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vol. cxliv, no. 21 | Friday, February 20, 2009 | Serving the community daily since 1891

Budget, long-term planningtake center stage this weekendby chaz Kelsh

and Jenna starK

News editors

With an economic crisis throwing

a wrench in the Universitys ambi-

tious spending plans, the Corpo-

ration will have some major deci-

sions to make when it convenes

or a meeting this weekend.Chancellor Thomas Tisch

76, who arrived in Providence

Wednesday evening, said the

Corporation plans to review an

extraordinary amount o inorma-

tion this weekend. Its a pretty

ull schedule, he said.

One month ater the University

revealed it has likely lost roughly

30 percent o its endowment in

less than a year, sacriice may have

become the name o the game

or the inal years o President

Ruth Simmons signature capital

campaign. Though several major

projects including a new itness

center and a huge brain sciencesbuilding remain on Browns

to-do list, administrators have ac-

knowledged that, even i no new

building is scrapped, timelines will

need to be pushed back.

Some ambitious academic ini-

tiatives with tighter budgets

ahead also appear likely to su-

er rom a decreased availability

o unds, though the University

has repeatedly expressed its com-mitment to the goals o the Plan

or Academic Enrichment, Sim-

mons wide-ranging blueprint to

improve the schools academic

standing. The Universitys desire

to expand the Graduate School to

keep up with the growing size o

aculty, or example, is likely to

go unmet.

The Corporation, which gath-

ers three times annually in Feb-

ruary, May and October will

use this meeting to approve a bud-

get or the iscal year that begins

July 1. Simmons is expected to

present a balanced budget to the

by Jyotsna Mullur

staffwriter

Underwater WHAT?

The Rhode Island Reds a

team o underwater hockey enthu-

siasts oten hear this when they

tell riends what sport they play.

And on the surace, their un-

usual pastime merits the conused

response they receive.

On Thursday, the club teams

ippered players lined up along

the walls o the Care New England

Wellness Center in Warwick. At

a teammates signal, the players

dove rantically toward the center

o the rectangular swimming pool,

splashing loudly.

Suddenly, the splashing

stopped. The surace became de-

ceptively calm while, underwater,

eight fn- and snorkel-clad players

swam and icked small, one-oot

sticks. They pushed a lead puck

around on the pool oor.

T,

U. jby anne siMons

seNiorstaffwriter

When members o the Corpora-

tion gather on College Hill this

weekend, they will ace the sticky

reality o an economic recession

that threatens to derail or delaya number o planned construc-

tion projects on the Universitys

radar.

Browns top governing board is

likely to have a tougher standard

or evaluating whether or not to

move orward with projects, said

Richard Spies, executive vice presi-

dent or planning and senior adviser

to President Ruth Simmons. Given

the economy, administrators will

almost certainly do less than we

otherwise would have, he said.

In recent years, construction

has sometimes been given the

go-ahead to begin even beore all

money pledged by donors or the

Kim Perle / Herald

Trading ice skates for flippers, nderwater hocke plaers swam for the goal at a practice last night.

Qidong Chen / Herald

The Corporation ma rle this weekend on the fate of a new swim center, among other things.

continued onpage 2

A, B . b by hannah Moser

seNiorstaffwriter

Human rights are essential to a air and

just society though war can compli-

cate things, Larry Cox, the executive

director o Amnesty International USA,

and University o Caliornia, BerkeleyProessor o Law John Yoo agreed in

a debate at Salomon 101 Thursday

aternoon.

But the two agreed about little else,

with Cox who has spent his career

deending human rights describ-

ing such rights as sel-evident while

Yoo, a ormer lawyer or George W.

Bushs administration, countered that

such rights were sometimes, i not

sel-evident, sel-deeating.

At the nearly ull Janus Forum lec-

ture, One World, Many People: Are

There Universal Human Rights? the

two speakers took the divergent posi-

tions their backgrounds suggested

they would.

Cox used his initial 25 minutes

on the oor to describe the impact o

the Universal Declaration o Human

Rights that the General Assembly o

the United Nations adopted in 1948.

I governments generally do not like

limits on their power, Cox asked, then

why did they agree to such a pact?

One reason, he said, was that hu-

man rights are hailed as the ounda-

tion o peace. But governments do

not always ollow through with such

agreements because they do not be-

lieve they can be held to the accord,he said. This is why, Cox said, it is up

to people to use the power o moral

pressure to claim these rights.

The past decade has been one

o the most damaging to human

rights, Cox said. Citing detentions,

disappearances and the use o torture,

Cox said, human rights violations are

carried out in the name o security

everywhere.

Yoo, a contributor to the Patriot Act

who is known or his advocacy o the

legality o torture during wartime, said

he did not think he and Cox disagreed

about how an ideal world would look.

But he said that rights apply dier-

ently when a countrys security is

threatened. It is generally accepted,

or example, that killing does not count

as murder during war, he said, adding

that detainment keeps soldiers rom

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SPOTLIGHT

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CAUS wS yo have got to come back p and breathe. Gabriel Matthias, member of the Rhode Island Reds

building is in hand. But one pos-

sible response rom the Corpora-

tion this weekend, Spies said, is

to withhold fnal approval on all

projects until 100 percent o unds

have been collected.

The Corporation also has au-

thoritative input in choosing archi-

tects and approving design plans,

said Steve Maiorisi, vice president

or Facilities Management.

The current economic environ-

ment leaves the uture o some

high profle building projects in

doubt. Some projects, like the

Creative Arts Center, are readyto move orward, Associate Pro-

vost Pamela ONeil said, because

o success with undraising or the

building. With approval rom the

Corporation, the University hopes

to break ground this summer, she

said.

The renovation o Faunce

House into an expanded campus

center is also expected to go or-

ward soon. But ONeil said the

Faunce changes may be split into

two phases, with the renovation o

the old mailroom area potentially

moving orward sooner than the

more extensive plans or the rest

o the building.Other projects, however, are

less certain. Plans or a $70 million

brain sciences building, provision-

ally dubbed the Mind Brain Be-

havior Building, will be reviewed,

but undraising has been slow, ac-

cording to Spies.

The Nelson Fitness Center and

a new swim center are currentlyon hold, Maiorisi said, but recent

developments may change plans

or the swim center. Executive

Vice President or Finance and

Administration Beppie Huidekoper

revealed on Wednesday, speaking

at a meeting o the Undergraduate

Council o Students, that an alum

has pledged a large proportion o

the needed unds or a new pool.

In addition to the initial costs

o construction, increased operat-

ing costs rom new buildings are

also an important consideration

when planning new projects, Spies

said. With any new acility, thereare usually increases to operating

budgets that must be accounted

or in University spending, he said,

adding that the budget is a main

constraint.

In the meantime, the Univer-

sity may be looking to scale down

projects or do renovations instead,

ONeil said. Classroom renova-

tions have already taken place,

and minor dorm upgrades will

continue, with the pace o these

projects determined by the eco-

nomic situation, she said.

Despite the economic slow-

down, Brown will still have access

to debt markets that fnance suchrenewal projects, Spies said.

The economic crisis does not

mean that construction will stop,

Maiorisi said, adding that potential

donors can come in anytime, and

that there is currently a very com-

petitive market or construction.

C j

continued frompage 1 Universitys highest governing

body a departure rom the lastseveral years, in which the Corpo-

ration has approved the spending

o reserve unds to inance the

goals o the Plan or Academic

Enrichment.

The proposed $551 million

budget, which administrators dis-

cussed at a meeting o the Brown

University Community Council

earlier this month, would repre-

sent a $4.5 million decline rom

the current years budget, and a

stark $21 million reduction rom

the igure the Corporation had

sketched out or the year last May.

The University has said it needsto cut $60 million in previously

projected spending or the next

ive years, beginning with the next

budget.

Given the tough choices acing

it, the Corporation will ocus on

adjustments the University needs

to make in the ace o market up-

heaval, Tisch said.

Still, he said there was a very

clear sense o a plan and a sense o

direction to move certain objec-tives orward, and that the Corpo-

ration hopes to support Simmons

goals.

Dealing with the economic

crisis will be the overriding

theme o the meeting, said Rus-

sell Carey 91 MA06, senior vice

president or Corporation a-

airs and University governance.

The Corporation, which ormed

an ad hoc committee at its last

meeting in October to assess the

economys impact, will be deal-

ing with ongoing uncertainty

as it considers the next budget,

he added. Tisch said Brown was rela-

tively well-positioned compared

to some wealthier peer schools,

and that the University has great

strengths in times o economic

decline. Brown is lucky that its

revenue relies more on tuition,

and less on endowment unds,

than schools like Har vard, Yale

and Princeton, he said.

Tisch also said the University

was ortunate to be able to post-pone capital projects, and to have

no major construction projects

currently in progress.

We have no big shovels in the

ground, he said.

Some programmatic cuts may

also be on the table this w eekend.

Reductions in student services can

be expected, Margaret Klawunn,

vice president or campus lie and

student services, said earlier this

week. Reductions in the budgets

o academic departments might

also be discussed.

Among other business matters,

the Corporation is also expectedto review the Universitys policy

regarding conlicts o interest in

research. The policy is being re-

vised to be more transparent and

more in line with ederal regula-

tions, Vice President or Research

Clyde Briant said during a aculty

meeting in December.

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Their goal? A rectangular hole

at the end o one wall, similar to a

giant air hockey goal.But something else is just as im-

portant as shooting the puck in the

hole remembering to breathe.

Every ew seconds, the under-

water hockey players bobbed to

the surace or air, disturbing the

waters surace and hinting at the

rantic and competitive game that

raged just a meter below.

You go down, you push the puck

a certain distance but you have

got to come back up and breathe,

said Gabriel Matthias, a University

o Rhode Island sophomore who has

been playing underwater hockey

or nearly fve years. When yourebreathing, youre kind o out o

the game. Its hard to look down

and watch the other team take the

puck.

But you have to learn that you

just cant go right back down and

keep playing, he added.

Joe Klinger, northeast regional

director o USA Underwater Hock-

ey, agreed.

No one can hold their breath

or an unlimited amount o time, he

said. The hardest thing is coordi-

nating with your teammates to take

advantage o everyones individual

skills.

Many water lovers have splashed

eagerly into the little-known sport.

Matthias said underwater hockey

keeps him in shape or the spearfsh-

ing season. Many spearfshers get

hooked on the sport during the o-season as a way to train and stay in

shape, he said.

About 80 percent o the guys

who play are spearfshermen, and

they play in the winter when theres

no diving to be done, Matthias

said.

Klinger said many divers seeking

entertainment in the winter months

become involved with underwater

hockey as well. In act, the game

was invented by a British diver in

1954.

But thats not to say that it is a

sport only or those with underwater

experience.Water is a great equalizer,

Klinger said. Anyone can play.

According to Klinger, underwa-

ter hockey is even played in physical

education classes elsewhere in the

world and is gaining popularity in

the United States. USA Underwater

Hockey sends mens and womens

teams every two years to the world

tournament.

The Northeast Region boasts at

least 10 underwater hockey clubs

that meet weekly. They compete in

several regional tournaments and

an annual national tournament,

Klinger said.

About two weeks ago, players

rom the Turkish national underwa-

ter hockey team were on hand at a

Connecticut tournament to provide

expert assistance to local teams.

We talked strategy. Theresnot a lot o reerence around here,

since its not as popular, Matthias

said. Getting taught things is a real

treat.

Recently, the Ocean State has

been swept up in the current o

underwater hockeys popularity.

According to Klinger, the number

o Rhode Island underwater hockey

players has surged, especially when

compared to other Northeastern

states.

URI recently recognized an un-

derwater hockey team that Matthias

ounded on campus.

Theres a lot o interest whenyou explain (the sport), he said. It

took me less than a day to get the

eight names required or a club. I

now have 60 names o people inter-

ested in playing.

Currently, the Rhode Island Reds

play weekly in Warwick. Some mem-

bers o the team travel throughout

New England, competing in smaller

regional tournaments.

The Reds weekly pickup games

are largely inormal. They call their

own ouls and use weights to mark

the goals on the swimming pools

walls. New players learn right along-

side the sports seasoned veterans.

The game moves quickly, as each

side quickly racks up goals. I one

team becomes more dominant,

the group reorganizes the teams

to ensure that they are evenly

matched.

But the sport is constantly look-

ing or new stars. Klinger said high

school clubs are emerging across

the nation, and he hopes that play-

ers will get involved at a younger

age. He said he even sees a uture

or underwater hockey on College

Hill.

Brown needs to get something

going! he said.

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We realized that Rth wold be a sick addition. Brent Zajaczkowski 12 on his first-pick competition video

B S shannon obrien

CoNtributiNg writer

Blue State Coee is no longer ex-

clusive to the Brown community.

Now Yale students, too, can enjoy

a cup o coee at the companys

New Haven, Conn., location, which

opened Feb. 12.

The new store is in the heart

o Yales campus, on the ground

oor o an academic building right

across rom a residential hall. The

company rents the space rom

Yale.

Alex Payson 03.5, co-owner

and manager o Blue State, said

the company chose New Haven

in part because co-owner and co-ounder Drew Ruben is a sopho-

more at Yale. In addition, he said,

one o the other our ounders is a

Yale alum.

We know the area, Payson

said. Our ideal demographic is the

liberal New England college town,

and it works pretty well or us.

The new location will be simi-

lar to the one on Thayer Street inbasic concepts and ideas, Payson

said, but it will work hard to cater

to the local community.

Both shops give away 5 per-

cent (o profts to dierent chari-

ties), both are eco-riendly and

both are local, Ruben said. But

Yale ocuses more on social justice

causes, and the Providence-based

one ocuses more on educational

and environmental causes. The di-

erences reect the surrounding

environment.

Both Payson and Ruben said

the store has been well-received

so ar.Business has been antastic

ar better than we could have

hoped, Payson said.

Matthew George, a Yale sopho-

more, was enthusiastic about Blue

State in New Haven.

Theres a ton o coee shops

here, so it was nice to have one

that set itsel apart. It has a pur-

pose the charity stu inuenceseverything, George said. He added

that despite the prevalence o co-

ee shops in the area, Blue State is

usually pretty darn packed.

Payson said Blue State plans to

expand urther in the next year

or two.

Were going to stick with New

England or the next couple stores,

he said, mentioning Boston, New

York City and another Rhode Is-

land location as possibilities. When

weve really got the model perect,

we can open up in Ann Arbor, Wis-

consin, San Fran, Berkeley, L.A.

Ruben said expansion would berelatively slow because the owners

want to keep each store unique.

It takes a lot o careul attention

to make each store really reect

the local community and not just

be a cookie-cutter hodgepodge o

ideas, he said.

B S b by alicia dang

CoNtributiNg writer

The University has signed a

memorandum o understanding

with the Instituto de Empresa in

Madrid, a Spanish university with

top-ranked business programs, to

acilitate cooperation between the

institutions.

The collaboration is driven by

a combination o educational op-

portunities or students and pro-

grams that connect aculty, said

David Kennedy 76, vice president

or International Aairs and interim

director o the Watson Institute orInternational Studies.

The memorandum, which was

signed by Provost David Kertzer 69

P95 P98 and Rector o the Instituto

de Empresa Santiago Iniguez on

Feb. 3, does not create any new

programs or ormal institutional

afliations. Instead, it strives to

provide a oundation or increased

interaction between the universities

and discussion o joint seminars

and other educational, cultural and

research activities, according to a

University statement.

Kennedy said the planning and

actual implementation o the ex-

change programs are still underdiscussion.

He said the University hopes

to explore intellectually what we

can do in management and entre-

preneurship (programs) with IE

and to provide more opportuni-

ties or students concentrating

in Commerce, Organizations and

Entrepreneurship or pursuing a

masters degree with the Program

in Innovation Management and En-

trepreneurship.

The University also aspires to

attract more students to Browns

Summer and Continuing Studies

programs and to fnd new intern-ship and summer studies opportu-

nities or Brown students in Spain,

he said.

But there will probably not be

another regular semester- or year-

long study abroad program estab-

lished between the two schools,

Kennedy said, adding that the

administration is instead trying to

bring new things to the table.

Its a long process. We have

been talking with them or more

than one year, Kennedy said. I will

be back (in Spain) in a ew weeks

I , S, by dan alexander

staffwriter

Eight students sprinted down the

aisles o Salomon 101 during an

economics class, jumped on stage

and broke into o-key song.

Why do you build me up, build

me up, buttercup baby? they sang

to Senior Lecturer Rachel Fried-berg, who was in the middle o her

ECON 0110: Principles o Econom-

ics lecture.

Students flmed rom the seats as

the singers snapped and danced like

an a cappella group, belting out the

Foundations classic hit. The video

was turned in as an entry or the an-

nual First-Pick Lottery Competition

held by Residential Lie.

It was one o nine videos shown

to over 200 students on a big-screen

projector last night in Sayles Hall

in an event hosted by ResLie and

Residential Council.

Students voted or their avorite

videos ater all nine were screened.

The group with the winning video

will be given the frst choice in the

housing lottery this April.

The goal o our video was to

do something that no other group

would have the balls to do, said

Alex Tin 12, one o the Build Me

Up Buttercup singers.

The videos storylines varied

rom a group o reshmen avoiding

an attacking Bruno to one students

pursuit o a Young Orchard dorm,

told as a love story.

This was a lot more about the

movie or us than the competition,

said Anish Farma 12, director o the

attacking Bruno flm.

Farmas video, Ruthless, ea-

tured a cameo rom President Ruth

Simmons as the conniving director

behind the bear attacks.

We realized that Ruth would be

a sick addition, said Brent Zajacz-

kowski 12, another member o the

Ruthless group, about involving

the popular Simmons in the flming.The group realized that Simmons

had one open ofce hour every

month and went in to ask or her

help with the project.

She was really nice about it.

We told her the story and she was

completely willing to help, Zajac-

zkowski said.

The videos will be posted online

within a week, though ResCouncil

Chairman James Reed 09 said the

Council is uncertain exactly when

they will be posted. Students will

have another week to vote or their

avorite videos online.

The event also included inor-

mation tables or program houses,

Greek houses and special-interest

housing.

The point really is to raise

interest about the lottery, about

special-interest housing, program

and Greek houses, Reed said.

Some students visited the inor-

mation tables beore and ater the

videos played, but most students

enjoyed the ood and drinks beore

the show and let right ater the

screenings ended.

That was expected, said

ResCouncil Lottery Subcommit-

Qidong Chen / Herald

Ble State Coffee has a new location in the Brown Bookstore, and et another near yales camps.

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wz B f Aby caroline sedano

seNiorstaffwriter

Ater waiting in a line that stretched

rom the Avon Cinemas doors,

around the corner and past Via Via

IV, more than 400 people flled the

theater beyond capacity to watch

the Oscar-nominated and Golden

Globe award-winning Israeli flm,

Waltz with Bashir. The Wednes-

day aternoon screening was ol-

lowed by a question-and-answer

session with the flms art director

and artist-in-residence at Brown,

David Polonsky.

Waltz with Bashir, a contender

or Best Foreign Film at the Oscars

this Sunday, is the deeply personalstory o Ari Folman, the flms writ-

er, director and producer, who lost

all memory o his time as a soldier

during the 1982 Sabra and Shatila

massacre in Lebanon. Twenty years

ater the event that let hundreds

dead, Folman attempted to reclaim

his lost memories, reuniting with

old army colleagues and investigat-

ing his identity as a soldier and Is-

raeli citizen. Bashir is the artistic

chronicle o his eorts.

The flm, which combines docu-

mentary techniques with cutting-

edge animation, is dark and haunt-

ing. It contends with psychological

trauma, the repercussions o warand an entire countrys struggle

with guilt.

Polonsky explained that, or

Folman, animation provided the

only viable medium or a flm about

the massacre. Folman and Polon-

sky who has also written and

illustrated several childrens books

had worked together on previ-

ous projects beore collaborating

on Bashir.

The logic behind animation is

the act that we are dealing with

memories, hallucinations and his-

tory where questions o truth and

subjectivity are constantly beingcalled into question, Polonsky said

ater the screening.

He added that animation also

provided another, purely practi-

cal beneft, as the story covers

many dierent locations and

time periods. Animation eased

the budget on what would have

otherwise been a very expensive

live-action flm.

What we were trying to do

would not have been possible, un-less you are Francis Ford Coppola,

Polonksy said with a laugh.

Despite the grim subject matter,

Polonsky said, his work on Bashir

did not dier that much rom his

childrens book illustrations.

They are both a very slow and

tedious process, he said, explain-

ing that distancing himsel rom

the actual meaning o what he was

drawing helped him stay sane as

he worked on it.

I was hit with the subject o

the flm in 2006 during the second

Lebanon war and I saw the same

images I was drawing coming upon TV, Polonsky said. I could no

longer escape the work because it

was showing up all around me on

TV. It was then that I really started

getting the intensity o what we

had made.

Polonskys innovative anima-

tion techniques, which combine

real-lie photography and flm with

Photoshop and Flash animation,

have garnered the flm much criti-

cal acclaim.

An audience member at the

Q&A described the flm as one

o the most visually stunning mov-

ies he had ever seen.

While the actual animation re-mains consistent throughout the

flm, color, pacing, music and nar-

rative changes keep the movie dy-

namic and intriguing. Colors shit

rom monochromatic to shockingly

vivid, and the score includes ag-

gressive rock, tranquil orchestral

music and eerily haunting ambient

noise. Characters move in slow mo-

tion or super-speed in real lie and

in dream sequences.

While the story the flm conveys

is highly personal, the political con-

text is hard to ignore.

Polonsky explained that the

flm was not made as a politicalstatement, but many questions

and observations posed to Polon-

sky during the session ocused on

the political message, response andramifcations.

Danya Chudaco 11, who or-

ganized the Israel Film Festival o

College Hill, agreed that the flm

itsel is not about taking a political

stance, but said it inspired her to

evaluate how she elt about political

and cultural issues.

As someone with an Israeli

mom, I identiy with Israeli cul-

ture, Chudaco said. The frst

time I saw it, I was watching it in

Israel as an Israeli and I was nau-

seous or weeks aterwards.

Daniel Wolberg 09, executive

director o the Ivy Film Festival,which co-sponsored the event, had

not known much about the histori-

cal events explored in the flm. He

said he thought it was very impor-

tant that this flm could personalize

and publicize an event that many

people have orgotten.

I eel like you hear about stu

like this in the news a lot and its

just a regular thing, he said. But

this flm brought to light how we

oten orget about how so many o

these things we see on the news

have tremendous impacts on many

individual people.

I think the flm was just try-

ing to be honest not necessarilypolitical.

Honesty was a key issue or Po-

lonsky during his work on the flm,

he said, as he struggled to create

images, locations and emotions

that were truthul and real.

I was most concerned with

what people in Beirut would

think o his depiction o the city,

he said, given that he had never

been there beore making Bashir.

In the end, he said, his portrayal o

Beirut passed the test, even i his

representation o a snowy winter

in the Netherlands did not.

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arts & Culture editor

Abraham Lincolns 200th birthday

may have come and gone, but the

estivities continue at the John Hay

Library. Abraham Lincoln: The

Man, The Myth, The Making o a

President, an exhibition that draws

entirely rom the Hays impressive

Lincoln Collection, will be open until

March 6.

Lincoln traces not only the 16th

presidents extraordinary lie, butalso his vibrant aterlie as a symbol

whose meaning Americans have been

constructing and reconstructing or

almost 150 years. With the Obama

presidency just reaching the end o

its frst month, its easy to see the

legacy o Lincoln is still very much

with us.

The Hay exhibit begins with Lin-

colns childhood and upbringing,

eaturing photographs o the two

log cabins the Lincoln amily called

home. Though he had little ormal

education, Lincoln was a polymath

and autodidact, training himsel in

a wide variety o areas and pursuing

them with great ingenuity. One o

the items on display is a copy o U.S.

Patent No. 6,469, a device or improv-

ing the buoyancy o boats Lincoln

invented it, making him the frst and

only president to hold a patent.

As the exhibit progresses, Lin-colns uture as a public servant

emerges, irst in government

journals and proceedings rom

conventions he attended, then in

printed copies o his speeches, in-

cluding his career-making House

Divided speech at the 1858 Illinois

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Someone rom Holland came

along and told me it hadnt snowed

that much in Holland in 500 years,

he said.

Polonsky said Bashir has spo-

ken to many viewers particular ex-

periences despite the flms ocus

on Folmans own histor y.

Its an interesting phenom-

enon in Israel where soldiers are

going to see the flm as a kind otherapy and a course o treatment,

he said.

Polonsky, who arrived at Brown

on Feb. 9, will stay on campus or

three months. He will teach classes

and workshops and give lectures

to Brown and Rhode Island School

o Design students and members

o the Providence community.

Republican Convention. The chaotic

1860 presidential election, which Lin-

coln won, is represented by partyballots, campaign pins and a dramatic

photograph o the uture president

and a mass o supporters outside his

Illinois home.

Some o the most moving and ap-

pealing items in the exhibit are the

manuscripts Lincolns telegraphs

and drats o documents, which

should be comorting to anyone

who thinks his bad handwriting is

going to hold him back in lie. More

than any photograph, these objects

bring Lincoln to lie, revealing the

personal struggles o the man behind

the image.

One o these documents is theMeditation on Divine Will, a re-

markable ragment preserved by

John Hay himsel, who served as

one o Lincolns personal secretar-

ies. On a piece o plain, lined paper,

in 1862, Lincoln wrestled with the

inscrutability o God, ate and hu-

man responsibility, all in about 150

words.

I am almost ready to say that this

is probably true, Lincoln wrote, that

God wills this contest (the Civil War),

and wills that it shall not end yet.

The Hay owns a number o por-

traits o Lincoln, including six paint-

ings done rom lie, which arent

included in the main exhibition but

are on view by appointment in the

library rooms devoted to the collec-

tion. Theyre worth the extra eort

it takes to see them. The portraits

present six very dierent visions o

Lincoln some sot and pensive,

others harsh and ormidable. Ac-

cording to North American History

Librarian Holly Snyder, who curated

the current exhibition, the paintings

reect the range you get in Lincoln

iconography a little bit o every-

thing.

Snyder highlighted the way the

portraits represent, to varying de-

grees, Lincoln the person versus

Lincoln the icon, a theme that is

prevalent throughout the public ex-

hibition.

Even those who cant make it to

the Hay can still get access to the

Lincoln collection online. Through

the Center or Digital Initiatives, all

o Lincolniana at Brown is avail-

able on the Brown University Library

Web site.

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sports staffwriter

The mens tennis team (8-2) clinched

third place at the ECAC Champion-

ships over the weekend. The Bears

deeated Yale, 5-2, on Saturday, then

dropped a 4-1 semifnal match to

Columbia the next day. On Monday,

the Bears obliterated Penn in the

third-place match by a score o 6-0,

marking their frst victory over the

Quakers in three years.

The tournament was hosted by

Harvard, who took frst place, while

Columbia fnished second.

Its great to get a chance so early

in the season to compete against oth-

er teams in the (Ivy) League, CaptainChris Lee 09 said. Its a good mea-

suring stick or where we are and

where we have to go.

The Bears aced o against Yale

Saturday morning, taking the doubles

point with victories at frst and second

doubles. Captains Noah Gardner 09

and Sam Garland 09 overpowered

their opponents by a score o 8-5,

while at second doubles, Lee and

Jonathan Pearlman 11 earned an

8-6 win.

The same our Bears also domi-

nated in singles play. At frst singles,

Pearlman outlasted Yales Je Daw-

son, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4.

Pearlman picked up a huge win

over a guy who made the semis o the

(Intercollegiate Tennis Association)

Regionals, Head Coach Jay Harrissaid. That really says a lot about how

well hes been playing.

At second singles, Lee split sets

with his opponent beore deeating

him in the third set or a 4-6, 7-5, 6-4

victory.

I thought I played pretty consis-

tently all weekend, Lee said. Part o

the reason I was able to do that was

the between-court communication

we had this weekend. Each guy was

loud and could be heard rom six

courts away. That kind o energy and

communication really helps when we

are playing tough matches.

Garland and Gardner had straight-set wins at ourth and fth singles,

respectively. Garland won his match,

6-4, 6-4, and Gardner won, 6-4, 7-5.

Yale kind o hammered us in the

scrimmage a couple weeks ago, so I

was proud o how the guys came out

and really toughed out the match,

Harris said.

The next day, the Bears took

on Columbia in the semifnals. The

team started o strong, clinching the

doubles point. Garland and Gardner

led the way again at frst doubles,

where they had an 8-6 victory. At third

doubles, Kendrick Au 11 and Charlie

Posner 11 captured an 8-6 win to give

Brown a 1-0 lead.

But the Bears dropped our

singles matches to give the Lions

the our points they needed to win.At frst singles, Pearlman ell to Jon

Wong by a score o 6-3, 6-1. Skate

Gorham 10, Garland and Gardner

also had straight-set losses at third,

ourth and fth singles, respectively.

Lee and Au did not fnish their re-

spective matches at second and sixth

singles once Columbia had claimed

the victory.

Against Columbia, I thought we

played some good doubles, but in the

singles matches, we just didnt win

the key points, Lee said. Skate, Sam,

Noah and I all lost very tight frst sets,

and that put us in a big hole.

The Bears demolished the Quak-ers in Monday mornings battle or

third place, winning all six singles

matches. The doubles matches were

not played.

The loss to Columbia was a little

disappointing, but then we came back

the next day and really hammered

Penn, and thats a team we havent

beaten in three years, Harris said.

It was nice to kind o show our char-

acter.

Garland kicked o the win with

an easy 6-0, 6-2 victory at ourth

singles.

Sam was the spark rom the

w. CAC by Meghan MarKowsKi

CoNtributiNgwriter

The womens tennis team (5-2)

placed third in the ECAC Indoor

Championship this weekend. The

team blew by Cornell in the frst

round on Friday, 7-0, then lost

to Princeton by the same score

beore beating Dartmouth in the

consolation match.

In the Cornell match, Bian-

ca Aboubakare 11, Cassandra

Herzberg 12, Sara Mansur 09,

Tanja Vucetic 10, Julie Flanzer

12 and Catherine Stewart 12

all won their singles matches instraight sets. The Bears also took

the doubles point to make it a

clean sweep.

But things quickly reversed,

as the Bears dropped their semi-

fnal match against Princeton by

an identical 7-0 score. The second

doubles tandem o Mansur and

Herzberg recorded the only win

or Brown, 8-6 but the doubles

point went the Tigers way.

Aboubakare said the loss to

Princeton didnt a ect the play-

ers mindsets going into Sundays

match.

We were really disappointed

ater Saturdays game, but we

knew there was still anothermatch to play, she said. I guess

we really made it a point to leave

the match against Princeton be-

hind us and to ocus on our next

match against Dartmouth.

We had a tough loss against

Princeton, but most o the match-

es were really close, Mansur

wrote in an e-mail to The Her-

ald, and I think it was productive

or us to see their playing style,

especially because now we know

what is to come.

We changed our attitudes,

Aboubakare said, and you could

tell on each court that we wereall determined to fght hard to

reach our goal.

On Sunday, the fnal day o

the tournament, Brown beat Dart-

mouth, 4-3. The team recorded

one doubles win by Emily Ellis 10

and Kathrin Sorokko 10, 8-4, and

our singles wins by Aboubakare

(6-1, 7-5), Herzberg (6-2, 4-6, 6-2),

Vucetic (6-2, 6-2) and Flanzer (6-

1, 6-3) to secure third place.

The team was confdent go-

ing into Sundays match, even

though we lost to Dartmouth

last year, Mansur wrote in her

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The mens track and ield team

competed last Saturday at the

Armory Track in New York City,

where many athletes earned per-

sonal bests. In addition to thestrong individual perormances,

the Distance Medley Relay squad

o Tom Elnick 12, Mike Elnick

12, Sean OBrien 09 and Duriel

Hardy 10 won in a time o 10:09.07.

Also competing at the Armory,

the womens track and ield team

had an equally strong showing.

The womens DMR earned a vic-

tory o their own, as Roseanne

Fleming 12, Amanda Filiberto

11, Samantha Adelberg 11 and

Kesley Ramsey 11 inished irst

in 11:42.36.

M

Hardy, mile: 4:12 (Personal

Record), 1st place.

Matt Jasmin 09, 60-m hur-

dles: 8.13 (PR), 1st.

Andrew Chapin 10, triple

jump: 14.63 m, 2nd.

wm

Grace Watson 11, high jump:

1.65 m, 1st.

Ari Garber 12, 3000 run:

9:51.25 (PR), 2nd.

Nicole Burns 09, 400:

55.32, 2nd.

Michaeline Nelson 11, mile:

5:00.54, 2nd.

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The womens water polo team

began its season at the Harvard

Invitational last Sunday, going 1-1.

In their season opener againstthe New York Athletic Club, the

Bears jumped out to an 11-5 lead

in the irst three quarters beore

surviving a ourth-quarter come-

back to pull out an 11-9 win. GoalieStephanie Laing 10 had 13 saves,

while Lauren Presant 10 led the

oensive eort with ive goals. In

the second game o the day, Bruno

aced No. 8 Michigan, but ell by a

score o 8-4 despite 15 saves rom

Laing and two goals rom Presant.

Bethany Kwoka 12 and Sarah Glick

10 also scored.

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Both the womens and mens teams

lost in a meet against Yale last Sun-

day. The women, in a 181-119 loss,

were led by Allyson Schumacher

12, who had two individual wins.

The men lost, 186-114, but captured

six events.

M

Ryan Kikuchi 11, 1,000 free -

style: 9:36.89, 1st; 200 Individual

Medley: 1:53.49, 1st.

CJ Kambe 10, 3-m dive:

309.22, 1st; 1-m dive: 278.10, 1st.

Daniel Ricketts 10, 50 free:

20.95, 1st; 100 ree: 45.71, 2nd.

wm

Schumacher, 500 free: 4:57.10,

1st; 1,000 ree: 10:11.59, 1st.

Kristen Caldarella 12, 200 free:

1:54.58, 1st; 100 ree: 52.80, 2nd.

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e-mail. Dartmouth and Princ-

eton have polar-opposite playingstyles. Princeton is aggressive

and Dartmouth is much more

ocused on consistency. What re-

ally helped us on Sunday was the

teams tenacity and the willing-

ness to keep fghting.

Our reshman did a great

job o playing under pressure in

singles, Aboubakare said. Its agreat indication o whats to come

in the next two months.

This Saturday, the Bears will

host Seton Hall at 9 a.m. and

Quinnipiac at noon.

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sports staFF reports

The campus will be buzzing this

weekend with our teams hostinghome games.

The womens hockey team (6-20-

1, 5-15-0 ECAC Hockey) will close

out the season by hosting Princeton

tonight at 7 p.m. and Quinnipiac on

Saturday at 4 p.m. at Meehan Au-

ditorium.

The Bears struggled to get

their oense going over the long

weekend, beating Union, 3-2, beore

losing to Rensselaer, 2-1, and Yale,

2-0. But this weekend, the team has

the advantage o acing a pair o op-

ponents it has already beaten. The

Bears beat Quinnipiacs Bobcats,3-0, on Jan. 30 beore pulling o a

dramatic, 2-1 upset o the Tigers

the ollowing day. Bruno will look

to duplicate that success this week-

end to create a happy ending or the

senior class that includes captain

and goaltender Nicole Stock 09, a

Herald sports sta writer, and or-

wards Frances Male 09 and Savan-

nah Smith 09.

The mens basketball team (7-15,

1-7 Ivy League) will look to build on

the momentum it secured in win-

ning its frst conerence game last

weekend when it hosts Columbiaon Friday and frst-place Cornell on

Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Pizzitola

Center. Ater alling to Penn, 73-52,

last Friday, the Bears broke a seven-

game losing streak with a 61-43 win

over Princeton the ollowing day,

propelled by a 19-point eort rom

Matt Mullery 10.

Coming o a 3-0 weekend, the

wrestlers (6-9) will ace Cornell on

Friday at 3 p.m. and Columbia on

Saturday at 2 p.m. The Bears will

hope to pick up where they let o

last weekend, when they beat Har-

vard, Wagner College and Boston

University.The womens tennis team (5-2)

will host a double-header on Satur-

day, acing Seton Hall at 9 a.m. and

Quinnipiac at noon. Coming o a

third-place fnish at the inaugural

ECAC Indoor Championship, the

Bears will look to Bianca Abouba-

kare 11, who plays frst singles

and partners with her sister Car-

issa Aboubakare 12 at frst doubles,

or leadership.

Kelley Wisinger 11, 200

back: 2:06.17, 1st.

Sage Erskine 11, 100 back:

59.10, 1st.

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The womens squash team had

an outstanding showing at the

Howe Cup National Champi-

onship over the weekend. On

Friday, the Bears earned a con-

vincing 9-0 win over George

Washington, and carried themomentum into Saturday, when

the Bears routed Bowdoin by

an 8-1 score. On Sunday, they

deeated Dartmouth, 6-3, to win

the Kurtz Division and inish

ninth in the nation. Highlights

included a dominant 9-0, 9-5, 9-2

win at No. 3 or Laura Pyne 10

and a straight-set win or Nikoo

Fadaiard 12 at No. 5, 9-0, 9-0,

9-3.

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start, Lee said. He was just calling

out breaks every 10 or so minutes and

getting all the other guys fred up.

Au soundly deeated his oe, 6-3,

6-3 at sixth singles, and Gardner

cruised to a 6-2, 6-4, win at fth sin-

gles. Gorham clinched the victory or

the Bears at third singles, overpower-

ing his Penn opponent, 6-4, 6-1.

At second singles, Lee deeated

his opponent by a score o 6-2, 7-6,

while Pearlman split sets at frst sin-

gles, beore his opponent retired.In my matches against Penn and

Yale, I did a great job o hanging in

the match even when things werent

going well, Pearlman said. I relaxed

a lot ater losing the frst set in both

o the matches and was able to swing

loosely aterwards.

According to Pearlman, having

the tournament in February instead

o its normal all date was benefcial

because it served as a marker o our

progress or the spring season.

We have a great shot at winningthe Ivy League title this year, and fn-

ishing third at this tournament is a

good sign that we are heading in the

right direction, he said.

The Bears will compete next

against Virginia Tech in Blacksburg,

Va., on Saturday and then will take

on Georgetown on Sunday in Wash-

ington.

This weekend will be a big chal-

lenge or us, as we play two ver y good

teams on the road, Lee said. This

weekend more than ever, we will

need great energy and between-court

communication rom each guy.

According to Lee, the Bears expe-rience at the Championships will help

them in the weeks to come.

This weekend, we really became

closer as a team, he said. Each guy

developed more trust in the other

guys abilities to perorm under pres-

sure, and I think we can only get bet-

ter rom here.

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At this University, you requently hear the prototypical

Brown student invoked. The administration, the stu-

dent government and many Herald columnists (mysel

included) requently allude to such an individual when

making their cases.

So I didnt think much about it until Sean Quigleys

10 column on the subject (The myth o the Brown stu-

dent, Feb. 11), which, though seemingly born o the

rustration o an ideological minority, brought up an im-portant question. Is the rhetorical Brown student a

valid concept? Is Brown University merely a collection

o buildings, an institution that leaves no trace on its in-

habitants?

Lets look at the United States. With its more than 300

million residents, it is nearly impossible to characterize.

Nevertheless, newspapers, politicians and Americans in

general, Quigley included, regularly write and speak o

the American ethos and the American dream.

Does it matter that some Americans reject democ-

racy, tolerance and all things commonly understood

as part o what it means to be an American? No, be-

cause the majority o Americans share certain traits and

belies, and it is this that we reer to when speaking in

broad terms like average American.

The same is applicable to denizens o our campus.

Not all Brown students need be liberal. Not all studentsneed agree on everything. This should not preclude us

rom recognizing the broader ethos o the University as

a whole, regardless o the act that there may be some

minority that does not share every aspect o that ethos.

Attempting to defne exactly what Brown-ness

means is a treacherous endeavor, but Ill take a stab at

it. Brunonians as a whole stand behind the totality o the

New Curriculum (i not every individual aspect o it). Not

only is this a result o sel-selection, as the New Curricu-

lum is one o Browns primary draws, but it also is some-

thing that grows on those who arrived on campus rela-

tively ambivalent about the whole thing.

Moreover, Brown students generally embrace toler-

ance and reject injustice. I recognize that these are in-

credibly broad terms, but I would venture to say that an

acceptance o eminism alls under the umbrella o what

it means to be a Brown student.

The Oxord English Dictionary defnes eminism as:

Advocacy o the rights o women (based on the theory

o equality o the sexes). I hope this is not the defnitionthat Quigley had in mind when he emphatically rejected

eminism and railed against the intolerance o the let

at Brown.

In an earlier column, Quigley wrote that homosexu-

als would have to answer to a higher power and to their

communities, through social ostracization or their be-

havior (Cultural tyranny and the calamity o gay mar-

riage, Apr. 3). I fnd it hard to accept that anyone who

espouses such belies can sel-righteously protest the il-

liberal and intolerant ideas o the dominant ideology on

campus.

Brown is not a monolithic ideological dictatorship.

On our campus there are liberals, conservatives, liber-

tarians, socialists and everything in between. Nonconor-

mity is appreciated and even encouraged. But that does

not mean that there is no prevailing spirit, some general

idea o what it means to be a Brunonian.

Tler Rosenbam 11 is an international relations

concentrator from Seattle, Washington. He can be

reached at [email protected]

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I spent shopping period as anyone does

harried, razzled, in need o sleep. My days

were an endless string o 10-minute cross-

campus traverses, ill-advised attempts to

visit three classes at once, and occasional

stops to scar down who knows what rom a

library ood cart.

Shopping is how its done here at Brown,

and, like all o us, I ound solace in the

knowledge that soon enough, things would

calm down and, moreover, that Id havea schedule that was just right or me. That

said, I dont pretend I was much the happy

camper as I reached my ourth or fth day o

hauling mysel rom one class to another

and another, and another, and another and

another.

Particularly stressul, I couldnt help no-

ticing, was shopping the Literary Arts De-

partment, where introductory level writ-

ing courses are extremely popular and

capped below 20. Many students pre-register

on Banner or these coveted spots. The rest

turn out in high numbers during shopping

period to write their names on slips o paper,

drop them in a hat and cross their fngers

that the instructor will pull theirs or one o

the ew remaining spots or, at the very least,a place on the waiting list.

My particular course o choice was o-

ered in our sections this semester, each

taught by a dierent instructor; I visited

three o them. In the frst, the efcient and

organized instructor knew the drill: Names

rom the hat flled both the remaining seats

and the 10 spots on the waiting list. These

students were expected to continue to at-tend class i they wished retain a seat; the

rest were asked to leave.

All in all, quite painless but not so in

the other sections I visited. A simple change

o location in one was explained by a note

on the door o the original classroom or

might have been, had the note not allen o

the door and onto the ground. Roughly 10

students, mysel included, discovered the

note too late, and ater dashing up two ights

o stairs, arrived at the new classroom to fnd

that names had already been drawn and

so lost our chance.

In the other section, the instructor

seemed simply perplexed by the names-

rom-a-hat system, unsure o how the wait-

ing list should be determined, how many

seats there should be on the waiting list and

whether those on the waiting list were ex-

pected to remain in class.

In the midst o shopping period, the last

thing any o us needs is a little more stress,a little more conusion and a little more run-

ning around. So I cant help but wonder i

there might be some way to simpliy this

hectic system ater all, i every capped

course used this method to fll its roster,

shopping courses would be a pretty harrow-

ing experience.

Perhaps the most obvious answer would

be to oer more sections o these introduc-tory classes but it is by no means the sim-

plest option. In an interview, Brian Even-

son, director o the Literary Arts Program,

expressed sympathy or students trying to

gain entry to these courses in the midst o

a busy shopping period, and explained that

more sections are being oered this year

than have been in the past. Still, he cited the

economy among other actors that prevent

the department rom undertaking any ma-

jor expansion o oerings at the current mo-

ment.

What, then, can be done? Personally, Im

all or scrapping pre-registration or these

courses altogether. The department has

done an admirable job o making things as

air as possible, reserving sections o each

course or frst-years and sophomores who

might otherwise lose seats to upperclass-

men. But I propose that the department have

everyone throw names in the hat. It would

put all students on equal ooting regard-less o seniority.

The department should also ensure that

instructors use a uniorm set o standards,

put the same number o students on class

waiting lists and make class attendance a re-

quirement or saving ones spot. And i there

are going to be classroom changes, perhaps

they could wait until the second time the

class meets, when the roster is complete. (Ihave scary dreams at night o cutthroat Po-

etry I hopeuls ripping notes rom doors to

thwart the competition.)

With a writing sample, many students can

gain entry into intermediate and advanced

courses, but many are unclear about how

to submit their writing, or arent aware that

these courses are open to them. By rewrit-

ing descriptions on Banner to give students

a clearer understanding o what options are

available, the department might be able to

reduce trafc ow in introductory courses.

Evenson noted that the current system is,

in some ways, less useul today than it was in

the days beore Banner. He called this year

a transitional year or the department andnoted that it may be time or us to reevalu-

ate.

O course I dont pretend to know the ins

and outs and the minute details o running

an entire department, but perhaps a stu-

dents perspective couldnt hurt. Were it up

to me, Id move the whole process wheth-

er it involved pulling names out o a hat, a

nice online lottery (as in Visual Arts) or, as

my ather jokingly suggests to me as I write

this, a Sorting Hat out o shopping peri-

od. Submitting writing samples and draw-

ing names or each semesters course lineup

should take place at the end o the previous

semester, so that we can all start our shop-

ping knowing ull well which rosters and

waiting lists were on. Then, perhaps, ourpoor razzled brains can have a rest and a

little less to ret about.

Kate Dole 12 is from Westport, Con-

nectict. She can be reached at

[email protected].

S : A - L A

A 2005 New York Times article by Louise

Story sent shockwaves o disbelie through-

out the Ivy League and the nation. In Many

Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to

Motherhood (Sept. 20, 2005), Story reported

that roughly 60 percent o 138 reshman and

senior emales surveyed at Yale said that

when they had children, they planned to

cut back on work or stop working entirely.

The article made some Brown undergradu-

ates araid araid that the ideals o the

Feminist Revolution had been lost and araid

that women were not receiving the support

that they needed to maintain successul ca-

reers.

Brown students took measures to address

both o these ears. Former Herald opinions

columnist Dana Goldstein 06 conducted

interviews with two dozen emale Brown

undergraduates, summarizing her impres-

sions in Work and motherhood: a Brown

study (Oct. 18, 2005). Goldsteins fndings

are completely opposed to Storys, assuag-

ing ears that women no longer value work

and long or independence. Her column

triumphantly proves that the eminist ideal

o independence is alive and well, at least at

Brown. Goldstein writes, Not one young

woman I spoke to on Browns campus sai

she plans on giving up working ater she

has children even i she does want to

have exible hours or the option o working

rom home.

Late in her column, Goldstein asks the

question: What is the world going to do tohelp us achieve our goals? This question

suggests that the eminist ame burns strong,

with undergraduates desperately yearning or

successul careers, but that certain actors

hinder their pursuits. I suggest that the

world will not and should not do anything to

help us. Yes, working while being a mother

is a challenge, but most o us have examples

in our lives o women who have graceully

balanced working and motherhood.

Kate Klonick 06 and Sunisa Nardone 07

took a dierent approach rom Goldstein,

launching Women in the World, a lecture

inspired by Storys article, and developing

a mentoring program o the same name.

In Herald Arts & Culture Editor Hannah

Levintovas 09 article Mentoring program

to match emale students with alums (Sept.

5, 2006), Nardone is quoted as saying Going

into senior year, we thought more guidance

was needed in the transition rom academia

to real lie, and continues It seemed kind

o surprising that there are no networking

events or women.

Nardone and Klonick identifed lack o

guidance and support as primary reasons

or women opting out o the workorce, butI am unconvinced o this truth. The women

in Storys ar ticle had career ambitions and

most were confdent that they would excel

in their felds or at least a decade or so out

o college. Something other than a defcit o

opportunity seemed to be inuencing their

decisions.

Another New York Times article sheds

more light on the phenomenon o women

opting out o the workorce. In The Opt-

Out Revolution (Oct. 26, 2003), Lisa Belkin

chronicles the lives and career choices o

several Ivy League graduates, each o whom

belongs to a book group or a childrens play-

group o mothers with prestigious degrees

who have chosen to stop working ater be-

coming mothers.

Among those she writes about is a Brown

graduate, Tracey Liao Van Hooser 93, who

says, It was wonderul to fnd a group o

women who had made the same decisions I

had, continuing, I am not a housewie. Is

there still any such thing? I am doing what is

right or me at the moment, not necessarily

what is right or me orever.

Several key points can be derived rom

her statements. First, she made a choice,and she is happy with it. Second, the choice

remains or her to return to the workorce

should she want to.

Both o the valiant eorts by Brown stu-

dents mentioned earlier ignore the role o

choice. They accept that some deep, dark,

institutional actors push women out o the

workorce, whether they are lack o support

and access or the impossibility o balancing

children and a career. But the women in the

two New York Times articles are shouting

rom the rootops the opposite message: I

am making a choice!

I have a eeling that the Opt-Out Revolu-

tion is not quite the revolution that jour nal-

ists make it out to be, but at the very least,

these stories provide beautiul examples

o choice choice that we should not be

threatened by but be happy to have. Whether

we use that choice to stop working ater hav-

ing children, fne, so be it, as long as it is a

reasoned, deliberate decision. I we use that

choice to work into our eighties, balancing

children and a career by any means possible,

thats wonderul as well. We need not be

rightened by our accomplished colleagues

who choose not to work. They are not victims,

and neither are we.

Katharine Hermann is a COE and r-

ban stdies concentrator from Port-

land, Oregon. She can be reached at

Katharine_hermann at brown.ed

f b

I have a feeling that the Opt-Ot Revoltion is

not qite the revoltion that jornalists make it

ot to be.

In the midst of shopping period, the last thing

an of s needs is a little more stress, a littlemore confsion and a little more rnning arond.

So I cant help bt wonder if there might be

some wa to simplif this hectic sstem.

KATE DOyLE

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A sympathetic diamond to Roba!Dolce. Were sorr y you got ore!closed on.

Acubic zirconium to the Brown Skydiving Club, which hopes to raise enough money to

sponsor jumps or members. Given the current economic climate, some might say leaping out o

a plane at 10,000 eetwithoutone o those expensive parachutes doesnt sound all that bad.

Coal to the Rhode Island colleges that are considering arming their campus police. Sure,

guns are one answer, but take it rom us: Nothing strikes ear in the heart o a criminal like

neon jackets and a Segway tricycle.

A welcoming diamond to the Corporation, which begins meeting today to decide the ate o

hal a dozen major building projects and hash out a budget totaling hal a billion dollars. I youre

still taking other suggestions, there was no tuna at the salad bar the other day, soooo...

Acubic zirconium to the regional director o USA Underwater Hockey, who described

one o the challenges o the niche sport as the act that no one can hold their breath or an

unlimited amount o time. Quite true, but thats precisely the discovery that led a ragtag bando Canadians 200 years ago to freeze the water beore the game.

Adiamond to Zipcar or changing its minimum age policy to allow Brown students who

are 18, instead o 21, to rent rom you. But since when did Fish Co. star t managing Zipcar?

Were using our stupid wooden token to vote acoal or Blue State Coee, which brazenly

opened another location in New Haven. We should have learned by now that when people

say Brown is their one and only choice, that just means theyre on the waitlist at Yale. (Plus,

we were still hoping or a third Thayer Street shop.)

Well gladly pass on two dozen shipments odiamonds and 300 tons ocoal to the Univer-

sity, which administrator Beppie Huidekoper said was taking much o its endowment money

out o hedge unds in avor o less risky investments. For the right price, that is. (Were trying

to get out o commodities.)

Coal to the modifed unofcial transcript the University made available online this week,

which includes more o students internal records than beore. The ormatting changes arewelcome, but including our Brown application essays was a little embarrassing.

Finally, acoal to Providence Mayor David Cicil line 83, who said in his State o the City ad-

dress Tuesday that the city government must mobilize, as i were in the economic equivalent

o wartime. Maybe you can start saving money by fring whoevers in charge o coming up

with original metaphors over there.