vol. cxliv, no. 54 | Monday, April 20, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891
Student
assaulted in
shower
By Brian Mastroianni
Senior Staff Writer
Weekend delights
of police and director of public safety.
The Providence Police Department
and the Department of Public Safety
searched the scene but were unable to
By Sydney Ember identify the woman’s assailant, according
Senior Staf f Writer Spring Weekend in Color to the e-mail.
See photos, pages 6-7 The incident comes a little more than
By the time Of Montreal’s dizzy- a month after a female student was pho-
ingly psychedelic per formance Ain ’09. Both shows sold to 90 per- tographed by a stranger while she was
closed with an explosion of feath- cent capacity, he said — almost showering in the first-floor bathroom of
ers Saturday Evening, Mother 4,500 people per show. Diman House, where the sorority Kappa
Nature had given little cause for The total count of eight trans- Alpha Theta is located. That incident is
complaint about this year’s Spring por ts by Emergency Medical still under investigation.
Weekend. Ser vices was slightly less than Sears House is home to Brown’s other
Both concerts were held on the last year’s. Two transports were sorority, Alpha Chi Omega.
Main Green for the first time since reported for Friday night and six The e-mail to students described the
2006, anchoring a weekend marked for Saturday night, said Vice Presi- suspect as “a male with a light complexion;
by warm weather, vibrant perfor- dent of Campus Life and Student possibly white or Hispanic approximately
mances and an annual sing-along Ser vices Margaret Klawunn. five feet six inches tall, lean build, dark
with acoustic guitarist Dave Binder She said there were also a num- hair, cut short, with a week’s worth of
on Wriston Quadrangle. ber of students who were evaluated facial hair growth.”
“Ever ything went immaculate- by EMS but did not require further The suspect was seen “wearing a long-
ly,” said Stephen Hazeltine ’09, the aid. There were 10 EMS transports hemmed athletic jacket made of swooshy
Brown Concert Agency’s admin- in 2008 and four in 2007, The Her- material that was dark in color, light-col-
istrative chair. Almost all of the ald reported last year. ored blue jeans ... slightly too short so they
additional tickets made available “As far as I know, this year went did not cover his white sneakers properly,”
after BCA announced the concerts pretty well,” Klawunn said. “The according to the e-mail.
would be held outdoors were sold, — With additional reporting by
said BCA’s booking chair Daniel continued on page 2 Ellen Cushing
Lester ’11, Wertheimer ’10 Your Brown transcript, off College Hill
finalists for top UCS post By Nicole Friedman
Senior Staff Writer
since 1972.
Forty years after its implementa-
tion, the New Curriculum is no lon-
The New Curriculum at Forty:
Part three of four in a series
By Ben Schreckinger for the top UCS and UFB positions. At the end of four years, students ger a trial run. Elements that were
Senior Staff Writer Voter participation also increased have surprisingly little physical once shocking — like the option to Group Independent Study Project
dramatically, with 2,279 ballots cast, evidence to show for their time at take any course on a Satisfactory/ that proposed overhauling the
Ryan Lester ’11 and Clay Wertheimer up from 1,364 last year, accord- Brown. Graduating seniors leave No Credit basis and the elimina- Brown education.
’10 will face each other in a run-off ing to Elections Board Chair Lily with only a transcript, a diploma tion of distribution requirements — The school attracted “brighter
election for president of the Under- Tran ’10. and lingering questions about how are now inseparable from Brown’s people” in the decades after the
graduate Council of Students after The vice presidential race for their education will be received by identity. Yet current Brunonians New Curriculum’s implementa-
receiving the most votes for the po- UCS will also go to a run-off, be- the world beyond College Hill. find it hard to gauge just how well tion, Josephson said, adding that
sition last week. Neither received tween Harris Li ’11 and Diane Though high school seniors graduate schools and employers it was “vital in putting Brown on
the 50 percent of the vote needed Mokoro ’11. clamor to study under the New understand the curriculum. the map.”
to win outright. Voting in the run-off elections Curriculum, its impact on students’ The New Curriculum is now an
Jose Vasconez ’10 defeated will begin Monday at 12 p.m. and lives after Brown is less clear. ‘Forty years of experience’ essential component of Brown’s
Salsabil Ahmed ’11 to become will close at 6 p.m. Wednesday. As “There’s no way to know what Before the implementation of image. When the Admission Of-
chair of the Undergraduate Finance in the regular election, ballots will a Brown education does or doesn’t the New Curriculum, Brown did fice asks matriculating students
Board. be cast online through MyCourses. do for someone,” said Associate not have a nationally recognized their top three reasons for choos-
This year’s elections saw an in- Professor of Music David Joseph- identity, said Ira Magaziner ’69
crease from last year in competition continued on page 3 son P’00, who has taught at Brown P’06 P’07 P’10, who led the original continued on page 4
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News.....1-4
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Arts, 5 Sports, 9 Opinions, 11
Spor ts...9 A Taste of Verde Making Waves Do your part
Editorial..10 Students in AmCiv create M e n ’s c r e w s w e p t Anthony Staehelin ’10 says
Opinion...11 an exhibit about Cape Nor theastern on the the success of ADOCH
Today........12 Verdean immigrants Seekonk this weekend depends on all students
C ampus N EWS “Emotional balance is for the mediocre and the lazy.”
— Sculptor Dave Cole ’00, speaking at a Brown Degree Days event
Daily Herald
stage for Toubab Krewe’s world- On Friday, with the sun blazing was preparing to have their sound
the Brown
fusion funk. and the temperature approaching check, according to Hazeltine. But
The audience packed the center a much-appreciated 70 degrees, he said ever yone — the BCA, Of
Editorial Phone: 401.351.3372 | Business Phone: 401.351.3260 of the Green to see the bombastic Aruchuleta participated in an im- Montreal and the wedding partici-
Stephen DeLucia, President Jonathan Spector, Treasurer and authoritative rhymester Santi- promptu race on Wriston, he said. pants — worked together to coordi-
Michael Bechek, Vice President Alexander Hughes, Secretary gold, who overwhelmed the crowd “We put ourselves into the large nate the timing of the sound check
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By the time Of Montreal took “It was super-duper,” Cameron especially popular headliner.
Copyright 2009 by The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. All rights reserved. the stage wearing garish makeup Meyers ’12 said of the concerts. “It “Our hope is to put on some-
and brightly-colored costumes, was just a lot of fun. I liked seeing thing pretty big,” he said.
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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. But everyone with half a brain expected Of Montreal to deliver a
Boschian fever dream of a performance that would at once perplex, freak out and exhilarate its audience.
Hypersexualized and so completely post-gender binary, they’ve always been one of the Brown-iest of bands
around — who else would sing about falling in love with a girl because she could “appreciate Georges Ba-
taille?” And, oh, Benefit Street homeowners? That caterwauling you heard on Saturday — that was hundreds
of college students vainly attempting to produce the magnificent, cathedral-worthy chords in “Gronlandic
Edit.” Sorry. We’ll send you a fruit basket. — Ben Hyman
A rts & C ulture “I feel really happy and really lucky to have found such an
awesome collaborative relationship.” — Lacy Roberts ’09
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