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Some admit illicit use of stimulants By Seth Motel Staff Writer

Nearly 8 percent of students have illegally used prescription stimulants — such as Adderall, Dexedrine and Ritalin — during this academic year, according to a recent Herald poll.

THE HERALD POLL Among the students surveyed, 7.9 percent said they had used prescription stimulants that were not prescribed to them once or more during that time period. Of those surveyed, 3.1 percent said they used stimulants only one time, 3.7 percent said they used them “a few times” and 1.1 percent said they used them more frequently than that. 89.8 percent said they had not used them this year and 2.2 percent chose not to answer. The results are similar to the national average estimated by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia (CASA), which found that 6.7 percent of college students used prescription stimulants illegally during the 12-month period studied. Doctors generally prescribe such medications to people who suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Most of the admitted illicit users in the CASA study said they used the medications to help them study, but nearly a third said that getting high was at least one factor. The study found that white males most frequently used those drugs illicitly, and said research has found Greek membership to be another positive correlate with illegal use nationwide. CASA reported that at least 43 pharmaceutical Web sites sell stimulants without requiring a prescription. Still, the most common method for college students to obtain these drugs was through friends. One Brown sophomore, who asked to remain anonymous, has bought Adderall “3-4 times this year,” he wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “It was real easy,” he wrote.“All I had to do was ask a friend to get some.” The student, who added that he has given the drug to friends, wrote that he did not fear getting in trouble. A first-year, who also asked not to be named, said he has been taking Adderall since a doctor diagnosed him with ADHD in fourth grade. Because he takes the prescribed medication only when he feels it is necessary, he has possessed surplus pills that he has given to some of his

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Two missing students safe in Trinidad

By Ben Schreckinger Senior Staf f Writer

Kimberly Hays ’11 and Sophia Roy ’10, who had been declared missing after they did not return from a spring break trip to Trinidad, are now safe at a hotel there, Steven Hays, Kimberly’s father, said Thursday. “They’re all right,” he told The Herald in a telephone inter view last night. Hays did not elaborate on what happened to the two students except to say that he had spoken to Kimberly briefly and that “one of them may have been drugged.”

Officials at the FBI and the State Department confirmed earlier Thursday that both agencies were investigating the students’ disappearance. The University had announced in an e-mail to students late Wednesday night that two unnamed students had not returned after break. Friends of Roy and Hays said Thursday that the two had been expected back from their trip by Monday, the day classes resumed. But Steven Hays said the two missed their Delta Airlines flight off the island, and the students’ friends told The Herald that, to

their knowledge, no one had heard from either of them since they left the country. An ATM withdrawal was made in Trinidad from Kimberly Hays’ bank account on March 30, Steven Hays said, and law enforcement officers had attempted to use security footage to determine who had made the withdrawal. The pair had planned to return before that day, friends said. Two students who live with Hays said two FBI agents, accompanied by a Department of Public Safety officer, had questioned them and searched Hays’ room on Wednesday night.

Steven Hays said his daughter was being inter viewed by State Department officials in Trinidad Thursday night. Nat Rosenzweig ’11, who said he is a friend of both students, said he had planned to travel to Trinidad with Hays over spring break but, for personal reasons, decided not to go. Roy went on the trip with Hays instead, he said. “I don’t think there was any specific itinerary for the trip,” Rosenzweig said. The two departed from New York on March 22 after originally continued on page 3

Anxiety, relief as first rooms fly off the board By Mitra Anoushiravani Senior Staff Writer

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Students watched intently as rooms flew off the board.

At 6 p.m. sharp yesterday, Deb Mahato ’09.5 was on the spot. With the first pick of the 2009 Housing Lottery, Mahato chose a single in West Andrews, and Brown’s annual dash for on-campus housing officially began. The first half of this year’s lottery went off smoothly Thursday night in Sayles Hall, with almost 500 numbers called in a rapid-fire three hours. The night’s final pick went to six rising juniors — group number 488 — just before 9 p.m. “I’m sweating,” said Sage Erskine ’11, one of the students who had the last pick of the night. “My adrenaline is all up and down!” All six women in the group were on the edges of their seats, yelling words of encouragement to the groups ahead of them that did not choose the Goddard House suite they wanted. Every time there was a noshow, the girls could be heard cheering from anywhere in Sayles.

“Our strategy is to intimidate everyone,” Erskine joked. Mahato, who is entering his tenth semester, said he “just wanted some quiet space, so it didn’t matter where I’m staying, because I know very few people and most of my friends are gone.” Maggie Machaiek ’09.5 had the 11th number called Thursday, but she was still nervous before heading to the podium to make her pick. “I really wanted a single in Minden, but there are only 10 so I was really nervous,” she said. It turns out she needn’t have worried — she got her wish. For others, like Jennifer Tan ’11 who had number 403, the housing lottery was especially tumultuous. “I’m dissatisfied,” Tan said. “We’re at the beginning of the bottom half of numbers, so we can’t even be on the waitlist to maybe get a good room. And there were a lot of people going abroad, so there was a lot of hectic switching around.” continued on page 3

Homeless, advocates demand share of stimulus package tion at Brown that works with the homeless community. The coalition and HOPE share “a concern about A crowd of nearly 200 people gath- the lack of affordable homes,” said ered in the State House rotunda Nellie Gorbea, executive director of Thursday afternoon, calling for Housing Works RI, a homelessness legislators to use federal advocacy group. METRO stimulus money to help Rhode Island will those who have lost their receive $1.1 billion from homes due to foreclosure, eviction the federal stimulus package, The Herald reported last month. or job loss. The groups called for using the The rally was organized by 10 federal stimulus money to prevent groups, including non-profit organizations such as the Rhode Island foreclosures, protect tenants and Coalition for the Homeless and reinstate funding for the NeighHousing Opportunities for People continued on page 3 Everywhere, a student organizaBy Hannah Moser Senior Staff Writer

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Several nonprofits organized a rally at the State House Thursday afternoon, calling for a solution to homelessness.

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“To think that you can send any kid off to school with any kind of drug is naive.” — Alan Zametkin MD ’77, NIMH senior clinical staff physician

For a boost, some students turn to pills continued from page 1 friends. The student said he has given away the pills a few times, accepting money if the other person insists on buying the pills from him. Whether for money or not, he has been careful to give out Adderall to only a few people, he said. “I wouldn’t feel comfortable giving it to someone I didn’t know,” he said. In comparison to using Adderall to stay alert, coffee and other drinks with caffeine are not as helpful, the first-year said. Health concerns In fact, ingesting enough caffeine to equal the effects of a prescription stimulant would probably be more harmful, said Associate Professor of Pediatrics Judith Owens ’77 MD’80, who studies the relationship between stimulants and sleep. But snorting prescription stimulants to get high is far more dangerous than simply ingesting them in pill form, Owens said. In addition to ethical and legal issues posed by use of the drugs, Owens cautioned against thinking that they will necessarily improve one’s mental performance. “One of the concerns I have is that I think people assume that when they use these sort of alertness-enhancing substances that they reverse any det-

riments associated with sleepiness,” she said. “The jury is still also out in regards to how much these medications actually do improve performance, especially in the face of sleep deprivation.” Director of Health Education Frances Mantak ’88 said she worries that a student who feels more alert after using a prescription stimulant once might be convinced that he or she can no longer focus without using the drugs. People can also incorrectly assume there will be relatively few harmful physical effects, she said. “People have a sense that, ‘Well, this is a legal drug, therefore it’s safe,’” Mantak said. “They don’t often realize what could happen to them if they have a heart condition, for example.” In a 1990 study by the National Institute of Mental Health, Alan Zametkin MD’77 concluded that stimulants like Ritalin could help treat ADHD — a finding which some people credit with starting the surge of stimulant prescriptions for ADHD diagnoses. Between 1990 and 2005, prescriptions of methylphenidate and amphetamine (the generic terms for Ritalin and Adderall, respectively) jumped more than 3,000 percent, according to the Chronicle for Higher Education. Now a senior clinical staff physician for the NIMH, Zametkin said

ADHD is not over-diagnosed, but there needs to be more attention paid to the unlawful distribution of drugs prescribed for the disorder. “The medical community itself has to take some responsibility for the issues of (stimulant) diversion because we just don’t warn our patients about it enough,” he said. People between the ages of 18 and 22 in particular may lack the information and maturity to make good decisions about prescription drugs, he said. “To think that you can send any kid off to school with any kind of drug is naive,” Zametkin said, adding that colleges should do more to oversee prescription drug use on their campuses and educate students about the risks of illicit use. Still, he considers oral use of these drugs to be relatively safe, he said. “Compared to blackouts from alcohol, we’re talking about an entirely different scale of magnitude of medical problems,” he said. ‘Beneath the radar’ Greg Anderson ’10, president of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, said that taking these pills “isn’t necessarily a bad thing” and that they should be treated like other illegal, but rarely lethal, drugs. “I personally don’t see anything wrong with using it very rarely,”

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Fewer than 10 percent of students said they used unprescribed stimulants this academic year, according to a poll conducted by The Herald.

Anderson said. “I would put using stimulants at the same level as using marijuana recreationally.” The University treats illicit possession or distribution of prescription drugs in the same category as any drugs that are completely illegal, said Associate Dean of Student Life Terry Addison. University policy states that dealers of drugs “are subject to immediate separation from the University.” Though the Department of Public Safety refers only about one student a year to the Office of Student Life for cases of stimulant misuse, Addison said the University is aware that students violate the rule more frequently. “Because they’re prescribed and because they’re being shared and possibly sold by students, it’s sort of beneath the radar,” he said. While Addison said he does not condone use of the drugs without a prescription, he said he takes selling the drugs to be a much more serious offense. “When a person actively looks to profit by selling prescription drugs,”

he said, “it puts it in a whole other category.” In light of legal consequences inside and outside the University, Zametkin said colleges should make their students more aware of the legal ramifications of distributing or accepting prescription drugs illegally. Health Education’s Mantak said she is planning to create a page on Health Services’ Web site that will inform students of the dangers of using prescription drugs not prescribed to them. But, she said, she doesn’t want people to “lose sight” of the fact that alcohol and marijuana use are much more of an issue at Brown. The poll, conducted from March 16 through 18, has a 3.6 percent margin of error with 95 percent confidence. A total of 676 Brown undergraduates completed the poll, which The Herald administered as a written questionnaire to students in the University Mail Room at J. Walter Wilson, outside the Blue Room in Faunce House and in the Sciences Library.

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“I believe that ‘whore’ is a word invented for women who like sex as much as men do.”— Staceyann Chin, poet and activist

Feminist poet, Cicilline Getting to the heart of the matter kick off Pride Month By Caitlin Trujillo Contributing Writer

By Alexandra Ulmer Staff Writer

Weaving her way up and down the aisles of Salomon 101, poet Staceyann Chin candidly spoke of her graying pubic hair. “Nobody told me this would happen,” the energetic artist told a laughing crowd last night. This somewhat unorthodox scene was just one of many in the event, which kicked off Queer Alliance’s 2009 Pride Month and featured Chin and openly gay Providence Mayor David Cicilline ’83. The QA’s theme for the month is titled “More Than Marriage: Building an Inclusive Queer Movement,” and it includes events ranging from a lecture on homophobia in hip-hop to a celebration of the fifth anniversary of Brown’s LGBTQ Resource Center. The event also marked the first collaboration between Pride Month, which aims to celebrate the lives of LGBTQ people, and the Black Lavender Experience, which centers on black and queer theater. “The Pride Month is about more than marriage — it’s about building an inclusive queer community,” Pride Month Co-Programmer Alex Morse ’11 told The Herald. Cicilline introduced the event by praising youth and the Brown community for supporting and respecting the LGBTQ community. “You are pressing these issues and raising public awareness,” he said. “Full equality for our community is only a short way off.” His visit to Salomon 101 for this occasion was “particularly wonderful,” Cicilline added, before presenting the LGBTQ Resource Center with a proclamation from the city. President Ruth Simmons attended and described the collaboration between the two groups as “terrific.” “It’s very indicative of ways in which different groups find a way of working together,” Simmons told The Herald. Throughout the event, Chin, equal

parts slam poet, writer and political activist, proved to be an outspoken, unscripted and vigorous performer. She alternated between reading from her upcoming biography and chatting with the sound technician. Born to a Jamaican mother and a Chinese father who both left her, Chin recounted her tumultuous upbringing in Jamaica and her struggles as a multiracial and queer artist. In one of the three poems she read, a dramatic and vibrant Chin roamed up and down the aisles, her deep voice recounting a list of what she believes in. “I practice believing in the smaller things ... until I have time to believe in the rest,” she said. “I believe birds were once people in another life.” “Except I believe Saint Nicholas is actually a transvestite,” Chin continued. “I believe that ‘whore’ is a word invented for women who like sex as much as men do,” she added to audience cheers. In another poem she recited, Chin spoke of the paradox between lesbians’ attraction to straight girls and the difficulty in seducing them. “Rule number one: You have to be platonic,” Chin advised. “Rule number two: You cannot bend rule number one for at least three months — until she adjusts.” When reading from her book, Chin shared her fear of writing and publishing her life story. “I’m still a little shaky, part-ashamed and also proud of this book,” she said. The book, “The Other Side of Paradise,” will be released April 14 in New York, with her family, her former female partners and one ex-boyfriend in attendance, Chin told the audience. She read three passages about her creation in the backseat of a car, anger towards her foster home on Christmas Day and her self-exploration following the discovery of a porn magazine. Chin said meaningful poetry to her carries “the spirit and anger and emotional shit of the writer.” “I wanted to figure out where it was that I belonged in this thing that I loved so much,” she said.

Lottery kicks off smoothly continued from page 1 Tan came to Sayles prepared with a thick stack of floor plans highlighting the best rooms. Some people were even too nervous to speak to The Herald. Aparna Kumar ’10 declined an interview, saying only, “We have to concentrate. I’m freaking out!” Others, like Melissa Diaz ’10, had not entered themselves into the lottery but were still in Sayles to offer moral support to their friends and “enjoy a little bit of no-stress,” Diaz said. Besides the chaos, the housing lottery is also notorious for causing rifts between friends. “This year was pretty chill,” said Tarah Knaresboro ’11, a former Herald copy editor. “We’re another year more mature. The drama happens freshman year.” But not everyone felt the same way. One lotter y-goer, Michael Frauenhofer ’11, said he “had a mild

disagreement with a group member about cleanliness and then they left our group.” Many of the students that The Herald talked to also said this year’s housing lottery seemed more organized than in previous years and that the switch from MacMillan 117 — the site of last year’s lottery — to Sayles Hall was a good decision. Ben Lowell ’10, the chair of Residential Council’s Housing Lottery Committee, was one of the people in charge of making sure the event ran smoothly. “MacMillan was too small of a venue,” Lowell said. “Sayles was a bigger space that we could do a lot with.” Another difference this year was the increased number of no-shows — the 44 no-shows Thursday night were almost double the number who failed to pick on the first night last year. “A lot of no-shows are people who applied before they found out about going abroad,” Lowell said.

The “broken heart syndrome,” a rare condition that mimics heart attack symptoms, may now be better understood, thanks to a group of Brown and Miriam Hospital researchers. Richard Regnante, an interventional cardiology fellow at Miriam and teaching fellow in medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School, initiated the study in July 2004 to determine the demographics most often affected by the disease — formally known as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy — and to develop better treatment methods. The researchers observed approximately 70 patients enrolled at the Miriam and Rhode Island Hospitals who were diagnosed with the syndrome. The study was published in the American Journal of Cardiology’s April 1 edition this

year. Though the disease has some heart attack symptoms, it does not appear to result from artery blockage. It gets its colloquial name — “broken heart syndrome” — from the fact that it tends to strike after an individual has suffered a traumatic event, such as the death of a loved one, according to a March 27 Providence Journal article. According to Ryan Zuzek, another teaching fellow involved in the study, previous research determined that the disease was primarily prevalent in women. The Brown-Miriam study aimed to research the causes of the disease and the specific groups of women more prone to developing it. The results of the study suggest that post-menopausal women at low risk for heart disease are more likely to experience broken heart syndrome after a stressful event. Zuzek also said patients on ACE in-

hibitors, pharmaceutical drugs that inhibit the angiotensin-converting enzyme to relax blood vessels, did not experience symptoms as severely. Even without ACE inhibitors, the disease does not usually cause lasting heart damage and patients recover if given the right treatment, Zuzek said, adding that out of the nearly 75 patients in the study, only one elderly patient died after her family decided to take her off life support. The syndrome also has a low recurrence rate, with only two former patients reporting a return of symptoms, Zuzek said. The next step in the study of the syndrome is to conduct intravascular ultrasounds on patients to look for ulcers or obstructions, he said. The procedure could help determine if the condition is the result of an aborted heart attack or some other mechanism.

Missing students located in Trinidad continued from page 1 planning to fly out the day before, he said. They planned on “going from hostel to hostel” and “didn’t want to be staying in one resort,” he said. Friends expressed relief upon learning that Hays and Roy had been found. “I’m really happy and relieved,” said Jennifer Grayson ’11, who lives with Hays in a suite on campus. Previously, friends posted several messages on Hays’ and Roy’s Facebook walls expressing concern about the students’ well-being

and asking for information. “Has ANYONE actually had contact, phone, text or otherwise with Sophia since March 21, 2009,” one poster asked Thursday afternoon. “All of her friends help is needed.” An advisory on the State Department’s Web site, dated March 4, advises that “incidents of violent crime have been steadily on the rise” in Trinidad and Tobago. “Violent crimes, including assault, kidnapping for ransom, sexual assault and murder, have involved foreign residents and tourists, including U.S. citizens,” according to the site.

Friends of Hays told The Herald she had matriculated with the Class of 2010, but took the spring and fall semesters off in 2008 to travel in Europe. In an e-mail to students late Thursday night, Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron and Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Margaret Klawunn wrote that the University was “extremely grateful for the work done by law enforcement agencies, as well as by members of the Brown community, that led to this outcome.” “We look forward to their safe return to campus,” they wrote.

Homeless rally for stimulus support continued from page 1 borhood Opportunities Program, a state-funded program that provided low-income housing for the homeless. “We don’t want them to invest it in plugging budget deficits. We want them to use it to benefit the poorest Rhode Islanders who need it right now and to deal with the structural budget deficit as a separate issue,” said Jim Ryczek, the executive director of the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless. In an effort to close the state’s $357 million budget deficit for the fiscal year ending in June, a budget proposal approved by the House Finance Committee reduced state aid to cities and towns by $55 million. But on Wednesday, the House voted to “reinstate $25 million of the $55 million in local revenue-sharing money,” according to an April 2 article in the Providence Journal. At Thursday’s event, several groups, including nonprofits and social service agencies, placed information tables around the rotunda’s second floor. In keeping with the event’s theme, “Stimulating the Economy, Growing Healthy Com-

munities,” the organizers decorated the site with pails and shovels and planned to give each legislator a shovel and a packet of seeds along with a sheet outlining their major concerns. Supporters lined the State House stairs, holding signs in English and Spanish and following organizers in chants. “We are here to translate our numbers into power and our power into action,” Linda Watkins, vice president of Amos House, a local social service agency, told the crowd. Watkins gave examples of people, now homeless, who paid their rent but were nonetheless evicted when their building was foreclosed on. Organizers said they are hoping for the passage of a House bill that will allow renters to continue to live in and pay rent on foreclosed properties as long as they maintain the properties. Watkins also asked the legislature to reinstate funding for the Neighborhood Opportunities Program, which was eliminated from the state budget. Two representatives from the Rhode Island Bank Tenants and Homeowners Association shared

Watch a video of Thursday’s rally Visit BrownDailyHerald.com their personal experiences with foreclosure. “The house that I live in has been in foreclosure, and the banks right now are negotiating to rent to me, but they still haven’t given me a response,” said Ida Rivera, via translator. “I was once homeless for seven years, so I can relate,” said Catherine Flemmings, a rally attendee. “I feel obligated that I should be part of this because I once walked in their shoes.” Megan Smith ’10 attended the rally with HOPE, a student organization at Brown that works with the homeless community. “A lot of the people who died are people we’ve known personally,” said Smith, one of the many supporters who carried homemade crosses with names written on them to honor the 35 homeless people she said died in Rhode Island last year. “They’re folks from the community who lived on the streets or in the shelter.”

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Dance artists turn movement into music By Monica Carvalho Contributing Writer

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Brown University Gilbert and Sullivan performing “Iolanthe,” which runs tonight through Sunday.

Witty ‘Iolanthe’ gets modern twist By Caroline Sedano Senior Staff Writer

Love is truly in the air for the Brown University Gilbert and Sullivan’s production of “Iolanthe” this weekend in Alumnae Hall. Beyond the show’s multiple intertwined love stories, the BUGS cast itself had a clear affection for the show’s witty, comical and quick dialogue and musical numbers, written in 1882 by the team of librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan. This passion, along with some original and creative twists, gives “Iolanthe” a fresh, light and engaging feel that brings the love offstage and into the audience. The operetta begins with a chorus of fairies dressed in earth tones giggling and frolicking around the stage as they sing the tale of the fairy Iolanthe, who was banished after falling in love with a mortal man. Iolanthe’s son Strephon, who is half fairy and half mortal due to his mixed parentage, has fallen in love with and plans to marry the beautiful Phyllis, an orphan under the legal protection of the court. Conflict emerges when Phyllis’ caretakers, the noble lords of the state, do not allow her to marry Strephon, hoping instead that she will marry one of them. Over the course of two hours, the show pits Phyllis against a chorus of love-struck suitors vying for her affection, including the Chancellor and two lords who ultimately decide they love each other more than Phyllis. The decision to make the two lords’ relationship more than just platonic came from the show’s firsttime director, Alex Hills ’11. Hills said that as he was reading the play, his first thought was that the two were not friends as the dialogue suggests, but rather “friends.” This initial response became part of Hills’ concept in directing the show. The budding romance between the two lords, played charmingly by Ravi Ramanathan ’09 and Nick Leiserson ’09, results in one of the

most amusing numbers from the show. After Phyllis decides that the lords must figure out between themselves which one will marry her, the two realize they will have to fight to the death. Departing from the original intent of the show but without changing any of the dialogue, the BUG’s production turns a fraternity’s sentiment into a comedic scene of sexual revelation. Hills said the production featured “a fair bit of creative license without seriously altering the original concepts. We didn’t want to do ‘Iolanthe In Space’ or anything like that.” Having never directed or even acted in a show before, Hills said that being the director of “Iolanthe” was incredibly difficult yet also somewhat liberating. “I had no concepts of what should be done or how they should be done. It was like language immersion,” he said, adding that having a dedicated cast whose knowledge and admiration of Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as theater in general, made the experience much smoother. The decision to turn a friendship in the show into a romance made funny scenes even funnier and a story set over one hundred years ago feel a bit more modern. But, even in its original form, the show explores issues of tolerance, acceptance and women’s equality, giving it a persistent relevance. Despite being written well before women’s rights was an accepted concept, “Iolanthe” presents women who have the strength, power and intelligence to call the shots. In the show, the fairies overrun the parliament and ultimately end the reciprocal animosity and prejudice between mortals and immortals. And Phyllis is portrayed as neither a passive nor a treacherous vixen, but instead as a woman who has control over her own destiny and heart. Despite Phyllis’s power to say yes or no to any of her suitors, one of the more odd and amusing attractions is her father figure, the Chancellor, who ultimately admits his agonizing desire for Phyllis. Whatever Freud

might have thought of this, the inner turmoil for the Chancellor is excellently played out by David Deull ’09, who prances around the stage in a curly white wig doing walks silly enough to give Monty Python a run for their money. Not only did “Iolanthe” have a first-time director, but the musical director, Matthew Jaroszewicz ’12, is also making his conducting debut in this production. While Jaroszewicz was new both to conducting and to Gilbert and Sullivan’s works, he said discovering people who love music as much as he does “was such an eye-opening experience.” This production makes a classic and time-tested work even more entertaining and enjoyable. While at times the speed of the songs makes the words hard to decipher, the entire cast’s pleasure in performing them is evident. Because the cast is having such a good time, it seems hard for an audience not to as well. “Iolanthe” runs Friday through Sunday in Alumnae Hall with evening performances at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and matinees at 2 p.m. on Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday. The show is free and open to the public.

A slender dancer in white roamed a bare stage haltingly in half-light. Several sets of wires were attached to her shirt and to a single glove she wore on her right hand. Computer-generated music emerged, seemingly produced by the dancer’s movement. As she moved, the music changed. Almost in mid-step, she turned to face downstage and stopped dancing — the music stopped too. “Well, it’s still a work in progress,” she said. The dancer was Paulina Pagan ’11, and she was rehearsing a piece titled “Candela” for Brown University Movement Experiments’ inaugural performance, Dance/Music/Play, running this weekend in Production Workshop’s upstairs space. Annie Rose London ’11, the group’s founder and the producer of “Dance/Music/Play,” said BUME began to coalesce last semester, developing into a “movement collaborative” project comprising student dancers, musicians and choreographers. She said she started the group because “other dance groups on campus are not really experimental,” and she was looking for a creative outlet for innovative choreography. Dance/Music/Play aims to exhibit how music and dance influence each other, London said. The show’s name stemmed from the way she would consistently refer to the performance in e-mails to BUME members as a “dance/music/play/thing.” London highlighted the importance of the word “play” in the show’s title, which represents the “spirit of exploration” involved in the creation of the performance. London described the show as a “first-time-ever showcase” of original collaborations between dancers and musicians, as well as the links between music and computer science. “The show is not just original choreography, but also original compositions by musicians,” said Carolyn Lee ’10, who coordinated publicity for the performance. Lee said there is “very little opportunity” on campus for students to

create their own choreography unless they are already in an established dance group. BUME offers a “good platform” for experimentation with movement, she said. “I am really excited to see what everyone has come up with,” Lee said. The show features several short pieces, some of which require audience participation to create the full effect. “The audience is involved in providing some of the sound,” London said. “They are very much a part of it.” Sam Tarakajian ’10, who choreographed and supplies music for “Candela,” described his piece as an experiment in mapping a dancer’s movement to music. A computer science concentrator, Tarakajian created the white costume Pagan wears in the piece, which is covered in wires and “lightsensitive parts” called phototransistors. Pagan’s movements determine the way the ambient light onstage hits the phototransistors, which in turn changes the nature of the music. Tarakajian controls the sound levels throughout the piece. Tarakajian echoed Pagan, saying the piece is “still very much a work in progress,” adding that he would like to continue exploring new ways to combine music with dance and chart a dancer’s movement. Tarakajian said his favorite part of working on the show was the way it forced him “to think of music and dance in a different way.” “It’s a totally new fusion kind of thing,” he said. Although this is only the first BUME performance, London and Lee said the dancers, musicians, choreographers and assistants involved in the production hope that this experimental dance show will become an annual event. “I just love it,” London says, smiling, “I just feel like there’s so much potential. It’s just wild.” Dance/Music/Play runs Friday and Saturday at 9 p.m. in PW’s upstairs space in T.F. Green Hall. Tickets will be available at the door on both nights. Doors open at 8 p.m.

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Detainees sue feds over jail conditions By Anna Gorman Los Angeles T imes

LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities are violating immigrant detainees’ constitutional rights by holding them for weeks at a detention facility in downtown Los Angeles that was designed as a short-term processing center, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court. The center is “regularly overcrowded, causing violence, safety hazards and humiliation,” while detainees are denied access to attorneys and courts and are rarely provided drinking water or a change of clothing, according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, the National Immigration Law Center and Paul Hastings law firm. Detainees are held at the facility during the days, then shuttled to local jails at nights and on weekends which, according to the lawsuit, “effectively cuts detainees off from contact with the outside world” and deprives them of their basic needs. “They are detaining people in inhumane conditions, grossly

unsanitary and disgusting conditions,” said ACLU attorney Marisol Orihuela. “There are serious violations of due process.” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities said they couldn’t comment on pending litigation, but issued a statement saying that Department of Homeland Security Secretar y Janet Napolitano has called for a comprehensive review of the nation’s immigration practices and is committed to making “measurable, sustainable progress.” The department is “committed to providing secure, safe and humane treatment for all of our detainees,” according to the statement. “We are continuing to work with other agencies and stakeholders to improve services to those in our custody.” During a 2008 tour of the processing center, Eric Saldana, Los Angeles assistant field director, said ICE does its best to keep detainees there for just 12 hours at a time and quickly moves them to facilities designed for longer holding periods. Sometimes, he said, detainees are kept longer or brought back because of delays in accessing

travel documents for deportation or limited space at local jails. “Our goal is to get people out of here as quickly as possible,” Saldana said. The processing center holds up to 250 detainees. There are six large holding cells surrounding a central area with desks, where the detainees are photographed, fingerprinted and interviewed. Each cell has a telephone, bathroom and a bench. There are also smaller cells for families or juveniles. Saldana said detainees have access to medical staff and can ask to see a judge. There are four named plaintiffs, but Orihuela said the lawsuit is on behalf of hundreds of detainees. The plaintiffs have asked the court to order ICE authorities to set a time limit on detention or comply with detention standards, and to provide hygiene items, sanitar y conditions, adequate sleeping facilities and access to legal materials. “We just want them to follow the minimum standards guaranteed by the Constitution and the statutor y rights the detainees have,” Orihuela said.

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House passes $3.5 trillion budget for Obama agenda By Lori Montgomery The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats overwhelmingly embraced President Obama’s ambitious and expensive agenda for the nation Thursday, endorsing a $3.5 trillion spending plan that sets the stage for the president to pursue his most far-reaching priorities. On a party-line vote, the House approved a budget blueprint that would trim Obama’s spending proposals for the fiscal year that begins in October and curtail his plans to cut taxes. The plan, however, would permit work to begin on the central goals of Obama’s presidency: an expansion of health-care coverage for the uninsured, more money for college loans and a cap-and-trade system to reduce gases that contribute to global warming. Senate leaders predicted late Thursday that their version of the budget blueprint would win approval by midnight. If so, the two measures would then move to a House-Senate conference committee, where the harder work

of implementing Obama’s initiatives would begin. While Democrats have sanctioned the president’s vision for spending massive sums to transform huge sectors of the economy, they remain fiercely divided over the details. There is no agreement, for example, on how to pay for an overhaul of the health-care system expected to add more than $1 trillion to the budget over the next decade, and there is no consensus on how to spend the hundreds of billions of dollars the government stands to collect by setting limits on greenhouse gas emissions and forcing industry to buy permits to pollute. Those issues will be decided in committees where lawmakers have already begun the tortuous work of penciling in the details of Obama’s vision. “Democrats in the House and, I think, the Senate are shoulder to shoulder with the president in trying to make the big decisions we need to make in this country,” said Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. But, he said, “Hammering out the details continued on page 9

Series of food recalls could lead to reforms By Mary MacVean Los Angeles T imes

Consumers could be forgiven for feeling a little weary about this week’s recall of pistachio nuts that could be contaminated with salmonella. It comes just weeks after thousands of products containing peanuts were voluntarily recalled in a salmonella outbreak that made nearly 700 people sick and follows food-borne disease outbreaks connected to peppers and spinach. “As consumers, we all have that reaction, ‘Here we go again,’ “ said Jeff Levi, executive director of the Trust for America’s Health, a Washingtonbased nonprofit organization that has been advocating for reform of the food safety system. But the string of alerts keeps food safety on the minds of Americans and ultimately could lead to legislative reform. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration told consumers Monday to stop eating anything containing pistachios — a broad effort to keep people from getting sick while investigators looked for the source and extent of problems. The government was tipped off by Kraft Foods on March 24, after the company found salmonella in routine testing and recalled some trail mix. The pistachio recall “is the latest reminder of how vulnerable our food safety system is,” Levi said. “It is encouraging that this response was so quick, but we need to move to a system that focuses on prevention through the entire food production

process.” Notices of potentially contaminated foods containing pistachios and peanuts could continue for weeks, in part because both products are used as ingredients in other foods. As of Thursday afternoon, several dozen products were on the FDA’s recall list. But the two recalls are not related, federal officials said. And there are marked differences between them. In January, the FDA traced the source of a nationwide salmonella outbreak to a Peanut Corp. of America plant in Georgia after several reports of illnesses. Nine deaths have been linked to the outbreak, and the FDA has alleged that the company knowingly shipped products after lab tests detected salmonella. The pistachio recall, by Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc., was not triggered by illness, but the FDA said Thursday that several reported illnesses have been reported that might be associated with the nuts. And, unlike in the peanut recalls, the companies involved moved quickly. Once Kraft learned of the salmonella test by a company in its supply chain, it began its own investigation, sending auditors to Setton, said Laurie Guzzinati, a spokeswoman for Kraft Foods. The auditor “observed raw and roasted pistachios not properly segregated,” she said. Setton, the countr y’s secondlargest producer of pistachios, voluntarily recalled 2 million pounds of pistachios from its 2008 crop.

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A win, a loss, a tie vs. R.I. baseball rivals By Benjy Asher Sports Editor

The baseball team rallied in the final inning Wednesday afternoon to pull out a 7-6 victory over URI in the first game of a doubleheader, before tying the Rams in a shortened second game. Brown 7, URI 6 In the first game of Wednesday’s doubleheader, URI struck for three runs off starting pitcher Conor Burke ’11 in the top of the second inning, but the Bears answered right back in the bottom of the inning. After first baseman Rob Papenhause ’09 and left fielder Dan Shapiro ’09 reached base, shortstop Graham Tyler ’12 scored both runners on a double to center field, later scoring on a single by center fielder Steve Daniels ’09 to tie the game 3-3. Tyler had a fantastic day at the plate for Brown, going 4-for-4 with three RBI over the pair of games. In the third inning, Brown took its first lead of the game when Papenhause singled to center field and later came around to score on an RBI single off the bat of catcher Garrett Champion ’12. But Burke surrendered a walk and a double to start the top of the fourth, putting runners on second and third with no outs. URI capitalized on the opportunity, tying the game 4-4 on an RBI single and later taking the lead 5-4 on a sacrifice fly. With a runner on second and only one out, Burke retired the next two batters to get out of the inning with the deficit at only one run. Tyler led off the bottom of the fourth with a single, and advanced to third with one out, but the Bears were unable to bring him home. The Rams threatened again in the top of the fifth, and with runners at first and second with one out, Mark Gormley ’11 came on in relief of Burke. But Champion picked a runner off of first for the second out, and Gormley got the hitter to pop out to end the inning. Brown went down one-two-three in the bottom of the fifth, but after Gormley pitched a perfect sixth inning, Shapiro led off the bottom of the inning with a single and advanced to third with one out on a sacrifice bunt and a wild pitch. Daniels came to the plate and hit a grounder towards the first baseman, whose throw to the plate skipped to the backstop, allowing Shapiro to score, tying the game, 5-5. The Bears had a golden opportunity to take a lead when co-captain and team RBI leader Matt Nuzzo ’09 came to the plate with the bases loaded, but Nuzzo grounded into a double play to end the inning. With one out in the top of the seventh and final inning, URI’s Dan Rhault hit a line drive to left field, which Shapiro misplayed, allowing Rhault to reach second base. Rhault then advanced to third on a passed ball, and came home on a perfectly

executed squeeze play, giving the Rams a 6-5 lead heading into the bottom of the seventh. But the bottom of the inning started with back-to-back singles by designated hitter Pete Greskoff ’11 and third baseman Ryan Zrenda ’11, and with the bases loaded and one out, Joe Mellano ’10 came in to pinch hit. The move paid off, as Mellano slapped one through the left side of the infield, bringing home two runners and giving Brown a 7-6 victory. Brown 7, URI 7 The Bears again found themselves in a hole early, giving up two runs in the top of the first inning of the second game, but the offense took advantage of two URI errors and an RBI single by Papenhause to tie the game, 2-2, in the bottom of the inning. In the top of the second, pitcher Rob Wilcox ’10 gave up three more runs, and the Rams’ Mike LeBel blasted a two-run homer over the left field fence in the top of the fourth, giving URI a commanding 7-2 lead. But Daniels hit a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fourth to score designated hitter Daniel Rosoff ’12, cutting the deficit to 7-3, and in the bottom of the fifth, the Bears’ bats came alive. Papenhause, who finished the day 4-for-6, started the rally off with a one-out double to center field, and a hit batter and a walk loaded the bases for Tyler, who drove in Papenhause with an RBI single. Daniels cut URI’s lead to 7-5 with a sacrifice fly, and with two outs, the Bears continued to fight. Zrenda drove an RBI single to left field to make it a one-run game, and Shapiro brought home Tyler with a game-tying RBI single, Shapiro’s fourth hit of the doubleheader. Nuzzo then grounded out to end the inning, at which point the game was called on account of darkness. Bryant 4, Brown 3 On Thursday afternoon, Brown took on Bryant, and the Bears got on the board first in the top of the third inning, when catcher Matt Colantonio ’11 led off the inning with a single, and later came around to score, giving the Bears a 1-0 lead. Papenhause widened the lead to 2-0 with an RBI single in the top of the fourth, but the Bulldogs struck for three runs in the bottom of the sixth, and added another run in the seventh inning, putting the Bears behind, 4-2. Shapiro brought the score to 4-3 when he singled home Zrenda in the top of the eighth, but the comeback bid fell short, as the Bears failed to get another run home. Brown will next take the field on Saturday, when the Bears will take on Penn at Murray Stadium, at 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. They will host another Ivy League foe in Columbia, in a doubleheader on Sunday.

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Women’s crew, seen here practicing, demonstrated depth Saturday with a win in the varsity four race.

Mixed results for w. crew in opener By Andrew Braca Sports Editor

The No. 2 women’s crew achieved mixed results in its spring season opener on Saturday. In a tough battle with No. 8 Princeton and No. 15 Michigan on Saturday on Lake Carnegie in Princeton, N.J., the Bears settled for third in a tight varsity eight race before dominating the fours. “I think ever ybody raced really well,” said tri-captain Cristina Caligiuri ’09. “We had some strong opponents, and it was great racing all day.” Brown began the day with a

second-place finish in the freshman eight in a time of 7:03.3, 2.7 seconds behind Michigan. The Bears turned their day around by cleaning up in the fours. The varsity four demolished the competition, finishing at 7:33.8, while the Wolverines lagged 5.1 seconds behind and the Tigers followed them three seconds later. The second varsity four served as a showcase for Bruno’s depth. Drawing from the strength of a large roster, Brown entered two boats in the race, sweeping the top two spots. The first boat crossed the line at 8:01.9, followed 2.3 seconds later by the second boat, which held off

Princeton by six tenths of a second in the most dramatic finish of the day. “I’m so proud of the fours,” said tri-captain Jessica Stage ’09. “Our team did phenomenally in those races, so I’m hoping that their success will carry on in the next few races.” Bruno took second in the second varsity eight with a time of 7:00.3, 4.2 seconds behind Michigan. Princeton followed in third at 7:01.7. Brown came out on the short end of a hotly contested varsity eight race to wrap up the day, in which just 5.2 continued on page 8

Gevelinger ’09 Bruno’s lone NCAA wrestler By Dan Alexander Sports Staff Writer

Matt Gevelinger ’09 headed to St. Louis to represent Brown wrestling in the NCAA Championships on March 16. Gevelinger earned an automatic bid to the tournament after placing fourth in the 184-pound weight class at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships. Gevelinger went 0-2 at the tournament, dropping his opening match to defending national champion and No. 3 seed Mike Pucillo of Ohio State. The second match was closer, but Gevelinger’s college career ended with a 14-6 loss to Oklahoma State’s Christopher McNeil. For representing Brown as the only wrestler at the NCAA Championships this season, The Herald has named Gevelinger athlete of the week. Herald: How did you get into wrestling? Gevelinger: In my hometown — Mineral Point, Wisc. — wrestling is a big deal. Everybody grew up wrestling. It was just something you have to do. No questions about it.

How old were you when you started? I think competitively, the first time was in fourth grade.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Did any of your family members wrestle? Like I said, in my hometown, it was a big deal for everyone to do it. On my dad’s side, all of my uncles wrestled. I have five uncles — all of them wrestled. My dad wrestled, and then both my brother and I wrestled. It was kind of a family experience, you know. Did you ever do any other sports besides wrestling? Yeah, I played football in high school. It was a lot of fun, but I wasn’t really all that good at it (laughs). How do you pump yourself up before your matches? Before my matches, I try to relax more than anything because usually I’m really nervous. So if there’s anything, I try to tell myself that I’ve worked hard, and now I have to go out and prove to my opponent and everyone else watching that I should win this match.

Have you ever been injured? I’ve got a laundr y list of injuries. What was your worst injur y and how did it happen? The worst was I dislocated my elbow in the state finals my junior year. It was excruciating — not only because I lost the match due to injury disqualification, but my arm, like, you know, bent backwards the wrong way. That happened in state finals? Yeah, so I got second. The next day was kind of the worst day of my life. I was in so much pain, kind of disoriented, and I knew I lost. I mean, it wasn’t the worst day of my life, but it sucked. Do you think you would have won the state championship if that hadn’t happened? I mean, that’s the story I get to stick to. You wrestle in the 184 weight continued on page 8

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class. What do you weigh out of season? I’ve never weighed 200, but I’ve been close — about 198. Is it hard to cut weight to get back to 184? Not really. I didn’t really cut much weight this year. Once I got my weight under control, once I initially cut down, everything was really easy. I didn’t have to cut a lot of weight compared to a lot of the other guys on the team. Did the rest of the team still practice after you qualified for Nationals, even though their season was over? Nationals was the week before spring break. And Easterns — when we qualified for Nationals — was the first week of March, so for those two weeks in between, everyone came in and was great moral support. What happened at Nationals? I went 0-2. I lost in the first round to last year’s defending national champ. He beat me up pretty bad. And then I lost a tough match to a kid from Oklahoma State. I wrestled hard. I did my best. And you know, they were just better than me. And sometimes you have to realize that.

You went to Nationals last year too. How did this year compare with last year? This year was a lot different. I was by myself — just with my coaches instead of with other teammates. This year, I knew everything. It was in St. Louis last year. And it was this year, so I knew the facilities. I knew what everything looked like. I knew what weigh-ins were going to be like. You know, it was very routine, almost. But you know, unfortunately, I went 0-2 again this year. Will you wrestle after college? No. My career is over with. How does that feel? Pretty weird. Um, I don’t quite know what to do with myself. I’m going to end up spending a lot more time doing schoolwork and working in my lab. But yeah, it’s a weird feeling. What’s your lab? Oh, I work in the molecular biology department. What are your plans when you graduate? I don’t really know. I’m kind of looking for a job. I maybe want to be a lab tech for a little bit — take a little time off of school before I go back to grad school.

Women rowers looking ahead after ‘disappointing’ opener continued from page 7 seconds separated the three crews. Michigan cruised home with a time of 6:46.1, followed by Princeton at 6:49.3 and Brown at 6:51.3. “It was disappointing, but I’m confident that our team will do well in the upcoming races,” said Stage. “We have a lot to work on, but we have a lot of potential.” The Bears achieved solid results against two of the top 15 crews in the country, but said there is always

room for improvement. “Michigan and Princeton are great competitors, but we’re hoping to put a lot of work in on the water and come back strong for the next few races,” Stage said. The Bears will travel to Cambridge tomorrow to face perennial-rival Radcliffe, as the Harvard women’s crew is known. “I think the whole team is really excited for Radcliffe this weekend,” Caligiuri said. “They’re in our region, and it’s always a great race.”

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“I like our chances and love this team.” — Felix Mercado, women’s water polo head coach

W. waterpolo fall to top-10 teams By Meghan Markowski Spor ts Staf f Writer

The women’s water polo team star ted of f spring break with tough competition at the Aztec Invitational. The team played at San Diego State University and lost its first four games to No. 18 Indiana, No. 6 California, No. 4 Hawaii and No. 5 San Diego. The Bears were able to pull off a win against Pacific in their last game of the invitational. They continued on to play ranked teams on Wednesday and Thursday facing No. 8 UC Irvine and No. 3 UCLA, but again fell short against both. They ended the week at the Roadrunner Invitational with three wins and one loss. “When you play 11 games in eight days, you are going to see some good things and bad things,” wrote Head Coach Felix Mercado in an e-mail to The Herald. “I felt that in both tournaments we were able to adjust to most of the opponents but we obviously made more mistakes than I would have liked,” Mercado wrote. “To play teams that are ranked so high and compete with them, I think our team grew in confidence.” Aztec Invitational On March 20, Brown fell to No. 18 Indiana, 9-8, in an exciting match. The Bears started off strong with a goal from Samantha Ryu ’12, but the Hoosiers came back with the next three goals to earn a 3-1 lead at the end of the first quarter. Indiana continued its streak by putting another goal in the back of the net early in the second quarter. Sarah Glick ’10 and Lauren Presant ’10 ended Indiana’s run by scoring two power-play goals to go into halftime down 4-3. Brown came out determined in the second half with a goal by Presant to tie the game up. But Indiana scored two consecutive goals to make it 6-4. Presant scored with five seconds left in the third quarter to make it 6-5. The Bears tied it in the final quarter, but Indiana scored three more goals to make it 9-6 with less than three minutes left in the game. Brown tallied two more goals, but it wasn’t enough to win the game, and the Bears fell 9-8. “During the Indiana game, we were all trying to work together to win the game,” Presant wrote in an e-mail to the Herald. “Going into the fourth quarter we were

trying to pull out the win, but we made some mistakes as a team and lost by one goal. In learning from our mistakes, we look forward to a rematch.” No. 6 California came out strong in the first half to hold a 7-1 advantage over the Bears in their second game. Brown was able to outscore California 3-2 in the second half, but couldn’t make up an early deficit and lost, 11-7. Brown couldn’t keep up with No. 4 Hawaii and fell 20-4 in their third game of the invitational. Hawaii held a 9-1 lead at halftime. Brown’s four goals came from Bethany Kwoka ’12, Glick, Presant and Katherine Stanton ’11. Goalkeeper Stephanie Laing’s ’10 thirteen saves weren’t enough to beat No. 5 San Diego on the last day of the invitational. The Bears kept up with San Diego in the first quarter but San Diego gained an 8-4 lead going into fourth quarter. The game ended with San Diego on top 10-6. Laing was selected as the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s Northern Division Player of the Week for her performance at Aztec Invitational. She recorded 45 saves and seven steals. “The most exciting games were against SDSU, Cal and UCSD,” Presant wrote. “In all these games we put forth impressive effort as these top ranked teams with multiple strings were forced to keep in their starters.” UC Irvine 12, Brown 7 No. 8 UC-Ir vine tallied goals right away, ending the first quarter up 5-0. Its tough defense allowed Brown to only get off only two shots. At halftime, the score was 7-3. Ir vine’s four-goal run in the third quarter put the Bears down by eight. Brown netted four goals in the fourth quarter, but their comeback attempt fell short, and the Bears lost, 12-7. UCLA 15, Brown 9 Brown’s competition didn’t get easier, as the team faced No. 3 UCLA Thursday afternoon. UCLA shut out Brown and held a 7-0 lead until 5:33 left in the second quarter, when Glick netted the Bears’ first goal. Brown pulled to within five at the half, and Glick and Stanton each scored early in the third quarter to make it 8-5. But UCLA went on a three-goal run to put the game out of reach, ending with a

15-9 victory. Roadrunner Invitational Brown cruised past Cal State San Bernardino, 12-6, and Concordia University, 11-4, on the first day of the Roadrunner Invitational. Against Cal State, Presant, Bullwinkel and Bethany Kwoka ’12 led the offense with three goals apiece. Glick added two goals and four assists. Brown proved its all-around strength against Concordia, allowing the eagles just seven shots and scoring eight goals to end the first half up 8-1. Presant led the team with six goals, while Kwoka had three and Bullwinkel and Herald Metro Editor Joanna Wohlmuth ’11 each had one. Glick led the team in assists, with six. On Saturday, Brown continued its winning steak, beating Whittier, 9-1. Brown’s goals came from Presant, Wohlmuth, Stanton and Glick, and the defense kept Whittier off the scoreboard until fourth quarter. The Bears last match of the invitational was against UC-San Diego, which ended in the Tritons’ favor, 9-7. The Bears held a 3-2 lead early, but the San Diego defense held the Bears scoreless in the second quarter, and the Tritons pulled ahead with a 4-3 lead. The teams traded goals, each scoring three, in the third quarter to make it 7-6. But UC San Diego outscored the Bears 2-1 in the fourth and came away with the win. Kwoka was named the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s Northern Division Rookie of the Week for her performance in California. She had seven goals, three assists and six steals. “It was great playing in California and it proved invaluable to play the top 10 teams in the nation,” Presant wrote. “UCLA and Hawaii were among the best competition we have played. We look forward to using what we learned in California to finish off the rest of the season strong!” The Bears’ next game will be today at Wheaton College against Hartwick. “We get our captain Rory Stanton (’09) back this week and that will help a lot with the ability of giving more girls some rest,” Mercado wrote. “We just have to keep learning from our mistakes and make sure we are playing our best ball at the end of the season. I like our chances and love this team.”

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North Korea preps for satellite launch By Julian E. Barnes

Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON –– The U.S. and its allies stepped up pressure on North Korea Thursday to scrap its planned satellite launch, with President Obama agreeing with the South Korean president to respond sternly if Pyongyang fires a longrange rocket. Department of Defense officials said that they were not planning to shoot it down, but said that the U.S. would increase diplomatic pressure on North Korea if it goes ahead, as expected. Pyongyang would find itself further from what it wants from the outside world, including diplomatic recognition, trade and investment, and security guarantees. “They need things,” one U.S. official said. Fueling of the North Korean rocket has begun, and trailers and vehicles with propellant have been observed at the launch site, U.S. officials said. International concern about the launch is based on a belief that it is intended to serve as an intercontinental ballistic missile test by the nuclear-armed nation. Western nations

believe the satellite launch would be illegal under United Nations resolutions restricting North Korea’s missile programs. But Pyongyang says it has a right to launch a satellite under international space treaties. North Korea has been impervious to diplomatic pressure in the past. Analysts say North Korea appears determined to go ahead this time, despite the international pressure, betting that no new sanctions will be imposed. North Korea heightened its rhetoric Thursday, saying it would retaliate against any attempts to destroy its rocket and also threatening to shoot down U.S. surveillance aircraft. But U.S. officials did not take the threat seriously. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates spoke to his counterparts in Japan and South Korea on Wednesday, assuring them that the U.S. will live up to its commitments to defend its allies. North Korea has insisted it will use the rocket to launch a satellite into orbit. U.S. officials said they do not believe the rocket poses a direct danger to America. Pentagon press secretary Geoff

Morrell said Gates has made it clear if there was a direct threat from the North Korea launch, the military has the capabilities to destroy the rocket. The U.S. has interceptor rockets and tracking radar designed to destroy ballistic missiles in mid-course. The U.S. could also use ship-based missiles to take out the North Korean rocket soon after launch. Defense officials said the legality of shooting down a rocket carrying a satellite was questionable, even if the North Korean launch was illegal under U.N. resolutions. Officials still expect a launch to come as early as Saturday, although the window during which North Korea said the rocket would be launched extends through April 8. U.S. spy agencies will monitor the launch for information on North Korea’s procedures as well as the performance and range of its Taepodong-2 rocket. At the G-20 summit in London, Obama met with President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea on Thursday and discussed North Korea at length, according to a senior administration official.

House budget passes along party lines continued from page 6 will require everyone to roll up their sleeves.” Republicans blasted the spending plan as a reckless manifesto that would greatly expand the size of government and double the national debt within five years. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he and other opponents feared the consequences of a budget that “calls for a dramatic and potentially irreversible shift of our nation to the left in the areas of health care, education, and private enterprise.” Democrats rallied behind the president, however, arguing that their budget would rebuild an economy ruined by eight years of Republican rule. In the House, fiscal conservatives fell in line behind the plan, even though it would generate a deficit of more than $1.2 trillion next year and produce large annual deficits

well into the future. The progressive caucus offered an alternative budget plan primarily to voice opposition to the war in Iraq, though many of its members also voted for Obama’s budget. “It’s nice to support a president who’s got a brain and a heart — and uses them both,” said Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., co-chair of the progressive caucus. In the end, the House voted 233 to 196 to support the president’s budget proposal, with only 20 Democrats voting no and no Republicans voting yes. The biggest dispute between the two chambers is whether to use a powerful procedural shortcut that could allow Obama’s health, education and energy initiatives to pass the often balky Senate with 51 votes rather than the usual 60, eliminating the need to win over any Republicans.

Encouraged by the administration, the House Thursday voted to include the procedure, known as reconciliation, in its budget plan to speed health care and education legislation. But Senate Republicans — and some Senate Democrats — argue that the maneuver would make bipartisan cooperation all but impossible on some of the most significant measures to come before the Senate in years. The Senate, meanwhile, has roundly rejected reconciliation for Obama’s cap-and-trade proposal, adopting an amendment to ban the maneuver by a vote of 67 to 31. The House budget does not include capand-trade in its reconciliation provisions. But neither fact has deterred cap-and-trade advocates, and administration officials support leaving the door open in the final budget blueprint when it emerges from conference committee for a final vote later this month.

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After delaying my planning for spring break, I realized that I would be one of the few people who would be stuck at Brown for the week. Friends tried to comfort me by telling me that, by staying here, at least I wouldn’t spend a lot of money. While that is a fallacy, it is certainly true that those staying back get more sleep. Traveling can be exhausting, and in an age when even vacations are over-programmed, you don’t really get the opportunity to make up for the sleep you didn’t get during the semester. Another benefit of staying back is that students can get more work done and thus have a smoother transition from break to the following week than they can if they leave Providence. Luckily, the libraries are open for most hours during the break, and so many students can study calmly for their upcoming midterms, some of which are just a couple of days after the break ends. When I was awake and not working, it surprised me to see how different the University campus looks when students are not here. For sure, there are fewer people, and so there’s just a lot more space and everything looks very peaceful. But the nature of people who are here seems different as well. Perhaps it was just that, for the first time, I started noticing the non-student population that visits Thayer Street. For the first time I was moving around among regular Providence people, like a regular resident of the city, instead of a somewhat protected and privileged Brown student.

Eventually, I discovered other people who had stayed back for break too. They were people that I would say hello to if I saw them around campus, but I didn’t actually know well. Most students have a particular circle of friends comprised of people they live close to or with whom they share a common interest. But they rarely have the time or the interest to really get to know people outside the confines of that circle. On an average day, I wouldn’t actually have had the opportunity to talk to these people who had stayed behind. But we ended up spending a lot of time together and subsequently finding out more about each other. It was a kind of socializing that couldn’t ever happen at a frat party or in a classroom. Obviously, I don’t think anyone should or would forego the opportunity to travel or go home during break because people are just dying to stay in the SciLi and study or because people want to make friends. In addition, the thought of living alone, having to manage your own food and thinking about how much fun your friends must be having, seems a little unpleasant. More traditional plans for spring break have their own, rather blatant, advantages. However, after spending my break at Brown, I realized that there was so much that I could do right here that I cannot do on a regular day. Turns out, there are good things about almost every situation. The trick is simply to look for them.

Fatima Aqeel ’12 is a first-year from Karachi, Pakistan. She can be reached at Fatima_Aqeel@brown.edu.

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Earth Hour 2009: the hour without power BY MICHAEL FITZPATRICK Opinions Columnist I hope everyone enjoyed his or her hour of darkness last Saturday evening. For those of you who may not know what I’m talking about, Earth Hour is an annual event that takes place as part of the World Wildlife Fund campaign to promote energy conservation and curb global warming. At 8:30 p.m. on Saturday evening, millions of homes and buildings turned off their lights for one hour as a pledge to work toward reducing their energy consumption. I discovered the Earth Hour campaign the way most college students do — a friend sent me a group invitation on Facebook. After doing my background reading, I quickly developed two distinct impressions of the campaign. I was pleased that so many individuals — nearly 840,000 Facebook members — still genuinely believed in energy conservation. I will also admit that I was a little skeptical about the sincerity of all these people. It’s not that I don’t trust the movement; I questioned whether or not all of these attendees intended to keep their promise to the cause. It didn’t take long to dismiss my suspicions. Over 1 billion people in 90 different countries had planned to participate. Businesses and organizations were making

pledges to turn off their lights, as well. But as my fear of insincerity faded away, I felt a wave of dissatisfaction fill the void. It’s not like they asked much of us: We turned off our lights for one hour, and hopefully the governments of the world will pass a newer, stronger U.N. resolution for regulating our climate. So why do I feel like I haven’t done anything? As with most political movements, the

by mid-April if the cause doesn’t maintain its momentum. We shouldn’t have to wait until Earth Hour 2010 to be reminded why energy conservation matters. We should be reminding ourselves every hour of every day. The crusade to lower energy consumption isn’t the only thing about which people need to be concerned. Resource conservation is just as important, but the Earth Hour campaign isn’t exactly modeled to address

Green technology and reduced consumption both improve our environmental impact, but we needn’t treat them as exclusive solutions to our problem. purpose of Earth Hour involves spreading a firm message rather than producing any physical accomplishment. No one would expect to solve our energy problems by turning off the lights for one hour each year. However, by participating in Earth Hour, concerned individuals can demonstrate to the governments and people of the world how strongly they believe in sustainable energy practices. Unfortunately, an annual event is simply not enough. Although the Earth Hour campaign has grown exponentially over the few years it has existed, its message will be lost

practices such as water conservation, recycling or reforestation. If no one takes the initiative to give these important practices the same kind of publicity that Earth Hour gives energy conservation, then we’ll lose sight of the big picture. Reducing our energy consumption is immensely important, but only if our world still has trees and potable water. Finally, we shouldn’t shun the idea of green technology. This is where the symbolism of turning off your lights for an hour becomes counterproductive. We should strive to release ourselves from this notion that we are dependent upon technology for our en-

tertainment, communication and comfort. We should not, however, pursue a course that rejects all technology. By aiming to improve technology and using new science to reduce our environmental impact, we can avoid having to sacrifice all the benefits of technology along with its necessary evils. Reducing our environmental impact is analogous to losing weight: One can reduce consumption (or diet), and one can improve the efficiency of their system (or exercise). Common sense tells us that dieting and exercising are not exclusive paths to weight loss; people treat them as such because they are too lazy to consider doing both. In fact, exercise and dieting are complementary. By the same logic, green technology and reduced consumption both improve our environmental impact, but we needn’t treat them as exclusive solutions to our problem. Earth Hour is a fine idea, but we can’t let the campaign stop now that the hour has come and gone. Unless we continue to lower our energy consumption with the help of green technology, Earth Hour will have been a dismal failure. The true measure of our conviction will be demonstrated when we leave the lights off long after Earth Hour is over.

At 8:30 p.m. last Saturday, Michael Fitzpatrick ’12 was writing this column by flashlight.

Buckle up… or else BY SEAN QUIGLEY Opinions Columnist Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65 offered so much hope to Rhode Island voters in 2002, when he emerged from fallow political soil and was elected as the state’s 57th governor. He even managed to survive that very anti-Republican year (2006), albeit by a slim margin. Brown students should be proud of his personal accomplishments and his dedication to the betterment of the state in which our University educates. Yet Carcieri is, to my regret, often in the wrong. The raid on the Narragansett tribal land in 2003 was shameful, both for its devolution into violence and for the near-comical justification for it, namely the American Indians’ failure to collect the sales tax. And while his frontal attack on the corrupt system of taxpayer-funded favors and familial politics running rampant throughout the legislature has been admirable, he often gives up too easily. His cries of “Fight, fight, fight” at the recent state Republican convention thus rang a little hollow. Adding insult to injury, Carcieri himself has begun to float very illiberal proposals in order to address the budget shortfall caused in large part by lavish state-pension plans and ever-expanding bureaucracies. Carcieri, to his credit, acknowledges the tyrannical and stifling elements of the state’s government. Yet he is, essentially, now trying to fund those very elements that he swore to upend! Of special importance for the younger gen-

eration is the governor’s proposal to make not wearing one’s seatbelt a primary offense. This would mean that, in contrast with current practice, the police could pull over a motorist simply for not buckling up. Currently a driver needs to have committed a primary offense (speeding, for instance) before being ticketed for failure to wear a seat belt. Under Carcieri’s proposal, soon to be considered by the legislature, not wearing a seatbelt would itself be a primary offense. I lack the space to address even half of the

government’s interest in private property to harassing us on the road because young people tend to be more naive about their rights, those agents are frequently Gendarmes by another name. Presently, at the local and state level in Rhode Island, there are tolerable limitations on officers’ ticketing powers because not wearing a seat belt is, as previously mentioned, a secondary offense. But if it were made a primary offense, cops would have one more excuse for pulling over motorists.

Green technology and reduced consumption both improve our environmental impact, but we needn’t treat them as exclusive solutions to our problem.

reasons why this proposal is authoritarian to the core, ignorant of frequent inequalities in enforcement and destructive towards the ends of a free, liberal civilization. I shall therefore limit my discussion to the pernicious effects of this law for young people in Rhode Island. First, as the young generally know better than most age groups, professional law-enforcement agents can be arrogant and invasive. From raiding our social gatherings to attempting to skirt the long-established conventions regulating the

And because proof for such an offense is usually very hazy and reliant on he-said-she-said testimony, cops will have yet another way to detain motorists without anything even resembling probable cause. If they don’t have a reason for a traffic stop or a search, they can always lie their way out of responsibility by claiming the driver was not buckled up. Why would a Republican governor claiming to be a conservative want to give such policing agents that sort of power?

Second, the debate over this law should make the young consider other such “crimes” that overwhelmingly affect them. Prohibition of recreational drugs, age restrictions on alcohol, seat-belt laws — all hit the young very hard, and all primarily exist as legal crimes due to a terrible tendency to erect coercive social controls. Why do we submit to these social controls when, for the vast majority of human history, our ancestors lived without them (or their equivalents)? Third, this debate should also force the young to reconsider what liberty and conservatism truly mean in the American context. In a nation born of a backwards-looking rebellion against oppressive taxation, arrogant customs enforcers, overly hierarchical religion and professional law-enforcement agents (both civilian and military), how can it be conservative to make or accept this seat-belt proposal? For my part, I maintain that a willingness to rebel against the executive element of one’s government is the core of conservatism. Perhaps the tea-party phenomenon of late confirms this idea. Perhaps it does not, as the parties are nothing compared to the glorious actions of our colonial forebears. Why are the contemporary sentiments of liberty so weak and we so slavish? Are we dead inside, sentenced to a millennium of apathy and submission? Who cares?

Sean Quigley ’10 will be at the Providence Tea Party on April 15th. He can be reached Sean_Quigley@brown.edu.

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d i a m o n d s a n d c oa l A diamond to the 22,280 high school seniors who were rejected from Brown this year, the most ever. May it comfort each of you that your great personal misfortune marginally increases our own feelings of self-worth. And while we’re at it, a diamond to the fact that transfer applications to Brown were up 40 percent this year. Either other schools are getting worse, or Ruth is telling potential transfers something we don’t know about a new water park. Coal to the spoken-word poet who confessed that he felt like a “trained capitalist monkey” for liking Justin Timberlake’s music. We’ll pretend that wasn’t a veiled reference to the diabolical research currently going on in the animal testing lab in BioMed — those monkeys are still proprietary experiments.

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A diamond to the results of this semester’s Herald poll, in which we got not only your approval rating of various things, but juicy details on your favorite substances. It looks like opinion of Ruth isn’t the only thing that’s high at Brown.

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Saturday, April 4, 2009

2 p.m. — Cora Marshall’s art, “Emancipated Memories: Uncovering Hidden Faces of Slavery,” 357 Benefit St.

11:30 A.m. — Native Americans at Brown, 8th Annual Spring Thaw Pow Wow, Lincoln Field

8 p.m. — Brown Theatre presents “The Other Shore,” Leeds Theater

1:30 p.m. — Crossword Competition with New York Times Crossword Editor Will Shortz, MacMillan 117

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Lunch — BLT Sandwich, Creamy Cappellini with Broccoli, Italian Roasted Potatoes, Lentil Croquettes

Lunch — Chicken Fingers, Baked Vegan Nuggets, Sticky Rice

Dinner — Sliced Turkey and Ham, Teriyaki Salmon, Basmati Rice Pilaf, Clam Bisque

Dinner — Salmon Quiche, Grilled Chicken, Cheese Raviolis with Sauce, Vegetarian Chick Pea Soup

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Speaking of the poll, a diamond to UCS, which had the highest percentage of students in years respond that, good or bad, they held at least some opinion of the council. Hopefully this increased interest won’t convince anyone to actually attend those four-hour meetings. A diamond to the Brown chemists who have designed a “palladium nanoparticle” that speeds up fuel cell reactions. But coal to the fact that the nanoparticle supposedly increases efficiency by making targeted layoffs and trying to buy out aging free radical atoms. And in a further pooh-pooh to dire financial straits, coal to the fact that second-floor kitchens in Caswell Hall will be converted into doubles over the summer. The last thing we need in this economy is eliminating those few safe havens where students can unwind from career-related stress by making overambitious culinary disasters that they don’t clean up. A diamond to the naive Chinese student who complimented Americans for their ability to “think and talk at the same time.” Apparently the verb “to bullshit” doesn’t translate. A cubic zirconium to a new state law that allows 16- and 17-year olds to pre-register to vote. We’re all for increasing the youth electoral voice, but only if they have to wake up at 8 a.m. and neurotically type in pre-recorded five-digit candidate ID numbers.

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