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Leniency on payments to U.
aided hundreds this spring
BY brigitta greene
Senior Staff Writer
Approximately 360 students benefit-
ed from a temporary policy allowing
students with outstanding tuition bal-
ances to pre-register for spring class-
es, a University administrator said.
The plan, announced last fall to
aid students’ families in the difficult
economic climate, allowed all students
to sign up for courses this semester
regardless of payment status, said
Elizabeth Gentry, assistant vice presi-
dent for financial and administrative
services. Normally, students who owe
more than $1,000 are blocked from
pre-registering for classes in the fol-
lowing semester.
Additionally, about 40 students
with outstanding balances of more
than $5,000 were allowed to remain
officially enrolled in the University
despite rules that prohibit students
with balances over that amount from
living in residence halls or attending
classes.
Ten more students, who were in
danger of exceeding the temporary up-
per limit of $7,500 in unpaid dues, were
also able to remain enrolled after work-
ing closely with financial aid officers
to work out payment plans, said James
Tilton, director of financial aid.
The loosened restrictions, an-
Verizon improves cell phone coverage on College Hill
BY etienne ma
Staff Writer
Can you hear me now?
For Brown students with Verizon
Wireless cell phone service return-
ing from winter break, the answer is
now more likely to be yes.
The activation of a new “cell site”
— a transmitter for wireless data —
on College Hill is responsible for
the change, said David Thomson, a
spokesperson for Verizon.
In addition to better reception,
Verizon users should now enjoy fast-
er internet service on their phones
Student, dean introduce shopping period by keyword
By Anne Simons
Senior Staf f Writer
Looking for that fourth class, but
only have a small hint of an idea
of what you want? Only, perhaps,
one word?
As the first week of shopping
period drew to a close Friday af-
ternoon, the University unveiled
a new method for students to
browse for courses online. The
inside
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nounced in an Oct. 31 e-mail to the
community from Provost David
Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98, were created
in an atmosphere of rising concern
among administrators that the Univer-
sity might be facing a wave of families
suddenly unable to make payments on
tuition, Gentry said.
She emphasized that rapidly fluc-
tuating economic circumstances and
a lack of data make it difficult to plan
even for the near future. Though there
was great concern last semester, the
numbers have so far been manage-
able, she said.
“Right now we’re very comfortable
with balances,” she said. “We will have
to look at it semester by semester.”
Kertzer wrote in his e-mail last fall,
“We recognize the economic difficul-
ties that many of our students and their
families are facing and want to do all
that we can to be helpful in these chal-
lenging times.”
“The good news is what was in-
tended was achieved,” he told The
Herald last week.
Pre-registration for the fall 2009 se-
mester will not occur until April, giving
the University time to collect further
data before announcing whether it will
extend the temporary policies. “We
don’t have a good enough picture at
this point,” Gentry said. “The truth is
we’re not really seeing it yet.”
and experience fewer dropped calls,
Thomson said.
The new cell site was activated
Jan. 2 and is located in the steeple
of a church on Angell Street, Thom-
son said. (He said he was unsure
of the name of the church.) The
transmitting radios, which have an
operating radius of two miles, are
approximately the size of a toaster.
The recent activation at Brown is
part of a wider Verizon campaign
to add cell sites nationwide.
Students have already noticed a
significant change on the northern
side of campus, where many said
software, called CourseMap, is
designed to allow students “to
explore the Brown curriculum
via keywords or topics of inter-
est,” wrote Dan Rosenberg ’09,
its creator, in an e-mail to The
Herald.
According to the CourseMap
Web site, a user can enter a term
such as “Internet” to see all the
courses that have something to
do with that subject.
Arts, 5
ghostly voices
Grammy- and Tony-winner
Duncan Sheik ’92 releases
a haunting new album
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
B I T T E R S W E E T D E F E AT
Goalie Nicole Stock ’09 broke the school record for career saves
this weekend, but women’s hockey dropped two games to fall to
3-16-1.
Verizon service had previously been
spotty.
The change was obvious “as soon
as I got back to campus,” said Eric
Lewin ’12, a Champlin resident. Last
semester, he said, he had little to no
reception in his room, but he now
has service throughout the build-
ing.
“The quality of the calls them-
selves has also improved,” Lewin
added. “Not just in terms of fewer
dropped calls, but also less static.”
Jessica Faiz ’12, another Cham-
continued on page 2
The goal of CourseMap is
“to expose students to courses
that they would not have found
other wise,” Rosenberg wrote.
CourseMap was not created to
replace other sources of course
information like Mocha, the Criti-
cal Review or Banner, he said.
Rather, “it is designed to il-
luminate relationships across
departments based on common
content, which I feel is a great
Justin Coleman / Herald
Better reception
Verizon Wireless
installed a new
transmitter in a church
steeple on Angell
Street.
• The transmitter has a
radius of two miles.
• Students report
better reception
around Pembroke and
northern campus.
embodiment of what the New Cur-
riculum is all about,” he said.
Rosenberg and Miles Hovis
’08 came up with the idea for
the site, created a basic design
and presented it to Dean of the
College Katherine Bergeron last
year, Rosenberg wrote. Bergeron
offered him funding to work on
the project over the summer,
continued on page 2
Sports, 7
M. Hoops: no revenge
The men’s basketball team
fails in its second straight
bid to beat Yale’s Bulldogs
Top science
faculty named
to nat’l society
BY sydney ember
Senior Staf f Writer
Five Brown faculty members have
been elected fellows of the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science, receiving a prestigious
honor that recognizes leaders in
the field for their important con-
tributions to the physical and life
sciences.
Professor of Neuroscience John
Donoghue, Professors of Biology
Mark Bertness and Susan Gerbi,
Professor of Medical Science David
Berson ’75 and Professor of Engi-
neering Jimmy Xu were all elected
fellows in December and featured
in the Dec. 19 issue of Science, the
top-level journal published by the
AAAS.
“I just congratulate the faculty,”
said Clyde Briant, the University’s
vice president for research. “It’s
wonderful for them and it’s wonder-
ful for Brown.” He said the awards
not only are very high honors for the
faculty but further establish Brown
as a major research university.
Four of the professors said they
did not expect to be named fellows
of the world’s largest scientific body.
Donoghue could not be reached for
comment.
“It came as a big surprise to
me,” said Gerbi. “I didn’t know I
was nominated.”
Gerbi studies ribosomes — the
parts of cells responsible for build-
ing proteins from the genetic blue-
print — and the initiation of DNA
replication. She and her team of re-
searchers discovered that ribosome
biogenesis — the cellular process of
making ribosomes — could be used
diagnostically for predicting cancer.
In her research, Gerbi found that a
certain steroid hormone receptor is
important in initiating DNA replica-
tion, a significant discovery regard-
ing hormonally sensitive cancers
such as breast cancer.
She said she hopes the discovery
will lead to finding new kinds of
therapy targets and to earlier diag-
noses of these types of cancers — a
result that has personal implications
for Gerbi, herself diagnosed with
breast cancer two years ago.
Xu — recognized for his contri-
butions to nanotechnology and laser
science and the only non-biologist
honored — said he too was sur-
prised to learn of his election as an
AAAS fellow.
“What I do is just fun things,”
he said. “I pursue science and ex-
plore what’s interesting regardless
continued on page 2
Opinions, 11
the reality of war
Fatima Ageel ’12 writes
about watching war —
and experiencing it
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C ampus N EWS “I’m a one-trick pony, and they’re mistaking me for a thoroughbred.”
— David Berson ’75, Professor of Medical Science
CourseMap not aimed at Mocha
continued from page 1
she wrote in an e-mail to The
Herald.
“I think this tool has a great po-
tential to enhance a student’s path
through the Brown curriculum,
because currently there is no way
to do keyword searching” using
Banner or Mocha, Bergeron wrote.
This “relational database” allows
students “to discover connections
between disparate courses,” she
wrote.
CourseMap is still in its pilot
phase and there are some “small
discrepancies” between its data
and the information available on
Banner, Rosenberg wrote. The
Web site encourages users to re-
port any problems and, according
to Rosenberg, “students should be
able to expect reliable schedul-
ing information from CourseMap,
since it comes straight from Ban-
Brown scientists make Cell service
the grade for AAAS gets boost
continued from page 1
where,” he said, referring to the
many different fields of science
It’s never too late to join the Herald! he researches such as engineer-
ing and photonics — the study of
light generation and transmission.
“I guess I’m sort of homeless,” he
Look for more on informational said. “I stake out where I can find
shelter and have some fun.”
meetings starting next week. Berson, recognized for his
work in visual neuroscience, said
he initially thought his admittance
to the association “had to be a mis-
take.”
sudoku “I’m a one-trick pony, and
they’re mistaking me for a thor-
oughbred,” Berson said. He added
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ner.”
Another feature to expect in the
future is the ability for students
to submit their own ideas for key-
words, based on their own personal
knowledge of courses, Rosenberg
wrote. There are also plans “to
improve the flexibility of search-
ing and to interface with Mocha,
Banner and the Critical Review,”
he added.
Most of the students The Her-
ald spoke with had yet not used
CourseMap. Joshua Rodriguez-
Srednicki ’12 said he thought the
Web site was “pretty cool,” but it
didn’t run well on his computer.
Brittany Katz ’12 criticized the
timing of the program’s release,
after three full days of shopping
period. “It came out after we chose
our courses,” she said.
“Here’s a way to find out what
you already know,” Tom Iadecola
’12 said. “I’m sure it will be useful
that he suspects he was chosen
because of research he conduct-
ed in 2002 regarding a new type
of neuron in the retina. He said
he studies what the eye tells the
brain to inform it about the visual
world.
Bertness, who does experimen-
tal studies of shoreline communi-
ties such as salt marshes, sand
dunes and rock shores, jokingly
speculated that he was elected
because he’s “an old guy.”
Donoghue, the director of the
brain science program at Brown,
was elected for his research on the
brain signals that lead to voluntary
movements.
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later.”
Other students said they were
satisfied with Mocha, another stu-
dent-built Web tool. Nicholas Mel-
vin ’09 said he prefers using Mocha
because he is already used to it. He
said he also appreciates the ability
to see a list of books and compare
prices on Mocha’s Web site.
Rosenberg plans to continue to
develop CourseMap for the “fore-
seeable future,” he wrote.
“This is exactly the kind of proj-
ect that defines the excellence of
our undergraduate curriculum,”
Bergeron wrote. “A student had a
good idea, the passion to pursue it,
the talent to build it and the sense
of social responsibility to share it
with everyone.”
Rosenberg’s Web site, acces-
sible at coursemap.brown.edu, was
operational when it was introduced
to students on Friday but was down
early this morning.
continued from page 1
plin resident, said that Verizon ser-
vice was “so bad” that she was “con-
templating switching” her provider
to AT&T after her first semester. But
the price difference was too great
to justify the change, she said, and
when she returned last week she
was happy to find a “pleasant sur-
prise — the (Verizon) service was
good.”
“I can have conversations with-
out the calls dropping anymore, and
I can send text messages with no
problem pretty much anywhere in
the dorm, and I was not able to do
that before at all,” Faiz continued.
“I’m just really, really happy.”
But not ever yone noticed a
change. Julia Duch ’12, a Keeney
resident, said that there was “no dif-
ference” in her Verizon service.
Monday, January 26, 2009
C ampus N EWS
Students wait in line to sign for packages in the mailroom. Soon e-mails will replace paper notices for packages.
Political science prof.
investigates ‘warrior gene’
BY MATT SCULT
Contributing Writer
You’re driving on the highway and
suddenly a car comes whipping
out of the lane next to you, forcing
you to slam on the brakes. Do you
think, “Oh well, the driver must be
in hurry”? Or do you flash him a
strategic hand gesture and scream
some choice phrases?
You might be interested to learn
that your reaction may be connected
to your DNA.
A recent study co-authored by
Professor of Political Science Rose
McDermott examines a genetic link
to aggression. McDermott is inter-
ested in political psychology and over
the past decade has been studying
aggression through simulated war
games.
Sex differences accounted for the
most robust distinctions in behavior,
McDermott said, but the discrep-
ancy was not due to hormonal dif-
ferences between the populations. It
was “clear something else was going
on,” McDermott said. This led to her
search for a genetic component to
aggression.
She set up a experiment in which
subjects completed a vocabulary task
in order to earn virtual money. They
then were told that an anonymous
person could choose to take some
of the money from them, but that
they had the option of punishing
this person for doing so by making
him eat hot sauce. In order to ad-
minister the punishment, though,
the subjects had to pay even more
money than they originally lost. The
subjects thought they were retali-
ating against the other person, but
in reality the “other person” was a
computer program, which always
took either 20 or 80 percent of the
person’s earnings.
What was significant about the
findings was that individuals with a
certain gene were much more likely
to administer punishment when 80
percent of their earnings were tak-
en compared to people without the
gene. The findings seem to indicate
that, under conditions of high provo-
cation, individuals with this gene
are more likely to show aggressive
behaviors.
All of the subjects for this study
were male because the gene is on
the X chromosome ­— since men
only have one X chromosome, it was
simpler to determine if a man had an
active copy of the gene.
McDermott decided to look at this
particular gene because it had been
linked to aggression in primates and
was found to be more prevalent in
certain populations that have histori-
cally had a large focus on warfare.
These findings collectively have led
to the name “warrior gene.”
This is not the only study that
has tried to connect complex behav-
iors to genetic factors. Other recent
studies have found genetic links to
trust and mate selection, McDer-
mott said.
Like other human behaviors, ag-
gression is a “very, very complicated
phenomenon” that is influenced by
genetic, social and environmental
factors, McDermott said. Her goal
“is to understand more about it at a
basic scientific level,” she said. “I’m
planning to explore further the re-
lationship between genetic and en-
vironmental triggers.” Specifically,
she would like to study the effects
of traumatic early life events on ag-
gressive behavior, she said.
Visiting Assistant Professor of
Psychology Theresa Didonato, who
teaches a course on social psychol-
ogy, agreed that it is important to
consider the many factors that influ-
ence complex behaviors such as ag-
gression. “I wouldn’t want (McDer-
mott’s) results to be misinterpreted
(as saying) that you are locked in,”
she said, referring to individuals
being genetically predestined for
aggressive behavior. “Genes are not
deterministic.”
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“It’s one of the best things Brown has to offer.”
— Kona Shen ’10, on the $5,000 international scholarship
Kim Perley / Herald
Fourteen students receive int’l scholarships
BY Melissa Shube
Senior Staff Writer
Fourteen students were awarded
$5,000 scholarships last month
from the Office of International
Affairs to spend the summer study-
ing abroad.
The of fice, which received
nearly 60 applications, planned to
give international scholarships to
10 students but ultimately scaled up
to 14, thanks to an added financial
boost from the Office of the Dean
of the College, said Vasuki Nesiah,
director of international affairs.
“This year it was definitely very
competitive,” she said. “The stu-
dents who got it were excellent,
and there were many other strong
candidates as well.” The scholar-
ship program aims to link inter-
national travel and research with
the undergraduate curriculum at
Brown, she said.
Winners of the scholarship were
creative with their proposals and
thought deeply about how “their
coursework could feed into proj-
ects they do outside the academic
classroom, and in turn how these
projects feed into their academic
learning,” Nesiah said.
While the program is in its
first year, Nesiah said, the Office
of International Affairs intends to
continue with the program in the
fall. She said she expected that
the office will be able to “at least
match what we did this year” in
terms of the number of scholar-
ships offered.
The program also provides stu-
dents with faculty mentorship and
Package slips, coming soon
to your (e-mail) inbox
BY JULIA KIM
Contributing Writer
The student mailroom is entering the
digital age. University Mail Services
will soon be e-mailing students when
packages arrive rather than distribut-
ing paper notices to mailboxes.
The notification system grew out
of an initiative by the Undergraduate
Council of Students. UCS President
Brian Becker ’09 said the Council
started exploring the idea halfway
through last semester. The new sys-
tem “will make life much easier for
students,” Becker said.
Mail Services Manager Fred Yat-
taw said he hopes to have the pro-
gram up and running soon, after the
early semester mail rush slows down.
The e-mail system would ideally be-
gin “after the dust settles” around
Valentine’s Day, Yattaw said. Accord-
ing to Yattaw, current mailroom pro-
Research projects around the globe
Winners of $5,000 awards to study abroad
• Elizabeth Adler ’11, Nepal
• Joshua Bernard ’11, Ecuador
• Steven Daniels ’10, Kenya
• Lisa Gomi ’10, Japan
• Rosi Greenberg ’10, Syria
• Caitlin Ho ’10, Cambodia
• Ariel Hudes ’11, Honduras
• Rashid Syed Hussain ’10,
India
a monthly dinner seminar, Nesiah
said.
The program is “especially
good when you compare it to a lot
of grants that are offered, ” said
Kona Shen ’10, who plans to design
and pilot a “reconciliation program”
between the countries of the Do-
minican Republic and Haiti, with
her award. “Just financially they
offer a lot more money, and they
offer more faculty support and
structure.”
Caitlin Ho ’10, who will travel to
Cambodia to study human traffick-
ing, and Shen said they liked the
community aspect of the scholar-
ship program as well.
“It’s fun to meet people who are
interested in the same work, in the
same types of things,” Shen said.
“It’s one of the best things Brown
has to offer, just getting to know
the people who have done such
amazing work everywhere.”
“I feel like what they are trying
to do is set up a support system,”
Ho said. “I’m really looking forward
to conversations that we’ll have with
each other.”
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tocol involves scanning packages,
typing student box numbers into a
computer and then printing out alerts
to distribute to mailboxes. With the
new system, a software program will
automatically link box numbers with
e-mail addresses and send electronic
notifications to students.
Initially, the mailroom will only e-
mail students for packages requiring
signatures, eliminating the current
yellow slips. If students don’t pick
up their packages in a timely fashion,
secondary paper notices for these
packages will still be printed and de-
livered to student mailboxes. Under
the new initiative, paper notices for
packages not requiring signatures
will remain in use, so students can
still expect to see blue slips in their
boxes.
Becker said he hopes the next
step will be e-mailing students when
all packages arrive.
• Scott Lowenstein ’10, Mexico
• Patrick Martin-Tuite ’10, South
Africa
• Emily Segal ’10, England
• Kona Shen ’10, Dominican
Republic and Haiti
• Megan Smith ’10, Jamaica
• Shang Song ’10, Canada
Patrick Martin-Tuite ’10 will
spend the summer in South Africa
researching whether male circum-
cision is an effective health inter-
vention. Martin-Tuite plans to do
research at the University of Cape
Town, to work with the Treatment
Action Campaign, and to attend the
International AIDS Society Confer-
ence in Cape Town this summer.
“I’m hoping to explore the com-
plexities and intricacies of forming
HIV and AIDS policy in South Af-
rica, especially as it pertains to male
circumcision,” said Martin-Tuite.
The winners, and their planned
countries of study, are: Elizabeth
Adler ’11, Nepal; Joshua Bernard
’11, Ecuador; Steven Daniels ’10,
Kenya; Lisa Gomi ’10, Japan; Rosi
Greenberg ’10, Syria; Caitlin Ho ’10,
Cambodia; Ariel Hudes ’11, Hon-
duras; Rashid Syed Hussain ’10,
India; Herald Senior Editor Scott
Lowenstein ’10, Mexico; Patrick
Martin-Tuite ’10, South Africa; Em-
ily Segal ’10, England; Kona Shen
’10, Dominican Republic and Haiti;
Megan Smith ’10, Jamaica; and
Shang Song ’10, Canada.
Arts & Culture
The Brown Daily Herald
Lebanese artist brings
continuity to Bell Gallery
By Anita Mathews
Contributing Writer
Negation is at the heart of “Knot,”
the current exhibition by Lebanese
artist Annabel Daou at the David
Winton Bell Gallery in the List Art
Center. Even the “K” in the title is
deliberately faded, leaving visitors
with a bold impression of the word
“not.”
Daou’s objective is “to get to
something so bare that it is almost
nothing,” according to the exhi-
bition brochure. To achieve this,
she relies almost exclusively on the
most basic of artistic techniques—
the line— to create texture and defi-
nition. Daou told The Herald she is
“interested in the approaching but
not quite being.”
The exhibit, which runs through
March 8, consists of three sequen-
tial parts: 12 notebooks, an accordi-
on “map” and a wall drawing. Each
component features a continuous
line curving and doubling back over
itself to create patterns of images.
The entire sequence was in-
spired by 12 words supplied by col-
laborating artist and writer David
Markus. At first, each notebook was
guided by one of Markus’ words,
given to Daou over the course of an
entire year. Daou then returned the
notebooks to Markus, who subse-
quently wrote an unbroken line of
text that later engendered Daou’s
vision for the wall drawing featured
in the show.
The accordion map, which fea-
tures a miniature version of the wall
mural on one side and Markus’ text
on the other, is a line itself, bridging
the first and last elements of the
exhibit. Copies are available at the
gallery for visitors to take home.
“What remains is not a docu-
mentation of the work itself but
something that preceded the work,”
Markus said.
The wall mural is the most strik-
ing element of the showcase, an
exploration extending from floor to
ceiling done completely in Micron
pen. At each place where Daou
lifted her pen, she documented
the time, as well as the time she
resumed work. The line runs from
right to left as a salute to Arabic,
Daou’s mother tongue and a criti-
cal part of her Lebanese heritage.
The first portion of the line even
incorporates English words from
Markus’ text written phonetically
in Arabic script. This sort of in-
cremental work is in keeping with
Daou’s interest in working outside
the convention of isolated pieces,
she said.
She also said that when making
new work she frequently makes
reference to her past creations
and sometimes even future proj-
ects. “Knot” is no exception, for, as
Markus says, it retains an “archaeo-
logical element” and is in “constant
dialogue with the past.”
One segment of the wall mural
alludes to “America,” a composi-
tion featured in Daou’s first solo
show, an exhibit that ran in New
York City in 2006 and incorporated
text from quintessentially American
poets, politicians and musicians.
Daou said the segment of “Knot”
which consists of the words “voice,”
“truth” and “stage” repeated over
and over is meant to contradict
cer tain elements in her earlier
“America” composition.
As for future projects, the sec-
tion of the mural line inspired by
“muse,” one of the twelve words
provided by Markus, hints at an
upcoming poster project where
the words “This is not that” will
be printed on two large posters, one
in English located in New York City
and the other in Arabic in Beirut,
Daou’s hometown.
Daou said that “Knot” reflects
“what we lost over the past year,” an
ambiguous reference to political as-
pects of the work. She is interested
in “subtle communication,” some-
thing at which she said President
Obama is very skilled. Markus add-
ed that people, especially the press,
are often “suspicious of subtlety,”
but that this has changed since the
2008 election.
The biggest challenge Daou
faced was not being able to cor-
continued on page 6
Sheik ’92
channels a
ghost for
new album
By Rosalind Schonwald
Staf f Writer
“Whisper House,” a new album by
singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik
’92, comes out Jan. 27, and this
haunting song cycle is not to be
missed.
Sheik is critically acclaimed
for his work as a solo artist — he
earned a Grammy nomination for
his 1996 single “Barely Breathing.”
More recently, he has made a suc-
cessful foray into theater, compos-
ing the score for the Grammy and
Tony award-winning 2006 rock
musical “Spring Awakening.”
Though the new album has its
roots in the American singer-song-
writer tradition, it also contains
some innovative and quirky choic-
es in theme and orchestration,
making it stylistically consistent
with the rest of Sheik’s work.
Sheik’s understated vocals
and guitar-playing are wonder-
fully matched with the sounds of
singer-keyboardist Holly Brook.
Their ethereal voices call, respond
and intertwine, binding together
the mysterious narrative of “Whis-
per House.”
Sheik wrote “Whisper House”
from the perspective of a ghost, a
“person who died in 1912 who is
looking down on the human pa-
thos and kind of mocking it,” he
told The Herald.
“It was fun to write these songs
because I’m not writing them as
Duncan Sheik, but from the per-
spective of this whimsically ma-
levolent ghost,” he said.
Sheik’s work is highly collabor-
ative, and he describes his profes-
sional relationships in terms that
demonstrate his seriousness about
his craft and his respect for others’
talents and contributions.
“I’ve always worked with a
British orchestrator,” Sheik said.
“His name is Simon Hale, and he’s
worked on all the theater, movie
and album projects I’ve worked
Monday, January 26, 2009 | Page 5
Award-winning alum Duncan Sheik ’92 will release a new album.
on. I’ll usually let Simon do his
thing. I’ll record an initial version
of a song and I’ll send it to him.
He’s really a genius and I trust
him to do what he does.”
Sheik’s relaxed and respectful
artistic approach was also evident
in his description of co-performer
Brook, who toured with him for
several years as an opening act.
“She kind of joined the band,”
he said. “When I started ‘Whis-
per House,’ she was my go-to
person.”
Sheik is working with Brooke,
whom he calls “an amazing song-
writer,” to produce her own album.
“I let her write her own songs, her
lyrics and her music, and it’s just
helping her manifest her vision,”
he said.
For someone whose career
has been defined by performance,
Sheik was surprisingly averse to
taking center stage during his
undergraduate years at Brown.
In performance, he would pro-
vide accompaniment for various
lead singers, including future
songwriting stars Lisa Loeb ’90
and Elizabeth Mitchell ’90, who
would go on to form the band Liz
and Lisa.
Sheik reserved his own singing
for the privacy of the recording
Courtesy of Duncan Sheik
studio in the music building. “As
a singer I was self-conscious and
shy,” he said. “The Underground
was pretty much the main place
I performed, but it was guitar for
Liz and Lisa.... Even after I had a
gold record and a Grammy nomi-
nation, I couldn’t get a gig there,”
he joked.
Sheik maintains a cool head
about his success. “My advice
always has to do with tr ying to
forge your own voice and your
own uniqueness that is as eccen-
tric as you want it to be,” he said,
offering advice to undergradu-
ates entering the arts world. “It’s
never a good idea to second-guess
what the public wants to hear. You
should not be doing it for commer-
cial reasons; it should be some-
thing that moves you.”
When asked about his cur-
rent connection to Brown, Sheik
said, “I still have a lot of great
friends that were my roommates
or friends from Brown that I still
hang out with that I’m probably
sure will be friends for life.”
“There’s a creative network
of people who went to Brown in
the actor community,” he said.
“There’s the writer-producer Hol-
lywood group. It’s a Brown mafia,
really.”
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A rts & C ulture
Past, future appear in
new Bell Gallery exhibit
continued from page 5
rect her mistakes, she said. A self-
proclaimed perfectionist, she was
supplied with a bucket of white
paint to fix any flaws, but she re-
sisted the temptation to use it.
“I tend to be ver y brutal with
myself,” Daou said.
To overcome this, Daou said
she kept in mind that the work is
inherently temporary, for the walls
of the gallery will soon be painted
over. In fact, she incorporated this
evanescence into the design and ex-
ecution of the work, intending it to
be “something you could pull from
one end and have it unravel.”
Daou also said she was pleased
to have her work shown in a univer-
sity gallery, an environment which
she believes is more concerned
with the perspectives of both viewer
and artist. In creating her art, Daou
said, she seeks to be honest with
herself, preserving an individual-
ity that is more encouraged in an
academic environment than in the
art world she has experienced.
“Knot” is not the first project
Daou and Markus have collabo-
rated on, and both artists say it is
unlikely to be the last. This asso-
ciation helped Daou to build the
honest work that she was striving
for. Daou employs the elements of
line and text in a refreshingly stark
way and creates depth using a rela-
tively finite medium. The themes
of negation, reversibility and rep-
etition come across as meaningful
to the artist and powerful for the
viewer.
Viewers found the particular
premise of art created from one
continuous line to be challenging,
but agreed that Daou had pulled
it off well.
“I love it,” said Katie Lawson,
a guest at the exhibition’s Jan. 23
opening reception. “It makes me
want to have my own white room
at home.”
“It’s like what you see when
you’re driving in a snow storm,”
said Marilyn Soscia, referring to
the wall mural’s striking amount
of white defined by thin black
detailing. Soscia, a Rhode Island
resident, was drawn to the exhibit
after she found herself in a taxi with
Daou upon the artist’s arrival in
Providence.
“She said it took hours of work,”
said Soscia. “I thought to myself,
‘Her arm must be killing her.’”
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
— Annabel Daou, artist and self-proclaimed perfectionist
happy new year !
Undergraduate students celebrate Chinese New Year by making traditional dumplings.
Oscar contenders get boost; ‘Blart’ still rules
By Tiffany Hsu
Los Angeles T imes
HOLLYWOOD — A nod from Os-
car always helps, as films such as
“Slumdog Millionaire” discovered
when the glow of Thursday’s Acad-
emy Award nominations caused a
“I tend to be very brutal with myself.”
surge in contenders’ ticket sales
over the weekend.
Although they couldn’t beat
out fresher, undecorated fare
such as “Paul Blart: Mall Cop”
and “Under world: Rise of the L y-
cans,” the top two revenue gen-
erators this weekend, all of the
Oscar nominees for best picture
received a significant boost.
Many of the nominees had
been in limited release, but stu-
dios added theaters, and award-
season spectators followed the
glint of Oscar gold. Critically ac-
claimed heavyweights such as
“The Reader” and “Milk” sold
more tickets than in previous
weeks.
“Slumdog,” a Fox Searchlight
movie set in India, made nearly
one-fifth of its total ticket sales in
its 11th week after grabbing 10
Academy Award nods. The film
saw an 80 percent boom week
over week in ticket sales, partly
by adding 829 theaters to its previ-
ous limited-release run.
The rags-to-riches film, itself
a Cinderella tale after averting a
direct-to-DVD fate, blazed into
fifth place by collecting $10.6 mil-
lion of its $55.9 million total and
is expected to surpass the $100
million mark eventually.
“This little film has got ter-
rific word-of-mouth, and it’s one
of the specialty films that ends on
an up note when so many of the
nominated films are serious and
depressing,” said Sheila DeLoach,
senior vice president of distribu-
tion for Fox Searchlight. “It’s the
underdog movie that became the
top dog.”
“The Curious Case of Benja-
min Button,” from Paramount,
pushed into the ninth spot after
earning 13 nominations, the most
this year. It garnered $6 million,
to give it $111 million in ticket
sales over five weeks.
With a Golden Globe win and
Oscar nomination for lead actor
Mickey Rourke, Fox Searchlight’s
“The Wrestler” was released in
422 more theaters and watched
its ticket sales jump 117 percent
Monday, January 26, 2009
Qidong Chen / Herald
to an estimated $3.7 million this
weekend. Universal’s “Frost/
Nixon” soared 351 percent when
it tacked 946 theaters onto its
153-theater run.
Even “The Dark Knight,”
which landed Heath Ledger a
posthumous nod for best sup-
porting actor, pulled in $661,000
for Warner Bros. during a special
re-release.
“A nomination will never hurt
your box office, with what it gets
you in audience credibility,” Me-
dia by Numbers President Paul
Dergarabedian said. “It’s like a
golden stamp of approval, and
all these films are capitalizing
on it.”
The top films this weekend,
however, were not in Oscar’s
sights.
Ticket sales for the low-budget
Sony/Columbia comedy “Paul
Blart” dropped 32 percent in its
second week from its opening
weekend but managed to hold the
top spot, with an estimated $21.5
million over the weekend.
“People truly are in the mood
to laugh right now, to escape for
a few hours,” said Ror y Bruer,
president of worldwide distribu-
tion for Sony Pictures Entertain-
ment.
Sony continued its winning
streak with the opening of Screen
Gems’ “Underworld,” which came
in second by pulling in an esti-
mated $20.7 million from a mostly
male audience.
Warner Bros.’ “Gran Torino,”
with Clint Eastwood as a crotch-
ety Korean War veteran who
bonds with his Hmong neigh-
bors, brought in $16 million in
its seventh week and landed in
third place. In a strong second
week, Paramount’s family film
“Hotel for Dogs” followed with
an estimated $12.4 million over
the weekend.
Overall, Hollywood did well
this week compared with the
same week last year, with 13.8
percent more ticket sales and
year-to-date attendance up 20.9
percent.
SportsMonday
The Brown Daily Herald
M. hoops
comes up
just short
against Yale
By Benjy Asher
Spor ts Editor
For the second consecutive week-
end, the men’s basketball team (6-
10, 0-2 Ivy) went up against Yale (7-
9, 2-0), and
Yale 57 once again,
Brown 55 the Bull-
dogs from
New Haven came away with the
victory. Friday night’s game was
close throughout, with the Bears
eventually falling by two, 57-55.
Despite the final outcome,
the contest saw an improved ef-
fort from Brown’s previous game
against Yale, when the Bulldogs
outscored the Bears by 10 in the
second half en route to an 80-72
win.
“We executed a little better and
just played a little harder in general
this time,” said Tri-Captain Scott
Friske ’09.
The Bulldogs led throughout
the first half, but Brown stayed
competitive, keeping Yale’s lead
to eight points at its highest. With
five minutes to go in the first half,
Yale was leading 26-19. But with an
8-2 run, including four points off the
bench from guard Steve Gruber ’10,
Bruno was able to cut the deficit
to 28-27.
Center Matt Mullery ’10 paced
the Bears’ offense with 10 points
in the first half and finished with
a game-high 22 points, along with
a team-high nine rebounds and a
game-high six blocks.
Ross Morin led Yale with 11
Career saves record, Bears fall
in lopsided w. hockey defeat
By Andrew Braca
Spor ts Editor
It should have been a cause for cel-
ebration for the women’s hockey
goalie. But on the same weekend
that Captain
Brown 0 Nicole Stock
Colgate 5 ’09 br oke
Brown’s ca-
Brown 0 reer saves
Cornell 6 record, her
team suf-
fered a 5-0 loss to Colgate and a
6-0 loss to Cornell at Meehan Au-
ditorium.
“Right now it doesn’t feel good,
because taking a 5-0 loss isn’t ex-
actly the outcome we wanted, but
I’m sure in retrospect when I think
about it, it will be good,” Stock said.
“It’s just playing every day, and I
happened to break some records
along the way.”
Entering the weekend 38 saves
shy of the previous record of 2,490
saves held by Ali Brewer ’00, Stock,
a Herald Sports Staff Writer, had 45
Adrian Williams ’11, one of the men’s basketball team’s top shooters, dropped 16 points in a weekend loss to Yale.
first-half points and finished with
20 points and a game-high 10 re-
bounds.
After a basket by Yale to open
up the second half, Adrian Williams
’11 drained a three-pointer to tie the
game for the first time that night.
The Bulldogs got their lead back to
34-30 until lay-ups by Williams and
Mullery on back-to-back posses-
sions tied the score once again.
The two squads continued to
trade baskets and with 11:39 re-
saves against Colgate on Friday and
43 against Cornell the following day
to push her career total to 2,540. Last
year, she set school records with 27
saves in a period, 66 in a game and
1,004 in a season.
This record was a source of mixed
emotions for Head Coach Digit Mur-
phy after a rough weekend dropped
the Bears to 3-16-1 (2-11-0 ECAC
Hockey).
“She wouldn’t be breaking the
record of saves if we had a better
team, so I guess the bad news is our
team lets up that many shots and the
good news is we have a good goalie,”
Murphy said. “I think she deserves
it. She’s the kind of kid that, if she
played at a different school she
might be an Olympian.”
The Bears came into the week-
end with high hopes. On the previ-
ous weekend they had fought hard
in a pair of one-goal losses on the
road to then-No. 5 St. Lawrence and
Clarkson, two of the top five teams
continued on page 8
maining Williams connected on
another trey to give the Bears their
first lead of the game at 39-37.
“We executed our offense well,
and whenever they’d go up, we’d
keep making plays to stay in the
game,” Friske said.
Williams went 4-of-5 from the
field on Friday, including a 3-of-4
mark from three-point range, and
he converted all five of his free
throw attempts to finish with 16
points. Williams currently leads the
Andrea Hunter ’10 speeds away from her opponent Saturday.
Monday, January 26, 2009 | Page 7
Justin Coleman / Herald
Ivy League in free throw percent-
age at .905, and his .449 three-point
field goal percentage is second in
the league.
The second half saw seven ties
and two lead changes, with neither
team leading by more than six at
any point. The Bulldogs went on a
6-0 run to build a 53-47 lead with
3:09 left to play, but again the Bears
were resilient as Mullery scored
continued on page 8
Justin Coleman / Herald
M. hockey
snaps out
of losing
streak
By Dan Alexander
Sports Staff Writer
Jarred Smith ’12 scored a goal in
each of two games to lead the men’s
hockey team (2-13-4, 2-8-2 ECAC
Hockey) this
Brown 4 weekend.
Colgate 1 Smith
scored the
Brown 1 go-ahead
Cornell 5 goal with 12
seconds left
in the second period in a 4-1 victory
Friday night over the Colgate Red
Raiders, and the Bears’ lone goal
in a 5-1 loss to No. 1 Cornell the fol-
lowing night.
The Colgate win was the first
win for the Bears since they de-
feated Union on Dec. 6. The Bears
had two ties over the stretch, one
against Western Michigan and an-
other against Harvard, on Jan. 3 and
9, respectively. They dropped their
next two games by a combined score
of 11-2 before losing in overtime to
Clarkson on Jan. 17.
Brown hadn’t defeated Colgate
(6-13-5, 1-8-3) in Hamilton since 1993,
but the Red Raiders have struggled
everywhere this year. They are last
in the ECAC and entered the game
on a three-game losing streak.
After a scoreless opening period
against Colgate, Jeff Buvinow ’12
fired a shot from the left point just
1:05 into the second period. Colgate
goalie Alex Evin didn’t see the shot
that beat him, as he was screened.
Smith and Assistant Captain Matt
Vokes ’09 assisted on the play.
The lead didn’t last long, as Col-
gate got one back just eight seconds
later. Tom Riley of the Red Raiders
won the face-off to Nick St. Pierre,
who passed it back to Riley. Riley
rushed into Brown’s defensive zone
and shot from the top of the right
face-off circle. The puck beat goalie
Mike Clemente ’12 for the only time
all night, as the freshman tallied 32
saves.
The score remained knotted at
1-1 until Smith scored on a power
play with just 12 seconds remaining
in the middle frame.
Sean McMonagle ’10 scored his
third goal of the season just under
14 minutes into the final period. Mc-
Monagle took the puck from behind
the net and tried a wrap-around shot.
Evin stopped the first but couldn’t
corral the rebound. McMonagle
collected the rebound in traffic and
scored on a wrist shot, giving the
Bears a 3-1 advantage.
The Raiders pulled Evin with 1:33
left in favor of an extra attacker. Mike
Stuart ’09 intercepted a pass at mid-
ice just under a minute later. Stuart
scored on the empty net to make the
final score 4-1.
The following night, the Bears
kept the game close against Cor-
continued on page 8
Page 8 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Monday, January 26, 2009

S ports M onday “I think we were just slow from the get-go.”

— Nicole Stock ’09, women’s hockey captain

Goalie breaks saves record

but w. hockey struggles
continued from page 7
in the conference. And in November
Brown had lost to Cornell on a goal
with eight seconds left in overtime
before turning around to beat Col-
gate, 4-3.
On Friday, after going 13 score-
less minutes, Colgate took a lead it
would not relinquish with 6:21 re-
maining in the first period. The Raid-
ers were whistled for the game’s
first penalty a minute later, but it was
the Bears who were burned on their
own power play, as Colgate’s Katie
Stewart broke away and beat Stock
top-shelf for the shorthanded goal
to give her team a 2-0 lead.
“I think it sucked some of the
wind out of us, but we (have to)
bounce back and put that behind
us and move on,” Stock said. “We
have to be better at mentally putting
things behind us.”
Colgate would go on to notch
three more shots during Brown
power plays, but Stock stopped
all of them. For the weekend, the
Raiders and the Big Red combined
to outshoot the Bears, 7-6, during
Bruno power plays.
Stock made only 11 saves during
the first period, but she notched 18
in the second period to bring her
within nine saves of the record. Still,
Colgate scored twice in the middle
of the second frame to open up a 4-0
lead. Erica Kromm ’11 came close
to putting Brown on the board early
in the period, but her shot clanked
off the right pipe.
Entering the third period, with
the game all but put away for Col-
gate, the primary question was when
Stock would break the record.
Colgate added another goal
seven minutes into the period, but
Stock set the saves record two min-
utes later during a Raiders power
play by stopping one shot to tie the
record and the rebound to break
it.
With 1:32 remaining, the Bears
appeared to finally get on the score-
board, but the goal was waived off
because the referee ruled that a
Brown player used her hand to
punch the puck into the goal. Col-
gate’s Lisa Plenderleith made 18
saves to shut out Bruno.
“I think we were just slow from
the get-go,” Stock said. “We weren’t
getting on it real quick, we weren’t
getting the puck in deep (and) we
weren’t doing the little things that
really help you win hockey games.
It started in the first period; we got
down 2-0 and kind of just never
bounced back.”
It was more of the same on Sat-
urday, as the Big Red buried the
Bears early. Cornell raced out to the
lead just 2:37 into the game, scored
again three minutes later, and took
a 3-0 lead just 10:29 into the frame,
on its way to a 19-3 advantage in first
period shots. Justin Coleman / Herald
Women’s hockey suffered a disappointing 6-0 loss to Cornell at home on Saturday night.
“They had better players,” Mur-
phy said. “Cornell has done a very scoreless for over 12 minutes, but Niesluchowski made 18 saves to play. If you had seen us play last
good job of supporting its women’s the lead grew to 4-0 on a beautiful slam the door on the Bears, mark- weekend (against) Clarkson and St.
hockey program. They have several play. Cornell’s Rebecca Johnston ing the first time in program his- Lawrence, we were a night-and-day
players on the national team that streaked down the right side nearly tory that the team was shut out in team. We were a very good team
they have been able to attract to to the goal before centering to Chel- consecutive games at home. last weekend, and the only thing I
Cornell, and it’s a good job in their sea Karpenko, who one-timed the “I am a little disturbed by our can think of is the imposter team
recruiting efforts. They outworked puck into the back of the net. lack of scoring,” Murphy said. “I showed up.”
us, and they were better athletes.” Cornell tacked on two goals 47 think that mentally when we play The Bears will hit the road to
The Bears appeared to turn the seconds apart midway through the at home we’re not as focused, and face Quinnipiac on Friday and Princ-
corner in the second period, taking third period to produce the 6-0 fi- it’s frustrating as a coach. I think eton on Saturday.
nine shots, getting 18 saves from nal score. Sasha Van Muyen ’10 led this week … getting back to the “Hopefully the right team will
Stock, and holding the Big Red Bruno with five shots, but Jenny academic routine really affected our show up,” Murphy said.

M. icers split weekend Bulldogs run

matches, end losing streak over m. hoops
continued from page 7
nell (14-2-3, 9-1-2 ECAC) until the
third period, but lost 5-1 after the
hosts scored three goals in the final
frame.
The Big Red received six of the
30 first-place votes in the USA To-
day Poll this week, and received the
No. 3 overall ranking. They entered
their match against Brown atop the
ECAC standings though they had
lost 4-3 to Yale the night before. The
Yale loss was their first loss since
November and only their second of
the season.
The Big Red came out like a top-
ranked team in the first period, scor-
ing on just their second shot 1:38 into
the game. When the Bears turned
the puck over in the defensive zone,
Cornell’s Michael Kennedy collected
the puck and fired a rocket that beat
Clemente top shelf.
Both teams got friendly with the
penalty boxes in the first period.
Brown gave Cornell four power play
opportunities and received two as
well. Assistant Captain Jordan Pi-
etrus ’10 was whistled for slashing
at 4:18 into the opening frame.
As Pietrus’s time in the box ex-
pired, Joe Devin of Cornell scored
the first of his two goals that night,
putting Cornell ahead 2-0 in the sec-
ond period.
The Bears made it a one-goal
game under a minute into the final
period. Buvinow skated down the
left wing as Smith trailed behind.
Buvinow left the puck for Smith at
the top of the face-off circle. Smith
took it, and flung a wrist shot past
Ben Scrivens glove-side low to bring
the Bears within one.
The Big Red increased their lead
under five minutes later when Devin
scored his second of the night on a
two-on-one fast break. Devin’s wrist
shot from the left circle ricocheted
off the crossbar and into the net.
Cornell tacked on two more goals
in the last five minutes to make the
final score 5-1.
The Bears return to home ice Fri-
day night when they take on Quin-
nipiac (13-9-2, 6-4-2 ECAC Hockey)
at 7 p.m. in the first match-up be-
tween the two conference rivals this
season.
yet again
continued from page 7
on back-to-back possessions to cut
Yale’s lead to two points with 2:05
remaining.
Yale expanded its lead to 57-51,
but Mullery connected on a pair of
free throws and Friske came up
with a steal and converted a lay-up
to bring the Bears back to within
two points.
Friske played a solid all-around
game, with six points, six rebounds
and a game-high seven assists.
With 18 seconds remaining, Justin Coleman / Herald
Tri-captain Chris Skrelja ’09 wasn’t able to put the Bears over the top
Friske fouled Yale’s Porter Bras-
in a close game versus Yale.
well, who missed both of his free
throw attempts, giving Brown a Friday, Mullery leads the Bears Ryan Wittman, who leads the Ivy
golden opportunity to tie or win with season averages of 16.3 points League with 19.6 points per game,
the game, but the Bears were un- and 1.9 blocks per game. He is cur- and seven-foot center Jeff Foote,
able to get off a final shot, and the rently fourth in the Ivy League in the league’s leading shot-blocker.
Bulldogs eked by with the win. scoring and second in blocks. Then on Saturday, Brown will play
“Everybody was really disap- Next weekend, the team will Columbia (5-11, 0-2 Ivy).
pointed with the loss, because we travel to New York in search of “We’re going to have to be solid
really left everything out on the their first Ivy League win under for 40 minutes. Even in games that
court,” Friske said. “But we can’t first-year Head Coach Jesse Agel. we’ve won, I don’t think we’ve done
hang our heads, we have to move On Friday night, the Bears will that yet,” Friske said. “Coach has
on to our next game.” take on a strong Cornell team (12- stressed that we need to focus on
Following his performance on 6, 2-0 Ivy) that includes forward being consistent.”
World & Nation
The Brown Daily Herald
Biden warns of increase in U.S. casualties
By Peter Wallsten
Los Angeles Times
Vice President Joe Biden, in a som-
ber assessment of the road ahead,
predicted Sunday that U.S. casualties
would climb in Afghanistan as the
Obama administration shifts military
priorities in the battle against ter-
rorism.
“We’ve inherited a real mess” in
Afghanistan, Biden said. “We’re about
to go in and try to essentially reclaim
territory that’s been effectively lost.
... All of this means we’re going to be
engaging the enemy more now.”
One of President Barack Obama’s
first major foreign policy challenges
is to confront an increasingly aggres-
sive Taliban by trimming U.S. forces
in Iraq and bolstering the troop com-
mitment in Afghanistan.
But the complexity and potential
cost of the new strategy were under-
scored Sunday by an outcry from
Afghanistan over a U.S. operation
that the United States said killed 15
militants but Afghan officials said
had claimed the lives of 16 civilians,
including two women and three chil-
dren.
In Kabul, President Hamid Karzai
condemned the strike, saying that
repeated American military opera-
tions in which civilians are killed are
“strengthening the terrorists.”
Beyond the latest incident, the
situation in Afghanistan reflects an
earlier decision by the Bush admin-
istration and its allies to limit military
involvement there -- an approach that
has opened the way for a resurgent
Governments in Europe face growing anger
By Philip P. Pan
The Washington Post
RIGA, Latvia — On a frigid evening
this month, more than 10,000 people
gathered outside a 13th-century ca-
thedral in this Baltic capital to pro-
test the government’s handling of
Latvia’s economic crisis and demand
early elections.
The demonstration was one of
the largest here since the mass ral-
lies against Soviet rule in the late
1980s, and a sign of both the public’s
frustration and its faith in the politi-
cal system.
But at the end of the night, as the
crowd dispersed, the protest turned
into a riot. Hundreds of angry young
people, many drunk and recently
unemployed, rampaged through the
historic Old Town, smashing shop
windows, throwing rocks and eggs
at police, even prying cobblestones
from the streets to lob at the Parlia-
ment building.
Similar outbursts of civil unrest
have occurred in recent weeks
across the peripher y of Europe,
where the global financial crisis has
buffeted smaller countries with few-
er resources to defend their econo-
mies. Especially in Eastern Europe,
the turmoil reflects surging political
discontent and threatens to topple
shaky governments that have been
the focus of popular resentment over
Taliban that now rules unchallenged
in much of the countryside and stag-
es effective hit-and-run attacks on the
urban areas where U.S. and other
forces are concentrated.
And the Taliban’s continued abil-
ity to operate from bases and staging
areas across the border in northern
Pakistan, with relatively little oppo-
sition from a weakened Pakistani
government, adds to the problem
for U.S. strategists.
Obama has pledged to deploy
some 20,000 additional troops in
Afghanistan in an Iraq-like “surge”
designed to impose security in cit-
ies and towns that essentially have
gone lawless.
That is a major increase, but the
current force numbers only about
32,000 -- far smaller than the roughly
200,000 serving in Iraq and only a
fraction of what experts say would be
needed to dominate the region.
Add to this Afghanistan’s history
of bloody but successful resistance
to outsiders. Remote, mountainous
and riven by tribal loyalties and a
network of local warlords with shift-
ing alliances, Afghanistan has been a
graveyard for foreign military forces,
including the Soviet Union and impe-
rial Britain.
It was against this grim back-
ground that Biden, asked whether
Obama’s surge in Afghanistan would
lead to more American casualties,
said: “I hate to say it, but yes I think
there will be. There will be an up-
tick.”
The vice president did not provide
details of how the additional forces
corruption for years.
Europeans have compared the
unrest to events of the 1960s and
even the 1930s, when the Great De-
pression fueled political upheaval
across the continent and gave rise to
isolationism and fascism. But no ide-
ology has tapped into public anger
and challenged the basic dominance
of free-market economics and demo-
cratic politics in these countries.
Instead, protesters appear united
primarily by dashed economic hopes
and hostility against the ruling au-
thorities.
“The politicians never think about
the country, about the ordinary peo-
ple,” said Nikolai Tikhomirov, 23, an
electronics salesman who partici-
pated in the Jan. 13 protest in Riga.
“They only think of themselves.”
Days after the riot, a demonstra-
tion by 7,000 protesters in neighbor-
ing Lithuania turned violent, leading
police to respond with rubber bul-
lets. Fifteen people were injured.
Smaller protests and clashes have
erupted in Bulgaria, the Czech
Republic and Hungar y, following
weeks of street violence in Greece
last month. On Thursday, police in
Iceland used tear gas for the first
time in half a century to disperse
a crowd of 2,000 protesting outside
Parliament in Reykjavik. The next
day, Prime Minister Geir Haarde
agreed to call early elections and
would be used, beyond saying they
would help train Afghan police and
try to reclaim land. He did not say
how many forces, for example, might
be sent to the border with Pakistan,
where many militants move easily
across the rugged terrain and where
al-Qaida leaders are believed to be
hiding.
Biden, who traveled to Pakistan
shortly before being sworn in as vice
president, declined to comment on
reports that a U.S. drone crossed into
that country last week and attacked
an al-Qaida post -- but he reiterated
Obama’s statements during the cam-
paign that he would not hesitate to
strike within Pakistan if there was
“actionable intelligence.”
Gen. David H. Petraeus, head of
Central Command, is conducting a
review of the military situation in
Afghanistan that is expected to be
completed within weeks.
Obama last week named former
U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke
as a special envoy to Afghanistan and
Pakistan. And, in describing the re-
gion as “the central front in our en-
during struggle against terrorism
and extremism,” the new president
signaled that the additional U.S. sol-
diers could well find themselves in
combat along the Afghan-Pakistan
border.
“There is no answer in Afghani-
stan that does not confront the al-
Qaida and Taliban bases along the
border, and there will be no lasting
peace unless we expand spheres of
opportunity for the people of Afghani-
stan and Pakistan,” Obama said.
said he would step down.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head
of the International Monetar y
Fund, said the financial crisis could
cause further turmoil “almost ev-
erywhere,” listing Latvia, Hungary,
Belarus and Ukraine as among the
most vulnerable nations. “It may
worsen in the coming months,” he
told the BBC. “The situation is re-
ally, really serious.”
There is particular concern about
the relatively young and sometimes
dysfunctional democracies that
emerged after the fall of communism
in Eastern Europe, where societies
that endured severe hardship in the
1990s in the hope that capitalism
and integration with the West would
bring prosperity now face further
pain.
“The political systems in all these
countries are fragile,” said Jonathan
Eyal, director of international se-
curity studies at the Royal United
Services Institute, a research group
in London. “There’s a long history of
unfulfilled promises and frustration
with the political elites going back
to the Communist era.”
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Olmert defends Israeli
military’s actions in Gaza
By Ashraf Khalil
Los Angeles Times
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli
Prime Minster Ehud Olmert on
Sunday defended his country’s
22-day offensive in the Gaza Strip
and pledged to defend the mili-
tary against international calls for
an investigation of potential war
crimes.
“The soldiers and commanders
who were sent on missions in Gaza
must know that they are safe from
various tribunals and that the State
of Israel will assist them on this is-
sue and defend them,” Olmert said
before his weekly Cabinet meeting
in Jerusalem, in comments released
by the government.
Condemning the “moral acro-
batics” of critics who are “trying to
turn the attacker into the attacked
and vice-versa,” Olmert said a spe-
cialized government team, headed
by Justice Minister Daniel Fried-
mann, would coordinate a potential
legal defense if necessary.
Global activists and some gov-
ernments have called for an inquiry
into charges that Israeli soldiers
employed disproportionate force
and used white phosphorus muni-
tions in residential areas.
Amnesty International has
called Israel’s use of white phos-
phorus “indiscriminate” and a war
crime.
Israeli officials have insisted
that their soldiers went out of their
way to avoid civilian casualties and
accuse Hamas fighters of cynically
using Palestinian civilians as hu-
man shields while firing rockets
at Israeli communities.
“I do not know of any military
that is more moral, fair and sensi-
tive to civilians’ lives,” Olmert said
Sunday.
The Israeli military launched its
assault Dec. 27 with the stated goal
of ending years of rocket attacks by
Gazan militants against a widening
swath of southern Israel. Nearly
1,300 Palestinians were killed and
about 5,000 wounded; material and
economic damage is estimated at
nearly $2 billion. Thirteen Israelis
died over the course of the conflict,
three civilians from Gazan rockets
and 10 soldiers.
In Gaza, daily signs of a return
to comparative normality continued
to appear. Garbage trucks appeared
on the streets for the first time Sat-
urday night.
More than 4,000 schoolchil-
dren returned to classes Saturday
in both public schools and those
run by the U.N. Relief and Works
Agency. But administrators said
they wouldn’t resume normal stud-
ies right away, instead focusing on
counseling and what one Ministry
of Education official called “morale-
boosting activities.”
The mutual but unilateral cease-
fires declared a week ago by Is-
rael and the militant group Hamas,
which controls Gaza, appeared to
be holding. But anxiety still runs
high among Gazans that the attacks
could resume at any time.
Panic swept through the south-
ern border town of Rafah on Sun-
day amid rumors that Israel would
begin bombing the hundreds of
smuggling tunnels that extend into
Egypt. Hamas police closed the
Rafah border crossing with Egypt
around 4 p.m.
Many of the rumors spoke of
a warning phone call to the Red
Cross from the Israeli military, a
claim denied Sunday by Red Cross
representative in Gaza.
The Rafah tunnels became a
vital conduit for smuggled goods
when Israel and Egypt largely
sealed the territory after the mili-
tant group Hamas took control in
summer 2007. Hamas encouraged
the tunnel trade, describing it as a
legitimate lifeline in the face of an
economic siege, but Israeli officials
charge that weapons and rockets
from Iran also pass through.
During the offensive, Israeli war-
planes repeatedly pounded the tun-
nels, destroying or damaging many
but not all of them. Immediately
after Israel declared its cease-fire
Jan. 18, smugglers began working
to repair tunnels and move goods
through the undamaged routes.
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi
Livni has declared that her nation
reserves the right to bomb the
tunnel area if it suspects weapons
smuggling has resumed.
Representatives from Hamas,
its rival Fatah and other Palestinian
factions continue to gather in Cairo
for Egyptian-brokered national rec-
onciliation talks. The Cairo meet-
ings also will focus on maintaining
and extending the current cease-
fire. Hamas officials have stated
they were open to a longer-term
truce with Israel, provided it in-
cluded a full reopening of Gaza’s
borders.
President Barack Obama’s
newly appointed U.S. envoy to
the Middle East was scheduled
to arrive in Jerusalem this week
for his first official visit, Reuters
and Bloomberg news services re-
ported.
Former Sen. George J. Mitchell
will seek to breathe new life into
U.S.-sponsored Israeli Palestinian
peace negotiations. Talks toward
the establishment of an indepen-
dent Palestinian state have shown
no apparent process over the past
year despite a concerted push by
the Bush administration.
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The rank and the rate

With the staggering rise in applicants to the class of 2013, prospec-
tive students can expect to see the gritty battle for admission to become
more cutthroat than ever — a fact that may scare some, but that bodes
well for the University.
The success of Brown’s unconventional approach to learning is
contingent on a bright and motivated student body. Without gumption
and brains, Brown is nothing more than the liberal party school Bill
O’Reilly says it is. By culling all but the best, the University ensures
the success of the New Curriculum and validation of Ira Magaziner’s
’69 P’06 P’07 P’10 claim that there is, in fact, a better way to learn.
The recent increase in selectivity should also help bolster the
University’s reputation at home and abroad, something it will need to
focus on if it intends to continue to compete with the best universities
in the countr y. With Har vard Girl, a guide to raising a Har vard-caliber
child, selling over two million copies in China, it’s clear that the face
of the applicant pool is changing. To guarantee that the University
continues to attract top students, it will have to find a way to convey
its excellence to the world.
Brown’s relatively poor performance in rankings such as U.S. News
& World Report’s “Best National Universities” may not bother us as
enrolled students, but certainly affects those high school seniors too
far away to see the Main Green first hand. U.S. News currently ranks F ranny choi
Brown as the 16th best university in the countr y, the lowest in the
Ivy League. U.S. News’ methodology incorporates acceptance rates,
which means this recent increase in applications should benefit Brown l e t t e r s to t h e e d i to r s
in future rankings.

Finance courses prepare students for careers, life

The University’s fall 2007 acceptance rate — 14 percent — with
relation to its position in the ranking is anomalous — Johns Hopkins,
ranked 15th, accepted 24 percent and Rice University, at 17th, took
25 percent. This is a testament to the appeal of Brown’s approach to To the Editor: with society.
education but also conveys the fragility of its position. If the University We are pleased that Mitra agrees that our current
is unable to appeal to foreign students and selectivity dwindles, it runs We read with interest Anish Mitra’s ’10 column on finance courses, many of which have been introduced
the risk of dropping from the top 20. the financial curriculum in the economics department recently, provide “an excellent foundation for an official
Dean of Admissions James Miller has said that the office of admis- (“A financial curriculum at Brown,” Jan. 22). Part of the financial curriculum at Brown.” However, Mitra is wrong
sions has not been “focused on applicant volume.” Maybe it’s time motivation for our finance curriculum is to prepare our about the outcome. According to the Career Development
they should be. students for a career in finance. However, the events of Center, JP Morgan, Citigroup, Lazard and Credit Suisse
recent months show clearly the importance of producing have recruited at Brown in recent years. This year they
Editorials are written by The Herald’s editorial page board. Send comments not only better skilled financial analysts, but also citizens, are not really hiring very much anywhere.
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It is always good for students to learn more about to us as part of the Plan for Academic Enrichment to help
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BY FATIMA AQEEL
Opinions Columnist
When Israel and its neighbors plummeted
into violence in the summer of 2006, a group
of friends and I discussed how strange it
was that the sight of bleeding little children
being rushed to hospitals failed to move the
people responsible for the aggression on ei-
ther side. How was it possible for anyone
to watch their own people suffer death and
damage? How was it possible for them to al-
low it to continue?
Needless to say, this outlook was slight-
ly simplistic. It could only belong to people
who have not witnessed a war.
My simplistic outlook was changed
when the Brown student group M’kol haKi-
vunim invited an insider from the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict to come to Brown last
November to speak about his experiences.
The speaker, former Israeli soldier Oded
Na’aman, served during the Second Intifa-
da in 2000 and now attends Harvard Gradu-
ate School.
The room in Hillel where he was to
speak was overflowing with students. The
talk was scheduled to be from 8 p.m. to 9
p.m., but lasted until 10:30 p.m. because
students were so eager to ask questions.
Does everyone need a bachelor’s degree?
BY KATHERINE HERMANN
Opinions Columnist
The new semester has never been so new.
We begin our new classes in a new year
and with an eye on our new, change-lov-
ing president. Upon returning to campus,
I find myself wondering what new things
President Barack Obama will bring to
higher education. The “Education” section
of Obama’s Web site highlights his priori-
ties for higher education. The first will cre-
ate a tax credit to “ensure that the first
$4,000 of a college education is completely
free for most Americans.” The second will
simplify the application process for finan-
cial aid.
No one knows which promises Obama
will keep, but when it comes to education
proposals, ever yone wants a say. One of
the most striking suggestions comes from
education theorist and author Charles
Murray. In an op-ed published Dec. 27 in
the New York Times, Murray writes, “As
president, Mr. Obama should use his bully
pulpit to undermine the bachelor’s degree
as a job qualification.”
Murray wants employers to require a
certification test instead of a bachelor’s de-
gree, and he wants Obama to fer vently en-
dorse this practice. Murray believes that
de-emphasizing the bachelor’s degree will
take the pressure off young people to get a
degree that they do not want to get, do not
need to get or simply cannot afford.
I quickly dismissed his proposal. Ever y-
one wants higher education and its accom-
panying proof, right? Then I considered
The truth about conflict
Na’aman told a wide-eyed group of stu-
dents about how he, like most other Israe-
lis, served in the army not only because he
was required to by the state but also be-
cause he believed in his country’s right to
exist and wanted to defend it.
He thought he would be fighting terror-
ists who annihilated the peace of everyone
he loved.
However, he soon realized that most
of the people he dealt with and pointed a
Students’ education may allow them to have
fine academic ideas about peace, but few can
imagine the ground reality of a war.
gun at were innocent and poor Palestinian
civilians. Along with his fellow soldiers, he
found himself being harsh towards guiltless
parents in front of their children. Eventual-
ly, the war changed the people the soldiers
were as well. An innocent child’s face no
longer moved them, just as watching some-
one die no longer horrified them.
By now the audience had begun shift-
ing uneasily. This was the truth about war
that people did not know, and many did not
want to. What he said next made the audi-
why I so firmly believe in the necessity of
the bachelor’s degree and the traditional
four-year campus education.
I am enrolled in a prestigious four-year
university. I will earn my bachelor’s degree
three months from now and have greatly
enjoyed my experience. But a bachelor’s
degree from a four-year institution is not
the only form of higher education, though
it is the only one that seemed natural to me.
Murray draws this distinction, and his ar-
gument, which preser ves the importance
of higher education in general, seems wor-
thy of consideration.
It certainly seems unfair to limit the employment
prospects of Americans who may be qualified for
a job but do not have a bachelor’s degree.
Murray’s argument boils down to time,
money and intellectual capability— name-
ly, that most young people do not have
enough of any of the three. Murray writes
that most young people “want to learn how
to get a satisfying job that also pays well.
That almost always means education be-
yond high school, but it need not mean
four years on a campus, nor cost a small
fortune.”
The cost issue is hard to argue with.
Obama himself decries the cost of educa-
tion on his Web site, citing figures like the
$19,000 average debt of a graduating se-
nior. It certainly seems unfair to limit the
employment prospects of Americans who
may be qualified for a job but do not have a
ence even more uncomfortable. Holding a
gun and having the power to “punish” peo-
ple made him feel powerful. He started en-
joying being able to bully the people he had
always been terrified of growing up.
It was hard to believe this to be true of
the agreeable person the audience now saw
before it. His was a smooth transition from
being someone we could identify with to be-
ing a person who was consumed by the in-
humanity of war, and back.
As the violence in the Middle East is re-
newed, I now feel slightly guilty having had
naive notions about war. Sitting in comfort-
able coffee shops, watching the bombs drop
on TV and criticizing the brutality of it all is
perhaps not fair when the criticism comes
from people who have never experienced
a war. We cannot grasp the kind of stress
and emotional injury of those who have
witnessed conflict. Put in their shoes, who
knows the kind of individuals we would be?
While many Brown students may watch
bachelor’s degree because they could not
afford to actually pay for college or delay
their entr y into the workforce.
Murray makes an extremely conten-
tious argument when he asserts that the
majority of young people, up to 90 percent
for some disciplines, do not have the in-
tellectual capacity to achieve a bachelor’s
degree. Furthermore, he writes, “No im-
provements in primar y and secondar y ed-
ucation will do more than tweak those per-
centages.” Singling people out as innately
incapable of certain mental capacities is
dangerous territor y, as Larr y Summers
might testify.
If Murray’s assumption were true, it
would seem unusual that all or most stu-
dents at elite prep schools go on to earn
bachelor’s degrees and have relative suc-
cess in their fields. Shouldn’t only 10 or
20 percent of these kids be able to thrive
in college? Educational achievement and
class are closely related and wealthy stu-
dents will continue to pursue and attain
bachelor’s degrees as poorer students opt
out, thus further entrenching class distinc-
tions.
Murray also fails to acknowledge im-
portant benefits of the experience required
for earning a bachelor’s degree — benefits
that would apply to all who undertook it,
Monday, January 26, 2009 | Page 11
the news regularly and be well informed
about the daily progress (or rather, the dai-
ly regress) of the peace efforts in the re-
gion, most have not actually lived in a war
zone. Education may allow students to have
fine academic ideas about peace, but many
cannot imagine the ground reality of a war.
They may not understand why thoughts
such as the ones my friends and I had about
peace would be alien to people in conflict-
ridden regions.
Brown students are some of the bright-
est in the country. Many of them will go
on to become politicians, influential peace
activists and members of think tanks that
strive to provide solutions to sensitive con-
flicts. Additionally, the fresh opinions of rel-
atively unbiased people from outside a con-
flict is always valuable.
However, for their ideas to be of any
good to people in war-torn areas, it is im-
portant that students everywhere not sim-
ply dismiss people like Na’aman as in-
humane monsters, as I once did. And it
is imperative that these students have a
deeper understanding of war, violence and
terrorism.
Fatima Aqeel ’12 is a first-year from
Karachi, Pakistan. She can be reached
at Fatima_Aqeel@brown.edu.
not just exceptionally gifted or especially
eager students. Exposure to a variety of
ideas and disciplines shapes the way stu-
dents think rather than providing them
with a particular and potentially limiting
skill. This background and its accompany-
ing credentials would provide some fall-
back if, for example, an individual was laid
off from a job and had to seek work in an-
other field. And, if nothing else, students
get four years to mature mentally and
emotionally, which allows them the time
and consideration necessar y for adopting
a satisfying, promising career path rather
than grabbing the first thing that comes
their way.
While I still don’t agree that employ-
ers should stop requiring bachelor’s de-
grees (nor do I understand how one could
even effect this change), Murray’s work
deser ves respect for pointing out the im-
practicality or impossibility of achieving
a bachelor’s degree for many Americans.
Increasing access to a college education
should be, and thankfully is, Obama’s fo-
cus, as he has proven through his pro-
posed measure to ease the financial bur-
den of all forms of higher education. He
even highlights that his proposed tax cred-
it should fully cover the cost of communi-
ty college tuition. Obama’s equal empha-
sis on all forms of higher education could
help legitimize diverse degrees in the eyes
of employers, a change that Murray could
stand behind.
Katherine Hermann ’09 is a COE and
urban studies concentrator from Port-
land, Oregon. She can be reached at
Katherine_Hermann@brown.edu.
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7:00 pm — Jobs in a Tough Economic 7:00 PM — Male Sexuality Work-

Climate, Wilson 102
7:00 pm — Sugar Bears Pom Team
Tryouts, Alumnae Hall Crystal Room
shop (M-Sex) information session,
Wilson 102
7:00 PM — Audition for “The Other
Shore,” Leeds Theatre

menu
Sharpe Refectory Verney-Woolley Dining Hall

Lunch — Broccoli Noodle Polonaise, Lunch — Buffalo Wings with Bleu

BBQ Beef Sandwich, Asian Vegetable Cheese Dressing, Baked Macaroni
Blend, Polynesian Chicken Wings and Cheese, Stewed Tomatoes

Dinner — Rotisserie Style Chicken, Dinner — Tex Mex Lasagna, Moo

Italian Couscous, Vegan Roasted Veg- Shu Chicken, Tortellini Italiano,
etable Stew, Green Beans Roasted Herb Potatoes
RELEASE DATE– Monday, January 26, 2009

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ACROSS
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
4 1961 30-Down 34 BMW rival 47 Lucy’s landlady
Stock sets saves record
1 Psychic’s asset film 35 Lhasa __: small 48 Verse, in Vichy
4 Fairy tale lurker 5 Mouse and dog 50 Ghost In a pair of losses for the women’s hockey team this weekend, Captain
9 Perpendicular to squirrel 37 Fine-tune 52 Swindles
the keel 6 Bygone 39 Refused 54 Green-eyed Nicole Stock ’09 recorded 88 saves. That brings her career saves total
14 Novelist Tolstoy 7 Flowery island 42 Swiss city on the monster to 2,540, a new school record.
15 Like Swiss welcome Rhine 55 Critter “in the
cheese 8 Caustic potash 43 Tallest land headlights”
16 Stocking thread 9 Sheltered, at animal 57 Ump’s thumb- A starter between the pipes since her freshman year, Stock has been a
17 30-Down’s role in sea 44 Dealt in, as extended call
56-Across and 10 Ships’ seepage stolen goods 58 Johannesburg’s bright spot for Brown women’s hockey throughout the team’s struggles
4-Down collection areas 46 Wooded land: Abbr. in recent seasons — earning All-Ivy accolades twice.
20 Snicker 11 Devereux’s walkways 59 “You bet!”
21 “The __ of earldom
Sleepy Hollow” 12 By oneself ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: The weekend was bittersweet for Stock, with the women’s hockey team
22 Convent 13 Darns, say
25 Former 18 Professor’s job falling 5-0 to Colgate on Friday and 6-0 to Cornell on Saturday.
significant others security
26 Red-blooded 19 Philadelphia
29 Oozes hockey player
31 Cancels, as a 23 Gist
NASA mission 24 500 sheets
32 Poet Teasdale
33 Sheep’s cry
26 Emulates Diddy
27 Memorial news
comics
36 Dot on a screen item
37 Garment bottom 28 Like Hummers
Enigma Twist | Dustin Foley
38 Consume the 30 Actor to whom
last of this puzzle is
40 Hog home dedicated
41 Black, in poetry (1/26/1925-
43 Pituitary and 9/26/2008)
thyroid 33 Like a dog’s hind
44 Swiss monetary leg xwordeditor@aol.com 01/26/09
unit
45 Ab __: from the
beginning
46 Love-crazy Le
Pew
49 Becomes
enraged
51 Pronto
53 Hocked
56 1986 30-Down
film
60 Macho types Alien Weather Forecast | Stephen Lichenstein and Adam Wagner
61 Canada
neighbor, for
short
62 Churchill’s sign
63 Mushers’
vehicles
64 Removed from
the chess board
65 Soph and jr.

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1 Wrapper for
Santa
2 Air traveler’s
assignment
3 Model’s stance By Edgar Fontaine
(c)2009 Tribune Media Services, Inc.
01/26/09