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Coffee and couches: new
campus center debuts
Blue Room returns
after $20 million
Faunce renovations
By Alicia Chen
Senior Staff Writer
It is a truth universally acknowledged
that any campus space with comfy
couches and food must be in want
of students. The Brown community’s
enthusiastic adoption of the new Ste-
phen Robert ’62 Campus Center —
completed after a year of extensive
renovations to Faunce House — is
no exception to the rule. Since its
opening Aug. 16, a steady stream
of community members have taken
advantage of the Campus Center’s
roomy interior spaces like the new
Blue Room and the Leung Gallery
New donations to U. fell by a quarter last year
Campaign exceeds
expectations four
months before end
By Sydney Ember
News Editor
Financial gifts and pledges to the
University fell nearly 25 percent
last year, even as the University’s
ambitious fundraising campaign
continues to outperform expecta-
tions.
New gifts and pledges fell from
“Untitled,” by Arthur Carter ’53, moved onto the Quiet Green last month with the class of 2014 — but the
sculpture, scheduled to be uninstalled in three years, will graduate a year ahead of time. See page 3.
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to relax, meet with friends and eat.
The main level features an open
floor plan, a quiet reading area and
an airy new Blue Room with more
seating and food options. The up-
per floors of the Campus Center
also bring together different admin-
istrative offices — like the Student
Activities Office and the Curricular
Resource Center — and student
group offices — like Brown Student
Agencies and Brown Student Radio
— which had previously been scat-
tered all around campus.
In the time before the start of
classes, students have already be-
gun using the center. “It looks very
nice, but it’ll be interesting to see
how it functions as a space,” Chase
Huneke ’11 said.
The overarching goal of the new
continued on page 4
$180 million to $135.3 million in
the last fiscal year. Total cash gifts
fell 14 percent, from $193.4 mil-
lion to $167 million.
But despite the continued slide
in fundraising figures, optimistic
administrators have increased the
total goal for the Campaign for
Academic Enrichment — Presi-
dent Ruth Simmons’ $1.4 billion
fundraising effort that launched
in 2002 — to $1.6 billion, four
months before it is slated to end
Dec. 31. The campaign’s total cur-
rently stands at $1.54 billion.
The fundraising drop-off has
mo v in g in
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giving back
Student-run non-profit
helps direct funds toward
college scholarships
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
The design of the new Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center responds to
requests for more informal gathering spaces.
hindered the campaign, which
was on pace 18 months ago to
top off at $1.7 billion, said Ron-
ald Vanden Dorpel MA’71, who
was senior vice president for Uni-
versity advancement before he
retired on June 30.
“Our pledges were substantial-
ly down because of the economy,”
he said. “People weren’t willing to
commit large amounts.”
The downward trend in fund-
raising began in fiscal year 2009,
when new gifts and pledges fell
nearly 22 percent, from $230
million to $180 million, Vanden
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Dorpel said.
Though administrators at the
time called the total for 2009 a
success, the figure was some-
what buoyed because the Univer-
sity expedited some outstanding
pledges from high-profile donors,
Vanden Dorpel said. By calling in
outstanding pledges — arranged
contribution commitments that
can cover several years — the
University reduced the number
of pledges in the pipeline for this
year, Vanden Dorpel told The Her-
continued on page 4
Filling our shopping carts
with classes: the Mocha story
By Alex Bell
Senior Staff Writer
Mocha can do just about anything
except register for classes. Banner’s
new course scheduler can do that,
though it lacks some of Mocha’s
user-friendly features.
But a union between these two
FEATURE
systems is unlikely to occur.
Brown’s new brew
Anyone who has felt apprecia-
tive enough of Mocha to look at its
“About” page is familiar with its story.
Four computer science concentra-
tors created the software over the
2005-06 winter break as an alterna-
Sports, 7
Big Kicks
Men’s soccer prepares
for its fall season with a
renewed competetive edge
Big Boi to
headline
BCA fall
concert
By Suzannah Weiss
Arts & Culture Editor
OutKast rapper Big Boi will head-
line Brown’s fall concert, scheduled
for Saturday, Sept. 18, on Lincoln
Field, according to a Brown Concert
Agency press release. The concert
will also feature Stegosaurus — the
stage identity of DJ James Hinton ’10,
a former BCA booking chair.
The agency “really wanted to ex-
pand the fall show this year,” said
Booking Chair Abigail Schreiber
’11. She predicted that Big Boi, also
known as Antwan Andre Patton, will
“appeal to a wide variety of Brown
students” and make the concert
“more inclusive.”
With his first solo album, “Sir Lu-
cious Left Foot: The Son of Chico
Dusty,” named Billboard’s release of
the week in July, Big Boi has been far
from an OutKast. The hip-hop artist,
songwriter, producer and actor is
“on most people’s radars,” Schreiber
said, adding that several popular
magazines praised the album. “Since
when does the New Yorker write
about hip hop?” she asked.
Stegosaurus composes “a lot of
creative mixes and mash-ups that we
thought would really enhance the
Big Boi show,” Schreiber said. Hin-
ton, who has released two albums,
performed as a DJ in Providence
continued on page 2
tive to the Brown Online Course An-
nouncement system, or BOCA. Writ-
ten in the programming language
Java, their brainchild came to be
known as Mocha. Since its launch
in 2006, Mocha has been immensely
popular among the student body.
Despite its popularity, Mocha
has not officially been supported
by Brown. Since the Office of the
Registrar does not send course in-
formation to Mocha’s developers,
Mocha’s course listings and course
information may be out of date at
any time. When the site’s develop-
ers realize the Registrar has updat-
ed Brown’s class listings after the
initial course announcement, they
repeat the process of downloading
continued on page 3
Editorial, 10
margaritaville
Applauding Brown’s
decision to compromise
on Thayer St. Chipotle
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— BCA Booking Chair Abigail Schreiber ’11

Big Boi on campus; alum to perform as well

continued from page 1
and various cities while he was at
Brown studying music and physics,
according to Administrative Chair
Serin Seckin ’11.
When scouting out options for
the fall lineup, “we considered Beach
House, which ultimately fell through
because they had a family commit-
ment,” Seckin said. “But hopefully
this will be great too.”
With Big Boi’s performance “a
lot cheaper than we had expected”
and an alum as the supporting act,
BCA has saved money on the con-
cert, Seckin said. The agency plans
to use the surplus to hold more small
concerts throughout the year.
The 2010 concert takes place ear-
lier than most fall concerts in hopes
of warm weather and catching stu-
dents before the pace of the semester
picks up, Schreiber said. The outdoor
location is a break from recent years,
when Alumnae Hall, this year’s rain
location, housed the fall concert.
“We’re really excited to have fall
concert outside,” Seckin said.
Concert agency members spent
time “reevaluating our shows over
the past few years and realizing how
much students enjoy Spring Week-
end,” Schreiber said. Perceiving
that outdoor concerts were part of
its appeal, they chose to replicate
that ambiance this September, she
explained. “It will be a mini-Spring
Weekend.”
The day of the concert, doors
will open at 6:15 p.m., and the main
act will appear after sundown to ac-
commodate students observing Yom
Kippur.
“We are aware that it’s Yom Kip-
pur and we have made sure that the
headliner goes on after sunset,” Sch-
reiber said.
BCA is still “figuring out the spe-
cifics” of the ticket sales process, she
said, adding that more information
will become available on the group’s
Courtesy of Brown Concert Agency
website, www.brownconcertagency.
Big Boi will perform — weather permitting — on Lincoln Field, a change
org. of venue for the fall concert.

Alum’s loopy steel sculpture ‘Untitled’ brings chatter to Quiet Green

By Anita Badejo
Staff Writer
Those strolling across the Quiet
Green may notice an addition to
campus scener y. “Untitled,” cre-
ated in 2003 by Arthur Carter ’53
and displayed on the north end
of the Green, will be a fixture on
University grounds for the next
three years.
According to a University press
release, Carter enjoyed success-
ful careers in investment banking,
business and newspaper and maga-
zine publishing before beginning
to create art.
Carter and President Ruth Sim-
mons decided to feature “Untitled”
on campus, said Jo-Ann Conklin,
director of the David Winton Bell
Gallery.
Simmons asked the University
Public Arts Committee to organize
the arrival of Carter’s work. It was
installed Aug. 20 and is on loan
from the Utilities and Industries
Management Corporation in New
York City.
An abstract sculpture of stain-
less steel bent into loops and rings,
the piece is characteristic of Carter,
whose work almost always involves
metals fashioned into elliptical
shapes. According to Conklin,
Carter uses elliptical designs to
highlight his works’ “movement
through space.”
Conklin added that Carter gains
inspiration from modernist artists,
such as Andrew Calder, David
Smith and Piet Mondrian.
Still, she said, onlookers should
not get caught up in overanalyzing
the artwork. Carter’s art is “ab-
stract, about making things, about
the materials and kinds of feeling
you get from the materials.”
“Untitled” fits its new home, re-
flecting light in a dark portion of
the Green near Manning Chapel,
said Conklin. “It’s a good piece for
that place. It sort of brightens it
up,” she said.
The Quiet Green isn’t the only
place Brown community members
and visitors will enjoy new artwork
this year. Since the Public Arts
Committee receives 1 percent of
funds devoted to any major Uni-
versity construction or renovation,
there are numerous other projects
in the works.
For example, the committee has
also arranged for a new sound art
installation to be featured starting
next week in the newly opened Ste-
phen Robert ’62 Campus Center,
Conklin said.
“Advice from a Former Student”
by American artist Nina Katchadou-
rian ’89 — an edited compilation
of pieces of advice from various
Brown alums, ranging from recent
graduates to a 95-year-old man —
will be in the new Information Cen-
ter, where visitors will begin their
campus tours.
When taking note of new cam-
pus art features, it may be best to
leave analysis behind and “just
enjoy the way it makes you feel,”
Conklin said.

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CIS head provided support
to Mocha founders
continued from page 1
the course descriptions to refresh
Mocha. But they have no warning of
when these updates come after each
semester’s course announcement.
Co-founder Dan Leventhal ’07
explained that Mocha’s developers
never made a strong push for access
to Brown’s raw course data.
“Nobody really felt like it was that
urgent,” Leventhal said. “We already
had something that worked.”
Leventhal also said the develop-
ers figured the University’s Comput-
ing and Information Services and
the registrar’s office had more than
enough on their plate dealing with
financial and scheduling setbacks
in launching Banner, which finally
became active in April 2007.
“At no time were we feeling like
we were being blown off,” he said. If
the students had gone to Brown ad-
ministrators and said Mocha would
no longer be able to run without
access to the course data, he said,
he suspects an agreement would
have been reached to keep Mocha
operational.
In good company
Michael Pickett left a post at
Duke University to become Brown’s
vice president for computing and
information services in 2007. Leven-
thal, then a senior, was a member of
the search committee that selected
Pickett after Banner was launched.
“He has a big job in front of him,
which would be true for anyone
coming here,” Leventhal told The
Herald in an April 4, 2007, article.
“At the same time, I think that bring-
ing in someone new who doesn’t
have experience with how things
are done at Brown could be great
for the University. He brings a whole
new perspective and approach to the
position.”
In the same article, Pickett told
The Herald, “Brown is different from
a lot of other universities. There is
a spark of creativity and innovation
here among students, faculty and
administrators that I’m excited to be
a part of.” And Pickett still stands by
those words.
In an interview with The Herald
earlier this week, Pickett said he has
always considered helping Brown
entrepreneurs succeed an important
part of his job.
As the son of an inventor, Pickett
easily assumed an advisory role to
the young Brown innovators.
Going so far as to take the stu-
dents out to dinner a few times, he
talked with them about business
models and what they wanted to see
happen with their creation. Preserv-
ing the functionality of Mocha for
Brown students was a priority for all
parties from day one, Pickett said.
In 2008, Mocha’s crew incorpo-
rated the site into a limited liability
corporation called Siliconfections.
They moved it off of the Brown com-
puter science department’s servers,
and paid for web hosting with the
commissions they made when us-
ers clicked on links from their site
to Amazon.com.
Pickett also set up talks with
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the Brown Bookstore, leading to
Mocha’s inclusion of links to buy
textbooks from the store’s site.
“We wanted to make sure they
didn’t step on any toes in a way that
could be avoided,” Pickett said. “And
I think ever yone got what they
wanted.”
A protege comes along
In 2007, Leventhal said Mocha’s
developers had two or three rounds
of meetings with CIS in which the Courtesy of Graciela Kincaid
idea that the University might buy Cody Simmons ’10 (third from right) founded CO-Fund, a non-profit that facilitates scholarship donations.
or otherwise acquire Mocha was
discussed.
“They didn’t really want to pay us
the kind of money that we thought
New group funds scholarships
it was worth,” Leventhal said. “We’d By Thomas Jarus tions from family, friends, church help “your mom’s friend’s son.”
rather keep running it and learning Staff Writer organizations, sports teams and During organizational stages,
from it than get a hundred dollars other contributors, with the goal CO-Fund worked closely with the
for it.” When people see friends strug- of collecting $2,500 of scholarship Social Innovation Initiative, a pro-
“Plus, taking on a new piece gling to pay for college, they might money for each selected fellow. gram run by the Swearer Center
of code is not necessarily cheap if ask themselves how they could The group’s “CO” stands for “col- for Public Service as a part of its
you’re not familiar with it,” Leven- make a small but meaningful con- lege opportunity.” Social Entrepreneurship Program.
thal said, adding that the developers tribution to their education. With Graciela Kincaid ’12, head of Alan Harlam, director of social
would not be interested in maintain- his new nonprofit organization, student relations, said CO-Fund’s entrepreneurship at the Swearer
ing a program for the University that CO-Fund, Cody Simmons ’10 wants work could make a big difference. Center, said his field “involves
they did not control. to make it easy for people to donate “I think that not being able to pay people who start businesses that
He also had concerns that if the to a range of deserving high school for college is a surprisingly com- are literally purposed around solv-
developers did sell the company students in need of scholarships. mon experience and I don’t think ing a social mission.”
and Mocha declined in quality, they Through its website for online it gets talked about that much,” For CO-Fund, the Social Inno-
would be disappointed. Besides, person-to-person donations — she said. vation Initiative bridged the gap
making money was never the de- co‑fund.org — the group allowed Simmons said the organization between the Brown community
velopers’ goal since they founded its selected students last semester, is based on the idea of helping oth-
Mocha, he said. known as fellows, to pool dona- ers the same way that one would continued on page 5
After most of the developers
graduated and spread out across
the country, Leventhal said, talks
became more difficult to arrange.
“I may not have put the right
deal on the table at the right time,”
Pickett said. “But I think they just
wanted to run it for themselves.”
The year that most of Mocha’s
developers graduated, the Univer-
sity began developing what Pickett
called a “rough prototype” of the
course scheduler application that
was released on March 15.
“It’s not intended to knock Mo-
cha out of the water,” Pickett said.
“And we’re not going to get into the
business of linking to Amazon or
anything like that.”
More than 5,000 students have
used Brown’s course scheduling
application this semester, Pickett
wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.
The average cart size is about six
courses.
Leventhal was a bit surprised
when he found out the University
was making its own system. But
he said Mocha’s founders — all of
whom now have full-time jobs — will
continue to run the site as long as
it is used.
“One of the things we always
liked about Brown is that it’s easy
to shop courses,” Leventhal said.
“But if you don’t have the right tools,
there are going to be courses you
don’t see.”
Pickett said he hopes to see more
innovation on the part of students
stemming from the flow of public
information out of the University
as Mocha did.
“As an entrepreneur, you try dif-
ferent things and sometimes it will
work out and sometimes it won’t,”
Pickett said. “But either way, you
learn from it.”
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Fundraisers to focus on construction, scholarships
continued from page 1
ald last October.
Before the recent financial cri-
sis, which caused the University’s
endowment to lose $740 million
and stymied fundraising ef forts
at universities across the countr y,
Brown averaged an annual draw of
$235 million during the campaign.
Though the endowment re-
ceived $55 million in new gifts —
up from $44 million last year — the
gifts did not significantly affect the
total because the annual draw on
the endowment was increased to
6.5 percent, said Beppie Huideko-
per, executive vice president for
finance and administration.
Though exact figures for the
endowment are not yet available,
Huidekoper said, the University
still has a long way to go until the
endowment returns to its pre-2009
total of $2.8 billion.
“It’s still a ver y shaky market,”
she said. “We’re not out of the
woods yet.”
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Green shoots
Though the endowment has
not grown significantly and fun-
draising numbers continue to
slide, bright spots remain in an
other wise gloomy economic
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situation for the University. Last
year, the Brown Annual Fund, the
University’s general fundraising
campaign, reached its goal of $36
million, up from $35 million in the
2009 fiscal year. The scholarship
fund suppor ting undergraduate
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Gili Kliger and Julien Ouellet / Herald
financial aid — which raised its
goal from $300 million to $400 mil-
lion in October 2008 due to con-
tinued success — recently passed
$300 million, Vanden Dorpel said,
though administrators said it may
be difficult to reach the $400 mil-
lion mark with only four months
left in the campaign.
“I think under the circumstanc-
es, it was really an efficient year,”
he said. “We finished the year well
on a number of fronts.”
As the campaign winds down,
advancement leaders are focusing
on completing fundraising for the
Metcalf Chemistr y and Research
Laboratory renovation project and
the new Medical Education Build-
ing, as well as continuing the push
to raise funding for undergradu-
ate scholarships, said Steven King
’91, who replaced Vanden Dorpel
as senior vice president for Uni-
versity advancement. He said the
University has set a target of $140
million in new gifts and pledges
for the current fiscal year, with
an increased drive to raise funds
to support the University as a re-
search institution.
“We want to continue to build
the momentum and meet the an-
nual goals for the University,”
King said. “There’s no shortage
of needs.”
New Blue Room well-received
by coffee-drinking students
continued from page 1
center is to help facilitate a greater
“sense of community,” said Ricky
Gresh, senior director for student
engagement and chair of the Stephen
Robert ’62 P’91 Campus Center plan-
ning committee. The Plan for Aca-
demic Enrichment, President Ruth
Simmons’s strategy for improving
undergraduate life at Brown, outlined
a need for a campus center that would
encourage more informal interaction
between University students, faculty
and staff, and help support students’
academic and co-curricular goals,
Gresh said.
Five main priorities came out of
the discussions during community fo-
rums and planning committee meet-
ings, he said. Participants expressed
the need for the eatery to have more
news in brief
New U. website
coming soon
The University will have
an updated website this fall,
which will include a new home
page and updated department
sites, courtesy of the public
affairs office and Computing
and Information Services.
The site will have several
features that will make
navigating the home page
much easier, said Scott
Turner, director of web
communications. New
additions will include
gateways directed toward
specific audiences, videos and
a guide to upcoming events,
he said.
The idea for a new website
began two years ago, when
the Media Relations advisory
council suggested that the site
be improved and updated.
Turner said the current site
“didn’t flow” and the new site
will “meet the needs of the
audience.”
Marisa Quinn, vice
president for public affairs
and University relations, said
that the new site will “capture
the culture and distinction of
Brown University” and that
“the growing value of the
Web” fueled the need for a
more modern website.
The home page will
be updated first, and the
developers will then work with
faculty to update the sites of
each academic department,
Turner said.
The development of the
website has been publicized
through the Brown University
website redesign blog, which
documents each update. The
website developers have tried
to make the project as open
as possible by using the blog
and test-runs of the new site
to get user feedback, Turner
said.
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seats and longer hours, a floor plan
that created a sense of “arrival,” a
feeling of community and more event
and informal gathering spaces.
Donations by former University
Chancellor Stephen Robert ’62 and
several anonymous benefactors fund-
ed the renovation. A tuition surplus
last year was used to fast-track the
re-opening of Faunce to this August.
Gresh said the renovation cost about
$20 million.
“I used to come here, but just to
pick up something from the Blue
Room. Never to hang out, eat or do
work,” said Edjola Ruci ’12. “Now it’s
more modern and social. There are
so many nice spaces. I think this will
be the new spot on campus where ev-
eryone will fight to get a table. It’s go-
ing to be interesting to see how long
the couches remain clean, though.”
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Student group connects donors
with college-bound students
continued from page 3
and the outside world.
“They needed to partner with
organizations to find students and,
through relationships with the
Swearer Center, we were able to
find great organizations that were
already involved in college access,”
Harlam said.
These groups, which help rec-
ommend the fellows, include Col-
lege Visions — an organization in
Providence that works with high
school seniors — and the Univer-
sity’s College Advising Corps.
After students are selected, their
profiles appear on CO-Fund’s web-
site, where potential donors can
learn about them and their situ-
ation.
Though the fellows never need
to repay CO-Fund for their scholar-
ship, they are urged to “pay it for-
ward,” an aspect of the program that
Simmons called “morally binding.”
In order to pay it forward, fel-
lows can choose one of four options:
working with CO-Fund or its part-
ner organizations after graduat-
ing, donating to other CO-Fund
students, participating in commu-
nity service projects or attending
graduate school.
The CO-Fund staff doesn’t “want
the repayment of this money to be a
financial burden to someone who is
coming from a financially disadvan-
taged family,” Harlam said.
Three of the four inaugural fel-
lows are starting college this se-
mester, and the other is a college
sophomore.
A fellow named Maritza, who
just graduated from Classical High
School in Providence, has her first
college classes Wednesday. She
said she hopes to pursue a double
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major in psychology and linguistics
at the University of Rochester and
aspires to work in speech pathology.
To protect her identity, the group
did not release her last name.
“I feel really lucky that I got
chosen,” she said. “I think there
should be more organizations like
CO-Fund.”
Kincaid and Katie Goddard ’12,
head of educational research and
resources, received Starr Fellow-
ships from the Swearer Center this
summer to work full-time on the
organization, Harlam said.
Kincaid said their work included
researching fundraising, complet-
ing grant applications and learning
about social media strategies involv-
ing Facebook and Twitter. Kincaid
and Goddard also examined last
semester’s results. Through evalu-
ating their “pilot launch,” Kincaid
said they hoped to determine “what
elements of our model should be
changed or reconsidered and how
we could make it better next time
around.”
Kincaid said she thought the
company’s launch went well and
she was pleased that the fellows’
scholarship money was distributed
to their colleges.
“I’m really proud that we got our
first tuition payments out and that a
lot of it was raised through contri-
butions on the website,” she said.
Both Simmons and Kincaid said
CO-Fund is off to a good start, but
they are still looking to improve.
“We definitely wanted to raise
more than we needed for these first
few students and we’ve done that,”
Simmons said.
Simmons said that CO-Fund
needs to raise funds for future fel-
lows and get more college students
involved with the organization.
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The Brown Daily Herald
WOMEN’s SOCCER
Ten fresh faces set to
take the field this fall
BY Tony Bakshi
Sports Editor
After a class of eight seniors gradu-
ated last fall, women’s soccer Head
Coach Phil Pincince admits he does
not quite know what to expect from
his fresh-faced squad in the upcom-
ing season.
“I think 2010 is going to be a
mystery ride,” Pincince said. “I
have no idea where it’s going to
take us.”
A class of 10 freshmen — one
forward, five midfielders, two de-
fenders and two goalies — was
brought in to replace the outgoing
team members. The roster chang-
continued on page 8
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 | Page 7
MEN’s SOCCER
Squad’s goal: surpass 2009 success
By Katie DeAngelis
Sports Staff Writer
Just as Spain’s FIFA World Cup did
not come overnight, Brown’s men’s
soccer team knows that further suc-
cess at the big tournament will only
come with strong preparation.
“We’ve been in preseason now for
over a week and the team is looking
really good,” co-captain David Walls
’11 wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.
“Almost all the team has met the
fitness standards which shows that
over the summer the players put in
a lot of work and have returned in
good shape.”
Co-captain Paul Grandstrand ’11
echoed the sentiment in an e-mail
to The Herald. “Everyone has put
in hard work during the summer
on their own by playing on (Player
Development League) teams across
the country or by training with other
high-level players.”
Former Assistant Coach Patrick
Laughlin takes over the head coach-
ing position and is joined by Assis-
tant Coach Andrew Biggs, a former
head coach at the University of New
England.
Both captains agreed that the
new coaching staff has brought spirit
to the team. Grandstrand wrote that
Laughlin “has brought some new en- Jonathan Bateman / Herald file photo
Defenseman David Walls ’11, an All-Ivy Honorable Mention, returns to the
ergy into the team” and that Briggs men’s soccer team as a co-captain.
“has already made an immediate
impact on our training.” to success on the field. Though the year, with a 5-2 record in Ivy League
Walls said there is still a battle for Bears came in second in the Ivy play that only trailed Harvard’s 5-1-1
key roles even though 10 starters League and made it to the second mark. They outshot their opponents
are returning from last year, credit- round of the NCAA tournament last 15-11 per game and outscored them
ing Laughlin and his new coaching year, Walls said he thinks the team by a 2-1 ratio.
style for the competitive spirit. will go further this year. The soccer team kicks off the
“There are lots of places up for “We are very excited to start the season with the Ocean State Cup
grabs and the competition amongst season,” Walls wrote. “We have a de- at Bryant University on Friday. Its
players is very intense,” Walls wrote. manding schedule but one in which first home game will be on Sept.
The players are optimistic that I think we can be successful.” 10 against the University of South
the new competitive energy will lead The Bears finished 11-3-5 last Carolina.
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S ports W ednesday “Nothing is impossible with a young team.”

— Phil Pincince, women’s soccer head coach

Young women’s team gears

up for the fall season

Jesse Morgan / Herald file photo

Last year’s women’s soccer team graduated eight players.

continued from page 7 only tallied three goals in Ivy League

es will be evident immediately, as
these new faces will take over for
stalwarts all across the field, begin-
ning at the goalie position.
Mar y Barrett ’14 and Amber
Bledsoe ’14 will take over for de-
parted keepers Brenna Hogue ’10
and Steffi Yellin ’10, a tandem that
combined for four shutouts last
season.
“It’s exciting and scary at the
same time,” said Pincince. “We
were there four years ago, and the
goalkeeping team we developed was
outstanding. Now we’re back on that
track.”
While Pincince said this year’s
team captains “have not been elected
yet,” there are a few notable candi-
dates looking to build on their strong
2009 campaigns.
Joyce Chun ’11 made a huge im-
pact last year, leading the team with
four goals, including game-winners
over Columbia, the University of
Rhode Island and Army. She will
have to help lead the underclass-
men on offense, as the Bears look
to improve their goal scoring. Bruno
play last season on its way to a 2-5
conference record.
Allison Kagawa ’12, an Honorable
Mention All-Ivy player last fall, will
continue to solidify the backline.
Kagawa started all 32 games in her
first two seasons with the Bears.
She will have the unenviable task
of helping replace graduated center
back Bridget Ballard ’10, a three-
time All-Ivy player.
Because of the roster turnover,
Pincince has set reasonable expecta-
tions for his squad, he said.
“Last year, with our seniors,
was a season that we expected a lot
from, and we finished seventh,” said
Pincince.
Despite the drastic changes,
Pincince is optimistic about his
young squad’s future. He said he
always aims for the team to finish
in the top half of the Ivy League.
“You can’t have high expectations
on day one, but I’m telling you, noth-
ing is impossible with a young team.”
The team starts the season at the
Dartmouth Invitational this week-
end, facing Northeastern on Friday
and Colgate on Sunday.
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Post-graduation allocation
Sarah Yu
Opinions Columnist
A student’s journey through college educa-
tion is about challenges. For us, this means
thinking about and accepting ideas outside
of what we have become accustomed to, real-
izing the potential in the cosmic grandeur of
the universe and leveraging ourselves to be
successful for the rest of our lives.
As a newly-risen senior, it is my duty and
honor to welcome first-years beginning their
journeys at Brown and to share a little bit
about what I have learned by this stage in
my own journey.
From my current speculations about the
theoretical and practical implications of my
future trajectory, I am convinced (or rather,
I am in the process of convincing myself) that
Adam Smith was, and always will be, correct.
It has not been an easy admission for me, as
my Communist-Chinese-turned-welfare-state-
Australian upbringing has always somewhat
sheltered me from that rather large and impos-
ing (albeit benevolent) Invisible Hand.
Now, however, as I face my last year in
college — and serious contemplation about
my impending job search and graduate school
applications — I realize that I need to embrace
the philosophy that I will always, no matter
how much I might want otherwise, be subject
to the Hand’s omnipotence.
DAVID
SHEFFIELD
Opinions Columnist
Last week, a committee at Harvard ended a
three-year inquiry into one of the school’s
professors, Marc Hauser. It concluded that
he engaged in scientific misconduct. Hauser
is a psychologist who studies animal cogni-
tion, particularly moral behavior. Scientific
misconduct is a serious offense that ham-
pers the advancement of the entire endeav-
or.
Science is a data driven enterprise. No
one scientist can collect all of the necessary
data to formulate theories, so researchers
must consequentially trust the results of oth-
ers. This is not a blind trust — results are
tested through peer review and replication.
The punishments meted out by institutions
and the community can be correspondingly
devastating. This makes claims of fraud an
appealing avenue for the antiscientific crowd
when it does not want to appear antiscien-
tific.
The investigation started when a gradu-
ate student and research assistant working
with Hauser lodged a complaint with a dean.
The group was working on an experiment
to see if rhesus monkeys could determine
specific patterns of syllables. Hauser and an-
other researcher watched videos of the mon-
keys to determine whether they responded
to changes in the pattern of syllables that
the scientists played for them. Hauser’s re-
sults showed that the monkeys did notice
the change and were therefore able to deter-
mine the specific patterns. Meanwhile, the
Why have I finally learned to accept the
inevitability of the free market? Well, to put it
economically, it is out of rational self-interest.
I would like to be doing something meaning-
ful and productive with my life come June
2011. To me, and undoubtedly to many of
my fellow Brown seniors, this means either
making a living or enrolling in a respectable
post-graduate program.
Our generation, however, has been plagued
with uncertainty. In recent years, we have wit-
nessed the global financial crisis and continue
My dear class of 2011 and I are consumers,
desperately vying for our demand (work) to be
met by what seems increasingly like a scarce and
dwindling supply of opportunities.
to worry about the high unemployment rates
it has engendered. Our disillusionment with
corporations (including even institutions of
higher education, with steadily rising tuition
costs and more competitive admission rates)
has left a deep imprint on what we perceive to
be our chances of survival in the real world.
After tr ying to maintain a good GPA
through a series of internships and extra-
curricular activities, then spending the fall
semester cramming for another round of
standardized tests, it will finally be time to
Scientific misconduct
other researcher saw no response from the
monkeys.
The experiment relied on a subjective
analysis of the monkeys’ behaviors, which is
why the group used multiple people to ana-
lyze the recordings. The two observers in-
ferred contradictory data, so the next logi-
cal step was to have other observers judge
the results to settle the issue — something
that the whistleblowers did want. However,
Hauser refused and wanted to publish his re-
sults as the correct interpretation.
The graduate student and research as-
sistant should be commended for what they
did. They were both heavily reliant on Haus-
er for their careers and their decision to
alert a dean could have backfired.
Efforts by brave students and diligent scientists
make ideologically driven claims of fraud
disappointingly weak in comparison.
There are numerous other instances of
fraud and misconduct in science: Piltdown
Man, human clones and the measles vac-
cine–autism link were all fabricated. One
of the seminal recent incidents is Jan Hen-
drik Schoen’s brief acclaim. In 2001, Schoen
claimed that he created a transistor from or-
ganic molecules — a hugely consequential
result. Other physicists were soon skeptical
of his phenomenal work and started looking
over them more carefully. Other scientists
could not replicate Schoen’s results. Eventu-
wednesday, September 1, 2010 | Page 11
put ourselves, our resumes and our interview
smiles to the test for our futures. Yet we’re not
guaranteed that this nerve-wracking process
will turn out any fruitful results.
In order to reassure our baffled selves,
many of us turn to the inevitable scramble
of applying for everything in conceivability.
While our elders (and less harried peers) may
question the actual utility of the indiscriminate
application rush, and we may face some disap-
proval from parents and various mentors and
encouragement to focus our attentions on one
particular area, I see this phenomenon as
simply the natural course of the free market
economy that comprises college students’
post-graduation options.
Instead of the traditional manner of think-
ing about graduating seniors in the labor
supply of our respective societies, let’s try to
reverse the supply-demand charts that our eco-
nomics professors taught us to memorize. That
is, my dear class of 2011 and I are consumers,
desperately vying for our demand (work) to be
met by what seems increasingly like a scarce
ally, his colleagues discovered that Schoen
was reusing data multiple times. The anoma-
lies soon built, and, within a year, the first
committee found Schoen guilty of scientific
misconduct.
Such efforts by brave students and dili-
gent scientists make ideologically driven
claims of fraud disappointingly weak by
comparison. Last year, a hacker broke into
the Climate Research Unit’s computers. The
hacker stole thousands of emails and distrib-
uted them on the World Wide Web. Climate
change deniers and sympathetic news orga-
nizations mined the e-mails and misrepre-
sented what was written to fabricate a con-
spiracy by scientists to deceive the public.
Most other media, suffering from a lack of
science journalists and desiring balance in
place of objectivity, credulously reported the
controversy.
“Climategate” was front-page news. The
later exoneration of the scientists was buried
further back.
Of course, a lack of misconduct has yet to
stop Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia’s political hack
of an attorney general, from investigating
climate scientist Michael Mann, who wrote
some of the e-mails. Mann formerly worked
at the University of Virginia and held gov-
and dwindling supply of opportunities. Apply-
ing to everything in sight isn’t a sign of our
lack of ambition, misdirection or frivolousness;
it is simply an attempt to attain more perfect
information in our current market.
After all, keeping our options open and
interests broad is something that Brown’s very
own Open Curriculum has taught us. With a
diverse and vibrant undergraduate education
under our belts, it is only natural that we see
what is out there and consider trying it all out.
Despite the pressure on graduating seniors
to pinpoint our exact future paths, there is
perhaps some logic in allowing ourselves this
one more chance to diversify our interests as
much as we’d like in as many places as we can
and hoping that the Invisible Hand will help
match our demand with the available supply,
ultimately informing us about our desirability
to others in the professional world. I would
like to maintain my newfound confidence and
optimism in the capabilities of the competitive
market as I approach my final year of college,
and I hope that the important lesson I have
learned will embolden both my peers and
those who will soon be in my shoes. Let’s
broaden our horizons, and as thus, do justice
to our Brown education.
Sarah Yu ’11 considered
concentrating in Economics at one
point, but then decided to keep her
options open. She can be reached at
xia_yu@brown.edu.
ernment grants. Cuccinelli is prone to inter-
preting the law in politically convenient ways
and has easily turned Mann into a prop to
further his ambitions. Luckily, a judge de-
nied Cuccinelli’s request for a subpoena this
week. The witch-hunt is not finished, but the
decision is a hopeful sign that the legal sys-
tem sees through the political pandering.
This does not mean that prosecutors
should never investigate scientists. A U.S. at-
torney is currently examining Hauser’s mis-
conduct because he received federal fund-
ing. However, it is a waste of government
money to investigate a scientist without a
rational justification. Science is effective at
policing itself, and frauds are eventually de-
tected. Prosecutors should rely on already
established processes to determine frauds
and not waste taxpayer money themselves.
All scientists want to make some impor-
tant discovery. Overturning a well-accept-
ed theory such as climate change or evo-
lution would garner not only the praise of
colleagues for correcting a major error but
surely fame among the public. Researchers
comb over studies for errors — especial-
ly ones that contradict their own pet theo-
ries. It is preposterous to claim that entire
branches of science have entered into pacts
intended to deceive. Eventually, someone
would present the accurate and devastating
contradictory evidence.
David Sheffield ’11 is a math-
physics concentrator from New
Jersey. He can be contacted at
david_sheffield@brown.edu.
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