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With little pomp, ’07.5ers celebrate mid-year graduation By Joanna Wohlmuth Staff Writer
While more than a thousand Brown students graduate in May among great pomp and circumstance, about 100 students celebrated the end of their time at Brown in a small ceremony in Salomon 101 Saturday evening. The 18th annual Mid-Year Completion Celebration honored
students who expect to complete their degrees at the end of the fall semester and was followed by a reception in Sayles Hall. The ceremony’s program listed 112 graduating students, but not all attended. The Brown Ceremonial Brass Ensemble played as the students — sans cap and gown — filed into the hall. Students can only receive diplomas in May and are allowed to walk at the Commencement ceremony
preceding or following their final semester. The midyear ceremony is more intimate and relaxed than its official counterpart. “We are here today to put a slightly different punctuation mark on your time at Brown,” Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron told the graduating students. “Not a period, not an exclamation point, but my favorite: a semicolon.” Though 120 students are on
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schedule for completing their degree requirements at the end of this semester, not all may finish because they may not complete current classes or because of complications with transfer credits, said Associate Dean of the College for Upperclass Studies Karen Krahulik, who organized the event. The celebration is optional but becomes increasingly
By Emmy Liss Staff Writer
The Department of Psychology and the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences plan to come together in more ways than just sharing the proposed Mind Brain Behavior Building. By July 2010, the two departments will become one. The idea has been discussed for quite some time, given the overlap that exists between the two departments. “We’ve had psychologists on campus in more than one department,” said Rajiv Vohra P’07, dean of the faculty. “We count on related departments being able to interact,” Vohra said, but he noted that students aren’t always aware that there are courses “very close to their interests” listed in other departments. The current organization isn’t as effective as it could be — having one administration supervising all of these courses would prove a “structural advantage,” he said. When the new cognitive sciences building was proposed, administrators decided this would be the “opportunity for aligning intellectual interests with physical space,” Vohra said. “It highlighted for (the) administration the benefits of integrated faculty, curriculum, physical space.” “It happened all at the same time,” said William Heindel, associate pro-
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Hillel director will leave at year’s end By Erika Jung Staf f Writer
Though Rabbi Serena Eisenberg ’87, executive director of Brown/ RISD Hillel, has traveled to Israel many times before, her next trip will be different. On New Year’s Day, Eisenberg and her family will move to Ra’anana, a suburb of Tel Aviv. Eisenberg, an associate University chaplain, has been considering the move since she came to Brown in fall 2005, the same year her husband took a job running the U.S. branch of an Israeli company. Last year, he was promoted to chief executive and has been commuting between the United States and Israel ever since. “Beginning last winter, I began to have ver y quiet conversations with people that (the commute) would not be sustainable for our family life,” Eisenberg said. Last April, she formally announced to the Hillel board that she would be stepping down at the end of the fall semester. “She walked into my office and closed the door and said, ‘We’re about to have the conversation that neither of us wanted to have,’ ” said Janet Cooper Nelson, chaplain of the University. “She told us fair and square right up front. It’s probably fair to say I’ve been dreading it since before I hired her.” Eisenberg held her position for only two years, and her predecessor Rich Kirschen left after only three years on the job. But Cooper Nelson said such high turnover is unusual. “By and large, chaplains come and stay,” she said. For example, Alan Flam P’05, who preceded Kirschen as Hillel’s director, ser ved in the role for 18 years. Flam is still at Brown as a senior associate University chaplain and senior fellow at the Swearer Center for Public Ser vice. In her short time at Hillel, Eisenberg has broken barriers. She is the first female and the first alum to hold the position of executive director, Cooper Nelson said. Birthright trips, in which young continued on page 6
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Students perform Taiko, a form of traditional Japanese percussion, for a combined drum and dance piece last Friday at Alumnae Hall as a part of the closing celebration for Asian/Asian-American History Month.
Brown students have as much sex as nationwide peers By Chaz Kelsh Staf f Writer
Despite what Bill O’Reilly viewers might think, Brown undergraduates actually have about as much sex as their peers nationwide, a recent Herald poll shows. 43.3 percent of students polled by The Herald from Nov. 5-7 reported having no sexual partners since the beginning of the semester, compared to 44.8 percent of students who reported having one to two partners. 3.7 percent of students reported 3-4 partners, 0.5 percent reported 5-6 partners and 0.8 percent reported 7 or more partners. 6.9 percent of students polled by The Herald marked “don’t know/ no answer.” Those numbers are not far off from national statistics. The fall 2006 American College Health Association’s National College Health Assessment reported that 33 percent of college students nationwide had no sexual partners in the last year, while 51 percent had 1-2 partners, 9 percent had 3-4 partners, 3 percent had 5-6 partners and 4 percent had 7 or more partners. The poll has a 3.9 percent margin of error with 95 percent confidence. A total of 621 Brown undergraduates completed the
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poll, which was administered as a written questionnaire to students in the University Post Office at Faunce House and in the Sciences Library. “The numbers didn’t stand out as being that surprising,” said Naomi Ninneman, a health educator at Health Services. “I think (the poll) says Brown students are a lot like other people their age,” she said, though she noted that the poll does not say much about students’ sexual health practices.
THE HERALD POLL Students generally agreed that the poll results matched their expectations. “It’s basically saying that people are monogamous or not having sex at Brown,” said Katie Evans ’10. “I would say about half the people I know are having sex, and that’s what it shows.” “I wasn’t really surprised by the results,” said Rob Reinhardt ’08. “When (the results) first came out, I was expecting more of my friends to be surprised. They might (have thought) people were having more sex with more partners, but I wasn’t surprised at all,” he added. The poll results sounded “about right,” said Tito Jankowski ’08. “There’s half of ever yone who’s
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not doing anything — the pre-meds or whatever.” Rizwan Huq ’11 said he also believes that only some students are sexually active. “I kind of got the impression that Brown students slept around a lot more,” he said. “But I guess you really only hear about the extreme cases. The kids who just sit in the library wouldn’t really get around that much.” “It’s my mom’s impression that Brown students have a lot of sex,” said Stephanie Laing ’10. “To me, this seems about right. To the outno answer
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Dark and uplifting holiday musicals offer fairy tales, Jesus By Robin Steele Ar ts & Culture Editor
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Brown University Orchestra, with guest conductor Eric Culver, performed Thursday and Friday in Sayles Hall.
Orchestra displays talent with guest conductor By Ben Hyman Contributing Writer
The Brown University Orchestra’s Thursday night performance of works by Verdi, Nielsen and Bartok highlighted the orchestra members’ gifts not only as an ensemble but also as soloists. The concert, performed again on Friday, began with the overture to the opera “La Forza del Destino” by Giuseppe Verdi. The overture has become an orchestral staple not just because it catalogues the best tunes from an opera often politely described as “sprawling,” but also because it gives individual musicians and sections an opportunity to showcase their talents. A duet for clarinet and harp was sensitively handled, as were the oboe and flute solos, and the violins made bold gestures out of the swelling dynamics. Guest conductor Eric Culver definitely guided the piece in the “forza” direction, bringing out the assertive brass calls. The brass presence occasion-
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ally overwhelmed the strings, resulting in some balance problems that made the ensemble as a whole less cohesive. Carl Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto followed, featuring Sam Terman ’09, winner of the orchestra’s Concerto Competition, as the soloist. The piece is a study in contrasts, alternating between E major and F major, two “rival keys,” as Culver wrote in the program notes. The concerto begins with an earthy dance, passes through storms of dissonance and periods of calm and finally dissolves into quiet. Terman mastered the fiercely difficult solo part and even gave it a jazzy charm that complemented the concerto’s roughness. In a piece that is all about unexpected turns and sudden changes, Terman was always poised, bouncing and dancing with the complex rhythms. His duets with the solo snare drum — played by Aaron Jones ’09 — were playful and spirited. The orchestra was excellent, restrained when necessary but also ready to dig into the
concerto’s thorny sections. After intermission, the orchestra left its supporting role and returned to center stage to play Bela Bartok’s “Concerto for Orchestra.” This intensely challenging work, unlike traditional concertos, treats each musician in the ensemble as the soloist. The orchestra proved more than up to the task. The brass fanfares in the first movement were skillfully played, cutting through the atmospheric string chords. In the second movement “Game of Pairs,” pairs of woodwinds passed dance-like themes back and forth while the string players dealt with a score that was schizophrenic in its mood changes. The “Elegia” that followed was one of the highlights of the concert, both passionate and somber. The orchestra played the fourth movement with both lyricism and precision before launching into the sweeping, virtuosic fifth movement — ten minutes of perpetual motion ending with an impressive, brassdriven finale.
Those seeking to escape pre-exam worries this weekend might try a night at the theater. Two Brown musicals, “Elsewards” and “Godspell,” will debut on campus this weekend, joining Trinity Repertory Company’s “A Christmas Carol” and “Memor y House” playing downtown. “Elsewards” — the 72nd original musical from the Brownbrokers — is based on the fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel” by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm and will run Dec. 6 to 9 at Stuart Theatre. The book and lyrics were written by Jessie Hopkins ’08 and the music was composed by Jerzy Fischer ’08. The show, directed by Albert Huber ’09, is described as “dark, absurd and uncanny” by the Brown Theater Web site. Set in an “urban forest,” the fairy tale centers around privileged 16-year-old Harold Harrow and his stepsister Gretchen, who cross paths and bond on the streets of Elsewards after leaving Hotel Maudlin. Brownbrokers was founded in 1935 and produces a student-written and directed musical each year for the Brown Theatre Season. This weekend will also see the debut of Musical Forum’s production of “Godspell” by John-Michael Tebelak, running from Dec. 7 to 10 in the PW Downstairs Space. The show, directed by Karin Freed ’09, musically directed by Alex Peyser ’09 and choreographed by Patrick Pangan ’09. “I think of (Godspell) as a celebration of love and life and community,” said Freed, adding that she proposed the show to Musical Forum because it celebrates the things most important to her. She
called the musical “exciting, vibrant and moving at the end.” This staging of “Godspell” will integrate the audience with the production as much as possible, with action happening in the audience, Freed said. “Godspell,” which originally opened off-Broadway in 1971, depicts a series of stories mostly from the Gospel of Matthew. In Freed’s production, the roles of Jesus and Judas will be played by Lee Taglin ’10 and Mike Williams ’10 respectively. All cast members sing at least one solo, Freed said. Musical Forum is a completely student-run production group that produces two musicals a year, Freed said. They also produce several cabaret nights each semester. For those willing to go farther afield, Trinity Repertory Company is staging its annual production of “A Christmas Carol.” The Charles Dickens’ classic, adapted by Adrian Hall and Richard Cumming and directed by Fred Sullivan, Jr., will run until Dec. 30. It tells the tale of the bitter Ebenezer Scrooge — a role shared by Brian McEleney and William Damkoehler — finding redemption after a series of ghostly Christmas Eve visits. Trinity’s other production, “Memory House” by Kathleen Tolan, will run through Jan. 6. The production, directed by Curt Columbus, takes place on New Year’s Eve and focuses on Maggie — a woman whose professional and romantic lives have foundered — and her 18-year-old daughter in the process of applying to college. Whether seeking an uplifting holiday classic or twisted musical fairy tale, the current theatrical offerings include something for everyone looking for an entertaining distraction this weekend.
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continued from page 1 popular each year with students and their families and friends, causing the location to be moved to a larger venues each time, she said. “To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish,” said Caitlin Whelan ’07.5 in her senior address, quoting a Yiddish proverb. “This is some absolutely fantastic horseradish here on College Hill.” Whelan encouraged her classmates to use what they had gained during their “gloriously nonconsecutive years at Brown” to address world issues. “I believe that we have got to stop pulling each other out of need and start lifting each other into prosperity,” Whelan said. “Prosperity means to take action out of hope.” Whelan’s often comical speech centered on this message of empowerment. While taking time off after her freshman year at Sarah Lawrence College, the Royce and Truman scholar began archiving the music of the Merasi, a group of low-caste musicians in India. She then founded the Merasi School, which teaches Merasi children music in an effort to preserve their culture. Emma Tai’ 07.5, another featured senior speaker, echoed a similar theme, asking her classmates to examine by what means they added the “.5” to their graduation year. “What are we doing here in this world that is so unjust and what are we going to do to change it? ... We cannot just ask hard, critical questions of the world, we must ask them of ourselves,” Tai said. “We have deviated. We have asked ourselves, ‘What are we doing here?’”
President Ruth Simmons addressed the crowd, describing the ceremony as a “celebration of your commitment to education and wisdom.” Simmons told the students that any hardships they had known at Brown would eventually be forgotten and that time spent here should allow them to face the future with courage, guided by their own hopes, goals and aspirations. “This university was handed to you by tens of thousands of souls who took care of it for you,” Simmons said. “You have a sacred obligation to do the same.” Professor of Africana Studies Tricia Rose MA’87 PhD’93 was the evening’s featured faculty speaker. She began her remarks with a simple statement of congratulations to the students, reminding them that they have reached an extraordinary milestone which is often downplayed as they continue on the “treadmill of achievement.” Rose warned students that they will soon face a moment of panic when they realize they do not know what to do after graduating. “In that moment of fear is enormous opportunity if you don’t run away from it,” Rose said. Rose told the students to remember that ideas in action change the world and that change does not require a huge number of people. “All we need is .5ers,” she jokingly added. Students are responsible for seeking knowledge and they should be prepared to fight for what is right, she said. “Don’t go with the status quo just because of what it is.” After the speeches, the students were called on stage by name to be recognized. The ceremony con-
cluded with a group rendition of the Brown alma mater led by the Brown Madrigal Singers. Faculty, students, family and friends then moved to Sayles Hall to enjoy champagne and hors d’oeuvres. “I love this particular occasion because of the time of year it happens and the real sense of celebration of student achievement,” Bergeron said after the ceremony. “I love the May graduation for the over-the-top ritual and ... the sense of incredible pageantry which is very important for a community to come together. What we subtract in pageantry we gain in intimacy” at the December ceremony. Most students said the Midyear Completion Celebration’s greatest asset is its intimacy. “Everything here was so much more spectacular than it was in May when it is so much more of a production,” said Ellen Chu ’07.5, who took time off to live and study in China. “It is more for the people who are coming to it.” “It is a more human and a more Brown way to graduate,” said Johnny Lin ’08, who took a full year off. Lin, who attended the ceremony but did not take part in it, added that taking a leave of absence is “about getting off the beaten path and seeing Brown as a part of your life, not just college.” Students who take time off face a different set of circumstances when they return to campus, Nathan Karp ’07.5 said. There is a unique sense of community that develops in the smaller class, he added. “My last semester has been my best semester yet,” Karp said. “You get a chance to have a new beginning.”
continued from page 1 fessor of psychology and department chair. This is an “exciting moment” for both departments and an opportunity to “make this area visible,” he said. “We are literally combining two departments,” he added, which he said will create an “increase in size and more courses offered across the board.” Students have expressed concern regarding how the merge will impact their specialized areas and “just going from a small department to a large department and how that changes things,” said Ana Beth Van Gulick ’09, head of the Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience Department Undergraduate Group. “There is a certain ethos in the cognitive sciences department, and I don’t know if it will be preserved in a larger department,” she added. But both Heindel and William Warren, professor of cognitive and linguistic sciences and department chair, stressed that neither department nor their concentrations will be compromised in the process. “We are building a new entity to preserve and enhance both departments,” Warren said. Individualized attention will not suffer either, they said. Five new faculty positions are being created, which will ultimately improve the faculty-student ratio and create new research opportunities. One new professor has already been hired to start teaching courses in both departments this January, acting as the first “bridge person,” Warren said. Because of the new faculty additions, the two chairs are confident that they will maintain the highly nu-
anced aspects of both departments, in addition to focusing on new areas. The new department will be “greater than the sum of the two,” Heindel said. The enlarged department will have “the capacity to excel in research, better serve students,” Vohra said. The departments will not formally unite until 2010, but planning is already underway as they begin to rationalize curriculum and reduce overlap. The departments’ concentrations will not change — “they each have different focuses,” Warren said, and the re-examination of the curriculum should clarify their emphases. Even though Brown is smaller than many of its peer institutions, uniting the departments “will make the whole area more competitive,” Warren said. “There will be more faculty doing related research, (and) it will be easier to attract the best graduate students,” Heindel added. Heindel also said he thinks more students will concentrate in the department as time goes on. “These changes are not unique to Brown,” Vohra said, noting that psychology and cognitive science are evolving fields. Other institutions are having “similar experiences with reorganization,” he said. “Now is the time to plan and consider its impact,” Warren said, emphasizing that it will have a “very important impact on the University, on concentrators, on grad students.” “It’s rare that there’s this much coordination and growth in a department,” Heindel added. “As long as it’s done carefully, we can always benefit from having more faculty and resources,” Van Gulick said.
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niors and 56.4 percent of seniors have had as many. Ninneman characterized underclassmen’s — and generally younger students’ — relative chastity as “a generally healthy approach.” Sex comes naturally with age, students said. “When you’re a first-year, it’s probably more about getting a feel for the campus,” said Huq. “As you become older, you probably become more comfortable in these situations.” Risa Burr ’11 concurred that first-years are less likely to be sexually active. “We don’t know each other,” she said. “Your first year or two, you’re just figuring things out,” said Laing. “As you get older, you have more sex.” More men reported having sex than women in the Herald poll. According to the poll, 38.6 percent of men had no partners this semester, compared with 47.8 percent of women. 45.9 percent of men reported having had 1-2 partners, while 43.7 percent of women had as many. Ninneman suggested that men and women might have used different definitions of “sexual partner” when completing the survey, though every student interviewed by The Herald indicated that he or she would have counted any partner with whom he or she engaged in
either oral sex or intercourse as a “sexual partner.” Though students interviewed by The Herald indicated they would have answered the question honestly, Ninneman said people might have felt uncomfortable marking their answers in the public settings in which the poll was administered. “Self-reporting can be pretty reliable, but it’s a funny environment to be answering a personal question about your sexual behavior,” she said. Ninneman said the 2006 ACHA survey found that 31.1 percent of Brown students had no sexual partners in the previous year, although the ACHA did not publicly release Brown-specific statistics. Since the ACHA survey asked respondents about their sexual activity over the course of one year and the Herald poll concerned only the semester so far, Ninneman said, the Herald poll seemed to be about “in line.” “I was completely truthful,” said Jankowski of his survey answers. “I think people are used to taking polls and not caring too much.” “There wasn’t really a reason to lie on an anonymous survey,” said Reinhardt. “It was just a relaxed setting. I don’t see why someone would want to lie on something like that. It’s not like they could show off to anyone,” he added. “You’re only lying to yourself,” said Laing.
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Poet and Professor of English C.D. Wright read several of her pieces alongside seven other poets at the Brown Bookstore last Thursday as a part of “Not for Mothers Only.”
Med school gets grant for skeletal research By Caroline Sedano Staf f Writer
An $11.1 million grant from the National Center for Research Resources will allow researchers from the Alpert Medical School and Rhode Island Hospital to work together to develop cures for skeletal diseases. The grant will partially fund the new Center of Biomedical Research Excellence — a multi-disciplinary project that will bring biologists, engineers and clinicians together. “I think the grant is really going to provide an environment for researchers in different disciplines to come together on the same problem,” said Professor of Medical Science Qian Chen, director of the COBRE project. “Before, all those researchers were in different (departments). This grant will provide money for expansion of the lab space so they can come together.” $5 million of the grant will go towards the renovations and expansions of the already existing research center located in the Coro West building, part of Rhode Island Hospital, in downtown Providence. New lab space will be constructed on the fourth floor of the building, where the orthopedics research laboratory is located. Chen expects that construction will begin soon and will take five years to complete. The rest of the grant will go toward mentoring programs and advancing five specific projects for the school and hospital. Two of these projects will concentrate on skeletal development in childhood, another two on joint cartilage degeneration and adult skeletal diseases and the fifth on repairing and rebuilding cartilage joints. These projects and increased space will provide more options for the hospital and for University graduate students, undergraduates and professors. “Rhode Island Hospital is a teaching hospital for Brown faculty, so having been awarded this grant opens up a lot of opportunities to students who are interested in researching in the
area,” Chen. Beyond the educational benefits the COBRE will offer Brown, the new center will also set in motion important medical possibilities. “There is very little research in this area of skeletal disease and much still needs to be done,” Chen said. “As people are living longer and longer, almost everyone will eventually get arthritis and there is currently no pharmaceutical drug to deal with it. This grant will be a huge help to fill that gap in research.” “The research undertaken with this funding has the potential to help many Rhode Islanders and others across the nation who live
with some of life’s most painful and debilitating joint diseases,” said Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., in an Oct. 29 University press release. This is Rhode Island Hospital’s second COBRE grant — the first was for cancer research in 2002 — and one of six COBRE grants in the state of Rhode Island. “Being awarded the COBRE grant is helping to bring all the medical research work in the state together,” Chen said. “We had a symposium in the Rhode Island convention center for all the COBRE grant winners and we are trying to work and communicate together — which will allow a more conducive environment for medical advancements.”
The Rhode Island Department of Health fined Rhode Island Hospital $50,000 and issued it a compliance order last week after a doctor began to operate on the wrong side of a patient’s head. The incident marks the third wrong-site procedure at the hospital this year. The hospital’s chief of neurosurger y, a clinical professor at Alpert Medical School, resigned from his post but will continue practicing medicine at the hospital, the Providence Journal reported Nov. 30. On Nov. 23, a resident physician began a procedure on the wrong side of an 82-year-old patient’s head before realizing the mistake, according to a statement from the hospital, one of the University’s seven teaching hospitals. After a stitch to close the wound, the procedure was performed “with good results,” the statement said. The Health Department’s order to the hospital noted there is no evidence that the patient’s histor y, physical, preoperative note, consent form or CT scans were reviewed before the operation. “Corrective action and counseling” with all staff involved has taken place, the hospital’s statement said. This was the third wrong-site procedure so far this year at Rhode Island Hospital — all in neurosurger y. The hospital’s chief of neurosurger y, Associate Professor of Clinical Neurosciences John Duncan III, resigned last week, and Associate Professor of Clinical Neurosci-
ences Curtis Doberstein has taken over as interim chief, the Journal reported Nov. 30. The hospital said no decisions have been made on a permanent replacement, and that Duncan will continue to be able to practice at the hospital. Spokesmen from Rhode Island Hospital were unavailable for comment. “Any is too many,” Andrea Bagnall Degos, a Health Department spokeswoman, said of the incidents. The department’s compliance order will require the presence of an attending physician during all neurosurgical procedures, a move the hospital has already taken, the statement said. David Gifford, director of the Health Depar tment, issued the compliance order Nov. 26 after a surprise inspection following the incident. The order also requires the hospital to submit a report by Dec. 15 with a plan to educate staff on “assuring the right procedure at the right site for the right patient.” The hospital will be required to submit quar terly repor ts on its implementation. Patients can take measures to ensure their procedures go smoothly, Bagnall Degos said, including asking for the site to be marked and getting as much information about the procedure as possible. The hospital has hired four independent consultants to review its neurosurger y procedures, it said in a statement. Though the Dec. 15 report to the Health Department will not be available to the public, the hospital said it has already begun to implement its consultants’ early recommendations. “We have begun to institute a cultural change at Rhode Island Hospital,” the statement said, “but as fast as we are moving, we know it’s not fast enough.
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Eisenberg to leave Hillel post continued from page 1 Jewish people receive an all-expenses paid trip to Israel, have become more popular among Brown students since Eisenberg began working at Brown. “We just began to have a Brown Hillel Birthright trip in my first year, and since then it has grown in popularity,” Eisenberg said. “I really feel proud of the fact that several hundred students have gone to Israel. That’s definitely something that wasn’t in place before I came.” Sixty-eight students will be heading to Israel in January, Eisenberg said. Hillel will hire two people to replace Eisenberg — an executive director responsible for administration, board development and financing and a rabbi to focus on program and pastoral issues. “There are two searches underway right now, one of which is a joined search, meaning that the University and Hillel are searching together for a rabbi,” Cooper Nelson said. “Hillel is searching for an administrative officer.” The most likely candidates will be those already connected to the University, Cooper Nelson said. “We’ll be using our wonder-
ful Brown geography network” to find them, she said. “We’re using that network through letters and e-mails and alums.” Eytan Kurshan ’08, the student president of Hillel, represents students’ perspective in the search process. “We put him on the executive committee of the search,” she said. “We really wanted to signal that students are critical.” Students were the main advocates of the decision to separate the position into an administrator and a rabbi, Kurshnan wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “There are all sorts of students on this campus, and it is most impor tant that candidates demonstrate an ability to work with ever yone. Hillel is not meant to be an exclusive place, but it is often regarded as just that,” Kurshnan wrote. “We want someone who will make the diverse opportunities that Hillel has to offer more accessible to more people.” Though Kurshan is the only student on the executive committee, there is also a separate student search committee composed of seven students who will conduct inter views with candidates. According to Hillel’s Web site, the desired start date for both new
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Rabbi Serena Eisenberg ’87, right, will leave her post as executive director of Brown/RISD Hillel.
employees is July 1, 2008. In the meantime, Assistant Director of Brown/RISD Hillel Megan Nesbitt will ser ve as associate director. Amy Hirsch will
provide rabbinic coverage, Cooper Nelson said. Eisenberg said that Cooper Nelson described being at Brown as “tr ying to take a drink of water
from a fire hydrant.” “My regret is that there are thousands of incredible students that I haven’t had the opportunity to get to know,” Eisenberg said.
W. hoops loses to St. Joe’s continued from page 12 With a final score of 65-61, Brown came out with its first victor y of the season. The Bears didn’t fare quite as well in their second game of the tournament. Missing the defensive intensity that got the team its first win, Brown fell to St. Joseph’s 65-54 in the four-team tournament’s championship game. “We didn’t get a lot of transition baskets,” Burr said. “We needed to build on defense, intensity and getting on the boards.” Assistant Spor ts Editor Amy Ehrhar t ’09, a power for ward who scored 16 points against St. Joseph’s, expressed similar sentiments, attributing the loss to lapses on defense. Brown also took bad shots and simply couldn’t score. They continuously trailed the Hawks by eight to 10 points for most of the game. By the end of the first half, Bruno was down by nine, 34-23. Unlike in their first game of the weekend, the Bears’ lack of energy followed them into the second half. “We need to work on playing the whole 40 minutes,” Ehrhart said. The Bears managed to play evenly with the Hawks until the ver y end of the game, when it looked as if they might be able to pull a come-from-behind victor y. With six minutes left, Brown forced three consecutive Bison turnovers, converting a three-point play on the last one. The Bears were within reach at 53-47 but couldn’t quite grab the lead, committing two fouls immediately after their surge of energy, allowing St. Joseph’s to pull further ahead. Time trickled out as the Bears intentionally fouled in desperation, but the Bisons made their free throws and finished the game 65-54. The Bears will next play Boston University at 7 p.m. this Wednesday at the Pizzitola Center.
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Kyoto failure haunts talks By Alan Zarembo Los Angeles T imes
In the Kyoto Protocol’s accounting of greenhouse gases, the former Eastern bloc is a smashing success. Russia: Down 29 percent in carbon dioxide emissions since 1990. Romania: A 43 percent reduction. Latvia: A resounding 60 percent drop. Reductions like those across Eastern Europe were the main reason the United Nations was recently able to report a 12 percent drop in emissions over that period from the accord’s industrialized countries. It was an illusion. The progress wasn’t due to a global embrace of green power, but rather to the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, which shut down smoke-belching factories across the region. “Their emissions dropped before Kyoto even existed,” said Michael Gillenwater , a climate-policy researcher at Princeton University. Despite the 1997 Kyoto Protocol’s status as the flagship of the fight against climate change, it has been a failure in the hard, expensive work of actually reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Its restrictions have been so gerrymandered that only 36 countries are actually required to limit their pollution. Just over one-third of those -- members of the former Eastern bloc -- can pollute at will because their limits were set so far above their actual emissions. China and India, whose fastrising emissions easily cancel out any cuts elsewhere, are allowed to keep polluting. And the biggest polluter of all, the United States, simply has refused to join the treaty. That leaves Western Europe, Canada, Japan and New Zealand to do the work of the world. Their emissions are rising despite their commitment, starting next year, to reduce them by an average of roughly 8 percent from 1990 levels. Fixing the flaws of Kyoto has become an urgent crusade as U.N. talks begin Monday in Bali, Indonesia, to create the successor to the treaty, which expires at the end of 2012 . Negotiations are expected to last at least two years. This time, scientists say there is no leeway for weak measures. The push has come from a series of landmark reports this year by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that concluded that greenhouse gas emissions must begin declining in the next decade to prevent a dangerous temperature rise. The panel, which shared this year’s Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore, laid out a framework for reducing emissions that could cost trillions of dollars over the next two decades. The question is whether the nations meeting in Bali are willing to embrace such stringent measures. “Countries are going to have to get serious,” said Mark Bernstein , a University of Southern California
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energy and environmental-policy expert. For all its flaws, Kyoto was a remarkable agreement, forged at a time when there still were widespread doubts about the seriousness -- or even existence -- of global warming. For the public, climate change largely was an exotic vision of environmental collapse that sounded at times like science fiction. But scientists, who understood the physics of rising temperatures, already were worried. Delegates meeting in Kyoto, Japan, outlined an agreement that would extend 15 years. It would establish a baseline for emissions somewhere in the past and require countries to meet reduction targets. Because the industrialized world was responsible for the massive accumulation of greenhouse gases over the last 150 years, it would take the lead and bear the bulk of the costs. A key element was to get the world to sign on together as a statement of resolve. It immediately became apparent that regulating emissions from fossil fuels —- the lifeblood of the world economy — would not be easy. Developing countries, led by China and India, refused to agree to mandatory caps, arguing that their economies should not be punished for the pollution sins of the industrialized nations. The Kyoto nations agreed to exempt developing countries from pollution limits. That has amounted to 139 nations. Today, the top nine major countries with the fastest-growing emissions are in the developing world. Together, 10 developing countries increased their annual emissions by more than 5 billion metric tons, accounting for 75 percent of the growth in world carbon dioxide emissions between 1990 and 2005, according to an analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Energy. China’s emissions grew 138 percent over that period, catching up to U.S. emissions and setting a pace to double them in less than a decade. “They’re going to have people gagging in the street,” said John Weyant , an energy expert at Stanford University. Letting the developing world avoid emissions caps put the burden on 38 industrial nations, including the United States, most of Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. One problem was picking a year to establish the emissions baseline. A late date would have been least painful for countries with healthy economies. But that would have put the Eastern European countries at an enormous disadvantage, because their economies had crashed and thus their baseline would have been too low. The baseline ultimately was set at 1990 for most countries -- a time when the Eastern European economies were still intact. As a result, 13 countries of the former Soviet bloc were essentially left free of a cap. Not including their illusor y reductions, total carbon dioxide emissions from countries bound by Kyoto’s caps have risen
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President Ruth Simmons spoke at Mexico’s Universidad de Guadalajara over Thanksgiving break. She came at the invitation of famed authors Gabriel Garcia Marquez, left, Carlos Fuentes, right, and Professor of Hispanic Studies Julio Ortega..
by more than 8 percent. There have been a few bright spots: a 4 percent emissions cut in Denmark and a 7 percent drop in Sweden. But there are many more failures. Japan: Emissions up 13 percent since 1990. Canada: A 27 percent rise. Spain: A 61 percent increase. Outside the former Soviet bloc, only six of the 23 industrialized Kyoto countries have cut their carbon dioxide emissions since 1990 -- leaving few nations positioned to meet next year’s reduction targets. But even if all the industrial countries could make their targets, the goals negotiated a decade ago now look tepid compared with the 50 percent cuts that U.N. scientists say are necessary over the next 40 years. “There was not a lot of science behind the targets,” said Nathan Hultman , a professor of science, technology and international affairs at Georgetown University. “It was kind of pulling a number out of a hat and saying, `What do we think we can achieve in 10 to 15 years?’” Annie Petsonk , international counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund in Washington, said that for all the problems of Kyoto, the accord still should not be judged too harshly. “It’s an important, imperfect first step,” she said. But Steve Rayner , an environmental-policy expert at Oxford University, said that the time for such a lenient assessment was past. Kyoto “was a diplomatic success, but environmentally it was a complete failure.” The negotiations for the next phase of the accord have the advantage of taking place when public and scientific opinions have swung behind taking aggressive steps to stabilize global warming. “It’s going to be very difficult getting a new treaty,” Petsonk said. “But we cannot sit around letting carbon levels rise.”
House boosts fuel standards By Richard Simon Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Congressional negotiators reached agreement Friday night on a measure calling for the biggest boost in decades in fuel-economy standards for U.S.made vehicles. The legislation would raise the average fuel efficiency for new cars and light trucks to 35 miles per gallon by 2020. The current average standards are 27.5 mpg for cars and 22.2 mph for light trucks, which include SUVs, pickups and minivans. The deal reflects a major political shift on Capitol Hill, where for years allies of the automobile industry have blocked an increase in the standards. The accord also clears the way for a final vote in Congress on an energy bill that has gained political urgency as gasoline prices have surged. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who has made passage of the bill a major goal, announced the agreement on the fuel-economy provision after days of negotiations with Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich. Dingell, the dean of the House and a political friend of car manufacturers, long has been obstacle to higher fuel-efficiency standards. Pelosi said the tougher rules represent “the cornerstone” of the energy bill -— the first concrete response by her party to heightened concerns about gasoline costs, global warming and U.S. dependence on foreign oil since Democrats won control of Congress a year ago. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., a leading proponent of the higher fuel standards, called the deal “historic” and “the culmination of years of hard work.” David Friedman of the Union of Concerned Scientists said the agreement “breaks 30 years of gridlock on fuel economy.” House-Senate negotiators
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planned to work through the weekend to nail down other parts of the bill, including a requirement for adding greater amounts of homegrown alternative fuels, including ethanol, to the nation’s gasoline supply. The bill, with its emphasis on promoting energy efficiency and development of cleaner alternative fuels, stands in sharp contrast to legislation passed in 2005 by the Republican-controlled Congress. That measure tilted toward increasing domestic production of oil, coal, natural gas and nuclear power. The Democratic-sponsored legislation is expected to clear the House but could face trouble in the Senate if, as anticipated, it includes a provision that would mandate utilities generate a greater amount of electricity from solar and wind power. Several senators have said they would oppose that provision out of concern it could drive up utility costs. And some GOP lawmakers have said the bill does not do enough to increase domestic oil and natural gas production. It also is unclear whether President Bush would sign the bill if it passes Congress. The agreement on fuel economy comes as lawmakers from both parties have become jittery that gasoline prices will become a hot issue in the 2008 campaign. The proposed hike in the standards would be, by far, the largest since the rules were first set by law in 1975, an action that followed an embargo by Arab oil producers. Under the agreement, beginning in 2011, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration annually would increase the standards to achieve the 35 mpg mark by 2020. Automakers would be required to place a label on each vehicle that includes information on its fuel economy and greenhouse gas and other emissions.
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continued from page 12 riod, four Brown penalties in the second led to both Clarkson goals. On a power play, Amanda Dittmer took a shot from the point that deflected off Macie Winship ’11 and past Stock at 3:21. The Golden Knights doubled their lead 2:47 later when Genevieve Lavoie slammed home a rebound. The Bears cut the deficit to one on a power play when Moore’s shot from the slot reached the back of the net at 8:25. Erin Connors ’10 and Erica Kromm ’11 picked up assists on Moore’s second goal of the weekend and third of the season. But Brown could draw no closer. Stock once again kept the team in the game as she made 37 saves in the losing effort. Even though the outcomes were not what she had hoped for, Murphy said she could see the positives. “I really believe that if the kids keep working, they’re going to come around,” she said. “That’s what we
talked about in the locker room at the end of this game (against Clarkson). You have to take all the good out of the weekend. The power play is starting to click. … We answered on a couple of goals. We stayed out of the box in the third period of this game.” With winter break fast approaching, the first half of the season is winding down. Brown travels to Yale on Sunday (3-5-2, 3-5-1 ECAC) in its final game until January. The Bulldogs secured a 3-0 victory in the teams’ first meeting on November 3 at Meehan, so a bounceback victory in New Haven would mean a lot to the still-learning team. “The kids just need to keep persevering and keep believing that they’re a good team,” Murphy said. “They’re going to overcome a lot of the problems we’re having right now. It’s just executing systems, it’s passing, it’s making it easier for the next guy and I think that we’re struggling with that right now.”
By Anne E. Kornblut Washington Post
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — With a new poll showing her losing ground in the Iowa caucus race, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., mounted a new, more aggressive attack against Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., on Sunday, raising direct questions about his character, challenging his integrity and forecasting a sharp debate over those subjects in the days ahead. Clinton has hammered Obama recently over his health-care proposal, arguing that he is misleading voters because it omits millions of people and would not lower costs. But Sunday, in a dramatic shift, she made it clear that her goal is to challenge Obama not just on policy but also on one of his strongest selling points: his reputation for honesty. “There’s a big difference between our courage and our convictions, what we believe and what we’re willing to fight for,” Clinton told reporters here. She said voters in Iowa will have a choice “between someone who talks the talk, and somebody who’s walked the walk.” Asked directly whether she intended to raise questions about Obama’s character, she replied: “It’s beginning to look a lot like that.” The Obama campaign quickly fought back, and the candidate himself called the new effort is a sign of desperation. A new Des Moines Register poll released Sunday finds Clinton three points behind Obama, within the poll’s margin of error, among likely Democratic caucusgoers. “I think that folks from some
of the other campaigns are reading the polls and starting to get stressed and issuing a whole range of outlandish accusations,” Obama said. His advisers — and some of hers — believe that if Clinton loses the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3, her status as the front-runner nationally will evaporate. On the Republican side, the Register’s poll showed a continuing surge for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who described his campaign as “on fire.” Huckabee garnered the support of 29 percent of respondents, 17 points better than in the previous poll. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney pulled in 24 percent, a drop of five points. The survey marked the first time Romney has slipped from the lead in the state since early summer. The result is a dramatic shift in the Republican contest, which had been shaping up as a nasty, two-man race between Romney and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. As a consequence, Romney has begun to turn his attacks toward Huckabee as he faces the prospect of losing a state that he spent millions to win. That would be a devastating blow to Romney’s strategy of minimizing his lackluster performance in national polls by pointing to his enduring strength in Iowa and New Hampshire. Huckabee said on ABC’s “This Week,” “That’s why there’s an excitement about my campaign. It’s just not about Mike Huckabee. It’s about all those Americans out there who were told what they couldn’t do, what they couldn’t become.” The new Clinton strategy, ac-
knowledged by her senior advisers as an intentional pivot, carries significant risks and could produce a potential backlash if voters perceive her as growing too negative. The Register’s poll also found that Clinton was seen by Iowa voters as the most negative of the Democratic contenders. Obama had the support of 28 percent of respondents, up six points from the last Register poll, in early October. Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., drew 23 percent. Clinton was in the middle at 25 percent, down four points from early October. The margin of error is 4.4 percentage points. Clinton, campaigning across Iowa on Sunday, seemed to be spoiling for a fight with her chief Democratic rival in national polls — even at one point describing the battle as “fun.” “I have said for months that I would much rather be attacking Republicans, and attacking the problems of our country, because ultimately that’s what I want to do as president. But I have been, for months, on the receiving end of rather consistent attacks. Well, now the fun part starts. We’re into the last month, and we’re going to start drawing the contrasts,” she said. That drew a swift rebuke from Obama. “This presidential campaign isn’t about attacking people for fun, it’s about solving people’s problems, like ending this war and creating a universal health care system,” he said in a statement. “Washington insiders might think throwing mud is fun, but the American people are looking for leadership that can unite this country around a common purpose.” Obama advisers described the strategy as foolhardy, and reminiscent of the approach perfected by former Bush White House adviser Karl Rove: going after a front-runner on his strengths and challenging his sincerity. The intensified back-and-forth between Clinton and Obama seemed certain to aggravate the Edwards campaign, which is combating the perception of a two-person race in Iowa when polls show that he is still very much in contention. Clinton advisers had telegraphed her new, hard-knuckled approach before she brought it to the campaign trail herself. On a Sunday talk show, communications director Howard Wolfson criticized the Illinois senator for using a political action committee to distribute money to candidates in local contests, some in early presidential primary states. “There’s a lot that voters don’t know about Barack Obama,” Wolfson said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” The Clinton campaign has been steadily building what it believes is a character case against Obama for several weeks, particularly over his health-care plan. Clinton has argued that he is being disingenuous when he claims his plan would achieve universal coverage. Obama’s plan would not mandate that all people buy health insurance; instead it focuses on lowering costs. Strategists said Clinton chose health care as a target area because she believes she has a large advantage on the issue among many voters. Sunday, however, marked the first time that Clinton raised the character question so bluntly on the campaign trail. In a questionand-answer session with reporters after her first stop, she said that “you can’t get a straight answer” from Obama on health care.
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Taking pride in the wurst By Craig Whitlock Washington Post
WEIMAR, Germany — It’s the German version of the chicken-or-theegg conundrum: Which was regulated first, beer or bratwurst? For centuries, brewers seemed to have histor y on their side. As evidence, they cited the world-renowned Reinheitsgebot, the Bavarian beer purity law of 1516, which stipulated barley, hops and water as the only permissible ingredients in the German national drink. But thanks to Hubert Erzmann, a 75-year-old amateur historian, sausage lovers are crowing these days. Digging in the Weimar city archives, Erzmann unearthed a yellowed, handwritten parchment from 1432 that laid down the law regarding the production of Thuringian Rostbratwurst, perhaps the most popular variety of sausage in a country where wurst is worshiped as sacred grub. The official document decreed that bratwurst from this corner of Thuringia, today a central German state, be made only from “pure, fresh” pork. Forbidden were beef, internal organs, parasites and anything rancid. Although the regulations might not sound revolutionar y, wurst aficionados have described the bratwurst purity law as a holy find, almost as significant to German culture as a Gutenberg Bible. “As soon as I found it, I ran to the director of the archive and said, `Look! Look what I found!’ “ recalled Erzmann, who has haunted the archives for years in hopes of making such a discovery. Food purity laws hold a revered place in the German soul. When the modern German nation was formed in 1871, Bavaria joined on condition that its beer purity rules be applied to the entire countr y. Even today, spoiled meat outbreaks are a national scandal and consumer
protection is considered among the most important functions of government. “The medieval regulations in Germany were incredibly modern,” said Michael Kirchschlager, an author who writes about Thuringian culture. “When you think of the Middle Ages, you think the food wasn’t necessarily that safe. But the hygiene in many ways was better than today.” A replica of the bratwurst purity law soon will be enshrined at the German Bratwurst Museum (www. bratwurstmuseum.net), located 24 miles away in Holzhausen, a village whose main intersection is marked by a giant sausage-and-bun sculpture. The museum, run by an organization called Friends of Thuringian Bratwurst, opened last year and is packed with exhibits describing the social and political history of the famous wurst. Visitors learn that a man named Hans Stromer ate 28,000 bratwursts during a long stint in jail in the 16th century. There’s also a corner dedicated to Karl Sterzing, a Fleischermeister, or butcher, from the village of Grossbreitenbach, who grilled an estimated 2 million bratwursts at his home between 1945 and 1985. In Thuringia, each man, woman and child consumes an average of 60 bratwursts a year, according to statistics compiled by the museum. The bratwurst industry in the state employs about 18,000 people. And the public hospital in the town of Bad Berka mandates that all patients and staff be served bratwurst for breakfast every Monday morning. “The first question most visitors always ask about our museum is `Why?’ “ said Uwe Keith, president of the museum’s board. “It’s just that Thuringian Rostbratwurst is such a part of life here.” For the uninitiated, Thuringian bratwurst is distinguished from the other 41 varieties of German
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The recent discovery of a document dating from 1432 indicates that bratwurst was regulated in Germany before beer was.
bratwurst mainly by its distinctive spices (marjoram, garlic, sometimes a bit of lemon) and its fat content (only 25 percent, compared with up to 60 percent for greasier cousins). It’s also supposed to be cooked and eaten within 24 hours after it is stuffed in the casing. The sausage is generally between six to seven inches long and served on a very small crusty bread roll, the main purpose of which is to keep your fingers off the meat. It is traditionally ser ved with mustard, though barbarians sometimes top it with ketchup. Thuringian bratwurst must be roasted or grilled. To fry it is a sin. Traditionally, entire Thuringian villages would gather to slaughter hogs and make wurst as a communal activity, said Thomas Maeuer, a member of the museum’s board. Getting drunk on schnapps or beer was all part of the fun. “Eating bratwurst was even a bigger family festivity than having the Sunday roast,” he said. Erzmann, the historian, said he discovered the bratwurst purity document in 2000. But its existence was
White House whipping up holiday treats By Rachel Dry Washington Post
WASHINGTON — As the calendar turns to December, it’s time for a full month of holiday cheer, official presidential holiday decorations and a seemingly unlimited quantity of Christmas cookies. The White House has, in fact, made a cookie tally: 20,000 baked treats total, give or take a few crumbs, to celebrate the 2007 holiday season. That’s in addition to the 700 holiday cakes, 320 gallons of egg nog and 10,000 handmade tamales. Other impressive stats include the 895,000 Christmas cards sent by President and Mrs. Bush and the approximately 60,000 visitors who will come to gawk at the holiday splendor. Formal holiday events this week include Monday morning’s children’s holiday reception at the White House, Wednesday’s lighting of the Capitol Christmas tree, on the west lawn of the Capitol, and the lighting of the National Christmas Tree, on the Ellipse, on Thursday. Safety First: One nagging thought as all those White House holiday treats are being ser ved: How safe are those roasted lamb chops with rosemary sea salt, mis-
sion fig chutney and mint jelly? (Okay, probably pretty safe, given that they’re coming from the executive kitchen.) Anyway, the topic of food imports and the challenge of guaranteeing their safety will be up for discussion Tuesday when Health and Human Ser vices Secretar y Michael Leavitt goes before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. “These days, people want fresh strawberries in November,” Leavitt said last week, according to the Contra Costa Times, while in California to discuss the administration’s food safety plans. “And they can get them — there are melons coming in from Mexico and bananas from Costa Rica. ... We have to keep changing our strategy. It’s like they say in hockey: You have to skate where the puck is going to be.” The administration is skating toward making it illegal to sell recalled products, giving the Food and Drug Administration the power to order food recalls, and allowing the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue fines of up to $10 million, up from the current $1.8 million. On Friday, President Bush is set to welcome Northern Irish leaders
Martin McGuinness and the Rev. Ian Paisley to the White House. An administration statement on the meeting noted that Bush looked forward to congratulating the pair on a “historic path toward a peaceful and prosperous future for all the people of Northern Ireland.” Peace in Northern Ireland is a topic the Bush administration appears to like, with its Iraq analogy potential. In May, the U.S. military commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, told U.S. News and World Repor t that his ef for t to bring divided groups together in joint opposition to al-Qaida had “been helped enormously by having a British three-star who has Northern Ireland experience that is really quite instructive.” And Ulster leaders use the analogy as well. Peter Hain, the former secretary of state for Northern Ireland, has said that Sunni and Shiite leaders need a Northern Irish-style peace process. Though the situations have fundamental differences, he said, “there is one important lesson from Northern Ireland that we can use in Iraq: just as legitimate grievances in Northern Ireland fuelled republican sympathies, grievances in Iraq provide fertile territory for Iraqi militants.”
kept largely under wraps until this fall, when it was publicized in a book and by the bratwurst museum. The original decree will remain in a bound set of documents in the Weimar city archives. Erzmann
guessed that no one had cracked the book in at least a centur y. “I would have missed it, too, had I not gone through it line by line to translate into modern German,” he said.
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Going green? This winter, it seems green is the new black. Climate change and conser vation have been on most Americans’ radar for several years, but the past few months have seen a dramatic escalation in the attention given to sustainability and environmental action by corporations, governments and even Oprah. In October, Nor way’s Nobel Committee awarded former Vice President Al Gore a Nobel Peace Prize for his environmental evangelism. A month later, NBC kicked off a “Green is Universal” campaign and week of dubiously green-themed programming that featured a call for recycling pizza boxes on “Law and Order” and other oblique endorsements of supposedly environmentally responsible action. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and even Forbes, the self-proclaimed “capitalist tool,” have run splashy spreads outlining how readers can align their investments with their consciences through green homes, airplanes, Christmas presents, jobs and investments. Not surprisingly, Brown is no exception to the craze — energy efficiency is a key concern in campus construction projects, heating oil use will be reduced this winter and a new committee will allocate thousands to projects generating carbon offsets. But as products, systems and even Brown’s new buildings are instantly dubbed “green,” we hope students think critically about the actual impact of these claims before giving in to the feel-good factor. Whether it’s President Simmons or Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott proclaiming that the organizations they lead are friends to the environment, the devil is in the details. Under pressure to reduce their “carbon footprint” — the tonnes of carbon dioxide they release into the atmosphere — corporations and institutions have begun boasting about “avoided” carbon emissions that suggest somewhat suspect accounting. It’s a nice gesture when an institution makes a commitment to reduce its carbon emissions by 2020 or when fuel-efficiency standards in the auto industr y will be enacted by 2020, but more action is needed immediately. Buying a more fuel efficient car now will make a major difference in combatting climate change — the standards are necessary but not helpful immediately. Thankfully, the University’s latest attempt to combat climate change is focused on actual reduction and should lead to projects that can make an immediate impact. Using $350,000 allocated by Simmons and the Sidney E. Frank Foundation, a committee of 12 administrators, faculty and students will select projects that don’t simply generate carbon credits but seek to reduce carbon use in a verifiable, measurable way. The initiative, Community Carbon Use Reduction@Brown, will give $200,000 to student-led projects alone — projects that should be quickly and effectively implemented to make a difference sooner, not later.
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When politics got a bad makeover BY MAHA ATAL Opinions Columnist On Wednesday evening, I cozied up to my television to watch the CNN/YouTube Republican debate. I’m not a Republican, so mostly, I was watching to evaluate this newfangled form. Would the conduct of politics, as many observers have predicted, be radically altered by the encounter with new media? Would the content of political debate be different if topics came from voters, rather than from the pundits or the campaign chiefs? As a voter who’s been pretty unimpressed by leadership in the last few years, I sure hoped something would change. Unfortunately, aside from the fact that the questions came from voters eating corn on the cob as they talked, the candidate discussion was more or less the same as what I’ve heard before. These were the typical issues of a Republican primary — gays in the military, abortion, the Second Amendment, the Confederate flag, candidates’ interpretation of the Bible and of course, below-the-belt attacks on personal morality. I scratched my head. I was surprised to find that many of the videos focused on these gut values, prompting the candidates to indulge in character attacks and moral platitudes. In poll after poll, after all, we learn that Americans are voting less because they feel politicians are too busy with value wars to address the real policy problems that matter to them. If that’s true, how come, when given the chance, these Republicans didn’t ask about policy? The Democratic debate I saw over the summer was only marginally better. Sure, there were questions about real issues, like Iraq and gay marriage, but they are the usual issues among Democrats. And the questions were framed in a “yes or no” format — “Will
you withdraw from Iraq?” or “Do you support gay marriage” — that allowed candidates to regurgitate the same arguments they’ve made to the pundits before. Despondently, I wondered, is our soundbyte politics just what American voters are asking for? If we have a leadership vacuum, is that just getting us what we deserve? All the years spent complaining about how Washington insiders ignore us, was the problem really on our end? Actually, I think the answer has something to do with the YouTube debate format CNN
— the people who already vote, the students who run College Democrats or College Republicans clubs or the soccer moms who run a lobby group on the side. The truly disenchanted voters, meanwhile, are too checked out of the system to even care a debate is going on. The issues-driven voter who’s fed up with value-rhetoric, the one we keep holding up as the image of potential change, lives in a middle ground between these poles. And with a slightly more intelligent format, this is the voter we might have seen get involved.
Using YouTube to get videos from people who think like pundits, ignoring YouTube user votes and letting pundits select the videos, then putting the questions to candidates in a traditional setting is going to yield — surprise! — a traditional debate. cooked up. In theory, user-generated forms like YouTube should be drawing swing voters concerned with real issues into the picture, connecting with them in a grassroots space outside the mainstream political arena they so distrust. But in practice, setting up a debate in which voters have to take out their cameras, make and post videos will only attract the die-hards
Because, when it comes to down to it, these have been old media debates dressed in new media clothes. Using YouTube to get videos from people who think like pundits, ignoring YouTube user votes and letting pundits select the videos, then putting the questions to candidates in a traditional setting is going to yield — surprise! — a traditional debate. Much of the pre-debate hype on CNN and
elsewhere seemed to suggest that simply the introduction of YouTube would necessitate radical changes in the political conversation. But the technology of YouTube alone does not a revolution make. Technology is not an instigator; it’s an enabler and sometimes a catalyst. It has to be given the right conditions to run its course. In the case of a debate, a real new media approach would have let some percentage of the questions be determined by user votes (still allowing CNN to nix anything that was X-rated). During the debate, viewers would have been able post follow-up comments and questions online, some of which would be asked to candidates in the final half-hour. The result would be an actual dialogue between politicians and the people, the getting-behind-the-taglines that new media is supposed to yield. Most importantly, that dialogue would have featured the outside-the-box voters who, I believe, are the key to taking our politics in a new direction. Those voters, many of them young college students, care enough about policy to read newspapers, albeit online. They frequent blogs about innovation issues like solar technology. They probably watched the debates on TV or on YouTube reruns. They aren’t enthused enough about any party to volunteer for the national campaigns, and they k’vetch a lot to their friends about the current state of politics. But they also aren’t incensed enough about the failures of leadership to make and post a video. Lowering the bar of effort to let them simply vote for questions or post a live comment might be just enough to get them involved. These are small changes. But in the world of new media, small tweaks have the power to make far larger differences than the flashy lights and colors CNN used to mask what, it turns out, was just the same old charade.
Maha Atal ’08 is under-whelmed.
Understanding the Female Sexuality Workshop BY JOANNA ROBERTS Guest Columnist Earlier this semester, a claim was made that one of the images used to advertise information sessions for the Female Sexuality Workshop constituted sexual harassment and the distribution of pornography. As the current facilitators and coordinators of the workshop, we’d like to respond to that claim. The Female Sexuality Workshop, commonly called FemSex, is a not-for-credit semester-long workshop open to people of all genders and backgrounds that aims to provide participants with a space to explore female identity and sexuality. FemSex facilitators guide education, encouraging selfexploration and community-building with the goal of enabling participants to recognize and validate their own experiences, to explore the options available to them and to make educated and self-aware choices in all aspects of their lives. FemSex is now in its ninth semester at Brown, having evolved from a similar program established at University of California at Berkeley in 1993. Each semester, a new group of student facilitators and coordinators leads the workshop classes and shapes the ever-evolving curriculum, which currently covers topics including identity and sexuality, body image; gender, women’s health and anatomy, reproductive choices, safer sex and STIs, masturbation and partner sex, sex toys, sexual models (including asexuality, kink, fantasy, abstinence and fetish) pornography and erotica relationship models (including monogamy, polyamory and multiple fidelity) and communication and consent. At the beginning of each semester, FemSex
runs information sessions at which anyone who is interested may learn more about the program and apply for a spot in one of our sections. This semester, we chose to advertise for our info sessions with 13 different images on table slips and posters to convey the wide variety of experiences that people both bring to and get out of FemSex and to address as many topics in our curriculum as possible. These included depictions of community, an image of two women kissing, an image of a serene woman in a yoga position, plain text, an image of three vulvas lined up in a row, an image of a woman in a wheelchair celebrating
“Sexual harassment may involve the behavior of a person of either sex against a person of the opposite or same sex, and occurs when such behavior constitutes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other unwelcome verbal or physical behavior of a sexual nature where: “a. Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual’s education or employment; b. Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for academic or employment decisions affecting the individual’s welfare; or
The mere fact that someone disapproves or finds certain material objectionable does not make that material pornographic, nor does the distribution of that material constitute sexual harassment. her body, a silhouette image of a clothespin and several more. The claim of sexual harassment and distribution of pornography was made with respect to the image that depicted vulvae on a table slip. Distribution of the table slip image was neither sexual harassment nor was the image pornographic. According to Brown’s sexual harassment code, sexual harassment is defined in the following terms:
c. Such conduct has the purpose or effect of substantially interfering with an individual’s welfare, academic or work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, offensive education or work environment.” FemSex’s advertising images do not meet the criteria for sexual harassment as anyone who did not want to view the table slips could simply have ignored them, moved them away, or turned them over “without consequence to
their welfare.” Pornography has been defined by Attorney General Edwin Meese’s Commission on Pornography in 1986 as material that is “predominantly sexually explicit and intended primarily for the purpose of sexual arousal.” As the vulval table slip image was intended to reflect the anatomical portion of FemSex’s curriculum and was in no way intended to incite sexual arousal, it does not fall under any definition of pornography. The mere fact that someone disapproves or finds certain material objectionable does not make that material pornographic, nor does the distribution of that material constitute sexual harassment. A claim was also made that the image of vulvae was silenced by the University administration. We would like to assure the Brown community that we did not remove the image from circulation after the complaint was brought forward. It would simply have been a matter of chance if at any point someone observed fewer of any one image than another amongst our table slips. We stopped advertising entirely once our information sessions were over because we had no further need to publicize our program and for no other reason. We believe that it is of utmost importance to create a space in which everyone feels heard and respected in FemSex classes, on our campus and in the larger community. We greatly appreciate all of the support that the Brown community has given to FemSex, and we are honored to be a part of this program and to have the opportunity to guide, challenge and learn from those who choose to engage with the FemSex curriculum.
Joanna Roberts ‘08 competes in intramural table-slipping.
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W. hockey loses to two ECAC powerhouses By Andrew Braca Sports Staff Writer
The women’s hockey team had little margin for error as it attempted to upset St. Lawrence University and Clarkson University, two of the top four teams in the Eastern College Athletic Conference, over the weekend at Meehan Auditorium. After surrendering seven power-play goals in two games, the Bears’ chance for victory disappeared. Brown was overwhelmed in a 6-2 defeat to No. 5 St. Lawrence on Friday before putting up a good fight in a 2-1 loss to Clarkson on Saturday. The setbacks dropped the team’s record to 1-10-1 overall (1-7-1 ECAC). “Our team is energetic, and we played really hard against two teams, but we’re definitely not satisfied with the outcome,” said co-captain Hayley Moore ’08. “Those teams may be ranked above us, but we know we can beat them.” Brown got off to a good start against St. Lawrence. The Bears opened the scoring 11:03 into the game on a power play when Rylee Olewinski ’08 took a pass from Sasha Van Muyen ’10 in the slot and slipped a shot past Saints’ goalie Maxie Weisz. Moore earned an assist on the play.
The score remained 1-0 until the teams scored a flurry of goals in the final three minutes of the first period. St. Lawrence got on the board with a power-play goal at 17:46, but Moore answered for the Bears 24 seconds later on a slap shot from the blue line. St. Lawrence added its second power play goal with 38 seconds left to tie the game 2-2 heading into the first intermission. Head Coach Digit Murphy questioned the numerous penalty calls that went against the Bears. “There were a lot of calls that were kind of phantom,” Murphy said. “It’s just frustrating because right as we get going, you get penalties. I think that’s part of the game, and our kids just need to be a little bit more disciplined.” The Saints took a lead they would not relinquish at 7:24 in the second period on another power play goal — Chelsea Grills’ second of the night. The Saints then tacked on their fourth goal at even strength with 1:42 remaining in the session. After two periods St. Lawrence held a 22-9 advantage in shots. The Bears turned the tables to outshoot the Saints 11-9 in the third but still could not draw closer. St. Lawrence’s Carson Duggan scored her third goal of the game at 15:20 and Alison Domenico added the cap-
per, St. Lawrence’s fifth power-play goal, 37 seconds later. Goaltender Nicole Stock ’09 finished with 25 saves, while her counterpart Weisz made 18. Brown and St. Lawrence each committed nine penalties, but it was the Saints who took advantage. While Brown matched the Saints 1-1 in goals at even strength, the visitors outscored Brown 5-1 on the power play. Murphy said St. Lawrence’s high talent level was the key. “When you take penalties, now you give the other team that has Olympians and national team players a double advantage,” she said. “Because now you’ve given them a man up and they’re better players. A team like ours, with a bunch of journeyman players and younger players, you want to stay even strength and you’ve got to stay out of the box.” Moore agreed that it is crucial for the team not to take penalties. “We just need to keep practicing our penalty kill so we can be more effective in games,” she said. “But hopefully we can learn to stay out of the box as well.” The Bears committed only five penalties against Clarkson, but the Golden Knights capitalized on their chances. After a scoreless first pecontinued on page 8
M. hoops comes back to beat UC Davis By Stu Woo Spor ts Editor
As the men’s basketball team’s double-digit lead dwindled to three late in the second half Saturday night, Head Coach Craig Robinson got nervous. Fears of a repeat of the Bears’ one-point loss to Wagner College on Wednesday flashed through his head. But fortunately for Robinson and his team, the Bears were able to pull away this time behind the strength of its veteran players. Mark McAndrew ’08 scored 18 points and Damon Huffman ’08 and Chris Skrelja ’09 added 15 points each as the Bears eventually rolled over the University of California at Davis, 73-57. “I’m really happy,” Robinson said. “We got a lead, they came back, and, unlike the Wagner game, we got back to another lead.” For the first time at the Pizzitola Center this season, the Bears looked like the dominant team. The Bears never trailed, starting the game on 6-0 and 13-3 runs and ending the first half with a 35-28 lead. They played quicker than Davis, beating defenders on drives and backdoor cuts. More importantly, the Bears did not beat themselves, as they did against Wagner when they missed important free throws down the stretch. On Saturday, the team went to the free-throw line 34 times — a product of its aggression on offense — and sunk 29 of the shots. “UC Davis was trying to pressure us and it opened up the lane,” said McAndrew, who made 10 of his 12 free throws. The win improves the Bears’ record to 3-3, while Davis, which is playing in its first year of Division I competition, falls to 4-3. The victory also avenges the Bears’ loss last season at Davis, when Brown fell 49-47 on a buzzer beater to the then-Division II school. But on Saturday, Davis point
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Damon Huffman ‘08 chipped in 15 points to help defeat UC Davis. guard Vince Oliver, the hero of last season’s game, couldn’t get himself or his teammates going. Ryan Silva scored a game-high 13 points, but on 4-of-15 shooting. The Aggies shot just 31.6 percent on the field for the night, and despite the presence of 7’2” center Michael Boone, were out-rebounded 40-24. Scott Friske ’09 led the way for the Bears with seven rebounds. Robinson was thrilled with the performance, though he was upset by the team’s 19 turnovers, which helped the Aggies take 17 more shots than the Bears. “(That) was awful because most of these were unforced errors,” Robinson said, “but we out-rebounded them, which is a big thing for us.” He also said he was glad that the team was able to improve its fullcourt press break.
McAndrew said the team was thrilled to win for two reasons. “One, we wanted to beat them because they beat us at the buzzer at their place,” he said. “Two, we wanted to win at home. We were 0-2 at home.” The Bears will try to carry their momentum to Quinnipiac University, in Connecticut, tonight. The game will be the Bears’ third in six days. Robinson isn’t particularly concerned about fatigue, especially since several young bench players, including Peter Sullivan ’11, Matt Mullery ’10, Adrian Williams ’11 and Chris Taylor ’11, have logged significant minutes. “The great thing is that we have eight or nine guys we can put in a game,” Robinson said. “We’ll have enough substitutions. I just hope we play well.”
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Christina Johnson ‘10 scored a career-high 20 points in a win over Howard.
W. hoops beats Howard, falls to St. Joe’s over weekend By Whitney Clark Spor ts Staf f Writer
With only 13 seconds left in their first game of the Brown Bear Basketball Classic on Saturday, Howard University had the ball, trailing the women’s basketball team by only two points. The Bisons ran down the clock and took a shot with two seconds left. But though it was on line, it clanged of f the rim and Sarah Delk ’11 pulled down a tough rebound and then sunk two free throws to give the Bears their first win of the season, 65-61. The Bears then finished off the tournament by playing St. Joseph’s University on Sunday, this time losing 65-54. Against Howard on Saturday, the Bears came out a little slow, turning over the ball several times in the first half. In one particularly bad stretch, they turned it over twice in a row to the Bisons’ full-court pressure. “We needed more control, more teamwork,” said Head Coach Jean Marie Burr, adding that the team needed to work on its backcourt decisions. The Bears figured this out quickly. Eleven minutes into the game, they took their first lead, 12-11. With two Bison turnovers in a row, immediately followed by a shot clock-beating three pointer by Shae Fitzpatrick ’10, Brown started playing more aggressively. But the Bears couldn’t hold on, and by the end of the half Howard had taken back the lead,
31-24. In the second half, the Bears regrouped and appeared livelier. “I think that the energy in the second half came after we came together at halftime,” Christina Johnson ’10 said. “We encourage each other at the half of ever y game.” Though Brown remained behind for a good portion of the second half, they kept working to slowly close the gap in the score. With excellent rebounding on the defensive end and teamwork between Brown’s three main guards — Annesley O’Neal ’08, Courtney Lee ’10 and Johnson — on offense, Brown finally took the lead. After an O’Neal free throw, the Bears led the game 48-47 with less than 10 minutes left. Delk said rebounding — the Bears’ bane in its first games this season — finally came through for the team. The importance of rebounds proved true as the time got low. Two impor tant boards by the Bears secured their win. The first came with less than a minute to play: With a two-point lead, O’Neal shot and rebounded her own ball as the shot clock ran out, giving the Bears 30 more seconds of possession. Then Delk rebounded the Bison’s last shot at victor y with only 1.2 seconds left. Delk, who was fouled on the rebound, sealed the deal with two free throws. continued on page 6
SCOREBOARD Friday, Nov. 30
Sunday, DEC. 2
Saturday, DEC. 1
W. Basketball: St. Joseph’s 65, Brown 54 M. Basketball: Brown 73, UC Davis 57 Wrestling: 35th at Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invite
W. Hockey: No. 5 St. Lawrence 6, Brown 2 M. Hockey: No. 12 Northeastern 4, Brown 3
W. Basketball: Brown 65, Howard 61 M. Basketball: Brown 73, UC Davis 57 W. Hockey: Clarkson 2, Brown 1 M. Hockey: No. 8 UNH 5, Brown 2
monday, DEC. 3 M. Basketball: at Quinnipiac, 7 p.m.