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to review the curricular objectives, foundation courses, strength of quantitative courses and senior year experience, Carkovic said. The committee decided on the name change and also made adjustments to the concentrations foundation courses and capstone program in response to student feedback. Cory Abbe 13 said she brought the idea of the name change to the committee. Im a tour guide, and the COE concentration is the only concentration that I have to explain what it is, she said. Commerce was an old-fashioned word, and (business) captures the concentration better, Carkovic said. She noted that the title flipped the order of the words organization and entrepreneurship because BOE was already taken as a concentration acronym. continued on page 4
Maria Carkovic said the COE name change captures the concentration better.
The Commerce, Organizations and Entrepreneurship concentration will be renamed Business, Entrepreneurship and Organizations. Concentrators graduating in 2013 will be the first to earn degrees under the new name, said Maria Carkovic, administrative director of the program and lecturer in economics. Though the change officially will take place July 1, the new title has already been updated on Focal Point, the Universitys concentration website. The name change was part of a COE curriculum review last fall conducted by a committee chaired by Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron and Professor of Sociology Mary Fennell. The committee, which had a student representative from each of the three COE concentration tracks, met regularly
Prospects uncertain for same-sex marriage Lecture confronts gender pay inequality city & state
By SonA mrkttchiAn Senior Staff Writer
Lawmakers in the Rhode Island General Assembly have proposed legislation to legalize same-sex mar-
Emily Martin, vice president and general counsel at the National Womens Law Center, painted a grim picture of current gender pay inequalities Monday night to a small, female-dominated audience in Petteruti Lounge. Regardless of age, race, education level, industry and other demographic factors, women earn less than men, Martin said. One year out of college, women earn about 80 percent as much as their male counterparts, and the gap only widens with time. New female doctors earn nearly $17,000 less than new male doctors, a disparity that has risen over the past decade. Even when controlling for all external factors, there is still a significant wage disparity, Martin said. In the last 50 years since the Equal Pay Act (of 1963) passed, weve made it less than halfway to equality, Martin said. The wage gap continues to be, unfortunately, a very important presence in womens lives. The gap persists because of many factors, Martin said. Though discrimination is a significant incontinued on page 2
riage in the state every year since 1997. A poll conducted last year by Public Policy Polling, a national polling company focused on politics, shows that a majority of Rhode
Island voters support same-sex marriage, and Gov. Lincoln Chafee 75 P14 has previously said he would sign such legislation into law. But the bill faces opposition from a Catholic voter base and conservative legislators. While some same-sex marriage advocates believe the Ocean State will eventually follow the lead of its New England neighbors and legalize same-sex marriage, re-election campaigns and religion are likely to prove barriers to passage in 2012.
The General Assembly passed legislation last summer legalizing civil unions between same-sex couples in the state. But lobbyists for marriage equality point out that less than 50 couples have chosen to take advantage of the option. Civil unions try to establish a separate-but-equal status, though they actually create second-class citizenry for gay and lesbian couples, said Ray Sullivan, campaign continued on page 3
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Fourth-year medical students found out their residency program placements for next year at the annual Match Day event Friday. The class of 79 students, which is smaller than in recent years, did as well as Ive seen any class do, said Edward Wing, dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences. The number of students entering primary care disciplines, particularly obstetrics and family medicine, seems to have increased this year, said Philip Gruppuso, associate dean of Medical Education, adding that this rise may have been prompted by recent health care reform. Many students will also enter internal medicine programs, which have been consistently popular, Gruppuso said. Where students perform these specialty-specific residencies often determines where they choose to live and work, Wing said. Ten graduates will remain in Providence at hospitals affiliated with the Alpert Medical School. This years national match rate was the highest in 30 years, with continued on page 2
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The womens softball team came away with only one win from the University of Maryland Baltimore County Spring Classic, a four game tournament held in Baltimore this weekend. On Saturday afternoon, Bruno fell to Robert Morris 4-2 and came up short again to Coppin State 4-0. On Sunday afternoon, the Bears rebounded to edge Mount St. Marys 5-4, but then fell to UMBC 7-1 in their final game of the weekend. In the first game against Robert Morris, Kelsey Hom 15 and Stephanie Thompson 13 were key in leading the offense. The Bears were able to take a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth, but
the Colonials regained the lead in the top of the fifth and added an insurance run in the sixth to secure the win. Later in the afternoon, Coppin State shut out the Bears, as Kate Strobel 12 and Avery Silverstein 13 tallied the Bears only two hits of the game. But Bruno came back Sunday and won a close game against Mount St. Marys that showed how effective our offense can be, said Kelsey Williams 14. The Mountaineers took an early lead by tallying two runs in the first inning and then adding another run in the fourth to gain a 3-0 lead. Thompson launched a solo home run in the bottom of the fourth, bringing the Bears within two. After Mount St. Marys reestablished continued on page 3
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continued from page 1 a three-run cushion, Silverstein drove in Williams with an RBI single in the fifth inning. Hom then won the game in the bottom of the seventh inning, cracking a three-run walk-off homer to give Brown the 5-4 victory over the Mountaineers. In their final game, the Bears challenged host UMBC but lost the momentum they had found in the days first game. Strobel tallied Brunos sole run of the game on a solo home run, and the UMBC offense provided more than enough run support, winning 7-1. Head Coach DeeDee Enabenter-Omidiji said she thought the first-year pitching staff kept the Bears close in every game. There were some misplays behind them, and we didnt get a lot of offensive support, she said. The pitchers had a much better tournament than in the first week of play. They were definitely more consistent around the plate. After this weekends results, Enabenter-Omidiji said the players are even more aware they need to learn how to refocus and be more consistent. If we can learn how to focus on the task at hand, we will be more successful, she said.
Lobbyist groups have been working with legislators to repeal the amendment since it was signed into law. What was put into the civil unions bill overstepped what we think of as a normal request, said Sen. Rhoda Perry P91, D-Providence. Rhode Island is the most Catholic state in the nation, and the majority of the states voters identify as Democrats. Catholic majorities among constituents may keep certain legislators from supporting the marriage equality bill. Its kept some of the folks who represent those districts from supporting it to the degree you would need to ensure passage, said Brett Broesder, a former policy and legislative director for the Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General. The Church has always taught that homosexual behavior is a sin and violates divine law based on the Ten Commandments, Ritchie said. Same-sex marriage legislation is about distorting a venerable institution, said Thomas Tobin, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Providence in a press release. continued on page 4
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doesnt sway me at all, Tobin said in the press release. Perry was quick to caution that passage may still be a long-term goal. Before either of the chambers can vote on the legislation, the bills will have to pass through their respective judiciary committees. The Senate Judiciary Committee as a body is conservative, Perry said. When you have a conservative body, no matter what is offered in exchange, youre not going to see too much bend, if any at all. Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed, D-Jamestown and Newport, has been vocal in her opposition to same-sex marriage. Perry said Paiva Weed would not bring the bill to the Senate floor unless she absolutely knew there would be enough votes for passage. But the upcoming elections, which may prevent passage this year, could add Democratic support in the General Assembly to ease passage in the coming years, she said. The beauty of an election year is that youre going to get a whole new freight of people coming in, Perry said. When Perry was first elected to the Senate, she said she was unable to find a single co-sponsor for the marriage equality legislation she proposed at the time, she said. Now, she said she was able to find eight supporters in the Senate, easy.
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Hope High School senior Stephen Dy said he is frequently stopped by the police in his neighborhood due to his tattoos and Cambodian heritage. Most people assume that gangs out here (in Providence) are majority South East Asian, he said, so when they see a Cambodian, or a Laotian or a Vietnamese kid, they assume hes in a gang. Rep. Grace Diaz, D-Providence, introduced a bill to fight racial profiling at the beginning of the year. Diaz introduced a similar bill last year that passed the House Judiciary Committee but died on the House floor. Diaz said she made some changes to the previous bill, adding restrictions to police questioning of pedestrians and passengers at traffic stops. Police patrolling a neighborhood are not likely to have probable cause for searching or questioning people on the street, she said. Police are already prohibited by state statute from racial profiling, but a person must produce identification if police present justification for stopping them. Dy has served as a youth coordinator at Providence Youth Student Movement for three years. He said when police stop him, they ask, What are you doing? Why are you in this neighborhood? What set you roll with? Do you have any guns on you? Diaz also included a provision that does not allow consent searches of juveniles without cause or reason as a protective measure. Consent searches are only permitted if the individual gives permission. Dy said he feels he does not have an option when he is searched. They wouldnt even ask. They just tell you get on the wall, put your hands on the car or lay down on the floor, he said. If I try to come off as defensive,
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a concentration that satisfies our parents and lessens the pressure of joining the working world Im thinking of economics in particular here. Though all this may fit with the mechanics of our system, it highlights a failure to understand the Universitys educational philosophy. The University mission statement is vague to say the least. While we often throw out ambiguous terms like critical thinking as the end goals of our academic experiences, what we frequently fail to recognize is that our classes and concento apply those theories to the world. Engineers study physical systems by following a stringent and logical methodology. These are oversimplified descriptions, but you get the idea. I have ranted before about our need to improve advising (The advising fallacies, Feb. 27), and there is no doubt that some of the blame needs to be placed on faculty. Many concentration advisers approach the process with the same listless attitude of most students lets get this out of the way. catalysts for genuine reflection. It is a process I would encourage any confused student to attempt. Even if you do not want to pursue an IC, thinking through the process will make you consolidate your interests and help you recognize the values of the standard concentrations you are considering. If we do not see any substantial reforms to the amount of thought required to declare or choose a concentration under the current system, students will continue to diminish the potential worth of their education. The convenience and futility that characterize the process are disrespectful to the New Curriculum. There is nothing wrong with following an established path as long as you actually take the time to assess its merits. It goes without saying that these four years end up shaping what we do for and with the rest of our lives. The people we meet and the classes we take all have a substantial impact. But there are only a few conversations or lectures that we will distinctly be able to recall. However, a concentration has a much more profound effect on our future lives. When selecting a concentration, you are not just choosing a set of classes. You are adopting a perspective that will influence your life long after you have walked out of those Van Wickle gates. nikhil Kalyanpur 13 is a junior who likes Little Talks. He can be reached at nik.kalyanpur@gmail.com
As the concentration declaration deadline nears, there is a familiar buzz surrounding the sophomore class. With only two weeks to go, many students are scurrying about looking for an adviser to casually sign off on their forms. Unfortunately, convenience frequently trumps serious reflection. Our declaration process, with its generic questions and lack of permanence, has practically become a farce. As students, we view it as a superficial requirement rather than as the opportunity for introspection it should be. Few realize we are not simply choosing a set of classes but are actually committing to a mode of thought that will fundamentally change our approach to problem-solving. Many of us meander in our first year, experimenting and trying to sample everything that piques our interests. What results is uncertainty and anxiety, which often plagues our second year as the sophomore slump starts to take hold. Under this pressure, we are prone to make decisions we will regret later. A Brown students declared concentration can often end up being one with few requirements. This leaves our options open and allows us to put off that final decision even longer. Or else, we choose
When selecting a concentration, you are not just choosing a set of classes. you are adopting a perspective that will influence your life long after you have walked out of those Van Wickle gates.
tration are not designed to merely provide us with facts and figures. Rather, they aim to develop a framework of analysis in which to synthesize that knowledge. In other words, a concentration shapes how we will think. Though there are definitely some overlaps, most concentrations strive to embed students within a particular school of thought. Philosophy tends to hone ones ability to think abstractly and focus on the subtle implications of arguments. Economics involves creating idealized models of human behavior and asks its students But at the same time, its not only the professors fault. A recent Herald editorial (Concentrating on the declaration process, March 12) rightly critiqued the declaration application itself, citing its failure to prompt more self-reflection. Both these issues are only just starting points. For our student body to get the most out of their academic experiences, the whole process needs to be rethought from the bottom up. Having recently written an Independent Concentration application, I can vouch for the fact that the questions the Curricular Resource Center pose act as
Watching the news these days tends to fill me with pure, unadulterated cynicism. Nobody in government agrees on anything, except for the fact that the system in Washington, and Providence, is broken. In a country where Occupiers scream, Rush Limbaugh calls law students sluts and Angel Taveras makes it his life goal to suck the money out of Brown, its hard to stay hopeful. I certainly feel the hopelessness, as anyone who read my columns knows (Super PACs bring out the worst in politicians, Feb. 23). But one morning in POLS 1130: The American Presidency, taught by Associate Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller, I got a new burst of hope from my fellow Brown students. In the previous weeks section, we had been assigned the unenviable task of solving the nations fiscal and economic crisis in 50 minutes. In class, several of the sections sent representatives up to the front of Salomon 101 to present their solutions. As a thoroughly beaten down political observer, I expected partisan dribble from the left about the rich not paying enough in taxes and partisan dribble from the right about how ObamaCare is going to kill your grandma. I figured that the dreaded C-word compromise would never even make an appearance.
Why is it that a group of 20 college students can understand the importance of compromise and civil discourse while a group of 535 politicians in Washington continue to scream at each other?
cuts must be part of an overall plan to scale back spending. They gave Medicare the credit it deserves for having protected millions of American seniors. Why is it that a group of 20 college students can understand the importance of compromise and civil discourse while a group of 535 politicians in Washington continue to scream at each other? Perhaps it is that our formative years have been those in which our government
Despite what many, including myself, have said about liberalisms monopoly on Brown students, this moment in class was one of great hope. It was nothing more than an ungraded section assignment, but it showed that our generation understands the great burdens that the current generation of leaders has left to us. We understand how grim the future could be and that some problems are too big for partisanship.
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The mens lacrosse team traded goals all night in a back-and-forth contest with Harvard in Harvard 10 Cambridge Brown 9 Saturday. But in the end, the Crimson (3-3, 1-0 Ivy) found the deciding goal when Jeff Cohen fired the game-winner past goalie Will Round 14 two minutes into overtime, giving Harvard the 10-9 win in both teams Ivy opener. It was tight as a guitar string, said Head Coach Lars Tiffany 90. We put everything into it, and we played well. It was an exciting backand-forth game two teams slugging it out and not letting each other pull away. It was two teams playing each other at a high level, and they matched each other blow for blow. Tiffany said though the loss was heartbreaking, he was happy with the effort his team put forward in an intense atmosphere against an Ivy rival. We certainly played with a tremendous amount of tenacity and focus that I dont think weve seen yet this year, Tiffany said. It was certainly exciting, and I thought our tenacious play matched the atmosphere. The Bears (2-3, 0-1) attack was effective throughout, and the team scored the first goal of every period.
The offense was paced by hat tricks from John DePeters 13 and Nick Piroli 15. Pirolis three goals matched his opening day hat trick in the win over Quinnipiac, while midfielder DePeters, who Tiffany said stepped up big in a big atmosphere, tallied his first career three-goal performance. On the defensive end, Round made nine saves, and defenseman Philip Pierce 14 forced seven turnovers and scooped up four groundballs. The first goal of the game did not come until 10 minutes in, when DePeters drew first blood. Only two minutes later, Cohen answered back for the Crimson, forcing the first of six tie scores on the day. In the second quarter, both offenses started to warm their engines. Piroli reclaimed the lead for Brown with his first goal of the day only 13 seconds into the period, but Harvard tied it up 2-2 a minute later. Brown scored twice with goals from George Sherman 13 and Co-captain Parker Brown 12, but Harvard trimmed the deficit back to one before the half. We were a little sloppy in the first half offensively, Tiffany said. But we were scrappy, and we hustled, and we created some scoring opportunities, not in the prettiest way, but made some things happen. Out of the intermission, Brown struck first again as Piroli stretched the lead to 5-3. But Harvard responded quickly, scoring twice in two minutes to tie the game again.
DePeters then traded goals with the Crimsons Terry White, before the junior completed his hat trick and gave Brown the lead heading into the fourth quarter after beating the Harvard goalie on the quarters final possession. In the fourth quarter, Harvard found its first lead of the day. Brown struck quickly out of the gate with a score from Sam Hurster 14 to extend its lead to 8-6, but the Crimson scored three consecutive goals in the next five minutes to take a 9-8 lead with just under eight minutes remaining in the game. Finding themselves in a hole for the first time all day, the Bears kept their cool, and Piroli found the equalizer with 5:40 to play. In the final five minutes, the Bears got off two shots, but Hursters attempt was saved, and DePeters missed wide. In the overtime period, Round made an early save, but on the Bears next possession, Parker Browns shot was turned away as well. Harvard then took a timeout, and the play drawn up in the huddle led to the game-winner. With 2:19 to play in OT, Cohen was freed up by a screen and beat Round before being mobbed by his coaches and teammates in celebration of the win. Tiffany said the loss hurts, but he stressed that the players cannot allow any doubt to enter their minds after losing a game in which minutiae separated the two teams.
The Bears will have a busy spring break, travelling to Vermont (1-6) and No. 15 Duke (3-3) for a pair of non-conference bouts before returning home March 31 to take on No. 16 Princeton (4-2, 1-0) in an attempt to keep themselves in the Ivy hunt early in the season. The biggest challenge for the team
will now be to recreate the intensity from Saturdays Ivy game and bring it into the two upcoming non-conference matchups, Tiffany said. I challenged the men with this, Tiffany said. The intensity that we brought, the tenacity that we brought Saturday night bring it to Burlington, Vermont Saturday at one oclock.
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It was a rough weekend in the Big Easy for the baseball team, as the winless Bears (0-7) were swept in a three-game away series against Tulane (14-6). The first game was the closest of the weekend as the Green Wave prevailed in the bottom of the ninth, but Bruno was outscored 34-8 in lopsided defeats in the final two games of the series. The Bears scored early in game one when right fielder Will Marcal 15 hit a solo home run to start the second inning and tie the game 1-1. Bruno added four more runs before the sixth inning on RBI singles from first baseman Cody Slaughter 13 and designated hitter Mike DiBiase 12, as well as RBI groundouts from left fielder Matt DeRenzi 14 and Marcal, to take a 5-1 lead. But Tulane answered with five runs in the sixth inning and, after two scoreless frames, the Bears found themselves trailing 6-5 in the ninth inning. Down to their last out, Bruno loaded the bases and Marcal came through. Just two strikes away from defeat, the first-year hit a two-run single to give Bruno a 7-6 lead. But the lead did not last. In the bottom of the frame, Tulane tied the game with an RBI single before a basesloaded walk gave the Green Wave an 8-7 victory. Head Coach Marek Drabinski said it was an unbelievable game despite some poor umpiring. Drab-
inski said both teams coaches agreed that the home plate umpire made a number of questionable calls on balls and strikes. After reviewing video from the game, Drabinski estimated that the umpire got probably 40 pitch calls wrong. Bruno got on the board early again in game two as Slaughter drove in center fielder John Sheridan 13 in the first inning. But Tulane responded with a 10-run onslaught in the bottom of the first to bust the game open in the early going. The Bears scored again on Sheridans fifth-inning solo home run but could not keep up with the Green Wave, who won 20-2. The Bears started strong in game three, scoring five runs in the first inning. Slaughters RBI single put Bruno on the board before catcher Wes Van Booms 14 grand slam cleared the bases for a 5-0 lead. Tulane starting pitcher Alex Massey exited the game without recording an out. But the Green Wave rallied and took the lead in the third inning 10-5. The Bears scored again when second baseman J.J. Franco 14 drove in a run in the fourth inning, but Tulane pitching kept Brunos bats quiet the rest of the way and the Bears fell 14-6. Saturday and Sunday were just bad games, Drabinski said. We just got very bad pitching. Despite being swept in the series, Drabinski said he was pleased with his teams hitting. I thought we swung the bats very well the whole
weekend, he said, calling the series a complete reversal from the teams set against Florida International University March 2-4. In that series, Drabinski said he was happy with the Bears pitching, but the offense failed to provide enough run support, averaging less than four runs a game. Drabinski said he is making progress in setting his lineup for the conference season. Before the Bears first game, he had identified left field and right field as the two biggest non-pitching position battles, but DeRenzi and Marcal have likely earned the starting jobs as corner outfielders, he said. The starting rotation is still unknown. Drabinski said Heath Mayo 13 and Marcal have earned spots in the Bears conference rotation, but there are still five pitchers vying for the two remaining spots. Drabinski said the mood of the team is still positive after the rough weekend, and the locker room is not discouraged about the slow start. Everybody on the team knows we have a pretty good chance of being good, he said. The Bears will host the University of Maine Thursday before embarking on a lengthy road trip over spring break. Bruno will fly to the West Coast to take on Pacific University, Santa Clara University and San Jose State University before kicking off its conference schedule with Ivy doubleheaders at Penn March 31 and Columbia April 1.
Confusion persists among students about the two early graduation tracks the University offers, said Stephen Lassonde, deputy dean of the College. Almost all
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students who ask about the early graduation option are unaware that there are two different options, he said. The accelerated graduation option has several marked differences from the advanced standing option, though both offer students the chance to graduate before their eighth semester. Accelerated graduation requires students to pay the last semesters worth of tuition to the University, whereas advanced standing does not. Eligibility requirements for the two are also entirely different. To qualify for accelerated graduation, students need to demonstrate a strong academic record, curricular breadth and depth of study. Students who graduate early through advanced standing need to have earned three to six course credits of college-level
work before their first year at the University for every semester that they plan not to take. Many (Program in Liberal Medical Education) students take time off between graduation and the first year of medical school for a variety of reasons, said Austin Ha 11.5. Taking advanced standing seemed like the perfect way to take advantage of the IB credits I accrued in high school and to free up some time for fun and my interests in entrepreneurship and research. Lassonde works with students who apply to the accelerated graduation track, but he refers students interested in advanced standing to Maitrayee Bhattacharyya, the associate dean of the college for diversity programs, who is also in charge of Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate credits. Only one or two students seek the accelerated graduation option every year, according to Lassonde. But Lassonde said students who apply for accelerated graduation often have similar reasons to graduate early. Students who want to start medical school in the spring term but lack the course credits, for example, often use the accelerated graduation option.