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Gov. Carcieri ’65 accepted R.I.’s portion of the federal stimulus bill last week.

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over 1,100 take first-year seminars this year, highest ever

by emma berry

Staff Writer

After falling slightly last year, first-year seminar enrollment for the current school year has been larger than ever.

Between the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 academic years, the num-ber of first-year seminars offered rose from 56 to 74, and total enroll-ment rose from about 800 to over 1,100 — the highest level since the program started in 2002, according

to Registrar Michael Pesta. “Things are back on the up-swing,” Pesta said, adding that last year’s dip may have been due to “any number of circumstances,” including professors taking sab-baticals and significant turnover in the Dean of the College’s office when seminar offerings were being planned.

According to Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron, an increase in the size of the faculty under the Plan for Academic Enrichment

enabled the program’s growth. Though the Corporation recently announced that it will slow faculty hiring to deal with projected losses of income, “the budget reductions in the College will not affect the First-Year Seminar program at all next year,” Bergeron wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

“Since we are expecting an addi-tional modest growth in the faculty for next year, we anticipate that the (first-year) seminar program will remain on a strong footing,”

she wrote.

Bergeron wrote that there will be 72 first-year seminars taught during the next school year — a slight dip from the 74 offered this year. She said the decrease would not affect the program’s goal of offering enough first-year semi-nar slots for the entire freshman class, typically numbering about 1400 students.

But Pesta said it’s “hard to tell”

Kim ’82

picked as

Dartmouth

president

by hannah moser

Senior Staff Writer

Jim Yong Kim ’82, a medical doctor and global health leader who gradu-ated from Brown with a degree in human biology, has been elected to become the 17th president of Dart-mouth, the college’s board of trustees announced Monday. Kim will begin his term July 1, succeeding longtime president James Wright.

Kim, who was born in Seoul and moved to Iowa at age five, will be-come the first Asian-American presi-dent of an Ivy League institution and just the second-ever person of color, after Ruth Simmons, to hold such a post.

“I feel so proud to follow in Ruth’s footsteps,” he said in a telephone in-terview Monday. “She inspired me to think that I can do this job.”

A leader in the field of public health, Kim garnered international recognition as a senior official at the World Health Organization for working to fight diseases such as

Med student r.I. senator’s personal guest at obama speech

by brian mastroianni

Senior Staff Writer

Lauren Goddard MD’11 found her-self rubbing elbows with the family and friends of some of Washington’s most powerful political players last Tuesday, as she watched President Barack Obama’s first address to Con-gress from the Visitor’s Gallery of the House of Representatives.

“I kept nudging people and say-ing ‘Look there’s Senator Feinstein, look there’s Nancy Pelosi, and no one was phased because they were probably related to these people,” Goddard said.

A self-described “political geek,” Goddard attended the speech as a personal guest of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.

“I thought the speech was great in that it exceeded my

expectations,” she said. “Obama set out very

spe-cific goals and made the people a part of those goals and plans — he makes the public feel invested in the process.”

For Goddard, Obama’s focus on affordable health care had a particu-lar resonance. After graduating from Barnard College in 2004, Goddard was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease,

a gastrointestinal disease for which there is no known cure.

“I took health insurance for granted for my whole life, but then I became too old to be covered by my mother’s insurance policy, and I didn’t have health insurance for a long time,” Goddard said. “I realized the contradiction that I was a med student, and yet I didn’t have health insurance.”

Goddard met Whitehouse early last month at a community dinner in Warwick that focused on health care reform. The dinner was attended by about 200 people who spoke about

their struggles in receiving health care, said Alex Swartsel, commu-nications director in Whitehouse’s office.

“Every one of the stories present-ed at the dinner was compelling,” Swartsel said. “The interesting thing about Lauren is that she is a medi-cal student as well as a patient. As a student of medicine she knows that if you are scheduled to take medication regularly, you take it, but as a patient who struggled to afford health care … she is going to have a hard time finding affordable health care.”

Move to let watson give tenure resisted

by syDney ember

Senior Staff Writer

A proposal that would allow the Watson Institute for International Studies to grant tenure to its appoin-tees is on hold after a widespread negative response from faculty members.

A final decision on the proposal — first suggested by the Watson Board of Overseers in October 2007 — was supposed to be reached this semester. But a fear that the tenure selection process would be used to attract non-traditional faculty — along with concerns about the Uni-versity’s financial situation — has delayed a verdict on the proposal indefinitely.

The Watson board’s proposal has suffered from a lack of support from faculty both inside and outside the institute.

“I think we all felt more discus-sion was necessary,” said Vice President for International Affairs David Kennedy ’76, who is serv-ing as interim director of Watson. “Some people felt we needed to do more planning.”

The lack of a permanent direc-tor, as well as widespread

differ-ences in faculty opinion regarding the proposal, have made the issue “an open conversation,” Kennedy said. Tenure is a “necessary tool” for attracting and retaining the high-est quality faculty, he said.

As part of the institute’s long-term strategic planning process, there have been a number of com-mittees that started meeting this past fall to discuss whether the proposal “makes sense,” Kennedy added.

But a Watson faculty member, who agreed to speak only on condi-tion of anonymity, said Kennedy and President Ruth Simmons pulled the plug on the proposal earlier this year because enthusiasm among faculty had remained “lukewarm.”

Many people are unclear who would benefit from Watson’s ability to grant tenure to its professors, the person said.

“This proposal was not initiated by the Watson faculty,” the faculty member said, adding that opposi-tion among faculty is due to concern about departmental competition over resources and the percep-tion that tenure would be used to

Courtesy of Dartmouth College

Jim Yong Kim ’82.

Kim Perley / Herald Lauren Goddard MD’11 took a trip to Washington to hear Obama’s address.

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A proposal by the Watson Institute’s Board of Overseers to let the institute hand out tenure offers has stalled, unpopular with faculty.

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“I tried to get in one my freshman year and it was just impossible.”

— Cici Matheny ’09, on not having taken a first-year seminar

exactly how many seminars will be taught next year, since depart-ments hire new professors and course offerings tend to change even after the course booklet is printed.

Students interviewed by The Herald said they felt having classes restricted to first years made tak-ing seminars less intimidattak-ing

Natan Last ’12 said his first-year seminar, MUSC 0021B: “Reading Jazz,” has been one of the best classes he has taken at Brown. “It’s you and a bunch of people talking for two hours and twenty minutes about music we all love,” he said.

Because first-year seminars are capped at 20, students must enter a summer lottery for spaces in a course.

Though Mariel Heupler ’12

re-ceived her first-choice seminar, ANTH 0066L: “Singing and Lan-guage,” last summer, she said she remembers students in the “Class of 2012” Facebook group vying for spots in particular classes.

The program seemed popular, she said, adding that “everyone was complaining about not getting their first pick.”

But unfortunately for Heupler, the program did not meet her ex-pectations.

While she “got all excited about the idea” of a small, discussion-based course, “because we were all freshmen, no one really partici-pated” in her seminar, she said.

Still, Cici Matheny ’09 said she envied the underclassmen who have been able to take advantage of the expanded course offerings. “I tried to get in one my freshman year and it was just impossible,” she said.

Whitehouse has held eight com-munity dinners throughout the state since his election to office in 2006. Last year, Mike Tracy, a can-cer survivor who struggled to pay his health care premiums, was the Whitehouse’s guest to the State of the Union Address.

“These meetings present an in-valuable opportunity that is unique to Rhode Island, in that it gets the senator out to the community to hear directly from the people on what is-sues matter to them,” Swartsel said. “That’s just exactly what democracy is all about, this chance to directly engage with elected officials.”

While Goddard said Obama’s speech left her feeling positive that changes will be made, she said she re-mains frustrated by the lack of health care reforms in the past eight years under the Bush administration.

“There is so much that needs to change in our health care system right now,” she said. “For example, we need to improve our electronic

health care records, which are pretty spotty right now. There needs to be a standardized, unified electronic sys-tem between primary care doctors and specialists.”

Goddard also pointed to the short-age of primary care providers, adding that currently there is more incentive to choose a specialty rather than go into primary care.

Goddard’s interest in health care began when she studied abroad in Mali during her senior year of col-lege. After seeing the lack of health care education within the communi-ties she visited, Goddard realized she “wanted to help people achieve the best level of health that they could possibly get.”

After another trip abroad, God-dard became sick as a result of in-testinal parasites. The experience, she said, most likely exacerbated her Crohn’s disease. It was then that she realized she should focus her atten-tion on U.S. health care.

“It upset me at first that I would not be able to work as a physician abroad,” said Goddard, who needs

to remain in the U.S. to receive better treatment for her condition. “However, especially after experienc-ing problems with your own health coverage, you realize that there are Third World issues facing us in this country.”

As Goddard continues to advo-cate for health care reform while in medical school, Swartsel said she and others like her will continue to inspire those in similar situations.

“I think people in Rhode Island can look at someone like Lauren God-dard or Mike Tracy and say, ‘Wow they are just like me, they have the same kinds of concerns and wor-ries and hopes that I have,”’ Swartsel said.

Goddard said those who are critical of government-directed health care reform should realize that it is the only way to bring about change.

“Some people are skeptical of government involvement, but I do not think those worries are a good enough reason not to try to make reforms,” she said.

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HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. He has also served as chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and was elected to the Na-tional Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine in 2004.

As medical students, he and Paul Farmer, now a renowned anthropolo-gist and physician, co-founded the non-profit organization Partners in Health, which today supports health programs in poor communities in Haiti, Peru, Rwanda and the United States, among other countries.

Kim’s numerous awards and recognitions include a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship in 2003. He was included in a list of America’s 25 “Best Leaders” by US News and World Report in 2005, and was chosen as one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” in 2006.

Kim is also currently the chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and Director of the

Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health.

At Brown, Kim said he played vol-leyball and was involved at the Third World Center and the Asian Students Association.

“I really know from being a Brown student what an amazing impact your undergrad experience can have on you,” he said.

After earning his A.B. from Brown and his M.D. at Harvard Medical School, Kim went on to get a Ph.D. from Harvard in anthropology.

The Dartmouth search commit-tee, made up of alumni, students and faculty, “spent nearly a year soliciting input” from the community and look-ing at candidates, 300 of which were “explicitly considered,” according to a Dartmouth press release.

Wright announced in February last year his intention to resign from the top position after 11 years, and Kim was elected in a special meeting of the trustees on Feb. 20.

“Jim follows in the long tradition of Dartmouth presidents who have

made a significant mark both in higher education and on the world stage,” Charles Haldeman, Jr., the chairman of the board of trustees, said in the statement, “and we are confident he is the ideal person to lead the College in today’s rapidly changing environment.”

Simmons, the first non-white pres-ident in the Ivy League, praised Kim in the same press release. “His pow-erful personal story inspires; his past achievements illuminate the power of innovative thinking to find solutions to the most intractable problems; and his strong moral leadership matches the highest aims of university life.”

Kim said he has always taken an active approach to changing the world. Rather than simply ad-vocating for change, “I’ve tried to tackle those problems directly,” he said.

In a welcome change from years of throwing himself headlong at ma-jor problems in the world, Kim said his goal now is to give a “great group of young people the tools they need to change the world.”

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bring high-profile lawyers instead of academics to the institute. There is also widespread concern that these lawyers would command high sala-ries, the faculty member said, which would detract from available funds for other professors, especially given the current economic climate.

“The case has not been effectively made, especially by the interim direc-tor,” the anonymous faculty member said.

Last spring, Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 created a group to evalu-ate the Watson board’s proposal.But the proposal, which the Faculty

Ex-ecutive Committee was planning to address this semester, “never got anywhere near the FEC,” said Jamie Dreier, professor of philosophy and chair of the committee.

“The fact that there aren’t any whispers about it makes it unlikely it will come up this spring,” he said.

Many faculty members are con-cerned about the review process for professors receiving tenure at Wat-son, Dreier said, adding that the facul-ty also want to make sure the criteria used for selection are comparable to other departments’ standards.

The concern stems largely from the institute’s “quasi-autonomous position,” Dreier said. “Nobody

re-ally knows exactly what this process should be.”

Faculty members, he added, have questioned why Watson wants its own tenure process in the first place.

Ross Cheit, an associate professor of political science who is currently on leave from the University, said the Watson Institute’s move was “a top-down proposal with limited support from the faculty.”

“There is an important concern about whether this proposal is aimed at tenuring lawyers who would not qualify for tenure at any department at Brown,” he said. “I’m not against Brown having a law school, but I’m against doing it this way.”

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This is to maximize the economic and societal value.”

— Professor Angus Kingon, on a new entrepreneurial collaboration

u. may scale back size

and scope of events

by suzannah Weiss

Contributing Writer

Targets of the University’s fight against the economic recession may include event catering and advertis-ing, according to Vice President of Public Affairs and University Relations Marisa Quinn.

The number of large events like lectures and panels has remained essentially the same, Quinn said, though she said she “would not be surprised if some scaling back on the scope of events is evident, given the economy.”

The University may cut back on receptions, dinners and printed event advertising, she said.

Certain events also depend on the availability of speakers and “can be unpredictable in terms of sched-uling, with some stretches of time busier than others,” she said.

“I expect we’ll have a similar number of lectures and events this spring,” she added

Most on-campus lectures and other events are sponsored by bod-ies such as the Watson Institute for International Studies, the Cogut Center for the Humanities and the Taubman Center for Public Policy, as well as by student groups such as the Lecture Board.

“Our budget may be stagnant for the next year or two because the (student activities fee) isn’t really increasing, but in terms of the actual operation of our group, this year is the same as it has been since I’ve been at Brown,” said An-drew Chapin ’10, a member of the Lecture Board. The Corporation approved a $6 increase in the stu-dent activities fee for next year at

its meeting last month, The Herald reported Feb. 25.

Other departments and groups also said they are holding as many, if not more, events than usual this semester. “We’re jammed,” said Kit Salisbury, humanities center man-ager for the Cogut Center.

Though University events are as numerous as in the past, they may be less visible this semester, since the administration is making an effort to spend less on advertis-ing, Quinn said.

Watson Communications Man-ager Karen Lynch said “The Insti-tute has been carefully weighing the costs and benefits of its activi-ties across the board, under current economic conditions.” The scrutiny may mean fewer events, she said, adding that it’s too soon to tell.

According to Graphic Services Director Deborah Berlo, there has been a 40-percent decrease in campuswide mailings to faculty, students and staff. “It’s clear that electronic dissemination of informa-tion has increased,” she said.

Many wishing to advertise events are trying to cut back on printed materials, relying more on electronic communication like Morning Mail, Quinn said.

Dining Services Director of Administration Ann Hoffman said the demand for catered events has remained about the same, though “customers are reducing the cost of their events through their menu selections.”

Though catering staff are af-fected by the recession, Hoffman said, “so far, there has been no sig-nificant impact on the work they perform here.”

u. will partner to help local businesses

by heeyoung min

Staf f Writer

Brown and the Rhode Island Eco-nomic Development Corporation are beginning plans to open a Cen-ter for Innovation and Entrepre-neurship, a resource center to help local entrepreneurs launch businesses in Providence with the goal of spurring the city’s ailing economy.

The University and the EDC signed a formal agreement on Feb. 23 after the latter $100,000 to the project along with prom-ises for two additional $50,000 donations from the Slater Tech-nology Fund and the Science and Technology Advisory Council, said Christine Smith, innovation program manager of the EDC.

The center does not yet have a specific infrastructure, but will finance researchers with the goal of using their findings to support business start-ups, bring more people into the business sector of the economy and act as a “busi-ness accelerator,” Professor of Engineering Angus Kingon wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

“The exact details of the Cen-ter’s activities have not yet (been) developed,” Kingon wrote. “This is specifically because it will not be run by Brown alone, but in partnership with the State, other universities and the hospitals” who will develop further details together.

While the center is relying on Brown’s support, it is also seeking involvement from local businesses

and institutions, such as Johnson and Wales, Smith said.

The new center could help the struggling state, which fac-es one of the highfac-est unemploy-ment rates in the nation at 10 percent.

“The aim of the center is to promote the commercialization of research and technology from Brown University and the com-munity,” Kingon wrote, adding that the center will also “nurture new ventures” that are formed on the basis of research and tech-nology. “This is to maximize the economic and societal value of the investment in research and create economic activity,” he added.

The center will supply re-search grants to those working in a variety of disciplines, includ-ing engineerinclud-ing and computer, environmental and mechanical sciences, Smith said.

“We want to marry research and facilitate that research with industry,” she said.

The center would charge fees for its services, which corporate sponsors may later subsidize, according to a Feb. 24 article in the Providence Journal. Ideas for a start-up company often fail to launch because “these ideas would initially not be ready for an incubator or substantial invest-ment by (venture capitalists) or other groups,” Clyde Briant, pro-fessor of engineering and vice president for research, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “The aim of the center is to help them develop the plans to the point

where they would be attractive to investors.”

Administrators at the EDC and the University said they hope both Brown faculty and students will become involved in the project to help boost the state’s economic situation, but stressed that the center is open to all Rhode Island residents. “We want Brown faculty to avail themselves of this oppor-tunity, but it is open to any in the state,” Briant wrote. “We certainly hope that Brown students, both graduate and undergraduate, as well as students from other col-leges and universities in the state will participate.”

“We are currently working (on) what types of activities will be available to them,” he added.

Sectors of the University fo-cusing on entrepreneurship al-ready intend to become active participants in the center. “Brown (Engineering) will be involved, as the entrepreneurship teach-ing and outreach activities of the University are currently centered in Engineering,” Kingon wrote.

According to Kingon, there will be many opportunities for student involvement in the center. “No details yet, but clearly this is the intention. Some of the start-ups may even be led by Brown undergraduates or graduates.”

The center currently has no workers, but its first hire will be an executive director, Smith said, adding that the program will be located in a University building on Davol Square in the Jewelry District.

prof testifies on future of forensics

by kristina Fazzalaro

Contributing Writer

A Brown professor recently led a study on the shortcomings of cur-rent forensic science programs, offering recommendations to Congress about standardizing procedures and enforcing better regulatory mechanisms.

Professor of Medical Science Constantine Gatsonis co-chaired a committee appointed by the Na-tional Academy of Sciences in 2007, and presented a report, entitled “Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward,” to Congress last month.

Congress mandated the study after receiving several complaints from individuals in the forensic sci-ence community about discrepan-cies in techniques and procedures, Gatsonis said.

Over the course of eight meet-ings, the committee examined docu-ments, procedures and educational programs across the country. It also received presentations from chiefs of laboratories, coroners, medical examiners and members of the Fed-eral Bureau of Investigation.

The report made 13 recom-mendations to improve forensic science, the most important being the establishment of a national in-stitute for the discipline, according to Gatsonis.

The institution would be inde-pendent of any law enforcement agency, as would, Gatsonis hopes, all forensic labs in the future. This independence would ensure that biases would be left out of any procedures, especially in criminal cases.

A national institute would also be responsible for regulatory work, such as ensuring standards for ac-crediting and certifying

laborato-ries, procedures and technicians. Last week, Gatsonis was a spe-cial guest on National Public Ra-dio’s Science Friday and pointed to a case in which a 17-year-old high school student was certified to be a deputy coroner in Indiana.

“Typically to become a coroner you have to win an election,” Gatso-nis said during the show. “All-in-all that is not certification. There has to be certification developed by

professional bodies and adminis-tered by mandatory standards.”

Gatsonis also said typical fo-rensic science procedures such as handwriting and bite-mark analy-sis and the tracing of tire marks have no grounding in any of the major sciences, such as biology and chemistry, and must be researched further.

“DNA analysis came from biol-ogy and the studying of chemicals came from chemistry,” Gatsonis said. “These have been studied and evaluated. They are developed paradigms. This must now be done in forensic science.”

Educational and training pro-grams offered for forensic science must also be improved and devel-oped further, he said. Currently, there are no opportunities in higher education available for forensic sci-ence.

Gatsonis said Brown offers only one or two classes relating to foren-sic science.

In the future, Gatsonis said he may speak in several classes on the issue, but currently there are no plans for a lecture or forum on forensic science.

As for Brown’s future involve-ment in forensic science research, Gatsonis said, “It will depend on programs for funding and the over-all impact of the report.”

“Things move slowly,” he said.

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“I will not allow branch library services to be eliminated.”

Mayor David Cicilline ’83, after an agreement with the libraries fell apart

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by george miller

Metro editor

Mayor David Cicilline ’83 has re-jected Providence Public Library’s plan to eliminate five neighborhood branches to solve its budget crisis, leaving the future of the city’s rela-tionship with the privately owned public library system — and the fate of the libraries after Jun. 30 — in question.

The mayor’s office and PPL both issued press releases last week, with the library asserting that the agreement in question was approved by the City Council but never signed by the mayor, and Cicilline saying the library’s plan was unacceptable.

According to the terms of an agreement signed by the city and PPL six months ago, the library was to submit a “sustainable” bud-getary plan.

The library system is “reviewing its options” for continuing service during the next fiscal year, which begins Jul. 1. Under the library’s proposed plan, five neighborhood branches — Olneyville, Wanskuck, Fox Point, Washington Park and Smith Hill — would close and be converted to city- or community-owned “neighborhood learning centers.”

But Cicilline said in the press release that PPL’s plan, by its own admission, would be insolvent with-in two years. He also stated his op-position to closing any branches.

“I will not allow branch library services to be eliminated,” he said in the statement. “I would prefer to preserve a partnership that has worked for 120 years until re-cently.”

Cicilline futher accused the library system of opting to “delib-erately misrepresent the city’s posi-tion on this matter in the media.”

PPL Chairman Bill Simmons, who is also a professor of Anthro-pology at Brown, said in a press

release that the nonprofit group remained open to working with the city.

“The focus for everyone in-volved needs to be on finding the best way to provide library service in the city,” he said.

No one at the mayor’s office or the PPL, could be reached for ad-ditional comment Monday.

Meanwhile, some community members, who have formed a group called Providence Commu-nity Library, are seeking to save the neighborhood branches from closure by taking over all nine neighborhood branches.

“It is time to end the city’s

partnership with PPL once and for all and to begin a new era for Providence’s libraries,” the group said in a press release issued in response to the mayor’s and PPL’s statements. The group said that it will be able to begin managing the nine neighborhood branches on July 1 in its release.

The community group has hired Louise Blalock, a former chief li-brarian of the Hartford Public Li-brary, to help construct a five-year budget.

PPL is open to exploring whether allowing the group to take over the branches is a “viable alternative,” according to its press release.

r.I. accepts its share

of stimulus package

by Joanna Wohlmuth

Metro editor

Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65 officially accepted Rhode Island’s $1.1 bil-lion share of federal stimulus funds at a ceremony at the State House last Thursday, vowing to work with the state legislature to oversee its allocation.

Receiving the stimulus money will put the state “on the path back to economic recovery,” Carcieri said at the event. “I pledge to work with the General Assembly, our congres-sional delegation and our cities and towns to identify and agree upon projects quickly to maximize the federal stimulus dollars available to Rhode Island and to get our econo-my moving again.”

The governor was joined by House Speaker William Murphy and Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed as he signed the required cer-tificates well in advance of the April 3 deadline stipulated by the stimulus bill, titled the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Though conflict over who will

make spending decisions had seemed imminent, the Republican governor appeared to step back from his plan for unilateral control in favor of working with the state’s Democratically controlled General Assembly.

In February, Carcieri created the Office of Economic Recovery and Reinvestment to recommend infrastructure improvement projects subject to his approval. But that of-fice will now track expenditures and aid transparency while decisions about spending will be made col-laboratively by the Governor’s office and the state legislature, Carcieri announced at Thursday’s event.

Few details are known about how the state will spend its discretionary funds since officials are still review-ing the 1,500-page act and receivreview-ing new information from Congress, Carcieri said. Much of the stimu-lus money is attached to specific programs, such as the Federal Addi-tional Compensation Program which goes into effect this week and gives an additional $25 per week to those receiving unemployment benefits.

Legislation would help r.I.

students get 3-year degrees

by lauren FeDor

Senior Staff Writer

Students at Rhode Island’s three public colleges may be able to com-plete their degrees in three years, thanks to legislation introduced last month by Rep. Joseph McNamara D-Dist. 19, which includes Cran-ston and Warwick. The program will reduce the price of a college degree and allow students to enter the workforce more quickly.

McNamara described the bill — the Rhode Island Bachelor’s Degree in Three Program Act — in a news conference last Tuesday, according to a press release. The legislation would allow students matriculating at the Community College of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College or the University of Rhode Island to receive college credit for advanced placement, dual enrollment and other college-level courses taken during high school. These programs could “shave a year off” students’ college educa-tion and reduce their tuieduca-tion costs, according to a statement released by the State House.

Under McNamara’s proposal, the state Board of Governors for Higher Education would complete preliminary planning by Feb. 1, 2010 and the program would go into effect the following academic year.

Though local high schools al-ready collaborate with the state’s public colleges, developing a three-year program would “allow stu-dents to utilize the credit-bearing courses more fully,” McNamara said in the statement.

“A college education is the best

way for young people to advance themselves in this globalized world. Not only will a three-year program benefit students, the state will benefit as well,” he said.

The proposal — which was dis-cussed in a House committee hear-ing last Wednesday — seems to be garnering support among state leaders in education. President Robert Caruthers of URI, Presi-dent Nancy Carriuolo of RIC and President Ray DiPasquale of CCRI all support the measure, according to the release.

Furthermore, Jack Warner, commissioner of the Rhode Is-land Office of Higher Education, testified in favor of the legislation. Warner believes there are “signifi-cant benefits” to allowing students who are “ready to move ahead” earn college credits while they are still enrolled in high school, wrote Steve Maurano, the Board of Gov-ernors’ associate commissioner for external affairs, in an e-mail to The Herald.

Maurano wrote that the board has seen “strong evidence” of posi-tive trends in dual enrollment pro-grams in recent years.

“For many upper-class and high-achieving students, the ability to access dual enrollment courses appears to give many of them a more rigorous and stimulating academic challenge (than) their regular high school courses,” he wrote. For low-income students or students at risk of dropping out of high school, dual enrollment class-es “expose them to college-level work and give them motivation and hope that they can succeed in college,” he added.

Janine Cheng / Herald

The fate of five Providence public libraries is uncertain in the face of a massive state budget shortfall.

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TuESDAY, MARCH 3, 2009 | PAGE 6

Stocks plummet to 12-year low

the WaShington PoSt

WASHINGTON — U.S. stock mar-kets plunged 4 percent Monday to close at the lowest levels in nearly 12 years, sparking fresh fears of a prolonged and more severe de-cline.

The Dow Jones industrial aver-age tumbled nearly 300 points, or 4.2 percent, to 6763.29, its lowest close since April 1997. The Stan-dard & Poor’s 500-stock index fell to a level not seen since 1996, dropping 34 points, or 4.7 percent, to 700.82. The tech-heavy Nasdaq closed down 55 points, or 4 percent, to 1322.85.

“There’s little confidence that we’re going to get out of this any time soon,” said Axel Merk, port-folio manager at Merk Hard Cur-rency Fund. “We’re still lacking very clear guidance. All we know is it’s going to be very, very ex-pensive.”

Stocks began their slide as soon as the markets opened Monday on news that insurance giant AIG recorded a $61.7 billion loss during the fourth quarter — the biggest quarterly loss in U.S. corporate his-tory. The firm said it would gain access to another $30 billion in taxpayer money as part of another restructuring of its federal bailout, and its stock ended the day flat at 42 cents a share.

The markets continued an al-most steady march downward as the day wore on. The energy sec-tor suffered the largest decline, 7.5 percent, a sign that investors think demand will remain weak and that the economy is far from recovery. Crude oil prices dropped $4.61, or 10.3 percent, to $40.15 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Financial firms finished not far behind, down nearly 6 percent. HSBC Holdings, Europe’s biggest bank, was down $6.55, or about 19 percent, to $28.25 a share on the New York Stock Exchange, after the company announced profit plummeted 70 percent and that it cut its dividend. Bank of America was down 32 cents, or 8 percent, to $3.63. Sallie Mae, the nation’s largest student lender, dropped 85 cents, or 18.5 percent, to $3.75.

“This is far worse than anything that we’ve seen, and the disturbing part of this market is the real causes of the break are still deteriorating,” said David Dreman, founder of Dreman Value Management.

Markets seemed to shrug off the one piece of positive news Mon-day: New government data showed consumer spending increased 0.6 percent in January compared with December, the first rise in six months, driven in part by higher gas prices. Pay raises for federal employees and the military also

helped boost personal income by 0.4 percent.

Still, retail stocks were largely down Monday — though Family Dollar and Dollar Tree were no-table exceptions, finishing up about 1 percent.

“The market is not really taking into consideration any bits of good news,” said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist with New York-based Avalon Partners. “It’s just an ongoing downward trend.”

Monday’s dramatic losses come after the major indexes lost 4 per-cent last week. All 30 blue-chip stocks in the Dow closed down Monday for the second time in less than a month, and the index has lost 23 percent of its value since the year began. Investors are bracing for more bad news later this week when the government releases monthly unemployment data.

“Bottom line is it’s economic decay, and (there’s) no real cata-lyst to turn the market around,” Cardillo said.

The pain was not limited to the United States Monday. Overseas, stock markets were hammered by massive sell-offs as well.

Italy’s S&P/MIB Index contract-ed by 6 percent, while Switzerland’s major index and Britain’s FTSE 100 slid 5 percent. In Asia, Japan’s Nikkei index and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng were down nearly 4 percent.

army of new federal

workers likely needed

by philip ruCker

the WaShington PoSt

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s budget is so ambitious, with vast new spending on health care, energy independence, edu-cation and services for veterans, that experts say he probably will need to hire tens of thousands of new federal government workers to realize his goals.

The $3.6 trillion plan released last week proposes spending bil-lions to begin initiatives and imple-ment existing programs. Given Obama’s insistence that he would scale back the use of private-sector contractors, his priorities could reverse a generational decline in the size of the government work force.

Exactly how many new workers would be needed remains unclear — one independent estimate was 100,000, while the conservative Heritage Foundation said it is likely to be closer to a quarter-million.

Administration officials said they cannot determine overall hir-ing projections until the president’s full budget is released this spring, but acknowledged that significant new hiring will occur.

“It is premature to be making any assumptions about overall fed-eral employment levels,” White House budget director Peter Orszag said. “We have no desire to bloat bureaucracy — indeed, just the opposite — and the budget will not do that.”

But, he added, “in several key areas — from properly auditing contracts to providing quality med-ical care to veterans and reducing errors in Medicare and other grams — investing in skilled pro-fessionals will not only pay off over time, but also immediately deliver better service to taxpayers.”

Several major agencies said they are already planning to grow their work forces, some significantly.

Officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs, for instance, said they expect to hire more than 17,000 new employees by the end of the year, many at hospitals and other facilities to fulfill Obama’s pledge to expand veterans’ ac-cess to health care. The agency — whose budget will grow by 11 percent, to $56 billion, under Obama’s plan — will add about 7,900 nurses, 3,300 doctors, 3,800 clerks and 2,400 practical nurses, spokeswoman Josephine Schuda said.

At the Social Security Admin-istration, the budget will increase by 10 percent, to $11.6 billion, en-abling the agency to hire new staff to handle backlogs on frontline operations, such aslocal field of-fices, hearing offices and teleser-vice centers, spokesman Mark Lassiter said.

Said Max Stier, president of the Partnership for Public Service:

“This is obviously a new world. We’ve had a government that has been starved. ... When you look at virtually every agency in govern-ment — whether it’s food inspec-tors at the Food and Drug Admin-istration or claims examiners at the Social Security Administration — across the board, we’ve had all too few people doing the business of government.”

Between 1940 and 1970, the fed-eral civilian work force swelled from 707,000 to 2.1 million, ac-cording to government statistics provided by Stier. But ever since Ronald Reagan swept into the White House in 1981 with a call to decrease the government’s foot-print, presidents have limited the size of the work force. Although President George W. Bush added tens of thousands of airport bag-gage screeners and other home-land security jobs, he offset much of that increase by limiting hiring at other agencies.

In reversing this trend, Obama would make himself politically vul-nerable to charges that he is grow-ing not just the power but the size of government. If the outside esti-mates are realized, Obama could spur a government hiring spree on a scale unseen since President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society agenda in the 1960s.

“What group of socialists got in the room and wrote this budget? Do they have any idea what the implications are?” asked Republi-can Newt Gingrich, who as House speaker in the 1990s advocated a shrinking of the government. “This is the most aggressive 180-degree turn that we have seen in the Amer-ican system.”

Obama, in his radio address Saturday, acknowledged that the budget signals “real and dramatic change” to the status quo in the federal city. “I know these steps won’t sit well with the special interests and lobbyists who are invested in the old way of doing business, and I know they’re gear-ing up for a fight as we speak,” he said. “My message to them is this: So am I.”

But the new president is “caught between a rock and a hard place,” said Paul Light, a profes-sor of public service at New York University. Obama inherited a fed-eral work force of about 2 million that Light described as woefully understaffed, especially to fulfill his bold domestic policy agenda. He predicted that Obama’s budget and the $787 billion economic re-covery package could require an additional 100,000 federal workers, but warned that the number may be even higher.

“I think that’s just a start,” Light said. “You kind of look across the federal landscape and you say there has to be more bodies with more expertise, as well as more bodies

no single cause for global sell-off

by neil irWin

WaShington PoSt

WASHINGTON — The global financial rout worsened Monday, driving U.S. stocks to their lowest level since 1997 amid deepening questions about whether govern-ments around the world are being forceful enough in combating the economic crisis.

There was no single cause for Monday’s sell-off, which sent each of the major indexes down at least 4 percent, with the Dow Jones industrial average closing below 7,000 for the first time in 12 years. Investors were shaken by another government rescue of insurance giant American In-ternational Group, which said it would take on $30 billion more in public money after reporting the largest quarterly loss in U.S. his-tory. The markets were also ab-sorbing news from the weekend from famed investor Warren Buf-fett, who said the economy will be “in shambles” this year and who reported the worst investment returns in the 44 years he has run Berkshire Hathaway.

But more than any individual development, the continuing col-lapse in financial markets around the globe reflected an absence of faith that the trillions of dollars that governments have deployed to try to contain the damage will

do the trick — and a realization that, from Europe to Japan to the Americas, the flow of goods and services is drying up.

“People are really coming to terms with the fact that we not only have a global slump, but one that’s going to be prolonged,” said George Feiger, chief execu-tive of Contango Capital Advisors. “And there’s a lack of coherence to the global response. In Japan, the government is paralyzed; in Europe the absence of a central government is crippling their ability to conduct coordinated policy; and the U.S. government has taken some dramatic actions but always too little too late.”

Monday, the fallout also touched the Washington region, which has been less vulnerable to recessions in the past. Sun-rise Senior Living, the assisted-living giant based in suburban McLean, Va., said it was working with its lenders to try to avoid bankruptcy protection. Allied Capital, the Washington buyout firm that defaulted on its debt agreements last month, recorded a $579 million loss for the fourth quarter and said its chief execu-tive would resign.

Whatever turmoil U.S. compa-nies are experiencing, the dam-age increasingly appears worse in many other parts of the world. Financial markets are starting to

grapple with the realization that major Western European banks are more exposed to real estate losses in Eastern Europe and Russia than had been previously realized. Monday HSBC, the Brit-ish bank that has been viewed as one of the strongest throughout the financial crisis, reported a 70 percent drop in 2008 earnings. It said it would raise $17.7 billion in new capital, cut 6,100 jobs and abandon much of its U.S. con-sumer lending business.

Major world stock markets lost 4 to 5 percent Monday. In the United States, stocks are down 22 percent this year and 55 percent from their peak in 2007, as mea-sured by the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index. Money gushed into safe Treasury bonds Mon-day, driving down their yields. The dollar registered major gains against the euro as investors con-cluded that, for all the problems in the U.S. economy, it looks bet-ter than the rest of the world.

The deterioration in finan-cial markets comes, ironically, as companies have proven more able to issue debt in recent weeks than in late 2008, and as bank lending rates move toward nor-mal levels.

“The credit markets have healed some, but the view of the

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two tight games, two losses for m. hoops

SPortS editor

The men’s basketball team’s woes continued on the road this weekend with a 56-48 loss to Princeton on Friday night, followed by a 64-54 loss to Penn on Saturday night. The Bears led at halftime on Friday, but poor shoot-ing in the second half gave the Tigers the win. Saturday night’s game followed a similar story line, as Brown led for much of the game but faltered down the stretch against the Quakers.

princeton 56, brown 48 The Bears came in looking to sweep the season series against Princeton as they took the open-ing game 61-43 in Providence on Feb. 14, their only conference win of the season.

Tri-captain Peter Sullivan ’11 led Brown (7-19, 1-11 Ivy) with 21 points, shooting 7-of-15 from the field on Friday night, with 14 of his points coming in the first half. But Sullivan’s effort wasn’t enough for the Bears, who shot 35 percent from the floor and 14 percent from behind the three-point line on the night.

Tri-captain Chris Skrelja ’09 had the hot hand early on, scoring seven points in the opening four minutes to keep Brown within two points, at 12-10. Though Skrelja did not score for the rest of the game, he turned in a strong all-around effort for the Bears, grabbing a career-high 16 rebounds and dishing out a team-high five assists.

The Tigers (12-12, 7-4 Ivy) went on a 9-2 run over the next three and a half minutes to take a 21-12 lead, but two baskets from Sullivan

jump-started a 17-6 run for Bruno to end the first half. Sullivan accounted for 11 of Brown’s 17 points during that run to vault the Bears to a 29-27 lead

going into the locker room. But after intermission, Brown struggled to convert opportunities on the offensive end. After shooting 44 percent from the field in the first half, the Bears shot just 24 percent in the second half, including a 1-of-12 mark from behind the arc.

“We would take those shots anytime, anywhere to try to win games,” said Head Coach Jesse Agel. “We just didn’t have any luck making them.”

Matt Mullery ’10 scored the team’s first five points of the half to keep Brown’s slim lead intact, 34-33, with 13:35 remaining, but that was the last time the Bears would hold the lead.

Princeton freshman Doug Davis, who led the Tigers with 16 points, knocked down two threes and an-other jumper over the next 4:36 to put Brown in a 41-36 hole with 8:59 left to play. The Bears kept the game close, and a jumper by Sullivan cut Princeton’s lead to two points, 50-48, with 3:01 left to play, but several costly turnovers down the stretch ultimately gave the game to the Ti-gers, who came away with a 56-48 victory.

Mullery was the only player oth-er than Sullivan to score in double figures for the Bears, as he finished with 11 points, on 5-of-11 shooting, along with seven rebounds and three blocks.

“We played very well as a team, but unfortunately ... we weren’t able get any points off our bench, which would’ve given us a big lift,” Agel said. “But with that being said, we had tremendous opportunities, and wide open shots, we just had some bad luck.”

M. tennis splits weekend

doubleheader at home

by erin FrauenhoFer

SPor tS Staf f Writer

The men’s tennis team recorded one win and one loss in its home doubleheader on Saturday as the Bears fought to compensate for two senior captains’ injuries. After narrowly losing a 4-3 match to Binghamton University in the afternoon, the Bears rebounded that evening to sweep the UConn, 7-0.

The Bears were forced to reshuffle their lineup due to the continuing back injury of captain Chris Lee ’09. Captain Noah Gardner ’09 also suffered an injury during the Binghamton match and could not participate in the UConn match.

“In terms of performance and effort, we played well in both matches,” said Kendrick Au ’11. “We had to have a few guys step in, and they performed well. It’s good that we play strong teams like Binghamton.”

binghamton 4, brown 3 The Bears started the day by dominating the Bearcats in doubles. At first doubles, Gard-ner and captain Sam Garland ’09 trounced Moshe Levy and Arnav Jain, 8-3. Au and Skate Gorham ’10 earned an 8-6 victory over Gilbert Wong and Alexandre Haggai at second doubles, and at third doubles, Jonathan Pearl-man ’11 and Charlie Posner ’11 defeated Evan Algier and Sven Vloedgraven by a score of 8-4.

But Binghamton put up a tougher fight in singles play, edg-ing out Brown in the first four singles matches.

“The guys fought really hard and played at a good level,” said Head Coach Jay Harris. “It was just a match that kind of exposed our inexperience, which we need to shore up a little bit, and that’s what we’re going to do in the coming weeks.”

At first singles, Pearlman

nar-weekend

roundup

gymnastics

The gymnastics team finished sec-ond at the Ivy Classic this weekend, compiling a team score of 188.400. Cornell took the win with 190.800, while Brown finished ahead of Penn (187.325) and Yale (185.200). Helen Segal ’10 and Vida Rivera ’11 earned in-dividual titles for the Bears, on floor ex-ercise and uneven bars, respectively. top performers

Chelsey Binkley ’11: Floor: 9.750, Tied for 2nd

Katie Goddard ’12: Floor: 9.750, T-2nd

Vida Rivera ‘11: Bars: 9.750, 1st Helen Segal ‘10: Floor: 9.775, 1st Vicki Zanelli ’11: All-around: 37.625, 4th

men’s track and field

The men’s track and field team finished with 52 points to earn fifth place at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships on Saturday. Marc Howland ’11 and Matt Jasmin ’09 finished about a tenth of a second off the lead in the 60-meter dash and the 60-meter hurdles, respectively, while Duriel Hardy ’10 turned in a second-place finish in the 5000-meter run. Brown also had several high finishes in the field events.

top performers

Andrew Chapin ’10: Triple jump: 14.69m, 5th

Reginald Cole ’10: Triple jump: 15.10m, 2nd

Duriel Hardy ‘10: 3000m run: 8:24.27, 5th; 5000m run: 14:27.12, 2nd Marc Howland ‘11: 60m dash: 6.95, 2nd

Matt Jasmin ‘11: 60m hurdles: 8.07, 2nd

Jordan Maddocks ’11: High jump: 2.04m, 4th

Sean O’Brien ’09: 800m run: 1:53.92, 5th

Bryan Powlen ’09: Shot put: 16.57m, 4th

Women’s track and field

The women’s track and field team finished fourth at the Ivy League Hep-tagonal Championships, with a team score of 65 points. Nicole Burns ’09 finished first in the 400-meter run, while in the field, Danielle Grunloh ’10 set a new personal best to win the shot put, with Brynn Smith ’11 close behind in second place.

top performers

Nicole Burns ’09: 200m run: 25.00, 4th; 400m run: 54.88, 1st

Danielle Grunloh ‘10: Shot put: 15.51m, 1st

Molly Hawksley ’09: Weight throw: 15.61m, 4th

Anja Hergrueter ’10: High jump: 1.70m, 2nd

Lauren Pischel ’11: 5000m run: 17:09.07, 6th

Kesley Ramsey ’11: 800m run: 2:11.85, 4th

Susan Scavone ’12: 60m hurdles: 8.87, 5th

Brynn Smith ‘11: Shot put: 14.59m, 2nd; Weight throw: 16.27m, 3rd

—Sports Staff Reports

Justin Coleman / Herald Matt Mullery ’10 scored in double figures in back-to-back losses for the men’s basketball team this weekend.

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“Doubleheaders are always a long day”

— Kendrick Au ’11, on the uConn tennis tournament

penn 64, brown 54

The Bears came into Philadel-phia on Saturday night hoping to avenge a 73-52 loss on their Feb. 13 meeting with Penn (9-16, 5-6 Ivy), and Mullery rose to the occasion, shooting 8-of-9 from the field to fin-ish with 19 points, 10 rebounds and five blocks, all game-highs.

“Matt Mullery had a phenom-enal game inside and was tremen-dous from start to finish,” Agel said.

The Bears got off to a hot start on Saturday, with Chris Taylor ’11 scoring the game’s first four points in his first career start, in place of injured tri-captain Scott Friske ’09, who missed both games this week-end. Following a lay-up by Penn’s Kevin Egee, Skrelja knocked down a three, and two lay-ups by Mul-lery gave the Bears an 11-2 lead 6:08 in.

“We were able to switch on a lot of screens and defend them pretty well early in the game,” Mullery said. “We did a great job on closing out on their shooters, and we did a

good job of rebounding, too.” A three-point play by Mullery with 8:09 left gave Brown its big-gest lead of the night, at 18-5, but the Quakers turned things around in the closing minutes of the first half.

After a Mullery lay-up gave Bruno a 21-10 lead with 3:21 re-maining, Penn closed out the half on an 11-2 run to cut Brown’s lead to two points, 23-21.

Penn grabbed its first lead of the game with 15:21 remaining when a three from Rob Belcore put the Quakers ahead, 31-29. The Bears continued to fight, as the second half saw seven lead changes and five ties. Mullery continued to make his presence felt in the paint, and Garrett Leffelman ’11 scored seven points in the final eight min-utes, finishing with a career-high nine points in 20 minutes off the bench.

“Chris Taylor and Garrett Lef-felman both came in and gave us a spark,” Agel said. “Chris helped us get out to a good start, and Garrett was hanging in there right until the very end.”

A lay-up from Mullery gave

Brown its last lead of the game, 54-53, with 3:21 left, as the Bears would not score for the remainder of the contest. Down 60-54 with 1:38 left, Brown had multiple chances to make it a one-possession game, but missed three-point attempts from Leffelman and Morgan Kelly ’11 kept Penn’s lead intact, and fresh-man guard Zack Rosen iced the game with a pair of free throws with 24 seconds left.

“It was pretty much a carbon copy of the game before. We had open looks and just weren’t able to knock them down,” Agel said. “Our guys did a great job of getting them-selves open, finding the open man and having the right guy shooting, but it just wouldn’t go in.”

The Bears will finish their sea-son at home this weekend against Harvard (13-13, 5-7 Ivy) on Friday night and Dartmouth (9-17, 7-5 Ivy) on Saturday night.

“We had a few close losses at Dartmouth and Harvard a few weeks back, and that’s still in our minds,” Mullery said. “Hopefully, we’ll finally be able to win some close games and get the victories this weekend.”

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M. hoops falls twice late in game

rowly lost to Levy, 7-5, 7-6, while on the second singles court Gorham also dropped a close match by a score of 7-6, 7-5 to Vloedgraven. Garland fell to Jain, 6-1, 6-1 at third singles, and Gardner lost a three-set battle to Wong at fourth singles by a score of 3-6, 6-3, 6-3.

“The Binghamton match was a great college tennis match, but unfortunately we just came up a little bit short,” Harris said. “We got kind of unlucky, really. It was unfortunate that Noah got injured during his match. Skate (Gorham) and Jon (Pearlman) losing their matches really closely were tough ones to lose, too.”

Au and Jimmy Crystal ’12 also had tight matches at fifth and sixth singles, respectively. Au outlasted Haggai in a third-set super-break-er for a final score of 7-5, 1-6, 1-0 (5).

“I’m starting to become sea-soned,” Au said. “It’s just a matter of playing a lot. I played a super-breaker in the third set, and being in those situations before helped me. After losing the second set, I was able to compose myself.”

At sixth singles, Crystal tri-umphed over Algier, 7-5, 7-5.

“4-3 them, could easily have been 5-2 us,” Au said, referring to all of the close singles matches. “We need to take things out of ev-ery match, and I think something we need to improve on is winning bigger points.”

brown 7, uConn 0

Brown was on top of its game later in the day against UConn, taking every match played in both doubles and singles.

At first doubles, Au and Posner demolished Joe Goldstein and Ben Schueler, 8-0. Meanwhile, on the second doubles court, Garland and Basu Ratnam ’09 — who had been out of the lineup with an injury

since the fall season — soundly defeated Andrew Marcus and Scott Warden by a score of 8-4.

“Basu got his first match and win of the season, so that was re-ally cool to see,” Harris said. “It was just a great experience, and it was a really cool boost to have him get in there.”

Crystal and Pearlman rounded out doubles play with an 8-7 victory at third doubles.

Gorham led the way in singles play against the Huskies, overpow-ering Goldstein at first singles by a score of 6-4, 6-0. At second singles, Pearlman breezed by Marcus, 6-1, 6-1. Garland earned a 6-2, 7-6 (9) win over Joey Michaels at third sin-gles, and Au took a 6-4, 6-1 victory over Warden at fourth singles.

“I’m fortunate enough to be healthy and able to play all these matches, which gives me extra ex-perience,” Au said. “Doublehead-ers are always a long day. It’s good that everyone has the experience of playing so many doubleheaders because, even though it’s a long day, it lengthens our focus. We can play multiple matches with the same intensity.”

At fifth singles, Crystal defeated Dave Adams, 6-4, 6-2, while Posner overwhelmed Tom Cook at sixth singles by a score of 6-1, 6-0.

“The UConn match was a great one,” Harris said. “Kendrick (Au) and Jimmy (Crystal) played great. They were both undefeated in the two matches. Kendrick was 4-0, and Jimmy was 3-0, so it was great to see Jimmy stepping up as a fresh-man that way.”

The Bears will play Fairleigh Dickinson on Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Pizzitola Center.

“We’ve had a long few weeks, but we’re past the intense part of our schedule, so now we’re build-ing up for the Ivies,” Au said. “We’re a little banged up, so hope-fully we can refuel and guys can get completely healthy.”

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to Binghamton

Justin Coleman / Herald

Kendrick Au ’11 won all four of his matches over the weekend.