Thursday, October 25, 2007

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The Brown Daily Herald T hursday, O ctober 25, 2007

Volume CXLII, No. 96

Since 1866, Daily Since 1891

California fires cloud students’ peace of mind By Chaz Firestone Senior Staf f Writer

Courtesy of Los Angeles Times / Irfan Khan Wildfires have ravaged southern California, causing half a million people to evacuate the region, among them Brown students’ friends and family.

With midterm exams, a looming Parents Weekend and the start of Major League Baseball’s World Series packed into a couple weeks, the end of October can be one of the busiest stretches of Brown’s academic year. But as students hastily sweep dust under their rugs and pull all-nighters until their eyes are as red as their Sox, a few students’ Octobers have been tinged with a far more urgent shade of red. In another ocean state 3,000 miles away, wildfires have ravaged large swaths of southern California since Sunday, destroying thousands of homes and displacing about 500,000 people so far, some of whom are the friends and family of Brown students.

Red Sox rock the Hill

U. places 3rd in the nation for 2008 Fulbrights

By Simon van Zuylen-Wood Staff Writer

Twenty-five Brown students are studying abroad on Fulbright scholarships this year — including 23 who applied as undergraduates — ranking Brown first in the Ivy League for the total number of undergraduate awards and for the percentage of successful applications. Only the University of Michigan and Yale University had more students win Fulbright scholarships for 2007-2008, with 37 and 27 winners, respectively. But Michigan submitted 119 applications and Yale submitted 109, while Brown students were awarded the 25 scholarships from just 69 applications, for a success rate of 36 percent. Pomona College also had 25

The Boston Red Sox hosted the Colorado Rockies last night at Fenway Park in Game One of the World Series, blowing the visitors away in a 13-1 victory. Cy Young Award-favorite Josh Beckett started against lefty Jeff Francis of the Rockies. Thanks to the National League’s highest scoring offense, best defense and best post-All Star break ERA, the Rockies exceeded expectations and won 21 of 22 on their way to the Series. But Red Sox Nation on campus was nonetheless confident in the minutes leading up to the game. At around 8 p.m. at the Gate, continued on page 4

By Michael Bechek Senior Staff Writer

Students hit N.H. for Hillary By Aidan Levy Contributing Writer

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the program sent 24 Brunonians abroad last year. As of last year, the University had far more winners over the previous five years than any other Ivy League school, Associate Dean of the College Linda Dunleavy told The Herald last September. In that five-year period, 89 Brown students were accepted into the program. Princeton University was a distant second, with 56 students accepted. Established in 1946 by Congress and sponsored by the Department of State, the Fulbright program is an international exchange that aims to “increase mutual understanding” between the United States and other countries, according to the IIE Web site. The U.S. Student Program, which funds a year of study, research or teaching assistantship experience, awards approximately

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FEATURE

This fall, foliage isn’t the only draw luring visitors to New Hampshire.The 60th birthday of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has spurred the Brown Students for Hillary group to plan a celebratory canvassing trip to Nashua, N.H., next weekend. Though members of the group canvassed in New Hampshire on Oct. 13, and Clinton has consistently led the polls, the group organizers don’t want to miss any opportunities to rally support for the candidate in the months preceding the first presidential primary. “Just because she’s ahead in the polls doesn’t mean there’s not a lot of work to do to help her stay there,” said Craig Auster ’08, one of the group’s co-leaders. Brown Students for Hillary was established February 2007, soon after Clinton announced her candi-

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Fulbright winners, and the Claremont, Calif., school had just 51 applicants, a success rate of 49 percent. The lists of the top Fulbrightwinning colleges and universities are featured in the Oct. 26 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, now available, according to the Web site of the Institute of International Education, which oversees the Fulbright program. Of Brown’s 25 recipients, 21 were members of the class of 2007, according to a University press release. One graduated in 2006, another in 2004 and two are graduate students. The Brown recipients will study in 18 different countries, including Brazil, Latvia and Cameroon, according to the press release. Brown has had recent success in winning Fulbright grants, as

dacy, and was co-founded by Auster, Jennifer Chudy ’07, Ava Lubell ’09, Rebecca Rattner ’09 and Rachel Sobelson ’07.5. Though three of the five cofounders — Auster, Lubell, and Rattner — are from New York, they say the rest of the group is more geographically diverse. With about 130 Brown students on the e-mail listserv and a core group of about 20, the group conducts weekly campus meetings organized on an ad hoc basis, Lubell said. Though registered with Clinton’s national campaign office, the group acts as an independent entity, Rattner said. “We pursue what is best for Brown’s campus and student body, providing support for the national campaign but not dictation,” she said. continued on page 6

APOCALYPSE NOW Post- interviews up-andcoming star Baby Dayliner and warns of the impending apocalypse.

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Gabriella Doob / Herald File Photo Political provocateur David Horowitz, shown here during a 2003 lecture at Brown, is one of the organizers of the Terrorism Awareness Project. See Campus News, Page 5

GREEN RHODY Rhode Island was ranked eighth in the nation by Forbes.com on its Greenest States list.

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ISLAMOFASCISTS Robert Spencer will speak tonight as part of David Horowitz’s Islamofascism Awareness Week.

“My family had to evacuate and go up north,” said Doug Jacobs ’11, whose family resides in Carlsbad, a suburb just northwest of downtown San Diego. “Pretty much everyone I know who was down there had to evacuate.” Jacobs said his home isn’t in the direct paths of any of the 16 fires devastating the state, but unusually strong Santa Ana winds have brought polluted air to his family and stress to him on College Hill. Several of his high school friends live in Del Mar, a suburb of San Diego that was hit by the Witch Creek Fire. “I’ve been calling all my friends,” Jacobs said. “But I can’t reach all of them — phone lines are down everywhere.” continued on page 4

Minority faculty up since 2003 By Whitney Eng Contributing Writer

The University has seen a 44 percent increase in minority faculty and a 31 percent increase in female faculty since the creation of the Office of Institutional Diversity in 2003, according to the most recent statistics from the Office of the Dean of the Faculty. Launched as part of the Plan for Academic Enrichment, the Office of Institutional Diversity was created in 2003 to establish “leadership and responsibility for fostering diversity goals at Brown,” said Brenda Allen, associate provost and director of institutional diversity. The Diversity Action Plan was implemented in 2006, and one of its goals is to “think about all the different ways that diversity and academic excellence intersect,” Allen said. Since the 2001-2002 academic year, the last year before the creation of the Office of Institutional Diversity, Brown has hired 16 Asian faculty members, 12 black faculty members and nine Hispanic faculty members. In that time, the University has hired 69 white faculty members, according to numbers released by Dean of the Faculty Rajiv Vohra P’07. “We’ve come a long way, but we still have a long way to go,” Vohra said. In the past, “the University used to look at diversity as strictly academic,” Allen said. Now, the University is taking a more “integrated approach.” Part of Allen’s role has been to “pull out the emphasis on diversity that was embedded in each aspect of the administration” and to organize these initiatives in continued on page 7

12 SPORTS

W. RUGBY IS NO. 1 The women’s rugby team has ascended to the No. 1 national ranking, a first for the squad.

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