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Financial summit confronts debt crisis The summit focused on student questions about party cooperation and Rhode Island’s economy By EMILY BONEY
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Common Sense Action held Rhode Island’s first statewide convention about the national debt and potential solutions in Alumnae Hall Saturday. President Christina Paxson, economist Steven Rattner ’74 P’10 P’13 P’15, Providence Chamber of Commerce President Laurie White, Mayor of Cranston Allan Fung, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives Robert Weygand and local journalist Ted Nesi were all in attendance. The event centered on two questions, framed by Andrew Kaplan ’15 during his introductory remarks:
“How do both parties work together?” and “What lessons can we learn from Rhode Island’s fiscal struggle?” The goals of Common Sense Action, which was founded by Kaplan, a Democrat, Sam Gilman ’15, an Independent, and Heath Mayo ’13, a Republican, last semester, are to increase student involvement in politics and “create leaders who can engage in their communities,” Kaplan said. “It’s not about what we think, it’s about what the community thinks,” he said. Paxson spoke next, introducing the topics to be addressed and identifying her hopes for the summit. “There are many ways to balance the budget,” Paxson said. “The trick isn’t to balance it — it’s to do it right.” She said she hoped those gathered at the summit would think about “creating policy for growth.” Students from Brown, the Rhode / / Summit page 3 Island School
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New Weird America by Ari Rodriguez ’13, the first production of theater collective Folk Mantra, emphasizes movement in storytelling. See page 4.
Alum’s documentary recounts American women’s stories Clean water The film, produced by Betsy West ’76, profiles women who have shaped recent American history By MARI LEGAGNOUX CONTRIBUTING WRITER
While students learn about the United States’ founding fathers in history courses across the country, Betsy West ’73 set out to investigate the women who shaped the nation in a new documentary, “MAKERS: Women Who Make America,” which will premiere Tuesday at 8 p.m. on PBS. The film features interviews with 100 influential women — including former President Ruth Simmons — and tells the story of women’s advancement in America over the past 50 years. “They’re very brave women who stood up for their rights,” she said.
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“These are amazing stories that nobody knew.” West added that she is “surprised that no one had done a definitive story on the women’s movement.” West and Dyllan McGee, two of the documentary’s executive producers, worked together to convene a scholarly board to determine criteria for which “makers” would be interviewed for the film. Sara Wolitzky ’04, co-producer for Kunhardt McGee Productions, a company behind the film, said narrowing the field of candidates was “torturing because there really are so many women” from whom to choose. They searched for groundbreakers, activists and role models who had personal stories that could be
captured well on film, Wolitzky said. Some famous faces such as Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey make appearances in the documentary, but West said she also enjoyed learning the stories of the lesser-known women. The documentary opens with one of West’s favorite “makers,” Kathrine Switzer, who ran in the Boston marathon when women were still excluded from the race. “There were all kinds of laws in place that restricted the opportunities for women under the guise of protecting them,” West said. West also interviewed Lynn Povich, who, along with several other female journalists, sued her boss for gender discrimination in 1970. Having earned a job at ABC News in the wake of Povich’s victory, West said, “I felt like I personally owed her a debt of gratitude, and so I think that was
very thrilling.” The MAKERS project, which includes the documentary and an online video archive component found at makers.com, has been in development for eight years, West said. The site launched last year, and videos of new “makers” are added each week. These videos also include interviews with a set of younger women who comprise the next generation of “makers,” Wolitzky said. These women “are making their mark now or are acting on the opportunities that the women we had been interviewing sort of opened up for them,” she added. “Because it’s a PBS project, there will be a huge educational outreach,” West said. “Part of doing the video archive was to make these stories accessible to anybody. And that’s part of the legacy.” / / Makers page 5
Undergrad figure skaters host inaugural show After securing rink time, the new student group will hold practices and performances By EMILY PASSARELLI CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The sound of the Zamboni greeted spectators who arrived early to the ice rink Saturday night. Sipping hot chocolate while awaiting the skaters’ entrance, the members of the crowd at Meehan Auditorium chattered in anticipation of the inaugural performance of Figure Skating at Brown, titled “Paradise on Ice.” Though the club’s co-founders — Jenna Ditto ’15, Lauren Suiter ’15 and Irene Rojas-Carroll ’15 — received approval for the club in November, the struggle to secure ice time for practices prevented the group from having an
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organized performance until this semester. Before January, members held unofficial practices during free-skate hours, Ditto said. “We worked really hard to get approved and even to get show time,” Suiter said before the show. “It will be nice to see it all come together.” Once the Zamboni finished clearing the ice, five of the club’s 30 skaters took the ice. As they warmed up, they skated in graceful circles, transfixing the early arrivals with the sound of their skates gliding on the glassy ice. While the club is composed mostly of students who have skating experience, some joined despite never having skated before. At 8:30 p.m. and with about 50 spectators in the stands, Ditto and Suiter, along with club members Betsy Turnbull ’14, Gillie Johnson ’15 and Anastasia Lasunina ’16 opened the show skating to Coldplay’s “Paradise.” The skaters / / Skate page 3 chose a variety
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Five of the 30 members of Figure Skating at Brown gave the group’s first performance, entitled “Paradise on Ice,” Saturday night.
group seeks nonprofit status Rainwater for Humanity works to bring fresh water to an under-served rural Indian community By STEPHEN ARK CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Rainwater for Humanity, a student group that makes clean water available to a highly polluted area in southwestern India, will present its plans to become a nonprofit organization at a conference at Yale in April. Group leaders are attending the conference “to see what we need to do to go from a student group to an official nonprofit,” said Sam Lee ’15, the group’s president. “Also, it would be nice to win.” The conference includes a competition to receive recognition for the group that delivers the best presentation of its idea, Ballard said. Rainwater for Humanity was launched in 2009 by a group of Brown and Rhode Island School of Design students. Members develop low-cost rainharvesting mechanisms in conjunction with a team at Mahatma Gandhi University, located in the state of Kerala. Rainwater currently has 14 tanks supplying water to about 60 families in Achinakom, a village in the Kuttanad region of Kerala, said Zachary Ballard ’13, the group’s former president. “Although (the area is) densely populated, it’s very rural, and the government doesn’t have the means of providing adequate water to everyone,” he said. Rainwater for Humanity hopes to expand to / / Nonprofit page 2
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UCS reputation remains unchanged
Students are still ambivalent toward UCS as it works to clarify its relationship with UFB By MAXINE JOSELOW SENIOR STAFF WRITER
A year after the debate over a controversial amendment that would have let the Undergraduate Council of Students determine its own budget without approval from the Undergraduate Finance Board, the issue has settled with no lasting damage to the groups’ relationship, said officials from both organizations. The Council’s reputation among students remains unaffected, with many students still apathetic toward UCS, multiple students said. The largely unpopular amendment, proposed by then-President of UCS Ralanda Nelson ’12, sparked on-campus discussion and several op-eds and letters published in The Herald. The amendment was put to undergraduate vote on a MyCourses poll, where it failed to achieve the two-thirds majority required to pass. UCS and UFB then formed a joint committee that worked to reevaluate UCS’s funding process, The Herald previously reported. Pushing for cooperation The committee tasked with reexamining UCS’s funding process produced a comprehensive set of recommendations, such as allocating $1,200 to UCS per semester for unlimited purposes, requiring UCS to submit its budget to UFB for approval and tasking UFB’s vice president with representing UCS interests in UFB discussions, said Nick Tsapakos ’13, who served on the committee as a UCS representative. The committee — which comprised two representatives from UCS, two representatives from UFB and one undergraduate from neither group — submitted these recommendations to the executive boards of UCS and UFB, which accepted them with few changes, Tsapakos said. “A lot of the language we drafted was to clarify the relationship between
/ / Nonprofit page 1 more villages, Lee said. The group meets on campus for weekly Skype calls with its partners in India. The Brown students design collection tanks that are built by hired staff on site in India. Rainwater sells harvested water at a lower price than alternatives while still covering the cost and mainte-
UCS and UFB, so that moving forward, whether or not the two groups liked each other, they would be forced to cooperate to promote the undergraduate student experience,” Tsapakos said. The representatives of UCS and UFB worked well together on the committee, said Holly Hunt ’13, who served on the committee as a UCS representative. “The committee process made it very clear that we need to work together as two different parts of the student government to make fully educated decisions about how the power structure should work and how money should flow,” Hunt added. Problems with parenthood The amendment temporarily damaged dealings between UCS and UFB, with concerns emerging over the power dynamic between the two organizations. Nelson argued at the time that UCS was a “parent organization” of UFB, said Daniel Pipkin ’14, UFB vice chair and former UCS-UFB liaison. The former UCS president argued for the amendment by suggesting that “UCS getting funding from UFB was like a mother asking a child for money,” said Raaj Parekh ’13, former UFB representative, who wrote an editorial in The Herald last year urging students to vote against the amendment on MyCourses. “From the perspective that UCS and UFB are equal, (the amendment) certainly looked like a major power grab from UCS,” Hunt said. But from a perspective that privileges UCS as a parent organization of UFB, “it didn’t look like a power grab at all. It looked like UCS was exercising its rights.” Though UCS technically is the parent organization of UFB, the new funding process that emerged from the committee’s recommendations allows for more equal collaboration, Pipkin said. “If you separate two student government bodies, it hurts the students,” Pipkin said. “A house divided cannot stand. I like that now we have to come together and work together a little bit more.” This is the first year the leader-
nance of the equipment, Lee said. “We use that money to recoup our investment on the tank,” Lee said. “Now we’re trying to use that to turn this into a nonprofit business model.” The team hopes to be established as a formal nonprofit and make its pitch to investors later this year. Members plan to use the revenue from each rain harvesting structure to pay for another tank. “If an investor were to come along
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ship of both organizations has consistently held weekly meetings, he added. Though the amendment briefly injured UCS-UFB interactions, in the long run “it strengthened the relationship overall,” said Anthony White ’13, president of UCS. Memories fade, ambivalence lives Though the amendment ignited heated debate in the student body last year — manifest in angry Facebook posts and impassioned Herald editorials — it did not have a lasting negative impact on students’ perceptions of UCS. In fact, most students interviewed told The Herald they were unaware of the amendment and felt indifferent toward UCS. Nicole Grabel ’14 said she was “ambivalent” about UCS because “I don’t really know what they do.” She added she did not remember the amendment. “I don’t feel strongly negative or positive about UCS,” said Hannah Glickman ’15. “A lot of the things they make decisions about I don’t feel particularly strongly about.” Tim Whalen ’15 said he “vaguely” knew what UCS was, adding, “I get them confused with all of the other three-letter acronyms.” Whalen said he remembers reading about the amendment, but said, “I didn’t have any strong opinions. … I started reading about it and found I didn’t care.” “I remember the amendment being a huge controversy and people saying they didn’t want UCS to put itself before other student groups,” said Ashley Brown ’15. “I remember thinking it was kind of an abuse of power.” Though Brown remembered feeling opinionated about the amendment, she said she currently feels “indifferent” about UCS. “They’ve probably influenced my life, but I don’t know.” “Memory in general is short on college campuses because the population cycles out so frequently,” Parekh said. “If you combine that with the fact that so few people know what UCS is or does, I think it would take something bigger than (the amendment) to create a saliently lasting image in people’s minds.”
with money to pay for 10 tanks, in 10 years, there could be 20 tanks,” Ballard said. Rainwater for Humanity will sponsor summer trips to India for Brown students with money awarded to its partner university from the ObamaSingh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative. Mahatma Gandhi University awarded a portion of the $80,000 it received from the initiative for this project to a student-faculty exchange fund that will send Rainwater members at Brown overseas. “Once you’ve been to India, you’re committed to this, and that’s a good thing,” Lee said. According to a statement on the U.S. State Department website, the grant is awarded to groups that “strengthen, through faculty exchanges, joint research and other collaboration, partnerships between American and Indian institutions of higher education in priority fields, including food security, climate change, sustainable energy and public health.” The Global Health and Innovation Conference will take place on April 13-14 at Yale.
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/ / Summit page 1 of Design, University of Rhode Island and Bryant University attended, along with community members and professors from a range of departments, totaling about 120 individuals. Rattner, the keynote speaker, provided an explanation of how the nation has accumulated debt. “How we think about debt changed in the Reagan era,” he said, adding that debt was seen as “an anathema” before President Reagan held office. More recently, it has been considered a necessary evil, he said. Tax cuts to the top 1 percent of the income bracket, especially the top 0.1 percent, have had the most significant impact on the size of the debt, Rattner said. He added that military and health care spending also plays a large role in debt accumulation. The Bowles-Simpson plan — a bipartisan proposal that would increase tax revenues and cut spending through entitlement reform created by President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform — would have brought the debt level down to 65 percent, Rattner said, cutting $2.4 billion out of the national debt. But the plan has not been put into action, and Rattner said he believes it will not be passed in its current form. “The only sensible way forward is to both increase taxes and cut spending,” Rattner said, chiding Republican hesitation to change current tax rates. His proposed solution includes rescinding former President George
W. Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy, reforming tax codes to remove loopholes and cutting defense spending. Rattner also emphasized that Medicare and Medicaid service must be reformed. “Health care rationing will and should occur,” he said. “It’s the big enchilada.” Nesi moderated a panel featuring White, Fung and Weygand. They discussed a number of issues, ranging from funding public education and research to involving students in political action. “It’s been tough,” Fung said, referring to issues he’s recently dealt with, which include a flood, a hurricane and millions of dollars of budget cuts. Weygand said dealing with the budget deficit is an issue of proactive versus reactive policy making. “The government is good at responding,” he said, but it does not use enough foresight when creating new policies. Polarization came up throughout the panel as an obstacle that must be overcome in order to solve the debt crisis. Sam Bell GS, an attendee at the summit, said he does not agree with Rattner’s ideas about solutions to the crisis. In order to fix the debt crisis, he said, the private sector debt must be considered. “We need to take action against the whole debt” and not only focus on government spending, Bell said. Regardless of methodology, the summit’s speakers seemed to agree that “it’s time to organize,” Gilman said. “Now that we have that charge, we need to take it forward.”
/ / Skate page 1 of musical accompaniments, including a “West Side Story” medley, the comical “Big Bang Theory” theme song, Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror” and the rock hit “American Woman.” “It was such a whirlwind,” Suiter said after the performance. “Once we got started, everything just went so well.” Though only five skated Saturday night, all students in the club practice
from 7 to 8:30 a.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. The most recent practices were structured to prepare for the routines in “Paradise on Ice.” Members collaborated to fit moves to specific pieces of the music, Suiter said. Just as the three founders cooperated to get the club started, choreographing was also “kind of a team effort,” Ditto said. “Paradise on Ice” was the club’s first and only performance this academic
year — the ice in Meehan will be melted at the end of the season. But the club has plans for upcoming semesters. “New members have expressed interest in lessons, so we are thinking of including coaching in future practices,” Ditto said. She added that it is nice for her and the other leaders of the group — who have skated since they were in elementary school — to see new members willing to commit.
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Experimental performance fuses music and physical expression ‘New Weird America’ features Spanish dialogue, Chilean folk dancing and devised movement By KATHERINE CUSUMANO SENIOR STAFF WRITER
If there is one thing director Ari Rodriguez ’13 wants you to know going into New Weird America, it’s that “vou” means “I will” in Portuguese. And so he introduces his newest work, which opened Friday at AS220’s 95 Empire location. Set in a sparsely decorated black box theater, New Weird America is based around the cueca, a traditional Chilean folk dance. During a recent visit to his parents’ home country of Chile, Rodriguez said
he was struck by the “inherently theatrical” nature of this Chilean dance after witnessing a couple dancing alone in the center of a bar while the other patrons watched. “It was like we were seeing their relationship unfold,” he said. From this he became interested in the ways in which explicit staging and theatricality can replace realism in a work. “The theater is already built in,” he said of the dance. New Weird America is refreshingly, unabashedly weird. It lacks the pretense commonly associated with experimental theater. Rodriguez himself serves arriving spectators drinks, cookies and milk as swing music plays softly in the background. The show opens with two simply dressed individuals cast in orange
light. They slowly embrace, and the rest of the cast struts, crawls and dances onto the stage. In a rare false note in the work, the actors strip down to uniform white underwear, blindly form a circle and begin to dance. The movements are awkward and uncomfortable, and the segment’s link to the rest of the piece is unclear. When the actors finally open their eyes, they become aware of their near nudity and the presence of the audience, and rush to dress in South American-inspired folk costumes. The actors pick up instruments lined up at the back of the stage — guitars, a tambourine, a ukulele and an accordion. Not all cast members had musical backgrounds before beginning the show, Rodriguez said. Anna Muselmann ’14 learned to play the
ukulele expressly for this performance. The love story of one couple, played by Muselmann and Nicholas Baird ’14, takes center stage, but each of the six other cast members pair off through a series of dances as the work develops. The show is at its strongest and most dynamic when it incorporates live music. Some dances are performed to pre-recorded tracks while others are played and sung by the actors themselves. In the seminal performance of the evening, Ursula Raasted ’14 lent her throaty and soulful voice to Spanish lyrics backed by a folk accompaniment. Muselmann and Baird perform a convincingly bold and flirtatious first dance to the tune of Raasted’s melodies. The show ends with a breakdown — the actors revert to their initial shuteyed blindness and Muselmann and Baird eventually find the stoic postures with which they opened the piece. After the performance, Rodriguez solicited willing audience members to take the stage for a brief lesson in dancing the cueca. The performance contains no English dialogue. Rodriguez said he hoped physical expression would be sufficient to evoke the sense of plot development, but added that he believed Spanish speakers would enjoy it as well.
/ / Hockey page 8 period, Brown scored twice to force the game to overtime and tie the Bobcats. “That was a gutsy effort,” Whittet said. “We are a resilient group that never quits, and we were able to will ourselves to a tie in a packed arena against the top-ranked team in the country.” Facing a 3-1 deficit with two minutes left in the game, Ryan scored for the third time this weekend on assists from Naclerio and captain Dennis Robertson ’14. Whittet then pulled
Communication in the play is sparse, and words and props are few and far between. Grunts and indecipherable words accompany the minimalist blind movements with which it opens, and a later song consists entirely of the word “vou” — New Weird America relies heavily on bodily interactions to make its point. “The show changes every night,” said Cheno Pinter ’14, the show’s production manager. “The more and more I watch it, the more I laugh and am moved by it.” New Weird America has been in development for less than a month and is the first production by Rodriguez’s new theater collective, Folk Mantra. He said he is unsure about the future of Folk Mantra but hopes to continue to create pieces centered on cultural traditions. Staging the work at 95 Empire allowed greater access to the wider Providence community, Rodriguez said. The audience was more heterogeneous than it might have been on campus. But Pinter noted that one difficulty the group faced was the struggle to “legitimize (itself) as more than just a group of hopeful undergrads.” “We are Brown students but we’re also people and we think that what we’re doing matters,” Rodriguez said.
Borelli to bring on an extra attacker. One minute after Ryan’s goal, Chris Zaires ’13 gathered a rebound from Matt Lorito ’15 and buried a shot behind goalie Eric Hartzell, tying the score at three. “I just tried to get to the front of the net to get the open shot,” Zaires said. “I just saw a rebound, kept poking at it, and it got through. It was pretty awesome to get that against the number one team in the country.” Neither team was able to generate much offense in extra time, tallying one shot on goal apiece. Jordan Samuels-Thomas scored the game’s first goal on a breakaway less than three minutes into the game, putting Brown in a 1-0 hole. The Bears responded in the second when Joe Prescott ’16 scored on another breakaway opportunity, assisted by Richie Crowley ’13. Russell Goodman kicked off the third frame with a goal for the Bobcats before Bruno’s comeback. Borelli made 36 saves for the Bears. He ranks second in the nation with a .947 save percentage. Quinnipiac has beaten every team in the ECAC this season except for Brown, which it has tied twice. “It’s definitely cool because they were number two and one,” Borelli said. “It’s a great opportunity to show people how good our team really is. Nobody really gives us credit, and it gives us a chance to disprove some of that thinking.” Last weekend, Bruno fared worse on the road, falling 5-1 to Rensselaer (15-12-5, 10-7-3) and then 2-0 to Union (15-12-5, 8-8-4). Prescott scored Brown’s only goal of the weekend. The Bears lost to Union despite a careerhigh 46 saves from Borelli. Brown returns to the Meehan Auditorium this weekend to take on Cornell (11-13-3, 7-10-3) and Colgate (14-14-4, 6-11-3) to wrap up the regular season.
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/ / Makers page 1 West said Brown was where she discovered her love of movies and became interested in TV journalism. “I had a news career but I always wanted to move towards documentaries,” she added. “That is my passion and that started at Brown.” Wolitzky, who concentrated in American Civilization, said the pop culture she learned about in her classes has been relevant to her field of work. But she added that women’s issues were not at the forefront of her mind until she entered the workforce. She said she encourages Brown students to think about these issues, even if they cannot yet personally relate. “It’s women’s history, but it’s really the whole country’s history,” she said. “Everything from the politics of it to the pop culture.” West said she was especially moved when Gloria Steinem, a pioneer in the women’s movement and a member of the project’s advisory board, quoted Paula Gunn Allen, an American Indian poet, during a speech at the documentary’s premiere at Lincoln Center in New York Feb. 6. West said Steinem emphasized “that if you don’t know the history, and you don’t know where you came from and
what’s happened before, then that’s dangerous,” and referenced Allen’s famous line, “the root of oppression is the loss of memory.” The Women’s Leadership Council will host a screening of “MAKERS: Women Who Make America” at Brown March 13 to celebrate Women’s History Month. “One of (the WLC’s) missions as a council is to engage more women with the intellectual excitement and the amazing things happening at Brown,” said Courtney Capizzo, the events’s organizer. She said she also hopes the audience is not only made up of people who are already appreciate the women’s movement. “We want to open it up to a broader audience so that they can maybe have a different perspective, not that they have to agree with it, but just to expose the concept of how this evolution of women’s rights took place,” she said. The free screening will take place in the Martinos Auditorium in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. A panel following the screening will include West, Wolitzky and “makers” Marika Shioiri-Clark ’05 and Barbara Smith, and will be moderated by Nancy L. Buc ’65.
/ / Basketball page 8 we cut hard, we screened and we got good shots.” “I was really seeing the guys well. It helps when they’re moving on the floor and finding open space,” McGonagill said. “It’s something we’ve been working on, and hopefully we can keep working on it as we go.” The Big Green found success down low early in the second half and got within five after a long three-pointer. But the Bears were resilient, and buckets from Halpern and McGonagill increased the
cushion again to 10, 32-22. McGonagill made some especially important shots to quell the Big Green’s momentum at the start of the second. “He did a very good job tonight,” Martin said. “We ask a lot of him, we demand a lot of him, but that is because we think he is capable, and tonight I thought he was outstanding.” The Bears defense proved important down the stretch, and two big blocks from Kuakumensah helped keep Dartmouth from closing the gap. Sullivan provided the dagger with two and a half minutes remaining, knocking down a
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three to push the lead to nine and cement the win. Bruno will travel to Cornell (13-14, 5-5) Friday and Columbia (11-13, 3-7) Saturday in a repeat of last weekend’s home games. Bruno was victorious against the Lions but failed to complete a comeback against the Big Red. “I’m not really sure why the past few games we didn’t come out with the same energy,” Sullivan said. “I know going forward we’re going to have to continue to come out like we did (against Dartmouth). It’s too hard to come back every single night down 10 at half.”
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Don’t put celebs on pedestal
Over the past months, notable role models and powerful leaders, built up into almost demigod statuses by the public, have been harshly dethroned by various allegations. This past week, celebrity South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius was arrested after being accused of murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Though Pistorius has been released on bail and has yet to go on trial, this instance was one of several disquieting incidents where riches turned into rags. We all know what happened to Lance Armstrong, the former seven-time Tour de France winner-turned-America’s-scoundrel. And just this academic year, along with the cyclist’s admission of using performanceenhancing drugs, General David Petraeus was felled by a sex scandal, the details of which shocked the country. But was our shock justified? As this kind of fall from grace happens, we must ask ourselves if we, as a society, hold a degree of responsibility for such repeated occurrences. We can only be disappointed by the demise of these larger-than-life figures because we are their creators. As the Washington Post noted the week after news of the Petraeus affair broke and the man behind the voice of Elmo was accused of sexual misconduct, “When you help construct a statue it comes almost as a surprise to discover the feet are still made of clay.” We thrive on building myths around human beings, as well as participating in their destruction at the first whiff of scandal, hungrily consuming the tabloid stories that result. This cycle has been repeated ceaselessly for promising politicians — Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards, Mark Sanford and Anthony Weiner — as well as for sports stars and celebrities. Knowing the pervasiveness of the phenomenon, getting caught with your pants down on the Internet — sometimes even literally — seems incomprehensibly insane. Perhaps that is the point. When people are the subject of media profiles that make them appear more than human, the hagiography engenders judgmentally-focused expectations from the public. The only question left to ask, then, is why we should even participate in the media circus in the first place. When we create these superhuman personas — whether athletes, musicians or the like — we lose sight of the realities of being a person with both strengths and flaws. Achievement is certainly inspirational, and admiration of those who have reached outstanding levels of success is understandable. However, it often leads to disappointment, which in turn leads to cynicism. Instead of idolizing those who are prominently accomplished, we would all be better off recognizing the humanity of those who seem so perfect. When we put people on pedestals, we are asking for them to fall. We have a tendency to create idealized figures that seem so perfect they cannot help but let us down in some way when they reveal their humanness — but we do not have to end celebrity as a concept. There is a way to look up to people without deifying them — to pay respect while critically engaging and questioning them.
Editorials are written by The Herald’s editorial page board: its editor, Daniel Jeon, and its members, Georgia Angell, Sam Choi, Nick Morley and Rachel Occhiogrosso. Send comments to editorials@browndailyherald.com.
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CORREC TION An article in Friday’s Herald (“Science faculty dominate admin search committee,” Feb. 22) incorrectly stated that researchers in the humanities received $46,000 in awards and researchers in the physical sciences received $53 million in fiscal year 2012. In fact, the correct numbers were $498,741 and $50.3 million, respectively. But, as originally reported, the breakdown in funding is skewed toward the life and physical sciences. The Herald regrets the error.
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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2013
Don’t rape CARA NEWLON Opinions Columnist
“They peed on her. That’s how you know she’s dead, because someone pissed on her… They raped her quicker than Mike Tyson raped that one girl. They raped her more than the Duke lacrosse team… It isn’t really rape because you don’t know if she wanted to or not.” These are perhaps the least disturbing quotes from the video released by the hacker group Anonymous, featuring 18 year-old student Michael Nodiano providing his own personal commentary on the alleged rape of a 16 year-old high school girl by two members of the Steubenville High School’s celebrated football team. The controversial case centers on the supposed events of Aug. 11 and 12, 2012, when the two high school sophomores allegedly drugged the girl, dragged her around and sexually assaulted her. Pictures appeared on Twitter and other social media sites showing the girl trussed up and unconscious, held by her hands and feet by two teenage boys. The graphics are accompanied by such charming comments as “the song of the night is definitely ‘Rape Me’ by Nirvana.” The Steubenville case is one of many recent infamous rape controversies — another being the notorious gang rape and murder of a 23 year-old Delhi college student. People protested both cases internationally. These events are on the more horrific end of a spectrum of the persistent and insidious sexual assault that infects many areas of our
society — including our college culture. According to reports by the U.S. Department of Justice, an estimated one out of every four college-aged women has experienced an assault that meets the criteria of rape or attempted rape, and one out of five college-aged women is raped during her college years. Yet no one ever talks about it. To be sure, we have events like “Consent Day,” where we have a dildo ring toss and obtain our hot-pink quintessentially Brown t-shirts. The event, while fun and empow-
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ing first-year orientation. A brave, traumatized survivor spoke about her date rape, perpetrated in her dorm room by someone she thought was her friend. It was a noble speech. It was also horrifying. And yet later I wondered: What was the point of it? To tell women to go out and not get in rape-y situations? Much like the warning speech about alcohol, it’s acknowledged that problems occur — so, as women, we should really be more careful. Listen: If one in five college women is getting raped, somebody is doing the rap-
In our culture, the definition of sexual assault is foggy. But rape and sexual assault in general are the most clear-cut things in the world. ering, obscures the serious problem of oncampus sexual assault with the frivolity of water balloon condoms and sex vending machines. Last week, the international movement “One Billion Rising” took to campus to protest, dance and discuss widespread violence against women. Yet there was little discussion about assault at Brown. By most estimates — and my personal knowledge — a significant number of women on this campus are assaulted every year. Yet even here, at a progressive, liberal school, we’re reluctant to speak about it. It’s still somehow shameful for the victim. Everybody on this campus almost certainly knows a victim of sexual assault — and yet there is little outrage. We were taught about sexual assault dur-
ing. In the aforementioned government study, at least one in 12 college men admitted to committing acts that fit the legal definition of rape. So shouldn’t our culture, and colleges, be spreading the message “Don’t rape”? The American rape confusion should come as no surprise to us. We couldn’t look at the news last year without seeing troglodytic politicians babbling about “legitimate” or “forcible” rape. As if the quiet, desperate struggles that occur in thousands of dorm rooms nationwide are somehow less real than the rapes that happen via the knifepoint of a stranger. Yet even fellow Brown students seem to have trouble demarcating exactly what a rape is. Last semester, fellow writer Chris Norris-LeBlanc ’13 published a controver-
sial column about the prevalence of oncampus rapes (“Rape happens here, too,” Nov. 28). The anonymous commenters were swift to retaliate: “Rape is not always a black/white, cut and dry thing (especially when intoxicated co-eds are involved)… There are clear cut examples out there, including but not limited to violent and/or drug related assaults… Is it rape if a guy sleeps with a girl who’s drunk?” In our culture, the definition of sexual assault is foggy. But rape — and sexual assault in general — are the most clear-cut things in the world. Instead of perpetuating victim-blaming, we need to teach a new message that clearly delineates what constitutes sexual assault: If a girl is too drunk to wholeheartedly, happily consent, it’s sexual assault. If a girl wants you to stop and you don’t, it’s sexual assault. If a girl says “no” the first three times you ask and then eventually, reluctantly relents to the pressure, it’s sexual assault. Sexual assault is sexual assault, whether it’s by a stranger, boyfriend or husband. It’s easy to hide behind a message that places some fault on the victim. It makes us feel better, the problem seem smaller. As women, it makes us feel protected: We’ll never be so stupid or so reckless, so we’ll never be assaulted. But it’s time to recognize a new truth. The lesson we should be teaching? “Don’t assault women.” Don’t assault anybody. That’s all there is to it. Cara Newlon ’14.5 is happy to continue this conversation at cara_newlon@brown.edu.
The rise of the pragmatists JARED MOFFAT Opinions Columnist It’s been a long time coming, but the decades-long “war on marijuana” appears to finally be winding down. In November, voters in Colorado and Washington passed initiatives to allow for the establishment of legal, state-regulated industries for recreational marijuana and hemp. When asked how the federal government would respond, President Obama replied, “We’ve got bigger fish to fry.” But it appears that the dominoes will continue to fall. On the federal level, lawmakers in Congress recently introduced a bill to regulate and tax the herb. Four states — Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island — have also introduced similar proposals this year, and more are expected in three other states. Just 10 years ago, a third of Americans favored legalization. Support now hovers around 48 percent, according to a recent Gallup poll. What can explain this recent upswing? The marijuana policy debate has traditionally been characterized as a culture war between two extreme positions, each defined by an attitude toward marijuana itself. On one side are the marijuana enthusiasts who assert that marijuana is some kind of great gift to mankind. On the other side are those who view marijuana and all drug use as an existential threat to American values that must be stamped out. The recent upsurge in support for legalization, however, has resulted not from a rise
in enthusiasm for pot — the number of tokers has not increased significantly in the past two decades. Rather, growing support has correlated with the rise of a third group, the “pragmatists,” who do not view the marijuana policy issue as a question about the value of marijuana itself. These pragmatists are ambivalent about the drug’s societal worth. Pragmatists support legalizing marijuana because they like the idea of regulating marijuana the way we do with tobacco and alcohol. Endorsing the regulation of alcohol and tobacco does not equate to an endorsement of the use of these drugs. Similarly, most reasonable people advocate for marijuana regu-
icate the insidious and destructive underground marijuana market. But from the pragmatist point of view, legalizing marijuana does not imply that we shouldn’t take sensible steps to minimize marijuana use, especially among young people. Hence pragmatists tend to only support legalization proposals that include stringent regulations such as industry-funded education campaigns, age restrictions, punishments for those who sell to minors and rules to prevent marketing to children — tools that have proven useful in bringing teen alcohol and tobacco use to historic lows. Like most Americans right now, pragma-
More and more Americans are adopting the pragmatist approach to marijuana policy, because pot prohibition has proven to be wasteful and counter-productive in its goals of reducing crime, violence and marijuana use. lation not because they like marijuana, but because, given the political and social realities of America, regulation just makes the most sense. Pragmatists understand there is a substantial portion of the population that will use marijuana regardless of its legal status. So long as that demand exists, there will be a marijuana industry. Pragmatists point out that criminalizing marijuana simply pushes that industry into an illegal market. This black market creates a number of undesirable side effects — violence, crime, poverty, destabilized communities — and diverts law enforcement resources. Legalizing marijuana is the only way to undermine and erad-
tists are eager to get the economy back on track. They favor marijuana regulation because it’s a common-sense way to increase government revenue, allow for the establishment of new businesses and create jobs. Ending marijuana prohibition will bring an entire illegal industry above ground, generating economic activity and reducing crime at the same time. Of course pragmatists understand that marijuana legalization is not a panacea, but they see it as an obvious component of a more comprehensive plan to kick-start the economy. Pragmatists also point out that attempts to enforce marijuana prohibition have failed and that continuing to pour tax dollars into
an ineffective policy is irrational. National drug surveys consistently indicate that 80 to 90 percent of high school seniors say marijuana is “fairly easy” or “very easy” to buy. Many report knowing someone who deals drugs on school grounds. Pragmatists see that we’re getting no return on our investments as taxpayers. Rather than trying to arrest our way out of the problem and thereby create a chaotic illegal market, pragmatists believe we should use effective drug education and regulatory tools to reduce teen drug access. They believe that law enforcement resources would be better spent tackling serious and violent crimes. More and more Americans are adopting the pragmatist approach to marijuana policy, because pot prohibition has proven to be wasteful and counter-productive in its goals of reducing crime, violence and marijuana use. Pragmatists understand that when you’re in a hole, you don’t just keep digging. But they’re showing us that you don’t have to be a fan of pot to support legalizing the stuff. They’re shifting the debate into a realm where practical reason — not one’s attitude toward the drug itself — is the guiding principle. If the recent upsurge in public support is a sign of things to come, the pragmatist approach to marijuana policy will soon become the consensus, replacing what was previously an unproductive and unnecessary culture war. Jared Moffat ’13 is an organizer for the Coalition for Marijuana Regulation. He can be contacted at jared_moffat@brown.edu.
daily herald sports monday THE BROWN
SCOREBOARD
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2013
W. ICE HOCKEY
M. ICE HOCKEY
M. BASKETBALL
GYMNASTICS
W. TENNIS
Princeton 2 Brown 1
Brown 4 Princeton 1
Harvard 65 Brown 47
Brown: 1st Place (193.925 points)
Boston College 5 Brown 2
Quinnipiac 4 Brown 0
Brown 3 Quinnipiac 3
Brown 59 Dartmouth 50
M. LACROSSE
W. WATER POLO
Quinnipiac 9 Brown 7
Princeton 15 Brown 4
W. GYMNASTICS
Bears take Ivy League crown for first time in 13 years Michelle Shnayder ’14 was named individual all-around champion in Ivy Classic this weekend By LLOYD SY CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Brown gymnastics team captured the annual Ivy Classic at Yale’s John J. Lee Amphitheater Saturday afternoon. The Bears’ score of 193.925 points out of 200 beat out Cornell’s 193.025, Penn’s 191.600 and the Bulldogs’ 191.100 to win the team the Ivy title for the first time since 1990. The Bear’s score was the highest total they have put up this year and marked the first time the squad finished in first place in a competition this season. “It’s probably one of the biggest competitions of the season,” said Head Coach Sara Carver-Milne. “To be able to be on top of the Ivy League gives us a lot of pride.” Co-captain Lauren Hall ’13 said the Ivy Classic is one of the team’s two conference championships, the
other being the ECAC Championship in late March. “Winning was a huge accomplishment,” Hall said. “We’ve known we could win for so long, but were never able to put it all together until this year.” Bruno was bolstered by Michelle Shnayder ’14, who won the allaround competition with a score of 38.850 points out of a possible 40 points. Shnayder said winning the individual title felt “surreal.” “After all the events, I was thinking, ‘I’m sure it must have been close,’” she said. “When they called out my name, I couldn’t really believe it.” Shnayder started out her winning performance by tying a career high of 9.825 points on the vault, the secondhighest score in the competition. She followed it up by finishing sixth on the beam with a 9.750, seventh on the floor with a 9.675 and 13th on the bars with a 9.600. The team took the lead early on vault, the first event of the competition. Shnayder’s second-place score was topped only by that of her team-
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Both Allison Rubenstein ’15 and Julia Meyer ’13 earned scores of 9.825 on the beam, tying each other for second place and contributing to the win. mate Emily Lutfey ’13, who scored a career-high of 9.850 points by successfully landing a new vault of increased difficulty. “(Lutfey) upgraded her vault and completed it successfully for the first time,” Carver-Milne said. “It paid off and was ultimately really rewarding for our team’s score.” Rebecca Freedman ’14, Diana Walters ’16 and Katie Rogers ’14 also contributed to the strong opening
vault performance with scores of 9.725, 9.650 and 9.525, respectively. “The vault team has been doing awesome, and they started the meet off great,” Hall said. “We had the lead from the start and didn’t back down.” On the uneven parallel bars, the Bears were led by Alexandra Chretien ’16, who finished fifth with a career-high 9.750, and Nicole Abdo ’13, whose score of 9.700 earned her seventh overall. Abdo also led Bruno
in the floor exercise, finishing second with 9.800 points, a personal best for the senior in the event. Allison Rubenstein ’15 and Julia Meyer ’13 tied for second place on the balance beam, both scoring 9.825 points. The win came a week after a trip to California, during which the team finished third in two separate competitions. “We had two rough meets and used our disappointment to fire us up for this meet,” Hall said. Shnayder attributed the team’s success to its tight-knit culture. “We have each other’s backs,” she said. “To feel this support makes you want to do better.” “What was so special about this win,” Carver-Milne said, “was that the girls were just so proud of the team’s performance that they didn’t even realize their individual achievements.” The Bears return to competition Saturday at the University of New Hampshire, where they will face Yale and Towson University in addition to the home team.
M. BASKETBALL
Bruno wins, ties on the road Bears fall to Crimson, top Big Green The top line was key to Friday’s win, and a goal by Chris Zaires ’13 tied Saturday’s game By DANTE O’CONNELL CONTRIBUTING WRITER
After falling to Rensselaer and Union last weekend, the men’s ice hockey team bounced back in two key ECAC matchups on the road. Brown (10-116, ECAC 6-8-6) ended the weekend with a 4-1 victory over Princeton and a come-from-behind 3-3 tie against No. 1 Quinnipiac. The results were a repeat of a homestand two weeks ago, when Brown beat Princeton (9-14-4, 7-10-3) and tied Quinnipiac (23-4-5, 16-1-3). Heading into their final two games of the season, the Bears stand alone in eighth place and are in position to host a first round playoff series. In the ECAC tournament, teams seeded one through four receive a bye, and those ranked fifth through eighth host first round matchups. Brown 4, Princeton 1 Bruno was led by its top line of Jeff Ryan ’13, Garnet Hathaway ’14 and Mark Naclerio ’16, who came together for all four of the team’s goals. Goalie Anthony Borelli ’13 overcame illness to contribute 32 saves to the victory and did not allow a goal until three minutes left in the game.
“We challenged the team to get better this week in practice,” said Head Coach Brendan Whittet ’94. “We responded in a game that we absolutely needed to win.” Hathaway opened the scoring eight minutes into the game with his fifth goal of the season and his third against the Tigers. Naclerio assisted the goal after intercepting an errant Princeton pass. With 2:15 remaining in the first period, Ryan stretched the lead to 2-0 on a one-time shot assisted by Naclerio and Hathaway. Ryan scored his second goal of the evening late in the second period on assists from Joey de Concilys ’15 and Hathaway. “It was a really good game,” Ryan said. “The whole team was firing. I got lucky playing with Hathaway and Naclerio. We complement each other very well.” With 5:30 left in the third, Princeton coach Bob Prier decided to pull goalie Mike Condon for an extra attacker. The aggressive strategy did not pay off as Naclerio scored an emptynetter with 4:16 to go. Borelli nearly earned his third shutout of the season, but the Tigers’ Andrew Calouf scored with under three minutes to go. Brown 3, No. 1 Quinnipiac 3 After trailing by two goals to the top-ranked team in the country late in the third / / Hockey page 4
Three of five starters against Dartmouth brought double digit points in Saturday’s win By SAM WICKHAM SPORTS STAFF WRITER
The men’s basketball team split games against Ivy League opponents for the second weekend in a row, falling to Harvard Friday night and taking down Dartmouth Saturday. Bruno (10-14, Ivy 4-6) could not handle the Crimson’s (16-7, 8-1) high-pressure defense, coughing up 19 turnovers in the course of the loss. The Bears took better care of the ball against the Big Green (6-18, 2-8), thanks to cocaptain Sean McGonagill ’14, who fed the offense with seven assists. The win is Bruno’s second against Dartmouth this month and puts Brown in sixth place in the Ivy League. Harvard 65, Brown 47 The Bears found themselves in an early hole for the third game in a row, falling behind 20-5 after a flurry of Harvard jump shots. The Bears struggled to keep the ball, with the Crimson grabbing nine steals in the first half alone. Bruno managed only one three-point shot in the period and went into the intermission trailing 29-18. “I was not pleased with our energy and effort,” said Head Coach Mike Martin ’04. “I’m only 30 years old, but I’m going to have a full head of gray hair
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Co-captain Matt Sullivan ’13 tried to get past Harvard’s Wesley Saunders to close the score gap during a game that ended in an 18-point loss. here pretty soon.” In usual fashion, the Bears slowly worked their way back into the game in the second period. Cedric Kuakumensah ’16 and McGonagill helped Bruno set off on a 13-8 run to start the half, getting the team within 10 points of Harvard. Two minutes later, the Bears cut the deficit to six after a McGonagill jumper, but the Crimson offense answered, and Harvard got back out to a double digit lead after a Wesley Saunders dunk. Bruno’s big men were able to get to the line in the final minutes, but Harvard’s offense was too much to handle and the Bears fell 65-47 at the buzzer. Brown 59, Dartmouth 50 Bruno put in a complete performance against the Big Green thanks to double-
digit scoring from three of five starters. The Bears offense was more efficient than it was the night before, shooting 41.8 percent from the field and 34.8 percent from beyond the arc. “Our energy and our effort from the beginning tonight was where it needs to be,” Martin said. “That’s the identity of our program. We need to play with that type of focus … for 40 minutes a night, 80 minutes a weekend.” The Bears took an early advantage after a pair of threes from McGonagill and Tucker Halpern ’13.5. The squad’s largest lead came after co-captain Matt Sullivan ’13 hit a trey with seven minutes left to put his team up by 16. “Matt, Sean and Tucker were all very big offensively,” Martin said. “We were confident, / / Basketball page 5