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Rushdie urges free speech, dissent
Controversial
author discusses
literature, politics
BY SUZANNAH WEISS
AR TS & CULTURE EDITOR
Internationally recognized British-
Indian author and political activist
Salman Rushdie spoke to a diverse
audience in an overflowing Salomon
101 about freedom of speech, India’s
future and literature’s relationship
with politics.
Rushdie, a Booker Prize winner
and controversial defender of free
speech, began his lecture on “Public
Events, Private Lives: Literature and
Politics in the Modern World” with
a reflection on his writing’s political
influences.
“My private life has probably
60-year-old alum competes in grueling triathlon
BY ANNE ARTLEY
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
One fateful August almost 30 years
ago, Elie Hirschfeld ’71 P’06 found
the inspiration that would drive
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him to compete in over 75 triathlon
races. While relaxing in his sum-
mer house in the Hamptons, he
glimpsed a photograph of a runner
A team-leading 10th goal by forward Aaron Volpatti ’10 was not enough
to propel the men’s hockey team to an Ivy League upset.
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been more affected by public events
than some,” he told the crowd, re-
ferring to an assassination attempt
resulting from his criticism of Is-
lamic fundamentalism and a lawsuit
for defamation by former Indian
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
“The space between public life
and private life has shrunk,” he said.
Unlike many famous writers from
previous eras, novelists today are
obligated to acknowledge some
larger social context in their sto-
ries, he added.
While authors used to create
characters with the assumption
that “the life you have is shaped
by your obsessions and constraints
and your nature,” Rushdie said, re-
cent large-scale events have been
challenging this view. Especially
after the Sept. 11 attacks, “we have
the sense of not having agency over
our lives.”
Rushdie said international af-
crossing a race’s finish line in the
local paper.
Though Hirschfeld’s running
experiences had been limited
to casual races in Central Park,
the ar ticle caught his interest.
Hirschfeld, a trustee emeritus of
the Corporation, told his secretary
to save the article and to give it to
him in the spring.
Come spring, she returned the
clippings, and one read was all it
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News, 3
DIVESTMENT DEMANDS
Students protest Brown’s
investment in hotel
company HEI
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fairs affect the lives of individuals
now more than ever, singling out
Pakistan as “probably the most im-
portant country in the world.”
“What happens in Pakistan is
going to determine our fates,” he
said.
He then interrupted his state-
ment about Pakistan and India mak-
ing peace with a burst of laughter.
“Sorr y, I just saw a pig fly,” he
said.
The greatest controversy
sparked by Rushdie developed
because of 1988’s “The Satanic
Verses,” which openly criticizes
the ideology underlying the Islam-
ic Revolution, leading Ayatollah
Khomeini to issue a fatwa order-
ing Rushdie’s execution.
Of the resulting assassination at-
tempt by Mustafa Mahmoud Mazeh,
Rushdie mused, “Guess which one
of us is dead,” alluding to Mazeh’s
continued on page 3
took for Hirschfeld to start his new
fitness regimen.
“The article described a triath-
lon, and I thought ‘Oh my God, this
sounds interesting,’ ” Hirschfeld
said. “The sport was only five years
old at that time. I thought, ‘I’m a
jogger. Ever yone can ride a bike.
Now all I have to do is learn how
to swim.’ ”
Hirschfeld was in his 30s when
he found the article, relatively old
M. icers hang with Cornell
but not Colgate, lose both
BY DAN ALEXANDER
SPORTS EDITOR
Trailing 4-3 to No. 6 Cornell with 1:06
left in the game, men’s hockey Head
Coach Brendan Whittet ’94 pulled his
goalie in favor of an extra attacker in
last-minute desperation.
SPORTS
The Bears fired shot after shot on
net and got one last opportunity with
10 seconds left. But Cornell’s Patrick
Kennedy blocked the puck with his
body and passed it ahead to Blake
Gallagher, who scored an empty-net
goal with just one second left to give
Cornell a 5-3 victory and Brown its
first of two losses on the weekend.
“We could have easily won that
game, and then maybe Saturday
would have been a different story,”
Salman Rushdie spoke to the capacity audience about the intersection of
his private and public lives and the importance of freedom of speech.
to train for a new type of competi-
tion.
At the age of 60, his passion
for triathlons is still alive and well
— he was the oldest competitor
in the Israman Negev Ironman
Triathlon that was held in Israel
on Jan. 29.
Hirschfeld has dedicated the
past 27 years to the life of a tri-
continued on page 3
said tri-captain Aaron Volpatti ’10.
But the Bears lost their second
game, falling to Colgate, 6-2.
No. 6 Cornell 5, Brown 3
Despite the large discrepancy
between the team’s two records,
forward Tyler Roeszler of Cornell
(14-7-3, 11-4-2 ECAC Hockey) said he
knew the Bears (7-15-3, 5-10-3) would
give his team a challenge.
“Their record may not show that,
but make no mistake, we respect them
and we knew they were going to work
hard and battle,” Roeszler said.
Cornell jumped out to a 2-0 lead
in the first period on Friday, but the
Bears hung around all night.
“Their resiliency was one of the
things I was really impressed with,”
said Cornell forward Colin Greening.
continued on page 5
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The wrestling team beat
Harvard for first Ivy League
victory.
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Gate to stay
closed until
Friday
The Gate is set to re-
open this Friday after
being closed since Feb.
5 due to a leaky steam
pipe, according to Gate
Unit Manager Kara Segal
’10.
In addition to fixing
the pipe, the Gate is also
installing a new pizza
oven to replace a faulty
one. Though the Gate was
scheduled to open on
Wednesday, Gate workers
were alerted Tuesday
evening in an e-mail that
the re-opening would be
postponed due to the
delayed installation of
the oven. The delivery
was prevented by bad
weather in the Midwest
and Northeast, though
Segal said she expects
the shipment to arrive
either Wednesday or
Thursday.
“It would be surprising
if (the Gate) did not open
on Friday, but you never
know,” Segal said.
— Claire Peracchio
Opinions, 7
BUDGETING BROWN
Will Wray ’11 takes on
President Simmons and
U. cost-cutting.
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C AMPUS N EWS “You feel like there’s so much life to figure out.”
— Erin Jones ’12

Second ‘slump’ month Course combines politics, philosophy, econ

aims to ease stress
BY ROBERTO FERDMAN
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Sophomore year can be a stressful
time — but the sophomore class
board is committed to helping
second-year students relax a bit,
said 2012 Class Board President
Imani Tisdale ’12.
February is the second-annual
Slump Month, during which the
class board is hosting events in-
tended to ease anxieties about the
so-called sophomore slump.
In their second year, students
are forced to narrow their academic
interests, choose their concentra-
tion, decide whether they want to
study abroad and worry about sum-
mer internships, Tisdale said.
“I think it’s different for every
person, but it’s difficult because you
have to decide what you’re going to
major in and think about the future
even though you aren’t quite there
yet,” she said.
Erin Jones ’12 echoed these sen-
timents. “All of a sudden you feel
like there’s so much life to figure
out,” she said.
As part of Slump Month, the
2012 Class Board scheduled five
events for February. Its first event,
“Throwback,” which was held Sat-
urday, treated students to focac-
cia sandwiches and Nickelodeon
cartoons.
“It went really well,” Tisdale
said. “We were really impressed. I
think we ended up getting at least
100 people.”
The University has also support-
ed efforts to assuage sophomore-
year stresses. The student-initiated
Match Advising Program for Sopho-
mores highlights a growing focus
on helping second-year students
cope with their decisions. Coordi-
nated by Molly Jacobson ’10, the
program has paired 40 sophomores
with 40 seniors of similar interests,
The Herald reported Feb. 11.
The class board is hopeful that
all students will warm to the events.
“I think a lot of kids feel that they
have to be a sophomore to attend
the events, but they’re for every-
one. They’re only geared towards
sophomores,” Tisdale said.
Upcoming Slump Month events
include games at the arcade Dave
and Buster’s on Feb. 18, a hookah
night at Zenobia on Feb. 24 and a
ski trip to Okemo on Feb. 27.
BY ANNA ANDREEVA
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Political Theory Project, which
promotes the multidisciplinary study
of political theory, launched a new
interdisciplinary course this semes-
ter called POLS 1150: “Prosperity:
The Ethics and Economics of Wealth
Creation.” The course, which ad-
dresses topics such as business
ethics, liberty, market society and
the relationship between wealth
and happiness, is taught by Associ-
ate Professor of Political Science
John Tomasi, Assistant Professor
of Philosophy Jason Brennan and
Postdoctoral Research Associate in
Political Science Mark Koyama.
Currently, 106 students are en-
rolled in the course. The initial cap
of 50 was expanded to 100 due to the
course’s popularity, Brennan said,
adding that 125 to 150 students were
at the first lecture.
The course is a chance for students
interested in political science, philoso-
phy and economics to “find out about
the connections,” Koyama said.
“This class is inviting people to
synthesize tools from different fields
in a rigorous way,” Brennan said.
“Undergraduate students have
very firm opinions” in these areas,
Brennan said. “The point is, maybe
it takes more study, maybe they
shouldn’t have as firm an opinion.”
The implementation of the course
successful attempts by the Political
Theory Project to institute politics,
philosophy and economics as an
official concentration. Currently,
PPE is available as an independent
concentration.
During the course, the three
professors take turns giving lec-
tures, but each professor tries to
go to every lecture. “We all attend
every lecture as far as we are able
to,” Brennan said.
Brennan said that out of around
110 students present at one of the
early lectures, about 90 claimed to
have taken at least one economics
class, at least 70 claimed to have had
experience with political science
courses and about 60 had taken
classes in philosophy.
Students’ enthusiasm for the
course is “sort of a challenge,” Bren-
nan said. “We have to work hard to
deserve that enthusiasm, at the end
of the day.”
Koyama and Brennan agreed that
combining these three disciplines
in a single course can be difficult.
“We have enough topics to lecture
on for a semester each,” Koyama
said. “Putting all the pieces together
in a coherent way rather than just
piecemeal,” can also be a challenge,
Brennan said.
Brian Judge ’11, a Herald opin-
ions columnist, chose to enroll in
the course “because of its multidis-
ciplinary approach to the problem
The Herald. “I think that the more
ways you can look at something, the
more likely you are to make sense
of it.”
Judge wrote that he hopes to “ex-
plore the assumptions and limits of
each of the three disciplines as they
relate to prosperity.”
“It’s really useful to have a class
in which the professors help to syn-
thesize the political, philosophical
and economic ramifications of differ-
ent ideas,” Aaron Jacobs ’12, another
student enrolled in the class, wrote
in an e-mail to The Herald.
The professors are allowing
students to design their own final
assignments for the course, which
“allows us to pursue these ideas in
a way that will prove most fruitful
to our own particular goals,” Jacobs
wrote.
“I feel that most of the big issues
today can’t be understood without an
understanding in these three disci-
plines,” said PPE concentrator Kurt
Walters ’11, who added that pursu-
ing an interdisciplinary independent
concentration allows students “the
freedom of actually deciding what it
is you’re studying.”
The Political Theory Project is
not a department on campus, wrote
Dina Egge, program manager of the
project, in an e-mail to The Herald,
adding that the Political Theor y
Project is not currently pursuing
the formalization of a PPE concen-

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C AMPUS N EWS
Students protest U.’s hotel investment Ironman alum makes
BY SARAH MANCONE
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
triathlons a family affair
A crowd of students from the Student
Labor Alliance gathered outside of
University Hall on Tuesday to protest
Brown’s investment in HEI Hotels
and Resorts.
The hotel chain was started by a
Cornell graduate, and has been in-
vested in by numerous “well-known,
prestigious universities” including
Brown, said group member Leno-
ra Knowles ’11. Over the past two
years, the student group has been
fighting for a divestment from HEI
due to labor practices that the group
thinks are unfair, Knowles said.
This fight has not been confined
to Brown. Students are organizing at
other universities, such as Harvard,
Yale and the University of Pennsyl-
vania, she said. Also, students at
universities that do not invest in
HEI are now “trying to make sure
their school won’t invest,” according
to Knowles.
The group became aware of
Brown’s relationship with the hotel
chain through a YouTube video that
Rushdie: We must protect speech we dislike
continued from page 1
unintentional suicide bombing.
“Don’t mess with novelists,” he
said, adding that if the situation had
not been decidedly “not funny, it
would have been quite funny.”
To a fundamentalist like his
would-be assassin, secularism is
“the lowest circle of hell, and that’s
where I live,” he said. “The parties
are better.”
“History itself is the enemy of
the fundamentalist,” he said. The
“ability to constantly reshape that
narrative” based on changing ideals
and new information distinguishes
a free society from a fundamental-
ist one.
Rushdie told the audience that
he explored the question of “Do
we shape history or does it deform
us?” in his 1981 novel “Midnight’s
Children.” . In 1984, Gandhi took
legal action against Rushdie for re-
ferring in his novel to a rumor that
she had contributed to the death of
her husband, Sanjay Gandhi. Ac-
cording to Rushdie, this incident
illustrated the power of recollecting
the past to challenge authorities
who try to deny it.
The controversy with Gandhi
also demonstrated the ramifications
one faces “when you piss off power-
ful people,” he said.
Rushdie said he “got quite ex-
cited” upon finding out he could be
acquitted if he convinced the court
that Gandhi had abused power, and
began collecting letters attesting to
her poor character. The situation
dwindled down, though, after Gan-
dhi’s assassination later that year,
which inspired Rushdie’s novel
“Shalimar the Clown.”
Rushdie said he urged freedom
of speech for a filmmaker who had
defamed him, telling the British
Board of Film Classifications that
he would not sue if the film were
contained a segment of “bragging”
by HEI about the many universities
investing in their company, including
Brown, Knowles said.
The company does not give suf-
ficient benefits and the manage-
ment treats employees very poorly,
Knowles said.
It is a problem that is “impact-
ing people dramatically,” said group
member Jesse Strecker ’10.
The group met to discuss its con-
cerns with President Ruth Simmons
on Feb. 1, asking for divestment from
HEI, Knowles said. On Tuesday, the
group gathered in front of University
Hall to deliver a letter to Simmons
reiterating their concerns.
The letter was given to Hanna
Rodriguez-Farrar ’87 MA’90 PhD’09,
assistant to the president. Rodriguez-
Farrar informed the students that a
letter was being sent by Simmons to
HEI, Knowles said.
Rodriguez-Farrar said she told
the group that the University wants
to learn more about HEI’s labor
practices and hear other schools’
opinions.
“The University is concerned,”
released. After years in hiding be-
cause of restrictions on what he
could say, he said he did not want
to be “defended by an act of cen-
sorship.”
Free speech starts, not ends,
with the right to express dissent,
Rushdie told the crowd.
“If you don’t defend the free
speech of people who say things
you detest, then you don’t believe
in free speech,” he said.
Professor of Political Science
Ashutosh Varshney, who organized
the lecture and has known Rush-
die for years, said the University
is “very happy” to sponsor contro-
versial figures “so long as they are
talking about issues that are of great
concern. The University is not in
the business of censoring.”
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“History itself is the enemy of the fundamentalist.”
Rodriguez-Farrar said, adding that
she wants the group to keep the ad-
ministration updated.
Overall the protest was “fairly
low-key,” Knowles said.
While she was glad that Simmons
decided to send the letter, Knowles
said it is “definitely not enough.”
The group wants more action to
be taken, said member Becca Rast
’13. “People have been fighting this
for two years.”
“The letter focused on if these
allegations are true,” Strecker said.
He said he is worried that the “run-
around we’ve been getting for some
time now” will continue.
The group wants the University
to do more than ask if the allega-
tions are true, said member Haley
Kossek ’13. It wants the University
to “recognize them as problems” and
“dissociate themselves.”
HEI denied these accusations
in the past, Knowles said. “We are
still steady in our divestment from
HEI,” she said, “and are definitely
going to keep putting pressure on
Ruth and other governing bodies”
at Brown.
Many students at the event ap-
preciated Rushdie’s speech and
were receptive to his opinions.
Yashua Bhatti ’10 said the lecture
was “ver y heartwarming. It was
what I expected from an author of
his caliber.”
In response to Rushdie’s state-
ment that the world faces a “battle
of the humorous against the humor-
less,” Hannah Schafer ’09.5 said
Rushdie proved himself Tuesday
night to be part of the former cat-
egory.
The event was sponsored by the
Year of India — Brown’s project to
spread awareness of Indian culture
and politics — along with the Cogut
Center for the Humanities and the
Watson Institute for International
Studies.
continued from page 1
athlon runner, a lifestyle that
requires grueling daily train-
ing sessions and the need to
maintain a base level of fitness
even when there is no upcoming
competition. Though Hirschfeld
competes in both triathlon and
Ironman events, Israman Negev
was only his second Ironman
since 1990.
An Ironman triathlon requires
its participants to swim 2.4 miles,
bike 112 miles and run 26.2 miles
— the distance of a marathon.
To prepare for the triathlon,
Hirschfeld said he dedicated
at least 20 hours a week to his
training.
“You have to make up your
mind (that) it’s something you
really want to do,” Hirschfeld
said.
In those six months, Hirschfeld
swam 2.4 miles and ran six to 18
miles twice a week, and biked
on both stationar y and outdoor
bikes for four to five hours each
day. Hirschfeld said his legs felt
like bricks after the bike train-
ing, but that it was important to
run right after biking so his body
could get used to the transition
during the race.
Despite the constant physical
demands, Hirschfeld said triath-
lon races have changed his life
for the better, and he is proud to
be among the first devotees of
the activity.
Triathlons “have grown into
something of a following,” he
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— Salman Rushdie
said. “I feel like I’m one of the
originals. Some people do two
or three and then they’re done,
but for me, it’s a wonderful life-
style.”
The real estate mogul has
turned triathlons into a family
affair. He influenced his 29-year-
old daughter Daniella to star t
competing, and she even ran
with him in the first portion of
Israman Negev.
Before the day of the race, the
pair drove up to the course, and
were stunned at what lay ahead of
them. Hirschfeld said the course
was the most difficult he had ever
encountered, and described the
10-mile mountain climb as “hell.”
Even more daunting, the swim-
ming por tion of the race took
place in the Red Sea.
Though the two are not able to
train together because Daniella
lives in Boston, they plan to tackle
the Mooseman this summer — a
half-Ironman in Bristol, N.H.
Though Daniella did not contin-
ue the Brown legacy — choos-
ing to attend Dartmouth, in-
stead — Hirschfeld’s younger
son, David, graduated from
Brown in 2006.
Hirschfeld might have con-
quered the Red Sea and desert
mountains in his most challeng-
ing triathlon to date, but a rest is
not in his agenda. He’s currently
training for the Mooseman, and
after ward plans to take on a tri-
athlon in Paris on July 18, which
includes yet another challenge
— a swim in the Seine.
SportsWednesday
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GYMNASTICS
Gymnasts finish in 2nd, Squad secures first league win vs. Harvard
post season-high scores
BY TORY ELMORE
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Do a backflip. Do it gracefully
and with a smile on your face.
Do it on a four-inch-wide, leather-
bound steel beam, four feet off the
ground. And you’d better stick the
dismount.
That was beam standout Julia
Meyer’s ’13 task on Sunday. And
that’s exactly what she did.
Though neither Meyer nor the
team as a whole could secure a
first-place finish in Sunday’s meet,
both posted season-high scores
and kept the defending national
champion Bridgeport within two
points at all stages of competi-
tion. The Bears finished second,
behind Bridgeport and ahead of
Penn and URI.
Though thrilled with their
teams’ per formances, Bridge-
port Head Coach Byron Knox and
Brown Head Coach Sara Carver-
Milne, said they were less than
satisfied with the officiating.
“The issues with scoring took
my attention from the athletes to
the officials,” Knox said.
“You just can’t control the
scores,” Carver-Milne added.
All four teams brought strong
competition, including a URI club
team that held its own in an arena
of dominant varsity programs. URI
Head Coach Chelle Kassabian
commended her team on “a huge
improvement from last week.”
“We had a lot of falls on floor
and beam at our last meet,” she
said. “I think we showed a lot of
progress on all four events.”
Sunday was Senior Day for the
Bears, but only one of two seniors
could compete. Izzy Kirkham-Le-
witt ’10 earned 18.45 combined
points for the team on the beam
and uneven bars. But Helen Se-
gal ’10 was sidelined with a knee
injur y she suffered during last
Friday’s meet.
The two seniors thanked their
teammates for a great day of com-
petition.
“We really came together,
cleaned up our moves and hit
hard,” said Kirkham-Lewitt.
“We’re doing all that can be ex-
pected of us.”
Expectations rise as the team
heads to Alaska this week and to
the Ivy Classic next week. The
Bears are counting on perfor-
mances like Meyer’s to pull the
team through a tough two weeks
of competition.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2010 | PAGE 4
WRESTLING
BY HAN CUI
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
The wrestlers secured their first Ivy
League victory this weekend by de-
feating Harvard, 33-12, but lost to
Lehigh, 33-6.
Brown 33, Harvard 12
“Harvard and us both wrestled
with depleted lineups,” said Head
Coach Dave Amato. “I was proud of
our guys of their bounce back from
the loss to Princeton.”
After the Crimson took the first
match in the 125-pound weight class
by a 10-5 decision, the Bears (4-11,
1-2 Ivy) bounced back by winning
the next three matches, all by fall.
The pins by T.J. Popolizio ’12, Zach Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald
Bran Crudden ’10 won his match this weekend but injured his knee.
Kulczycki ’12 and Phil Marano ’13
gave the Bears a healthy 18-3 lead
early on in the dual. 125-pound weight class, but they handed the Bears a 33-6 defeat.
“That’s being aggressive,” Amato couldn’t sustain their success for “Lehigh is a better team than us,”
said of the pins. “They didn’t settle the rest of the meet. The Mountain Amato said of the No. 7 team in the
for wins by one or two points. I told Hawks won the next six matches country. “You have to adapt to their
the guys beforehand that the team until 184-pound Bran Crudden ’10 pace and wrestle until the last second.
that wins the most falls and majors finally broke the Bears’ losing streak Most of the guys wrestled hard the
wins the dual, and they took that to by narrowly winning his match, 3-2. entire seven minutes, not giving up for
heart.” But it was a costly win for the Bears, a major when they were down.”
The Bears continued to control the as Crudden injured his knee during The Bears will leave Thursday
pace of the dual, taking four out of the the match. The injury will likely keep night for a pair of Ivy duals in New
remaining six matches on the day. him off the mat this coming weekend, York. They will travel to Ithaca to chal-
according to Amato. lenge No. 5 Cornell on Friday night at
Lehigh 33, Brown 6 Crudden’s victory was the last 7 p.m. The next day they will face off
The Bears opened the dual win for the Bears of the day, as Le- against Columbia to wrap up Brown’s
on a strong note with a win in the high won the final two matches and conference season.
NEWS IN BRIEF
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S PORTS W EDNESDAY “We could have won that game easily.”

— Hockey tri-captain Aaron Volpatti ’10

M. soccer begins search for new head coach S P O RT S I N B R I E F

Cross country and track coach resigns

BY SAHAR SHAHAMATDAR
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Department of Athletics is accept-
ing applications for the men’s soccer
head coach position after posting the
job opening on Feb. 5. The search
started after former Head Coach Mike
Noonan officially resigned to take an
offer from Clemson on Dec. 24. The
department intends to select a new
coach by mid-March, according to
Bob Kenneally ’90, associate athletic
director for student services.
The department is expecting 60
to 70 applications by the end of this
week, according to Kenneally.
A committee, headed by Kenneally,
will evaluate the applicants and begin
the interview process. The committee,
which includes faculty, students and
members of the Department of Athlet-
ics, will convene at the end of the week
to start the process of narrowing the
field of applicants.
“We will do a thorough search, a
lot of background checks and a lot
of reference calls,” Kenneally said.
“We’ll look for the right fit for Brown
University, and in this particular case,
for the men’s soccer program.”
The majority of the applicant pool
consists of college coaches, but there
are some applicants from professional
leagues as well, according to Kenneal-
ly. Interim Head Coach and former
assistant Patrick Laughlin is also being
considered for the position.
The pool will be narrowed down
to three to 10 finalists, who will then
be interviewed before the final selec-
tion.
According to Kenneally, the de-
partment is looking for a candidate
with prior coaching experience — not
necessarily as a head coach — who
encourages academic excellence.
“Our goal is to win a national cham-
pionship in men’s soccer, so we want
somebody that has a successful track
record but also takes academics as a
top priority,” Kenneally said.
Defenseman Dylan Remick ’13
said he is looking for a coach to bring
energy to the program.
“I think the coach should be some-
one who loves the game and has a pas-
sion for it, an intense coach who will
make us work,” he said. “We are going
to go forward no matter what.”
Cross country and track and field Head Coach Craig
Lake resigned Feb. 15, in the middle of the indoor track
and field season, according to Bob Kenneally ’90, associate
athletic director for student services.
In a statement released Monday, the Department of
Athletics said Michelle Eisenreich, the assistant coach for
throwing, will fill in as the interim head coach.
“We will finish this indoor and outdoor season with the
staff we have in place,” Kenneally said. He said he and
Director of Athletics Michael Goldberger “will get together
throughout the season and decide what to do after that.”
— Dan Alexander, with additional reporting by Sahar
Shahamatdar

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“When you get down two goals, it’s
hard to keep playing as tenacious
as they were.”
Two power-play goals for Brown
— one toward the end of the sec-
ond period by Volpatti and another
in the middle of the third by Chris
Zaires ’13 — brought Brown within
one for all but the last second of the
final 9:14.
Volpatti said the game was well
within reach.
“Obviously, they’re a really good
team,” he said. But “to be honest, I
don’t think they’re the No. 6 team.
We could have won that game eas-
ily.”
Colgate 6, Brown 2
After losing, 6-3, to Yale on Fri-
day night, Colgate Head Coach Don
Vaughan challenged his team to show
how hard it could work and compete,
according to Raiders’ forward Brian
Day.
Vaughan’s team responded. Just
2:53 after the puck dropped, the Raid-
ers (12-12-5, 9-7-1) got out to a 1-0 lead
on Nick Prockow’s goal.
“We just weren’t ready to go that
game,” Volpatti said. “Obviously that’s
why (the early goal) happened. It’s a
momentum killer.”
Two more Raider goals and a score
by Sean McMonagle ’10 for Brown
made it a 3-1 game with Colgate ahead
going into the final frame, but Day
said his team wasn’t satisfied.
“A 3-1 lead really isn’t something
that you can sit back on and be con-
tent about,” he said. “We really didn’t
want to leave them hanging around
in the third.”
With 1:57 remaining on a Brown
power play, it didn’t look as though
Colgate would be able to put the game
away quickly. But despite the Bears’
man advantage, Brown got lit up in
the next 1:37, giving up two short-
handed goals just 45 seconds apart
to give Colgate a 5-1 lead.
Both teams scored power-play
goals in the middle of the third, and
the game ended 6-2.
“It wasn’t a successful weekend
by any means,” Volpatti said.
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ALEX YULY

E D I TO R I A L

RoadMAPS
If freshman year is spent in transition and explora- Over winter break, the program solicited applica-
tion, sophomore year is when many students begin tions from potential advisers and advisees, and the
to settle down and find their place at Brown — a pro- response was impressive for a brand-new program.
cess that involves making lots of decisions. Students The Herald reported last week that 230 sophomores
must choose and declare their concentrations, pick and 130 seniors applied to participate. But only 40
which groups and activities they want to pursue, and sophomore-senior pairs were ultimately matched.
consider options like internships, research, study Molly Jacobson ’10, who initially proposed the
abroad and semesters off. program and now coordinates it, told the editorial
During this crucial time, informed advice can be page board that she wanted the program to stay
hard to find. Sophomores are no longer part of the small and intimate in its first semester and noted
Meiklejohn peer advising program and they do not that it was intended for sophomores who need it
yet have concentration advisors. Depending on their and not the whole class.
T H E B R O W N D A I LY H E R A L D relationships with faculty advisors from freshman While we recognize the value of a small group
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MANAGING EDITOR DEPUTY MANAGING EDITORS SENIOR EDITORS year, they may not be receiving any formal advice to test the program out, we want to encourage
George Miller Chaz Kelsh Sophia Li Ellen Cushing at all. administrators to expand MAPS and to allow more
Seth Motel
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Joanna Wohlmuth
Fortunately, the University has just launched sophomores to benefit. Since the majority of advis-
BUSINESS
a new advising program for second-year students. ing takes place on a one-on-one basis and not in a
EDITORIAL GENERAL MANAGERS OFFICE MANAGER The Matched Advising Program for Sophomores, large group, the program should be able to grow
Anne Speyer Arts & Culture Editor Claire Kiely Shawn Reilly
Suzannah Weiss Arts & Culture Editor which is currently in its pilot semester, pairs sopho- fairly smoothly.
Katie Koh
Brian Mastroianni Features Editor mores with seniors who share similar interests and We also want to urge the Dean of the College and
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Hannah Moser Kelly Wess Sales goals. This initiative aims to allow sophomores the Curricular Resource Center to continue to sup-
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Sydney Ember News Editor already traveled similar paths at Brown. It also fills semester as the program becomes better-known
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MANAS GAUTAM
OPINIONS COLUMNIST
Since the people of Massachusetts doomed
the health care bill, the Obama administra-
tion has been trying to bridge the differences
between the Senate and House health care
reform bills, and will continue to do so within
the next several days before the televised
bipartisan health care summit on Feb. 25.
I am disconcerted that my pre-med col-
leagues haven’t spoken against this bill that
is not only going to bankrupt the nation, but
also leave them and their families in debt for
a longer period of time. I cannot tell whether
it is an idealistic zeal for saving lives or plain
ignorance in compliance with a “we’ll-deal-
with-it-when-we-get-there” attitude.
According to the American Medical As-
sociation, an average medical student’s debt
was about $160,000 in 2008, money that they
have to repay by working day and night,
pushing their physical and mental limits and
starting at junior positions. A Brown student
incurs more than half a million dollars in debt
when he attends college under the Program
in Liberal Medical Education without financial
aid. Our medical colleagues not only have to
repay their debts but also earn for themselves
and their family’s future; a life they start in
their early thirties.
As a person from a non-medical back-
ground, I hope that I will be making a fair bit
of money fresh out of college. But it will be
WILL WRAY
OPINIONS COLUMNIST
Since the 2008 economic crisis, there has
been no shortage of “belt-tightening” rhetoric
in our periodic e-mails from President Ruth
Simmons. The administration’s promise to
reduce the budget deficit became incarnate in
the Feb. 2 report of the Organizational Review
Committee. The report is littered with recom-
mendations for “streamlining” (read: cutting
student services) and “reorganizing” (read:
layoffs of) various University departments in
order to reduce the budget deficit.
The ORC recommended charging Brown
students for access to fitness facilities, re-
ducing the amount of fresh fruit and salad
offered at the dining halls and possibly cut-
ting varsity sports.
I have a simple recommendation for the
administration: Keep the student services,
and stop spending hundreds of thousands
of dollars on frivolous lawsuits.
A judicial decision filed last Thursday
brought an end to a protracted legal battle
between Brown and one of its professors,
Beverly Haviland. Judge Allen Rubine’s 31-
page decision recounts the ignoble story of
two Brown administrations — one sneaky,
one profligate.
In the spring of 2000, the University
wanted to hire Paul Armstrong as Dean of
the College. Armstrong was interested in the
position but was loathe to leave SUNY – Stony
Brook, where he and Haviland, his wife, held
tenured positions. Armstrong stipulated that
Off with our heads
tougher to go to bed at night knowing that
a friend of mine adds a few wrinkles to his
head when he deserves a better life. What
further sprinkles salt on the wound is the
obscene amount of taxes that we all will be
paying — the Joint Committee on Taxation
estimates $560 billion in new taxes over the
next 10 years for a country still battling with
recession.
Doctors are proud beings (and with good
reason). They not only save lives but spend
all their years in college studying terrifying
Health care is an issue where every state can
provide a proper representation of what its
citizens want and need.
things such as organic chemistry and physi-
ology while having to maintain near-perfect
GPAs to get into medical school followed
by a good residency program. Challenging
qualification exams constantly loom over their
heads. Is this how our society repays those
who take care of our sick and injured?
But it’s not just doctors who will be ad-
versely affected by the impending health
care “reforms.” Have you ever heard of the
inverted microscope, artificial heart, glucose
meter, MRI, or the countless innovations
in American medical equipment? My col-
leagues pursuing jobs in biomedical engi-
neering who pride themselves on inventing
Shame on Ruth
any employment deal at Brown must include
a tenured position for his wife.
After learning that there were no tenured
positions available in Haviland’s department,
the administration decided to, in then-Presi-
dent Sheila Blumstein’s words, “think outside
the box.” This apparently entailed sidestep-
ping the limit on the number of tenured fac-
ulty appointments, a non-trivial restriction
designed to limit expenses and increase
competitiveness among professors.
Interim President Blumstein, Provost
Kathryn Spoehr (now professor) and Pro-
Simmons’ obstinacy resulted in expenditures
totaling in the hundreds of thousands of dollars,
the alienation of Brown’s own faculty and a black
mark on the integrity of the University.
fessor of Sociology Mary Fennell devised an
employment deal that hired Haviland with
the title of visiting associate professor and
senior lecturer, but with the job security of
a tenured professor. They did so in a man-
ner that University counsel approved of, in
language that Judge Rubine deemed “clear
and unambiguous.”
At the time, then-Assistant Provost Brian
Casey wrote a letter to Spoehr, stating that
“...the real risk to you is whether (if this all
goes sour) you look like you were a Provost
trying to give someone tenure through the
backdoor.” Aptly put, Mr. Casey.
As shameful as this hiring practice was,
the stor y could have ended happily. Dean
emeritus, now-professor Armstrong left us
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such devices would certainly find themselves
in a bind. What will happen to the research
organizations that now face a tax hike on
medical devices from $2 billion to $3 billion
(by 2018)?
A decline in incentive to work would stall
growth and dampen the creativity of the awe-
inspiring research and development projects
undertaken across the nation. As Michelle
Malkin aptly put it, “Stents don’t grow on
trees. They were not created, developed,
marketed, or sold by government bureaucrats
and lawmakers.” Boston Scientific (one of
America’s top stent manufacturers) warned
that a proposed tax in the U.S. health care
reform bill that cleared the Senate Finance
Committee last week could have serious
consequences for the company, including
job losses, the last thing we need in a reces-
sion.
Health care is an issue where every state
can provide a proper representation of what
its citizens want and need. For example,
Lyme disease is more prevalent in the upper
East Coast and upper Midwest than in other
regions. The affected states can properly
allocate resources to treat such diseases ef-
with a valuable legacy of first-year seminars
and a renewed emphasis on career counsel-
ing. While I have never attended Haviland’s
classes, she fares well on the Critical Re-
view.
President Simmons was aware of the ar-
rangement the administration had reached
with Haviland, yet in 2004 and again in 2009,
she attempted to wriggle out of the deal. Her
refusal to honor Brown’s written commitment
forced Haviland to appeal to the state Superior
Court for a decision. (Nota bene: She did not
sue Brown; a “decision” amounts to a legal
clarification.)
Trials are acrimonious and costly. Sim-
mons’ obstinacy resulted in expenditures
that, according to Haviland’s attorney, total
in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. It
also lead to the alienation of Brown’s own
faculty and a black mark on the integrity of
the University.
Throughout the course of the trial, Brown
had no fewer than six lawyers in the court-
room at all times: three were University coun-
sel, and three were litigators hired from the
pricey firm Ropes and Gray LLP. One of the
litigators was Joan Lukey, the first female
president of the American College of Trial
Lawyers.
At first, I thought it was nifty that Brown
fectively. Letting the federal government de-
cide who gets what via hijacking one-seventh
of the economy is surely not the way to go,
especially since many of us would not like
to pay for some Rhode Islander’s Viagra. In
finance, I have been taught not to round off
numbers, as every cent is to be accounted
for. A rounded off health care system that
has to satisfy everybody’s needs will not only
lead to more spending per person, but also
broader, non-specialized treatment.
A stripped down version of basic treat-
ment at any hospital that allows people to
choose what services they need would work
best for the American people. Words such
as “required” and “necessary” force people
to make decisions they don’t want to make.
Critics will argue that one does not need to
opt for the public health care option, but the
government can levy taxes on the private
insurers. They, in turn, will charge one’s
employer more and hence lead to a reduction
in one’s salary, forcing one to opt out of the
private plan and join the national one.
As a child, I was constantly reminded that
“prevention is better than cure.” I can only
hope that a medical catastrophe can be pre-
vented before an even larger one requires a
cure. With that said, I’ll advise my capable
pre-med friends to woo that rich uncle, buy
those lottery tickets and start coding.
Manas Gautam ’12 gives lessons
in fishing and stays clear of closed
doors. He can be reached at
mg@brown.edu.
University was associated with Lukey, but
then I pondered how dearly this association
cost us. I decided I would prefer to have fresh
fruit and free gyms.
I exchanged e-mails with Haviland’s at-
torney, Kathleen Hagerty. She described
Brown’s big-ticket defense as employing a
“...scorched earth litigation strategy,” which
included “...enormous blow ups (exhibits
used in trial) ... which cost many thousands of
dollars.” She “offered to settle the case on two
occasions prior to trial, both of which I was
told were rejected by President Simmons.”
Despite the fact that hiring University pro-
fessors is an essential function of the adminis-
tration, Brown hired an expert from Harvard
to testify to academic hiring practices. She
was paid $700 per hour, according to Hagerty.
How did the judge react? He found her tes-
timony “...of limited assistance (in) material
issues.” Hagerty noted that “$700.00 per hour
doesn’t buy what it used to.”
I understand that budget cuts must be
made, but let’s start out with some obvious
lessons before we cut student services and
varsity sports. Don’t play fast and loose with
tenure positions, and don’t spend hundreds
of thousands of dollars in litigation fees to
learn that you should stick to your “clear
and unambiguous” promises.
I contacted the President’s office to get
their take on this issue. They informed me
that Simmons’ schedule is so full that she
won’t have time to meet me for several
months.
Will Wray ‘10 is really busy for the
next several months.
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