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vol. cxlv, no. 2 | Thursday, January 28, 2010 | Serving the community daily since 1891
New program gives full ride and more By Kate Monks Senior Staf f Writer
Alex Bell / Herald
Providence mayoral candidate Chris Young was arrested at a panel on health care reform in November.
On Dec. 1, 11 members of the class of 2014 received more than the big envelope. These students received not only early admission to Brown but a full scholarship, thanks to Brown’s participation for the first time in QuestBridge, a non-profit program that seeks to match high-achieving, low-income high school students with top colleges and provide them with full, four-year scholarships. QuestBridge provides scholar-
ships through a program called National College Match. High school seniors who apply to the program and are selected as finalists are then eligible for full or mostly full scholarships to 27 partner universities, pending their admission to the schools, according to the program’s Web site. Students rank their eight preferred schools on the application and then must attend the highest school on their list that admits them. Washington and Lee University and Brown are the two newest continued on page 4
DPS banned Young after Nov. forum RISD students try artistic approach to Haiti relief By Alex Bell Senior Staf f Writer
On Christmas Eve, Providence mayoral candidate Chris Young opened a letter from Brown Director of Public Safety and Chief of Police Mark Porter. Just a week before his arraignment on charges of disorderly conduct stemming from November’s health care forum in Andrews Hall, the Democratic candidate learned he was also banned from entering Brown’s campus. Young, a Narragansett man who drew the attention of television crews earlier this year with
his vocal disruption of October’s rally against “Fall Weekend” on the Main Green, used “threatening, disruptive, and loud language” at November’s health care forum when he refused to relinquish the microphone during the questionand-answer session, according to a Providence Police report. Young also threw a video at Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., one of the panelists, according to the report. Young said the video was “Maafa 21,” which features graphic scenes of abortions. A video Young’s girlfriend took of the incident shows Kennedy nodding at him, accepting
his request to see the pro-life video, Young said. “He wanted the video,” Young told The Herald. “The Brown security Nazi came to try to take it away from him, but he wanted it.” Young also said the mainstream media has greatly sensationalized the incident, which he said his video shows to be relatively calm. He cited one Providence Journal article stating that police “scrambled to intercept him” when he approached Kennedy, which Young said was not what his video continued on page 2
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President Ruth Simmons has been named to the Council for the National Museum of African American History and Culture, an advisory board that will oversee the direction and administration of the museum as it prepares to open in 2015, the museum announced Monday. “In serving on the committee I join a number of Americans who have demonstrated a commitment to uncovering this history and making it available to the wider public among others,” Simmons wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. The museum, which was established in 2003, will be the 19th museum affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution. According to the museum’s Web site, its collection will focus on both historical scholarship
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The curriculum at the Rhode Island School of Design lacks instruction in emergency medicine and search and rescue techniques, but creative RISD students are still finding ways to get involved with disaster relief in Haiti after the Jan. 12 earthquake. The administration has tried to coordinate these student efforts and has also worked to support a RISD student working in Haiti during the earthquake.
“The way in which people support (fundraising efforts) is from a much more artistic standpoint” than at other schools, RISD freshman Andreas Nicholas said. Instead of conventional charity events, RISD students are planning a 12-hour drawing marathon, a satirical musical and a silent art auction. The proceeds of all of the events will go to organizations already established in Haiti, such as Partners in Health, the American Red Cross and Doccontinued on page 5
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Simmons named to Smithsonian council By Anne Speyer Ar ts & Culture Editor
By Sarah Forman Contributing Writer
By Hannah Moser Features Editor
and art. Exhibitions will explore the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights Movement and the period of Reconstruction, among other important aspects of African-American history and culture. “This is, like other museums in the Smithsonian system, a national museum that will provide a venue for the representation of African American history,” Simmons wrote. “In that sense, my involvement with the creation of the museum is in keeping with my past work directing and building Afro-American Studies at Princeton and chairing the visiting committee for Afro-American Studies at Harvard.” “Many of us on the Council took notice of Ruth Simmons long before Time magazine … named her ‘America’s Best College President,’ ” continued on page 3
It’s hard to interview someone who won’t hold still. On Monday, while the rain poured and the wind rendered umbrellas useless, sirens blared around College Hill as Providence Ladder Co. 8 and Engine Co. 9 responded to 10 calls, most of which were brought on by the deluge.
FEATURE Stationed on Brook and Williams streets, these crews mobilize for alarms at fraternity parties, Brown students’ burnt Nick Sinnott-Armstrong / Herald toast and their 3 a.m. false alarms. Engine 9 pulls out of its Brook Street station, from which it covers Brown, They cover the University, RISD RISD and Fox Point. and Fox Point and may respond to calls as far north as Pawtucket portion of their calls are related to pipes and even calls to aid homeand as far south as Cranston. The fires. Companies 8 and 9 respond less citizens. name “fire department” is mis- to 2,500 calls a year, including water continued on page 4 leading — only a relatively small and electrical emergencies, broken
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Thrifty on thayer Businesses on Thayer maintain a positive outlook despite slower sales.
sports in brief Updates on the swimming and diving, skiing, squash and wrestling teams.
keep swine in line David Sheffield ’11 advocates for influenza vaccinations.
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