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Opinion...11 the RISD museum keeps strong with three wins encourages students to
Today........12 things “light” over Yale give blood, life.
Herald Poll Strongly disapprove: 5.0% About the same as about your — or your family’s — The poll has a 3.6 percent margin of
Don’t know/No answer: expected: 75.9% ability to finance your Brown edu- error with 95 percent confidence.
Results 36.7% Worse than expected: 7.0% cation? The sample polled was demo-
Don’t know/No answer: 8.6% Very confident: 30.9% graphically similar to the Brown un-
1. Do you approve or disapprove of 4. The University currently recognizes Somewhat confident: 29.3% dergraduate population as a whole.
the way Ruth Simmons is handling the second Monday in October as the 6. How confident or worried are you Somewhat worried: 27.5% The sample was 48.5 percent male
her job as president of Brown Uni- Columbus Day holiday. There has about getting the job you want to have Very worried: 10.5% and 51.5 percent female. First-years
versity? been some discussion about chang- after graduation? Don’t know/No answer: 1.8% made up 29.0 percent of the sample,
Strongly approve: 41.3% ing the name or its status as a day Very confident: 10.5% 30.5 percent were sophomores, 18.5
Somewhat approve: 38.8% off. How should the University re- Somewhat confident: 23.5% 9. Do you approve or disapprove of the percent were juniors and 22.0 per-
Somewhat disapprove: 3.6% spond? Somewhat worried: 31.2% way David Cicilline ’83 is handling cent were seniors. 66.6 percent of
Strongly disapprove: 1.2% Keep date & name: 27.2% Very worried: 14.3% his job as mayor of Providence? respondents identified themselves
Don’t know/No answer: 15.2% Keep date & “Fall Don’t plan to get job Strongly approve: 4.7% as white, 8.1 percent identified as
Weekend”: 45.6% immediately: 15.1% Somewhat approve: 15.1% black or African-American, 10.4
2. Do you approve or disapprove of Keep date & “Indigenous Don’t know/No answer: 5.3% Somewhat disapprove: 6.4% percent Hispanic, 21.6 percent
the way the Undergraduate Council Peoples’ Day”: 8.4% Strongly disapprove: 2.8% Asian, 1.0 percent American Indian
of Students (UCS) is handling its Keep date & “Tomato Day”: 7. How often this academic year have Don’t know/No answer: or Alaska Native, 0.3 percent Na-
job? 5.3% you used prescription stimulants — 71.0% tive Hawaiian and Pacific Islander,
Strongly approve: 10.1% Change date & name: 6.1% such as Adderall, Dexedrine or Rit- 1.5 percent identified with a racial
Somewhat approve: 41.4% Remove name & no day off: alin — that were not prescribed to Methodology group or ethnicity not listed and
Somewhat disapprove: 10.9% 1.8% you? Written questionnaires were 0.9 percent chose not to answer.
Strongly disapprove: 2.1% Don’t know/No answer: 5.6% Not at all: 89.8% administered to 676 undergradu- The sum of the percentages adds
Don’t know/No answer: 35.5% Once: 3.1% ates March 16-18 at the University up to more than 100 percent due
5. Compared to what you expected A few times: 3.7% Mail Room in J. Walter Wilson and to respondents who identified with
3. Do you approve or disapprove of when Barack Obama was elected A few times a month: 0.4% outside the Blue Room in Faunce multiple ethnic or racial groups.
the way the Corporation is handlings President, do you think that he has Once a week: 0.3% House in the three mornings and Senior Staff Writer Hannah
its job as Brown’s highest governing done better than you expected, about More than once a week: 0.3% afternoons and at the Sciences Li- Moser ’12 and Copy Desk Chief
body? the same as you expected or worse Every day: 0.1% brary on the first two nights. To Seth Motel ’11 coordinated the poll.
Strongly approve: 7.0% than you expected? Don’t know/No answer: 2.2% ensure random sampling, pollsters Herald section editors, senior staff
Somewhat approve: 31.7% Better than expected: 8.6% approached every third person and writers and other staff members
Somewhat disapprove: 19.7% 8. How confident or worried are you asked each one to complete a poll. conducted the poll.
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S ports m onday
M. lacrosse blows out Delaware
continued from page 7 works well together and really cares fourth of the game, and Williams add-
about each other. We have a lot of ed another goal. After three quarters,
Pohanka ’10 each added a goal to the talent but we don’t have to deal with the Bears led 11-3. Burke secured a
board. Charlie Kenney ’10 finished egos. Everyone wants everyone else scoreless third quarter with seven
Brown’s scoring with a goal at 3:40 to succeed and our team plays really saves in goal.
on the clock, in addition to his assist well together because of it.” Walsh and Jeff Foote ’11 opened up
earlier in the game. The Bears were untouchable the fourth quarter with the two final
In goal, Burke had 12 saves and six early into the first quarter when un- goals for the Bears, who coasted to a
goals against. Matt Chriss ’11 stepped answered goals by defenseman Jake 13-5 victory.
into the net with five saves and two Hardy ’10, Feinberg and Seligmann Seligmann and Hollingsworth
goals against. gave the Bears a 3-0 lead. finished with three assists and a goal
In the second quarter, Muldoon each, and Feinberg added two goals
Brown 13, Delaware 5 had his first of four off a feed from Wil- and an assist. On defense, Peter Fallon
The Bears came home after a week liams. After a scoreless first quarter for ’11 limited Delaware’s Curtis Dickson
on the road to face the University of Delaware, the Blue Hens posted their to one goal.
Delaware on Saturday. Brown earned first goal of the game with 9:12 left in “We are starting to play really well
its sixth straight win by easily out- the half. Bell responded with a goal, as a team, with each piece coming
scoring the Blue Hens, 13-5. Muldoon but Delaware posted their second for along and improving as the season
led Bruno with four goals, extending a 5-2 score. Feinberg, Muldoon and progresses,” said defenseman Jake
his scoring streak to 28 consecutive Hollingsworth had three consecutive Westermann ’10.
games. goals before Delaware scored to cut The Bears will face off against Divi-
“I think the greatest thing we have Brown’s lead to 8-3. sion I newcomer Bryant for the first
going for us is our chemistry,” Mul- Brown dominated the third quar- time ever on Tuesday night in North
doon said. “Everyone on the team ter as Muldoon scored his third and Smithfield, R.I.
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Martial artists host first championship
continued from page 1 added. Undertaking nationals as its first
“We worked with what we had,” tournament to host was neverthe-
to do in the past,” he said. Yang said of the space limitations less unusual, Ramadan said. Stan-
The tournament — which was at Pizzitola. ford and MIT both had experience
also a qualifier for the Pan American hosting other tournaments before
Collegiate Taekwondo Champion- Preparing to host they received bids to plan nationals,
ships Sparring Team — took place Around eighty-five volunteers, she added.
on Saturday and Sunday, March 21 mostly members of Brown taekwon- Much of the preparation for the
and 22. Competitors clad in white do, staffed the event. Many only tournament involved negotiating
uniforms crowded the floor of Piz- competed in poomsae, then helped with campus offices and private
zitola to practice the staccato tran- with logistics during the sparring businesses for lower prices on tour-
sitions between stances before the portion of the tournament. nament supplies, Ramadan said.
first day’s poomsae contests. Volunteers also served as ring- Competitors were charged an
The tournament was divided runners, responsible for ferrying entrance fee for the event, which
between poomsae competition on athletes between matches. Vol- helped to recoup costs, Ramadan
the first day and sparring on the unteer ringside scorers watched said. The club received monetary
second. spars, recording points and keep- support from campus offices, in-
Spectators, including teammates ing time with specialized software cluding the Office of the Dean of
and parents of the athletes, watched that displayed match information the College and the Division of
the competition from the stands, on computer monitors adjacent to Campus Life and Student Services.
which were roped off from the six each ring. Two Brown students competed at
mats in the arena. The tournament cost more the tournament free of charge with
David Huie, a senior at Princ- than $30,000, according to Rama- funding from the Third World Cen-
eton University who attended with dan, with much of the cost going ter and the Sarah Doyle Women’s
thirteen of his teammates, said the toward overnight accommodations Center.
tournament was running efficiently for tournament referees, use of the Yang said the tournament plan-
and on-schedule. Limited seating at Erickson Athletic Complex, catering ners relied heavily on the guidance
Pizzitola meant that athletes had to and equipment. of the Brown Taekwondo Instructor
wait outside the arena, in the Olney- Yang, who was club president Board — Brown black-belts who
Margolies Athletic Center’s holding last year when Brown received coach other club members — and
area, to be called to their matches, its bid to host nationals, said that the club Master, Sung Park ’96.
and some competitors said the view- Brown’s status as one of the con-
ing area was often crowded. sistently high-ranking taekwondo
Ramadan said spectators were colleges in the country made it a
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