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The New Curriculum turns 40: How’s it holding up? By Ellen Cushing Senior Staff Writer

The New Curriculum started with a handful of undergraduates who wanted to improve their college experience. Now it is the defining aspect of one of the world’s top universities — and Brown students and faculty have come to take it for granted. But as the academic attitude on campus becomes less revolutionary, some worry the University’s shifting priorities in a changing world, as well as an increasingly competitive academic climate, could detract from the core ideals of the curriculum. Some faculty and students believe a greater focus on research and a shift away from campus involvement in University governance have moved Brown away from its articulated emphasis on undergraduate education. But even as these struggles to adapt to a new educational climate

The New Curriculum at Forty: Last in a four-part series threaten to define the New Curriculum’s future, administrators say its values are more important than ever — making it a lasting testament to the power of a few Brown students.

By Brian Mastroianni Senior Staf f Writer

‘The message is very clear’ One of Brown’s most significant institutional undertakings since the implementation of the New Curriculum has been the Plan for Academic Enrichment — President Ruth Simmons’s wide-ranging blueprint to improve Brown’s academics — which calls for a dramatic expansion of the University’s faculty, graduate school and research capabilities. “Over the last decade, one of the things Brown has had to face is how to maintain that outstanding undergraduate program while building up our graduate programs and world-

She implored students to “demand the most of your college experience,” adding that “you will remember the things that challenged you, not the things that confirmed what you thought already.” In light of the uncertain state of the economy, Simmons said, a Brown education is critical in that “it demands that you not think in lazy ways,” and encourages students not to accept “any ready-made solutions.” The New Curriculum, she added, teaches students to “learn to think — and think robustly.” Both Simmons’ speech and a prior speech, given by Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73 and Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron, focused on what it means to be a Brown student and a part of the

After commencement, more Brown economics concentrators and graduate students will be heading to graduate school or taking on professorships than pursuing jobs on Wall Street this year, according to Andrew Foster, professor of economics and chair of the department. With fewer employment opportunities in finance, economics students will be taking on graduate programs in schools throughout the country and abroad, he said. Foster said this year was unusual in that Brown’s graduate program did not have to resort to using a waitlist to fill in the incoming graduate classes, as it has in the past. Last Wednesday was Brown’s deadline for admitted graduate students to matriculate. Normally, the economics department makes 15 to 20 offers of admissions to potential graduate students each year, with a target class size of nine. Admissions to Brown’s graduate program in economics is decided by a faculty committee headed by Professor of Economics Frank Kleibergen. “This time of year students are usually scrambling because they didn’t get into their top programs — for example, Harvard — then they’ll say, ‘I didn’t get into Harvard,’ and will move down to the next level,’” Foster said. Foster said this year’s high matriculation rate is indicative of a national trend of economics students seeking out graduate school instead of direct post-college placements in jobs. Matthew Schiffman ’09 has experienced this trend firsthand. Due

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Like the University Hall, the New Curriculum remains a fixture on campus long after its foundations were laid.

class research,” said Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98. “There is this appetite, on the part of some administrators and faculty members, for the graduate schools to become more prominent,” said Edward Ahearn, a professor of comparative literature who first came to Brown when that department was

created in 1963. But, Ahearn said, “there are some faculty that are concerned with how the University’s expansion might come into conflict with the model that is consistent with the New Curriculum, which is the university-college continued on page 4

Prefrosh, rainfall hit campus as annual ADOCH begins By Kevin Pratt Staff Writer

Rain clouds met the approximately 650 students who converged on Brown’s campus Tuesday to get a taste of University life during A Day On College Hill. The high school seniors, who came from as far as New Zealand and as close as Providence, have the opportunity to sleep in first-year residence halls, eat at Brown dining establishments, sit in on classes and take part in events put on by ADOCH planners. Though official events didn’t begin until 4 p.m., some students and parents were already on campus early Tuesday morning, taking campus tours or sheltering themselves from the rain in the Blue Room or Thayer Street restaurants. The rain didn’t put a damper on any official ADOCH events, according to ADOCH co-coordinator

More econ. students head to grad school

Simmons touts New Curriculum’s virtues

Salsabil Ahmed ’11, although a Tuesday evening barbecue was moved from the Main Green to Alumnae Hall to avoid the precipitation. “The weather is simply something we don’t have control over,” Ahmed said Tuesday night. “The rain hasn’t really affected our schedule so much. The only thing the rain affects is the prospective students.” ADOCH volunteers ­­­greeted admitted students as they registered in Faunce House in the afternoon and directed parents to Sayles Hall to be welcomed by Brown administrators. Some of the volunteers at registration and the barbecue were tasked with passing out ponchos to ADOCH attendees, Ahmed said. In the evening, President Ruth Simmons welcomed the admitted students to campus under a large tent set up in the Main Green. Later, admitted students attended talent

By Sarah Husk Senior Staff Writer

In a packed tent on the Main Green, waterlogged students with muddy shoes crowded in to hear President Ruth Simmons speak for the first time to potential members of the Class of 2013. Simmons told the crowd of admitted students sitting before her yesterday evening, “You have an exciting decision to make” — something they already knew all too well. Approximately 650 have come to campus for this year’s A Day on College Hill to decide if Brown is where they want to spend the next four years of their lives. Simmons’ speech, which focused on the unique culture and community of Brown, highlighted the challenging and rewarding nature of a Brown education.

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Independent study taps human energy By Talia Kagan Contributing Writer

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Her name is Betsy. Right now, she lives in a garage, but the students who bought her for $200 on Craigslist hope she will one day power a light bulb. An old, rusty exercise machine, “Betsy” is the brainchild of 12 students working together through an independent study with Senior Research Engineer Christopher Bull. Once the students fully implement their design to modify their existing weight machine, Betsy will do more than help burn calories — she will

convert a weight lifter’s motion to electrical energy. The project grew out of the Brown Progress Initiative, an organization Benjamin Mandel ’09 founded last year to advance sustainable product design, he said.

FEATURE The original idea for the project was to build an energy-generating bike, said Chinmaya Kulkarni ’11, who had previously built such a machine for an environmental science class. But Mandel and Kulkarni soon

realized that designing an energygenerating bike is far from a new idea, so they decided to build an energygenerating weight-lifting machine instead, Kulkarni said. “It’s a lot more challenging technically, and it’s never been done before,” he said. It was too late to propose a Group Independent Study Project, Mandel said, so interested students enrolled in an independent study instead. Better by Design, a Brown-RISD umbrella group that encourages student incontinued on page 5

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WASTE MANIACS Brown ranked near the bottom of this year’s RecycleMania competition

game, set, last match M. tennis won its last home match of the season, a 6-1 victory over Dartmouth.

Fall weekend falter Anish Mitra ’10 says the rest of the holidays have their warts, too.

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Downturn sends economics seniors to graduate school continued from page 1 to a lack of job opportunities in finance, Schiffman decided to apply to graduate school and will enroll in the economics program at the University of Chicago in the fall. “It would have been nice to have money in the bank before pursuing grad school,” Schiffman said. “In a perfect world, I would not be working too hard and making money and having fun in New York. Then, I would have pursued graduate school a few years later.” Though the Wall Street jobs that might have been available to him a year ago are no longer easy to attain, Schiffman is embracing the chance to go to graduate school because of the stability it brings. “Now I have something to do for six or so years, and then afterwards, I’ll have a nice degree and more options available to me,” he said. “I see myself teaching, but then doing a lot of outside consulting — but I guess we’ll see how grad school changes me.” Students receiving Bachelor’s degrees are not the only ones affected by the economy after graduation this spring, Foster said. The economy has also impacted current graduate students. While 80 to 90 percent of the students will become faculty at toprated institutions after graduating from Brown’s graduate program, Foster said that this year, more are looking for opportunities abroad. “This year, we have graduate students heading off to London,

Mexico — just a whole bunch of places. Our graduate students every year apply to different places,” Foster said. “But this year, the emphasis is more on abroad programs.” Foster said that with the endowments of many of the best private universities in the United States impacted by the economic crisis, more students leaving Brown’s graduate economics program are seeking out professorships and research positions abroad, where universities tend to be publicly funded. Though many economics students’ Wall Street dreams have been put on hold due to the financial crisis, Foster said many of his students are maintaining a positive attitude. “The students I have talked to have been remarkably upbeat,” Foster said. “These are really good students who don’t seem stressed out at all. They might be surprised that their salaries are half of what they thought they would be, but many don’t see this as a wide-scale disaster.” Schiffman said that, while his peers are not necessarily upbeat, they are dealing with the economy’s impact on job opportunities positively. “In three to four years the economy will be back in full swing, but I don’t think that finance will ever be back to what it was,” he said. “But students of economics are still hopeful that they will find alternate jobs with a pre-business focus, they know that things will turn around.”

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

“Now I have something to do for six or so years.” — Matthew Schiffman ’09, on his decision to attend grad school

Campus veterans create new group By Sara Chimene-Weiss Contributing Writer

The Brown University Student Veterans Society, a newly formed group on campus, met officially for the first time last week. The organization arose out of a desire to institutionalize an already existing informal group, according to one of the group’s founders, Chaney Harrison’11, and it kicked off its official existence with a spaghetti dinner. Harrison served five-and-a-half years in the air force as a special operations pararescueman and served three tours in Iraq in 2004, 2005 and 2006. The inaugural meeting was also organized by Miranda Summers GS, Christopher Baker ’11 and John Hermansen ’11. Although not yet officially recognized by the University, the group received interim funding through the Office of Campus Life to hold this event, Summers said. An active-duty national guardsman and graduate student in Public Humanities through the American Civilization department, Summers joined the National Guard in 2002 and served in Iraq for 13 months beginning in January 2006. In the past, the Office of Admis-

sion has not kept track of the number of veterans applying to Brown, said Director of Admission Annie Cappuccino, but will be better able to in the future because it now accepts the Common Application. Summers said she first met Harrison along with other veterans at a Veterans Day Ceremony at Brown in 2007, and they, along with Baker and Hermansen, began meeting informally but regularly. The group’s founders see the small number of student veterans as even more of a reason for their group to exist. “We wanted to make the group official because even though we were having the same experiences and going through the same things, we realized we wouldn’t have met if it hadn’t been for that event,” Summers said. An official group will help future veterans know where to find social support and logistical help navigating life as a veteran on campus. “When I first got here, I asked the person sitting at a desk in some important office if there was a person for vets to talk to. She told me, ‘I don’t think I’ve ever seen a vet here,’” Summers said. Brown is unprepared to deal with veterans in many ways because so

few of them are here, both Summers and Harrison said. One of the group’s objectives is to make Brown more hospitable so more veterans will attend, they said. Veterans may sometimes encounter ignorance, Summers said, but “never malice.” The administration, she added, “might not get it right the first time” but is “quick to fix it.” Harrison has spoken with President Ruth Simmons about the group, and said Simmons asked him to put together a list of veterans’ concerns so the University could begin to address them. Both Harrison and Summers expressed an interest in including Brown faculty and staff in the group, and they said a number had expressed support for the group, including one Department of Public Safety officer — himself a veteran — who stopped by the group’s inaugural event. The group has submitted a constitution and the requisite number of signatures and expects to achieve official group status by the end of this year. “This is not a group by veterans for veterans,” Harrison said. “It’s about building a community around service, as well as raising Brown’s reputation as a service-friendly institution.”

Simmons, Miller welcome ADOCH pre-frosh continued from page 1 University community. Miller spoke of a “culture of kindness” in which “students teach each other.” But the speeches also celebrated the achievement of being among the roughly 11 percent of admitted students in the most competitive admissions year on record. “Admit it,” said ADOCH Co-coordinator and Herald Sales Manager Christiana Stephenson ’11, as she introduced Simmons. “You’re proud of yourselves.” Ultimately, the focus of the evening was on exposing admitted students to all that Brown has to offer in order to facilitate their decision. Salsabil Ahmed ’11, ADOCH’s other co-coordinator, told students Brown is “not a bubble,” but “an oasis atop College Hill” and, like other

speakers, cited the New Curriculum as what makes Brown unique in turning out students with “academic curiosity and social consciousness.” To that end, Miller instructed each student to take a moment on Wednesday afternoon to stand in the middle of the Main Green and feel “the sense of history, the sense of beauty, the sense of possibility,” and urged students to “decide with their hearts and their stomachs” if Brown is right for them. For ADOCH attendee Rene Kissell, the program has so far been successful in giving her a taste of Brown culture. Although she has not yet committed to Brown, she described an “immediate attraction to the school” when she first set foot on campus. Kissell added that Tuesday’s inclement weather made her appreciate Brown even more.

“It’s easy to fall in love with a school because of good weather,” she said. Indeed, Miller said, the ADOCH organizers “controlled everything — except the weather.” Despite the rain, admitted student Matt Block said he has so far been enjoying socializing with other admitted students during ADOCH, and especially liked Simmons’ speech. “I liked the speech a lot,” Block said, calling it “unique” compared to addresses that had been given at many of the other institutions he had visited, noting in particular the speech’s focus on reaching out to others. Ankur Bajaj, another potential freshman, also called Simmons “a great speaker” and said that while he is still deciding between Brown and Cornell, ADOCH is “in the process of convincing” him to choose Brown.

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By Jenna Stark News Editor

Valerie Wilson, currently associate dean of the Graduate School, will replace Brenda Allen as associate provost and director of institutional diversity starting July 1. “It should be a very smooth transition,” said Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98, adding that Wilson is an “excellent leader.” “I’m glad for the opportunity,” Wilson said, but added she will “miss the Graduate School a lot.” Wilson will be responsible for ensuring that Brown maintains a diverse community of faculty and students on a “strategic level rather than a day-today level,” Kertzer said. Though the job description will remain the same as it was during Allen’s tenure, Wilson said her work will depend on the changing academic and economic environments. “Brown’s uniqueness as well as its new and revised open curriculum are still valued, but that message has to go out to different groups of people,” she said. In addition to her new role in the Office of the Provost, Wilson will continue her work as coordinator of the partnership between Brown and Tougaloo College and as executive director of the Leadership Alliance — a 31-member consortium of institutions dedicated to increasing minority participation in higher education. Maintaining that workload is “a reflection of the whole campus taking on that extra bit and piece when we’re working in this economic situation,”

Wilson said. Allen, who is leaving her position at the end of the semester to become provost of Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, has worked at the University for six years. Allen said Wilson will bring knowledge and leadership skills to the position. “We have very similar backgrounds, and she’s been doing many aspects of her job in her other jobs that she’s had, especially in her role in the Leadership Alliance.” It is important to keep up the momentum in the area of institutional diversity, Allen said, adding that administrators “started to look for someone on campus that could come in and get up to speed quickly so that we wouldn’t lose the momentum we’ve had going for six years.” Administrators in the Grad School plan to petition the Vacancy Review Committee to fill Wilson’s old position, according to Dean of the Graduate School Sheila Bonde. President Ruth Simmons instituted a hiring freeze of staff and administrators in November as part of the University’s response to the recession. “We hope very much” to fill the position, Bonde said, adding that she does not know when the Graduate School will receive an answer from the Vacancy Review Committee. Allen said though she is sad to be leaving Brown, she knows her former position is in good hands. “I’m just very happy to leave this job knowing that someone will take the torch and keep the work going,” she said. “I think we’ve found an excellent person to be able to do that.”

A damp day on College Hill continued from page 1 shows in Sayles and Salomon 101 featuring Brown performance groups. In addition to a sampling of everyday life on Brown’s campus, ADOCH offers special events and programs designed to introduce prospective students to University offerings. Brown professors will offer special lectures targeted at ADOCH students today, for example. Admitted students can also sit in on student panels and attend a prospective student Activities Fair. Dane Russell arrived with his parents Tuesday morning from Brooklyn, N.Y. An admitted Program in Liberal Medical Education student, Russell said the dual undergraduate and medical school program led him to choose Brown over Cornell, where he was also admitted. For other students, Brown’s wellknown open curriculum was a draw. “I like being able to control what I’m learning about,” said Kimberly Wong-Shing, who said she is deciding between Brown and the University of Miami. The decision would come down to each school’s financial aid offer, Wong-Shing said. “Not having required courses certainly is a plus,” said Jonah David, an admitted student from Newton, Mass., who is still deciding whether to attend. “You know everyone in your classes wants to be in those classes.” David said he hoped to talk to stu-

dents and faculty about film courses at Brown and about enrolling in RISD courses. Ariel Pick arrived yesterday from New York City. She had already chosen to attend Brown, she said, but wanted to meet her future classmates at ADOCH. “The campus is gorgeous and every time I’ve been here I love it,” she said. “There’s a lot of people here deciding between schools — I’m not.” Aida Haile-Mariam, who flew in from Arlington, Texas, said she met other admitted students on a shuttle ride from T.F. Green airport and spent time Tuesday morning with them on Thayer Street. Her decision — between Brown, Cornell and Rice University — would come down to “how comfortable I am with the people I meet and the professors,” she said. Chris Botelho of East Providence, R.I., who said he attended an on-campus event for other admitted students from Rhode Island Monday night, said he came to ADOCH to get a sense of everyday life on campus. “So far from what I’ve seen, it looks very nice,” he said. Paul and Deena David of Newton, Mass. — Jonah’s parents — said they were impressed by their visit to Brown, but that they didn’t want to influence their son’s decision. “We really want to keep it up to him to decide,” said Paul David, “So we’re keeping our preferences to ourselves.”

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“I’m just very happy to leave this job knowing that someone will take the torch.” — Brenda Allen, associate provost and dir. of institutional diversity

Brown lags in RecycleMania ranking By Sarah Julian Staf f Writer

Though students might not have known it, from January to March they were engaged in a friendly competition with universities across the United States and Canada. Known as RecycleMania, the competition encourages participating campuses to recycle more and to decrease the amount of waste they produce. This was Brown’s sixth year participating, and its performance was middle of the road. In the “Grand Champion” category, Brown placed 163rd out of 206 participants, with a recycling rate of 18.06 percent, which compares waste in pounds per person to recyclables in pounds per person. Despite an abundance of recycling-logo tote bags at the bookstore and recycling bins around campus, Brown’s performance was unremarkable. While Brown produced 76.41 pounds of waste per person over the ten weeks, the winner of the “Waste Minimization” category — North Lake College in Irvine, Texas — produced 8.70 pounds per person. The four other Ivy League participants in the “Grand Champion” category — Har vard, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale and Dartmouth — all placed above Brown. Madeleine O’Neill ’12, head of Brown’s EcoReps program, worked with Ginger Gritzo, Facilities Management’s energy and environmental programs coordinator, to organize RecycleMania at Brown. According to O’Neill, Brown’s per formance isn’t as bad as it might seem. Brown looks at recycling as a long-term focus, she

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Brown placed 163 out of 206 in the “Grand Champion” category of RecycleMania.

said. “We tend to go at the infrastructure,” she said. “Other schools get this burst of enthusiasm from individual students.” According to the RecycleMania Web site, Brown has committed to an array of initiatives, including replacing paper documents with online versions whenever possible, charging by the sheet for printing, offering incentives for using reusable mugs and establishing a composting program for post-consumer waste and biodegradable dinnerware. “We’re working with Facilities Management to change for the long term,” O’Neill said. O’Neill also said not too much importance should be placed on the rankings because of discrepancies in how waste is weighed across campuses. While some schools estimate their waste totals, Brown weighs the amount of

recycling and waste every time it is picked up from campus. While some schools also benefit from intra-dormitor y recycling competitions like Harvard’s “Green Cup” competition or the annual “Har vard-Yale Recycling Challenge,” Brown participates in no other recycling competitions. Many Brown students interviewed by The Herald hadn’t even heard of RecycleMania, something O’Neill said she hopes to change. Next year she plans to do a lot more advertising for the event, she said. “Publicity for students wasn’t as high profile as it could have been,” she said. Still, O’Neill said, Brown did well. “The actual statistics say we increased our recycling rate from 15 to 18 percent,” she said. “We transported 91 tons less net to landfills and five more to recycling.”

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

“It’s an absurd notion that the New Curriculum is outdated.” — President Ruth Simmons

Is the New Curriculum, at 40, aging gracefully? Depends on who you ask continued from page 1 model.” The university-college model, which emphasizes undergraduate support, helped lay the foundation for the New Curriculum, according to Ira Magaziner ’69 P’06 P’07 P’10, who led the original Group Independent Study Project that proposed overhauling the Brown education. But some have expressed concern that the expansion of the Graduate School may put pressure on faculty members to pursue research at the expense of undergraduates. “A question I have is, in becoming more of a world-class institution, can we retain the quality of the undergraduate experience?” Ahearn said. Ruth Colwill, associate professor of psychology and former chair of the Faculty Executive Committee, said the increasing emphasis on research may serve to change professors’ priorities. “If you see some people succeeding when they’re focused purely on research, and you see people not doing as well when they’re involved in teaching and advising and service in addition to research — well, the message is very clear about what’s being rewarded,” she said. About a year ago, Colwill encouraged an informal collaboration of faculty and students whose purpose is to examine larger institutional issues, she said. Chaney Harrison ’11, a group member who also serves on the University Resources Committee,

said the informal group was inspired by the “process of collaboration” of Magaziner’s original project to challenge the status quo of the academics at Brown. Harrison said about 15 faculty members and five students have been attending the group’s meetings. Two of the other students in the group, Fiona Heckscher ’09 and Jason Becker ’09, also served on the Task Force on Undergraduate Education, which reviewed the College’s academics last year in light of the New Curriculum’s upcoming 40th birthday. The group intends to release a paper before the end of the semester calling for student and faculty input on its ideas for reviewing Brown’s academic values. Colwill also said junior faculty have increasingly felt pressure to earn grants in the pursuit of tenure. “I think that does come at an expense, in terms of contributing to advising and spending time with students,” she said. Richard Fishman P’89, a professor of visual arts who has taught at Brown since 1965, said the New Curriculum’s dependence on advising, in particular, places strains on the University as it pursues the expansion of the Graduate School. “You’re putting resources to maintain an undergraduate education that is very labor-intensive and time-dependent,” he said. “You can’t have a great advising program if you don’t have faculty who are willing to give their time to advise. So there’s the conflict between

undergraduates and graduates that has put some pressure on.” “There has been the concern of many people who do not want to see undergraduate education diminished,” Fishman added. “But struggles are healthy.” ‘A delicate balance’ But administrators and some other faculty members say they are less concerned about Brown’s ability to strike an appropriate balance between encouraging research and maintaining a strong undergraduate education. In fact, some said that faculty research may instead serve to strengthen the ideals of the New Curriculum. “Many of us don’t think that our research excludes our commitment to undergraduate education,” said Jamie Dreier, professor of philosophy and current chair of the Faculty Executive Committee. “It’s always a delicate balance,” said Sheila Blumstein, professor of cognitive and linguistic sciences and a former dean of the College. “If the balance stays the same as it is, if we keep our commitment to the growth of the Graduate School and our commitment to maintaining the university-college model, undergraduates will reap the benefits of both.” “I’d say that if done right — and my hope and expectation is that it will be done right — the growth of Brown’s graduate school and the focus on research will have a positive effect on undergraduates,” Blumstein said,

adding that the existence of opportunities, like Undergraduate Teaching and Research Assistantships, allow students to more fully explore their interests at an advanced level. Magaziner said the recent focus on graduate education does not threaten the values of the curriculum he helped design. “I think what President Simmons has rightly recognized is that the graduate piece ... in a number of areas was getting thin, and so she was looking to strengthen those,” he said. “But I don’t have any sense that (the expansion) meant to weaken the emphasis on the undergraduate, or the emphasis on education, in the process of strengthening the graduate programs.” Kertzer said the focus on research can provide opportunities for students to pursue their academic interests in greater depth — which is in line with the spirit of self-directed scholarship included in the New Curriculum. “A major part of the New Curriculum is, in fact, student research — getting students involved in high level academic research,” Kertzer said. “Certainly, in many fields that depends on having opportunities. You can’t be involved in high-level research in biology unless there’s high-level research in biology going on.” Kertzer said providing faculty with the resources to engage in research helps Brown attract the best academics. “As faculty, we are scholars,” he said. “To be an outstanding teacher, you need to be a first-rate scholar.” ‘A cultural change’ As the New Curriculum ages, some are concerned that students and faculty, once passionate about University governance, are losing interest — a shift that could change Brown’s spirit. “The student body has tended to serve as a reinforcer of the general spirit and principles and values of the New Curriculum in successive generations,” Magaziner said. “There was a lot more involvement in the development of (curricular) ideas back in the old days,” said Thomas Banchoff P’91, a professor of mathematics since 1967. Banchoff said he and other faculty members used to spend their Friday lunches discussing and debating the components of the New Curriculum and Brown’s academic direction — but most of his colleagues now focus more on research, he added. Since the Plan for Academic Enrichment’s implementation began in 2001, the University has added over 100 new faculty. This expansion, coupled with the fact that many professors who were present for the New Curriculum’s implementation are now reaching retirement age, has led to some concerns that new faculty will not immediately understand its spirit. “There has been a huge amount of turnover in the past six years or so,” Dreier said, adding that, as a result, faculty governance could “suffer because there are fewer people steeped in the Brown tradition.” “There is a danger in bringing in so many new faculty so quickly,” Colwill said. “You risk a cultural change, even if it’s not deliberate.” Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services

and a former associate dean of the College, said administrators work to ensure that new faculty are aware of Brown’s academic history and values. “There has been a lot of planning to think intentionally about how we orient faculty to the New Curriculum,” she said. ‘Changing world’ At the end of the day, despite new challenges to the New Curriculum — a heightened emphasis on research, an increasingly globalized and competitive world and a struggling economy — faculty and administrators affirm its lasting value. “It’s an absurd notion that the New Curriculum is outdated,” Simmons said. “What is something that people don’t understand — and here, we might do a better job of explicating this — but what people don’t understand is that it is precisely this kind of study that is more important in this moment. And that’s counter-intuitive for people.” Simmons added that the skills taught by the New Curriculum will only become more valuable in the changing world. Fishman said the curriculum produces students who tend to be better prepared for unexpected circumstances. “I think that for the kind of student that comes here — self-motivated, incessantly curious — the curriculum prepares them for the changing world,” he said. But several faculty members said they find students are increasingly preoccupied with practical concerns, and therefore, may be less likely to use many of the key features of the New Curriculum. “Especially as the job market gets more competitive, people are going to be more worried about not having letter grades,” Klawunn said. “Now, most of the time when people bring (Satisfactory/No Credit) up with me in my role as an adviser, they’ll say, ‘Well, what if I want to go to law school?’” But Becker, one of the students on the Task Force on Undergraduate Education, said student tastes can dictate which elements of the curriculum remain in use. “So much of the Brown curriculum is left to us, as students, to keep up,” he said. “And what makes the New Curriculum something that will constantly be in turmoil is that once we stop using something — like course performance reports or S/NC — it dies.” Still, despite any increasing pressure placed on the curriculum, many say the spirit of the New Curriculum has survived. “If we’re talking about spirit, and we’re talking about ethos, that’s something I believe is maintained in spite of the changes toward a more traditional approach to higher education,” Fishman said. “I think the philosophy and the spirit and the goals are unchanged,” Magaziner said. Fishman said it is precisely the curriculum’s ever-evolving nature that has kept it alive all these years. “There’s some essential truth here,” he said. “A bad idea doesn’t last this long, and a good idea evolves. And the New Curriculum has.”

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

“Since we’re not engineers, a lot can go wrong.” — Chinmaya Kulkarni ’11, on modifying gym equipment

Students gear up to build a lean, green exercise machine continued from page 1

volvement in socially responsible design, awarded the group a $1,500 grant to support the project. Mandel recruited friends and members of emPOWER and BPI to join the project. The current group’s 12 members represent every class year and even include one graduate student. “One of the coolest things about the project is that we only have one engineer on the team and she’s a chemical engineer,” Kulkarni said. Rather than build a machine from scratch, the group of students — who represent such diverse concentrations as economics and biology — developed a design to modify an existing model. “All we’re doing is taking out the weight stack and putting in a generator and gear system,” Kulkarni said. “That part will be our invention.” The machine will “capture the mechanical energy produced by your muscles and convert it to electrical energy,” said Gerard Bell ’09. Unlike a traditional leg-extension machine, Betsy will work antagonistic muscle sets, Kulkarni said. The machine’s generator will produce resistance for both upward and downward motions, he said. The upward motion of the machine will exercise a person’s quadriceps, said Ben Howard ’11, and its down-

ward motion will work the weight lifter’s hamstrings. It was difficult to agree upon a design at first, Howard said. The group considered using magnets and hydraulics before settling on the current design because of its efficiency, he said. While Bull, the group’s adviser, has lent them a generator for the machine, designing a gear system proved to be one of the group’s main challenges. “Going in, we had a more idealistic view,” Mandel said, but “we’ve hit weeks at a time when we were stuck.” For one class, Mandel bought a special $30 “gear systems” K’Nex set as a toy model, he said. “I don’t know how instrumental it’ll end up being for our design, but it was a fun diversion for a day,” he said. Bull sometimes gave the students engineering demonstrations, Mandel said. But mostly, Bull said, he let the students figure out their own design and was impressed by their productivity. The group bought Betsy on Craigslist over a month ago and currently stores her in the garage of an off-campus house of several seniors involved in the project. Though the students had previously removed the machine’s weight stack, they only began major modifications this week, Mandel said.

The group is unsure exactly how much energy Betsy will generate, Bell said. Under optimal conditions, Betsy could theoretically generate close to 250 watts of power, he said, but the actual amount will be lower, taking friction and other factors into account. But because lifting weights is not a continuous motion, a light bulb powered by the machine would flicker on and off, according to Mandel. To provide continuous power, the machine would need a battery or some other way to store energy, he said.

Regardless of how much energy the machine actually generates, the group wants to show that it can be done. “This is a proof of concept,” Kulkarni said. “This is not going to be a perfect machine. It’s not going to look slick right away. This is not a finished product.” The class met officially for the last time on Monday, but the group plans to meet multiple times a week for the rest of the semester. The group’s goal of finishing Betsy before the summer is “realistic, but

ambitious,” Kulkarni said. “Since we’re not engineers, a lot can go wrong.” Their plans don’t end with Betsy’s completion — several of the students are planning to modify an indoor rowing machine they recently bought on eBay, and the group’s members are hatching ways to showcase Betsy. One member proposed using Betsy to light up a Christmas tree, while someone else joked the machine should light a menorah instead. “I just think a menorah might be more realistic in terms of the power generated,” said Michael Groth ’09.

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“Even exuding confidence can be enough to deter an assailant.” — Isabel Mattia ’11, Safewalk supervisor

Safewalk pilots cellular safety device By Anne Speyer Staf f Writer

The Department of Public Safety, with the help of Safewalk, is currently testing a new product that can turn a cell phone into a personal safety device. The product, called Rave Guardian, is an application that can be downloaded to any cell phone. It is designed to protect students who may be walking alone or in unsafe conditions by quickly relaying information to an alarm system monitored by DPS. DPS will install the application on between 25 and 30 Safewalkers’ cell phones over the next four weeks as a trial run of the ser vice, wrote Mark Porter, chief of police and director of public safety, in an e-mail to The Herald. “As a Safewalker, I’ve never felt uncomfortable,” said Chelsea Macco ’11, who will take part in the trial of Rave Guardian. “We have neon vests and are carr ying

radios.” But, she added, “As a student, I come home late from libraries all the time, and I definitely get a little bit ner vous.” Students can activate the application by setting a timer by text message before walking to their destination. If they do not reach their destination and deactivate the program within the chosen time frame, the program automatically alerts campus security with the student’s exact location. Students can also alert DPS of an emergency by pressing a panic button on their phones. “The alarmed Blue Light Phones are currently the main system in place for aiding a student who is alone and under duress,” Safewalk super visor Isabel Mattia ’11 wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “They are a great system, but because of the nature of a stationar y phone, have some inherent flaws. I think the mobility of the Rave Guardian is its greatest asset.”

“In case of an emergency, I’m not confident that I could operate the Blue Light Phones without taking time to read the instructions,” Macco said. “On the other hand, I’m reasonably good with a cell phone. I know I could contact the Rave Guardian program easily.” Rave Guardian’s future at Brown will depend on the success of the trial phase and the program’s cost, Porter wrote. Despite the fact that the program would allow campus security to track a student’s location, Porter wrote that invasion of privacy need not be a concern because the system can only be activated by the user. Mattia wrote that Rave Guardian could allow a student to feel more confident walking alone, especially late at night. “Confidence is a key issue when it comes to personal safety,” she wrote. “Even exuding confidence can be enough to deter an assailant.”

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Mount Holyoke to start white student orientation By Jeremy Jacob Staf f Writer

Mount Holyoke College will start an expanded pre-orientation program this fall for white students from the U.S. focusing on race and social justice issues to complement its existing programs for minority and international students. In creating the program, the college will reorganize its existing pre-orientation system to maximize interaction between different groups of students, said Elizabeth Braun, dean of students at Mount Holyoke. The new program, will be titled,“Promoting Intercultural Dialogue and Creating Inclusion” and will include international students, domestic students of color and domestic white students. Participants will spend roughly half the time in their respective “affinity groups” and the rest of the time together in one large orientation group, Braun said. In the past, Mount Holyoke — a women’s liberal arts college in South Hadley, Mass. — has held a mandatory international pre-orientation program and an optional program for domestic students of color titled “Passages.” These programs were much like Brown’s international pre-orientation and Third World Transition Program. Yet, unlike TWTP, domestic white students were not allowed to attend Passages. Starting this fall, all incoming freshmen at Mount Holyoke will be invited to the pre-orientation programs, which will have a section targeted towards domestic white students. Braun said the program has three main goals. “Students will work on deepening their self-understanding of individual identity issues and cross-cultural identity awareness, increase their sensitivity to the complexity of racial and ethnic groups as well as their own and then really start to develop strong communication and leadership skills,” she said. Braun said the school is not creating three separate programs but rather reorganizing the existing programs to include domestic white students. The reorganization of the preorientation is related to the college’s current initiative to promote

“inter-group dialogue” that “brings groups of people together where there may have been historical conflicts.” Topics of previous programs included race, class, sexuality and religion. Braun said the college has found success with this model, which helps bring students together to discuss difficult issues. There have been many different responses to the planned reorganization so far, Braun said, but generally the response has been mostly positive. Clarisse Bautista, a Mount Holyoke freshman who participated in the college’s Passages program, said she believes the new program will be effective. “We as a minority have our own issues but I feel like white Americans have their own issues as well,” she said. “I feel that everyone goes through that feeling of, ‘you’re kind of not welcome.’” Louise To, also a freshman at Mount Holyoke and a member of the Passages planning board, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that she believes the program is “a great way to spread more awareness on the issues of race and to promote inclusiveness.” The program aims to “strike the balance between individual students’ needs,” but also creates “opportunities to build connection and community and work on those leadership skills,” Braun said. The college has stressed that the program is a pilot and is open to change. “For me, the most important part is that we are honoring all our students and that we’re trying to create opportunities for all of our students to engage with diverse communities and connect with one another,” Braun said. Yet at Brown, where all students are allowed to attend TWTP, the idea of a pre-orientation program that includes three separate subgroups did not resonate with some students. Lauren Krumeich ’11, a white student who attended TWTP, said she would not be in favor of a separated pre-orientation program because she would not be able to interact with students from different backgrounds. “I feel like hearing their stories is what made it so successful for me,” she said.

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College reaches settlement with white faculty By Matthew Klebanoff Staf f Writer

Benedict College, a small private school in Columbia, S.C., has reached a settlement with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which sued the historically black college on behalf of three white faculty members who claimed to be victims of racial discrimination. According to the complaint the EEOC filed with the U.S. District Cour t for South Carolina, Columbia division, the college “discriminated” against Argiri Aggelopoulou, Michael Hale and Katherine Mille when it failed to renew their teaching contracts for the 2005-2006 school year, effectively terminating them. The complaint also alleged that

the college discriminated against Aggelopoulou, an art instructor, by failing to promote her to an assistant professor position. Carol Er vin, an attorney who represents Benedict College, denied the former faculty members’ allegations. “As a historically black college, Benedict College opposes any and all discrimination, and particularly race discrimination,” Ervin wrote in an e-mail to The State, a South Carolina newspaper. “The college specifically denies the claims of discrimination raised by the three faculty members in question.” Though the college denied any wrongdoing, it agreed to settle the case and to pay each of the former faculty members $55,000, according to the EEOC’s press release. As part of the settlement, the col-

lege also agreed to “redistribute its equal employment opportunity policy prohibiting discrimination based on race and other protected categories,” the press release read. L ynette Barnes, the regional attorney for the EEOC’s Charlotte district office, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that the settlement was a “win-win for both parties.” “By negotiating the pre-litigation settlement with Benedict College, the Commission obtained significant injunctive relief to deter future discrimination, and monetar y relief for the three claimants,” Barnes wrote. “Likewise, Benedict College was able to avoid the time and expense of contested litigation, and to negotiate a deal that it could live with.”

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Did the Yanks price out all but the ghosts?

The move to the new Yankee Stadium “pleased” the ghosts of its predecessor, said Lonn Trost, Chief Operating Officer of the New York Yankees, in an April 9 inter view with ESPN. “They all came willingly.” No wonder Tom Trudeau — they have Tru Story thousands of empty luxur y suites and field level seats to lounge in during the games. During the Yanks’ forgettable split with the Cleveland Indians in the new Yankee Stadium’s inaugural series there was one ver y conspicuous problem — no one was sitting at field level. In a shocking display of the Yankees’ poor foresight and the countr y’s struggling economy, opening day at the brand new stadium in the greatest sports market in the world did not manage to completely fill the seats. The Yankees have downplayed the significance of the attendance figures. On opening day, Yankees officials pointed out that sponsor tickets negotiated for free by marketing partners in advance were not counted in the official attendance records. After a second disappointing crowd on Friday afternoon, Trost pointed out low figures at game two of the first home series in the old stadium as well. But after four consecutive games of empty seats, the Yankees, who a year ago managed sellout crowds against even the least popular opponents, are running out of excuses. From a business standpoint, one of the biggest reasons to build a new stadium was the anticipated increased revenue from additional luxur y suites and field-level seats priced exponentially higher than continued on page 9

W. crew leaves Terriers in its wake on the Seekonk By Andrew Braca Spor ts Editor

The women’s crew dominated Boston University on Saturday in its first home contest of the season, sweeping five races from the Terriers on the Seekonk River. With a win in the varsity eight, the Bears won the Arlene Gorton Cup for the 16th consecutive year. “Ever ybody is really excited about how we did this weekend,” said tri-captain Cristina Caligiuri ’09. The women alternated races with the men, who swept four races from Northeastern. “We don’t get to do that ver y often,” she said. “The spirit at the boathouse was very positive this week. Seeing them on the water and knowing that we’re all work-

ing towards the same thing, it was great to have the men racing at the same time as us.” The day began with a stunning performance from the novice eight. The Bears surged off the line to quickly open a large lead that they continued to grow. Brown crossed the line at 6:49.50, while BU lagged far behind at 7:23.63. Caliguiri said the rookies’ win was a promising beginning to the day. They’ve “been getting better all season,” she said. “We are really excited about them and about having them on the team this year. It was exciting for the whole team to watch them, especially since they were the first to race.” The second varsity eight kept the momentum going by cruising

to another easy win. The Bears finished in 6:28.22, while the Terriers followed 19.08 seconds later. The varsity eight bounced back from a loss to Ohio State the previous weekend by dispatching BU, clocking in at 6:18.52 while the Terriers finished at 6:30.44, but Caliguiri said the Bears were not thinking about the Buckeyes on Saturday. “Our team moved on after our weekend against Ohio State and focused on BU,” she said. The Bears closed out the day with a dominant display of depth, fielding five boats in the two varsity four races. In the second varsity fours, Brown “D” crossed the line at 7:29.51, followed by Brown “E” at 7:39.17 and BU at 7:46.32. All three Bears’ boats topped the Terriers in the varsity fours,

which featured the only tight race of the day, albeit one between two Brown boats. Brown “A” finished at 7:06.34, beating out Brown “B” by just 95 hundredths of a second. Brown “C” followed at 7:17.26 and BU brought up the rear at 7:22.23. “We have a large team, a deep team, and ever yone performed really well,” Caliguiri said. Brown will host Cornell and Columbia on Saturday on the Seekonk River in the penultimate race before the postseason begins with the Eastern Association of Women’s Rowing Colleges Sprints. “I think we’re all excited to work hard again,” Caliguiri said. “Eastern Sprints are quickly approaching, and we have a lot of work to do.”

W. water polo goes 3-1 in weekend rematches By Meghan Markowski Spor ts Staf f Writer

The women’s water polo team had a stellar performance at the Northern Division Championship this weekend. The Bears battled previous competition — Connecticut College, Harvard, Utica and Har twick — and won the first three games, but fell short to Hartwick. “We didn’t play as well as we would have liked with a disappointing loss to Hartwick, but we put ourselves in a good position for the Eastern Tournament,” said Sarah Glick ’10. Brown 16, Connecticut College 4 The Bears (21-13) didn’t hold back and brought their intensity early in the game against Connecticut College, holding a 5-1 advantage in the first quarter and a 10-1 lead at halftime. The Bears went on to outscore Connecticut College 6-3 in the second half to win the game, 16-4. Herald Metro Editor Joanna Wohlmuth ’11 led the Bears with six goals. Glick had three goals and four assists, Lauren Presant

’10 had two goals, and Bethany Kwoka ’12, Rita Bullwinkel ’11, Katherine Stanton ’11, Rory Stanton ’09 and Allyson Schumacher ’12 each scored one goal. Brown 8, Harvard 7 (2OT) Last week Head Coach Felix Mercado said, “It is hard to beat a team three times,” which proved to be true in the game on Saturday against Harvard. Brown previously beat Har vard, 11-10 and 7-6, in games where the Bears controlled the early action and the Crimson had to come back. The tables turned on Saturday when the Bears were down 6-1 at halftime. “I looked at my assistant coach and said, ‘We’re going to win this game,’” Mercado said. “We were down because we weren’t executing in certain areas. But if they can score six goals in a half, we can score six goals in a half, and if they can hold us to one, we can hold them to one. I had a gut feeling we were going to win because the girls just have too much pride. I am very fortunate to have a group of girls that listen and pull it together.” Mercado’s gut feeling was

right, as Brown fought back and outscored Harvard 6-1 in the second half. Glick had the tying goal to make it 7-7 with only 26 seconds left in the game. “I felt a lot of pressure but we’ve pretty much scored ever y time we have run the play,” said Glick. “I was nervous but confident everyone would do their part and we would score.” Neither team put in a goal in the first overtime, but Presant put one in the back of the net with 1:22 left in the second overtime to capture the win for the Bears. Stephanie Laing ’10 had 10 saves, while Glick and Presant each had three goals, and Ror y Stanton had two. Brown 4, Utica 3 The Bears took it easy against Utica on Sunday and pulled off a 4-3 win. “We went into the game wanting to let Utica enjoy their last game of the season,” Mercado said. “We just wanted to score a goal a quarter and be disciplined on defense. We scored a goal each quarter and Utica scored all three in the fourth quarter. Although we didn’t want it to be that close, our intentions were to not score many goals.” Goalkeeper Misa Scharfen ’12 had 14 saves and Brown’s four goals came from Kwoka, Bullwinkel, Wohlmuth and Samantha Ryu ’12.

Hartwick 11, Brown 7 The toughest battle of the weekend came against Har twick, with whom the Bears had split two games with. In the first matchup Hartwick beat Brown, 13-10. Brown won the most recent game, 8-7. Hartwick outscored Brown by a 3-1 margin in the first quarter, but the Bears fought back with two goals from Glick to go into halftime down 4-3. “They came out really strong and we didn’t necessarily come out as strong as we usually do,” Glick said. Rory Stanton tied the game, 4-4, in the third quarter, but Hartwick capitalized on Brown’s next few mistakes and scored three goals. They went on to outscore Brown 4-3, and win, 11-7. “We controlled the game, but Hartwick waited for us to make mistakes and then capitalized on them,” Mercado said. “But I think we are no longer intimidated by them.” Laing had 15 saves, while Glick had three goals, and Katherine Stanton, Rory Stanton, Wohlmuth and Kwoka each had one. The Bears will play again next weekend for the Eastern Tournament hosted by Har vard, where they will be seeded fifth. Glick said they will prepare for the tournament by “staying focused, practicing as hard as we normally do, and keeping our heads in the right places.”

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Trudeau ’09: New Yankee Stadium prices out fans continued from page 8 they were in the old stadium. So just how badly have the Yankees overestimated the market for premium tickets in their shiny new $1.5 billion investment? According to the Associated Press, the “Legends” Suites, which were especially vacant during the opening series, currently sell for between $500 and $2,625 per game, figures that even the most freespending corporate sponsors have balked at. On Monday, the writers at River Avenue Blues, a popular Yankees blog, pointed out other significant price jumps that seem particularly out of touch with today’s economy. Field-level seats behind home plate that used to cost $250 last year for season ticket holders are going for $1,800 in the new stadium, while other field level tickets that cost $85-$135 a season ago are currently priced at $350. Fortunately for the Yankees, most of the national media have failed to take notice yet, sparing the organization any additional embarrassment after an opening day flop and a historic 22-4 drubbing, including 14 second-inning runs, on Saturday. In addition, ESPN’s Buster Olney has reported on increasingly loud whispers of a wind tunnel blowing out towards the short porch in right field that has Yankee Stadium playing like Coors Field, with 20 home runs in its first four games as evidence. Still, if the low attendance figures persist, it won’t be long before the Yankees have a public relations nightmare on their hands, not to mention a serious potential revenue problem as the most profitable seats remain empty. On the field, the normally feared Yankee Stadium crowd has seemed noticeably docile on account of the thousands of empty seats and droves of fans who have taken to exploring the stadium’s exciting new restaurants, exhibitions and monuments instead of actually watching the game. Only time will tell if the new stadium is a success from an economic and a baseball standpoint, but without the option of lowering prices for fear of causing an uproar for season ticket holders, the Yankees have a ver y serious problem on their hands and no viable solutions.

M. tennis wins final home match of season By Erin Frauenhofer Sports Staff Writer

The men’s tennis team played its final home match of the season on Sunday, rallying to defeat Dartmouth 6-1 after a disappointing 5-2 loss to Harvard on Friday. The Bears are now tied with Harvard and Yale for third in the Ivy League, behind Columbia and Cornell. “We played incredibly well in the Harvard match, so the guys could be proud of that,” said Head Coach Jay Harris. “The Harvard loss was certainly a very tough one to stomach, but this group of guys is so close that they just knew they wanted to go out (against Dartmouth) and win a match for each other and feel that good result that would show their efforts.” Harvard 5, Brown 2 At Harvard on Friday, the Bears dropped the doubles point to give the Crimson the early 1-0 edge. At third doubles, Kendrick Au ’11 and Charlie Posner ’11 fell, 8-4, to Michael Hayes and Alistair Felton, and at second doubles, captains Chris Lee ’09 and Basu Ratnam ’09 lost to Aba Omodele-Lucien and Sasha Ermakov by a narrow 9-7 margin. Sam Garland ’09 and Noah Gardner ’09 triumphed over Chris Clayton and Alexei ChijoffEvans by a score of 8-7 (9-7), but it was too little too late. The Crimson increased its lead when Jonathan Pearlman ’11 dropped a 6-3, 6-4 match to No. 77 Clayton at first singles. Garland defeated Harvard’s Davis Mangham, 6-3, 6-4, at

fourth singles, but Lee, Gardner and Au all lost three-set matches at second, fifth and sixth singles, respectively, giving Harvard the victory. “The conditions at Harvard were pretty tough with gusty winds,” Lee said. “In such conditions, it’s really about playing smart tennis. I played decently, but obviously I wish I had come up with shots on big points.” At third singles, Skate Gorham ’10 outlasted Ermakov, 3-6, 7-6, 7-6, for a final match score of 5-2. “The match was so close that two points — one on Noah’s court and one on Kendrick’s court — could have switched the match from a 5-2 loss to a 4-3 win,” Garland said. “Both of them had match points in their singles matches. It could not have been closer.” Brown 6, Dartmouth 1 Sunday’s match against Dartmouth also marked Senior Day for the Bears, and a reception followed the match. “Playing in front of our great home crowd for the final time was extremely emotional,” Lee said. “It was a bittersweet moment because I was so proud to have been able to represent and play for Brown these past four years, but I was also so sad to see it come to an end.” The Bears surrendered the doubles point to the Big Green with losses at first and second doubles. Au and Pearlman trounced Chris Ho and Justin Tzou, 8-3, at third doubles, but Gardner and Garland dropped an 8-6 decision to Michael Laser and Stephen Greif at first doubles, while Lee

and Ratnam fell, 9-7, to Ari Gayer and Curtis Roby at second doubles. “Unfortunately, I think the four seniors, who are incredibly close, wanted to win so badly for each other that they sort of froze a bit in the doubles, which resulted in a couple tough losses and the loss of the doubles point,” Harris said. “But after that, these guys regrouped and stormed through the Dartmouth team.” At first singles, Lee’s opponent, Greif, retired from the match at 2-1. When two foul balls from the nearby baseball field, Murray Stadium, landed inside the tennis courts, according to Lee, Greif decided not to continue the match. “My final home match is one I will never forget because of some strange circumstances,” Lee said. “My opponent retired not because he was hurt, but because he was afraid of the fly balls from the baseball game landing on our court. Obviously, I would have loved to play out an entire match on Senior Day.” “I am not sure which was scarier, the foul ball or Chris,” Harris said. At second singles, Pearlman recorded his 26th singles victory of the season — eighth all-time at Brown — with a 7-6, 6-2 win over Roby. Garland defeated Gayer, 6-0, 7-6, at third singles, and Gorham notched a 6-3, 6-4 win over Laser at fourth singles. “Sam and Skate played exceptionally well,” Harris said. At fifth singles, Au triumphed over Ho by a score of 7-6, 6-2. Meanwhile, at sixth singles, Crystal soundly defeated Bryan Song,

6-4, 6-4, for the first Ivy League win of his career. For the seniors, the day’s victory was bittersweet. “After the matches, I went up to the net and just remembered some of the great times I have had as a member of Brown Tennis,” Lee said. “I am really sad right now to know that I will never again be able to hear my name introduced over the loudspeaker, never compete against rival Ivy schools and never again play in front of our great fans. But the reason I am most sad is because (when I graduate) I will not be able to see some of my best friends in the world every day.” Garland shared similar sentiments as he reflected upon the weekend, saying, “The Harvard loss certainly stung, but the bond I have with the team as well as the three other seniors will be more beneficial in the long run than any single loss.” “Thank you to the fans who helped us make so many memories over the years,” he added. The Bears’ final match of the season will take place today at 2 p.m. in New Haven, where Brown will battle Yale for a shot to finish second in the Ivy League. “Simply put, we are looking to play our best and most complete match of the year,” Harris said. The graduating seniors are “a very special class, and it is one that I, as a coach, am extremely close with,” he added. “They have inspired me to be a better coach and a better person, and I am deeply indebted to them for that.”

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Dear ADOCHers:

Brunonians are smiling, and for good reason — spring is here at last. Having braved exams and lectures, papers and presentations, we revel in our own triumph, as much as spring’s: Sunburns replace shirtsleeves, Natural Light steps in for natural history and grill smoke fills the air. In the coming weeks, we enrolled students will judge how best to split our time between the lawns and the libraries. But for the moment, we’ll savor springtime, and leave the serious decision-making to you, the class of 2013. We’ve all been where you are now. We’ve endured the interminable information sessions and inaudible walking tours; gritted our teeth through their false smiles and hollow answers. We’ve combed the university rankings and college guidebooks, searching for life in empty words and numbers. We know the difficulty of imagining yourself at college, and so would like to take this opportunity to offer a little insight into life at Brown. First, know that Brown is a place for personal growth. If you’re closedminded, it’s trying; if you’re open-minded, it’s unbelievably liberating. The New Curriculum allows you to take what you want, when you want. While it demands maturity and dedication, it rewards with opportunity for change, and personal development. If you let your mind lead, you’ll discover and embrace a slew of new hobbies and interests. Next, know that Brown is challenging. Though the Satisfactory/No Credit system supports academic risk-taking, it’s not a crutch. Brunonians work hard because we love what we do, not because we have to. No matter what you choose to study, your professors will afford you every opportunity, guide you through every hardship and work you through every inquiry. They do it because they believe in our genius — in our ability to advance our respective fields. But understand that, in return, they expect nothing less than excellence, and will push you until you achieve it. Lastly, know that Brown is fun — there’s a reason we’re some of the happiest undergrads in the country. While anyone can attest to the prestige of a Brown degree, only students can convey the pleasure of earning one. So go ahead, ask the next Brunonian you pass what it’s like to go here. Watch how quickly the conversation moves from science to Spring Weekend, or from calculus to Campus Dance. Undoubtedly, a Brown education is social, as much as academic. You are the most competitive class Brown has ever seen. We’re sure that you are right for Brown. We sincerely hope you find that Brown is also right for you. Editorials are written by The Herald’s editorial page board. Send comments to editorials@browndailyherald.com.

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Forum’s only agenda is stimulating political discourse To the Editor:

In his recent column (“Think, before you [invite someone to] speak,” April 20), Nick Werle ’10 poses the important question of where to draw the moral line when it comes to inviting speakers to Brown University. Yet by criticizing the Janus Forum’s choice of John Yoo and recommending that we should “think” before inviting speakers, Werle ignores just how much thought actually goes into Janus Forum Lectures. All decisions about the Janus Lecture Series are made by a consensus of the Janus Forum Steering Committee. This is a body of representatives from a wide array of Brown’s political, religious and cultural groups who meticulously prepare, discuss and evaluate over 50 lecture topics each year before reaching a consensus on the final topics and speakers. It seems to be a persistent belief within a minority of people that the Janus Forum is secretly a conservative organization. Let us be clear: The Janus Forum does not espouse any particular political ideology. Our neutrality is vital to the fulfillment of our mission of creating a forum for political discourse. It seems necessary once again to affirm that all of our funders have the exact same amount of influence on our organization: zero. (See “Funders don’t affect Janus Forum choices,” Oct. 31, 2008.) No funder has input in our choice of events or speakers, because the student-run Steering Committee decides both the topics and speakers to invite. When it came to the choice of John Yoo, the 2007-2008 Steering Committee felt that Yoo would be a valuable contributor to our debate on universal human rights, along with Larry Cox, the Executive Director of Amnesty Inter-

national USA. Werle seems to agree with Janus Steering Committee representatives from the Brown Democrats, College Republicans, Hillel, emPOWER and ACLU when he asserts that “there are compelling reasons to hear Yoo out” and that “Brown is well-suited for such a debate.” It seems that Werle primarily objects to the fact that Yoo was paid for his presence on campus. Though the Janus Forum would love for invited speakers to deliver lectures free of charge, we do not feel this strategy would produce many “valuable additions to campus political discourse.” The decision of whether John Yoo would make such an addition to campus discourse, along with the judgment on whether Yoo’s appearance would cross any “moral line” of speaker propriety, was made by the Steering Committee as representatives of the Brown community in accordance with their normal procedure. Perhaps most importantly, the Janus Forum strives to provide a place for any individual on this campus to contribute to political discourse. We welcome and encourage input, as control of the Janus Forum has and will always be in the hands of Brown students. We hope Werle and any other student will feel free to express his or her thoughts at our events, apply to be an at-large Steering Committee representative in the fall or send feedback via e-mail to janusforum@gmail.com. Sumeet Goil ’09 Gene Goldstein-Plesser ’11 Kyle Poyar ’10 Chris Havasy ’10 Gregory Anderson ’10 The Janus Forum Executive Board April 21

correction The editorial in Tuesday’s Herald (“Another bump in the wall,” April 21) incorrectly stated that Rhode Island teachers are not currently under contract. In fact, Providence teachers are not currently under contract. An article in last Thursday’s Herald (“Staff hope for increased child care,” April 16) reported that subsidized childcare was available to members of the faculty through the Work Options Group. The subsidized childcare is in fact available to all employees, faculty and staff, with the exception of graduate students.

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Fall Weekend fiasco

ANISH MITRA Opinions Columnist In a recent Herald poll, more than two-thirds of undergraduates supported the changing the name of Columbus Day. Heeding students’ interests, Brown faculty voted to ensure that next year’s holiday will indeed be called “Fall Weekend,” killing Columbus Day for good. By denying Christopher Columbus’ historical significance, the University appeared fundamentally un-American. I am not arguing that Columbus was a saint, or the first explorer to arrive in the Americas. Columbus’ significance derives from the series of events that transpired after his arrival that ultimately led to the creation of our country. Columbus’ arrival in the “New World,” preceded the importation to Europe of diet-changing items such as corn, chocolate, potatoes, tomatoes and various peppers and spices. Tobacco also became a significant import. The trade patterns that developed after Columbus’ arrival changed the West for-

ever. The Americas received new imports from Europe including chickens, goats, horses, oxen, cattle, donkeys, sheep, coffee, rice, bananas, sugarcane, wheat and barley. Columbus’ voyage paved the way for Europeans to establish permanent settlements and trade routes linking Europe to the New World. He is important because of the course of events following his arrival that led to the creation of our own country

While Columbus’ interactions with Native Americans do not reflect well on him, they also do not justify ending his holiday. Native American advocacy groups claim to support increased awareness of past tragedies. With Columbus Day replaced by the rather neutral “Fall Weekend,” Native American advocates eliminated all possibility of spreading awareness about Columbus’ regrettable actions. This may mark the last year of vibrant

By denying Christopher Columbus’ historical significance, the University appeared fundamentally un-American.

— by renaming the holiday, the University denied his historical significance. I can understand why Native American activists still shun Columbus. In addition to tomatoes and corn, Europeans brought smallpox along with a host of other lethal, infectious diseases, albeit unintentionally.

intellectual debate about Columbus’ accomplishments and misdeeds. Next year, students will have little reason to engage in discussion about Columbus. The University would have done better to observe Columbus Day without celebrating Columbus. By preserving the holiday’s

name, Native American groups could have furthered their cause by passing out literature detailing Columbus’ voyage, spreading information, bringing speakers and stimulating campus discussion. We wouldn’t stop celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day if the allegations about his marital infidelity were established as true. Various religious wars throughout history do not justify renaming Christmas either. And if veterans have killed enemy combatants in war, I hope that Brown’s activist population does not protest to rename Veteran’s Day. The bottom line is that most holidays do not have to be celebratory in nature; they can be bittersweet (as most popular ones tend to be). If we disregarded significant historical figures over their flaws, we couldn’t recognize the achievements of Thomas Jefferson, who owned slaves, or even Mahatma Gandhi, who abused his family. By eliminating Columbus Day, Native American relinquished their most valuable opportunity to spread awareness for their cause. Good luck next year.

Anish Mitra ’10 is an economics concentrator from New York City.

(Don’t) stop the presses! BY MICHAEL FITZPATRICK Opinions Columnist I learned to read when I was three. I still remember reading nightly with my father, sitting in his lap with a book in my hands and a blanket around my shoulders. I was brought up on “Green Eggs and Ham,” “Goodnight Moon” and “The Ver y Hungr y Caterpillar.” I wonder what books my sons and daughters will learn to read first, if they read books at all. I might be sitting with a child in my lap, pointing at lines of text on a computer screen instead of words on a page. To a degree, I’m willing to admit that print — books, magazines and newspapers — is a dying breed, and technology is effortlessly filling its societal niche. The current generation is growing up with a silver spoon in its mouth, a PC on its desk, an iPod in its pocket and a mobile phone glued to its cheek. Meanwhile, several newspapers may gradually transition to an electronic medium just to sur vive, including the Washington Post and the New York Times. The proliferation of cutting-edge technology isn’t the reason why print is dying, but it’s definitely twisting the knife. The miserable state of printed media has far less to do with the telecommunication industr y or digital music than it does with computers: the Internet and the explosive social networking fad of the early 2000s are more at fault. Blogging killed writing. Once people became acquainted with the idea of blogging, it was silently

assumed that anyone could become “published” on the Internet. It’s faster and less expensive than publishing a real newspaper or magazine. The readers come instantly, and there are no book signings to attend. There are no editors asking you to check your facts or proofread your work. Your fans and followers can contact you directly and instantly, showering you with digital praise. But it doesn’t come without a cost. I think Will Litton ’09, one of the founders of the online literar y quarterly known as Wag’s Revue, said it best: “When there’s unlimited space to print whatever, you can blog ever yday and end up with a crockpot

printing press. Word processors are the silver spoons of writing industr y. But the writers aren’t all at fault here. It’s not fair to characterize bloggers as vapid, talentless and egotistical — although, I will admit that many bloggers, myself included, make a sincere effort to conceal these common flaws. With somewhere around 22.6 million weblogs hosted in the United States alone, and nearly 184 million worldwide, it’s hard to believe that there isn’t some genuine writing talent lurking in the abyss of digital obscurity. The real issue is that audiences haven’t fully realized that publishing ourselves on the Internet isn’t a real accomplishment.

I personally don’t want to live to see the funeral of printed literature, and I don’t think that I will.

of really mediocre writing” (“Online journal ‘wags’ finger at print,” March 30). Quality writing demands time and effort; it has value that you don’t produce by blogging for a half hour per evening to fend off boredom. Similarly, publishing is difficult and expensive for a reason: you’ll only do it if you’re committed and talented. Publishing today is nothing like it was hundreds of years ago, when paper and ink were expensive, and documents had to be handwritten before being mass-produced on a

It’s the ver y essence of children displaying their kindergarten doodles on refrigerator doors. You can’t blame them for being a little proud of themselves, but you can blame a father who honestly believes that his daughter’s crayon masterpiece deser ves to be hung in the Louvre. We, the audiences, make the same mistake when we equate browsing Web sites to reading books, magazines or newspapers. It isn’t. I personally don’t want to live to see the funeral of printed literature, and I don’t

think that I will. The argument for keeping print is primarily a sentimental one. Books become substantially more valuable as they age, especially if they’re kept in good condition. An e-book, on the other hand, is completely worthless once it becomes too old or outdated to function. Books can carr y intrinsic value, especially to their authors and devoted readers. A signed book is like a signed baseball card, only the book tells its own stor y. Likewise, newspapers and magazines carr y their own significance. My former histor y teacher once told us that the most valuable gift he’d ever received was a stack of newspapers: a complete collection of the New York Times spanning the entirety of World War II. Periodicals do more than just inform the readers of the day; they are just as valuable, collectively, in describing the perspectives of a period. They show future generations which events were once important, especially those events that exhibit rapidly changing attitudes through histor y. As Time Inc.’s former Editor-at-Large Dan Okrent so eloquently put it, “A newspaper gives you timeliness, a magazine perspective, a book lasting value. Each is a firm, palpable entity, a presence in our lives, a companion to our days.” Electronic media may kill print in the end, but my children will learn to read books.

Michael Fitzpatrick ’12 continues to blog to stroke his ego and maintain his sanity. He can be contacted at Michael_Fitzpatrick@brown.edu

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tomorrow, April 23

1 p.m. — “What is Wisdom?” Prof. Charles Lamore, Pembroke Hall 305

6 P.M. — “Coriolanus,” Lincoln Field

7 P.M. — Reading by Susan Gilman, Brown Bookstore

8 P.M. — VISIONS Spring 2009 Release Party, the Underground

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menu Sharpe Refectory

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Lunch — Cheese Enchiladas, Sticky Rice and Edamame Beans, Beef Tips with Curry

Lunch — BBQ Beef Sandwich, Falafel in Pita, Fresh Broccoli

Dinner — Macaroni and Cheese with Avocados and Tomatoes, Cheese Pizza Quinoa Chicken Stir Fry

Dinner — Salt and Pepper Jerk Chicken, Egg Foo Young, Vegetables in Honey Ginger Sauce

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