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struction plan can be found on the campus center’s Facebook page. When the arch reopens, the pathway that opens through the arch will only be approximately six feet wide as renovations for the campus center continue. A temporary wall will be put up around the narrower path and construction will go on through the end of the semester, Vice President for Facilities Management Stephen Maiorisi wrote in an e-mail to The Herald, adding that the full width of the arch would be open during Commencement for the procession to pass through, per Brown tradition. Students interviewed by The Herald said they were not particularly inconvenienced by the temporary closing. Pedestrian routes on either side of Faunce — by Hope College and Hunter Lab — are open for use. Faunce Arch “is an essential way to get through campus,” Roman Gonzalez ’11 said, but he added, “It’s only temporary, so I think kvetching

Perhaps the most noticeable change on campus since students have returned from winter break is the construction on the temporarily closed Faunce Arch, first announced in Morning Mail in late December and again on Monday. Ricky Gresh, senior director for student engagement, said he is “99.99 percent certain” the arch will reopen by Monday. After the closing was postponed indefinitely last semester, construction began over break due to the “significant amount of structural work” needed in the arch for the creation of the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center, Gresh said. After the renovations, the interior will be lined with clear glass. While in the past the arch’s interior was primarily used for displaying posters of various student organizations, with the renovations, one side will open into the new campus center. Further details of the con-

signs climate charter
By claire peracchio Senior Staff Writer

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Pedestrians will be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel starting Monday.

is kind of pointless.” Certain students seemed unaware of the closing altogether. As

Liban Mohamed ’12 said, “The only place I go is Barus and Holley, so why do I care?”

SciLi offers new space for students to gravitate
By sydney eMBer neWS editor

The new science resource center on the third floor of the Sciences Library will open Feb. 5 after months of extensive renovations shuttered the floor during the fall, Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron will announce in a campus-wide e-mail Friday. The multi-purpose

space will serve as the home base for science education, outreach and support and provide a state-of-the art technological hub for the entire Brown community. “By next Friday most of the space will be up and running, and we’d like students to be able to start using it right away,” Bergeron wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. The center, which has an official

launch party planned for March 3, marks the culmination of a yearslong effort stemming from the Undergraduate Science Education Committee’s recommendation in 2007 to create a space for science support at the University. “It’s going to bring faculty and students together across different science disciplines,” said David Targan, associate dean of the col-

lege for science education and the center’s director. “There’s no place quite like it.” The resource center features flat-screen televisions, glass-paneled walls, a central meeting room with three projectors, individual wood study carrels, an outreach laboratory and six group study rooms, continued on page 3

On Thursday, President Ruth Simmons made Brown a signatory of the Sustainable Campus Charter, an agreement stipulating “campuswide principles and measurable goals for sustainable development, construction and operations” as well as pledging to integrate “the study of sustainability principles and practice” in the University’s academic options, according to a University press release. Simmons joined 24 other university presidents at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland for the signing, an event sponsored by the Global University Leadership Forum. Chris Powell, director of sustainable energy and environmental initiatives and the chairperson of the Energy and Environmental Advisory Committee, said the University’s proactive approach to adopting environmentally friendly policies meant the charter represented a continued commitment to sustainability. Thanks to Simmons’ endorsement of recommendations from the committee, in January 2008 the University embarked on an ambitious path to “reducing existing emissions from a 2007 base level 42 percent by 2020,” Powell said. continued on page 2

From College hill to Kilimanjaro
By Brian MasTroianni featureS editor

Courtesy of Ulyana Horodyskyj

Geology student Ulyana Horodyskyj braves the cold on Tanzania’s Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Ulyana Horodyskyj GS won’t let a few bruises keep her at sea level. Last October, the geology graduate student suffered a concussion from a bicycle accident on Brown Street. She was not wearing a helmet during the accident and was treated with nine staples in her head. A month later, she made a six-day climb of 19,340 feet to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. “The way to succeed in grad school and in climbing are the same,” she said. “You have to set long-term goals and keep working harder week by week.” Horodyskyj handled her injur y with the same mentality. Only briefly did she doubt her ability to climb Kilimanjaro. “I remember thinking, ‘Is my dream over?’ ” she said. “That was the first time I didn’t think I could do something.”

Losing precious time to train before her climb, Horodyskyj opted to go up and down the stairs in her apartment ever y day and regularly trained on the elliptical at the gym. “I just kept thinking, ‘I can do this,’ ” she said. Horodyskyj said Mt. Kilimanjaro was her most difficult, yet rewarding, climb to date. Tackling a major mountain once every six months,

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Horodyskyj plans on climbing Mt. Rainier in Washington this summer. She plans on climbing Mt. Everest in about 10 years, on her way to conquering the rest of the “seven summits” — the highest peak on each continent. “When I got to the top of the mountain, I was near tears when I saw the sign for the summit in the distance. I took out my Flip cam and recorded what I saw,” Horodyskyj

said. The video takes its viewers through Horodyskyj’s physically grueling climb through rainforest, moorland and alpine desert areas, until she and her companions finally reach the snow-covered grounds near the top of the mountain. “Hello, Norton Middle School,” Horodyskyj says on the video as she holds up a white flag signed by the 250 sixth-grade students at the Norton, Mass., school where Horodyskyj had spoken a few weeks earlier. Horodyskyj met Peter Berard — whose daughter is a Norton Middle School sixth grader — a year ago on an ice-climbing trip. Berard, who was impressed by Horodyskyj’s stories of her various climbing expeditions and geological work, brought some pictures from her trips to Nepal and Antarctica to his continued on page 3

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than the other candidates.” But he cautioned that the race is anything but certain. “He faces an uphill battle, however, because some of his opponents have been on the scene for longer and have won statewide races in the past.” One of Dunne’s ideas is that broadband access should be available in ever y house in Vermont. According to media coverage of his campaign, Dunne believes this would be a way to create jobs and to turn Vermont into a technological center. Dunne’s path to the gubernatorial race began after he graduated from Brown, when at age 22, he won a seat in the Vermont state legislature. He served four terms before being asked by President Bill Clinton to serve as director of the AmeriCorps VISTA program in Washington, D.C., a position he held under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. Upon returning to Vermont, Dunne was again elected to the state senate. In 2006 he narrowly lost the election for lieutenant governor to Dubie. Throughout his political campaigns, Dunne has held privatesector jobs, including work at software company Logic Associates, the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and, most recently, Google. Dunne did not return requests for an inter view.

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Google exec Dunne ’92 task force eyes eliminating bottles in running for Vt. gov.
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What do a business executive, a politician and a Brown alum have in common? Sometimes they are one and the same, as is the case with Matt Dunne ’92. Dunne, who graduated from Brown with a degree in public policy and is Google’s manager of community affairs, is currently vying for the Democratic nomination for Vermont governor. The field consists of four other candidates: three state senators and the Vermont secretary of state. The winner of the Democratic primar y will face off against Lieutenant Governor Brian Dubie, who is the presumed Republican nominee. The race is for the seat of retiring Republican Governor James Douglas. “At the forums held so far, most candidates have agreed on most issues, so they’re tr ying to distinguish themselves based on their experience, their priorities and their overall approach,” wrote Bertram Johnson, assistant professor of political science at Middlebur y College in Vermont, in an e-mail to The Herald. Johnson wrote that Dunne, who officially announced his candidacy earlier this month, has tried to portray himself as bringing fresh ideas to Vermont politics. He added that Dunne “has been more technologically savvy

A resolution of support from President Ruth Simmons and the Brown University Community Council has strengthened efforts behind the Beyond the Bottle Campaign, a student group seeking to reduce the University’s use of bottled water. The Task Force on Bottled Water at Brown was subsequently created to address the issue, according to group leaders. The resolution was made during the Nov. 17 BUCC meeting following a presentation by Beyond the Bottle. It called for Brown Dining Services, students, faculty and staff to turn to “sustainable alternatives to one-use bottles.” Though the implication of the resolution was “mostly symbolic,” it still brought awareness and support to the cause, group member Ari Rubenstein ’11 wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “We had been working really hard for almost a year at that point, and it just felt so amazing. I was ecstatic,” said Ben Howard ’11, one of the founding members of the Beyond the Bottle Campaign and now a member of the task force. After the passage of the resolution, the group worked quickly to form the task force, which includes

six student members from Beyond the Bottle as well as representatives from Facilities Management, Dining Services, the University Events Office, the Office of Environmental Health and Safety, the Office of Residential Life, the Purchasing Department and Alumni Relations, Rubenstein wrote. The task force, chaired by Facilities Management’s Director of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Initiatives Chris Powell, has only had one meeting since its formation, but members are excited to resume their campaign. “Although the task force hasn’t set a timeline yet, we hope to make significant changes happen very quickly and work towards the complete elimination of bottled water distribution on campus,” Rubenstein wrote. There are some roadblocks to that goal, however. “There are some factors that might require a small supply of bottled water on campus,” like an emergency situation in which water supply is disrupted, Howard said. Additionally, bottled water is a popular and profitable item in eateries like Josiah’s. But Dining Services “has been amazingly supportive and very much involved in movement” despite the potential loss of revenue,

Howard said. In fact, Little Jo’s now offers reusable metal bottles for $7, Howard said. Dining Services also recently told the group they had canceled one of their contracts for bottled water, he said. The program seems to be making a difference. In the year that the Beyond the Bottle Campaign has been active, the University’s annual bottle consumption dropped significantly — as a result of the campaign, about 40,000 fewer bottles were consumed, Howard said. The student body has been very supportive, Howard added. “I have to say that I’ve been surprised by how little resistance the campaign has received from the student body. We’ve used a model of person-to-person outreach that has proven very effective,” Rubenstein wrote. Brown is not the only school making changes. Washington University in St. Louis and Belmont University of Nashville instituted bans on bottled water last year. Howard is optimistic that the University can achieve something similar. “We are shooting to be the first of the Ivies to take this step towards sustainability and social consciousness about water rights as an issue of the new century.”

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continued from page 1 The plan also included requirements for greater efficiency in new construction and an agreement to increase the efficiency of buildings that the University acquired. Twenty million dollars were allocated to accomplish these goals, according to Powell. Because of these initiatives, Brown was awarded an A-minus in the College Sustainability Report Card, an evaluation of campus sustainability published by the Sustainable Endowments Institute. Brown has also promised that its construction and demolition of University facilities will adhere to a “silver standard” set by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, Powell said. “We’ve made great progress,” he said. “But we still need to work harder to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, and we have many projects to do this.”

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continued from page 1 daughter’s social studies and geography teacher, Barbara Nado. Horodyskyj was invited to give a presentation on her experiences around the world, and prepared a slide show highlighting her excursions to Antarctica, Iceland and the base camp at Mt. Everest. “She’s one of the best speakers we’ve had,” the teacher said. “She’s able to get ideas in ways that are easy to understand for students. She relates well to all ages — she’s just a natural speaker and very energetic.” Horodyskyj offered to take the school’s flag, signed by the sixth grade class, with her on her journey, and returned to the school earlier this month to bring the flag back to the students and share details of her climb up Kilimanjaro. “My daughter absolutely loved it. Most kids are used to reading about places in textbooks. But it means so much more when someone comes to them who has been there, and they can see actual pictures. It’s more realistic to them,” Berard said. A third-year doctoral student studying the weathering of volcanic rocks in extreme environments, Horodyskyj first found her love of the outdoors during camping trips with her parents as a child. Always interested in the sciences, Horodyskyj participated in the National Science Fair in high school and used scholarships and awards from her science projects to help pay for her undergraduate education at Rice University. At Rice, Horodyskyj discovered her passion for geology when she took a class on Antarctic geology. Through department field trips as an undergrad, she not only found an academic discipline that interested her, but also discovered a community of other students that shared her passion. “I learned that people who climb have a real camaraderie,” she said. Because of her interest in geology, she has also been able to develop a friendship with Emmy award-winning filmmaker and mountaineer David Breashears — one of the heroes of her youth. Breashears is perhaps most recognized for a film that Horodyskyj saw when she was 12 years old, the 1998 IMAX film “Everest.” While Horodyskyj, who currently works for Breashears as a project assistant, admires him for his passion for mountain environments, his filmmaking and his founding of the Glacier Research Imaging Project, Horodyskyj sees his work ethic as his most admirable quality — something she hopes to emulate. “He had to work hard for everything himself, and he isn’t interested in wasting time. He still made it, and he made it big. His best advice to me is just ‘don’t listen to naysayers,’ ” Horodyskyj said. This refusal to take criticism to heart has given Horodyskyj her

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“We climb because climbing keeps us alive.”
— Ulyana Horodyskyj GS, who climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro last fall

headstrong grad student scales Kilimanjaro
drive — her final stretch to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro was one difficult push from 15,000 to 19,000 feet. Climbing from midnight until 8 a.m., Horodyskyj and her partner were equipped with only a head lamp for light until sunrise. “The sun rose and the mountainside was glowing. Most people will look at a picture of Mt. Kilimanjaro and see beauty, but when I look at a picture, I see the reality of the climb. I remember 50 mile-per-hour winds when I couldn’t breathe. A loss of oxygen, the bitter cold, mosquitoes and insects — so cold it’s like climbing with the flu,” she said. While she has only suf fered a few minor injuries, Horodyskyj said she is aware of the dangers of such strenuous mountain climbs. Horodyskyj firmly believes that “mountain climbers are not adrenaline seekers or death seekers.” “We climb because climbing keeps us alive. I’m aware of the risks. Climbing is an affirmation of life. There is always something to strive for — there is always some physical mountain, some mental goal,” she said. To help her remember this, Horodyskyj brings with her on every climb a string of multi-colored flags, each containing messages from her friends and loved ones. “Seeing the nice messages from friends makes coming down mandatory,” she said. “It keeps me strong — a reason to come down. To come back and be safe.”

MFa playwright program moves to theater department
By sarah Mancone Senior Staff Writer

In order to bring playwrights closer to the performance of their work, Brown’s MFA Program in Playwriting has been moved from the Literary Arts Program to the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies. Erik Ehn, professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies and head of the playwriting program, said he endorsed the change because it will enable student playwrights “to hear their work out loud.” Moving the program to the theater department is “putting the chickens closer to the feed,” Ehn added. The decision was made “after much thought and many conversations with the provost, the dean and the faculty,” said Brian Evenson, professor of literary arts and director of the literary arts program. “Most of the professors teaching playwriting have moved” to the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, Evenson said. For students, “the requirements are not dissimilar to what they were before,” he added. Evenson said the switch was made because, “we realized that the playwrights were spending more time with Trinity (Repertor y Company) and with (the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies) than they

were with Literary Arts.” “We were happy to have the playwrights with us,” Evenson said, “but it seemed — administratively — a better idea to make the move, particularly if an emphasis continued to be placed on production.” Through transferring the playwriting program to the theater department, Ehn said he plans to “put emphasis on the live quality of writing.” “Playwriting needs the support of the theater community,” he said. “Theater is a live, temporal event.” Despite the shift, Ehn said he aims to “maintain a close relationship with literary arts.” “I am in awe of what literary arts does,” said Ehn. “We had a fantastic and nationally recognized program.” Evenson also emphasized the importance of maintaining interdepartmental relations. “We’ve continued to welcome the playwrights into our classes,” he said. “We accept playwriting workshops as work towards a degree in literary arts.” Ehn intends to “carry that legacy forward” by not making too many significant changes to the program. “My personality and tastes will affect the mission of the program,” Ehn said. But any change is “not a correction, but evolution.

alum’s effort endows SciLi science center opens next week Latino studies program
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By Mark rayMond Contributing Writer

The University’s U.S. Latino Studies program recently received a $125,000 endowment through the Rodriguez ’83 U.S. Latino Studies Challenge, spearheaded by Carmen Rodriguez ’83 and her husband as well as other alumni donors. The challenge, which Rodriguez suggested to Boldly Brown’s Alumni of Color Initiative, encouraged donors to contribute to a new endowment, which will support faculty and students studying Latino culture and experience in the U.S. Rodriguez and her husband pledged to match up to $50,000 in contributions, and the original goal was to raise a total of $100,000 by the end of the last year. “As Brown alumni, we have an obligation to support the University,” Rodriguez wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “It is thanks to the phenomenal education that I received at Brown that I am now able to give back and thankfully, make a difference,” she added. Evelyn Hu-Dehart, professor of history and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, spoke highly of the U.S. Latino Studies program and its potential for growth. The endowment will be used toward existing projects and new

curricular offerings, she said. “We are being noticed nationally and internationally because of the projects we have here,” Hu-Dehart said. U.S. Latino Studies has helped Martha Franco ’12 learn about her own culture and the role Latinos play in the U.S. today, she wrote in an email to The Herald. “I have gained a lot of understanding about my own culture and the growing influence the Latino culture has had on American society,” Franco wrote. “Moreover the program has also expanded my knowledge on topics like race, ethnicity, gender roles, and class in general.” Hu-Dehart said she believes it is becoming increasingly important to be aware of Latino culture in America. “To have U.S. Latino Studies at Brown means to understand ourselves more comprehensively, and it gives us a link to the world,” she said. Franco wrote that the endowment will help her examine the role Latinos play in the U.S. “I would love to see Latino Studies expand further and offer more courses that deal with the complexity of U.S. Latino culture,” Franco wrote. “On a personal level, more funding for the program will allow my studies here at Brown to be enriched with a deeper understanding about the role Latinos play in the United States.”

four of which are retrofitted with space for advanced smart boards. Located throughout the center are also myriad visual displays, including images that can be enhanced with 3-D glasses and are broadcast from observatories and laboratories around the world, a planetary data center and a rotating globe showing the earth’s phases of daylight. An interactive touch screen at the reception area allows students to sign up for study sessions that are already in progress in the center’s various rooms and reserve their own study spaces. “We want to pull people in and get them engaged,” Targan said. “It’s definitely state-of-the-art in terms of a learning space.” The space contains rooms outfitted with white boards and conference tables for more effective group study sessions, a response to recommendations proposed in 2008 by one of the center’s focus groups, he said, adding that stu-

dents will be able to reserve time in the rooms remotely through a Web site. Faculty and advisers will be available throughout the center, which will provide another venue for Brown’s “advising-central concept,” Targan said. As part of Brown’s efforts to buoy its educational support system, the center will also serve as a locus for a new tutoring program. The program will involve a “groupstudy model” with an emphasis on study skills and problem-solving techniques for the larger science courses offered, said Instructional Coordinator Sarah Taylor, a specialist in science education and one of the program’s coordinators. The pilot support program, which has its first training session for tutors this Saturday, will be offered to students taking CHEM 0350: “Organic Chemistry” and PHYS 0040: “Basic Physics,” she said. “The university is changing the model of how student study groups are available,” she said. “It’s hopefully something we are

going to expand into other gateway courses.” In addition to providing a hub for the Brown community, the center will also be a space for students and teachers from across Rhode Island to devise experiments and bring them back to their own schools. An “outreach office” on one side of the center contains a lab bench with an overhead camera that projects live images onto a television screen at the front of the room. “Inquiry-based science is just a much more potent way of science teaching,” Targan said. “That just enriches the science education that’s going on in the schools.” The University also hopes to procure more science grants by championing the new center, he said, adding that Brown has already hosted meetings with state officials to promote the space. “We’re a rich community engaged in doing science itself,” Targan said. “We’re trying to generate excitement about science in general and science at Brown.”

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Silk and bamboo books exhibit makes debut
By Julia kiM Contributing Writer

An exhibit showcasing the art and craft of East Asian bookbinding is not only the first of its kind at Brown — but also in the nation, according to the exhibit’s curator. Though there have been two exhibits in the past at Brown on East Asian art or historical East Asian books, “East Asian Book Art” is the first exhibit to focus specifically on book design, said Li Wang, curator of Brown’s East Asian Collection. East Asia has had a “long histor y of human civilization” and a “long tradition of book design and book binding,” Wang said. The exhibit, which will be open at the John Hay Library through the end of February, primarily features recently published books donated

by East Asian book venders and from Wang’s personal collection. Despite being published recently, the books display a great historical range in content and a wide variety of styles. Though the majority of the works in the collection come from China, the exhibit also contains Japanese children’s books featuring traditional woodblock prints, and a Korean text that shows the development of the Korean vernacular. Also on display are Chairman Mao’s “Little Red Book” and the Chinese Yongle Encyclopedia. Some of the featured Chinese books’ covers incorporated elements of their subject matter, including silk, bamboo slats, embroider y and porcelain. A book on coins from the Song Dynasty was shaped as a circle and featured

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The John Hay Library is displaying an exhibit on East Asian bookbinding, the first such showcase in the country.

ancient coins. The exhibit is especially relevant as China is experiencing rapid development and economic growth, said Toshiyuki Minami, senior librar y specialist. As most of the books displayed were published in China one “can see how prosperous China has become,” he said. “It costs money” to cre-

ate elaborately designed books, Minami added. Wang said the exhibit would be a good introduction to “students who might be interested in East Asian cultures and civilization.” Mengfei Xue ’12, who assisted Wang in putting together the exhibit, called it “very impressive.” After visiting the exhibit, Pro-

fessor of History Cynthia Brokaw said it “beautifully showed the variety and the invention, the creativity and also just the beauty of recent publications.” Wang said the exhibit is a good way to promote Brown and show its more “global thinking.” It’s important for people to know that Brown has “treasure,” he added.

Playwright alums dominate the national drama scene
By luisa roBledo Staff Writer

Brown’s playwriting program stole the show. According to the October 2009 issue of American Theatre Magazine, it was a dramatic victory — Brown alums wrote four out of the five top-produced plays in the country. Stephen Karam ’02, author of “Speech and Debate,” which shared second place with two other plays, said he was inspired by a speech given at his freshman convocation by then-Professor of Literary Arts Paula Vogel, who headed the playwriting program for more than two decades. “I felt like, ‘This is getting off to a

good start,’ to have my favorite playwright welcoming me to Brown,” he said. According to Karam, he wasn’t a “stand-out theatrical star” while he was an undergraduate. Production Workshop, the student-run theater group, rejected his first two works, he said. However, the success of “Speech and Debate” is not debatable — after a great run off-Broadway, it’s being turned into a movie. “When you write a hit play, life is fantastic,” Karam said, laughing. “When you’re struggling to create your next one, it’s like every other terrible job. But, you feel compelled — it’s what you love.” Sarah Ruhl ’97 MFA ’01 also ranked second. Her play, “Dead

Man’s Cell Phone,” has been produced eight times and will be staged by the Trinity Repertory Company this February. Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Erik Ehn said Ruhl “writes works marked with intellectual curiosity and global sophistication.” “Sarah is a model of the contemporary experimental writer,” Ehn, who is also the newly appointed director of the graduate playwriting program, said. “She is able to work with a range of styles and a variety of venues.” Ehn also said Vogel was one of the key factors to the program’s success. “She put her full heart and soul into constructing this program,” he said. “We are operating in the house she built.” Brown’s liberal arts education and “student-centered environment” created an ideal place for innovation and adventurousness, he said. “We accept students who are already outside the box, and we try to keep them outside boxes while they’re here.” For Rachel Jendrzejewski GS, the program’s freedom makes it unique. Students only have to take

two or three classes, leaving them with a lot of time to write. “You are encouraged to find your own voice — whatever you’re interested in following,” she said. Jendrzejewski added that Ehn wants them to approach and explore social issues through theater. He includes readings on events currently happening all over the world to get them thinking about the reality around them, she said. “Erik wants to make sure we are actually engaging with the outside world,” said Mallery Avidon GS. “He provides us with many opportunities to stay connected.” One of Ehn’s initiatives includes a three-week trip to Rwanda and Uganda, in which students speak with artists who deal with their society’s recovery from genocide. “The more theater can respond to the outside world, the more it can cause change,” Avidon said. By merging playwriting with social responsibility, Ehn said he plans to transmit to his students the power playwriting can have. “I believe playwriting can save the world,” Ehn said. By invigorating people’s minds, bringing them

together and creating a collective identity, playwrights can guide audiences to revisit and understand social issues, he said. Mia Chung GS said Ehn also encourages a proactive inclusion of members of the Providence community in their writing. He has created new relationships with students from Rhode Island School of Design and promoted the use of spaces throughout the city, Chung said. “He opened up Providence,” Chung said. Chung also said the fact that the program is fully funded is “a big plus” for students. Tuition is covered and each student receives a stipend for living allowance, she said. Their only responsibility is to teach and to learn. “That’s why you can really manage to focus on writing, writing and writing,” she said. “Brown gives you the time to let your imagination loose and discover that there is no formula for playwriting.” “Brown creates a great environment for risk-taking,” said Karam. “If I hadn’t had Brown’s support, I would have never made it to New York.”

athlete of the break: Basketball forward tucker halpern ’13
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Though most of the school got fiveand-a-half weeks off for winter break, the men’s basketball team took just four days off. The hard work paid off for forward Tucker Halpern ’13. The rookie had two career-high nights, scoring 22 points against Wagner on Jan. 4 and another 26 points a week later against Quinnipiac. He was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week on Jan. 11 — and he has now been named the Herald Athlete of the Break. Herald: Was it good for team bonding to have ever yone at Brown over break? Halpern: I’m really close with Andrew McCarthy (’13), one of the other freshmen. We had been playing together since before we came here, so we got to bond with the other two freshmen a lot more than we had. It was real good. How did you know Andrew before? We played AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) basketball together growing up, and we went to somewhat rival schools in the same league. Did one of you influence the other to come to Brown? I was the first one to commit in

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Forward Tucker Halpern ’13 set new career-highs for points over break, scoring 22 against Wagner and then 26 against Quinnipiac.

the recruiting class, and I definitely did some good recruiting on him to get him to come here, too. I mean, coaches did, too. But they know I helped. Where else were you considering? I was getting a lot of different levels of recruitment — a lot of the other Ivy League schools, some Atlantic 10 schools like UMass, and some bigger schools like Georgetown and Michigan. Why did you pick Brown instead of a big-time program like Georgetown or Michigan? I wanted to get a chance to play right away and make an impact right away on the team, and that would be a lot tougher at a real high-major. I also — I’m from Boston — so being close to home is nice — but not too close. And I just like Brown a lot. I kind of decided at the end of my decision-making that I wanted to go to an Ivy League school for the education and diploma. Is it weird to now be playing against the other schools that recruited you? Do you have an extra chip on your shoulder in those games? Yeah, I think I have an extra chip on my shoulder, especially when we just played Yale. (There were) a lot of things interesting about that game

because my brother goes there. He does the radio for their games. So he was doing the radio for the game, I was very close to their coaches in the recruiting process and my dad went there. For a while, I thought that it would probably be the place that I would end up, so it was interesting to play them. I think I actually played with too much emotion and nervousness because I was so anxious to play them, and I had two tough games. Was your brother cheering for you or Yale? He said he had to make it sound like he was cheering for Yale, but — especially after we had won the first game, he was hoping we would win the second, just because, I mean, it would be a great start to the season. He always wanted me to do well, but I think he was a little split on who he wanted to win. He’s a pretty big fan of Yale. Who wins when you and your brother play one-on-one? I do. Has it always been like that? For a while. He’ll still — well, not really anymore — but for a while, he would take one from me every now and then because he goes so hard when we play. I mean, he would just run harder than me just because he’s the older brother.

M. hoops hosts tigers and Quakers
By Tony Bakshi Spor tS Staf f Writer

After splitting the season series against Yale over the past two weeks, the men’s basketball team (7-12, 1-1 Ivy) tips off against two bastions of the Ivy League this weekend. The Princeton Tigers (9-5, 0-0) and Penn Quakers (1-13, 0-0) combined to win eight of the 10 Ivy League titles in the last decade. And while the teams — especially the Quakers — have recently fallen on hard times, Brown Head Coach Jesse Agel knows his team has two tough battles ahead as it enters the heart of league play. “There’s nothing like it,” Agel said, referring to the league’s Friday-Saturday scheduling format. “It’s a unique thing, and it’s going to be a first-time experience with a team that uses so many freshmen.” Princeton will come into the Pizzitola Center playing well, having won seven of its last eight non-conference games. The Tigers rounded out their non-conference schedule last Sunday by defeating Division III Goucher College, 88-35. The Quakers are in the midst of a tumultuous year, marked by an early-season firing of former Brown coach Glen Miller after a 0-7 start. Interim Head Coach Jerome Allen has not fared much better, with the team dropping three straight contests after its only victory of the year at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Despite the disappointing results on the scoreboard, Allen praised his players for maintaining focus through the coaching change. “I think the guys have done a tremendous job in just responding in the most positive manner,” Allen said. The Bears will have to focus their defensive efforts on Penn’s Zack Rosen to be successful Saturday night. Rosen, a sophomore guard, is averaging 16.2 points per game, which places him fifth in the league. “We have to keep him in front of us,” Agel said. “He’s a very good player who can score the ball. More importantly, we have to prevent him from getting his teammates good shots and raising their confidence.” Before arriving in Providence for Saturday’s 7 p.m. start, Penn will kick off its league schedule Friday at Yale. Meanwhile, Bears fans will hope for two bounce-back performances from Tucker Halpern ’13. Halpern was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week two weeks ago, after his strong games against Wagner and Army and a career-high 26 points against Quinnipiac. But his conference career got off to a rocky start, as he was 1-of-19 shooting in the games against the Bulldogs, including 0-of-9 from behind the arc. “Guys are going to have of f nights,” Agel said. “All he needs to do is keep playing with the utmost confidence. It’s a learning

experience, and he’ll perform very well.” Brown will also look to come out of the gate fast in both matchups. The Bulldogs pounced on the Bears last Friday, scoring 12 of the first 14 points and forcing Brown to play catch-up for the remainder of the game. “This year, there’s only been a few times we haven’t come out scoring well,” Agel said. “It’s been one of our strengths, so (the start against Yale) was just a blip on the screen.” If the Bears hope to hang with two of the most storied programs in the Ivy League this weekend, they will likely need to avoid any more blips.

princeton record ivy league record scoring offense scoring defense Fg percentage Fg defense percentage assist/ Turnover ratio 6-11 1-1 68.5 73.6 44.2% 43.8% 1.1 9-5 0-0 60.1 55.1 42.3% 41.2% 0.8

penn 1-13 0-0 62.9 80.1 39.0% 49.3% 0.8

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a meal credit or a snack credit?
register is a colleague, and the person who made your sandwich a friend? Is it because we really don’t know that we’re paying so much extra for food here? Or is it because the dollars are already paid, and we don’t realize how much money we’re spending on chips alone? So what do we do? We know there’s a problem, but it’s not like we can stop eatWhy do we let this happen to us, and why are we such easy prey? All we have to do is ask, “Why is the price of this fruit salad so high?” It’s not a crime to ask if you’re confused. Even though more than half of the students can afford to pay inflated prices for food, the extra money we have to pay creates an atmosphere of mistrust at our university. The message it sends is that Brown, at the What kind of attitude do we impress upon freshmen when we show disregard for these inflated prices? Freshmen come to Brown, go for their first meal at the Gate or Jo’s, and while they were used to paying a buck for a half-liter of water, or eighty-five cents for potato chips, they are suddenly expected to pay one-and-a-half times that and add extra items to their meal because they’re still a couple dollars shy of two meal credits. Of course, they can’t make a fuss, because what would people think? Besides, there are some very stressed and irritable-looking upperclassmen tapping their feet impatiently behind them. One of the things that fomented the American Revolution was loud, boisterous colonists grumbling and shouting in the taverns. To a lesser magnitude, we need to do the same thing. That is, start talking to each other about the inflated prices while in the eateries until it gets to the ears of those in charge or until it propels some students to get together and take action. Just mention the high prices now, casually, to your friends as you finish reading this article and are about to bite into your panini. Nida Abdulla ’11.5 plans to boycott the Gate this semester. She can be contacted at [email protected].

By NIdA ABdULLA
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I feel like someone out there in the intricate corporate web that is Brown is sticking it to me every time I buy food at the Gate, Jo’s or the Ivy Room. The other day I missed dinner in the V-Dub, so I decided to go to the Gate for a meal. A meal at the Gate is six bucks, and it bought me a cup of soup, a bag of Stacy’s pita chips and a Yoplait yogurt. I carried my purchases to the table and surveyed my meal. Frustrated, I began to eat. We never complain about the food prices here. Why? So what if we’re affluent college students or our meal plans are already paid for? There’s no moral or legal law out there that says it is okay to charge people more just because they can pay. Whereas at the Gate I have to pay four-plus dollars for a cup of soup, I can get an actual (and presumably bigger) bowl of soup for $3.85 from Via Via. Where is our money going? Are we unwittingly donating to some charity fund when we hand over an extra dollar for a Yoplait yogurt? Ever since my freshman year, I have watched this robbery go on, without a murmur, and more often with a smile. Is it because so often the person working at the

Brown, at the end of the day, will still reach into our pockets for our pennies even after we pay a hefty tuition.
ing. A lot of us have fixes at the Gate or Jo’s that we can’t do without. Well, we could try. We could organize a mass exodus from the late-night eateries until they bring down the prices. Or we could just talk to the person in charge … but who is that? I have asked student workers before who is in charge, and usually they don’t know. They are just reporting to some other student, and the student managers are reporting to the Brown Dining Services office. end of the day, will still reach into our pockets for our pennies even after we pay a hefty tuition. Furthermore, because we do ultimately shell out as much as we do on otherwise cheap foods, our staff has a hard time relating to us. They themselves would not pay as much as we do because they cannot afford it or it is too wasteful. Do we want to be seen as wasteful by the Dining Services workers? What about by the freshmen?

Brown, rotC and DaDt
By WILLIAM TOMASKO
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This year, if President Barack Obama can fulfill a promise he made in Wednesday’s State of the Union address, Congress will finally repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military. When — and only when — this national injustice is remedied, Brown’s administration should begin planning to welcome the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps back to College Hill. One national leader in the fight to stop the military’s discrimination has been Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass. Frank, who is gay, is an influential House committee chair and has strategized with the White House and Democratic leadership on how to end the ban. In an interview with The Advocate, he described his strong confidence in a plan to include the policy’s repeal in a Defense Department authorization bill, which would be debated and voted on this spring and summer. If passed, starting Oct. 1, gays and lesbians could join the military without having to pretend to be straight. Besides Frank’s preferred strategy, a separate bill to overturn the ban has already been introduced in the House, and Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., is considering doing the same in the Senate. Regardless of the exact nature of its passage, it is increasingly clear that Obama will be able to carry out his pledge to abolish the 1993 “don’t ask, don’t tell” compromise. As Frank said, “The administration is totally committed to this and has been from the beginning.” Once the military stops discriminating based on sexual orientation, the University should reinstate Brown’s ROTC program. The Corps has been disbanded since 1971, the height of the Vietnam War, when administrators and the program’s overseers could not agree to make it an extracurricular activity rather than an academic department. Now, Brown students can take ROTC courses and undergo training at Providence College, but they do not receive academic credit from Brown for their work and must provide turn, according to a November Herald poll. Some proponents of an immediate return, such as The Herald’s editorial page board, acknowledge that discrimination would ensue, but believe the policy would still yield incremental advantages. In “U. should reinstate ROTC” (Feb. 12, 2009), The Herald’s editorial page board argued that open-minded Brown students “could provide gay soldiers with valuable allies in the ranks,” and, soldier by soldier, convince a number of levels, it would not be sweeping and would not greatly liberalize the armed forces. Rather than focus on the questionable amount of positive change either policy could bring about, the debate should center on whether the discriminatory nature of ROTC would be acceptable at Brown. No matter the merits of reinstating ROTC, it would be clearly discriminatory and blatantly unjust for Brown to offer credited courses that open gays and lesbians would not be allowed to take. The Herald’s editorials have argued to reinstate ROTC in the interest of pragmatism, and I can usually appreciate the value of making incremental progress toward more just ends. However, this is not the time for incrementalism. This is not the time for making the best out of a bad situation. This is not the time for saying that more work has to be done to change social attitudes before we can demand equality and fairness. Polls consistently show that landslideworthy majorities of the American public support letting gays and lesbians serve openly in the military. Obama won the presidency in a rout while promising to end “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Democrats won commanding majorities in Congress while many of them were promising to end “don’t ask, don’t tell.” A clear, popular consensus exists for ending the military’s injustice, and, facing the reality of that climate, Brown need not decide to flinch from defending equality in the interest of pragmatism.

Rather than focus on the questionable amount of positive change either policy could bring about, the debate should center on whether the discriminatory nature of ROTC would be acceptable at Brown.
for their own transportation. Only one student currently participates. The ban on gays’ and lesbians’ service ought to be the only reason against ROTC’s return — the program vitally promotes the importance of national service, and Brown students would truly make valuable future leaders in the military. If the University has other reasons why they would oppose ROTC after “don’t ask, don’t tell” is repealed, they should name and justify them. Many on campus are eager to welcome ROTC back even before the sexual orientation ban is overturned. A plurality of 41.3 percent of students would support this retheir fellow enlisted men and women to be more tolerant and embracing of homosexuals, which would eventually foster a military climate more favorable to someday ending “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Such a defense of hosting a discriminatory ROTC is certainly thoughtful. However, I doubt that helping pro-gay rights activism can be an effective justification for either side in this debate. Congress will certainly not decide to end “don’t ask, don’t tell” because it is cowed by a Brown boycott. While the support military officers who are Brown alumni can give to gay and lesbian soldiers would, of course, be valuable on individual

William Tomasko ’13 is an undecided concentrator from Washington, d.C. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Men’s Basketball — The Bears host two of the most storied basketball programs in the Ivy League this weekend. Princeton (9-5, 0-0 Ivy) will visit the Pizzitola Center on Friday at 7 p.m. and Penn (1-13, 0-0 Ivy) will take the court exactly 24 hours later. Men’s hockey — The men’s hockey team will have a chance to move up the ECAC Hockey standings this weekend, as Brown will take Rensselaer on Friday at 7 p.m. and league leader Union at the same hour on the following night. Wrestling — The Bears take on Army in their home opener on Saturday at 12 p.m. in the Pizzitola Center. Women’s Basketball — At Princeton on Friday at 7 p.m. and at Penn on Saturday at 7 p.m. Women’s hockey — At yale on Saturday at 2 p.m. and home versus yale on Sunday at 2 p.m.

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Coal to Ken Miller ’70 P’02 for being named to the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. How can we even be sure he was appointed? A diamond to the Admission Office for placing excess applications in Alumnae Hall. We suppose this was just payback for the day after Sex Power God, when the organizers stashed all the excess lube in the Admission Office. 5.2 billion diamonds to new Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan ’81. Wait, you lost them already? Coal to Erroll Southers ’78 for withdrawing his name for Transportation Security Administration head. We would have dropped out, too, given the prospect of seeing all those horrifying full-body scans. Diamond to President Simmons for giving Brown a “shout-out” at the BET Honors. When you go to your meeting at the Smithsonian, don’t forget to give us a whisper-out. And one more diamond to Ruth for doing what our other president couldn’t do — sign a climate bill. Coal to Providence Fire Capt. Russ McDonald, who said people at Brown “don’t know how to cook.” Yeah, but I bet we could work the fire pole better than you. Coal to Professor Erik Ehn for comparing the graduate playwriting program’s move to “putting the chickens closer to the feed.” Too bad the students are still one MFA away from being starving artists. Diamond to the student who wasn’t worried about Faunce Arch’s closing because “kvetching is kind of pointless.” Oy, we’re glad you’re not plotzing over this meshuga. It takes a lot of chutzpah to make us schlep to class. Diamond to the state Republican candidates who said they were “ready to fight” in the elections. That’s good, because Democrat Chris Young is driving around on non-federal highways ready to throw some DVDs at you.

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