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Faculty OK
engineering
school
By Claire Peracchio
Senior Staff Writer
The faculty approved a resolution
endorsing the creation of a School
of Engineering from the existing
Division of Engineering at its meet-
ing Tuesday.
Following the faculty’s recom-
mendation, the proposal will now
be considered by the Corporation
at its May meeting. If the Univer-
sity’s highest governing body ap-
proves, Brown will become the last
Ivy League university to create an
engineering school.
“We’re very happy for the
strong faculty support of the mo-
tion to establish the School of
Engineering,” said Professor of
Engineering Rodney Clifton, who
is also the interim dean of engi-
neering.
The measure approved by the
faculty maintains the current sys-
tem of admitting undergraduate
and graduate engineering students
and preserves undergraduates’
ability to opt in or out of an engi-
neering concentration during their
time at Brown.
The resolution also stipulates
the hiring of a new dean of engi-
neering, who would be charged
with increasing “diversity among
engineering faculty and students”
and working to promote interde-
partmental engagement with re-
gard to engineering research and
other activities.
The school’s expansion through
faculty hiring and new construction
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Branding Brown
The number of applications for the class of 2014 exceeded the capacity of the Admission Office’s building,
forcing administrators to open a satellite center in Alumnae Hall.
Shedding light on the surge in apps
By Sarah Forman
Senior Staf f Writer
This year, 30,136 students — 20.6
percent more than last year — filled
out applications for undergradu-
ate admission, painstakingly re-
sponding to the required short
answer, “Why does Brown appeal
to you?”
R.I. group gives $1 million
for new Med School library
By Rebecca Ballhaus
Staf f Writer
A Rhode Island foundation will
give Brown $1 million to fund a
new library for the Alpert Medical
School, the foundation announced
March 25.
The Champlin Foundations an-
News, 4
Ivy Acceptance
Application numbers rise
while acceptance rates
continue to fall
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
First in a five-part series
Now that 2,804 of those students
have received offers of admission,
translating to a record low accep-
tance rate of 9.3 percent, University
administrators and higher educa-
tion professionals are left unable
to agree on a single response to
another pertinent question: Why
did Brown appeal to more than
30,000 students?
nounced its plan at the Champlin
Scholars Luncheon last month.
The librar y, which will be part
of the new Medical Education
Building at 222 Richmond St., will
be named after one of the found-
ers of the foundation, George
continued on page 3
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Sports, 8
lacking consistence
Baseball team struggles
with steadiness but still
ends positively
Michael Skocpol / Herald
Instead, administrators and
exper ts proposed dif ferent ex-
planations for the wild surge in
Brown’s application rate, which
has increased 65 percent in the four
years since 18,316 students vied for
spots in the class of 2010.
Higher nationwide application
continued on page 4
Dyslexic alum writes of
educational ‘injustice’
By Talia Kagan
Senior Staff Writer
Jonathan Mooney ’00 couldn’t read
until he was 12. A decade later, the
writer and public speaker, who is
dyslexic, graduated from Brown with
a third-grade spelling level, the pho-
netic awareness of a seventh-grader
and a 4.0 grade point average.
FEATURE
That is the success story that
helped sell his first book, “Learning
Outside the Lines: Two Ivy League
Students with Learning Disabilities
and ADHD Give You the Tools for
Academic Success and Educational
Revolution.” Mooney co-wrote the
book with David Cole ’00 while the
two were enrolled at Brown.
But the explanation for that suc-
cess — Mooney was also a finalist
for the Rhodes scholarship — is not
some magical personal transforma-
tion, according to Mooney.
“What changed was not dyslexia,
what really changed was the con-
text,” he said, crediting the flexibility
of his education at Brown.
And what he wants to convey,
more than his own Ivy League suc-
cess story, is “the belief that kids like
Opinions, 11
education with bias
Sarah Yu ’11 expresses
concern about politics
invading the classroom
New venue
sought for
Gala event
Labor dispute at
Westin prompts
student protest
By Alex Bell
Senior Staf f Writer
Amid concerns over labor dis-
putes at the currently sched-
uled Gala location, and after a
prolonged series of meetings
Tuesday, the event’s organizers
and the Student Labor Alliance
agreed to search for a new venue,
while educating students about
the controversy surrounding the
currently scheduled location.
With tickets to the Gala going
on sale Wednesday, members of
the SLA had cautioned that if
the event’s organizers failed to
heed their warnings about the
contentious choice of venue, this
continued on page 6
me are not broken, are not defective
and that what happens in their edu-
cation is really a form of injustice,”
Mooney said.
Mooney continues to explore and
celebrate those marginalized stu-
dents by speaking about education
at schools and universities around
the country. In 2007, he published
a second book, “The Short Bus: A
Journey Beyond Normal.” The book,
which took him six years to write,
chronicles his journey across the
country in one of the short yellow
buses typically reserved for disabled
children while telling the stories of
learning-disabled children in the
U.S. and describing his own per-
sonal struggles in institutionalized
education.
Riding on the short bus
As a second grader terrified of
spelling tests and reading out loud,
Mooney would hide in his school
bathroom and dream of killing his
teacher, he wrote in “The Short Bus.”
In fourth grade, he was diagnosed
with dyslexia. He dropped out of the
sixth grade, though he enrolled in a
new school the next year.
In high school, Mooney struggled
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C ampus N EWS “I was extraordinarily moved.”

— President Ruth Simmons

Simmons discusses Non-res Greeks offer different experience

flooding, India trip
continued from page 1
will be contingent on fundraising
through “increased philanthropy, in-
creased sponsored research support
and revenue-enhancing programs.”
Such programs might include offer-
ing expanded master’s degree pro-
grams, said Provost David Kertzer
’69 P’95 P’98.
Some members of the faculty
expressed concern that the new
School of Engineering might crowd
out resources for other departments.
Professor of Physics David Cutts
proposed that the faculty instead
vote to support the “co-evolution”
of engineering and the physical
sciences. But the motion failed to
attract broad support.
The faculty also considered dis-
continuing Brown’s four-year de-
gree programs that allow students
to earn both an undergraduate and
a master’s degree provided they
obtain additional credits and fulfill
departmental requirements.
Dean of the Graduate School
Sheila Bonde said that these inte-
grated degree programs lack “suf-
ficient breadth” to comply with the
spirit of the New Curriculum. Bonde
instead suggested directing interest-
ed students toward a “more robust
option” that would entail complet-
ing the standard five-year master’s
degree.
Faculty members contended
that the elimination of integrated
degree programs would hamper
efforts to recruit ambitious and tal-
ented students and that abolishing
the program would have a limited
sudoku
effect given the small number of
students who have chosen to take
advantage of the option. The motion
was withdrawn because of proce-
dural issues with the motion and a
lack of outspoken support.
In a report to the faculty, Presi-
dent Ruth Simmons expressed
concern over Rhode Island’s recent
flooding and stressed her desire to
“do what we can to help.” Simmons
said she had contacted Gov. Donald
Carcieri ’65 and offered the Univer-
sity’s aid in recovery efforts.
Simmons also tried to allay con-
cerns about possible expansion of
the University’s student body. There
needs to be careful planning with re-
gard to “the needed balance between
graduate and undergraduate life,”
Simmons said. She addressed the
University’s need to add students at
the graduate level, but said that the
conception of Brown as an “intimate,
undergraduate-centered” institution
could be preserved.
Simmons also discussed her re-
cent trip to India, where she attend-
ed a meeting of Brown’s new India
Advisory Council, met with alumni
and India’s minister of education
and worked to develop a strategy for
promoting Brown in “an important
part of the world.” She shared her
impression that India was eager to
avail its most talented scholars of
educational opportunities at Ameri-
can universities, adding that Brown
would continue to seek talented stu-
dents and faculty from India.
“I was extraordinarily moved by
what is taking place in India today,”
Simmons said.
By Clare de Boer
Contributing Writer
Non-residential fraternities and so-
rorities provide a select group of
undergraduates with a tight com-
munity and the opportunity to get
to know peers beyond College Hill,
according to Antar Tichavakunda
’11, president of Alpha Phi Alpha’s
regional chapter and the sole mem-
ber at Brown.
The three active non-residential
Greeks — Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta
Sigma Theta and Alpha Phi Alpha —
cater to African Americans and “have
a long history at Brown,” according
to Shelley Adriance, assistant direc-
tor of leadership development for
student activities. The first black
fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, “was
established in Providence by a few
professional men and some Brown
students in 1921,” according to Ency-
clopedia Brunoniana. Since then, six
more African-American fraternities
and sororities have been established
under the umbrella organization of
the National Pan-Hellenic Council.
Many of the groups have become
inactive since they were first found-
ed, Adriance said. “Some will come
back as they can recruit members,”
she said.
Because of their specific missions
NYU seeks huge expansion to campus
By Ben Noble
Staf f Writer
New York University has pro-
posed a 20-year plan to expand
its campus by six million square
feet with new classrooms, offices
and dorms around New York City,
the New York Times reported last
month.
and lack of visibility on campus, they
rarely induct new members. This
year Alpha Phi Alpha does not have
any pledges, but Tichavakunda is
“not worried” because “four out of
five of us will still be in college.”
“We will definitely have intake
next year,” he said.
Anna Darby ’10, a member of Al-
pha Kappa Alpha, is “confident that
there are plenty of young women at
Brown interested in (their) goals of
sisterhood and service,” she said.
Without the “visual presence of
residentials,” Adriance said that non-
residential Greeks may be “harder
for people to notice.”
Tichavakunda said there “wasn’t
much recruiting” for his fraternity.
Non-residential Greeks attract mem-
bers who have “done their research”
and are seeking a specific experi-
ence, Tichavakunda said.
“Philanthropy is the main prior-
ity” of the non-residential Greeks,
according to Adriance. Most of their
events are educational or for chari-
table causes, she said. Recognized
by the Student Activities Office,
each Greek house can host one
large party per semester while the
majority of their events are smaller,
she said.
On March 20, Alpha Kappa Alpha
hosted the Flashing Lights Charity
With a projected cost of $1,000
per square foot, this would be the
largest expansion in the univer-
sity’s histor y.
HIGHER ED
NYU plans to grow by 40 per-
cent with an array of new build-
ings, including a satellite campus
Fashion Show to raise money for
earthquake relief in Haiti, which
Darby called “very successful.”
“A lot of friends and new faces
came out to support” the event,
which was sponsored by the Late
Night Fund, she added.
Like residential Greeks, non-
residential fraternities and sorori-
ties do not receive any funding from
the Undergraduate Finance Board.
Alpha Kappa Alpha is “pretty self-
sufficient,” Darby said, but she is
“sure if (they) were having issues
with programming, (they) could talk
to someone” at the University.
Frequently attended by people
from other schools, events hosted
by non-residential Greeks “break
the Brown bubble” and create “soli-
darity within the black community,”
Tichavakunda said. “It’s good to
hear other perspectives.”
Darby has made some of her
closest friends through the soror-
ity and has gotten “to know people
outside Brown” through her par-
ticipation in Alpha Kappa Alpha,
she said.
Tichavakunda enjoys being a
member of a local chapter because
he is able to meet students from
other schools, he said. “It makes me
a citizen of a community, more than
just a Brown citizen,” he added.
with student and faculty housing on
Governors Island, in the middle of
New York Harbor. The Tisch School
of the Arts will also receive new
theaters and rehearsal studios,
and the College of Nursing will be
relocated to a “health corridor” on
First Avenue where the school’s
dental college is currently housed.
The plan also includes a new tower
on Bleecker Street in the heart of
NYU’s Greenwich Village cam-
pus.
The aggressive expansion plan
will require approval from several
city agencies and commissions as
well as the City Council. It has al-
ready drawn criticism from neigh-
bors and preservationists, who are
concerned that NYU will invade
local neighborhoods and ignore
community input.

URI selects evangelist speaker

David Dooley, the incoming
president of the University of Rhode
Island, has selected the founder
of an evangelical mega-church to
speak at his inauguration this week.
Rev. Gregory Boyd, the senior pas-

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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
C ampus N EWS
THE HERALD POLL
Nearly half of students have
not used CDC, poll shows
By Sarah Julian
Staff Writer
More than 40 percent of students
have not used resources or services
provided by the Career Development
Center this semester, according to a
Herald poll conducted last month.
These numbers come despite recent
changes to strengthen its advising
process. Of the students polled, 41.9
percent said they had not made use of
any CDC resources, including drop-in
hours, events and online services.
Thirty-eight percent said they
used the center’s resources once or
twice.
In response to a review conducted
last spring to evaluate its advising pro-
cess, the CDC implemented a number
of changes, including restructuring
the advising process, expanding
Brown Degree Days, creating blogs
and emphasizing alumni relations.
The initial review was spurred by a
recommendation by the Task Force
on Undergraduate Education, accord-
ing to Associate Dean of the College
and Director of the Swearer Center for
Public Service Roger Nozaki MAT’89,
who is the CDC’s acting director. The
“in-depth review” focused on how to
“strengthen and deepen resources”
in order to help students figure out
plans for life after they graduate, No-
zaki said.
One-eighth of students — 12.5 per-
cent — said they used CDC resources
three or four times this semester,
while only 4.2 percent said they used
the center five or six times, and 2.2
percent used the center’s services
seven or more times.
As part of the changes following
last year’s review, the center now
employs four career advisers. Each
adviser focuses on specific industries
and concentrations and provides guid-
ance in those areas. According to No-
zaki, these advisers are “charged with
incorporating outreach to employers
and alums, building networks in those
fields and increasing the depth of
knowledge in those fields.”
Interviewed students seemed to
find that meeting with counselors was
not very helpful, but that the Web site
presented useful information as did
information sessions.
How often this semester have you used resources or services
— including drop-in hours and events — provided by the
Career Development Center either online or in person?
5-6 times 7+ times
4.2% 2.2%
3-4 times
12.5%
1-2 times
38.0%
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“It’s a really important gift.”
— Edward Wing, dean of medicine and biological sciences
New library on the way for Alpert
continued from page 1 graduates coming into the build- to teach.”
Champlin.
“It’s a really important gift,”
ing — they wouldn’t fit,” he said.
But the librar y will be open to
undergraduates taking courses
The building itself originated
out of a need for more space for
medical students, Wing said. The
Nozaki mentioned that new em- said Edward Wing, dean of medi- at the Med School or needing to new building will also house the
phasis is being placed on developing cine and biological sciences. He speak to its faculty members. admissions and the financial aid
collaborative programs with other said he had “no idea” that the “It’s really about the space, spe- office, among others.
groups and departments on campus foundation was going to announce cifically study space,” said Philip Wing also pointed out that the
and “building on existing resources a donation at the luncheon, though Gruppuso, associate dean of medi- new building would place students
and tapping them for support.” He he and President Ruth Simmons cine. He called the new librar y in closer proximity to Providence
said it is especially important to utilize had spoken to the foundation six the “equivalent” of the Friedman hospitals. “That’s something that’s
existing resources because of the Uni- weeks ago to propose the plan. Center in the Sciences Librar y. really important, and students now
versity’s current budget constraints. The groundbreaking for the “Though it’s obviously a lot small- aren’t close (to the hospitals) for
An example of the recent push new building will take place on er, we really used the Friedman the first two years,” Wing said.
for collaboration is the expansion of April 26. After that, it will take “not Center as a model when we were The Champlin Foundations are
Brown Degree Days, a project that quite a year and a half” to finish looking at how (the librar y) can a set of three Rhode Island foun-
launched last spring. Departments the building, Wing said, adding be configured,” he said. dations started by the Champlin
organize their own events that bring that medical students will be able But unlike the Friedman Cen- family to support Rhode Island
back alumni concentrators to speak to use it in August 2011. ter, the librar y will feature some organizations. The foundation
about career paths. The events “seem “The library is not going to be books and print journals, though has donated to the University
to have been very well-received by what your grandmother’s librar y its main emphasis will be on elec- several times in the past and has
students and departments,” Nozaki was,” Wing said. “So much is on- tronic textbooks and journals, endowed scholarships for Rhode
said, and the center’s staff is “excited line now — students access online Wing said. Island students to attend Brown
about doing them.” textbooks and online journals, and Gruppuso described “several or the Alper t Medical School,
Blogs are also another aspect of a lot of medical publishing is go- different zones” in the librar y: Wing said.
the center’s new approach. The Scoop, ing online. So a lot of the librar y computer stations, places to use Gruppuso said that its request
a collection of six blogs, focuses on is designed for computer access a laptop and offices for informa- that the librar y be named after
specific career interests, including and study space.” tion technology and for a librar- George Champlin is a “new prec-
the arts, business, government, law As for undergraduates, there ian. He said the librar y will be edent” for the foundation. “They
and policy. will be some restrictions on their not only a “study space, but also obviously think that it was just
Lise Rahdert ’10 said she and five usage of the librar y, Wing said. a touchdown space for faculty the perfect choice for them, and
other peer career advisers, who work “We couldn’t have 6,000 under- members coming to the building I think it’s great,” he said.
with the career advisers, are almost
exclusively responsible for maintain-
ing and updating the blogs. The peer
career advisers do “most of the post-
ing” and “a ton of research,” she said.
“Because it’s so new, we’re trying to
get the word out there,” she said, add-
ing that she has “seen people starting
to use it more for jobs and advice.”
The center has also instituted
other, smaller changes. There are
now groups of alumni on LinkedIn
organized by employment field to fa-
cilitate connections between students
and alumni. The center has also begun
offering events for networking, during
which alumni speak with concentra-
tors of a given department.
“We are trying to develop a dedi-
cated set of resources for students,”
Nozaki said.
The Herald poll was conducted on
March 22 and 23 and has a 3.5 per-
cent margin of error with 95 percent
confidence. A total of 714 Brown un-
dergraduates completed the poll, which
The Herald administered as a written
questionnaire to students in the lobby
of J. Walter Wilson during the day and
in the Sciences Library at night.
Don’t know/No answer
1.3%
0 times
41.9%
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Branding Brown
In a flagging economy, applicants less certain
continued from page 1

rates, a greater emphasis on re-

cruiting low-income and minority
students, and the weak economy —
coupled with corresponding high
levels of unemployment — have
all induced Brown’s largest-ever
applicant pool, they said.

‘Going up across the board’

“Application numbers have been
going up across the board,” said
Melissa Clinedinst, assistant di-
rector of research for the National
Association for College Admission
Counseling.
The number of applications to
four-year American colleges in-
creased by 20 percent from 2002
to 2006, according to NACAC’s
2009 State of College Admission
report.
Not only are there more high
school graduates, but also a greater
proportion of graduating seniors
have decided to pursue higher edu-
cation — and they are applying to
more schools than they used to,
according to the report.
Ever y Ivy League university
except Yale received a record-
high number of applications this
year. Princeton saw a 19.5 percent
growth in applications, going from
21,963 students hoping to enter the
class of 2013 to 26,247 prospective
2014 graduates, according to an
April 2 article in the Daily Princ-
etonian.
“I haven’t seen any school that’s
not up,” said Michele Hernandez,
a college consultant and author of
three books on preparing for col-
lege admissions.
Since Har vard and Princeton
dropped their early admission op-
tions in 2006, high-level students
have started to apply to more regu-
lar decision schools than before,
Hernandez said.
Michael Goran, director and
educational consultant for IvySelect
College Consulting, said he esti-
mated that most students now ap-
ply to about 10 to 12 institutions.
Cydney Gillon, a senior at North
Atlanta High School in Atlanta, ap-
plied regular decision to Brown
along with 26 other schools, in-
cluding ever y member of the Ivy
League.
Her father wanted her to ap-
ply to 27 schools in order to have
plenty of options for matriculation,
she said. “My father pushed me to
get a little more going,” although
Stanford and Brown were her top
choices, Gillon said. She was not
offered admission at Brown, but
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald
that she plans to attend the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania unless she gets
off the waitlist at Har vard.
Will they come?
But even as Brown’s application
rate has risen steadily over the last
several years, its yield rate — the
percentage of accepted students
who enroll — has fallen every year
since the class of 2010 applied, ac-
cording to the Admission Office’s
Campus tours are one means the University uses to present itself to prospective students and their families.
Web site.
Only 53.1 percent of the 2,797
students accepted to the current
freshman class enrolled, while
58.9 percent of the 2,555 students
offered a spot three years ago de-
cided to enroll.
Students who are admitted to
Brown but do not attend usually
matriculate instead to Har vard,
Yale, Princeton or Stanford, ac-
cording to Jim Miller ’73, dean of
admission.
Clinedinst said because more
students now apply to a greater
number of competitive schools, na-
tional yield rates have declined. Av-
erage yield at four-year institutions
decreased from 49 percent in 2001
to 45 percent in 2007, according to
the NACAC report.
“There’s probably still a little bit
of, ‘If I get into Yale … I’ll probably
go to Yale over Penn or Brown,’ ”
Goran said, explaining the thought
process of his students who are ac-
cepted to Brown along with other
Ivy League institutions.
Hernandez said she thought 95
percent of her clients would accept
an offer of admission from Yale
over Brown.
Even international, minority and
low-income students — whom the
University recruits heavily — often
reject offers of admission.
“We’re not as well-known inter-
nationally as we’d like to be,” said
Matthew Gutmann, vice president
for international affairs, about the
University’s efforts to tr y to con-
vince students from abroad to apply
to Brown.
For some of the international
students who “are interested in a
high-profile name,” Brown did not
have enough prestige, though he
added that he did not think inter-
national students were any more
influenced by name recognition
than American applicants.
Similarly, high-performing mi-
nority and low-income students
“know they’re a commodity” and
apply to and gain admission to
many top-tier schools, Hernandez
said. Especially for students from
less affluent backgrounds, a school
with a stronger name and reputa-
tion than Brown’s is very attractive,
she said.
‘Flight to quality’
The nationwide surge in appli-
cations coincides with a faltering
economy, and high school students
and their families are engaged in
a “flight to quality,” according to
Miller.
“If I’m going to spend money,
I’m going to spend it on a high-
quality education,” he said, explain-
ing the mind-set of students and
parents in precarious financial situ-
ations who decide to invest their
money in a Brown education.
People view a Brown diploma as
a wise investment, since it might
ensure them a more lucrative, re-
warding career later on, he said.
“An Ivy (League) degree is go-
ing to be worth more in the mar-
ketplace,” said Goran, particularly
“because of the economy and the
uncertainty out there.”
As the nation’s unemployment
rate has nearly doubled over the
past five years — jumping from just
over 5 percent in 2005 to almost
10 percent in 2010, according to
the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statis-
tics — the University has started
to increase emphasis on student
outcomes after graduation in ad-
mission literature.
“Outcomes are ver y important
in an economically constrained en-
vironment,” Miller said. “People
are rightly concerned about out-
comes.”
Brown’s ability to give people
an invaluable skill set that they can
bring to the workplace is nothing
new, Miller said. But by stress-
ing the high percentage of Brown
graduates who go on to their top
choices for law, medical and gradu-
ate schools and the success gradu-
ates find in the workplace, the Of-
fice of Admissions has been able to
increase applicants’ perception of
Brown as a good economic invest-
ment, he said.
Many other schools have been
less capable of capitalizing on the
economic downturn to increase
applications. The NACAC report
described a poll of high school
guidance counselors that found
that students entering college in
the fall of 2009 were more likely to
enroll in public colleges instead of
private schools, choose a commu-
nity college over a four-year school
or delay their college education
because of financial concerns.
‘Money talks’
Brown has also improved its fi-
nancial aid packages in response
to the economic downturn, mak-
ing a four-year stay on College Hill
much more affordable for some
students.
“We’re actually less expensive
for some students than their state
schools,” said Director of Finan-
cial Aid James Tilton. “Families
Herald file photo
are supported for the entire time
that they’re here.”
The University only recently ad-
opted need-blind admissions for
U.S. applicants under a directive
from President Ruth Simmons in
2002, becoming the last Ivy League
institution to do so. Although inter-
national and transfer applications
are still not need-blind, the change
has allowed many low-income stu-
dents to consider Brown, whereas
the school would have been entire-
ly unaffordable for them 10 years
ago, Miller said.
“That made a dramatic dif-
ference in our ability to recruit,”
Miller said.
Representatives from the Office
of Financial Aid travel with admis-
sions officers to communities with
high levels of low-income, minority
and first-generation college appli-
cants in order to explain that Brown
can be affordable, Tilton said.
The financial aid office’s Web
site has also allowed families to
estimate the cost of a Brown edu-
cation by comparing their incomes
with several examples of financial
aid packages, Tilton said.
Still, some applicants are war y
that they will be unable to afford
Brown, even if they get in.
“As much as I love Brown,
money talks,” said Shezza Shaga-
rabi, a regular decision applicant
from North Atlanta High School.
She said that her family earns less
than $100,000 per year, and that
cost would inevitably influence her
college plans.
Lauren Reed-Guy, a senior at
Piedmont High School in Piedmont,
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Calif., said that although Brown
was her top choice, she would need
to “think about the whole family”
when she decides this month where
to study next fall.
Despite the financial aid office’s
attempts to facilitate application for
aid, Reed-Guy said she needed her
parents’ assistance to fill out all of
her financial aid applications.
“That was sort of my parents’
forte,” she said. “I just really didn’t
know how to do it.”
First-generation college ap-
plicant Jenna Frerichs from St.
Joseph-Ogden High School in
St. Joseph, Ill., said her parents
could not offer the same level of
support to her when she was ap-
plying for admission and financial
aid at Brown.
“I don’t think anybody else
from my school applied to any Ivy
Leagues,” she said. Because she
could not afford to travel to Rhode
Island, Frerichs used the Internet
to “just get answers on (her) own”
about the New Curriculum, pro-
gram housing and other aspects
of life at the University.
Frerichs was rejected by Brown.
Though accepted to the Univer-
sity of South Carolina, she wrote
in an e-mail to The Herald that she
hopes to spend next year teaching
English in Spain and then plans to
reapply early decision to the class
of 2015.
Building Brown
Though Brown’s name may not
carr y the same prestige as some
of its peers’, the University has
increased its efforts to heighten
its profile within the U.S. and in-
ternationally.
While less internationally rec-
ognized than some of its peers,
Brown’s academic prestige has
increased while its applicant pool
has grown.
“We need to get away from the
notion that Brown is going global.
Brown is global,” Gutmann said.
Eighty-one countries are rep-
resented in the admitted class of
2014, according to a April 1 Uni-
versity press release, and Brown
is “eager to reach out” to more
international students, Gutmann
said.
The University added new pro-
grams last year as part of its push
to internationalize, The Herald
reported in October.
The Corporation has nearly
doubled the financial aid budget
for international students, Tilton
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald,
bringing it to about $6.5 million for
this academic year.
International students are par-
ticularly interested in the availabil-
ity of undergraduate research, ac-
cording to Gutmann.
Under the Plan for Academic
Enrichment, which began in 2004,
undergraduates have more “access
to ver y elegant research oppor-
tunities” than ever before, Miller
said.
Efforts to encourage minority
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and low-income applicants to ap-
ply have also increased in recent
Acceptance Rate
years.
This year, Brown partnered with 35000
QuestBridge, an organization that Number of applicants
matches low-income students with
scholarships at top universities. 30000
Miller said his of fice received
Accepted students
1,700 applications this year from
QuestBridge students, most of
whom are first-generation college 25000
applicants.
Number of students
“Talent is not a function of so-
cioeconomics,” he said, explaining
Brown’s “opportunity and respon- 20000
sibility” to provide education to
students from poor backgrounds
who have a lot of potential.
Minority students currently 15000
enrolled at Brown will contact ad-
mitted black, Latino and Native
American students this week under
a new program to tr y to convince 10000
students to choose Brown over
other colleges.
“This is a fiercely personal
place,” Miller said. He thinks these 5000
outreach efforts will help to “per-
sonalize a scary and somewhat im- 16.9% 15.9% 16.4% 15.3% 14.0% 14.1% 13.7% 11.2% 9.3%
15.9% 16.4% 15.3% 14.0% 14.1% 13.7% 11.2% 9.3%
personal process” and bring more
minority students to campus.
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
What now?
The highlights of a Brown edu-
Year of Graduation
cation — the New Curriculum and
Katie Wilson and Marlee Bruning / Herald
friendly environment — have been
As applications have soared in recent years, the University’s admit rate has steadily decreased (above).
there for years, Miller said. The percentage of accepted students who choose to enroll has dropped steeply in the last four years (below).
“I loved not having distribution
requirements,” said Elijah ben Izzy
’14, a student from College Prepara-
tory High School in Oakland, Calif.
Matriculation Rate
who was accepted early decision.
60
Ben Izzy applied because of the
University’s long-standing liberal
atmosphere, he said.
Some of the trends that have
encouraged the applicant rate to 58
rise, like the flagging economy or
increasing number of high school
graduates, may start to level off in
the coming years.
56
Percent Yield
But because Brown has con-
tinued to maintain a high-quality
education, Miller said he does not
expect to see large drops in ap-
plication rates. 54
“The quality of students at
Brown over the last couple of gen-
erations is just skyrocketing,” he
said, insisting that Brown will not
lose popularity anytime soon. 52
More selectivity has led to a
much more talented student body,
Miller said. And since “large, large
numbers” of applicants write on
their applications that they hear 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
about Brown from graduates, Year of Graduation
Miller added, any rise in applica-
tions and selectivity will produce
a greater number of successful,
unique Brown students who will
encourage other quality students
to apply to Brown.
“Ask almost any Brown gradu-
ates,” reads one of the pamphlets
sitting in the Office of Admission.
“And it is an excellent bet that they
will say they feel deeply satisfied
— grateful — that they chose
Brown.”
Unless that changes, application
rates will not fall any time soon,
Miller said.
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Excitement grows among
water teams for new pool
By Ben Noble
Staf f Writer
Though not scheduled to be com-
pleted until January 2012, the Kath-
erine Moran Coleman Aquatics
Center is already receiving high
praise from the Brown commu-
nity.
“I think it will be the best indoor
aquatics facility in the countr y,”
said Felix Mercado, head coach
of the men’s and women’s water
polo teams.
Construction is slated to begin
in June for the $46.6 million build-
ing, which will also house the Jona-
than Nelson ’77 Fitness Center.
For the past three years, the
swimming and diving and water
polo teams have practiced in a tem-
porary pool located behind the Ol-
ney-Margolies Athletic Center. The
teams have not hosted a meet in
Providence since the Smith Swim
Center was demolished in 2007.
“This has been a ver y frustrat-
ing experience,” said swimmer
Sage Erskine ’11. “Being the only
team in the Ivy League without a
pool has become somewhat of an
embarrassment.”
“It would have been easy for
the easy for the aquatic teams to
become bitter about the situation,”
she added. “But I think overall
the teams have handled it with as
much patience and poise as pos-
sible, given our disadvantage.”
Erskine and other members of
the class of 2011 will not have a
permanent pool at any point during
their time at Brown.
The new aquatics center will
include a 56-meter pool and three-
meter diving board, eliminating
the need for divers to practice off-
campus.
“I’m grateful to have a pool on
campus, but definitely excited to
have one where we can host our
own games on campus,” said Brit-
tany Westerman ’13, a member of
the water polo team. “It will bring
more spectators.”
The swimming and diving and
water polo teams will no longer
have to share a locker room with
the general public in the OMAC.
Separate lockers will be built in
the new facility for members of
the swimming and diving, water
polo and visiting teams and rec-
reational users.
“Ever ything will be state of the
art, and varsity athletes will have
their own private areas,” Mercado
said.
The building will also house
three dance studios and over 22,000
square feet of fitness space, with
12,000 dedicated solely to varsity
athletes.
Director of Athletics Michael
Goldberger told The Herald last
month that physical education
class offerings will increase, in-
tramural inner-tube water polo will
return and pool hours for recre-
ational users will be expanded
significantly.
While praising the new center’s
design, Mercado was also quick to
hold off on criticizing the tempo-
rar y facility.
“To be honest, I just want a
pool,” he said. “Sometimes we
get spoiled and our expectations
get too high.”
“In this environment, we should
just be happy to have a place to
practice,” he added. “Our tempo-
rar y pool is better than a lot of
other university pools.”
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“People are going to have to cross picket lines.”
SLA to ‘educate’ about dispute
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year’s guests will likely arrive at
the dance to find a picket line of
hotel workers.
The annual formal event is
scheduled by the Class Board
and Key Society for Saturday, April
17, at the Westin Providence ho-
tel downtown. But workers at the
Westin are calling for a community
boycott of the hotel due to griev-
ances including recent wage and
benefit cuts and large increases in
workers’ health care costs.
At a meeting that ended at
11:30 p.m. Tuesday, SLA members
finally got the chance to sit down
with members of the Class Board
to hash out a tentative agreement
that was more sensitive to the la-
bor dispute at the Westin. It was an
opportunity they had been seeking
since they learned of the choice of
venue a week ago.
Neil Parikh ’11, the 2011 Class
Coordinating Board president who
e-mailed students on Tuesday to
inform them of the ticket sales,
said that he and the events’ other
organizers did not know about
the hotel’s labor issues until they
heard from SLA late last week.
“We’re going to do everything
we can between the two groups to
find another venue,” SLA member
Sam Adler-Bell ’12 said after the
meeting, adding that his group
will make use of contacts at other
hotels and convention centers they
have through their union affilia-
tions. “If we can’t find another ven-
ue, we’re going to do everything
in our power to make sure people
know what’s going on.”
SLA members will accompany
ticket sellers starting Wednesday
morning at J. Walter Wilson to
inform guests of workers’ griev-
— Sam Adler-Bell ’12, SLA member
ances. Adler-Bell said both groups
agreed that there was a need to
fully inform students of the labor
dispute before they bought tick-
ets.
“We’re not going to be anti-
Gala,” he said. “We’re just going
to be there educating people.”
The late-night summit followed
a meeting Tuesday afternoon be-
tween members of the SLA and
Director of Student Activities Phil
O’Hara ’55. O’Hara also met sepa-
rately with members of the Class
Board — which he advises — and
the Key Society after hearing SLA’s
concerns, and said he also intends
to call the hotel’s director of hu-
man resources to gather more
information.
Aubrie Ramsay, a Westin em-
ployee who attended the meeting
with O’Hara and the SLA, told
O’Hara at the meeting that the
boycott, now in its third week, is
“just beginning.” She said work-
ers have been asking groups not
to stay at the hotel and have been
requesting that members of the
community hold their events else-
where in order for the boycott to
succeed.
If the Gala is held at the Westin,
Ramsay promised, guests will be
faced with the decision of whether
to join the picket line or cross it.
And if they cross it, she said, they
will have to listen to the picketers
from outside.
Prominent community figures
have already taken sides — last
month, John Lombardi, Demo-
cratic city councilman and can-
didate for mayor of Providence,
announced he would cancel a
fundraiser scheduled for later this
month in response to the union’s
call for a boycott.
The hotel is owned by the Cr-
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
anston-based Procaccianti Group.
Representatives of the Westin Ho-
tel and Procaccianti Group did not
return e-mails and phone calls
Tuesday afternoon.
“Everyone wants this to be a
successful event,” Adler-Bell said
at the end of the afternoon meet-
ing with O’Hara. “The Gala is not
going to be a successful event
if it’s held at the Westin. People
are going to have to cross picket
lines.”
At the end of Tuesday’s late-
night discussions, Adler-Bell was
confident another venue would
be found.
“When we find another loca-
tion, (the Gala’s organizers) will
make a public announcement
about why we won’t be going to
the Westin,” he said. “We have to
find another venue.”
But Parikh said earlier Tuesday
afternoon that finding an alterna-
tive to the Westin is unlikely. He
said that after looking into over a
dozen venues in and around the
state, the organizers found no
other sites in their price range that
were available for the night.
The group has already paid a
$5,000 deposit to the Westin for
the Gala, which usually costs a
little more than $30,000 totally,
according to Key Society President
Camilla Spinola ’10. The group’s
organizers were not sure whether
the deposit is refundable. Parikh
said it would be “something for the
lawyers to handle” if need be.
Salsa Ahmed ’11, the 2011 Class
Board’s secretary, said ultimately
students may have to decide on
their own whether they are com-
fortable attending in light of the
picketing. She said the organizers
plan to visit the Westin this week
to address security concerns.
Ahmed said she anticipates de-
mand will still be high enough to
sell out the Gala, a 14-year Brown
tradition, especially because the
Westin holds only 900 guests,
while most previous locations have
held well over 1,000.
Coming out of their meeting
at almost midnight, both sides
seemed satisfied with the prog-
ress they made in tweaking the
plan for the Gala.
“We all really want it to be an
amicable situation,” Parikh said.
“It’s been a very long day.”
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Author proudly stays on ‘short bus’
continued from page 1
through his honors English class. It
always took him far longer to read,
write and spell-check assignments
than it took his classmates. Mooney
worked hard in his only English class
during his first semester at Loyola
Marymount University, where he
ended up attending on a soccer
scholarship. But after a semester
of late-night spell-checking with
his mom, he found out that half his
grade in the class would be based
on a timed, in-class exam — with
spelling and grammar counting for
a large portion of the grade. Though
he did well in his four English classes
the next semester, he had a rocky
term, exacerbated by a DUI, heavy
drinking and a declining interest in
soccer.
Brunonian beginnings
After his freshman year, Mooney
transferred to Brown, an experience
“best described as an explosion,” he
wrote in his second book.
On his first day at Brown, Mooney
met Cole — who has ADHD­ –– a
fellow transfer student who had
purple hair and wore bicycle chains
as bracelets around his arms. “I
was like, that’s my boy right there,”
Mooney said. “That’s totally my soul
mate.”
During the fall semester of 1997,
the two friends bonded over their
shared experiences with learning
disabilities, and together came up
with the book concept that later be-
came “Learning Outside the Lines,”
Mooney said. In the spring, the two
sophomores ran a group indepen-
dent study project to conduct re-
search for the book. That summer,
they found an agent and sold their
book proposal to publishing house
Simon and Schuster.
“They even gave us money,”
Mooney said. “Which we were
amazed at.”
The next spring, the two took a
semester off in order to work on the
book. When Mooney returned in
the fall, all four of his classes were
independent study projects devoted
to completing different aspects of
the book. One of his ISPs focused
on autobiographical writing, and his
project for that class formed what
would become the first chapter of
“Learning Outside the Lines.” Anoth-
er ISP centered on critical education
theory, which was the focus of the
book’s third chapter. By December,
the entire book was finished.
In fact, during his two-and-a-half
years at Brown, about three-quarters
of his classes were independent stud-
ies, Mooney said. It was Brown’s
philosophy of encouraging student
agency over intellectual life that
allowed him to succeed, he said.
As a very purpose-driven learner,
Mooney was able to find inspiration
for his work in his independent stud-
ies as opposed to what he called the
“broadcast” type of learning found in
lecture classes.
“It’s a totally only-at-Brown sto-
ry,” he said.
A foot in both worlds
At Brown, Mooney was also able
to find a sense of purpose outside
of the classroom in Project Eye-to-
Eye, a Swearer Center program that
he founded with Cole. The program
matches learning-disabled mentors
with their younger counterparts to
create a dialogue about their strug-
gles.
“We were in some dorm room
... and we literally said we should
share our stories with kids,” Mooney
said. The two found other volunteers
for the program by reaching out to
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“It’s a totally only-at-Brown story.”
— Jonathan Mooney ’00, on working on his first book at Brown
art classes in particular, where they
found many creative students who
had struggled in more traditional
classes. Today, the project is a na-
tional organization with 28 chapters
in 25 states, he said.
Mooney is currently at work on a
new nonfiction book tentatively titled
“Normal People Scare Me.” In it, he
plans to examine the “neurodiversity
rights movement,” which advocates
for a need for the different skill sets
of people with Asperger’s Syndrome,
autism and other neurological disor-
ders in society.
Mooney has told his story many
times, in venues ranging from sec-
ond-grade classrooms to university www.browndailyherald.com
lecture halls. But he said he is still
struggling with the question of how
to reconcile the desire to be normal
with the desire to celebrate his own
status of being different.
The book’s editor wanted to end
“The Short Bus” with Mooney physi-
cally getting off of the bus after his
journey because he thought it would
be a neater conclusion to the book.
But Mooney said he insisted that the
book’s ending continue to emphasize
his continued journey. Mooney said
he still considers himself, in part, to
be riding on the “short bus,” while
standing as a proud part of the com-
munity it represents.
Mooney still has a foot in both
worlds. “Am I the Brown kid or the
short bus rider?”
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The Brown Daily Herald
M. lacrosse
Bears ward off late run by Bulldogs Team seeks consistency
By Zack Bahr
Assistant Sports Editor
“If you would have said that (Thomas)
Muldoon (’10) would have been held
to one goal and (Andrew) Feinberg
(’11) would have none, I would have
been sure that we were going to win
this,” said Bryant Head Coach Mike
Pressler. But the Bears disproved
Pressler’s logic Tuesday night and
battled to a 9-7 win over their intra-
state rival.
The Bears started out playing like
the top 20 team that they are. For the
first 19 minutes, Brown held the Bull-
dogs scoreless behind goalie Matt
Chriss ’11 while Rob Schlesinger ’12,
David Hawley ’11 and Dan O’Brien ’12
were all able to find the goal.
Brown’s tenacity was obvious in
the first quarter, as Jake Westerman
’10 lit up one Bryant player so hard
that his stick went flying.
“I’m really pleased with the effort
the men came out with today, three
days after a tough Princeton loss,”
said Head Coach Lars Tiffany ’90. “We
responded really well. It was a really
rewarding feeling as a coach to see
how we played today.”
Bruno held a 4-1 lead heading
into the locker room against what
Pressler called his team’s “hellacious
defense.”
The second half would not be as
The men’s lacrosse team bested Bryant 9-7 Tuesday.
kind to the Bears, as Bryant whittled a
7-3 lead to a game tied at seven apiece
with 5:56 left in the game.
Bryant then went on a five-to-one
scoring run with players marching
down the field and scoring an average
of one goal a minute. In the game,
the Bulldogs took 39 shots on goal
compared to just 26 by Bruno.
Several of Bryant’s goals came
while Bruno played man down. Mul-
doon and Seth Ratner ’11 were called
at the same time for slashing and
crosschecking respectively. Thirty-
four seconds later, Clay Del Prince
’13 was called for slashing.
The Bears came back behind the
leadership of All-American Muldoon
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— who came into the contest averag-
ing five goals per game. His lone goal
of the night came at 4:45 to put Bruno
up by one.
“Every game’s a fight,” Muldoon
said. “We’ve been in that position be-
fore. You always want to score that
goal, but then you understand that if
you work together as an offense, then
you’re going to get that goal.”
David Hawley ’11 scored the last
goal of the game, bringing his eve-
ning’s total to three goals and leading
Bruno to a hard-earned victory.
The men will be back in action
this Saturday in an away Ivy match-
up against Penn. Faceoff is set for 1
p.m.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 | Page 8
Baseball
over spring break series
By Jesse Frank
Spor ts Staf f Writer
The baseball team traveled to take
on the Troy Trojans and New Or-
leans Privateers before opening
Ivy League play with two games
each against both Penn and Co-
lumbia. The Bears’ week got off to
a tough start, as the team lacked
consistency, but they ended the
week on a strong note.
Troy 4 games, Brown 0
To open the week, the Bears
traveled to Alabama to take on
Troy. But in all four games the
Bears were overmatched by the
Trojans’ offense. In the series,
Troy scored 9, 6, 11 and 26 runs
respectively.
The closest game of the series
was game two, when the Bears
fell, 6-3. In the game, the Trojans
got out to a 3-0 lead in the second
inning and never looked back. In
the loss, Matt Colantonio ’11 was
2-5 with an RBI and Graham Tyler
’12 was 2-4 with an RBI.
New Orleans 2 games, Brown 0
The Bears next went to New
Orleans to take on the Privateers
in a two-game series. In the first
game, Brown got of f to a fast
start, leading 7-0 by the top of
the third inning.
But Brown could not hold the
lead. New Orleans fought back
with two runs in the third inning,
four runs in the fourth, one in
the sixth and four more in the
eighth to go on to the 11-10 vic-
tor y. In the loss, Pete Greskoff
’11 went 2-4 with 3 RBI, Daniel
Rosoff ’12 was 2-5 with an RBI
and Ryan Zrenda ’11 was 3-4 with
a run scored.
The next day, the Bears came
out looking for revenge but found
themselves trailing 3-0 after the
second inning. Brown had a late
rally, but New Orleans held on
for the 5-3 victory.
In the loss, Brown got some
good pitching, led by starter Matt
Boylan ’10, who gave up three
runs in five innings.
“At times, we pitched the ball
very well, and at times we hit very
well,” Colantonio wrote in an e-
mail to The Herald. “We ran into
trouble during the trip because
we were not able to put the two
together and dominate a game
like we are capable of doing.”
Penn 1 game, Brown 1
Brown left the South and trav-
eled to Penn to open Ivy League
play. Needing a win badly, Brown’s
bats came out of the gate strong
and the Bears led 5-1 after three
innings.
But Brown’s pitching could not
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hold the lead as Penn’s offense
came alive to score seven runs in
the final three innings, and Brown
fell 8-6. In the loss, Zrenda was 2-3
with one run scored, Josh Feit ’11
was 3-4 with three runs scored,
and Mike DiBiase ’12 was 3-3 with
two RBI.
In game two against Penn,
Brown desperately needed a
win to avoid falling to 0-2 in the
Ivy League. But, heading into
the fourth inning Brown trailed,
5-2.
Brown rallied late though,
tying it up in the fifth inning on
after Tyler and Greskoff knocked
runs in.
The game remained tied until
the eighth inning, when the Bears
took the lead with four runs. They
then backed it up with two more
in the ninth. Brad Kottman ’13
got the win for Brown, pitching
three scoreless innings out of the
bullpen to secure the 11-5 win.
Columbia 1 game, Brown 1
The next day, Brown traveled
to New York to take on Columbia.
The game remained scoreless go-
ing into the middle innings. But
Columbia eventually pulled away
and went on to the 7-0 win.
In game two, Brown took
the field behind starting pitcher
Matt Kimball ’11, needing a win.
Kimball pitched a gem, going six
innings and only giving up one
run.
Offensively, Brown took the
lead with four runs in the fifth
inning when Tyler and Greskoff
each had 2 RBI.
Brown’s bullpen was able to
fend off a late rally by Columbia
and Andrew Bakowski ’11, who
pitched 2 1/3 scoreless innings,
got the win.
The Bears hope to take mo-
mentum from the split against a
good Columbia team. “I’m happy
where we are heading into con-
ference play,” said Head Coach
Marek Drabinski. “To split with
Columbia after the way we had
been playing was great, but we’ve
definitely got a lot more work to
do.”
The series split leaves Brown
in contention for the Ivy title.
“None of the teams in our divi-
sion won more than two games
this week, so we are still in good
position to get to the champi-
onship series,” Greskof f wrote
in an e-mail to The Herald. “We
have three mid-week games to
get our hitters going heading
into the weekend, and we need
to win three or four games this
weekend since we are at home.
Our goal is still to win the league
and we are in good position to
do that.”
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S ports W ednesday
W. Water Polo
Bruno leaves California Bears putt to 12th place in invitational
with six wins, six losses
By Katie DeAngelis
Contributing Writer
No. 20 Brown headed to California
for spring break and went 6-6 in 12
games. Highlights included an up-
set victory over No. 19 Cal State at
Bakersfield and a 7-6 overtime win
against Cal State at San Bernadino
on the final day of competition.
The offense was led by stellar
performances from tri-captains Sarah
Glick ’10 and Lauren Presant ’10, as
well as Herald Senior Editor Joanna
Wohlmuth ’11 and Brittany Wester-
man ’13. Tri-captain Stephanie Laing
’10 had an impressive week, leading
the defense in goal.
Laing received Northern Divi-
sion Defensive Player of the Week
honors, Glick was named Co-Player
of the Week and Westerman was
both the Rookie of the Week and
Co-Player of the Week.
LMU 11, Brown 7
In their first game of the week,
Brown fell to No. 7 Loyola Mary-
mount University, 11-7. The score
was 6-4 after the second quarter,
but the Bears weren’t able to come
back in the second half. Presant led
Brown with three goals, and Laing
had 13 saves.
Brown 12, Fresno Pacific 4
After losing their first game, the
Bears rallied to beat Fresno Pacific
on March 27. Tied after the first
quarter, 3-3, Brown held Fresno
Pacific to only one goal in the re-
maining three quarters. Glick and
Wohlmuth both scored three goals,
and Laing had 11 saves.
Brown 8, Sonoma State 4
Brown kept the momentum go-
ing to win another game that same
day against Sonoma State. Again tied
after the first quarter, 1-1, Brown
outscored Sonoma State, 7-3, in the
remaining quarters. Glick had four
goals, and Claudia Ruiz ’13 had her
first goal of the series.
Brown 9, Cal State at
Bakersfield 7
Brown’s third win came on Sun-
day with an upset of No. 19 Cal State
at Bakersfield. Brown jumped out to
a 3-0 lead during the first quarter.
“We started the game on a 4-0
run and never looked back,” said
Head Coach Felix Mercado.
Presant had four goals, and Laing
had 10 saves.
UC at Davis 10, Brown 6
After the exciting win against Cal
State, Brown fell to No. 18 UC at Da-
vis, 10-6. Tied after the first quarter,
2-2, UC at Davis outscored Brown,
3-1, in the second quarter.
“So far this trip has started well,”
Mercado said after the game against
UC at Davis. “I know we are a bet-
ter team today than on Thursday,
and I feel we are only going to get
better.”
Brown 8, Pomona 3
After a day of rest, the Bears
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Wednesday, April 7, 2010
W. Golf
By Chris Williams
Contributing Writer
This shortened the whole event to 36
holes, with 18 holes of competition
each day.
“good learning experience,” noting
that “everyone stayed in the tourna-
ment and had a good attitude” despite
bounced back from their loss and In a weather-shortened Hoya Wom- The Bears posted scores of 337 the tough playing conditions.
came back with energy to win their en’s Invitational, hosted by George- and 334, with Heather Arison ’12 Head Coach Danielle Griffiths
next two games on Tuesday, the town University, the women’s golf leading the way both days for Brown. was especially pleased with the
first against Pomona. Behind the team finished 12th out of 17 teams. Arison played consistently, shooting Bears’ play on Tuesday, noting that
leadership of Glick, who scored four The event, held March 29 and 83-83 — 166 on her way to tie for the Bears were the “only team to
goals, Brown led from the beginning 30 at the Members Club at Four 43rd place in the 90-player field. Just improve on the second day.” Look-
and held on versus Pomona. Laing Streams outside Washington, D.C., behind Arison was Megan Tuohy ing forward, Griffiths stressed that
finished with 12 saves. was originally scheduled as a 54- ’12 at 168, closely followed by Julia her team will be “working hard on
hole tournament. However, due to Robinson ’11 and Susan Restrepo (its) short game and mental game”
Brown 12, Claremont 4 extremely wet conditions the first ’11 at 169. Carly Arison ’12 rounded in preparation for its next tourna-
Brown finished Tuesday strong morning, the host club decided to out the Bears’ top five, shooting a ment, the Columbia Invitational, and
with a decisive win over Claremont. shorten the first day from 36 to 18 two-day total of 176. ultimately the Ivy League Champion-
The Bears opened the gap early, holes in order to help dry the course. Tuohy called the tournament a ships in late April.
finishing the first half ahead, 9-2.
Goals were, for the most part, evenly
spread across familiar faces. Glick M. Crew
and Presant led the group of scorers
with three goals each and Laing had
an impressive 15 saves.
Crew team gets two wins over Yale
By Sahar Shahamatdar the first and second varsity eight the finish line and finished 1.3 sec-
USC 15, Brown 6 Sports Staff Writer races. onds ahead of Bruno.
Brown then played No. 1 ranked Brown’s varsity four finished Brown was not discouraged by
USC and fell, 15-6. Though Brown The men’s crew team started off the just 1.7 seconds after Yale, despite the losses and came back to win the
held on during the first quarter, season with a second-place finish being behind as much as a full last two events. In the first varsity
keeping the game to a close score of at the San Diego Crew Classic and length by the 1,000-meter mark. eight, Brown’s top boat finished
4-2, by halftime USC had opened the continued to show its impressive The Bulldogs continued their win- the line just four seats ahead of the
lead to 9-4. Laing had six saves and skills by coming out victorious in ning streak after taking first in the Bulldogs with a time of 5:38.0.
three steals, and Glick, Presant and two events against Yale Saturday. third varsity eight, topping Brown The second varsity boat also
Stanton each scored two goals. Yale took gold in the first three by 2.7 seconds. rowed a fast race and defeated its
events of the morning — the third Despite defeating Yale by more event by open water as the Yale
San Diego State 10, Brown 5 varsity eight, the varsity four and than nine seconds in the freshman boat trailed by more than six sec-
Despite a strong third quarter, the first freshman eight, winning eight last year, Brown was not able onds.
Brown was unable to fight back from the races by a combined six sec- to hold off the Bulldogs in the event The Bears will row against Ivy
San Diego State’s early lead. San onds. But Brown came back to win this year as they sprinted toward rival Harvard April 10 at home.
Diego State’s defense held Brown to
zero goals in the second and fourth
quarters. Offensive powerhouse
Glick scored two goals, and Laing
had 10 saves.
Cal Baptist 12, Brown 8
After losing center defender Stan-
ton to an injury in the game against
San Diego State, Brown couldn’t
overcome Cal Baptist Friday. West-
erman and Glick scored three goals
each, and Presant added two.
“It’s tough to play without your
top defenders against an offensive-
ly-talented team like Cal Baptist,”
Mercado said after the game. “We
hung in there for the most part, but
we ran out of steam at the end. It’s
been a long trip, and I’m hoping
we can rebound with good play on
Saturday.”
Brown 7, Cal State at San
Bernadino 6 (OT)
After losing three games in a row,
Brown pulled through and finished
the week on a high note, beating Cal
State at San Bernadino in overtime
on Saturday. Despite going 2 of 17 on
their power plays, the Bears forced
the game into overtime by playing
good defense. Glick led Brown with
two goals. Ruiz scored the game-
winning goal in the second overtime
to give the Bears the win.
UC at San Diego 11, Brown 7
No. 17 UC at San Diego jumped
out to an early lead, finishing the
first quarter ahead, 6-2. Brown was
unable to make up the difference,
and UC at San Diego kept the four-
goal lead until the end. The Bears
were two of 11 on their power plays,
an aspect of their game that they
have struggled with throughout the
season.
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Mixed signals
There is no doubt that Brown is in the midst of serious order. First, much of the funding for capital projects
financial stress. To cope with endowment losses, the and renovations comes from earmarked donations.
Corporation recently approved $30 million in budget In many cases, the Corporation accepts funds based
cuts and spending reductions for fiscal year 2011. The on the stipulation from donors that the money will
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The Brown Daily Herald
When lawyers and dentists teach the kids
Sarah Yu
Opinions Columnist
Last month, the Texas Board of Education
approved of a series of curriculum changes
in the social sciences for public elementary,
middle and high school programs. These
changes will lay out a set of guidelines for
textbook publishers that may affect a larg-
er demographic than just Texas students, as
the state is one of the largest purchasers of
textbooks in the country.
The “conservative stamp” of these new
guidelines reflects perfectly the skewed ratio
of Republican and Democratic members on
the Board — the proposed curriculum now
emphasizes the superiority and importance
of American capitalism, questions the secu-
larism of the Founding Fathers’ ideology and
diminishes societal responsibility for issues
such as dating violence, drug use and eating
disorders. The Board diverged from local
educators’ views of public education laid out
earlier in March.
While much of the nation has been con-
cerned about the dominance that the Repub-
lican majority has on the 15-member board,
I have a much more fundamental question
to ask of the Texas education system: Why
must it be the case that the Board is polarized
politically in the first place?
The Board of Education is the elected over-
seeing body of the Texas Education Agency,
A more serious commitment to physical education at Brown
Yue Wang
Opinions Columnist
Adding to the numerous buzzing construc-
tion sites on College Hill, the ongoing project
of the new aquatics and fitness center seems
to appeal to everybody. For varsity athletes, it
means a permanent home for the swimming
and water polo teams, a much less crowded
strength and conditioning area, separated
lockers for teams, etc. The Brown commu-
nity at large will also enjoy extended hours
for swimming, more dance studios and more
fitness centers. All these efforts are said to
make the Brown athletic complex more at-
tractive to both varsity athletes and other
members of the Brown community.
Is that really the case? While one may con-
cede that the improvement of facilities will
make the varsity athletes — whose physical
training makes up a huge part of their life on
campus — better off, I suspect that adding a
new athletic center doesn’t mark a significant
change of direction from Brown’s long history
of inertia and complacency about providing
good physical education for the rest of the
student body.
Whether you know it or not, along with
Princeton, Yale and University of Pennsylvania,
Brown is one of four Ivy League colleges that
do not fund students’ recreational sports. By
contrast, Dartmouth, Columbia and Cornell
offer mostly free physical education classes.
a branch of the state government responsible
for public education. The board members, who
have the ultimate say in what should be in-
cluded in elementary, middle and high school
curricula, are elected to their positions. There
seem to be no real requirements for them to
qualify to run as candidates — no members of
the Board have any professional background
in history, sociology or economics.
I hope readers are not offended when I
say that this is one terrible institution — it’s
a little too 1984 for me to endorse. Perhaps
Education should not be clouded with political
affiliation, and neither should its administration.
the electoral process of the Board is a noble
manifestation of the ideals of democracy —
but when the elected board members consist
of mostly lawyers and one dentist who would
ignore the advice of educators in making deci-
sions about education, I question the validity
of a democracy whose voters seem confused
about whom they should be voting for.
I find it hard to get my head around the pro-
found degree of politicization infiltrating what
should not be political. This public education
system, I realize, is effectively monitored by a
body that is politicized and bifurcated between
They even enforce physical education require-
ments — which count toward academic credits
— as well as a mandatory swim test by the
time of graduation. By funding and mandating
recreational sports for the whole student body,
those colleges are promoting the idea that sport
is an indispensable part of a liberal education
and that exercise is as important for average
students as it is for athletes.
How different, then, is the situation at
Brown? To begin with, we have to pay fees to
take physical education courses. Starting next
Solving these long-existing problems, not
increasing the number of dance studios or
fitness rooms, will determine how attractive
physical education is to Brown students.
semester, the use of gyms will probably incur
more fees that will appear on our bills. Even in
paid courses, there seems to be pandemic and
even systemic mismanagement of the courses
and indifference to students’ needs. Some in-
structors simply fail to show up without any no-
tification in advance or explanation afterwards.
In an extremely frustrating incident, a friend of
mine went over to the Olney-Margolies Athletic
Center to attend a yoga class at the beginning
of last semester. The class gathered three times
without the instructor ever showing up. It took
numerous phone calls to the physical education
conservatives and liberals, Republicans and
Democrats. For something so fundamental
and necessary to any society, such a high
degree of intrinsic controversy can be danger-
ous. Revisionism is occurring at the hands of
those who lack knowledge and expertise but
make up for these deficiencies with political
party support. The real decision-makers are
not those who are educators or profession-
als in academic fields, and this makes me
anxious.
Throughout the course of our liberal col-
lege education, we are taught that all social
sciences are subjective, that there will always
be different opinions and that no writer can
ever escape the influences and barriers that
society and politics have placed on him or her.
We begin to read texts more critically but with
a more open mind, trying to assess the writer’s
context along with the content. We know now
that any occurrence in our world is affected
as much by individuals as by the societies
that shape them. It is ultimately up to us as
individual intellectuals and learners to decide
what our view of our society should be.
office before she was finally told the course
was canceled.
For yet another sign of how physical educa-
tion is ignored at Brown, one needs only to look
at the scheduling of the classes, which usually
conflicts with our academic schedules. In this
spring semester, for example, many physical
education classes meet either during lunch
time or at hours crowded by other classes. This
makes enrollment in a physical education class
at Brown more difficult.
Solving these long-existing problems, not
increasing the number of dance studios or
fitness rooms, will determine how attractive
physical education is to Brown students. By
charging students for the use of gyms and
building another giant sports center, the school
seems to indicate that recreational sports and
physical education takes a higher priority than
before. Yet, by ignoring factors such as a lack
of funding for physical education classes, cha-
otic management and schedule conflicts, the
administration is sending us conflicting mes-
sages about the importance of exercise and
physical fitness.
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We cannot possibly, however, expect a
younger and untried audience to do the same.
More likely than not, a textbook with stan-
dardized material is what will be taken at face
value for those learning its content for the first
time. While we cannot train young students to
recognize all possible biases and controver-
sies in our society, they are at least owed the
opportunity to be exposed to a curriculum
composed by nonpartisan experts. Education
should not be clouded by political affiliation,
and neither should its administration.
When the world decides to look into what
the United States is and has been all about, it
is the books that Americans have written about
themselves that others will turn to. The Texas
Board of Education’s arbitrary rewrites and
politically-driven educational revisionism are
sure to retract from the understanding of the
American nation as accepting and progressive
if there is not a real guarantee that younger
generations can learn freely without the taint
of ideological incoherence.
It would be nice to see at least some agree-
ment from the ever-warring political factions
in this country — for the children, and for
the future. It might mean that lawyers and
dentists swallow their proud political affilia-
tions for the time being, but I trust they will
find a place for their views in the discussion
of environmental issues.
Sarah Yu ’11 is an international
relations and history concentrator
from Sydney, Australia. She can be
reached at xia_yu@brown.edu.
Of course, the amount of time and energy
that is invested in sports and exercises is ul-
timately decided by individuals. Coursework,
jobs, extracurricular activities and — let’s be
honest — laziness all influence our willing-
ness to exercise. But an administration truly
committed to physical fitness and the health of
the student body should at least take steps to
provide the ease and comfort that may encour-
age student participation in sports.
Right now, these are the obvious initial steps
to consider: First, the University should fund
physical education classes, even if they do not
make them mandatory; second, the physical
education department should work with the
Dean of the College to come up with a schedule
that permits greater compatibility between
academic courses and PE classes; finally, more
reliable instructors and staff can make attend-
ing a PE class a more pleasant experience.
Over two thousand years ago, the Greek
philosopher Plato offered the following advice
regarding exercise: “Lack of activity destroys
the good condition of every human being, while
movement and methodical physical exercise
save it and preserve it.” This piece of ancient
wisdom still holds true today. If Brown really
believes that exercise matters for its students,
it is high time to address the real problems
plaguing the program instead of concealing
them beneath the grandeur of a new sports
center.
Yue Wang ’12 is a political science
and German studies concentrator
from Shanghai. She can be contacted
at yue_wang@brown.edu.
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