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Students, workers and supporters rallied Thursday on the Main Green in support of dining services workers.
Ralliers turn out for BDS worker benefits
By Sydney Ember
Senior Staf f Writer
With University Hall as their
backdrop and repeated chants
of “health care now,” nearly 200
students, Brown Dining Ser vices
workers and local supporters ral-
lied Thursday afternoon against
proposed changes to the work-
ers’ health care contribution
requirements.
The protest, which also took
For wideout,
URI rivalry
is personal
By Dan alexander
senior staf f writer
Star wide receiver Bobby Sewall
’10 used to root against Brown foot-
ball. Growing up, he went to the
annual games between Brown and
Sports
the University of Rhode Island with
his mom, a URI graduate, cheered
for her alma mater and wondered
if he could one day play in a game
like that.
Now he has — three times. But
he has zero wins against the Rams
to show for it, and when the Bears
host their rivals from Kingston this
weekend, the game will be Sewall’s
last chance to beat the team he used
to root for.
“It would be nice to end that with
a win,” he said.
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up the cause of national health
care reform, came as contract
negotiations begin between the
University and the union rep-
resenting BDS workers. The
current contract is set to expire
Oct. 12.
“Right now, all BDS workers
have affordable health care, and
Brown wants to change that,” said
Roxana Rivera, chief negotiator
and director of the local chapter
of the Ser vice Employees Inter-
Night at the Derby: Jammers, skaters and sass
By Talia Kagan
Staff Writer
Papa’s money and Mama’s sass
weren’t enough to stop the radioac-
tive, mutated sewer rats.
Put more conventionally: The
previously undefeated Old Money
Honeys lost to the league underdog,
the Sakonnet Sewer Rats, at the
Providence Roller Derby Champi-
onship Bout last Friday evening.
Sports teams don’t normally
employ such colorful taglines, but
women’s roller derby doesn’t quite
fit the mold for run-of-the mill ath-
letic competition. In Friday night’s
game, a player was on the floor
within 10 seconds — the night’s
first casualty in the high-speed
contact sport.
In roller derby, two teams skate
around a track, and each team’s
“jammer” attempts to score points
by passing members of the other
team.
“It’s kind of like a race, but it’s
a race between a group of people,
and they’re trying to knock you
down,” said derby announcer Jeff
“Reverend Almighty” O’Neill.
News, 3
Faunce art
Three alums vie to have
their art work displayed in
the new campus center
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
Claire Huang / Herald
national Union, which represents
all of the roughly 200 Dining Ser-
vices workers.
Under the current contract,
BDS workers each pay 6 percent
of their health care premiums.
The University, concerned about
rapidly rising costs, has proposed
replacing the system with a “slid-
ing scale,” which would have some
workers pay greater premiums ac-
continued on page 4
SPOTLIGHT
On Friday night, the two teams’
players whipped around the track
at the Kennedy Plaza Bank of
America City Center, shouldering
each other and even colliding in
front of an audience that included
as many families with toddlers as
it did punk rockers.
Only a decade ago, modern
roller derby emerged from a
punk, alternative subculture, but
in recent years its popularity has
grown — Rhode Island Monthly
recently recognized the league with
an award for “Best Role Model for
Young Girls.” Roller derby’s long-
time players expect Friday’s release
of “Whip It,” a film starring Ellen
Page as a novice roller girl, to bring
the sport even more national at-
tention.
Roller derby “went from just one
league in Austin, Texas, in 2001 to,
we think, over 400 leagues inter-
nationally,” said Juliana Gonzales,
executive director of the Women’s
continued on page 4
Tuition surplus
fast-tracks Faunce
By Brigitta Greene
Senior Staf f Writer
A newly renovated Faunce House
is on track to re-open by the time
students arrive on campus next
fall, earlier than originally planned,
due to an unexpected surplus in
net tuition income, administrators
said.
Construction on the new Ste-
phen Robert ’62 Campus Center
in Faunce was previously slated
for completion no earlier than De-
cember 2010.
The accelerated timetable was
made possible by a surprise windfall
— the University ended last year
with a surplus of about $2 million in
net tuition income because enroll-
ment was higher than expected,
according to Beppie Huidekoper,
executive vice president for finance
and administration.
The extra funds, a fiscal bright
spot even as the University pre-
pares to find $30 million in second-
round budget cuts this fall, will cov-
er the increased costs associated
with speeding up the project, said
Stephen Maiorisi, vice president
for facilities management.
Administrators decided to al-
locate the surplus to a project that
“Momma Lou Screw” keeps an eye on the proceedings at the Providence
Roller Derby Championships, where even the referees get a little zany.
Arts, 5
CAVE man
Ben Nicholson ’11 heads
to the CAVE for his Samuel
Beckett response
would benefit the students who
made it possible, Huidekoper said
told the Brown University Com-
munity Council last week.
Officials said it is unclear ex-
actly how much additional cost will
be associated with the accelerated
timetable, or how the University
will make up any discrepancy be-
tween the tuition surplus and the
ultimate added costs to the project.
Increased overtime compensation
and fewer opportunities for com-
petitive bidding will account for
much of the extra cost, Maiorisi
said.
In another time-saving measure,
the University will depart slightly
from its usual policy of finalizing
all written plans before starting
a project, and instead will begin
construction on the interior space
before finishing plans for some
final details, such as layout and
furnishing, Maiorisi said.
In accelerating the timeline,
University planners made no ma-
jor changes to the original design,
he added.
The renovated campus center
will include space for a Student
Activities Of fice and increased
continued on page 3
Talia Kagan / Herald
Opinions, 7
Minor discord
Susannah Kroeber ’11
argues that Brown should
offer minor degrees
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C ampus N EWS “Life and limb is more important than science.”

— Stephen McGarvey, community health and anthropology professor

With $5.2m grant in hand, Designers converge for change

prof. to map Samoan genes
Sara Luxenberg
Contributing Writer
Professor of Community Health and
Anthropology Stephen McGarvey
has researched the intersection of
genetics and lifestyle in Samoa and
American Samoa for more than 30
years. Now, armed with a $5.2 million
National Institutes of Health grant that
will enable him to map 1 million sites
on the genome, McGarvey is set to
head back to the islands to conduct
a more extensive study of Samoans’
health problems, including obesity,
diabetes, hypertension and cardio-
vascular disease.
Conditions such as obesity and
diabetes “have a genetic level of in-
fluence,” McGarvey said. But these
genetic influences “interact in ways
we don’t exactly understand” with life-
style choices such as diet, exercise,
alcohol consumption and smoking,
he added.
Samoa’s “genetic homogeneity”
and socioeconomic diversity — some
parts of the archipelago are rural while
others have become more modern-
ized — are ideal for these two areas
of research, McGarvey said.
Because the rates of obesity and
related problems are high in the
Samoan population, McGarvey said
he originally expected to find a spe-
cific genetic variation in his research
subjects. But the variations he found
exist among other world populations
as well.
“The genotyping adds to what we
already know,” McGarvey said of ge-
netic susceptibility to weight-related
conditions. “Even if you do live a mod-
erate lifestyle, there may be some ge-
sudoku
netic variations that increase your risk
and you need to be careful.”
The Samoan people are becoming
“increasingly aware of these health
problems,” he said, and “people are
very enthusiastic to participate” in
the studies.
But the immediate future and time-
line of the project might be in limbo
in the wake of a deadly tsunami that
hit the Samoas this week.
“We don’t know yet what the im-
pact on the starting of the project will
be,” McGarvey said, adding that he
has been unable to communicate with
the Samoan side of his research team
to find out whether it is safe. “Life and
limb is more important than science
at this point.”
Though he will work with a team of
American researchers, McGarvey said
he will need the help of the local team
supplied by the Samoan government.
As he only knows “the pleasantries”
in Samoan, the locals will be essential
for conducting interviews.
The five-year study funded by the
new grant will go beyond McGarvey’s
previous work, mainly because it will
make use of “rapid advances in ge-
nomic technology,” McGarvey said.
In previous studies, he was only able
to genotype 360 loci, or locations on
the genome. Now his team hopes to
genotype 1 million loci.
McGarvey said his lifestyle sur-
veys will also be more thorough this
time around.
For now, McGarvey will wait for
the Samoan government’s approval
to begin his research.
“I am a partner with the govern-
ment of Samoa, so I will take my direc-
tion from them,” he said.
By Julia Kim
Contributing Writer
Artists, academics and engineers
from across disciplines will come
together on College Hill this week-
end to discuss the role of design in
sparking social change.
Panelists from around the world
will discuss creative solutions to sus-
tainable agriculture, architecture in
the developing world and the future
of transportation at the second an-
nual conference organized by Brown
and Rhode Island School of Design
students.
Titled “A Better World by De-
sign,” the event was first organized
last year by Steve Daniels ’10, Sha-
ron Langevin ’09 GS and two RISD
students from the class of 2009, Tino
Chow and Mike Eng, as a “one-time
event.”
“One of the things that really
impressed me was the range of the
people that were brought in,” said
Kurt Teichert, a lecturer in environ-
mental studies who attended part
of last year’s conference. Teichert
also praised the “broad concept of
design” around which the event was
structured.
Willem Van Lancker, a RISD
senior and one of the chief organiz-
ers of this year’s conference, said
society’s definition of design needs
to be more holistic.
“The future of design does not lie
in physical objects, but rather (in)
Governor’s Cup up for grabs on Sat.
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Win or lose, he’s come along
way. Sewall’s mom will sit on the
Brown side of the stands on Sat-
urday.
And, he said, she’s “got all of
the Brown gear now.”
A rivalry that runs deep
As if his childhood fandom
weren’t enough, Sewall has an-
other reason to want a win against
the Rams on Saturday. Sewall, a
Rhode Island native, was recruited
by both Brown and URI.
URI of fered him a full-ride
scholarship, but Sewall chose
Brown anyway. A quarterback in
high school, Sewall was recruited
by Brown to play wide receiver. He
said he wanted to be in a spread
offense, where a receiver could
make a real impact.
“At Brown, you can play top-
the experience and transformation of
designing communities,” he said.
Christopher Bull, a senior re-
search engineer and senior lecturer
at Brown who moderated a panel at
last year’s conference, said “num-
bers are up” in registration and there
is a “different cast of characters”
from last year’s conference, but
the overarching idea remains the
same. Bull will moderate a panel
this year about “appropriate tech-
nology,” or how simple technology
can improve the lives of the poor
worldwide.
The speakers this weekend
include architects, designers, en-
gineers, CEOs, a former Brazil-
ian governor and professors from
RISD, Johns Hopkins University,
Carnegie Mellon University and
California College of Arts.
The keynote address will be
delivered today at 2 p.m. by Jan
Chipchase, former principal en-
gineer of the Nokia Research
Center. He is scheduled to talk
about his research on the use of
mobile technologies to connect
people in an “ever-fragmented
world.” The Finland-based Nokia
Corporation is the world’s larg-
est provider of mobile phones, a
technology fast becoming central
to development.
On Saturday, the conference
will host a “one-hour design chal-
lenge,” in which participants will
work together to generate a so-
living rooms to the playing field —
kickoff is Saturday at 12:30.
“Even if you have a down sea-
son, but you beat Brown, it still is
a sense of accomplishment,” said
URI tight end Dave Wilson.
Playing against a pass-first of-
fense and an aggressive defense,
the Bears will face a team that,
in many ways, looks similar to
them.
“The biggest stat that sticks out
in my mind ... is that they have cre-
ated 17 fumbles,” said Head Coach
Phil Estes, referring to URI’s de-
fense. “They make a tackle — it’s
a gang tackle and they’re trying
to strip the football.”
Brown has forced and recov-
ered three fumbles in its two
games, and no one has forced
a fumble against the Bears this
season.
Both teams run a spread of-
fense, and the quarterbacks may
lution to an important problem.
The event will be co-sponsored
by Core77, an industrial design
blog.
Closing the conference will be
RISD President John Maeda, a
world-renowned graphic designer,
artist and computer scientist who
writes about simplicity and the dig-
ital age. Van Lancker said Maeda,
in his first year as president, was
a proponent of students’ activism
and involvement in bringing about
social change.
Though the highlights of the
conference may be the interna-
tional speakers and the wide ar-
ray of disciplines represented, Van
Lancker said “it hits at something
much larger than that.” The real
importance of the conference lies
in the collaboration between the
Brown, RISD and Providence com-
munities, he said.
According to Ambika Roos
’11, a member of the conference’s
organizing committee, the event
was not only planned by Brown
and RISD students, it was largely
financed by money students raised
themselves. “A lot of people talk
about collaboration, but we’re re-
ally doing it,” Roos said.
Bull said he hoped the energy
of last year’s conference would be
matched by this weekend’s event.
“If we can meet or beat that level,
it would be a huge success,” he
said.
receiving corps with 18 catches
and 156 yards, should also get
plenty of touches.
In his first three games under
center, Paul-Etienne, a transfer
from Rutgers, has thrown for an
average of 156.7 yards per game
with three touchdowns and three
interceptions for the Rams.
“We do run the ball,” Wilson
said. “But our main threat on of-
fense is through the air.”
Paul-Etienne throws to a num-
ber of different receivers. After
three games, no one on the team
has more than nine receptions,
and 13 different Rams have at least
one catch.
Against an offense that passes
often, Brown’s secondary should
be tested. In last week’s loss to
Harvard, cornerback David Clem-
ent ’10 nearly shut down preseason
All-American receiver Matt Luft.
Russell Leedy ’11 and A.J. Cruz ’13,

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Alum art to adorn new Faunce
By Jenna Steckel
Contributing Writer
When Faunce House re-opens next
fall after intensive renovations, stu-
dents will have more than just com-
fy chairs and focaccia sandwiches
to feast their senses on. The new
Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center
in Faunce will become home to an
original piece of art by a Brown
alum.
Which alum — and what piece
— will be decided by the Universi-
ty’s Public Art Committee, a group
of faculty and alums that is respon-
sible for bringing works of art for
public display on campus.
Each new or renovated build-
ing on campus has 1 percent of its
budget allotted for art, said Jo-Ann
Conklin, a memberof the commit-
tee. The committee meets with
the architect to discuss locations
within the building to place piec-
es, compile lists of artists whose
work would be appropriate for the
space and consider the direction
and placement of the work once
chosen.
In selecting a piece for Faunce,
Conklin said the committee feels
that “because this was a student
center, it would be great to have
work by past students.” Faculty
members nominated 20 former
students, which the committee
narrowed to a list of four, three of
whom have agreed to submit pro-
posals later this month.
The three finalists — Dave Cole
’00, Nina Katchadourian ’89 and
Sarah Oppenheimer ’95 — are all
contemporary artists who are con-
sidered innovative in both message
and media.
“Brown has a smart, inquisitive
student body,” Conklin said. “In
order to make the art excite and
be pertinent to them, the more
contemporary the better.”
Regardless of which proposal
the committee picks, the art greet-
ing students each day in Faunce
is unlikely to be considered tra-
ditional in either presentation or
material. Cole is known for his giant
knits — produced using such var-
ied improvised knitting needles as
loaded shotguns or electric utility
poles maneuvered by John Deere
excavators — and his commentary
on American nationalism and mili-
tarism.
Katchadourian, whom Conklin
described as “the most eclectic”
of the three, said she lets the idea
determine the medium she uses
for each piece. Her work ranges
from genealogical charts of gro-
cery brand characters to subtle
alterations of pre-existing natural
settings.
Oppenheimer works within a
building’s structure to recast the
view a passerby is afforded, fram-
ing it with sculpted wooden panels.
Her work distorts perception and
creates a view that becomes a sec-
ond piece of art in itself, Conklin
said.
But the circumstances of this
particular commission are unique,
those involved said.
“Often, a building hasn’t even
been built yet” when a request for
a piece comes in, Katchadourian
said. “Faunce is a building I know
really, really well.”
Cole also recalled his time
spent in Faunce during his years
at Brown as memorable.
“I remember Faunce being a
somewhat threadbare, aging place
where I had a lot of amazing con-
versations with amazing people,”
he said.
Katchadourian said that while
the Van Wickle Gates are the more
symbolic entrance to the campus,
Faunce is “the practical, lived, actu-
al entrance” as well as “the student
hub of campus.”
Cole credited Brown with en-
couraging his interest in art, and
said he is excited to have an op-
portunity to present the school with
a piece that reflects its impact on
his work.
“Brown made me a smarter
artist,” Cole said. “The intellectual
complexity that I find so important
in my work, I trace back to Brown.
In order for me to feel good about
my contribution to that environ-
ment, I would want it to be equally
complex.”
Katchadourian, who both at-
tended and taught art classes at
Brown, also said the mindset she
developed on College Hill contin-
ues to inform her work.
“Brown’s extremely interdis-
ciplinary approach to things has
always been a good fit for me and
how I work as an artist,” she said. “I
have an idea and figure out the best
way to bring that idea to life. That
seems to me to be a very Brown
approach to things.”
In preparing her proposal,
Katchadourian said, she has been
re-reading journals she kept as a
student. She said she was struck
by her questions to herself in the
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“The meaning shouldn’t hit you over the head.”
— Dave Cole ’00, finalist for Faunce art selection
journal and began “feeling that it
would be nice to have someone
older and more experienced to of-
fer guidance.” From this theme,
she decided to craft a sound-based
piece dealing with the theme of
advice.
“It’s a fascinating medium,”
she said. “People come to an art
experience often expecting a vi-
Faunce renovations
Nicholas Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald
sual experience,” but sound pieces
“engage another sense.” The piece
she will propose “is subtle in its
physical presence. It’s not going
to announce itself. Students will
end up encountering the work in
accelerated by surplus
a rather intimate way, probably continued from page 1 veiled in the spring, and construc-
one-on-one.” tion began during the summer.
Cole said he has a tentative idea meeting space for student organi- Most of Faunce is closed and will
of what he will propose, but that zations. Revamped spaces for the remain so throughout the current
it could still all change at the last Blue Room Cafe, Leung Gallery and academic year. The Blue Room
second. the Underground will be accessible Cafe has remained open, temporar-
Creating something that will through a new side entrance be- ily relocated to the basement space
be permanent and encountered neath a remodeled Faunce Arch. that formerly housed the University
on a daily basis has proven to be Plans for the project were un- mail room.
its own challenge, both Cole and
Katchadourian agreed.
“The most successful pieces of
public art are accessible enough
for the casual viewer but simultane-
ously sophisticated enough to bring
something new to people who see it
every day,” Cole said. “The mean-
ing shouldn’t hit you over the head.
Rather, it should be the work of a
lifetime to unpack its meaning.”
With an original piece of art
engaging, watching over or whis-
pering advice to them, Cole said he
hopes students passing through the
new Faunce House will encounter
a space both comfortable and cre-
atively charged.
“The most important moments
of intellectual curiosity and devel-
opment happen outside the class-
room,” Cole said. “By creating a
comfortable environment in the
center of campus, it will do a lot to
create those moments.”
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Rally for BDS workers draws 200
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cording to their salaries.
Protestors said Thursday that
the University was attempting to
make workers shoulder the bur-
den of the depleted endowment.
“Who lost the money for our
endowment? It probably has some-
thing to do with the people manag-
ing the money, not the people that
they’re now trying to make pay for
the money that was lost,” Lindsay
Goss GS, a member of Brown’s
International Socialist Organiza-
tion, said at the rally. “We’re go-
ing to have to fight, we’re going
to have to demand what we want
from them.”
Despite the protesters’ objec-
tions to the University’s proposal,
Joseph Sarno ’91, director of la-
bor relations, told The Herald
Thursday evening that the “slid-
ing scale” provision is already
in place for Brown’s non-union
faculty and staff.
Sarno characterized the outcry
against the sliding scale proposal
as a product of misunderstanding,
saying it was important to educate
workers about the benefits of the
proposed system.
Though the economy has
soured since the last negotiation
with BDS workers in 2006, com-
pensating for endowment losses
was not the University’s goal in
negotiations, Sarno said. Similar
health care changes, he noted,
were proposed three years ago.
“Whenever you negotiate a
contract, the financial climate is
a factor,” he said. “We’re all part
of the same community, and we
all want to work together.”
So far, he said, the negotiators
have not formally discussed wage
freezes or reducing benefits for
senior BDS members.
Workers were skeptical of the
University’s stance.
At Thursday’s rally, Claudia
Rojas, lead food ser vice worker
at the Faculty Club, stood on the
steps of University Hall with her
14-year-old daughter.
She told the crowd about her
struggle to support her parents,
who suffer from diabetes, and her
daughter, who has asthma. Often,
she must forgo nights out at the
movies and meals at restaurants
because she must buy medication,
she said.
“I like my job at Brown and get
to meet a lot of people and take
care of them, but I worr y about
having to pay more for health
care,” Rojas said. “It will force me
to have to make difficult choices
that no mother wants to make and
that concern will only grow” if the
proposals make their way into the
renewed contract.
Like Rojas, many BDS work-
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ers used their usual breaks from
work to attend the rally, said Rocio
Saenz, president of the union’s
local chapter, prompting cheers
from the audience.
Ward 1 City Councilman
Seth Yurdin, a Democrat, also
addressed the workers. “There
was a time when health care was
provided as benefits for all full-
time workers,” Yurdin said. “Now,
we’re looking at steps back from
that.”
Workers are forced to make
the greatest sacrifice when they
are asked to bear the brunt of
health insurance costs, said Yur-
din, whose ward includes Fox
Point and most of Brown’s cam-
pus.
Brown’s Student Labor Alli-
ance, Students for a Democratic
Society and Real Food at Brown
helped organize the rally, along
with Rhode Island Jobs with Jus-
tice and local unions.
“What we want to show is basi-
cally a show of student support
for this issue,” Baird Bream, said
a spokesman for the Student La-
bor Alliance. The rally, he said,
was meant to spark a dialogue
about health care reform and ad-
dress “an issue of basic human
rights.”
“It’s about the right to be com-
pensated and be supported in the
job you take,” he said.
“Every girl likes to play dress-up.”
— Lisa Dabrow, rollerderby participant
Prov. Roller Derby:
pizzazz on eight wheels
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Flat Track Derby Association and
skater for the Texas Roller Girls.
“When I started skating in 2002, I
could reach out and touch all the
roller derby skaters in the entire
country,” she said.
WFTDA, as it is known, is a volun-
teer-run organization that standard-
izes local competitions. When it was
founded in 2004, WFTDA comprised
30 leagues. That number that has
more than doubled, and Gonzales
predicts that in the next several
years, it will have over 200.
The organization’s amateur, do-it-
yourself nature is an institutional core
value, Gonzales said, and a reason
why leagues must be democratically
elected in order to join WFTDA.
In addition, eligibility rules state
that 67 percent of a league’s manage-
ment and a majority of its owners
must be skaters, “whether active,
injured or retired,” according to
WFTDA’s Web site.
Of the over 5,000 WFTDA skat-
ers, roughly 200 take an active vol-
unteer role in running the organi-
zation, Gonzales said. “Our motto
is by the skaters, for the skaters,”
she added.
Individual leagues vary dramati-
cally, according to Gonzales, and
range from teams that play in sports
arenas in St. Paul, Minn., to ones
that play in abandoned warehouses
in Sacramento.
Superheroes on wheels
The non-profit Providence league
was founded in 2004 by Sarah
“Doom” Kingan ’02 and has grown
to include three at-home and two
nationally competitive teams.
It is often the competitive, athletic
aspect of roller derby that surprises
casual spectators, said many Provi-
dence skaters.
Roller derby is the “most physi-
cally intense sport I’ve ever played
in my life,” said Ellie Leonard Smith
GS, who goes by “Bleeding Rain-
bow” in the skating world. Three to
four times a week, teams practice
hitting and dexterity drills, work on
strategy and do strength exercises,
she said.
Friends who learn about Smith’s
derby-girl life often say, “Oh, that’s
where your bruises come from,”
Bleeding Rainbow said.
Beyond the physically grueling
athletics, derby’s theatricality re-
mains central to its quirky culture.
Teams and their individual skaters
cultivate flashy, costumed personas.
For Friday’s championship bout,
competitors donned pink, duct-taped
skates and fuschia lace underwear
worn over leggings. Even the refer-
ees jazzed up their outfits.
Old Money Honeys captain Sass
E. McNasty, otherwise known as
Lisa Dabrow, has never bouted with-
out her glitter eyelashes, which she
said she usually buys on sale after
Halloween. (She is, after all, a “roller
girl on a budget.”)
“Every girl likes to play dress-
up,” Dabrow said. “Think how
much more fun soccer would be if
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you got to wear false eyelashes and
pigtails.”
The team’s outfits often spark de-
bate and discussion among players.
“The Old Money Honeys used to
wear all white,” Dabrow said. “Then
we thought we looked fat in that.”
Even the words the players throw
around communicate the sport’s
playful spirit. “Jammers” and “pivots”
are two types of positions, “bouts”
refer to games and VIP seats are
called WHIP seats — an acronym
that stands for Wicked Hot Impor-
tant People, according to PRD’s Web
site.
PRD skater Joelle “Foxie Renard”
Burdette went to an early screening
of “Whip It” and found it to be an ac-
curate but flashier representation of
the world of roller derby.
“The camaraderie was one of the
main things that showed through,”
she said, adding that she “kind of
teared up a bit” when she watched
the trailer because it was so true to
her own experience.
Foxie Renard, a member of PRD’s
recruitment team, has been prepar-
ing for the influx of people who
might be “casually curious” about
the sport after the release of “Whip
It.” Usually, fewer than half of all re-
cruits stick around, in part because
of the intense time commitment,
Renard said.
As PRD’s executive director, Cate
“Baby Fighterfly” Morin spends
about 30-40 hours a week on roller
derby-related activities — completely
unpaid.
“Now that I know about it, I
couldn’t imagine not being involved,”
she said, adding that she has met her
best friends through roller derby. “It’s
almost like being a superhero.”
Renard said she expects inter-
est to grow among younger skaters.
Several leagues currently partner
with junior programs, and some take
skaters as young as five years old,
according to Gonzales, WFTDA’s
executive director.
Friday night’s crowd included
quite a few potential future roller
girls. But the growing family pres-
ence doesn’t mean the matches have
lost their edge.
Though Friday’s pre-show en-
tertainment was a clown troupe,
Chukles the Klown describes him-
self as an “evil, politically incorrect
clown,” and punk rock bands often
play league halftime shows.
Organizers try to balance the al-
ternative spirit of roller derby’s ori-
gins and the families it now draws.
But despite its rising popularity,
roller derby has held on to its un-
conventional roots.
“Everything has to be PG-13-rat-
ed,” said “Diamond” Dan White, one
of PRD’s announcers. “It’s all about
disguising dicks as candy canes,” he
added, referring to the innuendo he
often slips into his commentary.
White had another stereotype of
the sport to address. “One of the
(most common) misconceptions
about roller derby is that all of them
are lesbians,” he said.
“That’s not true,” he said. “Some
of them are bi.”
Arts & Culture
The Brown Daily Herald
Beckett brought to life in Students, artists connect behind the texts
virtual reality art piece
By Rosalind Schonwald
Arts & Culture Editor
At times, in the multimedia installa-
tion “To Begin,” there is just dark-
ness. But sometimes the ever-pres-
ent voice reading Samuel Beckett
becomes a thunderous roar, and
typeset words jump from the walls,
swiveling through the air. Sometimes
they burn.
An entry in this year’s Pixilera-
tions Festival, “To Begin” was con-
ceived by Ben Nicholson ’11 as a re-
sponse to Beckett’s novel “How It Is.”
The 50-minute piece was created spe-
cifically for the CAVE, an interactive
virtual reality environment housed
in the Center for Computation and
Visualization at 180 George St.
“How It Is” is narrated by a char-
acter crawling through endless mud,
in some sort of purgatory, as he remi-
nisces about his life.
“What the texts suggested, this is
a simplified explanation, is an argu-
ment for solipsism — that everyone is
alone and isolated to their own mind,”
Nicholson said. Instead of accept-
ing the depressing implications of
the work, Nicholson felt the need to
respond. “To Begin” is structured
around excerpts from Beckett’s novel
and Nicholson’s rebuttal to the book’s
dark, egoistic side.
Though the CAVE was originally
intended for displaying scientific dia-
grams and models, Nicholson said,
the space has also become a tool for
students in literary arts.
Novelist Robert Coover, visiting
professor of literary arts and one of
the founders of the Electronic Litera-
ture Organization, had been a “major
proponent” of writing students’ using
the CAVE, Nicholson said.
“When thinking about writing,
pretty much our entire lives involve
seeing it in a two-dimensional plane,”
he explained.
To the naked eye, the CAVE ac-
tually does appear to be a series of
two-dimensional planes. There are
three white screens and a white floor.
In order to protect the floor surface,
visitors to the CAVE — cave people,
as it were — are not allowed to wear
shoes.
When the space is activated, pro-
jected images appear on the screens.
Viewers wear specially designed
glasses that render the images in
three dimensions, but only one pair
of glasses contains the magnetic in-
dicator used to calculate the proper
perspective. As a result, the images
are distorted and not illusionistic for
all but the viewer with the controller
glasses.
To Nicholson, this made the CAVE
the perfect site for his piece.
“The CAVE is a self-contained
space meant for one person to have
an experience. Anyone who’s looking
on is really experiencing a distorted
version of something that’s really
meant to be seen by somebody else,”
Nicholson said.
Nicholson was humble about of-
fering his own rebuttal to Beckett.
“The piece doesn’t try to refuse
what’s suggested in ‘How It Is,’ but
it asks whether or not it could be
something else,” Nicholson said. “I
suppose I believe that there is, and I
think most people do.”
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By Kayleigh Butera
Contributing Writer
Evenson, who teaches one section
of the class and helped organize
added to his experience of the po-
etry. Frauenhofer added that “Writ-
yesterday’s reading. Evenson, who ers on Writing” has been one of his
Jen Bervin’s soft but steady voice fit also directs the literary arts pro- favorite courses at Brown.
perfectly in the intimate setting of gram, said this communication is a Yesterday’s discussion between
the McCormack Family Theater in a “rare opportunity” that can enhance authors and students answered
reading Thursday that featured her student writers’ experiences. many of the students’ questions.
and fellow poet Joshua Beckman. For Poppy Addison ’13, who Writers, however, are not always
Bervin read from her work “The said she had always wanted to ask ready to completely reveal their
Desert,” which combines visual art authors about the meaning behind intentions. When asked how to
and poetry through a technique she their words, “this was that perfect make sense of a collection of poems,
calls erasure. In the limited-edition chance.” Beckman replied cryptically.
book — one of “The Desert’s” 40 Michael Frauenhofer ’11 called “There is a moment,” he said,
copies is housed in the John Hay it a “new level of dialogue” and said “when the poem is the only thing
Library — Bervin sews over por- the opportunity to ask questions telling you where you are.”
tions of John Van Dyke’s 1901 art-
historical text of the same name
using blue thread. The words that
remain make up Bervin’s poems.
In her reading, she called attention
to the presence of the thread with
respectful pauses.
Over 50 students and faculty
gathered in the theater to hear the
two poets. The reading, which was
open to the public, was part of LITR
1200: “Writers on Writing,” a course
in which students read contempo-
rary literature and then have the
opportunity to meet and interact
with the authors.
Beckman followed Bervin, read-
ing several poems from his book
“Take It” and three of his newer
poems in an animated, narrative
style. He had the audience laughing
at unexpectedly humorous poems
that also held poignant observa-
tions.
After the readings, the poets
took questions from the audience.
This direct interaction between stu-
dents and authors is the goal of the
“Writers on Writing” series, said As-
sociate Professor of English Brian
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l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r

Peer tutoring will be missed

To the Editor:
As an alumnus who participated
in the tutoring services from both
ends, I was saddened to read of the
end of the peer tutoring program
in Tuesday’s article (“Peer tutoring
program axed, cited as ineffective,”
Sept. 29). Although it is true that
for many subjects and students
small groups will be quite effec-
tive, this is not always the case. I
can say unequivocally that I was
able to succeed in Physics 8 and
Physics 47 thanks to the help of my
peer tutor. I hope that the students
I tutored in Bio 50 could say the
same. When it came to physics,
it was imperative that I thought
through the entire problem myself,
not with the help of friends.
My tutor was able to guide me
through the problems, while al-
lowing me to find the process to
the answers myself. From reading
the article, it seems as though the
same is true for CS 15. Working in
a small group will hurt students, as
some in the group will understand
work through the process.
In addition, not all students learn
in the same way. Although group
learning may be shown to be pro-
ductive for most, it certainly cannot
be applied to all. The peer tutoring
program also always contained the
option for small group tutoring if
wanted. I ask Dean Bergeron: What
was the demand for these small
groups in the past?
It surely never seemed that
demand was too high in the past.
Many courses have TAs who can
facilitate small problem sessions,
but cannot devote time to one-on-
one sessions. The math department
even has a weekly workshop with
graduate students available, but it
can never keep up with demand.
The free availability of tutoring on
campus was fabulous. It was also
a point I would brag about during
my three years as a tour guide ale x yuly
that impressed many people on
my tours. It is certainly a sad loss
for the Brown community that the e d i to r i a l
administration does not see it as
effective and has decided to send

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how to get their program to work it by the wayside.
and others won’t; in my experience
peers tend to show what the answer James Kraemer ’08
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Opinions
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Jared Lafer
Opinions Columnist
Brown is the bubble on College Hill, a
sanctuar y from the harsh realities of the
world. But this supportive and welcoming
veneer can often obscure us from the true
purpose of college: Brown is one big test-
ing ground.
Brown? A testing ground? Uh oh, will the
exams be curved?
Yes, my comrades, Brown is a testing
ground, and no, the exams won’t be curved.
You’ve probably been living a lie.
The testing ground’s infrastructure is
provided and controlled by the University:
policy, food, residences, support ser vices,
maintenance staffs, police and so on. This
creates a stable environment for the four-
year period of testing to commence.
We are then left to roam free (like lab
rats) and the environment works its magic:
we “test,” and are “tested.”
We “test” because college is meant to be
a time of experimentation.
As the University provides and controls
the infrastructure of the testing ground,
students are left with few responsibilities.
Indeed, students aren’t necessarily respon-
sible for anything but their physical well-
being, academics and employment while at
Brown, and even the latter could be volun-
In defense of the Brown Republicans’ tableslips
Keith DellaGrotta
Guest Columnist
Let us play a game. I want you to name the first
notion that pops into your head after imagining
Obama’s popular “hope” poster enveloped by
fire. Words like “frustration” or “aversion” or
simply “heat,” seem logical responses. If you
said “lynching,” then congratulations! You and
Meredith Curtis ’10 share similarly shallow,
liberal thought processes.
She demonstrated her view in a recent letter
to the editor (“Brown Republicans’ tableslips in
poor taste,” Sept. 23), in which she writes about
the horror that consumed her upon sight of the
Brown Republican tableslips; evidently, only
a racist could distribute the aforementioned
images. As President of the Brown Republi-
cans and designer of the allegedly outrageous
tableslips, I can understand it pains liberals
when individuals criticize Obama, their secular
savior, but baseless racism charges are not
the answer.
Indeed, Curtis’ claim is ludicrous. If she was
not so quick to associate fire and a black man
with the era of Jim Crow, she might understand
the deeper and more relevant message of the
Brown Republicans’ tableslips. With the trillions
of dollars of debt that Obama has incurred,
with overwhelming disapproval of the health
care public option, with violence in Afghanistan
escalating and with continuous discoveries of
questionable morality and ethical lapses on the
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To test, or be tested
tar y. In fact, we probably had more respon-
sibilities before we came here.
This lack of obligation provides students
with the freedom to “test” themselves.
Students can join a variety of groups and
clubs, tr y out different jobs and areas of
study. The opportunities are varied and im-
mense.
This freedom to test is augmented by the
fact that the air of experimentation on campus
mitigates any serious consequences for our
actions. For example, students can suddenly
stop going to a group or club; they can quit
their job, and rest assured that they can find
Brown is a testing ground, and no,
the exams won’t be curved.
another one; they can fail an exam or take a
random course, and not worry about it ruin-
ing their lives — even NCs don’t show up on
their external transcripts. Students are thus
absolved of any real accountability, and can
casually make and break commitments.
With this immunity it is certainly con-
ceivable that one might be compelled to
over-indulge “testing” at Brown, though
I find that students are generally good
about weighing future considerations —
for good reason, since while an individual
part of presidential appointees, Obama’s agenda
and hope truly are “up in flames.”
Moderate American voters realize this fact.
One needs to look no further than a recent CNN
poll showing a majority of Independents disap-
prove of Obama’s performance as commander-
in-chief thus far. I guess Democrats like Curtis
are turning a blind eye which, come election
time, could be a problem as Obama’s ascension
to the White House can largely be attributed
to the immense support of Independents at
If liberals were not so quick to associate fire
and a black man with the era of Jim Crow, they
might understand the deeper and more relevant
message of the Brown Republican tableslips.
the polls.
The Left lets no Obama critic walk free with-
out the label of racist, and Curtis appears to
endorse the witch-hunt. In a rambling tangent,
she uses her mention of the Brown Republi-
can tableslips as a platform to launch into a
tirade about the infamous shout by Rep. Joe
Wilson, R-S.C. during Obama’s Congressional
address regarding healthcare reform. The fact
that she supports Jimmy Carter’s allegation
success or failure might not make a differ-
ence in the long run, successive successes
or failures certainly add up. Having a par-
ticularly low GPA, despite Brown’s ridicu-
lous views about calculating GPA, will not
bode well when you’re applying to jobs. So
we are “tested.”
That we test and are tested, however,
creates some tension, as they are often in
conflict. Frequently we are faced with a
choice between fulfilling a boring concen-
tration requirement to demonstrate com-
petency and experimenting with a course
in a completely foreign department; a sim-
pler example might be the choice we face
between partying on a weekend and work-
ing.
To achieve the ideal college experience
one would think we ought to strive to bal-
ance the two. I think that’s a good goal to
have, but with a qualification.
In the real world, we will have respon-
sibilities, and there will be serious conse-
quences for our actions. We won’t be able
to just quit our jobs without notice and then
expect to find employment again the next
that Wilson’s “you lie!” outburst was racist in its
motivation shows her views to be non-credible.
Though I condemn Wilson’s action, how anyone
can connect calling a person a liar to racism is
beyond me.
Here is food for thought: could it be that
liberals, who tend to hurl the majority of racist
accusations, are incognizant of their own rac-
ism? Why are they unable to associate blacks
with anything but slavery and segregation?
Curtis concludes her letter to the editor by
noting that the Brown Republicans’ tableslips
seemed to display a burning of Obama in effigy,
and that doing so was somehow distasteful. She
writes, “The Brown Republicans will only attract
positive attention if they are more creative and
thoughtful.” Though I have already elaborated
on the meaning of the tableslips, I want to note
that the act of burning political figures in effigy
has been a common and acceptable means
to display political discontent for hundreds of
Friday, October 2, 2009 | Page 7
day, or fail at work and not worr y about be-
ing fired. Simply put, we won’t be able to
afford to test in the real world.
On the other hand, we will be constantly
tested. Ever y day we will be challenged by
the ruthlessness of the world, and I have
no doubt that our being tested in college
will help us tackle those challenges. This
is not only true because it forces us to get
smarter, which makes us more qualified
to face whatever lies ahead, but because it
prepares us for the test-based real world
environment.
The latter cannot be said for “testing.”
In fact, “testing” does quite the opposite: it
lulls us into a false sense of irresponsibility
and immunity, so that when we enter the
real world we will have irreparably habitu-
ated the testing mindset.
Granted, testing certainly serves its pur-
pose. The freedom and impunity it provides
may motivate your development as a person,
or generate new passions and interests. But
that purpose should be lower down on the
priority list than being tested, which is what’s
relevant in the long run. So let us firmly root
ourselves in the testing ground, and in that
steadfastness endeavor to find balance.
Jared Lafer ’11 is a philosophy
concentrator from Manhattan. He can
be reached at jared_lafer@brown.edu
years, and that it does not necessarily imply that
the perpetrator wants to immolate the target.
Lewes, England has a famous tradition of burn-
ings in effigy, and victims have included Osama
Bin Laden and even George W. Bush, though
I am sure no leftist Brown student found fault
when tongues of fire licked Bush’s likeness.
Negative attention, if it continues from liber-
als unable to distinguish between honest politi-
cal dissatisfaction and racism, does not bother
me. In actuality, I wonder if they are the ones
lacking insight and imagination.
When creating tableslips, or any form of
advertisement for that matter, I look to satisfy
two important standards: that the content grab
audience attention and promote public aware-
ness, and that the content issue no personal
attacks. I would say I achieved my goals with
the Brown Republican tableslips. Curtis’ almost-
immediate response proves I had no trouble
meeting the first benchmark.
And, with regard to attaining the second
principle, a reasonable, discerning interpreta-
tion of the tableslips generates in the viewer the
impression that Obama’s vision is disintegrat-
ing, not that Obama should be lynched. Indi-
cating, as does Curtis, that tableslips meeting
these criteria are “in poor taste” seems to me
to be less than accurate.
Keith DellaGrotta ’10 is an economics and
international relations concentrator from
Londonderry, New Hampshire.
He can be reached at
keith_dellagrotta@brown.edu.
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Today, October 2
4 pm — Panel Discussion: Arts, Cul-
ture & the Soul of a City, Rites and
Reason Theater
6:30 pm — Jerusalema, African Stu-
dents Association Movie, Wilson 102
Saturday, October 3
1:30 PM — Providence Latin Ameri-
can Film Festival, MacMillan 117
8 pm — Brown University Theater
Presents Tartuffe, Leeds Theater
Coal to Brown researchers who experimented on “tiny, soft-bodied worms” that might
be our earliest bilateral ancestor. Have you learned nothing from the PETA organizers
on the Main Green this week? Those tiny, flaccid, defenseless worms are our kin! And
they’re soft-bodied!
A diamond to the alums who returned to Rhode Island to film a coming-of-age story
about four high-school girls. We’re thinking High School Musical with a local flavor: Zac
Efron asks the new girl out on an awkward Waterfire date, buys her a coffee milk and
then waits with her at the bus station for two hours because of RIPTA budget cuts.

Coal to Tufts University, which recently forbade students to have sex when a room-
mate is present. Talk about a wet blanket.
menu
A diamond to the student who, enthused about his flu-shot experience, told The
Herald: “It was very pleasant. I was in and out in less than a minute.” Swine flu is no
Sharpe Refectory Verney-Woolley Dining Hall joking matter, but come on: That’s what she said!!!

Lunch — Hot Pastrami Sandwich, Veg- Lunch — Chicken Fingers, Rice Pilaf @the students in a graduate-level AmCiv class who expressed skepticism about having
an Vegetable Couscous, French Green with Zucchini, Corn Cobbets to “tweet” as part of their homework: we hear the world’s tinyurl-est violin #coal
Beans with Tomatoes, Cupcakes
Dinner — Paella with Mussels, A cubic zirconium to Deputy Dean of the College Stephen Lassonde, who kindly
Dinner — Cajun Baked Fish, Vegan Baked Macaroni and Cheese, Spin- debunked “the misconception” that the Banner registration system solves “all problems.”
Stir Fried Noodles with Tofu, Rice ach Stuffed Tomatoes Thanks for the clarification, but we never really thought a system that lacks elementary
Piaf search functionality would stand much of a chance against swine flu, budget cuts, or
rush-hour Ivy Room falafel traffic.
RELEASE DATE– Friday, October 2, 2009
crossword A diamond to the co-chair of the Providence Rotary Street Painting Festival, who
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle said the group was “extremely proud to be back on the street.” Unless the job market
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis changes, this year’s seniors will be right there with you.
ACROSS 3 Old Viking 38 Old vitamin bottle 49 Inform on,
1 List of options descendants of abbr. slangily
5 “Get lost!” northern France 39 Refinery gases 52 Really impressed
10 Capricious notion 4 Separate, as 40 Carbon __ 55 Chef’s secret
14 Informed about chain parts 41 Phantom ingredient, comics
15 Rod Stewart’s ex 5 Indian cover-up 43 Italian jewelry perhaps
16 Parade honoree 6 Congeal, as designer Elsa 56 Fish-eating birds
17 Sugar and spice blood 44 CIA predecessor 57 Give up
Dot Comic | Eshan Mitra and Brendan Hainline
product? 7 Pro __ 45 When the French 58 Actor Fernando
18 Turbine part 8 Arctic jacket fry? et al.
19 __-Z: classic 9 Martin and 47 Traditional 62 Author Fleming
Camaro Magdalene Scottish dish 63 Short at the
20 Grouch in the 10 Spinning sound 48 Yr.-end auditor poker table
army? 11 Harbingers ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:
23 Upright, for one 12 Many O. Henry
25 Campfire leftover endings
26 Tell stories 13 Farce
27 Small-time 21 Express’s opp.
hood’s pottery? 22 Scorches
31 Hardwood tree 23 Very quietly, in
33 Downing St. VIPs music
34 Small island 24 Periodic table
35 Cheeky suffix
36 Accident in a 28 Old ColorTrak
qualifying race? TVs Hippomaniac | Mat Becker
39 Ford failures 29 Cholesterol-
42 “Bad” cholesterol, reducing grain
briefly 30 Repeating series
43 “The Gold Bug” 32 __-di-dah
author 35 Like worn tires
46 Hedren of “The 36 With it
Birds” 37 “My Fair Lady”
47 Family insignia flower seller xwordeditor@aol.com 10/02/09
for designer
Edith?
50 Clod chopper
51 ’70s-’80s
Pakistani leader
53 Analyze
grammatically
54 Jalopy used as a
trade-in?
59 Evening, in ads
60 Concur Cabernet Voltaire | Abe Pressman
61 Singer Redding
64 River near
Kassel, Germany
65 Like Chicago, so
they say
66 Where the Jazz
play
67 Belgrade native
68 Pair in the middle
of dressing?
69 Very small

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