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Candidates debate in Salomon By Claire Peracchio Senior Staff Writer
The race for governor of Rhode Island came to Salomon 101 Thursday night as the candidates — Democrat Frank Caprio, independent Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14, Republican John Robitaille and Moderate Ken Block — debated their ideas for solving the state’s problems. The debate, moderated by Director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy Marion Orr, covered topics including illegal immigration and the looming budget deficit. Caprio and Chafee are running neck-and-neck in recent polling. The two shared center stage and traded barbs over providing instate tuition to undocumented students and addressing the state’s unfunded pension liability. The Chafee campaign suffered a setback Tuesday when campaign manager J.R. Pagliarini resigned amid allegations that he collected unemployment insurance while working on the Chafee campaign’s payroll. In his opening statement, Block — the first gubernatorial candidate of the party he founded continued on page 4 Candidate interviews Q&A’s with Block, Caprio, Chafee and Robitaille on page 4
Group rallies for library workers in contract dispute Contract extended again; meetings to continue By Kristina Klara Staff Writer
About 60 to 70 students, faculty members, library workers and Providence community members gathered Thursday on the steps of the Rockefeller Library to protest changes to library employees’ contract at a rally sponsored by the Student Labor Alliance. The contract was originally going to expire Sept. 30, but was extended until Thursday. It was continued on page 3
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Students and community members gathered on the library steps to protest with library workers.
Running away with ‘Heddatron’ robots SEC puts off Rattner ’74 settlement By Kristina Fazzalaro Senior Staff Writer
What do 19th-century playwright Henrik Ibsen and three musical robots have in common? They are all featured in Production Workshop’s new performance of Elizabeth Meriwether’s “Heddatron,” opening Friday night in T. F. Green Hall. The play is based — loosely — on Ibsen’s 1890 drama “Hedda Gabler” which tells the sad story of the title character’s loveless marriage, bored existence and eventual suicide. “Heddatron” offers audiences a decidedly lighter fare while still exploring serious questions of love, freedom and, of course, robots. Director James Flynn ’11 said
he was very excited not only to work with a large cast, but also to collaborate with individuals across disciplines who helped bring the robots of “Heddatron” to life. The crew includes people from the computer sciences, visual arts and acting community whose innovative work cre-
ARTS & CULTURE ated wonderful robotic characters for the audience to enjoy. The set is an amalgamation of electronic devices, brought together to tease the viewer’s eye, forcing it to jump from television to boom box to ancient desktop computers. Flynn said he was most interested in the idea of technological
revolution across history and what happens when technology literally invades the household. “How do you structure family, relationships and identity in the face of these kinds of changes?” he asked. “Heddatron” opens with a projected video of Jared Bellot ’12, an engineer, reassuring audiences that there is nothing to worry about with regards to robots. “The Singularity,” or the moment when robots will achieve self-awareness, is a long way off, he says. But if this is true, questions a documentarian, played by Josh Wallace ’13, what happened to Jane Gordon? Jane (Elizabeth Rothman ’11) continued on page 5
Rising seniors snatch up off-campus leases earlier By Ana Alvarez Senior Staff Writer
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Upperclassmen competing for prime off-campus housing push the process earlier this year than in the past.
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For many upperclassmen who wish to live off-campus, signing a lease is the happy end of the long housing road — from getting a group together, to obtaining permission from the Office of Residential Life, to finding the perfect house. But this whole process seems to be happening earlier this year. Juniors, who have guaranteed permission to live off-campus next year, are now signing their leases in late September and October, something that Gail Medbury, director of auxiliary housing, said is relatively new.
“Students are consistently getting their leases earlier and earlier,” Medbury said. “People just want to make sure they get housing as soon as possible.” Medbury said this was the first time she ever showed students housing over the summer because of high demand. That was the case for Shay O’Brien ’12, a junior who lives offcampus. O’Brien signed her lease for her current house last May, after receiving permission from ResLife. But, at the same time, she also signed the lease for the house she will live in senior year — over a year in advance. continued on page 2
By Ashley Aydin Senior Staff Writer
The Securities and Exchange Commission put off its vote on a preliminary settlement dealing with Steven Rattner’s ’74 P’10 P’13 role in a pay-toplay scheme, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The New York Times had reported Wednesday that Rattner had reached a settlement with the SEC. The case involves allegations that Rattner had given kickbacks in exchange for the business of the state’s pension fund, worth approximately $125 billion. The Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter, reported that the office of the New York Attorney General would not settle its ongoing case against Rattner based on the SEC’s settlement. “In this and other cases, we work cooperatively with the SEC. But we are each independent, even though sometimes we reach coordinated resolutions of cases. Currently, both offices have ongoing matters with Mr. Rattner,” John Milgrim, a spokesman for Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office, told the Journal. The Journal also reported that a person familiar with the matter had said Rattner wanted to see the deal move ahead Thursday, in part because it included a two-year ban instead of the three years in an earlier offer from the SEC. The settlement deal would ban Rattner from doing some work in the securities industry and fine him $6 million.
Beastly battle
Reppin’ rituals
Easy A
Bears take on Tigers, aim to get back on track
Hillel Gallery Project exhibit depicts ritual objects
Sarah Yu ’11 says more A’s encourage course exploration
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“I had no idea people were even looking so, so early.” —Greg Datseris ’02, a Providence landlord
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History department premieres Friday movie night
By Natalie Villacorta Contributing Writer
The History Department’s latest series, Faculty and Film, features historical movies followed by professor commentary and discussion. Kisa Takesue ’88, director of the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus and Student Center, and Professor of History Karl Jacoby came up with the idea together this summer, Jacoby said. “At Brown, where faculty-student relationships are typically formal, there need to be opportunities like this,” he said, adding that “it is a great idea and way for students and faculty to get together in a new setting.” The first film, “Chinatown,” was screened Oct. 1 at the Campus Center and featured commentary by Jacoby. “ ‘Chinatown’ is set up as an environmental mystery taking place in Los Angeles. Its plot deals with how the city got its water,” Jacoby said. About 30 to 40 students attended, Jacoby said, half of whom were members of his class, HIST 1790: “North American Environmental History.” “The movie is fairly historically accurate, but we had fun discussing where the director took historical liberties,” he said. “I think the students really enjoyed it,” he added. — Liz Kelley
A genius came to Brown on Thursday. Lydia Davis, recipient of a MacArthur ‘genius’ fellowship and innovator of the very short story, gave a reading of her recent work in the McCormack Family Theater. Davis was invited by Visiting Lecturer of Literary Arts Joanna Howard as a part of the Writers on Writing series. Howard, whose own work has been influenced by Davis, said she “is masterful at paying heed to what other authors might see as inconsequential.” Davis is the queen of detail. In her work she investigates even the quietest moments, breaking them down to create intimate stories, ranging from the painful to the humorous. The theater was so packed with students, faculty and Providence residents that Davis interrupted herself to request that the younger audience members give up their seats. Davis began the reading with her latest works, which she said were about death, travel and dreams. The
stories were very short, consisting of a few sentences that provide a glimpse into a scene or thought. The audience seemed to particularly enjoy “Waiting for Take Off,” which describes frustrated passengers who stock up on candy bars long enough to be weapons in preparation for the never-ending, miserable wait on the tarmac. Another humorous piece was “Bad Novel,” in which Davis describes her long-term struggle to read a stubbornly dreadful book. Davis warned the audience that this was the hazard
ARTS & CULTURE of belonging to a book club. The audience was most engaged during Davis’ stories on dreams. Davis said she began writing these stories after observing that she could see experiences in her own life in terms of dreams, subtracting out the banal and infusing the fantastic. Audience members seemed to appreciate the ambiguity of the stories and the challenge of distinguishing between waking experiences and dreams. In some stories, it was easy to
separate the two, but other stories, such as “In the Train Station,” were more ambiguous. In this story, the narrator shows a Tibetan monk “the way” by giving him directions to the train track he is looking for. The audience snickered at the irony of this situation to Davis’ delight. “You’re an alert crowd,” she commented. In another story, an old woman eats a bowl of cashews and in the process accidentally eats her hearing aid. She chews it for several hours before spitting it out and announcing, “this nut was a bad one.” Not all of the stories were amusing, though. A few dealt with death or dipped into other serious subjects such as family, marriage and aging. These very short stories, which some may confuse with poems, but which Davis prefers to call “pieces,” were followed by a collection of observations on the cows that live across the street from her. These observations will appear in a chapbook called “The Cows” some time this spring. Davis said she began writing about the cows continued on page 5
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“From what I heard from upperclassmen,” O’Brien said, “if you do it as early as you can you’ll get the best deal.” Gary Greenberg, a Providence landlord, said that signing a lease for a house a year in advance is the earliest he has ever seen. Many juniors looking for housing said the rush to sign a lease is a selfpropagating phenomenon. Max Rosero ’12, who signed the lease for his senior year home at the
end of September, said the pressure to sign came from hearing about other students who were also looking for housing and were planning on signing a lease early in the year. “If everyone agreed to sign their lease second semester, there wouldn’t be a problem,” Rosero said. “But everyone heard about people signing and word spread out.” Yuli Zhu ’12 felt the same pressure to sign soon when looking for housing. “If you want the best house, you have to act quickly,” Zhu said. And students aren’t the only ones
feeling the rush. Landlords have also taken note of students wanting to sign leases earlier and earlier. Rosero said his landlord told him that he previously would not have leased his house so early in the year. “He used to rent my house in January, then it was pushed to November, then to October, and now to September,” he said. Greg Datseris ’02, a Providence landlord, said he normally doesn’t lease houses until February or March, but he has seen other landlords sign students in October. “I had no idea people were even looking so, so early,” he said. Landlord Ed Bishop ’54 P’86 P’91 — who found Datseris his house when he was a senior at Brown — said this is a recent trend. “Five years ago, people started calling in March, then it moved to Christmas, then it moved to before Christmas,” Bishop said. “But I’ve never seen so many students so early.” Datseris said he thought good location prompted students to sign their leases earlier than normal. “Far as I can tell, I get the feeling that frat houses want to grab houses closer to campus,” he said. But, he added, this shift is unnecessary. “There’s a lot of houses right around the corner from campus that a lot of people want to get by September,” he said. “But that’s too early. October, November or even February, March would be fine.” Current sophomores wishing to live off campus next year will have to wait — off-campus permission for rising juniors is not granted until later in the year. Bishop recommended that if students want to get housing close to campus, the earlier they sign a lease, the better. Though whether students sign their leases first semester or second semester “doesn’t really matter,” he said.
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Bears to face Tigers in Ralliers criticize new library contract pivotal Ivy matchup continued from page 1
By Ethan McCoy Sports Staff Writer
Coming off two tough losses to the University of Rhode Island and Holy Cross, the football team (2-2, 1-0 Ivy League) will look to rebound this Saturday, when it returns to conference play against Princeton (1-3, 0-1 Ivy). It will be the team’s second game after losing starting quarterback Kyle Newhall-Caballero ’11 for the season to a broken wrist.
SPORTS “When you lose your All-Ivy quar terback and leader,” said Head Coach Phil Estes, “we have to kind of revamp things a little bit.” Joe Springer ’11 and Patrick Donnelly ’13 have both seen playing time under center in relief of Newhall-Caballero. Springer has played in all four games this season, accumulating a stat line of 322 yards with one touchdown and four interceptions. In last week’s loss to Holy Cross, Springer was the starter, but Donnelly spent the majority of the game taking snaps and “gave us a spark,” according to Estes. They’re “two different types of quarterbacks,” Estes said. “Joe is a traditional drop-back guy and Patrick is a guy that likes to be on the move and do some things with his feet. If one gets hot, we may stay with him, but it’s still something in the making right now.” While the quarterback situation has been in flux, Alex Tounkara ’11 has been rock solid for the Bears in 2010 in the wide receiver position. The senior has posted three 100-yard games and ranks in the top five in the Football Championship Subdivision for receptions (8.0 per game) and receiving yards (108.0 per game). Tounkara said that in football, it’s always difficult for an offense to adjust to three different quarterbacks and that this is something the Bears are working to overcome. “We’ve had a slight lack of chemistr y, but that comes with time,” Tounkara said. “Every day in practice it’s getting better.” With Saturday’s matchup, the Bears are entering the key stretch of the season—the remaining six games on the schedule are Ivy League contests. “Ever y game is a championship game,” Tounkara said. “Every game we lose could cost us a title. We have to focus and get back on track and remember what we came here to do.” Princeton has struggled this season, but Brown knows that they are still in line for a hardfought conference game. “Princeton is a very dangerous football team,” Estes said. “They do a lot of different things, have a lot of formations, a lot of personnel groupings, and they give you a lot you have to prepare for. ... If
they catch fire, they’re going to do some damage.” The Tigers’ pass-heavy offense features the Ivy League’s leading receiver, Trey Peacock. Linebackers Jon Olofsson and Andrew Starks rank in the top five in the conference in tackles, but overall, Princeton has been porous on the defensive side of the ball, allowing over 30 points in each game this season. An interesting subplot to the game is the presence of James Perry ’00, Princeton’s offensive coordinator. Perry was Brown’s quarterbacks coach for the past three seasons before accepting the Princeton job this offseason. As a Brown player, Perry became the Ivy League’s all-time passing leader and led the Bears to a league title in 1999. Estes said he does not believe that Perr y’s experience with Brown’s system will give Princeton an advantage. “He’s just as familiar with us as we are with him,” Estes said. “I’m sure he’s going to put some wrinkles in there to change that up, just as we’ll do the same thing.” What is certain about Saturday’s game is that it will have significant Ivy League implications for both teams. A win for Brown would keep them undefeated in the conference, while a win for Princeton would put them right back into the race. For both sides, the matchup is an essential must-win. “We need to just focus on this week,” Tounkara said. “Don’t worry about the championship. Worry about the team we’re facing this week.”
extended again at Thursday’s negotiations, which went until 10 p.m., and more meetings have been scheduled for next week, wrote Karen McAninch ’74, an agent for the union representing many librar y employees. “Workers’ rights are under attack!” Library Technical Assistant Andrew Pereira yelled into a megaphone. “Stand up. Fight back,” cried the crowd in response. The University wants to negotiate an increase in health care copays from 6 percent to 15 percent, Pereira said. Contract alterations may also affect workers’ hours. “Librarians might be asked to work shifts to 2 a.m.,” he said. “People have families to go home to. This is totally unfair.” Professor of English William Keach spoke out against the University at the rally. “They always speak about fair share. And yet is it fair to ask library workers to more than double their co-pay for their health insurance?” he asked. Though Brown is still facing the effects of the economic downturn, “they’re looking to people who do, in my view, some of the most valuable work here at the university,” Keach said. The University “picked, I think, the wrong group of Brown workers to try to balance the books on the backs of,” he added. Keach said that his work as a faculty member is dependent on the efforts of library workers. “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
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Advocates for improving library worker contracts voiced their concerns at a rally Thursday.
desirable work environment,” wrote Joe Sarno, Brown’s Director of Labor and Employee Relations in an e-mail to The Herald on Wednesday. SLA member Elizabeth Caldwell ’12 said rally supporters wanted the University to know there is a group beyond just library workers concerned about the issues on the table, and that “students are going to have to be dealt with, that Brown alumni, that the Providence community more broadly is going to have to be dealt with if they want to try to put these cuts on library workers.” Local politicians suppor ted the librar y workers. Christopher Blazejewski, candidate for state representative in Rhode Island’s second district, spoke of the need to continue to fight for good health care during his commentary at the rally. “We will fight with you because you are fighting for all Rhode Islanders,” he said. Nancy Har t, senior librar y specialist, said that organized labor is the critical issue of our time. “We’re losing the middle
class. Back in the 1950’s when the economy was strong, 35 percent of the working force, both public and private were unionized. Now, everything is going down the tubes and only 12 percent of workers are unionized.” Hart said the University’s job eliminations last spring affected many librar y workers and drew large support from the community for the workers. Following the rally, Caldwell said she thought the event was successful. “We had a collection of students, but also as you saw from the speakers, we had staf f and faculty members here as well. There are lots of people from the Providence community here, other labor unions represented, as well as many alumni,” she said. “I think this shows that this is something that people in the Brown community really care about, and something that affects the larger Providence and Rhode Island community as well,” she added. — With additional reporting by Alex Bell
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Gubernatorial candidates speak with The Herald Frank Caprio
Lincoln Chafee ’75
Republican Party candidate
Treasurer, Democratic Party candidate
Independent candidate
Moderate Party candidate
The Herald: What is your vision for Brown’s economic potential in terms of partnerships with businesses, especially in the “Knowledge District”? Robitaille: We need more publicprivate par tnerships, we need more businesses Courtesy of Lillian working with colGreen leges and universities. ... Government doesn’t have all the solutions, and I think we have such a wealth of knowledge here — Brown University, and many of our other colleges and universities. We need to tap into that. I think higher education — institutes of higher learning — need to be a part of the solution and not just rely on government. And as governor, I will do so and reach out to Brown and to the other universities to work in partnership to find solutions to some of the very complex issues that we have. All across the nation the Tea Party has really taken off, and Rhode Island has its own branch. Do you consider yourself somebody who embodies the ideals of the movement? I do, I do. ... Basically, their thinking is like mine — smaller government is better government. I am the endorsed candidate, they did endorse me. But you know what, it’s funny, because people ask, ‘well are you a Tea Party member?’ And I asked them, and they said, ‘well, we don’t have membership cards.’ It is a group of people getting together who believe in the same fundamentals of smaller government, lower taxes, holding people accountable for their decisions and then protecting individual rights and freedoms under the Constitution. And I do believe in all those four things.
The Herald: How do you plan on working with students from Brown and other colleges in Rhode Island? Frank Caprio: I look forward to working with college students. I’m only a few years out of college myself, and most of my campaign staff is either in college or grad school, so I feel very connected to the college community and look forward to having them as a big voice going forward. One issue Brown students care a lot about is the environment. How do you plan to address this issue if elected governor? I think we’re the size of state where we can be one of the first states to be more dependent on alternative energy. We don’t need the old-fashioned way to be the way going for ward. I’d like to see the offshore wind project get implemented, I’d like Rhode Island to be a hub for those jobs. We’re perfectly situated on the East Coast to supply the region with the technology and the goods for that. I’m ver y optimistic about where Rhode Island stands in terms of Green Energy. Courtesy of What do you think RIDemocrats.org needs to be done to keep college graduates from leaving the state? It’s about having an economic plan that works. We can’t have high taxes. We can’t have a plan that drives out the people that create jobs. So we have to hold the line on taxes. We need to look at the capital gains tax and the estate tax. ...Those taxes don’t bring in a lot of money. They’re a rounding error when you talk about the size of our budget. We could differentiate ourself from the region if we eliminated those taxes with a 3-5 year plan. That’s what I’d like to see happen. We have to keep the job creators here in Rhode Island, and that will create oppor tunities for students coming out of school.
The Herald: As governor, what would be your top priorities? Lincoln Chafee: I call them the A, B, C’s—make our Assets work better for us. We talked about that tonight, the knowledge district that we opened up, connecting the Amtrak line to the airport, also investing in Quonset Point. ... And creating assets to me is having a fair Budget process so that comMin Wu / Herald file panies have some photo cer tainty in what they’re going to confront when they come to Rhode Island. And the C is very, very important — Corruption. Rhode Island is just plagued by stories such as the North Providence corruption. That word spreads throughout the country ... and we have to change that. What do you think of the tone of this campaign? As someone with a lengthy career in politics, do you think this race for governor is particularly contentious? This latest incident where my campaign manager’s unemployment files were illegally released, that’s something a little different from any other campaign. Somehow somebody got access to his unemployment records and it’s illegal to share that confidential information. So it has taken a darker turn, I think, than any of my previous campaigns. As a 1975 Brown graduate, do you have any favorite memories from Brown or experiences here that would inform your tenure as governor? They were all good. I had a great four years here. For some reason I just heard on the radio this Bruce Springsteen song, the song he played on the Pembroke Campus in Alumnae Hall before he really got famous. I don’t know if that’s relevant to being governor, but it’s certainly a memory. But in helping me govern, of course, teachers, the great teachers. I majored in classics, and that has been a good foundation for good decision-making, relying on ancient and historic perspectives, very valuable.
The Herald: Where would you situate yourself on the ideological spectrum? Ken Block: I’m a centrist. I’ve grown very frustrated with national politics in the US. I’ve always found myself voting for the lesser of two evils. But the majority of Rhode Islanders are centrists. They care about jobs, they care about prosperity. And in Rhode Island we have never gotten this in the past 20 years. We get self-interested politicians, corrupt politicians. I’m all about centrism. Let’s figure out how to fix our economy, let’s make sure our kids get a quality education. What dif ferentiates you from the other candidates? I am the only candidate who is talking about specific solutions to the problems we have. I am not running as an ideologue. I am not running based on the stature and last name of my family. I’m running for a very specific reason: because our collective politicians have let us down. I’m not engaged in mudslinging. I’m out there every day, proposing solid solutions to our state’s problems. As a pragmatist, how do you feel about the possibility that your role in this race will be that of a spoiler? I draw from everybody. Especially given Courtesy of Ken the way that this race Block for Governor is unraveling at this point, given the millions of dollars already spent by Caprio and Chafee, given the campaigning, neither of them has broken through 30 percent support. As I walk around the state, voters express great frustration with both Caprio and Chafee. They’re engaged in a mudslinging fest and they don’t offer substantive solutions to the problems we have. People aren’t buying what they’re selling. They’re not gathering the undecided. A third of Rhode Islanders haven’t met up their minds. My job is to stay steady, continue to talk about smart policy, real answer to the problems and highlight the fact that all the other candidates decline to give you specific answers to our problems. As the race gets uglier, I’m going to rise up.
John Robitaille
Ken Block
Candidates debate economy, gay marriage continued from page 1 and which gained official status in the state only last year — urged voters to “shake the habit that we’re in of voting for the lesser evil.” Robitaille expressed his conviction that “we’ve allowed government to grow too large and become a drain on the private sector.” Caprio touted his commitment to “putting the wind at the backs of small businesses” and said his plan would provide businesses greater access to credit and reduce their tax burden. Chafee said he was running for governor so that young people would have the option of finding a job in Rhode Island. The candidates fielded queries on social issues including gay marriage, with all but Robitaille in support of legalization. Robitaille said he would “look at legislation for civil unions,” but called efforts to redefine traditional marriage “a mistake.”
The discourse heated up when candidates turned to the state’s economic challenges. “We’re the last place, unfortunately, that most businesses want to locate or do business,” Robitaille said. Block proposed creating three venture funds that would invest in different sectors and would be managed by “nationally prominent venture capital firms.” Caprio said one small business owner told him that “between the taxes and the regulation, she feels that at the end of the day the cash register just doesn’t have enough money in it to continue to keep up with her bills and her payroll, never mind the cost of health care.” Chafee focused instead on Providence’s Jewelry District. The 20 acres cleared by the relocation of Interstate 195 are particularly promising for growth in the medical sector, he said. But he cautioned, “there’s no doubt a shadow of corruption hangs over
this state.” When Block attacked Chafee for his plan to eliminate sales tax exemptions on a number of goods, Chafee fired back that raising the sales tax was “the least harmful way to economic growth” and faulted politicians for relying on vague promises to eliminate “fraud, waste and abuse and hope the deficit disappears.” Caprio and Chafee also sparred over addressing the state’s pension issues. Caprio said he advocates a hybrid pension plan resembling a federal model. Chafee proposed changing pension plans so that employees and employers share the consequences of the stock market’s volatility. But it will take more than just policy changes to surmount the state’s challenges, according to Block. “Ultimately, if we want to fix the problems that we have as a state, we have to begin voting differently,” Block said.
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Tradition and art collide in Hillel Gallery’s ‘Ritual Objects’ By Shefali Luthra Contributing Writer
A bag of coffee beans would seem out of place at most art exhibits. But at “Ritual Objects: The Radical and The Practical in Art and Design,” a bright red bag emblazoned with the black words “Eight O’Clock Coffee” is displayed as art, alongside paintings, tapestries and sculpture. The bag is just one among several pieces in the exhibit that pushes traditional boundaries of what constitutes art. The exhibit, sponsored by the student-run Hillel Gallery Project, displays artwork by Brown and Rhode Island School of Design students and runs through Nov. 5. The Gallery Project committee began planning for the exhibit last spring by soliciting student submissions from both schools. “This was a very complex project,” said Jungmin Lee ’11, co-chair of the Gallery Project. The Gallery Project committee
settled on the theme of rituals as a way of encompassing multiple media, Lee said. Last year’s Gallery Project co-chair, RISD senior Christina Graham, wrote in an email to the Herald that she found the theme of rituals compelling because it connected the exhibit to “contemporary issues.” Submissions to the exhibit were judged by a panel of three jurors who selected one artist to win a cash prize. Daniel Belasco, an associate curator at the Jewish Museum in New York City, Maya Benton ’98, a curator at the International Center of Photography and Rebecca Guber, director of the Six Points Fellowship, selected RISD alum Sarah Young as the winner. In addition to the monetary prize, Young will also receive a write-up in a Jewish art journal, an internship at the International Center of Photography and a chance to exhibit her work at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, according to the Gal-
lery Project’s blog. Young said she plans to donate the majority of the prize to charity. Young’s work, like the exhibit as a whole, is multifaceted and warrants multiple looks to be fully appreciated. Her media include video, photography, wax, hair and even ritual-inspired performance art, documented for the exhibit with a photo series and props from her performance. In an artist’s statement submitted to the Hillel Gallery Project, Young wrote that her pieces “explore how ritual has been passed down through the text to turn into existing practice.” Young said that the initial inspiration from Jewish texts and rituals led her “to find personal meaning through reinventing the ritual.” Though Young’s work draws mainly upon traditional Jewish rituals, the works on display reflect diverse sources of inspiration. “Luxury Item for the Hunt,” by RISD alum
Cynthia Meyers, uses the form of an embroidered, painted 3-D canvas bag to convey ideas about hunting and nature. The creativity behind the medium and the intricate colors used are compelling — while staring at a bag for several minutes may be unusual in most circumstances, it seems like an obvious course of action here. Other pieces, as with “Eight O’Clock Coffee,” wouldn’t initially strike viewers as art. But that is exactly why they are so much fun to see. “The Sacrament of Reconciliation,” inspired by the Catholic ritual of confession, looks on first glance like it belongs in a science fair rather than an art gallery. But the apparatus is one of the most captivating pieces on display. Visitors to the exhibit can make confessions into a microphone, connected to a speaker in a bell jar. The bell jar muffles the words — while it’s clear that something is being confessed, the sound is inaudible. Three red candles invoke old religion
in a piece that looks otherwise completely modern and machine-like. It’s a clever piece, and it’s among the most immediately fun items in the show. The Hillel gallery is roomy, and the number of pieces on display seems small in comparison to the available space. But this is almost a blessing: the feeling of intimacy developed with the pieces is hard to deny. Visitors to the exhibit must examine everything, or they might miss something — the water glasses on the floor that are actually Young’s performance props, or the bench on the side that is really the beautiful, Cinderella-esque “Glass Bench” by RISD alum Adam Hyman. On the whole, “Ritual Objects” is worth a visit — a long one to fully absorb each piece, or even a brief dropby to check out the different media and ideas on display. The show addresses a topic that is both universal and multidimensional, making for a versatile and relatable experience.
‘Heddatron’ now at PW Short story ‘genius’ reads her work continued from page 2 continued from page 1 is an ever yday housewife, dissatisfied with her marriage, who spends most of her days reading Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler.” She acts as a bridge between the play’s two time periods — her present-day living room and the 1890 household of Henrik Ibsen (Paul Cooper ’11). Ibsen has his own share of marital problems — his wife Susannah (Abby Colella ’12) shrilly calls him a freak and has an affair with his rival, August Strindberg (Alex Ostroff ’14). Ibsen struggles under the weight of society’s rigid expectations and the role he is forced to play, and these same problems plague Jane centuries in the future. Both Cooper and Colella put in excellent performances, balancing their characters’ personalities well. Cooper’s reserved and awkward Ibsen draws the audience in, while Colella is every bit the demanding wife, and although the part is a minor one, she infuses her character with enough life and anger-fueled passion that her voice is clearly heard. The same is true of Jane’s family in modern times. Nugget (Elsia Obus ’13), Jane’s daughter, provides the audience with the occasional Ibsen fun fact from a book report she is presenting to her sixth grade class. In this narrator role, Nugget is enjoyable and heartwarming as she guides the audience through her mother’s ordeal when she is abducted by robots at the end of the first act. The robots in question are named Hans, Billy and Julie, and they provide some of the best entertainment in the show. Fully functional, the robots move about the stage, interact with actors and even perform a musical number
with Jane to “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” Throughout the first act, Hans and Billy try over and over again to get Jane to notice them — they beckon her to “turn around, bright eyes.” Billy, especially, has fallen in love with the heroine, claiming, “I would melt myself for her.” When Jane finally does turn around during their musical number, she sees the robots for the first time, and the audience is witness to what is probably the most shocking moment of her life. Jane’s rapid succession of emotions — desperation, fascination and eventual acceptance of the situation — are skillfully portrayed by Rothman, who is an impressive actress even with a machine for a co-star. The second act begins with Jane awakening in the Ecuadorian robot forests where she is forced to enact “Hedda Gabler” again and again with the robots — and Ibsen. Somehow transcending time and space, Ibsen is present with Jane, urging her to say her lines. The two share a connection built, perhaps, on their similar experiences at home. They both feel trapped in their marriages, in the lives society has prescribed them, and Jane isn’t sure she wants to return. “What’s so absurd about me being happy?” Jane asks her family, who arrive to bring her home. The characters’ search for love and meaning i n their everyday lives in the face of societal pressure is not an easy one, but the play gives the audience the impression that such an endeavor is not impossible. The production’s execution of these themes is well-done, and the actors collectively deliver performances that exude both the desperation of their circumstances and a hope for their future — even if they have to battle a robot or two.
almost four years ago, shortly after moving to the countryside. Her observations are similar to her stories — succinct and simple, yet specifically focused. She studies how the cows migrate over their grazing field, sometimes in a “dark, irregular mass,” sometimes separately and sometimes “(coupled) like the car of a railway train.” She wonders about the cows’ thoughts, desires and attitudes. Her descriptions are reminiscent of math word problems: There are three cows. If Cow A licks Cow B, what will Cow C do? The descriptions of the cows’ behavior was redundant at times, but Davis’ attention to detail was impressive. She described how snow accumulates on cows just as it does on trees or mailboxes. It piles up on their backs and heads, and there is even a thin line of snow on each of the whiskers around their mouths. In addition to writing fiction, Davis translates French literature and philosophy. She is well known for her translation of Marcel Proust’s “Swann’s Way,” and she is in the midst of translating Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary.” As she was translating this book, Davis said, she stumbled upon short stories that Flaubert composed while writing it. She also translated these stories, which she shared at the reading. It was easy to see why Davis enjoyed translating the stories. Flaubert’s attention to detail and ironic observations are similar to Davis’ own style. Davis mentioned that she enjoys translating because she “can write in the style of another writer” and leave herself behind. The reading was followed by a question-and-answer session, which gave Davis an opportunity to explain her writing process and how her writing has evolved. One student asked how Davis distinguishes poetry from
prose and vice versa. Davis replied that she does not like to label her work, but she sees an “unbroken continuum” moving from traditional story to less traditional prose forms to poetry and finally, formal pieces
of verse. Another student asked Davis about how she crafts the endings of her stories. Davis said that she never leaves a weak ending. She always comes back.
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Let’s talk about love YUE WANG Opinions Columnist The recent campus news about the group independent study project, “The Study of Love” (“Love, Factually” Sept. 30) really caught my sleepy eyes at breakfast and made my day. Over the past two years at Brown, as I sat down at the Sharpe Refectory everyday and checked out newspaper and table slips for new events, I learned to live with the omnipresent flyers and slips, with their luring nudy pictures and advertising on workshops about sex — an obvious demonstration of the overwhelming interest in sex around campus. Sex education events abound: Female Sexuality Workshop, Sex Week, lectures on orgasms and — how could I forget — the weekly Post- Magazine sex columnists’ sensational columns giving advice on all manners of sexual activities. It is not that I believe that sex education is unimportant to a young and libidinal population. Nor am I offended by the emancipatory undertone of sexual liberation. What bothers me is that despite the openness and prevalence of discussion of sex at Brown, there seems to be a dearth of discussion and interest about what could give sex a more permanent and spiritual form — love and romance. The huge number of workshops on sex, compared with how little and seldom
our educators want to talk to us about our relationships, seems to indicate that Brown students, or college students in general, are more interested in physical sex than the more intimate and spiritual aspects of our relationships. This can be confirmed by taking a quick look around at most Brown students’ night life: frat parties, the Graduate Center Bar and the Fish Company, among other things. Students go to these events with clear knowledge of what they want: sex, or collo-
with inevitable frustrations from time to time. The daunting commitment and frustrations attendant to genuine love deters young people from pursuing a real romantic relationship and encourages them to immerse themselves in the instant pleasure of sex. Many of the clubs we visit late at night and on weekends package sex like a fast food restaurant. For their clients, sex is just like fast food: quick, cheap, delectable and a convenient choice when one can’t afford to have a romantic relationship with time, devotion
Sex is just like fast food: quick, cheap, delectable and a convenient choice when one can’t afford to have a romantic relationship with time, devotion and emotional maturity. quially, hook-ups. Are people who hook up with strange people in those parties in love? Not unless we drastically stretch the meaning of the word. For most people, to expect a call for follow-up dates from someone who left a hickey on your neck the previous night at Fish Co. is pure naivete. Because somehow we know that sex is much easier to get than a romantic relationship; because the former could be easily obtained at a Saturday night party in a wasted state whereas the latter involves a much longer emotional commitment and patience
and emotional maturity. A friend of mine, who loves to share stories of her numerous “sex adventures” with different people, once confessed to me that her romantic desperation began after breaking up with her first boyfriend. In the place of hope for a new relationship rose a cynical view of all true romance. The failure of her first serious romance thus caused an anxiety about engaging in later relationships. She just wanted to be happy, but relationships are just too emotionally exhausting. I was perturbed after listening to her
experience. After all, the sweetness about romance is knowing someone who will always enjoy the way you look (even without makeup or a huge volume of alcohol), who will be there whenever you need him or her, who would sit side-by-side with you on the Main Green on a sunny Saturday afternoon to watch the autumn leaves fall. An addiction to the “fast food” style of romance simply deprives one of so many beautiful things in life. Lastly, organizers of student forums on campus should rethink their long-term approach to sex education. Overall, such forums and conversations tend to mix sex education with explicit social and political messages. Sex education indeed carries important motifs: gender equality, sexual liberalization and tolerance of the LGBTQ community. Listening to these messages is essential in shaping our lives, yet I scarcely feel these dialogues address my concerns at a deeply personal level. Similarly, school health officials are avid about teaching safe sex, and the University widely distributes information on reproductive health to the student body. But the ready answers available from official and non-official sources at Brown about sex obscures the fact that a personal and nuanced approach is required in our coping with our love lives.
Yue Wang ’12 is a political science and German studies concentrator from Shanghai. She can be contacted at yue_ wang@brown.edu.
More A’s are okay SARAH YU Opinions Columnist
We’ve probably all been there — looking up a final transcript on Banner and seeing that dreaded “B” letter grade. The subsequent feeling is something akin to the final landing of a punch in the gut that you’ve been anticipating for a while, knowing that there was no one to blame but yourself for allowing this punch to happen in the first place. The Herald’s Oct. 8 article “Number of A’s awarded grows for another year” tells us that in the 2009-2010 school year, over 54 percent of all grades were A’s. This proportion has seen a general rise over the last decade, while the percentages of students receiving B’s and C’s have both been decreasing. According to data gathered from Brown’s Institutional Research website, the average grade awarded to undergraduates at Brown, on a scale where an A grade is 4 points, rose from 3.38 in 1991 to 3.61 in 2007. Brown students seem to be doing better and better on their academics, to the extent where there’s a campus-wide sentiment that a B grade on an exam, paper or class is considered a failure. The prospect of getting a C generally means that it would be preferable to fail the class than to have the substandard grade permanently branded onto our transcripts. In 2004, Princeton University set guidelines to restrict the proportion of A grades for all classes to be under 35 percent. Princ-
eton justifies the grade regulations by claiming that an A should not be given unless it is really earned. But once we take the implications of grading outside of the college community and into post-graduation, competitive situations, do we need inter-university standardization of how to calculate a grade point average? Princeton’s guidelines prompted a flurry of debate and concern from both students and educators — would it not be unfair for a capable and intelligent Princeton student with a lower GPA to be compared to a similar student at a different institution of the same caliber whose GPA is higher? Students at Brown, like those at Prince-
more classes S/NC, just to boost my GPA. Despite my anxiety over grades, I don’t believe that Princeton’s response to grade inflation will be effective in leveling the playing field. For all universities in the U.S. to emulate Princeton’s method of regulation would not only be impractical, but also it would not succeed in standardizing grading across the board. Fundamentally, even if each college adopted the same percentile system for assigning letter grades, the specific classes, curriculums and students remain different. It is generally accepted that a Brown student’s GPA is more highly regarded than the same GPA given to a student from a less
Knowing about the increasing proportion of students being awarded A’s at Brown means that it feels much worse if I don’t get one myself.
ton, may also be concerned with obtaining grades and GPAs lower than Brown’s average. Although the University does not calculate GPAs for us, students inevitably do in order to apply to jobs and graduate schools. To me, knowing about the increasing proportion of students being awarded A’s at Brown means that it feels much worse if I don’t get one myself. If Brown continues to be known to admissions officers and employers for being an institution where students generally obtain better grades than in others, I might feel compelled to take easier classes, and
prestigious college. Humanities classes also tend to assign a graded class participation component as a part of a student’s overall grade, while science classes often grade students more rigidly on a weighted average of examinations and problem sets. While it may be true that having a higher number of students getting A’s each year may create a perverse incentive for some very competitive students to select only “easy” classes, the lack of rigid grading curves encourages students to see classmates less as competitors, but as possible
collaborators, creating a more positive learning environment. It is easier for students to learn without the added pressure of having to study in isolation, competing for a limited number of A’s. The fact that Brown does not calculate GPAs for students in any official capacity reflects the stance that the University is taking on grading — that is, the average grade of all the classes that students at Brown have taken should not be the most accurate way of analyzing our value as students. Already, employers and admissions officers place increasingly less weight on standardized testing scores in order to assess the quality of potential candidates. In many cases, what will really set a college graduate apart from his or her peers are writing samples, interviews and further in-depth study of an academic field, such as through an honors or capstone project. Through our academic transcripts, potential employers and admissions officers can assess how prepared we are for work or for graduate school, instead of naively relying on a single, averaged number. Students should confidently venture deeper into academic fields, knowing that taking initiative and risks defines and qualifies us more than our GPAs would. After all the effort we’ve put in through our four years at Brown to make the most of our liberal learning experience, it wouldn’t be fair to be represented by just a number.
Sarah Yu ’11 is a History and International Relations concentrator from Sydney, Australia. She can be reached at xia_yu@ brown.edu.
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