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Church hosts
‘Columbus’
discussion
Koyama ’11 and local
cultural leader debate
U.’s calendar change
By Anne Speyer
Senior Staff Writer
When the faculty voted in April
to rename Columbus Day on the
University calendar to sidestep the
historical figure’s controversial leg-
acy, local leaders from the mayor
to the governor protested the de-
cision, saying it was disrespectful
to Providence’s Italian-American
community.
At a Sunday night panel discus-
sion hosted by St. Stephen’s Epis-
copal Church on George Street, the
Brown student who led the anti-Co-
lumbus charge and a representative
from the Providence branch of the
Sons of Italy met to reflect on the
name change.
The panel, entitled “Goodbye,
Columbus!” and attended by local
parishioners and Brown students,
was designed to “foster engage-
ment” over the question of Colum-
bus’ place in American history, said
Father John Alexander, rector of
the parish.
Reiko Koyama ’11, who peti-
tioned Brown’s Faculty Executive
Committee during much of the last
academic year, squared off against
Valentino Lombardi, a Sons of Italy
representative.
The Rev. Deacon Michael Tuck
of St. Stephen’s, who works for the
chaplain’s office at Brown, opened
the discussion by reading an excerpt
from a speech given by President
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Liberian VP offers hopeful
view for troubled nation
By Ben Schreckinger
Senior Staf f Writer
The outlook for Liberia, the war-torn
West African nation, is promising,
the country’s vice president, Joseph
Boakai, told a crowd of about 60 stu-
dents and members of the Liberian
diaspora Sunday afternoon.
Boakai spoke for about half an
hour in Salomon 101 about the chal-
lenges of rebuilding his country and
proposed a partnership between
Brown and Liberia to that end.
Between 1989 and 2003, Libe-
rian governments and rebel factions
fought two civil wars. In a country
of fewer than four million people,
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In a matchup of last year’s Ivy League co-champions, the Bears fell to Harvard Friday night, 24-21. A late rally by Bruno
ended on an incomplete hail-mary pass.
Festival city’s biggest green party
By Jenna Stark
News Editor
Saturday’s sun shone on an unlikely
scene near Kennedy Plaza. Children
scampered by in colorful animal
masks, musicians jammed on a
stage and vendors clamored for the
attention of passersby. The inaugural
Providence Sustainability Festival
was held all day downtown, bringing
together students and grandparents,
activists and local business owners
to teach and learn about environ-
mentalism in the area.
The festival was designed to
educate the Providence commu-
nity about environmental living, said
Bradley Hyson, executive director
of the Apeiron Institute for Sustain-
able Living. The institute, which
created and sponsored the festival,
See Q&A, page 4
hundreds of thousands died and
millions were displaced — both in-
ternally and externally — during
the conflicts.
Despite the many obstacles,
Boakai said he firmly believed that
“no countr y has a better chance
of reconstructing its war-ravaged
past,” adding that United Nations
Secretar y General Ban Ki-moon
expressed similar optimism about
the country’s recovery in a meeting
Saturday.
Rhode Island has the largest pop-
continued on page 4
Arts, 5
risd’s new exhibit
Early modern engravings
down the hill at RISD
museum
195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island
Jonathan Bateman / Herald
See article, page 7
seeks to transform Rhode Island ovens and toxin-free cleaning prod-
into a environmentally sustainable ucts.
state. “For each festival (the Apeiron
The festival opened with an Institute) invites people who are
“earth-honoring ceremony” led by somehow involved in sustainability
Chief Kenny Black Elk from the issues in one way or another,” said
Cherokee tribe. The ceremony was Senior Lecturer of Classics Peter
Scharf, who is also on the board of
FEATURE directors at the Apeiron Institute.
RiverzEdge Arts Project, a pro-
meant to show the Native American gram for “educationally and eco-
perspective on living in harmony nomically disenfranchised youth,”
with the earth, according to the according to its Web site, sold T-
festival’s Web site. shirts made with eco-friendly ink
Pitching their tents in the early and cloth.
morning and staying until evening, The Apeiron Institute has held
the festival’s vendors educated at- similar festivals at its Center for Sus-
tendees about maintaining a sus- tainable Living in Coventry, for the
tainable lifestyle. The vendors last eight years, said Mark Kravatz,
showcased products such as envi- director of sustainable business de-
ronmentally friendly plumbing and
landscaping services, pizza-making continued on page 2
Dung Hanh Nguyen Vu / Herald
Joseph Boakai, Liberia’s vice president, said he had a “firm belief”
that his country could bounce back from a history of civil war.
Sports, 7
tough competition
The field hockey team wins
one — but drops to 0-2 in
league play
In shopping
craze, profs
have the
last word
By Seth Motel
News Editor
As students crammed into a second-
floor classroom in J. Walter Wilson
last Monday, Associate Professor of
History Michael Vorenberg started
his seminar with an apology.
Though Banner had allowed
20 students to pre-register for his
class — HIST 1970H: “American
Legal and Constitutional History,
1780-1920” — there was a snafu.
Banner was supposed to require
Vorenberg’s written permission to
join the class, but the system had
not enforced that restriction.
Because of the mistake, Voren-
berg said, prior registration on Ban-
ner would not assure anyone a spot
going forward. Vorenberg e-mailed
pre-registered students about the
problem before the class to notify
them, he said, but some students
later informed him that they did
not receive the message.
The glitch in registering for
the class “really wasn’t a Banner
problem,” Vorenberg explained in
an e-mail, adding that he was not
sure where the error occurred. He
guessed there was some miscom-
munication between the Office of
the Registrar and him or the Depart-
ment of History.
As rare as such situations might
be, the University does not have a
set protocol for dealing with them.
Vorenberg, for his part, told the
students assembled that day that
prioritizing the class list based on
seniority, concentration and other
factors was within his purview as
the professor.
However, the ambiguity can be
problematic.
“Students who thought they
were in the course because Ban-
ner said they were, and then they
heard from me that they weren’t in
it, they might well be frustrated,”
Vorenberg wrote in his e-mail.
Over the two-week shopping pe-
riod at the start of each semester,
professors can exercise consider-
able discretion over the enroll-
ment in their classes, including at-
tendance requirements, how and
when to enforce course caps and
when Banner registration closes.
The process can cause uncertainty
for students.
The registrar’s office consults
with departments between each
December and again the following
continued on page 2
Opinions, 11
still waiting
Anish Mitra ’10 says Brown
needs to find an ‘A-list’
artist for Spring Weekend
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C ampus N EWS “The misconception is that (Banner) solves all problems.”

— Stephen Lassonde, deputy dean of the college

Sustainability festival Shopping period not always a bargain

takes over downtown
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velopment at Apeiron, but the Insti-
tute expanded to “the heart of the
city” for an additional festival this
year to attract a different crowd.
“The environment gets gener-
alized to a certain demographic of
the community,” Kravatz said. This
festival targeted different citizens
of the Ocean State than previous
festivals through its music and loca-
tion, he added.
Different bands played Cambodi-
an, folk, rock and Latin music, draw-
ing together several generations of
the Providence community.
Community members could also
participate in free workshops held
throughout the city on creating a
better public transportation system,
cooking locally grown foods and
supporting public water systems,
to name a few. Yoga classes, bike
rides, fire-twirling demonstrations
and walking tours of the city were
also scheduled during the day.
Brown student groups whose
work related to the festival’s mis-
sion came to publicize their organi-
zations. Project 20/20 — a program
that employs Brown students to re-
place incandescent light bulbs with
energy-efficient compact fluorescent
bulbs — manned a booth at the en-
trance of the festival.
The project received a lot of in-
terest from Providence community
members, said Nia Smith, a Provi-
dence resident who volunteers for
the program. The group plans to
install the new lightbulbs within the
week, she said.
Andrew Posner MA’08 led a
workshop called “Creating a Green
sudoku
Economy from the Bottom Up.” Pos-
ner co-founded and directs the Capi-
tal Good Fund, a non-profit, green
microfinance lender run by Brown
students.
Posner’s workshop discussed
how the goal of “greening the econ-
omy” can be accomplished through
community-level microfinance and
credit loaning to green businesses
that otherwise would not qualify for
a loan.
Posner said he hoped his work-
shop would convey the importance
of microfinance to the Providence
community. “The people at the
festival are going to be the typical
environmental crowd. We want to
convey to them that there are all
these people that are there who want
to be involved and can be engaged,”
he said.
The Apeiron Institute’s planning
for the free festival moved into “high
gear” during the summer, Hyson
said. The Institute hopes to host the
Providence festival again next year,
he added, but plans to discuss it in
the coming weeks.
Many at the event said they
hoped it would return in the fu-
ture.
“The festival is excellent,” said
Jane Sanderson, a resident of Ports-
mouth, who proudly displayed a
bracelet and necklaces she bought
from one of the vendors. “I’m glad
there was something going on.”
“It’s great that Providence is tak-
ing an active stance in educating
people and trying to be green,” said
Heather Mowry of Lincoln, adding
that she liked that the festival was
held “in the middle” of the state and
had entertainment.
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March to ensure that they put the
correct restrictions in place on Ban-
ner for the coming academic year,
according to University Registrar
Michael Pesta. Professors or depart-
ment managers fill out a sheet that
describes each class and can check
boxes regarding the restrictions
they want on the class.
Professors and their depart-
ments determine most of the rules
of shopping period, administrators
said. But balancing professors’ con-
trol over their classes and students’
freedom under the New Curricu-
lum is a “back and forth” exchange,
Pesta said.
“The Brown curriculum says
that you are the architect of your
education,” he said. “So it’s not go-
ing to require that you take certain
courses.”
But the word “shopping” is a mis-
leading term, Pesta said. The design
of the period is not meant to make
the first two weeks of each semester
a “free-for-all,” he said.
So what freedoms does shopping
period guarantee students?
“The student has the right to
look at as many courses as he or
she can,” said Deputy Dean of the
College Stephen Lassonde.
However, successful pre-registra-
tion on Banner is “not a guarantee”
of future enrollment, Lassonde said.
Though “every student can make
his or her case,” he said, the profes-
sor has the last word regarding who
is enrolled in the class.
In Vorenberg’s class, students
— at least those who ultimately got
in — seemed satisfied that he had
exercised his discretion fairly. But
even if a pre-registered student had
felt unfairly ejected, he would have
little recourse.
If a student is enrolled via Ban-
ner, but the professor is unwilling
to allow him or her into the class,
the student could ask the Dean of
the College’s office for advice about
approaching the professor. But final
enrollment decisions are left up to
faculty.
Though there are no means for a
professor to “unregister” a student
on Banner for failing to meet his
requirements, the professor can
issue the student a “No Credit” or
“Missing” grade, which eventu-
ally becomes an “NC,” according
to Lassonde. Like other grades of
“NC,” the mark only shows up on a
student’s internal academic record,
not the official transcript.
My class, my rules
for the class. This helps restrict
unfettered access before shopping
period officially ends.
Besides avoiding overwhelming
shopping periods, finalizing enroll-
ments also allows departments to
correctly allocate TAs and gives the
registrar’s office a chance to find a
different-sized room for the class,
if necessary, Pesta said.
Clay Wertheimer ’10, president
of the Undergraduate Council of
Students, said closing Banner reg-
istration early is “detrimental” to
shopping period. He understands
professors’ concerns, he said, but
thinks they can “find a balance” of
starting class material and allowing
students some freedom to attend
different classes early in shopping
period.
Lassonde said he understands
students’ concerns about some
classes’ attendance requirements,
but thinks the function of shopping
period is not greatly harmed as long
as only a few professors implement
such policies.
Sammy Feldblum ’12 took a
Spanish-language class in which
the instructor required attendance
of the first three classes, preventing
him from shopping a poetry class he
was considering. He said it wasn’t
clear why certain professors had
such attendance policies.
“There’s no special reason, re-
ally, why Spanish classes should
be treated like that while others
shouldn’t,” Feldblum said.
Jack Murphy ’11 wanted to take
a creative writing class that had a
requirement to attend the first
three classes, but he missed the
first meeting. He went to the rest of
the classes, however, and convinced
the professor to allow him to enroll
by submitting a writing sample and
letting the professor know he was
interested in the class, he said.
When Murphy talks to profes-
sors in such situations, he said, he
tries emphasize his commitment.
“I’m not just some kid showing up,”
he said.
The paperless system
Since the University changed
from paper registration to Banner
more than two years ago, the fun-
damentals of pre-registration have
changed dramatically.
Before online registration, an
enrollment cap on a course had no
effect on a student’s ability to sub-
mit paperwork to pre-register for
a class. The number of students
who pre-registered and attended
class during shopping period often
exceeded the cap. Some students
sion this semester, told The Her-
ald in April 2007 he was concerned
about potential technological issues
with Banner.
Many of his worries about the
system have since been allevi-
ated.
“The problems that concerned
me years ago about Banner turn
out not to be problems,” Vorenberg
wrote in his e-mail. “On balance,
Banner has made my ability to
administrate courses easier, not
harder.”
But miscommunications and
restraints on courses still present
occasional challenges in the age
of Banner.
“The misconception is that (Ban-
ner) solves all problems,” Lassonde
said.
The numbers game has become
more accurate since the adoption of
Banner, but Wertheimer finds its
administration of pre-registration
caps problematic.
Banner should not restrict people
from pre-registering due to size, he
said, because doing so apportions
space in classes on a first-come,
first-served basis. Having a limit on
a class is acceptable, Wertheimer
said, but it must be enforced after
students attend class and make in-
dividual cases to the professor.
“I’m comfortable leaving (caps)
up to the professor, but what I don’t
like is professors that are leaving
that up to Banner,” he said. “Banner
isn’t a professor and can’t make the
qualification decisions.”
Pesta and Lassonde both said
students could abuse aspects of
the pre-registration process, for
instance, by reserving a spot in a
course just because it is limited-
enrollment, not because they have a
strong desire in the class itself.
But both administrators re-
mained confident that students who
really want to take a class and have
fulfilled its requirements would be
able to take it at some point.
In the case of over-enrollment
in VISA 0100: “Studio Foundation,”
for example, overrides to enroll are
apportioned through a lotter y of
all students who express an inter-
est during pre-registration period.
Those who are not allowed to pre-
register through the lotter y are
given priority the next time it is
offered, Pesta and Lassonde said.
They also can attempt to register
during shopping period by consult-
ing with the professor.
Many departments also maintain
waitlists for classes, Pesta said, in
case spots open up early in the se-
mester. A professor or department

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Artists chalk out dragon, legends AmCiv class atwitter
By Hannah Moser
Senior Staff Writer
With smudges on his nose and green
chalk covering his hands and knees,
Daniel Valmas ’11 hurried to put the
finishing touches on his painting.
Using his fingers, Valmas blended
green into the street, creating the
background of a scene highlighted
by a jellyfish’s hot pink tentacles slic-
ing across the deep blue and green
of an octopus.
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On the next street, an artist used
a paintbrush to smooth his artwork’s
chalk and bring a red dragon to life.
Down the street, pastoral blends
of color filled squares with serious
and not-so-serious tributes to Rhode
Island. Surrounded by other artists
creating pastel masterpieces, Valmas
and Marguerite Preston ’11 had been
at work on their eight-by-eight square
since before 9 a.m. on Saturday at the
Providence Rotary Street Painting
Festival.
For the festival’s 10th year, more
than 100 artists and 60 vendors took to
Westminster, Union and Eddy streets
for the day. Armed with boxes of chalk,
the artists competed for monetary
prizes in categories for different age
groups.
“We are extremely proud to be
back on the street,” said Suzanne Can-
non, co-chair of the festival that was
held in the skating rink at Kennedy
Plaza last year.
The smell of the Rotary barbecue
drifted over vendors offering jewelry,
bags and art, and three local bands
performed during the day.
Valmas, who is from Pawtucket,
said he and his mother have been
participating in the festival since he
was in sixth grade. Last year, Preston
helped him out, but this was her first
year as a full participant.
Preston described coming up with
their design as “a long and winding
road.”
Valmas said the pair imagined their
piece as “paradise and earthly cathar-
BCA plans blog, outreach efforts
By Fei Cai
Contributing Writer
The Brown Concert Agency plans
to reach out to music lovers and
musicians alike through a new
blog, audience sur veys and more
student concerts, the group’s lead-
ers said.
The board, which organizes
Spring Weekend as well as a fall
concert, hopes to work with groups
such as Brown Television and the
Coalition of Bands at Brown to
reach out to the Brown commu-
nity this fall.
“It was kind of like we were sit-
ting in a castle and being discon-
nected from the student body, and
that is not how we want to project
ourselves,” said Matt Weisberg ’12,
a BCA spokesman.
The board will start by creating
a blog with a discussion forum to
advertise events, post photos of
Marguerite Preston ’11 works on her eight-by-eight square at the 10th an-
nual Providence Rotary Street Painting Festival.
sis” during the planning stages.
“Yeah, that didn’t happen,” Preston
said. The duo said they chose to depict
two sea creatures in combat, because
they wanted to draw something people
would recognize but that wasn’t a “ma-
jestic stallion” or a “cute kitty.”
On the other side of the street, a
fish peered out of the blue and purple
swirls of a pond. The artists, from an
art class at Cranston High School
West, had finished early.
“They’re used to working fast,”
said their instructor, Valerie Bruzzi,
who brings her art class to the fes-
tival every year. The class entered
two squares, and about 10 students
worked to complete the picture of the
fish, which was a reproduction of one
of Bruzzi’s paintings.
Tributes to Rhode Island were
abundant at the festival, and one of
the most original was submitted by
four Rhode Island College students.
First-years Kate Camara and Emily
shows, share songs and feature in-
ter views with artists, said Agency
Chair Akshay Rathod ’10.
The BCA will also create “real-
time audience-satisfaction e-mail
sur veys” directly after the fall
event and Spring Weekend to get
feedback, Rathod said.
To promote student bands, the
board seeks to schedule on-campus
student shows throughout the year.
Auditions for next month’s concert,
which will host two to four bands,
will be held in a few weeks. “We
have the skills, we have the insti-
tutive knowledge,” Rathod said.
“Why limit ourselves?”
Seventeen bands tried out for
the Battle of the Bands — the
BCA’s annual student band com-
petition — last year during Spring
Weekend, Rathod said. That’s a
sign that the Brown community
is interested in student concerts,
he said.
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— Professor Steven Lubar, on using the tool for class discussions
Eunice Hong / Herald
Pichette supplied a page-long story to
accompany their square, which depict-
ed a child so transfixed by a picture in
a museum that the ice cream cone in
his hand is melting. The picture that
consumes his attention shows a pink
octopus attacking the Claiborne Pell
Bridge as a giant blue insect looms
menacingly.
The legend the artists supplied
is of a giant octopus attacking the
bridge but thwarted by the fearless
Big Blue Bug. By now, according to
the legend, few remember the hero
who preserved the Claiborne Pell
Bridge — the mainland’s connection
to Aquidneck Island.
The two art majors, who partici-
pated in the festival last year, said their
other ideas for the festival were “too
generic.” Inspired by New England
Pest Control’s giant bug, which is a
fixture off I-95, the girls wove their
tale. “We just built it off the saying
‘big blue bug,’” Camara said.
“There are a large number of
musicians who want to play live
music, but there is not really an
avenue to do that,” said co-stage
manager Daniel Wiener ’11, who
helped plan the Battle of the Bands
during last year’s Spring Week-
end.
“At heart, we’re trying to foster
and build a live music scene on
campus,” he said.
With the Underground in
Faunce House under construc-
tion, the BCA was forced to find
another venue for the concerts in
Grad Center Lounge, Rathod said.
But some board members believe
this is an improvement over last
year.
“Grad Center is a great space,”
said co-stage manager Jonathan
Gordon ’11. “It is fairly big so stor-
age is taken care of and there is
a nice outdoors area for people
to enjoy.”
“Twitter is really two-way.”
with online discussion
By Miriam Furst
Contributing Writer
Academics may be known —
even mocked — for being long-
winded, but some are now com-
municating in 140 characters or
fewer.
Twitter, a rapidly growing
social networking Web site, has
made its mark in one American
Civilization seminar. Students
in AMCV 2650: “Introduction to
Public Humanities,” now “tweet”
about their assigned readings,
engaging in a conversation be-
yond the classroom.
“The problem with class is
that it’s two hours once a week
with no follow up,” said Professor
Steven Lubar, who incorporated
Twitter into the course structure
to mitigate this barrier.
Lubar is asking the three
undergraduate and 15 graduate
students in his seminar to post
reactions to the assigned read-
ings on Twitter, which asks us-
ers, “What are you doing?” Using
Twitter allows students to share
their viewpoints, raise questions
and even post links to related
articles before coming into class,
he said.
Twitter is different from other
forms of online communication,
Lubar said, noting that e-mail,
for example, is “one-way” — it’s
either the professor talking to the
student or vice-versa. However,
“Twitter is really two-way; that
works a lot in a class,” he said.
The tweets — or posts, for
those not in the Twitter know —
also help Lubar focus his lesson
plan on what the students find
most interesting in the week’s
assigned reading, he said.
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But these benefits did not
come without some initial hesi-
tation.
First, Lubar said, it posed a
problem for students who already
had personal Twitter accounts
and did not want their professor
and fellow classmates following
their updates about their private
lives.
Some who did not already
have Twitter accounts were also
skeptical at first. Hollis Mickey
’10, who activated an account for
the class, was unsure about using
Twitter as an effective forum for
class discussion.
“I was pretty reluctant at
first to the prospect of getting
a Twitter account, but it is use-
ful in allowing the conversation
to extend beyond the two hours
that we have in our seminar,” she
said. “I think it’s positive in that
respect.”
Despite the initial wariness,
Twitter is working well for stu-
dents in Lubar’s class. Students
who post must include what is
called a “hashtag”— a code that
makes it possible for others to
search tweets related to the
class. Using the hashtag allows
students to easily communicate
with one another, Lubar said.
“People are more ready for
discussion because they’ve al-
ready started to have discussion
outside of class,” Lubar said.
Mickey said it allows students
who did not have a chance to
speak in class or who thought
of something later to contribute
to the discussion as well.
Because T witter has a
140-character limit, Mickey
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Liberian leader invites Church panel reopens Columbus debate
Simmons to the West
African nation
continued from page 1
ulation of Liberians in the United
States, with about 12,000 residents.
Boakai spoke of the central place
of education in Liberia’s plans for
recovery. He said the administra-
tion of President Ellen Johnson-
Sirleaf, who spoke at Brown last
September, had placed a “premium
on the development of human capi-
tal,” and therefore dedicated “the
largest proportion of our national
budget to education.”
“Our government inherited a
broken educational system” fo-
cused on “graduation as opposed
to learning,” Boakai said. “Today,
we have free and compulsory pri-
mary education.”
The current administration has
“raised the (monthly) salar y of
teachers from a bare 15 United
States dollars” which was “not
enough to buy two McDonald’s
quarter pounders with cheese, let
alone be livable wages,” he said.
The government now pays teach-
ers $80 a month. Professional and
higher education are also vital to
Liberia’s recovery, Boakai said. “It
is in this context that I wish to ap-
peal to Brown,” he said, proposing
that the University partner with
the Liberian government to pro-
vide Liberians with scholarships
and research opportunities.
“I extend the invitation to Presi-
dent Simmons to come to Liberia
soon in order to consolidate the
partnership,” he said.
Boakai said the government
was also focused on bringing back
foreign investment. Among its ini-
tiatives has been the Liberian Anti-
Corruption Commission, created
to thwart crooked political and
business practices and thereby
qu e s t i o n s f o r j o s e p h b oa k a i
Liberian Vice President Joseph
Boakai spoke to about 60 stu-
dents and members of the com-
munity Sunday afternoon about
the prospects for rebuilding
the war-ravaged West African
country.
After the speech, he sat down with
The Herald to discuss the future
of his country.
Herald: Earlier this week
you called on the United Na-
tions to create a special en-
voy on women. Why? What
do you envision this envoy’s
job description would be?
Boakai: What we’re tr ying
to say is that we do believe that
women are underrepresented.
We believe that we need to raise
their status now, because they
are mostly the victims of these
conflicts.
You studied at Kansas
combat one of the greatest deter-
rents to foreign investment on the
continent.
“But we also want to encour-
age Liberians themselves to be
investors,” Boakai said, adding,
“All of us are on obligation to go
back and rebuild.”
Like South Africa and Rwanda
before it, Liberia commissioned a
Truth and Reconciliation report in
order to move past its civil war.
But the efforts have stalled
in recent months. “Some of the
witnesses did not cooperate as
they should have,” Boakai said.
And though “the commissioners
were well-vetted,” two refused this
June to sign the report on atroci-
ties in the country. The abstaining
commissioners wanted an edited
version of the report, but Boakai
said many Liberians felt approv-
ing an edited report would con-
stitute a disservice to the truth.
He said Liberia would possibly
hold a referendum to accept the
report despite the commissioners’
abstentions.
Boakai also noted that Liberia’s
is the first Truth and Reconcilia-
tion process to include active par-
ticipation by the diaspora.
Samuel Kamara of Providence
— one member of that diaspora —
came to the United States 10 years
ago to study, but the war prevented
him from returning to Liberia. Be-
fore the lecture, Kamara said the
outbreak of peace has led him to
consider moving back home in the
near future.
Kamara said it was difficult to
evaluate Johnson-Sirleaf’s admin-
istration from outside of Liberia,
but added that all indications lead
him to believe “she might be doing
a pretty good job.”
State University on a schol-
arship from USAID and
later worked for the World
Bank.
Do you believe institu-
tions such as the Interna-
tional Monetar y Fund, the
World Bank and USAID pri-
marily ser ve the interests of
developing countries or of
rich ones?
Well, at some point in time
we thought their programs were
not really ser ving the critical
needs of developing countries.
The results that they yielded
in the past were far from meet-
ing the needs of developing
countries, but today we are ex-
periencing programs that are
very strategic.
After many, many years of
their intervention we still have
a lot of problems in developing
countries, so we believe that
they could do better.
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“Columbus was a friend to the Native Americans that he ran into.”
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Benjamin Harrison in 1892.
“‘Columbus stood in his age as
the pioneer of progress and enlight-
enment,’” Tuck said, quoting the
speech. “‘The system of universal
education is in our age the most
prominent and salutary feature of
the spirit of enlightenment, and it
is peculiarly appropriate that the
schools be made by the people
the center of the day’s demonstra-
tion.’”
After Tuck’s reading, Koyama
opened the discussion by explaining
why she supported the renaming
of the holiday to the neutral “Fall
Weekend,” and why she had worked
for the change.
“Brown prides itself on being
socially conscious and valuing di-
versity and respect,” she said. “It
seemed that the celebration was a
little inconsistent with these core
values.”
She also called the idea of Colum-
bus Day as a celebration of the “dis-
covery” of America “inaccurate.”
“It’s wrong to call it a discovery
when thousands of people were al-
ready living here,” she said. “Also,
Columbus never came to this coun-
try. He landed in the West Indies
and stayed in the West Indies. We
deserve accuracy in the framing of
our history.”
Koyama said conceptions of
Columbus are complicated by a
generational divide. “There is a
gap between what was taught in
history classes decades ago and
what is taught today,” she said. “Our
textbooks have not been telling the
whole story.”
To illustrate her point, Koyama
listed examples of alleged mistreat-
ment of Native Americans at the
hands of Columbus and his men
— including rape, murder and the
use of physical disfigurement to pro-
duce subordination. These actions
do not fit the depiction of Columbus
What will be the conse-
quences for Liberia if your
countr y does not receive
further debt relief from its
creditors?
I wouldn’t like to think in
that direction.
But I do believe this is some-
thing we need because right
now whatever we’re doing,
we’re doing it from a very, very
low revenue base, and so debt
relief will enable us to borrow
and undertake critical projects
like infrastructure.
What do you hope will be
the outcome of Charles Tay-
lor’s trial at the International
Criminal Court?
The good old book says you
reap what you sow. I’m sure if
you sew something good you’ll
reap something good.
I look forward to him being
justly handled.
— Sons of Italy representative Valentino Lombardi
as an American hero — all too com-
monly used in elementary schools,
she said.
Lombardi, in rebuttal, said the
allegations against Columbus which
Koyama brought up were “ques-
tionable” in terms of historical ac-
curacy.
“This is judging a quintessential
Renaissance man in terms of con-
temporary values,” he said. Lom-
bardi said the Sons of Italy, a national
organization of Italian-Americans,
has developed a “positive-image pro-
gram” to inform the nation about
Italian-American culture.
This program included a study
of Columbus, conducted in 2002
“in response to growing concerns
about the celebration of Columbus
Day,” he said.
“Many of the things that were
said about him are unfair,” he said.
“Columbus was a friend to the Na-
tive Americans that he ran into.”
“From a historical viewpoint, Co-
lumbus proved that it is possible to
cross the Atlantic Ocean and return.
He was the first to open relations
between Europe and the Western
Hemisphere and ... laid the founda-
tion for future voyages,” Lombardi
said.
“With regard to Columbus’ ability
as a politician, evidently it’s flawed
in nature,” Lombardi said. “But he
wasn’t trained as a politician or as
a governor — he was trained as a
navigator. His intention was to find
a new route to the Indies, and he
happened upon a new world.”
Lombardi also stressed recog-
nizing the significance of Italian-
American achievements, particu-
larly in light of the prejudices the
community has faced throughout
history. “Columbus Day is the one
day on which the nation recognizes
the heritage of millions of Italian-
Americans,” he said.
Koyama said she did not intend
any disrespect to Italian-Americans,
and noted that she is involved in
When ‘academic
chit-chat’ goes online
more than homework
continued from page 3
added, unlike other forms of Inter-
net communication, students have
to make their thoughts concise.
While the class also has a blog, as
do many other classes at Brown,
Mickey said Twitter fosters fast-
paced conversation — sometimes
over whelming due to the sheer
number of posts — among stu-
dents.
Micah Salkind GS, a public
humanities student, agreed that
Twitter is beneficial in adding to
the class experience. “It’s anoth-
er use of technology that keeps
conversation going outside of the
classroom,” he said.
The tweets are so frequent
that people outside of Brown are
becoming involved. Specifically,
Lubar said, the New Bedford Whal-
Monday, September 28, 2009
organizing a “roots week” at Brown
that would celebrate cultural diversi-
ty and open up controversial issues,
like the renaming of Columbus Day,
to campuswide discussion.
The panel discussion was then
opened up to questions from the
audience. Asked whether Columbus’
treatment of the Native Americans
entirely discredited his accomplish-
ments, Koyama said, “Where do we
draw the line? If people can’t draw
the line with Christopher Columbus
and the things that he did, that just
shows disrespect to the millions of
Native Americans who have died
since his landing.”
“If you can discount the atroci-
ties he committed because he dis-
covered America, I have to wonder
what that says about Americans,”
she added.
Another audience member ques-
tioned whether the renaming of
Columbus Day would actually limit
discourse on American history, sug-
gesting that the holiday could keep
its name but incorporate an empha-
sis on “new learning” and a greater
drive toward historical accuracy.
“That could be a good compro-
mise in a situation like this,” Lom-
bardi said. “I think we have to work
for a full understanding in order to
accept the positive aspects of some-
one, recognizing fully that there may
have been some negative aspects
as well.”
Koyama also stressed the impor-
tance of greater understanding and
learning. Columbus represents “a
very important time in history that
we don’t want to cover up, but in-
stead bring light to,” she said.
Alexander, the rector, ended the
night by emphasizing the importance
of continuing discussion and debate.
“I hope that this dialogue doesn’t
end here tonight,” he said. “I think
that involving not only the voices of
the academic community on campus,
but also from the larger community
is a way to expand that dialogue.”
ing Museum has been “tweeting”
with the students.
Pleased with the results, Lubar
said he plans to use Twitter for his
other seminars in the future.
When Lubar attended THAT-
Camp, a conference held at the
Center for Histor y and New Me-
dia at George Mason University,
attendees’ tweets were broadcast
live onto a screen at the front of
the room. Lubar said it was a way
to make a lecture more like a per-
sonal conversation because the
speaker can see how people react
to his comments and tailor the lec-
ture accordingly.
Lubar also said he follows other
professors on Twitter, allowing for
“academic chit-chat.”
“This is all early days of tech-
nology, we’ll see where it goes,”
he said.
Arts & Culture
The Brown Daily Herald
The RISD Museum’s “The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650,” is on display now.
RISD breathes new life into an old form
By Luisa Robledo
Staf f Writer
As she picked up the magnifying
glass with her right hand, Em-
ily Peters took a couple of steps
forward. She stood in front of the
engraving of Henri de la Tour
d’Auvergen and said, smiling, “I
think this one knocks your socks
off.”
Peters, the associate curator of
prints, drawings and photographs
at the Rhode Island School of De-
sign Museum, was referring to
one of the pieces in the museum’s
new exhibit, “The Brilliant Line:
Following the Early Modern En-
graver, 1480 -1650.” Through the
display of 85 original works of
art, the exposition focuses on the
process of copperplate engraving,
she said.
“The ar t of engraving was
the first reproductive mass me-
dium,” Peters said. “It was a way
to spread knowledge of all kinds,
everything from scientific discov-
eries to information on the Catho-
lic Reformation.”
The beauty of the engravings
and the naturalism achieved by
In ‘Tartuffe,’ a fast-paced staging of Moliere
By Kristina Fazzalaro
Contributing Writer
“Rockin’ Robin” might not be the
expected overture for Moliere’s
“Tartuffe,” one of the French
dramatist’s most famous comedic
plays, but it certainly sets the tone
for Sock and Buskin’s modern re-
telling.
As the rock-and-roll single
pumps through the speakers, the
main characters of the play bustle
about the set, a multi-tiered jungle
gym of slamming doors and win-
dows. Wedding bells are clearly in
the air as Dorine (Lauren Neal ’11),
the family’s maid, scurries about,
hanging engagement banners and
balloons.
Elsewhere, the two young lovers
“a medium that consists of cop-
per and lines” drew her in at first.
“Artists had to figure out ways to
create tones by using lines and
dots only,” Peters said, looking
back at Robert Nanteuil’s portrait
of Henri de la Tour d’Auvergen,
“Look at the lace in his collar,”
she said. “It’s like he didn’t want
us to see the lines at all.”
To allow viewers to gain a bet-
ter understanding of this tech-
nique, Peters, who has a Ph.D. in
16th-century printmaking, collab-
orated with Associate Professor of
Printmaking Andrew Rafter y.
“We wanted to bring engraving
live to the public,” said Rafter y, a
practicing engraver. “We wanted
to help viewers understand the
process.”
To that end, Raftery decided to
create a replica of a 16th-centur y
drawing, choosing Francesco Pri-
maticcio’s “Hermaphrodite on the
Clouds Teaching Cupid to Shoot
an Arrow.” After two months, he
produced a sketch, an engraved
copper plate and then an actual
print.
“It was exciting to do some-
thing in the style of the 16th cen-
Valere and Mariane (Max Posner
’11 and Elizabeth Rothman ’11) hop
from window to window, kissing and
celebrating euphorically.
Elmire (Elizabeth Morgan ’10),
the girl’s stepmother, is busy deal-
ing with her overbearing mother-
in-law (Jing Xu ’10). Damis (Gabe
Gonzalez ’12), the son and heir to
the family fortune, holds a baseball
bat to a piñata and mischievously
runs about the house.
Doors open and close. Figures
sprint from one room to another.
Secrets abound. Thus the plot of
the first act takes shape — there
will be love, action, deception and
some bizarre, but vastly entertain-
ing, scenes ahead.
“Tartuffe” tells the tale of the
easily duped Orgon (Matt Bauman
Courtesy of the RISD Museum
tur y,” he said. “I got to pretend
that I was an artist of 500 years
ago.”
Rafter y also created nine ana-
lytical drawings of different works
of art, in which he explored how
the many layers worked to cre-
ate the final result. The pieces,
which can also be found on the
museum’s Web site, are part of
an interactive component meant
to visually engage viewers with
the engraver’s process.
“This exhibition is a tribute to
the artists’ work,” he said.
Trish Dickie, a member of the
museum’s security staff, found
Rafter y’s talent captivating. “It’s
almost as if he were born in those
times,” Dickie said. “It’s just beau-
tiful.”
In addition to RISD’s master
print collection, Rafter y and Pe-
ters got about 14 pieces on loan
from the National Gallery, includ-
ing Claude Mellan’s “Adam and
Eve at the Foot of the Cross”— a
personal favorite of both organiz-
ers.
Mellan “just uses parallel lines
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’10), a wealthy businessman and
proud patriarch to Elmire, Damis
and Marianne, the bride-to-be. Or-
gon has welcomed into his home
the conniving Tartuffe (Aubie Mer-
rylees ’10), who claims to be a reli-
gious zealot but is actually a con art-
ist manipulating Orgon’s devotion.
He lives in Orgon’s house, eats his
food and tries, albeit unsuccessfully,
to seduce the beautiful Elmire.
Orgon is blind to Tartuffe’s
greed and ambition, going so far
as to offer up his daughter’s hand
in marriage to the scheming hypo-
crite. Merrylees puts in a fantastic
performance, his sleazy character
coming to life as he struts about
the stage, confident in his position
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Monday, September 28, 2009 | Page 5
Festival brings a little
Havana to Providence
By Monica Carvalho
Contributing Writer
Cuba is coming to Providence this
week, despite dropping tempera-
tures and changing leaves.
The 17th Annual Providence Lat-
in-American Film Festival begins
Wednesday and runs through Sun-
day. The festival includes a showcase
of 67 Latin-American films, four pan-
els to discuss issues addressed in
some of the films and a Cuban film
poster exhibit at the Watson Institute
for International Studies.
The poster exhibit opened on
Sept. 16 and will run until October
15 in honor of Hispanic Heritage
Month.
Jose Torrealba, the festival’s ex-
ecutive director, said it includes a
“huge spectrum of films,” ranging
from a 1930 silent film called “La
virgen de la Caridad,” (“The Virgin
of Charity”) to numerous films re-
leased within the last few years.
“A lot of the films are very rare,
and some of them have never been
shown in the U.S.,” he said.
Each year, organizers choose a
specific country to feature in the
festival. This year, a majority of the
films — which include shorts, ani-
mations and documentaries — are
from Cuba.
“Choosing a location gives us an
opportunity to show classics, and
we are not limited by date,” Torre-
alba said. “The showcase will show
how Cuban film developed through
time.”
Torrealba said this year happens
to be the 50th anniversary of the
Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria
Cinematografico, the Cuban Film
Institute.
“It was an interesting and unin-
tended coincidence,” he said.
Nine Cuban artists will come to
the festival — with some making
their first visit to the United States,
Torrealba said. This group includes
the showcased actors and directors,
who will be available for question-
and-answer sessions. Other visit-
ing artists will take part in the four
panel discussions.
The festival will also celebrate
films from other Latin American
countries. These eight films are in
the running for the Fernando Birri
Award, named after the honorary
president of the festival, who Tor-
realba called the “father of new Latin
American cinema.” Every year, the
award goes to a new filmmaker for
a first feature film.
“The heart of the festival is the
annual competition for the best first
feature narrative,” Torrealba said.
He praised “Los dioses rotos”
(“Broken Gods”), a 2008 Cuban/
Mexican film, which will open the
festival. The director, Ernesto Dara-
nas Serrano, and three of the actors
in the film, Annia Bu Maure, Claudia
Valdes and Hector Noas, will be at
the screening and will be available
for questions later.
“I’m really excited about the
panel discussions,” Torrealba said.
“I think it’s great that we were able
to work not only with the students,
but with the professors as well.
And having the Cuban visitors is
magnificent.”
Torrealba emphasized that
though people often think of edu-
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A rts & C ulture
A multi-faceted Moliere on stage at Leeds
continued from page 5
in the household.
But there are several prob-
lems with Orgon’s plan of pairing
his daughter with the aggravating
Tartuffe. First of all, Orgon has
already promised to let Mariane
marry Valere. Secondly, she — like
everyone else except Orgon and his
mother — despises Tartuffe. Damis
is also troubled by this news: If Mari-
anne does not marry Valere, he will
not be able to marry Valere’s sister.
Forget about love triangles — this
is more like a heptagon.
Amid all this drama, it is Dorine
who holds ever ything together
— and carries the first act. Neal’s
Dorine is packed full of energy and is
absolutely hilarious as she tries to get
the family out from under Tartuffe’s
thumb. Her sharp execution of the
script — a contemporary-feeling
verse translation — and fluidness
on the stage had the audience in
hysterics. She tumbles, runs and
climbs — all while parrying the ob-
stinate Orgon.
The rest of the cast also puts in
energetic and crowd-pleasing perfor-
mances during the first act. Valere
and Marianne are endearing in their
stereotypical teenage love affair. As
Dorine says, “Lovers tongues are
never still.” The two bicker, apolo-
gize and kiss like a real couple — and
a tech-savvy one at that. Director Mia
Rovegno chose to update Moliere’s
1664 play by adding some technol-
ogy — text messages between the
two lovers are displayed on a screen
above the stage; Facebook proudly
shows Marianne’s relationship status
(from “engaged” to “it’s complicated”
back to “engaged” as the play pro-
gresses); and Valere’s iPod adds an
interesting soundtrack to the action.
When “Iris” by the Goo Goo Dolls
comes on as Valere turns his back on
Marianne, believing he has lost her
to Tartuffe, the audience can’t help
laughing at the juxtaposition of old
text meeting new tech.
Lee Taglin ’10, as Orgon’s broth-
er-in-law Cleante, brings a more sub-
dued — though equally entertaining
— humor to the stage. As the voice
of reason, he is often called upon
to keep Orgon and Damis, the two
hot-heads of the family, in check.
His restrained delivery is paired well
with Orgon’s over-the-top antics —
wild gestures and extreme facial ex-
pressions as excessive as the venti
Starbucks cup he always seems to
be slurping out of.
Whether out of weaknesses in
the performance or short-changing
in Moliere’s text, Morgan’s Elmire
seems disappointingly halfhearted in
a first-act verbal duel with Tartuffe.
This was particularly surprising giv-
en Morgan’s stellar performance in
the second act, finally debunking
Tartuffe and making her husband
see the light.
In Rovegno’s production, the
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“A good film doesn’t end when you leave the screening.”
— Jose Torrealba, director of Providence Latin-American Film Festival
two acts take place in starkly differ-
ent worlds. After intermission, the
household has come completely un-
der Tartuffe’s control as Orgon has
disinherited Gonzalez’s irrefutably
entertaining Damis after a confronta-
tion with Tartuffe.
The set, previously warm and
inviting, is now bleak and bare.
The doors and walls of the house
are gone, bright white light illumi-
nates every corner, video cameras
record the family’s movements and
the family members are forced to
wear uniforms. Tartuffe will have no
secrets in what is now his household.
The first act’s innocuous scenes of
eavesdropping and Facebook-stalk-
ing have taken on a sinister character
in Tartuffe’s new police state.
Morgan’s Elmire can’t stand this
for very long, however. She com-
mands the stage and lets her attitude
shine through as she takes the audi-
ence on a hilarious thrill ride and
Moliere sends even more obstacles
for the household to overcome be-
fore the lights come up.
With a well-rounded cast, side-
splitting interpretation of the text
and creative staging, “Tartuffe” —
all about the madness of falling in
love, in lust, in debt or insane — is
delightful.
“Tartuffe” continues Oct. 1 through
Oct. 4 in Leeds Theatre, Thursday
through Saturday at 8 p.m. with a
Sunday matinee at 2 p.m.
Rare films on film
festival schedule
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cational films as boring, the films
screened at the festival will be
entertaining.
“I don’t think that a film needs
to be empty to be entertaining,”
Torrealba said. “A good film
doesn’t end when you leave the
screening. There’s that some-
RISD museum’s engraving
exhibit gets rave reviews
continued from page 5
that swell and terminate at the
end of the figure,” Peters said,
adding that Mellan “capitalizes
on the optical illusion” that, from
far away, lines converge.
“I love this piece,” Rafter y
said. “He creates form without
using cross-hatching.”
Jordan Geis, who said he was
considering applying to RISD’s
graduate program, found artists’
dedication to detail and their hard
work mesmerizing. Completing
a piece could take months, he
said, adding, “I don’t think people
spend that kind of time on an art
work anymore.”
“It seems like a lost art,” Geis
said, as he examined the bold
and swelling lines that created
the face of Hendrick Goltzius in
a portrait made by Jan Harmenz
Muller. “The detail here is mind-
blowing.”
Ingrid Mueller, who was at the
Monday, September 28, 2009
thing extra that stays with you.”
The screenings of the films and
panel discussions will take place in
the Rhode Island School of Design
Auditorium, MacMillan Hall, List
120 and the Cable Car Cinema.
Detailed information about pric-
ing and scheduling can be viewed
at plaff.org.
museum for the first time, said
she didn’t know about the exhibi-
tion until she arrived.
Mueller, who explored the in-
teractive demonstration, found
the exhibit educational.
“I like the fact that they show
us how it’s done,” she said.
For Maureen O’Brien, the mu-
seum’s curator of painting and
sculpture, the display is “almost
like a master class in the histor y
of engraving.”
“Run to the RISD Museum —
don’t walk,” O’Brien said. “This
is a world-class collection and
people won’t have another chance
like this in their lives.”
The exhibit, which was sup-
ported by the International Fine
Print Dealers Association, the
Foundation of the American
Institution for Conser vation of
Historic and Artist Works, Tru
Vue, Inc. and the Samuel H. Kress
Foundation, will run until Jan.
3, 2010.
SportsMonday
The Brown Daily Herald
Field hockey drops to
0-2 in Ivy League play
By Andrew Braca
Spor ts Editor
The field hockey team split a pair
of home games last week, beating
Sacred Heart, 3-2, on Wednesday
before falling to Dartmouth, 8-3, on
Saturday on Warner Roof. Bruno’s
3-4 record is its best start since
2006, but
SHU 2
the team
Brown 3
has star ted
0-2 in Ivy
Dartmouth 8
Brown 3 League play
for the third
straight year.
On Wednesday, Elara Mosquera
’13 scored the first two goals of
her collegiate career and added
an assist.
In the first half of the Sacred
Heart game, the Bears outshot the
Pioneers by a 12-1 margin, but the
game remained scoreless for 32
minutes. Finally, 2:28 before half-
time, Mosquera scored on a penalty
corner after receiving a pass from
Katie Hyland ’11.
Brown doubled its lead 11:21
into the second frame after another
penalty corner. After Hyland’s shot
was blocked, Mosquera got the
rebound and found tri-captain Mi-
chaela Seigo ’10, who beat Sacred
Heart goalie Kim Stow high for her
first goal of the season.
But the Pioneers, who came into
the game with a 1-7 record, refused
to go away, cutting the deficit to 2-1
just 3:56 later on a penalty corner
Fourth-quarter rally
batted away by Crimson
By Dan Alexander
Senior Staf f Writer
A week ago, Drew Plichta ’10 missed
an extra point and a last second, 40-
yard field goal in the football team’s
loss to Stony
Brown 21 Brook. After
Harvard 24 the tough
loss, Head
Coach Phil Estes said he would
give the kicker a chance to “come
back.”
But with 4.1 seconds left on the
clock Friday night at Har vard Sta-
dium and the Bears down 24-21,
Estes didn’t give Plichta a chance
to send the game into overtime
against the host Crimson. Instead
of tr ying a 42-yarder that could
have tied the game, Estes chose
to go for the end zone.
“That’s a no decision for me,”
Estes said. “I don’t have a kicker
that can kick the ball that far.”
Estes decided to heave one up
for grabs in the end zone, and hope
someone from one of the most
highly touted receiving corps in
the nation could come up with it
and win the game for the Bears.
No one did. The pass, intended
for Bobby Sewall ’10, was broken
up by Harvard’s senior cornerback,
Ryan Barnes.
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of their own.
With 10:06 left in the game, Sa-
cred Heart took a timeout, but the
strategy backfired when Mosquera
got the ball on the restart, took it
down the field and beat Stow with
a shot to the left corner of the cage,
scoring what would eventually be-
come the game-winning goal with
9:53 left.
Sacred Heart tacked on a gar-
bage-time goal with 47 seconds left
when Stephanie Fazio picked up a
loose ball at midfield and took it all
the way to the cage, but the Bears
held on for the 3-2 win, thanks to
three saves by Caroline Washburn
’12.
On Saturday, the Big Green,
who entered the game 1-4 overall
and 0-1 in the Ivy League, took con-
trol in a hurry. Kelly Hood scored
the first of her five goals on a pen-
alty corner just 1:39 into the game,
and Dartmouth added three more
goals over the next 24:25 to take
a 4-0 lead.
But the Bears rallied before half-
time for a pair of goals to cut the
deficit in half. With 7:35 left, Hyland
scored on a penalty corner, with the
Jesse Morgan/ Herald
assists going to Leslie Springmeyer The field hockey team battled hard to finish off non-conference opponent Sacred Heart, but found Ivy League
’12 and Seigo. Nineteen seconds rival Dartmouth too much to handle Saturday on Warner Roof.
before halftime, Springmeyer took
a pass from Kit Masini ’12 and beat minutes of the second half, un- final eight minutes, while Hyland back in three games this week,
Dartmouth goalie Meagan Vakiener til Hood scored on Dartmouth’s again scored on a penalty corner taking road trips to Fairfield (3-6)
to give Bruno the momentum going fourth penalty corner in quick suc- with 3:59 left, assisted by Spring- on Tuesday and Harvard (3-3, 0-2
into halftime. cession after Brown had stopped meyer and Seigo. Washburn made Ivy) on Saturday before hosting
Neither team could find the the previous three. The Big Green eight saves in the 8-3 loss. Vermont (1-8) on Warner Roof on
back of the cage for the first 21 tacked on three more goals in the The Bears will look to bounce Sunday at 2 p.m.
“It was a good thrown ball,”
Sewall said. “I thought I was in
good position and went up for it
… There was a swarm of Crimson
there.”
The swarm ended a dramatic,
fourth-quarter comeback for the
Bears.
Just minutes earlier, the game
appeared to be all but over when
Harvard receiver Matt Luft caught
a touchdown, giving the Crimson
a 24-14 lead with 12:43 left in the
fourth quarter.
Harvard Head Coach Tim Mur-
phy said with his defense playing
well and a two-possession lead in
the fourth quarter, he thought the
game was decided.
“Your mind naturally goes to the
point that, okay, we’re going to get
the ball back, kill the clock and the
game is over,” he said.
He got the win, but it wasn’t
that simple.
With 7:23 left, Brown got the
ball at its own 20-yard line, still
down 24-14.
Quarterback Kyle Newhall ’11
threw a series of short passes to
the center of the field, which ad-
vanced the ball to midfield. But
with Har vard guarding the side-
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lines, the clock kept running.
“I didn’t have that much time
and they weren’t giving us the
boundaries,” Estes said. “So, what
you’ve got to do is get first downs
and stop the clock. And we did
that.”
The Bears finally found the side-
line on a 14-yard pass to Sewall,
stopping the clock at 1:28 with the
ball on the Har vard 39.
Six plays later, Sewall found the
end zone for the third time on the
night. Newhall spotted him on a
slant route with single-man cover-
age and hit him a step over the
goal line.
With a little more than 30 sec-
onds left, the Bears lined up for an
onside kick. The ball skidded out
of the hands of a Har vard player,
and a pile of players dove on it. As
the officials peeled players off of
the pile, the Bears jumped up and
motioned that they had the ball.
The Bears set up in a four-wide,
shotgun formation on the first play
after the onside kick. But seeing
nowhere to throw, Newhall stepped
up in the pocket and ran 18 yards
to Har vard’s 39-yard-line.
A 14-yard pass to Trevan Samp
’10 put the Bears at the Har vard
25.
An incompletion to Sewall in the
end zone stopped the clock with
10 seconds left. Newhall looked to
Sewall again, though he was heav-
ily covered. Har vard’s Barnes got
both hands on the ball, but dropped
the interception, giving Brown one
more play, with 4.1 seconds left.
Newhall looked to Sewall in the
end zone once more, but Barnes
made up for his dropped intercep-
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“Our thing is all about balance.”
— Tim Murphy, Harvard head football coach
tion by batting the ball out of the
air to end the game.
The Harvard secondary was un-
der attack all night, as the Bears
threw 41 times to 32 rushes. Ne-
whall was 25-of-41 passing with 225
yards, one touchdown and one in-
terception.
Estes said Newhall missed some
reads and did not play perfectly,
but added, “It’s also two weeks in
a row that he has given us a chance
to win.”
Running back Zach Tronti ’11
had 13 carries for 45 yards. Ne-
whall, the Bears’ leading rusher
on the night, had 13 carries for
50 yards. Jonathan Bateman / Herald
Har vard went to the air on of- Scenes from the Bears’ 24-21 loss to Harvard Friday night in Cambridge, Mass. Above left, wideout
fense almost as often as Brown. Buddy Farnham ’10 is hauled down by a defender. Above right, Andrew Serrano ’10 battles for a jump-ball.
Bottom, running-back Zachary Tronti ’11 picks up a handful of yards with defenders in hot pursuit.
Quarterback Collier Winters was
18-of-27 passing with 223 yards
and two touchdowns. Har vard’s
running backs had only 18 carries
combined.
“This is not the style that we
like,” Murphy said after the game.
“Our thing is all about balance. On
the other hand, it’s also about tak-
ing what the defense gives you.
And you know, Brown is a team
that had nine seniors, three All-Ivy
kids up front and we knew it was
going to be ver y difficult to run
the football.”
The loss puts Brown at 0-1 in the
Ivy League with a two-week break
until conference play resumes.
Last year, Brown’s 24-22 win
over Har vard began the Bears’
6-1 Ivy campaign that ended with
a share of the league champion-
ship.
“This one was really special for
us after what happened last year
when we went down to Brown,”
said Har vard safety Collin Zych.
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l e t t e r to t h e e d i to r

Students can balance religious

and academic obligations
To the Editor:
Ethan Tobias’ opinion column
(“Not just a day off,” Sept. 25) pro-
poses the need for the University to
adjust the calendar to accommodate
High Holidays for Brown’s beloved
Jewish community and prompts my
reply.
Herald readers know well that the
breadth of identity gathered within
the University’s gates does cause a
collision of calendars between the
University’s schedule and sacred
seasons observed by many mem-
bers of the Brown community. Our
range of identity and practice require
unusual sensitivity and responsibility
by individuals and University policy.
The balancing of these variables is
always being accomplished, institu-
tionally and individually.
In the past and going forward,
adjustments to the University cal-
endar are very occasionally made.
But routinely, each student is asked
proactively to anticipate these con-
flicts and to make arrangements to
reschedule academic obligations
when religious obser vance will
prevent participation in the usual
timing. Attentive Brunonians will
observe this juggling being done
on a daily basis by many throughout
the academic year — a marvelous
confirmation that a respectful and
functional community can be created
and kept amid a broad diversity of
belief and practice.
Should any student need counsel
or support in making these arrange-
ments, the Chaplains and Brown’s
deans are ready to be of help.
While students may not be able to
continue to observe sacred seasons
at home, services and celebrations
on campus become the sweet proof
of the oft-asserted phrase that within
Brunonia’s halls we become “family.”
May this new season of Brown’s re- C hris jesu lee
ligious diversity be a joy. We are well
underway — Eid Mubarak! Shana
Tova! and....
e d i to r i a l
The Reverend Janet M.
Cooper-Nelson
University Chaplain
Teaching and tenure
Sept. 25 Cutting-edge research and first-rate teaching Furthermore, many students do not give a lot
are the foundations of any university. But the two of thought to the evaluations, and their reviews
don’t always come together. A brilliant professor is often correspond to the grading scheme or the
not always a brilliant teacher— the best scholars course workload rather than the quality of teach-
can leave students confused, frustrated or falling ing itself.

blogdailyherald.com asleep during lectures. Unfortunately, these pro-

fessors often receive tenure despite their sub-par
Instead of using course evaluations, depart-
mental tenure committees should ask students
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sive name to its list of faculty, its commitment to that reviews capture a wide range of student
undergraduate education suffers. opinions, and not just those on the extreme ends
In the coming weeks, a University committee of the spectrum, committees should pick students
will begin examining Brown’s tenure and faculty randomly from professors’ courses. Selected stu-
t h e b r o w n d a i ly h e r a l d
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Editor-in-Chief Managing Editors Deputy Managing Editors Senior Editors
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Steve DeLucia Michael Bechek Nandini Jayakrishna Rachel Arndt
Chaz Firestone Franklin Kanin Isabel Gottlieb tenure rate isn’t necessarily a cause for concern, professor compare to others in the department?”
Michael Skocpol Scott Lowenstein we urge members of the committee to take this and “What does this professor bring to the Brown
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Ben Hyman Arts & Culture Editor General Managers Office Manager
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Sophia Li Features Editor Jonathan Spector Currently, the University evaluates the teach- of a professor’s tenure review process, they will
George Miller Metro Editor
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Opinions
The Brown Daily Herald
International studies at Brown: Things come together
Adrienne
Langlois
Opinions Columnist
Books and their authors have defined my life
from before I could even speak, though the
cast of characters has rotated as I’ve grown.
When I was five, my favorite authors were
Robert McCloskey and Kevin Henkes; at 10,
I preferred Madeleine L’Engle and Lois Low-
ry. At 15, however, it was Chinua Achebe
who captured my imagination.
I read “Things Fall Apart,” Achebe’s
seminal novel, my sophomore year of high
school. Though many of the story’s nuanc-
es slipped by me, I was captivated and dis-
turbed by the story of how a prominent Af-
rican leader’s life literally falls apart upon
the introduction of Christianity to his village.
The novel’s final scene haunted me long
after I closed its pages, though I could not
comprehend just how important it would be
to my development until much later.
Looking back on the past six years, I can
see just how much Achebe’s book affected
my life. I’ve spent the past three years at
Brown studying colonial and post-colonial
societies and countries, from Japan to Egypt
to Brazil and everywhere in between, and
hope to further my studies after gradua-
tion. Needless to say, the fact that the author
whose book catalyzed most of my academic
decisions will be at Brown next semester is
more than a little unbelievable.
Achebe’s appointment as the David and
Marianna Fisher University Professor and
professor of Africana Studies comes on the
heels of other exciting international news at
Brown. Last week, the University announced
Anish Mitra
Opinions Columnist
I know it’s early, but I’m a senior and I want
a truly memorable spring weekend. Last
year, the Nas concert was filled with energy,
but a large portion of Brown students were
still simply unfamiliar with the bulk of his
discography. I did not attend the Of Mon-
treal concert, but I imagine the hipsters had
a blast and are probably looking for some-
thing equally or more entertaining for April
2010.
The fact of the matter is, we need an A-
list performer. Since my time as a fresh-
man, our headliners have been The Roots,
The Flaming Lips, M.I.A., Lupe Fiasco, Nas
and Of Montreal. While all of these musi-
cians are talented and entertaining in their
own right, none of them was topping charts
during the years in which we brought them
to Brown.
Not only do we need someone that is cur-
rently relevant and making hits, but we need
someone young and charismatic. The best
part of Spring Weekend is the surrounding
energy of the crowd and the overall jovial at-
mosphere that surfaces once the lights go
dim and the performers take the stage.
Further, we should bring in a performer
who shares lyrics about experiences that ev-
eryday college students can actually identi-
that Matthew Gutmann, a longtime Brown
anthropology professor, was appointed vice
president of international affairs. In a press
release, Gutmann noted he was “eager to
help expand and enrich programs through
which the University community engages
with the people and nations of the world.”
As Gutmann’s quote indicates, the Uni-
versity’s new internationally focused appoint-
ments are not anomalies; indeed, Brown’s
efforts have certainly come a long way. The
past three years have seen the development
of programs in Haitian Creole, Catalan and
Persian and not-for-credit classes in Turkish
In spite of the major improvements in Brown’s
international studies, significant and surprising
gaps remain which desperately need to be filled.
and Swahili, to name a few of the Universi-
ty’s expanded language offerings.
Last fall, the Brown in Cuba program,
a unique collaboration with La Casa de las
Americas in Havana, allowed a handful of
Brown students to study abroad in the fas-
cinating if embargoed country. And this se-
mester, nine African scholars will collabo-
rate on a seminar on African environmental
history among other projects as part of the
Watson International Scholars of the Envi-
ronment program.
These are just a few results of the Uni-
versity’s expansion of internationally orient-
ed studies and activities, and they deserve
The Best We’ll Ever Have
fy with. For example, when Nas started de-
riding Fox News last year, everybody went
wild. We need a young stud that can truly
energize our crowd and make this upcoming
event one that we won’t forget for years to
come.
Lastly, we need somebody with true talent.
Brown is certainly a place of eclectic tastes,
and thus, we need a versatile performer that
all Brown students can enjoy, regardless of
musical preference. I love rap and hip-hop,
We need a young stud that can truly energize our
crowd and make this upcoming event one that we
can never forget, for years to come.
but there are times when I prefer something
softer, with more melody. Bringing an artist
with a variety of styles and musical talent can
provide the value of two or more artists for
the price of one.
Before the Brown Concert Agency goes
on a crazy manhunt for the magical mystery
man I have been describing, let me cut to the
chase: we need Drake. Not only is he one of
the only artists that can fulfill all of the re-
quirements I have described above, but we
might have a real chance at getting this guy
Monday, September 28, 2009 | Page 11
significant commendation. Yet in spite of the
major improvements in Brown’s internation-
al studies, significant and surprising gaps re-
main that desperately need to be filled.
Brown has made great strides in expand-
ing area studies in many regions, but some
noticeable exceptions exist. The ever-pop-
ular Middle East Studies concentration re-
mains a “program” and not a department
and lacks the faculty to keep up with the de-
mand for classes. Even more surprising is
the lack of a South or Southeast Asian Stud-
ies program; every semester Brown offers a
few classes on India in various disciplines,
but few, if any, on the slew of countries in the
surrounding region. Few students choose
to study abroad in Southeast Asia, and one
can’t help but wonder if the lack of interest is
due to the inability to sufficiently explore the
area in an academic setting at Brown.
Even some of Brown’s relatively well-
rounded regional studies need work. The
Center for Latin American Studies supports
a number of great courses and projects on
Brazil, Cuba and Mexico, as well as a num-
ber of surveys, but classes are rarely offered
on the history and culture of perennial study
abroad favorites Argentina, Chile, Peru and
Ecuador. Furthermore, few courses are of-
at a reasonable price if we act early.
For the unfamiliar, Aubrey “Drake” Gra-
ham is an actor turned rapper/R&B sing-
er. He played the character Jimmy on the
Canadian television series “Degrassi: The
Next Generation” for eight years. After leav-
ing the show, he released three indepen-
dent mixtapes in an effort to create a buzz.
Last summer, his efforts finally paid off. His
smash single, “Best I Ever Had,” peaked at
number two on the Billboard Hot 100 charts,
and has stayed on the list for 20 weeks. Fur-
ther, he signed with Young Money Enter-
tainment and currently rolls with Lil Wayne
and Birdman, among others.
Drake has shown an undying drive to
succeed, which I cannot help but admire. As
a matter of fact, he even raps about it in his
song “Successful” with popular R&B singer
Trey Songz. He is not a 10-year industry
veteran that has been doing concerts on a
regular basis to the point where he only con-
siders concerts as revenue generators. He
fered on Central America, a region that has
been making headlines due to civil unrest in
Honduras. Even adding one class on issues
in the area would be beneficial to encourag-
ing dialogue about this conflict.
These observations represent just a few of
the gaps in Brown’s international studies of-
ferings across the board; every department
has its weaknesses as well as its strengths,
even if those strengths are constantly grow-
ing. Obviously, it’s not possible for Brown to
hire several professors in varying disciplines
to cover every country around the globe,
and the University’s endowment troubles
may put significant expansion of these pro-
grams on hold.
However, these projects need to be at
the top of the list once funds become avail-
able. Expanding Brown’s international stud-
ies isn’t a matter of upping the University’s
prestige or its ranking in the U.S. News and
World Report or Princeton Review. Rather,
it’s a matter of expanding opportunity for
open-minded students eager to broaden their
horizons during their academic careers.
If Brown can expand its international
studies selection to offer courses in every
region around the globe, the University
will truly fulfill its goal of an open curricu-
lum and provide students with the option to
have their lives changed by the discovery of
a strange new land, just as mine once was
changed by a very important novel.
Adrienne Langlois ’10, a history and
Latin American studies concentrator
from Asheville, North Carolina, owes
her love of Latin America to Stephanie
Merrim and Jim Green.
is a new performer tasting the first fruit of
super stardom, and I am confident that he
will give a stellar, energetic and thoughtful
performance.
Drake is “hot” right now, and it is my firm
conviction that he will not only remain rele-
vant, but his value will increase exponential-
ly by the time April rolls around. The beau-
ty is, Drake got signed, achieved a number
two Billboard hit and has begun doing tours
without even releasing an album.
While I admit I have not talked to any rep-
resentatives from his camp, I truly believe if
we lock him down now before he actually re-
leases an album (and thus stamping his tran-
sition from an independent artist to a bona
fide superstar), we can essentially reap a
huge rate of return.
In the same way a forward-looking inves-
tor enters a cheap futures contract for goods
he knows will be more valuable in the future,
we must act quickly and lock Drake in for
Spring Weekend before he blows up any fur-
ther. The fact that he has yet to release an
album and the questionable reviews of his
BET performance and music videos should
be enough ammo to negotiate a reasonably
low price for his April arrival. By the time
spring rolls around, this investor believes
he’ll be the best we’ll ever have.
Anish Mitra ’10 is thinking, “What good
is being famous, if I’m never
on your mind?”
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ACROSS 5 Convent 36 Draw inferences 44 Like fine coifs Live Longer Now! | Ricker, Seiden, Pruitt et al.
1 Disappear residents from 46 Notes after dos
gradually 6 Historical period 37 Farm output 48 Garage jobs
5 Prohibition agent 7 Kazakhstan, until 38 The bus stops 50 British machine
Eliot 1991: Abbr. here: Abbr. gun
9 Vatican-related 8 Assertions 41 Mythical 51 Baker’s fat
14 Like deserts 9 Peel, as a rind man-goats 52 Stodgy old-timer
15 Heavenly bear 10 Opera highlight 42 “Va va voom!” 53 __ Four: Beatles
16 “__ you clever!” 11 Game played 43 Marlee __, Best 54 Every bit
17 Hobbes, to Calvin with a baby Actress winner in 55 Blubber
20 Motel restriction 12 “Raggedy” girl “Children of a 56 “__ scale of 1 to
21 T-bone, for one 13 Inc., in England Lesser God” 10 ...”
22 Lock of hair 18 Appointment-
23 Med. plan choices confirming ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:
25 Opposite of “Huh?” words
28 Damascus is its 19 Dix and Knox:
cap. Abbr.
29 Fashion’s Gucci 23 Set with a
and actor Ray sharper picture,
31 Nudge rudely briefly
33 Makes a long 24 Inlaid designs
story short? 26 Traffic jam Pass/Fail| Steve Larrick and Alex Rosenberg
34 City leaders honker
35 Ideal getaway 27 “Isn’t that cute!”
38 Taken care of exclamations
39 “Rich Man, Poor 30 Prom car
Man” novelist 31 Persistently
Shaw worrying
40 Give body to, as 32 “__ Eyes”: 1975
hair Eagles hit
41 Obvious disdain 33 Poetic dusks
42 Meditator’s 34 Bryn __ College
syllables 35 Heroic exploit xwordeditor@aol.com 09/28/09
45 Calculate sums
46 Coarse file
47 Rub it in
49 Key in the sea
52 Defective, as
wiring
53 Armchair
quarterback’s
hobby
57 Change STW | Jingtao Huang
58 Summoned the
butler
59 Peace Prize
winner Wiesel
60 Fair-haired
61 Remain
62 Between-your-
toes grains

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1 Passes out
2 Weapons
storehouse
3 Baby seat cover?
4 Pieces jigsaw
puzzlers usually
start with By Fred Jackson III
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09/28/09