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The Brown Band skated into its final performance of the year on ice during the Brown-Colgate hockey game.
First band on skates plays last show of year
By Dan Alexander
Staff Writer
The game ended, and the Brown and
Colgate hockey players unlaced their
skates in the locker rooms after a 3-3
tie. But the small crowd stayed in its
seats and waited.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, friends
and alumni,” a voice yelled over
the loudspeaker. “Presenting an
Group recalls ’68 walkout,
past of student activism
By Alicia Chen
Contributing Writer
Forty years ago, 65 black students
walked off campus and boycotted
classes for the better part of a week
to protest what they saw as a lack of
commitment to minority students
at Brown and its then-sister school,
Pembroke College.
The boycotters represented more
than three quarters of the schools’
combined black enrollment, and a ma-
jor demand of the walkout — which
began Dec. 5, 1968 and lasted five
days — was for black students to
make up 11 percent of Pembroke’s
next incoming class.
On Friday, students, faculty and
alums gathered on Pembroke’s
campus, now long since merged
with Brown’s, to commemorate the
walkout and hear a panel discuss the
protest and its lessons in front of an
audience that filled most of Smith-
Buonanno 106.
The panel discussion, “Student
Activism: Past, Present and Future,”
included seven walkout participants,
inside
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organization that’s trying not to get
cut from this year’s budget, it’s the
Brown University — guess we’ll be
replacing that drum with a garbage
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can — Band!”
For the last time this season, the
Brown Band took the ice carrying
flutes and clarinets, trumpets and
two other alums from the period and
two current students. The event also
featured a documentary about the
walkout by Julia Liu ’06 and Alison
Klayman ’06. Elmo Terry-Morgan
’74, associate professor of Africana
studies, moderated the event.
Shut out
The protest had its beginnings
in a letter sent by a group of black
Pembroke women to their dean of
admissions requesting changes to
Pembroke’s policies regarding black
students. But when they weren’t sat-
isfied with the response, they set a
deadline for the walkout and were
soon joined by a group of Brown
students in making the threat. The
walkout ultimately lasted five days
and earned a number of conces-
sions from the University, drawing
national attention.
The former students on the
panel, especially the former Pem-
broke women who helped spark
the walkout, said that in 1968 it was
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tubas. Some of them raced out on
hockey skates while others barely
stayed balanced on their figure
skates. In a performance that could
be best described as organized
chaos, the band played for over 10
minutes. In between songs, the an-
nouncer read a script making fun of
movies, the Sharpe Refectory and
continued on page 4
NAACP head speaks on Obama era
By Ellen Cushing
Senior Staf f Writer
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People is
in the process of “retooling” itself,
widening its focus from civil rights
to more general human rights, in-
cluding effective law enforcement,
quality education and financial se-
curity for black Americans, the
organization’s president, Benjamin
Jealous, told a crowded Salomon
101 Friday afternoon.
Jealous, who took of fice in
September and is the organiza-
tion’s youngest president ever,
spoke as part of the Department
of History’s symposium, “Abraham
Lincoln for the Twenty-First Cen-
tury,” which honored the Lincoln
Bicentennial.
In an interview with The Her-
ald before the speech, Jealous
explained the evolution of his or-
ganization — which was founded
100 years ago last month in an ef-
fort to stop lynchings — using law
enforcement as an example.
“We were founded to stop extra-
Sports, 7
Working Over Time
Lacrosse, hockey and basketball
played past regulation four
times over the weekend.
Researchers view funds
with optimism, caution
By Brigitta Greene
Senior Staf f Writer
Researchers across the countr y
are looking with anticipation at
the federal stimulus bill, hopeful
it will provide a brief respite from
years of financial strain.
The $787 billion economic
stimulus package, signed into law
two weeks ago, allocates $10.4
billion to the National Institutes
of Health — the major funding
agency for biomedical research
— and $3 billion to the National
Science Foundation.
The money comes at a critical
time for researchers. In the last
decade, grants from the NIH have
become dramatically more com-
petitive. The agency’s paylines —
the percent of total applications
that receive funding— fell from
32 percent in 1999 to 24 percent
by 2008.
“The last 10 years have been
horrible,” said Assistant Profes-
sor of Medical Science Richard
Freiman. He, along with the re-
search community as a whole,
is hoping the stimulus bill is an
indication of future federal sup-
port for the sciences.
Congress has set a deadline
of September 2010 for allocating
the stimulus funds. Beyond that
date, funding may remain elusive,
NAACP President Benjamin Jealous spoke as part of the Department of
History’s symposium, “Abraham Lincoln for the Twenty-First Century.”
judicial homicides — the killing
of black men suspected of crimes
without being properly charged,”
he said. “Fortunately, that has
stopped, but at the same time,
the undergirding aspiration (of the
NAACP), which is to feel safe and
secure in this country, is elusive
because of high rates of homicide
in the black community.”
The organization is mounting a
“big national campaign around ef-
Editorial, 10
globalize, we must
The editorialists urge
administrators to stay the
international course.
forcing researchers like Freiman
to spend more time chasing af-
ter grants than, say, pursuing
runaway mice.
“We don’t want the faculty
and undergraduates to become
accountants,” said Robert Tamas-
sia, chair of the Department of
Computer Science.
Though the stimulus may
create relief in the short term, it
remains unclear to what degree
President Obama and the Demo-
crat-controlled Congress will be
able to boost research spending
in the long term.
“It feels like it’s a roller coast-
er,” Freiman said. “You just have
to hold on until you get back to
the top.”
A funding bottleneck
Freiman runs a small lab in
the Brown research building at 70
Ship Street, using mice to study
transcriptional control mecha-
nisms and organ development in
mammals.
But recently, teaching a class,
managing his lab and writing
grant applications have forced
him to leave his students to run
the majority of the research.
“It’s pretty standard to be jug-
gling three balls at once,” he said,
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Federic Lu / Herald
fective law enforcement — ending
racial profiling, ending police kill-
ing of unarmed civilians, dramati-
cally increasing the rate at which
murders in the black community
are solved,” he said.
During the lecture and the
interview, he also discussed the
organization’s focus on moving
past the desegregation battles of
continued on page 6
Opinions, 11
CHANGE OF COURSE
Katharine Hermann ’09
reflects on her course
selections at Brown.
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C ampus N EWS “There is feasible, meritorious science not being funded.”

— Tricia Serio, associate professor of medical science

U. awaits research Stagnant NIH Funding, Lower Grant Approval Rate

funding from stimulus 35.5% 40%

NIH budget (millions)

$30,000 35

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for the Advancement of Science.
“I end up in the office preparing The increases were heralded 25
lectures and doing grant applica- with great anticipation by the bio- 20,000
tions.” medical world. Encouraged by the 20
“It’s not something I was pre- possibility of future funding, re-
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pared to do,” he added.
Researchers spent approximate-
ly 42 percent of their “research
time” on administrative tasks in
2007, according to a sur vey com-
pleted by the Federal Demonstra-
tion Partnership at Northwestern
University. Freiman said he spends
at least a third of his time writing
proposals. In total, he has written
over 30 grants — some of which
can take up to three months to fin-
ish — in the six years he has been
at Brown.
The competition for federal
funding is particularly tough on
first-time researchers and junior
faculty members. Because the ma-
jority of agencies require prelimi-
nary data in applications, investiga-
tors may not even begin applying
for funding until they are three or
four years into lab work.
Brown offers researchers stan-
dard start-up funding to cover the
cost of these initial years, but
leaves investigators on their own
from there. “It’s almost like being
the owner of a small business,”
Freiman said. “It’s challenging
for all of us.”
Between 1998 and 2003, Con-
gress authorized consecutive in-
creases in the NIH’s funding, ef-
fectively doubling its budget over
a period of six years, said Al Teich,
director of science and policy pro-
sudoku
search facilities dramatically built
up their biomedical programs,
hiring new faculty and increasing
construction of laboratories, Teich
said.
Within these shiny new labs,
hundreds of hopeful junior faculty
and students began their research.
But those golden days of increasing
spending did not last. The NIH’s
budget has remained nearly stag-
nant for the past six years, while
inflation has eroded the effective
purchasing power of the funds.
“There are some schools that
really over expanded,” said Tim
Leshan, Brown’s director of gov-
ernment relations and community
affairs. “That’s not the case with
Brown.”
The University’s research fund-
ing figures have not gone down in
the past couple of years, according
to Clyde Briant, vice president for
research. But “that’s not to say,”
Leshan said, “that there was not the
potential for much higher rates had
the government provided higher
funding.”
Despite the budgetar y pla-
teau, the number of applications
reviewed by NIH each year has in-
creased by about 65 percent since
1998, while the number of grants
actually awarded has remained
relatively constant.
As their success rates for ac-
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Over five years of steady or
declining funding for the National
Institutes of Health, the fraction of
research proposals receiving funds
has declined with increasing
competition. In 2007, just 27.2
percent of grant proposals
reviewed were approved, down
from a high of 36.9 percent in
1999. Budget numbers adjusted to
2008 dollars.
Data from American Association for the
Advancement of Science, NIH.
Students in the Brown Space Club
took a ride on NASA’s zero-gravity
plane last year, conducting
experiments under conditions
of weightlessness.
Photo Courtesy of NASA
quiring funding fall, researchers
find themselves filling out more lighting the difficulties they faced field.
and more applications. in tr ying to secure funding. In- “The scary part is that we could
In Januar y, President Ruth creased competition, the report lose a generation of really good
Simmons, along with scientific argues, will drive a generation of people,” she said.
leaders and the heads of 18 other young people away from academe, “I think that loss would be per-
universities, signed a letter to then- leaving an unrecoverable gap in manent,” she added. “There’s no
President-elect Obama, emphasiz- scientific progress. way to re-enter the pipeline.”
ing the need to increase scientific In 1990, young researchers re-
research funding as part of any ceived 29 percent of R01 grants, Just a Blip?
stimulus package. “While some the major awards offered by the Because the primary goal of the
might argue that the current eco- NIH. By 2007, that figure had de- bill is short-term economic stimu-
nomic crisis should push such clined to 25 percent, according to lus, the new funding will only be
plans into the future,” the letter the report. available for a ver y short period
read, “we believe, to the contrar y, There are resources available of time.
that the stimulus package provides to early-career investigators that The level of funding is “gonna
a vital opportunity to begin rebuild- currently fund many young Brown go up — and then it’s gonna go
ing American science.” researchers, but because they are down,” Teich said.
The “health and vitality of the from private agencies, the pack- Besides Congress’ 2010 dead-
American scientific enterprise is ages are small and ver y competi- line, the NSF has set an internal
seriously threatened,” the letter tive, said Tricia Serio, an associate goal of distributing all stimulus
read. professor of medical science who funds within 120 days, according
Briant said the details on how was among the young researchers to a Feb. 24 New York Times ar-
federal money will be distributed profiled in the report. ticle. The agency will not actively
are still unclear. “The stimulus is As a result of increased competi- seek new proposals, but will in-
a moving target,” he said. tion for grant packages, scientists stead finance a greater number of
Briant said his office will act as a who review NIH proposals have proposals already under review,
“clearinghouse” for all information become increasingly conservative while looking back at previously
regarding the stimulus package, in judging applications, Serio said. rejected ones as well, the Times
adding that faculty, administration Proposals must prove a high de- reported.
and government employees are all gree of feasibility, and researchers “Things are pretty difficult, any
working together to ensure the have become increasingly cautious help is extremely welcome,” Se-
flow of information. in their endeavors, she said. rio said. “But if it’s not converted

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Researchers at Brown see an opportunity for the United States to
maintain its scientific edge with increased federal grants.
Federal spending on
science to increase
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tion of science research funding,
but the Senate version, which be-
came law, did not contain such a
provision. The NIH announced
last week that it will “tweak” its
distribution guidelines to ensure
“some measure of geographic
parity,” according to a Feb. 25 ar-
ticle in the Chronicle for Higher
Education.
Though Rhode Island is not
one of the top receivers of federal
funding, it ranks among the top
states for research and develop-
ment intensity, a measure of fund-
ing level as a proportion of total
Gross State Product that adjusts
for the var ying size and popula-
tion of states, according to NSF
data from 2007.
On the other hand, Rhode Is-
land, receiving some of the lowest
funding overall on a state-by-state
basis, is eligible to participate
in the NSF’s Experimental Pro-
gram to Stimulate Competitive
Research, or EPSCoR , which fo-
cuses on small states. That gives
Brown a “leg up” in receiving a
por tion of the stimulus funds,
Leshan said.
Though funding may only
exist at this elevated level for a
short time, it will act as a valuable
investment for future efficiency
and discover y at the University,
Leshan added. He said he sees
the stimulus as a “down payment”
on future science funding.
The bill allocates $3.5 billion
for research and development fa-
cilities and large research equip-
ment, according to a breakdown
on the AAAS Web site.
Such money for large equip-
ment is usually very hard to come
by and will have a significant
long-term impact, Briant said,
adding that any increase in data
collection and research progress
will help in applying for future
grants.
“We all have concern about
this being a two-year blip,” he
Max Monn / Herald
said. “But it will certainly enhance
research in the future.”
“You’ve got to hope that the
economic situation is a tempo-
rar y one,” Teich said. “What the
stimulus is intended to do is get
us through the next two years
in expectation that things will
pick up.”
“In that sense, one can expect
it to work,” he said.
In search of Sputnik
“The answers to our prob-
lems don’t lie beyond our reach,”
Obama said in his address to
Congress last week. “They exist
in our laboratories and universi-
ties; in our fields and our facto-
ries; in the imaginations of our
entrepreneurs and the pride of
the hardest-working people on
Earth.”
For decades, the United States
has been considered a leading
power in scientific research, and
some economists estimate that 50
percent of the country’s progress
since World War II is a product of
this new knowledge, Teich said.
Yet some believe the enthu-
siasm for the sciences may be
fading.
“For my generation, it was the
space program,” Briant said. The
“space race” of the 1950s blan-
keted the nation in a sense of awe
and potential, he said, inspiring
a generation of youth — gazing
up at Sputnik crossing the night
sky above their beds — to enter
the field of science.
“I worr y now,” Briant said,
“when we don’t have things like
that.”
The fall of federal funding
for the sciences is not a recent
phenomenon. Spending by the
government on investment and
research has dropped signifi-
cantly since the 1950s — from
approximately 7 percent of GDP
to about 4 percent now.
“If we’re underinvesting in re-
search, it’s going to hurt us down
the line,” Briant said.
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“This is not just about climate change — this is about a
whole range of social justice issues,” — David Schwartz ’09.5
Students rally for environment in D.C.
By Jeremy Jacob
Contributing Writer
Forty Brown students associated
with emPOWER drove down to
Washington, D.C., this past weekend,
joining 12,000 college students from
around the country in support of the
“Power Shift ’09” conference.
The conference’s main objective
is to use the power of the youth to
push for new energy legislation, said
David Schwartz ’09.5, a member of
the Sustainable Food Initiative who
attended Power Shift.
Power Shift’s goal is to “hold our
elected officials accountable for re-
building our economy and reclaim-
ing our future through bold climate
and clean energy policy,” according
to the conference’s Web site.
The group of Brown students
— which includes members of
emPOWER, the Sustainable Food
Initiative and Project 20/20 — left
for Washington Feb. 27 and is set
to return today. Schwartz said the
group has been networking with
other students from around the
country and attending workshops,
“identity caucuses” and keynote
speeches.
The identity caucuses, which
focused on the specific issues of
gender and ethnicity as they relate
to climate and energy justice issues,
were part of the conference’s in-
creased emphasis on justice over
last year’s Power Shift, Schwartz
said.
“This is not just about climate
change — this is about a whole
BuDS workers to petition against no-homework policy
By Sydney Ember
Senior Staf f Writer
BuDS workers are planning to sub-
mit a petition to their managers
opposing a no-homework policy that
managers introduced last month.
Signers of the petition, which
was organized by BuDS super vi-
sor Yanely Espinal ’11, want revi-
sions to the new regulation, which
formally prohibits all non-cashier
workers and Blue Room cashiers
from doing homework on the job.
“My argument was that I
thought the no-homework policy
was unfair, and I was trying to get
rid of it,” Espinal said. She said
she hopes to get 100 signatures
by the time she presents the peti-
tion today.
But Espinal said she realized it
was unlikely that BuDS manage-
ment would completely repeal the
new regulation. Instead, the peti-
tion takes issue with how the policy
was introduced — it was written
into workers’ contracts, and those
who didn’t sign the new contract
received formal warnings.
“We just thought it was com-
pletely unfair that we received for-
mal warnings,” Espinal said, adding
that about 120 students received
them. Students who received the
warnings — either because they
refused to sign the new contract
or were unaware that they had to
— had their annual bonuses re-
voked.
range of justice issues. What good
does it do if we have clean energy
if people can’t benefit from it? What
good is it that you have good drink-
ing water if it’s not in some commu-
nities?” he said. “There’s definitely a
broadening of focus this year.”
Schwartz, who gave a presenta-
tion on sustainable food to an audi-
ence of 150, said the conference was
more than meetings and workshops.
Power Shift also featured musical
performances from Santigold and
The Roots, as well as screenings of
films about the environment.
Tara Prendergast ’12, who also
attended Power Shift, said she first
got involved in emPOWER when
she signed up at an activities fair.
She said she decided to attend the
conference because she believes
this is a “watershed” moment in the
environmental and energy move-
ment.
Prendergast attended several
workshops over the weekend, in-
cluding one about regulating corpo-
rate carbon emission. She said the
workshop discussed different cap
and trade ideas and considered the
pros and cons of each idea.
“There was a debate about which
one we should be supporting, par-
ticularly between cap and dividend
and cap and invest models,” Pren-
dergast said.
Demonstrating and rallying are
also a major part of Power Shift. On
Saturday night, 600 people gath-
ered outside the White House to
demonstrate, and there is a large
rally planned for today in front of
Many students who did not sign
the new contract were unaware that
they had to do so by the Jan. 30
deadline, Espinal said, a concern
she addressed in the petition.
The petition’s demands also
include a system that takes
into account input from cur-
rent super visors and direct stu-
dent involvement in crafting the
revised policy.
The new policy was written by 10
unit managers, Espinal said, adding
that the lack of broad input added
to the regulation’s unfairness.
Though BuDS management
has since decided not to count
the formal warnings toward the
number of allowable infractions
that can ultimately affect workers’
employment and possible termina-
tion, Espinal said she thought the
warnings should be completely
voided. Under the current provi-
sions, workers still must work ex-
tra hours for their bonuses to be
reinstated, she said.
Former BuDS general manager
Cindy Swain ’09, who introduced
the formal policy with current
BuDS general manager Alex Hart-
ley ’10, said late last month she was
aware that a petition was circulating
among BuDS workers, but, at the
time, she was uncertain when she
would receive the formal appeal.
“Officially, there hasn’t been
any more development as of right
now,” Swain told The Herald Sun-
day night. But Swain said she now
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the Capitol, Prendergast said.
She said lobbying was also a
large aspect of the conference. More
than 5,000 students are slated to
lobby senators and representatives
from their states and districts. The
lobbying effort would not only be
the biggest in environmental lob-
bying history, Prendergast said, but
also the biggest general lobbying
day in history.
Prendergast, who is from Col-
orado, will meet with the staff of
Colorado representatives. She and
fellow Brown students will also meet
directly with Rhode Island repre-
sentatives.
The group will lobby for a set of
goals laid out by Power Shift and
ask for the representatives’ support,
she said.
One of the major aspects of
the conference, stressed by both
Schwartz and Prendergast, was
the chance to network with other
students and organizers involved
in pushing for changes in energy
and sustainability policy.
“A lot of it was just hanging out
and having fun and networking and
meeting people,” Schwartz said.
Schwar tz and Prendergast
agreed that at least some of the
goals of the conference have been
met already.
“It’s an incredible symbol” to
have “5,000 people lobbying,” Pren-
dergast said. “It’s very visible and
really brings that message home
that this is an issue that we really
care about, and that we really need
strong measures.”
expects BuDS workers to submit
the petition today.
BuDS management will have
a meeting to discuss the petition
once it is formally presented, Swain
said. But, she added, “We don’t re-
ally have a planned outcome.”
Espinal said it was Swain who
asked her to have the petition ready
today. According to Espinal, Swain
made the request at a meeting
between management and con-
cerned supervisors that was held
when the no-homework policy was
first introduced.
Espinal said she originally in-
tended to circulate the petition to
workers during their shifts, but
she ultimately felt that “probably
wasn’t a good idea” because she
didn’t want workers to feel pres-
sure while on the job. Espinal has
recruited signatories primarily by
e-mail instead.
“Personally, I think that it kind
of hurt us that we couldn’t talk to
people on shift,” Espinal said, but
she did get “a big group of stu-
dents” to support the petition.
Though not all the workers
who signed the petition are against
the policy, many who are in favor
of a revised policy want BuDS
management to understand that
students still have a primar y re-
sponsibility to their schoolwork,
Espinal said.
For those who are considered
“student workers,” she said, “the
emphasis is on the ‘student.’”
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Band takes antics to
the ice one more time
continued from page 1
the Quinnipiac band.
Band President Andrew Mar-
shall ’10 said the Brown Band,
which has played on skates four
times this season, is the only band
in the country that plays on skates.
The Princeton and MIT bands also
do shows on the ice, but they play
without skates, and the Brown
Band Web site proclaims, “We
are proud to be the world’s first
ice-skating band.”
Marshall isn’t certain when
the band started skating. “I know
it goes back at least 30 years, be-
cause my mom was in the band,
and I know they did it then.”
After his mother told him the
band used to do themed ice shows,
Marshall decided to do a “Day at
the Beach” show last year. All of
the band members traded in their
brown and red rugby shirts for
bathing suits before they took the
ice.
“I was going to wear just a bath-
ing suit, but I ended up wearing
these Hawaiian boxers instead,”
Marshall said.
The band’s performances aren’t
just limited to shows after the game.
During face-offs and intermissions,
the band plays everything from the
Beach Boys to Offspring.
Just before the last minute of
each period, the band yells, “5, 4, 3,
2, 1 — 69 seconds left and Colgate
still sucks.” The announcer then
comes over the loudspeaker: “One
minute left in the period.” The band
finishes its chant, “And Harvard
sucks, too.”
During an intermission during
Saturday night’s game, the crowd
had nothing to cheer for while they
waited for the hockey team to re-
take the ice for the third period.
But then the drums started up.
Music blared out of the band’s
saxophones, tubas and trumpets —
one of which wore its own Brown
foam finger. An old man stood up
and bounced his hips to the rhythm
of “Stacy’s Mom.” Two students
danced in their seats as they sang
out the words.
When Marshall talks about
the band, his face lights up. A
Providence native, Marshall has
watched the band for years.
He said he went to a game
with his father when he was 11 or
12 years old and saw a baritone
saxophone in the band. Marshall,
who had just started playing the
baritone saxophone, pointed out
the instrument to his dad, who told
him to go ask the band member
if Marshall could play the instru-
ment.
“I played a Brown bari sax, and
I was hooked,” Marshall said.
In fact, the band was a major
reason that Marshall decided on
Brown when he was looking for
colleges. “I thought, ‘I want to join
a Brown Band,’” he said. “But only
Brown has a Brown Band.”
The band also plays for basket-
ball games during the winter and
at football halftimes in the fall. But
playing on the ice adds an extra
challenge.
“There’s usually someone who
will fall every show,” said Band
Vice President Sam Winograd ’11.
He once spilled when his lyre fell
and he tripped over it.
Former band member Jay
Levin ’08 MD’12 said he never took
the ice on skates because he knew
what would happen if he did. “I’d
fall flat on my butt,” he said.
After watching the show at the
Colgate game, Levin said he was
very impressed by both the music
and the skating.
Friday’s ice show was the last
time that the band seniors will take
the ice.
“It’s tough to leave,” John Cucco
’09 said. “There was a small crowd,
but it was meaningful for me and
the rest of the seniors.”
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“People had been struggling for a long time to open
the doors for us.” — Ido Jamar ’69 ScM’74 PhD’77
Panel remembers walkout in late ’60s
continued from page 1
hard for black students to feel a part
of the larger Brown and Pembroke
community. (Life at the two schools,
which would merge completely over
the next several years, was closely
intertwined.)
“We felt this rejection, of being un-
worthy, disempowered,” said Phyllis
Cunningham-Hutson ’69, one of the
panelists who walked out in 1968.
“People asked about your hair and
why you do your hair differently. It
was just very foreign to me, very
uncomfortable,” recalled panelist
Bernicestine McLeod Bailey ’68 P’99
P’03, who did not participate in the
walkout but was involved in black
student activism at the time. “I kept
telling my mother, ‘I got to leave here.
I have to take a leave of absence.’”
Panelist Harold Bailey ’70 P’99
P’03, McLeod Bailey’s husband, said
the walkout arose from both the stu-
dents’ own circumstances and a sense
of obligation to others.
“It wasn’t just on a lark,” he said,
drawing agreement from the other
panelists.
Many panelists said there was
a sense that they were not just at
Brown or Pembroke for themselves
but also for future students. Black
students also served an important
role in their home communities and
in nearby Providence neighborhoods
like Fox Point, panelists said.
“People had been struggling for a
long time to open the doors for us,”
said panelist Ido Jamar ’69 ScM’74
PhD’77.
The Afro-American Society had
meetings every Sunday night, often
hours long, discussing black students’
lack of support at Brown and possible
solutions. “We realized something
was not right here,” Jamar said. “It
either had to be made right or we
could no longer be here.”
‘We’re only visible when we’re
not here’
The first step toward the walkout
came in November 1968, when 23 of
Pembroke’s 35 black students signed
a letter to the Pembroke dean of ad-
missions that charged the admissions
office with holding a “lackadaisical
attitude” toward black applicants. The
letter listed 12 ways the college’s ra-
cial policies needed improvement.
One of their demands was that a
minimum of 11 percent of the Pem-
broke’s Class of 1973 be black, to
reflect the percentage of blacks in
the United States. Five of the black
students later met with the Pembroke
Dean of Admissions, who would not
commit to a set percentage.
Talks broke down, and on Nov.
28 the women sent a letter to the
The Herald stating that if appropri-
ate changes were not made, “As of
12:00 noon on December 5, 1968 we
will cease to be a part of Pembroke
College.”
The students said they chose a
walkout over other forms of protest
because they felt absence was the
best way to make their presence
felt.
In the screened documentary,
Sheryl Brissett-Chapman ’71, who
also participated in the panel, said
one of the lessons the students
learned from Ralph Ellison’s novel
Black alumni discussed the activism that compelled Brown and Pem-
broke to revise minority recruitment and admission practices in 1968.
“The Invisible Man” was that some-
times “we’re only visible when we’re
not here.”
But the University still would not
commit to a set percentage, then-
President of Brown Ray Heffner
said, writing in a Dec. 2 reply to the
original Pembroke letter that he did
not believe in quota systems of any
kind.
But, Heffner also wrote, “Our aim
is to have 35 black entering freshmen
at Pembroke College next fall and,
with the help of a black admission of-
ficer, at least to maintain that number
in future years.” That number would
have constituted 12 percent of the
Pembroke Class of 1972.
The University had taken steps to
aid black applicants even before the
walkout was threatened, The Herald
reported in 1968. An article published
Dec. 3 of that year noted, for example,
that the administration had already
made “special considerations” includ-
ing “admitting blacks solely on the
basis of probability of graduation,”
hiring a black admissions officer
and “considering applications for
admission past the usual deadline
and keeping some of the scholarship
money available for such late black
applicants.”
But in the eyes of the black stu-
dents, the University needed to do
more, and Heffner’s proposal was not
enough. In letter to The Herald on
Dec. 3, two days before the walkout
was to begin, the black Pembroke
women wrote that they wanted more
concrete assurances and detailed
plans for implementation.
On the same day, a group of black
men at Brown stated that they would
join the planned walkout. Recalling
that decision, many of the male panel-
ists said they felt a responsibility to
support the Pembroke women.
Walking out
On Dec. 5, the 65 students left
classes and walked off campus. Their
destination was the Congdon Street
Baptist Church, a historically black
church located just off campus at
the corner of Meeting Street and
Congdon Street.
The walkout captivated the cam-
pus. Some white students expressed
their support for the black students’
demands and encouraged professors
to discuss the walkout during class.
Other white students, according
to Harold Bailey, had the mindset that
black students were “just fortunate
to be in the door” and wondered why
the black students seemed to want to
“mess things up.” There was a senti-
March 2, 2009
Justin Coleman / Herald
ment that the black students should
have worked within the system.
“Blacks haven’t been a part of
the system so we aren’t comfortable
working within it,” Chapman said
then, a statement she read aloud for
the documentary that was screened
Friday. “The blacks are so far behind
that we are afraid to work within the
system, because the system has kept
us down. There is a stereotype that
we are a patient people.”
The walkout also garnered na-
tional media attention, including
coverage in the New York Times.
The panelists ultimately believed
that attention led to the University’s
cooperation.
On Dec. 9, the Times reported
that the walkout ended “after a tense
weekend of negotiations” with a com-
mitment from the University to spend
$1.1 million to create a “3-year ‘inten-
sive program for the development of
black students’” and for black enroll-
ment to better reflect the make-up of
American society. Brown also hired
a black woman to work in the Pem-
broke admissions office, which would
merge with Brown’s in 1971.
Then and now
Each person’s experience and
understanding of the walkout was
different, said panelist Glenn Dixon
’70, who was president of Brown’s
Afro-American Society at the time.
Some, like panelist Ken Grooms ’72,
who had walked with Martin Luther
King, Jr. and Malcolm X, were sea-
soned activists, but others had never
been very involved before.
“I didn’t come here to be an activ-
ist. The circumstances just brought it
out of you,” McLeod Bailey said.
Kristin Jordan ’09, one of the two
student panelists, said she was “hop-
ing to see that legacy come back and
take off.” She reiterated Morgan’s
opening comment that “every ‘back
then’ has a ‘right now’” by noting that
though progress had been made,
minorities at Brown still face some
of the same problems that they did
in 1968.
Indeed, recent enrollment figures
have not reflected the signature goal
of the walkout — more than 40 years
later, blacks are still underrepresent-
ed at Brown when compared to the
American population. While black
students are admitted at a higher rate
than the average applicant, The Her-
ald reported last month, 6.7 percent
of entering freshmen this year were
black. More than 12 percent of all
Americans are black, according to
the Census Bureau.
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The Brown Daily Herald

March 2, 2009 | Page 5

wheel pretty RISD ‘dazzled’ by

camouflage exhibition
By Kathleen Nishimoto
Contributing Writer
Camouflage normally means blend-
ing into the background. But as a
new exhibition at the Rhode Island
School of Design shows, camouflage
can also be “dazzling.”
As visitors to “Bedazzled,” at
RISD’s Fleet Library, learn, dazzle
is “a disruptive type of camouflage
used during World War I to cam-
ouflage ships against German U-
boats,” according to exhibition ma-
terials. The exhibition draws from
RISD’s collection of dazzle imagery,
one of the largest such collections
in the world. The exhibit showcases
455 plans and 20 photos of dazzled
ships as well as information about
the history of camouflage and origi-
nal work by RISD students.
There are two basic types of cam-
ouflage found in nature — conceal-
ment and disruption, said Claudia
Covert, readers’ service librarian
at the Fleet Librar y. Covert said
concealment camouflage — used
Kim Perley / Herald in army fatigues, for example — is
“Fragile Present,” which is at the Brown-RISD Hillel gallery from Feb. 26 to March 10, features glass works
so much a part of contemporar y
done by students at the Rhode Island School of Design and Korean National University of the Arts.
culture that people often don’t think
other forms of camouflage exist.
In nature, for instance, chame-
leons use concealment camouflage
for protection, whereas zebras’
stripes, a form of disruptive cam-
ouflage, have a distorting effect on
the eye. Just as the zebra’s preda-
tors have trouble distinguishing
the shape of each individual, the
U-boats were easily confused by
the disruptive patterns — dizzy-
ing, multi-colored shapes arrayed
at odd angles.
After the U.S. military began us-
ing this disorientation technique,
more boats were able to sur vive
combat, and the colorful ships were
a “great morale booster,” Covert
said, adding that, even among schol-
ars, little is known about dazzle
camouflage because it was a war
strategy and was therefore imple-
mented in secrecy. The technique
is also unfamiliar because the war
ended soon after dazzle began be-
ing used.
By World War II, Covert said,
air warfare and radar had become
prevalent enough that dazzle wasn’t
continued on page 6

Stuart Theater becomes the

Kit Kat Klub in ‘Cabaret’
By Rosalind Schonwald
Staff Writer
Stuart Theater has been transformed
into the Kit Kat Klub, where the musi-
cal “Cabaret” takes place and “life is
beautiful,” as the Emcee, Aubie Mer-
rylees ’10, sings in the opening num-
ber. The production, directed by Don
Mays, who has directed other plays at
local theaters, is a colorful display of
nuance and chutzpah with the constant
pop and fizz of double entendres and
plain old indecency.
“Cabaret” takes place in 1930s
Berlin, where cultural life thrived
despite — or because of — Weimar
Germany’s economic and social un-
certainty. The Nazis were a rising
force but had yet to grab hold of the
reigns of power. Against this pre-
World War II backdrop, the cast of
Brown students portrays ill-fated love
stories and struggles with identity,
allegiance and fear while mastering
German accents, elderly hobbles and
shameless innuendo. The foremost
storyline is that of Sally Bowles (Emily
Borromeo ’09), a cabaret singer, and
her tempestuous love affair with an
American writer, played by Michael
Williams ’10.
The show’s subplots undermine
the champagne-like bubbliness of
the cabaret world, reminding view-
ers of the darkening cloud hanging
over Germany. Facing anti-Semitic
pressure, an elderly German wom-
an (Alicia Coneys ’09) decides not
to marry the Jewish man she loves
(Ellis Rochelson ’09, a Herald sports
columnist). Meanwhile, bigoted Frau-
lein Kost (Jessica Goldschmidt ’10),
Sally’s prostitute neighbor, refers to
bedding good German sailors as her
patriotic duty.
The theme of sexuality, in ex-
plicit references and symbols as
well as implications from charac-
ters’ costumes and body language,
is a major facet of the play and
the production.
The play centers on various love
stories, and burlesque dancers and
pan-sexuality dominate the scene at
the Kit Kat Klub. The members of the
orchestra, mostly male, wear beautiful
sequined gowns. When the Emcee
is introducing Sally, he announces,
“I told her, ‘I want you for my wife.’
She said, ‘What would your wife want
with me?’”
The cast is saturated with the skills
of triple threats — performers who
act, sing and dance with equal talent.
Many prove to be exceptional charac-
ter actors, changing their inflections,
accents and postures to embody their
roles. The ensemble numbers involv-
ing the Cabaret’s Kit Kat Girls (and
boys) and the Emcee are formidable
portrayals of lasciviousness and cun-
ning.
For this production of “Cabaret,”
the Kit Kat Klub occupies the same
space as the theater itself, and the
audience shares in the characters’
own escapism. There are theatergoers
seated on stage at red-draped tables
under the club’s yellow-bulb sign.
With this arrangement, Mays blurs
the line between the reality of Stuart
Theater and the suspended non-reality
of the Klub, making concrete the mu-
sical’s refrain, “Life is a cabaret.”
“Cabaret” runs Thurs. through Sun.
with performances at 8 p.m., Thurs.
through Sat. and 2 p.m. Sun.
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A rts & C ulture
RISD exhibit shows camoufleur at work
continued from page 5
considered as effective.
Covert, who organized the ex-
hibition, first learned about dazzle
when a student asked her about
the “colorful ship drawings” in the
library’s collections. Not knowing
what the student was referring to,
Covert discovered the dazzle plans for
the first time. They sparked her curi-
osity, and she began researching.
Through her research she
learned about Maurice Freedman,
a RISD alum who donated the plans
and photos that now make up the
exhibit. According to the exhibit’s
Web site, Freedman “was the dis-
trict camoufleur for the 4th district
of the U.S. Shipping Board.” His job
was to implement the dazzle plans
by hiring and directing painters and
making changes as needed.
RISD gave Covert a grant to
continue her research. She used
the funds to visit the Imperial War
Museum in London where some-
one suggested she develop her own
exhibit. The Imperial War Museum
has the largest collection of dazzle
plans in the world — about 700 —
but they are all British plans, Covert
said.
Covert said Britain and the U.S.
weren’t alone in developing dazzle
ships. The Japanese, French, Ital-
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
ians and Germans also adopted the
practice.
On Feb. 14, RISD held a sym-
posium, “Artists at War,” about the
relationship between art and cam-
ouflage. Brown’s Peter Harrington
MA’84, curator of the John Hay Li-
brary’s Anne S.K. Brown Military
Collection, was among the invited
speakers. Covert described the
symposium as a success, saying
that more than 80 people — includ-
ing students, current and former
militar y personnel, parents with
young children and art historians
— attended.
“Bedazzled” runs through March 29 at
the Fleet Library, 15 Westminster St.
March 2, 2009
NAACP in process of
‘retooling’ itself
continued from page 1 was their vision and determina-
tion that made this possible,” he
earlier decades and ensuring that said. “Students and young activists
all children have a high-quality need to hold on to the invincibility
education. that this victory has given so many
“We’re one of the few groups in of them. We need that optimism,
the country that’s well positioned that determined spirit and the
to advocate for the children, and skills that so many young people
we’re in the process of revisiting learned now more than ever.”
all of our policies on education,” He also stressed this moment
he told the audience. in history’s place in a larger, lon-
Jealous told ger story. Students
The Herald he was CAMPUS NEWS “need to recognize
interested in dis- that they’re part
cussing President Abraham Lin- of a continuity of work that led to
coln’s legacy and how it remains this moment, to understand that
relevant today. “It’s important at history and understand their place
this moment for the countr y to in that history,” he said.
reflect about Lincoln, his dream of “The real victory is not trans-
a united country and what we still forming the face of the White
need to do to fulfill that dream,” House,” he told The Herald. “The
he said. real victory is transforming the
Jealous spoke to the audience face of this country, and there’s
at length about another Illinois a lot of work that needs to be
politician and histor y-making done.”
president — Barack Obama. In addition to discussing the
Though in the inter view he as- roles of students themselves, Jeal-
serted that “as a countr y, we’ll ous talked about the responsibil-
never be post-racial until we’re ity that colleges and universities
post-racism,” Jealous, an early as institutions have to promote
Obama supporter, discussed the positive social change. “Institu-
significance of Obama’s campaign tions of wealth and privilege have
and presidency as it relates to col- a responsibility to the country as
lege students. “Young people need a whole. They play a vital role in
to really claim and to own this vic- defining the type of countr y in
tory, because they were the ones which we live. Students, faculty
who embraced this candidate first, and alumni should always be vigi-
who worked the hardest, and it lant to ensure that their univer-
sity is inclusive and reflects the
diversity of the country at every
level.”
Speaking to The Herald, Jeal-
ous said Brown should work
harder to ensure this diversity
and inclusivity. He applauded the
intent of President Ruth Simmons’
Committee on Slavery and Justice,
but he criticized the lack of faculty
diversity. “The small number of
African-American faculty here in
the history department is as disap-
pointing as it is ironic, considering
the wealth that built this university
came from the trading and hard
labor of black slaves,” he said.
After the speech, Jealous
fielded questions from audience
members on a number of issues,
including affirmative action, vot-
ing rights and gay marriage.
Of Proposition 8, which elimi-
nated same-sex marriage in Cali-
fornia, Jealous said, “We object to
any attempt to validate the power
of a simple majority to strip people
of fundamental rights.”
Allowing a “50-percent-plus-
one” majority to take rights away
from people sets a dangerous
precedent, he said, particularly
for an institution concerned with
civil rights, like the NAACP.
Paula Kaufman ’10, a former
Herald contributing writer, said
she was glad to hear Jealous speak
and especially appreciated his an-
swers to audience questions.
“I was happy that someone
of his stature came to campus,
but I actually got more from his
responses to student questions
than from the lecture itself. The
audience asked really insightful
questions,” she said.
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The Brown Daily Herald

March 2, 2009 | Page 7

W. hoops falls twice

The men’s lacrosse team got strong efforts from Jake Hardy ’10 (#18) and Matt Greenberg ’11 (#19) in an
11-10 loss to Hofstra.
M. lax falters down the stretch in 11-10 loss
By Andrew Braca
Sports Editor
Sixty minutes were not enough to
decide a battle between two of the top
men’s lacrosse teams in the country
on Saturday. With 19 seconds re-
maining in double overtime, Jay Card
netted a man-up goal to give No. 12
Hofstra an 11-10 victory over No. 13
Brown, capping a huge comeback
from a 10-3 third-quarter deficit.
“We just didn’t have the poise
down the stretch there to win the
game in terms of possessing the
ball, in terms of making that last
goal,” said Head Coach Lars Tiffany
’90. “But I never doubt the heart of
these men. I love this team. I love
these men. They play with a passion,
they play with a sense of urgency
and they love each other.”
The game was attended by 514
boisterous fans, including a large
contingent supporting the Pride,
who braved icy winds to pack
Meister-Kavan Field for a contest
between two teams that had escaped
their season openers the previous
weekend with one-goal wins.
On Feb. 21, Brown slipped past
Lehigh, 13-12, after entering the
fourth quarter with a 12-6 lead, while
Hofstra rallied from a four-goal defi-
cit to earn an 11-10 victory over No.
20 UMass on a goal by Card with
four seconds left.
Saturday’s game followed those
formulas, with the Bears jumping
out to a quick lead.
Brown quickly took advantage of
a Hofstra penalty for a man-up goal
when quad-captain Jack Walsh ’09
scored off a feed from Brady Wil-
liams ’09 just 2:49 into the game.
Nic Bell ’09 doubled the lead eight
seconds later.
Quad-captain Todd Faiella ’09
and Andrew Feinberg ’11 added
goals later in the quarter to build
Justin Coleman / Herald
a four-goal lead, but Hofstra got
one back to end the quarter with a
4-1 deficit.
In a quiet second period, Fein-
berg and Collins Carey ’10 sand-
wiched goals around a Hofstra score
to build a 6-2 lead for Brown heading
into halftime.
After 30 minutes, the Pride held
a narrow 18-15 advantage in shots,
while the Bears controlled the
ground balls, 20-14, but the stats did
not convey Bruno’s dominance.
Hofstra Head Coach Seth Tier-
ney said “close to everything” was
going wrong in the first half for his
team.
“Coach Tiffany does a great
job,” he said. “They were disrupt-
ing some things offensively on us. In
the clearing game, we were clearing
the ball, but … we turned it over a
little bit.”
continued on page 8
in final home games
By Nicole Stock
Sports Staff Writer
The women’s basketball team played
its final two home games of the regu-
lar season this weekend, hosting the
Princeton Tigers on Friday and the
Penn Quakers on Saturday. Sadiea
Williams ’11 came up big, totaling
24 points over the two games, but
Brown (3-23, 1-11 Ivy) still finished
the weekend with two losses.
In Friday’s game, Princeton
(12-12, 7-4 Ivy) grabbed a double-
digit halftime lead on the way to
a 61-38 rout of Bruno, and Satur-
day’s game was a grind from begin-
ning to end, with Penn (9-16, 5-6
Ivy) eventually pulling out a 55-48
overtime victory.
Princeton 61, Brown 38
Against the Tigers, Williams
led the Bears with 13 points and
seven rebounds. In the first half
the Bears were able to stay com-
petitive with the Tigers, who shot
55 percent from the field. Midway
through the half the Bears trailed by
nine points, 17-8, but back-to-back
jumpers from Williams brought the
Bears to within five with 8:58 left in
the half. But the Tigers were able to
regain control to close out the half
with a 10-point lead, 29-19.
At the start of the second half,
costly turnovers combined with
a scoring drought for Brown en-
abled Princeton to build its lead
to 41-19 just five minutes after
intermission.
“We didn’t come out strong in
the second half,” said Head Coach
Jean Burr. “They pushed the ball
inside in the first five minutes. Then
we started going for steals and they
took advantage.”
Princeton’s 12-0 run to start
the second half would prove to be
the deciding factor in the game, as
the Bears were unable to lift them-
selves out of the hole. Over the
last 10 minutes of the half Brown
pushed the ball more and was able
to shave some points off the Tigers’
lead, but it was too little too late.
Brown would get to within 13 points
with three minutes remaining, but
the Tigers hung finished with a
61-38 win.
“We moved the ball too slowly
on offense,” Burr said. “A balanced
attack is our strength. Moving the
ball in and out of the post (to)
open up the next shot. We needed
to move the ball more to break
down the defense and make them
work harder.”
Brown out-rebounded Prince-
ton, 35-32, on the night. Co-captain
Amy Ehrhart ’09, a former Herald
sports editor, had a game-high eight
boards, chipped in six points and
helped to create turnovers at the
continued on page 8

M. hockey goes to OT twice, comes up win-less

By Dan Alexander
Spor ts Staf f Writer
The men’s hockey team went into
overtime in both of its games this
weekend, tying Colgate on Friday
night and losing to No. 10 Cornell
on Saturday.
Down 2-0, the Bears (3-21-5,
3-15-4 ECAC Hockey) came back
on Friday night thanks to strong
play from several freshmen. After
letting in two first-period goals,
Mike Clemente ’12 shut down the
goal for all of the second period
and most of the third. When he let
one slip by him with less than five
minutes left, the freshmen line of
Jarred Smith ’12, Bobby Farnham
’12 and Jack Maclellan ’12 produced
a goal to even the score, 3-3.
Saturday night was senior night,
both in ceremony and in play. Ryan
Garbutt ’09 had a pair of goals to
put the Bears ahead 2-0 early in
the third period, but Cornell took
advantage of three power-play op-
portunities late in the game — scor-
ing one of its three goals just after
a man advantage expired and two
more on the power-play.
Brown 3, Colgate 3 (OT)
The Raiders (11-16-7, 6-11-5),
who rank third from the bottom
of the ECAC, came to the Meehan
unbeaten in their last three games,
while the Bears, who are last in the
ECAC, came into the weekend fol-
lowing a win over Quinnipiac the
previous Saturday, 3-2.
In the Quinnipiac game, assis-
tant captain Matt Vokes ’09 had
been given a five-minute major
penalty and a game disqualifica-
tion, ordered to take effect in Fri-
day night’s match-up with Colgate,
when an altercation broke out after
the Bears’ game with Quinnipiac
last Saturday.
“It just wasn’t fair,” said Head
Coach Roger Grillo. “It was totally
unjustified because he didn’t do
anything.”
But Grillo found out that his
team’s leading scorer would, in fact,
take the ice on Friday night, when
the ECAC sent him a letter apolo-
gizing for the mistake and revoking
Vokes’ game disqualification.
Colgate came out strong in the
opening frame, scoring two goals
in the first nine minutes, the first
of which came seven and a half
minutes into the game, when Tom
Riley made a shot in traffic from
point-blank range.
“It was kind of a scrum in front
and he chipped it over my shoul-
der,” Clemente said. “I didn’t really
see the puck.”
Colgate’s Austin Smith tacked
on another one just 1:10 later to
put the Raiders up, 2-0.
“We were down 2-0 eight min-
utes into the game and we didn’t
give up,” Clemente said. “That
takes a lot of character.”
Less than a minute into the sec-
ond period, Sean Muncy ’09 left the
puck for Vokes at center ice. Vokes
split two defenders and came up on
goalie Charles Long from the left.
He deked the goalie and shot the
puck near-side to bring the Bears
within one goal.
Fifteen minutes later, Brown got
the equalizer when Eric Slais ’09
sent a cross-ice feed to Farnham.
Farnham shot the one-timer into
Long’s blockers, but Slais got the
rebound from the other side and
fired the puck into the net before
Long had a chance to get back into Justin Coleman / Herald
Karly Grace ’11 averaged seven points per game in two games for the
continued on page 8 women’s basketball team this weekend.
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S ports M onday
Quakers pull ahead in w. hoops OT
continued from page 7
defensive end.
Penn 55, Brown 48 (OT)
The final home game of the sea-
son, which the Bears lost in overtime,
brought the Penn Quakers to the Piz-
zitola Center on Saturday evening.
Ehrhart played a strong de-
fensive game, forcing consecutive
turnovers midway through the first
frame. Brown held a five-point lead
until the two-minute mark of the first
half, when Penn closed out the half
on a 6-2 run to cut Bruno’s lead to
20-19 at the half.
“We did a good job of defending in
the post,” Williams said. “We wanted
to keep the ball out of their main scor-
ers’ hands. It was important to attack
the key players.”
The Bears made sure they would
not have a repeat performance from
the previous night, as they came out
strong in the second half. Though
Penn took the lead, the Bears kept
the game within reach.
Midway through the second half,
with Penn clinging to a 34-31 lead,
Williams blocked a shot to start a fast
break, leading to a lay-up by Court-
M. icers fall in tough extra frame
continued from page 7
position.
The game looked like it was
headed for overtime with the score
knotted, 2-2, with less than five min-
utes remaining in the third period,
but Jason Fredricks put Colgate
ahead with 4:38 left in regulation
when he sent a rocket from the
left faceoff circle over Clemente’s
right shoulder. Defenseman Jeremy
Russell ’10 laid out on the ice to
tr y to block the shot, but it went
over him on its way to the back
of the net.
Less than a minute later, Brown
evened the score again. Maclellan
passed from the right faceoff circle
to Farnham at the goal line. Farn-
ham immediately redirected the
puck to Smith, who was stationed
in front of the goal, and Smith put
the one-timer past Long to make
it a 3-3 game.
The game headed into overtime,
and it almost ended when Brian
Day of Colgate got on a one-on-
one with Clemente, but the goalie
turned away Day’s backhand and
the score remained even.
Clemente finished the game
with 38 saves, while Long had 25
in the 3-3 tie.
“I thought (Clemente) played
great,” Grillo said. “We made some
big mistakes and he erased the mis-
take. That’s what his job is.”
No. 10 Cornell 3, Brown 2
(OT)
In front of a crowd of 1,517 with
more red in it than brown, the Bears
got off to a comfortable lead thanks
to two goals from Garbutt.
In the Bears’ last home game of
the season, they took on Cornell
(18-7-4, 13-6-3), who had crushed
them 5-1 in Ithaca on Jan. 24. Cor-
ney Lee ’10 that brought the Bears
to within one.
Just two minutes later, with Brown
putting on a full-court press, Williams
stole the ball, one of her four steals of
the night, and handed it off to Karly
Grace ’11, who buried a three from
the right side to give Brown its first
lead of the half, 37-36.
“We definitely like to put on the
press and force turnovers to create
momentum, which leads to opportu-
nities to score,” Williams said. “We
work well together on the floor to
do that.”
Penn came back with two quick
buckets to grab a three-point lead,
but Brown was able to slow down the
tempo and stay within three. With
just two minutes left, Williams was
fouled on her way to the basket and
converted a three-point play to tie the
game at 44.
Williams then had a chance to
win the game in the final seconds of
regulation when she stole the ball and
got off a last-second shot, but it just
missed the mark, forcing the game
into overtime, still tied.
Penn grabbed the lead early in the
five-minute overtime session, but the
Bears continued to fight, and with just
nell came into the game after losing
to ECAC leader Yale (20-7-2, 15-5-
2), ranked No. 12 nationally, by a
score of 4-2 the night before.
The two teams looked even in
the first period, with both teams
recording eight shots on goal, and
neither team scoring.
Both goalies were per fect
through the first 34:38 of game play.
Clemente was much more conser-
vative in the net, while Big Red
goalie Ben Scrivens was aggressive
in coming out of the net to make
passes and control the puck.
With less than six minutes re-
maining in the middle frame, Vokes
sent the puck in on the left boards.
Scrivens came out from the net
to tr y to stop the rim-around, but
he missed the puck. It deflected
off the boards out to Garbutt on
the right side, and Garbutt scored
the tough-angle goal with Scrivens
out of position to give Brown a 1-0
lead.
Garbutt scored another goal
just 3:43 into the final frame. Mike
Wolff ’12 fired a shot from the right
side of the blue line, which Scrivens
deflected, but the rebound went
right to Garbutt, who put the puck
into the back of the net.
Cornell began its comeback
with less than 12 minutes remain-
ing when Patrick Kennedy scored
the Big Red’s first goal just after a
Cornell power-play expired.
Colin Greening then made it a
2-2 game with under six minutes re-
maining off a rebound from Cornell
captain Michael Kennedy’s shot.
Just over two minutes into
overtime, Michael Kennedy sent
a pass out to Blake Gallagher, who
was stationed a few feet in from the
blue line — directly in front of Cle-
mente. Gallagher wound back and
put the puck through Clemente’s
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“They did some really unique things, and that’s what Brown’s
known for.” — Hofstra Lacrosse Head Coach Seth Tierney
26 seconds remaining Lee was able to
break the defense and cut to the rim
to bring the Bears within two.
That would be as close as Brown
would get, as a costly turnover cre-
ated another basket for the Quakers,
who then iced the game with good
shooting from the charity stripe, lead-
ing them to a 55-48 win in overtime.
“Even with the loss we gave a lot
of heart,” Williams said. “Our team
goal is to play 40 minutes and we did,
just not 45 minutes. We worked really
hard in honor of our seniors.”
Williams once again led the
Bears with 11 points, and added
six rebounds and four steals, while
Christina Johnson ’10 added 10 points
and six rebounds of her own. After
the game the Bears honored seniors
Ehrhart and Jaclyn Goldbarg ’09 for
their four-year careers for the Brown
women’s basketball program.
“It is going to be tough to lose
our seniors, and (it) will change the
dynamic of the team,” Williams said.
“They are both such good people on
and off the court.”
The Bears will head to Harvard
and Dartmouth next weekend to face
their final Ivy opponents and close
out the season.
five-hole.
“The guy was able to shoot
it before I could get a good look
at where it was coming from,”
Clemente said.
The Cornell bench stormed
onto the ice as Gallagher jumped
up and down. Clemente rested
on his knees, staring down at the
ice.
His teammates came up to him
and offered him encouragement.
They told him, “‘Don’t worr y
about it. We all played hard,’”
Clemente said.
“I said to Roger (Grillo) after-
wards that I know it’s been a tough
year for him, but I have a tremen-
dous amount of respect for him and
his kids,” said Cornell Head Coach
Mike Schafer.
After the game, the Bears stayed
on the ice to watch Brown’s seven
seniors — Garbutt, Muncy, Vokes,
Slais, Matt Palmer ’09, Mike Stuart
’09 and Mark Sibbald ’09 — take
pictures in their last time on the ice
at Meehan. All of the players got
to play in Saturday’s game, except
Sibbald — the third-string goalie.
“I felt bad for Mark Sibbald be-
cause he’s a class act,” Grillo said.
“He’s one of the nicest, classiest
kids we’ve had in the program since
I’ve been here.”
The Bears will take the ice in
Cambridge, Mass. next Friday in
their first game of a best-of-three
series against fifth-seed Harvard (9-
14-6, 9-7-6) for the opening round of
the ECAC Hockey Playoffs. Brown
and Har vard tied in both of their
two meetings earlier this season.
Clemente said that despite the
Cornell loss, the Bears can take
positive energy from the game.
“We had them on the ropes,”
Clemente said. “As Coach Grillo
said, ‘That’s playoff hockey.’”
The No. 14 men’s lacrosse team gave up eight unanswered goals down
the stretch to drop an 11-10 overtime decision to No. 13 Hofstra.
Hofstra beats m. lax
in comeback victory
continued from page 7
“They knocked us out of sync,”
he said. “They did some really
unique things, and that’s what
Brown’s known for.”
The Bears continued to control
the beginning of the third quarter,
as Jake Hardy ’10 gave Brown a
7-2 lead just 11 seconds into the
frame. Card scored the first of his
four goals 2:01 later, but Feinberg
netted his third goal 3:37 into the
quarter to restore Bruno’s five-
goal lead.
Feinberg then assisted on goals
by quad-captain Kyle Hollings-
worth ’09 and Thomas Muldoon
’10 that came seven seconds apart,
giving Brown a 10-3 lead with 6:17
remaining in the third quarter.
“The men were flying around,”
Tiffany said. “Even into the first
half of the third quarter, we were
playing great scramble lacrosse,
not a lot of set plays. (When the)
ball hit the ground, we were flying
to it, picking it up, moving it, look-
ing for transitions, creating plays,
creating opportunities.”
Things looked rosy for Bruno
at that point, but the Bears’ of-
fense faltered, failing to score for
the remaining 28:58, while Hofstra
scored twice to cut Brown’s lead
to 10-5 heading into the fourth
quarter.
The Pride then cut the deficit to
three on a pair of goals 24 seconds
apart. Card notched a man-up goal,
and then assisted on a score by
Tom Dooley with 11 minutes left
in regulation.
“Hofstra got a couple of their
own scramble goals of their own
in the fourth quarter — you know,
you sort of live by the sword, die by
the sword,” Tiffany said. “If you’re
going to be up and down, you’re
going to give up a couple up and
down, and then it’s 10-7.”
Tiffany said he knew Hofstra
was capable of getting back a few
goals, but the truly frustrating mo-
ments came in the final minutes of
the game. Dan Stein scored with
4:18 left and Kevin Ford followed
1:03 later to cut Brown’s lead to a
single goal. Time could not wear
away quickly enough for the Bears,
and Anthony Muscarella scored
the tying goal with 1:08 left in
regulation.
March 2, 2009
Justin Coleman / Herald
Hofstra dominated the final
two quarters in shots, 24-11, and
ground balls, 17-7, but Brown had
a glimmer of hope going into the
first four-minute, sudden death
overtime period. The Pride had
been flagged late in the fourth
quarter, giving the Bears 55 sec-
onds to try to end the game with
the extra man.
Brown took the only three
shots of the first overtime, but at-
tempts by Reade Seligmann ’09 and
Muldoon went wide, and Hofstra’s
Danny Orlando made one of his
nine saves on a shot by Walsh
to send the game into a second
overtime.
About 2:30 passed before quad-
captain Jordan Burke ’09 made a
strong save, one of 15 on the game,
on a hard shot by Muscarella. The
Bears went back the other way,
but Orlando saved one shot and a
second hit the post.
With 40 seconds left, Muldoon
was called for an illegal body
check, the last of many calls that
prompted the crowd to rain boos
upon the officials. Hofstra took 21
seconds to seize the opportunity,
as Michael Colleluori fired a pass
across the crease that found Card
near the left post, where he man-
aged to slip a shot past Burke to
give the Pride the 11-10 victory.
Tiffany said that facing their
second fourth quarter collapse in
as many weeks leaves the Bears
searching for answers.
“As a coach, I’ll address those
things, but what does that really
mean? It’s not a scheme, it’s not a
play, it’s not a strategy. I want to say
it’s an attitude, and it’s a sense of
purpose, but we have that. That’s
what’s bewildering me,” he said.
The Bears will have to turn
it around soon. They will host
Quinnipiac on Friday at 3 p.m.
and Denver on Sunday at 1 p.m.
on Meister-Kavan Field.
“I was actually quite happy
with the defensive play today, the
intensity we had on the defensive
end — chopping the sticks and
creating loose balls and picking
up loose balls,” Tiffany said. “We
found our defense today, which
is exciting for me. Making those
plays on the offensive end for 60
minutes, that’s what we’ve got to
sustain.”
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e d i to r i a l

The internationalization imperative

The economic crisis has had and will continue to have a major effect on
the way Brown is run. Jobs will be lost, budgets will be tightened and tuition
will most likely increase again. But in the face of this scorched economy, it
is important we not lose sight of those few, past commitments sure to prove
instrumental in the University’s rise from the ashes. Globalization is not just
another hot topic — it’s the future. If Brown is to maintain its position at the
forefront of worldwide educators, it will need to follow through on its commit-
ment to internationalization.
The predicted fall in U.S. high school graduates (to begin in 2009), in tandem
with the current economic recession, spells disaster for American universities
unable or unwilling to adapt. Many schools with an eye to the future have
launched initiatives not unlike Brown’s Plan for Academic Enrichment to target
high school seniors from burgeoning regions locally and abroad.
But Brown’s commitment to internationalization, outlined in the 2006
Internationalization Committee Charge, is proving to be little more than il-
lusory. Those who read last Friday’s “Pushing U.’s global profile, Kennedy
’76 wears two hats” are already familiar with the enormity of Vice President
for International Affairs David Kennedy’s charge: not only is the renowned
litigator doubling as Vice President for International Affairs and interim
director of the Watson Institute for International Studies, he also taught a
course at Harvard Law in the fall. We don’t doubt Kennedy’s commitment to
the University or internationalization, but it almost goes without saying that
breadth trades off with depth. chris jesu lee
The University’s recent “memorandum of understanding” with Madrid’s
Instituto de Empresa simultaneously highlights the potential for and necessity
of forward progress in the effort for internationalization. While the agree- l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r s
ment opens the door to a number of future programs, it is nothing more than
a foundation. Kennedy himself admits collaboration is “a long process,” and
that the two universities are still only in the initial stages. Big ideas are more important than big names
It’s clear that progress is hard-fought in times of extreme adversity. For
our alliance with the Instituto de Empresa to prove fruitful it’s going to take To the Editor: that grab national headlines is important, but right now
hard work and dedication. Former Director of the Watson Institute Philip we can have a measurable impact on issues that affect
Terrence Hopmann described the directorship as demanding “far more We were dismayed to read Thursday’s editorial, us as Rhode Island residents and students.
than eight hours a day, five days a week.” If the University expects its efforts (“Running Frum conservatives,” Feb. 26) which claimed Finally, our weekly meetings that have featured four
towards internationalization to be taken seriously, and for its current seeds to that the Brown Democrats’ “speakers have their own state legislators and a city councilman are not designed
bear fruit, it will need to ensure that the vice president for international affairs problems (there are only so many students who want to have hundreds of attendees. We much prefer that
can commit full-time to the position. to see local politicians and policy wonks).” First, this the 20 or so students that do attend have the oppor-
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Opinions
The Brown Daily Herald
NICK WERLE
Opinions Columnist
The other day I was rushing off to my first
class and quickly grabbed a coffee mug sit-
ting on my desk. The sloshing black coffee
spilled over the top and covered a quarter of
my desk, missing my laptop by two inches.
Of course now’s not the time to be care-
lessly destroying a computer. But even if
the coffee had seeped into my hard drive
I wouldn’t have lost my data, since I’ve got
everything backed up. I’ve already had to
resort to my backup three times after hard
drives burned out, so I appreciate the impor-
tance of having a safety net.
It would take a lot more than a spilled cup
of coffee to incapacitate the Brown network,
but a devastating failure is not inconceivable.
It doesn’t have to be incompetence; a freak
accident would be sufficient to cause some
serious problems for the University’s IT
infrastructure.
Last week’s minor flood on the first floor
of the Sidney E. Frank Hall for Life Scienc-
es is just the kind of unforeseeable accident
that could wreak some serious havoc. A
mysterious jump in the pressure of a water
line caused the cap of a pipe to fly off, cover-
ing 10,000 square feet of the building in two
inches of water. Luckily, a quick response
from Facilities Management prevented the
damage from getting out of hand.
Were something like this to happen in
the CIT’s data center, which runs the whole
Brown network, there would be some ma-
jor problems, said Executive Vice President
for Finance and Administration Beppie Hu-
idekoper. While the University’s data are
What to do about course choice regret
BY KATHARINE
HERMANN
Opinions Columnist
Lately I have been thinking that if I could
do Brown over again, I probably would.
Not only because attending Brown is fun,
but because there are certain things that I
wish I had done differently. The courses I
chose top this list of regrets.
I regret taking some of the classes that
I took, but more often and more poignant-
ly, I regret the many classes that I did not
take. POLS 0220: “City Politics” with Pro-
fessor Morone (which is not being offered
this year) would have fit splendidly into
my freshman year schedule. COLT 0810:
“Civilization and Its Discontents” with Pro-
fessor Weinstein (which is also not being
offered this year) would have been a won-
derful addition to this spring semester.
I wish I had taken courses on pragma-
tism, Constitutional law and land use, and
I wish I could replace the courses that I
valued less with those I now lust after. This
regret has settled in on me more heavily
than ever because the end of my Brown ex-
perience is so near in sight. The schedule
of my final semester is sealed. My ability
to change a grade option ended as of Feb.
18 at 5 p.m.
Backing up Brown
backed up and would be safe in the event of
an accident, there is no backup data center
ready to take over in a pinch. This means
that it would be a challenge to get the most
crucial University systems up and running
again quickly.
Of course, not all of the systems that run
off the University’s data center are so essen-
tial that the Brown community could not do
without them for a few days. If Banner access
were cut off while the problem was fixed, I’m
sure that few students or staff would com-
While the University’s data are backed up and
would be safe in the event of an accident,
there is no backup data center ready
to take over in a pinch.
plain. E-mail, however, is another story. So
is the system for printing paychecks, which
would also need to be brought back online
quickly in order to avoid causing financial
problems for University employees due to
delayed payments.
Before the economic crisis, the Universi-
ty had planned to build an $18 million data
center to augment its current capacity. Fac-
ing an uncertain and challenging economic
climate, the Corporation decided to defer
this project during its meeting last week-
end. The administration is scheduled to re-
port back to the Corporation in the spring
with an updated plan for addressing Brown’s
IT needs.
Plans for the data center were not yet ful-
My regret is not over the appearance
of my transcript. The courses I have taken
were sufficiently difficult, varied and inter-
esting and look fine on paper. My regret
stems from a deep fear that I could have
gotten more out of Brown. Maybe I could
have taken classes that I would have en-
joyed even more, been inspired by a par-
ticularly brilliant professor or developed
what would become my primar y interests
The fear that I have not fully sucked the marrow
out of the bone of Brown is one thing that keeps
me striving.
earlier. The question that I am facing on
the cusp of graduation becomes: What do
I do about it?
The best piece of advice that I have
come across is to start accepting your
choices now. Former Editor-in-Chief Mar y-
Catherine Lader ’08 dispensed this advice
in a column (“Some sisterly advice,” May
ly formed by the time they were scrapped
last week. However, they had grown out of
a two-year-old analysis of the University’s ex-
isting infrastructure, so some of the goals of
the project were clear. Obviously, there is a
definite need to provide the University with
a fully redundant system that would enable
the network to respond to a problem with
the primary infrastructure.
Projections determined that the current
rate of growth in Brown’s data storage needs
was quickly outpacing the capacity of the
current space. Even with technological im-
provements in cooling and more efficient
machines, Brown’s data center is physically
insufficient to meet future storage needs.
One of the biggest users of data storage ca-
pacity is e-mail. Were our e-mail accounts no
longer hosted by the school, this would free
up a lot of space on University servers.
In light of the recently deferred plans
to expand institutional storage capacity, the
University should move quickly to transfer e-
mail service to Gmail or another cloud com-
puting service. (Gmail has institutional ser-
vice that would retain our @brown.edu ad-
dresses.) It feels like the idea of outsourcing
e-mail service has been endlessly discussed
by UCS and always appears to be just around
23) that appeared in last year’s Herald
commencement magazine. She writes that
college is only the first in a series of many
experiences in which we must make com-
pletely independent choices. We should all
start accepting our choices now: Where
to live after college, which job to take and
whether to go to graduate school, for ex-
ample.
I will add another piece of advice to Lad-
er’s: Give yourself plenty of time to reflect
upon the decisions you have made and cel-
ebrate ever ything that you got out of them.
I might not have taken a course on ever y
topic I now see as valuable, but I did write
at least 40 papers and am a better writer
for it. I have been forced to do group work,
which I previously loathed, and now value
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the corner. Since it’s clear that the Univer-
sity will not be able to provide us with the
bigger e-mail server space we all want, UCS,
CIS and the administration should work to-
gether to make this happen.
The analysis also determined that there
were serious physical problems with the ex-
isting data center. At the time, there was not
even an emergency power supply. While the
space has been shored up — there is a tem-
porary generator right now and a permanent
one will be installed soon — it is crucial that
the University build a redundant system.
Luckily, there are other options besides
building a private data center with an eight-
figure price tag. According to Huidekop-
er, universities are increasingly discussing
ways to work together to address their IT
needs. This might take the form of a coop-
erative data center. The University is also
looking to outsource its data needs to a
private company.
Considering the bleak economic times,
these options seem more prudent than in-
vesting in a new building full of expensive
technology. Outsourcing is a smart move
from a technological perspective, since
anything the University buys will surely be
out of date as soon as it’s installed. Letting
another organization deal with the rapid
pace of technological change is certainly a
good idea.
But the administration shouldn’t neglect
these issues; it is crucial that the University
address these IT needs as quickly as possible.
Anyone who’s had a computer crash can at-
test to how invaluable it is to have a backup.
Nick Werle ’10 is a physics and modern
critical philosophy concentrator from
Port Washington, NY.
and enjoy working cooperatively. I attend-
ed the office hours of almost ever y one
of my professors, and have made connec-
tions with a few them, which I am sure will
continue post graduation.
I am reaching the conclusion that my
fears are natural and even beneficial. The
fear that I have not fully sucked the mar-
row out of the bone of Brown is one thing
that keeps me striving — to take five class-
es some semesters, to reach out to profes-
sors, to write a thesis, to be a teaching as-
sistant and even to write for The Herald.
I am not saying this is the sole reason
to do these things. I hope genuine interest
and enjoyment tops that list, but fear is a
useful motivator. Furthermore, it is a gift
not to feel completely fulfilled by college,
because learning and engaging with peo-
ple should and will not stop after Brown.
As I leave Brown, I will acknowledge
the ver y important pieces of knowledge
that I have tucked away from particular
courses, but I will be more thankful for
and empowered by the new interests that
I have identified and the capacities that I
have developed to pursue them.
Katharine Hermann ’09 is a COE and
urban studies concentrator from Port-
land, Oregon. She can be reached at
Katharine_Hermann@brown.edu.
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TODAY, MARCH 2, 2009 TOMORROW, march 3, 2009 With so much mild weather, it may have station’s Web site Sunday night.
seemed to some like winter was over. But “Regardless of the snow totals, this is go-
12 P.M. — “Saving & Investing in a 12 P.M. — “The 2008 Election: A Mother Nature had other plans. ing to be a high-impact storm,” Campagna
Volatile Market,” Faunce 201 Look Behind the Pollster’s Curtain,” After a morning dusting, snow picked up wrote.
67 George Street heavily Sunday afternoon around Providence. Most precipitation was expected to stop
7:30 P.M. — “Working for Change: Roads were covered late last night. before noon today, with more snow showers
Strategies from the World of Home- 4 P.M. — “Women in Politics with Lt. Some forecasters predicted as much as possible tonight.
lessness,” Brown-RISD Hillel Governor Elizabeth Roberts,” 20 inches to fall during the storm, but the Providence was already holing in to ride
MacMillan 117 appearance of milder air brought down those out the storm, granting public school stu-
projections. About four to eight inches of dents a surprise snow day. Local private
menu snow and sleet accumulation was expected schools Moses Brown School and Wheeler
during the night, with another two to four School are closed Monday, as is Johnson and
Sharpe Refectory Verney-Woolley Dining Hall inches possible Monday. Wales University. Brown had not announced
The National Weather Service issued a win- any adjustments because of the storm at
Lunch — Chicken Fingers with Lunch — Buffalo Wings, Baked Mac ter storm warning Sunday night for areas in- press time, except to say that safeRIDE would
Dipping Sauces, Broccoli Noodle & Cheese, Nacho Bar cluding Providence and most of southern New cease operations after midnight and would
Polonaise, Asian Vegetable Blend England, in effect until 1 p.m. Monday. not operate Monday if hazardous conditions
Dinner — Tor tellini Proven- The difference between a moderate and existed on the roads.
Dinner — Fiery Beef, Italian Cous- cal, Roasted Herb Potatoes, Moo a very high snowfall is the amount of freez- A parking ban was in effect in the city
cous, Vegan Roasted Vegetable Stew Shu Chicken ing rain and sleet that mixes with the snow starting at midnight and will continue until
during the period of heaviest precipitation 4 p.m. today.
RELEASE DATE– Monday, March 2, 2009
— late Sunday night and Monday morning, The University will provide updated infor-
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23 Hipbone section 23 “__ never work!”
24 Two-seated 25 Debate side
bicycle 26 Somber film
26 It begins with the genre
Gospels 27 Marine flier
30 Taken by mouth 28 Drift through the
31 Spiffy air, as odors
Alien Weather Forecast | Stephen Lichenstein and Adam Wagner
32 Wharton Sch. 29 Came across
degree 32 Series opener?
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passions 34 Frank or Francis
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53 Confess openly
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