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Recent changes to the Ratty include the addition of a new soup and panini station to decrease “congestion.”
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Long-term, In Honduras, coup U. is eyeing disrupts summers new dorms By Alexandra Ulmer Senior Staf f Writer
By Brigitta Greene Senior Staf f Writer
Looking to increase the percentage of undergraduate students living on campus, the University is considering constructing new residence halls as soon as resources permit, said Richard Spies, executive vice president for planning and senior adviser to the president. Roughly 80 percent of undergraduates currently live on campus, according to the July status update to the Plan for Academic Enrichment, President Ruth Simmons’ detailed program for improving the University. In November 2007, the University formally adopted a goal to increase this figure to 90 percent, and has since undertaken “substantial planning for new residence halls,” according to the update. Having a large number of students living off campus is a detriment to the campus community, said Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services. “At a time when younger students would benefit from talking to older seniors, they are moving away and are less involved,” she said. Complaints from neighborhood residents and concerns about student safety have also prompted the discussion, she said. Though a new dorm has been
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Ariel Hudes ’11, squashed into a hotel room with six Honduran male actors, was already uncomfortable when the seventh member of the troupe barged in with news that would drastically alter Honduran histor y and her own summer. “We don’t have a president,” the man announced to his fellow actors, who had travelled to the beach town of Tela for a performance, and to Hudes, the recipient of an International Scholars Program grant to con-
duct research in the small Central American countr y. That morning of June 28, Manuel Zelaya, the elected president of Honduras, had been ousted and replaced by the President of the National Congress Roberto Micheletti, making the countr y the first in Central America to suffer a coup since the Cold War. Zelaya, his detractors claim, was tr ying to force through a referendum to tweak the constitution and gain access to another presidential term when the Honduran Supreme Court ordered the milicontinued on page 2
Ronald Vanden Dorpel MA’71, the senior vice president for University advancement who led the Campaign for Academic Enrichment, is retiring, he said yesterday. Vanden Dorpel has agreed to remain at Brown until a search committee, whose members were announced Monday night, selects a replacement. Vanden Dorpel’s retirement, which he confirmed to The Herald yesterday, was announced by President Ruth Simmons a faculty meeting last week, a month after she sent a private letter to colleagues within the Brown community informing them of the news. The main accomplishment of his seven-year tenure, the Campaign reached its original goal of $1.4 billion last May, 19 months before its scheduled completion date. The campaign is set to end in December 2010. “Looking back seven years when we first recommended Ron, I don’t think I could have imagined this whole enterprise would have been as successful as it has been,” Simmons said in an interview. “I think it’s been an incredible effort.” “Clearly, we’re way ahead of our anticipated benchmark,” Simmons said of the Campaign. “We know that we’re going to overachieve our goal.” In an interview, Vanden Dorpel said his desire to travel, coupled with his coronary artery disease, led him to his decision to retire. He said he and his wife are planning to travel to national parks in Alaska and visit the Arctic Circle. “I’m not quite ready for the rocking chair on the porch yet,” he said.
“I’d like to enjoy another 20 years.” Since Vanden Dorpel came to Brown in August 2002, new gifts and pledges have grown from a yearly average of $86 million to $227 million. The Brown Annual Fund has increased 105 percent, from $17 million to $35 million, vaulting Brown to sixth in the nation in alumni giving. Under his leadership, the University also procured two $100 million gifts, one $50 million gift and, most recently, a $30 million gift in May to support scholarship aid. He also improv ed the alumni relations programs and oversaw enormous growth in international fundraising. Simmons said the University selected Vanden Dorpel to lead a new advancement office that combined the previously separate development and alumni affairs units. “His greatest accomplishment is bringing these units together,” Simmons said, adding that his ability to hire, organize divisions and identify the right people to lead various facets of Brown’s fundraising efforts were “phenomenal.” Vanden Dorpel has served in campaign advancement officer positions for 23 years. He spent 15 years at Northwestern University as chief development and alumni relations officer before coming to Brown, which he said was “long enough for any mere mortal.” He is the longest continuously serving chief advancement officer among major research universities, according to Simmons. Vanden Dorpel credited his successful tenure to his staff, volunteers and the Corporation, the University’s highest governing body. “It’s a group continued on page 3
Governor and unions may have an agreement By Joanna Wohlmuth Metro Editor
Governor Donald Carcieri ’65 has reportedly reached a provisional agreement with state employee unions to allow pay cuts in place of layoffs or government shutdown days. Carcieri has been engaged in an ongoing struggle with the unions in an effort to meet budget cut requirements. The proposed agreement requires state workers to take eight unpaid work days in this fiscal year and four in the next, the Providence Journal reported on Saturday. The reported agreement would also
delay the 3 percent pay raise work- have an agreement but anything ers were going to receive next July can happen until the last vote has for six months. Under the plan, no happened.” shutdown days or layoffs can occur Michael Downey, president of until 2011 and workers could re- Council 94, American Federation coup some of the lost wages when of State, County and Municipal they leave state service. Employees, wrote in a statement Representatives for yesterday that the union the governor and unions received a proposal FriMETRO declined to comment on day and is requesting the specifics of any agreement for another meeting with state offithis article, saying that discussions cials before the union moves to are still in progress. approve it. “They are still negotiating on If a proposal is officially aclanguage that both parties can cepted by union leaders, it must agree to,” Amy Kempe, a spokes- be voted on by members before it person for the governor, told The is finally approved. Herald. “In principle, I think we Last week, Carcieri threatened
to lay off 1,000 state workers after a state Supreme Court judge granted a request by the unions to block the first of his planned government shutdown days. In a memo sent yesterday, Depar tment of Administration Director Gar y Sasse instructed department heads to produce layoff lists by this Wednesday “due to the serious fiscal challenges facing the state and the time necessary to prepare and implement layoffs.” “While negotiations with the state’s employee unions have been productive, we have not yet reached a final agreement,” Sasse wrote.
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Revamped Ratty more ‘convenient,’ ‘classy’ By Anne Speyer Senior Staff Writer
Students returning to Brown from their summer vacations encountered change in a traditional bastion of stability and regularity: the Sharpe Refectory. The modifications are immediately visible to anyone walking into the Ratty. The salad bar has moved to a different location, a new station for soup and panini has been set up in its former space, and part of the east seating alcove — better known to many students as “the back cave” — has been transformed into a lounge, complete with couches and a new flat-screen television. In addition, the stations for spices and sauces, cereal and for toast and bagels have all moved to new locations. While many Brown students were surprised by the Ratty’s makeover, they seem to be taking it in stride. “I think it’s cute,” said Stephanie Paul ’11. Many other students called the changes “convenient” or simply “good.” Many of the changes stemmed from a concern with past “congestion,” particularly around the Grill line, wrote Ann Hoffman, director of administration of Dining Services, in an e-mail to The Herald. Hoffman wrote that the new station for the panini grills should mean “decreased wait time” in the Grill line, where the panini presses used to be located. “The soup is also served in this station, along with fresh baked breads and rolls, which also frees up congestion on the deli line,” she wrote. “This
added convenience seems to be working so far and has received a positive response from students.” “The soup bar is pretty cool,” said Aviva Grossman ’10, “and the new multi-grain bread is really good.” Hoffman wrote that spices and sauces have been moved to a new “Creation Station” outside the Tastes of the World line. This move creates “more cohesion with what we serve on the line and what we offer in the kiosk,” she wrote. “Now a customer can choose their food options on the line and come out to offer the appropriate accompaniments. It should be faster and more convenient for them.” As for the lounge in the east alcove, Hoffman wrote in her e-mail that it was “added as a relaxing seating option for the students.” Four sofas and five higher, cafe-style tables have transformed the space. Hoffman wrote that the area “has been well received.” “It lends a perception of spaciousness,” said Erick Sam ’10 of the new lounge’s arrangement. Not all students were enthusiastic about the lounge, however. Several said they thought it unnecessarily reduced the space available for regular seating. Aadon Penny ’11 called the lounge “redundant.” “Removing the tables from that side really reduces the area where people sit,” he said. But, for the most part, students who spoke with The Herald gave the new layout positive reviews. “I like the changes,” said Alex Svoronos ’10. “They make the Ratty more classy.”
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“We were just one voice fighting for our democracy.” — Gabriel Paz ’11
Scientists find fix for nanotube toxicity By Suzannah Weiss Senior Staf f Writer
Ef for ts by Brown scientists to improve the structure of carbon nanotubes used to deliver drugs and repair cells may help cure central ner vous system disorders such as epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease. The findings, set to be published in the journal Biomaterials next month, builds on previous research suggesting that these cylindrical molecules could harm cells in the repair process, according to Loren Jakubek GS, who spearheaded the research project. Jakubek, an engineering student, hypothesized that changing the structure of the nanotubes could eliminate the problem. She presented her theor y to Professor of Neuroscience Diane Lipscombe, who said she “wasn’t convinced by the initial hypothesis” but gave Jakubek a chance to work in her lab. The research team, which began the project in 2008, included Jakubek, Lipscombe, Xinyuan Liu GS and Spiro Marangoudakis GS. The researchers hail from multiple departments, including
neuroscience, biology-medicine and chemistr y. Carbon nanotubes have many applications, Jakubek said, but the researchers specifically studied their ability to deliver drugs to the ner vous system and provide scaffolding for degenerating neurons. “Because they’re so small and because they’re made of carbon,” Lipscombe explained, “people thought (carbon nanotubes) would be a great way to deliver medicine to certain parts of the body.” The initial problem with carbon nanotubes seemed to be that they inter fered with synaptic transmission — the process neurons use to electrically communicate with one another, Lipscombe said. Medical literature on the subject indicated that nanotubes interfered with channels that allow calcium into a cell, she added. But the researchers’ studies on how nanotubes affect calcium channels produced surprising conclusions. They discovered that the metals yttrium and nickel, which are used in cell synthesis — and not the structure of the nanotubes — were actually responsible for
interfering with communication between cells, Jakubek said. “Yttrium released from a carbon nanotube can inhibit the ion channel,” said Liu, who created a chemical environment similar to a neural membrane to examine the nanotubes’ interactions with yttrium and nickel. Since the team’s investigations suggest that the yttrium and nickel trapped inside nanotubes cause ion channel disruption, Jakubek said, nanotubes “can still be applicable once you eliminate these metals.” The high-pressure carbon monoxide process, which uses iron to synthesize nanotubes, seems to eliminate the risks posed by these ions, Jakubek said. Jakubek said she plans to continue her research by investigating the potential for other nanomaterials to replace nanotubes. Given the success of this research, by scholars who span several disciplines, the researchers hope the project will inspire more collaboration among the University’s science departments. “Any environment that encourages that type of work is fantastic,” Lipscombe said.
Students caught in civil unrest over summer continued from page 1 tar y to overthrow him. Hudes, one of several Brown students in Honduras when the coup happened, shared her stor y with The Herald, as did Gabriel Paz ’11, a Honduras native. The gravity of the situation did not initially strike Hudes, who had already been conducting a study of a political theater in the city of El Progreso for a month and had grown accustomed to armed police perusing the streets and to being called “gringa.” “There was just no vibe that something crazy had happened,” she said of the first day of the coup. The following day Hudes realized that schools were shut and that the two bridges vital for her bus connection back to El Progreso were under the control of militant groups. Stranded in Tela, Hudes huddled by the radio and television, before relying on word of mouth as to when — or if — the bridges would be reopened. When she asked a bus company employee why he was certain the bridges would reopen at 3 p.m., he replied that the clobbering afternoon heat would undoubtedly force the strikers to take a break and free the highway. For tunately, the next day Hudes made it safely back to her host family in El Progreso on a bus. She returned to stories of empty-shelved grocery stores and quadrupled gas prices. When she discovered dozens of concerned e-mails from friends and family in her inbox, Hudes realized, “if
the world knows about this, it’s a big deal.” Over the course of the next five days, Hudes was chiefly in contact with Assistant Professor of Theatre, Speech and Dance Patricia Ybarra, who was her faculty advisor for the International Scholars Program and had rapidly consulted with the Office of International Affairs and the Office of International Programs. “There was no mandate from either me or Brown (for Hudes to return),” Ybarra said. On July 3, after much deliberation, Hudes decided to leave the volatile country and return to the United States. “I hate that I came (back) here. It’s in situations like this that there are interesting things to be discovered, and I wish I was there right now,” she said. She plans to return to Honduras over winter break to “finish what I started.” A democratic coup? On the morning of the coup, Paz awoke to planes flying over his family home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. “I was surprised,” Paz said, when he heard from his mother that Zelaya had been ousted. “But, to be honest, I was relieved that he was gone.” Still, his relief turned to anxiety when the international community began slapping sanctions on Honduras. “It was a big shock being expelled from the (Organization of American States),” said Paz. “I was afraid that eventually I wouldn’t be able to return to the United States because the international
community was isolating us.” Protests in the city were the only visual reminder of the coup, Paz said, but he began to fear civil war. Paz channeled his frustration into active protesting on July 2, when he joined a crowd of thousands in support of Micheletti, brandishing a poster that read in Spanish, “Zelaya out, down with the left” and chanting, “we made a coup against anti-democracy.” “It was the first protest I’ve ever been in,” Paz said. “It’s ver y rare to see Hondurans unite when it’s not about soccer — but we were just one voice fighting for our democracy.” To Paz, there is no contradiction in justifying a coup as essential to a democracy’s sur vival — chiefly because the militar y did not seize power after his ousting and partly because he maintains that former president Zelaya was himself undemocratic and corrupt. “Ever yone knew (Zelaya) wanted to change the constitution to stay in power,” Paz said. According to the OIP, there are currently no Brown students conducting research or studying in Honduras. The OIP will decide next month whether to allow students to go to Honduras in the spring. No applications for study abroad in Honduras have been star ted, said Director of International Programs Kendall Brostuen. “If this had been the case, the student in question would have been advised to be sure to have at least one, preferably two, alternative locations in mind,” he wrote.
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“The value of (living) on campus is being physically on campus.” — Richard Spies, executive vice president for planning
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By Suzannah Weiss Senior Staff Writer
Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar ’87 MA’90 PhD’09 took over as President Ruth Simmons’ new assistant in July, filling a position that had been without a full-time employee since 2008. Marisa Quinn previously worked as the assistant to the president before becoming vice president of public affairs and University relations last year. Brenda Allen, then associate provost and director of institutional diversity replaced Quinn part-time during the interim period. A member of the Corporation’s Board of Trustees, Rodriguez-Farrar holds a master’s degree and a doctorate from Brown’s Department of Art and Architecture and has also studied and researched higher education at Harvard. She finished her dissertation on images of King Charles I of England last May. Rodriguez-Farrar did not expect to get the position when Simmons called her in June. “I thought that she thought I might know people who would be good for the position,” she said. But Rodriguez-Farrar happily took the job. She said she is inspired to improve Brown and universities at large because education is the “silver bullet” necessary for social, economic and political change. Rodriguez-Farrar has “the ideal combination of skills and experiences” for the job, Quinn said. “Hanna knows, understands and values Brown — having been a Brown student, graduate student, trustee and committed volunteer for the University.” “She’s also a lot of fun to work with,” Quinn added. Rodriguez-Farrar has been curious about higher education policies ever since she was a Brown undergraduate. During her sophomore year, she had to leave Brown because her family went bankrupt and could not afford tuition. When she got the opportunity to return, she saw her
time at Brown as a “huge privilege,” she said. “Higher education made all the difference in the world for my family,” she said. “I want to give back to it.” Over the course of her many years at Brown, Rodriguez-Farrar has cleaned dishes at the Ratty, worked as a TA for HIAA0010: “Introduction to the History of Art and Architecture,” served as president of the Brown Alumni Association and taught art at the University of Rhode Island, among other jobs. Rodriguez-Farrar’s knowledge of educational institutions, and of Brown in particular, helps her answer the question “what does this mean for the institution?” and also “know what’s going on in the weeds,” she said. The role of assistant to the president depends on the personal style and goals of whoever fills it, Rodriguez-Farrar said, adding that the position includes many duties that vary day to day. Both Quinn and Rodriguez-Farrar said one of the largest tasks for Simmons’ assistant is to review and prioritize requests from Brown, Providence and the national and international communities. Rodriguez-Farrar’s tasks will also include helping Simmons adapt the Plan for Academic Enrichment to the current economic climate. Having a blueprint like the PAE prevents Brown from losing sight of its long-term goals like many universities do, Rodriguez-Farrar said. The challenge for the President’s Office is “keeping everything we do on a day-to-day basis for that vision,” she said. To accomplish this, the administration must “not just randomly chase the next shiny thing.” Students also should heed this advice, she said, adding that in college “there are a billion shiny things just flashing in your eyes,” but it’s important to make decisions with the big picture in mind. “In every challenge there’s an opportunity, but in every opportunity there’s a challenge,” she said.
Vanden Dorpel retiring after 7 years at Brown continued from page 1 victory,” he said. The search committee, led by Executive Vice President for Planning and Senior Adviser to the President Richard Spies, will consist of three members of the Corporation — Chancellor Thomas Tisch ’76, Vice Chancellor Jerome Vascellaro ’74 P’07 and Chair of the Corporation Advancement Committee Anita Spivey ’74 — alongside Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration Beppie Huidekoper, Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 and one senior faculty member, Professor of Classics David Konstan. “It’s a smaller group designed to be able to move in a pretty targeted way,” Spies said. Though he said there
was no specific timetable for selecting a replacement for the position, Spies said he hoped the committee would reach a final decision in “a matter of months,” in order to keep the Campaign’s momentum. Simmons, too, said she could not anticipate when the committee would find a replacement, but she said if the last search for a similar position was any indication, the committee would make a decision in a few months. She added that Vanden Dorpel’s successful leadership — especially given the past year’s economic downturn — has placed Brown in an excellent position for finding a qualified replacement. “It’s a great university,” she said. “We’re going to get some really outstanding candidates for the job.”
on the University’s wish list since 2007, planning for new residence halls went on the back burner following last year’s financial crisis. Spies said administrators will wait until higher-priority projects like the new Creative Arts Center are funded and completed before addressing housing needs. The University is looking to add about 300 to 400 new beds, but will most likely need to wait three to five years before the housing plan, drafted in 2007, moves forward, Klawunn said. Currently, 20 percent of juniors and 80 percent of seniors live off campus, she said.
A master plan The proposed housing additions are only a small part of the Plan for Academic Enrichment. The report included the new and expanded goals adopted during last year’s extensive review of the Plan, including continuing to strengthen undergraduate education, ensuring that Brown continues to be a “global” university and increasing the level and quality of support for key academic departments and programs. The Plan for Academic Enrichment — conceived when President Ruth Simmons first took office in 2001 and officially endorsed by the Corporation in 2004 — has served as the backbone of her ambitious agenda, setting goals and
enumerating milestones, large and small, for a wide range of specific projects. The underpinning of the Plan’s construction goals is the Strategic Framework for Physical Planning, a 2003 report that set principles for the University’s growth — both on and off College Hill — over the next half-century, Spies said. According to that report, it is possible to “increase the density of residential use close to the campus by constructing additional wings to the structures in Wriston Quad and (the) Graduate Center.” That report proposed adding 180 rooms to Wriston and 275 rooms to Grad Center. But during the recent round of planning, begun in 2007, administrators instead eyed constructing two new residence halls to accommodate apartment- or suite-style living, Klawunn said. Due to “concern” about “overbuilding” on College Hill, the University will also keep a careful eye on property in Providence’s Jewelry District, where it already owns several properties, Spies said. Administrators met this summer with architect Frances Halsband, who spearheaded the 2003 master plan, to discuss further expansion downtown near a planned medical education building, Klawunn said. The University will release a report sometime this fall with the results of Halsband’s summer evaluation, she said. “Most people agree that the
value of (living) on campus is being physically on campus,” Spies said of the possibility that graduate or undergraduate students could live in the Jewelry District. “But we will let the arguments happen. That’s the kind of planning that needs to take place.” As the University looks ahead to future development and expansion, the Plan will continue to serve as a comprehensive guide, Spies said. The 52-page July status update details specific actions the University has taken so far and lays out goals that remain to be realized. It emphasizes efforts to increase the size and support of the faculty, grow the medical school, increase research funding and opportunities for students and strengthen the academic curriculum. In 2007, an effort to internationalize the University was added to the plan’s central goals. “It’s a way to be accountable to the community,” Spies said of the report. “The basic goal of the (Plan) is to raise the quality of academic work by attracting the best people and providing the resources those people need to do the best work.” Since the last update, the financial climate has forced the University to reassess large-scale capital projects and resource-intensive projects. Whereas in the past updates to the plan were released twice a year, such reports will now be released once annually in the fall.
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“I’ve sort of found my own language with this.” — Jamila Woods ’11
For Woods ’11, poetry on a national stage By Ellen Cushing Senior Staf f Writer
Four years ago, Jamila Woods ’11 had never read her own poetry for an audience. She’s come a long way since. Last month, Woods competed as part of the youngest team at the National Poetry Slam held in West Palm Beach, Fla. Though most teams at the slam were made up of adults, Woods and her teammates were drawn from a college-age demographic that is often poorly represented at organized poetr y slams. Woods’ team consisted of the winners of the inaugural collegelevel slam in the Louder Than a Bomb poetr y festival, a Chicagoarea competition for young artists, she said. The team — four poets and one alternate who are all based in Chicago but attend college all over the countr y — began preparing over the summer for Nationals, a five-day festival and competition that featured 68 teams from around the nation. The group spent the summer in intensive training, working with volunteer coaches who led them through vocal and writing exercises and facilitated the collaboration and team-building needed to write a cohesive group piece, Woods said.
The team raised money for their plane tickets by selling books of their own poetr y and CDs. At the slam, Woods performed an individual piece, in the group piece and in the slam’s unscored rookie showcase. The team finished in the middle of the pack, but Woods said the value of the experience came from seeing others slam and having a chance to perform on a national stage. “Ever yone got space and the
FEATURE airtime they deser ved,” she said. “So that was important.” But Woods never expected to be performing alongside professional poets. Though she wrote for her own enjoyment in high school, she said she was more focused on theater, dance and singing, and never intended to share her writing with anyone. Then, the summer after her sophomore year of high school, she applied for an arts program and was assigned to do performance poetr y — her last choice among the three disciplines she listed. She was originally disappointed, she said, but she wound up loving it. Woods began competing in high school slams and became involved with an arts group in her hometown
called Young Chicago Authors. When the time came to apply to colleges, she knew she wanted to go somewhere with a spoken-word community. The existence of local groups like Word! and AS220 — an arts space and community downtown — brought her to Brown, where she is double concentrating in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies and Africana Studies. She said she draws her inspiration largely from people she knows, but that she aims to make the stories she tells relatable to a larger audience. “I’d say people are usually what I end up writing about — especially people ver y close to me or members of my family,” Woods said. “But I like to broaden the subject matter, make it a universal stor y.” For Woods, slam poetr y is all about forging connections and community. “I’ve always envied people who speak another language. But I’ve sort of found my own language with this — I can say words and people will feel a certain way regardless of whether they know exactly what I’m writing about. I can transmit this feeling and they’ll receive,” Woods said. “That’s the most awesome par t about doing per formance poetr y.”
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legend has it chameleon blood stocked his veins he could camouflage the ground under his soles his steady gait left confusing road markings when he walked down streets the heads of bystanders tilted to behold his face “say, someone’s made a sloppy job of stealing chocolate, they’ve littered white wrappers and pink handprints on his cheeks” legend has it his palms were the only thing constant children saw half-finished coloring books in his face waggled fingers towards his limbs “mommy why does he got puzzle skin? how come how come his brown don’t stick on him?” but there is another story I’ve heard his cheeks were brown feathers of finch wings molting into sunlight colored shades for summer white lace trimmed his earlobes his arms were constellations of inverted freckles chalk maps of countries etched themselves across his shoulders rendered his atlas spine invincible but stranger’s eyes took too long to adjust to sunshine mixed in shadows bystanders studied their toes pressed kerchiefs to their noses prayed it wasn’t contagious they didn’t know how to explain this how tornadoes tidal waves and hurricanes keep secrets about their punctuality how no one hopes or prays for their occurrence yet when they come, we can’t help but behold their beauty the way wind pirouettes on pointed toe how water flexes lip to spout an aria I know lives are lost to brutal embouchures and sharp ballet kicks but in that same instant we’re shown mother nature’s furrowed face in all her perplexing glory and I’ve seen it
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Mayor calls to end indoor prostitution By Ben Schreckinger Senior Staf f Writer
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Street Sights won the North American Street Newspaper Association’s Most Improved award. The newspaper aims to represent RI’s homeless.
Homelessness paper wins ‘most improved’ BY Luisa Robledo Staf f Writer
Willa Truelove has roamed the streets for the past two years. She has no home. But this hasn’t stopped Truelove from speaking out on behalf of her community. She is a staff writer for Street Sights, a newspaper that aims to shed light on homelessness in Rhode Island. This past July, Street Sights won the Nor th American Street Newspaper Association’s Most Improved Street Newspaper award. “Among the homeless, Street Sights is the only voice,” Truelove said. Though the paper was started almost 15 years ago, it has only recently gained recognition. In just two years, the journal — which started out as a one-page pamphlet with 50 copies — has grown into a 16-page monthly newspaper with 3,000 copies distributed across the state, said Coordinating Editor Elizabeth Ochs ’07.5, a staff member for the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless. In March 2007, Ochs and four others decided to revive Street Sights when one of the biggest homeless shelters was in the process of closing down and the future of its residents was uncertain. “You can’t make change if people aren’t communicating,” Ochs said, adding that Street Sights works to make sure “ever y voice matters, ever y voice counts.” “This award lets the staff know that their hard work makes a difference,” she said. “It’s our goal to keep improving.” An award such as this encourages those who help put a paper together, said Andy Freeze, the newspaper association’s executive director. When Adrienne Langlois ’10, who interned for Street Sights this past summer as its web editor, heard the paper was nominated
for the award, she had no doubts it would win. “We really are improving,” she said, adding that the newspaper now deals with a greater variety of subjects and contains more articles than it used to. Langlois first discovered Street Sights when writing an assignment for a journalism class. “It’s written by people who care about the subject,” she said, noting that some of its staff writers are homeless themselves. “All of us are working together to make the paper something respected, a valid voice,” she said. “We want it to be something that people can go to for a dif ferent perspective.” Langlois also spearheaded one of the paper’s new programs, a journalism training workshop in which Street Sights staff writers spoke with several reporters and worked on their editing and interviewing skills. She said the paper’s staff hopes to make the workshop an annual event. Nicole Parrish ’12 created a corporate financial sponsorship packet to draw adver tisers to Street Sights. She is also tr ying to raise enough funds to be able to give current staff writers a stipend for their work for the paper. “It’s an amazing experience,” Parrish said. “People put so much effort into it.” According to Creative Writing Editor Stan Kapelewski, who used to be homeless, the paper gives people the chance to “say something they’re generally not able to,” and creates “a supportive community.” Most recently, the paper’s staf f began holding monthly meetings and discussions for homeless and formerly homeless people. “Working for Street Sights has enhanced my writing, and it makes me feel good about myself,” Kapelewski said. “It’s a work from the heart.”
While the state Senate and House reconcile differences in two versions of a bill to close a loophole that allows indoor prostitution in Rhode Island, Providence Mayor David Cicilline ’83 has instructed the city council to move ahead with an ordinance banning the practice within city limits. Under the proposed ordinance, prostitutes, their customers and facilitators would all be subject to up to $500 in fines and 30 days in jail. According to a Sept. 1 press release from the mayor’s office, this is the maximum penalty allowed by law. Karen Southern, Cicilline’s press secretar y, said the legislation targets “those who profit from prostitution” rather than prostitutes themselves. The language of the proposed ordinance does not actually provide different penalties for prostitutes and proprietors of brothels. According to City Solicitor Joseph Fernandez ’85, whose office drafted the ordinance, the law is “evenhanded in its treatment” of prostitutes, customers and proprietors. But “depending on the circumstances, it would be up to the police and the prosecutor who to charge and to what extent,” he said. Councilman Michael Solomon of Ward 5, chair of the Committee on Ordinances and a co-sponsor of
the bill, said prostitution in Providence has “gotten out of hand in the past few years,” prompting the city to act. Solomon said he does not predict any opposition to the bill within the city council. But outside of the council, opinion is mixed. In July, Steven Brown, executive director of the Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, told The Herald “if individuals are engaged in consensual sexual conduct, it shouldn’t be the state’s business.” Instead, government “ought to be focusing on providing those women the resources to help find them other gainful employment,” he said. Solomon said while he would not support similar penalties for victims of human trafficking, it was not problematic to send prostitutes who break the law to jail under the proposed ordinance. The issue of criminal penalties for prostitutes is the central difference between the House and Senate versions of the bill. The House version carries criminal penalties for a first offense, while the Senate version does not allow for criminal penalties before the third offense and imposes stiffer penalties on the proprietors of brothels than it does on prostitutes themselves. Though state law forbids public solicitation and the operation of brothels, it does not explicitly deal with the act of prostitution. In 1998, the state Supreme Court
ruled that prostitution was legal if it took place indoors. In the United States, only Rhode Island and some areas of Nevada do not ban the practice. Motions have been introduced in the legislature banning indoor prostitution in past years, but this year is the first that Rhode Island’s House and Senate have both passed bills closing the loophole. State Sen. Rhoda Perr y P’91, D-Dist. 3, whose district includes College Hill, said a bill that does not have criminal sanctions for a first offense “will not go this year.” Perry, who has been working with House colleagues on a compromise bill, said she has been working to introduce language into the bill about the need for social services to support women in the sex industr y. Perr y, who in July told The Herald that criminal penalties for prostitutes place “an unfair and heavy burden on the victim,” said she does not know if she will vote in favor of the eventual compromise bill, which she believes will carry criminal penalties. Nonetheless, Perr y said she believed the compromise version of the bill will pass. Solomon predicted the city ordinance will pass by the first week in October. Perr y predicted the Rhode Island legislature’s bill would come to a vote less than a month later. If that bill passes, the state law will supersede any city ordinance.
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Organization changes will provide support, efficiency To the Editor: The story in the Brown Daily Herald concerning the work of the Organizational Review Committee (“Needing $30m more in cuts, U. to seek input,” Sept. 11) provides a helpful and informative summary of the challenges that our committee will face in the coming year in identifying ways in which we can more effectively and efficiently support the academic mission of the University in a period of significant financial constraints. As chair of the committee, I would, however, like to clarify a remark cited in the article concerning the impact of our work on members of the faculty. We have been explicit and consistent since the committee was formed in the midst of the financial crisis last fall that the University is committed to fulfilling its core missions of teaching, research and student support, and preserving
the progress made and momentum established by the Plan for Academic Enrichment. Similarly, we have aimed to be clear both within the committee and in discussing its work with faculty, students and staff that the committee’s review does not include the basic structure and activities of academic programs and departments, or the work of faculty within those units. While the ORC will consider how we can best provide administrative support for research and teaching within academic departments, our aim is to develop options and solutions that will provide excellent support to the faculty in the most efficient manner possible.
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Measuring student opinion As of June 30 the endowment stood at just over $2 billion, in line with the University’s Januar y projections. Over the next few years the sharp drop in value — a loss of about $740 million — will limit Brown’s ability to draw on the endowment to pay for its annual operating expenses. More immediately, the University will need to cut $30 million from next year’s budget. The University has identified $12-17 million in savings so far, primarily by reducing spending on planned construction projects and changing Brown’s policies regarding travel. The rest of the cuts will, for the most part, be determined by the Organizational Review Committee — a group of faculty, staff, administrators and students that was established last November and tasked with finding ways to reduce University expenditures. Administrators have repeatedly emphasized the importance of receiving student input on the budget cuts. We commend the University for asking for student feedback on this issue. Budget cuts are inevitably somewhat painful, but by consulting students the University can ensure that the least valued ser vices on campus are the first ones to go. While we admire the University’s intent, we believe that its past efforts have not done enough to reach out to undergraduates. To that end, we hope that administrators will consider new approaches that more accurately reflect the student body’s priorities. All too often, Brown has relied on the advice of a select few students appointed to various committees or working on UCS. While these channels for input are certainly helpful, they are inadequate as a measure of student opinion. We believe that the University should count votes, in addition to increasing student representation on the Organizational Review Committee and the handful of
subcommittees that it oversees. We do not deny the value of student participation on panels. Student representatives, and undergraduates in particular, play an essential role in voicing student concerns as the University deliberates on different policies. Our fear is that the views of students who serve as representatives on panels or through UCS might not reflect the breadth of student opinion on particular issues and, more broadly, on what the University’s priorities should be. Brown is a small enough community to allow for a measure of direct democracy, and soliciting the student body as a whole for opinions would be a useful supplement to undergraduate representation on official committees. An online forum is the best way to generate suggestions and discussion about budget cuts among students. Unlike public forums, anyone can contribute throughout the process without facing scheduling conflicts or other inconveniences. Similarly, an online ballot is the fairest way to gauge student opinion on various cost-cutting measures. After the Organizational Review Committee devises a list of possible proposals for cutting costs, it should post them on a MyCourses poll, along with the amount of money each proposal would save the University. An online poll with publicly available results will let the University discriminate between popular and unpopular budget cuts and give students a mechanism to demand accountability on the University’s part. The creation of such a system would spur student engagement in University affairs and would be one of the few welcome developments to come out of the financial crisis. Editorials are written by The Herald’s editorial page board. Send comments to editorials@browndailyherald.com.
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Rethinking citations
DAN DAVIDSON Opinions Columnist It would be overly dramatic to say that citations are the bane of students’ academic existences. Nevertheless, I don’t believe I’m alone in finding them a time-consuming annoyance. It may simply be reflective of living on the country’s happiest campus that I want to address this minor aspect of our lives. I feel, however, that citations are in need of rethinking. For students, citing often drains time that could be spent improving a paper’s content. Furthermore, it is frequently apparent that how well one cites has little or no effect on one’s grade. This is frustrating and encourages students to cite sloppily. The way we currently treat citations should also concern professors and administrators. In many classes, neither the time nor the resources exist to ensure ever y student’s citations are in order. Simply having a citation does not prove that the source backs up the claim being made and is reliable. Even a technically flawless citation doesn’t close the door on the possibility of plagiarism. This summer I took a class at Georgetown and was introduced to a different method of citation that I hope takes root here. Instead of providing information about our sources in a footnote, we were asked to insert hyperlinks into the text that would direct a
web browser to our sources. This method of citing can be seen all over the Internet, both in blogs and on Web sites of established newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post. Citing in this manner clearly alleviates some of the problems I mentioned earlier. Inserting hyperlinks is much easier and faster than writing out footnotes. It also makes it dramatically easier for professors to check students’ work. It doesn’t require too much imagination to envision how much time this would save our students and faculty while
footnotes would still provide the benefits I mentioned earlier. This system may not be right for all classes. Some professors want students to learn how to cite properly using their field’s style. It would be perfectly reasonable for those professors to continue requiring formal citations — I would only ask that these professors make it clear to their students that this is one of the goals of their course. The grading rubric must also actually reflect this goal. It is unfair to demand that students cite properly but not to factor their
Not only has the Internet provided us with many more resources for our work, it allows us to cite sources in a way that provides clear benefits to both students and professors. simultaneously decreasing the likelihood that a student could get away with making statements without evidence or using unreliable sources. The most obvious drawback of citing with hyperlinks is that many sources we draw on in our papers are print materials — but using hyperlinks for online sources doesn’t preclude citing print sources with footnotes. In addition, every day more and more information in print finds its way to the Internet. A hybrid system of hyperlinks and traditional
performance into their grade. Some students will spend time working meticulously on their citations — perhaps at the expense of other parts of their paper — while others will do just the opposite. The biggest issue with my proposition is that many teachers still require hard copies of papers. I’m not sure I can offer a solution to this problem. On the one hand, I’m inclined to say that all classes here should strive to be paperless. Imagine how much paper could be saved if not a single Brown student ever had
to print an assignment. On the other hand, I find text much more strenuous to read on a computer than in print. It’s easy to understand why some professors would be averse to reading all their papers on a computer. For those professors whose classes are paperless, please consider what I am proposing. Hyperlinks will make students’ lives easier and will increase accountability. Formalized citation styles exist for a reason, and professors who want their students to learn these methods have my blessing. But just because we have conventions doesn’t mean we should follow them when the situation doesn’t call for it. Often citations are required simply for accountability. As any Brown student knows, checking formalized citations is too cumbersome a process to accomplish successfully in a large lecture class. Even in small classes, hyperlinks have a clear advantage over formal citations in terms of both ease and transparency. Not only has the Internet provided us with many more resources for our work, it allows us to cite sources in a way that provides clear benefits to both students and professors. Hyperlink citations diminish the likelihood that plagiarism will go unnoticed, will make verification easier and will save time for everyone.
Dan Davidson ’11 is a political science and music concentrator from Atlanta, Georgia. He can be reached at daniel_ davidson@brown.edu.
Doing our part SEAN QUIGLEY Opinions Columnist
The tax man cometh, yet both Brown students and the administration are not inviting him in for tea and crumpets, as is usually the case. Indeed, the response to the tax has been decidedly negative, with most opinion-makers decrying the proposed $300 per annum fee on out-of-state private college students. I can only imagine that the same situation prevails at Providence’s other private colleges. This all comes as a startling surprise to me. Typically I would be against such a tax on various grounds, but the very difficult situation in which we global citizens find ourselves mandates drastic action. We are in a crisis, and must fiercely resist the temptation only to think of ourselves and of what we may already provide. We must do our part, and more. Through calculations which we must assume to be meticulous, the bill that both Mayor David Cicilline ’83 and House Majority Leader Gordon Fox are advancing calls for our contribution to be $300. It is unconscionable that students would oppose such a small fee in times when our fellow beings are suffering so much and struggling so hard to make ends meet.
Some may say that Rhode Island’s state government wastes nearly all of what it takes in revenue, but such naysayers should receive no hearing at a time when a failure to pass a bill necessarily means a failure of our country and planet. The patriots who support this tax must stand up and demand wallets to be opened. Some may say that the proposed tax is illegal, in that it violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Jake Heimark ’10 argued as such in his recent column opposing the tax (“An unfair burden,” Sept. 7). Of
should be even higher — how selfish are you, anyway?) Let the students at public colleges enjoy that outdated legal concept, demanding equal protection. And finally, some may say that students, too, are facing the same budget crunches in their personal lives that the city government is facing publicly. How simpleminded and provincial such a claim truly is! Have you forgotten the rallying cry of our generation, “Think globally, act locally”? The city government is only asking you to contribute the paltry sum
We are in a crisis, and must fiercely resist the temptation only to think of ourselves and of what we may already provide. We must do our part, and more. course, these times being so dire, I should not even need to address an argument for equal protection made by a white male who has long benefited from the various power structures that categorically favor his success. But suffice it to say that the wealthy economic royalists comprising Brown’s student body deserve no normal equality. They think so too; just look at their support for the federal progressive income tax. They can give more, so we demand more. (In truth, the fee
of $300 per annum, and yet you can only fall to the ground and flail your legs like a child? Get that cash from an ATM; write that check; buy that money order; click that button on PayPal. Show that you care. Now, for the sake of honesty, I should admit that I am exempt from the proposed tax. Hailing from Rhode Island, I am among the approximately 5 percent of students, according to a Herald story last week, who will avoid paying the fee. But that should not affect my
argument one bit. We as global citizens must do what we can, where we can. In this instance, you are called on to pay $300 per annum, and I nothing. An enlightened person should see why this is fair. The sages in Rhode Island’s various governments have not called on me to contribute in the same way as the rest of the Brown student population. We must not let this fact descend into a cause for bitter feelings, but rather encourage each other to realize how our leaders are taking affirmative action in a time of crisis. This truly must be a celebration of how democracy leads to the emergence of a will that knows exactly how to address budget shortfalls. How glorious a solution this is, too: we get to solve a serious civic problem while redeeming ourselves through charity in the process! Obstinacy cannot be our policy, nor negativity our tone. We must band together into one union and forget about the various life details that could hinder our contribution. These are the times that try men’s hearts, and he who passes will kindly fork over the dough.
Sean Quigley ’10 finds that cash payments make great birthday presents. He can be reached at sean.b.quigley@gmail.com.
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