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Regional councils will guide U.’s international pursuits

The University will form regional advisory councils around the world to help Brown identify opportuni-ties, build visibility and raise funds to support its internationalization effort, senior University offi cials told The Herald.

Vice President for International Advancement Ronald Margolin said he has begun assembling the fi rst two councils — one that will focus specifi cally on China and another that will deal with Asia more gener-ally — both of which should be ac-tive by the end of 2007. The creation of a third council, which will focus specifi cally on India, should begin soon, he added, and will be able to begin its work by March 2008.

Some preliminary discussions have also taken place on an Africa council, and University offi cials are also considering creating councils for Europe, the Middle East, Latin America generally and Brazil spe-cifi cally, though there is no current timetable for the development of those councils, Margolin said.

The Offi ce of the President and

BY MICHAEL SKOCPOLSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Pulitzer-winner Maraniss shares Roberto Clemente’s mythology

Roberto Clemente’s life was one of graceful athleticism and per-sonal adversity. A black Puerto adversity. A black Puerto adversityRican, Clemente emerged from the cloud of racism that envel-oped the United States in the Jim Crow-era to become one of the greatest right fi elders in Major League Baseball history. Pulitzer League Baseball history. Pulitzer League Baseball historyPrize-winning journalist Davis Maraniss relayed the Pittsburgh Pirate’s inspiring story yesterday to a small but attentive crowd in Salomon 101.

Maraniss, associate editor of the Washington Post and author of “Clemente: The Passion and

Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero,” as well as a best-selling biogra-phy of former President Bill Clin-ton and an account of the Vietnam War, delivered the seventh-annual Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture in honor of Casey Shearer ’00, a promising writer and aspiring sports journalist who died days before he was to graduate from Brown.

The lecture — entitled “The Mythology of Sport” — followed the life and tragic death of Hall-of-Famer Roberto Clemente. Ma-raniss recounted Clemente’s en-trance into and graceful domina-tion of Major League Baseball

BY CHAZ FIRESTONESENIOR STAFF WRITER

Profs voice support for more undergrad science research funding

At a faculty forum Tuesday spon-sored by the Faculty Executive Committee, the Undergraduate Science Education Committee heard feedback from professors on its proposals for promoting under-graduate education in the fi elds of science, technology, engineering and math.

The 20-person committee con-sists of eight students and 12 fac-

ulty and administrators working in those areas, known as STEM fi elds. The event was intended as a venue for professors outside the committee to express their opin-ions about a draft of the commit-tee’s upcoming report, titled “Im-proving Undergraduate Education in the STEM Fields at Brown.” The forum, attended by about 30 pro-fessors, did not include voting or any formal motions.

A fi nal version of the commit-tee’s report will be released at

some point in May, said Karen Fischer, professor of geological sci-ences and chair of the committee.

The committee’s recommen-dations focus on the areas of cur-riculum, research opportunities, advising efforts, academic support and admission. Forum participants expressed particular concern over research opportunities for under-graduates.

A draft of the committee’s up-coming report recommends in-creasing “the number of Universi-

ty-funded undergraduate summer research positions by 50 per year, with a target total of 450 across all fi elds for the year 2012.” The rec-ommendation is contingent upon continued demand from students and suffi cient space to accommo-date them in research projects.

Associate Dean of the College and Dean for Science Programs David Targan ’78, a member of the committee, said professors

BY JAMES SHAPIROSENIOR STAFF WRITER

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Washington Post editor David Maraniss delivered the Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture Thursday night.

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The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance and other campus groups held a Take Back the Night event Tuesday night to protest rape as they marched through University buildings.

Glassman ’09 elected UCS president in squeaker

Michael Glassman ’09 was declared the winner of the run-off election for president of the Undergraduate Council of Students last night, de-feating Moses Riner ’08 by just 81 votes.

Glassman’s 746 votes — or 53 percent of the votes cast — were just enough to beat Riner’s 665 in the head-to-head showdown. The run-off was needed after none of the origi-nal three presidential candidates was able to win a majority in the fi rst vote, held last week.

Glassman, currently the UCS communications chair, fi nished slightly behind Riner on that ballot, slightly behind Riner on that ballot, slightlsaid Christina Kim ’07, the UCS elec-tions board chair. Stefan Smith ’09 was eliminated from the race after the fi rst vote.

Voting for the run-off election took place on MyCourses between 12 p.m. Monday and 5 p.m. Tuesday.

In the other run-off ballot, Jona-than Natkins ’08 was declared the winner of the race for Undergradu-ate Finance Board vice chair with 570 votes, or 51 percent. Natkins and Don Trella ’08, a Herald Opinions Columnist, were forced into a run-off despite being the only two can-didates for the position because nei-ther received a majority in the fi rst vote, due mainly to write-in votes.

The results of the two run-off elections were announced just af-ter 10 p.m. Tuesday on the steps of Faunce House. Glassman, Riner and members of the elections board were joined by several other UCS members as well as friends of the candidates.

As he received congratulations from senior members of UCS, Glass-man told The Herald he was “excit-ed” about his election.

“I guess I’ve got my work cut out for me,” he said.

Glassman’s election as UCS pres-ident marks the end of a closely watched race that briefl y attracted controversy when a candidate who had run on a platform of “dissolving” UCS if elected was disqualifi ed. Eric Mukherjee ’09 was taken off the bal-lot by the elections board just hours before voting began for failing to at-tend two required meetings.

Mukherjee was initially unaware that he was a candidate for presi-dent, The Herald reported Thurs-day. His campaign was spearheaded by friends without his knowledge and began as “a joke,” he said, but he decided to go forward with his cam-paign after sensing that his platform had strong support from students.

Glassman, a New York City na-tive and a two-year veteran of UCS, told The Herald his goals include de-veloping a student response to Ban-ner, renovating dorms, expanding January@Brown and reaching out to people who show interest in partici-pating in UCS.

BY MICHAEL BECHEKSENIOR STAFF WRITER

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Nobel Prize-winner Mello ’82 to speak at baccalaureateCraig Mello ’82, who was award-ed the 2006 Nobel Prize in physi-ology or medicine, will deliver the baccalaureate address at Commencement next month, University offi cials announced Tuesday.

Mello, a Howard Hughes in-vestigator at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, was awarded the prize with An-drew Fire of Stanford University for their discovery of RNA inter-ference, a phenomenon they doc-umented in a landmark 1998 pa-

per that has signifi cantly affected research efforts worldwide.

Mello and Fire discovered the mechanism of RNA interference, which leads to “gene silencing.” The discovery has allowed re-searchers to study gene regula-tion by controlling the expres-sion of specifi c genes and has therapeutic implications for ge-netic diseases.

Mello will also receive an hon-orary degree at Commencement on May 27. His address will take place in the First Baptist Church

in America the day before.Mello, who was a biochem-

istry concentrator as an under-graduate, told The Herald in Oc-tober that he had fond memories of Brown.

“Brown was a fantastic place for me,” he said. “The education I got there just prepared me so well for my future.”

Mello, 46, is a native of Fair-fax, Va., and now lives in Shrews-bury, Mass.

— Michael Bechek

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CHAFEE ’75 UPDATEStudents say formerformerf U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75 has been an important addi-tion to Brown despite his limited teaching role

CHEATING CHEATERS30 academic code viola-tions from last semester have gone before a faculty committee — a sharp in-crease from last year

PROTEST KINPROTEST KINPROTEST GJesse Adams ’07 believes Mar-tin Luther King’s brilliance wasin his well-thought out strate-gies, something campus ac-tivists should consider

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Entering its second year, Brown’s In-ternational Genetically Engineered Machine competition team is brain-storming projects for the iGEM competition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Novem-ber. The seven undergraduate mem-bers of the squad are employing the help of last year’s members, several graduate students, faculty members and Pfi zer’s Houseknecht lab.

The iGEM competition began almost four years ago as several re-search scientists wondered wheth-er it was possible to build operable biological systems from standard parts. They wanted to create an accessible “library” of parts, help-ing to provide an engineering per-spective on biology, said Assistant Professor of Medical Science Alex-ander Brodsky, one of the Brown team’s faculty mentors.

Brown’s iGEM team is the brainchild of John Cumbers GS, who fi rst heard about the competi-tion at a conference. He then gath-ered together enthusiastic under-graduates and faculty members for Brown’s fi rst team, which received an honorable mention at the 2006 competition.

The new team will stay in Provi-dence this summer, developing proj-ects for the competition in Novem-

ber. The undergraduates will be supported by a group Undergradu-ate Research and Teaching Award.

As of now, the team has raised about $40,000 of the $70,000 it needs to fund its research, said Deepa Galaiya ’08, a team member. Labora-tory funds have been donated from the Offi ce of the President and vari-ous departments, Galaiya said.

Pfi zer has not as yet opened its purse to the team, though it has con-tributed some scientifi c guidance, Cumbers said. But he said the team still hopes for some funding from the pharmaceutical giant.

For last year’s competition, the team created a kind of bacterial “freeze tag,” using three different chemicals to stop bacteria from moving. Though this year’s project has not yet been decided on, possi-bilities include a cellular oscillator for timing the distribution of drugs into the body’s systems, Cumbers said.

Last year’s team faced hurdles in acquiring funding and lab space, Cumbers said, but he said this year’s team has benefi ted from the previ-ous experience and has been able to focus more on research.

Though faculty mentors and Houseknecht lab researchers pro-vide some practical expertise, Cum-bers said, the team largely works the project’s problems out on its own, he said.

“We don’t want too many faculty involved, but they’re all there to let us borrow equipment,” said Jeffrey Hofmann ’08, team member and computational biology major.

“The team has an opportunity to do research in a very independent way,” Brodsky said.

Members said they were excit-ed by potential developments in the fast-developing fi eld of synthetic bi-ology.

“Synthetic biology is very impor-tant. It could be the next computer revolution in terms of standardizing parts and making bacteria do what we want them to,” said Adam Em-rich ’08, a team member.

Galaiya said participating in the iGEM competition is a “wonderful opportunity” to get practical expe-rience in research. “We read jour-nals and familiarize ourselves with big names in the fi eld, which is good preparation for future work,” she said.

Many of the participants hope to work in research in the future, Galaiya said.

Some team members, interested in studying the fi eld of synthetic bi-ology further, advocated for a new class set to debut in the fall, BIOL 1940T: “Synthetic Biological Sys-tems.” The course will primarily be taught by Gary Wessel, professor of biology and one of the team’s faculty sponsors.

BY ANNA MILLMANCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Now in 2nd year, iGEM team looks to November competition

U. offering vouchers in lottery for summer storage with Space Station

The Offi ce of Residential Life be-gan accepting applications from students Tuesday evening to par-ticipate in an online lottery for free vouchers for local summer stor-age. Over 600 vouchers, worth $60 each, will be available through the lottery to redeem with East Providence-based Space Station Self-Storage.

The $60 storage voucher of-fered through the lottery on the ResLife Web site can cover the cost of one of three packages of-fered by Space Station, Brown Student Agencies President Idan Naor ’08 wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. One of the packages in-cludes two small book boxes and one large box, another includes one large box and one medium box and a third offers two medi-um boxes and one large box. All packages include a roll of packing tape.

The company’s same “discount-ed voucher rates” will also be of-fered to Brown students who did not receive a voucher, Naor said. In addition to the packages, the vouchers can also be put towards the cost of other storage options with Space Station, he added.

Students can drop off boxes at several campus locations May 10-19, said Space Station General

Manager John Erikson. Over a three-day period in early Septem-ber, Space Station will “stagger the deliveries” of boxes to students on campus, so they will be able to se-lect a time frame when they would like to pick up their belongings, Erikson said.

Students who are offered vouchers through the lottery will be notifi ed by 5 p.m. on Friday and have until next Tuesday to confi rm. If they do not respond by the deadline, they will forfeit the voucher and it will be reassigned to a student on the waitlist.

Students transferring their vouchers to friends caused prob-lems last year, Naor said. “This year we made a very big point of nontransferable vouchers,” he said. If students wish to pass their voucher along to a friend, they will be given “a fairly narrow window of time” to do so, “probably over the weekend,” said Associate Di-rector of Housing and Residential Life Thomas Forsberg.

Forsberg said around 1,100 applicants applied for about 600 vouchers last year, and almost all of the vouchers were used. Stu-dents can choose to store their belongings with any company with services in the area, but the vouchers will only be good for storage with Space Station.

BY JOY NEUMEYERSTAFF WRITER

As planning for renovations to trans-form Faunce House and J. Walter Wilson Laboratory into a central hub for student activities and ser-vices moves forward, University of-fi cials intend to look to an important resource — the student centers al-ready in existence at other North-eastern campuses.

“Before the Plan for Academic Enrichment, an (Undergraduate Council of Students) task force had issued a report on the needs for Brown’s campus. There were a lot of road trips during that process, and a consultant was brought in to help analyze patterns here and at other schools,” said Ricky Gresh, director of student activities.

The process of planning Brown’s campus center “does not have that sort of external focus yet,” he said. “However, we are creating a plan-ning community that will go on road trips and reach out to other schools. Just in this area alone there are quite a lot of great models to look at and learn what worked well and what did not,” Gresh added.

Princeton University

One such model is the Frist Cen-ter at Princeton University. Opened in 2000, the 200,000-square-foot Frist Center was fashioned out of an old physics laboratory at Princ-eton with $48 million and six years of planning and construction.

By all accounts, the investment was a success. “The Frist Campus Center undoubtedly bettered Princ-eton by creating a campus heart:

It provides study, dining and en-tertainment spaces for faculty, stu-dents and community members, and it has even changed walking patterns and pedestrian destina-tions, as we fl ock there for mail or on our return from a Saturday night

out,” declared a Nov. 26, 2001 Daily Princetonian op-ed.

According to a Sept. 11, 2005, ar-ticle in the Princeton Weekly Bulle-tin, a university-run news brief, the Frist Center is frequented by 12,000 students, faculty and staff each day, a number that has increased ap-proximately 20 percent during its fi rst year of operation. In 2004, the

center hosted 13,519 events and meetings.

In addition to a food court and an entertainment center, Frist contains a number of classrooms and lecture halls, equipped with projectors and sound systems so that they may be used for any number of purposes.

But the Frist Center’s design refl ects a very specifi c element of Princeton’s campus culture that does not exist at Brown.

“Princeton’s social life for many years was dominated by eating clubs,” said Princeton Professor of Sociology Paul DiMaggio, refer-ring to the fraternity-like organiza-tions that meet separately from the

BY ANDREW KURTZMANSTAFF WRITER

As U. readies to build campus center, it looks to other schools

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Grad School to evaluate its size next semester

A working group chaired by Dean of the Graduate School Sheila Bonde will evaluate the number of graduate students at Brown in order to determine “where we’re going (and) what our goals should be in doctoral and master’s education,” Bonde told The Herald.

The group will include four administrators — Bonde, Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron, Vice President for Research Clyde Briant and Associate Dean of the Graduate School William Heindel — as well as four faculty members and two graduate stu-dents. The faculty and student members will be chosen by the start of the Fall 2007 semester.

“We will be looking at the size and scale (of the Grad School) and making some recommenda-tions,” Bonde said.

The group will begin meet-ing next semester and will “have some preliminary things to say in the fall and more defi nitive things to say at the end of the (academic) year,” Bonde said. She said the group will take the fi rst major look at the Grad School’s size since she became dean in 2005.

Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 told The Herald at a faculty meeting in March that the committee is expected to re-lease its fi nal report at the end of the Spring 2008 semester and deliver budget recommenda-tions to the University Resource Committee earlier that semester.

He said the expansion of the fac-ulty has “put pressure” on the Grad School to expand its stu-dent body.

Bonde said the introduction of new master’s programs may have resulted in an increase in en-rollment in certain fi elds — one of the trends the working group will examine, many of which are refl ected in data released by the Offi ce of Institutional Research.

The data show that a num-ber of fi elds of graduate study at Brown — including engineering, biology and computer science — have grown, some substantially, over the past nine years while other graduate programs, such as those in the Department of English, have shrunk slightly.

The number of doctoral and master’s students studying biol-ogy at Brown has more than dou-bled in the past nine years, leap-ing from 104 students in Spring 1997 to 265 in Spring 2006. The number of engineering grad stu-dents has risen greatly in the same period, climbing from 85 to 130 students, according to the OIR data.

Bonde said the increase in the sciences and engineering re-fl ects a national swell of interest in new, cutting-edge programs in these fi elds.

“There are new fi elds like … biomedical engineering (and) computational biology and the subfi elds of biology and en-gineering (that) have seen a growth across the nation, and that’s something we’re certainly

BY OLIVER BOWERSSENIOR STAFF WRITER

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Courtesy of Venturi, Scott, Brown, and Assoc. Architects

The Frist Center at Princeton University is a model for planning renovations set to transform Faunce House and J. Walter Wilson into centers for campus activities and centers.

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amid social and political turmoil.“Clemente was art, not sci-

ence,” Maraniss said. “Trying to describe him by reducing him to statistics — which is base-ball’s way — is like analyzing van Gogh’s paintings by writing about the chemicals in the paint.”

Clemente made his Major League debut in 1955 with the Pittsburgh Pirates after a stint with the Montreal Royals, the same team Jackie Robinson played for in 1946 before breaking the league’s color barrier. Five years later, Clemente led the Pirates to a shocking seven-game world se-ries victory over the mighty New York Yankees of Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle, recording a hit in each game of the series.

“After the seventh game, he fl ew home to San Juan, and he was literally carried off from the air-port on the shoulders of his coun-trymen,” Maraniss said. “He was regaled as the ‘Prince of Puerto Rico’ all winter.”

But his reception in the Unit-ed States was marred by racial tension. Clemente felt he wasn’t receiving enough media atten-tion for his accomplishments, and the Pirates’ held a celebration in a Florida hotel reserved only for whites.

“The only blacks allowed in there were the waiters,” Maraniss said, adding that the team’s an-nual spring golf outing was held at a country club that prohibited blacks.

Maraniss captured Clemente’s struggle against racism in Amer-ica through the star’s portrayal in the Pennsylvania sports me-dia, which patronized Clemente’s thick Latin American accent by spelling his quotes phonetical-ly — “eef” for “if” and “heet” for “heat.”

“Clemente was an incredibly proud, intelligent person who was reduced to a caricature, a stereo-type by American culture,” Mara-niss said. “That created in him a beautiful fury.”

Maraniss’s personal relation-ship with Clemente — a man with whom he never spoke — shone through endearingly as he told anecdotes from the baseball star’s life.

“He got his great arm not from his dad — a little guy, short — but from his mother, a butcher,” Ma-raniss said. “She could haul 90-pound slabs of beef on her shoul-der.”

Maraniss recalled Clemente’s interactions with teammate Victor Pellot, known as “Vic Power,” a fellow Puerto Rican baseball play-er who shared his struggles with racism.

“(Pellot) once went into a res-taurant for lunch in Florida. The waitress came up to him and said ‘We don’t serve colored people here,’ and he said, ‘That’s okay, I don’t eat colored people. I just want some rice and beans,’ ” Ma-raniss said. “He could almost get Clemente to laugh at some of those jokes, but Clemente did not think it was funny. He didn’t think any of that was funny.”

Clemente would fi nally break through the barriers of language and race in 1971 when he led the Pirates to a second World Series victory, this time over the Balti-more Orioles.

Clemente batted an incredible .414 against the Orioles and once again registered a hit in each of the series’ seven games — includ-ing a solo home run in the seventh game to give the Pirates the lead — and was named Most Valuable Player of the World Series.

“It was fi nally his moment. In the dugout after the seventh game, the whole world was look-

ing at Roberto Clemente,” Mara-niss said. But instead of respond-ing to reporters’ questions, Cle-mente answered the press with a message to his family in Puerto Rico, asking for their blessing.

“He said it in Spanish,” Mara-niss said. “It was at that moment that he moved from a ball player into mythology.”

Clemente died one year later.In the winter of 1972, Clemente

joined a humanitarian effort to aid earthquake victims in Nicaragua suffering under then-president and dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Clemente felt he could use his cachet in Latin America to help aid reach those who needed it, so he took to the skies for Nica-ragua and never returned.

“Everything that could possi-bly be wrong was wrong with his situation,” Maraniss said, describ-ing the conditions of Clemente’s fl ight: an amateur crew, a 5,000-pound overload and a DC-7 pur-chased from a part of Miami called “cockroach corner.” The plane crashed shortly after takeoff and sunk into the Atlantic Ocean.

“The next morning, thousands of people lined the shore,” Mara-niss said, “thinking that Clemente couldn’t die and would walk out of the sea.”

Maraniss’s storytelling ability and his close attention to detail captivated students who attended the lecture.

“He did a really good job of hu-manizing Clemente, whom I pri-marily knew as a baseball player,” said Alex Eichler ’08, who won a literary contest honoring Shearer and was awarded the fi rst prize in a ceremony last night for “Silent Night,” his story about Rhode Is-land’s haunted houses. “I didn’t know about the social and politi-cal context Clemente was in — I’m glad he emphasized those as-pects of his life.”

the Offi ce of the Provost are collab-orating with him on the effort, Mar-golin said.

Both President Ruth Simmons and Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 called the councils an impor-tant component of Brown’s offi cial internationalization effort, which kicked off in October 2006 with the appointment of an internationaliza-tion committee chaired by Kertzer and the announcement of a search to recruit a vice president for inter-national affairs.

“Our goal is to connect (alums) to us, give them a sense that we are helping them if they try to advance Brown’s interests in their part of the world and to come up with con-crete suggestions for what we can do to enliven the effort,” Simmons told The Herald.

As the councils are set up “over the next several years,” Kertzer said, they will “help us in a variety of ways.”

Forming such international ad-visory groups has been on the Uni-versity’s radar for some time, Mar-golin said. Though they are just now beginning to come to fruition, the fi rst discussions of the possibil-

ity came roughly a year before the formal internationalization effort was publicly announced, he said.

The councils will consist of al-ums, parents and “friends of Brown” who are particularly knowledge-able and infl uential in their respec-tive regions. They will advise Sim-mons and the yet-to-be-appointed vice president for international af-fairs on possible opportunities and work to raise Brown’s profi le in their respective area of focus, Mar-golin said.

The council’s membership will include people who have “impor-tant positions in industry, educa-tion, commerce, diplomacy, gov-ernment or media,” Margolin said, adding that they might be natives or foreigners and will not necessar-ily currently reside in the region on which they are advising.

As examples of the sort of infl u-ential, well-connected people Uni-versity offi cials will ask to serve on the councils, Margolin identifi ed Wei Yang PhD’85, president of Zhe-jiang University, and Wei Mingyi ScM’49, a former chairman of the China International Trust and In-vestment Company, a state-owned investment company founded in 1979 that seeks to attract foreign in-

vestment as part of efforts to open and reform China’s economy.

Neither has formally agreed to serve on the China council yet, Mar-golin said. “Those letters are just going out to them now,” he said.

A sample charge prepared by Margolin’s offi ce calls for each council “to advise the president and senior administrators regarding op-portunities for the greater involve-ment, visibility and reputation of Brown” in its country or region of focus.

Specifi cally, the charge elabo-rates, the councils could identify possible student internships, study abroad programs, educational and research partnerships, recruitment opportunities or “friends of Brown and sources of funding” in their tar-get area. Other possible focuses could be media outreach and other activities to raise Brown’s visibility.

The councils, the charge states, will meet “at least one time a year.”

Both his own offi ce and the of-fi ce of the vice president for interna-tional affairs will work with and staff the councils, Margolin said. The fi rst vice president for international affairs could be appointed as early as next month, according to mem-bers of the search committee.

The size of the councils is fl ex-ible, Margolin said, but the China and India councils will both likely begin with roughly 15 members, and the Asia-wide council will prob-ably be somewhat larger. The aim is to start the councils at “a manage-able size,” he added, but they could grow, especially if a council decides to form subcommittees with empha-ses on particular objectives, such as media outreach.

That China and India will each have their own committees refl ects their international importance and appeal for Brown and other uni-versities looking to build partner-ships overseas. University offi cials have aggressively courted ties in those countries in recent years, with Simmons herself traveling to China twice in 2006 and other Uni-versity delegations making trips to each country this spring to pursue research ties. A separate group of faculty and administrators will visit China in June.

Though Brazil has not yet fi g-ured prominently in the Universi-ty’s internationalization outreach efforts, its inclusion as the only other country to potentially garner its own advisory council refl ects its size, international prominence and

the University’s already strong in-volvement with the country, Mar-golin said. Brown’s Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies is strong, Margolin said, and the Wat-son Institute for International Stud-ies houses several Brazil experts, most notably Professor-at-Large Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a for-mer president of the country.

Margolin said the University is interested in drawing on the Wat-son Institute’s affi liations in form-ing the committees.

Cardoso and Richard Holbrooke ’62, a former United States ambas-sador to the United Nations and Germany who is also a Weston In-stitute professor-at-large, are two of Watson’s most high-profi le con-nections, and Margolin said Sim-mons “might approach” them both for positions on the councils. Asia is one of several areas of expertise for Holbrooke, a former Herald editor-in-chief who is currently chairman of the Asia Society.

But Margolin said faculty and staff with more permanent ties to the University would not serve on the councils, due to the councils’ ex-ternal advisory nature and the fac-ulty’s ability to advise the University “through other channels.”

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As U. internationalizes, regional councils to guide the way, starting with China and Asia

Pulitzer-winner Maraniss shares Roberto Clemente’s mythology


Every other Thursday this se-mester, roughly 50 students have gathered in the Watson Institute for International Studies for two hours to listen to diplomats, for-eign policy experts and govern-ment offi cials talk about global hotspots. The sessions are part of a study group led by former Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75, a visiting fel-low at the Watson Institute.

Since his appointment last De-cember, Chafee has been highly visible on campus, and though he has yet to teach a class, he has led the biweekly no-credit seminar for international rela-tions and political science con-centrators, who were selected through an application process in January.

Chafee has invited speakers to discuss international hotspots such as North Korea, Venezuela, Israel and Palestine and Iraq. The class has no compulsory work, though articles are distributed before every meeting so students can prepare for guest speakers when the forum is opened up for a question-and-answer session in the seminar’s second hour.

Though Chafee himself has not given lectures, he present-ed his views on certain topics in his introductions, said Harrison Moskowitz ’07.

As the semester comes to an end, students involved with the group said the access to Chafee was invaluable.

“Chafee was my senator, so I was very interested to hear his perspectives,” said Michael Boyce ’08. “The talks have all been very interesting and have allowed me to gain a keener un-derstanding of situations.”

Herald Contributing Writ-er Kamyl Bazbaz ’07 agreed.

“Chafee always brings in unique experts to talk and enlighten us on different issues,” he said. “It’s amazing to have access to Chafee. I learned everything I could learn in such a short time.”

Last week, Frederick Barton from the Center for Strategic and International Studies spoke to the group about the deteriorat-ing situation in Iraq, reminding them that the fi rst step to solving problems in post-confl ict states is to recognize that they’re working in a volatile world.

Barton is the co-director of the post-confl ict reconstruction project and senior adviser to the international security program at CSIS. He has traveled and worked in hot spots such as Hai-ti, Rwanda, the Balkans, Sierra Leone, the Philippines, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bazbaz said he enjoyed Bar-ton’s lecture. “He has amazing credentials and is a clear expert in the fi eld,” he said.

Barton’s projects focus large-ly on “putting-people-fi rst meth-odology.” In Afghanistan, he and his team traveled through the country and ultimately inter-viewed 1,000 people. “It’s a spec-

tacular way to discover what was going on,” Barton said.

“Afghanistan is a 10-year proj-ect, but we have to get this year right,” he said. “2007 is a very im-portant year.”

Both Chafee and Barton said they were impressed with the students’ dedication and inter-est.

“This was a terrifi c group who had great questions and com-ments,” Barton said. “I could tell they were people who had a sense of the issue. But what im-pressed me most is that this is a non-credit course, and students still put so much effort into it.”

Chafee told The Herald he is always impressed with the prep-aration and interest of students. “They’re all curious about these issues and ask aggressive ques-tions,” he said. “I’m impressed most by the involvement of the students, the questions they ask speakers after class.”

The study group will meet next Thursday for the last time. Chafee said he has not yet planned a similar project for next semester but will soon discuss his future plans with Watson In-stitute offi cials.

BY JOY CHUASTAFF WRITER

3 months with the former senatorStudents in Chafee’s ‘75 no-credit study group give positive reviews

Chris Bennett / Herald File Photo

Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee ‘75, a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute, led a study group every other Thursday this semester.

It’s a testament to how successful Lisa Birnbach ’78 has become that not only is she receiving two Gra-cie Awards this year for her radio show, “The Lisa Birnbach Show,” but she’s also gained approval from another radio host working in the same building. “I guess you don’t suck,” she recalled humor-ist and Senate hopeful Al Franken telling her.

Though Birnbach is an accom-plished author and radio host, she said she was “just another fun-lov-ing, pass/fail-taking member of my class” during her days at Brown. She said she came to Brown for its creative writing program.

As a student, Birnbach was heavily involved in a number of ac-tivities: She wrote for The Herald and its now-defunct weekly maga-zine, Fresh Fruit, hosted her own show on WBRU called “Women’s View” and participated in student government and a peer counsel-ing program. “Brown gave me the opportunity to try everything, and I managed to cram in a lot,” she said.

As an aspiring writer, Birnbach said, “I had some idea that I want-ed to work in journalism or media within New York, but I didn’t real-ize all of the possibilities then. I came to a point where I realized that the New York Times wasn’t sitting there waiting for me to graduate and give me a job right out of college. It’s just unrealistic to think that way.”

So instead of working for the Times, Birnbach landed a dream job at the Village Voice a few months after graduation, writing a column for the newspaper called “Scenes.”

“It was a great job because I was doing what I loved to do,” Birnbach said. It was also a job that gave her the idea for her most famous book to date, “The Offi cial Preppy Handbook,” published in 1980.

“My big break was defi nitely with ‘Preppy Handbook,’ no doubt. I was working at the Village Voice at the time, and I got the offer to write the book — it originally wasn’t my idea,” she said.

With the chance to write a tongue-in-cheek book about the world of prepsters, Birnbach said she looked back at her own life and her college years for inspiration. “I remember I was going to play squash, and I wore a pink Lacoste polo shirt with a green sweater — now, I didn’t know anything about matching those two colors togeth-er, but apparently it worked, and I found others who wore similar outfi ts too. One wouldn’t think that you could fi nd Preppies at a school like Brown, but I found them,” Birnbach said. “You know, the polo shirts with the rugby shirts on top — so many layers!”

Birnbach quit her job in the summer of 1980 to write the book with a few friends. Surprising its authors, the book became a huge success — it sold 2 million copies nationwide and landed the writers on national talk shows. Thanks to the book, Birnbach joked, “I have the gift of discerning whether someone is hiding his or her prep-piness.”

With her new fame, Birnbach was offered the chance to write two television pilots for HBO and became a contributing editor for Parade Magazine. She has au-thored and co-authored 19 books since writing “The Offi cial Preppy Handbook.”

Birnbach said the success “didn’t change my wardrobe, didn’t change my friends or my apartment, but it did change my career.”

On top of her success as an author, she was approached last year by GreenStone Media, a In-ternet talk radio network estab-lished in September 2006, which asked Birnbach to host her own radio show. “They asked me to do a demo, and I got three friends of mine on the phone with me, put mics on the conversation, and they liked it. I wasn’t nervous or anything because I was just having a conversation with my friends,” Birnbach said.

The show airs live on the Web weekdays 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. East-ern time, and since its launch sev-en months ago, it has won two Gra-cie Awards from the Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television.

“No one even told me I was nominated,” she said. “It’s thrill-ing that the show is being recog-nized in this way. I think it shows that what we do at GreenStone is different. The feedback and the phone calls that we get from the listeners are so moving.”

Birnbach was particularly glad she won an award for a show that featured actor and comedian Robin Williams as a guest. “I’m glad that the listeners enjoyed it,” she said. “Robin is an old and dear friend of mine, and since he ordinarily doesn’t bother with radio, I just wanted him to have a good time on my show and feel like it wasn’t a total waste of time or vanity act. I love playing with him. With him you speak fi rst and think — if you must — later.”

But despite her professional success, Birnbach said she most enjoys being “a great single moth-er” for her three children. “Being a mom is defi nitely my biggest ac-complishment, and it puts me in the same boat as a lot of my listen-ers. Whether you live on the Up-per East Side of Manhattan or in a small town in Rhode Island, we share many fundamental common-alities as parents, and in many cas-es, including mine, as a single par-ent,” she said. “I like to tell listen-ers about the little crises du jour: sick kid at home, problems at the slumber parties, et cetera. Some-times it even makes me feel less alone.”

One thing Birnbach has learned from her hectic schedule is to take things one at a time. “If there is one thing I learned, especially from being a mom and handling a career, is that you can’t have it all at once. Maybe eventually or at different times, but defi nitely not all at once,” she said.

But for now, as Birnbach is hap-py and loving her job, and for now, there appears to be nothing left for her except, as Williams said on her show, to “go ahead on, girl.”

BY BRIANNA BARZOLASTAFF WRITER

‘Preppy’ author Birnbach ’78 fi nds new niche in radio

FEATURE

From distributing a “Disorienta-tion Guide” to staging a die-in in front of the Textron headquarters this spring, the left-wing activist group Students for a Democratic Society has been a forceful pres-ence on campus this year. Dor-mant since its collapse in 1969, chapters of the group — including Brown’s — have been re-emerg-ing since January 2006.

The University’s chapter of SDS is a successor of the 1960s incarnation, a radical group that sought to unite diverse student organizations under the common goal of participatory democracy. Specifi c issues included domestic poverty, the Vietnam War and ra-cial diversity on campus. But the group did not last long.

“It came and went,” said Paul Buhle, senior lecturer in Ameri-can civilization and an active SDS member in the 1960s, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

In the short time since it was re-founded last year, SDS has

gained a foothold at Brown. Not only did Brown host the fi rst re-gional SDS New England confer-ence last year, but the John Nich-olas Brown Center now houses the exhibition “The SDS Com-ic Show,” a graphic history of SDS including pages and panels from the forthcoming book “Stu-dents for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History,” written by car-toonist Harvey Pekar and edited by Buhle.

The exhibition traces the histo-ry of SDS from the drafting of the Port Huron Statement in 1962 to its resistance to the Vietnam War and protests at the 1968 Demo-cratic National Convention. It also describes the cultural and politi-cal legacy of SDS, including ac-knowledgments of its overwhelm-ing success at organizing a mass student movement and producing real social change in the 1960s.

Despite initial success, SDS collapsed across the country in 1969 due to internal clashes in

philosophy, interests and protest tactics.

National reformationBut in 2006, two high school

students called for a revival of SDS. With the help of Alan Haber, president of SDS from 1960 to 1962, they launched a Web site calling for new groups to form un-der the old name, and chapters quickly proliferated. The group now claims 2,000 members na-tionwide, with over 100 college chapters and dozens more in high schools, according to Christopher Phelps’ April 2007 article “The New SDS” in the Nation.

The meetings of Brown’s SDS chapter now regularly draw 25 to 30 people, including local high school students, communi-ty members and college students from other chapters, said SDS member William Lambek ’09. Though SDS has no offi cial group leaders, some members assume leadership roles within SDS, said member Bucky Rogers ’07.

BY GABRIELLA DOOBSTAFF WRITER

SDS revived: 1960s group wraps up active year

FEATURE

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Members take pride in their diversity within the groups and across chapters, but they try to re-member the dangers of fragmenta-tion and factionalism that destroyed the old SDS in the late 1960s, Rog-ers said. “We are knowledgeable of the history,” he said. “We try to be as respectful as possible.”

Issues on campusThough the goals, issues and

tactics of SDS chapters vary wide-ly, they share an interest in pro-moting social justice, government accountability and democratic par-ticipation at all levels of society, ac-cording to Phelps.

Lambek said members of the Brown chapter have diverse back-grounds and activist interests. Problems of militarism, imperial-ism and environmental destruction are of particular concern among students here, he said.

SDS has taken a particularly active role in protesting the Iraq war. Rogers cited increasing anti-war sentiment as a cause for the group’s recent growth and the ea-gerness with which students have mobilized.

“There has been a resurgence in the anti-war group,” he said.

“There is more infrastructure now.”

On April 7, at least 16 SDS mem-bers protested inside Sayles Hall over defense contractor Raythe-on’s presence at the Career Fair. A Brown SDS member was arrested downtown at another rally in front of the headquarters of Textron Inc., a corporation the U.S. mili-tary contracts with for helicopters, armored vehicles and munitions.

Lambek said he thought stu-dents were sympathetic to the message of these protests and — in the case of the Raytheon inci-dent — with what SDS sees as the University’s tacit support for “war profi teers.”

“(The protest) really showed the possibility that student power can hold,” he said.

Planning for the future

The next challenges for SDS, Lambek said, lie in strengthen-ing activist culture, building links among issue-based groups and “or-ganizing the organizers.”

Though SDS now operates at a local and regional level, Lambek said he sees the formation of a na-tional structure as a possibility.

“I don’t see there being a cen-tral committee making decisions,” he said, adding that he envisioned

only a solidifi ed structure that might allow chapters to communi-cate and mobilize.

Meanwhile, SDS members an-ticipate that the group will expand and continue to agitate for mean-ingful reform in the coming years. “The current freshman and soph-omore classes are passionate and knowledgeable,” Rogers said.

SDS’s future activities are un-certain but will continue to re-fl ect the interests and concerns of group members rather than being dictated by a certain prescribed set of issues, Lambek said.

Molly McLaughlin ’10 said she anticipates that the debate over whether ROTC should return to campus will be one issue to engage SDS’s attention in the near future.

For McLaughlin, groups like SDS were part of the reason she came to Brown in the fi rst place. She joined SDS because she has long had “the desire to learn about things and the desire to do some-thing about them.”

Mael Vizcarra ’09 said that she was involved with activism in high school, but she stopped once she came to the University — until she found SDS. “I thought the organi-zations here were just talk,” she said. “But I found a group that rep-resented my philosophy.”


SDS revived: 1960s group wraps up active year on campus

After ending on-campus storage After ending on-campus storage Ain the summer of 2004, the Universi-ty used the storage company Smart Movers — now part of Mad Pack-ers — for the summers of 2005 and 2006. Though no major problems occurred the fi rst year the Univer-sity worked with the company, last fall many students complained of receiving their items days or even weeks after their return to campus. Many also expressed frustration over the company’s unresponsive-ness to their attempts at contact.

“I’m really confi dent things will go much better” with storage this summer, said Sara Gentile ’09, ad-missions and student services chair of the Undergraduate Council of Students. Gentile served on a com-mittee of students and administra-tors that selected the new compa-ny.

Gentile cited customer ser-vice as one of the key priorities in selecting the new company. Last year, boxes often went missing or

were not at the correct location when students returned to pick up their items in the fall, Forsberg said. Those problems, he said, were caused by a glitch in Smart Movers’ new computer system.

“Students would call and e-mail and never get a response” about their belongings, Gentile added.

Larry Byron, the company’s owner, told The Herald last Sep-tember that the computer system glitches and students’ failure to re-serve a pick-up time by the dead-line contributed to delays in return-ing boxes.

Erikson said Space Station would “be available 24/7 during the crucial periods,” rolling calls to its offi ces over to staff members’ cell phones to respond quickly to re-quests.

Business Services Manager Di-ane Chouinard, who also served on the search committee, said the company’s location “just a few miles from campus” was a major attrac-tion — if notifi ed within approxi-mately 24 hours, Space Station

promises to return students’ items to campus, she said.

Forsberg said endorsing an off-campus company to provide sum-mer storage for students is “certain-ly superior” to providing on-campus storage to students. On-campus storage was “extremely diffi cult to manage,” with problems arising such as water damage to uninsured items, he said.

Even students “squatting” in their current rooms for the upcom-ing year cannot keep items in their rooms over the summer, Forsberg said, since the University uses many rooms over the summer for such occasions as commencement and summer programs.

Sarah Goldstein ’09 remem-bered that “it took like a month to get my roommate’s fridge,” after us-ing Smart Movers last year because “they couldn’t locate it.” But she said she would still feel comfortable using storage handled by the Uni-versity if she wasn’t driving her be-longings to her home in Maryland instead.

seeing at Brown as well,” Bonde said.

Bonde said, in some cases, funding and students have trans-ferred from older departments into newer ones.

The number of students in doctoral and master’s programs in computer science has also grown steadily, from 63 students in Spring 1997 to 106 students in Spring 2006, according to the OIR data. The number of grad stu-dents enrolled in those programs reached a 10-year high in 2006 at the same time that the number of undergraduate concentrators fell to a 10-year low of 37 students, ac-cording to OIR data.

Maurice Herlihy, director of graduate study for the Depart-ment of Computer Science, said much of the growth in the depart-

ment has come about as a result of doubling the size of the depart-ment’s faculty. When he came to work at Brown in 1994, the depart-ment had 16 faculty members, and the number has since increased to the low 30s, Herlihy said.

He added that the burst of the dot-com bubble in 2000 caused an increase in the number and quality of applicants to the program.

“People who went off to join a start-up suddenly realized they were not going to become million-aires by the time they were 25, so they may as well get an education,” Herlihy said. “Since then, I think, it’s still the case that people who would have gone off to start a com-pany stick around to earn a mas-ter’s or a Ph.D.”

While many graduate programs have grown, others — such as the master’s and doctoral programs in the Department of English — have

decreased in size over the past de-cade. The English graduate pro-gram has seen a drop from 73 stu-dents in Spring 1997 to 45 in Spring 2006.

Much of the reason for the drop was a decrease in the number of ad-mitted students in the mid- to late-1990s, from approximately 10 per year to 6 to 8 per year, said Daniel Kim, director of graduate study for the English department.

The English department plans to suspend admission to its mas-ter’s program next year due to is-sues with funding and the vague goals of the program. The de-crease in English grad students crease in English grad students crease in English grad stalso refl ects cuts — made by the department in the late 1990s — of students who had been enrolled in the department for 10 to 15 years but had not yet earned a degree. “We asked them either to fi nish up or withdraw,” Kim said.



Grad School to evaluate goals, size in the fall

U. offering vouchers for summer storage


Between 15 and 20 students each year have been admitted to the Brown Medical School through the Brown-Dartmouth College program since 1981, but the part-nership is now being phased out of existence. The program, which allows students to spend their fi rst two years of medical school at Dartmouth and their last two years at Brown, will be ending once the program’s current stu-dents have graduated.

The 2006-2007 academic year saw the last fi rst-year class of 15 students enter the program, said Philip Gruppuso, associate dean of medicine for medical educa-tion.

The program, which is billed as an opportunity to experience both rural and urban medicine, began over 20 years ago because of mismatched resources — Dart-mouth had fewer clinical facilities but more basic sciences facilities than Brown. “We could accommo-date more pre-clinical students than they could,” said Joseph O’Donnell, senior advising dean at Dartmouth Medical School. Students graduated from the pro-gram with an M.D. degree from Brown.

The Brown-Dartmouth pro-gram made sense in the tradition-al medical school approach where the four-year experience was di-vided between basic sciences and clinical work. Students complet-ed basic medical science course-work in their two “pre-clinical” years and spent the last two “clini-cal” years in hospital clerkships. But recently, medical education has become more of a “four-year package,” O’Donnell said, point-ing to Brown’s development of its new “MD 2000” curriculum. “It became illogical to do in two dif-ferent places,” he said.

“It just made more sense to be in one place for four years,” O’Donnell said of ending the pro-gram. Dartmouth has also inte-grated the basic science and clini-cal years. “We’ve put much more clinical material in the fi rst year … and much more basic sciences in the fourth year than ever be-fore,” O’Donnell said.

“Both schools thought (ending the program was) the best thing to do,” O’Donnell said, though “it’s with some degree of sadness

we feel up here about the end of the relationship.”

“On balance, I’d say the pro-gram ending is a bad thing,” Gruppuso said, adding that Dart-mouth provided an “excellent pre-clinical training program and their students did well in clerkships.” Plus, he said, the program’s stu-dents “lent some experiential dif-ference,” to Brown’s clinical pro-gram.

“It was good while it lasted,” Gruppuso said.

“The program really worked,” O’Donnell said, explaining that on every measure — including grades on clerkships, residency acceptances and medical licens-ing exam scores — the gradu-ates from the joint program mir-rored those who spent four years at either Brown or Dartmouth. “I have very warm feelings about it,” O’Donnell said.

The program was highly com-petitive and consistently received far more applicants than there were available spots, Gruppuso said.

The program fostered great relationships and friendships be-tween Brown and Dartmouth fac-

ulty but not as many joint research programs as had been envisioned at its inception. “The distance be-tween Hanover and Providence proved to be hard” to manage, O’Donnell said.

“Students who went (to Brown) had an excellent experience,” said O’Donnell, who also described ways Dartmouth is trying to fi ll the void for students looking for an urban medical education ex-perience. One way is with its new Urban Scholars program, sup-ported in part by the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation, which gives students urban medi-cal experiences in Manchester, N.H., and Boston.

Nathaniel Link MD’08, who spent his fi rst two years of medi-cal school at Dartmouth, said he enjoyed the “good urban-rural mix” the Brown-Dartmouth pro-gram provided. When he applied, he “thought it would be nice to have a change of location part-way through medical school. … I wanted to have both those cultur-al experiences.”

“I am really happy in the pro-gram and sad it is ending,” Link said.

BY KRISTINA KELLEHERSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Brown-Dartmouth medical program to end in 2010

A sharp rise in cheating cases brought before the Standing Com-mittee on the Academic Code has caused the committee’s chairs to question whether the statistic re-fl ects a trend in cheating on cam-pus.

Thirty cases of cheating that occurred during the Fall 2006 semester have come before the code committee, said committee co-chair and Associate Professor of Community Health Catherine Dube — seven more than were re-ported for the entire 2005-06 aca-demic year. All of last semester’s cases were fi rst offenses and all but one case involved undergrad-uates. The committee’s annual re-port described last year’s fi gure — 23 cases of cheating for the aca-demic year — as roughly average.

But professors on the code committee and Associate Dean of the College Karen Krahulik, who also serves as case administrator for the code committee, differed over whether the spike in academ-ic code violations indicates a rise in cheating.

Krahulik said it is almost im-possible to draw conclusions about whether more students are actually cheating. “If we just go by the num-ber of cases, we can get a sense of how many are caught, but it doesn’t tell us how many are cheating, and nothing will,” she said.

Several factors could have con-tributed to the increase, Krahulik said. “It could be that the dean’s of-fi ce has done more outreach both to students and to faculty, and so faculty are more alert and students are more alert to each other.”

Dube agreed that last semes-ter’s statistic does not necessarily mean that cheating is on the rise. “My gut impression is that it’s not,” she said. Dube said she thinks fac-ulty are “activated” and in turn are reporting more cases.

But the committee’s other co-chair, Associate Professor of Soci-ology Gregory Elliott, disagreed. Though “it’s impossible to tell exactly,” he said his “sociologi-cal take” leads him to believe that more students are cheating.

“There are more people trying to succeed in a society in which the number of slots available for success is not getting any bigger,” Elliott said. “So that increases the pressure tremendously.”

“Good people can do very bad things if the circumstances facili-tate it,” he said.

Even if there is escalating com-petition among students, Dube said she doubts it generates cheat-ing. Cheaters make up “a very small subset of students,” Dube said, noting that “the vast majority”

are “academically honest and have a lot of integrity.”

The current system for dealing with academic code violations is “working pretty well the way it is,” Dube said, adding that there are no concrete plans to change the existing policy, despite the large number of code violations last se-mester. But the committee has dis-cussed new methods for detecting cheating and also including stu-dents in code hearings.

One detection system, a soft-ware program called Turnitin.com, allows professors to submit students’ essays to a database that compares them with works from the Internet, journals, periodicals and previously submitted student work. “I think it’s probably just a matter of time before most uni-versities will have something like it available to instructors to check papers for plagiarism,” Dube said.

The Department of Comput-er Science already uses a service called Measure of Software Uni-ty to detect cheating. The depart-ment consistently reports the most academic code violations.

Associate Professor of Comput-er Science Thomas Doeppner said cheating cases within the depart-ment rose proportionally last se-mester, “but we certainly have bet-ter means for catching people.”

Doeppner said there are often issues about the extent to which collaboration is allowed. One fresh-man student who wished to remain anonymous said several of her pro-fessors often assign take-home quizzes that students submit on-line, making it “very easy to col-laborate.”

“In one of my classes, it’s explic-itly stated that we’re not supposed to work with other people, but ev-eryone kind of does,” she said. “If not, people still use their notes, and there’s no way for them to know if we used our notes or not.”

Krahulik said efforts to make students aware of academic poli-cies are “thorough.” First-years at-tend a lecture about the academic code during orientation and receive a copy of the handbook containing the code. Current freshmen had to complete an online tutorial the summer before beginning classesand other students were required to sign a card agreeing to the terms of the code.

Still, given the recent rise in the number of cases, Elliott said the University could do more to ad-dress cheating. “Just telling (stu-dents) they’re not supposed to cheat isn’t enough,” he said.

“The problem isn’t one of de-tection. The problem is dealing with the anxiety that makes des-perate people do stupid things,” Elliott said. “If it continues and we fi nd a similar number of increased violations this semester and again next fall, then I’d start to get very nervous.”

BY OLIVIA HOFFMANSTAFF WRITER

Is cheating on the rise?Last semester saw increase in reported cases

THE BROWN DAILY HERALDWEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2007 PAGE 8

rest of the campus and which he said had come to defi ne Princeton’s campus culture. “The Frist Center was very important because it pro-vides alternate meeting places for students who are in eating clubs. Students see more people.”

Just as the Frist model refl ects Princeton’s culture, Interim Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Russell Carey ’91 MA’06 said he believes such a building cannot simply be copied. “Our priority is to come up with fa-cilities that are right for Brown, that fi t Brown and match the education-al opportunities that are right for Brown students. We are informed by what others are doing, but not driven by that,” he said.

Williams College

A second potential model for Brown is Williams College’s Paresky Center. Opening in Febru-ary 2007 after two and a half years of construction, this 72,000 square-foot structure contains an audito-rium, dining room, marketplace, balconies and a number of lounges that students and student groups may reserve for events. Paresky was constructed to replace an ex-isting student center that had occu-pied the same location.

Williams senior Maggie Low-enstein was enrolled while the old center, Baxter Hall, was in opera-tion. “Baxter was kind of a bare-bones student center — dining hall upstairs, mailboxes, some offi ces for student organizations,” she said. “There was not a whole lot of gen-eral common space. It was function-al but not necessarily like a campus hub. ... It was just kind of there.”

Before constructing Paresky,

Lowenstein said, the Williams ad-ministration had made an effort to improve some of the other cam-pus spaces, such as improving cof-fee bars and other common areas. However, student organizations were forced to meet in rooms dis-persed around the campus, and even the mailboxes were not cen-trally located.

Like Princeton’s Frist Center, Lowenstein said Paresky was ex-tremely well-received once com-pleted.

“The way it is now, there is a good mix of student offi ces and other space. There is space to hang out, and the dining hall area is inte-grated with the social spaces. It is very nice that you can use the space in so many different ways. I think that is what a student center is sup-posed to do,” Lowenstein said, add-ing that, unlike at Frist, Paresky was constructed deliberately to have no academic classrooms. “Everybody studies all the time, tons. It’s nice to have a place without academic pres-sure.”

And at Brown...

So what would a similar hub for activity look like at Brown, and how would it refl ect the University’s cul-ture? The answer, according to Gresh, is that the University would like to construct not a student cen-ter, but rather a campus center.

“Brown is intent upon Faunce being a campus center. A student center is typically a place for stu-dents, student offi ces and space for a majority of student activities. The philosophy and approach is stu-dent-centered,” Gresh said. “A cam-pus center is a more recent idea, also taking into consideration how to get graduates and undergradu-ates to interact with each other and

with faculty. We ask, ‘How does this resource serve to bring the campus together — not just students?’ ”

Gresh said students perceive Faunce House as a natural continu-ation of the Main Green. Activities from the Main Green continue on to the steps of Faunce and often into the building. And, despite its small size, students already treat the Blue Room as a sort of hub for social in-teraction and meetings.

While the exact nature of how the campus center will be construct-ed has not yet been determined, Gresh said it will expand upon these strengths while addressing concerns that the rest of the build-ing is underutilized and relatively inaccessible to students.

Noting that the campus center is in the early planning phase, Car-ey said many University services would be consolidated into Faunce and J. Walter Wilson, with the in-tent that all of them become better utilized. “Particularly once an archi-tect is selected, there will be a spe-cifi c planning process to make that vision a reality,” Carey said.

Carey specifi cally referenced the University’s peer tutoring in writing programs, which are currently di-vided between the Writing Center in the Rockefeller Library and the Writing Fellows program in Rhode Island Hall. “This program will be much more effective if it is located in the same place,” he said.

“People need opportunities and space in order to work collabora-tively and collectively, face to face,” Carey said. “We see this space as one where a faculty member might meet with his or her advisee, a place where all types of formal and infor-mal interactions take place on a dai-ly basis between faculty, students and staff.”


may have already exhausted avail-able funding from external sourc-es like the National Science Foun-dation and the National Institutes of Health. Such professors would benefi t most from an increase in the number of University-fi nanced Undergraduate Teaching and Re-search Awards granted each year, which would make more summer research opportunities available to students.

In addition to increasing the number of UTRAs granted, the com-mittee also advocated measures to make UTRAs suffi cient to cover ex-penses for students on fi nancial aid with summer work expectations. The draft report suggested increas-ing the UTRA stipend from $3,000

to $4,000 or subsidizing University housing for student researchers.

Professor of Chemistry Rich-ard Stratt said student research at Brown is a successful and important part of the University. “It’s criminal that students go wanting for under-graduate research opportunities,” he said.

Jan Tullis, professor of geologi-cal sciences, said she expected alumni donors would be enthusias-tic about supporting undergraduate research.

Other forum participants said they were concerned that junior fac-ulty members have fewer resources for hiring summer researchers.

The report also suggests offer-ing multidisciplinary courses to at-tract more students. One proposal recommends adding sections to

certain introductory courses that would be taught by faculty mem-bers from outside of the course’s fi eld, such as an engineering pro-fessor teaching a section of an intro-ductory biology course.

Professors at the forum dis-cussed possibilities for reducing attrition of STEM concentrators after students complete introduc-tory courses and, more generally, increasing retention in those fi elds by increasing academic support for current and entering students.

The report also recommends of-fering summer programs to teach study skills, providing refresher courses in core areas and holding an orientation for incoming fi rst-years interested in STEM fi elds.

The report also discusses imple-menting a Supplemental Instruc-

tion program to target courses that have a high drop rate. SI is a na-tionwide instruction program with its national offi ce at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Associate Professor of Engineering Thom-as Webster, a committee member, said SI would recruit seniors to lead regular informational sessions in courses they have mastered and support younger students by guid-support younger students by guid-supporting them through the material and teaching them organizational and study skills.

Webster said SI has substan-tially increased retention rates for women and minorities in science courses at other universities where it has been implemented.

Professors at the forum seemed receptive to the admission propos-als mentioned in the report, which

included increasing the scientifi c focus of admission literature and creating special publications tar-geted at students with a demon-strated interest in science. Com-mittee members said they hoped to raise Brown’s profi le as a “science school” among potential applicants and their parents.

Faculty members at the forum offered some of their own sugges-tions for improving undergraduate STEM education at Brown. These included keeping track of talented high school students who partici-pate in scientifi c summer programs at Brown and supporting measures that would fi nd science-oriented stu-dents from local high schools and channel them into Brown’s admis-sion process through a University-sponsored club.


Profs voice support at forum for more undergrad science research funding

U. will look to other schools as it designs campus center

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a stunning fi rst-place fi nish and a personal best of 14.04 seconds on the 110-meter hurdles. The excep-tional time qualifi ed him for the NCAA East Regional meet.

Brown was impressive in the throwing events as well. In the shot put, the Bears fl exed their muscles as Bryan Powlen ’10, Eric Wood ’09 and David Howard ’09 launched third-, fourth- and fi fth-place throws with distances of 49-feet 1-inch, 47-9.5 and 47-7.25, re-spectively.

Powlen and Howard also took fourth and fi fth, respectively, in the discus. But they were not the only throwers who doubled up on the day. Wood also launched a fourth-place effort in the hammer

throw.More personal bests came

from Paul Rosiak ’07 and Samuel Urlacher ’09. Rosiak walked away from the javelin with a fi rst-place fi nish and a regional qualifying distance of 219-feet 9-inches.

“The women had a great meet before us, and Coach Lake made sure that we knew how well they did in hopes that it would car-ry over, which it obviously did,” Tabib said. “At the end of the meet, we had everyone who (set a personal record) stand up, and it was obvious that we had a great day by the number of men who stood up.”

The Bears hope that their hot streak will continue as they gear up for the end of their season.

“The Heptagonals has and

will always be a great track meet in the Ivy League,” Rosiak said. “It’s a complete weekend of noth-ing but track and fi eld with the entire team. The competition is great, and there is a strong sense of camaraderie among your team-mates. At this point, we start to phase into a peaking stage in training, so there is more mental than physical work to do.”

Some of this mental work even included picturing the perfect championship run.

“(My dream Heps) would be for everyone as a team to step up as a whole and run, throw, or jump to the best of their abilities,” Tabib said. “As a senior, knowing that everyone left it all on the fi eld would be a satisfying ending for me.”


appointing tournament, fi nish-ing seventh in the league with an overall score of 1,034. Tiffany Wade ’08 fi nished 13th individu-ally with a three-round 243 (83-80-80). Columbia captured the championship with a total of 933.

Despite her fi nish at the tour-nament, Wade was not ecstatic with the weekend’s outcome.

“I played fairly well but am still disappointed by the result,” Wade said. “It was a rough week-end for the team. The result is partially due to our lack of prac-tice before the weekend due to

weather.”However, the team is already

looking forward to next year. Ac-cording to Head Coach Danielle Griffi ths, three freshmen will join the team next year, and all are expected to contribute.

“This spring season has been a transition period for the team with the new coach and new sys-tem,” Griffi ths said. “But we are looking forward to improving the team next fall.”

Wade expressed the same optimism. “This season’s disap-pointing ending will be extra mo-tivation for the summer and next year.”


McClintock ’08, throwers shine for m. track at sunny Husky Spring Invitational

M. golf claim second at Ivy Championshipsbehind Haertel ’08, Malloy ’09

wealth of points for the Bears starting in the pole vault which boasted fi ve top-7 fi nishes. Kris-tin Olds ’09 led the way with a fi rst-place fi nish by clearing 11-feet 6.25 inches. Cassie Wong ’10 came in third with a clearance of 11-0.25. Tiffany Chang ’08, Keely Marsh ’08 and Allison Brager ’07 rounded out the scoring by sweeping fi fth through seventh places.

Rikki Baldwin ’07 and Ferjan went two-three in the long jump. King not only jumped a person-al best in the triple jump with a 40-foot 9-inch jump to put her in second place, but she also quali-fi ed for the NCAA East Regional meet.

In the discus throw, Danielle

Grunloh ’10 threw a personal best of 140-feet 2-inches to silver in the event, and Sarah Groothuis ’08 placed third with a 138-9.

The day was a proud one for the Bears, yet they said they still have a lot of work to do in a very short amount of time.

“UConn was one of our last opportunities before Heps to step it up, and we did, which is prom-ising,” Lake said. “We have two weeks left, and we really need to rally, up the ante, and up the focus level. Similar to indoors, we aren’t seeded very high in the league, and we will need to perform really well at Heps all around if we want to have a re-spectable fi nish. We want to re-main in second (where we fi n-ished in the indoor season), and this will not come easily for us.”


W. track leaps to second at Husky Spring Invitational

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To the Editor:

Students who planned to attend Monday’s Banner pro-test should be concerned about a recent summons to a dean’s hearing sent to members of Students for a Dem-ocratic Society by administrators after our recent action against Raytheon at the Career Fair.

According to the administration, we violated the Standards of Student Conduct by “(engaging) in a pro-test on University property.” However, offi cial school policy supports protest and allows “picket lines which permit free passage of those who wish to pass … signs, banners and peaceful assemblies.”

Groups as diverse as the Darfur Action Network, which recently protested the visiting Chinese ambas-sador, and the College Republicans, who demonstrated against Operation Iraqi Freedom’s war memorial, stage actions similar to ours on campus. These groups, like us, try to persuade and educate without presuming to force opinions on other students.

Could it be that the administration has come down so hard on SDS because we questioned the University’s complicity in the military-industrial complex? This is just conjecture, but it is true that other groups on cam-pus aren’t often invited to meet with deans simply for having “engaged in a protest on university property.”

It is important that campus activism not be discour-aged by this attempt to rein in SDS. This is our cam-pus, and we must dare to struggle against any and all attempts to silence the student body’s voice. It’s impor-tant that folks in University Hall understand that protest isn’t a privilege, it’s a right!

Lily Axelrod ’09Alex Campbell ’10

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To the Editor:

I found the title assigned to my letter (“Intrepid ther-mometer-wielder proves U. overheated,” April 24) to be poorly chosen.

Rather than choosing a title that summarized the main point of my letter — the fact that the University was defaulting on its commitment to reduce the lev-el of heating — The Herald chose a title that was as much about me as it was about the letter.

I don’t have a problem with people laughing at me for carrying a thermometer around campus, but is the

title of my letter really the right place for that? Isn’t the letters page a place for the opinions of the readers, rather than the opinions of the editors?

The Herald is welcome to mock me in an editorial or a column, but if the editors choose to publish my letters, I’d ask that they at least include them under a title that represents the ideas expressed within.

Adam Merberg ‘08April 24

An informal survey of Brown students’ opinions on po-tential policy solutions to address global warming sug-gests that students favor holistic solutions that balance competing needs. The poll was conducted by members of the Brown Policy Review, a non-partisan publication of the Roosevelt Institution chapter at Brown, at last Wednesday’s Earth Day celebration on Lincoln Field.

By a nearly two-to-one margin, students who re-sponded to the survey indicated that the “benefi ts of directing resources toward fi ghting global warming must be balanced with costs to other social programs and economic growth” over an alternative statement that “the benefi ts of directing resources towards fi ght-ing global warming always outweigh the costs.”

While the results and method of the poll are not sta-

tistically robust and a more comprehensive survey is needed to fully portray students’ perceptions, these ini-tial results provide some glimpse into Brunonian per-ceptions of one of the more pressing policy challenges facing the world today. Whether on campus or in the greater community, students desire to see equitable and balanced approaches that promote environmental protection — but not at expense of other social and eco-nomic values.

Adam Perry ’08Brown Policy Review, Editor-in-Chief

Christopher Hardy ’10Brown Policy Review, Environmental Policy Editor

April 24

Student upset with Herald letter title

Students seek environmental, economic balance

A year after the Science Cohort initiative fi zzled in the wake of strong faculty opposition, efforts to strengthen undergraduate programs in the fi elds collectively known as STEM — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — are primed to move forward once again. But this time, they’re to everyone’s benefi t.

On Tuesday, the faculty reviewed a preliminary draft of the Undergraduate Science Education Committee’s recommendations, and the proposals — increasing undergraduate research funding, lowering attrition from STEM concentrations and boosting interdisciplinary offer-ings, among others — represent a prudent departure from the Universi-ty’s last major plan to ratchet up the desirability of undergraduate science programs.

That last plan — the Science Cohort or the Integrative Science and Engineering Program — suggested recruiting a special cadre of about 60 incoming students each year who would have perks reserved specially for them, chiefl y two University-funded summer research grants. Faculty reaction to the idea ranged from lukewarm to oppositional. Many professors rightly disliked the notion of reserving elite benefi ts for a set of students, and others questioned the logistical sense of accommodating growth in the incoming class’s size.

However fl awed the initial plan, the goals behind the Science Cohort are right for Brown. The University’s strength in both the sciences and the humanities is relatively unique. Students who spend their days (and nights) in Barus & Holley or the Sidney Frank Hall for Life Sciences can call Brown a serious science school, while those who instead fi nd themselves in Peter Green House or Marston Hall consider the University one of nation’s top humanities institutions. Without neglecting the humanities or social sciences, University offi cials are right to build on Brown’s strengths in the STEM fi elds.

After a year of deliberation, the Undergraduate Science Education Committee — created last year to rethink the undergraduate science initiatives after the cohort scheme fl opped — has produced what appear to be appropriate recommendations. Increasing funding for undergradu-ate research opportunities, especially Undergraduate Teaching and Re-search Awards, answers a longstanding student complaint. And building multidisciplinary science education can help move Brown along the path undergraduate science education is heading nationwide.

With the Science Cohort a distant memory, the University’s new approach to strengthen undergraduate STEM offerings could improve education for all science students, not just a lucky few.

Originally known for his dogged, critical and ultimately correct re-porting on the early stages of the Vietnam War, journalist and author David Halberstam P’02 became one of the best-known and well-written historians of his generation.

Halberstam never lost his passion for what reporters do best — cov-ering weighty or latent topics, whether Vietnam or the 1950s, so compel-lingly that a casual reader couldn’t help but be interested. Even at the time of his death on Monday, Halberstam was on his way to an interview.

Fresh from a book on the Korean War and a piece on the 1958 NFL Championship Game between New York and Baltimore, Halberstam un-derstood the value of reporting on the diverse stories that shape Ameri-can life and can transport readers to either the jungles of Asia or in the middle of Yankee Stadium.

After a lecture yesterday by Halberstam’s slightly younger contempo-rary and close friend David Maraniss, we’re reminded of the importance of writers whose beautifully crafted words make even the heftiest topics engaging. On Monday we lost one of journalism’s great storytellers and one of America’s great popular historians.

Loss of a great storyteller

To the Editor:

When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech over 40 years ago, he inadvertently contributed to a paradigm that fl ies in the face of his legacy.

Dr. King had a dream, yes, but he also had a plan — to win over the hearts and minds of wavering moderates, to attract the votes of self-interested offi cials and to leave no doubt that the Civil Rights movement had airtight moral legitimacy. King’s strate-gy involved presenting a unifi ed front of un-deniable respectability, co-opting traditional Biblical moral rhetoric and preaching an in-clusive and hopeful message that embraced rather than alienated people.

It was not enough for King to fervently believe that he was on the right side of his-tory — he needed to actively and empatheti-cally engage the world of his time in order to effect its transformation.

Many of today’s activists, especially on America’s college campuses, remember King’s dream — but not, alas, his strategy.

Despite their insistence on tolerance, they lack the empathy and self-refl exivity needed to understand, let alone persuade, the vast masses of people who oppose their opinions on sensitive issues — such as guns, abortion, sexuality and separation of church and state — that have drawn many to the Re-publican Party in recent years.

Whereas King spelled out a powerful vi-sion specifi cally crafted to be stirring and persuasive to a broad audience, today many activists have slipped into a form of self-con-gratulatory complacency that may satisfy true believers but often proves off-putting (or worse) to the unconverted.

The shrillest examples of such compla-cency appear in the strident and divisive ‘activism’ of the far left, of which last year’s Anti-Racist Action is one of Brown’s more obnoxious examples. The group sought to spread its aggressively anti-Israel message with noisy confrontation, grandiose installa-tions on the Main Green and vituperative fi n-

ger-pointing — presumably with the hope of shocking passers-by into reconsidering their points of view.

Instead of inciting change, ARA’s grat-ing litany of grievances against “racist impe-rialists” antagonized a sizable minority into active opposition, provoked irritated indif-ference from most and thoroughly compro-mised the group’s credibility on campus. Even at such a liberal and activist-friend-ly place as Brown, ARA managed through sheer rudeness to undermine their cause by associating the legitimate plight of Pales-tinians with immature and unsavory radical-ism.

Off campus, many individuals view any and all activism with suspicion and are pre-disposed to react negatively — especially since the media invariably emphasize the shaggiest and most outrageous personalities they can muster. It’s paramount, then, that those who truly wish to get their message out borrow a trick from the famous 1964 protests at Berkeley, in which participants built a broad coalition, marched respectfully in coats and ties and ultimately won conces-sions from their rabidly conservative state government.

As at Berkeley, activists must make them-selves impossible to dismiss, which means anticipating and defusing the adversary’s ar-senal of distractions. No matter how eloquent and respectful each member of Students for a Democratic Society may be, charging a building and smearing it with raspberry jam to simulate blood — as happened earlier this semester — provides easy fodder for defend-ers of the status quo who can duck issues by attacking the stereotype of spoiled rich kids smoking pot at protests instead of getting a real job.

Indeed, Republicans have used such at-tacks for years, winning much working class support with various divisive cultural issues designed to make activists — and the Demo-crats they tend to support — seem like elitist alien saboteurs. And many, including mem-bers of the Brown community, have assisted the GOP every step of the way with behavior that alienates, disrespects and excludes the very constituents needed to win elections

and kick-start systemic change.Lest anyone believe that such counter-

productive behavior is limited to an extrem-ist minority, it’s important to remember how pervasive a problem it is — and how deep-ly many of us are implicated. Being coun-terproductive includes calling anyone who questions gay marriage homophobic. It’s condemning the Duke lacrosse players — or the Brown police — before a shred of evi-dence has been heard. It’s circulating chain e-mails after the 2004 election that labeled red-leaning states “Jesusland” and baseless-ly claimed that Democrats have higher IQs than Republicans. It’s Howard Dean declar-ing patronizingly that Democrats need to reach out to “guys with Confederate fl ags on their pick-up trucks” and it’s the excessive wave of politically correct liberal revulsion that his statement elicited.

Progressives should have enough faith in their cause — as King did — to believe that it will advance through consciousness-raising and debate, not snide personal attacks and shrill street theater.

In an era of rapid and destabilizing change, progressives cannot afford to build a small tent for a self-selected group of moral elites and simply “hope for the best.” Start-ing with the language of respect and recon-ciliation, they must strategically cultivate a muscular but moderate reputation in order to build genuine coalitions and marshal the necessary infl uence to make meaningful im-provements.

Underneath the noisy posturing, few of the participants in our republic — candidate, voter, donor or activist — are truly enemies. We are a diverse group of fellow citizens who, for the most part, are genuinely trying to make the right decisions for our common future.

When progressives reject rather than court moderates, they undermine society’s potential for real cooperation and change. In order to build the nation that we’d like to see, we must fi rst take after King and be will-ing to work with the nation that we have.

Jesse Adams ’07 is off to greener pastures.

Professional boxing today is suffering in pop-ularity. This has not always been the case, however. In the 1990s, the two Mike Tyson fi ghts with Evander Holyfi eld — the second one being the notorious “bite fi ght” where Holyfi eld lost a piece of his ear — broke gate revenue records in Las Vegas and smashed pay-per-view purchase records as well. But with Tyson, Holyfi eld and Lennox Lewis all retired, the heavyweight division lacks any real excitement, and this effect has trickled down to all the divisions.

There’s reason to believe this could change in the near future, however.

To understand the current state of profes-sional boxing, it might be interesting to take a look at a different sport. Like boxing today, thoroughbred horseracing’s glory days were the 1970s. About 40 years ago, in the most prominent division of the sport — three-year olds, the horseracing equivalent of the heavy-weight division — there suddenly emerged a plethora of horses with unprecedented levels of natural ability. This surplus of talent made racing’s three greatest showcases — the Ken-tucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes — some of the most exciting competitions in all of professional sports at the time. Three times in the 1970s, a horse was able to dominate all three of those races

to win the most elusive prize in professional sports: the Triple Crown. It has been 28 years since Affi rmed captured the Crown in 1978, the last horse to do so.

In a strange parallel, it has also been 28 years since Leon Spinks held boxing’s great-est prize and perhaps the most coveted indi-vidual prize in all of sports — the undisput-ed heavyweight championship of the world. What complicates things is that the four sanc-tioning bodies of heavyweight boxing — the WBC, the WBA, the IBF and the WBO — now recognize four different men as heavy-weight champion.

Some wonder if an undisputed cham-pion will ever rise again, in an age where fi nancial negotiations between pro-moters, media, agents and the box-ers themselves take longer than ever. Often times the negotiations simply break down and the fans’ desire to see the best of the biggest go head-to-head is left unfulfi lled.

A unifi cation series — a competition for the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world — is the principal victim of this clash of interests. The problem faced by con-temporary boxing is a typical prisoner’s di-lemma. Even though everyone involved in the sport would profi t from the revived inter-est in a single world championship, everyone seems to have a reason to keep this unifi ca-tion from taking place.

For instance, Don King — perhaps the best-known promoter in boxing — promotes one of the four champions, Shannon Briggs. If Briggs were not the winner of the tourna-ment, King could be left without any share of the heavyweight championship for the fi rst

time in decades. Meanwhile, HBO remains deadlocked in

fi nancial disputes with promoters. Each side is trying to maximize its bid, even though they would all benefi t from coming to an agreement.

In horseracing, there’s only a select few opportunities for truly giant paydays. There’s the three big Triple Crown races, and if own-ers choose not to run their best horses, they miss out on an opportunity that they’ll never have again — because a horse is only three-years-old once.

Boxing has an advantage over horserac-ing in that there are theoretically infi nite op-portunities for such enormous paydays, be-cause the people involved — the fi ghters, the promoters and the media — have the power to create such big events themselves by ar-ranging different exciting matchups.

The hitch is that producing exciting match-ups requires a certain degree of co-operation. It requires the interested parties to see beyond their provincial squabbles and recognize that a revival in boxing would ben-efi t them all.

Given the possibility for unlimited match-ups, producing a unifi ed world championship could return boxing to its former position as one of the most exciting and profi table of all professional sports.

If only the interested parties could recog-nize their common interest, boxing could be king once again.

Don Trella ’08 would be king himself, if it weren’t for his dastardly brother Roderick.

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALDWEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2007 PAGE 11

Taking a page from Dr. KingBY JESSE ADAMS

OPINIONS COLUMNIST

How to put boxing back on top

DON TRELLAOPINIONS COLUMNIST

The University has vigilantly demonstrated its commitment to social responsibility, as has re-cently been demonstrated by the release of the slavery and justice report. The report, which pivots around the University’s unpleasant con-frontation with its involvement in the Atlantic slave trade, brings into focus the momentous importance of truth, apology and the acknowl-edgement of past wrongdoings in confronting an institution’s entanglement in the infringe-ment of civil liberties.

Yet for all of its concern with acknowledg-ing transgressions against human rights in its past, the University has left us wondering if the same concern applies to violations in the present.

The University is remaining silent as the human rights of the people who make Brown-logo clothes are trampled. Much as the Uni-versity failed to stand up for human rights dur-ing the slave trade, Brown is refusing to take a stand against the exploitation of the workers who make our clothes.

Currently, the companies the University contracts for our uniforms and Brown-logo apparel are abandoning the few factories that have made progress in improving the condi-tions of their workplace and outsourcing pro-duction to factories where workers’ rights are non-existent. Instead of supporting alterna-tives to sweatshop exploitation, Brown is re-maining silent while workers that have fought for their human rights are laid off and replaced by a more easily exploitable workforce.

The vast majority of workers employed in apparel factories are plagued by low wages that fail to meet basic day-to-day needs, by ex-cessively long working hours, by forced and unpaid overtime, by physical and verbal abuse and by a total lack of representation. By sub-scribing to University-logo apparel made un-der such circumstances, Brown plays the role of facilitator in the negation of civil liber-ties and the dehumanization of workers.

Keeping this in mind, we wonder: Should Brown-logo garments on proud display at the Bookstore be seen as a denial of present-day violations of human rights or Brown’s proud display of its willingness to support them?

Following the logic of the slavery and jus-tice report, Brown should acknowledge its utilization of sweatshop labor and take part in the international action against poor work-ing conditions by adopting the Designated Suppliers Program. The DSP works with uni-versities and sweat-free factories to raise the substandard working conditions of the gar-ment industry. In exchange for university ap-parel orders, factories are required to com-ply with labor laws, provide workers a living wage and recognize their rights to organize.

Over thirty universities throughout the country have taken a stand for workers’ rights and adopted the DSP — which uses university buying power to support facto-ries with fair working conditions and decent wages. Meanwhile, Brown has neither open-ly voiced support nor signed on to the DSP, ly voiced support nor signed on to the DSP, ly voiced support nor signed on to the DSPeven as its creators have painstakingly attend-ed to all of the legal concerns that might have hindered the University from participating.

If Brown truly desires to set the standard for ethical behavior and ensure legitimate progress in the realm of worker empower-ment, it should not hesitate to espouse the DSP program.

Masha Perelyubskaya ‘10, Jennifer Phung ‘09, Sarah Adler- Milstein ‘07.5, Francesca Contreras ‘10, Will Emmons ‘09, Alex Campbell ‘10, Becky Fish ‘09, Nicole Carty ‘10 and Kenneth Morales ‘09 are members of Brown Students Against

Sweatshops.

The University’s sweatshop labor

BY MASHA PERELYUBSKAYA, JENNIFER PHUNG, SARAH ADLER-MILSTEIN,

FRANCESCA CONTRERAS, WILL EMMONS, ALEX CAMPBELL, BECKY FISH, NICOLE

CARTY AND KENNETH MORALESGUEST COLUMGUEST COLUMGUEST NISTS

The women’s tennis team fi nished its season on a high note, taking down two Ivy League foes over the weekend. The Bears overpow-ered Dartmouth Friday by a score of 5-2, and Sunday, they defeated Harvard, 4-3. The pair of victories boosted Brown’s Ivy record to 4-3 (9-11 overall) and marked the fi rst time since 2003 that the team fi n-ished with a winning conference record.

“(A winning conference recor-dis) always something we’ve been working towards, at least since my freshman year. So yeah, to fi nally accomplish that did make the wins (over Dartmouth and Harvard) a little more special,” said Michelle Pautler ’07.

The Bears came out strong against the Big Green, winning two of the three doubles matches to gain an early advantage. At fi rst doubles, Pautler and Sara Man-sur ’09 had an 8-5 win, and at third doubles, Daisy Ames ’07 and Kath-rin Sorokko ’10 dismantled their opponents 8-2, giving Brown the doubles point.

Pautler said the win over Dart-mouth was in doubt until Ames pulled out her three-set match in the next-to-last match to fi nish.

“The fi nal score was deceiving. It felt a lot closer, where we might lose 4-3,” Pautler said. “We were defi nitely worried … until Daisy Ames came up with a crucial win.”

In singles play, the Bears’ win-ning ways continued. Ames had a 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 victory at second sin-gles, and Mansur and Alexa Bag-gio ’09 took straight-set wins at third and fourth singles, fi nish-

ing with respective scores of 6-4, 6-4 and 6-3, 7-5. Tanja Vucetic ’10 rounded out the Bears’ 5-2 win with a 6-3, 3-6 (7-2) victory at sixth singles.

The momentum carried over to Sunday’s match against the Crim-son. Though the Bears dropped the doubles point, they took four of the six singles matches for the victory. At fi rst singles, Pautler outlasted her opponent 4-6, 7-5, 6-1. Mansur had a victory at third singles when her opponent re-tired with Mansur leading 7-5, 3-0. At fi fth singles, Emily Ellis ’10 tri-umphed 6-3, 6-4, and at sixth sin-gles, Vucetic breezed by her oppo-nent 6-2, 6-0.

The triumphant two-day stretch was the Bears’ fourth

weekend sweep of the season, and all nine of the team’s wins on the year came during those four weekends. Pautler, along with Ames, are the team’s only gradu-ating players. Pautler said the fi rst winning conference mark in four years was something the Bears could build on.

“Being on the team enhanced my time at Brown,” she said. “It re-ally was like having a family that taught me patience, cooperation and teamwork even though a lot of these girls you were competing against for playing time. I think (the winning record) was good for the girls to see that, ‘Yes, they can com-pete with the other Ivy teams.’ ”

— Erin Frauenhofer

SPORTS WEDNESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALDWEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2007 PAGE 12

McClintock ’08, throwers shine for m. track at sunny Husky Spring Invitational

Over the weekend, the men’s track and fi eld team enjoyed the beauti-ful weather, not at Spring Week-end on campus, but competing at the Husky Spring Invitational in Storrs, Conn. The Bears raced their way to a third-place fi nish, recording 125 points in the meet to fi nish just behind the Universi-ty of Connecticut and the Univer-sity of Rhode Island.

“In my last four years, I don’t think any of our UConn meets had conditions like this,” said jav-elin thrower Paul Rosiak ’07. “You always try not to let the condi-tions make a difference in your approach going into a meet, but having calm, 60 degree-plus con-ditions as opposed to the cold rain we’ve had to deal with defi nitely adds a little something. It’s much easier to get loose and stay loose throughout the competition.”

Though the team often vows to make every event count in each meet, the Bears are focused on the Heptagonal Championships, now just two weeks away. This weekend’s invitational was simply a practice run in perfect weather.

“As far as the team goes, all competitions are building towards Heps,” said Jamil McClintock ’08. “But for some individuals, ev-ery week, (the competitions are) used to get better individually and

see how you stack up next to the scholarship athletes. I know per-sonally, this meet was for me to win. I want to win every week, and that’s all that’s on my mind.”

Many of the Bears seemed to have that same mentality as they posted several top-fi ve perfor-mances, including two wins and numerous personal bests. Mc-Clintock started off the day strong in the 200-meter dash, an event that he does not typically compete in. He placed fourth with a time of 21.99 seconds and will look to im-prove on that when he races the event in the Ivy Championships.

“I am a hurdler, but I can also sprint,” McClintock said. “I plan on running the 200 at Ivy League Championships, so I have to get a few races under my belt. It’s fun for me to run without hurdles — it’s so much easier.”

A slew of Bears made the 800-meter run look easy. Four of them placed in the top 10 — Sean O’Brien ’09, Christian Tabib ’07, Duriel Hardy ’10 and John Loeser ’10 ran to third-, fourth-, eighth- and ninth-place fi nishes, respec-tively. O’Brien and Tabib both had breakthrough runs, posting times of 1:51.58 and 1:52.44. Hardy also ran the 1,500-meter event and fi n-ished fi fth with a personal best of 3:57.66.

McClintock hurdled his way to

BY SARAH DEMERSASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

M. golf records best-ever fi nish at Ivy League Championships

In virtually perfect weather condi-tions, the men’s golf team traveled to Galloway, N.J., to compete in the Ivy League Golf Championship this weekend. The Bears took sec-ond place with a three-round 914 at the Galloway National Golf Club, 10 strokes behind the University of Pennsylvania, which took home the championship. The second-place fi nish is the highest Brown has ever placed in the Ivy League.

To top off the terrifi c weekend, Larry Haertel ’08 fi nished second individually, and Conor Malloy ’09 fi nished sixth. Both earned fi rst team All-Ivy honors.

The 54-hole tournament was an intense tug-of-war featuring top-notch competition. Three-time de-fending Ivy champion Princeton, last year’s runner-up-by-one-stroke Columbia and Penn all entered the tournament with title aspirations. One of the main advantages those three squads boasted was experi-ence. Princeton sported two top-10 fi nishers from last year, Colum-bia had three and the Quakers had one.

But Brown entered the tourna-ment with a formidable lineup of its own. Under the leadership of last year’s defending individual cham-pion Haertel, the Bears hoped to capture their fi rst Ivy League

Championship or at least improve on their third-place fi nish from last year.

After the fi rst two rounds, both played Saturday, Brown remained in third place, 11 strokes behind the leading Lions. With a two-round 148 (72-76), Haertel sat tied for fi fth place with Malloy, who shot 77-71. Malloy’s second-round even par was the best score in that round.

On the second day, the Bears returned to the course at 7:30 a.m. to play the fi nal 18 holes. Haertel closed out his last four holes in emphatic fashion, carding a fi nal round 73, but it was not enough to ensure a second straight league ti-tle. Haertel fi nished in second place with a three-round total of 221, just one stroke behind Columbia’s Chris Condello, last year’s runner-up. Malloy shot a fi nal round of 76 for a three-round 224, good enough for sixth place in the tournament. John Gianuzzi ’10, Chris Hoffman ’09 and Aaron Telch ’07 also con-tributed to the fi nish. Gianuzzi shot 231 on the weekend, good enough for 13th place overall, and Hoffman and Telch both shot 241.

“I am very satisfi ed with the result,” said Head Coach Mike Harbour. “The boys played their hearts out and never gave up. Most players and coaches walked away knowing that Brown is not a push-over team anymore.”

The men’s golf team has one more tournament before the spring season ends. The Bears will

compete in the University of Rhode Island Northeast Collegiate Invita-tional Saturday at Green Valley Country Club in Portsmouth.

“We want to win this tourna-ment. The boys know they can, and we will play as if it is the Ivy League Championship,” Harbour said.

The women’s golf team also competed in the Ivy League Cham-pionship this past weekend at the Trenton Country Club in West Trenton, N.J. The Bears had a dis-

BY HAN CUISPORTS STAFF WRITER

W. track places second at Husky Spring Invitational

After a string of successful show-ings in previous meets, the wom-en’s track and fi eld team trav-eled to Storrs, Conn., Saturday looking to improve on its already stellar season. The Bears fi n-ished second out of eight teams, falling only to the University of Connecticut by a score of 225 to 193 at the Husky Spring Invi-tational. But the Bears said they were already turning their focus to much tougher competition at the Heptagonal Championships in two weeks.

“The women almost won the meet without even trying,” said Director of Track and Field Craig Lake. “We are gaining on UCo-nn, which is a good sign that our team is putting it together at the right time.”

Though some distance run-ners were absent and others competed in off-events, the Bears managed to string together an impressive day. The team fi n-ished with multiple top-fi ve per-formances in almost every event, as well as two fi rst-place fi nishes.

“Although we don’t have an ex-tremely large team, we still have a lot of depth,” said Akilah King ’08. “In most running events, we have more than one person who is capable of scoring at Heps. It’s the quality of the athletes that matters, not necessarily the quantity.”

There certainly were some quality performances on the day, which started off with a one-two punch from Thelma Breezeatl ’10 and Lauren Hale ’07. The speed-sters came in second and third in the 100-meter dash with respec-tive times of 11.82 seconds and 12.28. Breezeatl — who already made a name for herself by win-ning the 60-meter dash in the Indoor Heptagonal Champion-ships earlier this year — broke the school record in the 100-me-ter with her personal best perfor-mance. Her time edged out the previous top time by .05 seconds.

In the 200-meter dash, King blazed to a second-place fi nish of 24.19 seconds, while Breeze-atl logged in at fi fth with a 24.48. Cheryl Scott ’07, Jasmine Chuk-wueke ’10 and Naja Ferjan ’07 placed second, fourth and fi fth in the 400-meter dash with times of 56.59 seconds, 58.01 and 59.26, respectively.

In the 800-meter run, Smita Gupta ’08 ran a personal best of 2:13.21 to win the event, while teammate Brooke Giuffre ’10 fol-lowed in third place with a per-sonal best of her own, at 2:16.92.

Giuffre also ran the 1,500-me-ter and placed second, and Her-ald Assistant Sports Editor Mad-eleine Marecki ’07 placed fourth in the 5,000-meter with a time of 18:41.26.

The fi eld events provided a

BY SARAH DEMERSASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

W. tennis has fi rst winning Ivy record since 2003

Jacob Melrose / HeraldIn the fi nal match of her collegiate career, Michelle Pautler ’07 won 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 at No. 1 singles to clinch Brown’s victory over Harvard.

dspics.comLarry Haertel ’08 fell one stroke shy of defending his individual Ivy League title.

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