Thursday, October 14, 2010

Daily Herald the Brown

vol. cxlv, no. 90 | Thursday, October 14, 2010 | Serving the community daily since 1891

U. continues negotiations with library worker union

Contract set to expire today

By Alex Bell Senior Staff Writer

Emma Wohl / Herald

Johnny Prah ’12 signs a petition in support of Brown library workers, who are currently in contract negotiations with the University.

After months of negotiations, the University may come to an agreement with the libraries union today.

The contract, originally set to expire Sept. 30, is now set to expire today. After the original expiration date passed, a federal mediator was brought in, according to Karen McAninch ’74, the business agent for the union that represents 65 employees who work for the University library system.

She said negotiators will begin discussions today at 9 a.m., break for a rally on the steps of the Rockefeller

Library at 12 p.m., then resume at 1 p.m.

Among the primary points of contention is the structure of health care benefits, McAninch said.

Under the current contract, library workers must pay 6 percent of premiums, but McAninch said the University had been looking to increase that figure to 12 percent next year, 14 percent the year after and 16 percent in three years. She said the University softened its position Tuesday to 11, 13 and 15 percent, respectively.

Still, McAninch said the increases are too high given that pay increased by only 1 percent. She said Brown’s other unions — such as Dining Services — have received either smaller continued on page 2

UCS hears W. golf wins classic, sets record score housing concerns

By Sam Rubinroit Sports Staff Writer

By Nicole Boucher Senior Staff Writer

The Undergraduate Council of Students heard reports of student input to the Corporation on housing improvements at the council’s general body meeting Wednesday night.

Student representatives from many areas of campus life came together during Corporation weekend to voice their concerns about housing, said Jessica Liss ’13, the council’s liaison to the Corporation.

Twenty-five athletes, Residential Peer Leaders and representatives from the UCS executive board and the Residential Council met Oct. 1 with the Campus Life and Facilities and Design committees of the Corporation to discuss potential improvements to the system, Liss said.

Among alter natives discussed, students brought up converting Perkins Hall to upperclassman housing and attempting to provide “more of a cohesive experience” to firstyears, said Liss, a former Herald staff writer. Other discussions included improvements to sophomore housing.

At its meeting, the Corpo-

inside

continued on page 5

News.....1–5 Sports.....6–9 Editorial....10 Opinion.....11 Today........12

www.browndailyherald.com

Bolstered by the individual performance of Carly Arison ’12, the women’s golf team set a school record for one-day score and clinched the team title at the 26th Annual Northern Illinois Huskie Golf Classic last Sunday and Monday. The team shot a record 296 on Monday, overcoming a 19-stroke deficit and earning a three-stroke victory over second

place Northern Illinois.

The Bears shot a team score of 315 during the first round on Sunday at the par-72 Whisper Creek Golf Club. But the team rallied the next

SPORTS day to clinch its first victory of the season.

“Our putts really didn’t go in on Sunday, but the girls didn’t get discouraged,” said Head Coach Dani-

elle Griffiths. “Their short game was really good on Monday, so it was fun to watch all the putts go in. I was really proud of how they hung in there and made a comeback.”

Arison, a Herald senior sales associate, shot back-to-back rounds of 75 for a six-over-par score of 150 to capture the tournament’s individual title. She birdied the final hole of the tournament to clinch a one-stroke

news in brief

Alum settles with SEC Corporation fellow Steven Rattner ’74 P’10 P’13 has settled a corruption case with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

The investigation focused on his role in kickbacks paid

by Quadrangle Group, an investment firm that he cofounded, to win deals with New York’s pension fund.

Rattner, a financier and the Obama administration’s former “car czar,” will incur a fine of over $5 million and be banned from the securities industry for several years, according to the article.

Quadrangle settled with the SEC in the spring, but the settlement excluded Rattner, a former Herald editor-in-chief. The firm then cooperated with the government in its investigation of Rattner’s role in the kickbacks.

Rattner is negotiating another settlement with the New York Office of the Attorney General, according to the article.

Neither Rattner nor his attorney could be reached for comment Wednesday evening.

continued on page 9 — Alexandra Ulmer

Behind the balance sheet: an inside look at BDS

By Anne Simons Staff Writer

While all undergraduates depend on it at some point during their time here, Brown Dining Services is little understood by the student body. BDS is always a topic of conversation — students can be overheard raving about a new muffin flavor at the Blue Room, comparing menus at the Sharpe Refec-

SPOTLIGHT tory and the Verney-Wooley Dining Hall or complaining about how much certain items cost in BDS’s eateries.

But students are less sure about how BDS does business.

Many students interviewed at the V-Dub said they were unsure about how BDS’s business operates. “I don’t know how they make money,” Adelle Molina ’12 said. Julia Carr ’14 said she

would guess BDS breaks even. Tia Su ’14 said BDS is “probably making profits.” Orlen Shiba ’13 said he would guess BDS is “going on a loss.”

The lack of agreement on BDS’s profitability attests to the mystery of how its practices lead to the cost of meal plans, the values of meal credits, the menus and the cost of various items.

Meal plan madness The number of students signed up for meal plans has been steady for about the last five years, said Gretchen Willis, director of Dining Services. In the late 1990s, there were only about 3,600 students on meal plan, which was lower than BDS wanted, she said, so they began a department initiative to raise the number to 3,800 students.

Now the number of students on a meal plan is about 4,650, she said. continued on page 3

David Chung / Herald

Meal plan costs are set each February based on recommendations of the University Resources Committee. This year, they increased 2.5 percent.

Chess and pool

Mixed results

Rodi for Rhody

New gaming lounge gets its game on in campus center

Women’s soccer team tallies two wins, one loss

Terrence George ’13 on the State Rep. race

CAMPUS NEWS, 2

SPORTS, 6

Opinions, 11

195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island

herald@browndailyherald.com

Page 2

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

C ampus N EWS

Thursday, October 14, 2010

“It’s kind of like forensics.”

— Jeffrey Salacup GS, about his research into environmental history

EPA funds GS research New game room replaces student arcade on Narragansett Bay

By Julian Ezenwa Contributing Writer

By Katherine Long Contributing Writer

“It’s kind of like forensics,” thirdyear graduate student Jeffrey Salacup GS said of his research into the environmental history of Narragansett Bay. An archetypal geologist — with a full beard, hiking boots and requisite fleece jacket — Salacup won a three-year, $111,000 fellowship from the Environmental Protection Agency last April.

Salacup’s research focuses on surface temperature and changes in land use around the bay since the year 500. He analyzes sediment core samples for changes in chemical composition, which give clues about the temperature and nutrient cycles as well as the types of organic and inorganic matter that have run off into the bay.

Taking a sediment core sample is relatively straightforward, according to Salacup.

“Go out into the bay on a boat, take a tube, push it into the mud and you have a sediment core sample,” he said.

Salacup’s project, which aims to create the longest timeline of the bay’s history, is unique in that the chemical signatures he examines have never before been worked with outside an open-ocean setting.

His research is part of a broader effort spearheaded by Professor of Geological Sciences Warren Prell and Timothy Herbert, professor and chair of the Department of Geological Sciences, to reconstruct how the bay has responded to climate and social changes over the past centuries. Prell has been

studying the bay for decades, and Herbert, who is also Salacup’s primary research adviser, has extensive background in open-ocean sediment core sample analyses, according to Salacup.

“These sediment core samples are the basis for a wide variety of graduate and undergraduate research,” Prell said.

Prell himself is using the core samples to form a history of the productivity of the bay over the last 500 years and was the recent recipient of the Rhode Island Sea Grant. Both the Sea Grant and the EPA fellowship provide the funds necessary to collect the core samples, measure their different layers and perform chemical analyses.

Despite the innovative nature of Salacup’s research, he has already seen success. After only a year and a half of work, he has been able to reconstruct the bay’s environmental history up to the point immediately before the arrival of Europeans.

Salacup said he looks forward to addressing his own misconceptions about the effect Europeans had on the bay. He also hopes that by describing the bay’s characteristics at warm periods in the past, his research will be able to inform speculation about how the bay might look in 50 years and help bay-dependent industries plan for the future.

“How did the Native Americans really treat the bay, in comparison to how Europeans treated it?” Salacup asked. “This work is essential in order to place today’s bay into the framework of history.”

sudoku

Daily Herald the Brown

Editorial Phone: 401.351.3372 | Business Phone: 401.351.3260 George Miller, President Claire Kiely, Vice President

Katie Koh, Treasurer Chaz Kelsh, Secretary

The Brown Daily Herald (USPS 067.740) is an independent newspaper serving the Brown University community daily since 1891. It is published Monday through Friday during the academic year, excluding vacations, once during Commencement, once during Orientation and once in July by The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. Single copy free for each member of the community.

POSTMASTER please send corrections to P.O. Box 2538, Providence, RI 02906. Periodicals postage paid at Providence, R.I. Offices are located at 195 Angell St., Providence, R.I. E-mail herald@browndailyherald.com.

World Wide Web: http://www.browndailyherald.com.

Subscription prices: $319 one year daily, $139 one semester daily.

Copyright 2010 by The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. All rights reserved.

The Young Arcade that was located in the lower level of Faunce House has been replaced by a revamped game lounge in the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center.

Senior Director for Student Engagement Ricky Gresh, who chaired the campus center’s planning committee, said that use of the old game room had declined.

The old game room “was a space that was relatively underutilized,” he said.

The new game lounge currently consists of two pool tables and

several desks with popular board games printed on them, including chess and a Brown-themed version of Monopoly.

The Young Arcade space — which once featured pinball and Dance Dance Revolution machines — has been re-purposed to house vending machines and photocopiers. A card value center machine will also be installed to allow students to add money to their Brown ID cards, Gresh said.

The old room’s small size and poor airflow meant that it could not accommodate larger groups of students, Gresh said. “The space that was eliminated was unattractive,”

he said.

With the Faunce renovation, “the campus wanted more of the building to be available for their use,” he said.

“There aren’t really many games,” said Caroline Kelley ’13.

“I don’t really think of it as a game room.”

Gresh also noted that there is another game room on campus at the Bear’s Lair. The room has pingpong tables, pool tables, Foosball and Virtua Cop, among other games.

Gresh added that if there were games that students were interested in, the University would be willing to look into purchasing them.

Health care premiums top union negotiation continued from page 1 employee contributions or larger pay increases in recent contract negotiations.

“They’re giving with one hand and taking it away with the other,” McAninch said.

Brown’s Director of Labor and Employee Relations Joe Sarno said the University tends not to comment on ongoing negotiations.

“Brown values its employees, and our goals in this process are consistent with remaining an employer of choice: to offer competitive and equitable salaries and benefits for all employees, and a positive and desirable work environment,” Sarno wrote in an e-mail to The Herald on Wednesday.

Another issue for the union is the University’s ability to change workers’ schedules. McAninch said the union can currently call a six-month moratorium to investigate Brown’s requests to alter workers’ shifts.

“Now, they want to create a scenario in which they can change schedules just by giving 45 days’ notice,” McAninch said.

She said the union’s ability to halt shift changes was written into the contract several years ago to avoid a lengthy conversation about establishing criteria for when the University should be allowed to change workers’ shifts.

If the University does not budge in upholding the moratorium for the next contract, McAninch said, negotiations could drag on much longer.

McAninch said the University has eliminated several unionized door guard positions in the Rockefeller and Sciences Libraries by sub-contracting library security to non-union workers.

She said the last two remaining union door guards were moved from the Rock to the SciLi this year. Last year’s restructuring also brought the elimination of 12 positions in the libraries’ bargaining unit, though no library staff were laid off.

McAninch said the libraries union is especially concerned over what its position will be as Brown expands its libraries and paper resources become obsolete. For example, the Alpert Medical School’s new library may not include union positions, McAninch said.

The Student Labor Alliance will host a rally on the steps of the Rock today at 12 p.m. to support library workers.

SLA member Becca Rast ’13 said speakers will include local politicians, Professor of English William Keach, library workers, union organizers and students.

Rast said about 175 participants showed up to a similar rally against the layoffs last spring in the same location.

Depending on where this afternoon’s negotiations take place, Rast said participants may march together to the negotiations to deliver a petition at the start of the 1 p.m. negotiations.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

Page 3

C ampus N EWS Study abroad numbers go up after low

By Katherine Sola Contributing Writer

Early indications show the number of students choosing to study abroad has increased this semester, after reaching its lowest point in a decade last year.

This fall, students are studying abroad for a total of 268 semesters, an increase from last year’s number of 254, Kendall Brostuen, director of international programs and associate dean of the College, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. Although figures for spring 2011 are not yet available, the number of open applications has increased 7 percent from this time last year, he wrote.

During the last academic year, 439 students studied abroad, down from 555 two years before, according to data from the Office of Institutional Research.

Brostuen attributed the dip to the world economic downturn , and cited figures from the 2009 Forum on Education Abroad survey, which showed a decline in study abroad participation in 60 percent of the colleges and universities surveyed.

He wrote that he does not believe the decline at Brown was due to the change in tuition policy that obliges students to pay a full semester of Brown tuition when studying abroad. The policy, which was approved in 2005, took effect in spring 2009. Previously, students paid the tuition of the programs in which they were enrolled, which are generally less expensive than Brown’s tuition.

Brown students currently studying abroad in Bologna, Italy, echoed Brostuen’s view. Natalia Fadul ’12 wrote in an e-mail that the policy did not impact her decision.

Natalia Medina ’12 wrote that she has “no idea what the tuition policy is.”

Both indicated that they chose the Brown-affiliated program for reasons unrelated to tuition. Medina mentioned that Dante and Mozart studied in Bologna, while Fadul wrote that Bologna is a “very welcoming” city.

Anna Baran ’12, who is studying in Paris, wrote that she wanted to study abroad before starting at Brown and that she was encouraged to study abroad because she is an international relations concentrator.

Meal plan price based on expected consumption continued from page 1 BDS has made many changes to the program in recent years, including extending dining hall hours — the Ratty and V-Dub used to close for the day at 5:45 p.m. — continuous service at the Ratty, and a take-out program.

These changes came from looking for ways to meet student needs while also maintaining a residential dining system, Willis said.

BDS researches student opinion in a number of ways. It conducts small surveys, liaises with the Undergraduate Council of Students, collects comment cards, hears critiques from customers and sometimes receives emails, Willis and BDS Director of Administration Ann Hoffman told The Herald in a joint interview. Keeping track of what students choose from the daily offerings gives BDS a form of nonverbal feedback, Willis said.

Credit crunch The value of a meal credit is determined by the price of the 20-meal-perweek meal plan. This year, the value increased from $6.00 to $6.15, which represents a 2.5 percent change.

Often, students do not understand

the value a credit has in retail eateries, Willis said. Using a meal credit at a retail eatery does not necessarily mean getting a full meal, she said.

Molina said she finds it a struggle to make her purchases at the Gate equal $6.15, saying that if a student buys a panini, there is nothing else at the Gate the person can add without going over the value of a credit.

The concept of making meal credits equivalent to a dollar value in retail eateries started in the early 1980s, Willis said. The idea was that students were supposed to have three meals a day, but due to classes or other constraints on time, they might only have time for two, she said. The third credit could then be used as a late-night snack.

Students often complain that the Blue Room does not take meal credits during the day. Willis said this policy is necessary because the space is too small to accommodate the crowds that would probably go there for lunch if meal credits were an option. Faculty and staff opinion was also a consideration because their access would be severely diminished if students could spend meal credits during the day, she added.

Business acumen BDS operates on a “break-even budget,” Willis said. Revenue comes from two sources, meal plans and catering, with the greatest percentage of revenue coming from meal plans, she said.

But it is the University Resources Committee, not Dining Services, that sets the cost of meal plans, Willis said. At its February meeting, the Corporation, Brown’s highest governing body, sets the budget for the year ahead and the prices for all fees, including meal plan, based on the committee’s recommendations.

The difference in the costs of meal plans is based on the number of meal credits and points each provides, Willis said. Everyone must pay for labor and overhead, meaning there is a certain minimum buy-in to be on a meal plan.

The cost of food from each meal plan is based on estimates of how much students eat, rather than how much they can eat, Willis said. BDS tracks how many meal credits students use out of how many they are allotted, and there are usually unused credits, particularly on weekly meal

plans, she said. This is the “missed meal factor.”

Therefore, students on the 20-meal-a-week plan are not actually paying for 20 meals — they are paying for the average amount of meals people with that plan eat, she said.

By contrast, students on Flex meal plans tend to use almost all of their points and credits by the end of the academic year, she added.

Vulnerability to the market Enterprises like BDS can be hit hard by national trends in food and gas prices.

Two years ago, rising food prices forced BDS to find a way to manage the increased supply cost, Willis said. Eliminating certain menu items was one way BDS compensated for higher food costs, she added.

BDS operates with a computerized menu system, Willis said. The software facilitates substituting one dish for another, she said, so BDS could temporarily phase out recipes that require more expensive ingredients.

The software also helps BDS continued on page 4

Page 4

s potlight

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

Thursday, October 14, 2010

“(Students) just jump on board with anything.”

— Gretchen Willis, director of Dining Services

BDS aims to break even, prices food and meals accordingly continued from page 3

know which dishes are most popular with students, and if students do not take much of a dish, it may be eliminated to make room for a more popular item, Willis said. But the tabulation is also affected by the food that students take but do not eat, so waste could skew the results, she said.

High gas prices hurt BDS, too.

Many of Brown’s food suppliers tried to add fuel charges to their delivery fees to compensate for their higher gas costs, Willis said, but BDS was generally able to use its buying power to get around those charges. Such charges also encouraged BDS to use as many local products as possible, which need less gas to transport, she added.

Responsibility costs BDS is mostly protected from unexpected spikes in its labor costs thanks to its union system, but it comes at a cost.

Willis said BDS is a closed union shop, meaning that everyone who works for it must belong to the same union — in this case, the Service Employees International Union Local 615.

The union negotiates a new contract with Brown every three years, she said. This gives BDS stable labor costs for three-year spans and allows it to budget for future increases.

The fact that all hourly staff are

part of a union has led to higher wages and better benefits than others might provide. BDS is “committed to paying certain wages and benefits,” Hoffman said. That “comes at a cost, which we have to pass on to our customers.”

BDS also operates with the help of a student management program, in which it hires students to manage student workers, Willis said. The students work alongside the unionized hourly workers. It becomes a familial relationship, Hoffman said.

Workers “form close bonds when (they’re) chopping carrots next to each other.”

BDS also employs some students from Johnson and Wales, particularly in its catering program, Willis said.

Accounting for the environment Various environmental initiatives have impacted BDS’s budget.

The elimination of bottled water from retail eateries would have had a huge financial impact on BDS if it had been done all at once, Willis said. Bottled water has a large profit margin, but it was phased out slowly over three years, and now students spend their points on other things, she said, adding that BDS has heard little negative feedback on the issue.

The move toward eliminating trays from dining halls has had less of an impact financially. Trays were completely eliminated from the V-Dub two years ago, while a pilot program began this

semester at the Ratty. Other schools that eliminated trays saved money on food because students wasted less, but Brown did not follow that trend, Willis said. Transitioning to a completely trayless system will be harder at the Ratty than it was at the V-Dub, because the trays are the method of transporting dirty dishes to the lower level where they will be washed, she said, though the pilot program has gotten good feedback.

Students “just jump on board with anything,” Willis said.

Profits and losses Despite the goal of breaking even each year, some years see losses for BDS, while others see profits.

There have been losses in previous years, but not in the past four to five, Willis said. Those cases can be predicted before the end of the year, she said. Because most of BDS’s revenue comes from meal plan subscriptions, BDS can predict if it will fall short if fewer students than expected signed up for a meal plan, she said.

BDS does not usually make a profit once all the fees have been paid, but it has happened. Typically it is a result of saved labor costs, Willis said.

“If there’s anything left over, we put that back into the program,” Willis said, citing an example from last fall when a small budget surplus allowed the Ratty’s back alcove to be upgraded with a plasma television and couches.

In the future, BDS will be looking to replace the furniture in the Gate, she said.

Peer programs Many universities run their own dining programs, but many also outsource them to companies.

Of private colleges and universities in Rhode Island, Providence College’s and Bryant University’s programs are outsourced, and the Rhode Island School of Design’s used to be, Willis said.

In the Ivy League, Willis said the University of Pennsylvania is the only school that has brought in an outside company to handle dining.

Penn began to outsource its dining operations in 1999, after a decision based on “the goal of enhancing the student experience in quality, variety and preparation of the food relative to the costs of those enhancements,” wrote Barbara Lea-Kruger, director of communications and external relations in Penn’s Business Services Division, in an e-mail to The Herald.

According to Penn’s dining services website, students on meal plan can use their Dining Dollars — Penn’s version of Flex Points — to buy items from eateries such as Chick-fil-A, Subway, Au Bon Pain and Starbucks.

Outside companies look to make a profit from their operations on campus, Willis said, and the decision to outsource dining is related to the

culture on campus.

Competing with Stop and Shop Items in the Gate “feel overpriced,” Shiba said. He said he sometimes buys things there with his Flex Points because they don’t “feel like real money,” but that he can get many of the items cheaper elsewhere.

Jeff Martin ’10.5 said he thinks students perceive BDS eateries to be overpriced. He said he would point to the amount of food stolen by students from dining facilities as an attempt to get their money’s worth. While students may spend “a bit more” at a retail eatery like the Blue Room, he said, they are more able to get the items they want than they would at a dining hall.

Some students compare BDS with major retailers like Stop and Shop, Willis said. But the comparison is unfair, she added, because BDS is providing a completely different product. It does not have the buying power that a national grocery chain has and also has to account for large labor costs, she said, so prices will be higher.

If BDS can find a cheaper way to provide a product, it would pass those savings on to the customer, Willis said.

On some high-volume items, BDS can afford to decrease its margin, she said, adding that if an item is not selling at the price BDS needs to charge to achieve its margin, it might be eliminated from the offerings.

Thursday, october 14, 2010

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

Page 5

C ampus N EWS

UCS talks improvements Fire alarm, DPS call lead to pot busts to international advising continued from page 1 ration approved a measure that will add 66 on-campus beds by renovating a University-owned building at 315 Thayer St., but future changes are still up for discussion.

The council also discussed progress on ongoing projects intended to address student concerns this academic year.

Improving advising continues to be a priority. Building on work from last year, the Academic and Administrative Affairs Committee is working with Carol Cohen ’83, associate dean of the College for first-year and sophomore studies, to build an advisor y booklet for freshmen designed to orient them to advising and to give problem-solving techniques for when advising issues arise.

The committee will prepare a report to reveal departments deficient in concentration advising, said Frank Rinaldi ’12, the committee’s chair.

The council further plans to recommend improvements to international student advising as part of a more comprehensive look at the international student experience, said Academic and

Student Ser vices Chair Chris Collins ’11. The committee is examining international student transition to Brown and has been coordinating with the International Mentoring Program to assess the advising situation.

Improvements must also be made to career advising and networking for these students beyond Brown, Collins said.

The council also addressed the declining use of the Critical Review course evaluation site as professors distribute department-wide online evaluations instead of the long-running student group’s evaluation system.

While departments may prefer their own course evaluations, students prefer the usability and external access to the Critical Review, many UCS members said.

The best solution would be to encourage professors to continue distributing the sur veys, said Jeffrey Handler ’14, a Critical Review writer, UCS member and Herald contributing writer.

The UCS annual agenda will likely be released to the student body by next Friday, said Molly Lao ’13, the council’s communications chair.

The following summary includes a selection of major incidents reported to the Department of Public Safety between Aug. 26 and Oct. 6. It does not include general service and alarm calls. The Providence Police Department also responds to incidents occurring off campus. DPS does not divulge information on cases that are currently under investigation by the department, PPD or the Office of Student Life. DPS maintains a daily log of all shift activity and general service calls, which can be viewed during business hours at its headquarters, located at 75 Charlesfield St. Aug. 31 8:25 p.m. Reporting party stated that while exercising, someone entered his locked locker and stole his car keys. His keys were found on the ground next to his car’s passenger door. The glove compartment of the vehicle was ransacked, but nothing was taken. A briefcase containing personal papers, credit cards, a checkbook, a DVD and a CD were taken from the reporting party’s trunk.

Sept. 1 8:13 p.m. While on patrol, a police officer observed, in plain view, what appeared to be an underage male exit a liquor store carrying a bottle of whiskey. He then approached the male and asked if he was 21 years

old, to which he replied “yes.” He then handed the officer a California driver’s license, which the officer determined was not his. The 19-yearold student admitted that his friend gave him the license to use in order to obtain alcohol. He was escorted back into the liquor store and returned the whiskey.

Crime Log Sept. 11 12:36 a.m. Providence Police requested Brown police be dispatched to 347 Angell St. due to a house party involving Brown students. There were approximately 300 people at the party and music was being played loudly. Five students were issued a summons for a noise violation.

Sept. 19 1:49 a.m. A student was riding his bike on George Street when, turning onto Thayer Street, his bike collided with a car. The student stated that he fell on the hood and the driver then reversed, which sent him to the ground. The vehicle accelerated and fled the scene. Brown and Providence Police tried to locate the vehicle but a registration plate was not observed. The student refused medical attention and Providence Police took a report.

Oct. 1 5:13 p.m. After responding to a call for a suspicious person inside Barbour Hall, an officer noticed a room door left wide open. In plain view, he obser ved a glass bong and a green leafy substance in a glass jar. The officer questioned the student who handed over another glass jar containing a small amount of suspected marijuana.

The student was cooperative during the investigation and the matter was turned over to the Office of Student Life.

10:47 p.m. Brown officers responded to a fire alarm in Graduate Center A and assisted Providence Fire in locating the source of the smoke. Officers were instructed to open a suite due to a strong marijuana smell. Officers observed three bags of suspected marijuana sitting in plain view on a desk in one room.

A police officer also observed two bags of a green leafy substance that appeared to be marijuana in another room in plain view. Three boxes of plastic baggies were also found under the marijuana. PFD cleared the alarm and the students were allowed to return to their rooms.

The students were identified and the case has been turned over to the Office of Student Life. It is also under investigation by Brown University Police.

SportsThursday The Brown Daily Herald

Thursday, October 14, 2010 | Page 6

w. Soccer

Squad shuts out Holy Cross and URI, but loses to Princeton

By MADELEINE WENSTRUp Sports Staff Writer

After dropping a conference match at Princeton on Saturday, 1-0, the women’s soccer team returned to Stevenson Field and shutout intrastate rival University of Rhode Island 3-0 on Wednesday afternoon.

Earlier last week, the Bears de-

feated Holy Cross 2-0.

Brown 2, Holy Cross 0 Stevenson Field was cold, rainy and dirty last Wednesday afternoon, but the Bears (6-4-3, 0-2-1 Ivy League) never looked cleaner.

The weather delayed the start of the game by 20 minutes, but one could feel the buzz of anticipation

from the stands. Bruno went out on a mission, playing fearlessly and coming away with a 2-0 victory against Holy Cross (3-7-2).

After a week of frustrating ties, Brown was ready to do something different.

“Our games have really just been battles,” said Eliza Marshall ’13 before the Holy Cross game.

“We’ve been working hard and playing well but just aren’t quite getting the ball into the back of the net.”

Their frustration was transformed into hard work and aggressive play on Wednesday afternoon.

It took the better part of the first half to get used to the rainy conditions, but the Bears didn’t shy away from the weather. They went after every ball and were rewarded for their hustle. They took 14 shots to the Crusaders’ four, becoming more and more dangerous every minute of the half. With nine minutes remaining in the first half, midfielder Maddie Wiener ’14 took three consecutive corner kicks, putting the Holy Cross defense on high alert. The Bears kept the pressure on,and three minutes later, Wiener received a pass from back Allison Kagawa ’12 and scored her first career goal on a high shot from 35 yards out.

The energy the Bears had at kickoff never wavered, as they entered the second half with the same intensity and quickly doubled their lead. Wiener only needed three minutes of the second half to get a second career goal under her belt. She scored on a pass from for-

Emily Gilbert / Herald

Midfielder-forward Mika Siegelman ’14 scored her fourth goal of the season in a 3-0 victory of the University of Rhode Island Wednesday.

ward Louisa Pitney ’14 to increase Bruno’s margin over the Crusaders and secure the win.

Princeton 1, Brown 0 The Bears traveled to Princeton on Saturday afternoon to face the Tigers (8-4-0, 3-0-0). The teams were evenly matched, and the

game came down to a single goal

by Princeton defender Kacie Kergides late in the first half. Kergides’ goal came from a corner kick, of which each team earned only two throughout the game. The shot count favored the Tigers, 10-6, and the Bears struggled to get anything going offensively. Princeton goalkeeper Kristin Watson made five saves on the day, and Bruno goalie MC Barrett ’14 made two saves in her half of work.

Brown 3, University of Rhode Island 0 On a much more pleasant Wednesday afternoon, the Bears exploded for three second-half goals against URI (1-11-1). Both squads started out slowly, with the Bears registering five shots to the Rams’ two in the first half.

But the second 45 minutes were a different stor y. Three minutes in, Wiener, the newly named Ivy League rookie of the week, converted a free kick from 18 yards out to break the scoreless tie. Less than a minute later, Wiener notched an assist, as she passed to midfielder Gina Walker ’11, who one-timed it past goalkeeper Brooke Messier.

Bruno kept up the pressure and built up a 9-1 shot advantage in the second half. In the 69th minute, the Bears converted another free kick, when midfielder-forward Mika Siegelman ’14 curled her shot into the left corner of the net to widen the advantage.

Bruno’s next contest comes against Harvard on Saturday at 2 p.m. The team will look for its first conference victory of the season.

www.browndailyherald.com

Page 8

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

S ports t hursday

Thursday, October 14, 2010

“We’re looking to surprise some people.”

— Leslie Springmeyer ’12, field hockey forward M. GOLF

FIELD HOCKEY

Bruno drops three, faces tough test Sat. Road-weary Bears return home after two tourneys

By Sam Sheehan Contributing Writer

The field hockey team (2-9, 1-2 Ivy League) endured a tough weekend of play against out-of-conference opponents, dropping a 3-1 decision to Maine (9-4), a 5-2 game against Davidson (10-2) and a 4-2 loss to Quinnipiac (4-6).

Pacing the Bears’ scoring was for ward Leslie Springmeyer ’12, who notched a goal in each of the games. Midfielder-forward Abigail Taft ’12, tri-captain for ward Tacy Zysk ’11 and back Elara Mosquera ’13 also found the back of the net for Bruno in the games.

But the Bears wound up on the wrong end of the scoreboard at the end of the day, falling 4-2 against Quinnipiac, with Zysk and Springmeyer providing the offense for Bruno.

“My goal was perfectly set up

by Tacy and Gail,” Springmeyer said. “It was just a really pretty play.”

Taft also assisted on Zysk’s strike in the first half, which put Bruno on the board.

The team managed to draw nine penalty corners in the game, improving on a facet on which they had been working. Attackers aim to induce corners, which are awarded

Check out Herald sports online browndailyherald.com/sports

when the ball strikes a defender’s foot inside the circle, by luring defenders out of position.

Springmeyer credited back Laura Iacovetti ’12 with being one of the best at this tactic.

“Whenever she has the ball in the circle, she always either gets a shot or a corner,” Springmeyer said.

Springmeyer had some shots of her own in the two weekend home games, tapping home a cross from Taft in the Bears’ loss to Davidson.

She also scored on a counterattack breakaway orchestrated by defender Kelsey Grossman ’14 in Sunday’s game against Maine.

Mosquera scored in the game against Davidson, as she pounded home a ball from tri-captain midfielder Katie Hyland ’11. Zysk found Taft with a pass in that same game, giving Taft her seventh goal of the season.

The Bears now look ahead to a tough test at No. 4 Princeton (9-2) this Saturday. Springmeyer said the players feel confident heading into the game that they have the talent and determination to pull off the road win.

“We’re really pumped to play them,” she said. “We’re looking to surprise some people and hopefully take them on their own turf.”

By Sam Rubinroit Sports Staff Writer

The men’s golf team had a busy weekend as it traveled to two states to play two tournaments over four days.

Bruno first journeyed to Philadelphia on Saturday and Sunday for the Big 5 Golf Invitational held at the 6,570-yard Plymouth Country Club. The team finished with a twoday score of 616 (310, 306), earning 16th place in the 21-team field. Furman University captured the team title by eight strokes, shooting a two-day 574.

Ryan Hoskins ’13, in his first event, and JD Ardell ’13 shared topfinisher honors for the Bears as they both shot 151, ranking them 49th individually. Michael Amato ’11 finished the tournament at 156 (79, 77) while Peter Callas ’14 came in at 158 (80, 78). Jack Mylott ’13 carded a two-round score of 170 (86, 84).

The Bears had no time to rest before returning to action as they traveled to Ellington, Conn., for the Connecticut Cup held Monday and Tuesday. Bruno finished 10th out of 13 squads, turning in a three-round score of 930 (312, 310, 308). Iona

took home the title with a combined score of 895.

Head Coach Michael Hughes knows the toll that the travel took on his team, and he said he is not inclined to repeat the experience.

“I really doubt we’ll do that again,” he said. “Back to back, it was a lot of planes, trains, and automobiles traveling all over the Eastern Seaboard. The guys were great.

They sucked it up, and I think it’s a testament to the fact that we have some great guys this year.”

Though tired from the travel, the Bears had little drop-off as the days went on, as seen through the performance of Callas, Bruno’s top finisher. The freshman golfer improved his score each round and earned 21st place individually with a three round score of 230 (79, 77, 74).

“We could have done better, but we showed signs of improvement,” Ardell said. “It was a tough weekend playing four straight days and five rounds, but the way we showed up, especially the last day, I feel like we have something to build on.”

The Bears will play their final match of the fall schedule at the Northeast Invitational this weekend at the Shelter Harbor Golf Club.

Page 9

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

S ports t hursday

Thursday, October 14, 2010

“The Yankees are a little dicey for me.”

— Equestrian’s Alison Dungey ’13, on her team preferences

W. golf sets record for Dungey ’13: R.I. native saddles up one-day team score ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

By Garret Johnson Spor ts Staff Writer

The equestrian team has gotten of f to a great star t this season, winning its first two shows. At Bruno’s home show last week, Allison Dungey ’13 helped the squad capture first place by winning the third class. For her outstanding performance at the Brown Show, the Herald has named her Athlete of the Week.

Herald: How is the equestrian team doing this season?

Dungey: We’re now leading the region by about 18 points, so really well.

So what made you start riding horses, and when did you start?

Well, I wanted to start riding when I was younger, probably first grade when my friend had a birthday party and there was a pony ride, so of course I fell in love with horses then. I wanted riding lessons and my mother thought it was just a phase, like most girls will go through. Then, years later, when I still wanted to, she kind of caved and got me riding lessons, and I’ve been riding ever since ... .That was probably about eight years ago.

What was the name of the first horse that you rode?

The first horse that I rode — if you want to look back to that pony — that pony’s name was Chestnut.

The first actual horse that I rode, its name was Sublime. It was actually funny because after I rode him, my mom decided to get on and he actually bucked her of f, which didn’t really help for her love of horses.

Sell the equestrian team to our readers. Why should we come and support you, or if we can’t come, why should we learn more about you?

The equestrian team is phenomenal. I have a lot of good friends just from the team. As any team, we get to be pretty close-knit. I mean, we’re pretty special because you don’t need to be the best rider around or need to have ridden for years and years to join the team.

You can really be a dead-end beginner who’s never been on a horse and be on the team because we need people at ever y single level, and there’s a great mutual respect between the athletes on the team for those people who have been riding less versus those who’ve been riding more.

Are you a big sports fan outside of the equestrian team? What sports teams do you root for?

Well, I root for baseball and football teams, being the Yankees and the Patriots.

The Yankees and the Patriots?

Isn’t that an odd combination?

I know. The Yankees are a little dicey for me because I’ve grown up in Rhode Island, but my parents are from New York and that’s how I justify it. I’ve been born and bred a Yankees fan and brought up that way, so it would be weird if I was a Red Sox fan.

OK, so you are from Rhode Island. What are two must-do things in your state for Brown students that they haven’t heard before?

I would definitely say go and hang out in Newport, but that’s probably a big thing. So I’m just going to say you have to go hang out in historic Wickford because that’s where I’m from and ever yone should do that — Wickford Village. And I’m going to make a push for my favorite coffee place — that’s Jitters Cafe. Ever yone who knows me knows that I’m obsessed with it.

What are you studying?

Right now, I’m bouncing be-

tween political science and English, probably with the thought of going on to law school when I graduate. But I’m not sure what I’m going to declare at the end of the year.

Did equestrian have any ef fect on choosing a college?

I definitely knew that when I went to school, it had to have an equestrian team. That was a major part of it for me. And then I loved Brown and the team was excellent here, so that was a big plus. But I was pretty much going to be happy anywhere that had a team. I was fortunate enough that Brown did, and I loved Brown the most, so I lucked out.

And you wanted to get as far away from home as possible?

Oh, definitely (laughs). For me, I didn’t grow up in Providence or go there a lot, so I may as well be across the country, it’s so different.

But it’s convenient to be close to home, too.

continued from page 1 victory over second-place finisher Michelle Caporusso of Northern Illinois.

“I just wasn’t expecting it,” Arison said. “I had spent the whole round trying to control my emotions, so when I finally found out, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh.’ It was a good feeling. It was especially cool because we won as a team.”

All five Bears shot between 73 and 77 in the second round. Sarah Guarascio ’11 placed in the top 10 as her two-day 153 (80, 73) earned her sixth overall. Susan Restrepo ’11 ranked 13th overall after shooting a one-over 73 in the final round for an overall score of 155. Heather Arison ’12, a Herald senior sales associate, joined Restrepo in 13th place with a two-day score of 155

(80, 75) and Megan Tuohy ’12 completed the tournament with a two-round 157 (80,77).

After weeks of practice and tough tournaments, the squad was proud to bring home a win.

“I think we were excited to see our work has paid off,” Carly Arison said. “This is our first win as a team, and we’ve all been practicing hard.”

While the win is meaningful, the Bears know that they cannot lose focus. They travel next to Bolton, Mass., for the Harvard Invitational, where they will face a difficult field.

“The tournament at Harvard is going to be the toughest competition we have faced yet,” Griffiths said. “We’re going to face all the Ivies, so going in with the win is really a confidence booster.”

Editorial & Letters The Brown Daily Herald

Page 10 | Thursday, October 14, 2010

ale x yuly

e d i to r i a l

Questions for the gubernatorial candidates

t h e b r o w n d a i ly h e r a l d Editor-in-Chief

Managing Editor

Deputy Managing Editors

Senior Editors

George Miller

Chaz Kelsh

Emmy Liss Joanna Wohlmuth

Ben Hyman Seth Motel

editorial Arts & Culture Editor Anne Speyer Arts & Culture Editor Suzannah Weiss Features Editor Sara Luxenberg Features Editor Brian Mastroianni Metro Editor Brigitta Greene Metro Editor Ben Schreckinger News Editor Sydney Ember Sports Editor Zack Bahr Sports Editor Tony Bakshi Asst. Sports Editor Ashley McDonnell

Business General Managers Claire Kiely Katie Koh

Office Manager Shawn Reilly

Directors Sales Kelly Wess Finance Matthew Burrows Asst. Finance Danielle Marshak Client Relations Margaret Watson Christiana Stephenson Alumni Relations

Graphics & Photos Graphics Editor Stephen Lichenstein Graphics Editor Alex Yuly Photo Editor Stephanie London Photo Editor Max Monn Photo Editor Hilary Rosenthal Jonathan Bateman Sports Photo Editor Jesse Morgan Asst. Sports Photo Editor Production Copy Desk Chief Kelly Mallahan Asst. Copy Desk Chief Joe Milner Asst. Copy Desk Chief Dan Towne Design Editor Julien Ouellet Asst. Design Editor Gili Kliger Asst. Design Editor Leor Shtull-Leber Asst. Design Editor Katie Wilson Web Editor Neal Poole

Managers Local Sales Isha Gulati Local Sales Arjun Vaidya National Sales Rajiv Iyengar University Sales Aditi Bhatia University Sales Jared Davis Recruiter Sales Trenten Nelson-Rivers Business Operations Lauren Bosso Business Analytics Jilyn Chao Margot Grinberg Credit and Collections Special Projects Alexander Carrere Staff Kathy Bui

Post- magazine Editor-in-Chief Sam Carter Editor-in-Chief Kate Doyle Editor-in-Chief Marshall Katheder

BLOG DAILY HERALD Managing Editor Matt Klimerman Managing Editor Anne Simons Managing Editor David Winer

Opinions Opinions Editor Michael Fitzpatrick Opinions Editor Alyssa Ratledge Editorial Page Editor Matt Aks

Kyle McNamara, Tiffany Phu, Leor Shtull-Leber, Katie Wilson Designers David Chung, Shefali Luthra, Carmen Shulman, Copy Editors

Thursday night, Brown will host a debate between the four candidates to succeed term-limited Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65. The candidates — Democrat Frank Caprio, independent Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14, Republican John Robitaille and Moderate Ken Block — will debate in Salomon 101 at 7 p.m. The two candidates for mayor of Providence will debate at the same time and place on Thursday, Oct. 21.

We applaud the Taubman Center for Public Policy for bringing these important debates to campus.

The outcome of these elections will have a tremendous impact on our state and city over the next four years. We are excited to have a front row seat to the democratic process and to hear from our prospective leaders. Here are just a few of the issues we hope are discussed this evening.

First, we would like to know how the candidates will balance Rhode Island’s budget. Despite two years of spending cuts, the state is still facing a serious shortfall. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reports that despite closing a $395 million deficit this year, Rhode Island is on track to run a $330 million deficit next year, or 11.6 percent of the total budget.

Given the national political conditions, it is highly unlikely that the federal government will come to the rescue as it has in the last two years. The deficit cannot be ignored, and we’re sure that even in Rhode Island, eliminating waste won’t be enough. Chafee has already gone on record supporting tax increases and has faced sharp criticism as a result. All the candidates should be honest and tell us exactly how they would go about closing the gap. If tax hikes are off the table, what gets the axe? We hope the debate’s moderator, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Marion Orr, presses the candidates for specific

answers to this question.

Despite the need for some cutbacks, state government must play a role in spurring job creation and getting the economy back on track. In September, state and local government employment nationwide decreased by 83,000, more than offsetting job gains in the private sector. Moreover, many economists project that job losses at the state and local level will be a major drag on growth in 2011. Given the tension between the needs for austerity and stimulus, what kind of government job creation initiatives provide the most bang for the buck?

We would also like to hear the candidates’ plans to curb corruption and cronyism at the state and local levels. A September New York Times article highlighted one investigation into city councilmen in North Providence who allegedly solicited bribes.

The councilmen have all resigned and await trial, but more work clearly needs to be done. Rhode Island’s prospective leadership should explain what they would do to curb improprieties.

There are many other important questions we’d like to see answered so that voters go to the polls fully informed. For example, what are the candidates’ positions on pension reform? What do they see as the future of organized labor in the state? Would they sign a bill establishing civil unions or same-sex marriage?

We are very glad the candidates agreed to come to Brown, and we look forward to hearing them answer these and other questions. Next week, we’ll have questions for the mayoral candidates.

Editorials are written by The Herald’s editorial page board.

Send comments to editorials@browndailyherald.com.

Sydney Ember, Kristina Fazzalaro, Sara Luxenberg, Ben Schreckinger, Alexandra Ulmer, Night Editor Senior Staff Writers Ana Alvarez, Ashley Aydin, Rebecca Ballhaus, Alexander Bell, Nicole Boucher, Fei Cai, Kristina Fazzalaro, Sarah Mancone, Claire Peracchio, Lindor Qunaj, Mark Raymond, Luisa Robledo, Caitlin Trujillo, Alexandra Ulmer Staff Writers Anna Andreeva, Anne Artley, Anita Badejo, Casey Bleho, Amy Chen, Alicia Dang, Sarah Forman, Miriam Furst, Max Godnick, Thomas Jarus, Julia Kim, Kristina Klara, Leonardo Moauro, Emily Rosen, Bradley Silverman, Anne Simons, Qian Yin Senior Sales Executives Katie Galvin, Liana Nisimova, Isha Gulati, Samantha Wong Sales Associates Roshni Assomull, Brady Caspar, Anna Cook, Siena deLisser, Begum Ersan, Tommy Fink, Ryan Fleming, Evan Gill, Debbie Lai, Jason Lee, Katie Lynch, Sean Maroongroge, Zahra Merchant, Edjola Ruci, Webber Xu Senior Finance Associates Jason Beckman, Mae Cadao, Adam Fern, Krystle Onibokun Finance Associates Lisa Berlin, Mahima Chawla, Mark Hu, Jason Lee, Justin Lee, Kevin Lynch, Jennifer Morgan, Sam Plotner, Nicholas Robbins, Dan Seder, Daniel Slutsky, Emily Zheng Design Staff Rebecca Ballhaus, Caleigh Forbes Web Staff Warren Jin, Claire Kwong, Adam Zethraeus Photo Staff Qidong Chen, Janine Cheng, Alex DePaoli, Frederic Lu, Quinn Savit Copy Editors Ted Burke, Corinne Cathcart, David Chung, Olivia Conetta, Carrie Craven, Max Ernst, Nicole Grabel, Jeffrey Handler, Emma Janaskie, Bridget Jeong, Jenny Kaplan, Abby Kerson, Juhee Kwon, Claire Luchette, Sahil Luthra, Shefali Luthra, Katie MacDougald, Alexandra Nuttbrown, Elizabeth Orr, Katrina Phillips, Amy Rasmussen, Winnie Wang, Emma Wohl Editorial Page Board Members Anita Mathews, Tyler Rosenbaum, Melissa Shube, Gaurie Tilak

C O R R E C T I O N S P olicy The Brown Daily Herald is committed to providing the Brown University community with the most accurate information possible. Corrections may be submitted up to seven calendar days after publication.

C ommentary P O L I C Y The editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial page board of The Brown Daily Herald. The editorial viewpoint does not necessarily reflect the views of The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. Columns, letters and comics reflect the opinions of their authors only.

L etters to the E ditor P olicy Send letters to letters@browndailyherald.com. Include a telephone number with all letters. The Herald reserves the right to edit all letters for length and clarity and cannot assure the publication of any letter. Please limit letters to 250 words. Under special circumstances writers may request anonymity, but no letter will be printed if the author’s identity is unknown to the editors. Announcements of events will not be printed. advertising P olicy The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. reserves the right to accept or decline any advertisement at its discretion.

Opinions The Brown Daily Herald

Thursday, October 14, 2010 | Page 11

Are you scared yet?

BY Manas Gautam Opinions Columnist In most of the Asian education systems, students have to take entrance examinations for admission to engineering, business or medical colleges. Depending on a student’s performance on just one test, the student is given a rank. In India, a university might have 3,000 spots to fill (after a 50 percent lower-caste reservation), and one incorrect answer can bump you down 50 ranks. It is highly competitive because of the vast number of qualified students who take this test, and if one does not make the cut, one must take a gap year.

So what happens to the lucky few who woke up on the right side of the bed that morning? Do they truly get to choose their concentration? Not really: the number of students concentrating in a particular field is capped. Therefore, the first few hundred students by rank may get the concentration of their choice, but the rest are forced to make the best of the options available to them, even if their only choice is textile engineering.

Does this lack of choices scare you?

Let me take you back to your high school days. In your senior year, did you find that your Brown application was magically completed one day and mailed the next? Probably not. You consciously answered all the questions on Brown’s application, wrote the essays and submitted your grades knowing that you were the right fit for Brown. Some

of you might even have visited this University and knew exactly what Brown stood for — a multidisciplinary education where you craft your own path to a future. I am sure you could not write one critical remark about Brown in your application essays, let alone mention that Brown is an evil corporation.

Everyone talked about how Brown is the perfect fit for their mentality and Brown’s admission office agreed. And here you are.

If I’m to believe that students apply or transfer to Brown just because it is “less corporatized” than other universities, I would

es to survive in the coming years, you must have been born yesterday.

In the scariest and most thoughtless column I’ve read in the past few weeks (“Raising our Brown taxes,” Oct. 7), Susannah Kroeber ’11 demands a massive increase in tuition, primarily at the expense of the wealthy. Although it is very noble of her to want a greater debt-free student population and more financial aid for students who cannot afford to enroll at this institution otherwise, her idea of forcing the wealthy students to pay more to subsidize the tuition cost for

If you believe in survival of the fittest, then Brown is a perfect example of an organization that has survived and prospered.

have been born yesterday. It’s actually funny how we find ourselves in the company of colleagues who are saviors to an organization that has been providing a high standard of education since 1764. If you believe in survival of the fittest, then Brown is a perfect example of an organization that has survived and prospered with the same educational freedoms upon which it was founded while foraying into newer domains. It has not only lived through the American fight for independence, but two world wars and countless recessions and depressions. If you think that it needs to rethink how it utilizes its resourc-

a less fortunate student is unfounded. She is not allowing them the choice to pay more.

Charity comes from within; it cannot be forced. I challenge Kroeber to ask her parents to donate their hard-earned money to subsidize education for the less fortunate.

She should set an example for all of us by starting a scholarship grant for students through the extra hundreds of thousands of dollars she expects the wealthy to pay as tuition. That would certainly inspire the rest of us to follow her example.

Furthermore, it’s startling that Kroeber never raised the question of moral hazard.

If the students on financial aid have all their needs covered, does she expect them to actually make the most of their education? One can see a situation where students without financial aid are struggling to pay tuition and hence every grade matters to them. What message is sent to them when they see their debt-free counterparts partying more than they get to? What forces these debt-free students to give back to Brown once they start getting a regular paycheck? Practically speaking, if you force students with wealthy parents’ to pay more, they will take their business to other universities, perhaps even to another country.

America is a country that promises us choice, from the toothbrush you use to the career you choose. This is quite possibly why the communist nations never survived and never will. There isn’t a government telling you if you are smart enough to be coal miner or an officer in the Communist Party. You can drop out of school and start your own business if you like. You may then allocate the wealth you have earned and dedicate it to causes you feel are important — be it a noble cause, like curing AIDS, or a selfish one, like making sure you don’t need to walk from your bedroom to your bathroom.

Therefore, my friends, if you really cannot stand how a corporatized Brown is wasting (not your) money, why don’t you transfer out? You always have that choice.

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

I support Richard Rodi

BY Terrence George Opinions Columnist As the trees shed their leaves and restless New England winds foretell winter, there is an inclination among Brunonians to draw into their work and away from the community. One community issue, however, that students cannot afford to ignore is the local and state elections this November.

With its perennially mismanaged government and an unemployment rate hovering around 12 percent, Rhode Island is a state on its knees. These issues require competent and impassioned problem-solvers to attend to their amelioration. No leader embodies this more than Richard Rodi.

Richard Rodi is an independent candidate running for the Rhode Island House of Representatives in the second district, home to many off-campus students. Unlike his Boston lawyer opponent, Richard Rodi is a Providence native and no stranger to the problems that plague this city. For decades, Rodi has witnessed the impact of misguided state policies that have caused businesses to flee and jobs to disappear, all to the detriment of Rhode Island’s most vulnerable citizens.

Far from witnessing these problems and doing nothing, Rodi has already shown his dedication to fixing them. As founder of the Rodi Foundation, which helps low income and at-risk people, organizer of the Providence Senior Club-House and a principle associate of Children’s Wishes of Rhode Is-

land, which grants wishes to terminally ill children, Rodi has devoted his life to helping the people of Rhode Island. Such proven dedication to the community remains unparalleled in this election. Rodi is a candidate we socially-conscious Brown students can easily support.

Rodi is right on the economy, too. A Democrat turned independent, Richard Rodi is far from the “tea-drenched” monster that Jeremy Feigenbaum ’11 depicted in his Oct. 1 guest column, “I support Chris Blazejewski.” Rodi is a level-headed family man who cares about his community. In-

legislation, such as the $500 mandatory income tax on companies that do not turn a profit, Rodi will put Rhode Island in the place of helping business, not killing it.

Rodi is also an advocate for education.

Ignoring the cries of special interests, Rodi supports charter schools and mayoral academies that offer specialized learning to students in need. Rodi recognizes the community contributions of Rhode Island’s college students and promises to fight against the continually proposed Rhode Island student tax, which would saddle the already struggling with an extra $300 worth of debt. In

On Election Day, the residents of Rhode Island’s second district have a choice: a proven community leader with a plan to save this state or a business-as-usual political opportunist. stead of giving tax breaks that favor the rich (never part of Rodi’s plan, despite Feigenbaum’s insistence), Rodi believes that the only remedy to the state’s financial woes is renewed fiscal responsibility.

With Rhode Island ranked second only to Alaska as the country’s least businessfriendly state, it’s no wonder that tens of thousands of Rhode Islanders are unemployed. As a small business owner, Rodi recognizes that sustained economic growth happens only in the private sector. By reversing egregious, business-unfriendly

the wake of the 35 percent Providence landlord tax hike, which will undoubtedly raise off-campus students’ rents, Rodi promises to provide assistance by introducing “a bill that offers tax relief to landlords who rent to students and low-income families and individuals.” Rodi believes students have an integral role to play in the formation of Rhode Island’s knowledge-based economy.

Though Rodi is against the aspects of the legislation he believes will add to consumer costs, Rodi favors the part of the federal health care bill that will allow students

to stay on their parents’ health insurance plans until they are 26. In this tough economy, he knows secure health care can make all the difference to young job-seekers.

Having met with student leaders on campus, including the president of the Brown Republicans and the editor-in-chief of the Brown Spectator, and vowing to fight on our behalf, Rodi understands the plight of students and would carry that knowledge with him to the Statehouse.

In Rhode Island electoral history, money has been known to corrupt politicians. Unlike his opponent, Chris Blazejewski, who has taken thousands in contributions from several PACs and special interest groups, Richard Rodi refuses to accept a penny from anyone but the residents of his district. Rodi is a man of integrity who will not be bought.

On Election Day, the residents of Rhode Island’s second district have a choice: a proven community leader with a plan to save this state or a business-as-usual political opportunist. Though we’ll only be here for four fleeting years, Brunonians have a duty to improve our community. A vote for Richard Rodi is a step toward that end. In these elections, every phone call, every donation and every supporter matters. I hope you will decide to support Richard Rodi, as I have.

Terrence George ’13 is a political science concentrator from Chicago.

He can be reached at Terrence_George@brown.edu.

Today The Brown Daily Herald

3

Abroad participation sees uptick

9

to day

to m o r r o w

64 / 55

57 / 44

Equestrian named athlete of the week

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Page 12

t h e n e w s i n i m ag e s

1

6 c a l e n da r

Today

OCTOBER 14

7:00 p.m.

1 to day i n t h e h e r a l d

ToMORROW

OCTOBER 15

5:00 p.m.

Post- magazine,

R.I. Gubernatorial Debate,

West African Music and Dancing,

Salomon 101

Lincoln Field

inside today’s Herald

Heddatron, Production Workshop

Post- hooks up, meets

7:30 P.M. Coming Out Week Student Panel,

8:00 P.M.

Hunter Lab Auditorium

the parents, has fun

menu SHARPE REFECTORY

with robot dicks, and

VERNEy-WOOLLEY DINING HALL

leaves it to bieber.

LUNCH Grilled Key West Chicken, Vegan Tofu Raviolis With Sauce, Vegetarian Sandwich bar

Hot Roast Beef on French Bread, Baked Macaroni and Cheese, Grilled Cajun Chicken

Justin, that is.

DINNER Roast Turkey with Gravy, Cheese and Corn Strata, Homemade Bread Stuffing, Marble Squares

Meatloaf With Mushroom Sauce, Tomato Quiche, Vegetable Egg Rolls, Marble Squares

a c r o s s to b e a r 1 5 8 13 14 15 17 19 20 21 23 24 27 29 30 32 33 34 35 36 39 42 43 46 47 49 50 52 54 55 57 58

ACROSS Schooner part Schlep Period It may be raised at a table Big bird Red, red wine *Lack of Something one might hold or save Poi base Type of machine or car ___ B. Wells, early civil rights advocate Most silly *Garbage “Famous” cookie guy Party clothes Repetitive routine OB-___ It might precede eroticism? ___ Bears *Pillage Some giant floaters Revolver found in campus libraries?

Six-pack you can’t buy at Spiritus Org. often seen giving information on the main green Jewelry lover of literature Comeback show for Lea Michelle *Beauty’s beau Perpetually sleepy pokemon Macao money When doubled, Jim Carrey movie Sunset direction “Rugrats” dinosaur

At Inlay Overlay

by Aimee Lucido ’13

comics Bat & Gaz | Sofia Ortiz

Cabernet Voltaire | Abe Pressman

60 Language that 10 might help one 11 make sense of the answers 12 to the starred clues 16 64 Cold sound 65 One who pities 18 the fool 66 Not mad 22 67 Curl one’s lip 68 Word with Red 24 or Dead 69 Therefore 25 DOWN 26 1 Fannie ___ (home financing 28 group) 2 Grey’s matter? 31 34 3 Mister Sister 35 purchase, perhaps 36 4 Playing with blocks, basically 37 5 Set the pace 6 Thurman of “Kill 38 Bill” 7 Bros 39 8 Print to stand out?

40 9 City on the 41 Swan River

Mine treasure 43 Smash L’Oreal Mouth smash alternative hit Sexual 44 Ahead of prospect 45 Activity that Brown’s might involve parallel a 3-Down Ground47 Not so breaking tool slanted “___ note to 48 Scandinavian follow ...” rug Hammarskjold 49 Musical with of the UN the song Damn, he’s “Summer sexy Nights” Schlep 51 Smoke the Gabriella’s reefer beau 53 Hedwig, e.g.

Lizzie’s beau 56 Tach Ques. follower readings Something to 59 Summer shirt shoot for 61 Tick off ___ the crack 62 Vid. game of dawn that involves Places for killing peas hookers “Laughing” 63 The one Solutions and bird archive online at Britney who acrosstobear. sings “Circus” wordpress.com “My word!”

Email: brownpuzzles “Come in!” @gmail.com

Dot Comic | Eshan Mitra and Brendan Hainline