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SMOKE OUT Statewide smoking ban in effect today; students and business owners react METRO

KICK THE KEG Nick Mark ’06 and Matt Lawrence ’06: UCS proposal overlooks keg safety and environmental concerns OPINIONS 7

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University conditionally OKs Shanghai liquor license

BY SHAWN BAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Several community leaders, including Ward 2 City Councilwoman Rita Williams, formally objected to a liquor license application from new Thayer Street restaurant Shanghai at a hearing before the Board of Licenses Friday. During the proceedings, Shanghai owners Michel Boutros and Ray Hugh suggested a series of voluntary restrictions that are intended to ease the concerns of community leaders and University administrators. The owners have applied for a Class BV liquor license, which would permit them to serve any alcoholic beverage. Shanghai, a Chinese restaurant, will fill the space previously occupied by Café Java at 272 Thayer St. The board has taken the restaurant’s license application under advisement and said it will reach a decision by Monday. Darrell Brown, director of state and community relations, represented the University at the hearing. University administrators have recorded a formal objection, but the adoption of the owners’ proposed restrictions would render the objection moot, Brown said. The owners agreed to surrender the liquor license should Shanghai cease to operate as a restaurant or if they are found in violation of any restrictions. These stipulations address concerns voiced by University administrators and community leaders regarding the potential transfer of the liquor license if Shanghai were to go out of business. In particular, administrators fear the license could be used to open a new bar, according to Michael Chapman, vice

The Corporation approved a new Master’s Degree in Public Humanities in the Department of American Civilization on Saturday. The program, providing training for careers in museums and other historical preservation organizations, will be offered beginning Fall 2005. Steven Lubar, professor of American civilization and director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization, will oversee the new program. The Master’s in Public Humanities expands and replaces the existing Master’s in Museum Studies, adding topics that go beyond the scope of museum studies. The program will include study of historic preservation, digitization, public memorials and journalism on art, history and culture. The new program will require four semesters and two practicums for completion. The practicums will be crucial to the new curriculum, Lubar said. Under each practicum, students will intern at local museums and cultural organizations and complete individual projects. The projects will expose the students to the real work of public humanities and will be supervised by professionals in the field. Some of the possible institutions being considered for practicums are Brown’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, the New Bedford Whaling Museum, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, the Rhode Island Historical Society and the Smithsonian Institution. According to Lubar, the idea for the Master’s in Public Humanities had been discussed for a long time. “It’s been talked about for five years or so. There was a sense that it would be good to expand the (museum studies) program to include bigger issues of how to present the humanities. We wanted to incorporate things like state humanities commissions, theater and dance, and historic presentation in the program,” he said. In the proposal approved by the faculty on Feb. 1 and the Corporation last weekend, the Department of American Civilization notes “no other university, to our knowledge, offers an M.A. in public humanities,” although around 20 universities grant degrees in museum studies. Lubar said new courses would be introduced for the program, but there were no plans to bring in new faculty. “There will be several new courses that aren’t offered now, including an introductory course to public humanities and a course on methods and techniques of public humanities. But the program is very multi-disciplinary, and a lot of courses are taught in other departments, such as history and anthropology. We hope to have some visiting professors, and a lot of talks by guest speakers,” he said. The program also seeks to take advantage of Brown’s relationship with RISD to offer opportunities for collaboration between the two institutions. Planners hope to work with RISD’s Urban Design Institute and Landscape Architecture program.

BY ROBBIE COREY-BOULET METRO EDITOR

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Newly arriving Chinese restaurant Shanghai faces objections by several community leaders as it applies for a liquor license.

“One of the strengths of the program is that it includes all these related fields, and we hope to bring RISD into the mix. We could have RISD students working in this area together with our students from Brown,” Lubar said. He cited a current exhibition created by students in AC 190, Sec. 3: “Theory and Methods of Oral History,” currently on display at Carriage House, as an example of the type of collaboration that could be done with RISD. Brown and RISD students worked together to create the exhibit about artists and institution builders in the Providence arts community. Lubar said in addition to broadening the scope of the Master’s in Museum Studies program, the Master’s in Public Humanities will also have the resources to attract more students. “Right now we’ve usually had two or three students each year, but we hope to

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have 10 students each year in the new program. We’re in the process of accepting admissions for next year, and we’d love to have Brown students apply for admission this fall,” he said. One student noted that the program has begun to receive some publicity among American civilization concentrators. “It’s just started to get a buzz, and people have started to talk about the new program in the past couple of weeks. It’s definitely worth consideration. I’m not aware of any other similar graduate programs in the U.S., and it could be very interesting,” said Heather Velez ’05.

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Classes make virtual leap into blogosphere BY TARYN MARTINEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Imagine not having to rouse yourself from a nap and run out the door still in your pajamas to make it to section on time. Imagine not having to walk back to your dorm in the dark when your section ends at TECHNOLOGY 9:30 p.m. in the classroom Sound too good to be true? Some professors and students are taking the matter into their own hands and making sections a little closer to home — by communicating from the comfort of their rooms. The answer lies in using Internet technology, specifically blogs and “virtual sections.” Student blogs can be personal or available for public comment. Virtual sections are discussion boards where anyone can start a new topic or comment on a topic, or “thread,” already present. Using blogs and virtual sections in place of traditional sections is still relatively new on the University’s campus.

“Others have used it in a supplemental way,” said Stephanie Birdsall, lead communication specialist for Computing and Information Services. “But Ross Cheit is the first person that’s (used a blog in place of section) so far.” The first class to utilize both blogs and virtual sections is PS 105: “Ethics and Public Policy.” Associate Professor of Political Science Ross Cheit uses both mediums as a substitute for sections, and though this is his first semester using them, he already sees “some really good indications.” The option of not answering to a post right away allows students to mull over and research their responses. “What’s happening here would never happen in a one-hour section,” he said. “People are really thinking.” Cheit first became involved with blogs and virtual sections in Technology and Resources for Enhanced Education, a program that teaches professors how to bring technology into the classroom. After learning how to use the two formats on WebCT, Cheit allowed his

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students to choose the one they preferred. He ended up with about 30 students using blogs and the rest participating in virtual sections, some large and some small. Cheit is “still assessing” the system, but said “they both have real potential to create something that doesn’t otherwise happen. On a blog … you can be creative.” Though Cheit said that most students have responded well to the new mediums, he acknowledged that while they make “some people more comfortable,” others “would prefer traditional sections.” Melissa Riess ’06 is involved with one of Cheit’s virtual sections, which she chose over blogging because “that’s what’s most interesting — talking to other people about their ideas.” Her experience with the virtual section has been positive. “It allows people to have more detailed responses to questions, without having people interrupt,” she said. see BLOGS, page 5 News tips: herald@browndailyherald.com

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THIS MORNING TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2005 · PAGE 2 Coreacracy Eddie Ahn

WORLD IN BRIEF Syrian-backed prime minister dismantles govt. The decision was apparently spontaneous. Pro-Syrian lawmakers appeared stunned and members of the opposition rose to their feet in a standing ovation. The resignation was a triumph for a swelling Lebanese opposition, which has been calling for Syria to withdraw its soldiers and disentangle its intelligence services from Lebanon's institutions.Tensions had been mounting since the Feb. 14 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, which many blamed on Syria.

LOS ANGELES TIMES BEIRUT, Lebanon - The Syrian-backed government of Lebanon stepped down Monday, collapsing under a groundswell of street protests, candlelight vigils and international pressure to end Damascus' domination of its neighbor. While thousands of demonstrators thronged in the streets, Prime Minister Omar Karami, an ally of Syria, stood before parliament and announced that he would quit his job and dismantle his Cabinet.

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TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS THE ROLE OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN OUR ECONOMY: Econ DUG lunch with special guest 12:00 p.m. (Robison Hall 301) — Join the Economics DUG for lunch and a talk by noted CNN producer and author Martin Torgoff, who recently published a book titled “Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age.”

SUSTAINABLE FOOD INITIATIVE 8:30 p.m. (Urban Environmental Lab, 135 Angel St.) — Share your ideas about why you think it is important for Brown to support local agriculture. Once organized, group will meet with Louella Hill ’04 and Virginia Dunleavy about how to best bring more local foods to campus.

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MENU SHARPE REFECTORY LUNCH — Mexican Salad Bar, Squash Pie, Vegan Rice and Jalepeños, Mexican Corn, Minestrone Soup, Vegetarian Roasted Butternut Soup with Apples, Spinach Pie, Kielbasa, Liberty Chocolate Cake.

VERNEY-WOOLLEY DINING HALL LUNCH — Vegetarian Lentil Soup, Chicken Noodle Soup, Chinese Chicken Wings, Wisconsin Ziti with Four Cheeses, Mandarin Blend Vegetables, M&M Cookies. DINNER — Vegetarian Lentil Soup, Chicken Noodle Soup, Italian Beef Noodle Casserole, Vegan Stir Fry Vegetables wth Tofu, Red Potatoes with Fresh Dill, Sauteed Zucchini with Onions, Carrots in Parsley Sauce, Squash Rolls, White Cake with Coconut Frosting.

DINNER — Garden Patch Salad Bar, Tomato Quiche, Brussels Sprouts, Squash Rolls, Tostitos, Tortellini Angelica, Pork Loin with Green Apple Dressing, Yellow Cake with Coconut Frosting.

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Business owners, students Providence businesses worry about new smoking ban enforcement prepare for smoking ban to take effect today BY ROBBIE COREY-BOULET METRO EDITOR

BY ANNE WOOTTON STAFF WRITER

Jennifer McDaniel has worked at Snooker’s and The Green Room six days a week for the last nine years. “There’s just dudes in here,” she said of the pool hall, bar and sometime concert venue’s clientele. “They’re drinking coffee, they’re smoking cigarettes, they’re playing pool. That’s what you do.” McDaniel smokes, as do most employees at Snooker’s and The Green Room. They weren’t particularly worried about the secondhand smoke they will soon be granted respite from by the Public Health and Workplace Safety Act, signed into law by Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65 last June and effective this morning at 12 a.m. But “all the ashtrays are going” in accordance with the new regulations, McDaniel said. Rhode Island is the seventh state to enact such a ban. The bill was framed largely as a protective measure for employees — the Department of Health estimates that working an eight-hour shift in a smoky bar is equivalent to smoking 16 cigarettes. “Not in this place,” McDaniel said of health concerns at Snooker’s and The Green Room. “There was no one from here on that panel,” she said, in reference to the bill’s advocates. “It’s a pool hall.” In light of the ban, which prevents smoking in almost all workplaces including restaurants and bars, she said “a few (employees) have quit (smoking), and a few more — including myself — are trying to quit. I had a meeting with my staff to find out what they are going to do, and half of them want to quit — (the ban) is kind of pushing them into it, although I think it’s hard to say ‘I’m not going to smoke’ when you smoke a pack a day.” McDaniel said she isn’t too worried about losing customers because of the ban. “Sure, some people aren’t going to come here for a little while,” she said, “but my question is, where else are you going to go? You can’t go to New York, you can’t go to Boston — it’s

going to leave people saying, ‘Let’s just go downtown.’” There are a few small bars and private clubs that will be exempt from implementation until Oct. 1, 2006. Establishments with class C or class D liquor licenses and 10 or fewer employees are exempt from the law until this date. The exemption for Class D liquor licenses is limited to “distinctly private” locations, including “nonprofit or charitable organizations with defined membership,” according to a document distributed by the Rhode Island Department of Health. “We don’t want to attract a certain kind of people (because we’ll be one of the only places that allows smoking), but it’s a small room, so we won’t even have to worry about that,” said Ken, a bartender at Wickenden Pub, which has a class C liquor license and meets the exemption requirements. He said he would probably put a walkway to a backyard smoking area when he is eventually forced to comply with the law. Some restaurant and bar owners are less than happy about the application of the new law. At Paragon and Viva at 243 Thayer St., smoking used to be allowed everywhere after 10:30 p.m. “It’s idiotic that some people can (continue to smoke) and some people can’t,” said manager Armando Dias. “Our clientele — especially Viva’s clientele — smokes. That’s life. They’re entitled to do so. Some customers aren’t coming back.” Dias takes particular issue with the permanent exemption granted to the state’s two gambling parlors, Newport Grand and Lincoln Park. Rhode Island will take in an estimated $255 million from the two casinos this year, and data from Delaware showed that casinos there lost significant amounts of money during the first year of that state’s smoking ban, according to the Providence Journal. “If the two casinos can do it — if the law was designed to help the workforce, which was how they see SMOKING, page 4

Members of the Providence business community claim they are ill equipped to enforce the statewide smoking ban given its language and several administrative ambiguities. About 40 Providence business owners raised their concerns in a heated question-andanswer session at a Business Roundtable panel Monday that featured presentations from local politicians and the Rhode Island Department of Health. The ban is part of the Public Health and Workplace Safety Act, signed into law by Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65 last June and effective this morning at 12 a.m. The language of the ban raises complications regarding its enforcement, according to J.D. Leedham, who works for Ultra the Night Club in Providence and owns Comprehensive Security Concepts, a security consulting firm. While the ban legislates against smoking, it fails to criminalize the act itself, Leedham told The Herald. Instead, the impetus to enforce the ban falls on business owners, who face disciplinary measures should their patrons fail to comply. “The ban makes it illegal to allow smoke in the workplace, but the act itself is not illegal,” Leedham said. “That needs to be changed.” While panel members admitted some aspects of the ban might lead to misinterpretations, they cited the success of similar ordinances in other cities as evidence that many of the predicted complications may not materialize during implementation. In his opening remarks, Providence Mayor David Cicilline ’83 addressed concerns regarding the ban’s potentially negative impact on economic performance, stressing its ability to promote business interests. He cited sales increases in Boston following implementation of an anti-smoking law, as well as negligible effects on

business performance in New York City after it passed a similar ordinance. John Lombardi, president of the Providence City Council, called on business owners to work with municipal officials to “make this transition go as smoothly as possible.” After praising the leadership of local politicians who advocated for the ban, Lombardi appealed to the business community to consider its public health benefits. “This is everyone’s concern,” he said. “We are on the forefront of public health reform.” Much of the panel was devoted to a presentation from Bill Dundulis, a toxicologist at the Department of Health Risk Assessment, who outlined enforcement and disciplinary procedures and attempted to explain the scope of the ban’s application and any potential exemptions. While Dundulis called the ban’s exemptions “very limited,” several of them have recently drawn criticism from local business owners. The most controversial include those granted to Lincoln Park and Newport Grand casinos, as well as establishments with Class C and D liquor licenses that employ 10 workers or fewer. Dundulis also attempted to describe enforcement procedures, though several business owners said they wondered how they would be safeguarded from false complaints. Ruth Trigg, director of human resources for Walco Electric Co. in Providence, expressed concerns about complaints from disgruntled employees, though she added she “was not expecting this from our people.” According to Dundulis’ presentation, initial complaints made to the Department of Health via an e-mail message or a phone call will be met with an informal response, while signed responses will undergo formal investigation. This distinction will not apply for second complaints, which will be forwarded automatically to the city or town

solicitor in charge of enforcement. “If we get a complaint, we have to issue a notice,” Dundulis said. “We don’t have any real discretion to do a lengthy investigation,” he said, citing the department’s limited resources. Dundulis told The Herald complaints in other states have not been as rampant as business owners originally feared. Delaware, for example, received only 40 complaints during its first year under a similar antismoking ban, despite initial concerns that the health department would be overwhelmed with reported violations. The fact that municipalities will receive half of all fines collected should bolster solicitors’ incentive to enforce the ban, Dundulis said. When Leedham, the nightclub owner, questioned the ability of restaurant owners to enforce a ban, Dundulis admitted he “didn’t have a good answer.” But he assured Leedham that business owners would “have a chance to come in and plead your side of (any reported violation).” After the presentation, several audience members said they were not convinced that the presentation had adequately prepared them to begin implementation. Trigg told The Herald she was also concerned with unclear enforcement procedures, though she said she was expecting compliance with the ban. “(The ban) is a good thing,” she said. While Dundulis said he is hoping for voluntary compliance with the specifics of the ban, he said the health department is “prepared for all eventualities.” But he said many business owners and restaurant patrons would recognize the public health benefits of the ban. “For the most part, people are going to want to do the right thing,” he said.

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Liquor continued from page 1 president for public affairs and University relations. Chapman said administrators question whether they would receive adequate notice should the owners apply for such a transfer, thereby hindering the University’s ability to object. “The licensing procedures in Rhode Island can be a challenge to follow,” Chapman said. The University chose to voice these concerns to the owners’ attorneys after receiving word of their application, Chapman said. This decision reflects the University’s larger commitment to public safety interests on College Hill as well as the desire to promote a diverse business environment, he said. The voluntary restrictions represent a satisfactory effort on behalf of the owners to ensure the license could not later have a detrimental impact on College Hill by allowing the space to become a bar, he said. Though the University has closely monitored the number of liquor licenses on Thayer Street in the past, Chapman said he believes that this may be the first time that administrators have expressed concerns to business owners’ attorneys. If these voluntary restrictions

Smoking continued from page 3 sold the law — are we less concerned with their employees’ health?” Dias asked. “Health is health. Apparently (the state) doesn’t want to lose (its profits from the casinos). Neither do we,” he said. “They love to talk about millions of dollars in health benefits that this law guarantees, but they’re still allowing people (to smoke).” Other states that have enacted smoking bans have not typically seen a decline in restaurants’ economic performance.

were not included in the contract, Boutros and Hugh could sell the license to a new owner, License Administrator Richard Aitchison said. However, such a transfer would undergo an evaluation process similar to the process for granting an original license, and any new owner would need to receive approval from the board, he said. “It’s not something they can just do arbitrarily,” he said. While administrators want to prevent a net increase in the number of bars and establishments serving only liquor, they do not plan to oppose all liquor license applications submitted by restaurants, Chapman said. Instead, the University will evaluate these applications with an eye toward potential public safety concerns and the desire to promote a balanced mix of restaurants and retail businesses. “We don’t want to restrain trade on Thayer Street,” he said. “That’s not our business.” Barbara Harris, president of the College Hill Neighborhood Association, called the hearing “a very positive thing” and said “it’s about time” the University took a more active role in the liquor license evaluation process. Ronald Dwight ’66, who serves on the CHNA’s Board of Directors, also supported the University’s intervention. “Brown is most responsible for what happens on Thayer Street,

so they should be very engaged,” Dwight said. But the voluntary restrictions submitted by Shanghai’s owners did not fully appease Harris and other community members, who formally lodged objections at the hearing. Harris, an attorney, objected on behalf of the CHNA and client Grant Dulgarian, a Thayer Street property owner. Dulgarian seeks to reduce the license from Class BV to Class BL, thus allowing the restaurant to only serve beer and wine. Board members also heard objections from Williams and the Thayer Street Businessmen’s Association. Objectors at the hearing voiced the common belief that “there’re just too many liquor licenses in the area,” Aitchison said. “I don’t think they were objecting to the business itself,” he said. Harris said she was pleased with Williams’ decision to speak at the hearing, saying the councilwoman “eloquently” articulated residents’ concerns regarding “the effect of having Thayer Street totally saturated by restaurants with liquor licenses.” Aitchison said the board heard from people who both objected and supported Shanghai’s request for a license. Harris said she only remembers hearing one letter in support of the restaurant’s application.

“All we can do is trust the statistics that say that the numbers bounce back,” Dias said. “That’s the only bright side. Of course we’re worried.” A manager of Andrea’s, who wished to remain anonymous, was optimistic that economic performance in Rhode Island would not suffer as a result of the ban. “There is a model. Other states have done it successfully,” the manager said. Andrea’s, located at 268 Thayer St., used to permit smoking only at its bar. “If (the ban was for) a certain city or type of establishment, there would be more concern about hurting

business,” he said. “Since it’s a statewide thing … in the longterm I don’t think business will be hurt.” Andrea’s was displaying “no smoking” signs a day before the law took effect, in preparation for the law’s mandate that business owners post signs indicating that it is illegal to smoke in their establishment. “Is it fair? No. I don’t think exemptions should be made. To be passed into law it should affect everyone,” said the manager. “I don’t agree (with the exemptions),” he said. Joe Magno, manager of Z Bar & Grille at 244 Wickenden St., said he isn’t worried about curbing what little smoking does take place at the bar. “This is more of an upscale place,” he said. “If you can’t get through a meal without a cigarette — that’s kind of ridiculous. We’ll see how it goes.” Nick Kennedy ’08 smokes about a pack of cigarettes each day and isn’t sure yet how the smoking ban will influence his club-going. “Because I’m from New York, I’m already used to this ban, but it was really nice to be able to smoke inside. That was one of my favorite parts of going to those places, having a social cigarette with friends, taking a break from the dance floor, even on the dance floor,” he said. Many of Kennedy’s friends are smokers, and he said that some of them celebrated their last night of legal indoor smoking by going to Paragon and lighting up until midnight. “At places like Lupo’s where you have a lot of people smoking … it’ll be harder to light up,” said Eric Kelmenson ’08, who says he is “not a serious smoker” but is still disappointed about the ban. “We were going to go see Bob Weir and Ratdog on 4/20 there,” he added with a smirk, “…but now I’m not so sure.”

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Blogs continued from page 1 She said the format might not work for all classes, but in this case, where the class material is controversial, it has allowed all the students to say what they want, even when time is limited. “In terms of teaching experiments, it’s a step forward,” Riess said. Graduate students have also discovered the academic benefits of blogs. Jonathan Ichikawa, a graduate student in the philosophy department, said that using “Fake Barn Country” — started by four

M. track continued from page 8 around the track, encouraging the crowd to cheer with him. “It was hard because there is a certain momentum to track meets,” Washburn said. “Because things weren’t working out in the other distance races, I knew I would need some help.” Though it was his first relay in three years, he came from behind to overtake the leaders and take control of the emotional race in the final laps to split 4:10 for the mile, as Bruno won with a time of 10:02.66.

grad students who already had personal blogs — has helped him immensely in his studies. “It’s been a really great opportunity to get feedback on ideas that I’m working on,” he said. “I’ll write a post there and people from around the world get involved and give me feedback.” Some philosophy grad students have even published papers based on discussions from “Fake Barn Country,” Ichikawa said. Ichikawa plans to use blogs in a class he will teach next semester. “They’re cool, a lot of fun and (using them) is a really neat way to get early ideas started,” he said.

Feeding off the energy from the distance medley, the 4x400-meter team turned in a surprise third-place finish as Dissmore, Pruzinsky, Will Bernitsky ’08 and Christian Tabib ’07 crossed in 3:18.52. “We saw men rise to the occasion, and we also saw the agony of defeat with things beyond anyone’s control,” Rothenberg said. Some men will see tough competition again next weekend as they head into the IC4A Championships. For others, the Heptagonals marked the end of the indoor season. “It’s time to go back to work and focus on the outdoor season,” Rothenberg said.

W. track continued from page 8 Bruno’s 59 points. Meanwhile, hurdler Kitton placed third in the 60-meter hurdles, setting a personal record and qualifying for the ECAC meet with a time of 8.84 seconds. On the field, seasoned thrower and cocaptain Jill Lynch ’05 placed second in the shot put, while Jennifer Donahue ’05 placed third in the weight throw. Mikie Monaghan ’07, who has been improving consistently, finished sixth in the 5,000-meters with a personal best of 17:12.89. “We had a lot of events that didn’t go as planned, but we also had some unexpected points with Mikie scoring — that’s the nature of competition,” said Wall. Brooke Wolfe ’07 placed fifth in the pentathlon. Her performance was highlighted by her second place finish in the 800-meters with a time of 2:20.69. Overall, the women fell short of their goal of cracking the top three. “We were not happy with fourth. When (Ferjan) got tripped that was ten points down the tube, that brought us from second to third and I could accept that. We finished fourth because we did not get the job done in other areas. It was a team thing,” Wemple said. The Bears compete next on March 5 at the ECAC Championships in Boston.

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Give Shanghai its license Despite the efforts of the Thayer Street Improvement District, the street seems to be continuing its decline. In November, Daniel Biederman, a consultant to the Thayer Street Improvement District who has worked on Manhattan’s Bryant Park and Grand Central Station, told The Herald it was unreasonable to expect tangible improvements in the 18-month period since the group’s creation. But the situation on Thayer Street more than three months after his comments seems bleak — more stores, including Café Java and The Gap, have departed, and their replacements remain boarded-up storefronts. Perhaps the area must reach its nadir before it can return to, and ideally surpass, its former glory days as a vibrant pedestrian shopping district. New restaurants, such as Shanghai, which plans to open in the space formerly occupied by Café Java, will be a boon to Thayer Street. By attracting people besides Brown students in transit, new restaurants would bring customers to the area into the evening hours, adding to the revenue of other stores and possibly paving the way for the opening of new stores. Though some have complained that Thayer Street is becoming a “food court,” restaurants and fast food shops are the foundation on which the rest of the street’s commerce rests. If a liquor license is what it takes to make a restaurant on Thayer Street financially viable, we’ll drink to that. But we agree with the University that Thayer Street is not in particular need of more bars right now. Clubs and bars just don’t spread the wealth in the same way restaurants do. They do most of their business once other stores have closed down for the night. How often have you come out of a bar and decided to check out a movie? How often do you combine clubbing with shoe shopping? And while bars, at least in theory, are restricted to the 21-and-over crowd, a restaurant with a liquor license doesn’t exclude families and teenagers. Bars and clubs have their place in the mix, but the focus should be on recruiting and retaining a diverse mix of eateries. The University doesn’t see a problem with Shanghai receiving a liquor license, and Shanghai is willing to accept some limitations, so there shouldn’t be a conflict. We hope the Board of Licenses will show its sympathy for the plight of Thayer Street by granting Shanghai a Class BV license.

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LETTERS Sen. Chafee’s role in supporting the GOP To the Editor: I do not look forward to a campaign season of progressives succumbing to Caleb Karpay’s logic (“Save Lincoln,” Feb. 25). Though Sen. Chafee has indeed taken some highprofile votes in opposition to President Bush, he also makes one vote every two years that is a stake in the heart of all who support civil rights, workers’ rights, peace and economic justice — and that is the vote for Bill Frist as Senate Majority Leader. Mr. Frist, and his top henchmen (including the very Rick Santorum, the senate’s third most powerful man, who Karpay mentions as a rigid ideologue) get to set the agenda of the Senate. It should also be noted that he has a policy of voting for all but the very most offensive judiciary nominees Bush puts forward, and that he made a key procedural vote to cut off debate that allowed 2003’s disasterous Medicare

“reform” to pass. The Democrats may not indeed capture back the senate in 2006. But for Karpay to insist that they not even try is a self-defeating logic of the sort that leads only to one conclusion — permanent minority party status on Capitol Hill. If the Dems roll over and play dead, the phenomena that Karpay refers to (lack of attention from the media, etc.) will only continue for longer. It was not so long ago that Democrats did control this chamber — as in 2002. If Sen. Chafee so wished, he could reject a GOP that clearly does not respect his politics, even without joining the Democrats — Jim Jeffords did. But so long as he votes to keep Republicans in charge of the Senate chamber, he should not be considered a friend to Rhode Island’s working people. Peter Asen ’04 Feb. 26

Taking responsibility for high school dropouts To the Editor: I found Josh Fintel’s letter (“Don’t blame parents for high drop-out rates,” Feb. 24) in response to Megan Gourley’s letter (“Military recruiters not the problem,” Feb. 23) insulting and off-base. Gourley was simply defending the notion that poor parenting has more to blame for a high school dropout than the opportunity for military service. She was in no way suggesting that inequalities in public education should remain. Schools are not in place to bear the burdens of raising a child or instill a child with values. If a child drops out of school, he or she is making the wrong decision, whether that school is poorly funded or not. Funding for the public school system is based on property taxes — something that I don’t see changing any time soon. What can be improved is a parent’s initiative to

take responsibility and instill the value of education upon children, be that at Hope High or Brown. It might sound fun to blame dropouts on some great white conspiracy, but that’s just not the case. I am sorry that Josh Fintel is “disgusted” to live in this country. I would advise him to reread the actual intent behind Gourley’s letter, which states that military recruiters are not to blame for high school dropouts. He should also contemplate these words from Sen. Zell Miller: “It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.” Stephen Kausek ’05 Feb. 24

C O R R E C T I O N S In a Feb. 28 article “Brown alums pay homage to alma mater on the big screen,” The Herald reported that the title characters of the television show “Will & Grace “ met at Brown. The characters actually attended Columbia University.

In the article “Urban Bush Women dazzles crowd at PPAC,” (Feb. 28), a quote on the inspiration for the dance number “Batty Moves” was incorrectly attributed to Andre Thompson ‘05. The quote should be attributed to Dancer-choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar.

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OPINIONS TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2005 · PAGE 7

Bush’s betrayal of our cities GUEST COLUMN BY DAVID SEGAL Though many Brown students worked to make it otherwise, Providence and so many other cities are bracing for four more years of George W. Bush’s relentless attacks on our livelihoods. There were myriad reasons to vote Bush out of office. But as an urban city, and a particularly poor one at that — with a 40 percent child poverty rate at last check — the harms that we expect Bush to perpetrate will be felt especially profoundly here in Providence. I sit on the City Council’s Committee on Urban Renewal, Redevelopment, and Planning, which is in charge of allocating federal Community Development Block Grant funds. The federal CDBG is an important source of funding for urban renewal programs, used to back up micro-loans for local small businesses, maintain parks, support local nonprofits and more. CDBG allocations have fallen since Bush took office — the Council was recently briefed on Bush’s proposed 50 percent cut in CDBG, a reduction of $3.5 million for Providence. Additionally, HOME funds, used to build affordable housing, are slated to be cut by 25 percent this year. Cities in Rhode Island and all over the country rely on state aid for large portions of their budgets. Yet state aid to cities in Rhode Island is dreadfully low, ranking 43rd in the nation. Wages have fallen, and with them state income tax returns. Right-wing Republicans have won governorships throughout the Northeast, including Rhode Island, yet they have refused to provide municipalities with the funding needed to get by. But cities still must educate our children. They still must fund police and firefighters and public-works departments. The cost of living is not going down; the cost of health care is skyrocketing. And in Providence, the population is rising. When we don’t get the money we need from the State House, property taxes increase, as they are the only significant taxes we are allowed to levy. They are also regressive — and even within a poor city like Providence, they tend to hurt the poor more than the rich. Sen. John Kerry promised $50 billion in new federal aid to state governments, which would have meant perhaps $200 million to Rhode Island. Kerry also promised to fully fund Bush’s No Child Left Behind mandates, to the tune of $30 billion to cities and states over the next several years. Tens of millions of extra dollars would have trickled into Providence’s coffers, yielding lower property taxes, less urban poverty, better schools, and better services. As of 2000, Providence’s median household income stood at $27,000, with the median income in poorer neighborhoods like Olneyville and parts of South Providence well under $20,000. Kerry backed a $7.00 minimum wage that would have put upward pressure on wages in an economy that is increasingly based on lowpaying, non-union service jobs. He also supported the now-doomed Employee Free Choice Act, which would have diminished employer intimidation of workers trying to form unions — a big problem, for instance, in the hotels of our new tourism economy. Most of Providence’s residents are members of ethnic minority groups. A more conservative Congress working with a lame-duck Bush administration that thinks racism is a thing of the past will continue attacks on affirmative action, both through legislation and judicial appointments. If such attacks are successful, Providence’s neediest residents will have an even harder time securing good jobs and placements at high-quality universities. Increased health care accessibility under Kerry and a “premium rebate” for employers providing health care could have meant several million dollars less in pressure on Providence’s finances. Thousands more Providence residents would have had access to health care, an issue of particular concern in urban environments where disease transmission is easiest, and where AIDS, syphilis, tuberculosis and other diseases can reach epidemic levels. The list of Bush’s betrayals of our cities is long and dense. We won’t be able to solve all of the problems they create, but there’s hope. If you’d like to work on important local affordable housing or anti-poverty initiatives, email Direct Action for Rights and Equality, at dare@daretowin.org. David Segal represents College Hill and Fox Point on the Providence City Council.

Keep kegs off Brown’s campus GUEST COLUMN BY NICK MARK AND MATT LAWRENCE The recent Undergraduate Council of Students resolution supporting kegs on campus sets a shameful and dangerous precedent. Brown’s nightlife doesn’t need kegs on campus. Walk by Wriston Quad on a Friday or Saturday night — do the on-campus parties seem to suffer from a lack of cheap alcohol? Kegs foster dangerous attitudes leading to binge drinking and have other disadvantages such as litter and a greater potential for sexual assault. Such factors are what caused Brown, like so many other colleges and universities, to ban kegs from campus in the first place. No new need is currently surfacing to justify the reevaluation of Brown’s keg policy. So what explains UCS’s recent 16-3 decision to recommend that kegs be brought back? The primary reason to continue keeping kegs off campus is a concern for safety. Kegs make it far easier for an assailant to drug someone’s drink — large plastic cups make better targets than closed metal cans. And for this reason, kegs greatly increase the likelihood of sexual assault. Compounding this problem, students have greater difficulty keeping track of their alcohol consumption when drinking out of these cups, which can lead to unintended binge drinking — also increasing the risk of sexual assault. Although some argue that keg registration would make party organizers more responsible for their guests, all

parties on campus are already registered with student life. Keg registration is unlikely to ameliorate any of these safety concerns — it is unlikely that we would would see many registered kegs at unregistered parties. Excessive drinking is the most dangerous kind of alcohol consumption — a 2002 study tied binge drinking to the deaths of a staggering 1,400 college students. Furthermore, a recent Harvard study demonstrated that, among a variety of factors, the availability of kegs on over 100 college campuses is what showed the highest correlation to binge drinking. Although

Kegs increase the likelihood of sexual assault and binge drinking. Brown cannot eliminate the possibility of students’ binge drinking, the keg ban helps curb binge drinking without significantly affecting campus life. Proponents who want to bring kegs back to campus offer several justifications for their position. For example, some argue that using kegs would reduce pollution, because unlike cans, the keg is reusable. This is absurd. While cans can be recycled, the plastic cups associated with kegs are not recycled but are thrown into the trash.

Often students drinking from cups will go through just as many cups as they would have cans, and so in the end, kegs are far more wasteful. We’ve heard some make the convoluted argument that kegs are better than cans because while people can steal cans to take back to their rooms to get drunk alone, they can’t do this with kegs. The only thing more outrageous than this argument is the idea that concern for the social well-being of alcohol pinchers should outweigh concern for student safety. The UCS resolution calling for a return of kegs to campus stems from a recent internet poll that revealed that 66.7 percent of Brown students completing the poll supported the return of kegs. Besides a popular mandate, there is no reason to allow kegs back on campus. A majority of Brown students would probably vote to let candles, smoking and glass bottles back into in residence halls too. But the University prohibits these items for safety reasons, just as it prohibits kegs. UCS represents students, but when addressing our concerns to the University, they should provide better reasoning beyond simply saying, “the students say so.” WebCT polls should not supersede student safety. Nick Mark ‘06 and Matt Lawrence ‘06 are driving a mail truck full of cans to Michigan this weekend to collect the 10-cent deposit.

ADAM NELSON

Little improvements mean a lot I was sitting in my room a few weeks ago doing homework with my door locked when all of a sudden I hear someone fiddling with the lock. The door then burst open, revealing a friend standing in the doorway yelling “16.4 seconds … a new record.” Immediately I was impressed — it only took 16.4 seconds to break into my room. Then I found out that it actually took 16.4 seconds to break into four rooms in the corner of my hallway, and my room took less than one second. I asked to see the advanced lock picking tool that would be able to break into four University dorm rooms in 16 seconds, and needless to say I was quite surprised when that tool turned out to be a wire hanger. I would have hoped that a University like Brown that spends millions of dollars on its security services per year would have made my lock sound enough to stand up the technological wizardry of the wire hanger. In fact, I voiced this desire to the Office of Residential Life and have since had my door “fixed” three separate times. Each time the person from Facilities Management assures me that “no one is gonna be able to break this baby open,” but I return to my room later that day to see my mattress flipped over and a note telling me how many seconds it took to get in. I’ve now decided that it is impossible for my lock to provide real safety. Brown students pay around $5,030 per year to live in Brown dormitories, which translates to around $590 per month — I would have hoped that $590 per month would have afforded me a lock requiring a more sophisticated pick. Little things like my lock really

make a big difference in our experience at Brown. This is a University that thinks big fitness centers, concert halls, or a student union in 2048. But in the midst of all of these big projects, the little things — and the students that live here currently — are sometimes overlooked. I understand that donations to big universities like Brown are in many cases earmarked for huge projects like a Life Sciences Building. This is likely because people would prefer to have their names on a building or an auditorium rather than on a hanger-proof lock to my room or on the two-ply toilet paper which I think would make

In search of a lock sound enough to stand up to the technological wizardry of a wire hanger. every single Brown resident less grumpy. But even big projects require little improvements to make them reach their potential. For instance, the Plan for Academic Enrichment, which I think has been very good for the school, wasn’t accompanied by an initiative to help improve classroom space on campus. Part of the attraction of getting very high-paid and impressive faculty members from other schools is their ability to give interesting and engaging lectures.

This becomes more difficult when they are forced to give classes in rooms without proper sound systems, air-conditioning or adequate desks for students. Learning environment plays a huge role in the attention span of students, so when I’m cramped into a dark corner of Wilson Hall, trying to write right-handed on a lefty desk because that’s the only one that’s left and straining to hear a professor who’s yelling because the sound system doesn’t work, I’m going to be less likely to understand the intricacies of international migratory patterns. Concentrating on the big buildings rather than some smaller less visible projects like dormitory renovations (which are occurring but too slowly) means that real changes won’t be able to be appreciated by current Brown students. I appreciate that Brown is trying to make itself a better institution for the future, but some more attention needs to be paid to some clearly fixable problems in the present. The little things that stand in the way of the best possible experience at Brown make students like me less likely to give money to Brown in the future. That means that in 2064, when the University needs to build a brand new building for the study of E-languages, I’m not going to give any of the $42.67 that I have to my name. So for the sake of the E-languages building, could someone find me a better lock? Adam Nelson ‘06 thinks that the combination of Ratty food and single-ply toilet paper is the reason that Brown students protest so much.

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SPORTS TUESDAY MARCH 1, 2005 · PAGE 8

Collisions and falls mark Heptagonals for track Women end in fourth, just behind Columbia

M. track takes sixth at indoor championships BY JILANE RODGERS SPORTS STAFF WRITER

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The men’s track team tallied 50 points to take sixth at the Heptagonal Championships this weekend, as Cornell captured the team crown. The result was a disappointment for the Bears, who had hoped to break into the top three of the Ivy League, but the highly physical nature of the weekend took its toll on some of Brown’s top performers. The aggressive tone allowed others to step up to the challenge, however, as several Bears had surprise, standout performances. The men’s 3,000-meter run Saturday night saw the Bears garner their first points of the weekend. Going into the meet, co-captain Patrick Tarpy ’05 looked to be a favorite for the individual title in the event. To the Bears’ dismay, he was the first casualty of the unforgiving weekend, as a battle for position in a large pack resulted in Tarpy losing his shoe and ultimately a chance to take the win. Because Ivy League rules prohibit athletes from competing the remainder of the weekend once they have dropped out of an event, Tarpy was forced to finish the race with one shoe in hopes of coming back the next day in the mile finals. However, the injuries he sustained prevented him from scoring in that race as well. Owen Washburn ’06 stepped up to fill the gap in the 3,000 with a breakthrough race. As Washburn became aware of Tarpy’s situation, the race began to break. Washburn took charge, picking up the pace and kicking in for a final time of 8:17.18, good for third overall. Washburn, who came into the meet ranked sixth in the event, scored for the first time at Heps. “I felt great during the race,” Washburn said. “While it went through my mind then that I really needed to (step up), it had been a goal all along to place as high as possible for the team.” Sunday kicked off with another highlight for the Bears, as Ray Bobrownicki ’06 took to the infield to defend his indoor high jump title. The weekend’s intensity continued as Bobrownicki entered a duel with Dartmouth’s Brian McCarthy when both cleared 6-11 1/2. At the next height, the crowd fell silent before each attempt as the men sought to take the win. Both men had near-successful jumps at the height. McCarthy missed his final attempt, and Bobrownicki was declared the winner because he missed only one attempt in the entire competition. It was a relief for Bobrownicki, who had a frustrating season leading up to the Ivy League Championships. “He spent the last three weeks mentally focusing and physically focusing,” said Jumps Coach Anne Rothenberg. “He pushed heights in practice to be pre-

pared for this. He went in more confident than his competitors.” Rothenberg also noted that only three other conferences in the nation saw such tight competition, with sixth place at 6-10 or higher. Bobrownicki tied his indoor personal best with the clearance, and it is the second time in a row he has set his season best at the Championships. “I’m glad things came together at the right time,” Bobrownicki said. Another jumper put points on the board for Brown, as Ikenna Achilihu ’08 took fourth in his first Heptagonal games. He hit 49-3 in the triple jump, just shy of his personal best. “It was wild,” Achilhu said. “There was so much energy, and it was an eye-opening experience to see how deep the competition was.” Back on the track, a pair of sprinters brought vital points to the Bears’ total. Mike Pruzinsky ’07 and Dallas Dissmore ’06 returned to the lineup after injuryplagued seasons. Pruzinsky captured fourth place in the 400meter dash in 48.74, despite being pushed from behind in the beginning of the second lap. Dissmore turned it on in the final stretch of the 500-meter run, passing three men in the final lap to clock 1:04.19 to take third. Heading into the relays, the distance medley squad saw a near-complete change in lineup. Washburn continued to star for the Bears, as he took Tarpy’s place as the anchor leg. “I knew from the beginning of the day it was a possibility that I

BY KATIE LARKIN SPORTS STAFF WRITER

Dan Grossman ’71

Owen Washburn ’06 took 3rd in the 3,000-meter and anchored the distance medly squad. would need to run it,” Washburn said. “What reassured me is that (Distance Coach) John (Gregorek) has never had me do something that he wasn’t confident I could do. So when he told me I could anchor the relay, I trusted him.” Jordan Kinley ’06 led off, and disaster nearly struck when Cornell’s runner was pushed and hit the floor, nearly taking Kinley with him. Kinley was barely able to keep his balance by jumping over the fallen athlete. He assumed position near the front of the race, which was maintained by Elridge Gilbert ’05 and Eamon Quick ’07. During the other legs of the relay, Washburn took on the responsibility of rallying the Brown supporters, running see M. TRACK, page 5

The most anticipated meet of the year for the women’s track team also turned out to be the closest of the season. In a wild Heptagonal Championships filled with falls, Brown finished fourth with 59 points, just four short of Columbia and one point ahead of the University of Pennsylvania. Cornell, meanwhile, captured the Ivy title for the second straight year. “On the ride back from the meet, (Head) Coach (Robert Johnson) asked us to raise our hands if we thought we gave our all and nobody raised their hand,” said jumper Ashley Wall ’05. “I think we knew we had a lot more potential. Now that we know where we stand in the league we’re going to try to get it together for the outdoor Heps.” One competitor who exhibited her full potential was Brittany Grovey ’06, who was again victorious in the triple jump, outperforming her closest competitor by over two feet. Her jump of 415 1/4 was a Brown record. “I just feel like all of the hard work paid off. I couldn’t have done it without my teammates. I was injured last year and they helped me through it, so I really feel like it was a group victory,” Grovey said. For the runners, the meet was filled with a series of collisions and miscues, some of which Bruno was able to overcome. Others, unfortunately, cost Brown much needed points. Naja Ferjan ’07 stood poised to capture another title in the

800 meters to add to her 2004 indoor and outdoor victories. Unfortunately, early in the finals she was knocked down after a Penn runner tumbled to the ground and took Ferjan with her. She was not able to gain back the ground she needed and did not place in the event. Ferjan’s fall “was very disappointing, but it wasn’t the end of the meet for us,” said hurdler Fara Kitton ’05. “We knew that we had to step up and do what we could to bring any points we could to the score.” In the 4x800-meter relay, a fall occurring between the second and third legs threatened to hinder the team’s chances of placing. “Normally the receiver gets a running start so that there is constant momentum in the handoff,” said Distance Coach Rick Wemple. “Anna (Willard ’06) didn’t take off, so Kelly (Powell ’06) ran into her. Fortunately, Kelly went down and not Anna so their performance wasn’t really affected, but Kelly had a huge gash in her knee.” Despite the setback, the team of Annie Hatch ’06, co-captain Powell, Willard and Ferjan was able to place second. Ferjan was especially dominant, clearly looking to make up for her fall. Wall displayed her versatility by placing second in the long jump and third in the high jump. Wall’s mark of 18-11 1/4 eclipsed her personal best by seven inches and was third all time for Brown. Wall accounted for 14 of see W. TRACK, page 5

W. swimming takes third place in Ivies BY CHARLES VALLELY SPORTS STAFF WRITER

On the third and final day of the Ivy League Championships, held in Princeton, N.J., the women’s swimming and diving team finished strong, moving past Yale and the University of Pennsylvania to capture third place behind Harvard and Princeton. The late break, highlighted by their performance in the 200yard butterfly, did not come as a surprise. “I liked how things looked on paper for day three,” said Head Coach Peter Brown. The Bears were fifth after the second day of competition. However, they closed in on Yale and Penn, cutting the deficit to 10 and 30 points, respectively. With some of their best events still to come, the Bears were in good position to make a jump. “It was frustrating knowing that we had more depth later on in the meet and had to wait until then to show it,” said butterflier Ashley Wallace ’07. “(But) going into day three we were confident that we could place third, especially since we weren’t very many points behind Yale and Penn.”

To start the day, Dillon Delaney ’08 made it to the finals of the 1,650-yard freestyle, and took eighth place with a time of 17:09.73, shattering her previous personal record. “She kind of sparked us all,” said Lauren Zatorski ’08. Wallace also noted Delaney’s contributions, and those of the other “milers,” Bridgette Cahill ’06 and Lauren Harlow ’07, who finished 10th and 18th in the event. “It was really important the way our distance swimmers all swam really well and beat out a lot of Yale’s top milers,” Wallace said. “I was especially proud of Dillon.” Jessica Brown ’05, the only senior on the Championships roster, took sixth in the 200-yard backstroke, followed by a second-place finish in the 100-yard freestyle by Eileen Robinson. In the 200-yard butterfly, the Bears made up for any ground they had lost, as four swimmers made it to the finals. Wallace led the pack, finishing second with a time of 2:03.01, followed by Becky Kowalsky ’07 in third, Meredith Cocco ’07 in seventh and Cahill in eighth. “All the girls who were in it

had done pretty well throughout the year,” Robinson said. “It was so great when we had that many in the final, plus we had someone in the consolation final (Katey Mirch ’06) and one person in the bonus final (Meredith Moore ’08), so we had six people scoring points, which was pretty big.” According to Coach Brown, things were simply going as the team had planned. “I expected it,” he said. “More importantly, so did our women.” Zatorski also anticipated the strong showing in the event, which moved the Bears into third place. “We kind of went crazy during that event, because we knew that was our event,” she said. “We knew that after the 200 fly that we put ourselves in good position.” The Bears got another solid team performance in the final individual event of the weekend, the 3-meter dive. Jessica Larsen ’06 finished eighth, followed by Amy Latinen ’07 in 14th and Dana Meadow ’07 in 16th. “Diving was huge for us,” Coach Brown said. “A big plus.” Now 24.5 points ahead of Yale, the third-place finish was all but clinched. But the Bears

finished strong, taking fourth in the 400-yard freestyle relay with the team of Elizabeth Wong ’06, Robinson, Kowalsky, and Emily Brush ’07. “Harvard and Princeton are kind of on a different level, so they were kind of in a competition against themselves,” said Zatorski. “Of course, we’d love to be champions, but we really wanted to beat Yale and Penn, and we did.” The third day was not the only one of note for the Bears, as Jessica Brown recorded the Bears’ only victory on day two, taking first in the 100-yard backstroke in 56.04. In the process she became the only Bear to qualify for Nationals. While Coach Brown was pleased with the meet results, he commented that all of the team’s goals have yet to be accomplished. “I am very proud of our women,” he said. “They gave a lot and competed very well, both individually and as a team. But we are not satisfied. … Our foundation is becoming stronger for future growth. We are getting there and will work hard at recruiting to keep things moving in the right direction.”