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New Banner scheduler
apes Mocha features
By Mark Raymond
Staf f Writer
Computing and Information Services
plans to launch a course scheduler
that functions similarly to Mocha on
or around March 15, according to
Michael Pickett, the department’s
vice president, and Senior Associate
Registrar Robert Fitzgerald.
The new program, called the
Brown Course Scheduler, will allow
students to search for courses and
add them to a cart, but also register
for these courses directly through
the scheduler, a feature Mocha does
not offer.
“We know that students need this
functionality,” Pickett said. “It’s es-
sential that Brown has this capabil-
ity, whether it’s Mocha or not.”
A group of Brown students cre-
ated Mocha during their 2005–06
winter break. Many students use it
to find classes and organize course
schedules before officially register-
Committee to review campus pedestrian safety
By Claire Peracchio
Senior Staf f Writer
Cars still zoom through the in-
tersection of Hope and Thayer
streets, where Avi Schaefer ’13
was killed less than two weeks ago
— a reminder of the challenges
that remain in ensuring pedestrian
safety on College Hill.
Two recent incidents have
“raised sensitivity and awareness
Marshall Miller ’96 and Dorian Solot ’95 delved into the mysteries of the
female orgasm before a full Salomon 101.
inside
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ing on Banner.
“We made Mocha because we
thought it was necessary and useful
for students,” said David Leventhal
’07, one of the original creators of
the popular site. “If people switch
over to the Banner feature, then we
may eventually stop maintaining Mo-
cha. But as long as it’s still useful,
we will keep it going.”
Paul Kernfeld ’12, one of the stu-
dents CIS chose to test the new fea-
ture, said he had mixed thoughts af-
ter using it during the test phase.
“The interface isn’t as nice as
Mocha, but it has a lot of potential,”
Kernfeld said. “There are still minor
technical glitches, but it is still in
beta and hopefully these problems
will be resolved.”
Pickett and Fitzgerald said that
the program has gone through rigor-
ous testing and is technically sound
at this point.
continued on page 2
about pedestrian safety on cam-
pus,” said Russell Carey, senior
vice president for Corporation
af fairs and governance, at the
faculty meeting on Tuesday.
The first, a Feb. 12 drunken
driving accident, left Schaefer
dead and Marika Baltschef fsky
’13 injured. A hit-and-run involv-
ing Erinn Phelan ’09 and Alma
Guerrero ’09 MD’13 on Feb. 21
in New York City was the second
Sofia Castello / Herald
Metro, 4
Big Plans for Prov
New commercial building
approved at site of former
downtown nightclub
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
insi d e
The men’s lacrosse team is facing high expectations this season.
See the spring sports preview section, pages 5–8.
accident involving members of
the Brown community.
In light of these events, Carey
announced the creation of a pe-
destrian safety review commit-
tee, to be chaired by Carey and
Vice President for Campus Life
and Student Ser vices Margaret
Klawunn, at Tuesday’s faculty
meeting. The effectiveness of ex-
isting signs and signals at pedes-
trian crossings, ways to improve
Orgasms
come to
Brown
By Alicia Chen
Senior Staff Writer
Despite the chill and snow last night,
Salomon 101 was packed with both
women and men who came to hear
Marshall Miller ’96 and Dorian Solot
’95 discuss the female orgasm. As
“full-time professional sex educators,”
the couple travels around the country
to speak to different groups.
With humor, straightforward lan-
guage and the famous deli orgasm
scene from “When Harry Met Sally,”
the two demystified and celebrated
sexuality and the female orgasm dur-
ing their presentation and in smaller
continued on page 9
Jonathan Bateman / Herald
education and awareness efforts
regarding pedestrian safety and
coordinating enforcement with
Providence Police will be among
the issues under the committee’s
pur view, Carey said.
The committee will build on
recommendations made by a
transportation study conducted
as a part of the 2006 Brown Uni-
continued on page 4
Hundreds crowd State
House for marriage rally
By Rebecca Ballhaus
Contributing Writer
“Hi, my name is Frank Ferri. I’m
the state rep and I’m gay,” said
State Rep. Frank Ferri, D-Dist. 22,
to begin his speech at Marriage
Equality Rhode Island’s rally at the
State House Wednesday afternoon,
before calling up his husband from
the crowd.
Metro
Ferri was surrounded by hun-
dreds of fervent supporters, toting
signs that read anything from “Ho-
mophobia — Now That’s A Choice!”
to “My Church Will Marry Me, Why
Won’t Rhode Island?”
With not a single counter-pro-
tester to be seen, members of the
Sports, 5–8
Spring preview
A glimpse at what’s ahead
for crew, softball, baseball,
golf and more
Frosh will
need to show
writing skills
By Anne Simons
Staf f Writer
Seniors will have to “show evi-
dence of their writing” in order
to graduate, beginning with the
class of 2013, Dean of the College
Katherine Bergeron will announce
Thursday.
“All students are expected
to work on their writing both in
general courses and in their con-
centration,” Bergeron wrote in
an e-mail to be sent to students
Thursday. Sophomores will have
to reflect on their writing in their
concentration forms, according
to the letter.
The changes come out of rec-
ommendations from the Task
Force on Undergraduate Educa-
tion, Bergeron told The Herald.
Based on the findings of an ex-
ternal review and discussions
with faculty and academic com-
mittees, the College Writing Ad-
visor y Board and the College Cur-
riculum Council collaborated on
a new, clearer delineation of the
expectations of writing at Brown,
she said.
Bergeron’s letter ends with a
statement on writing, explaining
why it is an important skill for all
graduates. “Writing is not only a
medium through which we com-
municate and persuade; it is also
a means for expanding our capaci-
ties to think clearly,” she wrote.
continued on page 2
crowd began to search for a method
to vent their pent-up energy as they
waited for the speeches to begin. A
few excited supporters began a slow
clap, which died down fairly quickly;
others began to sing the Beach Boys
song “Chapel of Love,” but this, too,
lasted only momentarily.
The rally was “less a protest than
a gathering of supporters,” said John
Qua ’13. He smiled. “I was hoping
there wouldn’t be yelling,” he said.
When the speeches began, the
crowd exploded in applause each
time a speaker paused. Lt. Gov. Eliza-
beth Roberts ’78, who gave one of
the first speeches, happily noted the
steady increase in elected officials
attending MERI rallies each year.
continued on page 4
Opinions, 11
Bridging the divide
Roberta Goldman ’13
remembers Avi Schaefer
’13 and advocates peace
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C ampus N EWS “I’m pleased with what the original creators of Mocha did
for the students at Brown.” — Michael Pickett, vice president of CIS

Students can register and U. to enforce writing requirement

shop with new scheduler
continued from page 1
“March 15 is a moving target.
We’re in our final testing environ-
ment for it now and it will be ready
for summer 2010 and fall 2010
registration periods,” Fitzgerald
said.
Mocha, which is operated by
a group of Brown graduates, has
been known to go down when
many users are flooding the sys-
tem. CIS is hoping that the new
Banner scheduler won’t face simi-
lar problems.
“We had to make sure it can
handle a large number of users
and that test passed with flying
colors,” said Fitzgerald.
Some of the major features of
the Banner scheduler that aren’t
present in Mocha are direct reg-
istrations through the scheduler
and and smart course searches
which take into account whether
a student has met certain course
requirements.
sudoku
Pickett said that although this
CIS project may seem dismissive
of student efforts such as Mocha,
the staff always welcomes new
and creative ideas from Brown
students.
“I’m pleased with what the orig-
inal creators of Mocha did for the
students at Brown, and I want to
continue encouraging Brown stu-
dents to contribute to the student
experience,” said Pickett.
Students will have the chance
to voice their concerns about the
new feature when it goes live,
Fitzgerald said. “There will be a
suggestions link when we first go
live with the feature, so students
can feel free to provide any feed-
back in terms of functionality and
usability.”
Fitzgerald added that in addi-
tion to a Morning Mail announce-
ment, students and staff can expect
to receive an e-mail in the near
future describing these changes
being made to Banner.
continued from page 1
More resources for students
Starting in the fall, a new des-
ignation will be added to some
Banner course descriptions. The
designation, WRIT, signifies that
the course helps students work on
their writing process. There are
about 200 courses that qualify for
the designation for the fall semes-
ter across most of the disciplines,
Bergeron said. The University
wished to make writing courses
more “visible,” she added.
In the letter, Bergeron asked
members of the class of 2013 to
take advantage of the Advising
SideKick, an advising tool with a
portfolio function, to upload exam-
ples of their best work throughout
their four years at Brown.
This semester, concentration
declaration forms were changed
to include a new question asking
students to talk about the writing
they have done at Brown and how
they intend to continue working
on it in the upcoming semesters,
Bergeron said.
Students can still be flagged for
poor performance. The Universi-
ty is bringing back the “writing
check,” a tool professors used at
the end of the term to signal that a
student needed to work on his writ-
ing. Before the Banner system was
implemented, the check would be
added to paper grade reports, said
Kathleen McSharry, associate dean
of the College for writing. In the
intervening time, professors could
still report students, but that would
have to be done with an e-mail to
a dean, she said. Now, Comput-
ing and Information Ser vices has
worked to implement the check on
Banner, she said.
McSharry said she received be-
tween 30 and 90 checks per year,
though she said she believes that
number decreased during the pe-
riod following the implementation
of Banner.
Incoming problems
First-years can also be flagged
based on the letters they write to
their advisers prior to arriving on
campus, or more rarely, based
on their application materials or
official communications with the
University, McSharr y said.
In the class of 2013, 35 students
were flagged based on their let-
ters to advisers, McSharr y said.
In general, the majority of flagged
students are either speakers of
English as a second language or
to be paired with a Writing Fellow
who will work with them through-
out the year on papers for any of
their classes. Brown, who heads
the Writing Fellows program, said
he thought the ongoing relation-
ship with a graduate student at the
Writing Center would be particu-
larly helpful to struggling writers.
The portfolio of a student’s prog-
ress throughout the year should
be “encouraging” evidence of im-
provement, he added.
Excellence at Brown, a pre-ori-
entation program focusing on writ-
ing skills, is growing in demand,
Brown said. Last year, 150 people
requested places for the program,
which can only hold 50, he said.
He added that he hopes the pro-
gram will be able to increase its
size this year.
These resources are important
in setting up students for success,
Brown said.
The importance of writing
“Good writing is essential to
learning,” according to the state-
ment on writing from the College
Curriculum Council included at the
end of Bergeron’s letter. “Across
the disciplines, scholars, teachers,
and students write to explore ideas,
uncover nuances of thought, and
advance knowledge,” the statement
continues.
Writing is a “means of expand-
ing the capacity to think” that
can “bring great cognitive gains,”
Bergeron said. With the implemen-
tation of the writing requirement,
“good writers are going to become
better, and weak writers are going
to become better,” she added.
“Writing really is important to
liberal learning,” Brown said. If
a student is not writing well, it is
probably an indication that he is
not learning well either, he said.
McSharr y said the University
wants writing to be a “holistic ex-
perience” at Brown, done in a wide
range of undergraduate courses.
Administrators wanted to create
“a campus-wide discourse” and en-
sure that writing is on faculty and
students’ minds, she added. The
new structures will primarily look
at first- and second-year students,
which is necessar y because the
University lacks any general educa-
tion requirements, she said.
Professors outside the dis-
ciplines typically perceived as
writing-intensive agreed about the
importance of writing.
“We want people to be able to
write competently,” said Profes-
sor of Computer Science Andy Van
helps the writer understand one’s
own thoughts, she said.
Students were less enthusias-
tic. Celina Pedrosa ’11 said she
was not clear on exactly what the
writing requirement meant. As an
international relations concentra-
tor, she said she has taken writing-
intensive classes anyway, but was
never pointed in that direction by
a faculty adviser.
James Witkin ’10 said he dif-
ferentiates between the writing
requirement in theor y and in
practice. In practice, it is difficult
to enforce, he said, adding that he
does not believe people who take
no writing courses would ever get
“caught.” Brown students are also
likely to be good writers because
they were accepted to the school,
he said.
A historical requirement
Brown’s writing requirement
dates back to the late 1800s, Mc-
Sharr y said. It was the only distri-
bution requirement to live through
the shift to the New Curriculum
in 1969.
In the past, the requirement
has been enforced only if a student
was flagged for lacking writing
competence either in application
materials or by a professor based
on course performance. Students
were “innocent until proven guilty,”
Bergeron said.
McSharr y said even after the
implementation of the New Curric-
ulum, students who were flagged
were required to take a remedial
writing course.
But that model was not in line
with the spirit of the requirement,
Bergeron said.
The new statement on writing
reflects a shift from a deficit model
to a “plenitude model,” Bergeron
said. The writing requirement
should not be thought of in “po-
licing or punitive terms,” Brown
said. It should be a “value-added
experience,” McSharr y said.
The inherent difficulty in en-
forcing the writing requirement
would, at many colleges, result in
a required course in writing. But
requiring a course would violate
the principles of Brown’s open cur-
riculum, administrators said.
In discussions with faculty
about writing at Brown, “no one
was interested in adding a course
requirement,” McSharr y said. It
would bother her, she added, to
have a requirement on the books
that would “mean nothing” to stu-
dents, who would take the course
simply to get it done. Advising can

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C ampus N EWS “You can all feel at home here.” — David Targan ’78,
associate dean of the College, on the new Science Center

Reception formally launches Science Center

By Ana Alvarez
Senior Staf f Writer

At a grand opening for the Science

Center held Wednesday night, fac-
ulty, students and administration
flocked to the third floor of the Sci-
ences Library to observe the new
space’s available resources. The
center has been open since Feb. 5,
but Wednesday evening marked its
formal introduction to the Brown
community.
The opening included exhibits
by various undergraduate science
departments in the center’s study
rooms. Student groups focused on
science outreach, such as Advanc-
ing Rhode Island Science Education
and Brown Science Prep, also had
displays around the center.
David Targan ’78, associate dean
of the College for science educa-
tion, spoke briefly during the open-
ing. Targan, who was a leader in
the concept’s development, said
he hoped the center would serve
as a meeting point for all of the
University’s science resources.
“We now have an open space
that is located centrally where you
can all feel at home here,” he said
at the event.
“With students’ participation,
this will indeed become a learning
center, and we hope to have more
of the same throughout this build-
ing,” University Librarian Harriette
Hemmasi said to the crowd. “This
building needs to come to life.”
After Hemmasi spoke, Dean of
the College Katherine Bergeron
addressed the crowd.
“This is a wonderful moment for
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald
undergraduate science education David Targan ’78 spoke at the Science Center dedication.
at Brown,” she said.
Bergeron listed the various uses
of the center — a place where, she center’s history and even reading mind,” she said.
said, students, faculty, and mem- e-mails he and Bergeron sent to The event was especially in-
bers of the Providence community each other in 2006 and 2007 about tended to raise awareness among
can have a common ground in sci- the creation of the Undergraduate faculty members, who received per-
ence education. Science Education Committee and sonal invitations to the opening,
“This center speaks to several its recommendation to create the said Jackie Giovanniello ’12, who
important missions of this univer- center. works at the center’s front desk.
sity,” she said. “I am very grateful “This has been the dream of “As soon as it opened, students
and ver y proud that in this time many people and has been in the knew it was a really great place to
of fiscal constraint the University works for many years,” he said. study,” she said.
had the vision to see this project Margaret Lamb, senior instruc- Kai Morrell ’11, an environmen-
through.” tional technologist for Computer tal studies concentrator, first visited
In her speech, Bergeron also and Informational Services, dem- the center during the opening and
mentioned that Hemmasi has men- onstrated the study rooms’ new said she was excited with the po-
tioned plans to possibly expand the Smar tBoards, highlighting dif- tential she saw.
center to the fourth floor, adding ferent ways students could use “All of those different types of
that her office would support this the technology to enhance their sciences that people have at Brown
expansion. studying. don’t interact that much, and hope-
Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 The SmartBoard software is “re- fully this will provide a space for
P’98 spoke next, discussing the ally designed with student use in that,” she said.
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Independent Lincoln Chafee ’75 was one of several gubernatorial candidates who pledged support for gay mar-
riage rights at Wednesday’s rally.
At rally, promises to ratify marriage rights
continued from page 1
“I would especially like to point out
how many candidates for governor are
here today,” she said to the crowd.
As the speeches continued, there
was a distinct atmosphere of hope
at the State House. “It is rare that
we have so much love and affection
here in this building. We have a great
amount of hope. The work that you’re
doing is working,” said State Sen.
Charles Levesque, D-Dist. 11.
The gubernatorial candidates of-
fered statements of their support of a
same-sex marriage bill, their speeches
alternating between touting the cause
and promoting their campaigns.
“In marriage equality, there is no
backseat,” said independent candidate
Todd Giroux.
“I will not hesitate to sign a same-
sex marriage bill,” said Attorney
General Patrick Lynch ’87, one of two
Democratic candidates for governor.
“This is about basic human rights,
Library begins initiative Danger spots identified on streets
to support technology use
By Corina Chase
Contributing Writer
In an effort to support the use of
new technologies in teaching, learn-
ing and research, the University Li-
brary launched the Center for Digital
Scholarship in 2009. The center will
serve as “a focal point … at Brown
for digital humanities and digital
library methods and tools,” accord-
ing to the CDS Web site.
The CDS is the result of a merger
of three existing programs — the
Center for Digital Initiatives, the
Scholarly Technology Group and
the Women Writers Project. The
three programs were already col-
laborating, and “the convergence
(was) natural,” said Massimo Riva, a
professor of Italian studies who has
worked closely with the CDS.
In addition to other activities,
the CDS provides scholarly grants
for faculty members working on a
number of different types of projects.
This includes endeavors involving
digitizing primary source material,
making data easily Web-accessible
basic civil rights. It’s about love and
respect.”
Kathy Kushnir, executive direc-
tor for MERI, received a boisterous
round of applause as she announced
that “now is the time to treat all fami-
lies equally.” She acknowledged the
cause’s many supporters. “We do
not do anything by ourselves,” she
said. “You are all a part of marriage
equality.”
MERI is “very excited” by the turn-
out, said Kim Bright, field director
for the organization. “This is an issue
that people care a lot about in Rhode
Island,” she said.
A major goal of the rally was to
gather the many gubernatorial candi-
dates to voice “out loud” their support
of same-sex marriage, she said.
Brown students had a sizeable
presence at the rally. About 30 mem-
bers of both Queer Alliance and the
Queer Political Action Committee
marched down to the State House
through the chilly temperatures and
or bringing together research in a
digital publication.
CDS grants often serve as a “step-
ping-off point” for further work or
further research, said Elli Mylonas,
the center’s associate director for
projects and research. Faculty given
a scholarly grant from the CDS will
receive consulting time and work
time from the staff and students at
the center. These grants are a way of
“carving out time for collaboration,”
Mylonas said.
They are designed to be year-
long collaborations, beginning in
the summer, said Patrick Yott, the
center’s director. The application
process for this year’s CDS grants
is underway.
In the future, Yott said, the CDS
is excited to set up more formal re-
lationships with other centers on
campus, such as the Cogut Center
for the Humanities. He said he hopes
to be able to set up “a sustainable
architecture at Brown for digital
humanities” so that the Center will
have “a suite of tools” ready to help
faculty with new projects.
“We can just walk down the hill with a few homemade signs and
hopefully make a difference.” — Brendan DeWolf ’13
Rebecca Ballhaus / Herald
snow, according to Gabe Schwartz
’13.
Schwartz, who is the co-director
of the political action committee and
financial director of Queer Alliance,
said that the groups are working hard
to get people involved.
“This is a crucial year because of
the gubernatorial candidates,” he said.
“We want to have a same-sex marriage
law on the desk of the governor the
day he walks in.”
QPAC worked to advertise the
protest through Facebook, class an-
nouncements and notices in the Queer
Alliance newsletter, Schwartz said.
Jessica Mitter ’13, co-director of
QPAC and secretary of Queer Al-
liance, added that the groups have
reached out to the Brown Democrats
to publicize events.
Wednesday’s marriage equality
rally was Brendan DeWolf’s ’13 first.
“We can just walk down the hill with
a few homemade signs and hopefully
make a difference,” he said.
continued from page 1
versity Institutional Master Plan.
The study addressed parking as
well as vehicle, bicycle and pe-
destrian traffic.
A direct result of the study
was the Walk, which connects
Pembroke campus and Lincoln
Field. Additional ef for ts have
been made to synchronize traf-
fic lights on Angell and Waterman
streets along the Walk, Carey
said.
But pedestrian deaths on Col-
lege Hill are extremely rare. A
recent review of traf fic safety
records over the past three
years found that most accidents
repor ted to the Depar tment of
Public Safety were low-speed and
none resulted in serious injuries,
Carey said.
Another component of pedes-
trian safety — drunken driving
— continues to be addressed by
the Providence Police, said Lt.
John Ryan, PPD commander for
Dist. 9. A key part of this effort is
Operation Blue RIPTIDE, a feder-
Thursday, March 4, 2010 | Page 4
Neighborhood clashes
on waterfront property
By Caitlin Trujillo
Senior Staf f Writer
Ever since the former nightclub
closed its doors over 10 years ago,
the future of the Shooters prop-
erty has been subject to conten-
tious debate. But last week — in
what John Rousseau of the Fox
Point Neighborhood Association
described as a “hard-fought vic-
tory” — the City Plan Commis-
sion voted to remove residential
zoning recommendations from
the site, striking down the pos-
sibility of a large-scale residential
development.
The decision nullified an Oc-
tober ruling allowing residential
development on that particular
portion of the waterfront, accord-
ing to a press release issued by
the Fox Point Neighborhood As-
sociation.
The Feb. 23 decision will align
the College Hill, Wayland and Fox
Point Neighborhood Plan with the
Waterfront Neighborhood Plan in
their common restriction of resi-
dential uses like building condo-
miniums and hotels, according to
Rousseau. The association wants
the Shooters site to become a pub-
lic marina in the future.
“It’s a big win for FPNA and
Head of the Bay Gateway, the
advocacy group,” Rousseau said,
referring to the committee that
has allied itself with the Fox Point
Neighborhood Association under
the goal of turning the Shooters
site into an area for public use.
City Solicitor Adrienne South-
gate objected to holding the vote
at the meeting, said Robert Azar,
ally funded initiative that deploys
additional of ficers with special
cer tification to spot dr unken
drivers. Individuals arrested for
drunk driving have been a mix of
students and Providence locals,
Ryan said.
“This is the only fatality I’ve
had in a couple of years,” Ryan
said of Schaefer’s death, adding
that drunken driving is still a seri-
ous problem in Providence.
The General Assembly has
also made strides to address
drunken driving.
“The Assembly’s passed some
important legislation — like man-
dator y license suspensions for
people who refuse breathalyzers,”
Rep. David Segal, D-Dist. 2, wrote
in an e-mail to The Herald.
Segal also mentioned efforts
to mitigate the rush that happens
when bars and clubs close, and
wrote that the Providence City
Council continues to work on
“traffic calming.”
The College Hill Neighbor-
hood Association also “supports
precautions against drunk driv-
director of current planning for the
Department of Planning and Devel-
opment. Southgate was concerned
about the legality of changing the
zoning regulations, according to
the Fox Point Neighborhood As-
sociation’s press release, but the
Commission decided to continue
with the vote.
Last month, the Rhode Island
Coastal Resource Management
Council denied the Providence
Department of Planning and De-
velopment’s request to change the
zoning of the waters in front of the
Shooters site. That change would
have turned the site from a Type 6,
which indicates use for industrial
waterfronts, to a Type 4 that would
allow for multipurpose use.
Because the waters are zoned
as industrial, they cannot legally
be used for a public marina, Azar
said last month. But Rousseau has
pointed to the fact that the site has
been previously used for exactly
that purpose, and that there is a
historic precedent.
The issue might be addressed
further at the next City Plan Com-
mission meeting on March 16,
Azar said. The agenda for that
meeting will be made public next
week.
The City Council needs to
approve the revisions when the
comprehensive plan is finished,
Rousseau said. The plan, which
defines the zoning for neighbor-
hoods for the next 10 years, will
then need state approval.
Mayor David Cicilline ’83 will
attend a Fox Point Neighborhood
Association meeting on Monday,
Rousseau said.
ing,” including caps on liquor
licenses granted to Thayer St.
businesses, said Allison Spooner,
president of the association.
While serious accidents on
College Hill are uncommon, prob-
lem areas like the intersection
of Olney Street and North Main
Street have been cited as dan-
gerous for pedestrians, Spooner
said.
The intersection of Hope and
Thayer streets, where Schaefer
died, is also a problem spot, ac-
cording to former and current
residents.
The intersection, which pro-
vides scant signage and limited
visibility for drivers, is “extraor-
dinarily dif ficult,” said Adjunct
Lecturer in Theatre Arts and Per-
formance Studies Andy Hertz ’04,
whose friends witnessed numer-
ous accidents while living at the
intersection.
“It’s a weird intersection,” said
Otis Warren, who has lived in the
neighborhood for six months.
“For some reason, nobody stops
— it’s just the way it’s set up.”
 Bruno Bonus
baseball
Handful of new players
step into batter’s box
By Jesse Frank
Spor ts Staf f Writer
Brown’s baseball team has aspira-
tions for an Ivy League title going
into the 2010 season. The team, led
by Head Coach Marek Drabinski,
is centered around strong pitching
and defense.
This season, the Bears will re-
turn all nine pitchers from a ver y
strong pitching staff last season.
And with five freshman pitchers,
this year’s team will have greater
depth.
The top of the Brown’s rota-
tion is especially strong. Co-captain
Will Weidig ’10 and Mark Gormley
’11 will anchor the pitching staff.
If these two can stay healthy,
Drabinksi said they will give the
Bears a distinct advantage in most
series.
The pitching staf f will be
backed up by a strong defense.
Third baseman Ryan Zrenda ’11
and shortstop Graham Tyler ’12
bolster the defense on the left
side of the infield and Nick Punal
inside
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’10 brings a reliable glove to the
outfield.
The jur y is still out on Brown’s
of fense. Many untested players
are going to have a lot of respon-
sibility in the lineup this season.
The losses of last year’s graduating
seniors Matt Nuzzo ’09, Steve Dan-
iels ’09 and Robert Papenhause ’09
leaves large cleats to fill for the
Bears offensively.
Co-captain Matt Colantonio
’11, Pete Greskoff ’11 and Mike
DiBiase ’12 are expected to lead
the offense.
“Our offense is largely untested.
However, we have a solid core with
players like Matt Colantonio, and I
think that the others are more than
ready to step in and contribute ev-
er y day,” Drabinski said.
The Bears are coming off of a
season in which they went 24-19-1
overall and 15-5 in the Ivy League
— one game behind Dartmouth,
the Ivy League champions.
Dartmouth is the slight favorite
continued on page 8
Softball, 6
ON Cloud Nine
With nine freshmen, young
squad brings new energy
to team
M. Lacrosse
With national hype, national
championship hopes
By Zack Bahr
Spor ts Staf f Writer
The chatter around the Brown
men’s lacrosse team in anticipa-
tion of this season goes far beyond
College Hill. An ESPN commen-
tator recently said that Brown
is “one of the most overlooked
teams.” Bruno is ranked 15th in
the Nike/Inside Media poll. But
Head Coach Lars Tiffany ’90 isn’t
letting the nationwide hype get
to his team.
“I hate the word ‘expectations.’
We will not be expectant. We will
work for anything we achieve.
Our motto: Expect nothing, earn
ever ything,” Tiffany said.
The man at the helm of the
Bears has coached his alma mater
for four years now. In 2008, Tiffany
led his squad to an Ivy Champion-
ship, and in 2009, Brown made a
run in the NCAA Playoffs.
But the road back to the
NCAAs won’t be smoothly paved
for the Bears. They’ll have to
battle with No. 9 Duke, No. 10
Hofstra and three Ivy foes ranked
in the top 20. The first stop on the
trip back to the playoffs will be
this Saturday at Hofstra.
“We are the last team in Divi-
sion I to play a game so we are
really fired up to travel to Long Is-
land this weekend to play against
a team who has become one of
our rivals,” quad-captain Reade
Seligmann ’10 wrote in an e-mail
to The Herald.
Along the way, the Bears will
have to take on No. 6 Princeton,
No. 8 Cornell and No. 11 Har-
vard. The last stop of the season
before the NCAAs will be the Ivy
League Playoffs — a new post-
season tournament that will pit
four national powerhouses against
each other.
“That gives us a chance to get
some more top-20 games,” said
attacker Rob Schlesinger ’12.
“We’re all real excited to have a
tough schedule this year.”
With the loss of two-time All-
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Look ahead
1-1 team looks to make
a run to the first-ever Ivy
League Playoffs
American and two-time Ivy League
player of the year Jordan Burke
’09, the Bears will turn to a largely
untested goalie, Matt Chriss ’11.
“We couldn’t be more confi-
dent in our goalie,” defenseman
Peter Fallon ’11 wrote in an e-mail
to The Herald. “He has had the
opportunity to learn the system
and gain some confidence for the
past two years, so we are excited
to have him get the chance to
prove himself.”
The Bears are hoping not only
to take the Ivy League Champi-
onship but also to win a national
championship for the first time in
the program’s 84-year history. Be-
hind the strong leadership of cap-
tains Seligmann, Charlie Kenney
’10, Thomas Muldoon ’10 and Jake
Westerman ’10, Brown may make
a deep run into the playoffs.
“I think it’s pretty realistic,”
Schlesinger said about the chance
of a national championship. “You
continued on page 7
W. Golf, 8
Hopes for rebound
All of last year’s team is
back, aiming to improve
on its fall record.
Spring Sports Season Preview
The Brown Daily Herald
softball
Young softball team improves prospects M. crew team looks to build
By Ashley McDonnell
Contributing Writer
With nine freshmen on the roster,
the softball team has a lot of new
faces this season. But the players
and coaches believe that with the
new faces also comes a new attitude,
and with that new attitude come
higher expectations.
“I think the freshmen are defi-
nitely pushing the upperclassmen
and underclassmen alike,” said
second baseman Erika Mueller ’13,
also a Herald sports staff writer. “If
you’re not working hard, there’s
definitely someone behind you that
wants to play.”
Many of the freshmen will get
a chance to play, and a handful of
them will start, said quad-captain
Andrea Browne ’10. The freshman
starters are Stephanie Thompson
’13 at third base, Mueller at second
base, Avery Silverstein ’13 in the
outfield and Liz DiMascio ’13 on
the mound.
But the freshmen aren’t the only
ones raising the standard of play for
this season. The upperclassmen are
stepping up to the plate as well and
are showing “the younger kids how
we play,” said quad-captain Amanda
Asay ’10.
Head Coach DeeDee Enabenter-
Omidiji said this is the first season
in her four years of coaching Brown
softball that the team has had more
than two seniors. “There are three
seniors. I’m banking on them to of-
fer some great leadership.”
On offense, the team is counting
on the hitting power of Kate Strobel
’12, who led every offensive statisti-
cal category last season, according
to Enabenter-Omidiji.
“Emily Chaddock (’11) and
Kristie Chen (’11) are the key role
Members of the softball team, including four freshman starters, compete
to get the plum positions on the field during games.
players in the pitching staff,” Asay
said.
The Bears lost two dominant
defensive players at the end of last
season — Kelsey Wilson ’09 and
Michelle Moses ’09. Wilson was a
utility player who “played at least
four different positions during her
four years,” while Moses contrib-
uted the most to the pitching staff,
Enabenter-Omidiji said.
Asay said losing Moses is “not
as much of a hit as it would seem
because there’s a lot more depth to
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the pitching staff. We’re going to use
more pitchers” who all have differ-
ent pitching styles, she said.
With strong individual players
in every position, Asay added that
“as a whole team, the chemistry is
looking good.”
Enabenter-Omidiji hopes that
this year the Bears can work their
way up the Ivy League standings,
and Mueller said that she “wants
to win the Ivies.”
The softball team’s season be-
gins Saturday at the University of
Maryland at Baltimore County for
the UMBC Retriever Classic.
“We’ve been in the gym for the
past month” due to poor weather
conditions, Browne said. “We’re ex-
cited to play, finally, outdoors.”
thursday, March 4, 2010 | Page 6
m. crew
international reputation
By Sahar Shahamatdar
Sports Staff Writer
The men’s crew had one of its most
impressive seasons last spring,
and with the return of many vet-
eran members, this season may be
destined for greatness.
Brown captured gold in all
events at the Eastern Sprints
Championship last spring and con-
tinued its dominance at the Henley
Royal Regatta in England. Head
Coach Paul Cooke ’89 described
the trip across the pond as one of
the highlights of last season, as
the varsity eight won the Ladies
Plate Challenge Cup and the fresh-
men eight were runners-up in the
Temple Challenge Cup.
“It was an exhilarating way to
w. track
Out of doors, w. track team
dreams of redemption
By Chan hee chu
Contributing Writer
Despite a disappointing finish to
the indoor season, the men’s and
women’s track and field teams are
entering the outdoor season with
enthusiasm and high expectations.
With key members returning from
injury and the return of all three
national and nine regional qualifiers
from last year, it is easy to see cause
for such optimism.
“We are very excited for the
outdoor season, and we are look-
ing forward to training hard for the
next few months,” said Interim Head
Coach Michelle Eisenreich.
“We want to improve and build
on the success of last year,” said
Assistant Coach Jill Miller. “We
definitely want to be top three in
cap off the season and gave us in-
tense racing experience that we
can bring to this upcoming slate
of racing,” said captain Scott Mor-
gan ’10. And despite graduating 10
seniors after last season, Morgan
said that if the team continues its
rigorous training, it has a shot at
winning the National Champion-
ship this spring. But both Morgan
and Cooke noted the presence of
very strong competition.
“We would like to build on the
success from last year, but we
recognize it’s a very competitive
league,” Cooke said. “And any
victories we get, we will feel very
fortunate about.”
The men’s season starts March
27 at the San Diego Crew Clas-
sic.
the Ivies.”
In order for the Bears to reach
their goals, they will be relying heav-
ily on upperclassmen.
The throwers — the unques-
tioned strength of the team — return
three national qualifiers. Of the men,
All-American Craig Kinsley ’11 will
seek to improve on his third-place
finish in last year’s NCAA Nationals
in the javelin, while fellow All-Ameri-
can Bryan Powlen ’10 will also aspire
to return to Nationals, competing in
the shot put and discus.
The women throwers boast an
equally impressive array of athletes,
including national qualifier Brynn
Smith ’11 in the hammer. Coaches
also expect Danielle Grunloh ’10 to
make a run at Nationals this season
in the shot put and discus.
Among the men’s distance run-
ners, captain Duriel Hardy ’10 — the
recent winner of the Men’s Heptago-
nal Championship at 5000 meters
— will seek to lead a talented group
of runners including Christian Es-
careno ’11, an NCAA Cross Country
individual qualifier this fall.
The women distance runners will
be lead by co-captains Michaeline
Nelson ’11 and Ariel Wright ’10. Nel-
son qualified for regionals last year,
and Wright has been a consistent
threat to score in the 3k.
For jumps, the men will be count-
ing heavily on Andrew Chapin ’10
and Reggie Cole ’10 in the triple
jump.
On the women’s side for jumps,
Anja Hergrueter ’10 will be looking
to qualify again for regionals.
In sprints, the men will rely once
again on Mike Mazerik ’10 and Marc
Howland ’11.
The women, on the other hand,
will look to Thelma Breezeatl ’10 in
the shorter sprints. Lucy Higgins ’11
and Jasmine Chukwueke ’11 should
lead the Bears in the 400 meter. Su-
san Scavone ’12 is also expected to
be a factor in hurdles.
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Spring Sports Season Preview

equestrian m. golf

Riders expect to sit Team aims to finish under par

among nation’s elite
By Tony Bakshi
S por ts Staf f Writer
The equestrian team will look to
maintain its position atop the sea-
son standings during the spring
campaign. In November, Brown
finished the fall season with a
20-point advantage over the Uni-
versity of Rhode Island, 177-157.
The Bears opened the second half
of the season with a show at Wes-
leyan on Feb. 13, after a winter of
training and preparation.
“The team par ticipates in a
team trip down to Florida to keep
in shape over winter break,” wrote
Karolina Woroniecka ’13 in an e-
mail to The Herald. “This year, we
w. crew
flew down to West Palm Beach for
about a week and rode ever y day
at a stable and were able to learn
from professional coaches.”
At Wesleyan, the team finished
in second place with 30 points,
falling to its chief rival, URI, which
finished with 38 points. Brown
excelled in open fences, with Ra-
chel Griffith ’10 and Liz Giliberti
’10 taking first in the second and
third classes, respectively.
Woroniecka said Brown’s main
competitors for the title through-
out the spring shows will be the
University of Rhode Island and
the University of Connecticut,
which is currently third in the
standings.
By Erika Mueller
Spor ts Staf f Writer
Relying heavily on a young group
still getting used to the challenges
of college golf, the men’s golf
team is looking to finish in the
top half of the Ivy League this
spring, according to Head Coach
Mike Hughes.
“We finished last last year,”
Hughes said. “I would like to
think we are upper-echelon.
Four th or higher would be a
good, realistic goal.”
Captain John Giannuzzi ’10
said it’s just a matter of playing
well at the right time.
“If we play our best, there’s
no reason we shouldn’t finish to-
ward the top of the Ivy League,”
he added.
Giannuzzi and Michael Amato
’11 are the only two golfers in
Brown’s projected top five who
have competed in an Ivy Cham-
pionship. The team will need con-
sistent performances from three
newcomers in order to challenge
Hughes said. “We are star ting
three freshmen, and they are
playing on bigger courses against
better competition.”
“We had a great group of kids
last year and lost our three se-
niors who were a big part of the
team,” Amato said. “The dynamic
has changed a lot because now
we have three freshmen.”
The fall proved to be an adjust-
ment period for the underclass-
men.
“I think the toughest thing was
going from the talent level where
you are at the top of your level,
then you go to the bottom of your
pool,” Williams said.
“I think it’s having to deal with
other people. Instead of being just
like an individual sport, it’s now
a team one,” Ardell said. “Not
only dealing with this, but you
are learning to play with as much
time as you have.”
“The weather has added some
dimension of difficulty,” Mylott
said. “You are playing in a higher
stage than you have ever been
After a fast-paced four weeks of
play, both the men’s and women’s
teams will travel to Springfield,
N.J., for the Ivy League Cham-
pionship. This year, the tourna-
ment will be held at the world-
renowned Baltusrol Golf Club.
Baltusrol is one of the countr y’s
premiere private golf clubs and
has hosted a record number of
15 USGA Championships.
“It’s probably the largest
course we’ve played on,” Amato
said. “It’s really gonna show.
You’re not gonna be able to win
it unless you’re the best.”
Williams said he has used vid-
eo games to gain an extra edge
on the competition.
“By playing Baltustrol on the
Wii and Tiger Woods PGA Tour
2010, we’re going to be able to
see how our swings and our ball
play before we even go onto the
course,” he said.
With a young team that lacks
much collegiate golf experience,
the Bears will be looking for any
extra advantage they can get.

After winter rest, back to the other Ivies this season.

J. D. Ardell ’13, Jack Mylott
’13 and Chris Williams ’13 are
acclimated to.”
The Bears have been practic-
ing indoors lately and probably
And despite a difficult fall, they
remain optimistic for the spring
season.

the races for rowers each expected to make an imme-

By Sahar Shahamatdar
Spor ts Staf f Writer
diate impact during the shor t,
five-week spring competition.
the fall season. Bruno started its “We are a ver y young team,”
fall schedule at the Head of Charles,
won’t be able to get outside until
spring break — the same week
they open their season at Arizona
State on March 31.
“I think we’re in a great posi-
tion this year,” Amato said. “With
all five of us, we’ll definitely have
a chance.”

M. lacrosse to play at Gillette Stadium

The Bears head into the spring
season determined to continue
their historical dominance — with
six NCAA titles under their belt
— even though several members
noted that the competition is get-
ting tougher.
The women’s crew finished the
previous spring season fifth overall
in the nation after an outstanding
performance at NCAAs. In August,
the team won the ECAC Turfer
award, which is based on overall
performance. And the team proved
its dominance over and over during
taking eighth in a ver y packed
meet. The team went on to finish
with two boats in the top seven at
the Princeton Chase and wrapped
up the fall season by winning the
Foot of Charles, beating Ivy rivals
Har vard and Dartmouth.
With seven returning seniors
and a productive indoor training
session, Bruno rows against its
first competitor, URI, on March
20. The official season starts at
Princeton on March 27, with the
EAWRC Sprints coming up on May
16 and the NCAA Championships
on May 28.
continued from page 5 between fellow Ivy Leaguers Cor- rivals,” Tiffany said in an interview
nell and Dartmouth. with the New England Lacrosse
look at a team like Cornell last “Gillette Stadium provides our Classic directors.
year — who we beat — and they program the opportunity to play But before they take the big
made it to the national champion- in a championship venue, in front stage, Brown plays its home open-
ship, so I definitely think it’s a of the New England lacrosse com- er on Wednesday against Hartford
realistic goal.” munity against one of our biggest at 3 p.m.
The Bears will have a chance to
play in a high-profile game against
Princeton on April 3. Bruno will
play the Tigers at Gillette Stadium
in Foxboro, Mass., for the New
England Lacrosse Classic. The
series will also feature a matchup

w. water polo

Strength in players, not in numbers

By Andrew Braca
A ssistant S por ts E ditor
The women’s water polo team is
aiming high this season, and a
strong star t has given the Bears
cause for optimism. Br uno has
started 8-1 and is now ranked No.
17 in the countr y after avenging its
only loss by beating then-No. 17
Princeton, 10-9, to win the ECAC
Championship in the Tigers’ own
pool on Sunday.
“It is really exciting to see us
come together as a cohesive unit
with our five new freshmen that
we have,” said tri-captain Lauren
Presant ’10.
Yet the Bears are succeeding
with a small team. Tri-captain
Sarah Glick ’10 said the size was a
double-edged sword that required
the players to do “a lot more endur-
ance training” to prepare for the
grind of playing multiple games
in one day but of fered benefits
as well.
“It allows us to be a really tight-
knit team,” she said.
Presant said Br uno benefits
from being a cerebral team.
“For people to be curious and
ask questions and tr y and under-
stand the conceptual nature of the
game, it really gives us a leg up on
the competition, in the sense that
we’re thinking through things and
really adapting,” she said.
The team is led by Presant and
Glick — both First Team All-East
selections last year — on of fense
and 2009 Honorable Mention All-
American goalie Stephanie Laing
’10.
The Bears will have to endure
a tough March. This weekend,
Brown travels to Indiana for the
Elite Eight Championship against
top East Coast schools, facing No.
18 Indiana first.
Over spring break, Brown
will travel to California to play
12 games in nine days, including
showdowns with No. 1 Southern
California and five other teams
ranked or drawing votes in the
national poll.
Presant said the team’s ultimate
goal is to compete in the NCAA
Championship.
“It hasn’t been done for quite
some time,” she said. “The Brown
program really has a lot of hear t,
and ever yone is really determined
to work hard and see what we can
make out of it.”
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Spring Sports Season Preview
w. lacrosse
For w. lax, old grudges over
By Tory Elmore
Spor ts Staf f Writer
Playing sports in high school, most
athletes probably remember hav-
ing an arch-nemesis, that player on
their rival school’s team that they
just couldn’t stand. Maybe they
played nasty on the field. Maybe
they refused to shake hands post-
game. Maybe they were the only
other player on the field that could
keep up.
Lily Ricci ’13 and Nancy Bak-
er ’12 — both state champions in
Ohio and high school All-Amer-
ican women’s lacrosse players
— thought they’d seen the last of
each other when Baker’s team beat
Ricci’s in the 2008 state champion-
ship game. Baker graduated later
that year, thinking she’d had the
last laugh.
But the two would meet again.
This time, as teammates.
Maybe it’s fate. Maybe it’s just a
small world. Either way, the former
rivals have put their differences be-
hind them. They both contributed
to an impressive season-opening
win when Brown hosted Sacred
Heart last Saturday.
The Bears put on an exhibition,
defeating the Pioneers, 14-6.
Their success can no doubt be
attributed to the countless hours
training, lifting and scrimmaging
in the past six months.
“We wanted to make practices
as challenging as possible,” said
Head Coach Keely McDonald
’00.
She’s not kidding. Team prac-
tices have averaged three hours
in length, recently upwards of six
times a week. But the girls are
confident that all their hard work
is about to pay off.
“Every team faces challenges
Practices run nearly 20 hours per week for the women’s lacrosse
team.
… it’s how you overcome them that
makes a great team,” McDonald
said. “They know how to respond
in that they’re always together and
always optimistic.”
Anyone eating in the V-Dub
post-lacrosse practice can see how
close the team has become: Even
Baker and Ricci can be spotted
together, chatting and laughing
like old friends.
They’ll need to present a strong,
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Jonathan Bateman / Herald
united front if they want to finish in
the top four of the Ivy League and
qualify for the first-ever Ivy League
Women’s Lacrosse Tournament.
The outcome of Saturday’s
game suggests that the team has
what it takes.
Paris Waterman ’11 and captain
Bethany Buzzell ’10 proved them-
selves players to watch, scoring
three goals apiece, while newcom-
er Lindsay Minges ’13 also made
a statement on the field, scoring a
goal and assisting another in her
career debut.
Minges and Ricci are two of
eight talented freshmen. The first-
years represent a third of the entire
team.
“This year has a lot of young
kids, so we had to rework how we
were going to work as a team to
get to where we are,” McDonald
said.
For the athletes, “reworking”
meant back to the basics.
“When we started this year, as
coaches we made a dedication to
the fundamentals because we have
such a young team,” McDonald
said. “And it’s worked. Their stick
skills are better than last year.”
Seven of the newcomers saw
field time on Saturday, with Min-
ges, Ricci and Sidney Jacobs ’13
making it into the starting line-
up.
Veterans Kara Kelly ’10 and
Kiki Manners ’10, tri-captains
along with Buzzell, anchored the
defense and can be expected to do
so all season.
The Bears host Quinnipiac
this Sunday and look to improve
their record to 2-1 after a 9-5 loss
at Boston University late Wednes-
day afternoon.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
W. golf
From an erratic fall, w.
golf aims for a rebound
By Erika Mueller maining tournaments.
Spor ts Staf f Writer “Well, we kicked Dartmouth’s
ass in the fall,” Restrepo said. “So
The women’s golf team returns traditionally, they are our biggest
to the course this month after an rivals.”
inconsistent fall, and captain Susan The Bears are aiming for more
Restrepo ’11 said she hopes to lead consistency this spring and are
the team to a top-three finish among remaining positive each day of
the Ivies this year. competition.
“We are a young team, and I “We had an OK fall,” said Heath-
think that we are starting to achieve er Arison ’12. “I definitely think we
goals,” Restrepo said. “As a team, had some good rounds and not-
we really started rebuilding my so-good rounds. We are definitely
freshman year, and we’re finally tr ying to improve on our scores
to the point where we feel good and tournament standings.”
about our ability to come in first “We really focused on the short
at a tournament.” game (in the fall) because in col-
Last year, the Bears earned a lege golf, that is where the tourna-
sixth-place finish at the Ivy League ments are won,” Straty said. “Right
Championship and were the young- now, we are really working on our
est team at the tournament. The mental game. We are doing a lot of
Bears return their entire roster fitness as well. Core and strength
this year and add one more, Claire training will hopefully give us an
Straty ’13. edge.”
“Claire is a great teammate,” Re- “We are definitely better,” said
strepo said. “She’s fun to be around, Carly Arison ’12. “Ever y year is
and she has added energy and opti- different. The competition always
mism to our team dynamic.” gets better.”
“There are different strengths The young team opens the
on the team,” Straty said. “It pro- spring schedule March 14 at the
vides a healthy amount of compe- Texas State Invitational.
tition among us because you can “I think that we have come a
only take five.” long way in two and a half years,”
In the fall, Brown finished in Restrepo said. “I think that it’s
third place at the first tournament exciting. We look for ward to our
of the year, and then placed fifth, first tournament in Texas in two
12th, third and second in their re- weeks.”
LSU to give baseball
early challenge
continued from page 5
to win the Ivy League title again
this year, according to College-
Baseball360.com. But the Bears
are confident that they can de-
throne the champs.
“This year we expect to win
the Ivy League, and anything less
would be a huge disappointment,”
Greskof f said. “We fell one win
short last year and we know what
it feels like to be in position to win
it.”
Last year’s close call ser ves as
motivation for the Bears to improve
this year. “Our team is still bitter
from what happened last year,” Col-
antonio said. “We know that if we
play to our full potential, we have
the pieces to win the league. This
season is in our own hands.”
The Bears’ season gets off to
a tough star t when they go on
the road to play last year’s NCAA
champion Louisiana State and pe-
rennial powerhouses Pepperdine
and South Carolina. But the Bears
are confident going into the chal-
lenging games, Greskoff said.
The Bears don’t have their first
Olivia Means / Herald
home game until April 7, when they The Bears wind up for another
host Siena. The team’s first Ivy season, seeking the title of Ivy
League game is April 3 at Penn. League champions in baseball.
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C ampus N EWS
Expert says orgasms are a ‘renewable resource’
continued from page 1
discussion groups.
“Students are sometimes sur-
prised that we really do cover it all:
the G-spot, multiple orgasms, how
to have your first orgasm, how to
help your girlfriend. And it’s really
funny, too,” Solot wrote in an e-mail
to The Herald.
Both Miller, a former executive
editor of The Herald, and Solot
focused their studies at Brown on
issues about sexuality. Miller con-
centrated in sexuality and society —
now known as gender and sexuality
studies.
Solot first learned about the fe-
male orgasm and masturbation as
a sophomore when she attended a
dean’s annual lecture on the topic,
she said. She purchased a book from
the recommended reading list and
credits her first orgasm later that
semester to its instruction. “That
was the best $5.99 I ever spent,” she
told the audience.
She was also part of a group of
students who brought sex education
to Providence public high schools,
she wrote to The Herald. “I got an
incredibly smart, thorough initial
training as a sex educator through
that project.”
“I spent a trillion hours in the
Rock reading every journal article
I could find about orgasm. I never
imagined that later my career in
female orgasm would pay my mort-
gage,” Solot wrote.
Her knowledge and comfort with
her body also may have saved her
life, she told the audience. She was
able to locate a strange lump in her
breast when she was 26 — not an
age when women typically get mam-
mograms — which turned out to be
cancerous, she said. Through early
detection and successful treatment,
she has now been in remission for
over 10 years.
At the workshop, which was
sponsored by a number of student
and campus life groups, the pair also
spent time clearing up lingering or-
gasm myths.
Miller blamed an incomplete
high school sex education curricu-
lum for the ignorance surrounding
female orgasms. “We learned about
fallopian tubes,” Miller said — while
physically demonstrating what they
looked like — but he noted that “the
clitoris is often left out” of illustra-
tions.
Solot also discussed the negative
messages that women may receive
throughout their lives about sexual-
ity. Women are taught how to say
no so many times that they “forget
about how to say yes,” Solot said.
In response to audience worries
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“Each orgasm is unique, like a snowflake.”
— Dorian Solot ’95, orgasm expert
that orgasms may “run out,” Solot strength of orgasms. fortable talking about it, which I
assured the crowd that orgasms are Lizette Chaparro ’12 credited the guess is the purpose of most sexu-
a “renewable resource.” duo with engaging the audience. “It’s ality-related events here at Brown,”
Unlike what we may be told to really hard to get a group of 500 to said Aida Manduley ’11, another of
believe through television shows and pay attention,” she said. the event’s organizers.
other media, “each orgasm is unique, Safiyah Hosein ’11, one of the Miller and Solot, who both iden-
like a snowflake,” Solot said. primary organizers of this event, tify as bisexual, will be presenting
Solot and Miller also offered prac- hoped that this talk would help au- “Bi Popular Demand,” which will
tical advice about how to achieve or dience members “get to know your focus on the gray area between gay
help a partner achieve a female or- body and the way it works.” and straight, on Thursday at 7 p.m.
gasm. “The males scamper around, “I still talk to people who are like, in List 110. Resource sheets left over
the females are harder to locate,” ‘I’ve never orgasmed,’ and that’s re- from Wednesday’s event will be avail-
Solot said about what one audience ally sad to me,” she said. able at the Sarah Doyle Women’s
member described as the “elusive” “I hope students feel more com- Center.
female orgasm.
During part of the two-hour pre-
sentation, the audience was split
into three self-identifying groups
— females, males and those who
identify as transgender or preferred
not to choose a group — in order
to have more personal, frank con-
versations.
“I was really glad that they were
inclusive with the language that they
used,” said Zoe Stephenson ’12, who
attended the event.
Solot and Miller ended the
presentation on a humorous note,
showing the audience a vibrating
electronic Harr y Potter-inspired
“Nimbus 2000” Mattel toy, which
may have given customers more
pleasure than intended.
They also gave exercise rec-
ommendations for improving the
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R ichard S tein and P aul T ran

e d i to r i a l

Keeping the peace

Rhode Island School of Design wants its public safety frequency. Arrests are almost never the best way to
officers to be able to make arrests, and a bill in the respond to student conduct issues. A change in the
state’s General Assembly would give these officers department’s status should aim to make students
the authorization to do just that. We encourage the safer without increasing the number of students who
General Assembly to pass the bill. find themselves in handcuffs.
Currently, RISD public safety officers can only This bill is especially appropriate in light of recent
make citizen’s arrests, which are permitted if an events. On Oct. 20, RISD public safety officers caught
officer witnesses a felony or is explicitly asked by Luis Mendonca, 20, of Pawtucket, attempting to break
state-sanctioned police to assist in an arrest. The bill into a RISD dorm. The officers called for backup
would designate members of RISD’s department of from Providence Police, but ultimately decided to let
t h e b r o w n d a i ly h e r a l d public safety as peace officers, which would give them the man go. Instead of leaving peacefully, however,
the authority to search, detain and arrest suspects if Mendonca assaulted the RISD officers and fled the
Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Deputy Managing Editors Senior Editors
Ellen Cushing there is probable cause that suspect has committed scene. Eventually, several Providence Police officers
George Miller Chaz Kelsh Sophia Li
Emmy Liss Seth Motel a crime. Campus police at Brown, the University caught up with Mendonca in a parking lot, leading
Joanna Wohlmuth
of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College are all to a violent encounter that briefly left him in a coma.
editorial Business
General Managers Office Manager recognized as peace officers. RISD is not currently The Providence Police officer responsible for Men-
Anne Speyer Arts & Culture Editor
Suzannah Weiss Arts & Culture Editor Claire Kiely Shawn Reilly seeking to arm its officers, which would require ad- donca’s injuries has since been charged with assault,
Brian Mastroianni Features Editor Katie Koh ditional authorization from the state. and Mendonca himself was convicted of assaulting
Hannah Moser Features Editor Directors
Brigitta Greene Metro Editor Kelly Wess Sales RISD has been pushing for the peace officer des- the RISD officers.
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Sydney Ember News Editor Margaret Watson Client Relations
Nicole Friedman News Editor Christiana Stephenson Alumni Relations
to be denied. There are over 2,000 students at RISD nal that the request is not the result of any particular
Dan Alexander Sports Editor and the school is not quite crime-free. According to event. But when we consider the circumstances of the
Andrew Braca Asst. Sports Editor Managers
Tuesday’s Providence Journal, the school reported October incident, we think that the power to arrest
Han Cui Asst. Sports Editor Arjun Vaidya Local Sales
Marco deLeon National Sales five burglaries and two sexual assaults in 2008. Cam- certainly would not have made things worse.
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Alex Yuly Graphics Editor Trenten Nelson-Rivers Recruiter Sales RISD community and deal with manageable incidents that night certainly didn’t cause the lamentable out-
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong Photo Editor Maximillian Barrows Business Operations themselves. come that left Mendonca seriously injured. But had
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Jonathan Bateman Sports Photo Editor Alexander Carrere Special Projects Forcing RISD public safety officers to wait for the RISD officers’ powers been slightly broader, their
Kathy Bui Staff backup from the Providence Police can create confu- initial confrontation with Mendonca perhaps could
Production Opinions sion and allow a situation to deteriorate. Additionally, have gone differently. Nonetheless, even irrespective
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Editorial Page Board with the school that will allow it to better respond to reason to pass the bill as soon as possible.
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Safer sex on a Saturday night
ANDREA
MATTHEWS
Opinions Columnist
A disturbing opinions column ran in the Daily
Princetonian on Feb. 22 (“The real ‘Sex on a
Saturday Night’ ” by Iulia Neagu). The thesis
was that a girl becoming significantly intoxi-
cated is “equivalent to agreeing to anything
that might happen to her while in this state,”
and that a serious injustice is done to men
by women who — Neagu alleges — falsely
cry rape when both parties had sex while
intoxicated.
What is most troubling is the idea that men
or women who choose to drink implicitly ac-
cept whatever may happen to them while they
are under the influence. Does an intoxicated
individual implicitly consent to being robbed?
Punched? Stabbed? Of course not. But there
lurks in Neagu’s opinion a more interesting,
and less clean-cut, question.
But before we get there, let’s just be crystal
clear. Men and women can consume alcohol,
meet each other at parties, engage in sexual
activity that does not include intercourse …
and still not intend to have sex. For that matter,
no series of interaction is capable of obtaining
implicit consent for any “next step” in physical
intimacy. The only way to truly and completely
ascertain consent is verbally, and even then,
only without coercion. There is no such thing
as “asking for it,” without literally and honestly
asking for it.
Brown students for Palestine (and Israel)
ROBERTA GOLDMAN
Guest Columnist
As students, university life bombards us each
day with words. We listen to professors lecture,
talk with our friends and read words of great
scholars. Words represent concepts through
which we understand the world. They are
the content of the way we think, the tenets in
which we believe and the activities in which we
engage. Language is our most powerful tool
of knowledge, and it should not be distorted.
“The cheapening of words is a great moral
danger,” a fellow student told me yesterday.
For this reason, we carry a deep and heavy
burden: The burden of intellectual honesty
and ethical responsibility for the words we
choose.
There is an event happening on campus
now which makes me question whether we
value the urgency of our responsibility to use
language properly. One goal of Israel Apart-
heid Week is clear just from its title: to associ-
ate Israel with a hateful regime of oppression,
segregation and discrimination. The charged
language used by its organizers conveys a
message that we, as human beings committed
to morality, couldn’t possibly disagree with.
Having a huge sign on the Main Green that
asks, “Do You Want Your School Profiting from
Apartheid?” leaves no room for objection. This
presentation makes opinions on the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict mutually exclusive: If you
are pro-Israel, you support apartheid. If you
are pro-Palestine, or perhaps anti-Israel, you
It seems that a good number of the respon-
dents to the column on the Daily Princeto-
nian online and IvyGate have some friend or
friend-of-a-friend who was falsely accused of
rape and narrowly escaped libelous scandal.
But research on campus sexual assault tells
a different story. A Department of Justice
report issued in 2000, titled “The Sexual Vic-
timization of College Women” and available
from the National Institute of Justice at www.
ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/182369.pdf, found that
95.2 percent of women sampled who had been
Is it too hard to ask that both men and women on
this campus simply refrain from having sex with
partners who are significantly intoxicated?
raped in college did not report their assaults.
Of those, 46.9 percent did not report because
they did not want other people to know.
Anecdotes about friends-of-friends false-
ly accused of rape are powerful, and when
blown out of proportion, they can have the
pronounced and detrimental effect of disem-
powering men and women who have been
sexually assaulted, who may fear judgment and
disbelief encouraged by these very stories.
False rape accusations have the power
to ruin the reputations and college careers
of the accused (even more, if prosecution
continues off campus), and cast doubt on the
legitimacy of true accusations. But the seri-
support human rights and equality.
During this week, I anticipate you will hear
no mention of life happening within Israel
that is the opposite of apartheid. There are
places in Israel, like the cities of Lod, Jaffa
and Acre, where Christians, Jews, Muslims,
blacks, whites, Arabs and Asians work to-
gether toward common goals like eradicating
inner-city violence, educating at-risk children
or providing food for the hungry. In this melt-
ing pot, citizens live together and possess
the same rights. Obviously, inequality exists
in Israel as in any nation, including ours, but
Instead of acknowledging both this positive
reality and the unbearable reality experienced
by Palestinians in the territories, this week
compacts the many things that Israel is into the
simple title of apartheid.
within its borders Israel is not racially divided.
Instead of acknowledging both this positive
reality and the unbearable reality experienced
by Palestinians in the territories, this week
compacts the many things that Israel is into
the simple title of apartheid. It substitutes a
bold and ugly concept for the challenge of
understanding an exceptionally nuanced and
politically complex circumstance. Imposing
this historical paradigm rife with associations
will take us nowhere except backward.
I am a Brown student for Palestine in the
most literal sense of the phrase. I don’t sup-
ous consequences of false accusations should
move us toward ensuring that the system for
investigating and prosecuting rape on college
campuses is fair, rather than discrediting all
allegations of sexual assault.
One of the most contentious issues is what
constitutes consent in the first place. If two
(or, I suppose, more) students are both in-
toxicated — significantly intoxicated — can
either of them legitimately consent to having
intercourse? Legally speaking, no.
But is this legal definition workable in an
environment in which alcohol and sexual ac-
tivity often go hand in hand? We cannot walk
around with breathalyzers and monitor the
BACs of all potential sexual partners. Here
are some things that we can do:
1. Be more aware and considerate of the
level of intoxication of our sexual partners. Is
it too hard to ask that both men and women
on this campus simply refrain from having
sex with partners who are significantly in-
toxicated? I cannot make some bright line
distinction as to what state is “too intoxicated”
to have sex. But we should be able to respect
ourselves and each other enough to choose
partners who can lucidly consent — not only
port the goal of the campaign, which is divest-
ment of Brown University funds from Israeli
companies. Nevertheless, I am a practiced
critic of the Israeli government and army. I
am grieved by Palestinian suffering caused by
their decisions. I want to fight for a Palestin-
ian state that has self-governance, equality,
stability and prosperity. I believe in the right
to self-determination for both Israelis and
Palestinians. I dream of the day when the
Palestinian state will be established alongside
the existing Israeli state. I acknowledge this
will require a reduction of Israeli lands and a
relocation of Israeli settlers in the Palestinian
territories of the West Bank. I only wish that
those supporting the creation of the Palestin-
ian state would express with the same fervor
the enduring importance of the existence of
the state of Israel instead of vilifying Israel and
calling for divestment from its economy.
All students are entitled to advocate their
personal beliefs, but not to the extent that
they trample upon fellow students’ beliefs.
I feel trampled by the terminology of this
campaign and think others fighting for peace
may as well. To those voices that support the
Thursday, March 4, 2010 | Page 11
in order to respect their bodily autonomy, but
to respect our own value as sexual partners.
2. Speak with our partners before, during
and after intercourse. Not only should verbal
consent be necessary (but not necessarily
sufficient) before sex, but partners should
communicate their boundaries clearly at all
times during the process.
3. Refrain from consuming significant
amounts of alcohol if we ourselves plan on
being sexually active. Though I earnestly hope
it does not happen often, I must acknowledge
that both men and women on this campus at
times consume alcohol with the intention of
garnering the courage they feel they need to
find a sexual partner. A good rule of thumb:
If you need to be drunk to do it, you shouldn’t
be doing it at all.
The above suggestions are not designed to
be a silver bullet against instances of sexual
assault. They are merely a plea for all parties
involved in sexual intercourse to be more re-
sponsible for themselves and more respectful
of each other.
Too often in considering these situations,
we gravitate toward hypotheticals that lend
themselves to relatively simple ethical judg-
ments. The truth is, sexual assault on college
campuses is not a black-and-white issue. The
more responsibly all of us act, the better we
can protect ourselves from any involvement
in sexual assault.
Andrea Matthews ’11 realizes she is
about to become significantly less
popular at parties.
existence of Israel to my left and my right,
I say, don’t feel delegitimized. Please don’t
let what feels like an omnipresent voice of
condemnation against Israel alienate you or
your views. Contrary to the campaign’s frame,
you can support Palestine AND Israel. Ask
around, and you will soon realize you are far
from alone.
This campaign pains me because it blames
one group and exonerates the other. It crimi-
nalizes one group and victimizes the other. It
offers only a simplified and single-sided view
of a very complex situation. My suspicion is
that most students believe in both states. Don’t
let this week divide the Brown campus. End
the polarization that Israel Apartheid Week
creates. The world, the Middle East and this
campus are divided by enough issues. Let’s
make this an issue about which Brown can
unite. We as the Brown community can sup-
port both the creation of a Palestinian state and
the defense of the existing Israeli country.
I lost a close friend, an Israeli veteran and
the most adamant pursuer of peace and justice
I have ever met, about two weeks ago. If he
were here, I strongly believe he would have
been writing this article instead of me. A few
months ago, Avi Schaefer ’13 wrote, “Only
through recognition of the other side will
there be peace.” Let’s recognize each other
and use our words toward a constructive end.
Brown should move forward together, not
backwards apart.
Roberta Goldman ’13 wrote this column
in memory of Avi Schaefer ’13. She can
be contacted at roberta@brown.edu.
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Inside today’s Post-

Secrets of safewalk, boozing it up
in brew-nonia, Lorrie Moore and the
post-9/11 novel, the philosophy of
Ratty Gourmet, spring film preview,
and celebrating Presidents’ Day the
Irish Way
Plus!: a new satire column, Brown

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c a l e n da r comics
Today, March 4 tomorrow, March 5 Cabernet Voltaire | Abe Pressman

6 p.M. — “The Palestinian Refugee 12 P.M. — Peace Corps Info Session,

Issue in Israel-American Relations Career Development Center
since 1967,” Joukowsky Forum

8 P.M. — Lulu, Stuart Theatre all day — 2010 French Film Festival,
Cable Car Cinema

menu
Sharpe Refectory Verney-Woolley Dining Hall
Dot Comic | Eshan Mitra and Brendan Hainline
Lunch — Vegan Nuggets, Zucchini Lunch — Honey Mustard Chicken
Yianchi, Canadian Bacon, Cheddar Sandwich, Vegetarian Pot Pie,
Mashed Potatoes Chocolate Flake Cookies

Dinner — Vegetarian Tamale Pie, Dinner — Vegan Paella, Pork

Creole Eggplant, Salt and Pepper Jerk Medallions in Portobello Sauce,
Chicken, Sugar Snap Peas Rainbow Sprinkle Cake

crossword
Fruitopia | Andy Kim

Hippomaniac | Mat Becker

Island Republic | Kevin Grubb