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Football’s Farnham ’10 leads year’s All-Ivy roll
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Left to right, mustache models Matt Cavallaro, George Coffin and Nathan Phipps — all RISD students.
On next year’s calendar, a ‘moust’-have By Talia Kagan Staff Writer
Mustaches are having a moment. They’ve recently been spotted on stars such as Brad Pitt and George Clooney. Organizations like “Mustaches for Kids” and “Movember” encourage men to grow them to raise awareness and donations for charitable causes. But for professional photographer Ricky Chapman and the Rhode Island School of Design students and alumni who collaborated with him on the 2010 “Moustache Calendar,” growing a mustache is not about the latest trend. People often associate mustaches with “creepy” men, if not ironic Brooklyn hipsters, Chapman said. “There’s nothing ironic about the Moustache Calendar,” said collabora-
tor Nathan Phipps, a senior studying industrial design at RISD who is featured in the calendar as March’s “Mr. Introspective.” “It’s kind of about the classic mustache.” The calendar instead shows the type of mustache “that you could wear
FEATURE at the office,” or while “romancing women,” said Chapman, who added that he chose the spelling “moustache” for the calendar’s title because it seemed more sophisticated than “mustache.” The calendar’s black-and-white photos feature RISD students and alums (and their mustaches) in intimate, personal shots. All the photos have captions, including “Caveman” and “Casanova.” And yes, all the mus-
Prison chaplain visits to discuss rehab efforts By Jessica Calihan Contributing Writer
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The Rev. Joyce Penfield, a chaplain at the Adult Correctional Institutions and co-founder of a spiritually focused organization that rehabilitates prisoners, spoke to a group of students in J. Walter Wilson Sunday night about her work in Rhode Island’s prisons. In an informal discussion, Penfield discussed her own personal journey and answered questions about prison life and rehabilitation. Penfield, an Episcopalian priest, initially wanted to create a rehabilitation program through the church,
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taches are real. The calendar is subtitled “SexConfident,” defined on its first page as an adjective denoting “realistic confidence in one’s power and ability to attract the opposite sex.” “We wanted it to be a celebration and a form of empowerment to the mustached man,” said collaborator Matt Cavallaro, who sports one of May’s mustaches. Chapman attended a Catholic high school where he had to stay cleanshaven, but he hasn’t shaved his upper lip once in the past seven years, he said. For half of that time, he has had a beard, and for the rest of it, just a “stache,” he said. His current mustache, he said, is part “classic chevron” and part “horseshoe.” “Sex-Confident” is actually Chapcontinued on page 2
Wide-receiver Buddy Farnham ’10 was named Ivy League Football CoPlayer of the Year, and eight other Brown players collected All-Ivy first team honors, the league announced last week. Farnham’s 1,003 receiving yards in 2009 led the Bears, who went 4-3 against league opponents to capture third place. He shared the Player of the Year honor with Penn linebacker Jake Lewko. While the Bears failed in their bid to repeat as Ivy League champions, they were well-represented on both offense and defense in the end-of-year selections by Ivy League coaches. Quarterback Kyle NewhallCaballero ’11, in his first year as a starter, was chosen as the top signalcaller after leading the league with
2,709 passing yards. He was joined on the first-team Ivy offense by his favorite targets, Farnham and fellow wideout Bobby Sewall ’10, and two senior linemen, Mark Callahan ’10 and Paul Jasinowski ’10. On defense, four more seniors got All-Ivy nods in their final season. Defensive end James Develin ’10, tackle David Howard ’10, linebacker Kelley Cox ’10 and safety Chris Perkins ’10 were all first-team selections. Farnham was also named to the first team as a return specialist. Four Bears received second team All-Ivy honors — guard Tim Danser ’10, running back Zachary Tronti ’11, punter Nate Lovett ’12 and defensive backs David Clement ’10 and A.J. Cruz ’13. — Staff reports
For AIDS, painting the town red By Hannah Moser Senior Staff Writer
Four downtown buildings, including City Hall and the Kennedy Plaza skating rink, will light up in red tomorrow in recognition of World AIDS Day. Providence is one of 13 cities in the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland that will participate in the “show of solidarity” for those suffering from AIDS, according to joinred. com, a Web site for the “(Red)” advertising campaign founded by U2 singer Bono and activist Bobby Shriver. The city will also commemorate the day with a candlelight vigil at the skating rink, according to the Providence Journal.
This year marks the 21st World AIDS Day, designed to “raise awareness about the disease and to urge governments and leaders to fulfill their promises to do what it takes to halt and reverse the spread of the disease,” according to the Web site of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. (RED), which coordinates the displays, is an initiative in which nine brands — including Apple and American Express — donate a percentage of their profits from designated (RED) products to the Global Fund to provide anti-retroviral medication to people infected with AIDS in Africa, according to its Web site. continued on page 2
M. hockey forward gets chance to shine By Dan Alexander Senior Staff Writer
but faced resistance. But unable to ignore the tragic amount of recidivism she felt was due to a lack of support systems, she joined with 12 other “spiritual people” and went directly into the facilities. The program she runs now, known as the Blessing Way, runs classes in the prisons and helps recently released inmates land on their feet in the outside world. “Wonderful things happen,” she said, describing the transformation she observes in many of her students and the close bonds she forms with them. “People come up and give me hugs.” continued on page 2
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Jesse Fratkin ’11 during a Nov. 21 game against Yale. The forward had a breakout performance in an 8-1 victory over UConn Saturday.
Jesse Fratkin ’11 spent much of last season dressed in a suit, not a uniform. Most nights, he didn’t know if coach Roger GrilBentley 3 lo and his staff 2 Brown would put him on the fourth line or UConn 1 in the bleachers. Brown 8 But before this season started, newly hired Head Coach Brendan Whittet ’94 said Fratkin would see more ice time. Last week, Fratkin showed why. In Brown’s first win of the season, an 8-1 stomping of Connecticut at home, the forward scored three continued on page 5
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animated talk Brown is set to host a conference on new media’s impact on archiving
Two Slam Dunks M. basketball went 2-for-3, topping Ocean State rival Bryant and Philly’s USP
CLASSIC DILEMMA Fatima Aqeel ’12 wonders how class attendance can be increased
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