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Watson director’s unpopular agenda draws ire By Sydney Ember Senior Staff Writer

More than a year into his tenure, Vice President for International Affairs David Kennedy ’76 has alienated colleagues over the direction of the Watson Institute for International Studies by pushing a legal studies program staffed by close personal acquaintances with non-traditional academic credentials. In multiple interviews, faculty members and administrators inside and outside Watson expressed growing discontent with Kennedy’s actions in advancing his agenda, which has included a global governance program, the hiring of lawyers to Watson’s faculty and a proposal — largely rebuffed — to allow the Institute to grant tenure to its appointees. Kennedy, a professor at Harvard Law School, joined the Brown administration in January 2008, charged with bringing his expertise in international affairs and global governance to bear on the University’s efforts to raise its global profile. The administrative structure surrounding his new position meant the director of Watson would report directly to him. But just months after Kennedy started, the director, Barbara Stallings, unexpectedly resigned, prompting Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 to ask Kennedy to serve as interim director in her place. Since then, Kennedy has been filling two jobs, overseeing new

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David Kennedy ’76 has alienated many colleagues at the Watson Institute in his efforts to create a legal studies program.

partnerships between Brown and international institutes of higher education while leading the busy Watson Institute — balancing what some have called an extremely demanding workload. The search for a new full-time director of Watson is in progress. “David Kennedy already has a major job as vice president for international affairs,” Kertzer said, adding that Kennedy would most likely not be asked to fulfill both jobs permanently.

Though Kennedy said in an interview last month that many of his original plans to advance the University’s international programs were still on track, faculty opposition has stymied the implementation of key elements of his agenda. Faculty members at Watson and in related departments have expressed concern that Kennedy’s proposed global governance program tilts the Institute too far in the direction of legal studies, a sentiment echoed by Abbott Gleason, an adjunct professor

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By Ellen Cushing Senior Staff Writer

A female student was photographed by a stranger while she was showering in the first-floor bathroom of Diman House on Thurs., March 12, Department of Public Safety officials confirmed this weekend. The alleged peeper was “a collegeage guy that had been in Diman previously, as reported by residents of the house,” according to Amanda Filiberto ’11, vice president public relations of Kappa Alpha Theta, the sorority that occupies the first floor of Diman. In an e-mail to The Herald, Filiberto wrote that the alleged peeper entered the bathroom on Thursday morning and tried to take pictures of the showering woman. According to an e-mail sent by sorority president Ellen Loudermilk ’10 to members of Theta on Thursday morning and obtained by The Herald, he also tried to open the shower curtain before getting on his hands and knees to take pictures with a cell phone. The woman was not hurt, according to Mark Porter, director of public safety for Brown. The woman screamed, and the peeper left immediately after, running continued on page 2

Arrest your friends! It’s OK — it’s for charity By Matthew Klebanoff Staf f Writer

By Kevin Pratt Contributing Writer

Though the 2010 gubernatorial election in Rhode Island is more than a year away, potential candidates are already gearing up for the race. Former Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee ’75, a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, told The Herald he was “ver y seriously” considering entering the race as a potential Independent candidate. But he said he would wait until April to finalize his plans. “I want to finish my Brown commitments and then make a decision,” he said, adding, “I know that the University does not want any mixing of political activities with Brown duties.” Chafee said he had trouble attracting college students to his former campaigns as a Republican. “I anticipate now running as

at Watson and professor emeritus of Russian history, who served as director of the Institute from 1999 to 2000. “I think a certain number of people don’t understand what it is,” Gleason said of the program. “They’re suspicious of a program that they don’t have an idea what it’s about.” Though a global governance program would be well-situated in today’s international political climate, Gleason said, some faculty members see Kennedy’s particular vision for the program as more befitting of a law school. “He came to build a legal institution,” said Ross Cheit, an associate professor of political science, adding that Watson offered a way for Kennedy to create a strong legal studies program without a law school. “Watson looked like a good place to create a law school,” said Professor of Sociology Mark Suchman, who heads a legal studies colloquium at Brown and was hired around the same time as Kennedy to promote legal studies. Kennedy “played the politics wrong,” Suchman said, and so was unable to gain the support of colleagues for an academic program that few in theory opposed — and many backed. “He did a lot of things that were political mistakes,” Suchman said. “Institution building is a political

Peeping Tom snaps shower pics in Diman

Min Wu / Herald File Photo Visiting Watson fellow Lincoln Chafee ’75 is considering a run for governor in 2010.

an Independent (to be) a little bit easier,” Chafee said. “I would welcome any support that might come from Brown students.” State finances and Rhode Island’s high unemployment rate will figure prominently in the 2010 campaign, Chafee said. Republican Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65 faces terms limits in 2010

At 11 a.m. last Saturday, Evan Smith ’09 awoke to a series of knocks on his bedroom door and a gruff voice: “DPS! Open up!” Smith opened his door to find two Department of Public Safety officers waiting for him. “I answered the door in my bathrobe,” Smith said. “They told me I had to get dressed because they had to take me away.” Luckily for Smith, he wasn’t really arrested. He was just a target of Jail and Bail, one of the latest pranks carried out by Brown’s Relay for Life committee, which organizes an overnight walk each year to raise money and awareness for the American Cancer Society. Jail and Bail “is an event where, if you give us five dollars and give us the location of a friend at some point on Saturday, we will have a DPS officer go and arrest them,” said Margaret Watson ’11, co-chair of Brown’s Relay For Life committee and a Herald senior business

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Students were arrested by DPS as part of Jail and Bail, a prank to raise money for the American Cancer Society.

associate. DPS officers presented all detainees with a warrant for their arrest and brought some to a “jail” in Wilson Hall 205, Watson said, where they had mug shots taken while wearing handcuffs. Other

captives were released on the site of their arrest, after posting a $2 bail. The committee decided to promote awareness for Relay for Life

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walking on eggshells Students show off art made of flannel, eggshells at the Student Art Exhibition

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Peeping Tom incident under ‘active investigation’ continued from page 1 through the hallway and past several rooms before leaving the building, according to Loudermilk’s e-mail, which went on to say that DPS officers arrived quickly after being called and took descriptions from Diman residents and the building’s custodian. The department has two witnesses, Porter said, and is working with a description of the alleged perpetrator. Porter called the matter under “active investigation.” “Detectives are working on it — interviewing students, following up on a couple of leads on the description that we have,” he said. Under Rhode Island law, “peeping” is considered disorderly conduct and is punishable by up to six months in prison and a $500 fine. University judicial policy defines sexual misconduct as “non-consensual physical contact of a sexual nature” and does not explicitly refer to peeping. Loudermilk’s e-mail indicated that similar incidents have happened elsewhere on campus before. Earlier this semester, a man entered a women’s bathroom while someone was using the facility, Porter said. The event is currently under investigation. “We have had another report of a similar incident with a similar description, so we’re following up on that as well,” he said. Though Thursday’s matter is still under investigation, DPS will work to “get the word out” about the incident among students, Porter said. “As a precautionary measure, we want students to know what happened,” he said.

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A woman showering in Diman was photographed by a stranger last Thursday.

While DPS “does the investigative work,” ResLife has worked with DPS and will continue to help in the effort to notify students and provide support to those who need it, said Dean of Residential Life and Dining Services Richard Bova. Bova and Filiberto both emphasized the importance of taking precautionary safety measures. “I would ask that students continue to be as vigilant as possible in identifying strangers that are in their buildings,” Bova said, adding that students should lock bathroom doors and be careful about letting strangers into dorms. “We have taken the necessary precautions such as locking all bathroom doors, and making sure that no doors are ever propped open, so that hopefully this incident will not happen again in the future and other dorms can learn from it,” Filiberto wrote. “This serves as a reminder that this can happen anywhere at anytime and all college students need to be aware of that.”

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“Many of the leaders in my organization for my next election will be younger people” — R.I. General Treasurer Frank Caprio

Candidates look to students for support continued from page 1 and cannot seek reelection. Brown students hoping to get involved with a Republican campaign will probably join Rep. Joseph Trillo R-Dist. 24, which includes Warwick, said Brown Republicans president and Herald opinions columnist Sean Quigley ’10. Trillo is now the only prominent Republican in the field since Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey announced earlier this month that he would not enter the race. Among potential Democratic candidates, General Treasurer Frank Caprio came out on top in a recent public opinion sur vey asking Rhode Islanders which Democrat they would choose for governor. Caprio, with 30 percent of the preference, was followed by two other possible Democratic candidates, Attorney General Patrick L ynch ’87 and Lt. Governor Elizabeth Roberts ’78. Providence Mayor David Cicilline ’83, a Democrat who was once speculated to enter the race, announced on Tuesday that he will not enter the race and will instead seek a third term as mayor, The Herald reported last week. Caprio said Brown students will figure prominently in his possible run. “When I ran for state treasurer in 2006, my campaign was staffed and run by college students­ — mostly Brown students with some other local colleges represented,” he said. “I plan on using that model again. Many of the leaders in my organization for my next election

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will be younger people, collegeaged and recent graduates.” Many of the advertisements used in Caprio’s 2006 campaign were designed by Brown visual ar ts students, said Xay Khamsyvoravong ’06, Caprio’s deputy chief of staf f. The Treasurer’s office uses Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and a blog to engage college students, he said. Caprio is “seriously thinking” about entering the race, he said, and has been preparing for the 2010 election cycle for the last two years. “I’ve raised over a million dollars that I have on hand, and that’s substantially more than any other candidate in Rhode Island now,” Caprio said. “We’re well-positioned to make the decision,” he said. Caprio’s campaign leads the other potential candidates’ campaigns in available funds, with $1,001,062 in cash assets, according to the state Board of Elections Web site. The closest runner-up is L ynch’s campaign, with $391,647. L ynch faces term limits on his current position as attorney general and told The Herald he is “absolutely considering” entering the race for governor. “I’m staying in Rhode Island, I’m raising money, but the first thing I have to take care of is the job that I have,” he said, citing the economy, consumer protection and crime as prominent election issues. L ynch said he found working with college students “refreshing and rewarding” and would involve them in a possible run for the

State House. The Brown Democrats will not endorse a candidate until a frontrunner emerges after the party primar y, said the group’s president Harrison Kreisberg ’10, adding that the organization will use its contacts within the offices of state Democrats to connect Brown students to candidates. “We have contacts with the possible campaigns, and can put students in a place where they can have an impact,” Kreisberg said. Ali Wolfson ’12, the freshman whip of the Brown Democrats, said she was undecided among the three potential candidates, but expected her group to canvass, phone bank and make household visits in support of the eventual Democratic candidate. Republicans on campus are expected to do the same once their candidate emerges from the primaries, Quigley said. Wolfson, who campaigned extensively for Barack Obama with the Brown Democrats, said the gubernatorial race would be “a lot more local,” but would include “a lot of the same kind of activities” as the national election, such as person-to-person campaigning. Citing the state’s 10 percent unemployment rate, Wolfson said the ability to pull “Rhode Island through the economic crisis” will be her top consideration in deciding between candidates. Kreisberg said progressive taxation and a formula for state education spending will be important in the 2010 gubernatorial race.

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across campus through unusual fundraisers, as a sort of “publicity stunt,” Watson said. “Part of the idea behind doing these fundraisers is to get the word out for Relay for Life and make sure people are signing up for teams,” she said. The of ficers explained to the targets of Jail and Bail that they were not really under arrest, but a few people “got really scared,” Watson said. “Once we explained everything, they were fine, though.” Akira Rattenbury, who was visiting friends at Brown, witnessed the arrest of his friend Adam Epstein ’09 and was “definitely scared” by the prank. “We had hosted a party the night before, and I was lying on the couch, in and out of sleep, and I woke up and looked up to see police out the window,” Rattenbury said. “I just thought, ‘Uh oh. What did we do last night?’” According to Campus Police Officer Elayna Boucher and Security Officer Jarret D’Amato, targets of the prank were all “good sports,” but some were disconcerted at first. The most disoriented were

“the ones who had a long night last night,” D’Amato said. “They look at the arrest warrant and say, ‘Okay, I’m still confused.’” Some targets of the Jail and Bail prank were not scared upon arrest, because they were aware of the fundraising effort. When Ethan Risom ’10 was arrested in his room in New Dorm, he said he was a “little confused at first,” but, he added, “One of my friends from Relay for Life was with (the DPS officers), so I figured it out pretty quickly.” Some victims of the prank decided to get even with their friends by issuing a “counter-warrant,” Watson said. She added that, in total, DPS officers “arrested” about 30 people Saturday. Brown’s Relay for Life committee also organized another “out of the box” fundraiser last week, Watson said, when it “chicken cooped” 16 rooms on campus. The committee thought it would be “funny and hilarious” to charge students $5 to cover the doors to their friends’ rooms in duct tape, Watson said. “People got really excited about it,” Watson said. “We had a table in the mail room, and people signed up.” Roxanne Knapp ’11, one of

the targets of the chicken cooping prank, said she was alarmed when she heard strange noises outside her door late at night. “I heard creepy ripping noises, and we’ve had people tr y to get in our door before drunkenly, so I was really creeped out,” Knapp said. She was relieved when she opened her door and found members of the Relay for Life committee covering her door frame in tape. When she woke up the next day, Knapp had to “army crawl” under her tape-covered doorway to leave her room, she said. The committee’s co-chairs — Watson, Greg Young ’11 and Dominique Ferraro ’11 — came up with their “crazy fundraising ideas” at a Relay for Life summit last November, Watson said. At the convention, the committee learned that the chicken cooping and Jail and Bail are common fundraisers for other Relay for Life chapters. Participants in the relay, set to take place April 10 from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., form 8- to 15-person teams, which then collect donations. Past Relay for Life events at Brown have raised over $100,000, Watson said.

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“There’s a difference between someone being your boss and someone to which you report.” — Provost David Kertzer

Kennedy ’76 clashes Ivy summit in Europe, Middle East with faculty, University By Qian Yin Contributing Writer

continued from page 1 process.” Kennedy agreed to an interview with The Herald late last month for a related article, but refused on multiple occasions over the past two weeks to be interviewed again for this article. Reached at his home Saturday, he said, “No comment.” When asked again yesterday if he would be willing to comment for the record, he replied in an e-mail, “I think we should leave it that I am unavailable for comment.” Last month, when asked about his agenda for the Watson Institute, Kennedy said, “It’s an open conversation.” “There are 700 faculty at Brown, and probably 700 views,” he added. Because of widespread discontent — as well as budgetary confines — Kennedy’s global governance program has not taken off as anticipated. “There isn’t really a global governance program yet,” said a Brown professor affiliated with the Watson Institute, who agreed to speak only on condition of anonymity. Though the program is in theory “a good fit for us at Brown,” the professor said, “I think that a new director will give it some content that will look different from what David Kennedy wanted.” Non-traditional appointments Part of Kennedy’s plan to create a global governance program has involved appointments to the Watson faculty that were seen as “controversial,” Suchman said. Recent appointees to the critical legal studies program include Dan Danielsen, a senior lecturer in public policy, and Nathaniel Berman, who will arrive at Watson in July, both of whom have close personal relationships with Kennedy and have Harvard J.D. degrees but not doctorates. Danielsen is in a romantic relationship with Kennedy, and Berman is a former student of Kennedy’s. Multiple faculty members appointed in the last year were also Kennedy’s close friends before they joined the Institute, said the professor who spoke anonymously. “We’ve never had so many law visitors before,” the professor said. “Most of them in one way or another have Harvard connections.” Having so many of these appointees coming to Brown from the same place “is not the epitome of diversity,” the professor said. Many faculty members also questioned the reasons for lawyers’ attraction to Brown, given that it does not have a law school. Many said they oppose Kennedy’s tenure proposal because they fear he plans to lure high-profile lawyers without Ph.D.s to Watson with the promise of job stability. Multiple professors said Berman, a former professor at Brooklyn Law School and Northeastern University School of Law, signed a short-term

renewable contract but was promised a job at Watson for 15 years. None of those sources agreed to be identified as saying so. But Berman said he received no such promise. “What I have formally is a five-year renewable contract,” he said, adding that if discussions about tenure were to occur at Watson, he “would love to participate in them.” Danielsen, who said he is not returning to Brown next year because of administrative issues “relating to the funding for my employment,” has also generated questions because of his close personal ties with Kennedy. He denied having been offered a tenure-track position and said he was willing to come to Brown “assuming that my renewal would be based on my performance.” Gleason said it was possible that the lawyers were attracted to Brown because Watson offered them a wide range of expertise to which they might not have access at other universities. “They’d rather be in a situation where they can interact with people from different fields,” he said. “They’re interested in not just legal topics,” said Stallings, the former director who remains a research professor at Watson. “In some ways, if they’re not in law school, they have more space to do more things.” Looking ahead When a new Watson director is hired, he or she may report to the provost instead of the vice president for international affairs — representing a reversal of the policy implemented at Kennedy’s arrival last year. An announcement of a new director is expected before the summer, Kennedy said last month. “You often find people who would like to report to the highest position they can,” Kertzer said. The decision regarding the hierarchical structure will be decided once a new director is in place, he added. “There’s a difference between someone being your boss, and someone to (whom) you report,” Kertzer said. Faculty members and administrators also suggested that some ofthe tensions at Watson could be attributed to uncertainty surrounding the budget and the search for a new director. “It’s sort of hard to know what Watson will look like even a year from now,” Stallings said, adding that she expected “big changes.” Though budgetary constraints have led to rumors that Watson may eliminate the international relations and development studies concentrations, Kennedy has continued to push for new initiatives and programs. Kertzer said it was “unfortunate” that more of Kennedy’s ideas have not been realized, he said it was important to “keep it in the broader context rather than focusing on individual grievances.” “David is a dynamo,” Kertzer said.

The Ivy Council, a nonprofit organization of students from all eight Ivy League schools, will send about 20 students to Brussels, Geneva and Istanbul to participate in the IvyEurope-Middle East Summit. The summit, which runs from May 22 to June 1, will bring together Ivy League students with those from the European Students’ Union and Istanbul to establish an open dialogue on political and economic issues and to promote cultural exchange, according to Columbia sophomore Taimur Malik, one of the event’s co-chairs. The participants “are very likely to be the people that are leading the world sooner rather than later,” said co-chair Amelia Mango, a Har vard junior. “The idea behind this is to set up a really great tone for any sort of diplomacy in the future.” Participants will visit several

institutions, including the United Nations of fice in Geneva, governmental offices in Istanbul and local universities, and will have the opportunity to interact with political and economic leaders and academics. Mango said the summit provides “a ver y unique opportunity” for undergraduates to get a firsthand experience of “international government.” The application for the summit is due today and includes several short essay questions and a proposal for a project to be completed during the trip. Two or three applicants who demonstrate leadership skills, commitment and a strong interest in international issues will be selected from each school, depending on funding, the organizers said. Student representatives on the council will tr y to acquire funding from each Ivy to send its students to the summit, according to the organizers. “We want it to be accessible to

everyone regardless of their financial situation,” Malik said, “but it’s been ver y arduous for us to get funding because of the economic times.” Though the Brown chapter of Ivy Council is not involved in organizing the summit, it is publicizing the event on campus. “What Brown is doing is mainly helping to publicize this event for the community here,” said Aaron Foo ’11, chair of external affairs at Brown Ivy Council. Foo said he was unsure whether any Brown students are applying to the summit. To promote international exchange, in years past the Ivy Council previuosly organized the 2008 Ivy-China Summit, when more than 20 Ivy League students visited China to hold a dialogue with their Chinese peers and meet with Chinese political leaders. Malik said the council is looking to build bridges with other Middle East countries and Latin America in the future.

The (nano)future of cancer treatment By Matthew Scult Contributing Writer

A tiny particle makes its way into the bloodstream and latches onto a newly dividing cancerous cell. The particle is specially designed to show up on a diagnostic scan, allowing doctors to easily locate the growing tumor. The particle may even have its own set of cancerfighting drugs, which it could insert directly into the cell, avoiding the side effects of chemotherapy. This scenario may soon be a reality thanks to the work of researchers like Chenjie Xu GS, who is the lead author of a recently published paper about a new nanoparticle he and other researchers created. Xu, a student in Professor of Chemistr y Shouheng Sun’s lab, collaborated on the paper with Baodui Wang, a visiting scientist at Brown. The nanoparticle they describe was developed with two parts: one containing a protein antibody that attaches to a cancerous cell and the other with cisplatin, a common chemotherapy drug. Though both the antibody and the drug are commonly used separately in cancer treatment, this novel approach combines the two. The combination uses the specificity of the antibody and the potency of the drug to directly attack

cancerous cells without harming healthy ones. Current treatments use the antibody to inhibit the growth of tumor cells, but the patient must be given an antibody injection on an almost weekly basis, Xu said, adding that the new treatment inhibits the growth of the cell. But, he said, “you want the tumor to shrink, not just stop growth.” That’s where Cisplatin comes in. The drug, commonly used in chemotherapy, shrinks tumors, but is problematic because it is nonspecific. Usually it is injected into the body in large quantities and harms both healthy and cancerous cells. The new technique will allow doctors to release Cisplatin directly at the site of the tumor, avoiding the general side effects of chemotherapy. Another advantage of the new particle is its clear visibility on diagnostic scans. The core of the particle is made of iron and gold, which give it a distinct magnetic signature, making it easy to identify with magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography scans. A “tumor cell used to be a healthy cell,” Xu said, noting that in the early stages of tumor development it is difficult to distinguish

cancerous tissue from healthy tissue through basic imaging alone. Since early detection of cancer can vastly improve the efficacy of treatment, having better ways to detect cancerous cells early on can be ver y valuable, Xu said. The particle will show up on both MRI and CT scans, giving more precise information about the state of a tumor faster, Xu said. Currently, the particles have not left the test-tube stage of development, but Xu said animal testing, in collaboration with Rhode Island Hospital, is scheduled to begin shortly. The researchers will first test whether the particles show up on diagnostic scans, and then examine how effective the particle is at administering the drug. The particle will not be tested on humans for several years, Xu said. Later, other antibodies and drugs could be substituted into the basic particle to allow different medications to be administered to other types of cells, he said. The lab has received calls from several news stations and has been contacted by science-business companies about the new particle. “We publish a lot of papers ever y year, this is the first time people are excited,” Xu said. “This means our work is important.”

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Student art expo features flannel, eggshells By Anita Mathews Staff Writer

This year’s Student Art Exhibition, which opened in the David Winton Bell Gallery Saturday and runs until March 29, is most striking for the variety of media, traditional and otherwise, employed by the artists. Flannel, soda can tabs and eggshells are just some of the materials the artists have creatively incorporated into the pieces featured in the collection. The diversity of media used seems appropriate, given the heterogeneity of subjects featured and the style in which they are rendered. Jesse Cohn’s ’10 untitled work, for example, is composed of chains of linked paper clips, silver and brightly colored, which together create a large-scale map of the United States. (Rhode Island is represented by just two red paper clips.) Cohn uses repetition of a mundane household item to represent an ordinary image, but in the process creates a piece that is unusual and truly compelling. Next to Cohn’s map stands Zachary Smith’s ’11 piece, also untitled — a combination cabinet-table-lamp made of wood, as economical as it is aesthetically pleasing. Bart Dessaint ’11 has two photography pieces, “American Dream: 100 Year Old Providence Grocery” and three distinct photos that together make up “Elementary Language.” According to the posted artist’s statement, the series documents “a paper trail of revealing curiosities” — enigmatic phrases and texts that Dessaint found at Reservoir Avenue Elementary School in Providence. In his statement, Dessaint also said his primary goal with “Elementary Language” was “finding the simple beauty in an establishment that enables the children to feel safe

and escape difficult situations.” The interactive pieces drew small pockets of inquisitive viewers at the exhibit’s opening. John Szymanski’s ’09 “Interface” is a swirling, bubbling hurricane in a glass bottle sitting atop an antique magnetic stir plate. Ironically, written in capital letters around the neck of the bottle are the words “Federal Law forbids sale or reuse of this bottle.” “Persephone” by Galen Broderick ’09 is an engineering feat as well as a work of art. Two giant inflated hands are connected to a table where the invitation “Please Caress” is printed around a patch of faux fur. As viewers pat the patch, fans beneath the table blow air into the inflated arms, causing the hands to move. Slightly more traditional is Anne Blazejack’s ’09 oil painting, “Bathtub Ritual.” In this beautiful depiction of a woman in a bathtub with a goldfish swimming near her toes, Blazejack uses perspective to achieve a playful yet elegant effect. Emily Martin ’11 plays a dual role in this year’s exhibition. Her piece is an untitled lithograph of a mask and baby dress. Martin is also the subject of a portrait by Erica Palmiter ’09, hung beside Martin’s own lithograph, entitled “Emily’s Flannel.” The portrait is done in oil on flannel, and Palmiter said she chose an alternative to canvas to better “incorporate the person that I was painting.” Palmiter also said she thought the flannel represented not only Martin’s style but also that of many others at Brown. Palmiter’s work is one of many in this year’s student exhibition that illustrates the praiseworthy talent and multifarious perspectives of not only the artists but also that of the larger Brown community.

Monet goes green at Providence art club By Sarah Julian Contributing Writer

To create his famous painting of a Japanese foot-bridge, Claude Monet used oil on canvas. Thomas Deininger’s interpretation uses Legos, plastic beads, toy soldiers, soda caps and other assorted recycled items. Deininger’s creation is part of an exhibit at the Providence Art Club that features the work of New England artists. The common theme: Each piece of art is made of recycled materials. The idea of an exhibit made entirely of trash might give rise to conceptions of strange modern art creations made of bottles and cans, but the Art Club’s collection featured many surprising and even beautiful works. Mar y Jane Andreozzi’s work, called “Joshua Tree,” was a spoonshaped sculpture made entirely

of red, orange, brown and green scraps of fabric, mounted on a wall. In her artist’s statement in the exhibition catalogue, Andreozzi wrote, “My work is inspired by the grace, strength and beauty of the natural world.” She wrote of her piece, “you will see that each change in color is a change in fabric.” The Reverend Bill Comeau’s entry, an acrylic painting entitled “Christmas on Water Street,” was one of the few works that used recycled cans. Comeau painted on top of crushed Budweiser, Sprite and Pepsi cans to depict visitors to the infant Jesus Christ. The exhibit included works in almost ever y medium. A collage by L yn Hayden entitled “Dutch Painting Recycled” was made of book pages, stamps and dried tucontinued on page 6

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Katherine Regalado / Herald Neeta Pal ’09 danced in last weekend’s South Asian Students Association culture show in Salomon 101.

Orchestra performs R.I. premiere of ‘Chasing Light...’ By Rosalind Schonwald Staf f Writer

Joseph Schwantner — educator, musician and Pulitzer Prizewinning composer — bestowed some of his creativity and intellect on Brown’s campus during his residency last week. The Brown University Orchestra’s spectacular performance of Schwantner’s newest symphonic work, “Chasing Light...,” was the pinnacle of the weekend. The piece, commissioned by 58 orchestras from all 50 states, is the largest consortiumcommissioning project in U.S. history. Brown was one of several smaller contributors that jointly funded the composition, which received significant support from the Ford Motor Company Fund.

Schwantner has served on the faculties of several conser vatories in the country, including the Juilliard School and the Eastman School of Music. Though he has officially retired from teaching to devote the rest of his life to composition, Schwantner’s natural affinity for learning and teaching is undeniable. He clearly derives satisfaction from spreading music as well as from learning about others’ musical experiences, saying, “A wide range of types of musicians are participating in this project. We don’t know what happens in the big middle of the country, and in some ways I’m learning about how much activity there is, because of the consortium I’m involved with.” The concert was the Rhode Island premiere of “Chasing

Light...,” which depicts a morning in the New Hampshire woods. In performance, the piece was flanked by Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor — with soloist Bryan Chu ’11 — and Stravinksy’s “Firebird Suite.” Schwantner’s clear, direct style was smartly framed by Tchaikovsky’s obsessive thematic developments and Stravinksy’s prancing and brooding ballet music. “With all the colors, smells and textures you experience in the early morning — I wanted to capture that,” Schwantner explained in a speech before the orchestra performed “Chasing Light....” Though there is no pause between each of the work’s four movements, they are easily difcontinued on page 6

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“It’s the sense of exploration that excites me about percussionists.” — Joseph Schwantner, composer of “Chasing Light...”

Visitors praise ‘green works’ exhibit continued from page 5 lips. Erik Gould’s entr y included an untitled street photograph he took using his other entry, “Trash Can Camera.” Adrianne Evans used sunlight and thermal exposure to write the words “sugar maple” on a maple leaf. According to Galler y Coordinator Kristin Grimm, each year the Art Club works with Fidelity Investments, the exhibit’s sponsor, to come up with a theme for a group show. “This year we both felt that we had gone through most types of media and wanted to do something different and current,” Grimm said. The result of their discussions was the theme “green works.”

For each year’s show, Fidelity gives awards to the artists of the top three pieces. This year, first prize went to Deininger for “Study for Stroking Monet,” second prize to Walt Chaney for “Two Wooden Renderings of a Building” and third prize to Jerold Ehrlich for his steel sculpture entitled “The Give and Take.” In his artist’s statement, Deininger wrote, “I am an ardent environmentalist not because I think nature cares about us. Fact is we are a product of it and art is, in essence, humans reflecting on their own condition.” He explained “Study for Stroking Monet” writing, “With this series of work based on already wellknown images from art history, I

raise questions about value and consumption, beauty and banal.” The consensus seemed to be that Deininger’s work was extraordinary. Grimm said of the painting, “It really embodies what this show is all about. To take these cast off objects and create this mesmerizing piece is a testament to the artist.” Providence resident John Birtic said he liked the top three pieces and agreed with the order in which they were awarded. Barbara Green, an artist from Barrington, said she was intrigued by the experimental work in the exhibit, particularly by the startling resemblance of Deininger’s work to the original Monet.

Kids love music, not economics continued from page 5 ferentiated by variations in tone and pattern. Though Schwantner’s music is tonally and rhythmically complex, it is accessible to general audiences because of his emphasis on clarity, direct communication and sharing in the musical process. Schwantner said promoting music education was not his explicit goal in writing “Chasing Light....” But his avuncular attitude and willingness to discuss process and form make him a natural teacher. In a lecture in Grant Recital Hall last Thursday, Schwantner enthusiastically drew the music students who attended into a discussion on the composition process. Praising the flexibility and creativity of percussionists, Schwantner asked, “Are any of you percussionists?” When one student raised his hand, Schwantner joked, “If you ask them to walk across the

floor on their hands, they’ll do it for you.” “It’s the sense of exploration that excites me about percussionists,” he added. Schwantner showed the same spontaneity and responsiveness in a workshop sponsored by Community MusicWorks, a musical education and outreach center in Providence that was started by Brown graduates. The composer — who based “Chasing Light...” on a poem he had written — described his creative process in a simplified form so that the elementary school children could understand and relate to it. “He selected a poem one of our students wrote and did a really rough version of what he did with his piece,” said Sarah Stalnaker, a resident musician at Community MusicWorks. “He composed a piece with us. The teachers were in the front of the room, and the students were in a horseshoe around him. It was an awesome eight-line poem and we were able to get through six

lines with him.” Schwantner told The Herald his early experiences probably led to his gushing enthusiasm for music, especially on the subject of teacherstudent exchange. He credits his high school band director — who also arranged music for a Chicago radio orchestra — with inspiring and enabling several students to become professional musicians. “He set a very high bar in terms of his work as a professional composer,” Schwantner explained. “Some musicians in my high school wound up being quite prominent in the Count Basie band.” Schwantner extolled the importance of teachers in turning young talent into mature, experienced musicians. “People in music invariably start quite young,” he said. “Two things happen: Their talent is identified, and their parents see to it that their talent is advanced. How many children do you know who want to be economists?”

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Two wins for w. tennis

Gymnastics dominates in finals home meet

By Katie Wood Assistant Sports Editor

The women’s tennis team rolled to a 6-1 victory over St. John’s and a 7-0 whitewashing of Albany on Saturday at the Pizzitola Center to extend the team’s winning streak to eight matches. The Bears (12-2) controlled the two matches from start to finish, losing only 16 games in six doubles matches. Five players earned three wins apiece for the team. “The great thing about our team is that we get along really well, and it shows,” said Bianca Aboubakare ’11. “It has a lot to do with our team chemistry out on the floor.”

By Elisabeth Avallone Spor ts Staf f Writer

Following a second-place finish at Ivies last weekend, the Bears came back even stronger for senior night against West Chester University. Earning first through fourth in each event, the Bears totaled 188.350 compared to West Chester’s 179.400 in their last meet before the ECAC Championships. Captain Jennifer Sobuta ’09, though sad to see her Brown career nearing an end, reflected on how proud she was of the team. “We’ve come a long way since September and the confidence and pride I see in all the girls’ eyes this year is something I’ll always remember,” said Sobuta. “It’s really an exciting time for our program and I think we’ve shown not only the other Ivies but the other teams in the ECAC that we are capable of giving them a real run for their money. I hope that next weekend at ECACs we can make all the small adjustments that are necessary to finally finish off the season with a 190 team score.” Carli Wiesenfeld ’12 started off the Bears on vault, finishing in first with a 9.525. For second place, Lauren Tucker ’12 and Chelsey Binkley ’11 earned a 9.425. Helen Segal ’10 earned a personal best and fourth place with a 9.400, and Lilly Siems ’12 (9.300) finished in fifth. Brown tallied 47.075 on the event. On bars, Victoria Zanelli ’11 earned first, scoring a 9.650. Siems posted a personal best of 9.475 for second place. Isabelle Kirkham-

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Chelsey Binkley ’11, along with Lauren Tucker ’12, earned a 9.425 to finish in second place.

Lewitt ’10 (9.225) placed third, Vida Rivera ’11 (9.100) fourth and Sobuta (8.950) fifth. Again winning the event, Brown posted a combined 46.000. The Bears continued to dominate on the beam, tallying 47.225. Binkley and Sobuta each posted a 9.500 for first, while Tucker (9.475), Zanelli (9.425) and Siems (9.324) placed third through fifth, respectively. In Brown’s best event of the night, the floor exercise, Segal led the way with a 9.725. Binkley secured second with a 9.700, followed by Katie Goddard ’12 in third with a 9.500. Tucker (9.375) placed fourth, and Whitney Diederich ’09 (9.350) took sixth. Zanelli won the all-around title, tallying a 37.375. “Yesterday was a great closure

for a home meet,” Zanelli said. “We still had a couple mistakes, but the team has definitely progressed so much this season. The consistency and confidence reflected at practice and at the meets will make this weekend at ECACs very exciting. All the hard work has absolutely paid off.” The Bears compete next at the ECAC championship on Mar. 21 at Yale. “Friday night was our best overall team performance this season,” said Head Coach Sara Carver-Milne. “We counted the fewest mistakes of any competition. ... The team did a great job performing for a large, enthusiastic and supportive crowd of Brown fans in our final home meet of 2009. It was a great tribute to our seniors, for their four years of dedication to the program.”

Brown 6, St. John’s 1 Bianca Aboubakare and Cassandra Herzberg ’12 took care of business in the No. 1 doubles match, winning 8-3. Carissa Aboubakare ’12 and Sara Mansur ’09 handled their opponents by the same total of 8-3. Emily Ellis ’10 and Kathrin Sorokko ’10 claimed the doubles point over the Red Storm, 8-2. Ira Aleksova was ready for her match at No. 1 singles against Bianca Aboubakare. Aleksova battled through her serve, sending the first game into deuce multiple times before Aboubakare broke her serve. Aboubakare dropped only two games in the first set, winning 6-2, and played flawlessly in the second as she pulled out an impressive 6-0 win. “I became more frugal with my decisions,” Bianca Aboubakare said. “I didn’t make as many errors and finished points more quickly, forcing her to make more errors.” No. 2 Mansur, No. 3 Tanja Vucetic ’10 and No. 5 Catherine Stewart ’12 each pulled away from their opponents and cruised to easy wins, never giving up more than

three games in each set. No. 4 Julie Flanzer ’12 won her first set, 6-4, but found a little trouble in the second , falling 3-6. She persevered through the tie breaker for a 10-6 win. No. 6 Brett Finkelstein ’09 lost a close match after pulling out a tight win in the first set, 6-4. She fell 3-6 and could not come back from her strong start, losing the tie breaker, 10-8. Finkelstein’s loss was the only match the Bears dropped the entire day. Brown 7, Albany 0 The Bears continued their hot streak and dominated Albany from start to finish. Bianca Aboubakare and Herzberg won in a convincing fashion, 8-1, at No. 1 doubles. No. 2 doubles team Carissa Aboubakare and Mansur and No. 3 Ellis and Sorokko also pulled away with wins to take an early 1-0 lead. Bianca Aboubakare sat out the singles play against Albany after supporting her team with a solid three wins on the day. Herzberg took over her duties at No. 1 singles, controlling her opponent from the first serve, 6-0, 6-0. Vucetic filled in for Mansur at No. 2 singles, battling through three sets for the 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 win. “All the new players have filled in when needed and have brought up the team’s level of play,” Bianca Aboubakare said. “We have great practices because everyone is fighting for a spot.” Flanzer moved up a spot to No. 3, pulling out a tight victory, 6-4, 7-6 (2). At No. 4, Carissa Aboubakare tallied her third win of the day as she cruised to a 6-1, 6-1 win. No. 5 Ellis also rose to the challenge, staying alive for a 6-4, 7-6 (4) win. Alexa Baggio ’09 closed out the day for the Bears with a three-set continued on page 8

W. lacrosse opens Ivy season with a win By Andrew Braca Spor ts Editor

The women’s lacrosse team beat Har vard, 12-8, in its Ivy League opener Saturday on Berylson Family Fields home turf, exorcising the demons of four straight losses to the Crimson. “We’ve lost by one goal (to Harvard) for the last two years, so to come out and win by a few was a huge testament to how far we’ve come as a program and how hard our team works,” said Head Coach Keely McDonald ’00. After enduring a 14-13 loss in Cambridge the previous season, the win was especially sweet for the seniors, said Jesse Nunn ’09. “It’s something we definitely wanted to do,” she said. “Last year kind of left a bad taste in our mouth, so getting back out there and getting a win over them today

was great.” Nunn, who had missed the previous two games because of an injur y, returned to lead eight Brown scorers with four goals and an assist. “She’s a senior leader for us,” McDonald said. “It was really nice to have her back.” The Bears (3-2, 1-0 Ivy) dominated the Crimson (2-3, 0-1) over the first 21 minutes. Nunn got Bruno off to a fast start, striking just 1:11 into the game to give her team a lead it would never relinquish. Kelly Robinson ’09 picked off a Har vard pass and took the ball right to the net 1:22 later. After Katelyn Caro ’12 scored twice in a row, Brown had a commanding 4-0 lead just 8:07 into the game. McDonald credited her team’s continued on page 8

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The women’s lacrosse team beat Harvard this weekend after losing to the Crimson 14-13 last season.

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“They knew it was going to be a bloodbath.” — Keely McDonald ’00, w. lacrosse head coach

W. tennis hits the W. lax heads into spring break with a win road for spring break continued from page 7

continued from page 7 thriller. She won, 6-4, before losing the second set, 6-7 (5). She kept the fight up in the tie breaker and came away with a tight 10-7 win to claim the match. Ellis, Herzberg and Mansur also tallied three wins apiece for the Bears. The Bears will look to extend their winning streak against Davidson, Charlotte and Furman

over spring break before returning home for an Ivy League battle against Yale on March 29. The road trip will give the Bears a lot of experience needed for the last stretch of games to finish out the season, according to Bianca Aboubakare. “They will probably be thinking that we won’t be as good as them because we’re from the Ivy League,” she said. “But we have a lot of fight in us.”

fast start to the players’ focus and fortitude. “They knew it was going to be a bloodbath,” she said. “They knew they had to be ready, and I think they took that to heart and went after the ground balls and the draws and put us ahead early, which I think really made the game for us.” Jess Halpern finally put the Crimson on the board with one of her three goals, but Nunn answered just 37 seconds later off a beautiful pass from Molly McCarthy ’10, one of her three assists. The game was scoreless for 9:28 before Alexa Caldwell ’11 increased Bruno’s lead to 6-1 on a free position shot. When Nunn notched her third goal of the game just 1:18 later, the rout appeared to be on. The Bears had built a 7-1 lead with 9:12 still remaining before halftime. “Our focus (was) to take care of the ball on the attack (and) stay composed,” Nunn said. “Our midfield transition was great. Another thing we also focused on was the ride, our defensive ride out in transition. I think we did a really good job of that and caused a lot of turnovers.” But the Crimson came roaring back with five straight goals, as the Brown offense succumbed to tighter Crimson defense around the net to suffer through a score-

less stretch of 15:03. Halpern scored two of Harvard’s three goals in the waning minutes of the first half to cut the deficit to three heading into halftime. After Sarah Bancroft struck 1:31 into the second half, Kaitlin Martin scored on a free position shot 39 seconds later to cut Brown’s lead to 7-6. The momentum appeared to be squarely on the side of the Crimson, but Nunn said the Bears were not fazed by Har vard’s run. “There’s going to be ups and downs, (but) I think we responded to that really well,” she said. “We kept our composure, and we were really confident throughout the whole game that we knew we could take it, so it was all right.” The Bears never allowed the Crimson to tie the score, answering each time Har vard scored. Bethany Buzzell ’09 extended the lead to 8-6 on a free position shot 5:51 into the second half. Martin again cut the lead to one goal on a free position shot 2:35 later, but Nunn answered 1:17 later to give Brown a 9-7 lead. Bancroft again cut the lead to one goal on a free position shot 1:38 later, but the Crimson would not score again for the final 18:39 of the game. Brown took a 10-8 lead with 13:29 remaining when Kaela McGilloway ’12 scored off a feed from Buzzell. Isabel Har vey ’10 then made the most important of her eight

saves, stopping Sara Flood’s free position shot with just over 11 minutes remaining to preser ve Brown’s two-goal lead. The Bears were able to milk the clock with patient of fense for much of the remainder of the game. Paris Waterman ’11 and cocaptain Lauren Vitkus ’09 tacked on goals with 6:24 and 29 seconds left, respectively, to produce the 12-8 final score. Brown outshot Har vard, 35-19. The Bears were also faster — holding a 25-17 advantage in ground balls — and smoother with the ball, committing only 11 turnovers to the Crimson’s 24. Val Sherr y ’09 led the Bears with three caused turnovers and added three ground balls, while Robinson secured five ground balls and Vitkus had four. Co-captain Noelle DiGioia ’09 won four draw controls. The Bears will play three games over spring break, traveling to Storrs, Conn., to face UConn (07) on Saturday. They will then host Oregon (4-2) next Tuesday and face Dar tmouth (2-2) March 28 in Hanover, N.H. McDonald said the team would use the full week of practices ahead to focus on “getting back to the basics,” a prospect Nunn said the team welcomes. “We’ve seen how well we can play,” Nunn said. “I think ever yone’s just excited to get out there on Monday and get practicing again.”

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Under pressure, Obama turns to his e-mail list By Chris Cillizza Washington Post

WASHINGTON — President Obama will kick off an all-out grass-roots effort Monday urging Congress to pass his $3.55 trillion budget, activating the extensive campaign apparatus he built during his successful 2008 candidacy for the first time since taking office. The campaign, which will be run under the aegis of the Democratic National Committee, will rely heavily on the 13 million-strong e-mail list put together during the campaign and now under the control of Organizing for America (OFA), a group overseen by the DNC. Aides familiar with the plan said it is an unprecedented attempt to transfer the grass-roots energy built during the presidential campaign into an effort to sway Congress. David Plouffe, who was Obama’s campaign manager and is now an adviser to OFA, called this effort the “first major engagement” of the group in the legislative process and said in a statement that it will call on supporters “to help the President win the debate between those who marched in lockstep with the failed Bush economic policies and now have no new ideas versus the Obama agenda which will help us manage the short term economic crisis and puts us on the path to long term prosperity.” Plouffe, who passed up a formal role in the White House but remains a conduit to the army of Obama volunteers, sent an e-mail to the OFA mailing list over the weekend signaling the ramping up of the campaign for the president’s budget. “In the next few weeks we’ll be asking you to do some of the same things we asked of you during the campaign — talking directly to people in your communities about the President’s ideas for long-term prosperity,” he wrote. That push begins Monday with an e-mail asking volunteers to go door to door Saturday to urge their neighbors to sign a pledge in support of Obama’s budget plan. A new online tool, to be unveiled this week on the DNC/OFA Web site, will help constituents find their congressional representatives’ con-

tact information so they can call the lawmakers’ offices to voice approval of the proposal. A midweek follow-up message to the mailing list will ask volunteers to call the Hill — the first time the OFA e-mail database has been used to urge direct contact with Congress in support of legislation. “Members are going to be surrounded by this, and this is going to carry on for the next several weeks on this budget fight,” said one source familiar with the strategy. Several people closely involved in this campaign’s planning made it clear that they believe this is the moment Democrats have been waiting for since Obama’s election — the deployment of the volunteer army that helped catapult a freshman senator to the presidency. When Obama announced the formation of Organizing for America via YouTube in January, he said the group “will build on the movement you started during the campaign” and added: “That’s why I am asking people like you who fought for change during the campaign to continue fighting for change in your communities.” Obama’s closest aides have been plotting for months when to make the move. Bringing Organizing for America under the umbrella of the DNC and installing a group of Obama loyalists — including Democratic Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine as chairman and Jen O’Malley Dillon, a highly regarded campaign operative, as executive director — were aimed at re-creating the disciplined organization of the campaign. “This is exactly the scenario OFA was moved into the DNC for, to take on the toughest tasks, the most transformational moments,” said one party source. “Remember, everything Obama wants to accomplish from a substantive perspective requires him to pass this budget as a down payment and to draw lines in the sand.” Passing Obama’s budget will not be an easy task. Republicans have lined up in near-unanimous resistance, and even some Democrats have voiced concerns about the huge deficit — $1.75 trillion for this fiscal year — and the spending priorities

outlined in the proposal. During an appearance yesterday on ABC’s “This Week,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Obama’s plan “taxes too much, it spends too much, it borrows too much.” Obama is getting help in the budget fight from liberal interest groups, led by Americans United for Change. The group launched a television ad Sunday, titled “Crickets,” that highlights the Republican opposition to Obama’s budget proposal and says that GOP leaders have no new ideas to offer. “Tell the Republicans that Americans won’t take no for an answer,” the narrator says in the ad. “Tell them we want our president — and America — to succeed.” It remains to be seen, however, whether the millions who volunteered for and donated to Obama’s presidential campaign will bring that same energy and dedication to bear on the far more mundane task of trying to force a budget through Congress. Volunteering to help turn out the vote in a battleground state is one thing; knocking on doors to seek pledges of support for a budget proposal is entirely different. “It is harder to inspire action on policy issues than it is in a campaign,” said Terry Nelson, a senior GOP official who managed part of Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign in 2007. “Generally, fewer people are responsive to the appeals, and the environment that the appeal takes place in is different than an election, where volunteers are actually advocating to fellow citizens who also have a vote. In legislative advocacy, the actions are not as connected to the legislative outcome.” The Organizing for America team has held several dry runs to test the efficacy of their volunteer apparatus, including a call for supporters to hold “economic recovery house meetings” last month to highlight challenges presented by the recession. The house parties were designed to coincide with the congressional debate over Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package, which passed with nearunanimous Democratic support and just three Republican votes.

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Pakistan announces reinstatement of judges By Pamela Constable Washington Post

LAHORE, Pakistan — Unable to crush street protests Sunday that spilled out of this city and threatened to reach the capital, the Pakistani government announced early Monday morning that it would restore the former chief justice of the Supreme Court and a group of other deposed judges in a major capitulation to opponents. The move reflected the weakening position of President Asif Ali Zardari, a key U.S. ally. Zardari had resisted bringing back former chief justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry for months, but he faced mounting pressure from a broad coalition of opponents who demanded the reinstatement of Pakistan’s independent judiciary and threatened to march on the capital, Islamabad, until Chaudhry was brought back. The decision marked an extraordinary victory for Pakistan’s legal community, which has been agitating peacefully for the judges’ reinstatement for the past two years, and for Zardari’s major political rival, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. He defied house arrest Sunday to lead supporters in a boisterous protest caravan along the 150-mile route to Islamabad. As word spread early morning Monday that Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani would announce the judges’ restoration to office, Pakistani television stations showed jubilant crowds gathering around Chaudhry’s house in Islamabad. Celebrations also erupted in the Sharif-led caravan, which was traveling through the night from Lahore. The prime minister made the official announcement at dawn Monday in an address to the nation, saying Chaudhry would be reinstated March 21, and that lawyers and activists arrested in the past week would be freed. “This will restore stability to Pakistan,” Athar Minallah, a spokesman for Chaudhry, said early Monday,

as analysts suggested the move and other concessions offered by the government might heal the rift between Zardari and Sharif. Pakistan, a nuclear-armed Muslim nation of 172 million, faces a raging Islamist insurgency and a deepening economic crisis. The growing confrontation between Zardari and a coalition of primarily secular opponents has alarmed Washington and raised the prospect of a possible army coup, just one year after Pakistan emerged from a decade of military rule. A spokesman for Sharif’s party, the Pakistan Muslim League-N, had said that he expected an official pardon of Chaudhry and the other judges, in accordance with an agreement signed by Zardari and Sharif last year. Muslim League officials had suggested that once the decision was officially announced, they would call off their “long march” to the capital Monday and cancel a long-planned protest. The government had sealed off Islamabad with shipping containers and other barricades late Saturday in an attempt to prevent the marchers from entering the federal government district. But as rumors of Chaudhry’s restoration spread, many police barricades were withdrawn from the Grand Trunk Road and hundreds of people joined the procession in towns along the way. Chaudhry and the other judges were fired in 2007 by Pakistan’s former militar y ruler, Per vez Musharraf, because they refused to take an oath under his amended constitution. Zardari had publicly insisted that the judges could not be restored until Pakistan’s Parliament had a chance to make broader changes in the constitution. But many Pakistanis and foreign observers believed the president reneged on his pledge to restore them because he feared that the independent-minded Chaudhry would reopen old corruption cases against him and might also overturn many of his actions as president.

Controlled exposure shows promise for reversing peanut allergy By Melissa Healy Los Angeles T imes

After years of frustration, allergists meeting in Washington, D.C., proclaimed a small but significant victory against life-threatening peanut allergies. Five children, long urged to avoid peanuts like the plague, today tote peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches in their lunch boxes, blithely share candy with friends and accept snacks at other people’s homes without quizzing their hosts on the treats’ ingredients. The children appear to have lost their allergies, said Dr. Wesley Burks, a Duke University pediatric allergist, who presented the results

of two clinical trials Sunday at a meeting of the American Academy of Asthma and Immunology. The unpublished trials tested whether peanut-allergic patients could be helped to tolerate peanuts by consuming tiny but increasing doses of the food, which induces hives, itching or swelling and is responsible for about half the 150 annual food-allergy-associated deaths in the United States each year. The studies are the first in a series of promising efforts to push back this dangerous, and growing, food allergy. As many as 3 million Americans have an allergy to peanuts. The percentage of U.S. children with a food allergy jumped 18 percent in the

decade leading to 2007, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers have puzzled over the cause of this rapid rise; some have suggested that children’s dwindling exposure to dirt, soil and animals has driven the increase. Although the studies are small and preliminar y, Burks said the group plans to expand the number of children enrolled in the research, and he hoped that within two to three years the first of several treatments for peanut allergies will be available to physicians. “We’re encouraged,” said Robert Pacenza, executive director of the Food Allergy Initiative, a patient group active in promoting research

and educating the public about the dangers of food allergies. Although only five children so far have had a seemingly complete reversal of their allergy, that’s five that have achieved results not seen before, he said. In the studies, conducted by a joint team of researchers from Duke University Medical Center and the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute, children started on the equivalent of 1/1,000th of a peanut and progressively worked their way up. In the initial study, 33 highly allergic children underwent the socalled oral immunotherapy treatment. Burks reported on nine who had been followed for 21/2 years.

Five had weathered several food challenges without incident, eating a substantial helping of peanuts under the eyes of a researcher armed with a syringe full of epinephrine to counter any sudden reaction. All five started the trial with slightly lower allergic sensitivity than the average subject. They have been allowed to discontinue daily therapy, although their peanut intake is still monitored, as are immune reactions that might signal a return of their peanut sensitivity. Burks said he is unsure how long the effect will last, but that the five children are the first ever to exhibit “long-term tolerance” of peanuts after having been diagnosed as allergic.

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Uniting Brown Students from Brown/RISD Hillel and the Muslim Students Association recently engaged in one of the most innovative attempts to deal with Brown’s segregation problem in recent memory. It’s no secret that Brown’s student body is stratified along racial and religious lines. Groups of friends are often homogenous, and many students’ extracurricular activities and coursework are focused on areas primarily or exclusively designed for students of a particular ethno-religious background. Of course, this isn’t all bad. Specially tailored groups help some students feel at home in a new and alien environment. However, such comfort should be accompanied by dialogue with other segments of Brown’s population. One of the most important benefits of a diverse campus is the exchange of ideas among people of distinct backgrounds who approach the world in different ways. Homogeneity among social groups threatens such interactions at Brown by limiting opportunities for student-to-student conversation. This problem was, in a subtle fashion, the target of yesterday’s Hillel-MSA event. Roughly 20 Jewish and Muslim students gathered on Lincoln Field to talk, share Meeting Street cookies and play a game of pickup football. Unlike many events designed to create links between campus Jews and Muslims (like the frank conversations on Middle East issues sponsored by the unfortunately now-defunct group Open House), there was no set topic or weighty issue for the crowd on Lincoln to discuss. Instead, the students acted like, well, students — talking about their hometowns, favorite movies and their intense disappointment at this year’s Spring Weekend lineup. By not setting an agenda, Hillel and MSA leadership allowed students to interact organically, creating a space where political and religious tensions were forgotten and real personal connections could be forged. Such interactions are the key to creating real bonds between the two communities, and we applaud Hillel and the MSA for working to create them. Other groups, both those that do and do not represent communities with a history of conflict, should emulate this model. For example, there was mention in 2006 of a potential collaboration between College Hill for Christ and the Queer Alliance on an AIDS testing drive, an initiative we would welcome. Ultimately, though, it’s not about the precise form of the event, so long as participants get to talking. And MSA and Hillel have just gotten off to a great start. Editorials are written by The Herald’s editorial page board. Send comments to editorials@browndailyherald.com.

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NAB works for Native students To the Editor: We would like to thank The Herald for the recent editorial (“A Columbus Day by any other name,” March 9) in which faculty members were urged to attend the upcoming faculty meeting to vote on the motion to change the name of the current fall holiday to “Fall Weekend.” Despite majority support, lack of a quorum prevented the motion from being passed at the last faculty meeting on March 3. As reported in another article (“Columbus Day proposal still in limbo,” March 4), Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 told The Herald that in order to achieve a quorum of 100 voting members, students will have to lobby faculty members to attend the next meeting. Thank you for helping in these efforts. The editorial also urged Native Americans at Brown “not to stop with simply renaming Brown’s vacation days.” NAB wholeheartedly agrees. Indeed, the effort to remove “Columbus Day” from Brown’s calendar is simply one of many steps in our current efforts to promote awareness of Native American issues. We work to strengthen the Native voice on campus in a number of other ways, including advocacy for the recruitment of Native American students, the bettering of our retention and graduation rates, the employment of Native professors and the addition of courses focused on American Indian studies. Furthermore, regardless of the outcome of the motion, NAB plans to help organize several events in early October to engage the Brown and larger communities in discussions about the varied perspectives on Colum-

bus Day, and to bring attention to the Native American histories which for too long have been neglected. It is our hope that these will become annual events. The Herald specifically suggested that NAB “should hold panels and talks on campus to further educate students about the effects of colonization in this country and about the status of Native American tribes and land today.” NAB does just this through the year-long Native American Heritage Series. This year’s theme is “Native Americans in the 21st Century,” and our final event is the Annual Spring Thaw Powwow. A vivid demonstration of the beauty and importance of Native arts and culture, Powwow is a unique opportunity for interaction between members of Indigenous nations and of the Brown community outside of the lecture hall. It also draws visitors of all ages, who have often never seen a powwow, from throughout the city of Providence. NAB invites all of you to join us on April 4-5 on Lincoln Field to celebrate our heritage and to learn more about Native cultures at the 8th Annual Spring Thaw Powwow. Dana Eldridge ’11 Peter Hatch ’11 Helen Johnson ’11 Liz Hoover PhD ‘09 Members of Native Americans at Brown Loyola Rankin ’11 Programmer, 2008-9 Native American Heritage Series March 13

correction An opinions column in last Tuesday’s Herald (“Why the Corporation matters and how they get paid,” March 10) incorrectly identified Annette Nazareth as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner. Nazareth stepped down from her position as commissioner in Jan. 2008.

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Picnics or John Edwards? Nick Hagerty Opinions Columnist There’s been a lot of talk recently on this page about the essence of the Brown student. But what about the identity of Brown University? University administrators and students often compare Brown to the ultra-prestigious trio of Harvard, Yale and Princeton. They mourn as that authority of authorities, the U.S. News and World Report, mercilessly drops Brown’s annual ranking among National Universities from 14 to 16. Last place in the Ivy League! But high school students, at least, see something else in Brown. For despite the U.S. News ranking, Brown ranks sixth as high schoolers’ “dream college,” ahead of Columbia, Penn and MIT. A 2004 “revealed preference” study by Harvard researchers, which compared schools by how often students choose to attend them over other colleges, ranked Brown seventh. (Unsurprisingly, they put Harvard first.) And for what it’s worth, Brown is perennially among the top three on the Princeton Review’s “Happiest Students” list. So what is it that causes Brown to perform so much better in those more illuminating rankings than its basic statistical indicators, as aggregated by U.S. News, would otherwise predict? The standard answer is, of course, the New Curriculum. But perhaps equally important are Brown’s commitment to undergraduates and its “university-college” model. I chose Brown because yes, I would be able to do cutting-edge science research and see

speakers like John Edwards and Ricardo Lagos, but at the same time, professors would know my name. Jan Tullis, a professor of geological sciences, attended Carleton College and later UCLA. At Carleton, she said, faculty were out of date with the material, while at UCLA, undergraduates were not valued. Brown gets the balance just right. Despite the current recession, though, Brown is in a substantial long-term expansion of its faculty, graduate school and research power. So will moving further away from Car-

explain concepts at a fundamental level. Others simply appear not to care about teaching — for example, rarely do the worst instructors ask for course feedback. One semester I tried to take ECON 1210: “Intermediate Macroeconomics,” only to find that the professor had not written a syllabus, couldn’t answer organizational questions and hadn’t given any prior thought to the course beyond selecting a textbook. I know several students who were too discouraged by intermediate economics courses to continue in the department.

If the University really wants to improve science education and retain its focus on undergraduates amidst ambitious expansion, academic growth must be managed carefully and deliberately. leton bring us closer to UCLA? No, Tullis said, and I agree: not necessarily. Only preeminence in research can give undergraduates such opportunities as recent fieldwork trips to Greenland and the Galapagos. Research and teaching are not a zerosum game, said Chung-I Tan, professor of physics and chair of the department. But the current scene of teaching at Brown, especially in quantitative subjects like physical sciences and economics, is already far from the university-college ideal. Any concentrator in these fields can name several professors who were clearly not hired for their teaching abilities. Some professors are not comfortable enough with English to engage the class. Some have good intentions but are unable to

I could easily go on — similar scenarios are all too common. However, it is not all bad news; there are many excellent professors throughout Brown. Tan told me that the physics department provides graduate teaching assistants for the introductory physics courses. But when I took PHYS 0160: “Introduction to Relativity and Quantum Physics,” the professor taught the problem sessions himself because he wanted to get to know his students better. Particularly exemplary is the geological sciences department. Renowned nationally for a top research and graduate program, it is also known around campus for being close-knit and especially supportive of undergraduates. “There’s definitely a lot of attention paid

to undergraduates,” said Jon Wang ’10, a geobio concentrator. The department hosts numerous community building events, he said, including a holiday party, a fall picnic and departmental field trips. No matter how busy professors are, they’re always willing to talk. “I can just wander around, find them and talk to them,” he added. When it comes to hiring decisions, undergraduates actually have an important voice, said Timothy Herbert, professor and chair of the department. Candidates for a faculty position meet for an hour with a group of undergraduate concentrators. The students then submit written summaries, which are considered in the final deliberations. If the University really wants to improve science education and retain its focus on undergraduates amidst ambitious expansion, academic growth must be managed carefully and deliberately. It is critical that faculty hiring, promotion and tenure decisions more strongly take into account teaching skills and enthusiasm for undergraduates. Other departments, especially in quantitative fields, should look to geological sciences as a model. Brown’s unique identity rests on not having to choose between picnics and John Edwards, and all they represent. But unless the University remembers that first-rate higher education requires all professors to be genuinely dedicated to undergraduates, we risk losing that identity and becoming just one more “top research university.”

Nick Hagerty ’10 is a biological physics and economics concentrator from Portland, Oregon. He can be reached at nicholas_hagerty@brown.edu.

Dear current and future Grad Center residents: Ivy Chang Opinions Columnist Fellow Grad Center residents, I can understand why having your own little single can be exciting. After what seemed like eons of living in a kitchen-turned-triple, you suddenly feel as though you have all the freedom in the world. You can change out of your PJs in the privacy of your own living space. You can blast your favorite Jonas Brothers CD without fear of judgment. You no longer have to worry about awkwardly sexiling your silent, glaring roommate. You have your own room now! You and your fellow suitemates are finally free to run through the tiny corridors of your suite shrieking like monkeys if you so please. I speak on behalf of us all when I tell you this: Don’t get too excited. Unfortunately for you and the rest of Grad Center, there is an important fact that most new residents forget — the dorms are about as soundproof as cardboard boxes. As you blast your favorite disco mix in the

safe comfort of your own room, the people living above and below you are cursing you, looking you up on Facebook and passiveaggressively plotting your demise as they rant about you on the Daily Jolt. It would be in your best interest to try and keep your speaker volume down to a reasonable level. Weekend parties are understandably a necessity, and it is rather amusing at first

ter at 4 a.m. when they have an Arabic exam five hours later. I am in awe of people who are able to wake up early to do things such as studying, going out for a run or getting breakfast. But I can guarantee you’ll inspire hatred if you and your friend living on the other side of the earth rouse everyone around you while Skyping at 7 a.m. by carrying on at the same

After what seemed like eons of living in a kitchenturned-triple, you suddenly feel as though you have all the freedom in the world. to feel the walls of the tower vibrate with thumping bass and the screams of happy revelers from somewhere within its stony depths. Weekdays are a different case. It’s great that you and your night owl friends can congregate in the hall or in your suite’s largest room to have impromptu dance parties or chat about life, politics, philosophy, religion, etc. into the wee hours of night. But your fellow residents will not appreciate your yelling, stomping and howls of laugh-

decibel level you would use in your room back home. Alarm clocks are another issue. They’re necessities for those who need to wake up early. An alarm clock can even help wake up the rest of the building when its owner leaves before the siren and completely forgets about it, letting it ring and ring and ring and ring. Obliviousness doesn’t just affect those living near you, it may also affect your per-

sonal life. I can’t even begin to count the number of times that I’ve clearly heard every word of a heated argument between a couple or a heart-to-heart chat by just sitting in my room, despite my best efforts to drown it out. Grad Center residents should be aware of other threats to their privacy. Although this happens less frequently, I’ve accidentally glimpsed some students in various states of undress while simply walking back into my building. The Grad Center room windows are quite large, and just because you can’t see people doesn’t mean they can’t see you. This is my second year of living in Grad Center. I don’t want to say that it’s a terrible place. I enjoy not having to clean the private bathroom, and having my own room pretty much makes up for all of the building’s flaws. I just want to ensure that my last semester in this stony fortress is a pleasant one, for myself and all other Grad Center residents.

Ivy Chang ’10 is a human biology concentrator from Los Angeles, California. She can be reached at Ivy_Chang@brown.edu.

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6:30 P.m. — “Unlocking the Present: Shaping Our Future and Honoring the Past,” Latino History Month Opening Convocation, Salomon 101

5:30 P.M. — “Hannah Arendt: Reflections on Ruin,” lecture by Susannah Gottlieb, Pembroke Hall 305 7:00 P.m. — “Stronger Than Their Walls” screening, List 120

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