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Extensive review of social events and alcohol policies continues Metal detectors, bag checks at parties will be considered by committee BY ERIC BECK NEWS EDITOR

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A large blizzard blew over the Northeast starting early Sunday morning and continued to blanket campus all day.

Snowstorm causes only minor disruption of U. services BY CHLOE LUTTS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Snowfall starting about 1 a.m. Sunday morning continued through the day and into the night, with weather forecasters expecting 10 to 18 inches of accumulation by the end of the storm, according to the Providence Journal. SafeRIDE announced in an e-mail to the Brown community Sunday afternoon that Sunday evening services would be suspended due to unsafe driving conditions. Walter Hunter, vice president for administration, told The Herald the storm did not cause the University to cancel any events, although he said most “decisions are made by (the individual) departments.” The Providence Department of Traffic Engineering announced a citywide parking ban beginning at 1 a.m. Sunday so streets could be cleared. David Greene, vice president for campus life and student services, distributed a weather advisory by email Saturday afternoon. Thayer Street businesses responded to the snowstorm in a variety of ways. The Brown Bookstore and Tealuxe

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were closed all day, but CVS was open during regular hours. Antonio’s Pizza and Johnny Rockets both reported an exceptionally busy day but planned to close earlier in the evening than usual. There were no significant electricity losses in Rhode Island, according to Narragansett Electric Company.

New Plays shed light on creative process BY ELLEN WERNECKE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

“This is not a production,” said Professor of Literary Arts Paula Vogel at the introduction to Saturday night’s performance of “New Plays Festival 24.1.” Vogel and Visiting Assistant Professor of Literary Art Bonnie Metzgar, the artistic director of the festival, were quick to tell audiences that the plays REVIEW presented this weekend at McCormack Family Theater were collaborative projects developed over the course of two weeks and arrived essentially unfinished. “At some point, we say, ‘Okay, that’s it, put it up on its feet,’” Vogel said of the plays’ development. All three plays in this edition of the New Plays Festival stood on their own this

weekend, though some accomplished the feat better than others. Dan LeFranc’s “Bruise Easy,” which opened Wednesday, sears the audience with its tale of two troubled siblings, Alec (Scott Raker GS) and Tess (Jessa Sherman GS). Tess returns home from Albuquerque, pregnant and looking for her mother. But her mother has disappeared, and Alec, a stoner with a camera, has been drifting through his days without her. There’s nothing fake about either the tone of conversation or the unsettling intimacy between Tess and Alec, and LeFranc gives them some fantastic lines in the course of the show. They’re not completely comfortable with one another, and the dynamic plays out well onstage, particularly with Director Makaela Pollock

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While two committees continue to review the University’s social events and alcohol policies, University officials implemented interim social events policies Jan. 26 to address issues of immediate concern that arose last semester. Though they have long been a concern of University officials, the alcohol and social events policies jumped to the top of the administration’s agenda at the end of last semester after the Queer Alliance’s Nov. 12 Sex Power God party garnered national media coverage and a melee on the Main Green the preceding evening ended with shots fired. The Ad Hoc Committee to Review Social Events Policy and Procedure, created in November 2005, is charged to review “the problem of binge drinking (and) pre-gaming, violent behavior and the introduction of weapons into the community” and to consider which campus venues are best suited for largescale social functions. Margaret Klawunn, associate vice president for campus life, dean for student life and the committee’s chair, said topics like event admission policy, door management and alcohol service have already been discussed by the committee. In the future, policies concerning what items can be brought into events, the use of metal detectors and other methods of screening partygoers and enforcement policies — including possible changes to residence hall staffing — will be considered, she said. The committee will conclude its review by Feb. 27 and produce a public report outlining its recommendations, which will be presented to the Campus Life Advisory Board, the Undergraduate Council of Students and the campus life committee of the Brown Corporation. A new policy should be in place by Spring Weekend,

Klawunn said. It is not yet clear whether the policy review will simply clarify existing practices or produce more far-reaching changes. “It’s hard for me to say without seeing (the committee’s) recommendations at this point,” said David Greene, vice president for campus life and student services. “I don’t think we’re going to see any real big changes in policy,” said Tony Sheets ’06, vice chair of Greek Council and a member of the review committee. “We’re going to be evaluating a lot of parties to see what went well for them within the existing policies and see what didn’t work. … In general, most parts of the policy are pretty effective.” Meanwhile, the existing Campus Life Advisory Board Subcommittee on Alcohol and Other Drugs was asked to review the University’s alcohol policy and consider the campus culture on alcohol and drug use. “We are looking very broadly in that committee at whether we have the right policies in place, how we are enforcing them and whether we have the right culture,” Klawunn said. “There is no such thing as a foolproof (alcohol) policy,” Greene said. “But we need to think about how to address behavior when students are putting themselves and others at risk.” The alcohol subcommittee, chaired by Nancy Barnett, assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown’s Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, is expected to release its findings by the end of the semester. Administrators stress that formal policies will only be part of what the review produces. “What we all recognize is that changing the policies will only get us partway to where we need to be with some of these see PARTIES, page 7

Possible heat, hot water loss today as repairs on Main Green leak continue BY MELANIE DUCH SENIOR STAFF WRITER

After a disruption that began Wednesday, the 46 buildings affected by the defective “high temperature hot water loop” under the Main Green regained heat and hot water at 6 p.m. Saturday, according to Stephen Maiorisi, acting vice president of Facilities Management. The hot water line sprung a leak Wednesday evening, prompting emergency repairs. Because of the snow storm, Facilities Management postponed further work on the loop until 6:30 a.m. Monday morning. Some buildings may lose heat and hot water again at about 10 a.m. when testing will resume. “This is necessary as we continue to test, in order to further isolate the area in need of repair,” wrote Derek Henries, manager of the Service Response Center, in a notice

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sent to Maiorisi on Saturday. According to an e-mail written by Henries and sent to all on campus on Friday by Thomas Forsberg, associate director of Residential Life, Facilities Management implemented a “secondary water feed” so that repairs could continue without further interruption of heat to the buildings. “This has allowed us to isolate and lessen the number of buildings that will experience a decrease in temperature and/or temporary interruption to heating systems as repairs begin again,” Henries wrote. Still, at least one student had not fully regained heat and hot water by Sunday evening. Arielle Baskin-Sommers ’07, a resident of Grad Center, said although she and her suitemates have hot water, their heat has been irregular. “We had heat last night at midnight but then it shut off in the middle of the night. It came on again midday today but now no one has heat in the suite,” she said. News tips: herald@browndailyherald.com

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TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS HAVANA AND THE IDEOLOGY OF RUINS 12 p.m., (Watson Institute) — Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Esther Whitfield will give a lecture.

PRODUCTION WORKSHOP PRESENTS “GROWING BORN” 8 p.m., (TF Green 101) — Production Workshop, the University’s only completely student-run theater, presents its first show of the semester.

RACE, DISTRUST AND PROVIDER SELECTION 12 p.m., (167 Angell Street) — Katrina Armstrong, director of research at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a talk.

JACOBSON ANNUAL LECTURE 8 p.m., (Hillel House) — Professor Steven Zipperstein of Stanford University will give a lecture called “On Leaving ‘Darkest Russia’: Jewish Immigrants and Their Recollections at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.”

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Experimental ‘Growing Born’ explores existential themes BY LINDSEY MEYERS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Last weekend’s performance of the Production Workshop’s play “Growing Born” was a compelling foray into experimental theater, showcasing the perils and rewards of creative risk-taking. As a production in the theater of the absurd, the challenge to Danielle Kourtesis ’07, the play’s director, was to stage a performance that would powerfully REVIEW evoke life’s irrational elements. To that end, Kourtesis employed an innovative, collaborative writing technique, in which four “peripatetic” playwrights composed the distinctly non-linear Sophie Barbasch / Herald Over the weekend, Brown hosted three nights of performances and two days of workshops for the biennial Africanist Weekend. storyline of the play at designated locations and within allotted periods of time. The result of the playwrights’ (Emily Drumsta ’06, Matt Kelly ’06, Krista Knight ’06 and Jen Silverman ’06) experimental collaboration was a script marked by intriguing character conflicts and imaginative students learn from master artists and the Tree Spirit Danced” that brought poetic tropes. More than that, their BY MELANIE DUCH practice in a setting with more time several audience members to tears. “peripatetic” technique demonSENIOR STAFF WRITER Friday’s events culminated in a and in a context where they could really strates the potential of multiple authorial voices to create compelling Lyman Hall was one of the only campus absorb culture by their pure immersion performance by Kongo Ba Téria. The hour-long performance, called “Strangabsurd theater. buildings with more than a flurry of in it,” she said. This year’s theme, “Embodying er,” involved untraditional Western dance Using a mixture of the mundane activity Sunday. The sound of 200 feet and the absurd, the play follows the slapping on a wooden dance floor, jagged Africa,” focused on new musical and steps and elements. One dancer slapped lives of six ordinary people and a yet melodic African songs and puls- dance performances coming out of West the other up and down his back and leg preternatural talking fetus (James ing, improvised drumming resonated Africa. Guests included Kongo Ba Téria, while two live musicians improvised Rutherford ’07) to explore the through an otherwise tranquil Lincoln a group of musicians and dancers from based on the dancers’ movements. The workshops challenged the tradexistential isolation of individuals Field as a part of the biennial Africanist Burkina Faso and Troupe Komee Josee itional Western idea of pedagogy and from Mali. who desire human connection in Weekend. Students had the opportunity to watch were structured instead around the ideas an irrational world. Joe (Lucian The festival, sponsored by the Cohen ’09) ignores his girlfriend, the Department of Theater, Speech and Kongo Ba Téria and Troupe Komee Josee of collectivity and immersion. Instead pregnant Rita (Sarah Tolan-Mee ’07), Dance, was founded six years ago by perform on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of listening to a lecture about African for the passive pleasures of watching Senior Lecturer in Theatre, Speech and nights and to spend all day Saturday and singing, students would stand in a circle television. Across town, Lena (Tara Dance Michelle Bach-Coulibaly as a Sunday attending various workshops, and begin singing themselves. During Schuster ’08) rejects the love of product of her African dance class TA 33: such as “Dundun drumming” and a West African dance class on Saturday, students repeated one movement con“Contemporary African Dance.” her boyfriend Tim (Boaz Munro “Mande Dance, Music and Culture.” “The teachers were really wonderful, tinually, slowing down and speeding ’09). Meanwhile, Tim’s two older At the time, there were many African neighbors, Agnes (Afreen Akhter ’06) performers in the Providence area who but it was very tiring. I went to bed at 10 up based on the tempo of improvising and Barbara (Bryn Gonzalez-Ellis were very isolated, Bach-Coulibaly said. o’clock on Saturday,” said Christopher percussionists. The weekend closed Sunday night at 6 ’09) reflect on the unfolding events. She thought an Africanist Weekend Sha ’06, who is currently enrolled in TA p.m. with a performance by many of the While the males in the play remain would serve as an opportunity for them 33. The opening ceremony on Friday workshops’ teachers. mired in their loneliness, the female to join together and “celebrate African Issa Coulibaly, who taught students to characters struggle to overcome the culture,” she said. With the assistance of saw an overflowing Ashamu Dance overwhelming emptiness of their local performers and Brown professors, Studio collectively chanting “affirm, play the West African drum djemb, said existences. Rita and Lena each leave she organized a weekend dedicated to give, receive” in response to a sermon of his participation in the festival, “It’s unhappy relationships to become teaching Brown students and community by Reverend Sakena Young-Scaggs. Africanist Weekend. It’s something from inextricably bound together by Rita’s members about African culture and Wampanoag poet Donna Mitchell, us. It’s something we’re born with and we known as “Words in the Wind,” then told don’t mind doing it anytime.” fetus. Through this well-conceived traditions. absurdist conceit, the fetus first “I felt it was really important that an inspirational story called “The Night enchants Lena by speaking to her and then connects Lena to Rita through its umbilical cord by entering Lena’s womb. The surreal event can be read as the latter heavier through the bizarre develop its male characters as fully as it devolves from the authentically absurd should. This is a pity, for the play would into the merely preposterous, as in the the birth of the growing love between transfer of the fetus. Each of the female leads in the have been even more successful if its abstract dance sequences in which the the two women. Just as Lena and Rita are joined by an ensemble cast gives an excellent and script had further explored the existential elderly Agnes is overcome by ridiculous umbilical cord, Agnes and Barbara are deeply nuanced performance. Akher and isolation of its male characters against erotic impulses. Given the play’s linked by a rope, a physical representation Gonzalez-Ellis, as the two older women, the backdrop of its feminist themes. remarkably compressed three-week of their inextricable connection. Agnes are a comedic force that drives the action In particular, Joe’s voice is excluded production schedule, however, such becomes “light as air” when she is of the play. Schuster, as the nihilistic — the psychological motivations that flaws are understandable. Though the play is peppered with infused with steam that transforms Lena, uses dark humor effectively. And cause him to reject Rita’s love and then her into a human kite, which Barbara Tolan-Mee gives a striking performance attempt to selflessly regain it are never occasional editing lapses of this sort, holds onto by a rope. This elemental of a woman who strives to provide resolved. The ever-opinionated fetus, they do not detract from its overall excellently performed by Rutherford, success. Ultimately, “Growing Born” is a connection between Barbara’s heaviness meaning even to those who reject her. While the men in the play, particularly even caustically remarks that Joe is surreal and intriguing experience in the and Agnes’ lightness reflects the theme of human connectedness in the play. It Munro and Andrew Evans ’09 as the superfluous to the character-driven theatre of the absurd. There is another performance schealso recalls the union between Rita and Speedo-clad swim instructor, provide action of the play. There are also times when the play duled for tonight at 8 p.m. at PW. Lena, as the former becomes lighter and humorous episodes, the script does not

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Plays continued from page 1 GS’s skillful use of available space. When else would you hear a brother react to a sister’s mistakes with, “Well… that’s… kind of slutty”? Most interesting is the “legion of neighborhood kids,” a Greek chorus in hoodies that surrounds Alec and Tess, breaking up scenes and cutting in on their thoughts. As the conflict between Alec and Tess heats up, so the legion intrudes more and more on the siblings’

Corwin GS, delivers a Bibletinged speech while pitching raw eggs off a corrugated roof (and sometimes onto the audience). Molly has latched onto her brother Eddy’s girlfriend or wife (we’re never quite sure which), Vail (Elizabeth Larson GS), for comfort, only leaving when she strikes a curiously calculating deal with her brother about Vail. Yet while its toxic love triangle — involving Eddy, Vail and Molly — leads to some sublime moments, the play falls short of its southern Gothic aspirations, hampered by its embrace of stereotypes. Its flood imagery and

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From left to right, Brown/Trinity MFA students Elizabeth Larson, Kelby Akin and Kimiye Corwin gave two representations of Krista Knight ’06’s ‘Spoken Insects’ over the weekend. decisions, calling attention to the ways in which people pass judgment on each other. As Alec and Tess take turns playing the skeptic and the believer for each other, “Bruise Easy” probes more deeply than is comfortable, but the characters never leave the circle of the audience’s concern. Its moments of dark comedy are sublime, and topical references are sharp (the inclusion of a copy of James Frey’s “A Million Little Pieces” drew one of the biggest laughs of the night). The title, a meditation on motherhood, reflects on both the person Alec and Tess are missing and the person Tess is afraid she can’t be. Krista Knight ’06’s “Spoken Insects,” which opened Thursday, unfolds in Quincy, Ill., on a trashstrewn stage variously serving as house, bedroom and farm. Molly, played by an effervescent Kimiye

salvation plot are Faulknerian in scope and poignancy, but jokes about duct tape and the unseen fifth character of “The Mormon,” a proprietor of a local grocery store and the owner of a farm from which the characters steal, weigh down its admirable purpose and only draw attention to what is easiest to laugh at — usually curlers — and bathrobeclad Georgia (Darcy Campbell). Peter Sampieri, the director of “Spoken Insects,” does admirably with the script, including a stellar bedroom scene played out in vertical. The actors also do enviable work, especially the belligerent Eddy (Kelby Akin GS), whose second role is central to the plot, and the introverted Vail. But by presenting its red-state stereotypes as truth, the play suspends belief and becomes more caricature than portrait. Certain images — Vail as a

stubborn butterfly collector in a parking lot — are breathtaking in their brilliance, but Knight’s language sometimes seems out of tune with her subject in particular scenes. By refusing to believe its own life-and-death themes, the play removes the audience from belief as well. Of the three plays presented this past weekend, Cory Hinkle GS’s “Cipher,” which opened Friday, shows the most promise in this nascent stage. An Orwellian drama in miniature set among post-office bins and institutional doublespeak, the ciphers in question are Clerks B and A (played by the nearly identical Joe Donovan GS and Haas Regen GS), who are “trackers” trying to get “signals” on would-be terrorists. Georgia Cohen GS, a familiar face on the Brown stage, returns here in a potent supporting role as manipulative boss Masha, who with barely hidden malice pushes smarmy A and tortured B together onto one project so A can “watch for irregularity” in his silent co-worker. What happens to the people who are “tracked” is the ominous cloud that makes “Cipher” hard to look away from, connected as it is to inter-scenic revelations about the clerks’ previous occupations. In scenes that take place under a bare light bulb, Clerks A and B have names and a friend named Jen (Jane Pfitsch GS), who dresses in her brother’s old clothes but won’t talk about him. Eerie songs punctuate these scenes, with Jen singing and playing the xylophone, whose stellar, transcendent tones hang over the audience like the menace of the clerks’ dreams and their revealed memories. Director Donya Washington GS wisely steers away from making deliberate connections to current events (aside from a few side references to the Patriot Act). “We must have had lives,” one of the clerks says at one point, alluding to what their pot-fueled apathy must have given way to when they resembled the suspects they are “tracking.” “Cipher” blows cold where “Bruise Easy” blows hot, but the effect is no less powerful on an audience made taut with fear.

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Lt. Governor Fogarty urges R.I. residents to prepare for natural disasters BY SIMMI AUJLA SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Lieutenant Governor Charles Fogarty stressed Friday the need for Rhode Island residents to prepare themselves for a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina, adding that “it is wrong to assume that the government will take care of everything” should such an event occur. “We don’t want everyone to think the government will rush in like cavalry,” Fogarty said in an interview with The Herald following his speech, which took place Friday afternoon in Faunce House’s Leung Gallery as part of the Sixth Annual Thomas Anton/Fred Lippitt Urban Affairs Conference, sponsored by the Taubman Center for Public Policy. In a lecture that outlined Rhode Island’s current level of emergency preparedness, Fogarty reiterated several times the need for local residents to take potential disasters seriously. “Hurricane Floyd was treated as some sort of show on TV,” he said, referring to a 1999 hurricane that affected Rhode Island but caused greater damage in states like North Carolina and Virginia. “People were saying to each other, ‘Let’s go down and look at the waves.’” “The most important thing for people to know is that it is their own responsibility to be as prepared as possible,” Fogarty said. When introducing Fogarty, Marion Orr, professor of political science, cited a Taubman Center poll released last week that revealed the majority of Rhode Island residents are not familiar with efficient evacuation routes and do not own disaster kits. Only 10 percent of those polled said they were very confident in the ability of the government to respond effectively to a natural

disaster, Orr said. Fogarty said Rhode Island has a better “coordination plan” than Louisiana did prior to Hurricane Katrina. However, lack of funding prevents the state from being as prepared as it should be, he said. “Quite frankly, EMA hasn’t been enough of a priority here in Rhode Island,” he said in reference to the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency, which he said received only $540,000 for operations in the past year. The lieutenant governor said he expects federal funding for Rhode Island’s disaster preparedness programs to be cut in the coming years. He said one of the state’s most pressing problems involves maintaining preparedness programs with an increasingly smaller budget. “How well prepared we are can’t be determined by the fiscal condition of the government at that moment,” he said. “We can’t let our guard down.” Fogarty said it is difficult to gauge the state’s current level of preparedness because it has not recently been tested by a disaster. The last major hurricane in Rhode Island was Hurricane Carol, which in 1954 hit the state with 135 mph winds, destroying 200 homes and killing 60 people. Rhode Island’s small size forces the government to take extra care in planning its response to a natural disaster. Officials must coordinate evacuation routes with the Connecticut and Massachusetts state governments. The state’s dense population must also be taken into consideration, Fogarty said. The weekend’s conference also included speeches by professors from Rutgers University, the University of New Orleans and the University of Delaware representing national perspectives on emergency preparedness.

Deep Impact mission discovers ice on Tempel 1 Comet The water ice is located in three thin patches covering approximately 300,000 square Though the Deep Impact feet of Tempel 1. The comet’s mission’s impactor struck surface area is about 45 square the Tempel 1 Comet back in miles. “We didn’t expect to find July, research and discoveries continue for the mission’s significant concentrations of team, which includes Professor ice in certain areas,” Sunshine of Geological Sciences Peter said. “That really came as a surprise.” In addition, it was discovered that water ice made up only 6 percent of the material found at these locations. “It’s like a skating rink of icy dirt,” Schultz said. According to Sunshine, the ice discovered on the surface of the comet alone does not account for the concentrations of water ice found in the coma, the atmosphere that nasa.gov The impactor spacecraft found traces of ice surrounds the on the surface of the comet Tempel 1. comet. “There must be significant sources of water ice just below Schultz. Key among the team’s most the surface,” Sunshine said. recent findings is that water According to Schultz, the Deep ice exists on the surface of the Impact research team also discovered that the ice blows comet. “We’ve known that there out through “jets” in the comet must be ice in comets for a and joins the coma. “This was long time. We can see it in the the first time we could extend atmosphere, but we didn’t know the ice found in the coma back where the ice was,” said Jessica to the nucleus itself,” Schultz Sunshine ’88 Sc.M. ’89 Ph.D. said. The Deep Impact mission ’94, the lead author of a Feb. 2 article in the online edition of culminated in the smashing of Science magazine that outlines an 820-pound impactor into the surface of the comet early the team’s findings. BY OLIVER BOWERS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

POLICE LOG

Keg lifted from Cushing St. porch last week BY SIMMI AUJLA SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The following summaries include all major incidents reported to the Department of Public Safety between Feb. 3 and Feb. 9. The Providence Police Department also responds to incidents occurring off campus. DPS does not divulge information on open cases that are currently under investigation by the department, PPD or the Office of Student Life. Friday, Feb. 3: 12 p.m. A complainant reported that her coat disappeared from her friend’s house on Lloyd Avenue. Her Brown ID and room key were in the coat.

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in the morning on July 4, 2005. The composition of debris blown out by the impact was analyzed by a spectrometer, the results of which have been investigated by the Deep Impact team. The team discovered evidence of a great deal of organic material within the comet, Sunshine said. “If you look at the coma before and after impact the organic material increased by a factor of 20,” Sunshine said. “That strongly suggests that there must be more organic compounds beneath the surface than we would have assumed.” Ethane and HCN, two relatively simple organic compounds, were detected by the spectrometer, but there are probably more complex organic compounds as well, Schultz said, adding that learning about the organic compounds on Tempel 1 is an important step of the team’s research. “Comets probably delivered the building blocks of life to the earth, so the more we understand what material is on these comets the better,” Schultz said. The Deep Impact project is an exciting one, according to Schultz. “When you think about it, this is the exact history of how we explored the planets,” he said, mentioning how scientists have been able over time to investigate the composition of Mars and Venus. Comets are the next step in the process of analyzing the solar system, Schultz said.

Sunday, Feb. 5: A male was detained for fleeing from a PPD officer after he was questioned about a broken parking gate in his possession. He found the broken parking gate on the ground and picked it up because he thought it was “cool.” Campus Police Officer Sean Comella assisted in detaining the man, who smelled

strongly of alcohol. 2:30 p.m. A complainant reported that the front right window of her car was broken and her cell phone was missing. The car was parked on Hope Street. 5:15 p.m. A complainant reported that his keg was stolen from the porch of his house on Cushing Street. The house is owned by the University.

Cherokee, was stolen from Lot 2 on Hope Street. He found broken glass around the area where the car was parked. Tuesday, Feb. 7: 6 p.m. A complainant reported that her backpack had disappeared from the Metcalf Chemistry building. She later found her backpack, but her cell phone and wallet were missing from it.

Monday, Feb. 6: 12:15 a.m. A complainant reported that her unattended purse disappeared at a party in Wayland House.

Thursday, Feb. 9: 11:30 p.m. A complainant reported that his black leather coat was stolen from the first floor lab in the Center for Information Technology.

5 p.m. A complainant reported that his car, a 1990 Jeep

Source: Department of Public Safety

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Bush administration reports on global AIDS plan BY DAVID BROWN WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — In its first two years, the Bush administration’s global AIDS plan has spent $5.2 billion to help prevent 47,100 infections in infants, bring drug therapy to 471,000 ill people and care for more than 1.2 million children orphaned by the disease. Those were among the highlights of a data-heavy report submitted to Congress last week describing early results of the $15billion, five-year project. The vast majority of the money is being spent in 12 African nations and in Guyana, Haiti and Vietnam, although the program is paying for some AIDS work in more than 100 other countries, including Russia and India. Of the $294 million spent on prevention last year, $76 million, or 26 percent, was spent on efforts to encourage sexual abstinence or faithfulness to a single partner. About $66 million was spent on the provision of condoms and

prevention messages emphasizing their use. This so-called ABC strategy — abstinence, be faithful, condoms — is the most controversial aspect of the program. Mark Dybul, a physician who is the program’s deputy director, defended it at a State Department news conference. “There are only three countries with generalized epidemics in Africa that have seen a decrease in (HIV) prevalence. In all three cases, the reason was exactly the same — A, B, and C,” he said. A study published in the journal Science two weeks ago found that change in sexual behavior accompanied the recent drop in prevalence of HIV infection in Zimbabwe — and probably helped cause it. Twelve communities were surveyed in the late 1990s and again three years later. Over that interval, HIV prevalence declined from 23 percent to 21 percent. The steepest declines were in men 17 to 29 years old, where it fell from 11 percent to

8 percent; and in women 15 to 24, where it was cut in half, from 16 percent to 8 percent. The fraction of older teen-age boys who were sexually active declined from 45 percent to 27 percent. Among slightly younger girls, the fraction who were no longer virgins fell from 21 percent to 9 percent. Each sex also reported fewer partners than people the same age who were surveyed three years earlier. Condom use with recent casual partners remained 42 percent for men in both surveys, but for women it rose from 26 percent to 37 percent. AIDS-related services funded by the program are being provided through about 14,900 clinics, laboratories, hospitals and counseling sites. About 536,000 people have been trained to provide everything from prevention counseling for school children and pregnant women, to testing blood used for transfusions, to medical see AIDS, page 8

‘Not Your Classroom’ makes move to local NPR station BY SARA MOLINARO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

“Not Your Classroom,” a talk show which began at Brown Student Radio, premiered Feb. 5 on WRNI, Rhode Island’s National Public Radio syndicate, as part of a special series of hour-long programs airing every Sunday in February on the station. The show, produced by University students and alums, features interviews with scholars and scientists based in Rhode Island and aims to make the work done on the Ocean State’s 11 college campuses accessible to an audience of academics and non-academics alike. Former Swearer Center Director Kath Connolly ’89 hosts the weekly interviews. The program was first heard on BSR almost a year ago

and has since been a staple of the station’s Sunday night programming. Paul McCarthy ’02, the show’s executive producer, explained that while “Not Your Classroom” will continue to broadcast on BSR, the production staff saw a good opportunity to widen the show’s listening audience in collaboration with WRNI. “Most people tune in to BSR for music, while WRNI is more sought after for news, information, culture and ideas programming. We were looking for a broader audience, and we fit in well with current WRNI programming,” McCarthy explained. “With the inconsistent nature of the signal on 88.1 — Spanish-language programming in the morning, jazz in the afternoon and BSR at night — it was hard to build a consistent listenership.” When asked about the process of deciding to move “Not Your Classroom” to WRNI, McCarthy explained that he had worked for WRNI and got to know some of the staff. These connections helped the show realize its goal of seeking a wider audience at the larger station. “I brought a copy of the show in to have some folks (at WRNI) listen to, and a number of people were involved in the decision-making process, both in Boston and in Providence.” McCarthy explained that the format of the program will remain unchanged, aside from the fact that the hour-long time slot on WRNI will allow for two interviews per show, as opposed to the one interview that took up the entire half hour time slot on BSR. Professor of Medical Science Donald Jackson was a guest on “Not Your Classroom” in November. He spoke warmly of his experience with the program and is optimistic about the effect that the program’s larger broadcast will have. “The program is bound to reach a larger audience on WRNI. This is a good thing because the program is not just about Brown people, but about Rhode Island academics as a whole.” Jackson also expressed his approval of the show’s aim to make the work of scholars and scientists accessible to the larger community. “It serves a useful purpose, especially with science and scientific research. It helps to explain academics to the public, and get the word out about the good work that is being done on campuses.” McCarthy emphasized the unique opportunity that “Not Your Classroom” has with the series airing this month on WRNI. “It’s a very unusual situation where a program produced by students gets on an NPR station,” he said. “There are some NPR stations that are owned by colleges or universities, but for an NPR station that’s unaffiliated with a college, I don’t know of any other NPR station accepting student programming.” “Not Your Classroom” aired on WRNI yesterday and featured Professor of Environmental Studies Harold Ward as well as Peter Johnson, an English professor at Providence College.

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Parties continued from page 1 issues,” Greene said. “In the end, it’s still about students taking responsibilities for their own actions and the actions of others. That’s a big part of the culture at Brown.” The review “will address issues of policies and practices but will also look at issues of education, harm-reduction techniques and other ways to alter student behavior and student culture in a way that is healthier and eliminates risky behavior,” Greene said. Greene also said an education campaign will likely “target resources to first-year students in a very direct way” because data show that most alcoholrelated incidents involve firstyears. Interim policies instituted The interim social events policies — enacted at the beginning of the semester and in effect until a permanent policy is complete — were drafted to address concerns regarding parties held this semester. According to Director of Student Activities Ricky Gresh, University officials last semester did not want to institute a moratorium banning all social events — as occurred in 1996 — while committees examined and revised the alcohol and social events policies. But since some problems in the existing policies had been identified, administrators created interim policies to account for the key elements that needed to be addressed while still allowing student groups to hold functions during the review process, Gresh said. Administrators and student leaders involved with social functions told The Herald that the interim policies strengthen the previous policies by making some procedures more explicit and requiring some practices that were previously only encouraged or recommended. “The interim policy contains a lot of things that had been included but not enforced, or encouraged but never official. The goal is to provide clear answers for exactly what to do in specific cases,” Sheets said. The interim policies more clearly outline practices concerning party admission, advertising, safety and security and alcohol service. Gresh stressed that the policies are designed to provide broad guidelines so event organizers and attendees know what to expect when attending parties. “The idea with most of these policies is that every event

is different, but we want to have policies that will work for most events,” he said, adding that groups can request exceptions to the policies. Administrators have also created a document outlining the roles and responsibilities of student event leaders, the SAO evening manager and Department of Public Safety officers at social functions. Gresh called this an effort to let student leaders know exactly what support they could expect from the SAO and DPS during social events. The SAO hired Evening Student Event Manager Ronald Procopio, who only works for the University on Friday and Saturday nights, in November 2004 to work with student event managers and provide more administrative oversight at social events. Thomas Hayes ’98, who in 2004 was the interim coordinator for student activities but left the University to pursue other opportunities, was re-hired by the SAO last month as a second evening event manager. Creation of the late night fund A “late night fund” of $20,000 has been introduced for the Spring 2006 semester to encourage student groups to host alcohol-free social events on Friday and Saturday evenings. The fund is designed in part to encourage student groups to introduce new and creative events. “The idea is that they can be small events or large events, but we are not looking for events that have historically happened,” Gresh said. Existing events traditionally funded by the Undergraduate Finance Board or other sources are not eligible for the fund. Gresh said the fund is not a direct result of Sex Power God and other incidents last semester; it was recommended last September but not introduced until this semester. The fund will be managed by a board composed of representatives of the Student Union, UCS, Greek Council and cultural organizations, a studentat-large and administrators from the SAO and Health Education. The 1996 review The last major review of the University’s social events and alcohol policies was precipitated by a series of incidents in September 1996 that troubled administrators and raised questions about student safety. The Herald reported on Nov. 1, 1996 that during the first 34 days of the Fall 1996 semester, Brown Police and Security, since renamed DPS, logged 60 incidents of assault and alcoholrelated offenses involving students — nearly double the 35 incidents reported during the

same period the year before. Two specific incidents caused increased concern about student safety. A Brown student was stabbed outside of Harambee House on Sept. 21, 1996, and another student was sexually assaulted at Phi Kappa Psi three weeks later. In response, then-Dean of Student Life Robin Rose ordered a moratorium on all social functions for a two-week period in October 1996. Rose stepped down as dean of student life in 2000 and is currently the associate dean for summer and continuing studies. “The first month of the school year has seen an unacceptable number of incidents and altercations at campus social functions which have resulted in several serious injuries and an overall social environment which is unhealthy and unsafe,” Rose wrote in a University memorandum announcing the moratorium. Rose did not specifically mention the incidents at Harambee House or Phi Kappa Psi in her memorandum, but she did outline a variety of other concerns that had arisen since the beginning of the semester: “violations of fire safety codes, illegal service and provision of alcohol, inappropriate advertising, failure to check for college identifications and failure to keep an accurate guest list and numerous fights and other serious incidents in which students and University personnel have been injured.” The moratorium on social events was lifted at the end of the two-week period, but Rose ordered a ban on Class F alcohol licenses until a policy review committee completed its work. Class F licenses are required for any event in which alcohol is served and admission is charged. Later that semester, a new set of policies — the basis of the University’s current policies — was introduced and alcohol was re-introduced at campus parties. The 1996 policy was refreshed in 2005 to consolidate additions, such as those dealing with the state’s fire code and overcrowding, that had been introduced over the years. Current administrators said they never seriously considered a similar moratorium to deal with the problems that arose last semester. Greene said a moratorium was not necessary because “the vast majority of students at Brown behave in a way that is entirely consistent with the rules and regulations of the University and in a way that is not endangering the health or safety of themselves or others.”

Cheney accidentally sprays hunting companion with birdshot BY SHAILAGH MURRAY AND PETER BAKER WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally sprayed a companion with birdshot while hunting quail on a private Texas ranch, injuring the man in the face, neck and chest, the vice president’s office confirmed yesterday after a Texas newspaper reported the incident. The shooting occurred

late Saturday afternoon while Cheney was hunting with Harry Whittington, 78, a prominent Austin lawyer, on the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas. Hearing a covey of birds, Cheney shot at one, not realizing that Whittington had startled the quail and that he was in the line of fire. Whittington was treated on the scene by Cheney’s traveling medical detail before being taken by helicopter to a Corpus Christi hospital. He was in the intensive

care unit at Christus Spohn Health System and listed in stable condition yesterday evening. Katharine Armstrong, the ranch’s owner, saw what happened Saturday and told reporters Sunday that Cheney was using a 28-gauge shotgun, which shoots fewer pellets and has a smaller shot pattern than a 12-gauge shotgun, making hitting the target more challenging. Whittington was about 30 yards away when he was hit in the cheek, neck and chest, she said.

Wrestling continued from page 12 win,” Savino said. “He’s been working hard every day in practice and that win was the payoff. You could see the difference in him in his second match (which he also won). He wrestled like a madman.” After Leo Saniuk’s win at 197 pounds and a Harvard forfeit coming at 125 pounds, the Bears seemed to be in good shape. But in the matches before and after the forfeit, Harvard accumulated 11 points to pull ahead. Levon Mock ’08 lost his heavyweight match to Harvard’s Bode Ogunwole, the seventh-ranked wrestler in the country in his weight class, and Dan Appello ’08 dropped a major decision to eighth-ranked Robbie Preston at 133 pounds. Mark Savino ’08 could not stop the bleeding against Max Meltzer, No. 15 in the nation at 141 pounds, dropping a 14-4 decision that put the Crimson back on top 15-12. “We tend to relax as a team for just a few moments and then we find ourselves in a hole again,” Amato said. At 149 pounds, Ashton tied the match again at 15all, despite a left hand taped due to a jammed finger. With 45 seconds left in the second period, Ashton recorded a twopoint reversal and notched another reversal late in the third period to squeeze out a 6-5 victory. Michael Savino held a 3-2 lead with 30 seconds to go in his 157-pound match. He was hit with two warning penalties for

stalling in the last few seconds of the match, the second of which handed his opponent a bonus point and forced overtime. A clearly tired Savino was taken down early in the overtime period. “I felt like I dominated the whole match,” Savino said. “To get hit with two (warnings) in a row, I kind of felt cheated, like the referee saw (my opponent) was only down one point and felt the match was more even than that.” Kitchner closed with a win at 165 pounds that brought Brown back to even at 18-18 and forced the tie. The Bears left nothing to chance in the afternoon’s bout with Sacred Heart. Gevelinger opened the match with another dominating performance, scoring an impressive 17-5 major decision over Jed Giguere. After Mock was pinned at heavyweight by the Pioneers’ massive Iranian, Payam Zarrinpour, Schell pinned his opponent just two minutes into his match. Ashton followed Mark Savino with a pin to put the Bears ahead for good, then Michael Savino finished off his career at the Pizzitola Center in style with a 10-4 victory that delighted hometown fans. Bruno hits the road to close out its regular season schedule next weekend with three matches in New York — one conference match each against Columbia and No. 14 Cornell and a non-conference match with Wagner College. The team is focused on boosting its record over .500 for the year and getting ready for the EIWA championships in early March.

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Multimedia Brown Review seeks to liven up literature BY COOPER LEHER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Brown Review, the University’s first undergraduate multimedia book review, went online in October 2005. Unlike other literary reviews, the site — brownreview.com — features extensive audio, visual and interactive content. The reviews themselves are unusually personal, stressing how books fit into readers’ lives and not just the canon of literature. Each installment centers on a common theme, the first theme being “Lost Treasures,” and the second being author Kurt Vonnegut. Matt Sledge ’08 started planning the online book review as soon as he realized that the University did not already have one. “I assumed we had something like this,” Sledge said. Sledge proposed the idea to Ben Carlson ’07 nearly a year ago, and Carlson enthusiastically came on board. Carlson said he was disconcerted with the “staid, stale” tone of typical book reviews, adding that he saw

Sledge’s idea as an opportunity to create a friendlier, more “personal” review. By the summer, Sledge and Carlson had begun searching for “halfway competent writers” and “praying” for responses, Sledge said. He also received a onetime grant from the University’s Creative Arts Council that has funded the Brown Review’s development so far. The site’s creators, as well as numerous other writers, gathered to assemble the first issue of the Brown Review early in this academic year. By early October, “Lost Treasures” was on the Internet. Sledge, Carlson and web designer Cali Pfaff ’08 all hope that the first installment of their project offers a friendlier, more accessible book review. Pfaff said that the Review’s “funky aesthetic” is more “approachable” than other literary publications. Although the Web site focuses on book reviews, it’s “not even accurate to call them reviews,” Sledge said. Unlike traditional book reviews, the articles

frequently feature anecdotes of the reviewers’ lives. In his piece “Pynchon’s Ghosts,” reviewer Adam Delehanty ’07.5 expounds on the writer’s lost works as well as his own personal obsession with Pynchon. “As I write this, Pynchon’s face is taped to the wall beside my pillow, so that I can close my eyes and always remember,” Delehanty writes. In addition to the articles, Sledge emphasized the Review’s multimedia content. Beyond the reviews, Sledge plans for each issue to offer art, audio and hypertext all related to a common theme. The “Lost Treasures” issue includes Pfaff’s painting, “finding yours,” filled with discarded chairs and tables. Pfaff also peppers the site with her own photographs of Portland, Ore. and the surrounding countryside, themselves “lost treasures” of the American landscape. Although the site does not yet contain audio content, Sledge stressed that future issues will include music composed by Brown students. He hopes that

the audio will relate to each issue’s theme, but he said that it could be unrelated or tangential. Hypertext — or interactive images and passages — also sets these book reviews apart. “Lost Treasures” includes an illustrated compilation of passages from William Vollmann’s “Rainbow Stories,” designed by Jeremy Ashkenas ’08. Visitors navigate through Ashkenas’ colorful rainbow to images of beer bottles, airplanes and beetles that complement excerpts from Vollmann’s “lost treasure” of literature. Ashkenas said he hopes the images will familiarize readers with Vollman’s relatively obscure writing. Pfaff said her painting may also use hypertext in the future, using the artwork’s floating objects of debris as links to photos and biographies of the Review’s staff. She said she hopes that the eclectic review will ultimately extend outside of Brown and appeal to anyone who reads it. Sledge agreed that “everybody at Brown, and then everyone who loves books” would enjoy the

Review’s content. He expects the site’s various mediums will get visitors excited about discovering literature they have never encountered. Sledge said he hopes that the review will encourage people to “find new books, rediscover old books and remember how great reading can be,” Sledge said. Though he remains unsure of exactly when the staff will complete future installments, Sledge said he hopes new issues will arrive three times each academic year. In contrast to the first two issues’ retrospective focus, the third issue may center on more recent literature, Sledge said. The Creative Arts Council grant will continue to support the online review for the foreseeable future, but Sledge’s long-term goal is to publish a print edition and to fund the periodical with its sales. Sledge hopes that the Review will stay in publication long after his graduation in May 2008. “I’d like to pass on the reins,” Sledge said.

AIDS continued from page 6 care of patients on antiretroviral drugs, according to the report. The program’s approach “is to empower every nation to take ownership of its own fight against HIV/AIDS,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters at a briefing. She called PEPFAR “a key example of ... transformational diplomacy in action.” The program provides money to foreign governments, charities, non-governmental organizations, and several American universities running AIDS programs overseas. About 82 percent of the services it finances are provided by local organizations; about 20 percent are government agencies and 20 percent are faith-based groups. The plan seeks to bring antiretroviral drugs to 2 million people in the 15 countries by the end of its fifth year. There are 401,000 on treatment now, and 70,000 more in other countries getting grants. Countries are varying greatly in progress toward their goals. In Uganda, 67,500 people are getting AIDS drugs through PEPFARfunded programs — more than the target of 60,000. In Ethiopia, however, only 16,200 people are on treatment with U.S. government support — less than one-tenth of the target. Vietnam is only 3 percent of the way to its target. Also in the program’s first two years, about 250,000 pregnant women infected with the AIDS virus got antiretroviral drugs during labor to keep from infecting their babies. Many programs are now targeting those women for long-term treatment. Some groups criticized aspects of the program, however. Jodi Jacobson, director of the Center for Health and Gender Equity, said many prevention programs target condom education only to high-risk groups such as commercial sex workers and truck drivers. “The problem is that the highest rates of new infection in many of these societies is among married women,” she said.

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M. hoops continued from page 12 of-5 shooting. The Big Red ran their run to 27-8, giving them a 59-41 lead with 8:23 to play. “To come out like we did in the second half, it’s just disgusting,” Miller said. “Careless turnovers and we didn’t play with any intensity off of the ball for a few defensive possessions and bang — a 10-0 run coming out of the locker room.” But Brown again responded with a streak of its own, this time scoring 15 unanswered points. Huffman capped the run when Mark MacDonald ’08 found him cutting to the lane for a layup, which cut the Cornell lead to three at 59-56 with 1:00 to go. “We made a few nice plays on offense and got a few easy buckets,” said center MacDonald, who had 18 points and 10 rebounds. Then with the clock under 0:50, Cornell’s Ryan Rourke threw an errant pass that ended up in the hands of Marcus Becker ’07. Becker got into the open court but missed the layup. After a Cornell layup, Jeppesen drained a threepointer to cut the lead to 6159. Cornell then hit two freethrows, and the Bears could not get a shot to fall on their next possession, missing four times before the clock ran out. After the game, Miller said that his team was hindered by inconsistency. “We’ve got to have five guys on the floor that give us good performances,” he said. “We have to develop that consistency, which is tough to get when you have so many young players.” The Bears found that consistency against Columbia (8-13, 1-7 Ivy) on Saturday. The Bears hit 25 of 47 shots (53.2 percent) and scored 86 points —13 more than their previous best, which came in a 73-70 double-overtime defeat of

Dartmouth. “That was easily our best execution of the year,” Miller said. “We don’t score 86 points in two games, never mind one.” The teams traded buckets in the first half with neither team leading by more than six points, and the Lions took a 43-39 lead into the half. After the break, Bruno came out firing, going on a 10-2 run that included five points from Jeppesen and two assists to his roommate, MacDonald. The Bears boosted their lead to 5247 when Huffman connected on a three-pointer. The Lions cut the lead to one when Dragutin Kravic hit a three to make it 56-55, but the Bears put the game out of reach by reeling off 16 points in under five minutes while holding the Lions to three. Forward Nathan Eads ’07 capped off the rally with an oldfashioned three-point play to give the Bears a 72-58 lead with 5:14 left. The seldom-used Eads provided a big boost off the bench, scoring 12 points with five boards in 25 minutes. “I give him credit,” Miller said. “Some games he plays and some days he doesn’t, but he was ready to play and he took advantage of the minutes he got.” The lead never fell below eight points the rest of the way as the Bears coasted in. Huffman, who has struggled with his shot all year, finished with 23 points and 11-of-12 free-throws. Jeppesen said that this game is a good sign for the reigning Ivy rookie of the year. “It’s great,” Jeppesen said. “He has been struggling a little bit and it’s just great for him to get a good game like that under his belt where he’s shooting the ball well.” The Bears will look to keep their momentum next weekend, when they will travel to Harvard on Friday and then north to Dartmouth on Saturday. Both games tip off at 7 p.m.

M. icers continued from page 12 get the go-ahead goal despite a couple of close misses by Brian McNary ’08. One of his shots hit the left post and another was cleared just before crossing the goal line. “That’s kind of what we’ve been going through all year,” Bauer said. “You feel like they have to go in sometime.” Union scored what proved to be the game-winning goal at the 4:44 mark of the third period, when Jonathan Poirier’s shot from the left face-off circle beat Sibbald stick side. A late interference penalty on McNary sealed Brown’s seventh one-goal loss of the season. “We’re beyond the moral

W. hoops continued from page 12 “We have been in so many close games this year that we never lost our composure,” Kelly said. The rest of the game was decided at the free-throw line, from which 15 of the next 17 points were scored. Kelly was 4-for-5 from the line down the stretch, and Megan McCahill ’09 made two with 10 seconds left to secure the 71-68 win. Behind Kelly’s 22 points, Hayes had a very solid allaround game with 17 points, eight rebounds and four assists. Lena McAfee ’07 chipped in with 11 points and seven rebounds. On Saturday night, Brown was determined to play better against Columbia. Midway through the first half, Brown opened up a 2315 lead behind a 7-0 run. During that span, Hayes recorded her second steal of the half, making her the second woman in Ivy League history to record 1,000 points, 600 rebounds, 250 assists and 250 steals. Brown ended the first half up 32-21 behind another 7-0 surge. In the first 12 minutes of the

victory at this stage of the season, and the guys are pretty frustrated,” Grillo said. “The last few games have all been onegoal games, and we’ve been on the wrong side of too many of them.” The next night’s match-up with RPI was the 29th annual Big Red Freakout!, an annual event that the Bears have not won in 15 appearances. The game was scoreless for the first 10 minutes of play until the hosts converted on a power play. Less than four minutes later, Brown tied things up when Prough scored his second goal of the weekend. Defensemen David Robertson ’08 and Sean Hurley ’08 garnered assists when Prough’s shot was deflected past RPI goalie Mathias Lange. The tie was short-lived, as Ryan Swanson of RPI beat

second half, Brown outscored the Lions 21-4 and pushed the lead to 53-25. “I think we stepped up our defense a lot (in the second half) and really pressured them,” Burr said. Brown’s defense continued to stifle Columbia as the Lions only managed 10 points in the first 15 minutes of the half. “It was nice to play the way we are capable of playing against Columbia,” Kelly said. “Especially after we didn’t play that well against Cornell. A win like this helps us know that we are one of the best teams in the league.” Everyone Brown dressed played, and 11 of the 14 players scored. Hayes led Brown once again with 16 points while Kelly added 13. With two wins this weekend against Harvard and Dartmouth, Brown would move into a firstplace tie with the Big Green. Friday’s game against the Crimson is the fourth annual “Blitz the Pitz” promotion, in which the athletic department will attempt to break the attendance record for a women’s basketball game at the Pizzitola Center. Tickets will be $1 for adults, while children and students will get in free.

Sibbald just 37 seconds later. The Engineers increased their lead to 3-1 at the 3:30 mark of the second period when the puck bounced out of Sibbald’s glove, trickling over the goal line. Brown’s offense went into hibernation until the final 1:32, when Sibbald was pulled for an extra attacker. The move paid off, as center Matt Vokes ’09 scored on the rebound off a shot from left wing Cory Caouette ’06, making it 3-2. But the Bears would get no closer, and RPI’s Kurt Colling scored an emptynet goal with 41 seconds left to solidify RPI’s win at 4-2. Prough was Bruno’s lone offensive force on the weekend, and his two goals ran his teamleading total to 11. “Jeff’s got the ability to get to the right spots. He shoots the puck when he has the opportunities to put the puck in the net,” Grillo said. “He’s got a knack for the net and that’s hard to teach a kid.” Sibbald proved his 34-save performance in his collegiate debut against Dartmouth the previous weekend was no fluke, stopping 59 of 64 shots over the weekend. “I think the team’s been playing pretty well in front of me,” he said. “They haven’t allowed too many odd man rushes, and that gives me confidence.” Such confidence has been key for Sibbald, as his first year of collegiate hockey has not been the easiest one. “It’s been interesting,” Sibbald said. “I know it’s been hard, but at the same time I’m 21 years old, so I’m not a true freshman.” Sibbald’s ability has not gone unnoticed, especially by Grillo. “I thought he played really well against Dartmouth in his first game and deserved to play again. He’s done everything we asked him to do and he earned that right,” Grillo said. The Bears will head back to upstate New York to battle St. Lawrence and Clarkson universities this weekend.

EDITORIAL/LETTERS THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2006 · PAGE 10

STAFF EDITORIAL

Critical review Nearly a decade ago, University administrators responded to a high number of assaults and alcohol-related offenses by instituting a two-week moratorium on all social functions. At the time, administrators justified the moratorium and other restrictions by citing “an overall social environment that is unhealthy and unsafe.” Many of the circumstances surrounding the 1996 moratorium differ considerably from the controversies that engulfed Brown’s campus at the end of last semester. The sanctions put in place then addressed what appeared to be an ongoing problem, as the University witnessed 60 incidents involving assault and alcoholrelated offenses during the first 34 days of the Fall 1996 semester. Still, two incidents in particular raised concerns about oncampus safety, much like how two events last November — the high number of hospitalizations of people attending Sex Power God and shots fired on the Main Green that same weekend — led to the current review of social events and alcohol policies. We are fortunate enough to have administrators who value even-handed, thorough reflection over drastic disciplinary action. In the face of scrutiny from national media outlets and complaints from parents and alums, administrators like Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services David Greene have outlined a well-orchestrated plan for reviewing and amending policies regarding social events at Brown while allowing many events to continue unimpeded. This wouldn’t necessarily be the case at many other schools, and students should be grateful for Greene’s vote of confidence that “the vast majority of students at Brown behave in a way … that is not endangering the health or safety of themselves or others.” That said, students should acknowledge that they have much greater influence on the atmosphere of social events at Brown than do administrators. No amount of policy review committees can stop someone from drinking irresponsibly and getting out of hand. This sort of behavior reflects underlying characteristics of Brown’s social atmosphere that can’t be regulated away. While initiatives like the late night fund might lead to some creative (and alcohol-free) events, they can’t possibly address what actually caused the problems that led to last semester’s controversies. After all, Sex Power God was an alcohol-free event, but that only meant that students weren’t drinking inside of Sayles Hall. Despite several missteps, administrators have continued to provide tremendous freedoms when it comes to on-campus social events. Thankfully, those involved in the social events review process seem hesitant to embrace drastic policy changes. Students should acknowledge that, in order to preserve many of the things they enjoy about social life at Brown, they can no longer blatantly disregard the responsibility that such freedom entails.

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JOSEPH NAGLE

LETTERS UCS still exclusionary To the Editor: The tepid letter of apology issued by Sarah Saxton-Frump ’07 (“UCS to review elections process,” Feb. 6) continues to diminish the denial of student participation in the Undergraduate Council of Students as an “inconsistency.” Though her letter is a step in the right direction for the council, she must back it up with genuine reform aimed at increasing the clarity of UCS procedures as well as democratic participation. Former President Brian Bidadi ’06 began this last semester, but if the attitude of Vice President Zachary Townsend ’08 toward the “two undergraduates” at last week’s election is any indication, we are headed nowhere. To many, if not most, students on campus, UCS

is a joke. Its members have come across as selfobsessed bureaucrats with a fetish for the minutiae of procedure. Yet somehow in this self-congratulatory focus on the “proper” order of business they have forgotten the very strong principles which should drive the organization. Their reliance on vague and entirely anecdotal precedent has led us to a situation where our student leaders are elected without the consideration of their constituents, where student voices are sacrificed at the altar of masturbatory bureaucratic procedure. Nathan Lovejoy ’06 Feb. 7

Chafee ’75 a Republican placeholder To the Editor: The view expressed by Danielle Ginach ’06 supporting Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75, R-R.I., (“Chafee ’75 shows political backbone,” Feb. 6) seems to be held by many Rhode Islanders. But before Rhode Islanders dutifully trudge to the polls on election day to re-elect someone who caucuses with the political party that supports policy views generally antithetical to most of the Rhode Island electorate, I implore the public to reconsider. While Chafee was the lone Republican to vote against Samuel Alito, his vote was a meaningless protest vote. Earlier, in the actually relevant vote where Democrats were trying to secure 41 votes to sustain a filibuster against Alito, Chafee voted with the Republicans and “red-state” Democrats to end debate, therefore ensuring that Alito would be confirmed.

In the 2004 senatorial elections, in many “redstates,” Democrats fielded very qualified moderateto-conservative candidates who lost to Republican candidates on the far right (examples include Brad Carson in Oklahoma, Inez Tenenbaum in South Carolina and Tony Knowles in Alaska). They all probably lost because they were seen as stalkinghorses for a Democratic majority. Let Rhode Island return the favor. Simply put, Chafee merely serves as a stalkinghorse for a continued Republican majority in the Senate.

Jeremy Johnson GS Feb. 6

CO R R E C T I O N S A story in Friday’s Herald (“Five former Bears will hit the ice at Torino Olympics”) incorrectly reported that Canadian defenseman Becky Kellar ’97 was playing in her first Olympic Games. She was part of the Canadian women’s ice hockey team that won silver in 1998 in Nagano and gold in 2002 in Salt Lake City. The headline for a letter in Wednesday’s Herald (“Fair Share Health Care plan insufficient,” Feb. 8) did not accurately reflect its content. The author, Caitlin Cohen ’07, sees the FSHC as beneficial to workers’ health care.

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2006 · PAGE 11 BY HARRY SIPLE ’04 KATE MOULDING ’05 ALEXA CLAY ’06 DAN MACCOMBIE ’08 NUREEN GHUZNAVI ’08 STEVE MILLER GS

Funny money funds Ward 1 opposition

GUEST COLUMNISTS

Ward 1 City Council Candidate Ethan Ris’ already unsupportable claims that he is somehow “of Providence” became even a bit more offensive last week, upon his first required campaign finance report filing. Between October and December, Ris netted $11,900, almost all of it raised at an inside-the-beltway fundraiser that his parents threw at his Maryland home over winter break. The event was rife with corporate lobbyists with K Street and Pennsylvania Avenue addresses, who presumably work with Ris’ parents. In total, big-time Washington, DC lobbyists, consultants and lawyers donated at least $8,600. (Donations under $100 needn’t be reported individually, so it’s tough to be precise. The $8,600 figure does not include other out-of-state money raised from non-corporate interests.) And who exactly is funding Ris’ fauxgrassroots, or “astro-turf,” campaign to buy your Ward 1 Council seat? Let’s take a look: Linda Daschle, the wife of former US Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota, has decided to throw $500 behind Ris’ effort. According to a Washington Monthly article that explored a possible Daschle presidential run, “The landmines in Linda Daschle’s professional portfolio will make Hillary Clinton’s pork futures and law-firm billings look like mousetraps.” The article notes that Linda Daschle, like several other Ris donors, is a lobbyist for American Airlines, “which has had six fatal crashes since 1994 (not even including the World Trade Center flights).” It continues, “Even as its planes have crashed, American has lobbied for

years to water down safety and security regulations that might have helped foil the World Trade Center attacks. Yet thanks in part to lobbying efforts by Daschle — and support from her husband — American Airlines got a free pass in the recent airline bailout bill, escaping most legal liability for the hijackings and getting $583 million in cash grants — taxpayer money it will never have to repay.” Linda Daschle also lobbies for a pharmaceutical company and defense contractors. Steve McBee made a handsome donation of $250, with his cohorts donating several hundred more. They

the government to deregulate our nation’s media and further consolidate its ownership in the hands of a few megacorporations. In 2005, US Telecom’s Senior Vice President, Edward Merlis, gave Ris $100. The executive vice president of WorldComm’s PR firm, APCO Worldwide, donated $500. The “About” section of APCO’s website touts the profiles of some of its clients, like “A Fortune 50 American company seeking to shed its international reputation as a bully” and “two companies whose proposed merger is expected to be blocked by regulators.”

We have come to understand the extraordinary structural electoral advantages already afforded the wealthy and powerful. can afford it: According to the Center for Public Integrity, McBee’s D.C. firm, McBee Strategic Consulting, spent $4.5 million in 2004 federal lobbying. The firm’s clients include military contractors Northrup Grumman and Boeing, along with a slew of airports and airlines. Several donors run Wexler, Walker and Associates, a D.C. powerhouse with scores of corporate clients, like Caterpillar, Eli Lilly, JP Morgan, Burger King and Nuclear Energy Institute. The OBC group, once a top-5 DC lobbying firm, has fallen on hard times as of late, since its GOP-insider partner Nick Calio (President George W. Bush’s roommate at Harvard Business School) left to work for the White House. Maybe that’s why OBC’s execs are relegated to cutting $500 checks to first-time candidates for office in New England’s second-biggest city. In 2003 and 2004, the US Telecom Association spent $7.7 million lobbying

Ris donor Bill Sweeney is the global government affairs director for the EDS consulting corporation, with $20.7 billion in 2004 revenues. David Lustig is the U.S. government affairs director for the multinational Unilever corporation. Consultants at Burson-Marsteller, proudly the world’s very largest PR firm, are weighing in in Providence neighborhood politics to the tune of hundreds of dollars. The executive vice president of the industry trade group, the American Association of Airline Executives donated, as did some folks from the Air Transport Association. Round that out with some dough from lobbyists for Lockheed Martin, Delta, Continental and JetBlue, and come November, perhaps Ris will have bought himself a seat on the Providence City Council. Through our work on a variety of causes — organizing hotel workers who earn minimum wage, striving to restore the right to vote for convicted felons

who’ve served their time and leading the Rhode Island effort for public financing of campaigns — we have come to understand the extraordinary structural electoral advantages already afforded the wealthy and powerful. The interests of Ris’ donors are not progressive — they’re precisely what real Democrats and Greens should be working together to fight against. Ris’ early alliance with corporate interests is especially disturbing in light of unprecedented development pressure in Providence, as multinational corporations jockey for local development rights, tax breaks and zoning changes. It’s unfortunately not shocking that politicians take money from all sorts of places. But having already allied himself with corporate lobbyists who couldn’t care less about the formidable concerns facing Providence, how could Ward 1 voters possibly trust Ris to represent us? Even at this early stage in his political career, Ris has adopted the worst of the worst culture that Washington has to offer. In his three years in office, incumbent David Segal has done so much for his community — Ward 1, Providence and beyond. He’s done it by working his tail off for workers’ rights, environmental justice, affordable housing, civil rights and civil liberties, even while planting trees, fixing potholes and funding neighborhood groups. And, for the record, the $15,000 or so David Segal has raised while in office has come from more than 250 donors. Yes, a few contributions to his effort — mostly from family and friends — are from outof-state, but upwards of 90 percent of his donors hail from little Rhody. And in 2002, he ran a true grassroots effort, spending about $7,000 — or half of each of his two closest competitors, far less than Ris has already raised and even much less than Ris raised from corporate interests alone. David Segal’s a uniter, not a divider. Check him out at www.VoteSegal.com.

What’s the matter with Copenhagen? BY BARRON YOUNGSMITH OPINIONS COLUMNIST

Are Islamists learning wedge politics from the Republicans? Judging by the behavior of some Middle Eastern governments, you might think so. By hammering gleefully on public outrage over Jyllands-Posten’s blasphemous cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, leaders from Syria to Saudi Arabia are successfully replicating the political successes of triedand-true GOP tactics like the proposed Flag Desecration Amendment and the Federal Marriage Amendment. On these issues and scores of others, Republicans found and exploited a disjoint between the requirements of a rights-based constitution, on one hand, and conventional social mores on the other. This process forced moderates onto either side of a dividing line and convinced staunch moralists that their ethical standards were under attack. Howard Fineman labels this Republican tactic Wedge Strategy 1.0. Every time the GOP gets a wedge issue on the agenda, voters have to choose between their commitment to constitutional liberalism and their religious or cultural mores. (Or, at the very least, they must prioritize the two.) Wedge politics in the United States helped found today’s big-tent GOP and sow philosophical division and doubt among Democrats. The country that that we live in today, split between “red and blue America” and populated by Karl Rove’s politicized “religious shock troops,” is a product of wedge tactics.

The row over Jyllands-Posten’s antiMohammed cartoons is the perfect wedge issue. That’s why today’s blasphemy conflict is so dangerous: it threatens to do to the world what Karl Rove and his predecessors successfully did to America. Except the result here doesn’t just impinge upon your ability to marry someone of the same sex. It impinges upon your right to question freely without incurring

societies. “Of course there should be freedom of the press everywhere,” said Turkey’s Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul. “But without doubt, respect for our values must not be abandoned for the sake of freedom.” It looks as if this strategy is succeeding. Furor over the cartoons has resulted in public position statements from every government in the Islamic world and a number of Western ones.

The row over Jyllands-Posten’s anti-Mohammed cartoons is the perfect wedge issue. violent retaliation. That’s why Samuel Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations” is on everybody’s lips these days: the issue of free speech has the potential to become a cultural dividing line — a badge that separates Muslims from Westerners, a marker that delineates the boundaries of Islamic civilization and a litmus test that enforces the mutual exclusivity of civil rights and Islamic morals. Islamists, long frustrated by the West’s ability to keep the Muslim world divided and semi-secular, need only take up the issue and pound it into the minds of Muslims worldwide. The more prevalent the issue becomes, the clearer the tension is for Muslims living in constitutional

Newspapers on all continents have taken sides on the issue. The result looks like nothing less than a congressional roll-call vote gone global. Like Republicans jockeying for leadership in a primary race, the leaders of Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria are falling over each other to make political hay out of a culturally symbolic issue. Syria tacitly approved the burning of the Danish embassy, while Saudi Arabia pulled its ambassador from Denmark and the Iranian Commerce Ministry proposed renaming the Danish pastry the “flower of Mohammed.” Coverage of the events by the Islamic press has reached Bill O’Reilly tenor as well. AlJazeera news ran the Arab League’s call for

international sanctions against Denmark as “UN urged to ban attack on religion.” So things look grim. But there is one hopeful lesson that we can draw from the example of GOP wedge tactics. The Republican leadership never really meant for the Flag Desecration Amendment and the Federal Marriage Amendment to pass. It saw them more as party-building tools to be hauled out on the appropriate political occasions. And the public wasn’t so radical either. According to a Pew poll taken at the height of 2003’s partisan mudslinging, only 10 percent of those who opposed gay marriage actually wanted to amend the Constitution. So, while against the idea of gay marriage, the vast majority of Americans were never for radical changes in constitutional governance. A quick look at the numerous calls for moderation across the Muslim world gives one hope that this logic applies to our current global situation as well. It is likely that only a small portion of Muslims are truly hostile to the principle of free speech. Most are just miffed that the newspapers are blaspheming Mohammed. While this position may be philosophically incongruous, it means that Islamic and the Western societies aren’t as incompatible as some would like us to believe. It’s the politicians for whom we really have to watch out.

Barron YoungSmith ’06 recommends a full night’s sleep.

SPORTS MONDAY THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · FEBRUARY 13, 2006 · PAGE 12

M. hoops gains weekend split with romp over Lions BY CHARLIE VALLELY ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

On Saturday night, with the Brown Band stationed in the Pizzitola bleachers for the second time this year, the men’s basketball team finished the weekend on a high note. After losing to Cornell 63-59 on Friday after their comeback in the second half came up just short, the Bears had their best offensive output of the season on Saturday, taming the Columbia Lions 86-75 behind 25 points from forward Keenan Jeppesen ’08 and a career-high 23 from Damon Huffman ’08. Now 7-14 on the season (35 Ivy League), the Bears played well in both games, despite lapses against Cornell that cost them a shot at sweeping the weekend. After Saturday’s game, Head Coach Glen Miller said his team made strides in both victory and defeat. “I think that last night we played much better offensively than we had in previous games,” Miller said of the Cornell game. “And we carried it over to tonight (against Columbia) and ratcheted it up a notch. I thought that tonight was the closest we’ve come to putting 40 minutes together, so I’m very satisfied.” Against Cornell (10-12, 5-3

Ivy), the Bears came out flat at the start of the game. The Big Red built a 14-5 lead over the first 5:09, aided by four Brown turnovers. With 12:30 left in the half and the Bears trailing 19-12, the Big Red opened the game up, going on a 9-2 run to give them a 28-14 lead with 6:47 remaining. Just as fast as the Bears fell behind, they clawed their way back, outscoring Cornell 17-2 over the next 5:57 to take a 3130 lead. Jeppesen, who finished the game with a team-high 21 points and 10 rebounds, led the way with six points and five rebounds during the stretch. He also capped the rally with a bucket in the low post, which gave the Bears the lead with 0:50 left in the half. Cornell’s Ugo Ihekweazu hit a jumper to give the Big Red a 32-31 lead heading into the lockers, but the Bears were back in the game. “(Jeppesen) just keeps getting better and better,” Miller said. “And now he feels as though he’s the guy on the team to go to. It’s nice to finally have a guy who wants to be in that position.” The Bears came out of the lockers in the second half the same way they did at the start of the game. After a Jeppesen basket to open the frame, Cornell scored 10 in a row on 4see M. HOOPS, page 9

W. basketball loves N.Y., posts two wins on road trip to stay with Dartmouth JUSTIN GOLDMAN ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

The women’s basketball team kept pace with league-leading Dartmouth with two clutch wins this weekend. In two very different games, the Bears took down Cornell 71-68 on Friday and blew out Columbia 62-39 on Saturday. Brown is now 13-8 overall and 7-1 in the Ivy League. The Bears needed all of Colleen Kelly ’06’s 22 points on Friday to hold off the Big Red. Midway through the first half, Brown jumped out to a 23-12 lead on the strength of a 13-0 run, fueled by the steady play of Kelly and Sarah Hayes ’06. But every time Bruno made a run, the Big Red answered. After Brown’s 13-0 burst, Cornell went on a 9-0 run of its own behind Lacey Workman’s three-point shooting. “We had some trouble stopping their three-point shooting as well as their inside game,” said Head Coach Jean Burr. Both teams would trade baskets the rest of the half, with Brown going to the locker room with a 39-36 lead. In the first half, Kelly led all scorers with 15 points on 6-for-8 shooting, including three of four from downtown. “It is important for us to get

Grapplers battle Harvard to stalemate in 18-18 tie, upend Sacred Heart 26-25 BY STEPHEN COLELLI SPORTS EDITOR

One fan’s sign at the Pizzitola Center read “The Real Prince of Providence,” with a photo of Michael Savino ’06 beneath it. But on Saturday, the sign should have read “Princes,” and the photos of Mike Ashton ’06, Shawn Kitchner ’07, Matt Gevelinger ’09 and Jeff Schell ’08 should have been added to it. This weekend marked the wrestling team’s final

home matches of the year and the squad’s seniors’ final opportunity to wrestle in front of their home crowd. The Bears did not disappoint, wrestling a solid Harvard team to an 18-18 tie before thrashing Sacred Heart University in the afternoon, 26-15. Brown moved to 7-7-1 overall and 2-4-1 in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association. “I have family in Providence — my grandmother still lives on Federal Hill — so it was nice to

get a win,” Savino said. “I was not feeling too well this morning, and after the Harvard match I was pretty mentally drained as well. Coach (Dave Amato) said if we got a big lead against Sacred Heart maybe I wouldn’t have to wrestle, but I wanted to be out there. When he said, ‘I need you to go,’ I was ready.” The Bears were ready from the start of the day. Gevelinger staked the Bears to an early 30 lead when he defeated his opponent at 174 pounds with an 8-6 score. In the first two periods, Gevelinger built an 8-3 lead with a series of takedowns before riding out the third period to secure the victory. It was the first-year’s first win of the duals season, giving the Bears a needed boost. “(Gevelinger) needed that see WRESTLING, page 7

Ashley Hess / Herald

Michael Savino ’06 went 1-1 in Saturday’s matches against Harvard and Sacred Heart, the last home meet of his career. BROWN SPORTS RESULTS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10 M. BASKETBALL: Cornell 63, Brown 59 W. BASKETBALL: Brown 71, Cornell 68 M. HOCKEY: Union 2, Brown 1 W. SWIMMING: Yale 160, Brown 140 SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 11 M. BASKETBALL: Brown 86, Columbia 75 W. BASKETBALL: Brown 62, Columbia 39 M. HOCKEY: Rensellaer 4, Brown 2 M. SQUASH: Yale 9, Brown 0 W. SQUASH: Yale 9, Brown 0

M. SWIMMING: Cornell 126, Brown 102 W. TENNIS: Sacramento State 5, Brown 2 WRESTLING: Brown 18, Harvard 18; Brown 26, Sacred Heart 15 SUNDAY , FEBRUARY 12 M. FENCING: Harvard 21, Brown 6; Brown 16, Yale 11; Penn 23, Brown 4 W. FENCING: Yale 18, Brown 9; Harvard 21, Brown 6; Penn 21, Brown 6 SKIING: Third place at Boston College Carnival M. TENNIS: Brown 7, Stony Brook 0

Ashley Hess / Herald

Colleen Kelly ’06 sealed the Bears’ win at Cornell on Friday by knocking down four of five free throws down the stretch. her open,” Hayes said. “When game at 48. For the next seven minutes, she is hitting her shots, it gives the rest of the team a lot of both teams traded baskets as neither team gained more than confidence.” Cornell came out hot in the a three-point advantage. At the second half, going on an 8-0 3:37 mark, Hayes made two more spurt to take the lead for the first clutch baskets to push the Brown time since the opening minutes. lead to four at 63-59. Brown quickly responded behind see W. HOOPS, page 9 two field goals by Hayes to tie the

M. icers generate chances, still can’t produce victory BY CHRIS MAHR SPORTS STAFF WRITER

While the men’s ice hockey team has improved its play of late, it still has not been able to increase the number in its win column. With Friday’s 2-1 loss to Union College and Saturday’s 4-2 setback at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Brown’s most recent winless skid has reached nine. Despite the struggles, the Bears — now 2-12-4 in the ECAC Hockey League (3-16-6 overall) — are gaining confidence with each close game they play, which is crucial since every ECACHL team qualifies for the playoffs. “Our confidence is probably a little higher because we’ve been playing some pretty good hockey,” said forward Joe Bauer ’06. “Guys here really believe that when the playoffs come around we can do something.” Friday night’s contest against

Union got off to a less-thanideal start as the host Dutchmen outshot Bruno 7-0 during the game’s first 3:40 and took a 1-0 lead when Augie DiMarzo poked a loose puck past goaltender Mark Sibbald ’09. Sibbald started both weekend games instead of Brown’s usual starter, Adam D’Alba ’08. However, the Bears tied the game with their first shot on net. Right wing Jeff Prough ’08 became the first Brown player to hit double digits in goals this season at 4:49 in the first. “The first 20 minutes we weren’t focused and playing the way we’re capable of playing,” said Head Coach Roger Grillo. In the second, the Bears outshot Union 13-7, and the Dutchmen went without a shot on two power play opportunities. However, the Bears could not see M. ICERS, page 9

Olympic Update: King ’97 leads U.S. to two wins; Canada breaks records in blowouts Both Olympic women’s ice hockey teams featuring Brown alums shut out two opponents this weekend. Team USA beat Switzerland in its opening game 6-0 on Saturday before blanking Germany 5-0 the following day. Becky Kellar ’97 and Team Canada set a record for margin of victory in a 16-0 drubbing of Italy, which they followed with a

12-0 schellacking of Russia. Katie King ’97 has been the most impressive of the five alums. In two games, she has four points, scoring Team USA’s first goal on Saturday, then tallying a goal and two assists on Sunday. Goaltender Pam Dreyer ’03 got the start in Sunday’s win, stopping 10 shots, 50 fewer than her German counterpart faced,

to earn the shutout. Kathleen Kauth ’01 and Kim Insalaco ’03 played in both games, but were held pointless. Kellar, a defenseman for Canada, had an assist in Saturday’s game. She had a plus-6 rating after the weekend games, including a plus-4 in the first period of the Italy game. — Chris Hatfield