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Diddy, TV on the Radio to headline Spring Weekend U., nightclub
By Emma Wohl
Senior Staff Writer
A week and a day after hip-hop
icon Sean “Diddy” Combs tweeted
he would be coming to Brown as
part of his upcoming tour, the
Brown Concert Agency con-
firmed that Diddy-Dirty Money
— a group featuring Combs as
well as singers Dawn Richard and
Kalenna Harper— and indie-elec-
tronic group TV on the Radio will
be headlining this year’s Spring
Weekend. TV on the Radio will
play at the Friday, April 15 con-
cert and Diddy-Dirty Money will
perform Saturday, April 16.
“Both of these acts are coming
at a really exciting time in their
careers,” said Abby Schreiber ’11,
BCA’s booking chair.
TV on the Radio is releasing
its fourth album, “Nine Types of
Light,” April 12th — three days
before its Spring Weekend per-
formance. The band has been on
hiatus since 2009.
Diddy-Dirty Money released its
Unions Hopes high at math institute’s debut
clash with
politicians
By AMY RASMUSSEn
Senior Staff Writer
A crowd of middle-aged Rhode Is-
land public employees gathered Feb.
22 at the State House in a show of
solidarity for the Wisconsin workers
threatened by their governor’s pro-
posal to strip collective bargaining
rights from public sector workers.
Putting Rhode Island’s
public schools to the test
Second in a five-part series
Barely a week later, the Ocean State
saw a second rally for organized
labor. This time, more than 1,000
ralliers turned out to support gov-
ernment employees closer to home.
The same day as the rally to
support Wisconsin workers, Provi-
dence Mayor Angel Taveras’ deci-
sion to issue dismissal notices to
all 1,926 Providence public school
teachers sent shockwaves across the
nation and focused the public labor
spotlight directly on Rhode Island.
The state’s teachers unions quickly
organized in response ­— calling in
President Randi Weingarten of the
American Federation of Teachers
union to join the March 2 protest.
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
first album, “Last Train to Paris,”
Dec. 13. The album was Combs’
first since 2006.
Brown is the only university
on TV on the Radio’s tour. This
is Diddy’s first-ever performance
at a university as far as his agent
knows, according to the BCA
March 7 press release.
There has been a space on the
BCA website for students to sug-
gest Spring Weekend acts since
last semester. “That’s the first thing
continued on page 2
Hip-hop icon Sean “Diddy” Combs’ group Diddy-Dirty Money, top, and indie band TV on the Radio will headline the
Spring Weekend concerts April 15 and 16.
By Katherine Long
Staff Writer
Though the state’s fiscal concerns
overshadowed yesterday’s open-
ing celebrations of the Univer-
sity’s $15.5 million Institute for
Computational and Experimental
Research in Mathematics, gov-
ernment and University leaders
looked ahead to the promises the
institute holds for research and
innovation.
Zolnierczyk ’11 signs NHL deal with Flyers
By Ethan McCoy
Assistant Sports Editor
Harry Zolnierczyk ’11, men’s hockey
captain and 2010-11 Ivy League
Player of the Year, signed with the
Philadelphia Flyers Monday, fulfill-
ing what he said is a lifelong desire to
play hockey at the professional level.
sports
“It’s something you dream about
your entire life, and now that it’s
finally come true. It’s almost surreal,”
Zolnierczyk said.
Zolnierczyk’s agreement is a one-
year deal for the 2011-12 season. He
is set to report immediately to Glens
Falls, N.Y., where he will join the
Flyers’ American Hockey League
affiliate, the Adirondack Phantoms,
on an amateur tryout agreement. At
Ivy victory
Women’s lacrosse prevails in
season’s first league match
Sports, 8
Herald
“I’m excited about the open-
ing of this institute because, as
you might have heard last week,
I have a little math problem of
my own I need to solve. Maybe
this place can help me out,” Mayor
Angel Taveras said at the opening,
referring to the city’s $110 million
projected budget shortfall.
The institute — entirely funded
by a National Science Foundation
grant — is the eighth of its kind
in the nation and the first in New
the end of last season, former team-
mate Aaron Volpatti ’10 signed with
the Vancouver Canucks and first
reported to the Manitoba Moose,
the Canucks’ AHL affiliate. This
season, Volpatti has appeared in
15 National Hockey League games
for Vancouver and has recorded his
first career goal and assist.
For Zolnierczyk, the thought of
playing NHL hockey did not be-
come a realistic goal until recently.
After two quiet seasons, Zolnierczyk
exploded onto the national scene in
his junior year, putting up 33 points.
He led the Bears in scoring with 16
goals and 31 points in 2010-11.
“I think once some interest (from
professional scouts) started, it start-
ed looking like there might actually
be some real opportunities,” he said.
continued on page 8
Courtesy of Brown Concert Agency
England. The institute is the only
federally funded institute charged
with studying the convergence of
mathematics and computation.
Research in that emerging field
— which deals with whether, and
how efficiently, problems can be
solved on a model of computation
— could lead to programs that
model smart energy grids, social
networks and climate change.
continued on page 2
Harry Zolnierczyk ’11 signed a one year-contract with the Flyers Monday.
weather
The Fix?
Teachers targeted as
budgets are slashed
opinions, 7
Since 1891
address Feb.
incident
By Joseph Rosales
Senior Staff Writer
University administrators met with
Colosseum nightclub owner Anthony
Santurri last Thursday to address
questions of student safety in response
to the Feb. 23 incident involving two
students at the club.
Michael Quinn ’13 and Jonathan
Smallwood ’12 were thrown by their
necks out of the nightclub by Colos-
seum bouncers after being told to
stop dancing on the stage, The Herald
reported Feb. 24. Since then, both
Santurri and Brown administrators
said they hoped to discuss the alter-
cation.
“I actually think there was a de-
sire from both sides to meet,” said
Margaret Klawunn, vice president
for campus life and student services.
Administrators from the Depart-
ment of Public Safety, the Office of
Public Affairs and University Rela-
tions and the LGBTQ Resource Cen-
ter met Santurri at the club, where
they discussed student comfort and
safety at the club. The invitation was
extended to the center in response
to allegations by the students that
the bouncers’ actions were spurred
by homophobia.
“Regardless of the fact that the re-
marks made by the bouncers weren’t
directly homophobic, as a gay male,
I felt that being told that my actions
are too feminine was homophobic,”
Jonathan Smallwood ’12 wrote in an
e-mail to The Herald.
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March 8 ToMORROW March 9
Colosseum owner Spring
8 P.m. 7 p.m. apologizes for incident concert
“Supergirls Speak Out,” “Breaking the Silence: The Stigma of
8 p.m.
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7:30 p.m.
Suicide,” MacMillan 115
headliners
continued from page 1
“(Santurri) was actually very
“When Tolerance Is Not Enough,”
Salomon 101
“The Risks and Rewards of Science
Communication,” Smith-Buonnano 106 confirmed
understanding of our concerns,”
Klawunn said. “He was very reas-
suring in terms of his interests for it to
menu be a safe and inclusive environment.”
Klawunn said they also discussed
the University’s concerns about stu-
SHARPE REFECTORY VERNEy-WOOLLEY DINING HALL
dents going out on weeknights. “We
LUNCH reviewed some of the things that had
Italian Meatball Grinder, Carrots in Hot Roast Beef on French Bread, been problems with the Wednesday
Parsley Sauce, Linguini with Tomato Tomato Quiche, Steamed Vegetable nights at (the Fish Company) and
and Basil, Mardi Gras Cupcakes Melange, Swiss Fudge Cookies some of the ways that we were con-
cerned about a continuation of any-
DINNER
thing that might raise some of the
Carne Gizado, White and Wild Rice Chicken Pot Pie, Vegan Stuffed similar problems,” she said.
Pilaf, Artichoke and Red Pepper Acorn Squash, Rice and Orzo Pilaf, Santurri said he understood the
Frittata, Magic Bars Magic Bars University’s concerns but hopes the
meeting will allow students to under-
Sudoku
Institute will explore math, computation
continued from page 1
At the event, the institute was
lauded as “a national and interna-
tional resource” by Sen. Jack Reed,
D-R.I., a “bold idea” by President
Ruth Simmons and a “milestone”
by Jill Pipher, professor of math-
ematics and director of the insti-
tute. Other speakers included Sen.
Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and
Rep. James Langevin, D-R.I.
“What happens here at ICERM
will be noticed around the world,”
Simmons said. “It will allow Brown
to compete in the knowledge
economy.”
Crossword And despite drawn-out federal
budget negotiations, during which
legislators have proposed cutting
the National Science Foundation’s
operating budget, the assembled
officials pledged their commit-
ment to financing research ini-
tiatives.
“Every dollar invested in re-
search leads to dozens of dollars of
economic growth,” Langevin, co-
chair of the Congressional Cyber-
security Caucus, said at the event.
“We need the competitive edge
that this research will support.”
Both Reed and Whitehouse
pointed to the institute as fulfill-
ing President Obama’s goal to
“out-innovate, out-educate and
out-build” the rest of the world,
which Obama presented in his Jan.
25 State of the Union address.
“This institute speaks volumes
about Brown, the potential here
in Providence and Rhode Island,”
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stand they are accepted at Colosseum.
“I want to go back to the way it
used to be before this incident hap-
pened,” Santurri said. “The relation-
ship with Brown University is im-
portant to me.”
Santurri said he is willing to
apologize to Quinn and Smallwood
in person if they choose to accept
his apology.
LGBTQ Resource Center Coordi-
nator Kelly Garrett wrote in an e-mail
to The Herald that she felt Santurri
wants all students to have a positive
experience at his club but thinks it
is up to students to decide how to
proceed.
“Students will decide for them-
selves if they enjoy the club and want
to continue to attend,” Garrett wrote.
Reed said. “It’s pulling together the
best minds in academia, govern-
ment and the private sector.”
Looking ahead
The institute will be governed
by a board of trustees, an educa-
tion advisory board and a sci-
entific advisory board on which
representatives from the institute’s
corporate partners — Google, IBM
and Microsoft — will serve.
These corporations’ involve-
ment in the institute’s creation
heralds a future for the institute
as an instrument of economic
growth, Pipher said. The institute
will also fund up to 40 researchers
in residence, create K-12 outreach
programs, employ nine full-time
staff members, support up to 12
postdoctoral fellows and attract
thousands of visitors to the city for
international mathematics con-
ferences, according to a March 7
University press release.
There are already 10 confer-
ences planned beginning Aug. 1,
Pipher told The Herald. “We’re
already booking hotel rooms for
visiting scientists and mathemati-
cians.”
In keeping with the University’s
vision of itself as an undergradu-
ate-focused institution, a select
number of seats at those confer-
ences will be made available for
undergraduates. The institute will
also sponsor undergraduate re-
search programs in the summer
that pair students with mathema-
ticians.
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we look at,” said Serin Seckin ’11,
BCA’s administrative chair.
“This year, I guess, a lot of the
bands that were top of the list were
playing Coachella,” she added. The
Coachella Valley Music and Arts
Festival in California is scheduled
for the same weekend.
BCA plans to announce the
supporting acts next week, Sch-
reiber said, adding that there will
be a total of five to seven acts.
The opening of the institute
will also have an “indirect influ-
ence” on undergraduates, Pipher
said. “The visibility of the math
institute will attract events and
people to Brown that will impact
the University as a whole.”
“I would argue that ICERM’s
focus on the undergraduate is one
of the reasons its application was
successful,” Simmons told The
Herald.
The construction of the in-
stitute’s facilities on the top two
floors of 121 South Main Street is
slated for completion June 1, and
all of its programs are expected to
be fully functional in three years,
Pipher said.
The institute’s opening comes at
a time of rapid expansion for the
University. In the past year alone,
the University has approved the
creation of an engineering school,
moved forward with its intent to
found a school of public health
and begun offering juniors the
opportunity to complete an in-
ternational master’s degree in five
years. But Simmons denied that
the institute is part of an explicit
expansion program.
“This institute was in the works
for a very long time. … It came up
from the faculty,” Simmons said.
“It was not part of a deliberate ef-
fort to expand. Rather, it was an
effort by faculty to increase the
scope of their work.”
In the summer of 2008, the NSF
solicited grant proposals to fund a
new mathematics institute. A team
of five faculty members from the
mathematics and computer sci-
ence departments worked on the
application, and Brown’s proposal
was chosen last summer from a
pool of 11 other applicants. The
grant is renewable at the end of
five years.
“This means, of course, that we
have to demonstrate the institute’s
value every five years,” Pipher said.
But she added that the oldest NSF
institute — the Institute for Math-
ematics and its Applications at the
University of Minnesota — was
founded in 1982.
“These institutes are not ex-
pected to have finite lifetimes,”
she said.
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Equipment U. to increase international student support
fees burden
student
groups
By Sarah Foster
Contributing Writer
Because Media Technology Ser-
vices does not receive enough
funding from the University to
cover its costs, student groups and
academic departments looking to
host events are often charged fees
for equipment and salary costs.
Events tied to specific class-
es are not charged fees, so the
money Media Services receives
from non-academic events must
compensate for those costs, said
Stephanie Obodda, assistant man-
ager for computer education and
communication.
But Computing and Informa-
tion Services is proposing plans
to “at least reduce these fees, if
not eliminate them,” Obodda said.
“We don’t have a concrete timeline
on it because it is so dependent
on University funding.”
Media Services was incor-
porated into CIS last year as a
“charge-back” organization be-
cause it has to cover its own op-
erating costs, Obodda said.
To put on events, student
groups must go through the
Scheduling Office, the Student
Activities Office, Media Services
and the Department of Facilities
Management and pay the fees for
use of Media Services equipment.
Under its current structure,
fees are charged on a three-tiered
price structure based on the level
of University involvement in the
activity.
Tier 1 pricing is for events
specifically related to for-credit
courses at the University. Events
sponsored by a University-affil-
iated organization and attended
primarily by Brown commu-
nity members are given Tier 2
pricing, at 50 percent of Tier 3
charges. The only events that pay
full price for Media Services are
sponsored by organizations not
affiliated with the University, or
target an audience external to the
University.
Certain events put on by Cat-
egory III student groups — who
receive the highest levels of fund-
ing from the University — can
use Media Services without a
charge, and event costs are paid
for through a special fund set
aside by the SAO.
Sarah Alexandra Levy ’12, co-
director of the Israeli Film Festival
of College Hill, said that Media
Services fees were “a huge part” of
the festival’s budget, adding that
she wondered why Media Services
was not funded by the University.
While the fees themselves were
not an inhibiting factor for the
continuation of the Israeli Film
Festival, Levy said, they are in-
dicative of a larger problem for
student groups wanting to plan
events on campus. Coordinating
the festival was “like a full-time
job,” she said.
By David Chung
Senior Staff Writer
International students may receive
increased University support in the
coming years, following a number of
recommendations by both students
and administrators. The University
has been re-evaluating the current
support system this academic year
to identify ways to help international
students during their transitions
to Brown.
The current recommendations
represent the combined efforts of
Michael Lin ’14, Sam Yang ’14 and
Lixian Wang ’14, all of whom are
from China.
Under the leadership of Chris
Collins ’11, chair of the Under-
graduate Council of Students
Admissions and Student Services
Committee, the three international
first-years analyzed the support sys-
tem currently available for inter-
national students and proposed a
number of initiatives — designed to
enhance the overall college experi-
ence — to University administra-
tors last semester. It is unclear when
these suggestions will be approved,
but feedback has been positive thus
far, Collins said.
The recommendations were
centered around three categories
— the transition to college, time
at Brown and life after graduation.
Lin, Yang and Wang each tackled
one of the areas.
Easing the transition
Lin, who examined the adjust-
ment of foreign students to the
University, said he noticed the lack
of sufficient support services even
during the International Mentoring
Program orientation held in late
August. Though Lin said interna-
tional orientation was helpful, he
was not offered the same type of
support to facilitate the transition
as his friends from home received
at other U.S. institutions.
Lin proposed that the orienta-
tion program offer the kind of sup-
port available at other universities
— for example, providing city tours
and assisting students with setting
up bank accounts and obtaining
cell phones. He also suggested the
University run airport shuttles for
international students because it
can be a hassle for students to find
a ride after hours of traveling. The
shuttles would run at designated
times from T.F. Green Airport and
Boston’s Logan International Air-
port so students could plan accord-
ingly, Collins said. Cornell, Am-
herst College and the University
of Virginia are among the schools
that offer airport pickup services
for international students.
Because students need to adjust
to the time zone and shop for nec-
essary supplies, Lin said a longer
orientation would be helpful. Under
the current orientation structure,
students are unable to fully engage
themselves in activities because they
are tired and have other things to
get done before school starts, he
said.
Lin said support for the cultural
and linguistic transition should
also be enhanced. A number of
international students, including
Lin, participated in Excellence at
Campus News 3
Brown, a pre-orientation academic
preparation program, but found
the program too challenging, he
said. He supports the creation of a
less intensive reading and writing
program, which could introduce
college-level literature and com-
position to students whose first
language may not be English.
But Lin and Collins said the
transition process could start even
before students arrive on campus.
Inspired by the online summer tuto-
rial of CHEM 0100: “Introductory
Chemistry,” they proposed the cre-
ation of an online course that intro-
duces students to various aspects
of American culture, conversation
and education.
Continued immersion
Yang focused his efforts on the
on-campus experience and pro-
posed measures that would pro-
vide continuous support for inter-
national students.
Building on the goals of Lin’s
proposed tutorial and orientation
program, Yang recommended the
creation of a workshop in which
five to seven international students
would be paired with an upperclass-
man. The informal setting would
allow students to practice common
expressions and discuss issues relat-
ing to American culture and con-
versation. It would serve as “a family
group that international students
can interact with,” Yang said.
Yang also advocated for the cre-
ation of a language exchange pro-
gram through which international
students and native English speak-
ers interested in studying the inter-
national students’ languages could
be paired. The program would not
only benefit foreign students, but
also students from English-speak-
ing backgrounds, who could learn
about other cultures and customs.
Yang said the International
Mentoring Program becomes less
involved as the year progresses. He
recommended that the program
increase the number of mentors to
foster individual attention.
Alums around the world
While Lin and Yang considered
their own experiences in formulat-
ing propositions, Wang depended
primarily on feedback from up-
perclassmen to make suggestions
regarding the job search process
and life after graduation for in-
ternational students. He said his
portion of the project addressed
two focus points — integration of
international students into the U.S.
employment arena and University
outreach to employment options
abroad.
The employment search process
begins on campus for international
students through the Career Devel-
opment Center and the Office of
International Student and Scholar
Services. But the search process
for international students can be
complicated and daunting, Wang
said. The international student and
scholar services office deals mainly
with legal issues, and the CDC pro-
vides general, rather than industry-
specific, services.
Following graduation, inter-
national students could serve as
representatives of the University
to attract potential applicants and
help Brown students and alums find
foreign employment. The University
currently does not provide exten-
sive support for students seeking
employment in other countries, but
if Brown maintains strong connec-
tions with alums abroad, it will be-
come easier for students to identify
foreign internship and employment
options, Wang said. The language
exchange program introduced by
Yang could also ease the transition
of students to foreign environments.
Changes in the works
The University will provide
international students with trans-
portation from T.F. Green and Lo-
gan International airports starting
this fall, said Margaret Klawunn,
vice president for campus life and
student services. Orientation will
also be extended a day to introduce
students to the American educa-
tion environment. Klawunn has ex-
pressed complete support for Lin’s
proposals and declared immediate
steps should be taken, he said.
The progress of other initia-
tives is less certain, but “feedback
was always positive,” Collins said.
Klawunn said she hopes all propos-
als will move from the planning
stage to implementation within a
year.
Though some proposed develop-
ments such as the airport shuttle
may require additional funding,
most projects will be student-run
and will not result in increased
University spending, Collins said.
The idea for the international
student project arose at the first
UCS general body meeting of
the academic year, attended by
Klawunn and Dean of the College
Katherine Bergeron. Collins said the
two were interested in international
student life, and their ideas clicked
with Lin, Yang and Wang.
Due to the University’s recent in-
ternationalization efforts and global
outreach, there had already been
a push for change among admin-
istrators, Klawunn said. But Lin,
Yang and Wang brought concrete
ideas to the table and propelled
the project forward. Klawunn and
Bergeron hosted a January retreat
for international students to brain-
storm additional ideas for short-
term and long-term projects. The
project aims to eventually create
a comprehensive office that man-
ages international student affairs,
Klawunn said.
Peter Weber, dean of the Gradu-
ate School, is also working to intro-
duce an orientation program for
international graduate students,
Klawunn said.
4 City & State
Teacher terminations spur labor rallies
continued from page 1
The past 25 years have seen the
American labor movement suffer a
“slow, agonizing death,” according to
Scott Molloy, University of Rhode Is-
land professor of labor and industrial
relations. Recent events have incited
unions across the nation to “rise up
and fight to the death,” he said.
The Providence decision was
“particularly galling for most peo-
ple because it came from a Demo-
cratic Hispanic mayor who origi-
nally seemed to have sympathies for
people like the teachers,” Molloy said.
Jay Goodman PhD’66, Wheaton
College professor of political science
and the author of “Democrats and
Labor in Rhode Island, 1952-1962,”
said the current outlook for orga-
nized labor is unclear. The recent
flare-ups could be anything from “a
blip” to the threshold of a “whole new
type of politics,” he said. “We don’t re-
ally know yet if this is an earthquake
or something temporary.”
Given its Democratic leaning,
Rhode Island would be the “last
place to respond to a natural trend
like that,” Goodman said.
‘Back-door Wisconsin’
Recent events have reenergized
the American labor movement in a
way that was — until several weeks
ago — inconceivable, Molloy said.
“It’s brought public employees
and education to the forefront,” said
Lawrence Purtill, president of the
National Education Association of
Rhode Island. The renewed attention
offers an opportunity for organized
labor, he said. “If you take advantage
and do something positive about it,
then it will be a good thing.”
According to a nationwide Febru-
ary poll conducted by the New York
Times, a plurality of Americans — ­­ 30
percent — have a positive view of
organized labor, while 25 percent
view unions negatively. The survey
also found 60 percent oppose weak-
ening collective bargaining rights,
and 56 percent are against cutting
the benefits of public employees to
reduce budget deficits.
“I think it’s the best thing that ever
happened to labor in a long time, be-
cause instead of the usual Halloween
costumes and subterfuge, this stuff
is right up front,” Molloy said. “You
either fight — and fight to the end to
maintain what you’ve been enjoying
for a long time — or else it’s all over.”
Steve Smith, president of the
Providence Teachers Union, has
spoken out vociferously against the
firings. He referred to the Providence
situation as a “back-door Wisconsin”
at a Feb. 22 Providence School Board
meeting.
But Rhode Island is not quite
Wisconsin, Purtill said. “I think
Wisconsin is pure politics,” he said.
“I don’t believe that’s true here. I’d
like to continue to believe the mayor
made a mistake, and now the ques-
tion is, politically, how do you resolve
it?”
Negotiate or terminate
Whether Taveras, barely two
months into his first term in office,
has irreparably damaged his relation-
ship with labor is — for the moment
— unclear.
“The entire spectrum of orga-
nized labor in Rhode Island was
represented at the rally the other day,”
Robert Walsh ’83, executive director
of the statewide NEA chapter, wrote
in an e-mail to The Herald. “If this
situation remains unresolved, then
the damage will probably be per-
manent.”
Teachers from across the state —
alongside members of Local 1033 of
the Laborers International Union
of North America and members of
state firefighters unions — gathered
in support of Providence teachers on
the steps of City Hall last week. Some
members of the Providence Teachers
Union wore prisoner numbers to
signify they were among the teachers
who had been terminated. Others
took up the booming chant that set
the tone of the rally — “negotiate,
not terminate!”
Taveras attended a private meet-
ing with Weingarten, the national
teachers union president, following
the event, Taveras spokesman Da-
vid Ortiz wrote in an e-mail to The
Herald.
Purtill was one of numerous lead-
ers to speak at both rallies. Sporting
a red Wisconsin jacket in a show
of solidarity, he said his message to
Taveras — “Don’t let this be a Wis-
consin” — was clear.
A former history teacher and
president of the state’s NEA chapter
for the past 12 years, Purtill is no
stranger to rallies. He characterized
The termination of teacher contracts has increased calls for negotiations.
them as emotionally charged events
that have come to represent the labor
movement in the past century.
“Union leadership, whether in
other states or here, are still adher-
ing to the script of their well-worn
playbook, which says, ‘Resort to loud
rallies and accusations of elected offi-
cials trying to break unions when the
call for concessions gets too aggres-
sive,’” Rhode Island Statewide Co-
alition spokeswoman Donna Perry
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.
The coalition advocates for taxpayer
and business interests. Perry added
that accusations of a “Republican
conspiracy” to bust unions fall flat
given that Taveras is the Democratic
mayor of left-leaning Providence.
While he understands the need to
fight for union rights, Purtill said he
wishes rallies did not have to happen,
adding that they distract from the
teachers unions’ true focus — the
students. “We can’t just ignore edu-
cation,” he said. “We’ve got to figure
this out, to make it work.”
The Brown Daily Herald
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Amy Rasmussen / Herald
Working the system
Rhode Island is one of 14 states
that require teachers to be laid off
solely based on seniority. Due to pro-
visions in existing teachers union
contracts, the newest teachers are
always the first to go when a district
cuts jobs. Currently, only three states
require performance to be the most
important factor in layoff decisions.
Taveras’ decision to fire teachers
instead of laying them off means he
will have greater leeway to eliminate
the positions of senior teachers, who
command larger salaries. The mass
firings might be a statement saying,
“Let’s get rid of the old timers, not
necessarily because they’re bad, but
because they cost more,” Molloy said.
While a first-year teacher makes
approximately $35,000 a year, a
teacher with 25 or 30 years on the
job can cost the district more than
$70,000, Purtill said.
One uncertainty is whether
Providence teachers will “work-to-
continued on page 5
The Brown Daily Herald
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Bill would give students dollars to stay in Rhode Island
By Inni Youh
Contributing Writer
State Rep. Chris Blazejewski, D-Prov-
idence and East Providence, joined
the Brown Democrats last Tuesday to
present his plan to counter the “brain
drain” that has troubled the state for
years. The bill, called Opportunity
RI, offers financial incentives both
for students to stay in Rhode Island
after graduation and for businesses
to hire them.
The bill would provide graduates
of Rhode Island colleges or universi-
ties a tax credit of up to $8,400 for
their student loan payments if they
remain in the state to work. Op-
portunity RI also offers tax credits
to companies that volunteer to pay
down the student loans of the gradu-
ates they employ.
Blazejewski submitted the bill in
the state’s House of Representatives
last Tuesday with almost 30 signa-
tures from legislators on both sides
of the aisle and said he also hopes
to get a Senate co-sponsor soon.
Opportunity RI is modeled on a
nearly identical 2007 bill ­— called
Opportunity Maine — that passed
with bipartisan support in Maine’s
state legislature.
The progressive Democrat said he
City & State 5
hopes the bill will remove financial
barriers to higher education. “But the
critical piece of this legislation is to
keep people in Rhode Island,” he said.
Blazejewski ­— a Harvard grad-
uate who said he also suffered the
burden of student loans ­— said the
legislation will work to end a vicious
cycle in which companies are reluc-
tant to move to Rhode Island due to
a perceived lack of college-educated
workers and students leave Rhode
Island after graduation because they
cannot find work.
“Graduate school is no longer
a definite option,” said Shawn Pat-
terson ’12, a member of the Brown
Democrats. Patterson said the bill
has made him consider working for
Rhode Island state government or a
law firm after graduation.
“Brain drain is an important is-
sue that can be addressed through
smart policy,” Blazejewski said. While
the legislation will initially cost the
state as students learn of the pro-
gram and apply, he said the project
will ultimately finance itself through
additional income tax receipts from
college graduates that remain in the
state. “There might be cost increases,
but the idea is that you are staying
and paying income tax that you
would otherwise not be paying,” he
said.
Opportunity RI is different from
other legislation because students at
Rhode Island colleges and universi-
ties are its main proponents, Blaze-
jewski said. The Brown Democrats
are already advocating for the bill.
Katerina Wright ’11, president of
the Brown Democrats, said they
will work in committees to develop
media strategies and lobbying op-
portunities and reach out to other
student groups.
“I think it is an excellent idea,”
said Peter Simon ’13. “Rhode Island
needs to take advantage of the fact
that Brown is located in this state.”

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continued from page 4
rule.” It is against the law in Rhode
Island for public school employees to
participate in strikes. Instead, teach-
ers sometimes refuse to perform any
service not specifically listed in their
contract.
In that case, teachers refuse to
perform many of the voluntary ser-
vices that families take for granted
— after-school help, field trips and
parent-teacher conferences — until
the union is able to negotiate with
the district. In recent years, teach-
ers in Johnston and the Exeter-West
Greenwich Regional School District
have used the tactic during impasses
in contract negotiations.
Though Purtill said most officials
are hoping for a quick resolution,
it is impossible to predict the exact
tactics unions will take if the clash
with Taveras continues to drag on.
“No teacher likes it — nobody likes
it,” he said of work-to-rule. In Rhode
Island, it has only occurred when
“there’s been no alternative to solving
negotiations.”
Chafee’s silence
Some have suggested Gov. Lin-
coln Chafee ’75 P’14 — elected with
strong support from the state’s larg-
est teachers unions — may fall short
on his promise to be a tough nego-
tiator with public labor. Historically,
unions have held a great deal of sway
in Rhode Island politics.
Unions have “basically controlled
the state legislature for many decades,
which is how their benefits and re-
tirement packages, among the best
in the nation, were green-lighted by
statutes passed by the General As-
sembly over the years,” Perry wrote
to The Herald.
Chafee has largely remained silent
on the evolving Providence education
crisis. “The governor has complete
confidence in Mayor Taveras’ ability
to handle the situation,” said Chafee
spokesman Mike Trainor.
“I’m a little surprised he hasn’t
said anything about it yet,” Purtill
said. “He came right out in Central
Falls.” As a candidate for governor
during mass firings in the strug-
gling district last February, Chafee
was quick to provide suggestions
for mediation. “I can’t just sit on the
sidelines and watch labor unrest get
sparked,” he told the Providence
Journal Feb. 23, 2010.
According to Purtill, unions have
always had a good relationship with
Chafee. “If he has to make any chang- Island’s unfunded pension liability — underfunded system, said Ashley that the state pension plan’s unfunded
es, he’ll do it in a fair manner and the gap between the state’s obligations Denault MPP’07, policy analyst for liability could be as much as $10 bil-
with the people it involves,” he said. to its pensioners and the funds it has the Rhode Island Public Expenditure lion. If the liability is truly that high,
Teachers unions view Chafee as set aside for that purpose. The state Council. Chafee may not be able to keep his
an “honest broker” whose tone differs pension plan covers roughly 50,000 But 401(k) retirement plans most promise not to touch benefits for se-
from that of his Republican predeces- state employees and local teachers. benefit workers who make upwards nior employees, including veteran
sor, Walsh wrote, noting that the less During his campaign, Chafee pro- of $100,000 dollars, according to Pur- teachers, Profughi said.
labor-friendly former Gov. Donald posed a hybrid plan — modeled on till. Generally speaking, he said, that “No one might have the luxury
Carcieri ’65 was the product of the the one currently used by the federal does not include teachers. of being able to follow through on
“Old Curriculum” at the University. government — that would increase Gina Raimondo, Rhode Island the promises that are out there right
“Labor will not get everything it employee contributions to the badly general treasurer, recently projected now,” he said.
wants from Gov. Chafee, but it will be
invited into the conversation, which
is a welcome change,” he wrote. comics
Victor Profughi, Rhode Island
College professor emeritus of po- BB & Z | Cole Pruitt, Andrew Seiden, Valerie Hsiung and Dan Ricker
litical science and director of the
polling firm Quest Research, said
he is inclined to believe that Chafee’s
personal sympathies are likely to lie
with those who supported him — the
teachers.
Still, the governor “has certainly
shown a strong degree of courage
in the past,” he said, citing then-Re-
publican Chafee’s decision to cam-
paign for President Obama in 2008.
“There’s some history that he can and
has stood on his own two feet and has Cloud Buddies! | David Emanuel
been willing to do what he believed
needed to be done.”
Economic distress
When the Providence School
Board voted 4-3 in support of Tav-
eras’ decision to terminate the city’s
teachers Feb. 24, those in favor saw
it as a means to close the school
district’s gaping $40 million budget
deficit.
But a drawn-out battle with the Dr. Bear | Mat Becker
unions may only add to the economic
distress, Purtill said.
In a Feb. 26 interview with Po-
litico, Chafee said, “You don’t want
to get into a war you can’t win” about
the standoff with labor in Wisconsin.
Chafee pointed to the detrimental
economic impact a teachers strike
dealt to Warwick when he was the
city’s mayor from 1993-99.
Politicians could find them-
selves “in the courtrooms for weeks,
months or years fighting this,” Molloy
said, which could potentially cost Dot Comic | Eshan Mitra and Brendan Hainline
millions. “It’s not going to be pretty,”
he said. Smith has filed an unfair
labor practice complaint with the
Rhode Island Labor Relations board
and publicly said he plans to contest
each of the 1,926 terminations.
Education and finance officials
alike await details of the state budget,
set to be released today. According
to Trainor, the governor will lay out
a definitive plan for bridging Rhode
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Editorial Editorial comic b y a l e x y u ly

Leaving the paper trail behind
The University’s decision to phase out the paper Course Announce-
ment Bulletin inspired a sophomore to print his own hard-copy course
listing and sell it for $10.
But don’t bother seeking out this black-market version of the course
catalog, because we are not talking about a reaction to last week’s an-
nouncement about changes to the distribution of the printed CAB.
The then-sophomore in question was a member of the class of 2009,
and his homemade bulletin was emblematic of general resistance to
Brown’s transition to an online course registration system four years
ago. In fact, in response to a flurry of complaints from students and
advisers, the Office of the Registrar began printing the paper bulletin
again for the 2008-09 school year. At that time, students voiced concerns
over the difficulty of using Banner, especially for underclassmen. As a
sort of compromise, when the registrar’s office reinstated the course
catalog, they whittled it down to 180 pages, eliminating details about
labs and sections that could be found in the online system.
Now that the CAB has once again been given the boot, supporters
of both sides of the issue still put forth the same arguments. Paper’s
proponents say that in an online system, it is less likely students will
stumble upon courses they were not already looking for. Advocates
of the digital system point out that most students prefer to look up
courses online, making a printed course catalog a waste of paper and
University dollars.
But overall, the University’s announcement last week failed to meet
the same level of resistance from the undergraduate community that
a similar decision provoked in 2007.
We appreciate the University’s dedication to minimizing waste and
its mindfulness in continuing to distribute the CAB to advisers and
department officials instead of eliminating it completely. But we encour-
age the University to reconsider its decision to no longer distribute a
letter to the editor
printed bulletin to incoming students. Despite recent improvements,
Banner can still be considered an especially confusing system to navigate Criticism of conference based on false dichotomy
for students looking up courses at Brown for the first time. The only
thing a first-year might find more frustrating is scrolling through a To the Editor: what the conference is all about — are trying to cover
PDF version of the course catalog on the registrar’s website. up the suffering of Palestinians under Israeli occupa-
We also urge the University, as it invests resources and staff in de- As the organizer of the upcoming conference “Israelis tion. Nothing could be further from the truth. I invite
veloping electronic tools to replace their paper analogues, to streamline and Palestinians: Working Together for a Better Future,” the author and members of the Brown community to
its existing online systems and make them more comprehensive and I am compelled to correct some errors in a column attend the conference and hear what these Israeli and
easy to use. Students now declare their concentrations online through (“Shalom-Salaam: dialogue as distraction or dialogue Palestinian partners actually do together. I can guarantee
the Advising Sidekick, but information about concentrations, their as action?” March 7). you that every one of the speakers at the conference is
requirements and alumni careers is housed in several separate places — The conference I have organized and Brown-RISD as outraged about the issues the author raises as is the
the Dean of the College’s Focal Point page, the Office of the Registrar’s Hillel’s Israeli-Palestinian Peace Week are separate proj- author. Indeed, it is because of their opposition to the
website and individual department websites. Furthermore, while the ects that were developed independently of each other. suffering experienced on both sides of the conflict that
shopping cart feature on Banner was inspired by the independently run While I have expressed my support for the Hillel project, the speakers at the conference bravely challenge the status
Mocha course site, Banner has yet to supply textbook pricing informa- the student organizers of that project should be the ones quo by finding ways to work together for the mutual
tion as Mocha does. The course catalog, in its printed form, contained to respond to the criticism of it by the author. In addition, benefit of both peoples. The author’s argument is based
concentration information in addition to course descriptions, a useful the Watson Institute for International Studies is only one on a false dichotomy between protest against injustice
feature that was left out of its online incarnation. Today’s students of several co-sponsors of the conference. A complete and the search for peace. Both paths are necessary if there
are perhaps more receptive to the University’s forays into the digital list of the co-sponsors may be found at the web link for is ever to be a final resolution of this conflict.
sphere. Still, we are waiting to see the University’s efforts online move the conference.
beyond poor facsimiles of the paper tools that once were all we knew. In general, the author argues that those, like myself,
who seek to expose the Brown campus to cooperative David Jacobson
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
david sheffield
Opinions Columnist
Chelsea Waite ’11 provides a varied array
of claims about how religion is benign and
beneficial (“Truth Tuesdays,” March 2). Ac-
cording to her column, it is not the tenets
of religions that are problematic — it is
their corrupted lust for power and thirst for
domination. Apparently, if it were not for
those corrupting influences, they would all
happily coexist, each providing some wis-
dom and truth. To round everything out,
she even provides the postmodern gambit
that everyone just views the world in a dif-
ferent way, never mind whether that view
corresponds with reality.
The focus of the column, a project in re-
ligious literacy, is a wonderful idea in prin-
ciple. But it needs to be based on reality
and show the good and bad doctrines, not
a whitewashed caricature.
Waite claims that Christianity is based
on “love” and Islam is based on “devotion
and mercy.” Perhaps it is just the infidel
in me who will be cast into a pit of fire to
suffer eternal torture for not worshipping
some guy, but the whole love claim seems a
bit hollow. The concept of Christianity be-
ing based on love does make a little more
BY Chris Norris-LeBlanc
Opinions Columnist
Nationwide, educators in public schools
are facing an unprecedented attack on their
salaries, collective bargaining rights and in
many cases, their jobs. Behind the euphe-
misms of “flexibility” and “working togeth-
er to balance the budget” lay much more
sinister motives — power-grabbing, union-
busting and an effort on the part of the Re-
publican party to build up public servants
as straw men for the economic crisis. The
most repugnant cases have thus far oc-
curred in Wisconsin, New Jersey and our
own state.
In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker laid
out a fiscal plan that would force govern-
ment workers to increase the amount of
money they pay into their pensions by
nearly 5 percent and increase how much
they pay towards their health care by 6 per-
cent. Although these euphemized pay cuts
would surely aggravate the economic stress
that all of middle-class America is already
feeling, in a move towards compromise,
the leaders of Wisconsin unions agreed to
these measures. The only request from the
unions was to retain collective bargaining
rights and to continue to receive cost-of-
living wage increases. The unions’ offer was
flatly rejected.
In New Jersey, we see a similar story.
Gov. Chris Christie, notorious for his an-
ti-union rhetoric, has gone after teachers
with particular zeal. His proposed reforms
could cost many New Jersey teachers at
least $12,000 a year, effectively cutting their
salary by 20 to 28 percent. Bear in mind,
this is coming from a man whose net worth
Truthiness Tuesdays
sense in light of the sheep–shepherd idea.
A shepherd might love his sheep very dear-
ly, but that does not stop the shepherd from
having some tasty mutton now and then.
To be honest, I still do not see much love.
Some of the evils of Christianity are
due to “drives for power, for wealth and for
domination.” The perennial sex abuse by
Catholic clerics has certainly been aided by
the church’s attempts to cover up the abuse
to save face. Politicians have been all too
Maybe the Vatican will supply “Deus cinaedos odit” signs
at the next anti-same-sex marriage rally down the hill.
happy throughout history to use religious
divisions along with ethnic ones to consoli-
date power.
But it is hard to argue that things like
homophobia in Christianity are caused by
corrupting factors alone — the same is true
for most other religions. The Bible makes
it quite clear that homosexual behavior is a
sin and a capital offense. Before the Chris-
tianity-is-love crowd says that this is just
the backwards Old Testament, Paul makes
it quite clear that lusting for people of the
same sex is verboten — see Romans 1:26–
32. Apparently, God does not approve of
Who needs teachers anyway?
was estimated at $3.8 million in 2007.
Finally we make it up north to Provi-
dence where, in jaw-dropping fashion,
policymakers issued termination notices
to every teacher in the city. In the name of
flexibility, 1,926 people were thrown under
the bus by the city to which many of them
have given 15, 20 or even 30 years of their
lives. Repeated assurances from Superin-
tendent Tom Brady and Mayor Angel Tav-
eras that not everyone will lose their jobs
are little consolation for the nearly 2,000
The glaringly obvious conclusion is that this attack is
not really about balancing budgets, but rather a move
from the top down to consolidate power and break apart
workers unions.
people now facing the prospect of unem-
ployment in an economic climate where
every cent counts.
In trying to understand what is at stake
for these teachers, it is important to define
the difference between a “termination” and
a “layoff.” While a layoff implies that there
is either no position available or that there
is no money in the budget to pay a work-
er’s salary, it allows for future employment
if circumstances change. Moreover, a layoff
allows teachers to be rehired based on se-
niority, a privilege specifically written into
their union contract.
On the other hand, termination com-
pletely removes teachers from the educa-
tion system. If they want to reapply for a
job in the Providence school system, they
will have to do so without seniority privi-
Opinions 7
Sex Power God.
This leads to Waite’s claim that religious
people deserve respect. Like with every
other person, respect is something to be
earned by one’s actions. While standing
up for your beliefs rather than quivering
in some dark corner will make me respect
you more, that is by no means a guarantee.
Few people in America stand up for
their religion more than the members of
the Westboro Baptist Church. This is the
church that pickets soldiers’ funerals and
other events with their “God hates (slurs)”
and “Thank God for Sept. 11” signs. I
might respect their right to freedom of re-
ligion and freedom of speech — they re-
cently won a Supreme Court case protect-
ing their right to picket funerals — but I do
not respect them as people.
Yes, I do give them credit for being
more consistent than most other religions
— their signs are pretty good summa-
ries on the Biblical God’s opinion of queer
people. Their actual message cancels out
any respect I give them for above-average
leges, completely erasing the decades of
their lives given to the city. Termination
also serves as a black mark on a teach-
ers’ records, making it extremely hard for
them to be hired again in another city. As
it states explicitly in teachers’ contracts that
some sort of misconduct or inadequacy is
required for termination, future employers
have no choice but to assume the worst.
As a final slap in the face, many teach-
ers at the recent meeting with the Provi-
dence Board of Education brought up dur-
ing public comment that they found out
about their termination on the 10 p.m.
news, their frightened children sitting be-
side them. This behavior on the part of the
policy makers in Rhode Island is nothing
short of audacious, dehumanizing and dis-
gusting.
In all three states, although the circum-
stances and demands are different, there is
a common theme. Rather than enter into
a level-footed discussion about balancing
budgets, policy makers have gone over the
top and launched a full-fledged attack on
teachers and other government workers.
The glaringly obvious conclusion is that
this attack is not really about balancing
budgets, but rather a move from the top
down to consolidate power and break apart
workers unions. Even more nefarious is the
consistency. Even if I despise them, I also
have a soft spot for their church. With so
many other anti-queer groups trying to
hide their animus, I find the Westboro Bap-
tist Church’s overt bigotry to be refreshing.
Maybe the Vatican will supply “Deus cinae-
dos odit” signs at the next anti-same-sex
marriage rally down the hill.
It is a good thing to promote religious
literacy. I find it sad that in a recent study,
only a few religions have as religiously liter-
ate a population as the nonreligious. But it
does not surprise me, considering the lack
of literacy among many believers about
their respective religions. Not to keep pick-
ing on the Catholics, but every time one
tells me that the immaculate conception
was God getting it on with Mary, I secretly
wish there were a hell — they would go to
the same level as everyone else that propa-
gates common errors.
But a worthwhile project would need to
provide an accurate portrayal of the aspects
of each religion. That not only includes fo-
cusing on sects that have abandoned many
of the most egregious dogmas, but on those
that relish those unappealing aspects as
well.
David Sheffield ’11 is a mathematical
physics concentrator.
The Inquisition can contact him at
david_sheffield@brown.edu.
ideological war being raised against public
servants, propping up and crucifying them
in the media as greedy leeches trying to ex-
tort money from the helpless, debt-ridden
government.
This ideological warfare is a double-
edged sword. It turns middle class workers
against each other, and in doing so takes
bloated administrative salaries and tax cuts
for the rich out of the spotlight. Nearly
10,000 Rhode Island state employees make
$30,000 to $60,000 a year, while 620 make
$100,000 or more. After looking at a list of
some of the higher-end salaries, it is not
a surprise to learn that the overwhelming
majority are given to mayors, treasurers
and other high-level government employ-
ees.
This is truly and completely revolting.
Rhode Island, New Jersey and Wisconsin’s
millionaires and highly paid politicians are
sitting atop their stacks of money, sneakily
passing the burden along to the struggling
middle class, all the while inciting argu-
ments and scapegoating teachers to make
completely sure their tightly guarded pock-
ets remain full to the brim.
While they are doing this, they are us-
ing the economic hysteria to their advan-
tage and attempting to break apart state
workers unions to consolidate the power
into their own hands. If they think they are
fooling anyone with their euphemisms and
“our backs are against the wall” arguments,
they are sincerely mistaken. I stand in soli-
darity with our city’s teachers and hope that
Brown students, regardless of their eco-
nomic background, will make a concerted
effort to do the same.
Chris Norris-LeBlanc ’13 is from Rhode
Island. He can be contacted at
chris.norris.leblanc@gmail.com.
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Bears silence Lions in Ivy opener
By Sam Wickham
Contributing Writer
After falling to Boston University
last Tuesday, the women’s lacrosse
team got back on track with a win
Saturday against Columbia, defeat-
ing the Lions 14-6 at the Berylson
Family Fields. Goals from eight dif-
ferent Brown players led the team
to victory in its first Ivy League
match of the season.
Lindsay Minges ’13 and Alexa
Caldwell ’11 got the Bears (2-1,
1-0 Ivy League) off to a good start,
each scoring within the first three
minutes of play to put Brown up
2-0. The Lions clawed back with
a goal two minutes later, but a
four-goal streak from four differ-
ent Brown players — including
Erin Roos ’14, whose tally was the
first of her Brown career — pushed
Bruno’s lead to 6-1.
Columbia’s Olivia Mann broke
the Brown scoring streak 12 min-
utes in, cutting Bruno’s lead to four.
Kaela McGilloway ’12, who leads
the team in scoring with 14 goals
this season, responded with her
second goal just a minute later and
added a third with nine minutes
to play in the half to push Brown’s
lead to 8-2. The half ended with a
flurry of scoring, with Columbia
striking at the 27-minute mark and
Bruno adding two more from Julia
Keller ’12 and Nancy Baker ’12 to
bring the score to 10-3 going into
the halftime pause.
The Bears again added to their
lead six minutes into the second
half. Minges and Caldwell scored
within 20 seconds of each other,
and a goal from Bre Hudgins ’14 a
minute later extended the Brown
lead to a commanding 13-3. Mann
again scored for Columbia with 20
minutes to go in the game, prov-
ing herself to be the Lions’ main
M. hockey captain
Women’s softball kicks off season
signs deal with NHL
continued from page 1
The Flyers were not the only
team courting Zolnierczyk — NHL
scouts from a number of teams at-
tended Brown home games this sea-
son. “I think he plays a style and a
game that’s going to translate well
to the next level,” said Head Coach
Brendan Whittet ’94 in a March 4
Herald article. “He’s an absolute ef-
fortless skater and a powerful kid
in terms of his ability to get up and
down the ice.”
Zolnierczyk said with the help of
his advisers and his family, he ulti-
mately determined that Philadelphia
presented the best opportunity to
pursue his career.
“The teams that wanted to be
involved made an offer,” Zolnierczyk
said. “And then we went back and
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Kaela McGilloway ’12 scored seven goals in Saturday’s win against Columbia.
source of offense in the match.
Hudgins added her second three
minutes later. Two late goals from
the Lions were not enough to
mount a comeback, and Brown
came away with the 14-6 victory.
“We like to approach each op-
ponent as if they’re the most im-
portant game of the season,” said
tri-captain Tori Conway ’11. “But
Ivy League games are special …
obviously we wanted to come out
with the win.”
“I think our ability to play our
own brand of lacrosse and play at
our tempo was one of the most
important lessons that we can put
towards the rest of the season,”
Head Coach Keely McDonald ’00
said.
Vital to the Bears’ success this
year has been the play of McGil-
loway, who was named Ivy League
co-offensive player of the week.
McGilloway leads the team with 14
points this season, seven of which
forth and discussed who was offer-
ing what and considering the best
opportunity that we felt was avail-
able to me with each team. Once we
narrowed it down to a few teams, I
think it was just a gut feeling. It just
felt right. … I talked it over with my
mother and my agents there, and we
felt Philly just had a good feeling.”
Though he will leave school
midway through his final semester,
Zolnierczyk will still be able to earn
his degree in economics and plans
on walking with his classmates at
Commencement in May.
“It won’t affect (graduating) at
all,” he said. “I’m still in good aca-
demic standing, and I’m ready to
graduate, so I’ll definitely be back
when it’s time to walk back through
those gates and join everyone else
for graduation.”
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came in Saturday’s game.
“Our attacking unit is very
strong in general,” Conway said.
“Kaela does a really good job help-
ing to lead the attack, not only with
controlling the tempo of the attack
but also by scoring goals and as-
sisting.”
“I think Kaela did a nice job
running the entire offense … but
for one person to make that kind
of impact, we need the entire
group to be on the same page and
to be successful,” McDonald said.
“We really feel like each goal that
is scored is the effort of all seven
people on attack.”
McGilloway and the rest of
the Bears hope to maintain mo-
mentum going into their match
at Quinnipiac University Tuesday
at 2:30 p.m.
“Out-of-league games are just
as important as Ivy games, and we
want to come away with a major
win,” Conway said.
w. softball
By Alex Mittman
Sports Staff Writer
The women’s softball team began its
2011 season this weekend, traveling
to Hampton, Va., for the Lady Pirates
Classic, where they faced Hampton,
Marist, Rutgers and Central Con-
necticut State University. The women
emerged with a 1-2-1 record, beating
Hampton in their season opener 3-2,
then falling 9-2 to Marist and 15-3
to Rutgers before tying CCSU 2-2.
Though the Bears struggled,
players said they are optimistic about
the team’s prospects.
“We definitely have one of the
best teams that this school has seen
in a long time,” said Kate Strobel ’12.
“We’re just a solid team offensively,
infield and outfield.”
“Our team goals are to always
improve with every season, which
I think we have the past two years,”
Strobel added.
In 2009, the team posted a 12-26
record, and last season, the Bears
were nearly even at 20-22.
Bruno has a large first-year class
track and field
Bruno competes
at championships
By James Blum
Sports Staff Writer
The men and women of the track
team wrapped up their indoor sea-
sons this past weekend, with a small
group of athletes competing at the
Eastern College Athletic Confer-
ence/Intercollegiate Association of
Amateur Athletes of America Indoor
Track and Field Championships in
Boston. Brown only sent a small por-
tion of the team that met the meet’s
qualifying times. Despite the stiff
competition at the championships,
Bruno still managed to have a good
showing.
“We had a lot of really good per-
formances,” said Michelle Eisenreich,
director of men’s and women’s track
and field. “Overall, people raced very
well.”
The men were led by Christian
Escareno ’11, who placed fifth in the
5,000-meter run with a time of 14
minutes, 14.62 seconds.
“I think I ran well,” wrote Escare-
no in an e-mail to The Herald. “This
week, at the IC4As, I randomly laid
down a pretty fast time. I feel happy
and grateful for the training the new
coach, Tim Springfield, has given
the team.”
“Christian is running very well
as evidenced by his performance at
IC4As, so he’s definitely capable to
run with the very best,” Eisenreich
said. “It has to do with him staying
smart with his training and working
with the coaches. He’s going to be a
top runner at regionals and hopefully
make nationals.”
John Spooney ’14 also posted a
strong finish, finishing seventh in
the 200-meter dash in 21.49 seconds.
Dan Lowry ’12 earned a sixth-place
— eight out of 18 roster members
are in the class of 2014 — and upper-
classmen are confident the rookies
will quickly become effective mem-
bers of the team.
“All eight of them are big athletes
who are going to make huge contri-
butions to the roster,” Strobel said.
Kristie Chin ’11, the lone senior
on the roster and a second team
All-Ivy selection last season, said
the veteran players have worked to
acclimate their new teammates to
college softball.
“The upperclassmen have done
a great job to help the freshmen
become more familiar,” Chin said.
“Upperclassmen take extra time for
extra hitting lessons and grounders.”
The practice seemed to have paid
off for the newcomers at the Lady
Pirates Classic.
Infielder Jen Kries ’14, batting
leadoff in her college debut, scored
the team’s first run, coasting in from
scoring position after Stephanie
Thompson’s ’13 RBI double. The
Bears added another run in the
opening frame and held a 3-0 lead
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
finish in the preliminaries of the
one-mile run, and Kevin Cooper
’13 finished the 1,000-meter run in
eighth place.
The women were well represented
by Hannah Wallace ’13 in the pole
vault. She cleared 11 feet, 7.75 inches
to earn ninth place overall. Gabriela
Baiter ’11.5 finished sixth in the triple
jump, and Sam Adelberg ’11 finished
first in her preliminary round of the
800-meter run.
With the indoor season behind
the track teams, the squads are be-
ginning to train in earnest for the
outdoor track season.
“The training philosophy stays
the same, but we start a new train-
ing cycle because your body adapts,”
Eisenreich said. “Where they start
now this week will be determined
by how many times they cycle dur-
ing the year.”
The first meet of the outdoor sea-
son is the Husky Spring Open, hosted
by Northeastern University March
19. Until then, the teams will focus
on helping individuals train in a way
that will benefit them the most later
on in the season.
“Very different athletes train for
very different types of competition,”
Eisenreich said. “So to nail it down
and say there’s one specific thing that
people need to be working on, you
can’t do that for track and field.”
Since Escareno was injured dur-
ing last year’s outdoor season, he said
he considers anything he can accom-
plish this season a success.
“I feel unexpectedly healthy and
fast,” Escareno wrote. “Coach Spring-
field has me running a good amount
of mileage and, well, I think I will
have a pretty good last season as a
collegiate runner.”
going into the seventh inning. Chin,
who had only yielded four hits in
the first six innings, held on in the
seventh to grab a complete-game
3-2 win.
Kries rounded the bases again
in the CCSU game, singling up the
middle and then running home on
Kristi Munoz’s ’14 hit.
Maegan Sloggett ’14 and Kristen
Watterlond ’14 scored the team’s two
runs against Marist, and Kries and
Munoz both crossed home in the
Rutgers game.
The Bears next play Friday
through Sunday at the UMBC Dawg
Pound Invitational in Baltimore, Md.
Though the team is already looking
towards the slate of Ivy games in
April — Strobel said the “first goal is
winning Ivies for sure” — the young
squad must first gain vital experi-
ence from nonconference games.
“We look at every game in itself,
not necessarily working up to the
Ivies or anything else,” Chin said.
— With additional reporting by
Tony Bakshi