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UCS suggests new lounge on Pembroke campusBy Ben noBle

Contributing Writer

The Undergraduate Council of Stu-dents is recommending that the Uni-versity create a new study lounge on Pembroke campus after conducting an audit of all student lounges and study spaces on campus, according to Admissions and Student Services Chair Andrew Bergmanson ’11.

Throughout November and Decem-ber, members of the Admissions and Student Services Committee split into small groups and visited almost all 200 rooms on a list provided by the Office of Residential Life. Approximately two thirds of the rooms are no longer used as lounges, and most have become dorm rooms, Bergmanson said.

A fall poll conducted by UCS indi-cated that only 15 percent of students

currently study in dormitory lounges. Fifty-eight percent of respondents believed that there were not enough lounges available for student use near dormitories.

“Lounges on Pembroke are very sparse and, in a lot of cases, have been taken over to make new rooms, espe-cially in Morriss and Woolley (halls),” said Bergmanson.

Bergmanson has proposed that ResLife construct a new study lounge on the first floor of Woolley in the space that formerly housed the Brown Card Office, which has since moved to J. Walter Wilson. The room is cur-rently a temporary office for UCS and Brown Student Agencies, who both plan to vacate the space and move to permanent offices once the renova-

rISD alums hit ‘runway’By MiRiaM FuRst

Staff Writer

Two Rhode Island School of Design alums have taken their artistic prow-ess from College Hill in Providence to fashion avenue in New York City. Mila Hermanovski and Anna Lynett are both part of the cast of season seven of the popular Lifetime television show Project Runway.

Project Runway is a reality show that challenges contestants to design clothing with a limited amount of time and resources. Every episode focuses on one challenge, at the end of which models wear the designs. A panel of judges, including fashion designer Michael Kors, Marie Claire Fashion Director Nina Garcia and supermodel Heidi Klum, the show’s host, then vote on the clothes. One contestant is elimi-nated at the end of each episode.

Eliminated during episode five, Lynett described the experience as “so intense the whole time.” Though she said she would not do it again, she added, “it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience — I don’t regret any part of it.” Though no longer on the show, Lynett said she stands behind her designs for each challenge, even the one that ultimately eliminated her from the show.

Lynett, who graduated from RISD

Faculty changes Med School grad reqsBy Kate MonKs

Senior Staff Writer

The faculty voted on several changes to the Alpert Medical School at their March faculty meeting Tuesday, choosing to allow the 14 chairs of the clinical departments of the Med School to become eligible for clini-cal tenure. The faculty also voted to change graduation requirements for the Med School by requiring students to pass a national medical examination, a test students previ-ously were required to take, but did not need to pass.

Plans for the combined Kath-erine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center and Nelson Fitness Center and Med School facilities were pre-sented by Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98. He also discussed the large increase in applications to the University, as well as the budgetary decisions made by the Corporation at its meeting last weekend.

The decision to extend tenure to

the 14 chairs of the clinical depart-ments at the Med School was pro-posed in part to help attract the best candidates for the chair positions, according to Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences Edward Wing. For many candidates applying for clinical chair positions at the Med School, tenure “is a significant word,” Wing said.

The title of tenure will not be guaranteed to all clinical depart-ment chairs and the chairs must go through the standardized tenure process of the University, according to the proposal.

“It’s vital to our ability to grow and to attract the best people for leadership positions,” Wing said. The importance of bringing tenure to the clinical department chairs “can’t be overstated,” he said.

The decision proved to be con-troversial among the faculty, many of whom voiced concerns that the decision would lessen the academic meaning of the title of tenure. Wing

reassured the faculty that not only would tenure be granted accord-ing to the standardized University process, but also that many of the department chairs have impressive academic credentials and would in no way have difficulty passing the standards required for tenure.

Unlike department chairs at the University, the Med School’s clinical department chairs often remain in their positions for “15 or 20 years,” Wing said, and therefore tenure decisions are not constantly be-ing proposed. Wing said about 115 of the approximately 125 medical schools in the country currently offer similar tenure programs.

The faculty committee also dis-cussed a new graduation require-ment for Med School students. Medical students at Brown now must not only take, but also pass, the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1. The USLME

Men’s basketball scores big against DartmouthBy eRiKa MuelleR

Contributing Writer

It was a weekend for the record books as both Matt Mullery ’10 and Peter Sullivan ’11 advanced on Brown’s career scoring list. The Bears put up their fourth win in the last six games.

After a 91-71 loss to Harvard (20-6, 9-3 Ivy League), the Bears (11-18, 5-7) beat Dartmouth (5-21, 1-11), 76-57.

Harvard 91, Brown 71Harvard built a 54-33 halftime

lead and maintained it throughout the game to put the Bears down on Friday night.

Despite strong shooting efforts by Sullivan, Garrett Leffelman ’11 and Andrew McCarthy ’13, who all put up double-digit points on the night, the Bears couldn’t battle

back in the second half.Leffelman scored a career-high

19 points, his third new career-high in the last four games.

“I think for me personally it’s been a combination of hard work paying off and being given the chance to go out and perform,” Leffelman said. “The opportunity to play is huge.”

Sullivan scored 18 for the Bears, becoming the 24th player in Brown history to reach the ca-

reer 1,000-point mark. McCarthy added 12, and Mullery had nine points with six assists.

In the first half, the Crimson were able to exchange 10 Brown turnovers for 15 points. Harvard strolled into the locker room fol-lowing a 31-8 run to put the team up, 54-33. The second half was more evenly played, but Brown was unable to bounce back from

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Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / heraldThe Science Center has helped to fill what UCS views as a void in study spaces. The council is proposing additional spaces on Pembroke.

max monn / heraldmaryam Al-Khawaja GS, herald Opinions columnist Simon Liebling ’12 and Osman Chaudhry ’11 advocated for divestment from Israel.

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CaMPUS newS “I never stopped loving fashion.”— RISd alum mila hermanovski

consists of three parts, all of which must be passed in order to prac-tice medicine. The vast majority of medical schools already require their students to pass the exam in order to graduate.

The requirement to pass the exam is not expected to have a major impact on the number of graduates, according to Associate Dean of Medicine Philip Grup-puso, because the Med School currently has a first-time pass rate above 95 percent, higher than the national average. For students who must take the exam a second time, the pass rate is almost 100 percent, according to Gruppuso.

For the few students who de-cide not to practice medicine and instead choose to pursue a Ph.D., students could attempt to have the requirement waived. Currently, students who do not plan to prac-tice medicine simply must take the exam, which means these students simply can write their name on the exam and then leave, negatively affecting the University’s average, according to Gruppuso.

“All of our students are able to pass this exam,” Gruppuso said. He also said the Med School’s pri-or policy of not requiring students to pass the exam negatively affects the University’s reputation. After some debate, the faculty voted to pass the motion.

After the committee passed the proposals, Kertzer presented his monthly report, focusing on the

Corporation’s recent budgetary decisions and the University’s high application numbers. Kertzer said the University is currently predicting an acceptance rate of about 9 percent for the class of 2014, which would about 2 per-cent lower than from last year. He mentioned that other Ivy League institutions have not seen an in-crease in applications at the same level as Brown.

He also said the University will continue working to cut costs in the upcoming years in part through more layoffs. Though the Campaign for Academic Enrich-ment is set to end in 2010, Kertzer said the University doesn’t intend to stop putting effort into fund-raising.

A member of the committee asked Kertzer about possible cuts to varsity sports teams, a decision that he said will not be made until the fall.

The faculty committee also heard from Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, senior vice president for Corporation affairs and gover-nance, on the topic of campus safety. He specifically spoke about pedestrian and workplace safety, in reference to the recent fatal ac-cident on Thayer Street and the shooting at the University of Ala-bama in Huntsville. He said a com-mittee is being formed to look into pedestrian safety on campus.

The faculty committee also discussed the possibility of as-sisting Chile after the recent earthquake.

U. predicts 9 percent acceptance rate less than two years ago, said the show

is popular on campus. “It’s sort of a dream for all of us in some way. It’s so exciting to see people create some-thing out of nothing.”

on the airCreating something out of nothing

is just what contestants are asked to do on the show. For example, Lynett said her favorite exercise was the bur-lap challenge because she “liked the material, and the fact that it was so raw and so plain left it up to us to make something unique and beautiful.”

Though her interest in fashion de-veloped after graduating from college, Lynett said her RISD education helped prepare her for success in the fashion world. “My experience at RISD taught me to be more industrious and have the attitude that if you can make some-thing better than what’s available, you should,” she said.

Lynett’s first exposure to fashion came when she had a hostess job at a trendy restaurant in Los Angeles that required her to wear fashion-forward clothes — most of which she designed on her own.

“I never thought I’d be the kind of person that would fit reality TV, and I’m still sort of surprised that that’s true,” Lynett said. But, she added, “a show like Project Runway is based on the physical production stuff, so it’s not so much that you need to be a crazy person.”

Lynett said living with the other contestants on the show was “kind of like being thrown into a dorm,” except that everyone was older, and their interactions were public because of the camera crew. Though Lynett was pleased overall with how she was represented on the show, she said she was “kind of simplified.” She added, “our most generalized qualities are portrayed on the show so viewers can understand who we are quickly. They use footage they have to serve the purpose of simplifying each of us into characters.”

Lynett said working with Tim Gunn, an American fashion icon who mentors contestants, was “amazing because he really reminded me of some of my teachers at RISD — very personal and genuine.”

One of Lynett’s professors from RISD, Ken Horii, said she “was, from the first day, a very talented, bright, energetically curious, articulate and exceptionally hardworking student.”

“I am not surprised she has gained early recognition, and I think she is only beginning to gather the fruits of her creative potential,” he said.

Lynett said her creative potential has only grown because of the show. “The show has challenged me to leave my doors open and respond to any-thing that I think could fit,” she said.

As a recent graduate, Lynett said Providence helped inspire some of her designs. Lynett said the city is “an urban underground environment that people can really draw from” if they want to be creative designers. Lynett said she would describe her own style as “kind of random” — inspired by vintage fashion, while adhering to a simple “hipstery” style.

Lynett even has some wardrobe advice for students just up the hill from RISD. In reference to Brown’s annual Sex Power God party, she said she would design “something kind of small and leather.”

Making connectionsLynett met fellow RISD alum Her-

manovski after arriving in New York for the show. “We were chatting on the rooftop of our apartment during a champagne toast when we found out we both went to RISD,” Hermanovski said.

Having two parents who are fash-ion designers, Hermanovski said “it was imminent that I was going to design school.” Both Hermanovski and Lynett said they participated in summer programs at RISD, experi-ences that caused them to fall in love with the school.

After graduating, Hermanovski moved to New York City to pursue a career as a fashion designer. She worked in retail for almost a year and then worked for a few years as an assistant designer for Calvin Klein. Following that job, Hermanovski “did the opposite end of the spectrum,” and worked for a startup company, Rob Meyer. She also did freelance for high-end New York City stores such as Barney’s, Bergdorf Goodman and Henri Bendel, and worked for Fore-cast America, a fashion-trend forecast-ing publication. She also designed costumes for a New York University graduate thesis film.

This last job led her to pursue cos-tuming, which brought her to Los Angeles. After working on costuming for a few years, Hermanovski said she applied to be on Project Runway because “the projects that come up these days in television and film are … not very challenging creatively, and I was just feeling unfulfilled by being a costumer.” She added, “I had a really good run being a costumer, but I just wanted to design again, and I never stopped loving fashion, never wanted to stop being a designer.”

As a fashion designer on Project

Runway, Hermanovski placed among the highest contestants in episodes two and four and won the challenge in episode three. In the third episode, the contestants were taken to the Met-ropolitan Museum of Art and asked to design an iconic look that would be worthy of being in a museum collec-tion, she said.

“Since I have an art foundation, go-ing to a museum like the Metropolitan Museum of Art is so dear and inspir-ing to me. I look to art all the time for inspiration in my work.” Rather than design a gown, which is what most contestants did, Hermanovski designed a “stunning coat and pair of pants,” she said, adding “you don’t have to make a gown for it to be mu-seum-worthy.”

Hermanovski also thought Gunn was an inspirational mentor, finding him to be “absolutely wonderful, in-credibly sincere, compassionate and intellectual.” She added, “I have so much respect for him because he’s been in the industry a long time, and I like that his foundation was art as well.”

“Mila was a creative and dedi-cated student with a unique style,” said Lorraine Howes, who was the head of RISD’s apparel design depart-ment when Hermanovski attended. “It’s great to watch her success and progress.”

Hermanovski said RISD “fosters a designer’s individuality and coming up with your own point of view.”

Her own point of view for great style mixes high and low fashion. “Take a great piece from H&M and mix it with a designer piece — makes it more unique,” she said.

This sense of individual style is essential for a contestant on Project Runway, because “you’re really in this capsule where you can’t look at magazines or watch TV, and it’s almost better that way because you’re forced to tap into your own creativity,” Her-manovski said.

She sees parallels between that environment and being in Providence, adding “it’s good not being in such a big city with a lot of distractions.”

Being on Project Runway made Hermanovski realize that fashion de-sign is what she is “meant to be doing” and that she missed it when she was working as a costume designer. She said the show has helped her a lot and “boosts everyone’s career no matter how short or long your time on the show is.” She is already experienc-ing the upsides of the attention that comes with Project Runway — she has been approached to do a gown for a celebrity for the Oscars and is also working her own line.

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tions of Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center in Faunce House are complete next year.

“I think it would be useful because MoChamp (Lounge) is generally pret-ty crowded,” said Emery Hall resident Tony Bakshi ’13, a Herald sports staff writer. “A computing cluster would be really nice.”

Senior Associate Dean of Residen-tial and Dining Services Richard Bova

said the space is being considered as a possible lounge, but nothing specific has been planned yet.

“I am still waiting for the results of the audit,” Bova said. “Then I will engage the students in that endeavor,” he added, referring to the renovations of the old card office.

Bergmanson said his committee hopes to be involved in the design process and will recommend that new lounges include computing clusters.

“We need to have more lounges

that are centrally located and that people will actually use,” Bergmanson said. “That’s been a goal of our com-mittee for years, and it’s something that needs to happen this year.”

ResLife is currently planning reno-vations to lounges and hallways in New Pembroke and Vartan Gregorian Quad A. Work on New Pembroke is slated to begin June 1, with New Dorm following shortly thereafter. Bova said both projects should be completed in time for the 2010-11 academic year.

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“Rarely do you see students and administrators together.”— Keisha Senter, Clinton Global Initiative University director

Students plan for international actionBy Julia KiM

Contributing Writer

Several Brown students will have the opportunity to engage in so-cial change with former President Bill Clinton and other global lead-ers at the Clinton Global Initiative University’s third annual confer-ence this April.

Based on the model of the Clinton Global Initiative, the university, which encompasses representative communities on college campuses across the na-tion, is designed to bring people of diverse backgrounds together to discuss and formulate action plans to solve global challenges, according to the initiative’s Web site.

The university allows for students as well as non-govern-mental organizations and college presidents “to be all at the same table,” said Keisha Senter, the university’s director. “Rarely do you see students and administra-tors together.”

Similar to the global initiative, every student who applies has to propose a commitment to action, Senter said. These commitments are ideas for action plans to solve problems in education, environ-ment and climate change, peace and human rights, poverty allevia-tion and public health.

Consequently, “everyone there is going to be a doer,” and will “come equipped,” Senter said.

Clay Wertheimer ’10, Ryan Chan ’10 and Frieda Kay ’12 ap-plied to the university as a group. Their commitment to action was an institute to study climate and energy, which they created about a year and a half ago “looking to create a very interdisciplinary” group, Chan said.

Many freshmen interested in issues of climate change and en-ergy come in lost because there is “no real, single access point” to study those problems, Chan said. The institute’s goal is to create such an access point into these issues for both students and faculty.

In addition to encouraging collaboration between students, the institute can also encourage more discussion between pro-fessors of different departments and introduce students to faculty members’ research, Kay said.

“Students really can be a bridge between faculty mem-bers” who otherwise might not be talking, Kay said. “Brown is big enough to be a legitimate re-search university,” she added.

The group aims to bring collaboration, “one of things that makes Brown unique and special,” to the institute, Chan said.

Helen Mou ’10 is attending the conference as an individual. In January 2009, Mou co-found-ed the Sustainability Consulting Partnership, a student-run, stu-

dent-volunteer consulting orga-nization that helps for-profit and non-profit business partners with their sustainability goals. She proposed the partnership as her commitment to action, and said she hopes that the university will help her start building a network for the group.

Being a dual concentrator in environmental science and eco-nomics has “really driven the idea for this organization,” Mou said.

Both Chan and Kay also said they were excited to network and meet interesting individuals.

Some of the guests and speak-ers at the university this year include John Podesta, chief ex-ecutive officer for the Center for American Progress, actress Man-dy Moore and former Olympic speedskater Joey Cheek, Senter said.

Brown has had a relationship with the university in the past. President Ruth Simmons has attended past conferences and has also proposed a commitment to Dillard University in New Or-leans, Senter said.

Ted Widmer, director of the John Carter Brown Library, said he has also maintained a long re-lationship with the initiative. He was the former speechwriter for Clinton, and is currently working on a project to digitize Haitian documents as his commitment to the initiative, he added.

“It’s encouraging in every way ... that (students) would want to do this,” Widmer said. It “deepens our already existing relationship with (the initiative).”

Club Plan offers fine dining for seniorsBy leonaRdo MoauRo

Contributing Writer

Brown Dining Services’ new Club Plan meal option, which allows se-niors to enjoy gourmet food at the Faculty Club, kicked off this year and attracted four subscribers.

The plan is offered exclusively to seniors on meal plan and has a mini-mum up-front cost of $249, which provides the subscriber with $200 of credit. The remainder is set aside for social activities that the Faculty Club will plan for its members, said Ann Hoffman, director of admin-istration of Dining Services. The payment method “works similarly to the flex point category, but the credits are kept separate from the regular points,” Hoffman said. The plan has no quotas and no deadline for signing up.

Students can add money to their accounts whenever they like by go-ing to the Dining Services office and can check their account balance on Banner like regular Flex Points, Hoffman said.

Giving this possibility to seniors offers them a chance to meet with University administrators in a nice atmosphere within walking distance, with good food and reasonable pric-es, said Jon Land, president of the Faculty Club. “I just find that we are a very well-kept secret right now, and I hope that this club thing will really get the word out about how good we are at doing what we do,” he added.

The offer is only for seniors to safeguard the exclusivity of the din-ing experience, according to Mary Hogan, general manager of the Fac-ulty Club. The capacity of the dining area is about 200 people, including the outdoor patio.

The Faculty Club and Dining Services decided to set up the plan

last May, thinking it would be nice to provide seniors with a meal option that would give them an enriching experience before leaving the Uni-versity, Hogan said. The plan adds a fine dining component to Dining Ser-vices and often provides educational activities, such as book signings and chef demonstrations, she added.

The goal for the new plan is to introduce seniors to the Faculty Club and get them to join after graduation, Land said. “We want younger alumni to join the Faculty Club, to join as seniors but also to stay involved and continue to use it,” he added.

The club’s potential clientele is extremely large — “we committed to growing the program and making it a viable option for all seniors on meal plan,” Hogan said.

A senior sitting in the Faculty Club for lunch can look forward to the same menu options as those of-fered to regular members — at an average cost of $13.50, Hogan said. In addition to the “a la carte” dining selection, which the directors change three times a year, subscribers can

pay a fee to host events in specific rooms.

Though seniors can enroll in the plan at any time, Viet Le ’10 said she would not consider doing so because she will graduate in two months. But, “if I had heard about it in the fall, I probably would have added it to my meal plan,” she added.

Le said she already is a fan of the Faculty Club. “I only ate there once with my Meiklejohn adviser and I really enjoyed it.”

Many underclassmen attend the Faculty Club already because of the advisee system, Land said. “I think the energy and vitality that under-graduates bring to a room makes it a more pleasant place to be.”

Land said he is entertaining the possibility of expanding the plan to juniors in the future, which might tar-get students more effectively. “Let’s see how it works with the seniors, and then if there is demand, it could be extended,” Land said.

The inclusion of juniors could oc-cur as early as 2011, he added, but “there can be no guarantees.”

Stephanie London / heraldFaculty Club President Jon Land called the club “a very well-kept secret” — for the time being, at least.

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tumblers finish second in Ivy ClassicBy toRy elMoRe

Contributing Writer

Carli Wiesenfeld ’12 didn’t know she had to compete on the beam — in addition to bars, vault and floor — until she was in the locker room pre-meet, donning her leotard.

No matter. She took second in the all-around competition.

And then there was Victoria Zanelli ’11. She sat out four meets with stitches in her foot, the result of accidentally stepping on broken glass.

Not a problem. She won the beam title with a career-high 9.775.

The resilience of the Brown gymnastics team left few fans doubt-ing that the women could win the 33rd annual Ivy Classic last Sunday afternoon.

But an extraordinary perfor-mance by an experienced Cor-

nell squad stole the title from the Bears.

“In the end, the Cornell team was incredible today. They hit when it counted,” said Brown Head Coach Sara Carver-Milne. “We’d been scor-ing similarly the past few weeks, but they came out and earned a season-high by two points. We didn’t expect that.”

“Today,” she added, “they de-served to win.”

That’s not to say that either the coach or team was unhappy with the performance.

“This was the best Ivies in my four years,” said Izzy Kirkham-Lewitt ’10.

Wiesenfeld agreed. “The team really pulled together. For the first time in four years, we only had to count one fall into our team score,” she said.

Standouts of the day included Julia Meyer ’13, second on beam

and bars; Brigitte Kivisto of Yale, the all-around and floor champion; and Cornell’s Emily Santoro, first on vault and second on floor.

“Consistency won the meet for us today,” Santoro said. “That, and we didn’t count a single fall.”

The teams, including Penn, which finished third, and Yale, which finished fourth, will meet again in four weeks at the ECAC championship at Towson Univer-sity. The Bears will look to qualify for nationals, which will take place on April 15. The top eight teams qualify, and with Brown currently sitting in seventh nationally, its prospects are good.

But despite this high national rank and setting team-high scores at every meet this season, the Bears have yet to win a competition.

“We have amazing potential,” Carver-Milne said. “We want to be champions.”

Lucky no. 13: basketball player natalie Bonds ’10By ZacH BaHR

SportS Staff Writer

Women’s basketball forward Nata-lie Bonds ’10 hurt her ankle and had to be helped off the court eight minutes into the second half in Brown’s game against Harvard last Friday. But less than four minutes later, she checked back into the game and had two more steals, two rebounds and two points — giving her a double-double on the night.

She finished with 11 points, 11 rebounds, four steals and one block on the night.

The following night, she was second on the team in scoring with six points, and she added two steals and a block in just 16 minutes.

The Bears lost both games, but for Bonds’s effort, The Herald has named her Athlete of the Week.

Herald: How does the pregame of this interview compare to your pregame ritual in a game? Are you nervous?

Bonds: I’m not nervous before a game. We’re just really hyped and we dance, we Soul Train, before games. It’s just like we really try to have fun, and that’s how we feel we focus in a way. If we are able to joke and talk with each other, then that’s a good start, and it means we’re going to have a good start for the game.Who’s the best dancer?

I would actually have to say myself because I’m the only one who likes to dance.Has Coach (Jean-Marie) Burr joined in?

No, she has not joined in this year. She has stayed and watched, but she has yet to come in.March Madness is coming up. Who’s your team?

Oh, I would have to say either Kentucky or Kansas.What are you studying here at Brown?

Human Bio.How do you like it?

I like it. It’s tough with basket-ball and stuff. Time management is key with sports and school. It’s

good. Tough having tests when you get out of practice late at night and you have to study, do home-work and then get up at eight the next morning. But you have to do it. It’s part of the game.What is your favorite memory from Brown or high school?

It would probably have to be when Barack Obama won the presidency and everyone was on the Main Green, and it was just like a big party.What made that one of your favorite memories?

Probably just the way that ev-erybody just embraced the fact that he won. ... You know that people have their dif ferences, but everybody came together and celebrated. But you know, that’s Brown. Everybody from different backgrounds come together for one cause.Weirdest memory?

The weirdest memory that I have would probably be the naked donut run.Were you a spectator or par-ticipant?

Um, (pause) spectator and not by choice. Not by choice.If you could date any athlete, be it pro or collegiate, who would it be?

Dwayne Wade. My teammates know that I’m obsessed with him. If there’s a Miami Heat game on in the locker room, they know not to change it.The Olympics just wrapped up. What was your favorite part?

Speed skating. Apolo Ohno is a beast. So that was pretty fun to watch because I could never do that. First of all, I don’t know how to ice skate and going that fast in a circle, I couldn’t do it. I give him props.If you could go on vacation any-where with anyone, who and where would it be?

I would probably go to the Ca-ribbean just to get away and have fun. I would most likely take my mother or boyfriend. Yeah, one of those two. Depends on who’s paying.

the deficit.The Crimson outshot the Bears

beyond the arc by connecting on 12 of 19, while Brown only hit six of their 16 treys.

“As a coach, you worry about the kids falling in love with the three and knowing that it’s not going to go in so easily, you need that bal-ance,” Harvard Head Coach Tom-my Amaker told Harvard Sports Information.

Harvard had four players in dou-ble digits, including freshman Bran-dyn Curry, who scored a game-high 21 points. Of Harvard’s 91 points, 73 were scored by underclassmen.

“I thought playing a lot of guys we wore them down,” Amaker told Harvard Sports Information.

Brown’s fall to Harvard allowed the Crimson to tie a program record with 19 season victories.

Brown 76, dartmouth 57Led by Mullery, Brown was

able to bounce back in Saturday’s game against Dartmouth. With the forward’s 20 points, he moved into 17th place on Brown’s career scoring list.

It was Dartmouth’s senior night, but the Bears spoiled it.

“There was more excitement,” said Dartmouth freshman player Matt LaBove. “We wanted to get a win for our senior, Robby Pride.”

Instead, Brown held the Big Green’s lone senior to 11 points and left Hanover with the win.

“I think we were really more focused as a collective unit,” Lef-felman said. “We really prepared for them. Up and down the line, for every single guy, winning was the absolute only thing on our mind.”

Last week’s Ivy League Rookie of the Week, Tucker Halpern ’13, scored 16 points, and Adrian Wil-liams ’11 added 15 points — all from the three-point line. Steve Gruber ’10 passed out a career-high 10 as-

sists to get the offense going.The Big Green did not go down

easily, as the team constantly chipped away to remain in the game. Dartmouth came within three points of the Bears at half-time, 37-34.

After Dartmouth cut the lead to two early in the second half, Brown went on a 16-4 run to retake control. The Bears hit 10 shots from the

arc, and its bench supplied 40 of its 76 points.

“We knew what they were able to do, we just didn’t execute,” Dart-mouth’s LaBove said. “We made some key mistakes. They’re a good team.”

Brown returns to its home court next Friday and Saturday for its final games of the season against Cornell and Columbia.

Jonathan Bateman / heraldThe men’s basketball team scored a win against dartmouth on the Big Green’s senior night.

Bears to finish season this weekendcontinued from page 1

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Jonathan Bateman / heraldForward Natalie Bonds ’10 tallied a double-double against harvard despite injuring her ankle during the second half.

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SPortSweDneSDay “Jackson broke the oldest record in the book.” — Peter Brown, W. swimming head coach

Jackson ’13 breaks record, but team finishes seventhBy saHaR sHaHaMatdaR

Spor tS Staf f Writer

The women’s swimming and div-ing team took seventh place at Ivy Championships, a three-day event held at Harvard over the weekend. Bruno finished the weekend with 601.5 points, 16 points ahead of last-place Dartmouth.

“Our attitude was great, and we fought till the end,” said Head Coach Peter Brown. “We just didn’t have quite the depth we needed to get in the mix with Cornell and Columbia.”

The meet started with prelimi-nary races Thursday afternoon, followed by finals later in the day. Brown kicked off the finals with a fourth-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle relay. Susannah Ford ’10, Bridget Ballard ’10, Candice Sisouvanvieng-Kim ’11 and Kristen Caldarella ’12 shed just under three seconds from their prelim time to touch the wall behind third-place Princeton, at 1:34.32.

Kristin Jackson ’13 helped Brown gain momentum by taking first in the consolation final and ninth overall in the 200-yard indi-vidual medley. Caldarella wrapped up the swimming events of the day, placing seventh in the 50-yard free-style. Brown ended the day in sixth place with 175 points.

Brown’s swimming at the Ivies hit both its high and low points Friday. The finals started shaky for the women’s squad as the team was disqualified from the 200-yard medley relay, according to Brown.

But Jackson put Brown back on track by taking sixth in the 100-yard breaststroke, despite being seeded eighth from the prelims.

Her time of 1:04.40 set a new Brown record in the event — a record that had been standing for over 22 years.

“Jackson broke the oldest re-cord in the book, and she did it as a freshman, which is just amazing,” Brown said.

Despite Jackson’s histor y-shattering performance, Brown dropped to seventh with one day left in the competition. Caldarella led Brown to its highest individual finish of the meet, taking fourth place in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 51.17.

Katie Olko ’10 kept Brown’s momentum going, placing eighth in the one-meter diving event and earning the title of career-high-point diver. The Ivies came to an end after Brown took fifth in the 400-yard freestyle relay.

The Bears maintained their position from Friday to finish the meet in seventh. The Princeton Tigers — who beat Brown 190 to 102 in the regular season — took the championship title for the 17th time with a total of 1,465 points.

The team is optimistic about next year, especially with the ad-dition of the incoming freshman recruits, Brown said.

“We have made a lot of strides that may not show on paper,” he added. “But I have a better feel for the team now, and the girls did a great job this year.”

Brown alum wins gold with canadian hockey team

sports in brief

Women’s hockey alum Becky Kellar ’97 won her third gold medal as part of a dominant Canadian team that blanked Team USA, 2-0, in the finals of the vancouver Olympics on Feb. 25.

Kellar tallied four assists and a plus-14 rating while anchoring a suffocating defense that surrendered only two goals in five games. After winning three preliminary games by a combined 41-2 score, Canada shut out Finland, 5-0, in the semifinals on Feb. 22.

Kellar has played in all four Olympics in which women’s hockey has been a medal sport, winning a silver medal in Nagano in 1998 before taking golds in Salt Lake City and Torino.

Six other current or former ECAC hockey players joined Kellar on Team Canada, while three harvard alums settled for silver on Team USA.

Five-overtime victory advances Rpi women in ecac Hockey playoffs

Rensselaer beat Quinnipiac, 2-1, in the fifth overtime on Sunday to advance to the ECAC women’s semifinals. Laura Gersten’s shot into the upper-right corner of the net at 144:32 into the game gave the Engineers the victory in the second-longest game in NCAA history. The teams combined for 108 shots.

Fifth-seeded RPI advances to face top seed Cornell, while second-seeded Clarkson squares off against third-seeded Princeton, on Friday.

ivy league basketball heads into crunch timeThe Ivy League basketball season comes

down to its final weekend for the men and women, with both races led by dominant squads.

On the men’s side, Cornell clinched a share of the championship with a 68-48 victory over Penn on Saturday, avenging its only conference loss of the season against the Quakers. harvard and Princeton have each suffered two more losses, while no other team is better than two games below .500 in the top-heavy conference.

On the women’s side, 11-0 Princeton appears to be cruising to the title, demolishing Cornell, 96-59, on Friday. Only 9-2, harvard is still in the hunt with three games to play.

puck drops on men’s hockey ecac tourna-ment this weekend

The playoff matchups have been set. yale, Cornell, Union and Colgate received byes. St. Lawrence will host Clarkson, RPI will host Brown, Quinnipiac will host dartmouth and Princeton will host harvard in best-of-three playoff series beginning Friday.

Harvard wins national championship in squash

The No. 1 harvard women’s squash team won the national championship for the 12th time in program history, defeating Penn, 6-3, on Sunday in the title game.

— Andrew Braca

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Forty years ago, in December 1970, the Brown Cor-poration raised University tuition for the fifth year in a row. Students were outraged. A Dec. 14 editorial in the Herald titled “Price of Shit on the Rise” lamented that no students were consulted before the raise was approved and urged the University to replace all top business managers. “The cost of a year at Brown just broke $4,000,” the editors wrote, “where it will remain until next year, when we are sure the Herald will reprint this editorial with a new, higher number.”

They were right about that last part. Tuition has been growing faster than inflation since the 1970s. This past weekend, the Corporation took that trend a step further, raising tuition by 4.5 percent to a whopping $51,360.

For the sake of tradition, we briefly contemplated reprinting the 1970 editorial with the new, higher num-ber. But unlike the editorial page board 40 years ago, we understand the Corporation’s decision. In fact, we think the University took proper actions to balance the budget during a time of financial crisis.

The Corporation met this weekend with the daunt-ing task of plugging a projected $30 million budget gap. Its options were limited — balancing a budget usually comes down to either raising fees or cutting spending, both of which are problematic. But with a $740 million loss in the endowment, something had to be done, and we’re relieved to see that the Corporation took a sensible approach to balancing the books.

The $14 million in cuts recommended by the Organi-zational Review Committee and approved by the Corpora-tion will by and large not harm the student experience. And while $51,360 is a shocking number, the 4.5 percent tuition increase is in line with those of previous years. In 2008-2009, tuition increased 3.9 percent. In the two years before that, student fees increased 5.0 percent

and 4.7 percent, respectively. Last year, at the peak of the crisis, the University held the increase in tuition to an unusually low 2.9 percent.

Rising tuition presents a critical problem for Brown and for academia in general, but we must give the Uni-versity credit for keeping increases to a minimum even in these hard economic times. Moreover, the University has compensated for the raise at least a bit by expanding the undergraduate financial aid budget by 6.5 percent.

We also have to give the Corporation credit for au-thorizing University growth in a number of areas that will help Brown remain competitive. Members approved a salary increase for faculty and staff — a smart move after Brown offered a smaller increase than most peer institutions in 2008 and froze salaries entirely in 2009.

Members also approved construction of the new fit-ness and aquatics center and the renovation of the medi-cal education building in the Jewelry District. This kind of expansion is important if the University wishes to attract the most distinguished faculty and the brightest students. Though some may be wary of new construction projects that come alongside a rise in tuition, administrators have said that much of the funding for these buildings comes from private donors. The University should take extra measures to make clear that these projects — which are good but not absolutely necessary — are not driving tuition increases.

We’re sorry to say that next year The Herald will probably run another editorial lamenting a new, higher number for student tuition. This year, at least, it was a necessary evil.

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An article in Tuesday’s Herald (“Minds meet at Ivy Council Summit,” March 2) gave an incorrect title for Harris Li ’11. In fact, Li is the president of the Ivy Council.

An article in Tuesday’s Herald (“Protesters support same-sex marriage,” March 2) incorrectly identified John Qua ’13 as Jonathan Qua ’12. The Herald regrets the errors.

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Phi Beta Kappa is a prestigious collegiate honor society. In fact, it’s the oldest one in the country. According to its Web site, Phi Beta Kappa “celebrates and advocates ex-cellence in the liberal arts and sciences.” Its chapters invite America’s “most outstanding arts and sciences students.”

Coupled with this search for excellence is the organization’s desire that its induct-ees demonstrate “a broad range of academic interests.” At a college like Brown, with its commitment to academic experimentation, perhaps that last requirement seems all the more fitting.

However, generally subjective concepts like academic and intellectual diversity are exceedingly difficult to quantify. Determin-ing whether a candidate meets these goals should be a holistic endeavor, one that nec-essarily involves deliberative judgment, not automatic calculations that could be done by a computer.

This is why the Brown Phi Beta Kappa chapter’s election procedures are so remark-able. The members who were elected in their junior year then act as electors for members of their class in their senior year, and of the juniors. The electors are given candidates’ transcripts with identifying marks removed. The student electors then have the opportunity to review prospective members’ full transcripts

anonymously and to make the necessary judg-ments.

Compare this to other schools, like Yale and Cornell, which award Phi Beta Kappa to those students with the highest number of A grades, which essentially makes a student’s GPA and Phi Beta Kappa membership (not to mention Latin honors) duplicative.

However, there is one requirement peculiar to Brown’s chapter that stood out to me as being out of place. It reads, “Two-fifths of (a student’s) courses must have been taken in

the arts, humanities, social sciences and/or pure mathematics.”

In other words, two-fifths of a student’s courses must not be in the natural sciences. What this means in practice is that students whose course loads fall below this requirement will not even have their transcripts considered by the election committee.

While I do not it objectionable that a stu-dent should take no more than 60 percent of his or her classes in one general domain to win membership in a society valuing broad academic exposure, I do find it perplexing and arbitrarily unfair that Brown’s requirement imposes this automatic disqualification solely

on the natural sciences.A representative of Brown’s Phi Beta Kappa

has assured me that this has not resulted in diminished representation of natural sciences concentrators in inductees’ ranks. In fact, 25 percent of those who won election to the latest class were natural sciences concentrators.

Regardless, the fact that some natural sci-ences concentrators can get through that re-quirement does not erase the double standard. By the express terms of the rule, a student who has taken every single class in the English,

economics or mathematics departments will be considered by the election committee, while a student who has been similarly single-minded with chemistry or physics will not be.

I was eligible for election, having taken 75 percent of my classes in the social sciences and none in the natural sciences. I know someone who took classes in all three broad categories, but slightly more than 60 percent in the natural sciences, and was therefore not eligible. This is unfair.

The Phi Beta Kappa representative told me that because other honor societies exist for the natural sciences, and because when the society was founded in 1776, it was originally

meant for students who studied language, philosophy, religion, history and mathematics, Brown’s chapter is justified in maintaining this exclusionary requirement.

However, there are honor societies spe-cifically for humanities and social science disciplines as well. Moreover, the national organization clearly has moved beyond these initial subjects, saying that it seeks to “advance these studies — the humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences — in higher education.”

No special place is given to those disciplines that existed at the organization’s founding. Indeed, some humanities and social sciences that obviously did not exist in the 1700s remain privileged by Brown’s chapter — Gender and Sexuality Studies comes to mind.

Brown’s chapter undoubtedly has the authority to set its own procedures and re-quirements for election. As I said above, its peer review based on a holistic review of a candidate’s transcript, and not solely his or her GPA, is laudable and represents the best aspects of Brown’s academic tradition.

This is why the blanket disqualification of certain natural sciences concentrators, but not those in humanities or social sciences, is so jar-ring and disconcerting. It is an unnecessarily one-sided exception carved out of the holistic review that otherwise determines a candidate’s admission. However minute the actual effect upon students, Brown’s Phi Beta Kappa should emphatically not be in the business of privileg-ing certain disciplines over others.

tyler rosenbaum ’11 is glad that Phi Beta Kappa elections are anonymous.

no physicists need apply

Recently, The Herald’s editorials have been — appropriately — frustrated with the Unit-ed States Senate.

In the editorial “Senate slowpokes,” (Feb. 5), the Senate is criticized for failing to act on the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act that the House passed last September. Three days later, another editorial, “Making us sick” (Feb. 8), condemned a feature in the Senate’s health care reform plan that would increase the costs of university-provided health insurance.

SAFRA, currently stalled in the Senate, would have the Department of Education directly conduct all student loans, eliminating the role private banks play as intermediaries. The measure would save $87 billion in ten years, and the savings would go to funding Pell Grants and reducing federal student-lending interest rates. Since tuition costs are rapidly rising across the country, SAFRA seems like a badly needed, common-sense policy.

Another Senate-related grudge involves a part of the health care bill. The offending provision would alter the regulatory defini-tion of student health insurance plans. The change could force universities to sell these plans to people who are not college students, which, as the editorial explains, would make the plans more expensive for students.

The editorial laments how apparently in-sensitive the Senate has been to the financial

pressures on college students, observing that “the Senate seems to be making a habit out of unfriendliness to higher education.”

Both policy problems reveal the Senate’s dysfunction: it takes an arbitrarily large su-permajority of 60 senators to move to vote on a bill, and that procedural quirk has contributed to the delay in passing SAFRA. However, these two issues also highlight a more fundamental flaw: The Senate is not built to represent young people, or even any people at all.

Around the same time these editorials were published, I noticed an opinion piece in the Washington Post that drew my atten-

tion to the problem of representation. The writer, Annie Lowrey, explains that Senators who (seemingly cynically) directed federal funds to their states in exchange for voting for health care reform were merely following their institutional obligation. These Senators were dutifully serving the interests of their states because, well, they were elected by states.

Our senators have gotten pretty good at representing their states. Americans can be assured that two senators and one House member will always represent their local in-terests (unless they happen to live in D.C.).

However, Lowrey notes that voters cannot be assured that their senators will represent any of their identifying characteristics besides geography.

She imagines hypothetical Senates in which different demographic groups, not different state populations, elect members. If senators were elected by specific income brackets, she explains, just five senators would represent Americans earning over $100,000 a year. Thirty-four would be accountable to middle-class voters with between $30,000 and $80,000 in income. The constituents of these 34 Senators would benefit from SAFRA’s new tuition assistance, and they could pressure

their members to pass the bill.If different age groups were represented,

13 senators would be devoted to the needs of 18- to 24-year-olds . Surely, many of those 13 would aggressively support SAFRA and oppose changing the status of student health plans because of how those measures would affect their voters.

Of course, all of these scenarios are wildly implausible and may not be ideal. Particu-lar demographic groups do not have wholly unified interests, and Lowrey did not write the column to demand that the imagined scenarios be enacted. Rather, she wrote to

remind readers that the Senate is not naturally democratic — it is built to represent states and their regional interests, not people and their specific needs.

People should be able to make senators fear for their re-election prospects if they are not responsive to groups’ needs, such as help paying for tuition. Unfortunately, senators can be more interested in sending earmarks to their states than they are focused on securing aid for people in need.

It’s always valuable to try to hold sena-tors accountable by being sure to vote, con-tacting their offices and contributing to the campaigns of senators who appreciate our particular interests.

However, it’s also crucial to understand that the Senate is designed to frustrate popular interests, giving our actions limited potential. Even though its members are now elected directly, the chamber is built to protect states, not enact the will of the people. If it were a democratic body, then each Wyoming resident wouldn’t have 70 times more Senate representation than each California resident.

America’s government, especially its Sen-ate, is built to resist change, even when the change is popular. The Senate can be funda-mentally, naturally frustrating to those who want more policies enacted to help people across the country rather than more earmarks to benefit particular regions.

William tomasko ’13 might just be bitter because he’s from Washington,

d.c., and doesn’t get any senators. He can be reached at william_

tomasko@brown.edu.

not a people’s Senate

These two issues also highlight a more fundamental flaw: the Senate is not built to

represent young people, or even any people at all.

Brown’s Phi Beta Kappa should emphatically not be in the business of privileging certain

disciplines over others.

TyLER ROSENBAUm

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