The Brown Daily Herald T hursday, A pril 17, 2008
Volume CXLIII, No. 53
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U. to shuttle students to parking lot two miles out New lot has 250 student spots for $600 each By Melissa Shube Staff Writer
Starting next semester, the University will provide parking at Providence Piers to replace the current on-campus student parking spots, which will no longer be available to students. The lot at Providence Piers is located between 170 and 180 Allens Avenue, and is two miles from Faunce House.
An off-campus lot How you’ll get there: • Between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., take safeRIDE Brown Med/ Downcity. • Between 6 p.m. and 3 a.m., take safeRIDE onCall. • Between 3 a.m. and 8 a.m., take a special onCall shuttle. It will be accessible by the safeRIDE Brown Med/Downcity shuttle during the day and by safeRIDE onCall in the evening, said Elizabeth Gentry, director of business and financial services. When safeRIDE isn’t running, between 3 a.m. and 8 a.m., a special on-call shuttle will take students to and from the parking lot. The lot is also on RIPTA bus route number three. The lot is well-lit and fenced, Gentry said, and an officer or security guard will be on site at all times. There are 250 parking spots designated for Brown students, with each spot costing $600 to rent for the year.
Gentry said that more than 250 students have cars, but many choose to park elsewhere. “Many more kids than that have cars here, but they find ways — renting garages or parking spaces in the neighborhood. They find alternative ways to have their vehicles close to campus,” she said. The inconvenience of waiting for a shuttle may lead additional students to search for private parking spaces. “I’m actually looking for off-campus parking,” said Chris Mitchell ’09. “It’s more expensive, but I’m willing to pay the extra to not have to deal with the shuttle.” Mitchell said he felt the remaining on-campus spots should go to students and not faculty, stating that it would be easier to shuttle faculty to and from Providence Piers. “The teachers are here during the day and we live here,” he said. “They are going to need the shuttle much less than we would,” Mitchell said. Gentry said solving the lack of space for parking is difficult, but the University is trying to provide options for students with alternative forms of transportation, such as RIPTA and the Zipcar rental service. “The whole transportation on College Hill is a challenging thing to manage,” Gentry said. “We’re looking at every option that we can to do things and to provide services, and also to push the demand for alternative modes of transportation.” Gentry said these should also help reduce the University’s carbon footprint. Mackenzie Staffier ’08 noted that some people need cars to drive to and from their jobs or go home. She called the off-campus parking unfortunate but said it was probably the best way to deal with the lack of space.
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The Latino performing arts group Mezcla performs an Afro-Brazilian dance for prospective students at the Third World Welcome.
Third World Welcome hosts about 130 students for another day on the hill By Sophia Li Senior Staff Writer
As hundreds of admitted students finished their visits to campus, some of their potential classmates remained for another day on College Hill. About 130 prospective students registered to spend an extra night at Brown for the Third World Welcome, a two-day program sponsored by the Office of Admission that follows A Day on College Hill. “TWW is designed to be a program that complements ADOCH,” said Angela Romans, associate director of admission and director of minority recruitment. “We also want to have a slightly smaller and more intimate program
(than ADOCH),” she added. Savannah Greene decided to stay on College Hill to take advantage of the size of TWW. “I wanted to talk to a lot of the other prefrosh in a smaller situation,” said the prospective firstyear from Pasadena, Calif., who will be visiting Stanford University next week. Attendance at TWW is slightly down from last year’s total of about 140 students, since this year did not include early admits. TWW gives prospective first years the chance to interact with other admitted students of color, said Marco Martinez ’08, one of the three minority recruitment interns with the Office of Admission who coordinated the program. TWW
also allows prospective students who self-identify as students of color to see what social and academic opportunities are available to them at Brown, he added. Martinez has been working since the end of winter break with the Bruin Club and his fellow interns, Natasha Go ’10 and Danielle Dunlap ’10, to organize the program. Last night’s events included dinner with faculty, admissions officers and students, a cultural show and an ice cream social. The cultural show, emceed by Martinez and Graham Browne ’08, featured performances from student groups, including Mezcla, Brown Lion Dance, Divine continued on page 6
Economic woes felt by job hunters
An activist and author: This provost has a past
By Alex Seitz-Wald Contributing Writer
The office of Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 offers a perfect view of student protests on the Main Green. But Kertzer doesn’t just watch from inside — he knows what it’s like
By Connie Zheng Contributing Writer
Binayak Mishra ’08 was discouraged about job hunting at first. Citigroup denied him a job, noting that they were hiring fewer employees. At a career fair, JP Morgan’s recruiters told him they weren’t looking to hire. “It seemed like it was harder this year to get a job,” Mishra said. “I feel like at first Brown didn’t come across as strong because we tended to not have specific, marketable skills. But we do well on personality, and it seems like everyone did OK in the end.” Don’t worry: Mishra will start a job soon with Credit Suisse. But his
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Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 relaxes in his office in University Hall.
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to raise his voice on behalf of the little guy and once spent the night in military barracks with the late American writer Norman Mailer after being arrested for protesting the Vietnam War at the Pentagon during the mid-1960s, when he was a student at Brown. Now, acting as the chief academic officer of the University — and second-in-command to President Ruth Simmons — Kertzer doesn’t occupy his time solely with adminis-
mccain and movies Lindsey Meyers ’09 believes voters go conservative at both the ballot box and the ticket box
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trative duties. He is also a professor of anthropology and Italian studies and a historian whose books have been translated into over a dozen languages. His latest book, “Amalia’s Tale,” published in March, reflects a theme common in his other work — David standing up to the institutional Goliath — as it retells the court battle of an illiterate Italian wetnurse who sued Bologna’s medical establishment for its negligence in the 1800s. From Providence to Bologna “Amalia’s Tale” follows a peasant woman, Amalia Bagnacavalli, as she and her ambitious attorney, Augusto Barbieri, sue a hospital-run institution whose unsafe practices of handling babies caused Bagnacavalli to contract syphilis. Kertzer’s book, continued on page 4
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