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Corp. fellow Over 700 visit the Hill for a taste of Brown
investigated By Ana Alvarez
Senior Staff Writer
prised me so far is how smoothly
everything is going,” Re said.

for kickbacks After a record number of applications

By Alicia Chen
Senior Staff Writer
The Quadrangle Group — a private
investment firm co-founded by Steven
Rattner ’74 P’09, a member of the
Corporation’s board of fellows and
a former Herald editor-in-chief —
has reached a settlement with the
Securities and Exchange Commission
and New York Attorney General An-
drew Cuomo concerning a corruption
investigation, the New York Times
reported Thursday.
Quadrangle was accused by the
SEC and Cuomo of giving kickbacks
to state pension fund advisers in re-
turn for investing with the group,
according to a press release from
Cuomo’s office. The group will pay
$7 million to the state of New York
and $5 million to the SEC, those of-
fices reported.
Rattner, who left Quadrangle last
year to become President Obama’s
“car czar,” was not included in the
agreement and is still under inves-
tigation by the Attorney General’s
office. In a press release, Quadrangle
emphasized that it “neither admitted
nor denied any allegations” and that
the “matters under investigation re-
lated solely to the actions of former
Quadrangle employees.”
According to the attorney gener-
al’s press release, Quadrangle stated,
“We wholly disavow the conduct en-
gaged in by Steve Rattner, who hired
the New York State Comptroller’s
political consultant, Hank Morris,
to arrange an investment from the
New York State Common Retirement
Fund. That conduct was inappropri-
ate, wrong, and unethical.”
continued on page 3
and months of student planning, A
Day on College Hill welcomed over
700 prospective students to the sunny
Brown campus.
The two-day event, which gives
admitted students a taste of life at
Brown, officially began Thursday
afternoon. Many prospective stu-
dents had been on campus since
Wednesday for Third World Wel-
come, a program focused on minor-
ity students.
During ADOCH, admitted stu-
dents are able to meet future class-
mates, pick through a variety of
classes to attend during “shopping
period,” stay a night in a Brown resi-
dence hall and attend many informa-
tive and social events.
But what admitted students might
have enjoyed the most on Thurs-
day is the weather. Unlike last year,
ADOCH volunteers did not have to
welcome students with umbrellas
and ponchos, said Sarah Evelyn ’12,
a volunteer for the ADOCH Planning
Committee. Volunteers were very
thankful for the clear skies and warm
temperatures, Evelyn said.
While the weather on Friday
Engineering school will mean balancing act
By Sarah Forman
Senior Staff Writer
With a New Curriculum that offers
nearly unadulterated academic free-
dom and a Division of Engineering
that requires 21 courses from its
bachelor of science concentrators,
the University is in the midst of
the same difficult balancing act as
several other schools nationwide:
expanding engineering offerings
President Ruth Simmons welcomed potential members of the class of
2014 on the Main Green.
“might take a turn for the worse,”
it’s the “first day that really matters,”
said Eddie Re ’12, co-coordinator of
the planning committee.
For the first time, the planning
committee paired prospective stu-
dents with hosts that shared similar
interests, Re said. When students
while maintaining a commitment
to the liberal arts.
After the faculty voted last week
to approve the creation of a new
School of Engineering, which would
replace Brown’s current division,
that balance is set to become a little
more complicated.
‘Training whole people’
“It’s very important that students
have choice here,” said Iris Bahar,
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald
volunteered to host, they were asked
to fill out a survey of their academic
and extracurricular interests, which
were then matched with those of
prospective students, he said. Be-
cause of this, Re added, “hosting
ran very well.”
“The only thing that has sur-
director of undergraduate programs
in engineering and associate profes-
sor of engineering. “You can come
in, kind of explore and then make
your decision about what you’re
going to concentrate in.”
Without strict distribution re-
quirements or a core curriculum,
engineering students have “an ex-
ceptional opportunity” to discover
continued on page 3
After registering with ADOCH
volunteers at Sayles Hall, prospec-
tive students followed colorful chalk
signs to the Pembroke campus,
where they were served a barbecue
dinner. There, admitted students
were “already chatting with each
other and being social,” said ADOCH
volunteer Colby Jenkins ’12.
The dinner was followed by a
welcoming ceremony with Presi-
dent Ruth Simmons and Dean of
Admission Jim Miller ’73. Students
sat under a heated white tent on
the Main Green and laughed along
with Simmons as she welcomed the
class.
Throughout the rest of the night,
prospective students attended talent
shows, heard a cappella arch sings
and mingled with other admitted
students over ice cream.
“So far Ruth Simmons is one of
my favorite academic administrators
that I’ve met in my life,” said William
Ryan, a prospective freshman.
Ryan, who is still considering
other universities, said that he has
found Brown “more chill and less
pretentious than all of the Ivy League
continued on page 5
Gala planners
have not paid
Westin in full
By Alex Bell
Senior Staff Writer
Organizers of Saturday’s Gala have
not paid more than the $5,000 de-
posit they had originally paid to the
Westin Providence hotel, despite
a contractual obligation to pay the
remainder of a $20,000 minimum
payment by Wednesday, Senior

Passion, propriety and

Director for Student Engagement
Ricky Gresh wrote in an e-mail to
The Herald Thursday night.

wolves in P.W.’s ‘Red’

By Kristina Fazzalaro
Senior Staff Writer
John Racioppo ’11 is a wolf — or at
least he is this weekend in Produc-
tion Workshop’s newest play, “Red,”
ARTS & CULTURE
which opens Friday night in T. F.
Green Hall. Written and directed by
Daria Marinelli ’10, “Red” is a mature
retelling of the traditional Little Red
Riding Hood story.
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald
Abby Colella ’12 and John Racioppo ’11 as Diane and Red share a tender The play doesn’t offer exposi-
moment while Mariagrazia LaFauci ’12 sleeps in P.W.’s latest production. tions on how big the wolf’s teeth
inside
are. Nor does it paint the wolf in
a purely wicked light, and Diane,
played by Abby Colella ’12, the play’s
own “Little Red,” is no angel either.
“Red” chooses to paint the world not
in the black-and-white terms of good
and evil so often seen in childhood
fairytales, but in the varying shades
of gray that define reality.
“The play is about growing up and
making choices when there aren’t
any right decisions,” Marinelli said.
When she started writing the play,
Marinelli said she did not know that
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The Gala, originally scheduled
to be at the Westin, was moved to
Andrews Dining Hall last week af-
ter members of the Student Labor
Alliance raised concerns over a
labor dispute at the hotel that led
its workers to call for a community
boycott of the hotel.
But the contract with the hotel
still holds the event’s organizers
— Class Board and Key Soci-
ety — responsible for a $20,000
minimum fee for food and other
services at the event, even though
it will not be held there, Ted von
Gerichten, associate counsel for
the University, told The Herald
continued on page 3

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Editorial....6
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Opinion.....7
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C ampus N EWS “It can turn you into a monster or back into a human again too.”
— Daria Marinelli ’12 on the power of love in “Red”

P.W.’s ‘Red’ is a modern fairy tale U p for debate

continued from page 1
it would be a new take on the child-
hood story.
“It’s not the seed of the play, but
it lies tangent to it,” she explained.
“There are echoes of the past story,
but with some changes.”
For one, Diane is a grown
woman, engaged to her town’s
soon-to-be-mayor, Roger, played
by Ted Cava ’11. The two live with
her grandmother, played by Maria-
grazia LaFauci ’12, in a small house
on the edge of town. Isolated from
their neighbors by the surround-
ing woods, the family lives quietly
and peacefully — on a good day.
Unfortunately for Diane, today is
not going to be a good day.
The play opens, fittingly, with
the howling of a wolf. Diane rushes
out of her house — barefoot and
anxious to listen to the beast’s call.
She speaks to the audience directly,
explaining her predicament in loose,
metaphorical language.
Diane was in love once — that
much is clear — but that love, which
she compares to a wild and ever-
changing river, let her down. Her
one constant has been Roger, her
lifelong friend who is all about tradi-
tion and propriety. He does things
the way his father did them. There
is a comfort between the two and
their relationship is teasing, light
and easy as breathing.
Enter Racioppo’s half-man, half-
wolf character, Red, who shares a
romantic past with Diane. Bound-
ing onto the scene on all fours, Red
returns to his former lover’s house
to ask Diane for help. Roger has
declared open season on wolves
since his dear fiance has been
kept up at night due to the inces-
sant howling. Red fears the shoot-
ers tremendously — he is the only
wolf in these woods and he knows
they won’t stop hunting until they
find him.
Red begs Diane to let him stay,
but the pair’s relationship is volatile.
He cannot control his wolf side long
enough to give Diane the stable,
safe relationship she needs. But,
at the same time, the two share
something she and Roger do not
— passion. Diane may love Roger,
but it is a young love, sweet and
relaxed. With Red, Diane can push
aside all of the expectations that
Roger, and the town may have of her
and simply be herself. Their love is
explosive and temperamental, but
still comfortable in that Red knows
her and accepts all of her.
Diane must choose — the howl-
er or the mayor — and it’s not so
easy a decision. As Marinelli said,
the play is about the “transformative
power of love. It can turn you into a
monster or back into a human again
too,” she said.
This is literally the case for Red,
who can only fully become human
when Diane willingly kisses him
due to a curse he claims Zeus has
placed on him. At all other times,
Red is in a state of limbo — he
thirsts for fresh meat, sheds all over
Diane’s bathroom, nuzzles her leg
and bounds around with the grace
and strength of a wolf.
Racioppo said he spent a lot of
time looking at videos of wolves, as
well as studying a source closer to
home, his dog. Racioppo had to see
how these characteristics would “fit
a human body and, then, how you
keep the wolf characteristics when
you’re playing a man,” he said.
Racioppo’s smart performance,
which could have easily been over-
acted, was captivating to watch. He
truly brought the wolf to life. Where
Racioppo brought out his animal
side, Cava’s Roger was all about pro-
priety, and his quiet performance of
the text definitely delivered.
The star of the show, however,
is Colella. Her Diane is both sweet
and saucy at the same time as
she grapples with her emotions
throughout the play. Her sincere
portrayal brings audience members
into the action and keeps them on
the edge of their seats as they await
Max Monn / Herald
her decision.
Arthur Matuszewski ’11, a candidate for president of the Undergraduate
Council of Students and a former editor of Post- magazine, participates
“Red” is running April 16–19 at 8 in a candidate debate Thursday evening. He is running against Diane
p.m. with an additional performance Mokoro ’11, currently the council’s vice president.
on Saturday, April 17, at 10 p.m.

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School would make engineering more accessible
continued from page 1
other disciplines, Rodney Clifton,
interim dean of engineering, wrote
in an e-mail to The Herald.
“That’s what the open curriculum
is for,” said Francois Baldassari ’11,
an electrical engineering concentra-
tor. “I wanted to do more with college
than just be an engineer.”
Baldassari said he took five class-
es in each of his first five semesters
in order to make room for courses
outside of engineering that he “would
not have been able to take anywhere
else.”
Harvard, like other liberal arts
universities offering engineering,
strives to maintain a similar balance
between hard sciences and liberal
arts, according to Cherry Murray,
dean of Harvard’s recently created
School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences.
“We are not training engineers,
we are training whole people,” she
said, because global issues “can’t be
addressed adequately without the en-
tire body of culture, laws, sociology,
business acumen and policy that is
part of a liberal arts education.”
Shakespeare and thermo
Because of Har vard’s under-
graduate distribution requirements,
Murray said that Harvard’s engineer-
ing school reaches many students
outside of the department.
Engineering is a vital part of any
liberal arts education, since without
a basic understanding of math, sci-
ence and technology, students cannot
understand how the world works,
said Venkatesh Narayanamurti, for-
mer dean of Harvard’s engineering
school.
“If I’m supposed to know Shake-
speare, you should at least know the
laws of thermodynamics,” he said.
In redefining Brown’s engineer-
ing division as a school with more
lab space and course offerings, Ba-
har said she thinks more students
outside of engineering will be en-
couraged to venture into Barus and
Holley and explore the discipline.
U. invested
in embattled
firm
continued from page 1
Rattner’s lawyer, Jamie Gorelick,
was quoted by the Times and other
media outlets saying, “Mr. Rattner
does not agree with the characteriza-
tion of events released today, includ-
ing those contained in Quadrangle’s
statement.”
The Chronicle of Higher Educa-
tion reported last month that the
University had invested with Quad-
rangle, according to its 2008 federal
tax forms. The University could not
be reached for comment.
“We want to make engineering
more accessible,” she said, explain-
ing that a school of engineering
would be better able to reach out to
other departments than the current
division. “It’s not just a matter of giv-
ing more to engineers.”
Over the last two years, the num-
ber of students at Harvard choosing
engineering as a concentration has
increased by 57 percent, and there
has been a 30 percent rise in the
number of applicants interested in
engineering, Murray said. Since its
redefinition as a school, instead of a
division, Harvard’s engineering pro-
gram has also gained more faculty
and more facilities, she said.
Because Brown’s engineering
program is still too small to offer
most introductory courses both se-
mesters, it can be very difficult to
switch into the division, said Allison
Palm ’12.
Palm applied to Brown as a
prospective engineer, but said she
was not ready to take engineering
courses until her freshman spring
since her high school had not of-
fered upper-level math and science.
Since the courses she needed were
only available in the fall, she could
not begin the engineering track until
her sophomore year, which means
she will have to take five classes for
most of her remaining semesters,
she said.
A field on the rise
Not only would more introduc-
tory classes help the engineering
program welcome outside students,
but they might also be necessary
in order to handle the increasing
number of concentrators.
Of the class of 2009, 240 students
— about 17 percent — graduated
with degrees in the physical sci-
ences, among them 64 engineers,
according to the Office of Institu-
tional Research’s Web site.
Nearly twice as large a proportion
— 30 percent — of the students ac-
cepted to the class of 2014 indicated
an interest in the physical sciences,
according to an April 1 press release
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“We are not training engineers, we are training whole people.”
— Cherry Murray, Dean of Harvard’s School of Engineering
from the Office of Admission.
“Brown is not unique in its stu-
dents’ expressing a larger interest
in engineering,” Bahar said.
Federal initiatives are pushing
engineering as an answer to climate
change and other global issues, con-
tributing to some of that rise, Baldas-
sari said.
Many minority students, including
low-income and first-generation col-
lege students, are also being drawn
to the field because “they know they
can get a job,” Murray said.
Partly in order to accommodate
the growing body of engineering ap-
plicants, many universities with a
traditional emphasis on the liberal
arts are expanding their engineer-
ing offerings.
Every Ivy League institution ex-
cept Brown now has its own school
of engineering, though according
to the University’s Web site, Brown
was the first among them to offer
any engineering program.
Stanford University boasts an
engineering school second only
to the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, according to U.S. News
and World Report rankings. In fact,
only three out of U.S. News’ top 10
engineering schools are solely tech-
nological institutes, suggesting that
more engineering students want to
“understand not only how things
work, but also how the world works,”
according to Narayanamurti.
Other departments
As Brown and other liberal arts
schools change the nature of engi-
neering to include more of a focus on
the liberal arts, Professor of Anthro-
pology and former Vice President
and Provost William Simmons ’60
worries that Brown will lose “part of
its identity as a university college,”
he said.
“I would have to wonder the de-
gree to which the engineering cur-
riculum is compatible with the rest
of what Brown is doing,” he said.
“They’re basically becoming a profes-
continued on page 4
Essayist John D’Agata
shares eclectic writing
By Anish Gonchigar
Staff Writer
Essayist John D’Agata read from his
latest book, “About a Mountain,” to
a crowd of about 60 people in the
English department’s McCormack
Family Theater Thursday night.
D’Agata, a professor of English at the
University of Iowa, merges ordinarily
separate literary techniques, such as
fictional storytelling, reporting and
personal anecdotes, together into
a book that a Los Angeles Times
review described as a “meditation
on post-millennial issues.”
“I think you need to stop the
racist segregation of genres,”
D’Agata joked to the audience.
D’Agata read from the end of
“About a Mountain,” an excerpt
that focused on the Yucca Moun-
tain Project — the plan of the U.S.
Department of Energy to store the
nation’s nuclear waste in Yucca, a
mountain 90 miles northwest of Las
Vegas, where it is expected to decay
for 10,000 years.
The author, whose writing wove
together a set of eclectic topics that
included the number nine and Nor-
wegian inbreeding, linked the story
Westin not holding Class
Board to deadline on Gala
continued from page 1
Monday.
“Discussions with the Westin
are ongoing,” Gresh wrote in the
e-mail. “I am pleased to say that talks
have been amicable, and I look for-
ward to a positive outcome.”
He wrote that the Westin is “cur-
rently not holding Brown or the stu-
dent groups to the due date.”
Von Gerichten said the process
of negotiations would likely be more
along the lines of a “business discus-
Page 3
of the Yucca Mountain Project to
his work for a suicide prevention
hotline at the time he was writing
the book. He then went on to de-
scribe the suicide of Levi Presley,
a 16-year-old Las Vegas resident.
D’Agata had spoken to a young man
who called the hotline earlier on the
day of Presley’s suicide, and D’Agata
immediately believed — mistakenly,
as he later discovered — Presley was
that young man.
Despite the heavy and tragic
themes of his writing, audience
members laughed in reaction to the
absurdity of D’Agata’s work. The
author also told audience members
not to feel uncomfortable laughing
during these moments.
Thursday’s reading, sponsored
by the Program in Literary Arts and
the Department of English’s Nonfic-
tion Writing Program, was the final
stop on D’Agata’s book tour of over
a dozen colleges since his novel was
published in February. D’Agata, who
had spoken at Brown previously,
said he appreciated the literary at-
mosphere of the University.
“I don’t mean to flatter you, but
I really feel I’m saving the best for
last,” D’Agata said.
sion” rather than a legal debate.
Neil Parikh ’11, president of the
2011 Class Board, told The Herald
Wednesday that he and other stu-
dents were not privy to the nego-
tiations, and were told instead to
focus on planning Saturday’s Gala
in Andrews.
A spokesman for the Procacci-
anti Group, which owns the Westin,
declined to comment Wednesday
on whether any payment had been
made or when the due date for pay-
ment was.
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Teach-in spotlights homelessness in R.I.
By Clare de Boer
Contributing Writer
“Being poor, and its corollar y,
being homeless, is a crushing
burden to bear,” Gregor y Elliot,
professor of sociology, told an
intimate audience in MacMillan
115 at the Rhode Island Hunger
and Homelessness Teach-In on
Thursday evening. At the teach-
in, sponsored by the Community
Health Departmental Undergradu-
ate Group and Kappa Alpha Theta,
three panelists discussed the
social and psychological con-
sequences of extreme pover ty
before answering audience ques-
tions.
“The worst form of violence
is poverty,” Elliot said, echoing
Mahatma Gandhi. The poor, and
particularly the homeless, “feel
invisible,” said Jessica Salter, vice
president of development at Amos
House, Rhode Island’s largest
soup kitchen and a provider of
professional training and support
for the homeless.
When “you get the message
everyday that you don’t matter to
the powers that be,” one way to
“compel mattering is to do socially
disruptive things,” Elliot said.
This explains why “90 percent
of people who come to (Amos
House’s) programs have a crimi-
nal record,” said Salter.
Elliot noted society’s danger-
ous distinction between the “de-
ser ving” and the “undeser ving”
poor — the former whose situa-
tion is no fault of their own, and
the latter who are held respon-
sible for their situation and are
therefore disqualified from public
empathy.
“No one sits around as a child
and dreams of being homeless,”
Salter said, “we have to be less
comfortable keeping people at
arms length, or things just don’t
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“No one sits around as a child and dreams of being homeless.”
— Jessica Salter, Vice President of Development at Amos House
change.”
Asher Oser, a rabbi whose
synagogue is in partnership with
Crossroads Rhode Island, the
state’s largest ser vice provider
for the homeless, is engaging with
the issue by providing meals for
350 homeless people each Sunday.
His program addresses “matter-
ing and delinquency” not only
by providing for the homeless,
but also by accepting volunteers
who have been turned down to
perform community ser vice as
punishment elsewhere.
“If you can give individuals the
skills and the opportunities, most
people do really want to take the
steps to change their lives,” Salter
said.
After the discussion, many
of the students signed a petition
to increase funding for the Sup-
plemental Nutrition Assistance
Program, which will be sent to
Governor Donald Carcieri ’65.
Students in attendance said
they thought the panelists were
insightful.
“It was really informative to
hear three different perspectives
on homelessness and think about
the issue on so many different
levels,” said Marie Ripa ’12.
Danielle Crumley ’12 said, “It
helped me to understand the cy-
clical nature of poverty.”
Attrition remains a
problem for engineers
continued from page 3
sional school.”
Elena Albright ’11, a biology
concentrator, said she was happy
with the proposed growth in engi-
neering.
“Brown is plenty prestigious, but
if it’s going to attract another set of
the country’s brightest students,”
she said, “it’s a good thing.”
Neither she nor computer sci-
ence concentrator Joseph Browne ’10
said they thought that placing more
emphasis on engineering would take
away funding or interest in their de-
partments.
The faculty’s resolution last week
discouraged the idea that other de-
partments would be hurt by the
change, as it insisted that “steps will
be taken to ensure that the move to
school status increases rather than
impedes faculty and student teaching
and research collaborations between
Engineering and the rest of the Uni-
versity.”
Drop it low
The faculty’s resolution did not
contain any reference to one of the
major problems within the current
division: attrition.
Students and faculty gave varying
Friday, April 16, 2010
estimates of the number of students
who leave the department, but Bahar
said she thought it might be around
20 percent.
“I don’t think that’s higher than
other schools,” she said. “Attrition
is a fact of engineering.”
The advising program and course
structure may be partly to blame
for the attrition rate, said Gregory
Lowen ’12, a Meiklejohn adviser in
engineering.
He said that he thought his advis-
ing partner was too focused on “try-
ing to force engineers to stay in” to
really help explain all of the different
options — including restructuring
some of the standard course sched-
ules — to his advisees.
“They’re confused, they don’t
know what to do,” he said.
Baldassari said he was also un-
derwhelmed by his advisers, and
said that his freshman adviser “gave
me my PIN number, and that was
it.”
Universities need to continue
working to address attrition, both
by providing more flexible course
modules and by reworking their cur-
riculums, Narayanamurti said.
“We need far more engineering
graduates than we actually gradu-
ate,” he said.
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Shakespeare on the Green takes the show outside Pre-frosh
By Alexys Esparza
Contributing Writer
Shakespeare meets the outdoors
this weekend as Shakespeare on
the Green, a student group that
puts on outdoor performances of
Shakespearean plays, performs
two of his classic works, “As You
Like It” and “Hamlet.”
Kate Doyle ’12, director of
“As You Like It” and features edi-
tor of Post- magazine, described
performing Shakespeare on the
campus green as a “nice, fresh,
different way to do things” and
as a “whole different style of per-
formance.”
The actors in “As You Like It”
maximize their use of the open
space of Lincoln Field, somer-
saulting and wrestling across the
green. The audience sits at the
bottom of the hill, facing Sayles
Hall, which creates a two-level
stage on the hill. The actors take
full advantage of the sloping setup,
running up and down the hill and
hanging from trees.
Due to the limited number of
cast members, some actors take
on multiple roles, which illumi-
nates the versatility of the actors
involved and fosters an intimate
setting between the actors and
the audience.
“The play lends itself well to
Ben Jones’13 and Alex Wankel ’11 star in Shakespeare on the Green’s
production of “As You Like It.”
a ’60s theme,” Doyle said. The
actors’ costumes are all ’60s in-
spired, including colorful prints
and floral dresses. Various Beatles
songs played during set transi-
tions and scene introductions add
to the 1960s mood.
The actors play of f of each
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
“That’s what theater should be. Theater for fun.”
Max Monn / Herald
other quite well, creating a light,
fun and enjoyable atmosphere for
the audience. There are many co-
medic moments throughout the
play that are well represented by
the actors’ interactions with one
another.
Like “As You Like It,” and most
— Kate Doyle ’12, director of “As You Like It”
Shakespearean plays, “Hamlet”
has constantly been recreated and
reinterpreted by actors and audi-
ences alike.
Margaret Maurer ’13, who is
directing the Shakespeare on the
Green production, wrote in an e-
mail to The Herald, “One of the
major goals that we had with ‘Ham-
let’ was to revitalize it, to make it
into a play that ever yone — no
matter what their previous expo-
sure, if any, to the play — could
see as though for the first time.”
The Hamlet actors and the
audience meet at the Van Wickle
Gates and proceed to various
green spaces around campus.
Rather than utilizing one set
space as the stage, Maurer wrote,
“The play moves during the per-
formance to a different location
every night, so even night to night
the play is a completely unique
experience.”
Shakespeare on the Green’s
productions provide the audience
with a fresh look at two of Shake-
speare’s most famous plays.
“That’s what theater should
be,” Doyle said. “Theater for
fun.”
Shakespeare on the Green is run-
ning April 16–19 at 8 p.m. “As You
Like It” will run on Saturday, April
17, at 3 p.m. 10 p.m.
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schools I’ve visited.”
And, he added, if he does come
to Brown, he hopes Simmons will be
his “mom away from home.”
Kyle McNamara, another prospec-
tive freshman, said that after taking
the physical sciences tour, which fo-
cuses on Brown’s science facilities,
earlier in the day, he was surprisingly
impressed with science at Brown.
“I didn’t know how far science was
at Brown, but they seem to have a
good handle on things,” he said. Now,
McNamara added, he’s almost cer-
tain that he will enroll in Brown as
an engineer.
Natalie Mehra, also an admit con-
sidering Brown, said she was “really
surprised” when she got in, given the
record number of applicants for the
class of 2014. Mehra, who said she
has already found Brown “really nice,
really friendly, warm and welcoming,”
added that of all of Brown’s qualities,
the New Curriculum is what appeals
to her the most.
Mehra said she is especially glad
she came to ADOCH because it gave
her a better picture of student life.
“I thought I might not fit in with
people here, but now I definitely see
I will,” she said.
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U. cuts show poor priorities

To the Editor: that another article from last week
(“Brown group opposes proposed
Your article on how the im- changes at Hope,” April 6) was about
pending staff cuts will impact the a Swearer Center-initiated student
institutional knowledge and skills at group helping to fight against roll-
Brown’s libraries (“University librar- back of positive reforms at Hope
ies face staff cuts,” April 8) is just the High School, and the accompanying
tip of the iceberg. The University’s reductions in staff. I support and
cutting of 60 staff positions, on top laud these students’ efforts, but
of 31 positions cut last year, is just they should also be fighting closer
another example of the poor priori- to home!
ties of the Simmons administration As an alum and resident of the
and the Corporation. city of Providence who pays more
The construction of Brown’s new than $2,400 per year on property
Life Sciences building cost a total of taxes for a condo in the West End
$67 million — nearly five times the while Brown pays almost nothing
savings of eliminating these posi- in property taxes on its sprawling
tions. In the meantime, tuition is campus, I am embarrassed to see
being increased by 4.5 percent at a the University undervalue some of
time when general inflation is barely its longtime employees, particularly
above zero. Students — and their those who have worked with stu-
parents, for that matter — should dents to have a positive impact on A le x yuly
be marching in the streets and the community.
demanding a reorientation of the Hopefully, the University will
University’s priorities. reverse its decision to lay off these
e d i to r i a l
Some cuts, like the layoffs at the employees and slow down its real es-
Swearer Center that will severely
limit Brown’s positive role in the
tate acquisition and building binge.
It does not serve students, faculty
Welcome, ’14s
Rhode Island community, are par- and staff or the broader community We fondly remember A Day on College Hill as a time won’t be challenging Brown for the top spot in the
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still reeling from the public rela- planning committee has put in a lot of hard work and “The nightmare scenario, if you will, is that you
tions disaster that was President done a great job of setting up informative and enter- apply with a 3.5 from Princeton and someone just as
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Goldman Sachs board. How ironic April 13 most of this brief introduction to life at Brown. senior told the New York Times in January. If this is
On top of the events, we especially encourage the kind of thing you want to hear yourself saying in
prospective freshman to seek out some informal in- four years, then Princeton’s your choice.
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Ethan Tobias
Opinions Columnist
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck,
don’t call it a chicken. Yet this is exactly what
those who constructed a makeshift wall on the
Main Green last week were doing. The wall
stood as a protest to both “Apartheid in the
Occupied Territories” of Israel/Palestine and
the U.S.-Mexico border fence.
Whatever you may think about South Af-
rica, Israel/Palestine or the U.S. southern
border, the fact is that these situations are
very different. Building a wall that conflates
the nuances of the three, rather than having a
civilized discussion about the effects of certain
policies, paints history with a broad brush.
It serves to poison the discourse by making
weak associations.
The fact is that while some similarities do
exist — there were fences in all these places
— there are more fundamental differences
among these situations. One of the most im-
portant is that the U.S. and Mexico are two
separate countries. The system of apartheid in
South Africa worked to separate people within
a single country based on race, while the fence
on our southern border separates peoples liv-
ing in different countries. It is internationally
agreed that nations have the right to control
who can cross their borders. This right is es-
sential for protecting countries from terrorists,
criminals and drug smugglers.
These two examples show how the situation
Simon
Liebling
Opinions Columnist
I worry that often lost in the familiar heroic
histories of grassroots political movements is
the reality that today’s moral consensus on the
justice of their causes belies just how unthink-
ably controversial these movements were back
when they were actually being waged. The
unanimous agreement that allows us to exalt
these movements in retrospect — I’m thinking,
for example, of the effort to end South African
apartheid — makes it seem impossible that
these issues were ever contentious. Sure, there
was always an external target that needed to
be compelled to change, but beyond that, the
moral certainty of our present narratives can
make it seem like everyone else was always
united in agreement.
Of course, the consensus is always new,
and whatever the issue, there has never been
any shortage of people at the time willing to
defend the most backwards, antiquated and
overtly racist or sexist views. Even in the United
States, the campaign for divestment from South
African apartheid was a battle for minds. It met
active opposition domestically, far outside of
the white South African ruling class. Countless
people — Americans — defending what was a
fairly mainstream political position wound up
unambiguously on the wrong side of history.
Brown itself resisted the divestment call for
a time in the late 1980s. But we forget these
things as the terms of acceptable political de-
bate shift over the years.
No apartheid here
is strikingly different whether the separation is
between peoples in different countries or with-
in a single country. When fences attempted to
divide a unified country, as in South Africa, it
made sense to protest, support sanctions and
encourage divestment. However, when fences
serve to maintain existing national boundar-
ies and provide security, as in the case of the
U.S.-Mexico border, protests and divestment
campaigns are misguided.
Given the importance of distinguishing
between fences within a nation and fences
between nations, how can we understand the
situation in Israel/Palestine?
The situation in Israel/Palestine is very different
from the border fence between the U.S. and
Mexico or the systematic segregation along racial
lines in apartheid South Africa.
Israelis and Palestinians are very much two
different peoples, with their own individual
national aspirations. They differ in religion,
language and culture. More importantly, they
consider themselves to be separate nations. A
two-state solution has majority support among
both Israelis and Palestinians in polls con-
ducted of both populations.
The leaders of the Palestinian Authority
and the Israeli government both support a
two-state solution. They agree that any solution
will be based on the pre-1967 borders, give or
take a few land swaps. The groundwork for a
The right side of history
The danger of the illusion of moral con-
sensus is that we start vainly searching for it
in present political movements as well. Rather
than understanding that today’s controversies
could well be tomorrow’s moral certainties,
we take contentiousness to mean that popular
causes now are simply not as compelling as the
indisputable causes of decades past and thus
not worth supporting. But views will change,
and one student’s perfectly normal opinions
today might end up completely repulsive in
the eyes of their grandchildren.
As we think about ongoing grassroots
The movement to divest from companies profiting
from Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian
territories could, in retrospect, become the moral
imperative of our time.
movements, then, we must remember that
the student activists who supported movements
like South African divestment were not simply
volunteers doing the legwork for a foregone
conclusion — they were courageous support-
ers of an unpopular position. Thus, for all of
the controversy that today surrounds calls to
divest from companies profiting from Israel’s
illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories,
this divestment movement could, in retrospect,
become the moral imperative of our time.
The moral equivalence is well established by
those who were heavily involved in the South
African anti-apartheid movement. Archbishop
major breakthrough is there.
The international consensus has continu-
ally been for the creation of separate states for
Israelis and Palestinians. The Peel Commis-
sion of 1937 recommended separate Jewish
and Arab states. The United Nations in 1948
voted on a resolution establishing the creation
of two separate states. Even today, leaders
from all across the world, from President
Obama to the Arab League, have endorsed
some version of a two-state solution.
Given the overwhelming belief that a two-
state solution is the best way to resolve the
conflict in Israel/Palestine, it is clear that the
situation is much more similar to the fence
separating the U.S. and Mexico than the state
of affairs in apartheid South Africa.
If the students who made the comparison
between apartheid and the U.S.-Mexico bor-
der really believe their own rhetoric, then
they must accept that they are citizens of an
apartheid state, currently dividing the U.S.
and Mexico. If I believed I were living under
a system of apartheid, I would make sure I
was doing everything in my power to end it
before I started criticizing a foreign country
for doing the same thing. Anything otherwise
Desmond Tutu writes, “Yesterday’s South Afri-
can township dwellers can tell you about today’s
life in the Occupied Territories.” Elsewhere, he
has written that the situation in the Occupied
Territories “reminded me so much of what
happened to us black people in South Africa.”
Nelson Mandela has made similar comparisons.
So did pro-apartheid officials in the old South
African government, though they had slightly
different intentions.
Divesting from companies profiting from
the occupation, then, is as urgent now as it
was to divest from companies profiting from
South African apartheid in the 1980s. And as
Tutu would remind us, we should not for a
moment be put off by the controversy sur-
rounding the issue.
Divestment is so imperative because it is a
rare way of compelling governments to reform
their ways when they otherwise operate with
impunity, accountable to no one — as was the
case with apartheid South Africa. The simple
force of law has proved inadequate in the case
of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Israel’s
government has disregarded binding legal
decisions from both the International Court of
Justice and its own Supreme Court that declare
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is pure hypocrisy.
The problem with repainting history is the
tendency to subsume the individual nuances
of different situations. The situation in Israel/
Palestine is very different from the border
fence between the U.S. and Mexico or the
systematic segregation along racial lines in
apartheid South Africa.
You do not have to agree with everything
that the U.S. or Israeli governments do, but
sincere criticism and protest go a lot further
than name calling and guilt by association.
It is easy to write off those we disagree with
as acting like “Hitler” or “Stalin,” as the Tea
Partiers do, but doing so is not intellectually
honest. Instead, we should be debating policy
respectfully. By associating the U.S. and Israel
with the policy of apartheid in South Africa,
those students on the Main Green chose to
polarize the debate by brushing over impor-
tant distinctions.
The image that the word “apartheid” brings
to mind is a harsh one. Those using such load-
ed language must make a clear and concise
argument explaining why the word applies.
Conflating apartheid in South Africa with the
U.S.-Mexico border and Israel/Palestine situ-
ations diminishes the suffering that millions
of South Africans endured. It is an affront to
them and to every self-respecting person who
values historical accuracy.
Ethan Tobias ’12 likes the view from
this side of the Van Wickle gates. He
can be reached at
Ethan_Tobias@brown.edu.
the Separation Wall and other aspects of the
occupation illegal — the Israeli Supreme Court
has no recourse but to hold its own government
in contempt time after time.
The Israeli government exhibits such wan-
ton disregard for the rule of domestic and in-
ternational law because there is no mechanism
to force it to obey; it can count on the support
of the United States government and the pri-
vate companies that facilitate the occupation.
Divestment, though, grants the international
community the enforcement power it sorely
needs; it is a way to compel Israel to respect
both the law and basic human rights in the
Occupied Territories.
Like the movement to divest from South
Africa, the movement to divest from companies
profiting from occupation draws broad and
diverse international support. Brown Students
for Justice in Palestine, the organization leading
the campaign here, counts among its members
Palestinians and Israelis, Muslims and Jews
(like me). But perhaps most important are
the members who are neither, who are driven
to the issue not by the self-interest of identity,
but by sheer force of moral conviction. They
see unconscionable events in the Occupied
Territories — events supported by their own
University’s investments — and in divestment
they see a way to do something about it. And
like their predecessors who fought against
apartheid in South Africa, history will bear
them out.
Simon Liebling ’12 is from New
Jersey. He can be reached at
simon.liebling@gmail.com.
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M. lacrosse will host Yale Saturday
at 1 p.m. The Bulldogs come after de-
feating Penn and Dartmouth, putting
them 2-2 in Ivy League play.
W. lacrosse will host two games
this weekend, starting today at 4 p.m.
against Cornell, and continuing 1 p.m.
Sunday against Boston College.
M. tennis hosts Harvard today at
2 p.m. The team will then travel to
Hanover, N.H., to face off against Dart-
mouth Sunday at noon.
W. tennis features the opposite
c a l e n da r
Today, April 16
4:30 P.M. — “Audience, Aesthetics,
Assumptions: Putting the Groove into
Classical Music,” - Steinert Hall
7:00 P.m. — Latino Gala, Andrews
Dining Hall
schedule from the men as it visits Har-
vard today at 2 p.m., returning home to
face Dartmouth Sunday at noon.
Equestrian competes in Hanover,
N.H. all day Saturday.
Baseball and softball travel to Cam-
bridge for a four-game series against
Harvard Saturday and Sunday.
Both m. and w. crew will race in
Massachusetts Saturday. The men will
take on Northeastern and the women
will go head-to-head against Boston
University.
tomorrow, april 17
2:00 P.M. — Tamora Pierce Book
Reading and Signing, Brown
Bookstore
8:00 P.M. — RED, a new play at PW,
T.F. Green Hall
Diamond to the class of 2014 and prospective stu-
dent William Ryan, who told The Herald Brown was
“more chill” than other universities. Just wait until
February.
Coal to Art Speigelman P’13 for letting us put a photo of
him smoking on the front page. Don’t
you know there are impressionable
young pre-frosh around?
Cubic zirconium to the Wickenden
Street “snuggery” Duck and Bunny —
we like the sound of it, but aren’t those
illegal now in this state?
Coal to the Rhode Island state senators
who want to ban tanning for minors.
How will this state ever produce another Pauly D
now?
Cubic zirconia to the majority of you who told us you
were attractive in our recent poll. We applaud you for
your confidence, and would give you diamonds, but
it looks like you think you’re pretty enough all on
your own.
But diamonds to the majority of you who said you’re
in favor of eliminating tableslips. Our domination of
your breakfast table will soon be complete!
A muddy old diamond to the College Hill ’Dependent
for being good sports at kickball last weekend. You
said the rain and mud conflict with your
“aesthetic ideology” — looks like win-
ning does, too.
Coal to UFB Secretary Tyler Rosen-
baum ’11 for telling the board that it
needs to “improve relationships” with
the community. We don’t think your
board’s lack of communication is the
reason you’re all single.
And coal to Sofia Pellon ’10, who has “been notic-
ing recently a lot of the people (she’s) living with are
coupled up.” What did you think all those extra tooth-
brushes were for?
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