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Path through Faunce House to reopen Monday Simmons
By Shara Azad
Staff Writer
Perhaps the most noticeable change
on campus since students have re-
turned from winter break is the con-
struction on the temporarily closed
Faunce Arch, first announced in
Morning Mail in late December and
again on Monday. Ricky Gresh, se-
nior 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, construc-
tion 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 inte-
rior was primarily used for display-
ing posters of various student orga-
nizations, with the renovations, one
side will open into the new campus
center. Further details of the con-
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 Li-
brary 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
Geology student Ulyana Horodyskyj braves the cold on Tanzania’s Mt.
Kilimanjaro.
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struction plan can be found on the
campus center’s Facebook page.
When the arch reopens, the path-
way 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 Com-
mencement for the procession to
pass through, per Brown tradition.
Students interviewed by The
Herald said they were not particu-
larly inconvenienced by the tempo-
rary 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
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
Courtesy of Ulyana Horodyskyj
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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 un-
aware of the closing altogether. As
launch party planned for March 3,
marks the culmination of a years-
long 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-
From College Hill to Kilimanjaro
By Brian Mastroianni
Features Editor
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 dur-
ing 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 inju-
r 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.”
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald
Liban Mohamed ’12 said, “The only
place I go is Barus and Holley, so
why do I care?”
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 labora-
tory and six group study rooms,
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Losing precious time to train
before her climb, Horodyskyj opt-
ed 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 reward-
ing, 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
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Men’s Basketball team
faces off against Princeton
and Penn this weekend
signs climate
charter
By Claire Peracchio
Senior Staff Writer
On Thursday, President Ruth Sim-
mons made Brown a signatory of
the Sustainable Campus Charter,
an agreement stipulating “campus-
wide principles and measurable
goals for sustainable development,
construction and operations” as well
as pledging to integrate “the study
of sustainability principles and prac-
tice” in the University’s academic
options, according to a University
press release.
Simmons joined 24 other univer-
sity presidents at the World Eco-
nomic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
for the signing, an event sponsored
by the Global University Leadership
Forum.
Chris Powell, director of sustain-
able energy and environmental ini-
tiatives and the chairperson of the
Energy and Environmental Advisory
Committee, said the University’s
proactive approach to adopting envi-
ronmentally friendly policies meant
the charter represented a continued
commitment to sustainability.
Thanks to Simmons’ endorse-
ment of recommendations from the
committee, in January 2008 the Uni-
versity embarked on an ambitious
path to “reducing existing emissions
from a 2007 base level 42 percent by
2020,” Powell said.
continued on page 2
said.
The video takes its viewers
through Horodyskyj’s physically
grueling climb through rainforest,
moorland and alpine desert areas,
until she and her companions final-
ly 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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Google exec Dunne ’92 Task force eyes eliminating bottles

in running for Vt. gov.
By Sarah Julian
Staf f Writer
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 Ver-
mont governor.
The field consists of four
other candidates: three state
senators and the Vermont sec-
retary of state. The winner of the
Democratic primar y will face off
against Lieutenant Governor Bri-
an 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 priori-
ties 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 can-
didacy earlier this month, has
tried to portray himself as bring-
ing fresh ideas to Vermont poli-
tics. He added that Dunne “has
been more technologically savvy
sudoku
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 avail-
able 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 gubernato-
rial 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 cam-
paigns, Dunne has held private-
sector jobs, including work at
software company Logic Associ-
ates, the Nelson A. Rockefeller
Center for Public Policy and,
most recently, Google.
Dunne did not return requests
for an inter view.
By Sara Sunshine
Staff Writer
A resolution of support from Presi-
dent Ruth Simmons and the Brown
University Community Council has
strengthened efforts behind the Be-
yond the Bottle Campaign, a student
group seeking to reduce the Univer-
sity’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 sup-
port 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 resolu-
tion, the group worked quickly to
form the task force, which includes
U. signs on to sustainability charter
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The plan also included require-
ments 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 ac-
complish these goals, according to
six student members from Beyond
the Bottle as well as representatives
from Facilities Management, Din-
ing Services, the University Events
Office, the Office of Environmen-
tal Health and Safety, the Office
of Residential Life, the Purchasing
Department and Alumni Relations,
Rubenstein wrote.
The task force, chaired by Facili-
ties Management’s Director of Sus-
tainable 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 com-
plete 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 eater-
ies like Josiah’s. But Dining Services
“has been amazingly supportive and
very much involved in movement”
despite the potential loss of revenue,
Powell.
Because of these initiatives,
Brown was awarded an A-minus in
the College Sustainability Report
Card, an evaluation of campus sus-
tainability published by the Sustain-
able Endowments Institute.
Brown has also promised that
its construction and demolition of
Howard said.
In fact, Little Jo’s now offers re-
usable 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 Be-
yond 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 sur-
prised 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,” Ruben-
stein wrote.
Brown is not the only school mak-
ing changes. Washington University
in St. Louis and Belmont University
of Nashville instituted bans on bot-
tled water last year.
Howard is optimistic that the Uni-
versity can achieve something simi-
lar. “We are shooting to be the first
of the Ivies to take this step towards
sustainability and social conscious-
ness about water rights as an issue
of the new century.”
University facilities will adhere to a
“silver standard” set by the Leader-
ship 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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Headstrong grad student scales Kilimanjaro
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daughter’s social studies and geog-
raphy teacher, Barbara Nado.
Horodyskyj was invited to give
a presentation on her experiences
around the world, and prepared a
slide show highlighting her excur-
sions 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 en-
ergetic.”
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 some-
one comes to them who has been
there, and they can see actual pic-
tures. It’s more realistic to them,”
Berard said.
A third-year doctoral student
studying the weathering of volca-
nic 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 sci-
ences, Horodyskyj participated in
the National Science Fair in high
school and used scholarships and
Alum’s effort endows SciLi science center opens next week
Latino studies program
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 stu-
dents 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 phenome-
nal 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. La-
tino Studies program and its potential
for growth. The endowment will be
used toward existing projects and new
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 inter-
ested 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 ge-
ology, 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 rec-
ognized for a film that Horodyskyj
saw when she was 12 years old, the
1998 IMAX film “Everest.”
While Horodyskyj, who current-
ly works for Breashears as a project
assistant, admires him for his pas-
sion for mountain environments, his
filmmaking and his founding of the
Glacier Research Imaging Project,
Horodyskyj sees his work ethic as
his most admirable quality — some-
thing she hopes to emulate.
“He had to work hard for every-
thing himself, and he isn’t interest-
ed in wasting time. He still made it,
and he made it big. His best advice
to me is just ‘don’t listen to naysay-
ers,’ ” Horodyskyj said.
This refusal to take criticism to
heart has given Horodyskyj her
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 e-
mail to The Herald.
“I have gained a lot of understand-
ing 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 top-
ics 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 Stud-
ies 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.”
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“We climb because climbing keeps us alive.”
— Ulyana Horodyskyj GS, who climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro last fall
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 mountain-
side 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 adrena-
line 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 ev-
ery 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 manda-
tory,” she said. “It keeps me strong
— a reason to come down. To come
back and be safe.”
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four of which are retrofitted with
space for advanced smart boards.
Located throughout the center are
also myriad visual displays, includ-
ing 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 cen-
ter’s various rooms and reserve
their own study spaces. “We want
to pull people in and get them en-
gaged,” Targan said. “It’s definitely
state-of-the-art in terms of a learn-
ing space.”
The space contains rooms out-
fitted with white boards and con-
ference 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-
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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 be-
cause it will enable student play-
wrights “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 conversa-
tions with the provost, the dean and
the faculty,” said Brian Evenson,
professor of literary arts and direc-
tor of the literary arts program.
“Most of the professors teach-
ing playwriting have moved” to the
Department of Theatre Arts and
Performance Studies, Evenson
said. For students, “the require-
ments 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 (Reper-
tor y Company) and with (the
Department of Theatre Arts and
Performance Studies) than they
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 con-
cept,” Targan said.
As part of Brown’s efforts to
buoy its educational support sys-
tem, the center will also serve as a
locus for a new tutoring program.
The program will involve a “group-
study model” with an emphasis on
study skills and problem-solving
techniques for the larger science
courses offered, said Instructional
Coordinator Sarah Taylor, a special-
ist 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 stu-
dents 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
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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 contin-
ued to be placed on production.”
Through transferring the play-
writing program to the theater
department, Ehn said he plans to
“put emphasis on the live quality
of writing.”
“Playwriting needs the sup-
port of the theater community,”
he said. “Theater is a live, temporal
event.”
Despite the shift, Ehn said he
aims to “maintain a close relation-
ship 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 inter-
departmental relations. “We’ve
continued to welcome the play-
wrights into our classes,” he said.
“We accept playwriting workshops
as work towards a degree in liter-
ary arts.”
Ehn intends to “carry that leg-
acy 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.
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 en-
gaged in doing science itself,” Tar-
gan 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, ac-
cording to the exhibit’s curator.
Though there have been two ex-
hibits 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 his-
tor 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
Playwright alums dominate the national drama scene
By Luisa Robledo
Staff Writer
Brown’s playwriting program stole
the show. According to the Octo-
ber 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 play-
writing program for more than two
decades.
“I felt like, ‘This is getting off to a
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 featur-
ing traditional woodblock prints,
and a Korean text that shows the
development of the Korean vernac-
ular. Also on display are Chairman
Mao’s “Little Red Book” and the
Chinese Yongle Encyclopedia.
Some of the featured Chinese
books’ covers incorporated ele-
ments of their subject matter,
including silk, bamboo slats, em-
broider y and porcelain. A book
on coins from the Song Dynasty
was shaped as a circle and featured
good start,’ to have my favorite play-
wright 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 debat-
able — after a great run off-Broad-
way, 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
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 rel-
evant as China is experiencing
rapid development and economic
growth, said Toshiyuki Minami,
senior librar y specialist. As most
of the books displayed were pub-
lished in China one “can see how
prosperous China has become,”
he said. “It costs money” to cre-
Man’s Cell Phone,” has been pro-
duced 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 contem-
porary experimental writer,” Ehn,
who is also the newly appointed di-
rector 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 suc-
cess. “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
Friday, January 29, 2010 | Page 4
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 ex-
hibit, called it “very impressive.”
After visiting the exhibit, Pro-
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 fol-
lowing,” she said.
Jendrzejewski added that Ehn
wants them to approach and explore
social issues through theater. He
includes readings on events cur-
rently happening all over the world
to get them thinking about the real-
ity 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 so-
cial 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 invigorat-
ing people’s minds, bringing them
Max Monn / Herald
fessor of History Cynthia Brokaw
said it “beautifully showed the vari-
ety 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 impor-
tant for people to know that Brown
has “treasure,” he added.
together and creating a collective
identity, playwrights can guide au-
diences to revisit and understand
social issues, he said.
Mia Chung GS said Ehn also en-
courages a proactive inclusion of
members of the Providence commu-
nity in their writing. He has created
new relationships with students from
Rhode Island School of Design and
promoted the use of spaces through-
out 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 man-
age 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 environ-
ment for risk-taking,” said Karam.
“If I hadn’t had Brown’s support, I
would have never made it to New
York.”
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The Brown Daily Herald
Athlete of the break: Basketball forward Tucker Halpern ’13
Forward Tucker Halpern ’13 set new career-highs for points over break,
scoring 22 against Wagner and then 26 against Quinnipiac.
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) com-
bined 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 Fri-
day-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 fresh-
men.”
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 defeat-
ing 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.
Jesse Morgan / Herald file photo
Despite the disappointing re-
sults on the scoreboard, Allen
praised his players for maintain-
ing focus through the coaching
change.
“I think the guys have done a
tremendous job in just respond-
ing in the most positive manner,”
Allen said.
The Bears will have to focus
their defensive efforts on Penn’s
Zack Rosen to be successful Sat-
urday 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 con-
fidence.”
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 ut-
most confidence. It’s a learning
By Dan Alexander
Sports Editor
Though most of the school got five-
and-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 play-
ing 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 Athlet-
ic Union) basketball together grow-
ing 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
experience, and he’ll perform very
well.”
Brown will also look to come
out of the gate fast in both match-
ups. 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.
Friday, January 29, 2010 | Page 5
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 consid-
ering?
I was getting a lot of different
levels of recruitment — a lot of the
other Ivy League schools, some At-
lantic 10 schools like UMass, and
some bigger schools like George-
town and Michigan.
Why did you pick Brown in-
stead 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
Record 6-11
Ivy League
1-1
Record
Scoring 68.5
Offense
Scoring
73.6
Defense
FG
44.2%
Percentage
FG Defense 43.8%
Percentage
Assist/
Turnover 1.1
Ratio
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 inter-
esting to play them. I think I actu-
ally 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.
Princeton Penn
9-5 1-13
0-0 0-0
60.1 62.9
55.1 80.1
42.3% 39.0%
41.2% 49.3%
0.8 0.8
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A meal credit or a snack credit?
BY NIDA ABDULLA
Opinions Columnist
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 Sta-
cy’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 un-
wittingly donating to some charity fund
when we hand over an extra dollar for a Yo-
plait 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
BY WILLIAM TOMASKO
Opinions Columnist
This year, if President Barack Obama can
fulfill a promise he made in Wednesday’s
State of the Union address, Congress will fi-
nally 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 wel-
come 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 De-
partment authorization bill, which would be
debated and voted on this spring and sum-
mer. If passed, starting Oct. 1, gays and les-
bians 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 ad-
ministration is totally committed to this and
has been from the beginning.”
Once the military stops discriminating
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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 re-
alize 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 eat-
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 stu-
dent managers are reporting to the Brown
Dining Services office.
Brown, ROTC and DADT
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 admin-
istrators and the program’s overseers could
not agree to make it an extracurricular ac-
tivity rather than an academic department.
Now, Brown students can take ROTC cours-
es and undergo training at Providence Col-
lege, but they do not receive academic credit
from Brown for their work and must provide
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 stu-
dent 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 orienta-
tion ban is overturned. A plurality of 41.3
percent of students would support this re-
Why 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 con-
fused. 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
end of the day, will still reach into our pock-
ets 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 relat-
ing 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?
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 en-
sue, but believe the policy would still yield
incremental advantages. In “U. should rein-
state ROTC” (Feb. 12, 2009), The Herald’s
editorial page board argued that open-mind-
ed Brown students “could provide gay sol-
diers with valuable allies in the ranks,” and,
soldier by soldier, convince a number of
their fellow enlisted men and women to be
more tolerant and embracing of homosexu-
als, which would eventually foster a military
climate more favorable to someday ending
“don’t ask, don’t tell.”
Such a defense of hosting a discrimina-
tory ROTC is certainly thoughtful. Howev-
er, I doubt that helping pro-gay rights activ-
ism can be an effective justification for either
side in this debate. Congress will certainly
not decide to end “don’t ask, don’t tell” be-
cause 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
Friday, January 29, 2010| Page 7
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 po-
tato 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 upperclass-
men tapping their feet impatiently behind
them.
One of the things that fomented the
American Revolution was loud, boisterous
colonists grumbling and shouting in the tav-
erns. 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 Nida_Abdulla@brown.edu.
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 cen-
ter 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 blatant-
ly unjust for Brown to offer credited courses
that open gays and lesbians would not be al-
lowed to take.
The Herald’s editorials have argued to re-
instate 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 mak-
ing 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 landslide-
worthy majorities of the American public
support letting gays and lesbians serve open-
ly in the military. Obama won the presidency
in a rout while promising to end “don’t ask,
don’t tell.” Democrats won commanding ma-
jorities in Congress while many of them were
promising to end “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
A clear, popular consensus exists for end-
ing the military’s injustice, and, facing the
reality of that climate, Brown need not de-
cide to flinch from defending equality in the
interest of pragmatism.
William Tomasko ’13 is an undecided
concentrator from Washington, D.C.
He can be reached at
William_Tomasko@brown.edu.
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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.
c a l e n da r
Today, January 29, 2010
Wrestling — The Bears take on Army
in their home opener on Saturday
at 12 p.m. in the Pizzitola Center.
Women’s Basketball — At Princ-
eton 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.
tomorrow, January 30, 2010
d i a m o n d s a n d c oa l
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 al-
ready?
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.
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.

9:30 AM – 3:30 P.M. — Haiti Bake
Sale and Information Table, J. Walter
Wilson Building
4:00 – 5:30 P.M. — Friday Chemistry
Colloquium, Macmillan Hall 115
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. — Open Mic for
Relief, Salomon Center 101
7:30 – 9:30 p.m. — Concert for Haiti,
Elmwood Community Center
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.
Diamond to the state Republican candidates
who said they were “ready to fight” in the elections.
That’s good, because Democrat Chris Young is driv-
ing around on non-federal highways ready to throw
some DVDs at you.

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Sharpe Refectory
Lunch — Hot Pastrami Sandwich,
Onion Rings, Brussel Sprouts Cas-
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comics
Verney-Woolley Dining Hall
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Lunch — Chicken Fingers, Baked
Vegan Nuggets, Peanut Butter and
Jelly Bar, Baked Beans, Blondies

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Piedmontese, Rice with Peas and Co- Cornbread Casserole, Tortellini Ital-
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