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Planned sex shop hopes to fill void left by Miko

POM and CIRCUMSTANCE

the store as a meeting place for student groups and the LGBTQ community.

Since Miko Exoticwear, WickenMayim-Daviau, who recently den Street’s trademark sex store, sold two sex shops in Provincclosed in July, students and College etown, Mass. — Toys of Eros, taiHill residents have been without a lored to gay men, and WildHearts, convenient replacement the one of the oldest nearby. But starting lesbian-owned and -opMETRO Nov. 1, Miko’s old locaerated erotic store in the tion at 268 Wickenden country — said she has St. will be home to a new erotic decades of experience in the instore, Mister Sister. dustry. When she found Miko had The store, which will include a closed down, she said, she immeresource center and a large meeting diately rented the space to open a space, will serve the needs of Col- new store. lege Hill students and “represent But Mayim-Daviau said she is every type of sexuality,” said De- not interested in copying Miko. “I vioune Mayim-Daviau, the store’s don’t want to be Miko,” she said. owner and sole employee.

“This is Mister Sister.” “(People) can expect to find eduMayim-Daviau chose the name cation, educated personnel, friendli- of the new store from her own life. ness and consistency in product,” When she came out as a lesbian at she said, adding that she hopes continued on page 4 to offer the space in the back of

By Amit Jain Contributing Writer

Min Wu / Herald The Sugar Bears pom team holds tryouts in the Crystal Room of Alumnae Hall with the goal of creating more school spirit.

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Thirty years later, alum gives kidney to Keeney hallmate longtime friend Martha Hansen ’82, whom she met on her first night at Brown back in 1978. They had lived Robin Graves ’82 had been on dialysis on the same hall in Keeney Quadfor three grueling years before her rangle their freshman year and had sister offered to donate her a kidney. kept in touch since college, despite The women were a good match and living at opposite ends of the counher sister had one test left before try — Graves in North Carolina and she would be approved as Hansen in Arizona. a donor. The surgery was “Let me see what I can FEATURE planned for last October. do,” Hansen said. On June That’s when her sister stopped 30, she gave up her kidney to untether returning the hospital’s calls. When Graves from her dialysis machine.

Graves finally reached her, she said The only problem was that Hanshe was working on a big presenta- sen’s blood type is A, Graves’ is O, tion at work and would think about and the two are incompatible. the donation later. After more delay, So instead of a direct donation she backed out. continued on page 4 Devastated, Graves called her

By Leslie Primack Staff Writer

Morocco ‘making strides’ in modernizing, ambassador says

By Sarah Husk Contributing Writer

Though outmoded images can dominate Western perceptions of North Africa, recent political and economic reforms aimed at modernization and democratization may be changing the way the world sees Morocco, the country’s ambassador told an audience at the Watson Institute for International Studies Monday.

Aziz Mekouar, the Moroccan ambassador to the United States since 2002, addressed a filled Joukowsky Forum on Monday afternoon, discussing the changing political and economic landscape of Morocco. The main focus of his continued on page 4

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Moroccan Ambassador Aziz Mekouar spoke at the Watson Institute.

NEIGHBORS MORE AT EASE Despite mess, complaints to the University about the Watermyn co-op have fallen

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First-years adapting to work expectation

By Lauren Fedor Contributing Writer

Because of an overhaul of the financial aid program last February, many first-years no longer enjoy the benefits of a “no-work” policy that formerly covered first-year aid recipients. Without a University Work Scholarship, , freshmen are logging hours to cover what James Tilton, director of financial aid, called their indirect expenses.

Tilton said wages earned from work-study are intended to cover nontuition expenses — “the costs students have while they are here,” including books and school supplies — rather than to be applied toward tuition. The academic year work-study expectation this year from students is $2,450, up $50 from last year.

But many first-years say it’s difficult to balance employment with other on-campus activities.

Fei Cai ’12, who works at least nine hours each week at the Orwig Music Library, said the job takes up much of her free time.

“Sometimes I feel like I’m missing out on exploring new things.

I know I can’t do as many clubs because I’m working,” she said.

Cai, a PLME student, added that she occasionally misses PLME events because of her work expectations.

Lauren Urban ’12, another firstyear participating in work-study, said she occasionally feels frustrated by her job requirements, especially as a new student.

“I’m still trying to adjust to everything, and sometimes it feels like working is just another burden on students’ lives,” she said.

Tilton acknowledged the students’ concern, saying there was “some discussion” about how the University Work Scholarship aided

U. PAYS THE BILL Fifty-five students applied for the International Scholars Program, which funds research abroad.

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As a part of the new first-year work study expectation, freshmen on financial aid workers are expected to work during the academic year. first-years’ transitions. But in the end, after speaking with many students, the Financial Aid office decided to eliminate the scholarship as part of a broader financial aid reform, he said.

“We wanted to create the largest impact for the largest number of students, and in the end, I think we did that,” he said.

The reformed financial aid policy aimed to reduce student loans. Under the plan, students

ONCE IS ENOUGH Adrienne Langlois ’10 laments the repetitive nature of politicians’ stump speeches

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from families with an annual income of less than $60,000 and total assets of less than $100,000 are not expected to contribute to the cost of their undergraduate education.

This year, 34 percent of students receiving financial aid are paying nothing, as opposed to 12 percent last year, according to Tilton.

Overall, the burden of loans is lower for many students, not just continued on page 4

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Co-ops face challenges new and old

City Republicans start group to address local issues

By George Miller Senior Staf f Writer

By Colin Chazen Senior Staf f Writer

Sitting next to an overflowing recycling bin and a wobbly wooden table on the porch of the Watermyn Co-op, Brendan Reddy-Best let out a laugh when asked what the neighbors think of the place.

“Look at it,” he said, gesturing towards a tree stump covered in broken beer bottles that he’d been using as pellet gun targets earlier in the week. “People don’t like us.”

Several local residents interviewed by The Herald complained about the co-op, located at the corner of Waterman and Governor streets, citing loud noise and broken glass on the sidewalks in front of the house as their main grievances.

“They’re super loud and there are always beer cans on the lawn,” said one neighbor who asked not to be named out of concern he would strain relations with his neighbor. “Whenever I see people walking past they seem to look at it and scowl.”

Complaints about noise and the condition of the Watermyn property are nothing new, said Richard Bova, senior associate dean of residential life. But the University has actually received far fewer complaints over the last two years compared to five years ago.

Steady complaints from neighbors prompted the co-op to create a position within the house

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Finlandia co-op, located at the corner of Brook and Waterman streets, still has many students, but Watermyn, located farther east, is mostly local professionals.

last year to speak with neighbors and respond to their complaints, Reddy-Best said. A similar position is not necessary at Finlandia, Watermyn’s sister co-op on the corner of Waterman and Brook streets, whose only neighbor is Subway and tends to be more lowkey, residents there said.

“The complaints I heard were mostly about appearance and about how Watermyn is bringing down the property values of the businesses located around us,” Rachel Aland ’08, who ser ved as Watermyn’s neighborhood liasion last year, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “There were some noise complaints throughout the year,

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but I didn’t hear too much about noise, it was mostly just appearance stuff.”

Reddy-Best said that residents get along well with their neighbors when they speak face-to-face.

One house across the street used to consistently complain about the co-op but stopped after the residents, who often hang out on their porch, saw someone attempting to break into their neighbor’s house and called the police for them.

Bova said that Brown would be more concerned if the University was consistently receiving protests from various neighbors continued on page 6

An advocacy group calling for responsible spending and open, responsive city government met last Thursday at the East Side’s Rochambeau Library to discuss its concerns about neighborhood safety and the transparency of City Council meetings.

Concerned Providence Residents, started in March by a group including six former Republican candidates for city office, attracted about a dozen people to Thursday evening’s meeting.

The group is “very much in a formation mode,” President Dan Harrop ’76 MD’79, who ran against Providence Mayor David Cicilline ‘83 in 2006, told attendees. Though the group’s board is made up mostly of Republicans and several other Republican candidates attended Thursday’s meeting, the group is nonpartisan, Harrop said.

Harrop said “taxpayer concerns” and the lack of a city-wide advocacy organization — with a wider scope than existing neighborhood associations — led him and others to start the group and hold its first public meeting in May. Thursday’s meeting was only the group’s third. The group plans to collect membership dues from those wanting voting power in its decisions.

At the meeting, residents discussed an initiative to videotape City Council meetings themselves — the city already broadcasts them on public access TV — in order to broadcast them via the Internet and allow citizens an insight into the local government’s workings. That

project will be begin early next year, Harrop told The Herald. He said the Web site and equipment have been purchased, but the logistics of getting a group to attend the meetings are not yet worked out.

Several attendees complained about unresponsive city government and local crime.

“We have hookers by the dozens,” said Ray Burns, a former Republican candidate for city council from Ward 11, which includes part of downtown Providence and the Jewelry District. He said a lack of loitering laws gives the police no teeth to combat prostitution and claimed that police stay out of disputes in order not to “ruffle minority feathers.”

“People don’t feel connected to their government,” said Jonathan Scott, who is running against Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., in the upcoming general election.

No decisions about specific priorities or courses of action were made at the meeting, which lasted more than an hour. Elaina Goldstein, a board member, called the meeting a “focus group” to bring together different community concerns.

The group plans to continue meeting in different libraries around the city to attract a broad membership. Most of the group’s 10-member board lives on the East Side, Harrop said, but he added that the group is reserving extra seats on the board until a core group of attendees develops. The group is with the Rhode Island Statewide Coalition, a group with similar tax-based concerns.

The next meeting will take place Wednesday at Knight Memorial Library on Elmwood Avenue.

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Mekouar: Women’s rights, trade on Moroccan agenda continued from page 1 lecture was contemporary issues facing the countr y, namely the push toward democratization, education reform, economic changes and increasing the focus on human rights.

Morocco, from its inception as a political state in the eighth centur y, “grew up in a different way than the other countries” in North Africa, Mekouar said. Of particular importance, he said, were Morocco’s religious plurality and the fact that Morocco, unlike its neighbors, was never part of the Ottoman Empire.

Today, a reform-oriented Morocco is making strides, he said. Elections in 2002 and 2007 that Mekouar called “clear” and “transparent” are one sign that Morocco is moving increasingly toward progressive politics, he said. Morocco adopted a constitutional monarchy in 1972, but its progress toward democracy has been somewhat erratic since then.

Mekouar said that the current king, Mohammed VI, whom he called “ver y popular” among Moroccans, had also been ver y involved in initiatives to expand women’s rights within the domestic sphere and to ensure the protection of human rights.

The issue of women’s rights, Mekouar said, was particularly notable because it “shows that there is no contradiction between Islam and the equality of women in the family and in the society.”

“We changed (earlier Moroccan family law) because, I think, we wanted it,” he said. “When society is ready, you have to push.”

But Mekouar also noted inefficiencies in the country’s political process. He said that Morocco has almost achieved democratization, but said that the most recent election’s 37-percent voter turnout was troublesome, and indicated that Moroccans may not believe in the political process.

“The challenge is ... to con-

vince people that they have a stake in this political game, in this democracy,” he said.

Education is a big issue for many Moroccans, he said. The current educational system is antiquated, in that it doesn’t “match the needs of the business community,” he added.

He said that there was a lot of work to do on education reform so that Morocco can face the challenges of the world economy.

But, he said, “the good thing is that we know what we need to do and we know the challenges.”

“There is a will and there is a vision,” he continued. Change, he said, is still very possible, adding, “I think it is happening.”

On the economic front, Mekouar said that becoming “completely integrated into international trade” was an imperative step for Morocco. An action like opening borders or lowering tariffs, he said, would ser ve as “a signal from Morocco to the rest of the world and from Morocco to Moroccans themselves” that the country is ready to modernize and enter the global economy.

“The time of borders is over,” he said.

He said that, economically, Morocco is making gains. The countr y had a balanced budget last year and has high currency reserves and a growing GDP per capita, he said.

Still, he said, “not ever ything is rosy. If you travel around Morocco, you will see poverty, you will see big differences between the rich and the poor.”

Ultimately, these reforms simply take time, Mekouar said. It is unwise to “change ever ything overnight,” he said, calling the process instead “an evolution.”

Assistant Professor of Political Science Melani Cammett ’91 introduced Mekouar, and opened with a brief primer on MoroccanU.S. relations. She said that the two countries have a “ver y long history of good relations,” noting that Morocco was the first country to recognize the United States as an independent nation.

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Would you do this for your roommate? continued from page 1 from Hansen to Graves, the pair participated in a three-way indirect exchange arranged through the Alliance for Paired Donation — a kidney love triangle of sorts.

Hansen traveled to Denver to donate a kidney to a woman with her blood type. That woman’s husband flew to Alabama to give his kidney to a second woman, whose husband in turn traveled to North Carolina to donate his kidney to Graves. To prevent any donor from backing out once his or her loved one received a kidney, all three operations occurred at exactly the same time.

It was the first three-way kidney swap to occur simultaneously in three different time zones across the United States.

After kidney failure in 2004 due to a rare condition in which proteins build up in the kidneys, Graves went to dialysis three times a week for a grueling four years. “It’s hard to describe the level of fatigue that you feel,” she said.

For the first year she held a job, often working from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m. with a midday break for treatment.

“I would ... just drive myself home and crawl into bed and sleep until morning,” she said, leaving her 6- and 8-year-old sons to virtually “fend for themselves.”

After a year, she went on disability leave while continuing dialysis. “It’s

like being in jail,” she said. In between sessions, fluid would accumulate in her body and skipping treatment would soon become fatal.

Hansen and Graves submitted their data to the Alliance for Paired Donation in January and waded through tests and paperwork until the date for the surgery was set for June 30. “You expect the doors to just open ahead of you and the red carpet to be rolled out” when you donate a kidney, Hansen said. “Well, it really doesn’t feel like it works that way, because (the medical coordinators) are busy trying to protect the health of everybody involved.”

Hansen’s eagerness to get her friend the transplant overshadowed any nervousness about the procedure. “The only surgery I had ever had was getting my tonsils out when I was five,” she laughed, “so I really didn’t know what to expect.”

Hansen recalled feeling homesick when she first arrived at Brown, but Graves made her feel comfortable. “I just sort of glommed onto her,” she said. “And she didn’t reject me. She let me kind of tag along after her.”

They remained friends throughout college, and over 20 years later found themselves on the phone discussing the upcoming procedure.

After months of waiting, it was the day before both would undergo surgery, one in Colorado and the other in North Carolina. “We were kind of at this point, you know, ‘I’ll really

believe it when I’m lying there being wheeled into the operating room,’” Hansen said. “The night before the surgery, we both had really high hopes ... but there’s always a lot of uncertainty.”

Contrary to popular belief, Graves says, a kidney transplant is not a complete cure. She takes about 35 pills a day to keep her body from rejecting the foreign organ and must take these for the rest of her life. However, she is thrilled to be off dialysis and grateful to Hansen, though she and her sister no longer speak.

Hansen recovered quickly and was feeling “quite good” within a week after the surgery. This weekend she traveled to Toledo, Ohio for a reunion of donors and recipients in the Alliance for Paired Donation.

The experience of donating a kidney expanded her compassion and awareness of the need for organ donation, she said. Both women pointed to the unnecessary deaths due to a lack of available transplant kidneys, which number over 10 people per day, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing.

Both friends affirmed that they have grown closer in the past months.

Although they have not seen each other in person since the surgery, Graves said she hopes to visit Hansen soon.

“Forget my biological sister,” she said. “Martha’s my sister, because she stepped up to the plate.”

Student groups welcome new sex shop continued from page 1 age 14 her younger siblings were unsure what to call her and referred to her as “mister sister,” she said.

“It encompasses human sexuality,” she said.

Mayim-Daviau declined to reveal the names of vendors from whom she purchased merchandise but said she preferred gay and lesbian distributors. Though the store will start on a tight budget, she said she hopes to hire more employees in the future.

Former Miko employee Megan Andelloux, who will be running the new store’s resource center, said she had hoped to start the city’s first nonprofit sex store on Wickenden Street but found that Mayim-Daviau had already leased the space. Instead of competing, the two decided to work together.

“I don’t believe Providence, especially in this economy, can sustain two separately run sexuality shops,” Andelloux said. “I sat down with her and I was like, OK, how can we work

together?”

Mayim-Daviau echoed similar sentiments.

“I’m really glad that she’s going to stay on board,” Mayim-Daviau said, praising Andelloux’s passion and “fire.”

According to Andelloux, the new resource center will differ from its predecessor. She said she had heard that classes and workshops at Miko were too expensive for most students.

Mister Sister’s classes will be $10 cheaper — $20 for college students, $15 in advance and an extra $5 for nonstudents.

Though the resource center will not be open for at least a month after the store opens on Nov. 1, Andelloux said she plans to “get more community involvement, reach out to other college campuses ... (and) get student groups to use the space.”

She said she hoped that FemSex will get involved, adding that “students should reach out to (MayimDaviau) and collaborate with her.”

Though Andelloux will not start

as a paid employee, she said she might join part-time if the store is successful.

FemSex leaders said they were optimistic about the possibility of working with Mayim-Daviau and Andelloux.

Amy Littlefield ’09, a FemSex facilitator, said the prospect of a new sex shop on Wickenden was “really exciting.”

“Provided that they’re also a feminist-run sex store that has some of the same values that Miko did, I think it’s fantastic,” she said, adding that she would plan on taking her classes there on field trips.

FemSex Coordinator Leah Frankel-Bonacci ’09 said though the store was “a good idea,” FemSex would work with Mister Sister depending upon the “quality of product they carry and staff that they have.”

Andelloux said a meeting in Faunce House at noon this Friday will allow people to give suggestions about the future of Mister Sister’s resource center.

First-years dealing with work continued from page 1 those whose families earn less than $60,000 annually. Sixty-one percent of students receiving financial aid have packages with no loans, compared to last year’s figure of just 6 percent. Instead of loans, the cost of students’ education is being subsidized by University scholarships and work-study options, said Tilton.

Tilton said the Office of Financial Aid spoke with numerous students before forming the new initiatives.

He reported that loans were “creeping up” and that most students told him that they preferred “no loans” to “no work.”

Tilton went on to explain that new program ultimately affords first-years more flexibility in fund-

ing their educations.

“Our new initiative allows students to decide what’s best for them,” he said.

Though many students’ financial aid packages will include workstudy in lieu of loans, Tilton said they are still free to choose to borrow money instead of earning it on-campus.

“They can work less hours and borrow the difference, if that’s what they would prefer to do,” he said.

Even so, a small fraction of the class of 2012 will still receive University Work Scholarships, Tilton said. Students receiving the Sidney E. Frank Endowed Scholarship — those who demonstrate the most financial need — will be awarded the $2,450 during their first year at Brown.

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Sugar Bears hope to sweeten athletics With the fall sports season in full swing, a group of students wants to ensure crowds at games get an extra dose of Bruno spirit.

A group of girls led by Deborah Saint-Vil ’10 began holding tryouts Monday for the start of Brown’s first pom team: the Sugar Bears. Under the motto “Gimme some Sugar, Bears!” Saint-Vil, a former cheerleader, wants to bring more enthusiasm and school spirit to the student body.

The pom style of dance, Min Wu / Herald which employs “shiny pomTryouts were held on Monday for Brown’s poms” for “80 percent” of its first pom team, the Sugar Bears. routines, is a fusion of cheerleading and jazz, Saint-Vil said.

Saint-Vil asked Lee Ann Olvedo ’09.5, public relations coordinator for athletics and recreational sports, to oversee the group. Olvedo has been in the cheerleading world since she was five, and last year she coached two teams in “American Cheer Power,” a national competition.

“I love to do it,” Olvedo said. “I think we need more spirit organizations that show support for the people in the athletic programs and that also encourage artistic growth.”

The Sugar Bears’ primary goal is to cheer for Brown’s sports teams at their games and championships. “Anyone who is willing to wake up at 5:30 in the morning to go to practice and also manages to balance this with a good academic record deserves to be supported,” Olvedo said.

Saint-Vil said she also wants the group to give back to the Providence community. “So far, the group wants to focus on working with girls from the Highlander Charter School, but we also want to look into working with the YMCA,” she said.

Saint-Vil added that she hopes to teach girls from the community, particularly the Highlander School, about “respect and teamwork.”

She said that she expects the group to have a community service chair who will handle all the details and logistics of the outreach program.

Currently, the group is going though its tryout process, with a clinic tomorrow from 10:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. and final tryouts on Sunday from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center’s dance studio.

“All girls are welcomed!” Saint-Vil said. “We want girls who have potential, enthusiasm and dedication. We really want to make a great first impression in Brown.”

— Luisa Robledo

Fifty-five apply for U.-funded int’l research

By Sydney Ember Contributing Writer

While the rest of the country may be looking for ways to save on its summer plans, some students will be able to travel abroad next summer on Brown’s dime. Fifty-five sophomores and juniors have applied to Brown’s new International Scholars Program, which will provide 10 winning applicants with $5,000 to study internationally during the summer of 2009.

The program, which asks students to integrate classes taken this year with their nonacademic study abroad proposal, also includes faculty mentoring and dinner seminars. Selected students will have the option of applying for an additional $1000 during the academic year after their scholarship to pursue a culminating capstone project connected to the their time abroad.

Matt Grimes ’10, who applied for the program, said he hopes to spend the summer in Bolivia studying ecotourism in indigenous communities.

“I don’t know of an opportunity like it,” said Grimes, who submitted a joint application for the program with another student, Hannah Perez-Postman ’10.

He added that he was initially attracted to the scholarship aspect and the program’s emphasis on designing a unique program of study during the summer away

from Brown.

He said the scholarship would facilitate his goal of conducting anthropological field research while also providing necessar y experience for his intended concentration in international relations.

Grimes said his project would involve travelling to communities that are centers for ecotourism and talking with both indigenous people and groups tr ying to promote ecotourism, with the goal of providing a humanitarian outlook on an international scale.

“It’s employing the techniques learned in a bunch of classes,” he added. “It grounds my Brown education.”

Though Brown already has a wealth of study abroad programs, Director of International Affairs Vasuki Nesiah said that the International Scholars Program will allow students to pursue a range of individual or joint summer projects like internships or service-oriented activities while encouraging students to deepen their academic studies.

The program is “aimed basically as a way of integrating people’s academic trajectories with time abroad,” Nesiah said. She said that this integration would allow students who otherwise may not be able to incorporate an international experience into their Brown education, such as science concentrators, to study abroad.

The program, which was conceived last spring through discussions and student feedback about study abroad options, also tries to create a community for the students who win the scholarship, Nesiah said.

Nesiah said she was impressed with the overall student response, adding that the number of applicants indicated that there was an obvious need for this type of program at Brown.

Though the actual selection criteria used by the five-member committee have not been finalized because the program is in its initial stages, Nesiah said she was excited to read the applications, which included essays, recommendations and a detailed plan for the international experience.

The committee hopes to release its selections before Thanksgiving.

The program was created as part of Brown’s overall plan to become more integrated internationally, said Zina Miller ’02, visiting fellow in international studies and overseer of the program.

Miller said the program would provide an ongoing relationship between academics and the international experience by facilitating conversation and the exchange of knowledge.

“Our education,” she said, “should not be bounded by national borders.”

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Waterman’s co-ops still stand out amid properties continued from page 3 or if the Providence Police was citing the house for noise violations, just as it would for other off-campus houses.

The difference between the Watermyn and Finlandia co-ops and most off-campus residences is that they are student owned and operated — there are no University officials or landlords in charge.

The co-ops are owned by the Brown Association for Cooperative Housing, a non-profit corporation created as part of a Group Independent Study Project in 1970. BACH purchased the Watermyn Co-op in 1971 with a University-backed mortgage, according to a histor y on BACH’s Web site.

Watermyn looks ever y bit of its 35-plus years as a student coop. A former Br yant College fraternity house, it stands out amid the manicured lawns and dental offices that line Waterman Street.

Its lawn is overgrown and covered in dirt, its paint is fading and various found objects and party remnants line the property. The eight bikes locked to railings, trees and other non-removable objects indicate the presence of full-time residents.

“We have a good relationship with the University,” Reddy-Best said. “They put us on the list of acceptable domestic residences.”

BACH also used to lease two houses from the University at 71 and 79 Charlesfield St., which housed around 20 students each.

But relations between BACH and the University deteriorated in the early-1990s after Brown attempted to renegotiate the leases for a higher price, forcing the cooperatives to abandon the houses, according to BACH’s Web site.

In 1994, BACH purchased the Finladia property at 116 Waterman St. Both houses now operate more or less independently from the University, although the Office of Residential Life grants special housing exemptions to

students wanting to live in the co-ops, allowing for sophomores and those without off-campus permission to live there.

“Students want that option and we tr y ver y hard to give them access to the option that makes them most safe and comfortable,” Bova said.

Although only 12 to 14 slots are currently allocated to the co-ops together, un-met demand had not been a problem recently, added Bova. “There is not a desire to release 30 people to the co-ops.”

Fifteen people currently live in Watermyn: Two of the residents are Brown students and the rest are young professionals or students at other area colleges. The co-ops began allowing non-Brown students to join a few years ago and “pretty quickly Watermyn became almost all non-Brown students,” Johanna Jetton ’10, a resident of Finlandia, said.

“I moved in because I had a bunch of friends living here,” said Reddy-Best, a Haverford grad who teaches at School One, a local independent high school from which he graduated in 2001. “It’s a lot of people intent on living together well.”

The presence of nonBrunonians was part of the appeal of Watermyn to Max Kennedy ’11.

“I wanted to be in a community of people that weren’t all Brown students,” Kennedy said. “It’s nice to go to school and then go home.

To be in my own space.”

Although both co-ops organize nightly meals and have house positions, they have different atmospheres. Finlandia is almost entirely Brown students, and is more “studious,” Reddy-Bess said. Jetton described the difference, saying “The co-ops kind of get more crazy the further away you get from campus.”

People that move into Watermyn generally know what they’re getting into in terms of noise and partying, Reddy-Best said.

“We ver y rarely get a surprised or unhappy person,” he added.

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Young people fast and pray to pass Proposition 8, which would ban gay marriage in the state of California.

Prayer in the service of political agendas

By Jessica Garrison Los Angeles Times

LA MESA, Calif. -- For more than two weeks, Missy Huff has spent her days in a darkened church classroom, praying all day and into the night and subsisting on a pastel-colored regimen of VitaminWater and Jamba Juice smoothies.

But she does not yearn for food.

She is too committed, she says, to the cause of traditional marriage.

“God, we are asking for an awakening,” she prayed one recent morning, standing before a group of young people who had come together to ask for divine intervention in California’s upcoming election.

Next to her, another woman, whose blunt black hair and fashionable clothing would not have been out of place at a hip nightclub, added her own prayer: “I am asking for rains of revival to open up over California.”

Huff and about three dozen others in their 20s and early 30s have spent every waking minute since Sept. 24 at a San Diego County megachurch praying for the passage of Proposition 8, which would amend the California Constitution to define marriage as only between a man and a woman.

They are the fervent, ecstatic center of a statewide prayer vigil and fast that religious leaders say includes thousands of people asking for God’s help in passing the measure.

But what distinguishes Huff and many of the young people she prays with at Skyline Church here is that after the election, they will not return to normal life.

Praying and fasting are their

job.

They have forsaken traditional lives to live in communal homes — supported by donations — and pray.

All day, every day.

This year, the focus of their prayers is ending gay marriage.

“We believe we pray and God answers,” Huff said. And her prayer is simple: “To heal California and establish righteousness.”

The prayer and fasting have discomfited some religious leaders who oppose Proposition 8.

“I am a person of prayer,” said the Rev. Susan Russell, a lesbian and an Episcopal priest at All Saints Church in Pasadena. But she said she does not believe prayer is “a weapon to be used to influence the political process.” That, she said, “takes us down a slippery slope from democracy to theocracy.”

The communal home Huff shares with 10 others is on Haight Street in San Francisco, next door to Amoeba Records and a few steps from Golden Gate Park. The Justice House of Prayer San Francisco was established in 2005 by followers of the Rev. Lou Engle.

Huff has been there almost from the beginning.

She grew up in a small town in northeastern Alabama and left high school at 15. She had a restless intellect, she says, and was ready for more advanced work.

Her plan was to attend junior college and then transfer to a four-year institution.

But at 17, she happened to hear Engle speak at a local church.

Engle was starting “houses of prayer” in select cities. The plan, according to his Web site, was to “call young adults into a lifestyle of radical prayer, fasting and holiness.”

Soon after he established the first house in Washington, D.C. — near the Supreme Court, so young people could pray for the justices to end abortion — Engle visited Alabama, and Huff went to hear him speak.

“What he said, it gripped my heart,” Huff said, “and I just knew this is what I wanted to do.”

The next day — almost as if it were part of God’s plan, she said — a family friend gave her a gift of $200 out of the blue. Then she heard about an acquaintance who was driving that day to D.C. Without hesitating, Huff asked if she could have a spot in the van.

Her parents, she said, “really freaked out.”

Huff said she told them she felt called “to see abortion ended in America.”

She said her father, a computer programmer, told her he did not agree, that he was pro-choice. Her mother, a middle school teacher, asked what had happened to her plans for college.

But in the end, her mother, who is also a Christian, became convinced that she should not stand in her daughter’s way. Her father agreed as well.

Huf f stayed in D.C. for six months, then moved to the house in San Francisco. Her housemates include several of the people she is praying with in San Diego, including Gabrielle Joyner, 28, and her husband, Roger, 31, whose many tattoos include “Pray” and “Fast” on his fingers.

Most days begin about 10 a.m. with a worship service and meeting. House members discuss their dreams and what they feel called to pray about that day.

At noon they break for lunch, then spend the afternoon on administrative and household tasks, such as cooking, returning phone calls and walking their chocolate Labrador retriever, Enoch, in Golden Gate Park.

At 6 p.m. they have a communal dinner, then spend the evening in prayer together.

Sometimes they leave the city, as they have done now for Proposition 8 and as they did this summer when they spent a month praying in front of every abortion clinic they could identify across California.

On Friday nights they often head to San Francisco’s Castro district, the center of the city’s gay community, to play guitars and sing and share their views about the love of Jesus.

Some passersby assume they’re performing satiric street theater. Others argue with them vociferously.

After the state Supreme Court ruled in May to allow same-sex marriage, evangelical leaders in California, working with their counterparts in the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, began organizing to pass Proposition 8.

They launched a fundraising organization, which has raked in so many contributions that the most recent campaign finance filing crashed the secretary of state’s computer.

But they also wanted a spiritual component to their campaign. Central to that is the 40-day fast, leading into what organizers hope will be huge rally Nov. 1 at San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium. There, Engle will lead 12 hours of prayer for the passage of Proposition 8.

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Fed chair endorses idea of new stimulus package

By Neil Irwin, Lori Montgomery and Dan Eggen Washington Post

WASHINGTON — An effort to boost the economy with a massive injection of public funds gained momentum Monday, as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke tentatively endorsed the idea of a new stimulus package and the Bush administration softened its opposition.

The remarks by the nation’s economist in chief were a boon for congressional Democrats, who have argued for weeks that the government should authorize billions of dollars in additional spending.

But Bernanke, who generally resists inserting himself into political debates, made clear that any new package must be narrowly focused to quickly provide a shot of relief to the economy.

Even though the government has taken dramatic steps to prop up financial firms in recent weeks, the underlying shape of that economy is looking worse, according to a slew of new data.

The economy is likely to be weak “for several quarters,” Bernanke told the House Budget Committee, and there is “some risk of a protracted slowdown.” For that reason, he said, “consideration of a fiscal package by the Congress at this juncture seems appropriate.”

The stock market soared in response to Bernanke’s remarks, as well as to signs of healing in the troubled credit markets. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 413 points, or 4.7 percent.

Congressional Democrats, led

by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, DCalif., are looking to craft a stimulus package of up to $300 billion, and could attempt to push it through Congress soon after the Nov. 4 election. The package would likely include a fresh injection of cash for road-building projects that have been postponed but that advocates say could create jobs. Democrats also are pushing to expand unemployment benefits, aid cash-strapped state governments and increase spending on food stamps — provisions that supporters say would provide a big bang for the buck because the money would flow directly into the economy.

The White House and Republicans in Congress have been cool to the idea of a stimulus plan, dismissing it as pork-barrel spending that would worsen an already bloated budget deficit while bringing little relief to the broader economy. President Bush signed an earlier stimulus bill in February but has opposed a second round of spending.

Unless the White House agrees to negotiations to assemble a package that could win GOP votes and the president’s signature, aides said Pelosi is unlikely to move forward until the next administration takes office in January.

The Bush administration’s position has softened as the global financial crisis has worsened, however, and officials Monday signaled a willingness to consider stimulus proposals.

White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, said the administration’s stance would depend on the details of any package. Perino declined to say whether

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Bush agreed with Bernanke on the need for a second stimulus package, saying he would consult with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and other senior aides before reaching a conclusion.

Over the next two weeks before the election, House Democrats plan to hold hearings to lay out the case for more stimulus spending.

So far, they have focused on measures that were dropped from the first stimulus package. There are signs that Republicans would support another temporary extension of unemployment benefits for workers whose benefits have run out and additional spending on food stamps.

The battle is likely to come over the proposals for spending on infrastructure and aid to the states.

Many Republicans argue that money for such projects would be spent too slowly to spur short-term economic growth, a concern shared by some liberal economists. Republicans also argue that aid to the states would reward irresponsible spending by some legislatures. In January, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office concluded that neither strategy is a very effective way to stimulate the economy.

Thousands of road and other projects have been postponed because of the skyrocketing cost of construction materials and, more recently, the rising cost of borrowing money. Steve Sandherr, head of the Associated General Contractors of America, said his group and others have identified more than 3,000 road and other projects that could put people to work immediately with an injection of nearly $30 billion.

“All the regulatory compliances have taken place,” Sandherr said.

“They’re just sitting on a shelf waiting for the state to put them out to bid.”

Similarly, because state governments are required to balance their budgets each year, budget shortfalls in state capitals prompt tax increases or spending cuts, both of which can dampen economic activity. With 36 states under fiscal stress, the federal government could preserve jobs by sending as much as $50 billion to the states, said Iris J. Lav, deputy director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Although House Democrats are contemplating another general tax rebate, similar to the one approved in February, the idea has not generated much enthusiasm. “People need jobs more than they need checks,” said Jared Bernstein, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute who is advising House Democrats.

Bernanke’s tentative endorsement could put further pressure on the White House to come around, as it did last winter. When appointed Fed chairman, Bernanke indicated he did not want to meddle in decisions over taxes and spending, which he views as the prerogatives of elected officials. But several times now he has thrown his support behind legislative efforts to pump federal dollars into the troubled U.S. economy, including the government stimulus package passed in February and the $700 billion financial system rescue that became law earlier this month.

The reason for his turnabout: The normal tools that the Fed uses continued on page 9

On the trail, McCain lashes out at Bush

By Michael Abramowitz and Michael D. Shear Washington Post

BELTON, Mo. — Battling George W. Bush for the GOP presidential nomination in 2000, John McCain lashed out at the Texas governor, criticizing his proposed tax cuts as a giveaway to the rich.

Eight years later, this time running as the Republican presidential nominee, the senator from Arizona is again pummeling Bush and his financial policies, as he renews his efforts to demonstrate that he would represent a departure from the current administration.

At virtually ever y campaign stop, McCain is reprising a line he used last Wednesday in his final debate with Sen. Barack Obama: “I am not George Bush.” And in a new television ad introduced last week, McCain looks into the camera and says, “The last eight years haven’t worked ver y well, have they?”

As he struggles to pull his campaign out from beneath the shadow of a president whose approval ratings have reached historical lows, McCain is offering some of his toughest criticism of the Bush White House. In recent weeks, he has focused his message on the administration’s handling of the nation’s financial crisis, suggesting that the Treasury Department has been more interested in “bailing out the banks” than helping struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure.

“I am so disturbed that this administration has not done what we have to do,and that is to go out and buy up these bad mortgages,” McCain told Jewish leaders in a

conference call Sunday morning.

Attacks on the White House have also become some of his biggest applause lines on the stump.

The new rhetoric represents a tacit acknowledgment that McCain has not distanced himself sufficiently from the administration in his bid. One senior adviser said the campaign had to do something to counteract the Obama operation’s decision to spend “tens of millions of dollars pushing” the idea that McCain is a virtual clone of Bush.

“The majority of the swing voters don’t believe it, but some do and we have to convince them that we are different from Bush,” said this adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss campaign strategy.

Bush is hardly the only problem for McCain as he struggles to close a gap with Obama. Voters perceive Obama as better prepared to handle the economic crisis, the GOP brand has been severely tarnished in recent years and McCain is at a huge financial disadvantage.

But with the Republican president’s approval ratings at historic lows, the perceived connection with him is a significant drag on the senator from Arizona. Nearly half of all voters in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll said McCain would mainly carr y on Bush’s policies, and among those who would consider a McCain presidency as a continuation of the current administration, 90 percent support Obama. And the prized independent voters who link McCain and Bush also overwhelmingly tilt toward the Democrat.

But McCain has made progress in distancing himself from the

president. Among independents, 54 percent now see the senator as offering a new direction, up from 44 percent before the third presidential debate, where he introduced his new language on Bush.

Among all likely voters, the percentage associating McCain with Bush is less than 50 percent for the first time, albeit barely, at 49 percent. Forty-eight percent said McCain would mainly continue to lead in Bush’s footsteps.

A senior Republican close to the campaign said internal GOP polling underscores those findings.

“It’s night and day,” the source said. “You have somebody whose public approval is in the 20s.

There’s just not a `there’ there anymore in terms of residual support.”

After the two waged a fierce campaign for the Republican nomination in 2000, McCain remained a burr in Bush’s side in the early part of his administration, although he strongly supported the Iraq war and came to endorse Bush’s tax cuts despite initial misgivings.

During his 2008 campaign, McCain has irritated the White House with his coolness, criticizing as a “failure” its response to Hurricane Katrina and almost never appearing in public with Bush.

Yet these efforts have done little to convince a skeptical electorate.

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Tigers devour field hockey Bernanke with six-point lead, offense supports stimulus continued from page 12

shots, building a 22-1 first half advantage, and Brown’s defense finally broke down late in the first half. The Tigers scored in the 23rd, 27th and 34th minutes to take a 4-0 lead into halftime.

“When they get that many shots and they’re in our defensive circle for that much of the game, goals are going to go in,” Sacco said.

The Tigers extended their lead to 5-0 just 1:12 into the second half, but the Bears refused to roll over.

Just 2:15 later Sacco collected a pass from Hyland and found the back of the cage to erase the shutout. Hyland said it was a big lift for the team to know that while Princeton had scored on only one of its 13 penalty corners, Brown converted on one of two.

The Bears went on to hold the Tigers scoreless for another 22 minutes before they tacked on their sixth goal at 60:37. Kessler left in the 65th minute with 18 saves, and Washburn faced six shots in the waning minutes, making five saves. Tacy Zysk ’11 led the Bears with three shots.

On a positive note, the rout gave Harrington an opportunity to empty the bench and gave the backups a

chance to gain valuable experience, which will give the Bears more depth down the road. Harrington said she was impressed that the level of play remained consistent even when the backups came in.

“Madison Miketa (’10) came off the bench and she was a nice little sparkplug for us at the right wing spot,” she said.

After what Hyland characterized as being outplayed by a better team, the Bears will have to turn around quickly when they host cross-city rival Providence College (9-8) on Wednesday. The Friars are a dangerous but struggling team, ranked No. 18 in last week’s NFHCA Division I National Coaches’ Poll, but in the midst of a three-game losing streak.

The Bears know what they need to do to get back on track.

“We had a team meeting after the game where we talked about how we’re able to really assess our play well and see where we went wrong, but the next step for us is actually doing what we say we’re going to do in terms of fixing things,” Sacco said. “The game against PC will be a good showing, for if we can move on from that situation, and I have full confidence that we will be able to put up a good show against PC.”

Dougherty ’09 passes for 181 yards, interception continued from page 12 tr y to hit another big play right away,” Farnham wrote. “We ran a hitch and go on the outside and got their corner to bite on the hitch and Mike threw a perfect pass over the top.”

Dougherty completed 14 of 27 passes on the day for 181 yards, with a touchdown and an interception.

Princeton’s next three drives failed to result in a single first down, rounding out a streak during which the Brown defense did not allow a first down for five consecutive drives.

“We primarily only ran one or two base defenses the entire game,” May wrote. “This simplified game plan helped eliminate a lot of the thinking, enabling us to just react and play faster. We also placed emphasis on increasing the physicality of our play.”

Tackle David Howard ’09 and linebacker Steve Ziogas ’09, as well as May and Serrano, all recorded sacks on the day, while safety Chris Perkins ’10 led the team with eight tackles, including an assist on a tackle for loss. In all, nine players made or assisted on a tackle for loss in Saturday’s game.

With 3:50 remaining in the third quarter, the Tigers started off a drive with an eight-yard run, but Cox came up with a tackle for a three-yard loss on the next play. Then, on third-and-5 from the Princeton 26, Howard got to quarterback Dan Kopolovic at the 20, and forced a fumble, which defensive end Neal Rooney ’12 secured

for the first fumble recovery of his collegiate career.

The fumble gave the Bears the ball at the Princeton 20, and Farnham continued to carry the team on his back, this time with the running game. On first down, the offense caught the Tigers off guard with a reverse to Farnham for 17 yards, and on the next play, Farnham took a hand-off up the middle for a 3-yard touchdown run, giving the Bears their largest lead of the day at 31-10 with 1:30 left in the third quarter.

“I was actually asking coach to call that reverse play a few minutes before we got the ball back on the fumble recovery because we practiced it all week and I knew it would be a good play,” Farnham wrote.

“Then we finished the drive off with a little run up the middle thanks to our offensive line clearing out a nice hole.”

Farnham finished with 285 allpurpose yards on the day, with two touchdowns.

After Princeton was forced to punt, Brown opened the fourth quarter with a drive lasting 10:35, and after just one more Princeton drive, the Bears kneeled out the clock to secure the 31-10 victory.

Next week, Brown will continue its Ivy League schedule with a home match-up against Cornell (3-2, 1-1 Ivy), which is coming off of two losses after starting the season 3-0.

“We’re going to take every game one at a time and continue to improve,” May wrote, “but I believe this provides us with a great building block for the rest of our season.”

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continued from page 7 to stimulate the economy, particularly interest rate cuts, are not having their intended impact given the problems facing banks and other financial institutions.

Bernanke has concluded that government spending would help.

But he hardly offered unconditional support. He said that any plan should be structured so that the benefits are felt during the period in which the economy is likely to be weak — meaning, in the coming months. And he urged a plan that maximizes the ripple effects of spending on overall economic growth. Bernanke did not spell out details, but many independent economists say spending that goes to low-income Americans is likely to spread most rapidly through the economy, as they are less likely to save the money.

Bernanke also suggested that Congress try to find ways to ensure that a stimulus package make it easier for Americans to get credit. For example, he said, Congress could offer to pay fees charged by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, effectively reducing mortgage rates. Or it could offer tax credits to encourage lending, or even direct lending by the government.

Congress “should consider including measures to help improve access to credit by consumers, home buyers, businesses and other borrowers,” Bernanke said. “Such actions might be particularly effective at promoting economic growth and job creation.”

McCain seeks to distance himself from president continued from page 7 groups.

Many Democrats doubt that McCain will be able to make enough progress to change the trajectory of the race in the final two weeks, no matter what new rhetoric he may offer. They argue that he dug his own grave when he embraced Republican orthodoxy on the utility of tax cuts to help stimulate economic growth, shifting his own position and embracing the approach Bush pushed aggressively.

“McCain, like Bush, is emerging as someone who makes rapid, gut-level decisions,” said Bill Galston, a centrist Democratic strategist who worked in the Clinton White House and is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He said McCain “has made remarkably little headway with the `I’m not Bush’ argument.”

Mark McKinnon, Bush’s former media adviser and a former consultant for McCain, played down the idea that the president is as much of a burden as his party label is this year. “I think voters figured out long ago that John McCain is not George Bush,” he wrote in an e-mail exchange. “But it doesn’t matter much either way.

John McCain is a Republican, and in the current environment, that’s about a 10-point anchor dragging on your chances.”

McCain spent Monday in Missouri, a critical swing state, where he continued his efforts to sow unease about Obama’s economic policies as a plan to redistribute

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wealth rather than grow the economy. “I think a lot of blame is put on George Bush that does not deserve to be there,” said Carol Pappas, 52, a stay-at-home mom. “On the other hand, a lot of Americans are blaming George Bush for the economy, which I disagree with.

In order to have a chance in this election, McCain ... has to have them understand that this is not another eight years of what they perceive as bad government.”

Some of the people at a rally here criticized Obama for making more of a connection between Bush and McCain than is warranted. “He isn’t George Bush,” said Cathy Beck, 49, who runs a small business with her husband. “I think this has been one of unfairest campaigns of my lifetime.”

Craig Shirley, a conservative consultant and author of the forthcoming “Rendezvous With Destiny,” about Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign, said in an inter view that McCain is doing the “right thing” before Election Day. But he said that the senator avoided the one major break he could have made with Bush — opposing the Wall Street rescue package.

Going against Bush would have put voters on notice that McCain is a different kind of politician, Shirley said.

“He would have helped himself immensely if he had opposed the bailout,” he said. “All the elites were all arrayed against the American people. He would have been the populist champion standing up” to them.

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Staf f Editorial

Taking Lamphere’s lead Forty years after she first came to Brown as an assistant professor, Louise Lamphere donated $1 million to create a visiting professorship in her name for young, untenured academics.

In the decades since her arrival, a lot happened. Lamphere filed a class action lawsuit against Brown when she, the only female in her department, was denied tenure and a male granted it. She won, running up more than a million dollars in the process in legal fees for the University. Brown instituted one of its most significant changes in its hiring history, and in two decades, the number of female faculty increased by a factor of five.

It’s quite a bit of ruckus she caused — ruckus we’re glad has shaped the Brown we now enjoy. We wonder if a younger Lamphere would have believed that within her lifetime, she would see Brown hire a female president — the first black president of an Ivy League. Female students now outnumber males on campus. We now have residential counselors geared specifically toward women’s needs.

Maybe she wouldn’t be surprised. Kay Warren, professor of international studies and anthropology, told The Herald that gender studies has become the norm since it was first a hot-button subject. “There’s so much mainstreaming of (gender studies research) today that was extraordinarily controversial in the early 70s,” she said.

But although we can assume that many of our courses will include a gender component — whether it be looking at women’s roles in HIST 1670: “History of Brazil” or at gendered manners of public speaking in TSDA 0220: “Persuasive Communication” — women’s concerns still deserve to be forefront on our social conscience. We know glass ceilings in hiring still exist, that female students are still targeted for sexual assault, that many female students still have a delicate, though overwhelming, internal debate on how to use their education when society still expects them to be the primary caretaker should they start a family.

The women’s movement has come far since Lamphere first protested, and it still has far to go — even and especially in our academic sphere.

A 1993 New York Times article reported that Ivy Leagues had few female professors, around 10 percent — “The more prestigious the institution, the fewer women there are,” it said.

We like to think of this university as one with a progressive history, but we can’t confuse prestige with progress. Nods from college rankings and employers are nice, but we must evaluate our progress as a Brown community based on whether we know in our gut that the campus we cross each day is home to open minds and hearts.

Lamphere’s donation shows that an epoch in the University’s history has come full circle. But that certainly doesn’t mean that we’ve matured beyond the need for Lamphere-esque criers against the ways of the institution. It shows the our possibility for progress and how much farther we need to go in a world we know is still full of injustices.

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O pinions Tuesday, October 21, 2008

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

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The real Puritan legacy SEAN QUIGLEY Opinions Columnist In a recent column (“Brown: the great radical Puritan university,” Oct. 7), my friend Graham Anderson ’10 makes several assertions about the Puritan worldview, and its influence on our beloved Brown, which I would like to refine and revamp, though not entirely repudiate. An item of disclosure: Graham and I have taken several courses on Anglo-American histor y together, and we both can trace our religious lineage back to the English-Scottish Reformation.

He begins his column by referring to the lament among many conser vatives that, though once a stronghold for Protestant Christian thought and leaders, the Ivy League is now an epicenter of the most illiberal, collectivist, and permissive ideologies known to mankind. This lament is not a new one: new-right conser vative William F. Buckley, Jr. — despite being a Roman Catholic — wrote his acerbic “God and Man at Yale” attacking this transformation way back in 1951.

However, this lament is much more reactionary than truly conservative. Yes, Brown and other elite Northeastern universities have problems, but they actually are not that bad. Academic integrity, if not moral integrity, is alive and well. The “extreme conservative miscreants” that Graham excoriates are just that: “extreme” persons whose right-wing obsessions have little traction in truly conser vative circles.

On the matter of Puritanism and Brown’s association with it, Graham makes a key error in appellation. Rather than being revolutionar y or radical in the 20th centur y

populist sense, the Puritans who rebelled against Roman Catholic universalism and the lurking remnants of ignorant poper y in the Church of England were more properly individualistic and nonconformist.

Instead of valuing the community over the individual or tacit understandings of salvation over Scripture’s explicit commands, the Puritan Protestants were radical individualists (in the 17th centur y sense), whose epistemological end stop was summarized in two words: “sola scriptura” — by scripture alone. The “people,” in their eyes, were naturally the source of no truth.

sire, grounded in Christ’s gloriously limitedgovernment teachings, to maintain liberty for the individual to do God’s work on earth without a domineering government or rule by “experts.” Each person should be the expert over his own life. Absolutely no populist ideas should be inferred from the Puritan demand for the diffusion of power and empowerment of the individual.

In many ways, the Puritan wing of the Reformation was the most conservative wing of all. As British MP Edmund Burke once advised in “Reflections on the Revolution in France,” with the events of the Reformation

In many ways, the Puritan wing of the Reformation was the most conservative wing of all.

The dif ferences between the Puritan “people” and the modern “people” are astronomical. With some exceptions, the use of that term today connotes a Marxist demand that ever y facet of political life (and then some) be run democratically. And as the actual Marxist states have proved time and again, this is always theoretical.

The Puritan use, on the other hand, referred specifically to issues of salvation and how congregants should govern their local parishes.

For at the heart of Puritanism is a de-

clearly on his mind: “If the last generations of your country appeared without much luster in your eyes, you might have passed them by and derived your claims from a more early race of ancestors.”

The Puritans, unlike the proto-Marxist French revolutionaries, did look back. What they found was the Christian liberty of the Apostles and the early Church.

Furthermore, as students who have taken Professor Tim Harris’s wonderful course on English histor y will remember well, the leader of the Puritan republic, Oliver Crom-

well, was a social conser vative. In other words, he believed in maintaining a class of landed gentr y and in ensuring that the aristocratic families kept a structural position in the government.

Prior to the Progressive Era of American histor y, this socially conser vative idea was even preser ved in the Constitution itself, in that the members of the Senate were appointed by the state legislatures. Socialists and illiberal progressives led this attack on the necessarily undemocratic Constitution and not on those bred with the spirit of the republican Reformation.

Looking to our present-day Brown, I feel as though Graham made a colossal mistake in arguing that the legacy of the Puritans is the school’s reputed progressivism. Rather, our very obvious individualism and nonconformity — so often the punch line of many jokes from our Ivy peers — seems a more accurate place to pin that legacy.

The open curriculum, the entrepreneurial spirit of many alumni, the simplified grading scheme, the lax environment, the resistance to increasing the power of the inherently autocratic police and the disposition to reserve judgment all are legacies of the Puritans.

The Mar xist obsession with debasing culture, encouraging deviancy and attacking the Protestant religion are endemic in universities worldwide. That Brown has, in my opinion, avoided many of the worst excesses of illiberal Marxism is a testament to this school’s belief in the individual and in a vibrant nonconformity.

Thus, while the Puritanism of our school’s founders is certainly still present, you will not find it in the lazy progressive values of populism and ceaseless change.

Sean Quigley ’10 admires Sarah Palin for having ties to the Alaskan Independence Party.

Learning to shut up

BY ADRIENNE LANGLOIS Opinions Columnist If you watched the presidential debates, you may have noticed, among other things, that they all pretty much sounded the same. Despite the varied formats and some bizarre occurrences, Barack Obama and John McCain spent the majority of the time repeating talking points from earlier debates.

McCain repeatedly mentioned his $5,000 health care credit, which Obama then refuted in almost the exact same manner at each debate. Obama defined preconditions and McCain rebutted his definition.

By the time Joe the Plumber made his appearance in the third and final debate, I was experiencing such deja vu that I barely noticed the introduction of this new character.

I came away from the debate frustrated and amazed. In three 90-minute segments, both candidates merely reiterated points from prior debates and speeches, presenting little to no new information.

It’s certainly understandable that the candidates would want to repeat certain trademark talking points, but I had hoped that they would add a bit more breadth to their policies for those viewers who might be encountering the candidates’ policies for the first time. Instead, they practically mimicked themselves, even using the same syntax and diction, leaving viewers just as confused as to what the $700 billion “rescue” was.

I wish I could say this was an isolated incident in today’s society, or even in politics. Lest

we be too quick to roll our eyes and write off the antics of our future leaders as pure political pandering, consider the behavior of the majority of Brown students on any given day.

Open a campus publication and one can read responses to responses on editorials written about subjects that have been covered exhaustively time and time again. Sit in on a humanities section and one may hear students parroting those who have already spoken in hopes of ingratiating themselves with the TA.

of course; our society is addicted to repetition in all its forms. We repeat for various purposes — to respond to what we consider to be an unwarranted attack or unfair characterization, to break an awkward silence, to convince an authority figure to give us what we want.

We’d rather fill the air with an idea that we’ve repeated a hundred times before than let our opponents have the last word. When given the opportunity to make an argument, we invariably choose repetition for its simplicity and its supposed effectiveness.

Lest we be too quick to roll our eyes and write off the antics of our future leaders as pure political pandering, consider the behavior of the majority of Brown students on any given day.

Cross the Main Green and one can expect to hear student petitioners raising awareness for the same issues they were tabling for last month. The problem is not that Brown students aren’t espousing worthy causes; it’s that they’re doing so in the same tired, tedious manner.

The problem extends beyond College Hill,

This perception isn’t entirely incorrect.

The truth is that repetition does work — but it can be overdone. An analysis of repetition in Japanese television commercials drew the conclusion that “tedious repetition is a waste of time.”

So yes, there is a reason why those commercials for the homeopathic headache

remedy HeadOn, which repeatedly urge the viewer to apply the product “directly to the forehead,” are so annoying. Coming across as a talking head in a 30-second advertisement is just another reason to avoid the trap of repetition.

Moreover, the continuous repetition of ideas may actually undermine the cogency of an argument. It doesn’t take a Latin scholar to divine the literal meaning of ad nauseam, a phrase frequently used to describe all sorts of issues battered over and over by the media, political candidates, friends and family members. By iterating and reiterating an argument, participants may become literally and even physically sick before a point is made.

Effectively arguing your stance takes more than simple repetition of a few paltry facts.

Going into section and repeating the same statement will not merit a full participation grade, no matter how brilliant or correct said statement actually is. Introducing new ideas and finding new ways to say old truths creates real dialogue — and with real dialogue comes the possibility of changing minds.

Finally, believing in one side of an argument means becoming comfortable enough with dissenting opinions to not always have to leap to its defense. Sometimes the best refutation is not a repetition, but rather allowing prior statements to stand for themselves. To paraphrase mothers everywhere — if you can’t say anything new, don’t say anything at all.

Adrienne Langlois ’10 considered repeating the thesis of her column 50 times in this space in order to get her point across.

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

Albany race brings team win for w. cross country

By Nicole Stock Sports Staff Writer

The women’s cross country team won the 42nd Annual Albany Invitational this past Saturday, finishing with a team score of 19 points and besting the 23 other teams in the competition.

Brown runners also earned the top three finishes at the race.

Kesley Ramsey ’11 led the way for the Bears, setting a new course record en route to earning the Bobbi Palma Women’s Championship top finisher award. Ramsey crossed the finish line in 17:42.0, and maintained her lead throughout the five-kilometer race by staying calm and focusing on the pace during the race.

“The biggest factor that led to my strong finish was staying relaxed within the first half of the race,” Ramsey said. “I am mainly a mid-distance runner, so I am always eager to go out too fast. Through working together with my teammates, I was able to stay composed and on pace.”

Right behind Ramsey was Michaeline Nelson ’11, who posted a time of 17:42.1 to earn a secondplace finish. Samantha Adelberg ’11 rounded out the top three with a time of 18:01.6.

Head Coach Craig Lake was pleased with the outcome and the team’s performance on Saturday, as several key runners stepped up and helped the Bears to an explosive win.

“We were really excited with our overall team performance. Michaeline Nelson and Samantha Adelberg had really good races ... and obviously Kesley Ramsey won the race and now has the course record,” Lake said.

Eliza Webber ’12, Herald Staff Writer Lauren Pischel ’11 and Caitlin Stone ’12 also ran well for the Bears, finishing sixth, seventh, and eighth, respectively, all with times under 18:05.

“We ran so much tougher and grittier this weekend as well as smarter,” Lake said. “Several key people finished a lot stronger for us at this meet.”

With the success of the weekend behind them, the Bears will be looking ahead to next weekend, when they will compete at Central Connecticut State on Oct. 25th. All of this will be in preparation for Heps on Oct. 31st.

“The girls were thrilled with the victory. We came to this meet to prove how tough we could be, and it obviously was a great success,” Ramsey said. “We ran very well together, hit our paces, and finished with fast times. This race definitely gave us the boost of confidence we need right before Heps.”

Football defense back on track for Princeton win

By Benjy Asher Sports Editor

After back-to-back losses to non-conference opponents, the football team (3-2, 2-0 Ivy) came into Saturday’s game looking to get its season back on track, resuming its Ivy League schedule at Princeton. Brown did just that, outscoring the Tigers (2-3, 1-1 Ivy) 17-0 in the second half to run away with a 31-10 victory.

A big question mark going into Saturday’s game was the Brown defense. After a dominant performance in Bruno’s 17-7 seasonopening win over Stony Brook, the defense had another strong showing the following week in a 24-22 victory over Harvard. In the last two games, though, the defense seemed to have no answers for opposing offenses, allowing 78 total points in a 37-13 loss to URI and a 41-34 loss to Holy Cross.

On the opening drive, the struggles appeared to continue for Brown’s defense, when the Tigers, starting at their own 40-yard line, picked up five first downs to move the ball to the Brown 1 yard line, in part due to three Brown penalties totaling 21 yards.

Then, on first-and-goal on the 1, the defense kicked into gear. Stops by linebackers Andrew Serrano ‘11 and Kelley Cox ‘10 on first and second downs kept the Tigers out of the end zone, and a pass attempt on third down fell incomplete, forcing Princeton to settle for an 18-yard field goal.

“We knew that we could do well against them as a defense, and when a few calls didn’t go our way in the beginning, I think it lit a fire underneath us that lasted the game,” linebacker Jon May ‘09 wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “The goal line stand proved we would make them earn every yard they wanted to gain.”

Receiver Buddy Farnham ‘10 fielded the ensuing kickoff and ran it back 32 yards, the first of many great returns for Farnham, who finished the day with 55 yards on two kickoff returns and 67 yards

Justin Coleman / Herald

Buddy Farnham ‘10 ran for several big plays at the football game Saturday. on four punt returns.

“We had a successful day on returns because our return team did a great job blocking,” Farnham wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “They really made my job easy, all I had to do was catch the ball and run up the seam they created for me.”

The Bears picked up a first down when quarterback and co-captain Michael Dougherty ‘09 fired a 14-yard completion to Farnham on third-and-5. On the next play, Dougherty broke off a 34-yard run, his longest of the season, to put the ball on the Princeton 6, and on the following play running back Dereck

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Field Hockey falters at Princeton with 7-1 loss

By Andrew Braca Assistant Sports Editor

schedule TUESDAY, OCT. 21 M. SOCCER: Brown at Hartwick, 7 p.m.

M. tennis: ITA Regionals, New Haven, Conn., all day WEDNESDAY, OCT. 22 Field Hockey: Brown vs. Providence, 4 p.m.

Knight ‘08.5 ran the ball in for the touchdown, giving Brown a 7-3 lead.

Knight had a strong day for Bruno, carrying the ball 22 times for 89 yards and a touchdown.

After the defense stymied the Tigers’ offense at the Princeton 21 on the next drive, the Bears started at their own 29. After a pass interference call against Princeton gave Brown 15 yards, Dougherty threw an 11-yard completion to receiver Matt Sudfeld ‘11, and a 28-yard completion to Farnham, who led the team with six receptions and 79 yards on the day. A 15-yard run by Knight moved the ball down to the

2-yard line, where receiver Bobby Sewall ‘10 ran it in for his second rushing touchdown of the season, to give the Bears a 14-3 advantage with 1:41 remaining in the first quarter.

Early in the second quarter, the Tigers fought their way back into the game with a four-play, 69-yard touchdown drive. Quarterback Brian Anderson completed passes of 33 and 20 yards, setting up a 12yard touchdown run for running back Meko McCray with 9:28 left in the first half. Neither team scored again before the end of the half, and Bruno went into halftime with a 14-10 lead.

In the second half, it was all Brown. After a short kickoff, running back Nkosi Still ‘09 started things off with a 33-yard return, giving the Bears the ball on the Princeton 45 to start the half. Sewall picked up a key first down with a 3-yard run on fourth-and-1 to move the ball to the 33. Though they did not find the end zone, the Bears eventually moved the ball down to the 16, and kicker Robert Ranney ‘09 kicked a 33-yard field goal to widen the lead to 17-10.

On the ensuing drive, May came up with a tackle for a fouryard loss to force the Tigers into a third-and-14 situation. May finished the day with five tackles, including 1.5 tackles for loss. In the third-andlong situation, Anderson was forced into a dangerous throw, which was picked off by cornerback David Clement ‘10 for his first interception of the season.

Though Dougherty was intercepted on the following drive, the defense forced Princeton to go three-and-out, and a 37-yard punt return by Farnham gave Brown the ball back at the Princeton 20.

From there, it took only one play, a 20-yard completion from Dougherty to Farnham, to increase the lead to 24-10 with 7:10 left in the third quarter.

“We wanted to come back and

Justin Coleman / Herald

Victoria Sacco ‘09 and the women’s field hockey team suffered a 7-1 loss to Princeton on Saturday.

The field hockey team has improved recently, but taking on a nationallyranked opponent proved to be a bridge too far. In a game marred by inconsistent play, the Bears (39, 0-4 Ivy) suffered a 7-1 loss to the No. 12 Princeton Tigers (10-2, 4-0) on Saturday in New Jersey.

“We got ourselves in a bad situation in the first half,” said Victoria Sacco ’09. “If we had stuck to our game plan and really played our game throughout the entire full 70 minutes, I think that the score probably would have been a little different.”

As it was, Brown was lucky to hold Princeton to only seven goals.

The Tigers used a blazing counterattack that quickly took advantage of mistakes by the Bears to post a 49-5 advantage in shots.

“When we did turn the ball over, it was difficult for us sometimes to get back quickly and organize quickly at the rate that they were

coming at us,” said Head Coach Tara Harrington ’94.

Facing a barrage of shots, Brown goalkeepers Lauren Kessler ’11 and Caroline Washburn ’12 held up reasonably well, combining for 23 saves to keep Princeton from opening a wider lead.

“I think it’s amazing that they managed to stop as many goals as they did with as many shots as they had on them,” said Katie Hyland ’11.

The Tigers struck first just 7:29 into the game, but for nearly 15 minutes afterwards the Bears kept them out of the cage. Harrington said that the defense, especially Sacco, was doing a good job of outletting the ball forward under duress.

“She was a good leader from the backfield and really was a large part of why we were able to work the ball from our backfield under such intense pressure up to our forward line,” Harrington said.

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