” Meehan said. “There are a lot of people out there who love to barbecue and love to eat meat, but don’t really have an organization and don’t really have a group to belong to, and this is just a good forum to meet other people.”

Wilmot said he experienced the success of that mission while on Nantucket this summer. “The other really cool thing about this — coming from the perspective of someone on the front lines grilling — Nantucket is a small place, and we’d see someone wearing a shirt that we sold a few days ago,” he said. “Or people would say, ‘You’re the meat guys!’”

A truck advertising the con-sumption of meat, though confus-ing to many students, might worry others. Adam Hoffman ’10, presi-dent of the Brown Animal Rights Club and a vegetarian, said though he had not thought about it much in the past, he doesn’t support the club.

“As a vegetarian and animal rights advocate, I certainly don’t support advocating eating meat, and it’s certainly working in the opposite direction of the things I think are important,” Hoffman said.

But he added: “I don’t suspect there’s anything ill-intentioned in regards to the M.E.A.T. truck or the M.E.A.T. Club associated with it.”

Meehan said vegetarians often have questions initially, but gener-ally develop positive relationships with the club, which serves veggie burgers at its barbecues.

“If people don’t know what we’re about, I could see this idea of them thinking, ‘Oh, well they’re just being abrasive about the whole thing,’” Wilmot said. “But I think we’re pretty open to anyone to come to these — you know, vegetarians, meat eaters, vegans. It’s not really about the meat as much as coming and having a good time.”

Still, Wilmot and Meehan are comedians before diplomats. One of the group’s shirts is a playful shot at herbivores — “We LOVE vegetarians ... MORE MEAT FOR US!”

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Students say meat truck fun, lucrative

that Americans’ focus on nutrients “empowers an expert class — you can’t eat without an expert.”

Pollan talked about the history of nutritionism, citing the meat indus-tries’ pressure on the government in the 1970s to recall its public health statement that Americans needed to “eat less red meat.”

The statement was revised to, “Choose meat that will lower your saturated fat intake,” Pollan said, which “changes the language from whole foods that everyone under-stands to this focus on nutrients.”

“The industry is very satisfied with that since they’re selling mostly processed foods and can always re-jigger the nutrients,” Pollan added.

“We have gotten very fat on our low-fat diet,” Pollan said, giving an example of a fixation on a “satanic nutrient” that has produced an ad-verse effect.

Pollan did admit that following his advice will cost more and take more time than the way most Americans eat, but he added, “We find time and we find money for the things we value.”

“We have been devaluing food. We have decided that food should be cheap at all costs,” and that “con-

venience should trump everything else,” he said. Thus, big corporations took charge of food preparation in America, but “they don’t cook very well,” Pollan added.

His solution? “We need to start cooking again.” Americans, Pollan said, have few things so important to attend to that they can’t cook their own meals.

During the question-and-answer session that followed the lecture, Pollan discussed global warming, the excess of corn and soy in the American diet, organic foods and eating locally.

On local and seasonal fruits and vegetables, Pollan said, “They have to do with preserving the landscape we love, which will not be preserved if we don’t eat from it.”

Pollan is the author of “The Bot-any of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World” and “The Ominvore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals,” the latter of which was se-lected as one of the top 10 books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. He said he wrote his latest book “because of the kinds of questions I’d been hear-ing from people who thought I hadn’t adequately solved ‘the dilemma,’” presented in “The Omnivore’s Di-lemma.”

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Courtesy of Devin Wilmot

The M.e.a.T. Club entertains students at events with meat from their truck.

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Officers find whiskey, pot after noise complaints

By MAx MANkINSenior StaFF Writer

The following summary includes all major incidents reported to the Department of Public Safety be-tween Feb. 7 and Feb. 13. It does not include general service and alarm calls. The Providence Police Department also responds to inci-dents occurring off campus. DPS

does not divulge information on open cases that are currently under investigation by the department, PPD or the Office of Student Life. DPS maintains a daily log of all shift activity and general service calls which can be viewed during business hours at its headquarters, located at 75 Charlesfield St.

Thursday, Feb. 7:12:33 a.m. An officer was dis-

patched for a noise complaint in Graduate Center Tower C. Upon arrival, an outer suite door was found propped open. The officer noticed a strong odor of marijuana in the hallway coming from the suite. He observed a large glass bong in plain view on the center table, a clear plastic bag contain-ing a small amount of suspected marijuana and other paraphernalia. The suspected marijuana and para-phernalia were seized as evidence and transported to DPS. Both stu-dent occupants of the suite were cooperative with police during the investigation and the matter has been turned over to the Office of Student Life.

Sunday, Feb. 10:12:19 p.m. A student stated that

while attending a party the night of Feb. 9 in Olney House, her leather coat was stolen from the bathroom. Around 12:30 a.m., she placed her coat in a corner of the bathroom and noticed that it was missing around 1 a.m.

Monday, Feb. 11:1:37 p.m. A student was hit in

the mouth at the corner of Thay-er and Angell streets by a male whom the student knows from high school. DPS and PPD are investigating.

Tuesday, Feb. 12:2:08 a.m. A DPS officer was

dispatched to assist a PPD officer on George Street. Upon arrival, the PPD officer stated that he was issu-ing a citation to a student who was driving a vehicle while playing loud music. The PPD officer also stated that the passengers were two stu-dents and a non-student who was visiting and that he found an open bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey ly-ing on the floor in the back seat. The matter has been turned over to the Office of Student Life.

10:34 a.m. A Residential Peer Leader reported a television miss-ing from the lounge area in Miller Hall. A cable lock was cut from the back of the television.

2:31 p.m. A Brown employee stated that sometime between ap-proximately 3 p.m. on Feb. 6 and 9 a.m. on Feb. 11, his laptop was taken from his office at 135 Thayer St. He locked his door when he left the office. When he returned, the door was still locked but his laptop was missing. There are no suspects at this time.

Student hit in mouth by old acquaintance

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about 150 noisy students attended residential Council’s talent show Thursday night in Sayles Hall.

Speedos win first pick in housing lotteryBy MARISA CALLEjAStaFF Writer

After donning Speedos and chain mail in a video that also featured Professor of Biology Ken Miller ’70 P’02 and Sharpe Refectory cashier Gail Mc-Carthy, eight freshmen won the first pick in this year’s housing lottery.

The group of eight students, which includes six members of the men’s swim team, submitted the win-ning video in the Residential Council’s talent show Thursday night in Sayles Hall. A panel of three judges — Lec-turer in Neuroscience John Stein, Professor of Neuroscience Michael Paradiso and Brendan Hargreaves ’06, who was the lottery chair as an undergrad — picked the winner from both video and live-act entries. ResCouncil also gave presentations on the housing system and program housing at the event.

The winning group was com-posed of the first-years John Bailey ’11, Conor Carlucci ’11, Ryunosuke Kikuchi ’11, Wallace Reece Chandler ’11, Sam Speroni ’11, Jon Speed ’11, Mark Towill ’11 and Fred Strammer ’11.

This year’s contest, attended by

a noisy crowd of about 150 students, was a stark contrast to last year’s on-line video competition.

“Last November, when we tried to decide what to do for the compe-tition, no one wanted to do videos again,” said Michael Morgenstern ’08, chair of the lottery committee, a sub-committee of ResCouncil. “We wanted an event because the main purpose of (the competition) is to get word out about the lottery. A lot of people are afraid of the lottery. They think it’s this scary monster that’s going to spit them out and put them in Pembroke.”

In addition, ResCouncil held a number of raffles to distribute priz-es, such as first pick in the winner’s class year, to help draw a crowd to Sayles.

Bailey Langner ’10, herself a swimmer, won first pick in her class. She said she was “just really excited” about the unexpected win.

“As a rising junior, it’s uncertain. As a sophomore, you know you’re

going to get (Graduate Center),” she said.

Entries in the talent show included juggling, lip-syncing to pop and clas-sical singer Josh Groban, rock covers of pop star Rihanna’s “Umbrella” and, in keeping with tradition, videos. The acts were interspersed with informa-tional presentations from ResLife to teach students more about the hous-ing lottery.

Many of the acts were months in the making. Assuming that the competition would be a video contest again this year, Grant Gilles ’10 spent seven days during reading period last semester living in the Sciences Library and making a documentary about his exploits.

“I actually did not leave for seven days,” Gilles said.

Though he didn’t win, Gilles per-suaded ResLife to allow videos in the competition.

“This (competition) was really a success,” said Jillian Robbins ’11, a member of the lottery committee.

CRIME LOG

Since Virginia Tech, U. launches Web siteMATThEW vARLEy StaFF Writer

In response to the Virginia Tech massacre last spring, when a gun-man killed 32 people and himself in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, the Office of Student Life, the Office of the Dean of the College and Psychological Services began collaborating on a Web site on which students can find “a place people at Brown can go when they’re concerned about a student,” Psycho-logical Services Director Belinda Johnson said.

Launched in December by the Office of Student Life, a Web page titled “Helping a Friend in Crisis” provides warning signs of distress, tips for starting a conversation with a troubled student and contact infor-mation for support services.

After the Virginia Tech incident, Johnson said “the idea that differ-ent people on campus had differ-ent pieces of information about (the shooter)” was prevalent.

“Friends are often the first to no-tice that a student might be experi-encing significant distress,” the site reads. Two similar Web pages were created for faculty and staff.

“We’re sending people to the same resources, essentially,” said Margaret Klawunn, associate vice president of campus life and dean for

student life. “But we felt that people would see different things.”

The pages have been publicized in Morning Mail announcements since last week’s shooting at North-ern Illinois University that killed five people and the shooter. The student page also includes information about suicide, sexual violence and harass-ment and substance abuse.

“We think we’ve lined up a lot of the right resources and are trying to do as much communication as we can,” Klawunn said.

Victor Schwartz, dean of students at Yeshiva University and a member of the American Psychiatric Associa-tion’s Committee on College Mental Health, said colleges and universi-ties have been “trying to beef up their counseling services and mental health programs” across the nation in the last 10 to 15 years.

College “is the period of time when many of the major psychi-atric illnesses start manifesting themselves,” he said. “So it’s not surprising that we’re seeing num-bers of people in colleges who have the same kinds of psychiatric dif-ficulties that everyone else does in the population.”

Though Schwartz emphasized that “college campuses are still extremely safe places” compared to the outside world, he said their nature as “closed communities”

means “it is useful for students to have some sense of what to do if they’re concerned about a roommate or a friend.”

“Probably the best arrangement is for there to be a choice of two or three people ... who will know what to do with that information,” Schwartz said. He added that col-lege administrators and clinicians try to maintain students’ “sense of privacy and trust while at the same time not letting problems or people fall through the cracks.”

While Johnson said “the average Brown student puts a high value on independence,” she also noted “a general culture of students, faculty and staff caring about one another” on campus.

“You might be surprised — or maybe not — how often students come to us because friends have suggested it,” Johnson said.

“I think this is a community where students do quite a bit of caring about each other,” Klawunn said. “Yes, people are independent, but they tend to want to get help,” she said, citing high use of Brown Emergency Medical Services as a sign that Brown students look out for one another.

“In the student life office, quite a few students come in to tell us about a concern about a roommate or a friend,” Klawunn said.


of 18 feet, 5.25 inches. This was King’s first time competing in this event during a team-scored meet — though she did participate in the event at an unscored meet two weeks ago against Yale. With a little help from Assistant Coach Jerome Romain, King was able to lift herself to the top of the score-board this week, but she said she expects to do even better in the weeks to follow.

“My first five jumps were all around the same distance, and I was way behind the board,” King told The Herald in an e-mail. “So, for my last jump, Coach Romain told me to move my run-up a few inches and go for it.” Though her jump secured first place, King said she saw room for improvement. “I can definitely jump a lot (far-ther),” she added.

In the shot put it was Dan-ielle Grunloh ’10 who took first place with a throw of 45 feet, 6.5 inches, a personal best. Brynn Smith ’11 finished behind her in fourth. Anna Cook ’11 earned a second-place finish in the high jump with a 5-foot, 4.25-inch leap. Other notable finishes for the Bears included Keely Marsh ’08, who took fourth in the pole vault; Brooke Staton ’11, who finished third in the triple jump; and team-mate Shannon Stone ’10 in fourth place in the same event.

The women are looking ahead to this weekend’s meet in Cam-bridge, Mass., where Harvard will host the New England Champion-

ships. “I am very pleased with our

overall finish,” King said. “Al-though we didn’t have our full squad, we still managed to have 12 first-place finishes and beat the second-place team by over 60 points. With the Ivy League Championships right around the corner, meets like this are great for team momentum and confi-dence.”

The men’s track and field team also had a strong showing this weekend. The Bears placed second with 180 points, only four points behind first-place Dart-mouth. New Hampshire finished third, followed by Vermont and Quinnipiac.

The Bears were able to gain momentum with four first-place finishes on the track. Duriel Hardy ’10 started things off for Bruno, finishing the mile with a time of 4:13.20. Right behind him were teammates Ari Zamir ’08 and Ryan Graddy ’08, who finished second and fourth, respectively. All three set personal bests in the event. In the 3,000-meter, Chris-tian Escareno ’10 blew away the field, finishing in 8:45.47.

“(Head) Coach (Craig) Lake came to me before the race and said, ‘Hang with the leaders for the first five laps, take the lead for the next five, and then surge in the last five,’” Escareno wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “It didn’t work that way, and instead I led the entire race and won.”

In the 60-meter hurdle Mat-thew Jasmin ’09 crossed the finish

line first for the Bears, setting a personal best of 8.21 seconds. Bruno had several other perfor-mances that came up just short of first, including Joseph Mas-trangelo’s ’09 fourth-place fin-ish in the 60-meter dash, Sean O’Brien’s ’09 second-place finish in the 500-meter run and Alex Stern’s ’10 third-place finish in the 800-meter run.

Also in the field, Miles Craig-well ’09 had a strong showing in the long jump, winning with a per-sonal-best distance of 22 feet, 8.5 inches. Deshaun Mars ’08 finished third in the event. Reginald Cole ’10 posted a score of 48-04.75 in the triple jump, earning him first place just ahead of fellow jumper Andrew Chapin ’10. Bruno’s Da-vid Howard ’09 and Eric Wood ’09 dominated the shot put and weight throw — Howard won both events and Wood took away two second-place finishes.

“We were really pleased with the men, except ... it’s never fun to lose by such a small margin,” Lake wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “Four points is nothing in the scheme of a track and field meet, and you always know that we could have gone a tenth faster, or an inch farther or higher. Every little bit counts and that is the les-son to take from this meet.”

The Bears travel to Harvard for the New England Championships on Sunday Feb. 24. The following weekend, both teams will head to Cornell for the Ivy League Hep-tagonal Championships, the cul-mination of the winter season.

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implications of any adjustments to endowment, tuition and finan-cial aid.

Likely to play a large part in its discussions is the current state of the national economy and how it could affect the University’s rapid growth. “Of course (Corporation members are) going to be more deliberate, and even more careful when there’s turmoil in the credit markets,” Dahlberg said.

At the February faculty meet-ing, Simmons said the budget will reflect the economic down-turn. Changes to financial aid are unlikely to match those at other schools, she said. Though Brown’s endowment is smaller than Har-vard’s, for example, competition will probably force some sort of change to financial aid.

The budget is drafted by the University Resources Committee, a group of administrators, faculty and students that recommends a budget to the president, who pres-ents a final proposal to the Corpo-ration for their approval.

Also on the agenda is a review of the Plan for Academic Enrich-

ment, now almost four years old. The plan calls for the hiring of ad-ditional faculty, reassessing un-dergraduate education, improving residential life and increasing the University’s international profile.

“This is an opportunity for the Corporation to review the feedback on the plan,” Dahlberg said.

“Campus housing will cer-tainly be discussed,” he added, for renovations to both existing residence halls and construction of new dorms.

Corporation members will also discuss the draft report of the Committee on the Residential Experience, released last month, which recommends building new residence halls, undertaking regu-lar renovations and creating more informal lounge spaces. The final report is due in May.

The Corporation will review the preliminary report from the Task Force on Undergraduate Educa-tion, which recommended changes to Brown’s advising system and a review of concentrations.

It will also formally accept gifts greater than $1 million given to the University since its last meeting, in October.


National economy likely to affect U.’s budget this year

We’ll be your “retreat.”

as great as that of its component nations. The U.N. remains a useful forum for the United States to pro-mote its security and other interests, he said, and should be strengthened, not undermined.

Bolton and Holbrooke, who holds a position at the Watson Institute for International Studies, also staked out different positions on dealing with hostile nations such as Iran and North Korea and the precise role of a U.N. ambassador in representing U.S. interests.

Bolton served as ambassador to the United Nations in 2005 and 2006 following a recess appointment by Bush. He was not confirmed to that position by the U.S. Senate because concerns about his brusque style and his past criticism of the U.N. led some Senate Democrats to threaten to filibuster his appointment rather than allow it to come to an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor. Bolton had previously served as undersec-retary of state for arms control in the Bush administration.

Holbrooke, also a former Herald editor-in-chief, served as U.N. am-bassador from 1999 to 2001, after previously serving as U.S. Ambas-sador to Germany and brokering the Dayton Accords in 1995, which put an end to the violence among warring factions in Bosnia. He was appointed to his current post at Wat-son in February 2007.

The event was sponsored by the Janus Forum, a student arm of the Political Theory Project, which seeks to advance diverse viewpoints on campus.

Both ambassadors spoke for just over 20 minutes, then took questions from the audience. Bolton proceeded quickly and forcefully through his prepared remarks, while Holbrooke, who spoke second, struck a more solemn, methodical tone.

Bolton began by describing the U.N. as a “vast and sprawling en-terprise,” one which too often over-steps its bounds by participating in “norming” — attempting to override domestic political processes “within constitutional democracies like ours” on issues such as gun control and the death penalty.

Bolton also criticized the U.N. Security Council, which he said “has done next to nothing” to combat ter-rorism since the Sept. 11 attacks and will likely be too “gridlocked” to deal effectively with the major issues of the 21st century.

Because the Security Council isn’t an impartial “guardian” of the international system, Bolton said,

the United States should not con-sider Security Council approval a necessary condition for its foreign policies.

Bolton called the U.N.’s problems “endemic.” The bribery and corrup-tion that characterized the U.N.’s Oil-for-Food program to help feed a population under heavy economic sanctions in pre-war Iraq is far from uncommon, he said.

Bolton also criticized the U.N.’s Commission on Human Rights, which he sought to reform during his term as ambassador, for being corrupt and ineffectual and for including human rights violators among its membership.

To achieve meaningful change at the U.N., Bolton said, the organi-zation’s funding structure must be completely overhauled.

Under the current system, coun-tries must contribute a fixed amount to the U.N.’s annual budget, he said, about 22 percent of which falls to the United States. Meanwhile, about two-thirds of the countries in the U.N.’s General Assembly — a pass-ing majority — collectively bear only about 5 percent of the cost.

Instead, Bolton proposed, contri-butions to the U.N.’s budget should be voluntary and targeted for specific programs or uses. “Let each member contribute as much as it wants to programs it considers effective,” he said. “We will insist on a principle that I don’t consider revolutionary, which is that we will pay for what we want and get what we pay for.”

Such a change would represent “a good, market-based test” that would make U.N. programs “more effec-tive, more transparent and more re-sponsible,” Bolton said. If countries can choose the programs they’d like to fund, then only efficient programs will receive funding, he said.

“Even the U.N.’s strongest advo-cates know it is a deeply flawed in-stitution,” said Holbrooke, stepping to the podium next. But he said he agreed with “a very small amount” of Bolton’s statements.

Bolton’s proposal to make U.N. funding voluntary amounts to a “poi-son pill,” Holbrooke said. “If you sup-port that, you are supporting the death of the U.N.”

The U.N. is too often criticized for inaction or ineffectiveness, when it is really a handful of influential nations who have failed to take the steps necessary to solve interna-tional problems, Holbrooke said. For example, the Security Council has unanimously passed a resolu-tion calling for action to put a stop to the crisis in Darfur, he said, but influential countries like the U.S.

have failed to follow through by com-mitting resources.

“The U.N. can only do, tin cup in hand, what its member states want it to do,” Holbrooke said. “If you’re upset about Darfur, don’t blame the U.N. Blame the United States.”

Holbrooke said he agreed with Bolton that there are many instances of corruption in the current U.N., and that the Commission on Human Rights is among them.

But, he said, “if we weaken the U.N. and at the same time turn to it for help,” as in the case of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, “we only weaken ourselves.”

Holbrooke also said he agreed with Bolton that the U.S. should not consider U.N. approval a prerequi-site for action, citing the 1999 NATO bombing in Serbia to protect ethnic Albanians in Kosovo as an example of military action not authorized by the U.N. that was nonetheless neces-sary and effective.

But, he added, the Clinton admin-istration worked through the U.N. as much as possible and it ultimately played a crucial role in administer-ing Kosovo in the years since the violence there ended. That situa-tion illustrated both the limitations and the usefulness of the U.N. for advancing U.S. interests, Holbrooke said.

The U.N. is important to the U.S., Holbrooke said, in part because U.S. investment in U.N. peacekeeping operations, for example, “gets highly leveraged returns.” It is expensive for the U.S., which funds 27 percent of all U.N. peacekeeping, to support an international force, but not nearly as expensive as carrying out such operations on its own, he said.

After the prepared remarks, in response to questioning on diplo-matic engagement with Iran and North Korea, Bolton and Holbrooke advocated different approaches. Hol-brooke stressed the importance of diplomacy, saying he believed that “you can and should talk to your ad-versaries” and that the current Bush administration diverged from histori-cal precedent in not doing so.

He also said that it was a shift toward more direct negotiations with North Korea on the part of the Bush administration that even-tually yielded progress in getting that country to abandon its efforts to obtain nuclear weapons.

Bolton suggested that his differ-ences with the Bush administration on that policy shift played a role in his decision to step down from his

post at the U.N. rather than seek reappointment. Negotiations, espe-cially with countries seeking nuclear weapons, he said, only buy time for weapons development to progress.

The two also articulated differ-ent conceptions of whom they were serving during their terms as am-bassador in response to a question. Holbrooke said that he thought of himself as serving the interests not just of the president who appointed him but also the Congress that con-firmed him — a Republican one, he noted.

Bolton disagreed, saying that he considered himself directly account-able to the secretary of state and president who appointed him. He would like to have the support of the Congress, he added, but didn’t consider it necessary.

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and distribution of child pornog-raphy in Port Alberni Provincial Court in British Columbia, Can-west News Service reported.

“He is presumed innocent, and they’re merely allegations,” Fowl-er told The Herald. “He’s a great student, and people should rally around to support him. He doesn’t pose a risk to anybody.”

“Harry is an extremely good young man,” Fowler continued. “Otherwise he would have never (been) admitted to that university, and the charges do not in any way take away from that, and people should give him the benefit of the doubt.”

Zolnierczyk will appear before a

judge on March 13 to enter a plea for the alleged fall 2006 creation of the tape, according to Canwest.

Bradley Harding, Zolnierczyk’s co-accused and former teammate on the Alberni Valley Bulldogs, has entered a guilty plea to two voyeurism charges and is awaiting sentencing, the Journal reported Thursday.

Zolnierczyk and officials from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police could not immediately be reached for comment.

Cpl. Rob Foster of the Mounted Police told the Journal that the Canadian legal system does not distinguish between felonies and misdemeanors as the American system does, but that the charges potentially carry jail time.

Zolnierczyk ’11 facing charges for pornographic video of minor


Quinn Savit / HeraldFormer U.n. ambassador John Bolton criticized the U.n. Thursday afternoon.

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that says a lot!”But despite the upset, the

Bears could only manage to win one set for the rest of the day. Lee at No. 1 singles won the lonely set, but ultimately lost to No. 91-ranked Steve Forman 7-6, 3-6, 6-1. That match was the only highlight of the afternoon, as the following players were washed out of each match.

At No. 2 singles, Pearlman fell to No. 64-ranked Cory Parr 6-1, 6-0. At No. 3 singles, Kohli dropped the match 6-3, 6-1, fol-lowed by Ratnam losing, 6-4, 6-2. Garland fell similarly at No. 5 singles, 6-4, 6-3, and Kendrick Au ’11 fell at No. 6 singles in a close match, losing 7-6, 7-6.

The Bears had to quickly put the match behind them as they headed to Davidson the following morning.

“After the match, Coach was disappointed, and we were all re-ally down and negative about it,” Kohli said. “But we had another match, and needed to focus on that, try to be positive and finish the road trip with a victory.”

But the team struggled against Davidson, of North Carolina.

With a last-minute doubles line-up change due to an back injury for Lee, the team started off the match with another blow.

The Bears placed Pearlman and Kohli at No. 1 doubles, and the pair started off with an 8-5 loss, followed by another loss at No. 3 doubles by Au and co-cap-tain Noah Gardner ’09, 8-6.

The Bears, having lost the all-important doubles point, finished doubles play on an upnote, as the new duo of Garland and Ratnam at No. 2 doubles grabbed the 8-5 victory.

“Our lack of performance in the singles didn’t come from our lack of focus on singles play,” Har-ris said. “Rather, our struggle in the singles has to do with the individual pride in each of the guys.”

That pride was further broken down against Davidson, as the Bears dropped a slew of matches. Falling first at No. 1 singles, Kohli fought for the first set, barely dropping it, 7-5, before losing the second set, 6-0.

Immediately following were closer matches at No. 3, 4 and 5 singles, which were taken to three sets each, but none finished victoriously. Garland dropped his

match, 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 followed by Au, 5-7, 7-6, 6-3.

Davidson clinched the match with Gardner’s three-set loss. At No. 6 singles, Posner dropped his match, 6-0, 6-2. The match wasn’t a complete loss, as Pearlman at No. 2 singles grabbed an easy vic-tory in two sets, 6-2, 6-2.

“I got washed out in singles against Wake, so for me, I really needed to show up and redeem myself here,” Pearlman said. “I came out strong and took the match, which unfortunately ended up being the only win we had in singles for the trip.”

The team’s recent struggles are somewhat surprising, consid-ering that the team easily took the Ivies two years ago. With two weeks off before its next match, Harris has some new techniques in mind to toughen up the team.

“We’re going to do some crazy stuff, get in the wrestling room, put on some football helmets,” Harris said. “I want to try to en-hance our overall outlook.”

The results of the team’s new outlook can be seen when it plays a doubleheader at home on Feb. 29. The team will face Boston Uni-versity at 3 p.m. immediately fol-lowed by Bucknell at 7:30 p.m.


M. tennis loses to Southern competition

knew that none of the guys on the team had ever won at the Palestra, so I knew they were both going to be tough games, but we played hard and were able to get the wins we needed.

You guys were down at half-time against Princeton, and you really went of f in the sec-ond half — were you nervous at all? How did you handle the pressure?

I wasn’t too nervous. We knew we didn’t play very well in the first half and it was a low-scoring half, so at halftime we knew if we came out and played better we’d have a chance to get back into the game, and that’s what we did. We never panicked even when time was run-ning out and we came through just in the nick of time, tying the game to force OT. Fortunately we were able to win it in overtime.

You’ve earned a starting spot on the team, so obviously you’ve had a lot of success this year, but what’s been the hard-est part for you in transitioning from high school basketball to college basketball?

Probably just the size and speed of the guys. In college you’re go-ing up against (6-foot-9) guys that are just as fast as the 6-5 guys you played in high school, and 6-5 guys (who) are faster than the 6-2 guys in high school. And everyone in college just has a lot more overall

strength, so it took awhile at the beginning of the year to adjust to that. But after you practice against that size and speed in practice ev-eryday you get used to it and you adjust.

What’s been the best part of college for you?

College is obviously a lot dif-ferent than high school, but prob-ably the best part of it has been all the freedom you get in college. Your parents aren’t around staring at you all the time and you have a lot more freedom. Even with basketball I think we have more freedom. In high school our style of play was a lot more structured, whereas in college (Head) Coach (Craig Robinson) trusts us more and lets us play through tough stretches, rather than calling tim-eouts all the time and telling us what to do.

You’re from Illinois — are you a Bulls fan? What’s wrong with them this year?

I haven’t had too many chances to watch them now that I’m on the East Coast, but I’m really sur-prised at how they’re struggling. I thought they’d have pulled out of it by now. My dad watches them though and goes to the games, and we’re hoping that they’ll bounce back after the All-Star break. The Eastern Conference is so bad that they might be able to make the playoffs, and if they do hopefully I’ll get a chance to catch a game when I go home for the summer.

Speaking of the All-Star break, did you watch the dunk contest? What’d you think of Dwight Howard’s Superman dunk? Some people don’t think it should count as a dunk since he kind of threw it in.

I didn’t get a chance to watch it live because we were playing, but I saw the highlights and personally I loved it. It was unbelievable how high and far he went, especially if you looked at it from all the dif-ferent angles they showed. So I think it was awesome, even if he didn’t completely make it in for the dunk because he got up so high. The Superman outfit was really creative; I loved it.

You guys are two games behind Cornell for first place in the Ivy League. What are your goals for the rest of the season?

Ideally we’d love to win an Ivy Championship, so obviously our goal is to win the rest of our games this season. But even if we win out we’ll still need a little help from teams beating Cornell in order to win the championship. Obviously, it’d be amazing to get the chance to play in the NCAA Tournament, but even if we don’t get there we’re still going to consider this a really successful season. We’re approaching the highest number of wins in a season by a Brown team, and it’s been a great experi-ence to be a part of this team and the great year we’re having.

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the 0-1 deficit.Aboubakare defeated Amanda

Rales at No. 1 singles, 7-5, 7-6. Head Coach Paul Wardlaw predicted that Aboubakare will be among the top players in the conference for years to come.

“She’s still getting her feet wet against college teams,” he said.

The squad also picked up a win from Finkelstein, who bounced back to top Maggie Yahner at No. 3 singles, 6-4, 6-3.

Finkelstein said she was excited to beat Yahner, who was ranked No. 7 in the United States Tennis Association’s 18-and-under rank-ings a few years ago, according to her team biography.

“(Yahner) used to be a rock star in juniors, so to be able to go out there and beat her in straight sets is a really big accomplishment for me,” Finkelstein said.

Despite its underwhelming re-cord so far, the team is confident it can place near the top of the Ivy League, said Wardlaw and Assis-tant Coach Cecily Dubusker.

With a 6-1 win over St. John’s and four close losses, the coach-es are confident that the talent is there.

“This is our fourth season here as coaches,” Wardlaw said. “This is our best team.”

Aboubakare said she is optimis-tic about the season and didn’t want to categorize the first five competi-tions as a “slow start.”

“We just didn’t capitalize on op-portunities we had,” she said. “We

just have to learn how to take ad-vantage of chances we’re given.”

In terms of both tennis ability and team closeness, the coaches said the squad has shown a lot of potential to contend against Ivy powerhouses University of Penn-sylvania and Yale.

“Against an even team, we know it’s going to be a 4-3 match,” Du-busker said.

The swing point might come from doubles play, where winning at least two out of the three con-tests earns a point for the team.

Wardlaw said the team has three roughly equal doubles pairs, which promises good depth. In addition to the talent on the team, he said two intangibles might put the club over the top.

“In college athletics, there’s a simple formula: ef fort and at-titude,” Wardlaw said.

The Bears also are counting on a strong season from Sara Mansur ’09, who was an Honorable Men-tion to the All-Ivy team as a doubles player last year. She spent the fall semester abroad, so she still has not completely returned to form.

“It’s going to take a little more match practice and match play to get back to where I mentally was,” Mansur said.

With eight more contests before conference play begins, the Bears are confident that their record will improve as the season goes on — enough, maybe, to earn a spot on the NCAA’s championship ballot.

The team will return to action against Boston University Saturday at noon in the Pizzitola Center.

Despite losses, w. tennis is confident about Ivy season


21 points. He went 5-for-10 from three-point range. Wittman is a front-runner for Ivy League Player of the Year honors this season, competing with McAndrew, who is leading the league in scoring with 16.8 points per game.

Cornell leads the league in scor-ing by nearly seven points over the next closest team. Wittman, who has hit 49 percent of his three-pointers, is third in the league in scoring, with 16.0 points per game. Point guard Louis Dale is sixth in the league (13.3) and also leads in assists per game (4.67). Guard Adam Gore is third on the team with 9.0 points per game.

The Bears’ strategy this time? Stop Wittman, Robinson said.

“And Dale and Gore,” Robinson added, referring to what he believes is a very balanced Cornell squad.

But the coach said that expecta-tions are high on the team, which is coming off a five-game win streak and its first-ever road sweep of Princ-eton and the University of Pennsyl-vania. The Tigers and Quakers have dominated the league for the past two decades, with one of the two taking the NCAA Tournament bid every year since 1988. Both teams are down this season, leaving the door open for Brown or Cornell.

Even if Brown beats Cornell, it’ll still need some help to force a one-game playoff against the Big Red to decide who gets the league’s automatic NCAA Tournament bid. The best bet would be Yale tonight, because afterward, Cornell faces the league’s worst four teams.

Robinson said that the team can only worry about its own perfor-mance and hope that Cornell will falter in its drive toward perfection, which has proven to be a difficult feat in sports this year.

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Coal to all the political figures making appearances in Warwick this month. Sure, Wah-wick’s given us T.F. Green Airport, actor James Woods and former Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75. But is Providence really that miserable?

A diamond to the lineup of speakers on campus this week. Unless you spoke in Warwick.

While we’re at it, a diamond to the Brown Concert Agency. But tak-ing credit for bringing “more diversity to the Spring Weekend lineup?” We suppose nothing shouts diversity like five bands that only college kids listen to.

But coal to whomever was responsible for the fake Creed/Sugar Ray Spring Weekend poster we saw earlier this week. You got our hopes up.

A cubic zirconium to the equestrian team and UConn’s “funky horses.” You lost to UConn this weekend ... but it was so funky!

Coal to design magazines that keep giving awards to the Friedman Study Center. Have you been there?

Charcoal to the M.E.A.T. Club. We’d give you a diamond, but with Deerfield and Milton ties and a Chevy Suburban, we figure you don’t need one.

A diamond to Dartmouth for overhauling its writing requirement, leaving Cornell as the only illiterate Ivy. Reader’s Digest says you may be safer than us, but we can read.

Diamonds and diamonds from the sky to the political science gradu-ate student who forecasts weather. Or is that rain? Or is that snow? Why don’t you tell us, smart guy?

Cubic zirconium to Ryan Tarmenter, who stood on Thayer Street wearing a self-made shark costume Tuesday night. We thought it was cool. Until you told us you were 26.

And last of all, a really awkward diamond to the couple who awoke after an intimate night in a dorm lounge to find a professor and 20 students staring at them. Can’t you cuddle on the “flirtstones” in the Friedman Center like everyone else?

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Other than the regrettable lack of recess, one of the only definitive dif ferences be-tween my elementary school experience and my experience thus far at Brown has been the transition from a single Career Day each year to an entire Career Week. Gone are the carefree days when thinking about a career meant skipping social studies and math to meet the local librarian and to explore the inside of a fire engine, replaced by long days wearing “business casual” slacks and attending roundtable discussions with dis-tinguished Brown alumni. This year’s Career Week will be upon us starting Monday.

In addition to nostalgia for simpler days, this time of year can evoke a lot of stress. Bombarded by interview schedules, resume workshops and the impending threat of sum-mer (or graduation, for some), it’s hard not to think about plans for the future. Unfor-tunately for me, much of the career search process is predicated on the assumption that I have even the slightest inkling of what I would like to do with my life.

Halfway through my sophomore year, I still can’t decide on a concentration, on whether I prefer fries or onion rings with my lunch, or on what color tie matches my aforementioned slacks, let alone on a ca-reer path. It seems unlikely that I’ll settle enough of my outstanding career plans by

next week to choose meaningfully between the array of events the Career Development Center and Office of Alumni Relations have put together.

Obviously not all of my fellow Brunonians will relate to my epic degree of indecisive-ness, but even though Brown is home to a particularly driven student body, I believe the average student is less certain about his or her career plans than the University often seems to assume. However, next week’s calendar shows strong evidence that the Career Development Center is aware of the

large proportion of the student body that is still waffling in the face of life’s big deci-sions. The alumni panelists attending the roundtable conference March 1 represent an impressively broad range of industries this year, and the open format should effectively promote exploration without putting undue

pressure on the students.It is also important to note that the top-

ics of the “Career Conversations” series going on next week show an effort on the part of the Career Development Center to respond to the criticism most frequently leveled against them, that the center fo-cuses too much of its attention on students headed into business and finance-related fields. The schedule includes sessions on non-traditional career paths, community organizing and careers in the federal gov-ernment. There will invariably be areas that

receive short shrift, but the variety this year shows a sensitivity to the needs of Brown students that should be appreciated.

Over the course of Career Week, I hope we bear in mind that our time at Brown is first and foremost about a balanced liberal education. This is Brown’s justification for

eschewing such concentrations as pre-professional tracks and business degrees. Whether you’re chomping at the bit, ready to impress our alumni guests or, like me, ambivalent about how Career Week will af fect your outlook on your plans for the future, everyone can appreciate that the overarching goal of our time here isn’t just to develop professional skills and network-ing savvy, but to engage in critical study that is designed to yield benefits for the rest of our lives.

Study after study is telling us that mem-bers of our generation are going to find themselves switching jobs and even career paths more often than was previously the norm. If that’s the case, we’re likely to find that the skills we derive from our classroom experiences are worth far more than even the most well-laid career plans.

With all of these considerations in mind, Career Week can be an opportunity to ex-plore without being a cause of the anxiety that thinking about leaving Brown brings on for many of us. I look forward to wel-coming the returning alumni and trying to learn as much from their experience as possible. Hopefully something I learn next week will set me on a path toward making some decisions in my life. Then again, for all I know I could end up being a fireman or a librarian after all.

Jonah Fabricant ’10 is unaffiliated with Brown’s Career Development Center

BY JOnaH FaBrICanTGueSt ColuMniSt

Struggling against career angst

Over the course of Career Week, I

hope we bear in mind that our time

at Brown is first and foremost about a

balanced liberal education.

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After winning 10 straight contests, Barack Obama is well on his way to securing his party’s nomination. If there’s anything we’ve learned from watching the junior senator from Illinois on the campaign trail, it’s that his next speech, whether after a primary victory or during a campaign rally, will focus on vague notions of “change,” optimistic ref-erences to “hope” and an attempt to dodge important issues by calling for “unity” among dissenters. Obama’s inspirational rhetoric has certainly worked wonders for him. How-ever, as the Democratic primaries draw to a close and the national race begins, Obama’s positions on the issues will start to matter. Voters will undoubtedly see Barack Obama for what he is, the most liberal senator in the United States of America. If it were up to Brown students, Obama would probably rise to the presidency with little objection. We must remember, however, that the majority of American voters are not far-left-leaning Democrats, but centrists and moderates. I therefore doubt that Obama will win the national election, even if he successfully courts the Democratic nomination.

In 2007, Barack Obama was the country’s “most liberal senator,” according to the Na-tional Journal Group, an organization that conducts a yearly study of voting records. Barack Obama earned this distinction with a composite score of 95.5, while Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) placed 16th with a composite score of 82.8. Back in 2003, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) occupied Obama’s current spot on the National Journal study. Naturally, the Re-

publican establishment painted Kerry as an extremist, and the Presidential election the next year didn’t quite go his way. Obama’s voting record contradicts his anti-partisan message. If he wants to be the candidate that can unite the “red and blue Americas,” then why is he voting the party line reli-giously? Obama certainly talks the talk about “change” and “unity,” yet his voting record speaks volumes. Ironically, Obama is part of the organized, stubborn partisan politics that he decries on a daily basis.

Many critics will probably say that an

analysis of Obama’s senatorial voting record is unfair because he has yet to finish one full term. Although this is an enormous liability in itself, his extremely liberal Illinois State Senate voting record provides corroborating evidence. As a state senator, Barack Obama built up a controversial record on abortion

issues and gun control laws. Obama voted against a bill that would have provided medi-cal care for fetuses that survive abortion at-tempts; he also voted against legislation that would have increased restrictions on public funding for abortions. While many Americans are adamantly pro-choice, Obama’s track re-cord and accompanying 100 percent rating from the Illinois Planned Parenthood Council will alienate more moderate voters.

Obama’s record on gun control is just as extreme. Not only has he supported mea-sures for a statewide ban of semi-automatic

firearms in Illinois, but he has also supported legislation that limits handgun purchases to one per month. Moreover, Obama voted against allowing individuals to violate local gun bans to protect themselves from bur-glars. Barack Obama wants to tighten gun restrictions across the board and leaves little

room for compromise on the issue. These positions are extreme and will not sit well with the American public.

Senator Obama’s extremism resonates through his naive foreign policy stances. It is in this delicate but crucial arena that one thing remains clear: Barack Obama’s bleed-ing heart will kill him. Obama believes our current foreign policy of refusing to negotiate with known sponsors of terror is “arrogant.” I have some breaking news: this inconceiv-able notion, that some of the world’s most stubborn, evil and self-interested leaders will immediately change their minds without hesitation just for Obama, is true arrogance. Aside from his foolish optimism, Obama has little-to-no foreign policy experience, a fact made painfully clear by comments he made last summer that suggested that he would consider invading Pakistan, a nuclear power. Although liberal Democrats and Brown stu-dents are euphoric, moderates and indepen-dents concerned about foreign affairs will probably not be swayed by Obama’s confused foreign policy instincts.

Barack Obama is a liberal extremist who needs to mask his beliefs with rhetoric. Let’s be honest, if Obama had replaced “change,” “hope” and “unity” with concrete policy rec-ommendations he would not have become the frontrunner in the Democratic race. Once the rhetoric disappears (if it ever does) and the issues surface, Obama will not be able to change his liberal record. Can Obama court the Democratic nomination? Yes, he can. Can Obama court millions of moderate and independent American voters with his extremist policies? No, he can’t.

anish Mitra ’10 is a liberal extremist who needs to mask his beliefs with rhetoric

No, he can’t

Obama certainly talks the talk about

“change” and “unity,” yet his voting

record speaks volumes. Ironically,

Obama is part of the organized,

stubborn partisan politics that he

decries on a daily basis.

BY anISH MITraGueSt ColuMniSt

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Strong doubles can’t stop m. tennis lossesBy MEAgAN gARzAContributinG Writer

The focus for the men’s tennis team has always been to capitalize on the doubles point, grabbing the first victory in order to have a cushion going into singles play.

But the team might need to change its focus if it hopes to put more marks in the winning column. Despite winning its first doubles match, Bruno picked up two more losses on the road against No. 17 Wake Forest and Davidson, falling to both in poor form by the same score of 6-1.

The weekend started off with a bang as Bruno easily took the doubles point against Wake For-est. At No. 2 doubles, co-captain Saurabh Kohli ’08 and Jon Pearl-man ’11 grabbed the first victory, 8-4, but that was quickly followed by a loss from No. 3 doubles Sam Garland ’09 and Charlie Posner ’11, 8-2. The deciding victory came at No. 1 doubles by Basu Ratnam ’09 and Chris Lee ’09, who defeated the No. 45 doubles team in the country, 8-4.

With the Bears capitalizing on the hard doubles work they have put in these past weeks, the players and Head Coach Jay Harris were

confident about the possibilities of winning the match.

“So far, our doubles play has been a work in progress, I actually really like where it is and where it

is going,” Harris wrote in an e-mail. “We won the doubles point against the No. 17 team in the country, and

2nd-place m. hoops faces pivotal N.Y. trip

By STU WOOSenior editor

Team captains Damon Huffman ’08 and Mark McAndrew ’08 both swear they’re not looking ahead to the game against Ivy League-leader Cornell Saturday night.

“Honestly, I’m dead serious,” McAndrew said. “It all depends on Friday night,” when the men’s basketball team faces Columbia in New York City.

Though second-place Brown will have a chance to cut into Cor-nell’s two-game lead tomorrow, the Bears say they’re focusing all atten-tion now on third-place Columbia.

In fact, the Bears insist that they are treating their final six games with equal weight, viewing each as a championship game.

And they probably should, if they want to win the league title and end Brown’s 22-year NCAA Tournament drought.

Brown (14-8 overall, 6-2 Ivy) will likely need to run the table to have a shot at the championship. This season, Cornell (16-5, 8-0 Ivy) is looking like the league’s New Eng-land Patriots, making a serious bid to be the first team since 2003 to go 14-0 in conference play.

“Those guys (at Cornell) just keep on winning and winning,” said Head Coach Craig Robinson earlier this week.

The Bears first hope to knock Columbia (12-11, 5-3) out of title contention tonight. To do that, they’ll have to shut down All-Ivy for-ward John Baumann, who is fourth in the league in points per game

(15.7) and second in rebounds per game (6.7).

The 6-foot-8 Baumann scorched Brown for 23 points and 13 re-bounds in a 68-63 Brown victory at the Pizzitola Center earlier this month. But the Bears did figure him out in the second half, when they limited him to seven points.

Brown will also have to watch out for guard K.J. Matsui, who aver-ages 8.4 points per game and leads the league with a .517 three-point percentage.

As a team, the Bears are out-shooting the Lions in league play, 46 percent to 42 percent. Both teams shot about the same percentage in their first meeting, but Brown went to the line 12 more times. Columbia has rattled off four straight victories since its Feb. 2 loss at the Pitz.

After facing Columbia in New York City on Friday night, the Bears will hop on a bus to Ithaca, N.Y., where they will likely arrive far past midnight, especially if the forecast for a wintry mix holds up. But Robinson said he isn’t worried about the long travel time, saying his team will have plenty of time to rest on Saturday morning.

Cornell could effectively lock up the Ivy League title with a win Sat-urday. A victory would propel the Big Red into their final four contests with at least a two-game lead.

The Bears weren’t able to shoot in the teams’ first meeting earlier this month, which Cornell won, 75-64. Brown shot just 33 percent from the floor to Cornell’s 50 per-cent. Forward Ryan Wittman, last season’s Ivy League Rookie of the Year, seemed to hit every open shot he got, scoring a game-high

W. track finishes first, while men take secondBy NICOLE STOCkContributinG Writer

After a string of mediocre results, the men’s and women’s track teams both pulled out strong finishes at the Dartmouth Invi-tational last Saturday. The women finished in first place, accumulat-ing 208 points, and the men came in second with 180 points.

The women tallied 12 individu-al first-place finishes and several other strong performances. They were trailed by Dartmouth with 144 points, New Hampshire with 100, Vermont with 48 and Quin-nipiac with 23.

The Bears picked up crucial points on the track, providing a comfor table lead ahead of Dartmouth. Thelma Breezeatl ’10 had a strong performance in the 60-meter dash, picking up a first-place finish in 7.58 seconds, and teammate Nicole Burns ’09 took home second in the event. In the 200-meter dash the two flip-flopped, as Burns crossed the finish line first in 24.89 seconds with Breezeatl right behind her, finishing in 25.11 seconds.

“I was a little nervous going into my sprints this weekend, since I have never (run) a 60-me-

ter dash before. I also knew that Dartmouth’s track is not banked, so the 200-meter race would have to be (run) very fast in order to achieve a good time,” said Burns. “It’s all about staying focused and putting your heart into each race.”

Brown picked up first-place finishes in most of the remaining of track events. In the 400-meter run Jasmine Chukwueke ’10 fin-ished on top with a time of 58.39 seconds. Samantha Adelberg ’11 secured first place in the 500-me-ter run, while fellow freshmen Kesley Ramsey ’11 finished first in the 800-meter run.

Smita Gupta ’08 had a strong meet, finishing first in the 1,000-meter run with a time of 2:53.78. Bruno took home first place in the 3,000-meter run also, with Ariel Wright ’10 earning a time of 9:48.43. Both of Brown’s relay teams — the 1,600-meter and 3,200-meter relay — took home first-place finishes as well.

In the field, the Bears con-tinued their success, as captain Akilah King ’08 finished first in the long jump with a distance

W. tennis set back twice in VirginiaBy SETh MOTELStaF F Writer

Just a few days after the so-called Potomac presidential primaries, the women’s tennis team showed up to Virginia looking to boost its own campaign. Instead, it walked away with two 5-2 losses.

Last Saturday, the Bears (1-4) fell to the Richmond Spiders (2-4). After losing the point awarded for doubles by dropping two of three pro sets, the squad was victorious in two of the six singles matches.

At No. 1 singles, Bianca Abou-bakare ’11, who last year was rated a five-star recruit by TennisRecruit-ing.net, continued her fast start to the season with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Pamela Duran. At the No. 5 spot, the team received a three-set victory from Tanja Vucetic ’10. Af-ter losing the first set 3-6, Vucetic posted consecutive 6-4 sets for the victory.

Three-set losses by No. 3 Brett Finkelstein ’09 and No. 6 Emily Ellis ’10 proved to be the dif fer-ence overall.

The netters then headed north-west to Charlottesville, Va., to take on No. 53 Virginia (4-3).

Although the Cavaliers swept the doubles matches, the Bears fought hard to come back from

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Jon Pearlman ’11 helped to take a doubles point against Wake Forest.

ashley Hess / Herald File PhotoBianca aboubakare ‘11, a top recruit, beat richmond’s Pamela Duran, 6-2, 6-4, last Saturday. Despite the team’s recent troubles, she is optimistic about Ivy play.

Sullivan ’11 talks Ivy, All-Star hoopsBy MEgAN MCCAhILLaSSiStant SportS editor

Peter Sullivan ’11 helped the men’s basketball team complete a historic sweep over Penn and Princeton on the road last weekend. It was the first time that Brown has ever swept the Ivy powerhouses on the road and only the fourth time by any Ivy League team. Sullivan played a big role in the Bears’ come-from-behind

overtime victory over Princeton, scoring 13 of his 15 points in the second half. For his efforts, Sullivan was named the Ivy League Rookie

of the Week for the third time this season, and he’s also the Herald’s Athlete of the Week.

Herald: Your team’s sweep

this weekend was a really his-toric event in Brown history. As a freshman, were you aware of what a big deal winning those games would be?

Sullivan: I didn’t know that it was the first time in history that Brown’s ever done that, but I knew that both those teams have obvi-ously been very good in the past. I

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