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Dorm improvements top UCS, Corporation goals By Nicole Boucher Senior Staff Writer

The Corporation’s young alumni trustee told the Undergraduate Council of Students Wednesday night that housing is at the top of this weekend’s agenda. “Right now, there is a lot of momentum to make substantive change in housing,” said Lauren Kolodny ’08 at the council’s general body meeting. Kolodny, who works with the Clinton Climate Initiative, spoke to the council about topics that will be under discussion when the Corporation convenes this weekend. Housing improvements being considered include renovations to improve overall quality of life in existing dorms, and new suite-style residence hall projects that would encourage upperclassmen to stay

Blackout hits Thayer, downtown BY Rebecca Ballhaus Senior Staff Writer

Students hungering for frozen yogurt or a Frappuccino early in the evening on Wednesday were out of luck when a power outage hit Thayer Street, lasting from 7:10 p.m. to 8:05. The outage resulted from a cable problem on Dyer Street, said David Graves, a spokesman for National Grid. Graves said 583 customers — on Thayer Street and in downtown Providence — out of a total of 400,000 in Rhode Island were affected by the outage. Vice President for Public Affairs and University Relations Marisa Quinn specified in an e-mail to The Herald that the problem was due to “complications with a substation feeder that services the University.” The only places on Thayer Street to remain open were Brown-owned buildings, specifically the Brown Bookstore and the Sciences Library. “As soon as the blackout began, ever yone ran in here for light and shelter,” said Luis Gonzalez, a sales associate at the bookstore. “Now, people don’t want to leave.”

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on campus, Kolodny said. Corporation members took a tour of residence halls earlier this year, said Kolodny, who was the council’s vice president during the 2007–08 school year. “It was clearly interesting to see the facial expressions of these Corporation members as they walked into Grad Center,” she said. The sight of these poor conditions is “embedded into their psyches now, and we are ready to move on this.” Kolodny cited the renovations of Faunce House as a model example of the change that can occur with student input. During Kolodny’s first year on the council, “we had this crazy idea that Faunce should be renovated,” she said, and now the results show the ability for students to inspire change. continued on page 2

Capital projects, revenue sources on agenda By Sydney Ember News Editor

’83 extended homestead exemptions up to 33 percent on non-owneroccupied properties to encourage landlords to lower their tenants’ rent and invest in unit improvements. According to Michael Patch, a real estate investor who owns multiple properties across Providence, neither the City Council nor the

Facing a less dire financial situation, the University’s highest governing body will meet this weekend to begin planning for the next phase of capital projects and initiate discussions on opening new revenue streams to support academic priorities. Members of the Corporation will also participate in a formal dedication ceremony for the Stephen Rober t ’62 Campus Center and attend an event marking the launch of the renovations to the Metcalf Chemistr y and Research Laborator y. Discussions on the next phase of capital projects will likely center on long-term housing improvements, including possible construction of new residence halls and renovations to existing dormitories, said Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, senior vice president for Corporation affairs and governance. During last year’s meetings, the Corporation — which con-

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UCS President Diane Mokoro ’11 and other UCS members discussed improvements to residence halls at Wednesday’s meeting.

Off-campus students to see tax increase eliminate the homestead tax exemption on rental properties, sparking outrage among local landlords.

By AJ Warren Contributing Writer

Students living in off-campus residences could see their rent increase in 2011 as a result of a recent restructuring of the city’s tax code that would raise property taxes on rented homes. Providence City Council members voted 8-7 this summer to

Metro Originally, the 35 percent tax exemption applied only to singlefamily, owner-occupied residences, but in 2001, Mayor David Cicilline

Hoax letter claims cameras planned for frosh dorms By Sydney Ember News Editor

A letter posted in residence halls Sept. 29 that purported to be from the Office of Residential Life announcing the installation of closed circuit television cameras was a hoax, according to Senior Associate Dean of Residential and Dining Services Richard Bova. The letter, which was addressed to residents of the Pembroke campus and Keeney Quadrangle and appeared on Keeney bathroom doors, was created by Evan Donahue ’11 for MCM 1700M: “Techniques of Surveillance” as part of an ongoing project for the class. “That is a bogus letter. It did not come from my office,” Bova said. “There has never been a plan — never will be a plan — to install cameras in any residence halls.” The project was designed to examine how behavior can be influenced

by the idea that people are being watched, Donahue said. “The idea was that this would continue in duration as long as people believed in it,” he said. The project, called “No Exit” and detailed on the class wiki page, also included an e-mail sent to Residential Peer Leaders in Keeney. Donahue, an editorial cartoonist for The Herald, said he obtained the names of Keeney RPLs from a list posted on the ResLife website. The class, taught by Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media Studies Mark Tribe, aims to examine “surveillance as an object of cultural fascination and as a means of production in cinema, television, social software and media art,” according to its Banner listing. Donahue said Tribe “knew about the project,” but that “he didn’t approve or disapprove” when

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Curry favor

Field of play

Football fury

New to the Blue Room: Kabob and Curry

A revamped lineup can’t provide wins for field hockey

Sarah Rosenthal ’11 applauds Brown’s cheer

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“Advising is an issue that comes up every single year from UCS.” — Lauren Kolodny ’08, the Corporation’s young alumni trustee

Corporation members to address fundraising continued from page 1 venes yearly in October, February and May — focused on ways to reduce the budget deficit after the endowment lost $740 million as a result of the economic downturn in fiscal year 2009. But this year’s initial meeting will occur under more favorable conditions — the University has entered its final phase of closing the $95 million budget gap caused by the hit to the endowment and is looking toward new revenue sources to support future initiatives. The Corporation will also open talks on future fundraising plans as the University nears the Dec. 31 end of the Campaign for Academic Enrichment, which has raised more than $1.5 billion since it began in 2002. Despite the positive outlook, Carey said the Corporation is not likely to make any major decisions

over the weekend. Instead, the members will address pragmatic goals, including improvement of the overall quality and condition of campus buildings and support of academic priorities. They will also formally accept gifts to the University and hear updates on capital projects already under way, such as the Medical Education Building and the Metcalf renovations. The governing body will set the budget for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1, at its Februar y meeting. “In general, it’s a pretty standard October schedule,” Carey said, adding that the fall summit is “not a meeting where there are a lot of decisions to be made.” Members of the Corporation will hold committee meetings Thursday and Friday before convening as a group — including members emeriti, trustees and fellows — Friday afternoon for a

strategic discussion session. The body will meet Saturday to hear formal reports from the individual committees, including the Committee on Facilities and Design and the Committee on Budget and Finance. In addition to long-term housing projects, the committees will also discuss potential sources for increasing revenue to suppor t programs that may include new academic programs, Carey said. The Corporation will also address the recently announced extended partnership between the Alpert Medical School and Lifespan hospitals. Members will also hear about the final phase of the campaign from Steven King ’91, who replaced Ronald Vanden Dorpel MA’71 as senior vice president for University advancement July 1, Carey said. As the campaign winds down, the Corporation will begin planning the next fundraising steps, he added.

“There’s a lot of thought in terms of making that transition,” Carey said. The Corporation will also attend a dedication ceremony for the new campus center Friday at 5:30 p.m. The event, which is open to the public and will culminate with a dinner for Corporation members, will feature student performances and addresses from Chancellor Thomas Tisch ’76, President Ruth Simmons, former Chancellor Stephen Robert ’62 and three representatives from student government, including Undergraduate Council of Students President Diane Mokoro ’11. Members of the governing body will participate in a smaller event Saturday on Lincoln Field to acknowledge the Metcalf renovations. “There’s not a lot of specific news,” said Vice President for Public Affairs and University Relations Marisa Quinn. “Probably the biggest thing is the events.”

Career advising, housing head UCS concerns continued from page 1 “I think there is also a real emphasis on building new residential buildings,” she said, adding that the current purpose is to find ways to retain upperclassmen through housing comparable to what students would find off campus. Kolodny also said the Corporation would like to increase discussion about how to build community in residential halls. Community-building on campus

held different meanings for different UCS members. Several members spoke about the importance of maintaining residence halls based on class year, while other students thought mixed-year housing would provide a more diverse experience. A group of about 30 students will meet with Corporation committees to discuss housing on Friday, Kolodny said. Kolodny said improving career advising on campus is also on the agenda.

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She said some ideas included more concentrated guidance from alums, possibly though a “career advising camp” over a winter break for interested students. She also said there would be potential to help students by using faculty who still have connections with alums. “Advising is an issue that comes up ever y single year from UCS,” she said. One-half of the problem may be the resources themselves, but the other half is a lack of knowledge about how to access the re-

sources. “There is so much here, but you have to be proactive,” she added. The council announced that four new light posts will be added to the Main Green, the result of action by the Campus Life Committee last year. It will discuss increased lighting around Faunce in the future. The council also elected Frank Rinaldi ’12 as the new academic and administrative affairs chair, replacing Eden Castro ’12 in the position.

news in brief Indian fare spices up Blue Room The new Blue Room not only boasts new pastries, but now serves Indian cuisine. Chef and owner of Kabob and Curry Sanjiv Dhar, who has more than 20 years of experience in the restaurant business, said that Brown wanted Indian food in the Blue Room when the renovations were finished. He said the University talked to other restaurants before deciding to serve food from his restaurant. He said he sees this opportunity as a “matter of pride,” adding he owes a lot of his success to Brown. “Not many universities go out of their way to do something like this,” he said. Ann Hoffman, director of administration for Dining Services, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that the arrangement between Kabob and Curry is not a “contractual arrangement” but rather, “a working agreement.” Dhar has been involved with the Brown community before, participating in the visiting chef program in 2001. “The idea for the Blue Room partnership came about because of our awareness of the popularity of Kabob and Curry among Brown students,” Hoffman wrote. “We thought it could add value to our program and be well-received by students.” The food, which usually includes a meat dish, a vegetable dish and rice, is delivered every morning packaged in trays. Dhar said that the recipes have been modified to accommodate for the bulk portions. Hoffman wrote that initial estimates for food delivery had to be increased to meet demand. The Blue Room serves about 250 portions per day, she wrote. But the high demand might be problematic for his restaurant, Dhar said. Since Brown started serving Kabob and Curry, Dhar said he has noticed that business has been influenced negatively, though he said it was too early to confirm a trend. Only a couple hundred students have been coming in, and the numbers have been down, he said. Dhar hopes that more first-year students will come out and try the dishes in the restaurant after trying them in the Blue Room. This is “not the end, just the beginning,” he said. — Dominique Daba

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“We achieved a place where music and art is mutual.” — Matthew Garza ’11

Chem 33 adds section to New blog to showcase U. research abroad meet student schedules BY Jonathan Staloff Contributing Writer

By Esther Kim Contributing Writer

Another CHEM 0330: “Equilibrium, Rate, and Structure” lab section has been added after students had difficulty fitting labs into their schedules. Scheduling labs is a problem every year because the class is large, said Associate Professor of Chemistry Christoph Rose-Petruck, who teaches the course. Currently, over 400 students are registered for the course on Banner. A few weeks into the semester, an additional Thursday lab section was opened, in addition to the ten labs that were already being offered each week. As of Sept. 21, three students still had difficulty scheduling a lab section, said Matthew Zimmt, professor of chemistr y and the department’s chair. By Sept. 24, “all students that decided to take Chem330 and lab this semester (had) been enrolled in a lab section,” Zimmt wrote in an e-mail. The department opened the new section to see whether there were students who could not register for the existing time slots

because of conflicts with other classes. Twelve students signed up for the 16 available spots in the new section, Zimmt said. “If this section had filled, the department could have opened one more section,” he said. A discussion board was created on MyCourses for students seeking to switch lab sections with other students. “Scheduling a lab wasn’t a problem for me, but I know it was for some people in the course,” said Michael Lorinsky ’14. There are “two dif ferent things — the absence of lab availability versus students not being able to fit the available labs into their particular schedules,” Zimmt said. The department “can’t determine ahead of time when students will want to take lab,” he added. “We do our best to adjust.” Rose-Petruck said that there is “possibly even less enrollment” in the course than previous years due to the new mandator y placement exam that placed many students in CHEM 0100: “Introductor y Chemistr y,” which does not require a lab.

The Watson Institute for International Studies plans to of ficially launch a new multimedia blog, Global Conversation, for members of the Brown community to discuss important international issues. The Global Conversation, scheduled to publicly launch the weekend of Oct. 2, will serve as a medium for students, faculty and alums to display their work on relevant international topics and to “build communities of interest” around them, according to the website. “One of the basic goals is to present ideas and research and projects that are going on at Brown not to just a scholarly audience, but an audience that is more mainstream,” said Geoffrey Kirkman ’91, deputy director of the Watson Institute. “The idea is to make it truly a global conversation about issues that are going on in the world.” Using two educational grants from AT&T totaling $345,000, the Watson Institute sent 11 students around the world with specialized audio and video equipment to document their projects. Zachar y McCune ’10 and Col-

Revamped Jobzle attracts local students By Kat Thornton Contributing Writer

Jobzle, a job-search website created by Brown students that “enables employers to easily hire college students for part-time jobs and internships” launched a new version of its program Sept. 15. Jobzle was founded by Walker Williams ’11. According to Jobzle’s lead engineer Evan Stites-Clayton ’11, Williams created Jobzle because he realized it was hard for him to find a job as a student, and there was nothing established to help students with this specific problem. Williams decided to fill this void and Jobzle originally launched in September 2009. The company has undergone a transformation and is being built again “from the ground up” to make the site more user-friendly and efficient, Stites-

Clayton said. Now, Jobzle is “tr ying to make an umbrella company that will allow a company to come to one website and post to all college students in Rhode Island,” Stites-Clayton said. Jobzle is focusing on Rhode Island college students and jobs because the site wants to focus on quality rather than quantity. “Density is important,” Stites-Clayton said. As of last week, Jobzle’s website already had more than 16,000 hits and was on target to have 1,000 students signed up in the Providence area by the end of the week. The Betaspring startup accelerator program has invested in Jobzle, as have other local companies. The Rhode Island Tech Collective helped Jobzle make contact with companies like Hasbro, GTECH and Atrion Networking. JoAnn Johnson, manager of

youth and education programs at the Rhode Island Tech Collective, said the collective was interested in investing in Jobzle because there has been a “man shortage” in Rhode Island, especially in information technology. Johnson said that the Tech Collective is interested in retaining Rhode Island college students in the state as employees after they finish their degrees. She said that Jobzle and the Tech Collective are “both fitting each others’ needs.” Kathie Shields, executive director of the Tech Collective, called the loss of graduated college students to other states the “brain drain.” Shields said companies like Tech Collective and its members are working to reduce this by encouraging local business to tap into the talent and resources available in Providence and the rest of Rhode Island.

leen Brogan ’10 trekked to Ireland to study Irish sports, Kirkman said. “At the end, they put together a 32-minute documentary about Irish sport and Irish identity and society,” he said. Sarah Kay ’10 traveled to India to document the development of a school for poor children run by eight middle-aged women in a developing industrial area just outside New Delhi. “I was filming the school in the hopes of building visibility for them to showcase what they are doing to show a model of what they have built so it can be produced elsewhere,” Kay said. “People can use it as a creative outlet, or they can use it as a ver y strict analytical outlet. It is ver y open stylistically,” Kay said of the blog. Matthew Garza ’11 documented his service project on performance arts at a children’s center in Mali. “It was a really cool moment to really be engaged with the kids and to speak their language and to bring us all together,” Garza said. “We achieved a place where music and art is mutual, and we

communicated based on that idea.” Garza said he will be organizing an exhibit to showcase the art and photography he did with the children in Mali. Global Conversation has over 70 contributors, who produce blog posts, video, photographs, audio and written accounts. “Anyone with a Brown e-mail address, whether it be staff or students, can open an account and start contributing,” Kirkman said. The site is also launching a new series where Brown faculty conducting new research are paired up with filmmakers to make short films. “We think that using video and new media will get attention for things we do,” Kirkman said. Global Conversation is advertising through posters on campus, its Facebook page and Twitter feed, e-mail and word of mouth. For the future, Kirkman said “the big vision is that Global Conversation becomes the go to place not only for Brown, but for a lot of universities. It can be a place where the general public can go for audio and video and blogging.”

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“We have been on hold, waiting for fundraising from the president.” — Jo-Ann Conklin, director of the David Winton Bell Gallery

U. falls in international rankings After six-month pause, By Sophia Seawell Contributing Writer

Princeton Review ranks Brown students as the happiest. GQ named Brown America’s “Douchiest” College, and the Huffington Post proclaimed the University one of the 10 most intellectual. Over the years, Brown has received a number of other notable rankings, from fifth best college radio station to the 18th best quality of life. But Brown’s international ranking has actually been decreasing annually. Brown has fallen 12 spots in the QS World University Rankings, from 27 to 39, between 2008 and 2010. London-based Quacquarelli Symonds Limiteds ranks colleges based on “research quality, graduate employability, teaching and how international the faculties and student bodies are,” according to its website. This is the first year that QS and the Time Higher Education, whose collaboration has previously produced some of the most anticipated and influential international rankings, have come out with separate lists. THE expressed concern that QS rankings “rely too heavily on subjective surveys of scholars and employers, and not enough on hard indicators of excellence.” THE’s new system is based on

“teaching, research, citations, industry income and international mix,” according to its website. THE claims this method “places more weight on hard measures of excellence, rather than reputation and heritage.” THE placed Brown at 55 out of 200 universities, or in the 73rd percentile, while QS’s ranking of 39 out of 100 put Brown in the 61st percentile. One similarity between the two is that Brown was consistently ranked as the second to last Ivy League school, placed only above Dartmouth. Though the University’s international rankings have fallen, the number of applicants overall has increased. A record number of over 30,000 applied for the class of 2014, up 20 percent from the last year. The number of international students has also been on the rise, said Dean of Admissions Jim Miller ’73. The number of international applicants “grew significantly last year,” an increase that has been a “multi-year trend,” Miller said — despite the lowering international ranking. According to a study on what matters to international students applying to universities in the United States, more international students are applying to stateside schools. But school rankings were not among the top 10 factors that international students value most.

Despite their many differences, neither international nor domestic students place heavy weight on rankings. The UCLA Freshman Survey: Fall 2009 found that college rankings were only the 12th most important factor to American students deciding which school to attend. Miller said he believes that the reasons each group of students chooses Brown are relatively similar. “My sense is — and this is anecdotal — that the kind of intellectual engagement and the ability to be intellectually entrepreneurial … appeals equally to international student as well as U.S. students,” he said. One key difference that he did note was that the “Brown curriculum has even more appeal” to international students because it is unique. A number of international universities require students to commit to their field of study before even entering the institution. Miller said he was not concerned about Brown’s decline in international ranking because organizations “look at institutions in different ways, depending on what they’re studying and what they’re looking at,” he said. But Miller believes that the variation in rankings benefits students because “they can give people different views of institutions.”

memorial work resumes

By Chip Lebovitz Contributing Writer

Work is set to resume on a memorial commemorating Brown’s ties to the slave trade after a six-month fundraising hold. The memorial, originally recommended by the 2006 report from the University Steering Committee on Slaver y and Justice, had been put on “hold” until last week, according to Jo-Ann Conklin, director of the David Winton Bell Galler y and member of the memorial oversight committee. “We have been on hold, waiting for fundraising from the president, and now we can reconvene,” Conklin said. The memorial’s purpose is to inform the student body while being a “living site of memor y, inviting reflection and fresh discovery without provoking paralysis or shame,” according to the Commission on Memorials, which was formed after the original Steering Committee recommendation. Administrators placed a hold on the project in order to raise money, to solicit proposals from ar tists and to hire an outside consultant to help with the selection process, Conklin said. The tribute will be completely privately funded and cost several-hundred-thousand dollars, she said. Conklin said the committee had worked last spring with Wendy Feuer, assistant commissioner of urban design and art at the New York City Department of Transportation. But she said Feuer has not yet confirmed that she will continue to work on the project

despite the delay. Feuer has worked with the University on previous projects including Sidney Frank Hall for Life Sciences, Conklin said. Conklin praised Feuer’s abilities, saying she has “tons of experience” in the field. Now that the process has restarted, Conklin said she hopes to select an artist by the end of the academic year, though conflicting schedules among committee members has made progress difficult. Progress on other aspects of the project has been made during the six-month hold. The location for the monument has been narrowed down to two areas of campus: near the Main Green or on the Walk between Pembroke and main campuses. The entire project is overseen by the 13-person Slaver y Memorial Committee chaired by former Chancellor Artemis Joukowsky ’55 P’87 and includes President Ruth Simmons and Spencer Crew, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American Histor y. The process will be divided into three main stages, according to Conklin. The members of the committee will first field roughly 30 potential artist choices via suggestions from within the 13-person group as well as the entire Brown community. Then, Conklin said, the committee will commission five of the original group of artists to prepare a proposal after being provided a site visit to scope out the two potential locations. The committee will then choose the winning idea, she said.

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“We went to (the Fish Company) and asked people if they were in love.”

Love, factually: GISP analyzes the amorous By Amy Rasmussen Contributing Writer

At Brown, students tackle tough questions every day: They wrestle with organic chemistry, untangle streams of consciousness in Faulkner and talk — openly and unflinchingly — about love. Roman Gonzalez ’11, the independent studies co-coordinator for the Curricular Resource Center, and Lauren Kay ’11 are the leaders of the group independent study project, “The Study of Love,” which encompasses philosophy, neuroscience, religion, psychology, sociology and anthropology. On Monday and Wednesday nights, their group of 13 students gathers to think, to read about and to discuss love — at Brown, and everywhere else. Outlets for love Much like any other class at Brown, students in “The Study of Love” receive college credit, homework and a faculty advisor, Associate Professor of French Studies Virginia Krause. But the course topic and discussions are entirely student directed. The class syllabus, constructed by Gonzalez and accessible to the public on the course website loveatbrown.com, is loosely divided by Helen Fischer’s model of romantic love: lust, romantic love and attachment. Required readings, which were carefully selected by Gonzalez or recommended by Brown faculty, range from the works of Ovid and Shakespeare to primary scientific literature on the neurobiology of love. “I really want it to be a rigorous, scientific study of these things,” Gonzalez said. As he began to develop the class, Gonzalez said, he realized that while there are a number of outlets to discuss sexual health and behavior on campus, there are virtually none available for love or romance. “We want people to be talking more about it,” he added. “To be talking more about love, what it means and whether they’re okay with what it means.” Justine Palefsky ’13, a cognitive neuroscience concentrator in the class, had never even heard of GISPs until the beginning of the fall semester, she wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. When she learned of the class that was all about love, she jumped at the opportunity to take part. “It’s such a powerful force culturally that I feel like you’ve got to be curious about how and why it happens, and what it means to people today,” Palefsky wrote. Part of what makes the class work, Kay emphasized, is that every single person actually wants to be there. “Everyone has a different reason for taking this course,” Gonzalez added. “I want 13 different projects, 13 different paths.” Finding love at Fish Co.? The group, which counts heavy weekly readings, student-led discussions and a 10–15 page research paper as part of their workload, still manages to handle things a bit dif-

ferently than most Brown classes: they recently took a field trip. “We went to (the Fish Company) and asked people if they were in love,” Gonzalez said. “There would be people who would be hooking up in front of us, they would say no, and then keep hooking up.” Of the experience, Kay said that a lot of what happened at Fish Co. made her uncomfortable, but she found it to be an interesting place to observe the dynamics of Brown students. What we are “trying to get at here is what is relevant to love,” Kay said. “To a historical analysis of dating — to what’s actually going on after Fish Co., and before.” Ultimately, everyone in the class is required to take part in one of two final projects for the course. Gonzalez is taking charge of the creation of a 30-minute documentary and Kay’s group is in the process of developing a survey that she hopes to eventually publish. Gonzalez, who has a strong interest in filmmaking, said that he plans for the documentary to include both class discussion and interviews with students and faculty. Clips of videos, in which students on the Main Green are asked if they’ve ever been in love, and how they know, are currently available for viewing on the course website and Facebook page. The survey the other half of the class is developing has its roots in a similar project Kay did in her sophomore year. The original survey, which focused mainly on sexual behavior, has been expanded by the group into a 14-page series of questions about everything from marriage to sexual behavior and beliefs. “We want the survey to focus on love, not just sexual behavior,” Kay said. ”I want to get it out there to more than just Brown students.”

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Kay said she hopes to distribute the survey to students in large lecture classes by the end of the semester and to publish the results within a year. The group is currently working with professors to seek approval from the Institutional Review Board for the survey. Love’s labour won Ultimately, Kay said she would like her experience to be about changing perceptions — in the class, at Brown and throughout the world. “I want people feeling happier about the cultures in which we live and the things that we do,” she said. “Dating and romance can be really wonderful things, but they’re not always.” While Gonzalez came into the study with experience — both as a participant and creator — of previous GISPs, it is a novel path for many of the students in the class. “We aren’t learning for the sake of regurgitating material on some final exam,” Palefsky wrote. “We are doing this for the sake of our own exploration of something that profoundly interests us.” Kay, who had never completed a GISP before her senior year, spoke passionately of the benefits of a student-driven class, remarking that everyone should take part in at least one during their time at Brown. “It wasn’t one of my issues to fight for, and now it is,” she said. Though both Gonzalez and Kay are set to graduate in the spring, they hope that the project will extend into next semester and beyond. Gonzalez is already planning his next GISP: “The Science, Psychology, and Philosophy of How and Why We Fall out of Love, and Why Love Fails.” “The project should continue,” Gonzalez said. “I think it needs to continue.”

— Roman Gonzalez ’11

Berlin Award will fund prof ’s research, e-book By David Chung Contributing Writer

Professor of International Studies James Der Derian was awarded the Berlin Prize in June by the American Academy in Berlin to conduct semester-long research on a controversial method used by the U.S. military to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq. Der Derian has spent several years at the Watson Institute for International Studies studying the effects of the Human Terrain System, a military effort to raise cultural awareness among troops in an attempt to gain the respect and trust of locals. Der Derian’s research focuses on the role that culture has played in the interactions between the U.S. military and locals in war zones following the system’s establishment. He recently produced a documentary called “Human Terrain,” but he said he believes that the medium of film is limiting and does not offer as comprehensive a view of an issue as does a combination of different media. In his semester in Berlin, which starts in January, he plans to create an e-book, Der Derian said. “Images were always as important as words,” he said. He said he wants the e-book to not only serve as a study guide to supplement the film, but also as an independent item that will expand on the film’s ideas by incorporating links to other websites and sources across different media. When creating the film, he had to leave some of his ideas “on the cutting room floor,” he said, so he wants the e-book to express what the film could not. While in Berlin, Der Derian will

also research cultural clashes among other groups of people, trying to discover the roots of various problems related to war. “Why do they hate us?” is a question that has driven him in his research, he said. But he added that there was no simple answer to the question. While he declined to comment on how he feels about the Human Terrain System, he said that in order for us to prevent animosity among others, we must first learn to understand them. This goal is more important than getting others to like us, he said. Der Derian applied for the Berlin Prize because he felt that he was doing “more output than input” as a research professor here. Over the years, he said, he has been “draining source material” while doing his research, and he now wishes to study in “obscure corners of libraries.” Der Derian said he was drawn to apply for the prize because Berlin is among his favorite European cities because of its rich culture of arts and music. As research professors are not eligible for sabbaticals, Der Derian saw the fellowship as an opportunity to extend his work beyond the University, he said. “We’re very happy for James,” said Geoffrey Kirkman ’91, deputy director of the Watson Institute. Such a fellowship “extends our international network of scholars,” Kirkman said. As a research institute that hosts about 30 to 40 visiting scholars a year, the Watson Institute finds maintaining contacts across the world is essential, he said. Kirkman said he hopes that Der Derian’s trip to Berlin will “recharge” him to continue innovative research and teaching when he returns to Brown.

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“It’s getting out there, and it will exist for a while.” — Choices Education Program’s Andrew Blackadar, on human rights curriculum

Creative arts center on H.S. program promotes human rights schedule for spring By Jordan Hendricks Contributing Writer

BY Kyle McNamara Contributing Writer

The $40 million Perr y and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts is scheduled to be substantially completed on time. It is slated to open in Januar y. On Nov. 30, the building will obtain a “certificate of occupancy,” according to Michael Guglielmo, assistant director of project management. After the building is completed, Guglielmo said, final preparations will be made in time for the start of classes in Januar y. Between Dec. 1 and Dec. 22, staff will focus heavily on deliveries of furniture and equipment to furnish the new building, he said. On Dec. 20, the “staf f moves in and training period begins,” he said. The purpose of this training period will be to teach the staff the nuances of the building before they “go live” in Januar y, he added. The building will include an auditorium, four production studios, a galler y, a recording studio, a multimedia lab, a physical media lab, five living rooms, an outdoor amphitheater, five project studios, a smart classroom and a seminar

room. With all these facilities, the center plans to bring in artists to interact with students for longer periods of time, said Richard Fishman, professor of visual art and director of the Creative Arts Council. The building was created “to advance innovative directions for research, teaching and production across the boundaries of individual art disciplines,” Guglielmo said. Fishman described the building as a place to “bring all ar ts together,” incorporating “transdisciplinar y ideas,” with attention to sciences and humanities as well. “In the past, engineers, physicists and cognitive scientists have taught with artists,” Fishman said. He said these collaborations leave those involved “encouraged to reimagine their fields.” Some courses taught in the center will be led by two faculty members from dif ferent disciplines, highlighting the duality of courses, Fishman said. Departments will have to apply to teach in the building, which will house different courses each semester, he said. “No department has a permanent spot in the building,” he added.

A Brown-sponsored high school education project released a new curriculum that examines historical elements and modern implications of human rights. The unit resulted from an idea that sparked 10 years ago but was just completed in June. “The idea was that human rights had become such an important aspect of looking at international relations issues, and it was a way that a lot of the world’s problems were being addressed,” said Andrew Blackadar, director of curriculum development for the Choices Education Program, a national education initiative in partnership with the Watson Institute for International Studies and the Office of Continuing Education. “Students and teachers were interested in this element of looking at these problems. Human rights doesn’t necessarily fall into any traditional high school social studies curriculum, and so we wanted to provide a way that people could get really good information about it,” he said. This approach is the aim of the Choices Program, which intends to provide materials for secondary education classrooms that otherwise would not be included in a traditional curriculum. Founded in 1988, Choic-

es has released a number of printed and visual materials covering current issues such as the earthquake in Haiti, the U.S. response to terrorism and contemporary Cuba. The program’s products are used in over 8,000 U.S. high schools — about a third of all secondary schools — as well as many international schools. The program aims to inform young people about international topics “so that they become active, engaged citizens of the world,” Blackadar said. Choices Curriculum Writer Susannah Bechtel, who wrote the human rights unit, titled “Competing Visions of Human Rights: Questions for U.S. Policy,” said she was happy to help address the interest in human rights. “Today, you can look at so many pressing international issues through the lens of human rights,” she said. The curriculum features scholarship from a number of Brown professors and other figures such as Susan Allee, a visiting fellow and senior political affairs officer at the United Nations; Professor-at-Large Ricardo Lagos, the former president of Chile; and Dennis Davis, a high court judge in South Africa. This sort of scholarship is typical of a Choices curriculum, which contain information given by various Brown faculty and scholars, who

are not paid for their efforts. Rather, Choices is a nonprofit and intended to be affordable — a printed curriculum costs $25 and may be copied without restriction — so that individual teachers may partake in what Blackadar calls the “democratization of information.” “Professors at Brown don’t get paid for doing it. They’re doing it because they’re all so invested in the mission in providing this to as many people as possible,” Blackadar said. Emmett Fitzgerald ’10, an international education intern for the program, notes the enthusiasm of Brown’s faculty for the program. “Professors are excited at an opportunity to spread their knowledge about a topic and their scholarship about a topic outside a university setting to kids across the country,” Fitzgerald said. Blackadar said that yet another unique aspect of Choices is that every curriculum is updated every year, so as to “stay as close to current events as possible.” In the meantime, the human rights curriculum is for sale to secondary teachers throughout the world. Though exact numbers of the curriculum’s sales are not definite yet, Blackadar said he believes that it will be successful. “It’s been ticking over pretty well,” he said. “It’s getting out there, and it will exist for a while.”

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“There is no such thing as bad publicity.” — Professor of Economics Glenn Loury

Alum’s tutoring program Playboy honors professor of econ. expands services, staff BY Kim Clifton Contributing Writer

By Emma Wohl Contributing Writer

BearPaw Tutors, a tutoring company that employs Brown students, has grown in size, personnel and facilities recently, according to Co-founder and President Matthew Lent ’08. BearPaw “used to be a much smaller, less organized program,” Lent said, adding that he hopes it will be “much more organized this semester.” This year, the company increased its staff from one full-time employee for the entire company to six, Lent said, and moved into an office at 233 Thayer St. In addition, BearPaw is working to gain publicity in the Providence community, Lent said. “We’ve decided that we really wanted to invest a lot in the fall — in getting the word out in the community, letting them know we are here.” BearPaw was founded in 2006 by three Brown students as a private tutoring company and expanded in 2008 to include a free tutoring program at Providence public schools, Lent said. BearPaw also merged with another tutoring company, Eoseek, to provide a wider range of services, said Nicole Damari ’12, a BearPaw tutor. “It really seems like all the different people have come together this year,” she said. The program employs Brown students as tutors to work one-on-one

with elementary, middle and high students, according to Adam Rodriguez, BearPaw’s middle school program coordinator. According to its website, BearPaw currently employs 21 tutors in the Providence area. The tutoring company has another branch in Washington, D.C., which employs students from George Washington and Georgetown universities. All BearPaw tutors are paid for their time. According to Damari, some tutors can earn more based on a ranking system. At the end of lessons, students rank their tutors, and these scores are used to determine tutors’ bonuses. BearPaw tutors “serve more as good role models than someone who just comes in and teaches a lesson,” Rodriguez said “We definitely expect them to be more than a tutor.” In addition to helping students with their school work, tutors are expected to do some type of mentoring activity with their tutees once a month. Though BearPaw is completely independent of the University, Lent said part of the program’s strategy is to use Brown students and alums as much as possible. “The BearPaw name does convey that it’s related to the University, and we can back that up with the program,” he said. “Brown students are really good role models for the kids,” said Rodriguez.

Professor of Economics Glenn Loury was one of 20 professors named to the Playboy Honor Roll in the October edition of Playboy Magazine. “These professors have been honored because of their uncanny ability to start conversations about difficult subjects, expand the boundaries of knowledge within their fields and tackle the problems and issues that we face as a society today, head-on,” Playboy publicist Steve Mazeika wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “I’m very happy to be included,” said Loury, who said he does not read the magazine. “Playboy magazine doesn’t have the best reputation, but it can have interesting articles that attract attention.” The magazine called Loury a “Public Provocateur” and praised him as “a freethinker by nature” who “defies categorization.” Loury said he thought the description was accurate. “If I can surprise (students)

and argue all sides of whatever the question might be, then that makes me a better teacher,” he said. Loury said he has “no idea” how he was selected for the honor, but suggested, “I have this profile as a public intellectual — someone who doesn’t exactly follow the script.” Loury was one of the 200 professors nominated for the Honor Roll by “esteemed writers, academics, and contributors to the Playboy forum,” wrote Playboy Senior Editor Josh Schollmeyer in an e-mail to The Herald. Playboy editors chose 20 finalists based on their contributions to policy, society, the classroom and their field of study, he wrote. Lour y was chosen because “he’s not afraid to rethink and refine his positions as he continues to research them,” wrote Schollmeyer. “Professor Loury’s take on the issues he studies — namely race — is very refreshing.” Loury said he wished that the article also included more of his current work on incarceration and the increasing reliance on prison as a way of dealing with social

problems. Other professors on the Honor Roll include Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Tod Machover, whose research resulted in Guitar Hero; University of California, Berkeley professor Dan Kammen, who serves as an adviser in the Obama administration; and Northwestern University professor Jennifer Richeson, who investigates the brain’s work behind political correctness. Loury said he thought his fellow Honor Roll professors’ work was “innovative.” At Brown, Loury most recently taught the course ECON 1370: “Race and Inequality in the U.S.” He is currently on sabbatical leave, spending the year in New York City as a visiting professor at Columbia. Loury said he received notification by e-mail and telephone in July and was interviewed over the phone in August. The Honor Roll is part of Playboy’s annual college issue, which also features the Girls of the Pacific-10 Conference pictorial. “There is no such thing as bad publicity,” Loury said.­

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the project was proposed. According to the forged letter, the cameras would be installed by the Department of Facilities Management “in the next few weeks” in Keeney and later this fall in Pembroke in response to complaints from students and members of Facilities Management “regarding the treatment of emergency exit signs inside Pembroke buildings and in the Keeney Quadrangle.” The letter further states that the Corporation approved the installation at its meeting last May “as part of Brown’s continuing investment in capital projects.” “We want to emphasize that the University does not intend to monitor the daily goings on within the Pembroke and Keeney dorms,” Donahue wrote in the letter, which is dated Sept. 28 and signed by “Residential Life.” “Footage recorded by the cameras will only be reviewed in the event of damage to University property or

suspected misuse of the fire alarm system,” the letter states. Brown’s Code of Student Conduct states that violations to the code include actions that “result in or can be reasonably expected to result in damage to property.” These offenses include, but are not limited to “assault, vandalism and throwing, hurling or firing projectiles without regard for persons or property,” according to the code. The Department of Public Safety sent a notification to the Brown community in January 2009 stating that the department was in the process of installing 19 closed-circuit cameras in “strategic locations around campus,” including exterior paths and walkways, major streets and intersections on the main campus, but not inside residence halls. Bova said he could not comment on whether there would be any disciplinary actions regarding the hoax letter without further knowledge of the situation.

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Chekhov-inspired ‘Tea’ explores Serbian past in new play By Kristina Fazzalaro Senior Staff Writer

Serbia’s Dah Theatre concluded its visit to Brown Wednesday night with “The Story of Tea,” an experimental drama based on Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters.” Dah Theatre is a company dedicated to “profound experimental work,” according to its website. Founded in 1991 in response to the burgeoning war in Yugoslavia, Dah asks the question, “What is the role of the theatre?” For a company committed to the experimental, using Chekhov’s naturalistic piece as a starting point might seem like a strange choice. “I’m totally not interested in doing classical plays,” said Aleksandra Jelic, who plays one of the three sisters in the production. “We’re doing a classical play, but in our way.” Chekhov’s play explores the theme

of missed opportunity as the Prozorov family spends years debating whether or not to return to their beloved Moscow — a city of chance and progress. In the end, they never leave and must live with the sad truth that life may only consist of empty dreams. This sense of missed opportunity was the driving theme behind Dah’s “Three Sisters” redux, which took place in the Pell Chafee Performance Center. “Our country feels like that, like we never caught that train,” Jelic said. “The Story of Tea” begins on a happy note with the family buzzing about their home, serving themselves — and the audience — freshly brewed, delicious tea. “Tea is the answer to everything,” says one of the sisters, played by Sanja Krsmanovic-Tasic. Throughout the play, the sisters turn to a hot cup of tea whenever things become too much for

them to bear, which is often. The past is not a forgiving mistress — it haunts the sisters throughout the play, chasing them and sneaking up on them just when they begin to hope again. In rare moment of carefree joy, the sisters “ice skate” onstage. But, in the midst of the frivolity, one sister begins to read a newspaper that contains the story of how, in 1993, Serbian police under Milosevic kidnapped and murdered at least 19 individuals from a train simply because they had Muslimsounding names. The effect this news clipping has on the sisters is instantaneous. Griefstricken, their moment of calm is over. Tea cups clatter to the floor, water is spilled and cries are heard. Tea is not the answer to everything, then, but merely a balm for wounds too big to ever heal. The play calls into question the responsibility of individuals to speak up in the face of such atrocities. A whole train full of people watched this happen “in deadly silence.”

It also questions the role of the soldier, something many men in Serbia are still trying to come to terms with today, Jelic said. As Jugoslav Hadzic, who played the sisters’ brother, says in the play, “All I did was follow the orders of my superiors.” How are they supposed to live with this knowledge? And how are people supposed to live knowing that the murderers were brothers, friends or lovers? Though the play was performed in Serbian and English, as well as some lines of French, Greek, Russian and various African languages, the meaning of the play is not lost. There are harsh truths in this world that must be faced. The theme of missing chances was what ultimately drew the cast to the work, Jelic said. “Missing opportunities led to missing people in the train which led to the horrors of Srebrenica,” Jelic said. “This led us to missing civilization, to missing languages, to missing truths.” Hadzic said that initially he wanted

nothing to do with the Chekhov-inspired production because, “subconsciously we saw a clear connection to our country at the time we were writing the piece,” he said. Dah’s combination of chilling facts, haunting music and mesmerizing performances force audience members to think about their role in the greater scheme of things, bringing them into the production as well. Despite these harsh realities, the play ends hopefully, with the actresses placing faux-candles into audience members’ tea cups. As darkness descends on the theater, the only lights are those shining among the audience. Perhaps the answer lies with tea, after all. If individuals take time to think and come to terms with the world around them, perhaps things could move forward. “A time will come when everyone will know the reason for all this suffering,” say the sisters. “Then we will be left alone to begin our lives anew. If only we knew.”

Performer recites Cambodian poetry By Natalie Villacorta Contributing Writer

The McCormack Family Theater transformed into a Buddhist temple Wednesday afternoon. Sreypov Phoeun, who recites traditional Cambodian poetry known as Khmer poetry or “smot,” was invited to perform by Visiting Fellow in the Watson Institute for International Relations Tararith Kho. Smot is an almost vanished art form, said Visiting Professor of Literary Arts Robert Coover, who introduced the performance. Kho is working to revive this dying art, but though he writes Khmer poetry, he does not recite it, he told The Herald. That’s where Sreypov Phoeun comes in. She can recite the poetry, but does not write it. Smot is usually performed at funerals and other Buddhist ceremonies, Phoeun explained before reciting her first poem. But this was no average poetry reading. Phoeun sang the poems, which were sorrowful tales of family, faith, beauty and

hunger. Her somber tone was relevant in light of the recent death of poet and former literary arts professor Michael Gizzi, whom Coover mentioned respectfully in his introduction. This performance was an unusual opportunity, Coover told the audience, because the literary arts program would not have had the funding to host Phoeun if she were not already in the country on a onemonth tour. Phoeun told The Herald she was invited by several Cambodian Buddhist temples to perform during the recent religious festival of Pchum Ben, when Cambodians pay respect to their ancestors. She said she visited Stanford University and Las Vegas before coming to Brown. The first poem was in English, but still written in the style of traditional Cambodian poetry. It was difficult to understand what Phoeun was saying, but this proved unimportant, as the meaning was conveyed through the way she sung. Her voice was entrancing and her range remarkable. Her

voice gradually slipped lower and lower and then abruptly climbed to a high note, her mouth only slightly open, widening only to breathe. Phoeun sat perfectly still, her back straight, hands neatly clasped in her lap, eyes softly closed. While singing, she appeared extremely calm, but became flustered when the audience called for an encore. She reluctantly consented, admitting, “I feel a little bit nervous.” Before beginning her last piece, she said that though audience members could not understand her language, they could understand what the songs were about just by listening. Phoeun said there are over 60 ways to sing each smot poem. She could not explain how she learned to translate poems into song or how she chooses which style to sing them in, but said she was taught by masters in her village in Kampong Speu Province. She concluded her performance by urging audience members to visit Cambodia if they were interested in learning more.

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Ajello to defend House seat against former Brown professor By Claire Peracchio Senior Staff Writer

This November, veteran State Rep. Edith Ajello, D-Providence, will face repeat challenger Daniel Harrop ’76 MD’79 — a Republican who is banking on voters’ desire for change and the statewide, Republican-led “Clean Slate” initiative to unseat the nine-term incumbent. This is not the first time Ajello and Harrop have contested the District 3 House seat. The state legislator fended off challenges from Harrop in 2002 and 2004, winning over whelmingly both times. Ajello was reelected without opposition in 2008, the year presidential candidate Barack Obama carried her district with over 80 percent of the vote. Harrop, a Providence psychiatrist and former clinical assistant

professor in the Depar tment of Psychiatr y and Human Behavior, also ran against David Cicilline ’83 as the Republican candidate for mayor in 2006 and is currently the chair of the state Republican finance committee. “I entered freshman week in 1972, and I’ve essentially never left,” Harrop said of his long histor y with the University. Harrop currently serves on the board of trustees of the Brown Club of Rhode Island and was previously its president. He is also a member of the Brown University Community Council and was president of the Faculty Club. Ajello, who goes by the nickname Edie, has represented the district that includes Brown for 18 years. She currently ser ves as deputy majority leader in the state House of Representatives and as

secretar y of the House Judiciar y Committee. Ajello’s incumbency and her district’s liberal leaning make the longtime state legislator well positioned for the general election, according to Scott MacKay, a political analyst for local public radio station WRNI. “I would be ver y surprised if she lost,” MacKay said, pointing to Ajello’s leadership on passing a state school financing formula that will increase education funding for her district as a benefit to her constituents. “Her being one of the key legislators in getting through the new school funding formula ought to really help her out with people in the city because it has a direct impact on what they pay in taxes,” he said. The education funding formula, which was signed into law in July and will go into effect in fiscal year 2012, increases the proportion of the more-than-$700 million state education budget that goes to lowincome students. Rhode Island was previously the only state without such a formula. “I was instrumental in adding a provision that we would raise the total amount of money spent as well as reapportioning the money,” Ajello said, adding that Rhode Is-

land’s smaller state education budget relative to that of other states led local governments to rely on high property taxes — particularly on the East Side — to make up the difference. Ajello also mentioned legislation that she sponsored giving victims of sexual assault the ability to get a protective order against their attackers. She is also touting a law mandating women have access to contraceptives under health insurance plans in her bid for reelection. Harrop said “a different atmosphere this time around” — fueled by national trends signaling voters are particularly hostile to incumbents — has the potential to tip the race in his favor. Harrop also cited the Rhode Island “Clean Slate” initiative, which he described as “a multipartisan effort with Republicans, moderates and independents all joining together,” as a chance to capitalize on voter dissatisfaction with the political status quo in the Democrat-dominated General Assembly. “Clean Slate” is an effort spearheaded by the state Republican Party to back candidates who support eliminating the state’s car tax and lowering the property tax, reforming education and promoting job creation.

“The major issue is the state budget and where the money is going to go,” Harrop said, adding that without structural changes to how the state allocates its finances, the Ocean State will see “significant and really bad deficits” comparable to those in states like Nevada and California. Harrop falls to the right of Ajello on the issue of same-sex marriage, which he testified against as a psychiatrist before the General Assembly. In a May 26, 2008, Providence Journal op-ed titled “Children need a mother and a father,” Harrop defended traditional marriage and cited its benefits for children. The District 3 candidates are also divided on whether taxing Brown and other nonprofits — a proposed solution to the state’s financial woes – is a good idea. Ajello said that while she would oppose a tax on Brown alone, it is “reasonable” for nonprofit organizations to contribute more to state revenue given the share of public ser vices they use. But Harrop is opposed to tax increases altogether. “I think that nonprofits in the state have been invaluable,” he said, comparing taxing nonprofits like Brown to “killing the goose that laid the golden egg.”

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mayor’s office publicly announced any plan to repeal the exemptions before the July 14 finance committee hearing at which Chairman John Igliozzi proposed the repeal. Igliozzi did not respond to an e-mail request for comment and could not be reached at his listed phone number. Several other council members who voted to repeal the exemption also did not respond to requests for comment. “It came completely out of the blue,” Patch said. Patch and a consor tium of Providence landlords formed the Providence Apartment Association to fight the measure, claiming that the Council “illegally slipped a Tax Levy” into the budget without proper notification, according to the group’s website. The Providence Journal reported that the city’s solicitor general maintains that the manner in which the exemption passed was illegal because there was no public announcement before the hearing on the measure took place. On July 26, the City Council voted 8-5 to end exemptions on

non-owner-occupied property with two council members absent. A final vote the next week upheld that vote 8-7. Council members and landlords alike complained that the vote was unfairly rushed to meet the July 31 budget deadline. “It was taken straight from one party to another party without a proper discussion,” said Councilman Seth Yurdin, who voted against the repeal. Yurdin’s district, Ward 1, includes Brown’s campus and the adjacent Fox Point neighborhood and is densely populated with apartment units rented to students. The majority of the citywide tax burden, he said, would fall directly on his constituents. Cicilline opposed the measure, accusing the council of passing a “budget levy that imposes an unnecessary and onerous tax increase on Providence residents.” In an official press release, he vowed to veto it. But he didn’t. Michael Patch and the Providence Apartment Association allege that the administration knew about the council’s plan to repeal the exemption, but expressed public opposition to avoid supporting a tax increase during his campaign for Congress.

“It was unquestionable that the administration was aware that this was the option,” said Patch. “I believe the administration supported the idea.” Karen Watts, communications director for Cicilline, denies the administration’s involvement in the proposal. The City Council “manipulated the timing of the hearing,” she said. “Why, when a proposed budget was handed to them in April, did they wait for the last possible week?” For landlords and tenants around Brown, the new budget is especially worrisome. Tax bills for this fiscal year are based on a 2010 assessment that saw property values fall 10 percent on College Hill and as much as 40 percent in the rest of the city, Yurdin said. “The value of the property on the East Side increased proportionally,” he explained, which will result in higher taxes for landlords renting to Brown students. According to Patch, in the long term, if all owners are hurt, they will pass the cost on in the form of higher rent. He estimated tenants “could see 5–10 percent increases” in their rents.

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Squad loses to Dartmouth, Fairfield Bruno fares well in By Sam Sheehan Contributing Writer

The field hockey team took on the Fairfield Stags on Tuesday, scoring twice in a 5-2 losing effort. The Bears also traveled to Dartmouth over the weekend, falling short 4-2. But the team regrouped its offense recently and is keeping games close. Dartmouth 4, Brown 2 In Saturday’s game, the Bears (1-6, 0-2 Ivy) put up two goals against a tough Dartmouth (6-1, 1-1 Ivy) defense. Despite having a 13-5 deficit in penalty corners, Bruno took advantage of its scoring opportunities — with its shooting percentage of 20 percent beating Dartmouth’s 11 percent. But penalties and shot attempts proved to be the difference-maker, as Dartmouth relentlessly attacked the Bears’ defense, tallying 36 shots to Brown’s 10. “Drawing corners certainly is (important),” said Head Coach Tara Harrington ’94. “We need to draw more of them and give up less of them.” Midfielder-forward Abigail Taft

’12 and forward Tacy Zysk ’11 provided the goals for the Bears. My goal “was well set up by Leslie (Springmeyer ’12),” Taft said. “Both Tacy and I got open looks off of long balls. One of the defenders was recovering and I was able to pull around her and make the shot.” These good offensive looks have spawned from a recent change the team has made in its formation, moving sideback Laura Iacovetti ’12 to a more central position, which allows captain midfielder Katie Hyland ’11 to push further up the field. This is a more offensive-minded formation, and the team has seen a huge upswing in goals since the rearrangement. The team, which was scoreless through the first three games of the season, has since put up 14 goals in their four games since. Iacovetti’s solid play in an unfamiliar position has earned her praise from coaches and teammates. “I like it a lot,” Iacovetti said of her new position. “Katie and I play well together. We have similar playing styles, so it’s easy for us to work off of one another.”

Fairfield 5, Brown 2 In Tuesday’s game, the team battled the elements in a rainy contest against Fairfield (6-4), falling short 5-2. Fullback Elara Mosquera ’13 provided the early spark, slamming home a pass from Iacovetti to put Brown on top 1-0. Fairfield later tied the game off a corner, but Taft answered just over a minute later, collecting a loose ball and burying it for her fourth score of the year. But the Stags came roaring back after the goal, scoring four unanswered goals to claim the victory. Fairfield pounced on the corner opportunities presented to them, scoring two second-half goals directly off of penalties. This is not the first time Bruno has had penalties weigh in on a game decision, after having three of its goals disallowed in a 5-4 loss to Columbia. Goalie Lauren Kessler ’11.5 continued her stellar play, turning away seven shots, including a diving stop of a cross destined for the stick of a Fairfield forward. Catch the Bears in Ivy League action this weekend, as they take on Harvard Saturday at noon on the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center roof.

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tough weekend field By Sam Rubinroit Contributing Writer

At the Yale Invitational last weekend, women’s golf delivered a solid performance mixed with flashes of amazing play. The Bears earned an 8th place finish in the 14-team field, shooting a three-round score of 935 (316, 304, 315) at the 5,959-yard Yale Golf Course. The host school came away with the victor y on the par-72 course, as the Bulldogs shot 886 (296, 293, 297), 13-strokes ahead of second place University of Pennsylvania. “I’m happy with our overall finish,” said Head Coach Danielle Griffiths. “The field was pretty tough, so the middle of the pack was still a ver y good finish for us.” Br uno saw an impressive display from Megan Tuohy ’12, who set a school record for oneday low score carding a 71 in the second round. Grif fiths called

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Tuohy’s performance a “breakthrough round.” Her 54-hole score of 227 (80, 71, 76) earned her 15th place individually. At the same time, Carly Arison ’12 was a “ver y consistent performer,” remarked Griffiths. She shot three rounds in the 70’s to finish 23rd individually with a score of 231 (77, 75, 79). Susan Restrepo ’11 carded a 236 (79, 77, 80), Sarah Guarascio ’11 finished at 244 (83, 81, 80) and Heather Arison ’12 shot a 250 (80, 87, 83). The Bears return to action October 10-11 for the Northern Illinois Invitational held at Whisper Creek Golf Course in Huntley, Ill. “We’ll get to play a different tournament field than we’re used to seeing, some more northern teams,” Griffith said. “It’ll be a good challenge for us. It also helps our strength of schedule to play some different teams, so we’re looking for ward to going to Chicago.”

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C ampus N EWS news in brief 2013 Class Board sells T-shirts The 2013 Class Board has been selling T-shirts — marketed as “official” — to the sophomore class. The sales were conducted on the Main Green by 2013 Class Board representatives. Brandon Tomasso ’13, president of the class board, said the sales were held to “promote class unity.” The shirts, designed by Paola Eisner ’13 and Annie Wu ’13, were chosen from several options submitted in a contest held last year. In an e-mail sent to the student body advertising the sale, the shirts were dubbed the “Class of 2013 tee shirts.” “It’s official because the class coordinating board developed it,” Tomasso said. “We put it together, and we’re selling it to the class. It’s not like one of the ones you get off of those websites that sell Ivy League merchandise. It’s not something designed by some other entity — it’s actually the class of 2013 that designed it, and it’s for the class specifically.” The shirt costs $13, and the class board has sold approximately 100 shirts. “We were confident that we would be able to reach out and provide a better service to our class,” Tomasso said. Sales of the shirt will be conducted periodically on the Main Green. Some students decided not to buy the shirt. “I have too many T-shirts as it is, so I’m not going to spend $13 on a T-shirt and not wear it,” said Rebecca Corman ’13. — Ramya Mahalingam

New website examines rebels and revolution BY Max Ernst Contributing Writer

The recent launch of “Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs,” a website created by Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Ross Cheit and five undergraduate students, is aiming to improve the range of information available to students and instructors regarding the Reagan-era scandal. The project “provides information about the rise of the contra rebels in Nicaragua and about the Iranian Revolution,” as well as the context needed to evaluate longterm government issues such as transparency and executive power, according to the website. Cheit, who teaches PPAI 1700T: “Good Government,” decided to build the site primarily to create an academic resource about the scandal for his class. The only other related source is Theodore Draper’s “A Very Thin Line,” a book that is now out

of print, Cheit said. “I was never satisfied with the material out there to teach IranContra,” Cheit said. Cheit recruited students for the project from his “Good Government” course and through the Political Science Department listserv. The team spent nearly a year doing research, writing summaries and editing each section. “I wanted to get involved in a big project like this before I graduated,” said Ingrid Pangandoyon ’10, who designed the website. “Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs” is organized topically and explores the scandal, the congressional hearings investigating government misconduct and the legal consequences of the trials. The “Enduring Issues” section examines additional thematic topics, such as lying to Congress and executive wrongdoing. “The website is a user-friendly way to understand a complex scan-

Brief power outage affects Thayer area businesses continued from page 1 Melissa Arner, the bar manager at Paragon, was perturbed by the power outage. “Financially, it’s not a good gig,” she said. “This is going to hurt.” Arner said the restaurant would stay open until the usual closing time — midnight — if the lights went back on. But while the lights were off, they were unable to serve any food or alcohol. “It’s all about making money,” she said. Grace Cho ’12 even lost power in her dorm. She lives in Minden Hall, which is located on the corner of Waterman and Brook streets.

Approximately six Brown buildings were victims of the power outage, Quinn wrote. As her phone chimed she said, “I don’t know (what to do). I was going to go to Starbucks, but I guess I’ll just go to the SciLi.” Glancing up from her phone, Cho added, “This is weird.” An information session scheduled for Wednesday evening with employer Altman Vilandrie and Company at the Career Development Center had to be relocated to the CIT. “The presenters carried the food trays themselves,” said Sophie Friedman ’12, a student ambassador for the CDC.

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dal,” said Jeremy Feigenbaum ’11, a former Herald opinions columnist who was involved with the project. The team has a “public education mission,” according to Cheit. By highlighting a variety of articles written about the topic and providing concise summaries of events, those who worked on the project hope to spread information and maintain an effective resource for the classroom. “I was thinking beyond the needs of my class,” Cheit said. Recognizing that the current

website is only a preliminary edition, the team seeks continuous improvement. After presenting the site to his students, Cheit gave his class a survey to ascertain useful aspects and areas for improvement. “We are tr ying to make the site more functional and broader in scope,” Cheit said. “It will be a fantastic site when we take it to the next level.” (Disclosure: Herald Senior Editor Seth Motel ’11 was one of the five students working on the project.)

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Prof applauds column against pseudoscience To the Editor: I would like to applaud David Sheffield’s recent opinion piece (“Inviting ignorance,” Sept. 28). As a teacher of vaccine science here at Brown, I was appalled that the Brown Bookstore would provide a platform for Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill to peddle their ill-informed and discredited view that vaccines cause autism. Sadly, the price of this pseudoscience is often paid by children who needlessly suffer and die from vaccine-preventable illnesses — as an example, in California’s ongoing whooping cough epidemic, eight infants too young to be vaccinated have died as a result of acquiring the disease from older children who should

have been. The over whelming evidencebased consensus in the medical and scientific community is that vaccines have saved many millions of lives, and that they do not cause autism. There is already far too much ignorance and misinformation in our society — the Brown Bookstore should not have allowed itself to be used by those who would increase that total at the expense of children’s health. I respectfully suggest to the Bookstore management that next time they should do a bit more homework — I’d be happy to provide a reading list. Richard Bungiro PhD’99 Lecturer in Biology Sept. 28

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To the people who shoplift from Brown Dining Ser vices eateries — We know you’re not bad people. But based on estimates and anecdotes we’ve heard, it seems there are more than just a few of you. A 2005 Herald stor y quoted one Dining Ser vices administrator who said that theft at Josiah’s in particular is a “perennial challenge.” We’re guessing you steal from Brown Dining Ser vices — when you wouldn’t shoplift from a store — because you feel a strange sense of entitlement. Maybe you rationalize your actions by saying you’re already paying Brown tens of thousands of dollars for tuition, room and board. Of course, stealing is illegal and a violation of Brown’s code of conduct. But since that doesn’t seem to be a sufficient deterrent, we have a few extra reasons why you should take that slice of pizza out of your pocket and pay for it. First off, Dining Services isn’t exactly turning a huge profit, so shoplifters aren’t justified in assuming a Robin Hood mentality. “People have a ver y limited understanding of how the meal plan works,” said Melanie Masarin ’12, the general manager of Dining Services’ student employment division. She said she suspects some people steal because they “feel like they’re being ripped off,” and are tr ying “to get something out of the system.” But BDS isn’t looking to turn a profit, according to Masarin. And when you consider the costs of running so many

dining locations, the rip-off theor y doesn’t seem quite right. Second, shoplifting is disrespectful to Dining Services workers, including student workers. Stealing from BDS places Brown student cashiers and managers in uncomfortable positions. It’s awkward — and the employee may not know whether or not to say something to you or how that would go. “If I was to cashier now… I think I would be ver y assertive,” Masarin wrote in an e-mail to the editorial page board. “But my first semester, I would never have dared.” Dining Ser vices tells its workers to encourage people to pay for things in a friendly way or to get a manager, especially if it is nighttime and the offending party is drunk. “We tr y to avoid putting them in confrontational situations,” Masarin said. Third and perhaps most importantly, shoplifting raises prices for students. Someone has to pay for that tub of hummus. There is no corporate giant absorbing the loss. As Dining Ser vices’ revenue comes from meal plans, presumably the rest of us will have to pick up the tab. So take that spicy with out of your sneaker, please, and step right back onto the straight and narrow. Make us proud, Brown University. Use your points or meal credits, and pay for your food. Editorials are written by The Herald’s editorial page board. Send comments to editorials@browndailyherald.com.

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Smells like team spirit SARAH ROSENTHAL Opinions Columnist It was a special night. For one night, and one night only, the too-tight pants of hipsters would be replaced by the too-tight pants of football players. A student body that treasures its apathy and ironic detachment would embrace an American pastime with corny whole-heartedness. Under the glare of the Saturday night lights, the Brown football team would get the sort of support its counterparts at state schools regularly enjoy. Why? I should tell you right off the bat that I have less than no interest in, or knowledge of, football. I had never been to a single Brown sporting event and I don’t feel like I’ve missed out. Yet thanks to the magical combination of boredom and peer pressure, I found myself sitting on uncomfortable aluminum benches waiting for something to happen, or on my feet, clapping and cheering wildly for some play that I hadn’t seen or couldn’t understand. And I kind of enjoyed it. Yes, I was concerned about giving in to the mob mentality, but in a school as resolutely non-competitive as Brown, there’s some release that comes with yelling “Harvard sucks!” in unison with thousands of other voices. For me, at least, this was the most

mindless type of entertainment possible — not even forming my own reactions to what was happening on the field, but watching everyone else and allowing my emotions to be borne along by theirs. Of course, for the football players, it was anything but mindless, and no doubt that was also the case for the development officers, biting their nails that Brown would win and the donations would come pouring in. But for the literally thousands of fans, students and alumni sitting in the stands, this

game and all but three raised their hands, I couldn’t help but be impressed. What other event (barring Spring Weekend, which is also not exactly about the performances) can you recall that drew such a large and diverse cross-section of the student body? Maybe it turns out we’re not as ironically detached as we thought. Maybe we enjoy the cheering and chanting and pretending to know the words to the fight song. Maybe we want to recapture that feeling that we only get at Convocation and Commence-

Should we become like those sports-obsessed state schools, just because for one night a lot of students acted like they were interested in football? was a rare chance to express our love for Brown without complications or judgment. Not that there was anything organic about the sudden infusion of school spirit; rather, it was the product of a shrewd and ubiquitous marketing campaign that touted the historical nature of the first ever game “under the lights.” And for many (myself included), it was more about the social experience than love of the game. But when my professor asked a class of 20 how many of us had attended the

ment, where we’re not pre-med students or ethnic studies students or math students or (shudder) MCM students, but just Brown students. Sports are a powerful unifier, there’s no doubt about it. So should we become like those sports-obsessed state schools, just because for one night a lot of students acted like they were interested in football? Anyone who spends five minutes at Brown can tell that this is a school where people are more frequently condescended to

than worshipped for their physical gifts. Athletes, especially football players, tend to get stereotyped as not overly concerned with academics. Some are brilliant scholar-athletes; some have been accepted to Brown because they possess a different sort of intelligence than the type professors value. But this isn’t confined to athletes at all. Someone with less than glowing teacher recommendations may be accepted because the orchestra needs a tuba player; someone else who stood out to the admissions committee for his stellar community service record may have comparatively low SAT scores. And of course, someone who had abysmal grades and rich parents is welcome here, because how do you think we pay to be continually Building Brown? Sports-obsessed is bad, because any type of imbalance is bad, but sports-hostile is no better. I could end with some cheesy message about how the football game teaches us that we’re all unique tiles who together form the beautiful mosaic that is Brown, but I suspect that a lot of you engaged in some heavy drinking last night at Fish Co. and I don’t want to make you sick. So instead, I will just say that I love my college dear, and it’s not so bad to be able to show it once in a while.

Former Herald Opinions Editor Sarah Rosenthal ’11 didn’t get a picture with Ruth and so is never going to a football game again.

Subsidizing Ruth Simmons BY Manas Gautum Opinions Columnist Decision making is based on incentives. These incentives may be rational to some and irrational to others. Most of the attractive incentives and decisions we make are linked to survival and intellectual growth. However, there is a culture of self-doubt that is superseding the culture of growth and development. Before applying to Brown, I had discovered one thing about the University culture: all the students here admire Ruth Simmons. When I came here, my hypothesis was proven correct: I found a cult following among the students wearing Ruth Simmons T-shirts, and everyone’s eyes would light up when they saw the lady walk across the street, treating her like a celebrity. How many of you, in the past, have made your profile picture on Facebook of a shot with President Simmons? You get the point. I admire Ruth Simmons because she is the twelfth child of a Texas sharecropper who made it to where she is today. Such a phenomenal success story could only take place in America, where individual freedoms such as pursuing one’s dreams and becoming a stalwart in one’s chosen field are revered and protected. Unfortunately, there is a culture of cynicism that doubts all the reasons that made America the country that it is. This culture demands more regulations and more governmental control, and discredits capitalism because it is inherently evil and exploitive.

Some students criticize the University for slashing our faculty’s tenure and laying off a number of workers. The same students also pressured President Simmons to retire from Goldman Sachs’ board because of Goldman’s involvement in “the crisis” and how “darn evil and money-hungry” the company is. I find this quite bewildering. More tenure means more promised wealth to professors, and I completely support that. On the other hand, passing “moral” judgment on President Simmons and her means to monetary compensation is quite skewed. It has also led to a tarnishing of

ing up, but had the motivation to put in hours of work, build her intellect and develop a charming personality that Brown students find so intoxicating. President Simmons was poised for success, and it wouldn’t come as a surprise if she was in Indra Nooyi’s shoes today as the first female Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo. Had she pursued such a lucrative career option, the University would have lost a President with one of its most successful fundraising records. Let’s look at the case of one former Harvard president, Larry Summers. He was

President Simmons was poised for success, and it wouldn’t come as a surprise if she was in Indra Nooyi’s shoes today as the first female Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo. her reputation. Why cannot Ruth Simmons be on the board of an organization (Goldman Sachs) that has paid its fines (and hence been cleared of its “wrongdoings”), is sought after by Brown students for jobs and has donated more than any other organization ($994,795) to our Jimmy Carter of a president, whom most Brunonians love? An individual with a passion equivalent to that of President Simmons would make it to the board of Goldman Sachs by starting off as a consultant straight out of college. She is a strong-willed woman who did not have a lot of resources while grow-

forced to step down during his tenure, but found himself in an even more powerful position controlling the fate of investors and businesses in the US (he recently stepped down as director of President Obama’s National Economic Council). That’s how powerful he really is. Shirley M. Tilghman, the President of Princeton, is on the Board of Google, Inc. Richard Levin, the President of Yale, is on the board of American Express. Ruth Simmons remains on the board of Texas Instruments. These educators are compensated by these companies for acting on behalf of the students who are go-

ing to be the future employees of these successful organizations. This compensation makes up for the millions they could have been making in the corporate world and helps us retain these educators to work full time by strategizing, fundraising and making you feel comfortable. If Brown students are the happiest in the country, then I am sure they don’t see the Corporation as a problem. However, I believe some would like to keep you disturbed and worried by inventing an imaginary cause that has hidden anti-capitalist agendas at heart. President Simmons will eventually retire, and I am worried about the repercussions of the school’s attitude. Will good educators even think about taking Simmons’s place if they know that the student body is against them being compensated for their worth? With regard to American corporations and Brown, as long as there is no harmful conflict of interest (such as selling Brown’s land to Coca Cola), professors, academics and students can benefit a lot from mutually beneficial collaborations. Professors who have applied their knowledge to the real world are the ones who will be responsible for making our University produce leaders who will give back to their own community and Brown. At the end of the day, we will be working in these various industries, and practical application of our knowledge will always give us an edge. Innovation and education are where our future truly lies.

Manas Gautam ’12 gives lessons in fishing and can be reached at mg@brown.edu.

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