Monday, January 29, 2007

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD M ONDAY, J ANUAR Y 29, 2007

Volume CXLII, No. 4

Since 1866, Daily Since 1891

BROWN MED GETS $100M Self-made millionaire entrepreneur Warren Alpert will give $100 million to the Medical School, the University will announce today. The gift ties for the largest single gift in the University’s history with a 2004 donation for undergraduate financial aid from liquor magnate Sidney Frank ’42. News of the gift first appeared in today’s Wall Street Journal. The Med School will be renamed for Alpert, who graduated from Boston University in 1942 and whose Providence-based company,

Warren Equities Inc., specializes in retail food and fuel, according to the Journal. Alpert’s donation will be used to finance a new building for the Med School as well as medical-student scholarships, new faculty and biomedical research, the Journal reported. Alpert’s foundation, the Warren Alpert Foundation, has previously donated large sums to Harvard Medical School and Mt. Sinai Hospital, but the gift to Brown is the foundation’s largest. — Herald staff reports

25 Brown students join D.C. protest BY EVAN BOGGS STAFF WRITER

Eunice Hong / Herald Mia Farrow (top left), Anthony Lake (top middle) and Fatima Haroun (top right) joined 200 high school and college students at the Northeast Regional STAND Conference hosted this weekend at Brown by the Darfur Action Network.

Water shutdown creates sanitation problems in Keeney BY SCOTT LOWENSTEIN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

A leak in the main water line leading into Keeney Quadrangle left the dormitory without water for most of the day Sunday. Water was turned off to make emergency repairs to the water main. The water was turned off around 8 p.m. Saturday and remained off until about 3:30 p.m. yesterday, except for a short period overnight, according to an email to all Keeney residents from Derek Henries, manager of the Facilities Management service response center. The extended time without water was due to the deep underground location of the leaking pipe, which required excavation to repair. Cold weather caused the pipe to crack, and a large rock located beneath the pipe caused it to rupture, said James Coen, director of maintenance services for Facilities Management. The pipe has been replaced by 12 feet of new pipe installed on top of clean fill to ensure that another rupture does not happen, Coen said. The water interruption caused sanitation problems in Keeney, which houses about 600 students, mostly first-years, and is the largest self-contained residential complex on campus. Blockages in continued on page 7

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Disagreement over solutions for Darfur crisis at conference The international community remains unwilling to take action to end the genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region despite “three World Trade Centers’ worth of death occur(ing) each month,” said Eric Reeves, a Sudan expert and professor of English language and literature at Smith College, during this weekend’s Northeast Regional Conference for Students Taking Action Now: Darfur, held on campus. The Darfur Action Network, Brown’s chapter of STAND, host-

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Simmons praises U. staff BY MICHAEL BECHEK SENIOR STAFF WRITER

A large crowd of University employees gathered in the OlneyMargolies Athletic Center Friday afternoon for the third annual Brown Employee Appreciation and Recognition Day, an event that featured President Ruth Simmons. “Today we acknowledge the consistently good work that you (do) … to support our ongoing mission,” Simmons told the crowd of several hundred, which overflowed into the area behind the rows of seats in front of the

POLITICAL PHOTOGRAPHS The Darfur/Darfur exhibition creates a chilling juxtaposition between the beauty of Sudan and the horror of the genocide in Darfur

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ed the three-day conference from Jan. 26 to Jan. 28, with about 200 high school and college students from araound the northeast region attending. “The more we learn about Darfur, the better equipped we are to take action,” said Scott Warren ’09, leader of the Darfur Action Network. The conference included workshops on current issues, lectures on Sudan and opportunities for students from different schools to collaborate on activism-related activities. “We’re not going to end the

BY TAYLOR BARNES S TAFF WRITER

A small contingent of Brown students protested the war in Iraq this weekend, criticizing calls by President Bush to increase the number of U.S. troops there. The students, most of whom were members of the student group Operation Iraqi Freedom, marched as part of a major rally in Washington, D.C., organized by United for Peace and Justice, a national coalition of anti-war groups. Operation Iraqi Freedom joined forces with the Rhode Island chapter of Progressive Democrats of America, an organization connecting and coordinating the efforts of grassroots groups across the country, to encourage local residents to take part in the rally, with the RIPDA organizing a series of buses to carry protestors to Washington. Though the march was the main event of Saturday’s rally, it was preceded by a series of keynote speakers, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Reps. Dennis J. Kucinich, D-Ohio, and Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and actors Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins. The rally was followed by workshops on Sunday and a “lobbying day” today, though only one Brown student stayed to lobby Rhode Island’s congressional delegation, according to Robert Malin, media coordinator for the RIPDA.

Operation Iraqi Freedom student leaders publicized the march in December by e-mailing the group’s members and other interested students. Most students bought their $65 bus ticket from Operation Iraqi Freedom members during the four days before the rally. According to Vale CoferShabica ’09, a member of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the rally was promoted by hosting a table in the mailroom, posting ads around campus and spreading the word through “a lot of personal contacts, given the short amount of time.” During the rally, the Brown students clustered together beneath a Brown banner, drawing a number of curious onlookers and questions about the University. The day’s speeches included an unusual style of anti-war rhetoric, according to Malin. There was “a lot of talking about spirituality and oneness and how we conduct ourselves in the world,” Malin said. Malin said the rally itself and the speeches in particular were marked by a tight focus seldom seen in these sorts of events. Malin found “the focus and eloquence of (protestors) on their positions … remarkable,” compared to those at a similar event he attended in late September 2006. Students in attendance appreciated the large numbers of protestors at the event. “The sheer vol-

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podium. Thirty-four employees, nominated by their peers, were honored with excellence awards in the categories of citizenship, diversity, efficiency, innovation, managing for excellence, service and “rising star.” Winners received a certificate along with a handshake and photo op with Simmons as they crossed the stage. Vice President for Administration Walter Hunter, who introduced the winners, said the excellence awards together totaled about $50,000 in prizes. Nearly 500 other employees continued on page 7

THIS IS RADIO BROWN BSR upgrades to seven days a week, while a GISP follows the development of WBRU and BSR in a documentary about campus radio

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Min Wu / Herald University employees gathered in the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center Friday afternoon for the third annual Brown Employee Appreciation and Recognition Day.

RETHINKING SHOPPING Zachary TTownsend ’08 offers a different model for Brown’s shopping period based on Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

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SLAYING THE OPPOSITION The women’s fencing team defeated five other conference teams to win the Northeast Fencing Title for the second year in a row

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