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WIll WE MATTER?Probably not, says R.I.political buffs, referring to the Ocean State’s influence in the primary elections

5 11SqUAShEd Players miss six courts in the Smith Swim Center, which closed after proving structurally unsound

OvERPOWERINgKevin Roose ‘09.5 says media out lets are overdoing coverage of the presidential primaries

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Journalist Risen ’77 subpoenaedGov’t seeks source for alum’s CIA bookBy JENNA STARksenior sTaFF WriTer

New York Times reporter James Risen ’77 has become one of the latest journalists to be subpoenaed by a federal grand jury.

A subpoena issued last week is attempting to force Risen to reveal confidential sources from a specific chapter in a book he wrote about the CIA, the New York Times reported Feb. 1.

The chapter in question — in Risen’s 2006 book “State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration” — re-ported that the CIA had unsuc-cessfully attempted to gain access to Iran’s nuclear program, starting as early as during the Clinton ad-ministration.

Risen and fellow New York Times writer Eric Lichtblau won a 2006 Pulitzer Prize for their cov-erage of the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program. Risen’s “State of War” expanded on his reporting on the wiretap-ping program. None of the report-ing from the chapter in question appeared in the Times.

“We’re going to fight” the sub-poena, said David Kelley, Risen’s lawyer. Risen may “file a motion with the court contending that the subpoena should not be en-forced because it would violate the First Amendment,” said Kelley, a former U.S. attorney for the south-ern district of New York.

According to the Times, the subpoena was delivered to the New York-based law firm repre-senting Risen and has ordered his presence in front of a grand jury

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Rapper Lupe Fiasco is scheduled to perform on campus on April 11.

Kenya on students’ mindsBy CAThERINE STRAUTsTaFF WriTer

When she was in Kenya last year, Monica Melgar ’08 used to take the bus from Nairobi to Kisumu. She’s back in the U.S. now, but as unrest in the 35-million person, former Brit-ish colony grows, Kenya is still on her mind. She learned that a bus on the route she took was recently stopped and burned, and its female passengers raped.

“Thinking about how many times I took a bus from Nairobi to Kisumu really brings it home,” she said.

Kenya has experienced violent conflict since the results of its Dec. 27 elections were posted. Charges of a fraudulent election have surfaced ever since President Mwai Kibaki’s sudden victory over the leading can-didate, Raila Odinga, spurring tribal violence and chaos.

As that violence continues, Ke-nyan students at Brown and those connected to the East African nation are concerned for family and friends. Rahul Nene ’09, who lived in Kenya for 14 years, said he believed the first few weeks of violence were the worst and hopes that the situation will be-gin to calm down because of interna-tional attention to the situation.

Nene still has extended family living in Nairobi. He said they are all safe because the more metropolitan areas in Kenya seem to be less af-fected by the tribal violence that has become common in the slums and countryside.

By AllISON WENTzsTaFF WriTer

Rapper Lupe Fiasco is scheduled to perform Friday, April 11, as part of Spring Weekend, a spokeswoman for Atlantic Records, which represents the artist, confirmed.

David Horn ’08, the booking chair of the Brown Concert Agency, which is in charge of bringing the enter-tainment to campus, said that BCA “can’t confirm or deny” the Spring Weekend lineup at this point. It is not yet clear which other artists will be performing at Spring Weekend, but Horn said BCA plans to announce the full lineup later this month, once all of the bookings are confirmed.

BCA wants to make Spring Week-end more of a festival this year, he said, trying to connect the two main concerts on Friday and Saturday by adding entertainment from other student groups — such as dance, comedy and other musical perfor-mances. They are still in the early stages of coordinating these plans, however, Horn said, so the details

have not been worked out.Spring Weekend, which is sched-

uled for April 10-13 this year, will once again include solo performer Dave Binder, according to the sing-er’s Web site. A folk singer known for his tours around college cam-puses, Binder is considered a staple of Spring Weekend, performing cov-ers of songs from several genres dur-ing his traditional Sunday afternoon show.

Horn said that BCA members think that having shows Friday evening and Saturday afternoon “worked really well” last year and plan to keep this schedule. One of last year’s performers, The Roots, was initially scheduled to play on Thursday, but the show was moved to Friday because of conflicts with the band’s touring schedule.

Horn said that BCA is still uncer-tain about locations for the weekend’s shows but that Meehan Auditorium will be the rain location for both.

“I’m really looking forward to an-nouncing the lineup in the coming weeks,” Horn said.

Lupe Fiasco booked for Spring Weekend

Students question task force on advisingBy gEORgE MIllERsenior sTaFF WriTer

Students and faculty discussed how to get faculty members to be better advisers Monday night at a sparsely attended forum in Salomon 101 about the recommendations of the Task Force for Undergraduate Education.

Attendees asked for details about the report’s recommenda-tions, while task force members shared discussions about improv-ing the undergraduate experience at Brown which were not included in the report.

The task force has been discuss-ing improvements to the Brown ed-ucation since last spring. It released

its preliminary report on Jan. 30, a set of 25 recommendations for improving students’ experiences on campus, with a particular focus on advising. This fall, the report will form the backbone of the Uni-versity’s required self-study for its reaccreditation. The report will ad-dress the following: general edu-cation, concentrations, advising, pedagogy and assessment.

Student speakers said faculty needed more incentive to take ad-vising seriously, a sentiment mem-bers of the task force seemed to share. According to the report, only 70 percent of faculty, out of the 80 percent who are on campus at any given time, fulfill their duties as advisers.

Advising “isn’t a service, it’s a part of the curriculum,” said Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron, who chaired the task force.

“It’s a requirement in the way that the writing requirement is required at Brown,” task force member Rakim Brooks ’09 told The Herald after the forum. “This campus really needs to have a seri-ous discussion about the state of the university-college.”

Members of the task force echoed the audience’s concerns about whether the report had enough “teeth” or “muscle,” par-ticularly with regard to its advising recommendations. Bergeron called

Nun free-falls from the heavens into presidencyBy lESlIE PRIMACksTaFF WriTer

Sister Joan Lescinski PhD’81 is far from the stereotypical ruler-wielding Catholic school nun. At the age of 60, she skydives, flies planes, laughs easily and recently became the first female president of St. Ambrose University.

Lescinski moved into her new office in Davenport, Iowa, last Oc-tober, after serving as president of St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, a small women’s liberal arts school in Indiana.

“She’s quick. She’s bright. She’s extraordinarily intelligent,” said Vicki Kosowsky, chief student development officer at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College and Lescinski’s

colleague since 1998.Lescinski’s colorful and at times

risky lifestyle is no recent devel-opment. As a child, she went for rides in her uncle’s private plane, an experience that “engendered a real love of anything that flew,” she said. For her 40th birthday, a friend bought her a ride in a hot air balloon.

When she turned 50, her par-ents gave her a unique birthday present: an offer to fund any trip or adventure and help their daughter fulfill a lifelong ambition. Lescinski instantly knew what she wanted to

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Courtesy of NASA.govNASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft flew by Mercury on Jan. 14, giving Professor of Geological Sciences James Head Phd’69 and his team valuable information.

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Providence mall rats enjoy change of sceneryNANdINI JAyAkRIShNAsenior sTaFF WriTer

When you walk into the room you see the outline of a green ship on the back wall. Under it, you see a green wavy line depicting water and a scene of underwater life, com-plete with small and big green fish, green jellyfish, a green sea horse, a green shark and even a green deep-sea diver.

Welcome to the Tape Art Ar-taquarium at 5 Traverse, an art gal-lery off Wickenden Street, where three local tape artists — Michael Townsend, James Mercer and Jay Zehngebot — have been living for the last two weeks, drawing green masking-tape murals on the bare walls.

“We don’t make products. We don’t sell anything.” said Townsend, who invented tape art during his first year as an undergraduate at the Rhode Island School of Design. “That’s not our interest.”

“If you can’t show the artists’ work, display the artists them-selves,” he added. “We’re the ob-jects in here.”

The barely furnished 192-square-foot space has a futon for the art-ists to sleep on and a table with a 30-inch computer monitor and other equipment. A large glass win-dow overlooks the street, allowing passersby to see what is going on inside. The floor of the room is covered with grayish-white rocks, adding to the “aquarium effect.”

A live Webcam, recording the artists’ movements and broadcast-ing them on the gallery’s Web site, sits on an empty Gatorade bottle next to the computer.

Townsend says purpose of the Webcam is to have “no privacy — (to be) as transparent as pos-sible.”

But he adds that the aquarium effect is more obvious during the day.

“At night, it just seems like a box of rocks,” he says.

The right wall of the room slides to reveal a 162-square-foot garage space, which also has tape art on the walls. A tiny bathroom is sand-wiched between the two rooms.

“My whole gallery is designed to provide something for Rhode Island-vicinity artists,” said Jesse Smith, owner of 5 Traverse, who has hired the artists to live in his gallery for a month, from Jan. 14 through Feb. 15.

Smith said he supports art-ists like Townsend, Mercer and Zehngebot, who choose to be art-ists “in the truest way possible, throwing to the wind the idea of a stable economic life.”

In today’s market-driven world, Smith said, it is “depressing” to see consumerism and salesman-ship determining the success of artists.

“As a gallery owner and artist, I was struggling with the com-modification of creativity,” he said, adding that he wanted to put up a show that challenged the notion of an “object-driven gallery” that displays the works of “marketable artists.”

Smith said the show has been well-received by the public. The art-ists welcome those who walk in and talk to them about tape art, answer-ing their questions and showing them pictures and videos of their past work done in various parts of the country, Smith said.

Smith said “the energy behind tape art” is responsible for the show’s success. “All I’m offering is white walls,” he added.

Smith said he heard about Townsend on the news last year for building a hideaway at the Providence Place Mall with seven other local artists. They lived in it off-and-on for four years before

Rhody primary likely to be overshadowedBy dANA TEPPERTsTaFF WriTer

In 24 states today, voters will head to the polls or caucuses. More than 2,000 Democratic delegates are up for grabs in 22 states and more than 1,000 Republican delegates are at stake in 21 states.

For both parties, nearly half of the total delegates who will attend the national conventions will be awarded following Tuesday’s results — 43 per-cent of the total Republican delegates and 52 percent of the total delegates for the Democrats.

Rhode Island holds its primary on March 4, the same day as Ohio and Texas.

“It’s very difficult to imagine Rhode Island having a significant role on either side” in the race, said Charles Bakst ’66, political columnist for the Providence Journal. Rhode Island has about 30 Democratic del-egates total, though only 13 delegates are elected in the primary, Bakst said. Texas has an estimated 220 delegates and Ohio has about 116.

There was a movement earlier in the year in Rhode Island’s legislature to move the date of the primary up to February, but Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65 vetoed the bill, Bakst said. Lo-cal communities complained to the

governor that they would not have enough time to prepare if the election were moved up, he said.

“Ironically, Massachusetts acted after Rhode Island to move up its primary,” Bakst said. Massachusetts’ primary is being held today.

This year’s “Super Tuesday” — the name given to the day on which the greatest number of primaries and causes are traditionally held — is the largest since the first Super Tuesday in 1988. Super Tuesday was originally a Southern primary and, though significant, it usually did not determine the presidential nominees for either party, according to Asso-ciate Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller.

What is so distinct about this year’s Super Tuesday is that it now includes Southern, Western, Mid-western and Northern states, Schil-ler said, adding that it also comes a month earlier than it did four years ago.

With half the total delegates up for grabs on Tuesday, the importance of the race for both parties’ candidates is clear. For the GOP, Super Tuesday is likely to be much more definitive, Schiller said, because the party has a winner-take-all method of award-ing delegates in states. “It is possible for Republicans to seal the deal” on

Tuesday, Schiller said.Gabriel Kussin ‘09, a member

of the Brown Democrats, said that the group is very excited for Super Tuesday because “there are two such dynamic candidates in the field,” but he doubts that a definitive candidate will emerge.

Nevertheless, Kussin thinks Brown students registered in Rhode Island will have an impact on the presidential nominating contest.

Marc Cooper, senior editor of the blog the Huffington Post and contrib-uting editor of the Nation, wrote in an e-mail that he guesses “the GOP nomination will be effectively taken by McCain on Tuesday.”

The nominee for the Democrat-ic Party is unlikely to be crowned Tuesday because the party awards delegates based on a system of pro-portional representation, said Darrell West, John Hazen White professor of public policy and political science and director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy.

For Nathan Gonzales, political editor of the non-partisan newslet-ter the Rothenberg Political Report, that means that “even though (Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.) may win a majority of states and delegates,

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Prof.’s team analyzes Mercury’s mysteries By NICk WERlEsTaFF WriTer

Nearly three and a half years after it was launched from Cape Canav-eral, Fla., NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft gave scientists their first glimpse of Mercury in more than 30 years. For Professor of Geologi-cal Sciences James Head PhD’69 and his team of undergraduate and graduate students, the flyby, which occurred on Jan. 14, provided the team with a trove of data and im-ages of areas of the planet that have never been seen before. But this data is just a preview of what will be available once the spacecraft goes into orbit around Mercury in March 2011.

MESSENGER was selected as the seventh mission in NASA’s Discovery Program, which al-lows scientists from around the country to propose and manage unmanned, scientific space mis-sions, and carries instruments to support research on the geological,

geophysical, chemical and magnetic characteristics of Mercury. The mis-sion plan calls for the craft to fly by Mercury two more times before entering orbit in 2011.

As chair of the project’s geology group, Head oversees a team of 10 that is trying to shed light on the planet’s history. The team is trying to determine whether Mercury’s morphological features were caused

by volcanic activity.With older data, scientists

weren’t able to determine wheth-er volcanic activity had occurred on the planet. Mercury is covered in large, flat plains dotted with craters. Unlike Earth’s moon, Mercury’s surface does not have dark spots and light spots. When viewed from space, most geologi-cal features blend into the ground, so scientists can’t see many of the surface’s features, such as evidence of volcanoes.

“But with our high-resolution data coming in,” Head said, “we’re starting to see features that look volcanic — flows and things like that.”

In addition, the planet’s proxim-ity to the sun prevents scientists from using either Earth-based telescopes or the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope to examine the planetary surface, for fear of damag-ing the equipment. Mariner 10 was the last mission to Mercury, and it flew by the planet three times — the last of them in March 1975. Many scientists have been waiting for a chance to return to the planet since that final pass.

The data MESSENGER recently sent back revealed far more of the planet than was visible from Mariner 10. Until now, scientists have been restricted to studying less than half the planet because Mariner 10 was only able to photograph one side. In addition, the images were relatively

Courtesy of NASA.govProfessor of Geological Sciences James Head Phd’69 and graduate students will analyze data from NASA’s probe.

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Townsend was caught by mall se-curity, charged with misdemeanor trespassing and put on six-month probation, The Herald reported Oct. 16.

Townsend, who told The Her-ald that the mall project was “cut (off) at the beginning of its prime,” said living at 5 Traverse Gallery is a “decent enough transition” as the artists are now “occupying yet another space.”

The artists have been success-ful in attracting the public’s atten-tion to their “artaquarium.”

“We were wondering what the tape art was,” said Joseph Kaplan,

a RISD freshman, who saw the artists through the window and came inside.

“I like that (the tape art on the walls) keeps changing. That’s cool,” said Gianna Pergamo, an-other RISD freshman who was pulled in by curiosity.

Apart from emphasizing the idea of “public art,” Townsend said the artists are working on accomplishing two other goals during their stay at the gallery. One of their goals is teaching — the gallery is open to anyone who would like to learn to draw with tape. In the past two weeks, teach-ers have brought in students who have learned to make murals on the walls, Townsend said.

“The 10-year-olds did that,” he says, pointing to the back wall with drawings depicting marine life.

The second project is to create graphics for the music video of a song called “Rash of Robberies” by the band State Radio.

Sam White, a visual artist and director of the music video, said he was “intrigued” by the artists’ past work and wanted to incorpo-rate tape art into the video using an animation technique called

stop-motion. The technique in-volves setting up an object, taking a picture of it, moving it slightly, taking another picture and then putting all the pictures together.

The artists’ task is to draw a tape art mural, film it for a few sec-onds, take it down, draw the same mural again with minor changes and film it again. Repeating this process and then compressing the clips together produces the effect of movement. A day of work only produces ten or 15 seconds of video, Townsend said.

The process of animation using stop-motion is “pretty labor-inten-sive,” White said, adding that the video will be complete in April.

The well-lit gallery with its white walls has given the artists the ideal location to work on the video, as well as to teach the art of making “ephemeral messes” or tape art to the public, Townsend said.

He and the artists are enjoying their time at the gallery, “being available for kids and waving at neighbors.”

It’s a “funny extension of the philosophy of public art,” Townsend said.

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(Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.) will take a large share of voters and delegates as well,” he wrote in an e-mail.

Cooper’s best guess is that “Clin-ton will come out slightly on top on Tuesday but that the contest will be open into March in Ohio and Texas,” he wrote.

Schiller and West said the races on Super Tuesday would be competitive for both sides. “It’s unusual to have such heavily contested presidential elections on both sides,” Schiller said. Because of this, she said, political scientists don’t have a good idea of what will happen on Tuesday. The races are “totally wide open on both sides, which is rare,” she added.

“What we don’t know is what vot-ers will be considering when they go to vote on Super Tuesday,” Schiller said.

For Democratic candidates, Schil-ler predicted the race would be very competitive and the results would depend on the turnout of blacks, Latinos and women.

West said that for Obama and Clinton the “white vote” would be very important and could be a deter-mining factor in the race. Obama, he said, received only 23 percent of the

white vote in South Carolina, much less than Clinton. “If (Clinton) keeps Obama in the low 30s (in terms of percentage) she’s in a strong posi-tion,” West said.

Obama is expected to do well in Southern states and his home state of Illinois, where there is a high per-centage of African Americans reg-istered to vote, West said. Clinton looks strong in her home state of New York, California and several Southwestern states, he said.

Though “it’s not sexy or politically correct to talk about the white vote,” it matters since white voters comprise the majority of voters in the nation, Gonzales said. He cited change as a key issue and said that “voters are looking for the candidate that best embodies that message.”

Former Sen. John Edwards’ re-cent departure from the race has been scrutinized in the media for its possible impact on the Democratic race. Cooper wrote that he believes that Edwards’ voters “will be split among Obama and Hillary, with a majority going to Obama. … The Edwards voters I encountered in Iowa, Nevada, and here in California were voters who wanted change” and therefore were more likely to vote for Obama.

R.I. primary may not matter

dark and the resolution fairly low. The images taken on MESSENGER, however, show significantly more of the planet. Imagery from the two remaining fly-bys and the craft’s eventual orbit should provide even more valuable data.

Already, the Brown team has found some interesting geologi-cal features on Mercury’s surface. Among them is a formation that has been named “The Spider,” a network of troughs radiating from a central dark feature. At the center is a cra-

ter approximately 40 kilometers in diameter. According to Caleb Fassett GS, the team believes that the Spider may have resulted from a magmatic process with a super-imposed impact crater. Since the crater is not exactly in the center of the troughs’ radia-tion, the two features’ formations do not seem to be connected.

Head’s graduate student team has been working on the data as it is relayed from MESSENGER to Earth. An “away team” of four people heads down to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab as the data returns. They work with

another group, which stays at Brown, to analyze the information.

“We basically get involved when data comes back,” Laura Kerber GS said. “We got to go down and meet a bunch of the scientists whose papers we had been reading. We were with them when the first images came down and some of these people had been waiting for 34 years.”

“This first wave is just discovery,” she added. “No matter what you normally study, you are just look-ing at the images and asking, ‘What is this tectonic activity? What is this volcanism?’ ”

Students and professor analyze Mercury

on Feb. 7 in Alexandria, Va.Risen, a former Herald staff

writer, came to Brown in Novem-ber 2006 and gave a lecture that was sponsored by The Herald. A growing “climate of fear” in the government was making investi-gative reporting more difficult, he said then.

In an e-mail, Risen declined to comment on the subpoena for this article.

Kelley said that he isn’t con-cerned with the administration’s reasons for filing the subpoena. “We’re on the ball here in working on the subpoena and not the motiva-tion behind it,” he said.

Catherine Mathis, a spokeswom-an for the Times, wrote in an e-mail that “the New York Times strongly supports Jim Risen, and deplores what seems to be a growing trend of government leak investigations focusing on journalists, particularly in the national security area.”

Other journalists have also re-cently received federal subpoenas for their investigative work.

In May 2006, San Francisco Chronicle reporters Lance Wil-liams ’72 and Mark Fainaru-Wada were ordered to appear before a federal grand jury and. reveal the confidential source that gave them grand jury testimony relating to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative steroids case.

Williams and Fainaru-Wada were each sentenced to 18 months in prison for their refusal to reveal their sources, but were able to avoid serving time when an attorney who had formerly represented BALCO pleaded guilty for leaking the in-formation.

“We never acknowledged that this or that person was our source,” Williams said. “If we didn’t get any relief we would have had to go to jail until the grand jury’s term ex-pired — about two years. You try to play for time — as in the Risen case I’m sure he’ll litigate and try to drag it out and catch a break somewhere.”

Williams said he thinks subpoe-nas are unreasonable and unjust.

“I understand that the govern-ment has secrecy concerns in terms of its investigations, but dragging the press into their secrecy con-cerns does damage to the First Amendment rights,” he said. “Ev-ery time we get a subpoena ... the closer we get to the day when the only information we’ll have about our government is from the paid story-spinner.”

The Free Flow of Information Act, commonly known as the me-dia shield act, is a bill that was first proposed in 2006 to ensure the free flow of information to the public, while still maintaining the public’s protection and the fair administra-tion of justice, according to the Open Congress Web site. The act was amended in 2007 to include the protection of bloggers in the same way as journalists.

The Free Flow of Information Act cleared the House in 2007, and Williams said he is hopeful it will soon pass the Senate. “The law would create at the federal level something similar to what all the states have — legislation that gives protection to reporters and their sources,” Williams said. “The judge would have a formal means of decid-ing whether we have to place the subpoena on the reporter, let’s say for national security reasons. Or is it just the government coming after the reporter because they don’t feel like doing any investigating?”

Kelley said that they may fig-ure the media shield act into their arguments.

Williams said he commiser-ates with Risen on his upcoming ordeal.

“I have sympathy for him be-cause I know it’s a big distraction when this occurs. You end up spend-ing a lot of your time not being a reporter but being a defendant,” he said. “It’s a hassle.”

Peter Carr, principal deputy director of public affairs for the Justice Department, wrote in an e-mail that “the department does not comment on pending investi-gations.”

Federal grand jury wants Risen ’77 to reveal sources

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advising “the area of the report that has the most promise and the least definition right now.”

One student speaker said more prestige needs to be accorded to faculty’s role in advising, similar to that placed on research.

In response, Professor of Com-parative Literature Arnold Wein-stein, a member of the task force, said that “the faculty exist in a pro-fessional world,” where research is accorded prestige and advising is not. He agreed, however, that advis-ers needed more incentive.

In response to students saying they wished they had more mean-ingful interactions with faculty,

Weinstein called the faculty-student relationship “a two-way street.”

“I think it’s partly a game of chicken,” he said. “Who’s going to go first?”

Joseph Rovan, associate profes-sor of music, said that new faculty need better training as advisers.

“I found it actually quite difficult as a new faculty member here to find out what was going on, what the culture is here,” he said.

The 40 to 50 people who at-tended the forum left plenty of left-over refreshments in the lobby. But Bergeron said she was pleased with the turnout.

“Like the (forum) in November, students are very thoughtful and articulate,” she told The Herald. “It’s

quality, not quantity.” Members of the task force also discussed advis-ing at the forum in November. Last night, attendees were able to drop written comments into a box by the refreshments in the lobby. Bergeron said the task force will refocus its energy on the questions students posed last night.

Bergeron also addressed a mis-understanding about one of the task force’s recommendations — that all departments be required to of-fer culminating “capstone” projects for concentrators. According to one part of the report, the recommenda-tion would mean all concentrators would be required to complete a capstone, but Bergeron said the sec-tion needed rewording.

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Members of the task Force on undergraduate Education met with the public Monday evening in Salomon 101.



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Squashed for court time, players complainBy SOPhIA lIsenior sTaFF WriTer

Though the new Aquatics Bubble is temporarily filling the Smith Swim Center’s role for swimmers, squash players who once used the center’s six squash courts find themselves without a substitute facility, leading to a crunch on playing space. Stuart LeGassick, head coach of the men’s and women’s squash teams, said the courts closed in the spring because of the swim center’s structural problems. There are five courts in the Pizzitola Center.

“There is excessive demand on the squash courts at Pizzitola at present,” LeGassick said.

Minoo Fadaifard ’08, co-captain of the women’s team, said the men’s and women’s teams can no longer practice at the same time because of the shortage of courts. She also said the women have “nowhere to warm up before matches” — the men’s team holds its matches before the women’s.

The shortage af fects recre-ational squash players as well. They cannot use the courts while the varsity teams train from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., which LeGassick called

the “peak time for potential recre-ational use.”

“It’s not that bad, but it’s kind of limiting,” said Larry Livornese ’11, who goes once or twice a week to play squash at Pizzitola.

“We’re actually going to play tonight at 7, but we’d really rather go during the day,” Livornese said Friday.

Steven Sloman, professor of

cognitive and linguistic sciences and a recreational squash player, said he knew many people who had purchased memberships to use the University’s athletic facilities in order to play squash but who were displeased by the lack of courts. Sloman called the squash courts “an important recruiting tool for

Grad student helps inmates give children holiday giftsBy BRIAN MASTROIANNIsenior sTaFF WriTer

Four years agoCourtney Colton, currently a planning coordinator for the Clinical and Translational Science Awards, was researching well-documented health care is-sues that af fect prison inmates, such as infectious disease. But she stumbled upon something that no one had paid attention to before.

Two years ago, Colton began asking inmates to find out what their children wanted for the holi-days. She then began contacting their relatives and friends, asking them to buy gifts the parents and their children had put on a wish list. Finally, Colton brought the gifts to the inmates, who could then wrap them and give them to their children. Calling her program “Holidays Not Forgotten,” Colton helped distribute gifts to 50 chil-dren that year. This past holiday season, she helped inmates give more than 300 gifts to 85 children in Rhode Island.

“I realized that many inmates have children who may not always receive gifts from their fathers dur-ing the holidays,” Colton said. “So this way, we are able to help fathers and mothers brighten the holidays for their children.”

On Friday, Colton was hon-ored for her work with the annual Friends of the Corrections Depart-ment Award at a ceremony held by the Rhode Island Department of Corrections at Eleanor Slater Hospital in Cranston.

In a letter to Colton, Ashbel Wall, the director of the correc-tions department, wrote, “You ob-viously recognize the importance of ensuring that a positive relation-ship between parent and child is maintained during the parent’s incarceration and the challenges that entails.”

“Thousands of children in our state face the stresses associated with having an incarcerated mother or father, or, in some cases, both,” he added.

Colton’s clients are women and men incarcerated in minimum- and medium-security facilities at the Pastore Government Center Com-

plex in Cranston. When she started the program, she decided to take advantage of the facility’s Prison Parenting program — which allows inmates to visit with their children for two hours every Saturday — to organize Holidays Not Forgotten.

“During those visits, wish lists were made,” Colton said.

Colton said she plays a very ac-tive role in the organization of the program, but she emphasized that the children’s gifts are from the inmates, not from her.

“All of us involved do play a di-rect role,” she said, referring to the relatives and friends she asks to buy the gifts, “but we want the children to feel that the presents are from their parents.”

“This is really an important moment for the inmates and for their kids who do not get to see their moms and dads everyday,” she added.

The award, she said, is “an in-credible honor” and “completely unexpected.”

Colton was nominated by Mi-chael Poshkus, clinical assistant professor of medicine. He met Colton four years ago, Poshkus said, when she was working on the Infectious Disease in Corrections Report, an ongoing study of prison health issues which was affiliated with Brown at the time, though Poshkus said Brown is no longer involved with the report.

“I nominated her because I was really impressed that she continued on with the program in its second year and did not seek recognition,” he said.

For Poshkus, Colton’s program is something that will have a last-ing impact upon inmates and their children.

“I think that the program is uniting incarcerated people with their children and helping them maintain relationships with their kids that will last throughout the rest of their lives,” Poshkus said, adding that he is confident that the program will continue to suc-ceed.

“She’s a friend of (the Depart-ment of) Corrections and embodies everything that the award stands for,” he said.

Re: E-mails will welcome students to U.By ChRISTIAN MARTEllsTaFF WriTer

In an effort to personalize a stu-dent’s welcome to Brown, the Admission Office will ask current students to send congratulatory e-mails to admitted students.

“There’s good evidence that our current students have an enormous effect on wooing kids to come here,” said Elisha Anderson ’98, associate director of admission, “so this is a way of tapping into that potential.”

The Admitted Student Email Initiative was proposed by Michael Dempsey ’79, chair of the Brown Alumni Schools Committee in Region 2, which comprises West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Wash-ington, D.C., North Carolina and South Carolina.

Last year, alums in the region contacted admitted students who shared the same academic or ca-reer interests.

“The initiative got positive feed-back last year and will continue this spring,” Anderson said, adding that other Ivy League schools have started similar programs.

The success of the alumni out-reach program encouraged Brown to start a student outreach program, Anderson said. He added that such a program isn’t unprecedented — Wellesley’s admissions office used to have current students hand-write congratulatory letters to admitted students.

Anderson, the liaison between the Bruin Club and Admission Of-fice, will primarily manage the ini-tiative. He began recruiting volun-

teers for its pilot year by attending two Bruin Club meetings last week. He asked those interested in the program to fill out an application detailing their hometowns, extra-curricular activities at Brown and in high school, possible careers and ethnicity.

“It’s not clear yet if we will be able to recruit enough students to reach out to the entire admitted student population,” Anderson said, “but we’re going to try and get as many quality people as we can.”

Anderson estimated that it would take around 400 volunteers e-mailing four to five students to reach out to all the accepted stu-dents in the regular admission pool. Students accepted via early decision will not receive such e-mails.

“It’s a great idea to initiate if you target students that can’t visit, but if it’s everyone then it’s ridiculous,” said Marco Martinez ’08, a minority recruitment intern for the admis-sion office. “That’s just too many letters to write.”

But Martinez, who will not participate in the program, said he thinks it’s a “nice gesture,” and would have “felt honored” to re-ceive a personalized congratulatory e-mail, especially if he had not vis-ited the school prior to enrolling.

Anderson said students will be matched by region or interests in the hope of providing admitted students with evidence of how “people like themselves have come to Brown and have had a good ex-

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Courtney Colton GS launched the “Holidays Not Forgotten” program, which helps Rhode Island inmates give holiday gifts to their children.

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With the Smith Swim Center closed down, the university’s number of squash courts has been cut in half.

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perience.”The e-mails will not follow any

sort of pre-approved template, though volunteers will be able to read past e-mails sent to admitted students.

“The content (of the e-mail) would not have been as important as the overall tone,” said Adam Kroll ’09, vice president of the Bruin Club.

So far, there has been little dis-cussion over whether the Bruin Club will eventually take over the recruit-ment and running of this initiative, but Kroll said it is a possibility.

E-mails will woo students


students and faculty” and “im-portant community-builders.”

Yousaf Ali, a clinical assistant professor of medicine at Alp-ert Medical School who plays squash with Sloman, said, “It’s pretty much a big disgrace.”

He pointed out that Ports-mouth Abbey School, a boarding and day school in Portsmouth, has eight state-of-the-art squash courts. “They’re really amazing,” he said, expressing his surprise that a high school has “better fa-cilities than a college, especially an Ivy League.”

Fadaifard said Brown’s squash facilities suf fered in comparison to its rivals’. “Most schools (that we play) have 10 to 15 courts,” she said.

The court shortage also crip-ples Brown’s squash community in other ways. LeGassick said the intercollegiate individual championships require a mini-mum of 10 courts — as a result, Brown is now ineligible to hold them.

Director of Athletics Michael Goldberger said the issue would be “one of the main agenda items” when the President’s Advisory Council on Athletics meets on April 25. Goldberger said an investigation of possible solutions would take place within the athletics department in the meantime and that no specific plans have been made yet.

Goldberger said money was clearly a concern in consider-ing building new squash courts. LeGassick said alumni donors provided about 90 percent of the $1.1 million needed to build the squash courts in the Smith Swim Center. He said there were in-dividual donations of $100,000, and at least one or two alums contributed even more.

Goldberger said the overall needs of the University would be taken into account — for ex-ample, six recreational tennis courts on Lloyd Avenue were paved over to become a parking lot and the field hockey field cur-rently is not regulation size.

LeGassick also acknowledged the athletic department’s other concerns, like the difference in the situations of the squash and swim teams.

“There was absolutely no way to swim on campus,” he said. But LeGassick said he hoped for 10 additional courts to give recreational squash enthusiasts more playing time.

Because the Smith Swim Center was not open all the time, Goldberger estimated that the current availability of the Pizzi-tola’s courts for recreational use is actually “equivalent to what it was previously in Smith.”

But he said “a stand-alone squash facility would be ideal” and even called it “feasible.”

Luiz Valente, associate pro-fessor of Portuguese and Bra-zilian studies, started playing squash in graduate school and has been playing for more than 30 years. He called squash “a big recreational sport.”

“They all try to make the fa-cilities available to everyone,” Valente said, “but if they have bad facilities, then there’s noth-ing they can do.”

Players squashed for time


“The whole thing with the tribal conflict is very surprising for me. ... I always knew there was this kind of undercurrent but I never knew that it would inflate this badly,” Nene said. “It’s just really disappointing because when I lived there everything was pretty stable.”

Nene said that he worries about the repercussions from the crisis on Kenya’s economy and said he be-lieves the elections were rigged.

“I think that another set of elec-tions would be the best option,” he said.

Nene said that his parents’ plans to move back to Kenya have now been put on hold, but he hopes to be able to visit his extended family there this summer.

Bernard Onyango GS, a sociology student from western Kenya, also said he hopes the “very volatile” situ-ation will stabilize so that he will be able to return home this summer.

Onyango, who worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Kenya Medical Research Institute prior to coming to Brown, said he believes the crisis has more to do with socioeconomic issues than racial and ethnic ten-sions.

Onyango’s family, living in Kisumu, is safe, but he said the lives of people in urban areas are greatly affected by the conflict, although much of the violence is happening in poor and rural communities.

“There have been problems. Lives have been disrupted,” he said. “People have been trying to go back to work but almost on a daily basis skirmishes have erupted, and they’ve been forced to go back home. ... It’s really sad.”

Onyango said he feels that both parties are at fault for prolonging the crisis. “We feel they are taking too long to come to an agreement. ... They take all this time, and the situa-tion really gets worse,” he said.

The crisis is also affecting those Brown students who have studied and worked in Kenya in the past.

Melgar traveled to Kenya last spring through the School for In-ternational Training Study Abroad program and said that the organiza-

tion will likely cancel this year’s trip because of the crisis.

Melgar said her group from last year has been sending e-mails to update one another on the status of their host families and contacts in Kenya.

“The situation is very real,” Mel-gar said. “These are people that we’ve known.”

Melgar also said she is disap-pointed by the lack of coverage from American news sources and believes the situation is worsening.

At Brown, Alena Davidoff-Gore ’10 has started a student group to work in conjunction with a communi-ty-based organization in Kisumu that is now being affected by the tribal violence.

Davidoff-Gore worked in Kisumu over the summer on an Undergradu-ate Teaching and Research Award and became involved with KIACOB, the Kaloleni Integrated Anti-AIDS Community Based Organization. The grass-roots organization pro-

vides children in the slum of Kaloleni health information and recreational soccer programs.

Last fall, Davidoff-Gore started Brown for KIACOB, which has been collecting soccer equipment to send to the organization. She said she hopes Brown for KIACOB will soon start programs to raise awareness about Kenya in Providence elemen-tary schools as well.

Davidoff-Gore said KIACOB has been particularly affected by the vio-lence in Kisumu. Its headquarters were recently looted and most of their soccer equipment and comput-ers were stolen.

Davidoff-Gore had planned to return to Kisumu this summer in hopes of assisting in the development of the organization but canceled her trip after the elections.

“It’s really quite sad, because Ke-nya has been a pretty stable country, and its really sad when people re-sort to violence when there could be peaceful change,” she said.

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dita Smith and M.K. Cannisra / Washington Posttribe in Kenya is a matter of culture and tradition, a designation that defines social networks and political power and at times serves as the foundation for stereotypes used by politicians to manipulate and divide the electorate.

Suicide bombing in Israel first in a yearBy RIChARd BOUdREAUxLos angeLes TiMes

JERUSALEM — A Palestinian blew himself up Monday in a desert town near Israel’s nuclear reactor, killing a woman and wounding 10 other people in the first suicide attack in Israel in just over a year.

Police prevented a second blast at the same strip mall in Dimona by fatally shooting another attacker as he reached for his explosives-laden belt.

The violence was the latest to sour the climate for U.S.-backed peace talks since they were revived in December after a seven-year hia-tus. It followed stepped-up Israeli army raids against rocket-firing

militants in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, the tightening of an Israeli blockade there and Hamas’ demoli-tion of a border wall that allowed hundreds of thousands of Gazans to pour into Egypt for 11 days.

Speaking in parliament after the blast, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel would continue peace talks with the Fatah-led Pal-estinian Authority and strike hard against militants trying to derail them.

“This war will continue,” he said. “Terrorism will be hit. We will not relent.”

Israeli officials said the reac-tor was not the target of Monday’s bombing, which occurred about six miles away. The reactor is sur-

rounded by a tall barbed-wire fence on a road closed to the public.

Conflicting claims of responsi-bility left it unclear who sent the assailants and where they came from.

Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, an outlawed militia loosely affiliated with legal Fatah movement of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, said the two men entered Israel after crossing from Gaza to Egypt through the breached border.

The militia identified them as Luay Aghawani, 22, and Musa Ara-fat, 24, and released a videotape of the two Gaza men reading farewell

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By JOhANNA NEUMAN ANd SEEMA MEhTALos angeLes TiMes

Move over Super Bowl. Now it’s all about Super Tuesday.

In the countdown to the biggest primary day in American electoral history, candidates and their sur-rogates raced across the country Monday like athletes in the last quarter of a pivotal game. With 24 states holding primaries or cau-cuses Tuesday, the airwaves and Web sites were filled with specula-tion as presidential hopefuls and their supporters rallied crowds in last-minute appeals from the Mead-owlands in East Rutherford, N.J., to the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif.

On the Republican side, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, ahead in the polls but distrusted by conservatives for his record on immigration, taxes and campaign finance reform, defended his GOP credentials even as he touted his electability.

“As president of the United States, I will preserve my proud conservative Republican creden-tials, but I will reach across the

aisle and work together for the good of this country,” he said while campaigning at Boston’s famed Fa-neuil Hall.

At the landmark Pancake Pantry in Nashville, Tenn., meanwhile, a hoarse-voiced Mitt Romney, for-mer governor of Massachusetts, told dozens of supporters that he is the lone candidate to speak for conservatives.

“Do you want a nominee who voted against the Bush tax cuts?” Romney asked dozens of diners eating fluffy buttermilk pancakes and sipping coffee at the diner near Vanderbilt University.

They answered, “Nooo!”“Do you want to have a nominee

who represents the conservative principles and keeps us inside the house that Ronald Reagan built?” he asked.

The crowd cheered.Romney will need their cheers

as he plows through a day with stops in Nashville, Atlanta, Okla-homa City and Long Beach, Ca-lif., before taking a red-eye flight to Charleston so he can address West Virginia delegates Tuesday morning.

In third place in the polls and

lagging in media attention, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee also stumped in Tennessee, wrapping himself in the mantle of the “un-derdog” New York Giants, who bested the undefeated New Eng-land Patriots in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s Super Bowl.

“Everybody had already put up their World Champion Patriot posters, and gosh, it didn’t quite work out like that,” Huckabee said on “Fox & Friends.” “I think this election is more fluid than people think.”

For the Democrats, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois spoke at a rally at the Meadowlands in New Jersey, with Sen. Edward Kennedy of Mas-sachusetts and Caroline Kennedy, daughter of former President Ken-nedy, at his side.

Referring to Sen. Kennedy, Obama said: “I have said repeatedly that I want to bring us together, (but) to bring a Patriots fan to the Meadowlands the day after the Su-per Bowl is like bringing the lion and lamb together.”

Welcoming the support of actor Robert De Niro and former New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley, Obama said he looked forward to a gen-

eral election campaign against McCain.

“This is a choice between the past and the future,” he said, “and if I’m running against Sen. McCain I want ... to go forward, not back-ward.”

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, taking a break from daytime campaigning, prepared for an appearance on CBS’ “Late Show with David Letterman” and a one-hour interactive town-hall meeting Monday evening to be shown on the Hallmark Channel.

Speaking Monday at the Yale Child Study Center, where she worked as a law student, Clinton nearly lost her voice, showing the strain of campaigning. During the event, she was hit by a coughing jag that went on for several minutes. Her eyes began to water. She asked for a lozenge but never quite recov-ered, her voice remaining scratchy throughout.

“I feel OK; my voice decided to go AWOL on me,” she recently told reporters aboard her campaign plane. “We’ve been trying all kinds of remedies.”

Meanwhile, the spouses of the Democratic front-runners were on

the run — and making news.Former President Clinton,

stumping all over California on Monday, countered a statement by Obama that voting for Hillary Clinton would return the country to the 1990s.

“Compared to this decade, that one looked pretty good,” Clinton told a crowd at Santa Ana College in Orange County. “But that’s not true. She doesn’t want to go back to the ‘90s. She wants to get you back on your feet so we can go forward.”

With polls showing Obama clos-ing on Hillary Clinton’s once formi-dable lead in California, Bill Clin-ton asked what many people were wondering of the state’s pivotal role Tuesday: “Will California stick with her as you always have?”

The crowd roared.Michelle Obama, stumping in

Arizona while her husband is on the East Coast, was asked if she would work for Hillary Clinton if the senator won the Democratic nomination.

“I have to think about that,” she said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Monday. “I’d have to think about her policies, her approach, her tone.”

Candidates race across country in last attempts before polls open


try: skydiving. “It was a spectacular experience

and I absolutely loved it,” she said. “I would do it again in a heartbeat.” She now flies small planes in her free time.

But her friends say Lescinski’s fearlessness should not be con-strued as recklessness. “I don’t think (Lescinski’s pastimes) are necessarily, ‘I have a death wish,’ ” Kosowsky said. She said Lescin-ski is simply not afraid to try new things, recalling that she once rode a donkey to the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

“If there’s something of fascina-tion or interest,” Kosowsky said, “she’s going to give it a shot.”

Though passionate about her adventurous hobbies, Lescinski emphasized that academia is her true calling. At Brown, she wrote her dissertation on Jane Austen and Henry James, earning her Ph.D. in English literature. “I loved my years there,” she said. “I think the seriousness with which people take scholarship and research really im-pressed me and was a model for me in my own work.”

“A really good teacher helps people to discover what they al-ready have inside of themselves,” she said. Lescinski recalled how her professors at Brown pushed her past her comfort zone, a lesson she still uses in her own teaching.

“When you’re around her there’s this kind of energy in the room,” said Christine Bahr, interim vice president for academic affairs at St.

Mary-of-the-Woods College.Katherine Hanley, the associ-

ate dean of St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry, called her “one of the best teachers I’ve ever met.” Hanley was one of the first to encourage Lescinski to enter the field of higher education.

In addition to holding high-level administrative positions at several colleges, Lescinski has taught Eng-lish since 1974. “I really resisted going into the presidency (at St. Mary-of-the-Woods),” she said, “be-cause I was sure it would forever take me out of the classroom.”

After repeated urging by her col-leagues, she finally applied for the position on the condition that she continued to teach — a request she was sure the college would refuse. “I thought, ‘I’d apply, I won’t get it and that would quiet everybody down and I could go on with my business,’ ” she recalled.

She was wrong. In 1998, Lescin-ski began her nine-year presidency at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, during which she continued to teach. “In the beginning it kind of scared the daylights of me,” she said, “as I think it would any normal person.”

Lescinki’s colleagues praised her for injecting energy into the community, encouraging discussion and balancing the budget — the most daunting task, they said.

But how does running a college compare to free-falling 8,000 feet?

Lescinski laughed. “I think be-ing a college or university president certainly does require some dar-ing,” she said.

In her free time, this college president and nun skydives

continued from page 1 messages. Relatives in Gaza said that both men had left for Egypt last week.

Aghawani, a member of the al-Aqsa group, said on video that he intended to die to protest Israel’s blockade of Gaza and “restore dig-nity to the Palestinian people.” Ara-fat was identified as a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is affiliated with neither Fatah nor Hamas.

News of Al-Aqsa’s claim rein-forced Israelis’ fears that large num-bers of Gaza militants had passed through the border breach, which was closed Sunday, and possibly entered Israel over its long, porous frontier with Egypt’s Sinai region. Dimona, a working-class town of 35,000 people, is about 35 miles from that border.

Abu Fouad, a spokesman for the militia, said it had more militants inside Israel ready to strike.

Hours later, however, Reuters quoted an unnamed official of Hamas’ armed wing as saying that it had carried out Monday’s bombing and that the attackers had reached Dimona from the West Bank city of Hebron, not from the Gaza Strip.

An Israeli army spokesman said security officials were investigating both claims.

Israel’s Channel 10 television cast doubt on al-Aqsa’s account by showing video of the second Dimo-na assailant before he was shot and observing that he appeared larger and older than the two Gazans in the farewell video.

Hamas’ official spokesman, Ay-man Taha, declined to comment on the Reuters report but praised the bombing as a “glorious act.”

If Hamas in fact was responsi-ble, it would be the heavily armed group’s first known suicide attack inside Israel since 2004 and would signal a major escalation of the con-flict.

Hamas, which advocates Israel’s destruction, has taken control of Gaza from Abbas’ movement and allowed the territory to be used as a launchpad for near-daily rocket attacks against Israeli communi-ties.

Whoever carried it out, Mon-day’s attack reinforced doubts about Abbas’ capacity to silence militants’ weapons as he negotiates with Israel over the borders of a future Palestinian state, the status of refugees and a possible division

of JerusalemAbbas condemned the bombing,

and al-Aqsa’s West Bank leaders denied any involvement. But the videotape issued in Gaza indicated that his followers were splintered and beyond his control.

Monday’s blast sprayed ball bearings from the bomber’s belt and pieces of his body in all direc-tions. Clothing from a shattered store flew onto the sidewalk as bloodied pedestrians scattered.

The bomber’s severed head came to rest near his companion, who was felled by the blast.

Baruch Mandelzweig, an Israeli doctor, ventured from a nearby clinic with his nurses and saw the man bleeding from the head. As he opened the wounded man’s shirt, “we saw an explosive belt,” the doc-tor later told Channel 10. “We ran away.”

When police officer Kobi Mor reached the scene minutes later, the bomber was lying on the side-walk and reaching for his belt, he told Channel 10. “I fired, and his hand fell,” he said. “Two and a half minutes later, he lifted his hand again, again toward the belt, and I knelt down and fired four bullets to the center of his head.”


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Kennedys, DeNiro got no problem with ObamaBy lETTA TAylERneWsday

BOSTON — Zig-zagging the Northeast with Ted and Caroline Kennedy, Barack Obama por-trayed himself Monday as a mor-

ally superior underdog battling a flip-flopping, establishment rival as polls showed him closing the gap with Hillary Rodham Clinton in Tuesday’s Super Tuesday vote.

Aided by an all-star cast in-cluding actor Robert DeNiro, the Illinois senator hammered at Clinton’s initial vote to authorize the war in Iraq and accused her of sluggishness in denouncing the use of torture against detained terrorist suspects.

In contrast, Obama said, his unwavering opposition to the war and other Bush administration initiatives made him the candi-date who could defeat GOP front-runner John McCain in a general election.

“We hear the argument that Senator Clinton is ready on Day One,” Obama said in a rousing midday speech at Izod Arena in the Meadowlands sports complex in East Rutherford, N.J. But, he added to wild cheers, “You don’t want to be ready on Day One. You want to be right on Day One.”

DeNiro, whose surprise ap-pearance at the Meadowlands drew squeals from the surpris-ingly small crowd of 2,500 — a turnout bested eightfold at a later rally in Hartford, Conn. — took a similar jab at Clinton.

“If this election were to be de-cided just on the basis of experi-ence, then Dick Cheney would be our next president,” the ac-tor quipped with his trademark smirk.

Despite polls showing the Democratic rivals in a statistical tie nationwide, and turnouts of up

to 20,000 at several recent Obama rallies, Obama played down any expectation he would trounce the New York senator, particularly in prize states such as New York and California.

“I have no doubt that Senator Clinton is the favorite going into Super Tuesday,” Obama told Katie Couric on CBS Evening News, noting Clinton was ahead 30 points a couple of weeks ago in states including California and New Jersey. But, he added, “we think we’re going to get our share of delegates and our share of state victories.”

Obama hopes to come within 100 delegates of Clinton in Tues-day’s voting, in which 1,681 del-egates are up for grabs, said cam-paign manager David Plouffe.

Before ending the day in the Kennedy stronghold of Boston, Obama basked in celebrity glow. In Hartford, Caroline Kennedy said he can “make magic” as she compared him to her slain father, President Kennedy. Actors Scar-lett Johansson and Forest Whita-ker stumped for him in Minnesota and Colorado, respectively. Come-dian Chris Rock lent his voice to campaign robocalls.

Between stern rebukes of the “politics of the past” and rousing appeals for voters to unite with him to “change the world,” Obama permitted himself a bit of levity. “I may be skinny but I’m tough,” the wiry candidate quipped in countering Clinton’s insinuations that he is just a dreamer. “And in Chicago, we know how to play politics.”

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to three with a free throw. About a minute later, the game

was tied at 45. With under 30 sec-onds left, Lee was whistled for an offensive charge and the Lions took possession. Columbia set up its offense and with two seconds left drove to the basket, drawing a foul and providing the team a chance to win the game in regulation. Upon review, time had run out, negating the foul call and sending the game into overtime.

Brown scored the first basket in overtime but after some turnovers, Columbia took the lead for good.

“We had a couple of bad turn-overs at bad times,” Williams said.

After losing their initial lead, the closest the Bears came was within one after a free throw by O’Neal. The final score was 56-52.

The Bears are looking ahead to their next Ivy League matchups this weekend against Dartmouth and Harvard, both of which are away.

matches went to the maximum five games, with a sensational display of stamina from Breck Haynes ’09 during her close loss at No. 4, pro-pelling the rest of the team forward. All of the matches proved incred-ibly close, with Sophie Scherl ’11 emerging victorious from a nail-biting fifth game at 10-9.

The last match of the day came from Kali Schellenberg ’10 with the teams tied at four matches each. Schellenberg performed spectacu-larly under pressure, pulling out a 9-6 victory in the fifth match.

“The match was more tough mentally than physically,” Schel-lenberg said. “My opponent was a real fighter.”

LeGassick emerged from the encounter brimming with pride for his team.

“This was an amazing match,” he said. “Probably the closest match I’ve seen in 18 years.”

Without much rest, the women’s

team went on to face No. 7 Dart-mouth on Saturday afternoon.

“We’re all obviously pretty tired from last night’s match,” Schellen-berg said before the match. “But this is our last big one before the Howe Cup, so we’re putting it all out there.”

Her statements were validated by another brilliant performance from the whole team, with Scherl again toughing it out to win in five. Teammates Sarah Roberts ’10 and Schellenberg also stood out in their personal victories, yet it was Char-lotte Steel ’09 who excelled in the match, pulling out a straight game win at No. 3, winning 9-4, 9-3, 9-5. Despite displays of determination from the rest of the Bears, particu-larly captain Minoo Fadaifard ’08, the team eventually succumbed to Dartmouth in their third 5-4 match in a week.

Both the men’s and women’s teams face Tufts at 6:30 p.m. to-morrow at Belmont Hill School in Massachusetts.

lead. The Crimson doubled their lead less than four minutes later and never looked back.

After getting a tally in the sec-ond period and the first power-play goal of the game at 4:03 in the third, Harvard held an insur-mountable 4-0 lead. But then the Bears came alive and challenged the Crimson down the stretch to finish strong, giving the team something to build on. Brown outshot Har vard 14-11 in the third period, but did particularly well in the last five minutes, cul-minating in a goal with 1:20 left. Rylee Olewinski ’08 collected the rebound on the right side after a shot by Hayley Moore ’08 and found the back of the net. Savan-nah Smith ’09 also earned an as-sist on the play.

“It was a good effort by my linemates (Moore and Smith) on their forechecking,” Olewinski said. “It’s good that we ruined the shutout, but I wish that we could have taken that energy a little ear-lier in the game and gotten a few more (goals) in.”

Still, the strong finish gave en-couragement to the Bears about the possibility of upsetting Dart-mouth the next day.

“If we play like that for all three periods, it’s definitely going to help us out and we’ll come out on top,” Olewinski said on Friday.

But it wasn’t to be. Penalties, combined with Dartmouth’s effi-

ciency on power plays, killed the Bears. The teams were even at nine shots apiece in the first pe-riod, but it was the Big Green who struck first with a power-play goal at 7:36. Dartmouth beat Brown’s penalty kill for two more goals in the second period. In all, the Big Green converted three of their first four power-play opportuni-ties.

Once again, the Bears im-proved dramatically in the final period, killing both Big Green power plays and winning the pe-riod, 2-1. Moore scored her 10th goal of the season at 9:48 when she knocked in the rebound after a shot by Olewinski, who collided with a Dartmouth defender. Mag-gie Suprey ’11 also picked up an assist on the play.

“We started of f on a 3-on-2 (breakaway),” Moore said. “All three of us, me, Maggie and Rylee, were just going hard to the net. Rylee took a shot and I knew their goalie wasn’t in the net. I knew where the net was, but I couldn’t see where I was shooting in and I was hoping it would go in.”

But the Big Green crushed any thoughts of a rally by tacking on a goal at 12:28, five seconds after a Brown power play had ended, to take a 4-1 lead.

The Bears finished strong as Erica Kromm ’11 scored her third goal of the season on a power play with 2:42 left. Jenny Cedorchuk ’10 and Andrea Hunter ’10 picked

up assists on the play, but Kromm said that Olewinski’s role was cru-cial even though she didn’t pick up a point.

“Basically, I just shot from the point and Rylee did an awe-some job of screening the goalie,” Kromm said. “I thought she tipped it in.”

Though the losses hurt, Mur-phy said the Bears’ ability to rally shows what the team is capable of.

“The fact that our kids con-tinue to fight through difficult situations says that we really have an upside that is a force to be reckoned with,” she said.

The Bears will try to harness that upside this weekend in two crucial home games. Brown will host Quinnipiac (1-12-3 ECAC) on Friday at 7 p.m. and Princeton (9-6-1 ECAC) on Saturday at 4 p.m. With only six games remaining, the Bears need wins, but Murphy said the remainder of the season means more than that.

“I told the kids that the next six games are hugely important for their character and for their commitment to the program,” she said. “We have to commit to excel-lence. … Whether you win the last six games of the season and put yourself into the playoffs or you don’t, if you commit to it, it doesn’t even matter what the record is. You committed to something, and that’s a positive lesson that you’ve learned about yourselves. That’s why you play sports.”

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In an editorial Monday (“A spark from South Ameri-ca,” Feb. 4) The Herald lends its support to the potential appearance of Hugo Chavez on campus, drawing a distinction between Chavez’s “brusque ... political dis-course” and the violent radicalism of Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Just last month, Chavez paved the way for the Co-lumbian para-military organization FARC to become a recognized political party in Venezuela, urging other countries to remove FARC from their terrorist lists. In so doing, Chavez has lent his support to an organization that pursues its stated mission of overthrowing the Co-lumbian government through arms and drug trafficking,

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ate attempt to turn attention from the home front, where rampant inflation combined with his power-grabbing attempts have made him deeply unpopular. There is certainly educational merit in the introduction of un-orthodox and controversial views, but the University should think twice before offering a platform for political grandstanding to a repressive and desperate regime.

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With the housing lottery not too far away, some students are starting to form their groups and begin the first bits of nervous wrangling and awkward diplomacy that characterize much of the process. We’re not interested in using this space to claim that the lottery should be changed, though. Assigning several thousand people housing in two days is hec-tic, but a couple hours of chaos is a small price to pay for our system’s emphasis on students’ preferences and, more importantly, on equity.

No one is ever concerned that Brown’s small army of celebrities’ children will get better lottery numbers, or that those who are more active in dorm life will get preferential treatment, as at Northwestern University. Athlete, mathlete or video game aficionado, all enter the game with an equal opportunity at grabbing the best housing.

Unless you’re short on cash, that is.Most students are paying the $5,958 standard fee per year for housing,

but those in suites or apartment-style housing are shelling out $7,066 — an $1,108 difference. The price to live on campus should be the same for all students. If the University doesn’t allocate more money toward housing to accomodate this change, it would likely have to raise the rate for many students in the short term. In the long run, the University should funnel more money towards making housing available to all.

For sure, students living in Vartan Gregorian Quadrangle, Barbour and Young Orchard apartments and those nifty suites above Wriston houses enjoy swankier housing. But we’re not convinced that’s a good reason for the price difference. After all, some student groups have larger budgets than others — Brown Concert Agency, the College Hill Independent and the Brown Lecture Board operate on much larger budgets than Category I groups like the Brown Bridge Society and the Brown University Gun Club, which get no University funding. But students in a better-budgeted activity don’t have to pay a premium to join, and those in the Bridge Society still pay the flat student activities fee even though they won’t see a dime. That way, all students have an equal opportunity to participate in the school’s extracurricular life in the way they choose.

The same should be true for the school’s social and residential life. Under the two-tier system, students unwilling or unable to pay the extra costs can’t live with friends in higher-priced suites, enjoy their own kitch-ens or lounge in their own common rooms. With two different rates, one could imagine that, come lottery time, there will be students separated from friends not because of issues with space but because they’re on financial aid. Such an outcome should be unacceptable at Brown.

The Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, meets in February to approve a budget and fees for next year. We encourage the University Resources Council, President Ruth Simmons and the Corporation members to set a flat housing rate.

The writers’ strike has gone on long enough. For those of you lucky enough to be out of the loop, the Writers Guild of America has been striking against TV and movie produc-ers over a slice of the profits from DVD sales and so-called “new media,” which includes (among other things) TV and movies watched over the Internet. It’s a worthy cause, to be sure — with an increasingly large portion of viewers utilizing these new media outlets, the amount of money that writers receive continues to dwindle.

The unfortunate consequence of the strike, however, is that original scripted programming has fallen off of the TV schedule. Because the strike started in November, all the episodes of shows that had been written by that point have now been produced and aired. Since the strike has lasted until this late in the year, it is highly unlikely that new episodes of our favorite shows will make it back to the boob tube before next season. Don’t get me wrong. I love new replacement shows like “Ameri-can Gladiators” or “The Moment of Truth” as much as the next guy, and I still have my reality mainstays like “Survivor,” “Big Brother” and “The Biggest Loser” to tide me over. But enough is enough. I miss watching Liz Lemon run “TGS with Tracy Jordan,” and I need to know how the hell Tony came back from the dead to terrorize Jack Bauer. One of the sad-dest moments of my life came recently on a Thursday night — once the evening most packed with shows for me to watch — when I was left with nothing to do but sit and read my physics book. Ouch.

Concurrent with the writers’ strike, our

country is in the midst of a highly contested election. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been flinging the explosive race and gen-der cards around so frequently that one might swear they were fighting to figure out who will play Gambit in the next X-Men sequel, and the simmering hatred for Mitt Romney on the Republican side promises to boil over as Super Tuesday descends upon us. Unfortunately,

all this potential for entertainment is wasted, as political news tends to be too boring and high-brow for the average American. What our country really needs is a single resolution to both of our problems: We need a way to bring political drama to the masses, all while finally putting something good back on TV.

Fortunately, I have a solution. “Dateline

NBC Presents: To Catch a President.”Lord knows everyone loves public humilia-

tion, and “To Catch a Predator” delivers. Date-line’s recurring segment features would-be pedophiles lured to a suburban house with the promise of steamy underage goings-on only to be greeted instead by camera crews, a smarmy Chris Hansen and the local police. The only way to improve upon this tried-and-true

formula is to add politicians to the mix.Given the fact that he’s far younger than

anyone else on the campaign trail, Obama would do nicely as our show’s jailbait. Just imagine: Hillary enters the premises with a nervous swagger as Barack offers her some lemonade and coyly tells her that he’s going to go change into his swimsuit. As Hillary sits

quietly sipping her beverage, Chris Hansen walks out from behind a screen. Hillary’s eyes widen. Her smile disappears. Beads of sweat grow on her brow as Hansen probes her with his piercing gaze, asking questions in a smugly self-satisfied tone. “Are you im2sexy4mypant-suit? When asked for your age, sex, and loca-tion, did you type ‘60/F/(D-NY)?’ Did you send our decoy this picture of your penis?” She backs slowly out the door, only to be tackled by waiting law enforcement officers. The kicker, of course, is that as a newly-minted felon, she won’t even be able to vote for herself.

The possibilities are endless. John McCain, Fred Thompson and Dennis Kucinich all have hot younger wives, so they’re certainly liable to chase after the unripe set. The Mormon Mitt Romney would definitely be open to adding a newer, budding wife to his clan. As a former minister, Mike Huckabee is bound to have a few gross skeletons in his closet. Best of all, gadfly candidates Mike Gravel and Alan Keyes would do pretty much anything as long as it got their names on TV for a change.

Sure, my proposal is a little unrealistic. When a candidate admits that their biggest weakness is loving America too much, it might be a bit of a stretch to get them to seduce a minor on public television. In the end, though, moral turpitude has been a staple of the cam-paign trail since time immemorial, and it can’t do any more harm in the public eye than it can stuffed into the background. I’m sure that bringing political perversion to prime time can only improve my Thursday night, finally giving me something to watch as I sit in my swimsuit and sip lemonade.

Seriously, Officer, Adam Cambier ’09 only wanted to show her how dangerous the

Internet can be.

If I’ve learned one thing during the 2008 presi-dential primary season, it’s this: journalists love comparing elections to other stuff.

On South Carolina’s primary night, for example, “Hardball” host Chris Matthews compared the Democratic primary to “Law-rence of Arabia,” the 1962 movie starring Peter O’Toole. (If you’re curious, Obama was a modern-day Lawrence, crossing the Nefu desert to strike the town of Aqaba (Clinton) from behind.) A few days later, another film bubbled up in Gail Collins’ New York Times column: “After a while,” she wrote of Rudy Giuliani’s Florida campaign, “it began to take on the eerie quality of ‘The Shining’… the candidate sitting in a basement somewhere, writing ‘All work and no play makes Rudy a dull boy’ on the walls.”

In these pages, my peers were busy as-sembling analogies of their own. Tom Trudeau ’09 and Jacob Schuman ’08 compared the candidates to sports teams and American Gladiators, respectively. Jealous of all this trope mastery, I decided to dip my feet in the election-analogy pool.

The only problem: I have nothing to analo-gize about. I don’t watch many movies and I don’t really care about sports — the last time I watched an NBA game, the Hornets were from Charlotte, and I think Michael Jordan was a baseball player. Desperate for compari-sons, I had an idea. What if I outsourced my primary-race analogies? What would happen if I went to Wikipedia, clicked on “Random Article,” and tried to weave the 2008 primary into whatever popped up, no matter how un-related? That way, the object of comparison would be determined for me, and I could just

connect the logical dots. I went to Wikipedia and hit the button.

“Fuel element failure: a rupture in a nuclear reactor’s fuel cladding that allows the nuclear fuel or fission products in the form of dis-solved radioisotopes or hot particles to enter the reactor coolant or storage water.”

Hmm. I had hoped for an entry that would make for easy analogies, like “Greco-Persian War,” or “Contests involving Mormons, geri-atric war heroes and men who say the word ‘hope’ a lot.”

But a promise is a promise. Okay, so a fuel element failure is when powerful radioactive materials, usually uranium dioxide, leak out of their enclosed casings and contaminate the rest of the reactor core. I’m not sure, but I think this is a bad thing. Maybe it’s like Bill Clinton’s failed stumping in South Carolina, when his verbal filter sprung a “leak,” and the anti-Obama rhetoric he spouted “contami-nated” his wife’s relatively anodyne campaign. It’s lame, but don’t say you’d be surprised to see it on “FOX and Friends.”

“This Time Around: a song written and

performed by the American pop/rock band Hanson.”

Oh boy. Hanson. The lyrics to “This Time Around” — an obscure single on Hanson’s 2000 album that appears to have been com-posed with a rhyming dictionary and a copy of “The Perks of Being A Wallflower” — begin with what seems like John McCain’s depressed inner monologue, circa six months ago. (“It’s getting colder in this ditch where I lie / I’m feeling older and I’m wondering why.”)

“Mirush (Blodsband): a Norwegian movie

from 2007 directed by Marius Holst. It tells the story og (sic) the Albanian boy Mirush who travels to Norway is (sic) search of his father.”

Finally, a film analogy I can use. Once I parsed the questionable English, “Mirush” (or, should I say, “Mittrushney?”) was a sparkling allegory for Mitt Romney’s relentless pursuit of the legacy of his father, former Michigan governor George Romney. And Michigan is sort of like Norway, right? Both are cold, anyway.

Okay, I’ll stop there. I did the Wikipedia

experiment in jest, but it proves a point: Ameri-can campaign journalism is a crock. Or at least a certain kind of campaign journalism. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for climbing aboard the Straight Talk Express and asking tough questions of the candidates. I don’t mind Florida’s primary night getting five hours of airtime and the breathless pre-game drama of a Tyson prizefight. But if they wanted to, CNN could fill that time with research on the major campaign donors and their con-nections to the candidates. You know, stuff that matters. Instead, we get Lawrence of Arabia. These meaningless political analo-gies serve no purpose aside from placating a swath of TV viewers. And that’s at its best. At its worst, the pressure to construct a nar-rative around the race can actually devalue grassroots activism. Why go beating on doors in Attleboro to canvass for Obama when Ted Kennedy could make a careless comment on MSNBC tomorrow and erase ten thousand votes when the narrative becomes “Barack turns negative?”

The problem with a fixation on “narrative” and “story” is that the coverage of the primary race has actually overwhelmed the race itself. We don’t need to know what McCain stands for, really, as long as Lou Dobbs tells us that he is a modern-day Sisyphus. The CNN/ABC/NBC/FOX meta-narrative has become the thing with real power.

Today, millions of Americans will pile into polling places to pull levers and poke at touch-screens. Wolf Blitzer will compare that simple, unadorned act to cellular mitosis, or the Eagles reunion tour, or the Triwizard Tournament in the fourth Harry Potter. And democracy will groan.

Kevin Roose ’09.5 is looking for a hot particle with a reactor core.

by KEVIN ROOSEopinions CoLuMnisT

To catch a president: bringing some perverted justice to the campaign

In which I compare John McCain to a Hanson song

What would happen if I went to

Wikipedia, clicked on “Random

Article,” and tried to weave the 2008

primary into whatever popped up, no

matter how unrelated?

What our country really needs is a single

resolution to both of our problems:

We need a way to bring political

drama to the masses, all while finally

putting something good back on tV…

Fortunately, I have a solution. “dateline

NbC Presents: to Catch a President.”

by AdAM CAMbIERopinions CoLuMnisT

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Squash loses tough matchesBy lARA SOUThERNConTribuTing WriTer

This weekend, the Brown squash team pulled out another spectacu-lar display of skill and determina-tion against two of its toughest opponents of the season. Despite some exceptional play from all members of the men’s team on Saturday, they were overcome 7-2 by No. 6 Dartmouth, dropping them to 2-8 on the season.The women’s team played two thrilling matches back to back, delivering a sensational 5-4 win against No. 6 Stanford on Friday and coming up just short against No. 7 Dartmouth, losing 4-5 on Saturday. This makes the team 7-6 on the season.

On the men’s side, neither team made an attempt to ease into the match, with both sides giving it their all from the start. No. 2 Adam Greenberg ’10 set the tone for the rest of the team, hitting hard and refusing to give up, even when he fell behind in the third game. Teammates Ross Harrow ’11, captain Ed Cerullo ’08 and Adrian Leanza ’11 also made for a riveting spectacle. De-spite this, the Dartmouth top four proved too tough to overcome, with Brown losing in three games, the minimum in squash, in all four matches.

But at the back end of the team, the matches were much closer, with the Bears spurred on by a tremendous performance from Evan Besser ’11, who beat his stunned opponent in three games, 9-4, 9-1, 9-1. Head Coach Stuart LeGassick praised No. 5

Besser, saying that Besser came into the match incredibly well and surprised his opponent, who he thought came in a little overcon-fident.

The second win of the match came from Patrick Davis ’10 in a tight five-game encounter at No. 7, with a final score of 9-5, 6-9, 9-10, 9-0, 9-4. Both players performed exceptionally well, pulling out a thrilling third game which remained neck and neck throughout. The deciding factor in the match could well have come from off-court, however, as Jacob Winkler ’09, returning from a se-mester abroad in the fall, proved to be an inspirational presence on the sidelines. The support of the team’s beloved number 11 did not go unnoticed as all play-ers made notable improvements upon his appearance courtside as he walked between matches. Yet even this was unable to prevent the 7-2 loss.

“Dartmouth is a great team,” Harrow said. “I think we all played really well. On a personal level, I felt I had one of my best matches of the year, but it’s always hard to win at No. 3. As a team we are able to win because we are deep and have consistent quality through-out the lineup.”

The women’s team faced an ex-tra challenge this weekend, facing two incredibly tough opponents in two days. Play against Stanford on Friday began at 7:45 p.m. and the match remained neck and neck until the ninth and final match, ending at 11:05 p.m. Four of the

W. hockey swept by ECAC titansBy ANdREW BRACAassisTanT spor Ts ediTor

Despite a pair of strong third pe-riods, the women’s hockey team was swept over the weekend by

Eastern Col-lege Athletic Conference titans No. 1 Harvard and Dar tmouth. Brown’s re-

cord fell to 3-16-4 (2-11-3 ECAC).The Bears opened the weekend

with a 4-1 loss to the Crimson, the nation’s top-ranked squad and own-ers of an unbeaten ECAC record, in a Friday matinee game at Mee-han Auditorium. But the following day’s 4-2 loss to the Big Green in Hanover, N.H., stung even more, because while the two teams were evenly matched at even strength, Dartmouth scored three power-play goals to storm to victory.

Head Coach Digit Murphy of-fered a simple prescription for what ails the Bears.

“If our team continues to take penalties, we will continue to lose hockey games,” she said. “Nicole Stock (’09) just cannot be (forced) to continue to make incredible saves to win hockey games. … It’s about discipline and we need to be a more disciplined team.”

On Friday, the Crimson con-trolled the action from the start, but took the lead only after making

a mistake. Harvard was whistled for a penalty while on a power play at 13:19 of the first period, but it was not Brown that took advantage of its new life in the four-on-four. Instead, the Crimson’s Kathryn Farni collected the puck deep in

her own end, split between defend-ers and skated all the way down the ice, deked to the right near the net and then slipped a shot between Stock’s legs to give Harvard the

W. basketball swept by Big Red and Big Apple teamBy WhITNEy ClARksporTs ediTor

The Brown women’s basketball team seems to have developed a trend. The team, now 1-17 overall

and 0-4 in the Ivy League, comes onto the court full of energy and intensity, of-ten taking the

lead early on or, at the very least, keeping its opponent easily within reach. But after losing momentum, it falls desperately behind, losing any chance of a recovery.

The Bears had a long weekend in New York, losing to Cornell on Friday, 70-37, and narrowly missing the chance to celebrate their first Ivy League win against Columbia on Saturday, losing in overtime, 56-52.

“We need to realize it’s not the end of the world when a team gets up on us by 10 points,” said captain Ann O’Neal ’08.

The Cornell game began like the others Brown has played this season. The Bears came out strong, keeping the game close for the first eight minutes. But Cornell (10-6 overall, 2-1 Ivy) seemed destined to win from the beginning, as the Big Red sunk shot after shot on their home court.

“Cornell’s shot seemed to be falling on what seemed to be every possession, which sparked their energy,” said forward Ashley Al-exander ’10. Alexander and Sadiea Williams ’11 led Brown in scoring in the first half, contributing 12 out

of the Bears’ 16 points. Williams also led the team in overall scoring with 10 points.

A 3-point shot from the Big Red’s Allie Fedorowicz initiated a 22-0 scoring run, leaving the Bears scoreless for more than eight min-utes in the first half. But with 2:31 left, guard Courtney Lee ’10 put in two points off a jumper, ending the scoring drought but not bringing the Bears much closer to catching up with Cornell. The half ended with the Big Red leading by 23 points, 39-16.

After halftime, Brown came out with renewed energy, and both for-ward Betsy Jacobson ’11 and guard Shae Fitzpatrick ’10 helped cut Cor-nell’s lead to 18 with a combined 12 points in the first eight minutes of the second half.

But after a Cornell 3-pointer, the Big Red sprung into action once again, this time going on a 11-4 run, bringing the score to 55-30 with 12 minutes left to play.

For the remainder of the game, Bruno scored only seven points and were shut out for the final 6:23 minutes of action. The final score was 70-37.

Despite its loss against Cornell, Brown didn’t let that determine its play against Columbia.

“Our team knew the things that we had to adjust from the game before,” Alexander said. “We came out hard right out the gate on both ends of the floor.”

The Bears’ scoring started with a 3-pointer from Fitzpatrick. The scoring went roughly back and forth between the teams, but Brown took a 28-18 lead at the break.

“With Columbia we had better outside shooting,” O’Neal said. She also attributed the dif ference in play to teammates who provided a spark off the bench.

But in the second half, the Lions brought the deficit down to five points only four minutes into play. The Bears struggled to keep their lead as Columbia took advantage

of turnovers off some offensive charges.

“Emotions were flaring,” Wil-liams said. “It was back and forth. We were at each other’s throats.”

With 2:30 remaining in the game, the Bears led by only two points, but Williams brought it up

Over the weekend, both the men’s and women’s fencing teams competed in the Ivy League Championship North at yale. While the men came away with two losses against No. 8 Princeton, 20-7, and yale, 18-9, the women brought home two wins against No. 10 Princeton, 16-11, and yale, 15-12. the women also tallied one loss against Cornell, 14-13. this is the first time since brown joined the Ivy League in the 2005-06 sea-son that one of the bears teams has earned a pair of wins.

Leading the way on the wom-an’s side was All-American Randy Alevi ’10, who went 8-1 for the day in the sabre, including 3-0 sweeps of the fencers from Princeton and yale. Also in the sabre, deborah Gorth ’09 and Aleksandra Mackie-wicz ’11 both contributed with tal-lies of 6-3 and 4-5 respectively.

In the foil, Kirsten Lynch ’10 and Francesca bartholomew ’11 carried the team, both going 7-2. In the epee squad, it was Christine Livoti ’08 who came away with the most wins, going 6-3 on the day.

the men’s foil squad came away with the best results, going 5-4 in both matches of the day. Adam Pantel ’10 went 4-2 for the day and Scott Phillips’11 followed close behind at 3-2. In both the sabre and the epee, Princeton and yale came out on top.

—Whitney Clark

W. fencers win while men struggle

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Rylee Olewinski ’08 scored her team-leading 10th goal in the bear’s game against dartmouth on Saturday.

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Sadiea Williams ’11 recorded her first double-double of the season with a team-high 11 points and 11 rebounds against Columbia on Saturday.

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