The Brown Daily Herald Wednesday, S eptember 19, 2007
Volume CXLII, No. 71
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After uncertainty, EMS is stabilized under new leadership By Scott Lowenstein Senior Staff Writer
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After a semester of tumult, EMS is under new leadership with150 student volunteers taking on the aftermath of parties on Wriston Quad (pictured).
Kids, creatures and cameras from Salazar ’09 By Nicole Dungca Staff Writer
Gabby Salazar ’09 has always found a way to combine her love of photography with business. In high school, the aspiring nature photographer started selling portraits in her hometown of Pleasant Garden, N.C., to earn the money necessary to pursue her hobby.
FEATURE Now, Salazar is entering yet another business venture spurred by her interest in photography — she is the editor of the new Nature’s Best Photography for Kids, a nature photography magazine. The magazine is a student edition of Nature’s Best Photography, a quarterly publication that prints wildlife photography from around the globe. Salazar, who was recognized in 2004 as the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year, conceived the plan for the magazine when she was interning at Nature’s Best Photography this summer. Salazar said she mentioned the idea for a children’s magazine during a meeting this summer with Steve Freligh, editor-in-chief and publisher of Nature’s Best Photography — and he immediately hopped on board. Not only that, he told a surprised Salazar that she could be editor. Salazar wants to use this position to help young people recognize their power and their talents. “I knew how many stories kids have to tell and I really wanted to give them a platform,” she said. “I wanted to make them realize that they can change the world.” Freligh said he thinks Salazar will continued on page 7
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After a tumultuous period of uncertainty, Brown Emergency Medical Services is back on track with new leadership, University officials and student emergency medical technicians told The Herald. Early last semester, EMS manager Richard Lapierre and supervisor Anthony Fusco abruptly departed, leaving the program short-staffed, with only a temporary manager responsible for its coordination. Student EMTs last semester reported a tense environment created by poor communication from University officials about the staff changes and the decision to sell the University’s second ambulance. “A lot of the problems this semester have come from student EMTs feeling like
they are being left out of the loop,” Beth Hoffman ’07, then a senior EMT, told The Herald in March. Still, the program successfully received accreditation in a surprise audit last spring and now has a new manager and two new professional EMT supervisors, said Edward Wheeler, director of Health Services. Amy Sanderson-Roderick is now the manager of safety and EMS, which has a staff of four paid EMT supervisors and over 150 volunteers. Sanderson-Roderick, who has worked at the University as an EMT supervisor for five years, characterized EMS as “a program undergoing change,” adding that the program is “full of positive energy and ready to move forward.” Now that she has been appointed continued on page 4
Revived newspaper hits the streets By Stefanie Angstadt Contributing Writer
Since Rhode Island’s largest homeless shelter closed its doors in March, Brown students and local advocates have collaborated to revive Street Sights, a street newspaper that addresses homelessness in the state. Street Sights seeks to provide a forum for students, advocates, state officials and homeless individuals to “bring light on the subject not often addressed, and to some degree, ignored,” according to its vision statement.
Street Sights’ current model — a newsletter that is distributed by staff members to various homeless shelters and service organizations within Rhode Island — is designed to serve as a creative outlet for homeless people, who are invited to submit artwork and writings to the newsletter, according to organizer Elizabeth Ochs ’07.5. The most recent Street Sights issue, published in July, features poetry written by homeless people. In addition, Street Sights aims to help homeless people feel more secure by providing them with information they need on a daily
basis, Ochs said. The newsletter features updates on current and future shelter openings and discusses how people can gain access to those shelters. The goal of developing better communication infrastructure within the homeless community prompted Street Sights’ revival in March. Earlier that month, Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65 shut down Cranston’s Welcome Arnold, the largest homeless shelter in the state. Street Sights organizers used the Courtesy of Matthew Silva
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Bob Pangborn, formerly homeless himself, now works with the Street Sights paper.
Prof. Ken Miller ’70: life as science’s media darling By Chaz Firestone Senior Staff Writer
Ken Miller ’70 P’02 is a professor of biology at Brown and a nationallyrecognized expert on evolution, having testified in the controversial 2005 trial, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, involving the teaching of intelligent design in public schools in Pennsylvania. He has written numerous scientific articles on plant cells, a bestselling high school textbook and is the author of “Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution.” He is currently on sabbatical and plans to release a new book entitled “Devil in the Details: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul.”
Chris Bennett / Herald Professor of Biology Ken Miller ’70 P’02 testified in landmark evolution court cases and wrote a textbook used by millions, but he said his “Colbert Report” appearance most impresses students.
HMC’s EL-ERIAN OUT Mohamed El-Erian, who managed Harvard’s massive endowment for two years, is quitting his job.
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’11 ELECTION RESULTS Five members of the class of 2011 were elected Tuesday to sit on the Undergraduate Council of Students.
Herald: You recently spoke about science, religion and evolution at Wake Forest University’s opening convocation. What did you tell the incoming freshmen? Miller: At the present time in the United States, the teaching of
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CLASS CAP MADNESS Alison Schouten ‘08 says seniors should get first pick of upper-level courses when using Banner.
biology, incredibly, has become a controversial subject. Political science, history — I understand that, but I don’t think of science as being controversial. I gave the students some of the backdrop to that controversy. About two years ago, there was a federal trial on this issue in the small town of Dover, Pa. The Dover school board had instructed the teachers to prepare a curriculum on intelligent design, but the teachers — at the risk of being fired — had refused. So, the school board drafted a fourparagraph intelligent design lesson and had the superintendent go into the classroom and read this to the students while the teachers stood outside in the hallway. Eleven parents in that district filed a lawsuit, and I was the lead witness at the trial. What I did was to basically explain to the students at Wake Forest what was involved in the trial, what the issue was. One of the things that happened was that the scientific continued on page 6
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SOCCER WINS AGAIN The men’s soccer team beat St. Francis, 1-0, Tuesday night, continuing its undefeated streak.
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