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Richard Holbrooke ’62 will stay on the faculty of the Watson Institute
despite receiving a top diplomatic post in the Obama administration.
Holbrooke ’62 expected to
keep Watson appointment
By Anne Speyer
Staff Writer
Richard Holbrooke ’62 is expected
to remain a professor-at-large at
the Watson Institute for Interna-
tional Studies despite his recent
appointment by President Obama
to the positio n of special envoy to
Deborah Schimberg ’80 P’12 runs her eco-friendly all-natural gum company out of her home on Dudley Street.
From alum, a different way to chew
By Matthew Klebanoff
Staff Writer
Deep in the rainforests of northern
Guatemala, nearly two decades ago,
Deborah Schimberg ’80 P’12 found
something to chew on — chicle, the
original ingredient for chewing gum.
Today she is the president of Verve,
Inc., a Providence-based business
that manufactures Glee Gum, an all-
inside
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Afghanistan and Pakistan, according
to Watson Deputy Director Geoffrey
Kirkman ’91.
Kirkman said he did not be-
lieve Holbrooke, a former Her-
ald editor-in-chief, would leave
his post at Watson in light of the
continued on page 2
natural chewing gum.
While researching sustainable
development in Guatemala in 1992,
Schimberg discovered that chicleros,
the people who harvest chicle from
Sapodilla trees in the rainforest, de-
pend on it for their livelihoods. After
her trip, which was funded by the
W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Schimberg
used a few blocks of chicle from Gua-
temala to make experimental batches
Higher Ed, 5
Online Degrees
University of the People
aims to deliver a high-
quality online education
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
Next budget to be $4.5m smaller
By Brigitta Greene
Senior Staff Writer
The University’s proposed 2009-10
budget cuts $4.5 million from current
spending levels, Executive Vice Pres-
ident for Finance and Administration
Beppie Huidekoper said at a meeting
of the Brown University Community
Council yesterday afternoon.
If approved by the Corporation
later this month as it now stands, the
budget will represent a total reduc-
tion of $21 million from spending
plans made last May, she said.
Expenses for the 2010 fiscal year,
which begins July 1, are currently
projected to be $551 million — down
from what was once projected to be
$572 million, Huidekoper said.
Dealing with the prospect of
about $800 million in losses to its
endowment, the University has said
it needs to eliminate $60 million
from previously anticipated spend-
ing plans by 2014. That estimate,
Huidekoper said Tuesday, stems
from an assumption that total in-
come will increase by an average of
just three percent per year over the
next five years, instead of the previ-
ous figure of five percent.
But Huidekoper said money
saved by the current hiring freeze
and other efforts to constrain spend-
Kim Perley / Herald
of gum in her kitchen. She and her
three children loved the hands-on
project so much that she decided to
manufacture and sell a “Make Your
Own Chewing Gum Kit.”
Eventually, Schimberg’s company
began to offer kits allowing people
to make their own chocolate or
gummies.
continued on page 2
ing should amount to about $30 mil-
lion by 2014. Though those savings
are impressive, that “still leaves $30
million to go” in order to reach the
$60 million benchmark by the dead-
line, she said.
The estimates and projections
of future spending, as well as the
amount of cutbacks, do not include
the Division of Biology and Medi-
cine, which has a separate budget.
Huidekoper said major reduc-
tions will come from the deferral
or revision of plans for large-scale
capital projects, such as the Nel-
son Fitness Center and a new
swimming pool.
“We’re not abandoning priorities,
but asking how we can be smarter
about how we can undertake a proj-
ect,” President Ruth Simmons said
at the meeting.
She said, however, that the Uni-
versity is “hopeful” that it will be able
to go forward soon with the planned
renovation of Faunce House. She
said she will be attending a “decisive”
meeting on that project today.
In an attempt to “smooth out”
the pain of decreased contributions
to the operating budget from the
endowment, the University will draw
on the endowment at a higher-than-
continued on page 2
Grad School applications
down 2 percent overall
By Hannah Moser
Senior Staff Writer
According to the latest numbers, the
Graduate School is facing a 2 per-
cent collective decrease in applicants,
though many of its programs reported
increases. The Alpert Medical School,
on the other hand, has reported a 12
percent increase in applicants from
this time last year.
With 6,922 applications as of Feb.
9, “we are nearly on par” with the
number reported last year, Beverly
Larson, Graduate School director
of communications told The Herald
via e-mail. The decrease followed
last year’s record number of appli-
cations.
Within the 66 Grad School pro-
grams, life and medical sciences,
social sciences and humanities all
reported application increases of
16 percent, 5 percent and 1 percent
respectively. Physical science pro-
grams, however, suffered a 17 per-
cent drop in applicants.
Despite the decrease, certain pro-
grams within the physical sciences
have had an increased number of ap-
plicants since last year, Larson wrote,
reporting increases of 12 percent in
Sports, 7
Run like the win
Men’s and women’s track
and field won numerous
individual awards
Money Troubles
$800 million
Projected endowment
losses by June 30, from
2008 high of $2.8 billion
$60 million
Amount by which the
University needs to scale
back spending plans for
the next five years
$30 million
Estimated portion of that
$60 million that will be
saved through current
cost-cutting measures
like the hiring freeze
$572 million
May 2008 projection for
2009-10 budget
$551 million
Actual proposed budget
for 2009-10, $21 million
less than planned
the geological sciences, 10 percent in
chemistry, 6 percent in computer sci-
ence and 3 percent in mathematics.
Six graduate programs, with
closing dates ranging from March
to May, are still accepting students,
Larson wrote. The medical school has
seen a 12 percent increase in applica-
tions, said Director of Admissions
Barbara Fuller.
Currently, the admissions office
is reviewing 2,517 secondary applica-
tions, Fuller said, adding that far 80
students have been accepted.
The Med School is aiming to have
96 students in the class of 2013, of
which half will likely be students
currently in the Program in Liberal
Medical Education, Fuller said.
The Med School offers several
routes to apply for admission, which
include standard medical doctor,
PLME, MD/PhD, postbaccalaureate
and the Early Identification Program
which targets “underrepresented
minority students and Rhode Island
residents.”
Fuller said she couldn’t give an
overall medical school acceptance
rate since “all these routes of ad-
mission (don’t) make for a clear
statistical number.”
Opinions, 11
Fire Hazard?
Michael Fitzpatrick ’12
thinks room inspections
are too lenient
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C ampus N EWS “It’s when we start borrowing for gift-funded projects that we start to think ‘whoops,
we’ve gone too far.’”— Beppie Huidekoper, executive V.P. for finance and administration

Alum gum keeps it all U. tightens belt in face news in brief

natural in Providence of endowment losses Former Italian

continued from page 1
“(The kits) connect people from
different worlds,” Schimberg said.
Each kit features a raw material, ex-
plaining the product’s origins and
providing information about the com-
munity that has built its economy
around it, she said.
Eventually, Schimberg decided to
manufacture a unique chicle-based
gum made of only natural ingredi-
ents, based on the belief that gum
should not be harmful to people’s
health.
“It has no artificial coloring,
no artificial flavors, no artificial
sweeteners and no preservatives,”
Schimberg said. “If you look at most
chewing gum today, almost all gum
has aspartame in it.”
Schimberg said chewing gum
became enormously popular after
World War II, when it was included
in American soldiers’ rations. As a
result, after the war the demand and
price of chicle increased dramatical-
ly. Companies developed a synthetic
gum base to replace chicle, allowing
them to have a “totally controlled
product,” Schimberg said.
Although chicle is more expen-
sive than synthetic gum bases, using
it has allowed Schimberg’s company
to create a product with a unique ap-
peal while also helping sustain chicle
harvesters.
“Our commitment to natural in-
gredients ... made it easier for us to
get a toehold in the market, and we
did that through Whole Foods and
other health food stores, which don’t
carry conventional chewing gum,”
Schimberg said.
Schimberg’s commitment to so-
cially conscious causes began long
sudoku
before she cooked up plans to manu-
facture and sell all-natural chewing
gum. The year after she graduated
from Brown, Schimberg founded the
Southside Community Land Trust,
an organization promoting environ-
mental sustainability in Providence.
She has also worked as the principal
of the Cloud Forest School, a bilin-
gual school in Costa Rica that seeks
to incorporate environmental aware-
ness into its curriculum.
Glee Gum’s environmentally
friendly practices have attracted its
fair share of Providence retailers
— including Blue State Coffee, the
Brown Bookstore, the Coffee Ex-
change and Eastside Marketplace.
Alex Payson ’03.5, co-owner and
manager of Blue State, said the shop
chose to carry Glee Gum because
Schimberg’s company is based in
Providence and because it offers
an environmentally sustainable
product.
“I think our first priority is to
source locally when we can,” Payson
said. “We also like to be as organic
as possible.”
Schimberg strives to make her
company socially aware. Verve, Inc.
is a member of One Percent For the
Planet, an alliance of businesses that
donate at least 1 percent of their reve-
nues to environmental organizations
across the globe. The company also
helps finance higher education for
six children of chicleros each year
through the Forest Foundation.
“We feel it both provides an incen-
tive to chicleros and supports the
next generation of professionals who
have grown up with an understand-
ing of what these issues are — the
challenges that these communities
face,” Schimberg said.
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continued from page 1 ‘whoops, we’ve gone too far.’” Watson Institute
Though the University’s assets
normal rate during the next several — which stand at approximately Romano Prodi, for-
years, Simmons said. $3 billion, according to Huideko- mer prime minister of
For the current fiscal year, the per — far exceed its approximately Italy, has been appointed
payout to the operating budget was $450 million in debt, “we do have professor-at-large at the
set at approximately five percent, to pay it off,” she said, and the Uni- Watson Institute for Inter-
Huidekoper said. But holding that versity does not want to take on national Studies, the Cor-
rate steady this year would result anymore. poration confirmed in a
in a payout of about $40 million less Service on existing debt, along press release last Friday.
given the new, smaller size of the en- with utilities costs, need-blind fi- His five-year term will begin
dowment. Such an upfront revenue nancial aid and “sponsored” expen- this spring.
loss would be “almost draconian,” ditures (those that are earmarked As professor-at-large,
she said. by donors), will be Prodi, who is currently
Huidekoper largely unaffected president of the Founda-
also provided
“We’re not by budget cuts, Hu- tion for Worldwide Coop-
details on the abandoning idekoper said. The eration and chairman of
“sacrifices” that priorities, we’re proposed budget the United Nations-African
will have to be asking how we can includes an 11-per- Union Panel for Peace-
made to balance be smarter.” cent increase in keeping in Africa, will
the budget. financial aid, she spend several weeks each
Some of the Ruth Simmons said. year delivering lectures,
biggest sav- President Instead, the Uni- working with students and
ings, she said, versity will look to partaking in events and re-
will come from staff and compensa- search discussions at the
slower growth in faculty and admin- tion levels, fee increases and “non- institute, according to the
istrative salaries and renegotiated essential” expenditures like travel press release.
maintenance contracts. costs for cost reductions. During his time in poli-
She further emphasized the in- “We have to recognize that some tics, Prodi founded the
creasing burden of debt holdings on levels of service will have to be de- Ulivo, the Italian center-
University balance sheets. creased,” Huidekoper said. left coalition, in 1995. He
In the past, a “very significant “In terms of academic programs, also served two terms as
portion” of infrastructural needs the challenge is to take advantage prime minister of Italy —
have been financed by debt, Sim- of opportunities that present them- once from 1996 to 1998,
mons said. Over the past 20 years, selves,” Provost David Kertzer ’69 and again from 2006 to
the University has accumulated P’95 P’98 said at the meeting. He 2008 — and was president
about $450 million in outstanding said the University is committed to of the European Commis-
debt. Loans have commonly been finding money to continue improv- sion from 1999 to 2005.
taken out, for example, to finance ing academic programs. While president, he over-
utility projects, such as the recent saw the introduction of
installation of new steam pipes. It Other business the euro and the addition
can be hard to solicit donations for At the end of the meeting, Mi- of 10 countries to the
such projects, which also do not chael Glassman ’09, Libby Kimzey European Union.
warrant an increase in tuition, Hu- ’09 and Manager of Environmental In addition to holding
idekoper said. Stewardship Initiatives Kurt Teich- numerous research and
Though as a non-profit orga- ert presented an update on the Cli- teaching positions at pres-
nization the University can take mate Action Plan and Community tigious universities world-
advantage of tax-exempt and low- Carbon Use Reduction (CCURB) wide, he has also been
interest loans, payments on debt project. awarded many honorary
must come out of the budget each The University has reduced its degrees, including a Doc-
year, Huidekoper said. carbon dioxide emissions by 7.7 per- tor of Laws degree from
A certain level of debt is to be cent since 2007, Teichert said. Brown in 1999.
expected, Huidekoper said, but “it’s The BUCC also unanimously ap- Other international lu-
when we start borrowing for gift- proved a proposal to add a Corpora- minaries currently serving
funded projects that we start to think tion member to their ranks. appointments at Watson
include Professor-at-Large

Holbrooke expected to keep Richard Holbrooke ’62 — a

recently appointed special

post at Watson Institute

continued from page 1
appointment.
“I would expect that he would
remain a professor-at-large, unless,
from the Department of State side
of things, it would represent some
research at the Watson Institute for
some time,” Kennedy said. “He has led
student working groups, participated
in classes, spoken at the Institute and
— in general — supported our teach-
ing in international affairs.”
Kirkman called the position of
envoy to Pakistan and Af-
ghanistan who previously
served as U.S. ambassador
to the U.N. and to Germa-
ny under President Clin-
ton — former President
of the Republic of Chile
Ricardo Lagos Escobar.
also a professor-at-large,
and former Chancellor of

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Holbrooke, who is currently out of cause most professors-at-large are professorship last month.
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Vote on renaming
Columbus Day put off
By Sydney Ember
Senior Staff Writer
The Faculty Executive Committee
delayed a vote Tuesday on whether
to change the name of Columbus Day
on the University calendar — a move
that came as a disappointment to
members of the group Native Ameri-
cans at Brown, who have advocated
such a move.
The committee agreed to take up
the motion again on Feb. 20.
During the meeting, part of
which was opened to about a dozen
interested students, the committee’s
chair, Professor of Philosophy Ja-
mie Dreier, said that while faculty
members generally favor changing
the holiday’s name on the calendar,
they lack the authority to endorse
political statements like those found
in the student proposal.
The current draft of the proposal
contains a rationale for renaming
Columbus Day that makes the issue
“much more controversial than it
needs to be,” Dreier said.
“I think that you are inviting the
law of controversy and dissent,”
he said.
Until they revise the proposal and
remove a provision calling for the
University to issue a formal state-
ment regarding its position on the
holiday, the proposal is not under
faculty control, Dreier said. The com-
mittee has the power to change the
calendar but not to endorse state-
ments like some found in the student
proposal, he said.
The committee issued recom-
mendations to two of the students
behind the proposal, Reiko Koyama
’11 and Jerry Wolf Duff Sellers ’09,
on how to modify it. Koyama and
Sellers, both members of Native
Americans at Brown, led a “Speak-
Out” campaign in October against
Laptops, GPS, alcohol among items stolen from offices, closet recently
By Colin Chazen
Senior Staf f Writer
The following summary includes all
major incidents reported to the De-
partment of Public Safety between
Jan. 15 and Feb. 4. It does not include
general service and alarm calls. The
Providence Police Department also re-
sponds to incidents occurring off cam-
CRIME LOG
pus. DPS does not divulge information
on open cases that are currently under
investigation by the department, the
PPD or the Office of Student Life. DPS
maintains a daily log of all shift activ-
ity and general service calls which
can be viewed during business hours
at its headquarters, located at 75
Charlesfield Street.
Thursday, Jan. 15
4:35 p.m. A Brown employee stat-
ed that he stepped out of his office
in Hunter Lab for five minutes. The
door to the office was left open, and
when he returned he noticed his
the University’s observance of Co-
lumbus Day. The Brown University
Community Council passed a resolu-
tion later that month encouraging
faculty and administrators to address
the students’ proposal.
The committee’s suggestions
included ways to make the motion
stronger and less controversial by
streamlining its stated rationale. The
faculty members also said that while
they believed a name-change was
appropriate, the new name should
honor Native American heritage
rather than adopt a neutral name
such as “fall weekend,” the name
suggested in the current draft.
Sellers told The Herald afterward
that he was “entirely” optimistic
about the upcoming vote once the
name-change and rationale are fur-
ther addressed.
“I think that the opportunity
to change the name can be much
more powerful,” he said, adding that
it could be a chance to celebrate not
Columbus’ misdeeds but his contri-
butions. “Because Columbus created
this relationship between two differ-
ent hemispheres, I was able to have
an Irish-Italian mom and a Native
dad,” he said.
A resolution to support modifying
the name of Columbus Day will be
introduced to the Undergraduate
Council of Students at their general
body meeting tonight, UCS Vice
President Mike MacCombie ’11 told
The Herald. The council voted down
a similar resolution last semester that
would advocate changing both the
name and date of the holiday, but this
resolution will only support changing
the name, MacCombie said.
MacCombie said he was confi-
dent the resolution would pass.
— With additional reporting by
Ben Schreckinger
Brown-owned laptop was gone.
Wednesday, Jan. 21
2:09 p.m. Complainant stated that
between 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. on
Jan. 7 her cell phone and $60 were
stolen from Mencoff Hall. At the
time of the larceny, the items were
left unattended and unsecured in a
basement classroom. There are no
suspects at this time.
Friday, Jan. 23
10:13 a.m. DPS received a re-
port that a large bulletin board had
been forced off the wall outside the
women’s restroom in the basement
of Faunce House.
Tuesday, Jan. 27
7:02 p.m. An employee reported
that around 1:30 p.m. she left her
office in Alumnae Hall unlocked for
ten minutes. When she returned
nothing seemed unusual. However,
at 5 p.m. when she opened her pock-
etbook, she noticed that her wallet
was missing.
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“Our story is about the importance of preserving and protecting history.”
Col. Matthew Bogdanos signed copies of his book, “Thieves of Baghdad,” in Smith-Buonanno Tuesday evening.
Col. discusses looted Iraq artifacts
By Brian Mastroianni
Senior Staf f Writer
When Col. Matthew Bogdanos first
discovered that the National Mu-
seum of Iraq in Baghdad had been
looted following the fall of Saddam
Hussein’s regime, he expected to
have to spend only two weeks in-
specting the complex.
Instead, Bogdanos and his team
had to stay in the region much lon-
ger after encountering over 11 acres
of museum space still surrounded by
combat. While the war zone around
Thursday, Jan. 29
1:38 p.m. An employee stated
that she left her office for lunch
from 12 p.m. until 12:30 p.m. When
she returned, her University-owned
laptop was missing. She said that
she did not lock the door to her of-
fice when she went to lunch. There
are no suspects at this time.
Friday, Jan. 30
10:29 p.m. A student reported
that between the hours of 4 p.m.
and 7:55 p.m., eight bottles of al-
cohol were taken from a closet in
King House.
10:29 p.m. A student reported
that the fraternity-owned projec-
tor had been stolen from a stor-
age room in the basement of King
House. She stated that the frater-
nity had hosted a class F party on
the night of Saturday, Jan. 24, and
the projector had been in the stor-
age room at the start of the party.
The projector was noticed miss-
ing at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 25.
— Col. Matthew Bogdanos, on ancient artifacts
the museum provided obstacles to
the team, inside the complex, Bog-
danos discovered that some of the
world’s most valued and ancient
artifacts had either been damaged
or looted.
“Our stor y is about the impor-
tance of preserving and protecting
histor y, not just about pieces of
alabaster,” Bogdanos told a packed
Smith-Buonanno 106 Tuesday eve-
ning.
Bogdanos, now a homicide pros-
ecutor for the New York County
district attorney’s of fice, spoke
On Feb. 2, DPS was informed that
the projector had been found in a
janitorial closet.
Saturday, Jan. 31
9:13 p.m. A student reported that
his iPhone was taken while he was
working out at the Olney-Margolies
Athletic Center. He stated that at
5:30 p.m. he placed his phone in
a red bin by the center basketball
courts. When he returned he no-
ticed the phone was missing.
Sunday, Feb. 1
12:10 p.m. A student reported
that sometime between Dec.19 and
Feb. 2, the bike pump attached to
her bike was taken from the bike
room in Barbour Hall.
Monday, Feb. 2
4:06 p.m. Complainant stated
that at approximately 3 p.m. she
left her jacket at a desk area in the
Rockefeller Library and went to the
computer area. When she returned
to the desk area at approximately 4
p.m. her jacket was gone.
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Frederic Lu / Herald
about his experiences dealing with
the illegal trade of artifacts looted
from the museum and discussed
his book, “Thieves of Baghdad.”
Throughout the lecture, Bogda-
nos quoted Shakespeare and paced
around the room while recounting
his experiences in the Middle East.
“I could a tale unfold whose lightest
word would harrow up the soul,”
Bogdanos said, quoting “Hamlet”
at the beginning of the lecture.
Bogdanos said the saddest part
continued on page 4
Wednesday, Feb. 4
1:08 p.m. A laptop was stolen
from an unlocked office on the third
floor of the Pizzitola Sports Center.
A possible suspect had asked an
employee for some information. The
male suspect declined to go with the
employee into his office to retrieve
the information and waited in the
hall. When the employee returned
with the information the person was
gone. It was only minutes later that
another employee noticed the laptop
missing from his desk. The case is
under investigation by Brown Uni-
versity detectives.
10:02 p.m. Officer met with the
employee complainant who stated
that his car was broken into. He
parked his vehicle in the vicinity of
132 Bowen St. at approximately 11:30
a.m. with his GPS in the glove box.
When he returned to his vehicle at
approximately 10 p.m. he found the
passenger side window broken and
his GPS missing. Providence Police
responded to take the report. There
are no suspects at this time.
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The Brown Daily Herald
Ahmadinejad prepared Obama hits road to stress stimulus
to negotiate with U.S.
By Borzou Daragahi and
Ramin Mostaghim
Los Angeles Times
TEHRAN, Iran — In some of his
most conciliatory remarks to date,
Iran’s president Tuesday said Tehran
is prepared to talk with the United
States but gave no indication that
negotiations might yield changes
demanded by Washington to Iran’s
nuclear development policy and in
its support for militant groups op-
posed to Israel.
President Mahmoud Ahmadine-
jad, describing his nation as “a su-
perpower,” spoke at what observers
described as an unprecedentedly
large rally at Tehran’s Freedom
Square commemorating the 30th
anniversary of Iran’s Islamic revo-
lution.
He spoke just hours after Presi-
dent Obama told reporters at his
first news conference since taking
office that his administration “will be
looking for openings” with Iran that
“will allow us to move our policy” in
a new direction.
“It’s clear that the Iranian nation
will welcome genuine changes” to
U.S. policy, Ahmadinejad said in a
speech broadcast on national televi-
sion. “The Iranian nation is prepared
to talk. However, these talks should
be held in a fair atmosphere in which
there is mutual respect.”
In a Jan. 28 speech, Ahmadine-
jad said the U.S. would have to end
its support for Israel and apologize
for past alleged crimes before the
Islamic Republic would improve
ties with Washington. He made
no mention of such preconditions
Tuesday.
He criticized Israel and Iranian
opposition groups based abroad as
“terrorists,” but also said he was
willing to cooperate with the U.S.
on areas of mutual interest, includ-
ing fighting drug trafficking and
terrorism.
“If you truly want to fight terror-
ism, come and cooperate with the
Iranian nation, which is the main
victim of terrorism, so that terror-
ism is uprooted,” he said.
In a gesture hailed by Tehran,
the Obama administration recently
blacklisted as a terrorist organiza-
tion the Iraq-based Kurdish militant
group Pejak, which had been fight-
ing Iranian military forces for about
five years. Iranian and Iraqi officials
have said they suspected the group
was receiving covert U.S. aid under
the Bush administration.
At his news conference Monday
night, Obama urged Iran to stop its
financial support for Hezbollah and
Hamas and “to send some signals
that it wants to act differently.”
Observers here said a persis-
tent public media campaign as well
as furor over the recent Israeli of-
fensive against Hamas in the Gaza
Strip helped whip up public senti-
ment and attract the rally’s huge
crowds. Posters commemorating
the Gaza conflict as well as paint-
ings by schoolchildren and color-
ful banners lined nearly 10 miles of
roadways converging on Freedom
Square.
Large companies and govern-
ment agencies set up parade stands,
where they broadcast patriotic and
religious music as well as hip-hop-
inflected pop tunes and handed out
free juice and snacks to passersby.
The crowd included men in
traditional gray suits and women
enveloped in black chadors, as well
as young women in go-go boots and
form-fitting overcoats and teenagers
wearing blue jeans and brand-name
running shoes.
A man on a stage performing
something akin to a break dance
drew a group of black-clad Baseeji
militiamen.
“God is great!” the marchers
chanted. Ayatollah Ali “Khamenei
is our leader.”
By Peter Nicholas
Los Angeles T imes
FORT MYERS, Fla. — President
Obama, pressing the case for an
$800 billion-plus stimulus package,
acknowledged Tuesday that failing
to revive the economy could cost
him a second term as president.
Continuing his campaign-style
tour of struggling cities, Obama
spoke to about 1,500 people here
Tuesday, warning that the stimulus
bill should not become a casualty
of Washington infighting.
“We can’t afford to posture and
bicker and resort to the same failed
ideas that got us into this mess in
the first place,” said Obama, who
was introduced by Florida’s Re-
publican governor, Charlie Crist.
“That’s what the election was about.
You rejected many of those ideas,
because you know they didn’t work.
You didn’t send us to Washington
because you were hoping for more
of the same.”
In a rare bit of theater, Obama
shared with the crowd a piece of
fresh information, handed to him
by personal aide Reggie Love mid-
way through the event.
“By the way,” the president said,
“I just want to announce that the
Senate just passed our recover y
and reinvestment plan. That’s good.
That’s good news!”
The audience clapped, but the
stock market wasn’t as kind to the
Obama administration’s economic
policies. Stocks fell sharply on the
day, with losses mounting after
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner
rolled out a separate rescue plan
tailored for the financial sector.
Bogdanos speaks about Baghdad’s stolen artifacts
continued from page 3
of his stor y was that histor y was
somehow being erased by war.
“Prior to the Iraq war, the mu-
seum had been closed for 20 of the
past 24 years –– the average Iraqi
did not agree that this museum was
theirs. They called it ‘Saddam’s gift
shop,’” Bogdanos said.
What made the looting particu-
larly difficult for the archeologi-
cal community to accept was that
many of the items in the “gift shop”
were some of the oldest historical
artifacts known to humanity, he
said. During the lecture, Bogda-
nos showed images of some of the
missing treasures, like the Mask
of Warka — the first known depic-
tion of the human face in stone,
dating back to 3100 B.C. — and
the treasures of Nimrud and Ur,
which he said “made the treasure
of King Tut look like it was from
Wal-Mart.”
For Bogdanos, the looting he
encountered in the museum was
only a part of the greater problem
of what he termed “global looting.”
The looting in the museum was
only part of the larger chain of the
illegal international trade that he
said ends in major auction houses
and private collections of individu-
als who “have wings of museums
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 | Page 4
The Senate and House still must
resolve differences over the stimu-
lus before the president can sign
the bill into law.
Thrown on the defensive by
Republican charges that the bill is
laden with pork, Obama has tried
to shift the spotlight to people who
urgently need government assis-
tance. Monday, he visited Elkhart,
Ind., a city whose unemployment
rate has tripled in the past year to
15 percent. The Fort Myers region
has been ravaged by home foreclo-
sures, while unemployment has
hit 10 percent. On Thursday, the
president is scheduled to take his
message to Peoria, Ill.
As was the case in Indiana,
Obama received a raucous
welcome. In inter views, some
voiced unhappiness that a few
of Obama’s Cabinet choices had
failed to pay all their taxes. But
they voiced support for the stimu-
lus and said they wanted Obama
to succeed.
“I was a little disappointed by
some of the picks for his adminis-
tration, but people make mistakes,”
said Ann Tetreault, 62, a retired
nurse. “People need to give him a
little bit more support right now. He
can’t do it all in a couple of days.”
While Obama enjoys a high ap-
proval rating, he said those num-
bers would collapse if the compli-
cated and costly economic plans he
has put forward failed to work.
Obama asked people to be pa-
tient. He said a recover y could
take years. At that, someone in the
crowd shouted: “You have eight.”
Obama laughed. “For our TV au-
dience, someone said I had eight,”
named after them,” he said.
For Bogdanos, the greatest
challenge to locating these stolen
items is being able to verify which
items that appear in auction houses
are in fact stolen.
“This is just a global criminal
enterprise that is oftentimes hard
to track and verify,” Bogdanos
said.
Bogdanos and his team encoun-
tered three examples of looting
of historical artifacts in Baghdad.
CAMPUS NEWS
The first occurred in the museum’s
main galleries, where sophisticated
looters bypassed the imitations and
directly sought out the most valu-
able pieces.
The second instance was ran-
dom theft by looters who were not
“professionals.” In these instances,
over 95 percent of the stolen pieces
were recovered.
The third instance was “inside
jobs” perpetrated by the museum’s
senior staff, Bogdanos said.
Returning the artifacts to their
rightful place became more impor-
tant to him than punishing the loot-
ers, Bogdanos said. To this end, he
began an amnesty program under
which those who returned looted
items would not be prosecuted.
he said.
But Obama said he was under no
illusions that his popularity could
withstand a prolonged downturn.
“If stuf f hasn’t worked and
people don’t feel like I’ve led the
country in the right direction, then
you’ll have a new president,” he
said.
Obama previewed a plan for
staving off home foreclosures.
In the next few weeks, he said he
would lay out a proposal in which
banks and homeowners agree to
certain concessions meant to avoid
foreclosure.
Banks would commit not to evict
certain homeowners but in turn
would receive a share of equity in
the house once the market recov-
ered and prices rose.
Under such an arrangement,
“both sides are giving a little bit,
but you aver t foreclosure,” the
president said.
Though he is of fering the
grimmest picture of the economy
at these forums, Obama is doing
it in free-wheeling fashion. When
a woman became emotional tell-
ing him she had no home, Obama
walked toward her, shook her hand
and leaned in to hug her. He prom-
ised to have his staff talk to her
afterward.
The president also tried to en-
courage a student who said he was
working at McDonald’s and needed
better benefits. Obama asked what
he was studying, and in a boister-
ous tone, the man said he wanted to
be either a DJ or a broadcaster.
“Well, you sound like you’ve got
a good communications skill,” the
president said.
“We just want to bring the
missing items back, no questions
asked,” Bogdanos said. “We started
out going to ever y mosque, and
we found support at ever y turn
–– every sheik and imam helped. It
really was a testament to the unify-
ing power of the antiquities.”
In order to gain the trust of
some of his sources, Bogdanos
said, he had to “learn the rhythm
of the neighborhood” by traveling
to Baghdad teahouses and playing
many games of backgammon.
Through his amnesty program,
almost 2,000 pieces have been re-
turned, he said.
For Bogdanos, the search for
the remaining stolen artifacts in
Iraq is an ongoing challenge. For
instance, the scale of looting at ar-
cheological sites in the Middle East
dwarfs that at museums, he said.
Bogdanos said it is important
for the public to be aware of global
looting, and, specifically, the loot-
ing of some of the priceless an-
cient artifacts from the National
Museum of Iraq.
Bogdanos signed copies of his
book after the lecture, which was
sponsored by the Joukowsky Insti-
tute for Archaeology and the An-
cient World. Proceeds from sales
of the book benefit the National
Museum.
 Higher Ed
The Brown Daily Herald
Alums ask Harvard to retract bonuses
By Nicole Dungca
Staf f Writer
A group of 10 Har vard University
alums recently asked their alma
mater to take back over $20 million
in bonuses awarded to the money
managers of its endowment, calling
their compensation “exorbitant”
and “unnecessar y” in a letter to
Har vard President Drew Faust.
Reacting to a December 2008
announcement about the endow-
ment’s 30 percent projected loss
this fiscal year, the alums from the
class of 1969 also insisted that Har-
vard reconsider its compensation
policy for Har vard Management
Company employees.
In the Jan. 10 letter, the alums
urged Har vard to “put its financial
house in order” and offered several
People U. brings college to the masses
By Ellen Cushing
Senior Staf f Writer
Imagine getting a bachelor’s degree
for less money than a semesters’
worth of books at Brown.
The University of the People,
an online degree-granting non-
profit opening its virtual doors this
spring, will do just that.
The organization is the brain-
child of California-based Israeli
entrepreneur Shai Reshef, who is
currently chairman of a Web site
offering online homework help to
high school students.
Reshef said the idea grew from
his years working in the online
education sector.
“I found out how strong online
communities can be,” he said. “I
thought, ‘Let’s take this great tool
recommendations, including a pol-
icy that would ensure that bonuses
awarded are based on increased
annual income for the university
rather than the total value of the
school’s endowment.
The letter from the alums also
requested a endowment manager
pay cap equitable to the president’s
salar y, as well as a discussion to
“redefine the values and objectives
that should guide the endowment’s
investment policies.”
At Harvard, bonuses are award-
ed through a performance-based
system that relies on market index
benchmarks, University spokes-
man John Longbrake wrote in an
e-mail to The Herald. The bonuses
are paid out over time and are sub-
ject to “clawback provisions” if
future performances do not meet
of the online study communities
and bring them into academia.’”
According to its Web site, the
organization will cap enrollment
at 300 students in its first semes-
ter and will initially of fer only
two degrees, a Bachelor of Arts
in Business Administration and a
Bachelor of Science in Computer
Science. Students will pay applica-
tion fees between $15 and $50 and
assessment fees between $10 and
$100, depending on their home
countries.
“The idea is, if you’re coming
from a poor country in Africa, you’ll
only be paying $15 for admission
and $10 for exams,” Reshef said.
Reshef and other donors will
provide the startup funding of $5
million. The organization will be
self-sustaining when it reaches its
“We didn’t see how we could justify these bonuses when
tuition was going up.” — David Kaiser, Harvard alumnus
benchmarks, he wrote.
“The compensation system is
reviewed periodically by the Board,
which remains confident that it
is appropriate and has saved sig-
nificant money for the university,
relative to the costs of external
investment management,” Long-
brake wrote.
In December, the Harvard Man-
agement Company released figures
that showed its five highest-paid
employees collectively earned
nearly $27 million in salar y and
bonuses during the fiscal year
that ended last June. During that
same fiscal year, Harvard enjoyed a
growth of about 8.6 percent overall,
while the S&P 500 dropped 13.1
percent.
continued on page 6
enrollment goal of 10,000 students,
Reshef said.
“On a personal level, I felt that
after the last 20 years in the field
of for-profit education, it’s my turn
to give rather than take,” Reshef
said.“We want to reach every single
place on earth.”
Reshef said the courses will
have virtual classrooms, which will
bring together 20 students from
around the world ever y week to
read and discuss course materi-
als. Graduate students and retired
continued on page 6
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 | Page 5
higher ed in brief
Dartmouth to cut 60 staff jobs
Dartmouth announced a budget reconciliation plan to
cut $72 million from its $700 million operating budget by
2011, according to a Monday press release. The reduc-
tions include $47 million from the budget for undergradu-
ate education.
As part of the plan — which reduces the operating bud-
get by about 10 percent — Dartmouth will lay off 60 staff
members. Last month, an additional 70 staff members ac-
cepted retirement offers, according to the press release.
Another 28 staff employees will have reduced hours.
The layoff package will include two weeks’ pay for each
consecutive year worked at Dartmouth, as well as a sti-
pend that goes to health benefits for three months, career
counseling and consideration as internal candidates for
any open position.
Tenured and tenure-track positions will not be eliminat-
ed, but the school will freeze most salaries for the 2010
fiscal year. Exceptions will be made for faculty who receive
promotions or tenure.
“Approving these reductions, especially those affecting
staff employees, has been one of the most difficult deci-
sions of my presidency, but they are necessary to maintain
Dartmouth’s strength,” wrote Dartmouth President James
Wright in a letter to the school community on Monday.
Despite the staff cuts, Dartmouth will increase its fi-
nancial aid budget by 13 percent, though it will also raise
tuition by 4.8 percent.
The school will not change its newly expanded financial
aid policy, which offers free tuition to students of families
earning $75,000 per year or less.
Dartmouth has already instituted an external hiring
freeze and delayed construction and reorganizing proj-
ects.
We all regret the impact these reductions will have on
our colleagues,” Wright wrote. “I am confident (however)
that with these changes Dartmouth is positioned well for
the future.”
— Gaurie Tilak
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H igher E d
Online university boasts its accessibility
continued from page 5
and working professors world-
wide will prepare the lectures and
hold virtual office hours. Some
staf f will be paid, while others
will volunteer.
“Quite a few (U. People
professors) are going to come
from well-known universities,”
Reshef said.
The response to the initiative
has been positive so far.
“We didn’t expect so many peo-
ple offering help in such a short
period of time,” Reshef said, add-
ing that he has received numer-
ous e-mails from academics.
The organization joins a thriv-
ing world of online education.
In addition to the University of
Phoenix and Kaplan University,
which have Web-based degree
programs, many traditional col-
leges and universities have made
course materials available on the
Internet. Numerous colleges offer
lectures on iTunes U., and the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology has an Open CourseWare
initiative that puts most of the
school’s course material online
free of charge.
Michael Pickett, Brown’s chief
information officer, said the or-
ganization is consistent with the
broader goals of higher educa-
tion.
“Part of the mission of all uni-
versities is to share information
and to share discoveries with the
world,” Pickett said.
But he expressed some con-
cerns about the efficacy of online
learning.
“You can obviously get a de-
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“There really is no comparison and no competition.”
— Shai Reshef, founder, University of the People
gree online — hundreds of thou-
sands of people do it,” Pickett
said. “I personally am skeptical at
this point that people would come
away with the same knowledge,
the same relationships and the
same ability to dig for solutions,”
provided by a traditional college
education.
But Pickett also said that dis-
tance-learning ventures such as
the University of the People serve
a different purpose than tradition-
al institutions like Brown.
“It’s a dif ferent kind of stu-
dent,” he said, noting that high
tuition costs force many people to
use cheaper online alternatives.
Reshef agreed his orga-
nization aims to ser ve the
underprivileged.
“There really is no comparison
and no competition” between it
and other schools, he said, adding
that his target students “have no
alternative.”
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Harvard alums protest bonuses
of school’s endowment managers
continued from page 5
Since ending the 2007-2008 fis-
cal year with $36.9 billion, Har-
vard’s endowment has dropped
approximately 22 percent from July
1 to October 31, according to a De-
cember letter written by Faust.
David Kaiser, one of the signa-
tories of the letter, was a part of a
smaller group that sent a similar
complaint in 2003, criticizing the
compensation of over $100 million
for the six highest-paid employ-
ees at the Har vard Management
Company.
The 2003 protest came partly in
reaction to the news of increasing
tuitions, Kaiser said.
“We were concer ned with
simple equity and whether funds
of non-profits should be used to
enrich private individuals to this
extent,” Kaiser said.
“We didn’t see how we could
justify these bonuses when tuition
was going up.”
The uproar led to a pay cap that
significantly lowered the amount of
money awarded to the top money
managers within the company.
Kaiser said he would not specu-
late as to whether Har vard would
make any immediate changes in
response to the current complaint,
particularly whether it would re-
tract investment managers’ bo-
nuses.
The spiraling economy has add-
ed a new dimension to the protest
this time, Kaiser said, coinciding
with a similar request from the cur-
rent administration for pay caps for
firms receiving bailout money.
“Major financial institutions
have been extravagantly reward-
ing people for behavior that has
been causing a great deal of harm,
and we want to see that stop,”
said Kaiser.
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The Brown Daily Herald

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 | Page 7

W. hoopsters drop two at home

By Nicole Stock
Spor ts Staf f Writer
The women’s basketball team ended
its five-game home stand by drop-
ping two games this weekend to
Ivy League
Dartmouth 58 rivals.
Brown 27 T h e
Bears were
held to their
Harvard 71 lowest point
Brown 46
total of the
season in
a loss to Dartmouth, 58-27, then
dropped a 71-46 game to Har-
vard.
On Friday night, the Big Green
of Dartmouth had the Bears (3-17,
1-5) on their heels right from the
tip-off. An early 8-0 run by the Big
Green put the Bears in a hole early
in the game from which they would
never recover.
Dartmouth continued to get to
the hoop and make easy layups,
capitalizing on Brown’s mistakes
to force turnovers and create easy
transition points.
The Big Green built on their
lead to take a 25-10 advantage into
halftime. Going into the second
half, the Bears wanted to turn the
game around.
“Obviously we wanted to im-
prove our shooting percentage,
but we also wanted to continue our
defensive intensity, because we
held Dartmouth to only 25 points
in the first half,” Natalie Bonds
’10 said.
Against Dartmouth, Brown was
missing the inside game of former
Herald Sports Editor Amy Erhart
’09 against Dartmouth, who was
out of town.
The second half proved to be
more of the same, as Dartmouth
jumped out to a 34-16 lead just five
minutes into the half. Brown con-
tinued to struggle on the offensive
end of the court, and Dartmouth
extended its lead with a 12-0 run.
Down 46-18 with just under nine
minutes left in the game, Brown
was unable to get back in it.
The Bears cut the lead to 25,
but that was as close as it would
get. Bonds ended the game with
a career-high seven blocks, and
also contributed seven points and
four rebounds.
“Her play was tremendous and
inspirational,” Head Coach Jean
Burr said. ‘‘She played hard the
whole game.”
The Big Green’s Meghan
McFee had 14 points and 10 re-
bounds, while teammate Darcy
Rose chipped in with 11 points.
“We really struggled scoring.
We moved the ball well and broke
the press well, but struggled finish-
ing,” Burr said. “We needed to be
aggressive on the attack when the
defense broke down. When they
(made) a mistake, we needed to
pounce on them.”
“We played their tempo and
lacked aggressiveness,” she said.
The following evening, Brown
faced the same challenge against
Har vard. The Crimson came out
strong, but the Bears matched
them for the first eight minutes
of play. Brown shot 40 percent
from the field, giving the Bears
the lead in the game’s opening
seven minutes.
Har vard pulled away in the last
12 minutes of the first half, going
on a 15-0 run to take a 27-12 lead
with just under five minutes left in
the frame. Harvard held the Bears
to just five points in the final 12
minutes of the period while con-
tinuing to shoot well from the field
and force turnovers, which helped
them build on their lead going into
the locker room.
“We must move for ward from
droughts and cannot afford to have
those letdowns defensively,” Burr
said. “We must continue to be ag-
gressive ever y single possession.
Against Har vard, our weak side
Justin Coleman / Herald File Photo
continued on page 8 Shae Fitzpatrick battles Harvard in a 71-46 loss to the Crimson.

Bears have mixed Wrestling wins one, loses two on road

results over weekend
By Andrew Braca
Spor ts Editor
A full slate of competition for the
Brown sports teams last week and
this weekend ended with mixed
results.
Women’s tennis
The Bears lost to Boston Col-
lege, 5-2, on Thursday in Wey-
mouth, Mass., to drop their re-
cord to 3-1.
Bianca Aboubakare ’11 teamed
with sister Carissa Aboubakare
’12 to win at No. 1 doubles, se-
curing Brown’s lone doubles
victor y, before steamrolling the
69th-ranked player in the country,
Lana Krasnopolsky, 6-3, 6-1, at
No. 1 singles. Catherine Stew-
art ’12 picked up the other point
for Bruno with a win at No. 6
singles.
The Bears will compete at the
ECAC Team Tournament from
Friday through Sunday in Ha-
nover, N.H.
Women’s swimming and
diving
In their lone “home” meet
of the season, held on Saturday
at Wheaton College in Norton,
Mass., the Bears trounced Cor-
nell, 179.5-112.5, to even their Ivy
League record to 3-3. Brown won
the first 13 events, many of which
featured multiple Bears in the top
three spots.
Natascha Mangan ’11 led
Brown with three total victories.
She teamed with Bridget Ballard
’10, Jamie Firth ’12 and Candice
Sisouvanvieng-Kim ’11 to open
the meet by triumphing in the 200
medley relay in a time of 1:50.64.
In addition, she won the 200 fly
and 100 fly in times of 2:08.80 and
58.75, respectively.
Two other swimmers picked
up individual wins. Bailey Lang-
ner ’10 dominated the breast-
stroke, posting a time of 1:10.03
to win the 100 and finishing in
2:28.29 to take the 200. Kristen
Caldarella ’12 won two legs of the
free, securing the 200 in 1:55.17
and the 100 in 53:24.
Three more Bears contin-
ued Brown’s control of the free.
Allyson Schumacher ’12 posted a
time of 10:22.08 to lead the field
in the 1000, Sisouvanvieng-Kim
won the 50 in 24.64 and Ainsley
McFadgen ’09 finished in 5:09.56
to take the 500.
Brown won two backstroke
races, as Sage Erskine ’11 se-
cured the 100 in 59.93 and Kel-
ley Wisinger ’11 placed first in
the 200 with a time of 2:06.78.
Katie Olko ’10 won Bruno’s only
diving title in the one-meter with
a score of 258.75.
The Bears will travel to New
Haven on Sunday to take on
Yale.
continued on page 8
By Katie Wood
Assistant Spor ts Editor
The wrestling team (3-9) battled
through three matches on Satur-
day as it traveled to Penn (10-5)
to face the host team and Drexel
and then journeyed to Princeton.
The Bears lost the first two meets,
posting only five individual wins.
The team overcame the two losses
and finished off the day with a solid
win at Princeton.
After two weeks of practice
since its last meet, Brown opened
with a 10-3 win from Greg Einfrank
’10 at 125 pounds to take an early
3-0 lead on Drexel. But from that
point on, the Bears’ fortunes went
south as the Dragons rattled off
wins in the next five bouts. Eli
Harris ’09 fell short in a tough 5-3
loss at 133 pounds, followed by
an 8-4 loss in Grant Overcashier’s
’12 match at the 141 weight-pound
class.
Dave Foxen ’11 (149), Br yan
Tracy ’10 (157) and co-captain
Chris Musser ’09 (165) each fell
by three points or fewer before
Bran Crudden ’10 ended Bruno’s
losing streak with a 13-10 win at
174 pounds. Co-captain Matthew
Gevelinger ’09 carried the momen-
tum into his match at 184 pounds,
holding off his opponent for a 2-1
win to bring the score to within
six (15-9).
But it was too late, and the
Bears could not win the final two
matchups. Branden Stearns ’09
(197) and Zach Zdrada ’09 (heavy-
weight) fell 13-6 and 4-2, respec-
tively, as Drexel claimed the 21-9
opening-dual win over Brown.
The day had only just begun
for the Bears, who still had to face
Penn and Princeton.
“It’s not easy to wrestle three in
a row, but it will certainly help us
for the end of the season,” Crud-
den said. “We’ve been training the
whole season to wrestle multiple
times in a row — like at the (East-
ern Intercollegiate Wrestling As-
sociation) tournament.”
The Bears did not have to
leave the gym to face their next
opponent — the Penn Quakers.
Einfrank, Harris and Overcashier
fell in order before Ricky Bailey ’11
held on to win a close 5-3 decision
at 149 pounds. The Quakers then
went on to win the next three bouts
over Tracy, Lenny Marandino ’09
(165) and Crudden, out-scoring
the Bears 13-0 to solidify their 24-3
lead.
Gevelinger posted his second
win of the day for the Bears, tak-
ing his match into overtime before
coming out on top with a 6-4 vic-
tor y. But Stearns fell at 4:27 and
Zdrada could not finish out his
match in the heavyweight class,
as the referee called a medical
decision with the score already
at 17-4.
Brown managed only two wins
over Penn, falling by a score of
34-6. With one more team left on
their agenda, the Bears felt more
focused and approached the dual
meet with Princeton as a “take-
care-of-business” match, according
to Crudden.
“Coach (Dave) Amato let us
know that we shouldn’t accept the
loss at Penn but shouldn’t dwell on
it either,” he said. “We couldn’t go
into the Princeton match thinking
about Penn if we expected to come
together as a team.”
Amato spoke, and the team re-
sponded with a sound effort, losing
only one bout the rest of the day.
Einfrank ended the day as he
began it, earning a fall at 2:47. The
Tigers had a hard time filling their
lightweight spots, as T.J. Popolizio
’12 stepped on the mat for the first
time of the day and came off as fast
as he got there. Popolizio (133) and
Overcashier (141) each recorded
wins by forfeit.
Tom Fazio ’09, Musser and
Cr udden provided three more
wins before Princeton halted the
momentum to score its first points.
Gevelinger could not pull out his
third win of the day, as he fell in a
tough 4-2 loss. Leo Saniuk ’09 and
Stearns finished off the dual for
the Bears in the heavier weights,
nearly sweeping the Tigers, 41-3.
With the win, Brown picked up its
first EIAW victor y of the year.
The Bears will travel to Bos-
ton this weekend, their last road
trip of the season, to take on
Boston University, Har vard and
Wagner before facing Columbia
and No. 3 Cornell at home the
following weekend.
“Hopefully we’ll go into Boston
and come away with three wins
— heading in the right path go-
ing into the end of the season,”
Crudden said.
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S ports W ednesday “We must move forward from droughts.”

— Jean Burr, women’s basketball coach

Fencers struggle against Ivy foes

continued from page 7
Men’s swimming and diving
The men joined the women
at Wheaton on Saturday but did
not fare as well, falling to Cor-
nell, 170-120, to drop their re-
cord to 1-6 overall and 1-5 in the
Ivy League.
CJ Kambe ’10 and Ryan Ki-
kuchi ’11 led the Bears with two
wins apiece. Kambe won the
one-meter dive with a score of
275.10 and scored 268.80 to take
the three-meter dive. Kikuchi tri-
umphed in the 200 back (1:53.64)
and 200 IM (1:54.26).
Bruno picked up a relay win
in the 400 free when Tucker
Wetmore ’10, Daniel Ricketts
’09, Richard Alexander ’09 and
John Gayton ’12 posted a time of
3:07.84.
The men will also face Yale on
Sunday in New Haven.
Women’s track and field
Ten Bears posted top-three
finishes at the Gigengack Invita-
tional on Saturday in New Haven.
The meet, hosted by Yale, was not
scored for team performance.
Brown swept the top three
spots in the 1000-meter run. Sa-
mantha Adelberg ’11 won the race
in 2:48.48, Kesley Ramsey ’11 took
second in 2:50.45 and Roseanne
Fleming ’12 followed 0.42 seconds
behind.
Danielle Grunloh ’10 won the
shot-put with a 14.06-meter toss,
while Br ynn Smith ’11 followed
in second with a throw of 13.89
meters. Nicole Burns ’09 secured
Brown’s third win of the meet
with a time of 24.95 in the 200-
meter dash.
Three other Bears took sec-
ond. Susan Scavone ’12 finished
the 60-meter hurdles in 8.97,
Lucy Higgins ’11 posted a time
of 1:16.18 in the 500-meter dash
and Anja Hergrueter ’10 leapt 1.60
meters in the high jump.
The Bears will travel to the
Armor y Track in New York on
Saturday.
Men’s track and field
The men followed the women’s
success at the Gigengack by post-
ing seven top-three finishes of
their own.
Three Bears placed second.
Jordan Maddocks ’11 cleared 1.99
meters in the high jump, Matthew
Jasmin ’09 finished the 60-meter
hurdles in 8.21 seconds and Marc
Howland ’11 ran the 60-meter dash
in 6.93.
Bruno secured four third-place
finishes. Andrew Chapin ’10 tallied
45-09.00 feet in the triple jump,
Br yan Powlen ’10 threw 51-09.25
in the shot-put, Anthony Schurz
’12 finished the 800-meter run in
1:55.28 and Duriel Hardy ’10 ran
the 3000-meter race in 8:19.95.
The men will also compete in
New York this weekend.
Women’s squash
The No. 9 Bears were flattened
by No. 5 Yale in New Haven on
Friday and No. 6 Cornell in Ithaca,
N.Y., on Saturday by identical 9-0
scores.
Charlotte MacMillan ’09 lost
in five games to Yale at No. 8
singles, while Sarah Roberts ’10
pushed her Cornell opponent to
five games before falling at No. 9
singles. Bruno hosted Tufts yes-
terday at the Pizzitola Center.
Men’s squash
The No. 15 men fared no better
than the women over the week-
end, also falling, 9-0, to No. 3 Yale
and No. 4 Cornell. No Bear was
able to stave of f a three-game Justin Coleman / Herald
sweep. The men also faced Tufts The Bears lost to Harvard, 71-46, and Dartmouth, 58-27, this weekend.

yesterday.

Fencing
The Bears struggled on Sun-
day at the Ivy No. 1 competition
held at Columbia. The men went
1-2, while the women failed to win
any of their four matches.
The men began with a 14-13
win over Yale. Steven Ellis ’10
and Peter Tyson ’12 both went
3-0 with the saber to propel Brown
to an early 7-2 lead. Adam Pantel
’10 posted a 3-0 record with the
foil to lead Bruno to a 5-4 record
in that categor y and a 12-6 over-
all lead, giving the Bears enough
points to sur vive a 7-2 defeat in
the epee. But Columbia posted a
19-8 win and Penn won, 21-6, to
prevent the men from building on
their early success.
The women were not able to
match the men, despite an extra
matchup against Cornell, which
ended in a 17-10 loss. Charlotte
Rose ’09 posted a 3-0 record with
the saber to help Brown to an
early 6-3 lead over Yale, but the
Bulldogs pulled away by outscor-
ing the Bears, 15-3, in the foil and
epee. Columbia and Penn closed
out the day for the women with
identical 23-4 drubbings.
The Bears will take a weekend
off from competition before host-
ing the Ivy No. 2 on Feb. 22.
W. hoops losing skid hits
five after 0-2 weekend
continued from page 7
didn’t rotate aggressively and they
took advantage.”
Har vard shot 48 percent from
the field and 36 percent from be-
yond the arc in the first half.
The Bears looked to pick it up
in the second half with aggres-
sive defense and better looks at
the basket.
“It was important for us that
we played intense defense right
from the start of the second half,”
Grace said. “Also, we focused in
on running plays that would cre-
ate stronger takes to the basket so
that we could get to the foul line
more. We were able to get a lot of
looks to the basket but our shots
just weren’t falling.”
Although Brown had a chance
to regroup at the half, the Harvard
attack continued in the second half
— the Crimson built a 27-point lead
just minutes in. Sadiea Williams ’11
and Grace each scored a team-high
10 points to tr y to keep the Bears
in the game. Williams also had a
team-high six rebounds.
“I was fortunate enough to get
my points in various areas — threes,
lay-ups and foul shots,” Grace said.
“It always feels good to get shots
in different ways because you feel
like more of an offensive threat for
your team. I just tried to play really
aggressive throughout the game
and take what the defense was
giving me.”
They both contributed to the
Bears’ offense, cutting the Harvard
lead to 18 points, but that would
be as close as Bruno would get.
Har vard regained control in the
second part of the half and strolled
to a 71-46 win. The Crimson had
four players in double digits, led by
Brogan Berr y with 17 points.
The Bears will be on the road
next weekend as they take on two
more league opponents, Penn and
Princeton, and look to break their
current five-game skid.
“We match up well with both
teams’ inside game and guards,”
Burr said. “I think our first step is
quicker, so we must continue to
work on attacking the basket and
finishing.”

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Excoriated choice
As of this fall, applicants who take the SAT more than once will be able
to send only their top scores to schools under a College Board policy called
Score Choice. Brown will honor the policy, Dean of Admission James Miller
’73 confirmed. We commend the decision.
Score Choice will make life easier for many applicants. The policy rec-
ognizes that test-takers may earn an atypically bad SAT score for a number
of reasons. An aberrant low score does not accurately reflect an applicant’s
true potential and should not make the difference between acceptance and
rejection. Score Choice is consistent with existing admissions policies at
Brown. Students taking the ACT have been able to send selected scores
for years, and the University calculates an applicant’s overall SAT score
by adding the best individual sections from multiple tests. For Brown and
many other universities, Score Choice represents a minor departure from
current practice.
Yet several other universities, including Cornell, Stanford, Yale and the
University of Pennsylvania, have resisted the policy by asking applicants to carly hudelson
submit all of their scores. Score Choice’s critics worry that it advantages
wealthier students who know more about the admissions process and can
afford to take the SAT multiple times. But by forbidding Score Choice, these
universities deter promising prospects of all backgrounds from applying. l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r s
The most common objections to Score Choice don’t hold up. Regard-
ing socioeconomic concerns about the policy, Miller noted that Office of
Admission considers how an applicant’s scores are affected by “opportunity, Master’s students deserve first pick as TAs
access to test preparation and the family’s economic circumstances.” Fee
waivers are also available for low-income applicants. Score Choice could
actually benefit some middle-class applicants who haven’t spent thousands of To the Editor: absurd given that my department, American Civiliza-
dollars on SAT prep and are therefore more likely to obtain a low score. tion, is one of the hardest hit by the shortage. To see
Even the SAT’s most fervent critics have something to gain from Score With regards to the editorial “Undergrads can these positions offered to undergraduates rather than
Choice, as the policy makes the SAT less meaningful. When admissions solve TA crunch” (Feb. 5): The Herald weakens its to my classmates and myself would be, quite honestly,
officers can’t figure out how many times an applicant has taken the SAT, argument for expanding the practice of employing nothing short of unreasonable.
those 800s carry less weight. The editorial page board welcomes this undergraduates as TAs by failing to acknowledge that I recognize that the number of master’s students
change. While we do not think that the University should make the SAT not all graduate students are even given the option to and the fact that not each department has a terminal
optional, we regret the test’s importance given its potential biases and work as TAs. Until this is the case, these jobs should master’s program means that this might not completely
limited scope. A few fateful hours filling in bubbles reveals much less than not be readily extended to undergraduates, no matter solve the TA shortage. However, if the University
a four-year academic record. how qualified they are. is going to consider using undergraduates as TAs
I am talking about master’s students. The Graduate without tapping into the pool of talent that exists in
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The myth of the ‘Brown student’
SEAN QUIGLEY
Opinions Columnist
In a manner rife with self-satisfaction, The Her-
ald editorial page board has now fashioned it-
self as the arbiter of what constitutes the “true
Brown.” Claiming the right to pass judgment
on the ideological purity of many social activi-
ties, in a recent editorial the petulant editorial
page board wrote, “This is Brown University,
a member of the prestigious Ivy League and
a veritable bastion of feminism, in the year
2009” (“To The 2011 Class Board,” Feb. 3).
Well, editorial page board, I am a Brown
student, yet not a feminist. Many of my friends
at Brown, and a good number of my acquain-
tances, are likewise not feminists. My brother,
an ’05 alum of Brown, would bristle at being
labeled a feminist.
Are we not welcome here? Does our failure
to conform to the editorial page board’s expec-
tations of The Brown Student make us traitors
to Brunonia, rebels to our alma mater?
When not pretending to be left-wing de-
fenders of Civilization, they probably do re-
gard us as misfits, unwelcome in their alleged
progressive enclave. That Brown was found-
ed, and existed for most of its history, on the
principles of industrious, dissenting Baptists
seems unimportant to them. Brown apparent-
ly is what they say it is.
They arrogantly disregard the legacy of
Brown’s hallowed dead, and thoughts of the
very students now attending the College, so
as to ram their leveling fanaticism down the
Michael
Fitzpatrick
Opinions Columnist
Thank goodness for being warned.
I’m talking, of course, about room inspec-
tions. Who indeed would pass room inspec-
tions if not for the obligatory forewarning
from the Office of Residential Life?
Everyone knows why there are rules
against candles, alcohol, halogen lamps and
unsafe power strips. The rules fall into two
categories: Either they reinforce the already
obvious prohibition of illegal substances or
they prohibit items and practices that might
cause University residential housing to go
up in smoke.
I’d venture to guess that, excluding those
of us who have been living under rocks (or
the Rock, perhaps), everyone knows some-
one who has broken these rules. Sadly, this
holds true just about everywhere, including
the substance-free floor of Perkins.
In some respects, the University is show-
ing us a great deal of leniency solely by giv-
ing us several days of warning before actu-
ally conducting inspections. It gives us, the
residents, plenty of time to tidy up our living
quarters. What could be more embarrassing
for a host or hostess than having your home
in less-than-respectable condition when
guests are knocking at your door?
Oh, and there’s the chore of sweeping our
dirty little secrets under the rug (which, I’m
throats of every living soul. More illiberal and
intolerant they could not be.
To disagree, and to act benignly in accor-
dance with one’s own understanding of the
proper, is deemed distasteful, per their nar-
row-minded view of the socially acceptable.
The editorial page board excoriates the 2011
Class Board, along with many other members
of the Brown student body, simply because
their understanding of appropriateness does
not include a whiny, puritanical and ahistori-
cal construction — a construction which is, to
Be not surprised when the non-moralists
compare the social enjoyment of supposedly
tawdry activities with the editorial’s sweeping
condemnations and decide that the former is
more appealing.
boot, littered with farcical notions of perpetual
progress.
I say: Be not surprised when the non-mor-
alists compare the social enjoyment of sup-
posedly tawdry activities with the editorial’s
sweeping condemnations and decide that the
former is more appealing.
The divisive religious radicals of the early-
to mid-17th century, whom we often dispar-
agingly reference as the Puritans, adhered
to the same sort of abstract, unempirical and
controlling ideology that the editorial page
board so proudly professed in a recent edito-
rial. They sought to erect a Kingdom of Heav-
We didn’t start the fire
told, the inspectors are not allowed to lift).
As courteous as this practice is, I simply
don’t understand how the University can
hope to achieve its desired goal — to “keep
the residential environment at Brown a safe
and healthy one for all residents” — if it in-
sists on giving us a fair warning. The sole
purpose of the notice, it seems, is to justify
our scornful laughter when students actually
do get caught and fined.
But if the residents of a particular room
haven’t broken any rules, then the warning
When students have an entire week’s notice to
hide any prohibited items, the University itself is
permitting activities that present hazards to
the community.
is merely a polite action, like some imitation
of good manners. Perhaps the only benefit
the rule-abiders reap is the knowledge that
an inspector is required to lock their door
after visiting. Again, responsible students
would already keep their doors locked when
necessary and carry a key whenever they
leave their rooms.
But the rule-breakers stand to gain so
much more from a little e-mail. It seems
that this ounce of foresight is just the edge
they need to stay out of trouble. There’s no
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 | Page 11
en on Earth, often by means of social control
and disharmonious attacks on longstanding
behaviors, much as the editorial page board
looks everywhere for a dragon to slay and a
mind to refurbish.
I have taken to heart, since the moment I
matriculated at Brown, the adage that “There
is no typical Brown student.” We are all differ-
ent, and any expectations of automatic agree-
ment are as unfounded as they are repugnant
to the nonconformity that truly is a Brown
value. That the members of the editorial page
board assume such automatic agreement ­­—
and that they are indignant to find that the
facts point elsewhere — causes one to wonder
whether they truly care about the indepen-
dent intellectual tradition of their alma mater
at all.
Is the idea of the “true Brown” merely a
political football, which they throw to advance
the rigid ideological assumptions and outlook
of militant feminism? It appears so. Why else
would the editorial page board’s whole argu-
ment begin with “Look around you” — a state-
ment meant to imply that empiricism would
be its epistemological approach — and then
need to be particularly clever or even care-
ful when you have something better: time to
prepare. I feel it would be more reasonable
if the notifications were sent only one day in
advance. Then, at least, the administration
can take some pleasure in frazzling the stu-
dents a bit.
What you do in your room is your busi-
ness, even if you willingly break the rules.
I couldn’t care less about the restrictions on
alcohol and other drugs. My personal con-
cern is about the other prohibited items:
candles, halogen torchiere lamps and other
fire hazards. But individual worries aren’t
that significant when it comes down to the
principle of the matter; if the University in-
sists that residents of campus housing follow
certain rules, then I would expect them to
properly enforce those rules.
I shudder to think what would happen if
an unattended candle caused a smoke detec-
tor to go off. Suppose the emergency sprin-
klers activated? An entire floor’s worth of
computers and other electronic appliances
contain condemnations of what actually is
around us.
They denounce certain Brown students
for not conforming to the “true Brown,” while
simultaneously supporting their whole argu-
ment with an empirical structure that, when
tested, demonstrates the sheer non-existence
of the “true Brown.” For Brown students ac-
tually do seem to accept some gender stereo-
types (probably because those stereotypes
are biologically, historically and experientially
reasonable), but the editorial page board ar-
gues that, despite this fact, the “true Brown”
must be imposed —­ and deviants from it re-
viled. Did not Anthony Flew already address
the “No True Scotsman” fallacy more than
three decades ago?
The editorial page board has proved itself,
in this instance, to be a collection of Puritans
intent on upending benign traditions, on look-
ing for non-existent problems to solve, on in-
venting a “true Brown” that has no basis in
fact and on attacking their fellow Brown men
who, to the editorial page board’s disappoint-
ment, think themselves capable of directing
their own social lives.
For me, some masculine camaraderie
and a good lingerie show are not so bad.
They are, in fact, among the many things
that make human existence tolerable. Per-
haps if the editorial page board ceased their
pursuit of cultural cleansing, they would
recognize that.
Sean Quigley ’10 is a history and clas-
sics concentrator from East Greenwich,
Rhode Island. He can be reached at
sean_quigley@brown.edu.
could become damaged. Oh well. That’s bet-
ter than having lost a human life.
But what if a legitimate fire started burn-
ing? Supposing that a student did sustain an
injury from this fire. Who is at fault? It would
seem that the student who owned the burn-
ing candle is most guilty. He or she willfully
violated the rules, but that does not grant the
University immunity for not having enforced
the rules properly, especially when their cur-
rent practices make it unreasonably easy to
break them.
It represents a failure on the part of the
administration to maintain a secure, safe
and healthy environment for the students.
So when students have an entire week’s no-
tice to hide any prohibited items, the Univer-
sity itself is permitting activities that pres-
ent hazards to the community — and con-
sidering the expenses involved in repairing
burnt buildings, I’d say that it is endanger-
ing its own budget, were it not for insurance.
(Keeney Quadrangle is insured, right?)
I know that I’m being a cynic. I certainly
don’t give enough credit to those responsi-
ble rebels who keep their flames contained
and replace frayed electrical cords as soon
as possible. But responsible or otherwise,
you all know the risks. If you play with fire,
you run the risk of getting burned.
Michael Fitzpatrick ’12, a psychology
concentrator from San Antonio,
Texas, knows that only the U. can prevent
housing fires. He can be reached
Michael_fitzpatrick@brown.edu
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4:00 PM — “The Politics of Feminist 2:00 PM — “Emancipated Memo- Watson Institute

Security Studies,” Joukowsky Forum,
Watson Institute
7:00 - 9:00 PM — Concentration Fair,
Sayles Hall
menu
Sharpe Refectory
Lunch — Cornish Pasty, Barley Pilaf,
Vegetarian Submarine Sandwich
Dinner — Asiago Crusted Salmon,
Red Rice, Savory Spinach, Cannelloni
with Tomato Sauce
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of Slavery,” Carriage House Gallery, introduces new hire
John Nicholas Brown Center
7:00 PM — Congo Speakers Tour, Former Italian prime minster Romano
MacMillan 117 Prodi has been appointed professor-
at-large at the Watson Institute for
International Studies.
Prodi will begin his five-year term this
Verney-Woolley Dining Hall spring, during which he plans to work
with students, among other things.
Lunch — Beef Pot Pie, Spinach and
Rice Bake, Mexican Corn, Frosted Another Watson professor-at-large,
Cookie Squares former UN ambassador Richard Hol-
brooke ’62 was recently appointed spe-
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