Tuesday, February 13, 2007

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD T UESDAY, F EBR UAR Y 13, 2007

Volume CXLII, No. 15

Since 1866, Daily Since 1891

Chafee ’75 urges Bush to return to Roadmap BY MICHAEL BECHEK SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Courtesy of Brown.edu Richard Holbrooke ’62

Holbrooke ’62 to help support U.’s int’l efforts BY MICHAEL SKOCPOL SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The appointment of former Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke ’62 to a post at the Watson Institute for International Studies last week formalized a powerful connection that has benefited the University in the past and will be especially important as Brown’s internationalization initiative progresses, President Ruth Simmons told The Herald Monday. The details of Holbrooke’s responsibilities as a professor-atlarge in the Watson Institute are still being worked out, said Geoffrey Kirkman, associate director of the Watson Institute, late last week, adding that it was still unclear when Holbrooke would arrive at Brown or how often he will be on campus. Holbrooke “just got back from Iraq” and would be in Europe until this week, said Media Relations Specialist Deborah Baum last Thursday. In an e-mail to The Herald, Holbrooke wrote that he would prefer not to discuss the appointment until the details had been worked out. Holbrooke, who was editor in chief of The Herald while an undergraduate at Brown, is a former ambassador to Germany as well as to the United Nations. His extensive foreign policy resume includes playing a pivotal role in brokering the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords that ended the war in Bosnia. “Because we are starting the international initiative, it’s much more important now than ever that we have the counsel of our alums who have been the most important and the most visible on the international stage,” Simmons told The Herald. “He is clearly one of those people who enjoys an international reputation and someone who knows a good deal about different parts of the world.” Former U.S. Senator Lincoln Chafee ’75, who accepted a position as a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute this semester, said though he does not know Holbrooke personally, his reputation is formidable. continued on page 4

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Former Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75 criticized President Bush in a stern lecture in Sayles Hall last night for having “removed himself” from the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and called for a renewed U.S. commitment to the goals set forth in the “Roadmap for Peace.” “The American people should not tolerate any more mendacity on this matter,” Chafee said, noting that making progress in Israel was crucial to the United States’ ability to make progress in Iraq. “Every voice that has clamored for a victory in Iraq, or that has spoken up against this war from the beginning, or that calls for it to end now, should rise up in unison in a clarion call for U.S. leadership on the central issue of Israeli-Palestinian peace,” he said. “There is no time to

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Christopher Bennett / Herald Lincoln Chafee ’75 delivered the 76th annual Stephen A. Ogden Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture on Monday — the birthday of his namesake, Abraham Lincoln.

UCS may push for DVD rental service in the Sciences Library BY CAMERON LEE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Students looking for a movie to watch on a Friday night may soon be heading to an unlikely source — the Sciences Library. Brian Becker ’09, chair of the campus life committee of the Undergraduate Council of Students, has been exploring the idea of housing a DVD rental service on the 14th floor of the SciLi.

The project is in its preliminary stages and would not be implemented until next September at the earliest. Becker said he came up with the idea last spring while enrolled in PY 30: “Personality.” In order to view films he missed in class, he had to travel up to Media Services on the 14th floor the SciLi. Students are not allowed to remove movies from the library, a restriction that Becker found

inconvenient. Becker envisioned a DVD check-out service in the media library. After discussions with Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, interim vice president for campus life and student services, and Mark Shelton, leader of the library’s systems and media service department, Becker began to assemble a more realistic picture of what such a service would look like. “There’s already infrastruc-

ture set in place in the (Sciences) Library,” Becker said. “If only we could improve on it, the whole student body would benefit.” According to the preliminary plan, students would be able to rent DVDs from Media Services free of charge for a set amount of time. The current DVD collection would be supplemented either with yearly purchases or continued on page 4

It’s about time: Wayland clock reset BY PHILLIP GARA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Phillip Gara / Herald The clock atop Wayland Arch once again displays the correct time.

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waste.” Chafee expressed frustration with the president, whom Chafee said had “said all the right things” but had failed to follow his statements with action. “President Bush was boldly charting brand new territory for an American leader,” Chafee said, referring to the president’s lofty rhetoric in a June 2002 speech calling for a Palestinian state and his April 2003 unveiling of a detailed Roadmap for Peace, developed together with the United Nations, European Union and Russia. Yet — partly because of the Iraq war and partly because of the president’s unwillingness to fully embrace the principle of “land for peace” — “nothing has happened,” Chafee said. Chafee said in his speech that he wondered whether Bush was shrinking away from “land for

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DORMLIFTING RAMPANT DPS reports thefts from residence halls over winter break, a number of car accidents and a domestic disturbance in Grad Center

Now that shopping period is over and being to class on time matters, students can once again rely on the clock atop Wayland Arch to help them stay on time. The tower’s clock now works, and other faulty campus clocks could soon be synchronized as well. According to Stephen Maiorisi, vice president for Facilities Management, the clock had been broken for a number of years and had been fixed last semester until new problems with the clock’s rhythm began. “We just recently fixed the clock this past fall when we installed a new electronic controller and replaced the lamps on the tower,” Maiorisi said. “For a while, it hadn’t been working before last fall.” But after the clock returned to service, it became increasingly fast, said Wayland House resident Andrew Jacobs ’08. “This is just my memory, which could be very warped, but I remember that Wayland had

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LIFETIME: TV FOR MORONS Adam Cambier ’09 pitches two new plots to Lifetime Original Movies — the forbidden love of astronauts and the Anna Nicole Smith story

all these new lights in the tower, which is great, and that the clock was working, which is also great,” he said. “Slowly over the course of the fall semester, I noticed that it was becoming fast,” Jacobs said. “It started off a minute or two fast and then became up to 10 or 12 minutes fast by the end of the semester. Then I came back this semester, and it was 15 to 20 minutes fast.” Maiorisi said he believes the fast timing can be attributed to monthly load tests on the Sharpe Refectory’s generator that disrupt the clock’s controlling mechanism. Facilities Management has been working with the clock controller’s manufacturer, Electric Time, and the distributor, About Time, to fix the clock, but they do not think there is a problem with the clock’s physical mechanisms. Maiorisi said he expects a new control board to arrive soon. The clock was part of the Wriston Quadrangle expansion of continued on page 4

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MURPHY WINS 300TH Women’s hockey Head Coach Digit Murphy nabbed her 300th victory with a win over Union following another win this weekend over RPI

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