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Nelson ’12 Weak end: Wyclef wins, but Diddy disappoints
to be UCS
president
Lee ’12 to head UFB
By David Chung
Senior Staff Writer
Ralanda Nelson ’12 will serve as
president of the Undergraduate
Council of Students next year, an-
nounced Anthony White ’13, chair
of the Elections Board, at 11:59 p.m.
Thursday on the steps of Faunce
House. Nelson, who is currently
the UCS student activities chair,
defeated UCS Vice President Ben
Farber ’12 with 58.7 percent of the
vote in the elections that began Tues-
day and ended at noon Thursday. A
total of 1,584 students voted during
the 48-hour period.
“My heart was in it, and I’m really
excited that I can do great things for
Brown next year, and I’m extremely,
extremely humbled,” Nelson said.
Congratulating Nelson on the
victory, Farber said, “I know that
she’s going to make an amazing UCS
president next year, and I can’t ex-
press how thankful I am that the
campaign went so smoothly and
that we have continued to get along
so well.”
Jason Lee ’12, vice chair of the
Undergraduate Finance Board,
defeated David Chanin ’12, a UFB
representative, for next year’s UFB
chair with a slight majority of 52.5
percent.
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Tea Partiers gathered at the State House Friday for the third annual Tax Day rally.
news...................2-4
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editorial.............6
Opinions..............7
SPORTS..................8
Monday, April 18, 2011
By shefali luthra
Senior Staff Writer
Despite an embarrassingly lackluster
performance by Das Racist, a no-
show by Lissy Trullie, an offensive
and often boring concert from head-
liner Diddy-Dirty Money — when
Diddy finally showed up — and a
torrential downpour Saturday night,
Spring Weekend was not a complete
failure. At least there was Wyclef Jean.
For the first time since 2008, both
concerts were held indoors, inviting
criticism from students over Meehan
Auditorium’s distorted sound system
and seat polarization — only the
first 1,000 students to arrive were
allowed near the stage, while the
rest were relegated to bleachers. But
the weekend did have its positives,
thanks to TV on the Radio, Rebirth
Brass Band, Lee Fields and the Ex-
pressions, a surprise performance
by Wyclef and Dave Binder’s sun-
drenched 25th anniversary acoustic
performance.
Friday’s performance — though
tempered by the notable absence of
scheduled artist Trullie — featured
TV on the Radio, who gave an in-
fectiously energetic performance,
with a blend of electrifying rock and
soothing soul. Lead singer Tunde
Adebimpe’s crooning “oohs,” ac-
companied by resounding drums,
created an experience that was musi-
cally innovative and engaging.
“Rumor has it you guys came to
party,” Adebimpe shouted. TV on the
Radio was ready to facilitate just that.
And on Saturday, Rebirth Brass
Band turned Meehan into a dance
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Ships ahoy!
Bears sail past competition
in collegiate rankings
Sports, 8
Herald
Tea Party protests taxes,
status quo at State House
By Claire Peracchio
City & State Editor
The deadline for residents to file
their taxes is today, but the state’s
Tea Party wants Rhode Islanders to
know that the battle against the tax
expansion proposed by Gov. Lincoln
Chafee ’75 P’14 wages on.
At the third annual Tax Day rally
Friday, several hundred Tea Party
supporters took to the State House
steps to protest Chafee’s tax plan and
voice support for lower taxes and
smaller government. Chafee’s pro-
posal to raise $165 million by lower-
ing the state sales tax to 6 percent,
taxing some currently exempt items
at that rate and imposing a 1 percent
sales tax on other exempt items was
the rally’s main target, with public
sector unions and deficit spending
also taking jabs from speakers.
Jonathan Bateman, Stephanie London and Hilary Rosenthal / Herald
Some students said they found Friday’s opening act Das
Racist (above) unsatisfactory. Nico Jaar ’12 (left) was the
first of many performers to play at Saturday’s concert, which
lasted over five hours.
“Read my lips, as George H. W.
Bush said,” WHJJ radio personality
Helen Glover told the crowd. “There
will be new taxes unless you speak
out.” Former President George H.
W. Bush famously pledged, “Read
my lips: no new taxes,” at the 1988
Republican National Convention,
but his failure to fulfill the pledge is
widely considered a decisive factor
in his 1992 reelection defeat.
Glover hosted the event, which
featured an ’80s-style rock band
called Reagan’s Edge and Revolu-
tionary War re-enactors, who treat-
ed the crowd to musket salutes at the
beginning and end of the rally. Ral-
liers carried signs emblazoned with
“TEA’D Off,” “Taxed Enough Al-
ready” and “Not a Fan of the Chafee
Tax Plan.” Another sign, bearing a
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Opinions, 7
Since 1891
Plurality
prioritizes
financial aid
By Jeffrey Handler
Staff Writer
Nearly 40 percent of students think
the University’s highest priority
should be increasing financial aid,
according to last month’s Herald
poll. Fifteen percent indicated the
highest priority should be renovating
on-campus housing, and close to 10
percent said the University should
be primarily focused either build-
ing new on-campus residence halls
or hiring more faculty. Slightly over
25 percent of students thought the
University should prioritize other
options, including improving class-
rooms and labs, improving food op-
tions or improving athletic facilities.
Administrators were not sur-
prised by the results and stressed that
University Hall also considers finan-
cial aid one of Brown’s top priorities.
“It really is important. The Uni-
versity is much better if we can attract
not only the most talented student
body but the most diverse student
body, including economic diversity,
and a very strong financial aid pro-
gram is pretty much at the heart of
that,” said Richard Spies, executive
vice president for planning and se-
nior adviser to the president.
Spies added financial aid is espe-
cially crucial now, given the recent
recession. “There are very few stu-
dents here who don’t have to worry
about it at all,” he said.
“No one has ever come to us
and said, ‘You’ve given us too much
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continued from page 1 posal to extend the sales tax to previ- “It’s not the taxpayers who are
5:30 P.m. 5:30 p.m. ously untaxed services, also spoke. at fault,” Riddensdale said. “It’s the
Constructing a Manly Nation Leave Taking Info Session, picture of Chafee, read, “Japan was John Robitaille, the 2010 Repub- people in this building right here.”
Through Nature, 357 Benefit St. Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center hit by a typhoon, Rhode Island was lican gubernatorial candidate who A handful of counter-protesters
hit by a buffoon.” lost to Chafee by less than 3 percent, from Brown and the liberal orga-
7 p.m. 8 p.m.
Speakers said Chafee’s plan was did not speak at the event but told nizations Ocean State Action and
Big Questions, Brown Magic, dealt a setback Wednesday night The Herald he was there to support Rhode Island Jobs with Justice were
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Concerts face delays
and disappointment
continued from page 1
hall from the moment the band
stepped onstage with blaring instru-
ments and vibrant music. Students
on and off the rink went beyond the
usual head bob. They grooved­—
clapping, cheering and singing along
to songs they had never heard before.
Lee Fields — with a glittering green
suit and rich, soulful voice — sus-
tained that energy, inspiring audi-
ence members to dance even while
they stood in line to buy concessions.
But the highlight of the week-
end was the surprise performance
by Wyclef, a visiting fellow in the
Department of Africana Stud-
ies, returning to the stage after his
2000 Spring Weekend performance.
Whether he was strumming his gui-
tar to “No Woman, No Cry,” groov-
ing to Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen
Spirit” or dancing in the audience,
Wyclef created an intimate atmo-
sphere. Had Wyclef chosen not to
sing, his enthusiasm and charisma
would have been more than suffi-
cient.
But the other acts were disap-
pointing.
There was Das Racist, whose
sense of humor, while funny on
YouTube, did not translate well to
the stage. The performance was no-
where near interesting enough to
pump students up — even the trio’s
rendition of the hit “Combination
Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” didn’t excite
the audience.
“That act just sucks,” said John
Oberbeck ’14 of Das Racist.
Then there was Trullie, the myste-
rious opener who tours with TV on
the Radio but failed to appear Friday
night. Her absence was disappoint-
ing, given the quality of her music.
According to Abby Schreiber ’11,
Brown Concert Agency’s booking
chair, Trullie did not make it to the
concert because her car broke down.
Shawn Patterson ’12 said though
he was not familiar with Trullie’s mu-
sic, the absence of a performer “really
cut down on the concert experience.”
He said he was so disappointed with
Friday’s concert that he sold his Sat-
urday ticket.
The location itself also proved
frustrating to concert attendees.
The sound system distorted artists’
voices, so only someone obsessively
familiar with lyrics could follow what
was being sung. The split in seat-
ing created a frustrating duality in
concert experiences. While those on
the floor could move to the music,
dancing in the bleachers was only
worth it for an exceptional act.
“I was not a fan of the indoor
arena,” Patterson said. Patterson said
he found Meehan’s acoustics disap-
pointing, especially with Das Racist.
“I didn’t understand a word they
said,” he said.
Katerina Wright ’11 said Saturday
night’s rain justified the indoor set-
ting but said she thought holding
the concerts in Meehan affected the
weekend’s atmosphere.
“The entire experience is different
inside,” she said. “It’s less communal.”
She was also happy that the rain
stopped by Sunday, adding “It’s al-
ways sunny for Dave Binder.”
Kate Nemetz ’13, who was in the
bleachers Friday night, criticized the
seating setup and said she was frus-
trated by a half-hour period between
sets when the lights were turned on.
“It’s not about the bands. This is a
terrible setup,” Nemetz said. “I really
had high hopes, and this (expletive)
sucks.”
continued on page 4
Campus News 3
U. opens education center in New York
By Sarah Mancone
Staff Writer
The University’s Annenberg Insti-
tute for School Reform is opening
a Center for Education Organiz-
ing in New York City to support
organizations around the coun-
try in transforming urban public
schools.
The center will offer training
for youth and adult leaders, pro-
vide research and education policy
analysis, build alliances across
various groups and enable the
sharing of successful organizing
strategies, according to an April
4 press release.
The center is an expansion of
the institute’s office for education
organizing, which was part of New
York University until the office
merged with the institute four
years ago, said Richard Gray ’85,
co-director of community orga-
nizing and engagement at Annen-
berg, who is based at the center in
New York.
The office’s work in New York
over the past four years is the sub-
ject of a documentary titled “Par-
ent Power,” which will be shown
in a pre-premiere screening on
campus April 25.
Prior to the creation of the new
center, the office focused more on
groups based in New York, but
now the center will focus more
on national organizations, he said.
In New York, the institute fo-
cused its attention on “community
revitalization,” formulating strate-
gies for community organizations
based on research and data, Gray
said. This will also be the approach
for the center’s national work.
“Individual organizations in
the cities will reach out to us and
ask for support” to address prob-
lems such as school closings, fi-
nancial cuts and lack of quality
teachers, Gray said. The center will
then advise these groups on the
best ways to enact change.
The center will also link people
associated with community or-
ganizations across the country
through “webinars” and video
conferences, Gray said.
“People want to learn from
their peers,” he said. “They want
to know what is happening in Mis-
sissippi, California and Denver.”
The center will “create a dia-
logue across all of these organiz-
ing groups,” said Michelle Renee,
senior research associate at An-
nenberg and assistant clinical pro-
fessor in the Master’s in Urban
Education Policy program.
In addition to connecting peo-
ple across the nation, the center
hopes to bring together parent
groups and teachers’ unions.
“Teachers and parents should
be natural allies in creating and
changing a positive learning en-
vironment for kids,” Gray said.
The center currently has six
staff members who work primarily
in New York, although there are
consultants in Washington and
Los Angeles, Gray said.
Some of the work will require
staff members to travel to particu-
lar sites, Renee said. For example,
she is based in Los Angeles and
is “meeting with parents in Las
Vegas to explain the story of what
has happened in New York.”
The center is currently looking
for funds to expand and will then
be able to hire more staff mem-
bers, Gray said.
Master’s students from the
Urban Education Policy program
work at the center as interns. In
addition, Gray said he hopes the
center will eventually be able to
offer internships to Brown un-
dergraduates.
“Students will be able to come
to us and identify places they
would like to connect with,” Gray
said, adding that they will “par-
ticipate in improving the quality
of education around the country.”
Gray called the creation of the
center an “important step for a
university that has historically
had a commitment for improving
quality of life” for both students
and the community.
“We firmly believe that public
education and getting access to
education … is the civil rights is-
sue of our era,” Gray said.
4 Campus News
Students consider financial aid a priority, poll says
continued from page 1
money, take some back,’” said James
Tilton, director of financial aid. “Stu-
dents and families continue to look
for ways, creative ways, to pay for
college, and it’s always going to be
stressful.”
Forty-six percent of students re-
ceive need-based financial aid, ac-
cording to Tilton.
“I work in the cafeteria and, if I
had those hours back, I would be
doing research and doing some other
things on campus,” she said.
The University’s main priorities,
spelled out in the Plan for Academic
Enrichment, are improving under-
graduate education, international-
ization and strengthening academic
programs and departments, Spies
said. “One of the first initiatives for
the Plan for Academic Enrichment
was the introduction of need-blind
admission.”
“I think over time, Brown sort
of has shown its commitment to fi-
nancial aid,” Tilton said, pointing to
Brown’s decision to go need-blind in
2003 and the financial aid initiatives
of 2008 and 2009.
In the poll, seniors were most
likely to prioritize financial aid. The
class of 2011 was the last class be-
fore the financial aid initiatives were
introduced in the 2008-09 school
year that eliminated loans for families In your opinion, what should be the
making less than $100,000 a year,
Tilton said. University’s highest prority?
Seniors also meet with counselors
in the student loan office to figure out
how best to deal with paying back
their loans, Tilton said.
Though improving financial aid
is certainly a high priority, Spies
cautioned that there is danger in
only considering one option as a
top priority.
“The idea of a plan is that there
are multiple goals that you can work
on simultaneously and that each
makes the other better, and that’s
why I think to try to focus on one and
only one is a mistake,” Spies said. “If
we have a great financial aid program
but we’re not keeping up with faculty
competitiveness, then that’s not a
good result”
The University’s is also hoping
to continue strengthening and im-
proving academic programs and aca-
demic offerings, Spies said. Recently,
the University has turned its atten-
tion to areas including archaeology,
life sciences, Africana studies and
engineering.
Slightly less than 10 percent of
students indicated the University’s
highest priority should be hiring new
faculty. The percentage of seniors
who felt this way was significantly
higher than the percentage of first-
years and sophomores.
“I’d be surprised and disappoint-
ed if you told me the opposite, that
seniors were less inclined to think
about faculty,” Spies said. “Seniors
understand more because they have
more experience with the direct con-
tact with faculty”
Across the board, students saw
the improvement of current on-cam-
pus housing and the construction
of new residence halls as priorities.
Location, delays
frustrate concert-goers
continued from page 3
Saturday’s concert was initially
delayed by two hours when Diddy-
Dirty Money informed the Uni-
versity that it was running behind
schedule.
Another Diddy delay — Wyclef ’s
set ended at 8:45 p.m., and Diddy
was not onstage until 9:45 p.m.—
pushed the frustration past the limit.
The hour between Wyclef and Diddy
involved unknown DJs and rappers,
as well as periods of no performanc-
es while students booed and chanted
Diddy’s name.
“It is humbling for us to be here
tonight,” Diddy proclaimed, when
he finally arrived. But it was hard to
believe him after such a delay.
Consisting mainly of excerpts
of his songs and extended tributes
to Biggie Smalls, Saturday’s perfor-
mance was not what you expect from
a headliner. There was no customary
call for an encore, and students trick-
led out of Meehan — some before
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Monday, April 18, 2011
Katie Wilson / Herald
“The quality and quantity of
dorms does have an effect on un-
dergraduate education,” Spies said.
“When you have dorms that are
both overcrowded and not in great
shape, it can be a drag. So we need
to do something. It always was part
of the plan, but it’s emerging as more
urgent.”
Only about 6 percent of students
indicated improving athletic facilities
should be the highest priority. The
percentage of males who thought
that athletic facilities should be the
highest priority was significantly
higher than the percentage of fe-
males.
“That doesn’t surprise me,” said
Kayla Skinner ’12. “Dudes spend
more time at the gym. It’s pretty self
explanatory.”
“I visited a lot of other schools,
and their athletic facilities are a lot
better than Brown’s, and I think it
is kind of a turn off for people who
are looking at Brown to go visit the
(Olney-Margolies Athletic Center),”
Skinner said. “The OMAC is a joke.
It really is. There are treadmills in
the hallways.”
Diddy even got onstage.
Wright, who said she is “not a
Diddy fan,” still enjoyed his show,
though she agreed that Wyclef was
definitely the “surprise hit” of the
evening.
“(Diddy) is a performer,” she
added.
But Conor Kane ’14, who left be-
fore Diddy’s set was finished, was
less satisfied.
“You know how people can be
great performers or be personable? I
thought he fell in the middle,” Kane
said.
Kane also said he thought Satur-
day night’s rain put a damper on the
mood, saying that less seemed to be
going on because of the rain.
“It’s funny that parties kind of got
rained out,” he said.
Maybe, then, Das Racist was
good for something. In three lines,
they captured the weekend: “It was
the best of times, it was the worst of
times. It was the combination best
of times and worst of times.”
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Monday, April 18, 2011
Women’s lax optimistic
about season’s end
continued from page 8
as the season nears its end. Tues-
day’s home game against St. Mary’s
College of California is another
chance for the Bears to return to
winning ways. McDonald said the
same consistent effort and team
Bruno loss to Yale
threatens playoff hopes
continued from page 8
regulation.
But Yale then pulled away. The
Elis scored three unanswered
goals, and Brown could not come
through on the other end. At the
final whistle, Yale came away with
a 10-6 win in its final home game
of the season.
“That’s what’s been lacking with
us — how to win the end of the
game,” Tiffany said. “And unfor-
tunately, that was exposed again
on Saturday.”
Yet again, a bright spot for the
Bears was the play of goalie Matt
Chris ’11, who made 12 saves on
the day. Going into the contest, the
senior ranked sixth nationally in
both save percentage (.607) and
saves per game (12.2).
“Matt made four saves in the
first half and was keeping Yale frus-
trated,” Tiffany said. “Second half,
Matt actually made eight saves. And
as Yale was cranking up the heat on
us and playing at a much faster pace
and was playing better lacrosse than
us, Matt made eight saves and a lot
of them were really tough saves. He
kept that game close.”
The loss is a setback in the Bears’
Undergrads elect next
year’s class leaders
continued from page 1
“I want to thank everyone who
supported me,” Lee said.
In the only contested race for a
UCS committee chair, Mae Cadao
’13 was elected next year’s student
activities chair with 51 percent of
the vote. She defeated Daniel Pip-
kin ’14 and Noelle Spencer ’14. The
three candidates currently serve on
the Student Activities Committee
under Nelson’s leadership.
“I really hope I can follow
through on everything, and I’m
really excited about the position,”
Cadao said. “I really want to make
big things happen.”
Five candidates — Ariel Caldwell
’14, Raaj Parekh ’13, Chris Catoya
’13, Golnoosh Mahdavi ’14 and
Zac Fischer ’13 — were chosen to
serve as UFB at-large representatives
for next year, leaving three spots
unfilled. Jesse Castellanos ’13 and
Natalie Van Houten ’14 did not re-
ceive the required 5 percent of the
vote for the position.
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unity should be enough to end the
season on a high note.
“Playing our best as a unit and
everyone bringing their best com-
ing game time is what we’ll con-
tinue focusing on,” McDonald said.
“We’re really making an effort to
finish the season strong.”
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pursuit of a spot in the Ivy League
playoffs. The conference’s top four
squads advance to the tournament,
which is hosted by the first-place
school. Brown will return home
Saturday to take on No. 5 Cornell
(9-2, 4-0), which holds sole posses-
sion of first place and looks primed Gelotology | Guillaume Riesen
to lock up one of the four spots.
Yale and Penn are now tied for sec-
ond, and Brown sits only one game
behind fourth-place Princeton (4-6,
2-2) with Cornell and Dartmouth
(4-7, 1-3) left on the Ivy schedule.
“If we have any shot of continu-
ing the season further than April
30, then (the Cornell game) is a
must-win,” Tiffany said. “We’re
the injured, wounded animal with
its back into a corner — that’s us.
If we want to define this season
any different than the way it (has)
progressed to this point, it’s now or
never, and we’ve got to come out of
that corner.”
But before the Cornell show-
down, the Bears must focus on
crosstown rival Providence Col-
lege (3-8, 0-3 Big East), a “much-
improved” program according to
Tiffany. Faceoff is set for Tuesday
night at PC’s Friar Field Hockey
and Lacrosse Complex.
Only two positions for the
Class Coordinating Boards were
contested. Brandon Tomasso ’13
was elected president for the class
of 2013 with 57 percent of the vote,
and Kelsey Tripp ’13 won the vice
president race with 59 percent of
the vote.
Most candidates in races for the
UCS, UFB and CCB positions were
unopposed.
Meera Chappidi ’12 and Imani
Tisdale ’12 will lead the class of 2012
as co-presidents, and Andrew Sil-
verman ’14 will serve as president
for the class of 2014.
David Rattner ’13, UCS campus
life chair, will serve as the council’s
vice president next year. Todd Har-
ris ’14, Michael Lin ’14 and Michael
Schneider ’13 will chair the Aca-
demic and Administrative Affairs,
Admissions and Student Services
and Campus Life committees, re-
spectively. Afia Kwakwa ’14 will be
UCS treasurer and Stephanie Pak
’12 will represent the council at Ivy
Council.
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Monday, April 18, 2011

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by erik stayton and
e van donahue
Making primary
care a priority
As the Alpert Medical School prepares to make its transition to the
Jewelry District, we are pleased to see that it is looking to make other
expansions as well. Thanks to a generous grant of over $87,000 from the
Rhode Island Foundation, the Med School is capable of funding new
initiatives to get students interested in pursuing primary health care.
Particularly as last year’s national health care reform law begins to
take effect, enabling more Americans to seek basic health services, the
demand for primary care will increase in coming years. Unfortunately,
the supply of these physicians is disconcertingly low, and those who
do practice in the field tend to be overworked and underpaid. Take
for instance the statistic that doctors in subspecialties can receive up
to $3.5 million more than those in primary care over the course of
a 40-year career. It’s not hard to see why a student graduating from
medical school with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt might
choose a more lucrative field over a necessary one.
For a primary care physician trying to make up for both the un-
derstaffing and the stark compensation differential, taking the time
— which could be spent catering to patients — ­ to mentor current
medical students can be costly. This is precisely why the Rhode Island
Foundation’s grant to reward primary care mentors is so crucial: It not
only aids physicians, but also provides students with the exposure they
would need early in their career to form a personal connection with
the field of primary care.
The Rhode Island Foundation has also helped to fund loan for-
giveness for students planning to practice primary care in the state.
There are national counterparts to this fund that repay medical tuition
in exchange for a few years of medical service in rural settings and
the military, so those considering primary care are not left without
financial options.
Students at elite private institutions are more likely to specialize, le tter to the editor
often because of conceptions about prestige, which may be related to
the pay discrepancy. Though Brown prides itself on producing socially
conscious graduates, the statistics don’t always separate us from other, SSDP does not endorse drug use
similar schools. We still believe that medical students at Brown can
benefit from more experience providing basic health care. If possible, To the Editor: ticle. A quote from our Facebook event page was taken
we hope many of these opportunities include serving rural and un- completely out of context, and we want to explicitly
derserved populations. In an April 14 front-page story (“Hold the foam: reject any association of reckless or irresponsible be-
At a time when health care spending in the United States is unsus- passing on Spring Weekend,” April 14), an event spon- havior with our goals and missions as a student group.
tainably high, even surpassing that of most other Western nations, sored by Students for Sensible Drug Policy was used We are providing an information service. However
the importance of dedicated and well-trained doctors in primary care as evidence that campus gets wild and crazy during regrettable the fact may be for some, Brown students
cannot be overstated. Providing preventative care is far less costly than Spring Weekend. The following is a clarification of our will consume unidentified pills and powders they
dealing with acute conditions that arise from years of poorly managed mission, because the representation of our group was bought from strangers. The purpose of our service is
health. We urge both medical students and pre-med undergraduate stu- far from positive. to enable students to know what they are consuming
dents to keep this in mind as they progress in their careers in medicine. I want to clarify on behalf of Students for Sensible so they can make an educated decision instead of a
Drug Policy that we in no way endorse or romanticize blind guess.
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to editorials@browndailyherald.com. zation is to change the wrongheaded drug policies, as the article, our role is not to praise inherently risky
well as the culture of abuse, that permeate our society. drug use. Rather, we aim to create an anonymous, non-
The Herald article attempted to use an SSDP-sponsored judgmental space where students can become more
event — the lending out of an ecstasy testing chemical informed before making a potentially lethal decision.
kit — as evidence of how crazy things get at Brown
during Spring Weekend. Jared Moffat ’13
Our event was grossly misappropriated in the ar- Students for Sensible Drug Policy president

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Monday, April 18, 2011
The African student’s burden
By Ian Trupin
Opinions Columnist
As we anticipate the arrival this fall of the
most geographically diverse group of admit-
ted students ever to enter Brown, a moment
presents itself to reflect on the aims of inter-
nationalism at Brown and on the experiences
that face students from abroad. Specifically, I
want to talk about what awaits students from
sub-Saharan Africa.
In January 2008, President Ruth Simmons
and Israeli businessman Idan Ofer jointly an-
nounced the establishment of the Advanc-
ing Africa Scholarship Fund, a program to
financially support African students attend-
ing Brown and both require and facilitate the
application of their acquired skills in their
home countries after graduation. As part of
a larger initiative known as Focus on Africa,
Ofer’s gift of $5.75 million became one of sev-
eral facets in one of the administration’s new-
est projects — to include sub-Saharan Africa
in efforts to make the University more glob-
ally connected.
In the same year the new scholarship was
announced, Simmons attended a three-day
conference titled “The University Leaders
Forum: Developing and Retaining the Next
Generation of African Academics” in Accra,
Ghana.
The fact that Simmons was one of only
four representatives of a U.S. university at the
conference — and the only university presi-
dent — speaks to the depth of Brown’s inter-
est in African tertiary education. Yet perhaps
By Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa
Guest Columnist
Brown students are generally very social-
ly conscious, as far as college-age students
go. We protest sweatshop labor, the lack
of government transparency, funding for
unethical projects and the lack of funding
for ethical projects. We encourage the pur-
chasing and consuming of locally grown,
organic and ethically produced goods. We
question the reasons why we act the way
we do, from wearing leggings in the winter
to wearing hipster glasses and listening to
Lady Gaga.
But why do we not ever have open con-
versations about the sociopolitical issues
surrounding drug use? Why do we fail to
connect foreign wars with our own habits
as individuals?
With 4/20 coming up, I am concerned
that many students fail to see the connec-
tion between the purchase and consump-
tion of illegal drugs on college campuses
and the violence and chaos in many parts
of the world. Gang warfare surrounding
drugs exists not only in Mexico and Co-
lombia, but also in urban California, New
York and most of the southern United
States, to name but a handful of locations.
To top it off, most of the money is coming
from the United States, where consump-
tion is most prevalent — illicit drug sales
rein in $13.6 to $48.8 billion each year, and
these are earnings for Mexico alone.
But the price we pay is much steeper.
Swallow this figure if you can — in Mexico,
even more than Simmons’ decision to attend
this conference, it is the content of Brown’s
input and its ramifications for African stu-
dents at Brown that deserve attention. Quot-
ed by news agency Modern Ghana, Simmons
said, “Students must move across the educa-
tional system easily and resources must be at
their disposal to enable them to upgrade their
knowledge in areas such as science and tech-
nology and embarking on research.”
These words speak to the expectations that
rest with African students in higher educa-
tion. Taking stock of challenges including the
Clearly, much is at stake for students from sub-Saharan
Africa entering institutions like Brown. But what does
this mean in the context of Brown, with its traditions of
liberal learning and the New Curriculum?
lowest college enrollment rates in the world
and the ever-present brain drain of highly
educated individuals toward economies in
the Global North, the educators, leaders and
analysts who met in Accra sought to define
investments in higher education that could
drive development in sub-Saharan Africa.
Among the recurrent themes was the need
for advancement in science and technology
education “to develop informed policies and
pursue sustainable development” and the
need to create viable employment opportuni-
ties and other incentives for highly educated
people to stay in their home countries.
As a representation of the dialogue over
education and the future of African develop-
4/20 and the drug war
over 10,000 people died in drug-war-re-
lated incidents between January 2007 and
June 2009. By the end of 2010, this num-
ber had risen to over 30,000 casualties. Let
me say that again — over 30,000 people
have died in drug-related violence since I
first stepped onto campus as a first-year in
2007. This semester alone, another 5,000
have been added to the death toll, making
this figure a heart-wrenching 35,000. Every
time I go home, I have to hear another sto-
Smoking marijuana in this country is harming
someone else. In fact, it is killing people
ry about a mass grave or a bus hijacking.
I cannot help but connect it to what I see
happening daily on my own beloved col-
lege campus, and it breaks my heart.
How many times have you or your
friends smoked weed while you have been
at school? One, three, perhaps 30? Are you
looking forward to 4/20? Even if you are
the kind of person who tries to steer clear
of pot, you have probably known, inter-
acted with or even lived with people who
consume drugs frequently. I get it. Being in
college in the United States is synonymous
with getting drunk, getting high and party-
Opinions 7
ment, the statements that were produced at
this conference are indicative of the climate
that surrounds African students, including
those at Brown. Unambiguously, the expecta-
tion exists that African students will gain ex-
pertise relevant to their countries in science
and technology and that upon gaining these
skills, they will return and put them to good
use in their countries of origin. The first pres-
ident of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere, put it blunt-
ly: “Those who receive (higher education),
therefore, have a duty to repay the sacrifice
which others have made. They are like the
man who has been given all the food available
in a starving village in order that he might
have strength to bring supplies back from a
distant place. If he takes this food and does
not bring help to his brothers, he is a traitor.”
African students feel this scrutiny. As Ad-
vancing Africa Scholar Dominic Mhiripiri
’12 once said in an interview with The Her-
ald, “I need to be exemplary for those who I
had to deal with, work with, live with in Zim-
babwe — I need to be someone they can em-
ulate.”
Clearly, much is at stake for students from
sub-Saharan Africa entering institutions like
Brown. But what does this mean at Brown,
with its traditions of liberal learning and the
ing on weekends.
Nonetheless, whenever I have pointed
out to friends and acquaintances that such
unthinking debauchery is killing thou-
sands of people in my home country — ­ Of course, the governments involved in
nay, killing tens of thousands of citizens
of our shared world — they wave me off as
a mood killer, as if getting high at the ex-
pense of other people’s lives were a God-
given right, or as if it were solely the gov-
ernment’s responsibility to legalize drugs
in response. I’ll be honest — when people
light up a joint around me, I get very up-
set. Why, I ask you, shouldn’t I be? Until
both the United States and Mexico get their
pants on straight, every dollar you give to
your dealer is a dollar that is fueling the
drug war.
I need to make this point clear — I am
not against people doing what they like
with their own bodies, as long as it is not
harming anyone else. I acknowledge that
marijuana is fairly harmless, as far as drugs
go. I will even acknowledge that it is a lot
of fun and that people should be allowed to
New Curriculum? The website of the Dean
of the College states, “Our open curricu-
lum ensures you great freedom in directing
the course of your education … by cultivat-
ing such openness, you will learn to make
the most of the freedom you have, and to
chart the broadest possible intellectual jour-
ney.” Is it possible for students to chart their
own broad intellectual journey if the purely
utilitarian gathering of knowledge for the ad-
vancement of their society is an obligation?
I would not claim for an instant that Sim-
mons, Nyerere or any speaker from the Uni-
versity Leader’s Conference is wrong or that
the burden of expectation is unjust. As the
son of someone who holds a doctorate and
was educated in Nyerere’s Tanzania, I too feel
this responsibility. No one can deny that Af-
rica desperately needs qualified professionals
and academics, including those with back-
grounds in the sciences and technology —
not to suggest that the arts and humanities
may safely be omitted from African scholar-
ship. But this burden must be recognized and
reconciled with the proclaimed values of the
University to an extent that it currently is not.
A strong community of support must exist
at Brown. This community must go beyond
celebrating the presence of African students
and scholars with lectures or cultural events.
It must facilitate greater cohesion between
the communities of African undergraduates
and graduate students, faculty and the initia-
tives of the administration.
Ian Trupin ’13 is a COE Organizational
Studies concentrator and will finish
articulating what he wants
in two weeks’ time.
smoke it legally. The problem, in this case,
is that smoking marijuana in this country
is harming someone else. In fact, it is kill-
ing people.
this case are both at fault. I do think one of
the viable solutions to this problem is le-
galization, and I recognize the significance
of 4/20 as a day of protest. Nonetheless, the
sheer amount of money that gets poured
into the illegal drug market at this time of
year probably fuels a large majority of the
violence that is required to keep the opera-
tion going. Getting those illegal substanc-
es into that little plastic bag in your sock
drawer costs money — which is being used
to buy guns and shoot police and civilians.
It is money that is kindling tragic and inex-
cusable bloodshed.
Even if you are sure that your weed or
cocaine originated locally, you should still
be concerned about this problem, as it is
relevant to the counterculture community
to which you belong. Have conversations
with your friends about this. If you want-
ed to get high on 4/20 this year, plan some-
thing else. Maybe you can start a move-
ment and have a 4/20 abstinence party. You
can still have fun and still make a point of
asking the government to legalize mari-
juana. Stick it to the man. Just please, dear
reader, do not do it at the expense of other
people’s lives. Your Mexican brethren will
thank you, starting with myself.
Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa ’11 is a
philosophy and classics concentrator
from Monterrey, Mexico. She can be
contacted at sofia.ortiz@gmail.com.
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the Brown
Sailing
Sailing turns few heads despite cruising to No. 1 ranking
By Nikhil Parasher
Contributing Writer
Though Brown’s sailing team goes
unnoticed by much of the student
body, the squad is on everyone’s ra-
dar in collegiate sailing circles. The
women’s team is currently ranked
No. 1 in the country, and the co-ed
squad is ranked seventh.
Head Coach John Mollicone
said the team has set a standard
for success in recent years.
“For the last 10 years, we’ve
been ranked in the top 10 pretty
consistently in women’s and co-
ed.”
The 40-person, club-level team
is listed in the same national rank-
ings as varsity-level squads. The
team’s club status has not lessened
its budget, Mollicone said.
“A lot of the club teams are
more student-run, don’t have a
lot of funding and support from
the schools, but we get full sup-
port from varsity athletics,” Mol-
licone said. “We always achieve
our fundraising goals. We have a
great budget. We look at ourselves
as a varsity team. We’re just not
counted as a varsity sport.”
Mollicone said he was unsure
why sailing is not a varsity team.
“I don’t know. It’s just always
been that way,” Mollicone said.
“We’ve talked about it before …
We just have never gotten far
M. Lacrosse
Second half kills Bruno, lifts No. 14 Yale Bears continue losing
By Ethan McCoy
Assistant Sports Editor
The men’s lacrosse team jumped out
to a 3-0 first-quarter lead over Yale,
but the Bulldogs outscored Bruno
(4-7, 1-3 Ivy) by six goals in a one-
sided second half to notch a 10-6
victory Saturday in New Haven,
Conn. The win propelled Yale (8-2,
3-2) to a tie for second place in the
Ivy League, while Brown dropped
to a tie for fifth.
“In the second half, some un-
forced errors continued and we
didn’t step up and make the big
plays,” said Head Coach Lars Tif-
fany ’90. “Yale was making plays
and finding ways to put the ball in
the net, finding a way to pick up
the tough ground balls.”
Brown came out strong and
looked poised to build off last
week’s win over No. 17 Penn (6-4,
3-2). Attacker Parker Brown ’12
scored the game’s first goal less than
a minute after faceoff. The Bears
tacked onto their lead later in the
quarter with goals from attacker
Andrew Feinberg ’11 and defen-
seman Peter Fallon ’11, two of the
team’s three tri-captains. Feinberg,
the team’s leading scorer, returned
to the field for the first time since
March 29 after missing the team’s
past three games with a concussion.
“It was great having Andrew
back against Yale,” Tiffany said. “He
made an impact right away and
scored two goals. Andrew knows
it wasn’t his best lacrosse game,
The club women’s sailing team is ranked No. 1 in the country, and the co-ed team is seventh in a poll with varsity teams.
enough where it’s been worth it
to be varsity and have a lot of the
red tape that we’d have if we were
a varsity team.”
The “red tape” that would come
with varsity status would prevent
the team from continuing to allow
Rhode Island School of Design and
graduate students to participate.
Emily Dellenbaugh ’12, captain
Goalie Matt Chriss ’11 ranks sixth in the nation in saves per game and save
percentage. He turned in another standout performance Saturday, but it was
not enough in the Bears’ 10-6 loss to No. 14 Yale.
but none of us hold it against him
… He was just cleared to play on
Wednesday, so there’s going to be
some rust.”
Yale cut the deficit to 3-1 on
a goal from Brian Douglass early
in the second, but Brown quickly
answered back with a score from
David Hawley ’11. The teams
continued to trade punches, as
Douglass scored his second of the
game before halftime, again cutting
Bruno’s lead to two goals.
Only 16 seconds into the third
quarter, the Bulldogs found the
back of the net to cut the lead
to one. Four minutes later, they
of the women’s team, added that
its club label gives the team some
opportunities not granted to var-
sity teams.
“On any given day, somebody
who’s not really … on the team
could come down and they could
just go sailing,” Dellenbaugh said.
“A lot of people don’t know that,
but we accommodate anyone of
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evened the score on a goal from
Andrew Cordia.
Feinberg notched his second
tally of the day just over a minute
later, but the 5-4 advantage would
be the Bears’ final lead of the game.
Yale scored twice more in the third
to take its first lead of the game and
headed into the final quarter with
momentum on its side.
In the fourth, after a Matt Gib-
son goal extended Yale’s lead to 7-5,
Brown pulled back within a score
on a Rob Schlesinger ’12 finish with
just under seven minutes left in
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any skill or experience. And I
think that’s really cool because
we do have a lot of people who
come down.”
Each weekend during the sea-
son, which is divided into fall and
spring sections, the sailing team
sends different members to differ-
ent regattas. Some regattas are co-
ed and some are only for women.
W. Lacrosse
streak against Ivy teams
By Sam Wickham
Sports Staff Writer
Several strong defensive stands
were not enough for the women’s
lacrosse team, who posted a 14-7
loss to Cornell in Ithaca Satur-
day. Despite controlling the draws
throughout the match, Bruno (5-7,
1-4 Ivy) could not muster enough
firepower to outshoot the Big Red
(4-7, 2-4). The loss is the latest in a
five-game skid for the Bears, who
now share possession of sixth place
in the Ivy League standings. Tri-
captain Paris Waterman ’11 led the
side in scoring, netting a hat-trick
in the defeat.
Despite the losing streak,
Head Coach Keely McDonald ’00
is keeping a positive attitude as
Bruno heads into its final stretch
of the season.
“I think we did a lot of things
well, but there are some things we
need to fine-tune as we head into
our final three home games,” she
said.
The Big Red came out of the
gate firing, netting two goals in the
opening five minutes. The second
of the two strikes came from at-
tacker Jessi Steinberg, who scored
four on the day. The Bears tried
to claw back into the game, led by
Tara Rooke ’13, who scored her
first two goals of the season around
another Cornell goal to make the
score 3-2 about midway through
Monday, April 18, 2011
On an average weekend, the team
participates in four regattas, but it
can attend as many as six or seven.
Each regatta is an all-weekend af-
fair and usually involves extensive
traveling — the team only hosted
one regatta this semester.
“You really have to manage
your time well because, depending
on where the regattas are, you’ll
sometimes be leaving on a Friday
at one or two in the afternoon and
won’t be back till Sunday night,”
Dellenbaugh said.
Despite the team’s high rank-
ing, several sailors said they felt
the team is not getting very much
recognition.
“We’ve worked really hard at it.
… It is kind of sad that there’s not
that much interest,” Dellenbaugh
said. “We are a club team, but we
are No. 1 in the national ranking,
so I feel that more people should
definitely be aware about that.”
Team captain Tommy Fink
’13 agreed that it would be nice
if the sailing team got some rec-
ognition from the campus for its
strong performances, but he also
said people on the team do not sail
for recognition.
“We’ve all grown up sailing,”
Fink said. “You’re not sailing for
the glory. You’re not in it for, like,
girls. You’re not in for fame or
whatever it is. You’re in it because
that’s what you enjoy doing.”
the half. Though Waterman added
an unassisted goal seven minutes
later, three more goals from Cor-
nell widened the gap, giving the Big
Red a comfortable 7-3 advantage
when the halftime whistle blew.
The Big Red opened the second
half the way they closed the first,
scoring three times once again
to push the lead to 10-3. Two of
the strikes came on free-position
shots. Cornell took advantage
of Bruno’s defensive fouls in the
crease by scoring five goals off the
fouls.
“The free-position shots are
tough, and they got a few early,”
McDonald said. “Those are mo-
mentum shifters, and we know
that, but we just need to respond.”
Bruno responded the best it
could, courtesy of a Julia Keller
’12 goal and two more from Water-
man. But the Big Red held its lead,
as four more goals in the last 10
minutes drowned out a final score
from Kaela McGilloway ’12 and led
to a final 14-7 score.
Cornell held the advantage in
almost every section of the box
score, tallying more shots and win-
ning more ground balls than the
Bears. Brown’s 19 turnovers made
it difficult to apply consistent of-
fensive pressure throughout the
game.
Bruno looks to stay optimistic
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