The Brown Daily Herald M onday, F ebr uar y 4, 2008
Volume CXLIII, No. 9
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BEAR Day honors U. employees
Bear follows father’s footsteps In 1991, the New York Giants won the Super Bowl with a DeOssie on their team. Last night, history repeated itself as veteran Brown football player Zak DeOssie ’07, the Giants’ long snapper, won Super Bowl XLII. In 1991, his father, Steve DeOssie P’07 also took to the field with the triumphant team. Zak DeOssie’s jersey — number 51 — was seen on the field as he snapped Giants punter Jeff Feagles four times, but his big play came in the game’s final minutes, when he participated in a crucial tackle against the New England Patriots’ running back Laurence Maroney. With the Patriots down three points with 35 seconds left in the game, Maroney caught the kick at New England’s nine yard line and began a crucial kickoff return. The Giants stymied his progress, limiting his return to only 17 yards and starting the Patriots’ final, and ultimately futile, effort at New England’s 26-yard line. The number 51 flashed across the screen as Maroney went down, and Zak DeOssie contributed to a championship finish. — Franklin Kanin
Hunter to leave, Simmons reveals By Devin Gould Contributing Writer
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa to a Feb. 12-13 conference held by the Center for Latin American Studies. Ideally, Fehrer said, they would have also met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, but arranging that meeting was “more complicated” because of the political situation in Venezuela. The conference, “Changes in the Andes: Realities, Challenges,
Brown employees filled the OlneyMargolies Athletic Center Friday to celebrate the fourth annual Brown Employee Appreciation and Recognition Day. In her remarks thanking Brown employees, President Ruth Simmons also announced that Walter Hunter, vice president for administration, plans to step down from his position. “This is an opportunity to honor our exceptional staff,” Simmons said in her remarks to a packed room. “It is an opportunity to say thank you for the hard work that keeps Brown running efficiently and successfully.” Brown employees contribute a total of over seven million hours of work to the University each year, according to a video presentation at the beginning of the event. Simmons honored the over 490 employees who have been at Brown the longest, asking employees commemorating five, 10 and 15 years of service to stand and those marking 20, 25 and over 30 years to join her on the stage. Simmons and Hunter also recognized 28 “excellence award” winners in the categories of citizenship, diversity, efficiency, innovation, managing for excellence, service and “rising star.” The winners, who were selected by a committee of faculty and staff from among 78 nominees, were each given a check for $2,500 and had their photographs taken with Simmons. In her speech, Simmons thanked employees for the roles they played in the University’s successes in the past year — finalizing the BrownRISD dual degree program, pushing the Campaign for Academic Enrichment past the $1 billion mark and completing the implementation of Banner. Simmons took a moment to honor Hunter, the master of ceremonies at the event, who will retire and return to the private sector after more than seven years at Brown. Employees were pleased by the celebration. “It’s nice to be recognized for the job you do day to day,” said James McCurdy, a purchasing agent. McCurdy received an Excellence Award in Innovation for creating a furniture-recycling program that made unused furniture in a given department available to the entire University. Furniture not claimed by anyone within the University was donated to the Providence School System. He estimated that he has saved the University over $100,000. The first BEAR Day was in January 2005, after the Human Resources Advisor y Board and the Staff Advisory Committee began
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The New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots Sunday night, 17-14, in a Super Bowl upset.
Giants beat Patriots, students revel anyway By Simon van Zuylen-Wood Senior Staff Writer
Sunday night the New York Giants upset the New England Patriots, 17-14, behind a strong defensive effort and a gutsy performance by quarterback Eli Manning. Manning, whose brother Peyton won Super Bowl XLI with the Indianapolis Colts last year, threw two touchdown passes, including a 13 yarder to receiver Plaxico Burress with 35 seconds left. The Brown campus remained festive all night, even once the home-town team lost, as Giants fans emerged and could be seen high fiving and chest bumping each other.
Brown students, despite living in Patriots country, seemed divided about the game. The brothers of Delta Tau, watching the game on a projection screen, were up off their seats after every big play. When the Giants’ Manning fumbled the ball in the second quarter, half the room erupted in cheers. When a teammate recovered seconds later, the other half roared back. Delta Tau brother and Giants fan Sean Kotkin ’09 seemed pleased with Manning and had confidence in his team, but wasn’t impressed with half-time act Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. “The half-time show wasn’t too good — nothing memorable,” Kot-
kin said. Down the hall, Sigma Chi set up couches, five televisions and a projection screen for the big game. The fraternity also hired two exotic dancers and supplied beer out of an ice-filled garbage can. Guests were encouraged by Sigma Chi members to throw dollar bills at the dancers throughout their performance, which lasted the duration of the official half-time show. The show was an “eleven out of ten on the enjoyment scale,” said Jeremy Harper ’11, a guest at the party. Sigma Chi President Matt Bubley continued on page 6
Stone fired at student in Rock, breaking glass Shooter was in a passing car; no one hurt By Michael Bechek News Editor
A rock fired from a slingshot in a passing car hit the window next to where a student was studying in Rockefeller Library Saturday night, making a small hole in the window but failing to penetrate the thick glass. The student was unharmed, but the shot, which occurred shortly before 7 p.m., briefly created a scene when half a dozen police cars arrived and officers closed off George Street for 20 minutes between Prospect Street and Benefit Street in search of a bullet casing, treating the incident as a possible gunshot. Between 6:45 and 6:50 p.m., the student was sitting on the library’s lower level near carrel 67, facing George Street, when he was startled by the shot, he told The Herald. He added that he was a sophomore but declined to give his name. “All of a sudden I heard this really loud impact,” the student said, the result of which was a small hole, “kind of like a bullet
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hole.” Sergeant Robert Enos of the Department of Public Safety said the student had also reported seeing “an orange flash” at the time of the shot. The student told The Herald he was so “shaken up” that he briefly “started reading again.” But he left the library shortly afterward and returned to his room, where he told his roommates what happened. He then returned to the library with friends and decided that he should report the incident. DPS received a call at 9:10 p.m., Enos said, and arrived in front of the library within minutes. The student said he was feeling much better once police had determined that the weapon fired was a powerful slingshot of some kind and not a gun. “It’s an interesting way to spend a Saturday night,” he said. There were no other students nearby on the library’s lower level at the time the shot was fired, said Jeffrey Sanford ’10, who said he spoke to the student about the incident when he returned to the library. “He was the only one down there,” Sanford said. Other people studying in the library were not alerted of what had
Note by note Organist James David Christie tickles the keys in Sayles Hall
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Former Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee ‘75 with Bolivian President Evo Morales.
CLAS invites Latino leaders By Joanna Wohlmuth Senior Staff Writer
This winter break, a graduate student packed her bags and headed to South America to meet with some foreign heads of state. Kendra Fehrer GS and former Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75, a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, went to South America to personally invite Bolivian President Evo Morales and
Dark Matters Associate Professor of Physics Richard Gaitskell is going underground to find dark matter
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Fine Print Jonah Fabricant ‘10 argues the FDA does the public a disservice when it comes to truth in advertising
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