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Leniency on payments to U. B I T T E R S W E E T D E F E AT
Top science
aided hundreds this spring faculty named
BY brigitta greene
Senior Staff Writer
nounced in an Oct. 31 e-mail to the
community from Provost David
to nat’l society
Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98, were created BY sydney ember
Approximately 360 students benefit- in an atmosphere of rising concern Senior Staf f Writer
ed from a temporary policy allowing among administrators that the Univer-
students with outstanding tuition bal- sity might be facing a wave of families Five Brown faculty members have
ances to pre-register for spring class- suddenly unable to make payments on been elected fellows of the American
es, a University administrator said. tuition, Gentry said. Association for the Advancement
The plan, announced last fall to She emphasized that rapidly fluc- of Science, receiving a prestigious
aid students’ families in the difficult tuating economic circumstances and honor that recognizes leaders in
economic climate, allowed all students a lack of data make it difficult to plan the field for their important con-
to sign up for courses this semester even for the near future. Though there tributions to the physical and life
regardless of payment status, said was great concern last semester, the sciences.
Elizabeth Gentry, assistant vice presi- numbers have so far been manage- Professor of Neuroscience John
dent for financial and administrative able, she said. Donoghue, Professors of Biology
services. Normally, students who owe “Right now we’re very comfortable Mark Bertness and Susan Gerbi,
more than $1,000 are blocked from with balances,” she said. “We will have Professor of Medical Science David
pre-registering for classes in the fol- to look at it semester by semester.” Berson ’75 and Professor of Engi-
lowing semester. Kertzer wrote in his e-mail last fall, neering Jimmy Xu were all elected
Additionally, about 40 students “We recognize the economic difficul- fellows in December and featured
with outstanding balances of more ties that many of our students and their in the Dec. 19 issue of Science, the
than $5,000 were allowed to remain families are facing and want to do all top-level journal published by the
officially enrolled in the University that we can to be helpful in these chal- AAAS.
despite rules that prohibit students lenging times.” “I just congratulate the faculty,”
with balances over that amount from “The good news is what was in- said Clyde Briant, the University’s
living in residence halls or attending tended was achieved,” he told The vice president for research. “It’s
classes. Herald last week. wonderful for them and it’s wonder-
Ten more students, who were in Pre-registration for the fall 2009 se- ful for Brown.” He said the awards
danger of exceeding the temporary up- mester will not occur until April, giving not only are very high honors for the
per limit of $7,500 in unpaid dues, were the University time to collect further faculty but further establish Brown
also able to remain enrolled after work- data before announcing whether it will as a major research university.
ing closely with financial aid officers extend the temporary policies. “We Justin Coleman / Herald
Four of the professors said they
to work out payment plans, said James don’t have a good enough picture at Goalie Nicole Stock ’09 broke the school record for career saves did not expect to be named fellows
Tilton, director of financial aid. this point,” Gentry said. “The truth is this weekend, but women’s hockey dropped two games to fall to of the world’s largest scientific body.
The loosened restrictions, an- we’re not really seeing it yet.” 3-16-1. Donoghue could not be reached for
comment.
Student, dean introduce shopping period by keyword noses of these types of cancers — a
result that has personal implications
for Gerbi, herself diagnosed with
By Anne Simons software, called CourseMap, is The goal of CourseMap is embodiment of what the New Cur- breast cancer two years ago.
Senior Staf f Writer designed to allow students “to “to expose students to courses riculum is all about,” he said. Xu — recognized for his contri-
explore the Brown curriculum that they would not have found Rosenberg and Miles Hovis butions to nanotechnology and laser
Looking for that fourth class, but via keywords or topics of inter- other wise,” Rosenberg wrote. ’08 came up with the idea for science and the only non-biologist
only have a small hint of an idea est,” wrote Dan Rosenberg ’09, CourseMap was not created to the site, created a basic design honored — said he too was sur-
of what you want? Only, perhaps, its creator, in an e-mail to The replace other sources of course and presented it to Dean of the prised to learn of his election as an
one word? Herald. information like Mocha, the Criti- College Katherine Bergeron last AAAS fellow.
As the first week of shopping According to the CourseMap cal Review or Banner, he said. year, Rosenberg wrote. Bergeron “What I do is just fun things,”
period drew to a close Friday af- Web site, a user can enter a term Rather, “it is designed to il- offered him funding to work on he said. “I pursue science and ex-
ternoon, the University unveiled such as “Internet” to see all the luminate relationships across the project over the summer, plore what’s interesting regardless
a new method for students to courses that have something to departments based on common
browse for courses online. The do with that subject. content, which I feel is a great continued on page 2 continued on page 2
inside
News.....1-4
Arts........5-6
Arts, 5 Sports, 7 Opinions, 11
Spor ts...7-9 ghostly voices M. Hoops: no revenge the reality of war
Editorial..10 Grammy- and Tony-winner The men’s basketball team Fatima Ageel ’12 writes
Opinion...11 Duncan Sheik ’92 releases fails in its second straight about watching war —
Today........12 a haunting new album bid to beat Yale’s Bulldogs and experiencing it
C ampus N EWS “I’m a one-trick pony, and they’re mistaking me for a thoroughbred.”
— David Berson ’75, Professor of Medical Science
Daily Herald
the Brown
C ampus N EWS “It’s one of the best things Brown has to offer.”
— Kona Shen ’10, on the $5,000 international scholarship
M. hoops M. hockey
comes up snaps out
just short of losing
against Yale streak
By Benjy Asher
Spor ts Editor By Dan Alexander
Sports Staff Writer
For the second consecutive week-
end, the men’s basketball team (6- Jarred Smith ’12 scored a goal in
10, 0-2 Ivy) went up against Yale (7- each of two games to lead the men’s
9, 2-0), and hockey team (2-13-4, 2-8-2 ECAC
Yale 57 once again, Hockey) this
Brown 55 the Bull- Brown 4 weekend.
dogs from Colgate 1 Smith
New Haven came away with the scored the
victory. Friday night’s game was Brown 1 go-ahead
close throughout, with the Bears Cornell 5 goal with 12
eventually falling by two, 57-55. seconds left
Despite the final outcome, in the second period in a 4-1 victory
the contest saw an improved ef- Friday night over the Colgate Red
fort from Brown’s previous game Raiders, and the Bears’ lone goal
against Yale, when the Bulldogs in a 5-1 loss to No. 1 Cornell the fol-
outscored the Bears by 10 in the lowing night.
second half en route to an 80-72 The Colgate win was the first
win. win for the Bears since they de-
“We executed a little better and feated Union on Dec. 6. The Bears
just played a little harder in general had two ties over the stretch, one
this time,” said Tri-Captain Scott against Western Michigan and an-
Friske ’09. other against Harvard, on Jan. 3 and
The Bulldogs led throughout 9, respectively. They dropped their
the first half, but Brown stayed Justin Coleman / Herald next two games by a combined score
competitive, keeping Yale’s lead Adrian Williams ’11, one of the men’s basketball team’s top shooters, dropped 16 points in a weekend loss to Yale. of 11-2 before losing in overtime to
to eight points at its highest. With Clarkson on Jan. 17.
five minutes to go in the first half, first-half points and finished with maining Williams connected on Ivy League in free throw percent- Brown hadn’t defeated Colgate
Yale was leading 26-19. But with an 20 points and a game-high 10 re- another trey to give the Bears their age at .905, and his .449 three-point (6-13-5, 1-8-3) in Hamilton since 1993,
8-2 run, including four points off the bounds. first lead of the game at 39-37. field goal percentage is second in but the Red Raiders have struggled
bench from guard Steve Gruber ’10, After a basket by Yale to open “We executed our offense well, the league. everywhere this year. They are last
Bruno was able to cut the deficit up the second half, Adrian Williams and whenever they’d go up, we’d The second half saw seven ties in the ECAC and entered the game
to 28-27. ’11 drained a three-pointer to tie the keep making plays to stay in the and two lead changes, with neither on a three-game losing streak.
Center Matt Mullery ’10 paced game for the first time that night. game,” Friske said. team leading by more than six at After a scoreless opening period
the Bears’ offense with 10 points The Bulldogs got their lead back to Williams went 4-of-5 from the any point. The Bulldogs went on a against Colgate, Jeff Buvinow ’12
in the first half and finished with 34-30 until lay-ups by Williams and field on Friday, including a 3-of-4 6-0 run to build a 53-47 lead with fired a shot from the left point just
a game-high 22 points, along with Mullery on back-to-back posses- mark from three-point range, and 3:09 left to play, but again the Bears 1:05 into the second period. Colgate
a team-high nine rebounds and a sions tied the score once again. he converted all five of his free were resilient as Mullery scored goalie Alex Evin didn’t see the shot
game-high six blocks. The two squads continued to throw attempts to finish with 16 that beat him, as he was screened.
Ross Morin led Yale with 11 trade baskets and with 11:39 re- points. Williams currently leads the continued on page 8 Smith and Assistant Captain Matt
Vokes ’09 assisted on the play.
The lead didn’t last long, as Col-
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