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vol. cxliv, no. 107 | Monday, November 16, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891
4 arrested at sorority party By Alexandra Ulmer Senior Staff Writer
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Jimmy Develin ’10 and Buddy Farnham ’10 made big plays to lead Brown past Dartmouth on Saturday. The Bears rushed the field after the 14-7 overtime win at Brown Stadium.
Football gets OT win in last home game By Dan Alexander Senior Staff Writer
For co-captain Jimmy Develin ’10, Saturday’s game was a fitting end to four years in Brown Stadium. Dartmouth, trailing 14-7 in overtime, dropped back on fourth-and-one.
Develin, a defensive end, rushed into the backfield — unblocked — and sacked the quarterback. The entire Brown team rushed onto the field in celebration. “I couldn’t imagine it any better,” Develin said. “I mean, Senior Day, last game, just going out like that,
making a play, it’s just — it’s everything I dreamed for at Brown.” Develin wasn’t the only senior who went out on a high note. On Buddy Farnham’s ’10 last play on home turf, the standout continued on page 3
Whitehouse: Time not on Congress’ side for change By Alicia Dang Staf f Writer
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Time is running out when it comes to reforming health care and passing legislation to curb damage to the environment, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., told a crowd of about 100 in Salomon 101 Friday. The talk was the second of a two-part series organized by the Brown Democrats. One of the biggest challenges facing health care reform is a filibuster by Senate Republicans, Whitehouse said. By demanding 300 amendments to the bill, each of which requires a vote, Republicans are burning the floor time remaining “to get things done,” he added. Whitehouse noted a “new and different level of vitriol” directed at President Obama since he was elected, which he said negatively affects the policies he tries to bring forward. “What it boils down to is the petty procedural obstruction in one institution,” Whitehouse said. “It’s important for us to call the Republicans out on that.” The main objectives of the public option, Whitehouse explained, are to establish an electronic health record system, create a national integrated platform to foster transparency and to pay doctors and hospitals for re-
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Four men who were “harassing” Department of Public Safety officers outside a party in Alumnae Hall were arrested Saturday night by Providence police officers for disorderly conduct, according to Lt. John Ryan, commander of PPD Dist. 9. A student who attended the Delta Sigma Theta party, called “Scandalous,” said the arrests followed fights that escalated among partygoers on the dance floor. “Some people got into an argument outside and started harassing the Brown police, so they called the Providence police,” Ryan said, adding that he did not know if the four people arrested were Brown students. A poster for the event informed partygoers they would need “R.I. college I.D.” to be admitted, and non-students were instructed to contact the sorority in advance of the party. Evangeline McDonald ’13, who attended the party, said two fights initially erupted between attendees in Alumnae Hall, and DPS officers entered the venue to apprehend them.
Shortly after the second scuffle was quelled, “there was a kind of powder in the air and everybody started coughing,” said McDonald, who added that she did not know the source or identity of the powder. Soon afterwards, McDonald said, she “saw blood on a kid’s shirt.” “It had several blood splashes — you could see handprints on the shirt,” she said. But the commotion made it difficult for McDonald to discern what else occurred. The powder appeared about 15 minutes after the first fight began, McDonald said, and partygoers dispersed quickly. “The whole thing escalated and went down really quickly,” she said. Ryan, speaking away from his station without access to the official report of the incident, said he could not confirm details of the surrounding incidents. Delta Sigma Theta Chapter President Dami Olatunji ’11 said there was “rowdiness” at the party, but declined to elaborate. “There are different perspectives,” she said. “We’re still looking at the facts. We’re trying to handle the situation internally.”
Taking (pole) dance to another level By Emily Kirkland Staff Writer
sults, not for procedures. “The only way we turn this health care mess around is to change the business model for health care insurance,” Whitehouse said. A public option needs to be competitive with the private plans and “responsive to each state’s circumstances,” he added. “One thing to promise is that the public option will have no effect whatsoever on the deficit,” he said. Along with health care reform, climate change must be addressed for the sake of the country’s fiscal future as well as its “ability to take care of the people,” Whitehouse said. He discussed the major consequences that climate change will have, such as the intoxication of the atmosphere and the loss of natural habitats. “We are in the stage where the evidence (regarding climate change) is blindingly clear,” Whitehouse said. To move bills that address climate change through Congress, the economic ramifications must be clear, he said. Lawmakers should be able to “assure any of our people that economic consequences (of such bills) will be beneficial rather continued on page 2
For three years, the Brown Poler Bears — the Ivy League’s first pole dancing club — have been practicing moves like “The Fireman” and “The Martini” on two poles in the Art House lounge in Harkness House. But this weekend, the club gave other students a chance to participate for the first time, offering hour-long workshops on Saturday afternoon.
The Poler Bears charged $5 for the workshops, hoping to raise money to cover the costs of their new pole. Members of the group, which
FEATURE meets twice a week, teach themselves from pole dancing videos posted on YouTube. They’re not afraid to showcase their skills, either — they perform regularly at Art House parties and two or three
times a year at venues like Production Workshop. “It’s a great conversation starter,” said Julianne Fenn ’11, the club’s president. Last year, the Poler Bears were in danger of extinction — there were only six members. But this year, 30 people arrived to audition, and now the club boasts 16 performers, including two men. The club’s continued on page 2
Gandhi explains a confluence of ideas By Sydney Ember Senior Staff Writer
“The non-violence of King and Gandhi had a strong element of courtesy and forgiveness,” Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, told a packed Salomon 101 Sunday. The former member of India’s Upper House of Parliament, current president of Initiatives of Change International and renowned author and biographer examined his grandfather’s view on non-violence and the influence those views had on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s approach to civil disobedience. “With Gandhi as with King, non-violence was a fight for equality — it was the opposite of meek
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Rajmohan Gandhi praised Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi.
surrender,” Gandhi said. “Violence was not merely cruel, it was folly as well.” The concept of non-violence dates back to Henry David Thoreau and Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi said, both of whom significantly
shaped his grandfather’s ideas about civil disobedience and passive resistance. Though his grandfather initially was a “proponent of violence,” Gandhi said the continued on page 3
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Love it or... Small-town charm comes to Stuart Theater with “Leavittsburg, Ohio”
Big East, BiG Problem W. basketball falls to crosstown rival Providence College, 83-50
pressing matters The media can affect key political outcomes, says Kate Fritzsche ’10
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